skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that we all notice the problem immediately after clicking the send button.

The question is, would having an X second delay cause that moment of realization to shift to the point right after the delay has run out? I bet it would.
explain how. has deflation ever destroyed a country? no, not once in history. Inflation has destroyed MANY countries.
I've used Lua for video game scripting - it was pretty quick and easy to learn (I had a C/C++ background).

There is a relatively large community of help - I got a lot of tips from the list-servs.

Not hard at all to find coders with Lua experience - I assume most will have a video game coding background, but should be able to get something coded for you - post it on Odesk, rentacoder, et. al. and you'll have no problems
It is adjustable (from the main settings page after you enable it) but the only options for me are 0 and 5. Zero?

Anyway, they are probably going to introduce 10, according to this article:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10200370-2.html

...but Coleman also told me there's an option to increase the un-send time window to 10 seconds. "We may decide to add longer options," he said.
According to Google, George Bush Is...
> smoking is partially beneficial?

Yes, actually. Protective against Alzheimers and Parkinsons.

Inhaled tobacco smoke actually has MAO inhibitors in it, which is beneficial for certain people.
I've read it before, but this is too is worth a second look.
articles like this are written by people who are still ideologically stuck in the pre-2000 crash world. That wealth didn't go to someone. It is just gone because it was an illusion in the first place.
The fed pumped our system full of credit. Now we act surprised when bad credit starts getting washed out.

Every empire that has tried fiat currency has failed for this very reason. The people in power simply can't keep their sticky mitts off the printing press. It's just too tempting.
The only thing you could really assign as Apple costing you for a delay, is the amount of money you would have made on your app during the time before you ultimately got accepted.

Whether you spent $600k or a weekend building it has nothing to do with apple costing you a dime.
Then, it's simple. Reject the app. Say it violates TOS. Have a nice day.

I'm starting to think that the best way to do a big application is to start small and keep getting bigger. I haven't heard these horror stories of review problems once an application is launched. As it stands, I wouldn't attempt a large application on the system.
The old managers at my company have talked wistfully of the pre-Lotus Notes email system that allowed you to yank emails out of someone's inbox - if they had not yet clicked to read them yet.

I think that feature would be abused.
I didn't say a bullet loses energy to gravity. I said it affects the flight path.

And if you think beyond high school physics for a second, you will realize that gravity does take away energy away from the collision if the target is at a higher elevation than the gun. The potential energy is useless in that situation. All that matters is kinetic energy.
As you pointed out, nicotine is a stimulant; I doubt it's the nicotine that reduces stress. What's probably happening is that when a smoker lights up, their brain releases dopamine because they're finally getting what they're addicted to.

In the same manner, a cup of coffee can relax someone if they're a caffeine addict.
Haskell has memcached bindings; maybe GHC could memoize directly to memcached?
Before you go! What are you going to say at the networking event?

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2009/03/15-second-marketing...
Strattera is not a stimulant, it is an NRI, a class of drugs that are mostly anti depressants. In a statistical sense, it does not treat ADHD nearly as well as methylphenidate or amphetamine.
1. The application is question is shooting down missiles. Accuracy to a static target is moot.

2. 90% to impact? That is a useless statistic. At what range? What if the target is at a significantly higher elevation as in the case of a missile?
Treating a mental disorder/personality quirk that is fucking up your life will reduce your risk for substance abuse, not to mention loose women and rock and roll.

It also helps if the drug you're being treated with has a lot of the same effects, or is in fact the same substance, as the drugs you would otherwise abuse.
15-second-marketing (better elevator pitches)
I remember when this came out in the Post mag a couple years ago here. I still don't get why they had to take a nice light-hearted story and dig up all of that dirt about the guy's gambling problem...it seemed sensationalist and completely irrelevant.
I don't like standardized rankings for anything. I dislike the SAT as much as I dislike the GPA. As it happens, the SAT doesn't matter much at all for college applications as far as I'm aware. Other factors play a much more important part.
We've built a document editor that might be suitable for reading (and writing) textbooks. It allows the text to refer to figures and details within those figures (e.g. "In Fig. 3, roller 22 is mounted on support 24.") It's originally built to prepare patent applications (see teampatent.com and ask for a beta account) but has wide applicability in other fields. It's collaborative like Google Docs, runs on Amazon Web Services so it can scale, and is built exclusively with open source (with a Python backend) so we have flexibility on how to deploy it. I can't reach ozanonay at her website so contact me at rocky at teampatent dot com.
Why do you want to build a big internet site?
I smoked cigarettes, weed, and salvia in my mid/late teens, but now I only go for the occasional hookah.
I can't advise smoking everywhere. They sell their kits and parts for 3 times the price of other onine stores and the generic models that they re-brand are not even very good to begin with.

Ask yourself if you really think its reasonable to pay $150 for 2 x 3.7v batteries that connect to a hot wire and an LED because there really is nothing amazing or expensive about the technology that make these work though due to the newness of the product, Smoking Everywhere and other heavily marketed brands have been able to tempt consumers to part with big money at mall outlets and elsewhere.

The kits go for $10 - $15 wholesale from China and fierce competition online has sellers giving them away for as low as $35 sometimes or for an average price of around $50. There is also a far wider range of devices online as suppliers are having Chinese manufacturers create more advanced modifications to best compete. The best e-cig out there right now would you believe is one you can make on your own from a cheap flashlight!

I've become very taken with e-cigs and have quit tobacco effortlessly for almost a year now using them. The FDA though is very confused about them. They are stopping some imports but allowing others...some say it's do to with the packaging (don't market them as cessation devices!- nearly all the chinglish manuals do). Hong Kong recently outlawed them even for export so this has hindered supply in recent days. I set up a slinkset site to follow the news at http://www.e-cignews.com you can also find a list of all the stores there. I swear I add at least 1 new one a day.
Now my iPhone ringtone. Thanks! :) And enjoy the end tomorrow :)
I do very much. However I do believe I may be quitting now due to the major increase in price.
So the only way to stay quit is to adopt a rule: I will not smoke cigarettes because I am not allowed to smoke cigarettes.

I guess that's a lot like the concept of principles and paradigms that Covey advocates in his 7 habits of highly effective people.
One of the things I've struggled with is figuring out if I'm addicted to something ..

One way to judge is to look for withdrawal symptoms, but this requires changing my behavior to test ..

So the idea is that if something that stimulates most people, and used to stimulate me, now relaxes me, I've become dependent on it ..

Very intuitive
What I find deeply offensive about this article is that he doesn't acknowledge that many, maybe most people who fail at creating "real" companies, fail not because they set out to create "just startups" or because they incompetent or because they lack the secret source, but because they face serious competition.

A minor league play or second string player can look bad compared to the very top of the professional leagues. But they aren't really bad, just not as good. Lots of people who only get to startup level are great, just not great enough to get all the way to successful company level.

And, again like sports, the pressure-cooker, the competition, is what makes the ultimately successful companies so good.

This guy is like the most offensive kind of little-league coach, the one who says "I don't want to hear any excuses for you coming in second" - someone who doesn't credit effort, who doesn't see that not everyone can win and who doesn't see that game itself is worthwhile.
Maybe you should add an age range to this poll?

Are the smokers here 18 to 34 or 35 and older; majority wise?
Even though this article is practically common sense advice, we all need some slapping every now and then.
the first result for bill clinton that makes sense is...

"bill clinton is a pimp"

This is not Hacker News. Flagged.
I took an eighteen month detour from my own business to go work for another startup. I was broke from trying to get my company to break-even, and they were boomer-aged Microsoft millionaires who told great stories about their product and the funding that was right around the corner. That was in 2006, and they're still telling the same story today. The difference now is that they no longer have any employees, and the CEO is essentially living out of his car.

They obviously didn't eat Ramen (although it's possible they might now), and they weren't 60 days late on the power bill, but they were just as absorbed with the idea of the startup. For them it was about telling the story of their imminent success, and more importantly, getting other people to believe it.

You obviously have to believe in what you're doing, and of course the startup atmosphere can be incredibly thrilling, but the author's note that "we need more people wanting to build companies, not startups" rings particularly true for me. I don't think he's saying that every startup should plan to become a staid, monolithic corporate giant. I think he's saying that you should have a credible plan for organic growth. Even if your end goal is to get funded so you can get out, this will be a thousand times more likely if you can demonstrate multiple consecutive quarters of growth. Then even if you don't get funded, you've at least created a viable business.
If this was MS they would also add a feature that sends an email when you cancel one, saying something like "bonaldi tried to recall message x".

Exchange does that for non-MAPI clients, which always sends you racing to read whatever it was you weren't supposed to see. Great thinking.
Irrespective of observable physiological effects, any drug, or indeed anything that improves our quality of life is addictive. Addiction is part of the human condition and we're better off just accepting it and letting ourselves get hooked on things, subject to our own rationally chosen limits. Those choices should be based on the strength of the addiction and the benefits and risks of the addictive object. The chemical/psychological distinction is hardly important.
Is there really a huge faction in our community who isn't in business to make money? When I left my middle class desk jockey job to work for trailbehind.com the chance (however small) to create and own a valuable business was the main motivator.

I think that the author has a fundamental misconception about what a "badge of honor" is. Soldiers don't spend months or years in the trenches with the purpose of earning "badges of honor" they go into the trenches because they have to. The badges are awarded after the fact to recognize the accomplishment of putting everything on the line for some greater purpose.

While we are not soldiers, we do risk big chunks of our life because we believe in our products and businesses. We eat Ramen Noodles and scrimp by because the pursuit of our goals require us to, not because we like it.

I also think that the author has misconstrued the "badges of honor" concept. People get badges of honor as a reward for being in the trenches, they don't go down into the trenches with the main intent of earning a badge of honor. You are in the trenches because you have to be. While
By the way, is there a feature in Gmail such that it would remind me about an e-mail if it is not replied to? For example if I ask a client "should the icon be in cornflower blue?" I'd like to be reminded if they haven't replied to it in X hours.
I have used both namecheap and godaddy. I did not like godaddy at all. Namecheap is much better than godaddy.
They still prefilled in the "is " part into the textarea though.
I don't know the specifics, but there's no point in embracing an open standard if you just run hopscotch through the spec, picking and choosing what you'll implement.
Partly it's because when stuff's new, it's exciting. If we went back to a few years ago, I'm sure we'd see all that stuff and think it was boring, because then everything was fresh and new, even when it was fresh and new and bad.

All these things go through phases. Look at the world of movies, where there're often a few slow years and then a few bursting years. But the world of startups is much newer and much younger, and so we haven't gotten used to these cycles yet.
The question is really that if you buy stocks now, what is the discount rate necessary to make the current valuations reasonable, and how does that compare to what the boomer generation enjoyed? The theory of the article is that the children who are buying stocks right now are going to enjoy a superior rate of return at the expense of the retirees. I don't think that's true. Corporate profits expanded to an unusually high percentage of economic output in the past decade and a half, and I would expect that to go down. Even if you anticipate that the corporate profit fraction remains constant, and that earnings will be twice their current level in a couple of years, the stock market still would have a 14 P/E ratio, which is historically a bit high. Even at the current depressed valuations, I think that you have to be a pretty big optimist to expect big gains in the market over the next decade or so.
That comment totally struck me while reading the article. I thought, "Wow, what an awful and fake little world that must be."

God forbid you be "talked about!"
from what i am reading it seems you can either be 'free' or 'not-free'. in my opinion there is nothing wrong with free, it's doing 'free' for ever that I think brings about the contention. giving stuff away for free catalyzes a conversation with the consumer that you might not have had in the first place if you had charged. This falls in line with the article discussed in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=523616.

Given these numerous interactions with your free product - build a perfect product and know that it is exactly what people are looking for. Make that 'not-free'.
That's an awful mindset to have.

With all respect to TheSixtyOne, the minds in the world that are making the best music aren't putting their stuff into a social commune. They're aware of how talented they are, and as such they're looking for compensation for their ability.

In all of history, the vast majority of the best art has come to us commercially. There are always exceptions, and it tends to be that the free breeding grounds lead to the next generation's brilliant artists, but people do things for money. To quote a brilliant actor in a film by a gifted director, both of whom were paid substantially: "If you can do something well, never do it for free."
Lua is well-liked because it's runs very close to C and easy to embed against, it's Algol-like, it has no dependencies beyond C itself, and it performs decently. It isn't as widely used as Python or Ruby because being embedded means it has a tiny standard library, and correcting that would go against the strengths of the language. (There's code and libraries out there, but it's all fragmented)

That said, the community is out there, and pretty widespread.
I will use this quite often lol, I would like to configure it tho.
He does show his face on the "More Info" page, though.

http://www.thegreatzucchini.com/about.htm
So just write "tl;dr" and let us get on with it.
"Reading blogs: Sure, maybe for fun, but how does this directly contribute to getting two paying clients?"

Well, she could have gotten the advice from the blog.
This makes me feel old, but AOL used to do this way back in the day.
http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/06/quick-all-actions-s...
I was going this direction a month or two ago. I was in one of the (Windows) CS labs in school, and was annoyed at the monstrosity that is cmd.exe. I noticed that, because the school had a full dump of Cygwin installed on one of the network servers, I had Ruby available (up until that point, I'm guessing the executable had never even been run before.) So, I started writing a shell; I called it Plush (the logo was going to be a stuffed animal of some sort).

At first, I just wanted a self-contained, cross-platform ruby shell, that I could pop open from any computer without having to (or being able to) install anything (with rubyscript2exe in case there was no Ruby around.)

Then, I started adding all sorts of neat convenience methods. I sort of wanted to imitate Powershell, but then I started wanting even more. Basically, I was going to implement a version of Plan 9, but with an Object system instead of a filesystem. I wrote up a user story that went like this:

~$ self
=> #<Home @user=#<User ...>>
~$ x = "hello"
=> "hello"
~$ ls
=> x
~$ cd x
~/x$ ls
class -> /lib/String
methods/
~/x$ cd methods
~/x/methods$ ls
capitalize
chomp
downcase
[etc]
~/x/methods$ ./capitalize
=> "Hello"
~/x/methods$ cd capitalize; ls class
class -> /lib/Method
~/x/methods/capitalize$ cd !; ls
class -> /lib/String
methods/
~/x/methods/capitalize/!$ inspect # ./methods is first in /etc/path
=> "Hello"

It got even more complex from there, where entering an executor (a !/ directory) of a method with parameters would put you in a closure, that you had to then curry by putting new objects into each successive directory... I sort of gave up when I saw how obtuse the syntax was. It was sort of like LISP, but with paths instead of linked lists. :)
Ghc could memoize what to memcached?

Is there some context I'm missing? I feel like I'm coming in half-way through a conversation.
I'm a little confused about why SSD's aren't a massive performance boost. Regular HDD's are limited by mechanical interaction. SSD's have no such problem so why can't they read/write everything in parallel rather than sequentially?
Dreamhost is only good as a registrar if you have hosting. If you don't have hosting there and don't plan on it, don't touch them.

I registered a domain with them yesterday - but have separate hosting, so don't need to buy more of it from them. I'm unable to do anything beyond change DNS servers (no custom mx records, for example).

When I contact their support about something, it usually gets a prompt (within 10 minutes) response. But when it deals ith deleting domains, they take forever to respond. And they refuse to let you delete/cancel a domain. Even though ICANN's policy lets you do so for 5 days with the grace period. Since the ICANN still hasn't changed the policy AFAIK.
You could make it a limited resource. You could only do this say once a month per recipient.
I think 10 seconds would be the sweet spot. I mean, the moment of panic usually comes about 3 seconds after you hit send. leaving 2 seconds for the actual click.
Maybe, but it is open source and was developed with constant feedback from the developer community so that indicates something of a new direction on the part of MS.
This works for other things, too. If you're constantly evaluating whether breaking the rules is likely to pay off this time, you're probably going to break the rules too much, or spend too much time processing about it. Deciding on a set of morals you will not break (except in extremis) frees your time and energy to do things that will pay off, at very little opportunity cost. Further, if you communicate that you've done this, either explicitly by discussion or implicitly by refusing to do things "just this once" that are wrong according to the rules you chose, you'll lower the transaction costs of others interacting with you, and thereby people will trust you and interact with you more. This is called "rep", I think. :)
I like how careful he is with the tone he's writing. For instance, the story about the people across the hall; he doesn't let it blow up in your face, and he doesn't just let the air out of it either; he reels it in like a fisherman, letting a key detail out early, but still landing it with a climax.

Thanks for posting this. I had no idea about this guy, now I'm trying to track down everything he's written.
OK, I'm guilty of some hyperbole there. From what I can tell, Zed is perfectly
capable of being civil when he wants to be, very driven and a good engineer.
However he has an impulsive trollish side as well and it hasn't been laid to
rest despite claims that it has. So folk just need to ignore him when he's being
a dick and learned not to blindly upmod anything that comes from zedshaw.com.

Meh, I suspect one of the reasons I'm most riled up about this is that I'd have
also defended him a few months back. I doesn't seem like he needs it now though.
Wow are you ever missing the point of this story.
I find both what ardit and you have said interesting. While I was reading your post I expected you to come to the conclusion that tho only way to stop is to look at things broadly. Within the consequential morality a single cigarette isn't such a bad thing, but that is narrow perspective. So, the better reason is one that reminds you of your negative ideation of smoking, why you want to stop. The shortened life, the wheezing caugh and voice, the need for an air tank and medications for your heart, the cost of it all, including the cigarettes.

(I realize I'm best describing heavy smokers.)

...hmm, I think I'm addicted to HN.

ps: in the psycological sense that ardit hints at
Problogger: How Has the Economic Downturn Impacted My Blogging Earnings
It's not hard, but not something I need to waste my time on, I got far more important things to do. Therefore Dropbox soved an important problem for me and I'm more than happy to pay them.
one bit that's kind of funny is that with flash based memory you want data for any given application spread out over as many blocks as possible so you can take advantage of parallel access. In the future we may see a "fragment drive" maintenance option instead of "defragment". :)
The Effect of Music on Work Perfomance part. coding
You can read it like that, or you can read it as a story about a guy who could be leading a completely charmed life, except for the fact that the personality traits that give him instantaneous connections with 4 year olds also make it hard for him to lead a normal life --- the same way genetic mutations can make us more attractive and more susceptible to specific diseases, or the same way that David Foster Wallace's brain could ricochet through a thousand ideas in a couple pages, but also get so tangled up and hopeless that he was compelled to kill himself. As in, a story about how things that seem simple --- let's write an ebook, how to make $100,000 a year with a 2 hour work week! --- are actually really complex, because we're humans and not 300 word business model posts on Hacker News.

Is what I think you could think of it, is all.