skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting, thanks - also for the other replies by davidw and wmf.
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you really need to work on your site. What is it for, why is there no info about the purpose of the site, where is your design? Why should I as a user find any value in your service? What is your service anyway?

Traffic from digg is inherently ephemeral. No stickiness. A few years ago digg traffic was a useful way to launch a site or product. My old firefox extension Cacheout! made the front page and I eventually had 10000 regular users. Nowadays the alpha adopters no longer pay attention to digg as a first mover news source. Digg is increasingly irrelevant. Too much noise, no signal.
Real-World Analytics: Shops secretly track customers via mobile phone
His points might be valid, but I don't think his style is going to make much of a difference. He's preaching to the choir. Somehow I've avoided suburbs my entire life, so I'm not sure of their merits or pitfalls.

However, I did grow up in a small town that would be considered ugly by his standards. If some douchebag from upstate new york showed up and told everyone our town wasn't worth defending because there wasn't a euro-style plaza surrounded by cafes and pubs, he would have been told to go fuck himself. People get angry when someone says their home sucks... because they live there. I get irrationally mad when people dis the place where I've chosen to live (SF), even though it is hard to argue with their criticisms (too expensive, crazy people everywhere, smells like pee, tons of sanctimonious assholes, etc).
No, it really depends on the teacher. My precalculus teacher (probably the best math teacher I've ever had) gives progressively harder tests/quizzes as we learn more about each topic. He ignores the textbook and writes the tests himself.

(Incidentally, we've recently been covering derivatives.)
Nice. I like flat desktops; I will never understand the appeal of faux-3D interface elements.

I must, however, confess to a weakness for transparent terminals.

http://scratch.flyoverblues.com/screen.png
I have actually enjoyed it. Author makes well-reasoned argument, no partisan attacks, not obvious fallacies, no inflaming of passions. Well worth the read.

I personally suspect the food shortage story is very convenient PR to the oil companies so there may be a connection there.

Over the long term there is going to be battle between old energy and new energy. Old one is well entrenched with money and, ahem, connections. New one has much better, greener, more humane PR story on its side and goodwill is an enormous asset - ask Google. From this angle it makes sense attack new energy where it hurts the most - undermine the message itself.
Before talking about your idea to others, consider applying for a patent, if this is a feasible option (e.g. business process patent). Then it could eventually be better protected, and pose a barrier to entry for competitors. Make sure to only disclose your idea under NDA before you file the patent application.

Once you have filed a patent application, you should definitely talk about your idea, since you'll have to convince potential partners and investors of it.
Analogies are not 100% accurate and you may have to sacrifice precision to deliver colorful message in short time frame.

Which is the whole point of escalator pitch.
Clippy Version 2.0 Patented
It's Not The Data, It's The Flow
I'm pretty sure it uses kernel events (epoll, kqueue, /dev/poll) if available.
I prefer to be open about things. For example: http://48hrlaunch.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/which-problem-sho...

Here's how I look at things:
* Most people won't think your idea is as good as you think it is... because it's probably a lot more evolved in your head than what you're saying out loud.
* People who do think your idea is worth stealing and spending their time & money, will probably do things differently than how you envision it. So their product will not be the same as what you have in your head.
* Most people talk a lot and act very little.
* The upside of telling people is that they can either connect you with people who can help you or give you feedback that might be useful.

The benefits far outweight the risk in most situations... not all... most.
What are you using to serve your fonts?
I get a down-vote for laughing about something that I find funny? Seriously?
I think we might be seeing a bias here.

New teachers care.

In my experience that $80,000/year "experienced" unionized public school teacher stopped caring about teaching before I was born.[1]

[1] Yes I know that this is a gross generalization and that there are very good teachers that educated and inspire throughout their careers simply because thats the kind of people they are. They are rare. Thats why we remember them so fondly.
Microsoft in talks with Yahoo again
What do we want to measure in students? Skills, creativity, "intelligence"...?

Standardized metrics are themselves dubious when we are dealing with highly chaotic systems (see: combinatorial explosion, etc) with drastically different properties.
Microsoft, Yahoo Enter New Talks
>>> import mechanize
The dutch got quite good at growing greenhouse-tomatoes. They have e.g. small very tasty ones that I love.

Complicated regulation and subsidies have an inherent drive to benefit anyone who can afford a lawyer.

(Not that I find big farming bad in itself.)
I don't really know enough about Linux fonts to answer that. The window manager, Ion, does not support Xft because its author hates anti-aliasing, so I'm not sure what is rendering the title bars -- just X, I think. The terminal font is Inconsolata as rendered by rxvt-unicode with Xft support. (Emacs is being run -nw, so it's just using the same terminal fonts.)
> Actually one of the biggest problems we face today is that American corn/wheat/soybean farmers are very heavily subsidized, and it threw the whole global agricultural system out of kilter.

So are and were the European farmers. And that is before you factor in all that recent bio-fuel hype.
Google Finds That Perks Can't Keep Some Employees From Leaving
Back in the day reddit had this post. I wonder what they are doing right now. (But I do not care to look.)
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Build automation is not a waste of time, it's a sound practice among others. See The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html

1. Do you use source control?
2. Can you make a build in one step?
3. Do you make daily builds?
4. Do you have a bug database?
5. Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
6. Do you have an up-to-date schedule?
7. Do you have a spec?
8. Do programmers have quiet working conditions?
9. Do you use the best tools money can buy?
10. Do you have testers?
11. Do new candidates write code during their interview?
12. Do you do hallway usability testing?
Generally, it is. Just wording / thinking of it the wrong way.

New languages and tools arise because of need. Therefore, if you feel forced or uncomfortable with your current tools & languages, use different ones.

People who feel forced and don't understand the particular programming model of Erlang shouldn't be using it. That simple. Google App Engine... that's another story...
I've implemented systems using CruiseControl.Net and have had pretty decent luck with it.

It works fine with SVN.

Here is a good book to get you started:

http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Delivery-Using-CruiseControl-NE...
If you look at his profile he gives his real name and his company and he clearly stands behind and owns his comments. You seem to be pushing "Cluetrain" as some form of political correctness. At some point a company becomes more than a collection of startup founders, which it must to succeed, and makes commitments as a firm based on a working consensus. I don't find it hard to believe that the founders talked over what books had been most useful: for me the "we" sounds natural now hollow.
I guess you can make a killing these days selling high-voltage cables in emerging markets. They have to build their infrastructure, don't they?
I feel bad if they hired your team missing key hacker co-founders. I always thought these incubators picked groups mostly on the team. Besides the small amount that Launchbox is actually offering should guarantee you waste most of your summer on this idea. Better off going your own way.
Why is this on the front page of Hacker News?!?!?!?!@?#?!@?#@!?!@#?#!@
A brief history of functional programming
"To use functions as arguments, one needs a notation for functions, and it seemed natural to use the λ -notation of Church (1941). I didn't understand the rest of his book, so I wasn't tempted to try to implement his more general mechanism for defining functions."
"To use functions as arguments, one needs a notation for functions, and it seemed natural to use the λ -notation of Church (1941). I didn't understand the rest of his book, so I wasn't tempted to try to implement his more general mechanism for defining functions."
how do i add the comment to the mainpost? i posted in the "textarea" but it wasnt included in the post...
The world’s oldest social network
Treating Real-World Customers as Website Visitors
by far, http://www.HotStartupJobs.com/ is probably the best aggregator - everything is on one page. No need to navigate all over the place to search
Lee, I agreed. I just tried the search, which they call it SCAN, it just highlights all the related keywords.
No. It makes them look deseprate imo.
Yahoo, Microsoft Back At The Table
A comprehensive comparison of small laptops
I remember reading that article what seems like years ago, and I think's it's always been hanging around in the back of my mind ever since. It was good to read it again-- like re-watching a good movie.
yeah, having it all on 1 page really makes thing easier and less confusing - it auto refreshes, which is a simple feature - but super useful
Why Iceland has the happiest people on earth
What if we all team up together we can control digg front page
Crossing the Chasm is mostly useful as a reality check for startup founders, i.e. just because you're on TechCrunch doesn't mean you're successful.
Email me to get info.
Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is available
already have some
I believe if you include an url you can't add text to it.
I use Smarty and like it. I've never really ran into something I can't do with Smarty. Look into writing your own plugins and resources.
"should the data fall into the wrong hands."

What sort of wrong hands could make use of data like this???
They would know that a certain IMEI code was in a certain shopping center at a certain time :/ wow.
Since current educational objectives in the U.S.A have shifted from genuine, classroom-centric education to national simplified standardized testing, and schoolteacher skills can only be evaluated on their ability to teach to the test, this result can hardly be surprising. Older, more experienced teachers are distracted by caring about students and schools rather than tests, and do weird things that most of us might recall as great educational experiences that only distract from filling in the right bubbles.

Yes, inexperienced teachers are probably significantly better. Soon, computers with marginally skilled babysitters can take their place. Better yet, since standardized tests are all that matter now, we should just buy computers that can take the standardized tests for the students and be done with it. We'll get simple, easy-to-understand numbers and won't have to trust anyone so unstable as an experienced teacher.

There are somethings we can't measure well, and measuring poorly is only going to deliver a false confidence. I don't propose another metric. I propose we don't measure something we can't.
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing... a must have on any desk.
Best Site to Upload Video To? Want Quality and Portability.
Of course there is Youtube... but quality stinks.
I love Vimeo, but the upload process takes FOREVER.
I used to love VideoEgg, but they killed the consumer part.

Where should I go?!
sorry, probably the wrong wording and cultural differences; some phrases' meaning do not translate well.
Why FriendFeed won’t go mainstream
These days I read it an it seems obvious to me, which means Joel did his job well. The "old" Joel is classic.
That's great taht you're posting this here - THANK YOU.
Coders Tell Why They're Avoiding Vista
I think optimism and near-limitless excitement for your project are generally pre-reqs for doing a startup. Without them, it's pretty hard to justify bootstrapping//low pay//14+ hour days//no weekends//no benefits//the likelihood of failure//etc.
oh! this is going to be interesting !!! it will create a clear 3 way fight (yahoo, google and MS) with fair chances and platform to everyone ... on the other side it could also be a tactic by yahoo to divert the shareholder's attention so that any attack on their board thru proxy war can be eliminated. THIS IS REALLY GOING TO BE A FUN !!! (smart one though)
First question: are you using source code control? If not, how many developers are on your team? If it's just you and you don't need/want-to use source code control, consider batch file builds scheduled as Scheduled Tasks in XP/Vista/OS.
How to represent a user's internet trek...
hi...

interested in looking into methods to represent a user's internet trek, ie, the sites that a user would peruse, so i would have a "tree/graph node" representation.

basically, i'd like to be able to create a system that would allow me to track my sites that i visit, and to be able to create a tree/graph node representation of where i've gone, and the referral relationships.

lot's of different articles via google, but nothing solid in terms of db schema, or code applications.

any thoughts/sugestions would be helpful.

thanks

-bruce
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^%#$ you and this type of overblown hype.
But what oh god what does that have to do with Hacker News?
Did you mistake this for twitter?
Yeah, I was thinking I was only a scheduled batch file or two away from some semblance of automation. Also if I could find a XSLT to beautify the XML tree that comes from NUnit.

edit, I'm currently the only developer, but hopefully that won't be true for too long, I've been trying to get our office ready for a collabrative environment, because we're about to step outside the scope of 1-person-1-project
And here I was thinking the Icelanders were so happy because they know they can take over the world with relative ease ala the Iceland strategem in Risk.
It's like a race where one guy is ahead and the number two and three stop and have a fistfight, each thinking they'll win the race if they knock out the other.

Both these CEOs are dead. The only life left in them is the natural processes that result in shutting down and turning into fossils. Vista was like when a person dies and shits their pants, and this yahoo takeover is like the aggressive erection the embalmer has to deal with before they can replace the blood with embalming fluid, show the body off one more time, and put it in the ground..
This has been happening for some time, and you can build your own using gnuRadio if you wish to give it a try
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Perks are great - but always remember that there will always be people getting paid $200,000 a year that choose a chance making it big with a startup over a steady salary.
It must be a fine line to walk between finding hyper-intelligent people, meeting their intense need for self actualization, and mostly employing them in the soul numbing work of selling ads.
problem with these VC's job post is that they don't have RSS to it, hard to follow them - I like aggregator - convenience and all in one area
It's not JUST Google Analytics that can use this list to improve their system... ANY analytics system should be listening to this.
I think Vimeo is still the best if you want quality without having to host it yourself. The delay in uploading only happened recently. I imagine it will go away soon, but it is pretty horrible at the moment.
I've never used blip.tv to host video, but I like their flash player and the videos there seem to be much higher quality than youtube.

Edit: nevermind, they put annoying ads in your video. Best to stick with vimeo I guess.
Vimeo, as you said, while disregarding the upload...
Or try Viddler, perhaps.

Too bad Brightcove.tv closed down :(
Spain arrests five crackers of US websites, ages 16-20.
Worldwide Social Network Market Share
Landing a Great Start Up Job: The Best Job Resources
Good recap of this thread and some other advice on finding a great start up job. Worth reading:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=193661
Ask YC: Can anyone recommend a good startup lawyer?
We need to find a good startup lawyer pretty quickly. Anyone have any recommendations? Should be fairly straightforward stuff - reviewing terms, some legal advice, basic paperwork etc.

We're based in Europe, but the help we need should be possible over phone/email.
I assume you've read Cassandra Claire's Draco Trilogy by now, since just about everyone has. If not...well, I think it's been pulled off the Internet since the author got published with real books...

I loved D.M.P's Sin of Lycaos (http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/d_m_p/SOL.html). Still do, actually...the ending still gives me chills.

There's also Nemesis's I Am Lord Voldemort (http://www.spookamania.com/Quills/viewstory.php?sid=36), which is a little amateurish but still a pretty good story. The author's actually incredibly ashamed of it (she wrote it when she was 13), but it's better than anything I could do now...
The article fails to mention how Microsoft has so obviously given up Vista. Just because it's embracing multiple platforms shouldn't be indicative of anything.
If I could add just a piece to your question:

What experience does HN have with lawyers hired on Guru/Odesk/Elance? No doubt it's less favorable than having a personal relationship with an attorney your startup has on retainer, but have any of you used outsourcing as a strategy to lower attorneys' fees? What was the outcome?
Is use this bookmark link (javascript:var%20b=document.body;var%20GR________bookmarklet_domain='http://www.google.com';if(b&&!document.xmlVersion){void(z=document.createElement('script'));void(z.src='http://www.google.com/reader/ui/link-bookmarklet.js');void(b.appendChild(z));}else{}) to agregate the links I've read, and publish a RSS feed.

If there was a piece of software that could take a public reading feed, against a complete local/private path, you might be able to come up with a decent hieristic that would infer the tree/graph you desire; or at least a fair approximation.
Icelandic is one of the world's most difficult languages to learn
If you're serious about what you're doing: http://www.perkinscoie.com
I like all the protesting that they can't track the IMEI code back to a person. They either don't want to, or they need better nerds.

With the {IMEI,time,location} that this produces and the {store,creditcard,time} that the credit card machines produce I could have reasonably reliable {IMEI,creditcard} mappings in two transactions, very reliable in three. (except for your friends traveling with you, I'll have to wait for you to shop without them to separate your identities)
We're serious, but very small. So I was looking for some personal recommendations of a firm/lawyer who has worked with smaller startups at a very early stage.
Great post. Two questions:

1) So, presuming you were at startupschool, did you notice the people who were there tended to be more enthusiastic than is typical? If you did not attend, was it because you are just too busy and/or tired/grumpy?

2) Isn't "no" common for almost all successful ventures? I guess I don't understand why being constantly rejected for funding is any different between any two different fields.
Everyone keeps referring to their lunches as "haute cuisine". Maybe I missed something the couple times I ate there, but I don't think it's fair to refer to a buffet as that. I guess relative to the normal corporate vending machines it's pretty awesome, but it's far from a Michelin 3 Star joint.
On the academic side, it depends on which academic conferences you go to. When I started going to quantum computing conferences (mid-1990s) there was a huge buzz in the air. It was thrilling, better even than the best startup events I've been to. The same cannot be said of quantum computing now - it's become oversubscribed, which is why I've left the field, and am working on a startup.
Perhaps, but I regret the tens of hours I've spent watching, (say) Frasier or How I Met Your Mother significantly less than the minute and a half I spent reading that article.
Ask HN: Collaborative Filtering + Interweb == Good Times?
Hey folks!

I got a little too frustrated with my RSS subscriptions becoming unmanageable and repetitive. Sites like Techmeme and Technorati have become worthless for me. Digg and Reddit have both broken down tremendously under the extensive growth, and the quality of content as it pertains to me no longer has any value. I don't think joe-shmoe's vote on something should matter as much to me as say, a Hacker News participant reading the same things I do. Submitting URLs for public ranking just seems silly.....

So, decided to get motivated and build a collaborative filtering engine coupled with a feed aggregator that provides recommended, ranked, and categorized content based upon the reading and voting habits of users, as well as article similarities. Users can pick the specific categories of information they are interested in, or define your own.

Since I've basically eliminated the frustrations of my RSS subscriptions through traditional readers, I figured it'd be good to open it up to some users to get some feedback and utilization data for training the collaborative filtering mechanism (linear semantic indexing...).

You can subscribe to a list of fixed sources, or add your own.

Site is up at: http://news.80concepts.com

You can browse ranked and recommended content by categorization: http://news.80concepts.com/category/geekdom/

You can perform time based context queries: http://news.80concepts.com/home/?q=britney+spears&period=weekly

Or even for specific categories/keyword/time based combinations: http://news.80concepts.com/category/entertainment/alltime/?q=twitter

View popular topics via tagged content: http://ofthenow.80concepts.com/tags/

As a nice byproducts: new content source discovery happens naturally and effectively, and searching becomes actually useful
for time and trend based queries without the convoluted madness when context is important.

I've also exported similarity data via 2D plot for imported articles via XML as well: http://news.80concepts.com/news-sim.xml
I'm sure that could produce some neato-keen-visualization via flash or otherwise if that kind of geekery appeals to someone.

If you would like to see anything specific included, I'm all ears.

We'll take first couple hundred signups....

For those of you who know me, feel free to email me directly... For those who don't (I was, amongst other things, the co-founding CTO of Hotjobs.com) -- I welcome any feedback, complaints, rants, thoughts, or free beer...
This article is better than its title would suggest, and most of it is not actually about TV or sitcoms.
Coding Horror: Crash Responsibly
And the more you pay them, the quicker they'll be able to self-bootstrap.
Well, but how are lawyers going to make money If people quit suing each other?
Fliggo!

Plus we are coming out with some great analytics tools soon.
Perhaps you meant 'draining'?
Ads are uploader-controllable. Almost every feature in blip.tv is optional and that's what I love about it. Far more featureful than Vimeo or anything else I've seen.