skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Do the MSF class
2. Get an M1 driver license
3. Get a sportbike, start riding

There are some risks involved...

http://florin.myip.org/blog/node/22

...but it will disconnect you from all stress and worries in a tremendous way.
Disclaimer: I am not an expert. What follows is what has worked pretty good for me. YMMV. Consult your doctor before beginning this or any exercise program. Etc.

The best book that I've seen on the subject is "How to Meditate" by Lawrence LeShan. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316880620

Meditation isn't magic, it's not stress relief, and it's not easy. Approach it like working out, because that's what it is. Do some research, formulate a routine, keep track of your progress, and maybe even get a friend to join you on the path so you can help each other stay motivated. It's easy to quit, and there will be LONG stretches when it seems like you've plateaued and there's no point.

Imagine if your legs got sore and tired every time you walked from your apartment to the car. You might conclude (correctly) that you need exercise your legs to make them stronger so that you won't get sore so easily. However, the first few times you work out, you'll be much more sore than otherwise.

Similarly, stress may be indicating that you need more balance and self-awareness. Meditation can give you that, but it can be a very stressful experience! At first, it may seem like it's making things worse. In fact, if you're doing it right, you'll probably hate it a little, because it won't be comfortable.

On the other hand, stress may be indicating that you need to make your heart and lungs stronger, and increase your muscle mass. So get out and move around.

I've had great results from physical activity like biking regularly. I just recently started taking taekwondo, and it's pretty incredible. It's best if it's something repetitive that you can gradually get better at with practice.

You might also consider seeing a shrink to talk about what's stressing you out. No one gets out of childhood without scars, and there's no shame in tackling the problem head on with a professional. Do you fix your own pipes? Remove your own wisdom teeth? Sew your own clothes? Isn't your mind even more complex than all of these things? Get help. Like meditation and exercise, therapy might not "feel good"; it's work that you do for long-term benefit, and it should hurt a little.
But they could have an api and let others build more apps and make CL convenient/better where it isn't. On a more fundamental level, competition is good and CL does not have a competitor that can match its reach and scope. This is partly because CL is useful, but its also partly because of their huge network effect. It would be good to have at least one other competitor in this space.
It's sad to hear stories like this (unemployment in our area is around 10% now) and layoffs aren't the employees' fault ...

BUT it also underscores the importance of (a) living at or below your means when you do have a job and (b) saving money for emergencies like this. Probably at the very least 2 or 3 months living expenses, which gives you time to job hunt, relocate, etc.
To each his/her own. I prefer Firefox's ctrl-K for the search box. and get frustrated by Chrome's insistence on giving me search results for a domain I type in the address bar after I press ctrl-Enter to automatically asume a dot-com (shift-Enter for .net or ctrl-shift-Enter for .org).

I love Chrome's visual cues for in-page search results. If only they'd implement incremental search like Opera and Firefox (and Vim): '/'+search, instead of the more cumbersome c-F.
Similar in terms of style, maybe, but conceptually Lua is extremely close to Scheme. It's an extremely intentional resemblance. The language core is very clean, concise, and consistent.
I have yet to see anyone here say that they enjoy raising money from VCs. As for customers, the best I've heard people say about them is that occasionally customers make interesting suggestions.

Running a startup might not mean that all of your time is spent building cool stuff, but it's probably better than working at <insert big company here>.
We we're that close to switching our client projects over to github and lighthouse(or some other bug tracking tool). This has significantly improved Unfuddle's speed so we're now not moving them anytime soon.
C++ is very easy, the syntax is picked up in a week, and you can work without any libraries, you mostly just need to learn the API of the host system.

You don't know C++.
"She fought the LOL. The LOL won"

I like it, good for a snorg tee
So is "Pixcavator" your last name, or is it P. Ixcavator?
That's quite fascinating, perhaps I should try it sometime.
Is there an element of hallucination?
No, you have to be nice to your customers and if your promoting it to us then that's what your looking for.

Freshbooks just did a blog post ( http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2009/01/28/techcrunch-is-not-... )

"You need to be out in the world, going after your own customers, treating them well, earning their admiration and recommendations, and continuing to build your business for the future."

If you can't take enough of your time to figure out how to write a self-promotion post here than why would we think your going to care about us if we become an actual customer.

Almost everybody here does a self-promotional post but they do it with care, stay active and the thread and make people that go check out the site and comment feel like they've helped.
For those that didn't notice, this is part one of a series that goes on for quite a while (I just found part 6, which is written well over a year later).

At times the C makes me dizzy, but thanks for posting, it's supremely interesting.
Yes, people are focussing on the wrong thing here at HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=455233

I say many people here are interested in startups more for the sake of financial freedom than for making cool stuff. The startup aspects of startups only detract from making cool stuff. So, we should be focusing more on financial freedom.

Not in the sense of constricting all HN posts to be about financial freedom, but at least devoting some thought to developing easy, dependable, and efficient plans for achieving it. As of now, I have seen 0 posts, excluding my own, on the topic. I don't expect people to jump on my bandwagon, or do my work for me. But, I will put together a plan and post it within the next couple months, to prove my point.

Here is my preliminary work, from awhile ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=122341
Both stories listed are the result of their own decisions. The first lady quit her job to go to law school and can't find work in her old field. The second example listed left his full-time job to get in the real estate business which was unstable even when he started (July 2007) and they are both wondering what went wrong. No one I've spoken with is anxious to move jobs right now and everyone seems to want to stay where they are until things brighten up. These people took risks that didn't pan out and that is why they are where they are.
Can WebNotes Replace Google Notebook?
Two stick out:

1. Answering questions fairly literally.

a. "Did you like the salad?" "No, I did not."

b. "Would you like to go to the fine art museum with me and 4 of my friends on Friday night?" "No, I would not like that."

c. Note that I can escape from this pattern only when it's extremely obvious the truthful answer is a bad one.

"Do these jeans make my ass look fat?" "I don't think it's the jeans..." I can avoid those at least...

2. Intentionally filtering out mundane trivia from my brain. "Do you know so-and-so's phone number?" "No, but it's in my phone." "When you left this morning, did you notice if my black gloves were on the counter?" "I would never notice them unless they were on fire or something..."
effects = produces

affects = changes
Partly it's because this is an industry that acts like it's very geared towards youth. The emphasis is on the young millionaires: Zuckerberg comes to mind. (I'm 18 and applying to YCombinator, so I fall into this category too.)

The environment is much more geared towards the hotheaded youth. It's not that you have a few outliers that act immature that get kept in check: everybody is immature, and the outliers are the people who act mature. Beyond that: a lot of the people in this scene are the unpopular sorts. People like that often have a ramped up persecution complex: they feel like everybody's got to be against them. As a result, you get very ramped up fights over really stupid things.

I get this a lot whenever I take the time to read Gawker - I followed the big Jakob Lodwick fight when it happened. Every side was awful. Gawker took potshots at Lodwick to get hits, people online started threatening him because he was a public figure, Lodwick worked up, and in the end he denounced the masses for being "common", Gawker still takes every chance it can get to diss the guy, and people like Ted Dziuba go out of their way to denounce him as pathetic and meaningless. It's a shame, because Lodwick does incredible work and Dziuba doesn't, and so the one takes it out on the other.

(Then, of course, there's Connected Ventures, which makes a few good-but-overrated things and whose staff tries to act perpetually like they're frat kids. They're fun, but it doesn't help this attitude of people that it's okay to be over-the-top and conceited and loud about it.)

It's an attitude that I despise, and it hurts the community at large.
Great Entrepreneurs are PASSIONATE about Customers & Products... by Dave McClure
Does walking continuously for 1000km merely take 100 times longer/more effort than 10km?
I remove the search bar in Firefox and just use the address bar for searches. It searches Google and if the result is popular enough it goes directly to that page.
How do People Use Tabs?
"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."

I usually just chuckle when I hear that statement, but oh man does it apply here. Something about the first story doesn't add up, which unfortunately makes me less than sympathetic.

I don't see how she planned to go through years of law school with no money. Either she had enough money saved up for living expenses + tuition (in which case, she still should, as she would have saved 3/4 of that,) or she had a scholarship... in which case, she should have stayed enrolled until she found a job.

I get that the circumstances MIGHT have been unforeseeable, but Aesop knew it way back in the day, and it really seems like common sense.
I think it really depends on if you're talking about a completely consumer/snapshot sharing service that is free. If so, I would say "no". Facebook and Flickr dominate and (to my knowledge) neither make money solely on their photo services. (Facebook's only revenue is ads and I doubt Flickr's Pro account covers the cost of the entire service).

If you're talking about a premium/freemium service that is targeted at pro-sumers, then maybe. SmugMug and others (myself included) have shown that it can be done profitably. It's just that with a paid service, you reduce your market considerably (no one wants to pay to upload their halloween party pictures).

But I think there are new markets to explore for paid services. Just depends on who you're trying to reach.
Mr. Acker, that was hardly called for. Sincerely, U. Nal One.
Beyond the obvious overwhelming qualifications, I have to ask: they expect to interview lots of people with five years of startup experience in downtown Chicago? Really?
You should hack lifehacker with an 'article ;-)
I recently interviewed at a place where they had set up a tip jar -- you had to put a quarter in it if you were caught pedantically correcting someone.

Eventually it devolved into merciless trolling :)
I remember counting from 0 when I was young, while all the other kids counted from 1. I considered myself right then and still do. That was well before I had any exposure to programming. Guess I was born for this profession.
Ask HN: Setting up a small office server?
Hi HN,

I have a quick question I'm hoping someone will be able to help me with. I intern at a Hi Def production company in NYC. We're small but very capable and we want to create our own server that we can use to allow clients to FTP large files to and from - our web server simply doesn't cut it for this purpose.

I have an old G4 Mac at my disposal, and am pretty familiar with Linux. We need the server to appear visible on a Mac network, and be accessible through FTP software from anywhere in the world, by our clients (who we'd obviously give a user name and password to, to allow them to access specific folders).

What's the best way to go about this? Any tutorials you can recommend? I'd really appreciate anyone who can steer me in the right direction.
If you run your debugger via emacs, you should be able to use emacs macros to programmatically observe execution.
Not his name; but, his profile makes it easy enough to find his name. So not a anonymous comment.
A world with a Craig's List is better than a world without one. But it does seem like we could use at least a couple more similar sites.
Ok, that's definitely something we need to inherit from the French. How awesome would it be to regularly see a pie fight break out during a movie opening? That would be totally sweet!
> I think an inspirational leader like Kennedy or Obama can inspire people greatly to better themselves, and this inspiration has all sorts of ripple effects.

I'm willing to believe that you do think that. One of my points is that it doesn't actually happen. (Another is that your "since 1980s" claims are completely wrong.) Self-delusion is one of the most important human impulses and I'm not suggesting that you should change yours.

You do know that the 100th monkey story was just that, a story, right? That thing about Tinkerbelle also doesn't happen.
In need of a serious hacker
Hello everyone.

I have been working on a web app with media over the last 7 months, and have been trying to launch the public beta for a few months now.

However, the team that I have coding it has missed deadlines time and time again, and this is just going way too far.

I already have a growing list of opt-in users waiting for the completion of it, and they are growing impatient by the day. I get emails almost everyday from people who are waiting and wondering when it will be done.

There are just a few more tasks left to complete to make the app at least functional. I'm not trying to get it all the way perfect, just good enough to work so I can start getting live users.

I am looking for someone who would be willing to take a look at what I have, in confidential confidence, as well as look at the tasks that are left.

If you feel that you possess the skills to help bring it to completion, then we can discuss compensation, and possibly future involvement with the company.

I have had my fair share of problems dealing with programming 'companies' and 'outsourced hires' and if I can find and build a team of more knowledgeable and reliable experts, then that would be great.

To answer up front, I have taken no VC or Angel Funding as of yet.

Currently I've been funding the entire project myself, and will continue to do whatever it takes to complete this project.

If and when VC's or Angels come, then fine. But if they don't, it doesn't matter because I am still going to follow this project out to completion whether it ends in success or failure.

I am 23yrs old, music producer, internet marketing specialist, and I have a strong background in sales and presenting. I've been an entrepreneur for most of my entire life, and am looking to build and share long-term success with like minded individuals.

If you are interested in seeing what I'm working on and need your help with, then contact me at:
aaronb@aaronbeats.com
(no, that is not the site we will discuss, the new project is much bigger)

or on skype: AaronBeats

-Thanks a lot for reading me out ;)
-Aaron B.
I don't want to fire up VMWare to install IE8 since it's been slow on me lately, but have they done anything to improve debugging or do we still need visual studio or another external app for that?

And can you install this alongside IE7 or is there the same problem that IE7 had where it wouldn't work properly alongside IE6 for testing?
Our society encourages freedom of choice. That's a bad thing?

I don't drink, don't party, most likely will never like casual sex. But I know people who do, and they like it well enough.

I upvoted you here, since you're not being inflammatory and you're contributing to a discussion, but I also think you're wrong. Society is changing. Social attitudes towards sex never stay the same from generation to generation. It's each individual's choice to participate, though, and that individual freedom matters.
Presidents do nothing more than say and write things. Why are they so hated?
I use tabs the most for sites like Hacker News. First I go down command-clicking (mac) on each link I'm interested in to open maybe a dozen or so links. From there, I only navigate using command-W to close tabs. Much faster and more convenient than reloading the home page.
Tracking an entire Windows sytem inside Git
> I don't think anyone should have sex with a partner who doesn't put the other person's emotional well-being at the same level of concern as his or her own.

(1) What does that have to do with casual sex?

(2) Why do you think that that is new?
I think it's an effort by a well-known negative personality to tell people to cut it out. I'm certain most trolls become such after a personality makes them think it's okay. And given the premise that you'll always have stupid people being uninformed, I'd rather have said stupid people not threatening people.
I thought this would mention probably the most famous application that does look minimalist - the google.com homepage.
Getting attention for your startup
Not that this matters, but my experience agrees with your hypothesis - I try to go out of my way to avoid bullshitting people to spare their feelings in person, and I usually feel no need to attack them online.
IE5 had an add-in (a power toy I think) that allowed you to create a string as a shortcut to a search engine so you could type something like the following into the address field:

g:foo

and do a google search for 'foo'.
It's not grammatically correct to put (nor) in parenthesis, because it makes your non-parenthetical statement grammatically incorrect.

I think it's more important that his argument is encouraging discussion. He's not trolling. He's stating his beliefs. That's worth an upvote. He's wrong and he's not arguing well but he's genuinely trying to contribute.

EDIT: And apparently, defending somebody else who has an earnest opinion and making a friendly grammar statement regarding a tricky bit of language is worth downvotes too. I'm sorry. :-(
I perform insertions of multiple denominations by pre-sorting the new bills and then just merge with wallet bills.
Cloud Computing: The Ultimate Recession Technology
Nerds are not used to being celebrities.
Citrix coming to iPhone
Discipline. All you need.
Hmmm, googling mentions something about new developer tools built-in, as well as an IE7 rendering mode. Waiting for the download to see for myself. This sounds promising!
Poll: Startups, why do them?
I know a lot of people here are interested forming successful startups. I am too. But, why are we interested?

Of course, there are many different reasons, but I suspect it is primarily for the sake of financial freedom. I wrote another post about this, and created this poll to validate/invalidate my hypothesis.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=455233
Glamor
Other (specify, if you don't mind)
I mean that that is the object of my meditation, not what I think about while I am meditating.
Except that "hipster irony" isn't unique to hipsters and didn't start with them.

The more that you explain, the more it seems that your whole position and conclusion depends on historical "facts" that simply aren't true.
I agree the first story doesn't add up. She's still making $20k with her part-time work - a lot of people are worse off! You can survive on $20k in the Detroit area. Instead, she lost her car and got evicted. I'm guessing she didn't prepare financially for being a student, and she still hasn't readjusted her expenditures.
Simple advice of avoidance:
Think of the fire in a fireplace. You can get close to it, you can stare at it. It's in front of you, but it's not burning you. If you get in the fireplace, you will instantly burn yourself! Stress is like that. Even if the environment is stressful, catch yourself when you realise its taking you (i.e. the moment you feel a tension inside you). Stop and think. Calm yourself down. You can tell yourself that nothing is as important as your well being - and its true. You can also tell yourself that as long as you feel calm and well, you can always fix the problem - also true. This is my way of avoiding the fire. You do get a few burn marks here and there, of course :)
UC libraries and Springer sign pilot agreement for open access journal publishing
And that's my point regarding financial freedom. People want to form a startup for freedom to work on cool stuff more often. But, why go that circuitous route instead of pursuing financial freedom directly? The startup route only makes sense if it is the most effective way of achieving financial freedom. But, no one here is discussing the most effective way. People just assume startups and go from there.
This just in: A lot of people in the tech industry have a harder time dealing with criticism (both fair and unfair) than their counterparts in the entertainment industry. When asked for help, Hollywood said "get over it, nerds."
I've seen a several blogs saying this over the past few months and it's completely true. I think it should also be pointed out the "going viral" is not a marketing plan either. Companies that see enormous viral growth are one in a million. You can't count on it.

I think many hackers tend to underestimate marketing. They look at it as something that's sleazy and below them. I can't blame anyone for thinking this, with marketers making asses of themselves everywhere you look, but it can kill your business.

You need to be trying everything you can imagine with marketing, then testing the results and pumping as much money as possible into the channels that deliver high ROI. The product is only half the business, the other half is delivering it to the right group of people.
And I wanted to be an aerospace engineer who designed and flew his own spaceships.

Sometimes stuff doesn't work out.

These are "template articles." Usually you find these on the front page of msn.com not hacker news.

Find a person that fits template, big goals and dreams then X happened where X is drugs, economic downturn, accident, etc. Then move into how the world is scary and random, then get "expect advice." End with final quote about how world is scary and random.
Not for money. As we found out with the dot-com bubble in 2000, if your goal is to make a quick buck, your startup will fail.

Glamor: no thanks, that's not the point.

Experience: sure, a little bit (see a previous discussion on HN about a recent college grad asking to choose between Ph.D, startup, or Microsoft job). But not really the main point of startups.

So I have to pick: other. I do startups because I believe in the company vision (in my current case, exporting the silicon valley startup model to the rest of the world, in the previous case, bringing hardware designers with better debug tools).
Not long ago, the CEO of one of the largest and most powerful international real estate firms in the nation quit his job. Stepped down. Not, as you might imagine, for retirement and not to play more golf and not to travel the world staying only in Four Seasons suites, but to work on rebuilding his relationship with his estranged wife.

CEOs always say they want to spend more time with their family when they step down. To me, it seems like good timing for the CEO of a real estate company to step down before the current meltdown.