skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
mp3 player: swappable memory cards/batteries, voice recording, radio reception, lower price, songs aren't "hidden"

iphone: never used one, possibly something with a keyboard. keyboard typing > touch screen typing > keypad typing
Elevator Pitch?
I am half joking. I realize there are real costs, albeit very small [orders of magnitude lower than AWS], for data transfer. For my application, I would love to outsource storage, but the economics using AWS are not favorable. I will continue to host my own storage.
Well, countries will commit war on behalf of oil (and infrastructure) corporations, so doing the right thing won't happen until all the wrong incentives dry up. One interesting development out of Petrobras though is Lua, which is a great scripting language with lots of advanced features.
I like it that one of the reasons they're the next Google is they don't have a business model yet. Hey, come to think of it neither does my morning commute, maybe it's the next Google.
Lee Mighdoll Out At Twitter, Business Plan Still MIA
Give Your Intellect a Boost — Just Say Yes to Doing the Right Drugs
heres a link to a reuters article explaining the investigation more:

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSWBT00884320080423
You can't make Common Lisp very fast without making it brittle or introducing non-standard mechanisms for giving the compiler type information.
Google User Experience
The most interesting aspect of Greg McAdoo's "wave" talk was that it also required Sam Altman's "How to Get Funded" talk. If you're not careful, you can catch a wave and still end up with nothing.
Spanking needs one hand, but to applaud you need two hands!
This is stupid, plain and simple.
It's scribd.
Are we building Universities or Amphitheaters?
Who’s Going to Say the “P” Word?
For the site owners, the money is in flame wars and troll-fests.

I know that for the Reddits at least this was not a conscious strategy. They didn't plan for Reddit comments to get they way they are now; it was just a byproduct of growth.
Video comments: Interesting trend, but not as efficient as text
Stuff like this reminds me how nice it is to be a hacker.

I'd much rather wrestle with complex algorithms, hunt down nasty memory leaks, and normalize unwieldy data than engage in catfights.
That's just the side effect of the backwards compatibility

I don't think this can be true, because the same culture is evident in their new technologies as in their upgrades. As I said, look at any issue of MSDN Magazine.
I don't know, a lot of these guidelines seem to be arbitrary. It's good practice to keep code small and to the point, but to say that a class should never exceed 50 lines of code is a little too exact and makes the whole list a bit suspect.
How to Make Convincing Fake-Gold Bars
Trying to get some input on what needs fixing, whats breaking, what needs all-out changing. Thanks!
Octopartygoers.

update: Octoparticles?
$50 Clip-on wind and solar charger powers your mobile devices
Hey guys, the typo in my search "slicehost\" generated:

OMG... You killed the server!
We'll get right on it...
MySpace Apps Moves Out Of Beta
(read article) ... My bounce rate is 45.37% I might be naive to think this is good for a e commerce site, but I do.
I just finished getting all the drivers up and working on a 7.1 install. I'm kind of scared of starting all over again with wifi, video, sound, etc. I like 7.1, don't know if the upgrade is worth it.
What a farce.

If the feds won't do anything about Microsoft or ExxonMobil, then why even have antitrust legislation?

This has nothing to do with justice or fair play, just whose lobbyists have the most money, er I mean clout.
Blog bounce rate: 91.15%

Daily visitors: 3000

Forum bounce rate: 39.45%

Daily visitors: 1000

Medium and content really affects the bounce.
True, but sometimes I think people forget that not every conversation has to be a formal debate. One of the huge hassles of running a blog is that when someone thinks you're wrong, they think it's their right to enter into a formalized duel of wits. And if the poster refuses to participate? The harasser declares victory of the most complete kind. But what people seem to forget is that the burden of proof is not the obligation to argue.

I don't like blogs with comments either. Usually I want to say what I want to say, and if you disagree you can email me. I may or may not entertain further discussion, but I certainly don't feel compelled to give my site over as a venue to people who then organize specious an mean-spirited conversation. They can do that on their blogs, out of my tunnel vision.
Are they also able to measure the degree of happiness people experience? That could be interesting, like economists could finally get a measurement of the utility curves of their subjects.
http://friendfeed.com/mhartl

The only service aggregated by FriendFeed that I currently use regularly is Twitter, so you might as well go to

http://twitter.com/michaelhartl
http://friendfeed.com/adk
Before twitter, people were crowdsourcing on Usenet.
AND Harish! Who incidentally, is solely responsible for the ultra-fast attribute filters.
Hahah. that's funny.

No, No, No. Twitter as a search tool, are you kidding me?
I always told my old boss, its great to know Im doing a good job, but I can't pay rent with "Good jobs" ...
http://friendfeed.com/bill
The problem is, as always, that the members of the community that post the best stories and comments start to disappear when the front page becomes stupid. How's that for "no one forces you to read it"?

I agree that not every post should be a discussion on the problems and merits of academic subjects, but every post should be interesting enough that the smart guys here want to read it: be that a PG essay, a story telling that Prosper verifies that poor people must have high interest rates or this year's Berkshire Hathaway letter to shareholders. Boilerplate news can be found anywhere, whereas a highly concentrated feed of stories is a precious rarity.
In summation: "What about all the good things Meth has done?"
I'm running 7.10, what's the best way to upgrade without losing any info?
Just a thought: don't those 75% reflect rather badly on Google's search skills? Those 75% translate into 75% false hits delivered by Google - room to improve for competitors.

Although granted, there might be a barrier of human "stupidity" that can't be broken, there is only so much you can infer from simplistic search requests.
Mibbit.com is probably not a typical site - essentially only one page.

Stats for last 24 hours or so though:

Total sessions: 13,541...
<1 minute: 2,037 (15%)
1min-10mins: 4,868 (36%)
10min-20min: 1,102 (8%)
20min-30min: 727 (5%)
30min-1hour: 1,364 (10%)
1hour-2hour: 1,338 (10%)
2hours+: 2,105 (16%)

Average duration of visit: 66 minutes

I'm pretty pleased with those stats, although these are only people who have javascript enabled. Maybe a billion people have it disabled, and bounce. I should probably check ;)
http://friendfeed.com/emkay
What's so good about cash? It is just a tool to accomplish your own goals. It is pretty sad if cash alone gives people, even temporary, hapiness. Actually, a lot of stuff would be more sexier if not paid. I feel that reward turns off my creativeness.

To say nothing about that personally I hate praising. I perceive it to be empty.
Sam Ruby added as co-author

Talk about an unfair advantage. This reminds me of a Geico ad where they're interviewing spokespeople (spokesanimals?). A Taco-Bell-esque chihuahua exits the interview and walks past a lizard in the waiting area. He says, "Oh, great! A talking gecko!"

I mean, really, how can you compete with a guy named Sam Ruby?
Google Finance - Updated Layout
Viral Marketing : the Real Deal, or Just a Pipedream?
http://friendfeed.com/madsimian
Right on, brother. Today's word is "irony". Money quote from this amazingly boring rant: "It's important to realize there are tons of people who just don't care. Be one of those people."
The bounce rate for justin.tv is 37.35%
I have a few friends that work as product managers at RIM, I have used practically every device they have made with a zillion types of keyboards and keypads.

I can type way faster on my iPhone, but I do have to look at it to type. They can type on BB's without looking. The auto-correction on the iPhone is amazing...it takes into account my fat fingers.

Who wants swappable memory cards, or batteries? I have voice recording on my iPhone. Radio reception might be nice but there are some external addons for ipods.

I guess it depends a lot on the individual user, but Apple products work well for the masses.
Perhaps it's not so wasteful. The stuff you remember is the stuff that you keep on using, while the stuff you forget is the stuff that was never really important. Perhaps learning a vast amount of stuff and then filtering out everything except the stuff you need to use again is the best way to fill your finite amount of brain space with useful knowledge.

That said, I'd be happy if my brain had retained a bit more of the undergraduate mathematics, and a bit less of the lyrics to theme tunes from 1980s sitcoms, but never mind.
Paul, I don't see why would a startup even need $400k in its initial years. After all, isn't the average startup just a few friends working out of someone's basement? At the max their costs include a rented apartment, computers, a few air flights & food.
I am sure I have missed out something big, what is it?
Well, there is no reddit front page anymore, right? There is only your front page, which depends on which subreddits you have on.
Blog bounce rate: 68%
Sorry, I don't play pokemon
>>do-release-upgrade
Please elaborate. I didn't quite understand what you said. What's societal stratification and why can it only be described as social apartheid? What are you talking about?
"it was just a byproduct of growth"

I think we are in violent agreement.
How will software companies survive in a world of "free"?
That Old Lost Feeling. Reintroduced by Netflix.
I think the "front page" is the one shown to non-logged-in users, since they probably make up the majority (?)
The Company That Bejeweled Built
http://friendfeed.com/jrockway
Personal organizer recommenedations? 
What free organizers can you recommened? I use XP and Vista.. be nice if there was a function to easily update on my main PC and laptop.

I don't mind using an online organizer, so long as it is very secure.
There comes a point at which their public prescriptions for the world become annoying. Since their blog posts are publicized in places (other than their blog) that I should not have to avoid, a little feedback is in order.
Ask YC:Moving Costs
Right now my lease in MKE is up at the end of May, and I am seriously considering a move to SF. As part of my planing, I am trying to figure out how much it will cost to move out there.

It looks like Truck Rental alone will run $1500, and then there is gas. At 7 MPG, going from MKE-SFO, might cost an additional 310-350 gallons of gas, at $4-$5 a gallon, or another $1,500 just in gas.

I have heard of POD, but I was wondering if anyone else had some ideas?

Plan B is to sell everything.

Plan C is to put it in storage here in MKE and move with a suitcase to the valley.

Plan D is to stay in MKE, reduce costs further and travel to the Valley, at regular intervals.

Plan Pipedream, is to get funded.

What advice can the group offer?
> It also plays a preview of mp3s you mouseover in the filebrowser, not a big feature, but I liked it

Yikes, I could see that startling the heck out of me if I left my speakers on full volume.
I wonder if there is someway to move on electric power? ;-) Gas is so expensive.
http://friendfeed.com/dustineichler
Personally, I find myself skipping past most of the video comments. I think, just like one might see on a site like ValleyWag, the content (or in this case, a video comment) that gets the most clicks will often include a pretty girl.

You can't "scan" the content of video comments like you can, say, this comment. It's an interesting idea, but seems to disrupt the flow of communication.

Case in point, I just watched a 20 second clip of Arrington saying, "Um.. Uhh.." and not much more. His text comments are obviously a tad more engaging.

These seem much more suited to a video site, like YouTube, than a comment thread. Please, Hacker News, don't adopt video comments!
Google Registers Weird Domain Names
sell all of your stuff

cheaper just to rebuy what you need on craigslist and you probably don't need 95% of your stuff anyways
I'm going to scale my foot up your...
Google Enters Mobile Phone Ad Market
This is years away still. And pales in comparison to the possibilities in Canada.
By way of clarification I guess I should explain that in Brazil there is a sizable segment of the population that lives in abject poverty. Frequently inhabiting tenement areas that are really no more than shanty towns, called 'Favelas'. High crime, few educational or employment opportunities, disease and hunger are all found throughout Brazil in these areas. There is also a racial component as well, as Blacks or darker skinned people are disproportionately represented in the impoverished class.

As these types of problems can lead to social unrest, which inevitably impacts politics and trade, I was intimating that the sort of reliance on Brazilian Oil that the author of the article implicitly postulates is unwise.
do you have a place in SF yet? Rents are really high especially with the foreclosure boom happening here.
Whether or not you succinctly communicate your companies benefits, your consumers certainly will do it for you once you launch.
I like the hopeful note that this information rings. The real proof of this, however, will be reflected in the price of oil in the markets.
Firefox 3.0b5: Massive Comet Scalability
It's good that people still have a sense of humor. I almost believed he was serious with this story.

Please say he wasn't serious...
You don't say? I apologize if I've offended you, but I've used this nick from before I understood the concept of political correctness; consider it a relic of my naivete and immaturity.
http://friendfeed.com/icey
I really dislike religious guidelines like this.
25 Finance APIs
While, yes, I agree that Apple is keeping a bit of a stranglehold over the iPhone application market, that doesn't mean that there isn't a ton of opportunity for developers to succeed, provided they can color within the lines.
From the comments:

Google is a fucking verb among the common man now, Twitter is a joke.
Does anyone have a list of all the applications+versions included like which X.org, Gnome, Kernel etc. are used?
Microsoft Investors Call for End to Fight With Yahoo (Update1)
http://friendfeed.com/mwmanning
Yahoo overshadows Microsoft earnings
I've generally had very good upgrade experiences with Debian and Debian based distributions.
With excitement I loaded the HN comments for this story only to find that everybody had already beaten me to bashing the insanity of this story. :)
http://friendfeed.com/trev
http://friendfeed.com/msnoulten
Video comments seem kind of lame. They take more time to view than just reading the text.

Doing video polls sounds more interesting, with the poll-reading community up-voting the best video comments for each given question.
Creating Infectious Engagement
Twitter has a lot of useful information in it. It's not popular enough yet, but the application does have a lot of appeal. The tool we built (shameless plug again) made me realize how interesting it is to see what people are doing in real time:

http://twist.flaptor.com
How To Pick An Ad Network?
http://friendfeed.com/mdemare
Video comments might be a way to control the flame baiting that happens with anonymous comments.
Ballmer: You want XP, we'll keep XP
As far as the theft of gold from the Ethiopian bank, an inside replacement job is probably the only possibility. There is no way that all of the bank officials, assayers/chemists, and so on could work together on that kind of conspiracy.

Very, very interesting article.
Windows 'works well' on OLPC
This reminds me of Numbers, where they just throw some crazy looking math stuff on a chalkboard but never really explain it. I hope the movie is better than that!
This is cool but when I first saw it awhile back I wanted the ability to download the library and use it inline. It's currently set up more like Google Charts
I use and would recommend ThePlanet.com and Slicehost.

I use and would not recommend Mosso or MediaTemple.

I use and would conditionally recommend PHPWebhosting.com, Google App Engine, and RackSpace.

I use and do not have enough data to comment on AWS.
Yahoo Open Search Platform Launches Into Private Beta
Craigslist's Feelings Are Hurt; Lashes Back at EBay
WebKit GTK+ port passes Acid3 on Linux
I've been thinking quite a bit recently on the subject of online forums; namely, why do they seem to inevitably deteriorate into a desperate, trolling flame-fest? More to the point, how can this be prevented? What can be learned from other forms of group communication, such as scientific journals?

The author makes a point that I hadn't really thought much about; namely, that observing the mayhem is itself entertaining to a large number of people, which in turn drives site owners to, at the very least unconsciously, permit nearly uncontrolled ass-hattery, in exchange for eyeballs and advertising revenue.

JoS seems to have maintained a decent signal-to-noise ratio; let's hope that Hacker News manages to do so as well.
Granted, but then at least they are going after companies that can defend themself - had they gone after a startup it would have been all over.

Thing is, it doesn't matter where google is located so it push comes to show they could more to another country they buy the officials of. Maybe they should.
Well, you can pay people to praise you but the reverse doesnt hold.
Algorithms in Lisp
Are there any books / links available on algorithms in lisp ? or scheme.

Update : Sorry, Its not the book, Looks like the authors thesis submission.
Wrong. It's easy to think that keyboard typing would be better than touch screen typing, but try an iPhone.
It's actually better than a small keyboard would be. It's not that much slower than typing on a laptop keyboard.
http://friendfeed.com/garrytan
http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/6406/bouncerw7.png

http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/2106/depthjv5.png
Likebetter.com (YC) is looking for a cofounder - get in two floors up
Likebetter.com started life in the YC Su06 founders program. I'm a single founder, but while likebetter is looking more promising than ever, life dictates that I find someone else to take the reins.

Likebetter.com has been featured on the BBC, the front page of Digg, and in countless blogs. Traffic is decent at 30K uniques, we clearly have our share of addicts, and our widgetbox widget traffic is growing: we have just under 6K active subscriptions.

Most exciting: Two weeks ago, I signed a two year profit-sharing partnership agreement with the largest syndication house in the US, that seeks to promote the likebetter widget to the largest newspapers and magazines across the nation for use on their sites (pet wars, best photo contests, etc). The site will need some work to ready it for this (RoR+javascript), but the profit potential is high.

After working on likebetter for more than two years, I feel that it's just at the cusp of finding its stride. I'm seeking the right person or pair that can help guide it home. To be clear: I am not looking for a traditional 'cofounder'. For all intents and purposes, I'd play the role of an adviser and to some extent help cover base costs; but my other commitments won't allow me to play an active role in the development of the business nor the site.

If for whatever reason you applied and were not admitted to YC, or are considering applying but don't have the right idea - consider this: You'd be getting in 2 floors above the ground floor, and, to the right person, I'm prepared to hand over the same equity as if you joined me on the ground floor two years ago.

If this sounds like the opportunity for you, email me plusbryan AT gmail.com

I'm located in SF and would like to meet with you in person, though the final location of the business is of no consequence.

pairwise.com
likebetter.com
Interesting; I had never really thought about the difference before, but it does make sense that symbols would need to remain around for the life of the program, immune from garbage collection. I need to refactor a small Rails project today, so I'll probably go in with this in mind.
If you’re working in a big group, you’re fighting human nature
http://friendfeed.com/rjb
Chris Okasaki's "Purely Functional Data Structures" covers exactly that which is lacking in a standard reference such as CLRS "Introduction to Algorithms". Read / work through both and you're well on your way to being great at algorithmic problem solving

edit: for those who are too lazy to google, here's the book on amazon http://www.amazon.com/Purely-Functional-Structures-Chris-Oka...
The Alberta tar sands will not be profitable if this new deposit can be accessed at a cost comparable to other deep sea drilling.

If that's the case.... -pop- goes the Alberta bubble, again.
well... off the top of my head,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s#Mathematical_wo...
which is open source (BSD) and can be setup to run on your own server...

EDIT: That comment seems a little mean spirited (not intended). For casual use, I don't see a problem with a Google Charts sort of approach, but for big time usage, like say you were doing an Analytics competitor or something, you probably have the resources to run it yourself, and you'd almost certainly be better off doing so.
Building Communities with Software
Thanks, It seems to be freely available too, first hit on google.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf
Yes, I found that working on giving the users a more meaningful intent before they ever visits the site is more effective than just optimizing the site for conversions for once they arrive.
Interestingly, both Joel and Paul have essayed about this topic:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswi...

http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html
Decoding Apple's Earnings
South Korea Deploying Cloned Drug-sniffing Dogs
Ask YC: Are there any white label community news sites like HN?
I am a member of various communities and currently we share a lot of our news via email lists. A site like Hacker News seems a great alternative. I really want a community specific version of Digg/HN/reddit/etc to do for community news what Ning did for social networking. This would definitely help my inbox as well! Is anyone is doing this?
http://friendfeed.com/mariorz
Slicehost +1, easy to use, easy to scale, cost effective.
36.62% so far in 2008

38.87% in the past 30 days

for carbonmade.com
Clojure is a Lisp that compiles to JVM byte-code as you type in to a REPL, or load-file.

Clojure is oriented towards functional style programming and concurrency.

Compiled code uses some reflection under the covers, but most of this can be eliminated by type hinting, which gets you into the ball park with Java.
Gold is heavy. Reminds me of the movies like Indiana Jones where average-build actors lift up gold bricks that should weight 80-100 lbs. each like they were boxes of business cards
Interesting article - however I am more interested in how to make real gold bars generally speaking. Although I suppose the first step is making the fake bars...
Criminals target energy, financial markets
Amazon Web Services: New Release of ElasticFox
Real-Life Use Case for “Barracuda” InnoDB File Format
thanks for the tips! I think it will really help this weekend, I especially like the "It has to look really really cool" tip. I really think that having really fancy looking demo is key to getting people excited about your product, even though that's not how it will be when you finally launch.

Question to those who have interviewed for YC before: Is it structured so that we can present from beginning to end, or should we expect to be fired with questions and possibly get a little sidetracked before finishing?
He also has a very good blog:

http://okasaki.blogspot.com/