skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There seems to be a growing backlash against sitting and I for one am not going to stand for it!

Actually, just kidding but couldn't resist. I'm leaving my job (in part) because I can feel the negative effects of sitting for 8hrs a day + ~1.5hrs in the car. At the end of the day I feel stiff, tired, and, not breathless, but definitely reduced lung capacity. I've had a standing desk at home for the past 2 years and I see no reason why I should tolerate worse conditions at work than I have at home.

As I mentioned in a comment below, I think standing desks will be the next must-have perk that great companies offer. It will certainly be on my must-have list if I ever return to full-time employment.

Edited to add >> even if you exercise, that may not be enough the negate the effects of sitting: http://mashable.com/2012/04/23/more-you-sit-sooner-die-video... and...

"Sitting, it would seem, is an independent pathology. Being sedentary for nine hours a day at the office is bad for your health whether you go home and watch television afterward or hit the gym. It is bad whether you are morbidly obese or marathon-runner thin."
-- http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17sitting-t.h...
I do not think using YC which he had no idea how they run was a good move.

He should explain at the very least how they use it. or better still how one of their customers uses it.
I hope this doesn't mean everyone now gets free private repos but now with ads served up.
I've seen a lot worse at the airport. Assuming that people are using bitcoin for reasons other than a favorable exchange rate, 7 points isn't going to be a deal killer, or even a deal slower.
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We will offer other features like collaboration as part of our premium offer. Our main focus for now is to provide the best possible experience to our users.

Edit: Ipad works to some degree, but the app is definitely not yet optimized for a great touch experience. We're also working hard on fixing that.
Consider adding the tag to your blog:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"
href="http://madebyloren.com/posts.rss" />

That way people can just add your domain to their reader and have it auto-discover the RSS feed (assuming they use something decent, like Google Reader).
Many devs tend to over-engineer things whether they are at a startup or not simply because they like building things, that's why they are software developers. I don't think this phenomenon is much more complicated than that.
Related (or identical):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4211021 <- Comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4211271 <- Comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4212427

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4212488
I hope all their efforts pan out to some form of success, but in terms of this analysis as to why they didn't get accepted into YC, they really need to be a bit more honest with themselves. It's less likely due to a few poorly chosen words, and more likely due to a not-strong idea, and a not-strong team.

The original blog post reminds me of the song "Pictures of You" by the Cure. The best lines in the song are:

"If only I'd thought of the right words
I could have held on to your heart
If only I'd thought of the right words
I wouldn't be breaking apart all my pictures of you"

What makes this song so pathetic, and the brilliance of those lyrics, is that the person singing it really believes that changing their words would have kept their relationship intact. But really, it's ridiculous to think that a doomed relationship can be saved with a few "right" words. The relationship was destined to fail because of who the singer is, not because they couldn't think of the right words to say.

In the same way, I can't believe changing the answers to their pitch during the 10 min interview would have made a difference. I don't think the person from rocketr can say so confidently that they would have gotten in "if they knew their business well enough". Their entire pitch got unraveled by the 3 most basic questions that anyone could have expected: "What do you do?", "Are you like X or Y?", "Who are your customers?" I think they need to come to the conclusion that their product doesn't pass the smell test for PG, as well as many others on HN, and that is probably the reason why they weren't accepted by YC.
An article is critical of something the HN crowd tends to like. Why must the people giving this points come from reddit?

Is anyone who questions the system not true enough of a Scotsman for you?
you're right, it's not on the site. went through a quick redesign a little while back and i guess i forgot to include it. also, i'm only showing the last 10 posts with no pagination or archives... there are some nuggets in there!
That is what I was thinking too. Glad I read your comment before clicking the link. :)
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How is there not an easily accessible demo, even a screencast, of a project two years in the making?
thanks, used to have it - accidentally removed it during a redesign.
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The thing is, prematurely defining interfaces is the worst kind of premature optimization; interfaces are a lot more permanent than any other part of your code. The most successful companies I've seen are those that define architecture as needed; start with everything sharing a database, then extract parts of that database into services /as you need to to scale up/. At that point you'll have a much better idea of what the use cases for those services are, and can define much better interfaces as a result.
We plan on adding this feature very soon!
Love it! You've got the 960 grid, how about some other common page template sizes that the UI can snap to, like iPhone, iPad. I'd also like to be able to go into that mode so I only see native (moqup style) controls as options..

I often want to bang out a layout so I know I've got UI / distribution of controls sorted and then know my general widths / positioning..

If the snapping as good, and I could export or easily grab the positioning / pixels that's something I'd pay a bit for..

Keep up the good work!!
Google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:O25zmfw...
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Where/how can I see a demo?

And don't think you need my email or facebook login before I've seen what you offer and whether it's any good.
Some commentaries on this sort of research:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/04/sitting-time-corr...

This is not the first study to propose this correlation, of course. There are a range of others from past years. One has to wonder what the mechanism is here, however - my suspicion is that it actually does all come back down to the level of physical activity in the end. In these massive studies the level of exercise and activity is reported by the participants. A person who stands and works is going to be somewhat more active than a person who sits and works, even though that time may not be categorized as physical activity, or reported differently.

Exercise is much like calorie restriction - the effects are so large in comparison to other factors we have easy access to that they are likely to creep into any study.

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/06/another-study-sug...

At some point in the future we won't really have to worry too much about things like this, as medical science will progress to the point at which maintenance of long-term health regardless of lifestyle becomes as much a non-issue as protection from the infectious diseases that plagued our ancestors. But we have a way to go towards that goal, and in the meanwhile it doesn't seem wise to sit back and assume that biotechnology will rescue you from casual negligence. Maybe you'll get lucky, but for those of us in the middle stages of life it looks uncertain indeed. The coming decades are on the cusp between the era of aging as a fact of life and aging as a treatable and reversible medical condition - a lot of deaths will fall on the wrong side of that line, so why not try to shift the odds on whether yours is one of them? Every year gained is big deal in this sort of situation.
> GitHub is essentially a web interface to a single open-source DVCS.
Maybe I'm missing something, but does GitHub support something other than Git?

The wrong part of that sentence is the word essentially.

GitHub is essentially a social/collaboration app for people who spin code.

The fact that it uses the git distributed version control system is an implementation detail.

The essence of GitHub is in the network of people who use it and how easy it is to do so. Not in the fact that its a (really really) good front-end to a particular tool.
Start-up attempts to convert Stephen Hawking's brainwaves into speech
This is my home setup https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6134596/20120530_160149.jpg

When i'm writing stuff I'm usually replacing the laptop by a writing pad.
No.

Sorry, don't recall more details. The OP had bluish web site, where he listed what he achieved during 1 or 2 mths of freelancing and his skills, very understandable and nicely formatted.
I'm wondering what it was about this team that got them an interview? I would have assumed that anybody full of so much marketing speak would automatically be culled.

A hint to Rocketr. Listen to how you describe your product to a friend. Don't sell it, tell somebody what you do. Listen to the words you use. Then listen to somebody else pitch your business. Listen to how they describe it. That's your pitch.

You may think you know your business, but listening to somebody else pitch your business lets you hear what they caught and what they thought was important and how it will affect them. If they are your customer, that's the most important thing.

And remember, google isn't "a mathematical system for capturing and extracting meaning from electronically stored data", "it's a search engine". What will people do with your product? It might not matter what it does.

Make your product simpler, there is already too much complexity in the world.

But, this is from a guy that didn't get an interview... so take everything I say with a grain of salt.
Very nice. I like it.
If you aren’t doing exactly what you want to be doing, there’s only one reason: you don’t want it badly enough.

Great line - talk is cheap, but it takes years to become an "overnight success". You have to want it badly enough.
Phenomenal work. The one suggestion I would give is to increase the height automatically, at present we need to change it manually from settings icon.
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A nice perk for a startup, indeed. But Twitter isn't something that we can call a startup at this point. I'm sure that the real estate that they're using is well beyond the financial means of almost all startups.
And yet the QR code on the front page has an embedded logo, which isn't at all part of the spec, I think. Kind of ironic. I know brands love those designer QR codes (or at least loathe them less) but they have a significant impact on scan-ability, even if many decoders are good enough to scan them, they might take longer, especially on non-top-of-the-line phones. The point of a QR code is to make that information easier to get at, and the designer codes are at odds with this. (disclaimer, I worked at a barcode startup for a bit, and I left partly because I don't buy QR codes)
Have I done something to offend you? I'm just saying that I made that in the hopes that if I ever had to take CL search results off, PadMapper wouldn't be mostly useless. If CL wanted me to take PL down as a condition of them being OK with my site searching theirs, I would make that trade happily. I'm explaining that my goal isn't to replace them/threaten them/etc.
Thank you - that's it exactly.
It helps me a lot, excellent service!
From the whitepaper:

"As a comparison, the Turbulenz Engine is equivalent to the Unreal engine."

Really?
A resounding "me too". I'm only about 75% sure I understand the pain points they're trying to address - and I have no freaking clue what the product actually does.

(and if I'm right about my understanding of the pain points then it's really bad - since I suffer from 'em and would like a solution :-)
How many people that aren't in the tech scene actually know a simple way to scan a QR code?
>This seems like very compelling content to me.

Very compelling content, everyone knows here isn't the place to talk about it. You have to keep in mind, YC points to HN as the place to go show off for PG. It literally says that on the how to apply page. Even if you're not here to suck up, you can be shadow-banned for being too critical of YC or the startups they've funded.

edit: And thats just for me as a guy who doesn't post under a name connected to me or my online identity in any way. People for whom their comments can follow them around have even more reason to bite their tongue.
Clojure has a slow startup time. It is not in itself slow.

It's important to get these distinctions right! Some people, unfortunately, form impressions from headlines and in this case it's extremely inaccurate. If you read the article you'll get the truth - there are startup time problems causing issues with using Clojure for command-line programs.

That's much less damning overall than "Clojure is slow."
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Yeah, the iPad is a pretty good substitute for those that have one (and I'm happier with the PadMapper iPad app than with the phone apps).
I agree with the thesis of this article, but I think it is needlessly harsh and confrontational. "You don't get it", ok, maybe he doesn't but is he a 30 year old who should get it by now, or is he a whiz bang 16 year old whose hitting way above his handicap? I don't know, but how... personal... a response should be should depend on how obnoxious the other party is being. Yeah, his article was total HN link bait, but it isn't even in the bottom %25 of articles I don't like on HN.

I think your article would have been stronger if you'd provided some clear elevator statements that fit your mold for other companies, or even your own.

I have trouble finding good examples myself as we work on ours. I troll angel list for hours seeing crap. "We're TWA for food!"
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Perhaps a bit off topic, but would a finance nerd recognize this style of graph better? I've never seen such a thing before, and it took a little while to understand what the instructions were saying. But once I got it, I was immediately confused that there aren't more commonly known high information financial visuals beyond the standard two axis graph.

Is it just that most exchanges somehow don't publicly publish such granular data?
Embedding logo is not a part of the spec, but demonstration that QR codes can be customized. In my experience (and i also have been involved in QR code related startup) these don't take longer to process as long as you don't go over the certain point with customizing the code. It's all about finding the right balance.
Probably was. Climate doom and gloom is a political thing, not a scientific thing. It's not possible to take at best 80 years of reasonable data from 4.54 billion years of the planet's lifetime and come up with sensible climate projections.
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My guess is that bitcoins are mainly used for college students' and drug hobbyists' $50 purchases of LSD and the like on silk road and not for big transactions.
> What are the tools that are currently being used? Why are they so horrible? Do people wake agonize over these treacherous solutions, ripping their hair out and wishing there was something better?

Does every new product really need to solve a problem people are ripping their hair out about? I wake up pretty comfortably every morning, yet I could still use a jetpack - and I don't even own a car.
When bitcoinica shut down operation, there wasn't any signficant change in the price of bitcoin in either direction.

Also, it's a really bad idea to use ad-hoc reasoning after-the-fact to explain why the price rose or goes down. There could be multiple reasons and multiple events why the price of bitcoin rose as it did. Sometime, there's no reason at all.
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Besides Dexy, this thing also needs tex live's extra fonts package to compile. On my Ubuntu 12.04 box I needed to install:

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools texlive-fonts-extra
What does REST's Client-Server mean now?
This is not a free engine for HTML5 games. You are required to sign up to release a game on their proprietary * distribution platform* and give them 30% of your net revenue. Very misleading headline.

From the page:

"We supply your team with the Turbulenz HTML5 JS engine and all the Turbulenz APIs, free of charge. You bring a great game that embraces the way the web works; dynamic, social, and connected. We provide engine technical support, payment processing, analytics, game marketing services, and in some cases we may fund or co-fund the development of your game.

"The end result is a direct revenue stream, full control over the marketing of your game, and your game reaching millions of game players on many different devices and web destinations. Developers retain 70% of all net revenues."

Oh, and their platform seems immediately awful too, considering that you need to sign in to even SEE a single game they're offering.

A shame, too. Was hoping for a nice, free alternative to the Impact Engine (http://impactjs.com/).
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Don't compare Clojure to C, comparing it to Python or Ruby makes more sense because they're all high-level dynamic languages

For me the more obvious comparison would be with other Lisps. Which, back in the dim past when I was using 'em, were often damn fast.
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There's a number of apps, for virtually any platform out there. I'm pretty sure that apart from tech scene QR codes are fairly recognizable.
"Cash is a tool. Disciplined companies CAN use cash intelligently."

'nuff said!
Development time != execution time
So how come glaciers that are thousands, if not tens of thousands of years old are disappearing now?
The study: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nc...
We're planning to add inner snapping to various device stencils (iPhone for now and others in the future), as well as polishing various interactions. We also get very enthusiastic when planning features like master pages, rulers, cotations and so on. Stay tuned!
I thought the same thing. And I don't think it's offtopic since hackernews is a place for development discussion.
Perhaps they were not comparing the performance, but just trying to explain their product? However, it also says in the paper:

"Originally we created a technology demo using the Quake 4 assets. The demo created an FPS on top of the standard Turbulenz Engine but implemented a modern deferred renderer in place of Quakeʼs original forward renderer. Once we had this multiplayer demo running at over 60 fps with particle effects, full screen effects, character animations, a full physical environment, 3D audio, networking and the deferred lighting solutions, we decided that JavaScript was absolutely capable and suitable for creating modern games."
I remember seeing somewhere that someone looked into tackling the problem of the startup time by stripping the clojure core libs of unessential metadata like docstrings etc

I'm not sure if they went through with it though
That if you choose to ignore all the scientific and industrial advances and their effect on the environment.
Some older computer, like my 2009 MBP for example, can't be upgraded to more than 8gb of memory.

edit: I imagine that people interested in hacking on Android have better machines, so it's not a problem. I was pointing out that you can't just buy 16gb to meet the requirements on all machines.
This feature is on our short term roadmap. We just wanted to spend a bit more time to get it right from the beginning.
There's a lengthy write up here - http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-trello-tech-stack/
I'm not versed in climatology or environmental science, and frankly neither are most people.

As such the issue of global warming really confuses me, to the point that I'm now on the fence. I've seen people with no knowledge on the matter become violent when it is challenged. A typical rebuttal might be "Well the glaciers are disappearing" in the same way christian fundamentalists use one liners to negate evolution.

Science shouldn't be emotional, and I find that worrying.

As stated though, I don't know much about the issue first hand, I read the paper and have to make my assumptions based on it. If anyone can chime in and correct me then by all means feel free.

---
P.S I have no doubt we are screwing up our environment and need urgent change, but the psychology surrounding global warming is a bit odd to me.
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...what they usually do: work hard on creating (and improving) an awesome product. Peldi always seemed to focus on the product more than on the competition.

myBalsamiq is being developed by a proven team and they have quite some headway in terms of traction and features (in particular the project management features, it's more than a sketch app). Does this mean they will be the only ones making money in that market? No. There's always room for a different take on mockups, but it's going to be tough to compete directly with Balsamiq.
Thank you, I greatly appreciate your time and help. I will follow your suggestions which sound an awful lot more simple.
http://www.butterflylabs.com/order-form-bitforce-sc-mini-rig...

This might make a lot of GPU setups obsolete.

Edit to add more info: I'm told the expected generation output, from 1000000 Mhps, at current difficulty 1751454.53534068, is 574.2818 BTC per day or 23.9284 BTC per hour.
And in all their marketing. It's always "with iPad you can", or "on iPad...". An interesting strategy that doesn't seem to have rubbed off on consumers.
Silk Road is famous, but it doesn't mean that illegal activities are the main economic activities in bitcoin.

The number of accounts is currently at about 22000, and the largest number of people online at any given time is 126 – a stable community, but much smaller than those who see Silk Road as being the single shadowy force keeping up the Bitcoin economy behind the scenes imagine. -- http://bitcoinmagazine.net/the-silk-road-report/
Here is the demo Video of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjLaNjkYnrI (Gameplay starts at ~00;40)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjLaNjkYnrI