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Ask HN: How do you work?
How do you work? More specifically, how do you keep your programming tasks organized.

When I do Mac development at home I use software called an outliner to organize, keep notes and prioritize the tasks I need to do. I started out using a program called Deep Notes (http://amarsagoo.info/deepnotes/) which is a nice simple free tool. But now I use The Hit List (http://www.potionfactory.com/thehitlist/).

I’ve been looking for an equivalently good program on the Windows platform but so far have not found one. So far I’ve tried FusionDesk (http://www.fusiondesk.com/) and am not satisfied with it. I’m starting to get the urge to write my own software but thought I would ask around first and see if anyone knows of a good product that I have not been able to find on this vast internet.
I think (d) of your first list is the reason of being for this community. Sure, it is just a matter of doing it. But so is everything. Which leads to...

Science? just do it man! read the papers or do your own research... The journals and conference proceedings are already there for your pleasure, no need to post it here on HN.
I won't know about the value of video for doing the actual sell. My guess is it would vary from industry to industry. Just be careful of thinking that just because you don't enjoy video, that your visitors too won't enjoy video.

What I can attest to is a video can really help get blogger coverage. Bloggers love to be able to embed a 1-2min demo of what your site is about. I believe it was a big part of what got us top coverage(on TechCrunch/digg etc.) when we launched few years ago.

Moreover, video helps you control the precise message in a world where bloggers can do a 5min writeup on your site that totally misses the point.
Yes the drug use is lower; what they never say is that it was lower anyway. And is still comparable to other EU countries with much much stricter drugs laws. Also they are not the lowest in the EU.

I do feel like points 2 and 3 could be fixed without legalising.

Point 1 is something I dont feel would happen anyway; it would have to be opened up to companies (and taxed). Which potentially ends up legitimising the drugs gangs :)

could go on and on about the immorality and degenerating effects on society caused by the _drug war_, which is much more damaging than drug use itself, but I think I'll stop here.

This is a dangerous argument; Im not sure legalising drugs would stop all that. Firstly because there are plenty of other drugs. And secondly because there is no way they would let the drugs be legalised without a fight.

These are serious, organised and very rich gangs.

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I should also ask if you've been to Amsterdam; they are very strict about smoking on the street. And possibly stricter on drinking in the street. A large number of the coffee shops have been closed down too (and they are by no means "safe" in the way you suggest).
If you like this, you should read In The Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent. Aside from the being the best non-fiction book I've ever read, it talks about Lojban and characteristics of invented languages that make them suitable for becoming a universal language. It turns out, Lojban would make a terrible universal language for precisely the reason I pointed out in my other post. It's too complicated. When we speak, we frequently start a sentence not knowing how it's going to end. We pause and insert filler words to give us time to form our thoughts. We use ambiguity because sometimes we just don't know precisely what we're trying to say (Lojban has, if I recall correctly from Okrent's book, over 30 ways to say 'and'). Forcing people to have a complete understanding of what they want to say before saying it won't make them more clear when they talk, it'll make them not talk.
I used John Wood's Priorganizer for my development. http://www.riaform.com/product,priorganizer,product.aspx

He doesn't actively develop it anymore which is a shame - I love it but I went back to a notepad approach after my last big project.
Todoodlist: http://todoodlist.com/
maybe. But I was talking in context of HN. here lolcats is definitely not interesting
I agree that would disqualify it as a universal language candidate. At the same time though, how often do you wish you'd thought out your next sentence in its entirety when speaking to your girlfriend/boss/mother/etc ?
Do you need the cash? If yes, then I'd ask to get paid a discount rate. If you don't need the cash and the project is short-term (1-2 months?), then equity only is fine. Just be aware that you probably will never get any money at all if you go this route - just consider it padding for your resume, a great way to get experience, a good way to meet people, etc.
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The traffic to New page is fraction to that of the main page. I want pg to show the latest link from New at the bottom/top of main page. This will greatly aid in discovery.
> "I generated millions of dollars from these offers on Facebook – I am not proud of it, but it was very lucrative."

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

as soon as people stop doing things they are not proud of, which we might rephrase as not doing things they are ashamed of, the world will be a better place. humanity, sometimes you really drop the ball.
Interesting. Is the content automated or professionally added?
How do you measure the sentiment of opinion ?
Boosting algorithms: regularization, prediction and model fitting (PDF)
Bit of both - the sources are "curated" and then we automatically discover other sources. A big part of what the software does is to establish source quality and authority.

The taxonomy automatically evolves - so for example during Halloween, words related to Halloween rise into the statistics even though we never manually seeded those words into our system.
I'm a rather thoughtful speaker, so I rarely regret my words, but this is a somewhat separate issue. There are lots of factors that affect how likely someone is to say something they will later regret. The biggest thing that makes people say things they'll regret isn't a language, it's the internet. If you say something you might regret in a letter, it's pretty easy to catch it before sending it. In an email, not so easy. In an IM, you're likely to send the message before you've even read it back.

What this tells me isn't that we need better tools (whether they be software or languages or anything else), it's that sometimes people say stupid things, and we need to be more understanding. A hundred years ago, it may have been reasonable to expect that a long-distance friend would never say anything rude to you, because they'd have time to edit their words. It isn't reasonable to expect that anymore. People haven't changed, but their ability to edit themselves has. Instead of trying to recreate that ability to edit ourselves, we need to evolve our interactions with each other so that these thoughts that we had time to edit before don't play such a big role in our communication.
The paper describing it is well over 7000 words(!), but basically through natural language processing and machine learning.
Not a marketplace use, but the most recent use I've had for Assembly was in an Atari 2600 programming class.

http://nirmalpatel.com/hacks/atari.html
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Leave the morals out of it and the market will eventually "fix" things. Let facebook get bogged down with spam, we have no moral responsibility to keep it clean, and this will give a chance to someone to create something with better privacy and anti-spam regulations.
> "there is no legitimate way to extract $X from users who don't have $X to spend."

so.....why does that make what amounts to stealing $X from the users ok?

kudos to companies cutting their losses and walking away. hats off to those who can innovate and actually get users to pay $X legitimately.

i have a real problem with people thinking they can force a user into something he doesn't want. if he's not going to pay, then either acknowledge that you're giving him a free lunch or walk away.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=913562

This item simply points at the third page of the article referenced there.
Is it too early to start a media panic about the shrinking humanity?

In all seriousness, I've always looked at birth control and education and affluence as a virus which drastically reduces fertility. But obviously some people, besides their sex drive, have another not so common drive. Despite money, education and condoms they really, really want, not sex, but kids. And over time this trait will become more widespread in the population. We better have colonized space by then.
I doubt the second is really as much of a factor. While ugly straight men have difficulty due to the "winner take all" aspects of the male/female sex market, I can't see how gays would have a similar problem.
Stack-based machines are even simpler. Too bad Forth didn't took of.
Correct ,but there is also the focus on the ensuing discussion, feedback.

Popular blogs can have a large comment population and it is quite hard to follow the ensuing relevant discussion. Twitter to some extent alleviates that but then Twitter is not really a discussion forum.
You aren't kidding about new account. His account is just six hours old.

If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And amusingly it's possible to write some significant desktop software, just in ARM assembler.

http://www.cconcepts.co.uk/products/publish.htm
http://www.cconcepts.co.uk/products/artworks.htm

Although I wouldn't recommend choosing assembler for a destkop app, but it made sense when they were written. And I still think Impression beats many a word processor and DTP package available today, and it ran in 2MB of memory with no hard disc.
And with all the technologies and companies that are gunning for them, how can they possibly "adequately foresee and plan for" the one which will be their successor?

So in other words, the main poster's question is a bit like saying, "What's the worst illness I'll get this Winter? I don't see anyone I could catch the flu from."
Yes, very badly formulated, but I am beyond agreeing with him at this point. Back when I was known as biohacker42 I used to whine about this all the time. Now I've just given up and visit HN a lot less, it's jumped the shark.
There is a similar feature in IE8 called "Accelerators", but with less uproar.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/features/...
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That doesn't let you off the hook.

You could say about anything "show me one place where x has value". In such a position, you'd always be able to dispute any point raised.

If you really believe that there is nothing of value in the Tractatus, then you should give a short summary of what you think it is about and why you don't think it has any value.

With such a summary, it's possible to have a debate, since your assertions can be challenged.
Not particularly. Driving at 80mph on motorways, where the limit is 70, is not dangerous. Motorways are the safest roads about. Majority of deaths happen on the quieter windier roads near peoples houses.

There's a pretty clear evidence based case for raising the limit to 80, since everyone drives at it anyway, but doing so could be unpopular. So it's reasonably similar.
Everyone realizes he has a one day old account, right? Nothing here has changed to me over the past 18 months. Things have grown a tiny bit, but the quality is generally the same to me. It's a good thing to reflect every now and then, but it should be done by someone who has at least hung around here long enough + contributed a tiny bit.
What makes you think that this not so common (as you yourself call it) drive will become more widespread? The graph in the article suggest a very strong correlation between wealth and low fertility.

Another trait is that of children-less lifestyles (sexual, medical or otherwise). If we're to keep up with the replacement-rate, that obviously means that someone needs to have more kids.
I kind of agree with you. Although I do like HN, I skip most of the articles. However, in doing so, I realize that I realize that HN is not entirely the right place for me. Maybe its time for you find some new forums for other topics. If you find some good ones, I'm sure that many people on HN would love to hear about it.
I'll just say that I read HN every day and find it VERY valuable. Even the stuff from (or responding to) Joel. I'm extremely busy, and this community filter helps me use my limited reading time much more efficiently than I'd be able to do otherwise.

The comment:

"d). How to start a startup.

Just friggin start it man. NASA was started with a lot of engineers and astronomers who had no clue how how to put anything together, but people still figured out how to do it. All you need is the determination and the rest will work itself out."

strikes me as simultaneously very ignorant and arrogant. With that attitude, he's unlikely to have tried to start anything, and unlikely to succeed if he does. Successful entrepreneurs try to actively learn how to increase their odds for success; ignoring the hard-won learnings of the entire community of entrepreneurs is merely stupid.
About Dutch and American drug policy:

Yes, of course there are countries with a lot lower drug use rate. But I bet this is a cultural thing. It is a fact that the drug war has negligible effects on controlling drug use. It failed completely in the US, for example: drug use didn't go down in general just because it's illegal. In the Netherlands, when pot was decriminalized, the percentage of people doing it didn't fluctuate much, as you pointed out. That makes me believe that making drugs legal or illegal won't do much for controlling drug use.

I'm sorry for not citing any sources for the info I provided here, but one can always Google it.

About point 1:

People have distorted views about marijuana traffic in the US: a lot of it is made by middle-class citizens, who grow their own pot and sell to friends (specially in California). This is absolutely non-violent.

Unfortunately, because of current drug laws, the great majority of the drugs still come from violent, armed drug cartels. Unfortunately, that violent nature of drug trade is unlikely to change for some drugs (like cocaine), since so much dirty money is made from it.

Yes, there are very serious, very rich, very organized drug cartels. Many politicians and other powerful people are involved with drug money, and the drug cartels' influence in world politics is enormous. That is the main reason why drugs are still illegal. Legalizing drugs is not appreciable by the giant, violent drug cartels. It is only appreciable by the users themselves, and should be appreciable by the whole society (which unfortunately is not the case, since the big media successfully makes it's case for keeping drugs illegal).

If drugs were legal from the start, today it would be probably be taxed and opened up to companies like any other business. No problems with that!

This is a good read: http://www.drugwar.com/howmoneyworks.shtm

Well, about points 2 and 3, I very strongly feel that they are inherently associated with drug legalization.

I do agree that legalizing drugs is very hard to legalize. That is so because of the big cartels influence in the world. I strongly feel, however, that it should be our goal.
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New account? Posting a huge list of what he wants the site to be instead of using the voting buttons to help decide? Whining? Plus, the one that really pisses me off: assuming that people who post their own blog entries are somehow polluting the site. For that he earns a very special "go jump in a lake"

I've flagged maybe a dozen articles in three years. This is one of them.
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They could go public, discounting the benefits of staying a private founder run company like SAS, and instead going for the quick pay-off of an IPO.

Then the usual pressures for quarterly results would slowly eat away at their "don't be evil" motto.

Imagine what that would be like!
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Mankind evolves itself.
The "Wisdom of the Crowds" is simply a specialization of the Law of Big Numbers to average out the noise and leave the signal. As such, it has two weaknesses: (1) if all you have as input is garbage, no matter how much garbage you put in, you will get garbage as output, e.g. "the Emperor's nose" (2) every action has to be independent, or the math behind it is no longer sound; due to the anchoring effect and social pressure, early noise tends to be amplified.
The Character of Physical Law is a philosophy of science book.
"What would I like" ... "I hate reading about" ... "I friggin love awesome articles" ... "I love reading math stuff".

Seems like your post is just your personal wish-list for Hacker News. Shame the website has to take everyone else into account, really.

If anything is really that badly off-topic for this website, flag it. I've done this about 3 times in all, mainly because the content here is pretty good, mostly relevant, interesting, etc.
Pen and paper.

This is a hard and fast rule that I have always followed and is absolutely critical to my success. Just a few of the reasons:

1. I firmly believe that analysis, design, and planning is much more effective if it is done away from the computer. These are totally different activities from programming and they take a different mindset and environment. That's pretty tough to do if you use computerized tools to organize.

2. I like to spread out my notes, plans, diagrams, lists, etc. on a table to work on them. I also tack them up on the wall above my work space, both at the computer and in the other room. I want to give my mind every opportunity to see the "big picture" when it's appropriate. Again, tough to do with a computer unless you have 5 monitors.

3. I carry my notes with me whereever I go. You never know when inspriration will hit, and I don't want to carry a laptop everywhere and wait for it to boot up.

4. Bedtime is critical thinking time (both at night and in the morning). I always have my notes and multiple colored pens with me in bed. Some of my best ideas have come at this time. I can't imagine the same thing happening with a laptop. I have addressed this before here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=191275

and here

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=290842

Hope this helps.
i don't buy this. advertising in general is a huge and successful business. i don't see it fixing itself, especially if allowed to run purely by short-term greed than ethics. if you have kids then you know just how dman persuasive advertisements are--they create need where there isn't any. furthermore, the US government is strongly effected by rich corporations. if only big journalism were as biased and non-money grubbing as the watchdog it was meant to be.

i'm not sure what you mean by "fix" things on its own. around the turn of the century the US enacted some incredible policy to keep corporations in check (no child labor, anti-trust, etc). we now rely on public opinion (assuming there is some transparency and consumer advocating!) to prevent corporations from abusing lax human rights policy elsewhere.

ultimately, users are too easy to exploit. they get hit by smart advertisements from a young age. by the time they are adults they could believe anything. people put up with crap because they are trying to accomplish other goals, don't have the time to become savy, and they get used to things. it's pretty tough to change the culture against the folks controlling the culture.

there are some positive changes in recent culture. for example, more and more consumers care about fair traide and other social and environmental policies of the corporations whose products they buy. unfortunately, without transparency, we've levelled off with corporations "green washing" and mislabelling their goods (not a new tactic). the idea that consumers have the real [purchasing] power is crap in implementation.

in the end though, we're talking about scams not advertisements. that is where ethics and "crossing the line" should come into the picture. traditionally speaking, consumers have a hard time responding proactively against scams. if it weren't for consumer advocacy groups (typically non-profit, as it turns out) that help consumers take scammers to court or lobby government on behalf of consumers, then people would be screwed. that just reminded me of some scammy private insurance companies, so i think i'll stop talking here.
Yes.

Tangentially related but not quite the same, I work at a company that makes barcode recognition software and some of our most performance-sensitive areas use assembly. It is mostly C, though.
http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html
Think of it as a virus that impacts fertility.

Some people will be child-less, others will have just one, maybe 2 kids. A few will strongly want to and will have 3,4 and more. It's basic natural selection in practice.
Wealth and the pill are still very recent, fertility will stay low in the industrialized world for quite a while, a few generations at least, but things will turn around.