skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What sort of contracts? In what jurisdiction? And for what purpose?

[The ABA guidelines are one place to start looking](http://www.abanet.org/scitech/ec/isc/dsg-tutorial.html).

If I were doing it I would save the actual contract portion of things as a text file that includes (text of agreement, HMAC of the text, signed HMAC, public key of the signer) note that including the public key of the signer in no way guarantees the authenticity of the signer; it's there purely as a sanity check, since if you can't decrypt the signed hmac with the provided public key and match the original hmac (or the derived hmac) the document is invalid.
Ha, from another of his posts:

"Every creature, as the art of the God, keep secrets and miracles inside it."

Clearly belongs on a science site.
Heh. And this happens just one day after PG releases an essay about disconnecting distractions. Coincidence? I think not, my friends!
You are right on spot. PG really should update with full disclosure. I didn't click on the link, and it crossed my mind that it could be that Dilbertesque piece of software, but PG's credibility with me made me discredit the thought. This is an obviously blatant conflict of interest... isn't it supposed to be just an "essay"?
Streaming video from your phone, with live user comments
I saw someone demo this today. The comments you post on live video streams will appear on the phone as pop-up text comments.
I didn't really mean that original comment to come off as trollish, though I can see how it was taken as such.

My problem with his speech as the same one you probably had with my comment. It's not so much correct or incorrect as it is one-sided and incomplete.

He calls suburbia ugly. I call cracked cement as far as the eye can see, decrepit buildings, urine stench, and steam rising from manhole covers far more aesthetically offensive than any Target. (I might take it over some Wal-Marts though.)

He totally glosses over the apparent values of suburbia. Our population is shifting to it in huge numbers, people must find it worth it.

There's clearly something to suburban living. Maybe people like to own land and drive their own car to work, rather than sit on a smelly bus or subway next to smelly people. Maybe they still like to derive the economies of scale that Target and Wal-Mart afford them (which they cannot in an agrarian society) without either farming their own food or paying $3k a month for a tiny one bedroom apartment in a smog-ridden city.

He doesn't mention the fact that with a good environmental policy we could (and I think in 25 years will) have Targets and still coexist peacefully with the Earth.

His entire speech is just one-sided opinion with lots of invective and no apparent reasoning or factual basis. He calls the area that a very large portion of Americans choose to live in "not worth defending".

That's pretty unusual for a TED talk. I'd consider his entire speech trolling. Maybe that's why his Wikipedia bio makes such conspicuous mention of his total lack of credibility.
That's much less intuitive on the web than it is on the iPod.
just put the sites you waste most of your time on in your hosts file like this:

reddit.com 127.0.0.1

problem solved, forever.
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Am I the only one starting to smell a very long and hard fall for facebook?
"He calls suburbia ugly. I call cracked cement as far as the eye can see, decrepit buildings, urine stench, and steam rising from manhole covers far more aesthetically offensive than any Target. (I might take it over some Wal-Marts though.)"

There's no doubt that urbanism can be done badly. But when it is done well, it is an absolute pleasure. For example, I live in Paris, which is a highly urbanised city (obviously). Paris has very few parks, and very few private gardens (frontyards). But it is far and away more pleasurable to walk around Paris than to walk around, say, London. They have put a lot of effort into making tree-lined boulevards the defining feature of the city's streets. The very inner city lacks this, but makes up for it with a rich tapistry of shops, bars, cafés and restaurants. It took me about 3 years of walking around Paris (yes, you do wlk here, which is kind of the point!) before I got blasé about the whole experience.

i mean, it's still brilliant,it's just that today it's what I expect of a city, and if I don't get that expeience when walking about another city, I tend to write that city off as an option for where I should live.
I think procrastination and distractions are very much related. When I procrastinate I usually find ways to distract myself with unproductive activities. Unfortunately, unplugging myself from the web is not practical for me.

One of the best techniques I've found to reduce procrastination and thus distractions is making lists. Lists work for me because I feel a sense of accomplishment every time I finish something on the list(even if it's the smallest thing.) I've found lists really helpful for decomposing complex tasks too.

Another technique I've been using more of lately is to prioritize a very small task to do the next time I sit down to work. Smaller tasks are less daunting and I tend to do them quickly to get them out of the way. This prevents me from starting my day with any distracting activity (ex. checking email, reading news etc.)
I know the article was about marketing.
I just wanted to look at the distribution of points in the first place. And see if I can discover anything interesting.

Your questions are valuable hints.

Why are you so concerned about the new page? Perhaps I should have made clearer that my focus was on the comments not so much on the articles.
Yes.

For each n, please state how many comments got exactly n points.

Is this precisely enough?
Upvote Borges reference!
Perhaps. The data may have "left the barn" but all updates to that data are done through Facebook itself. People are really bought into Facebook, I don't see it going anywhere anytime soon.

That said, Friendster failed, and so can Facebook (and even Google). It will just take some time, and something pretty unique, to replace it.
[yc news bug] - visit main page, wait until content changes, "More" link expires
A bug in news.ycombinator.com:

If you visit the main page and wait until the content on the main page changes, then click "More", the site reports an unknown or expired link.
Thanks for the link. I'm looking at it now.

> What sort of contracts?

I'm not sure how to answer this. It's basically an agreement saying we'll pay the authors X% of the proceeds from book sales every month.

We are a Delaware C corp.
Well, Paris is a statistical outlier in that respect.

Even still, I still have that primal human urge to look out my window and see trees. I think suburbanism can be done badly too, but is also very pleasurable done well.
Maybe Scribd is going to be acquired and porn is a big red flag for most companies that want to buy them.

Can someone refresh my memory, when did reddit remove their NSFW page -- before or after the CondeNest acqusition?
Yeah, you're actually better served by Cafepress (at least in terms of price) in small quantities. I think a lot of the reason ours were so bad was we used a lot of half tones and the ink didn't take well.

It did fade rapidly too. Luckily we only got a handful of them.
>Maybe people like to [...] and drive their own car to work

>[...] without [...] paying $3k a month for a tiny one bedroom apartment in a smog-ridden city.

Or maybe those morons just can't put two and two together.
My site: http://www.startuplogic.com aggregates jobs from 4 different websites.. hope you like it.
Desktop 10 has "C:\".
>Maybe that's why his Wikipedia bio makes such conspicuous mention of his total lack of credibility.

I've just edited that. Now it sais he's very credible.
Unfortunately this is just all about money. If you read the history of Icahn - especially in the 80's - he was/is a tenacious corporate raider who is more than happy to take a company, split it into component parts and sell it all for a profit. He's only interested in making money from this. As an investor you can see why he's doing it - he's not interested in the company for running it because of any future potential. He see's value in its share price right now and what he can get for it. Yahoo is still a great company, that is currently overshadowed by Google. They (the directors) do have a duty to their shareholders though, which is what this is all about. It will be interesting to see how it goes, but its going to get more complicated I think
It has felt kind of like the corporate support has waned a bit in recent years...and some of it (like scientific computing, which was momentarily a bright spot for commercial Perl) has gone elsewhere, like Python. I worked on SciPy and for its corporate sponsors at Enthought for a couple of years, and it was very interesting to note the difference between the two cultures and where development was/is coming from. A very large percentage of Python development, including development of the language itself, is happening within the corporate world, while Perl is almost entirely volunteer driven.

I'm not sure the volunteer nature is entirely positive. Ruby, with the advent of the extremely commercially oriented Ruby on Rails, saw tremendous growth in a very short time. It takes a combination of forces to build products that are beautiful inside and out, and even the best Perl projects only ever really get the inner beauty going on. We've got more/better libraries than any other language, and yet, folks think coding in PHP is easier. It's a strange phenomenon.

I think what I'm trying to say is: The Perl community needs more great web designers. Oh, wait...We're talking about money and Perl 6. Right. So, having real money to get Perl 6 out the door faster is the definition of awesome.

Anyway, we're doing our part: We're sponsors of the upcoming YAPC, and plan to crank up our involvement (both monetarily and codewise) in the community by an order of magnitude over the next year.
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"I of course understand this would be a lot of work."

Understatement of the year.
I think it was shortly after, but it's since been reinstated. They said at the time that they removed it because it wasn't being used as they wanted. People just submitted porn, rather than normal content that happened to be NSFW. (Looking at the page now, that still seems to be the case.)
if I'm being honest, I think I prefer Vista to all of those, excepting perhaps the mockup, #1.
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There is a book called "be the pack leader" of Cesar Vidal. It talks about the strange things dogs do because of their alien environment. We are not designed for working 8 hours a day only.

when I'm working that way I need distractions, because I need to talk with people, I need to exercise, I need to go out.

When I'm on vacations I need to work. It's an equilibrium.
Striking Back With Social Networks
The Perfect Desktop - Fedora 9
what is it with the constant talk of scalability these days?
scalability isn't to do with a certain language or platform, it's just due to good efficient design.
Entrepreneurial internships...
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As Long As We Are Rethinking Yahoo's Board
Is the world’s food system collapsing?
Use cases and UML can be useful for communicating analysis and design. Planning is really a way to help relieve anxiety that you have about the project. As with any big task if you are unsure of what is involved you might be reluctant to get started on it. But get started you must. Working code is the only way to verify progress. No one cares how lovely the UML looks on paper. In all projects momentum is everything.

What you need to figure out is what you are worried about? Then think through that issue. For example if you want to get things right upfront e.g. make sure it's scalable. It's important to realize that there is no way that is going to happen in a reasonable amount of time. It's probably better to write something that works and make a promise to yourself that you'll find the time to rewrite it.

So how does one get started. I always start by looking at the interface and how it's expected to be used. So a mockup of a webpage. Or example programs on an api. I try and think about what capability is this program going to give me.

Some principles that others have talked about:

1: Get very comfortable with the fact that eventually you are going to have to read code.
2: Now write your code in such a way that you can read it.
3: In a reasonably big project the speed of development depends on how old you think the code is (how familiar you are with it)
4: So get very comfortable with the idea of rewriting or refactoring your code.

Do realize that a uml diagram isn't actually design. It's just a way of capturing a design and a pretty poor one at that. Boxes and Arrows work better and if you are communicating a design a face-2-face session is better that any document. So make a home movie rather than a document.
It will be interesting to talk about later:

"IPv4 only had 256^4 possible names, and we needed more, so we came up with IPv6."
"But how did they get everyone to switch over from version 4 to version 6?"
"Porn."
RescueTime is not a sticky app. You can install it and forget about it completly. Sending money out of my account is something that I see everytime I open my bank account.
I'm just making myself aware that in spending time on these sites, I'm taking away from my on-hand cash and moving it to a location that it will be difficult to extract from. So I'm doubling the loss involved in procrastinating.

The loss is just a short term loss with a longer term profit, but being the animals we are, the short term profit overweighs the long term profit, so I tend to keep this in balance.

Also, if I procrastinate a bit, but them work very effectively, I will earn money to cover for what I lost earlier. So it balances out.
PG Essay Suggestion: Can you tell me what I should wear today? And tell me what to eat for lunch?

On a more serious note, if I were a newly accepted YC company, I don't think I'd want people reading about my interview before I've actually built the product. Now it might be interesting to see what PG thought of, say, Reddit, during the interview, given their successful exit.
Offline Web Apps, Dumb Idea or Really Dumb Idea?
If not an essay about each YC startup, how about a blog about Y Combinator?
A VC: If You Are Looking For Something More Entrepreneurial
I don't want a desktop because I don't want to manage files. It seems unnecessary.
I use GTD - basically break it up into sub projects, create a mind map of what each part will do, then forget about it all, clear your head so you can think properly and not get stressed.

You then browse these pages occasionally and pick out some tasks to put into your next actions list.

Keep at it, and eventually it'll be done, no stress, no overwhelming lists of stuff to do. Works great :)

Id suggest buying the gtd book if you're interested.
this isn't new and its really annoying. I'm assuming it has to do with keeping the session state on the server side, but for something likes this whats the harm on storing the continuation on the client side?
Yes, but certain languages and platforms facilitate it more than others do.
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thanks for the link
... and you just cost me 20 pounds. :)

Looking forward to reading it.
Is your company run by the Mafia?
There seem to be a lot of sites for web startups. How about for systems?
Some languages and platforms are designed with scalability in mind. Erlang forces you to write code in terms of message passing between shared-nothing processes, which means that when you need to scale to multiple cores / machines your code is already designed to do so. Google AppEngine severely restricts the kind of operations you can perform (no File I/O, a persistence engine that doesn't even support aggregate queries) which means that you are forced to design your application in a way that scales.
They start asking for your gmail password? The criminals will just stop using gmail.

The fact that you can just send any incriminating data over the internet instead of carrying it into the country on a laptop/HDD/etc. shows how pointless these searches are. Did I say pointless? Violating.

So basically the only people who get screwed by this are the people who haven't actually done anything wrong but forgot to delete any sensitive/embarrassing content from their drives. The criminals will just use a normal internet connection. Just as with everything else these days: violate the privacy of innocent people as much as possible so they won't notice that they're incapable or too lazy to do any real law enforcement.
So tonight thank God it's them, instead of you.
"We have persistent objects, they're called files." -- Ken Thompson.
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Interestingly, I am revisiting Tim Brady's interview from Founders at work. Tim talks about the early days of Yahoo's traffic and says "The sex category was probably 25% of web traffic, just like the VHS industry when it first got going, and the Internet was no different in that respect".

A year and half or so after launch, Yahoo pulled out all their porn links, in that sense Scribd seems to be doing the same thing.

Porn seems to provide the impetus for early traffic, and, once you get a bit of legs under your business, move away from it seems to be the strategy.
Ask YC: What books on marketing do you recomend?
I'm into buying books now and would like to know, which ones to buy for better (web) marketing understanding?
Ask YC: Hacking, Is it unethical to emulate others designs?
I had to build a bespoke shopping cart, I looked about as to who was doing it right and loved the style of the etsy.com cart, thus I emulated their style, is this unethical in your opinion?

Here are the guilty results:
http://www.vin-bio-vin-biologique.fr
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Arg, how can you be a rails guy if you need this explained?
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> Countersignalling theory predicts that the best strategy for the best candidates is to have a short resume.

I believe that it has mentioned on this forum that exceptional people don't a resume at all and rely entirely on "the sidechannel".
You can't have above-ground lines for such a high-power line.
I would like to see an option for opening links in new windows (or tabs)!
Omniscience
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Doom and gloom titles are such linkbait:-/

Oh, and BTW, no: http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1...
Perhaps people without your super secret self designed software could use http://www.stickk.com/ for something similar.
I can't believe everyone here agrees to this.

This is an incredibly stupid idea for promoting a questionable technology that can't make it into the reality on its own. If the technology is so "right" why isn't everyone switching to it (like IPv4, HTTP, etc)? Because there are problems with it: IPv6 is more complicated than needed for solving the problems it was meant to solve. And finally, advantages of IPv6 are so far only theoretical.

And I just hope this experiment will remain unique in this industry.
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Some great ideas were pushed by the porn business, not porn itself. What we have with IPv6 is a technology that can't find its way "to the masses" other than through porn, or so think the creators of this web site. Just laughable. Picture a porn site that requires you to write a DCOM application for getting the videos.
As a fan of pg, let me be the yang here and say, "Please don't do this, Paul." I like Paul's articles and ideas because I think he brings something unique and different many times. Wasting valuable neurons on something we all know (They got funded b/c they solved a problem, had a plan that we felt they could execute, and were smart enough to see that we create value for them) is just repetitive.

Stay the course, pg :)
Why? So he can re-post the answers to questions people asked him on here?
While we are consumed with worring about our "carbon footprints" and "miles per gallon", I wonder what an analysis of our "accomplishments per calorie" would reveal.

Scary times, indeed.

<returns to sofa with bag of chips>
iPod navigation is great for displaying lists on devices with small, low-resolution screens and limited input. Using that system in a place without those limitations does nothing but make navigation harder because it's artificially hiding and limiting the amount of information visible.
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Here's a corresponding YC link from today titled, "The best Web sites and books about advertising": http://www.slate.com/id/2191446/. It's from slate.com so I doubt there's anything useful though :)

I'm saving this as I'd like to see what others recommend as well.
Differentiate or Die

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got

The Irresistable Offer
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This was the right decision for Scribd. Most of the "adult" content on Scribd was spammy crap anyway, feeble attempts at trying to get people to sign up to Adult Friend Finder or whatever.
>> seems the somewhat successful strategy for building content on these community apps is allowing either illegal or unscrupulous behavior to build traffic, and then nix it when you're big enough to survive on your own.

I think that's purely coincidental. :)
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Would you like HN to be in the.hn?
Oh God, yes.

Strangely enough, my ISP just looked at me like I was crazy when I told them that I wanted to pay for my connection based on the time used.
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Everything from Seth Godin. Permission Marketing, All Marketers are Liers and Purple Cow are my personal favorites.
An E-Commerce Empire, From Porn to Puppies
Mo money = mo problems
I think I'm more qualified to sit on Yahoo's board than most of the current and proposed board members. At least I use Yahoo's services, both in search, search marketing, Flickr, del.icio.us, and their many APIs etc..
I'm of the opinion that languages/platforms shouldn't force programmers to do things. It should be the other way around.
The title of this story is a bit misleading. From the Urban Institute website, the Teach for America teachers were "high-achieving college graduates ... [who in North Carolina] tended to have graduated from more selective colleges and universities". So they're essentially comparing the cream of the crop college graduates with a bunch of experienced (but presumably average) teachers. For the claim in the title to be really tested, high achievers with teaching experience need to be evaluated against high achievers with no experience.

Notwithstanding, I suppose the interesting conclusion is that intelligence and talent beats out experience (on average) in teaching. Ultimately the ideal situation would be to have teachers with intelligence AND experience.

That said however, I personally feel that using test scores as the metric for evaluating teachers is a bit dubious.
www.standoutjobs.com is a great place to find this kind of job
Of all the books and research we've read, these are the ones we've found the most useful information from and influenced a large part of our redesign at Wufoo :

Call to Action
http://www.calltoactionbook.com/
(how to think about landing pages and navigation)

Landing Page Optimization
http://landingpageoptimizationbook.com/
(best technical book on how to measure landing pages, do not buy SEO books, they're all terrible and rehash what you see on most blogs)

Word of Mouth Marketing
http://wordofmouthbook.com/
(sometimes great marketing has nothing to do with what you do on the web)

Made to Stick
http://www.madetostick.com/
(just a great read on how you should shape your copy and ideas so they have maximum sticking power)