skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider eating patterns: do you eat when you get up? If so, defer to the time you'd rather rise. (Also: when do you last eat before going to sleep? Can that be shifted later?)

Is there light/noise/roommate/etc. which triggers the early-wake, which you could mitigate?

Do you know if you snore or have sleep apnea? (You could go to a sleep-specialist for relevant tests, one of which is a finger-mounted blood-oxygen meter you take home.)
Given that >60% of Twitter accounts are abandoned, 5% is a more significant fraction than it seems. And regardless, by that standard, virtually all options are "obscure". Most users will never go and look at the options that are available, they just take whatever is the default and assume that's the only choice they get.
Thanks! I figured I'd do a press release later everyone would ignore.
The over all problem is that only a certain set of people should have access to non publicly disclosed data. Putting this data on another companies servers is a gross violation of the law.

If a Google employee can see the raw data that belongs to a Google Docs user then Google Docs will never be sufficient for fully replacing locally installed software.
If a task can be done properly and does not need AJAX, it doesn't need AJAX. Simplicity.

For example, a list of related sites on a blog. It's a bunch of static links and there is nothing wrong with keeping it a bunch of static links. Don't need to make every.single.thing AJAX unless it improves the usability or functionality.
Everybody do your civic duty and curl in a couple dozen random logins. A database full of junk is almost as good as none at all.
The rest of the VPRI writings is also great:

http://www.vpri.org/html/writings.php
I think what I meant to say is that you'll have a good cause for appeal.
I don't see how tailoring product to netbooks is anti-fun. You can see it as a challenge. You could find a way to express the same information, but in a graphically minimal way.
It's not really the users' fault that Twitter hasn't deigned to think of a business model.
I'd be interested in hearing about how your payment services stack up. My contact info is in my profile. You should include yours in yours if you expect people to make contact.
Not 80% of people.
What would be really interesting is if the submission's current rank (at the time a vote was cast) was recorded with the vote itself.

Of course, that would change the entire way votes are recorded (most likely), but it would allow us to see how far past the front page people actually look.
You getting hit by a car today costs the insurance company more than you having heart disease in 40 years. Remember, "the market" cares about short-term gains, not long-term sustainability.
You could probably combine the easy-arms-reach touchscreen with HUD and audio feedback to mitigate most of these issues.
Thanks for the feedback durin42. We will definitely be opening up once we launch to the public.
thanks for your interest - my email is in my profile but here goes paulpajo [at] gmail and also paul.pajo [at] asiapay [dot] com
http://searchyc.com/user/**** (replace stars with username).

That'll give you # of comments, # of submissions, average # of points per comment, and average # of points per submission.
Good catch I'll add a password reset on the login page. You can do that through the application but you haven't gotten there yet.

In the mean time can you create another account or email support@hybir.com with your user_id and request a password reset?

Thanks,

Rasch
try this:
http://xkcd.com/320/ and http://echochamber.me/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=12882
Slightly off-topic, but it's awesome that you post code along with the answer when asked these types of questions.
If you are working on your own and it doesn't matter when you are awake, then only go to sleep when you are really tired.

Trying to sleep at set times can cause anxiety over sleep, which makes it harder to fall asleep.
Lessons in bootstrapping from the founders of Urbanspoon
Disclosure : I am the author of the guest post. This is very HN appropriate.
If I had to pick just one thing that Scratch gets right that other programming languages should strive for, it would be the immediacy with which a beginning programmer can get compelling results through trying things. I've seen many would-be programmers lose interest because the process to get a desired result is too abstract and prolonged; the inertia is too great. The ability to get results quickly reinforces further exploration of the system. Novices can build up to an understanding of data structures, algorithms, and how to structure code.
http://google.com/search?q=cache:SdlYNbOXScIJ:www.vpri.org/p...
Ask HN: Best material/sites to teach my father basic computer literacy? 
My father just became excited when he learned how to copy and paste. I decided I need to teach him some basics.

I was looking online for some good videos/tutorials but most of them are either:

a) created in 1990s

b) infomercial quality

Can anyone with experience teaching computers to technically disinclined people recommend videos/books/sites??

This may be a business opportunity for a well designed site with screencasts and social features.
Enter the AlloSphere: a 360° Audiovisual Research Dome
Phantoms In The Brain (investigations by neurologist V.S. Ramachandran)
Not only that, I'm almost certain the google engineers would do a better job than I would! Faster, too...
Has anyone on here tried this yet? I've gotten on reasonably well with Quack, but I'm always excited about new modes!
Yes, it is a computational knowledge engine. :)

Which I think is a pretty good label, actually. It is taking all the kind of information found in the big reference books in your library (atlases, dictionaries, science reference, etc.) and making it searchable through queries and inferences and calculations.

I agree that the people comparing it to Google are off the mark. This demo does not compare it to Google in any way. I like at the end they show a page with the kinds of things Alpha knows about. It would be very frustrating trying to guess what it knows or not by typing in random queries.
My attempt (it works when I run it in my head :-):

const uint numBits = 3*numPieces;
const u64 lowBits = ((1ULL << numBits)-1);
const u64 highBits = lowBits << numBits;

// Flip around horizontal axis
flippedIndex = index ^ 4;

// Flip around vertical axis
flippedIndex = index ^ 2;

// Flip around diagonal axis
flippedIndex = (index & highBits) | ((index & lowBits) ^ lowBits) ^ ((index & highBits) >> numBits))

Edit: my last one ain't right
Are you talking about Dale Carnegie or Andrew Carnegie?
Gmail is the best web client. My favorite email client is actually a newsreader: Forte Inc's Agent, a second best is Eudora. Thunderbird is what I use now, it's OK.
Innovation has nothing to do with entrepreneurs. Innovation happens when craftsmen, not businessmen, find better ways of practicing their craft.

That's categorically false, unless you have very narrow definitions of entrepreneur and craftsman. It seems like in practice, the line gets pretty blurry. Aren't all entrepreneurs craftsmen in some regard (if not with respect to their product, then to customer experience, process, or something else)?

For instance, Honoré le Blanc, Eli Whitney, et al pioneered the concept of interchangeable parts for business purposes. Were these guys businessmen or craftsmen? On the one hand, they eliminated a lot of the art of gunmaking, but on the other hand, they made more reliable guns.
Hey, an emacs <-> lisp interaction mode with tagged releases and potentially documentation in the future. How refreshing! (slime is particularly irritating in that they don't make stable releases or documentation because they don't feel like it).
I will add screen casts and screen shots to the site. I will have to look into the invisibility issue. The icons will definitely get redone once I have someone decent to do them.

I can't really say anything yet. But you may be surprised where it is and how many places it is in the next three to six months.

Thanks!
Perhaps a good C++ programmer writes equivalent code in C++ just as fast as he would in Python (For some kind of tasks I've found this to be true as well), but how many good C++ programmers are there? It's a brutally tricky language and getting quick requires knowing how to avoid the sometimes subtle pitfalls.

I suspect that for the vast majority of web apps though, PHP, C#, Rails, whatever is 'good enough' and they run into the db as a bottleneck if anything and would rather scale out their scripting layer with more machines. The framework ecosystem around C++ as a web app language also isn't as rich, so it requires more work to get started.
Interesting startup, compete says 1+ million visitors? Not bad.

Although I've heard points on your list many times before on HN. I also disagree with using friends (unless they really fit the requirements and your comfortable telling them when they do something wrong) and outsourcing.
doesn't slime support various scheme implementations? It would have supported them all if some Schemes, and now clojure, didn't introduce weird little syntaxes.
It works great for me, when I'm not breaking Guile all the time that is ;-)

Seriously. Until Geiser, I didn't really know what having an active program text was like. Sure they've existed in the past. But still, it's really nice to feel like you're in a conversation with your program.
Amen, tdavis!

Also, it is my hope that all those who have commented on "craftsman v. entrepreneur" and the glut of "business types" have personally built companies and met the challenges of payroll & bringing a product to market.....but I really doubt thats the case.
It turns out that you can reduce the number of surgical instruments left in patients by 33% by implementing checklists. Surgeons won't do it because it feels beneath them.
When I was first learning microcontroller programming, nobody told you this stuff. The great thing about the Arduino community is that it makes casual hacking so much easier to get into.

Another great resource for hardware hacking is the SparkFun tutorials:

http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/tutorials.php
This is not a ritual of mine, but something widely practiced by those around me: asking me for favors when I am hacking. I agree to everything!
Yeah, the diagonal flip is really the whole point of the problem. Horizontal and vertical are just warm-ups.
Who wouldn't want a document rendered in a custom viewer in a flash control in a web page in a tab in a browser?

If only I could browse the web from within Scribd, everything would be perfect!
You are not the only one who found this analysis suspect.
The Supreme Court of New Jersey did, too, when it decided the issue in march 2008.
"Subject to certain conditions, the Court holds that the Alcotest is scientifically reliable and that its results are admissible in drunk driving prosecutions. State v. Chun 194 NJ 54 3-17-08"
http://ezinearticles.com/?NJ-Supreme-Court-Holds-New-Alcotes...
That's a good idea. "Unbelievable" is a TV infomercial slang, not too professional to put it mildly.
Looks like the konami code is the latest fad all the cool sites pick up. I mean, what's wrong with good old xyzzy?
I agree that process can be a demoralizing effect, but I like to play devil's advocate.

An hour of Google's revenue lost from 14% of their customers costs them about $350,000 (judging roughly by Q109 revenue numbers). Had it been 100% of customers impacted during that hour (i.e. a bigger goof-up) they'd have lost ~$2.55 million.

If you had 9,000 engineers making 100k a year on average, they could each spend an hour every day on paranoid safeguard processes and only cost the company $308,000.

So is it worth investing in processes to avoid that? Absolutely. Even if they can't find a good way to automate this, it's hard to argue against protecting against that sort of loss of revenue however you can.
"keep alive"

eg. Not reconnecting.
Press releases of your own baby creations are more than welcome. What is not welcome is press releases to other people's products and services with your affiliate/referral ID neatly tucked in the submitted URL :-)
I do in several places. Perhaps I should try make it more obvious.
Yes, but this is really like trying to "undo" something that you have spoken.

When you make a routing update, it takes place immediately (generally). You can only undo it by making another update (presuming of course that your first update didn't impair your ability to get more data through...).

There are tools, like WANDL, that allow you to model your network and see what various changes or outages will look like in "real life". Of course, these simulations take time to setup and run. And, I've made simple routing updates before. I KNOW that this will work and I don't need to model it...
I may be in your target market.

I am currently/always looking for better user backups for our employees. We have tried multiple online solutions before (Carbonite, Mozy) and we've tried multiple local backups (rsync to a central server, Maxtor Onetouch+, Acronis Truebackup, etc)

Here are the questions I have when hitting your site. They're just my quick overview thoughts, but they might be of help-

How much does it cost?
Do you charge per user, or per GB?

"Every Hybir Backup is the equivalent of a Full Backup at the speed of an incremental. "
Do you do block level backups, or file level? Ie, is this akin to Ghost, or more akin to rsync?

"Hybir Backup leverages all the data it has ever backed up for everyone. "

This makes it seem like you do a md5 on the file, and store by that, rather than by the file itself. Do you preserve permissions, etc?

Also- What do you do if there is 1M of changes in a 100G file?

How do you handle updates to the client? Do they roll out automatically, or do users need to download and install them?

Is it possible to have one master account have access to all sub accounts? I'd rather not have them all have the same username+password, so that users can't download eachother's files.. All the same, I don't want to have to keep a spreadsheet with XXX passwords.

"Security a bank would envy"
SSL security is great for it getting to you. I'm not worried about that. What about isolation from other customers? Can we encrypt our backups with a private key, so that you compare block-changes against OUR files, but not against others in your datacenter?

"Full Backup"
You're backing up the MBR, etc. Is there a way to restore this if it's broken (a boot cd or similar?). If not, what good is it? (Honest question.)

"We may use your PII to contact you in connection with offers, responses to your inquiries, information on new services and features, and in connection with administering and offering our services."

I'd really like to see the privacy policy clarified with regards to the difference between Personal Information (Our name, etc), and the data we upload.

"The Software may be installed and used solely on one standalone, un-networked desktop or laptop computer identified by Customer when subscribing to the Services, and the Services may be used solely for such standalone computer."

This terms of use sounds like it's written for a commercial program, not a service - We want to install on many computers, that's the point ;)

"3.3 Hybir retains the right, but not the obligation, to retain copies of obsolete or deleted files, subject solely to its obligations of confidentiality hereunder."

This makes me nervous, FWIW.

Overall, it looks like a good product, in a very, very crowded market.
Under the header "Architecture of a Hybir Backup" you write: 'Giving you piece of mind...'. Please change it to read 'peace of mind'.

Actually, re-reading the page, you might want to get someone to give the whole page a once-over. There are quite a few improvements to make...

Apart from that, good luck!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=580842
-> http://www.allosphere.ucsb.edu/

But it's so cool, it's worth posting again.
I would say the friend component often overlaps with people you already know are really great to work with. Many of my best friends are people who I've had the most positive experiences working with on the job. One of the most important things to have in co-founders (especially bootstrapped ones, I suppose) is trust in them to stick it out and not let you down. While it may be risky to go into a difficult situation with friends, at least you're much more sure you can probably rely on them and know what they're capable of.
A shift is impossible so long as the Western culture doesn't care how exactly you make money, that is, whether it's out of thin air or out of the thick urge to create wealth. Luckily, the laws of free markets are on our side and the present crisis seems to be trying to fix just that. I understand this view may be too simplistic, but it's probably the best explanation of what's happening in the world now. And what's happening is potentially a slight positive shift in culture.
They've been saying that since the 1980's.

When the price of oil goes up everyone expects solar to finally be cheaper - except that when the price of oil (AKA energy) goes up the manufacturing price for solar cells goes up to.
The curve I fit to the leader board is,

karma = 25343 * rank^(-.465)

Which has an R-squared value of 0.9791.

Unfortunately, this isn't a good enough fit to meaningfully extrapolate very far.
There are builtin “software” pull-up resistors

Cool, didn't know that. I've seen it used in code once, but I couldn't understand why someone would write to an input pin.
Will Geffen Buy The New York Times?
Norway has gotten quite a lot of immigrants the last couple of decades and homogeneous might not be a key word anymore.

A couple of friends of mine are Bangladeshi academics. They are the nicest, "squarest" and most hard working nerds I've ever met. I had lots of fun sending them a reference to the news last year -- about problems in Oslo with Bangladeshi street gangs... :-)

But sure, the problems with planning and controlling a society isn't proportional to the population, more like the population squared.

It should also be less problems with fewer variables.
"Konami Code Sites", ranked 6th on current home as I write this, isn't even on the first page in the 'classic' view.
Leslie Lamport: The Future of Computing: Logic or Biology
Did you read the article?

"Just around the corner from Norway’s central bank, for instance, Paul Bruum takes a needle full of amphetamines and jabs it into his muscular arm. His scabs and sores betray many years as a heroin addict. He says that the $1,500 he gets from the government each month is enough to keep him well-fed and supplied with drugs.

Mr. Bruum, 32, says he has never had a job, and he admits he is no position to find one. I don’t blame anyone, he said. The Norwegian government has provided for me the best they can."

Why should other people be forced to subsidize that kind of lifestyle?
Elaborate then, what's the difference?

(another summary sentence would make this an informative comment, instead of a clever remark)
That was my point, yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-of-the-Night_Insomnia
Structures that earn the designation "historical" require certified craftsman for all repair work. It costs significantly more than typical home construction and therefore increases costs greatly.
Justin.tv Adds Paid Pro Account Option
On a positive note, just talking about the reading impaired, several dyslexic friends find a large Kindle font and resulting short effective width makes routine reading possible. Similarly, my dad with his fading eyesight is again able to regularly read books.

Not often highlighted, but a huge advantage of these devices. I wonder why Amazon doesn't promote this more.
Tour Asia With GeeksOnAPlane, Get To Know Half The World’s Internet Users
The perfect geek age?
"HN is apparently auto-creating mirrors of copyrighted content on scribd"

If you look at a '[scribd]' link, you'll see that the scribd url has the original url as a parameter, which suggests that scribd does not make copies of pdfs submitted to HN, but merely acts as an in-browser pdf viewer.
I think your homepage needs to say why "Hybir reinvents backup". Once I read your features page, I was sold, but the homepage doesn't do enough to draw people in. You need to mention at least one unique selling point. Maybe something like: "Genuine full PC, zero configuration backup with unparalleled performance". A screenshot on the home page would definitely help too.

Minor issue: from the forums, I can't find an obvious link back to your home page.
PG married hacker culture with "crass" commercialism, empowering capable people everywhere.

Before this "scene", hackers talked about "PHBs" and "cow-orkers"; working for The Man was a necessary evil that everyone had to put up with, witness the talented but bored BoFH, who LARTs lusers and generally channels his unhappiness with work through mischief and abuse.

Nowadays "lusers" are hackers' best friend, we're busy finding solutions to better their lives and improve our economic situation at the same time. Colleagues are peers, hand picked and chosen by us. It's a true meritocracy.

I would pay for HN (with the option to ban Tech Crunch posts and other fluff mongers, at least until the official launch date of my startup ;-)
Flojax: An unobtrusive and easy strategy for creating AJAX-style web applications
Are you guys looking for interns (for full time during the summer, and part time during the school year)?
Only if they didn't "read" my mail. I am in the online ad business and for some discussions to take place I have to attach an encrypted zip file like a mafioso.
Change "record obliterating speeds" to "record-obliterating speeds" on the home page
That everpresent "Mathematica" blurb on the screens doesn't represent any kind of site category, I don't think; the whole site is driven by Mathematica behind the scenes. The Mathematica link often visible looks like it goes to some sort of representation of that behind-the-scenes stuff, but that's just a guess.
I would pay $5 for a vanilla Windows XP box with IE6.
No, I don't use C++. But all of my code for Tarsnap (including website) is written in C, aside from a few very small shell scripts.