skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about this group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3426 has over 150 members.
Don't be that friend that complains to their friends for months on end about how you're girlfriend cheated on you. You could have easily read her text messages and found out months ago.
Therapy is just a substitute for true friendship in our increasingly friendless world.

The wealthier we get, the safer we feel, the less need we have for friends, and then the only choice left to us is to pay a stranger to listen to our problems.
Yes, I have, and it's one I feel is fairly accurate. Do you have some counterexamples of where life for new, small businesses is easier in Europe? There might be a few: the Estonian corporate tax is supposed to be pretty good; the UK and Ireland aren't as expensive as continental Europe, but by and large, I stand by my statement.
Sounds a little suspicious --

"During the first week each participant will be oriented to their living space, office/work space, ... and reality TV crew and cameras." (emphasis added)
Define long term. Every time I see an article from the 40s describing today, they've got us all in flying cars.
> The DMCA is screwing a ton of potential music startups. Tipjoy is in a ridiculously regulated space of finance. Plenty of YC startups get screwed by immigration laws.

Like I said below, those are pretty good examples, but "America's small businesses" are not primarily comprised of that sort of thing. I guess I just reacted to the blanket "government is the problem" statement, which I feel is inaccurate. It's certainly a problem, but not the problem for most businesses. It's also a source of many benefits for businesses, such as an educated workforce, infrastructure, enforcement of contracts, but that's getting into an extremely long, drawn out and complicated argument: "the ideal level of government", that is guaranteed to go nowhere. I think we can all agree that certain things ought to be streamlined, though.
Comp.lang.lisp discussion about loops and cache line alignment
I'm actually impressed and not at all suspicious over the fact that every single device my boyfriend owns is as secure as he can manage. He'll willingly let me view all the text messages and emails and whatnot that I want (even for work, as long as I don't tell anyone..), but you know, those pesky strangers and pesky people who might steal your phone or laptop...
It supports cookies just fine. It just doesn't send your info to every third party site that has a pixel on the page.

Now for Google to track you as you move around the web, they'll have to do a lot more than simply give people a JS snippet to slap in their pages. That's the point. It won't make it impossible for them, but it could make it impractical.

The article probably didn't explain it so well because it was aimed at a non-technical audience.
One of the most disappointing things by far is that things are so unfinished.

HTTPS keeps being promised, other languages, being able to pay for higher quotas, etc etc etc.

Not to mention the datastore is freaking weird and painful to use. Scalablity is all well and good but I'd rather write my site quickly and scale when needed. If all I'm going to do is make an app for me and my friends, I don't want the gods of scaling to demand virgin sacrifices just to do simple things.
Steve Yegge's js2-mode is pretty freaking awesome for emacs users.

Yay emacs. It also has built in linting for things like inconsistent returns and so forth. Its kind of amazingly good.
Research shows that when common sense is supported by research it seems more credible.
Al Gore is a politician. Not a scientist. What he does is politics. Global warming is used by politicians to tax and regulate.

Check out this video by an actual professor: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FOLkze-9GcI
For starters: The government runs schools and universities in the US.
Some people think they can cut corners and fool others.
Have you read Bastiat?

http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html#broken_window

What is not seen is all the businesses that are not started. What is not seen is how business could deliver better products/services, that people would want, but don't because of government regulation. And so on.
revolutionhealth is one that tried with serious finance and backing that seems to have failed?
Update On The TechCrunch Tablet: Prototype A
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How do you hold auctions for domain names? You can't force people to renew via auction, or Google will just steal the domain name from any site that catches on. You can't really start out with an auction price either, because any domain name not already taken clearly has 0 bidders, so the first one would win for $10.

Auctions only make sense for domains that were already registered and whose owners want to sell them, and that's already done.

Raise the price of domain names too high (say $1,000) and you stifle innovation. Keep it sufficiently low and squatters will still have any name worth keeping. It's a no-win situation. Though the current state of domain names sucks, it's kinda like democracy. It's the least bad option.
Yes, I have, and that's an excellent point. However, I would be willing to bet that opportunity costs weigh far more heavily in most people's minds in terms of "businesses not started". Sure, there are some sectors where the barrier to entry is probably too high due to regulations, but for most small businesses, the thing stopping people is more likely fear of failure, worries about foregone income at a stable job, health insurance, or issues along those lines.
More like 2/3 don't know what a text message is.
Every phone I've used for the last 5 years had a pin number function.
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Isn't this roughly what he's been saying since his 1999 book?
I assume to show the type inference popups of Visual Studio. A better choice would have been to use the CopySourceAsHtml add-in and only capture the popups as images.
Bill Gates predicts sun will rise tomorrow

with an embedded touch screen
And that's exactly why you should forward it to your boss ;)
Cartoon: Flash Intro Screens
"reality TV crew and cameras."

I thought the rock star thing was a metaphor :D
An good example would be Marc Andreessen of Netscape talking about Browsers making Operating System irrelevant in late 90's but the real potential of browsers is coming to be realized now and they are making OS irrelevant today.
I'm talking about the initial registration of a domain name. Not the renewal fee.

Stifle innovation??? How would you stifle innovation?

The current situation gives away names to anyone who wants them, when their market price is way above that. It's a land grab with no limits on how much land you can grab, which I don't think is a fair way to be doing things. Many of the good domain names are just held by a few people who happened to be around at the right time.

I'd say $1k was a good start on making domain names fair.
Or, wait until enough people are interested in a domain name, and auction it.

eg I see that foobar.com is unregistered, register my interest, that goes public, other parties have say 30 days to register interest, then after those 30 days it goes up for auction, at which time the market decides a price for it. Profits to go to the eff or something :/
The iPod Power Behind Apple’s Big Mac Push
Classy. Do these guys really think you can brew up a $200 web tablet at an old kitchen table?

I've been critical of this project before, but my advice on the matter would be to refer techcrunch to the first facet of this effect:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect

I don't understand how the commenters on TC think it's anywhere near an actual prototype. Groupthink?

If they're serious about this project, TC should focus on the skills they have (PR, contacts and reputation) and get this actually built by some pros rather than by some barefooted web 2.0 nerds with bits of Arrington's old macbook air.

Still willing to be proven wrong though.
Have you followed the 100 pushup program? 100 push ups in a row is no easy task, I would love to be able to do it ... might take this challenge on and see how it goes!
Why's poignant guide to metaprogramming in Ruby
>Do these guys really think you can brew up a $200 web tablet at an old kitchen table?

I'll believe it once they say what they are using for the screen...
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Keep in mind that the article is like 4 years old.
I'd argue that slides are more on DNSSEC weaknesses than on DNSCurve [1] strengths. Actually he only mentions advantages of his solution as opposed to giving quite detailed criticism of DNSSEC.

However, great presentation and I highly recommend it to all network/security geeks.

[1] http://dnscurve.org/
tada: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazons_mechanical_turk...
* Why Google Checkout has so much fraud/chargebacks yet no one says anything

* Why is Firefox 3 getting so much press when it is so buggy?
"Avoid errors of all types, no matter how small they seem."

Thanks you, Standford! I feal that you have opened up a door in my mind and I will never bee the same!!1
"It supports cookies just fine. It just doesn't send your info to every third party site that has a pixel on the page."

Look. Either it does, or it doesn't. Either the cookie that google told the browser about is sent back to google as defined in the RFC, or it is not.

"It just doesn't send your info to every third party site that has a pixel on the page."

What info?? The cookie that was previously set by the 3rd party site?

You seem to be muddily suggesting that cookies will be disabled for any images/js/xhr etc inside a page. That would make a ton of websites unusable in any event.

The whole point is moot anyway, as you can track users pretty accurately without using cookies.
I have a friend/associate who judges those and he's sharp as hell w/ lots of experience. He also likes to be an introducer... May you have the same luck.

The only possible negative would be that you are working on a business plan instead of a product.
Any name worth keeping? My domain name is certainly worth keeping and it only costs me $15/year. The problem isn't the low cost of domain names or squatting. The problem is a lack of imagination in coming up with names.
What’s the Big Deal About Jaiku?
I have a friend/associate who is starting up a website using this for their angel group. He told me that he thinks its not really necessary but the other partners are completely sold on it. Sort of reminds me of the funding matchmaking services.
So was the problem with the Mars Climate Orbiter caused by mixing up 'English' or Imperial units with metric units?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_unit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_units
Learn to run?
"Flying cars" will never be created, the same way a road-running sailboat will never be created. But we could probably build an aircraft today that would serve most of the purposes a car does.
Not every phone does, but even those that do often have so few numbers in the PIN that it's basically window dressing security. Are there phones that have 7-10 digit PINs?
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I hadn't realized that the word had suddenly gotten narrowed down!

I spent then 90's at MIT and was indoctrinated with the term there. It was used referred to any clever solution (no pun intended) or trick, and most especially one that thumbed its nose at authority:

http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1994/cp_car/

I'll stand by my usage: this qualifies admirably on both counts.
I will second your recommendation of Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World. It's quite good.
While they should have done a better job highlighting the interesting parts of the research, dig a bit deeper and you will find them. The PDF links at the bottom are worth reading.

(I know some people who worked on this stuff, and they are great people with lots of cool research and ideas.)
When will local truly be on the web?
All the tables on the actual page (http://www.sfenitydev.com/AwesomeInc/) makes me think they used Arc; talk about amateur hour! ;)

But seriously... a broken dotNuke layout in a frame? Exactly who are they trying to attract here, web developers from 1995?
F# is prominent on my radar.

If they will fully optimize non-mutable structures and functions across processors I think it's a game-changer for Microsoft. But having said that, it might be five years before all the pieces come together.

It has a lot of promise.
Do these guys really think you can brew up a $200 web tablet at an old kitchen table?

Actually, that's a very good sign. Every one of the smartest EEs I know works like this: In apartments or labs filled with piles of random wires and oscilloscopes and beat-up hard drives. You can tell which parts are the important ones because they're the ones that are only half-covered with random junk.

The first danger, when this project was announced, was that it would be a vanity project like so many others before it. It would consist of 85% talk, and 10% fundraising, and the remaining 5% would be outsourced to some team of professional ditherers with flashy Powerpoint presentations who would produce lots of shiny plastic mockups and cost overruns and never quite manage to ship anything. Or there would be a giant mob of 'contributors', each of whom is invited to bring a single resistor to be soldered into the heap.

Instead, after the initial rush we seem to have seen very little loose talk, which implies that there might just be a handful of people quietly plugging away on the thing. And now we get a benchtop prototype. All promising signs.

Of course, I have no doubt that you can produce a single, working desktop prototype of a web tablet. That's still a far cry from being able to mass-produce a reliable version for $200. But, if they want to get there, they appear to be on the right track. And, if they fail, at least they might learn exactly why, because they will have gotten into the weeds.
Where the TechCrunch Tablet Got it Wrong
umm... okay? Was there a point to this unintelligible gibberish?
They've got a team of people and multiple companies involved, a basic case, hardware plan and working model, and your response is:

"you can't do that, your working model isn't good enough, you're all incompetent and overreaching, you're a bunch of nerds and you're just stealing other designer's hardware."

Why does your comment have any positive votes at all?

Much as I think the idea is silly (keyboards forever!) "Do these guys really think you can brew up a $200 web tablet at an old kitchen table?" - yes, yes they do. And good luck to them.
Yeah. We don't know yet what their screen is or what it cost them. In fact, that information wouldn't be useful anyway: I'm guessing that Michael Arrington might well be able to get one model of any screen he wants for well under $200. But once he's got that screen designed into his product and is trying to contract for 2M of them... well, I'm guessing that Foxconn's sales team is pretty tough, given that they battle guys like Steve Jobs on a regular basis.

Incidentally, that's why we should be happy to see fuzzy photos of prototypes rather than more technical details. If Arrington's suppliers find out that he's committed to using Component X, the cost of producing a unit of Component X will mysteriously rise, like magic. So secrecy and a lack of public details may be a sign of good project management at work.

The question is whether the Techcrunch call for assistance has yielded a master negotiator who can eat Chinese suppliers for lunch. It might have. Silicon Valley has quite a few of them.
The idea is not bad, but they are working on obselete technology. What they should be working on are extension screens for even smaller computers - think of a very flat panel with a slot for an iphone that immediately expands the iphone screen into a 20 inch thing.

The computer itself should be expensive, but the screen part of things should be cheap.
No, it's doable - BUT not the way they're marketing it.

As a pure gadget and not a PC, it's very possible. Take out the touch screen, add a keyboard, use ARM instead of x86, and you're all set.

I blogged about it in detail here: http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/what-the-techcrunch-tablet-sho...
A graph of a related effect:

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1056

(Same phenomenon as it plays out in academia.)
Good that you don't read her text messages. What if you found out at some point in the future that she was cheating, would you wish you had read her text messages?
Uh no? That's like saying I wish I had not started dating this girl because one day she may cheat on me. I wish I didn't marry because we will divorce in two years, I wish I had came home early that night maybe I would have caught her sleeping with her ex in our bed!

I know, trust is hard to gain but sometimes it just works out. I trust her, and she trusts me. We respect each other and we're both very happy. Of course, I'm sure you've heard that from a lot of people who got cheated on but it's not something I'm going to worry about ;)
Apparently, a similar scheme is used to smuggle cocaine:

http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S037907380600129...
You have solved the first puzzle and proven yourself worthy! Now solve the problem of finding investors for them, and you shall perhaps be accepted into the program...
10 Most Curious States of Equilibrium
This seems like a case of "Even if I win, I lose."
Out of the polled group of "Virgin Mobile Australia phone customers aged 18-29"? I have strong doubts about that.

2/3 don't have partners/friends on who they can spy? Okay, that sounds more like it. ;)
Apple fans loyal despite iPod, iPhone 3G woes
How difficult would it be to packet sniff a text message? Real-time spying would be where it's at.
45th Mersenne prime found
Should you now reconsider Jaiku? (poetically so)
He wrote that article quite a while ago (Sept. 2004), actually, and has a slightly more recent (Feb. 2005) follow-up that covers several more languages here (http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/language-grubbing). Oddly, he acts as if he has no memory of writing the other thing.

He gives a much more informed opinion of Python here, I think. His overall impression is essentially, "Python is a really good language, but I already know Ruby, which is good at the same things, so I'll just stick with that." I feel the same, really, but favoring Python over Ruby.
i'll go ahead and put the SA forums (forums.somethingawful.com) out there. A ton of IT pros, most of the subforums are not filled with the cliché'd "SA goon" crap, and it costs $5 per user account, keeping many many morons out.

And yes, I have stairs in my house.
Ask YC: Can a single person develop a  website?
I am currently finding it difficult to find a partner to work on a small idea that have .So what is the feasibility of developing a project in such circumstances.Has anybody done ever tried this?
I am mainly doing this project to improve my php and javascript coding.
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Yes they can :) Plenty of highly successful websites started their lives as one man bands.
"some say.. those actions. may be"

Sure would be nice if the newspaper of record could come up with something a little more substantive in their reporting/analysis.

I'm not arguing with the premise -- I have no data to go one way or another. But I still have no data, and I read the article. Something wrong about that. The NYT really should be better than that.
We have sent in our application to YC for this round for an app we're working on that will work on tackling some aspects of the health industry.

I'm not sure if we'll get in or not (as we dont have demonstrated experience in the startup world) but we will endevour to get our app released regardless.
This is what students at Stanford are getting academic credit for?
You'd be surprised how many don't actually know how to run properly.
Someone has got to say it, but if I recall correctly the hugely successful plentyoffish was not only developed by one, but also maintained by one.
This would be a fantastic application in Facebook. I think you'd have luck in applying for the Facebook Fund.
How preparations for tomorrow’s satellite wars could ruin life as we know it today
Not so middle management
Python is a really good language, but I already know Ruby, which is good at the same things

I was under the impression that Ruby was mostly used for webapps, with really little use in other areas. Is this not correct?
Python is used widely for a variety of purposes, like system programming.
Are any HN people helping out with this?
F#: static duck typing
Startup Lessons Learned -- Take it with a grain of salt
Well, a beagle board, [beagleboard.org] is only $150 bucks in volumes of one so if they can find a touch screen for 50 bucks they basically have their 200 dollar device.
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There is nothing wrong with following a program like that but one thing push-up don't do is allow you to work your upper body through the full range of motion. Full range is important because it will work all of the supporting muscles, create a natural look to the muscle group and create more overall strength. Dumbell chest exercises, flat bench, butterfly, and incline, I think, are a better exercise option.
Why would rich people not rent Ferraris?
To make a stock snap and crackle, add milk.
I also highly recommend Magic Ink: http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/
There were rumors Apple patented this a year or so ago.
I find it annoying that people's only real criticism against Python is the white space. I love that feature, it's like high real estate prices, keeps the rif-raf out.
How long are your showers that a person would be able to brute force even a 4-digit pin in the time it took you to come back?
Ruby is a general-purpose scripting language. It just has a reputation as being used mostly for the web because Rails is its most popular app.

I don't really use Ruby (I already know Python well, and while I've played with Ruby a bit, I think my studying time is better spent on languages that are more different), so I'm going to let Ruby-ists provide examples if they want.
On a semi-related note, I found this the other day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ej3dj4x64k

"4d" Buddhabrot animation. Enjoy!
What do you mean "rumours"? Patents are open and available for all to see.
It's not a very strong example of his writing, either.
So we should be impressed that it can spell? :)
For most of Kentucky, I'd probably agree, but Lexington is actually a very nice city. I lived there for a few years while my wife was getting her PhD at UK. There is a LOT of money knocking around the area, mostly around horses, but it filters down into the entire feel of the city. UK also has a pretty vibrant tech community. Obviously it is no Boston or Palo Alto, but I'd move back there in a heart-beat.
of course. Start with a piece of paper and do a high level plan of the main goals/sections of the site. I find it helpful to use persona/role-driven design here. Once i have the main goals, then I develop the home page for a role inside Photoshop. I then develop an inner page. Once i have that, I move on to [web language of choice (i.e. php/asp.net)] and develop a few templates. Then I develop the home page and the inner pages using pure html (no database). Once I'm happy there, I move on to DB stuff nad oo-level stuff to support it.

I did all of http://www.learnsqlserver.com/, http://www.learnitfirst.com/ and http://www.videobooks.com/ sites by myself. It took a while but so what? I'm proud of the fact that I did it and I learned so much along the way.
JPL developed the software and used 'English' units consistently, NASA developed the Orbiter and used metric.
I remember reading articles in the 80s saying just that... I'm also looking forward to booking a hotel in the moon colony in a couple of years.

It's not that it is impossible. We could have flying cars and moon tourists any time we want, but the cost is much greater than the benefits.