skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd suggest at that stage, forget about fishing. Women are wonderful, but nonessential, and a distraction at that stage.

If you are depressed and have difficulty connecting, focus on yourself. Go play soccer, join critical mass, go climbing, do something you enjoy (keyboards forbidden, testosterone encouraged). Take on a satisfying project at work (though not so big it overwhelms your life). Find male friends, ignore women for now. The goal is to solve your problems, and women can't do that.
"Having to write programs of that scale on systems with hundreds of processors is difficult and totally alien to the vast majority of developers out there."

Since when is writing multi threaded applications an "alien" concept. haven't preemptive multi tasking operating systems been around for decades?
The author has this named after him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%27s_criterion
Vanity Fair writer agrees to be waterboarded in a demonstration, video
hours spent working != hours spent being productive
They missed my own framework at http://code.google.com/p/barebonesmvc-php/

Pretty damn close to straight PHP I'm guessing. Am using for the webUI on an embedded device, manufactured by one fortune 100, for another.

In prior gig for a startup last Aug-Nov, they used Symfony and lost projects for 2 of the most heavily visited websites in the world. Home page took 10s if not 100s of thousands of function calls to render, I know cause I profiled them with XDebug after the fact. They laid off 1/3 of their workforce last week.
It would actually creep me out to get any other result.

For his desired outcome on the ES4 command line:

var message = "Hello";
var blah0 = function () {
var x = message;
return function () {
print(x);
}
}();
message = "World!";
var blah1 = function () {
var x = message;
return function () {
print(x);
}
}();
blah0();
>> Hello
blah1();
>> World!
The vast majority of companies, particularly ones that would like to make as much money as possible, will say "If they can do the amazing stuff in half an hour before breakfast and spend the rest of the day playing computer games, they can do the amazing stuff in half and hour before breakfast and then spend an eight-hour day doing MORE amazing stuff." Any other proposition will always be the province of idealists, philanthropists, and "lifestyle businesses."
Drobo gets dev community and SDK beta: run UPnP, BitTorrent, and any other servers you want
My 3 rules

* Be your true self

* Practice socializing everywhere you are

* Don't care what other people think
Continuous integration reduces bugs, increases productivity
Yeah, I was hoping to not have to resort to that, but I think you're right.. It's probably best to do that instead of whinging here ;)
You are a gentleman and a scholar, thank you.
Angry Businesses Organize Anti-Yelp Websites. This Is A Sure Sign Of Their Success.
This is just dumb. Who upvoted this story?

Javascript's lexical scoping and closure behavior are 100% conventional, there are no surprises here. There is only one message variable and it is referenced in both functions. Apparently the author wants the "message" assignment to work like a C macro and be evaluated at bind time, but I'm not aware of any language that has that behavior.
Doesn't help, but does give me an idea for a great icebreaker...
The 'anti-yelp websites' cited in the article are a blog with 1 post and a discussion board with 1 thread.
So it makes more sense to recreate a table than grab a screenshot? I'm all for hand-coding HTML, but I'd rather grab a quick shot than type tr, td all day long.
What a fucking amazing game for it's time. I never had so much fun playing my C64.
Although impressive, it still has a long way to go before being considered dominant.

A good question might be: why hasn't it gained more popularity over the last 5 years?
But one of the reasons we're very lucky is our engineering team has selected to use PHP as the primary development language. That allows us to use a fairly generic server type. So we, with a couple of exceptions, have three main server types and run a fairly homogeneous environment, which allows us to then consolidate our buying power.

Scary, but that's what he said. Could be why they need another $100 million for servers. ;)
It might be better to hear the same advice unpacked by someone who has been through this as a teen. 'Everyone's the same' I think most introverts assume that, but at a more cognitive level . However, these calm, analytical thoughts are swamped by a lot of frantic, emotional unthinking reaction when the moment arrives. Don't beat yourself up even more for not remembering what you knew. These are two different parts of the brain taking charge at different moments.
You can use your excessive analytical abilities to aid you.
As I grew older the introspective part got directed outward in an attempted analysis of people around me. I don't think I am good at it, but it is endlessly fascinating and also helps in gradually arriving at the realization that we are all faced with the same situations and potential embarrassment. We may not all be the same, but the situations we face often are.
Shyness may be due to a lot of different things. In my case, I realized it was a fear and an intense dislike for failure. A lot of early achievers who have been praised for their effortlessly great performances probably have the same roots for shyness. It really is a fear that you are caught out and found to be mediocre, or just like everyone else around you. This comes from internalizing the idea that your worth somehow depends on people's evaluation.
Well, that is true up to a certain extent, but again one slip-up rarely ever brands you as a wannabe.
The next time you feel your anxieties rapidly welling up, ask yourself what the worst could be. And the objective answer ,unless you are in hand-to-hand combat or being cornered in a dark alley, is it is not remotely as bad as your fears make it out to be.
Most fears often resolve to a single question that you have already answered for yourself in the negative. Don't trust you theories, trust empiricism. You'll never know for sure until you have tried.
A bit of subterfuge might help too; when paralyzed by fear, allow yourself to gloat that you are the only one even attempting what no around is daring to.
That looks nice, but $17/month for a max of 50,000 pageviews/day is a bit of sticker shock when coming from Google Analytics (and they obviously realize that, since they have a "Why would I pay for Clicky when Google Analytics offers the same thing for free?" section).
I trust you meant well, but as advice, it doesn't help, and as a joke, it makes light of something causing people pain. So I only appreciate it in the sarcastic manner of my original comment: as an example of how glib the non-shy can be when discussing shyness.
Imho, you're confusing shyness with a lack of confidence.
Go to IT Conversations and download the audio of PG's talks. There are some supremely funny laugh lines.

From memory:

At our startup we had Robert Morris working as a system administrator... incidentally, we also had him in charge of security. Our clients would ask about our security and we'd say 'Don't worry; we've got an expert in charge'...

PG's humor is often subtle. (If you didn't see the humor in that last quote, go google "morris worm".) He tends toward the sly, rather than the slapstick. And he's fond of jokes that, when examined closely for a second time, or when reduced to print on a page, turn out to have a lot of truth in them. But I'd never describe him as a poker-faced guy.
Anyone who says "Nothing could persuade me to do X" is just showing a lack of imagination.
Founder & Chairman but not CEO?  
I'm the founder of my startup but hired an outside CEO. I'm about to have my first post Series A board meeting and I'm not sure about my role in the meeting. Any advice?
Wow, that makes me nervous just reading it.
They go hand-in-hand, and are almost inseparable.
The human factor in social media trends
Unregulated ≠ unreliable, as anyone who has ever chosen between the Post Office and Fedex can tell you.
While I want to believe that, I think that there will always be a place for mediocre programmers, and the factors that make mediocre programmers better or worse have roughly the same effect on great programmers.

It IS, however, great news for great languages. Our existing set of programming languages are great for abstracting away the nuts and bolts of registers and processor commands, but not so great for making it straightforward for programming on a cluster instead of a single processor.

Long live Erlang! :)
YouTube and the simple economics of optimal bandwidth usage.
Oh man that thread is a riot! Half of it I don't understand and the other half is like watching a nerd version of Ultimate Fighting Championship, only with pocket protectors. Do we still get threads with over 150 comments anymore? There should be a YC Classics thread list, because that definitely qualifies.
I second. If you're going to pay for an MBA, do it in person.
What's more important, 5 million impressions or 5 million relationships?
this is like the 20th time I've mentioned this on HN, but...I've gone with leaseweb, vectoral, ovh, layeredtech and softlayer. they're all pretty decent (but honestly, don't expect much in terms of support of any kind). you should choose depending on the location you prefer and how much you're willing to pay.
If you go to the right MBA school you can get hooked up with investors. CMU has a "meet the VCs class" and it's one of the best ways to meet the illusive Pittsburgh investors. I don't think you will get the same connection at an online school.
Reddit, Stumbleupon, Del.icio.us and Hacker News Algorithms Exposed
You're right. We didn't give up 6% of the company --- one year in, the equivalent of 4-8 rock star employees, or a CEO --- in exchange for what a single developer bills out in 2-3 weeks. We therefore do not meet Colin Percival's stringent standards. I see now that "startup" is actually a handicap measure, and not a description of a business ethic.

By the way, we launched product today. Obviously, we don't much give a shit about our website at the moment; our "real" website is the blog.
What I think is, Chicago people should be getting lunch together on a regular basis. Getting drinks once a month worked beautifully --- www.sockpuppet.org/chisec, this is ~30-40 people reliably --- let's set something up for the middle of the day.

Our office is upstairs from the best coffee shop in the loop, and I'll happily buy anyone who comments on HN coffee any time. My contact info's in my profile.
Ask Anyvite: Did you rename your site to get more press?
TechCrunch's supposed policy of not covering a site unless they cover the launch comes to mind. I'm not saying I disapprove, I'm just wondering.
Read "The Game" and then "The Mystery Method." Seriously. And I think its not too much to say that there are side benefits besides becoming less shy after reading them.
Twitter vs Plurk
(Obviously, I mean, as a half-measure before extending a full-time offer. If a company suggested that Matasano consult for them, we'd thank them and then make it happen.)
Do they freeze you out if you're making money for them, too? Let's say I am consistently good at predicting one-month 20% declines in the value of WoW gold. And I invest, say, $100 in gold on a 5% commission, and cash out with that same 5% commission. If I'm making them money (often), why would they give me a reason to switch to a different broker? Is $100 now really better than $10/month?
They didn't just rename it. They changed a lot.

It's not true in any case that TC will only cover a site if they cover the launch.
Work 80+ hours, get no exercise, put on weight, have no friends or a social life? You'll wake up at 30 and realize you are getting old and wasted the best years of your life for ideas that didn't make you rich.
Could you elaborate on this? It sounds a bit far-fetched that Symfony (a PHP framework) would solely be responsible for losing a company 2 huge contracts and laying off 1/3 of their workforce. 10s of thousands of function calls for a home page? What did the home page do?

I personally have been very impressed by Symfony (version 1.1 was just released this week so it sounds like your experience was with version 1.0 or a beta version), the Symfony community, the IRC channel and the documentation (a full print version book which is really well-written with all of the contents available online for free as well). In the few benchmarks I've seen that actually bothered to include Symfony, it seems to measure up quite well.

Symfony powers Yahoo! Bookmarks, Yahoo! Answers and at least some portion of Delicious, by the way.

(Sorry to jump in with a first post questioning what you've said, but I would like to understand better what your experience was in order to be aware of potential pitfalls that may be lurking around the bend for me.)
Paul is a really awesome guy in person when you meet him.
from looking at that ranking table, it looks like all of them started out with 1000 positives
pretty tough sounding people. I bet if you gave them the choice between paying for dial-up or getting free broadband, they'd choose to pay, because they are that tough.

I understand if people can't afford it or cant get access, but come on, when aunt susie emails all those pics, these people don't think there is a better way?
Assorted improvements to News.YC
Confidence is like a roller coaster: lots of highs and lows. The few times I hit the highs (for reasons that make sense only to Moi) I am still shy.

I believe we are shy because we make too many assumptions and judgments about our surroundings. And most of the time those are totally wrong.
So once a non-spam/troll comment has been downvoted, a nonupvote is enough to signal agreement?
The #1 guy on the leaderboard submitted this? Makes me think he's using a submit-bot.
Who cares, anyvite rocks. I've been a hardcore evite user for a long time, organizing 100+ people events with it.

Not anymore!
I can vote again!
Not only that but NeXT computer's display model was based on PostScript. Apple moved on to PDF once Adobe released the specs.
Why do the shyness articles belong here?
Because many hackers are shy? Isn't this for self-healing.reddit.com or something?
Nice. Any comment on what was changed to keep comments from timing out for a half hour?
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When you least expect it.
Early Retirement is a False Idol
Once it's been downvoted to what seems a sufficiently low score, yes.
Is this a comment or a thread?
By the way, I was shy until taking theatre classes and taking part in a real-world (not in high school or college or anything) play.

Then again, it could be a schizoid personality disorder undoing itself; it was about the age the frontal cortax finishes maturing -- that's why if you don't get schizophrenic by 17-22 you probably won't. I didn't, so schizoid features phased out.
I haven't tested it out yet, but according to RRW, it does have Jabber integration: http://tinyurl.com/3r7s9o
I know nothing about programming for mobile devices so I'm not sure how easy / difficult SMS would be for them to accomplish. But, being open source, a strong API is inevitable as long as they can get people to contribute.
Actually, I'm whining.
Functional Programming in...Ada?
Neil Young’s answer to iTunes
Being shy is a terrible trait for a founder to have because networking is extremely important. A large amount of very technical people also end up being shy, so in my humble opinion, it is very relevant.
But then you also need the users if it's to be a successful communication tool.

I don't know, call me a skeptic but I think half of these clones are destined to fall on their face and the other half are destined to fade into obscurity.

There needs to be a compelling reason to switch from Twitter to this app/platform. And I'm not sure being Open Source or requiring posts to be under a "free" license is enough.
Ask YC: Why not charge for downvotes?
Please don't downvote comments that are only mildly mistaken or disagreeable to scores as low as -10. That kind of score should only be for spams and trolls.

Why not charge for downvotes? Make downvoting cost a tiny sliver of karma. Or perhaps make it a statistical model: with every downvote, there is a small chance you will lose 1 karma point.

People who strongly disagree with something will still downvote, but if something you hate is already -5, why pile on? You'll save your downvotes for things closer to zero.
This article has some good advice on the 'how' part of working with Indian software developers. Regarding the 'whom' part, really it is the same as everywhere, find good developers.

I happen to know the Indian folks whom the author got on board his firm. They actually are 'very' good, and i guess that is the primary reason why the author is so happy at having it all figured out.

The point that is a bit off the mark in the article is:

Because of the fairly fluid and competitive labor market in the IT world in India right now,
many Indian employers don’t allow their developers to blog or make contributions to open-source,
for fear of losing them to competitors who might contact them directly

I am yet to hear of any employers here not allowing open source contributions per se. I guess one of the reasons for not having as many open source contributions/technical blogs from India (sadly) is that most of the business is still 'services' and people are jammed up with unrealistic schedules (committed by their firms). Also majority of the work is Java/.NET enterprisey stuff that is not too encouraging for the people to put more efforts back in to 'that' ecosystem.
Another is to gray down comments with negative scores to near invisibility, in the hope that this will cause downvotes to tail off.

I'm not sure how long this has been going on but it's really annoying. I end up having to highlight the text to read it. The methods of hiding unpopular comments that Reddit and Digg use are much better because they provide the option to view the comment unobstructed if desired.
Actually, no, it says on the source page that it is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License Version 3.0, which is significantly different than GPLv3. So much so that it even has a different name.

What's wrong with free software, anyway?
At least two answers to your question:

1) He authored http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%27s_criterion

2) I believe some theorists have already looked at it and I haven't heard anything negative [disclaimer: I'm far from an expert and wouldn't be able to even agree or disagree with their analyses].
State of US Broadband: Demand Hits Speed Bumps
Ask HN: Press Release Effectiveness? Advice?
Hey,

I'm considering on issuing a press release for a web-app I launched last week. I'm curious to hear everyones opinion on the effectiveness of press releases and prehaps what to expect upon issuing one. Can anyone suggest a service, maybe a free one, any of tips might help? Etc..

Thanks,
Mike
try "use of weapons" and "excession". imho they are much much nicer than "consider phlebas".
Then there's no incentive to downvote at all. I know I'll stop downvoting (and I rarely do it) to protect my Karma. You're not trying to decrease downvoting, you're trying to have downvoting occur for the right reasons. Dismal idea.

At least you tried, though.
I think the voting problem is a serious one. Apparently, only a minority of readers and posters vote and they seem to have a gang mentality that works like this: "If I don't like you, I'll vote you down regardless of what you write." This sucks the big one.

The same problem is happening on every site where voting is allowed. There is usually a loud, highly emotional and political minority with a lot of time on their hands that invariably takes over and impose a fascist dictatorship on the rest of the community. Digg, Slashdot and Wikipedia are cases in point. I wish there was a way to motivate a greater percentage of readers to take part in the voting process.

Another problem is that a lot of people receive updates via RSS news readers and I suspect that most go directly to the link and rarely check the comments or attempt to vote. YC needs a way to entice people to visit the site and incorporate the number of times a link is clicked to the formula that computes the popularity value of the story. Just one man's opinion.
Great list, yo. I especially like #1. Hadn't thought about it, but I bet it would work.
The only one I've read from your list is The Cyberiad - but that's enough to make me take the rest of your list seriously :)
Time will laugh at them. Time, the original gangsta, will change their ways.
It's like 37signals is writing blog posts to specifically reply to news.yc posts...
This is a bad idea for a startup. Anyone can run 'strings' on a flash file and index it. And your website isn't very good either. So all in all, I would say you should spend your time doing something that would take more than 20 minutes to copy. (Look up "barriers to entry")
Well it will be interesting but when T.V. goes heavily IPTV and original programming starts coming out online first (see Seth MacFarlane Google deal) then that will drive more people to broadband. The only problem is the cable companies don't actually want that and they provide the broadband. Interesting catch-22.
When was the last time you were influenced by, or even read, a press release about a newly launched web app?
It does seem like 37signals is responding to HN...

Anyway. If done right; Work is a hobby that makes you money, and a hobby is work that costs you money. Why retire when you can make money working on a hobby?
It seems the coincidence started happening after DHH spoke at Startup School.
fubar did exactly this to great effect.
http://www.webguild.org/2008/03/social-networking-report-hij...
Never, I've just read so many time over and over again that it's smart to do. Thought I'd ask..
Broadband and ISP's services have always been a paradox to me. I feel like the infrastructure is ideally intended to move the price of bandwidth to zero while increasing capacity. That's what almost all other computing technologies have been doing: Processors, memory, hard drives. Batteries less so.

Long-distance 100mbps connections have been common place for a lot more than a decade and I feel that it's counter-intuitive that broadband hasn't changed in speed in safely over 5 years, while we are receiving (or finally realizing) more restrictions on use.

With internet becoming more expensive and restricted, [RM]IAA becoming more aggressive and SMS prices going up, I feel like I am witnessing de-evolution.
Well, yeah, an entrepreneur can't be shy. Then again, if that was the only personality change one needs to turn from recluse self-proclaimed technical genius to successful entrepreneur, there would be entrepreneurial psychotherapies. But wouldn't the psychotherapists get rich themselves and not be psychotherapists? more nonsense rambling here

You do need a marketing person, no matter how much of a maverick extrovert you are. Marketing is not one of the high arts, but it isn't trivial, and distracts you from focusing on kicking ass. Get a marketing person.

Full disclosure: I'm far from being a marketing person. I'm in a consultancy firm working as an econometrician (that's a type of statistician common in this field). I'm the technical guy in a franz ferdinand t-shirt and dorky converse sneakers.
He doesn't even last 30 seconds. Horrifying.
an entrepreneur can't be shy

He can as long as he has a cofounder who isn't.
Oh. Another way to attack shyness: go to nightclubs where people dance and drink. Don't drink anything. Spend countless awkward saturday nights doing that. It beats spending'em reading pop psychology.