skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This type of thing only works if you discern from a quick preview, of what the document is. Photos work well for something like this, but documents without titles...I'm guessing not so much.

Besides "feeling compulsively clean", The only reason why we sort or organize anything is so that we can find it later. I think this has better potential if a search box was tacked on to it. That way, if you search for something, all the relevant documents rank themselves in front of you.

I can't imagine using something like this to organize code. But animating compilation there would be a neat visual (and waste CPU cycles)

However, if it's coupled with augmented reality, it would probably make an interesting way to browse.
Your blog mentions you are using Python. Are you using an existing web framework or rolling your own?
Yea having to rebrand everything and go to court because you didn't file for a company, service marks, or protect your identity during the early stage is much more fun.

Yea lawyers cost, but it's better than a best buy warranty. Pay now, pay much more later.
Value proposition is a term used to refer to the benefit(s) received (or perceived) by a user of your product or service . A more precise and useful measure is the economic value of your product or service to a user. In an ideal world it is defined as the difference between the amount of money the user can make or save using your product less the amount that they can make/save without. In the real world an estimated economic value (EVA) is normally used. It is used for both pricing decisions and value communication to potential users.
I find their 'hiring at the company level' the most interesting. Whenever I've hired people in the past it has been on a project or department level, but it does make a lot of sense not to do it that way.
moonlighting: do you get something in writing from your employer?
A real-world use of lift: Scala + Lift compared to Ruby on Rails
Friendster Didn't Die; The Site Lives On In Southeast Asia
Social Networks are like nightclubs, the flavor of the day seems like it will rule forever UNTIL the next hot one comes along 2 years later.
Social Networks are not new (geocities, tripod anyone?) . Facebook is going to be hot until this crop of college students graduate, get real jobs and move on to other things.
Guerrilla Marketing Idea: "Amazon's Mechanical Turk converts 26% of surveys into solid leads"
Could you explain how free webhosts (geocities, tripod) are social networks? They seem totally different to me.
Facebook and Yahoo rumored talking in $2B deal
Our cut for open source will be zero, and for commercial projects small. We're hoping the advantage of using microPledge will be that it's a central location people know about and will build up trust in. And also that the developer can focus on his project rather than on building a nice website with pledging functionality. (Our site's much more than just a SourceForge donate button -- but you'll have to wait and see. :-)
it's better to ask for forgiveness than for permission!

on a more serious note, (i'm not a lawyer). I would look to see if you're competing with your employer, if you are not than there's not much to worry about, if you think you might be, check with an attorney.
We're using web.py and Cheetah, but we've rolled our own database layer. web.py's small and in a fair bit of flux, but we get a lot of control this way.
I think what steve was driving at is how many visitors were generated by each service.

If you get 1% conversion of 50,000 visitors from digg, it's still better than if you get 5% of 500 visitors from NYTimes
I have 23 years of experience with the world surrounding us (and by "world" I mean: everything minus computers). In fact, I have hundred thousands years of experience wired in my brain.

Now, I only have a dozen years of experience with operating systems, programming languages, etc. I'm quite a technical user; I think I fit the definition of a computer geek, or power user. I have a talent to debug very nasty bugs in embedded, real-time software written in (unintentionally) obfuscated C. I can install and use OpenBSD, FreeBSD, etc. I can write small Scheme programs. And still, I feel Im trapped in a jungle I cant escape when Im using Mac OS X or Windows for everyday tasks. Our computing world is a live nightmare. Its a terrible, ugly mess. There really is a huge impedance mismatch between our brains and our computers.

Technology is designed (mostly) by people who think they live in a perfect, mathematically pure world. I cant really blame them; because by "them" I mean "us". But the real world is not binary; its fuzzy. As you said, it's messy. Its imperfect. It changes as our mood changes. Computers should reflect this. They dont.

I think that user interfaces that tried to mimic the real world failed because the people behind them still kept thinking as computer scientists, university professors or ubergeeks (they were lying to themselves). Some user interfaces were designed to treat the user like a five-year-old kid (hello Microsoft Clippy). Others were replicating real-world stuff that was badly designed in the first place (VCR control panels are a good example). And most of them focus on being cool demos with great eye candy (look at where desktop environments are heading; who fucking cares about translucent stuff, rotozooming windows animations, 3D?) Hollywood film-makers should take the blame here :)

At first, when I saw this project, I thought: "yet another boring, eye-candy environment with cool tricks but no real innovation." But I should try it; maybe the user experience really is improved. Its worth trying.

[Sorry about the whole rant tone of this post; itÂs not really a reply to your post either; consider it a draft of a work-in-progress essay Ill try to complete and improve over time.]
Google's Folding@Home on the "Multi-Core Crisis"
Inkling is Hiring
Come on, Peter, start the axes at zero or at least do us the favor of using a broken axis.
That is great. Mecahanical Turk offers a way to basically do a "product panel" for cheap enough that it's worth it just for the value of marketing the product to the participants. Clever.
Internet Companies Push For Mobile Phone Carriers to Open Up
Ubiquity: Peter Denning on the great principles of computing
The Social Life of Innovation (pdf 100kb)
good explanation
First Romanian dotcom-millionaires (ejobs.ro acquired)
If you look at it just in terms of # of users, of course facebook's offering suffers. But that isn't a great comparison - it's like comparing the # of viewers for The Office (awesome show btw) to the total viewers of all TV channels in existence.

I think the real win is that their api allows your app to take advantage of the connections between facebook's users.
Reinventing HTML
Slicing and dicing web data with Tabulator
I believe that Mark mentioned (during his keynote speech) that over half of their user base is over 25 yrs old now.

Facebook will probably be hot until something an order of magnitude better comes along, and even then many people will not want to switch (inertia). Add to this the open approach (API + site integration), and it isn't too far a stretch to see them becoming the standard social operating system.
Do I detect a hint of sarcasm?
Hm. Well, my Bank of America account has been flaky and they redesigned it in some terrible way recently. But I imagine convincing a bank to use your software is probably harder than getting your code adopted by the mobile handset carriers.
AI & the Semantic Web
Slides from talk by tbl, AAAI, 18 July 2006, decentralized information group
MIT CS & AI labs ~ http://www.w3.org/2006/Talks/0718-aaai-tbl/
Well you don't have to be competing directly. If you work as a software developer, you could be working on a product thats really different from your employers but its still software that you are developing in your free time.
'... infrastructure is a good fit for open source. We don't believe consumer products are as good a fit ...'

this is a good point. Does MT4 being released as open source mean the source code is no longer the product and the service (source code, hardware, scaling technologies, users) now is?
California at least has quite reasonable laws on this stuff. As long as you're not doing anything shifty and you are strictly using own resources and time there's not much to worry about.

Whether you should talk to your employer mostly depends on the company you work for and the laws in your area.
_banking software has got to be some of the least technically difficult software in the universe_

Breathtaking idiocy.
OLYMPUS Development Kit for Red Hat Linux 8.0
Gamasutra.com - Mars Sucks - Can Games Fly on Google Earth?
From a computer science perspective isn't that mostly true. What challenging technical problems does a banking system pose?
Let's not let this site turn into reddit/slashdot, please.
I'd argue that brand is one of the things that 37signals does best. Advancing their brand outside of their product offering seems like a core value for them. I'm guessing this is strongly influenced by the fact they started off as a consulting company.
Microsoft preps Windows-based kitchen client (not a joke)
Hubo FX-1 chair bot
Top 25 Social Bookmarking Sites - June 2007
I'm sure this is good advice, but the argument "pay now or pay later" isn't really as black and white as it seems. Paying more later might be worth it if it means you don't have much to pay until you become popular. Of course I doubt its as simple of undoing and redoing and thats the risk you want to minimize.
Plus the candidate pool is of finite size, and Google has been drinking pretty deeply from it for a long time now.
You take $100 of a poor man's food money and $100 of a rich man's food money in exchange for $1,000,000 worth of food for each, a year from now.

Your poor man is dead. Damnit.

(In opposition to the use of Guy's theory, although, it appears that this article is more balanced)
how many of you can relate to this - and what are your biggest stress points?
Do the Stupidest Thing that Could Possibly Work
What is Lisp good for?
great read when you compare this to the nyt attempt at tech ( http://allthingsd.com/ ) & this post on Wall St. Journal's new tech-news site ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=26581

I can't help notice the differences in background in the Guardian tech editor ( http://www.charlesarthur.com/cv.php ) & wsj eds ( http://allthingsd.com/about/ )
Andrew Chen: Your site will succeed or fail in the first 10 seconds
Practical Guide to A/B Testing: "Listen to Your Customers not to the HiPPO (Highest Paid Person's Opinion)" [pdf]
Why is this interesting? The guys doesn't understand OOP and made incorrect predictions some time ago.
BTW, this is Tim's page on Lisp: http://www.tfeb.org/lisp/index.html
Nope, it's called Pragmatic Programmers, LLC

Have you seen pragmaticstudio.com?

Have you seen all the Ruby/Rails books sold by Prag? I'm sure those are heavy hitters compare to some random authors by O'Reilly. I'm sure O'Reilly is bitter that he can't be the ONE in Rails book publishing

Sure there are many "consultants". On the other hand, I'm sure people would prefer to hire consultants from Pragmatic Programmers or those Rails authors that published books under Prag Prog.

I don't think it's a fair playing field since PragProg is the Rails Inc. if you watch it carefully.
cacert are free certificates but the root certificates are not frequently preinstalled on browsers and mobile phones.
I was told that Microsoft asks around 10k$/year to add a root certificate in its browser. Add to this the cost to validate the certification process.

If you can get user's cooperation so that they can install the root certificate, you may go with cacert certificates.

The more web sites uses cacert, the more chances you will have that the cacert root certificate is preinstalled.

Regarding startup opportunity, as long as there is a problem and/or the opportunity to do something useful, the opportunity exists.

You might also be interested to follow the progress of my project http://dis.weebly.com because one of my objective is to do something in this field. But I am afraid it won't help juwo for is current problem.
Marc Andreessen: How To Hire The Best People You've Ever Worked With
OOP is heavily overrated. Anything that can be done with OOP can be done, and often done better, without OOP.
Pick a topic you know intimately and ask the candidate increasingly esoteric questions until they don't know the answer. They'll either say they don't know, or they'll try to bullshit you.

What if they're just trying to give you their educated guess? That can be valuable, it can also be misinterpreted as bullshit. I prefer to just make sure a candidate is psychologically able to say the words "I don't know" at some point.
I relate, but I also don't appreciate this non-submission. There is no content here!
They analyze fecal excrements with a stick. After few mixes the more it looks like the Google logo the better the employer is. Image matching is performed via a cluster of slaves voting from 0 to 9.

Well... apart from joke, it is a very bad sign when you start to "rate" humans, I think that all this meters at Google are the reason why most of us thing that Apple accomplished good design and beautiful creations. Now thing about Google: Yes, smart engineering but there is some ingredient missing. Sometimes good things come exactly from the guys Google will reject at the first stage of the interview.
Designer Engagement Rings
Jewelry Stores
I suppose security and fraud detection can be quite time-consuming, if you take it seriously.
Good suggestions.

His notion of how Google hires (by degree) is off though. Google likes to talk about all the PHDs, but most engineers there don't have one.
Did you read the blog post at all?

I was listing the things that caused me the most stress as an entrepreneur. Wondered if others would have different pain points and so, what they were.
The thing that should be causing you the biggest stress is that you are stuck on a bad idea. Move on.
He had some interesting things to say, but he could do with a few less quotes like this: "This announcement was at least an 8.0 on the Richter scale."
What Sequoia Looks For
I agree, I don't see what the point of juwo is in its current form.

There might be a good idea in there somewhere, but it doesn't make me want to download it or try it.

Listen to Greg McAdoo's talk at Startup School -- http://weblava.net/2007-03/startup-school/Startup_School_2007-Greg_McAdoo.mp3 -- particularly the part about solving a problem for "people whose hair is on fire".

I.e., unless you're doing that, no one will care about your product.
Is this your site? You may also want to check out ParagonLake.com

I spoke to one of the cofounders last week, and they were listed in BusinessWeek as one of the 'Top 25 Entrepreneurs' to look out for. Mass customization is definitely a space where the technology is there, but no one seems to have really implemented it successfully outside of jewelry.
Since Sequoia are fairly good judges, this is not too far removed from being a list of what makes a good startup.
A VC: Favoriting Ads
Greg McAdoo's talk at Startup School is also worth a listen: http://weblava.net/2007-03/startup-school/Startup_School_2007-Greg_McAdoo.mp3
_I am unaware of any actual data that shows a correlation between raw intelligence...and career or company success_

Declarations of personal ignorance don't really prove anything. Such data, in fact, exists.

He goes on to list a bunch of voodoo hiring practices (viz, someone who faced adversity) and I won't criticize him for it: In the end, that's how every company hires. The government, to a degree, even forces its own set of voodoo traditions upon companies. People don't object too much: When you actually have that big pile of resumes in front of you, you realize that most people aren't all that distinctive. I've been shocked by how many CS grads DON'T HAVE WEBPAGES. Good god, people.

Of course, you know what will get you hired every time? If someone interviewing you liked you personally.
Yeah those are good points. There are probably quite a few challenging problems.
Reading their website is pretty inspiring.

I really resonated with the following statement about underdogs:

"The collision of intelligence and ambition with opportunity is unbeatable. Almost everyone we have ever invested in has been a complete unknown at the time we met. Many have been immigrants or first generation Americans with barely a penny to their name. Underdogs are our favorite kind of people."
One of the coolest interactive drawings you will ever see anywhere on the Internet
Salesforce teaming up with Google / Online product lets businesses track leads generated by ads
At Last, a Zoomable World
Web 2.0 madness grips China
Complexity with regards to the number of inputs and interactions between data.
Net firms lose in House spyware vote
Bush administration seeks overhaul of patent system
Visa Plan Angers Silicon Valley: Immigration bill would limit employers' choice of workers
Internet ads reach quarterly record: $4.9 billion revenue is 26 percent more than at start of 2006
10 Startup Marketing Commandments
Objects viewed as miniauture modules can be useful, provided that your modules have states (i.e. static data). The only alternative to this approach would be not having states at all, which is not impossible but may be trickier to implement.

It's inheritance and the (questionable) idea that everything can be represented in class hierarchies that's heavily overrated, I think. That's what Bob meant by "Intergalactic Object Model".
The left hand column is basically the outline of that talk.
Would you bet on a duck to win a swimming contest?
I studied at Tsinghua and worked in China for a while. The start-up buzz on the streets there is unbelievably exciting. Most of my friends in Beijing started their own businesses directly after graduation and have rapidly innovated in industries as diverse as fashion, education and e-commerce.

I've been drawn back year after year since I was 18 to the visceral rush of being somewhere in complete flux: I can't recommend a trip to China more enthusiastically! If anyone on news.yc is heading out there I can help arrange for you to meet web-entrepreneurs, please get in touch.
Is Guy Kawasaki's Backhand Better Than His Serve?
I know; I just thought that in this audio book, online video, ADD (etc.) world, people would like to hear it rather than read it.

Plus, I happened to have the link in my clipboard while commenting on another thread.
Z-Park: China's Silicon Valley
Posted in the wrong place...
I hate to be a party pooper, but this has nothing to do with startups or news. This is a prime situation where we need a down arrow.
Best Web 2.0 websites&#8230; according to categories&#8230;
+1 on the benefits of being unknown!

I wore a Justin.TV shirt that I got the 9th time I called Justin's public number in the three days of his launch and promised I would wear at Startup School.

One Stanford student at the event thought I was Justin. That was awesome. At least I was recognized.
Greg's talk was wonderful. It was great to see a VC that breaks the mold: technically savvy, on the side of the entrepreneur, and knowledgeable about the markets in a real way.
A Gold-Plated VC's Billion-Dollar Secrets
How do you know if you've learned something?
For business plan formatting, I always suggest this article by David Cowan: http://whohastimeforthis.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-to-not-write-business-plan.html
Covestor: Stock Market Investors, Stock Picks
you will be surprised at how obscene wealth or the imitation of it can influence
Bill Gates finally gets degree from Harvard
So, is this an argument for writing a distributed Web framework in VB 3?

Probably not. But it does suggest people should read The Black Swan, especially the parts on prediction.
But, they aren't in any mobile phones that I have seen. I am going to end up buying a Verisign cert just for that reason.
the smell of founder fear
Andrew Chen: Is your site really viral? Viral Branding versus Viral Action
The Social Browser Has Landed
Hi ian, I am very interested in meeting with others startups/vcs/etc in China. you can email me at my username at gmail.com . Thanks.
great article; the piece about the phase most developers go through where they like complexity for complexity's sake definitely resonated (or fancy algorithms, or design patterns, or whatever other programming-related book they just read.) if you've worked with developers like this (or gone through these phases ;)), you probably had flashbacks too -- wading through AbstractVisitorManagerDelegate classes, or half-baked home-grown heap allocators makes a little part of me die inside.
Zed Shaw must be the coolest programmer in the universe
What Would Meg Do?
How to build great forms
A gathering spot for ex-Googlers to reminisce and comment on the latest developments in search.
Trust me, they don't use the Lake Woebegon stratgey. In Lake Woebegon, "all the women are strong, and all the men are good-looking". I don't want to make any assumptions about the women, but any visit to Google will reveal the men are not very attractive.
There is No Better Time Than Now
How can a madness about something that doesn't exist grip a country? :-)
Photo Sharing Even the Folks Can Handle
The blog is best read from start to finish.

If the "voice" of the author sounds familiar, it's because Doug Edwards created the PR language of Google.
A business parable: Three men and a lady
Facebook's copyright quagmire?
dupe http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=26753
How do you put your heart into that? - (37signals)
Lisp gets the last laugh here; everyone voting up this link used Lisp to do it.
Under "Solution" it says "Show where your product physically sits" I'm not sure exactly what that means. I'm guessing it's literal?

So for web applications, it sits on a server? For a guard dog, it sits on the front porch?
Doll Web Sites Drive Girls to Stay Home and Play
This article is comparing foosball to Fords. Calling OOP overrated is like calling the wrench overrated. And yes, I always reply in analogies and similes.
Ask News.YC: Do you experience highs while coding?
Recently I had the wonderful experience of solving a hard problem in a very elegant way. I spent hours going through iteration after iteration, each one slightly more ugly than the last, until I stumbled upon an amazingly simple solution that completely solved the problem far better than any of the previous methods. I spent the rest of the night revelling in the clarity and simplicity of the solution; I've never taken any drugs, but it must have felt very much like being high. Does anyone else experience similar highs while coding?

Shawn
I used to share an office with Greg McAdoo, at a certain subsidiary of the New York Times.
Wow. That's one of the best pieces of writing I've read. It paints wonderfully vivid pictures and tells succinct stories.

I went through a templating phase once. Everything I wrote in C++ had to be a template. Every policy decision needed to be made at compile-time, and a pointer was never used in favor of a smart container. I finally realized the simple truth that you don't need to include a header file to use a float pointer.
Who Wants a Spock invite?
I have more than 10 invites, if anyone's interested, I can invite you to it.

Please leave your Email, First and Last names. Sorry, but it is people search after all :(

Warning: I invited a friend earlier today but the url didn't correctly for them. If that happens to you (when I send the invite) please tell Spock about it and obviously it'll be fixed.

==Update: One of the co-founders of Spock has told me that the crappy urls only happen for certain email clients. So if the URL doesn't work, please comment on your own thread and tell me so I can invite you in a day or two when they fix it.
Please, that would be wonderful. My e-mail is palish (at) gmail.com. Thanks very much!
I need the first and last name too. Sorry! Spock is about people search after all heh.
Lessons from Apple
Shawn Presser. If you need any other info please let me know :)