skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These seem to be a perfect graduation gift.
I was thinking the exact same thing. At the very least I think there are disclosure and tax issues, and the fact that the 'donation' came from Conde Nast has pretty significant implications.
I think the OR&IE people are applications-friendly. The art school at Cornell is not a strength.
You're missing a closing parenthesis!
Is this guy actually in a position to follow through or is he just cleverly using the controversy to further his own goal without an actual intent to commit? I take it reddit would not be sold for 'pocket change'.
Agree there! When the like button started spawning everywhere, I consulted the internal annoy-o-meter and determined that the best solution would be to block the button.
Heh - good work! Hacking away as we speak?
I can't see how someone could honestly use anything without a negative connotation for the situation as you detail it.
I read the first book and didn't find it particularly good. You don't learn a lot from them. You do learn a lot of irrelevant details (like how his machine language works).
Or just use Twitter's SMS feature.
thread synchronization, cross-site scripting, data-base injection, null pointers, pointer overflow

Does TAOCP cover any of those?
I don't actually have a dropbox account, I was just being an ass. Probably shouldn't have posted that to begin with. I was in reddit mode.
I use the wacom bamboo. Its intended for graphic designers but its also very ergonomically and fun to use, and apparently their newer models act just like the mac trackpad too. I also do baoding ball exercises
How many or what class of hardware companies would angels have enough money to make a difference in? Aren't we talking a difference between investing 5-6 figures vs. 7-8?
It's interesting how different it feels from commenting on HN. The box is so tiny, and you can't edit stuff afterwards. But you also don't have to deal with replies or worry about getting downvoted if you say something unPC.

I'm still not sure what to use it for, to be honest.
you /look/ like a marketing guy. nerds don't trust marketing guys. If you show up in a suit to a tech. interview, my first thought is that you want to be management, not a tech; and you are just using this as a stepping stone. Now, if I /need/ management, that's great. But if I'm trying to hire a tech, it's a net negative.

on a related note, I think there is a certain amount of hostility towards good looking people in general in the field, for purely irrational and emotional reasons. (really, it's related to the irrational hostility towards ugly people in marketing and management.)
No, like they'd never heard of it.
Reddit would benefit from more resources and less corporate interference. We can offer all of the above.

How does working in the sweatshop that is the Cheezburger Network = less coporate interference?

Edit for clarification: http://www.google.com/search?q=cheezburger+network+sweatshop
Yep... with the occasional distraction. (HN, mostly)
Here's one place that sells them. Pity that copper is so expensive....

http://gfxtechnology.com/
I'm curious, why Cheezburger Network is a sweatshop? Any experience first hand? or employees there blog about how sucky the company is?
That's a problem with posting on HN in general - I often find (admittedly IMHO) interesting links and post them in the morning, european time, but because most of HN's readers are from north america they often get largely ignored - and thus have slipped down into oblivion by the time the americans log in. Or maybe I just post crap links...
The box on HN already feels tiny!

> But you also don't have to deal with replies or worry about getting downvoted if you say something unPC.

Or getting banned ;)
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True. However analogously software companies also have trade-secret protection from employees divulging source code independent of the software patent process.
I loved that show! And MASH. We're about the same generation.

No I actually agree with you that the suit doesn't convey anything substantive, and if a programmer wore that today to an interview I'd find it suspicious because, at the very least, it means he/she is out of touch and maybe desperate. But that said, if the person has the technical skills to do the job, and is not a jerk, and is available and interested, that should count 99.9999% and whether they wears a suit or not shouldn't counteract those other factors.

If I was holding an interview for the role of bankster, that would be different.

Tangent Note: I can "play" the SWAT theme song in my mind, note for note. And MASH, Love Boat, Cheers, etc. I remember when TV show theme songs went into a dark ages roughly around the the 90's where they stopped having cool theme music anymore, especially long instrumental ones. There were a few cool exceptions, but for the most part the art seemed to be lost. I don't watch TV anymore, so perhaps it came back.

ps. I'm in Colorado too. We should hold a HN meetup sometime, I know of at least a few others in the Front Range area.
Although it looks like that is a Google ad, so maybe they didn't intend to accept it?
It doesn't mean they've "run out of post ideas." Not every post on TechCrunch is original or an exclusive, nor should they all be. They have a wider and mostly different audience to HN so it doesn't hurt for them to extend the reach of things from HN that would suit their audience (TC was far from quick with http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/18/is-google-me-nex/ too.)
I don't know if this would work, but couldn't one theoretically just get a large number of people to mark the desired account as spam?

I have no idea how Twitter deals with their spam reporting, but ostensibly Twitter would deactivate the account and once again make it open to registration.
I wonder if Ben Huh is nodex? http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/cnth8/making_...
No, it's not. I see you've got brand nursing out of marketing agencies and genuine talks by Steve Jobs confused. Which makes sense, it worked.

I was referring to how before he was ousted and just after he returned he was talking very differently, more passion, genuine. Sure, related concepts to branding they have now, but related only via high concept. Something changed along the way. Take it as you will - it's just a subjective perception anyways.
This wired article mentions that he likely did something close to $4M in revenue a year ago:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/01/mf_cheezking/

If this is the sole source of income, then I doubt that they're in any position to afford Reddit. Although they definitely have the investor connections to probably roll it up.
I don't know myself, but the article has this link in the comments:

http://gawker.com/5488509/inside-the-low+paying-cheezburger-...

and that post has this comment:

http://gawker.com/comment/20269906/

shrug
Is that true? In my experience (software) engineers love to rewrite things:)
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I was born in the USA. I live in Ameri-duh. Sometimes my mind is in Brazil. (cue theme music)
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On the other hand, in enterprise-land, if a vendor doesn't show me their top secret, NDA-only roadmap, there is a pretty good chance that I'll be sufficiently impressed by their competitors top secret, NDA-only roadmap to consider a vendor switch.

For example - startup storage vendor shows me really cool stuff that will ship in less than a year. If really big incumbent storage vendor doesn't show me their roadmap, there is a fair chance that I'll be impressed enough with startup's gear to defer upgrade or replacement of incumbent's gear until startup's gear ships.

If incumbent is smart, they'll have something on the roadmap to share with me that keeps my seven figure annual business pointed their way.
All web entrepreneurs hurry up before the controversy dies. You too can profit from this mess up.
30 new followers in one minute? PG gets the HN effect!
The kernel is GPL, but that doesn't stop you to write non-GPL apps on top of it. However, using a GPL OpenJDK would have made every single app on Android GPL.
I guess the question is: Would Reddit have offered to run the Prop 19 ads for free even if Conde Nast hadn't told them not to run the ads at all?

I would say no, so it seems that the reason that the ads are running for free is because of the difference in opinion with the parent company. That's how I reasoned out "rebelling", although it's obviously a bit of hyperbole.
Born in Canada, but just moved to West Michigan and love it.
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I always get the feeling, when this happens, is that they're really trying to convey "hey look, we're really a pretty casual bunch..." not "man you're a tool for wearing a suit."

I would honestly interpret it as a positive. That casual atmosphere is pretty ingrained into the culture at that point.
Proposal for an ethical A/B testing process for price hikes:

A: The existing, lower rate.
B: Advertise a higher rate. After signup is completed and the customer is fully expecting to pay a higher rate, inform them that the newer rates haven't "taken effect yet" and they will instead be billed at the previous, lower rate. This preserves both experimental validity and ethical pricing.
You could keep us updated on...

1) the status of any essays (or RFSes) you're working on

2) startup-related insights and musings you have throughout the day (like the one about editable tweets)

3) links to HN stories or comments you find particularly interesting

4) your sleeping, social, and dietary habits
There's a compatibility checker here:

https://secure.wakemate.com/compatibility/
If you delete something from your local drive, Blackblaze notices, and flags their copy for deletion in 30 days

So much for the "damn, I must have deleted that file; I guess I'll have to recover it from my backups" scenario.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1640850
Yes, that must be it, thanks.

But then the same thing could apply to non-malicious/competitive code, too. Once it proves interesting to Microsoft, they could mine the past crash history for background info.

I can believe internal controls and culture mitigate this risk -- but sheer volume doesn't provide confidence of confidentiality for non-malware coders any more than it does for malware coders.
Yes, my Uni experience overall has been kind of disappointing, but the good classes with interesting teachers have been amazing. Also the motivation of having to study has got me further than I would myself.
That won't work because you can't test retention at the higher rate of payment, and that's a very big factor in the subscription business.

1 months @ $40 vs 3 months at $20 ...
Looks like the old owner was a Paul Gardi.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/amirmc/4933057153/
Good - Opera, Firefox, and IE9 are all aready going this route. For Chromium not to support this would be a big thorn in their side, especially with their plans to support native code for extensions (aka, "Chrome Apps").
The label on the 2nd one is off. WSJ states that it is in Billions and then has 5000 on the left hand scale. I'm pretty sure California doesn't have $5 Trillion in Pension costs.
Pretty sloppy fact checking.
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Agreed. Talk to enough people to do the customer development and product development needed, otherwise, stay fairly mum about it. If/when you get traction, and you think the upside is greater than the downside, then start making a lot of noise.
... and yet SHA1 collisions have happened. According to NIST, "Federal agencies should stop using SHA-1 for...applications that require collision resistance as soon as practical"

Regrettably, we don't actually have any truly ideal hash functions yet.
Evolutionary psychology has never really grabbed me due to the lack of evidence in its favor. It seems one could justify almost any result with the right argument. To say that evolutionary psychology is ever anything more than an explanation (not an excuse) seems patently ridiculous -- humans have evolved higher brain function to override decisions previously based on instinct.

Then again, I don't have a lot of confidence in the field of psychology in the broad sense anyway. The experimentalists and those leaning towards neurobiology are probably on the right track, but the Freudian mentality still seems to shine through in some sub-disciplines.
I suspect Ben Huh is _definitely_ in a position to follow through.
Pretty cheap, really. If you're serious about an acquisition you first approach the target and if you both agree to go public you go public. Anything else is just a publicity stunt, or at a minimum smells strongly like one.
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Good, so how come he didn't follow protocol on this? After all, after such a stunt CN is likely going to give him the cold shoulder just for that. I can't imagine they're happy about this if he's for real.

The redditors have been at odds with CN pretty much since day 5 of the take over or so, and every time I hear about them it's something like this.

If they were going to dump reddit you'd think they would have done so long ago.
I only somewhat agree. There are ways your users tell you your product is too cheap, without actually having to tell you. One good indicator is when you have a lot of people signing up, and then not using it, in which case your product is so underpriced that it attracts indifference.
Abso-f'ing-lutely!

One of the best interviews I ever had came after I said to the recruiter (after the first round of interviews) "I don't think these guys are interested in me." The hiring manager scheduled another interview the next day and proceeded to take me through each lab, showing off all the cool stuff they did. That morning was quite clearly a "come work for us, it'll be fun" invitation and I appreciated it.

Now that I'm in the position to do hiring, I try to have the same attitude.
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If it was feasible to sell those services for $2/month - there would be competitors taking advantage of that fact.

I think Apple has proven that with the App Store. You couldn't buy many professionally developed for a few bucks 5 years ago, even those that took as much development time as the top titles on the iPhone now. Apple has made the billing and distribution side so simple that development time and expenses are almost the only variable.
I don't think any employer should take on the role of providing pensions, as a part of the employment relationship. There is a lot of reasonable argument in favor of the value of something like Social Security, as a sort of minimum social safety net. And such a thing probably makes the most sense being provided by the government. But I'd love to see the day where employers just give cash to their employees, and it's up to them to decide what to do with that cash. It would make for so much less paperwork and reduced overhead costs, and increased simplicity, for business owners and management. Less distortion, greater focus on their core business.
Yes 1, 2, 3! Avoid 4 :-)
Sometimes sharing your product roadmap can be a really good idea. For instance:

I was the lead architect at Quickoffice for several years... at one point we were preparing for a big release. THE big release. It contained our first go at full editing/round-tripping for Word/Excel files. This was a big deal for our company as we moved from very hacky desktop-syncing solutions to full on-device mobile editing.

Our big competitor was behind and I'm pretty sure they knew it. We had been competing for some big business so we had some idea what the other was up to. About a month before our release, they issued a press release clearly laying out their roadmap... including their plans for full document round-tripping.

It was a genius move. It had a tremendous delaying effect among our shared customers (big phone OEM's primarily). They instantly negated our advantage as the decision makers and end-users both decided to take a wait and see approach rather than put their money into our software. It also took some steam away from our feature-set as people seemed to credit them with arriving at it first even if we were the first to actually deliver it.

I've seen this work in other cases. A competitor outlines their roadmap which forces their competitors to spin cycles trying to respond to it. It makes the product conversation about how they stack up against your hypothetical product, not what you're actually delivering today.

As with all things strategic, it's all about timing. All of those negatives in the article are valid and have to be weighed as well. In the end, however, it can be a tremendous competitive tool.

edit: god my grammar is truly terrible.
The best way to do this experimentation (based on my experience when I started selling RateMyStudentRental to colleges and universities), is to start directly selling to businesses before posting official prices. Put up a general "Call for pricing" information page (no, this doesn't necessarily mean anyone will actually call you), and hit the streets.

One thing we found early on selling to universities was that if we priced ourselves to low, some schools wouldn't give us the time of day, other schools would start comparing us to "competitors" who weren't our competitors at all and did nothing like we did, but who shared a similarly low price.

I still remember when we sold our first (small 3000 student) school for $6000/yr. When they gave us the check they said, "Eh, that's a drop in the bucket." Talk about leaving money on the table.
I cashed one of those checks once, after photo-copying it first of course. Seems like I paid a lot less for the boxed set of 3 volumes about 13 years ago. I would like to pre-order the hardbound vol 4a.
Just in time for the weekend!

Backstory: go read this McGee article - http://j.mp/9AFtRz - but long->short: there's a trendy technique for creating intensely flavored drinks called vacuum distillation/infusion. Temperature and pressure are obviously closely related; by messing with pressure, you can distill flavored alcohols at much lower temperatures, which greatly intensifies flavor.

This article, by the Dir/Technology at the French Culinary Institute, gets results that are often comparable to what people are getting with $2k-$5k vac machines --- using a cheap ISI cream whipper you can get off Amazon (or, I guess, at Williams-Sonoma) for $60. In one minute.

So for instance, if you wanted to make a mojito, you could infuse rum with lime zest and mint and start the cocktail with an intensely flavored perfectly clear liquid.

It apparently works with other (non-alcoholic) liquids too. I can't wait to try this. (Erin wants an ISI whipper anyways, to make aerated chocolate).

There's apparently even science involved! ---

Well done! You’ve rediscovered nitrogen cavitation and put it to novel use. Cavitation is used in cell biology labs to gently disrupt cells in a vessel ominously called a “nitrogen bomb” (as the gas here is nitrogen). The usual explanation is close to what you surmised: under pressure, gas penetrates the cells, then forms bubbles to disrupt the cells when the pressure is suddenly released. Your use of the technique looks a lot more interesting than my experiences with it in a lab.
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Condé Nast, I’m publicly offering to buy Reddit
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I have no idea how Twitter deals with their spam reporting, but ostensibly Twitter would deactivate the account and once again make it open to registration.

I've had some experience with this, and I don't think so. I wrote customer support not long ago to request a name be released (clear spam account) and was told, "Nope, we don't do that any longer." The account is gone now. But if you try to sign up with that name, it's reported as "taken" anyhow.

Short version: they seem not to release names, even after the accounts go away. Maybe there's a waiting period. I'm still hoping.
I imagine this is related with WebGL support, right?
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by messing with temperature, you can distill flavored alcohols at much lower temperatures

I'm guessing you mean "by messing with pressure..." here.
Depressing response.

It is revealing how many people vote up this protestant work ethic judgmentalism masquerading as concern for correct professional diagnosis. What, his emotional concerns are not legitimate to you for some reason? How about you expound on that a bit, maybe reveal a bit more about your delightful world view.

Why even dilly-dally with that...why don't you just tell him to grow up and enjoy his cubicle already like all the rest of the poor schmucks in cubes.

Hell, maybe you could send a message to working stiffs everywhere that they should get a professional diagnosis before they leave a our soul killing corporate work culture, feel better, then encourage others to do the same. (OMG, how would the captains of industry stay all captainy with so much free thinking!? ;)

I hate how people randomly heap shit on the plight of people. Crass. Mean-spirited. Farcical.
I always wondered how that works. For example, my great-grandmother from my father's side was born in Brooklyn. And then they have decided to return to Europe. I must be one of the few that has heritage reversed.
This is a great post. This is why businesses will always kick ass regardless of economic cycles. It's strong resilient operators who spot a unique opportunity that make it happen throughout history. That's why a large part of any investor's job (and also any founders' job while recruiting) is having a special eye for that die-hard resilience and determination.

For those of you who are Buffett fans, regarding this there's a great quote by him on page 293 of "The Snowball" (bio written by Alice Schroeder):

"Intensity is the price of excellence."

This is also probably why Andy Grove penned his book "Only the Paranoid Survive".
Doh! Thanks!
I'm curious, what sorts of roles do those 100+ people have, that you say make more than $1M/year? I have guesses but want to learn specifics.
i saw a demo-day interview where pg said he doesn't use twitter because he couldn't find a suitable username (based on his real name).

i thought "if i was twitter, i'd find him one". guess that really happened :)

welcome!
I did a Google search for a SHA-1 collision and I thought nobody had found a collision yet, they had just found a collision attack in the 2^50-2^60 range.

Of course, turning a collision into an exploit in this case would be challenging. (Preimage attacks ⊂ collision attacks.)
I wonder if Google believes that acquiring enough social networking startups will enable them to cobble something together that competes with Facebook. I suppose it's possible, but I'm skeptical.
I've been hot and cold on emacs over the years. I've used it enough that there is a lot that I really like about it and that I'm annoyed by not having in other editors. But that list of links is the reason why ultimately I have decided to spend my time in a different editor.

Yes anything is possible and people have done work that probably intersects with what you're looking to do. But rarely does anything just work.

I spend too much time try to make things work and re-implementing features that exist in other environments. I tend to use Textmate and Intellij -- although extending Intellij is such a heavy process that I pretty don't do it.
> Maybe the quote has a proceeding sentence that makes it clear.

Let me guess, you're an engineer?
In those same modern shells, "echo" and "<<<" are both built-in, but "cat" is not.
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Google Wave could have been great if it was not designed by engineers.It amazes me that such a giant company does not put more effort into design and usability.
Tentatively awaiting the sequel to "Startups in 13 Sentences"...

"Startups in 140 Characters"