skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's what I'd tell my 21 year old self. I say this as a 27 year old who now knows he doesn't know it all but knows enough to realize what bits he got wrong:

Listen to your gut, all the time. Tell the truth to a fault. Find one thing you could be #1 at. Hammer at it. Keep doing it. Act like you're the best but don't talk crap about it. Act big and talk small. Be quick to accept criticism humbly, then be quick to ignore it if you know you're right. Things always change, things always get better AND get worse, and things are really never as great or as bad as they seem at the time.

My big regret has always been listening to other people and ignoring my gut feeling. Two years ago I "knew" in my gut buying property was a bad idea, kept saying "what goes up MUST come down", and enough people wore me down saying that property "never" goes down that I felt like an idiot NOT to buy.. now we know how that ended up ;-) I still listen to other people's bullshit, but I no longer give it credence unless my gut is willing.
Can it automatically search for short-url'ed versions of a url you give it? That would be very useful when tracking the spread of a new article through Twitter...
You might want to connect up with the whole "location independent" crowd... http://locationindependent.com/blog/

Probably a lot of their discoveries and advice applies to you too.
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You should package the Growl installation framework with this app. That way if Growl is not installed it will install itself.
Actually I'm planning a premium service on the new version of the game. There are several small featurettes that, grouped together, could represent some added value. I'd estimate a conversion value in the low single digits for that (based on anecdotical questioning and prior donations), and obviously I can't charge much more than, say, $3 per month. That's the standard going rate for browser games' premium models.

It all boils down to scaling the game up though, as any form of revenue scales along. But before I can do that, I have to put still a lot of work in the new version, and sometimes I doubt whether it's all worth it.
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Why business fiction when there are so many nice stories of real businesses around?
Heh, it's kind of interesting, there are now so many Twitter clients using Growl that Twitter has its own category on their apps page:
http://growl.info/applications.php?cat=Twitter+clients
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7744_(number)

Which also says "There are also very few squares with no unpaired digits", so the 'only number' bit seems erroneous (it did sound hard to believe).
Global Warming Delusions
I'm 17 and hoping that I don't make the mistakes that others did and reinvent the wheel. So, currently, reading lots.
Hi,

Can we leave the political articles for other sites, please?
no. Learning and difficulty is not linear where the most impossible teaches the most. After a certain challenging level you learn less. Like in weight training, piano, math, etc. Learning a piano piece you cant play wont make you a good piano player.
Agreed.

Looking at the source it's easy to see why this article is a major fail: Wall Street so desperately wants us to believe that this was all the fault of the poor people with bad loans they shouldn't have had.

It's pretty funny how they set you all up with all the models and history, and then tell you at the end, to paraphrase, "but that's all wrong because obviously all that bad debt should not have been made, and we don't know why the model didn't work." But we all know that this recession isn't so simple. What about the overheated market? What about oil? What about hedges? What about fraud?

Even if we are just taking mortgages to the back shed, take a drive through upper-middle class suburbs of the wannabe-entitled to see a forest of for sale signs and foreclosures.
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That last sentence was a bit crude, no?
Fair-warning, this IS a WSJ article, and thus should be well-salted when it comes to their editorial stance on the facts in question.
Thanks to everyone for the great suggestions - looks like I've got a reading to do!

I just remembered another incredible novel that I haven't read in years - Noble House by James Clavell; it's a novel about two warring business empires, set in 1930s Hong Kong.
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Red or Green? Accessibility of Lufthansa Seat Selections
Kleiner Perkins set to reap rewards on swine flu
Ask HN: I can't stand PHP anymore. What else can I choose?
All my clients use shared hosting such as iWeb.com (which does'nt have Shell access). Mainly because they don't want to pay a lot for a _reliable_ webhost.

My problem is : As a language-snob (i know, it's sad), i'm immensely bored about PHP. I want to learn another back-end language that i can use on my freelance web jobs.

I'm considering learning Perl. But Perl needs modules to extends it's possibilities, this i cannot do without Shell access. And it's also better to run it as fastcgi or mod_perl, things that shared hosting does not always support.

I know Ruby, but hosting Ruby is not cheap enough, or accessible enough for my clients.

Do you guys have any idea of a web stack or shared host that does the job?

What do you do when you can't stand PHP anymore?
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And it's written by someone who has over 40 years of experience in climate modeling...

Have you even read the article??
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Which facts did you find to be editorialized, specifically?
I have 29 of inboxes, and I have filters that categorize the mail automatically. The changes he wants are already here, and have been since the dawn of email.

The author needs to learn how to use filters.
Because that would restrict the rights to self-definitition of the Neanderthals.
This article is from Oct. 2007. Not saying it's irrelevant, just that I didn't realize it at first.
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This is the most reasonable, non hysterical (either pro/anti GW) article I have come across in such a long time.

No fear mongering about a lack of action.

No fear mongering about untold damages action against GW will do to our economies (usually in reference to carbon emissions limitations & taxes).

Just so... reasonable.
Seems common knowledge to most of us but something we most always miss out while we focus on winning the pseudo race.

A very candid post, an open book of life experience of a high achieving GSB grad. Many of us would have gone through this disturbing phase personally, its just a reminder to remember to live the life too. :)
Unless you don't believe that wages are set by the market, the employer's portion definitely comes from your paycheck. If you dropped the social security tax on the employer side, wages would rise (the employer doesn't care whether the money goes to the government or the employee). It's effectively an income tax. The accounting is slightly different, but that's just the name we give it. You can see another example of this in that the self-employed pay the full tax - in the limit of one person, the lack of a distinction becomes obvious.

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/taxRates.html
One cannot receive PayPal payments in Tunisia.
https://www.paypal.com/worldwide/

MoneyBookers, however, claims to do business in all countries.
I fail to see a massive difference beyond extraordinary lazyness there.

"Laziness" is a key component of usability -- nearly all efficiency improvements can be dismissed as "just for the lazy", well back before the dawn of computers. Who needs an electronic starter for their car anyway? Surely a crank handle is fine?

I'm condemning it because it's a step backwards not forwards and affects me, as I have to deal not only with the outlook TOFU idiots but also with the gmail TOFU idiots now. Google of all companies should know better, but "fancy" won over "sensible" one more time.

It shouldn't affect you at all -- you can carry on plodding through your messages one by one in your client, and shaking your fist at TOFU from your porch recliner. But the TOFU battle is (sadly) lost, thanks to Outlook and later Gmail. Increasing client usability isn't going to affect that fight one jot.

Engineers tend to also be the most extensive users of e-mail. Most mailing lists happen between technical people. Many E-Mail Clients are under active development. If conversation views were considered a worthwhile feature then we'd be having it everywhere by now. The implementation effort is minimal.

And yet when you view a Bugzilla thread on the web, you see all the replies in a single page. I agree that if conversation views were considered a worthwhile feature by engineers we'd be seeing it everywhere by now. But this is simply proving to be another case where the use case of the vast majority of engineers is wildly different to the end-user case. Google Groups, as you pointed out above, is also incredibly popular among technical people. You can't see a reason why (though you'll doubtless have something condescending to mention about youth or branding) because you refuse to accept that it may be popular for a reason.

Most MUAs are already tracking "conversations" as you call them and have done so for 20 years.

No, no they aren't, as you'd see if you deigned to take the time to consider what a conversation actually is, an understanding you simply don't have as evidenced by your screenshot above. It's not a dumb subject-based sort, nor is simply header-based or a combination of the two. Crucially, it includes messages sent by the reader -- which is where the work is for the client: it has to sort through the entire local sent archive to render the conversation. Can you name a single client that has done this for 20 years?

Clearly, this a love-hate feature. For the haters, there is ... ooh, every mail client ever. For those who love it, there is, well, GMail. Something's amiss there, especially when adding the feature would barely impact on haters.
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For those who want to the original url before clicking a tiny url, you can use Untiny (http://untiny.me ) Firefox addon (UntinyFox) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10181

(or check in http://untiny.me/extra/ )
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Yes, the new Ubuntu is nicer...than previous Ubuntu versions. Got it installed on a VM and set up a clojure environment, which is a pain the the ass on Windows. Still can't wait for Windows 7 to come out though.
This article isn't really that political. The end result is suggest we colonize the oceans which should be interesting regardless of your politics.
I developed http://untiny.me for one reason, some tiny services (e.g. http://tinyurl.com ) is blocked in my country for no reason ... and may some others are blocked in others countries too...
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He's not alone, but the media and public somehow only listen to the other guy.

I read Collapse, by Jared Diamond - the same kind of level-headedness (or more). Despite the title and the subject of the book there is no panic, only clear analysis. And guess which threat he considers by far the worst? Yup, deforestation. Pretty much everything by Jared Diamond is a good read, btw.
I don't know if it's an evidence of global warming or not but the normal temperature at our institute has risen 7 degree celsius from what is was at this same time last year, which is kinda freaky and we are literally really trying hard to survive here !!

source - http://iitkgp.ac.in/topfiles/wgraph.php
Yes. This is fairly common in the sciences, because all the good people always know the important problems in their field and are constantly trying to figure out how to tackle them. Then, when a new technique is discovered (perhaps in a slightly unrelated area), it will quickly be tried on these hard problems to see if it helps. Sometimes it does.
Agreed, which is why I'm sure that someone responded to it in kind. But, alas, search technology doesn't seem to be there yet. Or maybe my Google-fu sucks this morning.
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For Django work I prefer postgres just because more Django projects use postgres, so when you have issues it's more likely that someone else on a message board has faced exactly the same thing. My projects haven't come near the limit of a single server, though.
I thought it was reasonable for the most part too, but the section where he argued because Eric the Red found global warming to his advantage we could also find it in our interests made me a little skeptical.
At the heart of the matter is how much faith we decide to put in science -- even how much faith scientists put in science. Our times have benefited from clear-thinking, science-based rationality. I hope this prevails as we try to deal with our changing climate.

Absolutely
What makes you think that a "reasonable" stance, as you've defined it, is correct? It seems to me that when you define reasonable as being middle-of-the-road on the consequences of global warming, you're really just using the word as a label to suppress ideas:

http://www.paulgraham.com/labels.html
Ummm, it's an opinion page, selected by the editorial staff.
You shouldn't have to build that layer yourself. I'm only familiar with the Python tools like Django and SQLAlchemy that abstract out which database you use, but I know Rails works similarly, and I'm pretty sure there are existing solutions for other languages.
A little skeptical? That's just about the most intellectually dishonest argument I could imagine. Although to be fair, I think the CEIC ads saying that humans breathe out CO2 so it must be good for the earth probably have Botkin beat.
Yes I did, and I noted mainly a fear of fear of global warming. Perhaps this concerned scientist would really rather the public not think about it too much?
This a good article about hacking a mostly submerged boats in difficult jungle conditions: 'When I asked Nimmich if he was impressed by their craftsmanship, he arched a brow and said: “You ever try to build something in your backyard? They’re building these in the jungles.'

While I'm not pro-drug-trade, some of the legal tactics seem problematic: 'The Drug Trafficking Vessel Interdiction Assistance Act, which became law in October, now allows the United States to prosecute someone for merely being on board a semisub. ... Such a law does not exist in Colombia. But Colombia’s defense minister, Juan Manuel Santos, told me that one is in the works and could be enacted as early as June. He said the country is also looking to ban certain plastics used in semisub production.'

Illegal to be on board a boat because of its design? Banning plastics because the might be used for submarine manufacture? This seems clumsy and parallel to laws regarding technology issues such as deCSS and file sharing.
Expose oneself to varying degrees of ideas, problems, and solutions. Read to question. Mistakes are important for progress, all the planning in world isn't going to help. Get your hands dirty, work on a project that matters to self no matter how small or unimportant it may be to the outside world.
I have the same problem. I have almost 100 gigs of photos which are the majority of my backup needs.

Flickr's been an somewhat easy way to back them up and share them at the same time. But I have growing frustration with Flickr because I'm really using it for three different purposes now: backing up all my photos, sharing family snapshots with friends and family, and sharing more artsy photography with mostly strangers (which is really Flickr's sweet spot).

Using Flickr for backup is incredibly annoying and iffy because their uploaders are so fragile and downloading the entire collection depends on third-party software that Flickr could break or disable at any moment.

I'd love to move my photo backups off of Flickr and am close to using just some rotating USB hard drives, but I'd much rather have something automated. Dropbox could definitely have my business there and be price competitive if they offered say 250 gigs for under $100 a year. Backing up my photos should be a good profit for them over time, because once I get past the initial backup, I really only upload a gig or two a month and rarely download. Unlike my other documents, I don't need my photo backup replicated between my different computers running Dropbox.

Sharing photos with friends and family is something that Dropbox could be good at or at least acceptable. The Flickr, Picasa, and Facebook uploaders all suck compared to the ease of Dropbox. If they added some better privacy settings, RSS feeds, and some more viewing/downloading options, they could be player in the photo sharing space.
Every proper email client has done this for at least the past ten years. It's the message-id and in-reply-to headers that allow for proper message threading.
A northern passage connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific would be a huge boon to international trade. Canada is already posturing itself to control a possible major new trade route.
Social security has been raided to pay for the general fund for years. While nominally it goes "to your account", in practice it's a tax used to pay for things in the general fund just like income taxes are.

I may have read the tax table wrong, because I got a 4% higher tax rate for federal income tax. My bad - looks like it's as you say.

While it should already feel a little weird to pay slightly less (percentage-wise) than someone who makes $30k/year with a seven figure income, you actually paid far more than someone who regularly makes that amount would. You had far less incentive and time to set up tax shelters. A "regularly" rich person would pay an even lower percentage of their income.
Yes it was, but I am sure in his mind he was deciding between that and "That's a bit like loving women but never being in a relationship with one". Considering his sleep-deprived state, I would let it slide ;)
In my experience Windows hosting (I'm aware of a Linux-compatible version of ASP.net, don't know how good it is might even be for classic ASP) is a bit more expensive than Linux hosting (which is typically used for PHP - for compatibility and cost reasonings).
This is why I took a year off college at 19 to start a starter company. It was like running your first marathon: you want to win, but you know you probably won't. But you need the experience. In my case, everyone I talked to was pretty excited about what I had so far, but I didn't have the tech chops to take things to the next level. Now I'm returning to college to get better tech skills.
Just stumbled upon http://cloudcontacts.com

It's not mobile though
Twas a pun! Albeit a rude one!
I don't know whether you'd need shell access for Python (I'm only just starting to learn it myself) but that could be an idea to consider.
Do you seriously believe that the visitors to a site like w3schools.com are even close to representative of the population as a whole?

There are indeed whole companies out there doing engineering work on Linux; I've worked with some of them. But they are a tiny fraction of all companies, and the desktops in most companies run Windows. Of those that don't, I'm sure Linux has had a few big successes, but Apple sells all those computers to someone. As I said, I've never seen a study that puts Linux even close. If you've got more up-to-date information that is actually representative, go ahead and share it, but please don't pretend that the server log from a random web site is a real study.
It shouldn't affect you at all -- you can carry on plodding through your messages one by one in your client, and shaking your fist at TOFU from your porch recliner. But the TOFU battle is (sadly) lost, thanks to Outlook and later Gmail. Increasing client usability isn't going to affect that fight one jot.

Interesting observation and no, the TOFU battle is in no way lost. It has just become a much more frequent annoyance again recently, after it had almost disappeared for a while. Thanks gmail!

Try posting TOFU to any respectable mailing list and you'll get the appropiate responses. People don't suddenly begin to tolerate idiocy only because a new broken client comes along.

No, no they aren't, as you'd see if you deigned to take the time to consider what a conversation actually is, an understanding you simply don't have as evidenced by your screenshot above. It's not a dumb subject-based sort, nor is simply header-based or a combination of the two. Crucially, it includes messages sent by the reader -- which is where the work is for the client: it has to sort through the entire local sent archive to render the conversation. Can you name a single client that has done this for 20 years?

Well, technically it's quite a trivial problem for any MUA that already has a search index - which would be most of them.

So the question would not be why couldn't they do it but rather why did nobody care to implement it, even years after gmail came along.

Maybe people who care enough to use a desktop mail client just have better ways to organize their stuff?
It probably helps that the couples profiled are not in professions which necessitate having internet computer use constantly. Point me to the lawyer who isn't always near email or editing documents digitally (after perhaps proofing a hard copy) and that is a lawyer who's not busy.
Just read their announcement. They picked hg for two reasons:

1. Google Code is built around HTTP, Git sucks at talking HTTP (it's an order of magnitude slower than hg). On the other hand, HTTP is hg's first-class protocol. So hg's integration was simpler here.

2. Windows still is a first-class platform for mercurial, still isn't for git, and windows users are an important part of Google Code's clientele.
What would make it worth it to you? I.e., is there some $/month revenue where you'd say, "yup, I wouldn't mind putting in the work if I were getting that"?
The article made me realize I was reading HN instead of doing something productive. Closing browser now! Getting things done.
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> I think the #1 reason is that like they mention git is a second class citizen on Windows.

And the second reason is that git is downright slow over HTTP, and google code's built around using HTTP.
Here is the actual law regarding semisubs:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.3351:

The text is a bit more specific and reasonable, I think.
"Whoever knowingly or intentionally operates by any means or embarks in any submersible or semi-submersible vessel that is without nationality and that is navigating or has navigated into, through, or from waters beyond the outer limit of the territorial sea of a single country or a lateral limit of that country's territorial sea with an adjacent country, with the intent to evade detection, shall be punished as prescribed in subsection (h)."

I can think of very few legitimate activities that would fall under that bill.
It depends.

I get the majority of my customers through organic SEO. The marginal cost of a customer from organic SEO is zero. The amortized cost is almost impossible to calculate -- I SEO well because I spent years learning the technical/marketing aspects and, e.g., blogging (which has a side effect of getting me domain trust), writing useful resources for my niche, coming up with a content creation strategy, etc. (The great thing about content creation is that if you're making evergreen content you pay for it once and then it keeps getting you customers/links/etc for forever.)

AdWords, on the other hand, is pretty easy to calculate marginal CPAs for. My previous experience with Google leads me to believe they understate my conversions with them, but just reading the number off the AdWords report, I spend about $12.25 per customer. Since I make about $29 from each customer after all costs but advertising, I'm quite willing to do this all day long.

For those of you who are more interested in cost per signup rather than cost per paying customer: 22~24 cents.