skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like an old idea of a zine. Two problems to tackle:

First, logistics of the physical stuff, thankfully http://magcloud.com/ was recently launched so barrier to entry is considerably lower.

Second, getting the permissions from bloggers to syndicate their content. There's plenty of issues here. Foremost being that most blog content are... well... blog content. They're pithy, short, fluffy, sugary, whatever. If you find higher quality material then you have to pay for it. The established bloggers might not be interested in sharing control of their content.
A couple of things that came to my mind when I read this:

1. You will need to get permission from every blog author you want to include in the magazine

2. How will you go about finding blogs to include?

3. People that are interested in reading blogs are pretty handy with Google and would be able to find relevant posts themselves.

4. A lot of blogs are very similar to one another and I noticed that any given day you will have a few blogs writing about the same exact thing. A monthly, or even weekly, magazine may not be frequent enough to capture everything of interest to the average blog reader.

An idea you may want to consider is just having "channels" of blogs and then having people sign up for the various "channels" they are interested in, providing them with a daily feed of posts. You can also try including this feed into the Kindle, maybe something can come of that.
MSFT + OpenID First Step: HealthVault
I hope this article applies to me someday. I just got a raft of newbie feedback and haven't fixed the half of it yet.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=59248
Don't worry about the tiny percentage of people who read every blog in the world. For most of the population, paper still works. A good editor could pull a great weekly off.
I thought this was an appropriate article because the nature of wealth seems to be a common theme on this site and in pg's writings. I think this article shows that solving poverty is far more complicated than taking money from people who create wealth and giving it to the less fortunate.
I think you'd have to pick a 'market', really. If you were targeting politics, you might be able to make it work. In the tech market, I can't imagine people opting for the over-priced dead-tree version over our computers, keyboards glued to our hands and all.

Do note, however, that I'm a tad bitter when it comes to magazines. I would actually enjoy browsing them if they were not so expensive and the information not so out-dated (and AdBlock were available as a plugin).
Big Brother of Comedy - George Carlin - Dead at 71 - Associated Content
With filter you have to remember that the predicate is the first argument and the list is the second. With the list comprehension the syntactic cues make it obvious.
Unique Outdoor Lighting: Multi-Functionality and Eco-Friendly Designs - Associated Content
Outlook Dropped For Gmail in Australia... 1.5 mil licenses
Certainly the people leaving their jobs fits my theory. Giving up your integrity is not for everyone. And in searching for your sources on Enron I couldn't help but notice that the few good articles were swamped by the bad ones. Enron was Fortune's "most innovative" company for five years straight.
Make it a free daily in big cities, so the content is only 24-72 hours older than when it was blogged, and it might work.
Instead of lambda x: str(x), I'd just write str.

I think this, and the P/S example, are both symptomatic of how Python (anthropomorphized) wants you to think about functions: they're things you stick parens after and call, not things you pass around on their own.
Yeah, healthcare and banking is not really what OpenID is for. I don't really want to trust Verisign AND my bank/insurance company with all my money and all my personal information. The more companies along the authentication chain, the easier it is to compromise my account.

OpenID is for random blogs where creating an account isn't worth your time, but it would be nice to have your reputation follow you there. If somebody hacked my Hacker News account, I wouldn't really care. That's what OpenID is for.
As an active blogger myself one issue I see, aside from getting bloggers to agree to this and finding a price they would accept (very few bloggers will do it for free, unless this publication becomes popular), is the fact that many blog posts simply aren't of publishable quality. If someone told me they wanted to pick a random article of mine and publish it, I would definitely want to edit it first. Web content doesn't entirely work well as print unless tweaked.

The other issue is.. will people used to reading blogs actually read print material of the same type of content? The nature of some of the content might make it outdated and so on
Who is george carlin??
Recently it seems like almost every post has a comment thread about how the post isn't hacker news... those threads end up being more annoying than the posts imho.
This is not a good idea.

Newspapers and magazines are in trouble.

Ad revenues to newspapers nationwide are down double digits this year. The top 100 advertisers have shifted over $ 1 Billion in ad dollars to the web from print and tv.

Going from what is growing to what is dying doesn't make any sense dkokelley.
Yeah, I wish I could get all my information free. Why can't content publishers understand this?
Awhile back Joel Spolsky compiled Best Software Writing I, a collection of online tech writings from other people.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BestSoftwareWriting.h...

It seems similar to the format you're imagining and was definitely successful from a quality standpoint. The people who read it, enjoyed reading it.

That's different than saying it was a huge commercial success or that there's so much good writing that you could fill a themed magazine each month.
numpy supports vectorization of most elementary functions
Good code: http://fit.c2.com/
Bad code: Just look around. Easy to find.
Unique Indoor Lighting Ideas and Indoor Lighting Fixtures - Associated Content
Mountain Fresh Sun Berry Tea - Associated Content
What’s Obscene? Google Could Have an Answer
I think people often structure the investment as a convertible loan specifically to avoid this question. The conversion part is that the loan converts to equity (with a discount) based on the valuation set during your series A. This way you don't have to come up with a make-believe valuation right now.

If you don't ever get to series A your company will either have to pay off the loan with interest or go out of business.

CRV offers this as part of their quickstart program and is very open about the terms. It's a good place to find out more.

http://www.crv.com/quickstart

"A standard interest bearing loan will be made to a corporation, which we will help you establish if you do not already have one in place. CRV will not seek a personal guarantee and will not hold you personally responsible for repaying the loan.

The loan converts into equity only if and when your company closes its next round of funding (typically a Series A round). If the company successfully raises its next round, in exchange for sharing the risk with the entrepreneur, CRV receives a discount on the conversion price when the loan is rolled into that next round. The discount will be a maximum of 25% (determined ratably at five percent per month, depending on how long it takes to close the financing, up to the maximum) off of the per share price. "
I think the best reason for not getting to know your neighbours is this: if it turns out they're annoying, it's hard to get away from them.
I've noticed that too. These comments are in the same category as people complaining about being downmodded; they don't make very interesting reading. Perhaps I should put something in the site guidelines about them.
If you want to see some code abominations (with a healthy dose of ridicule and humor) check out http://thedailywtf.com/
Seriously, some of the worst code I've ever seen.
HTML5 looks to be a real Flash killer. Nobody will ever want Flash or SilverLight when all browsers start to support <canvas>, <audio> and <video>.
Please do. It's really getting ridiculous at this point.
I doubt it, but it's a cool enough idea that I'd like to see someone try.
Unique Outdoor Lighting Fixtures: LED Lamps - Associated Content
Why don't you publish your magazine online? There's alltop.com that does something like this already, but I can see ways to make it better.
Replacing Bill is the least of the challenges for Microsoft
When I applied there, I was told they only offered computer engineering courses, not computer science. That was before they had actually opened the school, though, so maybe that's changed.
John Adams Will Try To “Fix Twitter”
I still think the list comprehension is clearer than:

map(str, filter(lambda x: x%2 is 0, range(100)))
Although I agree that its foolish, every major school that competes in nationally televised sports has a commercial.
Email is a solved problem, and it's mysterious to me why a school system wouldn't just throw up a few servers and be done with it. Google can now data mine millions of students for marketing purposes, and charge them for the benefit. I don't get it.
I find comprehensions to be especially useful in two situations:

1. Transforming a list using some non-standard function, often with some basic input checking:

[int(x)*2+1 for x in seq if x]

(Here, we're assuming x is a string which can possibly be empty or only blanks)

2. Transforming elements from multiple lists together:

['Iter %d took %0.2f secs' % (i, t) for i, t in zip(iters, times) if t > 1.5]

(Where we want output strings only if some iteration took a long time)

Although I'm not too fluent in lisp, I think the equivalent formulations might be longer (since you'd have to write lambda, map, filter and many parens), and perhaps harder to decipher.
Crowdsource Software Payments to Reward Alert Developers
- Exchange was a AU$33 million contract and took four years

- Gmail is $9.5 million and should be live by the end of 2008

- User storage will increase from 35 MB to 1 GB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Now

Based on this sample of one, your doubts are justified: These guys went out of business in a bit less than 1 year.

Of course, there's a lot of ways to run a paper or magazine, so maybe a different approach would have worked better. I never found Boston NOW especially interesting... it was mostly wire-service filler with a sprinkling of no-name bloggers.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

Upvoted. Interesting phenomenon. Unintended consequence in a complex system. Interesting.
FWIW, I don't think top-tier schools care about "interesting" people. When I was in high school, I got mostly As and Bs, studied abroad (and hence spoke two langauges pretty well), and spent most of my time learning math and writing software. I also had 99%-ile test scores and was pretty good at writing. However, I also had a run-in with a history teacher, and failed his class. That pretty much guarantees that you won't get into a good school. I applied to CMU, CalTech, and MIT and didn't get in. I did get in to UIUC and UIC, and chose UIC since it was closer. HUGE MISTAKE. My classmates didn't speak English, my professors didn't speak Enlgish, and I had no friends. I dropped out after 2 years.

All in all, this is irrelevant. My goal was to become a professor, but I learned that industry was much more lucrative than acadamia. If I want to do research, I can do it from my house. The classes I teach professionally pay more for 2 days than most professors make in a month.

So in the end, it all worked out. It would have been nice to have a "formal education", though. Maybe I will move to Urbana-Champaign and get a degree from there... or maybe not.

</rant>
"Of course, that's illogical. My story is only one of many possible scenarios that could lead to Apple buying Microsoft, so it must have a smaller likelihood."

That's dumb. It's entirely possible for there to be a large number of possibilities, yet one to have a higher probability of occurring than all of the rest combined.
I think the idea is that [x for x in S if P(x)] is more general; it can do more than just filter. Knowing about filter and how it works will take up a small part of your mental capacity (that could be used for something else, perhaps), and all it can do is filter. Why learn two ways to do the same thing, when one way is more general?

I think that's what Python hackers think, anyway. I use Perl :P
And Microsoft continues to sit there and stare out the window...
It's not really fair to you, but it's funny to see someone from the interwebs telling Paul how Gmail works.
Meh. I had really meant the above post to be a sarcastic satire of the 'this isn't hacker news' posts you all just mentioned. Sorry, I suppose it sounded different in my mind.
Try the new HTML <canvas> tag. But yes, Flash can do all sorts of animation and drawing pretty efficiently.
Beat this short Arc snippet using map with a list comprehension:

(def vector-dot-product (vector-1 vector-2)
(map [* _1 _2] vector-1 vector-2))

That's from Light Makes Right the raytracer, I think.
Equivalent python:

def vectorDotProduct(vector1, vector2):
return [x * y for x, y in zip(vector1, vector2)]

I'm pretty sure that the Lisp snippet above is neither harder to decipher nor longer. Though maybe that's just because Arc is nice.
Are programmers the problem?
Because they're not techies and don't trust themselves to 'throw up a few servers' reliably? I dunno, that's my guess, since it seems they were looking for an email contract both with Outlook and now with Gmail.
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Perhaps before posting any post that contains red flag words or phrases should require an additional confirmation:

This post contains words that suggest you are being boring. Are you being boring?

Strings that stick out: "belong.*on hacker" "doesn't belong" etc...
This site uses <canvas> and javascript, no flash.
Incredibly good read.

He pointed to a gauge that had a dial on it. “Here we have a meat thermometer.”

The brothers had thrust the thermometer between two circuit boards in order to
look for hot spots inside m zero. The thermometer’s dial was marked “Beef Rare—
Ham—Beef Med— Pork.”

“You want to keep the machine below ‘Pork,’ ” Gregory remarked.
Still no luck for me -- even quit and restarted, and cleared cache. Oddly, though, it's working on a FF3rc1 install I have on a Ubuntu machine.

Tried viewing traffic in Live Headers and script in FireBug to see what was going wrong; attempting a direct fetch of one JS URL fetched came back with a script that was just a comment: "/~NScript~/".
I am now indexing the new articles on both HN and Reddit.
Hacker Food Break (humor)
Great Code:

1) The code in the book "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming" by Peter Norvig. (on the surface this is a "good lsp style book" but in my opinion you can learn a lot about writing good code in any language from this book)

2) I second David Hanson's "C interfaces and implementations", reccomended by Maro in his reply.

3)The code for the HotDraw framework (smalltalk and java)
"Obscenity" in general is such a silly concept. Why should anyone control the morality of viewing certain things? Is anyone here familiar with law that could explain the doubtless inanity behind "obscenity"?

Honestly, what do the "community's values" matter at all? That's like arguing a religion with only ten constituents in a given town can't have any evangelism because most people think it's nutty. It seems like violating free speech, to me.

EDIT: I have to admit, however, this line was gold: “people are at least as interested in group sex and orgies as they are in apple pie.”
I've tried browsing as 'Googlebot'. The text returned is better for a crawler than nothing (or just Javascript), but isn't the sort of functional and dense link-structure that most helps site rankings.

Also, the crawler-friendly URLs are different from the URLs the search engines will see reported by users' toolbars or discover on inlinks from other sites. So various link- and traffic- based contributions to rankings are likely to suffer on Noloh-style sites.
Dude is whining because his auto mechanic isn't also willing to be his chauffeur.
In terms of simplicity and architecture I think Ikarus Scheme and Rubinius are good reads.
Both are compilers/VMs that have been expressed in their most beautiful form.
LinkedIn and The Strange Case of The Disappearing Market
Yeah, I read that. The alternative would be: Hire a team of 1st rate sys admins, set up mail servers. Total cost: Maybe 1.5 million a year.
Why don't they just tell everyone to go get free gmail accounts? That'd be free.

I guess they get more control or something..or it violates gmail's EULA or something.
non-reg link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/technology/24obscene.html?...
It's a question of habit. If you're experienced with Python List comprehensions, they become clearer than anything else.

"The main problem I see with Ruby is that the Principle of Least Surprise can lead you astray, as it did with implicit lexical scoping. The question is, whose surprise are you pessimizing? Experts are surprised by different things than beginners. People who are trying to grow small programs into large programs are surprised by different things than people who design their programs large to begin with.

For instance, I think it's a violation of the Beginner's Principle of Least Surprise to make everything an object. To a beginner, a number is just a number. A string is a string. They may well be objects as far as the computer is concerned, and it's even fine for experts to treat them as objects. But premature OO is a speed bump in the novice's onramp. " Larry Wall, http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/06/13432...
Hire a team of 1st rate sys admins,

From what I understand, looking for 1st rate sys admins is like looking for rockstar janitors.
sounds like a decent idea. make a few niche magazines and then put them in vending machines at airports. i would probably buy
This was the part of the article that resonated the most with me. I wonder if this is the mechanism by which startups end up as big companies with totally useless IT departments - the people who built the stuff become identified as pessimists, and get starved for resources, good people leave, end up in a vicious cycle.

Great post.
"I'd thank you, but system administration is a thankless job."
Agreed. This example highlights the great savings of the [... _ ...] syntax in Arc (which I'd imagine is a fairly common use-case, especially for map, filter, etc.).

Although ironically in this case, I'd probably use the following:

def vectorDotProduct(vector1, vector2):
return map(op.mul, vector1, vector2)

(where op has been imported previously using:

import operator as op

)

I'm not really sure how idiomatic this is, but I find that 90% of the time when I use map in python, it's with the operator module.
(submitting anonymously; the login is easily guessable and the account seems inactive)

I don't relate much to the article, but I might be atypical. I never understood what the big deal the Ivy was about. Some random points:

1. There are plenty of insanely smart people who don't take the "standard" career paths. They are the kind that take twice as many classes as everyone else and set the curves in all of them; the school got lucky to have them there. It's hard to not see them working on world-changing problems.

2. There are some people from truly underprivileged backgrounds, who are there by sheer hard work and ability. I met someone like this, who refused to play by the system's rules, and paid dearly because he didn't have the financial cushion. Unfortunately, after he recovered he no longer seems to want to take risks.

3. Classism exists before you enter the gates. There are a large number of students from prep-schools, who carry a whole subculture with them. I sense a kind of disdain from their eyes, and have never gone beyond small talk.

4. The "arrived" appears subtly. There are jokes about neighboring "safety" schools, and even the engineering school (which is easier to get into than the arts). The school of arts is always masturbating to its own name but the engineers don't ever seem to care.

5. I had some friends who were really proud to be there and embodied the school spirit. One time I said, "I find something lacking intellectually in the spirit of [the school]," which was taken with knee-jerk offense.

Without having other places to compare to, I'd say Ivy is some overrated and incomprehensible bullshit marketing. Oh, the computer labs and libraries were nice, but big deal.
I don't really buy that. I know several great programmers who are now great sysadmins, or vice versa.

Now, sysadmin may be a bit of a misnomer - sometimes sysadmins are given fancy titles such as 'network engineer', 'network architect', 'IT Manager', etc. They're all basically sysadmins.

Good sysadmins do more than just image laptops. They are familiar with the software's architecture, so they can help scale it up to whatever proportions are needed. They almost certaintly are proficient perl/bash/python programmers as well.
But no single one could have a higher probability of occurring than all the rest combined with itself. That's the point.
Valuation is arbitrary before there are financial or other metrics with which to reason about comparables.

How much can you ask for with a straight face? How much do you need the money? (What's your 'BATNA'?)

Be honest about the prospects of losing all the money, and your hopes for making a lot. (With friends and family, be especially clear it could all be lost without recourse.)

If you trust your profit projections -- or at least the relative likelihood of different good, middle, bad scenarios -- you can do a discounted cash flow analysis, weighted by the different outcomes. Of course, it's all fantasy, but it's a way of deriving a bottom-line valuation from some numerical assumptions, and then you can argue about the assumptions.

You certainly can have contractual terms which give them first claim on dividends up to some rate, or where their returns are capped at some cumulative return, or where you have buyback rights at predetermined prices, and so forth. I think these are more likely when the outcomes are better understood -- for example when entrepreneur and investors are known qualities in a predictable market.

With something highly speculative, a vanilla "you have X% of the venture, boom or bust" may be safer, and less likely to make things weird if you later pursue more institutional investments.

Also: be sure to understand 'accredited investor' rules (or the equivalent in your jurisdiction, if not in the US). Don't skimp on good legal advice.
There can be a dense link structure, depending on several factors. For example, NOLOH itself generates a file that keeps track of possible paths through your application. After we simply upload a newer copy of the file on the live server, NOLOH will generate more links to the search engines. Also, I'm not sure I understand what you meant by your last sentence, but links for search-engines can be used by users too.
Secret of the 'lost' [Amazonian] tribe that wasn't