skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you both. This question pertains to both my resume and the (hopefully) the subsequent interview. This is for an actual job with the VC, not a pitch for VC money.

Re: resume, I'm searching for how to phrase/summarize my experience and accomplishments without it looking like a bunch of fluff and/or irrelevant data.
Quick disclaimer: I am not a tax professional; please always consult your own professional help.

I don't want to sound like I'm lying, so I'll provide a very benign example of the "common, legal, and IRS sanctioned" income streams,

Let's suppose that I have a house that's paid off. Instead of selling it and incurring all sorts of taxes, why don't I:
1) take out a mortgage against it
2) rent it out

The mortgage is not really income, according to the IRS, but a valid business expense. By renting it out, I get the tenants to pay back the mortgage for me.
The software looks cool and spotlights some of the deficiencies of iOS and the iPad, particularly around multitasking, integration and notification. But it's a complete bummer that they didn't give the price or battery life and availability was just "summer" for wifi and "later" for 3G. The fact that there is no 64 GB model reinforces my fears that it won't be price competitive.

The Touchpad could be lapped by the upcoming iPad 2 before it even reaches any users. The iPad needs strong competition but this is not looking promising.
at 24 you have a lot less filters I guess.
Is anybody else thinking "Manchurian candidate"? I mean if he decides to go with Windows phone 7.
That's how web pages were back in 1991, and how they should look again in the future: just plain raw content and links, no frills and graphic fluff.
Most of the Convore commentary is in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2198517
@jboutelle makes some good points, especially wrt deal making. I'd definitely focus on that side of your past experience. Do you have any experience outside of bootstrapping?
Rubber duck debugging and how we got 2500% improvement
two words: nice beard
Congrats Gagan, Neel, and the rest of the Chirply team!
The point is, it's small enough that girls will want it because it will fit in their pockets.
Pay attention people. This video is already on the front page. Stop blindly voting stuff up.
Or you can hardcode them using CoffeeScript's heredoc syntax.
Been using it for a couple months. Love it. I was using Postbox before, which was really nice but a little slow on my laptop.

I did switch back to Postbox after my first try with Sparrow, but I was sold when they added command-enter to send and the ability to remove the app icon from the dock. I wish Tweetie allowed menubar-only mode like that.
I have a huge contract that I am working that has a fixed dead line. At one point I was getting 3 hrs sleep a night. I also suffer from insomnia so it is easy for me to just keep going.

Anyways long story short, I ended up in the ER with heart issues from lack of sleep, this article is kind of timely given that I am dealing with heart related issues due to lack of sleep. It is very applicable to us that think one more hour will put me ahead of the game, when the reality is it can set you back much further.
>>I'd like to see more thought going into "helping people live better lives while living in balance with nature"<<

Nature is inherently unbalanced:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_nature#Counter-argum...

For instance, the biosphere has managed to royally mess itself up at least once:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event

(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth#During_the_froze... for some of the effects)
HN is my favorite site, what a wonderful community.
PG: thank you for putting it together.

However, the site is not fast, seriously, a site that's so simple containing just a few text should be blazingly fast. It does not take too much science to reach this goal.

I understand that it can be interesting running it via an Arc program, but you hit millions of page views, and there are people that are using this site every day to get together, to share their knowledge, and so forth, and it's a shame that there is to wait too much at every page view.
So after the event it seems it's now

1. We don't know yet

2. Yes, it looks really nice on a tablet size device

3. According to the demo it is (although an independent review would be better)

4. "This summer", or "No, it won't".

4 is the real bummer for me. Again the Pre-alike "We got something cool, _wait for it_" attitude..
Miles per Milisecond, a Look at the WonderProxy Network
yes, they do, but it's limited, meaning there are a lot of applications that don't show up in their markets.
In other words, China has much the same problems as the West and much the same successes. I posted in response to the statement "Much better then it's neighbors and also the West."

My point about foot-binding might have been off-topic, actually; I was trying to demonstrate that both cultures have, err, regrets about gender inequality in the past.
FYI: no, actually we are a hybrid search eninge. We have our own crawling and indexing that is merged with about 15 external APIs.
Not always true, According to WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2011/02/07/depressing-chart-... "Through the close of trading Monday, the investors in 7-10 year Treasurys would have seen a return of 76% percent over the last 10 years, versus a return of 17.4% for stocks. So you could have socked your money in supersafe U.S. Treasurys and reaped a risk-free 80% gain. "
yes, i was referring to the ability to manage all communications from within gmail. i rely on email, gchat, and google voice to communicate with the world, all from 1 browser tab.
I basically agree with the analysis, that technology makes human material progress potentially sustainable well beyond our current numbers.

Our biggest challenges are social and economic ones. First and foremost, is to push against the tides of conservatism on both the left and the right, which see sustainability as either a matter of "going back" or as unworthy of a goal at all.
Request for Typestate, Part 1: Typestate-oriented programming and Linear Types
To be fair, IRC has the concept of topic, but it's per channel. Channels can't have multiple official topics, but, as we all know can definitely have multiple off-topic conversations.

I've been using convore and thinking about it in terms of asynchronous IRC with sub-channels. (i.e. each group is a channel, and each topic is a sub-channel composed of the same channel members, with a different topic.)
I know a lot of girls who love smaller phones just because it will fit in their pockets. I think some of the iPhone's higher success with girls is also somewhat related to the fact that it's smaller dimensions over most of the flagship android devices. Some of the girls I know opted for feature phones just for the size over smart phones (one was pissed where her husband bought her the fascinate)
Google Chrome Client-Side Storage
DDG does its own crawling in addition to using the Bing API. I'm unclear on how the meme that they don't do any crawling has gotten widespread enough to be brought up every time the site is mentioned.
The difference betwen skill and luck.
I don't know why people are down-voting you. Some people might not like it, but you simply cannot maintain the quality this site has enjoyed over the past several years as we continue to take on a mess of new users. Most of the new users simply don't fall into the hacker/entrepreneur category (as past polls have clearly indicated). They're just people coming from Reddit or wherever who want a "better" experience. Most of the articles on the 'newest' page are about crap like WebOS and #superbowl and politics and you name it. HN will in fact go the way of all previous communities as it takes on hoards of people who don't care about the original intent of this site.
Congrats on the launch Gagan! Great piece!
any opinions?
So what's your point? Never open a Facebook account? It would be a logical response, one which would impact Facebook customers. So would, say, having login problems and not being able to log in to see all those ads. It seems user problems can impact the customer after all.
Ask HN: Review my side-project: Shaloc.com
Shaloc helps you share your mobile phone's GPS location with your friends in real time.

URL: http://shaloc.com

Here is how it works, Shaloc App will create a short URL that can be shared with your friends via text, email or tweet from within the app. This short URL is a map web app that can be opened by your friends to track your real-time location using their smart phone or any computer with browser, no app installation or registration is required by your friend.

iPhone users interested in getting early access sign-up at shaloc.com using invite code "hackernews" , 50 invites available.
why?

the readability of many modern pages is considerably improved over plain text.
WWF launches PDF-like file format that can't be printed
Not true, there are plenty of countries that you get fingerprinted in. I get printed when I go to Saudi Arabia, for example.
Ohloh has fixed incorrect code analysis issue
With the recent code push, Ohloh has fixed the issue that produced incorrect code analysis reports for many projects. More details in linked blog post. Since NumPy was mentioned on HN before; here is the updated analysis - https://www.ohloh.net/p/numpy/analyses/latest
Big guy says to another big guy :"You better pay me, or I'll beat up all your little friends!"
just a thought you could have made it more professional
AT&T Offers Unlimited Mobile-to-Mobile Calls
Although I come from a very different economic and social perspective, I can appreciate the effort that went into this page, regardless. There seems to be some good information here, no matter if you agree completely with his perspective.
Is this yours?

My local timezone is GMT, which is correctly detected. I set a timer for 2200 CET tomorrow, which it equates to... 2200 GMT tomorrow.

Tomorrow is not spelled 02/10/2011 where I am. Use the word for the month, people will get confused otherwise.

Putting the timer in the title bar is a nice touch, very slick.
You could certainly bust the internet into a lot of small unconnected subnets, simply by telling all the backbone providers to disconnect peering. I would expect that .mil and continuity of government circuits would be tagged as exempt, and would continue to work.

I dunno what happens if your provider happens to be someone like Hughes or DirectPC. That's one heck of a large subnet.
Well for 10 years I think the search results have only marginally gotten better. Besides, 10 years ago, what google was doing was revolutionary. No other search engine had such vast coverage or better intent determination. Now the competitionn is intense, Bing is almost as good as Google if not better in some scenarios, other guys are blekko are coming up with different approach (and have a better way to handle spam by avoiding it completely).

I think Google is spreading itself too thin. Search is what they do the best and its their bread and butter. They should stay focused on it.

Google is too engrossed in thinking about generating more ad dollars rather than making their core technology better.
Just to give links to the wikipedia pages for the not so recognizable audio codecs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Efficiency_Advanced_Audio_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QCELP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Multi-Rate_audio_codec
Educated guess: mood swings.

When you succeed, you're on top of the world and can do no wrong. When you fail, you're a loser who can do nothing right.
Javascript. I mean, learn javascript really well. While I like python much better than js, the prospect of writing the same language for both the server and client side is very appealing.

Also, things like jquery templates, sproutcore, capuccino, and the node.js ecosystem are just starting. In a couple of years, these will likely be good technologies to be an "expert" in. (just like it paid very handsomely to know how to do iphone development in ~08).
sorry but it was made on ustream.
> In other words, China has much the same problems as the West and much the same successes.

One has to be careful comparing these things on a linear scale. But yes, I agree. Beyond the context of our immediate discussion, the equality of men and women in China is noteworthy because it contradicts the still-commonplace orientalist conception that Asian women are submissive.
Ask HN: Android web client app and rights ownership
Hi HN,

I started developing (Android) mobile apps a few months ago.
My question concerns apps that pull content from 3rd party websites, regarding rights ownership/copyright. (ex: an FML app, a twitter client, ..)

Basically the app acts like a browser (at HTTP level), then displays the info in a more mobile-suitable/friendly way.

Let's say I develop an app to browse a given website $websitecom. (This $websitecom allows people to read public messages provided by others, and post messages/comments as well.)

Q: As a mobile developer, if I decide to do the app, can I get my app kicked out of the Android market, if founders of $websitecom file a complaint?

What would be receivable grounds for the complaint to land?

Context:
I am not looking to screw anybody over. The $websitecom currently has no web app and their founders are likely to develop their own one in the future. I am not interested in contract work, more by learning/product development experience.
Thus my question.

This is basically arbitrage on app development.

Any experience, legal info, feedback appreciated.

ps: this is not a throw away account.
Such an unremarkable piece of footage, yet I found my 24-year-old self studying every little detail and facial gesture.

What was inside of him then that led to where Apple is today?
Upvotes given to a story on front page should have lesser weight than ones given elsewhere (new page, post's comments page etc)
Your interpretation of Oracle's claim is spot on. I am just questioning the validity of the said claim. As you note, both parties are trying to make the current case more costly for the other. The burden-of-proof question does very little to alter the basic cost/benefit calculus of suing Android partners for Oracle.

The liability question (Google offering patent indemnification to Android trademark licensees) is a different issue. While in an ideal world, Google would be able to provide such protection to its licensees, it is simply more expedient for Google to vigorously fight Oracle's claims in court and provide protection to its partners indirectly.
MPAA threatens to disconnect Google from the Internet
HN is an advertising site in some way, both for YC startups and even for all its users that have something good to propose. For instance Redis started to get some user base thanks to HN.
Nice find. Since this is a text editor, it would be nice to just display text files.

PlainText, my favorite iOS app for note-taking, displays all files from a specific folder within Dropbox. It may be limiting to others, having just have one folder but it keeps things organized. I'd like to see this either support that one folder model or alternatively, hide all content (images/video etc) that don't apply to the editor.
There is a large distinction between anarchy and the lack of a state. While statelessness is necessary for anarchy, it is not sufficient.

That said, you can have whatever opinion you want, but when your opinion goes against hundreds of years of political thought and literature, people will be slightly confused.
Unless ofcourse Bing is a better search engine to begin with. (Well that's arguable so I concur :) )
That depends. If I'm using a framework I'll try to test the functionality internally first, then validate the form and submit it to make sure it all works. I'd probably automate this with something like urllib2 and beautifulsoup, but that's just me.

For more complicated clientside things you have selenium.

For website security testing I use Nikto and Netsparker to save a bit of time, Skipfish and Burp Professional.
that is really suprising awesome post!
This would imply that when dig had 1 million page views was like HN, that is not the case. So I think your claim is flawed ;)
Android was an acquisition
Yes, I have 7 years of experience in real estate development and finance. I have no problem characterizing these accomplishments as they are so straightforward.

Now, all of the sudden, I don't know what to say about the last 3 years of startup work, esp since these sites were in the ramen/lobster profitable realm, not the multi-million dollar I'm-on-a-boat realm....
LimeJS: A New HTML5 Game Engine
There were a few OSS efforts to develop a new browser, one lead by Brent Simmons, but they all imploded.
An account on Facebook, is what you're saying? No, they won't.
I'd love to see it as well!
Thanks, means I didn't have to dig it out.

It really makes me wonder about investing my savings into my tracker fund when I saw that. I'm in the UK, and my guess is, due to very tight correlation between the markets we did the same sort of performance.

So long term, market beating, savings beating growth, is not assured. Especially not in "developed" countries. If you think the GDPs of Western countries is going to start increasing (significantly) any time soon, please explain why!

So if it isn't assured, I've been looking into index tracked funds in other markets, particularly APAC. Not sure if it's a great idea, but probably better than a UK indexed fund. I figure it's probably worth a try.

It's totally about when you put in. My parents are still down on a couple of their funds from 1999 ish. Break even happened just recently for them. They'd have been better off with that cash in a long term cash bond.

Why are there so many angel investors right now? Because only high-tech is offering any appreciable growth in the USA.
Digg used to be a great place for programming-related news. It was the place for a good programming news when it came out. Why? Because its community was populated by programmers. Over the years the programming section on Digg became desolate and ignored as the programmers sought refuge from the lolcats and poor discussion. A similar thing is happening to Reddit as people want to move somewhere that isn't dominated by discussion comprised of witty comments and mostly high-level tech news.
It will be a while before we fix analysis on all the projects. Some of the projects have been updated, for example NumPy (https://www.ohloh.net/p/numpy/analyses/latest)
My experience is entirely different.

I do a lot of Perl. It used to be that as soon as something on CPAN matched my search, I'd get a handful of results, then it would find the CPAN match, then I'd get pages and pages of the same result from different CPAN mirrors. Now that no longer happens, and my searches for half-remembered Perl discussions are much, much less likely to end in frustration.

But that's me, and YMMV.
Bullying seen as 'instrument for social climbing'
HeatTracker app shows you Friday night hotspots in real-time
You won't get any customers until it's at least out of the door. Seriously, JFDI if you can and get it out. Worrying about flexibility if you're successful is a luxury problem, and if you're not successful then you just saved a load of time.
It's a pain to use on Windows. I had a pretty beefy machine that was brought to a crawl by the emulator. I hope Google is listening. Visual studio for Windows Phone 7 was not such a hog and I tend to spend more time working in it these days.
Well for fun you might do want no one else has done, and contribute a Lisp program for meteor-contest - solve as you please, there's no cat herding for that one

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php?test=...
Yep.

Ostensibly, the topics we were there to talk about were things like "how to get free phone calls from pay phones with Radio Shack DTMF pads" or "is the sequel to Monkey Island better than the original" or "what ANSI group had the best pack this quarter" or "should we tell everyone that In Utero is the worst album ever so it doesn't become popular and get ruined by jocks" but, just like on HN, conversations ranged wildly and hit politics, religion, and pop culture.

You can imagine the age range of people participating in conversations like this.
The iPhone version has drastically increased my use of Anki.

I do most of my Anki revision through my iPhone: I can use it anytime I have 30 seconds to spare. Such as waiting for the dentist, waiting at a pedestrian crossing, waiting for breakfast to cook, waiting in line for lunch... etc.

I'm a very patient person as I'm extremely happy to wait for things now :)
I think that PG will be able to take the quality as high as today, for a very simple reason, he does not reason in terms of pageviews for this site, and will be willing to do all the needed changes, even if this will upset the "wrong" part of the user base, to take quality high. So at max the new rules will have the effect of reducing again the user base to the original one. Otherwise if this does not happen, there will be a next HN site somewhere and we'll switch again. slashdot -> programming.reddit.com -> HN -> ?
There is a large distinction between anarchy and the lack of a state.

isn't this exactly what I said, or are you not able to distinguish between "lack of state" and "absence of state-wide law"?
Since no price was mentioned, and given the tech specs, what's the maximum price HN'ers would pay for the TouchPad? Any takers?
Strange, I spent some time in dig back when it was created and I never saw this level of quality like in HN. Was much more slashdot-alike.
I would say the noise ratio for the whole internet increased because people found out that they could make easy money with content-void or misleading websites.
Wouldn't a slower handset be best to test on? That way, if it runs smoothly on the slower handset you'll know it runs smoothly on faster ones.
I was also an old-school Digg user, and you're right, it never compared to what HN is. However, the way Digg declined (and how all communities eventually decline) as a result of an influx of new users with disparate interests is the same.
No point announcing a price when they're so far away from shipping and they don't know what iPad 2's price is gonna be.
It looks like SourceKit uses Bespin:
Embedded is the excellent Mozilla Bespin (SkyWriter) text editor component
There's the Archos 28 [1], which is a little taller (3.9" instead of 3.25"), but thinner and lighter (9mm and 64g instead of 15mm and 103g), and costs less than $100. Runs Froyo.

The Veer's screen looks better, though, at 320x400 instead of 320x240.

[1] http://www.archos.com/products/ta/archos_28it/index.html
Why do I have this feeling that it's the beginning of Nokia retreating from OSS world ?

It looks like Nokia is about to announce an all out on WP7. Is that surprising given Stephen Elop background ?

We'll see if it's such a good idea. I personally don't think so.
Unconventional Pentesting Tools Startup
forgive me for my lack of knowledge of HN lore, but what was the advice? (a link/keywords for searching would be good :)
I guess I focused in on you placing statelessness as the primary condition. Statelessness isn't the goal or an end; it's a natural consequence of building a society without hierarchy.
Well Jon Rubinstein was an apple employee for 9 years (left in 2006) so I'd think an Apple like presentation style is to be expected.