skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In that particular case, stripping off everything after # would have helped. In general, it's practically impossible to defend against dupes because you can just frivolously add query strings, so

http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_threa...

and

http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_threa...

aren't dupes, even though they link to the exact same page. There really isn't anything you can do about this particular case except error-prone heuristics.
"you either loved it or you thought it was the most disgusting crap you'd ever seen"

Both...
Facebook is one example where it was coded in undergrad, took off, and finally the founder switched to full time over the summer.
I got a chance to try it out just to see if a simple URL fetch was blocked:

http://helloworld-111.appspot.com/

Locally, this code reports 200 OK for all of those except the last reports a 302 redirect (to the https, I presume). As you can see, on Google, they all fail with an internal exception.

Paypal does have a universal Disallow in robots.txt, so I thought I'd setup why.gd to do the same. But it works fine.

Anyone else find any other URLs that are blocked?
Salmon is disappearing.
it was possibly one of the best nicktoons of all time! well, before Billy West took over...
Ask HN: Best "tell a friend" referral service
There seems to be a huge number of "tell a friend" referral services out there. What are your experiences with them. Is there a "best" option? Best free and best non-free?
Searching the 'Blogosphere' for Information
I think you can take it as a given that everyone hopes he's ok.
Yeah, it's a difficult problem. In this case, it was a single character that I didn't notice. I'm not even clear on how it got there (or why it wasn't on the second submission URL).

Perhaps the "solution" is to ignore query strings....how many sites use them to distinguish content anymore? Alternately...compare the content of the <head> tag on the linked page? That wouldn't be a perfect solution, but it would probably go a long way.
Yep, get ready to become good friends with coffee.
Right. Maybe sophisticated would have been a better choice of words. I just mean that it should have been obvious that they would be highly adapted and competitive, considering the ways some plants interact with specific birds and insects.
I think this is a huge piece of news, since requiring in-store activation will be a huge hindrance to the blackmarket. I guess we'll have to wait see if they release unsubsidized pricing.
very interesting. thanks for the post.
Sure, people definitely do it even though a lot of folks think it's easier to take the plunge 100%.

I built CrowdVine in the first half of 07 while doing contract jobs on the side. It was definitely hard to manage both at once, but not harder than everything else that came after it. Starting a company is hard, period.

I had slightly different options than you do since I spent six years after college working for other people, paying off debt, and building contacts that I could go to for contract work.

I'm happy I did it this way, because now the company is 100% privately owned and profitable. My major disappointment with working for other people was how much of my work went nowhere, either canceled mid-project, launched and then canceled, launched with to no traction, or launched with great traction and then abandoned. After that I couldn't stomach the idea of someone else in my business.

One thing I think is important if you bootstrap by doing side work is to have a plan for moving completely from one revenue stream to the other with no ramp-up. I did it by building a product that I could build a consulting service around. We launched with break-even revenue for two people. A lot of other people want funding, so your goal would be to build a product that can get you funded. I don't think you want to spend a lot of time with a live product and a full time job (although del.icio.us did it that way).
Google knows 897 instances at this point:

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=m...

Not that popular a phrase. I have no idea if I picked it up somewhere or just made it up on the spot, I think it was a subconscious thing.
Yes, They've sold this great idea to the developers. Including me. I'm waiting for Apple to implement. Ideas are one thing, implementations are another. And timing is important. I think it's safe to assume that these 4000 beta testers have an advantage. If you are allowed to release a product exclusively for any amount of time that is an advantage.

The iPhone App Store is free of charge to developers who choose to release free software, so I have no idea what you're complaining about. The store also lets independent developers set their own pricing. If you don't like that you can't just zap apps from iPhone to iPhone, (1) that's mainly done for safety reasons, and (2) you actually can, with the ad hoc signing mechanism discussed in WWDC keynote.

Like I said, I enjoy Apple products. I have a problem with the way they run their business. Just because the iPhone will someday be supportive to open source and sharing doesn't mean that it is now. When they finally do allow new small-time iPhone developers I will be celebrating with everyone else.
+1 to a trial period. Give it a month, collect some data, publish it, and see how things worked out.
The hash is of course for linking sections within the page, so I suspect the culprit is a link you clicked on the page itself before submitting the story. There are a couple of links with href="#" there, although they all have JavaScript event handlers that cancel the default action.

Do you have JavaScript disabled by any chance, or do you use some obscure browser?

In any case, I think HN should strip the hash and what follows for purposes of dupe detection, but keep them in the link in case someone actually wants to link to a specific spot in the page.

To answer your question: query strings ("?foo=bar&a=b&c") are widely used. Among other places, HN itself uses them. :) Also, whenever you submit a form with GET.
Better dupe filtering. There's only so much that can be done, but it would have helped in this case:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=214046
Building a Poker Bot: Part 3
Hello. I'm a lurker but I registered to make this comment, because I feel pretty strongly about it.

I can understand that the tone of the article is one that you might not want to represent Hacker News, but I think the article subject is on point and worth considering.

I have been fortunate enough to live under a rock and not follow techcrunch at all, until I started reading HN (I'm a recent reddit lurker, and as reddit continues to become digg my clicks seem to be heading elsewhere). The TC articles I've seen in the last few weeks have all been phoned-in armchair architecture drivel and whining about del.icio.us's release schedule (seriously, who cares?)

I think the upmods to the article in question here are specific backlash against TC's quality falling faster than my west coast (USA) home's value. I'd be concerned that downmods would lead to moderation warring, and that would just bring this site one intellectual hop closer to reddit (and thereby digg).

I humbly suggest waiting for HN's traffic (using the metric of your choice) to increase 20% before reconsidering downmods. If HN develops a tradition of tuesday morning "your site sucks" rants then you absolutely have my support -- but please don't react to one or a small number of articles in what could be a very permanent and culture-shifting way.
I feel your pain. Recently, I also graduated from college with a startup side project that just acquired its first customer. The last twelve months I've spent alot of time asking entrepreneurs (including a Silicon Valley VC) about what they thought, and the consensus I've gathered is make your mistakes in the first year or two with a large company rather than sink your own ship. Not sure what your internship experiences have been, but there are many non-technical skills that are valuable to have and can only be acquired through experience.

Of course, alot of this depends on your window of opportunity with this startup venture. Is speed to market and large funding critical to your success? If so, it'll be difficult to get $$$ with a full-time job on the side. On the other hand, if you're pursuing niche customers ((http://www.omnisio.com/startupschool08/david-heinemeier-hans...)) and bootstrapping your way to success , having supplemental income can be very handy.

I personally have decided to keep the dayjob for at least a year to build up some cash and learn some of the soft skills needed to be a well-rounded founder. Having less time to work doesn't mean you can't build something meaningful and useful; it just means you need to be more efficient with the time you have.

Best of luck!
It's not petty. The experiment itself is fairly boring; it's a variant of a routine genetic mapping that we've been doing since Mendel, and the form of the outcome is unsurprising.

The only thing that makes this interesting is the length of the experiment, and how it clearly illustrates a basic principle of evolution that the creationists say is impossible.

(Also, iirc, Lenski is one of the experts who testified at the Dover trial....)
MPs urge action as spooky caller ID-faking services hit UK
A pitch to find a partner/co-founder (in San Diego)
I think down votes are still a bad idea. Just one more way to game the system.
Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing

http://iic.harvard.edu/
Asynchronous Social Context
How does the software that rates the quality of stories work?
Maybe the trouble here is that REST has quite a blurry definition, at least as far as I'm aware. Whenever I try to understand what people really mean by "REST" by researching the topic, the articles I find are either so general and hand-waving that I can't tell what makes a REST interface (except that it uses the HTTP methods correctly) or my brain shuts down from buzzword overload.

That said, if anyone can point me at a description that gives some real-world examples of what actually makes a "RESTful" interface, I'd much appreciate being proven wrong.
We built NewsCred part-time for the first six months, but it ended up taking just as much time as my day job so I was effectively working 20 hour days! A couple months ago I took the leap of faith and am now 100% on NewsCred, with absolutely no regrets. Things are taking off and now I'm here to give it my all.

I would say grow it for a bit, but take the jump sooner rather than later. Life is too short to miss out on good opportunities and the fun of starting up.

Good luck - plus you have everyone here to support you. It helps!
Weeblies aren't wobbling: Launches AdSense for Dummies and Pro accounts
I'm not sure what safety standards you're referring to... certainly, cars evolved higher safety standards, but SUV's threw most of that out the window. Many (but not all) SUV's are pretty much shells bolted on to a light truck frame. They are very top-heavy, and prone to rolling, and they don't have the structural integrity of minivans and sedans - furthermore, they are built into a very stiff frame that doesn't have much give.

The net result is a car that is considerably more likely to inflict severe injury or death toward pedestrians and drivers outside the car, yet remarkably enough also reduces the safety of the people inside the car. SUVs may make people feel safe - in this sense, they are "the triumph of marketing over engineering".

If you're interested in protection, a heavy, single frame car that stays lower to the ground is probably your best bet (though you will risk some injury when and SUV hits you up high and circumvents some of your buffering, a heavy frame and a vastly lower probability of rolling will offset this for a net gain in safety). It's also preferable when your increase in safety doesn't come at the expense of people outside your car (though, like I said earlier, SUVs don't really increase safety for their occupants).
Can anyone confirm that GAE isn't just dropping SSL requests in general?
Your first question is really two questions:

1. Can you successfully grow a company that you start part-time?

2. Can you successfully grow a company while you're still part time?

The answer to the first appears to be yes: among others, this describes Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, EBay, Facebook, PlentyOfFish, Bloglines, and Del.icio.us. It almost seems like companies that do this tend to do better than the ons that jump in all the way immediately. The extra time gives you a chance to do the riskiest parts of your startup - market research and prototyping - while still under your employer's umbrella, and it's a test of your commitment. If you're passionate enough to put 4 hrs/day into your startup while still employed, you'll be in much better shape when you're not employed.

The answer to the second question appears to be no: of the list above, EBay is the only one that made enough money to support the founder at his previous salary before he quit his day job. There's just too much that needs to get done at a startup to do it all in your free time.

As for my own story - I spent 9 months working part-time on my startup before going full-time. The immediate effects seem to be that it set us back 9 months, and I have about $30k more startup capital. There're likely 2nd-order effects as well; for example, because of the 9 month delay, my cofounder got accepted to HBS before we launched and quit. OTOH, if this recession turns out to be long and deep, the delay and extra capital may mean the difference between falling down dead in the middle and making it through to the other side. And in the 9 months extra I spent at my job, I got to see my project go from "death march" to "almost done", which is good practice for when your startup starts looking an awful lot like your last employer's product.

I also shared your fear about becoming too busy and worn out from the job to pursue my entrepreneurial dreams, but this fear turned out to be overblown. You don't magically become a different person when you take a corporate job. If your startup is compelling enough to sustain you through the inevitable low points, it'll be your job that suffers (and then you just need to realize that and back out before you get fired).
good content, horrible presentation. (a fellow academic!)

Simply numbering the list (or bulleting it) would have been an enormous step forward, regardless of whether you use w3m or IE8. Even by conference-poster standards, this is pretty grim.
How safe is instant messaging?
I honestly couldn't tell you how I got to the page (or what I clicked on once I got there), but it probably involved clicking a number of links.

I had forgotten that HN was using query strings to reference articles...D'oh. By now, I figured that everyone had adopted the URL-mapping approach. Anyway, detecting collisions based on the head tag still seems like a possibility....
tc: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/10/weebly-adds-adsense-sup...
Professional real estate appraisers to Zillow: cease and desist
It's troubling that it is unlawful to publicize the results of running a regression algorithm on data that is public.
I have three separate SIMs, er, three separate phone numbers (I only use one for voice calls, though, and ...

Though this isn't the main point of the article, it resonated with me as I've always wished for phones that can take multiple SIMs at once. This would be so useful: business/personal numbers in one phone, or when abroad, simultaneously using a local and a home (roaming) SIM, etc.

Clearly, the network operators have a vested interest in discouraging you from using anything but their service, but is there a technical constraint in GSM/UMTS that prevents one phone (with 1 antenna) from logging onto multiple networks at once?
No one can really answer this for you. Can you live without a paycheck? Can your family help pay for your necessities? e.g. you could go dependent under your parents for insurance till you are 25 and unemployed.

Then after that is answered, ask yourself will your idea if delayed by 6-12 months will be executed by someone else?

My Personal experience: I graduated college 7 years ago, I have had a steady job for the past 7 years and was able to save some money. When the startup bug bit me last year, I continued to work a full-time consulting gig while working on my idea. This was a bad move on my part, because I always found myself some how busy, tired, not motivated enough to work the "night-shift". The passion was there but execution was tough to maintain at times. So I finally quit 3 weeks ago and went full-time, while dedicating 100% of my savings to my startup (I don't have that much saved up due to college loans, CC bills, and other obligations). I have enough to run me for 4 - 6 months of not needing a job..after that who knows.

BUT...the past 3 weeks have been AMAZING, working 14 hour days on just my idea is rewarding, less-tiring, fun, exciting, and it NEVER feels like 14 hours!!

So my suggestion, make sure your necessities are covered..quit..and get your idea out the door..the big corporate jobs will always be there in the future...but at least if you find yourself back there you'll have the satisfaction of knowing that you tried.
Exploiting Python’s Class Dispatcher
Fair play to Google, i think, considering PayPal/eBay block Google Checkout on eBay.
I've lived in Stockholm and I've got to say this is an amazingly good representation. It's really, really slow.

The buildings seem to rise from the ground like zombies as they're progressively rendered in more detail. Once again, way cool.
I've linked to this before and not many people seem to appreciate it, but for what it's worth:

http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=1521&redirect=seafood
Thanks to all for the insights and advice--it's definitely comforting to know I'm not alone!
Weebly adds AdSense support for drag and drop cash (including growth graph)
Toyota fuel-cell vehicle for lease in Japan (500 miles per tank)
SIGMOD Proceedings on Data Management
This isn't a small number of articles; it's a growing trend that started about four months ago.
There are a great number of articles here that should be of interest to hackers. Full text is available to ACM members (with DL subscription).
Yes.

One thing you might also try is allow the top n posters (nickb and company?) to enable downvoting on certain articles, whereupon the rest of us can pile on if we like.
Yeah, I did a little test above with another https site: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=214055
great write up. There approach and mentality thats at the heart of the value YC provides. They are pushing the ball forward with new features and nearing profitability, thats awesome all around.
Whatever you do, start saving money now. I would suggest you continue your full-time job until you have at least 6 months of living expense, more if you don't have a sound revenue model. If you haven't done so already, try to start simplifying your life and your expenses.
Investing Strategies for iPhone Customers
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.

It's a language specifically designed to make it very difficult to do anything interesting.

PHP (the language, not the implementation) has some very deep problems, in my opinion. But at least you can sketch out a rough solution, and gradually turn it into something more polished.

I think the best design is done by coding little sketches that gradually become more and more complete, and are cheap enough to throw away; not by drawing complex UML diagrams and then carefully casting them into perfect code. That's just impossible, and the result is a lot of bloated crap that is very difficult to change when (inevitably) your design changes.
Mashable sucks a lot, their posts are just derivative of whatever PR piece is sent to their email. They implemented a social network to get them more pageviews but it's now turned into a porn den.

VentureBeat started out by just reporting VC money and so on but switched. I liked him when he was with Mercury News but I haven't really been visiting his site as the other ones pretty much covers it.

Allen Stern wants to be like Michael Arrington and he's done a good job thus far. He breaks news every now and then and provides great analysis.

Silicon Alley Insider is shaping up to be a great tech news source. Topical, on point, and constantly updated.

And as much shit as Valleywag gets around these parts, they're still a top read in my book if you're an outsider in the Valley and want to pretend you fit in.
Yeah, it was intended as such :)

As I write most of my Javascript at Yahoo, and we can assume that Yahoo webdevs know Javascript, but not necessarily jQuery, YUI is a much better choice. (Just addressing the language conventions, not nec. the library implementation.)
It has a very solid definition (as
given in the original thesis http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm ). It's blurred because a lot of people latch onto the wrong things or get it wrong and spread those misconceptions.

This introduction isn't bad: http://www.infoq.com/articles/rest-introduction

In short: you have nouns and representations of nouns. You have a set of verbs that can be applied to those nouns. You discover nouns through links from other nouns. The client and the server exchange state by exchanging representations. The server doesn't need to know what the client is doing at a particular moment.
You mean matching the title tag if the pre-query-string portion of the URL matches? That could certainly work. Maybe this is something to test with xirium's latest content scrape.
Well, I don't feel like YUI tries to make JS into Java. The goal of YUI is to add some extra APIs under a single global object, and pretty much let you write your code however you want. It's a library that quietly does nothing if you don't use it, and it doesn't ask you to change how you do things.

jQuery is, of course, Javascript. John Resig didn't invent functional closures or chaining. But it seems like jQuery is designed to change the way that you write Javascript. It even says so on http://jquery.com/ It's a set of conventions, and they're not standard. I'm not saying that they're bad (in fact, I really like the jQuery style and think it's very elegant.) But there's a learning curve there, and not every javascripter is a programming language geek who would get off on learning a new style.
What I took away from the article, which I found quite helpful, was that a VC is nothing but money in the form of a walking, talking, human body. If money had a personality, that would be what a VC is. So you must cajole them into your arms and then reassure them that they are safe with you while you get as much as possible out of them. It is perhaps not by chance that a VC sounds like a mistress, since they are both forced to maximize a huge, time-sensitive asset (money, looks) while lacking any expertise.
This didn't work for me. I just changed "w" to "wb" on XP and nickb's original worked fine:

require 'open-uri'; (1..34).to_a.each{|x| open('http://www.dspguide.com/CH'+x.to_s+'.PDF'){|u| File.open("CH#{x}.PDF","wb"){|f|f.puts u.readlines}}}
Verizon, Sprint, and TWC to censor Usenet
Apple may soon be free from AT&T
Yep. Or, if you were really worried about false-positives, the contents of the entire head.
eBay are very monopolistic
It doesn't work in Safari. It appears that the WYSIWG editor doesn't work.
Just a note, you can defer student loans almost indefinitely by calling the government and explaining why you want to defer - almost any reason is good enough, so I am assuming "I am starting a company" will work.
This was a bug with our anti-phishing protections, and we are currently working on a fix:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_threa...

Thanks,
Marzia
The businesses that are now dead
Thanks a lot; I didn't know that was the way that was done (asking for a meeting with a graduate student).
We're working on full Safari 3 compatibility... You should have gotten a message when you log-in, though, letting you know that Safari doesn't quite work yet.
Thank you! I didn't know that one!