skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually working a lot better today. Egosearch didn't return me anything yesterday, today it returns me some results.
Yale Fights to Keep Student Start-Ups From Defecting to Silicon Valley
So how do you move it down? Fast for a few days?
I agree with you on this one. If dull work must be done, you have to do it as fast as possible and get over it. Otherwise you keep thinking on it while doing normal stuff, so you never get to rest and you are probably wasting time with other stuff (just so you don't have to do what must be done)
Web Programming with Continuations
I just think a article where 8 out of 10 would've been guessed by this community adds little value.
640K of RAM and a Blub compiler ought to be good enough for everybody.
AFRC adopts network-centric emergency notification system across 40 US base camps
Air Force Reserve Command adopts network-centric emergency notification system across 40 US base camps
Cuil is much more worth than powerset is.
PowerSet was searching through about 5 million pages? No need for a huge cluster farm!

No offense meant, but I bet if Powerset wouldn't have been sold, you probably would be workless as they would have run out of money very very soon. You can't make money searching through wikipedia, and the technology was nothing more like phrase detection (with verbs, nouns, etc) and simple dictionary lookup. The interface was nice though.
I bet the technology wouldn't work with foreign languages too... ;).

What I think powerset has is the skills to run large clusters, to deploy software on a large scale, and to scale things up. These are things that are interesting, but I think the Microsoft guys can do this as well without buying powerset.

If Microsoft would have spend the 100 Million they gave out for buying powerset on 100 google engineers and give each of them 1/3 million each year (so they leave google and I bet many would!), at the end of 2 years, they would have had a much better product at a far better price!
And furthermore, Non-Compete is Un-American.
The amazing story of W Mitchell
I went to the one here in SF earlier this year. My company paid the badge fee. Honestly, the sessions were way too short. No speaker had time to go into depth about anything and they were always rushed. Little time to answer questions. If you can go for free then do it. Don't pay out your own money though.
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oh, yea, how about putting up a FAQ wiki somewhere?

Here's some basic categories:

- what programming language should i start / learn next?

- what editor, VCS, bug tracker

- what profilers /debuggers / unit testing / BDD shd i use?

- how do i deal with RSI/ wrist pain / eye strain?

- what hosts / colo / DNS host / domain registrar / host pinging service do you reommend?

- what laptop / keyboard / mouse / display shd i get? where can i buy it if i live in _______

- what virtualization shd i use?

-
I like the behavior shown in this post. Currently however, I use Tab Catalog so ctrl + tab displays a visual representation of all open tabs in all FF instances. I think I may still prefer this as it makes it quick and easy to jump between FF windows seamlessly.
Cuil. Pay me.
That is a great idea. A 'Best of YC' wiki
Flexibility

Prototype and JQuery are flexible enough to stay out your way.

Developer background

"produce hand made code"

Unnecessary coding instead of using the code that was already developed, designed and tested by community

Insight

"I know exactly what is behind methods I use"

These frameworks are 100% open, go ahead and look inside, you'll see how JS gurus are doing it.

Accessibility

"keeping relatively low size of a page"

Frameworks mentioned are small and lightweight enough. Prototype.js weight is 124 kb (unpacked), consider browser caching (use google access), and this argument won't be serious anymore.
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I wish I could upvote you a thousand times for this.

Also: Please start blogging again, even if it's about climbing mountains and laughing at those wacky comp.lang bloggers.
the frozen pane at the bottom, I almost didn't scroll ;)
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why hasn't MSFT or YHOO done this yet?

As other people have pointed out, they might have. I imagine the reason it isn't successful is the same reason government sponsorship of startups isn't successful - bureaucracies tend to not work very well when it comes to having to often admit mistakes and changing course - sunk costs bias and all that.
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Facebook Launches News Feed Filters
http://audiosynth.com/ - supercollider has it together a bit more - both need better documentation -
you mean this?

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive
Okay, I'm seeing all these posts here, is this guy actually creating anything or is he just talking about what he would do about these startups?
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I think 'Ewe' would be a bad one.

"I hate Ewe"

":( Why? I just wanted to know what your least favorite brand name is."
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I read the article earlier and the picture with it had the guys who bought the bird cage site with about 5 big ass birdcages in the background.

I guess they're doing their own inventory.

Edit: This article was linkjacked (i.e. stolen) from the nytimes. Here's the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/technology/29flip.html

The picture and the birdcage are there.
The total benefit of dupes well outweighs the cost. Maybe having a list of "related YC stories" on the side might be a good idea?
If you can't come up with those yourself, you're doing it wrong.

[edit: folks, if you're going to mod down a joke, at least tell me why it isn't funny...]
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Grassy Knol?
I think of the alternatives.

It is easy for me to find energy when I imagine myself working for a company where I never do any interesting work. Where I sit there watching youtube for hours because I know nothing I will do there will matter anyway. Where the best way to get ahead is not by creating real wealth, but is to jostle with my coworkers for the favor of the people handing out the wealth.

Fear is a powerful motivator.
Someone posts a dupe, I post a link to the first article and like magic, it disappears.
Practical tips on how to actually do the first three

1. Public Speaking

Join a ToastMasters, where you will make prepared or impromptu speeches, evaluate other's speeches, and generally just learn how to do public speaking. A lot of them will let you sit there and "audit" a few weeks before joining in the more active roles.

2. Writing

Write something that requires you to explain your logic flow clearly. Then take it to a friend who's a good writer and/or Enlish major or reads alot. Watch him tear your paper apart and tell you which logical points need to be linked better, or why certain annecdotes are out of place or generally why your thoughts can or cannot be easily followed. Writing isn't enough, you need to be critiqued to see the difference between yourself and Tolkien or other really good writers. If you don't have a friend, read a short story analytically and read as many commentaries on it as you can find. You'll see how well-written pieces are constructed together as carefully as beautiful code: their logic flow is good, the comments are helpful, witty and to the point without being redundant, and every idea (object) or plot device (function) is used on purpose, executed at exactly the right time. You cannot write well until you know how to recognize why good writing is good.

3. Self-management

Stop reading HN, or at least use noprocrast. A really good thing I heard from somewhere on the internet is to represent yourself as your own business, even when you don't have one: you don't work for "the man", you work for yourself. Your business is merely in partnership with the company that hired you. They don't own your work, you provide a service for them that they purchase. You represent yourself, you work for yourself, you sell your product/services yourself. In short : you manage yourself.
Good System, Bad System - Joel on Software
I agree...this guy deserves the $50. Knol sucks, but at least - by merely looking at it - you can sorta pronounce it right.

Good luck with anyone getting "cool" from "cuil". My first thought was "quill"?
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dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=113050
In Search of Epiphany
Successful entrepreneurs are the ones who break the rules.
Lists are for authors who can't figure out what's important and emphasize it. It's just a long, monotone drawl that abdicates some thinking.
Check out http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/ - it has a bunch of websites for sale.

I went there after reading NY Times article a couple days ago.. its the largest such marketplace. "$729k in websites sold in 18 months". All and all, kind of cool, but still an emerging industry. Reminds me of domain names a few years back. If you can code well, you can probably make a lot more money selling sites to clients who have money.

The opportunities I saw:
1) Buy a site that has traffic existing customers/visitors (will cost 1-3X profits). This could be a way to validate a product/service idea, and then make it better.
2) Build scripts for websites that you can license repeatedly for $200-$1k.
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My guess would be that that won't happen any more than limbs get regrown. Of course, my guess is pretty worthless. :)
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There are a lot of smart people at Google who are surely aware of these issues, and they are keeping them in mind as they go forward with this?

Maybe Google will give 50% of profits on investment to the those who manage the funds, or maybe 100%, and seek to benefit from the "externalities" of running a corporate VC - dibs on buyouts, control of promising startups.

The motivation behind this, I think, is not getting screwed by external VC's like they have been when they want to buy a company.
schedule small breaks throughout the day. So you always know that you only need to work at most 45 minutes before you get your 15 min break
I think we're starting to dislike Google as a company. It doesn't seem like the youthful startup it once was. And so we're all looking for some new youthful point on the horizon.
Hi Dave - There are actually two sides to this project. A Startup A Day is a brainstorming excercise where myself and occasionally others throw out ideas that we think might be interesting. As you might expect from any brainstorming excercise, most of the ideas typically have some major flaws and probably aren't worth investing the time needed to do a prototype or beta (especially when you have a fairly demanding full-time job).

However, a few months ago we kicked off a new site called "A Startup A Week", which is a video series where we brought together small teams and gave them one week to build a prototype. At the end of the week, the teams would then present their ideas to a panel of judges (including angel investors). We're still playing with the format, but the ultimate idea is that the best ideas generated from the Startup A Day site would then feed into the Startup A Week show. Full disclosure - while the Startup A Day site is my own personal site, the Startup A Week show is sponsored by Microsoft (where I work) and features sites built primarily (but not exclusively) with MS web technologies.
Unfortunately, I can remember cuil because of the "pronounce like cool, or kewl" tagline. It is just as annoying as Xobni (Inbox backwards...). I wish I could think of names like that that nobody forgets after first hearing them.
Doesn't matter how horrible the name, as Google will be serving Knol pages in the top 10 for almost all revenue generating keywords soon.

If you want to get on board by writing your Knol page be warned; getting your money from AdSense only is considered risky, AdSense plus hosting your content with Google is even riskier.
"[...] students need to be able to do the hard jobs".

Difficulty comes in all shapes and sizes. Your next point is better: "[...] teach concepts instead of tools and languages".

That approach to education sees any language and/or run-time environment as an opportunity to work with an underlying concept.

A study of any language or run-time to the exclusion of an underlying concept is short-sighted. Any student with a language-centric approach to learning faces many difficulties in their professional life. We must all be able to adapt to changes in our field. We must be able to separate fad from fundamentally different.
I have no idea what this guy is trying to say by comparing Ruby to COBOL.

Is he trying to say that Ruby is just another flash in the pan, like COBOL?

Or is he suggesting that some of today's Ruby code might still be running in vital systems fifty years from now?

Neither of those arguments would seem to have much to do with his main point. Could it be that he's trying to imply that language innovation has been a chimera for fifty years and we should all have been satisfied with COBOL? Surely nobody could be that much of a Blub fundamentalist!

Or, you know, maybe this whole essay makes no sense.
That's why lists are coming from sites like Lifehack and Cracked, which are really sorta second-rate sites to begin with.
Goledge
1) Lists are a staple of Digg, and the quality of overall submissions has gone down on Digg, while the number of lists in general is on the rise. There may be a correlation here... lets not find out

2) See point 1

C) According to the following (silly) patent by Channel Intelligence (oxymoron?), it is a list that is stored in a database on a computer - you might be increasing PG's liability - http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6917941

100) 0111001101100101011001010010000001110000011011110110100101101110011101000010000000110001

v) Lists in general are less well thought out than an article yet are more readable. Combined, I think this takes away from the "stickiness" of an article, because I can quickly skim through it, get the point of an list and move on - with that information barely registering.
I thought Knol as the singular form of "knowledge" was kind of clever... but I'm no marketer.
http://www.gotahoe.com - Tahoe Vacations

http://cerberus.com - Cerberus

http:// - Pen Island (not posting domain)

http://www.ameriprise.com/ - Ameriprise

http://scottpetersendeli.com/index.html - Scott Petersen Sausage
Yes, it looks ok, but it takes five times longer to load.
Cheater.
I've shopped for and sold a web business on the SitePoint marketplace (went for around $3K), and it's a fairly decent way to make money.

Many people operate by building quick affiliate based sites, growing traffic and then selling it with "proven income" to someone for 1-3K 6 months (or less time depending on how good you are at driving traffic).
The only argument I buy here is Jessica's. I agree that corporate vc could limit exit options.

However, I think Fred's general arguments against corporate vc don't fully apply to Google. First, Google probably does have the talent in-house to identify and nurture young businesses. Google has a perspective on what kind of web businesses can create long-term value that few VC's can match. That business insight is paired with a huge amount of technical expertise and infrastructure that would be invaluable for a young startup.

As for the argument about corporations having misaligned incentives, that almost certainly depends on how the investment entity is structured. Fred is right that a single exit is not a recurring revenue stream, but I assume that like any VC, Google would want to show regular long-term returns. VC is an industry where performance is already spotty. I believe that Google has as good a chance as any firm to deliver better than market returns.

Overall, I think it's premature to make a blanket statement without understanding how the investment arm at Google is structured or staffed. I personally would be excited to get Goog investment.
Or watch this lecture by Taubes:
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=2121...
They might not own knol.com, but they're #3 in the results while knol.com is about #15. "Google" didn't mean any more when they started out.

Top searches for knol include blog about the coming of Knol, Wikipedia (!) article about Knol, Knol itself, a social network about Knol, another third-party site about Knol and then 6 Knol blog posts. Knol.com is next and then dozens of pages with blog article of coming of Knol and the supposed "Death Knol" for Wikipedia.
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Created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the series took place in the tiny, somewhat inbred village of South Park, CO, where there dwelt a quartet of potty-mouthed fourth graders: sensible but nervous Stan Marsh; neurotic and self-flagellating Kyle Broflovski; fat, obnoxious, and thoroughly me-oriented Eric Cartman; and parka-wearing Kenny McCormick, who never spoke above a mumble — and who (during the series’ first five seasons) was invariably killed off in a grisly manner in each episode (”Oh my God! They killed Kenny! You bastards!”). During season six, Kenny was assumed to be permanently dead, and his place in the foursome was taken by prissy Butters, who openly resented being the obligatory “TV series replacement regular.”
He was voted down because you apparently can't trademark how a game works. Something like that. It was discussed in the previous thread.
Another pretty big factor is the Corporate Arm's potential unwillingness to invest in startups that compete directly with Google.
What "Bo/Staff Skills" didn't make the list?
So this is "Hacker News"? i.e. site for HACKERS to hang out?

Where stories about weight loss, Hollywood-grade entertainment industry rumors and get-rich-quick speculators routinely get voted up to the top, while kick-ass Rails API documentation site I submitted yesterday was not even noticed.

What's next? Britney's next pregnancy prediction?
Certainly true, but the way you spur innovation in any field is to make that innovation profitable. And of course more basic research funded by government is always good as well.
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Ask YC: Experts on Smart Grid -- where do they talk?
Hi all. I'm working in the Renewable Energy industry but have a background in software/tech. After putting together an energy monitoring system for a school campus, I'm convinced that the smart grid is going to be big. I've seen lots of companies entering this space, but I can't find the hackers. Any thoughts on where they hang out?
The French have more leisure time than Americans. It's just as much about what going on in your life stress-wise as it is about what you eat.

We have much to learn about life-work balance from the rest of the world. It's unfortunate that some parts of the world look at America and think that they should be emulating us! Please stop that before it's too late.

America needs Mexican siestas and French vacation time in the worst way.
+xii for such an aggressive numbering scheme!
Still, it leaves a slightly bad taste in the mouth, legal or not.

Edit: now off to work on my Riscaculous application...
Yeah. Guess posting the entire thing on one page got around that system.
I don't think of any good faith contract as being un-American. I wouldn't sign one, but I think the response to companies requiring one shouldn't be to ban them, but to let them lose all the great talent through market mechanisms.
That actually works surprisingly poorly for me, especially when compared to searchyc.com
In 2000, I briefly worked for a start up that was funded by a Lycos incubator. I'm almost positive that most big tech companies have similar programs. here's an old article about it - http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/1380.html
Let me summarize:

I don't like learning to use other people's code. I prefer to force my coworkers to learn mine.

But never fear - I'm sure this guy's undocumented, buggy, slow, half-implemented version of half of jQuery core is every bit as fun to use as the real thing. And so flexible!

[Note: That last paragraph may be harsher than this poor guy deserves, but I can't resist paraphrasing Greenspun. Who does not tend to mince words.]
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You're going to really like our startup. Let me know if you want to be on the beta list.
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Smuckers

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Perhaps not bandwidth per se, but how much of your income you spend on it, taking your money away from spending it on other things.
Add up your cable, cell, internet bills. Do you make choices to not do or buy other things in order to pay those? Sounds similar to the "hard choices" that get talked about on the evening news due to increasing gas prices.
The real challenge is not just aggregating everything into the inbox but being able to present it in a way that suits the user's personal style.

Some of my facebook messages, some twitter messages and some RSS feeds (but not all of them) are more important than some (but not all) of my emails. Yet, the facebook/twitter/email divergence is also a part of my consciousness as a user. To identify these similar things across mediums, present these things in once place and yet subtly distinguish between them - this is the challenge.

I guess it is also easy for me to point out that the answer is a combination of machine learning/statistical analysis and good UI design. Implementing it is the hard part :) I have thought about it but I am a bit busy doing other things. It would be interesting to hear your take on this and your approach to this problem when you are able to reveal such things.
Resources are worth that much? Would recycling an iPhone even yield enough money to pay for shipping it around the world?
Yea my bad on keeping the title the way it was. This seemed like an easily ignitable (is that the word to use?) article and I wanted to avoid my own bias.
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I got the joke, not sure why you got voted down.

In any case, I've already gotten the trivial solutions =)
Don't feed the trolls, especially not with long posts.
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but wouldn't they just defect after the 10 week program, especially since the majority are tech startups?
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If you feel you learned something new from this post, then you will never succeed at almost anything.
That always seemed polite enough to me.
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Almost none of the current generation of large scale web applications including twitter are doing anything remotely new.

The investment banking world has as you say had to deal with huge feeds as well as mashups from multiple sources.

http://www.zeromq.org/ for example is coming out of the financial world and looks like it's going to be the nginx of amqp systems. It looks like it's way faster and "scalable" than creating something over xmpp.
Old, but great.
Well, of course. Because everyone knows New Haven, Connecticut is a global hub of technological innovation...
Oh mouse, I see where you're coming from as most "list articles" lack value and insight worth of HN, but I disagree with you that a ban on their genre is the solution.

Y'see, lists aren't inherently bad in and of themselves. If essays (like pg essays) are programs, list articles are like pseudo-code: they're bite-sized tidbits that give you an outline of what the author thinks the major points of his writing is about.

The problem with lists is usually two-fold:

If the list lists trivial and common-sense ideas without telling you why or how that works, it has very little value. This type work best as an element inside of an essay or as supporting arguments for another single central idea.

On the other hand the list items are non-trivial, the list format works against a full fleshing out of the non-trivial idea : the readers' focus is diluted by the other points and the points each get so long that the whole article is essentially a series of essays, boring the reader to tears.

Lists are powerful; use with caution.