skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind that by jacking off too much you [young men] lose one of the fundamental advantages in starting a company: blue balls. Blue balls brought the Age of Discovery. Empires conquer foes with armies of men with blue balls. When the balls of these young men stop being blue (because they proved themselves and got relief, or otherwise, by jerking off too much) they desist from these feats. Scientists who get married don't desist from research just as excons who get married desist from crime. Just a few tidbits to keep in mind:

Castration was once used as a form of punishment for felonies. The recidivism rate was 2.2%.

Because of population growth policies and parental preference for boys, there are substantially more boys than girls in China. Historically, when Portugal had a lot of landless young noblemen in the early 1400s...well, you know how that went. I don't want to think about what these restless Chinese dudes will do to prove themselves to the opposite sex.
I second two things, the blog, and the previous projects. People want to see that you get things done. So if you can whip up an amazing project, then they'll know you can get their stuff done as well.The blog/website is the place to showcase that.

For example, if you design webpages and want to attract people looking for you to design their Wordpress sites, create a really great free theme. The better your work, the more people will notice it.
That is a pretty niche feature, I personally wouldn't do something like that.

Check out getResponseHeader() if you are so inclined.

As for the errors, there are many ways to check for "ajax" errors, for one thing you can check the status or statusText property.
Reminds me of Zeno's paradox about Achilles and the tortoise:

Achilles is in a footrace with the tortoise. Achilles allows the tortoise a head start of 100 feet. If we suppose that each racer starts running at some constant speed (one very fast and one very slow), then after some finite time, Achilles will have run 100 feet, bringing him to the tortoise's starting point. During this time, the tortoise has run a much shorter distance, for example 10 feet. It will then take Achilles some further time to run that distance, in which time the tortoise will have advanced farther; and then more time still to reach this third point, while the tortoise moves ahead. Thus, whenever Achilles reaches somewhere the tortoise has been, he still has farther to go. Therefore, because there are an infinite number of points Achilles must reach where the tortoise has already been--he can never overtake the tortoise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes
I added this. A bunch of people demanded it. :)

As it stands, it has a few things that twitturly doesn't have, but also they have things I don't.

But, it's a beta product and hopefully soon, I can get a slicehost/linode server and get it off of dreamhost and I can spruce it up and add more features.
Why you can't just trim the fat
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Personally, I think the domain displayed should be the entire domain and subdomains minus 'www.'
The egotistical urge to correct misinformation appears to commonly be stronger than the philanthropic urge to help.
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And the domain should also be added to the RSS feed
It is the only game i have on my mac. it is engaging, thoughtful and emotionally engaging. truly superb work of craft.
Not junk food in the sense of more desirable, but a less healthful form of calories.
"Not unlike" as in, it has similarities, but not exactly the same thing as.

Obviously, death from porn addiction would be a very extreme outcome, though possible, and would take a lot longer to achieve than death by jumping in a car without breaks.

Nevertheless, they are similar- if you jump in a car without breaks, you will find it difficult to stop (though not impossible). If you look at porn, you have done something that can be difficult to stop.

In conclusion, this comparison is not at all ridiculous.
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"Result: no new public companies."

Thanks for answering my implicit question about why an investing member of the general public should care about whether start-ups get bought out by existing companies or go public themselves. It makes sense that over the long haul, a more diverse ecosystem of publicly traded companies makes for a more resilient economy and more opportunities for small investors to make profitable investments.

Of course, the current tanking of the stock market all around the world, by no means only in the United States, might suggest that small investors need to know that the ecosystem does have selection pressure for transparency and accuracy of corporation statements to investors. I appreciate the replies by various participants here on how Sarbanes-Oxley has a different cost burden for new, smallish start-ups as contrasted with established, large public companies. Perhaps adjustment of some rules to take into account the size of a firm is in order.
A corresponding webcomic: http://www.xkcd.com/386/
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Nah, just outnumbered.
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Alright... In case you're going to do this anyway (I probably wouldn't have listened to me either):
Assuming you're doing web development, market yourself to web-design shops as a way to enhance their client-offerings. They get all kinds of coding jobs that they can't do and routinely turn down. If you get in good with a few of those, they'll effectively do all your marketing for you after that, as well as manage the end-clients.
The editorial went off the tracks right here:

"FASB's "mark-to-market" accounting rules helped drive AIG and Bear Stearns into bankruptcy, even though they were cash-positive."

Claiming that mark-to-market accounting killed Bear and AIG is a bit like claiming that seat-belt laws kill people who drive drunk.

AIG and Bear were engaged in a fatal game, regardless of the accounting rules. Mark-to-market accounting may have accelerated the crash (by forcing them to account for bad investments today, instead of hiding them on the balance sheet for some indefinite time), but the fundamentals of their crappy investments didn't change as a result of the rule.
I think your site is excellent, your idea is good, and you can easily build this into a real business. So I'll give it to you straight, mix and match what you like.

If you are serious about turning this into a real business, there are some things you absolutely have to do:

1. "Dashboard", "routines" and "workout" show me the exact same page

2. Video is cool, but I'm not going to watch it because it's so linear. I just want one particular feature, and I don't have the time to sit and watch 10 minutes or whatever of video to find out if you have that feature. (I don't know how long the video really is, because it's not written till I push play, which I don't want to do)

3. Content is king. If you want to make a site, you need to struggle for every single user! Getting linked from techcrunch is an utter waste of time, because they are not your target user. Your target users searched google 40.000 times today for your site. If you had 5.000 pages of content, you'd get a percentage of those searchers. And easy way to start is by making your routines public

4. All you're interested in is one user. You need to continuously examine the flow of that one user - when he hit your page right up until when he signed up. Do you know EXACTLY where he clicked and what he was looking for? If you don't, it's like having a car factory, and you're not sure what steps the assembly line goes through to product a car

5. I have an iPhone, and your app actually sounds interesting to me. But there are no screenshots and no description of what this iphone app could do. So I'm going to close your site and forget about it instantly

6. Go to delicious.com/popular/fitness for inspiration

7. Categorize your users. I don't know the natural
categories for fitness, but maybe something like "people who want to lose weight", "people who want to body build and are doing it regularly", "skinny guys who want become somewhat muscular". For each category, look at your site again. Does it seem attractive? Are this category of interest to you? Then examine each category - which is the most profitable?

8. Remember that any idea you have is just an idea, and you don't know if it works. If you implement it and it works, this does not mean it was right. For example, let's say you have the idea that green may be the best color to encourage people to sign up. You change the color to green, and you have 5% more sign-ups. You'll sit back and feel satisfied that your idea worked. Big mistake, because red may have caused 50% more sign-ups. So when you have an idea or hunch, make sure you test the alternatives, even if it seems to you that they won't work.

That's all I got for now. Good luck!
Massify looks like it has the potential of becoming a great social niche play for indie/low budget film production. ModelMayhem seemed like a tiny idea, but now they're as big as friendfeed. Not everyone is going to be churning out Henri Cartier-Bresson-level work, but that's not the point.
I posted this on your blog, but I'll post it here since you want to take this pointless discussion to a new level:

You're post is so incorrect, I don't even know where to start.

Apparently they crowd-sourced an entire movie. Everything
from the script to the casting was voted on, presumably by
the same lunkheads who turned Digg into an extension of
Apple marketing interspersed with unfunny comics and left-wing
commentary. It’s a process scientifically designed to produce a
film that’s mediocre for its budget range, which apparently was
somewhere in between what a student film normally costs and
my monthly car insurance payment.

First of all, the process you've outlined in your post is not the process used on Massify. Massify users voted for the story, not the screenplay. The winner did not direct the movie, he served as a producer and got a small role in the movie. What he did get to do, however, is sit in on the production and participate, work with the screenwriters to flesh out the story, etc.

Furthermore the budget for the film was way beyond the cost of a student film and your monthly insurance car payment combined.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s neat the way the process worked, but I
guess I’m unable to see the value in coming up with a novel way
to produce more cinematic detritus. Hollywood regurgitates this
crap 10 times a year, except (judging from the trailer) with more
polish. They don’t need crowd sourcing to add to the dung heap.

It's painfully obvious you've had little to do with film, like ever. Do you really believe most films are the work of a single individual? Movies have been crowd sourcing since before the internet tubes. The only thing Massify changes is who gets let into that particular crowd.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s neat the way the process worked, but

How can you call the process neat when you haven't the faintest clue how it works?

I guess I’m unable to see the value in coming up with a novel
way to produce more cinematic detritus. Hollywood regurgitates

I'm not exactly sure our process is that novel. All we've really done is put a web interface on the same mechanic and opened up who can participate, nothing more and nothing less.

In fact, the one thing the movie industry has going for it is
that it’s still much more meritocratic than most of the rest of
America. A good script is a good script, no matter who wrote it,

Again, you write with authority but it's obvious you aren't a student of film history.

I'd argue your points more, but discourse on the web is futile, specifically when there is a risk that the OP will be shown to be clueless and pedantic.
Clean sans serif, monospaced.

Consistent baseline.

Distinguished forms (i.e., 0/O, S/$, (/{, 1/l, etc.).

Good weighting at various sizes.
PS. I'm the CTO of massify and built the entire thing with my own eight hands (props to Nick, PDM, George and the rest of the crew).
He mentions that he uses a lot of virtual machines, something with which I can sympathise. Windows VMs tend to use quite a bit of CPU power (not to mention RAM) on the host, so if I could afford it, I'd probably push my VMs to a separate machine from my main workstation, and I rarely run more than 2.
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Are you guys doing anything to prevent people from forging email headers? It just occurred to me that forging a "from" header is pretty easy, which might allow you to post to someone else's blog...?
Vienna, Austria - http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pmjordan
Definitely, feel free to follow up offline, my contact is in my profile.
Probably because, embarrassingly enough, they're implemented in a purely serial way and don't make use of parallel hardware.
We have herb salt (for general seasoning in cooking and at the table) and dried garlic here, but I'd never come across the combination.

pchristensen already answered your question but I'll add that I've lived in various parts of the UK and didn't encounter it there, either. Admittedly, it's possible I've missed it, but if so I suspect it's a niche product.
The UK has a much more effective public transit system than most of the US. Also, the distance scale there lower than it is in the US. These factors together mean that changing driving patterns in the UK may not be matched in the US (personally, I know of anecdotal evidence in both directions, so I expect the difference in the US to be very regional).
I know this is tongue-in-cheek, but it's also pretty true. Sexual energy is powerful and is prime fuel for creativity. Wether that energy and creativity is used for good (art) or evil (rape) is up to the individual and subject to their self control and morality.
Oh, the irony of the assigned reading was not lost on many, teachers included.

What does it mean when freshmen are assigned things like 1984 and Brave New World, Lord of the Flies and Les Misérables for sophomores, The Catcher in the Rye for juniors, and Catch-22 for seniors?

All are great books, worth reading, and worth assigning as the object of study, but it's sad that the curriculum is so focused on shallow analysis.
World of Goo has been consistently well on Steam, so I think it's a general trend.

For every World of Goo there are many other indie games that languish in obscurity.
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All I know is that, in my personal experience, porn has never done single discernable ounce of good (but plenty of harm).
Niche? I guess you don't use json. jquery already autodetects xml, why not json too? It's not even hard - it's right in the content type.

I know how to detect errors, that was hardly my point. I was suggesting an improvement, not tech support.
Interesting to note that this is over 5 years old - has anyone heard anything new about this?
markessien,
Thank you very much. Your post has given me more ideas then any other single piece of advice I have received.

I especially like your advice in #3. This is something I did not consider. At the same time your advice would solve a dilemma I was having about what to show under the 'Routine' and 'Workout' tabs, when not logged in.

I also see your point about the videos vs screen shots, I will add a few so people are not forced to watch the videos.

Your other points are very good as well.

Thanks again!
Free-mium is a very precocious model. It is very difficult to get the balance right in service terms, namely how do you decide what to put in the premium service and not in the free one. The free-mium model has never taken traction in other industries, as normally for something to be commercially viable, the free service should be good enough for people to pay for it. Think of Shakespeare's theatre - people were prepared to pay for even the crappest places in the audience because the product itself was good. I think tiered, subscription based business models will be the most likely development, especially in a recession when the main barrier to going down the subscription path - that a competitor could come along and offer the same service for free - is becoming less relevant given the VCs are becoming less willing to subsidise such practices.
1. I know it is probably too late, but "overtraining" is a bad thing in training (at least triathlon)
2. I assume that you know about traingpeaks.com. They focus on cardio-sports, but still should give you an idea about business models. I use them for my Ironman workouts...they have great templates, but limited options for the free accounts.
May be good advice, but aren't they giving it out a little late?
holodecks = end of humanity. every achievement of man has been an effort to impress women.
This seems to be changing on sites like HN and Stack Overflow. The only difference I can see is that the moderators intentionally guide the discussion away from trolling. Are there other factors here that I'm missing?
I think it's worth noting that the headline (and by that, I mean the one on Treehugger) is a bit misleading--the maintenance crews are adding the garlic salt to road salt, not simply pouring garlic salt on the roads.

That's not to say this isn't swell, though--not only is that garlic not going to end up in a land fill, there will be a cost savings given that the current stock of road salt will last longer.
How to make a Tumblr account a group blog:

1. Send all the people who you want to join your unique Tumblr account email address (i.e. weird_code@tumblr.com)

2. That's it. :)
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"Frequent Troll Statements" might work better than FAQs for some projects.

jQuery is hard to use for remote AJAX requests

django doesn't even support memcached

PERL has the worst support for SOAP of any language out there
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I've not got anything I made that I could point you at without a bit of work, although I was originally inspired to try the combination by an article [1] in German magazine c't. Source code for the example from the article is downloadable. [2] It's a simple calendar/timetable app, and they've built the calendar display in SVG, and the rest of the UI in XUL. It uses PHP & MySQL server side and should hopefully make some sense even if you don't know German.

[1] http://www.heise.de/kiosk/archiv/ct/2008/5/202_kiosk

[2] ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/listings/0805-202.zip
> with a dark undertone reminiscent of the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

I'm confused... I thought the Burton/Depp version was more recent than the Stuart/Wilder version? Or are you referring to the original novel?
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yeah + don't even think of taking work you won't be able to finish on time. Its just plain rude and you are going to piss off whomever you deal with.

I wasted almost a year with my last freelancer because he took on a project, and never finished. Thankfully I had a late fee stipulation in the contract, so after new year's, I get to sue the guy for breach of contract to get the money he owes me. (Good thing I worked at a lawfirm during college, so I know exactly who to talk to, instead of going to the yellow pages and getting someone mediocre)

The messed up part, is that the guy could have finished the whole thing within 1 month if he tried...but instead he chose to waste everyone's time.
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i bought the Wii version (it's online in the Wii store or whatever it's called) for $15. It's a lot of fun.
This reminds me:

http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html
You are conflating two separate things--the physical need to ejaculate, and the much more powerful and complicated need to have a woman. Masturbation satisfies the former, but it has only a very weak and brief effect on the latter.
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Lore has it that Peter Thiel is a financial genius, or at least, would have access to information financial geniuses would be able to conjure. You are right that Max probably has little idea himself about the financial industry. However, his business associates do.

Ultimately, Max is advising to buy cash (raise capital) when it's cheap (bubble) so you can sell cash (spend capital) when it's expensive (recession). Your advice to "live frugally, save money, and make plans for rainy days" reduces to the same, though maybe with a less ambitious connotation.
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I ended up finding this algorithm for use in .Net if anyone is interested. http://tomasp.net/articles/ahocorasick.aspx.
I second that. Liberation Mono rocks. And it is updated somewhat frequently, so it might be worth checking for a newer version or to install on a Mac. (they put a dot in the middle of zeros a while back, for instance)

https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liberation-fonts/
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... the password is the ramanujan taxicab number followed by the word
'kennedy', all one word.

Wait, what?

Anyway, it's 1729.
so, why did you write a book? It was quite good btw.
Awesome - I've been playing with CouchDB and since the raw data is in JSON - gonna try loading this into it and running some experimental map/reduce views for the data.
Thanks!
interesting linked article about Oxytocin, a hormone and neurotransmitter: http://www.reuniting.info/science/oxytocin_health_bonding
FTS "Frequently Trolled Statements" ?
It does seem very odd to forget that house prices can't rise forever at a much faster rate than incomes. I knew my local market was in a bubble all the way back in the year 2001, because I could see that prices had no sensible relationship to local salaries.
Hmm. I'd say the serious injury or fatality rate from jumping in a car without brakes is probably 90%+, and the serious injury or fatality rate from looking at porn is probably around 0%.

I also don't think that looking at porn means you've done something that's difficult to stop. While I'm not discounting the existence of porn addiction, I think you'd find that rate of addiction (i.e. the number of people who have seen porn compared to the number of porn addicts) is very very very low. Overall I think most of the article is based on bad assumptions but I still don't have the time to write a thorough refutation of the article.

Given the difference in actual risk of death, and the arguable risk of addiction, I'd say the comparison is more like "drinking a bottle of Drain-O is not unlike drinking a bottle of soda". Yes, you could drown from a bottle of soda, yes people will argue that you get addicted to sugary drinks, but realistically, other than both being liquid, there's not much similar. It's rampant hyperbole at the very best.
I think it would be helpful to see complete domains.
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It's because we tend to think in terms of gestalts, and those don't play well with reductionist approaches. It's only a contradiction if you assume that we apprehend all the constituent pieces of the world at once, rather than the abstract whole.

Treating a pile of sand as an accumulation of individual grains which can be precisely abstracted through induction is an unnatural mode of thinking. Without focusing our attention on it, it will remain a single, fuzzy abstraction. That we see no clear distinction between these two modes seems more a neurological phenomenon than a philosophical one.