skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Equity is a weird thing. From the eyes of a businessperson trying to attract a developer, equity is very valuable. You don't want to give too much away and you want to vest it properly.

From the eyes of a developer, equity is not very valuable. Equity is a chance at money in the future, not money today. Vested equity then feels more like a chance at a chance of earning money in the future. And most startups don't ever make money. If you're a developer worth his/her salt, you can make really good cash right now at a typical job or working as a consultant.

One thing I've learned is that I'd rather be a developer than a businessperson. I realize that I have the opportunity to run a single founder, bootstrapped startup if I wanted. If I were a businessperson, I wouldn't have this option. If I had a product idea I would have to attract a developer and/or investment money first. As a developer, if I have a product idea I can just launch it and see what the market does and worry about investment, attracting another partner, etc. later.
There is a significant possibility that the improved results of this format are due to the fun and novelty of filling out such a form. If everyone starts copying it, its novelty may wear off and it may lose its effectiveness.
Gutting ADODB from the IMVU website to eliminate pointless data conversions and several hundred microseconds from each cached query.

I love being able to refactor the database layer, relying on automated tests to prevent me from taking down the site.
No pardoning required; editing a title to clarify wording that would be vague to your intended audience is always allowed. It's why we have the title box, instead of just an automatic server-side <title>/<h1>-scrape.
On Wall Street, a Romance With the Curling Stone
smart and gets things done (R), the right way
Hi Harj,

Will you be engaging only promising groups, or all groups? Or will there be promising groups that aren't engaged at all until the deadline? Thanks

- an anxious applicant :)
writing a SGML parser for a search engine :-P
Deployed a small app to appengine , to send voice messages via IM using twilio. Mainly to send my wife important messages without having to dial from work phone.
It's still that one. We were starting to spend too much time gcing once everything got lazily loaded, but a few days ago I started throwing stuff out of memory and now it looks like we've got performance back into the tolerable range.

http://hnstatus.net/
This really is a horrible title for his post. He came as close to agreeing as possible without actually triggering a full on review of the charter. In fact, annotating the charter is probably all Masinter was going for really (he just didn't know how to request "annotating" vs "updating").
Lets be fair here. Any US company worth anything needs to protect itself from patent aggression, whether from competitors or from patent trolls. Its the cost of doing business in America, and the only way to lose is to not play.

We should reserve the 'facebook are fuckers' comments until they try to enforce this (non-defensively).
I wouldn't say people don't care about your baby, but they care more about what your baby can do for them. That's the way I try to look at it.
You don't have to have a lot of caffeine to get a caffeine withdrawal headache. Variation in caffeine intake is a common cause of people's apparently random headaches.

I forget the name of it but I believe that a few decades back here in Australia there was a brand of over the counter pain killers that had caffeine in them. It perks you up and can reduce the severity of migraines.

You have a headache so you take one but when it wears off you get a caffeine withdrawal headache so you have another one... Repeat until your kidneys fail (or the government finally bans them).
It wasn't about app spam, or the ton's of other similar apps that happen to not be sexual wouldn't still be there.
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Ask HN: What do you use for search on your app/site?
I've been hacking with Lucene implementing some well known algorithms for a class and it's a pretty good start. But, have been wondering what others out there are using for your everyday crawling and search?

I want to explore more into distributed crawlers and other neat search things as well. Specifically, I know Cloudera has some Hadoop VM's, but any other suggestions would be great?
Between '07 and '09: 33 million fewer people bought CDs
Trying to learn Django by coding up a new project and working on an existing PHP site.
Studying IA for my exam tomorrow. Fortunately, "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition)" is a great book. (I said fortunately because I need to read half of it tonight - I`m half done).
Drawing Feynman diagrams for my Modern Physics class. Here's the link to the assignment if you want to join in the fun: http://phys309.physics.tamu.edu/PA5.pdf

Thanks HN for the great timing on this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1150224
I'm writing a Bit Error Rate simulator

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_error_rate
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I live in Boston without a car. My daily "commute" and my "trips around town" are all on the sidewalk. My sidewalk is analogous to your road. Some sidewalks are very crowded and sometimes there are small traffic jams (a group of people walking slowly that I can't get around).

I would not welcome segways on crowded sidewalks. The road analogy would be huge double-wide trucks traveling about 100 mph on your daily interstate commute. Ignore the danger--the comparison is to how annoying it would be.
Strollers are slower than segways and do not come up behind you trying to pass you.
Finishing up final negotiations on a licensing deal for some of the mapping functionality on ridewithgps.com -- original lawyerspeak in the agreement had too stiff of a non-compete.

Also, put up an issues page for users to publicly register feature requests and bugs, and then comment and vote on them. The idea is that we get alot of duplicate feature requests and reports of errata that take alot of time to personally respond to. By letting users see something is already registered, they can just upvote it and we have one less person to directly contact.
I'm working on my "day" job. Ask this again on the weekend :p
I am fixing JMathPlot exception so that we can use it for my graduation project (brazos.cs.tcu.edu) Those 3D graphics will look really good !!!
Basic cooking for bachelor alpha geeks
The Speed of Twitter: "I didn’t kill Gordon Lightfoot"
Some constructive criticism:

1) You haven't provided any contact info. The e-mail address in your HN profile isn't publicly visible; you need to type it somewhere in the bio field if you want others to see it.

2) It's unclear what you mean in your title. YCombinator doesn't have a Boston program anymore, and hasn't for almost a year now.

3) The above two things, plus poor capitalization & spelling, plus a lack of any details or even intriguing hint of the purpose behind your message, makes it seem really, really sketchy.
Me too. Writing code to minimize DFAs. Personal project, though. Not a student any more.
Aggregating http log data (request timing, custom fields) in redis. To be open-sourced.
Those aren't even words.
Hacking on a GitHub client for Palm's webOS.

http://robmerrell.github.com/gitopotamus/
Independent of the merits of Palm's products or marketing strategy, it's nice to see a CEO communicate more-or-less plainly with employees - especially when things aren't going so great.
Working on a Clojure client for Facebook:

http://www.github.com/myfit/clj-facebook/
starring at my phone
The comments over at boagworld suggest a compromise as well as reasons why you shouldn't do this. All good in my opinion.

http://boagworld.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=5275...
Customer Stories: Your Online Store Website is Down
Helping a friend start a business.
Linode StackScripts?
None of them are very satisfying. I've used Gtk2Hs a fair amount, and it is solid. Conceptually it's very similar to the wxHaskell bindings (directly inspired by, if I'm not mistaken.) Of the three major cross-platform toolkits, Gtk+ is the most compatible with Haskell on account of it's C roots. Gtk can be used in a very procedural, not very OO kind of way. Since subclassing in C is such a bitch, Gtk+ is fairly easy to use without doing so: create some widgets, set their callbacks and go. Works fine from the IO monad, and using lambdas for the callbacks makes it actually quite enjoyable to use compared to C or C++ (as I imagine it is from OCaml, Lisp or any other such language.)

Qt on the other hand is very OO. You define the behavior of your widgets by subclassing. There are signals and slots, which are basically callbacks and thus very FP-friendly, but there are many things for which Qt doesn't use them (e.g., input) instead relying on C++ virtual methods. I'm looking over the qtHaskell docs now (which is just a wall-o-type-signatures) and it appears to have some kind of setHandler function for these virtual functions. I have no idea how this is supposed to work. AFAIK qtHaskell is just a one-man project, so it's understandably less mature than Gtk2Hs, considering the huge impedance mismatch between functional/imperative Haskell and OO C++.

As for wxWidgets, I have not used it, but as I understand it's mostly history. The Gtk2Hs team is large, active and contains many luminaries of the Haskell community, so that is where the action is at. Unfortunately though, it's Gtk+, so your "real world" better not have any Windows or Mac users in it.
The world's first open source restaurant
Listening to jazz, hacking on an iPhone game.
I'm currently heavily entrenched in Sinatra. I'm surprised to learn that Django and Rails do user accounts for you. Crazy.
SOAP, WS-BPEL, and supply-chain modeling in Common Lisp :-/
You may as well go. One day won't make any difference to your development in the grand scheme of things. Better to go along and at least have the opportunity to meet someone interesting.
How to live to 100
Are you looking for a specific solution for your site? or just looking to learn more about search algorithms, etc.

If it is the later, you can check out some natural language processing tools like ling pipe.
My interactive search engine for short available domains:
http://www.nxdom.com/

I'm working to bring the advanced weighted sort order back, but optional so that new users can play with the simple sort order until they understand what it does. Work in progress is here, and full source code:
http://master.latest.scoretool.appspot.com/
http://github.com/jcrocholl/nxdom

My 2-year-old son doesn't want to go to sleep yet, so he's climbing around on me while I write this.
I hadn't seen it before. The description in the original submission should have been clearer; also: don't apologize and predict sad things in your submission.
How do you infiltrate a one-person voting ring?

This should go on a list of startup koans somewhere.
PALM down 20% today

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=PALM

I had no idea how quickly the stock had lost that much confidence in the market, lost $1b in value in weeks.

Game over.
simpler, just # do this # do this # do this. On slice. May do something like StackScripts later.
I saw Jon speak at the engadget show, and walked away thinking he is a very modest, smart and caring guy. I absolutely agree that it is great to see him communicating this well with employees (though I suspect PR had planned that the letter would be public).
My least favorite Peter Thiel quote "Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser. " According to: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook
MVP on GAE.
Minimum Viable Product on Google App Engine.
I'm pretty sure Facebook bought friendfeed. I'm not sure exactly how patents work, but it seems this would mean you couldn't cite friendfeed as prior art.
Submitting our latest film to IMDB: http://2soc.net/americancafe
The solution is so readily apparent it does not even require you to know math anymore... Let's reframe the question to see if anyone can figure this one out:

"A search engine called Goggle wants to help give you a better view of the web. They use links between web pages to decide which pages will be the top results for a given query; pages with a high authority rank will be features at the top of the search results and will get more traffic from people searching for information. Goggles suspect that spammers have found a way to manipulate the system by creating fake web pages that link to their pages and give them an artificially inflated rank, hence forming 'link farms.' You have been hired to identify suspected farms by looking at link data.

Your task may not be as straightforward as it seems however. The caveat is that the spammers may have fashioned their fake pages to look like normal web pages. To create some misdirection, fake users may sometimes remove their links to targeted articles or even link on articles that they have no association with.

Sergiy Brin and Larry Page, the creators of Goggles, request that you write a program in Python or C to identify the top five suspected unique link farm rings consisting of at least five pages for each ring."

Sound more familiar? It is not quite the same problem, but you will find a lot of good solutions in this well-explored space that also apply to the original problem.
FWIW, On Ubuntu/Chrome, the 'find available domains, starts with and ends with' lines are all on top of each other.
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chrome extensions.... still.
What's the site? I have a couple of latin grad student friends that would probably enjoy that.
I feel like upvoting your comment because that sounds interesting and concerning everyone here, but I don't want to be part of the problem!
Wow patio....this was very informative.

Thanks much for this info.

Your blog looks mighty helpful too :)
A Python compiler using Flex, Bison and C++.
Packing to drive from Los Angeles to San Jose tomorrow. Spending the weekend watching friends' movies at Cinequest film festival.

Also meeting with a friend in SJ about a facebook app idea we've been kicking around forever.
Android Applications – Android Application Developer
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That's so GAE.
Periodically you will find cereal boxes with a 'Free Adult Movie Admission' inside. The cereal is around $3.00 while movie admission is around $14. My friend and I used to buy some cereal, tear off the coupons on the way to the theatre and enjoy a nutritious snack during the movie.
Ask HN: Is there an open-source shared task list app?
I'm looking for an app that lets multiple users share tasks with each-other. It seems like there are many "to-do" apps for single users or large, complex "project management" apps that are way to heavy-duty for my needs, but nothing in-between.

Even something like Basecamp is way to big (and of course it's not open-source).

I'm considering writing this myself, but it seems like something that should have been solved already and I'm really busy...
I think their ad campaign with the weird zombie women did nothing to help them take on the iPhone or android devices. I don't think their branding was targetted correctly.

Having said that, I've got a friend who got a pre, and he ended up giving his iPhone to his girlfriend and can't stop raving about the pre.

They aren't out of this yet, but I think there challenge will be in communicating and educating an audience about their products.

I don't know that the carriers are the best channel to rely on for marketing of the devices. The carrier will offer incentives, and push devices that are giving the carrier or reps the best business value.

I think palm needs to get customers coming into the store asking for the palm products.

This challenge is further hampered with the number of android, blackberry and soon to be winPhone7 devices.

The stores can have a wall of android, a kiosk of blackberry, and I suspect will have a section dedicated to winPhone7. With only two devices that are visually differentiated, they don't have either the recognizable presence of an iPhone, or the diversity of other platforms.

I think Palm is a good acquisition target for RIM(blackberry). They've done a great job with the OS (one area where palm has really faltered). Both companies have a history in the corporate world, and I think the palm experience could make a good dent in the consumer market, if they had the right partners, and at this point, enough runway.
Working on my web based jukebox project: http://github.com/trevorturk/kzak

I'm dropping Bundler support right now because it's still broken in so many ways ;(
I'm actually poring over the list of projects that I'd like to get done one of these days, seeing if there's anything I can get some traction on with just an hour or two of work. I should be sleeping. I have a job interview in 8 hours. Well, by "job interview" I mean I'm talking to yet another headhunter. Mostly to satisfy the unemployment benefit requirement that I meet with at least 3 companies per week. I really don't feel like doing mid-term contract work without benefits.
Business people are also too often convinced of the genius of their own ideas, when in reality ideas are practically worthless.
First Apple Store Wedding
trying to make my way to Brussels, stuck overnight in Chicago due to a maintenance issue followed by a domestic dispute followed by over the maximum time for the crew.
How is it game over? Palm still has a great product and they aren't out of money. They're not doing as well as they had hoped to do, but that doesn't mean things aren't going to turn out well for them.
Given the failure rate of most startups, and the general importance of hiring the right people (it was the #1 piece of advice that John Doerr gave to the Google founders), I'm not sure "successfully" is the right word.

A lot of people are viewing the argument in moral terms. I wonder if it was meant as an economic argument: if you give your employees a chance at a big payout if you succeed, perhaps you'll have a better chance at succeeding.
Interesting, I can understand the relation to anxiety as when I have had more than a couple cups of coffee on a given day I really do start to become shaky and irritable by things that normally wouldn't phase me and have seen similar things in heavy coffee drinkers.

The dreams may actually have appeared because of your sleep habits being fixed as you were waking up with coffee and not naturally waking where your brain actually starts to change from a dream state to a conscious state (which could explain why you now remember them).
Tried to use your "want to know more?" form but the submit button is disabled...

...oh snap!
Nokia’s Q4 stormer brings in heaps of money
Starting an artisan-bread "sponge" which is a starter for the bread I hope to bake tomorrow (have started trying to teach myself to cook/bake). With cooking, you can pretty much cover yourself if you don't do something right; baking is much more of a "discipline"...

Hacker wise, thinking about ways to use Twitter and Facebook after listening to the recent Mixergy interview about it (Vanderchuyk? I think). I have a friend with a profitable site but it has stagnated and he has asked me to think about ways to improve it.
Filling out paperwork to commit to more bandwidth from our colocation facility as the monthly overages are getting high.

Guess you gotta spend money to make money :-|
Just spent 2 hours rehearsing the Verdi Requiem. Next up is probably looking at a FreeBSD Errata Notice.
Just got back from the YC meetup in Seattle!
They are a proprietary handheld hardware / software developer built around a branded OS.

To survive in that position you need massive traction.

Apple pulled it off, and in my estimation they are the only ones that could manage it at the scale they're shooting for.

PALM could try licensing their OS at this point, but it's hard to argue with FREE and a product with much wider adoption, eg Android.

I would say in current form, PALM is finished after this latest failure.
Did you enter an email address?
Mixing caffeine with painkillers is pretty common; caffeine improves the effectiveness. I this this is mostly a legal workaround -- codeine would be more effective, but they give you a caffeine + acetaminophen + asprin cocktail that's almost as good because that's legal to sell over the counter. As an occasional headache sufferer, I've found it to be pretty effective. Codeine is better, though.
Foursquare rap - Badges Like Us
Was running database migrations. I'm now rolling back.
A combination of both. Been learning some algorithms in school, but want to find some good tools to apply it for an app I spec'ing out. Thanks for ling pipe, btw.
I definitely read "Free Adult Movie Admission" as "Free Adult Movie Admission" the first few times through. Nothing like cereal during porn?
Skin pigment loss
Vitiligo is usually easy to diagnose and mistakes are uncommon. White spots on skin are the common symptom of vitiligo.
Writing a Python photomosaic generator, and an iPhone app for my university bus system (iPhone apps seem to be popular tonight).
From my own experience this is _exactly_ what happens. Only they intelligently manipulated my shareholder agreement in a way that I had to actually buy the options, no paper transfer, I needed cold, hard cash. Having very little money at the time (being between jobs) I was unable to do so, which meant that I forfeited my options. Probably for the best anyway, because buying them didn't guarantee a buyout, only the option of one. I would have been out $5000, just waiting for the day to be bought out, which would probably never come.

Lesson learned: read things very carefully, confusing language is intended to be confusing. I basically gave away two years of my career to kool-aid equity. Just be really careful, and if you don't fully understand something ask someone who does understand. If you can't get a direct answer, leave. Don't waist your time; you're being gamed.
Yes, although after a few reloads I was able to get it straightened out.
Web Open Font Format
I'm writing a local HTTP proxy that connects to a remote JAWs [1] server, so that users behind a proxy that blocks proxy requests can still get to an unfiltered Internet.

[1] http://github.com/jrockway/jaws

Entities that think they can censor the Internet amuse me.
Sinatra has a few 3rd party libraries that do it for you. I'm using sinatra-authentication, which works great.
"Lua seemed very 'correctness over convenience' to me, similar to the mzscheme or haskell mindset, and I just can't get enthusiastic about language/communities like that."

Interesting. The notion of correctness, that there are a set of core properties for a language that are always true, is appealing to me. It's one of the things I like about Haskell[0]. I'd much rather be able to deduce some property or behavior from a set of principles than have to memorize a set of one-offs and special cases.

In fact, that "correctness" ends up being a major convenience, especially when compared to languages that follow the idea of "These are the rules, except when they aren't".

[0] To the extent I know Haskell. It may well be that, as with many languages, this purity is put aside for certain pragmatisms. But what seems to be an effort to keep things consistent is a win for me.
Continuing to hack away at my Footy Tipping site... the start of the season is casting demonic shadows over my shoulder...
> as they embark on an ugly and dishonest campaign against Flash.

Apple's campaign against flash isn't dishonest. It's a campaign designed to keep Flash away from Apple's products, but it isn't very ugly as far as campaigns go, and Apple certainly isn't being dishonest about it.
What Do People Ask Their Social Networks?