skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me I noticed the flag button for the first time when I reached around 150 karma points.
I think Schneier didn't actually see Speed. I haven't either, and from what I hear I'm better off without it.
If you're using a social network to build an email list, or to amass as many people as possible for some purpose, that's probably what Facebook objected to. There are other ways to build email/contact lists.

I didn't say it was not the way they should use it, it just seems like this is probably the issue...
Jsonpickle: turn any python object into JSON
Cocoa on the web: 280 North, Objective-J, and Cappuccino
When I'm on my death bed, not having learned enough physics will be my greatest regret. I hope.
The vast majority of web sites that allow sign ups will prevent you from joining with an existing email address.

Almost none of them limit the number of times you can try to sign up. Obviously from a security perspective it's probably a good idea to limit this. In practice though, who's really been bitten by this problem?

The search space for valid email addresses is super large. There are much easier ways to get lists of valid email addresses. The most useful thing you could learn (I think) is that an email address you already know is in their database. But, that would be possible even if you were limited to a small number of attempts.
Feynman apparently said "If you think you understand quantum theory, you don't understand quantum theory", so I don't even bother with the physics-for-laymen books out there.
Yahoo Reorganizes in Strategy Shift
maybe the right formula is actually

cat email_attachments | tumblr > posterous
I thought it was insightful. Take documents. You start with editing a document. It's all about snapshots of a document. Then you want collaboration on the document. Then you want an audit trail showing who changed what. Then you want an RSS feed of ongoing changes to the document.

Pretty soon, you are more interested in the feed than the snapshot.
Orbitz Open Sources Monitoring Tools ERMA and Graphite
It is embarrassing to have to admit that I'm only halfway through a book as compact as JavaScript: The Good Parts. But so far it is a very good book.

http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockfor...
What I found life changing about the Hyperion Cantos, you mean? Well... the story line itself. I didn't identify a lot with specific characters; there was a process much larger than all their little lives unfolding, that they were caught up in.

Fundamentally it works just like any fiction: it starts by capturing your imagination, perhaps moving into your mind and emotions. If it's really good, it can touch even deeper than that.

Hyperion did that to me. And I don't know the mechanism. After reading it, my world was just bigger. Tremendously so. And I mean the real life world, not just the world of imagination and emotion we all go in to when reading great fiction. [ed: nonfiction too.] Something about it forever changed how I move through the world, how I treat myself and others, even my goals for this lifetime. Call it inspiration.

It's the same with all the other books on my list. That's why I put them there.
Maybe he has finished a working prototype and is looking to be out of money to pay the rent in a few months?
You probably do get it but because it sounds so strange your brain has rejected it. Really.
Sony Announces Strategy on Electronics and Video Downloading
Ask HN:  The Secret Sauce of Angel Investment?
I am a single founder who has put a lot of work into the product that I have.

Joining up with a YC type system wasn't going to happen for me for various reasons so I instead sought after some small investment money from individuals and that has worked for me. I am about to close another round and I wanted to share the document I used this time and the formula that I believe will work for people like myself:

The Formula:

1. Create a version that works good enough,
2. Add users, even if it is for free.
3. Continue to enhance the software,
4 Once you have some traction, find people who see the vision to invest in that vision

Once you have a strong product you can find people who believe in it and in you since you are the one who created the product. Your product lends you credibility.

I found myself needing more resources to get to the next step, which is to finish the programming for a vertical market on the officezilla.com system. I have been working too much to pay the bills and I needed some room to maneuver so I was stuck with selling off another 5% which will leave me with 90% of the company.

Here is the document I used to close the last amount I needed... I had a hard time with OpenOffice on the formatting and my grammer isn't great... but people tend to focus on the strengths of the system and not your grammer if your dealing with the right person.

The document:
http://www.officezilla.com/officezilla2008.pdf

For the single founders out there, I am not nearly as smart as most of the people on HN but regardless if you have passion and don't give up you will be successful. I am not quite there yet, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and it is really pulling me forward.

Funding from a "VC" is next to impossible but there is money out there from angel investors, people who see your vision and like your product.
My strategy is to completely ignore my heroes, so I don't freak them out by revealing myself as a fan boy, and then hope they come and chat with me first.

How is it working, pg? Are we BFF yet?
This is essentially like the patronage movement Giles talked about in one of his talks, eh?

Cool idea, good luck!
Please force wrapping to the width of the page.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=228233
We run a small specialized storage company and the things that seem to matter most are: storage capacity, availability, reliability, transfer rates for both current data usage and new data addition.

40Tb can be handled pretty well by S3 and other storage services and they have pretty good pricing information to model your costs. Note that they don't (yet) provide very specific SLA's for data availability, so keep that in mind when designing your system.

Maintaining your own drives with some sort of redundancy (RAID, automatic copies, etc.) or using something like (bias alert) our open-source project http://allmydata.org which is effectively a software RAID layer both require some IT and systems energy, so this has to be bundled into your operational costs if you choose that route.

Just to emphasize what others have mentioned, it is important to incorporate the new data influx rate into your model. If you are successful, 40Tb this year might turn to 120Tb next year, so make sure that your cashflow model can support the underlying cost of whatever system you choose.
How to prevent the entrepreneurial burnout
Amusing screenshots. It seems that the bigger the monitor you give people, the more space they waste. I can't believe that people still want to manage the position and size of their windows.
It comes down to two questions in my mind.

1. Is there a time to market issue with either project?
In other words can your project be put on hold and still be viable if you come back to it in 6 months or a year? What about their project?

2. There is the question of control?
Do you want to control your own destiny or not? If you do you stick to your own project if you are okay with seeding control of some of your future directly to others you have to consider what they are selling

Once you answer those two questions the choice should be self evident.
OBD: Obsessive Branding Disorder: The Illusion of Business and the Business of Illusion
Image optimization - 7 mistakes
Win an iPhone 3G for a cool integration
Clickpass enables Hotmail, Yahoo, Google and Facebook through OpenID
Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100M plus
The article clearly states that the investors did understand the risk. The folks who were most hurt were the newly-hired employees who had just quit their previous job to join Geosign.
My guess is most traffic will stay at the current TLDs

I think that's right. The mitigating factor here is that Prometheus' observation:

Actually, doesn't the existence of TLDs seem arbitrary, too? Why end every URL with .SomeString?

...is a pretty good description of the de facto situation today. Basically, there is only one important TLD - .com - and both surfers and browsers are happy to pretend that it's unnecessary. If you own a domain with any other TLD, it requires people to remember a meaningless suffix, and/or the placement of a meaningless dot inside your name. ("deli.cious? del.ic.ious? delic.io.us? What the hell was that, again?") The result is marketing poison, and nobody recommends it.

This ICANN decision is bad, but I think the main effect will be to further amplify the value of .com domains (the ones which don't require you to remember a now entirely arbitrary TLD). And/or it will further cement Google's lock on the first five seconds of any web-surfing expedition (as if they needed it).

The only danger is that we will wake up one day and discover that typing "zyzygy" into a browser redirects you somewhere other than zyzygy.com. If that happens than we'll know that ICANN has succeeded in setting off the biggest land-grab stampede in the history of the world, the cybersquatters will die of ecstacy, and I will want to kick something.
Get Ready for Limitless Domain Names
does it pay as much as being a real EIR?
Where did you get your law degree? I hope you specialized in trademarks! ;)
Either Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is over-rated, or I do not get it at all. Read it for a second time two months ago, and could not see why it is so famous. It is a good book, do not get me wrong.
I'm In Like With You raises $1.5 million, plans to use it all to hold a big party
Google Employees Press 14 Buttons to Operate Their Toilets.
I agree, for what it's worth. Fear is an essential component to the mix.

One thing I'd add -- building something people want isn't a silver bullet. Building something people want enough that there's value generated is. Mixing that up, which is way, way too often done on this site, is fatal.
i got my octo-core macpro machine with 16gb ram (ram from http://www.macsales.com/) the day i got back from apple wwdc07.

developing everything you ever wanted to develop on virtual machines from one physical machine (with a few terabytes of disk space) on leopard (spaces ftw) has been one of the biggest boons of my development career. with that kind of ram you can spin up an webdev stack and mix and match pieces all day long.
This isn't a bad idea. I think I'll actually use this.
about time. probably hadoop/hdfs based, storage wise.
I'd rather the site was called something obvious, like "gamerdex.com". Noob isn't only a gaming term. Seeing it doesn't instantly make me think gaming.

A tag line at the very top of the first page would help too. For example, "Gamers organzing and communicating," like someone suggested above, right at the top.
The age of unreason - Charles Handy
Why do you like it so much?
LinkedIn cache their social graph in memory, I'd imagine if you were developing on that you'd want a significant subset of it to test on

http://hurvitz.org/blog/2008/06/linkedin-architecture
The Meaning of Bill Gates
I went to clickpass.com, selected "log in using my Google account", entered the password at the google page I was bounced to, and now see:

"Warning! This website is registered with Google to make authorization requests, but has not been configured to send requests securely. We recommend that you continue the process only if you trust the following destination"

Seems like if you're going to make a business out of this, splatting a big warning like that in front of your users may be something worth fixing.
Sure, but anyone with a couple of hours to spend on the Internet can find out what is in line with what's known about cognitive development (certainly more than a few threads at HN will provide). Since it was directed at cperciva specifically, there seems to be a desire to get something more than just knowledge. Permission, maybe? I dunno.

I just found the question interesting. And it's a common phenomenon. Musicians, for example, even not particularly gifted ones, get this kind of question pretty frequently--"can adults really learn to be good musicians?", "it just comes naturally to you, right?", etc. Humans have funny logic sometimes, I guess, including the people on the receiving end of the questions.
Paper books are instantly interactive. When I flip to a page, I see immediate results. When I'm flipping big chunks of pages, casually implementing binary search to get to a particular page, I get instant results. E-ink sucks because you have to wait for results. Immediacy actually makes the tiny iPhone screen better than e-ink!
I would imagine the biggest hit is B. If you're developing search functionality or other features that work against the social graph then you'll probably need to get a large chunk of that into memory.

I've worked on a couple of non-trivial web apps, but nothing even close to linked in and 4gb was a necessity at times.
Most of us don't get epiphanies. We only get a whisper -- a faint urge. That's it. That's the call. It's up to you to do the work of discovery, to connect it to an answer.

Of course, there's never a single right answer. At some point, it feels right enough that you choose, and the energy formerly spent casting about is now devoted to making your choice fruitful.

Pearls of wisdom summed up nicely.
You are extremely impressive. We need 1,000 more hacker founders like this. This is, incidentally, exactly what Paul Hawken says he did for Smith and Hawken in "Growing a Business".
Perhaps the title should be "Get Ready for Limitless Domain Names! ...Assuming You Have Limitless Cash"?

$100,000 to half a million per name, says the article. Yeah, I'm not getting one of those any time soon.
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

Read it for free here. http://www.kuro5hin.org/prime-intellect/
You would be amazed at how much time I have spent trying to remove that warning. But yes, I will fix it!

Here is my question regarding the issue on google groups, just in case any of you have an idea: http://groups.google.com/group/google-help-dataapi/browse_th...

I think I am just going to write a python script to do it instead.
By the way, the comment from Aaron G on the original article is right on: Don't think you've got better security than Mensa if you're using MD5 to hash your users' password -- you should be using something along the lines of bcrypt.

http://openwall.com/phpass/
You laugh, but I thought Speed was a pretty good movie for as long as the bus was running. It was oddly compelling. There is something to be said for momentum in storytelling. You can bridge amazingly large gaps of logic if you just keep the plot moving.

Before the bus is running the movie is completely unmemorable, and after the bus stops running the movie falls apart and starts to suck. Which is pretty ironic.
Don't worry Live search will still be awful. Congrats to the Powerset team though.
I haven't seen any convincing use case for Powerset over Google. Is the acquisition just a talent grab by Microsoft? $100MM sounds too high for that.
Why doesn't anyone ever talk about distributed caches? Is it really necessary to hit the database for all data? Perhaps I'm confused...
From the ICANN's perspective:

1. Announce that URL's can now contain different TLD's
2. Make sure the people buying them have at least $100,00 to half a million, if so, let 'em register!
3. Profit!
The dry IPO market is creating demand for alternate liquidity
Google's Open Source Android OS Will Free the Wireless Web
Those very vocal Ruby people who are the de facto face of Powerset developers (KirinDave et al.) will apparently be Microsofties now.

Run, guys! Run for the Bay Area/Valley!
I can't count the number of times I've read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Gain new insights every single time I read it.
Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever
46 days ago, I posted this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=186752
>You can bridge amazingly large gaps of logic if you just keep the plot moving.

I seem to remember the bus leaping an amazingly large gap in a bridge at one point, if that's what you mean. ;)
Think about it this way:

Powerset only indexed wikipedia. Why? Probably b/c scaling is somewhat hard. Microsoft can help with that, and if there are any short-term gains to using some of Powerset's technology on msn search, all the better.

Also, as the article points out, $100M is a bargain.
I know what you mean about the "locking the doors" bit. Our minivan locked our toddler in once (he was in his carseat), and we had to call 911 and get the firemen to break in.
Like KK, I recommend Gandhi's book. Hell, I recommend the title.

The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Gandhi didn't outsource the pursuit of truth. He thought it was too important. It was a job that would be poorly done if left to the authorities religious, political, or scientific. Just like good hackers know software is too important to leave to someone else.

Gandhi also made it obvious that I could apply a rigid filter to books. Read authors who, 1. Reason soundly with the reader, and 2. Have led significantly, uncommonly, fruitful lives. The sample size of humanity seems to have gotten large enough to where you can find someone who meets both criteria so I'm done settling for less.

I like the brand of epistemology that says, variously, that the more true things you believe, the better you can harmonize with, hack, pwn, reality. So I perk up now when I find someone peacefully liberating a country or figuring out how to do a startup while 'being good,' and hope that they've written about it.

So if you'd like to read a book by a social, physical, and metaphysical scientist, who (judging from what he accomplished) collected a lot of knowledge and hacked the system good, read this book.

But don't take my word for it.
I can't believe that PR startup actually got bought. MS Office is in the process of crashing down, their OS is a zombie, and they leave a negative impression in the minds of many smart developers. MSFT is worthless.
I wonder what connection, if any, this has with their acquisition of FAST Search & Transfer. FAST has always been relatively weak on the semantic side, but the technology stack is completely different from what I imagine Powerset is running (they're java & python).
I think I have this same problem when I become infatuated with a girl.
must...resist...temptation!...
PG: "sell"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=186487

congrats @KirinDave : http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=KirinDave
Hum... tell that to the non-programmer Steve Jobs (who doesn´t have a MBA either).
Ruby with MSFT makes sense just as Python with Google makes sense. ;)
Is there any reason why Clickpass is _better_ than the solution of choosing a base password and then simply modifying that based on the websites I visit?

For example, "computer" is my base password, and for [f]aceboo[k] it would be "computer-fk". This isn't how I do it, of course, but it's a similar process that only requires me to memorize one password and take 5 extra seconds to tack on any additional characters.

If someone can justify the number of privacy issues -- and let's be honest here, any determined and skilled hacker WILL compromise these high-value systems -- over my few extra seconds I will glady sign up for Clickpass.

Edit: And just to clarify, I'm not trying to knock Clickpass here, I'm seriously asking about what is the real benefit of this system over mine.
The good news is that, if we find that it's possible for a civilization like ours to build a machine that can destroy the universe, we'll finally shed some light on that pesky Fermi Paradox.

Perhaps I should print up some T-shirts for the occasion: "Humanity: We're Number One!"
The Choice of Work
Well, this is one way of getting low-cost tech support for your civic network.
Nicely designed and the idea / usefulness is communicated well. Lack of registration requirement is cool. But doesn't tumblr allow posting via email?
I think this can be summed up easily as just treat the person like a human. Even humans accomplish great things sometimes. These heroes even worship other people and the more calm you are, the more respectful you will often come off as. I observe this in Guido when he talks about Django. Guido is obviously a very capable guy and he talks admirably about Django without dropping into fanboyism.

Perhaps the real lesson is to pretend the person is your equal, which they probably could be, and let it go from there. They'll appreciate it. If they don't, well, you should probably stay away from that maniacal maniac.
If you trust popular wisdom, you surely will not regret not working enough.

Carpe Diem.
Crude Oil at a fresh high of $140
A battle of ideas is going on inside your mind
I've read that a few times. Can't say that I found it particularly life changing, but it was a good read. I really enjoyed the 'death jockey' cult that tried to game the system and beat Asimov's three laws. Bonus points for being free.
You're right; sorry, wrong essay. The other one, by the same guy, addressing that point:

http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/523.html
Ahh, this is the basis for part of my favorite pg essay, "Good and Bad Procrastination".

http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.html

pg condensed Hammings 3 questions into one:

What's the best thing you could be working on, and why aren't you?

I haven't used a "to do list" since. I keep working on my most important thing and when I'm done, I just pop the stack. What a difference.
Great post. you followed some important start-up rules:

(1) get a prototype or "good enough" version out early and be prepared to iterate

(2) hit a milestone that impresses investors before raising funds. measurable customer traction is an impressive milestone

(3) only raise money when you need it, and make sure to raise enough to safely hit the next milestone that will impress investors
Oh boy, I can now search through Wikipedia to my heart's content at Live.com
Hi Kirse, The value with Clickpass is not just in its privacy and security but how easy it makes it to sign up for a site.

We've found that most people don't want to have to use any password anywhere so we're concentrating on making sure they can get on with what they need to do without doing so and that doing that is easy for a site to support - Peter Nixey (Clickpass co-founder)
The iPhone and Other Transparent Devices
I kind of agree with you, I tried Clickpass for HN and it wouldn't log me in. I don't know if I fumbled something up during the registration, but I went back to having my browser remember my password.

Also, wasn't the original intention with open id to host it on your own server? (Edit: I'm not saying that hosting it on your own server is any better/ worse, I just wanted to clarify this.)

All things said, congrats to Clickpass, this is a big step.
The first firefox extension you should install - without Question.
Report: Microsoft Buying Would-Be Google-Killer Powerset For $100M
Yes, it opens up new territory and devalues squatters, but only for a short while. After companies and squatters grab the new URLs they want, the situation will be the same as it is right now, except we'll have many more domain registrations pointing to the same amount of content.

And don't expect the price tag to maintain sanity... The ICANN will gradually lower that over time to increase revenue, just as they have with regular domains, and just as they are doing right now by making TLDs available.
I just read the whole article then came here for comments... I wish I had just started with the comments. Perfect summary.
What is a Pro Version?

"Finish “Pro” version. This is simply the current offering but with the menu moved to the top so
space is freed on the width of the page for more user data. New features would go to Pro
version users and not to Free version users. Eventually the pro version features would be
very compelling."

Congrats on funding.