skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a related note, magazine subscriptions are very cheap now. Sure you're getting maybe 50% of the content but you're also not getting 80% of the typical ads.

Nothing beats a new, glossy, National Geographic (or Playboy if you prefer) for bathroom reading. Yes, it beats even surfing their websites on your iPhone or updating your Twitter status.
I think it might be the change of ip adress that is killing your connectivity. I can close the lid of my macbook running os x or linux, let it fall to sleep, go down to the porch outside and let the machine wake up from sleep and still have the ssh connection active.

A thing you can do to get more stable ssh connections on your side is to run a nat service on the machine. For example, running connections on a OS X machine that has parallels installed (virtualization software) and that runs NAT is far more stable than a machine without.
Can anyone explain why this activity wasn't reflected in the stock market? The DOW had a +400 point gain on Sept 18th.
what about something like this?

http://www.me-vc.com
Facebook Paid ConnectU Founders $65 Million Settlement
In the B2B space? That doesn't exactly narrow things down.
That's assuming that the current lone model of "searchable mp3 catalog online for $ per song." There are many different ways to profit from music: artist interaction, live venues, merchandise, provide a quality recommendation/review service, etc. The current market is skewed heavily towards what the content that the industry thinks will sell, which receives the bulk of marketing.

Not to mention the fact that the market naturally segments into people of varying levels of interest. People who love music and people who just care about the Top40 can be catered towards by very different business models.
Why do you have a hot water heater? Personally I have a cold water heater. :)

Few people have on demand water heaters because the power is too great for most wires (even 400amp house can maybe manage 1.5 utilities if you live in a northern climate where the incoming water is near freezing), and using gas doesn't work quickly enough. Just insulate the tank really well.

Using electricity to heat water is very wasteful. But I guess if you don't have gas you don't have a choice.
$65 million for having an idea taken that they probably would have failed at if executed themselves.

That's a nice pay day (for the lawyers too)
If the economy collapsed tomorrow, where would you get your food? Would you starve to death first, or attempt to murder your next door neighbor, who lives alone, to feed your family? Would he kill you first?
BeOS was (is?) the best OS ever. I feel bad for not having contributed anything to the Haiku project but for the prayers to the non deity agnostics like me don't believe in.
Check out chegg. They are going to / already are disrupting this market.

I think they've saved me 60% or more in the past... over the used bookstore.
It does actually. Electric meters consume some electricity - about 1.5 watts I think (it should say on the nameplate).
The obvious solution, of course, is to think things through.
The money was coming out of money market accounts. If the DOW went Up 400 pts, perhaps the money was going /from/ money markets and /to/ the market.
i just went to mysql.org and within 3 clicks was at the download page. you probably saw the links to the commercial version and clicked on those instead.

however, why wouldn't you try to download it through whichever package management system your operating system uses? i'm sure whatever you're using already has pre-built packages that have been patched/tested for your specific platform.
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What about system tray apps and background processes? I don't buy this for a second.
Already posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=475873
I was counting on anyone interested to click on the link to my company in my profile, which goes right to a home page focused on financial software for businesses...
webhooks would be a fairly clean way of implementing this. That's all.
I don't understand why most news sources aren't non-profit to begin with. The reason they struggle so much is that they're all trying to run a huge profit to pay off their shareholders.

There's no restriction in non-profits that they can't make money and pay people ridiculous wages. I mean IIRC Oxfam in the UK paid like £400,000 (probably near $800,000 at the time) for a marketing firm to do an advert. It's just the company doesn't get taxed, so long as all the 'surplus' goes back into improving the business, however all their workers can still earn an income and will still pay income taxes.

I mean imagine how many people would buy a newspaper subscription if you got a tax receipt from it!
Out of general curiosity, why doesn't a OS like this focus on being a VM-only OS? If they went this route, they wouldn't need to worry about driver hell, right?

And god knows I'm not going to give up my core OS anytime soon for a toy OS. But I'd love to play with it inside my VM!

Seems like an easy decision. What am I overlooking?
I'm guessing he meant "Smalltalk is very similar to Objective-C" and he either mispoke or was misquoted. He certainly knows that Objective-C was influenced by Smalltalk.
I'd like to see that little 'dog emotion' collar widget that came out last year tied into Twitter so when I'm not home I can tell how my dogs are feeling.

But seriously, the technology for your washing machine to alert you, or your plants to beg for water was around long before Twitter. Twitter is just the 'place', it's not the important part.
Smart Streetlights, networked, green, talk to your cell phone.
thank you! to get posting rights on Y Combinator, you should have to answer a quiz, and there should be questions about this Shirky post on it. this and the one about micropayments. I can't believe some idiot got on the Daily Show and the front cover of Time without reading Shirky.
I was replying to "The government shouldn't keep secrets". That's wrong - it should keep the secret, until most people are out of the theater.
Ask HN: Do I get penalized by Google for porn search terms?
The Ultimate Question: "How likely is it that you would recommend this company to a friend or colleague?"

It helps, really.

Replace "company" by whatever you need. I used it to check myself, to check my firm, to check my solutions, etc.
Its already starting. Look at sunlight labs.
I thought HTC developed the G1
It's nice to get traffic. It makes me feel like we're doing well. But how frustrating it is to see it's all related to porn. Will I get isolated to porn only searches by Google?
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/02/10/52272/within-24-h...
Text messaging. It's been discussed here before but it's worth repeating.
i'd be curious what pg has to say about all of this. does he take the gary vaynerchuck approach and say "put your head down and crush it, it's going to be fine tomorrow" or does he think it should become part of a startup founder's thought process?

i personally am interested in economics and banking (i enjoy reading the conspiracy theories too), but after a while i wonder why i worry about it. the more i worry about that, the less i get to focus on a startup.
I don't get it (literally, please explain). What happens when the "economy collapses tomorrow"? Do cows stop producing milk? Do factories stop making iPods? Do truck drivers stop driving food to supermarkets?
Have you found anything similar that talks about Japan in the early 90s or argentina's collapses? I'm trying to find good parallel examples,
That's funny, because I submitted a business plan with the idea that 5% of anything is better than 100% of nothing.
Ad for 'opportunity' to be an astroturfer & coffee-getter at a marketing company in Seattle.
Especially for the lawyers ... would be interesting to know what's left.
I remember seeing BeOS in late 1999 for the first time and thinking "wow, that's really pretty".

Compared to Windows and Linux of the day it was. Now? Not so much.
"Mad Money" Jim Cramer's stock picks "underperform the market by most measures"
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Are you suggesting, by extension, that if there are 300 submissions an hour (instead of per day) and 24 times more users that it will "all work out" and a set of similarly interesting things would pop out?
The largest industry that is 'over ripe' is the energy industry. In particular, electricity distribution. Creating devices that perform 'demand management' are nearly trivial.

In Australia, the normal price for large scale wholesale electricity from the national grid is Aust $48 per Mw/hr. But several times a year the 'spot price' is over Aust $10,000 per Mw/hr.

This is the reason companies have 'peaking' plants that only operate 3-5 days a year.

There will be 2 main stratergies:

1. Owner / user generated power would be transferred back to the grid during high price periods.

2. Load shedding (automatic turn-off of power) would occur during high price period.

The primary requirement is a 'smarter grid'
How to talk to a friend who's been laid off
Man, if only someone was going after them, one step at a time. Oh wait.

http://www.dawdle.com

The self-pimping done, you're being too narrow in terming it "online auctions". Auctions don't make a ton of sense for the vast majority of items sold online - they're only really useful for unique stuff. That's why they're moving towards Amazon's fixed price model. The problem with fixed price is that it's a "take it or leave it" proposition. Well, Dawdle solves the "take it or leave it" issue by letting potential buyers name their own price with our StandingOffer technology.

First video games and gear, then the world! MWA HAHAHAH AHA !!!!!!1eleventy-seven
If you were not going to get paid would you drive your truck to market or milk your cows?
Graduating College in 2009?  Might as Well Take a Year off in Tahiti
PG should ask YCombinator applicants to help on the new page. If he's got people he funded helping flag spam and rewrite lame headlines, he could probably get candidates to step up a bit on this one.
Have you seen indeed.com?
the thing is, any news submission site with voting already is a keynesian beauty contest
I completely agree, but I will be more entertained intellectually by more noble programming pursuits, such as continuing to study Haskell or assisting on an open source project. The only reason for me to turn my back on my Linux desktop, buy a Mac, and devote my energy to writing for a ridiculously closed platform would be to make money. If am going to sell my soul, I want to know what the price is upfront.
That's $65 million more dollars than Facebook has ever profited. Not a bad deal.
Micropayments and the Behavior of Readers
They built the hardware. And, indeed, the hardware does appear to support multitouch. But the OS does not.
Because its developers want to use it as an every-day operating system without the overhead of another. They don't see it as a "toy OS" but rather something actually useful that they want to use on a day-to-day basis.

It's worth adding they already provide drivers for at least VMWare and possibly other virtual machines as well as VMWare images so it's not as though they're treating virtual machines as second-class citizens.
Do we need daily news sources of any sophistication? The New York Times reports the happenings of the previous day with a bunch of pseudo-analysis. I'm fine with just a plain statement of facts from cable news networks or the AP. Then I can get my in-depth discussion with a weekly delay from a publication like The Economist, which has more meaningful analysis in a single issue than the entire history of the Times.

Why do I need the middle ground?
On Sep 26, President Bush said "We got a big problem"
http://blog.mint.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/visualg...
Read the 'The 4-steps to the Epiphany' by Steven Blank (http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/09...)

Things to look for in a disruptive market:

1) The presence of the 'Earlyvangelist'. It does not matter if you can disrupt an industry if no one will realize the value of the innovation. This means finding real people at real companies and gathering requirements for something they will buy.

2) An existing distribution channel that is available for the new product.

3) Existing product positioning that you can leverage. As a startup, its hard to disrupt when you have to spend all your money on advertising, branding, or explaining what your product is.

4) Large existing market.

The book has a helpful framework for analyzing markets base on some of these factors, maturity, etc. This identifies the primary constraints of market risk. From there you can work with the customer to build a better product, and if you are lucky the risk shifts towards execution.
If New York Times journalism doesn't impress you then you don't read enough of it, or don't read enough periodicals in general. I won't argue that they're the best source of tech news specifically, but they're probably the best of the general media. Their business, politics, science, health, arts, and other sections have a level of depth, understanding, and quality writing that TechCrunch or any big blog never even comes close to. TechCrunch writers might have a lot of breaking info on the startup world, but most of the opinion pieces there are poorly contrived, and the writing is barely above middle-school level.

If you think that the new reality is blogs replacing quality journalism, and that doesn't scare you, then you're either selling quality journalism short or you just don't know what it is. Enough people always will that it will have a market.
I think the best model to beat ebay is to create a "Ning" style auction site where you have separate auction sites dependent on the community that they target.

The best strategy for a startup to topple a massive corporation is to flank them. Hit them in their weak spots, grow, and eventually you might get enough resources to topple them.
They run multiple foreign bureaus, one of the most widely circulated print publications in the world, and a top-100 internet website.

I'm not saying that they couldn't be leaner, but let's try to keep some perspective.
This was a bank run, except it involved money market accounts. Money market accounts hold a lot of short term corporate debt. After Lehman went bankrupt, a few prominent money market accounts that held Lehman debt "broke the buck", ie paid out less than what investors put in. Since money market accounts weren't insured at the time, this set off a panic. People likely called their fund managers, trying to redeem their funds, to move it to FDIC insured bank accounts. If fund managers tried to redeem over 50% of their funds at once (as some funds experienced), that would explain hundreds of billions of dollars draining out in an hour.

If the money market accounts crashed, financial companies wouldn't have been able to roll over their short term debt, which they rely on for day-to-day operations. Non-depository institutions (like the surviving investment banks) would be forced into bankruptcy. Those bankruptcies would cascade, and depository institutions would fail as well, probably with bank runs on accounts over the FDIC limit.

What made the Great Depression great were the banking crises. Without a functioning financial system, a modern economy can't grow. And if we reached a point where people couldn't even get money out of ATMs, we're talking about complete social breakdown. One Congressman claimed the administration talked about martial law as a real possibility. We really did come close to the brink. And the downward cycle went even faster than prescient bears like Nouriel Roubini thought it would.
What about layering some features on top of Craigslist that are mind-numblingly idiotic to leave out? I'm thinking better meta-data for apartment listings, for example.
i saw the c-span video which is what everyone is referencing.
I wonder sometimes if the business world of the Internet is diverse enough to be considered "changing careers" if you move from one type of online business/service to another.

Example, from a web consultant to a startup founder.
I think a problem is that tagging is mostly a UI conceit - it's easier to do and lower quality.

Tagging then refers to effort put in vs recall, whereas ontology is actually about organization.
Also key to success; hiring a good PR firm to get you mentioned in a NYTimes fluff article.
What happens when the "economy collapses tomorrow"?

It's horrible. The world becomes a combination of the movies "28 days later" and "Mad Max," almost instantaneously. The only glimmer of hope is roving bands of freedom fighters grown out of the ranks of former bloggers who had the prescience to comment frequently about gold-backed currency.
...you really left us hanging there. Where does this supposed greatness-which-shall-not-be-named come from? The only distinguishing feature that I can recall about Smalltalk is that every operation is just passing a message--and that's certainly not unique among OO languages.
Fellow aspiring dev sent me this link on Monday:

http://www.mobileorchard.com/iphone-memory-management/
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Yep... it's called the "penny gap," and it's what micropayment proselytes fail to account for. I've noticed something similar on the New York transit system -- when I have a prepaid MetroCard with limited rides, I think twice before taking any individual trip, but when I buy the unlimited-use monthly card, I feel much more free to consume the service even if the total price per month ends up roughly the same.

Yearly subscriptions to sites seem much better. I'd pay a subscription to the Times, though this certainly puts me in the minority. Heck, I'd pay a subscription to Hacker News, too.
Thank you, that's the clearest explanation of this whole thing that I've read to date.
Exactly. Drew Perttula put it better than I'll be able to:
"IMHO, manual testing has only two advantages: it’s the easiest thing to [try to] do; and it has a lovely accountability chain. You can always blame the developer, and non-technical people will easily accept that this is the “inevitable cost of software engineering”."
A Recipe for Motivation: Easy to Read, Easy to Do
But as I said, its four months later. Government shouldn't keep secrets from it's citizens in general. You're the one who introduced the hysterical shouting of "fire." The Bush administration increased the level of secret keeping massively and look what we've gotten for it. Don't you think what happened in September should inform the decisions being made this week about the continuing bailout? Four months is way too long for this to be kept quiet. I'm glad a US representative is talking about it now but wish it had come out three months ago. Fortunately, we have a new administration now and they've already begun the change:

http://www.propublica.org/article/obama-begins-rollback-of-b...
what do you want to know?
I think the enterprise sphere as a whole is ripe for disruption, which we've been witnessing with SaaS and other web 2.0 applications coming out as of late.
Honestly I think it's a gradient.

I'm also one of the developers on a hobby project called http://TIGdb.com (Jeff Lindsay is the other, and has written the majority of the website) We don't have a big Continuous Deploy infrastructure, but we also don't have the users and business requirements of IMVU.

We started with the usual, completely manual deploys and hard-to-setup sandboxes, and have been iterating towards a fully automated setup ever since. The entire time we've been doing this, we've been committing and deploying often. Our users are patient, because we're giving them something they can't get elsewhere and we're giving it to them for free. As we do introduce regressions, we'll post-mortem them (probably using the 5 why's technique) and we'll slowly evolve a system to prevent regressions. If the site is a success, we'll have evolved a world class deploy system. If the site never makes it that big then we won't have wasted time on infrastructure. It's classic lean startup thinking (even though TIGdb is really just a hobby project).
Funny you should worry about factories producing iPods, I'd be more worried about a continued supply of clean water, food and energy in that order. And yes, cows may stop producing milk if the milk gear does not work anymore, how many people still milk their cows by hand.

I can see a lot of use for a crash course in basic farming in a situation like that, iPods not so much...
discuss() and fight() and makelove() are usually (hopefully!) commutative.

I think the more interesting observation to make is: what is the type of the argument to discuss? SentientBeing? CanDiscussMixin?

In the first case, I bet you could imagine objects to "discuss" with that would only awkwardly inherit from SentientBeing, and in the second, your major objects will quickly grow loads of mixins. Of course there's also the "implements interface" appproach.

I think all the models break down at some point...maybe the choice of which one to use is dependent on the problem.
What is wrong with a personal rant? Does every writing needs to be a well thought-out article? Discussions. Essay. Opinions. Why not?
It would be foolish to worry about an apocalypse when you're not sure it's going to happen. Instead, worry about why your users have to click three times instead of two.
Note that the stock:cash ratio was not disclosed. Depending on what it is, the payout could be significantly less (in the near future, at least; I am firmly in the camp that facebook is worth billions).
Is it better to sell additional revenue or pain relief in this market?
I actually wanted to like this post but visitor4rmindia is right, it is, sadly, a fairly ill-thought-out rant. For example: 'Consider "time". In an OO language "time" has to be an object. But in a non OO language a "time" is a instance of a data type'. In an OO language like Ruby, A time value is an instance of a class "Time", in a non-OO language, a time, variable may be an instance of a built-in type "time" if you are really lucky (PL/SQL) but it is more likely to be an integer or a string or a structure or all of these at different times.
Eh. It was probably paid mostly in shares of Facebook itself. So it's $65 million if you believe that Facebook is worth $15 billion.
To be fair, it wasn't novel at the time either (why is there no date on the article?). What I find interesting is that it does point out some of the unfulfilled promise of tag data-mining. We have all these tags now, but we're still very far from extracting their full value.
You don't think ongoing performance issues and bug fixing are problems? If the MooTools selector engine were entirely bug free (I'm not claiming that it's full of bugs, just that without knowledge to the contrary I'm going to assume that it's like most other software projects and has at least one or two) and as fast as Sizzle, then yes, changing engines would be more work for no obvious benefits.

However, if they can get measurable performance improvements and increase the number of eyeballs on the bugs on that one portion of their code, then that seems like a win to me. There are plenty of other reasons why they still might not want to integrate Sizzle, but this one doesn't strike me as compelling.
Haiku is a seriously impressive piece of work.

The reasoning to the "eternal pre-alpha" makes sense in my eyes since it lowers expectations. Criticism over lacking basic features (like SATA issues, CD-booting, partitioning, printing or even Wi-Fi), usability or stability issues (such as unstable filesystem drivers) can easily be dismissed without much crticism, people declaring it "useless" or a "toy OS". An alpha that's actually usable and can be used to attract developers is a good thing IMO and makes it a more significant milestone. It's much better than the alternative of a premature launch.

Also, a fun quote from an article by a different OSNews author in 2004 (http://www.osnews.com/story/8114/Three_Years_of_Haiku_The_Lo...): 'And if Haiku is "ready" by 2010, no one will care.'