skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone have a real world example of a busy dev shop with a bunch of stretched coders that are accustomed to tortoise svn only based source control switching to git? the coders at this place range from brilliant to pretty good, but I don't think some of them would be capable of wrapping their heads around msysgit and they're thoroughly wedded to windows.

Tortoisegit viable? Looked ok from my brief experimentations, but I know that's different to actually doing real work with it...
"The public then gets to use these facilities that they paid for at no cost"

They paid for them, but there's no cost?

I see what you mean, but you see what I mean, too, no?
You say "This article was shit" - could we have a bit more civility here!
Citing papers that you’ve never read, or that were never written
Yeah, this is the closest to how I do things, too, fwiw. All the other stuff, to me, is procrastinating.

Get idea -> If I have time to implement a rough working version of the idea, then schedule it and do it; else, do not do it, and possibly file away in brain for later.

I'm horrifically busy at this point, so I don't have to bother with most of my ideas right now.

It helps that I've finally broken the bad habit of talking about ideas.
It's worth noting that your explanations are also conjecture based on limited research data.

There actually aren't answers that are this clear about how our bodies use different types of foods, but human brains are wired up to place more trust in very precise explanations and answers. Your explanations are very precise, and thus, we tend to want to believe them.

This explains the popularity of several fad diets based on the model you describe. These diets may or may not be healthy ways to eat for prolonged periods of time. We don't know, because there are several different theoretical models for how the body processes food, and all of them are based on various, but nearly always, limited (in time span and in sample size) experimental data.
For testing you use Chrome on a real OS.
I believe the Netherlands does something like this.
I think one of the earliest questions to ask is whether would you, the builder, use it yourself and secondly, whether you would pay for it. If both answers are yes, then that is a start. Build a simple workable prototype (without too much effort and cost) and start finding customers and listening to them.
1. High quality discussions.
2. Any BS gets called out with relevant evidence
Allow me first to apologize to pj, he bore the brunt of my harsh out pour against a problem that I have to face on a daily basis. And in the same breath, allow me to express my disinterest in discussing feminism as a movement any further, without the presence of a good representation of its sole subjects, i.e. women. Without a sizeable representation of women in this forum there could never be a good dialogue about feminism ("good" here being highly subjective.)

I say this because I remember the days of the Bush administration, when an inbreeding of ideas and a biased "discussion" amongst a gang of highly like minded outsiders delivered the final verdict on the future of "us" Muslims, their de facto colonial subjects. I read columns from across the American political "divide" everyday, each supporting the last in mutual self-congratulating orgy, each explaining our "problem" and proposing very similar "solutions" to impose upon us; sometimes threatening, other times sympathetic, but always patronizing and paternalistic in its tone.

I never was a feminist, not still (I couldn't be even if I wanted to!) but at least now I understand not to "think" for the Other. Women's demand for self-empowerment is an issue squarely in their hands. They could argue amongst themselves all they want, but I as a man have learned better not to offer any unsolicited "feedback", having never experienced their condition.

Now let me answer you sofal.

Also, I didn't see any real data on your theory of Arab nations being at half speed because of the lack of women in the work force

I said above that I was addressing a "problem that I have to face everyday". The problems of the Arab world are numerous, but one thing we can both be certain of: the total absence of the female voice from every kind of leadership. Even with the lack of sufficient research and data, I can look across the landscape, or at least my Thunderbird contact list of several hundred executives, and I can't help but wonder if things would have been better with just one woman in their midst.

Also, asking for data about the Arab world is akin to sophistry, seeing how half of the nations there are U.S.-sanctioned tyrannies, and the other half are closed despotic regimes that would never allow for unfavorable research to see the light of day (you could do it once, but that's the end of your presence there.) Western "press" is safe to ignore the BIG offenders and abusers of human rights, and it can only wiggle its little "democratic" tail against a few, hand-selected and Western-approved "bad guys".
Binary codes capable of correcting deletions, insertions, and reversals (1965)
seems very similar to the current chrome 3 developer's preview which changed the start page last week to one without a sidebar as in these shots. seems like they're preparing to use this space for something more sophisticated.
Obama's plan is a third option. The health plan will create a government option to make it available to those who can't afford it.

So it'll be sort of like the postal system. If you want to use Fedex or UPS, you can, if you want uber cheap you can go with USPS, but you don't see Fedex or USPS out of business do you?
"Men constantly choose to have their cake and eat it too. They have careers, but they also have families."

There's not much special about have-ing a family. Almost anyone can create children and/or get married. The question for both men and women is: what are we missing by allowing ourselves to be taken out of the home and sent our separate ways?

I (a man) ended up leaving my cube job fully convinced that a startup run from or very close to home is the next step towards my goal of a family business.
Have a passion for an idea, get feedback from friends and family; majority dig it, go build it!

That's what I did, yet it was not sucessful in terms of getting an audience, but it did get a lot of attention and some funding. THough I learned from that experience, but the process for building an idea remains, except next time go around - all ideas will have solid and interesting biz models out of the gate.
"Seesmic, Tweetdeck and the top three or four iPhone Twitter clients could form a consortium and suddenly mirror everything that takes place on Twitter to a third party or federated platform – in essence deprecating Twitter and Facebook in one fell swoop."

Unless these clients start duplicating the entire functionality of Facebook, that is completely untrue. Facebook is much more than a Twitter-esque messaging platform.
Like jerf said what dictionaries say does not matter.

In practice I see that feminists are like various fonbois seen here, they go on and on about their pet topic, they are very easily provoked. It is as if they are finding an excuse to start a pissing contest of arguments.

I don't think a woman who is a happy and proud 'housewife' (and there are _many_) fits well with the definitions of those feminist fonbois. And about equality: aping men is not equality its lack of self-worth. Women are different. What their traditional role was was and is respectable too. The way they were (even now in some regions) treated by society is very deplorable. The ideal society would certainly be when women are given equal rights and respect. But they shouldn't be expected to get a full-time job to prove anything.
Best yet because it looks pretty? I had a feeling going in this review would be pointless and non-informative. I certainly wasn't disappointed there.
No. That was easy.
I don't even do oil changes. I could learn, sure, but humans invented division of labor for a reason.
How to Sleep Comfortably on a Hot Night
> OTOH, opponents look at the same people and start to get mad that these people should get "something for nothing", that their tax dollars are used to help people that may have made bad choices.

I don't think the stigma of a lazy person is really associated with not being able to afford health care. I think it's generally understood that even a diligent individual may have a hard time paying for health care in our system. Basically all this plan is proposing is shifting more tax dollars to subsidize health care like we have it subsidizing the post office.

I think there are two primary groups against this: rich people that are financially invested in the current health care system somehow, and middle and sub middle class people who do not believe in people getting "something for nothing"
It's in the hands of the couple to choose which one of them needs to stay at home with the kids at any given day. (e.g. a female executive need not quit her high-paying job of if her novelist husband can stay at home during the day with the kids.)

However, it's often the case that women end up sacrificing their dreams and quit their jobs to raise kids, when the division of household labor is in fact an artificial one, a remnant of cultures and societies past.
1. Meeting people! (Whether through the comments here or through #startups)

2. People help each other! (Ask HN, website feedback, participating in betas, etc)
I like how he "puts things back in their place" at the end of the day. It's a very important task, but it doesn't require intelligence, courage or insight. So leave it until the tired hours of the day, so you can devote your fresh hours to the difficult tasks.
Human studies showed similar results right?
well it can't be omega 3 right? cause Omega-3 supposedly helps ADHD sufferers with short term memory problems.
I got the full text. Sometimes NYTimes does that when you've viewed too many articles in a day. Just open up in a different browser or different computer. You can do it under the same IP. Clearing your cookies might do it, but i've only tried a different computer.
One URL shortening service is too many. Do we really need everyone making their own?
It's one character longer than necessary. Try E=MCC
Hey mahmud, no offense taken. You're just speaking with passion. I don't take it personally.
Action.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. Its only worth its value when ideas are converted in to action. Without action, your ideas are just that, "ideas" and everyone has one.
Where can I buy a network enabled coffee pot?
Already happening in Israel: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4956
Ask HN: So, what's wrong with iTunes? (or what more would you want?)
People have been talking for a long time about how iTunes is not a good music manager, when compared to say, AmaroK or foobar2000. We just don't need music players anymore, we have monstrously huge libraries that need a fast, slick manager. So here's what I'd want an opinion on...

1. What's wrong with iTunes?
2. What would you like to see in an OS X music "manager"/player?
3. What is your current favorite app for doing the above on OS X?

(I am not asking this for either Windows or Linux because I believe people are pretty satisfied with their options on both these systems (AmaroK, foobar2000, Exaile etc.)
1. What can I build to improve some aspect of my life
2. Is there something out there that already does this and satisfies my needs well? If not, exit.
3. Build it
4. How can this be made into something that can generate money? If it can't, exit (not likely).
5. Modify it.
I agree it is discouraging. Plus if you have an idea chances are someone else has already thought of it and probably implemented it (assuming it was a good idea). So you might as well assume there's already an competitor and just focus on the competitor's flaws and try to improve on them.

Facebook started off nicely despite having Myspace and a bunch of other social networks.
Toohey's Extra Dry. That's what I owe you my man, and that's what I have in me hand at the moment :-P Cheers!
Can I ask why you consider that a bad habit?
Ignore the article, look instead at the numbers at the end:

Health spending per head

US $7,290
UK $2,992

Practising physicians (per 1,000 people)

US 2.4
UK 2.5

U.S. doctors earn more than twice as much as UK doctors.

This is the only real problem. It will cost the US twice as much as it costs other countries to provide healthcare for everyone.

The US can't, or can barely, afford that.

Reduce the cost to be on par with the UK and watch the entire debate fall away. I think something like 80% of people in the US have health insurance. If you dropped the costs just a little, it would be easy to cover the final 20%.
> Men constantly choose to have their cake and eat it too.

The point of that expression is that it's impossible. Neither men nor women can stay home with their kids while working a full day at the office.
I've never crunched the numbers myself or seen any formal studies, but the perception that the second income in dual-income families usually goes right into costs that would have been avoided had someone stayed at home is pretty widespread. I don't mean to be rude by asking, but did your mother have the kind of help that married couples can take for granted (say, from extended family), or did she have to do it all herself?
fascinating. Now (political) leaders seem to push the fact that god is tied to their schedule.
As far as quantity of media coverage goes, this is the best one so far. So, no, not that I've heard of.
I can believe that Rush and Colter might, might actually believe what they spew out or ignorance or persistence or whatever reason. But Glen Beck, how he has moved from HLN to Fox, how he has pushed and pushed his book, how he puts on a show to get people to emotionally react on a news channel.

When reading/viewing any type of media always keep in mind its origin, value, purpose, and limitation. I thank my school's IB Programme for that.
According to a Dianne Rehm interview with a noted Ben Franklin biographer; many Franklinisms have been invented left and right by American book publishers searching for "American" role models for kids in the newly born nation. They couldn't reach back to the continent which they have just severed ties with for cultural lore, so they had to invent it as they went, at least for the first two or so generations.

Franklin himself made no attempt to refute the grand achievements attributed to him in his day (e.g. "I will neither confirm nor deny that I have superhuman powers and can kick ass in major ways".)
Apparently India is concerned with nothing except .NET.

Sadly, that is very consistent with what I saw in class as a CS undergrad. Went to a second-tier state school in California, was one of the very few non-international students in the whole department.

The students from India, almost down to a man/woman, had absolute Microsoft tunnel vision. One actually wrote up a complaint letter and tacked it on the instructor's corkboard when a class required students to either install and run Linux, or use the on-campus UNIX labs (there was one with Linux systems and another with Solaris boxes) to be able to do the class assignments.

I'm providing server administration and some development work for a web startup. They've done phone interviews with a few development teams from India, and those teams have been unable to fathom why someone would do a web project with anything but ASP.NET and MSSQL.

I'm not very familiar with India or what MS does internationally. Is there some root cause behind these observations?
Just 5 days ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=754566
NB: Most marketable ideas do no appear so in skeleton/demo/prototype form. Support, documentation, community and UI can often sell a product more than its own core functionality.

If your product doesn't have much functionality on its own, try to make it into a plugin for a popular package and try to gain some foothold (or enough licenses for ramen) that way first.

Along with developing it, you will also have to seek out the initial users and inform of them of its existence. I prefer corporate clients for this, it only takes one of them to get enough cash in hand to bootstrap the project.
Air conditioning is a wonderful thing. And, often, cheaper and more environmentally friendly than the things described here.
I'm in the same situation. I've never really written a DB-backed web-based application, so I'm starting down that road. Been working mostly on C++ distributed multi-threaded servers with lots of asynchronous network communication.

I'm a big Perl fan and am comfortable with its object-oriented model so I've chosen to use it. Here's the environment/tools I've settled on so far: Apache on Linux (primary platform, might try to make sure works on Windows too); mod_perl 2 in Apache pre-fork; PostgreSQL 8.x for back-end; Rose::DB for DB persistence layer (apparently easy-to-use ORM, allows many-to-many relations unlike various other Perl-based DB layers); Template-Toolkit 2 for web template environment; going to layer on JavaScript later ... not sure which library to use yet.

To some this may not be the ideal environment or the most current or most up-to-date set of tools. For me though it seems the quickest way to seriously explore and understand web issues.

I have a big hole in my software experience where several web apps should be, and I need to fill it with something. Might try Django or some other Python tool later. I'd actually like to try Twisted some time (asynch Python network engine, not web-specific).
I've heard Rep. Jan Schakowsky say some things about wanting to destroy the private health insurance industry straight up. Her supporters erupted into a wild applause, too. Disturbs the hell out of me.
We already have Medicaid.

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/06/whats-point-of-public...
That's only when the speed is much smaller than the speed of light (v << c). The one you are after is:

E^2 = m^2 c^4 + p^2 c^2

(Set momentum, p, to zero and divide everything by itself to get E = mc^2 again.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy–momentum_relation
I don't know, but it couldn't have been much since my dad makes less than $50k a year. In the Canadian example, you need to figure in taxes.
"The suicide-prevention movement fears that if suicide is deemed the rational product of someone's mind, we may feel justified in suspecting that mind forever."

Why? If it was rational, then when the reason for it is no longer there, then there is no reason to suspect that mind.

On top of that, if it's rational for one person it's rational for another (assuming the same circumstances), so why suspect the mind in the first place?

Is he using a different meaning of rational? (Perhaps "thought out"?)
It seems, there is a sweet spot of how many people you want in your coffee shop. If it looks empty, potential customers off the street won't go in. That's the herd effect ("if there are so many people there, then it must be good").

However, if the coffee shop is full of people with laptops, not buying any drinks or food, then customers who walk in, hoping to get a coffee and a muffin, will walk out, because there are too many people there, and not enough seats.

The goal of the owners is to module the amount of people sitting in the coffee shop.

They (the owners) can setup a schedule to simply disallow wi-fi usage and turn the power off on some outlets during certain busy times of day (lunch for ex.) That is a little subversive because it will be perceived as a confrontation. The other way to do it, is to simply ask the patrons to purchase more food and indicate that the coffee shop is struggling financially. Being honest might work a lot better.
Responding to comment below: And so many are still without health care! So this will alleviate that. But this will also make it cheaper for large companies like General Motors because they can now switch to the cheaper government plan. It will allow companies like GM to be more globally competitive because european (not all?), japanese auto companies do not have to worry about health care costs.

If the gov plan uses taxpayer money, it doesn't necessarily mean that private insurance will fail. And this is because there will be some who will want the higher quality private insurance. The fact is the richer you are the more you will pay for even modest upgrades. So those who can afford private insurance will still have a reason to go for it. This is evidenced by what TomOfTTB said above who said there are stories of Canadians who fly to the US for health care right? And it's true private insurance will get hit hard by this, but they will probably not all die out. In fact private insurance companies are probably the main driver of the opposition.
> 1. Lots of Google searching for potential keywords to see if anyone's posted about a need

That's good. Make something people want.

#2, ideally, is get some money. Like, make your first $20 ASAP in the market. There's been lots of "cool ideas" that don't make money. A lot of smart people in tech gun for a Facebook-style massive victory. But for every Facebook/Linkedin/Myspace/Youtube, there's orders of magnitude more sites than never catch on.

Or worse! They do catch on, but then you can't get any money! I imagine nothing hurts as much as being wildly popular and bankrupt. There are many of these stories.

So try to get some money fast. Money does all sorts of wonderful things in terms of letting you expand or getting some security, but most importantly, it proves that people really, truly want you're selling. And if you are going to be looking for funding, there's not many things that are going to be as good for getting quality terms as being profitable. You can wait out the right deal and you're not desperate. And one of investors' biggest fears - no market - is alleviated. Get that first $20 ASAP. It'll teach you what you're doing wrong and show you what to do next.

Edit: Also, don't do excessive planning on your first business, competitive analysis, and all that such. Your assumptions are wrong, you don't have the instincts for what people pay for yet, and competition doesn't matter when you're small. Seriously, leave the SWOT analysis for big corporations fighting over 3% market share and distribution in supermarkets. I've learned this lesson the hard way. Damn near all of that planning is useless if not validated with getting some money. Your assumptions are almost certainly wildly incorrect when not validated with the getting of money from customers.
Responding to below:
Taxes are graduated so the largest increase in tax will be to the rich and uber rich, but to them it will be small pickings.
I find that when I have a crap iPhone connection and I want to surf, I go to HN just b/c I know it will load.
X11 is not a window manager. X11 provides the low-level API for drawing to the screen and for interfacing with input devices. Metacity (GNOME), KWin (KDE) etc. are window managers. IIRC, X11 does offer a very basic window manager, but nobody actually uses that.

A new window manager shouldn't be a problem. If it behaves properly, you will hardly notice the difference.

It will actually be interesting if they manage to replace X11. AFAIK, many people hate X11 to the core. Heck, the Qt and KDE developers refuse to work around X11 bugs, hoping that pressure from users will somehow cause the X11 devs to fix them. Of course, I don't know the full situation, since I stopped paying attention to politics in the Linux world a while ago.
I've started regulary using django-evolution (http://code.google.com/p/django-evolution/) on my projects. Worked out fine up until now.
Willfully ignorant vs. aggressively skeptical