skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like this idea depends on whether it can provide sufficient exposure/traffic for the sponsors, which could be hard. In the end, isn't the value of a twollar just how much traffic that tweet will bring back to twollars.com to the sponsors ad/brand?
I don't think it took them half an hour to plug it in and if it did maybe they should stay away from new technology... seriously.
One question, does python have an equivalent to irb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Ruby_Shell)? If so, how do you get into/out of blocks?
Microsoft Surface Demo @ CES 2008:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxk_WywMTzc

Every time I see a Surface demo I'm struck at the whole "display photos as a jumbled mess, just like real photos!" thing. It just seems so... idiotic.

Anyway, there does seem to be some potential with Surface but it does seem like a bit of a waste in the hands of Microsoft.
Yeah, I have no doubt that the device is somewhat unintuitive to setup, but given the size of the machine it wouldn't take them half an hour to physically search it for a place to plug it in.
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Seems nice. I guess my question is: How is it distinguished from other make-your-own wiki solutions?
It's great to finally find an interesting community of (somewhat+) like minded individuals. I've spent my time on digg, reddit, and slashdot trying to recreate early usenet culture.

I've been searching for a while for something 1/10 of 1% of the breadth and deepness of Usenet, aside the alt hierarchy. This place comes close to the wonderful moderated rooms of the comp groups.

I've lurked here long enough though. It's high time I at least said hi.

ObOntopic: I check out hackaday.com for interesting circuit/design and control ideas. I've had months of fun by reverse biasing leds for usage of data transfer. You can use a track of them as a track-sensor for a dimmer control, assuming you have access to a PIC programmer.

+I'm a young guy, but learned from old guys. My elder friends were all hams and old school circuit hackers. One of them even built their own vacuum tubes. Programming is interesting to say the least, but not really my forte. It's always been circuits and rf for me. Sorry for sounding conceited, as it wasn't my intention.
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I think to some extent the whitespace is symbolic of a larger issue with python: the interpreter thinks it knows best. Most people still come from a "wild-west" C-family language (or worse yet, perl) where your code can be as clever and concise code as you want. To me, python's "one true way" philosophy felt too paternalistic. So yeah, I guess you could call it a matter of principle.

(Python has become my main language since, but I never claimed to have strong principles :) )
I already working on it for 2 years, so it is definitely no problem to another 6 months:)

The reasons is, it is my part time job, I have no worries about my living budget.

Anyway, you also can download and hosting yourself.
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I think HN has much more active curation (moderation) than Reddit has ever had.
Why the name change? Have I missed something?
Yup. If you start the python interpreter, it opens up into an interactive shell. You still have to indent inside the block, and python interprets the code after you enter a blank line.

ipython is an improved python shell, with tab-completion and some other cool features.
I guess the page you view is created long time ago. Now, the new page has shorter key, so normally, it would be really shorter...

My targeting is some team, organisation. As you can see, it has download version. 5 users is free.
Pandora did. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/20/pandora-radio-starts-se...

(My apologies for TechCrunch, but it was the first result)
8 am to 4 pm 5 days/week - client sites (10% efficient)

7 pm to 11 pm 5 days/week, 8 hours Saturday, 12 hours Sunday - my startup (70 - 90% efficient)

Friday nights and one weekend per month off (100% efficient)
Hmm, I always preferred Angelfire. My first websites were on Angelfire, years ago.
What am i supposed to do?

Imagine i am a very ADD person and I don't know what to click. You need a big DOWNLOAD or SIGN UP button, otherwise you are squandering your 5 seconds that i've allowed you.
11-12 hours per day and another 10-12 hours per weekend -> a bit over 70 hours per week for two years. Then sold the company and it went downhill from there. I posted longer version of this in an older thread - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=330672

Now it's more like 3 hours a day, 4 days a week working on some stuff that I like. So in the end it was totally worth it :-).
If I may ask: why not just take it every day? Does it cause side effects?
None. Once you start posting here, you feel compelled to follow the discussion threads. Doesn't leave much time for anything else.
It depends. When I'm in the zone I work myself into the ground. When I'm out of the zone I'm very unproductive. I found a secret that helps me get into the zone though. Its a secret, for $9.95 you can order my e-book or just read the rest of this comment.

I'm not a planner personality at all and I find planning my time does no good. However I do respond to accountability. So what I do is make a table with the X axis representing the days of the week and the Y axis representing each hour slot in the waking day. I print this out so I can carry it with me and one sheet of paper has one week.

I then fill in the table throughout the week with what I did during that hour. If I ate, I put down that I ate. If I was asleep I put that down. If I wasted the hour I put down an X. If I did something productive I write that down. This method works for me and after two weeks of this I'm back in the zone and don't need to track my time anymore.
I don't understand why people don't do IRAs. I can invest in whatever I want. Leave 401k for employer contributions.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575815

Apparently, Google loves the new title already:

http://www.google.com/search?q=innocuous+news
[Ask Hn]Whats innocuous news?
See the tit of HN today.
I don't track my time at all any more. I have found that it's useless. I used to spend 8 hours at my terminal and thought I had a good day. Until I realized that I got so little done.

Here's what I do...

I DO NOT log on without a written plan for the session. I start on the first thing on the list and work my way down. Most lists only have one or two things to do. I almost always get done whatever is on the list.

I usually make the list the night before while reviewing that day's code. Sometimes I do the list very early in the morning. It's amazing how full my mind sometimes is when first waking up.

It's NOT how much time you spend. It's how much you get done. I'd rather work 20 hours to accomplish x than 40. (Better yet, work 40 to accomplish 2x).
I work 10am - 6:30pm everyday at my day job. Usually come home, eat dinner and work on my startup from 8pm - 12pm. At the office though, I probably spend 30 min a day between person email, tech news and stocks. Maybe another 20 min chit chatting with people. I like to think I'm pretty productive though!
concerns about hn quality going down have been here from day one. it has not degraded substantially in the over two years i've been here, and i don't think it will for awhile.

reddit's goal was to get a lot of users. it's being run as a business. hn's goal is to foster high-quality links and conversation. pg doesn't care how many users the site has, and he's not trying to monetize it.

it's not the karma and voting systems that are being used to maintain quality here. it's the editors. they are serious as a heart attack about curbing bad behavior. certainly not something you can say about reddit.
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I really don't think he meant that last one literally; just an example of a situation where a throwaway, uninteresting program would be necessary.
(I assume) this has to do with "hacker" getting blocked by some overly zealous web filters.
I've got a habit on middle-clicking when I want to open X content in a different tab when I know there's more content on the main page (like HN).

Now, when I see those "GeniusWiki Documentation Center" and those other boxes with content, the links aren't links. They're javascripts that force me to go away from that main page. I usually just go away when I see things like that.
I did a little reading and I think I understand it.

1.So basically it seems like board directors are voted in one of two ways, through an election that includes all of the company's stockholders, and through an election that only includes members of a certain class of stock.

The agreement guarantees that Class F stockholders (founders) will elect one one board member. This director has two votes on the board, while all other members only have one.

For all elections involving other stock holders, the Class F stockholders will have more voting rights. One Class F share has the same voting power as 10 common shares.

The agreement also gives Class F stockholders protective provisions. Basically any action that affects the rights of Class F stockholders will have to be approved by a majority of Class F stockholders. This gives them power over things like mergers and board reorganizations.

Class F shares cannot be sold or transferred to non-founders. If a founder transfers the stock to anyone who is not a Class F stockholder, the shares are converted to Class A shares. Class F shares can be converted to class A shares, and are automatically converted on death. So basically, these special rights are only for founders. The voting rights can't be transferred.

All the talk about vesting just describes what happens if if control of the company changes.. The absence of a cliff means that you get stock no matter how early you leave. Single trigger means that if there is any change of control or ownership, all of your stock vests. You don't need to get fired or resign for a good reason.

The Founders Institute also created a fund for the founders of the companies using this scheme. Company founders own 60% of the fund, and the Founders Institute owns 40%.

2. So if a founder is forced off the board, the company has to pay 100k to the fund.

3. The fund gets the right to buy 3.5% of the company at Series A valuations.

It sounds great for founders, and bad for investors. Basically, founders will need to approve any major company changes, be able cash out immediately on an acquisition, and get stock options at Series A valuations.
RIAA?
Loading screens are usually irritating; in general do what you can to minimize them.
However, having been there, that didn't work for me. The amount of time that isn't spent coding seems fairly consistent as a percentage, leaving aside a small constant factor. When I ran my small business, I would sometimes deliberately work fewer hours a week to try to increase productive time, and after falling below a (fairly high) number of hours per week, the productive time was cut at least as much as the non-productive time.
>Mechanical Turk relies heavily on tremendous inequities in wealth.

Actually, almost all forms of employment do so as well.
I'm surprised to find out that geocities still exists.
OK, I guess this site can not fit your requirement:(

Actually, only one page for entire site which the normal users can see(another page is system admin).... For all links, they are some kind of Ajax stuff, mean your page does not refresh entirely, only necessary content is loaded. This makes the site running very fast(initial loading is slow and the hosting maybe a problem as it is just 128M VPS)
8am-6pm at my "real" job, and 3-4 hours a night on my startup. I can usually get in 8 hours on a Saturday or Sunday. It's going much slower than I want, but I feel like I am maxed out when also considering my other obligations.
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Where 'harder' is 'more expensive' and we know that the present newspaper model doesn't look like it can support expensive endeavors. Investigative journalism in the info age is only possible if those practicing it have info age tools.
good point, I changed it. Now it looks a little ugly, will do improvement later. But anyway, people won't miss that 2 buttons:)
Thanks.
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Doing some research and wondered if anyone knew of a list or website that lists every (or almost every) types of online business - not list of companies or business model types. I mean like: hosting, domains, search, personal account software, task management software, payment processing, product auctions, etc...

Thanks
what I'm saying is that we need to focus on solutions that are primarily technical, because social and political solutions almost never work in the first place

Really? I think the opposite. I can think of very few times where a social problem has been solved purely by technology.

(Anyway, I think the real answer is you need to attack the problem on all fronts at once)
> there exist many someones that do like writing things like XML parsers

Thank god.
What is your calorie tracking app?
Please don't risk your life stupidly.

In any case, cruise control involves things like accelerating when you're going up hills to maintain an stable speed, not just keeping the gas pedal in the same place.
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Well, yes, but "harder" as in "more difficult" too. It's basically impossible to do anything useful with data stored in a paper ledger that's only available in a basement reading room a few hours a day and copies cost $0.15 a page.
What's with "innocuous news"?
Is this an inside joke or a hack?
100k annually for three or four years is like 400k. That's ten years worth of a decent middle class salary, which is what most careers are worth, except it's front-loaded so you can generally invest it and make more in the long run. I would not snort at that kind of income.
I read a lot of the same subreddits, and I think you're missing out by not reading the comments. Sure there can be a lot of noise, but with a little practice you can skim to the gems quite easily.
I am physically present at the day job for between 10 and 12 hours typically (more some days, less others) and sustain peak productivity for about 2 to 4 hours most days.

My side business averages about 5 hours a week according to RescueTime -- more when I'm able to block off time on a Saturday to get some heavy lifting done, although after 6 hours I find my wheels spin an awful lot even when self-directed.

It drives me absolutely freaking bonkers that people think the above figures prove anything about whether I'm "working hard" on either the day job or the business.
Same issue for me-- I couldn't readily determine whether this was an open source project, like MediaWiki, or a hosted service that I'm going to pay to use. A lot of the corporate and pricing info I look for was under a different URL, EdGenius, which adds to the confusion.

The signup button should lead to a page explaining exactly what I'm signing up for, rather than the existing lightbox, which has an unattractive little form offering no details.

I like the overall presentation feel on the homepage; you just need to provide more direction for the new user.
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I'm a programmer for an engineering company (the only one at the company). I do internal apps to help make their jobs easier.

I have 9 scheduled hours a day (1 hour lunch). I'm usually at my desk early and during part of lunch, but I don't work during these times (unless something REALLY needs done). The break helps me focus more. During my regular 8 hours of work, I generally am actually working for at least 7.5 of them. I NEVER goof off at work. I never handle personal business or surf the web while at work (aside from using Google or StackOverflow to find an answer to a programming question). The only thing that distracts me from work is chatting with coworkers from time to time.

I don't think it's fair to measure work by any standard other than "I feel what I'm doing is productive." I'm not typing code 7.5 hours a day. Sometimes I'm designing or reviewing code or refactoring or reading version control logs or reading up on new technologies. Fortunately, my company is smart enough to agree that this is work and encourage it.
Just noticed this too.
What we really need is a way for users to apply their own width limits and have all designs be fluid.

In fact, I wonder why this isn't a common option in browsers.

What if your text editor didn't let you resize the window because it thought 80 characters was wide enough for anyone (80 characters at 10pt Courier, of course)? I would be pretty mad. Users should be in control of these sort of things.
Well HN (or is it IN ;) ) seems to be the wall hole for me. I noticed some quality issues lately but since yesterday I felt HN again :) . No it's not the name change, I felt this even before that. Now I don't have to worry about asking another "Erlang week".
From a web design perspective you need more space below your site logo (above the content). That is all.
Two weeks and you're back in the zone? How long does it stick? For me, it fluctuates much more rapidly. Most days I'm in the zone for solid chunks of time and not in the zone for some chunks as well. Occasionally I'll have a bad day or two back to back. However one day rarely carries over to the next in terms of productivity.
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I suspect the reason there are no comments is that the listings appear as a service for YC companies. By the nature of comment threads, someone may moan about the company or the wording of its listing, or there will be some other random tangent, and it will distract from the desired candidate-finding benefit for the company.

Relaying names directly to the listing contact info, or relaying the listing to the candidate, is probably a better approach -- the fact that a specific person is available or being considered is often a matter deserving discretion.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575487
I'm sorry but I don't use IE (only to test my shit) and I don't need a browser toolbar. If I had a nickel for every browser toolbar on top of toolbar on top of toolbar I had to remove from friends/family/clients computers ... I'd be rich.

Now that my ranting is over, it seems the idea that you're somewhat geo-anonymous while browsing the web is slowly going away. This is good because it make local based services viable, but bad because it's somewhat intrusive and some people just don't want to be 'found'.
Right. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575815
Ask HN: How can we get better internet?
I'm a undergrad CS student in the middle of nowhere, East TX. I'm here for a little-known but awesome CS program.

Unfortunately, internet access here is pretty awful. I live in an old (50 years?) dormitory. IT bills us about $1.50/GB, and it's filtered like you wouldn't believe (packet inspection, no
bittorrent, VPNs, lots of spurious firewalling...). Unfortunately, moving not an option, and IT is deaf to student concerns.

Along with several other angry CS majors, I've been paying Clearwire (pre-Wimax ISP, claims 1.5mbit) about $40/month, but lately they've been getting on our case for "over-usage" and are threatening to cut us off. We're talking about 2-3GB/week of traffic. They do some light packet shaping as well, so we're looking for something better.

I'm only about 600-700ft from the nearest neighborhood, so there's some talk of paying someone to get a fat pipe and figuring out how to microwave it to where I live. I don't know enough about the equipment I'd need, or what would fit in the budget (Motorola stuff looks expensive!). Administration takes a very dim view of this sort of thing, so the equipment on my end would have to be indoor. Any recommendations?

AFAIK, the buildings are too old to be wired properly for DSL/Cable (or not worth Ma Bell's effort). Satellite requires an external mount, which is a no-no.

Can any clever hackers out there think of something we missed?
I'm sorry but the top news stories on New Mogul when I checked represent the type of stories that I especially don't want to see on HN. For people who dig that sort of business 'news', it's a good link.
I was really excited about this, and was talking to my other founders about it until we noticed the cost. We're poor college students, we thought this would be a great chance to get exposure and meet investors... and we get slammed in to a paywall :\
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Same here. Stared at the big wall of text. Not quite sure what I was supposed to do--both options (sign-up / download) turned me off.
Thanks for the numbers. As a principal in a consulting company, that's about what I'd guess for my own time. Of course, I haven't tracked my time nearly as thoroughly. :)

I'd be interested to see other numbers like this if anyone has them.
That distance is nothing for a point-to-point wifi link. Buy (or build) yourself a cheap directional antenna for both ends and you should get a solid link with line of sight.
Unfortunately I'm facing the wrong way to do a p2p to the nearest neighborhood (window maybe 160 degrees off?). Building is pretty much solid concrete (50 years old). Nearest house in line-of-sight from the window is closer to a mile. There's been some discussion about setting something up on the far side of the building and either running cable or setting up a repeater in the building to hit us on the far side, but it would be a big hassle.
Thanks for the comments ;) !

I've done a code review of Quake1:

http://fabiensanglard.net/quakeSource/index.php

Most of the informations are still valid, Quake2 and Quake3 were improvements of the same base.
I often found myself doing random stuff and then wondering "what the hell did I do?" at the end of the day. So I wrote a simple tool Smacklet http://smacklet.com/ and it has helped me immensely. All you do is: type in few words about what you are doing and plan to do now. Doing this simple exercise, I found myself more "aware" through the day and hence ended up squandering less and less time.

Give it a try if you feel like. I had several features planned, like graphs etc... but I found the current feature-set sufficient for my needs.
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I like how the pricing per hour is more than most people make. '$24.35 per hour'
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I am a business guy. I have worked at large companies and managed big businesses. I have started tech and non-tech companies as a founder and an early employee. I have raised money. I have written specs. I have sold stuff to big companies and consumers.I have cut deals with big companies and big brands. Some of these deals have panned out. Some have not. Some of these ventures have been successful. Some have been cluster f*cks.

I am ready to do another tech business. I want to find a tech partner who is hungry, smart, interested in contributing to all aspects of the business and humble. Ideally I would like to find someone in the Seattle area. How should I do this?
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I've never seen my workplace, but I work about 65 hours a week, just over 40 of which I consider billable. Ratcheting up to 70-75.

This is not a sustainable rate, especially without equity.