skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, going to a traditional gym to lift weights or run on a treadmill is very boring. I never was able to maintain a traditional exercise program like that for any length of time. However, I have recently found the secret to getting addicted to exercising: sports.

I fell in love with rock climbing about a year ago and feel the need to go at least three times a week. I would go more often, but I am usually too sore from the intense work out. Climbing creates a physical and emotional high that is unmatched by anything I have ever experienced.

I lifted weights in college, but never achieved the muscular definition and level of fitness that I have achieved through rock climbing. It helps create a balance of strength, endurance, and flexibility throughout the entire body. With weight lifting, I could never acquire the discipline to strive for the next weight increment. But with rock climbing, I yearn to be able to complete the next route and am singularly focused on reaching that goal.

It also helps that rock climbing can sometimes be a more social activity that weight lifting.
Snowboarding on the street...
And Lisp, Arc, Python, C++, C, ASP.Net Lua, etc... they don't require skill and expertise? Is that because they weren't created well?
It won’t be cheap either: fees run around $25,000 per student

Erm...is that a good price?
Search multiple image search engines: Ginipic
Ginipic.com is a desktop application that gives users the opportunity of searching images in several sources at the same time, if you need to use the picture for any purpose. Major Image Search Engines are: Google Image, Yahoo Image, Live Search, Photobucket, Picasa, DevianArt, etc
And on the Mac there was an alternative browser preinstalled.
The --forest or as later mentioned the -f does not exist in the freeBSD version of ps (I'm assuming all bsd's).

If my understanding is correct OSX uses the freebsd utilities so that would be your reason.
any angel investor that starts with charging for presentations is going to miss out on a lot of information.

I think that a start-up presenting to an angel investor teaches both parties something and should be done on neutral ground, so no money should change hands until an investment is agreed upon.

Personally I've never seen a successful angel investor that charges to be presented to, I'd like to hear otherwise if you have a counterexample.

The only situation that I've seen money change hands before an investment is when the 'angel' gets hired as a consultant and then later becomes an investor.
I find it terrible design to have background music on your website, fashion or not. It wakes up half the house (we're not necessarily in the same timezone as the designer was in when he decided on the 'cool music') and it interferes with reading the text.
Punishing Italian internet users isn't at all like punishing Google executives for Youtube is it?
I'm pretty sure that it would be considered a hate crime in the UK. This is an arrestable offense which can carry a range of punishments depending on the severity (e.g. physical assault vs verbal assault).

See http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/crime-victims/reducing-crime/ha...
This is only true if you use CSS floats in a particular way which was not foreseen when the specs were written, which is only necessary if you want a certain kind of layout and don't want to use positioning or scripting. That strikes me as a step forward from always having that codependence.
Already posted:

Here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=462468

Here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=462287

Please, people, check that your "news" is news ... this is becoming the September that never ended ...
May I suggest reading "Everything you know about CSS is wrong" by Rachel Andrew and Kevin Yank? It teaches to produce table-like grid layouts using CSS.
My web app: http://myjugaad.in/ also does that; but then it is a slideshow for webpages
yeah, look at starbucks - they offer a service, but they've standardized the experience and packaged it into a product. I think the key is replication, not service.
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I noticed from the last 'downturn' (so to speak) that the VC backed companies that failed did so in a way that opened a new market. A few years later companies moved into that same space and was able to succeed because the companies that failed opened people up to the idea but were just too far ahead of the public's willingness to adopt.
When I was looking into getting cheap Adderal online after losing my insurance, several of the sites I researched were exposed as selling fake meds, so I gave up. How are you sure that you are getting the actual medication?
Ask HN: How do you know when to give up?
I launched a little social site dedicated to gamers in the fall, and it hasn't picked up any traction at all. It never received any press coverage or anything. The blogs I contacted never responded to any of my emails. I've tried getting the word out through gaming forums, but that didn't help. I went back to my old WoW guild's forums, and they didn't even seem to care.

I feel like my site hasn't even been looked at to be given a fair chance, so I'm hesitant to call it a failure. Though, another part of me wants to think it was a stupid idea with bad execution. When do you know when to move on to a new project?
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Just how far will Internet Explorer's market share fall?
Pedant here. The fact that a Python lambda cannot be multi-line is not directly related to the whitespace thing. After all, it's easy to put several statements on one line by separating them with semicolons. No, the issue is, a Python lambda cannot include any statements; it can only contain an expression. Expressions and statements are different animals in Python. That's a fundamental issue.
Your point is well-taken.

What if I were to instead develop version X of my original product under a new name? I could bucket test the features I want to add, a few at a time. When I am "done" with the new version, I could then release as a new product and invite users to pay an upgrade fee -- with the caveat that the old version will stop receiving support/etc after a given date in the future (or perhaps even charge for support after that date in such a way it makes more economic sense to switch).

I may make an addendum to this post when I am slightly more lucid in the morning.

P.S. Come to think of it, isn't this what MSFT does with the Windows line -- and last I heard, they have been quite successful.
Don’t Work for Assholes
Tangential: There's no link in your profile or in your text. Do you mind showing us your product?

Also, if you live in the U.S. and follow typical diurnal sleeping patterns, I recommend waiting until a more sane time in the morning to think your thoughts through rationally.

Caveat Emptor: I do not speak from experience.
That's not the real Crackulous developer. Crackulous is free and open source. This message is from their forums:

The quick and dirty: Crackulous was developed right here on our forum, on our SVN server. Anyone selling Crackulous or claiming to be the developer is trying to scam you. The official Cydia repository to get Crackulous is http://cydia.hackulo.us. Crackulous is and will always be FREE SOFTWARE. It has had NO OTHER developers but SaladFork and Angel, with contributions from Uncon

http://hackulo.us/forums/index.php?showtopic=12570
For what seems to be a nine week course? ~$500/day? Sounds quite pricey.
Be careful basing decisions off the keyword tool, it's far from accurate. Comparing sites at #1 on the search results for different phrases there's often little correlation between traffic from those keywords and what the keyword tool predicts. It's a good starting point for experimenting, say to get ideas for A/B testing, but I wouldn't put a lot of money towards something based solely on its results.
I got 18/20 : what will you score?
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Interesting to note that the individuals named are all non-Italian Google execs and employees. Perhaps the Italian government has no real intention of punishing individuals, but just wants to make a stink about this to try to scare UGC sites into being responsible for their content. The impossibility of extradition gives them cover. If they named Italian Google executives or employees, which I'm guessing they easily could have, they'd actually have to put people in jail and face the absurdity of these changes in a very concrete way.
How a Facebook "Sentiment Engine" Could Be Huge
Post a review post here asking for a review.

You haven't even included a link to your app! :)
Startup Interview: a2zApplications.com - Business apps as subscriptions
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I use zendesk for direct support and get satisfaction for everything else. My email, telephone and skype are on all emails sent from me and I openly encourage users to contact me however for help.

I think the key to support is to be lightening quick. If its taken over 4 hours you're failing
CSS and the meaning of life (followup to CSS should not be used for layout)
We are looking at Zendesk. Heard good things about it and think it might just be the ticket. I have used the "Free" version, but the $19/month one agent might work for us instead. You get the flexibility of your own email address (your domain).
Education is a very large market, not sure what all that money was for, but obviously they did a very good job of selling the project.

The fact that they didn't manage to get a second round (and that's a fact that is now very well published) could be due to any number of reasons, such as missing critical goals that they've set in their original presentation and/or changes in the marketplace. It's hard to tell what the real cause is without asking the 8 angel investors involved.

Drawing far reaching conclusions ('angels flee from tech start-ups') from a single sample is not very solid science.

One possible reasons why angel investors are holding back is because of their stock portfolios taking a huge hit.

I also don't see not wanting to invest for a second round as 'pulling out', and I think the fact that all 8 responded unanimously says a lot more about 'twosmartdogs' (what a name) than it does about the investors.

They've had their shot, now they will either have to swim or sink. It's not different for the rest of us, with or without outside investors.
In the end, "be good" makes perfect business sense in a free-market economy. In the past, it was easier to get away without being good due to local distribution monopolies and the high barriers to entry in specific industries, reducing overall competition. In the Internet age, it's increasingly the case that there is an open, fluid, highly competitive market, thanks to decreasing distribution costs barriers to entry. Thus you've got to "be good" to compete.
you're joking. This website redirects to the signup page. Bizarrely, its far more than a signup page.

Why did you design it this way? It isn't a bad thing - slightly odd. I was tempted to close the window when I saw the URL. Glad I didn't.

Really gorgeous interface. I've signed up -- peterc
Yes and No.

It isn't just propaganda anymore. Pure CSS is what you're going to see in almost every code base you might work on. The last several gigs I've had wouldn't even allow tables for tabular data, which I think is ridiculous.

If I were reviewing your code, I'd give you points for using tables to deal with tabular data. I might not even hold it against you if you used it in a layout, depending on context. Unfortunately the person reviewing your markup will probably expect pure CSS, even if it is data displayed in a table format. Adjust your expectations accordingly.
19/20

I didn't choose the correct spelling of questionnaire.

I'm proud to say I got 20/20 the second time I took the quiz...
I mostly sell downloadable software but as of a week ago it is a web application if you squint at it.

Support is via email, and my general promise about it is "I do my level best to get back to you within 24 hours", which I achieve with approximately 98% regularity. (My price point just doesn't support phone calls. Happily I'm overseas from most of my customers, which is a great way to convince them to play ball on that issue.)

I love talking to customers but I hate doing support, because that means someone is having a less than optimal experience. Well, two someones, since writing email is no more optimal use of my time than waiting for my email is optimal use of theirs.

Accordingly, I spend a lot of time stopping support incidents before they start. This means writing and rewriting and re-re-rewriting copy in the web and application to be more comprehensible, illustrating things with pictures, and providing people with self-help options.

Example: a fairly key issue with downloadable software is getting people their registration key. It gets emailed when they purchase. But some people don't get it (spam filters, customer error, etc). So I displayed it after checkout, with instructions on what to do. But some people won't get it (failure to click through to last page, customer error, Internet failures, etc). So I provided instructions before the event (to check the spam folder) and provided a registration key lookup feature. I also made the app sniff registration keys off of the clipboard, which squashes many copy/paste issues before they start. (There are NUMEROUS ways for an unsophisticated user to fail at copy/paste.)

I keep categorized records of what causes issues and how many I get. (I worked in Customer Support a long time ago, and old habits die hard.) Relative to the number of sales, its down about 90% compared to my first year in business. I still have lots of room for improvement -- I'm thinking of a way to totally eliminate registration key entry for most users in the next version, for example. (It is fairly easy after you have web connectivity baked in.)
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Already posted ...

Here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463683

Here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=462305
Please, please don't post answers here - people often read these comments before following the link, so any answers here will be spoilers!

If you have posted an answer, consider editing it.
I scored 20/20 at the obviousness detection test.
Yo dawg, I heard you liked Twitter....

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There is an article by Steve Pavlina which, if you file off the words "shareware author" and replace with "web app author", I think you could benefit from.

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/business/features/shareprof...

I'll warn you in advance: some of it is trite. But there is some value in the other stuff: marketing success, for example, is not something that just happens to a product. It is something which is the predictable result of a strategy designed to produce it. Your submission indicates that you tried a few things to get users, which is good, but I wonder if you thought about that issue in a systemic manner. (Was there a plan in place? With boring things like predicting the chicken-egg issue before it happened, and multiple avenues for solving it? Which you then checked against reality as you encountered reality? These are opportunities for improvement in your current project and in how you approach future projects.)

As for when to give up: you'd be really, really surprised how far you can take projects with persistence. That said, if my little brother said "Hey, I've got an idea, first you take gamers and then you..." my first question would be "Why will they pay for this when they hate paying for just about anything, including the games which define their identity?" and I would not have a second question until I got a satisfactory answer to the first question.
Yep. This story is inaccurate. Some loser bought the domain crackulous.net and is trying to get bloggers to link to it instead so that he can try to sell the app. And by the way, check out that site for a good laugh. I love this part:

A screen will pop up saying that Crackulous is free and if you didn't get it free demand a refund but that screen was just a screen I added when I was deciding if I would put Crackulous up for free or not. It is a glitch and will be removed in my next update. I had to charge $10 because the economy is bad right now and I lost my job.
Fox News? Really? On HN?
18/20, non-native English speaker.

I do think the test title is misleading, it does not test 'smarts', it tests your working knowledge of the English language. And it uses a pretty weird mix of arcane words and very easy common mistakes. It's a fun little test though!

For the record I failed on 10 and 17 :)
Italy's in a bad way right now. Consider that they still have Berlusconi as their leader, who first made his appearance in the early 90'ies. Imagine if we still had Bill Clinton, Ross Perot and Bush Sr. contending the presidency in the US.

I think long term that Italy will continue to punch above its weight, as it has in the past: Roman empire, Renaissance, and some pretty decent stuff in decades past, for that matter - not bad for a relatively small country without much in the way of natural resources. But I don't know when that will be. We're headed back there next month, but we may not be staying too long. It's sad, because it's such a wonderful place in many ways, with plenty of very bright, creative, hard working people.
Never heard the word onompmoimitea or what it was before, and I don't think I'll be able to remember it either (non-native speaker, though).
Yeah, I think it's phrased that way as it's questions someone supposedly should be able to get right at GCSE level (age 16 end of high school exams) or something.

20/20 here (native speaker though).
Please paste a simple solution then using CSS, which behaves exactly like a table layout, and works in all browsers. I'm all ears...
20/20.

Only because one of the questions tests the spelling of a word which is an identifier on the project I am currently working on. I was corrected on the proper spelling of that identifier by a Japanese boss and an Indian outsourcing team in the same day.

That will teach me to butcher my native language.
17/20, non-native English speaker.

I failed 3 question from the first batch because I've never seen these words before.

The other questions are just too easy. Come on, their and there? :-\
19/20, due to a careless click in the spelling part.

In any case, I find the "How smart are you?" headline somewhat misleading. Is there really an objective way of measuring intelligence that takes into account cultural/linguistic differences? An English test hardly fits that criteria, although I suppose it's acceptable given the context and the expected readership.
The maths quiz: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3513187.stm
I hate exercising. I've always been in good shape, and I've never had to have any kind of exercise regime. But that's changing as I get older. Now I've tried exercising in several different ways, each time giving it a good solid month to get used to it, and I hate it.

Now I've started using the Hacker Diet method of general fitness, and I'm finding it simple, efficient, and unobstrusive. And I feel better. I've also started on the diet itself and I'm losing weight. At 5'10" and 175 pounds I'm targetting losing 35 pounds in the next 6 to 12 months. I've only just started, but I'm on track, and so far it's not a problem.

The Hacker Diet (and exercise) seems to suit me. The gym definitely doesn't, and I'm deeply suspicious of any drugs or supplements.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/chapter1_2_5.html
Ask HN: Could no procrastination feature only operate in specified hours?
(this is a feature request)

I note that the no procrastinate page now has no way to bypass. Cool, I like it.

However, I would like to set the time of day ranges for this (I don't actually work around the clock most of the time).

Thoughts?
Onomatopoeia (I learned to spell it by remembering it in pieces: Ono Mato Poe Ia, although that's not how it's pronounced) is the use of a word or words that sound like the thing they describe. Comic book sound effects--boom! bang! biff!--are a good example of this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia
The fact is, some layouts that are brain dead simple with a table are pretty much impossible with css, unless you start using javascript, hooking onresize etc which gets really really ugly fast.

css layouts can sort of cope if you specify everything in pixels. For fluid layouts they just don't work at all. The amount of hacks and hoops to jump through is just ridiculous waste of time when tables do the layout without any fuss at all.

Do you think the 'float' 'clear' properties in css are nice? To me they are an ugly inadequate hack at trying to specify layout.

Just trying to get a div to vertical-align center is enough to drive anyone crazy.
ouch...

Same happens here in Holland, there is Belgium to our south and invariably the winner of the 'national language test' every year is a guy/girl from Belgium.
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17/20, I'm French but actually I was wrong on non-specific stuff (metaphore etc.).

Maybe some questions are easier for us because they are about French-origin words ("Avarice", "Questionnaire" etc.)
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Onomatopoeia. I love saying that word, it totally rolls off your tongue. It actually just refers to written sounds such as boom, buzz, and the like.
This whole CSS vs. HTML-Tables discussion is ridiculous. It is not either/or. There are some specific cases where Tables are superior over CSS, but many things can be done with CSS which is impossible to achieve with tables.

This article explanin the concrete cases where you should use tables: http://olav.dk/articles/tables.html

The submission shows some examples where tables are needed. However, one could easily show other layouts where HTML-tables would be useless and CSS is necessary. Any serious web developer need to know the limitations of both tools.

BTW. the submission also contains some major misunderstandings:

> when it comes to layout, the design of CSS is fundamentally flawed. Use tables instead

This is blaming the shortcomings of Internet Explorer on the design of CSS. The CSS spec supports exactly the same layout model as HTML-tables, it's just that IE doesnt support this CSS feature.
Can't read this without logging in, but a related article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/nyregion/03ades.html?partn...

Is it the same? It appears to be ...
> I am italian

Where are you from? You neglected to include any information about yourself in your profile! My wife and I are moving back to Padova soonish.
Also reported here, where you can read the article without a login.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463600
(profit vs. nonprofit) vs. (do good vs. be greedy)

Let's untangle some dichotomies.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Nguyen+La+Chanh+moss+bath+m...

Looking to buy one ...