skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
touching the settings file works as well, and almost all of the regular pages will be reloaded as well as soon as you've saved them.

Rarely do you have to do anything other then just saving the file.
Well, I've never understood the Zed -hate. People say he's a prick, but people saying that doesn't make it true.

To me, he seems like an intelligent and nice person. His writings are often blunt, but how often is he blunt and wrong?

As for being predictable, I predict that the prediction "he starts whining about how everyone in SF is a "douche" and fuck them because I'm the genius who wrote Lamson" is wrong. Your comment, on the other hand, looks like you believe it will happen.
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You know in this world 1% means 1 billion
Before I was working, mine was very much like the European one (and I am in Europe, so...). So was the internet usage of a bunch of friends. Sleep in the morning, get on the net in the late afternoon and then go to bed somewhere around 6am - some people went earlier, though, so the 3am dropoff seems about right.

Now I get on the internet at 9am, stay on till about 6pm. Sometimes I use the internet after that, but often I don't.
i find last.fm 'jazz+funk tag radio' quite nice for coding

http://www.last.fm/listen/tag/funk*jazz
Same here. Basically, I don't want music while I'm in the process of figuring out how to go about doing something, but there's nothing better than a good beat (Infected Mushroom for me) while actually doing it.

When I'm doing design, music just distracts me -- but when I'm hammering out code, a repetitive rhythm definitely helps to keep me focused. It is strange that music has different effects depending on what kind of thinking the brain is doing. I wonder why that is...
I think what you're seeing right now is really just the beginning. As things around copyright (on which many a fortune was built) will get more out of control the spasms of this group will get stronger and stronger until there will be a popular movement to counter it.

This is just a reaction to the 'pirate' political party.

I wonder how long it will be before there will be an American equivalent to the Pirate party.

That will create a real disturbance in the force.
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It's a letter to the leader of the opposition and, potentially, the next primeminster. Taleb must be concise with his argument - it's not new to us because many of us have read The Black Swan or Fooled by Randomness.

I agree that commercial debt can be used for investment and is therefore useful. I think he is commenting on national debt. The problem is that the UK and US hold a magnitude of debt that will not be re-paid for several generations. Most of us would agree this is not healthy.

Further to this, his point about debt is that it is used to prevent the old institutions from failing and the resulting tax increases are hindering the next wave entrepreneurs. The financial crisis should have sped up the next wave of creative/destructive innovation in the financial sector but instead we are pretty much back to the status quo in The City and on Wall Street.
So, my little Copen is actually not the same as the Japanese model. Interesting. There are only 30 of these in the country where I live, and they were imported from Japan before they made a left-hand-drive version available. But it looks like they did change the controls over for this.

Thank you for the info!
While I play a fair bit of J.S. Bach material in my free time, I find that listening to Bach over long periods of time rather depressing. It builds a heavy darker mood.

Ambient & lighter Electronica is easier on the mood and the repetitive patterns help pacing myself (it also works for working out/ running). Jazz gets too involved; HipHop as well; Rock has dominant vocals that grab attention.
Ask HN: Todo lists
I'm looking for a better way to write and manage todo lists.

I really like Things (http://culturedcode.com/things/) but I've found it to end up too cluttered with all of my different projects. I have difficulty keeping future stuff separate.

I've also used Todo.sh (http://ginatrapani.github.com/todo.txt-cli/) in the past, but what I'm looking for is something like that but with revision control.

I've tried paper. I feel that I use too much paper, and I also don't like the way archiving works. It's just not easily searchable, and managing someday tasks is difficult. (Note that I've also tried HipsterPDAs, and variants.)

I also view scheduling as separate from task management. I would just use iCal if I didn't.

Web Apps like Remember the Milk also don't catch my eye. I have relatively large amounts of data that I manage. I also do not consider it secure enough. I do like remote access functionality. SSH from my BlackBerry works for todo.sh, or the todobot.pl extension with AIM, so something similar to that would be fine.

I would like to be able to have extensive tagging support. I have many layers of lists. I include a lending list (stuff I've lent out) and a wish list (birthday/xmas/shopping list). Some lists include stuff that I will not address for long periods of time like ideas for children names or housing design ideas.

I'm at a loss for solutions. There probably is an obvious one. Crowdsourcing solution searching. Go.
I hate posting from my own blog but this one is genuinely of interest to a lot of Hacker News readers.
Currently,

Philip Glass: Mishima

It makes reading/typing anything seem more deeply important than it should be.
I'm not commenting on this specific article, but, to me, the definition of a "hacker" has always been someone who "tinkers", as opposed to a design springing fully formed from the head of Zeus. By this definition, Edison was a hacker, and Tesla was not. Linus is a hacker, but Dijkstra was not. I don't know enough architects to say who was a hacker in that field (maybe Christopher Alexander?), but Frank Lloyd Wright was not (he designed fallingwater in the time it took his client to travel to meet with him, after meditating ahem on it for months).

By this definition, for writers, a hacker is someone who fiddles with their writing - as in this morning, I removed a comma from my novel. This afternoon I put it back in.

I don't claim it's the definition of hacking, but I think there's some merit in its perspective.
Hehe. Neat!

Here is a variation on your theme. A customer I worked for as a freelancer suddenly got it into their heads to pay me by the byte of object code.

I didn't comment at all, switched off link-step optimization. Next bill was by the hour again :)
I heard they did this with plastic phones when they first came out (the kind you have to dial with a dial).
I use 'taskfreak', installed on a local machine. It worked wonders for my productivity in all kinds of fields.

http://www.taskfreak.com/ is where you can download it, it's written in PHP so it should be fairly easy to host it.

Good enough for a 9 minute response time ;) ?

Ask HN is one of the greatest features of HN I think.
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How a Perl 5 Program Works
Remembering "upward - left, downward - right" is a pain, imho, the WRONG way to do it.

Much easier to remember any turn indicator for cars is always in the direction of the turn of the steering wheel. This helped me immensely when I moved back from Oman (cars and roads the American way) to India (everything the UK way). And also, this way I only had to re-learn the location of the indicator stalk, so that I could avoid flipping on the windshield wipers :-)

p.s: Are there ANY cars that do not follow the "direction of steering wheel" rule for their indicator stalks? Would be interesting to know this..
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That James Bond analogy sure got me convinced...

Of course if sales are bad you have to reinvent yourself and take crazy risks. But wackiness as an incubator? I don't understand that conclusion.
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Amen, dude. http://shr1k.blogspot.com/2009/07/open-letter-to-motorists.h...
If it all fits on your screen, maybe. Otherwise, having half the visible content completely disconnected from the other half, separated by a few pages of scrolling, is absolutely pointless.

But I copy things into http://amarsagoo.info/tofu/ to read. That is “the bomb.”
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It was mostly just name dropping “intellectual” people/books/periodicals for effect... the specific references didn’t really affect the story, or have any particular significance. (Still fun though.)
509 Error. Google cache wasn't enough for me. I added it to my todo.txt to check if it is up later. ;)
Community Driven Web Shopping

Internet tends to be an open system where consumers are in the same way important as the product makers and sellers. Success is measured by community support and it is assured by complete transparency, trust.

Marketing your online products also cannot be done well without a strong community. A future webshop must be completely user and community driven, your duty as a webshop owner is to build trust and make your existing customers to connect to your next customers.

A Classic Store vs. Auction Based Stores

Following years will be about a 180 grades shift in e-commerce. Now you are presenting products to customers as a classic store, later customers will ask you for products and services.

Yabe.hu -- Race. For you -- is a new approach to shopping. As a customer you log in and tell your desires then vendors are racing to offer you the best solution. This is the only way to assure yourself you'll get the best deal.

You don't have to choose, listen to commercials, browse social shopping sites and do research to find what you want; just spit out a desire and let the others do the job for you.

Until this approach to shopping hits mainstream you'll have to do the classic way. Look for a shop who makes you feel comfortable, do the shopping, show your items bought and generate trust for other users and would-be-customers. Wait for your cut offered by the webshop as an affiliate program.

A Classic Webshop In Modern Clothes

1. Browse to your favorite online (gadget) store.
2. You are sure the frontpage is already taylored to your shopping needs (via an Automated Recommendation Engine)
3. Select your products to be bought and check for the best price gathered from other (gadget) stores.
4. Make shopping and later add comments, recommendations, how-to's, FAQs to your products bought.
5. Other users will see your value added to existing products and when buying you'll get a fair cut from every sales.
6. Too boost your revenues use widgets with your products bought on your blog or favorite social network, do the marketing and sales for the webshop you like and which pays back your efforts.
Wow that sucks, let me see if I have a tarred version for you somewhere here. It looks like they've maxed out their bandwidth quota. Silly hosting services...

ok, you can get it here:

http://ww.com/tf.tar

They probably have a newer version out by now, when they're back up you can get the latest but like this you can at least see if it is what you are looking for.
Isn’t being better than most commentators an awfully unambitious goal?
Community Driven Web Shopping
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And he decided this shortly after having dinner with David Geffen. ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/17/lord_mandelson_digit... ) That's Geffen as in "Geffen Records" and "Dreamworks". You know, the files in the "illegal file sharing".

This political position was bought and paid for, and not by the voting public.
At one point we did a lot of testing with different Django deployment setups. We ended up using mod_wsgi. It was fast and stable.

It would be sweet if you could point it at your virtualenv in a configuration parameter (to make it use your project specific Python binary and site-packages).
when i focus - soundtrack music. this means john williams (jaws, memoirs of a geisha, minority report, star wars), bear mcreary (bsg), hans zimmer (gladiator, last samurai, the dark knight), howard shore (LOTR soundtrack!), michael giacchino (ratatouille), klaus badelt (pirates), etc.

it let me concentrate, by not having words, but also lets me register some background noise in order for me to focus on my code.
I've recently just started using an org-mode document in Emacs to track the state of projects (among other things). Simple and effective.
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DRMBuster is the useful software to convert iTunes files. It can convert purchased DRM protected video from Apple iTunes store for playback on any device, and convert iTunes purchased iTunes songs to MP, M4A, WMA.
This is more badass:

http://www.amazon.com/Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XXM/ref=cm_cr_pr...
I like Tasks:
http://crowdfavorite.com/products/
I have a multi-user version installed on some hosted space and it works really well - I needed heirarchical to-do lists that could be shared with my girlfriend, and this gave me that.
I found a screenshot on the Wayback machine. I'll try this out tomorrow though.
Tofu looks nice -- interesting idea to make text more easily readable by splitting it into many columns, each as high as your window is.

Someone really needs to make a web version out of that! Shouldn't take too long, and I bet many users don't want to download and install an extra piece of software for that.
"I've also used Todo.sh (http://ginatrapani.github.com/todo.txt-cli/) in the past, but what I'm looking for is something like that but with revision control." -- Why not use it with git or similar?
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Can you distill knowledge from tweets on Twitter?

You'll have to add tweets to a wiki or a mindmap, tag them and visuzalize later in several contexts ...

A Personal News Agency would offer a complete solution:

- deal with sources of information

- add filters/metadata/semantics in a completely free way: multiple tagging, categories, microformats, etc.

- help you visually organize information to distill knowledge (mindmap like, multiple lenses, timeline, treemaps, etc etc)

- package the result in formats others can consume (blog, tweets, multimedia, wiki, widgets)

- built in mechanism for monetization / usage metering
That's a pretty good exit for 5 years of really hard work.

It's the ultimate product too, everybody needs it at some point. Whatever the price you set they'll come.
Java has the same types of method arguments.

C# (.NET 3.5) misses one type of method argument: the default parameter (it will be shipped with .NET 4.0). I have to admit, it happened only once that I missed default parameters in C#. however, there's a workaround to solve this problem: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa287762(VS.71).aspx
I keep my TODO list in a single text file. I have a key bound in my window manager to open it in an editor, and ask me whether to record changes to version control when I close the editor.

The formal is very informal and ad hoc. You can see it here:

http://pastebin.com/f53965a01

I also have an hourly cron jobs that extracts the tasks under "TODAY" and mails them to me.
I highly recommend the book "Masters of Doom" (Amazon), an in-depth look at id Software from the modest beginnings until Quake III. A must for any geek!
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I guess people in Europe go out at night while in American Suburbia there is no alternative to go online.
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It's not that you can do better on your own hardware; it's that, if you figure out a better algorithm, you can sell it to the people who do have the hardware.
Is there a rationale for this? I read on wikipedia but couldn't find anything - have links to any good papers?
We once handed in a paper that was a bit shorter than the requirement and this is what we sent with it:

"I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

Blaise Pascal, (1623-1662) Lettres provinciales.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

Henry David Thoreau

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

Marcus T. Cicero

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Nietzsche

The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.

Felelon
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Wait until you own up to having this thing and using it, you'll find yourself waking up in hospital wondering why.
This product is called "Uranium Ore"... There is an interesting/funny comment, though.

Kyle J. Von Bose says:

I bought this to power a home-made submarine that I use to look for prehistoric-era life forms in land-locked lakes around my home town in Alaska. At first I wasn't sure if this item would (or could) arrive via mail, but I was glad to see it showed up with no problems. Well, almost no problems.

Unfortuantly my mom opened my mail, because she does not respect people's privacy. She was pretty upset to see Uranium Ore. After a long argument and me running away from home again, she finaly stopped being such an idiot and I was able to get back to work.

The quality of this Uranium is on par with the stuff I was bying from the Libyans over at the mall parking lot, but at half the price! I just hope the seller does not run out, because I have many projects on my list including a night vision sasquatch radar, an electromagnetic chupakabra cage, a high velocity, aerial, weighted Mothman net and super heated, instant grill cheese sandwhich maker.
Interesting pricing:

1 new from $29.95 1 used from $2,499.00
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he has two more:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A2BC94DUL2FII7
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I love Perl.
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See also HN discussion on original PerlMonks post that started all this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=761103
All points in a flow where not created equal (Interaction design)
Perl seems to be the Marmite of the programming languages ;-)

ref: http://www.marmite.com/
The article mentions a peak during dinner time, but many Europeans eat dinner later than Americans. In fact, in some areas, the answer to "what do Europeans do at night" (7-10PM) might be: dinner.
That "people either love or hate x" is almost always a myth created by vocal minorities.

e.g. I enjoy marmite but I don't _love_ it

Also consider the following:

- that most people dislike it the first time (i.e. it's an acquired taste)

- most first timers are introduced to it by someone who "loves" it

These make all acquired tastes seem polarising even if they really aren't.

... although maybe that's what you were trying to say about perl.
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From the "questions" section at the bottom of the article:

> Wait, so Perl 5 doesn't interpret every statement as it parses it?

I'm sorry, was anyone seriously suggesting this? Don't most production-grade interpreters still parse the program before executing it?

The article seems to be premised on a very strange definition of compilation. It's suggesting that building a parse tree and then executing it is compilation. Maybe I missed something, but compilation as an activity generally has a translation flavour about it. This really doesn't. There is no "target" language. There is a data structure that stores a representation of the source code, and then some program transformations (within the same source language semantics). It then executes the original program using the representation stored in this data structure. Sure, it's not like it's executing as it is parsing, but there is no "code generation" here. If you dumped out the data structure storing what is essentially a parse tree, you would basically get the original source program (+/- some syntax).

We're still in the same source language. No "compilation" has happened. Am I missing something? Is there a reason the author is claiming that there are distinct "compile" and "execute" phases when he appears to be describing a fairly run-of-the-mill interpreter implementation?
Quick question: Do you make a note of how successful a startup would be when you fund it, and then revisit those notes a year or 2 down the line? How do you make sure you have the right feedback mechanisms in place?
what is _really_ true IS what makes the best predictions. Otherwise in what sense is it true? Qualia has no effect demonstrable to an inside observer because you have no other data points to compare to. You have only one data point: your own consciousness.
The 3 thirds figure is thrown around a lot: 1/3 of VC investments make a sizeable return, 1/3 break even, 1/3 crash and burn. This would appear to be the middle 1/3.
Read that article and you wouldn't love it as much. Of all the high-level languages whose compilation and evaluation model I am familiar with, Perl5's has got to be the worst. I can't even classify it; the intermediate representation and evalution is not stack based or register based, it's not threaded interpretation, not metacircular, it's not graph reduction or term rewriting, not even "string" based (a la the weird 3rd implementation of Scheme in Kent Dybvig's PhD thesis.) So what on bloody earth is Perl5? At least Basic has the decency is to be stupid, both in essence and appearance.

Think of any language family and you could classify them in some fashion. They fit some sort of a theoretical model you could reason about. Perl5 is .. well, whatever Larry knew how to do. However, it does a good job of not sucking for Unix administration; whenever I need it, about once every 6 months, Perl saves me from the trouble of launching splitvt and reading the manuals of several unix utilities. It's like a John Waters or a Roger Corman* movie, so bad it's good.

--

* not to be confused with Richard Waters and the other Roger Corman, both fine Lispers ;-)
I liked the negative reviews of sara lee yellow cake mix: "total rip off, would not enrich to weapons grade!"
Sounds like they're preparing to kill swine flu patients or maybe the next time a really dangerous virus hits as swine flu is less dangerous than seasonal flu actually.
Nonetheless it's scary.
Play it safe.
Ditto. I read his book, and liked it. But this letter seems to try to force the point a little much.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_per_action
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=768876