skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't come up with a way to express a parallel with being the best darn turd polisher out there without it sounding like a personal attack on you, not a commentary on how you should be more aware of the seriously uphill battle you face.

I honestly think that folding and moving onto a better hand/idea is the move here. If you want to run the site as a learning exercise, you can probably use ads or affiliate referrals to actual cash-game sites as a source of paying for hosting, and there might be enough leftover for a WSOP super-satellite entry fee.

I think trying to figure out what will make your "free poker social networking site" take on a Facebook type trajectory as opposed to the 99 other couldabeen-Facebooks is not a +EV play.

You should definitely look into twoplustwo.com's forums and business model, but they've already got a pretty good lock on the poker-theory discussion and a well-established community.
Kontain is live
If it's code I have to think about (i.e. non-boilerplate), I find that most music distracts me and makes me code slower -- especially music with recognizable lyrics. I have some nature soundtrack CDs that seem to improve my concentration, though.
And systems like qsecretary tend to provoke reactions like this:

http://www.ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/namedroppers.2003...
Snacks always do their job.
Different measures of profit help you figure out which bits to concentrate on,

My argument is that they almost always make bad situations look better, and in effect you end up ignoring core problems to focus on a much easier to believe "bit to concentrate on".

For me, as a founder, the best numbers are the ones that are the most difficult to beautify, since those will be the ones that are ultimately most accurate to the health of the overall business.
That's exactly how it is for me too. I tend to listen to either The Mondo Sessions or Tiësto's Club Life podcast both of which are trance - and both seem to put me into a coding trance. When I'm agitated by something hard that's broken my flow the music becomes annoying and I have to switch it off, but I usually leave my over-ear headphones on like earmuffs - it's more still that way.

Occasionally I'll listen to a Tamboura meditation - which is just droning - lower intensity than the club tunes, but similar effect.
I re-read my comment pretty carefully and I'm still not sure how the principle of "don't create new government guarantees to back failed private enterprise obligations" has become "we shouldn't have any government regulation of public safety issues" in your mind.
The differentiation between inventor and entrepreneur is helpful for me. It's not about technology, but usefulness. Not one brilliant perfect insight, but iteration. Not money, but creation.

most entrepreneurs iterate on preexisting ideas to the point that the inventions represent marketable value propositions upon which sustainable companies can be created.

...obsession is the father of innovation. Innovations are often sussed out by entrepreneurs who cannot let go of an idea ... compelled to succeed by creating something from nothing, not by the lust for money, power or fame.

He didn't say this, but the thing about "marketable value propositions" is they are about problems or needs. It's frightfully easy to invent a "solution" without a problem.

Joel said "Where there's MUCK, there's brass". He meant unpleasant work is rewarded. But I interpret it as: for a solution to really make a difference to people, it has to be a solution to a problem/need they have. The worse the problem (i.e. the more ugly, confusing, complex, frustrating, painful, horrible and MUCKY it is), the more worthwhile the solution. No problem means no solution - by (my) definition. A "solution" without a problem isn't worth anything. Therefore, MUCK is a pre-condition of a worthwhile solution: where's there's muck, there's brass.

Arguably, inventors (of products) create solutions; entrepreneurs (marketers of products) connect solutions to problems. Most powerful when combined e.g. Wozniak + Jobs, or unified in one person: Edison.
"192.168.0.* and the switch will give off something like 192.168.1.."

i think you mean wired-router instead of switch, because afaik switch & hub don't assign ips

but if u use switch, then the workstations & int_serv are 192.168.0.
For me, I think working on systems and programming comes down to two different types of music. If I'm performing some system maintenance or deep system work or related programming, I find that techno/dance/trance helps... specifically soundtracks to some of my favorite movies that had techno in them are great for getting the draining mood effect that system programming can sometimes have on me. Miami Vice soundtrack has some great tracks that when listening keeps me feeling like I'm /solving a problem/ when I'm deep into the mix... Hackers, the movie soundtrack, is another good one that I like; Swordfish is another good one.

When it comes to creativity and problem solving at the development level, I find that like others here, either no music or classical music on low volume assists the concentration. Beethoven, Bach, and Mozart, etc. I truly find classical helpful... I read once that it actually stimulates the proper receptors in the brain that involve critical thinking, but I'm unable to find that link as a source. I stumbled upon classical years ago at random I think... I never liked it before then and I'm certain for some it can be an acquired taste.

Cheers
Ask YC: RSS for each YC discussion
Can YC provide RSS for each discussion's comments? That will help me a lot to track and follow only the discussions interesting to me.
It all comes down to recognizable lyrics for me as well. This is largely why I turn to breaks/trance/etc when coding.
I think cutting benefits would be more costly in terms of morale. The article mentioned that sun laid off 5000 people and suggested that they cut out the vitamin water instead. Well, if you assume that sun has around thirty thousand employees, and each drunk a bottle a week at a cost of a dollar a bottle, that works out 1.5 million a year. Assuming each employee costs sun an average of 200k, cutting snacks would have only saved 7 or 8 employees. Even if I was off by a factor of ten, sun would have still layed off 98% of the 5000. So cutting snack and firing 98% of 5000 would be viewed as more drastic by the company than just cutting 5000 people.
I don't know much about Scouts, but isn't the idea to be useful and effective in serving the community, with an emphasis on initiative, and getting done whatever needs to be done?

Isn't that pretty much what a successful entrepreneur does?
What Would Depression 2009 Look Like?
http://www.ycfeeds.com
Read more MediaTakeOut. You'll know with time, oh yes, you'll know with time...
Even worse for Facebook, it's nearly all foreign people. There's just very little money to be made on the web outside of the U.S. Most other countries are either too poor or too small.
Well, in the case of renting, I'm currently renting a house that was originally bought when the housing prices were less than half of what they are now, so I'm indirectly paying only half the property tax that I would be paying if I were to buy the same house. Also, I personally know several people who buy houses and rent them for less than the mortgage, let alone all the other costs because they are hoping to make their money back on real estate appreciation.
"success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm"

But focusing on the possibility of failure doesn't work as well. One must be fearless, and fail fearlessly; then fail again and again.

You get more information from failure than trying to anticipate failure.
Well, that's going straight into my top eight top nine top ten lists lists list.
Agreed. Recognizable lyrics is usually not good, unless its music that'll pump me up when I need it.

I've been trying out listening to some sort of white noise, ie. running water, static, etc., borrowing from the idea on this post: http://cameronmoll.com/archives/2008/11/showering_and_thinki...

It can get pretty noisy where I work, so something that distracts me so constantly and blocks the noise out helps me focus.
To each their own
Hulu might have them on quantity of monetizeable eyeballs. YouTube can only run ads on a tiny % of videos. Hulu can run ads on 100%.

Quality does count for something though. People will pay a higher CPM for 25-35 year old males than they will for 18-22.
Philip Glass is the only music I can listen to. I'm guessing his minimalist music keeps me on a rhythm without distraction.
upvoted because you're right, but still apple is evil and i don't like them, i don't know if their awesomeness comes from their evilness or despite it.
If you had 100 people and cutting snacks hurt their productivity, you could end up with a more deleterious effect than you might get cutting 3 or whatever. Pragmatism.
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Thanks for your comments, guys. The site is www.inpics.net -- illustration-based software tutorials.

Where are online site markets other than sitepoint.com? What's a FHWW?

What alternative ad networks might be interested in this?

I'm much obliged for your help!
I do feel like Tesla is working on the wrong car. The future of the electric car is based on achieving cost-competitiveness with gasoline. I'm much more excited about $25k electric sedans, or something like the Chevy Volt.
What sort of tutorials?

I own and run SmartFlix.com, and we're we're just now launching some new stuff - we're paying $20 commissions for each customer that signs up for one of our Universities.

100 signups a month is $2k. Not huge, but better than $500.

http://smartflix.com/store/search?q=university

If your site is something that we cover, or that we could cover, send me email at the four letter email address made up of my initials, in the obvious domain name.

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Jazz and Classical music works best, but I prefer complete silence (rarity on campus).
This is a horoscope: Sincerity, Humility, Honesty, Naivety, Impatience, Optimism, Influencer.

Sincerity, Honesty, Optimism would be pre-requisites for any legitimate profession (perhaps internal auditors need to be pessimists).

Naivety if it means ignorance is dangerous: you can ask fundamental questions but that's different from being naive. He doesn't give the full quote from Orville Wright on audacity, it continues "Yet faith in our calculations and the design of the first machine, based upon our tables of air pressures, secured by months of careful laboratory work, and confidence in our system of control developed by
three years of actual experiences in balancing gliders in
the air had convinced us that the machine was capable of
lifting and maintaining itself in the air, and that, with a
little practice, it could be safely flown."

They clearly contemplated failure in selecting a location for test flights with strong headwinds that didn't force them to build up a lot of ground speed to take off (making landings safer).

"We realized the difficulties of flying in so high a wind, but estimated that the added dangers in flight would be partly compensated for by the slower speed in landing."
Orville Wright in "How We Made the First Flight" http://ntl.bts.gov/lib/6000/6100/6126/flight.pdf
Renowned photographer has dire outlook for print media. Still thriving though.
Though the article was horrible, I found the quotes from Elon and the ex-CEO to be interesting.

It's not often you see a quote like this: "Martin is the worst individual I've ever had the displeasure of working with."

In some ways, it sort of shows that there's probably a lot of tension within Telsa, even now.
I set up a Yahoo Pipe a while ago for comments (which pulls in each article's URL with comments), but lately all URLs have become unclickable (except for article title). I'm not sure if that was done by HN or Yahoo. Anyway:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=23159aed1a913917f...
Ask HN: Are you ready for rampant inflation?
If you can't afford something and you buy it anyway, there are always consequences.... that is the name of this whole financial crisis... home owners couldn't afford homes, financial institutions couldn't afford to pay out credit default swaps, lehman brothers couldn't afford to payback commercial paper, hedge funds couldn't afford to pay the leveraged losses... next up to bat is the entire United States not being able to afford to bail out the world economy.

We certainly are trying, and because we are trying, there will be consequences. Two years might get us out of the short term crisis of banks not lending to eachother, but long term this overall crisis is far from over.
I used these guys http://www.amerilawyer.com/ and it was cheap and easy. If you can get someone to do all the research, paperwork, and filing for you, and even receive your mail until you've gotten a mailing address for $120, I don't see why you would want to try to figure it out yourself.
Yes. Any mishandled whitelisting system is going to produce responses similar to the one in your link.

I imagine the author would be even more outraged if he had to pay 5cents multiple times to get past a poorly implemented spam block.
I thought it was time I commented, since I'm the author against whom implications of being too short to understand are being drawn.

I agree luck is a component, particularly with respect to timing.

My point -- apparently nimbly dodging about your knees -- was different. Assuming a natural progression of your work ethic and intelligence, how would you act differently if you believed this was a time of creating a new economic paradigm? A time when that luck of timing was with you? What would you do differently? It is a no lose proposition to me. What is it going to hurt if luck isn't on my side?

So if, as Tony suggested, there are some fundamentals changing, we can react because we are studying them. Rockefeller and his contemporaries looked for opportunities, and acted upon them. My post was a suggestion to look -- or maybe to better fit into your paradigm -- run outside to to increase your chances of being hit by lightening.

You can think it is too dangerous or a waste of your time. Many intelligent, hard working people in Rockefeller's time didn't look either. They also did not amass his wealth.
St. Germain
From the Wikipedia page:

"a review of available speed studies demonstrates that the posted speed limit is almost always set well below the 85th-percentile speed by as much as 8 to 12 mph"
axod, I came across this the other day: http://axod.blogspot.com/

I've been getting into comet a bit more lately, and am wondering (if you don't mind telling of course) 1) what you are currently using on the backend and 2) if you ever checked out Meteor (which I was playing with today)?
Mark Cuban faces insider trading complaint, fires back
It might be easier to actually use make instead of reproducing its functionality. This implies that an invocation of jekyll would produce one static page instead of the whole site.
Worried but full better then calm but hungry.
Nitpicking here, but wouldn't it be numeratus and numerata?
Alright, find me in a few years and claim the reward.
There is a lot in this post to digest.

Some questions: What kind of equipment do you have here? Home stuff? Commercial Grade?

What does your external server do?

To be honest, I'd keep it dead simple, especially if you are using home grade stuff like linksys. Switches don't do DHCP, but routers can. Think of switches basically as giant line splitters.

Your front door is the wireless router - firewall on (assuming it's a full router, not just an AP), DCHP with your DMZ behind that, use 192.168.1.1 or whatever, and then your internal router is 192.168.1.2 on this network.

Second firewall/router to your internal network, DHCP on. You can actually use the same addys as the other network, but it may make sense to use different ranges. Switch behind here if you need it.

Ports open on both firewalls as required. That's how you see your DMZ server. (Don't use the "DMZ host" crap on the routers if it has such a thing, you're setting up a real DMZ manually.)

All wireless access should receive a different (untrusted in your DMZ) range from the first DHCP.

If you can't see the internal server from a laptop with wireless, you're doing thing right. If you can, you are open.

Under no circumstances should you allow wireless internet access to be granted access to your internal network without VPN.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The really simple way though is just to use the wired router with every port closed and expose as required. Throw the Wireless router outside of that with the internet attached to it. It depends though on what that external server is doing. I wouldn't do this for web, but if it's just mail I might.
I think it doesn't. Personally I use music to isolate myself from any other sound. In a perfect quiet room, I'd rather not listening music when writing program.
Exacerbated by the poor video quality of YouTube, Vimeo is amateur videos with a higher median quality in terms of production value, simply because they host a better resolution applet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us5TeDK_GJk this is my favorite band, i listen to them all the time, except when im coding or reading, but they're great for jogging or just general headbanging. When i code i just listen to my PC's noise, i sleep next to it, so im sensitive to changes in its noise. Music is a great distractor, and i cant stand that techno shit, i have a few hard DnB tracks, but they are not good for coding. The best music is the one your machine plays with its fans and HD.
I'm going with "insider trading" and "political persecution".
Pl patterns - The Abstraction Machine
To me this is exactly the kind of thinking that lead to the financial crisis. People selling shonky investments to people who trusted in them and justifying it the same way that you are.

I believe that the fairer and more transparent systems are the most efficient. The 'no rules' system you describe would quickly degenerate into a scamfest with far less participants and far less liquidity. Better to actually enforce the rules that exist to reduce the 'rampancy' of insider trading in my opinion.

Oh and I don't think I'll be investing in your startup.
Ask HN: can you summarize OO for me in 64 words or less?
I've only been writing code for so long, while I grew up designing web-sites, it really doesn't count; so, as of now, I've been invested in programming for more than four years but have never had the courage or foresight to write something in OO. However, for the past couple weeks I've been pouring myself into the OO textbooks, yet I still don't feel reassured in it's value. So, as of today I can speak OO, since I know all the jargon, but I still can't muster up the courage to write an application that seems practical to me, which is where my problem lies. I'm also no software-engineer, but I've come to face the facts that my vision of building tools/programs/output is flat; so please, inspire me with your wisdom from 30,000 feet above, metaphors, philosophy, and expression by comparison is welcome.

EDIT: I guess the origin of my writers block in doing something in OO is that I don't really feel like I'm handling real data. I feel like I'm defining and declaring spaces as I see fit, thus leading me down the path of this pseudo/pretend file-system while ignoring the platform I'm really working on. Please prove me wrong.
The solution to wanting lyrics-based music but not wanting music to have recognizable lyrics is, of course, music in a foreign language.

(I am sure this will be news to a well-below-average number of people on this site, but it's still a novel idea to a lot of people and worth pointing out.)
(I'm not trying to sound condescending, so bear with me)

How else would you write software with modular and re-usable components?
"Pre-industrialism, essentially everyone was self-employed (if we want a specific example, lets take the USA 150 years ago, rather than regressing into feudalism or Egyptian slaves); despite the posited inability of non-elites to be entrepreneurs."

Exactly. The same is apparently (according to John Taylor Gatto, writing in The Underground History of American Education) true of the Amish today. Are the Amish just that gifted with genes for entrepreneurialism? I think not. It's merely conventional, and a recent convention at that, to work for a Faceless Big Company by default, as pg points out in his essay "You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss."
First, I don't agree that laws are "calibrated" (by design) such that most people are likely to break them.

However...

"I'm responding to the allegation that laws are specifically designed so that everyone breaks them, not that there is selective targeting."

Consider that the selective targeting aspect is far more important than whether the laws were designed so that they facilitate selective targeting, or just happen to facilitate selective targeting. Either way, selective targeting is something that should be avoided.
Unfortunately not. What kind of boss lets their employees do that? :-P
Depends what you mean by that. While it can make sense to have a script that looks at a series' past success and give an index to all future shows based on this, then market in that priority, it's generally easier to do it by hand. That's assuming I understood what you meant, as there's many ways you could automate it - but most are reactionary.

FYI - I work in Digital TV in Digital Marketing, so this is all fairly common ground.
Please re-read my post.

I don't say we are pre-ordained to be lucky.

I do say "...or you can look at this as a new economy. How will it be remade? What do you know now that will be wrong for the future? What will be right?" It is your choice to decide if you are feeling lucky.

I do say that this isn't about 20-year olds. Rather, it is about those whose mindset is not set by the old ways; those who can look at an idea/time differently and take advantage of it.

I do say that I am feeling lucky, and I am ready to look at this in a different way. History will tell if I am lucky, and I will be on the Forbes list in 1000 years.
modular and re-usable components is not really OO specific tho.
For as long as this project has been going on, especially with the original $100 laptop goal, I am surprised that the price has yet to diminish. I don't mean to be pessimistic about something as altruistic as this project is, but as a student right now I would really like to get involved with the project and purchase two, but $400 is still too much.
ASK HN: Building a price comparison site?
I've built a prototype price comparison site for a small niche - what do people think of the price comparison business (think kelkoo on a smaller scale) and are there any good algorithms for normalizing the product and price data from different sites into your one canonical list of products?
Data structures with self referential code
It's amazing that you've been able to spend four years coding without having to work on code that used object orientation. If you collaborate with others, you'll learn many useful as well as useless coding techniques and will be come a much better programmer yourself. So pick apart a few of your favorite open source projects; I'll bet you find plenty of practical object-oriented programming.

^ 64 words.
Depends on the music. I can barely code without music. Best, in my opinion, instrumental progressive metal/rock (Liquid Tension Experiment).
I would be playing up this angle as well, it holds much promise.
Silicon Valley success for savvy Aussies
I think the correlation is between Eagle Scout and high achiever, no matter the field.