skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what's its worth, I didn't read your criticism as a personal attack. More of an exhortation for bingo card guy to achieve his fullest potential.

The mistake, as in navel gazing, is thinking that any one cares what you think of another person's life choices. Especially the object of your attention.

Bingo card guy seems happy (enough) to me.

Perhaps a better approach would have been to initiate a dialog, gently asking him for his input on some of your big sky ideas, subtly encouraging him to raise his aim. In the process, you'd maybe make a friend, and probably learn why he's made the choices he has. I know nothing about bingo card man, but imagine he's the primary care giver for a child or relative. Given a situation like that, I'd say he's a fucking genius for making some side money for comparatively little effort.

In summation, chill dude. You spouted off. Wasn't personal. The haters will always be hating. So fuck 'em.
"I will explain my line of thinking, which does not excuse the large gaffe I made, but perhaps so people can understand my thinking. I've met a book editor, a literary agent, a prominent researcher, and other notable people through my writing on my site."

I don't buy that. Your writing on your blog is juvenile, unorganized and generally a pain to read. Your style here is better. Nothing on your blog would attract a book editor or a literary agent.

"For my part, I hold no ill will for people, even ones who said horrible things, and my door is still always open to people who need a hand."

You are a narcissist of the worst kind. No one here wants or needs your hand. Stop writing from a position of imaginary superiority.

How many titles do you need to prop up your self image anyway? From your meta tags:

Sebastian Marshall: Strategist, scientist, entrepreneur, technologist, writer. Servant of the strong and virtuous, a visage of hell and misery to the rabidly mediocre.

One title is lacking: Professional Blowhard.
Provides a unified API for myriad online banking websites.

Its how Mint is able to get your transaction history.
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If (like me) you normally skip video links, give this one a go. It's brief and all visual, so a video really makes sense in this case. And, practical or otherwise, it's creative and thought provoking!
Thanks for coming back with something real. I wish you'd posted that expanded version first.

I also know, that a lot of people predicted in 2004 to 2006 that the housing market was overheated. But, you know, you always get bearish and bullish people at all times, and the market can stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent.

I did not invest anyway at that time: I did not have any money, being barely out of school. However, I had some nice returns when I bought some index funds starting in March last year --- when everyone thought the world was going to end.
You could offer a counterpart to http://www.awesomenessreminders.com/ where procrastinators pay you to call them and say "Finish shit".
Why would he be angry at a teacher making $60k/year then if his business was raking in much more than that?
Ask HN: Why are Rock Star banalities worth so much karma-love?
Today I witnessed a rather trivial exchange between two rock star personalities on this forum. It went something like this:

254 points by Rock Star #1 20 minutes ago
Facebook is soo not worth 40 billion.

311 points by Rock Star #2 15 minutes ago
Dude, you're just jealous. They make more money than your company. And you don't know how to valuate stock right. The secondary market values them that way.

186 points by Rockstar #2 7 minutes ago
Dude, get your facts straight. I do too know how to valuate stocks. You're the one who doesn't know what you're talking about. Facebook is is so not worth that much money.

29 points by anonymouseketeer
I wonder what pg would say

12,348 by pg
It all depends

I mean, seriously, I don't take this place as seriously as some of you but wouldn't comment value by karma be more relevant if there were a fixed amount of karma members could use in any given day?

What if karma was needed to post? What if you only had 10 karma a day?

Would everybody rush to add their two karma points to the already meaningless total if doing so meant they couldn't congradulate their friends announcement of their site launch that day?

Prediction: this comment/post will get like a negative 5 or so ... but then things will heat up if a rock star personality comes along to post something like, "You're just jealous", after which their karma will go up by like 300 or something, after which the first 10 people who post "I agree" will also feed off the karma crumbs.

Go ahead and send me into the anti-karma universe fanboys! At least I'm thinking of ways to improve this experience instead of lurking for posts by popular people to post "I agree" to up my points.
this post is much more inappropriate and stifles discussion significantly more than lionhearted's
Judging by the rest of Sebastian's site, I doubt it was jealousy; unless the site is a long and deep parody, the writer appears to consider himself superior to almost everyone but historical heroes.
Nice try, Nokia!
I hate concept videos. They solely exist to raise everyones expectations to unattainable levels. Should the product ever get released people will be disappointed by realities like battery capacity and a pico projector only working in a very dark room. I wish others would adopt Apple's strategy of announcing a product with a live demo and a release date within months of that showing.

* I get this is a Mozilla 'vision' but watching videos of the MS Courier left me bitter concept videos </rant>
You should write about the whole experience with pictures. I am getting more serious about building a house from the ground up. Two years is a great time frame. Share pictures if any.
You know you've made it when your brand name is a stopword.
I gave you some of my karma :)

But in all reality, there is some truth to this post. Gaming this site has become an artform- not unlike prep school kissass networking. Can't really blame everyone though; getting into YC is serious business.
Choose 3 things to accomplish each day.

The most effective productivity technique that works for me is to just have one goal in a day. If I happen to complete it, then I keep a second smaller goal, but I never have more than one goal a day to start with and more than two goals to end with.
Well frankly, If you rely on some other business for such critical functionality, you deserve to lose.
If it's an exact name of a party then it will be included. Almost all voters use the pre-printed ballots though.
I agree and I think the best approach here is to assume that you should never "trust" Arrington or any other business person (especially media) but that you should constantly read, listen, compare, and assume that you will have to make an educated guess. Chomsky, a staunch critic of the media, is very good at explaining how trust vs. conspiracy theories is never the choice when looking at the media. The issues is that the media may believe what they say but that they may not see the whole truth. It's for you to make your own best educated judgments. And best judgments are usually made by listening to all possible angles, doubting everything you hear, and staying positive in believing that this process will produce good educated actions in your own life, business, etc. That is if you have time to read it all ;-)
As a counterpoint to your figures: this side of the ocean, senior Java contractors make EUR 90-100 while most .NET jobs hover around EUR 65-80.

As to why this is, I can only guess. It appears the pool of .NET developers is larger, keeping the prices down, and most jobs are at a medior level, not senior.
The first 10 times I read this comment, I thought it was a pun on facebook's color scheme, until I realized that it's cornflower blue, not cauliflower blue.
If you don't have time to read more than Arrington's TC posts, I would strongly advise against making TechCrunch your only source of info. It's good but it is very opinionated, like Arrington is.
Can’t Code? No Problem. Come To The Hackathon Demos This Sunday
Couldn't agree more. Data flows down the path of least resistance, and you can't unshift the paradigm that downloading video has started. Most in the TV industry should be shaking in their boots right now. Or innovating- but cable TV really doesn't seem to attract those types.
This post[1] maybe? I just have some difficulty believing Oracle would continue to fund btrfs when they have ZFS. Then again, the code is already out there, the developer can simply move to Red Hat / IBM / Canonical / wherever and continue working if funding is pulled.

[1]: http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/amanda/2009/06/22/a-...
Details on today's Facebook outage
"How often can any company be able to produce game-changing devices?"

It seems Apple has a consistent track record for doing just that:

Intel / Bootcamp,
Mac Mini,
Newton,
iLife,
PowerBooks,
The Macintosh
GUI (okay, Xerox had it first),
iMacs,
OSX (Unix for the masses),
iPod (Shuffle, Nano, iTouch, iPad, iPhone),
iTunes store,
Apple II,
and so on....

You actually feel they have nothing left up their sleeve? With a record like that I don't think I'd bet against them.
Ask HN: Non-tech news
HN: Where do you get your non-tech or non-startup news? I use NPR and RealClearWorld heavily. Just wondering if I'm missing out on something good.
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So the end game would be to transfer money out of bank accounts and paypal? Is it really that easy to do. Seems like it would leave one hell of a trail.

Whats the end game in stealing domain names and hacking sites. There has got to be a financial motivator somewhere in the chain.

Thanks for the info.
Piet:
http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html
Emacs Org-Mode [podcast]
Why do they send spam from other websites? What is the benefit to sending spam from a hacked site as opposed to one you just register yourself?
I sent you mail.

Building a house is absolutely doable, fixing one up with a rich history in a way is more fun, but comes with more restrictions.
Upcoming version of SBT (Simple Build Tool)
The last preview of major new aspects in 0.9.x.:<p>Aspects presented in earlier previews were a redone command system, a new task model, and a new logging and I/O system called streams. This preview introduces the new multi-project incremental compilation, redesigned multi-project dependency management, and redesigned overall multi-project support, including better control over execution vs. classpath dependencies, support for external projects. If you only ever work on single projects, the new incremental compilation should still benefit you as well as the potential future support for remote projects.
"if he was really thinking about Patrick he'd have emailed him the advice"

Well part of the post was telling the public that Patrick would be a bargain to hire at a $200,000 salary. That specific part works better in a public post.
> Full Size Airliner cockpit (Bombardier CRJ):

pictures, please?

So many amazing projects in this thread!
Serious question, why tar it? I bet you could get pretty sweet throughput with an array of SSDs and 10gig pipes.
Facebook Phone Fail
When I was (more) young and foolish, I rebuilt the turbodiesel engine in a 1983 Mercedes 300SD. The day after we got it all back together two friends and I drove it over a thousand miles to a wedding in Philadelphia. In hindsight, this was really stupid. It turned out fine, though.

http://douglassims.org/300sd/
OK. In the Euro area you could not get such high rates on a savings account.
Here's the important sentence, and why the author has a point:

"if I was running a jailbroken iPhone, I'd just restore it with iTunes, and it would be factory-fresh with known software."

Apple tells you not to jailbreak, but they'll happily let you back in the house if you've gotten yourself into a mess. Google are telling power users that their OS is the hacker-friendly one, but leaves minefields for anyone who takes them at their word and tries to do what the author did.
I'm looking at my facebook page.

The ads are for: two online degrees which I don't need, (having an advanced degree that FB should know about) and one cheap TV offer, which I don't want since I don't watch TV.

I can see zero evidence of ads being targeted to me, even though I in the past I clicked "like" and "dislike" on ads in the vein hope they'd become more relevant or at least less offensive.

My friends posted complaints on my page concerning my "liking" of said ads since they hated Facebook using my name as a reference.

But main thing is, if FB is so great, why do they have same scam-ish/opportunist ads that Yahoo has?

(refreshing, I get the same sort of thing - one targeted to my geographical location - mass market products, FB stuff, NOTHING SPECIFIC TO WHAT I WANT).

FB, a billion dollar company that still has only "potential"...
I initially thought that was a killer point, but on second thought, if the memory is already mapped writably the kernel can avoid remappings entirely by directing the I/O into the already-mapped pages.
Programming Skill and Dreyfus’ Stages of Expertise
Google.

http://www.google.com/search?q=node.js+web+framework&ie=...

The search turns up an interesting blog:
http://fleegix.org/articles/2010-03-15-geddy-web-framework-f...

...and the blog has a link to a list of exiting web frameworks (also the fourth hit in the google search):
http://github.com/ry/node/wiki/modules

Learn from what others have done and build on it.
Ask a broker, but be careful.

AAPL is among a lot of stocks that have a long way to fall before their prices can be called reasonable, but it's difficult to know when they will do it.
Lets be very clear about this, PG is a rank hypocrite. Do as I say, not as I do.

Like many he's perfectly willing to stand beside and bask in the glow of his ideas when they work, but is nowhere to be found when they regularly fail.

He got lucky in the internet mania of the 90's, now he's an expert in everything. These days he has a very good sales pitch to very young kids.
You could monitor http://hackerne.ws/newest so you wouldn't need spider to many pages, if you only wanted the latest content.
I love all the condescending know-it-all replies here when the author says in the second sentence:

Ok, so it is very far away from a real IP stack,

It's sad how often posters here miss the point and jump to semantics as if it matters at all.
IPhone Development: My Experience
Ask HN: What's the ghost behind the downvotes?
I got downvoted for some obscure reasons and I feel very bad that my comments were seen as problematic. One was mentioning someone's mispellings in a thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1719975) and the other was about making a comment that was equal to most funny comments around on a not so serious thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1718842).

This is the strangest thing ever and HN's faq is limited in how it sets the rules. I never thought I was doing anything counter-productive or negative. Can you please shed some light please? Can you explain why my interventions were downvoted when very similar posts in those threads were left or upvoted?

Note: I know there is no way to know why with the way HN is setup but I would like your educated guess. I just hope Karma on HN is just not a function of how cool, popular or otherwise consensual you are and that people like myself can stay on and bloom with differing styles and views from the majority... I am no Socrates but I can add value I think.
I would start by not building a web 1.0 style framework. We are in the middle of a transition to richer browser based applications and server side, non-standard web technologies like PHP, ASP, JSP, Servlets that spit out HTML are being passed over for straight HTML, JavaScript, CSS and XHR calls to the server this is a good thing because it simplifies the stack significantly.

If I where to build a framework now, it would be a framework build on one of the JavaScript toolkits (at least pluggable so any of them could be integrated, If I had to chose one it would be Dojo or jQuery depending on what I was targeting), a REST library, a content based router and a security API. I would also consider bolting on a CMS that templated HTML and exported it to pure HTML on a web server. This is where the future of the web is heading to build another ASP.NET or PHP or Struts on Node.js will give your product a limited lifespan.
Seriously, anything except a pedestrian should trigger the sensors. Car, motorcycle, bicycle, wheelchair, or a freight train from your subconscious trying to crush everything in its path... whatever it is, if it's sitting in front of an intersection and it's not on the sidewalk, chances are it's waiting for the green light!

Sure, you might get a false positive from time to time, but whatever causes the false positive probably shouldn't be in the car lane in the first place.
I would love to do this, however it is against my employment agreement to develop and sell games on the side. As cool as this would be, I really would like to keep my day job. :(
Submissions should cost karma. Dynamically change the karma cost based on the time of day or expected number of visits. In theory good posts would be a net win for your karma and people would stop spamming the new section with useless articles.
How are these extremely strong judgements? getting pissed off that some retards make more than some great people you know has a long tradition in civilization. My favorite is the Saul Bellow line, "Only I'm good and tired of watching high-quality people fuck up in practical life, to the gratification of the vulgar." This seems to be the spirit in which this article is written. Clearly the "fuck-up" in this case only refers to the financial aspect of things.
Cool -- and best of luck to Ed.
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That's really too open-ended to answer. Plus the best frameworks come from solving a specific problem and generalizing, not trying to be an abstract general frameworky thing from day one. Pick a project, concentrate on writing good code with DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) and you'll naturally be writing a framework that can actually do something.

To write a framework, you need to know what problems you need to solve. You get that from trying to write websites, not from trying to write frameworks. I strongly recommend against trying to cargo-cult a framework ("well, they have ORMs and MVC and dadadada, so I'll write an ORM and do MVC and dadadada because that's how it's done"), because you may get the letter right but you'll be missing the spirit. (Not that some very successful frameworks haven't suffered from exactly that.... no, I'm not talking about any of the really big hitters, but some of the mid-tier ones have this problem.)
Ask HN: How would you organize/classify/sort your ideas?
Pretty open ended, but I don't want to constrain any replies by being too specific for now.

I will say that I will be using Org-mode (most likely) for this purpose, and am interested in hearing suggestions before I start recording mine.
That's funny. I've heard a lot of people complain over the lack of (affordable) tech people in that area.
Ok, so it is very far away from a real IP stack, but it can do the first task of an IP stack: respond to pings.

Quit being a douche. The author even bolds it just in case you read the article.
One needs to apply the Arrington filter, which is a little complex.

For example: I immediately thought the Facebook phone story was link bait (and I still do). However, it seems there was more truth in it that I would've credited (based on a subsequent interview with Zuckerberg). Such stories drive page views but they bring Arrington's credibility into question, leading to debates like this ("do we believe him?").

With this story, the fact that the meeting happened I think is undisputed. Rather than more typically quoting an "anonymous source" he staked his personal reputation and used his own eyewitness account. So I don't doubt that part at all.

After that, it gets murky. Arrington's claims of collusion and price-fixing are probably a stretch based on the evidence but it has touched off McClure, Wilson and others. So there is something there. In the very least both sides (entrepreneurs and angels) are sensitive to the issue.

I also don't believe this is a binary problem: one of McClure and Arrington is right and the other is wrong. They can both be right, both be wrong or, more likely, both be somewhat right and somewhat wrong.

For one thing, people can believe they've done nothing wrong when they really have (note: I'm not claiming the super-angels have done anything wrong).

This is somewhat reminiscent of the DoJ investigation into anti-poaching agreements: both that and the angel collusion allegations seem motivated from cooperation but that doesn't mean they did nothing wrong.

TL:DR Arrington's observations are believable. His conclusions are premature.
I am pretty sure he pays people to go through a list of numbers and call them to tell them how awesome they are.

At 1 call per minute (which I figure is pretty liberal for a "Hey, have you finished your shit yet?") a single person can clear 400 people per day easily.

But of course if you paid someone $10/hr to call people, your sweet spot for break even is somewhere around 350 customers before you hire someone.
Yeah we mostly did smaller systems. On bigger jobs we tended to do it as several smaller systems working together. The largest system we ever did was a several hundred I\O points but that was over maybe 20 systems(we did all product movement between machines in the place.)
Rate my App HN: Minimal daily journal app. Just start typing.
How did you learn about building the guitar? I'd love to see pics/see design plans. Electric or acoustic?
Please don't downvote me. I am not a native speaker. But I still don't get it. Someone care to explain ;-)
great feature guys, i was waiting for email notifications.
That's the feeling I'm getting from everyone I talk to: trying to shoehorn Agile into a process is not agile.
To save you some time: Mixergy, Twist, and Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders

If you don't listen to those already, or aren't convinced, click through!
Play The Pick of Destiny 2 online y3 Games club
Coming in at over 15 MB is another skill testing DDR like game. Push the arrows just right.
After founding my startup I decided to refuse to work on Saturday too. Only once did I try (my cofounder really needed something) but it ended up not mattering by the time I got to the office.

Seriously consider this, it makes working on Sunday so much easier.
Does anyone else find it interesting that they plan to restructure with the intention of keeping ~3000 brick & mortar stores? Then they will try to re-enter the ring and compete with the same digital, by-mail, on-demand, and kiosk players that squeezed them out in the first place.

I feel like they would need to do an impressive reinvention of space use or turn their real estate inventory into a revenue stream instead of the bloated cost that is ends up being.
The only major failing of Perl is that its error handling facilities just flat out suck. Outside of that, it's a very modern language, albeit a little esoteric at times, and writing maintainable systems with it is possible with some discipline and common sense.

To boot, Perl natively supports modules written in C, and by way of DynaLoader.pm, a programmer can do fun things with exported symbols from object code. I wouldn't go as far as to call DynaLoader.pm a proper FFI, but it definitely gets the job done a lot of the time.
Good Recruiter VS Bad Recruiter
Well, I only wanted to pique people's interest; investigating real estate cycle was left as an exercise for the readers. I didn't want to write long post if no one cares.
SpaceX Targets November for Dragon Demo Flight
Is that HDF?

I want to start building a machine shop in the basement.