skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I share your general distaste for this stuff, but remember that by getting out, going to events, having a lot of conversations, you will also encounter people who are not full of shit. Networking doesn't have to be all buzzwords and phony smiles. If it is, you're not networking with the right people. The term has been captured, so substitute 'talking shop', 'sharing ideas', 'finding inspiration'. Whatever you call it, it can enrich your life and it doesn't have to be shallow or unpleasant. All it really means is getting to know others in the world around you and keeping an eye out for mutually beneficial opportunities.
It isn't, a cocoa / quartz friendly port is already partly done and runs well as long as you don't need all the esoteric functions that VICE offers. Binaries available on the VICE page.

For the really concerned, Xquartz is the basis for X11.app which is openly available from MacOSForge so X11 as a whole isn't going to disappear anytime soon it may just require a bit more effort to get running.
To handle cases like I can't get feature Y to work, we could probably have something like a conversation tracker, which tracks all the relevant bits of information the support person asks from the user. Then, the next time another user is having the same problem we could just sort of replay out the prior conversation.

Example:
A cannot get feature Y to work because they have a single monitor setup, so A fires an email off to support. The support guy reads it, realizes he needs more info and replies that he needs some more info about A's monitor setup. This reply gets tagged as 'request for more info'. Once, A has replied with the required information, Support responds with the appropriate solution.
Now along comes B who is having the same problem, so he sends a similar mail to support. The software realizes that it is a similar issue so it automatically responds with a request for information about B's monitor setup, and after B replies to it the entire information is presented in a single email to the support person along with the email and response previously given to A, who then decides if B gets the same response as A.

In my experience people rarely tend to read an FAQ/KB. I have pointed people to a particular question on the FAQ and then bolded and put it in red, and yet have people miss it. They would much rather send an email griping about the issue than read the FAQ. So I've had to send out the same email repeatedly. This was aimed at solving a problem such as that.
What is this post? Is it a negative reaction on few LinkedIn posts that were published in the media recently, how they are successful etc?

Personally, I find LinkedIn one of the best tools / or probably only business tool we use in our company. What is it great for:

1/ keep in touch with former colleagues/employees and see what they are up to
2/ hiring - if your network is big - (I can reach to over 1 million people for free) - then you can search job candidates and send them offers of employment - essentially hand picking the best candidate for a job, rather than posting jobs online
3/ business development - so easy to contact your potential partners, and so easy for them to see whether you are legit by looking how connected you are in your industry.
4/ journalists / and other hard to get to people - you send them email - it won't work , it might not even deliver, but LinkedIn message gets delivered, and again, they can see your whole profile whether you are legit.
Last night, I posted this [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2344594], but I guess it flew off the new page before too many people had a look at it. It's about a helpdesk system which works completely through email. If there is substantial interest, I might take it up though.
It could simply come from forgetting to exit from insert mode, and then coming back thinking the editor is in normal mode.
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yeah it's not like there's been any recent developments of note in that region at all either, huh
My company does this, but in reverse, whenever someone is getting something to eat there's a metaphor for it. Cache means you've already got it, hitting memory means you need to go to the kitchen, disk means you need a trip to the store, regisers of course means you're actively chewing.
I don't buy it. You act like things didn't exist before internet advertising. Usenet and forums existed and thrived for a long time before people started trying to show ads. I couldn't care less if the whole internet ad based economy caves in on itself (not that I think it ever would--advertisers will always find a way). We'd be left with people doing stuff for the sake of doing it and that won't be a bad place. Possibly not as polished, but I'll get over that.
see also: http://www.vendhq.com/
5 reasons why we should use Tibco as messaging solution
You're right. Bill Gates is no introvert.

Edited to add: I read an amusing story about Gates' childhood once. His mother had called him to dinner and he didn't come right away. She called out "What are you doing?" and he shot back, "I'm thinking! Have you ever tried thinking?"

Granted, thinking is an activity normally associated with introverts. But that doesn't mean extroverts can't do it. And the aggressiveness Gates showed in this incident -- and indeed, has shown many times in his life -- is not a quality of an introvert.
I get it but I don't find it very interesting. Even their new social news features seem obvious or manually procured (it's easy to show me 5 Internet news related articles, but difficult to find me news that will improve my career).

I don't know. I log in at most once every two weeks, which is more than I can see for most sites.
It strikes me as a site for scamming people, http://bit.ly/fgGX3a sure doesn't sound like a normal way to access the Red Cross. The retailing links are fishy too.
Be careful of Google's search results
Looking back, it's easy to get influenced by talking heads. For God's sake, I used to listen and nod my head to Bill O'Reilly (for shame!)
My 2 cents, Digg.com user since April 2005.

I don't know if it was spam or all the format changes, each time a format change occurred users complained - a lot, yet changes were implemented anyway.

The highlight of Digg's history I'd say was the HD-DVD encryption key everyone put in posts refusing to back down I think that brought the users together.

Then one day the user-base seemed to suddenly shift rapidly to the right almost overnight from a more centrist point of view, that cause a lot of friction and comment wars.

Telling the people who use your website, some of who practically lived on the website, what they should like and not like design-wise instead of listening to them was disastrous and may have been the cause of Digg.com being abandoned by most of its user-base.
Is there any education system in the world that trains kids with social skills?

Seems needed due to digital communication technology.
Not sure why you're surprised. Apple's general mantra is "we know the best, if you don't like it, go fuck yourself".

(mac user myself)
Actually, Digg is hiring too. We are looking for some great engineers and sales people to join our team.

http://jobs.digg.com
That is certainly what I used to love about Techcrunch, and whilst I think it is natural that as they have gotten bigger they have gone more mainstream and do a lot more coverage of Twitter, iPads etc, it also a shame and certainly taken them from my "first website of the day" to "if something interesting comes into RSS feed I'll click".

At the same time if you go back a few years there were quite a few startups that were really doing different things, and reviewing them was worthwhile. Now there are often so many startups trying to solve the same problem that choosing who to review and keep track of must be a nightmare, and half the comments will be "if you like X take a look at my company Y".

Speaking of Y's, is there an independent blog that just reviews (and meets with etc) Y Combinator companies - that actually would be an interesting read!
I'm not so sure that agression has anything to do with introversion/extroversion.
Stupid auto-correct. Should've said: "is a bit meta"
I was wondering who wrote "typical MBA horsesh*t" in the margins. great stuff.
LinkedIn is such a standard part of business that it's weird-seeming to me when I find out someone I've worked with isn't on it. I can understand why, if you're in the kind of business where your associates will tend to be Facebook friends, LinkedIn will seem superfluous. But most people aren't in businesses like that.

It is, at the very least, most people's best resume (most people don't put recommendations on their resume, for instance).

Not one of LinkedIn's extra features has ever done me any good; it's never enabled an intro for me through friends of friends, its paid messages have never garnered a response, and it has been a uniquely crappy place to run job ads (weirdly enough). But just having everyone's current up-to-date resume is actually a very useful thing. I use LinkedIn more than I "use" Facebook (mostly, Facebook just sucks time out of my day).
its useless to most people
(tiny critique: "Advanced features" was a bit too long to glance over for me. Might I suggest limiting it to 7+-2 bullets?)
screenshot:
http://content.screencast.com/users/bkaid/folders/Default/me...
What Women in the US Could Learn from Indonesians
Are you asking to learn, or to provoke others to think?

If you were asking, reply and I'll dig up some links about how c is the speed of the universe and equals 1, spacetime and mass, and how velocity changes the relationship of time in spacetime.
Rather than allowing it because of this, wouldn't it be better to remove this method. I kind of like the balance without the 3rd party cookies, I can write a 3rd party script that people include on there website which stores cookies on their own domain. From the point of view of a single website this is good, from the point of view of a network of websites and those that want to advertise on all of them I guess it is bad. Can always base things off IP, not as good but a similar effect.
I am highly skeptical of his assumption that skills like working on a team, communicating with others, and leading others all imply extroversion.

Now that I think about it, most of the people I've worked with (as a programmer) have probably been introverts, and excepting one or two, they've all had excellent team and communication skills.

I am an introvert (reading HN and programming on a Saturday night, and I have no problem with it!), and I am sympathetic to the idea that extroverts are a problem, but I don't think this article articulates that problem in a particularly convincing way.
What would some of the implications be?
The Popup Window is Dead, Long Live the Modal Window
Nice that they still have a Digg button at both the top and bottom of the article.
Apologies, it's sounds harsher than it is :) I misspoke.

That statement can't quite get any harsher I would think :)
The difference between an introvert and an extrovert is two pints of beer.
I'll drink to that.
Process Bottlenecks in Erlang Web Apps
Bill Gates: The revenge of the introvert.
Definitely an interesting concept, have you talked with any merchants? Curious to see how easy/hard it is to convince to use a new tool...
I've been working to create a more portfolio approach with Holono (see: http://holono.com/ ).

Even if LinkedIn works for resumes, resumes just don't work well for a lot of people. They summarize huge technical projects into a few sentences.

While LinkedIn has been optimized for business professionals, I feel like a lot of other groups (Engineers, Entrepreneurs, Public Sector workers, teachers, etc) who could use better. Right now they just use LinkedIn because that's what everyone else uses, even though it's not really made for them.
This doesn't make sense to me. I'm definitely an introvert: shy, lousy at casual conversation, and can happily go for days without talking to anyone. However, I have no problem in my software development job with teamwork, communication or leadership (I was even a manager for many years before deciding to go back to being a senior developer). I can work effectively with others to get things done, taking the initiative when necessary. And, as someone else pointed out, I've seen many extroverts who have poor skills in these areas.
Other than because it's easy, what's the appeal of using stereotypes to create these supposed normative behaviors? Of all the people I've met in my life, most come closer to being balanced than not. We're all extroverted in some situations, and introverted in others. Maybe being divisive makes it easier to swallow the bitter pill of unrealized potential, but it's not productive.
Very interesting - well done!

Quick question: How did you guys spark demand? Tell bloggers, adsense, B2B, Twitter? This viral campaign must have been kickstarted somehow. What was the kickstart?
Ask YC: What's the Y Combinator review and decision process like?
I was curious to know more about how the YCombinator partners review all the applications they receive? Does every partner read every application? Do you review them together or separately? What kind of discussions do you have about each application? Do you talk more about the people or the idea? How is consensus reached to decide to fund a company or not? etc.
I have always had one or more musical keyboards by my desk, and I agree that there is a correlation between musical and software inspiration. However, I think in my case both forms of inspiration are derived from the same cause, rather than one causing the other. I'm still working on discovering that common cause.
Here's a good place for you to find answers:
http://paulgraham.com/articles.html

You can also find information here:
http://ycuniverse.com/
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Why the Android Market fails
Item 1 is a feature; you might want one taco with rice and one without.

We'll look at the others. Thanks!
Not all startups are created equal, and I seriously think you can probably find a place that is not a "big company" but nevertheless has things you are looking for. Why not get a job at something like Dropbox?
We're currently looking for a junior Drupal developer and decided to leverage LinkedIn to find someone local (Geelong, VIC AUS if anyone is interested). It wasn't helpful at all, which is frustrating because I'm sure there are plenty of people on LinkedIn who'd want the job. I guess you're right that we expected it to be something that it's not.
Yes. There's always a chicken-and-egg problem when building a new payment network, but we've got a few on board and we're talking with many others.

http://www.facecash.com/where.html
Just some feedback on your website: I went to it, and on the home page, I have basically no idea what it is or does, and there's really nothing that hooks me into looking into it more. And actually, now that I look at it, there aren't even links to click on that would answer these questions.

I'm guessing you guys are competing with something like EC2 or heroku. Compare your site to heroku.com. The first thing I see is "Rock-solid ruby platform", underneath which it says "Deploy and scale powerful apps." There is a "how it works" link at the top that tells me more.
Here's a slightly larger version (thanks to http://tineye.com): http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/droste/escher4.jp...
And also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2310110
I got into YC after applying 6 times. Here's my advice for YC applicants
Groupon will have to move fast to retain its impressive lead
mSv stands for milli-Sievert, and uSv is micro-Sievert. 4000 uSv would be equivalent to 4 mSv, which is where Randall has it listed.
Totally agree - that's exactly what LinkedIn is - It is a replacement for the Rolodex with a few key advantages.

1. People keep their email addresses reasonably up to date, so I can contact them if they change their info.

2. Somewhat useful - people keep their jobs/companies they are working for up to date.

3. If someone introduces themselves to me in a business context, one of the first steps we take is to establish a relationship on linked in. That immediately gives me insight into their background, and, some clues (but no guarantees) as to their legitimacy. In particular, 95% of the time we're only two-hops away, and more than 50% of the time we know somebody in common - so I can quickly drop a line to someone I trust personally and get the inside scoop on this new associate of mine.

Anybody who is trying to use Linked In for more than a Rolodex is missing the point. It really is nothing more.

Also, (And I'm not sure if this is just me) - I have about 300 or so facebook friends, and about 400 Linked-In contacts, and, with maybe a half-dozen exceptions - there is no intersection between the two sets. I don't share pictures, wall-history, or personal updates with business colleagues, and, I have no desire to pollute my linkded in rolodex with every aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, ex-girlfriend that I've acquired in the last 10 years.
Personally, LinkedIn has worked for me in allowing me to connect with a number of people working in the Education sector. (My startup targets K-12 space in India.)

This includes School Principals, Teachers, and other firms with whom I can possibly collaborate in future.

LinkedIn certainly ain't the best in many respects, but does serve a purpose at times.
FaceCash is a mobile payment system that more or less just happens to have a cash register. We take 1.5% of each FaceCash transaction on the merchant side, plus fees (also on the merchant side) for coupons that are delivered to the FaceCash app and then result in a sale. We'll also start charging for some parts of ThinkLink (the built-in accounting suite) like payroll, eventually.
Emotional Strength > Intellectual Intelligence in determining societies winners. You have to convince people that you are entitled to lead, to get them to grant you leadership.
LinkedIn serves as a "Someone I Know Looking For a New Job Early Warning System".

If I get an email that someone has updated their LinkedIn, then I know that they're looking for work. It's the same thing if someone I know gets their CISSP.
I can't find where to put it into full screen. That part really annoys me.
As many as 40% of CEOs are actually introverts.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2006-06-0...
Very solid long term businesses are built by people like you. With solid relationships kept alive over decades.

Companies like morgan motors, vans aircraft, Cessna and many others. Don't discount yourself just because you're not as flashy as that other guy. Many people are turned off by donald trump types.
While vision is important I do agree with the article how sometimes you discover the vision by doing small things. Facebook I don't believe was any more visionary when they first started. It first started as a knockoff of hotornot (if memory serves me correct). But by doing that project he realized and got on to the path that would lead to Facebook.

As much as I would like to wake up one day with THE billion dollar idea... I don't think that's how it happens. I think for most people it's about doing things and adjusting as you get more data to figure out what direction to go. But if you don't start and worry instead about chasing after the huge problem to solve...you might just end up waiting too long and passing on opportunities.
What do you expect? How can you have someone that doesn't like talking to crowds be a politician or someone who avoids cameras be in the entertainment business? I guess, then, that leaves the extroverts to fill the gaps...

I hate the idea of cliques (jocks, nerds, etc.) just as much as I hate the idea of baseless notions that extroverts are the slime balls while introverts are the silent heroes. If people hailed the qualities of introverts, then they would be in the position of extroverts, and since introverts presumably dislike being in such situations, they would cease honing the skills like "independence, focus, persistence..." they are admired for.

If the introverts are truly "building the next Facebook/LinkedIn," then their success is derived from the extroverts using it.

It might not be a pretty world, but at least it's balanced (to a decent degree).
I'm the same way, and I know a lot of people like this. Many times I've been working on a project with friends and we'll get stuck on something and we'll joke that someone is going to have to go take a shower, so we can get past the hurdle.

Also, I may have, on one or two occasions, written code on the tile walls with tub crayons.... after all, you get a brilliant idea, you don't want to lose it in the time it takes to dry of.

I'd say that in addition to letting go of assumptions, it's just as much about breaking patterns.

I often find that once I start trying to fix a problem, my brain gets stuck in that way of fixing it and if that doesn't work, it then becomes a matter of fixing the fix, etc. It all just kind of builds up. If I'm standing in the shower with hot water pouring over my head, I can free my mind of whatever I was concentrating on and then new ideas emerge.
>Can always base things off IP, not as good but a similar effect.

So trying to target an ad for the 150+ people in my company that share a single IP?
Interesting . But why you guys don't have a demo upfront ?
I was there for about the same time period. In addition to the shift in the community, around that same time the front page began to be dominated by mediocrity (daily mail anyone?). If you checked the history on any of the front page submitters it was obvious they were all in massive vote-collusion rings.

Articles in these rings would instantly hit the front page with 200+ votes. The front page became irrelevent, and on Digg -- as opposed to its competitor Reddit -- there was not much else.

I stopped visiting months before the v4 fiasco, but even then it was already long apparent that the essence of what made Digg special in the beginning was long gone.
No. Separately. None except about the borderline cases. Mostly the people, but about the idea if it's either very bad or very good. We know one another so well that most of the time we just have to look at one another; if there's debate it's about whether the founders seem relentlessly resourceful.
Why do everyone thinks that , if you got into YC , your company gonna be a sure bet ?
I spent 2 years in the POS industry (about 3-4 years ago since I left). I've thought about this a couple times, but it keeps coming down to the same thing; if your internet goes out, you're hooped.
IP address is pretty crude. I expect a lot more use of tricks like http://panopticlick.eff.org/ and http://samy.pl/evercookie/ until browser vendors fix the exploitable features they rely on.
I don't think many people actually think that. We've said publicly many times that we'd be pleasantly surprised if the success rate was as high as 50%.
Extroverts can be bad team members when they're assholes. Assholes come in many flavors, but an extroverted asshole often makes a worse team member than an introverted asshole.

Introverts can be effective communicators when they've thought through the problem at hand and therefore know exactly how to make sense of it. Extroverts are sometimes too distracted to think deeply about something.

I think the article is talking about a specific way of talking about "team skills" and "communication skills". Some people tend to equate those terms with the ability to make small talk with everybody, be popular at parties, etc. Those kinds of "skills" are definitely lacking in introverts, yet expected of everybody where extroverted assholes are in positions of power.