skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a great idea for getting new users... make subtle mistakes in articles and then require people to register in order to correct them.

I had actually looked for an "edit" link or a way to e-mail the original author, but I didn't want to go through the hassle of registering before being sure that I'd be able to fix the problems.
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Well, at least they don't drug test...
That might be accurate for shrink wrap software and maybe even shareware, but it's not for free (as in beer) software. I'll grant that it was never specified, but I got the impression this project was being freely distributed -- otherwise he probably wouldn't bother with bugfix releases.

In the free (as in speech) software world, major versions indicate major changes in the software (e.g. gtk+1 vs. gtk+2). A series of minor features, no matter how long, doesn't warrant a new major release number.
If you're ok with the valuation, I'd suggest negotiating a 10% options pool. Also say "we think the board should represent ownership" and give them at most one of them and two of you.

Be sure to have a lawyer look over any term sheets as well. And definitely don't pay any of the investor's legal fees out of your $25k.

My feeling is that this is shady. It's very unusual behavior for a VC to fund a company for so little, or to even want to sit on the board of a tiny company, let alone position themselves to potentially control it.
Open two pages for each link, the link itself and the comments behind that. Don't forget to refresh the comment page when you want to contribute.
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There's definitely a difference between gut feel instinct and emotional processing. There's also a third element, which is analysing data.

The difference lies in how you like to receive, process, and communicate information - for example, speaking personally, I take a lot of time to process a decision because I do so through a range of emotions, while many intuitive people I know make the same decision much faster.

Also be mindful that the power of these influences differ for different people, and there's no right or wrong. Which is right for you?

For more information, check out a company I work with (UK Based) is focussed on these differences - http://www.thinkfeelknow.com/what.html

If that doesn't answer your question, I apologise.
Just out of curiousity, what would you propose instead?
Although the average number of bars you'd need to buy before you win is indeed six. I think almost no one would put the odds of actually winning one by buying six at 100%.
I don't run into the issue, honestly.

The thing I like about Twitter is that it's largely passive- I have Twitterific running in the background with Growl notifications. When the newest Tweets load, whenever that may be, they pop up in the top right corner. When I see tweets come in I usually remember to post, so then I load up Twitterific through a quick Quicksilver keystroke, type in my post, and hit submit.

Because I only message when Twitter has shown itself to be working by sending me the new Tweets I never notice the infrastructure issues outside of TechCrunch's post spam about it in my feedreader. I can see how it would be annoying for more active users, though.
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How about the ability to use hyperlinks in your post?
I've concluded that this is some sort of meta-experiment Eliezer is running to teach us something about science. After all, what evidence do we have that either of these chats even happened? Until we get some, I'm not going to waste any more of my time thinking about it.
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Why would any business want to give you a large amount of free phone numbers?
Linux users can't throw.
Yea, _pretty_ sure that's what the Adobe Reader plugin is for...
Here are few questions you should answer:

1. How far is 25k going to take you? Just to a prototype? A beta version? Basically you have to setup goals and objectives and if this money will help you get there.

2. If you answered to yes to number 1. Then once you get there how much would you value yourself then? Would it have been worth it to give up that % of the company to reach there?

3. What are the criteria for success? Will the VC help you get your next round of funding?

4. What else does the VC bring to the table? Relevant contacts? Better exposure?
One terrible thing about variable-width sites is that they tend to fall apart when you do a full-page zoom like what is built into ie7 (and I've heard Firefox3). Go to Gmail or Google Reader and hit ctrl+. It rapidly becomes a jumbled mess. Conceptually, I'm not sure how a browser developer can really deal with such a thing either.

I run a sports site, which is the bottom of the technological heap, and only 3% of viewers have 800x600 res or below. Google Analytics provides this data. Use it.

I think presenting a better page to 97% and making 3% side scroll is probably a net win. The guy acts like anyone who has to side scroll will just be unable to use your site, though I'd suspect someone with an 800x600 screen is probably used to it.
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lol... that's true ;)

Although I'm going to try to add all the corrections you guys had when I get a chance (probably tomorrow).
Yahoo is full of innovations, but why are they overshadowed by Google all the time?
Tumblr is not a web host.
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The funny thing is that I do believe that Chinese writing and Zen are awesome :)
> I imagine a better, probably open source de-centralized protocol will come, and indeed good folks are working on it.

Links?
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He got exactly the amount of money he requested. $100K is a lot of money considering that there are thousands of others that would have done the same work for a fraction of that.
> Not all stories about politically charged topics are merely political stories.

I think between sources like the FT, The Economist, and various economics blogs, I run into a lot of stories that are interesting to me in that same way, that I would never consider submitting here, because they are pretty much guaranteed to degrade into the same old hashed and rehashed debates.
I have the older one with the smaller screen. It is OK. I swapped the stock OS for ubuntu and bumped the RAM up to 2G. It is great for checking email, skype, and web browsing. It fits into the pocket of one of my jackets. It would be a great travel device , but I use my laptop to offload photos from my digital camera and the SSD just isn't big enough. Since buying a new "regular sized" laptop at the end of February I haven't turned the EEE on once.
Following in Apple's footsteps? ;) To this day I still have friends who call it "Mac OS X" instead of "Mac OS 10", not realizing it's actually a version number..and it's been what, 10 years? It doesn't help that Apple often advertises it as "Mac OS X version 10.(whatever)".

If you're not ready for a 1.0 and you don't like the 0.10 number, just keep the 0.9.x version number until you are. Or skip 0.10 and go to 0.11 which might be slightly less confusing because the zero isn't there?

Personally I agree with you. Sometimes it's confusing because 0.10 looks like 0.1.0 or sometimes 0.1.
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I'm sure I'm in the minority here for thinking this (and by all means, downmod away) but Stallman is clearly a touch insane. His obsession with free software is far beyond the bounds of reason. The Windows on XO issue aside, disabling Wi-Fi just to not run one proprietary piece of code is silly, even if you wouldn't use Wi-Fi anyway.

Everyone needs a religion I guess, even people who surf the web by sending mail to demons.
Do you have an email address? I am impressed that you managed to cheat the system rather well, get noticed, and not be banned. Hopefully you understand the way it works now.

This community here is great in that the system works and the best content makes it to the front page. Generally the community is offended by the notion that anyone would ever actively solicit votes for a story rather than letting the system decide. It's basically a taboo topic.

News.YC is at the opposite end of the spectrum as digg, where secret cabals of top ranked diggers choose the stories on the front page.

Anyways, please send me an email or post yours in your profile so we could talk about social media. There is a feature on this site where your email address is only available to site admins. You have to put in a despammed version in your about me.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46100
This guy is going to be a Screen Actor's Guild hero; his career is set.
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The HN system works better than any other I have seen (it's kept me in line whenever I was tempted into adding noise rather than value).

I don't think degradation of HN over time is unavoidable, clearly a lot of smart people here put energy into resisting this force of nature.

One challenge is how to preserve the HN code of conduct. I've noticed some misunderstand the voting system as an agree/disagree button. I think the software should notice patterns that don't look right, such as both up- and downvotes on the same comment (popularity contest alert).

Good people + good tools = good HN.
I'm guess it's from the phrase 'batshit crazy'.

But yeah, he's got my vote too...
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It all depends on who you follow and who follows you and how you interact with them. You can meet some really cool people on twitter and keep really up to date on the latest news, but ultimately what you reap is a function of what you sow.
I disagree, for the most part. I think that in most large development shops, more time is spent reading code than writing code (think of the number of minutes each day spent actually typing versus those spent looking at the monitor) and that being able to clearly comprehend what has been written is extremely important. .

It is clear that well written, well documented code is easier to read than poorly written, poorly documented code. But, for the purposes of Bill's argument, we can assume the code in question is of average quality.

We know enough of Bill's 1986 context to assume that the code he is referring to would be C++ or Assembler. (Included in the book are some pages of the 8080 code for BASIC, written by Bill.) Naturally, the number of pages would vary for different languages, but the argument can be adjusted accordingly.

Finally: building code that satisfies requirements and works perfectly is a noble goal. The question is: is there any test than can be given quickly that acts as decent predictor for this ability? I think Bill's test is not too bad in this regard.
Hank, good article, and good defense of your article here on HN. Regarding the knee-jerk negative responses you've received here, I can only say that you are a more patient man than I. Best of luck with your current project.
It is my impression that both Stallman and Negroponte have completely lost the plot on the OLPC. Surely, the whole point of the project was to deliver an educational tool to children - in particular the children of the poor who would otherwise be denied access to good teaching and effective learning experiences.

It looks to me that Negroponte just wants to ship boxes and somehow "beat" competitors in the new ultra low cost market that the OLPC has created. Stallman just wants it to use software that meets his definition of "free". All focus on education seems to have been lost.

I had strong doubts about the educational value of the project up front but without that component being the most important then the project has lost it's purpose. Simply making "third world" children familiar with XP or a Linux distro does not seem worth the effort - the project needs to re-evaluate itself and focus again on it's original stated goal.
The money they are offering is really awful. Also remember that the "outside expert" on the board is almost certainly controlled by them.

Also they have the second round defined because they know that $25k will not be enough and they will want to get more shares when you are in situation where you really need the cash.
Have you checked http://www.thefunded.com too?
I modded you up. In my opinion it is good to have an XP in OLPC. Children can learn Windows, which is a de-facto standard in corporate world, so they will be prepared better for their professional future.
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On the term sheet, a valuation that gives the VCs 5-6% of the company and no company board. It's a reasonable valuation for an idea-stage startup when the investor is not YC. Most investors I know of at this stage offer better valuations than YC. A couple VC firms even give out free money. Of course none of the other firms are Y Combinator, where like Sequoia it would be a good deal to just give them equity for free. None of the other investors at this stage have been proven to provide a compelling value to their startups, but it seems obvious that a competent incubator that invests without asserting control is much better off for a startup than no incubator.

I think I would refuse to do the deal if they refuse to negotiate, though giving them 10% would be acceptable if they were reasonable about the process. Though it's really a bad sign that they proposed such a manipulative deal. I wouldn't want any of these guys on the board or to have a right to invest, because it torpedoes future deals if they don't do a follow-on investment. Lightspeed Summer Grants offers 500k investments to some startups coming through their program, but it's an offer, not an obligation.

But, if the idea was mediocre, no other investor would talk to me, I didn't have a job, I had no marketable skills, I had no place to live, and someone was offering me $25k dollars in check form, I'd probably just start the company and do whatever the VCs said. It's certainly possible that they will run the company well.

If the idea was the next facebook, or already was, I'd make a new post sharing the idea here as a document hosted on my site. At least one person has successfully raised funding by posting their executive summary here (slide deck or YC application would also be fine), I believe they offered to sell 5% for $25,000.

There are more investors out there, some even answer cold emails. Try asking for intros here, there are a lot of powerful lurkers. Or, make something great and wait until the next round of incubators.

--

These guys have usernames here and talked to me: http://www.tandementrepreneurs.com/

http://crv.com/quickstart also responded to me.
You could (but it's probably too late for that) not use dots as separators.

My employer uses the same version scheme for all products: rXpY-revZ, e.g. r2p1-rev7.
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It's only necessary to capitalise the first word of a title. Why do the rest?
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Yay, after my first week of playing with Lisp I built something that I really like but for ye olde advanced hacker this is probably kiddy stuff.

http://www.roxority.com/roxbase/

Still, I'm so fond of this whole new world I have to announce this small step and (proclaim 'im-on-a-natural-high)

Back to more scientific/biz news / work! ^^
Because the mainstream press doesn't adhere to that style convention.
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There's a really good quote by a guy named Mark Kroese (who's apparently in charge of this stuff) in the Seattle PI: "We're thinking about the integrity of the user experience, and the appropriate way of doing this, where it feels like there's value exchange, as opposed to, 'Oh, this is just ads,'" Link: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/139268...
Using links and images in a post.

> Why not?

Because Blogger, WordPress, etc are customized for blogs! This site is a forum, not a blog per se.
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Wow, yeah, that one is fairly obvious huh...
I think he has an interesting point about why these types of sites don't work very well. But I think he's wrong to say that there isn't any technological solution - you just have to do away with the idea that everyone is equal.

How about this as a solution:
* Everyone can write comments.
* Only moderators can vote on comments
* Only moderators can submit articles
* The number of moderators is fixed (at say... 1000?)
* If a moderator hasn't moderated in the last 3 months, they are removed from the moderator list, opening up a vacancy.
* The person that replaces the removed moderator is the commenter with the highest average point score for their comments (ie total points/number of posts), provided they have posted in the last month. It may be necessary to add a minimum total points score as well (say 100 points, and then it's the person with at least 100 points, and the highest average that becomes moderator).

This type of system should ensure that only things that interest people that themselves have been found to have interesting things to say will get voted up. There will still be trolls, but they won't be voted up.
>Reddit was created as a better Digg

No.
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Your concern is valid, but a bit misplaced. Rentec is actually one of the (very) few funds that seem not to bullshit their investors and have a fully rational investment strategy.

Majority of 'hedge' funds are simply volatility sellers in one form or another. They run disproportionate and unannounced risks of instant death. Again, it seems like Renaissance is not this type of a firm, even though it can have a few bad months.
A book I want to read on that exact subject: http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2008/05/11008.php
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The fact they're even thinking of this means I won't be considering a Zune. So they say it's "opt-in", but if that turns out to be a failure, they might decide well, OK, you know, that one didn't fly but maybe if we just pushed it a little harder, played a small, compulsory commercial before you could listen to the music you downloaded, maybe that would work...
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From wikipedia: "Instinct is the inherent disposition of a living organism toward a particular behavior. Instincts are generally inherited patterns of responses or reactions to certain kinds of stimuli."

I don't think you want to follow this in running your startup. I would rather recommend Intuition, or following a higher, above-rational understanding, rather than your animal reflexes. Intuition is most effective when not clouded by emotions, hence by becoming emotionally detached you can better use Intuition.
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Ask YC: Toolkit for python desktop applications
I am new in developing desktop applications in python (i.e. coming from a web applications background) and i want to know the best toolkit or framework to develop my desktop applications.I have heard of dabo,but are there any others?
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Wow, this is brilliant. Well-written analysis and explanation on how Quicksort and Heap sort differ, and ideas on how they might be improved. Understandable to mortals, no less!
Strange article.

The author writes: "Given that Wikipedia’s stated vision is to give every single person in the world free access to the sum of all human knowledge, you might guess it was started by scientists eager to collect all of human knowledge into a single source. [...] Even today, contributing to Wikipedia is regarded as a low-value activity by most professional scientists."

What he seems to be ignoring is that the means that Wikipedia chose also allows "read/write" access to that "sum total of human knowledge," and that part of the reason that scientists might regard editing Wikipedia as a "low-value" activity is that their contributions stand a significant chance of being reverted or mangled by pretty much anyone with a keyboard.
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Who convinced the AI to join HN?
I like gentoo's versoning system which is based on the year.number. less confusing. you could use the full date too.
"Our evolutionary psychologists begin to guess at the aliens' psychology, and plan out how we could persuade them to let us out of the box. It's not difficult in an absolute sense - they aren't very bright - but we've got to be very careful..."

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/05/faster-than-ein.html
Have you looked into pyQT? At least that will allow your app to run on Mac, Windows and Linux!
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will check it out.
install YC backed Virtualmin on debian and you can save all this.
I forgot to add this, is there a framework or toolkit that i can use to develop something like windows forms? without writing the code?
For the Windows platform, you could always get a copy of "Programming Windows" by Charles Petzold and call the Win32 API directly (not really recommended). For a native Windows look I suppose that Iron Python would be optimal as it has full access to the .NET Framework.The Mono project has made that effectively portable to the other supported platforms but you would end up having to immerse yourself in the .NET world view.

Otherwise I get the impression that most other GUI kits for Python have a "look" of their own and are thus going to stand out a bit on any given platform.

I will certainly be tracking this post to see what suggestions come up - thanks for posting the question.
Neither have I. If you care one bit about security, that's the first thing you'll find out about PHP and as you said, they are being eliminated from the php.ini file in php6 and will need to explicitely turned on in your scripts.
I believe wxPython is the one that's used most often. But most toolkits such as QT and GTK have python bindings as well.
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it should be mentioned that pyQT requires you to choose either GPL as the licence for your software, or purchase a commericial QT licence.

http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/pyqt4r...

If you don't like that (for example, you don't want to distribute your code as mandated by the GPL but don't want to pay for QT), another good platform-independent GUI toolkit is wxPython:

http://wxpython.org/
thanks for your response but i am also thinking along the lines of platform portability.
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