skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate to be a content-less "ditto", so let me only highlight that this comment represents a LOT of people's views. They were always very responsive (hell, direct support in IRC!) and it would be a shame to lose that. But it's a big field out there, and I (and I bet most) have no problem walking away if things go poorly under new management.

I'm also disturbed that this hasn't been communicated any way besides a blog post. You have my e-mail address: let me know! This shouldn't be surprise I find when I'm on HN. I log into my server regularly: I don't visit your blog every day. IMHO, off to a less-than-stellar start.
What are you going to do when the list becomes larger? The signal to noise ration will fall sharply.
Ok, here you guys go:
http://github.com/bigfolio/big-help/wikis/home

There's nothing there yet except a wiki page and an empty Rails app. Give me a day or two to the code organized and commit some updates.

Contributors more than welcome.
To prevent people from getting around the either-link-or-comment restriction when submitting, I imagine :)
From the interview:

The more I meet with entrepreneurs the less I think I can pick them. Sure, there are stereotypes: bright, aggressive, enthusiastic, young, etc. But there are many successful entrepreneurs that don’t come off this way.

The richest vein I have seen is two guys/gals who want to create a tool that they themselves want to use. This describes, for example, Google, Yahoo and Apple. I have come to believe that almost everyone has the entrepreneurial gene — it’s been necessary for survival for thousands of years.
i register for nothing

that's a load of crap.
'agenda-less' might not be a good description, but I see what you mean.

I'm not sure what a good term might be, but some good short descriptions might be 'altruistic endeavor' or 'pursuit of passion'.
The list of sources is moderated, so even if someone does add crap, it can be removed.
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Found this: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2008/10/more-enterprise-class-... Unfortunately, it's a read-only data API.
Is there an economic downturn in space?
I've never seen a result in Google that led me to Mahalo. Who are these 4M???
Well, girls do interest me.
What was Guy Kawasaki's startup?
Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?
I'm sorry, since the Global War on Terror was announced, our company letterhead has been updated, it's now MegaCorp, USA. You will need to reprint your TPS reports. To get new letterhead, simply send a request, on letterhead, to the supply room.
AFAICT, it is just paraphrased from the announcement on the Google Analytics blog.
Starting up: London vs. Seattle
-"Q. “Reality Check” includes a venture capital aptitude test in which you opine on the types of people who are best qualified for careers in venture capital. Your test awards points to those with backgrounds in sales or engineering and subtracts points for those with M.B.A. degrees or backgrounds in management consulting, investment banking or accounting. What’s behind this philosophy?"

-"To close the interview, I asked Mr. Kawasaki to come up with a final question he’d like to answer:

Q. What would you like people to say about you when you die?"

Seriously?
agreed, and the troll's name is Ruppert Murdoch.

Either that, or the WSJ is trying to retain it's old people readership with some emotional bonding article.
Maybe emailing syntax@posterous.com could send back a lorem ipsum blog post that took advantage of every possible feature that requires special text syntax. People then could just edit that email with the contents of their post, and the reply-to email would be post@posterous.com so they could just send it off. It isn't really necessary right now since tagging is (IIRC) the only feature that requires the user to know special syntax, but if you add more features that require markup then it could be really useful in the future.
i never understand these articles about "male dominated" tech culture with gender barriers, granted I sort of take the approach of welcoming people who are statistically more likely to be socially functional per unit of intelligence above the mean.

Is the issue at the hear of the matter just that women are more likely to interpret an environment where there are many irrelevant differences with respect to the population in question as being an adversarial "us vs them" dynamic?

I do think that the whole bit about not being able to talk about fashion at the end also detracts from the article as a whole. Any thoughts?
You should probably index the tags on the feeds also.
Inspiration Can Be Found in Many Places, but You Need to Be Looking
That thought crossed my mind as well. I guess there's no point in trying to retain our demographic since none of us read the paper anyway.

I don't see how it would really help them, but they've got to do something, and this is something, so yay!
I stand corrected and thank my corrector.
I see. I never thought to make a webpage a huge board of ads and put the content into the iframe. Ingenious. I wonder what that does to their pagerank.
I am.

Check any of the current sites, and you'll see a tag icon, followed by a list of current tags for that feed (if its posts have tags, that is).

You can also search tags: http://www.seeksift.com/asp/topic=[tag goes here]
By the way, I recently discovered Google has free private domain registration for $10 a year after talking about this with a friend:

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/domain.html

No recommendation here from personal experience, except that I use Google Apps for my email. It looks good on paper and it's goodle, maybe someone else can share their experience.
Many news organizations seem to be allergic to outbound links. It's really annoying.
A blog post from Mother Jones about the same article which gives a quote from The Organization Man back in 1956 which says the same thing (but without quite as much snark):
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2008/10/damn_kids.html
haha thats just the tip of the iceberg. paul graham, seth godin, mark cuban and a hundred other guys you never heard of have milked the yahoo cash cow but good over the years. astoundingly, pg figures low on the grand totem pole of yahoo ripoffs. same for flickr dude. if they had known what yahoo was willing to pay for concept-level garbage, they would have held out for 5x. the list of acquired companies must be over 100 by now.

of course it is shareholders financing all of this, not jerry yang.
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1. No. Browsers just have to execute html, not understand it, just as a processor when it shifts bits doesn't have to know that the purpose is multiplication.

2. If you want programs to understand the information on a page at something above a textual level, the right way to do that is to explicitly encode whatever you want as xml, not by using divs instead of tables.

3. I agree: this is the case where you'd want something like CSS. But editing html by hand is not the only way to get web pages. You can also have software generate them. And in that case munging the results afterwards is as inelegant as patching machine code.
Product Parenting: Eric Sink on Product Managers
Got me. Here's some interesting stuff on them though:

http://www.quarkbase.com/show/mahalo.com

http://spyfoo.com/Domain.aspx?d=-6195448603068914896
http://geekeasy.com/

Ran into Adam last year in a hostel in Egypt. Lots of good tips in there for traveling the world on a shoestring.
Can't wait to play with those, but of course they're not activated yet in my account. The Adsense integration is huge and will probably lead me to dynamically include ads depending on the provenance of users (Like, if it shows that Diggers never click an ad, why bother?).

Now if it could provide a real time list of the latest 100 or so visitors... it would be perfect.
It sounds like what Fred is saying is suspiciously close to the maxim "You have a spend money to make money", which is often quoted by people as they spend money on useless things that will in no way help them make money.

As a real estate investor, I can tell you that cash is kingliest when it's sitting in your bank account. It makes expansion much easier, because people are most willing to loan money to people who don't need it. I kind of expect it's the same in the startup world...if you're sitting on a large pile of cash with a low burn rate and high profitability, you can probably raise cash a lot easier than a startup that's down to their last nickel with a huge burn rate and no profitability in sight, yes?
It's articles like this that make me fall in love with the tech industry all over again.
What I found interesting is Tom's argument buried in the bottom of his post:

"Something you may have to spend cash on is making sure your product or service and the pitch for it are relevant to your prospects and customers in these tough times. Obviously, people are looking more for an opportunity to save than to spend. Can you help them do that?"

In my consulting experience in the corporate sector, it seems to me that while executives are interested in hypothetical savings, they are simply less interested in investing in products or services altogether. I'd be interested in how others target client's general risk-aversion mentality in bad economic times with something other than a good argument?
Nathan Myhrvold and Intellectual Ventures? Not sure if that's quite what you're looking for, but it's the first thing that came to mind. It's not exactly "good" in a "for mankind" kind of sense, but apparently it makes boatloads of money.
Yeah, they definitely should have gone with this story instead. I won't say it's proof (clearly people with chess "talent", if such a thing exists, could be born to people without) but it's at least not anecdotal evidence of the opposite.
I think the list of weaknesses serves a purpose. It makes one pay more attention to improvement in those areas. If one ONLY focuses on strengths, weaknesses can be ignored, leading to less improvement.

Though it is important to keep the list short.
Is this another Alltop.com sort of...?
They said the same thing when the "X generation" was entering the workforce. They even had HR videos about how bad we where going to be...
I know it still operates. I meant do you think it's still profitable?

They do have a higher pricing table then most comparable services, so maybe. But it's not an easy biz to be in.
I work at another company in the building in question. Several of my coworkers have been in the elevator at the same time he has.

I can't wait to get my chance so I can ask him if computers are going to be chewy in the future.
You know, it's a perfect time for an elevator pitch too ;)
This is class uncov flamebait. The author sets up several straw men, and then proceeds to valiantly strike them down. Yahoo, like all companies, has made a number of investments in startups. Some of them work out (viaweb, anyone?), some don't. Unfortunately, this article lacks a concrete analysis of all the investments yahoo has made. Instead, the author makes the argument that yahoo shouldn't have made $2.5bn in investments because three (totaling $0.248BN) haven't turned out well.
1. Yeah, I guess I worded that incorrectly, though you can see the tie-in between semantics and how that html is executed (rendered). Using proper semantics = not using tables for page layout = better rendering (under circumstances mentioned)

2. ... so you're saying we should write HTML, then write XML to describe that HTML? Why not just write HTML which describes itself in the first place? It seems awfully redundant to do it any other way, considering HTML comes with all these handy tags which, when used correctly, describe the content already. Hell, XHML was created as an HTML which conforms to the XML spec for precisely this purpose.

If you write something like:

<body><div id="content"><h1>My Cool Site</h1></div></body>

You've already "encoded" it. If you write:

<body><table><tr><td colspan=2><font color="red"><big>My Cool Site</big></font></td></tr></table></body>

Then, yeah, you've got your work cut out for you to give that any sort of meaning...

3. "And in that case munging the results afterwards is as inelegant as patching machine code." -- Right, so your choices are write it yourself or get a bunch of garbage generated by an IDE or Framework or whatever. If you're happy with the garbage then you probably don't need to edit it afterwards or just "edit" it using the same IDE or language or whatever. What happens when your IDE or framework or language can't generate HTML/CSS to do something you need? Then you have to start editing that crap by hand... this should eventually lead to suicide.
Great work guys -- looking fwd to the coming features
Why git? It's popular, which means it's easy to find people to ask questions when you need to.

Really, I'd be fine with any fast distributed VCS, which means nearly all of them these days. (sorry Darcs). The ease of setup ("If you have SSH you have a git server") feature is also very nice, but I don't think it's exclusive to git.
There's no way I could bring myself to do that. Between that, "My grandson is SO SMART he built his own computer from SCRATCH! You should hire him!" and "My niece is having open heart surgery and my cousin just lost her job" stories, I refuse to believe he doesn't take medicine to keep from falling asleep when people talk about spending his money.
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The author also fails to provide data that backs up the implied argument that the capital expenditures would've yielded a better return if applied towards the salaries of existing employees.

He's making classic "sunk cost" conceptual gaffe: Future decisions should be made independent of past ones. Even if yahoo had that extra $2.5BN, that doesn't mean the company should hold onto underperforming employees.
Unfortunately, to get real value out of his writing you have to do your own homework.

Put another way: show us some data, models, or research that he's wrong.

Put another way: assume he's right about everything. What are the implications for your business?

etc

HTH
I think you might be confused about the GameBoy, but lisp has been used for game development...

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LispInJakAndDaxter
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Rich pickings: unpaid internships replace traditional entry-level jobs
i think its always a good time to get rid of superfluous mark-up.
20-Somethings take on $50 billion counterfeit-drug biz
Hackers Are the Future
Personally I think the most important of the anti zealot side of this debate is the insistence on everything being centred on code being written by hand.

Dingy little WYSIWYG editors, machine generated web pages, & (in this context, I suppose) software that allows users to generate anything from blogs to shops to social news sites without any technical knowledge, and all their friends have probably done more for for the web (& it's accessibility) then standards have.

We aren't there yet. From online shops to Slinkset, you still need a little css & html to get you past a certain level of control. But I think it would be an achievement, if these weren't needed any more & 'view source' got taken out of browsers from lack of use.
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Linux Kernel Surpasses 10 Million Lines of Code
Good ideas aren't worth anything, remember? Just buy one on the cheap.
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Knowledge, perhaps, but by no means the same experience (which is what the commenter probably meant). There is no question that I appreciate how a shark moves through the water far more from my experiences as a diver than as a Shark Week viewer or aquarium visitor.
If only there was some kind of way to Really Simply Syndicate content...
Your last paragraph seems like such a good idea, its tough to understand why it hasn't happened. (I would definitely be at 85%, and I would accept a lower "base" to have to option!) I think the biggest reason is that time off is fairly disruptive. You need to coordinate that not everyone is off at the same time. If someone is waiting for you, your time off will prevent them from working. It takes time to "recover" from time off, etc. I'm not sure how significant these issues are, but I bet they get you to the point that you might have second thoughts. (Would you work 85% the hours for 60% the pay?)

That said, you'd think there are some fields where the above isn't an issue, and they would implement it. I don't know any examples.
The problem with those studies is that they analyzed successful experts. I want to see a study where they have everyone putting in thousands of hours of work. How many kids get into Juilliard every year, and how many achieve the same level as Yo Yo Ma? How many grad students are working their asses off at Caltech and MIT right now, and how many of those are actually going to produce some significant mathematical work? I don't doubt that ambition and effort are necessary, but of course some degree of talent must be key as well.
Congratulations. It seems like Git is really taking over SVN. Google Code uses SVN for checkouts, but now that Android is being shifted over to Git, it seems like the rest of their version control might go along with it.
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Yes, because the valuations and terms from VCs have already weakened.
I mentioned how I plan to switch from Slicehost to Amazon in a twitter msg and they replied offering me any help I needed. I see that they are monitoring their name across social sites. I was impressed.
Great information. Localization is another key aspect to any of these configuration filters. I still think it is odd given that "kick" is banned, but would be a funny shoe in anycase.
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It's been said a large number are paid content contributors, but really its 4 million... I can't really say.

I haven't see much press or online marketing from them either. But then again I live outside of the valley.
wonder if its a VC type fund, and if it'll fund non-.net stuff
Ah, I see. Before they even have a public website, they made sure to trademark their logo.

edit: doh! Teaches me for trusting the story.
She is using a T-Mobile's G1 cell phone too...[PIC]
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If the bg stands for Mr. Gates, any idea what the C3 represents?
They do have a public website: http://bgC3.com

Admittedly, the only thing on there is the logo.
I know that Goldman Sachs was regularly on best places to work lists'. They are mentioned in the article.
You may have to have your Google Apps configured to turn on new features in Domain Settings. It's definitely working for me.
I don't really know what "View Source" has to do with not writing your own HTML, but I completely agree with your argument. I'm not saying I want to always write HTML by hand, I'm saying it should be done until such a time that WSIWYG editors, online web site creators and so forth get to the level that they generate proper HTML. I don't get any more pleasure out of writing boiler-plate HTML than I do from writing boiler-plate code for the backend. If someone has created a framework or library that already does what I need (or gets me on the road to what I need without getting in my way), I'm certainly going to use it.

Needing a little CSS and HTML to get you past a certain level is no big deal, assuming the initial code generated is semantic, (mostly) valid, extensible, blah blah blah. Having tables nested 5-deep is none of these things.
That's not fair. I'm not a Slicehost--uh, Rackspace customer, but if I was, I have more than enough stuff in my newsreader that I wouldn't want to subscribe to their blog.
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I used underwater in this case because it is often said that a startup is underwater when they are in debt.

The quotes for the double meaning.

Apologies if I got it "wrong". :)
"This is a very different future in which all of these applications are being driven by sensors" ~ Tim O'Reilly

Brush up on your electronics and go buy a Arduino and hack.
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I can't believe they used those exact quotes, but sure enough they did.

I think the idea that young employees can be as valuable as seasoned veterans is really disruptive to people who've had to deal with the system all along. This is really prevalent among doctors (but appears to be trickling down to less prestigious jobs) -- they don't think the hours demanded as residents make sense, but they had to do it, so it only make sense.
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I hope Slicehost doesn't confuse lower prices with their to-date high quality of support.
pretty cool..

just highlights how incredibly stupid 99% of internet users really are though - to not even check the address of the site they are on.
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Any chance we can get nytimes articles posted as a comment so we don't have to bother with BugMeNot every time?

Another option would be to use the RSS partner HTTP attribute, if it works on every article.
I understand your point, but it doesn't necessarily follow that law->fail. If those people burned alive in a horrible fire, like the patrons of a certain RI nightclub, then we would be calling for the law.

There comes a point when all that's left is the question, "how many people can be injured in kitchen accidents per X-thousand fed?" People have become strongly conditioned to insist the answer must be zero. So they pass a laws so that there can only be completely safe kitchens. The law fails because instead of safe kitchens, as intended by lawmakers, there are NO kitchens.

I suppose in a perverted way, you could argue that the law actually was a perfect success. All 0 kitchens are completely safe.
Google Maps API now offers reverse geocoding
In the programming world, there is a healthy ecosystem of bloggers. If Steve Yegge switches to Twitter, I quit.

One great thing about the web is that you can structure your content however you want.
eh, I think the big problem is that nerds, in general, regardless of gender have poor social skills. This is to be expected... I mean, we all have limited time, if you spend more of your time learning about computers than you spend learning about people, your social skills are not going to be as good as if you spent all your time learning about people.

Ok, so we have a group of people with poor social skills. Note, people within this group can relate to oneanother much better than they can relate to people outside this group. Add to that an extremely skewed gender ratio, and you will find a lot of lonely men. Lonesomeness often leads to bitterness and misogyny. I don't imagine it's particularly pleasant to deal with someone who is both attracted to but also has a deep-seated anger towards your gender.

Add to that the usual friction you get when people with poor social skills get together, and I can see how you might have an unpleasant situation.

I've also heard it explained like this:
Assume everyone wants to work (or talk about technical stuff) 95% of the time, and flirt 5% of the time. Assuming your company (or LUG) has a 1:10 female:male ratio, and furthermore postulate that all participants are hetrosexual. The women who do show up will be irritated, not because they don't want to flirt, but because they want to do other things as well.
Imagine a world where everyone gave "street charity"...

There would be no more incentive to work, to invest in education, to be productive. The economy would crumble. So do your part in making the world a better place by not giving those $10 ;).

Also, giving money to the homeless is a zero-sum transaction: no wealth is created, only transfered. Much better investing the money in a startup.
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