skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, this concept seems sort of at odds with the way I cook and grocery shop. I don't often find myself with a wide array of ingredients that I don't know what to do with, but I do find myself spending too much at the grocery store because I can't easily plan a week's worth of meals using some base set of ingredients. I would love a site that gave me 5 meals based around approximately the same ingredients, told me how much of each to buy, and provided information about how to store leftover ingredients and how long they will last. Of course, I know very little about cooking, so maybe I'm the one who's backwards... just my 2 cents.

I can see this idea applied to drink recipes, though. I often have 3 or 4 half-empty bottles of different types of liquor- it would be great to get a list of 10 different drinks I could make with friends. On second thought, $10 says there's already a Facebook App that does exactly that...
Good news.
Maybe an hour a week tops, have never been into it as I find tv far too boring. My biggest time sink is exercising though, which I probably do just as much as most people watch tv lol
A charismatic leader can give the uninformed a reason to hate him, but it won't change their feelings.

An example: a gay friend of mine dislikes Bush because he proposed a law against gay marriage (at least that is his stated reason). He has very strong positive feelings for (Bill) Clinton, in spite of the fact that Clinton actually passed a law against gay marriage (Defense of Marriage Act). His feelings persisted even after I pointed this out to him.

Maybe I just have stupid friends (I don't think this is the case), but my general impression is that most people don't base their opinion of a politician on policy. Rather, they take their opinion on the policy from the party or politician they like.
Congratulations to these pre-Web 2.0 Web 2.0 founders...

Hot or Not is a superb example of being in the right place at the right time with the right idea and the right skills and a bit of luck

"It all started the evening of October 3, 2000, when I was sitting in my living room sharing a few beers with my roommate, Jim Young, and my brother, Tony. Jim had just mentioned that he thought a girl we had met at a party was a perfect "10," when the idea suddenly came to me: "Wouldn't it be funny to have a Web site where you could rate random pictures of people from 1 to 10?"

...I got about 15 hours of sleep over AmIHotorNot.com's first eight days—the time during which we addressed most of our scalability issues. Eight days after launching, we broke the one million page view barrier, reaching more than 1.8 million page views that day. By the end of November, we made NetNielsen's list of the top 25 advertising domains.

The site now runs smoothly, and has handled as many as 14.8 million page views in a single day without even yawning. Looking back, I think that week of scaling easily wins distinction as the most stressful, most exhausting, most rewarding week I've ever had in my life. In this trial by fire, we certainly learned an incredible amount about building and scaling a Web application."

From the story of amihotornot.com's first week of life (and near death by HTTP requests)

(http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/05/hong/)
A startup built on the idea of tracking startups...what will they think of next.

Looked good though.
it is public knowledge what companies the founders and executives came from. Are you thinking connections like people they know ie friends . look at the graph for y combinator or ITA software and you will see what the connections refer to. Yes companies are the clients.

would you prefer karma rather than credits?
Google and Yahoo are not strange?
Cotton shirt and vinegar.
Works like a charm.
What is the etiquette regarding asking the YCombinator community to review a site? I just recently joined and I absolutely love the interaction with other community members with submissions like this....

...also I have something I'm working on (surprise surprise) and I would like to submit something of this nature for all to see, once things are up. I wanted to know if asking the community to review my site is something that would get me the feedback I'm looking for (I REALLY want to know why my project sucks or won't work) or if it's something that is not encouraged.
This is ultimately why consumption taxes are a dangerous thing, despite how logical they seem. They are designed to create incentives for saving, but will merely punish those who have no ability to save in the first place.

At the same time, it might discourage some of what you are describing (living larger than your means). I think that might be the case for some portion of the bottom fifth and a large portion of the second fifth (McMansions, leased cars, etc etc).
thanks yeah, there is a flash version about ready to drop. it is overkill for the simple graph, but when we map all web 2 startups in boson. or compare two VC to see if they have invested together in the past, being able to zoom and pan will be more useful.
What about RFK's catch phrase, "Others ask why; I ask why not."
"When I want to post a new model, I SSH to my server, fire up Emacs, connect to the Lisp running on my running server via local SLIME, and run an ADD-MODEL function. Simple. Lisp automatically timestamps my posts, and checks for empty-string model names, and all the other good stuff you'd want from a control panel. (Plus if it fails, I get a debugger.)"

yea sounds it...
i dont know what that means? y (space) combinator in the database
If you turn off the TV for a few minutes, you'll realize that "entertainment" and "stuff" is not "what life is about", and experiences can be had on the cheap.
Ideal team size for your next Facebook project
loopt, xobni, scribd, wufoo, weebly, zenter I dont know, names are hard. Is it memorable? hangoutandlearnaboutyourlocalstartupmarket.com was taken :)
Did you roll-your-own graph display UI library or use someone elses?
What I didn't mention is where I found that Paul Buchheit essay and a lot of other very useful resources. Thanks news.yc!
no etiquette, just post it and they will come. I dont think you will have to worry about what people REALLY think.
I feel a little bad saying it was "crowd control" because those are my words, not my brother's (who was the one doing the program). I think he was a good teacher, and he would probably object to that characterization.

He told me that once he left the room for a few minutes because a kid was sick, and heard a huge crash. When he rushed back in, it turned out that a girl had tried to smash the overhead projector on top of the head of another student. Glass was everywhere This was the result of leaving the classroom for 2 minutes.

But when he was in there, I don't actually think it was all crowd control. He had the respect of the students, and he was able to teach.

You made an interesting observation about the "cultish" quality of TFA. He said that he had no illusions about how much of himself he was giving. He said his attitude from the start was "This school has 30 teachers. Two of us are TFA. The other 28 are just doing their job." That attitude helped him out a lot, I think.
No - I have never owned a tv, and probably never will.

Seems like a waste of time to me.
Obama clearly wins the charisma contest. My wife has fallen for him, reading all his books, etc. This article "Women 'falling for Obama'" really reinforces PG's point http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2269063...
Sometimes for background noise/information.
I watch very few TV "shows", and what I do watch is usually coming off of Tivo.

Other than 1 or 2 shows I watch with my wife, most of my personal preference is for something that is at least mildly interesting/informative (Myth Busters, etc.)
Somehow, Americans had the ability to save fifty years ago, when they were much, much poorer. Did the cost of living go up radically since then? Or are they pretty sure that people who think like you will make sure they don't pay for their profligate nature?
Obviously not the most important point to address, but one of the first things I noticed was that there's a grammatical mistake (it's for its) in your introduction. It's a minor error, but it also undermines the professional image you're trying to project
burnt?
I stopped watching TV when I moved to the city. Season 2 of Lost was the hardest show to give up. Now I spend more than the time I spent watching TV commuting to the suburbs.
I thought T-rex invented generative catch phrases/advice.

http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001159.html
Interview With a Secretary
My thoughts exactly.

I mean, that's great for him personally and all, but "Step 1: Use Emacs" pretty much makes this a non-starter for something like 95% of the people in the world who might run a blog or personal website.
A few years ago, the girlfriend and I spent some time carefully building and configuring a MythTV box, which was fun. Then we proceeded to not actually watch any TV. 6 months later, when we realized we were only keeping the cable subscription so that our Myth project wasn't purposeless, we cancelled it.

We still watch a decent bit of downloaded TV content -- we'll sit down and watch entire seasons in a few evenings. We watch nothing in 'realtime' and we see zero commercials.

(I actually miss commercials and wish people wouldn't cut them out of what I download.)
Django cannot be used by large web sites.
see prefuse credit at bottom of graph window
Yes, why do you ask?

Not a great deal, mostly sports, and it is more of background entertainment than my focus.
Why does everyone seem to forget that Bill Clinton won only in the context of a strong third-party candidate? If not for Ross Perot's run in 1992, Clinton would almost certainly have lost to Bush senior---and taken down the "charisma wins" theory with him.
issue seems to be you can't have more than 256 url regexes

So Django can be used by the largest sites, you just cant go crazy with URLs in a single app
According to the graphic with the story (http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/02/10/opinion/10op.gr...) the 50th percentile American had a fridge, a stove, electricity, and a radio. There's a lot more stuff to buy, and people value the convenience and utility of other stuff (Cell phone, washer, computer, internet) a lot.
PG: Could attractiveness could be substituted for charisma effectively in your theory? Perhaps attractiveness is just an element of charisma, but if considered that way, there's a large body of psychological research that backs you up. For example, this abstract lists a only a really tiny sliver of the repeatable results:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0034-6543(199224)62%3A4%3C413%3AEIAJOP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L
I don't know who you were referring to but my startup is what a social network would be like if it was designed around human cognitive needs and tendencies/habits instead of technical abilities (and random alphabetical topics of interest) and targeted at busy people who value their time and want a good ROI on it.

I'd toss money aside if I could just find some actual programmers who can help put together and launch a semi-scalable demo (I may be able to put together a professional "A" series through some contacts if I have something to show). At the very least I'd love to talk to someone knowledgeable who can at least help me figure out cost scenarios, most of which are technical, so I can present a credible b-plan.

Where I live (NYC) just a bunch of entrepreneur-wannabe poseurs who attend lots of Meetups and presentations but are too scared to actually "do it" ... and of course the "professional" development houses who will gladly talk to me ... AFTER I raise the capital, which, of course, is completely useless as a value added.

Any thoughts on the subject, feel free to email me @: emailadrian "at" inbox "dot" com.
Note: I am being sarcastic with the headline.
Don't own one, but there are a few shows I'll watch online or at a friend's (30 Rock, the Office, etc).
Nothing new... I wrote up Charter Communications about a year ago for doing the same thing... I guess its no better (or worse) when Google does it... Must admit.. it pissed me off the first time I got the Charter/Yahoo page when entering a search command in my address bar... used to be the case that with Firefox you could enter a term in and the displayed page was the "I'm feeling lucky" Google result... after this hi-jacking started that functionality went out the window... shame.. I liked it...
I am guessing since Charter is already hi-jacking my 404s, the Google jacking won't affect me anyways :)

Here is my original write up of the creeps...
http://blog.eznet.frih.net/?p=62

Here is Charters hi-jack
http://www11.charter.net/search?qo=asdasd.asd&rn=3RjeJZ7...
"I think that teaching is like medicine, law, marriage counseling, postdoctoral research, and just about any other career: It's hard to know if you'll like it until you try it for real. You can't really learn what it's like, day-to-day and year-to-year, by watching from the outside."

A difference with those other fields is that teaching is ensconced in an inflexible, pathological bureaucracy. Although, that could be my ideological bias talking.
Credit cards. American Express and (what is now) Visa issued their first credit cards in 1958. Before credit cards, it was difficult for an individual to borrow against future earnings (this is essentially what buying using credit is)
why did the word secret get removed from the title of my post? I just re-worded the title of the linked article.

Is Hacker News censoring stories now, for no good reason?
There's definitely an element of crowd control in the sense that the students are kids; they naturally like to get into trouble, and don't come pre-installed with self-management skills.

I think that it's important to be cognizant of how to manage crowds, but it's easy to get bogged down in just maintaining the peace. There's gotta be a reason to pay attention, a reason to behave, other than "do what I tell you or else"...this is what I meant by lousy teaching.

Sounds like your brother knows what he's doing and I'd bet his students are lucky to have him. With regards to his story about the overhead projector, it brings back fond memories of pretending to leave the room but really just standing right outside the door to see which students were the first to a) realize I'm gone and b) start trouble. The classroom can be a hilarious laboratory for the study of human nature. (I do certainly hope that the victim was alright and that the perpetrator was held responsible.)
It's not new: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43534
Friends who have met Bill Clinton in person say he makes you feel great/important even though they only meet him for mere seconds. I mean, he is an ex-POTUS and he makes you feel like the star. If that isn't charisma, what is?
You can subdivide the url regexes into more than one file too which apparently solves the problem.

So break up your urls into sections at that point, which I think would be useful anyways. Plus more than 256 url regexes? I am guessing they could be optimized too :)
Sun to buy VirtualBox maker Innotek
Ah ha! Thanks for the link.
As a student of Toastmasters, when I saw that speech live on TV, I knew he'd be a presidential candidate. But in 2008? Never would have guessed so soon. Great speakers connect with the audience. Good speakers merely tell.
Currently, yes, maybe a few hours per week or so. But soon, thanks to our powerful government, they will stop broadcasting analog TV in this country (Finland) and my home will be TV-free. Sweet.
Rarely, but I've been watching the Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles. I love robots.
Only a few shows that I record with my MythTV (commercial auto-skip is a great feature).
Yes, sort of. I don't have cable or anything, and I only follow House (downloaded). My girlfriend and I have also been watching Star Trek (first TNG, now Voyager).
If it's supposed to be a startup jobs site, you should make that more clear, right at the beginning (maybe split the page into "For Startup Job Seekers" and "For Startup Founders Who Are Hiring", for example).
exactly why I don't remember some of them. At least scribd is sort of mnemonic.
I work best with distractions. My favorite three distractions are music, people (i.e. going to the coffee shop), and tv, in that order. If I'm coding at home, either the music is cranked or the tv is on. Though, I try to watch uninteresting shows, so that I don't get distracted. If either Discovery or the History channel are on, I'm not getting much done.
great show, especially since the storyline is mainly about AI development.
they've been changing titles for quite some time when they believe its necessary, almost since the beggining
I'm talking about trends in society, not my particular views. I don't think anyone can say "what life is about" (including you), but I think my comment was fair. Look at what people spend their time and money on, and you'll see what they care about. The richer people get, the more things become about experience, as opposed to consumer good consumption.

"experiences can be had on the cheap."

You're right. Back to the original point: why would people save if their priorities are about consumer good consumption, and then good experiences once they have all the stuff they want?

More generally, I think the bias towards saving is a too abstract view about macroeconomic conditions. Credit is actually really, really cheap these days.

Things are really cheap, and experiences can be too.
What club do you go to?

I go to #9351, Oratory Authority, a lunchtime club in Boston:
http://ourdoings.com/oratory-authority/
Our local pound shop sells cloths designed for drying glasses after you've washed them, however I find they're great for cleaning my screens, LCD or otherwise.

Just wipe the screen with a damp (not dripping wet) cloth, then dry with the glass cloth, simple as that.

I also use the same cloth (there were two in the packet) for cleaning my camera lenses & specs as well.

Well worth the pound I spent on it.
No time. I would include DVDs of TV shows as TV. I used to watch them more. Watching an entire season of a good show over the course of a few days is MUCH better than serial TV.

Even shows like Seinfeld are better. I didn't realize till I watched them in order that they reference previous episodes all the time.
Why does it have to be "nerds" ... why can't it be anybody that was a succesful entrepreneur and either got screwed by financial types or found a way to do it without financial types.

Let's not alienate anybody. For all you know there might be some guy who made a fortune in something mundane and may want to invest in promising young people and he's reading this and thinking, "Oh, I see, they only want money from "nerds" with engineering degrees ... guess my money's not good enough for them."

Personally I'd take money from anybody who made it any way other than as a result of hurting someone in the process and could care less about their "pedigree" or "nerd-factor" ... the fact that they may have made it without the advantages of a masters from MIT just tells me they have THAT MUCH MORE streetsmarts to compensate ...
The fact is, tickets are incredibly under-priced if the secondary market is able to do this profitably.

If tickets were sold direct by the venues with some kind of demand or time based auction model, every single one of these brokers would immediately go out of business.
I watch with Hulu a fair amount, does that count? Great UI, pretty good selection, good quality, and few ads.
WHO ARE YOU AND WHY ARE YOU ME?
Our MythTV ( http://www.mythtv.org/ ) setup didn't quite survive our recent international move, so we're not watching much. Not that we watched much before - there's not much good stuff on. We'll see what happens when I get around to fixing myth.
Surely they'd eventually get bored at making up for lost time not having intercourse with hot babes; and how many fancy sports cars can you possibly buy before you realize there's more to life than driving fast.

Seriously, after you've bought the houses, the cars, the trophy wives, what else is there other than to get involved in the process?

Isn't that everybody's dream, the old, "Boy if I ever made it, I would do things SOOOOO differently!"

Otherwise, what's the point?

If I ever made it, the FIRST thing I would do (besides paying down my credit cards and finding a slightly larger apartment) is to try my hand at "doing things the way I wish they were done" ...

I think it would be a heck of a lot more fun putting yuppie ivy-league mbas out of business than spending money on fancy food and cars and designer suits ...

But then again I don't have a lot of money so what do I know? Maybe once you have the money and can actually afford those things you develop an inevitable, "the hell with everyone else" attitude ...
Here's a version of the link that news.yc will take:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0034-6543%28199224%2962%3A4...

Paul Buchheit related this phenomenon to product design in
http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/08/first-thing-that-yo...
Unfortunately yes. I find myself watching HGTV and other home type shows to get ideas for the time when I actually own a home. I don't have Tivo, so it's normally back to a book or papers during commercials. I'm also a big fan of comedies like Scrubs, The Office, 30 Rock, Family Guy and The Simpsons. I seem to find long marathons of Law & Order as well...
I don't mind at all. Glad you enjoyed it.
I watch video podcasts. If you haven't started watching GigaOm, I highly recommend it. It was really bad at first, but some of the VC/CEO/founder interviews they've done are absolutely stellar stuff that have taught me a lot.
Never use any cleaning liquids! They do more damage than good. Just use a microfiber cloth and tap or distilled water.
I actually watch some, and it increases during winter. I think it has to do with SAD (considering I am not used to the weather, especially the bleak 4 months that we see here in Columbus, OH). The only show I follow is House (and now Sarah Connor Chronicles) but I am at a point where its sucking up a lot of time. I am going to cut the cable, and go DVD shopping. And of course, commerical free shows are so much better.

Most of my TV watching happens in the background, while I am surfing the web or catching up on my RSS reader, but its still a lousy habit
I don't know what to think about this. Isn't this basically giving up the ghost on Solaris? But on the other hand, no matter the underlying OS or hardware, it seems like Sun will be able to take advantage of the situation. Seems like a hedge bet to me than perhaps any real use, unless they embed it into Solaris.

I was just about to try VirtualBox on Os X, by the by. Has anybody here tried it?
I'm a fan of the working with music
Cellphones: Modu Transforming Cellphone System First Video Hands-On
Anyone can see it, log in to write to it.
Ruby API for the MySpace Platform REST API
More women seek start-up advice
These are common in China. The card switch acts as a master on/off for most? of the outlets and lights (except for the fridge?).

I forgot about it a couple of times when intending to charge my laptop while I was out.
RoR isn't a language.
How to Hire Bill Gates to Demo your Startup’s Product
Secure Your Apache With mod_security
Tuning LAMP systems, Part 2: Optimizing Apache and PHP
Intense Debate Integrates Twitter
Definitely. I think the twist will be that the Turk becomes an AI on the side of good. The turk inventor's last name IS Goode, after all. Just speculating. Also, I like that the terminator's name is Cameron, after "James Cameron" I imagine.
The VC Version of Kick the Can