skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't want the programming and behind the scenes nature, maybe Wordpress or Typepad to get you up and running quickly without a fuss.

If you don't mind getting your hands dirty with ultra-customizing every facet of your blog without closed-source woes, Joomla or Movable Type. The latter of which I've been using for about 1.5 years now and am absolutely in love with. That's not to say you can't get up and running quickly with these, but the level of customization they offer are top notch and take a little more time and patience. You can get right into their source code and make your own plugins... in my opinion these also have that "professional"-ism attribute as well.
s/The internet/The ingenious of ability of digital information to spread/
I think you're right. I misinterpreted "something like this"
The sexism comments bother me. They reveal a level of sensitivity to possible stereotypes that itself indicates the power these stereotypes still have. In a way, the comments are a self fulfilling prophecy. If the wife had been portrayed as being ditsy, that would be worse, though I'm not even sure that's necessarily wrong. In any case, I thought that the woman was portrayed as an inquisitive layperson able to absorb new ideas.

Reminds me of this Richard Feynman story:

A few diehard protesters stayed till the end of Feynman’s talk, and complained that they still didn’t like that woman-driver story:

"Why did it have to be a woman driver?" they said.
"You are implying that all women are bad drivers."

"But the woman makes the cop look bad," I said.
"Why aren’t you concerned about the cop?"

"That’s what you expect from cops!" one of the
protesters said. "They’re all pigs!"

"But you should be concerned," I said.
"I forgot to say in the story that the cop was a woman!"
The real security problem relates to social engineering, which this website could quite well be exploiting. Therefore, there is no reason for this. Take your tech skills and move onto something that corresponds to market requirements.
If Your Startup Looks Like This, You’re Doing It Wrong.
The marketing of Android as the 'open' smartphone OS has always seemed a bit ad-hoc to me. When Google originally drew up its plans for Android, long before the iPhone was public knowledge, they were much more worried about WiMo shutting them out of the mobile search market. Android isn't any more open than WiMo or Palm - the point was to be the smartphone that worked well. To be the iPhone, really.

Unfortunately for Google, Apple beat them to the punch. Android was announced three months after the iPhone was on shelves; the only way for Google to distinguish their product was to emphasize how unconstrained it is compared to the iPhone, even if there was nothing particularly special about allowing 3rd party apps until Apple prohibited them.

The number of people who actually care about the openness of a platform is very small, particularly in consumer electronics. It isn't a panacea. Openness didn't help Plays-for-Sure beat the iPod, and the Palm ecosystem didn't save it from Windows Mobile and Blackberry.

I wish people would stop dredging up the example of Windows and the Mac - openness mattered in desktop operating systems because it enabled PCs to be sold at a huge discount relative to Macs during the 90s. Spending $2000 versus $3000 on a PC meant something, but the comparison isn't relevant to smartphones. Openness will not make Android significantly cheaper than the iPhone.

It may sound like I'm dumping on Android, but that's not my intention. It seems like a nice enough platform - better than some geriatric OSs I could mention. (ahem) It's the marketing spin I don't appreciate.
Alleyinsider is Valleywag in denial.
Wow, way to cut my sentence off and attack it. How does this get voted up? Read PG's article about how to argue.

Also, Office is an incredibly high-margin business. Google isn't moving into it because they don't expect it to return cash if it succeeds.
I don't understand why anyone takes Matt seriously, everything he writes is very trollish. He's some sort of Apple bigot.[1]

I've seen him claim that Apple's "service is atrocious" yet their service is consistently ranked at the top.[2][3] Other times, he'll give some lame anecdote about his friend's MacBook constantly needing repair or receiving bricked iPhones. I have no idea if those stories are true, but if we made a poll, I think we'd find that he's exaggerating.

Once a troll in the poker world, today he's moved to this little corner of the Internet. Matt: we still hate your online persona.[4]

[1] http://searchyc.com/mattmaroon+apple

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150563

[3] http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1689

[4] http://mazeorbowie.blogspot.com/2006/12/why-i-hate-matt-maro...
if you want to try ruby on rail-based blog, try typo. it's pretty decent.
That spreadsheet FROZE my browser as it loaded.
Sadly, it appears that this project is dead.
Squarespace obviously. http://www.squarespace.com/

Go ahead and try to do this in either of the others:

http://www.squarespace.com/squarespaced
It doesn't make sense. Office is a very high margin business. Surely Google won't achieve the profit margins MS has even if they take it over, but it will still be substantial.

Revenue per employee is largely an arbitrary number as well, hence I object to its being used as evidence for anything. You could just as well use revenue per unit of cheese consumed in the cafeteria on Tuesdays to prove your point.

I didn't write a babbling incoherent article in Hindi, but if I do than that observation would make sense. He, however, wrote one in English.

Also, his startup success (or mine) doesn't have anything to do with whether or not that article is logically coherent.
It depends on the field, the professor, and the university. There are too many variables to make blanket statements. Should it affect your decision to go to graduate school? No.
Social Media And US Business Familiarity, Usage And Adoption
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I don't think the Kindle is in any danger of shutting down the ink-and-paper presses yet. 10% of sales, on Amazon, of books available electronically is a vanishingly small percentage of the market.

Now if you could rent books via the Kindle in the style of O'Reilly Safari, that could be a game-changer.
It is not a challenge to generate strong passwords. It is a challenge to remember them.
People take me seriously because my arguments are well-reasoned and well-written. People mistake me for trollish because they are very direct. For instance, the 4th one you cited objected to the use of the word "retard" to describe someone who did something very dumb. If only I were as smart as Ben Stiller I would have somehow made millions off of it.

I have to admit, I've been called a lot of stuff, but you're the first person to actually back it up with citations. Only on Hacker News..,
> It’s much like Apple vs. Microsoft in the early ’90s.

It's even better than that, it's like Apple vs Linux backed by the power of a big company that also cares a lot about the user experience from the get go. As long as Android has any market share, it'll be where I'm at.
I recommend Wordpress. The main reason I went with it was really group think - so many of my favorite blogs use Wordpress. Looking for comparisons online, it didn't appear like either was a clear winner or had some killer feature. I have been using it for my blog and am very happy with it - I find plugins for just about anything I want, or just customize the PHP if needed. I also like that there are two multiple blog projects (Wordpress MU and Lyceum) so that if I ever decide to go that route for a new site, it should be comparable and I can leverage some knowledge I have from my current install - and perhaps plugins, though that is more hit or miss.
I shopped and tinkered, and eventually went with WordPress. Be sure you use the subversion install so you can easily update down the track. Choose a simple skin and away you go.

Very happy with it (technologyinvestment.info)
Ha, yeah. That happens to a lot of athletes. It's a lot easier to stop swimming for 6 hours a day than it is to stop eating whatever the hell you want 6 meals a day.

Also there's a lot of evidence that all of that drastically increased metabolism basically burns years off of their lives.
I'm fairly happy with it - it really is pretty open, and will only get more open with time.
I would go with Wordpress if you are just looking for a blog. If you want something more robust then you should look at Drupal. Steer clear of Joomla unless you just like messing around with platforms. (I have used Joomla for a few projects and have grown to hate it)
For developers, it's way better, because they've got a much more open API at this point. I used their search API for langpop.com and am quite happy with it.
FCC approves first Android phone for use in US
For a file that big I'd probably do a mmap/MapViewOfFile (depending on how the data were accessed of course). Anyone have a pointer on that for [SB]CL?
slurp-stream3 looks pretty sloppy...

(defun slurp-stream3 (stream)
(with-output-to-string (out)
(let ((seq (make-array 1024 :element-type 'character
:adjustable t
:fill-pointer 1024)))
(loop
(setf (fill-pointer seq) (read-sequence seq stream))
(when (zerop (fill-pointer seq))
(return))
(write-sequence seq out)))))

1. The array doesn't need to be adjustable because he's reading no more than 1024 characters at a time.

2. read-sequence and write-sequence ignore the fill-pointer so there's no need for it, much less initialize it to 1024 (also :fill-pointer t would have the same effect of initializing to the length of the vector). He's using the fill-pointer as a variable so he should just use a simple lexical variable.
And therein lies the rub for competitors: to even get a tryout, they are competing not with a first search at Google, but against a refined second search at Google, when the user is already staring at a page of results there. And even if disastified with that page, they're probably good enough to hint how the query should be changed.
Rules to Better Cars: Every car should have a USB adaptor
If that's true, is that good or bad for Android? Seems like they get a more vibrant developer ecosystem as a result.
I use both. For personal use, I chose TypePad, but my company's blog runs on Wordpress.org.

Honestly, for personal use, I should have went with Wordpress. I thought that by going with a hosted solution I'd save myself time and server hassles. I also thought that new features would miraculously show up frequently.

It couldn't be further from the truth. TypePad has a horrible admin interface and they don't seem to be making things better at all. In fact, in the 8 months I've used them, I don't think I've noticed a single new feature or enhancement that's made me say "damn, these guys are awesome, I should spend more money on them"

Wordpress on the other hand is becoming easier and easier to host. Now they've got this 1-click upgrade, which makes hosting your own site a walk in the park. In addition to countless plugins and themes, they're releasing new features all the time.

That said, I know that at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter, if it generates an Atom feed, I'm happy.
+ exercise.
Ask YC: Learning Lisp
I've been wanting to learn C for quite a while now, and I went to my local Borders this evening with the intent of finally picking up a copy of K&R. When I arrived, I found myself thwarted -- there was not a copy on the shelf nor in the back.

So instead I grabbed pg's ANSI Common Lisp (I actually debated between that and Practical Common Lisp, but large pages of text with few line breaks make my brain hurt).

So what's the best way to work through this book? Is there anything I should keep in mind as I delve into functional programming for the first time? I'm not necessarily looking for specific tips on this book, just some pointers on learning lisp in general.
Reference books would be great for something like Kindle but with a more interactive interface. Being able to search and flip back and forth quickly between bookmarks would be great for reference. And the great thing about lots of kinds of reference? People will pay subscriptions for the kind that gets updated often! People will pay just to have information at their fingertips and not have to carry 3 or 4 thick volumes around.
You seem to have missed out on the fact that the author has actually originally written a book that satisfies his criteria.

The problem isn't fixed merely by adding more content. The point is that there is value in a certain style of book that integrates an introduction to a technical topic, a concise description of the algorithms and data structures involved, and then a real-world application of the technique to an actual problem. The author's book, Programming Collective Intelligence, is only ~350 pages: the problem isn't a lack of space, the question is how book authors ought to use space that they have available. Whether books should be 1000 pages or 2500 pages is beside the point.
And it's not healthy long-term. His diet is designed to make him win Olympic gold in his early 20's, not to achieve a long, healthy life. The only reason any swimmers ever live past 40 is that they stop doing this well before 30.
Interactivity will become increasingly important as well. I think we'll eventually see ways to interact with books that no one had thought of before. E-ink displays like the Kindle and the Sony Reader will therefore go the way of the dinosaur. They are great for daylight readability and low power use, but they are too slow!
Try local search and extremely recent content... Google dusts Yahoo!!. Other than that, they're pretty comparable.
I wouldn't put too much stock in a few anecdotes from your friends. Researching funding varies over time, but generally speaking, if you're at a good school (CMU and Berkeley would both certainly qualify) and your advisor is doing their job, you should be able to get sufficient funding without too much trouble.
A lot of his "issues" would be issues for someone other than Steve Jobs, but Jobs has never in his life had a thought like "[I] may think Jonathan Ive can easily design the hardware, but [I]’ll have to invent a stunning UI and a truly innovative interaction paradigm". Or at least he would never consider that an issue.

His thoughts are more like "everyone designing interfaces for cellphones is a fucking asshole who can't get their UI straight, and I'm going to do it right."

Or so I imagine. Also a normal person might think "holy hell, I've got pancreatic cancer" while Steve just shrugs and starts eating lots of carrots.
I've been using msys git 1.5.6 for quite a while, and find it stable and fast.

(I'd prefer to use a recursive copy for rcs than anything under Cygwin though, so ymmv.)
Actually it peaks every year - in summer.
Isn't this the second post lately on nice mini-tools which probably can't easily translate into a startup? There is a difference between just a web app and a business, right?
That's like an interview of some spoiled child actor.

Seriously, nothing they said there was unique. Perhaps it was watered down by the interviewer, but it seems like they could place any company name there looking to hire some people and they probably had the gal to charge them for a 'candid company portrait' as part of their high level web 2.0 recruiting process.

Smells bad to me.
’school of fail’

Easy to get in, but that school can be very expensive.
I've had the same experience as Searls: frustrated that Google is not returning a page that I know exists, I then have success with Yahoo.

What perplexes me about Yahoo is that they haven't replicated some relatively simple things that would make Yahoo a drop-in replacement for Google. Why no full calculator with unit conversions? Why no 'define:' operator?

They've invested so much in the big hard problem of web-wide search; can't they throw a few person-months at filling some gaping holes at the periphery? I'm sure I'm not the only person for whom these gaps disqualify Yahoo from my default setting.
Very true, which is why the iPhone came as a surprise to absolutely no one with a clue.

This is evident by the fact that it's primary purpose is to serve as a nice multimedia player and internet browser, but nothing really productive.

I say this from experience. I used to use my blackberry (sometimes heavily) for work. I have an iphone now and can't fathom doing anything approaching work with it.
Photography as a Weapon
"Huh? I'm just going to assume, since the poster's name is Sridhar..."

I stopped reading after this, since I understand that you cant complete such a sentence into something which will make any sense. Yes, we can all use a reading/re-reading of PGs article on how to make/present an argument.
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a lot of courage, and a touch of genius, to move in the opposite direction."

- Albert Einstein
Google, 10 years in: big, friendly giant or a greedy Goliath?
* USRobotics 16.8K HST connect sound, damn that was fast. Oh, and ATS11=40&W rox

* Kings Quest 4 install, 10 mb seemed insane at the time

* Google Guice, dependency injection rocks

* Writing my first program in TP7

* Win 3.0 DOS Box, multitasking is cool. Never had DESQview
I don't think the argument is about (or entirely about) attractiveness (or lack thereof) of high margin sectors. It's about being able to thrive in that kind of environment.

For example, Apple cannot thrive in the same kind of environment as Dell. Apple's corporate culture, habits & history would put it at a disadvantage in a world where margins are thin because it has not evolved or been optimised for that environment. In a world where competitively driving down costs via stock turnaround times & cheap production determine success Dell has the upper hand.

Similarly, in a world where revenue per employee is low, a company such as Google might be ill equipped.

I am not agreeing or disagreeing with this position (I don't really know enough to). I'm sure you could argue other forces at play might be more significant or that his assumptions about Google's tactics are incorrect. But it's not nonsensical.

What I did find unclear was which category he places himself in: SMB software or enterprise. But that's a limitation of the medium (personal blogs). Some background is assumed. I'm willing to take that as it means writers don't have to start from scratch.
Rainy season
or in drag :O
"I am saying support staff is absolutely vital to succeed in the business software market. That is one of the reasons revenue/employee numbers are lower."

Google does want to reap money from such low-margin, support-intensive "business software markets" too. But not directly. It enables 3rd parties to build such applications over it's platform (GAE). Such suites will soon show up to compete with the likes of Zoho/Salesforce/Intuit/SAP.

A quote from "Fear the Right Things" section in http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html

"What you should fear, as a startup, is not the established players, but other startups you don't know exist yet. They're way more dangerous than Google because, like you, they're cornered animals.

Looking just at existing competitors can give you a false sense of security. You should compete against what someone else could be doing, not just what you can see people doing. A corollary is that you shouldn't relax just because you have no visible competitors yet. No matter what your idea, there's someone else out there working on the same thing.

That's the downside of it being easier to start a startup: more people are doing it."

Google makes starting such startups easier and it becomes a mass market again, with apps competing against each other, running on its platform.

Whoever wins/loses, Google ends up making better revenue.
... Are you using Babelfish (translator) or something?
How about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme#Memetic_accounts_of_religi...
margin: { 10px 20px 30px 40px; }

lol, wat? that's not even proper syntax.

Good intentions and a few good practices, but not a great understanding of the deeper issues involved in maintaining stylesheets for large sites with multiple contributors.

I would add :

- Automate rollups and minification as a part of the build process
- Outline the structure of the CSS in comments at the beginning of each CSS document.
- Don't worry about whitespace cause you're going to minify it anyways.
- Browser-specific CSS files can work against you.
- Well written CSS often requires little documentation. Focus on creating attributes that make sense. Nobody wants to RTFM.
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Sorry, accidentally down voted. Slippy fingers clicked to fast.
Common Lisp is ugly to look at. (Compared to Haskell or Scheme.)
QBasic.

I got a BASIC programming book from the library when I was 11... despite not knowingly having anything to program BASIC in. Poking around in my MSDOS system files I saw this mysterious program "qbasic". Holy crap! It was there all along and I didn't know about it...
I've used both and like Tumblr + Disqus. It's simple, customizable, and a joy to use. It's also free to use your own domain.
Overcoming Bias: Expelled Beats Sicko
I did a MT to WP conversion and it went great. Haven't used TypePad in a very long time though, so couldn't tell you there.
No, because both hackers and non-hackers use the up arrow. Which is fine if you don't mind content drift, but the people you are responding to do mind.
No I'm not using babelfish. You right! Sorry for my english. it's very very bad, I know, but I'm working to learn the English.
So what's the best way to work through this book?

Get a Lisp and fire up the REPL. Type in the expressions as you read and play with variations.

I also found it helpful to do the exercises.

Is there anything I should keep in mind as I delve into functional programming for the first time?

As you probably know, Lisp isn't a pure functional language. It's its own strange and diverse world. But if you're interested in exploring functional programming in Lisp (a great idea), one important thing is to be aware of when your code has side-effects and get good at eliminating or containing them.

Edit: I'd also recommend staying away from CLOS for a while. Not everyone would agree with that. But my experience has been that focusing on built-in data structures and higher-order functions is the best way to learn to program in the functional style. If you're working through ACL, that's the approach you'll be taking anyway.
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Yup. I don't want any part of the site to be aware of my password.
You would get the same phenotype. But far from the same genotype.

So measured by what the programs do - they are the same. Measured by how well you can evolve the program, the not-expanded version will probably fare better.
Just being broken is a lot better than potentially getting sued to shit. Why do people always claim sites "pretend" to have down time?