skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your points are all valid, but many of these apply to other industries too, and other industries also have their own subset of problems.

You could basically sum it up by saying 'Startups are risky. Angel Investors are brave'.

All the risks are why Angels/VCs (including PG in his essays) are always saying they look for promising founders rather than good ideas. There are so many risks that can derail a great idea, what's important is that you can trust the people at the wheel to make the right moves.

There are a lot of technical problems in making a game, but if John Carmack is doing the coding, I'd trust him to solve them.
There are a lot of gameplay problems in making a game, but if Soren Johnson is doing the design, I'd trust him to solve them.
NTP Sues Apple, Google, Others over Wireless Email Patents
No one is doing something more mind-numbing than me.

Waiting for I.T Support to give me Admin rights on my PC to get something/anything working.
yes..
1st. about coupons.. ( nothing to do with entrepreneurship, technical, programming.. etc) ,
2nd. some good statistical analysis here ( you should of just submitted direct link to here)
3rd. article about responding to a wink( nothing to do with entrepreneurship, technical, programming.. etc) ,
4. oped piece about about not talking about youself
5. another ad for signing in to match.com

so out of the first 5 blog articles i visited only one of them would be considered good content for this site. spam
Meet Summer: Pro cheerleader-turned-NASA aerospace engineer
This prank was also on TDWTF and I think my favourite message was "OUT OF CHEESE!"
Interestingly, GeckoGo was part of Facebook's REV program. IIRC this means Facebook owns some equity in GeckoGo.

http://fbfund.com/teams/
"Great tools are what you get when your language sucks"
You'll eliminate the complete creeps after one date. (Still gives a woman a significantly nonzero chance of winding up with a complete creep on his first date anyway).

But you won't be able to eliminate those who are merely boring, or ugly, or abrasive, or have an annoying personal habit. Your rolls will fill up with people like these.
Porting all the JavaScript in our main web application (written years ago) over to jQuery so we can use some nifty plugins. Been working on it all week.
Are you saying Jefferson and Einstein are mainstream? That is clearly not the case. Their popularity is, but their actions were from from it. Hell, just LOOK at Einstein!
Just fixed a semi-critical bug that allowed an invalid email address to be entered in and "try" to send (without any try/catch) thus crashing the application. The application has been live for several years. Doh!
I've been reading the entire archive of sequences on LessWrong.

I'm paid by the hour and it's been slow.
This is an interesting article that explores the ethics and morality of walking away from a mortgage.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1597835

Frankly, I'm torn about whether or not I would do the same in a similar situation. I hope I never find out.
For RestBackup.com, I'm using:

- Amazon EC2, EBS, ELB, S3, SimpleDB, and SQS

- Sendgrid.com for mail delivery

- Pingdom.com for monitoring and alarm notification

- Google Apps Premium for email hosting

- Linode.com for DNS hosting

- Namecheap.com for DNS registration and SSL certs (putting off
buying from Verisign)

- JungleDisk.com for backups

- T-Mobile prepaid mobile phone
I get a warning about novelounge or something like that.
Hey, you expressed emphasis in plain text without using formatting!
From Knitting the Startup Story to Challenging your UX Designer
Customizing Fogbugz. Surfing Hacker News. Setting up my new Android Phone.
Now: drinking coffee and laying in bed reading HN.

In an hour: Building an iPhone app in tandem with its Rails backend for a client.
Polishing my web app http://prettygraph.com to Ask HN for a review on Monday.
If anyone needed further confirmation that people respond to incentives, there you go.
ah. never saw that. thanks. kinda hard to keep track of everything said on HN in the comments.
Amazon Web Services Blog: This Is A Stick-Up
I've just had a similar conversation with my Japanese wife, and she pointed out that with many of the words that can be interpreted as nouns or verbs by fluent speakers, she only knows one interpretation, so she misses the 'garden' path that a fluent speaker would take. I suspect that it also applies to transitive vs. intransitive verbs.

So to contrive your example, a fluent speaker would know both the transitive and intransitive uses of "returned" and, preferring the intransitive interpretation ("I returned home"), would reach your conclusion. But if a non-fluent speaker only knew -- or was stronger with -- the transitive version ("I returned the book"), they would arrive at the correct interpretation.

I hope that makes sense, it was a lot harder to explain than I anticipated!
There must be a trade-off in there somewhere. Precise binocular vision must be useful for something too.
my finances, however I wish I hadnt as its depressed me considerably. So im going to go work on a few pints at my local after work.
I created a similar (but much much less refined) 3D topo view using the national elevation dataset. I used Papervision and I wasn't too happy with the results (it's slow!). Granted, my algorithm for layering a bicycle route on top is not efficient, but just the mesh creation itself is not that great.

Did you try it with more naive mesh code? Meaning, applying a fixed triangle count, not varying the triangles based off the underlying elevation variation? My implementation with a fixed triangle count just bogs down like crazy when I add enough to get good detail in the mountains, and I never got around to a more intelligent method like yours.

Do you have any good links for me to read up, or is this just a large background of computer graphics? I have little computer graphics background, which made implementing a 3D terrain map a two week process for me.
As someone who did something similar, graduating after 11th grade with all high school credits and upper-tier university requirements achieved, I believe I had a better education than the GED-to-college crowd. You're the first actual GED success story I've heard of.

All in all, there's nothing like a four-year university experience. Especially if you're spending all your time grinding away with huge course loads. You're cheating yourself by rushing through college or being a junior transfer.
... and an example of web development in Clojure:

http://mmcgrana.github.com/2010/03/clojure-web-development-r...

Just install leiningen, whip out your favorite text editor, and you don't have to worry about downloading/installing clojure, libraries and deps.
The Hidden Education: Social Engineering
Request HN: Please all update contact info in your profile
Hi All. This is just a thought. Many a times we run into discussions which are not useful to the HN community in general, and sometimes we run into people of networking/general interest. Maybe we can carry on the conservations & networking in private and keep HN clean!

Please mention your contact info in the "about" section of the profile. The email field is not visible in public. Be sure to be smart when entering email id to prevent spams!
Any chance you could release the source code? I'd love to play around with this and add some other datasets.
Do it! Be proud of the path.
IMHO it depends on the type of business, the type of investor but most importantly of all who is being invested in.
Might it not be more correct to suggest that statues corresponds to some inate ability rather than believe in some probably unrealistic hypothesis that statues is merely acting? The latter seems to appeal more to such ideals as individuals have unlimited power, so much so that they can rise from a low statues to a high statues by no real effort to change the external world but merely their internal psychological perception.

It is very much ridiculous I suspect. Especially as he begins with a description of personality where he makes it very clear that the traits are not internal but rather respond to external circumstances. I suspect however even here that there are some innate traits which differentiate in some level ones response to a circumstance from another's.

I understand that the article seemed to be reviewing a book or a theatre play, but that seems to be only the springboard as the content focuses more on explaining some very complex phenomena. Needles to say, the article is merely opinions and as such should probably not have been written at all. We live in a scientific age. We all have opinions, but very little of us have facts or the willingness to synthesise facts into a meaningful whole.
Gentoo as well, but this is not the case for Solaris to name at least one example.
Quote of the day: "The rich are different: they are more ruthless"
I've been thinking about something like this.

Basically, seeing the Top 'N' posts for a given time period. Like a digest of the Top 20 posts for the previous 24 hours delivered by email or RSS. I want an option to retrieve some/all of the comments for these stories as well.

Does something like this exist already? RSS is not an optimal delivery method for crowd sourced news sites like HN, Reddit, etc.
The Top 8 Reasons Why You’re Scrawny And The Other Dude Is Not
working on the ui components of the next gen Kindle :P

Other than that, finishing up the ipad/iphone version of a children story I have been working at home. Almost there.... kinda cute actually.
Regarding long-term-ness, http://www.kensteadman.com/ might be a 14 years old website or at least 11 years old judging by the guest book entries.
There is a clause in all of my software licenses that offers a refund, no questions asked. I am able to offer that clause in the faith that people will use it responsibly. If folks exercised it routinely on the theory "Hey, he lets me do it and that puts $30 in my pocket", I'd have to snip it or go out of business.

The extraordinarily lenient treatment of foreclosures, particularly in California, is also premised on them being rare events caused by black swans like personal financial catastrophe. If folks use them merely when they're net beneficial, the generous leniency afforded folks in personal catastrophe will not be extended next time.

Banks understand this. This is why, when they write contracts between each other, defaults do not result in "Oh, sure, keep the property for another twelve months and then mail the keys in and we're even stevens."
I'm surprised that was your conclusion. Why do you blame HTTP if the point of failure in your case seems to be the database?
Configuring more cell phones for an open and cheap GPS bus-tracking project. And messing with the UI too -- http://dutrack.com .
Gen Y unlikely to change online openness with age
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Milkprodu...
>> So the complaint is not that there's anything wrong with the results, but that they should have said more about the procedure by which they were obtained.

Then we just would have had people screaming about the conspiracy basing everythin on data they even admitted themselves was invalid. The "Broader Issues" section is actually more interesting:

35. Handling the blogosphere and non traditional scientific dialogue. One of the
most obvious features of the climate change debate is the influence of the
blogosphere. This provides an opportunity for unmoderated comment to stand
alongside peer reviewed publications; for presentations or lectures at learned
conferences to be challenged without inhibition; and for highly personalized
critiques of individuals and their work to be promulgated without hindrance.
This is a fact of life, and it would be foolish to challenge its existence. >>The
Review team would simply urge all scientists to learn to communicate their work
in ways that the public can access and understand. That said, a key issue is how
scientists should be supported to explain their position,<< and how a public space
can be created where these debates can be conducted on appropriate terms,
where what is and is not uncertain can be recognised.

The only people who (think they) have time to read scientific papers are (1) other scientists, and (2) people with an agenda. I've tried to read a couple, and keep getting lost and having to re-read parts, and maybe go look up what things mean, and it generally takes forever.

36. Openness and Reputation. An important feature of the blogosphere is the
extent to which it demands openness and access to data. A failure to recognise
this and to act appropriately, can lead to immense reputational damage by
feeding allegations of cover up. Being part of a like minded group may provide
no defence. Like it or not, >>this indicates a transformation in the way science has
to be conducted in this century<<.

They really can't be blamed too much, since what they did to make things worse didn't used to make things worse.

Also, sufficient openness on issues that attract public attention is likely really hard. Scientific papers are meant to be read by other scientists in the same field, so they tend to be inaccessible to the general public. So you need to publish everything twice, once in a standard in-group format, and once in some sort of hypertext form that explains (or links to) all the details that you don't have to care about inside your in-group because everybody already knows them.
"It is one of the main reasons we are able to offer funding terms that are better than anything else out there. Well, except maybe Canadian government funding, but we’re not all fortunate enough to be Canadian."

Hells fucking yeah.
Tornado, MongoDB and using Emacs to do it.
Writing ADA code; It's about as exciting as it sounds.
I'm pretty happy with LustyExplorer [1] which sounds like it does what iswitchb-mode does, but also has a decent find-file browser.

1. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LustyExplorer
Need more data to know, but considering it as a technical problem instead of a social one... maybe he didn't realize it was annoying because he couldn't pick up all the little facial expression and body language messages they were giving to indicate it.

This interpretation is not supported by him pointing a laser near other people's eyes. That was just being an ass. But sticking with the technical side here... a larger field of view might help the driver get those messages. Combining that with some face tracking and magnifying in the driving software would be cool. Or give everyone around a little remote and buttons on the bot for communicating negative feedback anonymously; give an indicator in the diver software, or reduce the mobility of the robot for a minute, or administer electrical shocks to the driver, those sorts of things.
Today is my last day at work in Connecticut -- in two weeks I'll be moving to San Francisco and seeking a new position. (Anybody looking for a solid, well-rounded front-end guy who wants to dive into more stuff? I'm huge on detail and a quick learner.)
Canada versus Facebook: Legal Suits Begin
I totally disagree on the parser-unfriendly syntax point (no. 1). C++ is a particularly bad example in that code cannot be definitely parsed without semantic information, however I think limiting yourself to a language which can be expressed as LALR/LL(1) is pretty brain dead - you limit yourself to what a given algorithm can express clearly rather than what is clearest to the programmer. It's really actually pretty hard to make a language "naturally" LALR anyway, at least without hacks of some kind. C# definitely isn't LALR, there are many features which get in the way of LALR-ness, such as generics which are, however, useful.

I do agree on every other point, however!
Someone asked me if I am losing sleep over the ethics of the situation. I think there are two separate issues:

Ethically. I'm ok. This is because a mortgage has pre-arranged clauses in the contract that outline what the exit criteria are for the bank and the borrower. It's a contract with a pre-negotiated process around a divorce. A prenuptual if you will. In this case, we are just choosing to execute one of the clauses in the contract, as any business has the right to do. So, there is nothing unethical about adhering to the contract.

Morally. There are concerns about short sales and foreclosures bringing down property values in the neighborhood. And that is an overall market affect. And there is a concern that this action brings down the overall market. It's the same as what happens when the stock market has a sell off - every time a stock is sold in repeating fashion, the overall value of the market declines as there is more cash on the side. Morally, I am personally ok, because the expectation with me and my fellow neighborhood residents was that we were all seeking asset appreciation, and when that didn't occur, there was an understanding that we may all have to pursue options to rectify the situation. I was open with my peer group about that 5 years ago when first buying the property. If I had lied about my intentions, it would be a different story.

Also, and I forgot to mention this. In both of our cases, we have changed our job situation such that it is not profitable on a monthly basis to continue paying our mortage and there is no refinancing situation that makes it profitable. And we both explored conversion to rentals. We'd be in a situation where monthly, we were expending nearly 3K / month in losses if they were both rentals.
Hi wilhelm... Thanks a lot for the info. Being highly satisfied with my current job, i still applied to this position as i am passionate about Web2.0 in general. Also i ran into guts of Webkit while learning to code Javascript effectively.

Because i wont be working on the engine itself (they just pick up the nightlies from the Webkit) and also many versions of their browser are moving to Qt framework, i doubt the challenge involved.
Is their a way to contact you?
I really like this idea and execution. Really nice work!

I think a good feature to add would be some sort of kiosk mode that could be used during a wake or reception by just putting a web browser on one of your pages and it would rotate through photos, guestbook entries, etc. like a slide show but would drop in to the guestbook with a mouse click and go back to the slideshow after the page went idle for a while.

Another good feature would be a way for people to buy coffee-table books of a site to save as a personal memory. I'm certain with some effort and partnerships with a publisher, you could create a well designed book automatically from the data you have. I put together a video montage of my father after he passed away and having something tangible that you can have of a loved one is always comforting.

Finally as a way to generate traffic, I'd consider building some killer example sites of celebrities as soon as the news breaks of some celebrity's passing.
Using Ruby to create a better way to specify CSV exports from our system.
This sounds cool. Real-time auctions on the web should be a lot of fun. Post a link whenever you're done.
The news item I'm referring to does link directly to the statistical analysis post you're describing.

I don't know why we're even bothering discussing whether people would mark this site as spam (opinions on this thread seem to be tainted by the just-world fallacy). The articles on this site are frequently upvoted on HN when referenced, and the data from my other comment on this thread shows that HN readers are interested in its content. The bottom-line is: no matter what the content of an article on this site is, it will automatically be dead because of an overly-zealous filter.

Is there anything that can be done about that?
Just a quick update, about 10 people have already emailed me, so if you're interested let me know, so that if I have to find us a conference room somewhere I'll have time to do it.
I'm not sure I see a problem with this. Companies experiment with different pricing all the time.

For example, you ever received a postcard from the cable or phone company with a special offer? Do you think that all the customers get the same card? No...they segment their customer groups to see what types offers work best.
Have you ever looked at what was required of an 8th-grade education "back in the day"? It was much more than counting bushels and goats.

Assuming this is accurate: http://people.moreheadstate.edu/fs/w.willis/eighthgrade.html ... you can see that this has algebra, volume calculations, weights and measures, etc. I know many high school graduates that would have difficulty with both the math and other portions of the test.

And, before you say that this is not representative, let me tell you that I have known many old farmers with only an 8th grade education who were in fact, able to operate at the above test's level.

I recall in particular one couple that built a series of multi-million dollar nursing homes, learning to read and interpret blueprints and handle an architect's rule, on just such an 8th grade education.
Being a business guy by day and teaching myself PHP by night using this tutorial:
http://devzone.zend.com/article/627
Are you talking about complex desktop/platform games or the whole social gaming phenomenon ?
Here's an interesting article by Tobolds (http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2010/07/another-theory-of-fun.ht...) where he describes how the Metaplace virtual environment founder - Ralph Koster - turned around, created Facebook games and sold them for a pile of money to Playdom.

The question is, if indeed you are going the low-tech-but-flavor-of-the-month social games route, would you consider things like outsourcing your tech ?
If yes, then becoming a small but successful game studio means that you can drop #1 off the list.

disclaimer: I run a outsourcing gig, that works on social games amongst other things
Are you sure about this? Surely they keep a layer of warmer water nearer your skin - the same way wet suits work.

Once someone is out the water wet clothing should be removed.
Having the tilde so far away is pretty annoying in a shell, but I haven't invested the time in coming up with something better.
I'm working on automating slang term variant creation on OnlineSlangDictionary.com . For example, making the main entry "blow (one) away" also available under

blow him away
blow her away
blow them away

etc.

It's an unfortunate tax I have to pay to search engines. Luckily it'll pay off additionally when I switch from Google Custom Search to a real custom search solution, and it'll be useful for a few upcoming special projects.
this is kinda cool, it's like a scrum for hackernews

- co-founder dating in mountain view

- sf city parking pass

- "identity and the browser" blog post

- develop business idea docs
Breast Cancer Need Not Signal Doom - Here Are Some Natural Remedies
I don't think you can go searching for your –first- business partner in the sense you are looking for. I would suggest putting together a few ideas (at least 3 very different ideas) of what type of business you would like to start. Once you have a good grasp of where you would like to go then figure out what skill sets are needed to get there and the level of capital resources it will take to do it on your own. After this you will be able to see what you 'bring to the table' and what is missing. Take this information and start becoming a social butterfly at as many entrepreneur style events as possible.
To be frank, my first real 'business partner' and I met online many years ago when we were both looking at doing similar things within a large online community. We started chatting and realized that each party had the skills / assets the other was lacking. Do not be afraid to share your ideas with others as that will only help you find those who have similar interest. In the same light do not take rejection, or the inability of one to understand your idea, as a sign that what you believe is wrong.
Where is your contact info?
An In-Depth Look at How People Are Using the iPad
been there.
Trulia is one that's looking: http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qzZ9Vfwm&...
I would save your time. The heat are going to win.