skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I struggle with the boundaries as well. Especially at the end of the day or before lunch. "This will only take me 1 minute" fixes turn into half-hours and ruin the whole schedule.

One thing that might be worth trying is to just stop working whenever your time chunk is done, regardless of what's left. I remember reading an article here on how Hemingway used to stop writing in the middle of a sentence at the end of a creative writing session. The author was suggesting that programmers do the same thing (leaving a half completed function or even line of code, even if it means that the project isn't building).

I tried it after reading the article and I was very surprised with the results. I find it much easier to start in the morning when I have a half completed line of code in front of me. The context comes back almost instantaneously and even when it only takes me a minute to finish what I had started the day before, I feel like I am already in the flow and I will be much quicker when I start the next task. When the first task on my list is to start a feature for example, I often end up browsing the code files aimlessly trying to find the starting point, etc.

Ever since I started using this technique, I find it much easier to just stop at the end of an allocated time chunk. It's only a question a perception obviously, but instead of feeling like I have given up on a task before it was done, I think of it as a way to set myself up for the next time chunk.
What is "rebelling fraud"? I'm asking out of purely academic curiosity. Is it rebilling fraud? Scammer charges people additional (usually higher than initial) fees they didn't consent to?
I wouldn't consider porn to be lucrative, unless you create the content yourself.. It's one big saturated market, unless you find a micro niche that hasn't been tapped into that much, I wouldn't really bother.
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If i understand you correctly, one does have to pick a big industry, pick a niche, (sell in bulk,) combine it with something else to add more value compared to similar products?
Terminator and Rambo in the hospital what if they are in 'The Tomb"
why? google and facebook are a distribution channel for people search. just google the name of you mother, grandmother, father in law, anyone not in the nerd, hacker, geeks segment and show what turns up (note: on the resulting pages, turn off your ad-block)

in non US countries the business model is mostly ads (from the sh*tload of pageviews), in the US the business model is mostly affiliate (delivering traffic to the thousands premium "criminal record / financial record background check" companies)
It takes a long time to get from challenge to challenge. It'd be better if from my profile maybe it opened a new window and I could just go down the list doing them all. As it is now it goes to a page explaining the times and then asks me if I'm sure I'm ready after that.

It's a cool concept.

I also found that I like sites that don't focus on rankings so much. It's better if to achieve a level you get a certain number of points. When you have rankings, if a new person joins your site it looks like a daunting task to get to the top.

Also, I would include forums for discussing solutions after you've solved it or attempted a problem a certain number of times. Maybe let people see the solution forum and 'solve' the problem, but they only get 1 point for that. It can be frustrating to be stuck on a hard problem for someone trying to learn. Maybe it'd be cool if you let people ask questions about problems and other users could get points for answering questions, while making sure not to give away too much.

Some functions are missing from Python, and being able to use the standard lib would be nice.
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I think you might have an overly drug-enthusiastic view of Europe.

I live in Scotland currently and went to university. I haven't done weed and neither have, as far as I know, around 50% of my friends.
Thank you, this would be a better title for the question i was essentially thinking of. :)
I run my own mailserver on a linode VPS. For my own personal use, it's extremely stable and hasn't been down once for the 4 months I've been using it. I've got fail2ban, logwatch, and logcheck set up to monitor security. The distro is ubuntu server. They have a great guide for setting up postfix and dovecot.

Remember, if you aren't paying, you're not a customer, you're the product.
Divisible by 7 or 5. Not only 7.
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I'm in California and my credit union, and Costco have both offered this type of service for decades. You call up the service, tell them what type of car with what options and you'll get back some no haggle prices. I've purchased a car this way and the dealers that responded were mostly "fleet" dealers. I took this to mean that they didn't really deal with a lot of walk-in traffic and most of their sales was to businesses. Both sides save a lot of time this way. If you wanted to go further, you could take the price you get back from the service and call around to dealerships to see if they'll go lower but, for me, it didn't seem to get better unless the model was in particularly short supply.

I really don't see much fundamental disruption going on here, with the exception of maybe establishing this process in some states vs others with more limiting legislature, and possibly the amount of volume that goes the traditional way vs dealer competitive bids.
> I suggest reading on it if you care about it

Suggestions?
Add when the numbers are divisible neither by 5 nor 7. And I think, you are looking for digit 7 in the numbers?
More like Stupid People Might Be Dangerous. If you don't know to navigate a bureaucracy, don't expect to be anywhere near a position that might generate liability.
If you think flashlights are expensive. Go checkout CPF, it will blow your mind. I was a member for quite a while, and those people SERIOUSLY love their flashlights.

Flashlight porn: http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j95/schiesz/XR19%20Ti%20PD... [SFW]
Is this code public?
I’d hire a team of 8–10 sharp developers and write a better Photoshop. There’s quite a bit of low hanging fruit in terms of (a) improved image processing that can be done on modern computers that wasn’t possible when Photoshop’s core features were designed 20 years ago, and (b) much more sophisticated, flexible, and intuitive user interfaces. The needs of those photographers who deeply care about bending images to their will have been sadly neglected by the whole industry for 15 years, with most of the recent improvements (e.g. in Lightroom, Aperture) coming on the workflow side, for photographers who need to worry about organizing tens of thousands of photos rather than getting any particular one just right.
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I think you missed a 't':
i.toSring(10)
That's a great deal of money for most people in a developed country too. Especially for about one week of a full time job per year.
In case you don't know who she is (I didn't) - http://unicornfree.com/

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I have something to add to the FUD statement "What’s the greatest database of Jews on the planet? Facebook."

...

"Why could the holocaust never, ever happen again? Facebook."

Try systematically killing 10 million+ people when their relatives can't poke them on facebook anymore.

People would catch on pretty quickly I think.
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That's what I did after a nice stint at Microsoft, and it's amazing --- working on compilers is even _more_ fun than you'd think!

But, there's always the gloom & doom at the end. Post-doc positions are easy to find, but there are very, very few academic research+teaching positions and competition is quite intense. Still, it's a great ride so far. And the worst-case "build compilers for a big bank" scenario isn't so terrible.
This would take more money than just quit-my-job money, but it I had the money, I would ask around for suggestions (here on HN and in other places) on how to build a new crowdsourced general encyclopedia that would provide a competitive nudge to Wikipedia. (I'd probably try to hire away some of the existing Wikipedia team, depending on what kind of noncompete agreements they are subject to, and would look to bring in a new kind of staff for overall direction of the project.) I was an editor in a few earlier workplaces, so I'm interested in the challenge of how to manage a mostly-volunteer, world-facing general encyclopedia project. Wikipedia sets an amazingly high standard for a project that started out so haphazardly, but here on HN and elsewhere I've seen criticisms of Wikipedia that get me thinking about how to do a similar project better. Of course, different readers define "better" in different ways, and the first challenge would be figuring out what intentional differences from Wikipedia would help a competing project be successful over the long term. The reason I would do this is to enjoy the result of thousands of new, well written articles on a variety of subjects, a resource my children and grandchildren and people all over the world could use for decades to come. The reason I would ask other people for advice on the project is that it would be interesting to hear how to improve upon something that is already free.
I'd write a novel, fiction. If I fail midway, I'd write a non-fiction book about a historic event.

Writing soothes me.
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Yeah, I'm skeptical that it's reproducible.
The Python version seems to be using an interpreter that frankly just doesn't work:

x = [1, 5, 3, 2, 6, 4]
x.sort()
print x

Output: [1, 3, 2, 4, 5, 6]

Not to mention the incomplete standard library. I'm not sure what is the interpreter they're using but it's actually not that hard to sandbox the CPython one and disable certain functions/modules if necessary.
I wrote an app that uses this cable. You CAN distribute an app using serial communications, but ONLY with a custom cable variant created by Redpark. This custom cable will ONLY work with your app, and your app will only work with this custom cable. Apple will approve this app because Redpark has done the legwork of MFI compatibility. What the web page points to is only a "evaluation" system, not production ready.
I own several Apple products and reading this article makes me feel awful that I'm supporting such practices in China. Unfortunately Apple is not the only hardware company that is guilty.

Perhaps the next movement will be in "Fair Trade Computing." Fair wage and labor practices for workers. While I am a cheapskate, I would support buying products that followed this ethos.

Much like our food, Americans (and maybe the world?) need to worry more about where things come from and the true cost of the goods we consume.
Niagara Falls, NY has a statue of Tesla: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajays/245729699/in/set-72057594...
I think the Digg exodus is what really pushed it over in terms of numbers.
Note that these programs are often rebadged "aggregators". For example, AAA's "auto sale" program is Zag (Truecar). Costco's is Affinity Development, http://www.affinitydev.com/index.html

Not saying that anything is wrong with these, but just saying that if you trust AAA or Costco's internal controls and skills, you aren't getting those in these services. You are getting AAA or Costco's willingness to license their name.

As is posted many times in this thread, it's down to time vs. money. These services get you 1/2 to 3/4 of where you could get yourself, at a cost. You could do better, sometimes much better, with more time, but that's for each person to decide.
Seconded. I was just asked to project manage a porn affiliate site revamp. They were making $50k+/mo last year, but the niche is so narrow and well, frankly disgusting, that I'm having trouble getting any designer to commit.
Creatng a downloadable product and selling it :)
Also, the JS seems to be quirky:

function jsChallenge() {
return 1;
return 2;
return 3;
}

Returns 3
Ah, but this is if money doesn't matter :-) My job is very challenging, and after eight hours at work, I can't sling code anymore, much less tackle an entirely different set of technologies than I use at work. Also, I don't think I could do justice to the idea without being face-to-face with teachers and students, which would be a full time commitment. I can't put myself in a position where I'll end up disappointing either my employer or a classroom full of kids.

My current job pays well, though, and I plan on retiring at least fifteen years before I'm too old to program, so the "money doesn't matter anymore" scenario is a realistic one. I have a feeling that whenever I retire, educational software will still feel like the right thing to work on.
Thanks for the encouragement!

Many are just coming to the realization that they are the product. Hopefully people will care and the established model will implode.
What email service do you use now?
"Tesla," Edison replied, "you don't understand that I'm an asshole."
I'd be interested in knowing which SaaS you guys pay for a monthly basis, to see where I stand.
Truly hope this motivates anyone on the fence to start their fitness goals.
Nikola Tesla is a true genius. We take many of his inventions and contributions to the world of engineering for granted. His works continue to astound us even today...

Edison, on the other hand was always a scumbag.. More of a marketeer than a scientist..
Nuclear propulsion, what else
I find most interesting how he is permanently banned and there is, in order to enforce this, obviously now a federal searchable record tied into his SSN noting him as a liability that should be avoided for all future secure employment.

This reminds me of the parallel system used by "health insurance companies". If you have some minor issue you later don't disclose on an application form, then if you do later become ill with something expensive to treat like cancer, your records are searched (held by private companies who collect this information), and your policy undergoes rescission, a form of legal annulment. A couple years ago I had some heart pains and got an EKG. It was nothing and proved to be indigestion after eating too many onions. I discussed it with the doctor and he agreed to take cash for that one and make no record of it with my name due to the risk of later being denied health care should I ever actually have heart disease for not reporting a possible preexisting condition.

Of course all this is only possible because of the work we engineers do for the powers that exist for profit and work the angles to make sure their systems don't provide health care and deny honest people the ability to work for law enforcement.
For zimbra, I've used http://www.simplymailsolutions.com/

They are based in the UK, so you have to convert their pricing, but Their service has been fabulous. It's Zimbra. I eventually ended up moving to iCloud, with my new phone, I ended up losing some income streams, and wanted to cut down costs, but otherwise I'd still be with them. There is also 01.com, I used them some too, they are fine, if you need a US based provider.
Not necessarily. It can take a long time to load a large project, including any Rails applications. A typical Rails application can take about 30 seconds to load (that's any time you run a Rake task, launch a server, run unit tests, etc) and unit test runs can typically take a few minutes, often times more than 10 minutes for large applications. If you use a test server, such as Spork, the load time largely goes away for running your tests, but there's still a few seconds of startup time. Just because a language doesn't have an explicit "compile" step doesn't mean its void of compiling-related problems.
"What would it be? "
- Open source Federated P2P socnet.

"Why?"
- Software can be as closed as it wants 'cause we can always drop it for another option anytime we want since the data is still under our control, but imprisoning our digital lives into these walled gardens put up by "for-profit, maximize-shareholder-value-at-all-costs, turn-user-into-product, shove-ads-into-the-user's-stream-and-if-possible-download-a-few-into-their-throats-as-well" companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google, is a recipe for disaster as our data, our friends, our relationships, our entire digital lives, go out of our control in realtime. The situation is really, really bad and to make things worse, the people currently working on this problem are so geeky, so out of touch with the common man's mentality that their technically smart solutions will never ever go mainstream. I'm very passionate about improving the situation and I desire to make social, at minimum, a federated system like email so migration can get a little bit easier when better alternatives pop up down the line or if the user feels the service provider is starting to get a tad too "evil" for his taste.
s/toSring/toString/

To others, the demo question on the home page is a divisible by 5 or 7 problem. This is one of the guest challenges and is that the number contains the digit '7'.
"And we apparently don't notice frame-rates above 72 every second."

I'm curious what conditions he's referring to with those 72 frames. Is motion blur built in for instance or are they static snapshots? 72 just seems a bit low.
http://www.100fps.com/how_many_frames_can_humans_see.htm
The social graph is the holy grail of intelligence analysts and law enforcement. I believe for many years they've been trying to do this themselves, but it requires a massive collection system, along with an equally massive backend database to house all of this information. And it is tough to normalize a person when they have multiple shards of identity.

Now, we just give it to them wholesale. In this way, the tech that empowers us may eventually be used against us. It is terrifying enough that I would prefer a more analog future.

(Apologies for the throwaway account, but I'm not naive.)
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Your friend needs to learn some things about SEO. If you look at the bottom of his site, there are about 40 different domain names that all point to the same content.

This is a huge duplicate content issue, and there are much better ways to target multiple keyphrases.
I wonder if he meant rebilling fraud.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm scared by this sentence from the Google ToS:

"When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content." -- http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/
Uhhh, I don't think the holocaust happened because people weren't noticing.
My college roommate and I embarked on a social network(elephantunderground) to change the way people collaborate/share/media online. This was before RoR and much of the web advances. It was more ambitious than we were able to handle honestly.
Then we created yourbarguide. A bar scene type yelp social network competing with Yelp but we could not monetize.
He went on to create an online store called Revzilla and is CRUSHING IT. Selling Motorsport gear. Found a nitch(there were no real competitors), had the knowhow, and is growing like a weed. Sell something, drop ship, and grow!
Sad. Growing up, Edison came across to me as a man worthy of idolizing. Edison was inferior to Tesla not only in terms of intellect, but also as a human being. Edison may have been a great businessman, but Tesla was the genius who was far ahead of his time. I'm glad to see his story told.
Inexpensive robotic aerial platforms for film-making and the attendant software that controls the platform as well as the various aspects of post-production, such as match-moving, involving footage shot from same.
I think he meant rebilling.
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They do, hence Pleiades, the 7th fastest supercomputer. http://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/resources/pleiades.html
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Something for the cycling/racing industry.

Event registration, chip timing software, live/historical race results. The whole package. Right now the pieces exist but they're usually separate pieces and they look and function like 90's software.

I'd try and bring modern look, feel, and technology to these areas.

Strava is a great example of bringing modern web to the cycling/running world if you ask me.
Porn...it's got too commercialized and needs some fresh perspective
Time tracking is't by any metrics a solved area yet. There will be even more approaches in the coming years.

Two things promise to keep the area interesting.

1. Time tracking have to be automated. I think I found an way to do that which is actually going to work.

2. Project need to move away from time based projects and more towards deployment tracking. This one won't be solved anytime soon cause of corporate structures.

It's going to be one of the most interesting spaces to watch within the B2B area IMHO
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I go through the mental process of telling myself what I am working on now, but I like the idea of adding a physical ritual to go along with it. I'll try it! Thank you for sharing.

What is your ritual for getting out of the zone, out of curiosity?
Hmm; no, I really disagree with this.

The opaque car market does tend to increase revenues for dealers, but no one has explained how it incentivizes them to provide a better product. How could it? Car purchasing may well be a multi-dimensional problem, and price only the most visible dimension; innovation could explain those other dimensions better (like TrueCar is doing for price). But why should opacity remain a part of this process? Every car may be a unique snowflake (really?), but the price should be a function not of the buyer's bargaining power, but the car options.

The wrong incentives are unlikely to produce the right result; we know this from ECON101, why should markets for cars be exceptional?

Did not like the self-promotion here.

Finally: this article was not nearly opinionated enough. The article explains that the cars industry doesn't like TrueCar; but then it doesn't explain the argument against TrueCar. This is a common journalistic mistake; I'm happy to disagree civilly, but don't sacrifice the discussion to civility. If side X doesn't have a point, then just say so. In a debate, I'd rather have my points demolished than politely dropped. And readers are confused; I reread this article because I thought I had missed something...
> another company started by selling books (a worse idea if you ask me)

Nope, IMO it's f*cking perfect. Having worked for a book distribution company: the item is easily packaged, it's easily identified by the purchaser (no brand confusion), it's easy to use with no support costs, all items from the publisher are sale-or-return - any excess inventory goes straight back to them rather than clogging the store's shelves if it doesn't sell. Amazon also used the Internet to overcome the traditional problems with book distribution: which titles to carry and market, because there are so many. Just carry all of them.