skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presuming that the video is recent, and as Groupon enters it's silent period, it's a good technique for a relatively newly minted CEO who doesn't have 20-30 years of experience dealing with public markets, taking companies public, and all of the legal guidance that they've received in that time.

If Andrew takes three or four companies public, he'll learn how to answer those questions without stepping over the line, but, for right now, with a multi-billion dollar IPO on the line - silence is golden.

Besides - he managed to get an applause out of the audience, so he had good timing as well.

[Edit: Agreed that a "no comment" would have been as effective, but nowhere near as entertaining. I also suspect that the interviewer knew they were not supposed to be asking these questions, so there was another bit of interplay taking place as well.]
It's still not the prettiest site, another redesign will be coming in the future. I want to get a few more APIs in place before I do that, and am working on other things first.

I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to play with an API for Hacker News. It's built using the HNSearch api - http://www.hnsearch.com/api

I'm open to any comments or suggestions. I've added my Twitter name to my profile so I should be a bit easier to track down.
"the problem is that it could be a 30 minute subway ride to midtown add another 10-15 to downtown"

This is actually quite a reasonable commute, by NYC standards.

It's not uncommon to have a 1 hour commute each way.

I myself used to commute in to the City 2 hours each way. That's 4 hours of my life pretty much wasted every weekday.

In comparison, commuting from Washington Heights would have been a blessing.

One of the nicest commutes I had was from Brooklyn Heights, which was just a 4 minute subway ride from Wall St. Very nice neighborhood too. I would highly recommend it, if you can afford the rent.
Often times, people/organizations will pay money when performing a particular task is outside their core business and/or they have nobody on staff with the requisite domain knowledge.

It may seem cheaper to grab a copy of wordpress and host it myself, but then who will manage backups and updates (especially if myself or my staff aren't familiar with wordpress)? It may make more sense for me to spend $49 a month on a host which takes care of the details, so I can simply push content onto the site.
Libya all over again.
You gave more info than I gleaned off the site. All I saw were a few banners and a tagline.

Admittedly, I'm using a blackberry, so if it's video content like that, I'm not seeing it. The least the operators of that could have done was offer a transcript, or detect crappy browsers. Oh well.

*edit: I thought about, but failed to mention that a <video> tag would have been most helpful. And, why the downvotes?
Was that sarcasm, or are you wearing a tin-foil hat?

I mean, not to say Junior High history books are 100% accurate, but really?
A James Bond Author on How to Be a Proper Spy
Foreclosure on the bank (Awesome payback)
I don't think a transcript would be able to describe his reaction in the video.
Awesome! :)

The nice thing about tech is that there are enough jobs that if you're good, Craigslist will do you just fine. :) I think it depends on where you live, as well as what type of company you want (the three-person YC startup doesn't have the man-power to sort through Craigslist resumes, so they might just post here first - and in a place like NY or Boston, hooked-in companies might get more than enough people through their sites and connections to bother with Craigslist)

Wow, did I get you to make your first post? That's pretty cool. :) But your city isn't in your profile, so I can't point you to any particular meetups.
chuckle well what's he going to say? "I didn't sell my worthless company to google for billions of dollars because I was so full of my own b.s. I didn't realize I was throwing away the best deal I'd ever be offered in my lifetime?"
There is no transcript to speak of: He's in an interview, the interviewer asks him a few questions, and he simply stares at her without a word. Not even an "I'm not going to answer that." She describes it as a "Death Ray" stare.

It's almost as if he's a contestant on a game show where he wins a billion dollars if he can remain silent no matter what someone else says.

p.s. You haven't missed anything. It's entertaining, but hardly Hacker News.
The focus of that page is a video. And while I do agree with you about providing transcripts generally, in this case it wouldn't have really helped you understand what happened as it is the body language that is important in this case, not what he says (or rather doesn't say).
"it's hard to find a place without using a broker, who's going to take 15% of the annual rent (almost 2 months of rent) as a broker fee."

What about apartment hunting on sites like Craigslist?
if you have to use C++ without exceptions (console video games), then goto is much needed to handle exceptional situations locally. For example there would be label "fail:;" or "out:;" at the end of the function, where release of resource would happen, and you would "goto" to it, rather than releasing the resources in multiple exceptional places and return from there.
He looks pretty high.

EDIT: that's not meant to be funny; it's my honest impression of his demeanor.
The actual title is much more interesting: "Technical Lessons Learned from the Fukushima-Daichii Accident and Possible Corrective Actions for the Nuclear Industry: An Initial Evaluation"

"Reports" doesn't really do it justice.
int some_function( some_variable ) {

log("Its important I log that I'm returning %d\n", (some_variable ? 1 : 2));

return (some_variable ? 1 : 2);
}
Here you go (not word for word):

Interviewer: "When are you going public?"

Groupon CEO: [Silence. Look of death. Nervous shaking. Looks like head might explode.]

"Why didn't you sell to Google?"

[Same as above + flaring nostrils.]

"Why didn't you sell to Yahoo?"

[Laughter.]
Oh, and looking for internships after you got out of school is late - for traditional jobs and larger companies (the Googles of the world), tech internship recruiting season starts around January. However, it can be perfect for getting an internship at a startup or another busy company who is barely planning its own existence more than 6 months in advance, let alone looking for interns. :)
An amazing start! I just followed this on Github.
From what I've found on HN is that there is a lot of okay content, and occasionally there's awesome content. This awesome content is the stuff that sits on the top of the front page for a minimum of a day, and can sometimes last a few days. It's the kind of stuff that you go tell your friends the next time you see them.

That kind of content should have it's own separate page. Similar to a "Wall of Fame" but with some form of tracking who read what, so that way people can find something new when they go to the "Wall of Fame", without having to manually ignore what they've already read.
I didn't hellban anybody. But I have an idea who did. And, you know what? If you're gonna ask me, "who's more likely acting in good faith, the hellbanners on HN or the hellbanned?" it's not even a little challenging for me to answer that. The people managing HN are not mean-spirited.
That's funny, apparently I'm getting downvoted repeatedly for having the nerve to say that FOSS Java projects are not a minority. The irony is that I left Java behind for Python seven years and never looked back.

If I was taking this votes/points/karma thing seriously I would be rather pissed, now I'm just laughing at the rabid fanboyism.
What if replies to a progressively hellbanned user were themselves affected by the ban (tainted)? That would address the fragmentation.
I think a simple and direct "no comment, I can't talk about that right now" would have achieved a better result without all of the awkwardness of the "death stare" (and the, IMO, slightly creepy twitching).

Andrew is probably an awesome guy, but not knowing him other than as being the CEO of Groupon, those clips certainly don't give me a good first impression of him at all. He comes off a bit like the "quiet guy nobody suspected would be a killer until he murdered 20 people" in that video. Granted, I'm sure that was exactly the impact whoever edited these clips was going for, and thus you can't really blame the subject for it, but I'd advise him in the future to just go with ye olde "no comment".
Looks good. Except when you type a single space character the app enters into an infinite loop making it very difficult to do anything else in the browser (Chrome). Even navigating the window to a different page is impossible.

[Edit] Scratch that. Typing anything followed by a space character tends to make things crash. Why would this happen? I find this bug interesting. Let me know what the problem was when you fix it.

[Edit2] Okay looks like the problem may be with anything that needs to be url encoded.

[Edit3] I think the problem comes down to your call to encodeURIComponent in your search function and the behavior when the hash changes. Basically, we enter the search function when the hash changes. But then you call encodeURIComponent and assign the result to the hash. If the query contains characters that need to be escaped then the new value is different (meaning the hash changes), which means that your search function is going to get called ad infinitum.

In order to fix this I think you need to do two things. 1) Keep track of the in flight request unencoded and 2) if your search function is triggered by a hash change decode the query and compare it to your in flight request. If they are the same then you can bail out of the search function early. Otherwise you should cancel the in flight request and launch a new one.
I found a few other interesting little notes on his site:

http://iq0.com/notes/trig.html All you need to know about Trignometry

http://iq0.com/notes/frobenius.html The Frobenius-Burnside Counting Formula

http://iq0.com/notes/geometric.html Sum of a Geometric Series
Interesting idea but on my first query, it locked up Chrome on me and went absolutely batsh1t crazy. Had to shut down Chrome and relaunch it.

Will wait for MVP2.0
That's why I prefer to look at PEG instead of P/E. It shows you the price-to-earnings relative to the earnings growth. Quite handy.
Good advice. I only mentioned it to give a lower-bound on the expected job salary.

The only Wall St firms I know that don't treat their entry-level employees like revolving doors, are also the ones that pay much higher than 50k for base (and don't make as big of a deal about bonuses, even if they do have them.)
Early Facebook execs back artificial-intelligence startup Vicarious Systems
Working hard on something you are passionate about is a lot like running in a race. The minute you ease back on the throttle, you better hope that your competition doesn't pounce. You better have a big enough lead on your competition to allow yourself to relax. That relaxation time needs to be earned. Too much relaxation breeds complacency. And if you are not in an environment in which you are competing with someone, you really aren't working toward a worth while goal, but just spinning your wheels. You are either living off the spoils of some prior success or inheritance. Work like you are about to be attacked by a pack of rabid dogs or seek out such an environment. Don't get it? Go watch a horse race. Every split second counts. That winning rush of adrenaline is like no other. Should everyone seek out such an environment? No, not everybody all the time. But to never have done so is cowardly. Nobody is successful by working 100% smarter than everyone else 100% of the time. Those that say they do are liars. To do so is like saying they never had a failure, and everything came easy for them. Achieving success is a complete bitch. Those that have the energy and stamina to succeed in the end are the ones who earn the right to slack off. Execution is everything.
Worker: Boss, this is bad, we shouldn't do this.

Boss: If we don't save passwords, how can we email passwords back when they forget them?

Worker: . . .

Boss: Don't change anything.
Automated spammers wouldn't care if their input was ignored or not. Hellbanning would have a good chance of working only with real humans (miscreants included)
How much of your "working smarter" can you attribute to your earlier "working harder" years?

With computers, I believe that almost all of my "working smarter" can be attributed to the sweat-equity I placed in working long hard hours when I was a young tot -- I didn't know any better, and I loved tinkering on a computer into the wee hours of the night.
I know it sounds cynical, but it's just another reason I don't like Groupon. The dude is creepy, and looks like something straight out of a Dianetics book.
Beautiful Boy Movie Online and Michael Sheen
Beautiful Boy Movie Online and Michael Sheen
This film tells the story of a family or a husband and wife Bill (Michael Sheen) and Kate (Maria Bello) which is closely wound and devoted himself to work Bill is an entrepreneur she corrected the books.
The US is the only country in the world that does this. Tax it's citizens even if they don't live there for years and own no property in it's borders, or people who have lived there. It's the big wrench in me wanting to get a green card in the USA unfortunately.

The HEART act is also very ironic, since it is basically taxation without representation, one of the founding reasons of America.
Link needs the /edit removed
They should have simply let NUMB3RS explain IRC.
Without knowing anything about the core ruby developers, it's possible most of them are detached from current real world ruby applications with heavy weight frameworks?
Why such a negative approach? Wouldn't it be more useful to specify how to reproduce the problem, to let the author fix it?
IQ boost for the iPhone is free and soon to be open sourced.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iq-boost/id286574399?mt=8
It's on a letter by letter basis though, maybe best to only update the browser hash say after a second or more of no letters added to the search bar.
In China, Techies are Dogs
resubmitted with a fixed URL
Interesting. I rarely program in an environment without exceptions, so I haven't had reason to adopt that style.

I recall that Linus has advocated the use of goto in the Linux kernel for similar reasons. And the goto version of this code does seem more readable to me: http://kerneltrap.org/node/553/2131
The HN set may not want to accept it, but in the real world, when somebody trying to build a business doesn't have any clue as to how to allocate their resources, it's a huge red flag. Period.
Thanks for encouraging words.
Will try to finish the server side code soon and let you guys know. :)
He was actually one of warmer startup guys a year or so back as a TWIST guest (and groupon started as a http://www.thepoint.com, service for activists, philantropists..).

I imagine thinking about billons and getting to 7000 in workforce in such short time can change people, at least on the outside.

http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-startups/twist-52-with-andr...
Love it. Give me the possibility to search titles only (a checkbox) and this will be my favorite search tool for HN.
Maybe hide the "0 points" in every submission until pg brings visible karma back?
That's hilarious! For a moment I thought he was having a seizure. I was quite relieved when he finally smiled at the end.
How does something like this even make it to court in the first place? I mean, they couldn't even have had a lean on the property.

It is astounding to me that a bank would be so bull-headed as to ignore the evidence at hand and plunge headlong into a foreclosure hearing.

This reminds me of a spat I had with a local hospital here, who sent debt collectors my way on a bill I had already paid. I even offered to mail them copies of my credit card statements, showing the payment the hospital denied receiving. They refused to look at them. I finally just ignored them until they stopped calling.
i said: "it's not about working at night, but going balls out from waking to sleep."

if you sleep early, ok. but when you're awake, do you want to spend all your time hacking? then you have the passion. if not, then not. that's my point: it's what you want to do with your waking hours, not which hours your prefer to sleep.
...and thus, markets emerge.
Yuck, legal documents? I'd suggest spending it on things that really matter, like user acquisition.

You especially don't need a lawyer to write up TOS until you actually have a user base, imo.
Android : Brain N-Back

https://market.android.com/details?id=phuc.entertainment.dua...
It's well done with good features and free (I am using it since couple of weeks). I think it's a port of this open source project: http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/
Nice work Vib!!
Depending on the context, but many of us might believe "if I have to pay, it MUST be good." By paying, one might think that they are investing to the solution.
Using Flickr and Webshots images as Gnome 3 backgrounds
The procedure described here is unnecessary and counterproductive. NV stores code snippets all by itself without any issues.

An explanation that I've had to give many, many times is as follows:

The reasoning behind Notational Velocity's present lack of multi-database support is that storing notes in separate databases would 1) require the same kinds of decisions that category/folder-based organizers force upon their users (e.g., "Is this note going to be work-specific or home-specific?"), and 2) defeat the point of instantaneous searching by requiring, ultimately, the user to repeat each search for every database in use.

The idea behind NV's search-by-default functionality is that your notes can be self-organizing; for any about-to-be-entered title you will see a list of (mostly) related items that can inform the final destination of your note. Unrelated entries do not appear, because your search will not reveal them.
CoinHandle - A Personalized handle for your Bitcoin address
I didn't hellban anybody. But I have an idea who did. And, you know what? If you're gonna ask me, "who's more likely acting in good faith, the hellbanners on HN or the hellbanned?" it's not even a little challenging for me to answer that. The people managing HN are not mean-spirited.

In asking that I'd be turning this into a discussion about deontology and I doubt anyone's interests are served thus.

However, I do take your point. It just happens that I also have a considerable problem with the ethics of reciprocal justice.
I understand how this is true according to the historic definitions, so I agree with you, but frankly, I'm not sure what bitcoin is. There's never been anything quite like it before, where quantity in circulation over time follows something like an inverse parabolic curve, and is immune to many traditional forms of currency manipulation.

I think I'll just sit back and watch. I may even through a few hundred at it just to see what happens.
This blog needs some serious CSS tweaking.
You'll find that 95% of the ads are fake just to get you to call the broker listed, or are mislabeled as "no fee". But if you get lucky, you can find something. Padmapper.com (no connection to me) puts a nice googlemaps interface onto craigslist as well.

Edit to add:
When you get into the higher price ranges, and start looking in doorman / elevator buildings, it gets a little easier since you can deal with the management company directly. but that's like ~2200 and up or so probably.
Sensible people get paid for playing --
that is the art of life.

-- Alan Watts
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WRT to your request for citation, I can point you toward this[1] (not sure about the protein/ muscle claim) wikipedia post, and quote a portion:

"Ketosis is deliberately induced by use of a ketogenic diet as a medical intervention in cases of non-responsive epilepsy.[6] Other uses of low-carbohydrate diets remain controversial."

What I find interesting is the assumption that everyone operates with an intentional diet. I forget to eat all the time.

EDIT: Maybe I should elaborate to say that I had unintentionally adopted a "ketogenic diet" by accident, and it took me 4 years to figure that out.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketosis
Clueless cheerleading? Its pretty standard tech press behavior.
how come this post is still on top with such a serious bug?
Hitting space makes it enter into infinite loop.
It crashed my browser while I was in middle of something important.
sixtofour's response is dead on. No offense, but how many companies have you worked at? Developer's ideas (good and bad) get shot down all the time for incredibly trite and/or stupid reasons.

Until the people in decision making positions take notice nothing is going to change.
Same for me, good at grades, competitions, having fun with prototyping but rarely building anything finished.

I rarely find motivation to build stuff, but I am strongly motivated to find out why stuff doesn't work and how to fix it, even sometimes to actually fix it.

My advice for you is to pair up with a builder, look at what he's doing, help him when he gets stuck on some bug and struggle to keep up with his creativity.
I don't think the bug makes it any less noteworthy.
The Most Important Aspect of Programming
Well, yes. He could have two good reasons instead of one. But that's not how people normally evaluate this kind of situation.

"Why were you going 20 miles per hour over the speed limit?"

"As you can see, my wife just went into labor and I'm driving her to the hospital."

"Good point. Also, you might be escaping from a bank you just robbed."

I mean, S-1's are notorious for how much detail they go into, in terms of all the ways things can go wrong. Groupon's "Risk Factors" section is 13,000 words long. I presume that everyone who thinks they're hiding something has read it. When you read it, what did you notice was missing?
In dynamic languages you can do this:

some_function = function() {
if (...) return 1;
if (...) return 2;
}.log("It's important I log that I'm returning");
If you do decide to drop out, keep in mind that without a degree many professional opportunities will be closed off to you. You'll need to work several times harder than degree holders to prove you know your stuff (or are willing to learn).
If you believe in modern financial theory, diversification is the closest thing to free money available. It would be weird and excessive for him not to diversify.

(Someone with Internet access, posting to YC, is probably going to have a lifetime income in the top 1% of the world's population. So keep in mind that most people could ask a similar question of you.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ8YfstVWKs
I was already following it, I'm not sure why, and this context really helps.
I think you're being a little unreasonable. "Three hour project," click at your own risk.
Finding the top K items in a list efficiently
Modern financial theory does not take into account the insider's information.

If based on his inside knowledge he believes he can make 100%+ in a year, it would be silly to diversify that investment into other stocks with less than 10% yearly return.

On the other hand if his inside knowledge is telling him that company is going to file for bankruptcy protection in the next couple of years - it makes sense to sell all his holdings ASAP.
That opening paragraph is the most beautiful writing about memes that I have ever read. Absolutely lucid.
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