skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you would like a tool to manage your small business activities and Projects, you can use this web aplication:

http://www.Gtdagenda.com

You can use it to manage and prioritize your Goals (for business but also in other areas of your life), Projects and Tasks. It has a Checklists section, for the routines and repetitive activities that any business has to do. Also, it features a Schedules section and a Calendar, for scheduling you time and activities.

Some features from GTD are also present, like Contexts and Next Actions.

And it’s available on the mobile phone too, so you can access it from anywhere.
Good point, I think that widget should be key part of the service. Maybee it will be better to completely get rid of the marketplace on our site.

You are right, that it could work for bands, who have decent user base. Indie bands will not be able to find enough followers bidding on the unique items.

The reason, why swoopo like auction could benefit band and their fans is, that at the Ebay, just the richest win. But there it is more like the lottery. Everybody has the same chance.

The biggest problem for me is to find bands with enough fans to try it.
The autofocus camera will complicate calibration. Maybe the API provides an accurate reading of the current focal length.
nah, too expensive.

I was interested and was waiting to see because this would be something we might consider (50+ developers in 7 teams). But it's not worth it: my man hours to configure Trac + Git (well actually Mercurial here but we could have migrated with ease) costs thousands less. Indeed we would probably need around 80 licenses all told for the occasional contractors, offsite workers and third party contributors. That's about $50,000 a year - and there is no way it could save us that much a year.

Yes you get a neat clean interface and some fancy graphs etc. but, seriously, they arent all that useful day-to-day. We actually use Bitbucket at the moment (and trac internally for super secret projects) and we do not miss the few fancy features from Github.

License it at $200/user and volume license it at $150 (maybe $100) per user over 10 users and $250 per 10 users standard support. Then we'll talk.

Where I work we shell out serious cash per year for software licenses and so on - so it's not a case of us being scrooges: it's just not worth it.

That said: they will sell a bomb load :)
I'm the same. I'm a bit of a noob with web dev, but I've recently started work on my second medium-sized web project. Since doing my first one, I've learned a bit about database normalisation, but in some ways it proved a stumbling block: I couldn't get started until I'd made some database tables, but now I knew I should design the database first, yet trying to get everything down in Notepad seemed too much trouble.

When I tried writing each table out on a post-it-note, it was so much easier - even enjoyable - to come up with a normalised schema.

I wonder if/when computer technology will advance to the point where it's as flexible and disposible as pen and paper?
Sorry, no. Even if you have courses where no labs are required, human interaction and the high bandwidth of face-to-face communication with dedicated teachers is invaluable.

90% of the value of universities is not in the lectures - I can mostly replace lectures with textbooks already. It's in the ability to ask questions, the hands-on experience I get, and the immersion in [and competition with] a group of people with similar interests and abilities.
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Just me or are the slides one slide ahead of most of his talk?
Packing the family up and selling the house to pursue a more challenging development job in another area is just not feasible, especially when your spouse has her own career.

A good reason to live in a tech hub, if you want to be able to change development jobs without changing residences.
> Are you kidding me, I thought that's why there are churches in this country.

You already know the folks in your own church.

Think of it as cross-pollination.
This is significantly cheaper than I expected it to be. Less than half what the Macbook costs. A few billable hours per developer. It's not a bad deal.
My bread and butter is a legal pad and pen. I'll mock-up designs, doodle possible logos (I know, superficial, but it's fun), write pseudocode, and tinker with the database schema.

Most pages get forgotten, but the act of working through the problems on paper helps to solidify the thoughts and designs in my mind (much like how they say that writing notes while studying will improve your overall retention).

Then the whiteboard for the quick stuff (like little notes I need to remember for the next few minute, but wouldn't).

Every few years I buy a pile of legal pads - cheaper in bulk :)
1. most people don't make significant use out of the basic REPL. They use one integrated in to their editor/IDE. Emacs/Slime is probably the most popular, but I think there are addons for the Java IDEs too.

2. That may depend on what you're scraping. Manipulating semi-structured text data is one of Perl's biggest uses, so it may work a bit better than Clojure for the same purpose. Clojure certainly has decent regex and string capabilities though, so yes, it's a good choice.

3. Yes. There's a very good dataflow library for Common Lisp called Cells. It provides dependent and independent variables that work a lot like spreadsheet cells within a program. There's a partial port to Clojure. Also, Clojure has watchers - functions that can be attached to reference types and run whenever their state changes. Clojure and Common Lisp are quite fast at math, especially with type annotations.
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Adaptive quantum computation effect in bacterial photosynthesis?
Zeo Personal Sleep Coach, from the article, FYI:

http://www.myzeo.com/pages/4_what_is_zeo_.cfm

$399
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I didn't say you could avoid making ALL mistakes. You can avoid certain mistakes.

> On the other hand, I've had many times where I overrode my intuition and thought "damn, should have trusted myself"

That's exactly what I'm talking about. :)

> This is the big fallacy of questioning your every thought and intention.

I never said question every thought. I also never said that the goal in life is to avoid making all mistakes.

See, you've got a reason in posting this, and for putting words in my mouth and, in my opinion, saying "No" to me while On The Other Hand giving an example of what I meant.

You also left off my real-world example of questioning your own motives, which your Covey anecdote doesn't negate in any way.

Why do you think that is?
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I know the comments below illuminate some good examples, but what experiences specifically do you feel can never be replaced by a virtual environment?

I agree that it is not quite there yet, but with an increase in internet speeds and some fancy videoconferencing it might not be that far off...
Who really uses Twitter? And why?
That is a good point. If a natural solution can't be arrived at through intuition then more data may help steer us to the solution. I think your point may be even more accurate today than it would have been years ago since the artificial stuff in our environment tend to mess up our intuition a lot so you can't really rely on just going with what 'feels' right until you retrain your body. For instance artificial sweeteners taste the same as sugar to us so when we want sugar we go for them, but it does little to solve the underlying reason why we craved the sweets in the first place. (Low bloodsugar)
Version control does not require graphs. Git takes 30 seconds to set up. There are many free web front ends, and gui's, and of course the good old command line. If you have non-capable people who you need to provide some kind of system to see pretty graphs and talk about schedules, there is no reason for it to be in the VCS.
The "You" that is doing the analyzing can obviously learn and grow... otherwise, what's the point of doing anything?

And, if you read the original article, you'll see it's not about "catching problems" at all.
In the land of laptops, powering down is a lot less frequent. Vista's "power button" by default suspends. The hardware power button suspends. I suspect a lot of Windows users almost never reboot.
If I do enough coding late at night, I usually code review in my sleep and wake up knowing tons of things to change. I've learned to do my CS homework last thing before bed and wake up early enough to fix bugs.
lmao

you know I think it is weird cause sometimes I wake up and I am clueless as to whether something happened in a dream or real life.

I gota say I love dreams, I mean you can get shot in them, feel what it is like and all, and still be alive when you wake up!

But having an answer from a dream seems super cool. What's more cool is that you remembered what the solution was when you woke up!
Something about that video appears staged to me.
Clueless help-desk techs often count "boot time" as the time it takes for you to boot, then log into your account. Then when you follow their instructions and call them back "after it boots" they get irate at you for making them wait another few seconds.
I was saying this to my friend the other day: Someone's going to implement the art project from Spook Country in a few months on an iPhone 3GS.
I doubt updating the UI is real processor-intensive. The worker threads would do the math without blocking the UI.
You'd be surprised. I have several friends with multiple children who freelance. One, in fact, left a stable job just a few months ago to go independent.

I think it's a myth that freelancing is less stable than a regular job. They both have risks. Your employer can go under, or let you go for political reasons, or restructure you out of work, or get bought by another company. As a freelancer, you have a completely different set of risks, but you're rewarded well to take the risk - such that you typically only have to work 8-9 months/year to make the same amount you'd make as an employee.
Off topic, but this makes me want to see a matrix view of twitter updates/profile pics.
69% of Web News is Google, Twitter, iPhone, Yahoo and Microsoft
It is hard to escape the feeling that in 80 years the average 20 year old will consist of four parts frail, flabby skin and bone with three parts metal, wire and battery holding the whole cobbled mess together till the next (computer) virus takes out some vital system and lands the whole Frankensteinien creation in the Geek-squad staffed wing of the local hospital.
Could be wrong here, but I doubt most people would enable that setting even if they might actually be open to such a thing. In the same way people don't check the "Can we contact you for feedback on our site" checkboxes etc.

Dating is a really really touchy subject when there are friends in the mix as well. That's the great thing about dating sites, they are completely removed from the rest of your social life.

I work for <insert really large internet company here>, and our dating site's user namespace is completely removed from the rest of the social sphere we've developed over our other properties, because in almost all cases, users don't want anything they do regarding online dating to be mixed with what they do elsewhere (This also applies to our online job site).
I've seen an awful lot of people confuse these, so I thought I'd write an article about it.

Also, I figured that by posting here, if there did happen to be a technical error in the article, it would get caught right away ;)
I strongly suspect the Swoopo model will be deemed to be illegal in the not distant future, at least in the US. It is either gambling in the form of a raffle, or a ponzy scheme, or some combination of the two, which are heavily regulated or illegal, respectively. Of course, Swoopo also does other things that are very probably illegal (offering products under different names in different markets on the same "auction", but only having one "winner").

I would also, personally, have serious ethical qualms about targeting the dumbest people with a rigged game. Screwing really dumb people just seems low, since they also tend to have the least disposable income.

But, I suppose if you're not concerned about the ethical greyness of the idea, and you're not concerned about the business having to change rapidly in the future due to legal barriers, and you're not concerned about the fines and probable gambling backtaxes you'll end up paying, and the huge potential for class action lawsuits, etc. the Swoopo model is making a small number of people fantastically wealthy in a very short period of time. The Swoopo founders will probably still end up very rich, even after they spend some time in court and have to dramatically alter or shut down Swoopo.
How to be Unstoppable
A day on the top of reddit to the open source projects you nominate
Looks good, I am gonna follow them for some days to determine if pay-per-post, astroturfing and propaganda levels are acceptable.

Thanks for the tip.
Ask HN: Experience with Zuora, billing system?
http://www.zuora.com - A startup that focuses on billing and payments for subscription businesses online.

Does anyone have experience dealing with them, good or bad? I'm looking both at usability and profitability. Do they have many users/businesses? Do they work well?
How long before Apple offers iEye active contact lenses?
Appears to be a sales presentation for a commercial DNSSEC management product. "You will need to build or buy tools. Here's our tool!"
Notice that the examples I gave aren't companies that have been bought out; they're still being led by their founders. The problem is that less and less companies are having IPOs and reaching massive size to carry out their original vision properly. Instead, their liquidation option is acquisition, which keeps the CEOs of big, rich companies in power and lets them carry out the visions of acquirees the way they see fit -- which usually isn't the optimal solution.

A founder is much more suited to carry out his or her vision by having millions of dollars in the bank and no constraints, rather than be constrained by the acquiring company in a system that is bloated and become increasingly bureaucratic.
Google now realizes Outlook is here to stay. Xobni welcomes you.
Shoebox?

You can live an excellent single life as a software developer. $100k for a single guy is good money.
Bing overtakes Yahoo
He's being modest about it; but if you're just picking up emacs, check out kirubakaran's profile - I got a lot of out reading his .emacs file.
I still say that you can't engage a text online in the same ways you can in print. When it's just you and the text in a coffeehouse you've got no Google to turn to. There's no scrolling to the comments to get the gist of the article. In short, you have to do the work yourself. When it comes to the hard ideas he is talking about, struggling through unaided until you finally grasp the concept is one of the best ways to internalize the real guts of the concept in the text.

There's also the physical aspect of taking notes in the margins and being able to remember content by it's location on the page or how far into the text it is. A whole host of spatial considerations that electronic media can't replicate in the same way.

*Edit for typo.
Great reply, sir. I am sad that this thread has died, so that your comment won't be seen by too many people.
Sometimes, local maxima are worthwhile. If optimizing can quickly and cheaply get you to a position of advantage over your competitors, then why not go for it? This happens a lot in weapons development. You sometimes get greater increases in operational capability through the refinement of existing designs. The Sidewinder missile is an example. The M60A3 Patton tank was another. Perhaps this situation happens when accuracy and reliability are important qualities, so iterative refinement can have a big payback.
Whats the point of leaving a comment on techcrunch anyways? Noone actually reads them, since they are full of spam(i.e. that ______locator guy - hackernewslocator.com, LOCATE YOUR HACKER NEWS!)
When I cover the inevitable "Facebook Usernames Debacle," I'll be sure to mention repeatedly that you can buy your own domain. Thanks for the reminder Anil.

And yes, this post is pretty much prophetic.
No.

Or rather, only in the same sense that quantum mechanics is the underlying level of organization for everything.
For the dating piece, wonder if a "bounty" model might make sense. i.e. I will pay a matchmaker $1 to introduce me to a potential match (if I agree it is a good match based on some preliminary info about the person).
Thank you, I now feel that I can spend my weekend outdoors instead of sitting at home watching all this unfold. Other than a few minutes around 12:01, that is ;)
Has anyone ever been extradited simply for failing to pay U.S. income tax while living permanently abroad, and having neglected to renounce citizenship?
Curious, in Firefox 3.5b99 on OS X...

This works:

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but this does not:

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we use redmine+gitosis at the moment, and man would I love to get my hands on github:fi. Redmine completely fails to be anything other than a bug tracker when you start dealing with public branches, of which it has no concept.

We definitely don't want to host our source on somebody else's machine, and there's no open source solution comparable to github.

It's too expensive for us at the moment, but I can imagine a time when it won't be, and I'll push to get it then.
As soon as I get a friendly Facebook URL for my blog I'm going to paste such a scathing response...
I had a similar discussion with my friend about this; we're both students, looking to launch web businesses. I'm of the philosophy 'launch a crappy version one and iterate' (I read a lot of pg's essays), he's worried that if his site isn't really good when he launches, he'll put off a lot of potential customers. I countered that in the early stages it's simply not going to encounter enough users to put off any significant slice of his market.

To be fair to him, though, he needs a critical mass of users to get his site off the ground much more than I do; in such a case, a big 'launch' can be helpful.

Has anyone tried the tactic of: crappy beta -> feedback from a few thousand users -> get decent -> big marketing launch? Could that work?
A linux System Administration job. I was a new kid in the block and in the city. I had minor previous experience. And I was still an undergrad student. Knew no one. But made a good interview. Also the company was in need for an administrator quickly ;). The other one was leaving for conscription.
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I don't know if I'll ever use duckduckgo, but I love the marketing approach: instead of advertising, create side projects or content that interest people. I find the blog content very interesting.
I love this idea. One of the entrepreneurs has her business a couple blocks from where I live.

http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about...

I went to check it out and said hi. I really like the idea of being able to meet the entrepreneurs on Kiva.
Both 'very hard' problems seem best solvable by a tiny bit of collusion with the site operators: run the bots as shills, disproportionately pair them against weak-player-heavy tables, drag just a little on enforcement of bot-detection mechanisms.

I know, I know: "if the operator is dishonest there are easier ways to cheat". But this looser collaboration between bot-operators and site-operators is easier to disguise, or to compartmentalize. It doesn't require dishonest software, for example.

It might even be easier for perpetrators to rationalize. ("These players are dumping their money anyway; it might as well be to my confederates' bots. Bot-training is a skill, too!")
If you are also interested in GTD, org-mode can help:
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/gtd_workflow.h...

Here is Charles Cave's older article, which seems simpler:
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/orgmode.html

I end up just using org-mode as a todo list/scratchpad.
Yeah, sorry. I was thinking about it from the perspective of a 13 year old who has never touched a computer taking his new Vic-20 out of the box and hooking it up to the TV for the first time.

Programming was a natural thing to attempt to do since there was little else you could use a computer for at that time.
Why is it such a big deal? It's a just user name. I don't get why it's such an important thing.

It's only a proof of incompetency when Facebook was built 5 years ago!
I've never heard of duckduckgo.com, but I have to say I like it! Its less cluttered, and I like the way it asks to clarify what I'm looking for before returning results.
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You can do all the multitouch stuff with javascript on the iPhone. No need for an app.
Though I am curious to hear from an actual investor, I'm inclined to think that most VC's who read this are probably thinking "Great article, but I'm not going to do anything different."
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At least this isn't that Law of Attraction garbage ... still, no. It's not.
It definitely shows some incompetency - but it might be just another marketing plot to get Facebook on every site's front page for a few days!
I've often thought that TRUE free will can't be explained by our current understanding of chemistry and physics above the quantum level so I guess either it is an illusion, or it is derived someplace else.
Further headline-style compression can drop connector words:

Feds tell banks: freeze poker payments
The point isn't that they produced something shiny, but the quality of the code that backs it up. The link you presented did not link to any source code, but to a marketing blog. The quality might be horrible, but they shipped it.
I (optimistically) imagine an alternative where society collectively realizes that hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and other trendy western "diseases" are largely preventable through diet and lifestyle.

However, I agree with TrevorJ that it's more likely we'll bankrupt ourselves paying for sick-care instead. There's unfortunately not much money involved in prevention.

Personally I find zapping my organs with electricity inferior to choosing better food. :)

In the case of hypertension, some of the obvious actions are: Cut out processed foods with high sodium. Get plenty of heart healthy Omega3/6/9 oils (promotes blood vessel elasticity). Reduce caffeine and stop smoking (causes blood vessel constriction and hardening.) Drink plenty of hibiscus tea. Exercise and get to a reasonable body mass.
See, that kind of hostile attitude is what usually turns people away from any advice you might offer. Your assumption that I haven't read the article -- because my wording of my interpretation of it differs from what you expect -- is unwarranted.

The article itself was rather interesting and I certainly didn't mean to imply that metacognition is useless. From my point of view, not engaging in any metacognition ever will eventually lead to what I call problems, among which are unwarranted assumptions and failure to consider alternatives. Those are "problems" that I like to "catch" and correct in my own thinking. However, I do believe that one has to draw a line somewhere; otherwise, one risks indulging in what another commenter named "mental masturbation".

As for personal growth, I believe there will always be limits to our thinking that cannot be (directly) surpassed by more thinking ;)
Is Demography Destiny?