skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am frankly not going to read the article, the title is enough.
uuorld.com bounce Rate < %20

Our product is pretty visual though and it doesn't take much effort to stay for 10 seconds.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntu

Looks like the kernel is 2.6.25. I'm going to upgrade one of my machines later today and see how it goes. I'm more interested in the Kubuntu + KDE4.0 even if it is unstable. Looks like the Ubuntu stuff is mainly tweaks except a few changes in default programs (Brasero & Transmission by default) and Firefox 3.0 beta + newer Xorg
Yes, "crazy people", because anyone with brains plays the odds and goes for millions, not billions.
Did he take meth or just amphetamines (Benzedrine or whatever)? Meth is pretty nasty:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=meth+bugs

I'm surprised they didn't list Heroin or LSD or pot, which seemed to help artists. Seemed, anyway.
Always nice to have some backup 'gold' laying around in the event of a recession. Heh.
whats his quote?
http://friendfeed.com/jaredhanson
This is pretty exciting stuff, I can't wait to get my hands on this.
Actually thats just Bob's copy of Chris' thesis, the book covers that plus a bunch of techniques that other people also cooked up. But the thesis covers enough stuff that it'll give you a good sense of whether or not the work is a worthwhile investment.

Be warned, what you get out of this material in terms of understanding is strictly proportional to your comfort in mathematical reasoning
ok, i have another option, try out amazon aws/

http://www.amazon.com/gp/seller/fba/fulfillment-by-amazon.ht...

for my small expensive stuff, like computers, wii's ps3s bluray, dvd, cds, speakers, tvs, books, etc....
didn't pg write an essay on this? or at least is was a major part of one of his essays?
http://www.pligg.com/
It challenges common sense, but I'm surprised it confused so many people. When I first heard it, I was sceptical enough that I wrote a program to simulate it. But once it was built, there was essentially no reason to run it. Once you break the possible outcome into all the cases, it's clear what the success ratio will be just from looking at the algorithm.
Hopefully this will be good news for Brazil in the long run - but I worry that becoming a major oil exporter will be much worse for the Brazilian people. The ideal workforce to make a country rich from technology and innovation is a well-educated, relatively free one that can experiment and be creative. The ideal workforce to make a country rich from a natural resource is a poorly educated one that will fall in line with the regime that controls the resource. Monopolies and tyrannies are bad for hacking but great for pumping oil.
Screw ad revenue! This is the new business model.
Proof that men and women activate stereotypes of competence and sociability respectively
http://friendfeed.com/rksprst
Reddit could have done something about this, though. If being downmodded hurt your karma, I bet people would think twice before flaming.

It works here. I avoid flaming and trolling because I like my karma to increase. When I still read reddit, I would often troll, be overly cyncial, or generally be an ass because there was nothing to lose. (Reddit is too mainstream for there to be any intelligence there now. There is the occasional good comment from someone, but the good comments are way too hard to find.)
Ruby Implementers Design Meeting #1
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http://friendfeed.com/truebosko
Urghhh, I'm British and can't stand stuff like this. I got off my ass and went to San Jose and San Francisco on my own, met people via online networking and found it very successful.
This reminds me of my least-favorite scene in my all-time favorite movie. In The Godfather, Part II, there's a scene in Cuba where they pass around a 'solid-gold phone', and the actors have to pretend that it's heavy. Alas, it's clear from the way they handle it that the damn thing is just plastic, and very, very light.

Apparently they should have made it with tungsten. I hope they'll remember that if they ever make The Godfather, Part III. Wait... D'oh!
http://friendfeed.com/dodeja
Finally, Wired Magazine lives up to its name!
Yet another way to bootstrap a startup!
http://friendfeed.com/paul
http://www.slinkset.com - I think it was started by someone from HN.
MySpace Applications Developers
Auctomatic was founded by UK based founders. It was the first UK YC startup.
If you could somehow create a cheap and powerful particle accelerator, gold could concievably be produced in macroscopic amounts by irradiating mercury-198 (10% by mass in naturally occuring mercury) with 6.8MeV gamma rays. There are other ways of doing it, but economics and practicality needs to be considered. It is probably easier to build a badass particle accelerator than a nuclear reactor. I am reasonably sure that most modern accelerator laboratories have done this experiment, but it is probably not economical with today's accelerators. (And imagine the capital costs!)

This seems a very lucrative target for aspiring physicists. At a point in time this will probably become practical, but there will only be a small window in which it is economical to do so: once it becomes possible to perform large-scale nuclear gold transmutation, gold prices will plummet due to excessive supply.
At least he gathered some new quotes and anecdotal evidence. I particularly like the "two-pizza" reference.
Y Combinator Dataset Of Posts
If anyone is considering making a YCombinator site search or wants to perform an analysis of historical posts then we've made a dataset available at http://www.xirium.com/ycombinator-news20080424.tar.gz

The dataset is 100MB, so only download it if you need it. This dataset may be removed in the next week or so.
Finishers Wanted (on the importance of finishing)
I don't like religious guidelines either. Though if it is used as intended -- a calisthenic -- it is like doing push ups. It makes you stronger. You'll need to do other exercises in order to round out your abilities. That's my take on what this is, not fervent stakes in the ground.
I enjoyed it enough to add here, for those with out time.

I believe both Apple and Amazon (two companies I respect a lot for their version 1.0s) talk about “two-pizza teams” — that is, keeping the team small enough that it can be fed with two pizzas…If the company that made the iPod believes in a two-pizza team, how can you justify putting 90 people in the room?
I don't know, maybe people will start leaving video comments while wearing troll masks and flamesuits?
Some time ago I wrote to PG about this very subject:

Paul Graham wrote:
| Thanks, John. Dunbar's number is more about the size of societies than
| the size of a group that can cooperate to complete a task. There the
number
| is more like 8-12, which I believe prob corresponds to the smallest unit
| in an army.

Not sure the army is the best analogy since they operate with large
amounts of funding and not the same restraints as a start up. Terror
organizations are a better analogy since they have to combine team
effectiveness with minimal size (for security and finance reasons).
This seems a lot like a start up that needs an effective team of the
smallest size (for mostly finance reasons).

For example, the IRA was divided into 6 to 8 man operational units.
makes ec2 so much easier to use!
Tests Confirm T. Rex Kinship With Birds
I have personally spent a good deal of effort trying to find out how to create convincing, counterfeit currency. I am reasonably sure that I have the major points nailed down: you have to create your own paper (preferably after chemical and visual analysis of the banknotes in question) and then get hold of some ferromagnetic and fluorescent inkjet inks. Intaglio plates and watermarks can probably be created through a photolitographic process. Color-changing inks are the most tricky part..they obviously use some application of interference, but I haven't quite figured it out. Holograms, for the currencies that require it, can be created with an incredibly expensive hologram machine, which is probably impractical.

You'd be surprised at how little of this information is available to the public; most of the information I've gathered I've had to figure out by myself from looking at the officially available information on the security features of paper money. A more paranoid individual would suspect a cover-up. Perhaps there are laws against discussing things like this.

If someone has ever read a good book on the history of counterfeit money, I would be glad to hear it. To me it seems as if there is an information desert on this subject - which just sparks my curiosity furher. Counterfeiting is a fascinating engineering discipline, even more so in regions where the economic loss is handled by vast entities (counterfeit money, if not discovered, is paid for through the resulting inflation, counterfeit gold, if done properly, would end up at the balance sheet of a central bank and hence the taxpayers of the country in question, etc.)
"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." --Eleanor Roosevelt.
Never underestimate the power of teenagers who want to SuperHug or SuperPoke.
I agree with the others--video presentations take too long to parse.

Besides, I only watch videos from the 70s. If you want me to watch your video comment you'll have to travel back in time and appear on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert or The Old Grey Whistle Test.
To demonstrate that http://y.soho.lt/ is not a wrapper, the dataset has been made available. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=172701 for details.

Is this weekend good for a site search bake-off or do you need more time?
Whoa, now I can scale my Rails app!
What new features are in this version?
Ask YC: When should you let people start writing about you?
I wrote some software. Now, I want to make it explicit that it's not meant to be a startup. I wrote some program to serve my needs, and it's coincidence that it's in webapp form.

Still, some people expressed interest in using it so I made it multiuser. And somehow, word got out and now I have a very small number of users (much bigger than my initial plan of 1, though).

Now, someone's contacted me with interest about blogging about it/advertising for me. On one hand, I think that's neat. If people like it, that's cool. On the other hand, while the core functionality that I wanted is pretty robust, I have some really flimsy 'social network' aspects tacked on at the request of some people, and I don't think it's ready to actually be used, and heck, I'm a little embarrassed by it. That said, would you actively turn down press because you think you're not ready?
I use text files in a simple text editor like Vim. Here is what it looks like:

Today:
[ ] Groceries: Milk, pickles.
[ ] Bank: Deposit checks.

This Week:
[ ] Do stuff.

This Month:
[ ] More stuff.
http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/How_to_Run_Timeplot_Off-line ?
I'm not saying they're dead, just that the /. thunder has been stolen by Digg. Or maybe it's just because I stopped reading Slashdot. :-)
they should keep xp as long as needed (its too soon)

- The article mentions windows 7, which seems to be even more "ram weighted" than vista; actually it seems to be just the full version of vista including features they wanted to include in the initial release

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7
[citation needed]

And there are already standard mechanisms to provide type information to the compiler...

If you only optimize what you determined are the bottlenecks with the aid of a profiler, your code will run fast and won't be brittle.
http://friendfeed.com/glenstansberry
The reverse holds for whomever "you" pay.
I know someone there.
Ubuntu Heron Download by LC
If the company that made the iPod has a founder who wears a black mock turtleneck, how can you justify not wearing one?
Five More Principles Of Effective Web Design
Just as my own personal anecdote, I've found that CPC AdSense style ads are near worthless, at least on non-targeted sites. I've had ads on the forums of my medium-sized site (http://starmen.net/forum/) and not received very much money.

The AdSense ads a lot of times don't even make sense. If you look today, there's a lot of ads about termites, which really is only visible in the title since a goofy server administrator changes the title to a random movie quote every once in awhile. Originally there was a lot of ads for 'mothers', but that's only because it's a website dedicated to the MOTHER video game series.

Of course I'm in the unholy combination of 14-25 year old technically-savvy viewers who pay no attention to advertising at all, whether by willful ignorance or intentional AdBlock. It's why Facebook can't generate any cash: Anybody below the age of 25 does not click on ads at all.
So it's unwise because Brazil has social problems? So reliance would be bad because it would be supporting those social problems? Is that your point?
Some people will claim that psychedelics improve creativity. I am one of them. But psychedelics improve creativity by giving people synesthesia, providing years worth of very clear detached associative thinking in hours, and by cleaning out the crud in your psychology so psychological defense mechanisms don't stop you from seeing clearly. I think psilocybin is a better choice for using psychedelics for creativity than LSD, because psilocybin lasts half as long, and so the experience is less likely to be stressful.

Pot changes the perception of time and space, which changes the perception of music, for the better. As Bill Hicks says, if you don't think drugs have done good things, take all your CD's and burn them.

With heroin and successful artists, I think a different type of thing is going on. I think people who are highly sensitive are both better artists, and also more likely to carry around pain and to be aware of the pain around them. They are drawn to heroin because they carry more of the pain around them, and they are good artists because they are highly sensitive. Some people experience vivid musical hallucinations while on opiates, but one has to be predisposed to it. The composer Berlioz used a lot of opium remedies for tooth pain, for example, and much of his music is influenced by musical hallucinations while on opiates. Or, the seventies.

Lest I sound too much like some Timothy Leary hack, let me also say drugs can only enhance your creativity if they do not become such a big part of your life that you act on the ideas you have. Let me also say that creativity requires no drugs. It's perfectly doable to be maximally creative and not use any drugs.
It's easy for a low quality page to have a bunch of links. The blog post you linked is also wrong about AdWords -- the pricing model is important, but there's a lot more to it than that (which is part of the reason why Yahoo can't catch up).
A lot of ad networks suck big time. AdSense is decent if your site is content oriented, e.g. articles about specific thigns or whatever. If you run a service like I do however (getclicky.com) then these types of ad networks don't work at all. Plus AdSense seems to be real anal and your account can get canned at any time without explanation and no chance of getting it back. Wow, that's fun.

A lot of ad networks also have a 30-90 day pay delay which sucks when you're just getting started.

If you have a decent amount of traffic, say at least 2,000 daily visiors or 20,000 daily page views, you should be able to sell ads directly without any problem. You set your own price and cut out the middle man and swim in the money.

However the problem with this is that you have to deal with inquiries all the time, worry about billing (unless you have an automated billing system setup already for something else that you can integrate ads into as well). So this service came along called BuySellAds.com that we now use on getclicky.com for our ads. We still set the price and decide how many ads we want to sell, what size, etc. And they deal with all teh billing and take a 25% cut. I think that's reasonable for the automation they provide. Before we switched to them I was dealing with advertising billing and inquiries for many hours every month. They also allow you to cash out at any time. Because of this I highly recommend the service.
Unless we develop new technology.
I suspect there is a fair amount of anti-counterfeiting government effort that we never hear about. There are already mechanisms in place in some photocopiers and image editing programs to prevent the reproduction of currency images:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
Awesome, thanks. I hope that's somewhat new and not something I completely missed while browsing last time.
That looks interesting, though the words "released by Oracle" might give one pause.
The reasons it works out are subtle: (a) the host must know what's behind the doors, (b)the host must always open a door to a goat.

Most people fail to keep into account one of those assumptions. In fact most tellings of the problem fail to specify and just implicitly assume one. This leads to most confusion.

I think the telling in the movie was pretty clear though.
http://xkcd.com/386/
I tried out the beta of Kubuntu; I found KDE 4 painful.

I may give Xbunutu a whirl, or see about swapping out KDE 4 for KDE 3.something.
I'm actually pretty happy with Win2K
(Completely off topic, but "real" pizzas, in Italy, are one per person).
http://friendfeed.com/hooande
Live Crunch Live Blogging! Come and Experience Live Blogging!
That's an interesting question. I would say that it depends on if you think you would want to continue expanding it. If you really don't want to work on it anymore then turn it down and do something you want to do. If it's a project that you plan to support or expand on I would take the free press. Just let the blogger know that it's a very early prototype.
Scheme48 doesn't have a traditional compiler, but does allow you to create bytecode images, that will run in the virtual machine.
Brothers Team Up To Create 100-Mile-Per-Gallon Car
SocialSplash - the next generation social networking site
Linux-based rendering farm in your closet
You can choose more than one. A site I run shows adverts from about 10 ad networks. It's more to manage, but it's worth it to get the full range of offers out there.
Also quite often you'll find advertisers are on multiple networks, offering different rates because of the networks differing cuts.
Web 2.0: Yahoo to further open Web platform, attempt social network model for its services
FWIW, the smallest US infantry unit is the fireteam, comprised of 4 men. I think it's 2 fireteams to a squad.

Sounds like a 2-pizza outfit to me.
The C block is Verizon's, so it will have no effect on AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile customers.

It's not a given IMO that Android will take off quickly. The market for smart phones (iPhone/BlackBerry) is small, and Android may not work well on cheap phones. But maybe the cheap phones won't participate in the "mobile war" (whatever that is) because those customers only use voice, SMS, and ringtones anyway.

Let's say Verizon has 30% market share and 20% of their customers have smart phones and (magically) all those phones run Android; that's 6% of the total wireless maket (by volume).
Instant messaging meets Yahoo! Answers
http://friendfeed.com/maheshcr
...which there will be no reason to develop if an abundance of cheap oil is available.
About time! Now Yahoo is talking.
Ksplice: Rebootless Linux kernel updates
Incremental Development for Games (Is Hard)
Anytime you have an opinion, people implicitly have the right to disagree. What's the point of just yelling into a vacuum?

By ignoring everyone, you're not just isolating your precious feelings from the trolls, you're also missing out on a fair amount of insightful feedback.
Is it sad that I knew which xkcd strip it was before clicking on it?
http://friendfeed.com/gabor
Drought Nearly Killed Off Humans 70,000 Years Ago
Fuck this obsession with performance! Does the language help you develop better programs? Is the language safer/smaller/some-other-important-metric?
http://friendfeed.com/philcrissman
Thieves set up data supermarkets
I'm one of the cofounders. Please feel free to get in touch: brett at slinkset
Is Scheme Faster than C?
Identity Credential Verification API for Developers
BeenVerified announces the arrival of its identity verification API for developers.
Did you already pre-order your free copy of Ubuntu 8.04?

http://shipit.ubuntu.com
The bad news from Apple's quarterly results
I might finally make the switch and use it as a desktop. My main concern is that wpa support still might suck for linux.

I'll wait a little bit until I hear more good reviews.
Lisp is really the best of both worlds. It's a nice looking language (easy to read and write; and good tools available), and I would use it even if it were slow. But unlike the other slow langauges (Perl), it can be made to run fast.

Now if only there were some libraries.
Learnings for young web entrepreneurs from experienced entrepreneurs
If you are working in a language that has significant development advantages but mediocre performance, I think it is reasonable to look for ways to improve its performance.
China Has More Internet Users Than Any Other Country
No. My point is that the chances of trade disruptions due to social unrest in Brazil is uncomfortably high. Further, the chances of trade disruptions due to ... 'demagogue comes along and tells the impoverished masses that they are being ripped off' ... is a virtual certainty in the presence of oil wealth.

It is not the social problems that I take issue with, the Brazilians can run their nation as they see fit. It is the fact that these social problems have a high probability of developing into something that would adversely effect us if we were dependent on Brazil that I object to.
canvas rocks so hard.
Get your free CD of Ubuntu 8.04!
It's like a CEO. There are a lot of people who can scale a company to $10m, but for each step up, the field of capable candidates gets smaller and smaller.
Looks very cool. Wonder if it works. Has anyone used it yet?
Ask YC: Choosing wiki software
I'm starting a wiki, and the fact that websites (and wiki pages!) exist solely to compare different wiki solutions makes my head hurt.

My main goal is getting people to add content to the site, so my first take is to use the same software most people are likely to have already used via WikiPedia: MediaWiki. Does anyone have any opinions on this? Is there consensus about the one true wiki solution?
i asked what color a zebra was and got the correct answer in less than a minute

then i asked when was c# invented... waited 5 minutes no answer
once it becomes possible to perform large-scale nuclear gold transmutation, gold prices will plummet due to excessive supply.

I suppose it depends on the economics and politics as much as the science. I notice that diamonds are still expensive, even though we can readily synthesize them.
I have always been fascinated by the laundry list of side effects for prescription drugs in commercials, but this one clearly takes the cake ... Angina, nausea, wheezing, belching, coma
I wrote one for Rails: http://dedawiki.dedasys.com and it's open source.

It's not as fancy as the mediawiki one, but it's easy to customize - observant people will notice that it shares a lot with another site of mine, http://www.squeezedbooks.com
Prepare for Liftoff: The Web 2.0 Expo Launch Pad
Yahoo's core business is in a bit of trouble (the fact that their experiment with Google AdWords has been rumored to double their revenue is an indication of how badly they were monetizing before more than anything else), but they are still experimenting with interesting new directions.

I only hope this sort of stuff will survive the acquisition (assuming it happens, but I'm pretty sure it will)
Fortunately, they discovered thirst quenching Sprite (tm)!