skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I think is funny is that digg recently redesigned their comments (the most distinguished feature of reddit) to try to immitate reddit's, but missed the most critical aspect -- the ordering.

Digg still orders comments chronologically and that sucks. I'd equate this with google not paying attention to ordering of results! Creating a threaded comment system without the ordering is so mind numbingly easy and digg decided to take the easy path without paying attention to the details that count.

I was tempted to post this where the creators of digg can see it, but I don't really want them to realize their error:)
I respectfully disagree. Consider that:

- People are risk averse.

- Most hackers make pretty good money at 'real jobs'.

- Startups are definitely a risky proposition. As someone else commented, "A startup founder with a successful startup is already a rare exception.".

- So when you're in the thick of it, and there isn't a lot of money, and you don't know if it's going to go anywhere, that reality is going to wipe out any talk of "we might be rich", compared with the alternative of "making pretty good money and living comfortably".

The "this is what makes me happy, how can we both make it work" is the approach that has best worked for me. My wife likes coming home and finding that I'm so much happier than when I was working for a moron, even if there's no money in it (yet).
PDF book - Art of Ware - IT startup survival guide
A reinterpretation of Sun Tzu's The Art of War ... BTW: Does anybody know where can I buy the english translation of the Art of War book in pdf?
Did you just use "startup" and "financial security" in the same sentence? :)
Summary: "Tell blatant lies". Bleagh:-( Probably effective though.
It's interesting that Zenter agreed to an acquisition before publicly launching. I don't recall seeing this too often.

Would they have survived a presentation-ware duel with Google or would they have suffered a fate similar to Kiko's?

I can't remember when I first heard about Zenter but it seems like I've been anticipating its release for a while. We generally hear that it's good to release early and update often so I'm interested in the story behind all of this.

Would it have been better for them to hold out and build a user base so they could be acquired for more money?
Microsoft Will Alter Vista Operating Sytem
"If you are one of the few people in the world who have the technical skills that these companies look for, then why would start at a startup rather than go into finance?"

To change the world?
If you interested in knowing what happened in a couple of the major panel discussions during the event, you can read our notes here:
https://auctomatic.com/user/ebaylive

The Q&A with the ebay execs was v interesting
Do you doodle in meetings? Don't throw these masterpieces away.
Wow, I didn't think anyone on here would downmod that sentiment.
The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 2: When the VCs say "no"
I've managed to get my average daily meetings to zero and the one thing I miss is my great opportunity for doodling. I always doodle and it's always the most productive thing that happens at any meeting.

Riding bicycles and doodling. Two things I recently rediscovered. Haven't tried them together, yet.
You're bringing up a pioneer in the commercial world of OO, I'm talking about suits using the term OO without knowing what the letters stood for.
Thanks, 200b is was I found too after reading the CSS 2 spec.
The Pitch: Behind the scenes of venture-capital financing (2001)
Peter Norvig's review was on the front page too. I found that one even more helpful.
Follow-up:
the company they're talking about (Global Locate) was just acquired by Broadcom: http://www.globallocate.com/PRESS/Press_Releases/Broadcom_To_Acquire_GL.htm
I want any particularly long word to be forcefully split instead of making the page wider than the window. I'd have thought 200B is the "right" way to do this.
I find this sometimes gives incorrect results, as if my fast typing speed and slow link speed cause problems, especially if I backspace multiple times to remove characters from the end.

I've had false positives because of this, i.e. I've gone away thinking "that's it, and it's available" only to find out the next day from WHOIS that it's been registered for months.

So, double-check any you really like with whois(1) or similar.
It's not bad, as a native English speaker. Is it arty-fee-a or ar-tiff-ia?
Well, you're not the first one to complain about it: http://social-problems-of-lisp.blogspot.com/

But personally, I've found that if you post a question to the c.l.l. newsgroup about how to do something specific, you'll get good replies.

It's the more theoretical and philosophical type of posts which wind up attracting the trolls en masse.
Isn't that still brain-damaged? You are alleviating the problem rather than fixing the cause. The cause being using closures means you have to store data for all clients for an unknown amount of time instead of having each client store their own data; it does not scale.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24790
'... prospect of financial security ...'

I know it's a chicken & the egg problem, but demonstration of actual 'entrepreneurship' is my suggestion. The best way would be to get a demo or product working ASAP and get users, fast. You have a better chance of arguing a case with something more concrete than a prospect.

If this has to be done while you work in another job, the 'Schachter' model (work, expend little & build a product before a company) could be the go.
Google's future is green (Networked Plug-in Vehicles feed power back to the Grid)
Yahoo in talks to buy MySpace from News Corp?
Beauty in binary / Book shows computers in all their geeky glory
If you want to learn a functional programming language that comes with a friendly on-line community, try Haskell. The people at the Haskell IRC channel and haskell-cafe mailing list will criticize you if you say something that just isn't right, but they are also relentlessly friendly to newcomers, they like to spend some time working on educational materials that explain their latest type system hacks, and there are always some of them around.
Yahoo in talks to buy MySpace from News Corp? (original source)
Will Apple Really Abandon the Low-End Desktop Computer Market?
Google Introduces User-Generated Content For Maps Without Community
From the article: "Google may seem like the master of the universe, but there is a fundamental aspect of the Web - how it connects people, not just information - that remains a blind spot. And its a weakness that can be exploited."
AT&T Smartly Stakes Everything on Mobility
Thoof Launches Personalized and Social News Service
It might be a friendly gesture to suggest a specific paper by Hayek that is to be read. I imagine you must have this one in mind:

http://www.econlib.org/Library/Essays/hykKnw1.html
Google launched several international versions of YouTube today: YouTube UK & Ireland is a poor idea
Five steps to a Yahoo turnaround
Neither finance nor law are of necessity zero sum activities, although both of them may end up dissipating some wealth in some cases.

Financial markets are what enables society to direct capital toward its most productive uses, and every time you find an arbitrage opportunity, you have just contributed a little to that goal; think of it as Gosplan, except that it actually works. This is perhaps easier to understand in the context of markets in physical goods. A merchant who notices that the difference in the price of widgets in towns A and B is smaller than the cost of transporting them, and starts doing so, is obviously realizing a net gain for society. Stocks and bonds aren't all that different from widgets.

Good laws make it possible for people to rely on contracts with complete strangers, rather than always having to laboriously build up bonds of trust, and they prevent people from imposing costs on third parties that never asked for them. While bad laws may be bad, good laws exist too, and lawyers do occasionally get involved in making them work.
Companies Hang Up on Apple's iPhone
U.S. newspapers adjust Web image as print dims
Taking Pictures with MMAPI
Desktop Factory: 3D Printers
Consolidate and take back your social network with XFN, openID and microformats
It's on Project Gutenberg, for free.
Flex UI On Your Application (Bruce Eckel: xmlrpc sevices with Flex, py example, language agnostic)
Good job. What's the story about NYTlabs. How are they affiliated to the NYTimes?
Our hurricane-tracking startup
Been working on this for a while, and it's time to start telling folks about it. I'm curious to know what you all think of anything and everything you're willing to comment on.
How To Set Up a Wiki For Family and Business
80+ AJAX-Solutions For Professional Coding
Whatever you use to automatically determine my location doesn't quite get it right; it thinks that I am in a small town that I vaguely recall as not being that far away from where I now live, so it's not the biggest deal.

Also, you may want to set distances to metric for people in countries where that's the standard. It's not at all impossible to get some users in e.g. Northern European countries without translating into the local language, but the size of a mile is not something people around here tend to be familiar with.
Yeah, also it is not particularly cool after you sold that you need to go at Google to work on this stuff. I mean... ok... after some year the vesting period expires and you are rich and goodbye, but in some way after the acquisition you became a "worker" for Google with much less freedom than before: this sucks.
Nice site, but... what about the non-hurricane season? It seems like a service that's likely to get pounded at certain times, and be virtually unused at others.
A new day is rising for the technology CEO.

The sun is setting on the tall, white MBAs and rising on short, asian engineers.

- a short asian engineer
Very pretty. I'm not sure who your audience is, but assuming its goal is to reach the widest audience possible, here are my comments:

1) When looking at a storm, only information about that storm should be displayed. When I looked at TS Barry, the bottom half of the site showed a ton of images. I thought these images were of Barry, but they were of current weather. Ultimately I found the site very cluttered.

2) If the target is a wide audience, it would be nice to have little snippets of text that give a simple interpretation of what you're seeing in images. Like, this is an IR channel sensitive to water vapor.

3) RGB images need some explanation of what the RGB channels are. The color contrast is terrible. I suggest an arcsinh stretch which is linear at small values and logarithmic at high values. I can give you more details if you like.

4) There's a yellow line that goes across the RGB images. Is this the sunrise?

5) The main image window is awesome. Is it really necessary to display all that other information in the bottom half? Before I said the site is cluttered. Actually, it's just that part below the main map.

6) On the topic of clutter, what's the point of all the buoy data? I personally can not grok it. Better to put it on the map somehow.

7) I love your use of sparklines in the windspeed. It would be cool if you added a scale. Is it possible to put a red dot on the sparkline to show exactly where you are? I like the color hue change, but a red dot, I feel, would be better.

8) This is a cool site. If I hear about another hurricane, I'll definitely use this site. Clearly this is a labor of love from people who love storms :)
Google, It's not search but ads
That was what I had in mind, yes.
The Most Important Assets you Lose when you're over 30
Yeah, right now you do. Mainly to prevent people from voting the same way over and over. Then again, who cares if that happens?
Good question, and one that we went over and tried to model based on things like Google trends and Alexa data for other storm sites.

In the end we found that what you are saying is true--the traffic is extremely spiky. But what we also learned is that there are thousands of people that will traffic these sites all year long. Not millions, but thousands, and if we can monetize those thousands through very appealing memberships and services, that'll be enough to make ends meet for both of us. :)
I had much the same experience myself in the channel, though after much brow beating I did eventually get my questions answered.
"What I'm going to lose is the benefit of learning. My experience is going to let me avoid mistakes but at the same time avoid learning from those mistakes."

This is one of the few points anyone's made in the whole age debate that I agree with.
In all fairness I should have titled the article more toward what I'M losing over 30!
This is incredibly old stuff.. MMAPI is standard on just about every new phone released nowadays (except for probably the iPhone).

If you want more recent documentation on MMAPI and JSR 234 check out forum Nokia:
http://forum.nokia.com/main/resources/technologies/java/documentation/multimedia.html
All good and great but find a better pic of Giuliani. I quit after i saw that...
It's standard procedure to go work at the acquirer after getting bought. I did it myself. It's not so bad. Having just become rich tends to put you in a pretty cheerful mood, which makes all the everyday annoyances of working at a big co slide off you. Plus Google is probably the most hacker-compatible of all big cos.
3 key questions for Christonium and an intro video about it
Sorry, but I don't see the connection between not being on Facebook and "not getting it" as the author implies.
I'm not saying that the prospect of getting rich is enough to convince wives, just that of all the attractions of a startup-- being one's own boss, working on interesting technical problems, not having to commute to a cube farm, and the possibility of getting rich-- the one that appeals most to wives is the possibility of getting rich. Which is natural because of all the preceding, that's the one that affects them most.
Facebook isn't the all-telling oracle. It's the fact that my ENTIRE CLASS is not on it from 1992 and the entire class is on it in 2007 that demonstrates the significant generational gap.
I think you are right. Whois.sc cached the server response headers before Google switched the server, and it was "Apache/2.2.4 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_jk/1.2.21 SVN/1.4.4". mod_jk is a Tomcat connector, so it would make sense that the site would be written in Java.
Making the case for fabless India | Venture Itch
So basically what he says is that over 30 you lose the ability to be excited about Windows Vista? Fine, I can live with that.

The reason I don't have a facebook account is that I used to have an Orkut account and eventually got bored with the whole thing. Perhaps the class of 2007 was too young when Orkut came out, so they try Facebook instead - eventually they might get bored, too, only time will tell.

Maybe Facebook is so much better than Orkut, but in the meantime there are so many other things to do.

Btw., I am over 30 and I am still reading articles like that, which basically refutes the article's thesis.
Which is exactly why he wrote this article...
You all are focusing on "Facebook" and missing the point.
Well... there were lots of things we all used to do when me and my friends were in high school. Most of those things were... well... absurdly dumb just like most things you do when you're in high school.

Nobody used to write articles "ahh! I don't get it, I'm old!" about it back then.
1. Point taken. 'Is this data in scope?' is something we need to take seriously.

2. Glad you said this. I would like to do the same. It would be nice if it didn't take a lot of work to explain. Maybe footnotes would do for now instead of a big 'Help' section.

3. Also glad you said this, since I myself am not sure what the RGB channels are. It's funny that you are criticizing the quality, not because I disagree, but since I had nothing to do with the satellite images (they are government-produced). I'd like to hear more about 'arcsinh stretching'.

4. That is the sunrise.

5. I definitely want to get as much as possible on the map. However, I do like having the larger canvas of the HTML page for data that just can't fit. I appreciate your feedback on this since I want to stay motivated to strive for more density in the map window.

6. Yeah, you're right. Should either kill the buoy table or find a better way of organizing the data. Coincidentally, that data is on the map. If you see a blue or red square on the map you can click them. Those are buoys. We could use a legend.

7. Definitely possible, it's already in the code. I think the dot already exists, it's just always the latest color hue--i.e. the shade of white to red that corresponds to the current speed, rather than red all the time, since red represents a Category 5 storm.

8. Thanks a lot.
Again with the age stories... living life fully in exploring what one loves and finds interesting, and exciting. For me personally; MySpace/Facebook do not offer anything of interest. LinkedIn offers more of what i'm interested in spending my time on.
it's crazy that for something this simple there are so many different ideas on how it should be done. I like having buttons there because most people think buttons allow you to do something, but the convention (using that term loosely) is to just show images, and let people click on one of those. But I actually have had people not know what to do if there were just images and no explanatory text.
Thanks! That is fixed now.
You have to think about the most common usage pattern-- folks will most likely want to click through a whole bunch of pairings very quickly to register as much opinion as possible until they get bored (think about how people use hotornot or kittenwar).

You have to make the voting area easy to click (nice and big) and in the same position every time. The photo is the most logical choice.

I agree about the explanatory text, but my reflexes are conditioned to stop and read a submit button before I click it, and parsing the text on the buttons (which changes every time with the candidate's name) adds time to the transaction. You could solve this by making the text consistent from page to page, if you're wedded to the buttons.
even kittenwar has a little 5-word explanation: "Click the cutest kitten picture!"

Keep it short and sweet.
When you really don't need venture capital | Venture Itch
Humraz Auctions: EBay for Real Estate with a (Price) Difference
This will be an interesting site to watch, if they can attract enough liquidity (and keep the scammers out).

Background article: http://classified.independent.co.uk/property/article2677003.ece
Will Google stay focused on it's foundation of a clean design for the user's searching experience? Or, will Google loose sight of the user and become a page of cluttered advertisement? Hmmm...
Argh! Anyone knows if/how can I introduce a pre block?
The surfer crowd could be a good market here. You could probably find some traffic by posting in their forums.
California looks to hurricane development off Mexico all the time for swell, but I see you are only covering the atlanitc here...
What's not to like about a picture of Giuliani, in drag, mincing for the camera? :)

I've replaced that with a very manly image:
http://www.redbluesmackdown.com/parties/2/candidates/11
Ad networks and behavioral targeting; who benefits the most?
Thanks for your suggestions everyone. I've taken out the buttons and added short instructions ("Click a picture to vote!").

Is the Social News link noticeable? I'm wondering if the social news page should be the home page, because that's probably more useful and would get more traffic.
Nintendo and Apple to partner on games for iPhone
Huh?

That makes little sense.

If you're experienced enough to avoid a mistake, you have learned that lesson, and that's why you don't repeat it.
Thanks for the awesome resources. I'm honored that the author of a book took the time to speak to me. If I was being oversensitive though, the average newcomer has no chance.
Great point about since VCs don't give you an outright "no", you should take that opportunity to go back to them with a revised idea.

Too many people (me included) tend to never go back.
gasp There are scammers on the intertubes?
Great info, great detail. Thanks so much for your time. I've never even considered looping through recursion. The construct-a-new-world vs modify-the-current-world situation was exactly the problem I was thinking of. And you followed it up with a paper, if I wanted to learn more. It's hard to emphasize how perfect stuff like this is for a newcomer to Lisp. There should be more snippets like this. You should write a tutorial somewhere.
Great idea! Have you seen www.surfline.com? Maybe we could advertise there once we get the Pacific going (which wouldn't be a colossal amount of work with the systems we have in place...).
Well, I'm sure this is useful in some manner. However, I've never even seen a hurricane, and a hurricane has never affected my life. So I'll leave the commentary for those people whose cat has been raped by a hurricane...
try a ceramic like yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ). toughest freakin' stuff on the planet and i believe it holds an edge (probably not an issue for the non-knife bits).
I agree that he will lose those things.
The point I took away from the article is this: There are things I have enough experience of that I will never do them (installing Vista was the example from the article). But there may be things that I would learn along the way if I did install Vista that would be useful to me in some random venture.
Veoh Announces VeohTV, A Sort of Distributed Joost
Yes, you cannot.
Wall St. bling soon to hurt VC profits?
The class of 2007 absolutely will get bored with Facebook - I know many members of it that got bored with MySpace before it, and LiveJournal before that, and Xanga before that.

But in the process, they will have explored every feature of it, added dozens of third-party apps, started using it in ways the developers never intended, and possibly created a few competitors.

The point of the article, as I understood it, was to not let "But it'll be obsolete in five years!" be a reason to keep you from learning something new. Of course it'll be obsolete in five years. Chances are, your job will be too, and we'll all be using some website or technology or whatever that hasn't been invented yet.

FWIW, I have a FaceBook account, a MySpace, 2 Livejournals, 3 PlanWorlds (that's an Amherst-only social network), 2 Bloggers, a DeadJournal, a GreatestJournal, a uJournal, and a Plog. I don't use all of them regularly, but I do keep up with a good half-dozen or so of them.
The 2nd-to-last paragraph is what caught my attention ... if the legislation discussed passed, and if it were extended to other private partnerships, that seems like it would eat into the mgmt. fees of most VCs.

And that would seem likely to reduce the number of VC firms, at least. (Less profit = less motivation to enter the business.) It's very speculative, but interesting.
Thanks - in german I would think artyfeea, but in english I think it would be pronounced artiffia?
It's funny how often these articles go scanned versus read.

A few points of clarification

1. Thanks to migpwr for pointing out that facebook was just an example of the generational gap, not the point of why facebook is good or bad.

2. The generational age issue has never been more salient than it is now since the periods between meaningful technological changes are shortening significantly.

3. I'm over 30 and writing/building companies based on these technologies but I'm doing so as more of an outsider than an insider like before.