skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that if you're building a start up community, your goal is to engage talent in computer science across the country/planet. I don't think there is a better way to do that then to start from the very beginning as having it that people build together. Zach has probably the best idea so far.

I think adding advertisements to help reduce the costs along with donations would also be a good start.
This is something of an aside, but: if you're blogging about your product, put a great big highlighted link to it front and center. There is a link to it in the sidebar, but it could be way more noticeable.
Bad journalism (yes, yes it's a blog, but still!):

"The press has quoted one of the executives as saying that their characters will be bigger than Mickey Mouse - That is uncharacteristic statement by a company that is patient, persistent and focused on customers and the long-term"

And yet, that's not the quote.

The loosely attributable quote is of exec Peter Vesterbacka saying "We WANT to be bigger than Mickey Mouse." as validation for taking their huge round of funding.

Key word for the article's analysis is "WANT".

I'm calling it out here because even on the dailyartifacts site they originally got the quote right in a previous story:

http://dailyartifacts.com/angry-birds-are-happy

Original quote source:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/angry-birds-developer-...
Def start with existing software.

Even a simple forum (Google group) could work. All the way up to stack exchange site (Q&A). Possibly http://braintrust.io
Well, it's hardly ever a "frictionless cliff". Lots of countries (plenty of them in the EU) have restrictions on free speech, but they haven't yet turned into autocracies.
So, in other words, since everyone knows that smoking is bad for you, it's okay for pro-smoking apps to exist.

I understand why people were upset by the Gay-cure app, as people would be angry about an anti-vaccine app, or a pro-Nazi app.

I am not in favor of Apple's app store policy precisely because it encourages nanny-state morality on the flimsiest of moral grounds: profitability.

It reminds me of John Maynard Keynes' attributed quote: "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."
> if a journalist does even the slightest bit of homework

Well there's your problem.

Journalists need to get their 200 words and get out and on to the next job. There isn't enough time to study the subject of an interview. And often the assignment is at very short notice. "Jim, today you're interviewing Paul Graham. Jill, you're talking to Larry Ellison."
Certainly well written, but my experience with journalists (hiring them and firing them and learning a ton from every one of them) is that sometimes the bookish, quiet types do the best investigative stuff. All the same, great little piece of copy here. I want that guy to do my cover letter.
I wholly disagree. I don't buy the OP's argument for tactically how to learn one bit, but knowing concepts for everything you "learned" is the only way to do it. After first year, I almost never had to work hard, I could just derive anything I needed, and yeah, this included using fourier series and laplace transforms.

To me the key is to observe that concepts are important then observe that the easiest way to learn concepts is to learn them at the optimal time of day (ie, not 8 am during the class when you are tired, that is a waste of time), from the optimal person (ie, not your prof that just wants to get back to research), during the optimal time of the term (ie, not in the first week of class, more like the week before the midterm and the 10 days before the final). To achieve all of this just requires two skills: 1. Knowing how to learn from a text book 2. Knowing when a textbook is crap and getting a better one from internet review sites.

Learning from a text book is easy. Cover the page with a piece of paper and read each line. When they come up with a problem that you don't have a function for derive it and bam, you've invented the formula for lateral-torsional buckling of non-uniform crossectional beams you will never have trouble with the concept again. If you get stuck (stuck to the point of it hurting your ego, not "I'm sure I would get it if I had the time" stuck then look at the formula (not the proof if you can avoid it). Try to prove it again! If you still can't prove it, find the proof somewhere (hopefully the text, but if not email your prof or the book author for the proof). I corrected the same (otherwise super awesome) text book 3 times over the course of two years. The author loved me because out of the 5 corrections he did 1 was from himself, 1 was an email that said "I think this is wrong" and the other 3 were from me proving that he was wrong.

Anyways got kind of long there, but don't waste time learning from other people, just learn how to learn and damn well get the concepts otherwise what's the point?
>Speech is free, period.

There is situations when one fundamental right conflicts with another fundamental right. Your statement is that the fundamental right of free speech must always take precedence.

I see how fundamental right of a child for the privacy of his/her body [ note: a child can't give an informed consent to waive the right ] can be given priority over somebody else's fundamental right for free speech.

Unfortunately, in the case of fetish animal torture videos the Supreme Court took the side of the scum.
Jack Dorsey Is Back In Action At Twitter, And That May Be Formalized Soon
His blog has 47 views. Even being on HN isnt getting him any traction.
Yahoo Debuts ‘Future of Search’
Maybe I'm being cynical but to me it just looks like IRC which keeps crashing my browser.
'm an enterprising new college graduate. Should I move to China?
Just relocated, hating it
Well, I tool the plunge and moved to CA. I thought it was what I wanted and that it would be border-line magical. I've only been out here for about 2 months, but every day I basically force myself to not pack up my stuff and drive 1500 miles back home.

I've got a neat programming job out here, and I live in a pretty cool area, but I feel like my perceptions of what it was like to be out here were wrong. I feel like I was better off back home. I was definitely more productive in terms of creating my own projects, etc. I think I'm just severely homesick and now pretty depressed.

Anyone else go through this that moved out here to pursue your dreams? Do you think 2 months is enough time for me to be like "ok I hate it I'm movig back"?
Funerals are public, or at least the WBC is on public ground when they protest at funerals.
As an explanation for the rust-belt as a whole that seems inaccurate; the south today is not nearly as industrialized as the northeast was in its heydey. Certainly the steel industry, one of the dominant industrial sectors, has not moved to the southeast, which has almost no steel industry; it's done a mixture of just shutting down entirely, and moving to China. The automotive industry is closer to being accurate, though I don't think the number of automotive jobs created in the southeast is actually particularly large, certainly nothing on the order of the change in Detroit's population.
So her being a cute girl has nothing to do with her getting attention for this website (which I personally think is cool)?
I could care less about what a dude with such bad teeth says.
I don't think these tips are that great. Some random criticisms:

ifconfig is deprecated (use "ip" instead).

There is not much value in knowing vim if you know Emacs. If you want to edit something in your terminal, well, emacsclient -t to your Emacs session. Or use mg, which is a very fast and light Emacs workalike -- just enough for editing your /etc/apt/sources.list to get Emacs installed :)
~ is ugly and hard to type (especially on non-english keyboards).
What films/documentaries should entrepreneurs watch?
way to get their attention hah
We must at least be in a photo sharing bubble.
The lines in law, where they exist, tend to be fuzzy, rather than fine.

Now with that said freedom of speech is a special law. And obviously one that cuts both ways. But a key reason why the law should largely exist untampered is that even if you say something I think is offensive, I can rely on a few things:

1) If it's absurd it will be discarded by most people.

2) If it's absurd those people it would convince, probably
already believe it.

3) With freedom of speech I can argue the point prior to irreversible damage.

Now there are some cases where freedom of speech don't apply and those are generally cases where the three points above don't apply. For example, the classic of yelling "Fire" in a crowded room. Someone else yelling, "there is no fire" is not likely to be heard and even if "Fire" is seemingly absurd, most people may not discard due to potential harm. Yada yada.

But outside of cases that violate the above, the law should stand. Otherwise the consequences, shutting down opposing speech, will almost certainly be worse.
Original source, sans blogspam -
http://afewtastefulsnaps.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/award-winn...
Why? C-r and C-s already do each of these, and C-p and C-n are for going back and forward in history. (Personally, I use M-p and M-n so that bash in the terminal works like Emacs.)
WBC does it on public property.
I think you're referring to Quicken Loans. Intuit, developer of Quicken software, don't seem to have any presence in Michigan.
but be honest, how many people did you show that to that said, "what's Twatter?"
- 50% of developers earn less than $682 per year
- $35,000 is average cost to develop an app
- 51 years to break-even

I wish I'd stop seeing this sort of statistical mangling.
That's equal to $333/month in rent. It might not be such a bad deal if utilities are reasonable.
The Google Vortex
What's with the trend of public overdesigned resumes? If you want to work for company X, call your friend that works there and ask them for an interview. They will probably be very interested in speaking to you.
First 4 lines of java, now 2 lines of CSS. I'm feeling a new game of golf coming on.

What's the fewest characters required to defeat the NY Times paywall?
You're correct, during their browser war with Netscape, IE was introducing revolutionary features, albeit not all standards based. They even implemented web fonts in IE4 if I'm not mistaken.

And then they sat on it for 4 years, refusing to fully implement the CSS 2.1 spec, refusing to fix ridiculous positioning bugs, and even refusing to fix security flaws that they mandated non-critical, although several of them used together often lead to arbitrary code execution on the client.

Like it is with User Experience in general, they ruined all the positive cred they had with IE6, causing standards-aware web devs to develop for the lowest-common denominator or invest their own time on every project for Microsoft's technical debt.

It's not fair that IE6 quirking was a required skill and a to-do for web developers, only because Microsoft had a browser share monopoly. Was it to slow down the evolution towards applications/operating system in the cloud? Mere negligence? I don't care anymore, they broke my heart.
I like @ but I wish it had ended up on the other side!.. like mytypicalhandle@ ... solves your problem, cause we respect the 'who'.... mytypicalhandle@gmail.com, mytypicalhandle@starbuckswhereiamthemayor... whatever.
Comics don't violate a fundamental right.
Well, the difference is that you're expressing your opinion, which is fine, and also harassing the guy, which is a crime.

Just as if you announced "mikeryan is going to hell! the Fag!" while chainsawing live babies you're committing a crime. The expressing of your opinion is not a crime, but the fact that you're expressing your opinion doesn't exempt you from other criminal liabilities.
It's mobile, it's social, and it's local! They managed to hit all the buzzwords in one startup!
I think I must be saying this very clumsily. I'll try to sum it up explicitly.

I'm OK with the existence of GPL software. I like it when people use a more permissive license, but your code is yours to do with what you will. What bothers me is what people say about the GPL, because I think it's misleading.

There is this common idea in the free software community that it is not hostile to commercial software. That's what I don't like. If people came out and said, "Yeah, my GPL source code has very severe restrictions that make it unsuitable for integration in commercial software," I would agree and wish them happy coding. But they don't say that. They use the misleading banner of "free," and even try to deny that it's incompatible with commercial software.

Based on all the evidence I've seen, I believe commercial software pretty much has to be offered under a proprietary license in 99% of cases. The GPL says I can't do that if I use so much as one line of GPL code written by somebody else. That means that using GPL code in my software renders it unsaleable.

So, when you said, "It is free to be used commercially … if you keep its derived works open source," I objected to that. If you can only release your software under the GPL, you're probably not going to make a lot of money selling it — it strains the definition of "commercial." You can't even use the Sleepycat model, where there's a GPL version and a commercial one.

It's your right to put your software under that license. But I think it's important for people to understand that it completely shuts out commercial use, even if the commercial use is largely original. We shouldn't downplay that.
You could also argue that the "speech" in that case was that of the child, and it was most definitely not freely given.
now that's some détournement
Existing (Open Source) tools at first for sure. Capture the audience, then extend and provide customized solutions / tools. I like zbruhnke idea as an initial project / mastermind group any one can join to get their feet wet if they dont already know a project or have one of their own they want to work on. But initially to get things started I think it would be best to use existing (open source) tools.

Once the choice of existing or new is made then the choice of technology / tools needs to be made. There are alot more existing solutions that meet the working spec needs in alot of differing technologies. So once the new/existing choice is made you really need to focus on tech (.Net, Python, Ruby, Java, etc) as this choice will help inform the number of potential contributers.

<ThoughsOnConcept>
I see this working best kind of how Google did in the early days and how I hear facebook currently works. Developers post project pitches to try and gather other people (Devs, PMs Marketing, etc) to their idea, then working together to make it happen. All members of SG would be under a blanked NDA for pitch ideas and each project once started could have their own.
</ThoughsOnConcept>
Well put. Hustle is not principally about hard work, rather it's about resourcefulness- encountering an obstacle or finding yourself stuck in a rut, and having the mindfulness, wit and unabashed boldness to hustle your way out of it. The "epiphany" is what it's all about, once you realize that we build artificial walls and barriers everywhere in our own lives, it is so empowering to plow right through them.
Title doesn't do it justice. The photo-sharing part isn't what's novel. They seem to be building a social graph automatically weighted on physical proximity+frequency, using smartphone sensors (the most important one of which happens to be a camera). That's cool, and potentially game-changing.

"All of your contacts are presented in a list of thumbnails ordered by how strong your connection is to that user. Whenever Color detects that you’re physically near another user (in other words, that you’re hanging out), your bond on the app gets a little stronger. So when you fire up the app and jump to your list of contacts, you’ll probably see your close friends and family members listed first. But if you don’t see a friend for a long time, they’ll gradually flow down the list, and eventually their photos will fade from color to black-and-white.

...If you fired up Color in that restaurant example from earlier, you’d only be able to see photos that had been taken by friends and strangers within 100 feet of that restaurant. That is, unless you jump to your social connections. Tap on your best friend’s profile photo, and you’ll then be able to see all of the photos that have recently been taken within 100 feet of them. In other words, Color is trying to give you a way to see everything that’s going on around you, and everything that’s going on around the people you care about."

"Color is also making use of every phone sensor it can access. The application was demoed to me in the basement of Color’s office — where there was no cell signal or GPS reception. But the app still managed to work normally, automatically placing the people who were sitting around me in the same group. It does this using a variety of tricks: it uses the camera to check for lighting conditions, and even uses the phone’s microphone to ‘listen’ to the ambient surroundings. If two phones are capturing similar audio, then they’re probably close to each other."
"But how exactly is Color going to make “wheelbarrows of
cash”... the company is still very early on, but it
eventually plans to offer businesses a self-serve platform
for running deals and ads

$41 Million for a photo sharing app and this is the best they came up with? You gotta be kidding me.
http://www.color.com/

I am not sure why the article did not have the link for the application.

edit - never mind they updated the article.
that much money sounds ridiculous, but there's definitely something very cool about proximity-based social networks and these guys now have the time and cash to find the right application.
Sounds technologically impressive, I'm just wondering if a dynamic friend list is really an advantage over a static list. The last thing I want to be doing when hanging out with friends is to be on my mobile phone checking out what they've posted to Color. I'd rather, you know, interact with them in real life. Maybe I missed a vital point of it, though.
Yes, the twatter thing, wasn't something we thought of, but many other people had it pop right in to their heads. It was, unfortunate.
You eventually have to eat, even if Instagram doesn't want you to work for them.
You can also use nano, which has similar key bindings and is often installed by default, which will do in a pinch until you can install emacs.
workflowy ftw.
Thank you for being the only person that responded to the point (might've been my fault, maybe I wasn't clear). I think most people would say that what the WBC does is harassment; so, other than the fine legal difference between whether the harassment occurs on public grounds or private property, how is one form of harassment protected as free speech and another form of harassment not?
Doessn't that just do the same thing as the built-in Ctrl-r and Ctrl-s? Also, Ctrl-p and Ctrl-n are already used to cycle through previous commands.
I wonder how much color.com cost?
Social Network, Wall street and there is some movie about two guys who are making some software and story about their way to top and falling down. But I can't remember title.
For God's sake, dont buy a place in Detroit! If you want a house for cheap, go to Vegas or Phoenix, you can find a 3 bedroom home for less than 60K. Or if you want to see a mini-Detroit up close, just drive through Oakland. In 20 years, Oakland will be where Detroit is today.

Detroit is like seeing 'Atlas Shrugged' in real life. The unions drove away the business, and the blacks drove away the whites. So basically all the productive people left, and now the only professionals left are the criminals.
Bing is a good mayor, but it's too little too late. Only Robocop can save Detroit now.
Today I realized that PG was right: HN really isn't turning into Reddit. It's turning into Cosmo.
I wonder if there will be unintended consequences if this gets really popular. There always seems to be that 'one engineer' who has a combination of good architectural taste, a lot of historical knowledge, and an ability to pull out the wheat from the chaff. Currently the thing that allows them to get anything done at all is that you physically have to go over and bother them if you would like to get their input, but if they start getting a stream of mentions perhaps it would simply get turned off.

That being said, I'm all in favor of putting a user id or group id in a TODO(username) in comments so that whattodo(name)* can give me a list of things in the source base that could use my, or someone on my team's attention.

[1] implementing the whattodo command is left as an exercise for the reader.
The article falls under "Anything that good hackers would find interesting"

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Views.fm Makes Dropbox Look Sexy
Yesod Blog: Hamlet, Lucius and Widgets, oh my
Thanks for submitting this! I thought of an even smaller way to do it:

$="";

Since they use prototype as $, we can just break the library before they load it in ;)
This can be somewhat misleading for someone who isn't familiar with Detroit. When people say 'Detroit', they often mean the sprawling metropolitan area of the city of Detroit and the surrounding suburbs. The Detroit metro area has 4.4 million residents. The city of Detroit has only 700k. This article refers only to the city. And yes, the city has very few white residents. It is overwhelmingly poor and black.

It's not unusual, in the U.S., for urban centers to have a high minority concentration, but I believe this is much higher than most major cities.
7 Common Mistakes Startups Make on Accelerator Program Applications
No idea where this came from (or if it's a good idea to feed the trolls; "hn_is_dumb" - really?), but Tech does have the policy to accept most and then fail out those who don't belong there. Only 29% of incoming freshman graduate in 4 years.

I'm glad Tech has this policy because there are lots of bright people here that did the same thing I did in high school and they do well here for similar reasons.
Personally, not a fan... but at least it's the default on Debian.
Why doesn't she find a technical co-founder and start her the next Instagram?
I'm a little concerned that it isn't viral and/or paradigm-shifting.
Reid Hoffman's 10 Rules for Entrepreneurs
The first email i've got from jack, saying he's got a prototype running on his laptop is from March 14th 2006. He called the app "twttr stalker" in that email. I remember it being "friend stalker" as a joke name thrown around as well.
"Bill recently acquired the domain color.com for $350K" according to Steve Thommes in the TC comments.
I found out about ack awhile back -- it's like grep on steroids.
Detroit is the extreme.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_large_...
Very interesting to view the chart of the percentages for different ethnicities: https://spreadsheets.google.com/oimg?key=0AqDMNINEecZvdEZWOT...

Note: this chart includes "Others or Mixed", but not "Foreign Born" which to subset of the other categories (i.e. some from each category are foreign born).

Also made a chart like yours with "Others or Mixed" included to match the percentage chart above: https://spreadsheets.google.com/oimg?key=0AqDMNINEecZvdEZWOT...
Not really. Speech is far from free, period.

The law recognizes a wide variety of restrictions. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_United... for a few.

For a view that "There is no such thing as free speech" see Stanley Fish, etc.. http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-Febr...
"syntax similar to Javascript"

I kind of choked when I read that. Why would you ever do such a thing?