skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not true. Warren Buffett fits in that category. Many people in that third category care about making money in an abstract sense -- it's a game, but it can be a long-term game. They don't care about the cars or the status symbols. They love building wealth, but not for wealth's sake.

People who don't understand long-term relationships are not actually in the long-term game to make money. Usually they just lack some emotional intelligence. People who 'get it' develop good, long-term business relationships, because they know that to be a successful businessperson and make lots of money you can't just rely on short-term contract-type thinking. You rely on relationships.
Bonzi.com still ranks #1 in my heart.
Where did all of the MySQL Developers Go?
Except that given it could potentially end tomorrow, I am motivated to work on something different.

Sure I have a comfortable position at the moment, but resting on my laurels could be a costly mistake. I am just using this breathing room to work on something that has more potential rather than having to hustle for income... basically forgoing short term gains for long term ones.
Yes, yes I do, but it is really not for the reasons given. I want to control my own schedule. My brother pointed this one out to me, and it makes perfect sense. Having a lot of money, but being bound to the clock doesn't quite sound as fun.
This is really saying: "partner with people whose interests are aligned with yours". Doesn't matter whether it's about making money, intellectual development or playing on a sports team. The same principle applies.
We live in the best networking city in the world as far as I am concerned and the last thing I want to do is stay at home when opportunity is out there. I am currently working out of Sunshine Suites @ Tribeca West and I got to tell you I really benefit from meeting a ton of entrepreneurs, in fact I just heard a lecture in one of the conference rooms about social media law really helpful.
I'm sensing a theme from this blog: admiration of narcissists.

There are successful people I admire and emulate, and they are nothing like the "successful" people heaped praise upon by this blog.
I really like Max's posts but I wish he would elaborate on the 3 types a little further. It seems hard to pigeon-hole every type of entrepreneur/potential partner within these 3 categories (at least as he has described them).

I think I "get" what he's saying (and I definitely concur on type 1–seen plenty of those in my day) but I think it would benefit from more details/examples.
That's leaving aside alcohol and various substances on the federal controlled substances list.

This is an important issue. As the submitted article points out, many of the combinations of drugs that are prescribed to soldiers (the topic of the article) have not been investigated for their effects and side-effects in combination.
Uh oh. If running a closed platform is grounds for anti-trust action, then Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo all had better watch out. Even One Laptop Per Child is in on this--Oh my! I thought they were good guys but it turns out they are evil monopolists!:

If you don't have a developer key, and your laptop has firmware security enabled, it will not let you do anything except boot an OLPC-signed operating system, and use the OLPC-provided software. If you insert a USB flash drive or SD card, the boot firmware will only boot from it if the files are tested and cryptographically signed by OLPC. -- http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_developer_keys

...or maybe what you're saying has more to do with your opinion than the law.
Affiliate Marketing - the new business model for mobile app developers?
The shade of dark blue they use also appears in my .vim setup. Does anybody else find that difficult to read? Also, is there a way to tweak the colors - by giving hex codes, for example?
How does Wikipedia relate to this at all? It's a non-profit.
A couple of single founders in this season's batch. Interesting.
No Firefox for WinMo7
There are a few gems in there that I'd like to see more of (etacts for instance), but overall I'm dismayed by the sheer volume of SV navel-gazing produced twitter junk.

I'd love to see more ideas around PG's list of things he'd like to fund being presented instead of yet another "social collaboration because what else is there?" startup.
I typically send an email in the morning of the day I'm working remotely with my availability schedule. If my schedule is going to be fluid, I tell folks to look at my Skype status--if I'm online, that means I am available.

It's also advantageous to be able to simply forward your desk phone--when I'm available, my desk phone is forwarded to my mobile. When I'm finished working, the forward is deactivated (it also helps that only my direct manager has my mobile number, and he would likely only call if something had seriously blown up).
Seeing that gave me goosebumps and a little bit of nostalgia.
Right. In terms of intellectual and creative advancement, the overwhelming majority of it comes from people who were both uninterested in monetarily capturing the value of it, and also bad at doing so. Most people with the talent for making money are people with few other talents (just because of the general rarity of talent; when the correlation is zero, people with talent X are very unlikely to have talent Y).
I never thought of it that way. But that is certainly a interesting angle to it. He might be puting himself and his mom in danger if others thought he has a $1m.

Anyone in Russia who has that kind of money also has body guards and private mansions with tall electrified fences.
People here are showing a lot of dislike for the third category, those who want to make money. I think that's because of how the author describes them, not how they actually are.

People who want to make money for money's sake love building things. They can't stand to sit still. They understand long-term relationships, and the smart ones learn that trust and inspiring leaders within your own and other organizations is the only way to keep building.

They love competing, and they love winning. But that doesn't mean they lack integrity, or think lying or cheating is the way to win. They understand that at best that gets you a win in the very short run.

They are the tinkerers of capitalism. And that's why they don't fail you once they can afford a Porsche, why they don't constantly try to impress people because of their insecurities, and why they don't stop thinking about improving their business once they "have enough". Not everyone is like that, but that's not a reason to disrespect those who are.
If you read a New Yorker story about him, You'll understand that it is the money/fame driven us who needs medical help, not him.
The latest comment from 'ieblog' says that it's not the same code, though some of the same folk worked on it.
Hmmmm... this post is from 2009. It can't be the final bill they passed, could it? There's even mentions of ACORN in it, which is in the process of disassembling itself.
Medialab Utrecht Foundation starts SETUP
Fair enough, nothing wrong with that and I agree with your first comment too, just wanted to introduce perspective, because sometimes we all get caught up in where we are and forget that a lot of people are still where we were. :-)
"Or maybe he just isn't interested in money or fame."

There's a big difference between not interested in money or fame, and living in a 1 bedroom apartment, sleeping on a dirty matress, and living with a roach infestation.
The post this links to is dated 2008.
The cloud is great. Stop the hype.
Embedster and Embedly ... confusingly similar names
There are two kinds of blog posts in this world: posts that are helpful and posts that take one person's narrow range of experience and try to build some grand theory of the universe.

The latter shrinks your brain.
Microsoft, Apple, Nokia, etc all have the money to pay. The people without money will be barred from the market.
Startup Profile: Smarty Ears
Commentary: Waiting for 'Bilski'
Location based mobile dating (or matching by zip code)
Ask HN: Are there any alternatives to the now-closed DocVerse?
I can't ever keep any variation of -ster, -ly and -ify straight.
I like etacts, notifo, and zencoder. Others like the newspaper ones sounds interesting but aren't applicable to me.
Dostoevsky once said that there are two stories: (1) man goes on a journey and (2) stranger comes to town.
This would be an interesting poll.
If anyone's interested, all of these are now on my "Seed accelerators and their companies" spreadsheet on Google Docs.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l1...

Corrections (particularly in early years of YC) welcome!
True, true. If you read the book who's title is something to the effect of How Rome Fell, "The Military Explanation", there were signs of a different type, like the slow withdrawal of resources from the frontier.

A failure of will? A lack of resources for whatever reason, perhaps including capable and loyal troops? I can't remember if that was addressed in what I read of the book, but in our case, we seem to be doing OK in terms of the output of our recruiting and training. E.g. this article is apparently not about lowering standards but about adjusting training to achieve acceptable standards at the end of it.
I suspect that in times of crisis people tend to play it safe and start more 'simple' companies, with safer business models, instead of swinging for the fences with experimental ideas that have no clear future or business model.

Still, there are some very interesting companies in this batch that are not particularly sexy but might have great potential.
What does this paragraph intend to say:

"For these men we sat with, I spent over 10.000 yuan on the program this evening. I took us to an expensive hotel, I paid the tips for all the girls, I ordered really expensive food. But when we spoke to these men, they never mentioned how much money they had. They never tried to impress me, in spite of me doing all this."

That (and the dog meat) bit seem like total non sequiturs to me.
That's a fair point too. I often think of where I was a couple years ago (very broke) and it puts everything into perspective for me too.
This is beyond pathetic. It's clearly time for Penelope Spheeris to film "The Decline Of Western Civilization IV: Gaming Nerds".
Interesting take. I see so many "business types" looking for developers to help them build their great idea. But developers aren't interested in building someone else's idea, so it may be the opposite approach which is mo' betta.

Business people should be looking for existing technical products to sell, rather than trying to think of ideas themselves.
Must be pretty impressive people behind it and has a viable demo.
The blog post has a nice roundup of recent improvements and links to other articles and threads discussing golang. Worth checking out.
Why, if I may ask, would you have one account to submit the story with and then another to reply to the story with? :)

I'm curious!
Indeed. For me, 6 thousand monthly is "being rich". And so far, I have not been willing to do what it takes to get there (emigrate). I'm definitely a Category 2 guy so far :(
Well I think the issue might stem from the fact that professors in university might not be masters of the craft of coding. I am sure they lost a lot of that mastery while researching their theoretical distertations and what not.

I completely disagree. At least at Northwestern, the systems people know their stuff. You may be right about the theory people, though.
Infoharmoni looks really cool. http://www.infoharmoni.com/
there's some strange emotional subtext to your posting that i don't quite get.

these people can choose what they want to work on. i am not putting a gun to their heads forcing them to do this. nor am i laughing at them.

if they're right - great. who wouldn't want a free lunch? but i don't see the point in painting them as heroes or presenting this work as something successful when, as far as i can see, it is not.

i've done research. you do it because it's interesting, not because of what other people think. and everyone has problems with funding: it's a market; if there's more money in one area there are more people too.

as i said, i'm not sure why you're so emotionally involved with this, but it doesn't seem healthy. if you're involved in cold fusion maybe you should look elsewhere, because science isn't really about being loved or acclaimed by the public...
use of double-exclamation points => bias
I hate this article.

I hate anything that says "There are two types of people in the world, those that x, and those that y".

I hate it because either:

1) The statements x and y are opposites and combine to be a truism. Truisms are not interesting. (from the 2nd and 3rd matrix) "Some things change, and others don't".

2) The generalization is demonstrably false or unknowable.

In this article in partiular, I found a sort of weird mesh. The second and third category are clear opposites of each other. They are a truism in that you can say "A rich person either will keep on trying to get rich, or will stop after a while." This is roughly equivalent to what these categories represent.

The first category is sort of contained in the second category. Or, more accurately, if someone is going to stop trying to make money after a while, they will either stop because they are comfortable or because they are being looked up to. Not exactly mind blowing information.

I feel that broad categorization of people is useless. People are not either one thing or another. People have features in quantities. Fuzzy logic rules over binary in the world of humans. It would be nice and easy if humans were so simple, but they are not.
"Money provides a layer of abstraction."

Wonderful way of saying it. Maybe it doesn't quite make sense, but I'm a sucker for applying technical concepts to more domestic concerns ;-)
Yes, there _are_ reasons, just because you think those companies could have worked around them doesn't mean they were not valid reasons.

More than half of the companies on that list is either gone or is irrelevant nowadays, which shows the vision being displayed on this thread completely out of sync with reality. It's sooo easy to come here and say that Company X should have done such and such to survive.

But most of them did not. So there are reasons, and they are good reasons, and I wrote some of them. I've made no comments about startups or disruption or whatever. I just disagreed with matrix saying "there are no excuses".

And we still have to go into the "real" reasons, which are fossilized business process and a reliance on cash cows, lack of innovation, etc... This is a classic case of people reaching the correct conclusion based on false premises and theories. It'll always be possible to overcome the stablished players, or opportunities for startups, but to keep saying there are "no reasons" for the old players to have failed is wrong.
These seem pretty good overall. Although I am rather unconvinced with the twitter ones, but then again I always thought twitter was a waste of time. But the others seem good.

There a couple of surprises: (i) there are two single founders, and (ii) there are a couple of pairs that seem to be in the same space. Obviously embedster and embedly seem to be doing something similar, but there was also a couple of search engines that do something similar as well. I wonder what Paul thinks about that. Won't the competition cause bad vibes in the meetings, etc.

Of course it is possible that I was mislead by the short descriptions and the companies do not really compete.
Ask HN: Book recommendation for a future Angel Investor?
If someone wanted to become an angel investor, what books do you recommend they read? Is there something like founders at work for angels?
I hope Seeing Interactive doesn't click the Learn More button during their demo..
I hate anything that says "There are two types of people in the world, those that x, and those that y".

I hate it because either:

1) ...
2) ...

Irony :)
Rocket-Launched ‘Rapid Eye’ Drone’s Rapid Demise
Maybe it's because I'm outside the valley (grin), but I'm completely failing to see how a mechanical turk driven transcription service is gonna "revolutionize how people interact with audio and video on the web". It sounds like a nice service. I'm betting you could build a pretty kick ass lifestyle business off it (I wish I had thought of it actually), but revolutionary? err.. I'm doubtful.

Particularly when Google has already started to do search within audio and video files, and has started testing automated close captioning for youtube videos.
I've used R before, exactly for graphing some data for this app, so I can say - no, it's not like Python or any other general use language. You can't really do a scatter plot from a csv file in Python in one line.

For example, have a look here: http://www.statmethods.net/graphs/scatterplot.html and observe how little code you must write to get those graphs.
This article getting to the front page is either an indication of the weaknesses of HN algorithms or the drop of quality of HN users who voted it up.
How Upside Down Bells Could Help Startups Get Seed Funding
Turn your bells upside down!
If they can reliably produce excess heat from these experiments, I don't think we care if it's due to fusion or not. It would certainly be something we want to study.
Rate my startup: BrainTrust.io - a private communication tool for groups
Umm..seriously? PHP? Python? 2005 wasn't that long ago.
Dallas-based Firehost, Inc Closes $2 Million Series A Funding Round
It may be a non-profit but it does still have people on the payroll, people who get paid to do what they love...
The conclusion to Martha Stewart's entry also makes a good quote, if only for the enthusiasm you can almost hear behind her words. This would make good ad copy for Apple:

"There are some magazines that I would look at just to see in more depth. National Geographic, God, I would love to see that. I already have the digitized version of National Geographic, but it’s not the same thing. It’s just like the magazine. The tablet could be like going into Africa."
good point town drunk, for free tho its a pretty amazing application. take some time to learn about it, this is one of the few thats really worthwhile.
Why political futures markets got the health care bill so wrong.
Also here is the mall search. As for the site i think its bright and to the point. No flash, fun, makes sense.

http://www.fastmall.com/malls.html
"Almost all applications are either for the iPhone or for the Mac. "

And almost all of them look pretty much the same, with the fake 3-D and ubiquitous faux curved gloss.

It's a look that's gotten tiresome and distracting.
Maybe it's time for those interested in privacy to exit stage left.

I'd like to see a start-up find a way to monetize my lack of desire to have my digital information monetized, maybe by obfuscating or deleting my information, and then I buy from their partners to say thanks.
I've been looking at it yesterday. I've already integrated ABingo just last week. Any thoughts on pro/cons between the two ?
Weebly (W07) is hiring an Analytics Engineer
Although I don't disagree with any of your assertions, I think TFA is interesting because it observes that all the people who want to be rich don't actually want to be rich.

The first group considers money the solution to insecurity. Money is not what they want, they want to be confident and date models. The second group doesn't want money (they just want some money) and the third group is playing a game. They want to win, and the metric is money.

People state the desire to be rich often enough, but there are only very few people who really want to be rich. I think the blog pointed that out pretty well.
How strange: the post does not actually give a reason for only wanting to go into business with people that chase money for the purpose of chasing money. It does not explain why the reason that people want money matters. It states a preference of the author, without a single justification.
Wierd :\ I just got the first one I found:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002CMLDT6/ref=oss_product

The neck is long enough that if I put it off to the left, I get nice solid illuminiation with no glare spots. (And I'm pretty sensitive to this kind of stuff.)

Note you do need to move the light far over to the left for it to be OK. In practise I've never found it to be a hindrance.
Ask HN: As an engineer, how do I interview a manager?
I'm working as a software developer at a startup, and it's been decided that we need a couple managers. As a technical lead, I'm one of the first to go when interviewing those who may end up being my manager.

I only really feel capable of judging fit: can I work with this person, would he fit personality-wise with the company, etc. What are some questions I should ask and areas to cover to try to determine if I think he'd be a good manager?
I grew up washing dishes and eating the food off the incoming plates because I was hungry. I never, ever want this for my kids. Yes, I wanted to be rich, am now rich, and I will pass these riches onto my kids.
These days it's OptimizeGoogle

http://www.optimizegoogle.com
Thanks for playing psychiatrist. I'm not sure why you think I'm emotional about this. Are you?

BTW, if you do research solely by what you find interesting, more power to you. But to propose that most or all researchers do so, while not caring what their colleagues and peers think, doesn't square with well-documented reality (e.g. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions).
It isn't a lot of money for Ford, but these days, automakers will take whatever they can get. It might also just be the beginning of a bigger energy efficiency initiative.

If they can reduce recurring costs by a few millions, that's money that can be put to better use somewhere else.
4 Myths the Apple iPad Wants to Explode - Business - The Atlantic
Chief Racquetball Tester
BWEEP!
JQuery UI 1.8 Final Released
I'll always wonder what percentage of those uniques were actually user-initiated.
This is really silly. First of all, I would recommend that if there is a short blog post that does nothing more but summarise an article, one should submit the article and not the blog post.

Second, the actual businessweek article is so silly it is laughable. It mentions that Dodd wants to connect the accredited investor metrics to inflation but admits that it does not know how that will happen. Then it makes a silly guess out of the blue how it may happen and and assumes that is how it will happen and then goes on to complain how it will be the end of the world. This is a classic straw man argument.

Here's the thing - politicians do not like to make drastic changes unless they are warranted. I guarantee you Dodd is not going to double the income and net worth requirements for accredited investors overnight. The requirements will probably be connected to inflation starting now, which means they will keep their current values when the law passes and will slowly increase with inflation in the future.
What the heck, dude. If you're going to shill like that, mention the URL in your comment or at the VERY LEAST put it in your bio.

(Not that I'm upset that you're mentioning your product, but it was a successful mention that otherwise fails if you don't provide a way for folks to find out more.)
I see his choice comparable to the one often taken by start up founders when they realize that all they need is a computer and decide to be frugal and live off somebody's couch or work from their smelly garage.

I completely understand his decision. To an intellectual, a lot of the things that you would consider necessary, aren't.
Wasn't that "Go" not equals "Go!" ?
How to Pack for an Around the World Trip Video
maxklein has admitted in the past to psychologically gaming HN.
HeyZap(YC W09) Now Lets Social Games Expand Beyond Facebook’s Walls
Exactly, forgiveable that MapQuest didn't invent Google Maps, unforgiveable that it they kept the same ugly static maps for years after GMaps.