skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Always be sure to lift up the cushions of your couch and see if any have fallen down there.

Kidding aside, I think that either you already know someone that fits the bill, or you might as well forge ahead with your plans at the same time you start networking a lot. It's sort of like "where do I find a wife?" - you can do things to get out there and meet people, but you can't just go get a good one from one day to the next.
WSJ Online Lede:  Kung Foo Monks
I'd caution against using the filesystem unless you think things out very carefully. Typically you'll have a binary tree for the index in an RDBMS which gives you log(N) scaling on lookups for joins etc. If you use the filesystem your lookup time will probably be linear. You also pay a penalty in space for the fact that files have to be a whole number of inodes, so having many small files is a really inefficient use of disk space.

In essence, RDBMS are highly optimised for the sort of things people do with databases, but you need to know what you're doing with them.
lol, some good points. I think there is room for a community where people can get together to see if they can work together or not. None of my friends are really techy so there is no finding them there. no bloody meetups in this area of the uk...
I guess not. He bought the Jackling house in 1984.
Hacker News Improvement Request
Hello, I love the anti-procrastination feature. It's really a time-saver when I'm at work, but at night when I'm at home and want to relax reading the fine comments I find the alert annoying, yes I can click on override but... Could it be possible to define some time-span when the noprocast is disabled.
I remember seeing this poster while waiting for my chicken-apples and it struck me as being strangely insightful.
Employees want work flexibility (choosing hours, telecommuting) more than they want money
> "AJAX" is just one stupid function call

XMLHttpRequest() is one function call. AJAX in this context implies a rather serious JavaScript application. I note you didn't respond to the FreeNX alternate idea. Apparently there's already MozNX, a Mozilla plugin, so that would actually take care of the display (at the cost of another plugin).

I have an even better idea, though: A bootable Linux flash drive that connects to FreeNX running on your own EC2 instance with a deniably-encrypted filesystem (TrueCrypt). You can pop it in any borrowed computer and it just acts as a terminal, with your software running on EC2 and displaying remotely on your system.

Then you can have access to your apps and data anywhere and don't have to worry about spyware or keyloggers on unknown systems (except hardware keyloggers) and only pay for the hours you actually use the system.

(If you don't trust EC2 with personal data -- since you never know who else is going to be on your same Xen host -- then use whatever co-located machine you set up yourself, also with TrueCrypt; although without the machine in your physical control at all times, it could be compromised regardless -- not to mention trojans planted in your binary distro of choice.)
Sharing Your Executive Summary With Anonymous VCs
A VC may offer to send your executive summary to one or more investors. If they do they will often ask for your permission before doing so. Feel free to say 'no' if you feel compelled. However, you should consider saying 'yes', as a referral from another VC is usually well received.

When giving permission to forward their executive summary, it's common for entrepreneurs to...
"The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours." -Ayn Rand
Find someone else who is asking the same thing.
Sure - our company registered the domain before 2001 (in 1999).
yeah, funny that was my first thought too
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=717800
I don't think an on-line thing will really work out. You've got to meet real people, basically. That might mean moving to a more startup-intensive area, if you're serious about it.
If you never change your mind, why have one? -- Edward de Bono
Always be sure to lift up the cushions of your couch and see if any have fallen down there.

Hah... I haven't had my drink come up through my nose in years.

It's sort of like "where do I find a wife?"

Maybe we need a "Hot or Not" type site for this: instead of photos, you can post code you've written, or other evidence of your skills.
What is a "Rockstar Developer"?
Again: Why? Why do programmers think that "from anywhere" matters so much? Sure "from anywhere" has some value, but it comes at enormous expense: unbelievable reduction in functionality. Please take a look at my previous post - I think that by pushing everything onto datacenters we're moving backwards, not forward.

Whenever you're designing an application, a true problem solver, you have the entire internet at your disposal. Your servers, and computers of your customers - all that combined RAM, CPU power and hard drives - they are all yours. USE IT and innovate. As opposed to taking something that already exists, adding "from everywhere!!!!" feature, slapping "wait... loading..." animation onto, and chopping 90% of the remaining features off.

Good example would be crap by Zoho. The proper way of doing it would be taking MS Office or Open Office and adding powerful collaboration features into them - the possibilities are enormous: you can have a rich UI, tons of processing power AND simultaneous document access, collaboration, sharing, backup, etc.

Instead we have a bunch of cowboy javascript coders reinventing a barely working wheel (one side) and Microsoft/Sun dumbly continuing to ignore Internet in their respective "office" groups.
"We found developmental traces of pre-school knowledge in biology professors. The professors acted like children even though they've had at least 20 years to overcome their early confusions."

Details!
This cannot be true since your company Academia Inc. was not incorporated until 11/14/2006.
Dude, you just lost a few points by using hotmail.

Good luck with your search though.
I always tend to ask a question like:

In every company, there are issues and problems that everyone seems to be concerned with. For example, at my last job, there seemed to be a division between the "old timers" and the new wave of recent hires. What kinds of things do most of your employees tend to be concerned with or worry about?
You've got to meet real people, basically.

I agree; also, the marriage analogy you mentioned before is a good one.
How about we institute a down vote to prevent digg honey..err vinegar like "porn for girls by girls"
All the objectors are completely missing the point that's being brilliantly illustrated by this tongue-in-cheek site:

MAKE SOMETHING PEOPLE WANT.

There are huge untapped markets because most web 2.0 sites are very, very niche, with a huge percentage overlap covering the same small Lispy HHGTTG crowd. Games mostly market to the same "kill some pixels" demographic, whether with guns or swords.

If you want to talk "serious" business, you're generally talking appealing to a wide spectrum of people with diverse interests. So you have to look at the commonality of what people want -- access to information (Google), social connection (MySpace, Facebook, WoW). (WoW's actual gameplay is niche, but there just happens to be a large supply of 11-year-olds who want to kill monsters.) This hardly exhausts the possibilities!

Mate, Spawn, Die: Pick any two.
There is no such thing as a rockstar programmer
Uncovering the world of 'hidden tech'
C and Objective-C
IMO it doesn't make sense for SimpleDB to be billed like EC2. An EC2 instance is using resources even when it's idle, so Amazon has to bill for that. Because SimpleDB is (presumably) fine-grained multi-tenant, it should only bill for the time consumed by query execution. It would have been clearer if Amazon priced it at 0.0000000388 dollars per millisecond or something, but then people might scratch their heads over rounding errors.
Write an AI. [General Solution, 10 points.]

Then it can help you with anything, or do the rest of the work for you while you sleep.
This concept clearly has some distance to travel before it gains wide acceptance, but I think it has enormous potential.
I know plenty of "intelligent" life forms who can't do what I do.
Our organization registered the domain in '99 and incorporated in '06.
That seems so circular and stupid.

Hi guys: here's my page. Comment on it, it resides on a separate server.

Hi guys: every week I'm going to update all my pages with an XML file to update the comments that reside on a separate server.

Like I said, the power users will not want to cede as much control or deal with so much bullshit. They want the comments on their server reflected through Google crawl. So Disqus is left with a choice if they choose to pursue the power users, sell it as a plugin and give them the code, or get bought out by WordPress or Moveable Type.
With SimpleDB (combined with EC2), building and scaling a service like AppJet just got a whole lot easier.
I'm busy with my own stuff, but I'm curious about what exactly you will be doing.
Good points and all but the cringing was for the cliched way the article ended.
The Dude: I could be just sitting at home with pee stains on my rug.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/quotes
Social Networks to top $1.2 billion in advertising
According to eMarketer, 37% of the US internet adults used Social Networking at least once a month and by 2011 that figure will be more like 49%. That might just be some of the fastest growth we've seen even for the internet.
The title of the post is "brilliantly wrong." I thought this story was apropos.
I've often thought we need an eHarmony.com type of site for this. Something more than "duh me developer, need someone who make pretty pictures".

How about giving people the ability to find "their perfect match" for starting a business?
Ask about how much money is in the bank and what the burn rate is. What you want to know is "When will you go broke if you don't get revenue or more funding?"

If you care about equity, you should read up on options... But you should really treat options as worthless unless you believe there is a chance for a HUGE win.
That doesn't make me a mean person, does it?

I wouldn't say that. I would say it is a rather selfish abuse of the voting system.
What do you mean by "everything is turning into software"?

Can't answer directly for pg but I know my whole field (electrical engineering) has pretty much been converted to software. Musical instruments, medical diagnostics, anything that deals with information processing, which in this day and age, seems to be migrating to a software function.

But like I said, can't speak for pg.
One of the best thing about coding positions is that they allow you to enter a new company and start contributing immediately in a very high value way. If you're good at this, companies will typically heap as much responsibility on you as you can take - largely because the only way the developer can be effective is to gain domain knowledge. I think that one of the best ways to get to other technical positions is to start as a developer and move into these other roles once you start to understand the business and product

(note: I definitely don't view moving out of development as necessarily "moving up", just "moving over" - in fact, I'd avoid companies that view the software development role as a "bottom rung" position. These companies will write unbelievably crappy software and almost certainly lose any meaningful technology race).

Any reason you don't want to start with the dev position? You have a technical degree - did you do any programming during it?
I wouldn't call 9 responses much of a catch.
Lots of people meet their future wives on online dating sites... My co-founder met his wife in an online game!
Might be interesting to post what YOU can do. Are you a hacker? Designer? Biz guy?
cough

The history of whois and nameserver records indicates otherwise...

Anyway, good luck basing your business on what seems like an illegally acquired domain name.
@tx: Lost points by using hotmail. Interesting observation, but I have had this email for 10+ years. Laziness and inertia keep me using it.

@webwright: I am a hacker, project manager and biz guy, and I suck at design.

@dfens: Essentially, online shopping lists with some cool algorithms suggesting when you might need what (I notice you haven't bought milk in 2 weeks, would you like to add it to your shopping list?) + suggestions + sms capability (both requests and receipts of your latest shopping lists) + more features tbd. I have a core set of features that I as a user would like to see, after that point, its whatever makes sense.

I welcome more questions and more discussion. You can either post here or email me at my lame hotmail account.
Developer Project Management Services Growing Increasingly Sophisticated
I CAN HAS CO-FOUNDER?
Twitter from your Blackberry with TwitterBerry
SocialPicks Funded (YC Company)
It's nice to read these encouraging words. Thanks.

A friend of mine likes to jokingly remind me I should have taken the blue pill instead...
I have made some good friends meeting them online. I gamed for years and joined a clan and have become friends with these people in the real world. I think its doable.
I'd get rid of the table slice and add that chunk to the death-to-IE section. It would be interesting to see how many person-hours have been spent in the U.S. since, say, 2003 solely on fixing sites' IE bugs.
Sorry, it's still rare for me that folks outside my research area want to hear more. Two people makes a quorum!

The abbreviated background: Young children tend to confuse movement and naturalness with life. So if you ask a typical four-year-old if a cloud is alive, they'll tend to say yes. Same deal for things like a mountain and a truck. They don't know yet that life involves mechanistic things "inside" the organism. Similarly, they'll deny life to plants becuase they don't do anything. There's been a ton of research in this area because it addresses why young children are initially confused and how they can best be brought along toward mature knowledge. Even still, it takes us years to understand basic life processes. You might learn what's alive or not alive, but obviously the knowledge drills much deeper than that.

Results: Any case, the very first study I conducted as a grad student, I found that undergraduates, when tested under speeded conditions, have much more difficulty answering, for example, that a cloud, a mountain, and a truck are not living things than saying the same for a table. Same difficulty for calling plants living things as compared to animals. Just to show how hard it is to see the forest for the trees (pun intended), it took me five years to even think about testing bio profs. And wouldn't you know, they replicated the effects but with one important caveat. They showed improved performance for living things, as compared to the undergrads, but still much worse for plants than for animals and no improvement for the moving and natural non-living things. Even after 20 years of advanced biology training, they are still "thinking" like little kids, on some level.

Of course, I'm interested to hear complaints, concerns, or questions. But my take-away is that if something as simple as living or non-living can't be overwritten once much more advanced knowledge is acquired, and for many years at that, then learning that involves change is really, really hard. Better to rely on common schemes as much as possible, and expect users to learn as little as possible.

I wish I could cite a paper, but this startup stuff has had me happily distracted from the joys of publishing. But the manuscript is in decent shape and once my co-author looks at it, we'll send it out for review.
Definitely, you don't want to scan the filesystem to do searches. But finding user 1234's profile in profiles/1234.data is easy. In my experience this works well (even with the wasted space) though operations like fsck start to get painful when you have 1 million+ files.

An anecdote on bad linear search: in the 90s I worked on a system in C++ that made heavy use of inheritance and other C-plus-plus-ery. There was a bunch of file opener classes each that found files in a different way (regexp, straight path, glob). They differed only in a method named match. The base class called match on every file name in the directory until it returned true. That was fine for regexps but even if you opened a file _by name_ it took N/2 syscalls to readdir to find it! This worked OK until someone created a directory with 10k entries on a production box. Ouch.
The Digg Shout Mafia
There have been many who have condemned Digg's shout mechanism as a spam tool; however, I have found a way to live with this previous annoyance without offending my friends.
I knew I shouldn't have given up the Guitar :(
Opensolaris uses 0xDEFEC8ED as the magic number core dumps
Lisp: Still Average After All These Years
Why mathematics doesn't need a Mitchell Report
Is Lisp hard? (I don't think so)
Q&A about Opera's antitrust complaint against Microsoft
Amazon SimpleDB - Technical Overview
ARRGH! Did no one actually read that paper? Its 1MB limit on data size and concentration on HA for writes makes it unsuitable for this purpose, just as it is unsuitable for S3 (a previous rumor purported by the commenters on this site). RTFP, people!
The big secret revealed! A PDF viewing library! (Open Source)
The only comments being made by curmudgeon appear to be today and about this post. This seems like a troll account.
An easy way to make your code more testable
Screenshots from Persai, Uncov guys' startup
Cause and Treatment for Parkinson's "In Our Sights"
Facebook - The Economics of Evil
Don't do this until you have an offer.

The rule is: (s)he who says the first number, loses.

Don't be a loser.
"The Facebook CEO, according to reports as recent as last month, still lives in a rented apartment, with a mattress on the floor."

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=ed6d5...
The Promise of Social Network Advertising
yc.news.jump(shark);
I would argue that this practice only got annoying when people complained about it every single time it happened.
Wikipedia founder: "We are the Red Cross for information. We won't sell out to Google."
I agree, I'm just commenting on it so that hopefully the audience here will not submit and vote up stuff like this. If the audience here does want Web 2.0 Gossip News (and pg allows it), that's where the site will go. And yes, I recognize I have every right to leave if I don't like the content. No hard feelings intended, but I do hope that the audience will stick to the site's original intent.

</crotchety old man>
Simplify and Save: Get Rid Of Your Cell-Phone
Wow, excellent advice. Only problem is, I don't know if they'll interview like you or not.
Exposing an obvious lie is now considered trolling?
FTFA: "Update: 12/14 22:40 GMT by Z : Or, not so much. An anonymous reader writes "The author of the original KDE 3.5 vs KDE 4.0 memory comparison has come out with a more accurate benchmark. In reality, KDE 4.0 uses 110 MB more memory than KDE 3.5.8."
What are the rankings here based on? Number of deals, number of clients, or expert opinion?
How To Create A Mainstream Web Application
I am in Columbus and I agree ;)
Love the vices hand.
max 256 attribute-values per item.
Max 1024 bytes per attribute value.
I dunno, but half the Flash/Flex/Actionscript ads I see say that.

"We need an Actionscript Rockstar! You must be comfortable with AS2, AS3, scissor-kicks, and fending off web standards groupies."
I like the term uber-hacker myself.
My point is that it has like 95% fewer quirks than IE6. And I was referring to it as a developer.

It still is hideous. Why did they take they file/edit menus off? That was probably the worst user interface mistake in the history of Microsoft, only to be superseded by the Office 2007 interface.
You lost a few points by using PHP.

You'll have a lot better luck finding people if you talk a little bit about yourself and what you're up to. Keeping your idea secret is less valuable than you think, while the value of finding a good cofounder is beyond measure. Good luck!
Am I wrong in thinking that this is the first ever sighting of something like "porn for girls by girls" on the front page of news.yc? That's not the kind of thing that normally escapes my peripheral vision. But I guess I don't come here every day.

I would wait for at least the third occurrence before concluding that the sky is falling.

My vote is for a "Kill This Regexp" feature. You type in a regexp, like /xkcd/i or /[cC]oding\s[hH]orror/ or /[rR]on\s[pP]aul(?!\s[sS]ucks)/, and from then on any submission with a matching author or title vanishes from your view, as if it never was. Then we can tell the people who hate one or another class of submission to go buy Jeffrey Friedl's book and fix the problem for themselves.
Even if they don't, I wouldn't lose sleep about your code being perfect. As long as you can have an intelligent conversation about it (you ARE passionate about it, aren't you?), you'll be fine. Best wishes.
The decommoditization of protocols
Yeah, he just slipped through the cracks!
Numerical Representation of Pitch
Using XML in MySQL 5.1 and 6.0
Dutch parliament mandates open source  (ODF in 2008)
The System Stability Chart is pricelessly funny. Which member of the Sirius Cybernetics marketing team designed that?
Uh, I think it was just you. =)
Building a (Django) project that exists simultaniously on Facebook and the web
You own the local grocery store?
Well, it was one of those situations where I thought, "Hmm, should I put a footnote [1] in this to make myself perfectly clear? Then I thought, why skew my parallel grammatical structure, howsoever already imperfect?"

[1] I don't actually own the grocery store. The word "my" changed from "that which I possess" to "that thing whose utility I am habituated".
Any suggested links for Firefox extension development?
I found a few sites via google, most of them are old and seem out of date - any suggestions?

Thanks
lol. i like the "lazyness"
http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-create-fire...

I read that guys article to get the basics down, also he has a good batch file for compiling the extension on windows that I use

I go to xulplanet.com or mozilla for specific or in depth things
Other fun ones:

http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=0xFEEDFACE

http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=0xCAFEBABE

http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=0xBADF000D

And various permutations (DEADBABE? BABEFACE?)
The Escapist : Riding the Failure Cascade
Is the Semantic Web Doomed?
Wikisky.org - Interactive Sky Map
Mapstraction - a javascript library to hide differences between mapping APIs.
Is that PG in the background of that picture?
Existing extensions are a great source for example code... as long as they're written in JavaScript, extensions are as open source as HTML pages. Just download the extension and unzip it.
Overnight Success
Regarding finding a "co-founder"... could you please elaborate on what that means? That is, I'm someone who might be interested in getting together with someone with complementary skills. Do I have my own lawyer put together some kind of founder's agreement? Or do you use the other party's lawer -- who's forming the legal paperwork for the business entity -- and have them add you in somehow (eg., as an LLC member)?

I know one successful fellow who used no paperwork or contract at all and everything worked out well (so far), but the "real founder" (who's name was on everything) could've easily taken him to the cleaners.
"... the power users will not want to cede as much control or deal with so much bullshit ..."

Power users can code :)

"... So Disqus is left with a choice if they choose to pursue the power users ..."

Is this the market they are in? I'm not sure but Dave Winer sure handles Disqus ~ http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/11/29/specificallyAbou...

Scripting News is about as power user as you can get. I'm not sure what the Disqus target market is but I don't think it's the power-users that will have the problems as you suggest.