skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious why no one is asking if this is hacker related news? An article like this seems very similar to the article posted about Obama winning the Democratic nomination and that posting received a significant amount of criticism.

Is it that the effort expended ranting in the comments of the Obama article has exhausted you? Is it that you haven't seen this news covered by as many news sources? Or, do you genuinely find this information different than that of Obama's nomination?
If MS had introduced their customers to web apps in the early 00's, they would have both shot themselves in the foot and allowed competitors to have a go at the other foot.

By killing NetDocs the average business person stayed ignorant to the possibilities of applications online, therefore extending MS's cash cow several/many years longer.

Beyond the IT savvy I don't see anyone using Google Docs or Zoho, and pretty much every client I interact with still relies heavily on MS Office (I have a hard time even recommending OOO as people are so used to their old tools). I'd say MS's strategy is still working quite well.
Sending mass email from your own server/IP is a recipe for disaster. Prepare to be blacklisted by all the major ISP's. ConstantContact protects you from that risk and that's why they charge (but not per email as the article states)
L.A. to sue Time Warner Cable over poor service
Memetracker that tracks links shared on FriendFeed
I'm still unclear about the difference between defecit and deficit.
Built for Speed: Printing Buildings
Build Your Own Google
Signs of Rose-Type Immortality in Humans?
How to never finish your project
Ask HN:  Developing an Online/Offline Web App, Where to Start?
I've recently landed a gig to develop a web app that needs to operate offline. The user will be operating a tablet PC 'in the field' and will not have access to wifi/cell signal when they are on the job. I'm looking to develop a web app with offline capabilities to allow them to collect data and then 'sync' that data to the server when they return to the office.

My question is where to start, I've developed web apps for years but haven't dove into the new offline tech stuff yet. I spent a little time with Google Gears last night, as well as some exploratory time with Dojo, any advice from the hackers here on where to begin?
To be perfectly honest, the primary reason I posted this was that I found it interesting. It's just fun to know how things really are - even if there is no direct applicability to my current circumstances. I didn't see this covered much in the mainstream news, so I posted it here in the hopes others would also find it interesting.

For a more tangible reason, I'd say it's important for would be entrepreneurs to understand the state of the US (and world) economy. The fact is that America is borrowing vast sums of money, which is going to have a direct impact on us.

In the short term, it's likely to increase inflation, telling us that maybe we shouldn't be hording cash right now (and maybe it's a good time to borrow money ;-)). In the long run, it may deepen the credit crunch and cut many consumer's effective discretionary spending power.

But mostly I just posted it cause I found it interesting ;-)
Evidence is still inconclusive on a lot of things, but my list is:

#1. Keep your mind active as much as possible. Waste time by working puzzles instead of reading People magazine. Constantly learn new things whether they're useful or not, both inside and outside your domain of expertise. This approach has the most proven benefits and no known drawbacks.

#2. Lean toward a Mediterranean diet and drink a glass of red wine every evening. I don't think there's any need to be anal about it, but just avoid Atkins-like diets, take the fish option if one is available, etc.

#3. Stay physically active as much as possible. If you live in a walkable neighborhood, you're halfway there with no effort.

#4. Drink up to a cup of coffee a day. Also strongly implicated in improving prostate and kidney health, but may have cardiovascular disadvantages.

#5. Take B vitamins. I started with the widely-available "B-50" complex and moved up to "B-100" with an additional folate supplement to get to a total of 200% US RDA of folate. Evidence is sketchy about long-term benefits, but I find the effect to be similar to a cup of coffee without the crash or the jitters, so I'm sticking with it for that reason alone.
A very interesting article.

My first thought was how it relates to Microsoft as mentioned in this article: http://seekingalpha.com/article/80363-why-microsoft-will-nev... . Their fear of web apps undermining Windows/Office prevented them from taking a lead in the emerging market.
Boomers Embrace Web Selectively, Little Interest In Blogs/Social Networking 
"People over age 40 participate heavily in word-of-mouth and value personal recommendations and expert opinions, but they have not embraced social networking or blogs despite being heavy users of other online services."
Google Analytics after onLoad and document.write for XHTML
heh, good catch. I freely admit spelling isn't one of my strengths.
New features not in the article:

Pictures in chat
Random signature
Custom date formats
Hide Unread Counts
By the way, for those who worry about this... Don't do like I did and try to login to your msn account in a webcafe in china.... It's the same as giving out your passport on untrusted website except that in this case, you can be sure that if they do have keylogger, (like they did in my case) they will spam the hell out of your address book....

And like this, me, who always spent my times complaining against people who are not careful about security, spammed most of my friends :-(
Ask HN: Is there any other web-business as easy as online dating and blogging?
I was studying about the online businesses that has lowest amount of hassles; one that doesn't require anything other than building a web-app and your business is on with money coming in ... no purchase of any goods, no inventory, no shipping, lowest customer service headache, no returns, no coordination for selling 3rd party stuffs etc.

Do you know any business that is as easy as online dating and blogging business?
The rise of the low-cost laptop
User-submitted news sites that allow people to vote articles up and down. ;-)
you mean something like HN?? and how do you make money (from Ads may be??)
I do like what he says about static vs. dynamic typing.

He sounds very convinced that Scala won't be going anywhere, which to me sounds like an IDE developer not wanting to invest development time for supporting a language he considers tedious to support.

Guess that is just one of the many reasons I am in the "other" camp (read eclipse).
Virtual Earth and Photosynth prove that Microsoft can make great web apps if they want to.
If you want no hassle, affiliate sites are the way to go as you only generate the sales lead and they do all the rest. Once you find something that works, you just replicate. CJ.com is a good place to start.

I'm not sure what you mean by "blogging business" though, you mind elaborating?

Social sites where the users generate all the content are good as well, look into scripts like Pligg which are easy to install and customize to suite your niche.
The free-knowledge fundamentalist
How about a $600 laptop for the "rich" world with $200 going towards the production of a low cost laptop for the "poor" world. Would be some good PR for HP/Dell whoever and the cost is still low for the average US/EU consumer.
Microprocessors - Battlechips
Open-source hardware
CNN and MSNBC have had live simulcast video streams in the past, but only for a few hours during primary results. It doesn't make sense to me that the networks haven't gone online 24/7 yet. What is the downside to live simulcasting?
blogging with ads related to the article that makes you money ... write an article on shoes & perfumes, get some ads displayed (thru google and yahoo network) and females will go crazy by clicking you money-in :-) --- though you require good advertising to get high traffic for your blog... but not impossible.

regarding affiliate sites; you need to have a good content on your webpages, because google (search and ad program) discourages sites that only displays ads to make money.
This combined with the news about their new limited broadband service equals some bad PR for TW. Too bad no one cars about the broadband cap ...but mess with their TV's and there will be hell to pay!

I can't wait until this country (boomers) breaks it's addiction to the boob tube. Unfortunately I don't see that happening when new innovations like "Live Video" are seeing such huge growth online.
If you use Smalltalk Server Pages in VisualWorks, you can debug through your pages as they render. All the HTML segments are in an array, and the <% ... %> tags are just normal function calls. You can do this to any SSP server, provided you load some additional remote debugging tools if you're running your server headless. It's rock solid. As a bonus, SSP is pretty freaking fast. The HTML page is actually compiled into a Smalltalk method, which is JIT-ed as machine code. (Which is how we get the page render debugging "for free." It's just normal debugger operations!)

(My understanding is that VisualWorks is now going to concentrate on supporting Seaside. You should be able to see many of the same benefits there.)
No money really in blogging, unless you own a network or are a complete blogging whore/pro like John Chow. AdSense pays shit and if you run any other ad network the Goog will whack your PR and drop you from search results.

You're right on about affiliates, I'd combine your idea with my suggestion, start a blog and instead of running AdSense use affiliate links. Remember the more focused your niche is the better.
Ask YC: Have you participated in a Startup Weekend?
My friends and I from Cleveland, Ohio are thinking of attending a Startup Weekend in late July. It is being hosted in Columbus, about two hours away (http://columbus.startupweekend.com/). Has anyone here attended a Startup Weekend before, and if so, how was the experience?
Men write code from Mars, women write more helpful code from Venus
I posted this here so it would get the ridicule it deserves.
It's 'Craigslist', not Craig's List.

/sorry, not trolling, consider this a preemptive troll strike to save you some grief later on.
Ric Romero on the case.
The title of your book is "getting real." Doesn't that directly imply someone else is not "real?" 37Signals has very strong opinions about how things ought to be done, and evangelizes them. So far it's worked brilliantly. If you didn't think that your way was a huge improvement, why would you have bothered to put all the work into Rails, Basecamp, etc?

Don't back down just because people (myself included) rag on you sometimes!
I realize this as a potential problem.. but then again, who would look for random events and rsvp to them... besides the slew of Techcrunch commenters that spammed the event mentioned in the TC article with javascript hacks :) (which are now being detected and disabled)

Bot spam is a different creature, and I have some measures to prevent against it, with more coming soon.

I wonder if there's a way to not let Google index it? Something about the robots file maybe?
Mobaganda is, by design, like an anti-purpletrail :) For those that don't need or want the complexity and extra features.
Ask HN: alternative news management sites, worth the effort?
Recently I found myself pondering an older idea of mine for handling news, that has many aspects in common with friendfeed. It is not the same, but I could imagine friendfeed could mimic those features relatively easy. Not sure if they would want to - anyway, I wonder if it is too late to pursue the idea? Will there be room for more than one friendfeed? I am (so far) just one guy and money is scarce, so there would be a disadvantage against ff.

How do digg and reddit co-exist, are they not essentially the same thing?

I remember to have read about several news filtering projects on HN, so I wonder if for you the effort was worth it, despite of Reddit and Digg having a strong hold on the market? Did any of the more recent projects gain any traction?
But the people making money in ANY business are the ones who aren't looking for something easy. As PG says, they're the ones looking for an opportunity to get rewarded for working harder than their competition. This is truer than ever on the web. Sure match.com or whoever may have cheesy ads but in the boiler room there will be talented geeks working their asses off.
High-tech visionary still looking ahead
Instead of looking at it as an Arrington rant, let's discuss the idea of sharing potentially dangerous downtime data with your user base.

Are they better off not knowing the details? Or should you drop your pants and share everything because it's the "Don't do Evil" approach to the extreme.
Gimmicks work well - http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
That would be like a professional football team taking the advice of all the 'armchair quarterbacks" and then deciding the best course of action for next Sunday.

Uh bad idea.
Solving School, Part 1: Personalization and Standardization Are Like Oil and Water
The deficit is the annual shortfall...it is the amount added to the national debt in a given year, and that debt is the total amount owed.
You opened a rather large can of worms here, the short answer to your question is that you're kind of late to the game, there are hundreds if not thousands of Digg/Reddit competitors and taking on FriendFeed/Twitter has and IS being done on a daily basis (Plurk etc.)

Anyone familiar with Reddit or Digg will tell you they are about as similar as a Ford Taurus and a Honda Accord. They share the same basic function but vary vastly in audience, content and culture.

All that being said, if you can build a better mouse trap but all means do it. I'll be waiting on the sidelines cheering you on and sharing my thoughts on what you're doing right and wrong ;)
Would like to see data from the US, as the EU is generally much smaller (per nation) and doesn't have the same "open frontiers" mentality the US does.

There's a reason we have so many cars (er SUV's) and roads here.
Sometimes it helps to have external perspective.

Many of those 'armchair quarterbacks' are superstars in their own right and offer top advice for free. Free != bad.
As a web designer I personally push myself when designing in Adobe Fireworks by not thinking "how am I going to code this with HTML/CSS". I simply mock it up how I want it and then figure out later the 'how' part. This prevents me from designing more simple basic sites, and keeps my HTML/CSS skills sharp.
One approach to Twitter is of course to create a site that is acting as a Twitter frontend, which I think friendfeed is also doing. Ideally, it would still be independent of Twitter, so that if Twitter goes down, my users could still communicate.

I think there are several popular implementations of IM clients (like Pidgin, Trillian, whatever), so perhaps the same could work for news sites - they all access the same data, but with different interfaces.

I will see if I can find a basic functionality that could be implemented in a relatively short timespan, then I'll decide if it is worth tackling... Certainly it would NOT be a reddit clone ;-)

Edit: of all the reddit clones, did any become a reasonable success? To "own" a project like Hacker News would make me proud (so I would count it as a success), but I doubt that something like HN would bring in a lot of money(?).
Footage of cubicle rage aka why not to work in a cube-farm.
Following on from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=210775
This is a no-brainer for anyone already involved in jury selection. Simply replace the term 'geeks' with pretty much any other expertise and the article outcome is the same.

I'd rather see discussion on how geeks interpret evidence and data differently than non-geeks, or as pierrafar said are geeks more passionate, opinionated etc.
After reading lurkage's post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=210775), just thought I'd post this.
This looks awfully like a fake 'viral' video campaign. In fact I'd put money on it.
The cure
I think it made the news because it was one of those rare real cases.

...good 'ole tazer ...solves everything ;)
Of course by the time they get close to release their graphics engine will be outdated and they'll have to start again and so it continues.
As with most one hit wonders, it is hard to predict them or know why they work when they do (hindsight is great).

If you go for one, make sure you think big!
I gave up caring.

It seems there's some sort of irresistable force that compels people to post articles about the government or the man. I suppose it appeals to this sort of audience, there's always the comment afterwards that "well I found it interesting" and enough people agree.

In the end anyone who doesn't care for this sort of thing becomes the minority and moves elsewhere. It's like an inevitable cycle.
Most service based business like this have been done e.g. fininding jobs, houses, love.

If you want to go that route, just do what many others are doing - use web 2.0/3.0 tools to do them better and play the niches.
I have a few answers for you:

When a master node dies, all the worker nodes go into a hibernation state, pinging the master's previous hostname until they can reconnect to that host, and then they reregister their resources with the master's resource_fountain.

One of the next major features for fuzed is handling the master as a single point of failure. We're exploring two options currently:

1. When a master dies the cluster can re-elect a new master on one of the machines in the cloud and everyone re-registers their assets. This process assumes that master death is relatively rare, and so minimizes the resources necessary for redundant operation at the cost of a slight time gap in service while the master is re-elected and resources are re-registered to it.

2. Clusters can create numerous masters which all maintain identical state. When one dies, another master will move forward and become the primary master. This approach requires more hardware in the cloud, but even if the master faults are common they don't allow for a gap of service.

As for the difference between process death and machine death, yes there are differences. If you're interested in how we handle it, please check out master_beater.erl (great name, huh?), which is a gen_fsm that worker nodes use to eagerly reconnect to the master. Also check out the fuzed.ap and fuzed_supervisor.erl. Erlang provides very good resources for handling this.
Misleading title...
You need more then a database system to index all the web.
Why you shouldn't listen to “hasn’t someone done that already?”
Who Will Rule The New Internet?
I hate cubicles.

You get no privacy (noise), yet you're isolated from others.
This information is "different than that of Obama's nomination". It is about how numbers can be misleading. In this case, the government is holding corporations to a higher standard than they hold themselves. They are obscuring the truth about the deficit by using a different method of accounting.

I don't really think it is hacker related news, though.
Better you kill your cash cow than let the competition do it. Every company ought to learn this lesson and embrace change instead of trying desperately to maintain the status quo. Otherwise we're bound to hear the same sad stories like MS, the newspaper business, the music business, etc
Perhaps http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=210696 is relevant here.
Regarding #1: I read there are no Alzheimer cases known in professional Go-players. There are enough of them that this is statistically relevant.
Hey Tech Crunch, Maybe It's Better Not To Blog Absolutely Everything.
You don't want to end up in a pissing match in a dominant market unless you've got something that will truly differentiate you up your sleeve. This isn't to say that you couldn't compete, but even in your best case scenario, you've captured part of a market that is heading towards being a commodity. Sure there are lots of IM programs out there. How many of them do you think generate revenue of interest?

Maybe consider open sourcing it so that folks can build their own friendfeed-ish sites.
Why free Internet service won't happen soon: FCC owned by wireless industry
Where in the world are Larry and Sergey? Tracking Google's party plane with aviation enthusiasts
RepRap replicates itself
BlueFire Ethanol bets on household trash
Hey, man.. I can't disagree with you that some pundits are inflating these ideas a bit, but you can't deny we're in the middle of something big for humanity, and we're still trying to figure it out.
the one or two times I had to use this feature on a site I changed my email password before and after.
It was a blast. I attended the Bloomington, IN weekend. The actual product didn't go much of anywhere, but that wasn't the point. The event sold out-- capped at 100 attendees. I met some great people and it really clarified to me how much startup and tech is happening in Bloomington and surrounding Indiana University.
UX Rule #1 - All HTML Form Control Elements Require Labels
drop shipping on ebay, i would argue, is easier if you have a good product to drop ship.

blogging requires effort to write content. online dating software requires effort to build the community and improve the site to a level that makes people actually want to use them. both require active work on the website that doesn't necessarily pay off, at least initially.

with drop shipping, you find your source and post it on ebay. the item sells, order an item and send it to them.
To make a successful web startup you have to deal with problems much harder than pedestrian ones like inventory and shipping.

Creating a successful dating site "doesn't require anything other than building a web-app" in roughly the same way that being a successful novelist doesn't require anything other than writing a novel.