skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jeff Bezos was a hacker. He didn't call himself one because he also had significant business & financial skills, but he worked as a quant for D.E. Shaw. D.E. Shaw is the Google of hedge funds; anyone there is more than a match for the Ph.Ds at Google. Bezos's degree was in EECS, and his childhood projects would easily have gotten him into YCombinator.

Intuit was cofounded by Tom Proulx, who wrote the first version of Quicken himself. Scott Cook gets most of the credit because of his determination, but without either of them, the company wouldn't exist. It certainly was not an outsourced startup.

Wikipedia I'll grant you. Though the concept of wikis was invented by Ward Cunningham, who certainly was a hacker.

YouTube was started by 3 ex-PayPal employees. Steve Chen and Jawed Karim were certainly hackers, Chad Hurley was more design. They built the initial version themselves.
It's well done. It's a great book. If you know Ruby, it's the only Rails book you'll ever need.
XKCD: Large Hadron Collider
I believe this was discussed here before, maybe when it launched.

Has anyone used it?
So did you notice it's a joke?
I did not realize, until you said that, how much time I've been spending emailing article links + comments links to my friends who don't yet read Hacker News. This feature would be a great help!
Looks like I* won't be using it.

Only after I go through the sign-up page am I told I have to have a Windows or mac machine.

No love for Ubuntu crowd .... :(
Perhaps keeping tabs on how karma is used.

Are the recently arrived users simply voting up articles yet not adding any comments of their own to explain why they've voted up?

How about this?

If a person votes up an article (which costs a point), a contributing comment by the same person can start out at 2 points instead of 1. You're basically paying back the point taken to vote up an article.
This would give more incentive for users to voice their opinion instead of simply voting up (without commenting) as well as now giving others a chance to agree/disagree. If their comments don't really add any value, they'll receive bad karma as normal.

You can also show a flag next to the user id to show whether they voted for this article or not.
That's really neat. I really need a bookmarklet for it though. It shouldn't be hard. Let me know if you need help on that.

It would also be great if this could work within Gmail somehow, that's where I most often get frusterated that I can't easily add things to my calendar.
I found it ironic that they pegged the population for today (around 350 million), amongst all the other things they got wrong, and then went on to say that only domed cities could support such a large population!
It's an opportunity for Burrito lovers to connect and indulge their passion whilst creating a remarkable (and delicious) Burrito. Some of them may even go on to create other even tastier Burritos.
This would be cool as a bookmarklet.
Hurley was CEO, and received more shares than the other two founders. YouTube was founded with Hurley's money.

We can argue about the other two; I feel like I'll lose Intuit but win Amazon, but who knows. Not worth it. I think my point stands.
Where do you think people who want to do research should go?
One of my CS professors is heavy into Kurzweil. He had me read "The Singularity is Near". I decided Kurzweil's arguments are the rhetorical equivalent of those algebra jokes where you "prove" 1=2 but it goes through a step that hides a divide by zero. Similarly, "The Singularity is Near" uses steps that seem logical to come to a ridiculous conclusion.
Housing bubble blog
I almost didn't upmod this because I thought it was a repeat of the last submission on this topic - this isn't: the last one was a text summary; this one is the real talk. Worth watching, even if (especially if) you've read the previous HN submission about this.
PatientsLikeMe
Mail-trends - Xobni-like analyzer for any IMAP account
linode.com is a very similar service with a tad bit more value for the same pricing. we like them quite a lot.
I wonder if the problems he speaks of stem from physical limitations of that particular radio frequency and encoding scheme, or from poor quality equipment?
Metafilter comments vs. Youtube comments
yeah jannix is nice they have some unique features.but my site also has some unique features like:
1)user can embed any video from all the video sites like youtube,metacafe etc.
2)they can post images.
3)they can embed all the audio files like mp3,rm,wav etc.
4)revenue sharing,no other site share its revenue which is unique point in newskicks.com
maybe +2
If you're trying to decide whether to learn Rails, don't spend a lot of time debating - just do it. You won't regret it. If you're a novice at PHP, you'll probably learn a lot of stuff in Rails that will be applicable to any platform you work on.

I find Rails programming to be really fun. However, I'm approaching it from the opposite end - the J2EE side, where everything takes a long time to configure.

Django seems cool - if you were to learn that rather than Rails, I don't think it would hurt too much, if at all. I expect that once you learn one, you'd be able to pick the other up pretty quickly. Despite the impression internet posts may give, Python and Ruby are pretty similar languages, and both worthwhile and enjoyable, if you ask me.

One thing Rails has going for it is that it's pretty widely used (compared to Django, AFAIK), so there's a lot of documentation out there. Although, beware of some stuff that may be out of date with Rails 2. Definitely pick up The Rails Way if you do learn Rails. You may want to get the pickaxe book as well. Those two should have you pretty much set as far as books go.

The downside you may face is the shared hosting situation. I understand Dreamhost supports Mongrel (the web server commonly used to serve up Rails) now, but haven't used it. My experience is that VPS is the way to go, rather than start on a shared hose and move to VPS.

Despite some impression certain internet writings may give, plenty (most?) of us in the Rails community are friendly and more than glad to help someone get going with Rails. If you do decide to learn it, feel free to contact me if you need any help getting things running.
They used edge rails so they could write about it before it was officially released. Here's an excerpt from the book:

"However, edge Rails still comes in handy sometimes. For example, it allowed us to extensively cover Rails 2.0 features in this book prior to the actual, official 2.0 release"
The other writers on the roster aren't as strong writers. I've been liking Erick Schonfeld lately but he's from MSM so he's not bad to start out with.
Decision Making and Emotion
"... list(set(['1', '2', '3', '1'])) ..."

Nice earle. That's what I've come to expect from python. There is always a shorter better way. The only difference I've found is the returned list is sorted & broke my test suite.

Here's the docs & PEP.

- http://docs.python.org/lib/module-sets.html

- http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0218/

Thx @Tipjoy for posting this or I'd still be using a 4-6 line clunker.
Seriously. I have friends who once worked in Agilent Labs. Now Agilent Labs is gone. I have had many professors and bosses who worked at Bell Labs. Now Bell Labs is gone.

There are small companies that do funded research. There are grants earmarked for companies like that, and it keeps them afloat. But you have to spend a lot of time just to raise small amounts of money.
FuseCal developer here. We've gone ahead and rolled out a new release with that capability for you... no i kid, we've already got it :)

Check out http://fusecal.com/welcome/publishers or log in and click on the Publish Calendars tab in the upper right. http://fusecal.com/publisher/
Once when I was a teenager, my mother went on a business trip for a week and came back to an enormous phone bill. That's all I'm willing to say.
(FuseCal Developer) We're working on a revamped event selection UI right now which should be out in a couple weeks. It will make the simple cases of selecting all the events or just a few of them much easier.
If Only Boeing Still Had Employees
I'll be there. I'll try to get my roommates to come too.
Good (it looks very Web 2.0), but where are the motion-blurred pictures of people in three-piece suits and phone operators with headsets on waiting to chat with me? All I see is a concise, informative overview of the company and the services they provide.

In conclusion, no Digg.

(What is "BW"? Is that something to do with Facebook?)
I should mention that this is from the thread; I pastie'd it in case folks were interested in seeing the leak before they go through the whole thread.
agreed, that was the obvious choice; when I was posting their front page was taking f-o-r-e-v-e-r to load, plus wanted to add some color commentary via 37signals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code
Sites like Monster are plagued by hordes of pizza-delivery boys who apply for programming jobs because all they have to do is click a button. I think the whole idea behind Snaptalent is that jobs ads only appear to targeted audiences, so the delivery boys never see them unless the delivery boys read news.yc.
I wonder about the behavior of HN users. Do they vote up an article for the article, or for the discussion taking place?

Sure the (original) article does not deserve to make it to the top of HN, so why is it up there? Is it being up-voted because of the content of the article, or the content of the discussion, or because commenters have posted in a popular article and want their comment seen/possibly up-modded?

The last case is obviously the least desirable, but what about the other two? What should the community be voting on?
...well, what else are they gonna do while they wait?
2007 Most Over-Hyped Emerging Trend in Online Marketing
according to 57% of the audience members polled at the Ad Age Digital Conference session, “What’s Worth Your Attention in 2008.” the most emerging bogus trend in 2007 was
What happens? Change. And as always those who are too slow to change are the ones who suffer.

This time it seems that America is too slow to change, so it might be America who suffers.
i imagine his work ethic is partly responsible for the sites success.
Goodness no! Why can't we pick GOOD sounding names for these trends? "Viral Marketing" "Mullet Strategy". How the hell am I gonna ever explain this time period to my kids and have me take me seriously?
I tried to log in to see if I could get the name of the highly prestigious journal that published this... thing, and I got an actual popup window telling me that I have to log in before I can read Taiwan News Online!

Someone needs to send the Taiwan News that List Apart article on "gradual engagement".

Anyway, wake me up when this research makes it into Nature. Until then I will use my back-of-the-envelope heuristic: only N=30 + no actual showing of harm (just a "lessening of blood flow") + correlation substituting for causation ("Depressives and schizophrenics also have lower blood flow!") + highly sensationalist topic + no link to the data = 99% probability of total and utter crap.
Sigh. I am a graphic artist by trade and I'd feel a bit bad if I got payed to do that logo.
Hey! It looks like you are building something great!!

First I tried the page your website suggested and everything worked just fine. Than I decided to hit back and try another site. I typed the calendar URL I wanted and than I just couldn't hit Ok. It wasn't working. So I had to reload the page and than Ok button was working. Well, I'm using Firefox 3 maybe is because of that but you should check it out.

Also I tried to add http://www.core77.com/calendar/ and I couldn't because the only thing I got was the processing status bar for more than 10 minutes.

Have you ever thought about building a Firefox plugin for it? It would be a great tool.

Well, I can say is that your work is really pretty dam good! Good luck!
I had no idea this existed for sale. What an awesome gift it would make.
Interesting fact about linux file system
And yet I still can't give away that old fridge!
any more info on using darcs-git? Looks like a python script that implements darcs user interface functionality on top of git without any need for darcs.
Mono project releases first IDE, releases Mono 2.0 into beta
This concept of professionalism depends very much on who you ask. Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister, the duo behind Peopleware, might suggest that the problem isn't with the behavior of the programmers, but rather with the definition of a proper professional, and by extension the proper profession. I also think your claim of what programmers want is hasty; my experience, albeit somewhat limited, suggests that there are programmers who fill any spot on the scale between autonomy and cog.

For that matter, here's a link to the essay by Philip Greenspun: http://philip.greenspun.com/ancient-history/professionalism-....

From what I gathered from the article, you're misrepresenting him. His qualifications are much more about giving back to the community and actually giving a damn that it is about aesthetics. Perhaps I didn't find the essay you're referencing?

Finally, I don't think you're metaphor using the corporate lawyer or financial analyst is accurate. The corporate lawyer, especially, has far more public exposure than does a programmer, and maintains his image as much or more for the company's sake than his own.
How to view this site without clawing out your eyes (requires Web Developer extension for Firefox):

Right click the page. Web Developer > Disable > Disable Page Colors.

Then hit ctrl-+ once or twice to make the text a readable size.

You're welcome.
I think this is awesome but I'm not sure of how the majority would feel about it, I'm afraid some will just think this is a waste of time. Given the number of comments here I think I'm right...
Interesting. If I were them I'd move to a state that didn't have a state capital gains tax before cashing out. Then again, I guess when you cash out 3.7 billion dollars in a single year, 380 million seems like pocket change.
I KNEW it!
Eve Online as a case study
Vote up the submitter, not the story
I thought I would give a go at learning arc and was looking for a project to start on. There have been a lot of comments lately about the quality of the submitted stories and it sounded like an opportunity. I thought it would be interesting if stories were scored based on the karma of the submitter. Not the global karma, but a new karma for each submitter, unique to each user. Instead of voting on the story you are voting on the submitter.

voteTheUser.com is the result.

Basically each user gets a personalized front page of stories based on previous votes. The more stories you vote on the better it will work for you.

If you like dogs, vote up stories about dogs and you will get more stories on your front page from people who submit dog stories. If you don't, vote them down and you will see less. If you love polls vote them up. It won't matter to me because I will probably have voted them down. You'll see more of them and I'll see less.

Give it a try and let me know how it works for you. Mind you, this is my first arc attempt and is really just a cheap knock off of Hacker News. I'm just copying what I like.
I thought I would give a go at learning arc and was looking for a project to start on. There have been a lot of comments lately about the quality of the submitted stories and it sounded like an opportunity. I thought it would be interesting if stories were scored based on the karma of the submitter. Not the global karma, but a new karma for each submitter, unique to each user. Instead of voting on the story you are voting on the submitter.

voteTheUser.com is the result.

Basically each user gets a personalized front page of stories based on previous votes. The more stories you vote on the better it will work for you.

If you like dogs, vote up stories about dogs and you will get more stories on your front page from people who submit dog stories. If you don't, vote them down and you will see less. If you love polls vote them up. It won't matter to me because I will probably have voted them down. You'll see more of them and I'll see less.

Give it a try and let me know how it works for you. Mind you, this is my first arc attempt and is really just a cheap knock off of Hacker News. I'm just copying what I like.
You have to put it in context then. It wasn't about speed, it was about who was willing to go further out on the water, knowing they had to have enough energy to swim back to shore.
That is funny!! I was sure very young back than but I love to log on the BBS back in Brazil. There wasn't a lot of them but it was great fun to spend hours doing nothing just making the phone bill go bigger and bigger
Netflix resumes DVD shipping after online outage
Beautiful layout. Stupidly simple! Check out my mix - http://adamg.muxtape.com
Open-Source Classroom Management With iTALC On Ubuntu 7.10
I started something called the OneNet Member Network (http://www2.onenet.org:8080/index.htm), a macintosh store and forward system baesd out of my garage in Los Altos when I was working at Apple Computer. Wired article here: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/eword.html?pg=13
++ on the lowercase. I do uppercase sentence starts, but the rest i like to leave lowercase.

German uppercases all nouns. its really hard to get used to doing.
Filmgoers get a taste of the good life - $35 movie ticket
Mail Trends
The rich and powerful themselves have to decide to help the poor.
Niiiice. THG ate your lunch though ;-)

Emulex FTW!
Yes, go to admit that the UI of Wufoo and their forms is very cool thats the main reason, I choose to use this service, but I wish they had send-to-email option for their forms.
You have to triage comments from any source, at least at first (and occasionally thereafter). But the filters learn very fast.
Ideally you'd triage them anyway, but the whole idea we're discussing here is to find sites monolithic enough that you can get away with not doing so.
Would this community prefer to be under the radar?
I've been getting a lot of private and public feedback suggesting I stop posting about Hacker News on TechCrunch because it's polluting the community. Do you guys think I'm hurting the site, not helping?
When is the LHC supposed to fire up? I thought it was this summer? I wonder if CERN is a sweet place to work, as a physicist or even as a research assistant or programmer. One never hears too much about working at physics labs.
Four Lines of Code
Facebook social network graph
> I wish...

The elided part is probably the most interesting. Don't let CagedLionGate turn you into a self-censor, pg.
I give him credit for not cracking a Half-Life joke.
Cheeky bastard. I was thoroughly impressed! I had to look back and see the publication date.
No, I think you'd have to settle for mining good sources of stupid, especially the sort of stupid likely to start creeping into HN.
Trick with the "for" statement in Python
Craigslist Scam
How do we know you're the real Techcrunch?

Well, it's too late anyway. The cat is out of the bag. Besides, if no one had talked about it, I never would have found it, so you have my blessing.
somebody came and down-voted all comments here? i thought this was pretty cool and hacker-interesting.
IANAL, but IIRC, once you have over a certain number of shareholders (and it's somewhere in that neighborhood), you are effectively a public company. Which means you get screwed by SarbOx.

(And you've already had your "IPO", so there goes even more money).
Anyone who didn't is a phony.
Microsoft partners with open source Jaspersoft, Sourcesense
Just want to warn you.. I think you'll get flack from quite a few people on the design. I don't care personally, but some people get pretty excited about stuff like this :) Even changing the color might help deflect some of it ;-)

Very interesting you've used Arc, by the way. Will you ever release the source?
Learn PHP from Scratch or outsource? 
Hi,
I would like to apologise upfront if the question has been asked and answered before. If you have the link please send it to me!!

I'm am considering developing an e-commerce/community site using PHP or AJAX. The only issue is that I have no web programming skills though I have dabbled in VB, Delphi and Haskell. I also did a little MS Access application development, though I must admit database programming is not my strength!
Furthermore, my constraint is time and funding. I do not want to pay too much to develop this.
Do you think I should outsource this programming to say, elance.com? I'm worried about intellectual property as well as having to continue to upgrade my site as I get feedback.
Your suggestions are appreciated!
It's the real TechCrunch.

I don't mind. Traffic had been growing pretty constantly at about 5x per year anway, so we'd have had to deal with this problem eventually.
It sort of feels like ALICE: it asks you questions it might not do anything with, but you feel better for having answered them (i.e. "therapy.")

That brings to mind--is there anything similar to a web therapy service yet? I imagine you could train a Jabberwacky bot to do it.
good question on trust

I think it behooves hacker news to stay as ujderground as possible.

You know, there was a time when Digg was a good source for programming news and discussion. Digg. Reddit too.

This site is now where I huddle to get that programmers social news fix.

It's important for those of us interested in making the social web to have our own little unadulterated social webs. This site also needs to stay lean so hackers will be drawn to it. ycombinator watches this thing to see what potential founders say. I think this should be a place for those thinking of, or filling out an application. At least, that's what I hope to find in reading it.
You could take out the stones after the soup gets going--edit the post to be a self-reference link, rather than an outbound one. That would make it clear that the post is not valued, but the discussion is.
Most-Positive-Bignum
Funny double-take: I thought you were describing hackernews as the "real" TechCrunch.
"...in the collection of mediaeval underground verses now known as the Carmina Burana."

Hah! I looked at the pics and scanned the article and started reading... I knew something was wrong when I read that line above. It's all a joke.
The data might be more useful together--first generate a simple intelligence-scale number (between -1 and 1), then weight all of a user's votes by their intelligence, and recalculate everyone's intelligence from their weighted karma. That is to say, if a lot of stupid people hate you, you appear smarter.

The problem might be with trolls, where the stupid are tricked and vote down in retribution, but the intelligent notice right away but are simply amused at the skill of the execution, and vote up in humor. This makes the troll appear much more intelligent than they are.
"The hard part is getting the initial corpora of stupid and non-stupid text. "

I think this could be solved very easily by scanning email inbox + older news.yc comments for non-stupid text and just scraping youtube/digg/reddit comments as stupid text.
They do! Idk if its free though, premium has it though.
http://www.mixwit.com/

the much better version.
I believe the "user" is a puppet account of another user, who has mentioned before that they only use the account when they want to take on a particular tone.
I did this exact thing - learning php, mysql and a bit of javascript from scratch to do a site. My experience was that if you put some effort into it it's not that hard.

The sites that I have used as references are primarily http://www.php.net, http://www.w3schools.com and http://www.mysql.com/

And of course this site that will answer all my questions if only I know how to ask: http://www.google.com

Good luck :-)