skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I think this would be a good idea. You could learn how tech/Google-savvy different users are and adjust the search results accordingly. Someone who has done a site: search is probably more likely to know their way around Google, for example.
I mean...this is for sure the right move to help entrepreneurs, but I'm not sure about the near future.

How a small angel investor can invest in conv. debt. without cap and discount? Maybe the no cap/discount are only for SV/Yuri but I guess that in any case startups (even if they need more than 150k) will feel more confortable with some nice cash in the bank, thus they will become more picky and will ask for hyper-strong favorable terms that not anyone will be able to afford (good for entrepreneurs). Therefore a lot of small angel investors can't invest anymore in YC startups (I guess YC will push out 100 startups/year - for sure a big chunk). Thus, they will go somewhere and the one who were able to invest, were able to invest at huge valuations whit less nice terms, so they will get smaller future returns (bad for the future of the ecosystem).

To conclude, my concerns are not about now but about the future cause there is a risk that we'll have less angels, then less money available for entrepreneurs. I may be wrong though...

(obviously we're talking only about investments into YC startups; investors can always invest elsewhere. So when I said "out of biz" it was more about the "YC related biz")
Lab.js is also worth checking for script loading.
I'm going to put my vote in for GazeHawk. It's a great name for a eye tracking software company.

Gazehawk.com
Apparently Wikipedia also carries that content. Down with Wikipedia!
Blueprint for a citizens' Internet set-up in Egypt
Being the source of news for most of the useless major U.S. news outlets at the moment is probably doing more to fix their image in the west than anything else I've seen in the past.
There have been court-ordered busing programs within large American cities to try to deal with racial segregation in particular, though not without controversy. (Riots in Boston in the 1970s, for instance.) However, these are going out of style, and even when in style were usually confined to a single school district (generally, that means a single town or city), in part for legal reasons (Milliken v. Bradley). And they were only intended to address racial segregation, not economic issues.

And there's pretty clearly an effect. There's a large house price premium for schools in a "good" school districts. Here are some (2006, but still relevant) numbers for school districts in Silicon Valley: http://www.cupertinoschoolscores.com/News/Home_Buyers_Pay_Pr...
What you are describing is not lazy-loading. The purpose of lazy loading is to avoid the overhead of having to load all your javascript immediately at the cost of more server requests later on as needed.

The benefits of speed gained from lazy-loading can be huge in large applications with little to no browser refresh.

The problem with lazy loading javascript in the browser is you have no good way innate to javascript to automatically tell if a script has really been loaded, and the problem you must solve is finding out when you are allowed to execute commands that have dependencies in the lazy loaded scripts.
I'm not sure the trouble is that new users would create "trouble" as originally foreseen, but that new users represent a wider area of the population. For a site which aims to a high standard of discussion, regression to the mean is just as dangerous as "trolling."
MEMRI is a Israeli non-profit organisation to "aid the understanding of the Middle-East". It is not by any means objective. Its goal is mostly to find inflammatory or antisemitic fragments in Middle Eastern media and provide them to a Western audience.

I looked at the fragment on the MEMRI site and it was devoid of any context. Airing a speech does not imply endorsement. (Most, if not all, American media outlets have shown Iran's Ahmadinejad tirades against Israel, for example).

tl;dr: Take Israel's PR department with a grain of salt.
Twitter + Python + IRC made simple
The future of cheating. An audio interview between Scobleizer and DanAriely.
Looks like the frontpage was stolen from hulu.
Thanks for the explanation, was almost certain I was thinking about it wrong :)
Good point. In addition to being self-centered and somewhat mean-spirited, Scoble's post was inaccurate.
"I tell many people that Paul Graham is a genius. He saw the opportunity to start YC."

This is a very sly insult and betrays a major misunderstanding of how the market works. Did Facebook succeed because Mark Zuckerberg saw the "opportunity" to start a social networking site? Did Dropbox take off because they saw the "opportunity" for file synchronization? The idea is nonsense. These things succeeded not because their creators were the only ones to see the need (they weren't), but because an incredible amount of time and talent was put into making them successful.

When YC started, everyone said the idea was crazy. It still is. It's worked, like any startup, because of incredible execution -- not because it stumbled into a waiting opportunity.
Kevin Rose Invests In Facebook On SecondMarket
good to see progress in the libraries, however i find it really sad e17 never quite "made it".
West Virginia = Iraq.

What can we say about that?
An entrepreneur's perspective on the YC/Yuri Milner deal
I completely agree, and wrote at length about this topic in December:

http://distributedrepublic.net/archives/2010/12/07/californi...
>>you have one incident ... And, as it is, I accept their explanation for it

First, do you have a reference to that claim, then?

Second, it took me five seconds to find this: "Former Inmate: Guantanamo Jews Used Witchcraft on Prisoners, Made Me Feel a Cat Was Trying to Penetrate Me"

http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/64/2730.htm

That was a second incident.

Or is that just normal Al Jazeera news -- which you claim is one of the best...?

Or was that also sent directly without the standard five seconds safety to be able to cut off? :-)

Edit: It is problematic with tv, since you can't just check the original language versions by translate.google.com. It do seem to be easy to find lots of weird stuff covered by non-English Al J. Which I think I'll base an opinion on. I'll just note the general lack of references for the claims of credibility.
It's like watching the kind of news I remember when I was a kid, not the present information free, opinion laden broadcast we get in the States these days. It's actual journalism.

Just watching now I heard "he can't confirm this yet, but this is what we heard" which is something so very rare to hear these days. The American media will often report even the vaguest rumors without the necessary caveats. Fox will even run questions along the bottom "outrageous thing is true?"
Angels need to stick to what they're good at: risk taking. In today's ecosystem, the reality is that the startups leaving YC are not as risky as the others. The new 150k plan is simply the market's way of reflecting this. If angels instead focus on the non-YC companies, they should get the same terms and rewards as they have been.
Ask HN: What to do facing direct competition?
I have a startup in Brazil [ www.tanlup.com ]. We are a (yet) small social e-commerce website. Basically, we enable people (mainly artists) to create their own webstores easily.

Till some days ago we didn't have a direct competidor, but we learned that there is a company doing pretty much the exactly thing we do, with some extras (things that we plan to add in the future). It looks like they copied some of our visuals and features (check it out: ours [http://www.lacosdefilo.com/], theirs [http://pokkuru.iluria.com/index.html?locale=pt-br]), but I don't really bother myself 'cause this is almost a standard (or not).

What I would like to know is this: They are ahead of us at some aspects (features). We don't know how mature is their plataform (we are running for 3 years now). How should we approach this competition? Should we run and try to overcome their features? Should we stay calm with our plans and don't bother ourselves? Should I be terribly worried or be glad that now we have some competition?
re point 2 - don't make a counter offer, get an offer from another bidder. That is the only way to push your price to the actual market value rather than just find the lowest offer you will accept.
What happened to 15 children from the Nobel Prize sperm bank
Doing YC for the second time? Why? Feels like the incremental value of going back for seconds decreases once you have already gotten access to the YC network.
What does "LP" mean? Does that mean an investment deal or advising deal?

How do you guys manage 40 startups in one batch? I am quite excited to read about them when they launch.
I tend to be most productive around 11pm, till I fall asleep.
As mentioned "Job Lock" is a very real problem, but it's not as bad as
"Provider Lock" --being permanently locked into a particular insurance
and/or healthcare provider due to a pre-existing condition. In other
words, if you somehow lost your insurance, no one else would insure you.

Being locked into a health provider can be devastating in a number of
different ways.
The state is too big to manage doing what state governments were originally designed to manage. Because CA is such a large stage geographically and population-wise, and economically it has too much on its plate for one government to handle. It cannot even begin to sort its priorities, let alone get working on solving the top ones.

Splitting the state would at the very least revive the local / participatory / "community organizer" role of people with respect to their government. When people are involved in their governments, their governments improve. Simple as that; I don't see how it wouldn't improve many areas that CA hasn't been able to manage for decades now.
It is not final version, just another alpha release. For now, the change log can be viewed here: http://www.sublimetext.com/2
I also found overview.txt (link below) in the documentation useful for getting a picture of the project, which if I had to summarize in three words would be "git-like content-addressable filesystem." Some of the things they're talking about for synchronization are neat and could open up some really interesting possibilities.

http://camlistore.org/code/?p=camlistore.git;f=doc;hb=master
Absolutely amazing. It does sound like it would be very difficult to travel in N. Korea if you don't speak Russian, Korean, or surprisingly, German.

But, the French speaker was especially surprising, and I would have expected more Chinese influence than there seemed to be (linguistically).
If I go into debt that year does that mean the fine gives me money?
I love this work. It would be nice if there was some representation of the similar country area - kinda like a cartogram (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartogram)
FYI there is an interactive version, which also includes population:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/01/comparing_...
I did not see much special about those fields, either, but crop yield has gone up dramatically due to the use of (artificial) fertilizers, plant breeding, and genetic modification. Most of those may not be available to North Korea, for example because they cannot afford to buy or do not have the oil to produce artificial fertilizers.
Consider what this guaranteed $150k will do to other incubators. YC is going to be so much more attractive to other incubators, the best startups may not bother to apply to other incubators.

Sure, there will be winners that go through other incubators, or no incubator at all, but this is definitely going to tilt the field towards YC.
My three-word summary would be "application strength Dropbox"
Because of food banks, I take "living on ramen" as a euphemism not going out or getting laid. And does a founder who's never had a big exit or a high-paying job really have the credibility to sell consulting hours?
Not so fast FCC says net neutrality lawsuits filed too soon
Ahem, If we are talking about bias then MEMRI is possibly the worst source you could have used :)

> I'll just note the general lack of references for the claims of credibility.

This is unfair, and bad rhetoric. The reason is because you have cherry picked incidents, one from a particularly partisan source, from which to base your claim of a lack of credibility. So we are entirely on the same page.

You could name your preferred news source and I could probably do exactly the same :)

(also; as noted above - I have no opinion on the Arabic channel, never watched/read it and my Arabic is pretty rusty. They could be different)
How Egypt did (and your government could) shut down the Internet
Those aren't really hierarchical
That's more a way to pretend metadata is a tag.

Way back, delicious.had hierarchical tags. If you tagged something as foo/bar, it would be retrieved in a query for foo.
IPhone 4 "Glassgate" finally generates a lawsuit
But those opportunities are available to everybody. Why should the reach be the ones paying more for them?
They wouldn't be diluted at all. Convertible debt is not a priced round.
WordPress list last five registered users
Liable seems too strong- there are lots of ways for studies to go wrong, that you may not figure out for years, through no particular malice or lack of competence.
Do you have any reason to believe that this trend has not held throughout history?
first, i'd congratualte you on acknowledging competition, as this means you aren't locked in your comfort zone.

i probably don't have the best advice, but i'd think that try not 'run' after their features, instead, identify the things that have made you successful previously and think up ways you can push them to new heights - master your niche, before rushing to spread out.

by doing this, i believe your service will standout, and who knows, you might kick 'em out! most important? don't relax, though avoid panic too. think and then implement.
Four Loko Is So 2010: Introducing the Marijuana-Spiked Canna Cola
It sounds like you are against equity compensation and in favor of the Swedish laws that make it prohibitively expensive. Why is that? US technology startups are heavily based on equity compensation, so probably many folks here would assume it is a good thing.
limited partner - a partner with partial ownership, but no part of day to day management.
So true. Everyone knows that every businessman has completely bootstrapped from scratch all of the roads, utilities, schools, hospitals, scientific research, and a thousand other things that they took advantage of to make their fortunes. No one else made any contributions to their success and that's why it's only fair that we should be required to hand over a significant portion of our incomes to them.
Booting Up Tanzania With Help From Google
Could a Math Formula Save Species From Extinction?
because americans are afraid of everything
LP == Limited Partner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_partnership)

LPs are basically the investors in YC who remain mostly silent as to the operations of the firm. They participate in the proceeds and receive limited liability from the affairs of the business. Sequoia invested in YC, just as YC invests in startups.
Demand media is creepier and more vulnerable than you think
The Googlers Behind Pubsubhubbub Are Back At It With Camlistore
I personally disagree. If, for instance, you are renting out competitively priced infrastructure, you aren't going to get started with $20K, unless you are willing to spend some number of years consulting and rolling the money in to servers (which is what I did; so it /is/ possible; I'm just saying, it's pretty goddamn difficult to get a low-margin, competing on price infrastructure company off the ground with $20K. And really, it's going to be really difficult to get investor interest in such a venture until you have more traction than you can get with that kind of scratch.)

If you are going head to head with something like ec2, $170K is probably enough to get you started, I'd think, if you are willing to live cheaply and don't screw up too much. If you count all the contracting money I put in, eh, that's probably in the ballpark, and I am to the point where I can reasonably provide compute units at a competitive price, though my software lags by quite a lot. I mean, you need /some/ scale, though you don't really need as much scale as they say.

Of course, if you are a high-margin infrastructure company, and your margins are high enough to re-sell ec2 with a value add software stack, $20K very well might be enough. I'm just saying, $20K doesn't get a lot of hardware
Most states have some sort of financial mess, but CA is one of the worst. (NJ and Illinois have it beat, however.)

http://blogs.sacbee.com/the-public-eye/2010/06/californias-b...
Masters of the Universe go to camp [1989]
s/human/American/
Sounds a little bit like the NFL: http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/nfl/14905

The major sports leagues in the U.S. (football/basketball/baseball) are definitely an interesting microcosm of various economic systems.
Reading this now, good stuff. Thank you.

Another outstanding beginners reference: DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith. Clearly explained and encourages good habits.
How Was Egypt's Internet Access Shut Off?
"You are descended from royalty":http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=5...
Matt Cutts Blog: Announcing the winners of the Kinect contest
How do you know you're doing YC this summer? Applications, as far as I'm aware, aren't due until March...

Is there some sort of grandfather rule?
Micro Commits
Facebook Friends Used in Ads
I've observed this too.

But I'm not sure it is related to this '08 article (I joined about half a year after it "aired" BTW, so have no data point on how HN was before that).

I think a lot of the stuff you highlight has happened in the last year - and accelerated in the last 6 months. Views are appearing to be less informed and commenting lot less jovial.

We do seem to be getting more content on politics and religion now too (more than there used to be).

(r.e. civility; I totally agree - I distinctly remember getting into a disagreement in my first month here and it was about the most polite argument I ever had :D Pretty sure we both converted each other in the end!)
"perspective"
The threshold is indeed a bit lower than that; I have topcolor with 296 karma.
Java EE 5 vs Java EE 6
When I went to that earlier today, they had up the 'site overloaded' message.

Now I get 10-15 seconds of video followed by a couple minutes of what I assume is buffering and repeat.
Have great idea all planned out, just need somebody technical to make it
New PS3 firmware hacked in less than a day
A Homeless Geography of San Francisco
Because it is absolutely dense, inscrutable and grammatically incorrect legalese. According to my best effort to understand what you were writing in the comment was: "Downloading the sourcecode is not illegal, because no actual thing gets downloaded, and if the downloader then uploads the code, that cannot be illegal since he has no right to the software anyway." That makes no sense at all.
I think it's held throughout history, but then again, throughout history most of the world has had some sort of aristocracy.

The historical exception is the U.S. from 1945 to 1973, as well as perhaps a few other examples (maybe Scandinavia today, or the U.S. in the early/mid 1800s?). In that time period - really, no more than a generation - we saw a big leveling of income distribution, where people born to modest families suddenly had the creature comforts that a generation before had been reserved for the aristocracy. I think most people would agree that this is a generally desirable state for a society, so it might be worth asking what was different about those time periods that made them the historical exception?
Search YC may not be a Hacker News page, it is still an important tool for me :
http://searchyc.com/

I wish I had bookmarked along the way all those little tools built around HN...
Which ones do you use?
Ok, thanks for pointing this out. It may be a 250 karma threshold, although we can't know for sure as it is always changing (due to inflation from new users): http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ#cantdow...
I see that you are trying to get in the spirit of coming up with the "bad version". Communism has been tried before, and it didn't work very well.
I understand why you may have framed your question the way you did, but isn't getting a domain before knowing what kind of business you're going to create a little backwards? If you're going to attempt to compete in the payment space, you'd need a great niche, or else do a bunch of things better/cheaper than the others. There may be more room in B2B, than C2B/C2C.

The .ly domains are attractive, especially considering so many great names under that TLD are still available. However, I'm personally a little wary (whether there is just cause to be or not) and I would be wary x10 for anything commercial/financial.
You are reading the title too literally. They just left off "on TV" because it's obvious from context.
> To the extent this makes sense, it's equally true of Common Lisp.

I'm afraid not. Christophe Rhodes has a proposal for an extensible sequence protocol, but AFAIK it is implemented only in SBCL. There's no portable way in CL to extend the built-in hash tables. And you certainly can't have your own cons class that responds to the built-in CAR and CDR.

Of course you can always shadow the builtin names and redefine them in your package as generic functions; this is what I did in my FSet functional collections library. But that's not quite the same thing as having extensibility designed in.
We're still waiting for a porn star to run for California's highest office. In the meantime, Italy owns the headlines.
By living and working in a country such is America, you are accepting a social contract: if you do well, you will be taxed, if you do poorly, you will at least receive some services to support you. This strikes me as an entirely reasonable contract, though there are others that are different. In Abu Dubai, you can do well, and keep all your money, or do poorly and wind up in debtor's prison.

To complain that you're taxed too heavily after you have already become wealthy and secure strikes me as akin to looking back on your healthy, illness free life and complain that you should get a refund on your insurance payments, since they didn't do anything for you.

The above is not to argue that one system is superior to the other, but rather that you're in one, and very probably complaining about it now that you know you're well prepared enough that it's clear that you'll probably never be destitute.

In a perfect world, we might ask everyone how much risk they want. Unfortunately, so much is determined in your youth. You (I assume) grew up in a family that raised you well, and left you with reasonable earning potential. If we just asked everyone at 18, we would wind up with an upper class that would rarely suffer financial failures, and would accept risk, and those who know they won't get rich on their own, and accept no risk, and so for the most part, this system would be unfundable. As a compromise, and as many of us feel quite strongly that it's simply not acceptable to have people destroyed when they suffer financial ruin, we have some basic social services.
Whats the radar signature of something the size of my abdomen flying ten-twenty meters over the city streets?