skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the banks will allow you to do that either. Transfers are always to a merchant account. You'll have to build your own Paypal-style account system to allow transfers between users.
Not limited to just unique startups, but simply record and measure the metrics that are important to you.
The big advantage of Flash is that you write once and it runs everywhere. Anything that leaves it up to browsers to implement will not be able to boast that any time soon.
Is Nokia getting cold feet from all this excitement about Android and other open source mobile phone platforms? RIM and Apple are much, much stronger than Nokia in the smartphone market, which, as far as I know, is pretty much the only part of the mobile phone market that's expanding in the developed world.

This move kind of puts into perspective their recent comments about how the mobile phone industry works differently from the open source world. Doesn't look like they have much confidence that that will be true for much longer.
Agree with u. As a geek, I would opt to read geeky stuff on magazines when i dont have access to internet. Here are a few things I suggest you consider.
1.) You can start with the air passengers. And the best thing to do would be to setup a small stall in the airport or very near to the gate.
2.) Sell in small number of pages. And sell different volumes per topic. Becoz a geek would like tech content and a granny would health related content(i didnt ask my granny). Like one Maybe around 15 pages per-topic per-week, since u only want to offer them content to be occupie during journey.
3.) when there's blog content about latest stuff, ur content might be old for readers at the end of the month. So publish new editions every week.
4.) if u are going to publish different a volume per topic, then the easiest way of getting content would be Technorati or any other blog aggregator.
5.) remember: start small. U can ofcourse start with around 3 topics for different age groups. Like 'gadgets' for kids, 'talk of the town' kind of content for women and biz for men.
6.) u can also just start by using a laser printer at home to print(i dont know about printing, checkout which is economical.
7.) start as a niche magazine for travellers. u can later expand by setting up stalls at more public travel stations and other places.
8.) u might get busy with aggregating content. So i suggest u hire someone to look after the stall. U can find students looking for partime jobs(getting them might be easy, who doesnt want to read magazines free?)

i hope u liked the above. And please apologize for using mobile lingo, i am on my mobile phone :)
I think it exists, but I can't remember the name. Shelf-something? It was on HN several times (or their blog was).

Personally I don't care for the idea. A good accumulator of interesting content is OK, but I don't like physical magazines (they tend to clutter my home and I hardly ever read them anyway). Make it readable on mobile phones, that would be sufficient for me.
I'd say if you want to determine value and success rates, define your criteria (money/ROI/users/market-share/etc), set targets (spend $x and get y users in z time), and measure the performance (x spent on adwords/marketing/ads/other getting y users n% of whom pay $m) and where you are not meeting targets evaluate if they are realistic, and if so, why and what you can do to improve.

Sometimes even the best of services/apps do not perform well despite best efforts so really the bottom line on how to value a startup is how the users value it.
Slow for me, but I'm still using opera 9.20 and an 800Mhz Coppermine.
Microsoft's Co-founder Bill Gates Calls it The Day
Microsoft the leading internet marketing company is soon going to face the heat, as Bill Gates has decided to stay away from the day to day activities of the company. Microsoft has already been in news for various reasons but this one is the blow on the chest.
I can't see the value in articles like this.
You might not believe it, but I had the exact same idea sometime back. I think its brilliant(obviously ;)) - allow me to share some of the things I thought about.

1. I think the risk to bloggers not being fine with is overblown. Everybody loves free publicity - and if some of them are not keen, then just drop them. The internet is big enough to find enough interesting content.

2. You can do it in a subscription model. People come to your site and upload their details - preferences etc. You promise them FREE magazines through mail covering their topics periodically. They have nothing to loose. Once you have enough people covered you can get paid for highly targeted ads.

3. Offline model might work well on an on-demand basis. You might want to tie up with local printing shops and send them the formatted material on-demand and always updated. They sense local demand and print based on that. Kind of like a franchisee model.

4. The things to highlight are highly targeted content - ( I have never seen an old school magazine which has more than 15% relevant content to me) and almost up-to-date - (I rarely see a news item in an old school mag which I havent read about online)
Flash doesn't run on iPhone and it is often slow and buggy on anything but Windows. I bet that Apple, Google and browser developers will support standards-based alternatives. We can see this happening in the original post.
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Looking for python/django developers, UI types, db developers, and machine learning people...
summize.com is also in the DC area...
Feeding the Masses: Data In, Crop Predictions Out
Niche markets are definitely the way to go. I'm in the VFX world, and there is a DVD "Mag" (same idea, different format) that basically collates the best spots from the last couple months and sends the DVD out to subscribers. The spots are nothing subscribers haven't already seen, but it's always great to see things in their full beauty on screen, as well as having the tangible product to put on the shelf.

There is something to be said for the beauty of the printed word - I say go for it. Good luck!
In-home touch screen means never missing the bus
Even after reading this, and other similar articles, I still don't understand the current valuation models.

In this case, LinkedIn makes revenue of $80-100m, but what is the profit?

Are such valuations solely based on projected revenue? If so, what about money pits like YouTube that operate on similar models but still yet to make profit even after a few years already.

Thoughts on this always appreciated.
see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=224816
Technology: It's Where the Jobs Are
Nokia buys Symbian, opens it for war with Google Android
An Interview with Adrian Holovaty - Creator of Django
Uhhh, it's a blog...? Ring any bells? Used by people to produce content, share ideas, etc...
The reddit tone starts to predominate. There has been about 4 threads to address the SEO issues, where a "read existing comments first" then vote-up and "answer in the thread" was the appropriate thing to do.

The part of non-technology related stories has increased trendemously, when some people point it as "non-HN", there are answered the Community Card (they forget Community and Common are two very close words). PG is non-existent has a spoken moderator who tells the rules when it's appropriate to do so (his absence is eminently suspect).

More importantly, a lot of the old users keep their mouth shut now, some have completly disappeared for obvious reasons. Most of them are prolly still reading HN but the idea of posting a comment has become tiring for them. The battle is already lost, but not for everybody.
I hope you are joking? I thought it was horrible - it took forever to get to the point. In fact so long that I couldn't bear reading it beyond the first paragraph.
Sososher is giving away FREE £30 Google AdWords Vouchers
This is pretty big news. I wonder whether other states will follow?

Also, there is mention that Google might host some of the e-mail in Australia itself (I have the feeling the local govt would push for this.)
Generally, we use GP to make optimizations in exponentially sized search spaces. Lets say you're searching in a 60-dimensional space. If every dimension you add doubles your space, 10 years of Moore's law gets you a ~65-dimensional space.

It's useful to keep in mind that given an entire universe's worth of entropy and a few billion years, the best (apparently) nature could come up with is us.

That said, I do have a few fun ideas:

1. Evolve a simple natural langague date parsing library (e.g. GNU getdate, but smarter and able to handle noise) over an approximate regex library like agrep. Can you create a regex equivalent to an autoencoder?

2. Create a database of abstract syntax tree chunks from every OSS project you can find on the web. Try to learn a system that would dump chunks of code into your IDE when you hit a hot key. For example, you could write a method that takes an integer argument, and perhaps it would insert a for loop counting to n. A more intelligent system could take into account instance variables, available methods, etc. Think of it as an extension of statistical natural language methods; like SCIgen (the fake CS paper generator).
Kernighan and Plauger's _The Elements of Programming Style_ covers exactly this ground, showing in turn poor code and how it could be better. They use real-life bits of code they come across, not artificial constructions. Kernighan and Pike's later _The Practice of Programming_ also partially covers this. Both are must-reads. http://troff.org/pubs.html#style and http://troff.org/pubs.html#tpop
iPhone is some tiny fraction of a percent of the overall market, and I'd be surprised if it ever gets to 1%. I'd be more surprised if it does so without flash support.

Flash works fine on OSX in my experience. A good portion of our startup depends on it, and my cofounders code on Macbooks.
Personalized Experiences Make Online Shoppers Loyal 
"Consumers both want and expect online merchants to provide personalized experiences and product recommendations based on shopping behavior."
For those of you trying bomomo.com through the iPhone, it is intriguing - it looks like a flash-based application (albeit non-interactive).

If only Apple were to create some hook for WebKit/Sproutcore that allowed iPhone web applications to do something with finger touches (this is difficult because of the pinch gestures require mouse/t-pad tracking - but maybe they can have a JS API hook to toggle/disable pinching for webapps)
I'm currently in my last year of computer science. This will be my second degree, the first being a B.A. in Philosophy. I definitely think that your on the right track with the comp.sci./math double major. However, like you, I find the comp.sci courses easy and, for the most part, really uninteresting. Not that the info. isn't useful, it has mostly to do with having to sit through lectures where the professors have been teaching the same courses for years now and are utterly bored with the material as well. Unfortunately, a degree seems to be the main currency with employers, despite the fact I don't think that a comp.sci. degree adequately prepares you for becoming a competent programmer.

Ultimately, I would recommend sticking with your program but pursuing your own programming and mathematical interests on the side (if you have time) in order to sustain and augment your enthusiasm for your future profession.

Best of luck.
C'mon Amazon, we could use an official S3/EC2 status twitter broadcast account. @ComcastCares why not Amazon?
Innovation, Or the Complete Lack Thereof, In the Start-up Community
University of Washington in Seattle
University of Maryland in DC
University of Texas in Austin

3 top-tier programs at public schools.
string.join(ary, ', ') # python - ok: join ary with a str

The parameters to Python's join function are in a better order than Perl's. This is expected since Perl perverts the concept of function arity.

Also, twisted is not an example of the best Python code.
What Scott Banister looks for as an Angel (Investor: Facebook, Zappos, Slide)
Great article. Even better news.yc comments.
What? I don't get it.
Your idea is interesting and might work. One Slovakian daily does something similar - they have blogs written by their readers (anyone can register one), and if they find some blog post interesting, they republish it in print (but they have an agreement with blog writers that they can do that - as a counter-service for free hosting).

The potential problems of your idea to think about:

1) Many blog posts are written in a conversational style, and their purpose is to collect relevant links, comment on something, or spark a discussion. Basically, many blogs can be characterized as conversation platforms - reprinting them to paper will lose this dimension.

2) For reprinting you would need to pick up essay-like blog posts, which have their own merit without reader comments or inbound links. And those are not easy to find, so you can encounter similar issue like "normal" magazines - how to find good content.

3) When we are really talking about magazine (not newspaper), the important parts are also design and photos. You will really need (to pay for) professional photos to make the magazine engaging.

4) distribution - another big pain in the... how will you distribute?

To sum it up, if I would like to make money from blogs, I would rather go to a path of either:

1) republishing the blogs online (might have sense if you add value by grouping interesting stuff together)

2) trying to run blog network myself and share revenue with authors

3) start a blog myself and pay writers per post (or per visitor numbers).
I don't know if this idea is going to work out or not. One of the reasons that YCombinator works is that web based startups generally need very little initial investment. You can build a social website for well under $5,000/person for three months. Generally these world changing, end all hunger type ideas take a lot more to get going than that. It certainly seems like it's going to take a very large amount of capital and connections to make it actually work.
The Mars Ice FAQ: How Do You Know It's Water?
What's up with the name? It seems very difficult to say and get people to understand what you mean. Noloh! No-loh! It's a strange name.
Must say that I don't know a single person who uses Vista, not one.
Hope/Glory Blog
H/G is a Berlin based creative studio established in 2005 by web developer Steve Sinnwell and graphic designer Christian Ittner.

You can find their corporate site at www.hopeglory.com.
I like this.

Like everything else, though, the trick is finding the sweet spot in the market where you can make a buck and provide value to other people.

Who is it worth money to, in order to read your mag? Is it people who are offline -- the internet illiterate? Seems like it would be people looking for good content and not using one of the aggregation engines/sites out there. I'm just guessing, but perhaps that is a pretty tight niche. Something like older people interested in penguin farming but who don't own a computer.

If you can identify/find this niche, then I think you're halfway there. But the idea is only "cool" because in the back of my mind I think there IS such a niche. Beats me what it is, though.

Be aware that your niche may not be readers. It could be magazine providers. For instance, doctor's offices provide magazines for people to read while they wait. There might be a nice niche in there where you could provide content based on the doctor's type of practice and clientele. I'm sure you could identify, for instance, 40,000 foot doctors in the United States. Maybe 20% of them (I know, Chinese Math, but this is back-of-napkin-stuff) would be interested in providing internet "recap" material for those waiting in their office. Eight thousand docs at $40 a year, and you've got a nice niche business for yourself and maybe a couple other people.
in Haskell (and maybe ML), you might have

vectorDotProduct = map (*)
PHP and Perl
yes, most games would be, we've got a realtime fps running (in flash) over standard tcp at the moment. But udp would let us scale from 2 players to 16 per game room in a much smoother way.

The one issue we have with lag is an occassional dropped packed that holds everything up.

Not to mention flash 10 will allow direct peer to peer connections, bypassing several hops...
Wow, Nokia learns fast :D I said, in the tread about open source developers who need to be reeducated, that Nokia is the one which needs to be reeducated and they were smart enough to do it. Cool. Imagine apple doing that :D
A Hippocratic Oath for Scientists?
HN != Twitter
Education is not going to pay for top-class engineering talent. They pretty much have to go for the lowest common denominator (Exchange, MCSE's are ten a penny) or outsource altogether.
This Day in History - June 25
Amen to that. Setting up mail infrastructures for a number of users with far fewer zeros is pain enough, I can't imagine 1.5mil

And the AU was probably smart enough to do the research and find out that it would cost a whole lot more to purchase, build out, and maintain their own mail infrastructure.

Maybe
I love reading stuff like this.

"Okay we're going to acquire you then immediately release all the IP we just bought to a NP to turn it into OSS"

Of course it's a smart move for Nokia and they're not doing it out of the kindness of their hearts, but at least it shows they're not, well, stupid.
"... Still no luck for me -- even quit and restarted, and cleared cache. ..."

Do you use NoScript?
We're working on a cookieless version. Over the past 4 years it wasn't an issue with any of our clients as it's expected for a user to have cookies enabled. However we are aware of this issue and will be addressed in a future releae.
Map of the World2.0
That's a good point. But again, the whole "measure the performance" part comse back to knowing exactly what their doing on the app.

Example: Youtube's flash player: Pageviews won't really tell you much, but knowing how many people click on "replay" button, or "share" button after the video finished, or use the flash interface to find related content. How would one go about adding those kind of data tracking capabilities so you can analysis it later or something? That's what I'm looking for... Although your comment did shine a light on other ways I haven't thought of yet. Thx.
A few YC site logos (tipjoy, reddit for example) appear in this mosaic of the world.
Research points to link between low vitamin D, mortality
His point about copycat companies is well taken; one of the shortest paths to failure is to slavishly imitate someone who is already successful.
I'd like a variant of this:

blog => [annotated, photo] book

Many of my friends are popping out kids lately. They have beautiful pictures and witty comments. I'd like that bound and organized into a book.
You could go so far as to call it ... gamechanging.
The history of the company is archived in the blog:

http://diffle-history.blogspot.com/2007/02/intro-post.html
Sarkozy: "There is no reason that the Internet should be lawless"
The High-Tech Job Capital Is … New York?
Custom Kicks
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It's called fragment identifier messaging, and not as secret as you think. :-)
I don't know a single person who uses Vista and prefers it over XP. Not one.
Shopping via Cellphone Slowed by Security Fears
I'm at U of I right now (senior) and there are some smart people here. The ONLY thing its lacking is a spirit of entrepreneurship. Most of the cs people I know (in ACM especially) don't seem too interested in business, they just want to work for Microsoft R&D or something along those lines.

I want a startup. I have no doubts that I'll find others like me, especially from such a diverse and intelligent school.
http://www.intridea.com/2008/6/23/subdomainfu-a-new-way-to-t...
Nature works like this: stumble upon a successful model, spawn a million tiny variations and let them struggle for survival.
Biggest iPhone disappointments
"RIM and Apple are much, much stronger than Nokia in the smartphone market"

That's a bit silly. As of Q4 2007 Nokia has 52.9% of market share for smartphones, part of the 65% for Symbian. RIM has 11.4% and Apple has 6.5% (impressive for only a year after launch). See http://www.canalys.com/pr/2008/r2008021.htm
Shmoocon 2008 Videos: Shellcode, Wifi Cracking, Botnets, XSS, and More!
Ha! And they told me I'd never make a career out of spending all my time on a computer.

This makes me glad I picked Computer Science!
At Google, Slow Growth in News Site
The only person I've heard of is http://mattmaroon.com/?p=377 so I guess this rare breed do exist, albeit in small numbers.
BMW ditching navigation DVDs for 2009
BMW's MY 2009 cars will get a new iDrive system with a 40GB hard drive. According to Bimmerfile, the drive allotment will have 12GB dedicated to navigational maps (and 8GB for entertainment and 10GB for your address book, because you've got more friends than music, apparently).
HSV launches most expensive Holden ever
HOLDEN Special Vehicles today confirmed that its wild 7.0-litre W427 will finally reach dealers in August and that it will be priced at $150,000 – making it the most expensive Holden ever produced.

And, if the government’s proposed luxury car tax increase goes ahead, the price will balloon to $156,000.
I know a few people who installed it, but I don't know anyone who's still running it. I have it on my own computer, but I only need to use it for Cubase. The last version of Windows I had a license for was 2000 (a great release in my opinion) and Vista (OEM license) was much cheaper than XP. I really only use Vista for a single task so my experience may be limited, but it doesn't seem any worse than any other Windows release.

The problem is that Windows hasn't really gone anywhere in the past 8 years either. XP was really only Windows 2000 with a little polish and marketed for the home users. I'm not sure what Vista is, but it certainly doesn't appear to be an improvement over what was previously available. If you think about the tremendous strides Linux and OS X have made in the same timeframe Windows appears to have come grinding to a halt in comparison.

On the Linux front we have much improved hardware support, an array of very useable desktop environments to choose from and widespread adoption of advanced package managers just to name a few. The package managers alone are huge leap in usability. Installing software on Windows seems primitive in comparison.

On the Mac front, we've seen the move from OS 9 to OS X, five revisions to OS X with each being more polished than the one before, support for two CPU architectures, a transition to 64 bit without any headaches and too many major features to even name. What's really interesting is that many of Apple's new features - Time Machine and Spotlight to name a couple - aren't really new innovations. Apple has just been the first to deliver them to average users in an easy to use package. That's a space in the market that was traditionally occupied by Microsoft.

I wonder if what's happening here is that people are finally getting wise to the fact that Windows has basically been stagnating for the better part of a decade while the competition has been making steady and consistent progress.
I went to a public university in my state (NC) and a top 20 public CS grad school - so I can recommend them. I have also worked with a lot of folks from all the other top CS grad programs across the country.

The thing I have found that is different with the folks who went to undergrad at some of best schools, like MIT, is that they spent more time focused on their studies than I did. And I'm saying this having been top of my class in both undergrad and grad school. So I'm not sure if that says something about public schools, liberal arts, or the kinds of people who target MIT. Probably all of these. In any case, I think you can get the same level of education at public schools if you're willing to put in a lot of your personal time. If it turns out that you don't want to be so hard-nosed about it, then I think you'll find a lot of cool things to do at a public school.