skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice job, 3 comments

1) If I fill a time in 24 hour format for example 23:00 you need to parse it correctly and understand its 11pm.

2) Let me add users to an event I already created.

3) Let me add people's IM instead of email. Especially critical for events that are in the next few hours as emails aren't always checked as often.
Roy comments:

http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/watching-the-ripples
All great suggestions...thanks for checking out the site!

Just an FYI, once you create an event, if you edit it, then you are able to add more friends.
If the photo looks "fake", sure. I think a decent photo would work great - maybe one of the founders or from users?
Another Model for the Music Biz
Maybe so, maybe no. Depends on what sort of promises were sold to the investors. Even so, caveat emptor I guess.
8. Develop a repeatable deployment process and automate it

This should apply to everyone. Don't forget to include unit and selenium tests in the automation if you can and hok it up to svn commits. The ability to know if something you've commited has broken the build is a big time saver
It's only a hunch, but perhaps after a certain point in time, you could change 'edit' to correct. Upon clicking correct, each word or space (to insert a word or two) becomes hyperlinkable, and if you click on it, you can do inline edits. Validate the changes in javascript, apply when a button is pressed, or focus is lost.
Screenshots. A picture is worth a.. you get the idea. Three or four nice screenshots of your interface on the front page, or at the top of another page (how does it work, FAQ etc.) Not having those was an immediate turn off for me.
ahhhhh.... I have been squished against the wall!
That's starting to become a recurring theme. Will definitely look into it. Thanks!
A condensed version...

If you have a family to take care of and you just lost your job to outsourcing, you just need to follow a few simple steps:

* Don't be prejudiced.

* Beat out hundreds of other programmers for a management job or start your own business.

* Be eager about... something.

* Read an economics textbook.

* Dream about traveling the world without having to work much.

* Help someone do... something. The Wealthy Programmer says greed is bad.
Tumblr's Revenue Plan: Cool Content + Ads
I wonder if it crosses the mind of anyone else that Microsoft is using its billions as weapons. Facebook is a massively successful site. But by investing in a small stake of a company at some huge, overestimate of a valuation, Microsoft is shuttering the valuation of Facebook, and pretty well all of social networking.
It sounds like it's a "from here on out" type thing. Access to API's can only be a good thing. Hopefully Ray Ozzie will keep on hammering the issue home.
Microsoft to Open Source Windows Client, Server Protocols. Big Change in Interoperability Initiative
ejabberd 2.0.0 has been released
I want to go, will they just let you in without rsvp?
52 Nights Unplugged - An Addict's Journey
Rush, the Ruby Shell
If you've ever had the misfortune of having a run in with Valleywag. They're not exactly nice people.

I've actually stopped reading them because of it.
Sounds overly complex, offhand.
I can say with completely confidence that it would be a total collapse. Among the core of college students, almost no one is going to pay. And the site becomes practically useless once the penetration rate is no longer 100%.
With all the batteries-included languages running around I think reliance on documentation is an irrelevant (obsolete?) measure.

I for one am constantly apropos-ing in CL even though it is my primary language.
"Helpcasting"
you compare using email to plan things to drunk driving, so i think that counts as bashing.

it's your decision if you want to market yourselves that way, it could be for the best, i dunno.

glad to hear you'll add details about what communication you use.
I know that's why I want to make them into something easy. I could reduce it to 5 but most users don't know what things like root means
Both Feynman and Einstein had a terrific physical intuition, but Feynman had more of an appearance of one since he was quite a showman, whereas for Einstein it was essentially his core asset.

Feynman also had incredible facility with calculation: he was one of the first Putnam fellows. He left the exam early!
State of the Computer Book Market, Part 1: The Market - O'Reilly Radar
And pressure from the EU probably helped a lot :-)
Microsoft pledges not to sue over open source
Erlware:  Open source Elang repo separate from Ericsson
what about NPV of different ideas? Different ideas and only 24 hours a day (for most of people) means that you'll have to consider them and go for the one that gives you more (whatever). profit 1 doesn't mean that is good enough, specially if compared with other ideas so your question was kinda dumb as did not added sh$%#t
Java has become a system language like C. It runs everywhere, on everything, but DHH has a point when he says it's not relevant. Java will proabably be better known as the underlying runtime system for (J)Ruby in a few years time. ;-)
On a UX note, please add a afterFinish function to the slide animation that focuses the first form field. Thanks!
If that were true, then Facebook would have declined letting MS have a stake.

Rather than stunting social networking, it seems MS is just trying to get in the game, since their home-grown efforts to date have been lackluster.
The Chumby Is Open, but Not for Business
Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain
Mega Apple filing details next-gen 'multi-touch input surface'
Great tips. I have heard the one about wearing your nametag on your right side. Not something you would ever think about unless you were told.
Both of your comments in this thread are correct.

But it's also likely that someone inside Google kicked this off by compiling a list of sites which do make that kind of money, then suggesting it to the press.

I.e., the "get-rich-quick" loving press probably had no idea that some (albeit probably very small number of) people make that kind of money from their Google ads until someone from Google told them.
Many of the people I know are withdrawing their profiles from Facebook. Not deleting them, but removing 80% of the information.

Facebook is a LOUSY ad platform because users are interested in interacting with friends, not watching ads.

The subject is bang-on: Facebook's fall will be EPIC
This is almost completely wrong. In any major city most furniture movers are on the verge of bankrupcy because it is so easy to set up a furniture moving business. You just need a truck and some dudes who will work for $15/hr.

In contrast, if you are a broke musician it means you aren't any good, or you are playing music nobody likes, or you live in a place where nobody cares about music.
wauwatosa wi and downtown chicago (pt)
Clever exploit of DRAM to attack disk encryption
what's a ride? full tuition waiver?
The site looks good, but this wouldn't make 'micro-event' planning any easier for me. I just text my friends. I only make one message and send it to my 'friend' group. You would have to improve upon that for me to sign up.

I understand this is early stage, so this is basically food for thought.
My question is, as an advertiser, is it worth advertising with google if they pay out so much to fraudulent clicking? Everyone's seen those spam sites laden with google ads. Yet somehow many of them make money. Fraudulent clicking.

What then?
Hey "Shooter" ... couldn't help but notice your posts seem to filled with "if any one has any ideas how to solve xyz, shoot me an email" type comments, yet your profile lists no contact info.
full ride means full scholarship. So yes, full tuition waver. I'm not sure, but I think you still need to pay room and board though.
Will Social Bookmarking Pay Dividends with Search Result Augmentation?
I can't comment on your data, only draw conclusions on my empirical knowledge. Maybe things are different in the US. (I assume you live in the US with that username)

And according to your comment 99.9% of musicians are no good and should find another job. Or else I live in a country where nobody cares about music.

Edit: I just reread the comment and thought it did sound a bit insulting.It wasn't meant to be... :-)
Company using weather balloons to provide wireless service in rural aras.
I am not sure I agree with that. It's entirely possible to make a Rails app that solves your problems without having a command of Ruby.

I guess you could consider "Rails" a separate language from Ruby...
Put together a short list of bloggers that are appropriate for your product!

I think bloggers and press can help when you have a niche consumer product (like a user generated travel website) but you need to get your name in the relevant (i.e. travel) news/blogs.

What I don't think works for a general consumer site (site that is not necessarily geared towards techies) is spending a lot of time trying to get covered by techcrunch because your time could be better spent targetting more relevant media (yes techcrunch readers travel but not all travelers are techies).
My point is to diminish the elitism around languages. It is completely irrelevant if you didn't need to use a component of a language to solve your problem. If you aren't using a particular component that would make your product better to the point of viability, then you aren't really solving your problem.
Having used Facebook exactly once to get at the thrift documentation, I won't miss it. However if it sinks it could take a good chunk of social-network investor confidence wiith it.

That said I think there are plenty of things Facebook could do to stave off a total collapse. Based on the success of the scrabble application, if I were them I'd make a big effort to become more integral to the online gaming community.
I think you may have a point -- what kind of user (A) has to deal with
these roles, and (B) can't understand terms like 'DBA' or 'superuser'?
Hopefully you're not just renaming roles already defined by the DBMS?

It sounds like you might not be dealing with non-technical business
users here; if you can explain your users a bit better, you can
probably get more help.

Otherwise...

If you can get spaces into the names, all to the good. Could just be
too restrictive to use one-word role names. Longer names might look
like: [database manager, table designer, table manager, writer,
reader, banned]

Or use verbs: [administer, manage, design, write, read, do nothing.] This
allow you to write friendly messages; "You may #{ role-verb } pages on
this site."

If the database holds, say, web sites and pages, try to find actual
career names; [database administrator, site manager, web designer,
writer, customer, banned]

Hope that's some ideas.
Nice to see someone attempt it, just to see if it can be done. But all trends seem to indicate that canvas tags will become regulars in browsers, as well as faster javascript engines...
Wow... I haven' seen such pretentious blog in a while. He worked for over 100 companies within last 20 years! Jesus... After those I was expecting no less but a comparison of his code printouts with football fields.

"I become a wealthy programmer, and you can too!".... Yet his 2nd blog post is labeled "How to get promoted to Management" where he basically suggests to start sucking up to your immediate boss.

WTF? Who upmodded this junk?
It seems I have to explain myself as people didn't get the reference.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Part of me wants to be quick on the jump here and say Facebook can salvage the scraps by getting rid of the applications, but that'd be fallacy in it's highest regard. Applications for me are less about how annoying some of them can be, and how poorly they're implemented.

Those that require you to send invites to friends before you can make use of it, or simply requiring you to add the application just to see how someone has ranked you compared to the rest of your friends should get a slap on the wrist. It kills usability, and it hurts. I'll never use these apps, I'm just curious to see what my friend is trying to tell me.

Then again, at the same time you have applications that say you have a message waiting for you, when it's really nothing more than an invitation from someone else. Borderline Spam Marketing from your friends. And when your friends Spam you, what asylum is left?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
I guess we should add a time factor to output?
Sorry about that. Didn't notice the pic when I posted.

Glad you pointed it out though, it's a beautiful picture.
You Don't Need to Have a Product to Sell a Product
I think both are true. He also had dreams of going IPO and being bigger than google. In the end, he just runs a site where people can send messages to each other.

10 years from now, facebook will be forgotten and social networks will seem even lamer than they do now. They are easy to build, and really they come down to this:
messaging platform (like email except not as well developed)
shared address book that allows you to navigate through to other people's address book (friend list)
*basic personal website where you can easily put pictures and text up and have comments.

They consider themselves a platform for apps, but the apps are pretty lame, and just waste time.
Programming Is Like Sex
I worked for outsourcing companies in some third world countries for years, and here's my advice: don't outsource your work if you can and you will save a lot of money in the long run.

Or, if you feel you need 50 Java programmers for a single project, you suck anyway, with or without outsourcing.
a possible answer would be "when I've code that someone outside my
team is using." Deliver a web app, a library, an interpreter, a game,
and it's reasonable to say you're over the hump.
Inside the (messy and spooky) VC Mind
And then there are the millions of splogs that clog up the intertubes that steal pictures, videos, IP and toss out adsense. Hip hip hooray.
typo 0.05
I think you insulted me, but I'm not sure. I'll respond regardless.

You didn't ask about how to judge the value of different ideas, you asked how big a niche market had to be for SaaS to work. The answer is that there is no pre-defined minimum niche size, so long as you can be profitable. The key part of being profitable, assuming you're bringing in any income at all, is managing expenses.

It is completely irrelevant and next to impossible to gauge whether one idea is more or less profitable than another. Some comparisons may be obvious, but spending too long figuring out what idea stands the chance of making you the most money is wasting your time.

Find the one you think might be the best, and built the thing. Rinse and repeat until profit > 0.
Adobe could care less if iPaper catches on. They'll just copy it and release it into the next version of Flash Paper.
Well... FaceBook has attracted quite a lot of money and a very serious number of smart folks who aren't sitting idle as we speak. They must be working on something: generating ideas, bouncing them off each other, coding, etc.

Articles like this one tend to neglect the fact that armies of smart people concentrated in one place worth not less (perhaps more) than previous achievements, be it user accounts, traffic or revenue.
Ask the poor sucker who has to maintain your code if he thinks you have command of that language. If he says yes, then good for you. If he doesn't, then find out why not.
Well, what about not being reliant on docs for syntax, but only for library functions? I can never remember what each language calls "length" (length? size? Is it the same for strings and arrays? What about number of keys in a map?) but I don't feel too bad about that, even in languages I use every day.

On the other hand, if I have to look up the syntax for a loop, then I can't say I know the language yet.
So, question. I often see people claiming that Ruby is replacing Java in some domains, but I don't often see the same thing said of Python.

Is Ruby (the language itself, not the implementation) somehow seen as "ahead" of Python in some way? Why isn't the same thing said about Python?

Or is it all hype and the Python folks are pragmatic enough to stay out of such arguments?
I have a reasonably fast machine, but iPaper seems at least as unresponsive as Reader.
"Most of you are great hackers."

Are you sure you want to make that assumption?
I think the title is misleading. It's not an Erlang repository, it's a repository of Erlang packages which seems to be a replacement for CEAN (which is owned by Process One).
"So you should all stop doing ultracool social network apps and start doing boring ERP systems."

How about ultracool ERP systems? <not a joke>
Better “This feels fake” than “What the fuck does this do? Looks like they want me to read the FAQ…”
If you're late, you didn't solve the problem. I guess I really failed in attempting a very general statement.
Oprah + FREE = Blockbuster
I think this is related closely to another popular question: how do you determine that someone else has command of a particular language?

I think the point that I would pick is when you start feeling constrained by it. If you start wanting to do things the language can't do, or can't do well, and you can explain why it can't do it well, then you have explored pretty much all of it.

That's why my favorite interview question is "So you're applying to program in FOO. What's something you hate about FOO?"
That is why I did not say "All of you ...". The point of reference is of course me.
Speaking of python, have you tried applying your skills using a framework like django? That might be a good way of understanding how much comes naturally, and how much doesn't.
I’ll take your word for it.
"The way of Cobol" sounds like a kung-fu style; perhaps something akin to Drunken Master Style. Or some strange Battlestar Galatical ethical mandate ("To behave ethically Captain Apollo, one must conform to The Way Of Cobol").

I take your point tho. However, it seems to me there's something inherently snarky and pejorative about comparing anything to Cobol. I'm a big enough man to admit that those might be my own anti-Cobol biases coming out. You couldn't pay me any amount of money to write Cobol apps. Perhaps my son 20 years from now will be saying the same thing about Java.
MacBook Air vs. Lenovo X300
Seeking Technology Co-Founder (NYC)
I am seeking a technology co-founder for a web startup in the wedding or niche travel space. Ideally this person would be located in or near New York City.

I will be upfront. I am not a programmer but I do have what I consider to be strong ideas and have done extensive research on my ideas/web startups. I know what you are thinking. Business person who overestimates their value to company. No. I will divide equity equally with the right person and am not only looking for someone to develop the site but for a true business partner. Additionally, I would like to, if possible, apply to ycombinator for the summer.

If you are interested in discussing my ideas further, feel free to email me (address below). Also, I am interested in hearing about people's experiences working on teams where one person was a technologist and the other person was not or advice regarding my search for a technology co-founder.

Thanks.

melissa_colella@hotmail.com
Thanks. I haven't. I'll explore that option.
I think it's about the flow e.g. you're in the flow if you can arrange the whole thing in your head(i.e. developing a habit of thinking in a language), you don't have to look to manuals and most importantly if you can reflect upon the language (at least I've observed this pattern among great hackers I admire). You can do amazing things if you achieve the experiential-mode but as I've observed people that I admire it's the reflective-mode that takes you to the next level.
Generally a full ride is understood as not having to pay tuition and fees. If you live on campus, some people consider room and board part of that, but I never did, so when I think full ride I think just tuition and fees. KU gave me about double what I needed for tuition and fees for four years, so the rest got spent on rent and books and such. I still worked full time in the summer to get by, but thankfully I could find work programming, so I never had to spend a cent of my parents money.
As a commenter said on the longtail site: "Is it the 'free' effect or the 'Oprah' effect?". It seems clear to me that Oprah certainly gave a tribune for the author. It would be interesting to see what proportion of the downloaders watched the Oprah show on that day.

Regardless, according to the graph, that was quite successful!
Or buy it.
lol yeah the UI doesn't work so well with heavy nesting
Yeah, fixed.

I was one of the people that thought the email address I put in the YC.News profile resulted in a visible link.
Clever, but I think once someone malicious has physical access to your RAM, you should consider hitting them or calling the cops.
I really need to write several small or one moderately sized project in a new language to get the feel of it.

I've been trying to learn Python and Lisp without any real project to hone my skillz on, whereas with other languages I actually had projects that sort of guided me.

So I suggest finding a project that can be written in the language you want to learn, and start writing it.
" 6% of Web Users Generate 50% of Ad Clicks"
http://slashdot.org/articles/08/02/12/2037223.shtml

This is why we'd all utterly suck at going this route. :-)
i don't know about the MtG online interface, but the game itself is very well done.
"How do you determine that you have command of a particular language?"

When you're answering more [newsgroup|mailing list|forum] questions than you are asking.

(And both are good ways to attain command of a language.)
Not saying that 15Billion isn't ridiculous, but the formula is n't nearly as simple as

value_per_user = valuation / num_users
Ask YC: do you use what you learned in school?
How many of you actually get to use any of the information you learned in your CS classes in college? E.g., implementing red-black trees, operating systems, writing compilers, etc.

From reading this site, I get the impression that people write a lot of web GUI code, but that doesn't require a CS background. That's not to say web applications aren't interesting, and there aren't technical challenges to be addressed.
Maybe. Maybe not. To survive, startups have to assume that's not the case.
Zob-nee
CS classes? I studied Italian in school, and yes, I use it every day to speak to my wife, who is Italian.
Source?

In my personal experience (working as a mover for four years during college) the drivers made a good yearly take. It really depended on the driver but there were some making 200-300k in a good year
When you're first leaning languages, "command" of a language probably ends up being defined as a solid working knowledge of the syntax.

However, the real deal is when you understand the solution pattern suggested by the language. When you start to break down problems into objects, functions, or types before you even touch a keyboard, then you've really gotten somewhere.
100% of what I use is from work.

0% is from school.

Not a judgement. Just an observation.
Hmm, I had always pronounced Scribd with a long "i".
Radar Networks receives new funding for Twine
It's what the internet was created for.
When I was at school, which is a long while ago now all the boys did was either play with the computers (commodore PET at the time - showing my age) or played football (Soccer to some of you). We didn't do homework well, we were outshone in English lessons by the girls also. This is no surprise to me to see that girls are doing this creative stuff whilst the guys try to figure out what they're doing
Thanks. yes, I could change them to role code, role name, and description. also naming by what they can do is good too. read xxx create xxx etc...
Very cool, but it didn't look anything like Star Trek. I want my tax dollars back.
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