skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has nothing to do with age, you've totally misunderstood my point.

My point is that if the post seems pretty thin to somebody from the same cohort, how could it help anybody else?

I'd rather see either

1. More substantive content, less "here are my feelings about being a startup kid"

2. Something from people who've spent more time at this and developed deeper people skills. Could even be somebody the same age, just more experienced.

tl;dr don't call somebody a dick unless you actually understand the point of their comment.
I'd be more worried about the fact that without the line break it reads like "Pink is the new purple, dear Marisa" which sounds pretty condescending.
Great Article! Looks like as of Curl 7.10 PHP now checks this by default:
CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER
CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST

http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php
Is using the edges and corners of the screen not a mouse paradigm? Isn't the Fitts's Law value of the edges and corners one of the classic tricks of mouse UI design?
Love it. Would love a way to play it outside of the browser. I guess I could pop it open in a Fluid window, though.
I think the concept is very minimalist on purpose, for something more complete, maybe you will enjoy something like 8tracks...
The universe is much bigger than the internet and reference encyclopedias are still useful and popular.
Someone should start a project to document all of the mechanisms in cells somewhat resembling machine phase nanotech and call it the Cellular Doohickeyome Project. (Or is it just me, but aren't there an awful lot of -omes now?)
I guess the problem is that we have tons of wantrepreneurs and first-time startup kids posting about their feelings here.

It's a multiple-times-daily thing. Seriously.

What we don't seem to get very much of is more experienced (serial entrepreneurs, experienced programmers, etc.) individuals posting anything with with the same depth in terms of substance or how personal it is.

The degree to which Hacker News has become homogenous in terms of contributed content is disturbing.

Edit: Let me be more specific.

You want to know what content is? patio11. That's value right there. His stuff is gold and could legitimately help you get your product off the ground.

Another example would be Rands in Repose (Lopp). His twitter feed is the most self-indulgent bullshit I've ever seen, but his blog posts can be instructive for how to lead a technical team and work with other people in general.

To put content out into the ether for your own edification is all well and good, but the moment you promote it on a public community like Hacker News, you are making a particular declaration about what sort of value you're purporting to provide.

Value, not personality. Save the personality stuff for people not trying to build stuff.

Also, your tumblr is broken if you google yourself. Might want to fix that.
There is no way in hell that I would swap swearing for discussion of edge case politics, ethics, or philosophy.

Even when throwing around 'devil's advocate' stuff, people get scared when there are potential ramifications for what they said. Often it doesn't come out.
Subtle and hard to trace bugs, yes. Can also happen if time() is used several times in a request, but in different functions. I've taken to preferring $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME'] in most cases.
Honestly, Yahoo today looks less 'clean' than AOL and abous as bad as Fox News.

I am not impressed.

Okay, I may not be the target visitor. But I think that my design aesthetic (minimalistic, simple, low-clutter) is not uncommon, even among non-geeks.
That doesn't seem to happen much in practice and when they do post, wantrepreneurs bicker with them and scare them off.

Instead it's mostly cultural jingoism and blind cheering.
http://di.fm/

http://hybridized.org/

http://astrangelyisolatedplace.com/mix-directory/
I'd rather make a point about the content here and hopefully inspire somebody to contribute something founded on somewhat more experience.

Contrast: the foursquare founder interview, while not great, was more useful.
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Yeah, I think setting the default file associations to Metro apps is something that really damages people's first experiences with Windows 8 on non-tablets. I find it hard to believe that many people, even "casual" PC users, would prefer this setting, at least with the apps in their current state (which I doubt will change that dramatically by launch). It is easy enough to change (there's even a popup that appears the first time you open a file of some type, asking if you'd rather use a different app) but a standard rule of UI design is that most people don't and defaults do matter.
When you say that "Bootstrapping a startup is stressful", are you only referring to the time before you raised the $2.5 million? How long was that?

EDIT: According to CrunchBase you raised $500K two months after your company was founded, and another $2 million 13 months later. I'm sure you just used the word without thinking much about it, but technically you bootstrapped for all of 8 weeks. :)
> The problem with this line of thinking is that you expect philosophy to offer predictive, objective power. This does not need to be the case - the same reason why a good piece of literature need not have an objective moral lesson.

So if philosophy is art, why do some philosophers think it needs to be respected on the same level as physics when it comes to understanding the world?
The problem here is that if your app is deployed in a corporate environment, it's possible (likely) that the corporate firewall is intercepting your HTTPS traffic and returning a different certificate, issued by the IT department.

So if you try to validate that the certificate is the specific one that your API server is using, it's going to fail in that scenario.

Depending on your app, you could just ignore that possibility of course.
"there's SO MUCH STUFF on the front page"

I haven't been there for a long time, so I went there to follow your critique, and my first thought was WTF is all this? This is like a 90s site map, with pictures.
Maybe seek to understand the original comment and ask the questions necessary to eliminate the disparity of your perception and the meaning intended to prevent yourself from making a totally pointless comment.

Your response is pointless. Just downvote me next time instead of polluting the thread.

Or be productive and ask me why I said what I said like the others have.
this music is terrible. good job in getting it done though
Agreed, given the overwhelming discrimination that demonstrably exists in IT sectors it would be nigh on impossible to prove that hiring a lot of women was an act of discrimination as opposed to a natural result of not discriminating.
What if Yahoo went back to its vision for media and entertainment,

i.e. what a lot of people think has been wrong with Yahoo for a long, long time now.
I don't think anyone (or many at least) are arguing that NBC shouldn't be able to make any money off of the olympics. But, really, how shitty is it that the only ways to watch the olympics is to pay out of your ass or do things that aren't totally legal. And we aren't talking about some latest blockbuster, or NBC's sole source of income, this is watching our nation competing in the most popular international games. The BBC offers the games online because they are being subsidized by their gov't right? And why would the gov't subsidize that? Because most people that is the right thing to do, and they're willing to pay the taxes to support it.

Anyway, the core of your argument seems to be that it is okay for a company to do what it can to make money but even ignoring legal/illegal activities, companies are supposed to provide value and people are supposed to give them money for that exchange of value. This is a company milking money because they can. This isn't price gauging; this isn't stores in flooded areas selling doubly marked-up bottles of water and flashlights. In those cases there is a real cost and shortage of those goods. In this case the olympics could be put on the internet for pocket change (relative to gov't or NBC spending).

And what about this "exclusive content" defense? The line is fuzzy for sure but surely it exists somewhere separating what kind of content companies should be allowed to have exclusive rights over. Moon landings? Presidential addresses? Presidential debates? Emergency alerts? Emergency news? Weather?

Money isn't bad. But abusive monopolization is.

(the critics at 4chan must be on to something when this blind loyalty to raw capitalism and wannabe entrepreneurship gets 2nd in this thread)
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A covert, indirect bias is one thing; an explicit codified bias, quite another.
TL;DR NY times now gets (slightly) more revenue from paying subscribers than advertisers, but they still lost $88 million last quarter.

I think it's an interesting milestone, and wonder how many other papers have now had that happen (and how many were already doing that).

EDIT: mention the loss
Turn Google's strengths into weaknesses by opening up all of Yahoo's products (Search, Mail, Finance, Maps, Sports, News) to developers to be maximally programmable.

This sounds great, in a handwavy way. In practice though I'd like to hear specifics about what Yahoo could/would offer that Google doesn't already?

Search: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview

Mail: https://developers.google.com/google-apps/gmail/

Maps: Seriously? I'm not even going to bother linking to the Google Maps API

Google doesn't have great developer stories in Finance, Sports or News. I guess there are some opportunities there, but exactly what they are isn't obvious.

Anyway, isn't this whole strategy what Yahoo tried in the 2006-09 timeframe? It failed then (mostly by failing to bring in revenue) - why would it be different now?
You suppose that there is an "industry-wide preference for male employees".

Just like I suppose there is an "industry-wide preference for female employees" in K-6 education.
I wonder if Marissa will try to maneuver Yahoo for a possible acquisition by Google.
Potentially interesting but irrelevant point.

The post is thin whether you think old people can't relate to the special-snowflake problems of the modern startup kid or not.
How does your scenario differ from a man in the middle attack?
then Marissa went really crazy and made their homepage into a Pinterest-like site.

Heck, nothing's too crazy for a company in free fall.
Poisonous environments make for highly-rated reality shows.
From the comments thread:

> "I used to do the NYT but after the subscription thing I discovered the BBC News is much more focused on the US than you would expect."

The BBC, of course, has always been funded by the readers, and not the advertisers. Just not US readers.
Thanks for this link - that's a great music source, reminds me of FriskyRadio
That's not Chinese, it's Japanese.
The word "attack". In theory, being in a corporate environment, this is a desirable man-in-the-middle rather than a hostile one. It certainly is man-in-the-middle.
Or there are hardware considerations that make it impossible to have it somewhere else?
Ask HN: When is the right time to start raising VC funding?
I started http://www.wordever.com at the beginning of the year and did a soft beta launch in April 2012. The site has been growing nicely doubling in traffic every month.

When is it a good time to start looking for VC funding? My partners and I funded the company ourself but the funding is running out. I am not sure if the site is at the stage where VC would be interested in investing. Any suggestion is appreciated.

Best Regards,
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Guess it wasn't obvious to someone else...
Case in point:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/opinion/sunday/is-algebra-...

I find it a bit sad how he thinks that people should be taught long division, which is what we have calculators for, but algebra is a step too far. The only reason I think people should be taught arithmetic is so that they understand algebra. After algebra, Calculus I for people who want to actually be knowledgeable about the world around them (No heavy series and no multivariate), and then I don't care what they do, because I trust that they understand how the world works.

Instead, Hacker suggests that we drill those future artists and writers on duplicating the functions of a calculator for 12 years, and then throw them into the voting booth. Bleah.
most likely they will be at google designing trucks that drive themselves and pick up their own garbage.
Dave, just curious, did you properly capitalize and punctuate this or did Svbtle do that for you?
This would almost certainly be a winning strategy.
I never understand why funding seems to be the end goal either. To me, apart perhaps from some vindication of your idea, the happiness people experience when funded almost shows a lack of vision.
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Pretty much everywhere, but I know for a fact front-end (HTML/CSS/JS) is in high-demand. Just search for relevant terms on the careers site.

Also, Flickr is hiring -> http://flickr.com/jobs/
Smart move. This helps her make friends w/ existing engineers within the company while also making it easier to recuit new talent -- two things she's going to need desperately.
Actually not true, as of a few years ago. International visitors to bbc.co.uk/news see adverts.
Bing is still missing some ridiculously elementary features, like Google's "Past week" / "Past 24 hours" / "Past hour" menu. When I look up an error message, I don't want to see what caused it 3 years ago in an obsolete version of my OS.
Ask HN: Move away from Google Apps, keep Google Account?
After using Google Apps for a few years I am wanting to move back to self hosted. I am tired of how Google handles IMAP and also their position on privacy doesn't help.

My question pertains to the account aspect of a migration. From the searching I have done apparently all Google Apps accounts are Google accounts as well. Does this include things like GTalk? The bottom line is I would love to continue to use GTalk and other services using my current email address. Does anyone have experience with this?
One difference that is very important to me, Hipmunk (and most other companies) are actively working very hard to improve the user experience and overall usefulness of theirs sites. Craigslist is doing the opposite. They are expending energy to make things worse for their users and customers, by shutting down third party sites. If you were to ask the people listing the properties, they would want their properties to be accessible via PadMapper. One motivation for CL to shut down third party sites is to minimize the efficiency of a listing being fulfilled and removed. If an apartment is found immediately and rented on PM, that is less revenue for CL.

CL are entirely within their legal rights, but they are in a position of great power, they are doing absolutely nothing to improve life for either side of the transactions they broker, and they are making the world a worse place.
I like the minimalist design but I think a volume slider would be nice!
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"His interests include climbing, coding, and being awesome." :( Maybe it's tongue-in-cheek, but still.
Just an FYI: two of Yahoo's stronger properties are Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance, both of whom haven't historically had a large female audience. The other properties that might attract a female audience haven't done as well.

That's not to say Yahoo can't sell these and purchase the properties Dave mentions, of course. It's just that Yahoo currently doesn't have a core strength in targeting women and would need to reach out a lot to build that competency.
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Sorry, I should have said supported predominantly by the readers. The advertising accounts for a minimal amount of its revenue, and certainly does not subsidise the international traffic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC#Revenue
True. I wasn't shocked that I was out-voted; it was the accusation that introducing data was a ploy to confuse the issue which shocked me.
Flagged for inaccuracy. Anthony Watts has little scientific training and no credibility. This is basically a political press release.

edit for spelling
Yeah, I posted this below. It's mentioned in the advanced section. Why checking your SSL certs is an advanced topic I don't know.
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That there is a preference is a statistical fact; the controversial question is what is the cause for the preference.

Incidentally, even if we were to pretend to compare the industries of "technology" and "education of children between the ages of 6 and 12", your quip fails the test: A majority of teachers may be female, but there is no such majority among those in "leadership positions" (administrators, principals and superintendants).
Wow, it's horrible.

The way the logo is placed, it looks like an ad for another site.

The whole page is reminiscent of the adwords aggregation sites that grab the mis-typed domains of popular sites.
Right, but what it amounts to is a bald attempt at intimidation with no legal standing. What they're saying, basically, is "we don't like that you're doing this, and if you don't stop, you're going get whacked."
Why should it be the responsibility of the majority to ask for clarification when you come off as an arrogant poster in the first place? If you don't want to be misunderstood, rephrase your wordings.

Now you find yourself having to explain your position instead of getting an intelligent discourse out of the corresponding thread.
Also the scariest place on the Internet!

When the page is initially black then out of nowhere, a large, and loud video starts playing, your heart skips a beat, and not just because a strange man is hugging your monitor!

Doubly true if you opened the link in one of many new tabs. Heh.

EDIT: Basically, don't auto play video, ever. Anyhow, thanks for the hugs.
Actually, the back of this design is much closer to an early iPhone prototype that was recently uncovered in some court proceedings. [1] Looks like they've ditched the extruded enclosure, but maybe the segmented back plate lives on. [2]

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/26/3191793/apple-iphone-proto...

[2] http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattbuchanan/the-original-iphone-4-d...
I think this is a huge opportunity for companies in general. Let's face it, most companies are run by dudes and we're largely clueless when it comes to understanding what women want. I think there's a massive opportunity for any company that chooses to focus on women right now, whether that's Yahoo or a brand new startup.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm attacking them for being an evil monopoly. If there were other viable services, I wouldn't care so much.

They are the IE6 of classified ads. And just like IE6 they are holding back innovation.
The interface is nice and I like the responsiveness of it all. Could you briefly describe the technology/infrastructure stack you used?
"The Mozilla Corporation was established on August 3, 2005 to handle the revenue-related operations of the Mozilla Foundation. As a non-profit, the Mozilla Foundation is limited in terms of the types and amounts of revenue."

The for-profit Mozilla Corporation only exists for tax purposes, and is wholly owned and controlled by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.
Sometimes people work on things before they found a company around it.
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Muller is absolutely enraging in that respect. Nothing he does scientifically is really that controversial, but he's really, really big on making a media splash.

For climate change, his modus seems to be make contrarian sounding statements, criticize the mainstream scientific opinion, do some studies, echo the scientific consensus, and then claim that the scientific consensus was right but only right because of his results.

It has been amusing to see the Koch's get played by a media huckster, though.
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It's a pretty black-and-white issue for me, too. Craigslist is flexing its monopoly power to hold back disruptive innovation, and in the process it is wasting human lifetimes that could be spent on other things.

We in the software industry should appreciate the damage that can be done by evil monopolies.
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Yahoo already has a real-time javascript framework of its own: http://developer.yahoo.com/cocktails/mojito/
Exactly! I always wondered why nobody tried this.

Although I must admit - I grew up at a time when magnets were anathema to using computers, and I remain resistant to having magnets anywhere near my work area.
> Maps: Seriously? I'm not even going to bother linking to the Google Maps API

There is a reason many have transitioned to OSM based data and tile hosting services: price. The Google Maps API is no longer the "no-brainer" that it once was among developers.
Well all this assumes that Facebook just stands still. Which given all indications isn't their style.
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A tree is a great analogy for the model I am talking about.

I think refactoring current educational systems - let's call them assembly lines - into this model is very difficult, and perhaps not worth the energy. A traditional master/apprentice system might be a better base to build on top of. A master can provide the ad hoc guidance that is helpful during free exploration. With the Internet, a distributed master/apprentice system can become a reality.
As always with HN posts titled like this, the answer is "No."
This isn't cabal's fault. (Though the error message could certainly be clearer.) That message essentially means that your GHC is too old to build gitit, since the base package version is tied directly to the version of GHC.
Alex wrote this[1] on emacswiki page, and I totally agree with him.

Xah has also been a well known troll on various comp.lang.* newsgroups and played in the same league as ErikNaggum. Just browse some older stuff in the Usenet archives. – AlexSchroeder

[1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Xah_Lee
501(c)(3)s can be sold to for-profits. It's just a little complicated as an appropriate recipient for the purchase $$$ needs to be found among other things.
Android piracy is a red herring
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Isn't Blekko also powered by Bing? It had the same result for hiybbprqag.
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You are talking about our knowledge of the universe. Our knowledge of the universe is a lot smaller than the entire contents of the Internet (sad, but ultimately true).

There is a reason why directories died and search took their place. Directories, in the form we know them, do not scale. There are far more people who would work to fill them with junk than there are people who would work to create order from chaos.

And then there's the question of how you remain objective.

And isn't Wikipedia really the answer to what you want? If you want a directory of ... well, not the Internet, but at least of our knowledge? It may not primarily be a link farm, but it usually provides a good starting point for most topics.
I did that once. Taped a strong magnet to my finger. I could feel strong magnetic fields, but not for long as I had to keep it really tight. A neat experience though, no surgery required