skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the projects I'm working right now is sort of a hybrid between multi-page and single-page in hindsight (even though the implementation is in single-page).

This particular project chose to use GWT. While GWT provides a lot of good abstractions to build such application, I find the requirements for the project is disturbing: want to be like desktop, but looks like a web-app, but can do bookmarking, etc etc.

It suffers a lot of issues from:

1) Having to re-implement how the history works

2) Having data freshness issue vs not re-fetching every visit

3) Huge DOM structure within the single page

It's just too crazy. Luckily GWT ease the pain a little bit, but I wished we wouldn't go that far or at least cap the requirements with some limitations.
A simple and smart business move with a two-founder setup like this is life insurance held by the other partner, and a buy/sell agreement. That way, if you die, your spouse gets the cash, the other funder gets the biz. In the vast majority of co-founded companies, something like this makes sense, and term insurance is cheap, if you're under 40.
How I retired at age 25
If you dont get into YC this round, does it make sense to apply again, or is this just banging your head against the wall?
Seems it's time to fix the database, too: "Error establishing a database connection"

Edit: Bing cache has it (Google doesn't!)

http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=802200748186&w=92581924...

Here's a brilliant idea for any Google engineers out there: Dedicate a few bots to caching everything that hits the front page of digg/reddit/hn before the sites go down.
Can someone copy/paste the article from their browser cache? The site is down.
That's part of the Gmail Labs and its done by computer.

Impossible for them to read every single email to save messages with missing attachments.
danke - all fixed.
When one of my businesses took a major nosedive in 2003, my wife worked for me, she did the bookkeeping while I tried to keep the business alive (successfully, in the end). We fought a lot, but I have always appreciated that time -- I think it was a big help to our relationship for her to understand some of the ins and outs of business life.

We also have 'overshared' about business; for a few years of my life in a previous startup, she put in 3+ hours a day talking / planning / processing with me. That was not a good plan for us; my (unsolicited) advice: have some outside-of-work hobbies with your co-founding spouse so that end-of-job for one of you does not equal end of relationship.
Thanks for the feedback - yes, that is exactly what I would like to see as the product evolve. Suggesting other sources/feeds as you mention.

But also proposing related topics that may interest you etc. There is already a bit of cool functionality if you click on one of the blog headers - like this page:

http://vcblogs.newscred.com/feed?url=http//feeds.feedburner....
It's a feature that used to be in Google labs. So yes, Google is probably searching your email for the word 'attached' and making sure you don't look like a fool by forgetting an attachment
Yes, but an oncologist is unnecessary for this. Pain management becomes the single most important thing to the patient until, finally, they reach the level where no legal painkiller can do anything for them. Then they lapse into a drug-induced coma-like state and die an excruciating death.

But before this, the patient is negotiating for something, anything, that will relieve his suffering. And money ceases to become an object.

Skip the oncologist, pass the drugs.
Bespin is still way too buggy. I tried using it the other day to edit one of the examples on the bespin page itself and it just didn't work. I'm not sure they are taking the right approach really. Was quite a bit disappointed, because I think something like bespin would be really cool. They still have a lot of work to do before it is usable at all.
Screamers is not terrible either. If you liked Impostor you'll like this too:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/

Also, this documentary - it has a cheesy framing device, but gives some good insight into PKD's life.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1461696/
Not to mention that, according to TFA, no existing themes work with the new structure: changing to another theme can't help.
Well, if you think of it in terms of voltage rather than switching, the audio transient will cause similar spikes in the voltage amplitude. I think that the analog circuits in exchange hardware are only interested in the shape rather than the origin of the pulse but as I said I've never looked at such equipment directly.

I have a modular synth here and have managed to rig up a patch that counts audio pulses (incoming signal goes through a rectifier and an envelope follower and on to an accumulator) and generates an appropriate tone for the counted number after a ~1/4 second pause, and doesn't much care whether I'm opening and closing the circuit or just tapping the front of the microphone. It's not a very complex circuit so maybe analog exchange switching works on a similar principle.
Yes. And the cancer centers don't care where the money comes from, as long as it keeps on coming.
Check out solutions like StreamToMe in the app store.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/streamtome/id325327899?mt=8

It pairs with a small server program that does on-the-fly transcoding and streaming. I've been using for months on my iPhone and I can't wait to move up to a larger screen.
At the risk of sounding pedantic, am I the only one who cringes when a professional journalist uses the word "automagically"?
Fascinating, simply by the virtue of being utterly plausible.

I've thought for a while now that the "me too" center of the human brain is, by far, one of the creepier parts.
Playing devil's advocate here, and I thought this was a good point from the thread last year:

I am all for preserving HN's sanctity, and I agree with and appreciate most of the points you make. But your tone makes the whole thing sound almost exclusively like "losers, please keep your rejection sob stories away from HN". I wonder how rejected applicants will take your well-meant advice.
Rejection has a human angle, and refusing to acknowledge that people respond to it in (seemingly) irrational ways doesn't help those who need encouragement, validation, or just knowledge of the fact that they are not alone. How is asking other hackers 'which web framework to use?' any 'better' than asking other YC applicants rejection related questions, given that this is effectively the only public YC forum? - anuraggoel

I agree that the examples you've got there wouldn't be very valuable. But I think that hearing about the process from a rejected applicant standpoint might be useful to people who want to apply in the future, and this might dissuade someone from posting something like that.
I'll counter with my own request:

Please do write a motivational or demotivational post about how you didn't get into YC. I think every cycle it's useful to hear people's impressions, thoughts, and experiences and feel a sense that it's not just you who runs into brick walls sometimes.

I think it's a great thing to see how encouraging the community is in these cases--- your post might just inspire someone else to go after their life dreams even without help from the "establishment".
I was rejected by YC twice, but eventually got into a YC company.
I see them in results a few times a day. Quantcast has them as number 167: http://www.quantcast.com/mahalo.com
I was going to say exactly the same thing -- if it was a THEME, then it seems like it would be just as easy to theme it the other way.

I guess the really tricky bit revolves around which one is default, and how obvious it would be to switch it to the other way. Knowing Gnome menus (with dated knowledge, naturally) it would typically be 6-7 clicks into somewhere and nobody would ever find it.
Privacy advocate is closer to "If you don't suspect me of something, you have no reason to be looking".

"Innocent until proven guilty" isn't meant to protect the guilty, it's meant to protect the innocent.
I think it looks pretty good over all. You might want to put a video demo on the front page or something. There's a lot going on in your front page; I like something that succinctly tells me what the product is and why I should be using it.
I wish we had some kind of cache service or something that generates multiple cache links for a website thats slashdotted/reddited/digged/ycombinated/etc. Every day someone posts a link and everyone else shares it with everybody, and before you know it the site gets DDoSed and nobody can reach it. Unless we're lucky enough the website was cached by google/bing.
This would be super easy to do with stack exchange.

How much time did you put in to it?
About a point he makes later in the post, is it "confirmed" that Twitter is getting paid by Google/MS/Yahoo for the Firehose? It seems reasonable, but it's still just rumor isn't it?
And now, how not to write a blog post: use that javascript "Snap" preview thingie.

Because people like it, it adds real benefit for users and never obstructs what they really want to read.
My favorite are when it says that it "may take up to 2 weeks to process". Doesn't inspire much confidence in your development staff if a simple table update or delete takes 2 weeks to run.
I think it would make sense if you can show some improvement over the last application period or if you think you have a better idea. If you're just applying just for the sake of getting something in on the off-chance it might get accepted, then you start to look like that person who shows up at every American Idol tryout but hasn't done anything to improve their chances.
Yes, there's no problem that can't be solved with another layer of indirection, etc. But making things configurable has its own costs, which are not trivial.
I just want to know if this guy got in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0ouOkNeBS4

"And this is a bright bunny, and..." :D
If you choose to look at it in those terms, any business ultimately depends on the threat of incarceration to get its revenue. Depicting government as an obstacle to free enterprise is like calling roads an obstacle to cars going wherever they please.

I run a business and those jobs all sound like hard work to me. Maybe you're doing it wrong!
Netflix Prize 2 Cancelled Due to a Lawsuit and FTC Inquiry
valid point, but doubtful that the age distribution is so skewed.

perhaps an argument can be made for younger drivers better able to react and re-take control of the car through cool headed calculation and the sheer mental agility that youngsters are so known for.

jkjk but an argument that needs to be ruled out is that young drivers are less prone to be killed by this malfunction for whatever reason.

Good data sleuthing on the part of the blog author.
I'd recommend making the design a little more "welcoming". It's very bare and plain - makes the site look cheap which reflects on the service. I'd also recommend simplifying the information and features on the home page - try to really get across what your app does, what it will help us do, and why we should use it, as quickly and easily as possible.
Personally, this post is the first one I have ever wanted to down-vote and wish I had that ability. If someone is pouring their ambition, time, and resources into a product, who are you to judge their desire to get feedback from fellow HN readers and/or applicants? If you do not want to read about their HN application success or rejection, do not read it. Lots of stories are submitted and posted on this site. If not interesting to you specifically, move on.
They need to change the entire GUI. Desktop metaphors are done.

EDIT: For some reason I can't reply to anything anymore...Just redirects me to http://news.ycombinator.com/r with a blank page.

Anyways: cookie: Oh man I have a ton of ideas! A lot of them flow well into the touch interface world, but that means they don't work well with the keyboard interface.

For instance, one of my ideas was the infinite vertical, limited horizontal screen. Check out Shoes's STACK & FLOW positioning for some hints.

Radial menus instead of file menus. Also, menus open-able from from anywhere on the application ui.

If I had a decent design station and PS4 I bet I could make some nifty examples.
The title should also be centered if they're going that route. I wish I could explain why, but it just looks funny with the title right next to the buttons.
I think this is the reason why Blade Runner is a good moving. Rather than revering the source material and trying to follow it closely, the makers told the story in a way that was designed as a movie from the ground up. The result is that it can stand on its own legs, rather than being a knock-off. It follows the attitude of Jorge Luis Borges on translation, that the translator should work as an author and not just a transcriber.
Also, do you think you or anyone else is going to have much trouble telling who baby_rutabega_spoon is when he talks about his bingo business or ruthless_carrot_fork when he gets exasperated about password hashing?

These are exceptions. I can bet that a vast majority of people here would not be able to tell even pg apart from other posters if it were not for his username.

Besides these exceptions are fine, the anonymization is not meant to target them, but rather generic blabber-mouths whose comments are floating up only because of the group upvoting.
How The Founder Of iContact Reached $1 Mil In Sales A Few Days After Turning 21
I actually almost included inexperience in my comment, but I thought it muddled the point since this article is asking why the elderly are over-represented in the toyota acceleration related deaths.

It seems like you're correcting me, but how is your point anything but tangential? If you're wondering why inexperienced drivers aren't also over-represented, it's probably because not many 16-21 year olds drive priuses.
Because you are older than 25.
The California case is currently being subjected to intense scrutiny.

Here's the full, 24-minute 911 call audio. Does that sound like genuine panic to you? How would someone who doesn't know how to stop a car have any idea if their "brakes are almost burned"?
http://jalopnik.com/5489553/runaway-prius-911-tape-im-over-9...

The driver filed for bankruptcy in 2008, and still has $700,000 in debt.
http://jalopnik.com/5491101/did-bankrupt-runaway-prius-drive...

There's significant reason to suspect this guy may have attempted a pretty blatant cash grab.

Regardless, I think the Corolla is the only Toyota sedan that still has rear-drums. I believe all others (maybe barring the bottom-rung Camry) are 4-wheel discs. The brake systems on Lexuses are also significantly beefier (though nowhere near sports car territory). C&D did tests with Mustang GT500s -- which while having beefier brake packages, aren't anything compared to normal supercars and high-end sports cars -- had no problem stopping a 500HP engine from 120mph while maintaining wide-open-throttle. Sure, it took some distance, but it definitely stopped. My point is, if you step on the brake pedal and don't release, ANY car that is properly maintained will stop.
This is exactly counter to Mark Pincus' advice. You want to monetize to be able to control your company.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7YaVVpK1G4
How is insulting your boss on your Facebook wall different from dissing him at a bar then discovering that the bartender is his brother?
I have a sneaking suspicion that integrity is not a functional or desirable trait in a politician. What we really want in our political leaders is someone who will be sneaky, underhanded, ruthless and downright duplicitous; on our behalf. Integrity is nice to have and desirable in your neighbors and friends, but politics is about survival, ethics is secondary (or rather personal and societal survival _is_ the greater good).
Google is a very tough nut to crack. They got like thousand of hackers fine-tuning Google's algorithm and A/B testing on a massive scale.

This make them very nimble and responsive to any competitors who dare to compete with them.

Google is like a sumo wrestler. Despite the appearance of fatness, it is actually very fast, strong, and healthy.
From my experience, Prius drivers in SoCal are usually over-50. We used to have a game called "Prius" that simply involved yelling "Prius" everytime one was observed (there are a TON down here). Most of the time, we saw an older driver.
I assume that usually means that they put your address in a removal queue, and then batch them out to the external firm (i.e. botfarm) that handles their actual mailing. They might even have to send the list by mail/fax, or read it over the phone to the third party; you never know how backwards some systems can work, especially when there's no conferred survival advantage in evolving that "organ" of them.
Kent Beck weighs in on the "fail fast" controversy
My mom was almost in a bad car accident due to something like this. she was walking in a strip mall when a car plowed into a dry cleaners about 10 feet ahead of her. Her friend almost fainted.

it was a teen and she said she accidentally pressed down on the accelerator instead of the brake. the place was destroyed but fortunately no one was hurt.
Well, scale can mean "spend time and money building infrastructure that supports lots of traffic" -- doing this before getting the traffic is premature optimization.

But, scale can also mean "get lots of traffic" -- this is growth, not optimization; in this case, trying to optimize revenue before the growth happens could be considered premature optimization.
How does sharing the Netflix data violate privacy? With the hundreds of thousands of records it would be difficult to trace information to an individual. The US needs more engineers and fewer lawyers.
I just finished David Forrest Wallace's Infinite Jest and was surprised that is was sci-fi. DFW was such a literary golden boy, i think people don't mention that IJ was a sci-fi book to avoid belittling him. total crap, if you ask me.
I think it's more that experienced drivers are presumably more defensive and therefore more likely to avoid situations (tailgating, etc.) where a sudden acceleration would be tough to recover from.
MS DOS was Microsoft's lucky break. It's not like they were established as an OS developer that needed 6 years to get noticed.
Interesting! I wonder if this has been deliberately exploited by dance producers...at 45 rpm and a bpm of 135, this will yield a 3-beat delay which sits nicely with a 4-beat base rhythm. Dance music production techniques owe a lot to reggae and dub, and as record producers working with low-quality equipment in Jamaica found ways to creatively abuse their gear.

For example, there's a trick whereby you can turn a regular mixing desk into a low or high pass resonant filter by feeding the same signal to two channels and inverting one (so they cancel out), and then EQing the other channel aggressively. So if you can't beat the 'echo' resulting from the manufacture, you might as well look for ways to incorporate it.
An update to this. I was able to get Netgear to reclassify the site, it should be accessible through all Netgear filters now. :)
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Four visions of the world tomorrow, and how to shape your company around them
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Please don't write a motivational or demotivational post about how you didn't get into YC

Screw that. Write what you want. If people like it, they'll upvote it.
Having never been to Vancouver, I'd be curious to know why you think it is nicer than SF. I've heard it's colder than Seattle with a lot of druggies and petty street crime.
You mean like a CB? Why not make those standard?
Thank you very much, I definitely agree with trying to simplify the information and features on the home page.

I actually had a much different design at first, but it seemed too busy and not clean enough. For the redesign, I went for a much clearer and minimalistic approach. I suppose it's a matter of taste really, can't please everyone :-)
It seems that your 2nd to last how it works image ('Turn leads into sales') implies that you're pulling The Federal Reserve out of a CNN article as an example of how the app works to generate one type of personalized email. Maybe you want a more realistic example? I know it's not a big thing, but it just struck me as a really odd example.
It wouldn't surprise me if people are just forgetting to add .com, i've done it myself. In chrome i'll type bing (instead of bing.com) since google is my default search engine, I'm routed through google.

I'm using it because Bing has a great flight search and comparison, also their video search is pretty good too.
There's a way to identify individuals in the raw data:

http://userweb.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak08netflix.pdf
http://userweb.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/netflix-faq.html
You're genetically programmed to protect children. Doctors and hospitals know this and exploit it. Unfortunately children with cancer or birth defects are money sinkholes.

Spartan parents would kill children with defects. In contrast we keep physically and genetically damaged children alive (or on life-support in the case of cancer) at much cost to ourselves and at peril to our offspring. Would you want your daughter to marry a man who carried a life-threatening gene? Did she? That's what we're doing. Maybe someday we'll be able to fix these problems, but today we cannot.
Should Fashion be Protected by Copyright Laws?
Ridley Scott shouldn't be underestimated as a director. Blade runner works not only as a narrative, but also as a sequence of images designed to evoke raw emotions and reflection about the future and technological progress. It's the visual analogue of a tone poem. You can turn the volume down to O and appreciate the film on this level. The 1st Alien has the exact same thing going on.
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Many people might come to the site asking the question "which laptop should I buy?". However, that doesn't mean they have the same question, because that question has a variable in it: "I". The laptop I buy as a computing professional will differ greatly from the laptop someone else might buy.

I think you want to direct all people with that question to the same page, but then make it easy to distinguish themselves and their criteria with simple statements. For instance, under "Which laptop should I buy?", you could then have distinguishing statements like "I use my laptop more/less than 8 hours a day." or "I care more about weight/screen size.". Make a game out of it, and simplify the ranking process as much as possible. For instance, put the question at the top ("What laptop should I buy?"), put two "person" icons on either side of the page each with a speech bubble saying "I use my laptop more than 8 hours a day." and "I use my laptop less than 8 hours a day.". Then, users can drag laptops under the left or right user icon depending on which statement fits the laptop better.

You don't necessarily even need opposing statements on the same axis; if you let users categorize laptops between any two arbitrary statements, you then have the information that user U believes laptop L better fits statement S1 than statement S2. Put enough of those together and you can derive some useful information.

Then, when a user wants to ask the question "which laptop should I get?", they can rank some statements they agree with, and get a laptop that fits those statements.
Someone is spreading a nasty rumor about formspring.me
I mean serious relationships.

Dating 10+ people in one's life is normal, obviously.
People based recommendations sites, get a lot of spam when they grow. Eg. A company spamming on the competitor products, and things like this. It's a too much populated space.

In my opinion, focus on a niche, like recommendations for engineers, or make it as a complementary to Octopart (YCW07, search engine for electronic parts). And if you do great, then you may apply to YC.