skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its one application per company.

YC usernames of all founders, including you, vaksel, separated by spaces. (That's usernames, not given names: "bksmith,"
not "Bob Smith." If the startup has 3 founders, there should be 3 words in this answer.)
Good to know that you are seeing that kind of thing, and my comment about the equipment thing, you seem to be on top of it.
With respect to the 'badges' thing, that might be an opportunity to create a sort of game/score environment. Similar to HN, though i think stackoverflow does a better job of it. It gets people interested in who's saying what, what their qualifications are, etc.
I think the author gets a lot of points dead on.

The changes have already begun. First the largest game expo, E3, was killed off and brought back as a shadow of its former self.

Then we've seen the rise of the indie game. Braid and World of Goo have shown to be excellent examples of games that cost very little ($15-20) and provide a compelling experience.

Large studios are investing less into smaller games, like Valve did with Portal, and earning better profit margins by distributing them digitally.

There will probably always be blockbuster games like Grand Theft Auto, but the market is splintering. Millions will continue be lost in many of the big studios.

I personally think it's healthy. As a huge consumer of games, I don't think there's ever been a point in time when there's been so many amazing games available.
I disagree that this is the same thing.

At the release of Mozilla 1.0, the website looked like this: http://web.archive.org/web/20020802080030/http://mozilla.org... -- clearly targeted towards developers, with product download links hidden in a nondescript column. I suppose that's what Ross was talking about: The site didn't offer any convincing arguments as to why you'd want to download their browser, and didn't make it easy to do so.

Nowadays, the download site has moved to mozilla.com which is very much targeted at "Real People", and .org is about evangelism and developer info, at least the first of which these designs reflect quite well. If they go overboard it's on the marketing speak and boldness, but certainly not on technical details and programmer jargon like the old mozilla.org did.

That said, the .com vs .org distinction is probably confusing: They should just move Firefox to firefox.com and drop the Mozilla brand from it altogether.
I'm not really sure But I would like to have that amount someday ! May be my website http://www.cashsolutionssite.com might get me there someday

Thanks

Wishful Thinking
Again with the pseudo science IQ crap!

Here's a much better metric for immigrant quality what ever that means. The more expensive the trip is, which has very good correlation with distance, the higher IQ the immigrants will have on average. Bonus points if the only way to get here involves a plane.

No wonder Indian immigrants are doing so well in America. Considering they are located on opposite end of the earth, and given the average income in in India vs the price of plane tickets, it's fairly obvious you'd have to be pretty extraordinary to even make to the US.
Journalistic Capture and Fixing CNBC
Let It Die: Rushkoff on the economy
It is an interesting thesis, but some of your points, such as the one that people with spam filters gets as much spam as those without, seem a little dated. Since I switched to GMail I have gotten practically no spam.
Smart. This is a good move. The chances of companies going public is greater because you'll have more companies and the economy will be better at the same time so it makes more sense to go public (for some startups) because the market will be rebounding and stabilizing. This is good for YC, good for Sequoia, and good for startups.
I was very uplifted by the Rauschenberg name-dropping. Until I saw the design.

;-)

Naw, they will hopefully get better in the next couple of iterations.
You're operating in a very crowded market and I can't distinguish any added value from this prototype.

It just looks like a tumblog, and a very average one at that.
They could have decided to produce something completely different, like nokia, that old world-leading manufacturer of rubber galoshes.
I had always suspected that regular expressions were not, in fact, regular, and now it is obvious.

This is in fact why regexs are slow. The old Thompson NFA is orders of magnitude faster than current libraries. However, it can only recognize regular languages.

I wonder, are there any libraries for CFG's, that allow specifying the productions?
I shouldn’t have been so concerned about what the people on HackerNews would say about the design.

This needs to be starred about taking all advice, ever, but particularly taking advice from people who are a) like you and b) unlike your customers. I always ask my forum buddies for opinions on new things (never turn down another set of eyes), but you have to take them with a grain of salt: at the end of the day, they're not the ones who pay you money.

A lot of folks had very strong words for my last redesign -- including at least one person who thought keeping the designer's name on it was akin to professional slander. My customers liked it, as evidenced by metrics(+).

Guess whose opinion matters?

+ Metrics: accurate, appropriate, and timely numbers which inform decisionmaking. Pick any two. Grumble grumble... but I do love them.
>>If trees are made us using Leaf, Node, and Empty, tree "leaks" names, which is a disaster because lots of things have leaves, nodes, and empty.'

>Non sequitur? Where is the problem. Try

> data MyMaybe a = Just a | Nothing

Huh? How does that create a tree instead of a banana?

Actually, it's completely unclear what that example is doing. I'd guess that it's specifying a new name and a corresponding value, but I'm not sure which name and what kind of value.
Here's a suggestion from an Indian American on immigration policy: Don't force skilled immigrants (even those with graduate degrees from US universities) to work at the same employer for 5-8 years just to get a permit to stay in the country.

I have to stay with the same employer on an H-1B visa while my application for a greencard is pending (currently, people who applied in 2001 with a bachelors degree or 2004 with a masters degree are being considered).

Half of my immigrant classmates (Indian or not) from gradschool would have started a startup if they didn't have to stay stuck with the same employers to be in this country.
Another iPhone Developer Story
It's good to see YCombinator applying what they're saying and expanding right now. It's definitely true that if you have the money, a recession is probably the best time to invest since it puts you ahead of more people/companies.

Also, I was really hoping for a real party. Paul, are you reading this? Maybe just a drink at the Cheesecake Factory in Palo Alto? No? Oh well... good luck with the expansion!
Look for "poll" in http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html
Cartoons are the only thing respectable on TV.
Yes, this is a great innovation, and really according to the Rails Way. My favorite among the new features (and the other ones are good too.)

Now combine this with GitHub (search for rails-templates) and you've got a evolutionary algorithm for discovering the best rails default stack.
I came here to say exactly that. Since you already said it, I will merely add that it is bizarre that the article would veer into the IQ explanation after discussing self-selection, which is sufficient to explain the success of Indian Americans as well as the observed memory test scores.
What Happened To The Freehackers Union?
Do you have any more writing online about your experiences there?
This whole "model minority" concept is so incredibly degrading and haughty. It's a bunch of white people thinking they are doing a group of people a favor by applying a label to them.

Oh you should be so proud - you're not like how most other dark skinned people are! So smart and able to succeed!
Congratulations.

Cash is king.
> Haskell has one of the best namespace/module systems of any language I've ever seen. It doesn't 'leak' these names; they're just the names of the data constructors, they're supposed to be visible. If you need to control access, use the module system.

If I have to use modules to hide distinguish tree leaves from other leaves, I'm using modules to do what I get from classes in other languages. Since those languages also benefit from modules ....

> I think it's perfectly legitimate for examples of particular features to omit other features (like modules, in this case).

I agree that any specific example should be targetted. My point is that none of the Haskell examples that I've seen address large programs.
In order to make sense of this from a financial perspective, I'd have to know more about the performance of YC's existing fund(s). Is that published anywhere? The size of this deal is much smaller than the average Series A funding round of a Sequoia startup, so this is quite a strange arrangement.

This really appears to be a validation of the importance and cachet of Sequoia by YC, rather than the reverse. A very surprising move, which further leads me to question existing YC performance.
Small error:

Partly. It's easier to expand in in Silicon Valley,
Is it me or has the development of Rails accelerated drastically lately? It used to feel quite slow, and now it's very fast. Is it because they switched to git? Any core developers here?
Oh that's interesting making a rails solution for that is on my todo list before I launch.... but if you get there first, I'd be happy to use it :-)
qwitter isn't very useful; It only seems to work sporadically for a few minutes at a time. I know I've lost followers without getting a message from it.
I'm okay with this as long as you're willing to pay the H1-B and greencard fees if you decide to bail and start a startup.

All those costs add up- it's about 10-15k per employee.
You should have gone with Summer of 2009 as your headline.
I've been there myself. I recently doubled my pay by becoming a consultant but would any day leave it for YC.
I understand that not everyone is as free to do that.
Good luck to you and hopefully we get to go thru the whole process to blog about it.
A new immigration policy that prioritizes skills over family reunification could bring more successful immigrants to the U.S.

And they would earn as much money as they could, and then they would leave. Because people like being with their families, especially parents, especially when they kids.
Can you add linebreaks for those of us with less wide browser screens? :-)
No, that is incorrect.

I’ve actually built a huge number of circuits, read tons of books and learned how to program a PIC basic stamp. I fucking love this shit.

Then:

I had to do my own research and found that, no, these guys get some of their shit from the NYU Computer Store on 242 Greene St near Washington Square Park. It’s obvious since everyone in NYC uses Arduinos and this store has most of the parts I’ve seen them use. That store has an entire section that’s dedicated to hardware hacking gear, including parts, kits, tons of Arduino components, full stamps, everything.

There is much more context and information in the original article. Zed recognized the parts, really did just want to know where the parts came from, and was interested to learn of the parts shop.
Pretty cool. 25nm dielectric spacing is very thin...more important than scaling (quantity/capacity) is whether or not it can handle the voltages necessary before breaking down.
I mean... you're right, you are using modules to do what you get from classes in other languages. So what? You say this like it's a bad thing, it's not, it's just how this particular problem is solved in Haskell. Different != Horrible. I would argue it's actually a little bit more elegant, in that it takes a problem (namespacing) and solves it one way (modules), rather than having some hybrid package/class system.

I'm interested to see the examples you've seen for other languages that do address large programs. I've personally not come across many "How to write Firefox in Python"-style tutorials.
You submit a single application, and include all your founders' Hacker News account names there. If you have multiple ideas, you submit multiple applications, one per cofounder, but each idea gets only one application.

We're applying for YC summer - we've been updating and trying to fine-tune our application since we first submitted. I'd advise you to get what you've got submitted, and to spend the next day or two looking to perfect what you have.
$15k for 6% is proportionally much higher.
Define "bail". I think it's actually illegal to pay for your own H-1B to discourage fake applications or something, but wrt the Greencard, there is usually a negotiated agreement between the employer and the employee about who pays the cost (or what fraction of it). So there is no bailing out.

I fully intend to honor mine and wouldn't actually mind paying the H-1B costs either, were it legal.
Ofcourse he spent it. Where else can the money be gone ?!He just kept it in the bank to see it and bask in the glory !!

Does anybody know how much money he has with him, I mean, will anybody who invested with him get anything at all back ?!
I mean where did all the 50 billion go ?
The Just and Nothing that he's defining for his MyMaybe are completely different things from the Just and Nothing used for the Maybe that ships in the Prelude. MyMaybe may as well be a banana for all Prelude.Maybe cares.
Send E-mails When You Get @replies On Twitter - Python
A simple script to check your Twitter account for @replies and send you an email
if it finds any new ones since the last time it checked. It was developed using
python-twitter 0.5 and Python 2.5. It has been tested on Linux only, but it
should work fine on other platforms as well. This script is intended to be
executed by a cron manager or scheduled task manager.
Django Ittybitty
It allows you to have short URLs for any and every page on your Django site. No more need to rely on 3rd party servers to translate short URLs to real URLs on your site. So long as your pony-powered site is up and running, your visitors will be able to use URLs generated by this application to get anywhere on your site.
Because Bill Gates exists, there is substantially less suffering in the world.

Hehe ... I don't think the windows vista users will agree with you !! [:D] ( sorry ! I couldn't resist it )
I suppose my point was that iterative loops didn't make you think very much and so sometimes you become careless as was the case with that Zune bug from January. Recursion keeps you on your toes and if you practice enough then you can manage so-called clutter well and still have room to think.
The Honolulu FU meeting was kind of sad. Four guys, including me, and half of them wanted to show off code they'd written for their employer. The "code for code's sake" attitude seems to be pretty rare.
Stack Overflow and BizSpark
Given the extended deadline - Is there a possibility/chance that the invites + interviews will be pushed out?
I think "concurrence" here refers to serving many requests concurrently, as opposed to executing concurrently on multiple cores. But yeah, I think you're right, it's not concurrent in the strict sense.

If you wanted, you could probably run as many separate python processes as you have cores. I doubt it would help that much, since the main bottleneck in this sort of application is usually the I/O involved in handling lots of small packets.

When Facebook made memcached multi-threaded (it's also based on libevent), things improved, but if I recall correctly, not that dramatically. They're probably getting more benefit out of it now that they've hacked the kernel to improve the packet/second bottleneck issues, but for most people that's probably not worth it.
Why? I think the "model minority" label fits. If a minority is fairly successful (low crime, high achievement, etc...) it makes sense to increase immigration from those countries.

Also, once a minority is a "model minority" things such as affirmative action can be changed to only apply to struggling minorities.

> Oh you should be so proud - you're not like how most other dark skinned people are!

Aren't most "model minorities" in the USA far more successful than white people?
The application deadline and the day we respond have been pushed back (they're now March 25 and April 6) but interviews still take place on the same weekend, April 17-19.
> Someone please explain to me how MBAs show up at geek meetups of any description. I would think stuff would be way too oriented away from money for them to show up. Maybe I'm just crassly stereotyping too much.

You're both over-stereotyping and under-stereotyping.

In both cases, they're showing up because "geek gatherings" are a place to find geeks. The over/under concerns why they want to find geeks.

And, geeks can be, and often are, extremely money-grubbing. The snotty addendum is that they're just not very good at it and/or are too concerned about whether someone else will make a buck to make one themselves.
Four-and-a-half, but we were building awfully complex 3D game development technology without almost no funding (first revenue after four years, but founders couldn't take a wage for another half year). Doing incredibly well now, with 40 employees and growing (still no funding, but making one's own cash is much cooler :)

d.
Yes, but if it's working, why let Sequoia in the deal? YC has an existing brand and deal pipeline... This just doesn't make sense to me. You're also inevitably leaving other potential follow-on investors, such as Founders Fund, at a disadvantage... This really seems like more of a win for Sequoia (access to deal pipeline, continue to expose itself as the preferred VC of Internet startups, etc) than for YC (get $2m and funnel startups to Sequoia for follow-on financing). I know Paul's a smart guy, so there must be a missing piece somewhere.
Very interesting read. For me it really shows how the needs met by today's services like Twitter really go deep to the human psyche. The need to connect on many levels with others in our social/political worlds is a fundamental aspect of humanity.

These days the modern equivalent would be throwing together an ajax handler in Erlang for an iPhone app that the fellow soldiers could all check using the work camp wifi :)
High-Tech Auctions Crowd Silicon Valley
I seem to have become an evangelist for Robot Chicken!
Startups In A Downturn
Great returns because the market is down now and will go up in the next 4 years. If you think about this in relation to the stock market it makes perfect sense. People are investing now because they think the bad times are over (even if they aren't, it is still not a bad time to start investing in something that will take 3 or 4 years to mature like a startup). So both YC and Sequoia win because the valuation of the startup whether it is public or not will be greater in just a matter of years. More small risk, much greater potential return.
"A new immigration policy that prioritizes skills over family reunification could bring more successful immigrants to the U.S."

So if I can code and spell, and my wife cannot I get stuck without a family? How many of your wives can spell Guerdon or whatever.
How to Be an Angel Investor (Part 2) - by Venture Hacks
Evaluate My Real Estate Feedback Project
This would be considerably more useful if you would write up your motivations for doing this and follow it with what you learned from the users and why you think this may or may not be an effective tool.
I'm very excited for the confluence to occur. I've been looking around for a good web development stack to switch to for personal projects. I'm a .net guy during the day, but it's not enjoyable for me to work on.

I have basic proficiency with Python, but I don't care for Django and Pylons doesn't have very good documentation.

I am currently learning Clojure, but I get the feeling that I'd have to reinvent a lot of wheels to bring up a basic web development platform (on top of Compojure, I'd imagine). I plan on using Clojure down the road for some business logic I'm working on. It would be very nice to be able to keep all my heavy logic work in Clojure while using Rails on JRuby at some point down the road, so I think it's worthwhile for me to learn both.

It's good to hear that they are making so much progress on the Rails core in the meantime. It is starting to sound like a much more robust platform than it did a couple of years ago.
We wanted to increase the number of startups we funded, but we didn't feel we could do that in a recession. We probably had enough money to last out the recession at the current rate, but we noticed that thinking this way was starting to make us conservative, which is the last thing you want in the seed funding business.

I don't think this deal would increase the likelihood of Sequoia investing in a given YC startup. They make up their own minds about who to invest in. But it should increase the absolute number they fund, because the number we fund will increase.
Great article. I think you should consider an alternative subscription model.. one time access.

I am one of the demographic that initially used the site after either a HN or Cnet link (can't remember which one). I actually purchased a domain or two and made a mental note that I will use the site next time I am in the domain market, as I found it very useful.

For someone like me, I only look at domains once every few months at most. I just don't have an active appitite for purchasing - but when I do, it is a big priority. If you offered limited time access for a $5 a pop fee or something similar, I think you'd have a large audience (myself included).
I started this website as a personal project to learn more about ASP.NET MVC. Now that the site is almost fully functional, I actually think it could be pretty useful as a forum to discuss real estate listings. I know major listing sites will not allow user generated content for listings for legal reasons so this could fill that gap. I would love to get feedback and constructive criticism as well as ideas to make the site more useful.

Thanks,
Joe Cartano
Zed Shaw is an egotistical, angry, irrelevant loser. FU was simply his ego and attitude embodied. Nothing like that is bound to succeed.
cool, if this was more cross browser compliant i would use it on chemsink.com. the current java solution is slow.
Will the First Hacker in the Room Please turn the Lights Back on?
How is Woz not going to win Dancing With The Stars via a Python script?
It gets YC startups almost all the advantages of having Sequoia as an investor without the dilution of a large Sequoia investment (eg: opens a lot of doors for the YC startups to get their products in the marketplace.)

I want to emphasize that this one isn't true. We're not claiming any such advantage. Sequoia won't be a direct investor in these startups.
That's funny--as a member of the group under discussion, I didn't feel particularly degraded. Nor, for that matter, did I feel proud; rather, having always felt that the curious facts mentioned in the article deserved scientific study, I was glad that this was getting some attention in the mainstream press. Maybe this will prompt some research into the cultural factors in my community and how they translate into the observed behavior. I have anecdotal explanations, as does everyone else, for why my people prefer certain professions, but that's not science, and it doesn't answer why the effect is so strong, even in comparison to other Asian groups.

As the article says, "Most Americans know only one thing about Indians--they are really good at spelling bees." I'd much rather be labeled than ignored :-)