skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wanted:

Someone who can solve problems and write solid code. If you lie about these qualifications, you must fight our stable of real ninjas, who have never heard of the web, because they are too busy practicing deadly ninja moves.
I wasn't busting your chops. I wanted to know because next year I will be completing my MSFE. My plans are to work long enough to pay off my debt and get a nice cash cushion and then move out to SV. I haven't built anything yet, but I am starting to get a financial library laid out in planning.
Hi, I am a web 3000 Jehadi
:P
I'm really excited about this because of where we can go with this.

The idea of a "rtip" or tip/retweet is the biggest innovation here. It's exactly how twitter is already used to disperse information, but adds a social gesture with monetary weight. That's pretty powerful. If you like a tweet, just say "rtip $1 @username the awesome tweet".

Lots of sites use Twitter credentials, and this means they can initiate payments. It also makes those payments inherently social, as they are broadcasted - so in ways it is better than an OAuth system. But we're planning that too.

We are also accepted new signups via twitter credentials
http://tipjoy.com/createaccount/platform/twitter/

We're going to open this up to an API, meaning sites based on twitter credentials can convert their whole user base to tipjoy users. I'm really looking forward to see what can be done with these tools.
[In "Fat Tony" voice]: That is a lovely University you've got there. It would be a shame, if something were to... happen...
I don't know that I particularly disagree with you. The one advantage that a language scoped packaging system has over a system-wide system is developer adoption.

Debian, Gentoo, Redhat, FreeBSD, etc all depend on heavily on volunteers to create the packages, manage dependencies, issue security announcements, feed bug reports and patches upstream to developers, etc. I've used Gentoo for a long time and I've watched it struggle in recent years as it loses volunteers. New releases take longer to reach portage, some software never finds its way to portage at all, and I find more and more broken packages. The only Ruby package I install from portage is Ruby itself.

The thing is, every Ruby developer uses RubyGems. There are no volunteers because the developers themselves create the packages for each release. I think this is more sustainable, even if I don't think RubyGems is as good as the packaging tools used by the major distributions.
Ironically enough, if they connect they won't be able to access YourDomain.com.
This is pretty cool. Congrats, TipJoys!
I am CSS Husain now
I got weapons of mass development
lol! No man you should be playing board games, reading stories and teaching them to code !!!!!
Up here. Good luck.
anyone need an osama bin XHTML ?
I either spend these nights playing dota (I cram these into a binge dota session), reading (If I find something) or playing the violin.
It wasn't just the American west that attracted the ambitious. Sample from a time and place with healthy entrepreneurial capitalism and I think you'll find that ambitious people had a much greater inclination towards starting a business than they do today. Examples: every American city pre-1930, most of Western Europe between 1815 and 1914, the Netherlands post 1600, and Venice in the 15th century. Nothing like our modern "organization man" economy existed in these places. Ambitious, upwardly mobile people did not find safe jobs as managers. They did not rise to the top by climbing the ladder. They started workshops, built factories, and captained merchant ships. The British East India Company and the Medici bank were among the world's very first startups, and they were both highly successful. I'd also note that the Medici bank had fewer employees than a well funded silicon valley startup. And each of its nine branches was a semi-independent startup - kind of like your "pooled-risk management company".

Of course, in places without entrepreneurial capitalism, most ambitious people aimed to work for large existing organizations - usually the government, church, or military. Examples: France before 1815, the papal states, China for its entire history, the late Roman empire, modern Japan, and modern Europe.

It seems part of your thesis is: "For most of history, ambitious people sought to join large organizations such as the church, state, or army. But with the rise of entrepreneurial capitalism, ambitious people instead chose to start or join small, growth oriented businesses"

I agree with this part of your thesis completely. My point of contention is that I don't think entrepreneurial capitalism began in the late twentieth century. Entrepreneurial capitalism began in earnest around the 17th century, and peaked across the Western world in 1914. Then the world wars and the progressive movement almost completely wiped out entrepreneurial capitalism and replaced it with the civil service state/managed capitalism.

The rise of Silicon Valley is a step towards restoration, not a brand new innovation. Nor are venture capital firms anything new. It used to be that banks and angels were the primary sources of venture capital, see the Boston Associates for one example of many: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boston_Associates. But post-New Deal, banks were highly regulated, non-risk taking entities. The 95% marginal tax rates severely limited the supply of wealthy investors. The founders of Silicon Valley had to basically reinvent the wheel and call it a different name.
Raising the World’s I.Q. with Micronutrients
Telling that the developer comes by to warn us about the music playing automatically. Think he has advised against it before?
I was all set to upvote this after the first point, and then I read the next two. Really, it's a job. There're things more important than a steady paycheck, and IMHO keeping your integrity and doing work you can feel proud of are among them.
Appalanche (YC S07): A Snazzy Recommendation Engine For The App Store That Sort Of Works
Are you writing controls for the space shuttle or building a web based lead manager? How come nobody is good enough? My guess is you probably don't know what to look for in a candidate.
The pitfalls of plug-ins
The GO sequencer - Hack a Day
That's a really great point, and one I hadn't considered.

Of course, in a fantasy ideal world, the way things would work is that the Ruby developers would create their own repository for .debs..

This would mean that if I want the latest and greatest files, I can add their repository to my existing package system, and everything integrates.

When I did an "apt-get upgrade" it would check the Ruby repository, and upgrade all my ruby packages, too..

Then, when a package had proven itself to be stable enough, it could be copied back into the standard Ubuntu/Debian repositories, so that everyone could have it, even if they didn't add the repositories.

Of course, in the real world, that would be far to much work for the Ruby developers, and would require that they customize for one specific OS.. But a man can dream, can't he? ;)
Some Thoughts on Mercurial
Ask HN: Facebook Connect, Own User Sytem, or Hybrid User System
I am going to launch my new website very soon - Trakable.com. Then, I stumbled upon Facebook Connect. The whole concept of Facebook Connect is really amazing. I am thinking that whether I should embed Facebook Connect into it so that it could benefit from the social graph of Facebook.

If I embed Facebook Connect into my web application, it means that my whole user system will solely depend on Facebook Connect(I believe that very few people will actually register through my User system if there is Facebook Connect available). So, if Facebook changes the policy, it may ruin the whole user system of the website.

Any suggestion?
Git weekly news: 2008-49
Stay in and work / experiment / play. Why? You have no phone calls, no "urgent" e-mails, or any of that when everyone else is out having fun :)
I thought it was a made up story till i got to the end O.o
was sick :-(.
The Mouse and the Rectangle
no time with the ladies?

either dating them, or chasing them around?
The ones inside big sport stores aren't really climbing walls. They're more like attractions.

I pay $60/month for climbing (in Maryland), or it's $16 to go once. Rental harness and shoes is about $9. The prices fluctuate depending on the gym you go to though. Mine offers classes sometimes too, so if you want to take those it will be more money, but by all means they're not required. Try to find a local rock gym; googling works fine and searching climbing forums.

I go with a few coworkers who also caught the climbing bug, there are also always regulars at the gym who you get to know after a while and I sometimes meet new people at the gym to belay me. (You can't really climb by yourself as you need a person to support you on the ground ['belay'] unless you're bouldering. Bouldering is close to the ground and is generally more inventive and harder as the problems (a problem is a set of hand/foot holds that you have to traverse to complete a route in bouldering) tend to be very technical. For more actual explanation on how everything works, wikipedia is a great resource, or alternatively, you can just contact me.

It's a great hobby, in my opinion. Good for physical development, good for meeting new people and very rewarding as you see yourself progress to harder climbs.
"... Tipjoy now allows payments via Twitter ..."

Go Abby & Ivan
Google "uses" 21 times more bandwidth than it pays for
first hand?????
our growth rate of active users isn't tremendously high

You have two options. Work on more traffic or, and this is FAR easier, work on your conversion rate. Get more of those fewer visitors to sign up and you get the same result.
You've got nothing to lose.
I wonder to what extent governmental retention of minting coins is just PR to reinforce the archaic belief that money is still call by value, when it's actually call be reference.
Destructive Koobface virus turns up on Facebook
Love the new colors! Keep up the good work. =)
I'm willing to predict without even reading it that this "study" was paid for by some corporate opponent of net neutrality.
> They don't run their own electric power plants anymore

They don't?
http://www.harrisgroup.com/node/262

This extortion thing has happened many times, but did they band together before? There was some false patent about live video streaming and my university (Michigan Tech) had the choice to fight it (and probably win) at 4x cost or pay license fees of x (sorry I don't remember the figures). Well, MTU paid the fees and the company probably moved onto the next school. I wonder why higher education is so expensive...
Alex Payne: Recession Engineering
>No, it did apply to companies too: larger commercial operations tended to be more successful than small ones.

How are you defining success? How well the company did per-capita (per employee)?
Getting the internet from UCLA was awesome. It was super fast. And this was in the glory days of Napster. Considering the way housing works, I kind of doubt the heavily regulated private players would be better.
I pasted my favourite regex in the box and it errored.
i see it here in Cebu Philippines...
if this thing spread liked crazy throughout the world, imagine what a real virus (as in virus in movies - say 12 monkeys) will do...
Wall Street: Profiles in Panic
You're right, just regular old "rape" is so passe these days.

What about "Web 3.0 Pedophile who can assault web browsers with JQuery and CSS, and convince them not to tell anyone, leaving them with life-long issues." (SVU's still on TV, right?)
Luck is always a factor - however, I think there's definitely some upbringing and family success at play here. Nick's brother Adrian Hanauer ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Hanauer ) is also a successful investor.
Ask HN: Can you recommend a good Django freelance designer ?
I'm looking for a good Django freelance designer. If you are one or know of any good ones out there, can you drop me a line at unohoo@gmail.com ?
Apple Tells Court It Believes Someone Is Behind Psystar
1. My view would be that I wouldn't mind being directed to a sign-in/up page upon clicking, as long as it was clear why I'd need to be signed in to do so. If I'm on yahoo.com, and I click on mail, it makes sense to ask me to sign in. But I certainly want to know that once I'm signed in, I'll be able to have mail.

2. Google, Yahoo, and Amazon use "sign in." Facebook and Myspace use "log in." I'd say it depends upon the use, but personally I'd go with sign in.

3. Since the functionality is somewhat limited before signing in, have sign-in functionality on the front page. That way the user gets to what they want with one less page. However, along with my previous comments of keeping the links there, they should lead to a separate sign-in page.
The original Techcrunch article didn't have "(YC 07)" in the headline of their post. Add it while posting on Hacker News, and you get upvotes immediately and may be blindly! Good trick!
Facebook Connect Now Live
Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?
Google pays the cost of transporting its packets to certain points in the Internet; Google's users pay for transporting packets the rest of the way. It may be the case that the users are paying dramatically more than half the cost, but that doesn't indicate a problem per se, because transporting packets over the last few miles is genuinely more expensive than over the backbone.
I was wondering when this would happen. Hopefully it will work ;)

Hopefully this could be used to make an alternate, resource-less, internet. If the gpg signing can ensure enough security, web developers won't need host servers (to an extent) any more. Certainly not if they are just serving static pages.
Looking for code terrorist to constantly introduce new bugs, leave files checked out from source control, and generally impede progress.
Why Facebook Connect Is Bound For Success
And to inhibit the notion that all of those references just point to null.
This is standard procedure. Remember how this site started: it was originally for YC "alumni" to exchange news. Most visit the site regularly, and they are genuinely interested in news about their peers. Considering there are on the order of 300 founders now, it's surprising articles about YC-funded cos don't get more upvotes.
Why does an article entitled "Why We Don't Take Credit Cards" not explain why the person concerned does not take credit cards?

What is it that makes it so hard for people to come up with a headline that vaguely resembles what they have written about?
An economist teaches financial literacy to homeless women
Four harsh truths about climate change (by Gwynne Dyer)
I doubt that most people know the difference between specie and fiat money in the first place.
Related article:
"Google lashes out at D.C. critic over 'payola punditry'"

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10114080-38.html?tag=newsE...
http://github.com/zh/turl/tree/master - tinyurl-like service in ramaze (just one file). even have an API ;)
Have also a bigger project - http://github.com/zh/tamanegi/tree/master - rss/atom feeds aggregator.
Computation and Mathematical Proof
My guess is that's the most obvious name you'd click in an airport or hotel.
What if you're not, but would like to be?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_Hungry_Hippo
Completely, totally agree. I was just discussing this today with my business partner; I think that many people won't even know what to do with extra money if it is given to them. That's never happened before - there's always been the "well, we could use more servers" or "well, we could always hire more engineers" argument. Today, I think a lot of people are beginning to realize that 1) if you engineer your applications properly, and on the right platforms, you can scale your server demands along with your userbase/revenues; 2) more engineering/other assorted human capital won't necessary translate into better, more usable product.

I personally believe this is the beginning of a massive shift, and one that isn't even tied to the economy - but, of course, will be dramatically accelerated as a result of it. On the point of what happens to the startup community, however - I think it will be a lot harder to start a me-too company and get any traction; as a result, even with the lower cost of business, there will be fewer people able to enjoy the benefits. It's sort of like the rest of the economy - if you are the absolute best at what you do, it's a great time to be in business; for everyone else, the situation is precarious. Running on $3000 a month is great, but not if that means you're losing $3000 a month with no foreseeable way of recouping your investment.

Perhaps that's where the VCs will step in - sweep those flailing enterprises under their wings, pump greater capital/human resources into them, and try to brute-force them into successful enterprises. In effect, they would become the startup version of their private-equity peers; not a bad place to be, but again - the best will survive, the rest will die.
You could argue that the president never left office in 07...
This is a serious problem and it's good to see people working on nutrition in poor countries - we hear "poor nutrition" and think of too much sugar and fat, but it can get a lot worse.

That said, IQ is normalized and there won't be any global raising: world_iq = 100*population
You're sort of arguing against yourself here. In the scheme of things, the sort of blind luck of getting slashdotted or having a significant blog market is nothing compared to the general effort put into startups.

Think of something that work win if it had a network. Think of a way to seed the network. FTW.
Strangers May Cheer You Up, Study Says
Is understanding the Chatbot Game an IQ test?  (Depressing user testing results.)
I'm starting to think so after getting back user testing results from http://usertesting.com. Two out of the three testers were pretty clueless.

I've made changes as a result of these testing results, but this is rather depressing.

It's very much an explore and learn by example site:

http://chatbotgame.com

There's no tutorial. I have a feeling few people read/watch tutorials anyway.
What does your Facebook app do? Does it have a strong viral component? Those almost never are able to direct much traffic back to your site, but they can often do what your site does, possibly better, and spread faster.
Putting aside the sarcasm and assuming it was inspired by twitpay, what exactly is the problem with that?

Unless you also have a patented technology, being first to market doesn't really matter.

Execution matters. Bragging rights don't pay the bills.
Here's a book I tried to read once: The Big Problem of Small Change.

From http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7306.html :

"The Big Problem of Small Change" offers the first credible and analytically sound explanation of how a problem that dogged monetary authorities for hundreds of years was finally solved. Two leading economists, Thomas Sargent and François Velde, examine the evolution of Western European economies through the lens of one of the classic problems of monetary history--the recurring scarcity and depreciation of small change. Through penetrating and clearly worded analysis, they tell the story of how monetary technologies, doctrines, and practices evolved from 1300 to 1850; of how the "standard formula" was devised to address an age-old dilemma without causing inflation.

One big problem had long plagued commodity money (that is, money literally worth its weight in gold): governments were hard-pressed to provide a steady supply of small change because of its high costs of production. The ensuing shortages hampered trade and, paradoxically, resulted in inflation and depreciation of small change. After centuries of technological progress that limited counterfeiting, in the nineteenth century governments replaced the small change in use until then with fiat money (money not literally equal to the value claimed for it)--ensuring a secure flow of small change. But this was not all. By solving this problem, suggest Sargent and Velde, modern European states laid the intellectual and practical basis for the diverse forms of money that make the world go round today.

Alas, I couldn't follow their math. (Maybe I should try again, taking more time.) But their historical examples were quite extensive.
We have a winner! From the bottom of the page:

NetCompetition.org is a pro-competition Internet forum funded by broadband companies.
Heh, I prevent myself from having fun and I am the greatest obstacle of all to surmount.
Snowy game, VR goggles take burn victims' minds off of pain
Twitpay launched in 2 days during Startup Weekend in Atlanta
A user can send a song from Cherrypeel to any friend (on their wall or in a private message) and they can vote on the song directly in facebook. They don't need to sign up for the app to listen to the song but will need to sign up tosend the app on to another friend. http://apps.facebook.com/cherrypeel/
I would like to believe Paul's thesis, but in the back of my mind, why do I get the feeling "He is trying to scare investors into putting money"?!

Seriously, I think over-supply of start-ups will crash prices. Yes, there is no limit to wealth creation, but even so, it is easy to upper-bound wealth creation over, say, the next 5 years. We can say with confidence there won't be more than, say, $10 billion worth of web start-up acquisitions over the next 5 years (in total, not per year) - that was about the total in the last 5 I would estimate and I think I am being fairly optimistic here. Even that $10 billion would be parceled out in the 80-20 rule - a couple of YouTube home runs, a few singles and doubles, and the remaining mass of start-ups have to fight over a fairly small pot of gold.

My objection is consistent with economic theory: over-supply leads to serious price crashes, even when you make the favorable assumption (which is not exactly true in the start-up case) that in the long run, the over-supply can be absorbed.
One Bit to Rule Them All
Come up with a decent concept and team and then get funded by YC.
Filmmaker Plans to Install Camera in His Eye Socket
The potential for this idea is what got me excited the minute I saw your post.

As an aside, I think twitter still needs to release support for OAuth, there are too many sites out there storing twitter credentials in plain text right now. Careful developers should be hashing the passwords with some secret salt so at least their users passwords aren't at risk if someone ever gains access to their db.

These aren't really your issues, but twitter needs to add proper authentication. Anyways -- this is a great from tipjoy -- looking fwd to what comes next.
Seems a little involved just to get in on a poker game. :)
It depends on the kind of service your webapp is offering.

If it's possible to use your app to create/enter data and then save it later, let your users do it. If the user is logged in, save it if not ask them to sign in and save it or signup. This would give your first-time visitors a demo of your app too.

Sign in or Log in. I too hadn't thought about this before. Had used 'login' previously till today. But I think I'll choose to use 'Sign in' from today. But IMO when using 'Sign in' it's better to use 'Register' instead of 'Signup'. Both words sound totally different and don't cause confusion. Whereas 'login' would go hand in hand with 'Signup' or I guess it's upto you.
"What would you trust if you were in Argentina? You don't want to carry gold around - people aren't accustomed to trading in it and would be wary of it, and even a little bit of gold is a lot of money."

Actually a few months back as the economic crisis was hitting full swing, someone posted a really long diary from someone living in Argentina, and he said that (at least during their worst period a few years back) people used gold jewelery as currency, and that since no one trusted the purity, all gold got treated as junk gold, so you were best off having a stock of cheap gold jewelery.