skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you understand how the hidden side of "capitalism" works - as long as a few people continuously control how much money is in the money supply via banks, whether you realize/like it or not, the whole world is socialist in that respect.

>doesn't it make sense then for the system not to reward them for their behavior; and instead to reward people that can change and work both hard and smart?

I think you're a bit too optimistic about the nature of the system and the people who run it; it's not setup to "reward" anybody but the people who set it up to reap wealth at other's expense.

Do you think if you "do the right thing" and "work hard" and be really smart the bankers and billionaire's are secretly getting together going, "That guy's doing the right thing - let's reward him"

Please. First they'll see you as a threat and try to figure out how to get rid of you or control you. Last thing they want is to "reward" you for "smart behavior"
We're using Target Process (targetprocess.com). They are basically a Rally competitor, but we found their product much simpler to use and much cheaper. We love it.
I have heard there's a fair VC/Entrepreneurial presence in San Diego, for instance, Slacker.com is based there.

But as someone pointed out, I would be more concern about the beautiful beaches and weather. Lots of distraction certainly :)
san diego really sucks if you don't have a car.

most of the startup stuff is biotech.
I can't verify this from experience, but git is probably faster.
Git is written in C and Mercurial is written in Python.
1. add more text to the page, put a paragraph or two below the puzzle describing what it is. Use Keywords in that paragraph that you want ads for. You don't have to overdo the keyword usage, just sprinkle them in a few times.

2. Move the ads towards the center, closer to the puzzle. I wouldn't have even glanced at those ads on my widescreen if I wasn't looking for them. This will help your clickthrough rate.

3. Don't expect to get rich off adsense puzzle ads.
"I know it's far from Silicon Valley." - As if all good things happen in SV.
Invite-only betas make THOG ANGRY! Grrr! Arrg!

Allow me to vent my rage by quoting Wil Shipley again:

Don’t announce until it can be downloaded. Don’t let it be downloaded until it can be bought.

Seriously. Here's the P.R., right here on the front page of news.yc, ground zero of the elite-hacker P.R. machine, and the site isn't ready. Momentum: halted. Opportunity: wasted.
My favorite dirt cheap (but nutritious) dinner is mujadarrah.

1 1/2 c. lentils (rinsed)
3/4 c. rice (rinsed)
1 onion
6 Tbsp. olive oil

Slice the onion into 1/4 inch thick rings. Fry them in the oil over
medium heat for 15 minutes. They'll be kind of ropy when they're done, at
which point you should take them off the heat.
While the onions are cooking, put the lentils and 1 quart of water
in a medium to large saucepan over medium high heat. Get the water
boiling and cook the lentils uncovered for 15 to 20 minutes. Once the
lentils have started to soften up, add the rice, a little salt, and a
lot of pepper. Reduce the heat to low and cover. Once the water is all
absorbed, stir in the onions, let it cool for a minute or two, and dig in.

Definitely stay as close to raw ingredients as possible. I've lived out of
two cookbooks for the last several years:
- Mark Bittman's "How to Cook Everything"
- Deborah Madison's "Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone"

Learn to not be picky. Ramen may be cheap and taste sort of ok, but you
need to take care of your body if you want a well functioning mind. Learn
to love things like kale... cheap, available year round, VERY good for you.
Boil it until tender and hit it with a little tabasco.
I was joking about Blub. In the context, it would have been extremely unreasonable to describe the merits of Ruby and Lisp in more detail.

Regarding AOP, when I saw the video, I thought "OMG! Someone invented OO COME FROM by matching stackframes!". Indeed, a question in the video subsequently alluded to a stack implementation.

Anyhow, although it is possible to write an entire application in aspects, it is likely that the worthwhile threshold for doing anything in AOP is larger than the threshold for doing anything in OO. In trivial cases of OO and AOP the execution overhead is minimal. Furthermore, there's opportunity to reduce overhead when you've got a bytecode implementation. I'll give an example using testing and asserts.

If we had a bytecode implementation which supported aspects and we loaded a test harness, the test harness aspects could effectively add asserts throughtout the code. If you don't load the test harness then the asserts aren't formed. Languages like Ruby are ideal in this situation because the bytecode can be devised such that trivial and non-trivial cases can be easily added into already compiled bytecode. This means that you've got hooks everywhere without forethought and with minimal overhead. Planning ahead remains a better option but its nice to have a fall-through case which scales.
The page already has too much text for a puzzle site!
Check out Adpinion.com
Conclusion: heavy work in progress, has lots of potential, don't touch until final release :-)
Antimatter
"A better idea would be to set a cookie with the hash of the user id + some secret salt + a timestamp. The secret salt gives us some protection against said script kiddie, while the timestamp will make the hash expire. Neat!"

From those couple sentences, it really doesn't seem like this person knows what they're talking about. The hash won't "expire" just because you have a date in it...and because we're talking about one way hashes there is no realistic way for you to figure out what date was hashed in there. Maybe they meant the date on the cookie...still a big error to make in a field with no room for the tiniest of errors.

Hashing the password in Javascript before sending it over an insecure connection is pretty sweet (but it's not AJAX, just Javascript).

----

Yeah, that post over at matasano.com is great. Really an eye opener and got me thinking about things.

I've being using "stretching" since I read about it on their blog. I basically have this:

function hash_password($password, $salt)
{
for(i = 0; i < 50000; i++)
{
$password = sha1($password.$salt);
}
return $password;
}

My salts are all randomly generated using letters, numbers and symbols and are at least 15 characters long. It takes about 1 second to run that on my web server, so it slows down brute force login attempts. It will also take someone forever an a day to use a rainbow table against it since they have to match the hash fifty thousand times. It's not a s secure as something like Blowfish, but it's leagues better than just a single sha1($password.$salt);
look at pubmatic (http://pubmatic.com), they do a lot of ad optimizations with 5 or 6 of the top 8 ad networks.
san diego really sucks anyway. and that's coming from a native. :)
Damn. Men of the right stuff...
Ah, the Jobsian theory of restaurants.
Let's bet.
They may not raise their prices right after major competition leaves, but by removing the competition, they do increase traffic.

So, even though they may not raise prices, they make it up on volume.
That's just because only superpowers can afford "god rods": http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/00...
Very insightful article. Interesting that he never mentions standards. Failure to adhere to standards is a BIG source of problems.

(Of course, the only good standards are the ones that I make.)
Oh no! Not beautiful weather and beaches! Next you’ll be telling me there’s gorgeous women and a short drive to Mexico!
Because this is the place where we like to hang out. There are many smart people around and the quality of the discussion is very good. Plus we don't want to register in every blog on earth.
same here. and its free for less than 5 users
What I want to know is would I be shooting myself in the foot by trying a startup in San Diego?
Automated killer robots 'threat to humanity'
rsnapshot -keep multiple, full backups instantly available
DRBD - block device which is designed to build high availability clusters
I used to work for a small boutique testing/QA shop. They took this approach with almost all their internal documents. In order to get people to actually read and absorb new documents and/or presentations, they would deliberately salt the content with one falsehood. It was a very effective technique.
Biotech/computer startups! We can't all be doing social networks and aggregators ;)

Just think about coding looking unto the beach with a cup of tea. Living the dream.
Adobe Flash to cross-compile code from C, C++, Java, Python, and Ruby to ActionScript
Would be interesting to see what's the proportion of users using ad blockers.

I agree. I'd further guess that there is a strong correlation between the likelihood of a person running an ad blocker and the likelihood of a person ignoring ads in a non-blocked environment.
iPhone Haptic Keyboard Prototype debuts
I agree that adding a little more text about the kind of ads you want would help, then also use google adsense targeting. This way google will use only the text that you think will help bring up relevant ads for your site. You might also consider having an about page that beside talking about the game discusses similar games and links to them. I have found having a few pages with similar content helps google when targeting ads.

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=...
On the front page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=124630
Yes, but note:

"In order to properly implement this feature, you'll need to include a significant amount of content within the section targeting tags. Including insufficient content may result in less relevant ads or PSAs."

So you can't just surround the word "puzzle" for example with section targeting.
This looks like a definite step forward in design for Facebook, but does anyone know what they are doing about their business model? This is what I am really curious to see. Do flyers and beacon alone justify the multi-billion dollar valuations?
AOL to Microsoft: Yahoo bid “a mistake” «
Adobe Flash is aiming to become the Applet of the 2000's. They very well might pull it off - except that Flash content is not discoverable by search engine crawlers (startup idea anyone?)
The only nonprofit that matters (Kiva, DonorsChoose)
Read some books about the startup experience, get ready to enjoy the ride.
You should read Getting Real by the 37 Signals group. Might explain why some with fewer features are growing faster.

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/
I heard you guys have the best weather... no?
From the article: Whatever I did from here on out, I told my counselor, it would be as part of a team.

Therapy can be expensive. This is a good case for having co-founders.
Provigil (Modafinil) is the wonder drug for people working all-night on deadlines. You don't have to sleep. http://www.slate.com/id/2079113/

I'd take the 'virtually no side effects' with a little caution, of course.

Personally, I prefer working on the adrenaline that comes from an impending deadline. Whether this is healthier than using stimulants - I don't know. It works for me.
BBC Now Has Beautiful Customizable Website
Hey, I’d Actually Pay For That
Write it yourself. I will say that teasing out the features you want to score can be some work; does anyone here know if the CRM114 package helps with that?
Who said Google was taking a loss on Gmail? All they did was shift the source of revenue. Gmail displays a LOT of ads on any given day. I know I spend more time in my gmail account than on any other website (including YC News), so the exposure is huge. Since ads are the primary revenue source for Google, this looked like a brilliant move to support its ad product, not an attempt to muscle into the email biz for its own sake.

(I don't know if Gmail is actually profitable, because I doubt even Google breaks it down like that officially, but I suspect they aren't just pitching money down a black hole in order to gain marketshare in the email business.)
You forgot the neon green marquee text in alternating caps and lowercase proclaiming the person is "misunderstood/forged in fire" or some other emo crap.
EU fines Microsoft record $1.4bn
"no longer a pain in the ass"

One of the better slogans I've read in a while.
A stellar case of youth not being wasted on the young.
> Do you think it’s worth it to a pay a bit more for 99.99999% reliability has opposed to using some cheap, fly-by-night or free host?

'Paid' doesn't automatically mean 'better'.
The guy is quite ignorant. First, "oral rehydration therapy" is not about copyrights, but it theoretically could be patentable. Second, there _are_ taxes on patents - that's what those post-award fees are.
"Intellectual property" is a silly euphemism
No! What goes on inside your head is infinitely more important than what goes on inside your neighborhood.
I'm glad i dont have to work for people like that boss - scary stuff
NewsGator Mobile Downloads - RSS for mobiles
Apple Mail plug-ins and tools
Sounds a lot like pressure from Silverlight's DLR allowance for multiple languages, doesn't it?

If so, this is a good example of competition "waking-up" age-old platforms (like Flash).
Tea can provide a nice, steady dose of caffeine.
Sandboxed C/C++ bytecode? I'll believe it when I see it.
Some of us like discussing articles within the bounds of a familiar community.

Do you really think Flickr won't survive unless they change their freemium model?
A better reference for the non-nanotech stuff you mention is his "Hypertext Publishing and the Evolution of Knowledge"[1] (which clearly cites the prior work of Bush in 1945 and Nelson in 1978).

Discussion forums as we know them today have been around since about 1978 and ad-supported publishing predates the 1800's.

I can't seem to find any specific mention of what we today know as pagerank (i.e. the cumulative probability that a given user will arrive at a given page) at all in either work.

[1] http://www.e-drexler.com/d/06/00/Hypertext/HPEK1.html
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombina...
Believe it. http://blip.tv/file/408241 (It gets interesting at 4:50)
That's the validation for news.bbc.co.uk, a different BBC site from bbc.co.uk which passes validation nicely: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk...
Hm. This may make flash suddenly relevant to me and many others. Actionscript itself is weird, so I've avoided it. But python or ruby, that's workable. I wonder if they're going to do it at the bytecode level for java? That would open up a variety of other interesting languages.

What I want to know is: what's the value of this to Adobe? It's been apparent for ages that they're trying to claim platform share. But I don't understand what this buys them. Sales of developer tools? That can't possibly be very much. I can imagine it being 'strategic', but I don't know how.

Perhaps this is why I'm in a cubicle, not a boardroom. :)
Man-machine integration is the future ;)
Congratulations :-)

Especially since it seems that your submissions are interesting and your comments insightful.

Keep up the good work...
How a beautiful software system becomes "Dr.Frankenstein's monster"
I'm always mystified when Steve Pavlina posts get voted up onto the front page. He does a great job of self-promotion, but I have a hard time reading his stuff because he goes on and on, and he has that whole 11:11 thing on his web page.

If you are not familiar with 11:11 then read Uri Geller's web site: http://www.uri-geller.com/articles/11.htm Benford's Law would tell us to expect to see numbers beginning with 1 a lot and hence it's no surprise that the number 11 seems to turn up a lot. Ooh. Cue the spooky music.

That's just another example of my law: "To idiots, any sufficiently simple explanation is indistinguishable from magic"
"Digital property" would be a better term for the stuff Doctorow talks about in this article.
I think by aiming toward brevity, what he is actually aiming for is the ability to refactor code into something more brief.

The idea is that by ensuring the progression of long code becoming shorter, and by upholding his second principle (axiomaticity), he is making sure that the code he does factor out will be useful to future programmers. He is removing the need to write common boilerplate code -- and giving the ability to remove boilerplate code to all programmers.

And that supports the idea that PG likes about Lisp -- that the language evolves with the program. The reason it seems to only be good for web programs is that his principle application is a web program. If he were to work on some other kind of program, say a word processor, you would see different kinds of abstractions.

The point is that the language can be adapted to ANY kind of application. That is what he is aiming for. And that's why he doesn't want you to have to count library import statements. He wants to compare the code you have to write repeatedly, not the once-off code. He is claiming that the code you have to write repeatedly indicates how expressive a language is. If you have to repeat yourself, then the language does not adequately represent the abstraction you want to capture.

That's what _On Lisp_ is about. That's what basically all of his Lisp essays are about. Paul Graham is aiming for brevity so that he knows that any programmer can make their program brief by evolving the language. Brevity is a sign of a tight fit between language and the concepts expressed in the program.
Here's another vote for Trac.
I am pretty resistant to any effects of caffeine - but I enjoy coffee, tea and Coke, so I consume a fair bit.
It does appear customizable. I don't see what's beautiful about it, though.
"An inconvenient truth" was one of the better movies I've seen recently. It didn't cost all that much to make and has turned out to be quite profitable.

The big studios would like us to believe production expense is related to quality, but I doubt that's the case.
Love: First Person Not So Massively Multiplayer Adventure Game
Who else is located here in San Diego?? I love it here, but I don't feel like I'm surrounded by many other people who have the same interest in web startups. So in that sense it's not very motivating for me. But the weather is great, the beaches are nice, and the ladies tend to be more attractive ;-)
Resources and lots of like minded people. That is what you'd be missing if you skipped SV and headed to San Diego. I'm an entrepreneur myself and moved to San Diego (from NY) almost 2 years ago.

I was working on a startup coming out here and the beach and weather did not help me focus (but other distractions including living with my college friends directly ON the beach).

That aside you can find like minded people, but it is much MUCH MUCH harder. I've joined a couple startup groups on meetup.com and actually that is how my current partner and I met. But I haven't been to any meetups since.

Personally, the weather is beautiful and does give me inspiration, but I wouldn't sacrifice all the resources that you would get in SV.

... one pro to San Diego aside from the weather might be if you do have a somewhat successful startup here you may get more attention since there are so few. Take Goowy (http://news.yahoo.com/s/sddt/20080208/lo_sddt/aolacquiressan...) for example.

Hope that helps!

John
Good point, failing fast is success if you learn from it.
How does it enhance your productivity? Similar to caffeine where you can stay a bit more alert?
Do you drink it as a tea throughout the day?
I guess, but you're surrounded by SUV-driving, GOP-voting soccer moms.

And god help you if you're a plaintiff in a wrongful injury lawsuit against any organization; the jury will be entirely composed of former military and police or their wives and they'll assume your case is frivolous irrelevant of the facts. I could tell stories that would make your blood boil.

I've heard people describe San Diego as a sprawling faux automobile-metropolis and I agree. Our city government is so corrupt and incompetent the New York Times called us Enron by the Sea.

Bottom line, San Diego kind of sucks (I have lived here all my life).

I suggest San Francisco instead if you have a choice.
I only read the first page, but you really get VC for software and web startups, not publishing companies.
Google Slips Amid Signs of Ad Slowdown
Microsoft Trying to Appeal to the Unix Crowd?
Top headline: "EU fines Microsoft record $1.4bn".

I like it already.
validates != beautiful
NetworkMiner - Passive Sniffer & Packet Analysis Tool for Windows
I actually recently began taking a B-complex.

I am pretty physically active, which is why I began taking it, but I have noticed a definite improvement in how long I can work with a 'clear head'. I did a bit of research around it and also found some studies suggesting it helps long-term with cognitive functions.

I suppose that is why redbull and a few other energy drinks throw a lot of B in their drinks.

(It is the only supplement I take, so perhaps through my diet I am missing a certain vit-B, YMMV)
+1 for the In-N-Out reference. Love that place.
Something’s broken. I set my sports to include “football” and it says nothing about the NFL draft!
It’s not pretty, but after spending 30 seconds working with it I am very impressed by its ease of use and usefulness. Love it!
Doctorow's article is all well and good. He doesn't like the term. I get that; he's said it before.

But I never quite manage to understand exactly what he proposes to substantially replace the existing legal and semantic structure. If I make something that doesn't have a particular physical manifestation, what rights and obligations do I have to that creation?

I think that, when pressed, many people who sympathize with Doctorow in this debate would assert that a thing that has no physical manifestation conveys no rights to its creator. But I wish they would come out and say that directly, instead of dancing around the issue while making essentially content-free semantic arguments.
"Property" is exactly the word which should not be used for the things Doctorow discusses. The differences between the intrinsic value of knowledge and the intrinsic value of physical possessions are great enough that any attempt to control them in the same way is fallacious.

The treatment of knowledge as property leads to unwise analogies, decisions, and laws. "Intellectual Property" is a loaded term used to mislead people into making decisions against their own self-interest.
Making jokes like this is how I lost half my karma the last time I started closing in on 100.
Works great in Opera too
While I generally agree that Steve Pavlina has jumped the shark (when he started pitching that self-affirmation guy (whatever his name was)), he does have some good articles from back in the day.

His 10 reasons you should never get a job is one of my favorite motivator articles:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/07/10-reasons-you-shou...

Like you say, if we can learn anything from Steve, it's how to promote ourselves. The guy is either really good at it (if he makes what he claims to make) or really good at faking it. (Is there a difference on the internet?)
"you're surrounded by SUV-driving, GOP-voting soccer moms"

That is starting to sound a mighty bit like Kansas. wince
I find it funny ;)
> very impressed by its ease of use and usefulness

Yeah, thats the meaning of beauty I meant.
I like it, but I can not find anyway to register. I don't want to lose my settings after cleaning the cookies or I would like to have the same options at my home or at work, or whenever I am. 7/10.
I was going reply to you with a joke about people on the other side of the pond but decided against it.

'Karma' does work, though it is just a number.