skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've long wondered if this kind of approach is actually something that affiliate programs would allow if you got big. You are not promoting their wares, you are simply profiting off of organic promotion that would have occurred anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon or whomever decided to close your account if you started making significant amounts of money.
Facebook to Reach 7.3 Billion Users by 2015
Where did Bubble Gum come from
The 727 that Vanished
I use this rewrite of resig's microtemplating:

http://github.com/creationix/microtemplates

It's as versatile as I'll ever need - it evaluates any javascript between the tags. If you don't like the syntax it's really easy to change - just change the regexp on line 2. A complete templating engine in a dozen lines of code:

http://pastebin.com/QpacVLcS
I don't think you know much about copywriting if you say that.

I've studied their landing pages and emails. Groupon has fantastic clear,benefit-driven copy and landing page design, and they split test everything fanatically.

That's the real secret to their success- constant iteration and improvement. They're one of the few American companies to truly master kaizen, and the results are easy to see.
One kind of ad you could run that wouldn't have trouble with cramming into a widget is popups.

Don't downvote me because you hate popups, so do I. It's a legitimate possibility that you might consider looking into. If it's a question of shutting down the service because of bleeding costs or running popups on 5% of pageviews, its an interesting question.
Dr Sam Lam : Wordpress
Sponsorships are a fair bit of work to setup (from a sales perspective) but result in higher revenue.

Setup the widget so it gets deeply skinned with the sponsor's branding. Check out pandora.com for a nice implementation - the whole site takes on the look and color of the advertiser.

The first few sponsors are the hardest to get, but once you get going others will find their way to you and you'll be able to have steady income.
Dr Sam Lam on Blogspot
That email to the girlfriend was directly relevant - it said (a) how they were working at Techcrunch offices and (b) how Techcrunch were "suckers"

I'd note they didn't publish the email from the girlfriend which that was in reply to.
Yes, but are there more than in the general population? That's what we're debating. And I'm skeptical that's the case, but even more skeptical that the claimant has any data to make such a strong claim.
Agreed, don't go the SEO route - it's not a long-term play.
Yap. Especially in the case of Groupon, many of their articles read like poetry--very daring imagery and voice. They are doing as much service to the people who subscribe to their emails as to the brands who have the honor to get the Groupon face-lift.

It is a very refreshing model compared to most other startups where as far as I can see, paid no attention to copywriting.
It was predominantly personal. I have seen much less personal mail, pertinent to a case, rejected for such reasons.
IronPython is in the browser at least...
http://ironpython.net/browser/
In Google Analytics, the referring URL is overridden by the contents of utm_source if it is present. In addition, changing the utm_medium means that the new source value won't show up in the Referring Sites report with the rest of the referring traffic. If you were looking in GA, you wouldn't be able to figure out where this traffic was coming from, and your search traffic will be inflated.

Of course, if it's your site, mess with your data all you want. Just be sure to let your analyst know, so he doesn't spend all week trying to find the inexplicable jump in traffic from this new search engine named "hn."
With you there, except for "federal taxes to pay for local schools". What is your problem with education? This does not compare to anything else you were complaining about.
Blue is also synonymous with trust and stability. Hence the predominance of blue in banking logos.
Featured on the News-New iPhone App Lets You Beat up the People Who Cause Stress
Stress Fighter-New iPhone / iPod Touch application helps you fight the people that give you stress.
Fusion Garage has also failed to provide source code as required by the GPL: http://lwn.net/Articles/404450/
Lanyrd (our new social conference directory startup) has launched sessions
This is an awesome iPhone app
I also applied to the chilean government program, Do you recommend some web page or specific event to make partners?
I use Lisp for that same purpose whenever I do my laundry. I cons my socks ahead of time, then serialize the pairs to a drawer. O(1) lookup FTW!
Can you mark items as vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, etc.?

This could be a big win for a niche.
Why is everything better in Cali
DuckDuckGo vs Goliath - An interview wth Gabriel Weinberg [audio]
Any chance you can find a buyer?
Play Super Mario Vetorial World online at y3 Games
Another game of Mario with a few levels. Can you make it through each level alive?
I think the searching thread is blocked waiting for the cooperative HN-browsing thread to return control.
Sometimes a real craftsman needs one of those esoteric tools that they usually have no need for.
I receive and usually read the Groupon emails even though I'm yet to actually buy anything, but I think that the emails are significant because they make it easy to share Groupon deals with friends. As I said I haven't actually bought anything but fairly often people ask me if I know about "that coupon thing" many of these conversations end with me forwarding a deal email or two, or just adding their email address to Groupon's mailing list (with their permission of course).
This assumes the Vatican's paperwork, for a span of 160 years, at over 200 years old, does not consider any individuals sentenced to long prison sentences or galleys, whom have died during imprisonment or service, deaths.

Also, any prisoner that died pretrial is not counted, nor anyone wearing a sanbenito that was beaten to death in public.

Nor any jew, muslim, or dislikable person killed pretrial because of religous hatred.

You don't happen to have a link to the 763 page report, do you?
On writing concurrent programs: Why don't we make the interpreters/compilers do that automatically?
I like to try different sorting algorithms when sorting physical things. I tried patience sorting last time I had to sort a big pile of books (I was sorting by width).
Indeed, micros have twice the peak CPU speed as small instances, but zero guaranteed cycles. Your instance will grind to a halt for minutes at a time when something preempts it. They're basically just a way for Amazon to sell excess RAM.
I don't like the phrase "trust but verify". I believe it gives the wrong idea of how to handle people you depend on to accomplish things.

"Delegate completely, verify periodically - and slowly build up trust when good results are repeatedly shown" is more like it.
I agree with you in principle, that his leaving ultimately doomed the company, but the stock price did go up when he left, and stayed up for many years.
Wolfram|Alpha?
A previous post on the same subject - might be interesting for people who did not see it before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=454045
I think the closest analogue to a bounced visit is a window shopper: they take a glance at your site as they're walking by, don't see anything that catches their eye, and move along. Of course, the analogy isn't quite the same because the "boundaries" feel different--a window shopper never enters your shop, but a bounced visitor does enter your site. Perhaps you can imagine that the "boundaries" of your shop includes the storefront and the little area of street outside, where you may set up a sign. Similarly, you may not consider someone "in" your site until they click past the shiny welcome mat.

In any case, the analogy is useful because your tactics as a site/shop owner are similar: you have someone's two-second glance at your pretty facade as they walk past to pique their interest and convert them into a browser. And once they're in, you still have to convert them to a buyer.
the posix personality still exists - it's called SUA; the Subsystem for UNIX Applications. the guys at interop systems have made a really nice ports-esque system for it so it's easy to get up and running with the usual pile of apps.
From my blacksmithing days: "When in doubt, get a bigger hammer."
Of course. I think Cesar picked up "divide and conquer" from his experience with COBOL.
> "Kant did not advocate taking anything on faith in the sense you are using the term."

Exactly right. The sense in which the parent uses the term "faith" is a fairly modern invention. It's only over the last hundred years or so that "faith" has been thought of as the opposite of reason.

In ancient Jewish and Christian writings, "faith" is typically used to mean "acting on something you know to be true", especially in the face of difficult circumstances. It's typically contrasted with forgetfulness or fickleness. In this usage, "faith" is the triumph of reason, memory/history, and will over the emotions and difficulties that come with temporary adversity.

In Kant's usage, "faith" is sort of an extension of reason that also includes elements of willpower and morality. It's pretty close to the ancient definition, though it also played an important part in the shift from the ancient definition to the modern one.
first of all let me just say ...

it's about goddamn time they got their act together. 64-bit machines have been common for how long now?

next let me say ...

I hope HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript bury Flash quickly ... in a nice shallow grave. With IE6 dying, all that's left to bury is Flash.
I wasn't implying there there exists a dichotomy and that all businesses are one or the other. You did that on your own. I'm just saying that no business is perfect and having to choose between the two...
Vanity Fair Can Suck It
Oklahoma city threatens to call FBI over 'renegade' Linux maker [2006]
Heh, totally not what I meant.

I was referring to the main purchaser of our country's debt: China. I wasn't BLAMING them.
Agreed -- my filing system became so much easier when I realized that reads were rare. Just bucket (well, box) by a suitable parameter, typically date, and you're done.
my man Pablo Picasso said it best:

"Good artists copy, great artists steal."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrJBY2l1MQQ

For what it's worth, Gates has been getting a lot of crap in the political sphere for this statement he made a couple of months ago. Glenn Beck's site, The Blaze, has been ripping him for his stance seemingly favoring "death panels."

I lean on the side of the blog post, even if his company's quality (as has been noted in the comments) has been downright abhorrent.
You could stick "sponsored" tweets into the twitter feed.
I'm always bothered by the term "witch hunt". It doesn't seem like a great metaphor.

If witches existed, hunting them would be rational and sensible (let us assume, for the moment, all witches are evil).

It's only if witches don't exist that witch hunting is silly, so by calling it a witch hunt you're implying that the things of which craigslist is accused are analogous to witchcraft and don't really exist? Except they really do exist, so I'm really not sure what the point of the metaphor is.
URL space for search? That's one feature that Chrome had first, and most people seem that I've seen to like it. Of course, for me, Chrome's best feature is that it picks up sites you search on and automatically adds them to the search engine list ... that's convenient.
Well, sounds like you got some `chown` to do...

Some security considerations can't be overlooked, granted; but don't fret, it was possibly put there client side(One might even hypothesise that a WYSIWYG editor put it there by default, but I deem you would have seen that). Just give the url to someone and ask them if it appears in the source. If it does, delete it and see if appears again. If it does, then do get paranoid with security, I guess.
In short, "There has been a decrease in the sun's magnetic field lately. Based on that trend, we're predicting that sunspots could disappear entirely."

They bury how shaky this prediction is really far into the story. It reminds me a lot of http://xkcd.com/605/.
What does "free" even mean? Does it mean free from any outside interference? So, no laws and anything goes? Then is it still free if a company uses that freedom to restrict the actions of others with "uncompetitive" strategies? Or does it mean free to do anything that isn't "unfair" or "uncompetitive", where somebody other than the actor decides if the action is fair and prohibits it if not?
In the USA an oral contract is only binding up to some amount of money (something large, over a million IIRC), and I think this deal was bigger so it actually isn't legally binding. Not to say it's a good idea :-)
It makes complete sense to be legal (and even taxed and regulated). Religious fundies will never let it happen.
The novelist Anthony Burgess once wrote about the convenience of the old British system of pence, shillings, pounds, and guineas: the pound was evenly divisible to a value in pence if not shillings by 2, 3, 5, and guinea also by 7.
And you're playing the "anyone who disagrees with my excessive cynicism is naive" card.

I'll skip the seriously-trolly war-on-terror thing, and go straight to the other one... really? No politician really cares about the Ground Zero Mosque? Millions of non-politicians care about it, but the political class is all too sophisticated and is only pretending to care? I think you overestimate the sophistication of the political class.

(Not wanting to discuss the mosque itself, merely the question of whether any politician really cares about it.)
And it apparently doesn't require Silverlight. Interesting.
The site is blocked by my MegaCorp's proxy. (No reason given.)

Accessing from my phone I really like the site, just thought you should be aware that you've made it to someone's blacklist.
Well.. when discussions get preachy like this it's hard to come in and make any impact with a gray area opinion.

My position is that Microsoft nudged the line of business practices and spent a lot of time in the gray area between generally acceptable and illegal. Most of it was a hard to judge because it involved holding MS to a different standard due to their size and weight. They got nudged back by the courts and the public.

In hindsight, I think they are almost certainly better off for having had them.

Bill may not have been an exemplary moral model in his practices at that time, but he wasn't an extreme example of immoral CEO either. It was a relatively short period in MS history that was like that. He is an extreme example of a moral billionaire now.

See? Sounds like a boring compromise.
Until now it escaped me that your username is an anagram for "to troll on".
Was the additional sentence "Learn the facts" really necessary?
I have a feeling you will be spending the next year debugging a bunch of bleeding-edge stuff. But I see you have already got your ear-plugs on:

"Please don't tell me it is wrong because it's unconventional or that I don't need this flexibility. I want to just focus on the business and the product"
does the widget show a user account's recent tweets? or just the last tweet?

or is it a general/search/trending list?
When I start selling my ass, you're right. I will not mind.
You can't yet snapshot the disk images in all (most?) of the Rackspace data centers to their storage cloud. You can with the ec2 micro instances. Suppose to be coming real-soon-now though.
Argh, but they won't let me buy them because their website is so poorly programmed. Several attempts to checkout just returned to the "enter credit card info" page without an error. Switched to chrome was able to check out only to get "we were unable to save your information, please try again later"... was my credit card charged? who knows.

So irritating.
Twitter’s New Mini Platform: The Right-Side Pane
There cannot be more lane changes into and/or out of the left most lane than the 2nd to left most lane (assuming no left exits) because all lane changes go through it. Furthermore it is fairly easy to get a sense of the best lane by just paying attention.
School for Hackers
While no man wants to limit his options in women, being in a relationship probably doesn't define his sense of self-worth the way it does with women.

I don't know if that's true, or if that's an incorrect assumption based on how often we do things that sabotage our chances of being in relationships. I'm thinking of high school, when I obsessed over girls and pretty much did consider myself a worthless failure for not being able to talk to girls and get them to like me, yet behaved in such a way that you would think I was bent on keeping them away from me. A big part of the reason I worked so hard on math and science was that I had a vague but deep-seated conviction that being really good at something would eventually impress some girl and help me get with her. Perhaps that notion is what girls need to be programmed with the way boys are.
It's not even all that hard to start using, since you can use the menu system for just about any command that a beginner might sensibly want his text editor to perform.
In the USA an oral contract is only binding up to some amount of money (something large, over a million IIRC)

You're thinking of the statute of frauds, and it kicks in at $5000. But there are exceptions.
WTO Rules That Boeing Received Illegal Subsidies
I swear a lot.
If you can move it, it isn't a deadline.
Does Twitter understand Twitter?
iPad light-painting produces beautiful 3d renditions
"Promiscuous Blue would be a great name for a band"

International Klein Blue is probably the most promiscuous blue you can find, you cant reproduce that unnerving vibrancy on screens yet, pity.
ArsDigita: From Start-Up to Bust-Up
First comment on HN after lurking for a year or so. It does irk me that people who obtain their wealth by means of sitting at the top of a monopoly can be praised by giving away the money that they did not have to work so hard for without others giving second thought to how the person arrived in that position in the first place. Sure it was hard to get to the monopoly position in the first place, but what happened after?
I think they accept such salaries because they know that the total compensation is much much higher. If there were no bonuses they would not accept such salaries. http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/storysupplement/ceopay/
Aggressively targeting women who have money and enjoy spending money instead of young men who don't have money and enjoy stealing the product isn't hurting their financial performance, either.
Your point about these projects being bleeding edge is well taken. I picked BigCouch and CouchDB because both of them have been used in production for over a year.

I haven't vetted redis in the same way, so maybe it isn't quite stable enough.Do you think so? Maybe I should look at using memcached instead? (update: looks like redis is being used in production.)

Instead of doing a node.js based web framework and caching, concievably I could use HAProxy, NINGX or Squid as the caching front end. They'll listen to etags, right? And I could use another web framework, maybe something off the shelf... so long as I can pull script code from the database and execute it, I can replicate the CouchApp deployment style.

Node.js is new, and I am most wary of it because it involves the most customization. I may punt and get powerDNS installed and hooked up to a couchDB backend. I may put in a little python based RESTful server to do some of this, or to completely replace node.js if it proves problematic. I think I can load python code from the couch and execute it.
Yes Ive talked to Jeroen, nice guy.
I had never heard of that, so I looked it up and found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract#Formalities_and_writin... and this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_frauds

If I'm reading it correctly, many jurisdictions require contracts to be written when they exceed certain amounts of money. In the US that amount is $5000.
That's forbidden by the Twitter API TOS. See http://dev.twitter.com/pages/api_terms Section IV.2.
You can read the books by Doron Swade to know more about Babbage and his machine.

http://www.amazon.com/Difference-Engine-Charles-Babbage-Comp...
i think this is the easiest, and most likely to be of some success. thought it might alienate those who use the widget, but given the fact you can't sustain it anyway, it's probably not of concern.

edit: looking below, I guess there are restrictions against this. if not the tweet feed, maybe in some other area of the widget.
Thanks for the suggestion. It is doing this now.
I thought the video was very uninformative. Plus, she claimed that the test subjects still slept 8 hours. It's just wasn't continuous. What was your point?
When they vanish without warning, do they take the EBS with them?

Is having your OS on an EBS (as is required for micro) a dangerous thing, because the instance vanishing without warning might result in a corrupted EBS drive, making restoration more complicated than spinning up a new instance?
If you can't move it, and you can't meet it without running all-nighters, you should never have agreed to it in the first place.
You'd likely need to roll your own mini-crawler to dig out the shorten links, and where applicable, create new ones and replace them. Questionable indeed.
Yes, that is correct. But we probably shouldn't email the password to the user. Just let them change it. Might consider a one-way hash instead of a two-way one though.
1) I use non-blocking I/O all the time :

- I don't like to answer phone calls because I'm generally busy, I'd rather listen to my voicemail and call back people later.

- I don't wait for things to finish (eg. TV ad break) by staring at them, I do something else until they are done.

2) I also treat my life as a task queue :

- I will analyze what needs to be done and tackle each problem individually (GTD-like).

3) I have an object-oriented worldview :

- I'm careful to always pass in the right arguments to people's "methods".

- My very own existence is defined by a multiple iheritance from my mom and dad classes.

4) Finally, I tend to RTFM a bit too much before taking action IRL.
Diaspora Developer Release
Diaspora project public release
Twitter? For Nobel Peace Prize? That's the first I've heard about that, and I'm not sure I like the idea.
A Brilliant Ad for the Newsday iPad App
With all the talk about iPad apps that will kill the newspaper/magazine industries, this cute ad for the Newsday iPad app reminds us that there just some things that only a newspaper can do.
Microsoft advertising IE9 to the anti-IE Reddit crowd
Thanks. After asking around, it looks like we have done Safari testing on OSX but we haven't fully tested Firefox on OSX. We assumed if Firefox worked in Win/Linux that it would work in OSX but that seems like a wrong assumption. Our testers will go through and test Firefox on OSX now though

Again thanks.
You're right, I should have mentioned Nevada as an exception to the legality.

The "sex surrogate" stuff is pseudo-scientific nonsense, and has no relation to what was being offered on craigslist anyway.
Diaspora is out
How about the idea that the best range specification is: position of first item in the range, position of first item just past the end of the range.

Programming examples: Python range function & slice notation, C++ STL ranges.

Real life example: A room is being renovated. It is unavailable starting on the 3rd, and available again starting on the 8th (as opposed to unavailable from the 3rd to the 7th -- how many days is that?).