skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember you don't have a right to modify a script simple because you can. Usually modification of a copyright work is forbidden and I'll bet Apple strictly disclaim any ability to modify which would otherwise be fair use.
Question, if a restaurant gets on it once, will it ever be able to get on again?

If there's a "buzz" at a restaurant, there will be a lot of people there, and it will be harder to find a seat. Of course, it'll be a good sign if you have this problem, but it may be something to watch out for.
Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell

Post Captain (well, basically all of the Patrick O'Brian series)
Hacking Gravity
Locality - a word to remember.

As soon as you extract a method, or turn a switch statement into classes with polymorphism, or introduce a MVC pattern, you hurt locality, and that kills readability, like an essay with dozens of footnotes.

All those things have their advantages, but people are too quick to sacrifice locality.
How the FATF brought down modern civilisation
I don't like the fact I have to allow Twitter access before I even know what the game is. My first guess is "Spymaster in space", but nothing on the page actually tells me if that's right or not...

Clicking through to about and the blog tells me more, but it's a bit of a jump.
do NOT automatically tweet this "Join my crew in Starfleet Commander! http://bit.ly/3SKmIA #starfleet" without asking me.

ffs. That's a lame move. If you need to rely on auto-spamming, something is amiss.

Why would you think people would be ok with it tweeting using your account without asking you first?

I hesitated before allowing access, and actually changed to using a different test twitter account before I did - good job too.

Is twitter actually integral to the game? Or just a cheap spammy way to 'go viral'?
Hunh. I just clicked the link to do login with Twitter, but I didn't actually join the game and it Tweeted out on my behalf - http://twitter.com/sachinag/status/4811174469 . That's lame.
Rick Sirvaitis Joins Beezag Advisory Board
Beezag (www.Beezag.com), the newest invite-only website, which owns and operates a patent-pending system for online/mobile targeted advertising, is proud to appoint advertising industry leader Rick Sirvaitis as a Board Advisor for Beezag.
Here we go: I've got no indication of there being anything I'll enjoy beyond that signup button, and no indication that you won't spam my friends as soon as I click it.

Given that the signup button is the only thing visible, well, this is going to be a pretty quick review.
Does anyone have a talk schedule?
"Pro-Tip"? Seriously?
A video that shows the features of the game and how it is played or at least a couple of screenshots might make me consider playing the game.
Music for me. If i'm feeling distracted or can't quite get my thoughts clear, I blast hardcore punk or drum & bass and once my blood gets pumping the productivity begins. Sometimes it doesn't work so well and i'll try something on the opposite spectrum - bob dylan's first album, slow classical piano/strings, etc.

Also, and this may sound weird: a trip to the restroom. Sitting on the can for 5 or 10 minutes helps me think about the one problem without distraction. Usually I can formulate an outline there and come back and start typing.
I think the post may appear general and commonsensical at first glance, but IMO it has excellent advice for someone starting their own business.
I upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard, and my computer got slower and slower as time went on. Opening a file in Vim started to take about 10 seconds. Literally "everything" was slow. Had to reformat and start over. Random, but it adds to my personal statement of "I've never had a smooth OSX upgrade, even after 5 years".
Note: I'm not a Twitter power-user so I may be ignorant of something.

When I clicked the link and it asked me for authorization to access my account, I hesitated. I went back to the link you provided to see if there was any information regarding what this means and why I should do it. In particular, I would like, prior to authorizing: descriptions of (1) the game itself (2) what impact it has on my Twitter account.
What's the MySQL reference to? I haven't heard of a MySQL-specific issue with Time Machine.
I get the idea behind seasteading, but this "first step" looks more like an art project to me.
What's the point in university?
Maybe there should be something explaining how exactly it works.
I'm not going to click on that green button which apparently already logs me in via Twitter and might already tweet to my followers with something a la "I've just joined Starfleet" and I don't think my followers will like that.

Frankly, I usually dislike games like because they tend to be borderline spam yet I wanted to check it out for curiosity - but well...
Discussion from a few months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=673678
Social Enterprise, Exits, and Liquidity Events
It appears to be nothing but a pyramid scheme and spammy game. As others said, there's nothing that says what the game is. I did not link my account because you didn't tell me what you were going to do with it.
perhaps something like: "Tell us which places _you_ like most"
This will sound weird, but I harness hatred.

Find a person or organization that you absolutely despise. Preferably a person that you know personally--someone who makes your blood boil just from thinking about them.

Then, do the following:

1) Every night, put together a task list for the next day and do whatever preparation you can. I have a template of standard tasks, the last two of which are always "finish tomorrow's list" and "prep for tomorrow". Preparation means locating resources, laying out clothes if you will be travelling, etc.

2) Every day, work through your task list. As you finish each task, mark it off.

3) At the end of each day, for every task that you did NOT complete, put $1 in a jar. At the end of the month, take all of that money, put it in an envelope, and mail it to the person you hate. (I generally send it anonymously.)

It's amazing how powerful this technique is. It also helps a great deal at teaching you to estimate how long a given task will take, and teaches you to break large tasks into small ones.
Levinson resignation means Apple, Google boards sever last tie
this absolutely has to be a mobile app--the only time im ever looking for a place to go to is when im already out and the present venue is lame. for 20-somethings, venue is rarely planned ahead of time, and we usually hit multiple venues.

as far as venue discovery, again, its something that is gonna come up in conversation--"oh hey let me check my iphone!" Though, I might allow you to send me weekly spam of hot spots and their specials, correlated with your value add. hey, that's a nice business model...
Spamming is not OK.
That internet sure is cool :)
Oh, so it is one of those games, I'm glad I didn't click the button...
It might actually reduce clutter, since plenty of apps are now individually adding rotation options to their settings. Having a system-wide setting would simply consolidate all of these in one place.
buzzd.com seems to do something similar - although they focus mainly on the mobile platform. They determine which place is 'buzzing' based on twitter updates, direct buzzes etc for a bar/restaurant.

I think the idea has potential - A couple of suggestions that might seem redundant since some have already been suggested above - make it more streamlined (workflow) & integrate fb connect. Twitter integration will also be great to buzz places automatically via Twitter. Any plans for mobiles ? Additionally, check if you use yelp api to populate places - dont know if it will violate their ToS, but no harm in checking.

edit: You could also add relative scores - ie, a bar/restaurant that was in the top position has down by x percentage etc.
How To Get Listed On Google - Just Blog It
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"Three sir!"

A windows version was made as well, and last I checked it runs fine in XP, dunno about Vista/7/64-bit though.
Good article showing improved google maps data. Also linked articles tell of google improving responses to "Report a problem" are often resolved within one day, rather than six to eight months with tele atlas service.

I just reported a map error to google and let's see how long it takes.
The indentation in the example at the top of the page is wrong.
Similar in Kansas City and Chicago: http://officeportkc.com/

And in Kansas City only: http://cowtowncomputercongress.org/
Much Better Comparison of JavaScript frameworks
DustMeSelectors is a nice tool for some applications. Here's how you use it.
Option 1: Give it a site map. It will scan everything and give you a list of unused selectors.
Option 2: Load up one of your pages and tell it to scan. It will give you a list of unused selectors on that page. Go to another page and scan. It will narrow down the previously-gathered list (if a selector was unused on the first page but is used on the second page, it is removed from the list). Repeat until you've covered everything you need to.

When you're done, you can export the unused selector list to a CSV file. Each column is a style sheet, and each row is a selector.

It's a lot faster than doing it by hand, but it does assume that you can see everything that anyone can see. At the very least, you can take that list and search your files for <div class="crazyselector"> and see if it is truly never used. If it's the only occurance, maybe you can refactor that HTML to use a more common selector.
Music For Your Eyes: A Discussion With Derek Sivers, Founder of CD Baby
I can't say enough good things about Sass. Compass is pretty sweet too.
A fundamental question to ask is do you want the advisory board for show off or to get actual advice? I think there are some specific cases where you need an A-star list. But more often than not, what you really need is advice for which you don't need to put together an official board until later in the venture.

I like the idea of getting help from people. When/if your startup is going somewhere, pay back for their help/advice in form of equity--as opposed to getting an A-star list put together on day 1 which often just ends up looking shiny but rarely useful.
This sounds like a good idea. Reminds me of Dan Weinreb's video where he says that sometimes if your process has too much garbage to collect in a clustered implementation, that the best thing to do is to just crash.

And in a backhanded way, this relates to "do the simplest thing that could possibly work" (although I have begun to have some doubts about that philosiphy).
Ok, so now 'bar' contains a function where the 'x' is already bound to the '5', but the 'y' is still free because it has not yet been 'bound' to any parameter, is that what you mean ?

bar contains "function(y) { return 5*y; }"

The 'x' has been replaced by the '5' because of the function call. So 'binding' effectively pins down a function parameter and allows you to replace its instances in 'named' form with its value to reduce the expression ?
It was Tweetie 2's auto-rotation which pushed me over the edge and into writing 800 words about a telephone.
Could easily be solved by a setting that turns off accl switching and allows users to make a two finger twisting gesture on the screen to rotate it.
Yes, they were quite poorly formed, which renders the study entirely pointless. The idea behind these problems is to collect people's intuitive reactions to simple, clear situations. If the problems are so poorly formed that intuition simply rejects them, the exercise is useless, except as a study in human frustration. (Perhaps that's the point? It would explain the poor UI design.)

Several situations present you with the option of causing one immediate and fairly certain death to prevent several more distant, much more speculative deaths. You can't predict the path of a boulder down a mountain. A boulder that would be stopped by one person would be unlikely to kill five. The man driving the injured people to the hospital actually has little idea how quickly he needs to get them there to save their lives. The certainty presented in the problems is so unreal that they might as well have been posed in an entirely abstract way in the first place.
Wouldn't say so. Maybe, you're just trying to sell to the wrong target audience?

To be frank: Your design doesn't look 'enterprisy'. Your size (as a start-up I assume) is not 'enterprisy'. I guess you have no 'enterprisy' sales force who spend half a year negotiating with CEOs.

You will waste lot of time if you try to educate CEOs that have no clue about the web and who probably never heard of you before.

Your best prosects would be smart, web-experience guys who know what an A/B split test is -- web marketing consultants or web designers/copy writers who can install Wordpress on a server. Why not go for them?

Drop the 'enterprisy' language (solutions, resources, etc.) and give them a reseller account and maybe an affiliate program. Don't try to compete with them by offering services. Let them sell your application to their clients, integrate it and administrate it.

Just a thought. ;)
Yeah, we have a way to turn them off, but are working on possibly modifying the startup flow to be more like Spymaster's current one where it asks you before you signup. Sorry if we came off as too spammy. We'll fix it somehow, just trying to find the best way.

Twitter is useful, it's not entirely integral yet. It will be though as we change things to for instance DM you when you're getting attacked, uses tweets for the internal messaging system, etc.

It's a port of a Facebook app that's doing well, the reason we posted this here but did not for the FB app is that we're not as familiar with Twitter as a lot of people here probably are, and some things change in translation.
These are simplifying assumptions; it's rather like a scientific experiment that aims to control for other factors, in order to distill the experiment down to its essential core.
Venture Funds Raise Only $1.6B In Third Quarter. Most Of That Went To V. Khosla.
I have worked extensively with startups in Silicon Valley since 1984 and have seen every shade of advisory board, ranging from those set up for pure window dressing to those used extensively by founders for insightful continuing advice.

The latter usually arise from pre-existing relationships between one or more of the founders and the advisors. Normally, the advisor is someone who wants to assist the founders and whom the founders accordingly want to reward by small equity grants via the advisory director role. These types of advisory boards, in my experience, tend to be of significant value to early-stage startups and are well worth the small equity grants involved (which, by the way, tend on average to be more like .1%/yr of service rather than the higher number suggested by the author of this piece). The informal nature of the relationship also avoids many of the hassles associated with trying to have such an advisory board meet from time to time in some formal manner. In essence, what you have with such boards is a healthy working relationship from which all parties benefit.

The "window dressing" variety of advisory board is often as phony as an undersized glass eye that spins randomly with every blink. This often involves the so-called industry luminaries used to make the startup look much more impressive than it really is. In essence, such advisors hire out their names (and, yes, they will insist upon larger equity grants and often for some form of cash compensation as well, as for example for every meeting attended). While one can never say categorically that such advisors do not add value to a startup, their primary function is to add name-value and hence the value of their contributions apart from name value tends to be limited. There are exceptions but, in my experience, not many. In general, these types of advisors are a clear mis-match for most early-stage startups, though they often help later-stage ones needing "company profile" dressing for IPO, etc.

By the way, founders still occasionally confuse the role of advisory director with that of a board director. There is no connection whatever between the two roles. The former is basically an outside consultant only and has no management-level authority; the latter, of course, has tremendous management authority (and corresponding liability risks as well, which the advisory director does not).
For me, at least, every time I reinstalled Leopard and restored with Time Machine MySQL's data would be gone.
jvm support has been deprecated. other language options are 2nd thoughts.
For me, Following things work..

1. Keep a notepad and a pen handy. Whatever occurs to me, I write it down. And then I type it out on a personal wiki. Right now the wiki is organized by days. Eventually it would be organized by topics.

2. Use tools like bookmarking etc to be able to retrieve things fast.

3. Action things NOW. I dont keep them pending. Even if they are tough ones, I do them.

And apart from these productivity things, for creativity, I do following ...

1. Multidisciplinay approach tot things. Have one major hobby apart from work. Keep changing it every few days. Like now a days am playing poker. Before this I learnt juggling. Before that was Rubik's cube. I dont know when I have to move on but I do keep on changing these challenges.

2. At max have 4 tabs on your browser at any given time. Helps you focus ;P

3. Jason Bourse says, sleep is a weapon. I agree. Use it. Make sure you get enough sleep. I sleep about 7 hours a day.

4. Meet people. Travel. Attend things that are completely different from your domain. I for example goto theatre, college campuses, long car rides etc.

These are more but guess these depend from person to person. Hope the ones I put in help.

Thanks,
SG
Not even sure how that's possible but we'll fix it.
While I always been a great fan of Ted Nelson, his vision does not include distributed cryptographic filestores, where documents do not reside on individual servers, and where individual servers are in fact completely invisible and redundant.
"do NOT automatically tweet this "Join my crew in Starfleet Commander! http://bit.ly/3SKmIA #starfleet" without asking me.

ffs. That's a lame move. If you need to rely on auto-spamming, something is amiss."

+1

When Twitter Oauth said the app would have the power to consume AND update my stream, I said "Normally I'd punt here, but I'm sure Matt wouldn't be the kinda guy who would push stuff to my Twitterstream without some sort of confirmation."

Dealbreaker. Deleted the tweet and stopped looking at the app as soon as my co-founders phone buzzed with my "tweet".
But I think we are witnessing something more profound. As big swaths of the world modernize and gain large populations who have the time and the means to enjoy films, we will see more and better films come from outside of the US.

You know, some of us outside the US have been making movies for as long as you US guys have been. And some of our movies are really good. The fact that you have to go to the Film Forum to see them as mostly your problem. Making it seem like the world is suddenly playing catch up is typical US-centric thinking.
Yeah, we do need more explanation on the splash page probably. We just copied the design of the other big Twitter games to get something launched, but should further improve it.
> than rely on the centralized infrastructure

I wonder why you think such infrastructure must be central. It's certainly not part of the spec.
T-Mobile and Microsoft/Danger data loss is bad for the cloud
It's deprecated for a reason -- hardly anyone's been using it.
Online Marketing is the New Finance: Adobe, Omniture & the End of “Mad Men”
Social gaming has the massive advantage that users that like your product will tell their friends about you. And yet auto-spam like this leaves a bad taste in the mouth and probably does more harm than good.
It's sad when zero-tolerance equates to zero-common-sense.
>> "possibly modifying the startup flow to be more like Spymaster's current one where it asks you before you signup."

eg 'Is it ok if I send a spam tweet out to try and get some more traffic?'

Good luck with that.

Did you even try the signup process out yourselves before you posted here? :/

AFAIK auto-spam like this is impossible on facebook, where every post to your wall etc must be allowed or denied. Much better.
I'm not surprised. Just yesterday, everybody was Bashing Microsoft/Danger for something very similar.

[Nitpicker's corner: Dispute "very."]
That is the way that I understand it. However you should be warned that I have never made a detailed study of the lambda calculus, and so might have basic misconceptions about it.
Mister Dog

http://www.redbug.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2003/11/10#Peanut_...
I would actually have to disagree. They are different situations cast around the trolley problem. For me, the settings of each situation actually played a large amount in the weighting. Trying to not reveal much, in my opinion, the lunch line guy wasn't wrong at all while the box lady was, even though the situations are virtually identical (sacrifice one to save many).
A big issue is it doesn't SAY that's what your going to do.... or that you've done it!

that's dishonest
That's a question we should be constantly asking ourselves as indivuals and as a society. This misleading and flawed comparison serves more as a distraction than a call to arms.
I'm not sure (see article) -- it would mean every app developer would have to test with it on and off to make sure that gesture didn't get in the way of their UI. It's also hard for users annoyed with the feature to discover.

I suspect that particular gesture is a little awkward. Try it! Getting enough motion to reliably detect it as something different to a scroll or pinch is almost painful.
to my dismay: You are (in some woolly sense) five times more likely to end up as one of the five in a situation like this, than as the one. 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. It's nice that you value their moral purity ("murderers rather than bystanders"), but 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. (I'd be dismayed if I thought that "most people" aren't at all troubled by the prospect of being put in such a situation, but that's a separate issue from what they'd do once in it.)

Then again, I think much more harm results from people not living up to either sort of moral standard than from people having suboptimal moral principles (whatever that actually means).
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Long walks (to gather my thoughts), greenery (creativity) and tea (productivity).
In your case you value maintaining an unsullied self-image over assisting 5 people in mortal peril, and would prefer if other people saw your choice the same way.

"Maintaining an unsullied self-image" is largely what personal moral codes are about. If I actively killed someone, I would find being a murderer harder to cope with than being a witness to the death of a larger number of people.

I think this is a purely moral standpoint, whereas "killing one to save the five" is the result of people playing a "numbers game." I think this is demonstrated by the opposing results of the "push the fat man off the bridge" dilemma - once you change the mechanism from a lever/switch to actually pushing a dude off a bridge, people's sense of morality comes rushing back.
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Melanie Wood: The Making of a Mathematician