skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why PHP Scales - A Cranky, Snarky Answer
FTC Opens Anti-trust Investigation into Intel
"Let the user make the initial search choice" -- Yes, I love install steps that abstractly please software theorists and confuse or irritate all others.
Philosophical question: would it be moral for Mozilla to cancel that deal and then have to lay off half of their staff?
Microsoft Shutting Down Windows Live Expo (their "Craigslist killer")
No offense, but this sounds a little shady. Maybe part of this is because it's a game project, which inevitably suffer from terminal optimism. But if you really have a working product and more paying users than you can handle, why are you looking for another "founder". This is the time where you should be hiring employees, not splitting the business risk.
The iPhone Stakeout
I can't help you here - wish you luck, but ...

I was wondering if it was cool with this list to post a job listing for a cofounder for a startup? I was thinking about doing the same thing, but wasn't sure about the HN list etiquette?
American houses are crappy already. As a eruopean, where houses are actually build with real brick and mortar, I find american houses extremely flimsy, yet pretty expensive.
I hope it wont be used to build even more cookie cutter homes, that make communist style pre-fabs look good.

I hope somehow they solve the problem in current development where every house looks the same. Maybe it will be cheap enough to have real variety on house design, aided by computer simulations.
iPhone Users Are Above Average (in monthly expenditure, video and game use)
To me this smells of a rollout gone terribly, terribly wrong.
Five Developer Add-Ons for Firefox 3
Congrats Guys, I saw you at IO at 'birds of a feather' for a little pre-launch demo, very cool.
They are iterating. Mock it while you can. It's a good time to say things about how this will never be more than a hobbyist's toy. What they have so far is impressive, and the hype is not undeserved, especially down the road when people realize its significance.
Bruce Schneier Q&A: The Endless Broadening of Security
I think the idea here is that if you think it would be interesting to readers then you post it. If people like it then they vote it up.
Do you PHP?
Over the Rainbow In Silicon Valley
Who cares who owns it? Microsoft is doing a fine job with the CLR/DLR. The problem isn't Microsoft; it's that thick client is thick client regardless of whether it's .NET, Java, or Flash. Users hate thick client apps.
Yes, I definitely don't want my error messages trying to sell me a Kindle.
This statement made no sense at all. How do you know when he should be "hiring employees" versus "splitting the risk"? "Shady"? Did you look at the site?

Startups routinely bring in founders later in the game. If he's solo now, and not bringing in enough money to cover a full salary, he's looking for a cofounder for his business. There is a huge difference between your business and your code.

Snort existed for years before Marty turned it into a startup, and except for Marty, nobody on the team that IPO'd the company was there at the beginning.
Go for it. I've sat on my own ideas and watched the world go by to see the same ideas become popular websites. Ignore what you see as competition. The worst that happens is you gain no users. You learn from it anyway and its a springboard to your next great idea. Fear doubt and just start coding n
Most famous startup book ever. Read before any other book. Will absolutely light a fire under your ass.

Lots of lessons here, but to my mind the best is: your first version should suck. Not will, "should". On some measurable obvious axis, disruptive technologies are inferior to their predecessors, which is why the industry giants haven't done them already. Christianson's book is full of examples of things that looked crappy to the incumbents and their customers, but worked for some subset of the market, and then wound up eating the whole industry.
Bits, bands, and books - Paying for creativity in a digital world
Quick newbie question:
Does a post require a certain number of points to make it into the RSS feed? I noticed that not all threads from HN make it into my Google Reader subscription...
The Art of Growing Up
Three word rule of thumb: hire behind revenue.
Looking for non-technical cofounder
I'm very ready to take my web site public, it would be really helpful to get someone experienced in community management/public relations on board. This is a good opportunity for a person skilled in webmarketing/copywriting to become second cofounder in a promising startup.

We can go with a contract-like engagement initially, $100 per few hours/day, + stock

I'm London based, though you don't necessarily have to be.
Please respond to alexthefounder at googlemail.com
I forgot this gem : http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/01/hindsights.html
$14.8 billion in revenue ~= $28,000 per minute

So an hour of downtime costs ~ $1.69 million

Very rough estimates, but could be close.
A YouTube clone isn't going to get anywhere...

We all say this, and it feels like it should be true. And yet I am constantly making use of various "YouTube clones". Google Video. Vimeo. Fora.TV. Whatever TED is using. uStream. Omnisio. And that's just the ones I can remember from the last couple of weeks.

Of course, it's somewhat unfair to claim that all of these sites are "YouTube clones", because each one is different from YouTube in some subtle way (e.g. some of them emphasize livestreaming). Which is, of course, the point. No child is ever quite the same as the parent. That's how you can start out with jellyfish and end up with stockbrokers.

Are these sites "getting anywhere"? Who knows? I'm guessing that many of them aren't profitable, but how profitable is YouTube itself? What really matters is whether your site is useful enough, and inexpensive enough, to stay open. Amoebas don't have to be as large as elephants, as smart as dolphins, or as sturdy as trees in order to coexist with them -- they just need water, food, and a modest amount of heat.
Unless, of course, she had it coming.
The site sill works if you can request HTTP/1.0 as your protocol.
This doesn't only apply to services by the way. Virtual machines in some form or another were around for about 40 years before the gained the traction they did. MULTICS supported virtual memory for individual processes in the 60s, and it wasn't until the 80s until that became popular again.

Ditto for thin clients and programming languages. Good technology won't always catch on and if you really believe that something is superior you will have to spend a lot of time convincing people of that.
That's exactly what they plan to do:

http://www.reprap.org/bin/view/Main/FuturePlans
First few SS are in Netscape... Old School ftw!
pick their own default

Not possible.
Flamebait?

Now that Valleywag is banned and techcrunch is too easy, is bashing the U.S. the latest thing? It might help if your argument made any sense.
The article is about the n-back task research that was covered in a similar article about a month ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=176264

A HN member's implementation of the n-back task:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=179580
I think the RSS is the same as the front page based on a casual perusal of the source code:

(newsop rss () (rsspage nil))

(newscache rsspage user 90
(rss-stories (firstn 25 ranked-stories*)))

(def gen-topstories ()
(= ranked-stories* (rank-stories 180 1000 (memo frontpage-rank))))

(def rank-stories (n consider scorefn)
(bestn n (compare > scorefn) (recent-stories consider)))
Unrelated, but that is exactly why those "National Don't Buy Gas Days" on Facebook don't do a thing to affect gas prices.
After Years of Effort, Dark Energy Still Puzzles Scientists
.com is back up now.
And why would that be a good thing? How would these "real" communities be superior to our current "unreal" ones?
Twitter Suffers Minor Period Of Uptime Overnight
Thanks Amazon for Thinking That I'm a Hacker When Your Service is Down
A proposal for Twitter: Shut it down
To be honest, the only mobile application distribution site which will likely matter in a year will be the iPhone AppStore.

That doesn't seem likely to me. As popular as the iPhone is and will be, the millions of Blackberries and Palms and WindowsCE units out there aren't simply going to disappear, and in the aggregate will account for greater market share than the iPhone.
I could raise more money and hire an employee with the expertise I need, but then I would dilute and give shares to the investors. I would prefer to dilute by giving shares to another programmer who wants to work with the start-up mentality and really shoot for the stars. If I don't find someone with the skills the project requires who wants to work largely for equity soon then I will hire someone to do it as an employee or a contractor. Didn't PG write that you should always prefer employees who want as much equity as possible?
Say, Whats On the Internet Tonight? (TVs that connect to the net)
Five Tips For the Effective Use of PNG Images
Yeah, you working your ass off for Facebook is definitely going to bring about the revolution.

</sarcasm>
Odd... Amazon.com works fine for me, despite the downforeveryone site saying it doesn't.
Not sure how it works in older versions, but in Firefox 3 RC2, the search engine you choose seems to persist across instances of the browser. So select Yahoo once and it stays Yahoo (unless that resets on a system restart).

There is a link to adding search engines on the Manage Search Engines window that pops up.

I'm not sure why complicating the install process with silly details like this would be a good thing.
HisSpace. How Obama's online presence could impact his presidency.
Fear Doubt
Lets use Fear as a tool to succeed.
Next Up, Chicago. See You at A&D World
Weird:

> You have been denied access to this feature because we believe you violated the terms, conditions, rules, guidelines or policies of our site in the past. If you believe we have taken this action in error, you may contact us at ad-help-us@amazon.com.
The default search engine for the internet is google. I'd say firefox is just reflecting that and giving most of the users what they want in the easiest way.
Of course I'm sure the money is nice also ;)
Bits, Bands and Books, Paying for Creativity in a Digital World
The main issue with IE using MSN (or whatever it's called now) as their default home page or search engine is not a moral issue, it is an antitrust issue. Microsoft's IE has a monopoly (at least until recently and maybe still), and they are leveraging the browser monopoly to give them an advantage in another industry (Search).

Mozilla has no monopoly, and thus their use of (a sponsored) Google search box is not anticompetitive.
Yeah really, computers are MAINSTREAM. That means you have to sacrifice a lot to compensate for the large amount of casual/new users.

My dad knew that the blue E is internet and Google helps you find web pages. He's been using a computer for a while now and doesn't care what a browser or a search engine is.

But he does listen to me when I tell him Google + Firefox are the best.
And one more thing.... You're free to create a fork of Firefox that uses Yahoo by default or whatever your heart desires.

Just don't call it Firefox. Haha
What this doesn't state, what really matters, is that if you're going to do something that's been done already you NEED something that makes your service unique. If you're pulling a Zooomr and just copying a feature list then you SHOULD listen to "Hasn't somebody done that already?" as much as you can, and learn to innovate at least slightly.

/2cents
Guest Post by WetPaint CEO Ben Elowitz: How To Raise Venture Dollars
I think it's referring to how Firefox removed Live Search from the default downloads set.
Users hate thick client apps.

[Citation Needed]

Personally I just want to see a decent bytecode VM defined as a web standard so that I can write in any language that compiles down to it. And it needs to not be locked to any one vendor. Sorry Adobe and Microsoft.
Python 3 will make you a better programmer.
Math Notation is Terrible
I like how sometimes fancy words are used to describe not so fancy things.
Why not just compile down to Javascript? Research compilers don't compile to assembly; they compile to C.
Cost of Bootstrapping Your App
The Feminisation of the Web (why more women are neeeded in tech)
See Kunstler's "Places not worth caring about." This is worth seeing because of his stunning observations about how distorted our surroundings have become. He gets into a rant, but he's spot on! (Except where it comes to the "end of cheap oil.")

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/121

I love sitting in courtyards and squares in my visits to places in Europe. I loved sitting in the courtyard of the Student Union in graduate school. I loved sitting in a cafe on Ludlow Avenue in Cincinnati, which by US standards, is a very European street in that town. It's relaxing. You can meet people by accident and find yourself invited to dinner or chat with old friends. Sometimes, you even get laid.

Maybe you can do all of those things online. I find the interpersonal bandwidth and the quality of the experience superior in real life.

A lot of people may find this sort of experience foreign in the US. In the US, the rampant use of the automobile has caused the loss of much of our public space. Now, it seems like all we know how to build are public spaces where no one normally wants to be. We have to entice people there with some event. There are places that are conducive to community, however, where people are actually drawn to in order to be together. Places near where people live, that you don't need to pay to get into.
Warner Music Group pulls catalog from Last.fm
YouTube introduces interactive videos
Ask HN: good hosts for static files?
I am looking for a host/place to host my static files, do anyone know of any low cost, high BW host/site that is good for this purpose? Or what are you using now and you find it good?
is S3 good for this purpose?
I didn't say it wasn't cool. I just said it was overhyped. It's clearly a cool tool to have - but it's hardly a self-replicating machine.
Qwaq to develop a fast VM for Squeak Smalltalk
Fine. I have a blog, and I have every intention to write books at some point in my life (and even some concrete options to do so in the near future). I fully intend to keep on iterating until I am a famous author.

Would you not find it dishonest if I introduced myself as a famous author today, rather than 30 years from now when I've actually done it?
The best part of the article - the ironic ad atop the page:

"eBaum's World is looking for a Web/UI Designer."

Talking about finding your size. very funny.
How many of these sites are anywhere near as popular as YouTube? Aside from Google Video, there isn't one I remember using.

I suppose we just have different standards of 'getting somewhere.'
50 Cool Things You Can Do with Google Charts API
Right, as impressive as the iPhone's early showing has been, and despite the fact that it IS steadily gaining market share, the fact remains that it still holds only a small percentage of overall smartphone market share, in the US and even more so worldwide.
The same is likely to hold true with Android- the fact that the mobile industry is so heavily controlled by the carriers who are resistant to change and proliferation of handsets is going to make it hard for any one platform or phone to completely dominate the market.

The fact remains that mobile developers need to concentrate their efforts on a variety of platforms, so my question is- once they build their apps, where do they go to get mass distribution? After doing some more reading, it seems like GetJar mostly occupies a niche as a mass beta-testing service-- what other places are useful for developers to get distribution and gain traction?
I got that too.
Microsoft demos Deep Zoom: proof that MS is still capable of amazing technology
Check out the book, "How to Get Rich" by Dennis Felix. He's the guy that owns Maxim magazine. One of his tenets is to never give up any of the ownership of your company. Period.

One of his stories is about the time that four key employees sat him down and told him they wanted 25% of the company or they were going to go out and compete with them. He told them to hit the road. He'd rather do all their jobs while we found replacements than give a share of his company.

Later on, he estimated that 25% share at $80 million. Oh, and the company they tried to start folded. And a couple came back to work for him.

You obviously have traction. You have a raving fan base. Don't give up a substantial portion of your company to someone you don't really know because you don't want to cut a paycheck.

If your marketing is working and you are making some money with the project, pay a hacker 100% of the profits and eat beans. You are going to win in the end.

You may "lose" a few bucks now, but those few dollars could get you your own island in 10 years.
Since it funds the development of FireFox, I don't really care. I wasn't going to use Live.com anyway.
Hints of 'time before Big Bang'
"But of the vast increase in the well-being of hundreds of millions of people that has occurred in the 200-year course of the industrial revolution to date, virtually none of it can be attributed to the direct redistribution of resources from rich to poor."

http://www.minneapolisfed.org/pubs/region/04-05/essay.cfm

I can't imagine that any other revolution deserves the name The Revolution.
Argh, font size. I must just be getting old, I thought I would complain about fonts being too tiny!
I love my Model M's. I bought 2 off eBay and have been using them on my computers ever since. One had a key stick (not mechanical, oddly) but the seller sent me a replacement for free. If these new clones are any good I would love to pick up a couple.
Maybe co-founder isn't the right word. That implies an even split of equity. Is that what you mean? Is this about offering someone 40% or 5%?
That strategy doesn't always work. The only thing that story proves is that Felix knows what he's doing and the employees weren't worth the equity because clearly they didn't. There are a lot of companies that just would not have made it without outside capital and experience, even if the founders got less rich after the exit than they would have if they still collectively had 100% of the company.
Balance this against the richest people in the world who did give away equity when it was appropriate. I guess it depends on the situation.
It's probably a fair request to ask for an RSS feed of all stories. I just don't know how many people are interested in that.
I hate quoting myself but:

Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang.

With all respect to Greenspun.
Umm... they don't think you're a hacker. They think you're a robot. Big difference, right?
Yeah, it'd be moral to correct for mistakes like that, but very unfortunate for the employees. I have very close friends who work at Mozilla. I wouldn't wish that on them at all. Still, they came to Mozilla because of its integrity and role. If it was explained to them that Mozilla can only remain independent of corporate influence by re-evaluating their stance on issues like this, I think the employees would understand and many of them (hacker-types) would continue working on the open source projects (as before) when they could.

Difficult situation, though, no doubt.
I agree, Kevin Rose fan club please stay on digg.
Not necessarily, I think Twitter looks great ;)
Cracker.
They also mention "automated source of requests". Sure, it's for robots, but it's also a nice way to saying "you're a hacker" for those who are writing automated scripts to do suspicious stuff.
and what if they do? if you hate it so much, fork it and use / distribute your own version. nobody prevented you from doing it.
this is damn old, but sort of still relevant. minus the g3 business, get the best possible computer you can afford.
I'm all for real life and for meeting new people, but it's important to make a distinction between meeting a particular kind of people and meeting random people. There are already many cities and neighborhoods in the US where particular kinds of people gather and meet each other.

On the other hand, your average inhabitant of a "regular" place in the US (including all of suburbia) is someone I want to keep as far out of my mind as possible. "Real communities" would make this task much harder.
Here's my take on congregating in the central piazza in Padova:

http://padovachronicles.welton.it/articles/search?q=spritz

Absolutely superior to anything similar I've ever experienced in the US.
The university I attend actually takes this exact approach. Our CSE department offers three B.S. programs: Computer Science, Information Technology, and Software Engineering, each with different subdomains of study. I know that GA Tech utilizes a similar (albeit much more sophisticated) strategy with their Threads program. I think that what will eventually happen, simply out of necessity, is the introduction of general computing concepts and programming into other majors. For example, my sister is a microbiology major and I've taken it upon myself to make sure that she gets at least somewhat familiar with Perl / Python and LaTeX. It's absolutely ridiculous that at many universities, the "Intro to Computing" class for non-majors is still about how to use Office and browse the Net.
I'd be interested in seeing the Phys Rev Letter on this one. I treat a lot of these ideas as bordering sci-fi, but PRL is a helluva journal.

The many-universe idea has been around for quite a while. They must have added something interesting. The anisotropy is probably pretty significant.
The article itself is interesting, but what really caught my eye was the 5 flaming comments it received. Bitter much, guys?
How about a little hint as to what area your startup is in? Some of us here are definitely interested in working in X, but not Y.
Why limit yourself to a non-technical cofounder? Are you a single founder or are there other hacker founders working with you?
Based on what the article describes, it seems useful to have more female UI designers, not necessarily more female engineers.
I assume it's this one:

http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.0377

which was submitted to PRL by those authors two days ago.

I'm a physicist, but not an astrophysicist or cosmologist, so I'm having trouble making head or tails of it. But most of the highly speculative stuff in the article isn't mentioned in the paper.
Do I really need to be as popular as YouTube (even in a different market) to be a success? Maybe this is what you meant by "different standards of 'getting somewhere.'" In many arenae, there is some company that has a massive, massive chunk of the user base tied up. You don't have to displace them, if you want to make a similar (but different!) app. You just have to get enough going to make some money, yes?
I thinking you're reading too much into it. They even suggest alternative ways at getting the information you may be looking for using their APIs since they don't want bots scraping their site... it even says "seriously, we aren't mad at you."

But since you aren't a bot I would just send them some feedback to let them know you found a bug in their site logic, but maybe that's just me.
Any idea when this movie is actually going to be released? I've been waiting to see it for years now.
Thank you! I'll have a look.
Maybe this is an opportunity for a startup :-)
That's definitely an option. It just feels to me like going around your elbow to get to your knee.
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