skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be interesting to see what new tags pop over the years. And maybe trends in tag usage etc.

For example, to see a google trend style chart for Ruby vs Python tags.
We need a name. "Startups" + "drinks" = DRINKUP!
"Is there a framework out there that simply doesn't contain the concept of a view/template?"

Rack. Though as features are dropped, the idea of something being "a framework" gets increasingly market-y.
This is in the headlines a but it seems to be there's more to it than the headline.

I mean, what does "pass" even mean here? As I remember, the UID is what you use to get all the rest of a user's information. How could you not pass it within your application and how is passing the information bad if you already have it.

I'm equally unsure why this a privacy violation. It seems more like a "we want to pretend this info is private even if it's publicly searchable" kind of thing.
Thank you, I will in the next 48 hours.
If you look at the past few weeks it looks like most analysts already expected pretty good news from Apple.

This might not have been quite as good as expected - considering they were at 280 on Oct 1 and now are still 30 points higher I'm guessing there's a lot of investors trying to take some money off the table now.
Yes, I've met all kinds of people while travelling that pay for GitHub accounts.

I'm always surprised at how many people have heard of GitHub in other countries. I think it shows how successful virality can be. We plant the seeds of GitHub usage in foreign countries through conference talks and drinkups, and the people that attend become patient zeros for the spread of Git/GitHub in those locales.
That's a lot of words, basically it boils down to:

We are a late stage start-up and our follow up money failed us at a critical moment.

What made your investor back out ?

Can you scale back your expenses to below your income ?
Maybe it's time for Sinofsky to take his shot being the CSA of MS?
We (Adioso - W09) submitted our application in the last ~18 hours. The cut-off was 4pm Saturday Australian time, so we spent Friday afternoon on the application and submitted it in the evening.

I'd been aware of the impending deadline a couple weeks out, but as we didn't rate ourselves as a big chance we didn't make it a priority. At the beginning of that week I decided that if we had time, we'd spend Friday afternoon on an application, on the off chance we'd get through. Had something important come up relating to a paying client (we were both contracting at the time), it's quite possible we'd have forgotten about it.

It was only after finishing, that from reading through it ourselves and showing it to Fenn's girlfriend, we thought "hey, this actually isn't too bad, maybe we have a chance".
I remember watching the Ballmer/Ozzie interview at this year's All Things D conference, and wondering how the two of them even work at the same company. The contrast between the way they talked about Microsoft's products, and technology in general, was a really startling juxtaposition.
What you are claiming holds for Delaware (which is in the USA!). Just google for delaware tax haven.
27 million iOS devices in the last 3 months, thats a very nice demographic to target that does not seem to be slowing down even with Androids rapid growth also gaining real momentum, I like being in mobile its certainly interesting!
Whether it is wrong or not depends on the expectations of the investor when they fund. Given their usual incentives for investing it is generally wrong.

http://www.quora.com/Can-you-raise-money-from-angels-but-the...
As a brief anecdote, I was completely shocked by what some professors earned at the public university I attended. I had several standard professors in finance and accounting who made ~$150-200k/year plus freelance consulting at $500+/hr. If more people knew of the salary potential of being a professor, universities might get more quality applicants.
This sounds like it would be easy to make an app for it. Just let everyone vote for their favorite bar for a drinkup in SF, and a day, and then you all show up.
_If you're hired and paid by honest people, yes. If you're hired and paid by the moral equivalent of a car salesman[1], your pay is probably based more on what they think they can get away with paying you._

Or they lack the ability to accurately judge people on their individual merits and/or abilities as a contributor. That is, a sales guy has a very clear cut idea of how much he's contributed. However, a guy who writes a lot of crappy code and causes problems for people that come after him would look stellar next to the schmuck who's got the untangle the mess he leaves behind. If management isn't technical...
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I know it's fashionable to beat up on Ballmer's buzzword-filled, meaning-deficient prose, but man, the guy sure doesn't make it hard for people.
Good question. Asking the bank to provide documentation would be a good first step, but I'm not sure if there's anything obligating them to furnish that information to you.
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Absolutely. But I'd wait for them to say "So tell me about yourself" rather than trying to shoehorn it into a paragraph long introduction. The goal of the intro is to make them want to know more.

If they ask why you went to Rochester, you can tell them that you chose it over Harvard. If they ask about your outside interests, you can tell them those instead. If they ask you how you got involved, etc.

Obviously, some circumstances, such as introductions on a speakers' panel, demand a different approach. But if you are playing the role of Tech Lead, I think you are better off being confident with less than blustering.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1804619
I started Gravatar when I knew nobody and nobody knew me. It grew quite rapidly. The single most important lesson you can learn from GitHub and Gravatar is that virality and community can help turn any good idea into a huge success. Make something that people can use to show others how great they are. Kathy Sierra talks a lot about this concept. People love interacting with other people. Figure out how to make that work for your idea.
Yes, in theory, you could pay the angel back upon note maturity (which would probably be principal + interest).

However, most angels may not be too happy if that was your plan all along. They're putting money in on the hopes that your success will somehow multiply their money. If you're just planning to pay them back their interest, they might as well have put that same money into a bank.

Again, it really depends on your angel -- my strong advice to you is to be forthcoming about your goals. It's better to have everyone on the same page up front... especially if you plan on having a long term relationship.
I love GitHub but this post doesn't provide much coherent advice.

"Optimizing for happiness" seems like a hard idea to argue against. The author defines happiness as:

"I'm a hacker; I'm happy when I'm building things of value, not when I'm writing a business plan filled with make believe numbers."

That's a pretty narrow definition. The rest of the article implies that what the author really means by happiness is freedom and lack of stress. He writes:

"When there are fewer potentially catastrophic events on the horizon, you'll find yourself smiling a lot more often."

That's actually an argument against doing a startup at all. Startups are extremely stressful and freedom-limiting endeavors. Servers crash in the middle of the night. Smart people launch competitive products that try to kill yours. Users get pissed at you for removing their favorite feature. In my experience there are always catastrophic events on the horizon in a startup.

Personally, I try to optimize for things like excitement, challenge, personal development, impact, and fun. Raising a VC round may or may not contribute to these, depending on a lot of things.
Apple announcements are a magnet for traders. There's no point trying to interpret the stock's gyrations as a judgement of their performance.
As far as I know, most people who live paycheck-to-paycheck are not in that situation because they have simply not yet succeeded in their repeated, rational and wholehearted attempts to improve their situation. Most are there because they don't know how to get and hold onto money.
If I'll ever meet Aliens I'm sure lists, sets, hash tables, and trees are in their CS books as well. But I bet their mainstream DB model may really be different than our relational one.

Edit: I reflected a bit more on the issue. It seems like that our mainstream DB model is clearly due to the kind of applications computers were mainly used for when the DB technology was developing: business application programs.

Imagine a DB technology emerging instead in completely different scenarios, like social applications where you need to update the status of users in a chronological way. Or a DB designed where most softwares had to deal with geo locations... as you can see the DB model is much more an ad-hoc affair.

A DB modeled after the fundamental data structures like Redis may not be the perfect fit for everything but should be able to model any kind of problem eventually without too much efforts, and with a very clear understanding of what will be needed in terms of storage and access time.
OK,

This http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2010/10/lates... gives some more background.
Modular Mobile Power
It's hard to say. We don't have a lot of extra bandwidth to put towards properly releasing these kinds of side projects. I'd love to get it into the public's hands someday though.
drop in gross margin from 41.8% to 36.9%

also, someone mentioned (CNBC?) that Wall Street thinks Apple should have sold more than 4.19 million iPads this quarter. Errr...
That'll be cool, but the mail says:
"The CSA role was unique and I won’t refill the role after Ray’s departure".
Agree that you should pursue this one harder...

You have a nice "inside track" by already being in the industry... and it's quite likely that you're very passionate about this topic, which will come through once you...

...Consolidate your pitch to more tightly communicate the opportunity, the problem in solving the opportunity, and how your product fixes that problem. (Preferably in a way that works better than existing solutions/semi-solutions. ;)

Remember, you've got to put your salesman hat on when making your case for a product like this. What was the principle objection your potential customers raised when declining your proposed solution? ie: Why didn't they like the fact that the end-user has to pay?

Is there a way to shift that cost elsewhere while maintaining the integrity of the system?

Have you listed all of your assumptions with that solution and thought of ways to test and prove/disprove each one?
There are a couple of different "types" of customers. Some, like you said, are just concerned about their code. Some are interested in control (meaning they control their backup policies, uptime, redundancy, etc.). Some want better integration (we support LDAP and CAS authentication, let you plug directly into various git hooks, that sort of thing).

Hosted plans work great for a bunch of companies, and self-hosted installs work great for a bunch of companies. Might as well help out both. :)
Yeah! Please email me, email in my profile.
Who's offering any interpretation? I'm sure not.
As a shareholder I hereby nominate both Steve Sinofsky and Scott Guthrie to the role of Chief Software Architect. Either would make me happy.
That assumes Ballmer will be around long enough to enforce said policy.
Is there a non-paywalled version?
iPod sales were expected (more iPhone victims), iPad expectations are just unrealistic.
I can see that argument for some of them, but some of them seem clearly unrelated to government meddling with the money supply. For example, the Panic of 1907 was caused by a failed stock-market-cornering scheme, which caused a cascade of failures when it collapsed (the cascade exacerbated by loss of public confidence leading to mass deposit withdrawals).

The trigger seems less important than the fundamental problem of bank runs, though, which is as old as banking: some trigger will eventually come by, and then you're hosed. The only way besides deposit-insurance I can think of to avoid it is full-reserve banking, where a bank literally holds its depositors' money in the vaults. But such banking has never been commercially very successful, because it has to charge fees and pays no interest to depositors, and when there hasn't been a crisis in some years, depositors' memories grow short, only to be awaked again in panic when it seems another crisis might loom.

One possibility could be to mandate that normal retail banking be full-reserve, by prohibiting banks that take retail deposits from lending that money out. That'd be fairly draconian regulation, though, even more strict than the old Glass-Steagall regulation of what retail banks could do with their deposits. (It seems Rothbard wants to get rid of fractional-reserve banking without the government banning it, but I'm skeptical it would actually go away the way he thinks it would.)
You're either vastly undervaluing your service or you don't work in direct response :)

Good copy takes weeks if not months to write and refine- you should adjust your prices to reflect this.
Yeah, I'm doing my last work on 3 desktop apps and then moving into iOS for the forceable future.
My girlfriend convinced me to apply to YC with the idea for Divvyshot. It was two days before the deadline.

I submitted the application the night it was due and spent that week hacking together a prototype with a friend. Here's the video we sent Jessica after the YC deadline had passed: http://vimeo.com/2044353
I'm 31, so I'm hoping that switch comes soon. I've always envied people who could nap. =)
Will CEO Compensation Publicity Bring Reform?
This Post Was Too Long To Read, So We TL;DR’d It
Good problems. What are you working on now?
Here is the original paper - http://arxiv.org/pdf/1010.3003v1. The paper claims their code and data is open, but the link is broken and I was unable to find it by browsing their site...which seems to consist of mostly blank pages.
Why the Singularity isn't going to happen
Social Entrepreneurs' Tricky Issues of Sustainability and Scale
IE 9 does not resize text sized in pixels
Yes. I was thinking through the test case of 1 (2^0) when I realized that they never asked for an integer power of 2...
Ask HN:  Looking for Cell Phone # Directory
Several months ago someone posted information about a new website that is a directory for cell phone numbers... anyone remember the name of it?

Thanks
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IPhone client for todoist.com - BlueTick
No its not free, but it is half the cost of the other one.
Are startups necessarily stressful or freedom limiting? Somebody recently emailed me and invited me to speak in Europe. I started saying "Thanks but..." before I realized "Wait, if I wanted to, I could totally go. I have the money, and a week or two delay of launch won't kill anyone."

As for stress, I think my most stressful moment in six months was an unexpected outage. I recovered in ten minutes. Other than that, laundry causes me more stress.
this one is old; was already on HN a few weeks ago.
still nice, though :-)
Your contact page quickly led me to here:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/topia.termextract/

and:
http://www.metaoptimize.com/qa

Great stuff.
Lies, damned lies.
Steve Jobs is just now highlighting Android’s “fragmentation” and discussing Android’s openness. He is also talking about upcoming tablets and their 7" screens. (Trash talking them, that is. No 7" screen from Apple anytime soon.) Ars Technica is blogging: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/10/liveblog-q4-2010-e...
How Facebook Turned an Old Friend into Sarah Palin
Ray Ozzie stepping down from Microsoft
I (YC S09) applied about 20mins before the deadline I think. I didn't tell my co-founders. One was living in Malaysia at the time. They had persuaded me to wait till we were 'ready'. We are a UK based company. It was about 2/3am in the morning and I was lying awake regretting that. I felt it didn't fit with the fundamentals of YC mentality - 'screw it just do it'. I was overcome with a great sense of obligation, not just to my co-founders (someone has to make the big decisions) but also to my family and girlfriend who had supported me that far.

I crept down stairs with her phone and mine to video the pitch in the kitchen of the close-to-derelict-renovation job-extraordinaire of a house I'd just bought. Videoing with her phone and timing myself on mine, it took me 15 recordings, fumbling around with 2 phones. You can see the exposed pipe work and partially tiled and stained walls of the filthy kitchen in the back ground; we had no kitchen, bathroom or hot water. The lighting is terrible....it looks more like an interrogation.

A week later our Malaysian based co-founder was on a marathon 7 flight trip around the world only to land into a marathon of meetings I’d set up with YC companies (14 in total) first in London and then in the valley. 5 days later we'd hacked something together whilst meeting these companies and were sat in front of PG having spent the week sleeping on Justin Kans floor with about 5hrs sleep a night.

Live and hope......what better a reason to base decisions on.
Leaving emotion out of investing.
Fuzzy graphs can also be weighted (that is supported in FuzzPy), but represent a set of fuzzy elements and their connections, so you are just dealing with a different type of member elements.

Also, since your graph elements are all members of a fuzzy set, you can also perform fuzzy set operations against your vertices or edges, whereas using weights for this type of work might often yield useless results.
One math-based comic strip I read uses a math question (very simple calculus) as its CAPTCHA.

Another option is to give english-language instructions on how to fill out the CAPTCHA. For example, "type the characters in reverse order".

You could make these more complex, like "remove the third, fourth, and seventh character and then unscramble the remaining characters to spell the name of the object pictured to the side".

As the article mentioned, this will not 100% stop spammers, but it will make it a bit more costly to them, probably stopping those whose margins can't handle the financial hit.
It was a valuable read like the others. Would you mind sharing how you created the product demo video? It would be another nice read if you covered this as a process.
I fear that by using that trend, we would distort it.
Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie stepping down
6. I would like to see more FP constructs natively available in Python.

FP constructs such as? Map is there. Reduce is one import away. There is nice syntax for list comprehensions. What do you miss?
Cracks In The Universe
I have JS enabled and am getting the same error.
We hire very slowly and very carefully. And we draw from our personal network first. The best way to get hired by GitHub is to be in San Francisco, come to the Drinkups, write awesome open source code or make insanely beautiful designs, and be a genuinely interesting and hard working person.

As for other startups, I don't really know firsthand the culture of many of them, but I do know the founders of CrowdFlower and they're amazing. And they're hiring. Go check them out.
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The iPad sales are just staggering. Moving that many units of a product that didn't even exist a year ago, in a category that was long thought dead, is incredible.

Identify an optimal user experience, polish the hell out of it, then perform an airtight integration of every single component, from end-to-end. The software and hardware, the content ecosystem, the physical distribution, all of it fits together perfectly.

When you look at it closely, Apple, as a portfolio of talent, technologies and interacting businesses, resembles the sort of microorganism that Intelligent Design proponents advance as evidence of a god. Everything cooperates in such a concerted, integrated way it's almost impossible to imagine developing any of it in simpler phases.

In a world filled with corporations whose in-fighting and conflicting agendas make them look like mosh pits, Apple has the tightest marching band in history.

edit: Also, anyone notice how often Apple reports their "best quarter ever?"
Right. If you strip away terminology and other baggage (some of which is specific to MySQL, Oracle, etc. anyway) and look at just the relational model, it's actually pretty simple.

You have a relation (often called a "table"), which is a set of tuples (often called "rows"). Some of the fields ("columns") in a given tuple can be a key for that tuple, and some of them can be keys referencing other relations ("foreign keys"). The result of a query (such as getting all rows with a given value in a given column, joining one row to zero or more rows in another table via a foreign key, or the intersection of two relations) is another relation, and can be queried the same way.

It's tuples and set theory.

There's implementation details (and the implementation details for a high performance RDBMS are not trivial, don't get me wrong), indexing, transactions, constraints, etc. on top of that, but the core relational model itself is not very complicated.
If it's a corporate conference, you should ask them to pay your travel expenses.

They may say no, but you'd be surprised how often sponsoring companies and organizations will say yes to that kind of thing.
Interesting, but in this case it wasn't that it was ranked lower, but that one day I had 25 domains indexed fine and the next day they were no where to be found, i.e. not in the index at all. And I had plenty of other domains (not in that adsense account) that were still ranked fine.
Buy the rumor and sell the news.
Ray Ozzie is not CEO material, imo, personality wise, that's why he didn't take the position (I'm sure he could have had it). Ballmer is CEO material certainly, but not good CEO material.

MS is in a bad place currently top-level management-wise.
Few people probably know that, hence the effectiveness.
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each invitee can invite upto 20 people

Please wear headphones, or enable push to talk!! We still haven't finished building echo cancellation so if you don't wear headphones there will be some unbearable noise.

Quecast is a social video conferencing app that allow users to meet and have discussions around very specific topics.

Users can create a channel/community around a specific topic and gather to have a discussion about the topic.

Up to 8 people can broadcast their video and thousands of people can participate in each channel.

We want to host great group discussions online!

Think of it as Foocamp (or Barcamp) done online.

I made a Hacker News Channel so come hang out!
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Thank you!
Ballmer should have been gone instead of Ray. I will not be surprised if Bill comes back(aka like what Jobs did when he came back to Apple). Granted Microsoft may not be in as bad a shape as Apple was when Jobs came back and Gates is no Jobs, but I am sure with Ballmer incharge for few more years, it might get that bad.