skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My startup, HubSpot (http://www.HubSpot.com) is built on ASP.NET.

Though there are certainly irritations and annoyances, it has worked fine for us.
I have been looking around for partners for the last few months and ran across something very interesting.

Three guys, on three different occasions, said they wanted to go linux or nothing. Note that all of these conversations had nothing to do with the question of whether the business was viable or whether it could turn a profit. On a couple of occasions, we had some really good chemistry and the plan was looking hot. But they were convinced that ANY business idea that ran on .NET was a bad one.

I've never had somebody say it had to be .NET or nothing. I'm not sure what that means, but there it is. It doesn't make much sense to me from a business standpoint.
Sorry. My patent claims include all animals with an even number of letters.

Also things that rhyme with "slink"
An Introduction to ShiftSpace
Clippy pops up

It looks like you're going to commit suicide.

Would you like to:

- Buy some pills.

- Buy some ammo.
...
Well, among the first for doing it with HTML and HTTP and the interface.

But, don't programmable MUDs date back to the 80s?
OK, I'll bite.

"Microsoft Power Point is better than 3-fold foam boards. Much. So please don't ask me to use inferior tools. Why should I?"

You claim you don't want to use inferior tools, and then claim Microsoft Power Point as a non-inferior tool?

BWA-HAHAHAHA!

Maybe if she said Keynote I could take her seriously.

I also find it amusing that she thinks the fact that she can use Facebook and IM makes her some kind of technological genius. And, no, I don't find an inability to find a book in the library a sign of intelligence. I don't think someone who doesn't think reading books is worthwhile should be making snide comments about other people's intelligence. Just yesterday the NYTimes reported on a study that basically said we're getting dumber because we don't read enough. Not just in reading skills, but even Math and Science.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/arts/19nea.htm

So maybe Gen Y. needs to put down the cell phone, log off of Facebook and start reading a book before their IQ drops any farther than it already has.
That was not the question. The question was if the roots of f1 and f2 (both of order n) are bounded by 1 in the complex plane, can it be proven that the roots of a1f1+a2f2 are bounded as well provided that a1,a2 lie between 0 and 1.
At least they wouldn't obstinately refuse to add in folders despite the fact that every user begs for them.
OnStar is designed specifically only to work in two instances: 1. Someone presses the blue button in the car manually, or 2. the car detects an accident and automatically calls OnStar and the police.

It doesn't "hear what you're saying while in your car" just randomly.
Early America's Imported Hero - Our "French founding father, Lafayette"
Pylons has this built in, just so you know. In development mode, you get a live debugging console; in production, you get the full tracebacks plus other useful info emailed to you. All you have to do is specify your email address and smtp server in the config file.
Maybe we should put cameras in your bathroom that monitor your bowel movement habits. When you're severely constipated with a bowel obstruction, should it call the ambulance for you?
I use svn and Mercurial. SVN for work (because the company uses it) and for my older projects, and Mercurial for my newer projects. I switched to Mercurial because it seemed like the best distributed system out there, and I like Python.
He would be the perfect Ragnar
What's your point? Because engineering didn't work in some cases this is a case there it also doesn't work, because...
we are suckers?

It's not like there wouldn't also be a handful of examples where engineering did actually lead to some usable results.
No, you can't create AIish algorithms to detect depression. Not with the current state of the art in AI.
Understanding Web Design
I was making a joke ;) However, looking at the scala code it doesn't look like it is written to scale at all. I can't really see any thing in it that indicates it was written in a certain way. Its more a pattern to follow I guess.
signal to noise ratio seems extremely low.
You probably think your phone only listens when you take it off the hook, too.
the question is, will the name of the social news site for writers and journalists be "Hack News"
Shiftspace
By pressing the [Shift] + [Space] keys, a ShiftSpace user can invoke a new meta layer above any web page to browse and create additional interpretations, contextualizations and interventions - which are called "Shifts". Users can choose between several authoring tools - called "Spaces" - that allow web users to annotate, modify and shift the content of a page and through ShiftSpace, share that shift with the rest of the web. "Trails" are maps of shifts (shiftspace content) that create meta-layer navigation across websites. These trails might be used as a platform for collaborative research, for curating net art exhibitions, or as a way to facilitate a context-based public debate."
Turns out many people have associated Clippy with suicide notes [+]. Something about Microsoft's 'help' just brings out those feelings!

[+] http://www.visar.com/AssistedSuicide.html
I agree with this sentiment, and would add a few (somewhat) related reasons.

a.) 'Planet Microsoft'. By this, I mean the gravitational pull all MSFT products seem to exert on one another, apparently by design and decree of the marketing department. With open-source stuff, it seems like I can mix-n-match components pretty freely. I can use Django on BSD, or Linux. With MySQL, or PostgreSQL. I can use its built-in templating, or not. With MSFT, it seems like I'd better be using Win2K3+SQL2K5+IIS6+ASP.NET or I'm taking my life in my hands. (And, when upgrade time comes, I better upgrade 'em all, or I'll have problems. And I better upgrade every system or they won't talk to each other.) Presumably MSFT could make its products more standalone, but prefers not to.

b.) Inevitable screwage. I believe MSFT's goal is to establish itself as an unavoidable presence in the IT business (ala the bad old days of DOS) and then use that position to demand money. For the moment, thanks to open standards, they can't do that. I'm not interested in helping them change that by using/endorsing their technology stack.

c.) MSFT MVPs. More generally, MSFT people. With all due respect to any Planet Microsoft hackers hereabouts, there is an enormous lack of perspective found in people who've only used MSFT tools; they tend to think 'One Microsoft Way' is a viable approach to building code, and not just an address. If you're reading this, and that offends you, I hereby acknowledge that there are exceptions, and you're probably one. I don't want to flame anyone, I just want to share an honest reason why I'd prefer to avoid the MSFT stack.
The only way to win this auction is not to play.
... but, aside from the higher tool cost, slower development time, and more expensive hosting, it's great?

I don't think performance is really a reason to pick the MSFT stack; MySpace does use it, proving that it can scale, but there are many more cases of web-scale systems built on open-source tech. So that's, at best, a push.

It is easier to find warm bodies for a MSFT shop than, say, a Python shop. But, as a startup, are you looking for 5 great guys, or 50 mediocre ones? And do you really think it's easier to find 5 great MSFT guys than 5 great Python (or Ruby, or Java, or even LISP/Haskell/Erlang) guys?

The last point seems debatable to me, the others, less so.
well, unless you want to share linux distributions, there aren't many legal. reasons to run bittorrent.

most large files that need to be sent are already sufficiently monetized that distribution isn't an issue.
gotcha, I misunderstood your post above. It's said that 40% of internet traffic is bittorrent and surely 90% is illegal. Piracy is definitely one of the killer apps of the internet.
Trevor is John Galt! ;-)
Venture capital is betting your company on one idea and bringing aboard a bunch of people who understand neither management, business nor engineering to interfere with your company.

Bootstrapping is finding the avenue to success wherever it leads-- without the "insights" of incompetent outsiders.

Venture Capital is always a bad idea- unless you're building a factory, or medical devices.

Angels, on the other hand, can be ok, as can friends and family and small seed stages like YC.

But VC is the more risky approach.
Yeah, I really have to second this one. It's not just the UNIX/C universe, though -- it's the UNIX scripting universe. As a particular example, how do you tie your graphing software to your analysis software to your screen scraping software? You could try writing them all in Python -- or you could just use pipes and tie together GNU plot and wget with some custom filters in Python. It takes a few years to get confident with this stuff; but once you are, you will never write so little code :)
With a name like Skittr, picking a name can be tough,

Skitter is Irish slang for diarrhoea (or a wee kid). As Twitter is a form of verbal diarrhoea, then SKittr is as good a name as any for a competitor! ;)

http://books.google.com/books?id=5GpLcC4a5fAC&pg=PA1295&...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/voices/atilazed/s.shtml
That's EXACTLY where I'm going to go hide when the zombies take over.
Simple, no, but I'll bite on the second half of your statement "that there's even a chance of it happening this century" because the chance is there. Curing aging is incremental. Life expectancy at birth in the United States in 1900 was 47 years, today it's 76.

It's fascinating--you're so confident in your negativity that you'll predict 100 years out! I couldn't have imagined 30 years ago I'd be wasting time on something called the internet responding to a troll calling people "suckers" in a hacker forum, but here I am. Shame on me for responding, really. Good night...
Not sure what the issue is but FF is using about 50% of my CPU.. steady. Other browsers I tried use much, much less (usually less than 5%).
I am definitely in sympathy with your three guys. Were they really convinced that "...any business idea that ran on .NET was a bad one." or just that it was Hell to work with .NET?

> It doesn't make much sense to me from a business standpoint.

It's really about quality of life. I tried using Windows for a spell, for XBox development -- I ended up running Linux under Moka5 for a userland, and then switching into Windows once in awhile to kick the XBox. Until I got that in place, I was miserable.
Why does First Solar stand alone?
"How much of your knowledge could you regenerate?"
Hello world shows how much boilerplate is required before you can print a message to stdout. It's one of several important factors for any language you might use for quick and dirty throwaway programs. You want it to be two tokens only - the name of the print function and the string to be printed.
> Every time I see a post like this I'm sure amichail wrote it, does it happens to you?

Yes.
I guess he has a severe case of collectivism, which is quite strange for someone hanging out here.
"Rigid" - In the sense that from a readability, reuseability and a more structured manner; C# requires you to maintain a more firm structure and more defined variable declaration. These things from a growing, hacking company hold a huge value to us. I of course just envision this and could be full of crap. But the purpose was what technologies where you excited to try. Could you tell me why C# wouldn't be a better fit than js? Seems to me you might enlighten the community more giving us information than trying to give us lessons on how to answer an open ended question. I apologize if I was weaseling, I'm just excited to try it, I'm not a clientside c# expert. Of course the portability from interpetors is huge too, but that is actually less why I'm excited to try it. That is just a given more.
> In Java, you need to message pass with pipes, and its a pain.

What, no sockets?
> Java and .NET are both OO functional languages

You keep saying that word... I do not think it means what you think it means.
incorrect.

they moved to .net when coldfusion started to have major scaling problems - inside info.
yeah, it's crazy. they've been swamped. doesn't look like anyone's interested anymore, I received no email :)

I'll go with EC2 or Softlayer instead.
This Thanksgiving: the story of a good man
Better Web Application Framework -- Awesome video comparison of 6 frameworks
Great video, if you are deciding what to use next.
Ditto on Banderas. I think Javier Bardem would fit nicely: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000849/
Ask YC: Meetup for Philippine-based hackers
Anyone interested in meeting up in Manila for a hackathon and/or chat/share?

I'm the co-founder of a local startup (itenna.net) and we can meet at my office.

Email me at terencepua gmail if interested.
Consider the set of polynomials {z^n} where n ranges from 0 to infinity using even integers. All the zeros of the polynomials in the set are zero and so stable. Consider the power series expansion of .5 Cos(z). It is a weighted sum of the polynomials of our set and the zeros of .5 Cos(z) are clearly not bounded. I use .5 Cos(z) so that the coefficient of each term of the power series expansion is a value that satisfies 0 < a < 1.
I'm seeing less memory usage, so far (I upgraded this afternoon, and have been running for about 8 hours). It also doesn't crash every fifteen minutes the way Gran Paradiso did when I tried it. Firebug 1.1 works, so I'm golden. Got no bookmarks (delicious isn't available yet, I guess), but that won't kill me: I only go to three sites anyway (Google, Reddit, News.YC) and I know those addresses.
Nope. Easy counterexample:

f1 = x^2 + 2x (roots: 0, -2)

f2 = -x - 1 (root: -1)

(f1 + f2) / 2 has one root which is 0.618 (the golden ratio)

Now you have to tell us what your idea was.
Depends on what you're discussing.
Subversion is just plain awesome.
Exactly ethe same here. Trac is sweet.
me too... have you read Sutton and Barto's book? http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/the-book.html
Do organic Cosmetics work? and who is the best to try?
Links of London biggest global jewellery brand?
I think you mean statically strongly typed. I think python is strongly typed, but dynamic.
Why buy new furniture?
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That's interesting. But I have some doubts. To some degree our knowledge has to be based not on a deep understanding of the matter itself but on a deep understanding about how to determine who (person or process) we can trust in a particular matter. Or rather how to determine what the right balance of trust versus insight is, given limited resources and the importance of the issue at hand. When I go to hospital, do I take a microscope to see if there's some superbug lurking in a corner, or do I look for a reliable source of information about which hospitals have lower rates of hospital acquired infections?

Also, I wonder how we could regenerate something like the information we get from our bank about a particular loan contract or other financial instrument. Sometimes facts are created out of thin air and there is no way to derive them from anything. Sure, I can try to understand what kind of business model lies behind loans and what would therefore be within the range of plausibility, but that wouldn't allow me to calculate my repayments for next year.
What makes upgrade better in other technology world compare to MS? Last time I checked, other technologies are rarely backward compatible, cut support for previous version not too long after new release is out, tons of controversies on newer releases.

One choice is not to upgrade at all. No big deal I assume. It's not like you're going to write a lot more of new code.

What makes you think open standards are better? just because they're open thus they're better? how about the technology value behind it?

'One Microsoft Way' isn't overly bad. At least it doesn't waste your time trying to decide which one is better (Rails vs PHP vs Django vs TurboGears vs Pylons vs Symfony vs JSF).

You know what, these are the example of wasting your time:

Servlet (need template)-> JSP/Servlet (not good enough) -> Struts (some design mistakes) -> Spring (mkay.. well) -> JSF (oh, we finally catch ASP.NET up)

PHP -> PEAR -> Symfony/CakePHP/Ignition

I wouldn't say Python stack is "wasting your time" yet but time will tell how long Django/TurboGears/Pylons will last. They're cool frameworks and I like Python more than C#. But I haven't really heard much from their communities lately other than the Django book had finally been released after deadline slips (I know they have good reasons but whatever).
New York Times and its Open Source Software
According to an article on Linux.com the New York Times has open sourced two projects that are used for its website. It also has an open source blog (open.nytimes.com) about the technology it uses.
It's more than fairly important, it's extremely important and big. That means that it's also a bit of an outlier in terms of lines of code, people involved, and so on, which is why Linus seems to have undertaken the painful project of making his own revision control thing.

I'll wait till he's shaken the bugs out until I give it a go, though, as being an early adopter gives me zero competitive advantage.
"Visual Studio Team Edition, better supports 100,000 lines of code or more in revision control than any other platform, while remaining agile.
"

What does this sentence mean exactly? I tried parsing it a few different ways and can't make out what is being said.

i've worked on a few million line java programs using eclipse and Intellij and had no problems being "agile".
Using it.

Name a company other then MSFT which spend BILLIONS every year building a development platform.

How can anyone suggest that after 20 years of billion dollar investments including contributions from the top minds in computer science - that Ruby is the better PLATFORM?

It is not about the language, it is about the platform.

btw: I have full java certification and work full time as a java developer. Java sucks.
After a few minutes of using it my CPU and memory usage spiked. I had to end firefox's process in the end.

More and more I think about switching to a webkit-based browser or opera, although I've never found opera all that great. I really like firefox's UI but it's too much of a resource hog these days.
Hey Terrence isn't it? when will this be? I'll be in the country for the holidays.
Ditto. As a startup, MSFT makes it insanely cheap and easy to get started - for $300 you can buy their "Action Pack" which includes Windows Server, SQL, Exchange, Office, etc licenses for up to 10 people. When you get ready to take the next step, it is $1400 per year for the MS Partner/MSDN package which adds full Visual Studio, etc.
That's another one of those submarine articles, right?
"Last time I checked, other technologies are rarely backward compatible"

7 years ago I created one of the first Web2.0 websites in PHP. It became very popular and is still up and running and used by hundreds of thousands of people a month. Without any modification. On a managed server that has been updated to new versions of LAMP countless times.

I also wrote ASP (not .net) code at that time. It is long dead and gone.
I don't want to be arrogant, but from the technology point of view Twitter is nothing. Write it in a way that scales better, write it in 170 lines of Scala or 10 lines of Lisp, you still haven't done anything. Come up with the idea before anyone else, get millions of users, that's the difficult part.
I found that ASP.NET was a good stop off point between writing desktop apps and writing web apps.
All the event handling logic and the postback thing meant I could bring most of my desktop thinking across and be productive immediately. The problem I had was once I had been working on the web a while I realised the abstractions were broken but the framework didn't leave me anywhere to go.
highlighter pens and a super special 'up to date' folder on my hard drive.
Continuations-Based Web Applications in Common Lisp With Weblocks
>I've worked on a few million line java programs using eclipse and Intellij and had no problems being "agile".

For each of your million line programs, he's saying that VSTE better supports revision control than whatever you're using.
"or each of your million line programs, he's saying that VSTE better supports revision control than whatever you're using."

aahh. I see. Thanks for parsing that for me ;-). It must be the "agile" word that threw me off track.

If someone who's worked with VSTE can summarize why and how it is so much better, that would be educational . (I've never worked with VSTE , so anyone who has, please chime in)
Consider the set of polynomials {z^n} where n ranges from 0 to infinity using even integers. All the zeros of the polynomials in the set are zero and so stable

But consider the case where n=0,2. Then you have z^0+z^2, with a zero at +/- j. So that statement isn't totally true.
Those original functions roots are not bounded by 1.
Would You Give This Kid $500,000?
Just 19, Jared Kim, of WeGame.com, had no problem finding money for his tiny internet startup. With more venture capital available than ever, even grade-schoolers can get a piece of the action.
I try to use mine as an ebook reader, but despite the high resolution display it's hard to read for extended periods of time.
First of all, I'll say that this (really neat sounding) project doesn't necessarily fall into the following category, the title just reminded me of a pet peeve of mine...

I'm always skeptical of the claims of "do this amazing thing in x lines of code" where x is some ridiculously small number. For example, the prototypical 10 minute Ruby on Rails blog, or the 1 line of code WebKit-based web browser.

The problem with these things is they make great whiz bang demos, but they really don't take any less code, it's just that you don't have to write that code because it's already written for you and hidden behind a layer of abstraction... which is great, as long as it can also be applied to real world problems, not just little toy demos.
Nothing formal yet...waiting to see if there is any interest.
I would say Jolie is more of the former and less of the latter.
He's onto something here. What tools/languages are you using for this.
This whole thread smells of lack of understanding of software. Hackers should know how inefficient an SQL server would be to handle Twitter-type tasks, versus specialized code. This is supposed to be hacker's news, not small business news.

news.YC is a good example of an efficient architecture. If it was written in Ruby/MySQL, pg would need at least 20 servers to keep up with the current traffic, versus a single box now. And the latency would never be as good as it is now.
The Honeybee strategy sacrifices speed for reliability. Try selling that strategy to a client!
YC-Local?
There seems to be a yearning on yc for people to find e/o or just talk to people near them. Why not have local channels for meetups etc? Could be in the form of sub-forums or you could submit a link as local and only those who subscribe to a region in their prefs would see it. Not very creative but I've only slept an hour. Let's hear you ideas. I know the demand is there.
Are you running a dual-core CPU? ;)

It is likely that the pages you view contain aggressive Javascript and Firefox doesn't do enough to tame it.
Well if there is then count me in :P cuz I've heard in Singapore there's a lot of activity going on especially in the start up scene. Would love to see how this goes for the Phils.