skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of my father's friends live in Rio de Janeiro and when there is a robbery - it's not like in the States - they rob all of the customers too - they lock the doors of the supermarket and demand the purses and wallets of everyone. It's happened to them several times.

Makes me double-think about living down in Latin/South America - many things I assume/take for granted (like being able to drink clean tap water) sometimes don't exist in second/third-world countries
No, I think the big lesson is:

Keep It Real, dawg.
That is pretty. Maybe I should stop working and just play Dofus.
That's the Overton window and I'm glad he's pushing it.

Without him, we may still be in the world of non-disclosure agreements and closed Unices.
Pokemon was awesome.
Really fun game, but there's probably better ways to learn about concurrency... Like reading about it and implementing it.
Web Innovators Group Demos (WebInno18) in Cambridge on Jul 15
Counter-example: skunkworks. Awesome because of the lack of bureaucracy, here described as "discipline."
I read an article saying that links from bloggers are less effective

Search engine and news aggregrator are better
Google Co-founders Talk Tech
Why doesn't the occurrence of suicide answer that question?
Well, yes. It's not so much a teaching tool as it is a riff on concurrency.

Playing pool really well isn't a great way to learn physics, either. And, yet, if you know a little physics pool becomes more fun, and vice versa.
Stallman detests wealth

He travels the world as a free software evangelist

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Does he detest wealth because he is a free software evangelist?

Or is he a free software evangelist because he never figured out how to become wealthy himself?
If I may ask:

Do you think this guy is for real?
Is this kind of screwing over a big risk for founders?
How would you avoid it?
Google, Viacom now clashing over YouTube employee records
PaidContent’s Rafat Ali Speaks - Here’s Who’s Next… (AOL to buy TechCrunch?)
They mostly call him a dumbass...can't say I disagree. This guy bated a motherfucking crocodile and proceeded to stick his arm in its mouth.

Moral of the story: learn Lisp so you don't have to work at Seaworld.
That sounds good, but you haven't supported it with evidence. MSFT was firing on all cylinders during the mid-90's, when Joel wrote "The Joel Test", noting that Microsoft wasn't conceding anything on process.

Microsoft suffers from lack of vision and strategic direction as they do from anything else these days. People still accept 60%-of-industry salaries to work there, after grueling interviews.
Hackers never die...they're just slowly overwritten.
I think its fine to ask for that if its something you can actually get passionate about. i.e. if you have a social network about skydiving, it kinda helps if employees are actually into that, since they'll give you better suggestions
It's not an excuse. If it's not one of your business goals to make OpenID successful, there's no reason you should expend any effort to help the projects out. Nothing obligates you to pioneer new technologies. The pioneers sometimes get eaten by bears.
My favorite interpretation of the hacker/painter metaphor is that great things can be done by a team of one.

Try as I may, I simply cannot wrap my mind around the concept of "building a team" to create the Mona Lisa or paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Just look at this for 5 minutes and try to imagine it was designed and built by anything other than a team of one:

http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=...

Kinda makes the "Great Hacker != Great Hire" argument kinda moot, huh?
There's nothing you could do that would make me give you my Google password.
if computer scientists were in charge things would be nearly so fucked up.
people constantly ask this question because the idea that no one is running things is too scary to contemplate.
this is the reason for both organized religion and conspiracy theories.
Ah yes, the difficulty of sarcasm over the Internet. All kidding aside, you're absolutely right that Fannie and Freddie shouldn't care about whether banks earn money trading mortgage bonds. I didn't mean to imply that banks, traders, or any other mortgage market participants deserved special treatment from the government, because they don't.

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and to a lesser extent Ginnie Mae play an important role in the mortgage market, and it's worth thinking twice before saying they should be allowed to go under. The market in their mortgage-backed securities (MBS) has led to substantially lower mortgage rates, to easily refinanceable mortgages, to a wide variety of types of mortgages: fixed year mortgages of all time periods, ARMs, balloons, etc. And while things were certainly taken too far, the government mortgage agencies allowed many deserving homeowners to take out mortgages that individual banks wouldn't have been willing to give. I don't think it's in the best interest of the country to go back to the old model of mortgage origination.

That being said, I do think that Fannie and Freddie should really change the way they do business. Right now they perform two roles: that of a monoline (i.e. an insurance company), and that of a REIT. The monoline is what's important: by buying mortgages, taking a cut of the monthly payments as an insurance premium, and then packaging the mortgages in easily tradeable securities, they promote a smoothly functioning mortgage market. The REIT part is where they borrow money at extremely advantageous rates and invest it in their own MBS, like the original article talked about. The idea behind letting them operate as a REIT is that by buying large amounts of MBS, they would support their price, promote lower primary mortgage interest rates, and make housing cheaper for the nation as a whole. That's fine as far as it goes, but there should be stricter requirements on the size and riskiness of its portfolio. Earlier this year when private mortgage funds like Carlyle and others were blowing up, Fannie and Freddie should have been required to raise more capital and reduce purchases of new mortgages. But they weren't, and now we're in the mess we see now.
Regardless of whether or not the "he stole my idea" story is real, I do think that he may have a good case that "Facebook" isn't trademarkable. When I arrived at college the year before Facebook the site launched, we received a dead-tree book at orientation that was called a "Facebook", and they had been a tradition there and at many other schools for a while. While Apple can trademark their logo, they can't trademark the word "Apple".
I get quite a lot of traffic from when I'm mentioned in a blog, and even from when I've leave comments. I say "a lot" in relative terms, my blog is only a few months old, but to me its a great start. I also put the site in my sig on the forums I use, which has meant crazy traffic the last few days (my blog is about the iPhone).

I think links from blogs are less effective nowadays when it comes to SEO, but in terms of driving traffic to your site, having a blog review you or mention you is still very important.
As I mentioned in my post, it's not just about getting linked. It's about receiving articulate feedback and/or spreading the word spread. If a blogger in your industry writes about you, you're directly reaching out to your target audience. Emailing bloggers is free and quick. Showing up high in a search engine or building huge news aggregator following normally takes lots of time or money.
EDIT: This primer from Goldman is a couple years old but still a great guide: http://www.classiccmp.org/transputer/finengineer/%5BGoldman%...

As far as books go, there aren't any, unfortunately. I think it's because the mortgage-backed securities market is largely confined to professional investors and traders who learn everything on the job. Stocks are the opposite: it's dead easy to open an ETrade account and buy some shares, so there's a ton of information for individual investors.

Lots of people use Fabozzi (http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Mortgage-Backed-Securities-Fr...) as a reference, but I'm not a fan... it's disorganized, not particularly well written, and doesn't provide much information on how the market works on a day to day basis. The Salomon book (http://www.amazon.com/Salomon-Barney-Mortgage-Backed-Asset-B...) is popular too, but I've never read it.
Plus one for blockquotes on news.yc
Boys not better than girls at maths, study finds
Junk Food isn't going to hurt you in moderation.

False.

http://www.healthbolt.net/2006/12/08/what-happens-to-your-bo...

http://cotesensing.vox.com/library/post/healthy-lifestyle-th...

http://channelsurfr.com/diet-coke-can-kill-aspartame-documen...

My school would have been up in arms if all the self-righteous anti-junkfood moralizing busybodies around today took that away from us.

What you call "self righteous anti-junkfood moralizing busybodies", I call "taxpayers". They get to decide what's available in the public facilities they pay for, not you.
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Movie about dot-com entrepreneur struggling through 2001 trailer [video]
The Conspiracy
I just saw Paypal for the iPhone in the App Store, interesting concept if you ask me...
What a loser. I read only enough to remember the name to ensure I never use a product he makes.
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As for contacts and the address book:
+ http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/

+ http://developer.yahoo.com/addressbook/

+ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463989.aspx

Stop using the password anti-pattern (http://adactio.com/journal/1357)

Facebook has a nice auth flow that http://www.billmonk.com uses. I'd suggest that.

Oh, and hire a visual designer. A strong visual design goes a lot farther than any copy or lock icons ever will.
Resistance 2.... can't wait.
"Even in a more ordinary circumstance, male bosses can wield power in a way that would label their female cohorts 'ice queens'."

I suspect that those male bosses are equally called names and disliked. They just don't give a damn.

I wonder if women bosses just have a bigger aversion to being strongly disliked?

(Rhetorical question here. I really don't know. I've had several different male and female bosses at this point, but haven't really experienced behavior from either that would make me want to call them bad names.)
Donald Knuth's Complexity of Songs
Ask YC: How Many User Points Do I need...
... to be able to change the color of my header? I think that is a YC easter egg right?
TECO and DDT
How to Think About the "new" Operator with Respect to Unit Testing
up to 19, haven't seen anything that is hard to figure out, just things that are tricky to time.
Once you win that game play it again, this time trying to click on all the triangles.
Cool! I wrote the map control for the app he shows the screenshot of.
So I wanted to make sure no-one posted this view point before.

1stly in a modern 1st world country like the US or Japan birth-rates have been falling for along time. I think this a strong indication that gender roles are becoming less important in culture. Additionally you can see this in the current political strife on similar topics.

So to put all of those things aside, lets just look at the numbers. Marquette the school I went to had an engineering degree program with 40-60% female. It was the highest in the country while I was attending, and the topic of choice .....

Biology.

So, I had the chance to ask many of them why they chose that field and the response was ALWAYS, that they wanted to help people.

I think ability is not the root here, but it is the drive, and I think the women out there that have the personality and the drive to be entrepreneurs do not have an economic model that matches their interests.

I am willing to bet that as greentech becomes a viable industry to start a company you will see more women entering the entrepreneurship game. So, if it is still some sort of preference to help people and the world, why is that so? I don't know but thank God someone wants to do something more.

I think that if you are going to support a climate for female entrepreneur's you are going to have to find a way to create a community (YC seems to be a good start) and a way for the process to feel personable rather than abstract.

Jessica, maybe you can organize a few geek dinners to get female entrepreneurs together talking about what they would of like to have had when they were starting a company? I am sure you will find it much different than what the guys needed.
Words don't mean what they mean
Tesla starts delivering Roadsters as production ramps up, hires hotshot engineering exec
Get Good Co-Founders
* Way before launching you should contact them*
I could not agree anymore.
Are you talking about your poker days here?
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That is right, but most of the time what is being built is really not anything revolutionary. Then you end up being stuck trying to sell the same idea 50 other people are selling.
I guess that is where creativity comes to play.
Correct, but I did not want to narrow the responses. I was looking to get answers from different users with different products.
The problem about discrimination is what happens after this step: a man is unable to multitask. A giraffe is unable to eat food that is not in trees.

We are in agreement, and I give you credit for explaining the point better than I did.

I also probably should have been more specific when I said it's dangerous to believe that "women [are] wired for different work than men". I'm not arguing that women and men are the same in every way. Clearly there are differences. I'm saying it's unfortunate to take a problem like the low number of women founders and to use Darwinian theory to say "women just aren't wired for this type of intellectual work." This makes it all too easy to overlook other causes of the problem and, as you point out, can lead to discrimination in various forms.

Indeed, someone just posted this timely article on HN today about a study showing that "boys are not innately better at maths than girls, and any difference in test scores is due to nurture rather than nature."
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2283083,00....
Yeah! The author is damn right about Google. Until I read this post I was a diehard G fan. Anything G was cool to me. It just took me a few seconds to realize the situation. Most who hate Microsoft's expensive products say that they like Google since its more open. Many ditch MS products and go for Google's. Even I ditched MS office and use Google Docs. But only now realize that I am becoming increasingly dependant on Google. I accept that they build really cool and simple products. But every cool G prod seems to come with an visibly invisible string. Example: they introduced appengine. And they have a Users API which makes a devs job easy but it only works with G accounts. So if u want to have your own accounts system, you have to build it yourself. If Google was really open, they would have had a 'more' general Users API, or atleast the current one with the option of OpenID.

They make their buck when you read a mail in the inbox. And most feel that the strip on top of the inbox is to show news. Well how many times do u see news? I often see 'sponsored link'.

Their vision of "making everything web-based" means what it reads to us. But to G it means having a Google Accounts login for everything and then making money from the ads or using the userdata as stats to build more prods with the G login.

Why talk about open-Bigtable or open-Google Docs? They haven't even made the WYSIWYG editor that's used in Gmail as Opensource. They build most of their apps by modding some other opensource software. Google Mashup Editor uses Codepress. Google Video Player was built on VLC media player.

We fail to understand that Google is like any other company(infact a worse demon). The only difference is that they try to slit your throat politely instead of rudely slaughtering you with ads. I am shifting to OpenOffice. :)

Atleast MS and Apple are being honest and gutsy by 'selling' their software/hardware without much visibly 'invisible' strings like having you to login to Windows with your LiveID or having to use sync an iPhone with Mac OS only or even worse... restricting calls by allowing only iphone-to-iphone calls.

Now its a serious 'Hero Wanted!!!' situation. We need someone who can stop G's monopoly game, a MS-Y! combo will not do much damage to G! And the hero to crush G will have to do it for everyone's good and not to start his monopoly.

One simple and collective method of doing it is mass adoption of OpenID. We have OpenID sites. But they have alternative login. Getting OpenID into mainstream as the 'only' login system for most sites. My pledge: my next site will use OpenID.
He was successfully charging $250/hour as a software consultant prior to taking up his "evangelist" role full-time. I think he could be quite wealthy if he were to attempt to be.
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In my experience, from best to ok:

1. AdWords. AdWords is a no brainer. Find out the average revenue per visitor from AdWords and set your CPC below this. Instant profits(after some trial and error). The great thing about AdWords is you can get visitors and feedback within hours. You can launch a site in a day and get a sample of how well it will work.

2. Organic Link Building. This is the creme de le creme.
2a. Getting a blogger to write about you. New blog posts get picked up in search engines pretty quick, which will improve your SER. Also initial visits from a well read blog can be substantial.
2b. Social news sites(Digg, Reddit, Twitter, etc.). I haven't mastered these yet, but are pretty effective even when you're just starting out. Not only do they drive some traffic, some of them help with SER.
2c. Commenting on blogs. This seems to also drive some initial traffic and improve SER.

3. Yahoo Search Marketing and Microsoft AdCenter. Same as AdWords except less traffic. However, often the visitors from these sites will earn you more/sign up more often.

4. Viral strategies. Email campaigns, referrals, making silly YouTube clips.

5. Main stream media. Gives you a short burst and then improved SER.
Gzip, IE and corporate networks…oh yuck
How to Hack Boingo WiFi
And then you shouldn't expect people to give you their usernames and passwords either.

Because that, frankly, is just fucking retarded.
Ask YC: How to turn my website into iphone app?
Hi guys. I run a social networking site. I am thinking about writing a iphone app that lets people log in to send/receive messages to their friends. So basically all this capability is available from the website. I would like to write a iphone application to do the same. I know I can use the iPhone SDK to create an application but what I am not sure about is how to let that application connect to my site. Do I just write some php pages that return xmlrpc data that my application then just parses to display? So meaning that the iPhone app will call a 'web url' .. make a request.. get back some xml data and then display that? Is that the general idea??

Thanks!
Moconews.net is a great source of content for those who are in the Mobile sector. I would assume their audience is made off executives, developers and other key players in that particular industry.

ContentSutra focuses on tech- related news in India where I believe the middle class accounts for 200 million people. ContentSutra could grow into its own network of news channel in India.

Techcrunch could sell itself anywhere around 50M. They could also raise capital to hire more writers and expand their network.
Is Gphone For Real?
That sounds remarkably like the "controlled burn" theory of forest fire management.
Ah, except they can trademark the word "Apple" in reference to the sales of computers. A trademark is not just a word, but a word paired with a market.
what i said does not apply to either of my other comments. and even if it did, that would not change its truth.

also i didn't jump on or even directly mention the OP, nor did my post have anything to do with frivolity.

edit: btw your post "jumps on" me for "jumping on" someone else, and also complains that i shouldn't criticize others for doing things i did myself. by your own criterion your post is bad.
good. Now they can start studying some computer science. Being in a class with 95% guys, is depressing. Some more balanced demographic, makes it more fun.

But I wonder if they even want to......
Ha, no. My meat cutter days.

My poker experience was entirely non-violent. Someone did get shot in the head while trying to rob a local game but I wasn't there.
My only real problem with this is that I do not really care about what is achieved in children's mathematics classes. Surely, the better test of true ability in this field would be to look at researchers and research accomplishments.
I'm certainly not saying that Microsoft played entirely by the books. They clearly didn't. They went well beyond standard vendor lock-in. Things like lock-in that are considered fair game in a competitive market are not when a monopoly is involved.

I just don't think it's fair to blame proprietary software for Microsoft's sins.
Well, maybe enforcing that once a proprietary standard creates a huge market and then nearly monopolizes it. I'm certainly not arguing in favor of monopolies.
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Giving things away can make sense. Microsoft gives away compilers and crippled versions of Visual Studio, but such things help sell Windows. Sun giving the world a set of platform-independent dev tools doesn't exactly encourage people to buy their platform.
Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives
What message does Austin send?
If you don't have enough cash on hand to buy a house, you may well want to wish the opposite. Or if you hold a mortgage today, you definitely should wish the opposite -- most folks don't have enough cash on hand to cover the average coupon, which would in most cases put the seller in default as well.
Unfortunetaley I never got around to playing the first Fable but now I've decided to play nr 2 instead. Looking great, Resident Evil 5 is also interesting. I never liked the ones that were released to PlayStation but nr 4 was an amazing game.
Valuing research mathematics over everyday math is arbitrary and subjective.
The problem here is mean vs variance. The biggest performers in math and science are going to be at least a few standard deviations away from the mean.

Identical mean and slightly higher variance in men would significantly contribute to the ratios we see today.

Either way, the goal shouldn't be to make everyone feel good about innate abilities. The goal should be to find the reason why one person is innately better than someone else in a particular skill. Step 1: understanding. Step 2: enhancement. Step 3: repeat.

Similar to the recent JL post: forget the gap, focus on the product. It matters most.
Yea, I figure its at least worth checking out to see his perspective on things.
If we're speaking penetration, given smartphones as a whole, I think email has a higher chance of replacing SMS on phones than Facebook chat/etc does.
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PayPal started thinking they would be the facilitators of mobile electronic cash beamed from one PalmPilot to another over IR. Ten years, three business models, and an acquisition later, it looks like they possibly have a viable mobile platform.
While the iPhone apps are cool (ok, a few are, most are rubbish), the lower hanging fruit is to make your app work in Safari on the iPhone. This is much easier, and can be done now(!). Nail this down, make it known to your users that you have this feature and see what traffic looks like. If you see some real iPhone usage, and really think it's going to improve usage, user experience etc. then go for it. I'm betting it won't though and that there are TODOs that are much more important than an iPhone app.