skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both of those are very well-studied business models, though:

1. sell to the lonely and impulsive who are willing to trade money for attention (Also see: therapists, people who run cons on the elderly, everything else involving real interaction with a woman in the sex industry); additionally, take advantage of the sunk-cost bias to keep people after they would have otherwise "passed their limit" (Also see: casinos)

2. run advertising campaigns that separate the world into "good/beautiful/healthy/upper-class people" and "bad/ugly/disgusting/lower-class people" by which kind of products they use, then position yourself as the most convenient/eminently-consumable product in the "good people" product class. (Also see: deodorant, diamonds, hybrid cars)
> A mediocre programmer that the company trusts is worth $500,000++ per year

I disagree with that number as an absolute statement. Most companies just aren't as insanely profitable as Google, Microsoft etc. (for whom this number might very well be true).
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jennita, I'm glad you're feeling better now. I don't mean to belittle your experiences whatsoever, because depression is a terrible thing. I just want to explain:

You wrote your husband was able to "force you" to get out of bed (good man) and brush your teeth and do sit-ups etc.

When I say "I can't get out of bed," I mean if I stand, my heart rate doubles, it feels like the "bottom falls out" of my head, the world starts going dark, if I do not sit down I will faint, I can't lift my arm above my head to brush my hair, etc.

No amount of "forcing" could have made me stand up and brush my teeth. When I was over the worst of it, if I would walk two or three blocks to the store, I would feel like I had been hit by a truck for days afterwards. Even years later, I came within a hairs' breadth of passing out doing nothing more strenuous than walking around the ground floor of a museum. Never before in my life had I ever fainted, before I got sick. This is a physical ailment, caused by low blood pressure, disordered autonomic nervous system response, a lack of muscle energy replenishment that is characteristic of CFS/FM, etc.

You also wrote that you couldn't stop thinking. When you have what I have, thinking is almost as difficult as physical activity.

Depression vs CFS is the difference being out of gas, and an engine that is rusted solid.

That doesn't mean your experience wasn't equally terrible in different ways. Your car still wouldn't go. It's an issue of terminology, we only have so many words.
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The biologist P. Z. Meyers argues that the skeleton is clearly that of a fetus. Quote: "It’s 6 inches long, which would make it a fetus around 20 weeks postconception; assuming a fair amount of shrinkage during dessication, I could guess as late as 6-7 months. The pattern of bone ossification -- notice, no sternum -- fits that as well, but it doesn’t fit a 6 year old at all." (from http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/04/25/id-watch-i...)

I don't think it's a hoax -- just a real discovery to which some ridiculous claims have become unfortunately attached.
A related trick to avoid procrastination: I have often found myself procrastinating when needing to send an important, but non-urgent, email. Procrastination is often a result of fear. I realized that the procrastination came from a fear that I would phrase the email wrong, or get the tone wrong, and blow my chance at getting a favorable response. To avoid procrastination, I find it helpful to tell myself, "ok, I will just compose the email right now, that is all, and I can send it whenever I want tomorrow, the next day, no hurry." Of course, after composing the email, I almost always get over the fear and just end up sending it.
> has worked pretty damn well for Engineers, Doctors and Lawyers.

... and has pretty much screwed over the rest of society, at least in the latter two cases. The legal and medical cartels have done incredible harm to their customers over the years.

See http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=51 (law) and http://mises.org/daily/4276 (medicine) for details.
how do you get it to go into table mode, where you can drag-drop functions on a workspace? help - stuck in php;D

theres no command,key shortcut, and that little menu in the right corner isnt there on windows.
Nothing.

It's amazing that Android still does not come with a note taking and reminder app.
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That's what they are doing. This is the first power-up.
You assume wrong, this in no way follows from what I have said and I never said that I am "fundamentally opposed to adopting any ideas that are not exclusively your own". You must have by accident commented in a wrong branch.
I thought Wave sounded amazing when it was first announced. When I finally got an invite to it, I have to admit, I was deeply underwhelmed with the user-facing implementation. It's probably the slowest, least responsive, web app I've ever used. It also felt way over engineered, with far too many unrefined ideas crammed into it.

That being said, I ended up being a big fan of it, hoping Google would eventually get around to fixing some of the obvious issues (they mostly didn't, though it did get slightly more responsive before it died).

Why was I fan? I didn't think of Wave as a thing to do, like Twitter (you tweet), or Facebook (you friend and post), or a blog (you write a journal)...there never was a way to "Wave", just like there isn't one way to "e-mail". It was just a new set of communication tools that you could assemble however you wanted.

It's no different than using e-mail to plan a party in one case or send photos to your mom in another case or applying for a job in another. E-mail is just a tool, the use-cases fall out of how you use that tool.

For some reason Wave seemed to look like a solution in search of a problem, but I ended up finding several existing things that were better solved in Wave than with the existing workflows. The most notable was organizing a group around collaboratively writing a large document. Structured correctly and the work just kind of "fell out".

The mistake with trying to use Wave was always in trying to use all of the features in Wave.

I really miss it and am very glad to see bits and pieces of the idea slowly percolating into other Google products (Drive for example).
The idea kind of came along when I was extracting Gallery CSS from the project that I built it for — I realised that people probably wouldn't understand the library, or the need for it… but I didn't want the cool tech result to go unnoticed.

Originally it was going to be an ebook… if I'd have done that, it would've been released about 3 weeks ago, but the knowledge transfer is far more challenging VS a screencast.
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Will you release any statistics about how many people downloaded Gallery CSS and how many bought the screencast?
Huh. So do we build sites for users or to satisfy specs?
> fork
I really want to improve/make new syntax languages for this and actually use it.

Problem is that CodeMirror's docs for it are a tad confusing and I'm not even sure if it will be as flexable as Sublime/textmate .tmLanguage syntaxing. Anyone got a good resource or advice on this?

For example, I want to highlight function calls in coffeescript, such as:

obj.func '100', () ->

Where "func" is highlighted differently. I've accomplished this with a .tmLanguage with relative strife, so I am wondering how easy it will be to do things like this with CodeMirror.

Once this thing goes open source I'd be happy to revamp all of the syntax highlighting for js/cs/css/stylus/html etc. should this make any sense, though technically as it uses CodeMirror I'd be revamping for them instead. Of course this would mean editing the .css files provided by LightTable though, so I'm half right.
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Ah awesome, I love there are so many things to learn about git.

I knew about git rebase -p and its nuances, but haven't known about the --onto until now. The 3-argument form of git rebase --onto in your blog post was great, thanks!
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The creator made (presumably) a couple of million, and has changed the way we collaborate on documents, I'd love to have that kind of success.
A great business idea can still be "stupid." Or worse:

Privately run prisons. Mercenary companies providing "security" in wars. etc.
Well, Adobe offering their toolkit as a cheaper, monthly cloud offering. That is because lots of people cannot shell out $2k upfront for their tools.
You are doing similar thing with Matlab.
How does it and why do you think you failed?

YC failed to see the future potential of your business because they are looking for the quickest and best bang for the buck obviously.

If you're passionate about your business model, keep going and ignore naysayers who cannot assist you.
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Yes this is precisely what I had in mind, for larger features I personally prefer to see merge commits and not rebase the branch onto master. I believe it is one place where merge commits definitely add value and make sense.
Get the book _From Fatigued to Fantastic_. The "standard" tests your doctor would ordinarily order won't show jack. (See my comment below for more specific test information.) This book is the single best resource I have found. Even if you don't technically have full-blown CFS, it will probably be able to help you.

The five things that made the biggest difference in my life: Trazodone (Desyrel) to fix my constant waking at night, melatonin to work against the delayed sleep phase syndrome, magnesium/ATP/d-ribose to ease the excruciating muscle pain, B-vitamin complex for energy, and lots and lots of electrolyte supplementation to help with the POTS/low blood pressure.

Does your heart race when you just stand up? Doctors are famous for telling you that you just need exercise. I told mine that my heart rate doubled when I stood up (a classic symptom of POTS), and he said "You're just de-conditioned." I told him, "I wasn't de-conditioned three months ago before I got sick, and I was exercising every day. Tell me how I de-conditioned from being able to do aerobics, walk around and climb things to being unable to stand up in 60 days." and he just shrugged. Asshole. I discovered much later that electrolytes solved the worst of that particular symptom.
It doesn't work perfectly fine because it has no sync. iOS apps cannot do background tasks. I receive a new mail, I read half the mail in my notification, but when I tap the notification, I have to wait 10 seconds for the mail to be downloaded. For someone who switched from Android, it makes me feel like I went back in time to to Windows 95 and Outlook Express.

So, no. I disagree. Gmail (at least the app) works horrible on iOS. Likewise, Google Maps and most other Google services are worse on iOS, while with Android everything just works after logging into Google.
As long as its not too embarrassing :-)
My take on this is that it is effective because it reduces peoples fear of suggesting an idea.

We all feel something for our own genuine suggestions, a sort of ownership, and so fear the possibility of rejection as it would be a rejection of something personal to us, our preference.

When someone suggests a universally and whole heartily rejected idea we can take a degree of security from that that our idea will not be as universally disliked; "Well it's not as bad as McDonald's"

It's also possible that it just gets the "flow" going, which again is more to do with removing peoples fears i.e. "well, he suggested an idea and it wasn't so bad for him so I may as well suggest one as well"
Wish I could upvote more than once.
Ask HN: Advice on creating a student tracking app?
At a nearby school, students are signed in as they arrive at after school care (time-stamp recorded), and signed out when their parent or other adult picks them up (time-stamp again). The adult also signs their signature at pick-up. There are close to 500 students and about 75-100 attend after-school activities.

Currently the time-stamps and signatures are done on paper (!!!), and I have been asked to see about implementing a digital solution (free). The person in charge has an Android tablet (HTC Evo View 4G) and there is WiFi available. The app or website should allow storing of multiple adults who can pick up a student (parents, siblings, etc), searching by name of either the student or the responsible adult's name, recoding timestamps and signatures, and be able to do some billing calculations or exporting to a spreadsheet.

How would you implement this? What language(s), technologies, and hosting platforms would you use?

Here is a little about me (though feel free to describe what you think would be the optimal solution): I have some fairly basic Android skills (you can see my app via my profile), so I am thinking a web application would be best. I know HTML/CSS/JS and a tiny, tiny bit of Ruby/Rails. I also found a few jQuery Signature libraries, which look very promising:

http://thomasjbradley.ca/lab/signature-pad
http://keith-wood.name/signature.html
http://willowsystems.github.io/jSignature/#/about

Any advice from my fellow Hacker News members would be appreciated.
Layered images can easily grow to gigabytes in size. You do not want to store that much information in a format like JSON that must be opened into memory, parsed and stored in native objects. SQLite is RAM efficient and quick to open, even at large file sizes.
Facebook product engineer says don't learn web development
I first heard of you guys when I read an interesting post about the startup scene in Chattanooga. Congrats on launching.
Original document: http://3taps.com/images/pics/430_138734862-Judge-rules-in-fa...
We're working on it here at Etsy :)

It'll be released in a week or two. In the meantime, I've been speaking about it: http://devslovebacon.com/conferences/bacon-2013/talks/bring-...
Why Human First should be the language of Digital Communication
Well, to be sure the magic ingredient in Youtube's success was not the idea of uploading and watching videos. Many people were working on video sharing at that time (myself included). Youtube's secret was that the founders were already successful entrepreneurs who were well connected to VC's. Thus they had access to the capital that allowed them to lose ungodly amounts of money in the quest for growth.
I've been given a "Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement" as well as a "Termination Certificate". Basically giving ownership of my IP and ending my work. No paperwork before this.

We are all technical, we all wrote code. My contributions to the code are non-trivial and useful, but they could ultimately take out my contributions and create something else on their own that has the same results. If they removed all of my code contributions, would I still be in any position to ask for compensation for my work?

I think simply having it in the contract that I'll be paid by a certain date sounds like a good plan.
If this is an accurate summary of the legal situation (not at all something one can assume with this publication) then it sounds as if Craigslist simply needs to change their terms so that a user agrees that Craigslist has a perpetual and exclusive copyright on the content of listings. Then you may be able to aggregate the data in some form, but would have to be careful how you used the content of the listings.
But a layered image SHOULD be a single file and not a filesystem. No non-technical user would expect otherwise.

And why all the spite? Gus isn't proposing that Acorn's database schema BE the standard. He says that clearly. He simply wrote a blog post giving an example of how he has used SQLite for storing layered images. (Also, he did happen to describe how he does layer sequencing - did you read the full article?) Any final spec would of course need to define additional semantics. That wasn't the point.
The picture Gross shared is a frame from a 1.5 year old promo[1], so he may also have misheard 1Gb for 1GB.

[1] http://imgur.com/IfxYZL2 – the bottom image is from this presentation: http://youtu.be/YXylqtEQ0tk
All I wanna know is, if we dope a time crystal with a transition element like gallium, can we get a flux capacitor/transistor thing?
In Australia it is possible to get companies that send unwanted texts banned from sending texts on Australian networks.
Just so everyone knows, this person is a troll.
I went to UT and started and did research at ORNL. I left in 2011 to start a startup in Chattanooga (Colocated with Banyan). Tenneessee (specifically Chattanooga) is a great place to start a company. There's good funding, low cost of living and a pretty nice talent pool.
That's a decision for each individual developer to make.

Some folk tried to create a pacifist version of the GPL[1].

Others are using the RMPL (RobotGroup-Multiplo-Pacifist-License)[2] - basically a MIT license, but with a restriction that bans military projects.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/08/7511/

[2] http://multiplo.com.ar/soft/Mbq/Minibloq.Lic.v1.0.en.pdf
"iPhone 5's battery life is shorter than that of many Android phones"

Usually it is. But I was just comparing it to Nexus 4 in that sentence (which happens to be the only Android phone that actually runs the latest and unmodified Android).
Man, you have a veritable talent for liking half-baked ho-hum stuff!

I mean:

1) Google Wave -- a confused mess of a mail/im/web/social offering that didn't exactly knew what it was and solved non problems.

2) Gnome 3 -- Gnome 2 had languished for years. Why would 3 change that, especially since most of the changes planned were incremental ho-hum stuff combined with arbitrary rewrites of core technologies sure to take them years to complete?

3) Zune. Nuff said.
I'm not sure that that's the responsibility of legislation. If you are misled (even unintentionally) as the the nature of the account you are sharing private information with, then the responsibility for having broken the trust lies with your friend. In this senario, you have willingly shared private information with the employer.

Now, wether there should be legal ramifications for such a violation of trust may be a worthwhile questions, but not one that this bill, which only amends an existing law, even even attempting to consider.
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Exactly.

The actual interesting thing about this crystal is that the atoms will spontaneously start spinning as you remove energy from the system. Ie, in the ground state (the lowest energy state) the atoms are in motion. This is in contrast to all the physical systems we are familiar with where the ground state is motionless.

The reason it is called a 'time crystal' is that the ground state 'breaks symmetry' in time in the same way that a regular crystal 'breaks symmetry' in space - in the sense that if you translate the system in space, you do not usually get back its original state, unlike a gas. And, this symmetry breaking occurs as you cool the system. Crystals self-organize in a periodic grid as you cool them from the liquid state, just as this time crystal will set itself in periodic motion as you cool it.

One consequence of the symmetry breaking is that the atoms will have to move either clockwise, or counterclockwise, and will "randomly" choose one of the two.
I might be missing something, but I feel like this is just reinventing IDEs that exist today (but are boo'ed by Sublime Text/TextMate guys.)

For instance, when it comes to Python, PyCharm (http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/features/index.html) seems far more powerful -- it provides live debugging/breakpoints (with the ability to change attributes of running code -- even for server code), code introspection, documentation browsing, refactoring, JavaScript debugging (integrated in FireFox), VirtualEnv support, tight integration with Django/Flask for templates, etc... And it's fast

So aside from the look and feel, what does LT have to offer?

The more tools the better, but I just wonder if anybody who has used a modern robust IDE can offer a comparison?
The example given was that for both the 360 and Wii it took simple authentication hacks to run pirated content but vast amounts of work to run homebrew. It was then claimed this decision making screwed the console manufacturers. You brought up an example of a different platform (ps3) and a different situation (did support homebrew, then stopped).

I'm still waiting to hear how Microsoft and/or Nintendo screwed themselves exactly.
I don't want better hardware. I just want acceptable hardware without significant flaws and issues.
Or it might have been the classic "husband-and-wife squabble": one of the partners really liked you (possibly not someone in the interview), then convinced the rest (who disagreed) to give you a shot. The others came in pre-biased to reject you, but willing to be just polite enough to appease your advocate partner.

If you really aced the interview, you'd never know it. They'd still dislike you. But they wouldn't be able to say no, since they knew they'd have to tell your advocate what happened in the interview--so they'd give you a "we'll get back to you." Then, later that day, the interviewers and the advocate have a huge argument on the real merits of your company. Your fate hangs in the balance of that argument.

If you've ever run a garage sale, you'll have seen this all play out in real-time on your lawn. :)
I suspect there's a fairly high variance within the US, too. I've never had a crappy McDonald's food, but I'm usually in an upper middle class suburb or downtown Seattle when I go.
Oh the list could go on forever. I'll do my best -- but first some questions:

-- Where (generally) are you staying? Manhattan, Brooklyn, etc. And in which neighborhood?

-- What are some of your interests? Are you a runner / cyclist / boxer / etc?

-- What sort of budget will you be on?

-- Are you into food? ("A Foodie")

Start there and I'll gladly data-dump for ya...
Ideas I thought were stupid when I first heard them:

1) eBay - people are going to buy from random people they don't know? and bid against other people they don't know? Auctions will be rigged and I won't get my stuff. Stupid.

2) Netflix - they are going to send DVD's in the mail and I am going to mail them back? And then I have to wait for it to get to me? Aren't people going to steal the DVD's and damage them? Won't it cost too much for them to make a profit? Why don't I just go to Blockbuster? Stupid.