skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's awesome. I didn't know clicky existed.

I really like your features as listed and shown in the demo. They're almost a match for the things Woopra is showing off in their current beta. Your prices sound awesome, so we may give you a shot, too, especially when the free beta ends.

I'll be watching to see what next features you guys add. I'm a huge fan of real-time visitor analysis and you look promising. Good luck!
Sweet, and a nice API to boot!

For your site limits, how is that counted? We're launching a new service with lots of aliases to essentially the same site (sub domains for different users), but on our server it's just one physical site handling it all. Would that be considered multiple sites in your system? If so, that may not work out (we'd quickly exhaust the 20 in your mega plan), but if not then we may be able use it. Thanks for the link!

PS. Looking at your Roxr page, sounds like you guys are doing pretty well with Clicky -- right on! :)
"On your death bed, you might wish somebody had worked harder at their company to cure whatever's killing you"

Or you may wish that you hadn't eaten the nutrionless high calorie corporate created food products that lead to your chronic disease? Or maybe it was the corporate toxic wasted dumped in the river upstream from your small town, while the corporate CEO lived on the other side of the country in a mansion and couldn't care less about the environment in your small town?

Don't get me wrong, I agree with you too. But you are only half right.
That page seems to only be talking about the switch from their old to their new javascript include, which is still hosted by them... But without email notices, hosting it yourself isn't really a viable or stable option unfortunately.
I love how people feel that collecting data they're broadcasting into the open with no expectation of privacy is a privacy violation.

Think of it as your neighbors recording when the lights in your house are on or off. It may be weird, but it's hardly wrong.
Seriously. I skimmed through looking for numbers, but having found nothing, I went to the HN comments section. I feel I made a good decision by not reading the article.
Asimo is a horrible robot. Biomechanically, It just doesn't scale to a real walking system.

Here is the most useful video of Asimo you can find online:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ASoCJTYgYB0
I definitely was trying to bring these sort of situations into light, but my attempt was poor.

As a general followup, and providing far more personal information than I ever do online, my father is currently hospitalized. He has a few things wrong with him, but several are almost certainly tied to chemicals he used at work. This was the reason I posted the 'corporations can be evil' post. It is why I feel strongly that we need to improve the current system to include some social and environmental costs of certain corporations.

I do understand that will not happen soon, and we are forced to work within the rules of the current system.
Good social development statistics doesn't mean the people are happy with their lives. As I see, the article takes the results for granted without any doubt and then speculates and searches for the reasons. I'd at least search for the polls that ask if the people are optimistic/pessimistic, consider themselves happy/unhappy.

Though, I believe, standing far from the noisy Europe, maybe far from the consumption rush, they may feel calm, happy and optimistic. That's great.

> "The study was lent some credibility by the finding that the Russians were the most unhappy."

Yes, if you assume the myth that life in Russia very unpleasant, the study gets credibility. On the other hand, in the year the study was made, other studies showed Russian population to be the most optimistic in the history, thanks to fast economic growth and, I think, to breaking the pessimistic soviet mentality.
> I personally found Russian culture and way of perceiving the world too depressive.

Examples?
"Influence," by Robert Cialdini - although it's not necessarily packaged as a marketing book.
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"The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR," by Al and Laura Ries.
Hey Mystalic - Thanks for the compliment. It's great to see people using CoNotes.

To everyone else, I am the founder of CoNotes, which is another resource available for startup positions. Currently there are over 500 companies and 200 openings available. I'd love to hear people's thoughts.

Thanks.
Certainly true.
That would be bigger than Google.
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The article starts with "I hate wasting time passively watching that TV stuff", then makes a weak point admitting that wasting time on editing or reading Wikipedia is useful. Then it ends pointing in the opposite direction: "But let professionals do their job and let's just consume what there's on the market".
Ding!

Bill could hang out on the sidewalk in front of Yahoo and hand out a billion bucks (total) in hiring bonuses to people who know how to spell "Java," and it'd be far, far cheaper.
He could just as easily named the article "As seen on TV" and then it would be cryptic and enticing, rather than sensationalist. But I guess it worked, I read the article anyway. He makes a rather roundabout way of dissing groupthink, but hey, its his blog.
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"More respondents were worried about U.S. immigration officials (70 percent) than about crime or terrorism (54 percent) when considering a trip to the country."

Agreed, the US seems to be an exceptionally safe country - especially if you happen to come from countries outside of N/W Europe. And I think the average US immigration official would also be considered substantially friendlier than the average consular officer in those countries.
I've got a few pretty cool domain names. I'll give them away, to you, if your idea is good for what you want to do with it. This is also an interesting experiment in how people think about intellectual property vs. execution in the startup world.
This hits the nail on the head. Facebook achieved its massive user base by offering simple, worthwhile web apps (e.g. events and photos). They should be concerned about staying relevant to their users, not controlling where they do and don't go.

The platform is great and all, but what is FB itself doing to keep me engaged? Why aren't they pushing video harder? Where is music? Why does Facebook lag so far behind MySpace in both these areas?
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I think a number of us would agree that good domain names help, they lend something that is easy to remember, like a jingle, and help with SEO, but the Internet is full of successful businesses with not terribly cool names. Take NewEgg. Is that from Egghead? They say not (probably for legal reasons) but there is nothing special about their name until they made it a brand. If you product is compelling enough, you could call it polished turd and it would be a success. Can anyone here come up with their favorite successful business with a crummy name?
That candy and soda count as a perk indicates the demographic Facebook is trying to woo to work there.
ugh, i got the path problem, whats the answer for that one?
You have to admire someone trying to do better than just "a better EverQuest/Ultima Online" (which is basically what World of Warcraft is) or a better Quake (Half-Life, Unreal Tournament) or whatever, but it can also really backfire on you.

The micromanagement in Black and White was terrible. "Villagers need food!"
Depends on the size of the grid :)
Ask YC: Should you take 'dumb' seed money?
When looking for seed funding, what would you do if the only available option were a family or friend (not a 'real' angel investor)?

I ask this question because it might seem tempting to simply take the money and get cracking. But, would it be better practice to force yourself to raise a real angel round? The idea being that, if you can't get an investor to commit, either your idea is bad or you won't cut it as a founder.
Are there any video sites with native support for AVCHD? Both Yahoo Video and Youtube require me to convert my videos to MPEG first, which wastes a lot of time and reduces the quality.
Iceland also has the most discos per capita out of any country in Europe.

I've been to Iceland many years ago. The people I met during my brief stay there seemed as happy as anywhere else. Then again, I didn't meet many people because it was too cold to go out most of the time.

BTW, don't be fooled by this whole "iceland is warm and greenland is cold" thing. Iceland is very, very cold. There's nothing to break the wind on the volcanic lava...it was the coldest I've ever been.
"The study was lent some credibility by the finding that the Russians were the most unhappy."

...and the Guardian's credibility was ripped to shreds when turns out that Russia did NOT score lowest on the UN Human Development Index report (as seen at http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/)

Russia is number 67 out of 70 in the "highest development" section, and number 67 out of 177 total. Sorry, Guardian.
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Its a 7 * 3 grid for me, I answered 49 :-( now I'm anxious!
I run nPost and would welcome feedback on the site. We try and focus solely on tech startup jobs. We also featured over 200 interviews that we have done with startups including Disqus, and others.

If you would like to contact me you can do so at nathan (at) npost (dot) com.
Agreed--from experience. It hurt when our startup failed(after initial success), and really hurt for a few months. Laying people off (mainly ourselves), shutting down the business....it's very deflating. You hear statistics like "90%" of startups fail--but you don't hear much else about failure. Rarely are the gory details revealed. On the other hand, every success is well documented and the intricate detailed are talked about ad nauseam. It's very rare to talk about failure with anyone at these Startup Events, IME.

One thing I can say about failure: being young definitely helps. We had a lot less to lose than older people and plenty of opportunities to do different things when that didn't work out. It wasn't easy to fail but I've bounced back and am happy working in the non-startup world(though I've still been working on side projects still, mostly for fun).
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Introducing the Google Maps API for Flash
It seems that phones also transmit a phone number along with the IMEI code; and a phone number certainly isn't anonymous.

Discussion is in the comments here:
http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/mapping-computer-techniques-to...
Could programmers be developing an interest in something beyond the size of the installed base?

You mean, like developing something that they think is cool? Are programmers even allowed to do that??

But any increase in Mac and Linux development is surprising

Not really. Even thought usage numbers for both are still small, I'm pretty sure both are increasing. So it's only natural for developers to increase interest.
Isn't that always the way with mainstream press - either a) you look into a subject or b) you know about subject, and you find in all cases they are far from correct.

I would almost think that the mainstream press is badly wrong 90% of the time. How does that effect our world view?
I can think of many companies that, at their inception, raised money anywhere they could in order to get to the stage that they could test and develop their ideas.

If you have family or friends that can give you some cash to get your business going, I say go for it.

Plus, it's going to be VERY difficult to get angels to invest in the pre-"getting cracking" stage if you don't have those existing relationships.
India’s hottest start-ups
This is by no means an exhaustive list, there are tons of other startups in India which could have made this list.

fyi: 1 crore = 100 Lacs (Lakhs) = 10,000,000 = 10 million
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"But any increase in Mac and Linux development is surprising"

I don't know about Linux, but the installed base for OSX/XCode just doubled in one year, with the release of the iPhone platform. I am a Mac user since forever, but it was this major increase in the user base that finally encouraged me to get off my butt and get back into desktop app programming.
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You got lucky. Mine was 66x36. I wasted a lot of time googling for a copy of pascal's triangle with 100 rows and eventually gave up and learned how to get big integer support in perl. So, I guess I'm happy I didn't get such a trivial question.
Are you sure? The first grid I got was more like 38 * 53. The picture is not the actual grid problem.
Well, I don't have any kids, but I do have lots of friends that are raising their children whilst living in Paris.

The first thing to note is that there is generally a park somewhere nearby where the children can play. Not always, but most of the time. I imagine there aren't many families living in the areas without parks.

Secondly, for families with kids under the age of about 10 (when they can start to navigate streets on foot all by themselves), there's always the suburbs. But once kids are old enough to get around by themselves, I would think that they appreciate living in the city as much as I do.

Thirdly, places like Clichy Sous Bois are pretty much the exact worst solution to providing living space. It's like they've taken the worst bits of suburbia, and the worst bits of urban living, and mashed them together, taking great care that none of the good parts are included.
"Unfortunately, your answer was not correct. Try again landlubber!
There will more questions over the coming weeks, and the first person to answer them all correctly will win a prize, so keep trying!"

Am I missing something? It looks have no chance at the prize now but they want me to keep trying? For what? Self flagellation?
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You have two major choices, NAnt and MSBuild. I recommend you learn MSBuild and how to deal with visual studio with it. That way you'll be more effective in the long run.

Unless, of course, you're not using the MS toolchain. Then NAnt is the only real choice.
Also, you should seriously consider replacing NUnit with mbUnit. It's far more powerful and will save you a lot of time once you get comfortable with it.
Beyond Threaded Comments
Most blog forums contain debates not discussions. People tend to only respond to thoughts with which they either totally agree, or totally disagree. People who sort of agree or sort of disagree just read on. This concept gone nuclear (reddit) makes comment sections arenas for extremes even when most readers are not necessarily extreme.

Threaded discussion forums are more fit for pleasant campfire conversations than debate. Debates need an arena more like a game show with two or more teams taking turns against e/o.

You can classify comments in three ways:

+ Agrees with point, goes further in depth.

- Disagrees with point, explains why.

0 Neutral. Kind of a wildcard. Could be used to clarify something unknown to both sides or to say something really funny.

Anyone can jump in on any side. Comments can be modded on PG's "How to Disagree" scale, DH1-DH6.

Lots of debates come down to personal preference but at least you'd be able to easily break down the supporting arguments for "foo" being better than "bar" if you're looking to buy one or the other.

News.yc is a bit different. There is a fair amount of, "Ask YC" and other posts that fit the campfire model better than the debate model. Perhaps only deeply nested comment trees, usually signifying tit-tat style discussions, should fall into the debate model.

Thoughts?
They're not limiting themselves to C++. But, view it from a different perspective:

1) C++ is a superset of C (to some extend, this isn't 100% true, but most concepts in C are applicable to C++)

2) If you know C++, it is a little bit easier to grok Java

3) I heard most of their back-end stuffs are written in C++

I also read news about Google being a huge Python company. But to be honest, I haven't heard a product that they shipped that is written in Python.

Python is big internally where they need tools to support their development.

PS:

- GAE library does not count as their product

- Exclude YouTube because they chose Python on their own
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It seems that the bottom-line regarding procrastination goes something like this. You can use any of many available tools to try and keep you from being distracted. But if you 'do not want' to do what you need to do, then its very difficult. I read a statement a while back which has stuck with me to this day....i cannot remember the source.

"Some people are unfortunately motivated by stress, rather than being motivated by discipline"
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I've always thought "Yahoo" was pretty bad. After all, the word traditionally means some uncivilized hooligan. But look where they are, now.

In any case, I think it's not so much that the name matters, but if you have a good product that people hear about frequently, the name simply becomes a few phonemes associated with that company and loses all other meaning. That's why my friends Kimmo, America, and Pooja used to have names that sounded ridiculous to me, but now the names almost seem natural as labels.
It's legit, the Official Google Blog links to it:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/google-treasure-hunt-...

It would be have been easy to setup a phishing site since anybody in the beta can host something on appspot.com
These are interesting insights, but Scoble is basing all of his points on the current version of Friendfeed.

Surely, in the future, most of these problems will be solved (at least to some degree). The people behind Friendfeed are not stupid.
There are eleven million commercial flights each year. [1] Each one gets taxed $5 after 9/11 for "extra security measures" (just look on your plane ticket receipt). That's already $66 million each year for pointless security considerations that any Redditor or Digger will reasonable explain to you are useless.

[1] http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/34532

By the way, it would be nice to avoid politics on HN.
Over the last several decades I've been reading articles in the US/UK press of the "it's so glorious to live in Scandanavian welfare state X". The young whippersnappers that read HN won't remember these, of course. In the past, X was almost always Sweden. In Sweden and other Scandanavian countries there was always plenty of criticism of the US and its racial problems and how they didn't suffer any of those. Then they began to import non-Scandanavians and things changed. Malmo, Sweden now has the highest rape rate in the developed world.

Author Bruce Bawer, a political liberal, published a book critical of evangelical Christians years ago and then moved to Norway to marry his partner (they're gay). Here's what he werote a few weeks ago: (http://memo.brucebawer.com/)
"During the nine years and two weeks that I've lived in Oslo, I've seen the city change significantly -- for the worse. I don't remember exactly when it started reminding me of New York in the 1970s and 80s, but by now the resemblance is undeniable. Burglary, rape, gay-bashing, mugging, graffiti, vandalism: you name it, we've got it in spades, and it's still on the rise. Public stabbings and gang fights have become routine...The statistics are dire. Last month came news that the rate of reported crimes in Oslo is now four times that of New York; last week it emerged that Oslo's rape figures reached an all-time high in 2007; today it was reported that over 99 percent of street robberies in the city go unsolved. To any unblinkered individual who lives here, these statistics are no surprise. Yet civic authorities, faced with the steady erosion of law and order, exude indifference and ineffectuality."

As for Iceland, it elected a government in the late 1980's that enacted a number of free-market reforms and, by an amazing coincidence, the economy took off. "Much of the nation’s prosperity is the result of free-market policies, including a 36 percent flat tax on labor income, a 10 percent flat tax on capital income, and a corporate tax rate of just 18 percent (down from 50 percent at the end of the 1980s)." http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2008/02/21/iceland-and-taiwan... Amazingly, The Guardian couldn't find space to mention any of that.
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Honestly, both Sweden, Denmark and Norway have growing problems with influx of immigrants and refugees, who are unable to contribute, but nonetheless must be offered the same benefits as everyone else. This is creating a dangerous backlash.

To say that you can't generalize about work ethic and business integrity just shows a lack of experience. Please travel to the rest of the world.

The reason our countries are like this is what's been hinted at: Affluency and homogenous cultures. The real test of a society, in my opinion, is what happens when you have to adapt? When diverse groups join or sources of wealth become scarcer.

In this regard the American model has really proven itself: Let everyone in, but expect them to make it work for themselves instead of having everything handed to them. (Unfortunately, lately America is preferring the Fort Apache model.)
I've spent a fair while using GP in some of my research.

If anyone's interested in more information or current applications:

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/

The above has a huge collection of papers dedicated to it and is fairly up to date.

http://www.genetic-programming.org/ also has a chunk of information.
Someone suggested this in the "How to Disagree" thread, PG didn't want to do anything that would seem to encourage debate over discussion.