skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
personal "style" i guess i would classify as a "systems" designer. i like starting with a ruleset to which players can learn and "game", and then try to build "experience" on top of that.
This is why blogging will never (or at least can never adequately) replace traditional media. The list of most linked to sources for bloggers is almost exclusively traditional media.

As high on citizen journalism as I have been in the past, without the filter of trained journalists, it's essentially just noise. And blogs don't have the capital to put the resources on the ground that traditional media organizations are able to ... I fear that the whole system breaks down if newspapers and television media go under.

A million people with cell phone cameras is great, but not much of a fourth estate without trained, muckraking reporters. New media and old media feed off each other. I just hope one can adapt before the other sucks it dry.
Might I suggest an antonym: Machiavellian. At least in the traditional sense. The Prince is a good start. Those who are looking for "resources" may want to read this -- front cover to back cover. Indiana University sometimes offers a good course called Machiavelli, Marketing, and Management whose seminar leader is a Machiavellian scholar.
Agreed. All reddit's doing is calling us sterile, and circlejerking around a few of the people defending Hacker News. There's nothing meaningful in this conversation.
Does this mean the Scala programming language is an orple? and appnge?
Congratulations for TechCrunch for their new office.

I am sad I won't be able to pass by and "simply break in", anyway. :(
Not yet (+189 days).
Did the site crash? I'm getting the "Failed to Connect" message.
Congrats :)

It's a pretty big thing to be able to say that your service will stick around.
His methodology is wrong. MySpace is very successful. It's a huge site, very profitable and used and loved by a great many people. So the frontpage obviously works.

The opinions reflected there are completely subjective, there is not even an attempt at any type of objective comparison between two patterns, to show why one pattern works and one does not.

"Could it be that Facebook is so popular because it constantly understates itself?"

It could be. It could also be exactly the opposite. There is no data, there is not even knowledge about why this approach was chosen.

If you want to analyse something, then take two items, one of which works and one of which does not. Point out the differences based on data. Then draw a conclusion.
Poll: How long did it take you to be ramen profitable?
I know, I know....a repost, but I think a poll is a much better option for this sort of question
A few weeks
A month
5-6 Months
~1 year
~2 years
I can afford a pack of ramen...does that count?
here I made one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=508886
It's 4 zillion IP addresses just like 64 bit address space is 17 billion gigabytes --- meaning, not any time soon. Let's stipulate that we can both do math, OK?

Again, the rest of your argument is hand-wavy. Virtual servers cost dollars a month. Virtually everybody uses them. What's the application I've heard of that, it turns out, is served off someone's DSL? You're saying, the best argument you've got for IPv6 is that it means I might be able to start something Posterous out of my home DSL instead of off Slicehost? Here's a news flash: you can't do that today; your DSL ToS forbids it. Maybe fix that problem before demanding that all the world's socket code get ported to a new address format.
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I think this frustration comes from feeling that you're "playing by the rules", and believe that those who don't follow the rules should be punished. (Or at minimum, those who do play by the rules should be rewarded in such a way that they outperform the cheaters.)

This line of thought has only made me unhappy, and is deviously self-serving at always snatching a moral victory out of defeat. Don't worry about those who take the bus while you're out jogging.
1) If he was such a hack, why have his plays endured and why has he managed to have such a strong effect on the English language? He coined at least a couple thousand new words, hundreds of which are in everyday use today.

> But this point could have been made with more clarity and brevity which is why although the play is a great play, we cannot call its author a particularly great writer

2) Humans love ambiguity because that's what tickles our evolutionary ATTENTION! sensors. Giving humans what they need to pay deep attention and want to experience something over and over is a sign of masterfulness.

> ... forced to suffer through this hack's tortuous and obfuscated attempts at drama and pathos

3) You're clearly not very in-touch with regular humans, because while you think it torturous and obfuscated, everybody else (for hundreds of years) has found it to be compelling and captivating... because what he captures is not some highfalutin intellectual concept, but everyday human crap. Which everyday humans find endlessly fascinating.
sure you can, I believe the whois info for techcrunch still has his house listed
Why did not you leave an option for "never"?

Anyway I am trying to look up what does "ramen" mean - though I found it's definetion but it did not make any sense to me when I combined it with the word "profitable".

What I found is: ramen means "A thin white noodle served in this dish."?
It's not a useful definition of profitable when it doesn't cover the living and health expenses of the only staff member.
I did not really mean the house, I meant the office. Sorry for making you confused.

Why do you assume that I can visit TechCrunch? I see no reason for your assumption?

And I can't, simply because I can't go to America.
ramen noodles are traditionally the cheapest possible meal a person can eat. "ramen profitable" means that the business is barely profitable to scrap by on the cheapest living amenities.
If you RTFA, you'll see that I addressed this point: I think it's a useful definition given that tarsnap basically runs itself. Yes, I'm working on it; but I'm working on making tarsnap better, not on keeping it running -- I could walk away from tarsnap tomorrow (or get hit by a bus) and tarsnap would keep on running and making a profit.
About 8 months. And another 6 months, or so, to one (modest) salary profitable (meaning: enough for one person to live normally, without money concerns). We're probably at two salary profitable today, though it's a bit weak for a Silicon Valley engineer salary, and my co-founder has a family and a mortgage (in the valley).

We were actually selling software within a month or two of starting the company, as we were starting from a mature Open Source project and so didn't have a ton of code to write, so we hit the ground running pretty fast.
There is something tangential that I have always found interesting.

Whenever this kind of discussion (about this-better-site users vs. that-worse-site users, subjective judgments galore, obviously) happens, there are always posts about the "strategically correct" behavior to ensure the desired outcome. The prototypical case would be: "Don't feed the trolls."

But, in posting this publicly, on a social site where, in many cases, the troll is targeting said social site, you are feeding the troll. In fact, the troll's goal might simply be to elicit as many "don't feed the troll" posts as possible.

Stated otherwise, reiterating the rule to ignore somebody is effectively un-ignoring them. But at the same time, you want to reinforce these rules into the community, and educate people to follow them. So you have a problem: in order for the rule to be efficient, it needs to be tacit; but it also needs to be widely known, and the efficient way to achieve this is by reiterating it publicly.

Now, there is clearly a puzzle here. Has anyone else thought about this, and came to an elegant attack? I think the most obvious case is to use private messages, although I have no knowledge how well those work (this is a general case and is independent of whether HN has PMs or not).
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I'm not ramen profitable yet.
I think blogs are important, but they are largely op-ed articles. While some blogs and posts are very well written and influential, most are crap.

What seems to give some blogs their break is when they actually report news, rather than just comment on other people's stories. Nothing beats breaking a story with real facts, and as you point out, it's hard to do without a trained staff.

I'm actually trying to push my own blog in the direction of reporting, but it's tough going it alone.
What I love about the term "relentlessly resourceful" is that it celebrates that it's OK to not have all the answers yourself. It also really plays into the fact that everyone is moving their lives online and we are all become resources to one another. In that one is "relentlessly resourceful" is that they have a network that they can tap into when they do not have the answers, but know where they can go to get the answers.
Whether you are starting up or breaking through in a large corporation, resourcefulness is always going to be your best bet. Thanks for putting it so eloquently!
Thanks for the explanation.
I really appreciate it.
Thanks! I must say, though, that staying focused on tarsnap has been easier than staying focused on my doctorate was -- with tarsnap, I could see my code improving long before tarsnap reached public beta, but for my doctorate, I didn't start writing my thesis until the beginning of my third year.
I could walk away from tarsnap tomorrow (or get hit by a bus) and tarsnap would keep on running and making a profit.

I read the article. If you disappear, the business dies. It does not keep on running and making a profit. Employees are the most important part in a startup. Especially in a one person startup. A definition of profitability that does not include employee salaries is bogus.
The antonym of hapless is shrewd.
Don't you mean "reaches cash flow positive"?
How to be a program manager
Your personal free university from home
A definition of profitability that does not include employee salaries is bogus.

What if I pay myself hourly for the time I spend keeping tarsnap running?
One thing that jumps out at me is that #1 is youtube (which I don't know if that is "mass produced" content being linked to, or individuals)

Also, #2 is NYT. NYT has some solid blogs, like the Freakonomics blog, and many of their better articles are not necessarily news - they are often op-ed pieces with facts sprinkled in.

My point being that I think the domains being linked to do provide some interesting discussion material, but I'd also wager that much of the content being linked to is more discussion in nature, rather than factual. I think that is also interesting in some ways - that we're moving away from news for news sake, and more towards opinions and analysis.
It's not that he isn't profitable, is it? It's that he hasn't provided us with enough information to know whether he is or he isn't. One of his lines of business is currently cash flow positive. If he's got a consulting business that's paying the rent for him, he's profitable, and as reliable, as that consulting business.

Is what I think is happening here, is all.
Nobody is suggesting doing game-theoretic analyses before engaging in social interaction. Obviously someone who thinks that they can completely derive their actions from formal rules of behavior is doomed to fail, but it's not like the only two possible choices are "behave completely randomly" and "perform a game-theoretic analysis of the situation based on formal rules". Guides like this provide a good set of heuristics and help the socially unskilled people understand the general ideas and general concepts which socially skilled people seem to just pick up from their environment. This is important so you can pick a reasonable starting location before doing your hill climbing algorithm -- if you just choose a completely random starting point, everything is just extremely discouraging, there's no useful feedback from the environment (other than "YOU FAIL"), and there's absolutely no fun gradient to maximize. (Or at least, the fun gradient is so negative in all directions that it's difficult to figure out which way is up.)

It always amazes me how socially skilled people apparently can't even understand what it means to be socially unskilled. It would be as if everyone who learned to ride a bicycle later completely forgot that they had to learn this skill, then just went around telling everyone who didn't know how to ride a bicycle, "you just get on and pedal, it's so easy, I don't see why you keep falling, you must not be trying".
Beyond Twitter:  Enhancing your thinking in real-time via "Brain Buddies".
The idea here is that you would be paired up with a "brain buddy" who is currently online and wants to increase his/her thinking ability just as you do.

As with Twitter, you would tweet your thoughts in real-time to your brain buddy and he/she will tweet his/her thoughts to you. Unlike a chat, you don't necessarily expect a response for every tweet.

You can try to help each other at any point. If your brain buddy has been helpful, you can give him/her points. Doing so increases the chances that you will be paired up again, especially if you both give each other points.
No surprise, given that Bertrand Meyer is the author of the chapter under review. He is the father of Eiffel.
Very nice start, I had to do buttons for my last web app and ended up using less nicer tool.

I suggest to add next two features which can be essential for some scenarios:
1) Add way to choose background color (i.e. page color) for the formats that don't support transparency (gif and jpeg). PNG gradient transparency is not supported in IE6 and quite often there is a need to render button edges with background color preset because of that.
2) Pre-render images for other button states: hoovered and pressed.

And afterthought: consider supporting iPhone-style buttons (i.e. like big red "delete contact" button and small blue buttons), I'm sure a lot of people are looking for them.
added it for you
Here's how I was "relentlessly resourceful"
No. Tarsnap has been cash flow positive for several months, thanks to the fact that people have to deposit money before using tarsnap. (Tarsnap turns out, completely by accident, to be an amazing cash flow machine: I take in money before I provide a service, but Amazon doesn't charge me for the costs of providing that service until the end of the month, and I don't pay the credit card bill on which that appears until the end of the following month.)

I mean profitable: Income (which does not include unearned revenue) greater than expenses.
Harvard CS264: Peer-to-Peer Systems (great list of papers)
Ah, my first sentence was very unclear. I meant to say that I thought it was odd that the blog author made so many comments about Eiffel. I think it's a fine choice for discussing OO, especially if you are the author of the language :)
Sorry for delay.

From what I understand (I am not a lawyer), you can bypass 501 if the investors LLC-ify themselves and are active members in their own LLC before investing.

Startups cant do this, becuase its not on their end, its on the investors end. And most investors dont want to deal with all of this hassle.

But the main point is, I dont believe you have to Qualify 501 for organizations who invest in yours, only individuals. Hence the bypass.

All that said, Ive never actually done this, so who knows.
What is the application for this? I'm not sure I see how this can change the way we think. Also, how would this increase our ability to think? Additionally, wouldn't it be better to think differently by having different buddies each time instead of enhancing one way to think with one buddy? I'm a fan of variety...
When people hear "risk takers" they mostly seem to think skydivers. But as bold as skydiving is I have more respect for entrepreneurs. While both efforts are bold, entrepreneurs have to be consistently so. Unless you point them out, people don't think of the founder with no degree living off savings risking it all on a hifalutin startup.

Skydivers and extreme sportsman seem better at signaling [1] risk than nerd entrepreneur. That's a big reason they're better at attracting women too.

[1] http://www.overcomingbias.com/signaling/
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Never *2. That's why I'm a thousandaire instead of a millionaire.
From my perspective, because usually I don't find many want-to-be angels who don't meet the qualifications and can supply the amount of funding I would be willing to deal with.

I'd rather deal with 3 people giving 200k than 30 people giving 20k. The downside of relaxing the accredited investor rule is the con artists will come out of the woodworks to get blind, senile grandma to invest in "amazing business opportunities". Personally, I think the rules are about right as they are. See above about LLC bypass if you really have a current need and can convince your non-accredited investors to go through the hassle.
So the conciser version is the program manager is someone who understands software design, usability issues and can communicate with every role in the company?
Fixed-income investments are not good with respect to inflation. A thousand / month withdrawal when someone is 65 might not have the same buying power if they live to 85. Another case of if it sounds too good to be true, it generally is.
Say you are both writing code. Each person could say what he/she is thinking. Perhaps this would work better with voice than text.

In any case, suppose you are not sure how to solve some problem, but your brain buddy has done something like that before. He/she could then recommend an approach.

As for variety: some randomness would help so you don't get the same brain buddy all the time.
Emergence Capital Partners still funding
It took me 3 days. I entered a market with products in the $10.000 range, and sold my product for $900. I had my first sale within 3 days (actually, it was the second, the first sale was the guy who gave me the idea in the first place {because he needed it}).

This was after about 4 months of work, though.
Yes, and the correcter version of your comment is 'So the more concise version...' ;)
He included a ";-)" which of course makes everything perfectly acceptable.
and thats what has been downvoted, while it may be racially insensitive, "taking the piss" isnt really what the comments here are for, regardless of what you were taking the piss out of
I just lost my job, so my answer is "Hopefully soon".
Absolutely Yahoo Mail sucks ... and big time!! For about the past 48 hours, I haven't been able to get my (Yahoo Mail) email there. It's March 9th 2009 as I compose this...

This small box (blue background...white text) appears and says Loading...

And nothing happens! Using Yahoo Mail help is a complete waste of time! Why doesn't somebody at Yahoo get their head out of that place where the sun doesn't shine and fix this problem??? It's perfectly obvious that the problem is with Yahoo Mail...
Great comments. I agree 100%. I need to do better specially in the finance department.
Imagine
There is a brave new world out there. What do you wanna do?
"Let's say you want to see The Wall St. Journal's articles on technology. Where would you click in this screenshot?"

I agree. I, too, would click on the "Technology" text, expecting to be take to a list of technology articles.

However, if you'd asked me: "Let's say you want to see the first article in The Wall St. Journal's Technology section, where would you click?"

I would answer just the same: The technology text should take me to the first article in the Technology section, not some parenthesized number.

I think there are situations in Usability where you have to chose the lesser of two evils, and expect your users to adapt to what you've made. This would be one example of that. I would expect that learning to click on the parenthesized numbers to show an enumeration of articles would happen quite quickly.
My sites have done OK w/ advertising since Fall 2008, but I'm more weighted towards PPC and CPA.

Web advertising has it's challenges, but it's clear that advertisers are wildly overspending on offline advertising, and that much of that spending is going to disappear.

I used to work for the largest web consulting shop in a small town. My accountant and other small business people would ask how much a site from us would cost: I'd say that a site with custom design and CMS would start around $2k.

Often they'd be shocked... They'd expect to pay more like $80.

The same businesses have been spending $100 a day for tiny display ads in the local newspaper... Add that up for 365 days, and you could afford rent for a modest storefront or an extra employee. You could spend less than half of that (once) and have the beginnings of an e-commerce site that would bring in recurring and measurable income.

Businesses are wising up and pulling their ads out of the local daily: some of that money is going to get funneled into advertising models that work for advertisers, such as PPC and CPA.
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yes. Did I mention that I am bad at managing my finances. Plus I thought the houses would go up and I would sell and make a $100k off each. Enough to finance my startup for 2+ years. It didn't work out that way though.
great news!!! thanks for such a useful product Colin.
I think Being Resourceful probably means:
Do not give up easily;
Courage to try;
Be positive;
Be adaptive via iteration;
Be good.
You must have been daydreaming about Sally in 11th grade. You forgot that The program manager and the developers have to be peers.

I had this experience at KL Group with the marketing department, who owned the requirements and the UI. Marketing and development were peers, which reflected the company's structure: Greg Kiessling and Ed Lyclama (K & L) were co-owners. Greg ran the business while Ed ran the technology. Steve Rosenberg, the VP of Development, used to echo another of Joel's sentiments: Whenever we were depressed, he would remind us that We own the compiler, meaning that nothing could happen with convincing, cajoling, or otherwise making Development a deal they couldn't refuse. Marketing and Development fought like wild dogs over the specs and shipping priorities, and we ended up taking over our market and making Ed and Greg wealthy men when they sold out.

A while later I worked for another company where marketing owned the requirements and UI, and the VP of Marketing executed a coup and got Development to report to him. The company failed shortly thereafter.
If you want to know whether you're the right sort of person to start a startup, ask yourself whether you're relentlessly resourceful.

What if I'm not, but want to be?

You say it can be taught "surprisingly often", but then in the same paragraph say people either are (latently) or are not. This seems exactly the opposite of being able to teach it...
Thank you so much, and I urge you to continue posting such papers. It's the best source to learn from.
To be fair to them, this place is really boring, can't take a joke to save its life, and is often filled with the same sort of stories... but the major alternatives are so much worse by comparison that it's all worth it.

To quote myself from #startups, "HN basically has one type of person... a much better one type of person [than] youtube has, but still."
Yes, in other words, the proper definition of a "really good programmer". (As opposed to the flawed one Joel - and many others - use)
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