skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I definitely understood what vibe you were going for. Perhaps it just doesn't translate well to the web, or the design feels odd because it doesn't fit inline with your typical web 2.0 design (which isn't bad).

As for your designer friends, their opinion should definitely be weightier than mine. Maybe the monochromatic theme you've given it is blurring the entire page for me.
Yes, it is an error. What alarms me is Google's attitude.

What happens when we're dealing with interfaces that are a little bit more ill-defined? Will Google continue to demand that you follow their way of doing things?

Google's attitude in this case suggests they will.
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You're right. I should have phrased my original comment differently.
Ask YC: Who would you pay to read?
Along the same lines as yesterday's discussion, whose writing would you pay to read? Keep in mind that for high quality, sporadic writers, payment might mean more frequent writing.

Here's my list (going alphabetically through my Google Reader list:

Definitely:

- Steve McConnell's stuff is always backed by research and therefore much more valuable than most thoughts or ideas ( http://blogs.construx.com/blogs/stevemcc/rss.aspx )

- Dan Weinreb is rational, thorough, a bit of a legend in my niche, and I'm a bit of an ITA fanboy ( http://dlweinreb.wordpress.com/feed/ )

- Bill Simmons (sports writer) is hilarious and my only remaining connection to sports spectatorship ( http://sports.espn.go.com/keyword/feed?query=Bill_Simmons )

- pg (
http://feeds.feedburner.com/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed )

- yegge is funny, and pay-per-post would be a bargain! (
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default )

Maybe/Conditional:
- pmarca if he would stay on topic ( http://feeds.feedburner.com/pmarca )

- defmacro if it caused more documentation and features to be written for weblocks (
http://www.defmacro.org/rss/news.xml )

- Ted Neward is new to me but climbing the charts (http://blogs.tedneward.com/SyndicationService.asmx/GetAtom )

- Jeff Moser is coming on strong ( http://feeds.feedburner.com/Moserware )

- Kevin Kelley is on the bubble ( http://feeds.feedburner.com/thetechnium )

Based on previous writing more so than current:

- raganwald from a couple years ago - the Ruby stuff means less to me than his older topics (
http://feeds.raganwald.com/raganwald )

- Joel a couple years ago, not Joel now (
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/rss.xml )

That's 12 out of 172. 5 were conditional and 2 would be mainly to access archives. So about 2-5% of authors I read are people I'd pay to read. What about you?
Can you provide RSS feed so that I can subscribe it in my reader?
The Worst Thing in Web Development
Well I buy books fairly often, so I'm paying to read them.

In terms of blogs, I'd be willing to pay something to subscribe to the simple dollar, probably bruce schneier's blog, boing boing.

There are others, I'm sure.
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44 firefox (crashes all the time :( )

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23 ./xgospel (the best game ever! :)

23 alsamixer
Sure, you can subscribe @ http://feeds.feedburner.com/ChompChompDead

Feedburner may have its faults, but I still find it very useful.
This is been going on for a while:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/minty-fresh-indexing/
Not entirely sure Amazon makes a profit on S3. They might be offering it at a price lower than cost too, to establish themselves trusting costs to go down.
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Python Do-It-Yourself Framework
Something like this used to happen at GM. The prestige of engineering groups was proportional to the amount of space they took up under the hood. So every group was incented to make their subsystem bigger and bigger. Some think this is the reason why American cars got so big in the 50's.
Hm... what about web-based RSS readers? Technically speaking, if you're running one, you are copying someone else's content and putting it on your site, even though the application belongs to a user and he picks what he wants to see up there.

There was a startup mentioned here recently, that allowed you to track changes on various web pages, and view the difference (it obviously stored copies on them), how legit is that?
Nokia punished by markets for only posting 25% profit in Q1 (wtf?)
Although this may not be the case everywhere, at my school there is zero statistical difference between the ability of BA and BS students in COS to get jobs at top tech firms.
Almost every species on Earth was killed 250 million years ago
Live Current Media to develop Cricket.com
After reading the TC article, it seems that focus is being shifted towards the development of Cricket.com. Are you guys planning to integrate the two or have your efforts been repositioned towards the development of Cricket.com?

When the news that Auctomatic was acquired was released, several here thought that the acquisition was solely a method of getting a web dev team, and wasn't so much about the growth of Auctomatic. Reading this article makes me feel somewhat the same...
Markets deal with expectations. The market price had profits of greater than 25% "built-in." When Nokia failed to meet this expectation, the price dropped.
I think that's implicit in the recommendation to test for technical skill. A manager with zero programming experience wouldn't dare trying to assess a programmer's skill, would he?
Graphene Transistors: "one atom thick"
Are you sure your unload handler is firing in IE?
Intuit’s Radical New Flex + QuickBase Cloud Platform
Am I the only one who feels that problem they're trying to solve does not exist? Perhaps I read too many books or perhaps my googling skills are bad ass, but finding information on programming issues is not hard and nothing, and I mean it, beats IRC: simple to use, two-way, ad-free, HTML/JavaScript-free, text-only instant and real-time solution to all your problems.

Yet they want to build a giant sink of answers for technical problems. That sink already exists, it's called Internet: post an answer to any question on millions of message boards, google groups ans sites like news.yc. Internet has has an awesome search facility built-in - people will find what you said.

Search for this on google: "The author of this, David Beazley" and you'll get news.yc page with someone's comment containing those words only 4 (!) hours ago (from this moment as I'm writing this).

Why another site? Sure, they have the blogging powers to hype the hell out of their project, but come on...
Rotating Java and JavaScript on the Server
Tipjoy sounds more and more awesome by the day
After reading the TC article, it seems that focus is being shifted towards the development of Cricket.com. Are you guys planning to integrate the two or have your efforts been repositioned towards the development of Cricket.com?

When the news that Auctomatic was acquired was released, several here thought that the acquisition was solely a method of getting a web dev team, and wasn't so much about the growth of Auctomatic. Reading this article makes me feel somewhat the same...
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Shuttleworth starts countdown to Ubuntu 8.04 release
Why are mainstream press science articles always so sensationalist?
Why there won’t be a Red Hat Consumer Linux Desktop
There are other ways to be free that don't require ads!

As long as your revenue engine benefits from lots of traffic, then giving stuff away (which is cheap on the internet) will be one way to get that traffic.

One example is 37 signals. Their blogging (free content given away) gets them traffic, and they can take a shot at converting that into customers for their paid for products. No ad vendor in sight.
What about yellowpages.com?
Cool, I'll try that out. I played with it for about 2 hours yesterday and was excited and ripping my hair out at the same time. Unlike many sites that take 5 minutes to use and then forget about, StreamFocus rewards additional effort :).
The best and worst ways to optimize your code
The feed has partial content. Can you publish feed with full content like TechCrunch or GigaOm does?
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The New Man
The first time I used Scribd's iPaper I thought, "This is magic." Its one of those products that, as a web developer, you'd have to be stupid not to use. Its simply that much better than its competitors. Congratulations, guys.
first you say its not your idea of breaking ethics, then you say how so many startups have (my word here) unscrupulous practices.

the fact that people are doing it does not make it ethically sound.
What about depression caused by exceed of money?
Do it per page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=165938

There are a number of simple vulnerabilities but I've yet to see one that cannot be trivially protected against.
b:maurycy:~% history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head
1 21:23

:-)

b:maurycy:~% echo $SHELL
/bin/tcsh
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Good point -- changed my raw feed info to full text. Thanks for pointing this out...
Bruce Schneier: Prediction -- RSA Conference Will Shrink Like a Punctured Balloon
Malcolm Gladwell almost always has something interesting to say.
When I said software developers might want the opposite, I didn't mean that they want crappy work spaces :) I meant an architecture built for increased contacts means you don't have a cave from distractions. Many walls are glass at Clark. If you go to the bathroom or down the stairs or to get a coffee, the chances increase you'll run into others, even if you want to remain fixated on a program. It's whether the workplace maximizes cross-talk for innovation vs focus on implementation. Yeah, ideally you'd want both in the same workplace. A coworker at Clark purposely created his cave by asking for a "worse" spot. I could be convinced it's better to build the workspace for cross-talk and leave it to people to make their own caves.
Startup Drinks
I would second the Sitepoint premium marketplace.

Here are a few that are in similar ranges:

http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/auctions/34096

http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/auctions/34080

Having tracked the marketplace for the last few months there are a fairly regular stream of companies that have $10-15k in revenue.

They tend to be forums and have a very webmaster skew. So I am not sure there would be software buyers but it's worth a shot.

This forum was recently sold on sitepoint i believe too: http://v7n.com/
Malcolm Gladwell (New Yorker)

John Hollinger (ESPN)

Paul Graham

Warren Buffet
But it does make your car a whole lot less special since every car has one.
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PG. So I bought Hackers & Painters.
If Facebook + Loopt develops critical mass, it'll be a thing to behold.
I didn't say it was a problem regarding people favoring BS over BA. UC Berkeley's CS program results in a BA, but I doubt there are any people out there that question the legitimacy of Berkeley CS. I'm just saying that it's lame when you have to explain to non-technical people why you got a BA in CS, while their silly undergrad Business Administration degree resulted in a BS :)
Heh... these values are heavily influenced by the Android contest:

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Or profiting from the storage and selling bandwidth at or near cost.
What was previously?
If there's one thing I learned it's that to drive people to better results you need to align their interests with yours as perfectly as possible.

And I find it astonishing that there is an entire industry whose interests are so far removed from that of their clients. This kind of inefficiency just screams for a disruptive player.
Presumably because they mostly get the information first-hand and maybe people close to that source. Of course the people who have spent the last 5 years of their lives working on this stuff will hope that it is a major breakthrough. Plus, journalists seem to have a habit of intepreting tentative predictions as fact.
Erlang for Python programmers: Part I
If there was a down-vote, I'd use it for this article. I get annoyed when I follow a link only to find a fluff piece.
You have a point. I have less personal experience with social sites, but it seems to me that the more information about your relationships you build, the harder it becomes to leave. Think of leaving Facebook as losing your phone and the contacts you have on it. It's up to Facebook to make it like this, but the potential is there.
Very interesting question:

Scott Adams

Violent Acres

Mark Cuban if he hired a copy editor. I have a low tolerance for typos/grammar and that guy is off the charts.

My friend Mike May: http://mikemay.blogspot.com/ , though I would have to pay per post since he doesn't write often and I'd feel ripped off with a subscription model.

I'd pay to not read TechCrunch, but I'm too afraid of missing something.
If that's not a typo, I know some investors who will be seriously pissed.
6 Ways to Profit From the Falling Dollar
I was talking about the Facebook messages, which are very similar to email. The App invites are pure spam, so they can simply be ignored. Spam is only a problem when it gets mixed in with something useful.
I went to the one in Seattle. It had a large turnout (~20 people). The event made for a good networking opportunity, but it's also fun to hang out, drink, and talk with people who share similar interests.
I want to point out that a more correct name for that article can be "Erlang-supported types for people who are already aware with the idea of data types, but I will make a few comments targeted at the Python developer," albeit that title is a lot less succinct and sexy.

That article does very little to introduce functional or declarative programming style. It also doesn't introduce Erlang's process model or Erlang's strengths, but then again I don't expect it to given how brief it is.

It's a good otherwise.
This is a gold bug article in disguise.
Web 3.0 Will Be About Reducing the Noise - And Twhirl Isn’t Helping
A few of my friends here in Portland, ME were planning on doing something like this, but we didn't have a name for it. Now we do!
most people seem to use cd and ls very frequently. Very often they are used one after another. This reminds me of a trick I heard in a talk by Damian Conway:

alias cdd='cd $l; ls'

I can't find the original slides, here is a writeup by cromatic:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2003/07/oscon_2003_day...
Will hope that it is a major breakthrough, or will say it is a major breakthrough in order to get more funding.
One problem is that in science there are (for the most part) no major breakthroughs, but a lot of very small breakthroughs which when put together make up a major one. But journalists are not interested in that, they just want to report the apple falling on Newton's head - which is not accurate most of the time.
Google Profit Exceeds Forecast
Startup School (2005-2008) Notes and Reviews
A resource page for startup school, links to a lot of old slides, reviews, and official information. Feel free to start a discussion about startup school in the discussion area.
Great idea, The look---not so much. It is a jumble of text and bright colors which confuses me (I had ape-brain transplant). So if you want to make an improvement, I'd start there. Otherwise, Great!
It's also old, and I think it's made the rounds here before.
You are trolling. Clearly you are just trying to get a rise. Regardless, my response:

you think average would be a better measure

I never said that and no I don't.

given PG's track record

Blind acceptance of whatever you idle says. Pathetic, really.

attacking the person rather than the statement

It is you supporting the person instead of what he is saying. I was only attacking the statement that having the highest median score disproves that there is any bias.
Andrew Sullivan
Have any of your designer friends ever seen an issue of Army Man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Man)? That was the first thing I thought of when I saw the page.

Anyhow, It looks like a really cool idea. Count on me to toss in some chum soon.

J
Heh, I found this thread off of vwag.

Eh, give him a break. He's probably been coding all day.
They're #2 according to the article.
Scribd web traffic higher than its YC peers (based on alexa data)
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Loopt is a cell phone application. People don't use it by going to the web site.
1) alexa? c'mon.

2) scribd is much more search engine friendly than almost any other application i know. i find results for them all the time on random crap i search for. to note, it almost never actually helps me with the information i'm searching on, but it does get me to view their page.

3) reddit is more meta-oriented and niche. loopt is cell phone stuff. weebly is a service provider, if you don't want their service you won't hit their page. justin.tv is competing with giants. scribd has a sweet spot almost designed for traffic generation.
Man, I wish I could say the design was intended to be like something that cool! Alas, it's just a case of 'don't bite off more than you can chew' of working within my abilities. But that army man looks really cool. The best comedy is spartan in its presentation anyways ;)...

I look forward to your contributions. The Chum will basically turn into a chaotic comedy twitter I hope...
That would be a problem if the decision is technology centered. But, it isn't. Technology is only incidental to making HN membership more challenging, and making a certain technology the de facto standard is anti-thetical to challenge.

See why Fisher thinks chess is dead.
Scott and Shackleton's abandoned huts in Antarctica
Seriously, why doesn't everyone believe this? I've googled HN and the web, and I'm not seeing a lot of people pointing out the F+L duo. The user base is minimal for the Loopt Facebook app. As far as I can tell, I'm not making an obvious statement.

I don't get it. These two technologies together answer The question of the internet.
$258.1k, let's not short change ourselves :D
Why Can’t Apple Officially Bring This Cool Visual Search On iPhone
The reason we sold Kiko on Ebay is because big companies we were talking to would have been willing to consider buying the company for a bit more, but only if Emmett and I went to work for them for some n years. Because (Total Amount of Money) / n wasn't very much, we said "fuck it" and just went for broke, so that we could work on our much more awesome idea, which turned out to be Justin.tv.
Hear, hear! Exactly what I'm looking for. Come to Dallas, baby. Rockwall would be even better (can't come all the way out where I am cuz I live in a dry county!).
Mod_js: Server-side JavaScript
And don't forget the $3000 in consulting fees charged for integration!
constructive criticism please.
But then again, when Google first wrote up its corporate philosophy, it said that the company "does not do horoscopes, financial advice or chat."

For "horoscopes", they linked to a Google module by a non-Google developer (californiapsychic.com).
Toshiba updates its Qosmio and Dynabook offerings, elicits yawns, naps
Can you explain the magic? I just don't get it. (Maybe I am stupid; I'll admit that much.)

From what I've seen, it looks like a Flash plugin to view PDFs. It breaks my scroll-wheel and keyboard shortcuts, uses funny-looking controls, and it takes as long to load the Flash plugin as it would have to just load the whole PDF. I always edit the URL so I can view the PDF normally. I don't know why I'd want to do this to my users.
I couldn't think of a 4th YC startup with traffic close to scribd's. We hear about loopt a lot, so I just thought I would add it for comparison.

This wasn't intended to be a comparison of the popularity of the services. I posted the link because I hadn't before realized how large scribd's web presence is.
8 hour work days go against my natural time clock. I got my boss to agree to let me work when Im ready (around 9.30am and get off when Im ready 3-5pm) ... and it has been mutually beneficial
I'm in Oklahoma City, maybe we should get a Oklahoma Texas group together.
It might, but that doesn't mean that. It just means that Apache was built with PHP support, as it almost always is.
I have to agree here on cost...broadcast television effectively gets its bandwidth for free. Then again, with peering deals, Google is probably getting it for pretty close to free.

What changes is the competitive landscape--when there are a billion videos to choose from, as opposed to 20 or 50 or even 100 found on broadcast or cable or satellite, the eyeballs on any one drop. Obviously the aggregator is the natural place to sell the ads (bully for Google), but the ability to focus efforts on "blockbuster" shows is a bit different. I worked in television for several years right out of college, and blockbusters are a major part of the operating budget of a TV station because it's a limited commodity--if you want to advertise during Lost, you've only got one company to buy from and there's only a couple dozen slots for sale. Cheaper spots are actually often more effective (since you can run them a lot more and get a single viewer to see your ad multiple times), but there's still magical thinking in TV advertising and advertisers like to reach the blockbuster audience. When the blockbuster no longer exists (as seems likely in a future of a billion+ possible videos), monetization will shake out differently. But advertising isn't going away, so something will happen and it'll all work out somehow.
lots of aliases. r is ruby. open is like double clicking something in the mac finder, i quite like it.

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Joel Spolsky on exactly how much money it took to start Fog Creek
"Do the Right Thing."

"Be smart, not dumb."

I think I've just solved the world's problems.
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The core functionality of facebook involves personal profiles that people log into. One must join facebook and volunteer personal information. This is the entire basis of facebook's value, without that it's nothing.

In order to interact with these users, you must use Facebook's API, you must use the protocols they decide to support, and you must interact with their servers. It does not matter whether they are open or not, what matters is who controls them.

In order to exploit users using Microsoft operating systems, you had to use their API and you had to use the protocols they decide to support.

Google made it to the top and stayed there by being the best at what they did, and figuring out a good way to make money off it. If Facebook wins it will be because they've managed to get enough people hooked to their network and unable to leave without consequences, much the same way people wouldn't switch away from Windows in the 90s.

For the record, I don't think Facebook is going to become the next Microsoft. That's just where they're headed if they manage to pull it off.
Can you provide a more explicit example, perhaps a Stackless alternative to one of the ones from Beazley's page?
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java surprised me.
This is neat stuff. Coincidentally, I just submitted my undergraduate thesis today, on the topic of carbon nanotube transistors. Our devices use multi-walled nanotubes, which are ~50nm in diameter. These things look to be an order of magnitude smaller than that.