skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know what turns my wife on about our 14-year-old Honda with 170K miles, a badly eroded paint job, and doors that creak like the screams of the dying? When it starts on the first try.
All I can think of when I look at this monstrously huge and undifferentiated list is the following recent quote from Roger Ebert's blog.

From http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/09/whats_your_favorite_...

"Let us agree that all lists of movies are nonsense. I have steadfastly refused to compose any list of films except for my annual Best 10 list, and the Sight & Sound poll--which has, after all, some real significance. Despite the entreaties of countless editors, authors and websites, I decline to make lists of the best comedies, horror films, Christmas films, family films, Westerns, musicals, political films, silent films, films about dogs, and so on. That way madness lies."
SB is more like IM. With this addon you don't have to share anything at all if you don't want. It's just a single button-click to do so, though, for any site you like.

It just makes it easier to send it than email if your friends are also on SocialBrowse (or Twitter now).
I am about 10 minutes south of Baltimore and was days away from creating a similar post. Usually in Columbia almost every day after work.

Get in touch.
My first thought was "how can it be that Gogle has no search results?". Then I noticed the extremely specific URL hacking.
If that is the case it would be cool if your email client had a "pretend bad email address" type function which sends a fake bounce email.
http://www.google.com/search?q=google&ie=utf-8&oe=ut...

When I googled google, the top story was about whether google was turning into big brother. Which I suppose answers that question as they're clearly not censoring it!
For a long time I've dreamed of driving a hybrid or electric car that had a speaker mounted to produce this effect.

You just need the tach reading, the current level and derivative of motion should allow a simple micro controller select the right samples.
It makes me feel dirty having a script interpreter running on top of a virtual machine.
What I don't like about Apple is the we can't do no evil approach (like Google).

They are after my buck as the rest of them. I'm sure that if MS would have decided to boot Windows from a specific set of hardware Vista would have been a winning horse.

Same with phones, iPhone isn't a good headset if you'll compare it too blackberry and Nokia n series.

What iPhone did was getting regular folks to buy smartphones and that is its greatest achievement. After its release MS mobile development blog started releasing articles on how to implement double buffering on WM and the .NET compact framework. Why because iPhone created a new standard, and they had to follow.

Other then that it is an ordinary phone.

Every smartphone have his drawbacks, iPhone 3G got plenty of them, and apple refuse to admit it, because when that will happen they will admit that they are just like MS: A company that develop software (Oppose to a company that if you'll buy their products you'll look cool)
Many clients do have that feature. Mail.app has "Bounce" in the contextual menu. Another handy one in there that's not often used (or always duplicated) is redirect.
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On an unrelated note, I think people gives Taleb too much credit. Sure, he's a fantastic author and the points he bring up are interesting and noteworthy but he isn't a good trader. I just don't understand why retail investors like to think that Taleb is in the same league as Ken Griffith and worship Fooled by Randomness/Black Swan as a trading bible. It's not. If you try to apply his principles on the market, you'll bleed to death slowly and maybe once a while during a Black Swan event, you get a blood transfusion but in the long run, you'll die. There's a reason why those out-of-the-money options are cheap. It's called probability.
your company/university might own your project. You need to carefully examine any contracts/papers you signed when you took your job and look for any restrictions on intellectual property ownership

A solution for this is to start a project under a pseudonym and never reveal your identity. Some projects, like I2P or mlDonkey, have pseudonymous contributors.
Apple did it, so doesn't it mean its the right thing to do? (ok so a little sarcasim here, but look at the logic of it)

Mac OSX no longer comes with IE baked in.

Apple also forced all of its software vendors and customers to pretty much upgrade. There is something to be said for the forest fire approach.

Come on, let IE crash and burn. Lets teach users to keep their browser upto date, its really the best thing for the ecosystem as a whole.

If a user ends up having a problem with a 7 year old browser they will ask their tech friend what is wrong, and they will say UPGRADE.

If that is not enough, you can monitize your app through IE users upgrading to firefox
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https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#...
I used to get spam that consisted of a URL followed by a long excerpt from classic literature. Was that filter poison?
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He owns one of the largest spam websites ever, Squidoo.com.
I shall meditate all night on this problem and the ideas in this blog post(probably just 15 minutes, before sleeping distracts me).
Good luck - this is why I moved from DC to Boston (outside of YC's requirement). The startup scene in DC is pretty dire although LaunchBox looks promising and should help.

I still don't know what 95% of the people who work in DC actually _do_.
Sure... I suspect that the market cap of Google will have surpassed Microsoft in 5 years. Amazon, in 25. In 100 years, Microsoft will certainly be entirely irrelevant if not completely gone.
Yes, just like fancy clothes. Today you can go to Zara and buy hype clothes for cheap whose design has been copied from fashion designers. As fancy clothes are commoditized, they don't have the same effect to turn on women anymore. But still, Zara makes brazillions of dollars. A cheap car making the same sound as a Ferrari would make a lot of money too.

Want a startup idea? I just gave you one :-)
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Unless Taleb is right, of course, and the market calculates these probabilities incorrectly.
"We have now scientifically proven the physical attraction people feel when it comes to cars."

Funny how you did that with no controlled subjects. Have groups that only listen to white noise, random chatter from a busy restaurant, maybe the rumble of a subway train. Even groups who listen to nothing at all, and just sit idle for a few minutes.

Also, I buy that sexual arousal increases testosterone levels, which would mean high levels of testosterone are correlated with sexual arousal. But I don't know if raised levels of testosterone necessarily indicates sexual arousal.
Ask the author questions here:
http://community.nytimes.com/article/comments/2008/09/07/mag...
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all of tufte books but beautiful evidence which I found disappointing
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I don't have data, but from my own experience (I am Brazilian, living in the US for 7 yrs) I can tell you that recycling is not very common simply because people reuse a lot of stuff rather than recycling. The concept of reuse is ingrained in the culture due to lack of money, and not only the poor, but the middle-class do it a lot too. Some examples:

* Product plastic containers are washed and reused to store food, instead of throwing them away. Plastic containers are made sturdier (sometimes even made out of glass and with nice designs) because the companies know people will reuse them, so companies see it as a kind of free product advertisement.

* Soft drinks and beer are commonly sold in big glass bottles, which are then taken back to the distributor, washed, and then reused (not recycled, but reused).

* Electronics: Because labor is cheap and goods are expensive, people fix equipments instead of throwing them away. Parts are reused to the max, and there is an entire after-market ecosystem for them.

Last time I visited my family, it struck me how smaller my mom's trash can in Brazil is compared to my trash can here in the US. It may sound like a dumb comparison, but illustrates my point that we generate way more trash over here (and I am actually pretty conscious about reusing stuff).
No, the spammer is hoping the classic literature will get the message through the filter.
I agree. Also, what is wrong with the term "programming?"

Having looked through the list, he has applied the term "software engineering" rather broadly. "Programming" would fit just fine. A number of titles, such as "Mastering Regular Expressions" have everything to do with programing and nothing to do with software engineering as an engineering discipline. Maybe its just me, but I think "software engineering" is more and more being overused and wrongly applied.
I remember seeing a segment on TV years ago... I think it was on Beyond 2000 (anyone ever watch that?). It was about this device that reproduced the engine noises of various high-end cars and routed them through the stereo system. It must have connected to the car computer or something to get tachometer readings, but my memory is fuzzy.
This is an invitation to disaster.
AKA cut off your nose to spite your face.
Yeah, OK, maybe.. But so what? The article, the studies and the supposed solutions seem to ignore the most brutal obstacle. The reason that there are so very few female coders is because working alone is not natural for a woman. Many adult woman who enter the fields mentioned in the article quit high paying jobs later on in life for this reason. And untold millions quit earlier or never start. The irony is that women would be great in these fields if the environment was more conducive. This book will shed some light on it.

http://www.amazon.com/Female-Brain-Louann-Brizendine/dp/0767...

A more effective solution would be to create a more nurturing CS/engineering environment to draw young women in.
For instance; female only programs so girls can be girls at the same time that they are learning how to code. They could be encouraged to gossip or talk on the phone or whatever young girls do.. Also, these girls should remain clustered together when not in these classes because the streagnth of the group would overcome the conflict of the deeply singular task of coding and the female brain. I'm not really explaining it clearly but if anybody is interested in this it would be helpful for you if you read the book.
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It's actually a coded message meant for only a dozen of its 3 million recipients - Al Qaeda's way of outsmarting the NSA.
I never said they were censoring it... I just made a (rather bad) joke.
It would be nice to have the option to buy a small wind turbine for your house. I wonder if this would help drive residential solar prices down.

Another interesting wind power solution:
http://www.magenn.com/
"So, if you won't do the code cause you don't know how and you never will, why do you think you can also do the design?"

I have good taste, thats why.
Depends on what they value. Old people love new technology when it solves their problems. Health is a big motivator. If you invent a gadget that cures arthritis, I guarantee you millions of "technophobes" will be among its early adopters.

My chain-smoking grandmother considers herself a luddite, but in a sense she's bleeding edge. If I had a nanobot pill from 30 years in the future and with it I could return her lungs, arteries, skin etc. to the condition they were in when she was 25 - I know from talking to her that should would be ecstatic with techno lust.

To win over a luddite, ask yourself what they most desire that they can't currently get. Sometimes the technology is already available. If so, demonstrate it solving some vexing problem they have, or think they have.
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If you're short on time:
http://joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000057.html

Spolsky's work is light and easy to read. This work is geared towards "progammers", although that is not mutually exclusive with the word "CEO". It'll help you avoid more obvious mistakes. Nielson and About Face are more thorough. I haven't read Don't Make Me Think but I've heard good things (and lots of comments here, so obviously I should read that one...)
Fuck-you money is an illusion. A person with $1 million is not going to want to live a lower-middle-class lifestyle, and the fact is that there is no way to guarantee high (7-10%) returns; equity markets are actually likely to struggle for the next decade. Most people who have a chance at $20 million would be bored without work and, of course, want to work on the best projects with the best people. This desire ensures that they can't be entirely independent, although they have more freedom than the average person.

It's better to just accept that complete independence is an delusion. I hope to make a lot of money one day, but I don't harbor the illusion that it will exempt me from interdependence with other people.
You just have to use the 'bible code'. (Or was it the Quran code?)
Coverflow in JavaScript
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Ask YC: What was the longest you went without internet connection? Are you an addict?
Ask YC: What was the longest you went without internet connection? Are you an addict?
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Cappuccino’s FlickrDemo in 45 lines of jQuery
Design pattern in simple examples
I wouldn't say no one was listening; VDI is almost an industry now.
It's not as pretty as a Porsche.
Do they have a copyright on their noise?
The key words = "my wife." Before marriage its how much money you make, after marriage its her money, and will be spent accordingly.
MMS is sort-of solving a 10 year old problem - and it's a 10 or so year old telco answer to the problem of "how do we extract money from customers and lock them in?".

It's on the way out, too, being supplanted by email.

There's a lot of die-hard MMS users in Europe though, and it's quite common to be sent MMS pictures by people who aren't particularly computer literate and just want to send you a picture. Say, if you're calling up for a car for sale on the other side of the country.

Personally, I wouldn't deploy anything new on MMS.
Interesting.

As a side note: Beer in bottles with refundable deposit is normal in affluent Germany, too. (And we have a much shorter word for the concept than English has.)

I build a Stirling motor out of cans once --- and it was quite a challenge to find beer cans in 2007. The government virtually banned cans for drinks.
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Check out our startup: Scrumy
http://scrumy.com

Scrumy is a simple tool for Scrum project management.

My partner in crime and I began working on Scrumy (our then side-project) full-time shortly after flying back from the final interviews for YC Summer '08 empty handed.

We'd love some feedback from you guys, especially if you're familiar with Scrum.

You can check out the Pro features at the "demo" project, http://scrumy.com/demo

Thanks!
VERY well done and polished. I really like the draggable ordering of tasks, simple interface, easy to manage at-a-glance.

10/10
"Modern tools" like some trivial CSS and a fixed-width <table>, you mean?
The founder and product lead is the CEO until the company can afford to get someone else to be the CEO. You're just splitting hairs...

I believe that it is actually quite important for the product lead to have a strong sense of design - otherwise, where is he leading the product?
Duplicate thread essentially:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=296244
Ask YC: What is the best area in SF Bay Area for startup hackers?
In regards to my previous submission (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=295139) — I've moved to SF within 24 hrs after that submission and now I am wondering – what is the best area/neighborhood around in terms of possibility to meet startup hackers and/or attend interesting related events, etc.?

Any ideas?

Thanks :)
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Taxes are also conspicuously absent.
And you have to differentiate communication between cheap talk and commitments. Both are very different abilities.

Anyway, I like seeing someone use diacritic marks.
Now that relayd has SSL support, I'm going to have to look at using OpenBSD as a web load balancer again. Given how lean a stock OpenBSD box is, I suspect that a very modest server could keep pace with a mid-sized (10-20 node) webapp cluster without really breaking a sweat.
Wow! This is unbelievably impressive. In terms of Scrum, can I assign points to my stories? and see an overview of my total points for a specific sprint?

Overall though, it really rocks. I will be using it for sure come Monday morning!
Picwing (YC summer 08) on ABC News
What, we need another one of those rip-off leeches? No thanks, there's already enough Verisigns in this world.
Really? That's great ... I will look into it.
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CARP (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/carp.html) might be useful, too.
indeed. the first million just suckers you into buying more expensive crap (house, sports cars, etc)
"With Python, there is no real pain that alternative implementations can address. "

No Java libraries seem useful enough to matter? Deployment tools? App servers? GUIs?
what retards, fantasizing over $5 or $20 million...why not dream big...be the first trillionaire. i feel sad for all you retards who fantasize all day about money
Not really. The CIA and its ilk are so clueless that their pages are probably indistinguishable from that of a typical MySpace user, if not in form then at least in the value of the content.
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Blogspam:

http://www.stormpulse.com/
FTFA: "Some of them have been Rubyists longer than anything else (or maybe just longer than anyone else), and see themselves as the purists, the elite, the Ivory Tower, keepers of all that's good in the Ruby world and judge, jury, and executioner for all that's bad. In the end, however, there's one thing these folks share in common.

They think JRuby is a terrible idea."

I've been a Rubyist for about 8 years; I love JRuby!

And Headius rules. (As does Tom and the rest of the JRuby team. #jruby on freenode rocks.)
There is currently no built-in mechanism to manage points. We've seen some people put point values in the task text. In this version, we're trying to keep things really simple.
From the video the Polo does 0-60 in 8 seconds. Not bad.

Apropos the article, I think this correlation doesn't prove causation.
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Typical users aren't clever enough to be this stupid.
After having a play I think the idea of placing points in the task text works well. I can also tally up all the points and place them in the sprint name, which can then also be renamed at the end of a sprint to show how many points were estimated against how many were actually completed.
NOLOH does not translate PHP to JavaScript, certain aspects of NOLOH use JavaScript, but no translation takes place. The 1.8 release of NOLOH will allow for your applications to run with or without JavaScript enabled.

The fundamental difference between Cappuccino and NOLOH is that unlike Cappuccino, GWT, Silverlight, Java, Flash, etc, a NOLOH application is not a compiled application living on your local machine, which means you don't download the entire application, rather it's lightweight and on-demand. Because of this you can write things such as Amazon.com in NOLOH, as well as things like 280Slides, all while having a smaller footprint, but maintaining a unified application lifecycle. This also has other benefits such as being able to modify your application while it's running, as seen in the Hello World video. See http://www.noloh.com/#/section=features for more information.

There will be Python and Ruby versions of NOLOH in the near future.

I recommend you play around with NOLOH a bit more before making these statements. Please note that I wasn't belittling Cappucinno in any way, I was suggesting that if he was more comfortable with things like PHP, Python, etc, that NOLOH might be a better fit for him, rather than having the equivalent of a thick client application.
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obviously cappuccino re-invented the wheel
Its hard to pinpoint exactly where touch screen technology is going because its now branching out in so many directions at once. I would say the companies at the forefront of consumer touch technology: microsoft, apple, htc, samsung, and soon to be nokia will all have the largest say in these matters. After which the startups that take advantage of and build their applications on this technology will have some control over where things are headed as well.
Did you check the headers as well? I've seen quite a few emails that had the "body" of the email in one while the real body was empty or contained similar noise - I presume there are some broken mail clients that will render them regardless.
So simple and elegant. That was fun! Great work guys.
http://scrumy.com

http://scrumy.com/demo
403 permission denied error.
Keen to see it though :)
Ask YC: Version++, Hardware-- ?
Can anyone here think of a new version of a software product or service with lesser hardware requirements, or more generally less bloat, than the previous version?
Which hosting would you recommend for running startup?
Which hosting would you recommend for running a startup? We use dreamhost now, but we heard that we need special hosting for web 2.0 projects.
Which one would advice us? Any ideas... please
i dont like the flash title :(
Summize, Odeo, Mixx, FreeWebs, LaunchBox are all big names who hail from this area.

Also, DC has a very active social media scene, where many a fellow local entrepreneurs hang out and meet.
There is a big event coming up...see here http://twintech2.eventbrite.com/
Why not a recording of a Maserati? It's cheaper.
Every week you read "tens of thousands of blog posts"? Seriously?

To read 20k+ posts a week, you have to read 2,800+ posts a day. If you sleep 8 hours a night and do nothing else with your life except read blog posts, you still have to read 180 articles per hour - 16 hours a day, 7 days a week.

I'm curious about your comprehension. Do you consider an article "read" if you just skim its headline?
This probably doesn't answer your question directly, but (if you haven't already) I'd recommend taking a look at:
http://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html
(and his other essays)
Congrats Picwingers - you guys have easily had the most/best mainstream press out of YC Summer 08.
There is nothing "special" about Web 2.0, other than you likely need something with a decent database option.

I'd look at something like Slicehost, or more of a hosted server vs. shared server solution. Skip EC2 for now, and other things that are a little too progressive. You need (IMO) a solid stable base first, then look into elasticity when you get some mass.

If you want/need a dedicated server, send me an email I can get you setup with something nice.
Firefox 3 is reported to use less memory than Firefox 2, but I've not been able to prove that myself.
When you're only earning $800 a month, taxes should be pretty negligible, surely?