skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
anyone here used scite, i've tried so many editors on windows and i've found scite to be the best of them all

it's starts up quickly, i've added it to the windows shortcut context menu, and scite have this option that allow you to open all new file in the same instance on new tabs

it have really good folding, and it have a simple and nice perl integration by default!

i don't know much about scripting scite, i know it uses lua, but i am sure if it gets more popular, one will find nice languages mode for it

on windows scite is king!
Mistake 1: Dieting
What about a futures market that offers non-voting shares in startups (or Vegas-style wagers)? Startups relevant to the traded instruments can accrue some percentage of the option price. This gives you predictive power and funding. There must be some major pitfalls that I can think of, other than startups deliberately going belly up to cash out negative wagers :)
One aspect of Ycombinator is, I guess, that of a prediction market with people trading in early attention and uptake.
The solution to that would be make a version for Gmail.

That would piss MS off, they might buy them just to kill the Gmail version.
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i would say tables are easier to use and conceptualize about, rather than files, lines and such!

with tables you directly deal with your porgramatic objects you dont think of storage, plus sqlite is very easy to use and very portable too!
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That's a good reasoned argument with research precedents, unlike some of the half-baked rumours featured on the forum.
I bet this program does better at picking success than techcrunch.
Design by contract (Programming by Contract)
Their data seem to support my vague impressions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=116415
Also: even if you could create an excellent predictor with the right inputs, a tiny startup wouldn't be able to collect the inputs -- including inside/detailed info -- all by itself. So starting as a service to the people who can demand such info (investors) makes sense -- and if it works, then they can "raise a fund themselves and beat the tar out of" the old guard. That's how it usually works in finance -- prove yourself first in the service of others, then once you have a track record, run your own show.
can anyone say? failed student? ;)
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Design by Contract in Common Lisp
$25 million? When was the last time anyone got $25 million just for their idea? Not even a prototype, but an idea in a blog post? ...

since when was a blog post a patent?
There's a patent for storing a specific database structure in memory and therefore MySQL Server memory tables use a hash structure to avoid this patent. This would very well when you lookup a row which is present. However, the entire hash is enumerated when an row is not present. So, perversely, you'd get more performance with MyISAM, a RAID card and a big disk buffer.

You could use memcached. However, if you are developing REST web services, you can retrospectively introduce Squid without changing your code.
Of course he's not happy. Nobody's happy in this town except for the losers. Look at me, I'm miserable... that's why I'm rich. --Ari Gold(Entourage)
Don't forget YSlow.
Because when real estate is in the millions, it's extremely unattractive to live there unless you qualify for government help or you're rich.
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Arc Challenge has shown that for many languages this translates into roughly as many lines of code (see Seaside solution, for instance)
Ask YC: Hard time at a startup
I moved to mountain view from up north a few months ago after being offered a job at a nice startup. I'm a recent grad

It's been six months and i still fell like I don't know anything. The project I've been working on for the last 2 months has been just dragging along. i think the problem is that i don't totally understand the esoteric codebase we have (back end software stuff). everytime i ask a question people react like i'm bothering them with my personal problems. I realize that it's a startup but it's hard to glean what i need from the current code (that some others have confided is not that great). am i too dumb for a startup? am i going to get fired?
The snark level of this post is off the charts.
Rental Car IT - as bad as it gets?
CREATIVE STARTUP PEOPLE (Number 5 of a series) : Do you have what they have?
FuzzWich. They've got style.
lol. i was about to mention that site :)
The deadliest tangles wrapped around a companies Enterprise Systems often result from the structure of the organisation. Individual departments and operational functions depend upon small efficiencies generated by the existing systems. A replacement system might represent a dramatic improvement in overall efficiency but would almost certainly disrupt the existing organisation. Project like that can only be led from the top of an organisation - without that level of leadership the IT function is confined to continuing the development of those small efficiencies to the detriment of the whole.

You see it everywhere I am afraid.
If this is something people still do, they did not understand a thing about healthy food at all.
Woah woah woah. First, calm down and remember to breath: its gonna be okay.

Next, you need to figure out why the company you are working at has allowed you to hang around for six months without helping you get integrated, or--if you really are too inexperienced (not 'dumb') for the startup, then why hasn't anyone fired you yet?

If you've been stuck for two months, and are in a resource constrained environment (which most startups are), then you need to figure out who is steering this ship, and why they are willing to let you stowaway on it.

Maybe you are being more effective than you realize, which would be great, but I think its more likely that no one has a firm grasp on what is happening, and that isn't a reassuring sign. It sounds like the people around you aren't communicating with each other, and its hard to believe that will lead to a successful product being put together.

It doesn't sound like you have a strong personal relationship with the other people there, because otherwise you probably would have just asked someone. My advice would be to first dig up your resume and update it to the extent possible, then see if you can establish a friendly relationship with anyone there who would write you a recommendation (or more likely take a phonecall on your behalf), and then ask the questions you asked here to whoever is in charge at your startup.

In the long-run it isn't worth being miserable and frustrated just to keep collecting a paycheck. Finding someone to talk about your concerns is better in every way. First, you look like you care about the quality of the job you are doing (which it seems like you do, otherwise you wouldn't be upset about it). Next, it will force the organization to figure out why its communicating poorly, or otherwise make it very clear to you that its a sinking ship.

Also, I think its a bad sign that people are snidely disrespecting their coworkers work. That kind of thing can fly in a larger company, but petty rivalry and negativity will kill a small group of people.

Best of luck!
so, in other words, a really badly designed database system?
How many create-a-webpage apps is that now?
http://rescuetime.com/
Let me ask a more fundamental question first: does this startup have a well defined mission? In my experience the lack of a solid mission usually reflects bigtime in operations and development, causing a lot of frustration.
first screenshot would be 'pretty' if it weren't editing python, which is horrible to look at, worse to code in.
import random
print random.choice(('yes', 'no', 'maybe', 'outlook hazy',))
xkcd hasn't been funny for weeks, unfortunately
Curt Monash's take on it :-

http://www.dbms2.com/2008/02/18/mike-stonebraker-calls-for-t...
Totally agree. A pitch as a service to provide data points makes so much more sense - provide contacts, connections, past track record, competition profile, team profile, current user base, marketing efforts etc.. would be excellent.
I guess so, because you don't have any information at all in your profile.
Davwina?

Davetha?
6. “Let’s do a traditional homepage for our company.”

Not every web site needs to be a blog.
Just to pick brains. I couldn’t help but map this discussion to statistical inference: Type I error and Type 2 errors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors#Type_...)

#1 Prediction: success Result: success
true positive [excellent, no one believed huh]

#2 Prediction: success Result: failure
false negative [speculated reality? pun-intended]

#3 Prediction: failure Result: success
false positive [A splendid success but AI failed, so what.. err.. is there a point?]

#4 Prediction: failure Result: failure
true negative [It failed, but hey AI worked then, hmm.. whats the point]

There is no good position except the rare event of a true positive. Banking on rare events isn't bad but, thats the fun of startup, isn't it?
in what way does it resemble python? if anything it resembles pascal with a (small) dash of perl.
His site was indeed hacked recently, and it was harming my computer inasmuch as it was crashing firefox. I consider the google warning to be late but not incorrect.

Here's an email I sent to Joe on 2007-12-17. (It's really hard to make these kinds of messages not look like spam!)

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Hey, I was checking out iui tonight, and your site seems broken.

The front page has JS that does something involving "fredkidns.com" and it repeatedly causes my firefox to fill memory. Kazehakase is able to show the broken page, though.

I think the blog top page is also hacked; other internal pages seem to be ok.
Patents aren't ideas. Patents are descriptions of implementations of ideas, but that doesn't make them ideas. The ideas themselves do indeed belong to no one, and never have. However, their particular implementations may be owned.
Oh dear, is it happening? Is Y going the way of the Reddit?
ACID-related stuff would be the big win. Also, not having to manually synchronize access to your resources (assuming you're servicing more than one request at a time).
I'll vouch for the guys. They're all super cool. :]
I emailed Google the same idea a few years ago and never heard back. It's pretty obvious.
I apologize for the slang use of the word 'hacked' up there.

I meant 'vandalized, probably by means that required deep knowledge of a system to initially develop, although the vandal was unlikely the same person as the hacker who came up with the exploit'.
hey chill. They offered you, so they wanted you, you are not dumb. What is actually wrong is with the people managing your startup, NOT YOU. (isn't people management something you would want to avoid at a startup? )

Hiring a freshman, a tricky decision. Its two way.

One freshers are full of energy, you have a clean slate to define culture and mould them the way you want your team to look like.

At the same time there are 2 big issues - You need to groom them, train them, grow them. If you are not good at it or think you won't have time for it, please don't waste any time in the kid's career. (skill & time, both of which seems to be the issue at your startup)

You need to be ready to be on your own, if you think you cannot, you should happily move out. Find a company with senior folks who know to handle this better, more have time on their hands dedicated to grow you.
[off topic]
Could you please not use the 'code' tag in the above quote? thanks
That's not what he said. There's a world from "the publication system could be improved" to suggesting that academia is corrupt.
I'd say you are the person that underlies the change.

Anyways, this is the contentious point, whether there is an experiencer having experiences, or whether there are just experiences. We've already circled around this point a couple times, so I don't think the discussion will move forward anymore.
I thought all VCs used a magic 8ball as standard divination tool.
This comment is INDEPENDENT of my personal feelings about Xobni the product and the Xobni the team:

Outside of a small core community, Xobni news just isn't that relevant. Please save the Xobni posts for actual Xobni news.
IE's got a pretty big browser share, most of it from people who aren't savvy enough to understand why all of a sudden on Tuesday morning their favorite website looks broken when it was fine Monday night.

I don't think it's arrogance to look out for your userbase.
Ask YC: How Much Time Do you Spend planning?
I'm in the early stages of of planning a startup; "Campus Computer". It's a two part deal; online tech support with offline/office based hardware/software support for the students at a local university (primarily because of my existing connections there and the proximity of which I live to the campus). In this day and age of web based business operations and project management, how much time do you spend planning a startup versus prototyping concepts for your startup?

I make the dichotomy understanding this:

Planning - deciding on factors, how you want to interact with your products and services, and how you want them to appear to your users

Prototyping - developing certain aspects during the planning phase to understand how they'll work and whether or not they should be included in the final product.

It's a good argument to say prototyping is part of planning, and they both have their importance, but I guess one is more concrete the other abstract.
There are many ways in which academia is non-transparent, but I don't think one journal rejecting double-blind reviewing is a major one. In the areas of computing in which I work not only can I guess who's written a paper (I would estimate at least 75% of the time off the top of my head, and with a little help from Google I imagine I could get well over 90%), but I can often guess who's written a review of my papers (perhaps 10-20% of the time). Computing might be an odd example - it's all I know. But I suspect that even most "broad" subjects end up breaking down into sub-areas where the participants tend to know each other pretty well.

Double-blind seems to me to be an attempt to try and cover up the much deeper flaws of "peer review". Peer review doesn't in practice mean that a peer-reviewed article is 100% correct, and that legions of scientists have honed every sentence. It means it got past the prejudices of a few reviewers, and (unless the reviewer is unusually committed) means that it didn't contain anything that screamed "obviously wrong" on a quick read through. When I get a genuinely good review (in particular if it finds a flaw in my work), I find it immensely useful, but these are sadly in the minority. IMHO the greatest reason why new-comers to the field find it hard to get papers accepted is because their ideas have a higher chance of grating against those held dear by the established people who act as reviewers; this is such a fundamental flaw in the system that fiddling with double-blind barely even counts as fiddling at the edges.

Given all this, it greatly amuses me when in North America to see products advertised as being based on peer reviewed science.
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Ask YC: what would you show a newcomer to the internet?
My granny will get a new PC next week, that will be capable of doing all the fancy stuff, movies, music,... So far she has only been emailing and doing some surfing and online banking (her old computer had 32MB of RAM - ouch!).

Any advice for other nice things to show her? Google Earth is a nobrainer, and I will show her YouTube. Other than that? I myself only visit three sites regularly in my daily surfing: news.yc, a friend's community page and a "normal" news page, so I don't have that many ideas for getting entertained on the internet.
Thoughts about equity in a startup partnership?
My partner and I, we've went down the path of working together, built a product, and now begun selling it. We are now at a stage where we want to draft up the legal contract and wonder what other startups outline in their contracts.

We want to work on ramifications where if one partner looses interest in a project, the other may continue to pursue it; that is he would be penalized by reducing equity in the company. Also, what if one partners decides he wants to start working full time and earn an income, how does that effect equity.

Any thing we should be considering would be very helpful. Thanks!
I'd assume since you're thinking Google Earth Google is in the mix too. Wikipedia would be a good stop on the tour, as would a good non-social networked news aggregator, or just a good news site.
Social networking privacy issues
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I agree. To a point. You shouldn't diet to lose weight, but you should have a diet that gives you all your required nutrients. If your 'diet' only gives you stuff that's high in fat and sugar, you're going to get fat. If your 'diet' only gives you salad, you're going to get malnourished and waste away.
I love the idea of Tipjoy. If YC had it, I'd tip it.
Some rudimentary control flow analysis
Asking a question is an indictment? Is your comment considered and sensible?
It doesn't have to be entirely based on past performance - you could do some statistical analysis on the number of funds, which funds are associated with individual investors, fund returns and find whether the distribution of returns overlaps with the distribution that says "the best funds were just lucky".

What I am interested in knowing is whether the best investors are able to beat the market over time. And there is a lot of anecdotal evidence that suggests this, for example (a rather extreme one, though) the best hedge funds which have generated an annualized 30% return over more than 15 years. With especially high returns when the rest of the world is tanking. Although this is an edge case, this kind of track record doesn't exactly scream "lucky".
I think they each have their own place, the culture here is still very startup-centric (for obvious reasons) even though pg tried to change it. The programming reddit is still a better place for hacker/coding links (and comments) IMO, just avoid the other reddits. =)
Toshiba drops out of HD DVD war
I have used Emacs every day since 1991, have never run Windows or Mac and hardly ever use Windows or Mac, and even I agree with you about the keybinding. You should refuse to learn a new set of keybindings because the set you already know is the set that well over 90% of the world and 90% of the world's desktop applications use. (I have not used this CUA mode of Emacs that other commenters mention.)
I think that is the sort of thing where a good lawyer would be helpful (rather, than, say, bits of legalese like privacy agreements). You obviously want to tailor the agreement to your specific company and situation.
ASK YC: Do you know a good book to learn embedded system programming?
I learnt programming during my studies, but now I have to do some embedded SW on a PowerPC. This is very specific and there are a lot of things that I never learnt at school or in programming books. How to manage memory, what is a heap, manage the stack, define memory sections, bootloader, RTOS... do you know a good book that cover these kind of things?
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There's a lot of overhead in running a MySQL instance compared with running a memcached instance (in terms of system resources, personnel, building it redundantly). I would revisit your problem and see if you can't get memcached to fit before you decide to reinvent the wheel.

If you're set on MySQL, assuming you are on Linux (or a similar platform) you should consider perhaps using BDB or MyISAM for your storage engine and just keeping the data on a ram disk. This will give you wicked fast reads.
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Even their particular implementations may not be owned, only patented and patents may be owned. A patent is a temporary monopoly granted by the state, in exchange for the release to the general public knowledge of the mechanism and best practice of the implementation.
Right up to this part: " On the other hand, I have been working for more than 12 years on a series of books called 'The Art of Computer Programming.' " I actually thought I was reading something from pg. Your writing style is very much alike.
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i think one of the best things you can do for your health is to pick up flyfishing.if you avoid fishing when it's too sunny.
When trolls had class...
As someone else mentioned once it has a lot of users and is a mature product then they might be interested.

I don't agree with the people saying that they wouldn' because they own the market place. This is not true and xobni would be a nice fit with enterprize customers and MS could try and buy them to attract new customers or a value add for existing customers.

I think if they never buy them its because MS having angling Office as a platform for years and a company like this demostrates that it is possible to make money from that platform.

I spent a long old time developing on top of office making business apps and its not a bad platform if you take it for what it is.
Do you know the number of the patent for this?
If it is really successful on Gmail, Google would make their own version, and Microsoft would know that.
I think many of those mid-tier IT jobs are now outsourced to India and elsewhere. CSRs, some system administration, and a lot of workaday programming -- the attitude is, get Bangalore to do it, whenever possible.
Turn her on to something like hotsheet.com so she can explore and pick what she wants.
Moral of the story: If you think you're happy 10/10, you're probably just delusional.

"In addition, just as the physiological arousal associated with chronic stress takes a toll on health, so too can the sustained arousal of intense positive emotions, Diener suggests."

No silver bullet...
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Killed by Planning is something you should definitely avoid. Don't turn your startup into an organization where everything needs to be outlined in pages long documents.

What you describe as planning is something I would call the (functional) design phase of your products and services.

My main reasons (as an architectect) to ask (business/product) people for a planning like that is that a) they will think more thorough about what they actually want to do (which is never what they told you yesterday), b) they write down things so that the development team has a plan to turn into a concrete project and c) do some form of short to medium term commitment to these plans. The latter also means responsibility.

S.
even better:kayakflyfishing
I applied and also bought my airline ticket before prices go up. Let's just call it "betting on myself".
Reddit is the only product of a YC startup I actually do use, but I don't like it very much so I didn't vote it up.

I would like to vote for http://virtualmin.com because its the only one in the list that I may eventually put to good use in my own work, but since I don't actually use it yet I'm just giving it a shout out for now.
No matter what you do, teaching yourself all that stuff will take months at least. It's not something you master in a weekend.

The best people in that area probably have a long history with (embedded) programming and started when computers were a lot simpler.

So, this might sounds as really crazy advice, but I think it could help lot: find an Apple ][ on eBay and some old Apple ][ programming books. Then start hacking on some assembly code to understand the things you describe above.

Another option would be to buy some more modern (:-) development boards for CPUs like the PPC or ARM. Some are very well documented and come with tutorials.

The Apple ][ approach is more fun IMO and you will learn a LOT from it :-)

S.