skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a reason why Steven Covey's "7 Habits" is such a popular book, and it's because it delivers a fantastic framework - not a list of 1000 self-help tips - for building a life organized around your principles.

He spends a whole chapter talking about the tyranny of the "urgent" and how we often allow it to crowd out the "important"... and how essential it is to plan/balance the necessity of one vs. the desires of the other.

I think I realized this intuitively when I was about 20 or so, but when you have your principles defined and commit to them daily, everything else flows from there... When you have a driving purpose in life, everything from confidence to leadership to relational skills to technical skills and even your desire for being physically in-shape all develop and naturally flow out from your overarching desire to meet that purpose. Covey calls it "true north", and it's a great metaphor -- when you know "true north", all paths that don't bring you in that direction immediately and quickly become irrelevant to your life.

Even better, you rarely need self-help books along the way, simply because life will teach you all the unique lessons and tricks you need to learn as you strive intentionally towards that mission.

With that said, once you've decided that you're doing things that matter, hack away, because time is still the currency of life.
The QR code leads directly to the app store for iOS and Google Play app. The fact that we use bitly url give you the possibility to measure the traffic driven by your cards by appending a + sign at the end of the URL.

As for the prices they aren't really expensive if you look at the competition, specially for the quality we offer.

Thanks for the feedback
For something that implies on the cover that it is going to get real about build wep apps, there's very little actual building of web apps in there.
I'm the creator of LiveScript (http://gkz.github.com/LiveScript/) which is on that list. Feel free to ask any questions!
LiveScript has unnested callbacks, paren free chaining, function composition and piping operators, proper list comprehensions, and a lot of other improvements over CoffeeScript.
I am confused.

I went to the link expecting to find a how to guide or a link to a how to guide. The page copy seems to indicate that it exists, and says "[the guide] is here..." but I can't seem to find it.
6 years on, the GoSquared story so far
Used to have a terrible posture until it gave me back problems. Spent a week correcting it only to be shocked at the difference it made to my attractiveness to women - wish I'd known earlier '-(
If the casino believes that the machine has been corrupted or is broken, they call in the state's gaming commission which is supposed to act as an independent technical 3rd party. The machine is inspected and it's code compared to a known registered checksum.

Casinos can say "technical error!", but there is an advocate for the player in this situation. Usually. (Avoid Indian casinos in the USA for this reason).
We have only been able to find 3 in the entire United States so I believe the site is rather new. We're actually in the process of planning one of these events (HackJam sized) for Syracuse, NY and hopefully others will follow soon.
The Python website certainly doesn't have a welcoming feel to it.

A redesign will be a great move.
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The world has been using Silverlight for a long time.
I'd interpret this as someone with high income/low net worth.

Think someone from a random middle class background that got good grades an above average public college. Basically, if he fucks up, he's bankrupt.

The WASPy types with Harvard MBA's benefit from their social safety net.
ASK HN: Would you sign up for this service?
Page is running a company which has no regard for their users privacy. Don't try to make him appear good. He is a scumbag, just as any other CEO. He may have a great PR team but he still is a scumbag.
Razor from Puppet Labs and EMC - provisioning to puppetize your hardware
Perhaps Apple can borrow something from Microsoft. Contracts seem like the perfect way to add cross-app communication in a restrictive App Store-only environment.
That already exists:

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/FileMa...
But how long do you spend setting up the time-tracking process that ensures you don't exceed you 20% time frame in a given day/week/month/year? And don't you also have to track that time as tool-time? How do you even do that without your time-tracking system up and running?!

Facetious, i know - but this is a confessional, the OP is basically saying he isn't capable of separating his time out like that - he would get drawn into the optimization process - like an addiction and blow past he's 20% allotment.

If a person is able to maintain the don't go over 20% of your time on optimization then by definition they aren't dealing with the same issue as the OP.
I've recently noticed that less planning and 'life hacking' in certain areas of my life have opened doors to more progress. For example, my desk at home. I used to have to have it sparse and minimal. Nothing could be on it but my keyboard, mouse, monitor and laptop. So, I'd spend time every day or week cleaning it off, making sure nothing ever got it on it, actually getting distracted from what I was working on for fear of something getting on my desk.

Around the first of the year I read a post about 'minimal porn' and 'desk porn' and it made me feel really petty and stupid. So, I decided to let my desk 'live and let live'. Whatever ended up on my desk (within reason) could stay. After a week or so, I was over the minimal desk thing. It never even crosses my mind now. My desk is for work and concentration, not staging of photos.
I'm tech savvy and I still don't want to download an app, open it up, steady my camera, take a picture, wait for it to think about it, and take me to the website. Just give me a damn URL.
There is a difference between how easy it is and if Apple wants to allow it. The percentage of people who want to do this on a widely adopted consumer platform like iOS is small. I doubt Apple will ever allow this, it wouldn't significantly increase sales vs. support complexity/platform simplicity. Considering Apple is extracting the majority of the dollars from the smartphone market already I doubt they're too worried about losing the tweakers to Android.
That's what I need - a system to ensure the optimal divide between the time I spend working on optimizing my system and doing actual work! ;)
>"Membership was once a right of birth to hereditary peers but, following a series of reforms, only 92 members (as of 1 July 2011) sitting by virtue of a hereditary peerage remain."

Importantly, they will not pass on their peerages to their children. There are no longer hereditary peerages in the UK, it's just that they didn't strip the current ones of their titles. There are still members of the clergy in there though, which is wrong.

IMO the unelected house of lords is often the most effective part of our government. I don't like it but I find it very difficult to argue against.
That would imply the App Store is completely useless and not a huge factor for the continuous success of iOS devices. I think you can see how wrong you are.

The thing is, not everyone will customize all apps, but everyone will customize at least one app, be it a better todo list, a better IM, a better picture-taking app, or a better recipe database. Which is why the appstore is so popular.

EDIT: clearly the "regular users" I know are different from everybody else. The North of England must be a hive of phone-geeks living in some sort of bubble.
"This seamless armor, is stunningly beautiful and perfectly smooth. It feels like cool liquid to the touch. It is also, incredibly strong. It's a fantastic fusion of design and function."
Have you ever heard of Spotify? http://www.spotify.com
It's a music streaming service with social sharing.
I hear you -- couldn't have said it better. (Then again -- there was a 99% chance you didn't need to check HN at this point...)
And for that matter, doesn't 1/5 of your time spent like this sound like you went down the rabbit-hole already?
No. A t-shirt I don't particularly like is worth approximately zero to me (you get them free at conventions), and it doesn't sound like the front will be cool enough to justify the back. Particularly since the back's probably going to be McDonalds or something.
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I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm asking with all due respect; was the adam carolla comment a joke? Its just that I've never heard adam carolla discussed in the same sentence as Gross, Rose or Russert.
She's not even a household name in the UK.

In general, the rest of the world is far more interested in the british royal family than the british.
Actually, check this out: http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2011/11/11/project-hiddenwood/

Audiotool has been working on using only HTML5 and JavaScript (although who knows whether they'll ever start using that in their real product).
The bigger problem in my mind is that so many of our prime ministers and other government ministers come from a very select elite background. But then America has this problem too, even though there is supposedly no class system in the US. For example, the concept of, and everything that's wrong with, the Bullingdon club at Oxford is interchangeable with the Skull and Bones club at Yale.

If you are looking for elitism in the British system then you are missing the point when you pick on the Royals. They are probably one of the better investments the government makes in boosting the tourism sector. As your comments demonstrate, lots of people around the world take them very seriously, a lot more seriously than British people typically do.
Here's a quick rendition of Doctor Who: http://g.co/doodle/a7r7gh

(Love the four track recorder.)
+1 to #3. I didn't know there were controls behind that bar until I read this comment. It'd be better if it "pushed down" the page instead of covering the controls.
That's not what I've implied at all.

Everyone will customise their experience of the device, by adding what they like from the store.

My point is that, more often than not, these users won't replace core apps like Mail or Calendar - these apps work just fine for most people and there's no incentive to change.
He needs walking around money. So what?
Balance is everything.
Is it true that you can't tweet "Get Better."?
Data Mining with Maximal Information Coefficient
Here in Rwanda we keep hearing how we have the 3rd fastest internet in Africa according to Ookla, but it's kinda nonsense because Ookla measures speed to the nearest Ookla server. In Rwanda the internal infrastructure is great and there's an Ookla server in Kigali so it thinks we have great internet. But that doesn't take into account the connection to the rest of the world which isn't so great.
I'd love to see a Aubrey Isle like processor based on ARM cores - with many ARM cores sharing a 2 GB pool of fast memory.

The Intel cores on the Aubrey Isle chip are fairly large and take up most of the silicon on the die. An ARM-based design would be much smaller and cheaper to manufacture.

Now that I said it, I wonder how much more expensive would be a RAM chip incorporating an ARM core versus pure memory. It would be interesting to have "smart memory" that could do things like "sha-384 this range and ping me back when you're done". Assuming other threads are not using that same component for other activities, it could be done basically "for free".
Awesome tool. I really like how you integrated the component functionality into the UI, so that you could select a particular form from Wufoo or list the Salesforce object.
What components do you have right now and what are planned for the future?
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What happened to HNpod?
I really dug the first couple of episodes, would love to hear more. (http://www.hnpod.com/)
All cards also display the shorten url that leads to the same url as the QR code. The idea behind the QR code and shorten url is to make sure user don't have to search for your app in the store. We take them directly to the right place.

In custom mode you can always decide to put any text you want it you would rather see the name of the app for example.
No for 2 reasons,

1) As @lmm mentioned, you can get free t-shirts from just about anywhere and it's not worth having a huge ad on your back
2) Launchrock is one of the most annoying 'Coming Soon' pages out there. Why would I share your service/product on Twitter/FB/Email to my friends and family when I haven't even ever used it
the frontpage reminds me too much of result.ly

no idea who took the map from whom...
Usually from links on http://www.newit.co.uk/forum/
This is exactly the design of Android that makes so many people dislike it. the Intents API does literally everything that you mention. It is effectively somewhat annoying in certain situations, but I think it's probably going to win.

edit: typo
It was in the S-1 filing, so it's not new news:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebooks-zuckerberg-thiel-...
Facebook faces lawsuit over claims it misrepresented ahead of IPO
Doesn't sound like the front will be cool enough to justify the back. What if when we presume it is?

Ideally, McDonalds-like t-shirts will be the minority of the t-shirts you will be able to choose from. What if it is a t-shirt courtesy of your local Radioshack?

Moreover, you'll be able to see in advance what company is sponsoring the shirt. Don't like McD? Choose another one!
I was expecting to see sketches and scribbles about the product. I guess this belongs to the "we skip product and just push pixels" school of design.
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Sorry this wasn't very clear. I meant that you might not get what you expected (though it will conform to the rule you set, if it completes). Stocks can be very volatile and a limit order only controls movement one way, so it doesn't protect you from (say) a huge drop in stock price just after your order.
Their logo looks pretty close to the Olympics one. So twitter really doesn't have much choice unless they want to risk a lawsuit - which they do not. Olympics guys probably don't have much choice too - TM laws require the owner to defend the trademark or lose it.
The SJ guys would have to create their own logo.
IMHO such lists are rather useless without information about the state of the compiler, indicators for active development, financial situation (who pays the bills?), community size etc.
You know what's cool? 1.134916 billion dollars.

Hey, who else has finances that look like this?

Mark Zuckerberg, Trustee of The Mark Zuckerberg 2008 Annuity Trust dated March 13, 2008
While I somewhat agree with you're comment, however you're not addressing the fact that Google is using this to push their web browser Chrome.
"and then there was the 60 Minutes piece, hosted by Morley Safer which focused on PayPal founder Peter Thiel‘s attack on the college bubble. The piece was, of course, strongly biased. It was a venerable old dinosaur hosting a venerable old dinosaur in order to defend a venerable old dinosaur."
Main focus is on generating feedback right now. Concrete traction building will start in a later stage.

Thanks for the responses btw :)
Standing tall, head and shoulders back, making eye contact - almost everyone will treat you differently than when slouched or submissive-looking.
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Skilled liars make great lie detectors
Not to everyone.
My argument in favor of keeping the royalty can be summed up in one vomit inducing phrase:

President Cameron.

Shiver...
It's hard to take someone seriously when they say they would invest in a company at any valuation. That's not investing, that's making a donation.
I use soulver instead of calculator. It's sweet.
FoxWeave makes it so nice and easy!
Gary Connery successfuly lands wingsuit without a parachute
Probably to pay his tax bill, right?
On the other hand, one of Covey's habits is "sharpen the saw." Which is just another metaphor for Lifehacking. If you take a few minutes to optimize your tool, your work will be easier. On the other hand, if you spend your day sharpening the saw, at some point it's not going to get usably sharper, and you're just wasting time. You've got to find a way to strike the balance.
On my 18 megabit connection it took 4 seconds to load into my chrome browser running on my Ubuntu desktop computer. BUT it does load much, much faster after caching is done.
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Recent grads are spoiled and unambitious, says an Indian manager for a multinational corporation.
If we assume that the shirts look good, sure. I always like free stuff.
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Bagehots "The English Constitution" is freely available on-line at gutenberg.org (among other places). It makes the useful distinction between the efficient and ceremonial parts of government. At the time it was written, the House of Lords had a good deal more power than it has had since about 1910, but the book is still worth reading.
Kitchen Electrics
This is pretty cool stuff. And easy enough anybody can use.
You mean the 2012™ London™ Summer™ Olympic™ Games™?
Yes, but just so I had tonnes of gym/exercise t-shirts.
There is no incentive... until there is. The default camera app doesn't zoom. The default music player won't create playlists (edit -- sorry, it does; what I meant is that there is no queuing to the now-playing like in old iPods). The default todo app won't do cloud sync (well, it does now, but it wasn't the case before). And so on -- as soon as your usage of a particular app increases over a certain threshold, you'll encounter a corner case and head for the appstore to get a better app. So a photographer will have five picture-related apps and never touch the default one, while using the default mail client; a lifehacker will have fifteen hyper-specialized ToDo apps and never touch the default one, while using the default camera app.
We've just a handfull of connectors at the moment - Cloud/Web: MongoHQ, Cloudant, Wufoo, Salesforce, Webhook, Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, Logger, Javascript. The thing is however, we'll be opening up the API in the next few days. Then anyone can write a connector and upload it to their own account (will not be visible to other accounts).
Anyone else hate the 'three sentence email' policy?
I assume there's more fine print to this.

What if the advertisers don't like the context in which I wear their t-shirts? If I upload three photos of myself wearing my t-shirt at a KKK rally, or being beaten by police officers at a protest, or throwing a puppy off of a bridge, will I continue to receive free t-shirts? Or would advertisers be able to black list certain frappers?

For the record, I signed up, and will probably be donating most of the ones I receive (if any, I do get beaten up a lot at KKK rallies for throwing puppies of bridges) to the homeless.
That's perfect for a responsive GUI, but it's probably wrong for anything which needs lots of processing power.

Perhaps not so wrong?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3902319

As far as why JS, source-map for debugging is a big deal here. This makes it a very good host language because it enables source debugging even when used as a compiler target.
Seagate to buy LaCie for $186m as hard drive industry continues shrinking
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Sure... we'll be making it easier to use over time though, with a proper visual mapper etc (and more connectors of course).
I think he just wanted a catchy title. I like his call on eventbrite, I never considered it, but they are doing a really good job in that category.
Every three cents more per share would have been another million dollars.
He still has much, much more tied up in facebook. The fact that he's diversifying his holdings shouldn't be held against him; any reasonable person would do the same to hedge against a possible decline of the entire technology sector in the event social media company valuations face some sort of "correction". Also, anyone with that much money in equities has to worry about broader macroeconomic issues such as the current problems in Greece and the rest of the Eurozone. Once again, Zuckerberg isn't doing anything that should be held against him. He still has most of his eggs in the facebook basket; he's merely being prudent.
It's worth noting that the US is switching to a first-to-file system early next year.
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Advertisers on their own in the way the content industry operates, no. Frapp the company, yes.
I use Bancaja mainly, it is a Spanish bank which recently integrated with another larger one, Bankia. The transition was awful, I didn't have access to my card for 6 days, then I didn't have access to the funds in the account for a further three.

My wages were not successfully paid in due to the bank not changing my account over to the international bank number, which had to be rectified.

The process cost me money for 12 days and made me incur an overdraft charge (Which Bankia, after several stern phone calls from the family solicitor agreed to pay back, plus a generous compensation packet totalling near 40 euros.)

I almost lost my home (and this was right before I was due to move back to the UK, so it would have been catastrophic) due to this.

This is by no means the typical Bankia experience, and I would still advocate the use of the bank, it is normally a fabulous one, but my experience in particular was terrible, and I shall be swapping to another bank (preferably Santander or a british one) prior to being paid again.
>Olympics guys probably don't have much choice too

Nonsense. The enforcement of the Olympic Games trademarks is overly broad. And this is a parody, they would be wise not to sue them.
Lol, yeah I remember seeing that article. It is kind of funny I use each browser for a different purpose. I develop for IE, develop in Firefox, and browse in Chrome.
Yeah, it's kind of funny how everyone thinks that because I'm a computer programmer I must have a fancy phone with a data plan and always return all my calls and texts and everything immediately. Not that I can blame them, in my experience many of my peers are that way.

It's irritating how sites like LifeHacker imply that you need to be going 100mph all day every day, working with the latest gadgets using the latest technology to make more money to buy more stuff.

Maybe some of us are perfectly fine just working our day job on our line of business software and then going home and hanging out with our families and playing with our dogs.

I still have LifeHacker on my iGoogle homepage, but I rarely actually read the articles aside from the "top download for the week" ones, which are sometimes interesting just to see what new stuff is out there.

The main problem is that most of their "hacks" are written in such a way that implies that you are WASTING YOUR LIFE if you aren't following some kind of strict 37 Signals approved code and micro-managing every aspect of everything to death.
So no political reason at all then?

A bit like the Anti-Nazi league, presumably Nazi is a registered trademark of "3rd Reich inc" and so they should be banned for copyright infringement.
The article this is taken from is

http://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article106354044/16-jaehriges...

It's in German, which I don't read. There is some talk of the student finding an analytic solution to a differential equation that heretofore had been only approximated, but I'm still in the dark about what the central mystery of a ball bouncing off a wall might be.
That's crazy, next they will be banning Flash in the browser ;)