skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never even noticed there was a number in parenthesis next to my username. Thanks for pointing it out, though.
From the "Rules":

This competition is open to anyone with a Twitter account who is at least 16 years of age ... You agree to allow InciteBot to share your personal details with affiliated companies. Basically, you agree to let us submit your application to the employer.

Even if I'm a 16 year old twit?
I liked this but it really slowed things down. Perhaps because my home folder etc are all on nfs shares?
I thought the points was just a rating for the comment or submission. I didn't realize those points were transferred to the user that made the comment/submission.

As for your down voting me, whatever. Enjoy. I don't even know what use karma can be on this website. Though at least now I know there is some.
http://news.ycombinator.com/classic
Everything is near worthless if you can't market your product right. What would eBay be without the sellers or the buyers? Similarly, how did Yahoo Answers and AnswerBag successfully launch their question/answer sites? Without the proper distribution, it becomes the "dead zone" you speak of. However, the evidence is clearly there that these sites could work (Yahoo Answers, Answer Bag, StackOverflow, etc).

Now as far as this particular idea on selling experience, I would imagine the traffic and activity would start from the ones interested in selling the experience. The interests need to start with people with valuable experiences who may show interest in trying out the service to see just how profitable they could be by sharing their unique experience. Then this can spark interest in the "buyers" who may find the right experience/knowledge they were looking for.

If you get the right distribution, I believe it can overcome the challenge you speak of. The question I would ask you is: "If Google launched this service tomorrow, would you think they can make it successful?"

This said, I would agree that it would be a challenging start-up if you do not have the right plans/capability to scale up.
Because we don't link to Digg/Reddit/other aggregators, we link to the original stories/sources.
Is any one aware of how to cause synesthesia in people who don't have it, other than using drugs...or by using drugs: keeping it permanent?
How is it any different than Digg/Reddit/HN?

Here's an obvious one: TechCrunch items get posted on Hacker News. Digg/Reddit/aggregator items, not so much.
1. Absolutely love http://ask.searchyc.com/ to check if I missed any AskHNs

2. In my personal wiki, I have a list links to people whose comment threads I follow closely. [http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=*username*]

3. http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive has not been updated recently, but still a good resource

4. http://news.ycombinator.com/classic and http://news.ycombinator.com/lists of course

5. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 modified to help me not visit one aggravating unethical "blog" (you know which). I don't hide it altogether as I value the discussion here.
Raising a startup is the best education you can get.
I'm currently a (junior) high school student.
About a year ago, I had applied to YCombinator with my friend(Austin). Unfortunately, we didn't get accepted but it was still a great experiance, by not getting in you learn a few things. Now, I've made my goal in life to apply to YC as many times until we get accepted, obviously I'm not gonna come knocking with the same startup.

I'm pretty sure that the experience/knowledge that a startup gives you is much, much more valuable than you'll gain in any University. Even if you go back to your job, you'll still be far, far ahead than if you were to work those years that you spent building a brilliant startup.

I hope you apply for YCombinator, and if you don't...wait a few months and do it again! :)
PG's microblog:

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg
IRC channel: #startups on irc.freenode.net
care to post the url to the site? i think it would be easier to find a partner that could take care of the technical side if they were also interested in the content of the site.
Numbers and letters have consistent colors and combine and "influence" each other inside words and large numbers. At an early age I asked my mom to explain exactly why 113 was green, 114 was pink, 115 black, etc. It took a while to get the idea across, and we were both very puzzled. She dug out an article on synaesthesia and we learned together.

I also see colors and shapes in music. Complex melodies are very beautiful. I feel as though I can "move" between "curtains" of different musical voices. I have very good relative pitch because I can see the harmonies.

I sometimes mix up things in very odd ways because they have similar colors: 9->u, 5->e, and (god help me) names like linda->julia and teresa->desiree.
RSS feed that includes HN's comments:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=23159aed1a913917f8...
"Synaesthetic and psychedelic mean approximately the same thing." -Gene Youngblood in Expanded Cinema (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded_cinema). Good book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_(literature)
It's a sad day when raising your kids equates to sacrificing your dreams. Sad day for the kids.
Is forcing new, potentially slightly better, tools on people actually net more value than just using goodold mediawiki and irc?
I think this would actually produce higher quality and better paid journalism than the current system. Since there's no formal approval process required to enter the market, good journalists who were previously stymied by old-style institutional filtration will have their day. And since journalism under this system is essentially free-agency, the possibility of bidding wars for pieces by (forgive me) "rockstar" journalists is highly probable, and provides a powerful incentive to do groundbreaking work. A journalist who's scored a comfy gig under the current system has no such incentive.
Don't focus on YC.
Ask HN: Your Project/Startups Teamwork
In your current project/start-up how is your team work managed.

What tools do you use? How do you communicate?

How's the work division? Entire project split in to large chunks and each person individually developing that part, Or Entire project in to tiny tasks and everyone attacking task by task together.

Of course lot of these depend on the project at hand, but I am curios to get a very general overview.
I'd go with 3. It's always better to increase the value of the site, and I mean....if you need any help, I'm sure you'll find someone from the Hacker News community.

...if anything, I'd be glad to help you out! :)
Why do you think you are not sharp? I bet your problem is that all of your problems in your current business domain are solved and you are bored, not dull. What is a little dull is reading through lists of academic achievements and future academic proposals or thoughts. It comes across a little like trolling for compliments.

I am 44 I have house, wife, 3 kids. When I was 23 I was freaking clueless, though I didn't think so at the time. (There is a good chance I still am clueless) School was easy, Navy was easy, studying and taking tests and getting good scores was easy. I was bored and figured there wasn't much else to be done. I was completely wrong about that.

So coming from an old guy. I would suggest dumping your easy job and finding one that is challenging for you. There are plenty of hard problems to solve. All of the sharpest people I know never let go of a hard problem until they figure it out, and they refuse to slog through the easy stuff like some kind of drone. There are surprisingly few people in this category. All of the sharpest people I know read continuously about a wide variety of things, and they build or write about things based on their reading. All of the sharpest people I know put down the keyboard and have some other really interesting thing they do.
I dunno, I kinda like the idea that people learn about it as they participate and lurk on the site--kind of like leveling up in an informal way, instead of getting it all at once.
Sorry if the tonation of my post is to entirely shift your startup into focusing on YC. What I meant was, Working on a startup is the best form of education. If you land a deal with YC, that's even better, it's a way to decrease the number of errors you make along with the time it takes for you to succeed.
ahh, I remember that thread. I must have just promptly forgot about classic.
I'll start off, tiny team spread apart geographically.

We use Redmine as central hub for tracking progress, planning, wiki and forum for discussion and documentation. Google docs a bit for architecture and general info. IRC as official meeting room.

Subversion for code repo, Redmine also as svn's browser.

Project broken in to several primary chunks, and each person is fully in charge of one or two pieces. Design and Develop on our own with a interface between the parts.
Thanks for the great info profquail!
This may be true, when "synethetic" and "psychedelic" are used as specialist jargon for describing films or various effects in film. But it's not true in the general, colloquial sense of these terms, which refer to either a type of sensation or to a type of drug.

Psychedelic literally means "mind-manifesting", while the etymology for synethesia comes from "sense" and "together".

The word "psychedelic" was specifically coined as a way to describe the drugs that were previously called "hallucinogens" and "psychotomimetics", and it was an attempt to remove the inaccurate and negative connotations that those other words had.

Synethesia, on the other hand, refers to a specific type of sensation, and not to a drug.

Also, psychedelic drugs have many, many other effects apart from synethesia (which isn't present in every trip or for everyone taking psychedelic drugs, anyway).

So in the usual sense of these terms (not in the sense a film critic might use them), these two words have quite different meanings.
I feel that the problem you describe is exacerbated (as so many philosophical "problems" are) by the imprecision of the language used in framing the problem. Rather than bicker over word definitions, I would prefer to wait until we have computers powerful enough to simulate the brain, at which time we can answer such questions using the precise language of mathematics.

Of course I can't prove that we will be able to create such computers. If we can't then that would be evidence for a non-physical basis of consciousness. However, I feel that right now the burden of proof is on the people who claim that consciousness doesn't obey the laws of physics, as we haven't yet found any other process which doesn't.
So what happens to the "unrestricted" tweets when they're received over SMS?
How the heck do you get access to closely guarded sources when you write for "j-auction.com"?
YC should be a means to an end, as opposed to an end in and of itself.

Your goal, with respect to this area, should be to launch a series of successful startups that allow you to execute your exit strategies and build cool things. YC may, or may not, help you get there.
If you want to catch up on the last ~week, then you'll want: http://news.ycombinator.com/best
Why not just make it your life goal to get your startup to the point where YC would be lucky to get a deal with you?
I agree that YC would increase your chances of being successful, but I wanted to encourage you that you can do it either way.
Oh maybe you've been aware that you have a dynamic username.
You have not seen git-prompt yet. How about forgetting that there is git-status? See http://volnitsky.com/project/git-prompt
And it will do svn, hg and a lot of other stuff.
Well, you'd have to hit the trackers to pull all the current seed/leech ratio data yourself, if you want to find the living torrents amongst the muck. Things such as number of .torrent downloads, the "PirateBay-verified release" flag, and the comments (yes, there are comments) would also be useful in filtering through them. However, all this stuff would probably be invalidated by the time someone actually wanted to use the backup...
To respond to the general idea of the RFS, not RFS1 specifically: I think this sort of feedback to the startup community is incredibly valuable. I take it as an statement of "what they think the world needs/wants/would-pay-for right now." Having a sense for markets seems a bit like being able to predict the weather based on the way an old injury aches, and young entrepreneurs with a whole lot of energy don't usually have that sense. As one of them, I have to say it's nice to see suggestions of unsaturated/needy markets. It's icing that the advice is coming from someone who also can help bring proposed solutions to market.

As a side note, I'd really love if someone similarly informed did this with a philanthropic eye. Think "things the world could really use right about now," since those who feel the pains rarely are the ones with the ability to fix them on a replicable scale. Like a giant to-do list for humanity, maintained by people with a great degree of perspective. But I also have a hankering for a philanthropic equivalent of YC that funds and supports non-loss startups.
Well, yeah I guess you're right. But you kinda straw manned me there by changing the subject from an indie band and their work to a general genre. I expect more mainstream bands to consistently be good or bad, but not have the ups and downs I've heard from a couple indie bands. That and it fit my own explanation of how things vary from day to day.

But yeah, you're right, my experience blinded me. And cheer up, your comment seems out of place.
Anyone have any experience telecommuting as a startup co-founder or is that just adding yet another obstacle to a situation crowded with such obstacles?
Try this:

export PS1='\w:$(__git_ps1 "%s")$ '

EDIT - here's mine btw:

function parse_git_dirty {
git diff --quiet HEAD &>/dev/null
[[ $? == 1 ]] && echo "✎ " || echo "➜ "
}
function parse_git_branch {
local branch=$(__git_ps1 "%s")
[[ $branch ]] && echo "$branch$(parse_git_dirty)"
}
PS1='\u@\h $(parse_git_branch)\W $ '

If the branch has local changes it shows the pencil, in addition to the branch name. I'm still experimenting.
http://bizteen.net/about-bizteen/

"Endorsing the company politics of Micheal Scott comes Emil Hajric."

What exactly do you mean by that?
[I am not the OP]

> I would prefer to wait until we have computers powerful enough to simulate the brain, at which time we can answer such questions using the precise language of mathematics.

I find this stance baffling. How would a complete simulation of the brain tell us how a chemical reaction could cause a feeling? That seems quite a lot to hope for!

There is also a question-begging element here. What you consider a "complete" simulation of the brain will differ depending on whether or not you are a materialist in the first place. (I.e., will the simulation include feelings as part of its model? If it doesn't, aren't you begging the question in favor of physicalism?)

>as we haven't yet found any other process which doesn't [obey the laws of physics].

Isn't this basically true by definition? If we find something that doesn't obey the laws of current physics, we just modify the laws. We certainly found processes which didn't obey the currently accepted laws of physics at a number of points in the history of physics.
Whatever. Maybe the Vice President worked 80 hour weeks for 5 years and has paid for her monitor, her chair, her desk and the building she works in.
Wow, 15 contracts. What does your product do?
Sounds like everyblock.com. Or at least that would be a good foundation.
Hrm. Well, you don't write for the auction site any more than eBay sellers work for eBay. You're your own brand, and win or lose source-cred on your own merits. And it's called "stringerbell.com" :)
It isn't rude for them to do it until after you tell them not to. So tell them to stop.
Tech marches on:

5,000-word dossier for each of 200 million Americans on a single, 4,800-foot reel of one-inch plastic computer tape. It would take no longer than four minutes to find an individual file, and a print-out would follow in moments.

Interesting to hear when a 4 minute seek time on an index would have been considered short, on a data set which was merely 8 terabytes or so. By comparison, that wouldn't hold all the photos uploaded to Flickr. Yesterday.
We use Git, Lighthouse, and a self hosted wiki. We also all work in the same office.
Ask HN: Where can I find people to review a web service?
I have spent more than 1500 hours over the last 3 years in developing a website and browser add-ons. Tried posting it to a few startup blogs but they simply posted the text given to them.

* Is there a better way to promote?

* Where can I find people to review them?
HN is more like a subreddit than reddit itself. Adding tags would allow the original Startup News users to sequester themselves into the article threads they enjoyed, while new people would join the community unnoticed and uninitiated. Eventually the front page would boil over with TechCrunch and Apple gossip.

Tags are bad because keeping the article space flat keeps out people with only marginally similar interests.
I spent lots of time working for ad agencies in NYC; while there I noticed that their clients kept asking them to identify and engage influencers. They constantly had a hard time with this and more often than not the client was disappointed so I developed a utility that allows them to identify and engage influencers.

By engage I mean; incorporate them into existing ad campaigns.
While I admire the principle you are suggesting, the history and current reality of the new distribution business suggests that this "try to be objective" phase was a short-lived experiment that has no future. Newspapers have always been editorial soapboxes, that is how they get attention in a crowded field. Attention leads to readers/subscribers and readers are the product. Now that we have some pretty good neurophysiology data on how people process new information and with most of the current research suggesting that "opinionated" news sources are going to be the winners based on how our brains work I can't see any reason why the current trends are going to change.
I wouldn't have called these synaesthesia:

Colored personalities

Colored tastes

Colored pain

Colored odors

Colored temperature

but (of the list at the bottom) those five are all things I've arguably experienced; that said it's hard to know what to say of these really as the distinction between a strong+reliable association and synaesthesia proper when you're talking about more-abstract "senses"; given that they're all color<->nonvisual perception the simpler explanation is probably just strong color associations, not synaesthasia.

I was motivated to post b/c I was actually surprised that "colored personalities" were as high on the list of responses (or really on it at all); it's surprising it's (apparently) that common.
Send them as two sequential SMS messages, or an MMS message (user's choice). Pretty much anyone who is receiving tweets on their phone has unlimited received texts anyways.
> Grab the mouse (or use the touchpad) or just point without touching. Is it so difficult?

Point without touching please. I never want to touch someone else's mouse or keyboard. They are among the dirtiest most germ infected places you can find and touching them is bad for both you and the person with the keyboard / mouse / touchpad.
I was considering this but I think that you really need to work with a co-founder face to face.
Or perhaps a user-settable cutoff date for a customizable classic view.
The influence of magnetic forces decays at r^2 in distance, making any sort of magnetic tractor beam extremely unfeasible.
The TechCrunch comments on this are ridiculous.

Entrepreneurs are not people who come up with ideas; they are people who successfully execute ideas through further iteration and development.

There is an element of discovery in success; continually questioning the status quo (TechCrunch comments seem hung-up on this point).

I'm sure those who are chosen by YCombinator will be those who seem most capable of iteration and further creativity regardless of the origin of the idea.

Past that, the idea comes from one individual normally. It then takes a team to execute it and they share a passion for that idea. This is just like having PG on your team.
Charge people for something worth paying for.
Show Your Love: Referral Competition
If you are looking for feedback on your site and exposure to an audience of other developers, designers, and entrepreneurs then I'd highly suggest my own startup service, launchly (http://www.launchly.com). Check it out! There is a free, basic launch plan that simply requires a bit of community involvement on your part.
Like I said, I believe the "problem" itself is ill-defined. Philosophy in general has a tendency to devolve into arguments over word definitions and I simply don't think that's productive. A simulation of the brain will give us the data we need to frame the problem precisely enough to actually answer it.

> If we find something that doesn't obey the laws of current physics, we just modify the laws.

If consciousness is truly outside the domain of science then logically there would be no law we could create to account for its effects. But I'll go a step further and say that I believe consciousness obeys the laws of physics as we currently understand them. Again I don't have a proof of this, but neither do the people who say it doesn't.
My first comment is that it loads VERY slowly. I mean like ridiculously, painfully, unacceptably slowly... Nobody outside a venue like this would wait that long. Especially considering while it loads I have absolutely no clue what the site is or does.

Even your navigation is in Flash so while the huge thing loads there is literally NOTHING to do.

That's your biggest problem for sure. Fix that before you even think of anything else.

Second, is it CribSpace or CribScribble?

Third, even after waiting that painful time for it to load I'm not sure what exactly I'm looking at.
I've never really liked the notion that true scots... hackers aren't the ones breaking into systems, or whatever you attribute to 'crackers'.

Hackers can be black hat. Hackers can be nasty people. They can also be completely benign.

Also, sometimes the law isn't in the right. I would definitely call Jon Johansen a Hacker in the highest and best sense. But he illegally broke encryption and enabled piracy.

see also: the hacker manifesto
It's a stopgap at best and more likely a no-op. The fundamental problem is that the 'community' is unbounded and prone to instability by growth. This is not the case with just HN but almost any online forum, be it USENET, slashdot, reddit, etc. The initial and early populations tend to have a lot in common, are significantly self-selecting, etc, etc. This produces 'interesting' content, which in turn fuels growth which fuels further growth and the eventual dilution of the 'community' and the quality of the content. Such forums experience only growth pressure but nothing in the opposite direction, at least not until they become so boring or insipid that people go somewhere else. Naive voting schemes like in slashdot, reddit or HN don't really help.
(as in Michael Scott of The Office.. my bad if you already knew that)
It seems premature to state that A is better than B while still not having run the gamut of either.

Starting a startup is a vastly educational experience, but you can't really compare it to college. It's like comparing apples and bicycles.
Vivek gee, just post it here and you will get the feedback you need.

P.S. If website owners are just posting the text you provide them, what's the problem? :-P
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