skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its hard to do. It took me 2 months to settle on fotoblur for my project. Try combining different words together and you'll find something unique. The other day I just thought of the url linkolicious.com ...and guess what, It was available.

Nice try...I already registered it :)!
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you could only be allowed to submit X number of stories a day based on your Karma... So as you earn some respect you can do more. If you start with 1 you could only post 1 article a day which would make it less worth while to spammers.

Or add flagging on users and if it passes some threshold it has the admins review the account and take action if it really is spam.

Just two thoughts off the top of my head
Nine Javascript Gotchas
I'm still updating it. If you have any insanely useful Emacs commands that a new user should know, let me know and I'll try to squeeze them in.
I think that is a really interesting idea. The only issue would be if you hit 0 on your first post you could never post again. So if your at 0 you can post but only once per day or something until you post something that earns you karma.

It is a simple system but seems like it could be very effective. Kudos
A 12x12x12 private office (I'm 6'5", so high ceilings are a definite mood enhancer).

One wall is entirely glass, looking over a shaded garden with the Ocean in the distance (probably on the side of a mountain here).

The wall to the right of the window wall is a bookcase.

The wall to the left of the window has an extra long couch (that I could actually fit on) to sleep. That wall also has the door.

The wall opposite the window is at my back, with my 72x40 inch desk in front of me. On my desk are three 24 inch Dell LCDs, each running at 1920x1200. My chair is a Herman Miller Mirra (fully loaded).

Behind me and to my right is the door to the en-suite bathroom, complete with shower and closet full of clothes and a kitchenette (with tap that has Dr Pepper, Cherry Coke, Boulevard Wheat, Murphy's Irish Red, and Guinness).

Behind and to the left of my desk is a door to a wiring closet, where all my computers and stuff are.

The carpet is black and deep like grass, and all the lights are LEDs.

Between the window wall and the desk is an extremely comfortable recliner and table (for reading).

Outside the office itself is a common area with doors opening onto all the other offices (of my brilliant fellow coders). The common area has couches and big long tables for collaboration. At one end is a recessed movie-theatre-esqe area for group presentations and movie nights. At the other end is the entrance to the building.
The closest thing we have to a full business plan is all the work done for the YC App. The first time we did it we didn't see the character limit so our app was something like 10+ pages. We edited the whole thing down but kept the original and called it our pseudo business plan.
These are likely human spam posts, since a user account is required to submit. (edit: reading the comments, maybe spam bots are getting more sophisticated than I thought)
It would be nice if you guys specified what language/platform the library is for.

I'm a big fan of the .NET reflection assemblies. How did I ever live without reflection?
Some users would get too powerful in the long run. These users would be the head of a long tail of submissions and could have disproportionate influence.

Of course, this depends upon YC News having the problem of a large user base. Also, I could be totally wrong in this imagination simulation...
"When Arc gets ahold of spam, it turns it into prose worthy of Shakespeare".

"Arc doesn't need to block spam, because spam is too afraid to get anywhere near Arc".
This was probably mentioned in some form before, but what about a combination user spam button/automatic temp-ban? If the last X posts by user were marked as spam, ban account for X days. Two temp bans = perm ban.
1) Write scripting language for mobile phones.

2) ....

3) Profit!
An attempt at a rough diagram. Common area is to the left of this image.

.___________window____________.
/ |
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|o k| b |
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|c deskdeskdesk a| t |
|h deskdeskdesk s| h |
| deskdeskdesk e| r |
| chair \ o |
| \ o |
|_____________________________|________m|
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|_clos.|
Whats Next for YouTube ?
Best suggestion I've heard so far.
Selecting the "right" JavaScript framework to work with is a classic example of how broad choice is paralyzing.

You could spend weeks evaluating everything out there looking for the "right"/"best" one for your needs.
It's more complex than: add CAPTCHA to create account screen.
If they're accepted, Web 2.0 names are going to create some crazy scrabble high scores.
Tech-stiles: Clothes that produce power
Spammers hit News.YC the day we launched. There is spam more days than not. Usually the editors catch these before anyone sees them.
multiple myloma
A nice collection of videos on multiple myloma
You are right; at the same time there is nothing novel about CAPTCHAs. I also have a habit of running wild with ideas, and I suppose it's beginning to show...

But hopefully my hatred for spam is showing through as well!
US to shoot down broken spy sat
I just wanted to second this -- getting a UPS Store mailbox is much better than a PO Box, if for no other reason than the fact that you can receive UPS/FedEx/DHL/etc. packages there. The post office won't sign for packages from 3rd-party carriers, so you're out of luck if you want to have anything shipped to your business address of record.

That being said, neither a UPS Store box or a residential address is exactly going to impress folks if they bother to check out your business address before decided to ink a deal with you.
I sure hope they plan to do this in such a way as to minimize the debris in orbit.

Also, wouldn't be embarassing if they missed???
I like that--it's a good name. That's the spirit of what I tried for in most of my names.
Muahahahaha... MUahahahaha. * wrings hands evilly *.
Was the URL bass-ackwards.com? ;-)
Zimbra's new Desktop: Look ma, no browser
Where is this "21k lost wages" figure coming from?

I guarantee you, if I were only forgoing a wage of 21k/year, I'd finish school in a heartbeat!

The problem for a lot of people on this forum might be that they can no longer justify college economically: it won't improve your earnings if you're already making a good living, so it becomes more of a wouldn't-it-be-nice sort of thing, an expensive recreational activity to maybe finish someday after retirement.
Sounds like an opportunity for a good startup. I've heard this question bounced around a number of times online. Doesn't really sound like there's one great service out there.
This is not unlike what I would normally call blog spam. Anyone have a reason to think otherwise?
There were a lot of "guess the number of X in a jar" type contests when I was in primary school. I think I won nearly every single one, because I was (one of?) the the only one(s) estimating mathematically. It always seemed pretty obvious to me.

Even with a baseball in the middle (assuming you know there's a baseball in the middle), it's not impossible to estimate, and your guess is still going to be better than someone who didn't try.
Maybe one day. We've thought that one day, if we get big enough, we might get an in-house investment banker to beat on acquirers. Some acquirers' M&A groups are not very nice people. YC founders, who generally are nice people, are sometimes at a disadvantage. It would be handy to have a thug on call that they could send in against the acquirers' thugs.
Great job... I was thinking of going back to PCL this weekend, and this is definitely useful... Thank you sir...
Those are good, some of which are caught by using jslint, and indispensable tool for anyone not already using it.
Organic pls :}
Wow, great thread on this topic, petesmithy.

My experience is with Nurses moving here to the States from the Phillipines or Canada. And, they all say that it's a royal pain. The Immigration service, or to those in the know, "La 'migra" has been very crabby since 9/11. It pays to know what you're doing and know what your options are.

A friend of a friend is on a temporary visa from Hungary (don't know exactly what type). He went to San Diego for a weekend, crossed the border into Mexico for the afternoon, and on the way back in, got a very crabby talking to by the Customs official, and then had to spend several days talking to immigration officials, and explaining why he had violated the terms of his visa, and why they shouldn't deport him.

All that to say, is don't taunt "La 'migra". Don't do something foolish like try to get a faux marriage. Don't get into trouble with the law while you're over here, trying to get your visa.

Perhaps a better question might be: Does anyone know a really good immigration lawyer that I could talk to for an hour or two to see what my options are?
"You must have Netscape 4.0 or Internet Explorer 4.0 to view the examples of this site"

Cleary it is from years ago.
Yeah... I wouldn't tempt fate by doing the sham marriage, thing. Doesn't really go over well when it's found out.
Good points.

I just assumed that the natural progression was: lurker, voter, commenter, submitter, addict.
A shame he hasn't kept it up. I wonder what happened. Maybe he got so many paying gigs that this wasn't worth his time any more.
C-M-u-q is one I use a lot: it auto-indents code (useful after you've made changes to a function or macro definition).
Post here when you're done, and here's a little encouragement along the way. I'd love to play around with it.

Anybody else know of any VPS's that offer BSD?
i don't think you should force people to post comments. just rate limit their link submissions until they get 50 karma.
I got it to work.

Macports on Tiger walkthrough:
1) Install Macports from macports.org, and open the box icon that ends in .pkg.
2) Open the terminal.
3) Paste [touch .profile]. Don't paste the brackets, just what is inside. press return.
4) Paste [open -a TextEdit ~/.profile], press return. A text file will open.
5) Paste
[
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
export MANPATH=/opt/local/share/man:$MANPATH
export DISPLAY=:0.0
]
in the file. Save it and close it.
6) Paste [. .profile]. Press return.
7) Paste [sudo port -d selfupdate]. Press return. The computer will ask you for your password; give it and press return.
8) Wait for about three minutes. The terminal will act weird and will be busy updating macports. When it's done, you can use macports by pasting [port search sbcl] to search Steel Bank Common Lisp. You can install by pasting [sudo port install sbcl]. Then you can get on with your startup and take on the world.
Upmodded for ascii image hack alone. I love how he uses slashes and backslashes to show that the doors are opened. lol
Nice job of aping the Windows look... but often, web apps should look like web apps, since they are stuck in the browser pane, and suffer some network lags. I've seen a lot of projects shoot for a 'desktop-like' look & feel, spend a lot of time chasing it, but always miss by at least enough that the app lands in an 'uncanny valley', neither webby nor desktoppy.
You are actually right on the money with this progression. Also, YC News is small enough (thankfully) that we don't have much of a spam problem. I'm just attacking our current situation as a global/general spam problem that social sites have.

Having an opportunity to brainstorm gives me SO much enjoyment!
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I love the whole self-help genre. I love anything that helps people to think more positively. For many people, that's half the battle.

I just don't think that hackers are affected nearly as much as others. Do affirmations, examine past lives, move your body, make lists, think good thoughts, everything will be alright, etc., etc., etc. All good stuff.

The problem is that it's just too easy to get caught up "doing all that good stuff" that you lose focus from your project.

OK, I'll compromise a little. Read HTWF and Think and Grow Rich. Then get back to work.
Short commute, good free snacks and food and drinks and tea (and soup!), within walking distance of lots of good restaurants, great coworkers, minimal distractions, no politics, flexible hours, occasional telecommute (but not so frequently that the office becomes a ghost town), free parking, great view, stacks of all useful computer books near your workstation, room to walk around and stretch, trust-based environment where you can leave all your stuff at your workstation and not worry about it, plenty of whiteboards available, freedom to personalize your workspace.

My new job features all of these (except soup! :'-{ ), although the commute could be a little shorter, and the hours a little more flexible. ;-)
The new Elmo Live is pretty impressive
Web browser standards support
MacBook Air Not Selling All That Well
I've changed my mind. After reading some of these answers. I remember reading (some possibly apocryphal) stories about Tibetan monks able to run for days on end and sit on mountaintops in freezing weather without getting cold.

I would attempt to learn how to unlock the true power of the mind and teach others to do so (to eliminate fear and the self-talk stuff that stops us)

http://www.presscluboftibet.org/china-tibet-17/lung-gom-pa.h...
It's a breathtaking collection of interviewees he's got there - I've already got my preorder money set aside.
What do you consider to be blog spam? The initial post just contained one link, so maybe he could have linked directly to the color selector. Since then, it has been updated with three more links, making the SG post more valuable than just the mediazeal.

Plus, lots of people trust Seth Godin and the fact that he recommends something carries more weight than just a random link.
Ask PG: More goodies for high karma?
I was around 200 when the topcolor feature was announced, and I'm now enjoying a cool blue bar. I'm approaching 500 now and I was wondering if there are any more goodies on the horizon.
great article
Then he would not only feel nervous, but inadequate.
If you've got the cojones to put a clean, non-leaky abstraction on top of payment processing, you might just find a customer or two.
I'm at work, it was bound to happen. hehe
Well, I was trying to leave it open so people could write interesting things about what they know.

I never would have thought this a couple of years ago, but I would now be very happy to locked-in to a JVM platform, and my chosen libraries would be Swing and a pure-Java Oracle JDBC.

I'm pretty sure I could make a good living using only that platform, plus Scala, or Clojure, or maybe even Java iteself, though it's always seemed a bit verbose if you write like the books tell you.
That's so strange; I was thinking about posting a similar post just this second!
It feels a little too desktoppy, I think I'll stick with Ext
Wow. All this walk down Internet memory lane. Made me remember GaboCorp.

Remember GaboCorp >?> - the kick-ass Flash website done by a teenager/young adult? Well, get this, he has a blog http://pixelbreath.gabocorp.com/... he's all grown up - and just resigned as UX Lead for Comcast Interactive...
It just reminds me of the endless "Vote up if.." that plagues Reddit.
Wouldn't 12' ceilings in a 12'x12' room feel weird? I would think that 10' would still give you plenty of clearance without feeling like you were in a pit.

Fantastic vision, though. When I rule the world, I'll have you and gibson1f design my control room!
Enjoy the site, don't worry about points. In some ways, I think it'd be better if the totals were hidden, and the points were only visible per-thread.
Installing TipJoy onto a Wordpress Theme
12 foot ceilings ftw. Presently in an office that has approximately 22' ceilings and is 22'x10'x22'. However, absolutely no windows in this state sanctioned fallout shelter. With some mods to my chair, office positioning and window display (and resignation that kansas is a long fn way from the ocean) this is tolerable.
Yes, we've tested on opera. What OS are you using? What site were you trying to tip? Thanks for your feedback and patience!
Ideally, a home office with a lakefront view. But I'd settle for elements from Adobe/Flickr as shown at:

http://www.officesnapshots.com/
I attended a presentation by Dr. Hipp about the internals of SQLite a few years ago. I came away very impressed by his work and understanding quite a bit more about databases.
Well, in my humblest of opinions, a full fledged business plan is not really necessary until you are looking for angel and institutional funding - Although you do not necessarily need a fully detailed business plan for angels, I think it adds a level of professionalism and lets potential investors know that you have thought out your business

If nothing else, putting together a BP is a great exercise for you and your team to go through to minimize risks
--

My company has ~15pg BP at the moment
At least that's whay my Doc told me last time I saw him. Noodling around online, it seems that the half-life of caffeine can vary anywhere from 2-3 hours to 100 hours depending on the person, their metabolism and if they smoke or not.
Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences goes Open Access
I've got points because I'm enjoying the site! The topcolor and any future goodies are just reminders of the community and learning I get here.
Varies by how long I've been awake. 5 - 6 hours on weeknights. 8 - 9 on weekends (but the entire 'day' - from time I woke up on Friday to time I wake up on Saturday, for instance - will be longer than 24hrs total). I can get by on 4 or 9, but usually less than 5 for 2 days in a row or more than 9 under any conditions and I feel like hell all day. When I have extended periods (more than 5 or 6 days) where I have no particular reason to get up at a certain time, I fall into a sleeping pattern essentially the same as the '28 hour day / 6 day week'. My sleeping habits have been about the same since puberty, and my mom's are about the same as mine (my dad sleeps about 9hrs a night).
This doesn't seem to work for me. Could you mention the name of the command? How does it differ from C-M-\ ?
Three cheers for user generated plugins!
The next book will be quite similar to the first, but with different founders. Founders at Work actually isn't affiliated with Coders at Work, other than having similar names and the same publisher.
Good idea, but how about instead of posts costing you karma, spam costs you karma. Then if your karma goes negative, you cannot post until it becomes positive again. That way it doesn't penalize new users with low karma, but it will only take two bad posts to render a spam account ineffective.
I think people are looking at the cleavage more. I certainly didn't notice the typo :)
Hey cool...only if windows had a backbutton.
But I like that I know javascript,css, and html
its fine as long as your business plan is not a plan for you to build your business ..its only purpose is to look good on paper and get the money in....somethings are best use and throw
web app almost finished, how much for a design?
I've been working on my app for a few months and feature wise, it's ready for a beta. However, due to a) my general hatred for working with css b) my complete lack of css and creative skills, all the output is bare, unstyled html

I have $300 to spend. Is that a realistic budget for hiring someone to skin the app? it's a very data heavy with lots of data tables and graphs, so I'm not looking for a "site design" or branding. I'm looking more for a simple and clean user interface. I'd be happy with a set of styles for standard elements such as forms and tables.

is $300 unrealistic? if so, would people recommend launching (private beta) as-is or wait until I can afford a designer?
Never name a variable the same as an HTML ID [...] This will work fine in Firefox but cause and [sic] object undefined error in InternetExplorer

No it won't. I do this all the time; it works fine in IE 6 and 7.
C-M-\ auto-indents the entire buffer, but C-M-u-q works just inside the function or macro you're in when you type the command (it does nothing outside a code block).

Emacs help actually defines these as two separate commands (C-M-u is "backward-up-list", C-M-q is "indent-sexp"), but I find that I can just hold down C-M, and then type "u", "q" in succession for the same effect.
I approve of this notion - competing on price is never a good direction to take. At least they're trying to provide value.
My experience is the thing about ownership isn't true, and I can think of plenty of people who are counter-examples. Me (own shares in digg.com), Daniel Burka (digg, pownce), Tara Hunt (Citizen Agency). All three in the US on TN visas.
If you are a web consumer website no one is going to look at your shaby address
i slept 12 hours out of 85 this week.. but then caught up just now so it's 25 out of 100 - or averaging 6 hours a night. i can't fit my sleep within a standard 24 hour period - in particular i find it hard sleeping twice within 18 hours. but on average i find i need to catch up to something fairly standard.
I don't know... don't vote them up?
Semi-related:

You might want to take a look at this blog entry:

http://billburnham.blogs.com/burnhamsbeat/2008/02/skygrid-an...

It's about a startup that has accomplished some cool things in the area of recognizing meaning from text. They've developed some "sentiment"-measuring algorithms that allow them to classify articles into "good" or "bad", for the purposes of deciding whether to invest in a stock. Pretty cool stuff! Perhaps it might give you some ideas on similar approaches you could apply to your problem.
Generally you get what you pay for, but in your case I would probably try to find some upcoming and/or young designer that will do it for the hell of it, and maybe to get experience and a portfolio.

$300 isn't a lot these days...
Security firm outlines main web threats
adult. and I'm happy I waited. the effect on me now is indistinguishable from drinking coffee all day only it doesn't give me the shits. I'm at the maximum legal dosage at 90 milligrams a day of adderal.
You win :-)
The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs
The error with the array just seems like poor practice. If you only want to deal with the contents of an array then you should use the [] with an integer index.
I've spend the last 9 months building a web-application that had to look like a desktop one. I never liked the idea, but my bosses and our customers were not reasonable.

Now we have an application that runs on a web browser, looks neither like a web pager nor a desktop application, the back button does not work neither the bookmarks. Also, it feels reaaally slow, and there are some big hacks to ensure it works on both IE and FF (on safari and opera you get a message recommending to use IE/FF).

Moreover, we did not use the standard backend for the framework, and we had big problems to make them work well together.

I'm ashamed of myself :(
A professor at the university where I did my undergrad has done research on this topic:

http://www.cs.queensu.ca/home/skill/papers.html

For example, he took the Enron email data set, and applied machine learning techniques to try to distinguish "dishonest" emails where something was being concealed from normal emails. A student of his has applied similar techniques to speeches given by MPs in Parliament (Canadian equivalent of Congress).
A captcha on the register screen?
Absolutely. If I don't use an alarm clock I sleep a really long time.

I was at my brother's place for the holidays, arrived well rested, and nobody woke me up the next day and I didn't have an alarm. I slept about 15 hours until the baby crying woke me.
The modern-day best-and-brightest work on Artificial Intelligence; but they are obscured by a much larger number of slightly to moderately talented nutcases who are working on Artificial Intelligence because they think it can't be that hard.