skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard, damn hard. For a quite a while I was lucky enough to have a very boring, mundane, easy $DAYJOB where I could go in, slog through fixing a couple of bugs, and go home, retaining most of my creative, emotional, and intellectual energy for the startup. By my current $DAYJOB is a lot different... more challenging, but also more fun. But it really makes it hard to balance things.

I wish I could say I had some real solid advice for you, but all I can really do is share some anecdotes in the hope that you can glean something useful from that.

Basically, I try to compartmentalize my thinking as much as I can. During the day, at the 9-5, I mostly try not to let myself get drawn into thinking about "startup stuff", except during lunch. I treat lunch time as "startup time" and I often leave the office, go to a restaurant or coffee shop, and do startup work for an hour there. The delineation isn't perfect though, as I do keep a browser tab open all the time, with Gmail for my startup email address, and I do answer and send a few emails or whatever, throughout the day.

I might also, rarely, pop into the wiki for the startup and make a few notes about an idea that occurred to me, or a link I found or something.

Then, after work at the $DAYJOB, I immediately go back into "startup mode" most evenings. I leave the office, drive to a Barnes & Noble or something, sit in the cafe with my laptop and get back to work. Since I know I have "startup time" built into the evenings, it reduces some of the temptation to think startup stuff while I'm supposed to be working.

Now the fortunate thing is, my $DAYJOB employer knows about the startup, is an entrepreneur himself and is generally supportive. As long as I'm getting my work done and not letting things slip, he doesn't mind if I leave work early on occasion, or take a long lunch now and then, to have a meeting related to the startup, or whatever. I will also sometimes just flat out take a vacation day, to accommodate the need to do something for the startup.

I also allocate almost 100% of my weekend time to working on the startup. So the toughest day to stay focused can be Friday, since I'm mentally preparing to shift gears into startup mode for the weekend, and as Friday winds down, I might start drifting that way a bit. Luckily, Friday afternoons here are usually pretty relaxed.

The toughest part, really, is dealing with meetings during the day. Writing code, market research, writing, etc. I can do anytime. But meeting potential customers, investors, partners, etc., is a challenge since my daytime availability is somewhat limited. Basically I just try to schedule meetings for either A. over lunch (and just take a slightly long lunch), B. as early as possible in the morning (so that, at worst, I come in a little late), or B. as late in the evening as possible.

It's tough to balance both, but it can be done...
Are those available on Project Gutemberg? I saw some classic authors (A.E. Van Vogt, etc) which should be.
5% is with power save on.

MacOS X apps do not just use 5% for the hell of it. Vico, Sublime Text, Textmate, Emacs, Chocolat all use 0% when sitting there doing nothing.
Wow, from an evolutionary point of view that actually makes sense.
The reason why Lego makes sets that are branded is because other companies make good-enough lego-compatible blocks that are cheaper than legos. If lego stuck with the "generic sets only", they'd be history by now. Who would bother buying a pack of lego-branded red bricks when you could get the megablocks-branded one that is 90% as good for half the price?
Well, Go is a dynamic name, a verb, it evokes travel, motion, activity. Goo is a very static name evoking "slimy", "disgusting", and also, "useless for building things". I don't think Goo is a very name for a computer language.

Then again... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goo_%28programming_language%29 , although the homepage http://people.csail.mit.edu/jrb/goo/ suggests that that sort of thinking is not really in Goo's pedigree... even for 2003 that's not a pretty page.
Oops indeed!
They made a stupid mistake, they should not be allowed to get it back.
Works here and I got GA blocked in the router.
Hah, Microsoft positioning itself as having the moral high ground.

This is amusing in so many different ways.

How the world has turned upside down.
How does that even happen? My domains get renewed automatically.
> Most people now want something out of you

This is a common mistake, esp among the newly wealthy who are young: The last thing you want is for anyone to know that you are wealthy.

There are many ways to make sure people stay ignorant of your wealth. For the people (and dates) that don't know your wealth, then you sure as hell don't educate them by words or bling. For people that know you had an exit, they never saw the documents and don't know what your number was. And if they probe, then "the investors got most of it, and uncle sam took half of the rest. At least I made a profit."

And the truth is: Yes, having the money is nicer than not having it, but it really doesn't make your life worth living or give it meaning. That requires a great deal more effort.

Edit: I think Prawks should be top HN comment.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5182922
I always just assumed you split your time between writing and running a Volkswagen dealership in Southampton.

http://www.petercoopergroup.co.uk/
Is there a way to know what other Hacker News readers recommend?

I use Goodreads, but while I've found it pretty good as a source of new books to read, the ratings system ends up with everything coming within a few points of 4 (4.1, 3.9, 4.2).

I'm guilty of tagging books I read with either 4 or 5 usually, unless it's pretty bad.

Anyway, what I wanted to ask was if there was a way to know what a subgroup of readers thinks of a book.
Startups are here to save the world
Call to GitHubers: What do you think about...
We have released an invoicing tool for GitHub repos. Just add time spent to commit message and create time-based invoices.

Give it a try at <a href="http://timehub.me">timehub.me</a> and let us know if this would make your life simpler.

Thanks.
>custom fonts shouldn't be used for body copy?

No.

>Shouldn't technology be bending to our will? Not our will to technology?

It has nothing to do with technology, it is about user experience. Pushing a crappy font on me because you think it is pretty does two things. It makes you feel good about yourself, and makes it harder for me to read your site. This is the same narcissistic designer syndrome that gave use flash intros back in the day.
In what way does his mistake about Perl invalidate any of his other examples?
Show HN: Codejobs. Spam Free tech-industry job classifieds.
Apple is paying a dividend. I wouldn't worry too much about how much money they are sitting on. Having very large cash reserves allows them to buy companies that have technology they want to integrate into their products and keep it away from competitors. It has allowed them to pre-pay for production of products, manufacturing equipment and other tooling that ensures they meet market demand for new products while keeping that same tooling out of the hands of competitors etc. One of my clients hired fifty new employees in one month last year because Apple pre-paid for a supply of chips and the company needed to ramp up production. They couldn't have moved that fast without the infusion of cash.
Thank you for clearing that up, much appreciated.

I also noticed that most of the time the container tends to be used as a Service Locator indiscriminately around the code base, which tends to create more problems than it solves. On the other hand, I think it is a good refactoring step if your plan is to eventually move all the composition logic at the entry point of the application.

Coming from .NET, I tend to do the wiring as close as possible to the entry point as well, but I still use a container because it makes object lifecycle management much easier, and with convention over configuration it is trivial to associate interfaces to implementations: this not only reduces wiring up code for complex applications to a few lines, it also makes the rest of the application container-agnostic, which is quite cool.
Google Grants Program Faces Major Changes
OP, why bother replying to posts where the recruiter clearly didn't read your profile at all? It's a nice gesture, but the sender is creating work for you by being lazy and off target. An offline version might be responding to junk mail with a note about what you'd really like to buy.

Are you replying on the off chance the spammer is sitting on a cushy job order they haven't mentioned?
Why do you think he is "close" to squatting? He registered a 'nissan' company in 1991, and registered the domain in 1994.

Just because a 'big' company missed out - its not his fault.
This headline is wrong and very misleading. Even the source article headline breaks out the two items - "Greenlight's Einhorn sues Apple, seeks bigger payout"

They're related, but the actual point of the law suit is at the bottom of the article:

Greenlight said it is opposed to the proposal, No. 2 on Apple's proxy, which the firm said would remove the company's ability to issue preferred stock from its charter.

He isn't suing to force Apple to release cash. He's suing so that Apple doesn't change the rules that would make it harder to get preferred shares out to shareholders.

It's more correct to say that he's suing so that one avenue for divesting cash doesn't get removed from the table.
I'm glad you got some value out of my post!
Only the dorky neighbor kid whom everyone hated to play with thought megablocks were an acceptable substitute for Lego.
I'm not going to increase memory allocated to Linux from 2GB to 4GB+ to run MS Office, even if it's free.
Daily Email Alerts for Twitter App (Would love feedback)
My friend and I made a Google Alerts style of service specifically for Twitter so you can monitor content that's interesting to you when you can't read Twitter all the time.

If you care to try it, would love feedback.
VeriFone Fail - Taxi Ad system problems
AbiWord seems to fit the niche of a lightweight word processor. That said, the advanced features of LibreOffice don't really get in the way if you don't use them and you can simply ignore them, so there seems little reason to develop a simplified office suite just for the sake of it.
Nobody took the power from you, you gave it away. There was no defeat because there was no battle.

I've never had to endure any of those things because when they arose, I quit the job. And when they arose again in the next job, I quit employment, and contracted. And when (different) problems appeared with clients, I quit consulting forever and built a hugely revenue-positive product business where I am the reigning monarch and believe me, life is now very, very good.

Nobody can tell me what to do now except the govt and, outside taxes, they really don't give a crap.

If you want power, you have to make it for yourself -- build a business that generates money independent of clients or bosses. One to five big customers (bosses, clients) hold huge power over you -- a thousand small customers hold little power over you. You need to keep em happy, sure, but that's not so hard, because you get to pick your own customers, and you get to choose to keep them happy exactly how you want to. But if one of them's a jerk? Or five of them? Or 100? Tell them to fuck off.

The bottom line is that a person who wants to remain ignorant of the money-making side of business will never hold power. Employment is the opposite of freedom.

(PS — taking investment is just another kind of employment. A kind of debt, really, repaid with control instead of interest.)
Daytrader - A Financial Board Game
> He's not squatting on nissan.com per se, but in my opinion is fairly close to it

That doesn't make sense.

Sounds like you, and several other people, think that anyone who is under-utilising a domain is automatically "squatting." That the biggest user of a property is entitled to it...

He runs a business, the business is called "Nissan Computer(s)." That to me is the furthest thing from squatting...
Right. If you need to encrypt an entire repo I don't recommend using git-crypt - there are probably better ways. But for most cases where you'd use git-crypt the overhead isn't that much.
Nice project. Have you guys looked at ql.io?
pleasantly surprised with the selection. a couple kurt vonneguts, a bunch of philip k dicks, lots of jules verne, as well as h. g. wells.

awesome!
Nissan are a domain name oddity. They also own z.com but don’t point it at a web server.

$ whois z.com
Domain Name: Z.COM
Name Server: NVS001.NISSAN.NE.JP
Name Server: NVS002.NISSAN.NE.JP
Name Server: SJ000030.NISSAN.CO.JP
A company I used to work for had many clients (over 6000) and many would forget to re-register their domains. About one or two out of these clients a year would have the misfortune of a squatter swooping in and trying to extort them.

One client even had the misfortune of their domain redirected to a porn site when cash demands weren't met.
From how I see it they're suing Apple for not reducing investors risk: if they have a lot of money now why don't give away some of it a make investors feel less afraid of future losses, specially when there's the sensation that the Apple's iPhone business may have already peaked.
What was everyone's favorite 6502 book from back then? Please list yours. I see Rodnay Zaks and Leventhal mentioned by other commenters.

What was yours?
It must be hard to make the case that the domain was stolen, since they simply allowed it return to the market place where it was legally bought by somebody else.

In the UK a trademark is only valid for a nominated category, so two different companies can legitimately have the same trademark if used for different purposes, but I don't know how the rules works in France.
Ember.js and Accessibility
Just ship it already
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_... ?
Researchers develop sound way to improve smartphone battery life
Farewell, neighbors
On the C64 I had the monitor cartridge. Always great when you had to block move memory to add an instruction in the middle. Converting things to data statements was also fun.
I've been using this project for a while, and I basically live in my inbox, so it's been great.
Reminds me of the case over http://nissan.com/
If you don't agree with the financial management of a company, then don't invest in it.

Dividends are only one way to get value out of cash reserves in a company. I'd argue that if the company knows what the hell it's doing, handing away the fuel that helps it to execute on its strategy (cash) is the worst thing to do.
Having used both a bit (Haskell substantially, still fiddling with Go), there's no "might" about it. But then, "Go compiles quickly" was an explicit design goal from day one. "GHC compiles quickly" is certainly much further down on the list of GHC design goals.

Otherwise, Go & Haskell are very different languages. In the grand CLispScript landscape, Go is sort of close to Haskell because of the interface/typeclass similarity, but pushed apart by the fact that Go's strong type system has some serious weak points in it by Haskell standards, for instance, there's no equivalent to a TChan a -> TChan a function as there is no way to have a function that is ignorant of "a" but can pass it through as the same type. Go forces it to collapse to interface{}, which is roughly equivalent to Data.Dynamic in Haskell. (If you want to search for it, Go calls it's equivalent to Data.Dynamic.fromDyn a "type assertion". There's two ways to use it, one that is the rough equivalent of fromDyn in that it returns whether the conversion worked and maybe the converted value, and one mode in which it does the Data.Maybe.fromJust for you, complete with violent crashing behavior if you're wrong.)
My favorite part is how it will scale to the terminal size. First responsive design for terminal?
That's maybe going too far. Clearly this is a prank. The current owner has the right (abstractly -- honestly I have no idea how this works in French law) to express their opinion as parody, and Michelin shouldn't be able to use the trademark as a cudgel to suppress that.

That said, the proper remedy here is for them to buy back the domain name at a fair market price (whatever that may be, again I have no idea). The owner shouldn't be able to "ransom" the name for an unfair price, either.
It wasn't on this blacklist https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044 but then, that list is a few years old...
It isn't really "their" domain. They not only failed to renew it, but they also failed to contest it when it was in suspended status.

They have at least 14 days to save "their" domain and then it entered the general pool and became someone else's domain entirely.
Point taken, it's not only an emotional reaction; I get that context based ads aren't the same as someone reading my email. I was really just making light of what is an obvious contradiction in my values. We would be naive to think that all google is doing is spam filtering and context-based ads. They are also giving up personal info thousands of times a year at government request, etc.

The main thing is not owning my own data. Google owns my data and I am powerless, more or less, against them. When other companies own data I get all indignant about it; but rationalize it when it's Google.
Disconnected you are.
Labeling you do not know and pretending you know.
Still, belief is lagging behind and dismissed, baffled where you are.
How many had a Surface? I know lots of people who pan the Surface, but don't actually own one.
How Amazon Could Save the U.S. Postal Service
I was looking for it, I suppose in the wrong places.

To answer your question, I'd have to agree with what was already written by eric-hu, except to say that bad or inflammatory posts also create a lot of response (trolls, as it were). I know it's maybe tired or clunky, but I think a forum can have both entertaining and useful replies, and thus should have a voting mechanism to indicate which are which. Yes, interaction can play a role in how important they are, and to maybe help massage ranking, but I think people are happy with and familiar with a system of voting for content.

That said, a token "good post" should be able to stand for itself. I envision a system where the top posts (be they replies to other posts or posts in and of themselves) sit flat among each other, ranked by their usefulness or entertainment value.

I think a forum moderator's real value in this situation is not to mess with the community's decisiveness, but to resolve matters of content relevance (to keep a community focused).
Alright free squares implemented at www.1millionvalentines.com. We're looking at misc. non-profit partners as well. Thanks again. Go grab one :)
I posted an Ask HN thread some days ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5150829) to see if there was any interest in this project. The response was just overwhelming.

How Codejobs aims better than anything out there:

- The aim is to provide SPAM free job postings. I will include different tools to combat it.

- You can post job openings for free.

- You can post your availability for free. This is a big deal to us hackers because it means that we can have companies contact us.

- Freelancers can post their availability for free. Also a big deal, because this gets your name in front of industry people.

This is all free. As a way to give back to the community. It might evolve into a website of sorts in the future, but rest assured, this will not turn into just another jobs boards.

If you have any posting you want to publish for free, just send it in text format to codejobs.newsletter@gmail.com

The newsletter will come out in a weekly manner.

Happy job hunting!
Cheap Furniture Teardown
A million points is nice! It's like winning the lottery and giving it away is still free.
Chemical Looping Could Eliminate Coal Power Plant Pollution
I agree with you for the most part, but I don't think profiting requires a fool willing to overpay. If you bought Google stock at the IPO because you thought they would be a dominant player on the Internet, you will have made a 600% return if you sold today. That's not to say that the person buying today is overpaying for the stock - they just think that Google will continue to grow in the future.
Reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft
Not all of it is publicly funded. Perhaps very little of it.
That's the term VCs use. What would you suggest?
You could give these 2 config files a try sometime:

https://github.com/ewanleith/Wordpress-Server-Configuration-...
https://github.com/ewanleith/Wordpress-Server-Configuration-...

Basically they make nginx cache itself, which combined with this Wordpress plugin:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nginx-champuru/

Makes things very minimal, no need for even a dedicated cache :)
Possible avenues of escape are under consideration:

http://www.superhappiness.com

http://www.hedweb.com/hedab.htm

http://hplusmagazine.com/2009/09/16/genomic-bodhisattva/

http://www.paradise-engineering.com/heaven.htm
Genius.

Moral of the story: Auto renew FTW.
If I'm not mistaken, the prevailing precedent here is found in Lamparello v. Falwell (	420 F.3d 309 4th Cir. 2005 )

"On appeal in 2005, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed the earlier decisions, ruling that there was not a "likelihood of confusion" between Lamparello's and Falwell's official site; that there was no trademark infringement based on "initial interest confusion" for sites that were non-commercial and critical of the trademark holder; and since Lamparello's site was non-commercial, there was no "bad faith intent to profit" and it was not cybersquatting."[1]

Im not sure Michelin Guides has standing in this case, at least not under trademark law...

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamparello_v._Falwell
Reason #1: it runs on my platform.

Reason #2: open source, so lock-in is (in theory) a non-problem so long as there are people who find it useful.
This reminds me of a guy in a game, his nickname was "Penisland". Pen Island.
It is surprising how many ideas can flow from your day job into your own projects.

I've definitely noticed that. At work, we have a few hundred EC2 instances running at any given time, so we've had to deal with monitoring and scalability issues. Now that I'm working nights and weekends on my own project, I apply a lot of that expertise to a much smaller setup (5 instances in my case). When I get to the point where I need to scale up to hundreds of instances, it won't be foreign to me.
Downloads is a valid missing (or rather removed) feature, but as others have pointed out, this feature at core is not very different from rebase.
... and leave room for new entrants at the low-end. (This is why I think (someday) the Maker/3d-printer market will be trouble for LEGO (someday).
Ask HN: Any tips on good songs/playlists to listen while programming?
Something to make me more focused and immersed "into my computer screen" (does that make sense?).
I know music taste varies from person to person, but any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
The ISO standard is based on Ruby 1.8.7, by the way.

That said, 1.8.7 still has these issues. You absolutely _can_ parse Ruby, that doesn't mean it's not incredibly difficult.
Many domain registrars design their systems in such a way so that you either pay a higher price if you auto-renew (e.g. GoDaddy) or so that it is easy for auto-renew to switch off (e.g. CC expired) so they can charge you a "fee" to recover it once you realise it has been suspended.

Frankly it is in registrar's best interests to let your domain expire. You'll still pay them the renew fee either way, but additional fees loaded on top of that too.
Domain Internet Groper: Using dig to access DNS zone data