skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agile Warrior: Breaking up is Hard to do
Wow, way to call me out just as I am preparing for the GREs and grad school applications. In my defense, I've previously wanted to go to grad school also, and even then, because I wanted to meet more people that would be potentially good cofounders.
Actually I find the code produced by this elastic tabstop to be far uglier than the alternatives.
Allen scores again. Too many CEOs are spending their time socializing and engaging in flame wars rather than doing things like working on a business model or building a company. Valleywag coverage should be a CEO's shame, not a PR goal.
You've seen the article "DNA seen through the eyes of a coder"?
HTC Touch Diamond 3700 With GPS (Unlocked)
HTC touch diamond 3700 With Built-in GPS marks HTC’s refined move into providing a touch capable phone for the average user. HTC has always made touch technology the focal point of their phones. With the Touch Diamond.
Yeah. I didn't know myself. Its just the perception that Idaho is a potato state.
Former midwestern guy myself. There are very few midwestern 'startups'.

If you don't want Chicago (My first choice for midwestern livable/startupable city).

You might consider Indianapolis - its fairly diverse considering how close to KY it is. But there are a fairly large number of software firms for the size.

Probably your best bet is to do some searching for mailing lists for technology groups in your area. If your interested in iphone stuff, look for x-coder hacking group in the region. Get to know the people and you will find a partner to found something with or you will hear about the job openings that no one is announcing because they are to small.
I think it would make sense to allow people to use your app (start building a list of artists) before registering. Just store their list to a cookie and show a little notification that tells them to enter their email and a password to save their artist list and start receiving notifications.
I really like the design, very sleek! I wish this would have been around when I was working for the IT department of a school division in VA.
A better insight might be that diversity beats the median. Although even this is probably a truth with large holes in it.
As a Brit, I think bringing back Thatcher would equal that.
Too true, this case is just plain ridiculous and it definitely should not be considered as an example for other startups.
Google Employees Shocked, Depressed, And Ready To Bail
IControl Apps - #14 - Global Statistics  DevCentral  F5 DevCentral  Documentation and Tips
We're very pleased with it. We actually managed to catch some spare time working with one of the designers of ClickPass's site (which I'm a huge fan of).

Feel free to pass this site onto your old colleages at the school division. We may very well make edu features free even when we add premium tools.
PGP (the commercial one) for encrypted email is great, but GPG (GNU's similiar tool) is awful to use. Even PGP takes a little learning curve. But the problem is most people say "I have nothing to hide". But what if you do? In that case, encrypt, and if a friend can't decrypt in return, then they aren't really friends.
I think that's a popular way of thinking because people like the word 'diversity,' not necessarily because it makes any sense. If you wanted to write the next Digg, say, would you hire a chemist, a programmer, and a doctor? Or would you hire three programmers? Would you hire programmers that use different languages or three who use the same language?

In practice, you get so much accidental diversity between any two intelligent individuals (we are all quite different) that its rare that you have to go looking for more. Diversity is the great good and ideal of our time, but a rather flimsy idea when you get right down to it.
Tesla Says It Will Lay Off Employees and Delay Sedan
To be completely fair, I would say that "Hack Your Drink" describes this experiment just as well as "Hacker News" describes these forums. I.e. most of the news here has nothing to do with hacking, but rather, it appeals to hackers. Likewise, this article describes a (rudimentary) way to get the most bang for your buck, which seems to be a very common theme among hacker efforts.

That being said, I would agree that "Hack" may not have been the best choice of words to use to describe the article. I find it interesting that everyone here is attacking Wired's Design Of Experiment for this article. I suppose I read the article in the context that it was a spoof and found it very amusing, thinking like-minded people would as well. Perhaps a new experiment is in order... gauge readers' reactions to an article after priming them with various titles for that article. Maybe I should have titled my submission, "Ice as a Commodity" or "Common Sense Wins Again".
Australia is part of Oceania in most usages of that term (both outside and including 1984):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania
Twitter / Albert Wenger: Market caps AMZN + EBAY + ...
Unfortunately even the most zealous of the "free market solves everything" advocates don't think that the free market can solve the problem of government regulation.

Which is why free market types spend most of their time complaining about government regulation, the one problem the free market can't solve on its own.
it really is; I ended up at this comment while searching for it.
"Google has established a plan with Morgan Stanley (which might go under)..."

Wow. That is, IMHO, a hugely irresponsible claim to make unless the author, the president of the WebGuild, is privy to some inside information as to the state of Morgan Stanley. If so, he should back-up his claim with his source and not just nonchalantly bring it between two parenthesis.
How could it possibly be a good strategy?
Thought experiment eh?

Consider A == B without line breaks.
Well, I tried to visit the site, but:

An Error Was Encountered
403 Forbidden:
You have been banned from this site.
Contact bugs@bug.gd if you feel this was in error.

An error from ErrorHelp.com. Very interesting ...
We walked into Muji in London a couple weeks ago. It's an amazing store. I ended up buying a few things there that were quite unique and useful.
Since you're a brit I certainly sympathize if you don't want Washington back.
If you halted R&D, your customers would flock to competitors who are still developing their product lines. It would be more like 5 years before it's effectively dead.
"If we've learned one thing from funding so many startups, it's that they succeed or fail based on the qualities of the founders. The economy has some effect, certainly, but as a predictor of success it's rounding error compared to the founders."

This is confusing -- wasn't Y Combinator started in 2005? Was PG funding startups before that?
I just emailed them :)
Hi, you make a good point. I guess the term Orwellian is probably okay, if we take the novel 1984 as the description of the term.
That's a bit odd. That should only happen if our spam filter picked-out a really obvious spam comment of some sort over the past year.

If you email us, we'll figure out how your IP address got flagged and fix that right away.
Social Media ABC's - V is for Viral
I wonder if a cooler external economy might actually give a startup more time to stabilize its platform, find its market, etc. etc. before exiting. This might actually produce better startups, on average.

(Here, "better" = chance of becoming profitable, and relevant to the web, for the long term; "better" != chance of cashing out for megabucks within a year or two; i.e. "better" for me as a web user.)
The "Solved Bugs" link doesn't go anywhere?
The chances of a startup taking off are likely smaller than the chances of a hacker taking a better position. My employer knows about my startup.
Good point, but there IS a delay. Some companies have a 6 month triumph like Omnisio, but most follow a multi-year path to liquidity. Maybe not the 5-7 that is tradition for VCs, but at least a few years.

So starting up now, founders should ask themselves-- what's liquidity look like in 3-5+ years? The correct answer is, "I have no clue"-- but if you start now, you'll probably have a better shot at liquidity in 3-5 years because all of the other hackers went to grad school. ;-)
This is why Graham consistently says, at least in the "Intelligent Investor", to do your own research. Letting others tell you what to do in such a potentially risky action as investing in particular stocks is just plain dumb. Look at the facts yourself and make your own conclusions.
"Never mind the fact the CIA was watching the 9/11 guys cross from Canada into the US, and called the FBI and told them."

Nope. They came direct to the US.
No, I meant Thatcher would be good, certainly better than this government.
Create a personal website and use some SEO voodoo magic to make it the top result for search engines. That way, when potential employers search for you, you can control what they see, to a certain extent.
Yeah, we just saw that, too. We restrict seeing solved bugs for your company, so we intended to take that off the front page for users not logged-in.

To see what it looks like for public solutions:
http://bug.gd/solved
"interviewer could probably think that it is he who will have to pay you for the time spent chatting."

Well, if you're planning on spending some of your time at work arguing about Lisp online anyway, why hide that from your employer? Either they're OK with it and it doesn't matter, or they won't like it and you probably wouldn't want to work there anyway.
20 Websites to Help You Master User Interface Design - Six Revisions
> The algorithms for pricing and linking up buyers and sellers of these fungible bits of are fairly straightfoward.

Yes, but maintaining liquidity in a dynamic environment probably requires market makers, no? I don't think there's an algorithmic solution. You need the specialists.
I'm using Tree Style Tabs, with tabs placed on the right side, to take advantage of my wide screen. It seems like it does everything this add-on does, and just a bit more. It's slightly more useful without being bulky or annoying.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890
It's a very interesting list. I would like to learn more about the old Japanese firms listed.

As some of the comments accompanying that article noted, they did not mention the Hudson Bay Company, which was incorporated in 1670 and still operates. But they did claim to limit themselves to listing family firms.

It would be interesting to know if Japanese, Chinese, or Korean businessman had joint stock companies or something similar before they came about in Europe. I think the Chinese first did paper money. I read somewhere that Koreans have some ancient and sophisticated "lending club" tradition that may be the oldest expression of the idea of interest -- it is some sort of scheme whereby each member pays in a small fee each week, and a certain member receives all the money each week, determined by some formula.
What do I think?

1. I think you look a lot less like a forty-something or fifty-something business manager, but only because most people of that generation who weren't in computers grew up with Usenet, mailing lists, or BBS's. So if their idea of "professional" is to be just like that, no, you don't look professional.

2. I think my children will laugh at this question: They will grow up being on CCR 24/7 in public, with facebook and its descendants being their social hubs, and with everyone able to see transcripts of everything. That doesn't mean your question is laughable, only that this is a very temporary phenomenon driven by a generation gap.
An S.O.S. To Silicon Valley
Scott Page again? See here for a deconstruction of one of his previous, simpler arguments.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/04/the_error_of_cr.html

This one looks more complicated - as near as I can tell, he's assuming that organizations never get stuck in poor solutions, so they can always pick the best of a sufficiently large crowd.

Math and political correctness don't mix well.
I found that, coming from an engineering background, many of these 20 websites helped me begin to really understand information architecture and user interface design. There are so many competitive designs out there that I find it challenging to prototype and build launch ready applications that look as attractive. What I was most pleasantly surprised to find was UI PATTERN sites. Breaking layouts down into chunks makes it much easier to put the pieces together.
> Nobody knows what will happen next; None of the historical parallels work.

This is a bit silly. History and economic theory most certainly can give you a useful idea of where things are going. No, it's not all random and totally unpredictable.
Elastic tab stops is actually orthogonal to this. Aligning elastic tab stops is easy (minor complications caused by blank lines), knowing how many tab stops to put in is where those 27 000 lines of lisp come in.
Founder’s Co-op Gets Warm Reception, Wants Startups That Will Survive Cold Recession
Does Google corporate use Exchange servers?
I'm contemplating using Google for enterprise email and I wonder if Google uses Google or Microsoft. Anybody know?
3.77. But in my defense I'm a little bit hung over. :/

I like this test though. Speaking of booze, it would be interesting to see a graph of people's test score vs BAC. Sounds like a fun drinking game!
Great idea--solves a practical problem (albeit not one that I have).

On a different note: do you care how people pronounce your name?

My first thought was "Muspy", almost rhymes with "Musky".

My second thought (upon seeing the logo) was "Oh! Mus- is from music. And -py is from ... Python?" So now I'm thinking about pronouncing it "Muse-py"--as in how you'd pronounce a Python module.
Do you have examples of sites with a "fobillion" (or close) users that still failed? I'm really curious. The examples I can think of, like friendster, really went under because of lack of users.

I agree that you shouldn't bank on getting this fobillion users and after that monetizing them. But that's because the real hard part is getting that much users in the first place.
Well, any editor with fixed width fonts, which the author of the article would like to move away from.
But any programmer smart enough to design such a system, would not get the gratification, because they would see through it, just as playing for hours in a computer game that you wrote is torture, but playing someone else's can be deeply absorbing.
"either the price is too low or the company should be liquidated."

Either one should buy stock of the company, or one shouldn't.

Information gained: zero.
I'm curious, does anyone know if this has been implemented somewhere and has actually been profiled?

Just because something can open a million connections doesn't mean it's stable enough to be a million-user application.
Well, I can tell you where NOT to go:

When I first setup http://chesstr.com I tried one of the larger, "get a logo for only $150" firms. Needless to say, I was tremendously disappointed. First, my website name was misspelled in a few of the mockups - seriously, how do you manage to misspell 'chess'?

I also felt very pressured to select my logo from a handful of rather bland options ("make your selection so we can wrap things up"). They made some claim about 100% satisfaction, but I was so frustrated and displeased I just walked away - $150 bucks down the drain.

I ended up just doing it myself with gimp. It's certainly not very good - but it was better than the alternatives. B latent plug, anyone have any good logo ideas for a chess website? :)
Ballmer Speaks, Yahoo’s Market Cap Jumps More Than $3 Billion
Pitching to investors (a presentation)
Fleck Headed To The Deadpool Because Nobody Wants to Annotate The Web
Ballmer says Yahoo deal would "make sense economically"
Prosper And Other P2P Lenders Get Squeezed By The Credit Crunch
Thanks guys! I really appreciate it.
Semantinet adds useful information to web sites
Microsoft CEO: Yahoo Deal Still 'Makes Sense Economically'
The rapid growth (and destruction) and growth of marketing
"Notwithstanding debt"

This entire article hinges on those two words in the second paragraph. Sure, these companies are holding some cash. But if I have $10,000 in my checking account and owe $100,000 in credit card debt, does that make me solvent? No -- especially if I have negative income as many of these companies do.
Short summary: The best problem solvers will think of similar solutions and so may take longer to solve the problem than a random group because the random gorp will come up with more ways of solving the problem.
VC funding for open source down 12% in Q3
"What if you quit your job to start a startup that fails, and you can't find another? Good hackers can always get some kind of job. It might not be your dream job, but you're not going to starve."

Hmm, isn't that kind of a low bar? I worry that I'll be 40 before I know it, with no savings to show for my years of work. Isn't opportunity cost a concern?

Perhaps PG really is writing for the young.
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A long way down the page at slashdot is a comment that points out that in fact, according to the linked BBC article, they're not talking about storing or monitoring content, just dates, times, locations, etc.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7671046.stm

It's also not just a change to how they handle email information--the same changes will be taking place with cell phone call information. Basically the government is stepping in to personally handle the job of storing all that information that has up to now been done by the ISPs themselves.

Still cause for concern, but not as big of a change as the title and comments make it out to be.

That's a good reason to use a discussion system that functions like HN instead of slashdot--I didn't find the comment pointing that out on slashdot until skimming through probably 100 comments.
Intriguing idea. A mechanism could be put in place to allow people to measure and keep an eye out on world markets.

This does happen though. Internet has allowed for this. Websites and blogs were for years warning about this upcoming crisis. Both the people, and the governments chose to disregards those alarms, right until the Housing market busted.

Unfortunately, people probably would not know what to do more than what the governments are showing right now. I guess that's why Economy is called a 'social science'.
Why would you want to write the next Digg? Another social news site, huh? Maybe they could actually come up with something useful. I'm sure a good chemist, programmer, and doctor could come up with something of greater utility. You need to expand your mental diversity.
If you actually read the paper, I think you will find that the authors do not, in fact, make the proposal that you are assuming.

"Should the organization hire (i) the person with the highest score, (ii) 20 people with the next 20 highest scores, or (iii) 20 people randomly selected from the applicant pool? ... In this paper, we provide conditions under which iii is better than ii."

Further, the paper is not purely theoretical, as you suppose: they then go on to provide such conditions and describe the 'computational experiment' using AI agents that they used to explore and verify their hypothesis - keeping in mind that fundamentally, their hypothesis is simply that there exists conditions under which functional diversity trumps maximized individual ability.

It's worth noting that they make a key distinction between functional diversity and identity diversity. While they do correlate the two in their abstract - with sources - their conclusion does not speak to the latter at all, instead focusing on the former and "diversity in perspective and heuristic space".

You may certainly disagree with their conclusions, but it is unfair to construct their argument as a straw man consisting solely of theoretical ideas and stupid assumptions.
Adobe addresses Flash Player 'clickjacking' flaw
They use google apps.
That was an obvious hyperbole. The point is: 50,000 or even 100,000 users =! success, and you don't necessarily need users to make money (although it helps!).
Apple now has 9% US market share, volume growing at 6x the industry average
Starting up a tech company in lean times is certaintly different from any other business whose products are tangible. The startup and operational costs are much lower and surely, making wise choices the startup can outperform competitors.
Android: Does Everything an iPhone Can Do, Except Clumsier
Firefox 3.1 cuts javascript rendering time by 50%
Android comes with a kill-switch
The Brat Pack of Quantum Mechanics
I'm Lovin' It

any excuse for a party, i say. good time to get together with people in the biz and cheer the startups that survived the year and mourn those that have kicked the bucket.
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There are other types of relevant diversity, however. The authors speak directly to "functional" diversity, which they describe as "differences in how people represent problems and how they go about solving them".

In the context of wanting to write the next Digg, I would propose that a better application of their conclusions would be, e.g., to favor hiring programmers from different schools over hiring programmers who went to the same school and studied under the same professors. In this way you might get some diversity in terms of how your programmers approach solving problems versus having a group of programmers who each approach a given problem in the same way and presumably reach the same conclusions / solutions.
It was a joke (If Washington hadn't broken away from the mighty empire and become the first president of the US maybe the brits would have a bit more to say in the world)

:-)
Getting rid of your iPhone for Android? Can't decide...
A Cloud and a Prayer
As Gruber observed: Make note of the exits.
Would it be possible to have a RSS feed with the latest album releases rather than email notifications?
Ask HN: Why haven't signup confirmation emails died yet?
I have been thinking about confirmation emails today and cant think of a single reason to actually send them. They are annoying and must have a user drop off rate. I know I personally don't return to some low priority sites if I'm to lazy to load my email or it takes more then 20 seconds to get the email.

What is the point and why hasn't this practice died yet? Are there any benefits I'm overlooking here?
I always accredited these sorts of things to malice, not incompetence without thinking too much about it. But I think your're right.
http://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/
Only if it included a caveat "only add artists with X number of tracks." God knows what kind of esoteric stuff is lurking in my music drive.
Nokia 1110 mic ways, Nokia 1600 mic not working, Nokia 6030 Mic Problem
This post holds Nokia 1600,1110,1112,1110i and 6030 microphone ways.
Yeah, how could they have predicted this? It's not like we had a major internet bubble burst just a few years ago that could have provided any reasonably awake person a little perspecitive on the value of options, or anything like that.
The grow-users-before-revenue strategy has several spectacular success stories: Google, YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, etc. etc.

That's not to say it's the only valid strategy, but it's certainly a valid strategy. In fact, it probably has the highest payoff, albeit with the highest variance.
If you're able to get referral revenue from amazon there's no reason your service couldn't be extended to authors/books as well.
Fuck. That. Shit.

http://xkcd.com/137/
Almost Human: Google's Android G1 Phone
It adds a cost to creating a user account. Sometimes, you actually want that. Also a user with a valid email address is worth more than a user without one; even with dropoff the value could be worth it.

That said, we don't do it at Justin.tv, and I think it's stupid.