skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been using Woopra for real time stats, I actually liked it. Will check this out.
The demo at http://antisocial.demozoo.org/demo.html is great but needs the explanation of the Ajaxian post before you go there
Yes it is a lot like KB Homes trying to stay in business by building smaller houses. They are having success with that while the bigger houses just are not selling or are selling at a loss. There have been a lot of "small" exits (small as in tens of millions instead of hundreds of millions). I believe it is better to have an exit, regain all of the money you spent + take away a couple of extra million then going for broke.
I disagree. If I was hiring, I'd be interested in top-notch people who are passionate but also just really damn smart, rather than having, say, specific platform or language knowledge. This is what Google did, and it's worked out pretty well for them.

I interviewed for an APM position at Google yesterday and the guy gave me a pretty tough technical question. It was actually harder than any of the dev questions I got from them. After working through it, he said "You'd be surprised how many people don't even give me the brute force solution." So yeah, these questions have their merits.
I've never tried any of them either but have met some devout followers: http://infohost.nmt.edu/~shipman/ergo/kinesis.html
Seriously, is Michael Arrington being paid to trash Yahoo? Yahoo stock price may be low, but how does that affect the company itself? TechCrunch posts news like it's trying to force Yahoo to collapse.

And seriously who wants a Microsoft Yahoo merger apart from Michael Arrington? Should so much power be concentrated?

It's STOCK! The company already made the money from the stock sale, whatever price outside traders want to bet on is not relevant. I think I'll be buying some Yahoo stock actually.
What about Yahoo!'s stake in Alibaba and Yahoo! Japan?
South Korea wants to gag the noisy internet rabble
Loving Hacker News to Death... What next?
I've pretty much ditched my RSS reader in favor of hacker news. After all, everything I'm interested in reading consists of 1) entrepreneurial content, 2) silicon valley news and 3) the latest development trends. Why do I need to subscribe to all these blogs when the best content for me ends up on the front page of HN?

That said, I'm wondering if there is any other content out there that like-minded folks would suggest I turn my attention to.

No techcrunch or any of that crap. I'm talking really good content for hacker/entrepreneurs. Or is this mecca for me and there is no where else to look?
Is it worth learning a version control system for small personal projects, say 10 source-files and 5-10 different versions?

I feel like I need something sometimes but most of the tools above seem a bit complicated and not very intuitive.
That's good... I think that is the answer.
Entrepreneurship for people who can think and act "out of the box".
And society should appreciate these risks.
Probably tl;dr for the internet crowd these days, but I agree with the end conclusion.

Mr. VC, remember that silly startup you didn't want to fund because it actually targeted a niche market with paying customers? Well, I've got one for you, except you preferred Facebook applications and poke-me widgets.

Time to fund real businesses.
I had one at the place I worked in '97-'98, and frankly I didn't find it all that comfortable.
http://nonhackernews.com
http://newmogul.com http://newsvine.com is good for raw mainstream pundit news of the "breaking" kind. and http://www.newsvine.com/world-news for world news.
You're completely right about the cool open source stuff. How do they connect that with making money, though?
Good luck,I'd love to be on sometime.
Isn't Google real time? The default calendar doesn't include today when you look at stats, but you can just change it. I don't know what the lag is exactly, but I don't think it's all that far off.
Couldn't agree more. That said, there's plenty of room for modest plays that aren't the grand slam.
There is no such thing as intrinsic motivation
To Interviewers:

Interview != Quiz
There are other places to look, as mentioned, but in my experience you are not going to find better stories or commentary than HN.
Most of his "advice" is just stuff you "should" be doing anyway. If you can "scale down" costs, then you were already "spending" too much.

Also, he sure "loves" quotation marks.
Absolutely, most programming interviews ARE a waste of time.

And so are most Ted Dziuba articles.
why are you happy for buying google at $349, you bought at a high price, the price dropped ~ $10, you lost $10 a share ... what is happy about this story!

really i want to understand your point of view
because it's a $500 stock and when it bounces back he'll be doing pretty good?
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So I'm not the only one! Ah to be 16 again... everything flashy was good.
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How is this noteworthy?

Ok, fine, the AI explains all that crap. Great. "No, you can't get out". Done.
Yeah, reddit (and digg and dzone and <insert social media site>) just don't do it for me. The content is not the right blend.
Hacker news seems to have the best signal-to-noise in its community, that's why I'm here. The spinoffs rms posted are probably the best place to look next, but I don't think they have the critical mass userbase (yet).
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It took 40 surgeons 15 hours. Quite a hack.
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This is pretty WTF, but honestly your years of PHP experience are probably inversely proportional to your skill at this problem. All you really need is math -- its easier to do this by hand with a calculator than code it. My guess would be that php expertise is anti-correlated with remembering prime factorizations, no offense to php devs.
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This looked like one of those things that follows 37signals' advice to a T (including copying their look and feel). Wonder if they'll do as well?
Yes. There are 10 reasons why I hate recursive sarcastic comments. I plan on blogging about them later and posting here.
Forgive your users; even when they are drunk
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Funny, Geocasting in XMPP was (roughly) the subject in my diploma thesis :)
I'll point out that it is for this exact reason that we're using Fortress: for scientific code, it's so much more readable it's amazing.
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Just an update, on an interesting article that talks exactly about how "savings" applications are the most successful in times of recession: http://embought.com/blog/show/17?t=Apps-to-Build-in-a-Bad-Ec...
The main costs of say a YC startup are living costs - in a downturn, these should drop. Raising second round funding will be more difficult, sure. But in times of trouble, people cut back on bars and stay in, and will spend even more leisure time online. I see the ecommerce space surviving this very nicely; ads will take a big hit; and god be praised there will be less unjustifiable multi-millino M and A's of small start-ups that have not even reached revenue stage - start up entrepreneurs will be forced to actually build a business!
Free markets will succeed only when race to the bottom is prevented in this flat world.
I agree (especially on the Digg part), but I still find quality programming-related articles on Proggit (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/).
I use one of these: http://keyovation.com/ at work. It's substantially cheeper than the Maltron, but missing a few bits, such as a separate numeric keypad, and I'd really like to get control, alt and shift keys in the gap between the two halves.
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What folding bike would you recommend? I have toyed with the idea for a while, but all bikes I have seen so far seemed to heavy in the end.
How fast can you go with a unicycle? Do the pedals always turn as fast as the wheel, or are they "disconnected"? How do you brake?
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The problem i have with 2 wheeled transportation is rain pants. They are an absolute pain in the ass to work with because of shoes. A rain cape doesn't look that consistent and I cant for the love of god find rain chaps anywhere!
So if I understand you, everybody in the world should spend special time with you or they're morally bankrupt?

I think you've twisted your definition of reality a bit. Obviously, even in a world full of wonderful saints everybody can't spend hours with everybody else. The math just doesn't work out. So the act of limiting one's time with someone else cannot be immoral or bad -- in fact, it would seem to be a defining good quality. The reference you quote could only be applied in those cases where you're already spending time with each other: a restaurant, a bellhop, in an elevator, etc.

You took a wonderful quote and made it into something it was never meant to be.
And yet their P/E is still at 19. If Yahoo really sucked that bad, wouldn't they be cheaper?
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The AP style book says the same thing.
why are you happy for buying google at $349, you bought at a high price, the price dropped ~ $10, you lost $10 a share ... what is happy about this story!

Obviously, because I've wanted to buy some GOOG for a while now, and it's been way too expensive. Maybe it was still a few bucks too expensive and my enthusiasm for the company blinded me to the still dropping state of the market...but I think Google is one of the best companies in the world, and it's currently trading at a fair price.

If I believe that Google is going to weather the economic storm better than the average company (I do), and I believe that rapid inflation is going to insure that any money that I keep in cash is going to decline in value (I do), and I believe that Google revenue is going to grow faster than the returns from a CD (I do), and that when the market comes to its senses in a month or two or three it'll realize that GOOG is one of the best companies in the world and worth more than 22 times earnings, particularly given the huge stockpile of cash Google is holding (I do), then I don't feel too bad about missing the bottom by a few percentage points. And it's only 12 shares (so, $120 on a $4400 holding). And, like I said, if it keeps going down, I'll try to spot the bottom, or maybe wait until it actually starts a steady climb, and buy a few more shares.

really i want to understand your point of view

Do you understand it now?

Basically, I just view it as a chance to own shares in a great international company at a dramatic discount off of recent valuations. It's not a "bargain" stock, even now, but that's because it is a stronger company than most of the stocks that were hit as hard. Yahoo has been hit far harder, but they're obviously not as good a company--though I think they're being maligned unfairly. They're still a great media company...they just have some problems making money. But I think Yahoo probably is a great buy right now.
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If you somehow pulled this off, then six months from now, you would be the fittest, best rested, most intelligent, best funded and motivated person in your office or your field. You would know how to do things other people don't, you'd have a wider network and you'd be more focused.

What if you just want to chill and watch TV all day?

I think the last thing people need is more advice on how to reduce fun in their lives and replace it with work, especially under the guise of "becoming successful." If you're 40 years old, have no job and live at home and you're completely happy with that, I would consider you a success.

The worst part about society is the fact that it creates arbitrary tiers where you must reach to be "better" or "more successful" or some other meaningless vapid term. Then it goes further, like this article, and defines "good" stuff you should do that will help you be "successful" or just "happier." I have no plans to follow most of these suggestions for all kinds of reasons... lets see... I hate writing thank-you notes, speaking, volunteering and spending a weekend with people I could be caught up with in an afternoon.

Do what makes you happy. Define your own success. Stop taking canned advice about life from people who know nothing about yours. Make your own damn decisions. I work a ton because I love it, not so I can die with more money or feel better than the next guy. Do whatever makes you feel good and the rest will work itself out.

Edit: Quick clarification. If this were an article about how to be more fit, rested, intelligent, funded and motivated for the sake of those things, then I would totally endorse it. But if you really wanted to be all those things, you'd be doing that stuff already because it's pretty damn obvious. You wouldn't be wasting those 120 minutes on stuff that wasn't making you happy; you'd replace that stuff with other stuff that made you happy. Pretty straight forward.
The lead is seriously buried (last paragraph). After rambling about moving to India he presents his "plan" to turn around the economy:

"Next week, Every venture capital firm in America should take five percent of its available funds and invest that money with best deals they've all had sitting on their desks for months. It doesn't matter what the startups are. Give them the darned money, which I calculate to be about $5 billion spread across a thousand new companies. It isn't tax money, government money, money taken away from education or Medicare. Its just money that was already intended for high-tech investment - money that probably would have been lost anyway. INVEST IT! Stop trying to pretend you are so smart or that your input and board membership really makes a difference (it doesn't - you heard it here first) and write the checks."

Sounds oddly like the reverse of: http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/nogas.asp
I generally like Gruber's writing, but this piece was just drivel. It read more like "I've barely used any other smartphones!" than "the iPhone is great compared to other smartphones".
"does anyone know if the reason companies have not been IPOing?"

SOX: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes-Oxley_Act

I get special pleasure from answering big questions with short answers :)
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That's what I use. It does not fold and is slower than most normal bicycles. But very light weight and it's mechanics are easy to understand and repair even for me.
Thanks for reporting.
I think this links quite nicely to the Scobleizer post at http://scobleizer.com/2008/10/09/the-enterprise-soft-spot/ - folks need proper training or better tools. Of course we are biased towards the tools as that's where we can make and sell a product.
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I feel the same. But seeing statistics would be interesting. In absence of a bikeway I normally drive on the sidewalk. (We have wide sidewalks where I live.)
You can get gore tex shoe covers.

I used to have a winter outfit that consisted of a goretex jacket, goretex pants and shoe covers. If it was really wet, a bit would leak through here and there, but I was basically ok riding around over commuting distances, and was always completely dry after 20 minutes or so.

When I lived in Portland, OR, the public transportation was good, so if it was raining hard in the evening, I'd take the bus home and to work the next day, leaving the bike at work.
Try online comics. You probably know xkcd. Just look at the authors recommendations at the bottom of his page.
"Haskell... even has an Emacs mode."

Is there a programming language which doesn't have an Emacs mode?
I don't know. The hackers that I've recently talked to that work at Yahoo seem pretty happy with the place.

If the stock drops another 50% in the next six months like it did over the previous six months, I'm pretty sure those hackers won't be happy nor will they likely be working there.
It's sad that C/C++ is still incapable of unrolling small loops on its own, as suggested by tip #3.

Same shame for the switch statement at tip #6.
You trust GCC way too much. Certainly one should do a bit of low-level profiling before making such changes, but I have actually never seen GCC intelligently unroll a loop in all my years of C programming. It completely ignores constant propagation when doing so (even in gcc 4.4!), making the unrolling algorithm basically useless, since constant propagation is far more useful than the savings gained from taking fewer jumps.

I actually have one case where I made a function 3 times shorter code-wise and run over 2x faster simply by unrolling it completely--the rules for deriving values based on the loop index were so complicated that they were actually longer than the unrolled loop itself.
It does not matter. All that matters is that it corrodes moral character less than other - socalistisc - arrangements, because in a market you can't just take something away without consent and without compensation.
Do you really think so? I thought people in chip fabs would work to bring us the singularity.
There is no such thing as "succeed". The question is always about which evils are lesser.
Wouldn't it work when "smart" clothes are required, would it?
good post, I'd add a small often overlooked point is that you should be very careful with your backups and your encryption keys.
I'd think all those nuclear bunkers could be converted into parking houses :-)
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The thought is that they provide a false sense of security, and teach newer riders to be less aware of their surroundings, so when a new rider finds himself in traffic, he is less prepared.

Poor bike lane design is even worse.
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Aren't these guys paid as a percentage of profits and funds managed? In that case, presumably, there will be fewer startups when there is less funding implying fewer gains which implies a lower salary for him.
Because other people used it, composed good code and even others adopted it. This resulted in a high-profile Python scene and good code. I think that many new ideas were contributed and it was fun to share ideas. This resulted in a rapid development of toolkits, frameworks and software. If you wanted to be part of this, you had to use Python.

But I think it is the same with JavaScript, Ruby, FreeBSD, PosgreSQL and many more hip foobars; In contrast, Java, PHP, many (not all) Microsoft products, Linux (partly) allured so many bad coders that it is simply boring to work through their code.
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Linus just blogged about how in acutal use ssds are usually vastly slower than advertised he was pleasantly surprised to find one that wasnt in this post http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-i-got-one-of-...
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Since reddit offers JSON I thought one might put this to use.. After some JS hacking and getting lost in details for quite a while this is the first version I dare making public. Any suggestions?
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Since reddit offers JSON I thought one might put this to use.. After some JS hacking and getting lost in details for quite a while this is the first version I dare making public. Any suggestions?
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what do you use these days?
I recommend programming a MMORPG as an exercise first. Sorry, couldn't resist ;-)

Actually the idea sounds OK, if you stick to it, you could make it.
WORD, DWORD has little to do with MFC. It has a lot more to do with Win32. You know that one of the main criteria of MFC is backwards compatibility - what's your idea as to how to solve that problem?
Would've been so much cooler if they were actually written as classical myths, ham-handedly replacing prominent characters with Erlang and functional programming terms.
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Does MySQL support row level locking?
Is it different from Oracle's locking mechanism?
What does stock value have to do with company profits or income? Why would a profitable company fire employees because it's stock value is low?

Do you actually understand the concept of stock and what is happening when people trade stock on the market?
Or any other basic text. SICP has it, too. And they have exactly the same follow up questiof of "reduce the space usage from O(n) to O(1)", too.

(Incidentally a related method is know as "pollard's rho" and used to factor integers.)
MySQL uses table-level locking for MyISAM and MEMORY tables, page-level locking for BDB tables, and row-level locking for InnoDB tables.

How do I know this? I put your exact question into Google, and clicked "I'm feeling lucky". Try it some time :)
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They can always increase that ratio by lowering their earnings.
How can you infer anything from the title? I think it mean anything, like Wufoo
But it's also possible to ask similar questions that involve the actual technologies involved.

The hardest interview I've had was with my current employer. My now-supervisor grilled me with Javascript and SQL questions. They were easy at first, and became increasingly more difficult, to the point that I just had to "I don't know" to a few of them. The questions required a bit of problem solving (so it wasn't all technical details), so the process was just as important as the answer, but in the end, it gave the interviewer a detailed view into my level of competency with the technologies I would use daily.

It should be noted that I thought I bombed the interview, but a few weeks later I had an offer in hand. When I got the call, I had a mind to ask him if he had the right person. :-)