skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A "Subscribe via iTunes" link id mentioned in episode 1 of the "The Podcast Success Podcast"

Yeah yeah, bad joke, but a link like that would do a world of good.
Ah, that's a bummer... Anyways, I already told my prof this is what I was going to do. Still a good learning experience.

Thanks for the heads up.
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Do you have any related links or a book on the subject (xmpp)?

I checked out ejabberd, it looks like a nice project but I don't know erlang, would that be a problem? Would I need to write an extension or something in erlang?
Why are people so enamoured with this fawning sycophant?
If Silicon Santa is worried, I'm worried too.

I can envision internet ad execs dripping sweat reading:
"...even if it means staff reductions and reduced marketing expense..."
Whatever you do, don't forget about privacy features. One of my friends used to work on an app called Twinkle for iPhone (http://tapulous.com/twinkle/)...it's a twitter client with their own custom location feature so you can get all the nearby tweets (using their backend, because Twitter doesn't support it yet). The only reason why I refuse to use it with the location feature enabled is because I am thoroughly creeped out by some of the people close to me (http://www.flickr.com/photos/chix0r/2788921744/, you get the idea). Only with the recently released 1.2 is there a blocking feature, but that sucks when it's a different person bothering you every time. In fact, Twinkle probably wouldn't be the only app I have a problem with...anything that publicly announces my location gets on my nerves. I don't mind if friends know, but announcing it to the public is something else.

Another consideration is that a user might want to continue in a conversation even though they're not in a location. I could actually maybe even see this as a benefit, if I wanted to join in on a conversation between people at, say, a conference without actually being there.
I've found that even on (relatively) rural roads, riding on the shoulder signals to cars that they don't have to care about your presence, and they pass so close you wonder if they even saw you. Riding a bit into the road (say a bike width out) makes them explicitly pass you, with plenty of room (generally).
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Python is simple, easy to read, and has been around and active since 1991. Because of that, it also benefits from being a very stable, fast platform (for an interpreted language), and has a huge standard library (http://docs.python.org/modindex.html). If it's not in the standard library, you can probably find it somewhere. A "killer app" is a paradigm that computer people have been using since visicalc, but I'm not sure it applies to every situation.
Well you're getting warmer:

1) Yes, 2007 is a little closer to 2008.
2) Yes, the debt increased to 60% of GDP in 2007, up from 47% in 2005.

Can you extrapolate that, especially considering our current situation?

Anyway, we've deviated a bit. You can't refute the fact that our fractional reserve system is debt-generating by nature. I really question your intelligence if you think we're going to stop invading countries anytime soon.

I'm not trying to argue about how bad our debt is relative to our GDP (even though we know that's the case). Re-read what I originally stated at the very top.
2 reasonably big assumptions:
1 stable supply (no new gold)
2 stable as a Schelling Point. Not unreasonable. But it's not unreasonable to assume the dollar will maintain value either.

Society needs one object to serve as a store of value

Unfortunately, it does not have one. Gold is one such object. You yourself are describing a fluctuation in demand in response to US government actions. That will lead to a fluctuation in price regardless of the real world value it supposedly represents - just like any other currensy. With the bonus that you can make earings out of it.
Definitely. I've met them and I'm well aware who they are and what they've done.

I was _not_ talking about Sequoia or any of the VCs listed here: http://ycombinator.com/topvcs.html (I know for a fact Greylock doesn't take a management fee). That list is roughly the smart money even if it is somewhat dated. On the hedge fund front, Clarium has reduced management fees and higher performance payouts. Those types of VCs and hedge funds are few and far between, however. I was talking about the industry in general.

Love the outlast instead of outgrow quote. I think your last paragraph is dead on.
Curious why this got modded down; is this not useful info for people wanting to know how their site looks on a variety of platforms?
DARPA to begin mysterious 'Project GANDALF'
This is very true. I bought a cheap office chair from a box retailer a year ago and completely regret it. Sitting and trying to do work becomes work in of it self. In fact, it is painful. A chair is one of those programmer's tools that you should spend a little money on (keyboards being another example).
Exactly, gold fluctuates like any other currency. The disadvantage with gold is that you can't earn interest or dividends in it. The advantage of gold is that it is run by the most responsible monetary authority in the world, a central bank that couldn't print more of it if it wanted too. Pros and cons, to both, that's why the suggestion is to keep about 25% of one's portfolio in gold. It's a hedge against a gross mismanagement by the U.S. government.
I hate how TechCrunch seems to idolize Google stock, as if its not going to be hovering at around $40-$50 in the next 18-24 months.

The market in general is going to be coughing up some blood for awhile, and I'm going to bookmark this post and send it to Mr. Arrington when I'm proven right. I remember owning Yahoo at $300+ (which split) back during its high-flying days, and Google will be no different with its heavy reliance on advertising for revenue.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!

Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...

Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!

Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

No one knows what is going to happen. Not Mike Moritz, not John Doer, not Guy Kawasaki. It doesn't surprise me that Sequoia is telling its startups to be frugal, but they should be doing that anyway. Startups that run in anything but Frugal Mode are begging for failure.

Until society entirely breaks down -- government has dissolved, people running wild in the streets, tent cities springing up by the thousands, people fighting over who gets the last mudcakes -- business will continue. Unemployment could reach as high as 10 percent, but business needs will still exist, as will the need for innovation that saves money and increases efficiency.

Outright panic caused by petulant bankers is not only annoying, it's downright stupid.
My interview for my current company was exactly like he was suggesting it should go. I had some open source work they could look at. I had a degree so they know I presumably could get through some technical stuff. We chatted at a high level about technology. (Which javascript framework do you like? (Asked to see if I had an opinion, not because any is necessarily better)). I think that it has gotten to that point at a lot of legitimate companies, and the ones who ask crazy questions like that, a lot of the time you don't want to work for.
I thought it was a very generic article, without much useful information.
Most interviews are a waste of time, period. The question you're trying to answer (as an interviewer) cannot be answered in an interview: is this person intelligent, resourceful, and motivated? I know of no test outside of actual employment that can answer that question.
I don't know. The hackers that I've recently talked to that work at Yahoo seem pretty happy with the place.

There might be more pink slips and cost cutting in the future. But they are coming out with some pretty cool open source technology and getting some decent street cred with developers: Hadoop, YUI, BOSS, Web analytics. They're seen as "getting" open source in the developer community.

Maybe it's too late for them, but I have the feeling that the hackers as Yahoo, under Jerry Yang are going to start putting out cool new products again, and eventually the stock price is going to reflect that.
Quite true. All the more reason we wish Cuban would find something to say. :-)
The list-cycle problem is from Knuth, not Design Patterns.
Check out metajack.im, tons of good posts about what your looking for.
Start with this one:
http://metajack.im/2008/10/02/speeqe-is-open-to-all/

This has related good stuff:
http://thetofu.livejournal.com/

(astute geeks will notice that these are the Chesspark/Speeqe guys - you can go to chesspark.com and speeqe.com and actually see the code that they are blogging about in action, which is awesome, and puts a big stamp of validity on what they're saying)
Yes, I was annoyed that GitHub was down, and twitted about it. And then a minute later I was pulling fro a co-worker across the room. (Life goes on; twitter is fun for near-frictionless griping.)

It's not that a GItHub failure makes everything stop, it's the convenience factor, and that they are offering this as a for-pay business service, that makes it irksome.
My advise to startup CEO's, whatever you do, don't be an optimist. This is not the end of the beginning; this is the beginning of the beginning. Things will get a lot tougher for a lot longer than you can ever imagine, much worse that the last one in 2000 which I fortunately survived. The timing of the $700B bailout last week is similar to the $3B inventory writedown by Cisco in Q3 of 2000. Until then, every CEO knew that things were tough but everyone thought that recovery was in sight. But when John Chambers threw in the towel, it really marked the beginning of the beginning. If you are the CEO of a startup that is not yet profitable and survives on VC money, you are screwed. If you are the CEO of a startup that has just achieved profitability, you might not be anymore. The best advise that I ignored in 2000 was "your money is your most valuable asset". Do whatever it takes to cut down on your fixed cost. Unfortunately, now is the time to reduce your headcount. Stretch your runway. This one will last at least four years, if not longer. You have no idea how hard this is going to get. I have been there. I know.
There is a whole economy surrounding Aerons. You can buy them used, at any time, for about $750-$800. That's not the bargain that they were during the dotcom bust (I bought mine for $365 plus auctioneers fees), but it's $350-$500 off of new retail, and well worth it. Steelcase leap chairs aint half bad either, and can be had slightly cheaper, though there seem to be a lot less of them on the market. Interestingly, I also bought a Keilhauer chair at the same auction where I bought the Aeron--it was $35 plus auctioneers fees, and it's a $900 chair new (and a very fine chair in its own right)...quality chairs that aren't Aerons are also available. I definitely don't suggest sitting in a crappy chair while you wait around to save $200 or $300. I wouldn't, anyway, and when we start hiring, we certainly won't make people sit in crappy chairs.
Saving RAM with mobile middleware (Django)
I know it's not kosher to mention here but you forgot Team Foundation Server.
Completely untrue when you look at technologies that can SAVE someone money. It makes sense given increase demand for fossil fuels, to provide a cheaper alternative.

To be fair, I think you're referring to companies that are luxury goods, e.g. carbon offsets, and those could be argued are luxury goods (or rather goods for someone's conscience).
Going from 4 wheels to 2 is a good start. The next step is a commuter unicycle, like these:
http://nhoover.smugmug.com/gallery/5974354_EUa4J#372904495_M...
(that's me on the right edge.)

Surprisingly, I feel safer on it than on a bike, because my CG is higher than the roof of most cars. Also, the dreaded "door prize" would be more at thigh level than head level.

It's pretty hard to uni after dark, though, because you need to anticipate bumps and potholes.
earthcomber ftw!
Reminds me of apple.com for some reason.
A new Halo game tops Microsoft’s Xbox 360 line-up in Tokyo
Oh, but where is the fun^H^H^Hsed in this?
> I also, have been to an interview where the interviewer seems to have made up their mind right before the interview. Really weird.

Yes, that is odd. Almost all interviewers make up their minds in the first 2-3 minutes. The rest of the interview gives them reasons supporting said decision.
Frugality apps are cringeworthy. Thankfully the article finished with "Maybe we should all start working on the "next big thing" that's going to change the world and usher in the new new era of the Web." Absolutely.
Apple to launch $800 laptop
Covered in depth in the latest New Scientist, and something I've wondered about in the past.

Main problem is that only 5% of landfill is metal/electronics (electronics makes up 0.1% of that). This compares with 2.1% diapers/sanitary towels.

The majority is garden waste (nearly 60%), followed closely by paper (nearly 30%). Alcoa have considered it: "if we thought it was the most efficient thing, we'd do it."

"[Getting recyclable waste] out of landfill is more expensive than buying aluminium direct from a recycling plant. Plus, no two landfills are the same ... with all kinds of less useful or dangerous materials such as asbestos."
This sounds very familiar. Has he just republished an older work with a new date?
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Just What Does It Take To Present At The NY Tech Meetup?
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Wow? Seen Bear Stearns lately?
On the ticket searching page, I would expect it to be ajax goodness — yet it wants to keep reloading the full page for every option change. I don't like that.

The homepage — ticket buying visitors likely don't give a crap about anything but the search box and the "upcoming events" bit. Personally, I would treat the site as as just that — a site — rather than an app. Put some cool info and links to events on the homepage, to attract the people who are interested in what your service providers, but are not there exclusively for any tickets at that time; give them something to look at, and they will be more likely to return WHEN they need to buy tickets.

Maybe your being too much like Google, how many times does the average person search a day — compared to how many times they buy tickets? People always have something to search for, so Google quickly gets people coming back. You on the other hand, have to try harder to get people to remember you.
Hey, you've got all the time in the world. If you never put yourself in a position where you can fail, you can't ever grow.
Some payment gateways support subscription billing trustcommerce.com had this feature.
> Free markets do not create powerful people?

They do only if someone is selling power, something that happens in non-free markets as well.

In a free market, willing participants make the deals that they want, pretty much without regard for what other people want. In other words, they're not affected by the powerful.

To me, the key point is not whether someone else has the money to pursue their dreams, it's whether I have the freedom to pursue mine. Non-free markets almost always place more restrictions on the little guy because rich guys buy exemptions.
Because one of the major problems of writing code in collaboration with other programmers is communicating the meaning of existing code. And python is one of the few languages out there that had an explicit goal of being legible.
No killer apps? What about this http://www.python.org/about/quotes/ ?
from http://www.johnforester.com/

> Bikeways neither make cycling much safer nor reduce the skill required. They probably do the reverse.

This is not true.
I get wet.

Seriously, that's it. Being out in the rain in a temperate zone isn't a big problem. You just need a change of shoes and a dry pair of socks at the office, and things are generally fine.

It probably wouldn't work out if I were, say, a trial layer, but then again, all kinds of things about my personal and professional choices wouldn't make sense in that case. Good thing I hang out on "Hacker News," instead of "PHB News," eh?
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And the rest is history: 1993 NYT article on NCSA Mosaic web browser's popularity
I thought so too, but the club in the movie is 385 North
Bike lanes are more dangerous? I use my bike every day and I know this is not true.
The point of a large repository isn't whether or not you can store it. The point of a large repository is that it takes a long time to clone, and cloning is pretty damn important in a DVCS.

I don't think anybody would suggest that size of repository matters for the number of bytes involved. There are obvious side effects of a large repository.
Yeah, I lived through several Office Max/Office Depot/Walmart chairs. They're kinda like inkjet printers...they wear out so fast, and work so poorly, that when you finally break down and buy a laser printer (or good quality chair), you look back and think, "What kind of idiot must I be to keep going back and buying the same crappy thing over and over and expecting it to be any different?" Sure, I'd buy different brands and models every time, just like with chairs, but in the end the level of quality at that end of the market for those particular goods just isn't worth buying at any price. I've now had the same chair and the same color laser printer for many years, and several times the lifespan of a cheap office chair or an inkjet printer. Both have provided fantastic value, and are still working great, and I expect to get another several years out of both of them. I just wish I'd learned that lesson a little earlier in life.

And, I agree on keyboards, though the longevity of even good keyboards is not quite comparable. But, when I found a keyboard I liked a few years ago (an IBM small form-factor keyboard, where escape, function row and the number pad are all closer to home), I bought two of them--I'm still using the first, and the second is ready to step in at the first signs of breakage in the first.
er... oops, 3. was meant to be "money does not"
ChunkIt smooths out the search experience
Not sure I agree with that.

I normally work inside out - adding small byte sized chunks of functionality until the whole is achieved. Sometimes (like today) I need to work outside in - and guess what - there is a printout of a big block of code on my desk just so that I can track every aspect of what is going on while I rewrite a key routine. It has to be many months since I did something like that but right now it is exactly the right way to tackle a problem.
Learn to fail privately, quickly and cheaply? ;)

Less flippantly, if you don't do something because you think you won't succeed, then there's no chance of you succeeding. If you try something, don't succeed, learn from the experience and try again, there's a chance that you may succeed.
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Submitted, because I have never seen such a clean, concise gallery of product designs, and because I didn't know there were such things until I happened upon this link. Hopefully somebody finds this as awesome as I did.

Alternatively: if people know of similar sites, for product design or for any field, really, I'd love to know of the link. It's when you see sites like this that you realize how little you know of so much: it's like the article on the world's greatest chef from a little while ago. I didn't know there was such a thing as deconstructionist cooking before then. With this, I never realized that there must be organizations of designers and such until I saw this.
Well we have the tent cities.... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26776283/
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No, but the article on creating your own POP 3 client looks interesting, at the least. I instapapered it.
I see prices like that for the most popular website on the Internet, and I'm sad that I don't have any more cash in my trading account. (I already bought GOOG with all that I had handy.)
I'm curious why you believe GOOG will be trading at around 3 times earnings? That just doesn't even make sense to me, and I'm having a hard time imagining anything short of total economic collapse that could lead to such an unlikely scenario.

While GOOG may not be bottomed out at ~$340 (I bought a few shares at $349, and am pretty happy with the price...and if it keeps dropping, I'll buy more, once it starts climbing again), I just don't see how you can possibly imagine it's a $40-$50 stock. Terrible companies trade at better than three times earnings, average companies trade at 10 times earning, and I don't think anyone is going to accuse Google of being a terrible, or even an average company. Google would pretty much have to start bleeding money to trade as low you're suggesting is inevitable.
The problem with Apple making only one of them is that they can only have one priority list, while the myriad of Android devs can have as many as users do. iPhone's list is something like:

1. Web Browsing
2. Music/video
3. Games
4. Email/sms
5. Phone

That's almost the exact opposite of every corporate user, and most teenagers.

It will be interesting to see if they ever release a second model, the way they eventually put out different lines of iPods. Maybe something bigger and less flashy, but with a keypad and way better voice. I won't hold my breath, but it might work.
Could easily be the ending of an Asimov story.
I meant more like Maltron ergonomic keyboards: http://www.maltron.com/
I started using Python in 1999, because I was tired of Perl's weirdness and looking for something new. I don't use it much these days, but still have a lot of respect for it.
yeah i second this point.

i'm a fairly large perl project at work and it makes me want to poke my eyes out.

python on the other hand always makes me smile. it's simple and elegant.
I have previously asked Eliezer publicly on Hacker News this question (he has an account on here):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=195959
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I don't buy into none of them fruity keyboards. I might start considering options like that, if I experienced any pains in my hands, wrists, or arms. But, once I switched to a good chair, I've never had any keyboard related pains (while I'd experienced tons of problems before that, and experimented with split keyboard layouts to no avail...one thing that did help, was switching to a tiled window manager and almost completely killing the mouse from my workflow). I guess everybody is different, but I'm perfectly content with a good quality traditional keyboard (though a shorter reach to escape is a nice feature).
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