skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It just seems to me that if Perl's regex engine handles this without a problem, and Ruby's implementation freaks out, something should be improved about the Ruby one.
Ask HN: Any Safari/Chrome Plugin to Filter Content?
Is there any Safari/Chrome plugins that will filter off contents? For example if I do not want to read anything on Lindsay Lohan or Verizon iPhone, the plugin will highlight it when I visit web page with that content, or highlight links with such content before I click on the link.
No, it's hand written names of parties. Most of them of parties that doesn't exist.
Just curious, especially after the deal with Microsoft: Has Yahoo made any long term commitments to support this? Would love to use this for some projects.
I'm actually surprised they don't have weekly maintenance for a few hours...
This looks at the wrong metric. It’s not whether his sources are typically accurate but whether he is generally good at correctly inferring from vague or uncertain evidence. In my experience, analysis is unquestionably the weakest part of TechCrunch. They aren’t bad at getting the facts but when it comes to telling us what those facts mean the wheels come off.

If you’re looking to confirm that the people were all in a room together than I guess the little breakdown works. If you’re looking to to see if it adds up to collusion or some Valley equivalent to The Council there are some other factors to weigh.
Who - Apple? Wait... Facebook? What do you mean?
Some of us are women. But I don't see why that requires we be polite.
I read the post. Thought it was pretty good. Don't see what the fuss is about. Compared to similar things I've said about people presenting public personas that were equally, if more, flawed; this was about as "hateful" as a kitten batting a bunny on the nose.
That's my biggest problem (getting people to understand the awesomeness). I've used other sites, but this is the only truly zero-cost bookmarking service (I'm referring to mental cost). When the mental cost for bookmarking is removed, you find that you bookmark anything that looks remotely interesting and then you can find it very very easily.

Other services have the burden that I either have to fill out too much stuff when bookmarking (tags, categories etc), and/or that I have to categorise my bookmarks. This adds the pages you bookmark to the index right away, so bookmarking is single-click and then you have your personal search engine.

Try it, it's really great. My problem, however, is that I can't find a good way to tell people about it without spamming it, and I was wondering how people approached this problem for Instapaper, which is a not entirely different service...
a human sized hamster wheel

it's a long story, to do with a church funding something, but i was the eventual designer of it despite being an intern, then went and built it in my own time one weekend. was fucking heavy and never used it, just donated my time to that client
For the past few months, I've been going through this exact process, moving from NYC to Boulder. The in-person interview requirements are the biggest challenge. A few companies are willing to fly you out, some not. Many will ask you to get back in touch once you move.

I suggest making it clear that you're definitely moving once you have an offer. Employers are reluctant to commit to someone that isn't committed to them (i.e. their office, their city).

So ultimately, I would suggest doing multiple phone interviews with multiple companies. Get the process as far along as possible. Then once you have several asking for in-person interviews, but not willing to fly you out, make the move.
Dead Ferret? Can anyone please down-vote this jerk into oblivion?

Just for the record: He's managed to build a $30k business... on the side... while working a 70hr/wk job.
slaps forehead of course it is! Thanks :)
Is that per user fee monthly? Regardless, the fee structure seems quite reasonable given the functionality they provide. Besides, everything is negotiable.
Where you go off the track is using "should" rather than "could". Where the original went off track was in calling it a "tragedy".
This technology clear goes way too far. It might be a good idea to remind employers of when the state of Texas sued doubleclick for stalking. Knowing how to do something doesn't mean that you should do it.

There will be some backlash to this sort of thing seen as an increasing number of surfers stripping back enabled browser functionality.
Yeah I missed that he mentioned it.

I pretty much started skimming when the gist of the article seemed to be that the author was karma-whoring by writing about patio11 in detail, instead of writing a general article about maximizing your potential for your own goals.
This is my first time hearing about Yodlee. I went to their site and while I'm not totally dense, it's not immediately clear what their product offering does.

In plain English, what is it that these folks do that your system needs so badly? Genuinely curious.
Off-topic:

Something (I don't know from where) that my sons reference sometimes:

"You fight like a girl"

"You mean dirty?"
Not a fan of blockbuster been using Netflix for a long time (I did jump ship to blockbusters online service temporarily when it first came out - the incentives were too good).

To get nostalgic for a second, I will miss the experience of visiting the movie rental stores. The excitement was palpable as a kid - walking the rows, looking at all the movie covers, hoping that Dad would let me rent a game, etc.

The social experience of walking around with other strangers, looking for the entertainment of the evening...there was something fun and special about it that Netflix will never capture.

...the convenience of netflix trumps that though ;-)
I don't want to reveal personal finance info, suffice to say I was very happy.

Real estate cycle is very predictable. It takes a long time and lot of effort to go up and it has a long leading time before it drops, unlike stocks. Real estate is also more depending on real economic factors which are more trackable and less manipulated by market makers than stocks.

For the last down turn, people had been screaming the housing market was overheated from 2004 to 2006, with graphs after graphs showing it's unsustainable. It's really a matter of whether you listened to them.

For predicting housing bottoming out and rising, check out the rental rate, vacancy rate, interest rate, employment trends, permits issued, housing started, inventory backlog, days on market, etc. If that's too much work, just monitor the long term sales price graph. It's not too late to join the train ride once it starts moving up. The thing about real estate is that once it starts moving up, it's very difficult to stop. There are too many factors to keep pushing it up. Likewise, once it starts falling, it will keep falling for a long time.

Of course, that's only the investment aspect of it. There are many other facets. I would encourage people to study economic, finance, and real estate. Don't dismiss it just because a big burst. It's actually a great opportunity to get in. There's an investment saying, most money are made when blood is running on the street.
There are plenty of people capable of earning more, but what's holding them back is that they don't realize how comparatively incapable many Wall Streeters, supply chain optimizers, management consultants and the like really are. You only learn that through experience.

The article is a reminder to be confident, addressed to everyone reading. It's a bold celebration of skill over image, pedigree, and in some cases outright charlatanry. It's universally applicable, and that's why it received the upvotes it deserves (and why it's so controversial as well).

It was too personal, but is there any other way to address it? Perhaps by citing several cases of perceived "inconfidence" instead of one. Either way, it's presumptuous as hell - but what moving persuasive argument isn't? In the end, it called attention to a universal issue: many, many, many capable people are selling themselves short.

For that - Bravo, lionhearted.
I'm not planning on taking investment at this time.

I think this is a really good deal, though. The $10,000 is gravy, and not worth nearly as much as getting to pick Dave McClure's brain regarding distribution. (Metrics, design, product, too, but if you had to pick one of them, distribution is a strong choice.)

It just doesn't mesh well with the trajectory I'm shooting for at the moment. If that changes, I will start working on the first investment pitch delivered in rAnS0m n0tE.
My god Hacker Monthly is going to explode with all this gossip!!
The essential components of a startup
Are you joking?

HN places great importance on preserving the tone of the community. If my opinion is that all the politicians are reptilians working to establish One World Government; and I comment on every post to that effect, and submit a new post every five minutes linking on my One World Government-watch blog; then I should be banned.

That opinion is damaging to the community, and should not be allowed.
Completely agree. I don't imagine anyone here would like to be analysed by a blogger to such degree, especially based on one of hand comment. The article reads like a hit piece and the sort of outing that caused _why to remove all of his projects and writings from the net. The fallacy the author committed was trying to compare apples and oranges to dollars and cents, comparing a salary amount to a life choice, comparing success to revenue.
Thanks Flemlord,

So they are using my standard product services already, but would like me to develop this for them as sort of a joint-venture since they trust my expertise in this area.

The idea isn't better or worse, it's related but it's custom. So I can't scrap my startup for this product - it's very much a unique design that only will work for them and their clients. No reselling opportunity but possible money while I build my business.

I'm considering working on it because during these lean months it might be nice to have a side gig that can turn into another revenue stream while I continue to build my primary business.
Diversification doesn't take a genius; successfully diversifying and building a brand is a different story. Lots of people who are successful in one area (professional athletes, for example) try to "diversify" and lose their fortune doing it. As you mentioned, Jay-Z was selling drugs at 13, but maybe there are actually more similarities between he and Buffet than seem readily apparent? Buffet told a few childhood stories in the interview, including one about stealing syrup from nickel Coke machines. Not that drug dealing and syrup stealing are truly equivalent, but if you consider the disparities in their circumstances at that point in life, they might be closer than it seems.
How can a company that makes gadgets be passing in market cap companies that produce oil, which is a necessity for our modern way of life?

Sure, tech gadgets are great and super-useful when things are going well (and I have lots of them, and quite a few from Apple) but when all is said and done, oil powers our society. People need to drive to work no matter how bad the economy gets. I would assume that tech gadgets are the first to go from someone's wish list when the shit hits the fan.

So, even if a tech company has great revenue today, having the sort of P/E ratio Apple has means that it is expected to have that sort of revenue (and revenue growth) for the next couple of decades. While these sorts of P/E ratios maybe make sense for large industrial companies that stick around for half a century or more, do they make sense for tech companies?

1) Their products are usually in the nice-to-have or semi-luxury category, so they don't have as much staying power through downturns*

2) Tech companies are usually outpaced by newer arrivals, so expecting their run to last for decades is a bit optimistic.

* I will agree, however, that Apple has done well during the current downturn we are facing, but that's because it has produced some game-changing devices, like the iPhone, and how often can any company be able to produce game-changing devices?
Amen! I tell ya, I have had so much stress over the last few months as the direct result of this. Well put.
This is commentary on industry gossip; not intellectually stimulating; not what good hackers would find interesting: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm commenting to educate, and also flagging. Sorry.
Definitely, I wish I could upvote that more.

That said, writing a programming language sounds a little daunting if you've never been introduced. So here's my recommendation: Work your way through at least the first half of Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation by Shriram Krishnamurthi (free online http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/). Probably the most influential book of my entire CS degree, not too difficult once you get used to Scheme, and incredibly rewarding (and fun!).

Your experience is mostly OO and procedural. Let's round it out with the functional cannon: In the first half of PLAI you implement the crown jewels of the paradigm: first-class functions, both with dynamic and static scope (aka closures), lazy evaluation ala Haskell, true language-supported continuations, recursion (the Y combinator is in there), mutable vs. immutable variables and more.

The implementation language is Scheme, which is really really easy to grasp the basics of quickly. So as a side effect you will learn an interesting esoteric language just as you wanted. I would think any competent programmer could learn enough Scheme to work through PLAI in under 2 days. Basic Scheme is kinda like "lisp light" compared to CL/Clojure, so it's a great way to start.
This is the most offensive thing I've ever read on Hacker News. Seriously - you're not just talking about another person, you're talking about one person in a fairly small community who will read this !!!!
Google Chrome on OSX seems to get confused when you try to use the back button after clicking on a couple of the options.
brilliant, thats my next phone!

phone?? wtf!
Adoption Season for Evangelicals
Not true, b/c as far as I know nobody is buying Ke$ha albums at $12K, while there are many investing in FB, hence the notion of a market price.

Not sure what phenomenon you're referring to in your second paragraph.
My experiences with YC and TS companies indicate that the most valuable aspect of the programs are the introductions and knowledge sharing amongst classes.

Given that the dilution is minimal, I'd strongly encourage you to apply - you'll get $10K of value by getting accurate quick feedback from the other members of the batch on the question "is there a better way to do [x]?" I don't think the $10K obligates you to go out and get any additional funding, and Twilio will be a net positive in terms of PR and links.
I'm in the same general space as you (bookmarking / browsing tools), and I have some insight.

I think Instapaper gets a lot of word of mouth spreading because it's an iPhone App. That encompasses a lot more than it sounds. Being an iWhatever App means you get eyeballs from the store, but more importantly from its users - both online and in real life. iPhone/Pad/etc applications are highly sociable and shareable; revealing a useful App to somebody is a form of social value. It's a platform that is in vogue right now: How many times have you been recommended a certain App, or have seen somebody using an interesting one? Ok, now how many times have you been recommended a bookmarklet?

You were blogged a few times, that should have helped somewhat. It's possible that Historious isn't as useful as you think it is. I had written in this box a big long paragraph about why I think that is, but it's not pertinent to your question about promotion. If you'd like more of my thoughts on Historious, shoot me an e-mail, I'd be glad to give you my $.02.

There was also a post around here that detailed a template and methodology for 'pitching' an article about your product to bloggers. The gist of it was: You need to be actively seeking bloggers and promoters, you need to show them you're interested in their work, and you need to pitch them your product in a way that makes them feel their readers will click to read about it.
The original post specifically mentioned Catholicism:

> At the risk of upsetting people, I’m going to go out on a limb here – were you raised Catholic?

Etc.
Intuit's Mint.com adds Zillow home-value estimates to personal-finance site
I think Instapaper launched on Daringfireball.
No, it wasn't missing. The blog post literally suggested that the reason he isn't rich and powerful might be because he has Catholic guilt. I swear to God it said that.
"If you’re an entrepeneur you believe Arrington."

I disagree, I personally think Arrington made a bit too far of a stretch.

Did a bunch of super angels get together and talk shop? Definitely. Are they talking about how high valuations are right now? Probably. Once you get into the "concrete plans for how to control the world" it gets a lot sketchier.

There's a strong difference between someone saying "company X is raising at a really high valuation, you shouldn't stand for that" and "company X is raising at a really high valuation, don't take it or there will be consequences". Startups talk about investors all of the time, why should the investors be any different?
You ought to check out
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
They discuss new languages and language related ideas.
I see, thanks for your feedback. Could you email me at support at historio dot us, as I don't have your email?

Thanks again!
thats why we all get to vote and flag
Yes, Yodlee is crazy expensive and doesn't seem willing to negotiate with startups. CashEdge may be a better option. And, as has been noted, you could handle the top 5-50 institutions yourself which would get you very broad coverage.
>>>and the member who wrote it should be banned.

How ironic, given next week is Banned Books Week. Are there any books you'd like to add to this list too?
I think there are quite a few people that are outright jealous of Patrick, I can't explain some of the votes in this thread in any other way.

If you can't concede the business acumen of someone that manages to go from employment to being self supporting in such a short time without any outside help or financing then you're very much out of tune.
Yesterday the worse, today the best day of my life.
But that is very clearly NOT what happened.
I don't see how it's self-evident public transportation and bikes work best for all environments.
It wasn't true. The founders didn't quit because of it, they quit because of the same reason founders always quit when they get bought by big companies.

Presumably by "one of the sysadmins" you mean me, because I ended up (somewhat badly) handling most of the PR for this debacle (I'm the Russ Garrett referenced in both of those TechCrunch posts), but I don't remember deleting any of my posts.

It didn't happen. I would have known if it had happened. I would have had to pass the data, and it didn't happen.
I get same reactions, and I would disregard all of it... part of being an entrepreneur is faith in yourself that what you are doing is right. I think your only concern should be validating the idea and business. The people that say they get it, question them and try to validate assumptions. Figure out how to experiment cheaply, and build a mvp.
I feel like I should mention, if you don't want to wait until the end of November to start working on that fundraising for your Twilio-powered startup, we have a developer contest running through next Monday night. The winner gets a trip to NYC to have lunch with Fred Wilson (@avc), Albert Wenger, and Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures.

Details: http://contests.twilio.com
Oh, the original post did get into some stuff about his possibly being Catholic and suffering from guilt.

When I read that in the article I did cringe and thought it was a stretch and detracted from the article. I am not saying the article is the best possible article or was free from cringe inducing statements. But I also don't see it as something someone should be banned for, not even remotely close. It sounded more like the guy writing it was Catholic himself, overcame Catholic guilt (which is a topic people do discuss), and was speculating through projection that Patrick is Irish and suffers from it. It seemed like a huge long shot though. Myself I think it's more likely Patrick is like me and is perfectly aware he can make more money working for some corporation in some contexts, but chooses to do his own thing instead even though his current income is possibly less than he made working for the man. And that's me projecting as well. Someone who seeks to be able to live on the beach on Thailand might write an article saying that Patrick must be running his business with the goal of moving to Thailand. Someone bent on taking over the world, creating one world government and declaring himself emperor of the galaxy might write an article saying that Patrick is planning to build a fleet of spaceships. OK, that last one is silly, forget that example.

Patrick also has only been a year from quitting his job, so it's not a weird thing to be making less than a hundred million a year or whatever people are unreasonably assuming he should be making. What he is making is pretty darn awesome for a one man shop that's only been around a few years.

Personally I think that whatever he is making in total and his reasons for being satisfied and fulfilled doing so are his own business and I don't give his personal lifestyle choices any thought myself. But even it being his own personal choice, someone writing about that, and in essence projecting their own issues onto this one like the original article did, is not something offensive or mean spirited. The first half of the article was practically a love letter to Patrick and quite flattering. The rest seems to be both giving advice, and the author working out his own personal shock that someone he saw as a mentor leading him to great wealth and fame was earning only a modest income. That doesn't mean though that Patrick's advice is bad, Patrick's articles are great and filled with useful information.
Verizon CEO: Next Generation Will See End of the Cable Bundle
upvoted for awesomeness.
There's more than that, though, you need something to sustain you, you can't get by on the initial launch... There was a bit of coverage for historious which was great, but now there's a lull and I don't know what to do to tell people about the service effectively...
> and the praise was clearly served up as an extra helping to offset the criticism

Hitting with one hand while praising at the same time never fooled anybody.
There are endless posts about why, how, or what various famous people in the industry are doing. Psychoanalyzing Steve Jobs is basically a requirement in any blog post about Apple these days. So why are people so offended when the target is someone closer to home? People think things about other people, it's our nature. I can't stop myself from making snap judgments about people I see on the street, even when I try to tell myself that I have no basis for those judgments.

Patrick is a famous guy around here and I'm sure everybody who's read his stuff has thoughts about his character, intelligence, lifestyle, etc. Sebastian just expressed those thoughts, and I'd rather be in a community where the free expression of thoughts and ideas is valued higher than not offending people.
Don't jump to any stereotyped conclusions or anything.