skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ABSOLUTELY! The education system as we know it is a socialization process. I makes mindless zombies very well but I fear that it swishes personalization and creativity in process. Is it not a wonder that those kids who walk to the beat of their own drum in school becomes successful and those who always followed the rules become great paper pushers? That's what school does, it teaches us to seek an approval that's external to us (ie. teacher's approval, grades, awards) and not a sense of internal approval (ie. pride, enjoyment, satisfaction). We all get at least nearly 2 decades of this socialization process to be pounded into a mold (whether we're round, or rectangle or rhombus, we're all going into that square hole, because that's the only way to succeed in school, and if we don't, we're deemed a freak and forced to be medicated and the like). It's that same mold that we must break free from if we're to draw into the inner creativity, that inner peace. I think after we've done so, we'll all be a lot happier and much more productive. --- Sorry for the ranting, it's a touchy subject.
I agree, and YouOS isn't alone in this. Emulation of the desktop style environment practically defines the WebOS space. In my opinion, it adds no value at all.
brilliant post.
Paul Graham is dead.

Dead in the sense that I won't read his ever increasing bsht anymore.

--larsw
Looks more like an Asshole tracker squad :D
hey, it could be another idea to start this company by collecting Asshole profiles and showing up on request :D
Hey! I'm Jason, the guy that wrote Twiddla. Yesterday will go down as a pretty good day! We got a little over 1000 signups and tons of great feedback.

Tichy, the drawing is done with a Canvas tag and the IECanvas hack to get it to work in IE. Drawing with DHTML is really nothing new, but until recently you had to do it with tons of colored DIV tags. SVG and Canvas make life a lot easier for something like this.

yaacovtp, Thus far it seems the number one use case for this thing is to facilitate the drawing of balls onto things. Followed by tic tac toe. Followed by work. I bet it will become a bit more useful once we fix some of the major issues people found yesterday, and add some new features to make it more suited to its intended task of team collaboration.

Anyway, I'd encourage folks to check back in a few weeks to see if we've made any progress. Thanks again for all the great feedback!

Jason
Not at all; I didn't find it amiss. The tone was similar to jwz on Groupware: http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
Thanks, that'll do for now. (why didn't I think of that?)
This is the wrong day for a thread that begins with 'The wait is over!'.
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I have to admit I am a little unclear on one point: Does everyone who applied get emailed or just the ones accepted to the interviews? I would hate to be waiting for something that will never come.

Darn you, Godot! You wasted two hours of my life! :-)
Dead or not, the company is buying up a lot of property.
http://www.costar.com/News/Article.aspx?id=AE40DC75921BEB714FCC9D697D42A6F2
invite please :-)
What Kind Of Web Page Are You? Users decide in the first 100ms
Something pg said over on reddit
I really wanted to like it ... but it felt more like ramen (which I like) and ice cream (which I like). The combination was unpleasant.
"designed for hackers"??? Haha, what a load of... You could look at the many definitions of 'hacker', and none of them precludes hackers on Windows. But, if you believe that 'real hacking' is wasting hundreds of hours trying to make your graphics card work, then yes, by no means use the free one, and consider yourself 'a real hacker', when you manage to get the sound out of your soundcard.
There are still 12 hours and 54 minutes remaining! .... besides the first batch might already be out ... is there gonna be a second?
Oh did any hacker intercept the mail? Its rater dangerous if that happens ;-)
Could you email one to me?

My address is denis.papathanasiou (at-sign) gmail.com
I had a microcomputer when I was nine years old, in early 84. I was a bit late with email too (92 I think), but I was certainly using the web in 95 (my first real job was in the summer of 96, writing a web-based vertical search engine for British Telecom - I remember being disappointed I wasn't doing something more futuristic, so the web was old news to me by that point).

My only problem with this is all the things that I wasn't aware of at all until completely non-technical friends told me about them. I'm thinking of stuff like hotOrNot and MySpace particularly. Perhaps pg's comment applies at a higher level - broad technologies, rather than the uses to which people will put them?

In any case, I'd be really interested to know what people here are using today that they think everybody else will be using years from now...
Yes, every team receives an email, although not necessarily all founders. Might just be the founder whose account you applied under.
How high would you jump if I sent you an SMS right now?
yeah, can someone please answer that?

I wouldn't want to be waiting for easter eggs on Christmas.

edit: nvm
Ruby (on Rails) for the web interface, I love it! :-)

Java for data mining, image manipulation and data shoveling, like in xml transformation. You can't really use Ruby for this... We also chose a servlet for one of our web services for performance reasons.
Memcache your dictionary if you can. Or dump it into a MySQL heap table. That will speed it up a lot.

Seriously, though, looping through the dictionary is really a bad solution. Maybe reading the dictionary into an associative array and matching on index or something like that would be a better idea for speed. Loop through words in the post instead of words in the dictionary.

The major limitation here is that it requires a word to be in the dictionary to be considered correct. Non-optimal. No pluralization handling (other than brute forcing by adding to the dictionary), no possessive case (as was noted in the code), and no new-line handling (hint: simply strip all newlines from input, replace with a space, and be done with it. Check for hypens before a new-line to detect continued words; though, that is unlikely in a web post. Just don't use the output directly into a post. Maintain a control copy.)

Also, I can't download the source directly (file not found). I had to edit the URL to make it work. You need to fix the link by removing the second instance of shuzak.com.
A lot of people omitted to include any email addr even in the body of the application.
I meant that in response to your other comment.
I use control click myself...
They do that to remove the natural voting bias that favors comments nearer to the top of the page.
I'm not sure that this comparison makes any sense. Either way, Justin.tv has been earning a lot of legitimate mainstream media attention
I didn't mean hacking the OS, which I agree can be a time-sink if you don't know where to look for the answers online (Gentoo-wiki is a great source of answers). I meant that GNU/Linux has simple but powerful IDEs like vim built-in, and most distributions come with gcc as well for compiling the basic languages. There are higher-level programming languages included in the installation like Perl, Python, Java, and more. If you want to install new ones, it's simple, just type "emerge ruby sbcl ocaml ...".

I didn't intend my comment to mean that Windows doesn't have legitimate hackers, I was just saying that it doesn't support them nearly as well as others do, with its closed API and licensed software-building tools. I was also poking fun at the "MILLIONS of hackers" comment, because in my opinion, there aren't millions of hackers in the entire world. I don't believe that hacker simply means "programmer", but rather, something a bit more. I certainly wouldn't consider myself to be one yet, even though I am quite confident in my programming skills.

So I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say that there aren't Windows hackers, just that I seriously doubt that there are millions of them.
I wasn't really a fan of joost. It was very choppy for me. All I wanted to do was see some Stella episodes but it kept completely stopping and starting the next one. A friend of mine said it was much smoother in the earlier releases so I'd assume that it'll run nice at some point. I'll give it another chance in a few months.
An invite would be much appreciated.

kbeshay@gmail.com

Thanks in advance.
Sounds like you have a pretty good applicant filter for free =)
Exactly. The best of the Web OS's is Goowy because they're trying something different. Glide is trying something different too but I don't like their GUI.

Going back to blader's post, a Web OS has to help organize information. Ajax start pages are better web operating systems already than YouOS and the like because they function like a better version of bookmarks.

The trick is going to be combining Netvibes with Meebo and making a full screen web browser function effectively as the entire desktop environment.
Well, given that I'm on the second floor of Marston, I'd probably find out what the view from the roof is. :-)
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I agree juwo (however, better language skills would be fine) but this is about YC ...
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I was a latecomer to most of those technologies. I didn't get my first computer until I was 10 (1991), and didn't start using e-mail regularly until 1996 or so. Was an early adopter for the web though; first encountered it in 1993, using Lynx, and also used Mosaic and Netscape 1.0 in 1995.

I think that the technologies you end up being an early-adopter of is mostly determined by luck, who your friends are. I wonder if PG has a FaceBook or MySpace account, or Twitters away, or plays Second Life.

"In any case, I'd be really interested to know what people here are using today that they think everybody else will be using years from now..."

Functional programming. It really does make that much of a difference. I'm a Haskeller by hobby, and my startup is Python-written-in-an-FP-style. I'm finding that almost all of my bugs are type errors, and I never get usually-much-more-common state or logic errors.
he's awake!

http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=11399

(I can't believe I'm posting this)
And now we're all refreshing this thread too
Time Travel in Haskell (a function's output is passed as a parameter to the same function)
I'd assumed it was an artifact of the storage mechanism that pg didn't consider problematic enough to fix. PostgreSQL, for example, has no order guarantees unless you explicitly call for them, but seems to order by last update to the row.

Not that I'm suggesting that a SQL database backs news.yc; pg seems to have a preference for filesystems over databases.
We'll email the founder whose yc account the application was made through. The from addr will be info@ycombinator.com.
Startup Funding Declines in 1st Quarter 07
I think since I'm also part of your "younger generation" I can see the validity in your argument that no one uses Windows anymore, but as I'm beginning to look for jobs and as i meet more and more people outside of my tech bubble, I can see that the general public still attaches itself to Windows OS. The more tech inclined are all about Linux and the like, but those that are all about enjoying youtube and checking email could care less.
I guess the real key is to "know thyself" well enough to know one's optimal strategy!
I went to one of Microsoft's rollout conferences recently -- to get a free copy of Office. The new Word really is better than the old Word, and--call me grandma--I still like it--I'm used to it. I sat at a big table eating lunch with my fellow small business types who came for the same thing, and listened to the MS power users talk about looking around and seeing, and realizing how old they, and the rest of the loyalists were. True. The loyal MS IT guys were there in force, to applaud Bill warmly. But it wasn't a big under-thirty audience. The presenters all talked about the many new enterprise features of Vista and the servers, the tightest possible integration of everything a huge organization needs to control every detail of work. And how much they hate pocket flash drives -- those enemies of corporate security. And all of us Office freeloaders smiled and nodded, and ate their sandwiches.
Those data points look so small, I'm not sure what level of correlation this may have relative to the overall tech funding scene.
I believe it is based on the member base who submit a funding request on their site (per the bottom of the post).
One of the clear signs that show how wrong they are on strategy is Vista. Vista is everything against web 2.0 with a web 2.0 face. All control and get attached as much as you can to your Desktop. They need to get some people from Google to use their cash wisely.
Jordi Vallejo
ok :). but even there, the items scroll down. So the same thing happens...
I'm not sure the process is that simple- Since there are presumably interviews and the Mountain View meetup, YC is probably only looking to send out emails of groups that are absolutely no longer being considered. Also, I'm sure that certain groups would appreciate some anonymity if they are moving on to the next round.
Google Housing? - Google now searches Real Estate and Rentals
VC bloggers and linkedin.com must be killing their paid subscription based website. $45 a month for a basic plan and no info for their pro plan. No wonder their startup funding leads have dried up in 1Q07.

"The Go BIG Network Small Business Funding Review is a comprehensive report, compiled quarterly, that tracks the detailed capital raising trends and habits of the startup company and small business community. Requests for funding are made directly by small business owners and entrepreneurs on the Go BIG Networks Web site and are made available to angel investors, private equity investors and venture capital firms looking to fund new businesses. The report includes the requests for funding made within a given quarter of a year."
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why refresh mail when I can refresh ycombinator? The second when one of the emails gets received it will be posted here for shure... :-)
the decline is in the average amount requested, not funding requests as a whole.
Apparent news.yc bug: this comment isn't showing up on
http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg
Yes it is, or at least it is now.
"I tried to call but no one answered..."
Quick Stats on news.yc clickthroughs
I would like one please. Thanks,

Bit Bitdiddle

bitdiddle@member.fsf.org
Boston is no where listed...which is funny since other surveys say it's second only to California
Which survey?
One of my blog posts was linked here and had 9 points, putting it on the front page for about 36 hours or so. Now that it's headed down the list, I thought it would be interesting to share the statistics on how many clicks came from:

-main page (news.yc/news): 229

-newest page (news.yc/newest): 24

-google reader (via news.yc feed): 19

-the post's comment page: 5

-my user page: 3

I think wordpress doesn't accurately count up referrers, because that post has had a total of 350 or so views since the add on this site (and only 3-7 people a day looked at it before that). There were a few other referrers w/ only one count each (bloglines, newsgator, etc).

So, this site generates quite a bit of click-throughs, even for posts voted up in the single digits. Thought people might find this interesting. While traffic isn't super high, it is "focused".
Strange. It isn't for me, yet I'm seeing another that was posted more recently.
If craigslist would put their listings on Google Base it would be the listings market would shrink even further. Compare craigslist broker listing fee of $10 vs yahoo's fee of $49.95.
Disclaimer: I haven't programmed on Windows in a very long time, and the only time I did it was in a cocoon of an intro programming class in VS.NET where we didn't have to program anything that was either useful or interesting.

However, one of the more substantive complaints about Windows I've heard (beyond the usual instability and insecurity) is that it isn't easily programmable. You can't (I've read) effortlessly connect small, well-designed, single-purpose programs together with things like pipes, redirection, etc. And, most programs by default (again, I've read) are inextricably attached to their GUIs, so you can't make them scriptable like you can with a command-line Unix tool plus a shell script. That would mightily suck for anyone who's used to the high level of programmability in Unix.
Question is: Do you really need something like gut instinct?

I think there's one thing that it is appropriate for: Quickly needed decisions with a "social background", if you are experienced at judging human behavior (I don't know the exact English word for "Menschenkenntnis").

Else: Don't do it. Do not decide based on pure gut instinct. Try to get something more dependable: Ask friends, ask experts, talk to people who know more than you or provide a different point of view and then judge their comments against each other. There's almost always a way to get the information you need if you have the time, and it's very seldom you don't have time.

Then it brakes down to experience and self-confidence, I guess. Luckily, my gut instinct is right, usually :-)
Guys... it's very simple! For every level in the hierarchy, it ranks the posts in order of points, and randomizes the order for those that have the same points.
Okay... how do you do this in Lisp? Also, PG, does Arc support Time Travel instructions? ;)
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Well,

I have to be honest, I loved the article, it gave "kind of" the same information but from a different view.

I agree to the most of what has been said, and I do NOT disagree with the rest, but it seems to be little bit early to say so, and I am talking about Web Applications, I teach computer technical certification curriculum (A+, Network+ Server+, and yes some of MCSE's courses as well), when my students (the young ones mostly) ask me what career path do you advice us to pursuit, I say IMHO, MS is an old news, look how Google is changing the way we live, the way we think, I would say, go for web development (AJAX), yes there would still be need for C# and the rest of the other programming languages (at least at the server side and the client OS), but the real volume would be at the web.

The part on which I think it is too early to say so is : On other part of the planet (and I am sure in some part of the US as well as I've read in some of the comments below) the fast internet connection is not available (if any in some parts of the world), I agree that one day sooner or later this is inevitable, but it might not be as soon as (NOW).

Somewhere else we have discussed this issue few months ago, it can be found here.

http://www.syrian-it.net/forum/index.php?topic=25.0

Regards

CerberuS
Not related to the article at all, but I'm currently reading Cryptonomicon, and the thing that struck me was when Randy goes to 'his favorite search engine' and types in some '(and pred1 (or pred2 pred3))' sort of construction. An internet without Google. Surprisingly unsettling.
Doing it in Lisp would be exceedingly tricky, since, while most dialects have some sort of laziness construction, it's explicit, so you don't get the automatic evaluation order reduction that happens in Haskell.

(NB: Unless I'm wrong. I've never tried it, it's possible that there's some nice trick for it that just isn't occuring to me.)

It's unlikely that the situation is any different in Arc; Haskell is just fundamentally different from other languages (other than Clean), in that lazy evaluation is the default behavior. In Lisp you can ask to create a thunk and then ask to evaluate it later; in Haskell, everything is a thunk, and the compiler/runtime evaluates it when needed.
Vote up if you don't want to see every blog post listed here. Isn't the idea for people to submit links others may not already know about?

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=usablecontent
The xindesk is a webos and a widget framework.
The online webtop.
I'd appreciate one, too:

fedorov@rutgers.edu
Nice essay, however, I do not actually think that M$ is dead. They are actually recovering from a very chaotic phase of restructuring after the old king was declared dead and with the new ones taking over lead of the company.

Not that I like that company very much, I'd rather go without them as they are not only causing shadows to fall on an otherwise fertile ground, but they also manage to dry out those fertile grounds by taking over and taking in.

And now that they have finally found that they could do patents by means of bribing and replicating existing technology and forge that into something that would even more so protect their grounds, i.e. the global IT market, it seems to me as if we were in for something more, even more treacherous than what we have seen so far.

Now, what is true is that M$ has long led the pack and they for sure have left that pole position of being the scapegoat running, but they sure will manage to take the lead back by simply replicating existing technology and research. By that they have gone through a process of accepting other people's technological advances and by incorporating them into their infrastructure and overall corporate culture they will slowly try to regain their old status.

It would be a nice move, however, to give them the death blow by asking them, in court, how many LOC of open source software they have included in their past projects by simply rewriting the existing code?
Fully reentrant continuations feel a lot like time travel.

In fact, I once overslept my first class because when my alarm went off and I woke up groggy, I shut off my alarm thinking "I'll just remember my current continuation and if I oversleep I'll call it back later with an error."
FYI: Just received an interview email. No joke.
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Hey, congratulations! That's fantastic!
Hey thats a great news. Congrats
Wouldn't it be ironic if this submission got more points than your submitted blog post? It's at 7 right now...
Thanks. Good luck to everyone!
Video, please?
Thanks for the update. Congrats and best of luck!
Me, too, on both counts.
Congrads
I did too. I am shaking so much I can barely type... I am shocked.
Congrads to you.
hey congrats to u too :)
hmmn... nothing yet. I hope this doesn't mean they sent the yeses in one batch and the nos in another...
DUDE. So was I! My hands could barely dial my partner's number on my cell phone!
Let's hope they're just sending them off one by one. But I'm not going to speculate. That way lies madness.
Looks in keeping with the stats I'd gathered when one of my pages got linked to.
congrats. i can't believe it when my partner told me :)
wow, I'm so happy =) look forward to seeing you guys in mountain view, CA
was thinking the same thing.. those that got emails: did they look hand-composed or mail-merged?

It'd be silly to ask for email headers to check the client, right? :-P
Well, it wasn't a personalized email, and it was CC'd to an anonymous list.
thanks for the data! congrats! (and fingers crossed...)
Congrats to you guys!

How totally exciting. I think I'm going to get blisters from constantly refreshing
troll?
For American teams who got interviews and need to fly to Silicon Valley: Southwest has a sale that includes flights to San Jose. Sample fare: $79 each way from Seattle to San Jose. Here: http://www.southwest.com/hotfares/hotfares2.html

You'll need to book before Thursday midnight (now is that midnight between Thursday and Friday, or...?).
Congrats! I didn't, so I'm guessing I didn't make it this time around. Oh well.
well, I've got new spam, but no new ham.
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Second Life, making money and the lack of imagination
Has anyone received a rejection email yet?
What is the best time of year to launch a site?