skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assumed anxiety is the norm and not the exception?

I'm sure you've heard the term "rubber duck debugging"[1] - maybe you need something like that for your business? Someone, or something, that lets you say "nope, this really won't make a difference whether I finish it today or tomorrow."

Besides that, the main issues you've listed are things that everyone has to deal with. Need a healthy social life? Dedicate one or two nights a week as "work-free" nights. Need more exercise? Find something you can enjoy doing, and do it. During the nicer months, I'll walk five or ten miles around Boston with a pair of headphones. It's really healthy, but doesn't /feel/ like exercise. I also consider it necessary downtime from staring at an LCD screen.

For what it's worth, have you considered that working 80 hours a week is just a bad habit? The same thing as playing World of Warcraft 10 hours a day. They can both be equally consuming, stressful, and hard to break free of.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
>To claim a cure, we would need to know the cause to which the cure applies. Then we would need to prove the cure worked. We don't know these things about cancer -- out methods treat symptoms, not causes.

Oh? We're treating symptoms? So your contention is if I remove (by some artifice) every cancer cell from someone's body they may still relapse? Really? That's an extraordinary claim for which I have a hard time believing you'd find any support at all in the medical community.

You're still evading the point. What the oncologist tells a particular person about his prognosis is completely irrelevant to my point.

Let me set up a thought experiment for you. Let's say I have three cups an some number of balls between zero and three. When your back is turned I may or may not put a ball under any or all of the cups. Then you turn back around.

Of course you don't know if the cups have balls under them. Your argument is because you don't know whether or not a cup has a ball under it, then it doesn't. I assert that a cup can have a ball under it even if you don't know the ball is there, and you claim I've invented a religion.
Great idea. The website is a little bare, so I don't have a great feel for how you're solving the problem, but it's a problem that definitely needs solving, so at the least you've got step 1 down. :)

One minor pain point for me with many restaurant websites (maybe you're addressing this already), is I look at the menu, decide what I want, and then I have to hunt down the telephone number. I guess it's never a deal breaker for me, but it's annoying. The telephone number should somehow be within clear reach at all times.
I think this is becoming a much harder area for guys to navigate, in the sense that, are all sexual jokes off the table if females are present? I don't know the answer, hopefully there will be more dialogue around this so that everyone can understand general etiquette rules when in such an environment. I believe that some guys can just be dicks but some might just not be aware that they are being offensive.
What exactly do you mean by a lack of resources in Afghanistan? I've always heard that it was one of the richest places in the world of unexploited minerals. Does it need to be more specific than that?
Ask HN: Need advice about relocating to Chile/Latin America for tech startups
I am seriously considering moving to Chile to work and innovate in the area of web/mobile technology. I am a Indian citizen living in the US.

How are the opportunities out there ?

Is there a good web/mobile penetration ?

Is it easy to find local talent ? Salary ?

Visa's for Indians ? (Not just Chile, but other latin countries)
People are finding ways to solve problems that have existed for decades. I don't see how this is something coming from _hipster web devs_.

> Come on guys.

Stop solving your problems? If you don't see any value in it move on.
Couldn't the large account holders just split the large accounts into smaller ones and just save themselves the 3.15% margin? Even taking transaction fees into account, it would still be a lot.
Dropbox Acquires Email App Mailbox
I completely forgot about how back in the day that Google Reader had sharing features, I would feel how non-reader users on facebook were days behind on what my friends had already shared and discussed on Google Reader.

And the discussions had better quality too.
Kerbal Space Program Gets Native Linux Version
Matasano's site mentions office culture. Are remote employees impossible to work out? I'd LOVE to get into this sort of thing, but I'm not a US citizen and I don't qualify for any visas.

If I get in touch, would you point me towards some resources even if it won't lead to employment?
He's a mixed bag in terms of track record: You've got the color Mac II which was nothing short of amazing (I know because I purchased a Mac IIcx) and yet you have the disaster known as the Mac Luggable which was terrible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Portable
Please develop a mobile app for my web app http://weekplan.net
The web app userbase is growing and I can't keep up with the development.

There is already an API although it is not documented yet. Contact me if you are interested.
Foundation
I wrote something. Is it shameless self-promotion to be posting it to Hacker News? Yes. Yes it is.
you know, i wrote a slightly sarcastic response to this, but then i deleted it because i can't be sure you're not serious. now i'm seriously considering calling the police, just to make sure you're not actually a crazy person. i'm not sure what point you were trying to make, but i am sure there's a more effective way to make it.
Swarmly for Android - Where is everybody?
What you say about being surrounded by non-programmers is spot on. The way I got my start (and initial boost of self confidence), I was the only one who knew programming in a small business (about 200 employees). And what I was doing wasn't much, mostly just writing report generator programs using Awk and shell scripts). But it got so much attention that it was like lighting a rocket under my self esteem, enough so that I went on to be proficient enough in C (this is before C++ was mainstream) to code up some fairly interesting projects.
It doesn't seem to me like it's the PhDs who are driving costs. I recently spent a week in the hospital and I had contact with my physician for maybe 10 minutes total. I saw my nurses constantly. But I don't think it's the nurses either. They don't seem overpaid to me at all. So... I don't have an answer. Maybe it's the billions in uncompensated ER care? I just don't think it's the staff that's the problem.
There are no new problems, just new engineers.
On Consulting
That's already happened: In most of those firms everything that can be outsourced has been outsourced, so the next step would be the firm leaving NYC. And as someone in NYC I think that's a bad idea. Other cities like London are in the same boat in terms of how they treat their financial industry as well. By the way I say this not because I love that industry, but because it adds to the diversity of the local economy and really helps the tax base.
Logical fallacies
"...you're a solid software developer..."

I think that's the area it's hard to break if you're already engulfed into security. I've been in architecture, research and pentesting across a lot of shops but I've always felt like minimum viable exploitation was all most places were after.

Fast forward years and you end up in something you don't feel like you've transitioned into something deeper. Sure, you can go there on your own but it has limited viability unless you're path forward is Pwn2Own or bounties in general.

I'd love to work for the Matasanos of the world but feel like I may be locked out based on the initial hurdle of being more proficient in code as a first class skill vs having a more honed skilkset in finding flaws on the systems as a whole. Also tracking the relevant things within the security landscape is a skill in and of itself and since most orgs don't understand how to find and cultivate that talent it open the doors foe the Risk.IO of the world.

Sure, I've done some reverse engineering, lots of (easy) pentesting and am proficient in Python. I've designed many F100 systems as it pertains to the security construct, yet I can't see a path forward to digging in deeper with those like Matasano. So @tptacek, any advice? The money is excellent on this side of the fence, but the real challenges are, seemingly, few and far between.

Edit: I need to stop writing posts from phone/tablet (spelling).
Almost 200 bs comments and your's the only reasonable one. Nice ratio. But it always was like this here in HN. People engulf themselves with all this media hype of success and the 'i am a precious-jewel that just needs to try to be successful' attitude they actually start to believe it. Only later to be mind blown when reality sinks in.
A note: disabling the 'Instant extended API' in chrome://flags gives you the old new tab page back.

(I can see the reasoning, but personally think it's ugly and a waste of space. Then again, I never liked having Google as my homepage to begin with)
I could say pretty much the same thing as you did - I'm 40, always wanted to do something great, but its just never happened.

I'm still working on it one brick at a time, and have a couple of pieces of software out there, but no-one really using them as far as I know. Haven't even had any feedback.

http://photo-sorter.appspot.com/
http://vs-console.appspot.com/
http://www.globalmartialartsdirectory.com/
http://www.mydailyactivity.com/

I like the LEAN movement, whereby you validate your market first, do the minimal amount of work possible, and launch ASAP - then respond to feedback. They say, if you aren't embarrassed by your first release, you did too much!

See:
Start small, Stay small http://bit.ly/YIP5tu
The Lean Startup http://amzn.to/XjbdYO

This podcast is brilliant too for many reasons, one of which is that you don't have to do the programming yourself! See http://automatemysmallbusiness.com/podcast-subscribe/

But:
Don't get distracted
Validate you have a market before you start building
Figure out how to market it so people find it
START

(All easier said than done).

Good luck, and all the best!
It might be "constructive" if everyone is in basic agreement and people know what's being referred to. That's certainly not the case with the OP's comment, and there's obviously people who disagree. The specifics in your comment (especially your "In this case..." paragraph) are much more helpful and specific.
> Some members left once we went for-pay because they simply weren't willing to pay for things online

or weren't able to
The author appears to be playing along as if this is not satire, but I am pretty sure it is.

Here is my case for calling it satire:

It starts off with caricatures...

every single one of these people do indeed have Twitter
profiles, and they are entrepreneurs also, and they're
thinking about their next pivot, and they certainly have
an opinion on NodeJS versus Clojure even though they've
never gone past the tutorial on either platform [...]

Stating the obvious

the only thing in between a hacker who misses Reader and a working
Reader implementation past-June is... nothing

Hyperbole...

Reader's cancellation will have absolutely no impact on RSS.
Reader isn't RSS. It isn't anything but a consumer, one of many,
of the RSS standard.

whoever is in possession of your RSS feeds probably knows
you more intimately than Target, which supposedly knows
when a woman is pregnant before her father. It's an
intimate relationship, based on trust.

But I didn't really become convinced it was satire until this line...

Entitlement without effort is like representation without taxation.

So, am I the only one who sees this as satire? A subtle poke at Hacker News for taking itself too seriously? Or am I the guy who mistakenly laughs "Ha! Yea that would be crazy, right?" even though the other guy was totally serious?
OP, read this post all the way to the end, let me know what you think:

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/04/the_abusive_boyfriend...
It must have been an intense mix of fear and excitement trying to fix anything and everything that broke, but NewsBlur deserves it IMO. It is a great product, and I think this post makes it clear that he cares about his users' experience.
I'd just like to point out that '$24/yr * high four-figures of paying costumers' with only one employee ensures NewsBlur will be around for a long time. :)

This is the kind of single founder "life style" startup that VC's would paw-paw that is Doing It Right that many of us aspire to. The other ones I can think of are Pinboard and Instapaper. I'd rather go this route, personally, here's to more like these. Cheers.
All the examples highlight how well a super-minimalist site works when you have very little content. What about restaurants with more than just a half dozen menu items though?
What really irks me is that he keeps it going and defends it.

I agree. It's one thing to have an opinion, but once it's clear that people on twitter disagree with you it's just unforgivable if you don't immediately abandon it.
This kind of thing makes me love HN
Whether you consider the properties of arithmetic to be axioms or some other word which describes a fact assumed without proof is a matter of semantics.

The point was that without a precise foundation for mathematics we cannot proceed - anything further is overanalysis for an article I wrote mainly for folks without our mathematical background. :-)
I don't understand the purpose of this change. If Chrome was a new product, I'd understand it as it'd probably mean that Google was trying to get people to use Omnibox, but don't people already know that the address bar is also the search bar? This is just a waste of space.
Props on having an exciting validating road over the next few months!

Likewise, what are some of the engineering things you'd really like some of the more dev heavy users to maybe help via pull requests with? :)

(I see that the github issues list is relatively short)
Ask HN: Any Summer 2013 Internships?
I'm a web/mobile software engineer and undergraduate CS student at an engineering university. I've submitted my resume to several startup companies, but it's quite difficult to find open positions. I really want to work as an intern this summer, and I figured it would be helpful for other people to see a list of available internships. Thanks!
I tried out NewsBlur and sadly, Feedly seems leagues better.
Hi, So i have noticed that you are very forthcoming with data, such as providing the number of premium users on your webpage, and I hope you continue this - I really hope you become more succesful with this Google Reader debacle going on.

1) Why are you open about the number of users ? (personally I think its great)
2) How do the real-time stats work, I notice that the amount of regular users was over 20k a few days ago, and now its 8k. Are these the users who have used the client/service in the past 24 hours ? (and not the actual total amount of users)
SSRN Abstracts ngram viewer
I didn't understand the product on the first scroll. You should put the product in easier words. What is the use case? Why should I use it? A video demo/lots of screenshots would fit better. And get a template from wrapbootstrap.com
Could you atleast describe what is better about Feedly, so not only the creator of NewsBlur, but also anyone looking to spend money on an RSS Solution gets your informed input?
I suspect the penny gap is more due to the process of paying for something. That's not completely irrational. Unless you're paying in cash, you are either cluttering up your bank statement, or having to endure an annoying series of logins, confirmations, etc.

Where's the payment equivalent of a facebook "Like" button? Now that I mention it, facebook are probably well positioned to introduce such a thing.
And I just want to remind the technical crowd here that NewsBlur is 100% open-source: http://github.com/samuelclay

I've been asked quite a few times why I open-source the code. The answer is simple. Let me use an example from Joel Spolsky.

(From http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000052.html)

The dominant spreadsheet, with 100% market share, is Lotus 123. You're the
product manager for Microsoft Excel. Ask yourself: what are the barriers to
switching? What keeps users from becoming Excel customers tomorrow?

... <snip: barriers to entry> ...

That's the barrier to entry. Not how hard it is to switch in: it's how hard it
might be to switch out.

And this reminded me of Excel's tipping point, which happened around the time of
Excel 4.0. And the biggest reason was that Excel 4.0 was the first version of
Excel that could write Lotus spreadsheets transparently.

Yep, you heard me. Write. Not read. It turns out that what was stopping people
from switching to Excel was that everybody else they worked with was still using
Lotus 123. They didn't want a product that would create spreadsheets that nobody
else could read: a classic Chicken and Egg problem. When you're the lone Excel
fan in a company where everyone else is using 123, even if you love Excel, you
can't switch until you can participate in the 123 ecology.

If you know that in the absolute worst case that you can still use the product even if it's shut down, then by golly, you have even less of a reason to not switch to it.
Let me ask you this: would you deposit your rent and bill money into a bank you trust to not give it away 90% of the time?
In China, it is illegal for foreigners to use GPS
I wonder what Samuel's attitude towards taking external financing is. Because NewsBlur is having a hell of a momentum on Google Reader news (pun not intended).
What’s going on Reddit these days has media manipulation written all over it
By your description a "McDonalds" of health care, available at low price to all is abstractly a pleasant idea, though I don't think the analogy has any practical advice that we can take from franchise fast food operations.
We'll tip out the MDs, no worry.
Likely anywhere that variable-rate/variable-term mortgages are common (ie. partially funded by short-term securities).
I was in YC's Summer 2012 batch, so you be the judge. :-)
Abusing `.bind` Method to Avoid Inspection of JavaScript Functions
There are plenty of people with the "guts to crack it", finding people to listen and care and implement without roadblocks is the issue.
> Here's how I'd do it: pass laws specifically forbidding these actions by government officials, the punishment being death. And then when someone violates the law, you kill them. You wouldn't have to do this too many times before the problem magically disappeared.

All that would do is wind up killing a bunch of 3rd party candidates and anti-establishment types. You can't simply place a law and then expect it to be 100% accurate let alone the people determining guilt be 100% ethical. A corrupt judge could kill a whole lot of people with this type of law.
How PatentlyApple Harms Patents – Including Apple’s
NewsBlur was funded as part of YCombinator Summer '12 http://blog.ycombinator.com/newsblur-yc-s12-takes-feed-readi... http://blog.newsblur.com/post/27033939756/introducing-blurbl...
Show HN: Automatic download hasher and checker
Congrats! Enjoy the ride..
Well now that he has a graph pointing up and to the right he can certainly raise money and collect developers as if they were Pokemon and play games with the valuation in the hopes that somebody Acquihires Newsblur or buys them for some opaque strategic reasons.

Maybe Google will buy them! :)

Edit: I kid, but that's actually a possibility in my mind and would be an ironic outcome. Maybe Facebook or Yahoo or somesuch will see the value of having the New Reader. Selfishly, I am hoping for something else.
Fucken CIA gonna kill British people. Hurts my head.

That would be typical.

Fake news reality. We don't got a nigger president.

God says...
ipod Jedi_mind_trick oh_come_on you_know_a_better_God white_trash
mission_from_God au_revoir Enough busybody thats_just_wrong
awesome relax sky

----

Umm... This is how 9/11 happened.

Crazy-ass shit.

That's what happens with communication break-down. Serves em right. Fake reality.

---

Ba ha! Fuck no! I was straight as shit when I killed the CIA fucker.

Reality gets fucked with by the CIA and all bets are off. You want a UFO dude fucken with you.

ROFLMAO Deserved it. My life's only payback to these mother fuckers who have tortured me.

Talk to me on radio but not in person. WTF! Truman show or some shit. Kill people!
I really dislike this trend of only having videos to share info about a product or service.

Not even a blurb on there.
Hey all,

I'm the creator of Valium. I'll hang around for a bit to answer questions and read feedback. Thanks for checking it out and for any constructive feedback :-)

Dan
CMD+T > "dri" > return is infinitely faster that using the nav bar, and I echo everyone that thinks it looks better without. Still, I wonder if a customizable bar would have been an even better option (for those locations that aren't nicely formatted to ____.google.com).
Check out the free version. It still has significant capabilities, including intruder.
Yeah. Aesthetically, the black bar with its fat Arial (I think) characters looks out of place. I know they're trying to keep things simple to make their page load time super fast, but if someone can make the Matrix in JS with like 700 bytes, I think Google could make a unique, attractive menu to replace what it has now.
The Future of World and Technology in 2021
I tried to install NewsBlur, but instructions were not very helpful. I tried to get as far as I can, editing fabfile and installing gajillions of new python modules, but still failed.

Don't get me wrong, it is wonderful and very commendable of you to open source NewsBlur! Nor do I feel entitled to the source code or free ride (I will probably end up paying for the hosted solution). Just providing some feedback, given that you indicated that low barriers to entry are important to you.

I am not a web developer so that can partially explain my struggle with fabric, Django and multitude of webdev and devops modules that you use.

I wish you good luck and I hope that you take this wonderful product even further.
The KAF boardwalk Timmies was the first I'd ever had; it's surprisingly good.
Its not about duplicate photos - almost every photo manager can do that.

But consider this - I've got over 25000 unique photos, never really been looked at or sorted. Nothing ever deleted.

I could use Picasa to go through them individually and tag/upload/share the good ones, but I'd have to remember where I was up to.

I could set up tags Good & Bad and tag them all like that and if Picasa could show me all the untagged photos that would help.

What PhotoSorter does is simply this - step through each photo one at a time and flag it as a keeper or not.

You can exit and resume from where you left of at any time, and export the flagged photos at any time.

So I'm using it as a convenient way to reduce my crazy photo collection to one that is worthy of loading in Picasa and manage/share there.
EA Admits SimCity Could Have Run Offline
Please don't replace the select box with divs and other markup. On mobile, the experience is very broken, and requires tons of effort to prevent that, especially considering how iOS and Android display <option>s.
This analogy seems to be describing a different principle. Microsoft was trying to break the network effect that Lotus had.
This wasn't the case for me last month, I bought a guitar pedal that turned out to be a fake, I filed the complaint and sent in evidence, received a full refund from eBay/Paypal.