skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say at most 8. I don't necessarily believe in working less than 8 hours per day has a particular benefit, but I don't really have evidence, even anecdotally, for that belief. 10 or 12 hour days are OK as one-offs, once-in-a-blue-moon (I mean that literally). But doing that for many days in a row has major negative impacts on my productivity and my general mood.
we're not as familiar with Twitter as a lot of people here probably are

Well, here's the 5 second description of Twitter from a guy who sells bingo cards to elementary schoolteachers to probably the only person here who knows less about it than him: when somebody tweets, it interrupts the day of their friends and coworkers. Their friends and coworkers signed up to be interrupted, because they trusted that friend to not waste their time. If that friend wastes their time, they'd revoke the permission and trust that friend less.

You'll pointedly notice the distinct lack of "I think I'm going to ring a few hundred phones on a different continent three times in ten minutes as a consequence of playing a 4X game."
I'm a programmer looking for a business guy with an idea. For some reason I ran out of ideas about a year ago :-(

Plus it would help to have someone marketing the product while I develop it, and giving business feedback about which features are useful, etc.
Yes, I'm a big fan now of throwing all my css for a class or id in a single line. The same dang rules are in all the classes or ids, so it's not that big of a deal to look across the line and quickly modify say the height. This reduces the number of lines in your css file by a factor of 5x.
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Agreed. It's rare to see a project of this caliber and impact released into the open source community. TVA should be applauded for making this release a reality.

The impact to the power sector and the potential acceleration of development efforts related to the smart grid is tremendous. I'd love to see this project continue to gain traction and get some true momentum in the power sector software development community behind it.

It's a game changer.
Why do you think there are wars? It has to do with the moral standing and beliefs of the leaders who wage those wars. These types of tests are actually very appropriate for "treating" the problem of war. One life for one more important one, or one life for many, or a few lives for many are the foundations of war. Is the study and the results a fix for these things? No. But they can give a much greater understanding of the decisions people are willing to make, allowing for better judgement of reactions ot situations.
I have serious doubts about the 300 million figure quoted here. He gives no details of how that figure was arrived at, nor whether it is adjusted for inflation or is in 1960 dollars. It doesn't say if it is money spent by america or world wide (although he implies it is the worldwide cost). It makes for a nice sensational headline though, I suppose.
I found it easy to read, my eyes tend to wander when reading black text on white, maybe I have ADD or something, I found the huge white text on the dark red background easy to read, relaxing. Weird.
It is therefore better for you on the whole -- and, symmetrically, better for everyone -- for people in general to choose to switch the switch and kill one person rather than five.

As a math problem, sure - but lives do not all have equivalent value. I view this as a moral problem, not one of statistics or utilitarianism.

I would prefer to live in a world where people tend to do what produces most net benefit rather than one where people tend to safeguard their moral purity, so I remain undismayed.

In most situations it is hard (or even impossible) to calculate the benefits or costs of different actions. This is why people argue strongly for and against things like the abortion debate. Unless you treat people like countable objects it is hard to establish if killing one person is better than letting five others perish.

With this sort of thinking, of course, there are no definite answers - so I take an objectivist standpoint that people should use their personal moral codes and self-interest to make decisions - rather than "running the numbers."
Good luck with this.

Suggestion: hire someone to pre-populate/categorize your database with the top 500 or 1000 spots in London you want people to rate. It doesn't have to be perfect. You can use inexpensive labor or even Amazon's mechanical turk. If the goal of your site is to get people voting, you can improve your adoption by lessening the focus on data entry, which will be a turn-off for most of your potential useres.
Similar everywhere:

http://coworking.pbworks.com/
http://startupbootcamp.mit.edu/schedule.html - there you go.
From an email to Matt. Would be interesting to hear if others agree. Try to get beyond the obviously-you-should-stop-spamming issue.

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you gotta let me queue up build tasks (or it might be that i spent all my money on my first click)

also is the "time" under "build" the "build time"?

also, you should "ajax in" the sub tabs like research, shipyard, etc.
the page will load a lot faster. You could make it feel like a desktop app depending on the transitions.

I'll play it a bit more and send any more thoughts.

Ohh, and you totally should try to get @levarburton on this. I would test having an "invite levar" button. that says:
".@levarburton please join my crew in starfleet command! [link]"

Because you have their auth, you can make it push-button. No extra confirmation step needed. Maybe a sidebar with levar's pic, and an entry field with that default text.

Also, it isn't clear whether inviting friends sends a DM. I think it does because there is a limit there.

Have you included all the people that follow me? I'd just have a "select all" and a auto-complete entry field. Maybe scrape the last 10 @replies i've sent and include those people. Hell, scrape the last 10 DMs, because you know I'm willing to send them DMs.
My son once brought a butter knife to school to spread peanut butter on some bread for lunch. They made a prtty big deal out of it, but no one was arrested.
Yeah, I stopped when it asked me to choose the number of people that would be intentionally infected with HIV that would obligate the doctor to poison the patient/murderer. There were just so many holes (break doctor/patient confidentiality, how would the doctor know how many people would get infected/etc)
Awesome, thank you sir.
Well its common to Twitter games, and when I asked Twitter for guidelines that was not one of the things they said to avoid. (Automatically DMing was, for instance.)

Sign up for 140mafia for instance and it does the same thing we do.
The iPhone's accessibility makes use of a lot of the two finger gestures already. Not this one, but most others. http://www.apple.com/iphone/how-to/index.html#accessibility.....

This particular gesture doesn't really make sense for Apple to use (for rotation, or anything else); its not very intuitive. It doesn't map to any other gesture that users have done on the computer before. Apple would have to teach users how to use this gesture. Its one thing for a game to have ann instruction screen, but quite another for the iPhone to do so.
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I don't like the nav configuration, with ~7 top items, and ~7 sub items on home. You need to reorder that for it to make sense.
I read this wrong...is that an iPhone in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me.
Have you heard of a little something called Fair Use? If you were to modify one of Apple's system utilities and then distribute it, you could easily run afoul of copyright. Simply making a local modification in-place, however, is no more illegal than installing a new hardware driver, changing your shell prompt, or downloading and using Firefox in place of Safari.

Now, if you changed some piece of the system in order to circumvent FairPlay, or some other DRM component, then you might be running afoul of the DMCA. Not the same thing as copyright violation, however.
Yes.

http://eclipse.org/aspectj/doc/released/progguide/index.html
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Thanks for the tip. I fought with ssh -t before and just couldn't get it working in my example above. I'm trying again now. Maybe what needs to happen is I need to give up on having my ssh_config as the central location defining my aliases and instead use bash aliases to give me the short name connect.
That post was actually how I found your blog in the first place. I play a lot with networks and network visualization: http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/4895/resize364.png :)
There's no build queue in the game for game design reasons. The idea is that the game is all about attacking and taking stuff from people. You're not that far yet, but it comes into play after a couple days.

If people could pay for a bunch of buildings at once, there would be a lot fewer spare resources around to attack. We may, however, do a build queue that just doesn't pay for future buildings until the time to build them comes. For now we just left that out for UI simplicity.

As for the Twitter ideas, thanks. We should make it more clear that its a DM. Also prepopulating with your last replies rather than just alphabetical is f'ing brilliant. That idea alone is worth having posted here.
This sort of nonsense is endemic to benefits systems including food stamps. They seem to try pretty hard to disincent people from being honest.
How many people get SMSed every tweet? Or do you just mean DMs. I know I quickly turned off all SMSes other than DMs, but have no idea if that is typical Twitter behavior.
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If I had to guess, I would say that user accounts are part of Darwin, not Aqua. If that is the case, you can still view (and modify) the source code.
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I wouldn't suggest it as a default setting. If power users want an alternative to holding the device up and shaking it until it switches, this could be it. You make good points, it's not intuitive, but it is a solution that wouldn't require more cluttering UI
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Joshua Greene's thesis provides us with some ways to think about how we think about these problems. There's some nice excerpting, and ensuing discussion, at lesswrong: http://lesswrong.com/lw/10f/the_terrible_horrible_no_good_ve...
What a shame - the 6 year old seems to have an understanding of the difference between a right action and a right law, which is amazing in a child of his age - "it seems the law is what is wrong, not me." This is such a contrast to the idiot policymakers that can't make the same distinction.

And of course, this child, whose enthusiasm for learning and life experiences got him into this situation, is being punished for them. Zero tolerance and zero common sense, as said by others.
An impressive list and all true if you don't care about speed. I've built three rendering engines w/ C++ / boost. Could not have made them fast in lisp.
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Because he doesn't want his ad salespeople to have to admit to potential advertisers that "well, yes, in fact, we are not findable on google and other search engines."
The part that people may miss, as I don't believe the article mentions it:

$405/week is New York State's MAXIMUM unemployment benefit. That's the equivalent of an annual take home of just under $20k.

In 2008, New York City defined it's own poverty line as $26,138 (for a family of four - http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/socialservices/20081014...), reflecting the fact that the Federal Guidelines are based on an average of the country as a whole. It's expensive living in New York. And the state bases it's poverty guidelines on a method that takes no account of "living/working in New York City"; the state as a whole is much cheaper than the city. It's not a surprise that the lawyer in question had to move out of New York State.
people should use their personal moral codes and self-interest to make decisions - rather than "running the numbers."

You don't consider the number of people involved to be significant? What if instead of saving five people it was some other number 5 > n > 1,000,000,000. Do the numbers still not matter?
And it doesn't accept .ca emails, used by most Canadian universities. Yet another America-centric website.
Oh, and you still have to take federal taxes out of that $405... Either New York State will do it for you ahead of time or you can file with your end of year taxes. Either way, I don't recommend a long stay in the unemployment line in New York...
This is pretty awesome. For those unaware of happenings in Smart Grid space here is a quick synopsis of why this is a big deal. First some background:

A PDC is software/device that collects PMU data. A PMU is a device that takes high precision measurements of Voltage, Current, Phase angle, etc at intervals and keeps a GPS timestamp with each data measurement. Enough of this data allows for some very cool analysis of the power grid, finding inefficiencies, detecting problems before they become blackouts, fine tuning various bits of equipment, etc.

So why is this particular project awesome?

OpenPDC also helps researchers, in several ways. First, it provides working implementations of protocols actually being used, which makes simulation and emulation of SmartGrid networks much easier. Second, it allows for researchers to access and use data from many sources via a common API, allowing them to focus on the real problems. Finally it provides an easy way for researchers to get their results to others, via a common code base. Oh yeah, finally + 1, it includes Hadoop code, allowing easy parallel processing of large piles of data produced by PMUs.

The above opens up another point as well. There currently exist only closed, proprietary implementations of standard protocols. There are many known incompatibilities between these implementations, so OpenPDC allows for these to be documented in code, as well as for the vendors to have a nice reference implementation. The existence of such also makes market entry a bit easier for new companies selling products in the Power Grid space, and competition is good.

Another very cool aspect of this, as someone else pointed out, is that it is the Government open sourcing their software. This is a very nice step in a good direction -- I like the results of my tax dollars being available to me.
Yet another example of the rule: Never tell the government (or IRS) anything it doesn't already know.
Relying on 'personal moral codes' without the help of math is a good way to form completely incoherent judgements. I wonder what sort of personal moral code you have that favors the death of five over the death of one. Saying its a 'moral' problem rather than a 'math' problem doesn't explain anything.
Gunpowder on an omelet makes a huge difference to the taste, making it super spicy. (Gunpowder is a mix of red chilly powder, salt and a number of other spices, and is found in many Indian recipes).
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I'd like to know too. All I know is that twitter is not even available via SMS in my country and I imagine a lot of others too but I can't find a list anywhere.
Those who don't indiscriminately click links may like to know that this is a DHTML clone of the original Lemmings.
With regards to point 2: I read something in a foreign language instead of just complex fiction. It forces me to slow down and it helps me keep up with my foreign languages. Usually this meant English (I'm Dutch), but since I read a lot of English during the day already, I started with reading German at night. I
Interesting, my radio station was not WBZ4, it was WBZ60. This corresponds well with the observation in other comments that there was some numerical priming going on that might have been the real point of the study and not the moral part of it.
However, if it's an option deep in Settings, it's likely that many people who are infuriated with auto-rotation won't find it. By making the UI offer more control and responsiveness, it will help even those users who don't want to go digging into Settings.
Whenever I start forking around too much, spending too much time reading HN and the like, I go and read job ads. Once I've read a few of those, and remember what it's like to work in a corporate environment, I'm sufficiently motivated to get back to work on my own stuff.

No joke!
Hence why this weeks-old news is suddenly being pushed by decidedly pro-microsoft sites like neowin today.
'"In my 30-year working career, I am struggling to recall a time where I have seen a supplier [...] so unwilling to accept responsibility and apologize to its client and its client's customers"'

Definitely sounds like today's IBM.
I'm surprised by how many of these sites are still around.
This is as much about Posterous catching Friendfeed as it is Friendfeed falling down to Posterous's level. The Posterous curve looks very good, particularly for the past six months, but the Friendfeed numbers definitely dropped quite a bit.
I work on a Rails site with about 5000 lines of CSS. There are spidering tools and other things that you can use to scan for the existence of a class, but I think those tools are often dangerous because in most applications there are tons of pages and/or conditional content that a spider will never see.

So far I haven't found anything more reliable than simple grepping. This can range from completely awesome if your class/id names are unique in the codebase, to painstakingly tedious if you have generic class names that match your controllers, models, libraries and everything else. However given all the places that a CSS name could hang out, it has proven to be the most robust.
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Although I can't argue whether this article is aimed at the technically inclined or not, I do believe that the advice is equally applicable for both parties.

Just because "business people" can't put together a brilliantly coded working product, does not mean that they can't do anything to get their venture started. Who is to say that setting up a legal entity, researching market trends, and securing sales channels is any less productive activity than programming?

I know that this is not a popular view, but in my eyes there are two distinct sets of tasks in a startup. Yes, one is the tech side and the other is the business side. Both pieces need to be in place to maximize chances for success though. Is a heavily tech-centric startup with a beautiful beta and no business model in any better of a position than a non-tech startup with a well thought out sales strategy and a static landing page as a minimum viable product?

As important as having complimentary skill sets is, I also believe that having some overlap isn't a bad idea either. A hacker who can read a statement of cash flows paired with an MBA who knows an 'if' statement from a 'while' loop will ultimately be able to work better together.
>> "Unsurprisingly, traffic to the Friendfeed site has plummeted since the acquisition in August. "

Perhaps I'm looking at a different graph. Usage dropped a bit Aug/Sept, as you expect when people go on holiday etc.
+1 for you for using grids. Nowadays I try to design everything for YUI's base CSS library (reset-fonts-grids).
That is a marvelously concise yet descriptive sentence.

I would add some socialization, to get me out of my own head and affirm my membership in the human race. Perspective, I guess I would call that.
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Other data disagrees:

http://bit.ly/17pcJw (Compete)

http://bit.ly/3lGxXl (Alexa)

http://bit.ly/Gmk08 (Quantcast)

All show FriendFeed growing and only Quantcast shows Posterous as larger (and a lot larger -- and for months now). Quantcast actually has FriendFeed traffic way up since the Facebook acquisition.
Well, that’s standard web app dev really. You have different users, and they have different pages available to them.
Ask HN: Is my college education worth my time?
I am a new freshman at a fairly prestigious university, University of California at Santa Barbara.

I absolutely love it here. The environment and people are both awesome, I'm pledging a fraternity and its tons of fun.
But that's the problem.

I feel like I am here solely to have fun and study the mundane and useless topics in my classes. I know I could be learning a lot more about things I'm interested in (programming, business) on my own and I could gain valuable experience by developing start ups - experience this school is not going to teach me.

That brings me to the question: How valuable is my time here? I drink and party my fair share and in my other time I'm studying these useless subjects - with no room to follow my passion of technology & business.

Is a degree or two really going to benefit me that much more in the long run?
You seem to be totally missing the point here.

Don't spam. Simple. Don't do it.
Where is the substance of this article? We all know there are certain on page SEO factors but all this article really talks about is getting your site ready to be indexed, when most people care about getting ranked...

You need to do keyword research and link building to get ranked.

"Spicy Web Design shows up on the first page in Google when you Google the words Spicy Web Design." Spicy Web Design gets searched about 16 times a month according to Google, and they rank number 4 behind the site "spicywebdesigners.com". Weak.
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For the email situation, why wouldn't you just send it out to 100 customers to get a sample of confusion? Reply to the 10 people who were confused, fix the problems, repeat.

Same goes for websites. People send in "HN please review my site" all the time.
5000 lines of CSS? You really need to re look at how you have used CSS. I can not imagine any web application needing that many lines of CSS.
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That's your defense? Other people are doing it too?

Why not do some popups, popunders, may as well ask for email login and spam the hell out of all their contacts as well, some websites do that.
HD videos of the talks will be availiable a couple of days later. Nice.
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Here in Taiwan, all public school students his age have utility knives at school and many regularly carry them in their pencil cases.

Serious violence here is extremely rare by western standards.
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A zero-tolerance policy on weapons will never prevent a single school shooting or other instance of serious violence. Never. Not even once. A shooter doesn't think "oh, I shouldn't shoot up my school because I will get expelled for it." A kid doesn't think "oh no, I'm had better not stab that rival gang member because someone might find my knife."

They completely fail to protect anybody. So why do these policies exist? There must be some ulterior motive to them.
I was reading in bed just the other day wishing that I could turn off autorotation. This is a serious need.
Great idea! Wish I would have thought of it years ago. :-)
I accidentally brought a pocket knife to school one day, I saw it in my bag and remembered a teacher once telling us if something like this happened just give the knife to a teacher, explain the situation and everything would be fine. I thought about doing that, thought some more, zipped my bag up and didn't say a word. One of the Best Decisions of My Life. Later a younger student, 2nd grade I believe, was expelled for voluntarily handing over a butter knife to a teacher. Certainly a powerful lesson to anyone paying attention. Maybe not the lesson the school board thinks it's sending though.