skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Patrick, I definitely both respect and admire the business you built. You can also say I'm pro the 37 signals mantra.

But I think your advice is specific to the model you've built and the output you are yielding. I don't remember the numbers but I think you are somewhere around 100k (or less) in yearly revenue? Startups, whether logical/warranted or not, seem to be aiming orders of magnitude more than this, yes?
Influenza spreads by some combination of airborne particles containing viruses (e.g., from infected people sneezing) and surface contamination. The relative importance of each is unknown, and there's actually not much in the way of research indicating that hand washing helps appreciably (it's rather difficult to measure).

That said, it can't really hurt, either, and may help avoid opportunistic infections joining the fray in someone who does get the flu. So it's not surprising that organizations advising the general public would tell people to wash their hands, evidence or no.
You know, I just tried to track down your email address, gave up/came to my senses, and I'll just spit it out here. Connect the dots for me. How do you go from the content you publish on your blog (the one I know about, MicroISV) to selling teachers bingo cards?

I would love for the answer for customer development for Matasano's product to be content development, but, like you, our blog is inside baseball. We're popular, and there's some overlap between our readers (security people) and our customers (firewall operators), but not as much as you'd think.

For services work, content has been a clean win (also: surveys, giving away posters). I'm not seeing how to do it with the product. I read your stuff and I always feel like there are a million things we're doing wrong.
Many kudos to dons for creating an awesome twm, but I don't think it's a good investment of time for the HN userbase (i.e., the young start-ups who just want to get their thing working and up, whatever be that 'thing'). Xmonad is hard to configure and set up, and hard to work with. I'd rather stick with gnome and have everything Just Work.

But, that's just my opinion.
There's a couple of great articles by dons on the innards as well (good explanation of how the zipper data structure simplifies things):
http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2007/05/01
http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2007/05/17

(also http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2007/06/02 )
Notable that in his year of public (blog) development, many of Sifter's visual techniques had widespread pickup in other SaaS tools. I hope he keeps innovating his design language.
I'd like to learn the same things as you - interested in doing so collaboratively? I am also interested in exploring online collaborative learning methods, so this appeals to me for both reasons. Find my email in my profile and get in touch if you're interested, I have a few ideas on how this could benefit us both.
And here I thought the favicon was on purpose...
There are a lot of explanations why one is not enough. Think about practicing a foreign language - how it's much better when you have someone to talk to. That's also correct for almost any kind of evolving processes. Even a reading (which is a classical example of a lonely activity) could do better if you will develop the habit of reading aloud, like Tibetan and many other cultures have.
When you say "won", do you mean the Diversity Visa lottery?
sigh But we should remember the social site of today is the GeoCities Site of the next decade. Though I think, despite the somewhat trite bleeps and blurps of the GeoCities era, there was a bloody ton of innovation and invention that occurred in and around this product. It's passing is the end of an era. Chat rooms, personal websites, web based socialization all began in the likes of a GeoCities.
i typically get answers immediately, but i've only asked questions up to college algebra
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Every symbol and every letter (upper- and lowercase) on your keyboard has a specific meaning. Spend an hour trying out what all (80 or so) do - that's fun!

Then do some actual editing and try to navigate as efficiently as possible - make it a sport. Try to use as many different commands as possible.

There are some two letter commands (e.g. ZZ, gg, zt) but not that much. There are some CTRL-key commands, but few important ones. And there are tons of command-mode functions (e.g. substitution), but there are few that you really need to know.
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That's it. Think about self-developing as a startup. This should be one's first startup - build your own self (yes, go toward unknown, launch fast, evolve, iterate, grow).
The article makes these points about California:

"Eight million jobs have been lost nationwide since the recession began two years ago, and by some measures workers face the worst job market since the Depression. The average laid-off worker has been without a job for 61/2 months, a post-World War II record. Many of those workers will never recover financially.

California's hole, deepened by a state budget mess and volatile tax system, is far worse: Unemployment is at 12.2 percent, third highest in the nation; and adding discouraged and part-time workers puts it over 20 percent."
They have lots of example configurations you can just copy. I agree that at first it seems like it's going to be a huge hassle to setup but it's really not that bad after you've done it once.

Personally I find I get increased productivity out of not constantly fiddling with window placement.
* Make the delete less prominent and don't depend on Javascript to confirm a delete. If I have it off, my workout plan disappears with a misplaced click.

* Answer "Why am I using this tool?"

* Style the table so my attention is drawn to the part that is most important, probably the table headers or the "Create program" button

* When adding a program, give me some suggestions; muse me. Give me examples like "Run 40 minutes" or "Do 300 pushups (like a boss)"

* On the main page, make the program name link to the show action. The word "display" doesn't help me at all, but linking the name shows me what the page I will click on is going to be

* Don't ever use a <font> element. It's unnecessary and inflexible. CSS is your friend.

I have more, but you're doing a great job so far. It's coming along great!
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Many kudos to Linux for creating an awesome DOS 6.2, but I don't think it's a good investment of time for the HN userbase. Linux is hard to configure and set up, and hard to work with. I'd rather stick with Windows and have everything Just Work.

Yeah, this comment is kind of like that. Most "modern" windowmanagers are much more about making the desktop pretty than making it usable. Me, I'm happily still running fvwm2 (though I use XMonad every once in a while), and not only does it not waste cycles on things I'm not looking at, it is configurable quickly and easily to an extent that the mainstream Gnome WMs have a hard time touching. XMonad takes that a step further by allowing configuration directly in Haskell (in my perfect world fvwm2 would use guile, but I'm not really complaining).

When you want to improve your efficiency at repetitive tasks or basic interactions with your computer, dropping relatively simple "Just Work" solutions in favor of more flexible options makes complete sense. Arguing against a meager time investment to make your UI yours strikes me as rather wrongheaded.
I did it last week. I should post it in a few days.
It is really unclear what the process is when adding workouts. The only button you have is "next", and there aren't any instructions given. Also, it would be better to have all of the inputs available to enter at once when adding a workout, rather than clicking "next" like a wizard might have.
> They have lots of example configurations you can just copy.

Sure, you can do that. But then you also have to take the time to understand THAT config (which, isn't even optimized for _YOU_, to begin with) and get USED to that . . .

>I agree that at first it seems like it's going to be a huge hassle to setup but it's really not that bad after you've done it once. You also have to invest time in understanding how the config goes, and have a bit of experience with Haskell, and Xmonad itself, to even create a config that really is good for you.

Maybe twm is something for me, maybe it isn't. I really don't know - because I only gave it one try, and quickly gave up (because I was having some problems with it, and wasn't willing at that time to set aside time to resolve those problems).
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I'm curious: Is it really worth it to learn vim for the productivity?

I've used vim as far as simple search, visual mode, and copy/paste. One of the things I've noticed when attempting to learn more vim is that when using other editors I use the time it takes to scroll or navigate to think about what I'm doing or what to work on next. From that (possibly naive) perspective, the effort to learn vim seems less necessary. Am I the only one who thinks this way?

Note: I make an exception for regex search and replace as an amazing power feature, but the GUI editor I use most of the time can do that anyway (Notepad++). Also now I'm really interested by snippets after having looked them up.
You should consider disabling the service until you fix this issue. It wasn't just a bad experience for me, it was a negative one... one that cost me around 5 hours of work to clean up.
Thank you for your input!!

1) Ok I'll dive into why I have javascript confirming a delete.

2) This tool is to discover workout programs or ideas you see in another workout listed. You can also share your own.

3) Okay, I'll restyle the table to make it more clear.

4) Okay, I'll add suggestions to make it easier.

5) Okay I'll change the link show to be the program name highlighted.

6) Yeah, I need to learn some basic CSS.

Haha, thanks! Feel free to tell me whatever you want. It's in its infancy. The more insight the better! Thanks again!
I've been unconsciously practicing number #13 since the beginning of our start-up. Every time I close a deal I'm thinking, "it's not over until we start getting paid from these guys."

That attitude has served me well, I mean, I've had groups back out on us after they signed an agreement. What are we going to do? Lawyers cost to much and who wants to work with someone who doesn't want to work with us? Our customers are our partners and we love them--but if the feeling's not mutual I'd rather cut it off.

It's funny, I'm so optimistic about our success--I'm an entrepreneur after all--but I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop when closing a new customer.

BTW: I should mention that our customers are newspapers, who are notorious for taking a long time to make bad decisions . . . so when we close someone, it's time to break out the scotch.
I started out in programming, but became a de facto system administrator when I found the best way to accomplish a job was to assemble other people's components. Now my title is system administrator, and I'm solidly in the "automate everything" school of sysadmin.
The source of the page has a few hidden gems, including:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='SCHEME'>
(define (eval exp env)
(cond ((self-evaluating? exp) exp)
((variable? exp) (lookup-variable-value exp env))
((quoted? exp) (text-of-quotation exp))
((assignment? exp) (eval-assignment exp env))
((definition? exp) (eval-definition exp env))
((if? exp) (eval-if exp env))
((lambda? exp) (make-procedure (lambda-parameters exp) (lambda-body exp) env))
((begin? exp) (eval-sequence (begin-actions exp) env))
((cond? exp) (eval (cond->if exp) env))
((application? exp) (apply (eval (operator exp) env) (list-of-values (operands exp) env)))
(else (error "Common Lisp or Netscape Navigator 4.0+ Required" exp))))
</SCRIPT>
My god, imagine if Bill Gates gave money to an organization that would aid his specific ethnic group.
I have a laptop with no windows key and am forced to use stumpwm because of the awkward positioning I have to use if it were bound to caps lock as alt is needed for emacs

stumpwm isn't bad though just xmonad is really nice when you have a decent modifier key available.
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You could let in 10 times as many people every year and nobody would even notice.

Since people notice the smaller number, they would presumably notice the much larger number. I know, I know: When you are on your knees worshiping political orthodoxy, not one fact is allowed near the temple.
I completely agree with you. I was working with javascript before to do it all on one page as seen here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/741576/need-help-with-rai...
But I wasn't able to successfully implement it. I tried to make it easier by showing the program in progress at the bottom. I'll add instructions to make it easier, thanks a million!
It is actually more tiling like ratpoison/screen/emacs than xmonad.
I think you're trying to over-engineer the form with the nesting. You can make the interface for adding a workout very simple. I agree with others on here, go check out what other workout sites are doing and see if you want to do something different from them or make it more unique, otherwise you're going to have a hard time competing.
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If all you use an editor for is searching, copying, pasting, and typing simple documents, then a simpler editor than vim would probably suffice.

But if you use an editor for programming or composing more complex documents (such as LaTeX articles/books), then learning vim could save you a lot of time.

vim is also handy for editing lots of small, simple documents scattered all over a filesystem and on many different machines (tasks that system administrators have to do quite frequently).

Take a look through vim.org's script repository for just a small inkling of what vim could do.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?order_b...

This list of "best vim tips" should also give you a taste:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Best_Vim_Tips
Even the default config is reasonable and instantly usable, so this complaint really isn't very valid. You really can just install either distribution or cabal package, run it, and get the work done.

On the other hand, there are things, that really aren't going to work just out of the box and are hard to configure. Xmonad has quite a different behaviour than Gnome, and sometimes different from what usual desktop app expect. It might be necessary to create a specific settings for a single application, sometimes. But that's what makes it beneficial. If it were just another bad copy of metacity or kwin-like window manager, without adequate support of EWMH and stuff like it, which is the case of many and many X11 WMs, then it would be really worthless.
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It also depends on the nature of your business -- in our case, we deal with a lot of paper and a lot of technologically unsophisticated clients. And when we need to prepare a proposal for submission on a deadline, having the copier in-house and with zero problems is crucial.

"If we need to fax something, we walk a block to the blueprint shop and pay $1."

Right -- and if you fax something once a month, this makes sense. But if you fax something once a week, it probably doesn't -- especially if you need to, say, scan multi-page documents regularly, and so forth.
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Buy ads, track their performance, use multivariate testing to improve their performance.
This vim cheat sheet should help you do just that:

http://www.viemu.com/vi-vim-cheat-sheet.gif

More here:

http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial...

But I still recommend "vimtutor" as a more structured approach to learning vim.

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/usr_01.html#01.3
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Very timely post for me as I started up earlier this year--amazing how many of these things I've already learned the hard way.

#1 is aptly chosen. I've always heard that picking the wrong business partner is worse than picking the wrong spouse and I have to agree. Some days I spend more time talking with my co-founder than I do my wife, and right now he is currently six states away.

But I wanted to add that #5 also plays a role here. I vividly remember the first time my co-founder and I had a disagreement: we were both pissed and thought the other was pretty stupid. Some things were said and I got offended but we were both able to take a step back and remove our emotion. I told myself, "this is how start-ups die." Once we both removed our emotion from the situation we were able to address the problem and ultimately make the product better. We needed to be persistent not only in our work, but also in our relationship.

Ever since that time we've decided that while we may at times offend each other (it is a natural reaction), we just need to get over it, and quickly. Now we can say things like, "you're doing this wrong" or "that looks ugly" or "we need to completely rethink this" and no one wants to take their toys and go home. By removing emotion we can more direct, more efficient. And our product is better and we have more clients because of it.
"What's the word for bribing people with their own money?"

Incentivizing.
Only "some" 2-letter commands? Try looking through ':help z' and ':help g'.

Ctrl-key commands become really important in insert and command-line modes.

And not to nitpick, but when you speak of "command-mode functions (e.g. substitution)", I think you really mean command-line mode. Command mode is another name for normal mode. Please try not to confuse the new/prospective users.
I just want a scanner with wifi that will save direct to a Dropbox account or fax direct with eFax. < $300
In a pinch, you can go to justin.tv (http://www.justin.tv/startupschool). However, the audio cuts out so much that some of the talks (like Jason Fried) are unwatchable.

Rumor has it that higher quality videos were taken, but those might not show up for another day or two.
I am using twitter to market my apps and I need something different from what you described. Just in case you care, in a nutshell:

- monitoring keywords (and combinations thereof - can be done via twitter search RSS)

- when match is found bring it up t my attention via iPhone push and/or some notification for desktop (AIM?). Time is of the essence.

- built-in translation (google translate is just fine), ideally bidirectional

- allow me to easily ignore the lead or quickly pick one of the templated tweets to reply with on the iPhone and desktop
The easiest way is make your product appeal to the widest range of users possible. If half the people on an airplane could benefit from your product than your onto a good idea.

Unfortunately my product deals with a very specific market and by the time we have 1,000 "users" we'll be billionaires.

I'm still trying to figure out how to create a SaaS product that provides water or food . . . because everyone needs that.
You are not Twitter.
Through early Monday, you can still request a special extra last-minute Internet Archive crawl of any GeoCities pages:

http://www.archive.org/web/geocities.php

(We've already got fairly good coverage, both historically and in extra crawls of the last couple months that don't yet appear in the Wayback Machine. But we're not sure we have everything, so if any sites are especially important to you, please nominate them.)
You are probably solving a problem, right? Ask yourself how would you go about finding the solution to such problem and go there. "There" will be some blogs, community websites etc where you can add comments whenever a relevant question comes up for discussion. This worked for me.

What didn't work: approaching any kind of famous blogger (zero responce), google ads (huge money drain).
i use vim because using the mouse hurts. this replaces the time required for moving my hands from kb to mouse and back with time spent noodling around in vimtutor and googling vim commands ;)
These aren't direct quotes. I clearly remember a few being worded differently.

Maybe list them as "remembered anecdotes" and not direct attributions.
You're not overanalyzing it - you're making generalizations about women that are naive and, in my view, offensive.
What do you have in mind about an interface?

Please keep listing the other sites. I didn't know of Hi-Tech trainer.

What would differentiate this site is that this isn't specifically for trainers. It's for everyone to share their workout programs.

There are forums I'm aware of like BodyBuilding.com and T-Nation. They don't have user generated programs. I also want to make it easy to use. I'm not there yet.

Thanks for the input!!!

What I think I know what others may not is that there is a ton of good programs out there just sitting on peoples' desks, not being utilized by everyone.
Not sure why this is labeled a Voronoi diagram, it might be for some set of points but none are there. The algorithm mentioned in the blurb is MDSCAL, googling around finds various references including this survey paper

http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/berrin/cs512/reading/camastra-...
Single biggest thing you did right: Got an absolute minimum product up fast, then asked potential customers to criticize.

Things you could improve: As others said, not clear what this is. Explain it in 10 words or fewer, make them big, bold, and centered. The interface needs to improve...there are too many steps in creation / editing (why must I create the wrong name first, then edit it to correct value?), there's no way to create / modify multiple elements in one step, and it's not clear how many steps there are, so I quit out partway through.

Good luck with it.
Try the Fujitsu Snapscan. I think you can set an automatic folder.
I slightly disagree, the current situation has little to do with what the US is producing/economy and more to do with the fact that we have been inflating the US monetary supply at ever faster and faster rates. The money others hold is losing value, that is why they want to get rid of it.
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Funny stuff.
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I was thinking this site would be along the lines of
http://startingstrength.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Training_Pro...
but flushed out and easy to follow
Having just saw the indie flick "Moon" the other night, this scares me. Not from the humanitarian literal sense, but more so what corners a corporation may be willing to cut and safety measures forgone in order to minimise costs.
I think this is just semantics, the definition of 'launch' for this purpose can be pretty flexible.
When do we get to retire myspace, which is essentially geocities 2.0 ?
Same group helped me immigrate in 92, for same reasons. I am very grateful to Brin for this.