skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be good. From their commercial, the upcoming documentaries seem to center on:

Larry & Sergey (Google)
Jon Stewart (Daily Show)
Henry Kravis (KKR/LBOs)
Anna Wintour (Vogue)
I think that you're imagining a problem where there isn't one.

Examples 1 & 2: Never attribute to malice that which can adequately explained by stupidity. (These comments only have one or two downvotes, which can be easily explained by someone clicking on the wrong button. This happens to me often when I'm browsing from my iPhone)

Example 3: This is actually a useless "me too!" comment, and deserves all the downvotes it got.
This doesn't seem very accurate, judging from the first couple entries. Textpayme was a morph of Firecrawl, and Club Beta I've never heard of.
We solved a lot of real world (advertising) problems with OCaml at my last company. Stack traces worked too ...
When I see this, I routinely up-vote the comment, as well as add a reply pointing out that the comment was legitimate. (and this generally scores me several cheap karma points on my reply :) )

I think that there's a "leaky abstraction" problem in up- and down-voting. The intent of voting (afaik) is to show meritorious comments, so other readers can find the most insightful writing. But it's also taken to indicating agreement or disagreement. Even the most insightful, well-researched comment may get down-voted by people who dislike its sentiment; while (less frequently) vapid comments that add nothing to the discussion get up-votes.
They could have started by not translating every single ExternalInterface call into XML and then back again. However, this is a useless argument: my thoughts are just a silly thought experiment and you're just being adversarial. Tell you what, have a free point on me.
Hackers on the big screen
I think this is just a "dark ages" kind of thing.
The reason why the internet works is because it is a distributed system.
As Alan Kay would call it "the only true object oriented system in operation"
I hope people will realize that you cannot depend in a benevolent overlord and try to use their own infrastructure.
D'oh -- well color we retarded then.
this reminds me of my favourite weird coincidence:

mile / kilometer ~= golden ratio
another thanks. the more i think about it, the more i appreciate how invaluable the talks were. this was my second startup school. but oddly i think the most valuable thing is a sort of subconscious quieting of the mind around the key places where startups really need to get going.

for so many people starting new businesses there are just a lot of unknowns that can create noise in one's mind (and prevent one from innovating around the other more real domain problems). when you see and hear other people's stories, strangely, i think the mind starts to normalize them and all these classes of fuzzy / unknown obstacles, that we don't even realize are there, start to disappear.

serial entrepreneurs often have already created this normalized, orthogonal, clean parse tree in their mind from experience. and big name institutions or big name angels create the same quieting of the mind. but i think in part you can get the same thing from startup school, whether one realizes it or not. the ultimate hack is that you don't actually need anything to 'quiet the mind' whatever that means, if you realize how important that resulting action is in the physics of it..
> If you are starting a company that targets a two-sided market you need to figure out which side is the hard side and then focus your efforts on marketing to that side.

But if you get a bunch of the easy side, that will attract the hard side. You can do it either way.

Look at buyers and sellers. If you have tons of buyers, that will attract sellers. And if you have tons of sellers but no buyers, that will attract buyers.
Who can say Web is niche market?

Also, I feel sick all the time when people telling me X is a new general purpose programming language that will solve all the problems.

People should be more open minded, pick the right tool for the job.
PayPal: Need a simple, stable alternative
I'm in the process of creating an application (i.e.-classified ads) that requires users to submit payment (small amounts, no more than say $2) before their ad is live. Since this is my first experience dealing with online payments, I decided to go the PayPal route...only I've been unable to use their sandbox environment/accounts as it has been down for me for two weeks, and I got what from the reading I've done on HN is a typical response from PP's customer support, "At this time the engineers will only notify me now when the issue is being pushed to the sandbox site, unfortunately I do not know what the time frame is. It could be today, tomorrow, or a week."

Since a multi-billion dollar company can't tell me when things will be fixed, I need to look for another solution and am hoping you all have recommendations.

At this point, I simply need a "Pay Now" button that takes the user to a secure site to process their payment, upon completion it returns them back to my site. In this process, I need to be able to pass 2 variables to, thru and back to me (if successful) in order to "active" their submission (e.g.- PP's IPN).

Any and all suggestions are greatly appreciated!
Price plays a big role too. As your company grows you'll find that the valley has cheaper offices, cheaper housing, and cheaper food. Caltrain is decent for your employees in the city, and Mountain View is tolerable for your employees in Santa Cruz.
Sometimes people can talk you out of a good idea before you start too
I think we've succeeded in not turning into Reddit, but we certainly have changed. Not only do I see move downvotes, I see many more upvotes. And, again, that's a symptom of having more users.
I think Gimp (or 'The GIMP') is perfectly fine for something people see and use. Do you really think it's worse than PhotoPaint, Paint.NET or any of the other names out there?

OTOH, having "Avahi" and "Plymouth" as names for semi-obscure system components that users don't get a word in choosing, but occasionally have to diagnose, is a terribly bad idea.
I find strange, yet refreshing, that HN regulars are logical thinking people. Its like everything the Internet usually isn't.

Plus, interesting things hit HN before all the other sites. I'm actually glad I found this site, its not well known in the larger sense of well known; as in, its not Slashdot.
There are some things that are easier to do efficiently with imperative languages. And one can generally easily write functional code in a modern imperative language (C# for example has many, if not most, of the tools available in popular functional languages). But less easy to do imperative in a functional language.

Multiparadigm languages are here now and feel like the future.
Any guess as to when the <device> element (or api - Berjon vs Hixie?) will be adopted by a shipping browser so we can have this all-js microphone (and camera) access without a flash shim?

My bet is Android webkit first (ericcson closed source webkit proof of concept already exists); a timeline would be nice though.
Canonical, Ltd. On Record: Seeking Open Core
welcome to iran
I don't feel that this post is fair. You can't say "we can't do solve real world tasks with functional programming because Haskell isn't practical."

I'm sure this isn't a fair analysis either, but I think it's an accepted belief that pure functional languages don't fit with how the world works. That doesn't mean that functional languages with side effects (multi-paradigm is probably the correct term) like Lisp, given the recent rise of Clojure, or F# can't be used in the real world.
I'm sorry, the puzzle is asking for a global property. The new text has the adjustments.
CTL 2goPad SL10 review
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The sandbox is operational for me.

Have you tried Google Checkout? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1351330/paypal-like-ipn-w...
It was near the end of this one: http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/271992324
I saw a documentary on people over 100. Just about all of them felt their time had come some 20 years earlier, and some were very bitter about it.

Now, you could make the argument that they wouldn't want to die if they were in good health. But then you'd have to start thinking about how good your health needs to be - good enough not to need help? Good enough to be able to do anything you want? Good enough not to worry about doing stupid things? Good enough to keep up with the world as it races ahead, knowing you will eventually be required to understand all the new things?
I like reading amusing tweets like CEOSteveJobs. I figured the main drivers of it were breaking news via retweets, and finding ad hoc discussions of things via loacation or #tags. I don't have much to say myself though.
check this comment I made: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1743381 and be sure to check that whole post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1743017
I like how there's plenty of examples of down voting and not discussing the reason on this thread.

I'm assuming you got down voted because it's just a flat karma value (I guess 200?) to allow down votes. They meant that your karma from submissions shouldn't count because it's trivially obtained.

Edit: Thanks for down voting this.
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It might end up being worth it. In 2006 we registered twingly.com, while a startup in the US registered twing.com. Twing and Twingly are similar enough to sue for cease and desist, especially since our businesses areas overlapped very much. Us being a search engine for blogs and them a search engine for discussion fora.

By the time we found out about each other, we had registered Twingly as a trademark in EU and Twing was pending registration in the US. Thus, we had symmetrical leverage on each other and the negotiations for an agreement of global, peaceful co-existance was hassle-free. It was in both our interests to get it in place. None of us had in their minds to attack the other but didn't know to trust the other in the long run. If you end up building the next Google you don't want someone around with the ability to take an easy shot at your business.

To conclude, I think both of our companies were happy we registered our trademarks early on.

Since then however, Twing was deadpooled after their financers pulled the plug. On another note, Twitter and Twine were also started in 2006, without anyone of us being aware of each other until after some time. It was simply a year for startup names starting with Twi, as it seems.
Slashdot ID 3xxxxx, first post - Sep '01... but thanks for the info ;)
I have a four digit Slashdot UID. Those features didn't exist in the beginning. I have mine set to default settings, with "show only posts with a score of 5" on.

Tends to keep out most of the usual Slashdot bullshit without requiring me to take Slashdot out of my RSS reader altogether.
'Multikulti' has failed in Germany, says chancellor Angela Merkel
Shock therapy. There was certainly some pains along the way, but they seem to be doing very well now, given their starting point.
Your comment was an Android Fanboy equivalent to the iPhone Fanboy posts. Some of the points are over-extended, the conclusion doesn't really match the support. It's all a 'belief' thing, which is what iPhone people do and get downvoted for as well.
I didn't mean for my comment to imply that I have any critical pages :)
I think I copied this from HN once. Paste to terminal:

dc -e '[lolssdsl0lqx]sx[1+lddd*lld*-ls+dsdrll2**lo+dsld*rd*+4<kd15>q]sq[q]9ksk[d77/3*2-ss47lxx-P1+d78>0]s00[d23/.5-3*so0l0xr10P1+d24>u]dsux'
Good idea for a post! Like others have said, "strange" is an odd choice of words. Some of the "interesting" things about people here that I've seen:

* They are more likely to be liberal/Democratic in views if from the USA and, if from Europe, they are almost certainly so

* Someone with a highly successful lifestyle business that affords him/her millions is not viewed with the same awe about business skills as a teenager who just raised $50k for his first business

* They share an incredible amount of proprietary information that could be used against them by competitors (whether in strategy meetings or as evidence/validity during fundraising)

* Tend to be very smart and very civil on average
Avail of our Frankenstein Essay
Writing the Frankenstein essay may be scarier than that of the actual character to many students. This is because they lack the writing skills to do a good job with their essay writing. These students will be able to avail themselves of this task by selecting a good writing service to do the job.
No worse than the X.Org server, which some people (for awhile, myself included) end up calling "xorg".

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Hmmm, I don't find the latter that useful. It's more a "Why we don't use Hackell more" essay, since the problematic things he cites are not present in many other functional languages (pervasive laziness and the sharp delineation of state changing code).

Particularly in the original functional programming language family of LISP (which, I grant you, has been multiparadigm from the beginning). Even in the most functional most successful branch of Clojure things are somewhat friendlier (although it's new enough plenty of practical programming warts still need attention).

It's my strong impression that for a long time Haskell has been as advertised in an "Avoid Success At All Costs!" mode so that various particularly pure things could be explored. The ML family might be more worthy of examination along the lines of the author, particularly with F#'s elevation to first class status in the Microsoft .NET ecosystem.
I would hope the point of the foundation is for people whose parents cannot provide the grant after the rigorous debate.

The discussion prior to applying for the grant is a function of your family, not of the grant. Though I would also think that Peter would only fund people who have worthwhile ideas.
as someone who switched to vibrams 6 months ago, and not having been an avid runner before (I do play soccer a lot) due to knee and ankle pains from heel-strike running, I've noticed distance running has become infinitely more enjoyable than it used to. That aside. I think people are missing the point of this article. The point is more about the WAY we are walking/running than what we are wearing. The solutions out there (thick soled running/walking shoes) are merely trying to alleviate the pressure caused by this poor WAY of walking (heel strikes, etc).

The fact is, when we were kids running around barefoot, we ran on the balls of our feet, because that is the instinctual way to run.
It wasn't all bad. I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed when I read it at 4am. Ignoring gov isn't an optimal solution for growing businesses. It's wishful thinking that wide scale social changes can happen outside of regulated areas.
Climate Change Confuses Most Americans
Unfortunately, even comparing them is useless. Each is used in their respective industries. When is the last time you heard of an all web start up delivered from ASP.Net? I'm sure there are exceptions, but its to a rule.

Ruby on Rails is easy to patch yourself, it has a low buy-in, and it is cross platform. .Net MVC is giving medium businesses and enterprise web portals a much needed face-lift.

What I don't see a lot of, is stories of one cannibalizing the other or competing solutions. You don't see many headlines "Startup chose ASP.Net, it made all the difference"
Thanks jacquesm, though oddly it has been giving an error for the last few hours:

http://benjoffe.ww.com/
Site Temporarily Unavailable

We apologize for the inconvenience. Please contact the webmaster/ tech support immediately to have them rectify this.
error id: "bad_httpd_conf"

Other *.ww.com subdomains are working on my machine so I'm assuming it's an error with the site.
genius move. do it.
Now that's hacker thinking, not bad mind you but not the right message.

It has to represent a determined social push, the hacker answer could be abused while representing only a small percentage of web browsers.
Desk jockeys rising up, putting chairs out of a job
OK, but why is that important? If they did that well enough, their computers would be improved and have increased value for me. I'm more than happy to pay more for something that is better.

At any rate, I don't think that we'll have to worry about upgrading the memory in our computers. The RAM in my phone is soldered in place, and I've never thought once (until now) about adding more. This might seem shocking, but ask yourself: with the rise of the laptop, where have all the expansion slots gone? Why doesn't anyone miss them? They seemed like such a big deal twenty (and even ten) years ago, but now we all get along fine without any of them.
Direct .flv download link: http://videos.bloomberg.com/63723194.flv

I assume that the Zuckerberg video has one, too, but couldn't find it.
Oh, and for what it's worth, the cleaner at my school was called Tom, and when I read the first story to my wife she looked thoughtful for a moment, then beamed and said, "Bridget."
you're missing the point. improper use of your feet causes problems up the whole skeletal structure. hips, knees, ankles, back, etc. LOTS of old people I've seen have problems with bad hips, knees, etc.

The theory is if we strengthened our foot muscles and such, there would be less load on the muscles further up the body so to speak that are compensating for improper balance or gait. basically your feet should be handling those functions, in extremely thick shoes, the feet aren't doing their job as well.
You're right about Facebook not beating Google in click ads, but they have the potential to tap into a much larger market. Brand advertising.

Facebook has all the information and the amount of attention that advertisers are used to spending on TV. Age, sex, location, and interests (in real time now with Facebook 'Like') are all quantified, and at a much deeper level than TV advertisers have access to. TV spend itself is a $60B/yr market, brand advertising is a $600B/yr market. Its not a model that will take a long time to develop, large brand advertisers are already doing significant spend on Facebook, Davide Grasso, Nike's chief marketing officer, says Facebook "is the equivalent for us to what TV was for marketers back in the 1960s. It's an integral part of what we do now."

This doesn't even include Facebook's ability to move into commerce on the platform with Facebook Credits, or to leverage the myriad of other opportunities their market position presents them with.
The largest exit in the history of YC is only $20 M?
Another good one is http://freedns.afraid.org/

I used to use it years ago for a home server. When I was doing that I think I preferred it over the other ones I had previously used (dyndns comes to mind).
The fact is, when we were kids running around barefoot, we ran on the balls of our feet, because that is the instinctual way to run.

Funny, I belong to some autism boards. "Toe walking" is considered indicative of ASD -- ie it is viewed as pathological. Makes me wonder if that view is partly a product of a culture where we are so used to shoes that we simply don't know how to walk/run without them. My oldest son sometimes runs the trash down barefoot -- roughly a quarter of a mile -- and he runs on the balls of his feet when he is barefoot. I have read this is the norm with barefoot runners.
$ curl --data "message=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" www.notanewyorker.com/post
Thanks for playing the manual POST game.

Fixed. =) Thank you for testing it!
If you're getting downvoted on HN for criticizing Microsoft, you might want to take a serious second look at those comments. Oh btw, I took a look at them and if anything you're getting off easy.
Yes, Netflix is pretty great. They are adding more and more content that is viewable online, and I really like their Wii interface (far simpler than the Netflix interface on TiVo or Xbox 360).
Or that members of his (no doubt large, and Western educated) family do. Or that the media cover it. But it's academic because I'm not doing it, and nor are you.
Documenting the interesting folks of the public rail system
Highly recommended. IMO it beats other good free fonts such as DejaVu Sans Mono, Droid Sans Mono (has problems with zero vs Oh) and Liberation Mono. On Ubuntu is packaged as "ttf-inconsolata".
I have to agree with the other guys here: The article doesn't seem to take recent functional languages (and their rise in usage) into account.

To write as little BS as possible I mostly keep myself limited to F#, a language I know:

- You don't need to use formal proves to design your software, the "purity" of your code is up to you

- Stacktraces? Hell, yeah.

- IO: Use what the .Net framework gives you - it's not that different from other .Net languages and you can isolate these side effects nicely in a simple method or go down the monad path..

In short: I disagree with the article, because I have made quite different experiences in the past. The morale of the story: Don't be too general (functional programming) if you have trouble with specific things (like Haskell's academic background).
Keep in mind the oldest YC companies have only been around ~5 years. There are some YC companies worth more than that but haven't exited. The common examples (based on others' estimations) are Dropbox and AirBnB.
Perhaps my PHP-design skills are outdated, but is it normal to have a 1500 line index.php containing a mixture of configuation code, PHP functions and HTML?

Also, don't you use any template system?

... I cloned the github project, only to find myself confused :)
Great read. Does Groupon really have 2500 people on staff?
Suggestions:

- link the word "exited" to a press release about the exit, or something similar.

- If the exit was in the form of being absorbed into a larger company, something like "Exited - [company name]" would be nice (for example, Divvyshot should say Exited - Facebook).
StackOverflow is the only one that comes to mind.