skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unlocked Nokia N76 Black
The Nokia N76 is the multimedia computer that lets you do it all - and with personal color options, tempered glass, and mirrored steel, you'll stand out doing it.
note to self: don't start companies that require multiple synchronized data centers. :-)
Wanted to share this awesome Javascript Animated site
Take note of the details, like the spacemen which jump when you click them and the scrolling star background and then boat swaying in the breeze on the glistening water...
Just goes to show the power of a truly viral campaign
This might be true, but there is no reason it couldn't be done better.

I'll offer up one advance it could make. I'd like to click on a map and see all available apartments near my click. People lie about what "Park Slope" means and it's a waste of my time.
Is recognizing one's self what "self aware" means?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-awareness
http://www.answers.com/topic/self-awareness

Maybe these are the robots:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMkHYE9-R0A
He was born in Germany. He can't be president...
Yes, but until they do this, it's very hard to compete with them, unless you have infinitely deep pockets.
didn't edgio try this?
It's pretty neat; great attention to detail. Another one I like: http://cliframework.com/
Horrible song. And why does every pop song have voice resampling these days?
I'd rather not see any "Top 5" lists unless it's been measurably and quantifiably proven that these are, indeed, the top five funniest hacker/gamer parodies of all time (whatever a hacker/gamer may be).
One of the few things that's almost an auto-downmod for me is 'One of the few things that's almost an auto-downmod for me is "I'm going to be downmodded for this"'
I don't quite understand #5. Wouldn't you instead have one larger query with a sub-query contained along with it under Postgresql, like a correlated sub-query or the like?
One of ... n/m, its not reddit.
Yahoo and Intel Working on Widget Framework For TV; Twitter on TV
Hod Lipson: Robots that are "self-aware"
It depends on the definition of a derivative work.
I suspect the answer is similar to the same reason everything is compressed about as much as possible.
Back during the five-or-so years that I read slashdot regularly, I grew to wish that Jon Katz stories weren't there, so I used slashdot's (simple) filtering mechanism to make it so.[1]

Therefore, a feature request: If a large fraction of HN's users hit the "Not Hacker News" button, then the site should use some clustering technique (k-means or whatever) to identify groups of users who agreed[2] on what was on- or off-topic and filter accordingly (for those users). The idea is that if enough of the users to whom I'm similar decide that something is off-topic, then HN auto-flags it for me. What I'd really like is these articles filtered out automatically; then, if we wanted to get fancy, provide a "Show 4 probably NHN articles" link that turns the feature off temporarily.

[edit:] In particular, people who didn't use the NHN button would see exactly the normal set of stories.

But then HN becomes a baby recommendation engine, which could be a nasty path. Just thinking out loud.

[1] I bear no particular ill will toward Mr. Katz; just thought most of his stuff was neither news for nerds nor stuff that mattered.

[2] "Users mostly agreed" means the overlap between the sets of NHN-flagged articles is similar.
Anyone with half a brain (and therefore with any money in their pocket) uses Ad Block Plus, don't they?

I don't understand advertising and I don't want to. Selling a useful piece of software seems much more classy and straightforward.
Two central tenets of Mormonism are missionary work and ancestor...umm...I don't want to say worship, but it's the only thing that comes to mind to sufficiently cover the dedication the Mormon Church instills in its membership. Those two things actually do seem pretty consonant with having control of a popular social network like Facebook, and if the church really is bringing down five billion a year, buying Facebook is not an outlandish idea at all.

Internally, Facebook stock is being traded at about a $4 billion valuation...so an $8 billion offer, for example, would be practically impossible to turn down if we assume that the parties making the decision are at least a little interested in money. Zuck may be a good Jewish boy, but being a billionaire at twenty-five seems a hard offer to turn down, even if it means handing over the reins of your baby to a rather odd cult.

Unless, of course, Zuckerberg really does believe Facebook, and the "social graph", is as important as Google in the future of the Internet, in which case, the $15 billion valuation numbers indicated by the MS investment a couple years back would be lowball, and no offer the LDS could make would be sufficient. (I'm not on that bandwagon...but I know there are folks who are, and maybe Zuckerberg is one of them.)
I would be surprised to hear of a buyout bid for Facebook from the church, but some sort of technology acquisition deal would not surprise me at all. The leadership of the LDS church is definitely on the ball when it comes to taking advantage of new technology. It's not just genealogy either - there is an active direction from the leadership to embrace the internet, blogs, and social media.

A close friend of mine wrote a blog entry on this very topic in July - http://teddios.blogspot.com/2008/07/church-and-intertubes.ht...

I'm LDS myself - I studied Computer Science at BYU, and I worked in the massive underground data center and supercomputing facilities while I was there. The depth of technological sophistication and awareness that the church employs is pretty impressive.
Especially considering this comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=281177):

So more like a dating/matchmaking site?
What if you had a service that stole craigslist's data, but had a better interface and better search? You would then have a superset of Craigslist's data, but with a better experience. It would probably be illegal, but you could host it in Lower Elbonia where you wouldn't get prosecuted, like Mygazines.
It's aural MSG.
I guess that was also part of my questions. Is this the end all for classified? Theres nothing left to innovate? Its just going to be a bunch of categories with multiple levels like a directory from 1998?

I'm not looking for someone to tell me what the next big thing would be. I'm just trying to understand why no major innovation has had any market pull at all. There must be a classified killer floating around out there.
I understand the rationale behind most securities laws, but they definitely do stifle innovation and favor the big guys that can pay the lawyers to understand them.
7 Tips for new Twitter Users
I need to start a blog called "57piglets"

edit: "67bigones" looks like it's available, too.
No doubt that lowering the drinking age would increase access and alcohol consumption. I'm just saying that I would think it would raise these too dramatically.

I do think that the negative effects that driving drinking underground are greater than the effects that increasing drinking would have.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Parrot
I miss hackermatcher.
There appears to be some LDS fascination with the collection of data. I live in a very Mormon area, and it seems like an unusual number of the Mormons in my area are in IT, especially as it relates to database type work.

Of course, this is all just anecdotal evidence; I just thought it was intersting.

That being said, I think that LDS is probably the most data-centric religious organization I can think of.
So, their place would be in the literature courses, not philosophy ones.
It seems like it'd be irrational to take on Craigslist right now. They own the audience. The audience is what matters most. Anything you could do to try to take the audience, Craigslist could probably do too. But they start out with the audience, and you start out with nothing.

This is called "barrier to entry".

Windows XP is clearly not the end-all of operating systems. But their competition is a rounding error on the market. They've needed an absolutely brilliant opponent and a historic internal fuckup for there to even be competition. And the network effect for operating systems is lower than for Craigslist: a vendor can spend their way into the OS/ISV game.

Why aren't more startups trying to work with Craigslist? Of all the 800lb gorillas in the world, Craigslist seems the most amenable.
Would that I had but more than one upvote to give...
Why not have the best of all worlds?

Philosophy of math generated a lot of interesting questions in the past.
Those tech journalists that wrote those stories didn't even check out how youtube deals with these things... How obscenely lazy can you be?
I have yet to see a discussion about moderation that has been productive, and this confirms my suspicions.
"I need a backup of all our servers for all time."
Since I don't really listen to pop, what are you meaning by 'voice resampling', and what does it do for/to the song?
I'd be interested in discussing it. If you (or anyone else) are, too, feel free to email me at the address in my bio. Thanks!
Telecomplus
Telecomplus-Telecommunications, also known as telecom, is an industry that consistently grows by leaps and bounds. Telecomplus is proud to be a leading operator in this field where brilliant minds create the latest and greatest gadgets, only to improve upon the make and model of these same items less than a year later.
You're still not getting it. What I'm saying is that Plato's works have both philosophical and literary value. Even if you dispute the first, there is still the second. I'm not sure why this is would mean moving them from philosophy to literature courses (or why those should be mutually exclusive in the first place).
No kidding. Great reality hack.
If you need 23 essential tools then you're doing something wrong. When the article says "5 essential tools" then I'll be interested.
This seems very doubtful. I am LDS as well and an outright acquisition of a for profit business seems odd for a non-profit organization. I am not saying it isn't possible, just that it is not likely.

If it is anything, I see it as a technology acquisition.
My brain is crying...
It seems like it'd be irrational to take on Craigslist right now. They own the audience. The audience is what matters most. Anything you could do to try to take the audience, Craigslist could probably do too. But they start out with the audience, and you start out with nothing.

As PG would say, Google beat out Yahoo, Altavista, Excite by improving something that wasn't as good as it could be.

BUT, your question about why people don't work with CL is an interesting one. I don't recall ever seeing a way to get at their data aside from screen scraping...
Ten Startups Debut At TechStars Demo Day
No, you just need a damn left margin on your paragraphs!
I heard a clip of the new girl from that 'reality' show the Hills and it sounded like the resampling was the whole voice.

They have been doing it for years...they are just way more obvious about it now. Yes, I am ashamed of the above statement.
Actually, nothing.
KillerStartups is no longer a killer
Technology-wise, PostgreSQL is superior to MySQL. The main reservation most people seem to have about it is due to its lack of a good, easy to use replication solution. But I hear that they are actively working to resolve that now.
This reminds me of my third most favourite MIT hack:

In 1998, Bill Clinton gave MIT's commencement address.

The MIT administration discovered that a rather embarrassing hack was planned. To forestall it, a few days before commencement, a sternly worded message was emailed around:

Any students who appear at the commencement exercises wearing a black beret, a blue dress, kneepads, or any combination thereof will be denied entrance.

Needless to say, the hack itself was never intended to be performed.
The new standard basically has nice improvements over the current one. I use C++ occasionally, when I need to write low-level code and when I think the STL will save me time over plain C. Unfortunately, the new standard won't be too useful for a while.

When the working group finalizes the standard, we get to wait for the compiler implementations to catch up. For the first five years, C++ programmers will enjoy buggy, incomplete, and mutually incompatible implementations of half of the features in the new standard. During the following three years, compilers will even out in quality, and many of them will finally implement most of the features in the 2003 modifications of the 1998 standard. It'll take over a decade for C++ lambdas to become semi-portable and acceptable in many environments.

I really hope that, in 2018, I'll be able to write low-level code in a new and cooler language. It'll probably be a Lisp. :)
While there's a ton of talk about scaling on here, it isn't needed by the vast majority of people and even Facebook's way isn't that complicated when you get down to it.

Basically, the only change that needs to be done is that you have MySQL trigger the delete from memcached on replication. All your slave database gets an updated record for you, saves it in its tables and then hits memcached with a delete command for that key. While it does mean diving into the MySQL code, when you get to the size at which you need such a feature, you can just hire a MySQL expert.
People used to say something similar in games: 'Why write in C when you know you are going to have to move to asm anyway, just write it all in asm!'.

I've never seen more then 5% of c code usefully move to asm and I've never seen more then a few % of python code usefully move to a module. I am not saying it's always of waste of time it's just I haven't seen it.
No they don't. Anyone with a brain sees advertising as a useful service to them. It's extremely lucrative also.
Yes there's a very small subset of society which puts hands over ears and don't want to listen, maybe they also don't have a TV... but it's a minute percentage.

How do you find out about new products, gadgets, websites, things going on? Advertising. It might be blatent in your face advertising, or it might look to you to not be advertising, when in fact it is.

If you don't want to understand it, great! All the more cash for those that do :)

Also, if you think ad block plus actually stops you seeing all the numerous types of advertising on the web, you're quite mistaken.
15 years ago, my CS202 professor was asked:

Q: "Dr. Anasastio, can you recommend a different editor from emacs? It's so hard to work with. Can we use pico or jot?"

A: "No. Emacs is THE editor. If you plan to work in computer science, you have to know it."

Though I personally use TextMate for most coding these days, I can certainly see his point. 15 years later, emacs is still relevant and powerful (and free).

Find me another editor you can say that about, and I'll pay you $5. (vi doesn't count: it's only relevant because sysadmins could fit it on a floppy, and now it's vim anyway.)
What's the network effect of a search engine?
there are plenty of sites that do just that, none of them gain any real traction.
Manifold destiny: a legendary problem and the battle over who solved it
When your competition consists of a big online jukebox containing free copies of every pop song ever recorded, it pays to encourage a popular taste for sounds that have never been recorded before.
RIM and Apple (and others) aren't explicitly the reason (imho) why they don't have "everything beneath them" e.g. lower class/non-business users. It's the price of the plan and not the devices that are a bigger detraction. There are plenty of blackberries that are free with contracts in the US and used/first generation iPhones are available for very cheap outside of contract. It's the plans that cost the most overall, and that's something RIM and Apple don't necessarily have pricing control over. That means that it's pretty likely that if someone doesn't already have a smartphone, either they don't feel that they need it, they feel that they cannot afford it, or a combination of both.

Even personally I suppose you could class me as middle class, and I've had an iPhone since the very first day. I still resent what I'm paying and wonder if it's worth it. Not the phone itself, but the price of the plan which is currently in the neighborhood of $40 just for the 3g data and 500 text messages. $40 could buy a regular voice plan with many minutes for someone who has no need for data.

If that is the case, Palm pretty much are screwed because if people could afford something like a Centro (with a plan) they are no doubt going to compare it to a RIM or Apple device at some point, even if the Centro is free. Palm has nothing to offer that's particularly enticing over the rest of the smartphone market.

Now onto the three killer apps:
App1 is something lots of phones can do in concept already - not necessarily what you mention, but say, if I wanted to text someone I just called on my iPhone it's something I could select from the phone menu to create a new text message. And vice versa - on the top of the text message I just received from a person is a button I can press to call them. Plus they share the address book.

App2 is something the iPhone is surprisingly kicking ass at, except for the connectivity. A fun game doesn't need to be intricate. My favorite game for my iPhone is de blob, and its just twisting my iphone around and around getting a blob to bump into buildings to color them. :D Also judging from the reaction from the location services on the iPhone, some people are going to seriously resent a GPS enabled game/social network. Take for example Twinkle, which is (right now) a Twitter client for the iPhone. If you check out the nearby feature, it's pretty scary. I've come across more than a few creeps that way, and it's one reason why I'm not using Twinkle even though I want to.

App3 just fragments the already fairly fragmented social networks available now. The best bet would be to just get all the big ones on board so people can pick and choose. It wouldn't be the best the phone has to offer, but personally I'd rather access twitter and facebook separately than deal with a network for people who have iPhones (for example) and only them.
I have both an actual United States Flag (not a picture) and a portrait of the Iwo Jima Memorial at sunset.
Profanity works
It's "auto tune". The original idea was to correct mistakes, but it's now used as an effect, specifically the "cher effect". It's not too excessive in the above song, but it's still pretty bad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Believe_(Cher_song)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bTREzJL83A
right now have a print of Nature's "Relationships Among Scientific Paradigms": http://informationesthetics.org/node/20

and xkcd's "Dreams": http://xkcd.com/137/
Benchmarking Talkinator
Shooting for 39,000 messages per second
Adam Smith (Xobni) in Technology Review's 35 under 35
But on the other hand I guess that this "different place" means that you are now no longer programming serious video games. I know how it feels like - I'm looking around for other languages all the time and even did several smaller test-games in other languages. But for the real jobs I always fall back to c++. Mostly because of the 3D libraries in my case.
This sentence no verb.
"It would say something about myself"

If I walked into your office and you gave me a "conversation starter" along that line, I'd think you had a chip on your shoulder. It's one thing to be proud of your achievements, a different one to use them as a crutch for your inferiority complex.

Been there, done that.
"Would that I had..." is better. Regardless, I wasn't thrilled, so I tossed a point their way for you!
Money, geeks, and elections
Intel's $100,000 challenge.
What kind of applications do you have experience developing?
Ask YC: Is Startup Ubiquity a Bad Thing?
In the past two weeks I have seen quite a few of these "X Startups in X Days" threads, or some other form of cranking out code, putting it on the web and calling it a 'startup'.

While I'm not immediately aware of how investors handle the rhetoric of 'startup', but personally just putting together a webapp and hosting it does not really make anyone or anything a startup. This lead me to an even more crucial thought pattern:

The web is indeed becoming the platform Web 2.0 demands it to be. YCombinator is showing consistency in funding successful startups, but I feel that there is too much ubiquity in redundant startup concepts (ex. remember when a new to-do list application was coming out every 3 days? notice how the exact same thing is kind of happening with GTD apps?)

Well, while I have no problem with people wanting to do great things, the thought wont leave my mind that while this burst of web activity is great, but what's to become of the other technology sectors? For that matter, what's to come of other industries?

Is this ubiquity of web activity endangering to itself, and possibly other industries?
Intel & Yahoo look to widgetize the living room web
Someone drank the Kool-Aid. And I'm not talking about the LDS stuff:

"the specter of pairing it with one of the most detailed, accurate, and widespread social maps in existence (Facebook) is truly terrifying"

http://mattmaroon.com/?p=345 does a good job explaining why Facebook is not a "detailed" or "aaccurate" or "widespread" "social map".
Apple tries to de-bug iPhone
On just the search engine level, right now there really isn't one. This is sort of how Google ended up on top, no? I think people are less attached to an actual search engine then they would be to craigslist! Search engines job is to return the best possible data for your search. Craigslist job is to get the best possible response to your Ad. If someone with far superior search results popped up tomorrow, I think people would slowly make the transition as they once did to Google and other various search properties.

At this point in the game, something like Google or Yahoo goes far beyond a search engine... Email, calendars, ad networks, analytics, etc.. All these things combined make it so much harder to walk away (theres your network effect). I personally couldn't leave Google. They house to much of the information and tools I use on a daily basis, it wouldn't even be worth the effort at this point. The "new" offering would have to be huge.
I've heard different answers to this question before but how exactly does CL make money and what is the source of these "unrealized capital gains" to which you refer?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finances_of_The_Church_of_Jesus...
I completely agree, you would have to attack it at it's weakness and then build from there. I don't think you can just throw a bunch of money at a better functioning site and get the users you need. Craigslist didn't get where they are by trying to be in every city at once. They offer every classified but they started one city at a time.
How's 4 tools sound instead? I could add one more, but I wouldn't consider it "essential".

1. Some sort of text editor that you know how to use.
2. Some sort of versioning that you know how to use.
3. Some sort of way to transfer files offsite that you know how to use.
4. Some sort of way to run the code. A local copy of the server environment that you use should do.

I can't think of anything else that's essential. Some things might help make you more productive, but you could easily continue working without the likes of Quicksilver or Spaces.
awesome! or better yet, fuck yeah!
My favorites in this batch are Devver and Foodzie. I think there's a lot of great stuff that can be done with cloud based development -- especially blurring the line between deployment and development.

Foodzie is something my parents would use -- especially if they can offer some high-end European foods.

Gyminee seems to have a lot of traction already. They're doing one thing right -- even without the social features, it's still useful.