skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also in the Twin Cities area: http://www.overnightwebsitechallenge.com/
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What do ya'll think of the voting part?

A single ranking of companies makes sense if I wanted to throw money at someone, but if I'm volunteering I want to find a good match. That means a more personalized algorithm combing project missions with kind of work.

I like the idea of assignments because they're like challenges and that's motivating. But the work modules each org is offering should be better filterable and searchable, and one should be able to change one's assignments. My experience with volunteers is that we are much more likely to do something we care about. My experience with non-profits is that we can take all the help, both amount and variety, we can get!

I also think the down-voting is offense (that's why I moved to hn rather than reddit, so I guess I'm not surprised). Some of the orgs near the bottom seem pretty good, but now they're the unpopular kids at the party.
I think the best UI they had was the pre-2.5 UI + the admin dropdowns plugin. I was a happy camper with that set up. Fast, easy to get around, just great.
Google Finance aggregates news, blogs etc from different sources too. How is the site going to make money ?
Application Remover
Blame Google and the structure of online advertising.

You need pageviews to make money.

You need google referrals to get pageviews.

Google rewards being the first to cover something.
> All you have to do is write the documentation very specifically...

And then compile it. That is to say, if you've written your spec sufficiently precisely, then it _is_ code, and will compile, thereby sparing the need to hire programmers. The reason that you need programmers is that you haven't written the specs specifically enough, usually because it's essentially impossible to specify (many kinds of) software that accurately a priori.

Furthermore, and on this point I think we agree, there needs to be a fairly wide channel of communication between the engineer and the product manager exactly so that ambiguities in the spec can be worked out. Until the inconvenience of having subtle technical conversations with someone twelve time zones away becomes negligible compared with a face-to-face conversation, local programmers will have an advantage over overseas programmers. (If the boss is overseas, of course, things are different.)
How Apple Could Survive Without Steve Jobs
Not any more. They are agressively cost cutting
I recall a quote: 'Progress is made one death at a time.' but I can't remember who said it.
Google Doc Does Not Support Firefox
http://www.realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?action=forum&#...
I slightly disagree with this unless the majority of users are using google news as their news source (in which case TC doesn't appear on the front-page right now at all).

I would think that building a loyal following is more valuable than one-time hits on news.

I'd like to see the stats on what percent of TC or RRW visits come from google vs return visits vs HN/Reddit/Digg/etc.
Dollar No Longer Haven After Fed Moves Rate Near Zero - biggest one-day decline versus the euro
Clever table design
First off, I would lose the animated emoticon. Please.

It looks like your site aggregates and displays data - and plenty of it - but in the short while of checking around I'm unclear as to what features and benefits set you apart from the big boys (Yahoo, Google, Marketwatch, Motley, etc etc). If you're going to go up against big boys like Yahoo and Google, you need some distinguishing factors, among other things...
Panic have a slight twist on this; Coda comes with a 14 day trial, but that's 14 days of use. This means if you use it for 4 days then don't touch it for a month, you still have 10 days remaining.
"Online Collaboration Goes Legit" - Vermont's new virtual corporations
Yessir - that answers my question precisely. It's also the answer I was hoping for. ;)

Great work and I'll definitely be showing your service to a few people...
Do you also notice that you frequently need to shake your cane to get the kids off your lawn? :P
There's more to integrity than fact-checking. Valleywag built an audience on insults, gossip and scandal. I would not call that a great example of integrity.
Really a Gorilla game. Seems like PR firms & outlets hate each other & need each other. What's to stop outlets screwing PR companies? They stop working with them. What's to stop PR companies screwing outlets? Not working with them.

It makes sense to threaten retaliation but actual retaliation does not. At least not without Robert Aumann weighing in.
I think that mdasen's comment is much closer to the truth. It isn't arrogance or excessive confidence that makes people more conservative as they get older, it's the investment, responsibilities, and ties they develop to the status quo. These are the same reasons that people will keep trudging along in a job that they know that they hate -- the devil you know is better than the one you've yet to meet.

Personally, I'm not becoming more arrogant or confident about what I know as I get older; if anything, I'm less sure about most things. I certainly hedge a lot more of my bets. The only bits of knowledge that I'll stridently defend are really just higher-order patterns: happiness is more important than wealth; hard work doesn't guarantee success; fads are fickle, etc.
#1 I work for Yahoo
#2 I wasn't laid off
#3 this is 100% my opinion not the company and I have no insight into Flickr policy or strategy

I think the lay-offs are really hard for the people involved however you do them. I think Yahoo could have done better by not keeping people hanging for 3 months.

That said has it occurred to people that it was Flickr Commons rather than George that was seen as an unnecessary cost. Commons is awesome, but it doesn't seem to be something that is going to make money for Flickr/Yahoo.

In terms of the way that George was laid off, how do you lay off someone thousands of miles away? Is there a good way? I doubt it. The script seems insensitive but Yahoo has easily enough revenue to make it an easy target for HR based lawsuits. The script is there to protect the company from people that might exploit a more human process.

There has been a bunch of bad press today about our layoffs it really feels sucky to people, and I get that. I know other people who left and I know Yahoo has given them an amazing package. Since then they have been talking to a lot of companies about a range of roles. I think a lot of those people may come out with a couple of extra months pay because they were laid off. It won't remove the struggle and emotional stress that losing you job has but I hope it somewhat soothes the pain.

I personally find it upsetting that people keep attacking the company for doing what was in the best interests of it's shareholders. I struggle to think of people I know at Yahoo that aren't smart and working hard to make good products.

Maybe not every decision that has been made has been perfect, and maybe there is a more bureaucracy than I'd like but every commentator is a genius in hindsight. I, like Michael Arrington, know that Hitler probably shouldn't have invaded Russia in Winter and that maybe we should have bought Google when we had the chance.

I guess what I'm saying is I expected HN to be a place where people look a little deeper and think a little bit more. I wish you'd do that for us before you continue to throw your stones.
PHP performance: error suppression
you need to wait some time. Before long, each of those blogs will publish a "Living with roku for a week/month/year" posts, to help drive pageviews
Valleywag : The Daily Show :: TechCrunch : FoxNews
I find http://hardforum.com/ to be excellent if you want to discuss hardware. It's the forum site from hardocp.com
$0.75
I agree. I think Recess by itself is an awesome, very catchy brand name for a web framework.
Steve Jobs got tired of going in public and have people speculate about his health based on his appearance.

Of course, we all have good reason to speculate about his health, given the survival rates for his condition.
what's the tools do you use for wrapping main class with exe?
should the user also download java?
ahoyhere, you clearly haven't used the service and clearly aren't in the target market, which is why your comments are absurd. if you spent time on the site and participated in the community, you'd see the value pretty quickly. your focus on where the feeds come from is a small piece of the overall value prop. and why the ?? concerning the $800k? care to be more specific? wtf??
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=338286
There's a difference between class and integrity.

Valleywag has no class what so ever. It's sleazy and happily so.

However they do have integrity. Paul Boutin's a real journalist. They, and I'd argue most of the Gawker writers, bring an outsiders view of the world to their coverage that's sorely lacking in a lot of the news. Deadspin's the same story. It's sleazy, low-grade and base. However they are honest and very serious about their facts.

What you choose to cover makes you "classy" or not. That's a genre.

How you cover it shows whether or not you've got integrity.
brianobush, the company is not "from" me. i am merely first money in and lead this round. soren macbeth and howard lindzon first had the idea. i did wallstrip with howard (sold to cbs interactive) and mytrade (sold to thinkorswim) as well. i think stocktwits has the potential to be much bigger than either of them. i learned a lot from my monitor110 experience; stocktwits is being built in a manner completely opposite from the way we built monitor110. and for good reason.
Now I need a room that can expand as easily as the table.
I have been thinking if it's a good idea to give a duplicate warning (or reject duplicates) during submission.
I remember a quote where steve jobs described the netbook space as "a race to the bottom".

This is true to one extent and to another extent I don't think this market is within apple's laptop scope. Especially considering pricepoints and the recently released macbook pros.
How is this different from forming an LLC? They have almost no administrative requirements.
Chromium Blog: Security in Depth: The Password Manager
Good point.

Let me explain what I base that thinking on.

I met with the publisher of a tech news site about 5 months ago to ask for advice on building an online only news source. According to quantcast, his site's U.S. audience is about 2/3 that of Techcrunch, so while not the biggest site around, it's pretty big. Each of their posts gets 30-40 comments, similar to Techcrunch's discussion rate.

Anyway I asked this guy some questions about where he gets traffic.

Google News.

I asked where else.

Google News and google search.

He told me fully 70% of their visitors came from Google search or Google news. Now, these might not be the people commenting on the site every day. But they're the people accounting for 70% of his revenue.

So that's what my calculation is based on. His site could be an outlier, but I don't really see why that'd be.

Google reigns supreme in the publishing world.
I can imagine my fingers getting crushed so vividly after watching that.
Considering the publisher kept insisting it was a gossip rag that happened to have on board legit journalists that switched in and out of writing gossip, blind items, and poignant analysis... I'm not sure what to tell you.
I think it looks great, and there aren't enough good PDF editing tools. It reminds me a little bit of PDFEscape, so you might want to check them out if you haven't already. Best of luck! -Chris
Theres a thousand other things fighting for my attention online. If Techcrunch can't keep it then I'll go elsewhere, its simple as that. Will this change things? Probably not. I don't think the average readers care about exclusives or getting news the minute it happens.

Techcrunch, recently, has simply not been worth more then skimming headlines for something that stands out. (1 in 10?)
Also, while I admire what Arrington has done with TC to no end. I have to point out that whenever you question his journalistic integrity, his response is to duck the question and say he's not a journalist, he's a blogger. Meh.
well, actual url duplicates are handled by the system: attempting to submit a url that has been submitted previously will result in an upvote for the original submission. but the system can't do much about duplicate content being submitted at different urls.
flip-flops?
Ask HN: What do you think of Objective-C?
Like it? Love it? Hate it?
MiT and D.Ed. degrees are almost completely worthless (even worse than MBAs) largely as a result of such programs.

I had several teachers in the DC public schools who were considerably worse after getting graduate degrees. They weren't remotely clever to begin with, and having faddish pedagogy drilled into them didn't help at all.
Mac OS X Netbook Compatibility Chart
And she didn't inherit any money, just status.
How Will Evolution Change Humans?
>To take it to Godwin's extreme

To Godwin's extreme... and beyond!
I use launch4j http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/

You can handle java installation two ways: 1). you can bundle it on a disk, and launch4j will install it [but this defeats the advantage of a java app not needing IT dept approval]; or 2). the user will be directed to Sun's java download page if the appropriate version is not installed. You can specify both an earliest usable version and a latest usable version with launch4j. So if 1.6 broke something, you can specify 1.5 as the latest they can use.
Road Test: 2009 Tesla Roadster
Anyone else think about designing and building their own? I'd love to design something physical for a change.
It's less about high-def and more about getting netbook OEMs to stom using the ancient power-hungry 945G chipset.

The Atom might use well under a watt of power, but that doesn't matter one bit if the cheapo chipset uses 8W.
I see lots of complex answers, but not the answer to actually learning a bit about PHP. My favorite book is "PHP in Easy Steps" by McGrath, published by Barnes and Noble. Very inexpensive.

A good intro to the basics, which will allow you to make use of the online docs, which is the best documentation of a programming language I've ever seen.

After that, the other resources come in to play. For an editor, I use notepad++ on the pc and textwrangler on the mac. With apache, mysql, and php running locally, your development platform is free.
I was thinking this was going to be about html tables...
I don't think it is open to international students, is it?
How the entrepreneurial lifestyle crippled YTMND's founder
Tom's Hardware, Anandtech and Ars Technica have some pretty good nerdy forums.
One more subscriber
Here we go. HN's first youtube post :(
There's the idea that highly-skilled developers who get things done will end up in the first-world if they are born elsewhere.
I'm thinking of applying(what can I loose) but I've just started self teaching myself Functional Programming so maybe next year. :)
Login required; instead of linking directly to it, write a blog post about it.
Heaven is where C programmers go when they move to C++ and discover shared_ptr.
Interesting point: http://s3.amazonaws.com/feedaneed.org/index.html#non-profits

From what I can understand, they are going to end up with a few hundred pledges of technical persons' time in small blocs. The leading projects are not those that I think would benefit tremendously from a few hours with a technical person. I imagine they have plenty.

The are mostly either directly software related (Free Software Foundation, GNOME), Web Based (Kiva, Watchdog.net), technical in nature (Engineers Without Borders, Solar Energy), very big fish (Medicines Sans Frontier) or others that probably can easily get what a programmer can give them in a couple of hours (atheist organisations & such).

As an exercise in community allocation of resources, I think this has hit a wall.
I just wanted to make a counterpoint to my original point, which is that while in theory it might be better if people billed clients and donated money, in practice they probably wouldn't. It's quite possible that the best way to get people off their bony arses and actually do something is exactly kind of program you've started. In any case, I'm confident that your project is doing good in the world, and I'm glad to see it. Huzzah!
Bank loans (among other things) certainly do come from deposits. In fact, it says so right on the page you linked:

"Banks borrow funds from their depositors (those with savings) and in turn lend those funds to the banks’ borrowers (those in need of funds)."
Couple that with the rapid wage inflation in India and you have the situation pretty much every programmer knew was going to happen sooner rather than later.
I'm not very familiar with the language yet, but my first impressions have been favorable. Programming for the iPhone has been a breeze. Also, I really like that you can use C/C++ with it. (Not just exported functions; you can interact with a C++ object directly from within a .m file, for example.)
We hadn't seen the technology as a product that needed to be sold to masses of users, but rather as an idea whose obvious rightness would obviate any obstacles. In the face of their math, this view seemed hopelessly naive.

That nails so terribly much.
Just goes to show you that there is always innovation left to be done. Hell, before seeing this video I would have assumed that table innovation was pretty much finished. Makes me think of statements from some of Google's engineers saying that search is 95% perfected.
everything interesting has been done to death. Now the only innovation(and I don't mean ____ + ____ mashup) will come from companies with a ton of money to spend on research.
The pont of animations is to slow down the interface so that changes are more obvious and flowing.

"Shiny" animations almost always make a user interface dramatically slower to use, as you have to wait for them to finish!
Ummm... Yeah...

About Valley Wag respecting the wishes of the sources and fact-checking multiple sources. Not so much in my case.

I wrote a comment here on HN about the Yahoo/Microsoft merger based on a conversation I had with a friend that worked at Yahoo. I made the mistake of posting some identifiable information about my friend.

Valley Wag picked up my 7 line comment, and turned it in to two separate stories on the Yahoo/Microsoft merger. They sourced one article to my comment, and included identifiable information about my friend. The second article did some "analysis" and speculation based on the information obtained in the first article.

I was worried that my fried would get laid off, so I wrote Valley Wag and politely asked them to remove identifiable information about my friend.

I was stunned by the nastiness in response from Valley Wag. I was told that I maybe I should think before I post on HN, and they had the freedom of speech to post whatever they wanted, etc... It was my mistake that I posted the information, and if my friend lost his job because of what I said, it was my fault.

PG was nice enough to edit the identifying information out of my comment. My friend did indeed get a pink slip, although I don't think it had anything to do with the Valley Wag stuff. And Valley Wag stories got banned here a few months later.

@alaskamiller: My interactions weren't with you. So, no hard feelings. Next one is on me at Hackers and Founders. :)
Aviary: works like online Photoshop and more, plus remix other artists' work
I'm guessing it was a mistaken click of the bookmarketlet -- I do this all the time without the followup submit.
How is something universally practiced (as is fractional reserver banking) not sound finance?

The current crisis was not brought on by retail/commercial banks. It was caused by investment banks using way to much leverage, and trading complex financial instruments that where the risk was poorly understood.
Where do C++ programmers go when the move to Java and discover garbage collection?
I'd like to see the performance numbers for maximum range mode.
I'm biased, but the Ars Technica forums are pretty sweet (http://episteme.arstechnica.com). The discussion threads about the hardcore hardware articles are pretty good there, too.
objective c is fine, its cocoa i find daunting. i am used to object.method() syntax so the [object message] syntax was a little hard to parse at first.... but you get used to it.

i went from writing a lot of python to writing obj-c so the transition to a strongly typed, compiled-and-linked language was a bit frustrating. not surprisingly its not as fluid a language as python..... but you get used to it
Bill Gates on Corporate Philanthropy--Posner
A founder's personal view of the impact of the financial crisis on SV's startup scene
Why is it that when you click on the "Pricing" link on their website it doesn't tell you the price?

http://www.dbfletcher.com/capstan/

A YouTube commenter said it costs abut $17K. Another site indicates it's a bit more: "The large Capstan tables cost around $95,000 and the smaller Rising and Furling tables cost between $24,000 and $58,500 depending on size."

http://www.luxist.com/2006/12/13/db-fletcher-tables/

Anyone know how much for the one in the video? Or is it all custom?
If you twist it one more time, it becomes the Transformer that says, "What's up, little bitches?"
That's my business. I also blog about lots of related topics.

Business: http://www.bingocardcreator.com
Blog: http://www.kalzumeus.com

Just hit $20k in revenue this year does a little happy dance.

Distribution: Website. I get people to the website by mostly SEO and AdWords, with an increasing word of mouth contribution (more than a thousand paying customers means that, increasingly, you hear "Oh, I was looking for JUST THIS and then Myrtle at church told me...").

Sales: Web site? See blog for copious tips on the use of payment processors (I use http://www.e-junkie.com as a wrapper around Paypal/Google Checkout) and how to write sales copy.

Download sites: Nearly worthless for PC software.
Dell Mini 12 gets XP, $499 Ubuntu Linux options
Calm calm. This is a video of a novel, innovative table design which is both intellectually stimulating and interesting from an entrepreneurial perspective. It's not like he posted a link to a Remi Gaillard video or anything like that.
How do you do downloads? Do you wait for payment to clear in paypal and send them a link, or provide a download right away? Or is the download the usual free app and payment gets them the key?
I really like Objective-C. I had been using mostly Ruby before I started Obj-C (to make a quick iPhone app), and I liked it so much that I ended up going even further and doing about half of my programming in C++. Obj-C was a nice introduction to using a compiled language in real code that did stuff (as opposed to CS homework, which was my only previous C experience). When I wanted to make real stuff (servers), though, Obj-C wouldn't work since it had few libraries and relied heavily (in practice) on Apple's implementation of NS* classes.

If you have programming experience, you should be able to learn 99% of Objective-C in about 5 hours.
Actually the Vermont law amends the definitions associate with the formation of legal entities so that Vermont law does not require the filing of paper documents; nor require any member of the company to live in VT.

You can see more detail at http://vermontvirtual.org/Vermont_legislation_--_as_passed
Error suppression: bad. Exception handling: good. Some of my earliest code has stuff like @mysql_query() because many books recommend this...and that's not even a reasonable place to suppress an error!
I'm trying to recall that particular incident. Was it Paul Boutin that wrote it? I should drag myself away from the desk and show up for those H&F meetups again soon. We'll chat about it.