skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does your request relate to this part of the Hacker News guidelines?

"Don't abuse the text field in the submission form to add commentary to links. The text field is for starting discussions. If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field. If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
One good alternative explanation of CEO salaries is by analogue to sports stars. Most people can see the impact of hiring a standout player for a team. There may a huge pool of competent players but a team full of mediocre players will most likely lose. Paying the big bucks for the best players can make sense. In a free market the amount paid to stars will be close to the perceived increase in profits that having them will provide. I'm surprised I haven't heard this argument made.

Of course running a company is a lot less transparent than sports so people can't really judge if these CEOs where ever talented enough to justify these wages. Certainly the performance of their 'teams' has lead to doubt of the value of their talent. The suspicion is of course that instead of a a free market there is essentially collusion at the top levels of these companies where all the decision makers vote to pay each other more.
"Twittering is just a way for bragging about your unexceptional life" that's exactly what I say haha. I love this and hate twitter with a passion.
I'd suppose they call it being cutthroat? With the idea being if you can't beat 'em, at least get ahead of them?

YCombinator is the only seed funding firm with a comparatively well-known name. I'd bet that nearly all people applying for any seed funding apply for YCombinator. It's got a bunch of well-known companies, well-known people, and it's located in SF, which is where lots of startups want to be. It's got a competitive advantage that's very hard to combat. Date fixing is one of the methods that other funders can use to give themselves a fighting chance.

I wonder if there are tenants of the funding system itself that a company could change to become a completely different sort of funder. Could a program be as small as YC and yet work in a radically different way? (If any of the seed funders do work radically differently, then it's news to me.)
Option 1: You could do an "early decision" round, and a regular round. If the early round is very early (february?), and the regular round at the current schedule, the other seed firms would have to really come out into the open to pre-empt their decision date before early decision.

Option 2: You could move your schedule early up - to have your interviews and decisions wrapped up by March 1 - and give the startups a whole month to decide (Just to signal your integrity). Then if the other seed firms gave just 48 hour exploding notices that would really sit in stark contrast.

You want to force them to signal their bad integrity out and clear in the open. Right now they're able to be dirty in the closet. If you force them to come right out, especially if your actions are diametrically opposite, you win.
Anytime.

I've got a couple suggestions for further things you could do with the tool. Should I just send that via the email on the contact page?
Chihuahua, Mexico
Hey, that's the closest so far. I live in southern Scott Co. Minnesota, but I work about 15 min. from Minnetonka.
I'll agree with the others and say drop this guy without a second thought. That said, if you wrote the contract to include disclosure of source code you should be able to legally ask for it. That said, $2500 is a relatively small amount when we're talking about a complete system with source code rights. Your best bet is likely to file for small claims (usually costs you between $25 and $250 depending on the amount, and you can only file for up to $2500 here in Florida). You likely will not make it to court, and he'll settle. Why? Because everyone fears litigation, especially when they're wrong.

Next time around, write the contract the way you want it to read, and account for failures. Make certain everything is in writing, even if there is a deviation agreed upon by both parties. And above all, get what you paid for in increments and never pay in full before the project is done.

As a developer, I respect the 50/50 plan as well as the hourly one. 50% up front to cover development costs, 50% at the end to ensure I finish. Works like a charm.
I think "queue" could arguably be used as a verb.
Thanks sho. I edited that sentence about Rails and linked the word "complete" to your comment.
Yak Shaving For Advanced Players
Agreed, I have backups on my laptop and external hard drive, so if one of my drives fail I'm covered. If both fail, well that's why I've got the really important stuff backed up on my FTP server.

Every few months I email my hotmail account with all my writing. As text is ridiculously compressible I haven't even hit the 10MB attachment limit. I also have all my more current documents saved in Google Docs, mostly for the portability but also for the very slim chance of an "Oh my god I broke my laptop, holy crap my house burnt down, and dammit I forgot how to connect to my FTP server and for the love of god I forgot the password to my hotmail account."
The same month that TV stations began to stop broadcasting analog signals. I don't think it'll be long before Hulu is number two.
You want to force people to give the exclusivity to HN? That doesn't sound reasonable.
While we're talking about the command line and bash, can someone recommend a decent book on the topic? I've been spending a lot of time these days on the command line grepping and chopping up our log files looking for trends and bugs, and I've suddenly realized how lame I am at the command line compared to many of my colleagues and how much faster I could be if I knew more of the ins and outs of bash.
Arch-enemies give you focus. They show you what you're not trying to do (if you're trying to be your archenemy find something new to do where you can contribute); they give you a public face you can battle against; they give you a reason to want to improve yourself.

If you are the enemy people want to fight, spare no prisoners. The Evil Overlord list (http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html) will help you immensely.
I agree about the collusion bit but for another viewpoint

"Measurement alone is not enough. An example of a job with measurement but not leverage is doing piecework in a sweatshop. Your performance is measured and you get paid accordingly, but you have no scope for decisions. The only decision you get to make is how fast you work, and that can probably only increase your earnings by a factor of two or three.

An example of a job with both measurement and leverage would be lead actor in a movie. Your performance can be measured in the gross of the movie. And you have leverage in the sense that your performance can make or break it.

CEOs also have both measurement and leverage. They're measured, in that the performance of the company is their performance. And they have leverage in that their decisions set the whole company moving in one direction or another
"

PG in the essay "How to make wealth".

"Measurement and leverage" is a good way to judge if a job is worth being paid very highly for imo.
Good point about LangPop, David. I will reference it in future posts.
Under The Plate - Proof How Some Traditional Media Is Alive and Well
I don't think anyone thinks Ruby 1.9 is a stepping stone for Ruby 2.0. We're not using it because it isn't fully supported yet by Rails (so /agree sho).

Perhaps more importantly, a lot of us are waiting for Rails 3.0 to move our existing applications over since there are huge risks and pains with shifting to a new version of a framework from something that currently works fairly well.
> The same month that TV stations began to stop broadcasting analog signals.

It's also the same month as the Superbowl, the most watched television program in the US.
I trust S3 and Mosso Cloudfiles more-so than my own single-failure HDD. They have a lot of redundancy built into their system, and although every system has risks, its risk are far less than our person undistributed implementations of file storage.
A shame. I really enjoyed the chat with him (some parts have been edited out for length) - and at some point when he was telling me about life over there (wherever there actually was) I felt sorry for him - he was very, very good at his job and had a good sense of humour about him.

This reminds me of some of the kids I knew i college - nice guys, personable, not too sharp, now making good salaries in sales or management. Would these guys turn to "crime" if it didn't involve violence or threats, just persuasion, and it was their only chance at making money? Sure, why not...
Oops - I didn't want to make a big fuss about it! It's only when you're using unicode in templates, won't affect the vast majority of people. It 99.9% works : )
Rails is in a though spot right now. Facing a big challenge, a huge challenge even. And arguably, a challenge it didn't have to face.

Why introduce a new VM and break backwards compatibility at the same time? Why not first give people a better VM, with bytecode, better threads and all the other goodies? When people know that upgrading is painless (think Perl) then you can just upgrade without thinking twice about it. If you know you have to check the compatibility checklist of all software you have ever installed (for all you know your text editor depends on Ruby nowadays) then upgrading becomes a very unappealing task.

So, step one: introduce new VM. Step two, still don't break backwards compatibility. -If- you have to break the language, at least put some legacy mode in, so people don't have to port every script on their system.
Does anyone know of a fugitive from justice being apprehended solely on the basis of the involvement of facebook?

I really don't see how facebook has made it any harder to find a place to hide.
> Email just feels more fragmented.

...which is good. I want to be able to choose who I trust with my ID-related information.
I'll take the other point of view, as a) I haven't noticed this become problematic and b) engage in it myself, on occasion.

My reasons, which I will write here to avoid having the world caught in a loop:

1) HN community norms require comments to be short and minimally formatted to avoid causing consternation on the thread. (People get upset if you do anything which causes line formatting to change. Big blocks of text which requiring scrolling past are right out.) Not all worthwhile thoughts are pithy and minimalist.

2) Keeping content on HN is perhaps a passable solution for the HN community, but the nature of the evolving discussion plus the fact that Google can't tell which comments are the 1% gem-like insights and which comments are the bottom 20% means that, from the perspective of the 99.999..% of humanity which isn't here, nothing on this site ever happened.

3) Troll might be the wrong D&D monster: lets try a dragon, with a horde of about 100,000 misc. coins, gems, art items, and magical items, and no filing system to speak of. (Oh, except you can call items back if you remembered to make note of their True Name.) Seriously -- permanence of comments leaves something very much to be desired. I know my favorite comment ever is http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=469940 . You know how I found that? I Googled for the place offsite where I quoted him, and then followed the link back to the original.

4) A disinterested rational observer would note that over the course of a day the #1 story generally generates about 4,000 pageviews, almost 100% from highly technical ad-blind people, many of whom have noscript installed. Previous experience with that sort of audience leads me to believe that the economic value of an HNlanche is about $1 if that. As a get rich quick scheme it is inferior to Amazon Turk. (Posting articles is only a tool for SEO to the extent that a cynical, picky audience believes you are producing linkworthy content. I think anyone who gets a link here clearly put in enough work to deserve it.)

5) Linking out (and linking in) has salutary effects on preventing intellectual incest, groupthink, and ivory tower-ism. Or, to be blunt: when people talk about HN on their blogs its an opportunity to be exposed to a new community of readers as something other than a group of Erlang advocates with immense superiority complexes.

6) People have often requested a "super-upvote" or some similar method of signaling that a particular comment is significantly more important than the background noise. Posting offsite is a zero-programming-required implementation of a self super-upvote: it says "I thought what I was about to say was so important I went to the trouble of taking this offsite." Given that people do it very freaking seldom, that is a decent first approximation for "Wow, he sure feels strongly that this post adds value".
There was a 20x performance difference between the 2 machines they tested simplejson on. Having used both, I feel that simplejson has a pretty sizeable reliability advantage (unless cjson has changed a lot in the last year), simplejson is pure python (with optional c speedup module) so it works on appengine, and simplejson is far far more widely used.
Well, I can't switch to OS X because I don't have Banshee on it, Terminator, multiple desktops implemented in the right way, multiple text-only terminals, the ability to just plain not use the mouse (and OS X sucks too in handling the mouse), consistency on hotkeys (GNOME), a file system that doesn't sucks... and I can go on...

I bought a mac last year spent like 1600USD on it... and is there... I still use my Linux laptop. The mac hardware is pretty cool but I feel so unproductive on it.

btw, I use VIM (in OS X, Linux and Windows)
Donate your intellectual property in case of death
Ask HN: How many times do users mistype their password on a registration form?
So in almost all registration forms users have to enter their password twice. Does anyone have any data on how many times users type different strings into the two fields? Id like to make my registration form only user-password-email and not user-password-passwordAgain-email to save my users some time.

I have only gotten the "passwords do not match" error a very few times, so I can assume that maybe 90%+ of the time users enter their password correctly the first time. For the 10% that don't, you can just hope that they entered their email correctly, and then just send their pass to their email. If they mistyped their pass and their email, than there is a problem...
It's a valid approach but there's a danger in becoming attached to the "antiness". Your defining yourself in the negative when you could just focus on being better.

It's implicit in building an alternative that you think the current tools aren't good. Defining yourself relative to a competitor suggests you're worrying about them; a sign of weakness. I try not to think in those terms, and that shifts the goal from, "let's beat x" to "do better". It's better to think of your "competitor" as you.

Thinking outside of terms the mentality of "competition" is definitely hard. But I try to keep in mind that everyone is doing the best they can with what they have; I look for the win-win.

When Garry Kasparov plays a new player, he doesn't think about winning, he just tries to play a great game of chess.
Sorry, that is incorrect in this specific case (the 60-day policy). ICANN only mentions that a domain can be blocked under certain conditions (according to ICANN policy):

* Evidence of fraud
* Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) action
* Court order
* Reasonable dispute over the identity of the person authorizing the transfer
* Domain name is on hold due to payment owed for a previous registration period
* Express written objection from the domain name holder
* Domain name is in 'Lock' status (Registrars must provide
a readily accessible and reasonable means for name holders to remove the lock status. Contact your registrar for assistance.)
* Domain name is within 60 days of initial registration
* Domain name is within 60 days of a previous transfer

It is _GoDaddy's_ amendment to those points that adds the 60 day wait on registrant information changes. From ICANN:

2. A registrant change to Whois information is not a valid reason to deny a transfer request.

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/proposed-advisory-19se...

The problem is GoDaddy forced users to click the link that they have to abide by the 60-day policy in order to update their contact information, which they claim falls under the point:

* Express written objection from the domain name holder

which is obviously a stretch under the most lenient arguments.
Micro Persuasion: Customer Service is the New PR
SAI INSPIRES
What is the minimum viable product?
Inkd: New marketplace for original print design
I don't like this lack of transparency. Why not name companies? It would be great (like TechCrunch w/ TechStars) to showcase the opinions of others on the matter.
in my experience, typically, the registrations that have you type in just one copy of your password tend to also send you your password back in the registration email to verify.

if you're dealing with financial processes, though, i'd suggest sticking with the double password field and not emailing a password.
Very nicely done. I would add 404 and other error checking as a premium feature if you haven't already done so.
Well, if your code now runs much faster because it accesses contiguous memory locations instead of random ones, it's because the computer does less because it avoids expensive cache misses. Similarly with the branch prediction problem. So I don't see much contradiction of the article.
Thanks, I had overlooked that. It's strange that this feature is called "comments" in my profile, but "threads" in the nav bar. Especially when there is a nav bar link called "comments" that doesn't go to my comments.
Both of the OP's examples are verb uses of "queue". I believe the question here is whether to use active or passive voice.

IMO the passive construction ("has been queued") sounds more natural, because you wouldn't normally think of an inanimate object like a website queuing itself in a line. But it could go either way, as "queue" technically can act as either a transitive or an intransitive verb.
They can't manage it? Or do they simply choose to go into debt with the hope of paying it off later?
Eclipse to detail platform, SOA plans at conference
That is actually incorrect. The switch to digital has been postponed to June 12.
A hammer and nail situation all over again?
Except that the libertarian vision just means that there is no formal negotiation tool that the diverse special interests can use to settle their differences and arrive at a modus vivendi. All that is left is money, power or naked violence; and the vast majority of people have little money, almost no power and are unwilling to risk violence. So the 'libertarian' vision results in less freedom for most people.

To use a metaphor from physics, the libertarian ideal is not a stable equilibrium, it isn't even on the path of a stable cycle. It's trying to balance a pencil on the pointed end.
one of my very favorite quotes of all times:

What are the facts? Again and again and again---what are the
facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation,
forget what "the stars fortell," avoid opinion, care not
what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable
"verdict of history"---what are the facts, and to how many
decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your single clue. Get the facts!

- lazarus long
I'd argue that Hulu is #2 and not #4. In terms of number of streams or overall viewers, they're in #4, but Hulu viewers spend considerably more time on the site than most other sites. In terms of attention gathered, they're way above Fox and Yahoo since Hulu users generally stick around for over an hour.
Why even IT pros are demanding Macs
Ask HN: So, you have a million dollars. Now what?
and hence Xerox-PARC slogan "point of view is worth 80 iq points"
I laughed out loud when I read this:

"In 2006, a federal jury indicted Jacob (Kobi) Alexander, an Israeli-American business wunderkind, on charges of wire and securities fraud. Mr. Alexander and his family flew to Namibia, which has no extradition treaty with the United States.

The fugitive more or less tried to buy Namibia. He sponsored scholarships and built low-income solar-powered buildings, and he lived in a spectacular home in Windhoek. "

But now I'm wondering if, from a utilitarian perspective, the world would have been better with him in jail. It sounds like he improved living conditions in Namibia.
You stated that anyone using subversion must not understand revision control. Which is an idiotic comment.

But you said above that you don't want to understand version control; you said you just want to use it. This does not disprove my statement.
Jakob Nielsen: Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well
It's the web. There is no exclusivity, essentially. A short copy/paste operation will make people here happy, and you can still post your response on your blog, too. The only reason to only post a link to your blog response, here, is to drive traffic from HN to your blog, which usually seems unfriendly to those of us who are the traffic.
'Cold fusion' rebirth? New evidence for existence of controversial energy source
That looks very interesting. Thanks for sharing
It's a crap title. A title shouldn't just grab attention; that's easy. I'm here today on this thread, but I haven't been on many others with similarly poor RSS appearance.
Yeah, it's oddly named. (And the link named "comments" is of dubious utility, imo.)
Good marketing gets you hired. Good networking gives you job opportunities around the globe. Good marketing gets you promotions and bonuses. Good marketing keeps your group's product from getting the axe.

0 errors, 0 warnings isn't all that important.
Twitter OAuth definitely needs to be renamed Twitter Connect. If you don't have a Tipjoy account, check out how easy the signup is by going to http://tipjoy.com/ and clicking the Twitter banner.

That's just so ridiculously easy, it should be highlighted by twitter. They're a bit distracted I guess with their meteoric growth to market this properly.
So, by the same logic, toll highways are the end of the automobile?
Moffett's Law - It Is Hard To Make Things Easy
I am sorry for the people who transferred their savings to those scammers. What astonishes me is how many people are willing to perform illegal things (because what those scammers are offering always requires to do something illegal).
May I suggest you to change "IP" in the title to "Intellectual Property"? It is a nice initiative, but the title is a bit cryptic and may get ignored
I think the problem is that OAuth isn't usually touted as a sign-on standard, only an "access API info" standard. With a couple tiny tweaks OAuth could be a standard that allows for this kind of "Connect" protocol for any web application.

Specifically, all that would need to happen to make this perfect is for OAuth requests for a user that already have an access token automatically push through to the callback phase instead of requiring a "re-allow" of the client's services. This wouldn't conflict with the OAuth spec in any way that I'm aware of.
Sure it does. You know what the offer will be but you might not know what OTHER offers will be. Yes, I know TechStars and others are before YC, but there can be other offers on the table (other funding, acquisition offers, etc)

Thankfully, YC seems to be friendly if there are circumstances like this (Paul gives an example below).

This works because YC has a flexible # of slots. TechStars has a rough way to go here because, with 10 slots, they can't let a deal linger for a month without a firm answer. I don't think it's malicious on their part.