skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LG KF240 (Unlocked) 
This entry level slide phone combines easy to use features with a visual style that is sure to impress. A reliable Tri-Band connection will guarantee that your GSM calls go without a problem.its a black charming phone.
I got 10 - 3 letter domains and 4 - 4 letter ones. Got the email confirmation, but not in the control panel yet
It took about 2 hours for my confirmation email to come through.
I need to get the continuity equation ^^
Suggestions:

1) Talk to others who got sued, form a single group, hire a lawyer, and fight like hell

2) Talk to others who got sued, and as a group, talk to Amazon and all the other who are big and did not get sued, and cooperate to get a declaratory judgment with the "sponsorship" of the big fish that did not get sued.

This is all about grabbing the low-hanging fruit to go after the people than can defend themselves well. The natural defense is to undo that advantage of the plaintiff.

Everyone knows it's a bogus patent, don't be foolish enough to fall for the trick. Unite.
#1 for me would be The Intelligent Investor, by Benjamin Graham. Also read all of Warren Buffett's Letters from the Chairman - they're all up on the Berkshire Hathaway website. Peter Lynch's books are good too.

I see a lot of people here recommending A Random Walk Down Wall Street, which is a good book, but you're going to finish it and say "This investing stuff is too complicated for me. I think I'll just put my money in index funds." Which is perfectly sensible investment advice, but if that's all you want, I can tell you "Go invest in index funds" right now and save you a couple hours of reading. ;-)

Jeremy Siegel's Stocks for the Long Run is like Random Walk - it's decent, but the conclusion is basically "go invest in a stock index fund and don't worry about it". I'm not even sure that's great advice right now - he bases a lot of his argument on historical performance, but when an asset class has done well over the recent past, that usually means it'll do poorly in the near future. Read neither or both - Random Walk gives you good perspective for understanding Stocks for the Long Run.

Finally, if you do get into investing, make sure you start small. I've made some wonderful investment decisions and some truly terrible ones. The wonderful ones more than compensated, but they looked very similar at the time, and if I'd put all my money into the terrible one there wouldn't be any capital available for the wonderful one.

Actually, I'd recommend doing some dry-runs: pretend that you're putting money in a stock, and then track how well you'd have done over time if it were real. Read all the 10-Ks for the stock (they're up in the EDGAR database at the SEC's website), research all the fundamentals, and listen to the analyst conference calls (Yahoo Finance webcasts them live whenever earnings come out). That'll give you a sense of what questions to ask and what events affect the stock price.

I did some of those dry runs and lost hypothetical money on a lot of them, which makes me very glad that they're just dry runs. ;-)
Exactly. A key issue in trials is what facts can be re-litigated at later trials.

If you and/or the other defendants don't litigate the validity of the patent well and lose that issue, future parties are barred from re-litigating that issue.

A strategy of a small guy is to try and bring in a large guy to litigate an issue that will be very important to them in the future (i.e. eBay, Amazon, or whoever else may be infringing the patent).
"who has a month to spare to learn another language?"
Yes, but I like my lawn. It's green, I can lay on it, or just walk across it in my bare feet.

The point is, its our 40 billion, and we can spend it any way we like.
How about Chinese? Probably more useful.

But seriously, python is well regarded and with G App Engine as a possible hosting platform using it, you can also learn more about design for hosted infrastructure apps.
Contact Amazon/eBay, I'm sure they will help you guys out. If you loose, they are next with even less to stand on. Giving you free legal support could help them later down the line!
This is off the topic, but please keep passwords encrypted.
That's fine, but lets ban watering the lawn, its not your drinkable water to waste...
Will people start coding Opera-specific mobile Web sites now?
I track around 30 feeds (news / high frequency) on Firefox Live Bookmarks on a daily basis.

I also track around 800 feeds (opinion / lower frequency) on Netvibes on a weekly / biweekly basis.
"If some user doesn't care about freedom/price, why should anyone care about him using linux?"

Network effects. The more Linux users there are, the greater the incentive for companies to support their hardware and software on Linux.
If You Aren’t Generating Revenue, it’s Time to Re-evaluate Your Business.
Languages every programmer should at least have some understanding of:

Lisp - because it's lisp, duh
Smalltalk - to actually understand OO
Prolog - it requires a completely different thought process, for better or worse
Haskell - for understanding useful type systems and functional programming
C - because it as low-level as you should ever need

Just my 2 cents
Uh, no.

May I recommend "Guns, Germs, and Steel" to you.

That book effectively destroys any idea that studiousness, or intelligence, at the group level (like your example of "Asians", whatever the hell "Asians" means), has anything to do with genetics.
What's different with rojo v. Google Reader? How is it better?
Yes.

Spent about $1M.

It's a great way to put a small competitor out of business.

Alain - fairsoftware.net
I've seen a funny result of the 140 limit + the stack of comments. People will leave three part tweets, often numbered, but will need to do number 3 first.

One thing people love about twitter is the ability to push updates to everyone. Everyone wouldn't tolerate it for long messages, but the desire is clearly there on behalf of the senders.
Creating Passionate People
haskell without a doubt

haskell is on the edge of almost every interesting trend in programming tools.

parallelism? check
STM? check
closures? haskell is closures
functional programming? better than any other lang
continuation style? check
type inference? check
good library support? check (kinda)
repl? check
etc etc
this comes from a company that took money. granted it was from mr. bezos, but still.
I played around with Scala and thought it was really interesting.
IO (iolanguage.com) is very cool. The Qi layer over CL (lambdassociates.org) is also worth looking at. q/kdb+ (kx.com) is very interesting, but needs a more complete toolset for a commercial product.

What if your language was nothing but macros? Factor (factorcode.org) is a fascinating example of this, and I think due in part to the project developers and the language paradigm itself, I've never seen any open project language take huge leaps in capability in such a short amount of time as as Factor has. Incredible stuff, but difficult to get into unless you can devote a large amount of contiguous time to it.

When it comes to Lisp, I don't know why it's dismissed just because there's always something wrong with one of the open projects. Just buy Allegro CL - there's something to be said for products which hold up against commercial rigor.

One addition: everybody should probably be learning Erlang.
In case you don't wish to scroll through all the TC comments, this might be pertinent:

"I’m the Zlio.com CEO. If you are one of the sued companies (like us), please contact me by email: channel at berrebi.org.

We need to discuss together"

# The above is not from me, just quoted from the TC comments!
Right. Because a tattoo becomes less idiotic of you use equations instead of skulls or random chinese characters.
I got a "courtesy copy" of the complaint this morning (via overnight Fedex). Does that count as service?

I'm not incorporated and haven't thought about Delaware in particular as a place to advertise Voo2do. There are certainly Voo2do users in Delaware (and in most other places in the world).

The only income I've received to date from Voo2do has been donations from people who found it useful. If you consider the cost of the hosting, Voo2do has been a net money loser for me for many years. But it's led to a lot of other great contacts and given me a lot of satisfaction from helping other people.
I would say: "All good interfaces resemble one another, each crappy interface is crappy in its own way."
Like many of you, I have spent a lot of time trying to figure out what the best investing approach is. My advice is to not spend any money on investing books. I am not saying not to read them, just don't spend ANY money on them.

I think the future of investing is here, and it is covestor.com. This site helps anyone stand on the shoulders of giants. Covestor shows who really knows how to trade in a verified way. Some users on Covestor are professionals, others are simply individual traders.

For me, I don't have the time to spare to try and beat the S&P. Thru Covestor I have found a CFA/CFP that knows how to beat the S&P waaaay better than I do. His name is Sean Hannon. In case you are wondering, Sean didn't pay me to write this.

www.epicadvisorsllc.com

http://www.covestor.com/rankings/popularity
(see #2 on list / user "epicadv")
I use Bloglines because their mobile versions (simple mobile version and iPhone version) are superior to Google Readers. I have 114 feeds divided up into folders by interest area. Some folders like "Development", "Design" and "Competitors" are higher priority reads. I have a few top-level feeds that aren't in folders that are the highest priority.
That may have worked before, but with web 2.0, you have millions of startups that need the money to afford the hosting costs.
Highly recommend Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan.

also http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_04_29_a_blowingup.htm
To be fair, they had already built something people wanted first.
Ask HN: What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot?
I'm fairly new here (I'm a refugee from Reddit) and occasionally I read comments where someone complains that a post isn't appropriate or that the standard of conversation has gone down recently. And whenever I read those comments I'm troubled by a nagging sense that nobody has a plan. That things will gradually get unbearable and that when they do the people who built up this site will just move on and found a new community and the whole process will start over.

Is there a plan? What's stopping 100,000 Digg users hearing about HN on TV and showing up with posts on Obama's latest news and pictures of their cats?

Clearly there's the code behind the site, the karma system and minimum thresholds for downvoting and so on. I've also seen people linking to the guidelines (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) occasionally, to try shame people into behaving themselves.

I've got to be honest though, I can't see anything that's fundamentally different about HN that means it will avoid the fate of those other sites. You let me register, what's to stop others? Do you have to "Accept" the guidelines when signing up? I can't remember, even if you do though, let's be honest, nobody's going to read that.

I don't know, do you think HN is structure well enough to prevent it happening? Is there a special plan? Or do people just expect to have to move on when things go down hill?
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They both share a lot of similar features (user ratings, tags/labels, discovering new feeds, etc.), but overall I enjoy the design/layout of rojo better. In addition to that, as far as actually discovering new things online, rojo provides a better platform for that (imo). I can see whats popular, whats popular with people in my network, etc. I've used google reader quite a bit and its really good, but I enjoy the rojo experience more.
Any word on which registrar "tasted" pretty much all .me domains? WHOIS info isn't up yet.
good luck. i was on at 8am exactly, put a bunch in my cart, checked-out, got notification of my purchase, etc. but, godaddy just sent me a bunch of emails stating that someone had registered them before me. and, some were pretty obscure.

the domain marketplace is big. you're most certainly competing with registration bots and perhaps even domain squatting companies that are also registries.

of course it doesn't mean you shouldn't try.
Does it involve standing on a street corner?

'Cause if it doesn't, I'm not interested.
Check out this site to learn a few tips on technical analysis: http://www.stockcaster.net/education
Yes it is. I bought it. To me it's not a waste at all.

If there's some sort of externality I'm not seeing, have the government tax me for it.

Furthermore, even if I did pour the water down a drain, what business of yours is it as long as I bought it fairly?
If the concept of a letter sent to Santa Claus via your parents doesn't provide sufficient obviousness for the whole concept (and if you can't get Amazon into the discussion), then work with your lawyers to seek out (older) Santa Claus web sites, or older wedding registry web sites.

This looks like potential Prior Art:

http://web.archive.org/web/20011129215921/http://bridalregis...
That's one of the reasons why I wouldn't move to the US and start a business. I think a software company really have only two choices.

1. Ignore patents completely and hope for the best.

or

2. Have trouble sleeping, knowing that you might have to spend a large amount of money on a lawsuit that you will probably win anyway.
I see your point. I wonder, though, whether it's worth the trouble. We're doing really well for <1% market share or whatever it is. Much of the popular windows games/software runs on wine/cedega & I haven't had any trouble finding linux-compatible hardware. Maybe it was the case in 2001, but I don't think unsupported hardware/software is much of an obstacle today.
Agreed. Just take Taleb with a grain of salt - he's a polemical writer, and swings to an extreme. (He's seen the excesses of hedge funds, and so puts most of his money in treasuries.)
Sorry to hear this. Though I've never used voo2do extensively, it seemed pretty decent. Anyways, see if you can all get together and get the EFF guys involved. Check
http://w2.eff.org/patent/ and http://w2.eff.org/patent/wp.php
for more info on this.
Here's my thought on the matter... The "Killer feature" here is the lack of killer features. There are no buddy lists, stupid picture icons, special groups, or karma-whoring incentives. It's just a simple place to exchange news that is generally relevant to a hacker community.

The lack of needless bells and whistles to constantly hold peoples attention will generally make this site un-fun for the unwashed masses of Digg and Reddit refugees.

BTW, welcome to hacker news...
The only hope is our elitist comment trolls. Also the fact that HN has far fewer users makes it much easier to deal with the problem. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/digg.com+reddit.com+news.yc...
I know this might sound like just whining, but these type of self-help posts from 37 signals kind of bother me. Step 1 isn't building something people like, in their playbook step 1 is build an influential blog and consulting service and leverage those to sell your newly built product. I'm not saying its a bad plan, its a great plan, but its not the plan they are advocating others adopt.
I use Opera's feed reader at present, but mainly because I read some cookie-protected feeds and an in-browser one seems like the best solution. I keep a pretty tight leash on the feeds I subscribe to (twelve or so at the moment), and delete any I ignore for several days.
the quick and dirty answer is the userbase. it doesn't, at least right now, turn into digg/reddit/slashdot because the people who want to see a digg/reddit/slashdot are already at digg/reddit/slashdot.

the community here likes how things are and has a vested interest in keeping HN like it is. so thats what they do, try and push out the bad where they can and promote the good.
PG has said he won't let it, and will do what it takes to keep it high quality.
I use Apple Mail. It shows individual feeds as if they were a mailbox, all grouped under and RSS container. Unfortunately, this keeps me addicted to HN throughout the day rather than just once or twice a day.
I agree with both of you! What I mean is, that if only the government would price water correctly, I wouldn't mind at all if you and everyone else would pour it down the drain all day long.

The problem is, the price of water is not set on the free market. I red somewhere that Seattle,WA has higher water prices then Phoenix,AZ.
It's probably not worth learning another language for a web development project. You'll spend most of the time learning the syntax and the framework. Nothing which will expand your mind.

Try a functional language like Haskell, Erlang or ML.
But you really need a problem to work on. A database-backed web app can easily be written in Ruby, but maybe there is a feature which requires background processing, write that in the newly learnt language.

BTW, how is your javascript?
Points for creativity!
Americans spend about as much on pets, too.

Do you want to ban feeding pets as wasteful?
This may be true. Or it may not be true - there's always a crisis looming, and often when things look bad, the market has already factored that in. Personally, I'd rather stay invested in index funds through good and bad rather than trying to dodge the crises and hit the booms.

That said, I'm doing a few things to try to hedge against inflation, energy costs, and the US deficit. These are long-term plays, and I'll stay in them for 10+ years.

-- invest globally, not just in the US stock market
-- invest a small amount in an energy index fund (Vanguard Energy ETF) to hedge against energy price increases
-- invest in inflation-protected bonds (TIPS/I-Bonds)
Concurrency and parallelism is hot these days and functional languages are superior there.
Learning a different type of language will widen your horizons and once you know one functional and one OO-language then it is quite easy to learn other languages after that.

My suggestions are Clojure and Erlang. Both are made for cincurrency, have web frameworks(maybe not as good ones at rails though) and are functional. Both also run on a VM.

Learning CLojure will also expose you to JAVA and the JVM.
I forgot to mention that I think a site like Covestor scares the big investment advisor companies. If a CFA/CFP is extremely talented, beating the S&P consistently, Covestor gives him/her a way to prove this. Why would I use Goldman Sachs over a super lean / small investment advisory company when the small company achieves better verified returns, has much lower fees, and doesn't require that I have at least 100k+ to invest with?
I received confirmation letters, but have now just received a letter saying:

The following domain name has failed to be registered:

PRI.ME

Error: PRI.ME: cannot register - already registered

We will evaluate this error and retry the registration
if appropriate.

CURSES!
By not having a RSS reader, I can lie to myself and say that I'm not that addicted to technology news/blogs. By not having sites bookmarked, it makes me put a little effort into visiting sites like MacRumors, techmeme, etc.
I'm embarrassed to say that not once, but several times, I've collect loads of feeds and then rarely made good on reading them all.

The stuff I was interested in would change over time, so I was left with feeds I wasn't so interested in anymore. I tried different feedreaders. And I would always feel overwhelmed when I saw 4,283 unread messages.

So I'm back trying it again with a "must read" folder in Google Reader and only putting feeds in that I definitely want to read.

But when I do subscribe and am committed to reading, I try to make an effort to at least open every post and start reading it.
Yes it is my business. This is the same approach people took on gas and corn. Consume so much until the price impacts us. Except this time, I don't want to pay $5 a gallon on water in 2020, because a bunch of people wanted to run it all day on their lawn at 25 cents a gallon in 2008. People already are stuggling on fuel, we don't need the same approach on water.
Hopefully it goes through. Same thing happened to me, only instead of a confirmation email I got an email saying the domain was actually already taken. curses.
At the original site, it is a strange headline ("Founder of blog platform gets venture funding") given the profile focus of the article.

I think they gave it a newsier headline to put it on p. 1 of the Business section. The funding they're referring to happened a while ago and is mentioned in paragraph 11:

In 2006, Polaris, along with Blacksmith Capital and Radar Partners, invested $1.1 million in Automattic. In January, a second round of financing came through: Polaris, Radar, True Ventures and the New York Times Co. contributed $29.5 million to Mullenweg's company.
I don't think we've reached the point yet where you can buy a laptop or PC and not wonder about whether it can flawlessly run all your Linux apps, with all the finger print readers, weird mice and keyboards, webcams, etc, that now come with computers. That's the point I'd say Linux hardware support should aim for.

I don't think any more than that would be good. If it gets too mainstream, it won't be a geek OS anymore... We'll have to find something else :(. And the possible problem of people writing more viruses for it. (Though I'm not an expert on security issues)
Your government can't make it so expensive that people don't do it anymore. If they do they won't be elected next time.
Overfunding is what causes lots of companies to build lame products.
Great advice, ricree and m_fish. I think this is right on. That's why I don't want to learn Python - it looks like a great language, but I already have Ruby. I've been trying C and Scheme on the side, but through reading (SICP and K&R), and I've kind of hit a wall. I really want to put something into production that isn't written in Ruby, and an iPhone app would do the trick.
"Rich Dad, Poor Dad is one of the dumbest financial advice books I have ever read. It contains many factual errors and numerous extremely unlikely accounts of events that supposedly occurred.

Kiyosaki is a salesman and a motivational speaker. He has no financial expertise and won’t disclose his supposed real estate or other investment success.

Rich Dad, Poor Dad contains much wrong advice, much bad advice, some dangerous advice, and virtually no good advice."

John T. Reed, Harvard MBA, successful real estate investor http://www.johntreed.com/Kiyosaki.html

"However much money Kiyosaki did or didn't make in the past, he's making a fortune by selling the idea that he holds the key to your financial future. In one of the many logically creative passages late in the book, he raises the astonishing idea that Americans don't spend enough time trying to emulate the successful—there's just not enough hero worship out there. "It's one of the most powerful ways we learn that we often lose as adults," he writes. "We lose our heroes. We lose our naivete." If there's better proof of how wrong this is than the success of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I can't think of it."

http://www.slate.com/?id=2067175
They had mid-millions/yr in revenue when that happened. They had already won.
So what you're basically saying is, when launching a product, step 1 is to figure out how to bring your product to market and promote it, and step 2 is to deliver the product.

We tend to hyperfocus on lines of code here, but any product manager at a software company would assume step 1.
Overfunding does kill some startups, but it's an exaggeration to call it the number 1 cause of death. What kills the most startups is building lame products.

I think their point is that those factors are related. If someone gives you a huge pile of cash, there's a temptation to answer any criticism with "you think it's lame now, but just wait -- once we're done you'll love it".

If you don't have a lot of money, you can't use that excuse -- you have to build something which people want from the start.