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"but also because I don't want to spend all my time dealing with scaling"

I'd be glad to have that problem in my new venture.
Out of curiosity, what language is HN programmed in?
While this is interesting, it is just one bullet on my list of reasons not to grade based on class participation...
That is going to be a killer.

However, it should be somewhere hidden and available only if people really want to be able to replay. Else it is going to be an over kill on their servers.
correction: I have a doc with monospace (in a personal doc), but the purchased computer books do not have the code samples in monospace for some reason.
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Reading on the toilet can cause you to spend way more time on the toilet than you really should. Bad things can happen, especially if you have a family history of digestive problems. I'll spare you all the medical details and obligatory puns: Google it yourself.
That's interesting. I'm the opposite way: I find I think less before writing and edit a lot more when I write on paper. Words on a screen look as flawlessly rendered as words in print, and to me that makes them seem more permanent; I feel like I have to really think hard before I can tell these perfect letters what to do. Stuff written in my own hand feels more tentative and more malleable.
That would be an amazing training tool. I have learnt the most by observing great engineers code, than reading tons of material. It just strikes at you the way they fork functions, how they name variables, logic, the way they would cut out/undo unnecessary statements and combine them to optimize code. It just reflects the way good programmers think when they code.
You make so many spelling mistakes (compared to making none, not compared to me), would a good autocorrect save you enough effort to be worth it?
I don't think he is being entirely serious in this post, which is sprinkled with self-deprecation masquerading as egotism.
The idea of having google's support team fixing a software glitch that not only affects my business but thousands of others is a lot more attractive than if my in-house server goes down and it is solely up to my internal or sub-contracted support to remedy the problem.
Winston Churchill - in the years until he became prime minister: "Despite all this activity Churchill’s daily routine changed little during these years. He awoke about 7:30 a.m. and remained in bed for a substantial breakfast and reading of mail and all the national newspapers. For the next couple of hours, still in bed, he worked, dictating to his secretaries.

At 11:00 a.m., he arose, bathed, and perhaps took a walk around the garden"
Also see:

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I convinced the founders to add a way to play them back

You often talk about releasing early, building something people want, etc. Since you carry a lot of influence, and (I guess) invest in Etherpad, and they've adjusted it to your personal request - do you worry that this effect might give you a distorted view of how well Etherpad specifically, and YC startups generally, are building what people want?
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It seems your conception of the conspiracy runs deaper than I could have imagined. You are only one step from arguing that global warming as the basis for a plot to enslave the people of the world.

In the end governments have people's expectations of improved living standards to deal with. If the people don't approve of the way things are going they are voted out of office (or removed some other way in non-democracies). Unless you actually believe some kind of 'enslaved world' theory you'd find that the additional costs associated with the carbon reduction are somthing most goverments are keen to avoid for as long as possible.
Sure. Do you think that someone who truly believes that they can fly won't land smack on their face if they jump off a tall building?
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I do something similar; get a first draft out quickly so I'm not inhibited by grammar, sentence structure, logical flow etc.. then perform a second parse to tighten everything up. Interestingly, I sometimes find I almost completely reverse the passage I've written! It's as if my brain performs some sort of initial stackdump to convey my thoughts.
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How about images/graphics/other support stuff?
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That might actually be evidence that the pendulum has almost reached the end of its arc. The tech crowd first embraced the web just as average users were embracing the PC. Windows 95 was the first really usable version of Windows, and it was also the year of Netscape's IPO. Mainstream users adopt last decade's technology just as the early adopters are finding a new playground.

The big question is what's next. I'm guessing it'll be mobile - the geeks are embracing it just as the mainstream is finally becoming comfortable with last decade's technology. But it's a bit too early to tell.
> AI before the winter qualifies.

No it doesn't. Modelling a natural systems (climate) on the one hand and technological progress (AI) on the other hand are 2 enirely different areas. You wouldn't have found a predominance of scientific papers in respectable journals saying they had accurate models of the progress of AI development.

> So does room-temperature fusion.

You didn't read the post you replied to did you? I'll re- quote the relevent parts.

>> This method is designed to ruthlessly root out falsehood. Look at cold fusion. I would imagine there would be no easier way to get funding than the promise of cheap, relatively low-tech, non-polluting, and abundant energy. Yet, Pons and Fleischman were immediately discredited and now stand as objects of ridicule to this day.

You don't seem to understand the level of scientific agreement with regards to global warming. If it was as obvoiusly false and many deniers say then it would be - by far - the most significant failure of the scientific system in memory.
I used Python + OpenCV during my MSc for face-detection: http://littlespikeyland.com/msc/project/ back in 2003/2004, so I ended up doing a lot of SWIG wrapping. A lot of the heavy lifting was done in C/C++, as I was running lots of simulations for a evolutionary algorithm.

I've used ctypes for a few projects now and wish I could have used it for that project. Might have meant I could have ditched a lot of the C/C++.
I used to with software called awaken but I stopped ever since my macbook's fan started to spin all the time... I love silence when sleeping and fan noises go against that
This is very cool stuff. I wish it had existed before. One small wish/request: can we have a slider that we can use to control the speed? I'm guessing that would be very helpful.
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Despite all the time I have wasted here, I can tell you (with 100% confidence) that it was worth it.

My co-founder is nearly 3000 miles away. Hacker News single-handedly keeps my head in the startup game. Bootstrapping would be impossible without this site to act as a virtual startup town square. The stories and comments I read here motivate me better than anything ever has. I used to start projects and forget about them on a nearly daily basis. Hacker News has focused my efforts and sharpened my mind. Sure, you can fritter away hours here, but hey, you need to break a few eggs to make an omelet.

A big thank you to PG and to each and every one of you smart people!
I understand why. Thanks for replying.
Thanks! your implementation is cool and if you agree will just be the Ruby implementation distributed with Redis. INCRBY/DECRBY are still missing but in a week I plan to have this, all the Set operations inside and release another beta. Then will be the time of replication and compression. And finally I plan to write a fail-over daemon that will handle masters and slaves, check who is running and who appears to be down and act accordingly.
I found absolutely spot on in your article to submit an article with different headers on whatever “community” you target (e.g. Reddit or HN or even Digg)

However it’s not only the “tag line” which need to be rewritten but also the content.

Which mean one version of the article for HN users, another for Reddit and yet another for Digg.

Which can translate into three levels:

- advanced (readers able to understand abstractions),

- intermediate (readers who want to understand “how to control”)

- and beginners (readers who just want to find a solution to their problem through a simple step by step process).

This force onself to write with a specific audience in mind. And I think it’s the key point of Paul Graham article: understanding your users.

Last but not least: having the comments section on where you found the link but not on the page where is displayed the article.

I found HN comments with Stackoverflow are so far the only sites where proper discussions can really happen with very inspiring thoughts.

However those Karma thingies, I absolutely don’t care. Also the triangle button (upvote), I use it only as a bookmark button.

Also what’s really rewarding is when you check the “New” page and see few hours after it hits the home page. You feel you’re not only following.

Have a good day and thanks for your work.
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It’s programmed using ARC

When you download ARC you get a HN example inside.

http://www.arclanguage.org/

http://www.arclanguage.org/forum
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I’m using a lot Interface Builder to generate my Capuccino views using their tool nib2cib.

Atlas is going to save me a lot of time.

Sure you can still edit the plist by hand or programatically but I don’t find it more efficient neither easier.
unalone, you're very much correct but there's a nerd skepticism about anything related to "marketing" because nerd populations typically are comprised of people who have a hard time with social soft skills and marketing is the ultimate soft-skill trade.

Nerds, like every other group, denigrate what they lack/have difficulty with, thus the bleating for naked facts... in direct contrast to how human beings work, of course, but c'est la vie.

I actually wrote an article comparing the browser landing pages for Vitamin, based on a talk I did at OSCON (about UX in general). You might find it interesting: http://thinkvitamin.com/features/product-pages-so-much-suck-...

Opera by far had the worst, and even their new improved one was ineffective (altho better than before).

Their current one really rips everything off Apple and Firefox's old design, but they can't even be bothered to do it right.

BTW, fact-seekers, does Opera actually Make You Faster? It is really Safer Internet? Is it true that Opera is Internet browser innovation?

Just checking.
I've previously written two popular articles on the same topic which may also be helpful:

http://www.davecheong.com/2007/06/15/waking-up-early-15-tips...

http://www.davecheong.com/2006/06/14/waking-up-early-and-con...
It's better to take it in the spirit of challenge rather than waste god knows how many man-hours tirelessly documenting "The Great Feature Train Robbery" or whatever somebody titled the Digg submission.
It might be helpful to get some visuals on time lapses, e.g. breaks and perhaps multi-day sessions.
Oh... that Matt Welsh! Cool, yeah, I had the O'Reilly book with the cowboy on it.
Inspiring story that interestingly corresponds to almost all of PG's 13 sentences.
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Ask HN: easy resources for learning Python?
I'm wondering if the community can point me to some easy resources to getting started with Python, starting from the basics of basics up to advanced usage.

I had an interview a couple weeks ago with a kickass startup company, who's owner frequents HN, for a front-end engineer position. Unfortunately, it turned out the role really needed someone with Python experience in addition to front-end skills. Needless to say, I was passed over but the interview was great and it was really cool to meet with their team.

So, what's the best way for me to transition from a creaky PHP history to Python? I have some ideas for my own startup(s), I'm sick of working where I'm at, but I don't want to fallback on PHP to launch a new service.
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You can watch the video there:
http://www.viddler.com/explore/boucher/videos/1/
Sounds like a cached thought; from your presence at HN, I assume you support:

Working extremely hard to compress a lifetime's earnings into a few years, e.g. from a startup.

Obsessing over a small number of hobbies, e.g. coding, to get unusually good at them.

The idea that people can improve themselves and their lot, and that results are linked with effort.

Everything in moderation - unless you want to be particularly good at it, perhaps.

[Edit: Damn, I've done it again. Voting you down because I disagree with you, even though raised a point I wanted to reply seriously to. Sorry].
Ruby 1.9 makes Hash ordered by default.

The major reason I care about it is that when loading data from yaml files the key order doesn't get messed up. In ruby 1.8 the order got messed up.

So yeah.. use ruby 1.9 :)
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There's no such thing as 7% yearly interest without risk. It just doesn't exists.

If you look at government bonds (a.k.a. TBills), they'll tell you exactly how much interest a truly risk free investment is worth (in yearly interest). Anything higher then that is risky, by definition.

On top of that, you have to factor in inflation.

In other words, it's good to save money, but managing saved money is hard. Be ready for that.
Cool - never heard of awaken. Do you happen to have a link?
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Not if everything is delivered in one blow and then played back with JS.
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I think, rather than a quota, the right to vote should be earned, for example by a history of quality submissions (determined by either of the algorithms described by PG). This is already partly so with the (more simplistic) karma threshold.

In the same vein, addressing the problem of too many comments, the extent of right to comment could somehow be earned. Say an unproven user can only comment in particular circumstances, maybe on threads that aren't already heavily commented on?

Let new users prove themselves in the lesser leagues, so to speak, before allowing them free reign on the site proper.
I have "Wake-up Light" made by Philips, which slowly turns light on at the morning to simulate sun raising. It helps me too.

PS.
But it badly designed because it power adapter produces some low noise during night, which I can hear by one ear. It display is too bright and it built-in speaker is too cheap. :-(
A computer science university professor is the type of person most likely to learn a word like "unfazed" from the people around him, and not from literature. As such, he will write it as he heard it.

A factory worker is more likely to learn the word from books, and so will probably write it correctly.
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A long long time ago I was facing this exact problem, and I decided to go for a non-programming part time job. I ended up delivering mail, and it was actually quite well suited because:

- it's a physical job, no brain power required so you can think about other stuff while getting paid and nobody will care

- it is not a job where you are irreplaceable, so if you call your boss and ask for a day off (because you have to meet a customer, say) it usually is not a problem

- it won't take much to stand head and shoulders above your co-workers

- if you take an early shift and indicate your preference for that you have to be up at 5:30, on the job at 6 am but by 1 in the afternoon your shift will be over, half a business day left!

- using a cell phone and a headset you might even get away with keeping your business running while you are working (this option, alas did not exist when I was doing this)

Also, and this is probably quite important, if you ever need to fall back once you have seen a period of full-time employment when you are doing well and things are in the dump for a while chances are big they'd re-hire you on the spot if you were any good at all.

good luck!
Wow! I've heard YAML mentioned before, but this is the first actual example I've seen.

I'm very embarrassed that this beautiful standard has been around for ~5 years without me noticing it.

/me goes off to read http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/
Morning news on the radio works for me. Within 15 minutes, there's guaranteed to be something infuriating enough to make me leap out of bed in an angry funk.
I don't have an actual blog to test it, but I truly like the idea.

One question though, are you planing to support hosted blogging platforms like Blogger? I think that could drastically expand the circle of your potential customers.
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I might implement an emacs minor mode that does this.
Through HN I have learnt that sophisticated discussion with a large number of participants is achievable. Which, up until this point, is something that I didn't really consider to be possible. Certainly not over a long term.

Moreover the site doesn't require an oppressive method of control to keep the conversation in line. It is as much the communities common virtue as it is the technical merits of pg's system which brings that about.
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I can recommend "Think Python: How to think like a Computer Scientist". It's free but can also be purchased (at least soon). It really starts with the basics but if you already know those you can skip them. http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.html

Also I can recommend Dive Into Python: http://www.diveintopython.org/
Opera has been a superior product for YEARS !

However, Apple has had superior MARKETING for years (and I admire them for that :-)

I feel bad for Opera that all the great innovations haven't been noticed by the public, but the good thing is that all the other browsers copy their innovations and get much better.

My killer browsing tip (which maybe the other browsers support as well - I don't know):

- tabs to the left instead of on top

I can have 50 tabs open on my 22 monitor (in portrait mode), and I can still read most of the titles (it shows "Hacker News | Add com..." for this tab while having 50 tabs open)
Or with a little less clutter :-)

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<dir name="/media/programming" exclude="log_files temp_files" />
<dir name="/media/documents" exclude="archive" />
</backup>
I love the transparency! As far as I am concerned, the more of this, the better.
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I was living in New York when Giuliani introduced the reforms that made the broken windows theory famous, and the transformation was miraculous.

I would like to remind you here of the analysis made in the book "Freakonomics" regarding the "miraculous" reduction in crime at that time. Namely, lots of individuals that would have been in the social situation leading to crime were not born. The suspected cause being an abortion case won some years before in court.
Yeah I think the transparency is a big step for Google and they are countering a lot of criticism with it. The other question is if it will help to get people confident in the stability or if the currently three incidents displayed for the GMail Service are more of a turn off.
Yes! When I was on Windows, I wrote a program that starts music, pausing every few minutes to read out (using Windows's text-to-speech) the time, the weather (scraped from BBC's site; I was in England), which of my favorite blogs had updated in the last day, and any reminders I had for the day.

The program was cool enough that my girlfriend anthropomorphized it; we called the voice Grizwelda, and she had the capability to add her own reminders.

Last year I switched to Ubuntu and had some trouble with text-to-speech at first, so my current alarm clock is just a program that just tells Rhythmbox to start playing at a certain time. (I just got Festival text-to-speech working reliably today, so I'm planning to add all my old features I had in Windows days.)

I'd be very interested to hear about your startup. Put the details in your profile?
Having length as an indicator of quality intuitively (i.e. I don't have statistically significant counter-examples) seems wrong to me. It goes directly against what hacking stands for (quick, dirty and yet elegant solutions).
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I have a little idea too. May be it will be useful for users of this site to view little icons (pictures) of country flags, based on geoip (like in most torrent clients), OS based on browser version - the major ones - osx, win, linux, bsd, iphone, symbian. And may be browser icon - safary, ff, chrome, etc.

If those ideas does not confront with privacy policy, they would be simple but useful tricks.
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