skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the main difference with IM is that Twitter does not necessarily require a reply.
"Account usage should be in accordance with our Privacy Policy and Anti-Spam Policy."

This is of course strictly enforced and thoroughly monitored. Letting people use our system to spam would definitely damage our reputation and negatively affect our (paying) customers.
As Trevor was kicking his legs and pushing on his knees, I was waiting for Dexter to turn around and slap him silly. Guess I've been reading too much SciFi.
Friendfeed

"Formal resumes unnecessary (but they won't hurt, either)"
http://friendfeed.com/about/jobs
I felt very lonely-- being the only one during Guido's keynote to get up and tell him how much we didn't like the GIL (in the form of a Py3k question). I'm quite glad to hear this sentiment getting some renewed backing.

I mentioned it many times during my talk there, since embedded apps have no real recourse to avoiding the GIL with CPython (i.e. can't be expected to fork/relaunch a 300MB process for just a tad of Python).

(sigh)
Dr. Seuss discusses parser monads
Why would you intentionally target the "enterprise"? That space is for people with resources small outfits don't have.
why? simple ones like "what is 6+3" are trivial to crack.
Probably better for it to look like a friendly animal than a giant spider, although that could be nice from an intimidating militaristic point of view...
I agree with this - but I guess I don't count because I don't ever want to work for anyone but myself ever again.
Heh-- yaw, it's a reprint. No clue how he found it (mebbe VentureHacks).

Heh-- not sure my business is sustainable yet-- but we're gettin' there.
Thanks, added it to the list.
Agreed, but I can't shake the feeling this is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

You're advising to act like they'll still be the dominant player in a few years, but by supporting them this way it's indeed true that this will be the case. See the vicious circle?
If my mother wants to know what I am doing, she will call me.

People who do not spend most of their time in front of a computer will call their friends directly, rather than checking Twitter.

Only the stereotypical geek sees an advantage in non-personal communication about personal matters.
I do - but unfortunately it's not really a matter of choice.

Not if you goal is to make money that is.
We hope that it can't be gamed. We have protections in place to make sure the top 10 reddits can't be gamed, and also, you can pick your own reddits, completely avoiding the problem.
"You'll be able to take more risks because robots will be able to rescue you from tight places."

"In other news, the number of accidents this year has boomed because of the carelessness induced by the presence of friendly robots."
Heh, I actually just used it...

It's not just you! wikipedia.org looks down from here.
Not everything that ends with a "z" is slang. I'll be happy to purchase ezlearn.com, or learn.com, once I have the money and they're available.

For the record, my first name for the app was wikinstitute.com :~).
The UI looks a lot better than the last time you submitted the link. The logo is slick, and looks quite cool all-round. I don't really know what it does (but I'm probably not the one who's going to be using it).

I am guessing it's a mix-and-match kind of coursework that can derive course credits (and/or such) from various sources, existing, new, contributed. I'm guessing this because I have thought of projects like this and this is wishful thinking, but I'm not sure if I'm right. If I am, it's not clear from looking at this.

Edit: on second glance, it seems to be exactly that. Kudos for taking it on; this is a very difficult problem, and has so many unknowns (to me) that I don't think I have a good strategy for it.
Easy to be sure, but not as easy as a one line ad hominem.
"... I'm part of the crowd that still doesn't understand the efficiency of twitter in any environment other than average use ..."

twitter scales more at the edges.

Forget mode, protocols, technology. I can be mobile with a phone, send a message not only to another phone but as data that can be further processed by machine or other people.
"All your basis points are belong to us." Pure genius. I will have to put this in my Bloomberg header.
I felt kind of bad in Trevor Blackwell's latest video where he was stopping Dexter from moving towards him. :(

I started constructing dialogs in my head along the lines of "Father, why don't you love me?"
VCs inject million dollars in open source
Twitter alone won't have much value today or tomorrow. but pair it with fireeagle and you can build a nice location enabled digital timeline.
Push To Classify Internet Addiction As a Mental Disorder
Krugman can't be trusted. He criticizes for Greenspan...for Greenspan's mass inflationary policies, hmm?...oh, no. Rather for Greenspan's alleged faith that "the market is always right". That's not the sort of religion that sends one into a career of central banking.

A once-in-a-lifetime liquidity event is approaching, and you will know the winners of the game by whatever "Russian Billionaires" show up in high-end London apartments in the coming decades.
Don't confuse what I said. I'm merely objecting to the inappropriateness of referring to human beings as "fat".

My second statement in the above comment was to get you to realize that real people are going to be facing tough times and that they are going to suffer in a VERY real way. Lightly referring to others as "fat" is unnecessary; it's a matter of politeness to those individuals.

Btw, I agree with what you are suggesting overall. I just don't agree with the way it is expressed. Perhaps this discussion has no place here, and for that I apologize to all.
I think all companies should do the same in any acquisition, and especially in ones such as this where you are basically buying the user base and not necessarily the technology/people.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll be working on design improvements over the next few days. Drag and drop, along with the things mentioned in the submission, is something I'll be working on in the near future.

You're right about the landing page not being informative enough as to what ezLearnz is. That's something that will probably take a while for me to be able to come up with a pithy one-liner to describe what it's about.

Once the user resource is implemented, it will be so that once you start editing a course, it is added to your "teaching cart", for lack of a better description. (To extend the analogy, if you add a course to your "learning cart", the editing ability disappears). Thanks for the business model suggestion, as well; I have lots more in mind; just need to make the site a reality first.
This is the first time I submitted the link to news.yc; I think we may have had private communications in the past perhaps.
Agreed; content is probably the highest priority right now. I'll be working on that (and getting friends to help); if you have a subject you've been itching to teach, jump in ;~).
Heroku is great; I've been able to forget about dealing with set-up/deployment (actually, more like never had to learn it in the first place). There have been some glitches, but that's to be expected for a beta service.
As mentioned in a sibling comment, I've struggled with coming up with a pithy one-liner to describe the ezLearnz idea. Right now, I'm considering Textbook 2.0, although I know that there's been a bit of a backlash to Web 2.0.
There is a slight error here: when Aristotle makes this distinction, it is not between things that are useful and things that are not, but between things that are sought for their utility and things that are sought for their own sake.

We make art supplies in order to make art. We make art because we like art. Aristotle pursued knowledge, not because he wanted to use it, but because he valued it for its own sake; much like a hacker will write a program, not so that he can do his taxes with it or watch really cool videos, so much as because he enjoys the craft. This attitude, that knowledge is not just a means to and end but rather an end in and of itself, today is usually called 'curiosity.'

I think the lesson here is that people who aren't curious about the questions that philosophy attempts to answer probably shouldn't study it to any great deal. It's just like people who don't like to program shouldn't become programmers; they won't get anything out of it.
I have got spammed emails from italk.match.c0m for 4 per day
and they use different email initials, so i just can't filter them. does anyone got the same situation as me?
I'd love to, once I have the money.

Also, invite sent; enjoy!
I like the idea of a inside jokes from sub communities. There was a cool talk about this recently:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

I think a good unified commenting system that allowed for friending would be an alternative.

If comments from my friends boiled to the top of Disqus, it would be the best of both worlds. For Tipjoy, I had been thinking that using Disqus could be useful for comments if we could feed to and from the original thread on a blog.
dexter: "one day, old man, you'll pay for this"
You just did see a video of one of the most advanced prototypes(!) of a robot and you think it will fail because such things are not yet seen in mass market? Somehow that made me smile :)
I wonder if it is catching on better outside the US? I know text-messaging took a little longer to go mainstream here versus internationally.
Today, the 'internet addiction' is a disorder; tomorrow, 'hobby addiction' is.
Don't we already have enough things to blame childish behavior on, such as ADD?

(Not to say it isn't real, just that it may be a bit, say, over diagnosed...)
The same companies that dominate the old news media are dominating Internet news as well
FriendFeed Has Search, And Suddenly Feels Like A Destination Site
I understand, i'm usually against conspiracy theory bullshit myself.
using robots on the battlefield is the only subject I get a little spooked over.
Give me a break. If Godin's argument is that the places that demand resumes are places that you don't want to work, the rest of his argument falls apart: what good is a defense mechanism that keeps you from getting screened out of a company lame enough to keyword-screen resumes? If Godin's premise is valid, then the conclusion should be exactly the opposite --- resumes are early-warning signals, attracting valuable early rejections from companies that would otherwise be a waste of your time.

All I can add is, refusing to provide a resume will make you sound like a douche. CEOs have resumes.
I don't care about Twitter's original idea, and I think most interesting people doesn't either. Twitter is better used like a tool to keep in touch with colleagues and people, and to know other people in the field. In Buenos Aires, this kind of communication through Twitter has recently originated a huge new group of local start up entrepreneurs. So I guess it can be useful if it's well used.
People only have time to really read a few blogs regularly, thus, it is a rather hard niche to get into.

Reading blogs, however, is more important than writing. I actually got asked in a job interview recently who some of my favorite bloggers were. One I mentioned was joelonsoftware, after which the interviewer told me that their company uses Fogbugz, mainly because they too like Joel's blog. It was a definite good point in the interview :-)

Another thing to keep in mind is that you should only put stuff on the internet that you won't mind people reading years from now, because once it's out there it's out there.
I'm jesting. But seriously, it would be nice to see some genuine sorrow from responsible people for a change. All you get is denial and excuses.

I remember the head of Yamaichi Securities on TV with tears streaming down his face bowing his head and begging forgiveness.

I think it would just shock some much needed sense into our culture if some powerful people who fucked up actually took the stage and said "I fucked up. I'm sorry."
Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page
I think it would be nice to have a "gigs" section where people could post small gigs/scripts they need coded/help with and people post a price they're willing to pay.. or even transfer of karma.

Seems like a good way to help out the community and get money to the smart hackers here. I hate going down my AIM list when someone is looking for something quick done but I just don't have the time or know how.

Thoughts?

That being said I have a gig ready to post from a prominent web guy.. involving a database, opml/rss and some categorization.
I created my webpage precisely for that reason: to leave a public record of who I am and what I do. So far so fun, I love the feedback -particularly on the "find me" section.
Investor: Clean Tech Is Only Hope for the Collapsing Economy
In some ways blogging makes the succeed/fail proposition read as "create original and substantive content or fail" (because people will otherwise be able to point to your crappy blog as a sign of general incompetence). And when you get into the habit of thinking up original and substantive ideas, some of your ideas will inevitably be about your main product/job..
It seems like you have something decent going on here, but I'm so far out of your target audience that I won't try to review it. If you want teachers to use it, it's important that your CRUD screens closely resemble the tools that teachers already use. I've learned that from other contexts.

Drop the ads until you get traffic. I don't know how many times I've told people that.

Sidenote: This is a good example of how screwed up google's adsense is. I'm seeing all of these advertisements for "OpenVMS Support" and "VAX & Alpha migration"....all because he referred to his app as an "alpha" version. Geez.
Ask YC: What important lesson did you learn from this site?
Ask YC: What important lesson did you learn from this site?
If you liked this story you should really pick up the 4 hr work week.
People aren't "the fat", redundant jobs are.

Jobs aren't people.
Just wondering: Do the people in robotics realize that the real money is in getting machines to pick cabbages and the like? These sorts of inventions (like any others) really need to replace labor to be economic.
http://notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/shor...

still wish you were a pygmie?
There goes my web 2.0 idea...

Seriously though, if Google is willing to pay me for traffic on my website, who am I to complain? Besides, good advertising is more about exposure and image, than direct sales. How many people knowingly buy something because they saw it on television? Not many. How many people choose a familiar product over a less familiar one? Quite a few I bet. For how many did that familiarity come from seeing the same product on television? A lot more than we realize.
I understand your point (and the points above) but it's those 'redundant jobs' that built the company into a viable purchase for Google. How can they value it at $3.1Bn then ditch the very machine that created that value?
vienna, austria
My question is why not a real mule? More flexible refueling options, has already been through many iterations, and not nearly as expensive. Seriously.
if it is about money, it can become easily into a (yet another) "rent-a-coder" startup...

but the idea is good, if you can keep the hacker's quality up
Concurrency doesn't have to mean threading. I've used greenlet-based coroutines (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/greenlet) for concurrency in large projects. They work with the GIL, and I find it easier to write correct coroutine-based programs.
I can agree with the spirit of what he's saying. Resumes just make things easier for the bigger companies with HR departments. Most companies wouldn't waste time reading through your blog or looking up your contributions to some open source project. If they end up making a bad hire, that's no big deal to them. Chances are they'll still end up making money by having you as an extra person to bill for.

In a startup / smaller company, making the right hire can be critical to the company's success. I'd expect the hiring process to be more thorough in that environment.

While there's no way getting around the limitations of the traditional paper resume, online resumes could be a good middle ground. VisualCV is working on this. http://www.visualcv.com

LinkedIn is also a good supplement. I know a lot of people who make use of the recommendation system on there.
Ah, those adorable happy poor people in less developed countries. So much time to relax and enjoy life! Overfishing, consolidation in the fishing industry, inadequate health care, rising grain prices (which in the past couple years have caused tortilla prices to double), crime ... none of these could possibly affect the happiest people in the world, the fishermen of Mexico! Let's all move down there and buy fishing boats! Surely there are enough fish to feed all our families, forever!
in that case, if it's solely for karma, it wouldn't deteriorate the community imo.
I've read the article before too, but congrats on getting published in BW!
On a long enough timeline every discussion on the Internet converges on Hitler and Nazis.
OK,but one of his books, perhaps Surely You're Joking, had an offer to buy a cassette that had a mix of him telling his stories, and him playing bongos.

Both pretty cool.
Oh man... I'd love to pay karma to have people do programming jobs for me. Hell, if anyone wants to do a decent size but not particularly challenging job, I'll give you my account permanently.

Also, I think you're fine to just submit a cash job as a normal story.
You're right, if one takes the parable literally. No doubt very few subsistence fishermen would recognize themselves in the story.

But I suspect that, like most parables, this one isn't meant to be taken literally. It's illustrating a psychological point, the folly of treating life as a means to an end. There's great risk in devoting one's life to something not for its own sake but because one assumes that, somehow later, happiness will result.

I appreciate the parable because, like many people, I need to be reminded to examine that assumption.
Yahoo's "Unlimited" Email Hits Its Limit
Good point, forgot about that one. I know people in that situation - not sure if they're looking to do a startup, but if they did it would be hard for them to leave their current company.
DC Proof -- a free program to help you learn to do proofs
List of Harddrive duplicator for Computer Forensic, hardware based
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.
It's sad but unfortunately it's reality in most cases.
Ok, no problem :)
A friend of mine convinced me to look into Twitter by suggesting some interesting practical uses. Mostly I think of it as message queue I can play with to drive applications.

I don't really get the self-absorbed stream-of-minutia thing.

One of the goofiest messages I saw was something along the lines of, "I'm at a bar with a hot chick, having a drink."

I'm sure that went well.
Maybe a useful takeaway is to try to build a reputation, not a resume.
When people will search for you online, you'd rather have them land on your blog, no? This is a great opportunity to market yourself. You don't have to blog to build an audience..
You should have opened a hedge fund strictly based on shorting those banks.
I agree, but personally I wouldn't mind it going both ways (karma or $).
I think the main difference here is that Seth Godin is willing to read four pages worth of material per applicant. A resume is one page.
The problem is that, to speak in over-broad stereotypes, everyone under 25 grew up with blogs and agrees with you. Meanwhile, everyone over 40 thinks that you are a dangerous loose cannon who might blab the Vital Corporate Secrets all over the internet and embarrass your boss. This kind of creates a dilemma for those of us in our mid-thirties, who can see the future but who sometimes have to move in a world that's run by people who don't.

I think the ultimate answer is... it depends. I will say that, if you don't like to write blog posts, you probably should avoid starting a big, echoingly empty blog and just use something like Twitter, or a microblogging engine, or Facebook to establish your online presence. This is kind of why Facebook is there -- to allow folks to express themselves online without having to write entire paragraphs full of interesting and original prose. Not everyone is cut out to be a magazine writer.

The ultimate coward's answer is Linkedin, a site which basically caters to frightened 37-year-olds like me who know they need an online presence but are afraid to actually say anything.

I think having a blog is good for my own career, but unfortunately my blog is really lapsed right now because I find it much more entertaining to reply to posts on news.yc. :)
Good video. I hope someone finds or makes a transcript.
Next think you know we'll have a currency exchange of karma points for dollars.
That brings up how much is a karma point worth in monetary terms?
It takes a bold, nay, an extraordinary man to admit that :)
I think users should create their own communities by picking the set of people whose posts they would like to see. These people may not be friends.

For example, for a discussion on startups, I might specify that I would like to see PG's posts along with any posts that PG would like to see.

One could also provide exceptions. I could for example exclude certain people from the set above as well as posts from people that they receive (though not excluding someone for which there's an acceptable path to that person).

Of course, such a scheme has problems since you may reply to someone's posts yet you are not included in the set of people whose posts he/she will see.

But maybe one can find a way to make this workable.
That's the thing - there are a tonne of rent-a-coder clones, but I have a feeling the quality of coders on YC News is much higher than that of rent-a-coder. The problem is, if you start listing jobs here, people will come for the jobs, possibly bringing the quality down.

Perhaps limiting it to LISP, Haskell and Python jobs would work. Most of these sites target Java or PHP or Rails developers, so it's hard to find work in other languages.
And it's not that hard, especially if you don't have a famous or extremely common name. I got to the top Google search result for my name in less than 3 months.
Me too, no job offers but lots of contact with cool people around the whole world.
Picking cabbages is a pretty hard problem. I'm pretty sure they realize the economic potential, but Dexter took his first baby steps not too long ago.
Personally, I prefer to redefine "success" to be whatever I already have, thus at all times am I am a success!
Much more important if you're working part time and your competitors are working full time. The longer they take, the more life you have.