skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are quite a few. digitalundivided is a social enterprise dedicated to helping black women create and grow digital companies. Check them out here: (http://www.digitalundivided.com) held a conference last Oct. sponsored by Andreesen Horowitz, Oglivy, etc and had OVER 45 TECH ENABLED COMPANIES FOUNDED BY BLACK WOMEN. The keynote was Newark Mayor Cory Booker.

Many are developers as well. Here's a list of companies: http://www.digitalundivided.com/alumni-companies/
San Jose launches new free downtown outdoor wireless
It's really amazing how little attention the Google problem is getting so far. It seems like most people search, see some posts in the past few minutes and some in February, and totally miss the fact that there's nothing in-between!
I wonder if HN should permit duplicate URLs. Maybe with a message saying that the URL has already been posted and asking if you're sure you want to double post (I think that might be what Reddit does?).
Procrastination is waiting for the right moment to have the best impact.
It's a British thing... http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/pyjamas
Watch Minecraft develop over 800 days. It’s pretty
'They' craigslist, or SearchTempest? I can't do anything about the former, but I might be able to for the latter! :) (Our blog, certainly, could use an overhaul, but there's never a time when I would prefer to do that than work on the site itself!)
Can someone explain, in a way that assumes no prior knowledge of CalDAV, what the impact of this change will be?
Google helping to find the most commented videos on Xvideos
Because we all miss this feature
I wonder if this is limited to LAN side or WAN. WAN would be very worrying indeed.
Now sis. This is a Tony award nominated stage director serving up ninety minutes of missed cues, DOA humor, tortured narratives, miserable dialogue, and energy-sapping bloat.

But whether it was supposed to be delightfully exaggerated or genuinely awful is besides the point: this shit disrespects the customer, pollutes an already diffuse brand message, and draws attention away from the product.
There is definitely a cost but it's hard to calculate so it gets ignored. Certainly the rise of indie game developers has been aided in part by the continuing fuck-ups of AAA publishers, though.
Very awesome. Might be worth adding ecommhub.com in there somewhere - makes life a hell of a lot easier for a drop-shipper :)
Not necessarily related to this incident, but United really have become my least favorite airline in many ways. There's just something about dealing with them that constantly leaves me with this weird feeling, like nobody there knows what the f%!# is going on. When I've had flights delayed with other airlines, the process has at least felt organized, and while the delay was annoying, it never felt like a total clusterfuck. OTOH, with United, it seems like every time there is a delay, things get, well, weird. There will be 3 or 4 gate changes; airport monitors with information that doesn't match what is on my phone via their mobile app, neither of which matches the screen behind the gate agent stand; gate agents who seem totally clueless and so on. At times, when I fly United, I wonder if I'm ever actually going to get where I'm going at all.

American, Southwest and Delta all seem to do a much better job of organizing things, from what I can see. The only thing United really has going for them is Economy Plus seating, and American is adding a similar feature. Honestly, I try to avoid United these days.
KDE's Wonderful Usability
Haven't they been been posting pretty shitty quarterly statements for a few years now? They have a lot of money in the bank, so to speak, I'm sure, but it will catch up with them eventually.
So very true... Australia desperately needs a startup scene for stuff other than the resources industry.

Having said that - the LinkedIn article does not actually say much about what Startup Australia actually is. A google search brought me to this: http://www.startup-australia.org/ . The first thing that hit my eyes was a large advert asking if I want to date mature women.... seriously, get some class! Do you really need to fund this with cringeworthy advertising?

The rest of the site is underwhelming, maybe great startup some web design company could take a shot at making it look good.
Instead of rational, I would say valuable. Curing malaria can be more valuable than one's own baldness due to altruistic motives such as love, empathy, compassion. It can also be valuable for selfish motives. People do things like donate and volunteer all the time, so I don't think it's an unheard of concept.
From your tone, I'll assume you aren't a parent. The parent purchased a ticket with a specific itinerary plus paid extra for a chaperone. If my daughter was flying alone and my wife got this kind of call from her, you can rest assured that she would move heaven and hell to get things sorted out. From personal experience, never underestimate the power of a mother protecting her child.

PublikDemand aside, United failed big time. First by changing the itinerary (I've never had this happen to me) and second by not contacting the parents. Yes, the girl is fine, but that's really not the point.
Eh, that quote from a year ago isn't entirely clear on how they will look for a new job. I'm sure if the implications of the AI behavior were clear then, there would have been at least some raised eyebrows.
That's not the site. The industry action group was formed over the last two days at a design forum that consisted of entrepreneurs, startups, venture capitalists, educators and so forth.
Alex,

I think startup-australia.org is completely different entity from what Matt is talking about
...or you can install Cyanogen mod. And mod the crap out of it.
The roundup ready soybean is also just about out of patent. (I think it has another 6 months or so.)

They of course made a version 2 (and don't sell version 1 anymore, so it's hard to get). But doubt the version 2 is all that much better.
I couldn't agree with you more! Unaccompanied minors should come before everyone else on the flight - even first class. They certainly charge you enough for it.
Yes, some people may procrastinate due to fear of failure, but it seems clear that it's not universal. I know I'm not procrastinating on filing my taxes right now because I fear failure somehow. There's not much failure to be had, and I'm comfortable with the process and have a great accountant who helps me through it. I just don't feel like doing it right now, because the process itself is painful. I'd rather have silly conversations on the internet than dig through paperwork. It seems to simply be a matter of valuing immediate rewards more highly than distant ones. And this applies almost everywhere. The immediate reward of eating a donut can be far more prominent than the delayed reward of eating healthy. The immediate reward of spending money on dinner delivery outweighs the delayed reward of saving money. This seems to me a far more fundamental and interesting problem than fear of failure.
why would I search on Google, Bing or where ever and not just use the search on craigslist?
I would just like some feedback thanks!
If you find that, let us know. Many of us feel very much the same way (which is why I loved the old greader. new reader ain't as good, but still got the job done... sort of)
My understanding is that it's derived from 1970s database programmers "spamming the database" with dummy data. The original term comes from Monty Python's Spamalot skit, I believe.
Mallory's a guy?
I think the article "How to Beat Procrastination" on Less Wrong [1] is quite possibly the best thing written on the subject of procrastination on the web in terms of both writing and research quality. It's based on the temporal motivational theory of procrastination, which is so far the one that best explains the experimental data we've got.

Scroll down the page a bit to see "the procrastination equation". Even though I had been exposed to concepts from the temporal motivational theory before I found the equation quite striking the first time I saw it.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/3w3/how_to_beat_procrastination/
I remember when we used to just be able to append ?x to the url and it allowed duplicates.
Well, maybe you're not a procrastinator, but simply a lazy person? :) [just kidding]

1. I see it differently. I usually know/see some first approximation that could be easy to do (and fixed later when better solutions comes up), but I'm totally resisting to do what I perceive as inferior solution. My procrastination may be even about finding this better solution and the problem is that I am holding the progress at all just because I'm fiddling with getting something super right atm, which is rarely really needed (almost never). My performance is perceived by others as non-existent, because I'm paying attention to details that may not even really matter.

2. This one is the obvious one, but it's not the main procrastination problem. 10% at most. Well, until you're constantly working at night for instance (because of your procrastination) and you're becoming constantly tired through the day - then you're making being tired a sad routine. It's procrastination force feedback, but again, it's not the main reason for procrastination as I see it.

3. Starting doing real job is somewhat "scary", true, but it's often simply the effect of 1.

4. If you can postpone something, it's obviously not that important to you right now or you feel that there is enough time to do it a bit later (and you feel it will be a quick thing, which isn't always the case, many times also because of the perfection factor).

In the end, despite aiming for perfection, I often have to make cuts, go with worse (in my eyes) solution, because there is no time for "playing" and deadline is already behind me. This is the worst.
Amusingly enough it links to an old pg essay (2007) of the same title. pg's essay was written just before I started following HN, so I found it interesting. pg mentions how IBM faded from dominance of an earlier generation. That struck a nostalgia cord with me. Back in the late 80's Gartner or somesuch presented a trial presentation to my company on how IBM was going to double in sales in the next 5 years. I thought, no they arent. And it turned out IBM had hit their sales peak and went into a decline. Sic transit gloria.
The most common reasons are that you want to search multiple cities at the same time, or that you want to use advanced logical operators.

The nice thing about SearchTempest (in my obviously biased opinion) is that you can set a radius to only search nearby cities, rather than the shotgun approach of googling (or binging) everywhere.
Einstein's Design for a Fridge to Last 100 Years
> Google isn't quite there yet

Like hell they aren't: https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/pricing
Also worth reading on the same topic and written by the philosopher/logician John Perry: http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/
Huh, interesting. I'd never considered that.
Also, I think a major issue is that startup eco-system is very much geared to specific gender, class, and race, which causes a series of institutional barriers. The system is based on how much you raise, versus how much you actually make. Remember it wasn't until the last few years (2-3 years) that women led startups were even covered.

If you expand the definition of a "startup" to include tech-enabled companies, you will see a large number of companies backed by Black women, many of whom are making millions.

Some quick examples are Marve Frazier at Moguldom Media (Bossip, Madame Noire), Natasha behind YBF, and even myself.
Some of us have investment, including traditional VC firm/PE, like Heather Hiles of Pathbrite, Zuhairah Scott of Kahnoodle, and some of chose not to go that route.
OpenWRT is amazing.

TPLink routers are great for custom firmware, I use to run DD-WRT but now run OpenWRT.

OpenWRT takes a little longer to get setup but once you do it runs perfectly and doesn't require any changes (I've been running mine for over a year without a hitch, before that years with ddwrt).
The temporary site for the group can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/siliconbeachproject/

It includes access to the data used during the workshop
Oh. Thank goodness. But what is all this about then, is there anything available now beyond the Linkedin post?
There are a number of factors, but I think you answered your own question. I don't claim to speak for the company officially, but as I understand it personally our target market are the 'real' stores you mention who don't have a problem with $15/month.

I'm curious though, how high a transaction fee would you pay if you were on a free plan? Most merchants HATE percentage fees and want them gone completely. With that in mind we do our best to minimize them.

Maybe TicTail will be a huge success. My point is that even though they have 10,000 customers we should hold our judgement until they get their business model up and running properly. When the dust settles, we'll have a better idea of how they're doing.
I used to have this problem so bad when I was studying.

I'd just put off everything until the last minute, but I used to get a rush from staying up all night reading a topic for an exam or doing some programming assignment. There was a sort of heroic feeling of "They assigned 3 weeks for this, but it only took me 10 hours".

Of course when I got results back and found that I hadn't done especially well it was easy to rationalize, "well if I'd done it properly after some sleep I'd have got full marks of course".

But yes, nothing feels crappier than doing your best at something and failing.
Can someone explain to me why no one is doing a direct, pixel for pixel clone of Google Reader? I mean, the thing is popular enough that any startup would die for its traffic. Not to mention its users absolutely love it. As Paul Bucheit said, it's better to have a small number of users who love your product than a large number that like it. And well, Greader has a large number of users who love it. So why not do a blatant clone as a f* you to Google for nuking a product that its users are absolutely devoted to.
Agreed. I'm thinking of paying for Fever just so I can get an reader but haven't heard of many people using it before.
No, it's not a fear of incompetence. It's seriously just a problem of working out what exactly I want to do.

Good case in point from this week: "Write a book chapter on d3 layouts".

Now that's a very vague task and it takes some thinking to even get started on it. You have to even decide what the first step towards a solution is and once you do have it, you then have to do the creative part of figuring out how to write about it.

Creative tasks in particular do not resolve themselves with a focused step-by-step approach, you must solve them by procrastinating (ie. slowly thinking about them freely).
https://sites.google.com/site/siliconbeachproject/

More is on the way
I seriously just bookmarked this for reading later because I need to take a shower before I go to a party (it's 7:45 PM, I've been procrastinating the shower all day long).
Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks
I wonder if it was simply that they had more money back then.
Considering that craigslist is hostile to basically everyone who tries to use anything on their site for anything (fair use or not), I'm not sure I have any problem with Google simply ditching them.
You're correct, but in a "true" market the Federal Reserve wouldn't devaluate currency held/saved by the public, thus allowing the markets to better represent the productive agents of the economy (hint: all the people who go to work everyday). The skew isn't due to capitalism, but the crony nature of finance and banking. One biased opinion.
> * Is this story “newsworthy” or am I being asked to publish a press release?

> * Do I have an “angle” from which to write the story (first company to do X, company does biggest X, consumer behavior is doing X)?

> * If I’m covering a company can I get evidence of what the competition is doing so the story is balanced?

> * Do I have data or facts to present so the story has legs?

> * Can I get sources to talk on-the-record or off-the-record to lend credibility to the topic?

> * Will I have information that other journalists don’t have (otherwise known as a “scoop”)?

I think TechCrunch should apply this bullet-point list to themselves when deciding whether or not to post an article. I think we'd see their output diminish considerably.
Wow. I used to be like you. I probably still am. Only that I don't have the luxury of living in Europe.

I can only offer one piece of really generic advice, because that generic advice actually worked out for me: Go out and network! User groups, meetups, forums, whatever. Just put yourself out there, online and offline, and try and score that first project.
Because those services are 3-10 orders of magnitude larger than a startup running open-IFTTT as a service? Because they already have critical business operations interacting with these large(r) services?

(Just two reasons I could imagine. But I get your point... especially with my recent sadness over Google Reader.)
US Air is like this as well. Always in a state of chaos. They are infamous for losing bags. I live in a US Air hub city and still avoid them at all costs.
hai Google employee!
I've seen a lot of suggestions for replacements (either already out there or just an idea) since yesterday which want to blend social networks with RSS and personally it seems like a terrible idea[1]. I can't be alone in just wanting a news feed and not some mashup of the news and what's being talked about.

[1] - I realise the irony in complaining about not wanting social news yet still following personal blogs, but they're a known quantity. If I want socially filtered news I'll go browse Reddit.
OpenWrt is much better IMHO because of the package management. ddwrt fails short in term of stability.
Meh.

Layer on top of this what we already know about the close relationship between mobile providers and the government, and it’s a safe bet that if the government wants to know where you and what you’re up to right now, they know.

IOW the headline is just linkbait; the government can stalk you more easily than ever before, but in the text of the article comes the admission that it's not necessarily bothering to do so. Before people throw up slippery-slope arguments and claim these things only go one way, please take a moment and ask yourself how much freedom you realistically enjoy now vs. in previous periods like the Red Scare of the 1950s when the US was in the grip of anti-Communist paranoia. I suggest that we enjoy a great deal more.

The stated goal [OEV] of this technology is to support, “classified blogging activities on foreign-language websites to enable Centcom to counter violent extremist and enemy propaganda outside the US." But Isaac R. Porche, a researcher at the RAND corporation, claims it would not be easy to exclude US audiences when dealing with internet communications.

You could make the exact same argument about Voice of America. A few countries like North Korea still make it illegal to possess radios capable to tuning into to broadcasts from frequencies other than the official propaganda channels. The US has leveraged broadcast and print media to promote its own interests for about as long as those technologies have been around, as do most other governments. I've watched quite a few North Korean propaganda videos on YouTube and somehow I've managed to avoid joining the Kim family personality cult. There's no reason to think that encountering some US government propaganda by accident is going to short-circuit the brains of Americans and turn them in mindless drones - we already have 24 hour sports and shopping and soap opera channels to take care of that.

I'm distinctly underwhelmed.
I firmly believe this: Often the source of procastination is just plain trying too hard. Or it's attempting to try too hard and the mere thought of it becomes a crushing burden better alleviate by doing nothing (or so your mind says). Unrealistic or overly demanding expectations, as inflicted on the author, only exasperate the issue.

Laziness is a bit complicated since it's always relative.

Relative to what? What you do normally and have been for a while (in which case, it's usually the laziness we all know) or the mountain that's manifested in front of you? The latter is important as discouragement is also a prime mover for procastination. The mountain may or may not be self-inflicted, but if it exists, your normal coping strategies don't always work.

I have a procastination problem as well, but for different reasons (usually OCD).
From the blog post: "Almost every Sunday night I mourn another blown opportunity to catch up"

The author may also want to consider removing the notion of "caught up" from his vocabulary. Although it's not covered in the Now Habit, it's discussed in other respected books on procrastination and time management.

I used to beat myself up a lot with the idea that there was a (poorly defined) state of having gotten "caught up" on life tasks like those the author describes at which point all would be well.

The problem is that it doesn't really exist - there's always more to do than you can actually do - and denying that fact keeps you from living in the present. There are simply activities you choose to do and activities you choose not to do - that's it.

While it may sound absurdly simplistic, this one change in thinking had a huge impact on both my personal productivity and happiness.

FWIW, YMMV, etc.
Malaysian here. I would say 80% of my peers (25-30 year olds) still live with their parents. Although that's more a result of our grossly inflated property prices than anything else. It's not really looked down upon.
That's besides the point. FTTH is overkill and is absolutely not a requirement to build a technology industry.

How is fibre going to a small town like Burnie in the middle of Tasmania going to encourage the creation of technology startups when its users are going to be technologically uneducated in the first place? What will most likely happen is all that bandwidth (paid by taxpayers) will most likely be used for Torrenting music, warez, movies and porn.

As a pragmatist, the NBN rollout should have been targeted firstly for areas of high concentration of startup activity. That way, users most likely to benefit and create wealth from the increase of bandwidth will have first dibs that will eventually trickle down to the rest of the system. Unfortunately, for most short-sighted politicians, the main agenda of the NBN is to buy votes from rural and marginal electorates.
Only highschoolers would consider 315 words to be an 'essay' ;P
Or procrastination.
I hope they are, but there is no information on who is going to be whitelisted.
You didn't say what operating system you are using. When I 'got into' emacs it was with the OS X-ish version, Aquamacs.

Which _is_ emacs, but with Mac friendly bits. At first I used it simply as a replacement for Textmate, then later got into things like TRAMP, and org-mode.

I didn't need a guide or a how-to. Every so often I would wonder 'I wonder if Emacs can do this, or that', google it, and learn that it could.
Why is Google not indexing craigslist?