skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>My plan B for them would be to change store format entirely. Build a nice home theatre that can sit 20 people and have showings of new releases. The catch is they use equipment that is in the $1000-$5000 price range, and it's a great experience that you can 'take home'. Delivery is free. Installation is extra.

Toss out Blockbuster entirely, and I think that this could be a viable business in and of itself so long as you could negotiate decent licensing terms. The only change I would make is to focus on allowing customers to choose the movie. Right now, people are pretty much limited to seeing movies in theaters when they first release and watching them on home systems.

The declining price of home theater systems makes the second option a bit better, but there is still a huge gap between the two experiences. I think that a company could do very well for itself by offering a quality moviegoing experience for small groups(let's say mini theaters seating anywhere from 10 to 50). The ability to watch old favorites on the big screen (and let's face it, who wouldn't want to watch Jurassic park in theaters again), and the opportunity to watch directors' cuts that never entered theaters in the first place could be a huge draw.
In a word? Branding.

It's the same reason you find Google & Ebay continue to dominate their respective markets.
I'm finding that ebay's Kijiji is providing a good alternative (though its name is annoyingly difficult to remember or relate to others in speech).
The network effect.

The most important feature of a classifieds site is cost to reach audience X. At this point, it is probably impossible to compete with Craigslist on that metric.
Yeah, their lack of concern for profit made them stand out and it makes it really hard to compete. When everyone else was charging for listings, Craigslist came in and took that whole market. Now everyone else has to give it away for free as well as convince people to switch (and pay marketing money to let people know they even exist as an alternative). If you were starting a business, would you want to use up capital just to be able to give something away for free? Right now the hurdle is just to big too jump over.
IBM India Places a Premium on Training and Integrating New Hires
Google's search secret: It gets rid of you
I'm sorry, I can see why you'd think I personalized it. I stand by the point I'm making, but apologize for the tone.
The fact that it is trivially simple to garbage collect both C and C++ code neutralizes the "automatic memory management" advantage, dubious as it was, from C++.
A good start, but filling the place up with apple people isn't a magic cureall. (i.e. there were apple people at apple in the 90's.. just no Jobs)

They lost the battle. Time for an aggressive plan B to stay in business.

If I were in charge of plan B I would do the following:

- The Centro is a great concept - come in at a far lower price point and grab an untapped market. Now tie it to online services (myspace, hulu, facebook) and get them to brand and sell to their end users.

- It's all about the software. Realize this. Focus on making a few killer applications that people like versus the ultimate operating system that your never going to ship. ($12million for BEOS???)

My 3 killer applications would be:

- App1: Keeping family's connected and in touch with each other could be a large market. Build the 'family' phone that has the dots of where everyone is and a 'feed' that let's everyone know what they are doing. Don't make it lot's of disconnected apps. Let me press a 'dot' and send a text message, or call the dot.

- App2: Gaming. But on a large scale. Come up with intricate gaming concepts that become more fun with millions of users, all connected, with a small screen and a GPS.

- App3: Live social network. There are apps for detecting friends nearby and such, but none built into the phone. Make it simple and behind the scenes. Have phones that then target specific demographics, like the teen male/female markets. Build a twitter into the background of this. This would be like the family concept, but feed off your favorite social network(s). Why can't I text you from your myspace page? (built in, not some addin hack a computer person puts together)

Rim has the business people. iphone has the upper middle class. Take everything beneath them.
Comparing the most famous garbage collection library of all time to the output of a standards body is not a stretch, and now we're into "some third party deps are good --- the ones that support my argument --- and some are bad --- the ones that support yours". I'm happy to consider us stalemated and move on.
Martin Roscheisen, CEO of Nanosolar: "Biofuels don't cut it"
The only feasible way I see to compete against craigslist is to be local. Start with one small city, get your bearings and understand the market there and then move into a larger market one by one. I would recommend against SF but Sacramento, Seattle, Houston, etc would all be good markets to launch a full-scale local classifieds. I know several companies that are working on this right now and they seem to be having some luck. It takes dedication to the market to get a foot in the door and leverage to open it all the way.
> I'm happy to consider us stalemated

Somehow I doubt it.
I've noticed the same thing, but this niggling voice in the back of my head keeps wondering if that's because I was just working on easier problems than they were. There've also been times when I've worked long hours and produced pretty crappy code that didn't really work all that well.

There's sorta this downward spiral that a lot of software projects get into. Because the project is difficult, the engineers start working long hours and pushing through to get it done. Because they're working long hours, they get tunnel vision and make mistakes. Because they make mistakes, the codebase sucks. Because the codebase sucks, the project gets more difficult. Etc.

The solution is really just to not do hard problems - which is basically what DHH and 37s advocate. But there are a limited supply of easy problems to go around, so you get things like the Web2.0 gold rush where thousands of people are chasing the easy problems.
::sarcasm:: This blog is a goldmine of lists--just what we love on HN!

23 Essential Tools For Web Development on a Mac
15 Quick Ways to Shrink Page Load Times
12 Ways to Design For the Fickle Web User
I tested it out, I'm looking to build a niche social network. Elgg is a great basis but the documentation is lacking and it isn't nearly as flexible as I would like. I'm eagerly watching and following it's development from here on out, but it's not ready for a "polished" social network yet.
Something like that. It makes the following invalid in C++ but valid in C:

int *ptr = NULL;
Unless that's what the terrorist were trying to accomplish in the first place.
Maybe "working later on a late project makes it later"?
Because you can, er, "make $$$ fa$t", as the saying goes.
What Apple knows that Facebook doesn't...
Currently have these printed and posted on the wall for fun:

McCarthy - Programming: You're doing it completely wrong
http://lemonodor.com/images/mccarthy-youre-doing-it-wrong-s....

Djikstra - Quick and Dirty: I would not like it
http://flickr.com/photos/mando/1591358554/

Picard - Facepalm: Because expressing how dumb that was in words just doesn't work
http://www.forumammo.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10071/picard-no...
CloudStatus Keeps an Eye on The Clouds
This is good news for Slinkset. When the users of your app can get on TechCrunch, you must be doing something right.
Why not simply 1 blog with appropriate tags on your posts?

Personal, Professional, Technical, Speculation, Announce, Startup, Rant, Meta (blogging about your blog).

You could even derive versions of your blog based on those tags, for example one with (and Personal (not Professional) (not Startup) (not Technical)). So you could have 4 sites: the one with all tags available, and 3 others with restricted tags (that the user can restrict further). This way you can direct someone to your Technical blog without them tripping in your Personal stuff.
To play Steve Jobs's game I'd have to buy a Mac, an iPhone, a developer program license, and possibly an Apple Developer Connection membership. I'd also have to spend the time to learn Objective C and the iPhone environment. Together that's a substantial amount of time and money I'd have to make up for before I wind up ahead.

How is there lower risk?
A window.
I wish there were some Android devices in the wild.

Google Android was so much easier to write to than the iPhone.

I love the type safety Java gives you compared to Obj-C. Stepping through gdb trying to figure out why something threw an NSException is no fun, especially if the stack keeps getting busted.

And IntelliJ is light years better than XCode, if feel clunky moving around in Xcode.

Unfortunately the users are on iPhone, so no choice. Tho the controls and animations are gorgeous on the iPhone.	[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL]; is cool as heck.
VisiBone have some very nice quality laminated reference charts, booklets etc.: http://www.visibone.com/ -- their JS/CSS references have very high information density.
I wish I could put a poster up but I fear the customers. See, since we are a retail/online shop (guess which part I handle), we have one big warehouse that we turned into a pseudo office/showroom. The office is nicely away from the show room but there's no walls, so customers can easily see me, and everything behind me.

It's a nice setup, very open, but I guess that restriction kind of sucks. :/ Of course, I could always put up an appropriate poster..
However, we are transitioning from workstations to server-based applications in the cloud. Lisp machines would have some significant advantages there.
Is the RIAA turning to comic books to combat Internet piracy?
"The App Store's name is revealing: it tells us that Apple doesn't see a platform to be manipulated, but a market to be made."

Even if the name really did tell us that, it would be a lie. Apple is manipulating the store by failing to accept apps for no reason, by removing some apps at their inconsistent editorial discretion, and by banning entire classes of apps like browsers and mp3 players for fear of competition.
I used smartphones as a point because most smartphone users have a data plan with unlimited text/instant messages, and because smartphones generally have full keyboards, or at least better data-input mechanisms. I have a Razr that I use for everyday communication, and the process of sending/receiving a text message is a royal pain in the ass. Sending a message is slow and laborious, because a number pad wasn't designed to send fulltext messages, and predictive typing still requires lots of manual corrections for common words (good vs home, in vs go, etc).

As for business meetings, SMS messages almost seem incredibly informal and curt, especially when money is on the line ("We're settling a business deal and you don't even have the courtesy to actually talk to me?").

I'm most certainly not saying that no one should be texting, just that to some people, a phone is a phone, and would prefer to hear someone and chat with them, rather than having short, expensive, impersonal messages flying about. Granted, 20c by itself isn't that much, but when us poor Americans get slapped with charges on both outgoung and incoming messages, it can add up pretty quickly.
Stolen 3G iPhone loses out to BlackBerry in head-to-head conducted while driving
Is there--understand, here, that I don't have a blog and haven't blogged, so I have no idea--is there blog software that will do this for you already? Like, handle a different URL, css styles, etc. but point to the same database? That sounds like it would be really handy.
You're assuming what I just said is still an open question.
Scaling Out (Facebook Engineering Blog)
In saying:

Why does it matter what value one's life has? The lecture doesn't seem to give an answer. Will there be a judgment in afterlife, depending on our lives value? I don't think so. I think the "value" is strictly a subjective, individual thing, and therefore Philosophy can't help much with it.

you're already committing yourself to a philosophical position, that "value is strictly a subjective, individual thing." But that's precisely one of the philosophical issues that's under debate! After all, how could you decide whether value is subjective or not via the scientific method? You can't. There's no value finding experiment. The only way to proceed is philosophically.
The 'Photographic Truths' poster by Ted Orland
Fast quantum computer building block created
My bad :-) Being a Daring Fireball regular, I just think of it as being Gruber - hence a use of 'they' indicates someone else for me. That'll teach me to pay a bit more attention when reading!
If you already have an intel Mac and an iPhone or iPod touch, you're looking at only $99 for an individual developer license.

I didn't have a device, so add the price of an 8Gb iPod touch.

It seems you're overlooking the psychological factors at work in the app store. It's very, very easy to buy apps. This is so much easier than being noticed on the web-at-large.

For the same price as a Starbucks coffee, people will buy your app just to see what it's like. It's throwaway money, to them. The amount of marketing you'd have to do to get that response for shareware or trial-ware is much greater.
6 of the 23 apps are not free. Whats up with that?
"And as for ftp???!!!?"

Actually, Transmit's a pretty awesome little utility. It supports ssh (scp) and more importantly, it supports AWS S3 so you can explore and modify your buckets with it. There's a Firefox plug that does similar thing but it's horribly buggy.
Peter Thiel  for President 2012
> practically everything that made C++ bearable was a third-party dep on Boost

For what it's worth, pretty much all good C++ devs I know are getting nauseous at any mentioning of Boost .. with "passionate hatred" being a more accurate description. Very professional (older) crowd, responsible for some very notable and large-scale projects.

In general, C++ is too feature-full to ensure any sort of consistency of coding and design styles between any two C++ developers. Some use it as beefed up C, others - strictly as OO language. Former will never be pleased with the code produced by latter, and vice versa. Boost only amplifies these differences, so it's really not a big surprise that it is despised in certain C++ circles.
To beat Craigslist, you need to find something about Craiglist that can not only be done better -- but that users actually want more than Craigslist's reach. Both those requirements need to be there for a competitor to have a chance.

In other words, it's not sufficient enough to say, "Somebody could easily build a better-looking Craiglist". Users aren't willing to post or browse classifieds on a site that may look nicer by doesn't have the same reach.

Likewise, it's not sufficient to offer a site that has "modern" (Web 2.0) tools. Again, that doesn't help users with their primary objective: getting their ad in front of as many people as possible.

So does Craiglist even have an Achilles' Heel then? In my opinion, the one thing that absolutely sucks about posting an ad to Craiglist is getting a ton of flakey or illegible responses from people who are just wasting your time. I don't bother to post small items there anymore because it's just not worth the trouble. If someone could develop a site that filters out all the flakes, I bet you'd have a compelling reason for people to start using it.
The History of Programming Languages poster from O'Reilly.

http://oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/languageposter_0504.ht...
I like it. There seems to be both widespread disagreement as to not only what the guidelines should be, but what they actually are.

dhotson said: "My personal mantra on this is to focus on upvoting." Mine too, but unfortunately it only takes a few people whose focus is instead being community police to annoy the hell out of a lot of other people.

An "off-topic" button might go a little way toward solving this.
I haven't advertised it yet but you can find it here: www.newmogul.com

It's still missing some pages: about etc. but everything's functional.
Ah, but you're missing an important point:

You're (I'm not directing this entirely at raganwald, as it applies to many of the arguments made) assuming that only Hackers are capable of voting and posting.

I generally agree, and think this article should have made it. But the argument of 'Only articles interesting to hackers will make it to the front page' fails at the part where we assume that only people interested in Hacker News are doing the majority of voting (The Digg factor kind of forces me to think that when the Digg-ers show up, they'll reshape any news to fit their idea of "news" - see Reddit).
Social Median Disregards 60 Years Of Securities Regulations With Sale Of Stock On Twitter
A little lesson or a trade off - get coverage on TC :)
I find a Sword of Damocles helps.
Personally, I just setup an rsync share on the VM, and then run a script on my local machine that rysnc's the project directory just checking timestamps for changes and ignoring all scm folders. It's super quick after the initial sync, since all your usually changing anyway per testing iteration is just a few small text files at a time. Works great for big projects too.

Although nowadays, I'm finding the 'separate VM & host os" for development a bit tedious. Even executing that script to see code changes vs. just saving the file and seeing it right away is a drain on productivity. And doing remote editing put's a noticeable lag to my editing.
" If all of your previous experience is in dynamic languages like PHP or Ruby, Objective-C is really going to hurt."

I sort of disagree. Knowing C would help in some situations, but not knowing it shouldn't be a deal breaker.

Objective-C is really a high level dynamic language built on C, so some of the low level-ness of C shows through (objects are actual pointers, etc).

But the Cocoa APIs are like something you would expect in a dynamic language.
lol, I just see a page full of crap.

Not anymore. The page works now.

So let me put something useful here.

My list of tools:

vim
Lower the drinking age to 16, raise the driving age to 18.
Designing and Using Combinators: The Essence of Functional Programming (course materials)
A good point. But, Forbes never should have published this article anytime after 1999. The idea of "Four Tens" and "Power Shifts" (as they call it in business-speak) is not a new idea, and really only works for certain types of people in certain roles.

A magazine like Forbes should be writing about newer ideas, something along the lines of a 32-hour workweek (37S was not the first to have this idea, as I'm sure many of you must know).

It's time, dammit!
yeah it's all network effect and branding. Kijiji has been having problems finding a foot hold anywhere. Just the same way olx.com has got gotten big in the USA but is big internationally.

http://www.flugpo.com

At flugpo we are building a craigslist competitor that has better everything. But it's hard to get a large foothold anywhere with out being able to focus on a market and work at it for a long time.
When a C program is worse than its high-level counterpart, it usually means poor choice of some dynamic data structure or algorithm on the C side. As a rule high-level languages provide well-polished, high-quality implementations of most common structures, e.g. all kinds of associative arrays, while a C programmer is left with his own basic knowledge of this kind of stuff.

The garbage collector alone can't make Smalltalk better than C, it's just impossible unless some very advanced optimizations are used, say, compile-time decisions to allocate an object on the stack (if you look at the latest JVM, for example). But even then in C, these decisions can be made by the programmer.
not very useful if you want to mock up custom UITableViews...
Ask HN: Outbound telemarketing services recommendations?
So eBay just jacked up their fees for media sellers. We never planned on it, but Dawdle (http://www.dawdle.com) is now the cheapest place to sell video games (and systems and accessories) online.

I can't handle the inbound interest, let alone call out. We have a lead list of about 2,500 mom and pop stores to call; does anyone have a good recommendation for outbound telemarketing services?

Many thanks in advance. Y'all rock.
PyDev Extensions for django developers!

He also forgot the scm utils, like Versions or Cornerstone. GitNub seems to be more a GUI for GitHub than git unfortunately :(
Emily: Photo-realistic CG facial animation by Image Metrics
Can't see it with ff3
Is there anything at all that makes Social Median more interesting than Digg and Reddit?
It doesn't hurt anyone if you do release right? Since you've learned a lot more of PHP, I imagine it would be somewhat interesting working through a bit of your code, while fixing it up too.

I think there's always interest in other peoples' work. you never know who will find your work useful. As long as one person does, I think it's worth it. Maybe someone can learn a bunch from your code, even if they aren't interested in a rental property CMS.

So, in short, yes :)
srry not to be mean but you totally missed the market craigslist is actually better than your site... we are working on a competitor but only in germany.
Unconfirmed rumor. Probably a hoax.

Edit: s/Possibly/Probably
Yeah, that's what the quote sounded like to me, too.
40 flights? Very annoying if you're on one of 'em, but the TSA can't afford to freak out every time 40 flights out of the thousands-per-day that they're responsible are delayed, can they? Viewed from the TSA's perspective, this is a minor screwup.
Mostly because people are focused on the wrong things, we are working on a german classified site, we might be looking for a US Team in some months. Preferred location San Francisco :-) that would be fun.
Pretending to game the system: Fans hoax "Girlfriend" vid to the #1 spot on YouTube.
Does the following help? (A link to the alpha documentation.)
http://www.cilk.com/resources-for-multicoders/documentation-...

We will post a bunch of code examples as well, but wanted to get something up sooner than later.
the true 4-day work week works for only a few people at 37s while a few other people put in long, hard hours getting a lot of the tedious work of maintaining a body of software done

If that's true, it's significant. It would mean that what they're saying is bullshit, no?
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Well by saying "there is no value finding experiment", didn't you kind of already admit that debate is useless? That is what I mean by "is is a subjective, individual thing" - there can be no external measurement for value. Even if there was a god, we could not be forced to accept it's values.
I have Edward Hopper's "Two On The Aisle" behind me. It's one of my favorite Hopper paintings, and people often comment that they think it is a nice change from everyone's maps of the internet and automotivators.

http://www.toledomuseum.org/Images/Art/Modern/1935_49.jpg
A Foe-Glass. I've said too much.
Unfortunately, C++0xDeadBeef didn't work for vegetarian members of the committee.
They don't like allowing different kinds of searches or mashups. Some examples are searches that show included images beside each entry & a preview of the actual text, or searches that search further than just one region, or searches like housingmaps.com, which craigslist seem pretty ambivalent about. They want to stay in their own format and not let people take that format and transform into something that's possibly better.
No not really.

Apparently they are building it primarily as a recommendation system and not as much a news site. Although I could be wrong.