skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and it might be that smarter parents will play Mozart for a baby, and read to them, and have them learn a musical instrument. I'm not saying none of these things can possibly affect anything on their own, but just that you have to take extreme care with these kinds of statistics before making conclusions. And that kind of care seems to be lacking in articles like the parent.
http://chinesepod.com
I knew someone with your username back in the glory days of the web 1.0, if you by chance are Trevor Gehman, email me, I'd like to say hi.
Arrington is just pissed because Cook sent the scoop of his departure to Silicon Alley Insider instead of TechCrunch.
On any other site purporting to offer hacker news, this would be off-topic, but...
Poll: Are Slide and RockYou overvalued?
To me, much more so than Facebook, Slide and RockYou seem like the most egregious example of the current web 2.0 irrational exuberance. But maybe I'm missing something. I remember seeing Max Levchin say they have much bigger plans. What can Slide and RockYou do to justify their combined billion dollar valuation?
CowboyNeal is overvalued
I don't see what they can do. Thanks for bringing this up, I'd really like to see what other people can make of this.
5 Simple Ways To Keep Up With The Rails Community
It's time to take Kuro5hin back from the trolls
Although, unfortunately, the time v.s. maturity of audience curve for reddit really shines through here...

Here is a comment that really sums it up, though:

this lists all the parts that may fit your description, then when you choose one it gives you who has it, how many in stock and for how much w/ price breaks. !!!!! 15 mins of searching reduced to 30s. I wish I had that last semester...
Believe it or not it looks just how I like. But I plan to make the theme selectable on the site at some point and I could make the default theme more conservative. I use firefox too. I'm a programmer and look at screens late in to the night and bright sites are painful to my eyes after about 10pm. I love to read the feeds on a dark subdued screen rather than on a site crowded with distractions and colors. Sorry to annoy you, maybe it's like a song that annoys you the first time you hear it and then later you can't get enough it is so refreshing and different. :)
you know you've made it when people in the reddit comment threads lose control of their bodily functions in response to your product...
One of their big selling points is reach. Slide's is on the order of Facebook's, and in theory could be bigger. If in fact the huge monetization thingy turns out to rely on sheer user numbers, half a billion will be way under what Slide is worth.
Octoparts?
Stack Overflow Podcast #2
I agree with you. It would be interesting if articles could be grouped. Then there could be a twitter area where everyone could post articles about twitter, and discuss them all in one place. (Making the same argument on 5 pages is tiring and confusing.)

This would sorta be like reddit's subreddits, but more dynamic. If 3 articles have the same keywords, maybe have a little button to press to combine them. If 8 people choose to combine, then it happens. (Obviously I am just throwing out numbers.)

Is the hacker news source code around somewhere?
Oh, they'll worry about that later. Right? Oh, wait -- it is later! :)
How to build a great demo
People communicating with eachother IS making the world a better place. It just doesn't always look impressive.
How Do You Deal With Stress?
hopefully this arrives in time to help some people out this weekend :)

my #1 piece of advice to anybody that asked me about interviews: have a demo! even if it's something that you whipped up in 2 days, let them know that, but have a demo!
Wow, CowboyNeal---that takes me back. Kids these days don't remember the joys of /. polls.
Avoid Strategic Planning Thunderdome
A Cliff Note version of how to do strategic planning for startups. Quick one pager that is a good template for quarterly planning. Plus, Mad Max is just cool.
When iPhone Met PS3
Hacker testifies News Corp unit hired him
Really? http://slashdot.org. Still kicking, still has a CowboyNeal joke in every poll, and with more readership than this site by a decent integer multiple.
The entire thing is pretty funny - we never thought an electronic parts search engine would get on the front page of reddit. Here are the reddit stats: 4056 unique ips, ~10000 queries

The reddit post also got us traffic from popurls.com (157), wired.com (37), and some random traffic from stumbleupon.

I have a new appreciation for reddit comments. Redditors are extremely intelligent people expressing well thought out points of view which I agree with whole heartedly. I'm going to start using the testimonials in our VC slide deck.

http://reddit.com/info/6gtvm/comments/c03sz4z
An interview with Malcolm Tredinnick [Django]
FBI Fears Chinese Hackers Have Back Door Into US Government & Military
Microsoft Employees Against Yahoo Deal
They can reach more users than any individual social network on the internet.
Nicely done. I find the issue of how to design the interface of a site like this very interesting. Cool to see other approaches.
I know that phones tend to be very hackable, I just don't think that people would use them (especially if they're priced anywhere near comparable smartphones/iphones) for games where they could break.
The way it should be: 1. New technology, faster internet 2. People use it 3. People demand more 4. Go back to step one, only better

The way the telcos want it: 1. Old technology 2. People use it. 3. People demand more. 4. Block the people demanding the most. 5. Great! We've broken the upgrade loop!
The Psychology of Human Misjudgement
I should have been clearer. I meant physical mail spam. It's far more annoying than email spam since I have to sort it by hand and then actually dispose of it.

Here's a tip: place everything including the original envelope into the usually enclosed pre-paid return envelope and drop it in the mail. let them deal with throwing it away.
Octogons?
Technique is probably not an issue but "copying and pasting" work you've done for another client is likely problematic. Well, hopefully your clients aren't the kind that get litigious over these things but I still wouldn't go around telling everyone that I'm reusing work from previous jobs.
"literally the crack cocaine of conference attendees"

How does that work ? Some new twitter feature? ;)
Yes. $4 per unique without a real business model. Smart folks and they each have their own version of how they are going to be big, branded ad networks but the fundamental issue is that brands need to control where their ads are placed. This is polar opposite to how RY and Slide distribute their content.
Why's this domain displayed as ".informationarchitects.jp"?
Official Google Blog: What makes a design "Googley"?
Unstoppable Online Profits
SlideShare Slammed with DDOS Attacks from China
T-Mobile Android Phone Release Seen Bringing 'Avalanche'
Satire! You need to examine more the value of Mark Twain's ability to enlighten thru same.
I like Norvig's quote. Semantics are the future of the web, and always will be.
Triple-A Failure
Really? Can you say why?

I haven't tried it, but link counts look like a reasonable first approximation of pagerank. I thought this is also the consensus among researchers, e.g.:
http://anand.typepad.com/datawocky/2008/03/more-data-usual.h...
http://research.microsoft.com/users/nickcr/pubs/craswell_tre...
How do you maintain a hit centered blog?

We've all run into this problem at some point: We sincerely want to put something out on the web that people will link to, helping us generate ad revenue. But not all of us have something useful or meaningful to say. This is something you can overcome if you just put a little pluck and perserverance into it. Here's what some others had to say...

howtosplitanatom.com - "A good approach for me has been to identify a universal problem and get my friends to relay truisms about said problem. If they're not available, I can Google up a list in less than 10 minutes!"

zenhabits.net - "Pasting universal truisms is great, but I like to throw a little twist in by enumerating them."

And remember to make sure to network with other vacuous blogs so you can upvote each other and downvote the competition on social sites. Happy po$ting!
Octopart Inc. cannot be held responsible for the preexisting medical conditions of its users.
I actually upmodded this because I think it might be worthy of note. All snark aside, "universal" as it may be it's the simple stuff that people deal with everyday that has meaning to them.

Not every post can be a treatise on HMM based speech analysis. Nor should it be.

As always, if something isn't meaningful to you - no one forces you to read it. If you had suggestions for stories you feel are more interesting, feel free to reach out to me (I can't speak for Zenhabits, but I imagine they would say similar).
Yeah, been trying to push them on the oldheads at work. It's so much better than Digikey or Mouser. They should promote it in the engineering mags (EDN,etc) or get Bob Pease or someone like that to write about them. Get the word out.
Good choice, I've always found some Pogues helps as well.
Side Project: Automating Document Interestingness
Meatloaf Recipe
Recipe for meatloaf.
My favorite business card is Daniel Oceans. Clean, simple, and to the point.

http://www.liongraphics.com/BusinessCards/Images/Hollyw6.gif
Sam and Andres?
Only president EVER to hold a patent is...
I've always called them Octobuddies.
Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition is in beta
Never heard of either of them.

Must be one of those valley hype things.
Thanks for this list. Very cool of you to get it out in time for interviews.
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/education/pa...
With due respect, but I don't think storing an MD5-ed password in a user cookie is a smart thing to do. It's probably safer to store a session id or somesuch.
i think he's talking about the dev certificates. anybody can download the iphone sdk, but only a handful of people are getting the certs you need to install actual apps on actual iphones.

and even if you're accepted, it sounds pretty brutal. if you offer up your phone for having your own apps installed on it, it becomes more or less unusable for anything but development testing.
""He turned toward the assembled employees and switched to Chinese: “The secret of success is to have them continuously paying—that’s the conclusion I’ve reached.” Then back to English: “How can we make them pay again and again and again?”""
They make widgets for facebook and other social networks.
Agile Web Development with Rails, 3rd Ed released as beta; Sam Ruby added as co-author
This is all too hypothetical for me. You can only get good advice if you show a little more of yourself. Where can I see/buy the product?
Auto Guitar Hero
this is an awesome article
HN is an elitist community, and it's that way for good reason, IMO.
They probably don't know just yet that the "next version" of the web is about semantics. Maybe someone should inform them about this?!
Quiet.

Isolation.

Time.

Tea.

Find someplace isolated and quiet, and make a hot cup of green tea. Hold the cup in your hands for a while and just breathe in the smell of it. Drink it when you feel good and relaxed.

Spend less time online and use that new free time for a little more exercise or rest.

Do something that takes you out of the quotidian flow of time and deadlines. Read a book, play a video game, watch a movie, take a walk, but procrastinate in a way that forces you to stop, and deliberately dedicate a couple hours to not doing what you should be doing.

What you don't want to do is spend all that time in 5-minute intervals of "just one more site"; "just one more refresh of reddit"; etc. That will keep you feeling like you have to do something now, and you will quickly, efficiently, and stressfully grind your way through a whole bunch of sites and articles without getting anything done or actually relaxing.
I just want to note: what he's really selling, is not english education, but self-esteem.

If you really think about it, it's the same thing that sites like facebook and myspace are selling too .. only looks like Li Yang is selling it way better.

I wonder what would be the equivalent product in the US market? Hmm.
So what does everyone put on theirs? Single founder type people? I put "Founder, DedaSys LLC" on linkedin, but that sounds kind of stupid too. On my web page, I put "owner, operator, lead programmer, chef, and chief janitor", but that sounds kind of corny as well...
I read the techcrunch article and in my opinion it wasn't that bad

It nice to be able to say as it is and not decorated, the guy failed and he left or was made to leave.

lesson learned: scaling is hard!
It's more than a lottery. It is also a great adventure of which you can learn a lot.
We need those visionary "crazy" people with big ideas that change the world.
Q&A with Director of nytimes.com
I don't like the word stress. It implies helplessness. What people call stress is just the world telling your brain to tell you that you're doing something wrong and that you should correct it. Exercise helps cool some of the excitement, but it won't vanquish it. Listening to it and acting on its advice is the only thing that will make you feel better.
Generally this is true, but keep in mind that a non-technical audience will often have strong negative reaction to a demo based on what seem to hackers as the silliest, most trivial things: a rough-around-the-edges design, links that don't work yet, minor UI glitches, etc. Bear in mind that this audience can't distinguish between your application and your application's UI, so the most important part of the linked article is probably "It has to look really, really cool."

Of course, it sounds like you're giving advice on one event specifically, so the above may not apply. What's happening this weekend, anyway?
This one?

http://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/lonelygirl...

My FireFox says: "Alternative Text: Missing". Am I missing out on something great?
You don't need business cards. You need to get the other persons contact information and then followup as soon as possible. You can't rely on giving them a card and hoping they get in touch.
that's a good way to explain what I was trying to capture in the "looking really cool" point. a demo is a visual thing, and people don't distinguish between the UI and the application, so make sure everything looks smooth.

i wrote this post about all technical demos, but released it today as the YC interviews are coming up this weekend.
Scaling is not only hard it's a nightmare. Especially given RoR is infamous for it's scaling issues.
A few years ago I discovered yoga and meditation. I used to be a really sporty guy but I'm amazed at how healthy I feel from the yoga (and good eating) but the meditation and learning to breathe properly have had amazing benefits. I would really recommend it. I still get stressed at times - though far less than I used to - but when I do its being able to deal with it, be centered and focused which makes the difference in terms of how to handle a high pressure environment.
Israeli jailed for Facebook photo
Were PG's thoughts about being good influenced by Umair Haque?
"people who think the iPhone is just one phone among many"

The funny thing is, I use my iPhone maybe 5% to make voice calls. For me it's an ultra-portable PC, mainly used for email+web. So when people do say things like "It's just a phone", they really do completely miss the point.
The Perfect Desktop - gOS Rocket G 2.0 (GNOME)
Your thoughts guys!
Hi guys,
We've recently launched a new online classified site in the UK. The great focus avout it is that we allow the general public to buy and sell for free, but we also supply data feeds to large companies so they're able to mass upload stock!

Have a look at the site and let me know your thoughts. The site's called adflyer.co.uk

Thanks

Ben
Q&A with Max Levchin of Slide, on e-commerce, APIs, feeds, and a Russian rock band
Saxen workplace solutions
Silly Traffic
Lemonade Diet
The complete Lemonade Diet with the Lemonade Diet Recipe.
One might also question the code in the application. Scaling is rarely a simple issue that merely adding a new piece of gear or building a better network can solve. If an application is slow in all of its parts, it's pretty much a hopeless endeavor to just make hardware faster. I don't know anything about Twitters architecture (other than that it is built with RoR, which no one is going to accuse of being fast or proven with regard to scalability). I think it's probably premature to say "the guy failed"...maybe the application or the framework failed. We'll see in 3 months if things have gotten significantly better, or the problems persist.
Ruby Symbols Are Not Pretty Things
Vista's 11 Pillars of Failure
I would suggest Linode for hosting and Virtualmin (YC backed) for the panel.
Surfing (in the ocean) for atleast an hour or two per day.
Do you find anything wrong in that online edition of the original Latin text?
Chicken Recipes
Large selection of chicken recipes
Skyrocketing rice prices has Sam's Club limiting sales
I would like to suggest a moment of silence for all the people currently starving on the streets as a result of bad decisions made by people in the government.
Here's the last time I pointed it out. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18083 pg made the post dead and emailed me about publishing a DDoS. Yet here we still are, using a broken concept.
Why even submit this? And on top of that, why post such a horrible diet that will do you no good in the long run. Just exercise and eat healthy.

Exercise: http://www.crossfit.com (Follow their daily routines)
Diet: Mastering the Zone (Read the book and stick to it)

Good luck, and good health.
Semanticweb.org
By going postal and smashing stuff
Very handy, and an improvement on how I remember it.

It would be nice to be able to search for "that post foo made to which bar replied". Often you remember the structure of the conversation rather than a unique word or two.
Apple 'confident' on 10m iPhone target
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I guess it's spam because this submission has a direct commercial purpose, but it brings up a good question.

An Aeron is worth the money. You use a bed just as much as a chair. Is it worth paying an enormous amount of money for a mattress?
This one is way better:
http://gizmodo.com/381874/toast-mattress-perfect-for-hot-but...
The I hate facebook club is growing
The irony.
How about we generalize the approach and people put some contact information in their profiles?
Oh good, I don't feel quite as bad about my ridiculous Google Analytics charts:

http://tlrobinson.net/misc/bounce.png
Marvin Minsky, John McCarthy and Donald E. Knuth,
I second this. Everyone is too vague because we have no idea what the product is.
"Strings", not "Things". Otherwise, it's a good point.
If you're just starting up, Slicehost is generally considered the best of the VPS providers, though Linode is also well regarded and is cheaper than Slicehost.

If you want to scale bandwidth eventually, Amazon is the only game in town unless you want to beta test Google. Maybe Microsoft would also let you beta test if you asked nicely.

Is there anyone using enough bandwidth on Google App Engine to hit the bandwidth cap and start paying?
The article is talking about one quarter, not all of '08. Source?
Post your Friendfeed ID here
http://friendfeed.com/kfischer is mine, feel free to follow me

I'd also like some more people to follow, so post here.
Ubuntu 8.04 is out
> ... links that don't work yet ...

Personally, I've found that clients react fine to broken links when there's something at the other end like a message that says "this doesn't work yet." But this is in the case where they're trying out their software halfway through on their own... not a demo up on stage or them trying out the complete project.

The basic idea to take away is that non-technical types don't like to be surprised. If they know something isn't going to work, and they click on it and it says "this isn't quite ready yet", everyone will be OK with that :)
The guy behind 'crazy english' already has a 'crazy chinese' program started up. Not running in the US yet, but presumably it will be some day.
we have to do long-distance at my own organization so I found this interesting.
if you are under stress, you have more work to do than your brain can oversee.

If I am really good, I deal with stress like this:

- stop doing what you are currently doing

- analyze the situation

- make a list of what you have to do in no special order (this includes also private activity like dates in the evening, pick up kids from the kindergarten, buy food etc. Private life often sets me under more pressure than work).

- define priorities

- think about what you can delegate and delegate it

- think about what you can cancel and cancel it early (dates, movies)

- start work

- if more disaster happens, iterate this list again

Works like a charm. For me the pressure relaxes most of the time already when I have my list done.
I think the real trick is that writing the workplan gives you back control about what you do.