skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paul Graham on Hacking
Curious how much you paid for that domain...

It's not just curiosity driving me; I'm trying to decide how much I'm willing to put down to save 1 letter and a syllable. :-P
Put this old article (2004) if only to add the following quote [0] wrt to hacking and Arc to put the process into perspective:

"... remember the enjoyment you got from science class when science was a romp through the mud and woods, a class like art where making a mess is accepted as part of the process ..." [1]

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/hackpaint.html

[1] Found on the Hackers & Painters review for the book of the same name ~ Mike Smith, Harvard University, http://www.paulgraham.com/hackpaint.html
"... check out ikiwiki ..."

Did, pretty smart & is what I was interested in. Do you know of any python language bindings? Doesn't seem to be any around, at least as far as I can see.
"... Comrade, Jeff Smith is the author of Bone ..."

Opps. 2 pickups in 24.
"... 20070202T1422 is a legal 8601 timestamp. ..."

20070202T1422 - but close enough for me in 1 timezone and limited space for display. I have a double use as both a (8601 hack) and as a human readable title. Adding extra "-" and "Z" makes it harder to read and the accuracy for seconds is simply not required. Trade-offs I'm willing to make.
bzr is a far nicer RCS. http://bazaar-vcs.org/ And the next Unix, Plan 9 from Outer Space, but really from Bell Labs, had already implemented the ideas in its Venti filesystem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venti
Is this guy trained in telehypnosis? He's good at it.
Blog Security X Give your blog some extra protection.
Top 20 US Internet Properties
Thanks! Would love to know what she thinks :)
Good call on Inkscape - I have been looking for a decent Photoshop type app to run on OSX for ages. Finally got my next and back arrows drawn without starting up the windows box!
The new rules of politics - by Karl Rove
The site doesn't look so good if the user's default background color is not white because the logo has a white background. You should use something like <body bgcolor="white">.

On the other hand, probably less than 1% of users have a custom default background color...
How Microsoft hires staff
I looked at that but you can't really get any feel for audience size from Technorati. If you could mashup a service like compete.com with Technorati then you would no doubt have a powerful tool. I was thinking of hiring someone to get started on a list. Who knows maybe there is a startup in it because it would be useful to marketing companies as well as startups.
I launched http://openphotovr.org (virtual reality from photos) very quietly yesterday night. A non-profit, my midnight oil hobby project. After two months of development I feel it's time to go online, maybe get some visitors. No rush. Already see glaring mistakes in the UI :-)
1. Yes
2. not sure, fanboyism perhaps
3. can't they already apply to YC?

There is also seedcamp over here in the UK/Europe.
+1 for salsa/latin dancing. It's a lot of fun and a great way to meet women, and build up your confidence.
I'm a big believe in lifelong unlearning.

The "ascending" tip is from experience. It's really easier than moving operators around in your head.

The human mind is good at overloading operators. Especially since the infix < never appears after an open paren, it takes little time to teach yourself to read it as "ascending". It even looks small on the left and big on the right, visualizing an ascending list. Once you learn it that way, shortcuts like (<= 1 n 10) to see if a number is between one and ten come naturally.
Yeah, in an industry where working hard is so much the norm a lot of people will probably ask what those guys did the rest of the night.

Everytime someone tries to reduce all the success to a single point he is wrong. I liked that one a lot more: http://www.vilceanu.net/wp-content/pics/_new/success_large.j...
Google and NTT DoCoMo announce collaboration
Ruby Concurrency, Actors, and Rubinius - Interview with MenTaLguY
lol, I thought he was wearing some sort of baby suit at first glance. I do love his videos though.
Thanks for the tip! I haven't seen a grey background in a while... except in webalizer :)
I'm working on a web-based MMO. We're about 75% through the game logic, artwork requirements is going out to the art studio in the next week.

We should hit our beta milestone at the end of March.
Does this have anything to do with a ring, Mr. Gamgee?
This guy is mistaken. It's not good enough to track large files. So I think it's very unlikely that it's what one needs to deal with all of our data needs. It works for small files and big trees of source, but personal data is not like that. The trees are shallow and the files huge. How many people here like to keep their home directory in source control system.
Deliver us from Microsoft
The TIOBE index is meaningless
Can Rupert Murdoch Save Startups and VCs?
so high in fact, google search a company they've covered (try weebly or rescue time ) that they're pretty often the #2 search result
Linux has better Windows compatibility than Vista
Facebook, MySpace Hit by Zero-Day Flaw
Accident or Terrorism?  3rd Submarine Internet Cable Cut
Is MySpace Over?
good article, and a good link to one of Riya's co-founders: http://munjal.typepad.com/recognizing_deven/2006/05/episode_...

I have no doubt that it can be and is extremely helpful to a lot of startups, but I've seen a lot of products that aren't superior nor obviously necessary, but have some news item (i.e. funding or alpha/beta/public launch) and therefore get covered

just throwing a thought out there -- I guess if the product's already well-made it will only spur the rise to app stardom, and if its not, just be the "cocaine high" that Riya talked about
Amazon's Hot New Item: Its Data Center
it is simply unrealistic for thousands of startups around the world to get invited to YC -- unless YC has plans for mega expansion.

plus, most startups through YC, even though they're web-based, don't really have a reach to under-developed world
We can't expose everything in our internal blog, but the blog tool we use (http://b2evolution.net/) lets us share some of it. Not much there yet but we hope to add regularly: https://dev.youdevise.com.
"...Microsoft convinced that era's tech behemoth to use Microsoft's operating system..."

False.

IBM was more than happy to avoid doing any R & D in an area it didn't take seriously. Microsoft didn't even have an operating system at the time. After a "chance meeting" between IBM CEO John Opel and Bill Gates's mother at a United Way Board Meeting and IBM's refusal to sign Gary Kildall's non-disclosure agreement, Paul Allen purchased DOS from Seattle Computing for $50,000. The rest is history.

But you'd never know it if all you read was the New York Times.
Disadvantage of TATA's nano car
That's exactly the problem I'm solving.

Glad to hear there's a market for it.
Yes, it is. Browser-based, so that you don't run into sharing issues (common in small companies), or platform issues (common with cutting-edge companies).
a prominently-featured search bar would help find textbooks, vs. filling out every detail in a form
Yahoo's options: go it alone or join forces
Third Middle East Undersea Internet Cable "Cut"
Digg's New Algorithm is The Suck
does anybody else find it odd he doesn't refer to "George W. Bush" as President Bush?
Nice, that saves a 10 minute phone call. (Always was free to get for the DIY people)
He complains about not being able to get a joke about underwear on the front page.

Boo-Hoo...
Web 2.0 security risks being ignored
The best advice you'll ever get about building a startup
The really interesting thing here is:

A majority of c.l.l. 'celebrities' try to convince each other how unimportant Arc is, but nevertheless they literally spend hours and hours writing their comments about it...

(At least they help to push the interest in Lisp generally.)
Inaugurating the New York Times Deathwatch
Yes, sorry I was being cranky yesterday. I had just come off a harrowing (but productive) week on the Job... Publish or perish time for me!

So after my hangover wore off (we went out last night), I decided that I shouldn't be such a grouch and I should take a gander at arc rather than just shoot my mouth off about how I don't want to dick around with my near 20k lines of CLISP code (wc #of lines, which include comments).

I looked very quickly at the tutorial and I have to say that I very much like the feel. And although I am under strict personal orders not to think about code these days, I can't help but to plot out a potential porting path. The first thing will be to build some macros so that my common lisp code looks more arc like. This would force me to clean a lot of things too, perhaps knocking it down to 10k if I am lucky. I also know I am doing a lot of dumb things here and there so perhaps if I am really lucky/skilled I can get it down to 5k.

Then I will see how things evolve and do the port when I get the time. It looks like arc will have good momentum and will breath life into the community, so yes I think it's a great thing.
Python Functional Programming HOWTO
True that infix < doesn't appear right after parens, but in the minds of most people, there isn't really a notion of "infix" as an entity unto itself. The alligator just eats the bigger fish.

Really, the problem is that a small amount of whitespace can change the meaning of the code.

(< 1 2) => #t

(<1 2) => #f

...for a convenience function <1 that semantically means "is less than 1". Maybe you wouldn't define such a function, but having to think about it at all or having to mentally redefine < somewhat validates the idea that the syntax here is a stumbling point.
There is no conspiracy!
(I plan using genetically engineered cyber-goats, orbital brain-lasers and a beowulf cluster of atomic super-men.)
I'm sure many groups better than YC will spring up, barring a major market collapse.

It's hard to even look at YC in a positive light anymore. They've gotten too greedy in just choosing the most ideal cookie-cutter groups that follow their rigid profile of the ideal founders.

It just always seemed that YC had a bigger vision than making lots of cash. No longer.

This is not unique to YC, many successful people admit later in their careers that they would never, today, hire themselves. I just wonder if YC will continue down this path or reach a point where they will turn around, stop trying desperately to prove themselves and make a more meaningful difference.
The future of Linux: what it means for Wikipedia
> Maybe a discussion of how many major sites have grown 'organically' vs. getting major coverage..

Explosive growth 100% organically is a total myth.
At the risk of meriting this story with a response, from what I've read, I was under the impression that Arc was not implemented as an interpreter, but rather, using macros. This would mean Arc has more of a compiler implementation (Arc => PLT) than an interpreter. Am I wrong about this?

(It's on my list to read the source code, but haven't yet.)
Third undersea cable cut
Hitachi Does Microsoft Surface Without the Table
To each is own :)
After almost 15 years of OO in C++ I jumped in the functional bandwagon (Haskell, Common Lisp etc)

I sure find (e (d (c (b a)))) easier to read.

Here's why:
In your first exemple "a.b().c().d().e()" you have to read up to the end to know what you are "really" doing, i.e. calling e() whereas in "(e (...))" up front I know the most important part: I'm calling function "e" on something.

The funniest part is even if you consider it from object perspective the message is more important at least to my view, even OO father Alan Kay thinks that too (see Computer Revolution has not happend).

As someone said before what we know condition us to what will be easier to read, to that I'd like to add that it is also "how we undestand thing". Sure I know C++/Java syntax better but the way I conceptualize OO is more through message than object...

Think about it this way do you like when you speak to someone and they start by a very lengthy introduction which you have no idea where it is leading to realise at the end that they were trying to sell you something? Or do you prefer to know up front and then listen for as much detail as you need before determining if you are interested or not?
Ask YC: Do I need to add eye candy/music to my Numbrosia Puzzle to compete with other casual games?
There's little of that now:

http://numbrosia.com

At one point, I tried adding space images as level backgrounds along with a transparency effect, but I heard major complaints about that!
Humans weren't made for scrolling and searching. We were made for zooming.
Digging through a few of the other threads there, a complaint about using = as a generalized set was among the best example of complaints I've seen about arc yet. Using = promotes proggramming in a non functional style (apparently), but lisp is multiparadigm anyway. I have yet to read what the paradigm of arc is supposed to be, but my assumptions are, whatever one you want.
Microsoft runs Linux Smear Campaign
Inside the gPhone: What to expect from Google Android
For the record, I did not submit this article, and specifically declined a request to do so. It's not that I don't stand by what I wrote (I do) but it was written for a specific audience at a specific time and I don't think it deserves the attention that it's getting now.
After all of those proposed changes, Lisp is still just too easy to read for the elite hackers it targets.
Why not just use a CRC8 for each keyword as an identifier instead?
I've been working on compiling this type of directory. When its finished its gonna go up at www.buzzfolder.com . Email office at unchartedventures dot com if you want me to let you know when i finish it. should be about a week now...
i wouldn't say it was "false" so much as "simplified." it was "microsoft's operating system" in the sense that they owned it, had the rights to license it to ibm, and saw potential where ibm didn't.
Source: Yahoo employees say "there is no way in hell that we are going to work for Microsoft."
Pennsylvania Sues Woman For Selling Goods On eBay Without A License
I read a book called "The 10 differences between the middle class and millionaires," I think the first difference the author makes is that the middle class talks about people and millionaires talk about ideas.

This has stuck with me and I generally try to avoid conversations that are about people...
Make Goals not Resolutions
New site has users wager on news stories
Give us some more info :) Sounds interesting
Thanks! The search form doesn't require every field, but if that's not obvious, I should make sure to make it obvious. I suppose I could also put a simple Section>Course # search field on a side bar. "Quick Search"
maybe email is really boring
There's no way in hell I'm keeping my yahoo email if the merger goes through.
I think web based start ups could be massive in the under-developed world. They don't have the infrastructure as more developed nations. Look at Estonia they have moved most of their infrastructure online and its working well for them(well if you discount the russian cyber attack a while back). The problem for these countries is internet access but there are lots of pretty cool projects giving them access. Also with open source development tools wide and the low computing power needed for developing web apps the barrier to entry is a lot lower.

of course if anyone from these countries applyed and they had something that sparked interest they would be invited over to YC interviews. Its not that different than me applying from the UK.
I'm not sure what this has to do about the article but this is a comment that just stood up and yelled to get my attention. From the millionaires I've met, I seem to find that they tell a story that relates to the point they are making. And they're not afraid to admit their weaknesses. And they talk about ideas.
cool, I have dropped you an email.
Isn't it supposed to be "teh" suck?
How about if we request you to give us some real examples? Please... Pretty please... :)
twenty thousand-ish. Finding a domain was painful. First we wanted tipit.com, but we couldn't even get the squatter that owns it to respond. Then we wanted hotpotato.com (god I'm so glad that didn't work out) -- the dude wanted like $80,000.

Luckily, once we thought of thepoint, not only did it become our favorite, the guy that owned it was cool and reasonable and not in the business of making a buck off of domains.
Call me skeptical, but the author seems to do a pretty good job describing the features with existing features in Unix.
"Eccles figures most people who like to bet on events are more interested in the bragging rights of being right than in actually winning money."

Eccles must not know any gamblers. Without money there are no bragging rights.

You can bet on the news for actual money on Intrade, which already has trouble resolving some wagers properly.
This article makes out that there will be a gPhone. They denounced it, the machine doesn't exist, nor will it in the near future. Google is an application company, they develop for platforms.
Or you could write an update for this new audience you've suddenly found.
SF founder of Imbee web site for kids killed with son in jet crash
Microsoft-Yahoo: What Will Stay And What Will Go?
Yeah, I'm curious what you're doing. I've tried all sorts of things, and ended up settling on an excel spreadsheet :(
Don't forget the evil femmebots: http://www.ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=54
Has anyone downloaded and played with their SDK? Any projects to report?
I'm porting Hecl (hecl.org) to it, and went to meet some of the Google guys in Munich last week:

http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2008/01/29/munich-androi...

There are definitely some open questions, but I'm fairly sold on the idea.
That reminds me, I'll need to change registrars...
Some do, some don't. But most frightening to most investors is the unreliability of the capitalism that does exist. See Kenya, for a recent example. Would you invest in a company in a nation that may, or may not, have a free market to operate in next year? Kenya has, for the past several years, seen tremendous economic growth and development, much of it supported by outside investment...but with the newly elected leadership, genocidal military actions, and a return to the tribalism and cronyism that accounts for the problems in the rest of undeveloped Africa, those businesses are fleeing and the economy is collapsing...with the favorite people of the new president dividing up the corpses of industry amongst themselves.

Russia, while not undeveloped, has seen tremendous investment over the years from outsiders...and a very big amount of that investment has vanished into the void that is a constantly shifting economic picture and the pockets of former KGB leadership who leveraged their power into positions as "captains of industry" as state-run services were privatized into their possession. Same story...if you can't rely on the rule of law to protect your investments, you not only take on the risk of investing in a new idea and unproven people, you're also betting that the government won't rip it all out from under you when it begins to succeed and give it to their favorite crony.

The US isn't unique in offering respect for rule of law (nor is it getting better in this respect), basically free market, and checks and balances to prevent any one person from wielding too much power over businesses, but it has a long and stable history in these areas. Despite SOx, the US is still one of the best places to start and grow a business...and no matter what happens with the leadership of the nation, it probably will remain so for the foreseeable future. This is also why investors like Delaware corporations...well-understood and very slowly evolving corporate law.

So, it's not just capitalism, but consistency: the removal of one variable from the risk side of the equation.
Elevator pitch site Vator.tv raises round
I just posted a reply to this sort of thing:

http://www.paulgraham.com/arcchallenge.html

I'm interested to see how Mr. Bone will do with whatever presumably much superior language he currently prefers...
I'm still getting a private jet to pilot if I can ever afford it. The day I'm too afraid to do that is the day I'm already dead.
Better than I expected considering the title. It's negative advice, though: it doesn't tell you what to do, just what not to do.
Getting linked to from those sites helps more than you think. For one, it's exposure to a million plus people. True, most of them never click through, and most of the ones who do never stick, but if you even get 50 customers out of it that's pretty sweet given that it takes zero time on your part. I wouldn't recommend putting a lot of effort into getting Crunched or Dugg, but it's certainly a good thing when it happens.

You'd also be amazed how many people contact you after a TechCrunch. Dell salesmen, other people in your niche, and all sorts of assorted nutjobs wanting to partner with you or sell you something you don't need. I don't know of anyone who got anything useful that way, but I'm sure it's happened.

I'm told there was a day when being featured there meant something, and instead of crazies contacting you it was investors, but those are long gone. Still, it's certainly not bad.
Every popular Lisp dialect has assignment. They can't have been complaining about that. The gripe must have been with my choice of = as the name for assignment.
Comparison of open data initiatives
We'll see what they have to say in the depths of a recession.
I have done two startups, one successful and one misreable failure.

So Go ahead and ask :-)
The shortest literal fn would be [if _]. But really you'd
use idfn, not a literal fn.
RealPlayer Gets Slapped with "Badware" Label
If they are excellent software engineers/researchers, then I think they will find more opportunities in a combined Yahoo/Microsoft.
Take the Arc Challenge
No project, but I did play around with it. Aside from the general complaints about getting use to Java after Ruby, I liked how the application fit into the overall OS.

However, one has to adhere to an application lifecycle, which was a little different, since we're use to pretending that the application we're writing is the only one on a machine.

The UI isn't programmatic, like Swing, but rather is reminiscent of web programming by defining the UI through an XML file.
The rundown of the 13 mostly-inappropriate board members is the best part.

But would a good board even be possible and effective given the Sulzberger family control, through a dual-class voting structure? Do the Sulzbergers really want the NYTimes to be a profit-making enterprise, or do they get enough satisfaction out of it being the de facto mouthpiece of the bien-pensant establishment?

And might Google someday become ossified in the same way, given that it has a similar dual-class voting structure?