skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decent enough. I was just wanting a new way to handle TODOs today and might give this a try.

Do you dogfood the TODO list for your development tasks?

What are your thoughts on rememberthemilk.com? Any features from there you'd add to your TODO management? (e.g. keyboard shortcuts, SMS reminders, etc).

Really seems like this app would make a better Facebook or OpenSocial app.
For those in their twenties, you remember the last recession just fine. It was in the early naughts.
http://www.bea.gov/briefrm/gdp.htm

You might recall that it was short and not that big of a deal.

Some people have been eagerly waiting for this recession for half a decade, so the excitability is understandable.
"Do you dogfood the TODO list for your development tasks?"

No we just strictly use this for personal stuff. We wanted to keep the focus tight (since we have limited resources), though if it's not what people want - things can change. Come to think of it I can't see why you can't use it for software development... well there is one thing. The social side of Muchcloser isn't released yet. Right now you can't collaborate with people - yet

"this app would make a better Facebook or OpenSocial app."

we're working on it =) (and fixing bugs too hehe)

Remember the milk is really one of the best to do lists out there and it's very pervasive (mobile, gcal, ...). Our main problem with it was that we wanted to decide what to do lists we wanted... at the end of the day though our main focus isn't really the to do list - it's people
This seems like one step backwards from social networks. It's difficult maintaining information about your contacts, which is one of the strongest points of sites like facebook. You might look into developing some of these applications for the various social networking platforms (the contact-reminder seems pretty neat).
you're right - right now it doesn't scale for all of your contacts; but it is useful for immediate family like your cousin or sister or a few good friends. There are other kinks to work out as well - some known and some you guys will probably point out

Yeah that's what we're focused on doing right now - moving part of it to facebook/open social

You know what's funny? I got the idea for this because I started to hate how useless friendster and myspace were for real friends and I hated fake pokemon friends (gotta collect them all for your profile)
haha.... nice try. My friend just rented a studio for 1250 there, and one bedrooms are 1450, and two bedrooms are 2100+. THere is a new rental building next to it (bre avenue 64) very nice, but even more expensive. And this is frickin emeryville. Rents have definitely gone thru the roof.
Matthew Flatt is a professor at the University of Utah, and one of the main developers of PLT Scheme right now. I just finished his Programming Languages class, which is taught in Scheme, and am currently in his Functional Programming class. I've really started to enjoy Scheme, and functional programming in general.
the concept of keeping what your friends like and dislike is really cool. the contact-related stuff is really useful. but the todo list is probably not needed.
Very cool idea. To play devil's advocate though, it might require a heck of a lot of explanation, which might prove distracting when you might be better off helping people use the application.

A couple places it might work nicely though - established web 2.0 sites or places like Second Life where having a buddy might make venturing into unknown territory feel safer.

Good luck with it.
Yeah we looked at EngineYard. They are good if you don't ever want to deal with deployment at all, but I really can't justify the premium. The 17K price quoted is probably for their basic cluster of 3 machines - we run on 10 now so it's probably going to be a lot more than that.

SoftLayer is unmanaged, but they do have staff that can help you with sysadmin stuff for a fee.
Well, maybe it's time to balance the economy.
You maybe right... we'll see what happens as time goes.

I initially made that to learn/hack

Our focus now is more on the contacts
"Introducing Muchcloser: a FREE service that helps keep you from forgetting about the people who are important in your life."

If they are important, you won't forget them in the first place.
not true.

from personal experience when you're working on a big project 12-16 hours per day (6-7 days/week) - you'll be surprised at what you forget...

besides, what if you have a really big social circle?
Agree. Anybody who pins the blame on any one side is an ignorant idealogue. People who think like that can only create problems, not solve any.
Correct, the application code generates correct image URLs which are then embedded in the HTML source.
In terms of his writing? Not much, as he seems to research his subjects fairly well, and interview people that are psychologists or economists or whatever, when he needs that kind of material.

The statement was inaccurate though.
Sounds like work - I don't want to work when I log in to a social network.
New create your own subreddit site -- seeking feedback
We've been working on a site to let you create your own subreddit: http://www.linkherd.com/

There are quite a number of rough edges, but since reddit's announcement yesterday, we want to get feedback as soon as possible.

Here are some features:

* customize your network's appearance by uploading a stylesheet

* subscribe your network to an RSS feed -- all links from the feed will automatically get submitted

* subscribe your subreddit to another subreddit -- for example, 'python' could subscribe to 'django'

* restrict commenting/voting/submitting to approved users

Any critiques will be appreciated.
please make it pair you when you hit a button, not when you log in. revealing your activities to a random person should be opt-in, not opt-out. and people wouldn't want to do this every time, anyway.
Not sure if you were aware, but reddit has recently unveiled their new sub-reddit feature, and it's in private testing.

Good effort, though. Might want to have a live feed of all the new stories coming in on the front page, so I'm enticed to join some communities and contribute by finding interesting stories on the front page.

Congrats.
"Like it is"? Have you read their "Case for War"?

Thanks to the English magazine's clever rhetorical strategy, calibrating an effective mixture of aristocratic contempt, two-notches-smarter-than-Newsweek diction, and occasional anti-elitist populism to pander to its majority-American readership, readers trust The Economist. They - particularly American readers - trust it because they think it knows more than they do; this is its entire appeal. They even get a sick thrill being talked down to by a dirty old aristocratic prig. For Americans in particular, accustomed to the lifeless, dumbed-down, least-common-denominator prose in their own media, reading The Economist is its own reward, giving them the sense not only that they're smarter than the average Time subscriber, but that it even makes them vaguely decadent, in a literary-aristocratic sort of way. They become smarter by osmosis simply by being in the imagined drawing room of The Economist's wit-slinging editorial offices.

http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=10127&...

The Exile, a tabloid though it may be, had predicted exactly what would happen in Iraq.
I can see your point, but that phrase evokes the same reaction in me, and, I suspect, others.

You might want to rework it to indicate how this site helps you remember all the 'little things' that make you seem like you really care... I guess that sounds bad too, but do you see what I'm getting at? "Fred hates sushi, and Barney loves to go bowling, and remember not to ask Wilma about her divorce..."
good point - we'll see if we can tweak it...

so far the latest change is the best I can do for now... we'll probably figure out something else better sometime later
Thank you! We heard about reddit's plans, that's why we launched today. Great idea for the front page.
The number of the anti-Beast?
You'd be best off setting Subversion to ignore various files - anything ending in .pyc shouldn't be in the repo' and you really don't want everything in settings.py out in the wild.
Reverse Ajax
In the UK it's worth contacting your local Chamber of Commerce to see if they have a local BusinessLink. Sheffield Enterprise Network Trust Asc. have so far paid all my legal fees for writing the T&C's & other documents.

They can also provide financial help in other areas too, merket research, branding and general business guidence, all the stuff someone with a tech background might struggle with.

There are limitations to what their funding will cover, and they don't require any equity in return.
Astronauts aren't flying drunk: NASA
Really cool software projects
Implementing HTML5 in IE
A Savvy Approach to Copyright Messaging in Photos
I think the "reflection" of the photos on top is too stark. This needs to be toned down and very subtle. Also your intro paragraph to the right of the pic is too verbose. I'd cut this down and get straight to the point of what Muchcloser actually does.
Virtual Innovation
This is pretty cool, it's kind of like a CRM for your friends.
I really don't see the point of that article. It doesn't even try to hide its patronising tone. Sounds to me like yet another tirade about how our generation leads such a sheltered life, etc. etc.

Yawn.
both good calls

I'm not really a ui guy so I'll see what I can to fix the reflection

We'll try to fix the paragraph too... brevity and simplicity are tricky
"Pop-ups won't pop-up so often" - love the style of that article (really). I think it is meant as a parody anyway.
Yahoo announce today also that they will offer free music. It's the beginning of new recession and the beginning of a new dawn for music. If the labels had any clue they would have built last.fm themselves.
See the much more useful http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_%28programming%29 instead.
While we are at it, I was really disappointed when I saw the hashtables in MzScheme. Sorry, but compared to Java they seem quite unelegant, there are not even iterators (though I guess it would be easy to provide them). Maybe there is no better way to do it without objects, I don't know (I am not so well versed in Scheme yet). I just wonder if there are better "collections" than that for MzScheme, somewhere.

I know it is nitpicking, but ultimately it is about trust, while I am learning: do the implementors of MzScheme have a sense of good style, or not.... Maybe I am just spoiled by having lived in an object oriented world for too long, but it also seems to me that sometimes OO makes sense, simply as a way to structure the code. Also I think it is neat how in Java everything has a "toHashcode" method, so you can store everything in a hashmap - how does it even work in Scheme (haven't studied it very close yet, I admit)?
that's not good enough.

You know, that soon enough people will demand to be tasered, and then they'll write about deliberately getting their pwd wrong three times just for the thrill.
Are you going to submit this to Reddit?
"- hiring - will I be able to find talented people to work on the codebase? Especially if I am not located in a startup hub."

I think most talented people would be delighted to work with Scheme. Maybe (hopefully) it is still true that you can use LISP to identify the good programmers. Presumably most people from "Java School" would not bother to reply to a job ad asking for LISP knowledge.
If you're spending more than $5k on a standard C-corp you're paying too much. These docs are boilerplate at any reasonable firm. $15k is out of line.
Would be interesting to know if you had any problems with ruby on rails? Is it stable enough? Have you deployed it as a kind of cluster?
JedEyes - Helicopter Helmet Mounted Display
Google on hiring spree
How to Build a Web Start-up by Ryan Carson, Part 1 [video]
Looks nice. Dumb feature request: how about custom subdomains? http://subject.linkherd.com/ suggests more of a standalone community than linkherd.com/subject . I've used wildcard DNS for this kind of thing in the past (e.g. simon.idproxy.net )
Watch this fantastic talk if you haven't seen it already:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143

He randomly pairs players in games to complete boring tasks (e.g., tagging photos) in a fun way (e.g. Predict what the other person is thinking).
It's really great to be able to read the source code of a digg clone, to see how the rating algorithms work, instead of reverse engineering it yourself.

Normally I prefer writing my own ruby or java code, than modify some elses php hacks^^H^H^H^H^code.
OpenID support would be nice too ;)
Plenty of open source clones of Digg like pligg, php-dug etc.
Armstrong himself said that Erlang was not designed for high performance, but for high reliability, though. After playing with Erlang for a bit (it was fun, sure enough), I am now more interested in the other trend for high performance computing: creating server farms from Playstation 3 cell processors, or maybe utilising the graphics processors for high performance computing. At least that is where I have already read stories about people gaining an actual advantage (computations done in a few hours that formerly took days).

How do cell processor and graphics chips compare, btw, does anybody have info on that? I suppose the PS3 route is definitely the cheaper one for the time being.

The downside is that both require C programming and dealings with hardware specifics.
Having links like /django/78/up/ is a CSRF attack just waiting to happen - you should turn them in to POST forms (preferably with some unobtrusive Ajax) and add a form key to prevent people from tricking other logged in users in to up-voting stories.
Ask YC: Feedback for ReviewGist.com
we have been in open beta for sometime even though we are still building out. Feedback/suggestions on product, marketing, biz dev would be nice.
Societe Generale reports $7 billion fraud
The time space trade off between hashtables and binary trees are not touched upon in all the above writings. Hashtables will require continuous memory locations and hence from stack and hence won't work for large sets of data and binary search trees or their derivatives will allocate memory from heap and take more time (logn) for get and put than the constant time(O(1)) for hashtables.
My experience with Oknotizie.alice.it (first Italian reddit-alike site with 2 Millions unique users for month) is that clones suck. Since we started more than one year ago we saw an incredible number of clones using pligg, php-dug, and so on, but nobody was able to take even the 5% of the italian market from us, because it's a matter of quality, user experience, strong algorithms to prevent spam (usually the algorithms implemented in the clones are very trivial and easy to break).

Also clones are always not uptodate with features, for example Oknotizie exactly like reddit entered the beta testing stage of "subreddits" (called "groups" on our system) one week ago, probably today we will open the feature to the public. Clones will implement this things later I guess.

It's a bad idea to start from already written code if you are starting a startup.
How do I find a lead investor? Part 1.
My cofounder was an enterprise Java programmer and started learning Lisp for our startup. He is now a very big Lisp fan and very good Lisp coder and counting the days until he can leave Java behind permanently (He was a top notch Java coder as well). So for good coding talent, learning to use Lisp is probably not that big of a barrier.
The rise of VMWare's hypervisor
The Force is Curiously Strong in This One.
imho give or take a little, it's as stable as the next language/framework. I've used java and python (and some of their frameworks), but then again I've never really done the core sys admin for any of the stuff I've built. It's not perfect, but it works. I think as long as you have a good host - you're golden, if not you're screwed.

no, it's not running on a cluster yet - we're not running into performance probs yet (though it would be a nice one to have if our numbers go high enough)
quite as a surprise most people are morons...
Another term for this easy as hell simple technique that doesn't really need explaining anyway?

I can already see the books devoted to 'comet' and 'reverse ajax'. I'm sure they'll sell, but you can explain it to someone in a couple of sentences.
Rogue trader costs french bank $7 billion
The Official Dilbert Widget
Put Buyers First? What a Concept
Now fixed.

$ date
2008-01-24 12:35:00 +0000 Thu
$ wget -qO- http://news.ycombinator.com/rss |
> tr \> \\012 |
> grep -c comitem
0
$
Is this just using a modified version of http://topspot.dk/ ?
Rogue Trader at Societe Generale causes $7.1 billion loss
Startup essentials: Law of learning and openness
Ad Age Reports 90% of Searchers Ignore PPC
Visualisations of travel times and house prices
I remember my Dad telling me about my grandfather in the depression. He was born about the turn of the century and ran an EE shop, wiring up businesses in the busy manufacturing centre of Aus, Melbourne. He was in his 20/30's when the depression hit. Out on the streets one day, a man happened to come up to him and ask if he could have the "core" of the apple he was eating.

His reply? "No. I'm going to eat it all. There will be no core".

"... I really don't see the point of that article. ..."

When I read this comment, it tells me the reader hasn't registered that the rules have just changed. Drastically. [0] Just like depression story above where something seemingly as worthless as an apple core could be someone else's only opportunity.

The era of cheap finance is over. [1] Businesses are now in survival mode. So trying to convince them to part with money has now become a whole lot harder. If you have a job, you can loose it, through no fault of your own. If you don't have a job, getting one that you like might become very difficult indeed. Especially if the industry you are working in is hit financially hard. Innovative thinking is out. Rationalisation is in.

The suits are going to hit back at the "smart-arse" 20yo's who are well paid, wear shorts & t-shirts to work, read their favourite web2.0 websites and get in late... regardless if they do the job well. Because they can! [2]

For business, a new mindset is now required to operate. Spruiking to everyone you have lots of users instead of paying customers tells everyone you are most likely bleeding cash and therefore avoid your business. Cash is king. Debt is now un-sexy. [3] The price of doing business should get cheaper.

Good news for startups. The point of the article is simple. Remind those who have forgotten and those who have yet to experience a recession, the rules have all changed.

Adapt your thinking accordingly.

[0] You could argue the basics of business don't really change and any fool can make money in a boom.

[1] For the time being. Recessions don't last for ever.

[2] Read here for details ~
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=88525

[3] If it ever was outside the geared world of finance.
Is a C-corp what most web startups are using? Everything I have seen seems to indicate that an LLC or S-corp are better to start with.
Virgin Galactic unveils Scaled Composite's SpaceShipTwo
I'll start by saying, I like it. It's like an advanced Rolodex. From a new users point of view: I know you have screen shots but I would recommend instead - a (Take a Tour) button. From my design point of view: I would design a more attractive logo and consider developing a cohesive color scheme and maybe tweak the overall design flow. Just my two cents...
This article has forced me to confront an ugly truth. I'm 27, and that's old.

Is that English he's speaking?
New Digg algorithm angers the social masses
Actually, one key factor about recessions that the article doesn't mention is the "binaryness" of it all.

If you're working full time, you probably won't notice a whole lot of change.

But if you're out of work, scrambling for low wage part time work, or running a business with a noticeable drop in revenue, life will starting sucking a whole lot, right away, and in ways that the OP didn't even come close to describing.
Whatever happened to the Java years of 6.001?

Anyone here take them?

I still look back fondly on how '001 blew my mind lecture after lecture.
Yes, the article was patronising. A tirade? Not sure about that.

I don't know what generation you're in, but I do know that the past 10 years or so have been a breeze compared to what was before. So, if you don't remember the early 90's, or especially the 70's (they really sucked!), be prepared for a change.

I sure hope you have full time work (or a nice business) and come through this OK. Only then may your yawn may be justified.
At least mention in the title that they are only talking about their Australian division which is less than 200 people or about 1%-2% of their employees.

I read the title and assumed they changed their minds on their new slower hiring policy they announced when they realized it is cutting into their margins.
"You already have tons of friends and family, and maybe even that special someone too... Now what?"

When I saw this my reaction was... "I don't know, go on with my life as usual? Why is this being pointed out to me?"

Then I see "here's something that can help". Help with the fact that I have friends and family and maybe that special someone? What is this, a place for contracting hits?

Also, the signup button doesn't look like it fits with the rest of the site visually.

It's an interesting idea, good luck with it.
Tour of Justin.TV Offices
This link is dead. Story is also found on Yahoo News: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080124/ap_on_bi_ge/china_econom...
Harnessing the power of P2P
Southwest Airlines Plans High-Speed Internet Trials
Int'l Business Travelers Pay an Average of $700 in Cell Roaming Charges PER TRIP
A new study suggests that businesspeople who travel overseas rack up mobile phone roaming charges of almost $700 per trip. Yikes.
20 Years Ago Today: Birth of the Cool
Google Health Login Page
can you allow users to create subreddits with their own adsense or other ads shown?

that could be a killer feature over reddit
Functional programmers tend to avoid iterators since they aren't referentially transparent. Instead, operations on collections are expressed with higher-order functions that map or fold some function over each element. If you need a first-class "conventional interface" to sequential data, the preferred structure is the linked list.

Hash tables in functional-style languages often let you specify a hash function. That means the hash function is a property of the collection, rather than the objects in it. If you prefer a more "object-oriented" design, you can use an object system such as tinyclos to define a generic hash function. But Schemers usually like to avoid such complexity.

Looking at the PLT documentation, I see that its hash tables don't let you specify a hash function. That's definitely a shortcoming, though arguably not a serious one in practice. SRFI 69 gets this right.
VC Fundraising Manual: What To Do When The Meeting Ends
First, unless you have arranged to stay in the room after the meeting, it's best to clean up and leave the office relatively quickly. There are a few reasons for this. The two most important ones are:...
Good Idea, I think you will make it. Useful tool mostly for people on sales, and by that I mean everybody.
Demographics of YC
I'm thinking this is incorrect?
I swear I've seen that first picture before (top left with the guy in a green shirt). Might want to get exclusive rights on something.