skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first thing FriendFeed lacks is a profile of the user. If I use my Friendfeed account as a link for someone to find out about me (ie in an email footer), then having some profile information alongside my feeds makes sense. This is more of a Facebook profile feature I'm thinking inserted into a FriendFeed-like 'base' site.

Also, FriendFeed lacks distinction between Friends and Subscribers, currently there are only subscribers. A person's life also consists of events they are going to, places they are or have been employed, and place they've travelled to. Each of these would be represented.

Furthermore, as a webmaster, I'd like to login and see what on-site comments have been made about pages on my site and by whom.

There should be a toolbar, allowing me to like/digg/approve any page I come across and then comment on it. Those comments can be accessed back on the site, in a sidebar like socialbrowse, or 'pulled-into' any site that wants them. In the sidebar, I should also see where else on the web discussion for any page is occurring. Also, I should be able to see what pages my friends are on at any time, and there should be a toggle to turn off the broadcast of my browsing behaviour to stay 'under the radar.' There should be chat too, either with friends or people on the same page. Also, an author or content creator profile should be seen in the toolbar of any page so a webmaster or author can claim their site or page.

A business can create a profile page and then keep it updated with the latest news, product offerings, events, press releases and fundings associated with it for stakeholders to follow.

The new site should allow 'Tweet'-like updates, and also presence updates of where someone is located and friends and news occurring in that physical zone.

There's no reason the aforementioned sites (twitter, facebook, socialbrowse etc.) can't be integrated to some extent (especially Friendfeed), but ideally this site would be standalone and a replacement. It may in fact copy text and content straight off qualifying external sites for redisplay, like imgfave does for photos. That way, it can start to track authors I like, and I can then view articles on-site without logos and ads as seen on the source site.

News for example can be submitted on-site and attached to a company or individual or, it can be aggregated from elsewhere like on Friendfeed. Expanding overall submission capabilities would be a goal. It can also implement the OpenSocial SPI.

Information is semantically marked-up and searchable.
My personal highlight:

"It had a novel event-handling system capable of supporting arbitrary user-defined events. The event system identified events by pattern-matching.

Q: What kind of high-level events would that be? Could the user define those?

Mikel: Yes. The idea was that you could plug a sequence of lower-level events together and use a property sheet to perhaps parameterize them, thus creating a novel kind of event. Sort of like constructing AppleScripts by recording UI actions, but in smaller, easier to understand and easier to debug pieces. (One of the things I wrote for the automated testing system was an application that watched what the user did and constructed a representation of the observed actions that could be replayed on another system; it represented actions not in terms of low-level MacOS events, but in terms of abstract state transitions described in terms of frames that represented application features, so that moving to a different machine with different screen layout and so forth would not break the playback. Some of the ideas for the event system came from combining that experience with the experience of Jim Grandy, who actually wrote the event system, and who had earlier worked on Garnet.)"

The future of OSes, folks!... and of applications too I'd say. It's surprising how "advanced" techniques can be very helpful even in "simple and common" cases, I've been thinking lately.
Dude you botched the obvious name for this one....rhymes with flix....
iCamelCaseExtreme - Use the current rental choice to suggest related books (or soundtrack) to purchase on Amazon. Make money when users click on the Amazon referrals.
Pushing Daisies 2.01 Sneak Peek: Bzzzzzzz
The new season of “Pushing Daisies” has been given a sneak peek through a clip of its first episode, “Bzzzzzzz!”. The clip will see a spokesmodel for a cosmetic company stung to death with horrible spots all over her body.
Supernatural in the Beginning Promo Pics 2
So we met young John and Mary, but who is this I see sitting down to dine with the family? Dean spends a little quality time with Gramdma and Grandpa. (Why do I think Dean’s going to get misty over all of this?)
Ring-cellphone concept combines style and basic functions
Much has been made of how Nielsen's brand of usability doesn't translate to the real world, particularly with his own site. While not adding a lot, this was an interesting summary of some of the biggest issues.
Very interesting review, Sid. I'd be interested to know where things stand in 4-6 weeks time and if you've made a choice to support either of the services exclusively.
That is one of the coolest articles on Haskell I've seen in a while. Touches on most things I find interesting: data parsing, signal analysis, compression, and a realistic implementation of a not-so-trivial program.
Furthermore, the claim behind developing for the Mac platform is the average Mac user is far more likely to want to spend money on extra little utilities that marginally improve their experience. Which is why it's allegedly viable to be a Mac developer when their market share is a fraction of Windows'.
It's not about the technology
Mercury rising? Fluorescent bulbs deliver mixed benefits
PeHUB: Q3 Venture Capital Investment Way Down
"I don't want to create iPhone-specific apps with Flash (yet!)."

You shouldn't. But a lot of Flash apps made for WIMP won't run smoothly or, in many ceases, at all on the iPhone.

"All multi-touch does in Safari is zoom!"

Nothing is perfect, but the iPhone, unlike any other mobile on the planet, does in fact have a coherent user experience. And the basis of that is multi-touch, not just in Safari but everywhere on the phone. This isn't some Linux distro where all apps have their own UX paradigm. You can't expect iPhone users to switch UI paradigms when they encounter Flash apps just because Flash can't handle multi-touch or because its WIMP conventions conflict with the iPhone's. (The vast majority of Flash apps/sites are predicated upon mouse rollover, for example, that doesn't work on the iPhone.)

This is a movie we've seen before. You could give the same example with friends sending you links for stuff buried in Active X containers in IE that no other non-Windows browser could properly render. What happened? MS has gradually abandoned Active X, and much of what Active X could do can now be done via non-proprietary browser technologies. The scenario won't be so different for Flash. Nothing will be black and white, but that's the trend.
Facebook is positioning their applications as Applications with a capital 'A'. From the 'Start' looking 'Applications' button on the bottom left to the shortcuts, it seems like Facebook is trying to encourage people to build real apps with real value.

Think more Excel and iTunes and less Vampires and Werewolves- the problem is, the FB platform was getting known for shitty spam apps, not for the truly useful and innovative applications that FB can be used for. By killing the spam apps they help the real apps, like Scrabulous, Causes, and Flixster.
Most overhyped word of 2008: 'The Cloud'
This is a cool idea. If anyone is interested in building something like this as a side project on weekends, reply here or email me. I've done stuff with data mining/recommendations before.
Give me a break, are you seriously saying that you 'express yourself' through Bush count-down clocks and quizzes on what kind of a serial killer you are ?
More of Karl Marx's class warfare.

Excerpt:

"[Universal Hub] doesn't use nofollow," Gaffin explains. "... word was getting out among the pagerank queens and I was getting tired of dealing with those morons."

Gaffin reports that forcing commenters to register has greatly reduced the problems described above, although he says some of the "pagerank losers" are still willing to create user accounts on Universal Hub to boost the PageRank of their websites or those of customers.

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"Pagerank queen" = subset of lumpenprol. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpenproletariat)

In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (1852), Marx refers to the lumpenproletariat as the 'refuse of all classes,' including 'swindlers, confidence tricksters, brothel-keepers, rag-and-bone merchants, beggars, and other flotsam of society.'
Why elisp sucks
Prag Progs put iPhone SDK development book into beta following lift of Apple NDA
Selenium: Firefox extension to automate web app testing
I'd like to never buy another ink or toner cartridge again.

Funny you mention that. Zink ( http://www.zink.com/how-ZINK-works ) is working on just that. It was even discussed here in other posts (http://searchyc.com/zink ).
On Fashion
That's nothing. Just wait until "Cloud 2.0".
Oxygen is the common link in all these, and every single case of Cancer ever recorded. I can assure you that if you stop breathing now you will not die of cancer (unless you already have a very advanced case).
Wow... I would so much rather just have (perhaps a subset of) the actual data always on my display. I don't have an iPhone, but there's some room on my little screen that could show -90 when I'm in a cave and, like, -9 most of the time (or whatever it may be).

Seriously, people, are we supposed to be so dumb that we can't do that kind of judgment call on our own? I thought that that kind of thing was what the human mind was supposed to be good at and that computers are supposed to be bad at, yet here we are having a phone do it for us?
The Collaboration Economy
Just signed up. I gave them a research task I already completed myself last weekend. I want to see how the results compare. Will probably post the results somewhere.
> The one that has doubled the world average life expectancy over the last century.

Life expectancy has been more or less like nowadays in past, and this for a long time.

Then came the Industrial Revolution (a product of modern science), and it went down to half. Then came modern medicine, and tried to bring it back to where it had already been for a long, long time...
Scenario:

Google comes out with killer mobile apps, including some location aware, flow/stream, whatever stuff that leverages all the info. and advertising, etc. that Google has, plus new mobile centered advertisers (Businesses that are not traditionally searched for). Its so good that none of the carriers can duplicate it.

These applications drive carrier revenue by encouraging data usage, mobile payment usage(in a future form), 'location usage', etc.

Google realizes people are not clicking on ads (as much as when 'browsing' on a PC). So they do two things, charge the carriers to offer their services(take a share of mobile payments they generate, data usage, etc.) and charge businesses to get their ads in front of people on mobiles, perhaps on a non CPM basis.

Is this 'growth'? Yes. Its very possible people will 'search' (to use the term very loosely) for different things from their mobile than they do on the web. Fast food coupons, vs. straight info. And its also very possible that 'searching' wont be typing into a search-box, but instead some type of flow based suggestion mechanism.
What kind of tasks?
Sicilia-Sud-Categoria-Agriturismi-in-provincia-di-RAGUSA
Resources for learning REST
Well, it's not a big secret - I spend time in Fraunhofer labs, and we get a lot of stuff that is paid for by companies doing research. There's good stuff out there, but it's just not yet commercially viable. But the technology is there.

I ran Windows XP for years on a 400mhz PC just fine. Mobile processors may be slow, but they are fine for the uses that they will be used for in the near future - email, chat, social networking and the iPhonesque games. Also, one can switch between dedicated simpler processors to more complex processors if battery life were an issue.

Technologically, I see very little problems with the concept. The problem lies more with distribution, acceptance and all the business interests whom it does not favor to have this out there.

Growth will come in that people will choose to purchase mobile devices that double as a laptop, instead of purchasing a new laptop. So you are right in that it won't bring in new people, it will just cause a movement from one device to the other.
If you liked that, you might be interested in jpeg decoding in Haskell:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.25.6...

I also found this literate source while looking for that paper again; cool! http://www.imperialviolet.org/binary/jpeg/
Cloud 2.0 Beta
That's easy for 1 price switch. It get's pretty crazy if you're doing constant experimentation.
Mac OS X market share cracks 8%
Evolving software for evolving markets
A Night In The Life
Dear BusinessWeek,

A friend recently sent over a link to your article “Jammin’ Like Crazy at Goldman,” a description and insider’s take on life as an investment banking analyst. Frankly, the article left much to be desired.
There's a massive flaw with all these location-based iPhone social networks. They attract only a limited subsection of the world; namely, people interested in location-based iPhone social networks. And you don't need gadgetry to know when there's one of those in the vicinity. Just look for the bloke who's got a TechCrunch T-shirt, an Apple logo imprinted into his hand and a bashed nose from walking into the lamppost while gawping at his location-based iPhone social network.
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I have been getting tons of emails lately such as, “What is the Best Halloween Costume for a G to wear?” or something to the tune of “I am going to a sick Halloween gig this year, what is the best costume?” Decent questions, all in all. I am going to go out on a limb and assume that when people say “Best” they mean the “Best Halloween Costume to Pick up Girls in”. Fair enough?
I don't know how much these things vary within the EU, but from my own experience coming to Austria, as long as you can find a job in which you earn more than ~34k Eur/year (a bit less that 50k Usd/ year - not very difficult at all to do as a programmer) and have at least a bachelors degree (better a masters), getting a work permit is not that difficult.
New findings indicate HIV/AIDS pandemic began around 1900, earlier than previously thought
First detection of magnetic field in distant galaxy produces a surprise
Don't forget to go out and grab Prag's iPhone SDK book! Just snagged mine!

http://pragprog.com/titles/amiphd/iphone-sdk-development
Storm trooper hoodie with zip up face mask:

http://www.shopecko.com/product/index.jsp?productId=313092

I rest my case (disclaimer on price though).
Apple finally drops NDA, iPhone developers rejoice
Ballmer: Microsoft will soon release ‘Windows Cloud’ OS
Ask YC: What do you do to excel at your job ?
What do you do to grow yourself in your career apart from your job ?
like coding hobby projects, open source, reading books, reading blogs etc..care to share your thoughts.
Right. Mobile sales will be fantastic for hardware manufacturers in the future. Though I still agree with Dvorak in that I'm always going to be a little skeptical about paying $2,000 for something I could easily drop into a toilet and ruin. Not saying I won't do it, but I'll think twice about it.

(I actually did once drop a phone in a glass of iced tea, but it somehow worked afterward.)
I make time to correct outside things that annoy or disrupt my work and open source the solutions.
However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for released software.

They've acknowledged that it was causing a problem for their developers, so to the extent that they want to help out their developers, that counts as admitting a mistake. Though yes, they do mention their other priorities, so technically it isn't a full admission.
no mechanism that allows or even requires content authors to create their own metadata will ever take off. lets go back in time to 1996 and look at the meta tag. the idea was that people would describe pages with terms like "cancer research" or "fly fishing" but instead used terms like "pussy cunt fuck cum orgy". why? because people figured out very quickly what people were looking for on the web and crafted meta tag keyphrases apprpriately

the whole point of quality search engines like google is to circumvent this garbage....i.e. circumvent the semantic web

microformats just moves the problem into a new area of the text. another flop.
Social Media ABC's - P is for Permalink
the cult of buffett has become amusing. he would be the first one to point out his own investing gaffs and blunders to his own cultists. he would be the first to tell you not to idolize him because he periodically makes bad bets. he's just an opportunist with a moderately good track record. i can't remember a single year in which he was the best performing manager. he's simply being doing pretty good for so long that he has accumulated a vast fortune.
Scott Adams: The unexpected economist
well played facebook! well played. use the app monkeys to help build traffic, then kick them off the rez. haha well played indeed.

thats sharecropping for you children. will be amusing to watch the slide/rockyou wankers fall back into the well of mediocrity that spawned them.
you're missing the part where the actual number friendfeed users couldn't fill a 737
With me, I'm more of a business person than a coding person (though I do code)... So when I'm not explicitly working on the various aspects of my venture I am usually reading blogs and various business publications. I do read books every now and then, more often I read reference manuals =P.
draft in the wake of people who fetishize work.
InfoQ: Archaeopteryx: A Ruby MIDI Generator
moderately good track record:
http://finance.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chd...

*This is already after the point where he's been consistently very good & already has had several generations of cult following.
Cool article! I took a class on compression about a year ago and taught myself Scheme by implementing the algorithms in it. Functional style really worked well with those algorithms.
Sam Schillace Interview on Bootstrapping Writely and Life at Google after Acquisition
Programming Annoyance: Libs that exit
i can't remember a single year in which he was the best performing manager.

You actually nailed it with that statement - his performance is measured on decades, not year to year.
France & Spain do OK from tourists huh? Australia, Africa & the US get sucked off the map.
For me, it's hacking open-source hardware -- specifically, creating small gadgets based on the Arduino platform. After several days of coding, it's nice to switch gears and pick up a soldering gun. There's something magical about a blinking LED that you wired up yourself. How that helps my career, I don't know... but when the robot revolution finally arrives, I'll know how to resolder those suckers.
I'm working on a little tree-based HTML editor with jQuery
And this is the first demo. I'm curious what people think of it.
I'm going to guess this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactic_acid
Street Fighting Mathematics (2008 MIT course)
If you want to offer other languages your best bet for the short term is to outsource the translation. Keep hiring English speakers as usual, but when dealing with alternate language users use an outsourced middleman for translation. There are plenty of services available that provide native-quality human translation in a fairly short amount of time. A good service will offer at least 10 languages and possibly up to about 30. It's the easiest and fastest way to support many languages.
I had a similar experience, except that I was imagining Professor Bunsen Honeydew saying, "Welcome again, folks, to Muppet Labs, where the future is being made today."

More on-topic, it seems like there's a sliding scale that goes from "print with ink on disposable paper" up to "download onto eBook-type reader." I wonder where the sweet spot is (if there is one) in terms of creating a product for what would have to be termed 'mobile (probably static) media?'

For example, if the number of times you can reprint the same page increases, at some point you have to start thinking of a more durable substrate than paper, and the up-front cost goes up. And then, how much more is an A-size reader, say 1/4" thick but not flexible? Then how much more for a flexible one? And then a 1/2 to 1" thick reader that could hold the library of congress?

Maybe eBook readers aren't so much a solution to book reading as they are to the paperless office problem?
I think I would put Amazon on the map too.
12seconds.tv Goes Mobile But Does The Important People Care?
When you rate a movie on Netflix, it will be posted on your twitter account using hashes.
"John McCain is an AT&T guy; Barack Obama is a Google guy."
Crowd-Sourced Capital
I am suddenly hit with this image of some mechanic who has a smoking addiction and just got done fixing a car which had a leaking gas tank come in, sit down, light up, and get on a Mac Pro which reaks for some unknown reason... =O
This is a well-thought out response to my snarky one-line comment. That being said, for the casual users of social networks (who are the vast majority), would any of these things convince them to raise stakes and move over to your walled garden?

Facebook, at its inception, offered simplicity. The redesign is a sign that they still consider that to still be one of their primary strengths, not just something that allowed them to achieve their current user base. I'm not a social network power user by any stretch, so maybe I'm just not thinking big enough, but I can't imagine any feature (or set of features) that would make another social networking site irresistible to me.

The problem here, other than the obvious chicken-and-egg one with respect to users, is that there aren't any trendsetters in social networking. Announcing some new features will inevitably bring in tech-obsessed users looking for something new and shiny, but creating a feature set that specifically appeals to power users doesn't guarantee that the casual users will eventually follow.
Good. Most of the facebook applications are spammy & awful. I didn't like the new facebook at first, but now, after getting used to it, I really do.
Netflix exposes api for their movie data
If you contribute to Open Source Software, you probably do it in a state in which you would have been able to work instead.

Even if you are at home, your time costs money. Opportunity costs.
The various estimation tricks in the notes are pretty awesome, I highly recommend reading it for anyone who wants to kick their mental math foo to the next level
Just a short note: We had to take down new signups due to overwhelming demand. Leave a contact and we'll get to you within a few days.

Hopefully people here and elsewhere can appreciate that as opposed to doing a shoddy job. :)
Hand Coding HTML/CSS
Would Apple really shut iTunes?
You can not do that now?
Palin meets ELIZA via Markov chains
Food has always been about class in Britain
Why society should pay the true costs of security
Here's a good book on how to cook things besides steamed rice with your rice cooker.

I bought it for my sister and she really enjoys it.

http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Rice-Cooker-Cookbook-Porridge...
/dp/1558322035/
iPhone SDK - the review (now that the NDA is gone)
Amazon started life in the Web 1.0 world. Buy stuff online. Once they added ratings and collaborative filtered recommendations, they became more 2.0.