skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I know... I obviously tried quite a few forums, and spent a long time pondering it before I went here. So this was a last resort.

Sorry if I wasted your time.
this is already been done with multiple types of content feeds... and an iphone app

http://www.groovr.com/
I don't know why it wouldn't have. You should have been able to do:

out = parseClosure(curr_page, cnt) { |doc,out| eval(codeStr) }

...

def parseClosure(curr_page, cnt)
...
yield(doc, out)

or:

def parseClosure(curr_page, cnt, &codeProc)

There's not much opportunity to use lambda explicity in Ruby because using blocks instead is so easy.
The average is not a good reference! Median for president!
Out of curiosity: Have the people downmodding me here actually read the howlers that I quoted?
creating polls should allow you to vote only once
You are clearly a hacker =)

Yes, AIM is the 2nd largest Network in the US after Yahoo. Internationally MSN Messenger and QQ are dominating in terms of pure user numbers.
It has been my experience when dealing with attorneys, who are usually priced at around $350 per hour, that your statement is rarely true.
You'd be surprised how many people use ICQ still. Israel, Germany, Russia and Ukraine are big ICQ countries.
Couple of things I've observed

- what is a "portfolio"? I think I know what you mean but it's a bit of a mouthful. Do you need a non shop-talk word to replace it?

- no controls on the playback sample I can't FF or see where in the stream I am. Do your playback mechanisms have controls like say YouTube?

- really like the "Pythonesque" animation in the demo (got a chuckle) can you show "even" more styles as you discover them?

- can you caption? If you can caption you can make comics.

I'd say there is legs in this idea because it's making what "artists" want ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=129616
Or even better, an instant ban! And then it could instantly post the poll "Is X a douchebag?" with only one option. Once poll closes it would email the results to the author, and vote couple thousand times itself, if there aren't, or are, enough votes.

After that a bot could send the results to all the news aggregators and vote it to the top on all of them, besides seeding the storm and nugache emails.

Finally, it would send the author's IP to Anonymous.

That should effectively dissuade someone from posting lame polls. If not, anyone elso got any ideas?
Link for the lazy:http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/e/8/7e88c69b-77d2-4...
Poll: Changing Your Upmod/Downmod
Once you vote up or down you can't change it.
I wish I could change it
In general, anywhere in Europe is a bad idea for someone from the US if you want to cut costs. The dollar's at an all time low of $1.52 to the Euro today.

I moved to France two years ago. I did it just for the experience while contracting with companies in the US. If you work for a company here, then the Euro rate won't be so bad. That said, you'll have to get used to a much lower rate than people in our line of work are accustomed to. Of course, if you're reading YC--especially this post--then this isn't really a consideration.

Europe has the Schengen Agreement, which allows people from the US (and other participant nations) an automatic visa to stay for 3 months. Anything beyond that takes an enormous amount of time and red tape.

Getting a place to stay is very difficult for a foreigner. First, you have to get a bank account, which is difficult. They want 10's of K Euro and often several K frozen in case you have an overdraft, which is regarded very severely.

Once you have your bank account, you need to prepare a dossier for the real estate person to pour over. That will involve three years of tax returns, your bank accounts, letters from employers, etc. Most landlords require a personal guarantor--someone who will pay the rent if you don't. And that's for the natives! If you don't have a company to do that for you, well...I guess we got lucky (a big deposit probably helped). This is probably because it's common for people to stop paying when it cools off. There's a law that makes it illegal to evict during the cold season. The leases here are three years. Landlords can't terminate it and you can't break it without significant cause.

There are other things to consider, such as the driver's license. Mass transit is great near Paris. Otherwise, you'll probably need one. You have a year on the US DL. If you're from one of the small states with a specific agreement with the French government, you can exchange. For the rest, it's very costly and difficult. Hoops include mandatory drivers school at several K Euro. The test takes almost 1K. Retakes cost as well. There is no English option. Questions are timed (unlike most/all of the US). Sometimes no answer is correct, sometimes multiple answers are correct. Examiners try to trick you or trip you up on technicalities.

France definitely is the most difficult. Most other European countries are a little easier along one dimension or another. Regardless, though, the Euro/Dollar conversion is punishing.
How about we get higher quality users so there is more incentive not to look stupid here.
All I can say is, people moaning about how expensive the valley is haven't lived in London, especially at today's exchange rate.

A single-floor flat in a house with 3 general rooms, a bathroom and a kitchen (allocate rooms as you like to make bedrooms), in somewhere not terribly appealing (but not nastyville or dangerous either) costs around $2400/m. About 1 hour commute to the city centre via tube. If you want to drive into the city during business hours, it'll cost you $16 just for congestion charge. If you drive a big car (i.e. American-style SUV etc., based on emissions), that'll go up to $50 a day soon enough.

You basically can't get non-fast-food meals for less than $20 a head, to eat something fairly decent will cost quite a bit more.

Every time I visit the valley, I'm amazed at how cheap everything is.
"... make things that artists like :)

For what it's worth, I think this is what PG tried to do... Viaweb started out as a service to allow art galleries to get on the web ..."

I think your on the right trail. But pg didn't target artists as much as 'gallery owners'. [0] For good reason he took the (right) choice, of money or starving artists. But it didn't work. What I'm getting at is targeting "creatives" [1] instead of salespeople. Is this the reason why Artix couldn't "make what art salespeople wanted"? I didn't really have an example in mind until I read this morning on Fuzzwich. [2] Powerful products can created by Startups that straddle 2 logs at a time. In this case an understanding of technology and animation.

[0] The "Artix Phase" is a favourite of mine ~ http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.html

It reads a lot like Cpt. Kirk in Star Trek:

SPOCK: Captain. There is a high probability
this encounter going to be similiar
in nature to the 'Artix Phase'.

KIRK: I was thinking the same thing.
Hmm, the "Artix Phase". I haven't
heard that since "Starfleet Academy".
Never got off the ground to crash & burn!

[1] Or at least the "creative potential" in each user.

[2] "Fuzzwich (YC summer 07) launches a new look and previews Animator" ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=130008
You guys want to have a karma fight? Even if I can't vote, I don't think I can lose...
Whoa there, surely you're not suggesting something like a "Results Oriented Workplace", only someplace truly on the cutting edge, like say a big retail chain would try something that radical ;^):

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Careers/story?id=1180149&page=...

I wonder how the experiment is going...
Nice work :)
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The 10 Most Sought-After IT Skills
I wish I could change it.
I thought the old adage was "smart, sexy, sane - pick two"... and it didn't relate to legal fees.
Computer science graduating class of 2007 smallest this decade
How do you play?
Betcha the poll would have come out different had you hidden the results as you took them.
Would a professional web company use Google Chart API?
http://code.google.com/apis/chart/

When I first saw this API I thought it was a really useful and powerful tool However, as I started using it in a webapp I'm building I started thinking it would look cheap to reuse a charting API like this.

Could a professional web company that charges for access to its service use the Google chart API? Would it be seen as taking an unnecessary shortcut and a lack of technical skills in setting up a proper charting/graphing package?
Web 2.0 VC to start-ups: Your income is "noise"
What piracy crisis? MPAA touts record box office for 2007
Around Homestead and Stelling (Cupertino/Sunnyvale). Within walking distance are
- Safeway
- Longs Drugs
- Loehmann's
- McDonalds/Starbucks/Taco Bell/KFC/Pizza Hut
- near I280 and CA-85.
Yeah, we agreed. Switched to a YouTube player.
We just rented out our last room this weekend. If you're interested, I can send you a link when another unit opens up. Unfortunately, the rental market where I work is such that vacancies don't stay vacant for very long.
Are all testers idiots? No, surely not. QA is important, and many testers are very intelligent.

That said -- and maybe this is my programmer-bias speaking -- but I can't help but have more respect for someone who creates something new, as opposed to someone who merely verifies that something someone else built satisfies its specification.
After one day, Trent Reznor of NIN sold all 2500 limited edition packages for $300 each. $750,000 revenue and about $500,000 profit just from one of the options. Though I'm sure it has to suck to sit down and sign 2500 albums in one sitting.
pg talks about the difference between wealth and money. An analogy may apply here; Dubai has a lot of money but is not wealthy.
Where's my down button?

This article would be better titled 'Top 10 skills that troglodytic dying coroporations think they want'.

Run as fast as you can in the opposite direction!
To me, it would look cheap. I would not use it as part of my offering, because a) it relies on Google's servers which have no guarantee of uptime and b) decent charting packages are already available for a reasonable price.

On the other hand, I doubt that most users would care as long as it works.
Yeah, seriously, Dubai wants you to think they're cool and progressive but they pull shit like the above link to make the other Middle Eastern states think they aren't too progressive.
Yes but surely alexa knows how many alexa trackees it has. It knows how much it's scaling that up to make an estimate of the real population.

For example, a very big site, you have enough trackees to make a reasonably statistically valid sample. But smaller sites, you don't see as many trackees, so you set the error bars higher.

Sure, I agree that the system is flawed anyway, seeing as how I don't know a single person who installs the alexa toolbar, and amongst techie sites it's usage is probably 0.
Google's servers are far more likely to be up than yours, that's just not a valid reason. Those charts are nice, there's nothing cheap looking about them, the real issue is load, will your load exceed what Google allows per day, if so, do your own charts, if not, nothing wrong with using Google.
Why not start all new users with a small bank account? e.g., 20 points = 20 links
The most successful transition I ever saw from one to the other was a gentleman who started out as an electrical engineer and used the money he made very wisely to launch and systematically market his photography. It took about three years, but he was already a very good hobby photographer - in other words, his work was of professional quality. He got very familiar with the market - decided to go with gallery marketing. Then he was very careful about which galleries he went with. (They like to 'discover' someone, so if you've already been with a lesser gallery, it's a big strike against you. This absolutely kills a lot of artists who never find this out.) Then he spent several big grand creating his marketing materials, and carefully targeted his market - the right gallery owners. When he launched, he had figured out his prices - for a limited edition there would be graduated pricing - if you get in early, then you pay less.

He's also very sensitive to the larger market - he knows that people don't like to have stark pictures of despair in their living room. It's not his favorite picture to take, but that's his brand. This enables him to work maybe ten days out of the year. He lives in a penthouse apartment overlooking the Pacific. He's a darn good photographer, but there are many as good who never hit it big. The reason people hit it big in the arts (just like anything) is marketing and developing a well-crafted brand over time. He went for where the big money was - the galleries who deal with very upscale clients - and he never deviated from that brand. Being in tech means that you can save up enough to make the transition right and jump in at a higher market. Take the time to evaluate several different markets before you decide - figure out your best approach and then don't be stingy funding it. You can be very successful.
Agreed. As in so many things, the strongest and weakest elements of Wikipedia are both the human element. Of course, with Wikipedia, that's a pretty big element . . .
Lame ;p I prefer spending my time figuring out how to save the world instead of working.
I had a similar realization in my early twenties which led me into an artistic field. For the next four years it became an obsession which took up most of my time. Then reality kicked in and I found myself broke and unemployed and had to give it up. One of the biggest failures in my life so far. Just when I started to get a hang of it too.

One advice I would give is try to have some sort of income from somewhere else, so you can finance your artistic pursuits, because most likely you won't be making any real money from it.

Anyway, sorry for the sob story. Had to vent.
You might very well be right.

Hmmm, . . ., is "rook lonely men out of credit card info" a good business plan for a YC app? :-P

The Eliza Effect meets LonelyGirl15. - Well put.
Great! Thanks for the recommendation. I'll put it on my "to read" list.
I agree. It IS personal. People can use whatever justification they want to pry into seamy details, but unless he was given a date of expiration, it's his information to do with what he wants.
"the scalability problems being described in your post, and in his presentation, could easily be rectified through the use of indexes and stored procedures."

Not all scalability problems can be solved by throwing indexes and stored procedures around. A improperly designed schema just for the sake of normalizing everything can cost a lot in terms of performance. On the other hand keeping 13 copies of the same data around sounds scary.
It seems a little faster, but it's got image ads all over the place.

(Disclaimer: I work for Google, but not on Gmail.)

Edit: No, after rechecking Gmail's web interface (I use IMAP from home), it seems about the same speed. I'm not sure why someone would think it's better.
I will second this.
You're right. I should rephrase. I meant uptime more in the control sense of the word. If Goog were to decide to stop allowing this API to run or in some way change their terms of use, there would be a problem. I guess it's the control freak in me.
As long as the animation creator allows it, you will be able to work and play around with any published animation you see made from Fuzzwich.
4) Who really cares about karma, it's not a currency
Do you need an introduction or a recommendation to get started with those firms, or can you just call them up and make an appointment?
Some data is not always better than no data. Sometimes data can provide a bias that you don't want. So it has to be the right data that you have. For example knowing that someone attended a prestigious university is likely to create a bias towards hiring that person and ignoring clues that indicate otherwise.

If your classification filter recommends somebody it's possible to let that piece of information provide the same kind of bias. So if the data you have is likely to be unreliable you might want to just ignore it.
Do it.

Based on your question, you are looking at the visual arts. So, what kind of art are you going to do? do you want to sell work in galleries? If so, do it. but don't commit half way. Be prolific. Don't paint for 4 years and then give up. Because, unless your paintings are Rembrandts (in which case why give up?) your paintings will be worthless in the long run to whomever bought them... or to their children. Antiques roadshow price... $50.00, not $50000.00

So consider at least the people you will interact with, and the contribution you make back to the world. Paintings accrue value because of the longevity and quality of the artist. This is true for the other arts as well. Compete against the world, but more importantly compete against your friends. It raises your skills and qualities. Follow your own vision, because that is the great difference between you and the other guys.

It's other artists that decide what is good art. not galleries or collectors or anyone else. so hang out with your peers. only good things come of it.

Be serious and have fun.

In the great scheme of things, it really doesn't matter what you do, except to you.

Reading these comments, I am reminded by Yoda's sage wisdom. "Do or do not. There is no 'Try'".

For the record, you can do both. It's just harder. Because you should never use one interest as an excuse for poor performance in another.

So do it. It is an entrepreneurial life. Work your ass off and you can become a great success. it is true in any field. The real success comes from those who do the work. And it's a startup world, just like Web 2.0. You can be too far ahead of the curve, or yesterdays news, or provide products the market really likes or miss completely, or come in as a poor second. The art world like silicon valley is very forgiving especially to people who keep on bringing new work for people to experience.

Not many people remember when the Blue Man group were crazy street performers in New York. They worked hard and adapted or tried different things and are now a big success. It's just like a startup. work hard; be adaptive; see what works; do your thing. Sounds kind of familiar doesn't it?
Can Only Intelligent People Be Creative? A Meta-Analysis
We chose 'Portfolio' because we think the analogy carries well -- Fuzzwich allows you to create a portfolio of animations. We also just like the sound of 'Portfolio' better than 'Account' :).

You can do captions, and the comic world is one we are very much excited about trying to get into.

Glad you like the styles. We will try to put a few more unique animations up in the near future.
Does Python-like simply means uses python indentation? I was expecting something closer to Python. So it's not quite Python (easy to read, executable pseudocode) and it's not quite Lisp (real macros).
Bill Gates drops to No. 3 on billionaire list
You'll know stuff there that you won't know here and possibly cater to a different market.
The World's Youngest Billionaires
Top 50 Blogs for Entrepreneurs
Good. Supply and demand == more money for me.
The Art of Email-Writing and How It Can Make or Break Your Business
Fighting crime with vigilantebot
Well, then you'd have to do something else.
Nokia N800 + Flash Player = Perfect Video Blogging tool
"So if the data you have is likely to be unreliable you might want to just ignore it."

That prompts me to ask two questions:

1. So should you forget about data, or pay attention to collecting good data? WHich course of action is more important?
2. If you don't make decisions based on data... Just how are you making decisions?

I am serious about question #2. We aren't talking about face to face interviews here, we're talking about looking at 200 resumes and deciding which ten people to call with the expectation of bringing 3-5 of the ten in for interviews.

In my experience, when people tell me they are using their "experience" and "judgment," They are actually using a highly biased process, such as selecting people who went to their University or preferring people who share the same hobbies.
Steve Jobs speaks out
Internet Explorer 8 Has Arrived
Sure, just post about 2000 comments and we'll downmod them all.
My favorite part of the whole article: “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.”
Well, let's say "strongly suggested". But then again in my experience when this is not mandatory there are always 1-2 "I'll stay in and seem extra dedicated" people. Then other people start growing roots at their desks. Then it all falls apart.

Plus think of this way: how many times do you resolve ideas passively in the shower, out on a walk, picking up dry cleaning/doing laundry, out shopping, etc.?

There's a reason that happens and just like exercise, if you don't schedule it, it's easy to let it slide when things get busy.
Regular and mobile browsing is one major exception. It's also generally not the trend that I'm referring to. A good site probably does make up to three versions for screen, mobile, and print views. Some sites might even, serendipitously, make out by just changing the stylesheet.

Avoiding table based layouts is not the definition of accessibility and I never implied that. They are frequently a symptom of poor accessibility, however, and then they almost always obscure the intended hierarchy of a page which defeats accessibility for text based browsers and screen readers and messes with SEO.
Ssssh, stop chipping away at my cold heart! That's pretty insensitive of you...
Interesting article, even if some of it reads like wishful thinking. In most company hierarchies QA ranks pretty much near the bottom, somewhere between development and support.

In my (limited) experience, those who are good at testing also tend to hate doing it, while those who enjoy it tend to be mediocre (the third category being those who both hate testing and are bad at it). A good tester who enjoys testing seems to be a lot harder to find than a good programmer who enjoys programming, and chances are the pay is lower.
I'd be surprised if only 8/10 of those skills had peaked. There has been a glut of Cisco experts for almost a decade. Likewise for web designers.
I prefer the "enhanced by Google" logo at the top.

Between the Flash ads (in the message content area, for some reason), animated GIFs (in both the margins and header), and little tooltips (that appear at random and don't go away until clicked), it's like playing a video game with right-click Block all over the place. Video games are big business, so I predict this will be a hit, especially with the male/under-18 crowd.

It doesn't take kindly to being in a small window: GMail reflows, for the most part, while AOLMail just starts overlapping elements. Also, it appears to be English-only (compared to GMail's 40+ languages), so it's fun to play with but I wouldn't use it on a daily basis.

It's flashy, but not as mature as GMail (which itself is a frighteningly low bar).
Thank you fuzzies. You have made what I plan to do much, much easier.
Chronicle Of A Startup: The Funding Question
Lifestyle? Really? Culturally, it seems incredibly restrictive compared to the Western democracies.
In what way does Java provide sandboxing of untrusted code?
This is a nice case study for OCaml.
Oh god I spent countless hours in that game. There was also something called "Clik N Play" that let you make your own video games.