skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a buddhist friend and we're having a great, balanced relationship. I can confirm everything you said about the "modularity" of their approach. I also meditate from time to time but I find it great for relaxation and energy recharging, as opposed to training the focus.
'select' was the first one that came to my mind, but I'm really digging 'filter' :)
No need to shut you down for that.

I certainly remember doing the same things in my early days. The only downside of this - for me, of course - was that your physical layer (your body, that is) will sooner or later let you down if you're fighting against it like this. Otherwise, if those stimulus are keeping you aware, just go for it :-)
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I think that if you were to ask for attribution if anyone used or cited your work, most people would gladly do so. I have a feeling that the people that are likely to try and steal your work would do so, regardless of your copyright or license.

But, both of those thoughts are nothing more then my own personal opinions. So, follow them with the appropriate warnings.
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Ask HN: What should we do?
I've developed this: www.ird.me/tour.html.
But I'm the single developer and the project is getting too big and complex. What options to sell/quit/change you are aware of? Do you have an experiences of overweight projects that you can share?
Clickable link: http://www.ird.me/tour.html

The longer version is here: http://3words2years.blogspot.com/
it was already posted, but no one seemed to be interested.
I totally agree... but I can't help playing devils advocate when someone is very ardently against someone else's choices. Transportation is multi-tiered. In some places you need an automobile. They might as well be efficient.
Wouldn't this be significantly slower?
You just described my exact work setup.

A couple more suggestions:

- Try to get your screen at eye level. If you can avoid having to look down all the time, you'll put much less strain on your back.

- Your forearm and upper arm should be making an angle close to 90 degrees.

- A little footbench or something you can lean on with your feet, so you don't have your legs dangling or being folded up underneath your chair.
Ultimately your only 'protection' is your willingness to enforce your rights against unapproved uses -- which very generally includes lawsuits, legal threats, takedown notices, and public shaming campaigns.

The paid registration is unlikely to deter anyone; it might be necessary if you have to sue someone, but even then, it's the suing, not the registering, that has teeth.

But mainly, you should resign yourself to the idea that someone, somewhere, someday will copy your publicly-shared work. The copying probably won't cause you enough damage to be worth prosecuting; only if your work has large economic value, and the copying diverts some of that value from you to the pirate/plagiarist, would vigorous enforcement be cost-beneficial.
That's about 17,600,000,000,000,000 bytes, or a sustained download rate of about 110 MB/s over 5 years.
(You mean "prove original authorship" rather than "prove prior art".)

The act of publishing might create a reliable record of first authorship, for example if the material becomes quoted or replicated in third-party systems with timestamps not trivially changeable by the disputants. (Simply using a web host or blog service not completely under the writer's control might create such records.)

But, if you really want to prove authorship as of a certain date, you may want a timestamping service:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping
Why is the first law of thermodynamics so hard for people
to internalize?

The first law of thermodynamics stablishes a relation between energy input, energy output and energy storage. It does not say which variables are independent, ie, the direction of causality. The theory of low-carb diets is that carbs affect energy storage via insulin first leaving a constraint bewteen energy in and out, not the reverse.

Also note that in the article cited the lowest amount of carbs was 35%, which still is a moderatelly high amount. And the result seems to be very modest (about 4kg lost only).
Oh believe me, I get that he was joking. My point was that that statement should never be made, even in jest.
You don't necessarily have to have a huge marketing budget to get you app out there. It's possible things like freebies and word of mouth to get you product off the ground.. that is assuming that it's any good.

And if you have a particular niche market/customer base that you are aiming at you should already know what forums/places that they frequent. Just figure out a way to get the message/word of mouth to them. Offer a limited amount of 'free' copies as a 'beta' test round or something. Make sure you have an open dialog if it is a close-knit community. Or consider purchasing some sort of targeted advertising on those particular sites... It's not too hard to come up with a laundry list of things to attempt.

I'm sure that people smarter than I at marketing have book galore to peruse... People complaining because the AppStore isn't doing a good enough job of marketing _for_ them don't gain any sympathy from me.
A few hours actually. It was just 1 server. I'm sorry if it looked like I said more. I do patch manually already.

If there are two ships going out to sea, and the ship where I've already loaded my luggage all of a sudden has crew members running around screaming "where's the captain, where's the captain, he's been gone for months." You know.... I'm just going to take my bags and put them on the other ship and not worry about it anymore. I don't need any more stress in my life, there's already PLENTY of that.
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Open source it you cant sell.
Prioritizing

There's also online thesauri. e.g.: http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/prioritize try starting with different words.
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What are you trying to build and who is your target customer? It looks like an online db but why a calendar?

Read everything on http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com

That will help you flush the product more clearly.
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"I don't think anyone who takes the software industry seriously would say Microsoft is down for the count, but they certainly have to start making better software (fortunately for them, Windows 7 looks just that)."

Exactly the point I was trying to make. How can anyone suggest that they're on a long slow decline when Windows 7 appears to be the upswing from the short 2 years lifespan of Vista?

It's less of a "long slow decline" and more of a speed bump, which is exactly what I was saying. That makes this article less informative, because it only applies as the result of one product (Vista) in Microsoft's entire suite of products.

Meanwhile, this article only uses data that supports a positive view of Apple (retail in the above $1000 market) while ignoring the data that shows otherwise (every other market).

Propaganda can be defined as "the systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause" and given the nature of the Daring Fireball, plus the deliberate use of information that only supports their view (while ignoring the rest of the data that can show otherwise) means that this article was indeed propaganda.
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I think it's a side effect that the announcements happen via TechCrunch. I think the basic flow is this:

- Media coverage of YC companies tend to be posted to news.yc

- If TechCrunch will cover your launch, that's good for a company's visibility

- Thus, TechCrunch stories about YC companies launching end up on news.yc
Why do you want to quit even before you have a signup form? It's going to be much easier to sell if you have customers.

By the way, you should spell check the home page. easilly = easily
Britain would be breaking the law if they prevented "Hacker" extradition
the Swiss French dialect has a far nicer system - they say neufant trois, this is fairly colloquial though.
I dunno, I have to agree with the judge's ruling in that case. The guy opened up the drive and _showed them_ images that were (or were likely) child porn. At that point, there is no doubt as to whether or not there is something suspicious on there. Had the guy _not shown anything_ to the customs officer, but the judge forced him to cough up the key anyways... I would have _a lot_ more sympathy. As it stands, the guy was an idiot that showed the customs/border patrol officer his illegal stash and is trying to cover his ass up after the fact.
The weird thing is that in spite of the news everywhere being that Mozilla/Firefox is gaining ground and IE is losing ground that I see IE regaining a bit of ground since January on my own sites (58% in January, 61% today).
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The article writer has done a good job of tapping in to your fear, that doesn't mean you should throw reason out the window.
From the comments:

"that team could build very similar functionality using free or open source projects"

Are baseball teams really in the business of hiring a bunch of programmers to write a twitter clone? Seems like paying this company is much cheaper and much more likely to be successful.
I probably should have added more detail but my point wasn't "China isn't as evil as we are or we are just as evil as China"

I just find it hilarious that US journalists would focus their attention on China's political infractions when some really bad #$&%! is still going on in our country. After Obama got elected he still hasn't restored the rights that Bush took away from us. Mainstream US media should spend more time on that. I don't know what's so interesting about this article; it's not like Communist China turned into a totalitarian gov yesterday.
What about the others? Opera, old Netscape users, Safari probably not, but Chrome converts going to FF instead?
It's said that way, but still written the regular way.

English does it as well by the way: thir-teen, four-teen, fif-teen, six-teen etc. After twenty it gets more regular.

For a really interesting one look at Frech saying 89: quatre-vingt neuf

Four times twenty + 9

English equivalent: four-score and nine.
No new release or CFP. Why is this here again?
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Interesting concept. It reminds me of a product from the mid-80's called "data ease".
CSS does support flexible grids (with power equivalent to HTML tables), it is just that IE has not supported it until IE8, which means it hasn't been used widely.

I fint it strange that people keep blaming the shortcomings of IE6+7 on the CSS standard.
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Still, smart move to get your content syndicated like that so you can use a very high profile site to link back from.
Hello. Reading this new get back to my mind a debate I have with a friend of mine, maybe you can help us ; )

My friend works in the scientific research domain, in chemistry. In his lab he makes simulation of water particles and often he launches simulations that can take even a week to complete. He is using frontan.

I am using ruby since a few years and, as usual, I love its simplicity,etc,etc.

What I've been always wondering is if would be feasible to use a High Level Language (as Ruby, Python, etc) in a case like his.

I understand that fortran is language for the scientific community with loads of libraries but what matter me is the performance.

Saying Fortran and (maybe) Python with this library have the same functionalities, would my friend simulations take longer using Python rather than Fortran? how much longer? do you think it worths the jump to a nicer (from the programmer p.o.v.) programming language?

What do you think?

thanks ; )
What possible reason could they have to keep things secret that should have been public in the first place ?

My guess is that this list of questions is just for openers. The answers will lead to follow up questions.
+1

@ O.P: I read your entire post (thanks for relaying your lessons), and most of it is about internal development and personal "aha" moments.

What about customer driven development , i.e. user testing?

You have no sign up form ...

This boggles my mind - get users already!

This is a classic case of what I personally refer to as un-scientific thought processes. If I ask my my friend "what do you think of this business idea?" Really, what on God's green earth does it matter what he thinks? If he says "its great", does that empirically mean anything? If he says "i hate it", does that empirically mean anything? Who can empirically say anything is anything? In other words: test it. A joke I have with all of my friends; anytime they ask my advice about anything, they already know the answer... test it. You have not tested your product.

So your question: "What should we do?"

My answer: "Test it."
It's not really comparable, sizewise Microsoft was much bigger than netscape at the time, and the only route to the desktop was through microsoft. The iphone is not a monopoly by any stretch of the imagination, even though the 'hip' people all seem to have them.

(hm, the implicit conclusion is that I'm not hip...)
CSS1 was mostly about typography, but CSS2 supports layout equivalent to (or rather a superset of) what is possible with HTML tables.
I spent a lot of time talking with people in the Haidian District in Beijing. This area is contains the two most prominent (and many, many lesser) universities in China so it's interesting to see the general opinion of people around there.

The unfortunate part is that it's a whole lot of apathy. I'm sure it's not easy, even for a foreigner, to find the heart of some people willing to speak or move against the Chinese government, but so many who I ran in to were casually trying to remain in their own world disjoint from the government. They feel a little rebellious just to support the stores that sell ironic Mao Zeodong merchandise and love to mildly mention that the government is really not that great here. That's about the depth of what I actively observed.

I'll disclaim that I didnt' spend much time talking to those in what would have been the most charged fields (politics or philosophy, perhaps), but the general apathy was sort of disheartening.

It's not all negative though. The educated Chinese are largely embracing the internet and desire to involve themselves more. For many, they give you a surprised look when you ask them about bypassing the firewall: you mean you don't have access to a proxy? Really? I thought everyone did. If this is the face of the new Tank Man, it's definitely going to be a different ride, but the transformative power of an enormous information pipeline plugged into the future leaders of your country still seems pretty portent.

And ethnic strife would need to be the topic of a whole essay. China has cultural problems there, too.
The screenshots look good, but the terse homepage had me slightly confused about what the product actually does. (Admittedly I'm probably not part of the target market either.)

The one-line description of the product -- "Online web database" -- seems to contain a tautology: if it's on the web, doesn't that imply it's online? Besides, I'm looking at a web browser, so I'm primed to expect a web application.

What's left is just the word "database". Is your product very similar to an established database application, say, FileMaker? If not, then you need to come up with a better description.
The FCC stuff has nothing to with the App Store approval process, of course. That's about AT&T abusing its monopoly on access to/from the iPhone (and hopefully any mobile device).
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Sifting

Trying to hit some words that aren't just CS/Engineering oriented.
Nonsense. This is tantamount to saying that unless a person's ideas are widely accepted or he's rich he should shut up if his ideas are not popular. I don't think he cares much whether you use Qi or not.

He's linked the two essays because he sees there is a connection between funding and development and he's right.
Obviously if you generate semantic HTML there is no problem. But the article argues (in the end) that accessibility instead can be achieved by generating different "object-html" renderings on the server based on e.g a header that says "i am blind". That is totally unrealistic!

Semantic HTML on the other hand is accessible by default, you have to specifically go out of your way to make it inaccessible or platform-specific.
Page layout equivalent to tables was already included in CSS2 which was finalized more than a decade ago. It is just that browsers - specifically IE - were slow to support it.

CSS3 has some proposals for grid based layouts that is much more powerful that CSS2/tables.
The reason why fortran is used for simulations is twofold, first there is a large and very well tested set of software tools written in fortran for exactly that purpose, these codebases have been through hell and back with respect to having their output inspected. They are very close to being bug free. A re-write of such a package would cost considerable time and would probably not yield better results, and rewriting them in an interpreted language would yield those results considerably slower. Programming staff time is expensive, so is computer time.

Second, the hardware that these simulations run on ('supercomputers') is optimized for vector processing, which is an expensive way of saying that you are operating on whole arrays of data at a time.

Typical operations are multiplying two vectors of data with each other, multiply-and-sum operations and so on. Because simulations of real world scenarios almost always contain large amounts of these operations 'supercomputers' are one way to get good performance, and most numerical libraries in fortran are available for them, and sometimes even optimized for that particular hardware.

But even on commodity hardware (clusters of pc's) the general availability of tested code is the cause of inertia in the scientific world, these people are trying to solve a problem, they're not 'in love' with any language, the tool that suits them best (libraries available, co-workers versed in it, citations all over the place) is what they'll use.

If you want to get very high performance numerical work done on a pc I'd advise you to look into CUDA. Fortran bindings for CUDA exist so you can use all those libraries at absolutely amazing speeds for very little money.
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No. He starts talking about FOSS - MIT and BSD stuff. This is nearly in every case free economically. And the GPL stuff is almost always free economically too. In practice if you give people complete freedom over sources you really have to give them the same freedom you have to change and distribute. So by undercutting price tends aymptotically to zero. People know that and so they make it free from the outset. They make their money from hand-holding.
My suggestion is to chop it up and develop it piece by piece.

Looking at your app, it seems to do a lot of different things such as:

- Form Editor

- Calendar

- Permission based file access system

You could build just one of these components and get it out of the door and see how the market responds to your product and then evolve the product from that point onwards. Chances are that what you will end up with will look nothing like what what you have in mind.

Good luck on your venture.
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Your application is big; here's the point. What happened to you is exactly what happened to me 3 year ago when I made a barcode application.

I carried on growing the application until it become so big that I can't control. The read problem is that you "don't know how to solve overweight issues".

I got a solution, but I'm not sure if you'll go for it.

Decompose your website into parts, I don't know how it can be. But for me it was a windows application built with the Dot net frame work. I decomposed it into several namespaces and classes and placed those classes in "DLL" files.

Now the program is much more tinier. I don't care about the DLL files, I just call them to get something ready. Like calling a class, giving information about a barcode and getting back a picture. In reality it's more than 400 line of code to do that. but with OOP and DLL, in few lines I can do it.

Now you have to explore the possibilities of your programming platform.
After reading the long version of your question I want to say that my own experience with generic application generators is very similar to yours. Users want functionality and wording that is very specific to particular tasks.

Therefore any generic framework can only ever serve as a basis for you to create specific applications. The question remains whether a generic framework or generator actually makes that task any easier. I doubt it. I tend to end up building one generic framework per application :-)

So what could you do? One thing you should include in your thinking is that CRUD/OLTP + simple reporting is not the only thing people do, and it's probably the most crowded market.

The other thing people do is analyse data. In order to analyse data they have to integrate and clean it first. It's a horribly messy affair, but what it involves is a generic database and user friendly transformation rules.

I know I'm not being very specific, but I think it could useful for you to think a little more about decision support, analytics and data integration. It's what I do as well, so I'm biased.
I couldn't help but laugh out loud at this line:

"General Fusion's basic approach isn't entirely new. It builds on work done during the 1980s by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, based on a concept called Linus."

On a more serious note, I wonder how they will deal with metal fatigue on the sphere being rammed by the pistons once every second. Not all of the energy of those compressions will be transferred into the fluid, that sounds like the reactor core might become a wear item.

Another question regarding this:

"likely because the technology to precisely control the speed and simultaneous triggering of the compressed-air pistons simply didn't exist two decades ago."

What is so critical about controlling compressed air pistons ? They move at a snails pace relative to electronics from the 70's, why is it that only now this would be possible based on controlling essentially very slow devices once-per-second ?

And wouldn't it be easier to do this using electromagnets attached to the outer shell at strategic spots ? much faster response time and higher frequencies possible, also much easier to synchronize than 220 pneumatic hammers striking a sphere. Is there really no other way to get the required wave pattern ?

What will happen to the fusion energy if one of the hammers would fail due to a seizure or seal failure of a single pneumatic ram (this is not a theoretical failure, it happens).
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Try http://spellr.us/

Also, my first thought was that this was like DabbleDB. Is it?