skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thx for the heads up. Does the same thing happen leaving a space after the end of the url ie: ( http://www.cnn.com ) ... no but there is a trailing '/'.

So if you do something like this ( http://www.cnn.com/ ) does this cause a problem? (no)
Oh my goodness. I'm truly alarmed by this article. The author needs to think more in terms innovation, and creating value (for him and his co-workers, his investors and his users) in places that people would not think to look.
I don't think it's about finding a hacker who can code in Ruby and then building a me too web2.0 app/website.
Web 2.0 and pastel coloured websites will come and go but good innovators will always be around whether they know how to program in the latest "geek" language or not.
Guys, I'm building a collaboration application called Wamily that would be perfect for this. I just set up a group for this purpose. It has a wiki, and threaded conversations, and eventually more tools.

Sign up at http://wamily.com with invite code ZMYWVX and you will automatically be added to the group
it'll be at http://jobs.jaggederest.com/
The page contains a list of cities where there are co-working arrangements or groups willing to arrange something. Select your city and see what's there. Or, you can start something yourself and add your city (it's a wiki). They also have a Google group to communicate and a blog. I think they're doing a great job promoting the concept.
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That's a good idea, and the first step is organizing.

My email's omouse@gmail.com and my name's Rudolf.
SVN is up. http://www.jaggederest.com/jobs/svn/
Be careful about your database.yml file :)
No database there for that, and pg_hba.conf is set up to not allow outside connections, but aside from that, my host uses mysql and I develop on postgres.

Heh. I'm a bit amped.
Great spot sam. You know the market is maturing when their are tools that allow ranking. Interesting to see news.yc at 92 and ycombinator 82 and joelonsoftware 98.
Some of the features could have different URLs (for example, demomyapp.com wouldn't have to move) - but it'd be cool to run we all off the same server w/ the same theme/layout and same user authentication process.

Kind of like google accounts w/ google/gmail/google analytics/etc.
You must have heard from YC by now? What's the verdict? I can't take the suspense!
So this guy is bitching that "public" means "public"? Yawn.

On the other hand, as a practical matter, Google is supposed to look out for its users. I still bet that this is a pretty small fraction of the userbase that's treating "public" as "semi-private", so we can't just say that "Google is ignoring the welfare of its users".
It seems suspicious to me the way Arrington phrases this news. "It has become known." Why can't he quote a source? Perhaps because the source was someone working for Amazon?

To me, this information appearing at this time only adds to the appearance of Amazon's guilt.
Scaling Twitter & Scaling Ruby on Rails (by Blaine from Twitter)
if PG put up a facility for openID on here, we could hook it up that way.
The Times article on Twitter
We did actually introduce Kiko to angels who invested in them. And Kiko didn't sell because they were out of money, but because their users were draining away.
We unfortunately did not get funded. Ironically, we suspect it was at least in part due to more of a strategic "political" reason than an insufficient idea. Our startup would have directly competed with a prominent current YC funded company which for obvious reasons is undesirable for YC, despite the fact we believe our approach is superior from a technical standpoint. The argument was that this current company is already "well established" and might already have momentum to expand into the area we proposed. They certainly aren't doing it yet though, and we build fast and never give up. I'm sure Larry and Surgey were told the same thing from investors about Altavista. History shows being "well established" doesnt mean squat. I wont get into any more specifics though, as we are still pursuing the idea and would like to keep it under wraps.

Paul, Jessica, and Trevor are really cool people though. As were the other teams present. We saw some good ideas and smart people. Without a doubt the next batch of startups will be very impressive. I wish all of those teams who were offered funding the best of luck!
I know Steve Huffman of Reddit used to dream of one day switching to Erlang, but I doubt now they will.
dupe http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=15542
Ahh, I didn't see that link. Consequently, this posting should be deleted.
Middio: Music Video Search Engine For YouTube
great news!
as founder of First Tuesday in Vienna in 1999 I was involved in a lot of start up connections.
the angel boerse here i2 might be useful, other contacts are a "similar" space from Frequentis for related companies to have incubator space, it was running in the 4th bez. and then there is Julie Meyer running Ariadne with the desire to build a new europe ...http://www.ariadnecapital.com/team_julie.htm and others like http://www.discoverybeach.co.uk/
best regards, nigel
so your trying to help people share live streaming video. It would really help to have a video camera with a decent bandwidth connection to the internet to do that.
whats the biggest problem for startups in austria as you see it?
whats the biggest problem in austria for startups as you see it?
"where every resource you could need for a business is constrained"

Every resource except:

Money. The Valley has money like you wouldn't believe. Everything worth anything gets funded. If you can pull out a nice demo and sign on a few paying customers, you will get money--more than enough to make up for the cost of living.

People who understand what you're doing. There are dozens or hundreds of "startup" attorneys here...and nowhere else. There are dozens or hundreds of "startup" accountants here...and nowhere else. There are always events happening that will bring you into contact with other entrepreneurs.

I've started a company outside of the valley (started in Houston and moved to Austin, which is no slouch as far as technology goes) and I've started one in the valley. The valley is better.
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I'm experimenting with Erlang for a hosted product we're developing. But our shipping product is mostly perl with some Java, bash, and JavaScript.
Awesome! The twitter scaling issue has been in the news a lot lately....
"There are a number of rumors floating around that Hornbaker threatened Amazon with a PR smear campaign if they refused to increase their acquisition offer to well above $100,000, something Hornbaker flatly denies."

Point 1 - reporting about "a number of rumors" has no place in a news article.

Point 2 - how could he threaten Amazon with a smear campaign at that point... they hadn't sued him yet...
Guy Kawasaki interviews Seth Godin on his new book "The Dip"
Erlang, like Haskell, has ideas that can be mined for non-Erlang (slash non-Haskell) languages.
Of course Google is recording voice samples, that way they can recognize them better... this is hardly surprising.

And what's with all of the "google is evil" metaphor? They aren't stealing my voice in any sense of the world, they are taking a sample of it, to practice their voice recognition engine...
Having the functionality is no guarantee that anyone will use it. It's also necessary to set the norms so that people will feel the same way about updating their status on facebook as they do on twitter. This isn't to say that facebook won't do it, just that it's not as simple as adding a little code.
Condolences to anyone who got an interview and then was turned down. That bites more than not getting an interview.
> The argument was that this current company is already "well established" and might already have momentum to expand into the area we proposed.

Makes you wonder why they dragged you out there then!
Are lots of meta sites about startups an indication of a bubble? When will we see a site about creating sites about startups?
Call it [my app name] Vista and pretend it's brand-new!
When you call me up to chat, it's not stealing to record our conversation and use it for whatever purpose I want... is it?
I still have PG's whiteboard post: "but some startup ideas need be kept secret"

I have a problem with this - why? And is there a good litmus test?
The real question isn't "Can you compete with Google" but rather "Should you compete with Google"?
Startups have slim chances of success to begin with. Making them even slimmer by battling it out with Google isn't a very good idea.
Why not just find another idea (or not start a company around something that one of the web giants is likely to go into soon enough in the first place).
Tempest, meet teapot.

Did you know that if you publish your yahoo mail password on geocities, it's PUBLIC, and people can SEARCH for it?!

Do a general search for people who post passwords on the web, and then talk to me about how this story about Google Calendar even makes any sense.
He denies that his source was Amazon in a comment:

I have no evidence that Amazon leaked this. They certainly did not do it formally in any event. I got this on two email tips from sources unrelated to Amazon. Also, the Amazon lawsuit makes no mention of it.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/22/amazonstatsaholic-dispute-just-got-a-lot-more-complicated/#comment-1345081
I have a different view. Taking exiting site as an "example" for "how to build a web app in X" type tutorial is quite useful, since the audience also know what to expect, and can have something working at the end.

Of course the true difficulty isn't in the surface features---scaling to thousands of users and millions of records, handling all sorts of corner cases of browers, etc... but that can come later, after the introductory tutorial.
does anyone know if there is/will be any video or audio to go with these slides? The takahashi-ness of them suggests to me that there might be more in the delivery that we aren't getting with the slides alone...
True! as I have learned timing is everything.
I think it's awesome in what they're doing. Instead of listening to the hype they decided to go with a framework and language that allows them to do certain things that the other cannot do.
Last chance to save Europe from worst copyright law in the world!
BBC World's Most Powerful - Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates [vid]
Post flyers, email the CS club, email the local Linux User Group, email the local freethought club. You should also have the events regularly and make sure you keep them fun so that word of the event permeates the community and the reputation is built up. You also really should be looking to have fun and socialize with geeks, not just find hackers by throwing a party for them. :)
Worth reading if you're new to FP. It's a shame the author used Java for explanations instead of C which is closer to the bare metal and would expose more of the internal workings.
Bug report: When I am logged in, http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=evgen shows that evgen has made no comments, but http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=14943 is written by evgen. The parent comment to this comment is one written by me. When I'm logged out, http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=evgen shows the thread where evgen responded to a comment I made.
I only read the historical part, and I got caught by this line:

"Nevertheless Alonzo had regular contacts with other Princeton inhabitants. Among them were Alan Turing, John von Neumann, and Kurt Godel."

Wow. Where can you find that today?
The problem is that i don't really want to write my own web server, I want to write a web app that will run on that server.

So far it seems the plt web server would have been a good option, the problem I have is the lack of tutorials & "get started" type documents or screencasts like you can get for most other languages/platforms/frameworks
thanks a lot! i will take a look.

Would have been nice though if Kahua would have had a larger portion of its docs in English...
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Agreed. Hence all the "how to write a blog" and "how to write a wiki" in each and every web framework.
Funny, because I just registered a domain for something like that, ideasbin.com, one day before this thread started. It was a direct inspiration by YC, too: since everybody keeps going on about ideas being worthless, why not "throw away" your idea? It could also be a place to mourn your ideas that you'll never make come true.

My plan was to start simple, though (perhaps reddit style ideas submission, a wiki page for the idea, 'social net' in that people can collect their favorite ideas). Seeing the ideas taking form here, I guess ideasbin would not be too successful (should have picked a more serious domain name).

But anyway, in general I am interested to work on this, although actual time available might be limited. Email in my profile.
Is non-technology press coverage important to a start up?
Having recently relocated to Innsbruck (from Padova, Italy, and originally from Oregon in the US), I'm curious about utilizing an LLP from the UK. I'd be really interested to hear if anyone has more information on that, because as things stand, starting a company in countries like Austria or Italy is absurdly expensive.
John, good luck with this project, regardless of which concept you use.
Google comes close (from Paul Tyma's blog):

"At Google, you never know who your interviewers are going to be. If you say you're a Java or C++ expert that rates a 10 - you darn well better be - because you never know - your next interviewer could be Josh Bloch, Matt Austern, Guido van Rossum, or Ken Thompson."

http://paultyma.blogspot.com/2007/03/howto-pass-silicon-valley-software.html
Quite clearly, if you do something that violates the copyright of others, you have to use the fame you received to ask users to download your own toolbar because "company X is being mean to me." You have to be ready to switch business models. Get users fired up. Maybe even sell the company for $100,000 which Amazon offered and use the publicity with TechCrunch to start a new site, with his own statistics.

So, although I think he's doing a good job getting Amazon some really bad publicity, even though this is a simple case of copyright violation which he is guilty of, he should be doing more than just ticking off Amazon.

Instead of playing victim, he needs to get his toolbar out and compete with Alexa. Don't just say, their service sucks I'm going to copy it, but say, the service sucks, I'm going to replace it altogether. Amazon can't touch him with copyright suits. This is basically extortion at this point. Why?

There is NO WAY he could have thought that Amazon (or any other corporation) would not be ticked off at him at some point on the first day he started doing this. In other words, he's moved onto "legal" extortion--trying to make the company he's copying to pay him more than $100,000 or else he will make them look like they are the evil ones. Had he sold his company and started his own stats company, fine. But since he doesn't know when to stop, this is getting ridiculous.

Finally, the fact that this is Amazon should not matter. Everybody who develops IP (basically, everybody reading this) wants to be able to protect it. I don't care if it's Amazon or Microsoft or Google. Amazon didn't do anything wrong, and I don't agree that it should be spun that way. As far as their 1-click patent goes, there was nothing like it on the web OR real life until Amazon invented it. Finally, if people are going to bring up that Amazon had a famous patent, why can't Amazon bring up that the user allegedly extorting them, has served time for extorting users of another major internet company?
Man Gets 5,000 Calls After Posting Number on YouTube
Also see techcrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/23/kyte-launches-more-rich-media-streaming-presence/
NASA Testing Portable Robot Surgeon
Apart from possibly Ken, none of them compares IMO to the Princeton list, not by a long-shot. I often wonder why there seems to be less scientific genius around, and there are three options:

1. Problems these days require teams (meh)

2. The geniuses are there, they just never get recognition until much later

3. They're off doing technical work rather than scientific research. I.e.: they do startups, not publish articles. Can you imagine that your project might be up against a modern-day Einstein?

4. I'm out of touch. Geniuses are still there, in plain sight.
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The news story about it is on the Internet. This case got a lot of publicity so someone was bound to stumble across it sooner or later, leaked or not.
82 for me (revmap.com)! would be nice to see what you need to improve on to get towards 100
The Lisp community did something like this at one point, too, though that was more as a 'look, it's possible' to reddit. The result seems to have mutated into http://www.cl-user.net/asp/new
Does anyone know how you avoid sending emails to hotmail going to spam?
I have talked to a few other people and they have had similar problems, thought someone here might have a solution. Basically we are using Qmail to send emails out from our website (ruby on rails). Everything seems to be working except for hotmail, where they always go to spam.

We are using a hacky solution at the moment but that limits how many emails we can send, does someone have a good way around this, paying a small price per month wouldn't be too bad for a solution.
Register your server (the one sending email) with SenderID http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety/technologies/senderid/overview.mspx which is an MS invention -- their record wizard is here: http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety/content/technologies/senderid/wizard/

The rest of the world (at least those email servers that check for this stuff) uses SPF records.

This site http://www.openspf.org/ tells you how to setup SPF on your server.
Certainly - I expect that some day, there will be a "script" type language that gets a lot of what Erlang gets right with regards to concurrency.

It is not, however, an easy problem, as Erlang's real strength (IMO) is its runtime. In other words, I don't think you can just slap a few things into some other language and call it good.
sounds promising. We have SPF setup. Going to check out SenderID now. Thanks
I think this is Ok, except some improvement is needed on news.yc. Comments should somehow affect the rank of a post. And it's not the number of comments that matters, but rather the number of people involved, possibly taking into account their karmas.

And of course this should be recursive and should be applied to comments themselves (subcomments affect the comment).
"erlang? (what are you doing: stabbing my eyes out with a fork)"

lol
Thanks for the feedback. I think I'm still going to go with the memorial approach. Technically, this will be a cinch. The hard part is going to be getting the idea out there once I build it!
A very well done comprehensive comparison. The conclusion is accurate for now - we'll see about 5 years from now :)
I may have some information about this, but it's a little bit crude. It comes from Adam Curry's Daily Source Code podcast, when he was first setting up his startup Podshow and was having similar troubles (and not just with Hotmail -- all the webmail providers!).

Btw, the first thing I would do is get SenderID working. It will work with almost everything -- sendmail and postfix at least, so I'd bet that it works with qmail too.

According to what Adam says he found, you have to be registered with some sort of clearing house or all the webmail providers will drop you as spam. This is not senderid or spf. The only efficient way to be 'registered' is to purchase and appliance from a company for upwards of $80K. I think this includes configuring it with your domain info as well.

I wish my 'info' was not so vague. It comes from 1+ years ago, and Adam was never super-clear about specifics. It always sounded a little weird to me, but OTOH I do believe the webmail providers would do this. Apparently, it's done in the name of anti-spam, but the spammers are allowed to buy these appliances, so it's really about milking more money from emailers, and maybe about squeezing out the little guy.

I'm hoping someone out there can clear some of this up, because it's a problem we all potentially face (if it's real).
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A great example of a direct marketing campaign - 51% annual growth!
Umm. What functionality?
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This is called ycombinator STARTUP news.
Make sure you have reverse DNS that points at your mail server ( eg mail.your-site.com ) , not just the root domain ( eg not your-site.com ). A lack of reverse DNS or an automatically generated reverse DNS ( eg isp-1-0-0-127.isp-site.net ) won't do.
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I'd like one for a friend of mine. Can you email me and can I send it to her, or do you need her email address? Mine is in my profile.

Thanks!
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Welcome to the Dot Com Bubble 2.0
From the blog post:

Seven years later, we're now clearly in the throes of another dot-com bubble. You might argue that the new bubble has been in effect since mid-2006, but the signs are absolutely unmistakable now. The job market for software developers is every bit as hyper-competitive as it was in 1999. The idea that you can found a company on the internet-- and make money-- is taken seriously now. There's a new one every week.
In the amount of time you spent talking about this you could have already built the site.
lets make this more fun, post your favorite quote, and vote up the ones you like. The 4 users with the highest votes on their quote at the end of the day today get the invites :)
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YC SFP Interviewees: Results?
jsjenkins168 shared his here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=15910
What to do after you sell your company and retire
That would make it very easy to game the system. What you should do is pick the four you like best, even though it puts you on the spot.
Is there any way to recover the submitted YC application?
in case people didn't notice, shiro recently did (thanks shiro!): http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=15876
I do not think that there is "one way" to fix this (if there were, then it would be easy for spammers to go straight to inboxes)

Reverse DNS (ip mail domain)

SPF Record

Sender ID

3rd party verification (goodmail systems is one example linked from aol's spam abuse) - they are $400. 80k sounds like a little bit too much

Apply to be "whitelisted" at each specific provider (http://help.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/mail/cgi_bulkmail is yahoos, aol has one)

Switch MTAs (postfix, sendmail, qmail) - try alternating

Make sure your headers make sense and are valid (reply-to,return-path, from, message-id, etc)

Finally, send email people actually want. It seems that the systems are somewhat automated (aol is for sure) to reject mail if a certain % of users flag it as spam.
In the days when Sussman was a novice Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe." "Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky. "I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play."

Minsky shut his eyes. "Why do you close your eyes?", Sussman asked his teacher. "So the room will be empty."

At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.
On the contrary. We got an interview and rejected last fall. It was a great experience to meet the four of them. I think we brought a great idea, a plan, and little diversity in our team (I was the only geek in our garage). We were swiftly rejected for reasons I'm not entirely sure , but thats why they have the money and I don't! At the least, Boston made for a great weekend getaway.
Twitter or Tricker? WHy?
Is Twitter a service that adds value for you or just a trick to get you hooked so they can make money of you later?