skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can say that in my experience interviewing potential candidates, everyone I worked with generally hated lengthy resumes, but I was the only one who cared enough to dock people for them.

It's not that important, but ultimately, a concise resume reflects on your communication skills. Being able to summarize the most relevant information is an important skill, even in the software industry.
Yes, I'm sure. The only date I specifically mentioned was 2003, which is when the last Alpha was released and the 64 bit x86 architecture became available. In 1998-1999 the Alpha was still probably in the lead on all counts except possibly price/performance. Things move fast in CPUs, and a significant lead one year can turn into a trailing position the very next.
Phusion Passenger, now with Global Queuing
Why a Microsite Can Help Market Your Company
The Python bundle has a nifty "clean up white space" command which in tandem with the "format code" command in the appropriate language bundle works for me.
I grew up with these groups too, albeit not in Texas but in the midwest and rural CA (and then some in the underbelly of Silicon Valley).

For some, having a kid got them out of the high school that they didn't want to be in anyway. (Or, junior high in some cases.) In other cases, it let them say "I'm an adult" and others thought "my kid will have to love me".

Some waited until after high school, or at least the spring of their senior year.
Ask HN: Valuation of domain for sale to large corporation?
A friend was recently sued, unsuccessfully, for possession of a domain name he has owned for several years by a company that makes cereal and rhymes with Bellog.

The company is now trying to purchase the domain from him. How should he go about finding an appropriate value for this domain? Are there specialists he can consult?
spam for me too! thanks for pointing this out.
turns out to be a rejection +1 room it seems :P
the blog post doesn't make it clear that Peter Thoeny started the open source project.

however, I also know well how the TWiki community works and wouldn't have expected that the original founder would act like this. TWiki in practice was owned by the community (much alike Debian)
Did you file a bug report?
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list
The best cover letter, imho, shows a personal touch to the application, and covers a short list of requirements listed in the job listing, and why you're the perfect candidate for the position.

"Your job listing mentioned that you need a team leader for a new application to run on mobile phones. I've led three teams in mobile application development, and all projects launched on time."

Etc...
The .NET is better then the JVM because it was designed to run on windows only, so no run anywhere stuff needed to be designed.

I was doing Win32 development for 5 years and concluded the .NET development is the best way to go (Only if you can convince the marketing guy to include the 20MB runtime installer in the package)
Our group submitted 4 apps.
We got a PG question on two of them.
Still got rejected on all 4, sucks...
We got a question about our application last week. We didn't make the cut.
According to a conversation I had with Paul Buchheit (paul here at HN) in the past, GMail spam filters are heavily reputation based, which leads me to believe that Bayesian filtering is not a first line of defense, and likely would be specific to each mailbox rather than universally applied. So, if it's happening to everyone, then it's a universal rule at GMail that's doing the filtering, and thus I would guess not heavily based on any Bayesian results. But I might be wrong, GMail spam filtering may have changed dramatically since paul worked on the project, or I may have simply misunderstood his explanation.

But pg did invent the most powerful recent spam fighting technique. I'm not sure why one would say the description provided in the essay isn't the same as inventing it? Certainly Bayesian analysis existed long before the essay, but I think it's safe to say that the inventor of the airplane was no less its inventor because the internal combustion engine existed before.
The Official YC Denied Thread 
So, while we are bummed about not being seleceted, we were prepared for it. Honestly though this news doesn't change the direction and motivation for us. So stay postive people and keep hacking away!
depends. if he's willing to pay, i'm sure he could find someone to appropriately value it.

i also would say that we could probably help valuate it here.

would need info like, how much he paid, how much he's making with it now, traffic it gets, etc..
REJECTED! KILLS SELF

Naw it's coo-. I was kind of hoping I would get rejected since I've had second thoughts about someone owning 5% of my idea since I applied a few months back.

Hope the lucky winners blow apart the interwebz 2.5 with some crazy new productive ideas.
Mine was in spam too
One of the best ways to learn is to take a risk or know someone who takes a risk. Obviously this doesn't work in all cases, one has to be mature enough to internalize and understand the ramifications when exposed to them. But they do have to be exposed to what these risks and ramifications are.

"Social liberals in the country’s “blue states” tend to support sex education and are not particularly troubled by the idea that many teen-agers have sex before marriage, but would regard a teen-age daughter’s pregnancy as devastating news. And the social conservatives in “red states” generally advocate abstinence-only education and denounce sex before marriage, but are relatively unruffled if a teen-ager becomes pregnant, as long as she doesn’t choose to have an abortion."

There's the answer right there. If the families and communities treat teenage pregnancy as a (relative) non-event, then there are no ramifications to getting pregnant. They "understand the ramifications" and "the risk of what they are doing" to be relatively low. By encouraging abstinence and not making it hard on those who don't practice abstinence, it's sending a message that sex isn't that big of a deal.
I didn't even get a mail, that means there's still hope!

(yes i did check spam folder)
> Even new version of these operating systems still do not offer such a fundamental feature as working hibernate or other form of session saving.

Funny, on September 27th I closed the lid on my oversize-no-way-it's-going-to-travel-with-me Dell 9300, which now serves as my media center, running Ubuntu, and I left for a month. I came back, opened it up this morning, and it woke right up and asked for my password.
What's the rejection email look like? Just a one liner or an explanation about how "it's not you, its me"? :-)
There is a official procedure that companies can use to dispute the domain name if you're trying to hustle them that costs them about $1000-2500. I forget what its called but if you look at past cases you'll see a lot of people trying to hustle corporations and the decisions handed down. I think if Bellog thinks they can win (very possible) they would price you according to that figure.

http://www.livecurrent.com/ is a pro-Domain Squatter. They may be able to help
Cool idea, although it seems a bit scammy. I especially agree with the earlier PayPal comments in regards to the login...

Your description of 'how it works' on the main page should also have something like ...

"... don't see anything you want? No problem -- start a request list yourself!"

Maybe even a short flash demo for those of us with 30 second attention spans...

I don't understand the criteria for what CDs can be requested... do I pick it from thin air, or do you have a 'master catalog' from a distributor ya'll order from that you will make searchable? Are you placing bulk Columbia House orders??? (20 CDs for a penny!!) :)

Your web site is an absolute disaster design-wise... sorry I don't have any constructive tips but I'd say to get someone with an eye for that on board... it looks very retro Geocities...

Please explain your business model? Do you basically require 20 people (I'm making this number up) to sign up for a CD (earning you at least $20) and then you go about acquiring a $10 CD and distributing it to the first person, thus netting you some profit in the arbitrage?
might be in your spam mail (for Gmail)
Getting SimpleDB working well isn't going to be less work than getting MySQL working well. SQLite might be a better alternative.
Eclipse also has a right-click Source->Correct Indentation or Source->Format option for cleaning up code indentation/formatting. I suppose other IDEs and code-oriented editors have something similar.
did you update your profile to include your email address?
The key is getting a 3rd party to the table. For example, if P&G were expressing interest... It reminds me of a case from b-school titled, "Up for Auction: Malta Bargains with Great Britain" which is worth a read if you can track it down. Having a 3rd party could mean the difference between getting $10K or $1MM.
If, as the OP states, he's already been sued--and come out the other side unscathed, then he's in a far stronger bargaining position. And it suggests that there probably isn't a strong case to be made for the official procedures to be workable for them, and they may have already tried it and failed. I suspect they didn't sue first--that's a very big weapon to fire as an opening salvo. Though, I guess it does happen.
We did (excitement!) get an interview and we did get a question, so YRMV.
Good point wrt inventing. Wanted to be on the safe side, but that makes complete sense!
The Single Sign-On War Will Ruin OpenID
Does it have to be a game? What if I have a site or two that get good traffic but not a lot of page reloads because it's all Ajaxy?
One of my pet projects has been to create a minimalist task manager that uses Ajax. It allows you to add/edit/delete tasks quickly without needing to reload the entire page. For those of you who are interested, you can check it out at the URL below:

http://www.maketask.com
23andMe named Invention of the Year by Time
1) how many applications did they receive ?
2) and how many did they accept ?
3) weve edited the application a lot of times since July. I understand that they started reading them before application deadline. could they have read an older version of our application ?
4) since Google is God, its good is infinite. Hence I assume GMail marked the mail as spam to protect me from feeling rejected, 'cause shit was already happening today since I woke up.
how hard would it be to slap "http://" onto the email if it wasnt there? that way you get your email and you dont break the standard. not hard, not hard at all.
"see if he could apply a mathematical calculation known as Fourier transform to solve the Beatles’ riddle."

I feel less dumb today knowing clearly exactly how that would work. Although I would have thought it would in practice be feeding it into an audio analysis app and picking the peaks and mapping them to notes on various tunings. Not really mathematics though, but cool none the less.
estibot.com

Keep in mind that its an automated estimate. But in my experience, it makes very good ones. Of course, it all depends of what the buyer wants to pay...
A potential problem in this case with using a auction with multiple bidders: it could reopen the domain ownership dispute.

By my (admittedly limited) understanding, demonstrating you are not just interested in flipping a domain to the highest bidder, but have a valid intended use, is one of the factors that can overcome a trademark claim.

As in many questions asked here, the poster really needs to find an expert. I would suggest someone whose business is domain buying and selling, including in the presence of trademark claims, and get their negotiation advice (perhaps for a commission).

(Sorry, no names come to mind. There was an article about some successful speculator/squatter in Vancouver a couple years ago...)
I'm surprised no one has put a link to http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/02/25/a_glimpse_a... in yet.

I've been the technical reviewer on a lot of hires and found Rand's process fairly similar to mine. I think it's good that he views the document as having 2 purposes: the first being to get through all the recruiters/HR to get it into the tech reviewer's hands, the second being grabbing the reviewer's attention enough that you get an interview.
What does the rejection email say?
you can sell advertising or you can raise capital - if you are growing that quickly you should have no problem raising capital. Charging people is one way to drastically halt your growth, though - if that is what you are after
Luminotes.com or Google Notebook.

On the go? Moleskine
yeah, but i should have used gmail instead of my regular ISP because it's... unreliable hehehe.

gmail is better, that's saying something
Is there another instance of a "by universities for universities" project really being successful? Just saying, a product's market doesn't always know what they really need or want.
This guy should look into OpenBSD, I get the sense he would either appreciate it's aesthetic or get into an argument with Theo.
What's a PG question?
Domain appraisal is very subjective.

I'd say it's worth looking at namepros.com and dnforum.com where you might be able to get some friendly appraisals. Also have a look around for recent sales history. Try to find similar names that have sold in the past.

I wouldn't recommend paying for a domain appraisal. They're generally scams but usually way off the mark.

If it is a true generic domain like cereal.com or breakfast.com, then it's worth a small fortune. Like $500,000 minimum!

Have a look at: http://dnjournal.com/ytd-sales-charts.htm for the year to date big domain sales.

Also: http://www.ricksblog.com/ Rick Schwartz has made some huge private sales in the past, and he might be able to offer you some guidance.

Good luck!
I do a more GTD style than the previous suggestions, focusing on reducing mental clutter. Every week I carry around a todo list with the top priority projects. When I think of something, I jot it down on the back of the todo list. I'll review it as "input" along with all the other input from the day. Good ideas make it to my igoogle sticky note, which has become a pretty long list of potential projects. If any idea seems like a worthwhile project, then I analyze it side by side on a spreadsheet against other projects to look at a rough ROI and how it matches with my short term goals, interests, skills, and other projects.

This way, I don't lose any input, can focus on the task(s) at hand, and have some degree of certainty that I'm working on better projects.
There are fundamental differences that are more significant than speed or administration.

SimpleDB is "eventually consistent" - that is, when you write, a subsequent read might not immediately reflect the change. There's also no such thing as a join, although you can approximate it.

I think of SimpleDB as searchable metadata storage. It's useful, but not a drop-in replacement for a traditional database.
I want your bank. Where do I sign up for a 4.5+% account?
That's correct. My understanding is that the company has been unable to win in court.
15 Computer Ads From The Past (1950-1980)
We got a question and thought we offered a pretty sufficient response but no joy.
And when all else fails, ask Google - http://www.google.com/search?q=domain+name+attorney
How We Prepare a Demo
I use Google Docs/Google sites. This allows me to add notes from anywhere with internet access.

Sometimes it's just faster to write on paper, if I don't have my notes doc open in a browser tab. I build up notes all day in one of my pockets. At the end of the day, I take all my notes and copy them into Google docs.

Additionally I use http://dabbleboard.com/ for sketches, and then save a link to my sketch in my Google Doc.

The concern some have with with Google docs, is the paranoid one, that maybe Google is stealing all your good ideas. I'm just going to assume that they are too busy for that shit(or hopefully too ethical). But otherwise google docs is becoming the defacto file sharing app, so why not just sell out now while it's hot.
More a trick than a best practice, heredoc

http://us.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#langua...

You should recognize this immediately if you have done any unix shell scripting.

I use it to spit out large pieces of HTML.
If your application read anything like this comment I think I know why you got rejected.
The Three Great Virtues of a Programmer
Maybe Gmail thinks it's one of these:

http://paulgraham.com/firstwatergatesltd.html
and #2 was the Tesla Roadster. Very cool for both of them, but ... do these really qualify as "inventions"?

AFAIK, 23andme didn't invent genetic testing and Tesla didn't invent the electric car. They made it a consumer service and they made it sexy (respectively).

Maybe I'm being to strict with the word.
anyone know if they just mail the main applicant or do they send a mail to each of the group members? my email is a tad unreliable and i hadn't heard back about my app.
Only the main applicant will be contacted. I'm waiting on mine too! Is anyone else that applied still waiting for a response?
He asked some followup questions. Showed up at the top of HN when you login, or check http://news.ycombinator.com/ycquestions
How to setup lighter, faster & minimal Ubuntu
Hulu: Ugly Duckling No More
aw.

http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/marlena.html
RIP Good Times? A Different Perspective from Altos Ventures
I didn't get any response from YC as off yet :(
Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs: Make Cuts, Stay Stingy, But Never Forget The Dream
Ah how timely I was just going to install Ubuntu on Vmware.
This nails it. All the big players are becoming OpenID providers, but without actually accepting identifiers from other providers (i.e. they're not "relying parties"), which is nearly as bad for OpenID as not implementing it all.

I just hope that these plays by Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google to become the de-facto identity provider backfire and they get stuck in a 33.333% share stalemate (among themselves), forcing each to eventually become R.P.s.

Or maybe consumers will magically realize they should use some 3rd party provider. Hah.
Between this, Fedora's "who moved my X server?", and yet-another-Phonon-flamewar, this wasn't a good week for the Linux Hater to retire.
Just Saying: Google Didn’t Start In a Downturn
If you're applying for a specific position, a one page resume highlighting your specific skills and past projects pertaining to the job is a good idea. The time to elaborate on a past project or experience that is not directly relevant is the interview.

Remember how your resume is going to be treated (at least at a larger company). It is first going to go through a screener (a recruiter or even a keyword search), then it will go to someone technical on a team.

Always remember that the main point is to get the interview, that's it.

Also, please please proof read your resumes. I actually had a QA engineer with a spelling error on his resume.
This thread is yet another proof that the current recruitment process (in any and all companies) is flawed (and yes, mine have been rejected before).

The reason is it is 'still' a personal taste process. No matter what you do, how you sell, what you write, how you think, it's still up to the personal taste of some person whether to give a green light or not. That taste is subject to then need, experience, skill-level, mood, coffee, <anything u like to add> of the decision-making person.

It's not that I'm bitter, it's that, being a person who's passionate about what he does (as many others here), I 'know' it can be better.

Resumes are the first wrong step in the process. Why do we still rely on them? Because other alternatives aren't as easy/available.

Note: wrong step does not always mean wrong outcome.
I don't think this blogger actually read the post by Google. The neosmart article emphasizes This is a departure from the process outlined in OpenID 1.0. This is because Google is following the OpenID 2.0 protocol which does contain the discovery request and the XRDS document process.

http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-2_0.html#disco...

This is not a fork from OpenID. They are simply using the newer protocol.
Didn't make it but we're still moving forward. I mean, its not like PG and Ycombinator is the ONLY way to make a start-up work. What about those billions of them that came before YC existed?
In my application they sent an e-mail to both founders who were attached with HN accounts.
Interesting - thought i saw pg say only the main applicant would be contacted.
Gattaca!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca
UpdateIt project
Commercial Users of Functional Programing Presentations
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We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding. Please don't take it personally. Despite the stock market crash we got a record number of applications this time, and the average quality was high. And since there's a limit on the number of interviews we can do, we had to turn away a lot of genuinely promising groups.

Another reason you shouldn't take this personally is that we know we make lots of mistakes. It's alarming how often the last group to make it over the threshold for interviews ends up being one that we fund. That means there are surely other good groups that fall just below the threshold and that we miss even interviewing. We're trying to get better at this, but it's practically certain that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups. If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us about it; we want to learn from our mistakes.

Y Combinator Staff
If you read anything like your application I think I know why you're rejected by life.
I would suggest any mobile tech related news site/blog/forum out there. Not much good picking up books on something that gets updated every 3 months or so. Mobile engadget, gizmodo, etc. come to mind. Howard Forums is also huge for mobile/cell phone chatter.
Hey, thanks! I just now saw this. I reference this article all the time; now it'll be easier to find.

Bookmarks? What are those?
Windows $NEXT_VERSION will floor all comers
FavorAsk PoetrySaid
Recently, I've been amused that gmail has been marking my Google Alert emails as spam. Screenshot: http://tinyurl.com/5v7c6w
I thought I'm the only one doing that :)
heh, while not bad times, it's certainly not GOOD times.

a "hedgehog" company will fare well in a downturn market and an upturn one. it's okay if the people being laid off from "fox" companies are the lazy employees, but it's kind of sad if they were brought on to help grow and are now being laid off for survival.
Fears methane spike will fuel warming
What language is your code in? If it's a curly-brace language (c, c++, java, etc.), then the following should properly indent everything using Vim:

gg=G

If not (or if that doesn't work right), you can use visual mode to quickly change indents on large sections at once:

Select a set of lines using:

V

and then press (for example):

2>

to add 2 tabs to the beginning of the selected lines.

Or to go the other way (remove 2 tabs):

2<
Where's the benefit in this? I could understand it more if TWiki were a consumer-facing thing like Firefox with a huge codebase and a large developer community. Or did TWiki get big recently?
I wonder if this affects the YC selection criteria? Will there be more focus on startups that are revenue positive earlier in their life cycle? Some good perspectives on the panel:

Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists Gather to Figure Out What the Heck Happened
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/200...

Venture capitalists: We are open for business, but take our advice...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078122-2.html

John Doerr: 10 ways for companies to stay afloat in rough times
http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/29/john-doerr-10-ways-for-com...
VentureBeat downturn event: Tightening your belt isn’t enough
How Bad Credit Debt Consolidation Will Help You
I can understand blocking IE6, but not IE7.