skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i've never heard of WURFL before, so i googled it, and it sounds interesting. not really up my cup of tea, though. i think you can get a much richer user experience by writing native Mac and iPhone apps, which i intend to do.
Acid2, Acid3, and the power of default
How  tag will impact future IE development
Something that is likely to change the situation to some degree is always-on connections. If you can do mobile phone web apps, that changes things around significantly. Ok, you don't get to actually access the phone, but there are still tons of 'good enough' apps to be made if people aren't worried about paying for connection time. And of course we all know about the deployment advantages of web apps.
Starting the next Bubble?
I have been known to be a "futurist" and by that I mean half my mind is always in the future. I'm usually thinking of things that will happen in the near future and how I can prepare for it and also the far future and what I can expect. And lately I've been noticing that my venture into startups might be very bad timing.
The value of news
Go for it. For bonus points, start a blog about writing it. Build your own iPhone development community. I'll gladly beta test it too.
Founder Matt Mullenweg on "Act II" for Automattic A
"get mothers to tell their bright daughters to go be programmers or computer scientists instead of doctors or veterinarians" - there's the best answer yet. Impossible to implement universally, impossible to resist if implemented effectively.
Get up off your butt, do something, anything, get creative, talk to people, volunteer, do what you'd be doing if you were getting paid. Great advice.

Funny, for a minute there, I didn't know if he was talking about finding a job or starting a business.
I want to ask a slightly separate question along these lines.

/rant

As a hacker/startup junkie, do you find yourself becoming judgmental of others and their work habits? A friend of mine was talking about their 'long workday' since they had to stay half an hour late, and I ended up ranting about how thats not a long work day. I felt a bit like a jerk after, since I hardly want to tell people how to live their lives, but it seemed like this talented individual is wasting their skills and lacks motivation.

I suppose what I am asking is does anyone else find that most people they know seem relatively unmotivated? Another situation I find common is a friend and my brother both talk about quitting work and starting their own thing, but when I actually worked briefly with both they seemed to average only a few hours of work a week into the project. How do you politely suggest that with that level of effort that they may not be suited to a startup?

I like to think of myself as open minded and non-judgmental, but for people I care for that seems to get thrown out the window.

/end rant
Interesting! I would like to see a collection of such errors for community use
Howto
WoW is just the precusor of the real-life Metaverse/Matrix as envisioned in Snowcrash/The Matrix/other SF
Movie Industry Admits It Overstated Piracy on Campus
Starbucks testing $1 coffee & free refills to fight competition
VC Baby
Most people haven't bothered to find a job that's really fulfilling for them; many people don't even think it's possible. It's just a necessary evil to pay for the rest of the things in your life. How motivated are you to tackle your "necessary evils?"
Check out Job's seminal announcement of the Mac in 1984 (along with several other interesting, excellent presentations).

http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2006/08/21/top-10-best-presentati...
Latest iPhone Firmware JailBroken
Apple stock plunges $30. Sky IS falling.
Scott Rafer on Lookery and MyBlogLog
Jon Udell: Hacking the Noosphere
I love GUI design.

The mobile-safari web-app I built:
http://poptakeout.com

Contact me through wademeredith.com if you need a graphic designer. (I can provide more design examples, as well.)

I've been wanting to do some native-mac stuff for a long time.
Build Your Own Gears Of War Lancer
Sorry to nitpick, but that really isn't a DOS.

That is more of a crawl that you are trying to prevent, which could be quite taxing on your system but it is not intended to be.

So, that being said, your approach should be roughly good enough to prevent that.
I wonder how well slide.com is doing in terms of revenue and users.
I fail to see how volunteering for eight hours helps a charity out better than working for eight hours at what I'm good at and giving away the proceeds. If the charity wants, it can make _any_ guy "volunteer" with the money I gave.
ZFS vs. HammerFS
Ruby Conferences vs. Go Tournaments
Pretty soon laptops will come with pepper spray.
I wonder if the accelerometer is precise enough for that-- it seems to have a slight delay when changing orientation, but that could be lag in the software.

I'd certainly be cool, though.
that's very pretty! i'll send you an email, once i get some other stuff out of the way today
Donald Knuth's list of programs to read and study
So you are using Google Charts huh?
I was actually kind of surprised by the answer that question, though.
But, you're changing the way that the site _can_ be used. Not saying the that recommendation engine works well, but it won't work at all if I can't rate things because I have no karma left. It also won't help me, if I use reddit in place of sites like del.icio.us or other social bookmarking sites.

Personally, I think the private subreddit thing is going to be a huge win, because it now becomes a better del.icio.us. In del.icio.us you can share links, but you can't easily discuss things about them. Now, in order for this to be really good, reddit will have to provide a "copy this to my private subreddit" and make it more blatantly apparent that you can actually become "friends" with others. It wouldn't hurt reddit if they made it super super easy to add and update the people allowed in the subreddit (I'm thinking API even).
Perhaps building a framework to make networking games easier would be fun for you?
12 Things I Wish I'd Known Before Building a Web App
Are Entrepreneurs Born or Made?
Ethan Herdrick (Biographicon):  Running a startup on Scheme.
Virgin Galactic Unveils Design For SpaceShipTwo
Microsoft will do what is best for Microsoft. They always have done what is best for them and they continue to do so. Microsoft takes the best add-ons and features from competitors and adds them to there own software. That is not a bad thing, Apple does it too. It just means that as they do, you have to figure a way to improve upon there new offering.
That would yield the IE solution described, though.
Or go back in time and save some money.
Agreed. However, Outlook is released so infrequently (~3-4 years) that by the time they could replicate and release the same features that Xobni is offering now, we'll be way ahead of them.
I said it was just off the top of my head :-)

Anyway, the argument about a site not being useful at all if you can't rate things because you have no karma left is easily countered if you head over to Slashdot and see how their system works. http://slashdot.org/faq/com-mod.shtml I absolutely agree though that it cannot be used as a del.icio.us or the like.

But it will be interesting to see how it plays out over at Reddit. I'm not holding my breath though...
Would you be happier if you are richer? [pdf]
The Great TODO List
A blog post on how I best organize my work priorities.
The author found that perhaps the best indicator of happiness was frequency of eating with friends and family.
Hopefully the SDK will let you do lot's of nifty stuff like pick who you want to play against from the contacts or detect gestures. Plus the app can work offline, the major downside to iPhone/iPod Touch apps.
I think that line of thought is on the right track. The reason money hold value is that they are a scarce resource. Some can have more than others, but only if they have earned it. Thus users with more "money in the bank" can have a stronger say. (note similarity with real world ;-))

The major problem with modding systems as they are today (in my humble opinion, that is) is that there are no scarcity. We all have all the money in the world, so to speak.

What this means is that we don't save our mod points, submissions or whatever because there is no cost in losing them. We can give away money and still have an unlimited amount. And we all have equal amounts.

We need to go from socialist to a capitalist modding systems :-)
Book a space now on out of this world tourist flight
Ask YC: Are the terms Lower, Middle, Upper-middle and Upper class too subjective to mean anything?
Apparently, everyone thinks they are middle class. I suppose this could be true for n-2 people. But, that isn't terribly meaningful.

What income levels do you think these terms should reflect? To what degree is it meaningful to adjust for cost of living?
Find someone else to politely deliver your message. That way the messenger they shoot won't be you.
It's on my list of things to play around with.

My pal Jonathan Zdziarski has written a book about iPhone development that O'Reilly will publish soon. Should be a good read.
i'm not sure how you could pick a network player from your list of contacts. you need to establish a tcp/ip connection; how do you go from a phone number to an ip address?

my idea was to use udp broadcasts to detect other people on your local network who are running copies of the game. if you want to play against somebody who's not on your local network, you'd have to enter a hostname or ip address.
Yes it is. Drive by any trailer park, each one of them has a DirecTV dish on top. This is the good old U.S.A., where not having money doesn't equal not spending money. And entertainment expenses are second only to food.
Did Tim O'Reilly also have a full time job? And even if so, does one data point show anything?

I've nothing against startup + family. It's startup + full time job that I think is a bad idea, and adding a family makes it worse.
Last.fm makes music free to listen to
I've been putzing with my iPhone for a couple of weeks now. I'm messing around with OpenGLES, UIKit, and the accelerometer.

Does anyone out there know how to get multitouch input in an objc app? I don't want to sit around experimenting with the crap in UIKit/ to figure it out.

You should implement your idea!
I wonder why he doesn't post formatted versions of these? Reading the raw CWEB source gets old fast.
I'm not attacking you by any means, just the common misconception that any one of these 5 things will solve reddit's problems.

I'm quite familiar with Slashdot, thanks. My point about not being able to rate things without karma is more about links than comments though.
Thanks for hosting this Justin.tv :)
This would be more useful with the audio from the talk:
http://cdn2.libsyn.com/carsonsystems/Ryan_Carson.mp3
Ruby fad going out?
I laid myself off too - after spending a year working stealthily on an online business!

To be honest, I can't understand people (as described in the article) who see being laid off as the time to sit back/chill out/do nothing/start drinking... I have so little time to do what I want, to learn about what I'm interested in, to create what I want to create, to write, etc... Being laid off seems like a fantastic opportunity to spend time on all these things!
New RescueTime Goals and Alerts Helps Rescue Your News.YC Time
"RescueTime users have spent: 38 days on news.ycombinator.com"
APPL has been due for a correction for a long time. Their main product achieved market saturation while their P/E ratio continued to soar.

Too bad I didn't have the cojones (or the faith in investor intelligence) to short it.
If your donating that much, great. It is still good to set aside 1 hour a week to donate your time. Try it just once.
"After working through a few issues it's working pretty well."

Can you please elaborate so that we can learn from your experience?
AMZN has three times the P/E of AAPL. May be you can short that.
A ton of people would disagree with you.
No Room for Ego in Entrepreneurship
It may have been interesting to hear this talk in person but on the web it reads like a long rambling stream of consciousness. He never quite gets anyplace I think he's trying to go.
How does the user generate a legitimate new image? You aren't handing out the secret key to everyone, so I assume that's being handled in an application component?
I didn't see it as such, more as an interesting conversation :-)

But won't you have the problem that Reddit seems to suffer from, namely that some users will downmod all other rising stories than their own? Maybe even bother to create multiple accounts for doing so?

And I agree, the above alone won't solve Reddits problems. But if someone with a bit of algorithmic sense had the dataset to look at I think that it should be possible to come up with a pretty good solution. Probably one using a multitude of technologies, of which the above may be some.
Opera mini, probably the best j2me application ever written, is actually what I run in my N70 when I need to get a bit of fresh air :) Here in Italy there is an option to have mostly flat connection (some gigabyte of data for month, it's very hard to reach the limit just using web apps) that costs 8 euro for month so I'm already experimenting how cool it is the always on in mobile phone.

Now of course this does not fix the main problem of the actual phone primary functions handled by poorly designed software.
The Trend Spotter
the ability to launch low-earth satellites that could literally take some of the heat out of the planet, by serving as a repository for information technology.

Reminds me of a very hypothetical idea I heard about a few years ago. Some hackers wanted to create a hybrid communications satellite/web server that could host content outside of any legal juristiction. Could you imagine the RIAA trying to shut down that BitTorrent Tracker?
Don't beat yourself up about it. A lot of the time, the market can stay irrational longer than you can afford to bet against it.

That's why economists are famous for predicting Five of the Last Three Recessions -- they know that a dip is necessary, but not when it's going to start.
already? did apple give him a sneak peek at the sdk?
Good to see interesting stuff is slowly finding it's way out of DragonFlyBSD.
If if you were a headhunter they'd have to pay you 20%. But as a developer, they'll have to pay you 100% of your salary. ;p
Good morning, your Apple stock is tanking
I would agree that startup, family and full time job is untenable in the long term, but everyone's situation is different. I think it's pretty evident to most people that it's not an easy road, but what I disagree with is your blanket "don't". I'd simply say "it's rough, and you're not going to be able to do it for long without cutting corners somewhere".

Here's the article about O'Reilly:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.10/oreilly.html

It's fuzzy on the timing, and I guess my memory is off, but it seems as if his company was his job at that point, but it still hadn't hit the big time.
Blowing Up
I would. I also see this as the temporary result of investor panic, recession, etc. Between last week and this week, Apple is in no worse condition personally; the market is. There earnings report was a record quarter, beating even the analysts expectations. Most of the backlash seems to be because they had low estimates for next quarter, but they typically make very conservative forecasts, and they've beaten them consistently for a while now. So I'm hoping/expecting the stock to rebound, slowly, over the next couple months.
This article:

http://www.thestreet.com/pf/newsanalysis/media/10399930.html

Talks about how Apple consistently sandbags its estimates, so it can blow through them later. It sounds very much like Steve Jobs's MO:

"Jobs is incredibly and famously promotional when unveiling products, but when he talks numbers he has always been just the opposite -- a conservative player, sandbagging like there is no tomorrow. His dual nature throws people off."

But it looks like underpromise/overdeliver has bitten the stock.

Time to buy!
The way I think of them are:

Lower class - you scrimp on needs like food, safe housing, medical care, education, insurance. In other words, you have to "sell" your personal security to make ends meet

Middle class - you scrimp on wants like travel, bigger/newer housing, smaller TV, keep your cell phone for a couple years, buy a 2 year old car instead of brand new, etc.

Upper class - harder to pin down because wants are effectively unlimited. I'd say if you won't settle for the "default" choices, you're probably upper class. If you have to live in Atherton instead of Sunnyvale, you're probably upper class. If you drive a Lexus instead of a Toyota, you're probably upper class. If you shop at Whole Foods because the grocery store isn't good enough, you're probably upper class. If you wouldn't consider a top state school like UVigrinia, the UCs, or UMichigan, because you need to go to an Ivy, you're probably upper class.

I was going to say something about Mac vs PC, which outside of hackers might be an indication of upper classism, but remembered that for hackers, the best computer for you is a business expense and a productivity investment.
Area Man Discovers He Is Terrorist
So there he was, right in front of us, a big scruffy survivalist type who the FFA had pegged as a possible terrorist. It made me wonder how one does end up on this watchlist. Well, here's how...
Actually it generally goes 1) housing 2) transportation 3) food, and pretty much everything else is single digit percentages of income. Also, DirecTV doesn't mean you have a nice TV - it probably means that cable isn't in the area or that spending $50 extra a month on satellite is a good investment if you watch a lot of TV as opposed to going out.
Great product guys.

You guys are doing great things, keep going hard and making great features.
Many successful women in technical disciplines say just what you've said here. A favorite teacher of mine did a Ph.D. in math in the 1940s when she was typically the only woman in the room. In the 50s she worked at the Institute for Advanced Study and in the 60s with Tarski at Berkeley. She's been asked countless times by journalists and women's groups to talk about barriers and sexism she faced and has always said that it wasn't that way, that the men in the field were delighted to talk math with her and supportive of her work. She also says that if her parents had ever urged her to be a mathematician she would have immediately gone off and designed furniture or something.
No, he's doing it based on the open source (i.e. hacked) iPhone. He was involved in the 'jail break' stuff.
Average VC investment in high-tech down
Any requests for hours spent on certain sites? A bonus one: 56 hours on paulgraham.com.
Lots of savvy higher-income shoppers know that paying $2 extra to buy a DVD or $5 extra to buy a video game somewhere else doesn't mean you got a better product. For commodities like packaged foods, batteries, household products, electronics, toys, etc that are the same no matter where you buy them, Wal-Mart is 10-20% cheaper than even Target. The reason more upper income people don't like Wal-Mart is either a) politics or b) many of the older stores are crowded and dirty and it's worth paying a little extra to have a more pleasant experience. I'm one of the second type, but there's a brand new Wal-Mart near my house that's the nicest big-box store I've ever shopped in, and since there's no "crowded and dirty tax" for me to pay, I do most of my shopping there and save some decent money each month.
Or have a centralized server, a la Xbox Live, Battle.net, etc. If users of the game "sign in" to the server, than anyone can connect to anyone.

Plus, your phone's contacts typically have iChat contacts associated with them, so if done well, the system could match up based on phone number and/or ichat screen name, and be able to find mobile and desktop clients of your friends.
Bright children comply with what their parents tell them to "go be"?
A todo software written using Django. Source available as GPL.
Generally when you want to discuss income breakdowns in scientific terms you use income Quartiles (or quintiles, etc).
By defining locality and timeframe (top quintile of americans? californians? residents of 90210? in 1990? 2008?) you can easily scale in a way that people still understand.

People have strongly differing concepts of class, whereas (most) everyone knows what the lowest 25% of earners look like in thier community.

The concepts are still valid, it's just a matter of narrowing the terms.

Edit: If you're discussing income in many countries (esp the US) it may be wise to split off the top 1% or 0.5%, as they tend to make so much that it strongly influences the averages.
Source is available at http://7days7apps.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/todolist/
Hummer Winblad Selects VentureCareers to Promote Startup Jobs for Its Portfolio Companies
The estimates weren't even that bad-- look at the year ago estimates. The company is thriving, making tons of money, and growing at greater-than-industry rates. It's pretty crazy how irrational investor behavior can have such a huge effect.

A friend of mine at Apple reminded me yesterday that they made 300m on just the interest of their war chest. A few years ago, they were having trouble making that much just on their products.
xkcd?
Mine (uses Rails) is free too, for that matter:

http://stufftodo.dedasys.com/
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Ask YC: Moving to SF, need advice
Dear SF Bayers, -

I'm considering to move to SF Bay area from LA for my startup. I'm looking for 2br nice apartments, I have a wife and little son. I hope to get as inexpensive as possible, but I don't want to live in ghetto. I want to have people around, be close to the city. I hate when place is going sleep at 9pm, I want to see people on the streets as much as possible - I'm so tired of LA area, it's so rarely you can see live people around, everyone is driving, even for a few feets. I would like to have major stores, like Safeway, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, whatever is else of this kind close by. It'd be great to have a nice parks and rest areas close. I'm 28, my wife is 25, I would be happy to have young people around. ;) Would you recommend me something? Do you have an idea of rental property prices?

I'm considering Emeryville, the Oakland's part which is close to it, and Berkeley, preferably downtown. I know that some part of Oakland is really bad, I don't want to go there. I want to keep my family safe.

I was also thinking about Walnut Creek area, but it seems to me too far from Silicon Valley, and I think I am going to spend a lot of time there. Besides, it seems to me too village-styled.

I don't know anything about Silicon Valley's places. I've been in San Jose downtown only (well, it's nice, but looks like to be too far from the city), Mountain View (old good village, sorry), and Palo Alto and Stanford. I didn't see the downtown. I heard it's very fun because of a lot of students around, but it's also very expensive, because of Facebook. ;)

Are there any LA movers here, who can give their review of the life style comparing to LA?

Thanks!
World's best resignation letter
Their main product as in their computers? Oh, you're talking about their mp3 players. Yeah, those are quite oversaturated, but funny thing being that they keep pushing refreshes continuously and people still buy them, 22 million of them in one quarter. You heard of this other thing they're selling? iPhone? Their P/E ratio in the past a couple of years have been soaring because of the optimism and momentum people think Steve Jobs bring to the table. Even if it's self correcting it'll just go back up again as Apple cranks more products throughout the year.
If I didn't waste any time on ycnews, I wouldn't know about RescueTime! How can you call that wasted time?... a paradox.
"You will never understand computers. Something as incredibly simple as binary still gives you too many options."

Priceless
Wow, what a dink.