skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is, why do you want to get rich? I thought most hackers here aren't in it for the money alone, but for the freedom it gives them. But if all you hackers really care about is moolah, then that's pretty boring.

If you look at history, how many of the really fundamental, ground breaking ideas came from the people who mainly cared about getting rich?

But, I'm not proposing a different system. I'm all for people sponsoring startups. Just if people are interested in sponsoring hacking that's primarily aimed at interesting ideas, I'm more for that. I suspect pg is headed in this direction once YC becomes lucrative enough. His philosophy posts obviously show he's interested in much loftier things, albeit with empirical feedback.
Which is a waste of time if I can get funded.
> I'm old enough to have browsed for hours at Tower Records - using a CD purchase as an excuse to enjoy being in a record store, around all the other music geeks. The 90s were not exactly a match for the glory days of the 70s at record stores, from what I've heard, but it was still pretty great, and I'm sad they're going away.

I know where you're coming from. Tower Records was just always a fun stop on an evening or afternoon out doing nothing in particular. They had movies, they had CDs, they had funky magazines. I'm just amazed how quickly they folded. They were huge and seemed quite profitable. I never suspected in the 90's that they would be gone in a decade. Then again, that's nothing compared to the shock the record industry experienced...
This is a general question asked on behalf of all hackers who primarily want financial independence.
For some medium-sized, low-tech site:
IE6 49.8%, IE7 34%, other IE: 0.7%, total IE 84.5%

FF 2.0.x.x 7.5%[1], other FF 1.9%, total FF 9.4%

Others 6.1%[2]

1. FF 2.0.x.x number has been arrived by adding the percentages of the seperate versions, so there's some rounding error there. Other FF has been arrived at by subtracting FF 2.0.x.x from total FF (which is accurate).

2. Similarly others has been derived by subtracting the totals for IE and FF from 100.

You might also find this page useful:

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

It contains historical and current statistics on W3Schools visitors.
"IE6 is the Netscape 4 of our time." ;)
Idea modeler means computers.
Romantic, but I don't want to be a starving artist if I can avoid it.
Well, it's one of those questions that get right to the heart of the issue, but people don't feel comfortable asking because their context is based on one specific answer. Many times, those are exactly the questions that should be asked. Sometimes they're just retarded. I decided to give it a shot.
Interesting, because http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=60848 shows the subdomain. Perhaps PG has flagged some domains to only show the host? In the link above, that would make since. Doing that with Flickr doesn't, at least not to me. So I'm not sure. :)

Here's the PHP I use to derive domain + subdomain:
function getDomain($URL) {
$Parsed = parse_url($URL);
$Parsed = str_replace('www.','', strtolower($Parsed['host']));
return $Parsed;
}

Not likely to be very helpful to PG, since HN is Lisp. Nonetheless, maybe someone else could use it.
Paul Graham's laptop was built by Cray.
And it's 0.
Bignum Overflow.
Some fun graphics / widgety tools written in Common Lisp
I figured that he was joking about the ID, but maybe he's not...
You don't see how perpetuating a class-based system can be harmful to society at large in the long run?

Nepotism and corruption may be rampant, but that doesn't mean it's the way things ought to be.
It's not so suprising. You don't really need the overhead PostgreSQL brings in for most web applications. You probably don't need the overhead of SQL Server, either.
Charlie Rose: Conversation about "Startup.com"
AA was actually instituted to counter discrimination against Jews. Later, it was expanded to include other minorities who had been systematically disadvantaged (by those in power).

The justification for it is that minorities are still reeling from the effects of previous discriminatory policies, and AA used as a balancing force. Personally, I think if that's the issue, then we should use income based measures, not racially based ones.

Also, as someone else already pointed out, many racial groups are artificial. For example, there is a huge difference between a Filipino American and an international Chinese student, yet both are "Asian". There is also a huge difference between most Chinese Americans and Vietnamese Americans, who are mostly refugees from the Viet War. How can you classify all these diverse people with diverse backgrounds into one category? How does it help anything?

So yea, I agree some valuable resources are given to out undeservedly so, but only because we're using the wrong categories to measure who has been disadvantaged. I still agree with the spirit of AA, but not in its current form.
Keep up the great work waleedka. The site looks much better from when I last looked at it.

Mark
"... broken link ..."

Go from hell

September 28, 2007 in VRM, Past, Journalism

Why do we continue, in 2007, to believe that
markets are all about What Big Companies Do?
Worse, why do we continue to take advertising
for granted as the primary source of the the Bux
DeLuxe required to fund technical, social and
personal progress?

Don't think so. Just checked it and pulled this in. I would be nice if Hacker News had a link checker every once and a while on say a threshold of 2 or 3. But then again high traffic subs would quickly expose this.
>AA was actually instituted to counter discrimination against Jews.

Well, the Jews were systematically discriminated against in college admissions with quotas, but I don't think affirmative action was a result of this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_quota
"... I wrote a simple python program to make daily snap-shots of the front page stories and comments and post ..."

I'm doing 15 minute snapshots in xml format from the news feed /news (meaning score threshold is >=2). You can find the feed here ~ http://goonmail.customer.netspace.net.au/hackerid/xml/hacker...

I capture posts from /news including ...

<user>iamyoohoo</user>
<inception>118 days ago</inception>
<karma>60</karma>
<item>60759</item>
<title>
What nine of the world's largest websites are running on
</title>
<url>http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=173</url>
<points>23</points>
<comments>9</comments>
<posted>11 hours</posted>

Q's

- Are you going to sort them by anything date, score, user or just date order?

- Supply a data feed?

- identify user

- are you archiving them?

Like yourself I wanted to grab stuff so I wouldn't miss it. Another was to capture metadata and add some useful extra stuff like

- identify users by various metrics

- graphing of data

- capture relationships b/w users, data

You can only do this with raw data. I'm thinking about archiving the data at least at some time.

Good stuff btw. I like this because the more resources we have like this the more fun you can have and more value you can add. If I have one request that would be to add a data feed that anyone can pull and use.

You can read how here ~ http://goonmail.customer.netspace.net.au/hackerid/colophon/
Now imagine the complete works of Shakespeare in that format...
Ask YC: How do you decide when to use CMS?
We are employing a bottom-up approach to build our rails app. We also do know of a bunch of open-source rails based cms solutions available. But how do you decide what is best for you? Can you comment on the trade-offs?
Google shows off GWT applications for the iPhone
I've made this mistake four times now (Zope, Plone, OpenACS, Joomla). I think I might have a learning disability that prevents me from ever accepting that the "free" functionality is not worth the cost of the increased complexity of the system.
Lisp programmers call Paul Graham a "godfather" of their "family" and for every parenthesis they use, they pay him a buck for "protection".
trust comes from a legal framework. he overlooks that.
If you don't mind sharing your experience with these cms freebies, that wud be gr8..
Nice! Of course, now you have a feed that would be useful for news aggregators if you provided RSS. Here's some quick suggestions:

Front page isn't the ultimate snapshot. If you wanted that, wouldn't you rather take the 20 submissions from the last 24 hours that got the most up-votes? If I understand correctly what you're doing, you get some 1 and 2-point submissions that just happen to be on the front page at the time.

Returning more to your use scenario, an alternative that gave you more control on how much to read would be to take the time you last read HN and use that to filter the list at http://news.ycombinator.com/best
good work, i think you didn't waste your time...
your article amazing and new..
you're right, but look at an average html page. Is that pretty? I guess it makes no sense to argue about purely syntactical issues. Comparing static HTML and JSON is not what it's about in the real world.
Yeah, I think I remember reading the "problem" the Ivies were facing in the 30's were that the Jewish immigrants were outperforming the good ole boys that they were supposed to be admitting, so they started digging into 'lineage' as an additional qualifier for admission. Can you imagine not admitting someone like Feynman so that Bush could get in?!?
Book Review: "The Trap," on US college grads' narrowing opportunities.  Anyone read it?
Unfortunately capitalism doesn't help much in establishing what is fair and what is not.
Thank you. I appreciated that. I can only imagine how awkward it must have been to be the only male in the room absorbing all of this. And equally as so to be able to submit your notes here, but I think you did a nice job of separating your observations from your comments and thoughts in a very candid and honest way.
Great post. I know my attitude comes from a severe case of having a hammer and seeing all problems as nails - but I really think you're wrong on the YC app as the last step in a long process. I mean, I think it will be the last step, I just don't think it should be.

Most big business were built by men, and people tend to encourage and hire traits that they see in themselves. So trying to make these male businesses be more women friendly is just going to be so much window dressing - you really can't force people to respect others. So the only real solution I have any faith in, is to sidestep these established businesses and startup new ones. I think it goes for any group who feel on the outer of the business world.

Why tell people women can be just as good - people don't listen. They never listen. Only after female dominated startups rub their nose in it will there be meaningful change. The power woman stereotype, to me anyway, is a lot like the faithful black servant stereotype - it enables women to function in the white male dominated environment, but is ultimately constructed by others to be natural barrier to them gaining too much power.
If you care about your rights, don't buy an iPhone
" Imagine the outrage if Apple or Microsoft sold desktop PCs that allowed you to connect to the Internet only through Comcast -- and then, if you tried to use Earthlink instead, the company would shut down your machine. Or what if Ford allowed you to drive your new Explorer only to Wal-Mart to buy your groceries; if you went instead to Whole Foods, a company official would come by and slash your tires."
i have seen wind up toys that do this.
You only have to be right once
Any sufficiently complicated developer contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Paul Graham.
There are hundred of business books for women, but zero business books for men. I also never heard of a panel for "men in business".

Another thing to think about...
"... i have seen wind up toys that do this. ..."

From another "mechanical" era. But I think you miss the point. Trying to control this system via computer controlled systems is a bit more demanding and rewarding at the same time.

Here's a translation of one of the above urls ...

For systematizing the motion skill, you think that
various sides such as body, sensing and processing
are important. Although it has the new sensing system,
as for the aforementioned robot, systemic tactual sense
with the form which is similar to the human, joint
structure was formed from the motor and harmonic drive,
the human was something which differs.

Also the robot of muscle skeletal type constitutes in
order to pursue the relationship between motion skill
and the body to a greater extent.

You aimed toward the fact that role of the body
because dynamic motion is actualized from the
viewpoint of "the intelligence which had the body",
via the development of the jump landing robot, is
made clear. Because jump landing is actualized with
the robot, the pneumatics artificial muscle actuator
was used, "artificial muscle skeletal system" was
proposed. You can call artificial muscle skeletal system
the thing which it tries probably to actualize the
mechanism which the animal has from standpoint of
living thing norm engineering.

The jump landing robot "Mowgli" which it developed
has anti- gravity muscle and 2 joint muscle which advance
as the mechanism which is peculiar to muscle skeletal
system. Depending upon kinetics simulation, even with
when there is a disturbance with the physical feedback of
muscle skeletal system robustness the fact that it can do
the vertical jumping was shown. In addition, the vertical
jumping and the jumping riding to the chair were actualized
as a dynamic systemic operation.

In perfect translated "Japlish". You find the url here ~ http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=...
There is no reason to have books or panels for men in business just like there is no reason to have white pride parades.
Paul Graham can find a third factor for a prime number. And more, if he feels like trying.
I basically look at it this way: was it "invented here"? If not, then I build it myself.
There are billions of men stuck in shitty jobs, yet I doubt they attribute that condition to being men. Often when I read business advice for women, it sounds as if all men would automatically become leaders because of their male traits. Not the case...
"... take the time you last read HN and use that to filter the list at http://news.ycombinator.com/best ..."

I'm note sure /best would be that useful. For all intensive purposes it's static and changes only when a post beats the points on the list. Do you mean compare against http://news.ycombinator.com/news which has the current highest posts?

"... Front page isn't the ultimate snapshot. If you wanted that, wouldn't you rather take the 20 submissions from the last 24 hours that got the most up-votes? If I understand correctly what you're doing, you get some 1 and 2-point submissions that just happen to be on the front page at the time. ..."

What you describe here is pretty much what /news and the RSS file http://news.ycombinator.com/rss does anyway. So you could just parse the http://news.ycombinator.com/news to do that or the RSS file. But the RSS file has some restrictions.

One further point. An boundary case you might run up against is user 'deleted', which occurs when editors delete a submission. It only occurs only occasionally and you do not see it on HN pages.
And it seems they did not mention the name of the photographer like it was required.
When I said it was the last step, I meant from the individual's point of view. From a societal point of view it may well be the first step.
Thank you, Alex, for posting this. I learned some surprising facts about women in business. Your ruminations were also original and thought provoking. I am a business woman who will be hitting the submit button on YC very soon. Wish me luck :-)

The comments you brought back from your class were a surprise. My own experience would contradict most of the points on your list. But then again, other women in business are a mystery to me too. I had very limited experience working with women in a professional setting. I am usually the only woman, or there are only 2 or 3 others in a room full of people. I feel awkward and don't know how to behave during those few occasions when I have to work closely with a woman. I have many women friends, with whom I have warm, close relationships. But I can't think of any close women business contacts. On the other hand, I fell totally comfortable in most working situations where I am surrounded by men. I have many, close business contacts who are men. :)

I would like to thank GreenDestiny for his comment as well. The parallel between the faithful-black-servant image and the [bitchy, ice-queen] power-woman image hit home. It reminds me of writings by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (supreme court justice, fighter of discrimination towards blacks). His central thesis in life was that the dissident-minority group needs to be heard. Privately, he felt the majority-power group should rightfully enjoy all the fruits of their power while it lasts. But he fought for the minority because he strongly believed that the majority (and the society as a whole) is made richer by the effort expanded to refute (keep down) the minority. The majority is forced to introduce new ideas into their thoughts and hone the rhetoric that justifies their privilege.
Maybe the guy who put it under the CC license was not allowed to that?
Sure, following a leader is a perfectly acceptable form of cooperation for game theorists.
I'd be really interested in their exact definition of 'large'.
Actually a good chunk of their operating budgets comes from government grants. And a requirement of tenure is ability to the get said grants. That's the cudgel the government holds - follow our regulations or get government funds cut (see stem cell research). Meanwhile, don't you think it's a tad weird that you could be considered non-profit and carry a $35 billion "endowment"? Or earn a few million in salary (as some football coaches do) and work for a "non-profit"?

And I don't think anyone would naively argue against all nepotism. But would you have guessed that twice as many non-qualified students get in based on their family than on their race? The popular debate has made the latter seem much more prevalent, as if minorities were solely responsible for squeezing out qualified whites.
If it did they wouldn't be interviewing. They'd be starting up. They may be missing balls,perspective, or both.
XML syntax has a certain amount of redundancy. This is a feature which makes it easier to manually write or edit XML using a simple text editor, which is one of the use cases that XML was designed to support.
I'd like to see a service like this designed for easy exploitation of 3rd parties like myself who want to create a social news community for their own organization/website, but don't want to have to run it off their own server (I don't want to have to install and manage one of the digg/reddit clones myself). It could remain 100% public and controlled by ZoooV, and I simply add a snippet of code to make it available on my site with all interactivity enabled (No, I don't want to just include an RSS feed, I want it to feel like my own site's community area).

I don't see why the functionality of reddit/digg couldn't be applied to small/medium-sized groups with great success. I don't see anything about this style of interaction that makes it exclusively valuable for catch-all site like reddit.com or digg.com. I think it could/should become a standard feature for all kinds of intranets / blogging platforms / website providers.

For example, I might start a community called 'Product Development in China' and integrate it into my website, or my Ning social network, or my FaceBook Group... then if some of my friends (or strangers) like it, they can add it to their websites/blogs as well.. soon enough the ZoooV community is getting a lot of users as a result of exposure on these 3rd party websites...

Maybe the feature set I'm looking for is available elsewhere (is it?).
Apple iPhone warning proves true
Growing happiness gap between men and women
wat do you mean by "invented here"? Sorry for my ignorance.. just wanna make sure
Hello World in Different 'Languages'
I am interested in learning different computer languages and I know that I would not have the time to learn them all by reading books. I am guessing a lot of people in Hacker News would feel the same. So I created Usynk (USynchronize) using Pligg, where people can submit their code, link to a demo and a brief explanation of the code in the language of their choice.We will start from the basic "Hello World" app to more complex ones as time passes by. Users vote on the best submissions (for that particular 'step') and we will move on to the next -slightly more complex example (which would build upon on the previous example), which again gets voted, and it continues until we feel comfortable with that particular language.The example codes are to be submitted with the agreement that it could be used by anyone for doing anything, completely free.
What better place to link to this site than at Hacker News?
C'mon guys, let us see why you like your language so much?
Wired.com: Selling Ads on Facebook Is a Tempting but Risky Business
CNN/Fortune: New ad outfit targets social-networking sites
<yawn>
Paul Graham made the world in six days, and sold it on the seventh day to become multi-millionaire.

There is no god but Paul Graham, and Paul Graham is His prophet.

Creationists are baffled by the question: "Who created Paul Graham?"
Well if you're talking about Content Management then I recommend the Radiant CMS from LongHeart Design. It's pretty lightweight and gets the job done.
Don't forget Drupal....why people continue to use it I do not know. Yeah they says it's powerful blah blah blah. But for some reason I'd always had a bad taste in my mouth for Drupal.
Best site for finding good web programmers?
I'd like to build a 'smallish' web app on probably a LAMP stack (I know some PHP but not a lot - and it would also be easy to host). I know basically what's required from this app in terms of functionality and layout. I think it would take 40-80 man hours - basically a mashup of some social bookmarking sites to create a presentation of data.

Below are sites that offer programmers; any tips, suggestions or referrals for partners or contractors, please?

http://www.elance.com/p/websites/index.html

http://www.guru.com/category.cfm/100

http://www.professionalontheweb.com/

http://www.getacoder.com/projects/web_design_development_42....

http://www.vendorseek.com/website_design_services.asp

http://odesk.com/ (generally requires ongoing management by client)
Men are the "default" and will remain so. However, if a group stops being the default, then they start becoming involved in identity politics.
Has the modern university become just another corporation?
"The larger question on the senators' minds was whether private colleges and universities are abusing the public trust. After all, they pay no taxes on tuition revenue or on the income from their endowments, of which Harvard boasts the largest -- $35 billion, which has lately been earning around $5 billion a year. In order to keep their tax-exempt status, other nonprofit institutions (charitable foundations, for example) are required to give away a hefty percentage of their money. Hospitals are required to care for indigent patients. But what, exactly, are colleges doing to justify their public subsidies?"

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/magazine/30wwln-lede-t.htm...
This should clarify it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Invented_Here

But davidw seems to be thinking this way: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000007.html

It might be fun to build you own CMS but, for many of us, could be a distraction from what we actually want to make.
That was a fantastic post, but he did just (very publicly) admit to a felony.
WordPress is great as a CMS.
I only have 37% Internet Explorer on both my web sites.