skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"we". I think your comment implies that you are a veteran of this community and that I am the fresh rookie who needs guidance. Well, I guess you have learned quite a lot in the last 58 days and 12 submissions to be in a position to "we" me. Seriously, I am going to try to make you happy and write properly, but in return I am hoping you will tone your expectation as far as grammar and spelling a tiny bit. Look at the design of this site, it eliminates anything not necessary, but if you must insist that I hit shift about 11 times, just so you understand me no more than if I did not, then I will. Lastly since you are that upset about the capitalization I would suggest you stop looking at your username because your golden rule doesn't apply there, and neither does it on the reply button.

EDIT: Even the sentences in your comment are not well structured.
what if reading is doing? reading is (can be)very productive. Take an analyst who reads a tone of data and makes decision for a company. Reading in this case is very much like doing, because without it he could not make any decision. Of course you could argue, he can simply use a decision making software, but what does the software do? READ data and make decision based on what it READ.
Now it's this story.
Interesting. For anyone interested in a more powerful, yacc-style javascript parser generator, check out JS/CC: http://jscc.jmksf.com/ . I've used it to generate a parser for spreadsheet formulas; the interface to use it is pretty clunky (since it's written in javascript and runs in the browser) but it got the job done.
I think he means "made something usable."
Yeah, it's definitely an elitist thing.
Selling ad space on ebay?
Someone suggested in a thread here to sell advertisement space on eBay. Is that in compliance with eBay's rules for forbidden items?

I couldn't find it on eBay's help page, but I have read before that eBay's rules on selling "virtual" goods have become very stringent lately.
Windows Vista, 7, and Singularity: The New Copland, Gershwin, and Taligent
I think Paul overrates the value of the global view on such data. Simple link count works well for evaluation of the importance of the web page until the Heisenberg effect kicks in (people start to adapt their pages to score better in the algorithm). My hunch is that it is enough to know the local structure of a densely-connected social graph.
I feel like being lazy in my answer.

http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com has links on the right of places I read.
Excellent design. Really, much better than anything I could ever do. My humble attempt at constructive criticism follows.

The "play song" overlay is too obtrusive. It feels interruptive, which is what the transparency is trying to avoid. Maybe make the X out button bigger and more prominent?

Also, does anyone know if there is a way to kill the Flex initialization and loading bar? It just feels amateur.

Finally, the biggest thing I'm looking for in a site like this is the ability to quickly download whole albums? Maybe you should cross-reference the album search with an index of the album, so as to ensure it only downloads one copy of each song, and have a one-button album download feature.

Also, isn't it a trivial process to determine which links are still live by seeing if each user plays through the song's entirety?
Use moar paragraphs.
The article, and comments, capture the confusion around how to define a term Web 3.0. The fact is that it is being used now, effectively, and with no confusion about definition. Some folks make a good point about the dangers of marketing co-opting a term. Although, "A rose is still a rose".

I spoke at DERI in Ireland a week before Nova Spivak (twine.com). Read what Nova has to say about DERI to find out all the "real-world" projects:
http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2008/03/...

When I started getting excited about the semantic web, I thought was a late bloomer. I started getting interested in distributed "knowledge bases" - or expert systems - six years ago. The computer science was finished a long time ago for DAML, description logic, DHTs, and multi-agent systems. The last several years have been engineering - you know, like when the Eiffel tower was being built and there were lots of naysayers. Well, it's almost done, and the conversation should shift from confusion to how you are going to use it - because probably you already are.
I go to economist.com, or read the paper version of The Economist.
I think you are getting a lot of negative feedback here because when there is an avalanche of articles available to read, the more interesting question is how do you filter it all down to just a few useful ones. Even with Hacker News being the highest signal to noise site I read currently, the vast majority of articles are noise (to me).

I would love to see a "mark all as read" button on the front page, which would ensure I never see any of those articles on the front page again.
Java was the Ruby of its day (even though they're almost the same age!).
DERI - Semantic Web Research in Ireland
Yes. Yes I do.

But you should really eliminate the source of pain so you can get back to reading HN guilt-free (if that's possible).

BTW they sound more like short projects if it's only two weeks (unless they're larger projects crammed into a two-week timeframe!).
Want goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com? Too Late
yes I was being tongue in cheek, forgot the smiley.

I thought ruby is quite a bit older.
To answer your question with a question, where do you want to go?

You don't really specify where your interests lie or what type of "news" you're looking for. I could tell you where I go, but unless you're into the exact same things that I'm into, you're just going to be bored. I don't think anybody's really looking to plan your day for you.
matt -- add images from doingitwrong.com to each post and that uncov gig should be in the bag :)
Are you just trolling now?
For the record, my roommate and I are paying $1,800 for a 1400 sq foot two bedroom. And that's a lot, when I compare with my friends who have lived here for more than a year.
Easy Ways to Go Green with Your Computer
Privacy Disaster At Twitter: Direct Messages Exposed (Update: GroupTweet Is Likely Culprit)
Lisp for the Web
I think another HN reader as well as myself mentioned this earlier: Amazon has a much richer dataset than Facebook, and the context of purchasing when you visit the site. Their recommendation algorithms have cost me so much of my money, I don't even want to think about it. The implied and clustered behavioral data for advertising is all there, whether people are "friends" or not. The only thing I see that they lack is a buzzphrase like "social graph".
There's a subscription I need to renew...
Launch and release updates often. Do some viral marketing and get in front of the face of the people you want to cover you. Don't go directly for TC, as you will spend too much time trying to get them to cover you, there are many other startup press out there will cover you with much less effort... some even let you submit your site to them :D

Chris

http://www.propertystampede.com
Should you judge a software engineer based on their hygiene?
Apple Buys Chip Designer
Cool idea.

From your initial description I thought maybe you were comparing specific makes and models. This would be more difficult, because you'd have to obtain (and maintain) this data from somewhere, but it's probably doable.

In that case, you could help potential buyers decide between one vehicle purchase and another based on fuel costs (not that your app can't do that now--the users just have to get their data someplace else). Nice of me to expand your project's scope, eh? ;)
"The stats are clean." -- Cedric Daniels
Perhaps "social graph" is a natural phrase only if you use the word "graph" naturally. It certainly feels natural to me.
Google bans Oz 'eco' search engine
That's pretty rough. Maybe someday people will just stop using services that ask you for your passwords to other services. It's ridiculous.
http://watrcoolr.us

I made it for myself. It is intended to contain the most interesting stories at the moment. It is updated every 10 min with the top 3 stories from a bunch of most emailed type feeds (that I have tweaked over time), sorted by when the story was noticed first.

I use it as my homepage. The latest story comes up automatically. Occasionally I use the keyboard shortcuts (arrow keys, r -- see bottom right) to review the rest.

If anyone uses it, feed ideas are always appreciated.
Get a group of friends together, a bottle of wine and a laptop to record the stupid things you guys come up with. The next morning go through the list and whoola... most likely you have a good name that has a domain available.

Good Luck,
Chris
Will we ever see a biosciences (YC type) startup school?
I agree... plus if you dont tell us more than your target market isn't anywhere near you, we dont even know where you are??? How can we help you? TC may not even be able to help you if they do not reach your target market.
Making SCUMM Games
Touched on slightly before, with no answers - however, I feel that the question as to different peoples memory retention is a valid one. I know myself that being Dyspraxic, I have quite a low retention rate when it comes to short term memory.
Could be of use to set a base level of memory retention and then use that to define the length of time between repetitions?
Hey mn,

Java used to be "Oak," and according to our good friend Wikipedia it was created in "June 1991." I thought it was later but guess not. It had the whole set-top box history, and would eventually run our fridges and toasters in the 21st century.

Seriously though, do you remember when Java was released? It was fun! And definitely considered the "hip" language at the time, much like Ruby is now.

I think it's interesting that so many in the Java camp have jumped ship to Ruby, because what is said about Ruby now, was said about Java then.

But they're still nearly the same age, so the ten-year spread in their respective heydays is sort of amusing. It's like Roger Moore supplanting Connery as Bond ten years later, despite the fact he's older. ;)
Thanks for the point jmorin007
MyStealthStartup: How to make a great pitch
We are everywhere arent we.
I have to be somewhat careful playing in the automotive space since I used to work for a company that was in that space.

Luckily, getting automotive data is fairly simple as there are a few companies that provide it and images (and dealer inventory too) for a fee (of course).

I've thought about having a list of "popular vehicles" like Prius, TDI Jetta/Beetle, Mini Cooper, Honda Civic, Yaris, Smart Car, etc in a pull down that will prepopulate the vehicle data.

Also, I've been ruminating about a better ridesharing/carpooling site/app and this would be a good driver to it.
Low-level programming is easy
When to use Pair Programming
Twitter Logos Buttons
Behold WordPress, Destroyer of CPUs
You could run for a bomb shelter and cower in the corner...

or...

Launch early... update often. IF you launch first you get credit for that. Also, learn what your competitors core values and visions are. Compare those to your own, and find a way to differentiate if yours are the same as theirs. Let your core values and shared vision drive you and you will most likely improve your chances for success.

But if you do choose the bomb shelter option, let us know how to contact you in case the competition goes defunct!

Good luck,

Christopher Mancini

http://www.propertystampede.com
Tip For Your Next Blog Content
But then, oddly enough, he seems to propose using linked lists in his example. ("What are the first 3 letters of the alphabet?" What letter comes after ABC?")
Pentagon's Unmanned, Stratospheric Aircraft Would Fly 5 Years Non-Stop
Masturbation may prevent prostate cancer
Timely ideas.

I was wondering if you could license it to others (Edmunds, etc.) but I guess it depends on them. Maybe with your industry experience you know something about that.

Anyway, good luck!
Please, can we all stop saying "just a small business"? There's no "just". It's not a bad thing.
Wordpress or Windows (that he is using)?
I'm generally with Matt on this. My project is at the opposite end of the spectrum from Twitter, as I wrote at http://ourdoings.com/2008-04-17

But I'll stop short of predicting that the mainstream will stay oblivious to Twitter, even though that statement is 90% likely to be right.

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-to-be-right-90-...
I'm glad someone finally spoke out against WordPress like this. This has bothered me for ages, but whenever I bring it up to people the argument is always, "cpus are cheap." But, I don't want to buy a new high end server just to run a blog. I want it to be speedy fast on shared hosting without fussing, by default.
Business & Beer, OpenCoffee (Founders meetups in Berlin)
There are two meetups this week in Berlin for founders. I'm going to try to be at both. Drop me a line if you'll be at either.

Today: http://www.fu-berlin.de/wirtschaft/profund/angebote/gruendertreffen/index.html

Friday: http://www.deutsche-startups.de/veranstaltungen/52/
RSS, Fire Eagle join LightPole's lookup posse
I think he's referring to your usage of "u". Adding four characters to your title isn't that hard, and the above poster "newbie" or not is right, I think we'd all prefer to see "you" instead of "u".
I read this Jeff's blog as some is interesting, but I always laugh at how he is so pro-windows.

When I read he was going to do some web stuff I was wondering if he would use a windows server. I admit I don't keep up on what MS offers in the server side but it seems linux + apache is still a better choice.
You make an excellent point that I completely neglected about CL, being that there are commercial CL options if SBCL doesn't scale up appropriately. I've heard nothing but good things regarding Lispworks and to a lesser degree Allegro (although, I think that just has to do with their weird pricing scheme).
Why would you use twitter for personal messages? It just doesn't make any sense :/
The software finds the right point. The variance is also not enough to worry about. Over time, you get an approximation, which is not perfect, and I would go as far as to say that it will never be. Nevertheless, the approximations are good.
I think Matt's point is that if you start to explain Twitter to someone who isn't already excited about it, you yourself will have a hard time grasping what's exciting or even desirable.
Hi Wheeler. Will be there! (On Friday, that is.) Yay...

Never been there before though I pondered many times. German "startup scene" mostly not my cup of tea. But if they make it to Hacker News (via you), might be worth a shot.
Thanks for the link - that's really cool. I particularly like sites that give you the actual code in downloadable file.

Now I have no idea what language to try next, either learn Python and Django or try Lisp.

Hmm.
Lead architect Blaine Cook out at Twitter
Ray Ozzie gets it but Mesh won't save Microsoft
I think there will be exactly the german startup scene as you expect it to be... - not many (no?) hackers.
I think so too. But let's see what it's like.From where I live, it takes me 15 mins on the bike to get there, it will be a sunny urban spring morning, and I love coffee. Though the current non-smoking fad freaks me out ^^
You can read interview with them:

http://tinyurl.com/4p4tg2

In other note: notice the robotic dinosaur in middle bottom of the video (30sec)
Embed your data- in HTML 5
Well, if dualogy and I are there we'll have at least two. ;-)

My real name is Scott and my picture is in the links in my profile, just find me when you're there.
The highest-quality information is embedded in prices that are generated in deeply-liquid cash markets.

The next-best info is embedded in prices that are generated in deeply liquid markets wherein people transact with barter currency (e.g., Second Life).

Of course, a chief virtue of the Web is its openness and adaptability (i.e., its capacity to migrate intelligence "to the edge").

A key to fulfilling the promise of Web 3.0, then, is proliferating online markets that:

1) separately or in combination, provide people with new and improved ways to develop, showcase and earn money from expertise

2) supply barter currencies for use by market participants (who can also use cash, of course)

Details are online at http://www.loveatmadisonandwall.com.

Best,
The fact that he's running it on IIS through FastCGI seemed to me to be a bigger problem than the fact that he's running WP as well. Not because I don't think IIS is a capable web server, but because Wordpress seems to me to be primarily oriented towards Apache + mod_php. Maybe WP is doing something that's really stupid on IIS + FastCGI but on Apache + mod_php it seems to run fine to me. I just clicked through a poorly visited WP blog of mine while monitoring top and CPU never spiked above 9% use on a 3GHz celeron. (this very same blog until a year ago ran on a celeron 400MHz with no problem as well, btw).

That said, he does have a point that WP's insistence on making everything dynamic is rather silly.
If I only would have a bike ride of 15 minutes I would probably come ;)
The Mist Movie Review
To those of us who grew up before the cell phone revolution, "Phone Tag" means the frustrating situation where two people keep leaving messages for each other and never totally connect.

One of Bill Cattey's rules is that finding a good name for software takes as long as implementing it.
Hillary caught up with Obama... on Twitter
Great advice. Nice links, too.

Not so sure about the coffee, though. Bootstrapping is a marathon, not a sprint.
Nothing particularly insightful for you in my sites, although I tend to like to cross fertilize - news from outside tech informing what I do in tech.

mashable, slashdot

Non tech - news aggregation like yahoo and google.
Twitter, facebook, linkedin.
Making Money on the Web, the How-To Way
Cloud Computing Gains Steam With New I.B.M. Gear
Twitter should implement OAuth or equiv for it's api. I'm fed up of handing out my password to third party twitter applications.
Masquerade - Rails-based OpenID Server
Interesting, but quite a bit late to the school of thought involving cloud computing.

While I hope that Microsoft does begin to transfer more of its services to the open web and that it begins to embrace more open standards, I also hope that those who've embraced the web as a platform early on rightly attain their deserved first-mover competitive advantage.
Quit your job
Makes me feel not-so-bad for using the tired, aging, not-as-popular Blogger platform for my blog. It's hard to have overwhelming CPU loads serving static pages.
One step at a time. At least they are moving in what seems to be the right direction.
Software as a Service Rails Kit
I don't think we can have Web 3.0 before Web 2.0 goes bust like Web 1.0 did. We need a valley before the next peak.
wowwowowowo. Amazing.
Chips are expensive to develop. It doesn't make sense to me that Apple is willing to spend the R&D for new generations. It would make more sense that that R&D cost is amortized over multiple chips from multiple vendors. That was their thinking in switching over to x86 (I should know: I was working on Freescale's last PowerPC project for them when it was canceled! :( )
Can I use it? Evaluating Usability through Quick-UX.
After reading this rant and listening to his talk in startup school, is DHH drinking too much of his own kool-aid?

[I live in SF bay area and work in VC funded startups]

I mean life is not just 37 signals? At some point in time, he has to come out and do another startup. Is he setting himself a trap of doing a very narrow set of startups?
Excellent! This will go a long way to relinquishing my n00b status concerning Lisp.

"Look out Blub, there's something leaner!"

-- LISP (in all-uppers) edited above as not to offend. :)
What is most important to you in picking a business application?
If it's a personal message, it's the equivalent of an sms on the web.
Ask YC: Opinion of new startup Simplist?
I couldn't find what I was looking for in a list-manager-slash-organization-tool, so I started working on this a couple months ago. I'd love to get some feedback!
Let's not lose sight of the fact that bootstrapping and seeking investment don't have to be mutually exclusive. Any bootstrapped business, well executed with passion, can find itself in the position of needing capital to further expand the founders dream. What a nice problem to have.
It's pretty sweet, but I don't spend enough time inside Facebook for it to be really useful. I guess this is now an incentive to log in more regularly!
About a year ago i looked at the WordPress code. My PHP knowledge is limited, but it was easy to see that the code was not very good. Perhaps it has improved, but i personally wouldn't use it, especially on a server that runs important services.
Not really, actually. This is in part why we turned down 30 VCs, but were interested in getting involved with Bezos. He's as interested as we are in making this a company that'll be around for 20 years. (And should that turn out not to be the case, Bezos is a minority investor and will have no power to force a sale).

37signals is not for sale now and probably never will be. We like what we're doing too much and are more than comfortable with just the simple financial success of a profitable business making dividends.

Again, doesn't mean that our way is the only way. I'm just trying to do mine to encourage others to see it as a viable alternative to the funding -> sell out route.
Why not break them out into separate functions? Use the comments to name these functions. Each comment is a hidden function. Also this will reduce code duplication? For example,

char* findEnd( char* s)
{
while( *s ) s++;
return s;
}

bool endsWith( const char* haystack, const char* ending )
{
// find the end of [haystack] and [ending].
const char *haystackEnd = findEnd(haystack);
const char *endingEnd = findEnd(ending);

// Etc.
}
I would put the 'what can you use it for' stuff on the front page, to give people an idea who it's for.

...

Also - is this really a startup or just kind of a cool project? With all the other list things out there, how are you going to emerge enough to make money at it?
Investors can make money the same way founders can: Dividends. But yeah, that's a slow, boring way of earning a return in the eyes of some. It's not nearly as spectacular as a 10-100x return from a sale.
This is more about how people present themselves.

If you use proper punctuation, capitalization, good grammar and make clear sentences, you will appear to be civilized.

Civilized people respect other civilized people, so if you appear to be civilized, people are more likely to listen to what you say.

Comments on YouTube are a great example of people making themselves look.. extremely uncivilized.
I confess to deeply mixed feelings about this post. I guess I don't like his tone. And there's a problem, I can't really criticize the post without descending into ad hominems of a sort.

I guess I would rather read an essay about how much caching improves product X than an essay saying that the developer of product X is an idiot for writing a product that needs caching. Both essays have the same factual content, but I admit to bias towards the former, especially from one programmer to another.
The most important thing is not on the author's list.

It's the value produced by the use of your application in your customer's business. If it's a simple easy to use app that perfectly addresses their needs, they won't care about price, service, or much else for that matter.

Never forget, they're not buying your software; they're buying a solution to their own problem.
IBM unveils low-power servers for Web 2.0 startups
I've looked at it on occasion as well, and while it's not exactly a work of art, it's not exactly terrible either, especially for an open source blogging product.

If you really want terrible code, take a look at Pivot. That's awful. WP is just, well, spaghetti-ish, I guess, but not terribly so.
Everything I Needed to Know About Programming I Learned from BASIC