skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this one:

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The constitution is taking another major with this legislation. How much longer before all of us Americans have to wear a survalance braclet or something laong those lines?
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I actually meant no one is always rational. :-)
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Technology is almost briging the dead back to life, well the brain dead anyway.
Apache just got owned.
What he has listed SQL Server aren't equivalent products, and I'm pretty sure not open source, much less the "free as in freedom" standard of GNU software.

VMware server is free as in cost.

Here's what I'm looking for in free software:

Versions of ProTools, GigaStudio, and Finale.

Video editing software
I keep trying to watch the videos Kara Swisher is doing but she's so obnoxious I can't tolerate them.
The three pane browsing interface is patented too if I remember correctly
I wasn't able to downvote since I made an account. But it has its benefits; not being able to downvote or see your comments downvoted makes it a lot less stressful experience.
That's an interesting idea. Another idea would be that they would "consume" some of the karma they made, when they downvote.
Get rid of excuses!
I should clarify: there has always been a karma threshold for downvoting. Currently it's 20. Till you have that much karma you don't see downarrows anyway.
Why don't you publish the top 3 or 5 folks who up vote and down vote the most, maybe as an additional section on the leaders page. It might effect behavior interestingly.
Sounds fair.
blored, ever heard of Prince Albert in a bottle?
Once you come up with a really, really good way to correlate karma with a user's quality of posts/comments, maybe try to come up with a purpose for karma.
One good professor is all it takes...
Actually: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lazytom/396171564/
Getting closer to 20, but you sure don't make it easy
The purpose of karma on any site like this (all the way back to slashdot) is to motivate people by giving them a measure of what their peers think of their contributions.
I'd rather just make the system quietly do the right thing. Never do through social pressure what you could do through software.
My preference is either Dedicated or Custom Solution. When you're in the early phase VPS should do just fine for an affordable price. You can always upgrade with your provider and once the funding comes in move to a custom solution. Keep things in mind like how much access is needed to the server for custom application installation.
I don't think that would be good. You want to encourage people to participate in a site like this. Downvoting dumb stuff is a valid contribution.
I mean a purpose that would, for example, prevent reddit from turning into digg.
I understand. I hope news.yc doesn't become an overly serious place though.

PS: As an after-thought, social pressure may be more adaptable than software.
Point taken. How about the idea that the number of daily upvotes/downvotes you have available is proportional with your karma?
I must be using ajax wrong. :/ It's not clear to me how using ajax would expose functions and variables not exposed by any other form, because you still need a form; you're just building it with javascript. Right? When you use ajax, you're just saving some page loads, not throwing away server-side validation; it seems to me that you'd have to go out of your way to screw this up after you have your original non-ajax site working.
What after social networking startups?
If you keep up to date with startup ecosystem, then perhaps this question might have popped in your mind as well. Each day on an average 3-4 social networking startups are getting first round, and out of them some into second round funding. Is it just success copy syndrome, or they really make sense (to me, most of them do not). Why would one start a social networking startup, that is just a delta different from others?
More importantly, where is this social networking breeze going to evolve? What will we see after it?
Does anyone know if Hunchentoot can be made to do compression?
Right...isn't it interesting how each level of innovation requires a less esoteric skill, from quantum mechanics (Shockley), to analog electronics (HP,etc) to digital system integration (PC's), to more and more powerful programming languages, to the web. Each technology is not only making things easier for the consumer, but easier for the developer/engineer to master. New startup rule: make things easier...
As long as we're having a meta-thread, is there any way to incorporate the site traffic into the decay function. The problem currently is that if you post something off-peak, a lot of time elapses with no one around to vote. It sucks to finish writing a blog post at 7pm and have to wait until 11am the next day to post it.
I think the grumps might just upvote something random to get points to use against something they don't like. The result of upvoting something that's at 10 points is weaker than downvoting something at 1 point. Maybe take current score into account.

Or possibly just put a limit on the number of downvotes you can do per day/week. We don't need nearly as many downvote points as upvote points to get good results. Viewing and not upvoting something is like half a downvote anyway. Maybe if you reply when past your limit you can then also downvote if you want.
The problem I see facing social networking startups in general is that they are only useful when there are others using it. You have to reach a "critical mass" to be desirable, and getting there is difficult when there are already other bigger social networks with more people. Why would someone join a new social network when they can just join facebook and be connected with more people? The new features would need to be compelling enough for the earliest users to sign up. Because people are intrinsically lazy, those features need be extremely compelling. I think the evolement in this space will stem from new ways that social networking is used rather than simply providing niche slants on existing ideas.
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I totally agree. This also effects people who are in different timezones.
Perlbal (or something else) proxying requests would be a quick way to add support. Probably not worth the hassle on news.yc. No pages are that big and I doubt bandwidth usage is killing you.
How can you determine the improved outcome? thanks!
Apparently the reason Microsoft is dead is that Microsoft is suicidal. How 'bout that.
each has its own pros and cons!
one thing i feel is that browsers should rethink about some features like desktop access. This is will help in more powerful apps.
Thank you, I just got 44 points back.
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good one.As a matter of fact I know who went around and down voted other users, but giving his username will not help my startup or any1s so (B....) I hope you have learned your lesson.
That's the main way the current plan isn't optimal. Paul Buchheit suggested I scale votes by recent activity, and I probably will do that.
I actually have a plan for this. It's built into the current sw but not turned on. It hasn't been needed so far, and may never be because of Startup News's narrow focus.

If I reuse the code to make a general news site, as I've been thinking I might, I'll certainly turn it on.
I thought it was the other way around: never try to solve a social problem with software.

The karma-neutral idea sounds like a good one, but then you remember that it's easy to create new accounts... Ultimately, you just have to depend on people to do good or leave.
But once Outlook's up, it's got a much better user experience, so far as I'm concerned. There's a long list of features that Gmail just can't match that come from being a desktop app.

Hard drives transfer data faster than ISP's in the first place, and why have a hard drive if you're not going to use it?
Mmm...I don't know how easy it'd be for you to get a precompiled C++ extension hooked into Arc. Something Guile-ish? But yeah, once that's done, just toss everything your server outputs into it.
Do Demo Day VC's/Angels sign NDA's ?
To protect against predation as laid out in "A Universal Theory of VC Suckage?"
I agree that people are lazy. The user acquisition by these new social networks is far more intrusive. Asking for gmail, linkedin, yahoo, your-favourite-mail-app passwords, and then spamming all. i receive 5 such invitations daily, which are part of intrusive practices. With this, they build up users and seek more funding, giving a false impressions that they are "popular" amongst people.

They should improve features, but as of now , features are not visible. Most of them are just theme based social networks. Which makes me inquisitive about the number of social networks each user joins on an average.
At which point do you quit? (dumb your idea)
Is there a point at which you feel as if you needed to quit? I am working on two projects and at times I want to quit one and focus on the other, but I do not know which one to pick. Anyways most of the time I am very very confident that I will "make something people want", but there is that 5% of doubt that hovers. When do you know you need to dumb one idea and focus on something else?
Isn't this old news? I thought everyone knew that we were moving towards more processors instead of faster processors.

One quote that I didn't particularly like, "You can imagine a scenario where people stop buying laptops and PCs because we can't figure this out." Yeah, I'm sure that is going to happen. All it means is that new ambitious groups of people have a good chance of entering the market against entrenched competitors who do not go with a parallel design.

They also mention, "...operating systems like Windows XP and Vista already work with the multicore chips out now," as if Windows is the only one that does. Linux and BSD systems (among others) have been working with multiple processors since long before Windows even considered the idea of having multiple users.

Overall, I wasn't impressed with the reporting. I think it's partly uninformed (failing to recognize the history and present-day of SMP systems and programs), sensationalist (declaring impending doom when there's really no chance of it), and quite late (I thought people had been considering SMP for a while now).

I'm also disappointed in the guy they're quoting (David Patterson from Berkeley), who appears to be out of touch with what is going on in the software world. He says, "We need to get some Manhattan Projects going here - somebody could solve this problem, and whoever solves this problem could have this gigantic advantage on everybody else." From my perspective, Erlang and several functional languages already "solve this problem" quite well, and there is a slew of multi-processor programs out there already which seem to be doing quite fine.

Am I missing something here?
Social networking, like a lot of other business segments, is starting to encompass lots of other companies doing similar things. Increasingly, social networking is about finding people with similar interests, backgrounds, or personal attributes (race, religion, disease/disability) and getting them to talk/share stuff with each other. What's driving startups is that they're going after specific groups/markets in the hope of getting enough of them together so they click on an ad every once and a while on the web site.

The best example I can think of that goes after a specific group is Dogster. Dogster was started as a joke by someone who created the site over a weekend (at least that's the story I heard). Much to the designer's surprise, people really wanted to talk with other people about their dogs. Dogster has since raised some money and is getting revenue from sponsorships. Woof!

Increasingly, people/groups will just put these networks together themselves instead of relying on a business to do it for them. Ning has been working hard and has a bunch of social networks already up and running. They make it easy for people to put together all the components (forums, photo albums, video, etc.).

Plug: Mobile Monday Boston will be having its next meeting on Sept. 17 to discuss mobile social networking. A number of companies will be presenting (including mine - padpaw.net).
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I am glad you're taking this seriously - reddit went down the tube (in terms of quality) mainly due to the better contributors getting tuned off by all the anti-social behaviour. advogato.org is a different kind of site - but they have a trust metric that seems to have withstood attacks pretty well - the reason I mention this is to point out the formal trust metric based approaches out there.
Load on the CPU isn't that big of deal, when compared to the benefits.

1. By sending lesser data over the wire, you save on the number of round trips, thereby the page renders faster on the browser

2. the other one is the savings in bandwidth
What?!?! Ok, take that gum out of ya mouth before you talk.
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The article isn't really good enough to be worth a formal reply. I was just brainstorming related ideas.
Good question...

VPS to start with maybe and then upgrade to a dedicated box. It all depends on the nature of the web app actually. Clustered arch provides better redundancy and scalability for high-performance apps. Normally a VPS or a dedicated box should suffice.
avg from grisoft
Open Source Alternatives: http://www.osalt.com/ for more gum :)
Your OS, your web browser, your ISP's server apps etc. are all software. Software isn't dead, nor will it die too soon. It's just in a phase of transition.
Being "smart" is hard work
Is being a founder similar?
Adsense has been terrible for me every time I tried it. What's the typical per user return that you guys see?
ycombinator.com seems to be running Apache/2.2.4 on FreeBSD ( http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.ycombinator.com ), in which case your best option is using the mod_gzip module: http://www.schroepl.net/projekte/mod_gzip/
Do you have any users, yet? If so, pick that one. If not pick the one that excites your friends and family.
AVG is the most popular: http://free.grisoft.com/

But I use Avira AntiVir: http://www.free-av.com/

Also try ClamWin: http://www.clamwin.com/
Getting featured on a TV show helped way more than I expected
Last week ScienceHack.com was featured on Canada AM. Canada AM is a morning show that airs across Canada on weekdays. I got a nice spike from Canada.
thank you. I just dont want to pay $100 for it. I will try them.
Nice app, only issue might be the fact that this will make emails susceptible to harvesting if it gets widespread adoption, which is why Facebook probably made theirs show as an image in the first place.
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but do most people need those features? most of it is just bloat made for a marketing brochure in my opinion
I think that the answer to the future of social networking websites is somewhere between the two you present. It could still explore a million different niches, and Ning is enabling that (Think the long tail!). On the other hand, social networks should begin to offer more than keeping track of friends, their lives, our own lives, and the overlapping areas like events and blog posts.
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Don't make the Demo look Done
No. Investors would never sign NDAs that early. So on demo day companies shouldn't say anything they really wouldn't want competitors to know.
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Just check out some large web 2.0 application directories at bottom, you may find that either small or portal sites are more willing to be web 2.0 style.
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My takeaways

Starting is the hardest part.

Nothing succeeds like a working demo, so find a galvanizing event =YC DEMO DAY= that forces you to get a prototype built. Otherwise you will think about it to much.

There are customers that everyone else will follow zero in on them.

Excel threw other peoples resources.
I had the same feelings about this being old news. Also, it doesn't actually tell me anything useful.

I don't think having the problem solved in Erlang and functional languages is even close to enough, though. No offense, but there just aren't a lot of people using them. I think something like http://threadingbuildingblocks.org/ (Intel's open source C++ threading building blocks library) would be more along the lines of a real solution.
> Viewing and not upvoting something is like half a downvote anyway.

This statement depends a lot on your habits. I open up 5-10 links at a time and then read through them all. I rarely remember to go back and upvote, and I reserve that for _really_ good articles, anyway. And of course you can't say anything about comments, since there's no telling whether somebody even reads all the comments when he opens a page with comments on it.
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It'll be interesting to see if this change would affect the content on Reddit at all. Normally if you want to ride the aggregation train the ideal strategy is to wait until you hit the top of news.yc before submitting to Reddit, and then wait until you make the front page of Reddit before submitting to Digg. If good stories start hitting the #1 spot on this site during nights or on the weekends, it could potentially have some interesting ripple effects further up the chain.
Is founding a startup looked on by non-founders as something that takes a special type of person (a "smart" person, for example) when really it's just plain old work? Physics seemed like this huge daunting thing I'd never get my arms around, until I buckled down and got to work.
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Few aspects of marketing are as crucial to a company's identity than its website. And fewer marketing vehicles can become as much of a money pit and time suck as . . . a website. It's a never-ending process of evolution, a frustrating "work in progress."
Did anyone try pay per non-click advertising?  Would that result in better targeting by advertisers?
Why not let us see who has upvoted/downvoted our comments? It's frustrating when someone downvotes without explanation, especially if it's not an obviously stupid comment.

But all posters are not created equal - what if we could consider the source? If some guy with -27 karma downvotes my comment I could care less. If it's someone like Paul Buchheit, on the other hand, I have to consider the possibility that my comment was really stupid.
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Eh, wait until traffic builds a bit before you clean up your act. Porn often makes for great seed content, so long as you don't let it erode your brand.
I just read about <a href="http://madkast.com">MadKast</a> on TechCrunch..you should definitely look at that to put a "Share this" widget! :) It's beautiful.
I disagree with this. You'll get so much more respect if you spend time making everything you do look easy.
Well, that's slightly depressing... it's reflective of the fundamental existential angst of humanity, we're just not made to be happy.
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Just a thought: do the winners in each category bubble up to the top? It'd be cool to try and "challenge the #1 spot" with your own video.
Interesting idea, I can see it portrayed as "you are providing us a service by targeting your ads, and therefore we want to make sure they are as targeted as possible." I don't think advertisers would like it, because it relies heavily on the quality of a site's traffic, but it sounds great for ad networks.

But no, I don't believe it's been done (could be wrong though...)
It's anonymous by design, not by side effect. It's the same reason no one really knows if you voted for Bush or Kerry.
I can definitely see that, having only been in California for 3 months being an intern (i.e. having money in the bank for the first time in a while), it's hard not to spend when everyone here has cool gadgets and such (though on the scale of cell phones and monitors, not cars and houses...).
Sometimes it's looked on by founders as something that takes a special type of person. I've had 3 different entrepreneurs all tell me something to the effect of "It takes a certain kind of person to be their own boss." (Amusingly, one thought I was that type of person, one thought I wasn't, and one withheld judgment either way.)

I disagree with the premise, BTW. I think entrepreneurship - just like intelligence - is nothing more or less than a certain set of behaviors. Some people start with an advantage, because they naturally do those behaviors anyway. Some don't. But it can still be learned.
It may be true within big companies that you should keep expectations low by making your prototypes look bad, but that's just further evidence big companies are broken.
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Hardly. More that rich is relative. There's no absolute standard for wealth. People compare themselves to their
peers.
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TBL has been touting the coming of a Semantic Web for quite some time now. I love hearing about example applications but frankly I don't know how much of it I can buy into.

Think back 10 years to the examples we were being given about "Surfing the Net" -- while we have some really cool apps and technology today, things didn't turn out quite as people imagined. Technology always has this habit of building alot of hype around potential, but always failing to truly deliver. Additionally the whole concept of the Semantic Web requires that everyone freely exchange their data -- a lovely idea but a bit too romantic if you ask me.

My first startup began by squatting in W3C's office space, two doors down from TBL. Really, I'd love nothing more than for it to work but the guys developing the specs for the SW are so out of touch that I wonder if they really have the ability to gain mass adoption.
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But, WE choose our peers. Then we compare and crib about it. We are fools enslaved by time and space.
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http://www.isonme.com/ seems like a nice util. The Facebook integration makes it more usable.

If you are selling your weekly projects (I'd hardly call them startups) then post them on http://web2.0forsale.com/ for more coverage.

Good luck!
That's well put.
Hmmm...yeah, that makes sense. It keeps things from getting overly personal.
Sure. Here's one: I can drag and drop an attachment for an email right onto it. No can do in gmail.
indeed. Tiny fishing village in Thailand: lots of happy people. Same absolute level of wealth outside LA: lots of angry people.
floating point karma.
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