skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you. I was afraid I was in the minority here in thinking that his posts were a little off...
I noticed the indexer broke sometime last week, but I had been too busy to debug the issue. I'll try to take a look at it sometime tonight.
The perils of being a moron with your money.
The article mentions that one of the Reddits already left Conde Nast. Which one?
This excerpt from the book "Burn Rate" (about the early days of the first internet bubble) is interesting wrt this guy Hayden and his first venture:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.06/es_burnrate_pr.html

Not particularly flattering.
Wilson Sonsini has one. At least they did last fall. They gave me a package deal on incorporation and deferred payment for 6 months. wsgr.com
Better than c/c++/java, not as good as scheme/smalltalk. Just my opinion.
When Steve & Alexis merged reddit w/ infogami (creating Not A Bug), they all received equal equity.

The word on the street is that the relationship wasn't as prosperous as the three had hoped. After a few months, Aaron stopped putting in long hours on reddit, and kind of dropped out. When the company was sold to Conde Nast, he didn't stick around.

Steve and Alexis are still doing the project full time, though.
Yeah, you're right. I would be interested in hearing the other side of the story. Why would so many people be willing to risk their jobs to get rid of her? Either it was an impressive conspiracy or there were some real problems with how she behaved.
Ten Reasons You're Not a Billionaire
One thing you should keep in mind is that you have to move on to C++ to become a good programmer. Start with any of the languages, then do C++ for a couple of years. Otherwise, you will never be able to work in a low level language, since you will be pampered by all the simplicity of these languages.
I suspect it's an urban legend, but I heard that the day Priceline IPO'd one of the execs went down to the car dealership and bought a Porsche, and then crashed into a tree going 100mph and died on the way to the marina to buy a boat.
The basic story actually happened in the 80s (see the second paragraph): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Computer
Paul told me to come here. I do everything Paul says. I'm not sure why I'm not rich yet.
A strong grasp of concepts and logic with the ability to quickly pick up new languages makes you a good programmer. Learning many different languages will arguably make you a better programmer.

Knowing C++ is not a requirement to, nor has much to do with, being a good programmer.
Mimicking a billionaire's personal lifestyle won't make you a billionaire. You'll be a billionaire when you do or create things collectively valued at a billion dollars.
New startup, Atten.tv lets you track video-watching habits
"YBombinator! is a concept that was conceived in real time by real people in an Internet chat room on April 17, 2007 @ 2:09AM Pacific Daylight Time."

They were talking about this on Justin.tv. I assume that's the chat room they're mentioning here. But anyway, I have no idea what this is... most likely a joke.
BuyYourFriendADrink.com - (NYC area only currently)
Sorry, this is just wrong.

There's so much in C++ that is specific to C++ that it doesn't even begin to make sense. If you want someone to learn OO, send them to Ruby or Smalltalk. If you want them to learn about performance and deep machine magic (pointers and such), send them to C. In either case, they can learn what they need to know without getting bogged down in a really obtuse pile of bolted-on features and syntax. It's not a bad systems language, but it's not a learning language and never will be.

And the whole "you'll never be able to blah blah" crap is just a hugely stupid idea. Don't think of your learning process as preparing to do something. Pick a project and start working on it--Open Source gives you access to millions of lines of code. There is no better way to learn to program than through working on programs. Be useful as soon as you possibly can, and you'll find that people are willing and eager to help you learn, because they see that the better you become the more useful you are to their project.
Orrick is pretty badass. They work with Facebook, Pandora, Meebo, etc.

http://www.orrick.com/practices/corporate/emergingCompanies/index.asp
For background on that, watch Triumph of the Nerds -- it was on Google video; still available on torrents.
> "There's way too much advertising and they're not really respecting their own community."

> Wikipedia is another matter, he says. "We're not similar at all - you get involved in a community."

I don't recall ever being accused of being a sockpuppet on MySpace, and my actual friends are on there. That's way, way more of a community than a bunch of blowhard editors and page defacers. Plus no-one deletes my stuff except me.
My namesake visits Cuba, convinces Cuba to use open-source on a national level, and records a song about Guantanamo
You will understand the hardware better if you learn C and Assembly. However, except for the syntactic sugar aspects of C++, it degenerates into a boondoggle because of all its weirdness and corner cases. The buggiest software has always been written in C++. It has the most complex language spec and is the hardest to debug because of those obscure corner cases. As programming consists mostly of debugging, extensive use of C++ virtually guarantees needless pain, wasted time, and bugs that won't go away.
Gundersen-Dettmer has one.
Nope... it was a comment on a blog post and significantly more malicious than any of those TC forum posts.
Why does he need credibility? Tim's post lays out his whole case. Agree with him or don't.
Ahh. So the goal of the site is to turn a three-martini lunch with friends or clients into an evening of drinking alone. Excellent.

But in all seriousness, it does seem like a solution in search of a problem. Kind of cool though as a unique gift, but once it loses its uniqueness then it's done.
DayJet - "[web 2.0 is] a playing field so flat as to have no barriers to entry at all"
From Many Tweets, One Loud Voice on the Internet (NYTimes's Twitter profile)
Is this how to get banned for life from Y Combinator?
That's the stupidest thing I've ever seen someone attach their name to.
Spend some time on the internet and that will change quickly. There's always enough stupid to go around and astound you.

Either this guy is full of bs and is an attention whore, or YC's interview process has just been validated. Anyone with ethics like those I wouldn't want to invest my time, money, and support into either.
Link for instant gratification:
http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=363

Also, there's a link at the bottom of the main page to Features. It does get read a lot.
It's this guy: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=9965

Personally, I think he was joking, but I can understand why PG banned him. Potential YC companies have to trust that YC is not going to blab their secrets across the net; YC's informal commitment to confidentiality is all they have, and a lot more than most VCs give. It's all rendered moot if one of the other applicants sells their secrets to the highest bidder. Joking or not, it's not something you want to suggest that you'd do, given how much it matters to others.
Creators, Consumers, and Whats 'Right?'
What was he banned from? It looks like he's still posting on News.YC. I guess banned just means YC has decided not to invest in the guy, permanently?

At least it looks like he learned from his mistakes, props to him for being so honest about it.
How to Profile and Optimize Ajax Applications
Going through the thinkature blog found this article. It's related to this article on 'profiling javascript' ~ http://blog.thinkature.com/index.php/2006/11/11/profiling-javascript-applications-with-venkman/
This guy is sort of a sympathetic figure, I guess -- more than the NYT headline would suggest. It's a cautionary tale should any of us do well.
Allowing voting down of YC comments leads to group-think, Nazi-ism and suppressing of unpopular points of view. Do you agree?
Breaking Down LibraryThing vs. Amazon Tagging Analysis
Startups don't often hire recruiters,

This is not true. Usually one of the first people brought in after a series-A round of financing is some sort of VP-level manager whose job is to find other people to hire. This VP often was a recruiter, or hiring manager at some point, and usually hires some sort of recruiter to help him or her find people.
Neither introspection nor emotional experiences reveal truths about external reality. Emotional experiences carried out in the meat computer mounted on top of your torso do not provide any supporting evidence for the existence of Jesus.
Are you sure you want to work for a startup? In my experience, working at a startup is good for one thing: learning how to manage a bunch of random stuff all happening at the same time.

You don't get paid as well as if you just worked at google or yahoo, and as an employee, your stake is usually something like .25-.75% of the company, which means if the place gets bought for 100M, you'll make out with about $120K extra, 4 years down the road.

$120K isn't anything to scoff at, but keep in mind that startups pay a lower salary, and if you scored a job at yahoo for $90K instead of $60K at the startup, after 4 years you'd have the same amount of money.

Now, if you can swing a deal where you get 10% of the company, I'd go for it. But with a percentage like that, you're gonna be employee 3, co-founding, not just "have a job at a startup."
I lost 30 points in three and a half days. When I look at the fate of my last comment, I realize what's going on

http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=15510

Not that I care too much. These karma points make monkeys in a cage scrambling for peanuts look more intelligent than us (future blog material for me!).
Stupidest Web Feature Ever Created: Tag Clouds
dramatic much? I haven't seen unpopular viewpoints voted down on YCNews yet, and perhaps your comment(s) were voted down because of reasons other than just being an unpopular point of view.

Lastly, using sensationalist terms like "Nazi-ism" and "klansman" detract from any point you're trying to make and equating (or attempting to) any members of YCNews with such terms is beyond ridiculous to put it nicely.
1) how do I get 1 million + users in 18 months?

2) how do I manage 1 million + users with the smallest team possible?

3) how do I turn 1 million users into at least 10 million dollars?

When I think of startups I'd like to be, I think of Winamp, hotornot.com, del.icio.us, reddit. These are companies that won big with only 1-5 people. I've been involved with startups that focused on getting a good series-A, hiring 20-30 people, then fucked around for 3 years and vanished off the face of the earth.

At this point, i think a better approach is to stay small and cash out for $10M in 18 months, rather than try to get big with an increasingly diminishing chance of success.

Of course if you're sure you've got a Google or YouTube, the "traditional" silicon valley venture-backed startup isn't a bad way to go. However it is kind of a bummer when you sell your thing for $1.4 billion and 600 million of it goes right to your investors... Would rather be Justin Frankel than Chad Hurley.
Banned? Wasn't rms selected at this most recent SFP?
Sometimes they're useful. I really like Pornotube's tag cloud.
"I guess banned just means YC has decided not to invest in the guy, permanently?"

Yes... I was probably a bad candidate for Y Combinator anyways, so it was a good decision on their part.
But you still never answered the question of why you have faith in the Christian god as opposed to the gods other religions.
Nazi-ism? Congratulations, you've just godwin'd YC News.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_Law
I tend to agree with the author, and I find tag clouds too cluttered. Some might argue that it's a good way to see what the web site/blog is about, but sure there must be a better way to do that. If my blog is mostly about, say, technology then you can easily see that from the blog name, tag line, or the titles of the top two posts. I cannot see why tag clouds got so popular!!! Am I missing something?
Social Networks Are The New Porn
Metaweb (freebase.com) uses (or rather, is) a database, but not a relational one. Those comments that implicitly identify "database" with "RDBMS" may become outdated sooner than their authors expect.
Though you didn't ask for it, here's my advice: try to put yourself in other peoples shoes. Jessica's not saying she stole granola bars, because they are there for her to take. She's actually complementing google, and telling her audience they are lucky to be working for such a great employer.

Why should you listen to me? You've got a cool-sounding product, my guess is people here have the ability to make it better. If you just chill a little bit, that might actually happen.
Hands up who makes mistakes? I do, usually technical, a lot social but some mistakes reveal more about character. Character is lot harder to judge than skillset, passion and being smart. Character means you can trust this person, know that they will do what they say they will do. Do the right thing.

Two instances I've seen where someones character has been exposed, one resulted in sacking (trying to hack the server & being caught, then police being called) and the other - hacking (after being in the company for 1 day, hacked root, added themselves to wheel & logged in externally via ssh, ordered software on company money). What was their motive? Curiosity, greed? I don't know. I do know I wouldn't want to work with them. You simply can't trust them to do the right thing.

From the looks this bloke is pretty young & eager. [0], [1] Reading the post does expose a character flaw (we all have them), impatience. More and more I'm reading of people getting frustrated in not getting acceptance as if this is their only shot. Now or never. This is simply not the case. In fact if you think this I really question you determination and resolve.

Now back to 'cash for comments'. Inside information for the highest bidder. So what was the cash for? Well to start the startup of course. Just another way to raise money? Well it's pretty stupid, ill planned and looking at the responses out of step in what's expected. And to do it on such a high-profile site with your name. That's punishment enough.

Maybe there ought to be another item added in, 'Startup Mistakes'. [2] Perhaps what should be added is something about "how you respond to failure & setback". What is the right way? What is the wrong way explaining what you have to loose.

Reference

[0] bootload, 'What's the best thing you could be working on, and why aren't you?':

http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=13193

[1] In a post I added on what 'best is the best idea you could be working on' rms gave this reply ~http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=13193

Reading the reply may give you a better insight into his character and help you determine his motives.

[2] pg, 'The 18 mistakes that kill startups'

http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
[2] pg, 'The 18 mistakes that kill startups'

Looks like it's time to make that _19_.
Why do you always post footnotes? It's starting to bother me a lot.

Especially when you cite yourself. First.
'... Especially when you cite yourself. First. ...'

If you follow the post thread you'll see why. It's been asked here ~http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=14404 to death.

'hint': Meaning Economy ~ http://jeremie.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry070328-000042
Self quoting is bad form any time, it's worse when you do it recursively. Especially to boost your own relevance in google.
Funny you should bring that up! Today when I was jogging I realized your chosen project name sounds like an antisemitic breakfast beverage: Jew-O, for Nazi astronauts. Cf. The Toyota Incubus (there's a story floating around about a product named Incubus which had to be recalled at the last minute. The culprit is alternately either Toyota, Nike, or Reebok).
We're just a bunch of people who want to do a start-up so we don't have to slave away for The Man. We're not, like, Gandhi, you know.
Do you have anything meaningful to add? I do ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=11826
I really like the fact that comments count for something here. In fact I'd be happy if posts counted for nothing and only comments did. It promotes and rewards discussion, which is what I come here for. Articles are good and all, but the real value of this site is in its users.

I like to believe that the majority of people are like myself and vote up or down on things for the same reasons. Disagreeing with opinions never enters into my mind as a reason to vote down. I vote comments down when they are highly off topic, rude, or personal attacks. I use this in hopes that it sets the tone for YC News. That is, as a place for mature discussion and education about startups, not one where kittens with pancakes on their heads or flamers with four letter vocabularies are welcome.

To be blunt and honest, it is the content of your comments that is causing them to be voted down. The comment in specific that you linked to came across as a personal attack and quite rude. I'm sure this was not your intent, but that's how it came across. This comment you posted referring to members of the community as monkeys also comes across as rude. You may have valid points and questions, but you need to find better ways of saying them. When you attack the people rather than the idea, it doesn't reflect well.
'... if my blog is mostly about, say, technology then you can easily see that from the blog name, tag line, or the titles of the top two posts. ...'

One thing in favour of tag-clouds I've found is they are finer grained. If the knowledge domain is 'foo' you can quickly work out how the vocab is skewed to a particular subject. This is useful, unless they are spammed.
If you find what you're missing, please tell me. I really don't get it either. It's a list of common keywords arranged in a magic cloud with visual intensity feedback. It's good for a quick overview of what the site is about.

But I think the title and tagline of a blog is a better indication. A tag cloud is just a visual cacophony of symbols my mind tries to parse unsuccessfully. If I'm on a blog I haven't been to before it's generally because I came from here or google. In that case, I'm there for a specific keyword or reason already.

The big thing that really bugs me about tag clouds is when I click on one and it leads me to another. That's just not helpful.
personal attack? rubbish!

To say my comment was "quite rude" baffles me.

I was directly commenting on something she said in the video. Would you disallow that?

"referring to members of the community as monkeys"

Where was that?? Do you not understand my point?

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Actually it sounded like a confession and she said 'stealing'. If they are there for her to take, why hide them in her purse?
I am not faulting her at all for 'taking' the granola bars. I am certain, I might have done the same as her - but I am unrich and I would have taken them openly, in full view and so I might be justified - I think.

My comment was solely a wonderment, an observation, that a wealthy millionaire needed to do that.

I must be the worst communicator - judging from my product (juwo).

Seriously, can you look beyond what was an unpopular comment? I was trying to understand why an intellectual and financial millionaire from the cream of society did that.

Do millionaires behave differently, or do they stay the same? Or worse?
A demo works. Explaining -how- you're going to make it easy to use might be useful as well.

Describe a real hypothetical user (three if possible) using the software. Describe in as much detail as possible, and then explain at some level how your technology will allow you to accomplish this.
I saw him speak at Pitt a couple years ago... the guy is crazy, his beliefs don't quite add up, but at least he is fighting the good fight. In the end, the Free Software moderates want the same open-source utopia as rms.
Actually it sounded like a confession and she said 'stealing'. If they are there for her to take, why hide them in her purse?

I am not faulting her at all for 'taking' the granola bars. I am certain, I might have done the same as her - but I am unrich and I would have taken them openly, in full view and so I might be justified - I think.

My comment was solely a wonderment, an observation, that a wealthy millionaire needed to do that.

I must be the worst communicator - judging from my product (juwo).

Seriously, can you look beyond what was an unpopular comment? I was trying to understand why an intellectual and financial millionaire from the cream of society did that.

Do millionaires behave differently, or do they stay the same? Or worse?
paul, could you add some words from the story's title to the title tag for the page? So that when we bookmark, it's not always the same "YC Startup News"...
One thing I like about YC News is that it's rare for comments to get voted down, whereas on reddit and digg it happens like crazy.

Oddly enough, it seems like juwo is the only community member that gets voted down a lot. I'm not sure what that says. It takes a lot for me to vote a comment down and I don't think juwo really deserves it.
Fisheye view zooming for tabs (Firefox extension). Alternative to scrolling
What a ridiculous proposition! I disagree strongly! I'm going to vote this article down...
I vote up the submission that asks for voting down of submissions.
Hiding in the purse == saving for eating later

Who really cares if she took some granola bars? It has nothing to do with the ideas she presents and your comment sounded like an ad hominem attack (probably).
See my reply here: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=15593
Video interview with Reddit founders, pre-acquisition
Classic: Code like a girl
Feld Thoughts - Fear Is The Mindkiller
Web-based OS. LOL:

CPU multitasking ... OS Scheduler ... Threads as implemented by C++ or whatever ... Browser ... Javascript Interpreter ... Faked-out single-threaded multi-thread emulator ... "Browser-based OS".

And of course, if you want an "application" in your "OS" you can always fire up Sun HotSpot.
Sure, but is it worth the noise it adds to the site? And do visitors actually see anything but the top 2 or 3 words?
'... folksonomy qualify as a good name ...'

The irony of a site not following it's own suggestions. Maybe the suggestions are skewed to theoretical commercial sites. Anyway they are only suggestions. For every case you could find a valid corollary. Delicious is a great one. Just how did it get so popular with that name?
'... Too bad the squatters have got almost every other URL ...'

in some ways it really hurts. You think of an idea, go for a domain and it's being sat on. Just another stumbling block. I reckon it has forced people to be more inventive in their titles.
thank you very much to all for your response extremelly helpful, i have a few manuals and ebooks and gonna get into "hacking", tho right no dont understand a lick, hope it soon will change :D
Pairwise supports Statsaholic by boycotting Amazon web services
Um... I readily admit that Web OS is a misnomer. I mean a browser start page that implements useful tasks beyond what Netvibes and Pageflakes offer.
'... is it worth the noise it adds to the site? ...'

On the front page, maybe not. I tend to use the maps less regularly than every day. I check the entire vocab, not just the big words (though they do stick out). You're making a fair point though. I had the same beef with the ruby on rails image maps where they take up space & are indecipherable (to me anyway).
time might be the constraint ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=4780
Simple answer: yes.
Relationship credit models have been pretty widely explored.

A decent way to do it is to build a matrix of friends/enemies/etc and iterate over it until you have absolute values.

Example implementation (not mine) here: http://bitchun.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bitchun/tracker/ruby/