skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree -- I expected this to be somewhat of a product pitch, and to some extent it was. However, as Treeface says, the post was well written and informative. I liked your charts of sleep, and the clear basic explanations of why each part is important.
Cool, thanks for that research. I'm very interested in this problem today.
I feel like the kitchen can be an entrepreneur's playground. Cooking (and eating) was always a very social affair with my friends and family. I started learning to cook as a child when I helped my mom and dad make Sunday dinner for a family of 6. I often cooked for myself when I went to college. I even cooked big Sunday dinners and charged guys in my dorm $5 bucks. I guess you could say this was my first venture.
I'd build clones of Wikipedia, Facebook, Google Search, Gmail, Youtube, etc. and make it all work on a privately owned centralized internet network that people have to pay for to access.

Then I'd build a giant safe, Scrooge McDuck style, and swim in my money.
"If you complain about this, I will laugh at you, because I do not care"
The economic benefit of insider trading is a well established economic possibility. It's not a pure transfer to rich people.
In the Lava Mountains
When did "WMD" go from describing something intended to kill thousands or millions of people to an IED? Both are bad, but it seems like a dilution to make "WMD" effectively synonymous with "bomb".
I've done this myself to a point, but the point I'm making is that there's so much of this flying around and so much debate about so many often-unsubstantiated 'optimizations' that there's often not any real reason to believe they are optimizations.

And if they're not, people are going to waste a lot of time trying to learn new habits, then find out that they are no better off or perhaps worse, except now they're stuck with new, bad habits to unlearn.

My argument is less with optimization than with spending too much time and effort attempting it without actually gaining anything, or having a reasonable expectation of the same.
Not all autistic people have a problem wearing business attire. Personally, I care so little about my appearance that I don't really give a shit what an employer wants me to wear.
Good work! Just what I needed!
Last time I tried (HTC 8S) you needed an outlook account to mass transfer contacts from one phone to another (bluetooth was limited, vcf not allowed). Background syncing and 'cloud' features were aggressively pushed on users. Microsoft is no different from Google.
This is a decision that affects the rest of your life, so you would want this to be a solid decision. You are inclined towards one choice today, but think about the situation a decade later. Are you sure that your decision/inclination is mature enough that it would not be different a decade from now if you were to continue?

I have been in a similar situation, and it would have been a mistake for me if I had taken the step.

Cannot say more without knowing more about you and your situation really. In my case, that period ended up not breaking me, but rather making me. The new perspectives I developed allow me to think outside the box, forget past things more readily (which I find helpful for innovation), and gain significant confidence. I understood myself better coming out of that phase.

One thing that helped was a realization that many great men have been in similar phases (and in my case for a similar reason as mine). Bertrand Russell is an example I had come across then (Google to find out more on this).

Some other things that can help included taking genuine interest outside of programming/technology. Spend some time figuring out how great musicians create that music (what is their thought process like?), how movie makers write and make movies, how comedians come up with humor, ... even how leaders say things to get an otherwise difficult message across.
I absolutely agree. At the end of the day what matters the most is whether you can do something consistently. That's what produces results and leads to change.

The more you have to "work" to lead a healthy life the less likely it is that you'll stay consistent. Find what works for you and incorporate it into your routine.
Brilliant Business Strategies for "Psycho Success"
This is decent. If you like it you should look into tintup.com
$4 eBook edition: http://www.amazon.com/PSYCHO-SUCCESS-ebook/dp/B00CB3NQDC
It might be a ripoff, but it's the best I can get. You learn to live with what you have. Would I like cheaper, faster Internet? Hell yes. Can I get it? Nope :(
The only important factor in 'it's been tried before' is the 'before' bit, the timing. If the timing was off and that's why the venture failed then re-doing it makes sense. If there was some other factor why a venture failed and it wasn't timing then it does not even count. But 'tried before and failed' will stick for everything where timing wasn't a factor.

During the .com heydays lots of concepts were floated and failed that are successful today. One interesting one is chatroulette, videochat with random partners. Youtube is another, instagram a third. All of those had been tried before but without success because the market just wasn't ready for it. So if you can identify the cause of the mis-fire and it is timing then by all means do a re-run.
thanks for the info chris, I will be following the project closely. I think I will try and implement it in one of my instagram-API driven web apps as a test.
It's called "Spintax". People in the internet marketing business use this all the time. Not just for comment spam, but to generate different versions of entire articles for submission to article directories and what not.

This is one of the more well known "spinners" as they are called: http://thebestspinner.com/
Exactly. I think it's an incredible place to remove yourself from the grind of starting/running a business, but still work on something creative and inspiring.
This is great. Have you looked into Ian Eslick's Personal Experiments?

https://personalexperiments.org/article/about
java does not have virtual envs, and i can have projects with different dependancies. clearly this is a python problem. I was asking why it exists.
Everything old is new again. Email status is a check-in method as old as, well, email.

This works great if you have a reasonable number of people working largely on independent areas, or if your pace is slow enough to drive consensus through email.

If you need to reach team consensus regularly and quickly, e.g. on architectural or design decisions, synchronous standups are still better, even virtual ones over IRC or FaceTime or whatever. (If you hear people saying "wait, why/when did we do that?" a lot, you may be in this situation even if you'd rather not be.)

I'm not a standup (or capital-a Agile, bleh) zealot by any means, but if you've got more than two people working closely on an area, and you're going quickly, regular and delineated synchronous communication still beats email threads for efficiency.
THIS. Exactly why Mongo fails (though I love mongo). No freakin' transactions!
Anyone has practical experience with any of those?
Oh. Didn't make the connection that APC was on for Codeigniter, Laravel and the other frameworks.
The issue is that they have to have more data than rough demographics. They could take the likes a person has, break them down in rough categories and do something like males 18-35 who like heavy metal and extreme sports. Then they'd get ads accordingly. Google gets this. If I start to search for things, they will follow me around.

I would think that access to the majority of a person's communication with other people would give even more targeted ads.
Hm interesting that you don't need an existing Costco membership. I hope they are able to expand service beyond SF!
Perhaps, but is this reflected by widespread adoption of the license? If not, then maybe it is actually a bug.
Err, there's not exactly much of a defense:

"I decided to keep going but without sharing location information. But hater's gonna hate, right?"

You might think this sounds snarky, or is a sarcastic summation - but if you read the (very brief) article, this is actually the sum total of the defense provided.
I do indeed, I think its hard to look past www.kenrockwell.com

I also recommend the series of digital photography books by Scott kelby, I started with him, was actually this one I found some if very useful:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Digital-Photography-Book-Pt/dp/0...
where was this at?
IIRC, phone companies are common carriers, but your Internet service provider is not. That's part of the reason for the Safe Harbour provisions in the DMCA.

Basically, the person providing you with access to the Internet, should not also be trying to provide you with other services that compete with 'the Internet.' It provides incentive for them to violate net neutrality to boost their bottom line (e.g. What if we charge people more for access to YouTube, while our service is free? What if we change to a metered bandwidth model, but put in an exception for our service?).
Can this simply be an artifact of terrible disk I/O on AWS or overall difference between ZFS/ext3?

Do you think the results would have been similar if you were to use no-compression-ZFS instead of ext3 on a proper database hardware?

Basically trying to figure out if the low performance of uncompressed dataset is specific to AWS/ext3. Thanks.
I believe there is a dominant meme in business techniques that drives startup bosses to adopt a slavedriver's attitude. I mean, look at the words themselves: "happy" is used in a negative sense.
+1 for being a tortured Wizards fan

+1 for the comments above (add @moneymetalcakes!)

Also, thank you for making software for sports fans. The stuff from the big media companies is freaking terrible. Let me know if you'd like to participate in a future Sports Hack Day:

http://sportshackday.com
Notes about an odd, esoteric, yet incredibly useful library: libthread_db
This looks really awesome. Also, you should check out Republia Times, one of the author's other games - you're the editor of the major newspaper in some country, and the pieces you put on the front page determine the mood of the people etc. It's a really cool game : http://dukope.com/play.php?g=trt
Why not link to the original article with more detail and pictures?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/249951

Oh, and upon further investigation, this is a repost from 5 days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5563896
Your link that goes through two URL shorteners. It's tacky.
Who tells other people how to live their lives? Don't do that, bud.
The onus placed on them is too great when it appears as a dilemma between a yearly $X0,000 extortion or one-time $X,000,000 lawsuit.
We plan to have Costco available as we launch other cities wherever it is logistically practical.
Totally anecdotal, but I suffer from occasional night terrors too, and have found that an eye mask actually helps quite a bit. Something about the consistent deeper darkness seems to stop me from 'waking up' and having a spell. Mine were also much worse when I slept in new places, and having the eye mask seems to eliminate that distinction as far as my body is concerned.

Between the eye mask, limiting eating large meals later at night, and cutting back on caffeine, I've reduced my night terrors by about 90% in the past 2 years. YMMV.
Why do they force you to sign up? That could potentially turn away customers.
Keen On… Douglas Rushkoff: Present Shock – When Everything Happens Now [TCTV]
Would love some feedback on the site and app. I can spare some promo codes, if anyone is interested.
There are two kinds of founders-inventors:

1. those who can navigate a sea of ambiguous, "poisoned", fud-ed information about the failures and micro-successes of others - these people have good chances to succeed where others have tried before, on markets littered with semi-successes

2. people who create from scratch, who innovate from nothing, who come with truly new ideas that create markets for themselves, that bring solutions that are so good they make people realize they had a problem in the first place though they weren't shopping for a solution and nobody was trying to sell it to them - these people are very sensitive to crowded markets and "poisoned" information, they have all the chances to fail in a "tried before" market

If you are a type (2) guy, stay tf away from the kinds of market niches the OP is describing: yeah, some can make a killing here, but you need to know how to fish in a poisoned river to do it (almost nobody tells the truth about why they failed, you know...).
Ask HN: "medium.com" Posts
It seems like all of a sudden there's always one or more posts from medium.com on the front page of Hacker News.

I had never heard of it before a couple weeks ago. Any particular reason for the upswing? Just curious.
Unless you're going to run a million dollar TV commercial on launch day, chances are you won't have more than a few hundred to thousand users for a long while. From what you've described, a $20/month Linode VPS will be sufficient.

You can upgrade the instance's resources as needed with a few clicks of a button, and if image hosting is the primary use of storage and bandwidth, that can be offloaded to Amazon S3 for pennies while the VPS runs the website/API.

Plenty of successful startups have started just like that. Running the website/API on EC2 is where costs skyrocket. There is a huge premium there for the benefit of being able to programmatically start and stop instances. If margins are tight, you would do much better with a VPS or even a single dedicated box. I think Foursquare was well into the millions of users while still running their database on a single server with 64GB RAM.
Do the terms of costcos membership agreement allow them to do this, or did they negotiate a separate agreement?
Not everyone: only people who are bandwidth constrained.
This is excellent news for Chez JJ. Thank you Instacart, you just made our hacker house network more scalable.
Ahh. Great answer, makes sense now.
Sure..
It should reference Lakos for good design.
In ch7, you should have a section about singletons. Singletons should not exist, GoF hurt the industry a lot by saying singleton was OK... it most certainly is not OK. No one needs it, and to get reentrant code you don't want it.

For ch9, it's like a C++ version of the Goetz book... you should make the same point: people shouldn't write their own thread pools. Also make a point about ownership transfer when posting to a pool: just don't share any data.
This book doesn't even have any astroturfing yet...
Turn that feature off then?
"If, however, you are using a modern, standards-compliant browser and have trouble viewing or reading Daring Fireball, please do let me know."
Blatant blogspam.
I close pop-ups by inspecting and removing the element, I have no desire to provide click feedback.
Indeed, with my SGS3 I feel like it's about the best phone I'm going to need for a while. I'm pretty happy to say that I'm totally satisfied with this phone and I think I will be for quite a while.

Seriously, it's so fast, so stable, and has all the things I want (solid camera, fast Web browsing, day long battery, etc) that I doubt I'll want anything else for maybe years.
Interesting note: CBS Sports app is developed by a Kansas City, MO mobile development company called Handmark.
Market makers are actually an example of "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller"
agreed, most people don't take the time to read such books... that's one reason for the sorry state of the SW industry!
A lot of people rate Facebook at 5-stars because they like Facebook. The reviews that say "I wish it still had widgets, apps, etc" clearly shouldn't have 4-5 stars, yet do.
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I wouldn't care about the transparency on salaries and that type of thing, I think that has significant benefits. I wouldn't be willing to participate in the sleep sharing, or personal improvement tracking. I find that to be very creepy, unrelated to work, and intrusive. I don't find it that surprising given how much people overshare on social media though.
Wow, this is awesome. It works even better for Costco than most places since Costco inventory is fairly consistent, so ordering in advance is fine.
I had some great experience with Google in this regard. When cloud SQL didn't have alert, we overshot budget due to a bug in our app. They analyzed the whole problem for us & reverted almost 80% of the bill!
1 Million results on Google for "I have been surfing online more than 2 hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours" [1]

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=I+have+been+surfing+online+m...
I love Instacart... that is all. Please branch to NYC soon!
I find it disturbing that under this definition of WMD, what the US does with Drones almost each day is certainly also massive.

Is a gun a weapon of mass destruction? Why not?
ASk HN: Open Ended Playing Card "Game"?
Just a deck of cards and some users in a session who want to play some kind of game of cards with rules defined only for the specific session (ex. one group of users get together to play hearts, another group of users get together to play a game of spades, and yet another group create some new card game with their own rules). Already Exists? Possible? Good Idea?
Venture capital activity ‘sluggish’ and continuing to decline in Q1 2013
Can someone tell me how exactly Instacart is working this? Do they have an agreement with Costco? (I'm guessing not.) Do they have individual shoppers who just do their thing as though they were individuals, and then deliver? Are those individuals employees or freelancers?

I'm guessing Costco would be a bit reluctant to formally allow something like this, as I also presume that one reason they get lower prices from suppliers is that they only sell to members, so there is less of a perception that a supplier is undercutting other retailers by letting Costco sell at a reduced price. A sort of price discrimination... but if stuff gets resold without a markup to bring the price in line with other retailers it would make their negotiations more difficult.
This alone would have me as a customer in Portland, but I agree with titlex that forcing a signup modal before I can peruse the site is really unfriendly.
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"the fee associated with delivery from its stores will be higher, clocking in at $9.99 for your collection of items, stiffer than the normal $3.99 rate."

I'm sure Costco is getting a portion of that fee.
I can't believe everyone here missed the point. The cheapest DSLR costs $400. It's not convenient to carry. It does ONE task. If you don't know how to use it, it won't take great pictures.

The author is saying "If you spend some time learning to use the camera in the device you already own, you can get acceptable results and save the money."

It's like my saying "The typical family member doesn't need a new computer. They can do everything they need to on a $50 lease turn-in with a couple of gigs of memory added."
NFL please!
Since that's only one of 16 combinations, I checked another. 7.7mil results if you change the 2 to a 3. Well then.
One thing that many high functioning autistics share, is a low level of cognitive empathy. What this means, is that we often do or say things that other people find hurtful and offensive, not because we want to insult them, but instead because it doesn't make sense to us that someone would be offended by it. This could actually be a good thing in software testing, because you are likely to get a completely honest assessment of the product.
Um. The only difference between webOS app switching and Android (ICS and beyond) recent apps is the size of the thumbnail...
Are you saying to you it logically makes sense to use the word 'arbitrage' for anything involving making a profit, or making an expenditure that is cost effective? Really? Or something else?

Me, I'd like to defend the notion that words actually mean something, and using big words because they make you sound cool, without paying any attention to what they mean, makes you a less effective communicator. Even if everybody else is doing it too.
Connecting an iPad retina LCD to a PC
I wouldn't recommend doing benchmarking on a virtual server.

You have no idea how busy the real server is, (noisy neighbors, etc), so it's impossible to have comparable results from benchmark to benchmark.
No problem. Let me know how it goes
We in SF really do take for granted that we get all of these services at launch.
This is one of those times where changing something breaks somebody's work flow because they're doing things outside of spec. And in cases like this, you have to say "get over it."

Facebook is still doing what Facebook intends to do, in fact they do it better! It's unfortunate that a tiny margin of users are slightly inconvenienced, but they need to get over it.
Doesn't matter, he'll now have a lucrative career being a USG debt apologist.
That is very valid, but the goal would be to beat Facebook to Facebook. Have a website in-place for each stage of social networking. A Friendster, with a MySpace ready for the inevitable decline, and a Facebook in waiting for when the Myspace crash happens. By staying 12 months ahead of the curve, you will be seen as the innovator, and with that you will be the one to reap the rewards.
Not necessarily. For example, I believe a big enough social media campaign could have convinced Dennis Kucinich to relocate to Washington State and become a rep there, instead of staying in Ohio and eventually losing his seat. (Of course, that never happened, and I never finished my version of what the OP made (which was basically Tweet-A-Senator, but you could only tweet Dennis Kucinich....)).

I think twitter can be used in innovative, non-traditional ways to influence politicians. #Benghazi, anyone?
>it's akin to buying lottery tickets.

More precisely, it's akin to buying mispriced lottery tickets with a high positive expected payoff that hasn't been priced in yet.
This part is funny...

"If Daring Fireball looks goofy in your browser, you’re likely using a shitty browser that doesn’t support web standards. Internet Explorer, I’m looking in your direction."
I typically use Google Docs for this sort of thing, but I'm pretty old school. I just open a doc, and start writing down bullet points of features / behaviors that the application should have.

Once I've got all the high-level requirements in place, I then just start going through the list knocking stuff out, one by one.
How the (Healthy, Enviro-Friendly, Cheap) Trailer Park Could Save Us All
I pinged him on Twitter and he fixed it within the hour. I guess I've learned a lesson here.
Because the NRA.
I don't know the answer to your question, but isn't Instacart free to resell anything they bought at Costco? So would they even need an agreement from them?
Doctors and we pay them well to do it.
Why is the background picture a church?

[Also this is really cool, see my other comment on this thread]
From what I understand, it's not possible to target with the AND operator for multiple interests/likes, only the default BOOLEAN OR.

SO, you can't target males 18-35 who like heavy metal and extreme sports.

You can only target males 18-35 who like heavy metal OR extreme sports.

Subtle, but very results changing difference.

I hope I'm wrong on this point. Does anyone know how to do it?
If those pressure cooker bombs were WMDs, then I guess the Iraq invasion was justified after all.
I dunno... I feel like if I'm totally honest, there's a good chance I would wind up just ignoring 90% of those e-mails, or at least not reading them carefully enough.

For me, I feel like the benefit of a stand-up is exactly that it forces everyone to pay attention and meet for 5 min, not just so that everything important gets communicated, but that everyone knows everyone else heard it. And people can ask important questions and know everyone else heard the concern and answer as well.