skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, these pages aren't indexed anyway because they contain no useful content and Google already has a "sandbox" to penalize brand new sites.

The article is about Google ads that are placed on these tasty pages. If Google refuses to serve these ads, the tasters make less money.
If I remember correctly, the gaming / graphics wars started to heat up around '96, with the Nvidia / Rendition / 3dfx wars. I remember when games used to have Glide support separate from Direct3D / OpenGL. Interesting that ATI, who is Nvidia's only competition now, was really a non-player during all of the 90's.
I agree. In addition to making my teeth hurt, the design wastes a lot of space. Also, it's annoying having to click each heading just to see "link to microsoft KB article"

But it is a good idea. Maybe I'll give a real e-mail address next time.
I realize we're beating this to death, but so what.

It's never my priority, it's always my customers' priority.

Here's my life right now:

Customer is opening new warehouse in 2 weeks and calls me to change whatever software needs changed to split orders to print in the appropriate warehouse. I agree because I'm a masochist. I find 15,000 lines of code to do what I (and you too, probably) could have done in less than 1000. Most of it was clearly written by someone who had no idea what they were doing, much of it is never accessed, much of it has never run properly, and I have to do something. I rewrite what, in my professional opinion, must be rewritten. I workaround what I can, and I add what I need. I want it to work right the first time and I never want to come back (until new business requirements come along). I am usually very successful doing this, making changes during unit and system testing and finishing in a day or two.

I use to be bitter about cleaning up other peoples' mess because they were too lazy, stupid, rushed for time, or whatever. But no more. I've turned around my thinking to use all of this as a motivator to build solid business apps where no one ever has to go though this again.

<closing loop...> THAT'S what has motivated me to do my start-up.

I threw out my original example because it's a classic, it came to mind quickly, and most readers here, even the juniors, could understand it. I had no idea it would spawn such discussion. Nice talking to you.
Interesting technology. There's no reason why it shouldn't work, and if it does, it'll be great.

But the numbers in the article don't quite seem to work out. The first "commercial-scale" plant in 2011 will only make 100,000 gallons a year. Assuming they make it for $1 a gallon in raw materials and sell it for $3 a gallon, you've still got a chemical plant whose gross profit is barely enough to employ two people. Is that really "commercial scale"?
Thank you, well said. Understand re code bender too ;)
Yeah, we should include at least some text in the initial solution summaries. I'll see what we can do to get that resolved.

We kinda wanted initially wanted the design to "stand out" and be memorable (i.e. we took a risk) since the most important thing by far, when people stumble upon bug.gd, is that they remember it when they next run into an error message.

Burning our site into your retina was kinda part of that plan, but I think we're over that experiment and will likely move to something that's gentler and similar to my favorite minimalist sites (like YC/reddit/Google).

Thanks very much for taking the time to provide feedback. If you don't want to provide an email, the FFE allows you to search without requiring that-- it's an important part of our "try not to scare people away with email requests" strategy and still keep the site working.
I would be curious to know this as well. Any time I see a bug, I feed it (or a search-friendly variation) to Google as well, and my success rate is equally high. And while I enjoy making up fraudulent email addresses for sites that have no business knowing my email, Google removes this step from the loop.

And I agree with everyone else: the design is wince-inducing.
Yeah... I saw that too. Sounds more like a test scale production, or someone forgot two zeros. Wired seems to be slipping lately; there was an article they published that said you can get a whole human genome sequenced today for $10,000 which is very wrong. And if it's not wrong, I want to know where. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/01/synthe...
Edwin Catmull is the foundation of a ton of modern computer graphics research on top of running the coolest movie studio in the world. Pretty impressive dude.
OK, I googled "coskata 2011", and all other sources say they're planning to make 50-100 _million_ gallons a year by 2011, which makes much more sense.

For what it's worth, the total US consumption of gasoline is about 140 billion gallons a year.
awesome idea - I've always wanted this site
I just wish I could see a list of current and solved bugs (like stories) on the front page instead of having to click, and I'd rather see more content - less logo too

btw how do you solve other people's problems?
Your site is essentially a programmer/sysadmin centric version of yahoo answers right? why not organize it that way?
When the intel OS X first came out I spent 3 days trying to set it up on a Dell machine I had. What a joy when I got it running. I subsequently bought a MacBook Pro and it has been a great machine - I run Windows and Linux on it also via Parallels. OS X is a lovely oS (coming from a Windows background) and I'd suggest playing with it - you might be pleasantly surprised
change the auto generated user names so people can't tell how many users you have.
Thank you. I'll look into these. I'm constantly amazed by the power of python - especially in comparison to PHP which is my background
The value of a network is proportional to the square number of its members. So: 1000 is 5 times more than today, the YC net would be 25 times more valuable. Yup.

PS: I guess this is were the dreaded synergy buzzconcept comes from.

PPS: This is also a well known principle of military tactics. Doubling the size of an unit quadruples its combat efficiency. Furthermore, when outnumbered 2 to 1, you have 4 times less chances of winning a fight that you opponents: thus you have 20%.
Only browsers with an old version of Flash installed can be tricked into executing a forged cross-site request. The attacker wouldn't gain anything by installing it on their own machine.
No. It was not just comments. Did you read the line that says 'exit 1'?
Thanks for the feedback!

We discussed your question in the initial post up above at the top of the page. It's similar to the analogy of throwing everything in the trash versus recycling it.

Nowadays, there's not much incentive for you to recycle your cans beyond kinda just wanting there to be a better tomorrow. Some people don't care at all about doing the right thing and just toss everything into the trash and always will. Others don't mind doing their part (especially if it's a small part).

It's also the argument some people make about Open Source. Why would I release my not-currently-useful source code to others when I can hold onto it for some endeavor in the future?

bug.gd is a lot like that sort of dilemma-- why are you doing all of that error research and losing it to be reperformed by the next fellow? Why does the guy behind you also have to come along, dig through unhelpful forum posts of "solved it myself, thanks", experts exchange hidden pages, etc, etc? If you take the split second to record a sentence or a link that solved your issue, people don't have to repeat your work.

The long-term goal is that you'd find the solution quicker on bug.gd than anywhere else because we specialize solely in error messages and the solutions come with ratings from other visitors in the results.

Also, bug.gd allows you to search against the entire error message, multi-lines and all (with no 32 word restriction like Google). You won't be able to do that on Google, though we've all lived with having to sit there and manually reconstruct our error message in a form Google likes. (Why do that, though?)

In the end, the people who aren't interested in improving things for everyone with a tad more work will stick with Google and be happy. More than a few of them will be taking advantage of people who do want to do their part and use bug.gd.

We're very much in favor of reducing the barriers that make this model less comfortable (e.g. design and email request, see the Firefox extension above that doesn't require that).

For example, we have a feature nearly ready to go live that allows you to simultaneously search in Google and/or an appropriate KB site. The complicated part is helping the user quickly rebuild the error in a form that those search engines will handle properly, but we abolutely want to help them get the solution to their problem however it may be.

In the end it helps everyone when someone uses bug.gd to solve a problem.

Thanks again for the feedback, and I hope I answered your question to some degree.
I am sorry this is just too funny, but i noticed the diff which is aptly named. The last line says CamelToUnderscore, I thought it said CamelToe. Ah Fridays.
Well, it's a bit different than that. It's really a search engine. People don't (really) solve other people's error messages here. The process is typically (1) search for an error you have and get immediate results, or (2) search for an error you have, don't see an answer, and then come back and let us know later how you got past it so the next guy doesn't have that sort of problem. I.e. stop the cycle of searching once someone has solved a problem.

There is a link in the bottom for reviewing solved bugs, but we didn't expect a lot of interest in that. We may open it up such that others can provide answers for your unsolved errors, but it wasn't really planned to do that.

It's less like a forum and more like a search engine (of search requests).

We'll work on that more content, less logo part. Thanks much for the comments there.
Yeah, we get that a good bit about the email. That's what we use the Firefox extension for, but a dashboard widget would have the same freedom.

The problem is (a) the site is free/ad-free and intends to remain as such, and (b) it's difficult to make that optional because it's really the only reason the site exists. To have some mechanism to remind users to provide solutions (in the timeframe that they remember them) is essential.

That's why the widget/extension model is going to be a big part of our plan, because those can allow the user to get subtle reminders/counts without having to have any email address involved.

Still, we'll continue to brainstorm. Any other suggestions would be very welcome. Thanks a lot for the feedback.
And yet you're not sick of the, probably equal number of, idiots who can't seem to stop shouting inflammatory, misleading, and often -wrong- things about it?

Frankly, I wish both extremes would just kill each other off.
I thought there were only 3, and they were Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. Damn. I've clearly been going about this "programming" thing the wrong way...
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I understood what you meant.

Probably people who didn't understand were more motivated to reply, because they thought you'd said something crazy, instead of something good but not super-unusual.

(Though I have to say, the common habit of forming negative interpretations of things one doesn't understand, is bad and inaccurate.)
Steve's keynotes are really captivating because there's this sense that he's bringing something down from the mountain. Everyone is curious about what Apple is up to, the company is a monolith of silence, and then products are revealed in the keynote fully-formed.

Obviously, not many of us can pull that off. But Steve presents the raison d'etre for his products very simply and narrowly, articulates the vision behind them clearly, takes the shortest path from feature to feature, and presents expert opinions where "it's amazing" won't quite do.

By the way of counterexample, Microsoft's big events are horrible speeches about their "vision" of such-and-such and the "future" of whatever, which are a even admixture of FUD and BS. They keep trying to speak for their technology by making up grandiose scenarios and over-reaching for meaning. No focus, no geek appeal, no passion.

Finally, I love these stats from last year's Macworld and CES keynotes:

Steve Jobs introducing the iPhone: 10.5 words per sentence

Bill Gates on the "Digital Decade": 21.6 words per sentence

Source: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/110473...
Heh. Keith Bostic (the BSD guy from UCB CSRG) once wrote a rudimentary visual editor in APL in only 3 lines.

3 very long lines :-)
Hmmm. I think it's more about, do you do it habitually, consistently, etc.

If I diagnosed myself with a cold, I wouldn't call myself a doctor. If I went around diagnosing other people with colds, or opened up an office where people could trundle in and let me diagnose them with a cold, then yes, I might consider myself a doctor... though a pathetic one.

I started programming when I was 12. If I had just written a few programs at that time, and then stopped, and never did it again, then I don't think it would be fair to call myself a programmer. Since I have continued to write programs, and expect to do so for the foreseeable future, then -- even if I don't do it as well as you do -- I believe I am a programmer.
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Describes how to build a compiler for languages like Haskell. Advanced stuff. I found it very instructional though I did not understand everything.
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Make Caps-Lock an additional Control. You never use Caps-Lock anyway, do you?
You can take a very broad definiton of 'third-world country' and this is still true.
Murray's Rule: Any country with "democratic" in the title isn't.

The same is true of 'sciences'.
My list is longer then posted screen shot. My name starts with "A", I think its easy to select me when it says "send to 10 friends". I looked everywhere on facebook to just block all application invites.
Not every web application is as simple as a blog...
I always thought that the one-piece-Mac looked stupid (including the original 68000 based). What happens if you want to upgrade the monitor? Or if you want to put CPU on the ground? Just seems like unnecessary miniaturization to me.
ATI did embedded graphics throughout the 90s though, right? It's interesting that they were able to step up from there to gaming/professional graphics.
As a rule, the Core Team does not accept Rails Inflector patches for alternative spellings.
Ask YC:Sleep.FM (my startup) seeks UI designer
I see that I can not post in the job section not being a part of Y. Forgive me If I have formatted this post incorrectly.

My name is Ryan Spahn and I am seeking a UI designer/consultant for my startup ( http://Sleep.FM ).

If UI design (HTML, CSS and Photoshop expert) is your specialty it would be great to hear from you!

This would be a work for hire. If interested
in learning more please contact me at
ryanspahn@comcast.net (links to your work are appreciated).

Thanks, Ryan
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This is the tragic fate of scientists and technologists. You work like a dog for your whole life to achieve a seemingly impossible goal -- eradicating polio, cloning sheep, storing the Library of Congress inside a cigar box, traveling to the moon. Against the odds, you succeed. Ten years later... everybody just yawns. Custom-designed organisms are, like, soooooo boring. What's on TV?

It's like Feynman said: "Mathematicians can only prove trivial theorems, because any theorem, once proved, is trivial." And he thought he was kidding!
It's not quite as small, but I'm rather proud of the 2400 lines of code in FreeBSD which can (a) download and install security updates, (b) upgrade to a newer FreeBSD release, (c) cryptographically verify the aforementioned updates and upgrades, (d) rollback the aforementioned updates and upgrades, and (e) use binary patches to make the downloading as fast as possible.

I don't know where apt-get and yum weigh in, but I'm pretty sure that FreeBSD Update is orders of magnitude smaller than Windows Update or OS X's updater.
1000 Genomes Project To Accelerate Genetic Discoveries
When I took my laptop to bed my gf said that she is not into threesomes.
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This is the article they should have written in the first place. Much more detail, much better qualified arguments. And the point about each generation of computer scientists reinventing the wheel. Lisp being 50 years old and all that.
I hope the salary is high, because that's still the worst startup idea I've ever seen. You should hire an idea designer.
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How does having Wikipedia at your fingertips change you? How does it change society?
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Ryan, the other idea you talked about here, bringing internet radio to cell phones, is much better than this... I just don't think there is much potential here and I don't like seeing you spend money on it.
Dude thanks for your passionate opinion!

LoL
sleep.fm seeks expert failer
His target audience for this one seems to be people who meet the following criteria:
1.) Don't have a cell phone
2.) Sleep with a computer on in their room
3.) Want to let others wake them up, but not enough to just sleep near their phone.
Done before, but with other languages. I hate pride coding.
I'm also looking to hire a UI designer for my Jump to Conclusions Mat. Any takers?
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The Great Hacker War
Dude, please locate the reply button. Threaded comments win.
I can't fathom how it makes money, but I could see a lot of Facebook sorts of apps revolving around your friends controlling certain aspects of your life. E.g., choosing your current music, picking the next book you read, the videos you watch one afternoon, your alarm clock music (maybe?). It's kinda like the new form of mix-tapes.

I dunno-- just brainstorming.
The one right below it, "Annotating images with CSS", is also just an ads page.
It depends. In this case I saw a lot of topics I know I'll need eventually, so I'm likely to go back and see what those pages had to offer before I Google away.
No problem-- saw it on metafilter, thanks for going to all that trouble.
My post here was not asking for feedback. I already heard from you guys in this regards. Thanks...most of it was helpful!

I was politely asking if any UI designers are available and interested.

If not cool.. I just thought I'd reach out to fellow entreprenuers/designers & coders.
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But what does it say that the reaction you get here, from your peers, is so harshly negative?
Oddly, I can see that, and was able to join the group, but it still doesn't show up in Facebook's search. Maybe they only index daily or something.
Maybe you could try publishing this in alt.chi. I like the idea of exploring social startup ideas revolving around sleep in general. It may not turn out to be profitable, but it's interesting.
Not much, necessarily. What if the guy(s) behind myspace had asked for feedback in a hacker forum in 2002? It's not clear to me that many would have recognized it as a huge moneymaker.
Sweet. Thanks!
Classic. Nothing more to say.
Exactly ... I know I'm going to lose all 9 of my karma points for this, but: Michael Dell is successful in business and throughout 98, 99, and 2000 maintained that Steve Jobs should just "give up" and "stop deluding shareholders". Good thing Steve Jobs is in the habit of listening to unsolicited advice. So now that the whole world knows that even the opinions of rich, successful people can be totally off and worthless, what makes you naysayers think anybody cares what you think about their startup prospects? For all you know this guy's invented an algorithm to download terabits of video in seconds and is using this "social alarm" thing as a ruse ...
why not one app I would possibly want to use?
Whats with all the rush?
funny some random hot girl i dont know friend requested me a couple weeks ago, naturally i accepted because she is hot, now she spams me with application invites every day

I think it might be an elaborate scam by one of the app developers
I understand wanting to prevent freeloaders, but it seems to me that most users initially will be freeloaders. They'll want to see that they are getting consistently good info from your site before they start contributing (even so much as contributing their e-mail address or downloading the FFE. And by "most" I mean this is me and I'm assuming I'm relatively normal). Especially when you're competing against every other site full of error messages that shows up in their search results.
This a brand new concept and Im encouraged by the following articles...

http://tinyurl.com/3xk392
http://krisabel.ctv.ca/blog/CoolLinks/_archives/2007/12/12/3...
http://tinyurl.com/3yzeo9 (translated from French)

Also, Sleep.FM was chosen as a TechCrunch40 semi-finalist, chosen to present alongside Google, Microsoft and Facebook at NY Tech MeetUp, landing on Engadget.com (the readers comments do not all mirror comments here) and other encouraging things!

Again, i was just politely posting for a UI designer who maybe available and interested.
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As an aside, I'd feel better about modding you up if you didn't protest that you expect to be modded down. :)
My favourite bit

+1 to penis enhancement. The current penis behavior is broken, without this it just won't perform properly. My expectation with rails is that I should be able to git it up and have Penis work from first pull all the way through deployment to as many servers as will come online. It may not be broken, but it's definitely badly bent.
I'm with screen-scraper, (http://www.screen-scraper.com/), and we've dealt a lot with scraping real estate data. Building a generic crawler for this kind of thing is quite a bit more complicated than it might seem. You might give our software and services a look, though. Our app integrates quite nicely with Python.
well, give her a turing test and see where it goes...
I believe there is a subtle undertone of sarcasm in the use of unfortunately. But then perhaps you are being sarcastic too. Maybe I am too. Hmm
Corporate finance is a legitimately interesting and potentially useful class. The rest are mostly bullshit.
That's your problem, Ryan - you're politely asking for feedback from bitter, jealous members of an elitist mutual-admiration society whose total collective output to date equals ... well, all I'm saying is you should know better! Go ahead, pg! Delete my account! Come on! Give me a negative karma rating!