skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good Looks Ready.
DST's Yuri Milner Buys $70 Million Home In Silicon Valley
> Ah, if that's the case, then it never appeared
> in my RSS feed

Interesting, isn't it, that there are things that don't appear in the RSS feed.

> there was a similar discussion in
> Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley

That's where it all started, as is mentioned at the very top of the submitted item.
Jack Dorsey & The Golden Gate Bridge
Negative much?

Bitly has massive amounts of data on what people are clicking on, and there's some serious data crunching to be done to tune things like content recommendation, etc.

Last month, Bitly saw 7 billion clicks on its links and currently supports 8500 white label partners.
"Gorgeous?"
It's nice to have choice, but I'm wondering when people will be able to install those applications themselves. Services are so web 2.0 :-p
Opiates
Thats it. This isn't photo sharing, it's dynamic ad hoc social networking that is exciting people.
What do you mean when you say cocaine is safer?
I agree that an early exit would be better, but it's hardly a "killer".

Assuming a uniform distribution of items searched for, 50% of them will require a full search, and 75% will exit one iteration early. 100% of searches for missing items will require a full search.

Secondly, the last couple of items are likely to be cache hits anyway, since adjacent array entries are in adjacent memory.
Sequoia is not going to give $25 million away without good reason. It's just that folks like us can't see the good reason. Either the "good reason" is being hid from us for strategic reasons or Sequoia made a big mistake and the app/company is a dud.
This is an understatement, if anything.
I think wewyor has a pretty good idea - someone might find an overt declaration of abstinence to be troublesome given the nature of the poll. Maybe they feel insecure about their personal use, maybe they feel the best "abstinence" vote is simply not choosing any of the options, maybe they simply feel that you haven't got anything to contribute (sort of like if you asked for a Starbucks' option in a poll on your favorite independent coffee shop).

Also, downvotes happen. You have enough karma that it seems odd to take someone else's view of your contribution seriously. Unless I'm missing something, I'd just say don't worry about it. Karma's like age - it's nothing but a number.
Have you looked at how your competitors make money?

This reminds me of omg-facts.com which I follow on Twitter and greatly enjoy (@OMGFacts). Seems they're reasonably successful with 1.6mil followers and various subcategory accounts (OMGFactsCelebs, OMGFactsSex, etc.) Their strategy seems to be occasional cross promotion and funnel readers to their site which is laden with advertisements. That's one option. (1)

(2) Charge subscription fees (perhaps $5/yr) for a premium version of the mailing list and treat the free one as a light upsell. Assuming you get 5% conversion, that's $750/yr or $62.50/mo. You'll need to figure out what kinds of extras you need to provide for your audience to consider it worth pulling out their credit card.

Alternatively could beg for donations, but I would rather donate by buying something from you.

(3) Find a cheaper way to send newsletters. Given Mailchimp's price points, seems the only way to go cheaper is to do it yourself. This is probably not worth it for you.

(4) webwright's point of doing Affiliates. No reason not to do this, very little effort and adds value to the newsletter.

(5) Merchandise. Perhaps compile a book of a year's worth of factoids and self-publish? Could do a paid ebook or printed on-demand via Amazon or Lulu.com. Could also do calendars (the one post-it per day kind, or the monthly flip ones). Once you have some solid merch, you could try and peddle to other resellers.

I like all of these, but not at the same time. I'd start with affiliates, then make a destination blog that mirrors the content but has a bit more engagement and some ads (also mirror on Twitter/Facebook, start building a brand), then do a premium newsletter/merchandise, then someday when you're a kingpin with millions of subscribers you can look into rolling your own mailing server.

P.S. I subscribed to your newsletter via acangiano's link. Looking forward to it. :)
Building a Better Nuclear Reactor
but isn't that what the money is good for?

This just made me think that Color's best use of that money is using 10M to pay 1M people 10 bucks to use their app for a week.
Startup's photo, video-sharing app breaks new ground
<a href="http://www.google.com>google</a>;
My fellow Canadians, I give you the New York Times paywall.
RSS subscriber here. While we're on the topic, would it be possible to include the text for text stories in the RSS feed? Currently only the title is shown. I tend to not click on things that don't immediately appear relevant to me. The title is not always descriptive of the content.
If you don't mind me asking is it because of other people that you stay away from everything or something else?

I try and keep away from alcohol I've seen enough family members die and go down the wrong road because of it, and friends with the other drugs that I kept away.
Just ask for it. I remember putting a "Buy Raganwald a Coffee" Paypal link on my blog and presto, people started clicking the link and sending me $1.27 each. I tried raising prices: I changed the link to "Buy Raganwald a Double Espresso" and people started sending me $3.15 each, and numbers did not fall by 2/3.

Start by asking for donations. You may be pleasantly surprised by what your readers will do for you.
Fantastic. Now I can watch the language-magpie part of my brain flit its way from Erlang, where it has been nesting for the past few weeks, back onto the JVM.
I hope with 41M of funding and 18-24 months until they need to raise again that they are willing to throw out many revisions of their product until they get one that truly "revolutionizes" life. Right now so much is focused on hype and so little is focused on product/potential roadmap of where this could be in 5 years(compressed to 1 year).
Posting from my phone on the bus - it seemed to lock up so I hit the submit button twice -- and it apparently made me double down. I didn't see it till I got to the office.

EDIT: Deleted my Dupe
I would have been interested in everyone's use of Nootropics[1]. I've taken and had productive, beneficial experiences with Modafinil and some Amphetamines. Though I am reticent to recommend use or talk about it much (likely my own DARE to say no cultural bias).

Something I found interesting in the poll is it seems to exclude a number of prescription drugs that people may be using. Just look at all the results that are falling under "Other". I tend to not discern a difference between the two when discussing drugs with hackers.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nootropic
Drug - Dose = Medicine
Set up a page where you display a graph of hosting costs. Next to it, a graph of revenue from your existing affiliates plus donations from readers. Accept donations. Every time someone donates the graph changes.

Put the link in the footer of your emails.

I don't know if it will work, though.
Give the Sequoia guys the benefit of doubt. They probably have seen something more (related to the product) that the rest of us havent or might be privy to other features in the pipeline.
Obviously, they're a bunch of smart people who have backed some of the biggest companies in the tech landscape.

In short, dont be so hasty to judge.
Define bubble.
Service looks great, but the text styling on that blog article is pretty tough to read.
"ACT NOW. Supplies are limited to 16,700,000."

Fucking genious.
At least he could be more of a kid and pretend. Which means I actually agree with you.
I've got the iGoogle hacker news widget showing top 5 to 10 stories. I've also got multiple other google RSS reader widgets running, one for each topic I have an interest in.

http://i.imgur.com/p5h7K.png

My girlfriend showed me how she was doing it once and I thought it was really quite revolutionary. She's since moved on to using a bunch of iPad RSS reader apps, but I'm stuck in the iGoogle "stone age" I just love it.

All that said, I pretty frequently click through to load the hackernews page though.
> I was too young to experience the job market post the first dot-com bubble but I would argue that if you're in a job that is going to suffer from the collapse of this current bubble, you're most likely currently benefiting from the bubble already.

A good point, but with respect to the .com bubble, Internet commerce's crash also affected the entire economy as well as ancillary companies in the IT sector. So I'm not sure that I necessarily agree; I work for a hosting company, and all of these bubble companies need hosting. You can see where A meets B, there.
Cascalog Made Easier
Congrats on the launch. I have used a service called Proposable before which seems to offer some similar capabilities. The analytics and tracking of the proposal reader is something that was very valuable to me as a B2B marketer.
What about creating a paid premium newsletter using Letter.ly Perhaps send the premium daily and the free one weekly. Depending on your conversion rates it should be enough to cover expenses and gives you an opportunity to grow paid subscriptions into potentially meaningful income.
Best Practices for OAuth 2.0 vs. OAuth 1.0 - One year later
Ask HN: Has anyone heard/read a success story from last year's Code for America?
I remember being one of many people here who were skeptical about CFA's approach. But I hoped CFA would be successful in its own way.

Did anyone here participate in CFA last year? Or do you know someone who did?
Are you an entrepreneur looking for good ideas? Here’s great ones from Fjord.
Its a template - any advice? I am happy to change it around.
Pants Deportivos
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What outrageous ideas do you have for your dream home?
Your answers will suffer from biased sampling since the people who do click through will be more likely to see this poll and hence give their answers.
That is true. For my newsletter I get subscribers every couple weeks asking me if they can donate some money. I still haven't added a link though, as I thought it might come off the wrong way.
Most VC's are backed by enormous pension funds and/or other group retirement vehicles. This is how they can afford to bet large sums of money on multiple companies with an expected payoff of only 1 in 10 companies on long time frames.

The pension isn't using that money (right now anyway), so the VC is free to do with it what they want, and in the end the money comes back to the pension in multiples.

At least this is my understanding talking to an actual VC (not in a fund-raising situation, just casually).
ER Accelerator, NYC's newest startup incubator launches
Ask HN: Is Google's algorithm broke? or is it my account?
This is the second time in two days that google returned a google generated 404 error code based on a site link I tried to click. The first was yesterday searching fortune 500 list, the first 4 links returned the 404 error (all linked to money.cnn.com) those seem to be repaired now. The second was today searching "denver weather" the 5 day forecast links gave me the same error, as did subsequent non direct file linked (links to a sub / not a .html or file) pages. I'm wondering if they are having problems with there algorithm or if my account / computer is having problems. It appears that in both cases they were not directly linked to a file, google passed sub code in the url, it was a google generated error code, and both use google to search their site.

Any input?
Ford Announces Partnership With AT&T To Connect Focus Electric To The Cloud
I believe the comment above was meant as a response to the "The response to the bug report looks depressingly typical" comment elsewhere in this thread.

It took me a minute to sort that out ("hmm, why is he referencing Bruce Evans?"), so I thought I'd mention it for anyone else trying to follow.
Sorry - just seeing this. How great of you to respond! I'll go back and see if I can get in today; I saw someone else note that it may have been that everyone was trying to get in at once. Not sure that I got an error message - the Firefox status was something like "retrieving from the cloud" but it just hung and never played.
I use AutoPager PlugIn for Firefox...
Those of us who followed the exodus out of reddit when it got full of noise and shrillness have a sense of foreboding. Those of us who still read reddit are thrilled to see it come to Hacker News.

I bet there is a clear age division between the two groups. I had the distinct impression that reddit had gotten younger when I left.
Startup Idea: Do a better job than Forrester
You and I obviously have different definitions of cruel.

Also, "Many successful hackers were brought up in places where $5 is nothing to be sneezed at".. so fucking what? The revenue they bring to the table is immaterial. They don't matter to a large company.
Over Concerns About Openness, OpenStack Founder Leaves Rackspace
Cynicism aside, I kind of get what they're trying to do - minimise the barriers to active participation in social networks (and therefore maximise the effectiveness of targeting) because it figures out things like tagging and networks for you. Unfortunately for them, I think the hurdle of "can I be bothered to join yet another pointless, invasive service" is a bigger one to cross than "can I be bothered to tag all my photos on Facebook". Even with inferior technology, I'd fancy Facebook could build a better model of which friends I associate with the most and where, if they wanted too.

Then there's the problem voiced elsewhere that intentionally collating all that data is just a bit too creepy, and I say that as someone who couldn't care less about Facebook privacy settings and thinks CCTV in public places is generally a good idea.
IPhly, radio control with your iPhone
Status.net uses OStatus and is open source: http://status.net/open-source
That's just one (the main) side of things; the specific piece of software I mention is in another market.
The experimental procedures he went through gave little additional support for his argument than simply stating:
"I noticed I sleep better when I stand on one leg for a while".

The statistical analysis of the study does not provide any additional weight to the statement. In fact, the statistical analysis is more of a distraction because he didn't control for an important influence in self-evaluating health. If a person expects that taking an action will improve their health, it's very likely that the person will think he feels better after taking that action.
After a bubble bursts, the pendulum tends to swing the other way, towards extreme thrift, caution, and near-paranoia - it affects spending as well as investment. The over-correction can hurt everyone.
I linked because dude is awesome :)
Hard Drive Search Warrants - Should There Be Any Limits?
Of course. And other sources of bias as well. I did, however, take a snapshot just before it fell of the "newest" page.
Yale startup Hadapt goes out of stealth, helps big companies handle big data
Has anyone else tried using the android app? Its at 1.5 stars on the market, and on my device (G2), it did not work at all. It appears no QA was done on a number of device types.

I'm really surprised that Color is using Sequoia's brand for PR on WSJ, Techcrunch without ensuring that what users see on Android is not just plain awful.

I was / am really excited for this product, but this seems like a botched launch to me. Thoughts? Would it have been better for Color to delay launch? Will this have a negative impact on Color's brand? Sequoia's brand? Or will Color simply fix the Android app after a few iterations and provide a better and better user experience in true startup fashion?
Good Java decompiler with Eclipse integration.
VC in 2011: The Haves and the Have Nots
Size doesn't always mean clever.
I just plugged an HDMI cable into my TV all by myself, it shifts more than 7Billion bytes/SEC to the screen.
Most git commands I use on a daily basis have 1-3 letter shell aliases:

https://github.com/samsonjs/config/blob/master/zsh/zshrc#L23...

Previously on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/b0o6z/short_but...
This is an incredibly viral piece of promotional content.

Awesome job, guys.
Kynetx Kicks off the Web With No Log in Button
Google launches new online magazine
I sometimes wonder how many people do startups focused on helping other startups. Or build applications that help people who build developers of applications. Yes you are scratching your own itch. But you're also building something for people who could build it themselves. You're asking to have lots of competition.

You're also taking on things where there is the least need. There are millions of markets and people who have problems. Most people can't code, they can't solve their problems, they can't build something of elegance and utility.

Focus on something you know well, but which isn't startups or programmers do for themselves.
Love the first one.

Have you considered putting your dotfiles on GitHub? That way other people can fork them for their own use, and you can also browse your Fork Queue to see if others have made interesting additions/changes.

Here's mine (mostly forked from a friend's): https://github.com/sumeetjain/dotfiles

As an example, I have one git function (called 'gpa') that shoves everything in the staging area into a single commit and immediately pushes it.

`gpa "the commit message"`
I actually (half-)jokingly linked to my Amazon Wishlist today. I'll report back if someone buys me that Macbook in there.
Nice response, but I think people do still reflexively upvote links for having "(YC11)" etc. in the title.
Ever listen to a conversation between two schizophrenics?
No, what's it like?
I don't know why I like it.
Toothpaste tastes like white.
Someday this will all make cheese.
There's reports of users' entire phones crashing and rebooting because of the app.
I currently have a Kindle DX graphite, it means I need to take one thing with me, I don't need to take lots of paper books and research papers with me everywhere, I can read it in direct sunlight, unlike a tablet or laptop and I can read if for hours without eyestrain, and the 3G means I can keep up with HN or other websites without the need for a seperate device, in short I'm glad I have it. Perhaps for someone who only reads occasionally it is overkill, but for those of us who are always consuming new information it is definately a useful tool.
Data.gc.ca: Canadian data portal confuses "data sets" with "data points"
I can't believe this troll is getting upvoted. Pure vitriol from a freshly minted account. Use the flag button, not upvote.
I wouldn't say they are evil. In fact, both signed and unsigned are the same--the only difference is the "pain point" (the place where you subtract 1 and your world breaks) is in a different spot. 0 for unsigned, INT_MIN for signed. Both are perfectly fine as long as you stay in their good range.
Shuuuut Please dont let Gaddafi hear that, he may retaliate :)
I know that a lot of folks come to the comments section before deciding if they want to read the article and I just want to say please do read it, especially if you are based in NYC. Very informative and a lot of details so that you get a good sense for the time and effort involved in fund-raising.

Thanks profitably guys, I saw you pitch a couple of times at the hatchery and Startup2010 and you have come a long way. Best of luck!
Remind HN: Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism
Am I the only person who thinks this could end badly simply because GPS is so spotty indoors?
I'm curious about a couple of things, but also ignorant... so here's hoping for a helpful reply:

- How much institutional money (pensions, sovereign wealth, etc) is ending up in VC?

(My intuition tells me that the tremendous pressure on these funds to generate returns, which was a huge part of the housing bubble, is in turn fueling this bubble too, although not nearly at the same scale.)
I repost this because of obvious trolls like this getting upvotes - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2364884
While I do think that $41mm is crazy, I agree with unohoo. If they're getting that much money from Sequoia, you can sure as hell bet they're not investing in "just another photo sharing app".

Part of $41mm is because of the team, but I'm betting most of the money is because of the long term, ambitious vision they have for it. But to get there, they have to release a decidedly short term vision product and build from there. This is probably just the launching pad.

But still, $41mm before any sort of traction or any proof of a userbase is really crazy
I know of one commercial Smalltalk UI bug that persisted 12 years -- being reported all the while. To be fair, it was a very tricky low-level race condition, very hard to reproduce, though very serious. (Unhandled exception in the bowels of the UI library. Boom! Application goes down.) Still, the attitude of the vendor was just unbelievable from the POV of the customer. After dozens of reports, hundreds of messages, numerous pieces of documentation, it still took 12 years for engineers to even start thinking it was something besides user error -- even though multiple customers were reporting it. (I know because I worked for 3 of them!) There is a huge perceptual wall there. I know because I used to work for the vendor. I know how apparent this bug is at a production shop and how opaque it appears from inside the vendor's camp. (And despite my being from inside, I still got the "user error" chant!)

EDIT: Oh, and I know of another UI bug that's been in their system for about 8 years. It's a Smalltalk newbie classic -- shoving non-identity keys into an IdentityDictionary. I could describe what it is to a Smalltalker in 2 sentences, and they could then find it and fix it. This vendor seems to have the same attitude about this bug, so I've already learned my lesson. They can keep their damn bug!
"There's a billion dollar market somewhere in this mobile photo sharing thing"

Where will the billion dollar come from? Getting paid to take pictures next to McDonalds?
The tldr of it is, I believe, that non-ionizing radiation can't modify your molecules, e.g. it won't give you cancer.

That doesn't mean it's not potentially dangerous - a bright enough light will blind you, and you can microwave yourself to death if you had an oven big enough to crawl into.

But basically, if you're not afraid of your stove-top (which generates non-ionizing radiation in the near-infrared, and sometimes visible red light) your probably shouldn't worry about your phone.
My 2 Cents On The Mobile Gaming War
The only reply this PR got, was from Bruce Evans who critiqued my use of a simple (long) cast, which appears to have derailed this PR, sticking it in the usual never getting fixed limbo where unfortunately most of my PR's appear to end up.

Looks to me like Bruce gave you some valuable advice. You spent more time complaining about the handling of your PR and documenting the issue on your blog than it would have taken you to fix your patch.
Is there a Rails Bubble?
Fair's fair... So long as every organization or individual that takes public money has their affairs exposed to public scrutiny, I see nothing to argue with.
So it's basically an inverted signal strength meter, or does it do something more?
The text does not contrast enough. And, although fairly popular, I don't like the white drop shadow thing at all.
Our website is hosted on Linode with nginx and our blog is on posterous. The infrastructure was rock solid. Nothing gave us any scares.
Or... the bubble is nearer than we think.
The annoyance is the lack of search functionality in the address bar, not the presence of the search bar.
Coincidences & My Best Ideas