skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't seem to be a very thoroughly thought-out move to me. It is inevitable if current users are willing to compromise. And given the amount of gray-area, I think they are.

Quality doesn't just vanish. It's eroded away like the hair cells in your ear. When you realize it's gone it's not going to come back without clever engineering.

So it's not just as simple as changing the name of a forum, declaring a shift in the theme, that would move the forum in one direction or another. Unless you have superusers and/or admins. The analogy is to slashdot, or to reddit. Keeping the reddit-style system means increasing popularity leads, without a doubt, scattered focus. Keeping the focus implies a shift in the current moderation system (unless there are invisible superusers lurking around).

The flaw of forums is not in the rules, not the theme, not the users, but in the system design. Change it, or compromise. Either way, whatever is written so confidently on hackernews.html will not be as simple as "I decide it so."

The exception to my argument is if growth of userbase isn't a goal. I'm not sure if that's the case here though.
I guess the question is does it really provide any help to an entrepreneur? The other personalized pages really were not created to help in any significant way.
Constant Contact and Intuit are examples that come to mind. Intuit is debatable since the programmer was the first hire and was working partly for equity. For both companies, the founder came out of Bain Consulting. MySpace might be another example - I don't think their founders were really technical.
Similar system here.

If you're halfway through the task, that's significant work, assuming that "half" inclues the AI. Does your tagging system work off a dictionary?
Scala version here:

http://blog.circleshare.com/index.php?/archives/61-A-spell-c...
I hate to be a wet blanket, but posts from www.worsethanfailure.com are really going to bring the quality of this site down.
Silphium: Did Greek science die out because their elite discovered The Pill?
What about the morality of simulating an environment where sentient beings are produced by a long agonizing process of evolution? Greg Egan points that out here: http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/PERMUTATION/FAQ/FAQ... (question 6). "Post-humans" should have room for a much more robust morality that would preclude someone purposely creating the world we live in - unless we were an unintended byproduct of an unintended byproduct that no "post-human" has even noticed or something.
Wrong/disputed attributions are everywhere. Just a part of history. Human history, because humans care about the attributions.

And Edison invented the lightbulb, Gutenberg the printing press, etc. etc. Sigh for a second. Now go make something.
Google To Release Embeddable Maps
Bring back voting stories down?
I notice that this is a new user. Maybe users shouldn't be able to post stories until they've spent N days on the site. I think I wouldn't be in favor of voting stuff down - that, or have some very consensus oriented approach (lots of people have to vote down to have an effect). One of the problems with reddit is that one or two people vote something down initially and it's gone. They have a disproportionate influence, in other words.
Spark Networks Banking Conference Presentation.
400M Pageviews/Month for all sites combined.
New director very experienced in Advertising/Social Networking .

Niche is all about marketing, product doesn't matter.

Lots of talk on company strategy
Apple seems to enjoy a reputation of making stuff that "just works." They are probably not prepared to guarantee that OS X will "just work" on anything but Apple hardware, and don't want to risk damaging that reputation.
I read an estimate somewhere that if you grow a company workforce by more than 25% a year, you risk losing the company culture you've built up.
Yep. I know how to navigate google maps, but a zip code textbox, defaulting to the zip code of the ip of the visitor, should be added as soon as possible.

Also, if one accidentally refreshes the page after finding a new location... the map goes right back to California again, which is another huge interface flaw.
The best way to get karma is to not care about getting karma. Just say what you feel.
It looks interesting, but what happens there exactly?
Matt Maroon: Demo Day
Mobile Social Network Users Few, Far Between
Blueprints are not final
Blueprint is a CSS framework
Did the British rule of Britain have the same effect? How, then, could they have produced Newton and Babbage when Indian mathematicians were on the same path centuries (or millennia!) earlier?
Programming.reddit.com is mostly about programming. But that's not all hackers are interested in.
The Opposite
Yahoo! Health in Stealth Mode or Just Plain Off-the-Radar?
Yahoo!'s lack of involvement in the burgeoning ehealth space is something I probably spend a little bit too much time thinking about, but I just can't understand why Yahoo! Health doesn't get more attention from its parent portal.
What to do if you get sued and you're the little guy
Wozniak's New Goal is Efficient Housing
You should fix the link - it's going to the second page.
I've decided that what is amazing about Norvig is that he is skilled in both theory and practice. A maker and a thinker.
Now that StartupNews has become HackerNews, expect XKCD to get to the front page 3 times a week.
If it's based on FreeBSD then I'm am very sure that there are drivers for most, if not all, of the hardware that a typical PC user runs. If not, the Linux drivers shouldn't be a complete pain in the ass to port?
Common Pitfals of Corporate Innovation
Unborn Baby Gets Facebook Profile
Enough with the tantalizing teases: when will we finally get to know what the current YC companies are actually doing??
Scientific Handbook for the Simulation of Collective Intelligence (ebook creative commons)
I agree. Take on a "mascot artist" partner instead.
I thought the purpose of javascript was to be one big giant gotcha? :-)
I swear this is a dupe.... did the already submitted articles list get reset when we turned into "hacker news"?
Here is an interesting note from FuturePundit:

"Upper Class Fertility Rising Due To Competitive Birthing?"
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/004462.html
Screenshots, by bosky : geek cartoon strip
Drawing cartoons, began as a hobby during my younger days, and got a real energetic jiff of rejuvenation, after working on a vector-graphic product with a startup in Bangalore.
Perhaps the lamest nerd test would be a better title. Don't you all have something better to do?
I suspect you're right, but the issue is not how much of a pain they would be to port, it's how much of a pain they would be to support and what would happen to the typical end-user experience.

For example, I've never not been able to install Linux or Windows on an x86 machine, assuming the hardware actually works, but it's rare when two installations on different sets of hardware turn out exactly the same. An obvious example would be on windows, go to Control Panel:Display:Settings:Advanced and you get a whole bunch of options that are specific to your actual video card and monitor. A less obvious example would be an intermittently crashing program, because there is a bug related to memory addressing in the firmware of the motherboard.

The result is less consistency in the use of a Windows or Linux machine. By sticking with their own hardware, Apple can better establish a reputation for consistently satisfying their target audience.
Drunk dudes whizzing on trees, a couple shots before the meeting, "strap on some plums" t-shirts. Apparently even Y-Combinator can't escape the inevitable consequence of nerds turning into frat boys as soon as they get a little money...
I can't make it Sat, but I'm going on Sunday
Exclusive images of Endeavor's damaged tiles
From what I've read on his blog, it seems like Matt was never really a nerd to start with. His startup seems to be involved with sports somehow from what I can gather?

I've said it earlier and I'll say it again - not all hackers and tech entrepreneurs are 'nerds' by the stereotypical definition.
I could be wrong but I think it's just a venue for programmers (most likely entrepreneurial ones) to get together and build something cool (possible during the course of just that weekend)
Coding Horror: Discipline Makes Strong Developers
Okay, so I looked at this. I don't get the point of the grid system. Rather, what I want to know is: if you're going to laboriously simulate tables in CSS classes, why not just use tables? It would be simpler, more easily understandable by human readers, scales up and down better (Blueprint doesn't do non-fixed layouts yet, apparently), and in HTML4, at least, would usually involve less markup.

Against this, it wouldn't be quite as easily read for the tiny fraction of a percent that use screen readers. That seems like a very small price to pay for the major wins.
What the hell. 72 seconds to boot a box with no moving bits and a wildly simplified OS? And thats the IMPROVED time. Thats pretty pathetic.
Why Paul? Why Did You Change It? (About Hacker News)
I would agree if there was a flood of them, but I thought this one quite appropriate. Its unusual in not being just some awful random mistake, but a possibly instructive lesson in turning around a murky situation.

The bigger threat has to be xkcd, which will probably hit the front page every other day now ;)
Putting together comments from Matt's blog and the Demo day article from Fred Wilson (?), I think they must be the ones doing fantasy sports betting. Also fits with Matt's background.
It wasn't me, but I'm guessing it had to do with "being completely transparent", yet not actually saying what his startup does.
I've been know to access http://m.facebook.com on my phone using Opera Mini. This is typically during class or while in a car, but according to this article I am in the minority.

I think that the iPhone will help this adoption, as users need to get used to accessing the web from their phone before they adopt mobile social networking.
Programming as if Performance Mattered
The breadth of people who read slashdot is still an advantage I have not seen duplicated elsewhere. There are many sites where programming stories will be comented on by programmers. There are not so many where particle physics stories are commented on by particle physicists.
I don't know if all founders must be hackers, I've knew a few hackers with a lot of experience in programing but with no idea of web design.
I really think Usability and Design matters.
Also a startup needs to be changing fast in code and design, so maybe you need both of them.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I guess what blueprint and yui (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/) buy you is consistency across different web browsers. Tables with applied css (or their own attribute may behave differently depending on what browser is viewing it)
I don't know who is downvoting you, but maybe you need to follow your own advice:

"The best way to get karma is to not care about getting karma"
A peek inside Moleskine notebooks by artists, designers, architects, etc.
I don't agree. I think this Hacker News idea is fantastic. Some time ago I proposed a "classic.reddit.com", the idea being the same: having a place where we could have the good old reddit, or rather, where we could have intelligent news back again.
Because we ourselves were bored with reading about nothing but startups. If our site was boring to us, it was probably boring to the audience we intended it for.

This is hard for business guys to understand, but the people who make the best startup founders often don't care about business very much. Some of the most successful companies started next year will be started by people who do not currently plan to start companies.
The grid techniques help to define content regions and to help separate your layout from your information / data. Tables were created so that you could layout out tabular data / information for presentation.

There hasn't been much in the area of css frameworks besides for YUI and this framework is based on the work of some well-known designers. The nice thing about this and YUI is that it does help with consistency from browser to browser and it gives you a similar vocabulary to use.

I'm sold on the grid technique in general but I'm not sold on either YUI's grid.css or Blueprint's implementation but they're both very good starts.
Dan's MIX Simulator and MIXAL Compiler
Simulator of Knuth's MIX computer in js.
FrankenGoogle - How to mash together the ultimate search engine.
What if some people want to read only about start up news, but don't want to sift through items that are hacker news, and vice versa?

Maybe we could have a "sort by category" feature?
Agreed but does this apply also to guys who just care about building a great product? and don't really much care about making money from it?
If you are looking for feedback, I can think of one. Maybe it has to do with comments like these:

"Some idiot just karma bombed me. I lost around 10 points. Coward hiding in the shadows.. Step up"

Calling someone an idiot/coward.
Making a fuss about points lost.

I guess this is getting way offtopic now. A book pg highly recommends and that I recently read again is great if you are looking to learn: How to win friends and influence people.
Thank you. I appreciate it.

And you're right, I went way offtopic, so I'll just suck it up and accept I must be saying stupid things.

I want to leave in a thank-you for Matt, though. Thanks for the excellent detail, even at your expense.
I guess so, what I really want to say is that at least the founder in question should at least give some effort to try to understand what we the hackers know so that they can have some sort of common point to agree || disagree on. :-)
So you're trying to be the next reddit.com since that's mostly what "hackers" are interested in?

Also, the choice of the word "hacker" is horrible. Yes, I know the difference between cracker and hacker but you ask anyone out there what a hacker is and they'll tell you it's someone who "hacks websites and steals credit cards." To change that perception is a next to impossible task. So, I'm sure we'll enjoy a bunch of newbies coming here and asking how to "haxor" their friend's email account.

I don't like this change one bit. Are you trying to increase the amount of traffic on this site?
A Dot-Org Stresses That It's No Dot-Com
I wouldn't be surprised if we could do it in 40 years.

If you only want to stimulate pleasure centers, no need for expensive equipment -- just use poppies. If addiction is a problem, then presumably there is more to life and hence a reason to simulate after all.
Google and Microsoft Look to Change Health Care
Can't get to Siggraph?  $199 gives you video access to the lectures
I'm not associated with Siggraph, I just think it's a really cool conference.
Ultrafast quantum computer uses optically controlled electrons
We're trying to be the previous reddit.com.

As for the word "hacker," there is no uncertainty about what it means among hackers themselves. And our sense of the word is spreading, not contracting. I saw a headline in the NYT a couple weeks ago that used "hack" in the good sense.
I like the reset.css approach that both frameworks use. This will normalize your document so that it looks the same in various browsers. Then you can start re-building your look using their guidelines and the fonts.css or typography.css and to create consistency across common browsers and operating systems.

It's quite amazing how different a blank html document with an h1 and p tags looks from one browser to another let alone from one OS to another (margins, padding, etc). The examples with both frameworks give you something to try out before you use it too so you can see how it will look.
Babies born today will have an interesting timeline. Their entire personal history will have been online from the time they were born, if their parents are at all tech savvy.
Couldn't people who only want to read about startup news just read TechCrunch?
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Maybe could help out some of our struggling hackers out there ;-)
Widget/Apps Firm SocialMedia Raises $1 Million Funding
I prefer YC News to Techcrunch. YC Startup News does a better job of covering all startup news where Techcrunch is valley focused.
New eMarketer Report Projects Rise in Online Video Viewers
Kegbot kegerator
Thus part of its appeal - by not having too much stuff, we didn't spend too much time here, and went back to working on more productive pursuits.

I'll give it a week or two before any hand wringing. Let's see how it works out.
TC is awful and they're not an aggregator :( They're just posting PR stuff that companies send them. GigaOM is so much better... at least he looks at stuff more critically and says what he thinks.
Yep, the stories are already much more interesting. I just blew an hour when I only sat down to check my email. Great. Guess I'm going to have to call in hacker to work.
What would be really interesting would be some sort of hidden A/B testing...
TC doesn't have the great hacker-in-the-trenches commenters that news.yc has. It was always so useful to see what my peers have to say about the nitty gritty stuff of startup building, share experiences/advice/etc...
I wouldn't have suspected video to be the optimal medium for displaying the contents of a notebook. And I think I would have been right.
Mark Zuckerberg demotes his No. 2 exec
Turns out you are correct. It looks like taking downarrows off old comments is not sufficient protection. Will add more.
At techcrunch you miss 90 % of startups. You only get to read about companies the editors believe are different. HERE, we are all the same. My karma could be 2 and still my story or startup could be on top of the listing.
Previous reddit lasted 3 months tops before it degraded into a lot of nonsense. What makes you think that n.yc will last even that long before it gets flooded with crap?

The whole appeal of this site was that you could spend 10 min reading top few stories and you'd get a pretty good idea what's going on in the YC, VC, angel, investment community. Now we'll have to spend tens of minutes weeding through all kinds of topic that just waste your time.

Why not start a new website with this new theme? Since YC i a seed stage investment firm, what exactly does "Hacker News" have to do with YC focus and mantra focus?! It is a subdomain of an investment firm so the focus and direction of n.yc really makes very little sense.
I don't like this idea. There are already many places on the net to find out about hacking. But this is the only place I've found for good stories about startups (of course, I stopped looking after I found this place). From what I can see, there is much more to a startup than hacking. And there are more kinds of people involved with startups than hackers. It is a disservice to the startup community to change the focus here.

Besides, this site already has somewhat of a hacker focus anyway. Look at these items from the top-ten at this moment:
#3 Coding Horror: Discipline Makes Strong Developers
#5 Blueprint is a CSS framework
#6 How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary
#9 We are living in someone else's computer simulation

Not exactly business ideas.

And while you may be bored with reading this site, I don't see you as the typical audience here. I see this site as being for people who are in startups or thinking about doing a startup and who want to learn as much as they can. Not for people who've already been through it and already know all this stuff, like yourself. Even if Startup News began as your baby, I think you have to let it go.

In short I think your initial premise is wrong. Just because you're bored, doesn't mean everyone else is bored too.
Ebay Launching Another Free Classifieds Site in U.S.; Paypal IPO?
Thank you, but the fix is probably to not care about getting karma bombed. It's a childish thing, so it really shouldn't get under my skin like that. I'd hate to use your time on something that shouldn't matter.
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This is a strange article, in my opinion.

The point of quantum computing is to enable completely new types of algorithms whose running time scales much faster - ideally, exponentially faster - than an ordinary computer. For certain very limited classes of tasks, this can be achieved.

Given this, the "running speed" of the computer, which is what this article focuses on, isn't all that important. A working 1 kiloherz quantum computer will greatly outperform a 1 teraherz conventional computer for those problems quantum computers are known to be good at, such as factoring composite integers.
I posted this in another thread: why not start a NEW website hackernews.org or something and leave this site alone? Why mess with success?

This site is, after all, a subdomain of the YC site which is an early stage investment firm. n.yc.com made sense since it dealt with YC company news stories, VC investment, angel investment etc. stories. If you wanted to get funding from YC or wanted to learn how VC investment procedure works, this was a perfect complement to the main YC site. Now n.yc will become another reddit and will get flooded with all kinds of nonsense and will get a lot of "how do I haxor my ex's myspace account" since "hacker" really means cracker to like 99% of the internet population. Instead of spending 10 min to get an idea what the latest trends in investment community are, you'll have to spend 20+ minutes while. As for being bored and you're a startup founder, you're in trouble! And if you're really bored and need to read something, there's plenty of reddit & digg subdomains that are interesting.

This new site will lose focus and will degrade into another digg or reddit. Second law of (thermodynamics) Internet almost guarantees it. Paul, if you want this site to become bigger and grow and become a better reddit and all that, why not get a new domain and start it there? Why destroy what works?
Seriously guys Tichy has a point here. I am a big fan of YC startups ( even though we did not make it this time and sure will next one), but telling us about the night before and the day after is not really "feeding one's intellectual curiosity". So please let's try to stay around The "Hacker News" theme until we change it to something broader.
PS:"Matt, this is not personal at all. We just want to know what's for diner"
A lot of submissions were probably not considered seriously due to the previous narrow scope of this forum.

Maybe the already submitted articles list should be reset.
That's ridiculous. It's just making clear what should have been clear from the start, which is that news.yc is news for Y Combinator people, not just about their startups.

Hacker News is also much less bland. And for those hackers who don't think they're interested in startups, it's more tempting! (Muhahaha! Come, hackers, and catch the chronic startup syndrome!)
I guess the existing user mass is a big reason why changing focus instead of starting again is preferrable.

Personally, I don't care about startup news, so I didn't bother to register until now; obviously I think it's a good idea. Perhaps my opinion doesn't count?
New Keepon. Fun from legit research into rhythm of human speech patterns.
I would hope you like CenterNetworks as well and all of the other sites that provide the same as TC.
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/business/story.html...
how does one edit the original?
Adjectives such as "short" only make sense used relatively. For example, Napoleon Bonaparte is of average height relative to early 19th-century France, and short relative to 21st century France.

Similarly, with 63 pages worth of text, compared to the average web page, this link is extremely long, but, compared to the average programming-related book, this link is extremely short.
I'd imagine that it's just a race against the clock.