skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you google google circles circles was supposed to do that, and more, by offering you not just a profile, but multiple circles, to help keep your boring dysfunctional professional life from your boring dysfunctional family. It was a 2-3 day story on March 11ish, then denied by google....
I don't think pg is apologizing as a VC, but as a hacker/painter.

If the goal is to create something that people want. He has to be just as customer focused.
Building Sales for Startups [Google docs][2005]
I think that is that they are talking about. To have or Not to have a classic-desktop option by default.
excellent idea however this too has a way of failing.

T-shirts are listed not by inches or cms, which would tell you exactly what you getting.

hence the recent posts of different definitions for different sizes by different mfg. If they listed the actually sizes like they do with most suits. Then you have a reasonable chance of a good fit.
LGPL.
http://joyridelabs.de/game/code/
http://code.joyridelabs.de/nikki/src/

http://code.joyridelabs.de/nikki/src/Game/Scene.hs
http://code.joyridelabs.de/nikki/src/Game/MainLoop.hs
>India is like that dorky adolescent kid with warts and pimples popping up all over the face. Give her 20-30 more years.

Now that's a poorly chosen metaphor! What will the adolescent girl do in 20-30 years, replace pimples with wrinkles?!
ok so explain implied social network please
Unity doesn't because it has a fallback shell that mimics actual unity 100%.
flickr?
This is a good opportunity for someone to start a competitor of ITA. Google are only required to serve the ITA clients for five years. They will probably stop afterwards, they will want people to use their search engine to find flights.

The only thing special about ITA is their excellent software. Apparently they get their raw data from another company that is willing to license the data to anyone. I am sure that there are still some old LISPers around that can write a similar software for a new company.
meh, bonuses are hard. Once you start giving them, people like this start saying that you are 'punishing' your people if you don't give them a bonus that is quite as large next year.

I mean, obviously, the idea behind a bonus is that it's something you don't always get; something extra, so that employees can share when the company is doing well, or a extra thank you to employees who worked extra hard or who were especially effective at helping the company.

Of course, trying to get employees who have the same attitude as the author to have the right attitude about bonuses is hard, and I don't really have any good ideas how, other than making bonuses rare, which has it's own problems. Maybe having bonuses not on a set schedule? (e.g. tie the bonuses to, say, breaking a quarterly revenue record, and only give bonuses when that event occurs, rather than every year, once a year?)
New engine shakes up auto industry
Yes, Shell added and redesigned itself a lot after Unity surface but hey, that's good.
I don't run an ad blocker because I feel like watching/viewing an ad is the least I can do to support a free site. Just to be clear, I'm not condemning you for using an ad blocker, to each his own, just clarifying why I do see the ads.

That said, I still think it's crazy that the quality of service for Youtube's ads seems to be a priority over the actual video.
The Entrepreneur Questionnaire: Brian Chesky, Co-Founder and CEO of Airbnb
Found this response most interesting:

What has surprised you about being an entrepreneur?

When I first started out, I took for granted the overall speed at which I thought things should happen. It turns out things happen slower in the short term and faster in the long term. As an entrepreneur, you are believer and so you tend to think your idea will be obvious and immediately transformative. But nothing happens at first, and not for a long time. You get 90% of the results in the last 10% of time. You spend so much time thinking about getting to the goal that you forget to think about what to do once you get there. You need to think 30 steps ahead.
You're too hard on yourself. This has to be one of the most informative HN articles I've ever read. You gave very specific advice rather than waving your hands around. You provided sources where others can learn what you've learned. This is a template for a "how-to" post.
I work in a university with a bunch of late-20s, early-30s. All of my group wear, unfailingly, collared shirts and sweaters or sports coats or suits. We wear those because we like looking, and feeling, like independent adults - we're not teenagers and don't want to look like them. (Partly, we also don't want to be confused with students, I guess.)

When the professor bought us t-shirts for one particular project, it felt a bit like we were being put in our places - "Hey kids!". None of us have worn them to work. Nor will we; a formal shirt looks and feels better than a t-shirt, regardless of the quality of the t-shirt.

I think that the "t-shirts stick-it-to-the-man" attitude is pretty sad. No organization ever felt threatened by a subordinate wearing a t-shirt. Try wearing a better suit than your boss, try wearing a tailored shirt or better shoes. Rather than dressing like a rebellious teenager, try dressing like his/her boss. T-shirts seem like a rather poorly-thought-through immature act of rebellion to me.

Interestingly, the older guys in the group (40+) all wear (occasionally stained) t-shirts and claim to be completely uninterested in how they look. They also spend a lot of time taking the piss out of those of us who wear smarter clothes, telling us that we don't have to wear them. They also spend quite a bit of time (somewhat) desperately trying to convince us to dress down.

The head of the group, the professor, unfailingly wears a formal shirt and sports coat, of course.
I get that it was a "kamikaze" application. The fact of the matter is that YC looks for hackers, which you are not. It doesn't mean you're lesser. It just means that you shouldn't be surprised when you get rejected from YC.

I don't understand why/what you're protesting. If you want them to look beyond software startups, that would be very foolish of them as their area of expertise is software.
1. Allow the user to easily separate public from private personas. It could be public Linkedin-type profile to general views and allow informal personal profile like Twitter to exist for personal friendships.

2. It's not really about the settings, it's about feeling secure about your web identity.
I usually just drop in a picture of Will Ferrell as Elf. Works for me!
You should be using coffeescript though, makes the javascript in the example look like:

fs = require('fs')

for i in [1..3]
fs.readFile 'test.coffee', (err, data) ->
console.log("#{i}. Finished reading file")
console.log("#{i}. doing something important...")

And if you want to get rid of that "gotcha" (which is a javascript one, not a node.js one):

fs = require('fs')

for i in [1..3]
do (i) ->
fs.readFile 'test.coffee', (err, data) ->
console.log("#{i}. Finished reading file")
console.log("#{i}. doing something important...")

This will output the number you'd intuitively inside the file read callback function.
If you look at my IP, I'm working in Delaware, but I'm actually sitting in Colorado Springs. It's not evil, but I'm not gonna be too happy if you advertise a "local" deal.
I agree with what you said, but I don't think that's the part that has people most concerned. It's more about stuff like this:

According to the BusinessWeek report, Google has been using its
exclusive control over timely source code availability as leverage
to block vendors from making customizations that don't align with
Google's business interests. For example, the article says that
Google attempted to block Verizon from shipping an Android
device with Microsoft's Bing search engine.
Meet Nodebot, a pluggable Node.js IRC Bot
Inspired by http://zachholman.com/posts/why-github-hacks-on-side-projects/ Nodebot is written around a plugin architecture that makes it easy for anyone to roll their own irc bot and release their plugins back into the community for others to use.
In anything other than perhaps a human life, Never just feels too definitive. The may just makes it sound wishy washy.
I'm neither pro-Microsoft nor anti-Microsoft, but I must say that your take on this piece seems painfully, almost illogically slanted in favor of Microsoft.

>"For Microsoft, having a full featured reliable non-core product with measurable market share is a success because it allows Microsoft to offer vertical integration without the specter of anti-trust allegations"

One might rephrase at least part of this as, "For Microsoft, being a small fish in a large pond is a technicality that can be used as a distraction from what some view as its monopolistic goals."

>"Bing's robustness helps Microsoft sell software and services, while it's modest market share keeps infrastructure costs lower and Microsoft's core revenue stream coming from areas other than search reduces the pressure to game search algorithms towards their advertisers in order to increase revenue in the way that Google does."

Again rephrasing, "Bing was never meant to be a search engine, but rather a cheap, tame excuse for putting up a billboard about whatever Microsoft wants to sell."

>"What the article shows is not that Microsoft is inept, but rather that they are able to create an internal unit with many elements of a startup, scale that unit massively, and then transition it into a solid corporate structure capable of surviving over the long term"

That may in fact be the case, but it seems a rather forced spin on what the article's author seemed to be saying. To me, the narrative was about how Microsoft was large enough for a relatively small, startup-like project to remain below the radar until it began to develop some degree of success. At that half-baked point, it was noticed by the upper power bureaucracy, seized, and frozen before it could develop into a fully successful product. In an agile environment, this would have been fine (because the product wouldn't have been frozen), but since Microsoft is anything but agile, Bing became more of a legacy product than a living, growing project.

Of course, according to your earlier interpretation, this was all part of the Microsoft plan -- a pivot from "search engine" to "multiple distractions in the guise of a search engine."
There are very few professional settings where expressions of sexuality are seen as normal and fun.

OK, I'll grant that actually stripping at most work places would be bad form. But mentioning strip clubs? Referring to them? Depends I suppose on the country and local prudishness. It's not normally itself considered an expression of sexuality.

That's what "unprofessional" means.

You're just begging the question here.
I think that is a legacy of outline mode.
This reminds me of a guy at the last place I worked. It wasn't bonuses he was on about (though we had that issue come up, too), but performance appraisal. He was always trying to figure out just how much he needed to do to "far exceed expectations", as though by accomplishing just that much (and no more?) each year, he could "far exceed" consistently.

I think he might have been a little unclear on the concept.
Actually the inclusion of Finnish was the error! Its inclusion is very questionable, but the language group was proposed by a Finn. That's why I misremembered (former lingustics/Japanese major here). The inclusion of Japanese, on the other hand has been steadily gaining momentum for decades.

Linguists whose focus is on Japanese generally do generally consider it an Altaic language. This includes the most prominent, such as Marshall Unger (under the name Macro-Tungusic). The classification is still somewhat controversial, but I think it's largely for historical reasons. Local Japanese language scholars, who are not linguists, have traditionally subscribed to the view that Japanese is special and separated from all other languages. Modern linguists do not generally subscribe to that view, regardless of whether a proto-Altaic existed or not.

In any case the points about shared cultural, historical and religious heritage still apply. Finns learning English have far more of a shared cultural framework to work from than Asians learning English do.
a change in incentives is not a threat.
i had to google "tree shaking". i (now) think it means removing unneeded parts of the system for deployment (like compiler and debugger). but i don't understand how anything a library does can implicitly implement that. can you expand?
Financial service companies will want to advertise where their customers are. Pitching them before you have traction will just get you the question, "Ok, how many leads can you send us?"

But let's say you do and get 20 signed up as advertisers. Who cares? It won't earn you a cent until you get users in the door, you'll get worse terms, and it won't help you improve the underlying product.

Your users are the leverage you have to make good deals with advertisers.
Yes, sorry. This bug got fixed at a certain point, so not all the late edits marked the application as late.
I know the hacker's absolute weapon for testing quality of web design.
Just make a screenshot of your site. And try to write a program that can recognize on this picture all the important stuff (headings, paragraphs, links, phones, keywords...) and determine the UI elements and other stuff (headers, footers, menus, buttons, ADs, etc). If writing such program would be easy deal, then your design is good enough.
The only talk that I've ever seen about social networking that made me say, "YES! This guy gets it!" was from Google, so I'm thinking that they can pull it off. It is going to take a lot of engineering effort and testing, though, so it's not something we're going to see tomorrow.
Apparently they get their raw data from another company that is willing to license the data to anyone.

This is not true. In order to do what ITA does, you need schedules, fares, and availability data. You can buy the first two from clearinghouses if you have enough money. But the only way to get availability data is to either contract with airlines directly OR contract with your competitors.

I am sure that there are still some old LISPers around that can write a similar software for a new company.

That is just breathtakingly wrong.
DOJ Approves Google ITA - What does it mean?
Well, uh, tablets have been around for years. And suddenly there's an Apple logo on one, and the fanbois did act like it was amazing. What was amazing was putting phone software on a tablet instead of Windows Tablet Edition on a tablet.
A follow up: Did not remove the Google Market app, but I did force kill it, and saw no effect on starting or running other apps.
We'd promised to reply by a certain time.
I work at a non-"startup" company, and I really appreciate the t-shirts my company gives us. When I joined the company, I got a plain white one, and every so often they sell the "generic" shirts for fairly cheap (at cost I believe). At some of the company events, there is generally a t-shirt given out celebrating some special event (shipping a new vehicle), or sometimes a "funny" shirt that everyone at the event gets. A few years back, they gave out a shirt that parodied the west coast choppers and orange county choppers. I've gotten a few comments about how cool my company is that they'd give out those shirts. The fact that they are really comfortable t-shirts and last a long time helps too.

This article really hit the nail on the head.
Gorgeous graphics. Has massive potential. Still needs a bit of polish but I think this is going to be a great game.

I don't like that once a robot lands on his head you're screwed :)
Recommendations for Assembling a Successful Team of Freelancers
Hey, thanks! We just made our first jobs page, check it out: http://www.everlane.com/jobs
not really a shocking number considering the current state of the industry.
Remind me why it's more "insecure" than downloading a zip from a website and blindly running an executable inside it?
Geolocation using Wi-Fi BSSID/MAC addresses is probably more accurate and reliable.

WiGLE is a crowd-sourced database of the GPS positions of over 33M Wi-Fi BSSID/MAC addresses from around the world.

http://wigle.net/gps/gps/Map/onlinemap2/
No. We haven't replied to them yet, because we mistakenly believed they were late and that we thus didn't have to reply on April 7.
if you're talking about this presentation by Paul Adams: http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ... -- I would agree it's a great presentation, but he works at Facebook now :-)
Is It Rubinius?
Something I find helpful is to start coding the basic outline in a browser, then take a screenshot and cut up the design in Photoshop.

It's then really quick to experiment with different layouts and adjustments.
> Does uptake in online services increase profit in Office or Windows?

This is exactly what the war within Microsoft over the past 4-5 years has been about
Yes search revenue is ad revenue. I know that for Android it is accounted in ads but I have no idea about YouTube
Forget Netflix. E-book Publishers Need a Hulu
There's no way I'd wear a shirt that's too big.
UK To Hire 'Twitter Czar' For $232,000
I'm started speculating that there's another theory for the obesity epidemic, based on this recent study:

http://www.ausfoodnews.com.au/2011/04/08/coffee-and-fast-foo...

The key thing here is that we've been putting caffeine alongside saturated fat for quite a while - coffee and chocolate or pastries, burger/fries/soda, etc. Although one of these meals screws up our blood sugar for about 1/4th of the day, apparently that wasn't enough to make us fat by itself.

Then in the last 30-40 years we have the trend towards increased use of sweeteners and soft drink consumption, whose effect will be magnified among anyone consuming the sat-fat/caffeine combo. But low-carb diets work because the "sugar drink" of the study, given six hours later, never appears. In fact, low-carb diets will (from the dieter's perspective) reinforce their apparent effectiveness, as going off any fat-heavy diet will have exaggerated effects.
here is an idea for all those people who only write across the chest of t-shirt which make some women uncomfortable wearing.

Why don't you write the company name on the bottom center of the short - and then everyone can stare at your crotch - this at least will make both sexes uncomfortable. And if you are guy and did not understand the above, perhaps you do now. Before anyone gets upset - I am trying to be funny.
It's probably more. Based on public numbers/guesses (Harj: http://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-companies-that-get-a..., http://www.quora.com/How-many-people-teams-get-rejected-by-Y..., http://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-Y-Combinator-applica...) and some handwaving, last cycle was roughly 1000 applications, 10% got interviews, 4% (40 startups) got in. This cycle there's already ~145 slots taken, so I'd guesstimate 1500 applications (all else staying constant, etc) minimum. Maybe more like 2000.
I'd get Rachel Sequoia to design mine.
actually, we were serving the blog off of a tiny, poorly configured apache instance :)
Being at the stage we're at things move/happen quick. I looked at our app recently and it looked dated - since the app we've had some game-changing developments (signed on 2 major customers - we're B2B etc.). It'd be cool if your s/w could accommodate for things like that, and secondly I’m surprised you guys don’t do phone/skype screening/interviews. Might help reduce the risk on your investment. Just some thoughts. :-)
I think the problem with this program is that it's tied not to the success of the company itself -- which everyone has a stake in -- but the success of social features with which many people at Google probably aren't even involved, and over which they have no control.
A VC interviews one of the people they've funded, this is a pretty lightweight read on par with those old Sambuca ads that interviewed celebrities about their favorite places to drink Sambuca.
Make sure to talk to the customer(s) and find out what they really need and would pay for before building it ;)
> "The very nature of faith is belief without objective proof."

It's only about the last 150 years, within a small subset of Christianity, that faith has meant "belief without proof" or "belief without reason". Throughout the rest of Jewish and Christian history, as well as in other classical European and Middle Eastern writings, faith has been used to mean "acting upon a belief you hold for good reason, and continuing to act in the face of emotional difficulty". The classical definition of faith, which is still used by most serious religious scholars, is the triumph of reason and evidence over temporary emotion. (Previously discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2366932 )

> None of the thousands of religions of the world stand up particularly well to strict logic and reasoning

Obligatory [citation needed]. Or, rather, [many thousands of citations needed].

If you ever happen to be in my neighborhood, join me for dinner and you can do your best to demonstrate how my particular religion doesn't stand up well to strict logic and reasoning.
High quality tileable patterns
We need a GitHub of Science
Possible security vulnerability in Dropbox?
A possible security hole in Dropbox ?

"Newton’s concept, tested on a Windows machine, uses Dropbox’s own configuration files; configuration data, file/directory listings, hashes which are stored in numerous SQLite database files located in %APPDATA%\Dropbox. Inside one file lies a database row containing a users “host_id”, which is used to authenticate each individual user.

Modifying this file and changing the host_id to that of another Dropbox user automatically authenticates the account, providing complete access to that person Dropbox until the user realises that there is a new computer in the “Linked Devices” section of the Dropbox website."

Dropbox says there is no issue, a successful attack requires access to the user's computer (which seems inconsistent with the above), and that this is similar to stealing someone's cookies and using them to access Web services.

I would think for a service as potentially sensitive as Dropbox, something more secure than cookies could be used, and they could become invalid when used from a different machine.
Designing for Virality
Is it a new particle, or just a fluke?
If Google is going to exploit "open source" as a marketing term and claim at Google IO that it's trying to prevent a "draconian future," it shouldn't be withholding its source code from non-privileged partners and making licensees sign non-fragmentation clauses that give Google final approval over source changes.

In other words, if you're going to position yourself as a champion for openness, expect to get called out for not following the spirit of the idea. Especially if you're obstructing people from modifying your platform to use a competitor's product, such as Bing. That's the most alarming accusation, really, and could land them in hot water.
BS. Programmers come in all sizes.
you can still apply late!
While straightforward and simple it is not, this is what I'm working towards as well with CC.NET/msdeploy.

For QA builds, I manually trigger a CC.NET job that builds and deploys, but with msdeploy it overwrites what's on the QA server, providing no rollback capability.

For production builds, I trigger a cc.net project that just builds, then I manually push the bits to production servers, copying files from build server to production servers, setting up side by side versioned folders, and update IIS home directory for the web site. I'd like to automated, but transport is my biggest roadblock.

I'm curious, how does the new version get "deployed" to a staging server and is it "copied into a new directory" on the production server (UNC, FTP, ?).
Mixpanel - hiring hackers in SF
I came across http://carwoo.com/blog/design-tips/ the other day, I think on a post from here but not sure. I think it speaks directly to these specific questions.