skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exercise helps you feel always refreshed and improves your sleeping considerably. I have finally managed to fit jogging as a daily activity and it has helped me wonders.

But the key thing is marijuana. There's no better aid to concentration than getting high. Of course you can't over do it, but getting the /right high/ will make you code like there's no tomorrow.

It completely relieves you of any pressure and stress and makes any problem interesting to work on. It's the only thing that will make me stare 3 hours non-stop at code without being affected by distractions and without getting tired while also actually producing and being creative. I'm not ashamed of admitting it and I'm most definitely sure I'm not alone being a stoner coder :)
The www. subdomain is not necessary and you can have a different cname value there. It can point to another domain for instance.
> Reddit commanded at least a few million.

I wonder how much that is per site regular. A typical reddit user probably won't click on ads more than a couple of times per year.
I like his overall message - but I can't help feel a twinge of disagreement that happiness and success do not come from following your passion and your dreams. I think a better way to say it would be that you might not find yourself where you originally dream, but if you have a direction, work hard, follow it, opportunities will come and you will get somewhere fulfilling.
New survey shows increase in nonreligious, but few calling themselves atheists
But poor comments would be downvoted.
I made some changes, let me know what you think.
thanks
That's the way to do it today too. In my machines, I use a smaller 10K RPM drive for OS/programs and a large drive or two for data. It does make a significant difference in performance.
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Currently, SSDs' limited number of rewrite cycles make them unsuitable for that type of server application.
Controversial and flamey topics would shoot to the top and more considered, but denser topics would languish.
I think anyone who can figure out what an adjective put in front of a noun means understands what these phrases mean, the point is that they're just so fucking ridiculous as to be laughable.
Bushomatic - speech to text
Six people? Wow! Are you stateside?
Before I become a software CEO I used to race cars. Racing cars is exactly like running a tech company.

It takes a lot of gumption (and some money) to stay competitive.

To quote Malcolm X, "By any Means Necessary."
What feels "design-by-committee" about IPv6 to you?
How efficient-market theory has been proved both wrong and right
Great site btw. Thanks.
Perhaps a more interesting solution: Make article points equal the total number of points in comments. (Naturally that's not a perfect solution either.)
The 128gb Samsung SSD in my Dell M1330 is amazing. I don't regret a penny of the upgrade cost. When I got it, I ran benchmarks against my desktop's 10k RPM HDD:

HDD: http://encosia.com/photos/things/drive-benchmark-10k.png

SSD: http://encosia.com/photos/things/drive-benchmark-SSD.png
Yea but there isn't always an rss feed for the specific topic you are interested in ( example: news about high school debate teams in my subdivision of Dallas )

I could create one obviously with google news customized feeds or pipes, but if I'm not a techinical person I won't do that.

A Dallas startup called pegasus news tried to tackle this problem and got acquired about a year ago: http://www.pegasusnews.com/about/dailyyou/
What's there to say? Submitters veer off topic. You hit the "flag" button. The story gets marked "dead". How is my life improved by the prospect of having more work to do to groom the site?

It's like people used to say about micropayments; all these little knobs exact a mental cost; I have to spend 5 cycles deciding what to do --- mod up? mod down? what are other people doing? do I need to care?

Seems to me like Hacker News is doing the Simplest Thing That Could Possibly work. A good thing.
I'm assuming you're using S3 for storage, right? And the pricing for S3 is less than your pricing, so where's your additional marginal cost? Is it just an EC2 instance to handle the requests? Still seems like a really low threshold...
Face Detection in Javascript + Canvas
One of the best ways to get out of a conversation involves breaking the other person's momentum - as soon as you can, ask three close ended questions. For example, if the person is talking about their favorite dog. Ask 'How old is the dog?', 'Do they like cats?', 'Is it 730 already?' - then excuse yourself politely. It's not the most tactful way to extricate oneself from a running-over conversational hog but it works effectively.
great essay! here's another good read: what makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial?
Easy threading decorator
What is the 'zero-point energy' (or 'vacuum energy') in quantum physics?
Reminds me of Joseph Campbell.

"...namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be."
Paymo Strikes Deal With hi5 To Use Mobile Payments For Virtual Goods
Yes. It's definitely changed my computing life. Everything is instant and I can do things I can't do on my slightly more powerful but SSD-less work laptop.

http://flickr.com/photos/ttrueman/3051697418/
Software + zealots + personalities
Apple touch-screen netbook in Q3?
That's a myth. Enterprise flash drives are rated for years of constant writes.
Sold state is pretty new - I'd expect the price to come way down. I know I'm constantly looking at hardware from a years ago, thinking, "We were paying hundred/thousands for that back then? Damn, we've come a long way."
Wow, that is very similar to my story. Almost exactly, with the hospital visit and everything! In my case, I had switched startups and the 2nd one was a big mistake, with a sociopathic boss, unworkable deadlines, working until 5 am every day for weeks, etc.

Thanks for the tips! I've already found that avoiding caffeine is very helpful.
I was just being honest. There is an element of sterility to the culture here, IMHO. I still like Hacker News, but it's not as enjoyable to discuss things here. Hard to quantify, exactly, but it does feel a bit stilted and artificial, dry and academic, like everyone is trying extra hard to perform and please their peers.

(This is probably exacerbated by the fact that pg has gone on record stating that your Hacker News karma score is factored into any Y Combinator submissions you make. Nothing wrong with this, but it turns this site into a sort of proxy startup / investor pitch for some folks.)

On the whole, I'm more of an advocate of saying what you feel, while being reasonably civil. That said, I do not support 4chan style anarchy, or what the broad Reddit/Digg has turned into. I still think prog.reddit is pretty decent though.
I really appreciate your contributions to this site. Your experience is outside the norm and you put forth the effort to share it. That's valuable.
The Sizzling Sound of Music- Preference for MP3 like Vinyl
Depends on the SSD; SLC-based Fusion-io cards are rated for 24-48 years at 5TB write-erase per day (source: http://www.fusionio.com/PDFs/Fusion%20Specsheet.pdf)
One strategy for becoming relentlessly resourceful is to refuse to accept conditions you find undesirable. And as someone who has taken the oath to become relentlessly resourceful, you illustrate your refusal of external circumstances by finding a resolution that ultimately solves the issue or works around the issue (a.k.a. a hack).
Here is a niche one realmacsoftware.com. Also, I am pretty sure Smugmug.com is profitable.
Streaming services impact music sales
Glad to hear you find it useful! I would recommending binding it to a key you rarely use, like the right control key on Windows, or a weird combo like Control-Shift-A on Mac.
I'm looking for a Python job in the Bay Area too, with no luck for the past month =/. Anyways, just wanted to let you know you're not alone.
When you join, you get a randomly generated name (we thought it would be more interesting than "Guest1234")
The solution to that in our case, at least, is that the stories aren't just handed down with no explanation from a product manager. Instead, there's a team-wide "estimation session" every week where everyone (dev, PM, and QA) attends and we take the higher-level feature ideas, including any initial supporting documents (market research, mockups, desired use cases) and break them out into smaller, estimated stories. At that point everyone has a chance to ask for more detail and clarify any concerns they have, point out potential difficulties, suggest alternatives, etc. So stories are only scheduled for work once they've passed that initial stage where everyone was involved; if things are too vague, or technically impossible, or otherwise unready for development, they don't make it out of the estimation session.

It definitely still requires good product managers, but again the idea is that no matter how good the spec or whatever is you'll still always have questions, and it's better to just build that fact into the process and get people used to asking questions rather than having people make assumptions. And the best way I've seen to make sure that the PM has the answer to those questions is the estimation session, since if the PM doesn't know what they want well enough to answer the questions quickly as you develop, you'll find that out in the estimation session before anyone is tasked with working on the feature. That at least largely avoids the situation where a developer starts working on something and finds out the PM really didn't have a great idea of what they wanted after all, or that it's technically infeasible, which (in my experience) is just a really bad situation to be in.

The story approach still presents endless ways to screw up, but it's far better than any other approach we've tried over the last 7 or so years.
I too am curious after hearing numerous people rave about this "drug" (seems more like a supplement to me)
Tarsnap looks great and I've said so in the past, and may use it in the future. But if the title was, "Tarsnap turns 5" and later mentioned that it was founded in 2007, we'd probably also jump in to point out that it wasn't, in fact, 5 years old. That's what's happening here.

The reason I and others get a bit knee-jerk-y with the "profitable" line is that it's said often here on HN of businesses that aren't.
Well... or email me. It's in the profile.
The problem could be solved much more generally with a protocol to request socket level forwarding of arbitrary network services. This could be used transparently to create a gateway for HTTP or any other protocol. Some existing protocols come close to doing this (e.g. SSH) but I don't know of any that handle public namespace allocation.

For the case of "works in a browser today" aka Comet, it is again better to solve the more general problem of bidirectional tunneling over HTTP (e.g. http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0124.html), through which you could make any sort of connection, including a reversed HTTP connection or the gateway request protocol above.

Imposing an extra HTTP layer and/or building on top of HTTP (in the first case) needlessly complicates and significantly restricts both of these protocols without deriving significant value from existing standards or infrastructure.
I speak my worthless observation to this doomed article and then forget all this nonsense: Notice that the Safari 4 beta and the new quicktime player leaks have both had substantial effort expended on redesigns that minimize screen utilization for non-prime content? Small screens.
A question. If I have to install an external program ANYWAY, why not just.. use something outside of the browser?
I think Fried is in general against shuffling papers (like BAD specs and business plans) instead of getting around to actually making decisions.
The Amazon Kindle is the Great White Hope for Monetizing Print Media
Making in the browser makes it a little bit easier to support all the various operating systems not to mention form factors (e.g. smart phones too.).
The problem with those ratings is that you're only exposed to one side of the potential deviation from the mean. A MTBF without standard deviation is meaningless.

To put those ratings in context, consider that a Western Digital VelociRaptor has a 160 year MTBF.
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It took us two months due to AppStore's pay cycle to have operating cash, but we were ramen profitable a few days after our first product hit the store. Our costs are ramen too.

Now the objective is to stabilize sales, improve the products, find more revenue channels (working on a deal w/ a popular men's magazine), and get connected with big dev projects. The long looks good, but we've got a ways to go before it's serious revenue. We've bootstrapped the whole enchilada, and this is about the time when it would be nice to have $1-2m to work with and hire some full-time guys.

I'm still doing freelance work (usually 1 project at time) so I can maintain a comfortable lifestyle. The extra coin definitely gets put into the company from time to time too.
I guess I'll just have to wait another year to be amazed. :(
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Why is there a "feedback" box sitting on the left-most edge of the page, away from everything else, and on every page? I've seen this trend on several sites now, and I hate it. This anomalous object is always floating on the left, killing the symmetry of the site, no way to get rid of it. Maybe I'm just neurotic or something but I find it really distracting.

Can't you put the form down the bottom (or up the top, if you're really desperate), in line with everything else? It would look much more balanced IMO.
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That's the beauty - it's a grant, not an investment, so you won't be diluted. That said, multiple founders solve a lot of issues.
Someone should create wiki or something so when people find these they can post in topics.

For example:
Topics:
-Math
--Discrete Math
--Statistics
--Graph Theory
-CS
--Data Structures
--Algorithms

etc etc

That way when someone is interested they can go their find the topic, find the papers and read them. Otherwise you've gotta go to Stanford's, MIT's, Harvard's, Berkley etc etc just to find any of these open courses. Its mostly a hassle.
NVIDIA announces investment effort for GPU-based computing startups
Lightspeed runs an almost identical program with slightly higher dollar amounts: http://www.lightspeedvp.com/summergrants.aspx

Has anyone actually done one of these?
If superfetch explains that, than surely anyone with 4GB can replicate the performance within a factor of two or three. Can anybody with Vista replicate that? (I don't have Vista and have never used it, so I have no idea, though honestly, if Vista is superfetching 53 programs I'd be a little annoyed.)

Fragmentation test... well, it is a marketing video, after all. The real question is "why defragment an SSD at all?"
Now, as a software guy, can I stop hearing about how software "bloat" keeps absorbing all the hardware advances? If hard drives had been advancing, errr, at all, this would be considered normal performance.

And I daresay that in three or four years, this will indeed be considered "normal performance", if SSDs continue to develop.

All hail the SSDs! Maybe in a couple of years we actually will be able to feed our octo-cores some data to work on!
There are a couple of things I do to get away from stress. Remember you need to get away from stress, not problems. You need to solve problems, but get them out of your mind until they are needed.

1) Pick up a fun sport. Sport gets the endorphins going, gets your body working, makes you think better, feel more self-confident, etc. I take Karate for fun (hell I've been white belt for 6mo since I didnt take test) but it made me so much happier that I can't even compare myself now and 6 mo ago (don't go to the stuff like Tiger Sholmans, they are all crap, go to the cheap dojos, try a few out. Ask friends if they go.) Or play some soccer, football, basketball, just make sure to push your body just hard enough to get a good workout, definately past the "oh I'm out of breath I'm sitting this one out" play till you can't move the feet. :) Just know your limits.

2) Go out with friends, even if you are married, go do something completely useless with a friend.

3) Just sit down and clear your mind. Know that all the problems are always there until you solve them (or until you get help) but treat yourself to 5-10 minutes of complete ignorance and tranquility. Do this as often as you need it. If you need to do 30 min of work and 10 min of R&R do it! If your boss complains then tell him calmly that if he has a better way to get some stress relief you are all for it. As a human being he will understand anxiety.

4) Don't bottle it in. Talk to a spouse, a family member, a friend, a co-worker, anyone. Sometimes just letting it out can make you feel so much better. (had this happen recently, been dwelling on something for many many hrs, could not sleep, a 2 minute conversation with a co-worker just letting my feelings be known made me feel better, and in the end I just stressed over nothing. But it helped. Was not directed at the co-worker.)

5) I noticed crap food also adds to stress. Eat better. I drink water and juice (rarely), eat fruits vs candy, no fast-food like mcdonalds, burger king, subeway, anything like that, eat some cooked vegetables (for flavor). I noticed diet definitely helps. And it improves your health as a bonus.

6) STOP WORKING. You can't have your brain on full power 24/7. At some point it just crashes and if you keep pushing you will get bad results. Its why I can't drive for extended periods of time without rests, too much attention, too much brain power used, eventually I just start shutting down. Same with programming. I take breaks, read news, talk to co workers, get lots of work done, go home, see family. Do anything to shut your brain down for a small time. If you are working till 5am and you can quit (if you are good this economy means you have a chance to find a job) then quit. No crap job is worth your life.
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Most religious groups in USA have lost ground, survey finds
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It is less valuable imho. The public has a bit of a history with falling in love with the latest 'free' craze, then quickly abandoning it for the next flavor of the week. Look at the whole concept of 'social networking', first you had BBSs, then that went away in lieu of mainstream chatrooms, they then lost mainstream popularity to MySpace, and as we speak, MySpace is being overwhelmed by Facebook. Tomorrow, no one will care about Facebook for something new and shiny and Web 3.whatever.

When you spend money on something, most people invest more thought into it. You have to make an actual value judgement, rather than saying, well why wouldn't I have a Twitter account, everyone else does.

It's not your user base that is the product, it's what you do with your user base. One word, case in point, Yahoo.
Worlds' Wikipedia Search by ONE Solid State Drive
This is a Sedue's demonstration site for searching Worlds' Wikipedia by only ONE machine, using SSD (Solid State Drive).
I just realized. What you can do is write down a list of all the things you can't do anything about at the moment. Every day change the list to see if anything can be taken off.

Every time you stress out look at the list. If its there remind yourself that there is nothing you can currently do, so let it be. Whatever happens will happen, but since you can't change it don't kill yourself over it.
And it surprises some people that our economy is in the crapper?!?

"My business is worth billions even though I have no idea how to make it profitable."

I'm sorry, what did you say AIG and Chrysler? I couldn't hear you over the outflux of employees and stockholders.
I am in law school and as a law student I spend lots of time searching through past cases. My searching is done almost exclusively through Westlaw, the online database of Thompson West products.

They have many different types of searches, but the two applicable to this discussion are (as they are written on the site) both "terms & connectors" and "natural language." T&C works well using your standard OR/AND/etc. However, natural language works so much better even though you type in the exact same words.

The natural language search returns cases more on point and has one awesome feature: the most relevant text is in red type, set apart from the rest of the case. From the natural language search West is better able to determine what the legal researcher wants and shows it to him.

I spent almost 2 years of law school searching using terms and connectors because I thought the same thing as you do. But I recently converted when I realized West returns better results from their natural language search.
First question:
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
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So when is someone going to aggregate all of these into an easy to read and find wiki? As opposed to sitting in the back of someones head/bookmarks?
Depression? Recession? No, It's the Great Restructuring
Maybe a video?
god, maybe it is just me, but I really hate the term "We are a ruby/java/python SHOP". Sounds too much like a sweatshop. Plus any company/group that says we are insert language shop, means that they are either too big and not fun, or too narrow-minded (if they are a small team), to just anchor with one language.

Language is just an expression of what you want to do.
I have used python, java, lua, c, in my career, and often find that a certain language might be much better for certain tasks, and limiting/labeling a whole company to one language is just not attractive.
Not really. Diffle made about $60/month when we killed it, on costs of about $80/month. That's purely on AdSense revenue. Thing is, we could easily have downgraded to a $10/month shared webhost for Diffle, and it would've been profitable. The only reason we needed the dedicated webhost was so we could have a working, demoable version of GameClay (the next iteration, Flash game creation instead of just Flash game hosting) up all the time.

Similarly, FictionAlley pulled in several thousand in donations a year, but nowhere near enough to support its 200+ person staff had they not all been volunteers.

I still contend that being able to support founder living expenses is a much, much higher bar than just being able to support the operational costs of your product. It's not too hard to do $100/month or so in AdSense alone.
My mom takes piracetam like aspirin. She's 61 and still learning new stuff to keep up with the advancements in her professional field.
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>>>And in where they are, too. All that work on the application, marketing, SEO, etc etc and the thing that pushed me over the day-job line took me all of one Saturday to implement on a lark

Can you share details on what was it? Thanks.
I agree that Snipd's colors seem misplaced - the Basecamp site is vibrant and colorful, and colors are used well.

Snipd's homepage on the other hand is fairly bland, and where colors do deviate from the theme they are hardly justified. One particular sore spot is the atrocious green "no avatar" placeholder, which clashes terribly with the rest of the page.

If you are a user-content-sharing site IMHO you need to be more colorful than drab - you're trying to convey excitement and fun, not uptight and business-like.
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