skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
bad submission

I grant you it was borderline :) But the fact that it has nothing to do with hacking doesn't mean it isn't of interest to hackers, which is how I understand the scope of the site. (Maybe you have to be the type of hacker who used to spend hours combing through piles of obscure records...) This is also a bit random. A few of the (to me) most interesting things I posted here got no attention at all.

The risk of noise overwhelming signal à la digg/reddit is garnering a lot of attention, but there are opposite risks too (lack of diversity, or people not posting stuff that would be of interest 'cause they're afraid of getting scolded).
Homebrew titles to appear on Microsoft's Xbox Live online service
those of us on the iPhone would appreciate if someone could paste that here.
Up next, the Eastern Lego Block. All blocks are the same, the cool pieces are banned, and all of the buildings look exactly the same! That way, all of the children can be equally bored with legos.
Learning more about Generation M
Buzzd Cleans Up at Mobile Web Awards
Justice and fairness are very different things. Capitalism is just, it is not fair, especially to the lazy and the willfully ignorant.
Best part: they're undershirts. As in, the dude you're pitching to could be wearing it, and you'd have no clue...
Mathematica has a command line API. They are almost certainly not porting much of the math functionality to javascript. They'll just run an xmlhttprequest, let the server do its thing, and display the result. The most difficult challenge I see is getting nice 3d renderings, and some of the other more graphically intense features the desktop version has.
Hmm now there's an idea. A wifi toilet that auto updates your twitter/facebook etc status. You could be onto something there...

"sutro has just passed a 2Lb stool"
I like Generation Y as a name not because it's overly meaningful, but because I hope that Generations X, Y, and Z will be the last generations of humanity and that the names will make sense in retrospect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y
Well, when you're walking barefoot across the living room floor in the dark, and your kids did not pick up their toys, it's, "Ow! Damn! There are fucking Legos everywhere!"
2 things.

1. What does gender have to do with it? If two consenting adults choose to wrestle each other, why is gender an issue? I think it is inherently sexist to think that because it was a women, something about is 'wrong'. That being said, I think its hilarious when people stand in the face of convention, Andy was doing just that when he was the 'intergender' wrestling champ.

2. With Andy, you never know who was in on it. I would bet a lot of money that 90% of the women were in on it and were simply actors acting in a performance, which is essentially what wrestling is any ways, a performance.

When trolls had class indeed...
WebmasterWorld.com by a pretty long shot. I even subscribed for a while. It's the only place I know where the more "silent" SEO people actually spill their techniques every now and then. A lot of the other forums tend to be attention seekers who give good tips but they're keeping most of the gold for themselves.
Is shitr.com available?
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/
is good to watch

you should use this:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
Tipit.to is not based in the United States, so we don't have to comply with the US Patriot Act. There are some stringent financial requirements here in europe as well, but we've got those covered.
Tipit.to does pay out in cash, and not in gift certificates.
Sample Rails consulting contract
Ghostbusters has many good quotes (e.g., no dick), but here's a few that I've actually used in conversation:

"Don't cross the streams"

"It would be bad"

"Yes, have some."

"I don't have any Tylenol, but I do have some acetylsalicylic acid."

"Listen... do you smell something?"

"Where do the stairs go?" "They go up"

The last one usually isn't quoted directly. Rather some variation, such as "I wonder what's behind that door." "A room."
Web-based OS could herald threat to Microsoft’s dominance
Or quite the opposite.
Keming: A new typography term
"Dogs and cat's living together... mass hysteria!"
CSS Type Set
Upmod for the joke almost no hacker will get.
This is either going to be a toy, or they're going to limit the amount of computational power (rendering it a toy if you're doing anything intensive like evolutionary computation), or they're going to charge an arm and a leg, or something.

Did you know that I can SSH into my university account and run Mathematica from the command line right now? Revolutionary!
I think you are off by a factor of 5-7x
I seem to constantly be quoting John Carpenter's The Thing.

"'Cause it's different than us see? 'Cause it's from outer space. What are you asking me for? Ask him"

"I realize you gentlemen have been through a lot, but if you can find the time I'd rather not spend the rest of the winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!!"

It does occasionally occur to me that perhaps I'm having the wrong types of conversations.
git-stash
Deflating Rumors Of Google Offering Broadband-By-Balloon
Priorities: Get More Done with a Top-Heavy Approach
So why not ask for $100k for 10%? :~)
Google’s Superdelegate.org Tracks Endorsements
Blueprint was a snap for me to pick up and the markup looks good (concerns about mixing style and semantics notwithstanding).

As for the YUI CSS libraries, well, my eyes crossed a little when I looked at the markup. I only checked YUI CSS out briefly, though.
Java is written in mostly Java, of course !

According to sloccount of latest tar of OpenJDK6:

java: 2393565 (72.63%)
cpp: 462235 (14.03%)
ansic: 419499 (12.73%)
sh: 17089 (0.52%)
asm: 1936 (0.06%)
awk: 598 (0.02%)
lisp: 449 (0.01%)
cs: 72 (0.00%)
jsp: 24 (0.00%)
csh: 3 (0.00%)

There is lisp in there? I am betting elisp for an emacs major mode or something. But 72% Java. c/c++ would be for posix interfaces, and probably enough core VM code, and perhaps hotspot stuff.
In addition to the standard ones mentioned below (seobook, seomoz etc) - you should go check out
bluehatseo.com
wolf-howl.com
stuntdubl.com
http://www.jimboykin.com/index.php
There is no plural of Lego since it is an adjective (derived from the phrase "leg godt"). If you're taking the liberty of calling a Lego brand building block a "Lego", then it hardly seems reasonable to object to others calling more than one "Legos".
Extracting Square Roots with pencil and paper
http://forums.digitalpoint.com are ok.

Are there any good SEO forums that are free? Or any that are worth paying for?
The problem with the last section of your post is that software and society don't necessarily work the same way (not the problem with your post, but the inherent problem in software and society in general).

Because of the nature of information, which is what software really is in the long run, making it free and encouraging public use/discrimination benefits the software in the long run (and also increases the wealth in society as noted by other's referencing PG's wealth essay).

With other physical forms of wealth (land, buildings, cars, etc...) socialistic principles do not apply in the same way. Encouraging privatization and individualism increases our wealth.

Capitalistic ventures and behavior results in the greatest net gain of wealth, while socialistic behavior results in the greatest gain of information. When information is used for capitalistic ventures in where the line gets blurry.
I just graduated in December, don't know, maybe we've met. Shoot me an email at keshavs at berkeley dot edu if you want to chat!
I hear you about the lego(s).

I think I'm going to go and mess around with them for the next 4 hours.
if you can get it, more power to you
"Please always refer to our bricks as 'LEGO Bricks or Toys' and not 'LEGOS.'"

From the horses mouth.

My original comment was perhaps ambiguous. You don't say "a Lego". Just like you don't say "a snow".

"Some Lego"
"A Lego set"
"A Lego brick"

Say after me...
"There are fucking Lego bricks everywhere"
Library of Congress sells itself out to Microsoft for a mere $3 mil
No, Litman did not have anything to do with Bloomberg on Bloomberg. He was quoting Bloomberg (as he). I believe if you can get one idea going forward out of a book, it's more than worth it.
Mathematica is no speed demon to begin with. The primitive functions (written in C) are fast and heavily optimized, but the interpreted parts of the language are quite slow.
Best quote ever...
"Sometimes I Question Your Commitment To Sparkle Motion!"

from Donnie Darko (cult favorite - if you haven't seen it, rent it, watch it, and spend 2 hrs afterwards reading on the Net to figure out what you just saw)
It seems a little too generous to attribute "It would be bad." to Ghostbusters. Or the last one, which is basically Vaudeville. You might as well say you're quoting Earth Girls Are Easy every time you say the word "the", because it's in that movie at least once.
If you do business in the US, you do, according to the US.
Google May Buy Balloon Company
Ha. That is a good one.
+1 for 1984 terminology
http://seologs.com
Press for Startups: 10 tips
Who's to say typophiles aren't hackers?
Shotgun strategy for successful startups (Maxtility,Ooga,Mixer)
Interesting bit:

Q: What typically happens to famous or iconic works of art after they are stolen?
A: They can be sold to what’s called a “criminal venture capitalist”.
Excellent point. My guess is that they could be a bit higher, up to 300K per employee (that would be a somewhat exceptional, I grant you). $300K estimate would give $2.7 million per year.
You should offer the exact same shirts for "startup" price and come up with some reason why the VCs should pay the $100.

Price discrimination at its finest!

Great job with the site though. I liked the VC Powerpoint.

Edit: Also, I had an idea for a shirt.

"Money, or power?

Yes. I'm a VC."
That movie list is a pretty good snapshot of movies I HAVE watched more than 5 times. I wonder, though, would I be inspired to watch them that much if I didn't have physical media of them lying around? The ease with which I can throw one on while I am doing scut work or something kind of lends them a tendency to be played more, I think.

For example, I just downloaded and watched "Jackie Brown" in a window while I was fiddling with Python stuff for work. My "Jackie Brown" urge is pretty much satisfied, to the point where it is unlikely that I will want to watch it again in the next year or so. For "Jackie Brown", it is simpler for me to just snag it off a tracker than to purchase a copy, since I have no interest in watching it all that often.

Interesting read. Definitely made me think about what films I have on disc, and which ones I download, and what delineates the two.
Shotgun strategy for startup (no reg req'd)
Good post. I have always been of the same opinion: high-def DVDs are doomed to the same fate as the high-end audio formats. I assure you that HDCD and DVD-Audio discs sound really great on a high-end stereo system, but they don't sound great enough for the mass market to actually give a damn.

I can’t even guess what mass movie downloading would do to the internet’s overall structure, but I’m sure it will adapt.

It is just not that big a problem. There are only so many movies in the world -- the good ones take time and money to make -- and 1TB hard drives are now cheap. Let's see... Netflix claims to have 90k titles. An HD-encoded movie seems to average 20-25GB. Let's call it 25GB. By my calculations, that means I need something like 2200 TB to hold the entire Netflix library in HD form. That's like $200k worth of drives, and shrinking fast... and that's for one copy of every film in Netflix. I don't think the idea of putting one such server in every city, or even every few city blocks, is particularly radical at this point, and it will seem even less radical in six years when the cost is down to
$13k (with, one hopes, concurrent shrinkage in energy usage and support costs).

We'd have done this already if it weren't for the licensing issues. The BitTorrent hobbyists have been pretty darned successful already, considering that using BitTorrent to swap commercial movies is not only kind of complicated (relative to, say, TiVO) but also illegal.
The idea that a startup's successful product will be very different from their initial offering is a bit overblown. Yes, there are any number of high profile examples where this has held true (blogger, paypal, flickr), but there are an equal number of successful companies that got big doing exactly what they set out to do (google, amazon).

Twitter and ning are more current examples who seem to have got it right from the start.
nice advice. Found the point about tuesday-thursday and how early to tell press most interesting.

David, obviously weebly has received a lot of good/big coverage, how much of it was through your direct affect (i.e contacting the reporter) and how much through serendipitous circumstances?
yeah http://cuteoverload.com/ came to my mind hehe
Isn't Google the Google of the SaaS model?
Death of the Level Designer: Procedural Content Generation in Games
"Procedural content generation is yet to set the game industry on fire. It has featured in one of the greatest games of all time, Diablo and it's successor, who directly trace their roots to roguelike games such as Angband. But the recent implementation of random level generation in Hellgate: London did little to inspire people that this method works well for game level design. But bubbling under the surface of the industry, and very much evident in future games like Spore is a methodology that like most technologies has been underwhelming in the short term but in the long term will have profound consequences for how games are designed."
Uni-Verse
Open source Internet platform for multi-user, interactive, distributed, high-quality 3D graphics and audio for home, public and personal use. The platform will support high-quality 3D-graphics as well as high-quality 3D-audio and acoustic simulation.
Love (Upcoming MMO) Screenshots
Poor Wikinews. I keep their RSS around and they've been getting some cool - and different - interviews lately.
- Newsweek was through YC generally, but not all companies in the round got a mention in the article, so it certainly had some to do with our effort.

- Time reporter contacted us initially, but she sent out the same email to a lot of startups. The real effort was in (first) just getting back to her, and (second) properly selling the start-up and vision. She made the original email sound as if it wasn't a big article at all.

- NBC, BBC were serendipitous, but most likely as a result of our growing user base (more people out there who knew about us/recommended us).

- The rest were all as a result of us contacting reporters (TechCrunch, GigaOm, VentureBeat, Mashable, etc)
If only there was an easy way to submit Feature Requests for this website!

(Yeah, I'm a jerk.)
Great article.

I'd add a reference article:
http://andrewchen.typepad.com/andrew_chens_blog/2007/11/why-...

In short, think hard about whether there are ways you can spend your time in a way the KEEPS GIVING you traffic/attention (SEO / viral). In the world of startups, if you are doing something it is invariably at the expense of something else.
Huh - I first read it as 'something' rather than someone. The first is actually funnier, I think.
The Facebook Applications Platform has effectively driven me away from using the service.
But you'd just end up skipping all the 'rubbish' tracks after a few seconds of listening.

My estimate is 3 albums a day.
SuperGenPass: A Free Bookmarklet Password Generator
How To Check If Your Server Is Infected With The Linux/Rst-B Backdoor
Friends for Sale Architecture - A 300 Million Page View/Month Facebook RoR App
If I had the means (by private banking wealth standards), I would buy the collection, digitize it all, and hire a phalanx of lawyers so it could be streamed free-of-charge over the Net. With a nice (RNG) shuffle feature.
There was some wishful thinking on the waffles.fm forums, if everyone put up $100 it could be ripped and shared by all.
huh? Here in SF, a good chunk of engineers I met work for startups, and alot of them are not really known. Some have their own startups. It is just accepted, and startup failure is just part of the normal life in here.

After a startup fails, few people will get burned and just seek stable employment on a large company, either for good, or just to save some money so they can start another startup again.
Some just jump to the next startup available.

Part of life. Unless you are getting paid lots of cash, the best engineers are not necessary working for the big companies out there.
HP and Oracle cubicle culture, are downright depressing.
Awesome:
"All structures will be standard sizes."
Aweosme, awesome awesome. The solution is to kill creativity. Again, awesome! I mean, we already have too much creativity, and kids, they never have any anyway, and they can relearn it as they get older, cause everyone knows that as you get older you spend more and more time being creatie :rollseyes:

It is even better that "Children absorb political, social, and economic worldviews from an early age." and that, in this case, they learnt the very valuable lesson that "doing anything different that might cause a fight, discomfort or even a whiff of unfairness is wrong".

A world full of grey houses that are exactlty the size, shape and dimension is such a great political vision, and one well worth striving for.

So thank you, Ann Pelo, thank you so very much for making my vision of uniform, drab, uncreative existence such a possibility!
Lenovo Launches Linux Laptop and Leaves Lots of Questions
Next Ubuntu release to be called Intrepid Ibex
and it says many of them are duplicates
With all due respect to Andrew Chen, he's wrong. He makes a good point -- viral traffic is the best kind -- but there is definite use to press traffic as well. All of our growth has been based on press. I'm planning on writing a blog post in a few days (need to get some work done now!) that shows a graph of our growth and talks about how press has impacted us.
of course you are free to define intelligence how you wish, but i think for the definition to be useful creativity should be included in it
It all goes back to the unnatural concept of fairness that adults force upon children. It's a harmful, artificial construct that damages them throughout their lives.

I'd rather my kid learn that if he wants some of the legos, he's going to have to figure out how to get them, through diplomacy, outsmarting the others, etc. The children on the outside either didn't try hard enough, or weren't smart enough.
Evolution of a five-link planar bipedal walking mechanism
Did Ning get it right from the start? Their focus has shifted (rightly) from creating applications to creating groups using the same app.

Ning still has those features, but few people got very far with their "own take on Craigslist" as their original pitch went. It turns out, of course, people want a great successor to Yahoo Groups or EZBoards a lot more.
Rather, those who know what is impossible.
I agree. It's a nice option to have though, for a change of scenery and networking. Especially for those of us who live in NYC, our home offices are most likely significantly smaller than in other cities. ;)
I hear he originally had to get a job as a postal clerk because at university he was really stuck up about his intelligence and pissed everyone off.
i absolutely love it :)
Yeah, IQ unfortunately doesn't take free will into account.
I love frameworks, but using one for CSS seems a bit too much for me. I like the idea of having only code that is needed for my site design.
> 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.

I think there is a fundamental difference: the investors in those funds are not making any profit. The managers are taking some fees (although even those are pretty modest, compared to what they could make running their own hedge funds and taking 2+20), but the endowments are either reinvesting all their profits or using them to benefit the university.
There's not a lot of room for free will in a deterministic universe. I've found it is best not to dwell on it.
I am curious to know if they teach this in the US. I was taught this method as a 6 or 7 yr old in school (India).
Death of the game programmer: procedural content generation in games.
I thought this was always the case?
He also said "Imagination is more important than knowledge" which is also deeply cosmically true, especially for startups.
Revealing Steganographic Content in Images
Quite a while ago I showed how to hide your files with steghide, a tool used to embed information into a jpeg image file. Today I will show you how to detect a file already “stegged” without prior knowledge and possible extract the information from the image file.
Are National ID Cards Going to Snuggle Up With OpenID?
Feynman, Challenger Disaster & Software Engineering
Social Media Will Change Your Business
Hacker breaks link between iTunes and the iPod
If 29/384 got that way purely on inheritance, then inheritance is statistically extremely significant in getting into that 384; the rich don't make up anywhere near 7.5% of the population, but that list is at a minimum 7.5% born rich. Also, as one example, Gates was born filthy rich, I don't the word "inheritance" occurs everywhere on that list where it plays a part.
"with natural resources I find"

Like all the land we took from the Indians?
Bad beat if your parents make exactly $100,001.
The cool pieces where all shot in the great purge.
DROOL Okay, added motivation: get on this startup thing, get bought by google, buy this collection and a really bitchin sound system.

What do you mean that's not a business plan?!
I don't see that that's what happened at all. Apparently a fair portion of the class was marginalized and basically kept from play. They were either subtly or directly told that they weren't welcome in Legotown. The "smarter" kids learned to hoard limited and valuable resources, and used that power to direct what other kids could do.

It might have been "peaceful" in that setting, but take the teachers out of the equation for an hour or so, and see how peaceful it is when the marginalized kids realize they can force their way into the game by pushing the hoarders around, or simply smash the buildings so _no one_ gets to play.

You think it wouldn't happen?
I do love some DVD-Audio, but the selection is so limited. Makes me wish I was a bigger Bjork fan.

The Gorillaz concert DVD is great. I realize it's not the same, but listening to Ibrahim Ferrer sing Latin Simone in 5.1 is pretty awesome.
"The fundamental problem with their Lego trading game (and the original Legotown) is that they assume capitalism involves a fixed amount of resources that can only be traded. In reality, the resources are constantly growing. If it was really a fixed-resource system, it would always end like Monopoly, with one person owning everything, or owning enough to always be in power at the least."

I'm confused. Are you arguing that resources in the "real world" are not finite? So we'll never run out of indium, oil, fresh water, fertile soil, etc? Because if you are, that's a fascinating viewpoint, and almost completely at odds with reality.

"Surely all the wealth creation done by startups is evidence of that."

Maybe, maybe not. A lot of the "wealth" created by startups exists nowhere but on paper.
Patent clerk. And while he certainly was hung up on himself to an extent (in the Isaacson biography, there was a letter that Einstein sent to a professor basically saying that the job should automatically belong to him), it is a little unfair--the fact that he was a Jew had a lot to do with his struggle to get a job in the German academic system.
I just can't get into css. I would much prefer to use this framework than have to think about it... But maybe thats just me
The ultimate resource is the creative human mind:

http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2008/02/a-tribute-to-ju.h...