skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook love hoax stuns Man Utd fan
If people didn't like Techcrunch, they wouldn't go to the site. If Techcrunch was irrelevant, they wouldn't generate massive leads for pet projects that people create.

There was an article a week or so ago about how people were complaining every time Techcrunch posted a story about some Twitter application. The author of the article wrote back in protest basically saying, "well if you don't like the articles, don't comment on them."

Techcrunch generates buzz. They're good at it. I may live in a hole, but I didn't really hear about Last.fm until Techcrunch posted that story. Last.fm got a pageview from me off of that story.

And personally, I don't really care about TC's opinion. I'm smart enough to make my own judgment. But until they report it, I have little way discovering new companies.
Developers issue death warrant for IE6
It finally happened. Techcrunch is the new Valleywag.
> I expect experts to have more sensibility than to bet the entire financial well-being of a company, employees, and public investors when dealing with 'invented' high-risk assets just because a computer said "Okay".

That's nice, but has nothing to do with what happened. "experts" decided that a particular equation with specific inputs said something relevant about "value".

There wasn't a "computer" saying "okay". Said experts merely used computers to evaluate said equation.
I'd guess that the reason is actually the opposite. The marriage wasn't doing that well to begin with, but there was a financial incentive not to rock the boat (the money).

Once you lose that salary, the woman has less incentive to put up with a marriage she is unhappy with. If people will marry someone just for the money, I don't find it much of a stretch to assume they will stick together as long as the funds keep flowing.
its not really being adept, they just hide who they truly are. They may hate sex, but they do it, because they know that if they don't put out the guy will leave. They go to the gym, because they know if they become a fat slob the guy will leave. They act nice, because they know that if they are a bitch the guy will leave. When they get married on the other hand, they know that the guy can't leave anymore, so they can act how they want...and if the guy leaves, they'll get a huge payday.

I'm not sure about judges of character, but most of the guys dated their wives for 3-5 years and lived together for at least 2 years.

Divorce being terrible, mostly goes to the idea that the 2 people will end up hating each other. But its much more terrible for guys, who end up losing everything they worked for.

Yes, most women don't marry with idea of a divorce in mind. But its too juicy of a consolation prize, not to keep in mind when the relationship hits the rocks. Yes the idea of marriage is glorified in the U.S. and its part of the problem. It convinces people that all you need to do is get married, and the relationship will prosper all by itself
I read somewhere that one of the biggest classes of people on welfare are recently divorced women. I'm inclined to agree that marriage can be a ripoff, but it doesn't always play out that way. Women are often in a dependent position, for the simple reason that the division of labor involves male income and female fertility, the latter of which is poorly remunerative.
>>What do you have that relies on future performance?

>It's not a matter of what's available but rather how one treats risk.

The stated complaint was that folks weren't looking at future performance. If doing so is impossible .....
Hi patio11, please email me at peldi@balsamiq.com. I'd love to solve your IME issue but I'll need your help since I'm no IME expert. I'm sure we'll get the bug fixed in no time.
Where do you go to find those non-technology blogs?

Google for keywords of interest to you, talk to people in your market, talk to your customers, etc.

Where do you go to promote your blog(s)/businesses in non-technology niches?

The succinct answer: You use it to promote other people.

The longer one: blogging other people's stuff and commenting on their blogs gives you a relationship with them. Once you have a relationship with them, and they trust you, it isn't "promoting your stuff" so much as it is sharing something that they think their readers will enjoy.

Additionally, after you have a loyal fanbase, you will probably find that your most successful "promotion" efforts are a result of pulling rather than pushing. i.e. a portion of your readers who are more dedicated and savvier will take it upon themselves to spread your stuff elsewhere.

[Edit: I don't make any money off the following recommendation, and only am mentioning it because its exactly responsive to your query: I wrote a chapter in a book called BlogBlazers about this. Its the above two paragraphs at chapter length, essentially. Aaron Wall's chapter is good, too.]
I dont know of one, maybe this is a good idea to make one? or start a subreddit
You might check out http://www.newmogul.com/ for business news...
Get a second job? You'll start making money the first week, guaranteed!
The words "sales" or "sell" aren't mentioned once. The ideas of launching fast to learn what to really build is a great suggestion but really one of sales. You need to launch fast to know what will sell (and what won't) so you can develop something that will sell.

So.. 14. Sell as soon as possible. Find out what people will buy for. Never stop selling.
maybe the best PG ever? So short and sweet. Follow these simple rules and you can succeed, don't and your startup will die. The customer service one was a surprise for some reason, not that it does not make complete sense but not something I would immediately associate with HN/YC. Its just so important to be above and beyond with early customers, helping customers is the best way for founders to stay connected with what matters and learn what they should be doing. its a godsend of insight for making something people want.
I'll follow your line of thought and start posting food recipes on hacker news.
Chocolate and Bacon Pizza, for example. Only a Hacker-Gourmet could ever think of something like that...
What do you think?
PG says "The essential task in a startup is to create wealth", that pretty well rules tarsnap out as a startup, I guess.

It does? That's weird -- I thought tarsnap was creating wealth.
Avoid the interrupt-driven model of time management
Hi tectonic, I am well aware that the barriers to cloning Mockups are really low (and I've known this from the start). Luckily, features are only part of the package, and in the long run, everyone has the same features more or less. That's why I pay so much attention to customer service in all of its incarnations, which include not only being responsive and respectful, but also having a good website, updating the build regularly, _really_ listening to feedback, treating my customers as I'd like to be treated, being environmentally and socially conscious, fostering a community around Mockups... Also, I plan on building other products in the future, I'm only getting started. :) We'll see how it goes, but so far, so good! :)
But does it mean we should include in this aggregator everything every hacker considers interesting (but is NOT hacker news at all)...?
I don't know if this is still the case, but when my team applied for YC there was a specific question about 'hacking' something, specifically, not a computer. So I would say this sort of news would fall within the scope of the community.

This particular instance may not be 'hacking' according to Hoyle, but it's a story of people dedicated to revealing the full truth about a long-standing mystery of human history. I think a lot of what makes a hacker a hacker is their breadth of knowledge and ability to apply it usefully in unfamiliar situations, which does apply to many of the techniques mentioned within the article.

Either way it's interesting material - good for keeping your brain on its toes.
Content Management Systems just don't work.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned economies of scale so far.

Enterprise applications are highly customized systems with deployments of 1 in many cases. We talk about the outrageous cost, but consider an 500,000 dollar application. That's a lot for a company, but that's not a lot for an application budget.

With a 1.6 multiplier for expenses, that's enough for 2 fte senior engineers @ 90k or 3 young ones at 60k, .5 QA @ 70k, 1 manager @ 120k for 20%, a half a technical writer and a half a business analyst - let's call it one person @ 45k. That's 454,400 there. You haven't even accounted for travel yet, or a part time contractor for domain expertise or a graphical designer or someone to design an aesthetically competent interface.

Now, the cost of programmers might be high for senior outside major metros, but the numbers aren't far out of line for a project in less expensive markets.

How much are you going to expect two (or three) programmers to do for a full fledged product? Add to this the shifting requirements, client corporate bureaucracy, and associated complications that have been listed below, it's really no surprise that enterprise products have difficulty with quality.

I've given it a bit of thought on how to deliver better products in the sphere, but I start designing and realize that we've quickly found our way into architecture astronomy quickly. I'm starting to think the best route is actually something akin to http://baseportal.com/ with a rules workflow system and a little more front end polish.

The problem, again, runs into the customization problems. The more customization that is allowed (and that is a requirement in enterprise), the more complex the system becomes and the advantages of quicker development dissolve.
how about off-line ? or google adwords ?

Direct mail might make sense, or flyers at builders trade shows, I know that sounds 'weird' for an online business but it would seem to me that your potential customers are all much too busy to be hanging around on forums.
He also speaks to Flash/RIA being a dying art, but I wonder what would be harder for the user: installing one of the RIA plugins, or upgrading your entire browser to support HTML5? I reckon the latter, and the penetration rates for HTML5 will be solely be dependent on existing Flash/social sites like Youtube, Vimeo, etc making the switch themselves.
How the Social Web is Changing Entrepreneurship
you'll find most "best of" lists of this sort include a lot of heavily ideological stuff. this is because these are the works that have the most memorable impact and actually change people's opinions. Whether you find such works valuable depends largely on where you're coming from when you read it.

for example dianetics: the kind of person who will read and recommend it is the kind of person who was already against psychology to begin with. people use popular non-fiction for confirmation bias and appeal to majority bias.
I'm always personifying companies, reading it back, realising Americans won't like it, and then awkwardly trying to rephrase it to avoid the issue.
> Where I come from, it is taken as common knowledge that you should live together for a significant amount of time before getting married (2+ years is usual). Also, big extravagant weddings are not the norm -- most of my immediate and extended family got married by signing papers in a courthouse, or in a small ceremony at the most.

Welcome to suburban America, where premarital sex is akin to treason against God, and the average wedding costs $20k.
Well, it is academic software. I work at ailab.si and a lot of my work concerns Orange, especially its bioinformatics addon. Its development is slow because we also need to do some other things, like research. New features are usually added when we need them.

It is actively maintained/developed but by only few developers, so its progress can seem slow at times.
... and be less afraid of de-normalizing your data!
Maybe the EEE isn't the way to go. The MSI Wind Netbook is the de facto hackintosh. So much that people are selling it as a "Macbook Nano" on Ebay.
IBM, the last company to pull out of Second Life?
>Techcrunch has been on the inflection point of "mattering" to the wider public, which scares the life out of me!

Your pants must be very soiled. Did you know that the wider public reads tabloids as well? Did you know that they read gossip rags? CLEAN UP IN AISLE GSTAR!
If you're smart you'll use the shareware package inspector, Paranoia, to snoop through the packages and tell you what the update's really doing before applying it.

Most software updates (application updates / security updates / Safari+iTunes+QuickTime will work fine. Its the 10.5.X updates that might break something.
Silly me, I used the bug tracker. :\
wow this site looks and functions exactly like HN
I have a friend who is much better at getting work than at completing the work. So I get his "overflow."

I've had exactly zero success with websites such as guru.com, craigslist and odesk. Sometimes I treat the more interesting guru.com assignments as ungraded homework - namely I do them for my own intellectual curiousity for the sake of "sharpening the saw" even though there is no contact with the person/company requesting the job - since I don't get the job for some/whatever reason.
Hey, I said life - nobody said anything about brown trousers.

Thanks for your concern though, and I'll just clean up with this copy of the Mirror.
It's built using the same Arc-based system.
It is possible that the women in these scenarios are entirely at fault, but unlikely. Relationship problems usually stem from both of the people involved.

>>They may hate sex, but they do it

I don't know ANY women who hate sex itself. Perhaps the man has gotten lazier as well, in regards to sex?

>>They go to the gym...if they become a fat slob the guy will leave

Women's bodies are not the only ones that deteriorate. Are all of the men of your acquaintance perfectly fit as well? Furthermore, many women's bodies change in unexpected ways after childbirth...it is entirely normal to take up to a year post-breast feeding to recover, and that is provided that the women has time away from the child to exercise.

>>They act nice

As another woman on the thread mentioned, it is not only women who can be petty in relationships. Her "bitchy" behavior is almost certainly at least partially the husband's fault.

Perhaps the husband began working more hours, which combined with childcare, left the couple no time to be together?

It cannot be denied that marriage is hard. But it is far from impossible, and far from unsatisfactory when done properly. However, it takes work on both sides to maintain and adapt. I am not denying that the woman causes problems of her own, but relationships are rarely broken just by the fault of one person. You are probably getting a biased account because you are hearing it from the husband's perspective. Their wives may have things to say that would surprise you.
Freelancing.
Economic Crisis and Global Governance cont’d
My friend said it best or quoted someone: "Marriage is not a one-time event."
Which startup’s collapse will end the Web 2.0 era?
Which one of the items in this list seem overblown to you? They all seem pretty solid to me. If this list scares you away from entrepreneurship, maybe it's doing you a favor.
I'd bet that they have publishers complaining about their stuff being available as an easily-copied file online. Book publishers are quieter than the RIAA, but they've got very strict ideas about what's good and what's not. I would bet they're the ones who want DRM.

Outside of the Kindle store, you can add books of any ebook format, DRM or no DRM. Most of my Kindle is entirely open. Amazon likes open formats, and they're trying their best to support what they can.
Wonderfl - Build Flash online
coutln "Brillant!"

...pardon me.
The Kindle's not a good place to get books that rely on formatting. They offer one serif font and they generate paragraphs and line breaks but don't offer any other formatting.
> I've decided that I'm moving from Chicago to San Fran in April, no matter what.my situation is.

Congratulations on your commitment!

My friends who freelance full-time - most of them are graphic designers not programmers - one says "Sometimes I have to pick which bill to skip or delay payment on but the daily feeling of working for yourself makes it all worth it."
The Aptera smacks of vaporware, with the constant delays, but I'm still guardedly excited about it--if they can hit their price target with something close to their promise, I'd make a Californian friend just to buy one.

The Mission Motors bike, on the other hand, is firmly in the Tesla roadster camp: The projected price point puts it out of the "this could save you money, eventually" category and into the "cool toy for rich eco-geeks" category. Its performance is similar to my Daytona 675's, which cost me $7500 and gets 45mpg.
Murdoch’s Love of Newspapers Is Weighing on News Corp
Anything built by externally-motivated people will suck exactly as much as it is permitted to.
In summary: "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM!"
http://mibbit.com/chat/?server=irc.freenode.net&channel=...

105 people right now. Frequently active.
Bash away. I'm not saying I agree with the phrase's sentiment, it's just funny. Moo.
In tough economy, working 7 days becomes norm for some
Nagios + Ganglia is what was used in my previous work place. Was a pretty darn neat setup considering the had hundreds (if not thousands) of server
What part of laying things out in specific widths prohibits an implementation in a high level language?

From 2001-2005, at Arbor Networks, I worked on a codebase that basically had to bucket the entire Internet, as seen from (say) the core routers at British Telecom, on varying timescales. Obviously, we wrote it in C. It was not optimal. What's worse, changing it was a huge nightmare. Most of the performance improvements we came up with (at least in my first year) were design issues (like messing with precision, storing runs of zeroes, things like that). Most of the bugs we has were textbook C issues, like failing to address shared memory properly.

I'm totally not sold that high speed disk I/O demands C.
"...but I'm working in an area where domain knowledge is extremely important..."

If you had a design/marketing/seo cofounder that was willing to hunt for sales/bizdev opportunities, domain knowledge for that person doesn't have to be THAT deep and would bring huge benefits.

"The vision behind tarsnap, from 2.5 years ago -- an online snapshotted backup service with a tar front-end, a heavy emphasis on security, and a linear pricing model -- hasn't changed at all."

Is that a good thing, do you think? I'm not saying it isn't, but I think founders who don't experiment/explore generally succeed more than those that don't. (See the 17 out of 26 stat here) http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2007/11/why_early_stage.h...

I think your rule #0 is dead on-- there are lots of exceptions and there's no formula. But I'm pretty convinced that your startup would be more successful if you hadn't broken the "rules" that you did.
Microsoft's math problem: Laid-off workers told to return overpaid severance
On Git's lack of respect for immutability and the Best Practices for a DVCS
Go to seminars, give seminars, go to conferences, talk at conferences, and ask.

This is what advice I was given. At school we had someone who was an alum come in to give a talk about how she got her own show on Discovery Channel (sorry, I forgot what the name of the show was--it was about doing absurd/impractical things to be "green" ie beaming solar power on a mountaintop to another place 50 miles away). Basically she got the gig because she was a phenomenal presenter. Really really engaging. At one of the conferences she presented at, a scout for the Discovery Channel told her that they wanted a PhD who was entertaining enough yet had a way to capture the attention of a non-scientific audience. She flew to NY to audition and was later placed with a team of engineers and given a $40million budget to design the show.

Moral of the story: Be good at conveying information and stand out with niche.
Can't find the specific Flickr pool with Nagios screenshots but here is one example:

http://flickr.com/photos/mogwai_83/3022261893/
Which system is that?
this one:

http://arclanguage.org/
Quantum Data Buffering
Thanks. I should have mentioned, I know about NewMogul and undrln ( http://www.undrln.com/ - a more design-themed social news site).

Any others? I have a bias towards sites that architects and other construction folks would find of interest, but even other ones are interesting, since I do write on a variety of topics.
You know, I agree with you, but I've found, from personal experience in the technology-related sphere, that a little bit of help along the way makes the whole process quicker. Submitting your articles to relevant forums makes it more likely that you'll pick up a community of readers, commenters and subscribers.

My problem is, I only know the communities that I belong to - and they're all mostly technology-related, like HN or proggit.
Ubuntu 9.10 to support Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service
Nah, I know what he's talking about. A lot of girls in high school are lanky or not entirely busty, and when girls "break out" at 14 or 15 that's the hot look for them to have. Those girls very often burn out or don't worry so much about maintaining their looks, while the girls who were awkward-looking grew into themselves and suddenly turned very lovely.
Really? He didn't present any evidence, aside from some anecdotal stories about "everyone he knows," and instead presented a series of terrible stereotypes.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat2.pdf
More than half of women work, and while that number is lower than the percentage of men who work (74%), it's hard to tell from the data presented whether or not advanced age affects the numbers.

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/fa...
Out of 49 million women between the ages of 21 and 44, there are only 5.4 million stay-at-home moms (98,000 dads, possibly not including the temporarily unemployed).

Honestly, I don't feel like debunking everything. I feel like the onus is on me to disprove specious claims, rather than the other way around. It's akin to arguing with a creationist.
Yes its a two way street, but from what I'm seeing, the guys are the ones who are trying and the women are the ones who gave up.

No idea, but I do know that one guy hasn't gotten laid in 5 years, and the other only gets sex on big occasions like his birthday. The rest just bitch that they don't get as much as they used to.

The main ones: One I know is in the shame shape that he was in when they got married. The other one has actually gotten better since he hides from the wife at the gym. The other ones aren't as close friends so I don't really know what they looked like when they got married but most of them are in decent shape. Recovery thing also doesn't apply, since those are the older friends so they had their kids 3-4 years ago.

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but I'd side with the guys in this situation since I know for a fact that they've been the ones trying in the relationship.

Nope still same 40 hour work weeks.

I disagree, if one person tries to fix things, while the other does nothing, its the one who does nothing that is at fault for relationship deteriorating.

And yeah I may be biased towards my friends, but I met the wives too and honestly I haven't seen an ounce of contradicting evidence in how they act towards their husbands.
The different parts for computers and cars come from all over the world.
What employers want to see on your resume
Thank you for sharing such a detailed insight. This is very helpful because hearing it from a team that didn't get in can aid the applicants to look at aspects they might have missed.
But Porsche is not excempt from rigid european / german union standards. And I could have picked Audi or BMW as well and they are not low-volume by any measure.