skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a side note, I'm a regular Facebook user who just stopped using the service completely. Trust me, you should quit Facebook, if you are-

1) Working on a product/idea/startup

2)Trying to be more productive

3)Wanting to spend some time with REAL people

This advice is from a fellow HN member who fell for the addiction and would update an average of 1 status per day.

BEFORE you quit Facebook, you need to find the pointers that lead you to it.

Pointer #1 - Frequently visited links

If you are on Chrome (or Firefox or Opera or IE), find out a way to delete the Facebook shortcut that appears the moment you open a new tab. By doing this, you will be able to reduce approx. 60% of your urge to use the service. Meaning, if you thought about visiting facebook 100 times on an average a day, you would visit it only 40 times (previously you visited it all the 100 times).

What you're doing here is basically making it difficult (or rather creating a tiny hurdle or bad user experience) such that you would have time to think twice before you visit the service.

Pointer #2 - Deactivate your facebook account temporarily

(Under Account->Security->Deactivate->This is temporary, I'll be back)

This way, even if you typed www.facebook.com in your address bar, you would be taken to the login page (or homepage) instead of being taken directly to your feed (your worst enemy!). since there's nothing engaging about the homepage nor the login page, you would feel hesitant to login (with due course of time) and you would come back to doing whatever you were doing before. Promise yourself that you will spend no longer than 2 seconds on the login page.

You will be surprised, how such a tiny action could help you overcome this addiction for a LONG period of time.

NOW. Wait for about 3-4 days. The temptation to login would have gone, but not completely. So, to erase it completely, login again AFTER 4-5 days. Look at your feed. By now, you would start to feel it's become (sort of) irrelevant since you were no longer staying updated with it. You will also have NO notifications. Generally, the motivation to login is to look at that tiny red piece of notification icon. But now that that is gone, you will feel 'disappointed' (I swear you will) and you will lose interest in the service. Now deactivate again. Login after a good 10-12 days. Repeat this and rinse. But increase the time period from 10 days to 20 days and keep on increasing. In a matter of 1-2 months, you would have learnt to ignore the service and master yourself. Just keep this in mind, whenever you login to the service, promise yourself not to spend more than 5 mins. If you do so, 'punish' yourself by de-activating your account and not logging into the service for a couple of days.

Hope this helps! It worked well for me :D

Cheers!
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The problem with this is they can't enforce the amount of people watching. It could be just you or maybe you and 10 friends.
I like what has happened with internet radio. But opposite of boring is exciting. I still couldn't get myself excited with the present though.
No problem if people want to leave FB, don't use it too much myself anymore. Just don't understand why everyone has to write a blog post like they are doing charting new ground when they leave.
Perspective from someone who has a day job and does his own project when not at work:

My routine works best when I wake up at normal work hours ~8am and go to work after coffee via subway. At the office I take a 15 minute nap on a bean bag chair in the evening, drink a cup of coffee, then go to the gym. When I get home I'm awake and feel productive most of the time so I can attend to my website. So if I choose to be productive anywhere between 10am and 2am, it's usually not difficult.

If I was working full-time on a startup without a day job, I would assume I would still work best at night like I did in college rather than the 4am-7am early morning hours.
Ha! Easier said than done! Of course, everybody wants something new.
Is it really worth $1000? Yes it is.

Here's some simple math for you. It would have taken my business partner (he took the course, not me) more than 10 hours to find all of the advice Brennan shared. He can bill out 10 hours to a client for $1000. Therefore is it worth it to pay someone to gather all this advice and package it in a way that allows him to apply it? Absolutely.

It took me a long time to realize many businesses are looking to exchange money for time. They have more money than they do time. It's a hard notion to understand when you don't have more money than time. I suspect you can't truly know it until you reach the point of being able to make that decision yourself.
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A ton of photos, but I see only a single text post. If you are hoping for a more mature community, you're going to need more text-only posts.
Legalized file sharing, shorter protection times for the commercial
copyright monopoly, free sampling and a ban on DRM.

Sorry, I didn't read the document. Do those lunatics also want to ban SaaS? Because if software is in the cloud you can't easily pirate it.

I strongly believe that such legislation would only complicate my life. With high-speed networks and new protocols it's not that hard to imagine companies like Adobe or Autodesk moving their products almost completely to cloud. You would no longer "own" professional software, you would only rent access to it.
Like it or not, FB is ubiquitous for many. People will use it to make important announcements. "What do you mean you didn't know I was engaged? I announced it on Facebook!" The counter is that it's rude to assume everyone is on Facebook. The same, however, can be said of email or SMS.
The site shows $80/month as the rate for King sheets, and I'd need 2 extra pillowcases as well.

My cleaners will change and wash sheets as part of their visit, which is less than $80/wk (yes, I'm comparing monthly and weekly pricing, I know).

$80/month is $20/week. In most areas you could find a service that would clean AND change the sheets for you for similar rates.

I can find decent quality king-sized sheets on Amazon for $20-$25 (and free shipping with Prime). It's essentially the same price to throw out my sheets every week and replace them with new ones (in reality, I'd wash them first of course, but washing sheets is not THAT much of a hassle)

IMO, the pricing for this would have to be much lower, like $10/month, to make it a cost effective service.
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I think you're oversimplifying. Millions of people line up to buy the latest Call of Duty game at $60, but I don't think the market for those games suddenly doubles if you sell it at $30. Especially when many of those $30 buyers were presumably already going to buy it at $30 anyway in a few months.
It's a demonstration that scrabble's dictionary uses completely arbitrary and unpredictable methods to choose which bullshit words it has. It can't even use the excuse it's trying to be 'complete'.
Nice idea and implementation.

I noticed a typo in the About copy on the main page:
"along with apply personal tags" should be "along with applying personal tags"
Lucky 2013 for digital marketers?
There is a technical solution to that, for example one based on the patent mentioned here:

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-patent-uses-kinect-...

EDIT: Hey, don't shoot the messenger.
This all looks unnecessarily complicated. I had really bad posture for most of my life and I fixed it with two things: deadlifts and cable rows. After the major muscular weaknesses are corrected (and those two exercises will correct them), it's just a matter of habit correction- stand while you work, walk with your stomach tight and shoulders back, don't let yourself slouch when you sit, etc.

This ain't rocket science. You don't need to spend an hour a day with 10 different exercises. You can fix the muscular weaknesses in 30 minutes, once a week.
I'd love to know why movies are so incredibly expensive on iTunes, and whether anyone's experimented with pricing movies at €5 rather than the current price of €12+.

At 5 Euro, for me the price is an instant purchase, no thinking necessary. Not so at €12 or more.

I hope it's not the case, but I wonder whether there are so few people that pay for movies at any price that the studios have concluded it's just not worth it, and so keep the higher prices. Or, alternatively, there are enough people that do buy at the €12 point, again not making it worth the time to lower the price.

In conclusion: trying to work out pricing points hurts my head.
Good points. I visit more or less daily too; for me it's more about the quality of the content than the uniqueness, since there's little overlap between who I follow on each. I only visit Facebook maybe once a week and Twitter once a month or so.

For me, G+ is where I post things I find interesting, usually links and thoughts to a relatively limited audience of real-life friends and acquaintances, and sometimes tech-related thoughts to my Hackers circle.

At this point I only use FB for a) chatting with people whose phone number / email address I don't have, and b) to keep in touch with and get updates from more distant family/friends (e.g. "that waitress I worked with a few years ago got engaged-- best wishes!", "it's my buddy's college roommate's birthday-- let's go get a beer in Portland sometime this summer!")

And I only use Twitter to read jokes from wannabe comedians and publicly bitch about corporations...
I will suggest keep building.
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you guys should use http://mizage.com/divvy/ is great for resize windows without touching the mouse.
I'm not attacking him, I'm making an observation. I find it hard to believe that he suddenly realized this month that social networks are all about collecting and selling personal information.
Funny how people get up in arms about price differences like this, yet nobody ever suggests that the price of the cheaper one should be raised to remedy the situation.

Would the iOS price suddenly not be "ridiculous" if they charged $25 for the Android version too?
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I have expressed my concerns about the state of copyright law to my representatives multiple times over the years; there has been essentially no effect. The MPAA, RIAA, and other copyright lobbying groups have basically bought our politicians when it comes to this, and people who speak out against this state of affairs are basically ignored. Why would the government want to end the nice, cozy relationship it has with the movie industry, when our entertainment makes such an excellent platform for propaganda?

The battle over copyright is going to be ugly -- it was ugly in 16th century England, and it is going to be ugly in 21st century America. We are going to see increasing attempts to prevent people from violating copyrights (which will conveniently undermine other, less convenient rights), an increase in the attempts to indoctrinate children into the "copyrights are a natural property right" way of thinking, and further exploitation of creative works (how dare you compose a song that borrows a tune from another song? If you do not work for us, we won't let you!). We are going to see copyright used as the excuse to establish firewalls, to arrest programmers who dare to write code that is useful to individuals at the expense of corporate profits, to sneak restrictions into computers and unwind the entire PC revolution, etc. The culture of illegal cable will expand to include illegal computers of all kinds -- computers that won't enforce the will of corporate overlords, computers that will allow users to write their own programs without asking permission, computers that won't care about expiration dates on data.
PSN in 2012
Interesting, hooking could argue for weighting letters at the beginning or end of 3+-letter words higher than those in the middle.
I can see this backfiring pretty bad...
If you follow the advice in this paper[1] you will be measuring media errors in your drives. That means re-reading all data every N days, even archived data. Without periodically re-reading and validating (checksumming) the data you can't tell if it has rotted in place. Since the distribution of errors over drives is very exponential you should then pro-actively remove the worst drives in your system. That will avoid an accumulation of errors and sudden multiple drive failure as described here.

Durability is like a diamond: it is forever.

1. http://research.google.com/pubs/pub32774.html
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Thank you for the detailed thoughts. That's exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for. I appreciate you taking the time to help :).
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I suppose you're right. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. For years, they wouldn't fund or write about anything that wasn't a me-too product, and now he complains that there's nothing but me-too products.

Thanks for finally waking up Michael.
Isn't OP's "static site generator" run on a WSGI server?
3) No blurry screens

4) No crappy audio

These are the most important and frustrating points for me. What's the point of paying to use a professional set-up if it all goes to hell in a handbasket the minute the switch is flipped?

I've sat in a cinema where the volume was so low, the audience could hardly hear a thing. A few shouts of "Turn it up!" went unanswered, and there wasn't an usher anywhere in sight.

At the end, no-one went and complained. I'm just as guilty (my excuse: crushing social anxiety when it comes to complaining in a foreign language) for not doing so, but maybe this is why: not enough people complain/stop going/ask for refunds, and so the circus continues.
The future does not look promising.
I like where this is going. I blogged about this very topic a few months ago http://derekmyers.com/open-source-information-overload. If you watch/star as many repos as I do then you realize the problem is clear. Discovering and filtering repos is incredibly difficult, but the vast resources are there and growing at an even more incredible rate.

Say you are a web designer who just found out about GitHub (I know right?), then what would their first steps look like? Maybe spend hours googling around random sites discovering outdated "10 popular plugins for Bootstrap" kind of stuff. I think this applies to all kinds of things as well.

I also think this is one of the reasons they took on funding to figure out these problems. I had been contemplating adding similar functionality to my GitHub web app. I kind of think they should start an app marketplace (I know YAAM) to bring additional functionality beyond the scope of GitHub that wants to manage (ex: they killed off messages), I realize they have Services, but I don't think that is clearly enough, similar to how Facebook recently added App Center.
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I think it depends on how good and popular your game is. If there's only a market for 10 million Diablo 3 players, then making the game $10 won't expand your market to 60 million.

However, if you have a pretty unknown franchise/game with maybe a potential of 1 million users at $60, then lowering the price to $30 may very well double or triple your market.
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What a short markdown processor!
Exactly what I want in my life. A way for companies to track me and my friends inside my own home.
Solaris Nevada b151 is on version 32 :(
You could always have your friends hide behind a blanket to confuse the sensor.
I don't think you understand the market he is focused on. Everything you said is counter to that market. You pull .001% out your ass and I'm willing to bet a large portion of this market is reading blog posts. Also, in my opinion of course, your advertising advice is stuck in the 90's and not the way to go. Business Week, WSJ, Economist? I think Brennan is trying to reach freelance consultants not IBM consultants (or whoever reads those publications). Bang for buck you are going to lose BIG advertising on those type of pubs/sites. The fact that you need a .com is complete bullshit, again points to you not understanding the market.

It sounds like you've had experience and success but not necessarily with this market or maybe you are still stuck in the 1990's.
And those mechanics are exactly like dozens of BBS door games from the 80s and 90s, so...
Dexedrine is used pretty widely by the US military. If you've ever heard of "go or no-go pills" then you've heard of uppers being used by the Air Force.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextroamphetamine
"your family's news and personality emissions are quite literally priceless for many, many, many people. Most, even."

I wouldn't go that far. Its the technological equivalent of being shown an absolute flood of your aunt's cousin's brother's kid's meaningless crayon scrawls on construction paper and feeling socially obligated to click the like button, err, I mean pat them on the head and say that's very nice art, junior. I know very well what the "socially correct" action is, but its certainly of no actual interest to me, and frankly I'm enough of my own man to be strong enough to ignore it.

That's why most people who quit sound wishy washy in person about it, however brave they sound on the net, in order to keep the peace. Um, well, I had to quit facebook because err, ah, its blocked at work, or I used up my phone data plan or it crashes on my phone too much or whatever. Not the truth, that its really boring and I've got better ways to waste my time.
When the RIAA and MPAA claim that their profits suffer from piracy, one should be skeptical. People have been sharing files on the Internet for decades at this point -- what kind of company can lose money for decades without going bankrupt? There are industries that were bankrupted by the Internet, like the film camera and development industry. The MPAA is just greedy, they always have been; they are the ones stealing from artists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
Right, that's the kind of system I was thinking of: Not off the shelf enterprise RAID enclosures, but big piles of commodity drives run by companies that do storage as their business, like Google and Backblaze and Facebook.
I don't think the market for those games suddenly doubles if you sell it at $30

Don't forget the support costs as well; they end up with double the number of people to support, but for the same amount of money.
Actually, he does have a point.

Yoga has 8 levels (limbs).

Most western classes do not venture beyond level 4.

http://www.discover-yoga-online.com/ashtanga-yoga.html
Anyone can try to get money for links. The internet alternative of course is to eliminate all of their readership from anyone other than the local pub.
Ask for a refund.

I've bailed on films where half the screen was out of focus or, inexplicably, they were using the wrong lens and everything was crunched. Sometimes all you have to do is point it out and they'll fix it, other times they'll refund it no questions asked.

If they don't feel it financially, they won't care to fix it.
The same reason people declare they are quitting smoking... Social pressure helps people break addictions.
3D Printing, which I'm guessing will lead to printing up your own clothes.

Overall sounds amazing, yet for me the thought of no longer needing to buy objects or clothes is a bit disconcerting. Our economies are struggling already. As tech continues to evolve alongside population increases, I have a minor worry about how the majority will sustain themselves?
Interesting - I recently just disabled/deleted most of my public online presence as well for much the same reason. Privacy was a concern, but really it came down to the net benefit of having these accounts in my life.

Facebook added nothing to my life - indeed it actually harmed some relationships since I figured people didn't need to communicate directly with me if they could follow my public feed.

Twitter became a vector for me to bitch about the world to no one in particular. Try as I might, I usually ended up sending out a stream of negativity which the world certainly does not need more of and it does nothing good for me personally.

I'm considering ditching LinkedIn, but that seems to be taboo - HR drones seem to expect a LinkedIn profile and get suspicious if there isn't one (this isn't a good trend IMO).

Since terminating many of the "social" media services in my life, I've felt better about how I present myself to the world. I no longer fret about that last tweet I sent out, or feel a need to check on my "feeds". That said, it does leave me looking at my smart phone and wondering what the hell to do with it.
I had the same experience learning to unicycle in my late thirties. Fall, try again, repeat. It's hard to actually get hurt (the unicycle just slips from under your butt and you end up more or less standing) and if you persevere you'll reach the great moment in which you can actually ride the thing... first a coupe of meters, then 5 or 10 from time to time, then you don't know how but you are actually able to ride it. But it still feels it should be a physical impossibility, and I still feel happy and exhilarated when I do it.
That doesn't sound like a problem to me...
Since git is distributed, they could just have a mirror on Bitbucket.
I can perform various minor psionic tasks. Most shocking of them is the ability to imitate speech; sometimes it is outside of my control because it is of an empathic nature.
> How is it excusable [...]

The simple answer is "it's not." You're completely right that the people who do this crap are immature, irresponsible and have no business having the financial well-being of their employees in their hands.

If you've got $10k earmarked and you need it for something else (such as electricity), it's your responsibility to contact the vendor, cancel work immediately, pay whatever portion of the $10k you're legally obligated to pay them because you signed a goddamned contract and hope that you have enough left over for whatever you need.

My consulting contract specifically states that not only is the agreement between myself and the client company, but also between myself and the client company's principal(s) personally. I make it exceedingly clear both in the contract and in face-to-face discussions that I run a business, I'm not in the business of doing work without getting paid, and I will not waste months trying to get my money before turning to more serious measures (such as litigation, which has only had to happen once and was settled for the full amount within 24 hours of the original summons).
All due to piracy? If you look at the 10 top grossing films of 2012, we have: 3 comic book movies (The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, and The Amazing Spiderman) where the characters have already had several movies, 3 movies that are either the 3rd or 4th in an original series (Madagascar, Ice Age, and MiB), and 4 based on books (Twilight, Skyfall, The Hobbit, and Hunger Games). Maybe people are tired of rehashes of the same IP over and over again, especially when they spread one story over several movies, just to get more money out of you? (I'm looking at you, The Hobbit)
Suggestion - You might look into creating some templates pre-sized to be ready to upload to the appropriate app store(s). Something like http://android-ui-utils.googlecode.com/hg/asset-studio but for promotional graphics.
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Yes, my distaste for C is probably because I'm not a good enough player, haha. I received an email mentioning the CLARINETS heuristic for choosing tiles to leave in one's rack, and in that context the drop in C's value makes sense, as you say.
I would buy movies on iTunes if the prices were more reasonable. US prices are typically $20 to buy and $5 to rent. I would buy movies if they were $5. To rent, the price would need to be closer to $0.99.