skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As for experience, yeah, these people were more valuable after working for me than before; but at least some of these people had decent paying jobs before, then lost them in the downturn, lost hope, and ended up doing menial jobs.

One was the classic example; this guy happened to be my roommate at one point. He was obviously brilliant, but he practically radiated self-doubt. He had this slouch that took a few inches of his height and make him look a little like he thought you were going to hit him.

But he was obviously brilliant, and had worked as a C/C++ programmer for a while, he even had some open-source code out there. But he lost his job during the .com crash and had been subsisting since on savings, menial jobs and an occasional elance-type gig.

oh man, and his lack of confidence absolutely killed him there. He had this one client who'd call him up for hours every night and kept adding features and changing requirements. He said he made $2/hr on the gig when he said he was quitting. At that point I think he was into me some for rent, so I offered to hire him at $40/hr. I called up his customer and explained that I'd get the work done for $60/hr, but he couldn't talk to my friend, and that he'd be paying for phone, time, too (I was, well, quite a bit younger at the time. 22? 23? and thought $60/hr was a fine wage for yelling at/getting yelled at by some asshole. I was just figuring out the whole 'if you are arrogant and aggressive, people give you what you want' thing.) The job got done, and everyone got paid, and my ego got stroked. (I mean, yeah, the wages were not awesome, but eh, when you are that age, it's certainly a living wage)

Really, once you got down to coding, my friend's apparent self-doubt evaporated like it was just an illusion. "I don't write segmentation faults" he insisted. But he did really badly in interviews. But my point was that he was really good before he worked for me; but that fact was obscured by the year or two of downtime after the .com crash. My friend eventually got noticed by a real recruiter, and got a full-time job shortly thereafter. he currently works for some compiler company or something making rather a lot more money than I do. (more than I was making when I left my full-time job... my current business pays me, ah, mostly in equity.)

obviously, one anecdote does not equal statistical significance; I'm just saying, I've seen people with experience fall behind in the 'interview arms race' and end up underemployed, to the detriment of their potential employers. Because it is so hard to sort the really good people from the mediocre or the useless, there is huge value that can be had correcting the market's mistakes.
Is Your PC Security good enough – Desktop Security Video 
Melih Abdulhayoglu Inquires PC users "Is your security is good enough? Comodo Internet Security removes viruses and other malwares from PCs thereby giving them complete protection.
They're EU members in the Schengen zone, hit particularly hard by a global recession after ten years of the fastest GDP growth rates in the world. "Very badly" is still a hell of a lot better than, say, Bulgaria.
tl;dr Tim Bray is going to google to work on Android from Vancouver because he thinks Android is great.
I think its like asking if French is better than English. Both will get the job done but some people claim French sounds better and is the "language of love". So the point is there may be tasks for which one language is more suitable. I have used both and learning FP after learning IP was a bitch. But I am an engineer not a programmer, so take that for what its worth. I did find that I got a deeper understanding of mathematics by learning FP so that was definitely a benefit and possibly a clue as to what types of tasks FP is more suitable.
It's not really different. In both cases, if you knew your boss could've known, you wouldn't have said it. In both cases, you were in trouble because your talk was not as private as you thought it was.

The real differences lies in the understanding of the risks. The "brother bartender" is something most can understand. We all understand that talking in public areas carries a risk of being overheard, and we tune our speech accordingly. However, we don't all understand the risks associated with Facebook and many other services "in the cloud". This means a higher risk of being careless (and hurt yourself in the process).

Until we understand privacy risks associated with internet services as well as those associated with physical interaction, we will have unexpected problems. I'm confident that people will learn anyway. I just hope they don't learn the hard way.
Youtube: "Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street."
Nexus One UK Launch Delayed - The last nail in the coffin?
The New Version of MRTalk is Now Available
We’re pleased to announce the release of our newest version of MRTalk that lets you make free long distance and international calls from your PC.
Only if somebody build a anti-anti-shelving filter. I get enough offers from various places that I don't like as it is.
At the very least, YC partners are trying a novel experiment nobody has tried before, and if you're a curious person, it's interesting where it will go. If it succeeds, great! If it fails, at least it's a really interesting thing to try, and it inspired hundreds (thousands?) of people to strive to do great things.

I honestly want to know, what compels you to knock smart, energetic people trying new, interesting things? Even if the idea is ridiculous, who could it possibly hurt?
That headline is some serious flamebait.
Cheap mothers day flowers
Cheap flower delivery and flowers by post with 321 Flowers. Send flowers across the UK and London via 321 Flowers.
"Extremely violent?" Even the Romanian revolution was practically bloodless compared to what could have been. Recall that there is a large Hungarian minority in Romania, with strong claims to territory, and there were great fears that the Yugoslavian debacle might repeat itself there.

The fact that Romania made it out of the hellish Ceausescu regime with comparatively little violence, and is now a full-on EU member, is one of the great success stories of that time.

You can bemoan the people that died and the slowness of the eventual transition towards more open government, but you must keep a sense of perspective. Even a dysfunctional country like Romania has been able to claw itself to levels of prosperity no one dreamed about in 1989.
If it was indeed 3:14 it'd be night (afternoon would be 15:14), and there's sunlight in the picture.
I'm not entirely sure why twitter is useful for any purpose other than the three 'new' ones outlined. If you're someone who isn't representing a business or a celebrity twittering, the fact is, no-one cares about any opinion you have which can be expressed in 140 characters.
The network could be useful.
1) Since July 2009

2) Did not apply to YC

3) Self-funded

4) http://www.signappnow.com
Actually, although the status is "undetermined", if you read the text about it you'll see that they reckon it's written long after the suggested date.
Interesting. Can it be called from a script to send monitoring text messages (with cacti, for example) ?
Obama [hearts] ACTA
What can give me IDE-like popup completion for the current file using a live python interpreter beyond the scenes?
Why isn't there SLIME for Python?
Another possibility is that it was redacted in more modern colloquial style, but that the essential content of the original is the same.
The first Internet marketing conference (1994)
Funny I had been planning to build something like this. My idea was that you would forward an email to the service and just type in the start of it when you want the reminder. Using some simple NLP you'd be able to write something like "next week" or "on Monday" and the system would then email you back when it wanted to remind you.

No need to have your gmail password, or even be gmail specific.

Is there anyone out there who would use this? Enough yeses and I'll build it.
Too bad it ended up with a grammar error. :-) It should have said "Répondez Vite — ou Mourrez!" (instead of "mourir").
yes... HTTP POST... For example, on Mac OS X Terminal.app:

curl https://text-factory.appspot.com/apisend --data-urlencode
'number=+1xxxxxxxx' --data-urlencode 'message=it works with space'
--data-urlencode 'key=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
I still really want that service. But my gmail controls access to everything and I cannot overcome the risk associated with divulging my password to a third party.

No bells and whistles on Gmail is worth risking the security of the email, and that is precisely what is being asked when we're asked to give our password to a third party. And there are examples of such abuse of trust, you only have to look at the court case about Facebook execs using passwords to login to email accounts of competitors.

So yes, etacts looks wonderful. But it doesn't offer something so compelling that I would give out my password. It's actually very hard for me to imagine what could be so compelling that I would give out that password.
Wow, this really stings coming from someone I respect so much. This is what happens when you leave without an explanation from YC I suppose.

Paul, I agree I should have said "we got in the second time, but I dropped out a week later". I apologize for not being clear but I don't accept that there was anything wrong with what I said.

To be clear, the side project of mine which took off was co-owned 50% by my another founder who was not involved in YC and didn't want to join, so it wasn't mine to simply share with my YC team.

There were 3 cofounders who went to the YC interview - there were 2 cofounders remaining after I left. I was transparent with both of my cofounders and we remain friends to this day - they had zero involvement in the side project from beginning to end. I specifically asked each of them if they felt I was behaving unethically - they responded that they don't believe so and would have done the same in my shoes.
Would you say that the only way to be entitled to RSVPs is for the host to mail a physical invitation? What if I want to throw a small dinner party (say, 8-12) but I don't decide until the 3 days before, so that snail mail isn't an option but RSVPing by email is easy.
I think whats going on is pg is pissed someone ditched YC and made out better - "HOW DARE you leave YC and go on and make millions- while the rest of my flock struggles on ramen noodles and my outworn cliches!!!"
Woolfiller
Read the comment by "strlen". Partitioning and network partitions are two totally different things.
The Trans-Siberian railway goes across Siberia, north of China and Mongolia, and is entirely in Russia. A popular variation, though, is the route that branches through Mongolia and terminates in Beijing. This route also connects to Pyongyang, but that's not the TSRW.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_Trans-Siberian_railway...

EDIT - wikipedia says it better than I:

The Trans-Siberian Railway is often associated with the main transcontinental Russian train that connects hundreds of large and small cities of the European and Asian parts of Russia. At 9,259 kilometres (5,753 miles),[1] spanning a record 7 time zones and taking eight days to complete the journey, it is the third-longest single continuous service in the world, after the Moscow–Pyongyang (10,267 km, 6,380 mi)[2] and the Kiev–Vladivostok (11,085 km, 6,888 mi)[3] services, both of which also follow the Trans-Siberian for much of their routes. The route was opened by Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovitch of Russia after his eastern journey ended.
And some people don't know if they can make it by the time they get the invitation.
Don't confuse "scuttle" with "scuttlebutt". There's nothing whimsical about the usage of "scuttle". Pretty standard fare.

Main Entry: 3scuttle
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): scut·tled; scut·tling \ˈskət-liŋ, ˈskə-təl-iŋ\
Date: 1642

1 : to cut a hole through the bottom, deck, or side of (a ship); specifically : to sink or attempt to sink by making holes through the bottom
2 : destroy, wreck; also : scrap 2
Shock therapy required a short but very sharp drop in GDP, and a large and long-lived jump in unemployment (as make-work public sector jobs were eliminated). It also required people on fixed incomes to endure severe poverty due to anti-inflationary measures.

The countries that had the political resources to stick with this harsh program, and ride out the first two years where none of the positive effects were felt, ended up much better off than the ones that didn't.

Everyone ended up with some degree of looting. It was a matter of which countries had political institutions strong enough to push through this transition, prevent the rise of an organized gangster economy like we saw in Russia, and face up to the magnitude of the challenge.
I think there is some good insights in this. As I see it:

FED + Banks is a system of issuing money. As economy grows it needs more money. FED decides how much money is needed and banks determine who needs it and gives it to them (getting healthy profit if they were right).

Banks found a way to circumvent FED limits on making money. They made much more money then the FED intending them to make. That money was pushed mostly to real estate market driving prices of houses up so they became completely disassociated with their real value that they may present to anyone. It was kind of spotlight hyperinflation. Each dollar was worth lower and lower fraction of average home. Money was seeping to the rest of the economy but since due to technical advancements real value of economy was growing probably faster then FED expected that inflation was not noticeable in other markets.

When credit is paid back the money that was created when credit was given is destroyed. When situation is stable and credits are paid back at predictable rate then banks just give new credit in place of old ones if they are needed and allowed by FED and everything goes just fine.

But when credit defaults money all borrowed money not paid back yet is also destroyed. If huge quantity of credit default at once huge quantity of money is destroyed. What is more it's money that belongs to bank is seriously crippled by this. Not only he didn't earned interest rate but also he has less money to give new credits and create more money to profit out of. Defaulting on massive scale is something that current system of issuing money is not protected against.

I'm not entirely sure what happens if bank needs to destroy more money for defaulting credits than it has. Bank obviously goes broke but is the rest of the money still destroyed or not?

Since a lot of money was destroyed there is possibility that there is too little money now. As far as I know there really are no good ways to estimate how much money is needed (FED and equivalents in other countries do it by more or less educated guess). Maybe issuing more money could help, maybe that is not needed. It's not that obvious as post author has stated but it may be worth a try.

Also grudge about wealthy is not very polite but it might be true that they fear inflation more then they should because of their wealth.

Disclaimer:
By 'creating money' I don't mean literally printing it, just borrowing many times over the money that bank has (or borrowed).
By destroying money I don't mean burning it but just owing people who deposited money in the bank and not having cash to give them back their money.
heh. I'm a janitor, not a programmer, so the marginal costs in my field are definitely non-zero. As I sadly say when I buy a particularly large amount of hardware "But, that's my porsche!"

But my point was that I think the advantage that the large corporation has is not as big as people seem to think it is. It's a lot more expensive for them to swing the bat than for you to do so, and you don't have to do as well. I think the only large advantage that large corporations still have in this arena is advertising, and of course in software like modern games that is too big for one person to complete in a reasonable period of time.
I have an idea worth "minus a million" in a different sense:

My medical condition is supposed to cost big bucks to manage and the doctors promise you no hope of actually getting well. Getting healthier has been cheaper than the conventional treatments and yields the bonus that the healthier I get, the more productive I am while at the same time costs have steadily declined.

Now I just need to "package" it and figure out how to market it.
I'd guess you've made around $19000. Congrats!
Are you saying that grease monkeys should be rarely seen, never heard, should stick to their crap and let real specialist to handle the money? After all they do so well.
That'd fall into "it's a close friend, or I know I'm part of a smallish group of invitees", so I'd respond to that, yeah.
The music is Enigma Variations: Nimrod by Edward Elgar. The Oscillation on the bells and mp3 compression made it a bit hard at first : )
List Control
Do Not Buy List Control by Frank Kern Until You Discover This Shocking List Control Review and List Control Bonus.
Honest question: how do you know this?
Iran hacks opposition Web sites, arrests cyber activists
"tomorrow's highly literate person may prefer to change, by programming, whatever story or other media he or she is interacting with to suit individual preferences, and might then, with a little more programming, distribute those changes to the world."

The author apparently does not know about Greasemonkey or blogs or RSS feeds :)
Comparing high-speed rail to cars is a bit of a fallacy. The premise of HSR is in competing with 1-2 hours flights, not commuting in cars.

Sure, a good commuter rail system is good, but that wouldn't be high-speed rail.
Scratching your own itch
1) Since mid-2006, with a few pivots on the idea since.

2) Did not apply to YC.

3) Self-funded.

4) http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/

Arq is online backup to S3 for the Mac.
You can do it virtually via Google:

http://www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/en.html
I was going to become a headhunter or a body shop precisely because I believed that I was significantly better than the market at picking good but cheap people. But then I realised that the headhunter/recruiter job was more about selling (selling your services to the company, that is.) than it was about getting good people. Once they have the contract with the company, any warm body, it seems, will do. Large companies are heavily invested into this 'water loom' model.

The problem with the 'end run' of just starting your own company is that you then end up with embedded systems engineers doing things like web applications, because it's easy to do the web application as an independent, while it's harder to properly utilize that Engineer's talent without a large corporate team.
That's not a good lesson at all. YC offers a good deal of value for 6% equity in terms of connections, encouragement, advice, some money, and so on. Why apply in the first place if getting rejected is considered a good outcome?

The "Screw YC" attitude is a silly rationalization, if you ask me. And this comes from a guy who's bootstrapping and has never applied to YC.
The RBS Guide to Weathering an Economic Downturn [pdf]
In the way that one knows most things one claims to know that are not vindicated through literal, sensory first-person experience - through some sort of inductive web of personal interactions, accumulated scholastic perceptions, second-hand anecdotes, lore, etc. I could certainly be wrong.
1. 15 months 2.not applied, 3. self funded, 4. announcing soon (in 3 months)
Mobile phone sales in emerging markets account for 71% of Nokia's stock value
Web Design Company - eimpressive.com
Not everyone in Europe uses the 24h clock, many people use AM/PM on their digital watches.

EDIT: Okay, I give up. In a major procrastination attack, I looked up the street in Google Maps Street View, and the LED sign clearly shows 24h time:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=nl&...

I'll stop short of calling up the pharmacy and asking for the manufacturer of the sign...

EDIT: Amazingly hard to find other clocks in the image! However, on the blog ( http://blog.paris-26-gigapixels.com/en/?p=115 ) we find:

"15:15: The light was so exceptional that we decided to redo the first 2 lines of the shooting. This series of images may be used in assembly later (just in case)."

This seems to be not inconsistent with the picture being taken around 3:14 PM.
How to Make Your Website Look Professional | eHow.com
"in Poland before the WWII we had very cultured and organised population, people were helping each other, etc"

Poland before WWII was an ethnically fractured state whose population consisted mainly of impoverished peasants. The political system had collapsed into a rightist dictatorship only a few years after independence.

Only the horrific subsequent history of the country makes it possible to look back on this period with any kind of nostalgia.
I found this piece very interesting =]

Joining Google for Andriod- yet never making a useful Application for it. I wonder what he will be doing exactly...
USC researchers use software to mine blogs for cause-and-effect data
[devil's advocate]

YC could end up hurting all the founders. YC is selling a message that it's OK not to worry about a business model or revenue (or profit!), and that may turn out to be horrendous advice. In this case YC is partly responsible for the creation of a new web 2.0 no-revenue-required bubble.

So what you call "knocking smart energetic people" may just be a highly needed reality check, to keep people from dropping out of college and investing their savings and future into doomed ventures.

[/devil's advocate]
they would be pleased because loosing the funds for dragging their clientles company for a few more months would be replaced by having a profit faster.
I think Bray is mostly an evangelist at this point.
Gigapan.org has a snapshot feature for that. 26-gigapixel is bigger than most (all?) of what Gigapan has, but they have a bunch more. The Obama inauguration one[1] is probably their most famous.

I don't really ever get tired of being able to "enhance! enhance!"[2] an image.

1) http://gigapan.org/gigapans/15374/

2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk
U.S. Intelligence planned to destroy WikiLeaks [pdf]
clearly a joke.
1) Since Feb. 2008.

2) Applied 3 times. Didn't get in.

3) Didn't take VC money (yet). Received funds from fbFund and an angel investor.

4) http://facebook.com/networkedblogs
Dear "Young Bride": as it is 1890, I'm pretty sure I can legally beat you. Try this on me and I will.
I'm going to Japan in a while to study Japanese, this will most definitely come in hand! :D
I read this comment and thought, this comment sounds like it was written by Alex and then I read the tagline..
His description of the iPhone universe:

"It’s a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers. The people who create the apps serve at the landlord’s pleasure and fear his anger."

Unfortunately for Android, many or even most consumers prefer a Disney-fied experience. Can Android achieve that without the walled-garden approach?
Moles: Dig It? - Microsoft Unit Testing Tool
Bridal Consultant
Divineweddingplanners.com offer full-service wedding planner and Rhonda divine planning in an advanced & immense way.
How would this detect whether you got a reply? Relying on the recipient to also CC the reminder service seems fragile and ugly, and having to proxy through another service also seems unwanted (you're now relying on that service to be available for you to receive email).
good riddance, ruth smythers, spreader of lies and enemy of all of mankind. stay in your grave, please.
@idlewords:
yes, you are right, also there were big differencies between parts of Poland from Russia, Germany, and Austria.

But my point was - social trust level was very high - in 1920 we have won war with ussr, we have had almost 1 million army made mainly from volunteers, there were many socal iniciatives helping people, etc.

That athmosphere was lost during communism.

PS I agree that Piłsudski regime that come later was bad for Poland.