skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, alas that this essay ends. I hope there will be a follow up which may go into further detail in terms of how to go about erasing.

The entire concept of erasing ("unthinking"?) brings to mind the dialogue between Gandalf and Saruman in Book 3, Chapter 10. Specifically: "Gandalf stirred, and looked up. "What have you to say that you did not say at our last meeting?" he asked. "Or, perhaps, you have things to unsay?"
Saruman paused. "Unsay?" he mused, as if puzzled."
What do you guys think of MY website?
Yeppers, RapidSSL reissued them without a problem
Location Search Wars
Well, you obviously never felt fear. When I was a kid, if my parents had told me the truth, I would have grown up very very warped. The somewhat scary things they told me disturbed me immensely, if they had told me things like "Oh, we are going broke", I would have died with worry.

I remember the fear from my childhood. Fear that something would happen to the family. Fear that I would be alone. That lightning would strike the building.

Thank God my parents told me lies. It allowed my childhood to be happy.
Another added tip for writing and, this can be used for almost anything, is following the Statement Example and Explain format. (SEE) It is very English 101 but always helps, e.g.,
“I need you to change the font to bold” (Statement)
“See this is how you do it <strong> my bold text</strong>” (Example)
“ Once we make the change visitors will be able to read the text better” (Explain)
Or
“I love you” (s)
“I think about you all the time” (e)
“This is why we should get married” (e)
So it's like reddit/digg but without the voting?
If you're no hacker, be good with photoshop so you can mockup what you have in mind. Then outsource the hell out of your product, and micromanage it to death. I've done this, and I have a nicely working website, and absolutely no idea how the code that runs it looks like.
google apps for domains will do the trick, you can set up wild card email address and forward everything to your own server.
Definitely, Gmail has the best anti-spam implementation on the internet.
What the hell!? 37 signals are SO full of themselves. They are a small business, yet they keep posting articles like they have discovered the secret to changing the world. The restaurant round the corner to my house make more income than them, but I do not see the owner standing outside telling others how to run a restaurant instead of inside cooking.

37 Signals is one of the more annoying Web 2.0 companies. Yes, I know you're trying to drum up interest so people invite you to hold talks, but why do all articles always seem to be about how wonderful you are, how great your company is, and you reinvented something or the other.

Get over it, you guys are not in possesion of the fountain of wisdom.
I assume you feed them the left-over corn?
I wouldn't quite say unequivocally that those are lies, or at least that true love is a lie.

The poem True Love by Nobel Prize Winner Wislawa Szymborska replies better than I can:

True love. Is it normal /
is it serious, is it practical? /
What does the world get from two people /
who exist in a world of their own?

Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, /
drawn randomly from millions but convinced /
it had to happen this way - in reward for what? /
For nothing. /
The light descends from nowhere. /
Why on these two and not on others? /
Doesn't this outrage justice? Yes it does. /
Doesn't it disrupt our painstakingly erected principles, /
and cast the moral from the peak? Yes on both accounts.

Look at the happy couple. /
Couldn't they at least try to hide it, /
fake a little depression for their friends' sake? /
Listen to them laughing - its an insult. /
The language they use - deceptively clear. /
And their little celebrations, rituals, /
the elaborate mutual routines - /
it's obviously a plot behind the human race's back!

It's hard even to guess how far things might go /
if people start to follow their example. /
What could religion and poetry count on? /
What would be remembered? What renounced? /
Who'd want to stay within bounds?

True love. Is it really necessary? /
Tact and common sense tell us to pass over it in silence, /
like a scandal in Life's highest circles. /
Perfectly good children are born without its help. /
It couldn't populate the planet in a million years, /
it comes along so rarely.

Let the people who never find true love /
keep saying that there's no such thing.

Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

Edit: I can't figure out how to get CRLFs in the right places, so here's the link for the properly formatted version: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/694.html
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Here's a great post from Joel about exactly that. It doesn't start off like it's answering the question, but it does:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html

"Watching non-programmers trying to run software companies is like watching..." and you'll have to read the article to find out :)
How auctions set ad prices
This won't filter email before it hits your server, but if what you're really asking is filtering email before it hits your inbox, then we use spamassassin and it works great.

We have a few public email addresses on our site that aren't obfuscated in any way, and I'd say spamassassin misses maybe 1 or 2 spam messages every couple of days without any false positives. Granted, it will take some work to get it properly configured for your particular setup.
It's just part of their business model, that's how they stand out from the crowd. Otherwise how do you think yet another to-do list would be a viable business app. Same thing holds for Joel Spolsky and Fog Creek. Yet another bug tracker. It wouldn't go anywhere without Joel's writings on how to do software.
I am not a physicist, and I have not heard of either of those guys, but I've heard of Curie and Carver.
It s very funny to see your reactions.
"do we really need a business guy?"

Do you know what business guys say about techno/hacker/super ego hacker guys?
They ll always find a dumb one that will do the job for them for few dollars.

It s interesting how you return the situation with so much pretention in a tentative to build yourself a legitimity.

You re just a tool.You re just missing the context.
keep dreaming about the 20 successful heros of your tribe that could make it by themselves.
Tell me about ego fishes that discuss about freedom inside their glass..

Good luck anyway .
Seriously? Seriously?
I wish the open page was more to the point regarding what your site was about. It took me about 2mins to navigate and read what was the purpose of your site. When it should take me about 3 to 10 sec.
I come from the realm of web dev.

In this realm, not knowing how to code will make sure somebody else usually has you by the balls. While an extreme micromanaging alpha type can probably get others to do the job and do it acceptably, the level of work and commitment from employee-developers is hard to maintain.

While I agree there is room for non-technical founders who bring a lot to the table (like Thiel) the benefits such a person brings (like fund-raising and market strategy) are often only realizable when the product already exists (i.e. created by the technical people). Therefore it is questionable whether it makes sense to bring biz-only people on board at an early stage unless fund raising and specific biz dev is an essential part of the biz strategy.

Finally, as technical and associated biz changes occur more rapidly, an inability to understand the core technologies will leave more and more biz-only people crippled. Consequently, unless one is close to technical people who share a common vision, my recommendation to anybody interested in the web space is to gain real experience with the relevant technical tools.
Yep use gmail,the cool thing is gmail will allow you to send emails from your gmail account that look like its coming from your work account.
Technical enough to learn to program.

The majority of what is considered a web startup these days, appearing on TechCrunch and other such blogs, do not require the complete skills a CS major brings to the table.

If you are going to give it a go, and still in school, consider taking a couple of c++ courses or python if offered. Of course if you are a self starter you can jump right into python - diveintopython.org.

I learned on my own after getting my econ degree at UCLA, and I found that programming for the web is trivial compared to the c++ coursework I took.

I spent many days and nights over a few years learning how to program, setup servers, model my web apps with postgres, manage postfix mail servers etc. But these days, a good framework will get you off the ground and solve most of your database modeling. And a good hosting company will take care of your sysadmin stuff.

So a good co-founder would be someone who compliments your newfound skills and who is the opposite of you - a risk taker or conservative. This should help you better evaluate the difficult decisions that come up.
Programming is one of the easier aspects of founding a successful web startup. Perhaps there is greener grass elsewhere?
Amateur. I twitter my MOUSE position.
To state the obvious: Not every founder needs to be a "hacker", but every tech start-up needs one "hacker" co-founder.

In other words: yes, the business major who loves the web and has a good idea can succeed-- if he has a "hacker" as a co-founder.
Everyone is asking "what is this?" after they visit your site which should give you direction to next steps. As some appreciated the minimal design, give your new visitors a little more direction and hand holding. Note, Google always provides a video for every new product to explain in full detail.

www.youyap.com and youyap.com point to different results of your site.
I think the key (unstated) point here is that the actual business purpose of the code was not obvious to the others reading/editing the code-- business rules like "Anything with fewer than three digits is supposed to be an invalid code" were not made explicit. Anyone attempting to find a more elegant solution to the problem needs to be able to fully understand what the problem is.
The Vicious Cycle
She also died as a result of her research. She carried glowing vials of radioactive goo in her pockets! I don't care what gender or race your are, her life is just a great story that is interesting as well as informative. This may have something to do with her ubiquity in addition to her gender.
For a tech startup, that is, a startup that wins by technology, and not, say, location, connections, or a powerful sales force, one should be at least technical enough to inspire and befriend a highly technical person. In other words, one should be 'hacker compatible'.
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

- C.S. Lewis

We don't want to keep kids from swearing really, we want to keep them from swearing at the wrong moment and making themselves (and us) look foolish. Since this is impossible, we'd really just prefer if they didn't even know those words until they've developed the judgment required to use them correctly.
Wow, this sounds awesome. I'll go check it out. Hopefully I can then re-distribute this cleaned email. Thanks for the tip though. I'll report my findings and a "How To" here if I get it to work
MIT project teaches kids programming
Google launches IPv6 search
amazing link
That's an amazing piece. I'm not easily shocked, but the hubris indicated is monumental.
Are There Too Many Women in IT?
Report: Al Gore’s CurrentTV Offered $100 Million For Digg In 2006
From the final paragraph: "Are there too many women in IT? Of course not."

So, in other words, a provocative headline centered around an argument the author is not even trying to make.

plonk
I have a dreamhost acccount, but got another one at slicehost to be able to run my rails app. Has anybody tried to see what performance you can get now? My site doesn't generate any traffic yet, but it's ok to have a decent response time when I run a demo of it.
Multi-tty Emacs
grrrr.... And I was working on this kind of app for the iphone...
Didn't know somebody was doing the same on android...
TechCrunch UK - Upcoming events of interest
while i havent founded a company yet i have had talks with a friend of doing it at several occasions and while he has a lot of ideas and is very outgoing and got people smarts he didnt really fathom that the tough part is still writing the application and not him giving me a rough idea of how it should be then me doing all the work and we splitting the profit to his favor lol.
jquery is fantastic even for programmers. There is almost no learning curve to get started. For advanced users, jquery has many tricks up its sleeve and it never fails to surprise.
Makes me wonder, as non-native speaker: is "slacker" short-hand for "success lacker"? ^^
Hey, that's a great way to show photos on the map! Why didn't I think about that?
Amateur. You use a MOUSE?
Mono's Winforms 2.0 is now API Complete
at ethanol subsidized prices? they get milled flax cut with sawdust and praise god everyday they aren't in china.
Then what is true laziness? I seldom see people doing absolutely nothing.
I hate people who waste money so lavishly.

i guess its easy come easy go.
My parents always told me not to swear, because if I did, I wouldn't have anything to say when I got hurt.

So whenever I cut my finger or anything like that, I would make sure to swear as much as could. :)
No. But I am not a native English speaker myself.
there are three ways to break up the flow of writing.
. is to start an entirely new subject
, is to stay on the same subject
; is somewhere in between, you're still on the same topic but have switched focus.

another way to think of it is conversationally. a period is a breath, a coma is a pause, a semi is a slightly longer pause.
because of racism and sexism.
True, but you don't get the experience of being in the working environment of another company. Things like...

* Exposure to thier culture

* Viewing and understanding thier office setup and why

* Hardware/software setup

* Working practices they use

* The fun of coding with others in person

* Social interaction

* Social interaction (x2 as I think it is very important)

...are important and really beneficial to appreciate first hand.
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Helpful thread for a business co-founder such as myself. While the goal has always been a "co" relationship, this has helped me think about and communicate that.
Is anyone in the UK offering this?
"How could I, a non-hacker, possibly play an equal contributory role has my hacker cofounder?"

As the hacker co-founder in a shop of two people, let me tell you, you can play an equal role. Okay, so my partner doesn't setup the servers or write the code or design the site; I do all of that. So what does he do? _Everything else_. Ask most any hacker and they'll give you a laundry list of things they hate doing when it comes to starting/running a business or working on a project of any kind. In fact, it's usually easier just to ask them what they _do_ want to do; the answer will almost always be "code." In my case I add design and a couple other items to the list, but I digress.

You're the one out there networking and making deals, finding advertisers, building a list of beta testers, writing up details on the competition, handling the finances and the ho-hum paperwork, handling the customers/visitors/whoever, and _much_ more. My co-founder has been invaluable to the business (I hope he stays invaluable, too, so he never gets paid ;). He describes his job as essentially making sure I am never bothered. I'll take that over another hacker any day of the week because with another hacker I'd end up getting stuck doing at least half of all that stuff that is no fun, very time consuming and highly distracting (in a job where small distractions can cost huge time).

And (briefly!) on the subject of conveying ideas: Hackers may have different mindsets, but unless your idea involves conveying something in code, you're not going to notice too many issues. My co-founder has come up with a lot of ideas and not once did I not understand him... unless he started talking about differences between LLCs and C corps and crazy talk like that.

So, in summary, if you are "just a business guy," don't give up. Sooner or later most of those one-man-band hacker founders are going to realize turning you down wasn't such a great idea; they needed you after all and now _they_ have to search for a CEO.

EDIT: And I'd like to point out that we got into YC this summer, too. I'll leave you to guess who wrote most of the application, did 99% of the talking in the interview and who had the market knowledge to pitch the idea in the first place. (hint: it wasn't this guy!)
>Don't all 18 year olds think they know how to run the world?

The average 18 year old would have done much better than George W Bush. It seems very unlikely that the average 18 year old would be considered the worst president ever by a majority of historians. Pretty much impossible, in fact.

http://hnn.us/articles/48916.html
There are too few children in IT. Nothing precludes a 15 year old from being a successful programmer and entrepreneur, e.g. http://markbao.com . As for percentages, 71% of teachers in the US are women, is it discrimination against men?
Denny, I'm a bit confused. What you've built for $180 is a group blog, with a somewhat heavy emphasis on talking to vendors. I'm in your space --- quite directly --- and with an order of magnitude more visitors, I have no idea how I'd go about monetizing my site.

I guess it's true that a smart businessperson can create value out of content --- look at John Batelle, Federated Media, and bOING bOING. But:

* They actually did have to build stuff

* It took them years and years and years to get there

* The content they've created is probably harder and riskier to build than software.

I'm not disputing the validity of your idea, just the assertion that you're likely to make money with a business plan and $180.
Once You’re Lucky, Twice Your Bloody Lucky!
When we talk about startups on this forum, we are only referring to the kind of startups done by hackers, it is fundamentally different from the arrogant MBA school.

Basically, hackers can learn business pretty easily. I'd like to see you hack.

Try http://hacketyhack.net
He's talking about software companies, not businesses on the web in general. Moreover, he's demonstrably wrong: many successful software companies are run by people without developer backgrounds.
I can personally refute the claim that once a cp, always a cp.

Starting off as a biz major, I found classes super easy. Mentally, I knew I could finish projects on time even if I started wayyy late.

Now that I've got the Med School bug in full swing (similar but different to the entrepreneur bug) and have switched to Bio major, I can't do that any more. Almost every single class requires 15 hrs of outside studying per week to really pull an A and retain the info for future classes.

People work up-to or down-to expectations of their environment and the challenges they face.

Usually, a CP will face a sink or swim moment where they will either continue with old patterns or make a clean break. I am an example of the latter.
http://www.lokku.com/jobs/intern.html
My team has a pretty cool new data project... if anyone is curious about staging with us, just send an email. We would pay you of course, I've never heard of a technical employee doing an unpaid internship at a for-profit company.
"Quality, not quantity"

Don't worry about the points. Just focus on writing about what you are interested in and considering your thoughts before you write :)
To the two people who downvoted me, thanks a bunch for the constructive feedback.
Anyway to answer your question, as far as I know if you make a submission you get 1 point.

If people like what you have submitted they vote you up (+1 point) or down (-1 point).

As you will see this second comment is another point.

Thanks.
How do you vote people up or down?
Then it's called:

Consulting.

You should get paid for that, too. Please don't do it for free and destroy the market for the rest of us who have to make a living at it.

Daniel
Python swears a lot.
The reviews themselves are what is useful... usually I can tell what to expect and that is definitely good enough.
To add to that, the "Flat earth" idea was not even implicit before the middle ages - it was generally described as such in numerous religious texts. For instance, the ancient hebrews believed the earth to be a flat disc under a hemispherical sky pierced with holes that were the stars. But that's stated in the religious texts, not implicit at all.

Thumbs down for the article, I'm afraid. Possible good point, but so drowned by poor examples that it's hard to take it seriously.

Daniel
Advanced Information Visualization techniques using JavaScript
Here on the east coast and the events and circles I hang in, developers are a rare thing and hard to come by!

For instance Startup Camp in NYC had one or two hackers/developers not involved in a startup already. The remaining 70 people in the room were creative/business people. Same goes for the DC startup community. Business/creative people population is higher then available developers!

As for me I taught myself web design(html, css, photoshop) and hired a developer from India. He does good work and is inexpensive.

I don't think it matters either way. Rather how focused and driven you are!!!
In "Buffett & Gates Go Back to School" Bill talks about overcoming procrastination after getting out of school. He says it took over a year.

I found Getting Things Done and The Now Habit useful in fixing my procrastination.
"pg aftermarket" - I love it!

I certainly hope this cycle continues, because there have been more comments that I felt were insightful in under 24 hours on this essay cycle than in most weeks on HN.
lol. That would look pretty rude if you hadn't read the parent.
I think the problem with your argument is you buy the "just build something you love and people will give you money" argument. My experience, at least, has shown that not to be the case.

Money needs to be balanced in the problem-solving equation along with all the other issues. Build something you love, focus on it, do everything for it - and also make sure it puts bread on the table. If you fail to do that last one, you won't be able to spend the time to really focus on the problem.

Daniel
Older DVR Owners Are More Likely to Skip All Ads
Poll: Do you use a web Adblocker?
Such as the popular Firefox extension Adblock Plus.
Adblockers are bad
Adblockers are inevitable
Open Letter to Hacker News Community
Compare cell phone to pro camera
Google triumphant: Search wars look settled
Friend Connect, Open Social, Ning, and the web
What's the best website prototyping/wireframe/greyscreening product(s) you have used?
I am curious to know what processes/practices/products/tools people here are using for creating wireframes and greyscreening their websites and web applications?

What have you found that works particularly well for you and is there anything you think deserves mentioning?
Paper & pencil works best. Pen works as well.

If you're looking for more technical whiz bang option, I like Freehand which used to be made by Macromedia.

Photoshop works too.

Visio has always seemed like a poor tool for the task. Might be my lack of knowledge on how to use it.

Dreamweaver is nice too. I like to just pick a standard template to start with and try to add as much content as I think the final site will have. Design can come later.

Now that I'm thinking about it, WordPress could be used to hash out content as well.