skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The window dressing makes it had to pay attention to the ideas in these articles :p

I think you are only perceiving the "window dressing", because you think the article should be more negative about having ADD or whatever. Why make it negative? "ADHD" sounds like "a disease that needs to be treated". Hyperbrain sounds like "the personality of some very smart and productive people". So there's really no need to use terminology that immediately taints the personality as being negative. (Plus, the target audience will probably get upset and get distracted by something else.)

There is no reason to consider your personality a disease that needs treating, but it is also not bad to learn how to exploit it effectively. That's the point of the article, and the terminology used appeals to the "target market".

Anyway, this is pretty much exactly my personality. I consider myself pretty productive (look at my GitHub page, more than a few projects there), but I am very easily distracted from things I don't want to do. The key is to not let yourself be distracted by stupidity (Reddit was my problem), and instead let yourself be distracted by things that are going to be useful. Other programming tasks, answering people's questions on StackOverflow or mailing lists, etc. If you aren't going to get any work done, at least get something valuable done.

I should really stop reading news.yc, though, because I waste too much time here. (The problem is that pretty much everything I say gets upmodded, which is very addictive. It's nice when people like you, or think you're interesting. But it is still a complete waste of time :)
Thanks buddy. +1
I love this as an illustration of how nothing changes. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nevernameless/320619642/
I enjoy that there isn't a race to "scoop" other HN reader-contributors as it stands now. There are plenty of outlets who live or die on scoops, and there will continue to be.
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I'd go one step further: Not only should you have your logo link back to your startup's main home page -- you should include a simple text link, with the right keywords in the anchor text, to link back.

This is for search engines (so if your blog pages start to accrue some SEO authority, you can pass some appropriate link-love back to yourself).
I vote for ReadWriteWeb. More level writing, more focused on web startups, feels a little nerdier.
there you have it in a nutshell
I didn't know about all of those features.

The big one I did know about is Grand Central, software that takes advantage of multi-cores. It is supposed to spread the load across the cores in your processor. That is the feature I am waiting for.

Building that now makes sense to me. I have a dual core processor that barely uses the second core. Plus my dual core will soon be on the low end of cores per processor.
It says "This cartoon is NOT Copyright By Dylan Horrocks '09".

Dylan is a cartoonist from New Zealand. Here is a high resolution version of the comic ( http://dylanhorrocks.vox.com/library/post/not-copyright.html ) ,
and a post about the NZ Copyright Amendment Act that inspired it ( http://dylanhorrocks.vox.com/library/post/why-i-oppose-s92-o... ).
That seems short sighted. Hacker News:

- Doesn't have original content
- Isn't that focused on startups anymore
- Tends to focus on the nerdy extreme of the startup spectrum
- Doesn't have nearly as broad an audience

Sorry, I love HN, but let's not get carried away with ourselves.
I'm not a huge developer, so I'm not certain of how Grand Central will work out for the end user. It does sound promising, though.
<i>TechCrunch is awful, but there's no excuse for the spit in the face incident.</i>

that's silly. I swallowed some water but there was a fly in the water somehow, it was wriggling, so I reflexively spat and your face just happened to be there. that's just one of many great excuses for spitting in somebody's face.

more seriously, there might or might not be any excuse for it, but if you thought it was anything but a matter of time, that's unrealistic. the appropriate response is just blogging that they're full of shit, but inappropriate responses still fit in an overall system of cause and effect.
I assume he was down voted for painting Web 2.0 as an aesthetic-driven convenience based entirely on an over-indulged consumer nirvana where we can waste 10 hours rounding our corners while the foundation of our entire civilization might cease to be.

In the same vein, verything we currently rely on could equally be called out. This could be the end of Automobile 10.0, Computer 4.0, Internet 3.0, Electricity 18.0 and Civilized Culture 1.0 (I kid..).

Design has a high purpose for some and the study of usability, ergonomics and tools to automate your way to market are nothing even remotely new. Web X.0 will work because it serves people better in whatever paradigm they may live, be it civilized or relatively barbaric. Obviously, limited by the eradication of the internet entirely. Humane interfaces on a non-existent platform will never get any eyeballs :)
html fail arrrgh
If people didn't like Techcrunch, they wouldn't go to the site. If Techcrunch was irrelevant, they wouldn't generate massive leads for pet projects that people create.

these points are both true, but they don't alter the fact that Techcrunch is also full of shit.
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This question might not have an answer, but I figure it could start an interesting discussion.
How Benjamin Button got his face [TED Talk]
Ask HN: US users, or Global?
I work for a startup who's current main source of revenue is advertising based. We are leading in our space in the US, but lagging behind some competitors globally. Given how we all make money, I think this is a pretty good situation to be in.

What do you think, would you rather be leading in the US, and other more highly monetizable markets (Germany, Japan, UK, etc), or be leading in an absolute, global scale, even if a good chunk of your traffic won't necessarily bring revenue?
Nothing wrong with this example. Would you rather see XSLT? Really?
like most people who post here you need to read Paul Graham's early work. professionalism is harmful to quality of work and especially so in startups. professionalism is an artifact of the industrial revolution and is not relevant in all fields. computer programming is to some degree post-industrial and professionalism is irrelevant and archaic for many programmers. criticizing a programmer for being unprofessional is like criticizing him or her for not being well acquainted with the phases of the moon and the effect those phases have on that programmer's crops.
Only because no one else pointed it out:

I have the same problem, I just don't approve of 'style'

No kidding, comma splicer!

There are lots of personal style

That's certainly one of them!

and it does amazing

It sure does!

but there are company style guides and printing houses all have different ones.

Just transpose the earlier comma to before the and, and you're all good!

I think I'll stop here. Can't help but feel trolled...
What about my situation? I got a job right out of school and worked so much overtime I more or less burnt out on it. When they showed me graphs of how much money I made them and didn't even bother with a Christmas bonus I quit. The company I then went to more or less lied about what I was actually going to do so I quit there too. (Even though they were paying me twice the amount I was previously making.) I only lasted 9 months at the first job and 6 months at the second. I'm on my third job now (thankfully I like this one so I'll be here hopefully for a while) and I graduated less than 2 years ago. I suppose my resume would make me look like a job hopper so you'd hold that against me?
Email address submission form. Then sell to the highest bidder.

10000 spams. 1 email saying "it's christmas!".
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Profits = Revenue - Costs

If you can't make money there, and with the business you're probably in, the costs are significant when it comes to bandwidth, then you should not be there.

We're also not talking about a gain lots of users and monetize later type of plan like Twitter. There's no money to be made in these countries. With the economy being the way it is, and being a startup, you can't run yourselves into a wall of knives.

Also look at it from a competitive angle. What would you think if your competitors went there just to be a bigger brand. You'd probably think they made a bad move. If dominating countries that are monetizable doesn't make you a big enough brand, dominating in countries that don't bring revenues surely won't. It will probably make you go broke.
If you want vector graphics, my meager experience fwiw:

Some months ago, I used potrace to convert drawings to SVG. Specifically, on a Windows box, if I recall correctly, I used it via the front end Rasterbater (needs .NET 2). I was quite satisfied with the result.

This was for some simple black on white images. The Wikipedia page for potrace (first link, below) has a bit of language about Inkscape being able to do a color decomposition.

> Inkscape is capable of producing color images by
> decomposing each channel into several black and white
> images and tracing them separately with Potrace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrace

http://potrace.sourceforge.net/

Link to Rasterbater is under the anchor below (it's a link to a zip of the program; the program doesn't appear to have it's own descriptive page, although the hosting site has a one line description on the default page for the domain):

http://potrace.sourceforge.net/#other

Regarding Inkscape, this boingboing page (I happened on while googling Rasterbater) has the following comment:

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/21/web-site-converts-ph.ht...

> Inkscape ( http://www.inkscape.org/ ) uses Potrace
> (http://potrace.sourceforge.net/ ) and optionally
> Autotrace ( http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/ ) for
> it's own raster to vector. It costs 100% less than
> the price of Illustrator CS or Corel, a.k.a free.
"The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false." -- Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:225 (http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff1600.htm)
The comments are loaded through a script tag. The top of the comment box says (Powered by JS-Kit)

The script tag loads content from this url: http://js-kit.com/comments-data.js?jx=0&gen=0&srt=da...;

So either no-script is blocking that or you have security settings that don't allow script tags to an alternate domain or something of the sort.
> So, set it to ten years, and lose nothing of interest... Does that answer your objection?

No. It's still lossy. To turn the question around: if Subversion expired changesets after a given length of time, I think you would complain. Likewise, if git expired mainline commits after a certain length of time, you would also complain (I sure hope). git is lossy, and I happen to think that's entirely the wrong thing for a VCS to be. Making it "less" lossy is kind of like trying to keep your teenage daughter "less" pregnant.

> You could do that with git now. [Lengthy explanation follows]

I can also do that right now in Mercurial using the group extension (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/GroupExtensi...), which is possible because Mercurial, being written in Python, is trivial to extend. But that's not the same as being part of the Mercurial workflow, any more than the bookmark extension in Mercurial prior to hg 1.1 counted as a real answer to git topic branches, or Loom counts as bzr's answer to Mercurial's mq now: it's not part of the VCS. Yes, I can make these all work however I wish--but as much as people have now forgotten, it's also relatively easy to make CVS and Subversion work in similar ways through tools such as Quilt (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt), which allow for rebasing, offline commits, and many other features that you think of as git/hg/bzr-specific. We've abandoned those tools for good reasons: they required extensions, shell scripts, and odd workflows to work in distributed environments. We will do the same to our existing VCSes unless they can approach a more ideal workflow.
I think the author has never been Silicon Valley. It is a huge sausage fest in here, everywhere. San Jose is called Man Jose for a good reason.
Smart and educated girls, that are also cute are rarely single.

I have so many great male friends that are single, and yet I don't know a good looking/smart girl that is single.

This is my major disappointment with the SF Bay Area.
Ease-of-use does count for something. You're of course completely correct; I can remove history by using "svnadmin dump", or editing the RCS files backing CVS, or probably hacking Perforce's BDB file manually. But that's not part of the default workflow, whereas "git rebase -i" seems to be an important part of the daily git workflow. It's not a throwaway distinction, and has real implications.
Sell me the domain for $1
Ask HN: What's the best way to do due diligence on an Angel Investor?
What is the best way to check out your angel investors (before you take the money?) Assume we have already googled/linked in them. Reference checks? Follow them? Talk to their wife?
Thanks for that.

I was wondering when this was written specifically because of that sentence. Yahoo mail is so far ahead everyone else today that I knew this had to have been written long ago.

Does anyone know how Yahoo mail caught up to and surpassed Hotmail?
Here's the note in question. I wrote it, and I think your comment mischaracterizes its true nature.
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=27551539159&id=...

The purpose of both my note and my personal replies to the hate-mail I received was not to express hostility. Rather, both were attempts to call attention to how the veil of anonymity provided by the Internet changes the way people treat each other, often for the worse. Not too different from the Hacker News Guidelines: "Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation."

My intent in calling out Christianity was not to mock, but rather to make people reconsider their own behavior by viewing it through the lens of a belief system they feel strongly enough about to post on their Facebook profiles.

Happy to discuss further if you still feel my post was inflammatory.
Talk to the entrepreneurs they have invested in.
Yes I agree. I meant and hoped that the (explanation in parens) would be interpreted as my opinion on what was proper. Believed the construct "proper ... (that is ...)" was clear, guess not. Oh, and thanks for not answering any of my questions and ranting off topic.

[an aside; I don't believe in "proper", there is no proper there is only "proper for me", never "proper for you." One should reject others' attempts to inflict "what is proper" on them. Good job btw. My use was to alter people's thinking or simply make them think, even subconsciously. Language is a virus.]
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sleep with their wife.

sorry ;)
What if you would be their first...
I kind of think you did respond, actually. Once you're committed to allowing broken code into the repository, as long as you don't push it, then you're de facto in the immutability camp, since rebasing not only doesn't offer you anything, but destroys what you're trying to deliver.
It's interesting that Li himself thought knew traders were trusting the model too much. In theory, this knowledge could have made him a lot of money, but in practice it's probably difficult to correctly short the market (since he couldn't really know when the collapse was coming, or how big it would be.)
Plant a 9mm and a bag of hash somewhere in their belongings that will easily be discovered while meeting with them, then see how they respond...
Maybe people will take the hint and stop up-voting Wired articles?

Or how about a domain filter in my options?
I actually took that specific course from Professor Siek last semester. (You can find my name on that page.)

Doing the homework was the only way to do decently on the quizes, or the exams. Most of the questions on those tests consisted of "write out the code for the $x portion of the compiler". So if you didn't already understand how that bit worked, you weren't going to figure it out in 10 minutes, and get any of the points.

The low emphasis on the homework allowed him to have basically no restrictions on students working together, which is rather handy for most folks. And it still required you actually develop an understanding of the content.
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Yep, I was trying to keep the guide short and to the point when the project began, and also more as the most updated version of all the crazy info out there.

I've added the caveat that URL parameters mess with page caching, but, the right way to do URL parameters is probably to make them RESTful and add a route. Except in the case of pagination, which isn't asking for a RESTful resource.

Anyhow, thanks for the feedback -- and would love anything else that I may have left out!
Yes, I would. Would you quit the first time you thought you deserved a bonus and didn't get one? You may be a good fit, but having three jobs in two years makes me nervous.

Another warning sign we look for is when somebody trashes their old company. In every case where that happened and we made the hire, that person was trashing our company within six months.
Well, it depends. You should be careful, but then what's the worst that can happen? I had a rather bizarre experience with a first time angel investor, who invested the money and then decided he didn't want to spend the time being an angel investor and basically wrote us off as a loss and didn't want to talk about our business. But the money was real and I wouldn't expect my scenario to ever happen to anyone else.

Is the investor bringing anything to the table besides money? You'll want to ensure your investor is mature enough to understand basic things like he is making a loan/investment to your company and that you aren't personally liable for it. Make sure he is an accredited investor. Tell him to go to Angelconf! http://www.angelconf.org/ Hell, maybe you could go with him.

In this economy, if you aren't in the Valley you may be waiting a very long time for smart money. So is it normally looked down on here to take non-smart money? Yes. But if you're not a company coming out of YC that is juggling angel investors to find the one that is the best fit, sometimes you have to take what you can get.

Are you planning applying to YC or any of the incubators? That would be another reason to wait.
The true meaning of IsItChristmas is about bringing pure binary joy to millions. Don't be a little adsense grinch.

...How about selling a nice IsItChristmas wall-clock? Completely dormant for 364 days a year. But on that one day, something more magical than you could ever imagine...
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Just look at how much chatter it created for something not relevant. Perhaps it's off-topic, but it was interesting to hear HN's views on what is and isn't correct.
If the last three jobs were held <2 years.
I don't really get why people would want to come to the US.

Because there is more money here. In Russia, a biologist with half a century of experience working at Moscow State University (best university in the country, arguably Europe) makes about $120/month?
recently, i:

1. used my camera to take photo of an illustrated page from a very old book (copyright expired). i borrowed the book via LINK+, and it was delivered to my local library for free.

2. used Vector Magic to vectorize (within 2 free "credits" limit) the image.

3. edited result of #2 with Inkscape, so it's much more "stylized" (much simplified; just a few filled-and-stroked paths).
Don't people realize that more than one person writes for TechCrunch. Erick Schonfeld was the sole author of the Last.fm TechCrunch article. Arrington had nothing to do with it and is still on vacation.
I think its time to create a gui in visual basic and put the ever-loving-smackdown on the RIAA
Why the US and not Europe, though?
Here's what I got working, in case you were curious: http://mike.verdone.ca/twitter/
Learning To Be a Responsible User in Chat Rooms
Every place under the sky has its own code of conduct that we should abide by. It helps us to get along with others well and they make life less stressful. It helps us avoid unnecessary confusions and stress. The same applies to online chat rooms as well. Though we are out for fun in online chat rooms, we need to still keep to the rules of the chat room. More than just keeping to the rules, as social animals we are expected to behave in civilized way.
You have the wrong attitude if you feel that you need to tell customers to "reconsider their own behavior." From this reply, it sounds like you're insulting your customer by pretending to know more about their religion than them. That's not cool.

It is very unprofessional to comment on irrelevant personal information you have stored about a customer.
How about a digital advent calendar? Sell space in the calendar to products that are given away for free (or coupons)?
I have one of the new packages in front of me (bought by a friend), and I have to say that there is not a single thing that I like about it. It's hard to read (text is sideways), vacuous ("Drink in the spirit of the morning"), and the juice pictured looks sickly and pale. The most readable text, and hence the part my eye is drawn to, reads "Some Pulp". At best, it looks like a weak imitation of a high-end store brand.

I'm left with two questions:

First, why would Tropicana choose to change their existing strong brand to this, rather than launching this as a side-brand under a new name and testing the market? To my limited knowledge, there are probably the strongest brand in orange juice in the US. I don't see why they would take this risk.

Second, it sounds like many people here and elsewhere actively like the new look. Others, such as me, do not. I have to presume that I'm in the minority, otherwise the consumer resistance would have turned up during Tropicana's user testing. Any ideas on why what underlies the divide between the presumed majority who like the new design and the curmedgeonly minority such as myself?
You've never searched for a company or a brand to see what people were saying about them? (Competitors or damage control PR ads) Or for a conference hashtag? (Local eateries and hotspots) Etc.
Clearly a technology is not to blame, or Google would be at fault for linking to them as well. But using torrents the 'wrong' way?

File sharing is legal in Sweden, which is why they have been able to operate for this long in a very transparent way (in terms of who runs the massive site).

Downloading music/movies is legal for personal use for me in Canada. Annoyingly, we pay a tax, but that is a whole other can of worms.

Why would the Pirate Bay remove torrents by request? They are doing nothing wrong. The MPAA/RIAA's course of action should have been to try and track down and sue individual downloaders in the US. The reason they aren't keen on that anymore is the bad publicity of suing regular folks and especially children.

I also really dislike the term 'wrong' here because it is not clear that it is wrong to copy a file. Downloads can lead to higher sales through exposure, and to me the rampant litigation to fight change (as demonstrated by the cartoon) is wrong.
At least they handled it well in the end.
> I bet it is yours too.

You lose, so what do I win? Seriously, you overestimate the value or accuracy of a facebook profile.