skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the level of support of conditional get for blogs and RSS readers? I always assumed most readers would do conditional gets and most refined services (like blogger.com) would implement that too, since it is saving them bandwidth.

It is just implementing http properly and being a good netizen - like actually sending an identifiable user agent and following robots.txt.

BTW, feedity.com's homepage renders badly on my Firefox 3.0.1/WinXP
I think both the restaurant suggester (my vote) and contact maker are interesting ideas and would be very useful if done right, but also probably wouldn't pay for 'em. The restaurant suggester could be easily add supported and is probably a bit more tractable.
Good point; I heard it second-hand, but I think it came from the book How Economics Explains Everything.
My co-founder is married with two kids. We were in winter 2007. Neither of us is young and fresh out of college (I was 32, he was 33, at the time). When we were accepted, I had a house in Austin, a 350Z, a long-time girlfriend, and a dog. The house was sold in record time (to the first person who looked at it, the day before the open house), the Z was sold, the girlfriend got a job at Google, and the dog rode right beside me in the moving truck. My co-founder already lived in Santa Clara, so it wasn't quite as much of an upheaval for him.
If they aren't techies by their teens, and they've had access to technology at all, they never will be. And that's OK. Let'em be what they're gonna be.
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My honest feedback, I would buy the Movie Showtimes + Reviews + Tickets because I really like fandango/movietickets.com BUT their mobile interface sucks so it's tough to get tickets ahead of time when I'm out and about. Plus reviews is a bonus.

The Restaurant suggester and contact maker I'd install if they were free, the contact maker seems kinda cool.
Neato... Now if someone could just combine this with eye-tracking (http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=287626), we could have 3D web "windows" ala:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/
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More like;
Unless you restrict the use of a piece of software to a highly marketed and desired piece of hardware.
tons of respect and congratulations for that.
asking the user to sign up with zeep!...dont know how many users would be comfortable with giving away their phone number to a third party
Looks nice, but I can't afford anything that slows down firebug - it's so so so slow as it is.
I guess it's time I started using jquery.
Tipjoy. The founders are married (to each other) and they have a (really cute) kid.
Rhapsody (2 subscriptions one for the wife, one for me).
Safari unlimited.
AWS: I just used Mechanical Turk. It's an awesome service.
Safeway online grocery delivery. It's only 10 bucks!
Neflix, of course.
GoToMyPC for servicing the family's computers back home.
Basecamp for a short time.
Launchsplash.
Moo : Killer business cards. Just got them today.
Presumably sleeping and recovery were coincident.
TipJoy's founders are married and working together.

My wife and I are bootstrapping right now.
When encrypting the password is not enough...
aye.. might be worth going with the notion that chances of different sites existing at www.domain and http://domain (in particular those different sites being used as the identities of two different people) is probably 0.00somethingverysmall.. sure google etc do their funky duplicate content detection but y'know, i reckon you guys could just add a "this aint right" button in the same style as your ones to flag fakes etc, and then just wait for the day anyone actually uses it before worrying what to do about this.
Why does everything suck?
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>I certainly wouldn't be spending my weekends and nights writing an application if I didn't think I'd get some money for it, and I doubt that I'm rare

http://www.gnu.org/

http://www.linux.org/

http://www.freebsd.org/

http://www.apache.org/

http://www.mysql.com/

http://www.mozilla.org/

And Python, Perl and PHP...

I think enough people who spend their lives working for free to make it worthwhile!
Rather than getting complicated, see if something can be built that is really simple at first and if this works then move to creating something else. Two initial ideas from me:

1. A simple site for people to post ideas they want to work on with others. Discussion and possibly some collaboration tools around it. All work would be virtual with this model I suppose, but a site like this provides the mechanism to run your idea more than once

2. Create a simple host/service/site monitoring tool that is distributed across multiple servers

From my own experience, and I suspect others here would agree, small teams work the best, so you could always post several ideas and on a first come basis these can be allocated. Then have a demo day for everyone to vote for their favourite.
I think the major point was that, yes an experience developer can make a good accurate quote, but it needs the requirements to be nailed down and in fine detail before that quote really means anything. Being that most clients probably don't know what they want until they see it, accurate requirements are hard to find.

More common these days are some user stories and lots of rapid iterations until the client is happy I guess.
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I love parallax effects. Reminds me of all those days "wasted" playing aracade when I was a kid.
I'm in favor of T&M (Time and Materials) work for software development, simply because the universe of solutions is so broad.

Having said that, the argument put forward in this article is nowhere near complete. Yes, when you're getting paid by the hour the client has his foot on the gas pedal, but in reality he's already sunk a big hunk of money on you, from his standpoint on a long project it can easily look like throwing good money after bad.

Yes, agile techniques make clients happy faster. But it all depends on where the risk is. And there is a difference between the client and the users. If the users have a hard time making up their mind what they want? Then the software process becomes part of a business decision support system. The team interviews multiple stakeholders and facilitates negotiation and conflict resolution.

You might say "that's not software work," but that's the real world with real humans in it. In that case, it could be easy for the client to see bills every week or two for what he thinks is just a lot of talking, From his standpoint, he just wants the coding done -- and of course the users should be happy. (grin)

Because it is so complex hourly is the most straightforward way of working. I've been watching this scene for many years, though, and I have the sneaking suspicion that fixed price bids are what separate the men from the boys when it comes to delivering technology solutions -- mainly because the profitability can swing wildly from rolling-in-the-bucks to sucking-wind.
Being married and having a child is not a liability. The liability comes if the partner requires a lot of attention, and does not allow you to pursue your dreams. I.e, if you're married to a needy person, then you'll not have the flexibility to push limits.

I actually think being married is a good thing, because you are more likely to do things that are safe and that will lead to steady upwards growth, instead of trying to play the lotto and hoping for a blowout.
I am hoping we can do this as an experiment in Crowdsourcing, how fast can a group of interested and intelligent people can come together to build somethinh, which is Usable.
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Exactly. I always get frustrated that gets left out of the debate. The issue is not money. The issue is control. Control is ownership (or a close cousin).

That's why internet music taxes & whatnot are ridiculous. That doesn't restore ownership. Just money.
Why not include a complete list though, so long as it can be maintained?

If the information is public I don't see any good reason why it must be a subset.
It was created years ago and it's called the world wide web.
Indeed, money is but one potential reward. Social recognition is another.

Though I think most of free software is written for the 'finally this thing does what I want it to do' reward.
Well. It's a problem requiring a creative solution. It's certainly hard. I don't know how to do it, but I wouldn't say it's impossible or all up to fate.
I'd recommend jQuery, not just because of this library but because it really is worth using. Their motto "The Write less, Do More..." really holds true. Plus, it's fast, and will be even faster with John Resig integrates his new selector engine into the base jQuery.

Edit: I should have mentioned the other fact that jQuery aims to be compatible with other libraries such as Prototype by allowing you to change how it's used. I've never used it personally, but it might be helpful for you if you're adopting jQuery after having used another library for a while.
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I get occasional contacts for Erlang development now, and all I did was to list it on my resume and start a Xing group about Erlang (which has no traffic). Not sure if it would be possible to convert these contacts into contracts (I rejected for other reasons, like location), as my Erlang experience amounts to doing a couple of projecteuler exercises. Just saying that recruiters are not only looking for Java developers.
You mean using it is fast, or it runs fast? The new selector engine will make it easier to write stuff, or the code will run faster?

That's been what's holding me back - I'm worried it'll be slower to run on browsers (especially old ones on old computers) then code written to do just what it needs to and no more.
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I'm curious - do you actually think that there are people reading Hacker news that don't know about these projects?

Obviously I, and everyone else here, is aware of them, which should have clued you in that you had misread me. I didn't say that no-one will develop software for free, I said that I don't do it, and that I suspect that I'm far from unique.

Besides, if you look, you'll discover that many of the developers on those projects are getting paid for it, one way or another.
I only paid some MMORPG subscriptions so far. Ultima Online and WoW - never longer than a month, though.

Also spent 20$ on Linden Dollars (Second Life).
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Ebooks , Domains(Godaddy), Hosting(Webfaction)
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Well, I just discovered "Y" and have to play around a little bit.
Has a really simple interface.
Sorry for not being clear.

It runs fast, and is fast to use.

The new selector engine will make it even faster to run.

I haven't had any problems with jQuery running on browsers before IE 6, but I honestly haven't tried it on anything older than that.
Flickr and until very recently, Last.fm, although I may subscribe to that again in the future.
No--
You must live in LA.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=289014

Here you go.. First part of probably 6-10.
Object#returning (Ruby's K Combinator)
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That was actually convincing.
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Most patents provide implementation details just as an example and often have a disclaimer that basically says all other varying incarnations of the idea is covered by the patent. Yet another reason why most software patents aren't helpful.
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One answer to their knack for deleting valid content is to simply NEVER donate to them, encourage every single person you know to do the same, and let wikipedia know you are doing this and why.

This is what I have done.
Do you have any general comments on starting a business with your wife. It can be such a stressful environment at times - wondering how you guys have dealt with the downs.
Does it bother you that you can't host Clicky? I'm using Mint (thanks to a rec on #startups), but Clicky seems to have more data by far.
This is a monopoly like market by definition. We have companies competing for a finite amount of customers (or customers' attention).

If you had five equally popular search engines, they wouldn't really compete prices down anyway. The number of searches (supply) would still be the same & advertisers (demand) would still be the same.

The only reason MSN & Yahoo (not to mention real obscure engines) still earn less per click is a sort of market imperfection: It's complicated & time consuming learning another system & running parallel campaigns. For an extra 5-10%, it isn't worth it for small campaigns.

Monopoly or not, they are not manipulating the market. It manipulates itself.
AFAIK the founders were ok, but the folks that put in money into this VC's fund probably got screwed. So, how can you really trust these guys? I am sure buxfer wouldn't raise money from these guys whatever the terms.
I just read the WSJ story on this, and the venture firms typical investments differed from the Photobucket investment. Photobucket was much smaller than their usual portfolio companies and needed much less money than the venture firm usually gave. I think that's a pretty solid excuse, though it looks bad on the face of it because the return was so good.
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I have no idea if they are an early/late stage investor. According to paidcontent the total investment was around $3 million -- that's not change.
This is not true. I had access to all sorts of technology growing up. It wasn't until I got to college that I realized how important it is in being able to make a computer do almost anything you wanted it to given enough time and insight into the problem you want to solve.
Standard Compliance Enthusiasts will not stop until everything that would be done in flash by a sane person is ported to some strange js+html+css solution. :D

li tags transformed to this instead of just one embedded srolling.swf?!
I can think of almost nothing (except full games) where a plugin would be better suited.

Still I admit it's cool!
These graphs are somewhat misleading. As education (A) increases, knowledge (B) and "things you know you don't know" (C) increase on approximately the same curve. I'd say that A:C grows slowly at first, then gets steep, while A:B is roughly linear.
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Damned interesting whitepaper on recovering bios and encryption passwords, including Bitlocker.
"On the other hand, it is also capable of superhuman focus on the right task"

No, it's not. It's a human brain. It's not capable of anything superhuman.
Some graphics applications (like 3D modeling package) have pie-chart like menu system; for example, if you type SPACE, an overlayed menu appears around the mouse cursor and just moving a mouse a bit to that direction and release SPACE triggers that item (you don't even click).

Watching the experienced users using that interface is just amazing. They don't read the menu items; they know which direction is what by heart, probably in muscle memory.
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flickr, mefi, FogBugz, used to pay for O'Reilly's Safari. Bought the Instapaper iPhone client, if that counts. Made donations to a ton of services and people, mainly open source projects, web comics and such. Also donated to wikipedia, wikileaks, eff and a few others. That's all that comes to mind right now.
The average investment by the firm was $35M.
I think no1 was taken care of by justhackit.com.

I'm interested in no2 but don't really have that much time at the mo.
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True, but it was created by one guy and one NeXT cube in a particle accelerator ;-) Talk about odd partnerships.
I know confirmation bias can be a bitch, but this is just ridiculous. Its like a frenzy of "Me to!!11" in here every time a list of traits is published and then sure enough someone vomits all over a blog and produces a self-help guide with feel good "you art special" theme. </cynical rant>
One thing I pay for and I don't think anyone mentioned is "O'Reilly Safari Bookstore". US$ 22,00 month (I think?) and quite some nice books: the Javascript Rhino book, Obie's the Rails way, the Ruby way, the Pragmatic Programmer, the Cathedral and the Bazaar, and Hackers & Painters, to name a few.
Some very good points are made in this article.

What thoughts do the YC crowd have on web applications for the elderly?
There is one other comment with same opinion on the site itself.

But the idea is not to get into such gory details. Its a fun thing. They essentially get the highly insightful statement in a very creative way. :)

I was definitely impressed to be reminded of Humility and what makes the best people this way.
I think that is what the VC company's site could be used for.
Reminds me of the unconsciously-incompetent, consciously-incompetent, consciously-competent and finally the unconsciously-competent concepts...
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My bad. I take back what I said. That does qualify as a private individual investment. Is there a link to where you got that number from? Thanks!
It's (perhaps) worth noting that Object#returning is part of ActiveSupport, not the Ruby Standard Library.
Thank you. I looked into &REST and all the other ways I can declare parameters and I didn't think the Lisp defun could be so powerful. It is not a matter of how I can declare a function anymore but a matter of how I can't.

Where would it be the right forum?
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Now - where is the software company that works like this? Does anybody know one?
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in addition to the search.twitter.com one
As a long-time blogger that has seen comment-based startups come and go, I have to say this is pretty badass. Unlike those failed comment-tracking companies I don't have to install a plugin or what have you, backtype just indexes. Neat to find some of the comments I've made in the past - although I have a feeling I've made more than 80 comments in the last 1-2 years.

Anyways, eloquent solution guys. :-) And I'm loving the clickpass support. 1 minute registration. However with the clickpass registration I did not receive feedback that my username was taken.. it just hung, but I assumed "Paul" was taken so I tried again and it worked.
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Why couldn't they just use Ruby? It would take fewer lines.

(kidding, kidding, don't downmod me)
There's nothing wrong with having a positive perspective on things.
True.

I am guilty of hyperbole.

replaces "superhuman" with "extraordinary"
While reading it, I was just waiting for the "buy my book for 3 easy installments of $19.95" pitch.

Hmm, there's a startup idea: Ego-stroking self-help books for geeks..."Chicken Soup for the I Know I'm a Genius Why Doesn't Everyone Else Recognize It Soul"
Hmmm...not sure that anyone would characterize founding a web startup as "safe" ;-)
> Every week, in various ways, you probably violate the copyright law. How? ... Or if you ... play DVDs at a house party.

Isn't that perfectly legal under the cape of Fair Use? In fact, the article doesn't even mention fair use, and seems to blatently ignore the fact that we as consumers have the right to "copyright infringement" for personal uses, like mix tapes/discs, or private, non-profit showings and sharing with friends.

> It features news on the Potter films and books, essays on the works of J.K. Rowling, and a large gallery of fan art. It is also, at least to a copyright lawyer, an orgy of copyright infringement—including massive unauthorized use of characters, images, and the creation of "derivative works," like fan art.

Once again, isn't most of this considering Fair Use, in the same way that parody of a copyrighted work is considered fair use?

Or am I completely off my rocker and misunderstanding the purpose and coverage of Fair Use?
I found "Google for comments" to be quite appropriate.
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