skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like you could also start a nice side business selling clean pants to the visitors from reddit. But who can blame them Octopart is awesome.
Mashups an APIs directory
732 APIs and 2977 Mashups
Jerry Springer For Programmers: Only A Matter Of Time
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Clay Shirky: Where the Semantic Web gets it wrong
From your site: "It's still being put together so there's lots of content missing" and "This text is filler. Lorem ipsum..."

Wonder why your bounce rates are high?

;-)
Google Introduces Mobile Image Ads
Perfecting OO's Small Classes and Short Methods
Although I've used the term myself, I'm coming around to the point of view that there won't be any "web 3.0" that is "about" any one thing. OpenID/data portability, semantics, the mobile web... there are too many developments that could "be" the next iteration of the web. I'd really like it if the mobile/location-contextual web became the next collective web explosion, but I don't think any one thing will dominate.
News Corp. Hires World’s Second Best Hacker for Corporate Espionage
Web 2.0 Celebrity Missteps: Now not to work the room
Brit start-ups invade the Valley
Is VC funding the plan then? I would think this was a great example of a business that just becomes profitable... Presumably you get commission for each purchase you refer? Or is it not setup that way?
Summary of European Common Lisp Meeting Presentations
Yahoo Publisher Network. Adsense from yahoo. Their contextual ads are supposedly not as good as goog's but the eCPMs are reported to be much better.
Money quote (from a company with 12MB of Lisp code:

"specification is hard so incremental refinement is necessary, and Lisp supports this better than anything I know."

“The world needs to use more lisp.”
"You might want to try to get a bank account or CC in the states, and fund it personally, and just not get the business deduction for it. I did that with Amazon's services, before they accepted credit cards."

How did you manage to do this?!?!? A friend in the US?
And my response http://semanticsearch.org/where-clay-shirky-misses-semantic-...

In summary:

[The article] misses the true tact of the current semantic web - which is focused on three key areas:

1. identity
2. creating quality data (whether manually or using Natural Language processing)
3. scaling to be a giant, online database
Seems like $99 + $399 is a small price to pay for access to a whole new market--it's the wild west, or PC DOS time, all over again...
RightScale Pulls $4.5 Million From the Clouds [podcast]
Web 2.0: IBM Launches High-Powered Server For Internet Companies
US private eye sues Google
Love the shouting. Hilarious:

"made his name on an E.S.L. technique that one Chinese newspaper called English as a Shouted Language. Shouting, Li argues, is the way to unleash your “international muscles.” Shouting is the foreign-language secret that just might change your life."
A checkbox for make viewable next to email addresses would go a long way
Would calling your friend instead of using Twitter been a disaster? It seems like a broadcast medium like Twitter was completely inappropriate to use in that instance. Contacting the one person who you wanted to reach directly would have made a lot more sense. This is the sort of mentality that turns me off to Twitter is that it's the end-all, be-all of communication. Use the right tools for the right purpose.
Ask YC: Lisp Compiler
I know Lisp is interpreted (and this is one of its greatest advantages with its eval loop and all it brings), but is there any tool to compile Lisp code? Or to translate it into C++ code to be compiled with a C++ compiler?
Been running the beta for a month or so and have to say I have not had many problems. For the most part everything has been enjoyable.

Running on a laptop with external monitor (as dual monitor). No major problems with the graphics or wifi or anything else.
Hard Interview Questions
Google Now Offering Mobile Banner Ads
http://friendfeed.com/pfeff
Cheap Infrastructure for Start Ups
On the Demographics of Social Networks
Praise as good as cash to brain
Salesforce.com's bold development platform vision
I made a little app to to help people find people to follow

http://livebloglist.com/

Here is a list of other people interested in new.yc:

http://livebloglist.com/list/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombina...
Is that what happened to the Wikipedia article? I thought the list used to be more comprehensive.

The "News" link on YC points here, so I assume this is intended to be the place for YC company headlines, but I wish there was a more traditional "Press" or similar page on the YC site to track news about and announcements from the participants. An alternative would be some type of parameterized link filtering the results for relevance, but in its current form it just dumps one into the news pool here (which presently looks like _another_ company's Press section!).
Wired.com Readers' Brain-Enhancing Drug Regimens (Brain Steriods?)
I'm sorry but the product advertised SIMPLE and when I looked at the image on the right I could not see simple. I'm sure in use it is, but the image you had promoting it looked a bit like too much information and hard to keep track of
Where My (Fred Wilson) Traffic Comes From
MySpace Apps Are Go For All Users
Apple Buys Startup PowerPC Chip maker...
Are there any Lisp head that want to compare/contrast symbol use in their domain?
Just your name and your company's name. Your "title" is meaningless. If anyone asks, there's your conversation starter.
http://friendfeed.com/jason
Dito! ;)
Top Wii Games
Turn Off Vista Live Notifications
Justice Dept. looks at Yahoo-Google alliance
http://www.friendfeed.com/livecrunch

Will add you all when I get home
http://friendfeed.com/justindz
http://friendfeed.com/jraines
Cloud computing takes the 'P' out of PC
http://friendfeed.com/nilobject
Hmm, part of the magic of Lisp comes from compiling the macros. Both Lispworks and SBCL compile Lisp code, and I think SBCL effectively only operates in compiled mode and is very fast. I would guess that most other Lisps compile as well. Being compiled is why Lisp clocks in at speeds roughly the same as C or faster in many cases.
Hawaii Blog Domain For Sale
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This is great advice.

I especially like "Adapt your demo for the audience" and "Use real data".

Your audience doesn't have time to think - Just inject something into their reptialian brains immediately. Anything they already know works faster.
Everybody Wang Cheng tonight!

Very useful--nice job, guys.
The thing about scaling is, if your site is popular, you have to keep doing it - because as you make the site serve more pages, there is unmet demand that suddenly appears and has to be met. So unless you know the traffic trends at twitter, you can't really judge how good a job he has done. It could be that they've scaled to 5x, but the demand has grown 10x.
What you know is wrong. Some lisps are interpreted, some are compiled. SBCL is one of the compiled ones.

If you're interested in scheme, bigloo is an option; there are surely others.
Making Google Reader for Fluid
Now we just wait for the release of Pwnage 1.2 from the iPhone dev team (http://iphone-dev.org/). Hopefully this build is not as slow and buggy as the previous ones (I know it's beta).
I use SoftLayer as well, and it's fantastic. Prices are very reasonable. Only took 2 hours to set up our first server, like you said, they provide excellent support. Also, unlike certain cloud computing services, there's no ridiculous overages. Extra bandwidth costs the same whether you accidentally go over or prepay.

It's run by the same management team as ThePlanet, which is another great service, from what I hear.
But with Microsoft you'd be stuck using Windows Server, ew.
Yet another hilarious Bubble 2.0 investment mistake. Didn't we just see a whole slew of articles about how Google can't even make money on YouTube? Do they really think lonelygirl will be the next Hannah Montana or something? Maybe they're shooting for a web-to-TV move like Quarterlife made (which by most indications is a pathetic flop).
Two sites where you can get great free images for your blog
CMUCL and CLISP both come with compilers; CLISP also has an option to build native executables in addition to bytecode.
"a government-backed project to provide a window into the UK's start up scene"

Spot the obvious contradiction, right there. There are startups in the UK and just about anywhere you care to look, but there isn't a "scene" per se. If there were, it wouldn't need a "government backed" road-show to promote it, particularly not in Silicon Valley. If the UK "scene" is so vibrant, why would anyone from over here care too much about over there?
You're confusing "interpreted" and "interactive." A read-eval-print loop can work by compiling the expressions you type in and executing the compiled code.
http://friendfeed.com/sthayden
http://friendfeed.com/randomutterings
The rise of Google
Another suggestion - make sure that the person giving the demo knows the product inside and out. There's nothing that sabotages a demo like a question about the demo that can't be answered because the demonstrator doesn't know the intricacies of the product. This typically happens when the president/CEO is doing the demo, but wasn't on the team that built the product. At the very least, make sure that a product expert is in the room during the demo to answer any questions that might come up.
Chief Self-Promotion Officer. ;)
Learn design patterns by watching video lectures
Good point. I should mention my grandparent post should have had a smiley. I meant to make the discussion lively and entertaining, not hostile.
as far as I know they are all about getting ads in to all of those flash embeds. So largely I think this is a question of ad click through rates on the embeds. these days they seem to be poor but who knows if anyone will figure out how to fix that.
Being a mathematician is cool again (at least for a couple of weeks).
Look at ECL (http://ecls.sourceforge.net/), it compiles to C and can be embedded.
Being compiled is why Lisp clocks in at speeds roughly the same as C or faster in many cases.

While we're on that subject, take a look at "How to make Lisp go faster than C" (http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier/research/verna.06.imecs.pdf)
How to make Lisp go faster than C
Pimping is Hard: The Challenges of Giving Away Your Stuff for Free
Startup School: Surfing the Wave
Hacker News seems slow
HN is taking a while to load, really slow, maybe needs a reboot?
Good to hear! The one issue I had with 7.10, requiring some xorg tweaks, was getting that same monitor setup working correctly. Here's to a smooth setup when I get home tonight :).
From Messes To Successes
http://friendfeed.com/cryptovenom
The Perfect Server - Ubuntu Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server)
I've been running the beta for over a month now and look forward to the final upgrade. I did had one issue with the -12 through -15 kernels which rendered my Intel sound card unusable. A bulk update 2 weeks ago fixed that.
So POSH! (fun w/ microformats)
Twitter Turmoil Not Finished: Engineering VP Lee Mighdoll Out
'lonelygirl2'

It's potentially humorous.
Isn't a compiler a required part according to the Common Lisp spec? I'm more of a Scheme guy, so I don't know all 500 pages of the CL doctrine, but I think I remember that...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Scheme_compilers has a list of Scheme compilers, if you're into that side of things.
Many (most?) Schemes are compiled.

Chicken Scheme (my favorite) is 'just' an efficient Scheme-to-C compiler, with some optimizations for the "interpreter".

Also, there's Stalin, which is one of the most powerful compilers around, in any language. Wikipedia claims that it usually outperforms hand-coded C (which isn't that hard, since C does arrays with pointers and nothing else), sometimes by a lot.

There's also Bigloo (which is French and unknown to me), and Gambit, and a whole bunch of Scheme-to-Java compilers as well.

Also, I know Scheme48 and PLT Scheme both have compilers, but I don't know much about them. Chicken is so much more hackable.

http://callcc.org
LispWorks can build executables.
Ive been running the beta for a while, its been really nice, my compiz hasnt worked until this release, and it also fixed my printer etc etc.

It also plays a preview of mp3s you mouseover in the filebrowser, not a big feature, but I liked it
Timeplot - JavaScript graphing library
Twist - see trends in twitter
Why Twitter Is The Next Google, But Better
These articles make me cringe. They are typical of my (former) country's need to sound like it's important. Here we have a _government_ scheme to send some people on a trip to San Francisco. Hell, with the dollar/pound ratio the way it is any hacker worth his code is going to make that trip just for the hell of it.

It reminds me of a scene in the truly awful BBC TV series Spooks in which one character is given a very small tracking device and the MI5 man says with pride "Even the Americans don't have technology like this".

The "Web Mission 08" web site tells you all about the 'requirements' to get in this program:

DO I QUALIFY?

Web Mission 2008 is open to web companies that:

+ Are innovative
+ UK headquartered
+ Have 2 years trading history, or failing that, compelling early-stage fast-track potential
+ Can provide references from key sponsors/industry players
+ Can Demonstrate some commitment to sustainable business practices (eg, positive environmental or social outputs)
+ Are ready to do business in the US OR potentially attractive to US investor

References? Sustainable business practices?

Poppycock!

The full list of companies is here:

http://www.webmission08.com/whoisgoing.html

I have nothing against the companies involved, but surely you didn't need a government leg up to get you to SF?
Brazil Oil Finds May End Reliance on Middle East
That is a truly horrible file viewer. Allow the user to define how they want their files. No lock in - whoever did this is evil or a moron.
http://friendfeed.com/immad
I can barely read the text. Is it my computer or the document?
The url I submitted is: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier/research/verna.06.imecs.pdf

Not sure how or why it wound up at scribd.com
http://friendfeed.com/codesurgeon
I don't think the traditional artists/performer will want to have technology solving their problems.

Many people prefer records to CDs although you can claim CDs are higher quality, not everyone is a member of the digital age.
Serve wordpress cached pages with lighttpd and LUA
Some LUA and mod_magnet will help you serve superfast wordpress cached pages with lighttpd
Reach is overrated. Others have alluded to it, but reaching potential customers is just scratching the surface. There needs to be the engagement and conversion to dollars.

Here's an analogy that I'm almost positive won't make sense:
A panhandler sitting outside of a pizza place in downtown Manhattan will potentially "reach" the same number of people with their respective messages. Which one will have made more money at the end of the lunch hour?
Ouch, yeah that's some kind of bug in scribd... the original is a nice LaTeX document. The scribd version is all fuzzy.
Hacker gives web application away
10 Reasons Why Linkspank Sucks!
Chaos Theory: In Kitchen, Programming and Gambling
Monogamy: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
yea I was happy with how well it worked out. My setup is using an nVidia card in twinview.

I used EnvyNG to get the right drivers and it worked like a charm, I did have problems trying to install the driver directly.

Good luck!
This is asinine.
What's your bounce rate?
"ur kiddin rite?" would have been better :)
http://friendfeed.com/brlewis
Coming from a non-techie perspective, the reason I'm not using it is because its all way too confusing. I mean, have you read an article about this stuff? Everyone defines it in different ways, hardly anyone can explain with specificity what exactly it will do for you, and its very hard for anyone to found out information about what to do when or where. By that I mean, no one has told me what I can do as a non-programmer. Business people won't start using it until there is a specific advantage to doing it, but no one can point that out yet. Furthermore, I haven't been able to find a way to figure this out without hiring someone.
For example, I have a TypePad blog. So someone explain what I'm supposed to do, how it will help me, and how I will do it. In a way that doesn't involve coding. I dare you.
This article is a little ridiculous. Although I'm not a Twitter user, so maybe I don't fully understand the dynamics of using it as a search agent. From what I do know about it, I know I wouldn't want to use it.

1. Twitter has nowhere close to the amount of users that Google has and never will.

2. There is no measure of quality for the types of results you're going to get back. One man's treasure is another mans trash and I don't want to get a bunch of garbage thrown at me.

3. Google is always there and I can search it to my hearts content. If I start bugging my entire Twitter network with requests, I'll lose my network quickly.

4. I'm not sure how this creates any productivity. If you have friends willing to do your searches for you, they're losing productivity and it's not even zero sum, it's a multiple of how many responses you get and you yourself aren't really gaining all that much in probability.

5. Your trusted network can go down at any time. What happens when people aren't around or somebody you once trusted Goatse's you? You'll be crawling back to Google in no time.
Three Ways To Say The Same Thing
I was impressed that the movie used the Monty Hall problem. It's simple enough to get the point across quickly and easily. But challenges common sense.

Of course, any class of MIT seniors learning this is a huge disappointment.
Everyone that has held and used my iPhone has desired to purchase one. Several have, and it's not even available in Canada.

Why would you buy another mp3 player other than an iPod? Why would you buy another phone other than an iPhone? To think 5 years ago I was an Apple hater...they have really stepped up their game.
Since you were lucky enough to be part of the YC program, I would suggest going back to them and seeking some advice. I'm sure they've faced similar situations (Kiko comes to mind).

If you are getting sustained demand for likebetter though (albeit small right now), that might be a pretty good indicator that you've built something people need. You'll never know if the idea is viable or not unless you run with it for a while. With your connections I definitely would not give up on it though.
That guy can sure hold a grudge. "I was only able to stop these idiots from commenting on my blog by stopping everyone from commenting on my blog, which is regrettable, but it's worth the sacrifice, because some of these people really were complete fucking idiots. I know, because they disagreed with me."

I remember that blog post. Instead of responding to the comments in his blog post (a la PG), he removed comments from his blog and started calling the posters names. The people posting on the site were trying to point out that his arguments were specious, and not very well thought out.

Several people argued with him on Reddit, including Avi Bryant (creator of Seaside), Slava Pestov (creator of the Factor programming language). He called them names and then deleted his comments later.

There's lot of irony in his latest post.
A friend of mine just emailed 3 of her friends saying:

"I just bought a new BlackBerry, it requires Outlook, how do I get it on my computer with Vista"

For her it turned into a 5 hour process to install an email client built by the same company. I would say this has a great deal to do with the usability of the underlying OS.
Interesting trend....
...that i've found the other day. Maybe it will work and become an hit?

happyskins.com

But still Tshingis Khan has said:"It's not important how a cat looks like, but how it catches mice." :)
Evaluate SocialCens.us - New Socially-driven trend mapper
Yeah, in my University (University of Amsterdam), they taught it in Stochastics 2, which is a second-year course in the Mathematics Bachelor.
it would depend what he has moved on to. That might be doing even better
Why VCs Want To Review Your Model
http://friendfeed.com/joshuagourneau
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

From reliance on undemocratic regimes who maintain a corrupt power structure at the barrel of a rifle, to reliance on a democratic regime that maintains a corrupt power structure and a societal stratification that can only be described as economic apartheid. What could go wrong?

You'll forgive me if I believe we should keep looking for other options.

How about 'self reliance'?
the early DOS days were indeed a gold rush. and no doubt, some people are going to get rich on early iphone apps. alas, i think that's about the end of the similarities. the pc platform was wide-open, but apple seems intent on maintaining tight-fisted control of the iphone space.
Can you make estimates as to how much profit you would get through the profit-sharing agreement? That might be some basis for an exit. Would potential acquirors have to honor that deal?

Between the 1k uniques a day and the technology, and the YC cred, maybe you could get a reasonable exit on ebay. If you went that route make sure the major blogs cover your ebay posting.
This is Bryan from Xobni.
also talk to Justin/Emmet before doing that.
You would think they would all be swimming in money by now :P
Properly because scribd is a YC company and HN does some form of automatic submit of pdf files.

I which case the problem should be solved relatively fast because somebody here likely knows the guys at scribd.
Ask HN :: Android + GAE + "C-Block" -- Has Google already won the "mobile phone wars"?
(please refrain from any Star Wars "Clone Wars" references with what follows...)

No doubt we are familiar with the "OS/Desktop Wars" that prevailed during the 80s. And of course there was the "Browser Wars" of the 90s. The 00s saw the "Search Wars" and it's clear who won here.

I'm betting that Google has already set the stage for the "Mobile Wars", and it's arguable that it might have already been preemptively won. If you combine Android, GAE, and the recent spectrum bidding Google has been involved with, it seems to me that Google has brilliantly staged the ultimate coup - well ahead of any battle taking place. Now anybody can combine the ease of use of creating an application on Android, along with the ability to (theoretically) scale gracefully through GAE , and then have the application widely accessible through the C-Block.

Any thoughts?

EDIT: changed the terse geeky headline to something more digestible...
People have a need to belong - well yes, but why is that news let alone research worthy?
Ben - congrats on the NYTimes coverage!

After seeing your iChat video + Trac setup working at your co-working space, I went looking for a collaboration setup for our remote team (Trac just never did it for me.)

We've settled on Google wiki + Lighthouse integrated with GitHub. We're also testing Campfire for "watercooler" team chat (when IM isn't necessary)

http://sites.google.com
you need to "hire" one or more officers to help run the company. Depending on the amount of time and work required you might be able to find someone willing to do an equity only deal. What level of effort are we talking about?
Sell it to the syndication house
http://friendfeed.com/pierrel
I almost spat out my drink when reading the title let alone the article. Surely this is satire.
Yahoo + Google= Collusion...Antitrust?
twitter is useful for getting recommendations from your network (or even random people). If you go to a new city twitter could be useful I'm finding a great restaurant, etc. It's the kind of "search" you can do on Google but would be harder than simply asking your Twitter network.
Microsoft bias in MSN search results, surprise