skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would imagine the conversation is different if only because there are orders of magnitude more people.
JSP.
We are doing something very similar to this.

http://www.parkonthefly.com/

Email me: bryan@parkonthefly.com
while some people worry about a tech bubble bursting, this what happens in the financial world.
1) Write a script to automatically submit every XKCD and TechCrunch post on News.YC.

2) ???

3) Karma profit!
GameSpy sits down with StarCraft II Lead Designer Dustin Browder to discuss the coming of the swarm.
Portal is fucking awesome.

The ending is the best of any game I've ever played.
Is all this stuff common knowledge amongst big firm traders, or Wall Street folks, or the financial sector at large? Are you just someone who follows the relevant -- and perhaps access non-layman -- information, or are you required to be sharp to know all this?
Nice job guys, wish you all the best.
My startup launches in 3 weeks :)
ROCK BAND!
Goodbye, P2P! P4P is Coming
Imcandy.com pays for videos created for the website
imcandy has developed an end-to-end video system aiming to create high quality video content generated by users (UGC). The system is composed of two separate applications: 1. imcandy (www.imcandy.com) that offers a unique structure videos for viewers and pays creators who create videos specially for imcandy.
2. adroyalties (www.adroyalties.com) is the system for video creators to track their royalties trafic in their videos. For
Video Advertisers to create and manage online video campaigns and Video Publishers (such as imcandy) to monetize their video platforms.
Blame the system.
List of Harddrive duplicator for Computer Forensic, hardware based
Looking for harddrive duplicator that could clone your harddisk in fast way? here is the list. All of the list is hardware based and not software based. Using software based duplication will take a longer time. The harddrive duplication task usually need for Computer Forensic related task. Any other suggestion? (many thanks to guys in securitybasic mailing list for recommendation)
GWM used lisp as an extension language too.

I've heard people compare Tcl with an ancient version of lisp that worked in a similar way (i.e. by string substitution).

Viaweb was written in lisp, could "end users" extend it in a way analogous to emacs?

The next time I need to build in an extension language into something, I'll probably end up using Lua.
Interesting 3d flash interface
I was at Pycon this week. While I'd like to see no highlighted sponsor talks in the lightning talks (I was bumped partially due to them eating up available time), I didn't feel like the rest of the con was particularly bad. The talks from White Oaks and Google were good keynotes and not at all marketingesque.

Will attend again next year. Some brilliant minds running around at that conference. Absolutely no press, which is odd given how many clever things are being discussed.
Ask YC: Should People Compete for Jobs, or Should Jobs Compete for People?
I read a rather interesting blog entry about the disparity between LinkedIn and Craigslist. Ultimately, the theme pointed out how by virtue both of how the sites are structured and geared LinkedIn and Craigslist have two different user types, and two different angles of usage.

LinkedIn having the approach of corporate HR where they are looking for skills. A person applies, an interview is setup and there's really no connectedness.. Craigslist on the other hand targets a more grassroots approach. Instead of letting a profile sell the person with the skills, you very often have to write the cover email to pitch your skills and services and hope something comes out of that.

This got to thinking about an idea that came into my mind for a startup last week for a simpler job hunt site (as if we need another one, but I aim to combine the utility of social bookmarking as well as a few other features).

So here we have us a scenario: your startup does well. In fact it does amazingly well and you find yourself with an impressive following of users who want to work for you. Or perhaps you know someone who's got such a startup going and sees a large developer base. Is it more beneficial for people to compete for a job with a startup, for for a startup to compete with other startups for quality devs?
+1 for bashing string theory in the last frame of the strip! Haha!
That Maunifesto is pretty silly.
Mmm, indeed. I have a bit of a fetish for good design, and some times what is really called for is the right "if/then/else" construct.

It's really unfortunate sometimes that "general cases > special cases" fundamentalism is so rampant these days, . . .
If your startup is addressing a true pain in a market, then you will have customers for your product. Too many startups ride economic waves and produce little added value to their customers. They simply survive because there is excess funding floating around.
Okay, this article was worth it just because I didn't even KNOW Firefox has full-screen mode.

A bit of a newb moment, but great discovery.
"... what's the best way to model a threaded comment system like YC? ..."

A classic read is jwz's article on threaded messages ~ http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html jwz was a key hacker on mozilla ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski
Good advice. It also has the tangential benefit of making legacy work easier. If you have to come back to a system months or (heaven forefend) years later, it helps immensely if you were careful to understand EXACTLY what you were doing the first time around.

I used to be guilty of "compile, tweak, repeat" and I found that I wound up with a lot of places where I had done something which "fixed the problem." Really, it'd just made the compile error go away. There was still a problem there, but because I didn't understand it, it popped up to bite me later.

As a legacy programmer, the article title also works in another respect. I work on projects that were originally coded by a cast of about 6 different programmers. The first thing I do when getting a new bug fix or feature request is to ask who the original programmer was. Depending on the answer I know whether I can count on the programmer to answer questions about their code or whether I'm on my own.
I guess your observation is a bit late...their blog hasn't been updated since Dec 2006...and their frontpage content is the same since the last time I've visited it (and it's been long time since then).

I guess it's weird since enterprise collaboration software actually took off the past 2-3 years...They should somehow be part of that market...
I think that quality developers are not a dime a dozen and that is why bigger start-ups poach, i.e. Facebook -> Google.
Can we hardcode no-karma for any posts with "xkcd" in the title? I honestly think that's really fair. People might want an XKCD once in a while on the front page if it's really good, and comment on it, but I don't think the submitter should get credit since we all read XKCD anyways.

P.S. Notice I'm not proposing we set no-karma for xkcd.com related entries. Sometimes a thoughtful and non-comical (literally) entry from the xkcd blag is posted.
A combination of #3, #4 and #8:

#3 - I'm very committed to the people and project at my regular job and I like things there too much to want to leave.

#4 - my idea will only work with a good web interface. Web gui/design is not where my skills are at the moment.

#8 - this is something I want for myself. there's a chance others may want functionality but I know if I don't get the interface right I'll only confuse people and I'll only get one chance at a first impression.
http://www.fruit.com ?

(in case you don't already know where that link goes, see if can guess before clicking it)
cant wait to steal youtube videos and get paid
The good XKCDs deserve karma. Many of them are rather dull comics, but today's is pretty golden.
so heres how it works in short:

there's LPs, those are the investors in the "fund". lets call this fund "Hacker Ventures". Hacker Ventures puts together an investment thesis, their focus,etc. and goes out to raise a fund of let's say $400 million dollars. It will be called Hacker Ventures I. The partners go raise that money from:

-pension funds
-universities
-mutual funds
-very rich individuals
-possibly themselves. sometimes a fund requires partners to put in a certain amount, a small percentage. so lets say 2%, that means 8 million from each founding partner.

Raising money for a venture fund is like raising money for your company in a lot of ways. They need a great team, good track record, thesis (markets+products),etc. Just because you're rich doesn't mean you can start a top tier VC firm. It's also about deal flow.

The fund is then raised and investments are made. Out of the money raised 2% goes towards management fees for salary, travel,etc. The VCs really make their money off of the carry, which is their cut on an exit. So if Hacker Ventures invests 5 million at a post money valuation of 15 million in a company well call YANS, they own 33% of YANS. Let's say YANS is lucky, doesn't need another round and sells for 300 million, Hacker Ventures makes $100 million. 20% of the PROFIT is divided amongst the partners. So (100m-5m)*.2 ie- 19 million.

It's nearing 3 am, so going more in depth to how a VC fund works is going to be hard. Forgive any ignorance, if what ive explained is wrong. correct me and make me learn, thats why were here :-).
What, no bongos?
Rock Band rules, but am I alone thinking I'd be less clunky if I had a real instrument to play?
I would say that it depends entirely on the position. When I applied to my current job, I had to compete with other candidates because we were all on equal footing (applying in our last year of undergrad to a position targeted at graduating undergrads.)

The context dictated that people compete for jobs.

A worker with unique skills or tons of invaluable experience may have companies competing for them.

Again, context is what's important.
Very convenient python quick reference
I think experimentation is hard-wired into the brain (its partly how we're able to learn so much so quickly as children), but rigor isn't. So is Mythbusters' approach to experimentation without rigor a net win? I spend probably a third of each episode wondering about that. Its very frustrating, but then something blows up, so generally it works out ok.
Ask YC: Impact of Recession on Startup Financing?
Anyone got a clue how negative market expectations are gonna impact founders?

Will seed/growth funding availability likely go down?

Does it make sense to raise bigger rounds now in case it gets worse?
xkcd can actually be quite good. Most of his comics don't reach the top.

Today's comic is actually similar to recent posts on being creative and another Feynman quote on good problems. I wouldn't be surprised if the latter inspired today's comic. This means xkcd is part of the serious hacker conversation on the internet.

xkcd != LOLcats
"This may be big in America, but I've never heard of it, and I'm fairly tech-minded and informed."

There are many tech-minded and informed Americans who've never heard of it. SXSW seems to only cover a somewhat narrow realm of tech.
Mythbusters is close to correct, which is good enough.

They actively involve their community, which goes the rest of the way. If there is a serious lack of rigor, their audience will point it out, and an experiment will be rerun.
I know the founders personally and definitely agree that it was one of the best (or at least most useful) YC startups. I don't know the whole motivation behind it, but I know that the founders decided to pursue other paths and to stop actively developing new features a while back but will keep the site running in it's current state. I still use the site to brainstorm whenever I start a new project.
You can recall the 1930's? that is impressive ;)
i mean the two scenarios seem similar... what are the unique characteristics of either case? in both cases, a startup posts a job offer, multiple people apply, and these people compete for the job. at the same time there could be multiple startups posting job offers, and so these startups are competing for people. how could it be different?
Yahoo Buzz is a Game Changer for Social Media; And Spells Trouble for Digg!
Clickpass (YC 07) launches - Founder's launch story, feelings and post-analysis
Firstly, fiscal policy pertains to government spending and/or tax policy, none of which a central bank is involved in. Central banks are strictly in the business of monetary policy.

Secondly, most western central banks (though not the Fed) explicitly concentrate on inflation targeting, not "priming the pump" (as Keynes would say). In fact Keynes wasn't really very interested in inflation, which is fair enough given that economists didn't seem to take it all that seriously until the stagflation events of the 70s.

But having said that, I'm more inclined to agree with you than the grandparent. Without a central bank, how is the money supply controlled?
I sometimes think the lack of rigor is serious: most Mythbusters' viewers could probably create similarly rigorous experiments if they had the inclination, what is lacking isn't so much holding beliefs to experiment, but interpreting the validity and applicability of experiments.

Some of Mythbusters' experiments are reasonable enough, but a lot of others are a little too sloppy for my taste, teaching a lazy habit of confirming beliefs by constructing plausible narratives.
Reddit is so normal (new front page algorithm brings more diverse content from subreddits)
“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.”
In Soviet Russia...jobs compete for people, and people compete for jobs!

Sorry, I just can't take a question like this seriously.
Microsoft has 3 or 4 implementations of the CLR: normal, compact, micro, and silverlight. Each has different requirements, but I'm not sure how much code is shared.

If you implement a CLR interpreter, by definition you support C# and any other IL languages.
Why SAP is better than Oracle Finance in Security Perspective: part 1
There are a lot of comparison between SAP and Oracle Finance available nowadays; this article is focusing the comparison in security or audit perspective.
Standard economic theory states that during financial crises, investors exhibit a "flight from risk" behaviour; certainly, one can imagine institutional investors pulling their money out of hedge and venture capital funds. However, this crisis also has the US Federal Reserve aggressively cutting interest rates, with the effect that capital becomes cheaper, given a fixed risk premium.

My guess is that venture capital will become harder to find, while companies which are profitable but need capital in order to grow (e.g., to buy more servers) will find that loans are cheaper. Seed funding probably won't be affected at all -- money for that generally comes from people who believe in what they're doing (and are seeking, in part, a non-financial payoff) rather than people or organizations which are trying to maximize their profits.
YC News: is /newpoll broken?
I tried creating a new poll a moment ago but got an error when I tried to submit it:

Error! Connection closed by remote server

You tried to access the address http://news.ycombinator.com/r, which is currently unavailable.
Yep, ridiculously expensive, grinder is good enough. In the enterprisey space where my day job is, load runner has a certain reputation (despite whether it deserves it or not). We found with the open source or cheaper tools (IBM rational tools included) under really high loads logging, measurements and the tools themselves got flaky. When you've got extremely limited time and hard deadlines in a hardware lab, time is the most precious commodity, so the cost can be worth it.
Bug report:
I linked my hn username to clickpass. When I go to clickpass.com, I keep getting redirected to http://www.clickpass.com/account_intro/intro_1.
Please always leave me with access to the landing page; I cannot even get to a support form now.
Hackers Attack Trend Micro
Mergers are in the Air
If anything, this example clearly shows that 'Efficient Market Hypothesis' doesn't hold water. The economic 'science' establishment clings to it to the point of looking silly because they are ignorant of the latest research in dynamical / complex systems theory.
Why did Yahoo management decide not to own a search engine? I mean that is their core business.
Spaghetti-Western coding
Ning passes 200,000 social networks
We will never have a perfect model of risk -- Alan Greenspan
Why Warren Buffett is buying railroads
High-tech companies focus their R&D spending
I was just talking about this today. I believe common investors will want to see a working business model earlier in the product. The potential for early revenue with real customers (i.e. not ads) will be more attractive.

I think it's unfortunate. Capital intensive start-ups will be at an even bigger disadvantage.. in this case, I would agree with andreessen: raise as much as possible. I've always believed in creating value before you capture any, and that will be more difficult if you have to focus on your business model early on.
>Without a central bank, how is the money supply controlled?

By natural business cycle of economic expansion/ contraction. Cost of money fluctuates, when it goes up there are recessions that clear up the inefficiencies (i.e. all businesses that produce return below required market rate go bust). That's what lacking today thanks to central banks' intervention. They postpone the cleansing as much as possible, until the disbalances grow up in such a monster as we see today.

The problem of course is that people don't like even mild recessions and politicians are following them. The Fed system was setup in 1913 after the population was fed up with regular boom/busts of late 1800s/early 1900s.
The reddit front page is much better since the change.
Is that like the Web 2.0 equivalent of your zipper being down?
They didn't think it was their core business in 1998.
It's supply and demand. Where demand is scarce, the supply competes for it. Where supply is scarce, demand competes for it. Programmers are the supply; startups are the demand.

Put in real terms, if you've got a really great startup, developers will compete for you. If you're a really great programmer, startups will compete for you.

Of course, there are all sorts of information asymmetry and risk aversion problems, but those are beyond the scope of this post.
I would imagine that hedge funds will get hit harder than VC
The end of the OLPT - XP coming shortly
I'm still not sure why the facebooks and googles need 50+ coders unless they are working on different projects.

I think a small team no matter the size of the company is the way to go. The beauty of web startups is they need not follow the metrics of other traditional startups.
How is YE doing?
"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire." -John N. Mitchell
Do you mean Google is poaching from facebook? I've heard a lot about people going the other way, developers as well as execs.
Believe you need a Tangible Vision. Know the basics for defining the planned outcome. It is a generalization of fundamentals, technical specifics and cyclical effects
You could just as well say startups are the supply and programmers are the demand, depending on your perspective. Other than that, I had the same thoughts.
Mozart and Bach! Agreed w/ one of the other entries. "Accept no substitutes for true greatness."
Can you really blame the system? This site is about submitting awesome links. The second you start limiting sources in anyway, is the second you start limiting awesome.
Um, was that a real Feynman quote? I highly doubt it, there was no Mythbusters during his lifetime, or was there?

I hate people who think it is OK to put their own stupid quotes into the mouths of famous people to give them more leverage...
From one of the best Onion articles out there:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33930
Negotiating with Customers and Clients
Why stop at xkcd, try digg and reddit... All those news sites should be synchronized. Presumably they eventually will be.
But now you're saying that the best links are available on all the sites...

brb, got some coding to do. ;)
i have never seen a revenue share model that worked(besides google). Maybe they'll prove me wrong.
Advertisers Avoiding YouTube
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters
Yes, I had that deja vu feeling, too...
Ruby on Rails: the Duplo generation
RSS & pair of eyes.
I see no reason to conclude that Alexa and compete aren't both correct. Note that

1. Compete is "estimat[ing] U.S. traffic", while Alexa includes international traffic. Alexa claims that 51% of reddit traffic is US, 12% of scribd traffic is US, and 21% of justin.tv traffic is US; this would explain why Compete (which only reports on US traffic) thinks that reddit and scribd were roughly equal in February, while Alexa thinks that scribd had almost twice as much traffic.

2. Compete's "People Count" is reporting on how many people visit each site within a month, while Alexa's "Daily Reach" is reporting on (presumably) how many people visit each site each day.

3. Compete reports absolute numbers, while Alexa reports numbers as a fraction of a total audience (which, one assumes, is growing). This would explain why Compete shows reddit and scribd growing while Alexa shows reddit remaining fairly static.

Now, I'm generally skeptical about such third-party estimates... but this comparison alone doesn't give me any more evidence to support such skepticism.
Citi's problem isn't liquidity, it's solvency. One look at what terms they took that major investment from overseas is enough to tell that you should be very far from anything that loses value when citi blows up.
Request details:
Remote: xvm-189-204.ghst.net (217.70.189.204)
Request: HTTP/1.1 HEAD
UA: downforeveryoneorjustme.com

Also sets the HTTP_ACCEPT header to /.

No referer or any other header.

Pierre
The upside for JP is the office building. It's worth over a billion on it's own. Since there were no other bidders and the price was just 200m, it's really clear that the real value of all the securities that Bear held is negative. The only question is how much negative.
The only thing this article told me was that advertisers don't understand the best way to advertise on YouTube. Buying adspace on the page may or may not work. Well-done viral videos WILL work.

A friend of mine got his start out of college making viral videos for companies. He made one for a company called Winward Reports which has over 1.6 million views. That's a lot of people, the vast majority of which wouldn't have ever heard of Winward Reports, if not through the video.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wOTBWlt0-Y0

So buying adspace? Questionable. Creating a good, entertaining, engaging ad or viral video and hosting it (free of charge) on YouTube? Awesome.
What do you think is gonna happen in tech when there is almost no financing available?
Moving as the dollar weakens just means you'll blow all your money buying your new currency. And a strong currency is not really a guarantee of much - it just means that there's a bigger incentive to buy stuff in dollars or yen or whatever else is weak compared to the euro zone.
SuperCollider | Real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition
From BFS to ZFS: past, present, and future of file systems
Charlie Munger, in a talk offering some criticism of economics, thinks that the 'efficient market hypothesis' is basically bunk:

http://www.tilsonfunds.com/MungerUCSBspeech.pdf
I was wondering why I was seeing something Ruby related at #6.

Does the top ten reddits contain NSFW?

Can it still be gamed somehow? If in some rare freak accident the XKCD, Ron Paul, LOLCAT, Sheeple, and Anti-Scientology reddits got in the top ten, the front page would still be just as bad. :/
The headaches of removing GPL code from your desktop app code
Me posting is about me posting awesomeness. The moment you don't vote me up is the moment Chuck Norris votes his foot through your face. Make sure you vote me up.