skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CuteOverload is raking in the rewards. Somehow kittens can rake in the money.

Speaking of monetizing, tipjoy doesn't actually offer you a cash payout - only amazon gift certificates. A tipjar on tipit.to does, though.
http://www.dilbert.com/

http://www.thedailywtf.com/
if you're really determined to figure out their revenue, work your way backwards from their 9 employees. Most software companies take in $100,000-$200,000/yr per employee per year in top line revenue.
Yes I use it.

Yes I recommend it.

It doesn't replace dead-tree in many cases, but for those "I need to know some obscure info or recipe for X RIGHT NOW" cases it's worth the $20 (IIRC) per month, even if I don't touch it for 3 months.

For books that I really want to read in-depth, I just buy the actual book. For bits and pieces augment-my-knowledge stuff, it's invaluable.
although I'd ask for at least $1M...
Too right! Don't bother with email or phones either. They are useless :/
Free Online Flash Games Check it out
icanhas was the first thing that popped into my mind heh
Snore. I count 29 instances of the word "inheritance" on this page. [1]

http://www.usatoday.com/money/2005-09-22-forbes-list_x.htm

Whenever someone wants to attack capitalism, they always seem to attack people born into wealthy families. That has nothing to do with capitalism. Nothing whatsoever.

In fact, one of the GREATEST CHANGES to take place with the industrial revolution was the reduction in the prevailance of nepotism due to the importance of technical and managerial skills, rather than clannishness. Clannishness, family preferences, primogeniture, cousin marriages, etc, are all necessary to maintain feudalism, not capitalism.

If you really hate capitalism, go straight to the real alternative: Command economy. This is where some brain dead bureaucrat decides who gets wealth based upon adherance to political orthodoxy--which is essentially what the teachers did in the end. Works great with fixed resources like toys. Doesn't work so great when the fields need tilling.

[1] EDIT: Should be several higher. They only wrote "WalMart inheritence" once.
Wow, I'd buy one except the shirts are seriously 100 bucks. I thought they were joking.
I have access to it through my employer, but very rarely remember that I have access to it. That said, I have found it useful in the past and would recommend it if an only if you'll remember you have it.
While I very much agree with your statement of the zero-sum problem (as I posted above), I interpreted the rules they came up with totally differently...

* All structures are owned by the state, everyone can use them, but only the person living there is allowed to decorate.
* Groups take priority over individuals.
* Everything must be the same, lest anyone feel superior/inferior.

I think the lesson they taught kids was terrible (it's better if everyone is the same), but I liked the way they taught it by challenging the kids to examine their own assumptions. The problem was merely that the kids were examining them based on flawed premises, as you stated.
Cool idea.

I remember a company that did something similar, a while ago. You would give it a URL and it would email you with any changes (It was before RSS and Web 2.0... probably around the time of the bubble). I think they even let you specify what type of changes to monitor by feeding in an XML file. Anyone remember the name of that site?
24 hours? i can make you a profit with a lemonade stand in 2 hours.

guess what? it's not scalable.
See the arrow? I didn't upmod it but somebody did so why bitch?
10^122, not 42, could hold the key to universal mysteries
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Rails
Microsoft-Yahoo Battle Getting Expensive. Should Microsoft Give Up?
Misleading by omission.

Should be"releases financial numbers... for yesterday."
The Library Paradox
Enthusiasm will get you very far. I've seen young, euthusiastic people without much knowledge or intelligence exceed the ability of old cynics.
So, the listing says it includes over 6 million tracks. I'm conservatively estimating the average length of a track to be 3 minutes. So, listening to the whole collection non-stop would probably take you more than:

(6000000 * 3) / (60 * 24 * 365) ≅ 34 years

That's... wow.
yeah - those who change the world are those that do not know that it is impossible.
Ask YC: Resources for building scalable, secure, distributed, componentized applications
'm in the process of defining a new architecture for my company's products (note: multiple products that are independently deployable by customers). Given our varied technologies (Java, C, etc) and distributed deployment model (some applications being SaaS and others being installed, but needing to talk to each other), I'm leaning towards a distributed web component model.<p>By "distributed web component model", what I mean is pretty similar to any other web component model (such as JSF) except that 1) we don't require components to be served from the same "application" (or even the same server) and 2) we don't require that the same technologies be used to implement them. We will use HTTP and some as-yet-undetermined authentication/authorization mechanism to tie the components together.<p>I can't imagine I'm the first to go down this path. I'm interested in any resources on how to accomplish this, how to ensure it is secure, and how to deal with identity management.<p>I have my ideas. I'd like to hear yours.
Uni-Form
What's your problem with property ownership? You want to make it so that if people actually work hard then everything gets taken from them anyway?

You're not talking about evening the score, you're talking about inhibiting people from ever getting ahead again.
Bill Gates' vision of digital utopianism is no match for China's realities
I think Basecamp makes boat loads more than we realize. That's why they're so secretive about the numbers.
Buy now at 3m, and you'll save 50c on each track that you'd otherwise purchase on iTunes for 99c!

The joys of buying in bulk.
Awesome BlueprintCSS framework hits 0.7
As you've considered, compulsory voting on its own doesn't solve the problem of disenfranchised voters. In Australia, I believe that they have compulsory voting and preference voting. So, people who are forced to vote will choose candidates in the order that they appear on identically printed paper ballots. This leads to the derisory comment that a politician listed at the top may have obtained office with a "donkey vote". It has also led to the election of dead candidates.

I believe that compulsory voting with a "none of the above" choice does exist. I'd be in favour of wider adoption. However, politicians have little incentive to change a system which was favourable to them and voters would rather see more important issues being tackled.
Of course, this is coming from one of the most intelligent people to walk the Earth, someone who never had to deal first-hand with a lack of smarts. On a similar note, I just heard that attractive women with rich, good-looking, intelligent, humorous husbands all agree that the only thing important in a man is a sense of humor. As luck would have it, we all have a bit of that and a bit of creativity. I'm inspired.
Can You Predict Happiness?
I'm sorry, but the way a portion of the YCNews community has handled this news article really gets to me.

First, it's clear that a large number of people think the news item is relevant. See the upmods. The map shows a technique for data visualization. It also relates to economics, which many of us would like to learn more of.

Second, just because you think this article isn't YC-worthy, don't go downmodding everyone's comment on the map and upmodding every negative comment. If you're going to do that, have the spine to downmod pg's comment.
Khoi Vinh's guide to designing beautiful sites using typography and applied grid theory
Powerful stuff, especially when combined with a grid framework like Blueprint (http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/)
This is not to say that lemonade stands are scalable but Alex's Lemonade Stand is an amazing story...

"Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (a registered 501c3 public charity) is a unique foundation that evolved from a young cancer patient's front yard lemonade stand to a nationwide fundraising movement to find a cure for pediatric cancer. Since Alexandra "Alex" Scott (1996-2004) set up her front yard stand at the age of four, more than $17 million has been raised towards fulfilling her dream of finding a cure for all children with cancer."

http://www.alexslemonade.org/
Manager of The Kaiser Chiefs predicts major changes in music industry's attitudes
Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid
Tipjoy will allow a cash payout once we go through the proper licensing as a money transfer agent. This involves complying with regulations in all 50 states and the US patriot act. Technically tipit.to could be held criminally liable for what they are doing.

We don't want that :)

The fastest way to get a legit cash payout is to spread the word about tipjoy, so that we can close a Series A funding & pay lawyers to solve this problem.

But you would be surprised how many people are interested in this _because_ it is all about charity.
Blu-ray
Systems biologists hatch plan for virtual human
Dean Kamen tests revolutionary prosthetics that closely resemble human motion
Self-healing rubber mends with simple contact (no heat or pressure required)
Just to show that we aren't making this up, look at the history of egold.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egold

"On 27 April 2007, a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. indicted e-gold Ltd and its owners on charges of money laundering, conspiracy, and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business."

My guess is that when the site was shut down, their users weren't very happy.
Power 3.0: Kinder, Gentler, and Better
The more I work on my project, the LESS code I have.

How will people ever believe it took that much work to make so little code?
Actually, only the new from yesterday - not the already signed up users.
Graphic Design Poster Competition Entries
I will never understand why people click topics just to comment on their irrelevancy. You're upset because you think someone is wasting your time, so you...waste your own?
How anyone here compared BlueprintCSS to YUI CSS foundation?

In an interview linked from the wiki, the creator said:
"The first CSS framework I checked out was the Yahoo User Interface Library, but found it to be way too bloated for what I want from a designers framework."

Here's an interesting response:
http://foohack.com/2007/08/blueprint-css-framework-vs-yui-gr...
I felt that way at first, but then it occurred to me that all these "isn't relevant" vs. "is too" disagreements, taken together, are the emergent behavior of this community defining its own scope. There's a middle ground between small-and-specialized and ruined-like-digg-and-reddit, and nobody quite knows where it is. Or rather, everyone draws the lines somewhat differently, and so there's this period of zillions of micro-negotiations while a consensus works itself out.

Edit: changed "narrow" to "specialized" to avoid implying that small is bad.
Someone is WRONG on the Internet
Don't forget to notify, when Bush retire :)
What I saw in the schools absolutely shocked me; How U.S. Students Can't Compete in High-Tech World
Venture Capital Wear - T-Shirts for Entrepreneurs
Changelog: http://blueprintcss.googlecode.com/svn/blueprint/trunk/CHANG...
Curious like a cat?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1098316453585764384
there is no api per se. You could post to their site programmatically.
EveryBlock: A news feed for your block.
Kudos to the submitter, but I couldn't finish reading this. I got too sick to my stomach about half way through. What an absolutely perfect microcosm of how government makes society go to hell.

Edit: I guess now I have to retract my comment from the other day on the trolling thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117146

Suddenly that article doesn't seem so ludicrous anymore :-\
Ask YC: What are your best SEO resources?
Please post what you have found to be the best resources for SEO.
Start Your Own Business by Mark Boulton
Yeah, I have about a 1 in 10^122 chance of understanding that.
Internet advertising | The ultimate marketing machine
These are the tidbits I come here for. Visualizing axod jumping in and out of his bathtub all day really gets my creative juices flowing!
Why Most VC-Backed, Ad-Supported Companies Are Doomed to Fail
Occasionally I'm also known to perch my Macbook on the toilet, facing the bath, and watch a movie/lecture or something.

I guess when I get a big office building and work there, I may have to get a bath installed in my office :/
Microsoft opens game development
Look before you leak - By Robert X. Cringely
The lesson itself is less troubling than these teachers' undertaking to shape the children's beliefs without any parental involvement or input--not, note, as part of a curricular course of study at a school, but in an after-school program at a children's center.

Still: If they'd done this to me as a kid, I'd have brought in one of my Lego pirate ships, sacked and plundered Legotown (Legograd?), and shared the booty with anyone who volunteered to join my crew.
Great post.
I forgot where (Greenspun, I think) but the gist was that non-profits must disburse 5% of their endowment each year but these mega$$$ universities were doing more like 3.5%-5%. It's worth giving away free tuition to some middle class kids to maintain that status. Some of the endowments (Yale, Harvard, Standford, etc) are so big that they're basically investment funds that run universities in order to avoid paying taxes.
Please keep us updated on all of your bath and toilet activities.
Graham's Law of Power - Peter Miller
The coolest part is that Andrew Hyde (founder of Startup Weekend) and his friend built this during a plane ride. Awesome!
VC portfolio & entrepreneurs - a scientific analysis
An old article - proves what is very well known. but an interesting statistical backing.

How VCs earn their keep

A research paper suggests some venture capital firms offer intangibles, such as experience and contacts, that are worth their weight in gold.

Offers from more-reputable venture capitalists are three times more likely to be accepted by entrepreneurial companies.
I like the idea, but I have rather odd habbits when I'm writing. I don't think many people can stand listening to one album 4 times while I'm completely zoned out from the music and haven't noticed it's stuck on loop in iTunes. I think the worst was when my girlfriend sent me a song, by the time I looked back into iTunes it said it had played 17 times, which was just about an hour.

So I'll probably just go with the age old, convert a bedroom into an in-house office and do my socialising after hours.
Nothing beats having people pay you for your product.
Merborial: Up and Running with Merb 0.9.0 (essentially 1.0RC1)
Awesome up your design with Ambient Backgrounds
http://www.SeoBook.com is probably my favorite, great signal to noise ratio.

http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com is a less frequent poster, but gives a lot of good gray/black hat stuff that you should at least understand, even if you don't use it.

http://www.seomoz.com is the obvious one, although most of thier content is more beginner oriented.

http://www.sphinn.com is the digg-style seo site, and tends to have about 10% useful content (IMHO).
I'm tempted to compile other applications with jemalloc
Using [MySQL | PostgreSQL] on Amazon S3/EC2
There are many talented designers on there. I asked for a bid for logos a while ago and got 15 bids that were up and down the line for quality. I just don't know how many designers on there are willing to work for equity.
he wasn't really insanely intelligent. what set him apart was his creativity and persistence. famous are his thought experiments and the ten-year gap between his special and general relativities

there are many people who are very intelligent, far more so than Einstein was, but aren't inclined to originality
I use a compass and a map when I go backpacking. No batteries/satellites required.
The following two sites have provided me with several great nuggets of information regarding SEO

http://www.shoemoney.com/

http://www.seomoz.org/blog
> I personally own one DVD, because there’s only one movie that I sometimes suddenly feel like re-watching without having to drive to Blockbuster or wait a few days to get from Netflix.

I'm almost paralyzed by my desire to know what that one movie is. Totally irrational, but I MUST know. I've discovered my purpose in life. I suppose there's a little Asperger's in all of us.
Sweet little tutorial, nice find.
Mark Shuttleworth announces Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)
Either intuition or a memory of a previous Matt Maroon article makes me pretty confident that it is the Big Lebowski.
Anyone have experiences with this service to share?
AJAX version of Mathematica on the way...
"My Typo blog on Ruby 1.8.6p111, Rails 2.0.2, Thin, and Nginx with no caching enabled handles 881 req/sec."
Lebowski seems like a pretty safe bet:
http://mattmaroon.com/?p=52

I guess if you only own one movie, that's a pretty good one.
YUI css is designed to do a few layouts well and make other layouts possible. Its not bad, but it is clunky to work with and a pain if you don't fit one of its proportional models precisely.

Blueprint is more logical and conceptually easier to understand - everything is put on a flexible grid and you choose how many grid units you want to use for each layout block.

I dig the rest of the YUI toolkit, but compared to blueprint, YUI CSS feels like a hack.
I'm not sure about small, but a site definitely doesn't have to be narrow to not suck. Old Reddit wasn't narrow, and it lasted for some time. Where did this meme even come from?
I actually like trolls of the 1st kind. You know, the practical jokers, the original trolls, the ones that have no real bad intentions but just like to be silly once in a while. The second kind, well, I just call them "people"
*before.

I seem to be highly susceptible to spelling issues and one word omissions while sleep deprived. PG, if you're reading this, consider allowing very small (~one word) edits after posts have persisted.
UI /Web Designers? Where can I find a good one?
Anyone have any good sources for UI designers? They need to know good web design principles as well!
"3. The very existence of this collection is surprising"

and worth hearing people whine about relevance!
My best resources are my best competitors :P Just being slightly cheeky here, but in some respects its true. The people who are at the top for the keywords I want to be - you can learn from their sites, how they're built, how they utilise the keywords, who links into them and how its done. This has helped us considerably
A.viary.com Beta Launches (Invites)
If we could foster that sort of thing in American schools, it would scarcely matter whether India and China better prepared their students for engineering (referencing another article that was on the front page the same time as this one)
It's interesting that the children, when left to themselves, solved their own disputes peacefully through negotiation and a form of organically-grown community law. They had no cause to complain about unfairness until the teachers used arbitrary force to impose a solution that nobody wanted to a problem that nobody recognized as a problem.
Murray Rothbard's essay, Society Without the State, http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard133.html, seems relevant here.
Cities and Wealth
Someone asked an almost identical question about 14 hours ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=119536
Quotes for Software Engineers
Society Without A State
How do you prevent people from using the things you claim ownership to without violence?
I'm sorry you feel that way. I'm still learning my way around...I'll take your comment under consideration for future subs.

Thanks!
If your parents make $101k, they don't charge you full price.
I think it comes from the site's original scope being limited to startup news. But you're right - "narrow" has a pejorative connotation, and I didn't mean to imply suckage. Maybe "specialized" would be more precise (I'll revise it).
that was my joke
>Some of the endowments (Yale, Harvard, Standford, etc) are so big that they're basically investment funds that run universities in order to avoid paying taxes.

If that is what they are, then what is the exit strategy?
4 space tabs FTW.
They probably just decided to scale back the budget by 5% on one "monument to some architect's ego".
I've never been able to relate to Lebowski for some reason. Loved many of the other Coen bros films, though. Using Matt's criteria for movie greatness, I can name several other movies off the top of my head that are much more quotable than Lebowski: Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Blues Brothers, Airplaine, Holy Grail, Fish Called Wanda, Napoleon Dynamite, Pulp Fiction.

...I must be significantly older than Matt, I guess.
I agree. Raising questions about appropriateness, complaining, and engaging in frank meta-discussion seem like healthy things, whether you agree with them or not. I also agree with downvoting the complaint if you disagree, though.

Think of a bunch of monkeys with ADD thoughtlessly firing cartridge after cartridge of snarky one-liners in the hope of winning some points from fans of snarky one-liners. Anything that is the opposite of that is probably a good thing.
I'm sure this will be great for simple things, but certainly CPU intensive things will be at least an order of magnitude slower in JavaScript?
Facebook users getting annoyed at 'invite friends' requirement
Link to http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc in the submit page & beside the "add comment" button, as is done with "help" on the profile page.

This is claimed in the "Formatting fixes" entry in http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html , but doesn't appear to me now.
I'm not upset - really :)

I can't downmod articles, so my only recourse is to leave a comment.

One bad submission leads to others (a news forum analogue of the "broken window " phenomena as explained in Gladwell's Tipping Point). I want this site to remain great.
Money was the reason I didn't apply to Stanford, but my grades and SAT's were the reason I didn't get into Berkeley ;)

Oh well. At least I got to go there for grad school (Berkeley, that is).
Fragile web dev with SQL on Rails
Full article here:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08051/858776-388.stm
they won't even look if it's less than 100
Yeah, good observation. I guess I like small and specialized.
Richard Thalheimer, Founder of Sharper Image, Talks for the First Time About His Ouster
Interview with an art thief
"A nightmare scenario for the company would be if it succeeds in its bid to acquire Yahoo, only to see its top talent move to new ventures."

Let's ask the yHaus folks what they think.
Yeah. I very much agree. So, the logical next question is, how would we use the same technique to teach kids better lessons?

* Resources should go to whoever can make the coolest things with them.
* Groups lead to compromises, great art is made by individuals.
* People aren't equal. You can be unequal too, if you work hard.
We will put some on 'startup' pricing soon.
We would have, but Google Checkout maxes out at 100k
Only if you take a naive first-grader's ultra-literal reading of what was said.

>Asked what makes Yahoo worth more than $40 billion, Gates pointed not to the company's products, its huge base of advertisers, or its market share, but rather to Yahoo's engineers.

No where does he say that all the other stuff is worth $0.
your business will most likely fail. I guess you just have to accept that and try despite the high likelihood of failure.
Sounds like you had a hell of a lot of Lego as a kid ;-) (It was kind of hard to omit the s).
If it is a banner exchange with other free users, where exactly does the AdSense come into play?
I've seen all of those. Maybe we just have much different conversations, because I never find anything from Ghostbusters to be apropos.

Pulp Fiction and Napoleon Dynamite are pretty high up my list for sure. Pulp Fiction might actually be number 2.