skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Angelsoft has two business models. One is where they charge entreprenuers to essentially pitch their angel members. The second is they provide a platform for angels and even some VCs to automate their application process. With this model the process is free to the entreprenuer and the angel or VC covers the cost.

While I believe the first model is useless money spent, I do believe the second model is much better and entreprenuers should not avoid filling out an angel groups investment application based solely on the fact they use Angelsoft to process the application. I have utilized the process myself and while I did not get funding from (I did get face-to-face meetings though) the angel groups I submitted to I found the application process easy and organized. I am familiar with several groups that utilize the Angelsoft platform and all are very reputable.

Long story short, blindly sending your business plan to just about ANY investment group (excluding YC and similar models) is not going to get you anywhere. Introductions and networking are the only true way of having a chance at any investment. I can think of other things to spend the $250 on than a membership with Angelsoft. On the other hand, if you have interest in a specific angel group or VC and they point you to Angelsoft to submit your business plan, etc... know that (a) it is free for you; and (b) that Angelsoft is a legitimate platform for submitting your application.

Note that I have no affiliation with Angelsoft other than I have utilized their platform to submit to several VCs.
Nope. Fail. The only hit it found which was actually me was my home page, and that way down in the list. Not terribly impressive since it's the first hit if you Google my name.
Dude, if I wanted to plea for victimhood, I've got a lot better cards to pull than the girl card.

Here is why I brought it up, and it had nothing to do with playing the victim:

The "men" who attack people like me and Kathy Sierra are intimidated and disgusted by the fact that it is useless, artsy fartsy, outsider women who are getting so much attention. And so their trolling is evident of this, because it is of a disgustingly sexual nature.

They think they are vastly superior to us, but they can't think of any better way to attack us than flooding programming IRC channels with speculations about the viscosity & odor of our sexual juices (me) or Photoshopping us being strangled by a pair of women's panties (Kathy Sierra).

Certainly those beta males don't seem to understand this, but that kind of trolling doesn't make them look powerful, it typifies their weakness and demonstrates that they are afraid of women and don't understand the nature of real power.

And saying I'm playing the girl card and pleaing to victimhood just because I mention the very relevant fact of my gender, on a forum that is almost entirely male... well, let me know the next time somebody claims you fucked an entire conference -- hey, cumdumpster, how's it feel? -- and that's why people read your blog.

Anyway, I don't in general agree with crying "sexism"[1], but sometimes the shoe fits.

And I don't think anybody is in my way, stopping me from being the best I want to be, blah blah blah. But they are still obnoxious, insecure little sexist fucks.

[1] Hey, look, here's an essay I wrote for O'Reilly about this! http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/womenintech/2007/09/12/i-don...
Our site already got funding, thanks. And an fbFund grant.

Of course, we'll need more in 2010, hence my constant quest for more money.
Not really. For one thing, the default version of git would quickly become outdated, and could potentially cause confusion with a user-installed version.

What Apple should really do is build a proper package management system. IMHO, that is a fundamental part of a modern operating system, especially one designed for use with F/OSS software.
Would it? What if they gave us an Amazon Affiliate code field on the Twitter Settings page. If you enter a code, you get the credit for your links, if not Twitter does.

Most users who care would enter their own. The rest probably won't care or don't know enough to care.

Everyone is happy?
The title edit here ("I literally hate it") means literally the opposite of what the article says.

Because of that, I almost didn't bother reading it. Language peeves are not only tiresome, they're ignorant. Every correct usage started out as an incorrect usage.

On reading the first sentence, I noticed the author is a dictionary editor and wondered why on earth he would be making a mistake of this order.

Then I read the rest and realized that he's actually defending this use of "literally" to the peevers, showing that it (not surprisingly) turns out to have a long and distinguished history. In fact, the whole piece is a gentle smackdown of what he calls "usage criticism".

Great article, bad title edit.
You realize that it's only in the insecure attacker's mind that the target of the abuse thinks she is untouchably hot shit, right?

Only weaklings think they need to go around reminding other people that they are not gods, because the weaklings believe they themselves are the rightful gods.

Otherwise they wouldn't be intimidated by it.

Or think that somebody died & appointed them Head of the De-Godding Squad.

(The only people I've ever met who thought it was their duty to go around telling others how good they aren't? Insecure assholes.)
To those, I would add this:

MODERN WARFARE

A French View of Counterinsurgency
by
Roger Trinquier
No interesting info on my hard-to-find-online ex-girlfriend. Fail.
> * except that it's the Gladwell/Surowiecki affirmative self-help for New Yorker readers*

I'd like to see you back that statement up.

I subscribe to the cogsci, psych, creativity, metaphor and memory journals online. I know what stuff she cites.
Sweet.

Looks like the guy used my app PhoneFinger to create the demo video! http://wonderwarp.com/phonefinger
It is possible to update the $PATH to grab from /usr/local/bin/* (user stuff land) before /usr/bin/* (system stuff land). If you're comfortable using command line to manage code, editing the ~/.bashrc shouldn't be too difficult to manage.
The bottom of the page had this link to a previous column by Gross, which I also... "enjoyed".

"I See Dead Bankers! Wall Street has become The Sixth Sense filled with corpses who think they're still alive."
http://www.slate.com/id/2209893/
This is especially excellent advice. For my business, I list the phone number on the "contact us" page and I've scored countless sales simply because someone was there to answer the phone (the phone number is just my cell phone, no real need for a toll-free number these days - everyone gets free long distance).

Historically, I've been a terrible customer service person (when I worked as an usher for a movie theater I hated customers), yet when it's your own product, and it's something you're excited about and something in which you truly believe, it really shows through in voice communication.

Those customers that get the rapid phone support are frequent sources of referrals, especially the repeat callers.

That said, I've been in business now for 2.5 years, have always had the phone number on the site, and have had more than 3,000 customers with a few hundred thousand users, yet I probably average maybe 30 minutes on the phone per day, sometimes more, sometimes not a single call for a few days. Most users use the contact form or the forums. I'm still honestly surprised I don't get many calls. As a one man shop, I was expecting to spend a lot of time on the phone, and I was pleasantly surprised to be wrong. I was originally hesitant to post the phone number, but it becomes a very helpful tool, in my opinion.

But like some other users have mentioned, the phone number helps users be reassured they can get instant support if it's needed. And like the article says, you can always let it go to voice mail if you're too busy.

Overall, great advice, imo.

(I know this is structured poorly as a sort of stream of consciousness, and for that I apologize).
Or maybe Wikipedia is doing the lifting? Any way to tell?
So, will headlines like this effectively "crowdsource" further discovery efforts? ;-)
It goes beyond odd. In my uncensored opinion, it's moronic. You can't use the argument of someone having it worse as a justification for not allowing people to be scared and/or unhappy. I agree that Arrington has gone overboard, but that's neither here nor there.

If you buy into his argument, then none of us have any reason to be unhappy. The teachers who get abused by their students and women who get stalked have no reason to be unhappy because there are people who can't put food on their table, so they are lucky, right? And the people who can't put food onto their tables can't be unhappy because they're not within minutes of losing their life to cancer, right? And the people with cancer? Well, they're not dead so they shouldn't be crybabies either. It's turtles all the way down.

His post is nothing more than a way to generate traffic. How can I be sure? Because he put this near the top of his rant: "Mike, I don't know if you realize, but a lot of people's jobs aren't fun at all. (We're trying to change that with Path 101--sneak preview of new features here!)" In order for his argument to have any integrity, he shouldn't use it as a promotional vehicle. At least Arrington puts the goods up front.
The trouble with literally.
Can I go with, "no"? The preinstalled Ruby and Python images on OS X have been debacles, and I've had to do custom SVN builds as well.
well it found my friendster! those were the days
> Why is it that commonplace misuse of a word justifies the misuse?

Because language is a tool for communication.
Let's see, in just the past few super nested comments, you...

a) wagged your Madonna vs Whore complex out in the open air for everyone

b) implied women who engage in casual sex have a clinical disorder

c) said that women need society's protection against "cads"

d) said women can't take casual sex because of their poor widdle emooootionnnssss!

e) suggested that feminism has all the hallmarks of being engineered by evil menz!

> I've never noticed a "typical casual misogyny" on this forum. Never. Perhaps we read different threads.

Just like you can't see the stars when you're standing under a streetlamp, dude.
Nah, that they (and other text-submit-heavy sites) should put in a little formatting support.
Is Dell's phone called the MePhone?
Google Maps Car Hits Deer, Records Entire Ordeal On Google Maps
I worked in technical support for a company who worked in a similar way. Unfortunately, one great developer costs as much as 3 technical support people, so the math doesn't work out in the heads of some people.
and they even have berkeley! wait until they add the computer science lectures to the site :)

It's cool, because I could just watch lectures from previous semesters on webcasts.berkeley.edu, or even on youtube.
The live activity monitor is pretty nifty.
Is it me or are the numbers from the bottom of the article not adding up? They calculate a 35% return on investment after a decade, and they say the part only lasts for 5 years.
My calculations show there needs to be a 5x improvement in something before these make sense.
Don't mention the war!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgAi7DYHA94
I'm embarrassed to see such a mean-spirited post on the front page.
it was...
OpenID + OAuth: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together
This may be the first application for table saws, but this has been around for awhile. It's basically the kind of saw that doctors use to remove casts.
Yeah, obviously. But the point is that if the presupplied git quickly becomes out of date, what's the point in Apple shipping it and it taking up disk space? The Apple-supplied versions of other OSS packages (e.g. Ruby) don't exactly set a good precedent.
To get the most out of these lectures, you really have to do all the problem sets and carefully read all the notes and material. Simply just watching the lectures is not enough unless you just want a very rough overview of the topic.

It will be really great if someone made a forum/website where people could interact with each other about a particular course and ask questions and have discussions regarding certain topics.
Code is not always requested just for the purpose of representing the applicant. Sometimes interviewers (like me) just want to have code to hand which you are guaranteed to be familiar with; It's nicer to reference code you've actually written to ask specific questions about, say, stack vs heap usage or OO design.
I think I have a way to get people to vote on site intros.

The idea is to split the intro into two parts, say "why" and "how".

The user would be shown only one part. Say the user starts with "why".

At this point the user can indicate that he/she understands why and now wants to see how. This upvotes the intro.

The user could indicate that the why is not clear and he/she wants to see another why. This downvotes the intro.

Once the user sees the how, he/she may indicate that the how is unclear and he/she wants to see another how. This downvotes the intro by 2 (because it was upvoted earlier).
We've got trackbacks and tweetbacks.

This widget would give you "hack backs."

People write stuff for a variety of reasons, but often because they want to say stuff and have people respond to it. This guy wrote something and people are responding to it someplace other than the forum he created for the discussion. That's fine and all, but it sucks for him. I get that.

A little widget that at least says the post's on HN and has 14 comments, would be really useful. I send my journalism buddies over here all the time to read what you guys have to say about media/industry news. Would be neat to be able to branch that out a bit.
Tips for Pitching Angel Investors
Public Documentation ‎(Google OAuth & Federated Login Research‎)
I hope they have some great linguists and NLP people around too, because academically it's a great place to study how people use language naturally.

And not-academically, figuring out how to parse meaning from Twitter could be huge for contextual advertising and targeting, in a very non-privacy invading way.
If only there were some way for people around the world to communicate with each other as they watched these lectures ...

Not trying to be snarky. I just wonder whether there's an opportunity there.
The engineering effort required is too far outside their business focus. They've got a very basic one, but nothing in terms of what modern Linuxers are used to. They've blessed macports as their preferred one, which does a reasonable job.

As far as I've seen, apple will include the latest stable version of a tool per major upgrade (e.g. tiger, leopard, etc.). They'll keep it the same version until the next major one, without touching point releases. In terms of the principle of least surprises, it's actually the way I'd prefer.

The other post's advice for .bashrc is very good, it's what I do.
Cool, thanks for the pointer.
Would be interesting to see the line in it's context
If Twitter could add a title tag to the shortened URL, showing the full address when hovered over, I'd be happy.
"(We're trying to change that with INSERT_SELF_PROMOTION_HERE--sneak preview of new features here!)"

This is not hacker news. This is hacker targeted marketing.
Yea, I think Air definitely brings a value addition on an already existing web platform. To use the APIs, and create an app that can work with your site in an online/offline mode, and still present a compelling interface, there isn't a whole lot of choice I see...
Indeed. There are a few traces of valid points (bringing up the violent crimes against teachers is pretty relevant). Any validity that the points might contain is marred by the tone of the post.
But I bet many novice developers have been exposed to Ruby and Python (and SVN) because they shipped with OS X. Let's let newcomers use git without a custom install, and maybe it will lead to more widespread adoption.

You don't need the latest version of git for init, clone, add, commit, push, and pull to work.
>Education is more about interaction and struggling for ideas than it is about listening to lectures.

I disagree. Education is about acquiring skills & knowledge. Lectures, interactions, books, tutors, classmates.. these are the way education is delivered. Maybe university experience is "more about interaction and struggling for ideas than it is about listening to lectures," but saying that about education as a whole sounds a lot like saying news is about printing.
I (almost) CALLED IT!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=267446
Danes playing with Danish toys
1 great reason you should incorporate: So a business dispute doesn't end up destroying your credit for 7 years.
1) If you want to be taken seriously, don't plug your startup at the top of your post.

2) Arrington is a free man and can do whatever he wants, without having to give reasons that sound valid to you. If a person can leave his job because he doesn't like his workplace environment, he can definitely leave his job because he doesn't like being spat on and threatened.

3) Your whole argument is invalidated by the fact that you are not a policeman or a teacher, but are trying to get rich with a startup.
Sorry for late reply - (I would love if HN sends me an email everytime someone replies to one of my threads).
Flash video streaming is a big deal. Not many are doing it. Most of them (including Youtube) are doing progresive download. Once again Adobe has Adobe media server, which lets you stream flash video content.
I like how he pointed to "really" as an example of a usage resembling "literally" that is objected to much less often.
I have to plug my roommate's startup here because it's not too often "jellyfish" are on HN.

Jellyfish Art (http://www.jellyfishart.com) makes custom jellyfish aquariums. Keeping jellyfish alive in captivity is actually a hard problem that has only recently been solved.

I will definitely try to get my roommate to post his story on here. Though it's not hacker related at all, it's a pretty fascinating startup and probably a good break from reading about all things web 2.0.
This is a truly disturbing post. By his logic, everyone should be happy and singing because they are better off than a mine worker in South Africa. It's simply absurd and a completely wrong way to look at the world. And, then he goes on to say that Arrington's style makes him essentially deserve this kind of treatment. I think a journalist, a man, should be able to comment how he wants without exposing himself to hatred and threats against his life. This author needs to grow the hell up.
This is one of the best thing that happened to me this year. Also it would be great if these videos were also available through torrents. Lots of people can't streamline videos due to slow internet connection and constant disconnections and these videos are pretty huge(It is taking me 4 hours to download a single 400MB video)
But again just a thought, Thanks Academic Earth for such a wonderful website.
I bet the rest of the program is almost as bad.
Hello fellow business man. I have a very interesting and time sensitive officer for you. We will connect you with 10,000 investors with millions of USA dollars $$$. We guarantee 100% funding. They have too much money LOL! This is legit.

Friend, email me as soon as possible so you can get the money to be rich! You only need to pay $1000 USA dollars before you get 100000 time that back LOL!

It is so easy. millions@investorsglobalsoft.co.ng
My gut says, skip it, but...

Why not apply without paying and if they actually ask you for the $250 then say screw it.

If they think you're going to be successful, they'd want you to use their site and won't charge you.
UK: Broadband 'in every home by 2012'
> You can probably find 1 million books that have been made freely available, converted to either PDF or HTML.

In which case their job is to catalogue them and put them up in a common format so they are easy to get at.
This shows how fragile large systems really are.
I'm with you. I feel drama tends to become counterproductive in online communities, as people end up spending more time on the latest linkbait (let's face it, ignoring it is not exactly effortless), and less time on things that actually have the potential to grow the reader.
The engineering effort required is too far outside their business focus.

Then they should stop claiming that OSX is suitable for use as a server OS.
Hopefully the twitter people will create a better authenticate system.

Although what about apps where people want to be anonymous? Are you still going to make them reveal their identity to your service?
I think you will find the Chicago Press version a bit more readable:

http://www.amazon.com/Marine-Corps-Counterinsurgency-Field-M...
So THIS is what linkbait looks like.
I completely understand how the "someone else has it worse" argument is really dangerous and turtles infinitely to the point where everyone becomes a crybaby. I think your counter-argument is sound, but what is the middle ground we should be taking? I don't think it's proper to show zero compassion to those less fortunate (you can argue they created their own problems, but even then we all make mistakes), or to never be thankful of the good fortunes we have (since it would fuel the argument).

Also, you could argue that none of us really do have a reason to be unhappy, but that ventures into an even bigger philosophical quagmire.
I hesitated on posting it. My logic was moreso to let the comments show why it was a bad post. I know Charlie, and I was pretty shocked to see the post come from him. HN tends to do that on articles like this, which is why I read the comments.
Has anyone been funded by Invesor Global Soft?
I think it might be time to experiment with giving a down arrow for stories. Maybe it would even be enough if you just gave it to editors, so they have a less severe alternative to killing stories.
"He can dish it, but he can't take it."

This guy is the asshole (well, Arrington can be as well, but not like this). There's a huge difference between posting on a blog and being spit on or otherwise assaulted.
1) I didn't realize that personal career choices were subject to a vote.

2) If he so desparately hates Arrington, why make arguments for him to continue?

I'm not a big fan of Arrington, but I still read his articles. I can't say the same for this particular blogger.
Not quite the same meaning of 'variant'.
Omnisio-style comments overlayed on the video itself would be a start, especially if you could control whose comments were displayed.
I'm just going to delete it. I don't want the karma from it. Thought it might be a good example to argue against / what not to do. Sadly, i think people aren't voting it up for that reason.
Are you in DC? I'm in the Arlington office for the time being.
That is at the end of the body, and below the urchin code (it appears after the closing script tag) of every page on the enron site that I looked at.

My opinion is that some hacker managed to add this same snippet of code to every page, either by adding it to a template (or include page), or by some SQL injection to add it to the text that's getting inserted into every single page.
People need to put down the Haterade. I hope if Arrington ever criticizes my startup that I have the self-control not to take it as personally as some of these people have.

This whole fiasco and its fallout has been a great lesson and reminder to me to act and speak more professionally, which is always something that's hard because I'm an emotional person. But I don't want my deficiencies to be put on display for the whole world to see, as these peoples' have. Good object lesson.
If they started to support torrents, they could slap an RSS feed on it and you could pull them into Miro.
If the jellyfish is reverting to its immature state, calling it "immortality" sounds like a Ship of Theseus problem. Although it's still a remarkable trick for a higher-order organism.