skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel that balance, which can be hard to achieve, need a spot on the list. I had a friend who's approach was akin to work hard and be frugal. He was so frugal that he became famous for not cashing his paychecks for weeks. As an engineer he made very good money. He saved most of it and had been buying gold and silver as investments for the last 20 years. He and his wife were going to move to Hawaii and enjoy life. On his last trip there to buy a house he went for a swim out of the same beach they had visited for years. And he never came back.

This is an extreme example of a case where lack of balance produced the wrong outcome. He did not enjoy a lot of things in life because of his extreme focus on frugality.

Seek balance.
As I see it, "burnout" in this context means that point where you stop thinking clearly and your productivity sharply drops. You could be making $10M/year or $10K/year and still experience burnout.
I'm talking about the implementation, sorry :)
This reminds me of another correlational study I was tickled pink to read, and I just had to quote it in one of my essays http://www.gwern.net/Nicotine#fn7 :

> "…Based on these figures, and expected deaths from all causes, the authors calculated that an individual who spends a lifetime average of six hours a day watching TV can expect to live just under five fewer years than someone who does not watch TV. These figures compare with the impact of other well known lifestyle factors on the risk of death from cardiovascular disease after the age of 50, including physical activity and obesity. For example, other research has shown that lifelong smoking is associated with the shortening of life expectancy by more than 4 years after the age of 50, with the average loss of life from one cigarette calculated to be 11 minutes - equivalent to half an hour of TV watching, according to the authors’ risk framework."

Now isn't that a kick in the rear? If you gave up half an hour of TV to smoke a cigarette, you... did nothing to your life expectancy, if the correlations are to be taken causally.
Hardware and R&D investments are regularly considerably greater than a million dollars. Lots of investors are interested in zero profitability for 12 months (assuming you actually have a business case and a viable product). Outside of the silicon valley software tech bubble, hardware design and manufacture is still an expensive business. I know of a number of companies building machinery for renewable energy generation that have received collectively tens or perhaps hundreds of millions of pounds in funding with no short term profits likely. There's also a lot of medical engineering research going on in universities, which doesn't generally have the same profit requirements attached to it.

However, your concepts sound like vague ideas rather than anything based in reason or science. One dimensional sensing (eg a heartbeat monitor) is fairly easy,but good and reliable multi-variable embedded sensing is hard.

In a later post, you mentioned mapping teeth with a toothbrush. That's not a trivial thing to do - without a fixed frame of reference it would not only be very complex mathematically, but also pretty unreliable. Similarly, chemically analysing anything is not something you can easily do in an embedded and reliable fashion.

A million dollars would not get you very far with embedded, reliable chemical testing. You clearly don't even have a concept of how to do it.
The Flight From Conversation
Nice work so far. Any plans to implement a comment view?
Windows 8 it is then.
Some contradictions:

MarketHear.com: bad because it fails the "bar exam"

CardPool.com: how does this pass the "bar exam" again?

Xort.com: bad - you settled on some domain because it's short and easy to pronounce

Etsy.com: good because it's short
Well there were 5,405 deaths among the group of 222,497 people aged 45 and above. That's an average chance of death in 3 years of 2.4% for this age group.
Just find another creative outlet. When I can't come up with a solution to a design I'm working on, I just pick up my guitar and play for a bit. Generally the excitement from that exercise gets me back in the mindset to work on the design I'd left. Of course your thing doesn't have to be music. Just explore different topics of interest and see what sticks.
Visibility API for browser tabs/windows
It's down for me, can someone paste the text?
Www.s-xin.com
I used to draw and paint for fun a few years ago but even that doesn't hold my interest anymore.
I want auto top with auto album, auto upload and auto organize.

Take a pic, it crops it and uploads it into an album set which can be filtered/organized by time day week month year with a simple slider.
Technical = Coder. Non-Technical = Non-Coder.
Indeed. I think the thought going through most of these peoples' heads is "Workstations are going away. Everyone's switching to tablets. I'd better make my OS work on tablets, or else it will go away eventually too."
> You know what I want from my kickstarter investment? Equity.

If you are looking for an equity return investment worth picking your nose for then kickstarter projects simply are the right place to be looking.

What you put into KS projects is not an investment, you are essentially just helping the project out. If you are looking for financial return on the money you put down then you either need to properly invest in companies (though that is of course rather expensive and risky) or for smaller amounts you need to find a savings account with a reasonable rate of inflation. The medium amounts there are several "crowd funding" options that provide loans to individuals or small businesses - you'll likely get a higher return from this than a savings account but there is of course a risk that you could make a loss instead.

I've put money in the put for a couple of things on KS, not because I want some financial return on "investment" but because I want to see the thing happen or be made for one reason or another (a valid reason being just because I think it is a neat idea and even if I don't personally want it I think the world would be a little more "cool" on average if said product/service/show/what-ever got off the ground).
Seems down for us all. mysql db issues. :|
this is pretty cool. very practical for advertising purposes and things like that.
Most things he suggest you to do are boring (learning, especially: extremelly boring, if I'm going to stare into screen looking at some guy slooooowly telling me some common knowledge I'll die of frustration).

He suggests that to avoid boredom, we should do busywork.

No we won't.
I also would like to see a system that forbid me to write code that is not covered by a unit test yet.

I suspect that would lead to the people who are currently not writing unit tests writing useless tests just to circumvent the requirement. It would also make exploratory programming, where you haven't completely figured out what you want it to do much more difficult.
Make sure you stand while smoking it, though. :-)
It's not possible to please everyone when you do a UI change and have 300+ million users, but we do try to fix some issues people have with the new design (e.g. setting for text buttons, high contrast theme). Of course it has to look consistent with other products so there are some limitations.
Our community manager wrote a much more eloquent answer to that topic on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/sk7i7/how_do_you_get...
Kinda inspirational.
I think we can make this happen. Hopefully we can work it into the next update. Thanks!!
Momentum. If an issue is identified and numerous people seem to care about it and pass it along, few channels can match a social network's ability to get it attention.
With small tweaks i think all of the shortcomings mentioned here can be taken care of. e.g. provide much larger tax rebates as lottery instead of actual money. These rebates are much more beneficial to the rich who spend the most and are the ones who evade taxes the most.
Not really cruft, but a very simple way to measure how relevant was that result for the search you did.
Where did you get the current list of registered domains? I wrote a script to ping domains then perform a whois if ping returned nothing, but it was really slow.
I'm not focusing on labor wages. I'm focusing on "income", which is, as you state, not the same thing.

I'm not trying to compare the FairTax to the current system. I'm simply stating what the FairTax proposal does. I don't understand how it's short-sighted to say that rich people who save/invest will pay less. It's a simple fact. One of the problems with regressive taxation is that wealth tends to snowball and this can be bad when the tax system perpetuates that effect. Why should a poor person pay X% on half his income because he has to spend half his income on taxed necessities, while a rich person pays 0% on most of his income which he spends buying up rental properties to rent to people like the aforementioned poor person? I'm not trying to say that investment like that is inherently bad, simply that this particular arrangement makes it very difficult for the poor person to get ahead, and much easier for the rich person to get even richer.

I'm not actually attempting to compare this system to the current one at all, so your continued criticism of the current system is off-base. I'm simply stating that the FairTax is fairly regressive, a feature inherent is essentially any system based heavily on sales tax, and this makes it deeply unattractive to me and a lot of other people.
> You made me laugh with the loldeep line. I thought that was exclusively reserved for Evangelion?

Sure, but Evangelion is interesting because it's a detective hunt for sources and references to put together the case and explain what it is actually about.

Oshii... is Oshii. Read something like http://www.gwern.net/docs/eva/2003-oshii-izubuchi if you don't believe me.
Small Chinese correction: 元 is yuan2. Kuai4 is 块. Kuai4 is just a measure word for Qian2 (钱).
Man completes solo circumnavigation of the Americas
Every startup name will have pros and cons to varying degrees. None will individually be perfect. The Strong & Weak examples are to spell out the extremes of many positive and negative criteria so that you have a base level to compare against.
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I found an implementation of the entire jQuery API in a single line of javascript!

http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2.min.js
I'd love to have an FPGA-based Lilith to go along my also wanted Alto and Symbolics machines.
Top point and shoot digital cameras
So is Clipper, but I don't consider it a good thing.
How do you pronounce "xort"?

This is a serious question, I'm not an native English speaker and there are many pronunciations of X in English (Like "h" as in "LaTeX", like "ks" as in "extreme", like "z" as in "Xavier", maybe there are more...)
Virtuous Cycle of DevOps
Google cache for the rescue:
http://google.com/search?q=cache%3Alinguapragma.com/blog/201...

(alternate link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sugexp=chrome,m...)
The thing that excites me is when I come to something I don't know how to do, and don't think I could ever know how to do, and then I teach myself it.

I don't know what kind of software you write, but if it were me, and I got tired of writing software for the web, I'd try to pick up writing graphics, or writing native mobile.
My father was a bus driver and he had a heart attack in his late 50s. The number of men he worked with who also had heart attacks was staggering. When he visits the hospital for his regular check-ups he always meets other bus drivers. It's really quite alarming.
How to lose fat and increase productivity at work
His site:
http://runawaybrainz.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/audio-crystal-cm...
Standing keeps postural musculature (those you use to keep balance upright) active. So even standing still is way more activity than simply sitting where postural muscles just do nothing.

I wonder whether "active sitting" [e.g., sitting on a ball, or just sitting correctly (upright, instead of leaning on the back of the chair -- imagine sitting upright on a chair without the back)] has the same negative effect.
This article made me get off my chair, put my chair on my table, and put my laptop on the chair.
How long did it take to notice these results? Are you normally an active person or is standing your primary form of 'exercise'?
Taiwan also has a variation of this, being an even closer source of inspiration than Mexico for China.

It's crazy - the cleaning staff at my dormitory was absolutely obsessive about fishing each one of them out of the trash, even though the chance of winning is terrible...a good indicator of how little some people's time is still worth, sadly.
This reminded me of an anecdote from Bill Cosby during an interview he did on my college radio station. I'm not entirely sure if he was just patronizing the educators, but he said that he attributed a lot of his success in comedy to education and his thirst for knowledge. Something along the lines of "the more I read and learned, the funnier I could be." Perhaps this applies in some form to naming companies and products. It seems like a lot of people limit their resources for discovering good names (e.g. Thesaurus, dictionary, domain randomizer, etc." It should come from your surroundings and what you learn. In fact, I believe Zynga is named after one of Pincus' pets.
Not really a defensive reply, because I don't live in the US, but across the border in Canada we have a very similar culture and very safe public transportation. I grew up in downtown-ish Toronto and never saw a crime. There are crimes, just not too many that people fear taking public transportation. A typical subway ride in Toronto has plenty of people in suits. Bus transport in other cities in Ontario is also quite safe.
It's a stupid measure since they never reward the desired behavior.

Also: are you always required to fill your taxes? That's stupid. Why would you do that if you have a normal job with a wage - they already have all the necessary information, why make you do extra work?
The science [hacking] of civil war
I think it's either "Zort" like Xavier, or "Exort", where you pronounce the X as a letter.
I think the idea is still there: it takes 20% of the time to do the first 80% of the work; the last 20% takes 80% of the time.
M-commerce pioneer MobiCart launches support for Android and New iPad
You lose very little, sure, but you never gain any money.

Using this logic, one should just play the lottery because hey its only a buck and the EV, while a sucker's bet, is still better than any Kickstarter project.
I read an article[1] that, I think, was on HN a little while ago about naming apps. I find it a really good way to come up with good names.

[1] http://blog.zachwaugh.com/post/9666969587/how-i-name-my-apps
These placeholder variables are the worst thing to happen to language documentation in the modern era. And so there’ll be none of this on Lingua Pragma. I’ll illustrate (meta-illustrate) the problem by demonstrating classes in ruby.

Example 1

class Dog
def speak
return 'woof'
end
end

class Dachshund < Dog
end

fido = Dachshund.new
fido.speak
=> 'woof'
Example 2

class Foo
def bar
return 123
end
end

class Baz < Foo
end

qux = Baz.new
qux.bar
=> 123
Which example conveys more information? Which is easier to quickly grasp? Which would you rather read?
Worse Than SOPA: CISPA, Cybersecurity Bill May Censor The Web
Foo, Bar, and Baz: Not Having It

Posted on April 21, 2012
These placeholder variables are the worst thing to happen to language documentation in the modern era. And so there’ll be none of this on Lingua Pragma. I’ll illustrate the problem by demonstrating classes in ruby. Compare:

Example 1

class Dog
def speak
return 'woof'
end
end

class Dachshund < Dog
end

fido = Dachshund.new
fido.speak
=> 'woof'
Example 2

class Foo
def bar
return 123
end
end

class Baz < Foo
end

qux = Baz.new
qux.bar
=> 123
Which example conveys more information? Which is easier to quickly grasp? Which would you rather read?

The dog motif in Example 1 came to me because my GF asked me to write an app to simulate a pet salon. And I’d model the classes something like this.
This is a lovely piece of work; I think it's missing the point to speculate on possible profit margins, or the magnitude of a kickstarter project; the thing is the point here. Something so well turned out makes me want to make things, not buy them.
i love Ada and i think it is the real jewel.
uber-cooooool!
I've only gotten burned out when I was forced to work on projects I hated for long periods of time.

I guess I've been lucky in the fact that I've never truly been so burned out that I've stopped coding completely. I still get that feeling that I used to get when I first started writing software 16 years ago.

The key is to have interesting personal projects. Even if I'm working on a project I hate, I can always find some piece of it that I like (and I can use for future projects).
WOOOOOOOOOOOT!
Then most of the ordinary consumers(people) will confuse and lose the motivation to ask for this receipt. Because a lot of Chinese people don't, don't need and don't know how to fill tax return.

The government don't want to do that as well, because if then they are indirectly educate people there is a concept of tax return exists, which is most people don't aware of. That is a big chunk of money government steal away from people every year.
Takeaway: its nice to be tenured.
true identity of "agent 409"... Travis Wichert.

Travis... Little Travis Wichert! It is super cool that you are gay! It is NOT COOL that you are still obsessed with and harassing a straight man who didn't want to fuck your dirty homeless ass over 10 years ago! He fed you, pulled you off the street, got you a job and you should be grateful for that - not STILL harassing this man! You live in East Lansing, MI now, you work for liquidweb.com . 1999 is over! Did your cross dressing outfit ever improve? even with the pig tails and fishnets, it really was an poor choice, not effective at all in communicating your suppressed and tortured inner Woman. Come out of the closet, little Travis. You are Not the Only One! It is RAINING MEN, LITTLE TRAVIS WICHERT you just go out and catch you some! You can do it, Little Travis!
Güvenlik Kamera Sistemleri
Ege Güvenlik Kamera Sistemleri ve Güvenlik hizmetleri ile gözünüzü arkada bırakmıyor.
Yes, being a man gives you more chance of dying, but this study showed the increased risk of sitting even when taking this into account. Their result summary says they adjusted for factors including "sex, age, education, urban/rural residence, physical activity, body mass index, smoking status, self-rated health, and disability":
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/172/6/494
Just what I needed to compare all those javascript mvc frameworks!
I didn't call him an expert though. ;)

But criticism accepted. Next time I will take care to choose a better title. :)
I'm normally active. I thought standing all day would tire me out, discouraging me from normal exercise. But it's been the opposite; I'm much more inclined to exercise after work now. Probably because my leg and back pain have disappeared.

The first two weeks are tough. Your legs get tired, feet sore, etc. But after that, the benefits kicked in. I also bought decent sneakers and an anti-fatigue mat to stand on (~$20).
Best framework by far for JS.
The first (only?) comment on the blog hits on an important point: I know lots of technical people who don't code. These people build networks, configure racks of equipment, and generally keep data centers running smoothly ... and couldn't code their way out of a SIGTRAP. (Contrary to this, I've met plenty of non-technical people who "repair" PCs and know how to click the UI of the latest malware removal tool.)

I understand that the target audience is the MBA who thinks that since he bought a laptop last week, he's now "technical," but it's an important distinction when your story is read by a bunch of technical geeks.

<rant>Proofread your blog posts. This is why your blogging software allows you to create drafts - dump your rage into the editor and save the draft. Come back later after you've cooled down and fix your grammatical and spelling errors. Also, don't forget to pay some attention to organization.</rant>
How Mint Beat Wesabe, Or The Importance of a Name
Consider whether their abuse of your resume actively harms you some way, be it lowering your repuation or re-directing potential clients to them.

If it does harm you, send them a cease&desist letter, based on your authorship of this text. Ask to remove the text from the website, and suggest further discussion.

Aside of that, consider negotiating some licencing fees for past and (if applicable) future use of the document. They may try to disclaim responsibility, blaming honest mistake of a random employee, but that not necessarily absolves any responsibility.

In any case, ask them to attach credit where it is due -- perhaps link to your personal website?
My bad - I tried to leave scrolling alone, but somewhere in my spaghetti of media queries it got hijacked. Working on a fix. Thanks for the heads up!
I didn't find several of the "strong examples" to be much stronger than the bad examples.

I absolutely believe in passing the telephone test: a receptionist (not expert in your field) should be able to transcribe your name accurately over a low quality cellphone call. Using technical terms (e.g. git) complicates this, especially if they're longer, and rules out homonyms, frequently confused sounds, etc.

I'd rather have a mid-length two word name, or a long single word, than an ambiguous short single word.

And, obviously, the .com/.net/.org for that domain, and ideally for all related spellings, hyphenations (between words), etc. I hate the abuse of country code ccTLDs for company names.

"getXXXXX.com" is acceptable for a mobile-only app's domain.
Mostly OT: as a somebody who programs computers I dont enjoy the word 'coder'. For me personally it has the mental connotation of somebody who is just there to 'code' it up, who is given a spec from above to implement, somebody who doesn't need to have any creativity to do his part of the software assembly line.
I much prefer the titles 'programmer' or 'sw engineer' because they corelate with problem solving and creativity. Those are two traits without which a technical cofounder that's just a coder will probably be of less use.
"Don't ignore your dreams"

Especially re-occurring ones, but the first step is to remember your dreams.
And this is coming from "_the_nextweb", why not just "nextweb".
Try shifting focus from programming to purpose. It's far easier to "burn out" on code than it is on the ends that programming serves: success of a company, entertainment of users/players, advancement of science, ...
Scripting Clojure with Leiningen 2
In two decades as a professional programmer, I have only ever heard glowing remarks from Delphi developers about their environment. Certainly Eclipse and even Smalltalk can't match that.
I think this is a critical point, has the author of LightTable considered what would happen with instant feedback for less trivial pieces of code?

Some of the code in his demo talked to the web framework he wrote (that I use in production code) and IIRC to the SQL abstraction layer he wrote (that I also use in production code). Something makes me think that he has given some thought to how these things might interact with the real world.

I think it's fair to ask for money. Chris Granger has a track record of building useful, production-worthy libraries and tools both professionally and as a hobby. If he's going to not work for a while, possibly hire other people and build an open source IDE, it's reasonable to ask for outside funding.
Not impressed. This is why frames are dead for quite some time now. Feels unnatural and breaks importance of catchy titles.