skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, at least at this phase, I'm solving the very specific problem (dogfooding like crazy here, btw) of having a very set routine that can involve N number of busses where N > 1. Instead of having to look up departure times for each bus individually, you just set a bookmark. Now every morning, I just click "To Shuttle" and have everything I need to know.

Stuff like directions is already handled by Google Maps, though I realize that's not available on all phones.
It's given me a nasty drug habit.

Caffeine is a hell of a drug.
that's assuming that most of their chargebacks were simply because people didn't recognize the charge. how many were because they didn't like the service, didn't get support, or some other reason?

with most credit cards, you don't really need to have a good reason to do a chargeback. especially with american express, they side with the customer rather than the vendor.

american express sent me some paperwork when i signed up for a merchant account and it basically said when a customer does a chargeback, they refund the money immediately and i would have little or no recourse to debate it.
Between the ‘pick a direction’, ‘pick a stop’ and displaying the actual time, if you could show some location graphic it would be nice. Also I will suggest you use Google Maps or any similar service to give it some colors. Great idea!!!
tc doesn't run on real routers and there are many possible ways to configure it, most of which violate someone's idea of network neutrality. The problem is political, not technical.
Meditation isn't a silver bullet. If you're not sleeping enough, you should do that first. If you're not exercising enough, do that second.
Instead of alleging a conspiracy, maybe you should just relax. Sometimes good comments get downmodded incorrectly, buried low on the page, and not noticed. Sometimes it fixes itself. Like now. Sometimes it doesn't.

It happens, from time to time. Welcome to the Internet, version 2.
Walking would be O(n^2) for all but the shortest distances actually, I think. Unless you rested once in a while. Amortized linear time?
If people didn't like their service, wouldn't most of them ask for a refund (which would not be classified as a chargeback)? I believe chargebacks are usually intended for charges that the customer thinks are fraudulent.
Now all it needs is a "Combine conversations" button. hint hint

Great feature though, I'm sure this will get more people to install Gears and ensure it's not a "lost cause" for Google. I'm sure Gears is a big part of their strategy for the web now.
http://www.mindfulnesscds.com/author.html
Mind Performance Hacks by Ron Hale-Evans has a bunch of recipes which deal with meditation. You could probably get it on http://safari.informit.com I think the first couple of weeks is free.

Fourfold Breath is the basic technique. Or google pranayama yoga. I idea is to control your breathing and through that control your being.
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I get very uneasy when I see a '-' in a url. Something really spammy about it. I'd be inclined to just cancel the transaction on seeing that url.

It's like watching a commercial for eMusic or something and seeing their site advertised with an arbitrary number in front of the service's name, like 73emusic.com. That url doesn't really exist, but I've seen it a bunch of times before.
a refund would have to go through 37signals, and they don't give refunds (http://www.37signals.com/refund). a chargeback just avoids the middleman and gets the customer his money back.
I keep a lot of things sorted. For example, my wallet's money is always sorted.

With multiple denominations of bills, the insertions aren't O(1) when I'm in line if you know what I mean.
If stress is the problem, I would try a more active martial art like karate, tai chi, kung fu, etc. Exchanging sitting in one place and breathing for another place and breathing doesn't seem like an optimal solution. Better to get moving around while learning to control your breath. Running does that too, but I find it's rough on my joints.

EDIT: I neglected yoga, which is excellent for de-stressing and working out daily kinks. The problem is it's popular and so it's expensive. As an extra bonus, if you're single, there are many worse places to be than in a yoga class.
I don't like TechCrunch, and I don't like Michael Arrington. I can write a book on why, but this is not place.

Death threats and spitting are way over the top!!! It's a shameful behaviour that needs to be outcast. TechCrunch help lots of businesses and in the process killed some. That's life, suck it mate!!!
> it would be silly for pg to ban a site that helps promote YC startups, not to mention TC is nowhere near as wonky/gossipy as valleywag.

Right. PG banning it would be different from people just not posting any TC stories though. No need for PG to incur Arrington's wrath.

From what I've seen, TC contains so much gossip and mildly nauseating posts that we'd be better off without it.
I have tried meditation at the local Shambhala center (2 years) and also meditation after Vinyasa Flow Yoga session (1 year so far). I found both rewarding. They were rewarding for different reasons though. It would take volumes to note the differences. Essentially, the first was more spiritual and the second was physical and spiritual. This book may help you... http://tinyurl.com/bfqdq9 I go to yoga class weekly and practice sitting meditation less, but try to fit in a session once or twice a month. Good luck.
DTrace and SystemTap can insert probes in code if you're only interested in certain parts. If you want basic-block-level or instruction-level coverage, look at Pin, DynamoRIO, or Valgrind.
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When I can't find something in my apartment, I lose a moment thinking I can grep for it before I start a traditional realspace search.
Parody of an interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++
Go to a petting zoo and get it over with, or if it could be a male chicken...
I cant do math. I suck at it, i can understand it, but i have a hard time going through the calculations. I do all sorts of dumb mistakes, and always miss something. Its the details that get me. I find this to be my greatest challenge, because i have some serious math exams coming soon.
Somewhat related, I cant seem to be able to study stuff that are not interesting to me. I have a big exam, i should study, NOOOO, i dont whanaaaa, whaaaaa.... I whanna hack, i dont whaannnt to studyyyy...whaaaa.... I find myself whining in my head very often. I guess i should just shut up, and do my studying, and maybe hack later...
Discuss HN: Are hackers "unbullies"?
On reading this story http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=453708 and the comments it spawned, a feeling suddenly dawned to me that hackers are more likely to have been bullied upon at some point of time than normal population.
Is it me being a cliche-jerk or is there some truth to this feeling?
Trying to remove duplication in everything.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=353501
If I had to guess, sites targeted at the early-adopter-techy crowd probably do far better after being reported on TechCrunch than things targeted at say recent parents (or your niche market of choice).

In any case, yes, threats and violence are not cool in any way. I was just commenting on the effect that TechCrunch has on the community as a whole, which I don't think is all that huge. Its more a place to read about startup news, and can be solved by simply subscribing to something else in your RSS reader of choice.
I think that's just luck of the draw. If your startup is good enough for TC to precipitate mass blog coverage, than I imagine it would have worked the other way around had TC not covered it early.

In any case, I think fighting for press coverage is stupid. Press coverage is not going to make people use your product, and if enough people use your product you are guaranteed coverage. On the other hand, if you want to break into the public consciousness, traditional marketing will help, but there's no point doing that until you know you have a winner on your hands.
That still puts the extra safety out of range for us lower-end consumers.

Yeah, alas, the $80 is the imaginary price difference that might exist in a world where every saw buyer thought as I do, leading every manufacturer to leap at the chance to license SawStop.

If the premium really were only $80 I might spring for the bandsaw version too, though I've used bandsaws many times and understand what you're saying about the relative danger. I just like being paranoid, when I can afford it. Just because a mistake requires you to be incredibly boneheaded or absent-minded doesn't mean it won't happen.

I can't necessarily blame the SawStop guy for building high-end saws that I'm reluctant to afford. I'm no expert on saw economics, but I find it easy to believe that there's no way to build a viable startup by trying to compete against the likes of Grizzly on price.

I will say, though, that every time I contemplate taking up woodworking without a SawStop saw I run into sentences like this:

I once put all four fingers of my left hand into a dado blade on my table saw due to kickback.

And then I start thinking about all the other hobbies I could be pursuing. Piano! Knitting! Electronics! Machining! (Which, if you do it right, doesn't involve a lot of kickback either. Wear those steel-toed boots, though.)
What would the police do? Break his legs?

(Honestly, it seems the kind of circumstance where I can't really think of anything the police should be able to do to anyone who seems dangerous or "suspicious", because both are very much judgement calls.)
Oh please. His main complaint is that Craigslist isn't "doing more."

Why should it? Do the users like it as is? Yes (with some exceptions, of course). Then they don't have to do more.

If someone thinks they can do better, no one is stopping them. This is a really weak argument.
A trip down memory lane: http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/23/1521250

Voices From The Hellmouth Revisited: Part 1
Posted by JonKatz on Wed Nov 01, 2000 01:30 PM
from the uncover-your-ears dept.
I don't quite understand it: doesn't money decay usually anyway (since most of the time there is inflation)? And what does one really want? I don't think circulating money is the goal of an economy, the well-being of it's participants is the goal. I doubt a decaying currency would help with that.

Money is just a tool - if somehow it does not do the job people want it to do, they will switch to alternative schemes anyway. If money decays, maybe they will trade in "stuff" instead. I don't see how artificially lowering a tools effectiveness could help, in general.

It would be easy to create jobs for everyone by just outlawing all machines, so everybody would have to work on the potato farms to pick potatoes. Everybody would have a job, but overall the economy would be worse off...
Cox ready to throttle P2P, non "time sensitive" traffic
http://www.dogensangha.org/video.htm has a couple (slightly tilted) videos explaining the basic posture of zen meditation.

Your body needs to be in an alert or awake position in order for you to be able to settle into yourself. Sitting on a couch will just make you sleepy.

It's also hugely important not to expect anything out of your meditation. "Having trouble focusing" is only a symptom of what's actually going on. Meditation won't make it go away; but, if you stick with it, you'll likely gain insight into the causes of it, and hopefully find more productive ways of dealing with it.
I feel this too. The key is to not receive what other people say as bug reports, so you won't get the urge to fix them or find a solution.
they had less ad revenue because they had less traffic ( due to the election being over )

I don't really think this is a canary for the general internet advertising world.
"If you’re still using Internet Explorer 6 (as about 30% of Technologizer readers who use IE are) and want to stick with a Microsoftian browser, I beseech you: PLEASE upgrade to IE 8. " - nice))
I for one understand your point of view, and don't think you deserved any downmods either.

You've been bravely standing behind your words, even in the face of the "public shaming" of so many downmods. That's respectable.

Besides, should a downvote be used to express mere disagreement, or reserved for posts that one thinks are really inappropriate or maybe jarringly stupid?

In any case, I agree that insulting someone or calling them names should not be a crime, and that spitting on someone shouldn't be considered an "assault" (with the provisions you mentioned).
I couldn't agree with you more. There was a comment posted on the blog about why they didn't go with charge.37signals.com instead. I would think this would be better since it contains the real domain. I too am curious why they didn't use the subdomain route.
Does it bother you that so many of them are law firms. With all due respect to undeniable need to uphold law and order in a society, so many law firms say something about in which direction is productivity headed.
Do you want people proficient in laws or those building something of more value to be higher rewarded?
Not really:

"If you decide in your first year that it is not for you--indeed, suppose you conclude that you're better than all of this, a broader, richer thinker who can't be constrained by the ivory tower--you will still have to deal with the nagging fear that somehow, some way, you just weren't good enough, that you couldn't cut the mustard. That fear will almost certainly be wrong. Perseverance can get most students through graduate school. You should feel good about how well you know yourself if you decide to quit. But academia is a total culture. It changes your standards for what is good and what is bad, what is smart and what is dumb."

I don't think there's anything in his writing that suggests that you're less of a person if you don't go to grad school, or if you decide to drop out. It's just the culture that encourages you to think this way; you shift your conceptions of good and bad to fit the academic ideal.
My current agreement requires that I explicitly seek company exclusion for any ip I work on at home. The key to this sort of implementation is that it is ridiculously simple. I write up a sentence or a paragraph or so, I bring it to the CTO (it is a small company so he is a desk away) and he signs it.

The easy way to think of it is sort of a right of first refusal, with the company being extremely likely to refuse anything. Basically I am going to him and saying "hey can I spend my work time on this?" and he says "no we don't want any part of that" and then it's all official and documented with signatures and good stuff like that.

I bristle at IP contracts, but the simple fact of the matter is that as an employee (especially of a somewhat mature funded company, bootstrappers may have a little bit more flexibility) I know that I'm going to be subject to them. Being up front about it and making it possible and simple to exclude my IP from the company's means that every few months I bring a list of fairly early-stage ideas to get signed off.

The other option is just to start with a "Hey, your IP is your IP and our IP is our IP." policy and wait until you're actually screwed over to change. There's value in protecting yourself, but building a giant wall around you for a problem that may never occur can also be extremely restrictive.
yes, he has some good techniques.

Also 'Art of Living' does some basic and advanced courses. They are helpful too.

Update: http://us.artofliving.org/art-of-living-course/index.html
Yes, but you need to find a way to do picture sharing better. What would differentiate your startup from flickr or photobucket? A tie in to all the networking sites where you upload your photo once and they show up in all of your networks might be a big win, I don't know.

You can always find room in the market for a better mousetrap, provided you have a good idea of how the mousetrap needs to be improved.
I'll be there, but more for the people than the content. The biotech stuff is particularly uninteresting to me.
> And then I start thinking about all the other hobbies I could be pursuing.

The feeling you get from taking pieces of raw lumber, shaping them, planing them, joining them (and yes shimming them), eventually turning the wood into something with form and function, through problem solving and love.

The feeling you get from seeing someone like and enjoy a piece of furniture you built as a gift.

Come to think of it, I think hobbies are about pursuing personal feelings. Not about the actual doing.

Even though, I've temporarily put woodworking on the back burner, I'm glad to see fellow woodworkers (coming-out-of cliche deleted). I still gawk at Woodcraft products. I still inspect the craftsmanship/joints of strangers' furniture (http://www.woodcraft.com/)
Upon my moving to the US in 98, some kids at my middle school found out the hard way that that is certainly not a universal rule.

I certainly do think that hackers are more prone to being inept at social situations (and when I say "social" I don't mean social as in "social network," I mean real interpersonal contact). Since bullying is a kind of social situation, I could totally see how the aforementioned ineptitude could lead to not knowing how to deal with bullies. That's why it's important to have other stuff going on in your life beyond hackery. Sports, sex, parties, music - SOMETHING.
Deja Vu: TJ Rogers on government subsidies for Silicon Valley in 1993
There are already some industry & government formats:

Prescriptions: http://www.ncpdp.org

Health Records: http://www.medicare.gov/PHR/Default.asp
I rarely think about karma except ex post, and then mostly after being downmodded. It's amazing and distressing how much even one downvote hurts.
I do internal martial arts (Which are Chinese arts which partake of Chi Gung a bit '(Xingyi Bagua T'ai Chi)) in a class where we actually hit each other--near full strength, but slowly. There's nothing like it, in my experience, for stress relief; it's far beyond static meditation or hitting the open road on my motorcycle or dancing at a club.

Having a punch completely take your equilibrium because you let your mind get trapped in an analysis paralysis loop is a wonderfully effective biofeedback mechanism.
Parody, What Parody?

Most of us have held this to be a true confession
http://www.relaxationresponse.org/steps/
I'd suggest finding a meditation teacher, most likely through a meditation center. Meditation is not easy to learn from books, and the instruction really benefits from discussions around how it is going for you in particular.

Personally, I learned to meditated from a Shambhala center. They teach shamatha/vipassana meditation, which are the two most common forms of Buddhist meditation. The (over-simplified) explanation is that Shamatha is about quieting the mind, and Vipassana about awareness/insight.

In terms of your basic question, meditation can be as simple as sitting on the couch and watching empty space for a couple of minutes, if you are sitting on the couch and watching empty space the right way. Generally speaking, there are postures that serve better than couch-sitting, and instructions that are more sophisticated than "watching empty space", and a qualified meditation instructor can help you with those.

If you really don't have access to a local instructor, get in touch with me privately, and I'll see what I can do for you.
Try reading http://thegrowinglife.com/2008/03/meditation-guide/ followed by http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html
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Call me a cynic, but can we just have one standard way of doing this sort of thing across all platforms? With (R|J)ack, we return a list/tuple of [response code, headers, iterable], and in WSGI compatible things, we call function(response code, headers) and return the data. Almost exactly the same, but completely different.
Why Do You Work So Hard?
AND administer all of the systems.
It shouldn't be pricey. I got a copy of the 7th edition hardcover for about $8. This one: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Database-Systems-C-Date/d...

I doubt the concepts and mathematical model behind relational databases have changed that much between 1999 and 2003. :)

Also, most the code in the book is in a language called "Tutorial D", with asides about how it would look in SQL (and equally frequent complaints about how SQL fails to live up to the mathematical ideal of the relational model). It's not an SQL tutorial, but once you understand the relational model, you will probably be able to burn through tutorials -- it will just be learning syntax, not completely new ideas.
Isn't the point of karma to make HN a community? Karma is an important way of demonstrating quickly if a link or comment fits within these norms. Community does not have to mean groupthink and I think HN has avoided this, as demonstrated by so many comments arguing both (or all) sides of an issue.
So, yes, I take karma into consideration. Not because I want people to like me, but because I want to add value to HN. It's funny, but think of adding a comment on HN the way I would on usenet, back when the warning about how the post would go all over the world actually meant something.
True enough, that's a good way of putting it.

That's extremely difficult to though as a manager!
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Everything must be good or bad, old or new, high or low, black or white, 1 or 0.

I can't randomly walk through any mall, park, or neighborhood because I might miss something. All events must be sequential.

When I'm at a client site, I interpret everything.

When the restaurant hostess asks my server's name, I say, "Univsrv1".

When invited to a networking event, I bring my toolbox.

I can't start anything new without a Mountain Dew and a bag of Lay's.

When doing anything for the first time, I imagine test cases before I proceed.

I keep trying to "click" by gearshift.

I clean everything in my house with a 50% distilled water/50% isopropyl alchohol mix.

I keep looking for "alt-tab" on my TV remote instead of "Last Channel".

My cats are named Instance 1, Instance 2, and Instance 3.

I use the simplex method of linear algebra to fit everything in my freezer.

I never drink beer until after the final build of the day. (actually true)

I refer to my girlfriend's weird friends as "outliers".

Every time I say "outlier", I worry that my girlfriend may deprecate me.
I learned to program when I was really young and I can't help but think that it gave me my OCD. A bit of CBT and some "mindhacks" of my own have almost got rid of it now though.

Another one I had as a kid was writing the number zero with a line through it. That's how it was on the BBC Micro and my schoolteachers couldn't understand why I wrote it that way too.

I guess another one is being a major advocate of US English (I'm English) but I'm not sure if that's due to programming or because, well, it is a better dialect.
I liked the article. Although my ego swings from euphoria to depression depending on the positive or negative feedback, ultimately I feel I'm just an instrument of something bigger existence (I'd call it Muse if I'd be an artist, but I don't know any Goddess of Programming) and the only way to satisfy myself is, um, to let She drive me to wherever She wants to go, apart from how my ego feels by the feedback. In other words, it is the to-be-done work itself that demands me to work on it. It seems that some creators (writers, musicians, etc.) mentioning same kind of drive.
In my experience, punches take your equilibrium due to physics, not your thoughts on the punch...
Secrets of my success: Netflix CEO Reed Hastings
I think any violent action is condemned! If you do not like what he writes, then do not read it!
You can discuss it here on seesmic. http://seesmic.com/videos/gEfLwq4pqG
Sit on the couch, stare into empty space, and notice your breathing. Now, notice the thoughts that creep in - don't fight them, don't obsess over them: just observe them. Welcome them, and let them go. Keep noticing your breathing.

Rinse, repeat (daily).