skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pride, dignity, and self-respect be damned, he should get on the public dole, right? Oh wait, he's from Kansas, so he probably has some mid-western values in his DNA.
In no particular order: labels, filters, spam filter and the ability to search everything.
Sorry - problem seems to have been on my side. I can download that second file now.
Very good, that looks really interesting.
I think it's important to remember that Columbus was funded by the Queen of Spain, so it wasn't all private efforts.

The kingdoms and the city states of 15th century Europe were like competing family owned businesses (large property owning and managing businesses). The two keys for building a scalable success are competition and the profit motive. By definition, profitable means you get out more resources than you get in. Thus anything that is scalable must be profitable. The Chinese ran the missions for reasons of glory, so they did not concentrate on profit. As a result, the missions did not scale and were cut back when new rulers came to power. The same goes for NASA. But the monarchs of Europe were trying to make a profit so their exploration strategy was far different and far more cost effective.
First off, Bing is basically a photocopy of Google with a couple different features. If you put the two side by side you won't get significantly different search results. The only real difference is layout. (video thumbnails, etc) So that being said if Microsoft has a product that is more or less equal at this point they obviously need to advertise it to gain marketshare. Is anyone actually unhappy with Google search? No, not really. So Microsoft's only hope is to at least get a large number of people to try it -- even if they only try it once or twice. There's more opportunity for growth there than simply trying to wait for people to become dissatisfied with Google and search out alternatives on their own.

Very few (if any) Microsoft products have experienced real organic grass roots growth. They've always been forced into the market Top Hat style. Since they don't have any real monopoly to tie Bing into they obviously have to try a different method here. They tried with both MSN and Live to leverage IE for more marketshare and it didn't work. You can't really blame them for trying something different. When you're dealing with a mainstream consumer oriented technology advertising is very important.
Is this what you are looking for?

http://www.freesound.org/
Why does it have to 'kick Google's ass'? As long as the search result quality is comparable, there is no consumer lock-in keeping users from changing their habits and typing 'bing' rather than 'google' in their browser-bar.

Remember: Power-users who fiddle with Google Apps aren't the ones paying the bills -- it's the casual users who click those ads that bring in the cash.

It may sound foolish, but many of those casual users would prefer to see a serene image during their work-day rather than Google's stark whiteness. I'm already seeing many more converting paid clicks coming from Bing than Live.com ever delivered, so it seems to be working.

Go Bing! I'm thrilled to have another quality location I can advertise with!
I don't really understand how people get used to working in public

It's easy. Until your code is good, no one gives a damn about it. Even if it's good, you'll still have to shove it down people's throats before they care. So don't worry that "someone might see your bad code". They won't. Nobody cares.
yes, twice is a silly way of quantifying intelligence. 'standard deviations' is what you'd use if you want to sound, ah, intelligent. I'm just saying, people perceive me to be less intelligent in person than in writing, which runs counter to the author's point.
I believe that some of the non-US stuff is not entirely done. In the US, it works great.
A reminder of how simple business can be when you don't make it complicated
People associate google with search. To get them to change, you have to offer them something better/more than google. And if you're microsoft, it's an uphill battle, because most users hate you, so you'll have to be even better than that.
Doesn't Flickr already allow you to limit who can view photos? Come to think of it, Facebook does too.

I don't think it's too much to ask people that commit crimes to at least not litter the neighborhood with flyers.
To me, one of the more interesting pieces of the article was when it talked about the years you spent from '91 - '95 in a kind of consulting/painting period where you would consult for a while then stop and paint until you ran out of money then repeat until eventually you decided it was time to make some "real money", which was apparently when you decided to start a company. My question is, were you considering other options at that time (such as just getting a regular job) or were you always dead set on starting your own company?
Facebook isn't tiny.

Delicious isn't tiny.

Digg isn't tiny.

Shit, even my little startup, massify.com isn't tiny.

I think probably the reason that people don't write non-web applications in PHP is because that's not PHP's expressed purpose.

And re: catalyst, that sure is setting the web dev world on fire. /sarcasm
Real time as in 15 minutes. Definition of real time is really variable these days.
"I cannot understand why, after zillions of versions and dozens of years, no browser implements forward and back correctly."

Preach it, homey!

I've been ranting about this same thing for years. Why is this fundamentally broken in so many browsers?
The entire thing mostly.
Being able to archive stuff and find it again by searching, instead of having to organize old email into folders. I never realized this till Gmail, but folders were just a clumsy, manual precomputed search result. (So are most book indexes.)
There's a flaw in the video around 27:55 that is obnoxious, but it seems to just be local corruption.
Love this: "The failures tend to get smaller over time, and successes get larger. That's a trend you'll see, especially if you're learning, over time"
The movie on YouTube isn't smooth so I downloaded the standard quality version which fixed the jerkiness problem. Mirror: http://planet.s3.amazonaws.com/home.mp4 (420 MB)

Forget the HD version unless you have a wicked graphics system. /homeHD.mp4 (1.4 GB) choked my MBP and bounced an AppleTV.
i forgot how cheap magazines can be now - I think my year of Inc was only $7, whereas buying one copy off the shelf would be like $5
Well.. 15 minutes is the limit. We actually have a lot of ways to stay below 15minutes and even below 1minut quite often!
The only question I have with this is that I don't see why you wouldn't just register. I think most people contribute to HN simply by voting things up or down. I don't have the actual figures but I strongly suspect those people rarely if ever post. I don't have a problem with that.

But those people are "giving" with their vote and the people who don't register are "taking" albeit taking something pg is clearly willing to give (bandwidth). So when all you have to do to give back to the community is create a password and click the mouse on a few arrows why wouldn't you.
You can only do 100 emails at a time, though...
We built lipstick.com (now http://weheartgossip.com) for them. I received an email one day from their head of biz dev, he'd heard about reddit through a mutual friend. I called him that day and we spoke for a good while about an idea he had for a celebrity gossip version of reddit. I told him it sounded like a fun project to work on and things went from there.

We've never spoken publicly about the terms of the contract we signed with them, but it put us in good ramen-eating shape for the next year or so. In hindsight, this great deal was likely part of the wooing process. But it worked :)
In most any article of any significance I have been a part of, I get a call a couple weeks after the interview by a fact-checker that double-checks the spelling of my name, and generally asks me "would you say the following statements are true: ..."

so there's some level of accuracy checking, you just can't do it with the whole story otherwise you'd be having the subject writing the article to their exact liking, and that wouldn't be journalism anymore, it would be PR and promotion.
Plus it's from Google swoons. Jokes aside, I don't see why they don't add this to the Chrome's Firebugish feature.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html

Great article on Hungarian notation, why it used to be good, and how things went horribly awry. Takes a while to get to the point, but he's convincing.
I'm looking forward to this series.

So, am I reading this right? TicketStumbler has become a maintenance project for a summer intern?
sounds like you're working on Chrome -- it's awesome! Great job.
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I would be interested by this service for a web site I'm building, but:

* dealing with XMMP seems more complicate to me than using existing RSS libraries
* 100% uptime required on the client side
* no Perl library

Right now, it seems to be more complicate to use your service than doing it myself. Maybe because I plan on monitoring only about 2500 feeds...
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Hey Jusob,

We actually launched on Monday. We have a Perl library coming so that you don't even have to know that it's XMPP as a protocol.

We also have a webhooks API if you really want to stay in the HTTP realm ;)

@superfeedr me if you need help on anything!
The very fact that email needs to be pumped through a web server before it enters that workflow somewhat proves the point. Email is not linkable or indexable before you turn it into a web page. Therefore, it is not a web technology.
I see where they are coming from too, and I often feel the same way; sometimes I have found myself starting on side-projects and not even telling close friends what they are about because I am scared or embarrassed to have anyone see my work in an embarrassingly incomplete state.

I think one of the key lessons for me, which is very easy to grasp intellectually but much harder to internalize, is that any nastiness you receive in the short term doesn't really matter (and often comes from people who don't really matter). If you succeed in the long-term, that's what you will be known for, and all of the scorn directed at your early works will seem irrelevant. You should therefore do whatever maximizes your chances at long-term success, which includes taking the risk of exposing yourself to humiliation so that you can get better faster.

It's one of the things I really admire about, say, Jeff Atwood. He's consistently bashed here and elsewhere for being incompetent, and it's not undeserved: even though I consider myself a pretty poor programmer at the moment, I can often tell when he says things that are fallacious or ignorant. And yet, with Stack Overflow he has been involved in a project more successful than most people's projects here. I would never mistake him for the mythical genius programmer, and I may be puzzled at the attention he receives or his persistence about writing topics he doesn't know much about, but when I see how he keeps writing and keeps building useful things even when everyone is publicly explaining to him all the ways he sucks, I wish I had his cojones.
Ack could have been done just as well with a 10 line shell wrapper around grep. It would have been much faster, on top of being simpler.
On the AppEngine track, both of Brett's talks ("Building Scalable Complex Apps" and "Offline Processing") are worth watching [when the videos are posted.]

I attended the V8 internals talk out of curiosity; it was quite good, too.

And for no apparent reason, I just watched the Android real-time games talk. He has lots of insightful things to say about both the industry and the use of Java for games.
This is a bit of a diversion from Fitzpatrick and Collins-Sussman's
talk, but I run into this belief a lot, and want to make a point.

I see little evidence here that Collins-Sussman has finally understood
DVCS as a social entity, although he certainly seems to have the
technical details down. The strongest argument for DVCS--any
DVCS--that I have found is the periodic fights over "committer access"
or project direction generally for projects like NetBSD, XEmacs,
gcc/EGCS, or glibc/eglibc disappear.

I've seen more times than I can conveniently remember a perception
of a cabal of committers who communicate exclusively with each other.
This looks a lot like the structure of some sort of conspiracy, even
though that is rarely the purpose. Even when it is, it's usually
trying to work around some productive but extremely difficult person
like Ulrich Drepper or Theo de Raadt.

DVCSes have the critically important property that there is no longer
any inherent technical center of development but that the social
center of development is retained (usually). So while there is a
technical hierarchy of git repositories that goes to Linus, if you
think he's an idiot and want to take it a different direction, it's
easy to do that--and if he decides you have a good idea in the end, he
can merge with you without huge amounts of effort.

Collins-Sussman has been concerned, publically, that there's some
splintering process that DVCSes enable and that SVN prevents. But
this perception is one you can only arrive at if you are in control of
the SVN repository--if you are trying to submit patches to somebody
doing this, and you don't have write access on the SVN server for
branches or whatever (which imposes a nontrivial amount of effort),
you more or less have to do this splintering on your own, without any
tool support. In my experience DVCSes don't make this any more common
than it was once; it's just that now these private splinters are
visible, and can be integrated.

Another secondary thing that's very convenient for me is that I can
make many small changes and push them all at once when I'm happy with
them--because they're small they're easier to review. But this is a
workflow issue, it's not that one couldn't do this with SVN.
I thought the Most Serene Republic declined because they got squeezed between the Ottoman Empire and Habsburg Dominions, both of whom were able to mobilize significantly larger armies and navies. The Habsburgs could do so because of New World silver, and the Ottomans could because they had the world's best bureaucracy, and trade with the East.
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You didn't read far enough ;)

It wasn't my intention to make that seem literal; I am still very much committed to working on and improving the site. I was merely speaking to a sentiment that I feel many developers experience as time goes by.
I agree. To address your last point:

I've played with Wave and the live editing feature has already bitten me a couple times. I haven't found the setting yet, but supposedly you'll be able to toggle that feature, so wavelet edits are only transmitted when you "commit" it.

I really hope Google turns it off by default, or at least gives you an account-wide setting to disable by default and let you enable it selectively.

It's also worth noting that I think this would be enabled/disabled at the client level rather than the protocol level, so alternative clients will certainly offer more control.
I'm addicted to the temporary passwords on yahoo mail. I use them all the time when signing up on random sites.

Has anyone else made the switch from this to gmail?
The VC sector was too bloated to begin with and it is nice to see a shakeout happening.VCs had so much capital then they should have that they have invested in a lot of companies that did not deserve funding in the first place.
Hope ticketstumbler works out in the long term; if it doesn't or if you have a successful exit, looks like you could consider the PG route of becoming a writer.
So, does that mean Wattvision will betray PG/YC somehow?
If people are more healthy and feel take care of they will commit crimes less frequently.
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SSL/TLS does not work without certificates. In the absence of a "tie breaker" for someone else's fake handshake data, the encryption it employs on the link provides no more security than does LZ compression. And I'm supposed to buy certs from these people?

See:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=277284

Should CA processes be reformed? May-be so. I'd start with not allowing people like Dreamhost to sell them. But that has nothing to do with how the browsers enforce the SSL protocol.
I think joel_feather has 2 points: uploading via web is painful and niche pricing will be accepted by woobius target market. (This is also just an opinion, but I honestly believe those 2 points merrit some consideration).
You realize that despite the fact that I still don't follow the logic here, SHA collisions have no meaningful impact on the security of PBKDF, right?
Tone is hard to convey online. I guess I should have added a smiley. I'm not angry at all; I don't miss anything from Plan 9. I just feel sorry for these guys who went to so much trouble to make a "proper" OS that fixed up one they hacked together (unix).
Microsoft needs to take a look at how google became popular in the first place.

I got told told about by a friend at school and how it was much better then yahoo.
I didn't believe him but after trying I was really impressed. I then told my parents about it and they had the same reaction I did. Since then my entire family has been using google.

If Microsoft wants to beat google at search they need to invoke the same kind of reaction in people.
A direct demo can be seen in the form at the bottom of my last blog post: http://blog.blinker.net/2009/06/05/creating-twitter-this-lin...
The idea of forcing people to take the stairs to fight obesity is currently a running experiment at the new San Francisco Federal Building.

Results are mixed, see i.e. http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5428

From the article:

According to my source, architect Mayne has stated that federal office workers do not get enough exercise. To address this, he installed elevators in the building that only stop at every third floor. This requires employees to walk up or down one or two flights of metal stairs.

Persons with physical disabilities who cannot use stairs can use a separate elevator that stops at every floor. The foreseeable result is that employees seeking to avoid stairs use the disabled access elevator, leaving this car crammed with people and making the ride to the top extremely slow.
> but the domain has to be hosted @ dreamhost

From the post:

You can use them with us or any other web host.

You do however need a unique IP regardless of where you're hosting it.
DVCSes have the critically important property that there is no longer any inherent technical center of development but that the social center of development is retained (usually).

This is a really good point. It allows the social structure of the project to grow and change in a very natural way which makes it not only easier to adapt as committers come and go, but effortless.
Are there any legal obligations to YC etc, to continue working on the project?
I think I'd have to know something to be a writer like PG, though I suppose I could just make it up ;)

I very much appreciate the compliment, though!
I sometimes in interviews I ask how to find the top 10 IP addresses that have hit a web host in the last thousand hits.

tail -1000 access.log | cut -d' ' -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
I don't think so. It hasn't really come up, as neither of us have plans to stop.
You don't need to take the course to take the AP test. I took the AB test this year after signing up late and only haven written two programs in java (one of those being hello world.) It was a fairly easy test. I would recommend taking the class if the class if you want to learn java, but just take the test and teach yourself if you just want to skip entry level cs in college and use the free time to teach yourself what you want.
A cool feature: where can I go tonight for $x?
Poll: How hyped are you for Google Wave?
I read all this Wave talk, but I don't really care much about it, not even sure if it's even necessary. I think that trying to mix social (which Google needs to do) with collaboration, with e-mail, with IM, with everything else is somehow, not right. Or this might just be my paradigm?

How about you?
Yes for Wave
Indifferent for Wave
No for Wave
When you finally reach enlightenment or a state of "genius" you won't be thinking about what other people think of you.
Sorry, I didn't mean to call you out for being anti-anything. Was just curious why you said RoR-heavy when I only saw one developer :)
Everything should have Vim key bindings.
I believe there is a lot of startup lessons here. Larry started up from very little (bootstrap), built a devoted customer base who want him to succeed.

And, it really seems to make a difference that he dresses up in a shirt and tie.
Re: a bit tangential on nasty criticism. An approach I try to have (it's not for everyone) is to see the code as trying to do something worthwhile, rather than for the greater glory of 10ren. Without my ego on the line, I have more attention for the code itself. :-)

With this attitude* , only criticism about how the code is serving its purpose is relevant. If someone criticizes it (or I imagine they will) because it's Lisp (or because isn't), or because it uses design patterns (or because it doesn't) and the criticism doesn't seem to make a difference to its purpose - it's just kind of bemusing.

* Hard to do.

EDIT ah... having now read the slides, this is one of the things they're saying.
> This is an interesting issue -- what incentive is there to help the mentally-disabled homeless from an economic perspective?

Well, there's quality of life aspects of not having them on the streets, etc.

But perhaps that's not direct enough for you -- so one way to save is on health care. Since hospitals must give emergency care to all patients regardless of finances, these types of cases often end up being very expensive due to frequent hospital stays.

There are plenty of articles about that point, here's one: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/338/24/1734
The problem with that is most tickets won't get to you that day unless you pick them up, and most sites stop selling them a ways before the event just to avoid issues where you don't receive them. Maybe "Where can I go this weekend for $X"?
I would love to see more "one year later" type pieces from other YC startups, I'm sure theres a wealth of useful information in the direct experience of startup founders.
Funny, my first name is Julien :-)

I'll be busy for a while, I'll probably take a better look after july 4th.
This might be effective if Bing gave better results. It doesn't. I'm pretty much consistently getting worse results from Bing for any search I do, and the harder the search is, the more obviously Bing fails (Cuil level of bizarreness in some cases). Google isn't as good as I'd like...it can't read my mind, for example, though I guess that'd be a mixed blessing, since they already know way too much about me. But Bing is consistently worse. I did some side-by-sides with Yahoo, too, and Yahoo does almost as well as Google. Bing consistently doesn't.
Interesting comments below. Apparently my point wasn't as clear as I hoped. I'll try once more--in the runway portion of a startup, especially when bootstrapping, I am willing to completely ignore scale if I can gain an order of magnitude in cycle time for experiments.

AppEngine offes a different tradeoff--easy scaling but relatively slow experimentation. My comments about the fit of AppEngine only apply on the runway. Once you get to climb out (validated product/validated business model/rapid growth), AppEngine is a great fit.
Buy lots of tickets through us; I will convince them it is in their best interest ;)
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