skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is treating these things as gambles. When you look at Facebook, their success is a result of understanding their product and its potential pretty damn well, then working extremely hard to bridge the gap between the two.

If you're going to plunk down $500m on a company, you should have a very clear idea of what you want to do with it and how you're going to grow it. MySpace was bought by a big ass dinosaur who thought "being successful on the internet" was as simple as writing a check – or buying a sack of magical beans.
Glad to see I'm in the majority. Sometimes I feel on the old side of the industry at 26.
http://www.businessfinance.com/convertible-note.htm
And don't replace the default scrolling with javascript, it's slow.
HN offers Anti-procrastination feature which is fairly good to make it less like 'crack cocaine'.

http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html
7 Nov: Anti-procrastination features
Like email, social news sites can be dangerously addictive. So the latest version of Hacker News has a feature to let you limit your use of the site. There are three new fields in your profile, noprocrast, maxvisit, and minaway. (You can edit your profile by clicking on your username.) Noprocrast is turned off by default. If you turn it on by setting it to "yes," you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours. You can override noprocrast if you want, in which case your visit clock starts over at zero.

In any case, I don't think HN addiction is harmful, unless one uses it as an excuse to put off his responsibilities.
Should there be a partnership or a buyout between mobile operating systems?
I like this method. What i've done so far is ask the candidate to solve something I've recently had to solve or am currently solving. Your approach is more generic because it doesn't require them to be familiar with the technologies I'm currently using, however my approach ensures they are.

I like your point about picking a problem you don't have the solution to. I'm guilty of making them solve something I recently did, and maybe it's not the best approach.
Turn on noprocrast in your settings.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on pulling a "Jason Zimdars"?
http://jasonzimdars.com/svn/ is what I'm talking about.

There's a particular company I want to work for and they have recently added a job posting that I can apply for. I really want this job and I have done something similar as Jason did for 37 Signals (although I didn't design anything as the position is not for design).

I am having second thoughts on how it will be perceived.

(I'm not also sure if it's a good idea to post this here, I know that one of the company's recruiters visits HN)
IPv4 is only "depleted" in a very technical sense. The last free /8 was allocated to a regional authority. This does not mean no IPv4 addresses are available.

The regional authorities (RIRs), the guys who actually allocate the addresses to user organizations, still have many, many blocks to allocate. The first RIR isn't expected to run out of ipv4 space until October.

That's when the shit really hits the fan -- requests for IPv4 space start to be rejected, ISPs start deploying NAT or 6RD, network administrators start jumping from windows etc.
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You should read up on bike sheds if you don't understand how something as simple as a fav icon can turn into a 10-15 hour endeavor. Particularly when the client is a government agency or a large company.

http://bikeshed.org/
Or rather:
It is good enough because it has smart students. The dept. has issues but the students are excellent.
Promote from within instead of hiring from outside
> person X, when acting as your VC, is not your friend.

I don't see it that way. if person X is my friend, that's true whether or not they're acting as a VC in a situation. VC's who I am friends may well come to the same conclusion as a VC's I don't know but our interactions are likely to be different. Friendship doesn't have to get in the way with a business relationship; conversely, difficult situations in a business in a relationship don't have to interfere with friendship.
Agreed: that's exactly the part that caught my eye too, although I didn't think of the analogy to superconductivity. Good call!
They just added this? What else did they have??
Subscription services for regular, physical goods are a blessing. They may seem gimmicky and lazy at first, but once you realize the benefit of delegating and automating a part of your life, you'll jump right on it.

Of course, it takes the customers to realize that they do in fact tend to run out of boxers, socks and other supplies regularly, but people in their twenties should already have had that epiphany.

In my country, there's currently an online (e-)grocer where I can buy a week's worth of groceries (with no risk of buying snacks when I shop with the munchies!) and use that half-to-one-hour time for each trip on something else.

They even accept return deposit bottles so I don't have to go down to the grocer and redeem them.

What's gimmicky laziness to one is optimization, delegation and automation to someone else. :)
if i were acquainted with a VC ... :)
I agree that funding models have shifted, but Yuri is a VC too. He just has a different and creative investment strategy.
The event is Sponsored by Rackspace http://rackspace.com (Thanks, you rock!)

The VC 'funders' are Ludlow Ventures (http://ludlowventures.com) & Detroit Venture Partners (http://detroitventurepartners.com)

I should also mention this is a non-profit event
Sometimes it's the interviewer that ends up giving a bad impression. I remember one technical interview I was in:

Interviewer: How would you do this?

Me: Well, that depends. You could do it by doing polymorphism with subclasses, by passing in blocks, or through a Strategy.

Interviewer: Well, actually, I'd do it like this. [proceeds to diagram polymorphic solution using subclasses as if that wasn't the first answer I gave]

A good filter to use as a programmer interviewee: Ask to see their code. Ask to do some pair programming. If they blow you off or hem and haw about it, it's not a good place to work. If the interviewer reveals that they're actually in HR, just walk out.
Having looked at their portfolio, I'd be interested in talking to their in in-house recruitment agency. Do you know how someone could go about contacting them?
FYI: Glympse already does this with a pretty UI and all.
Turned 26 yesterday! Started work last week. In a whole new category now!
I worked for livejasmin (and the sister sites), some years ago, I think it was the biggest live streaming sites even back then.

Unfortunately, I wasn't a coder then, just support staff, but it was a great experience and I learnt some things about how they run a multimillion dollar biz from a basement.

Got a view on everything from creditcard processing, to the sysadmin side. And of course dealing with performers and customers was always fun, as they are not that usual people.
Still remember a "crazy stuff" folder, where we used to collect the funny moments.
Ask HN: Is it better to use Facebook login than a textbox to collect emails?
I'm creating a product to help facebook page owners manage growing their fan base. I create a landing page before I launch and wanted to get some feedback between using facebook login button vs a textbox to collect emails.

Which do you think works better? and why?

http://www.statusscheduler.com
Kenneth Cole’s Cairo Tweet Angers the Internet
Good post. I quit recently as well - I deal with productivity in two ways: when I get stuck or bored of one area I work on another, and second I dont fight bad days but enjoy them and compensate on good days.

From your itinerary, it seems travel starts in a few months? How are you planning to work on the road?
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Solid-state batteries: The power of the press
1. Very true.

2. Also true, but I think there's somewhat of a distinction between eCommerce and all web businesses (at least what I've been led to believe.) ECommerce is selling offline things online, or rather, selling products through an online channel. Zappos, Amazon, 37 Signals etc. are examples of this.

On the other hand, many of today's startups don't actually sell anything. They have a feature, not a business. Is Path really an eCommerce site? Hipster?

3. True, but again, ads aren't exactly a "product". They're an extra level above your service, and are notoriously much more difficult to pull off successfully. Also, I think that most people (customers) have a strong disdain for advertisements, on a whole. I wouldn't rely on ads to power a product indefinitely into the future; personally, I tune out almost all all advertisements, and I know many people who do the same. Building a business on a fluctuating ad market doesn't seem like a great business model to me.

Selling products, however, is much more concrete.
Here is a link: http://www.statusscheduler.com
I suspect you're joking, but the old timers really don't like IP speculation. It took them years to agree on the current pseudo-market because they had to figure out how to keep out speculators.
For anyone wanting to use it in a commercial setting, it's worth noting that weka is GPL and mallet is CPL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Public_License
Goodbye IPv4, Hello IPv6
You're the man. I'm also 22 and 1 year away from a BS.
do parents that just lost their baby have checking e-mail high on their agenda?
All those things aren't interactive fiction, they are separate genres. When you see interactive fiction, think Zork, Colossal Cave, Adventure, etc.

http://www.ifarchive.org/

http://ifdb.tads.org/
Where do you see tptacek implying that those who can write code can't talk about it? He's merely telling us that being able to talk about code doesn't always imply being able to actually produce code.
Mozilla Game On Winners
Tell HN: Google Mail is down
That is unacceptable. I usually send documents through e-mail to myself intending to print them off. Sometimes, it is crucial that I am able to print them off.

Anyway, just wanted to say, remember to keep a USB back up with you as well if you do what I do. Google Mail cant be trusted.
Most likely those are just affiliate sites.
or at least style ::selection
"time sink"
Great idea. A couple feedback items:

- The icons on user pages which stand for areas of expertise aren't really helpful since you have to hover over them to see what most of them mean (example: a coffee cup means General Advice and a person icon means Usability). At the least, these should have titles above/below them.

- I'd like the hardcoded areas of expertise removed in favor of an autocomplete freeform box, much like Stack Overflow's tags box. For example, I'd like to put that I'm a Drupal expert and I'd like to look for node.js help, but neither of those are options.
Does it have a window facing the sidewalk?

Put pastries in the window. Angle some bright lights so they shine on the pastries.

And make sure they're bright.

Pastries are often an impulse buy. Most shops look quite dark on a sunny day. You need people to notice the food.

You want everyone who walks by to see the pastries. Not a pastry sign, pastries.

Also if your friend has a wife/partner get them to walk around the block in the morning and at lunch. Have them stop and look in the shop window at the pastries.

People naturally look at things that other people are looking at.
Ask HN: Who/what are you using for accounting and payroll?
We're just a two-employee company, so probably don't need much, but I'm curious as to what other small startups are using post-funding.
I know you must be sick of hearing this, but - do you guys support Silicon Valley Bank yet? We'd love to give Indinero a try.

Presumably if you don't support SVB we could still manually enter transactions? (We might actually do that - SVB's online banking might be the worst I've ever seen, and that's saying something.)
Being able to see the stack is a great feature. Thanks!
3 Ways the Media is Dangerous to Your Financial Health
Hm. It's working fine for me right now.

Use Dropbox. Works flawlessly (although I suppose syncing can be a bit slow).
You might want to consider allowing mothers to select items from a basic list for first time mothers.
I consider the existence of door #2 a red flag. If decision makers who are likely not technical themselves are making that kind of decision about technical hires, odds are that they are going to make some very bad hires that I won't like living with.

That's not to say that there aren't a lot of companies where your advice works. But I'd prefer to work for the companies where it doesn't.
Emulation is a good idea. HP spent a huge amount of resources to try to ensure their calculators return the best possible numeric results. It is an issue many people forget about, for example, compare the statistical function accuracy of Excel vs R or Gnumeric.

As an example in the calculator world, I like free42 and had it installed on my Palm. However, I don't have the same confidence in it as I have in my HP-48 or my HP-35s. If I'm doing engineering calculations then I really prefer to use a real HP calculator or an emulated one using original firmware.
Great interview! Concept is definitely something that fills a need, noise on Twitter makes it seem overwhelming.
Mark Zuckerberg Stole My Idea
Exoplanet hunt turns up 54 potentially habitable worlds
Congrats on getting on to CNN
You're right, I should have said this. Some of the students here are amazing.
Hey Sam -- we don't support SVB yet, but we do plan on having CitiBusiness and HSBC Business ready in the next few weeks.

I'll email you about manually entering transactions, because you can do that too!
I'm 21 and will graduate with a degree in CS at the end of the year. I'm fairly new to the HN community (127 days to be exact!) and just wish I had found this a little earlier on in my college career.
if travel_cost < win_chance*100000 then go() end

DVP has a mission statement in investing in Detroit companies, does this mean there is a bias towards locals?

EDIT: yes you're all correct - the formula is more complex than that, I should have said that for many people (including myself) the other factors are an order of magnitude less substantial.
With the primary difference being web frameworks are much better documented with real world examples because they are written by people in industry trying to make their real jobs easier, not university grad programs. The examples released by users never make it onto the search engines, if ever released (see below).

Most ML frameworks out there are stuck in academic-land and assume the users are experts - when the exact opposite is usually true - they actually attempt to use the most opaque language possible when describing usage.

ML is still a consulting gold mine because it's so difficult to wade past the jargon and bullshit to actually do something useful/profitable with these frameworks.
Can I get hotel bookings (and the combo savings that leads to) via Hipmunk? I use Hipmunk now to find the flight I want, but I book via AmexTravel, because I usually save hundreds (sometimes more!) when I book a package all together.

I'd love to drop Amex and just use HipMunk (it's definitely nicer!), but I can't justify it just yet.
This is allowed in the Netherlands, and I'd wager in most European countries.
I need a favicon. Will you do it for ten bucks?
What Insiders Have To Say About Yuri Milner And Ron Conway's $150K Handouts
I have often wondered when something Python-ish will come along to compete with R. I like the power of R, and there is no better choice if you require an esoteric statistical estimator, but there are also a lot of downsides. It's difficult to debug, the interpreter seems flaky, and parts of the SPLUS syntax feels dated. Also, I know it claims to be object oriented, but I have never really understood the OO system in R. So much more time and effort is being poured into improving the Python runtime, that it seems silly not to try to build something on top of it.

I am starting a stats PhD in the fall and have about nine months to kill between now and then. I'm seriously considering devoting all that time to building something like this.
I work tangentially to porn in adult toys for about six years. Built an affiliate program, retail sites, wholesale sites and various other stuff. Don't really interact with developers in the business, though (outside of some time on GFY before I stopped caring).
Seems like it's got to be a lot fuzzier than that.

So if Verizon replaced all banner ads on all sites you visit while using their network with their own ads, that would be legal?

And I could create a website that appears to republish all the content from NY Times without ads so long as in the background I'm proxying requests back to their server and storing the results in RAM?

Edit: I found a piece on the legality of web scraping in general http://www.galvanilegal.com/is-web-scraping-legal/
Tell HN: MacGist
Here's a side-project I've been working off and on during evenings/weekends.

It's called MacGist, a simple menubar application for OS X that allows users to copy selected text in any MacOS application to a (public, for now) Github gist.

Future releases will allow pasting to private gists and filtering of the gist listing so the menu doesn't get too long.

http://luckycatlabs.com/macgist.html

Feedback is appreciated.
جمعة الرحيل
I'm 20. I acquired a 4-year degree using black magic and work somewhere in Palo Alto.
It's funny that they have double platinum sponsors.
my sex is male, my gender is man
The Mockability Test
Cheap tvs - Home for all cheap lcd and 3d tvs.
To be honest, I usually upload to CPAN so I can use the module wherever I want. If somebody else uses it, that's a bonus.
All the jQuery UI plugins allow you to fetch cached references to the widget's proxy elements by grabbing the instance from the jQuery data cache.

var tabs = $("#mytabs").data("tabs");
tabs.lis.append("<button>Add A Button To All your Tabs</button>");

You can use this to avoid doing crazy DOM traversals to work with and customise widget components.

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That said, we are aware that the perception you share here is not uncommon and that we need to work to document the shared API of our widgets, and that is something we are planning to address in the near term.
> Ask for a timeline for IPv6, if you'd like, but don't expect much.

This is actually one of the best things you can do. One of the frustrating things is when I talk to vendors about IPv6 and they say "oh, you're the only person to ever ask about that.."

Just drop a quick line to any networks you do business with (home ISP, hosting provider, hosted DNS, etc...) and politely ask them what their IPv6 rollout timeline is. Their response will give you a lot of information about how on the ball they are in general.
DataTables (http://www.datatables.net/)
and SlickGrid (https://github.com/mleibman/SlickGrid)

are already amazing and feature-complete. It'll be interesting to see what the jQueryUI team can come up with now that they've decided not to use either of these (or any other for that matter). For reference, Grooveshark decided to go with SlickGrid in their re-write, and from their dev blog posts it sounds like they love it.
Upstage: A New App for Sharing iOS Mockups
"the cloud" has massively changed the cost model for hosting on the low end; which is a great thing, the low end of hosting has always been ridiculously inefficient.

However, "the cloud" passes on very little of the economies of scale involved on to the consumer, so while it's great to start in "the cloud" you want to be careful not to lock yourself in. It's a great place to start, but once it makes sense to start buying your own hardware, you want to be in a position where you can do so.
What about just having a passion, a vision and a way to potentially monetize that? Sometimes, as entrepreneurs, we need to go out on a limb.
Free, open commerce database. The aim is to help people learn more about products, manufacturers, retailers. My mail is: am at octopus dot org.
client -> agency client rep -> in-agency meeting -> agency talent rep -> studio(s) -> studio rep -> studio art director -> studio art grunt -> photoshop / favicon.cc
Six questions to ask a mobile publisher
When I interview candidates and get to the technical part, I usually start by discussing technologies and present a problem the team is currently working on and ask for a broad overview of how they would go about solving it.

I start by asking them to talk me through their solution. This is where I filter out most candidates, because I know that if their problem solving skills aren't up to par I can't expect them to write any psuedo code to back up their problem solving skills.

I generally give them another chance by offering a couple of hints, and if this doesn't work out I generally end it. If I like them, I ask them to talk to me about a challenging problem they have recently encountered and the solution to said problem. If I am pleased I ask them a few more questions and keep them in rotation.

After this I ask for some simple psuedo code to back up the solution and that's about it. I am not big on asking any academic questions for the technical interview unless I know that the interviewee is a recent graduate and even then I don't weigh them that much.

To finish off the interview I usually do some basic pair programming, just to see how the person does in a somewhat pressured situation. I find all of this to be pretty effective for the technical interview.

Besides the technical side I strongly believe that a passionate person, that would make a good cultural fit is tremendously important. In my situation, I don't want someone who is smart but can't relate to the rest of the team.
Not entirely on-point, but there's a remarkably fascinating documentary I watched on Netflix one night called "Helvetica." Check it out.
Neither is every geek, but fair point.
Nice response. I wrote my own "What Bing should have said" response too - http://www.puremango.co.uk/2011/02/what-bing-should-have-sai... - I think we pretty much agree.

> The premise a company's own public relations messaging is more trustworthy than an outsider because the company's PR is about themselves seems without merit

That sounds right. Hmm, fair point.
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Now that I will agree with. I was just saying that overall, and in comparison to other UI frameworks, jQuery UI works surprisingly well with jQuery. I won't deny that there is definitely room for improvement, but my experiences with it so far have been relatively painless. It should also be mentioned that I work with both quite frequently.
We are working on getting travel sponsors to subsidize these costs. The investors will choose the company they believe to be the best investment, regardless of location.
Cliche Finder
Haha. I think the smartest thing I've learned so far in my "career" is to know I'm capable of learning just about anything, so long as I actually pay attention enough to those who already know.

It's working well.
Sensational Headline: check
Anecdotal evidence used as facts: check
Invoking battle of the sexes: check
Invoking "Conservative vs Liberal" polarity: check
Ultra-feminist conclusion: check
I don't own a start-up (my little software company is 21+ years old now), but I've had good luck with QuickBooks Online. Available anywhere you have a full browser (with weak iPhone/iPad mobile access), and has full payroll module (which I haven't tried). We do use the online payments module for all charging; works quite well, and with online bank accounts, it's easy to keep things in synch.