skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't matter. All depositors protected up to $100k (investment accounts are usually insured for much more) by the FDIC...as long as you think the US is solvent (questionable, at this point, but we're all working with USD, so doesn't matter where the dollars are...if they become worthless they'll be worthless no matter what).

Choose a bank that's got a branch near you...you'll be there more often than in the past. National, or at least in the major cities you can imagine finding yourself in. We've got an account with WaMu, who just merged into JP Morgen (which kinda sucks, as banks go) due to insolvency. I don't plan to move to another bank until the policies and fees change to the JP Morgan Chase standard (which they will), and folks start showing up in the uniforms and trying to sell me something every time I walk in the door.
Car Hire Switzerland|Car Hire Barbados|Car Rental Barbados
Invest in Costa Del Sol Property for sale via Spanish hot properties
Thank you all very much.
Chatting with Joshua Peek
Get to know Josh Peek, the new Rails Core Team member who tackled the problem of making Ruby on Rails thread-safe.
This article has virtually nothing to say about the SCIENCE of driving directions, but many words about the mechanics of collecting mapping data and user expectations about how it is presented.
Silverlight 2 Release Candidate Now Available - ScottGu's Blog
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/business/26wamu.html?_r=2&...

The coolest part is that the CEO who has been on the job for LESS than 3 weeks will get paid $19.1 million.

From the article:

The company’s new chief executive, Alan H. Fishman, was in midair, flying from New York to Seattle at the time the deal was finally brokered, according to people briefed on the situation. Mr. Fishman, who has been on the job for less than three weeks, is eligible for $11.6 million in cash severance and will get to keep his $7.5 million signing bonus
More thoughts on Stackoverflow.com
wonder if they'll freeze the home equity lines
10 Books that will Substitute A Computer Science Degree (debate?)
This is it. Stupid dotcom bubble has begun again. This time, when a social networking site took off, others will try to make social networking creating a social networking, hence: myspace/facebook/whatever --> ning. digg/reddit --> slinkset.

The world is in need of fresh ideas!
Basing your business plan on your morals: not a great business plan.
Boom! My blog is 10 weeks old and on the cusp of a million pageviews a month
I liked it too. Particularly the fact that it shows 4 results to start & lets you extend.
That title makes a lofty claim and does not really deliver. The books they chose are not flawed, but in terms of ordering them and limiting them to 10, some is left to be desired. Here are some I would add:

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

Introduction to Algorithms
Nickb's very own New Mogul:  business, leadership, management and financial news.arc
More detailed writeup of the visit: http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2008/09/25/microsof...
Ahh, ok - I was completely blown away by what looked like a 1-man creation :) Indeed, I still think its great for one person to have done this. Gonna look at Yahoo! Boss now. Thanks for this
Ask YC: Attack of the clones; would you take your start-up to a YC Clone?
There's the original, YC

Techstars

DreamItVentures in Philly

Launchbox Digital in DC

It seems like a lot of founders from the other YC-knockoffs participate on HN -- care to share your experiences?

Hackers, would you take your start-ups to one of the clones? Why or why not?
I actually have their savings account that earns me 4% APY. When I got it I earned 5%, and last month it was at only 3.75%. I'm planning on leaving it there under JPMorgan's rule unless they offer me less.

From my reading (because I can't call it research yet), WaMu's fall was triggered/multiplied by a lot of withdrawals from their customers because of fears that this would happen (chicken/egg). In fact, $19 billion was supposedly withdrawn over the past few weeks, which put them under their loan ratio (banks must maintain a certain cash/loans ratio). Of course it now makes sense that they offer such a great interest rate - they needed the money!

My concern now is what will happen to my interest rate?
I just opened up a savings account and a checking account there yesterday. Hope the FDIC gives me my $10 back.
WebKit is awesome. I wish I could get it to compile. :(
Perhaps the interest rates may be similar to what Chase offers

Ouch, I hope not. Regular savings accounts are getting 0.10% - 1.95% depending on the type of account and balance. Compare to Wamu's 4% APY
Trying to get your girlfriend back?
You subscribe via email and you`ll get a bunch of emails with a step by step guide on how to go about getting your ex back. Quite well thought of and very informative. There is also the option of 1 on 1 coaching if all else fails.
I expected it to be about the startup marrying a technology stack (i.e. committing to Microsoft products, or Apple, or open source, or Sun, for that matter)

I agree with the post saying it was light on content. It would have been nice if he used some great open source technology to record his talk and put it online. :/
Critsuite (http://zesty.ca/crit/) and Third Voice come to mind.
Works for me too. But I would use a softer highlight.
I’m part of a team of 3 guys with an idea, at prototype stage. With a wife, 3 kids and a mortgage, the first concern if/when we all commit full-time, is continuing to keep up with all of these responsibilities. My wife’s supportive of what we want to achieve, but we’ll see what happens if/when reality bites. It’s an extra hurdle to leap, but it’s manageable.
When replying to a comment in a thread (the parent being a comment, as opposed to a comment like this, where the parent is the article) it would be neat to have the article link available above the reply box (as in the article-parent case).

Several times in the past week I have clicked on a thread, read the thread for comments, clicked the article link to read, clicked back, and then hit "reply" on a comment. Half way through formulating a comment I think "oh, I wonder if the article touched on $foo" and then have to either unwind the stack or open a new tab to news.yc and retrace my steps. Being able to control-click from the comment page would be ++handy.

Thanks for the site, really enjoy it.
Yahoo! BOSS launched on July 9, 2008: http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000599.html

Duck Duck Go's site says it was in development for about a year. If it was indeed built on top of BOSS, the developer must've spent 10 months doing pretty much nothing.
Wonderful, Just wonderful.

On the other hand, Im having the same thoughts as trominos(Scroll down). See what he said about it.
Essential Maths for Games Programmers
Eric S. Raymond: Why Alternative Energy Isn’t
Here's some photo measuring software for your pc:

http://uphotomeasure.com/
Depends on the company - some of the others out there offer very comparitive, if not better, benefits than YC.

In terms of money: a YC dollar is worth no more than a dollar found on the street.

I guess my answer is yes.
Gary Unmarried — An early look
Jay Mohr moonlights away from his regular gig on Ghost Whisperer to star as Gary Brooks in this traditional sitcom. CBS has paired Gary Unmarried with The New Adventures of Old Christine
The primary purpose is to lend credibility. As long as the others doing similiar things have credibility to lend, they seem acceptable.

Once you have your product and their credibility then you need to wield it carefully to get to your destination.
Its like asking whether you would go to a VC instead of sequoia. Of course you would.
Amazon Web Services: New Release of DevPay - Lower Fees and Reduced Risk
I m not a princess lyrics /In The Groove Music
Nah come on, in the years it takes to get a CS degree, hopefully you'll touch on more subjects than these. You'll also do several projects.

Also Godel, Escher, Bach is really more a popular science book, isn't it? Enjoyable read that it was (when I was a teenager), I think it is actually more confusing than actually helpful in understanding the underlying concepts.
+1 for your second suggestion
TechStars, as bizarrely and counter-productively obsessed with YC as they seem to be, has actually produced a couple of winners now. It's not the kind of hit rate that YC has exhibited...or had exhibited at this stage in YC's life. But it, at least, has some measurable success.

Given that there are cheaper sources of funding, and most of them have no track record and extremely limited credibility, I would look much deeper...and consider other alternatives. Charles River has an early stage arm that does a lot of deals, for example, and has a good reputation. Angels are another option. While this "new model" of investing is compelling for its high success rate, when executed by YC, it's not necessarily the best way to raise money. We took money from YC and have never had any regrets about it...but I can't think of any other situation where we'd give up that much equity for that little money. But, you'd have to decide that for yourself.
Who is the iPhone Girl?
Nice start. It looks like a mobile phone interface to me, blown up to desktop size. Maybe a phone-centric focus would be a useful direction?
As a Silicon Valley person, moving to Colorado, Philly, or DC for even a few months doesn't seem very logical.
Actually, one of the things I really liked about muxtape was that they weren't trying to sell you anything.

It was all about the music maan.. :)
Really? I don't think I understand how this follows.

Alternatives to YC include Sequoia, angels, other VCs, etc. and not just YC clones. It's an expensive source of money, and if the company isn't delivering a lot of extra value (which YC has consistently been shown to do, and none of the others, with the possible exception of TechStars, has shown that) it's probably a bad deal.

And, as for "would you go to a VC instead of Sequoia"...yes, but I wouldn't go to a VC that I have no knowledge of, and that has no track record. I'd accept money from a top ten VC (assuming reasonable terms and consonance of vision), but I'd rather build a company on its own revenues than take money from an investor I don't believe in, or I don't believe is capable of grokking our long term vision for the company.
yeah I'm calling shennigans on the title
Preview of True Blood1.04 Escape from Dragon House
The 1.04 episode of “True Blood” will be called “Escape from Dragon House” and a sneak peek to it has been given. It shows Sookie, mere human, braving herself to enter a vampire bar which attendees could drink her blood anytime
CSI New York –Veritas- Episode Details 5×1
“Veritas” - In the aftermath of a bank heist gone bad, Mac wakes up in a submerged car with no memory of how he got there, on the fifth season
Maturity transformation considered harmful: programmer's view of a financial crisis
Yes, it lends credibility, but it's not necessarily the primary purpose...at least not of YC. There are a lot of good benefits to YC...it's an educational experience, a community-building experience, and more. Of course, it doesn't hurt that dropping the YC bomb in a discussion with an investor is an automatic upgrade to "vetted" in the investors mind (works with valley press, as well, apparently).
Sadly, not enough research has been done:

"A broad, comprehensive survey of many different species is needed before the evolution of vomiting is fully understood."

_Needed_.

(Interesting read though)
Strange list. Some great stuff on there, but if I were going to attempt to substitute for an undergrad CS degree, I'd definitely have SICP on a list ahead of APL, for example.

Of course, the whole topic is quite silly; if you really wanted to substitute for a CS degree, the easiest way to do it would be to examine (for example) the MIT course catalog, put together the appropriate course plan, and then order the textbooks used by those courses. And, with the video lectures and lecture notes showing up on OCW, you would actually be approximating (in a loose sense) the experience, provided one actually does the coursework and exams.
I LOVE the keyboard shortcuts. In fact, just because of that (and good results) I might switch to using this as my default search engine.
Like the title Georgia, but I'd go farther and change Verdana on the discussion to serif'd (I know, crazy!).

Also, the guidelines/faq/contact links don't work.
Articles like this may not be "on topic", but they're unlikely to devolve into flame wars, and attract people interested in flame wars, as would an article about politics or (often) economics.
went to one of the YC clones.

the biggest problem with these YC clones is two-fold.

first, most of the clones' founders have a)either not founded a start-up b)founded a start-up in a completely different field.

second, the lack of technical ability isn't the most conducive, to, ya know, doing a start-up in the early stages based entirely on code. ideas from the founders are pretty much fluff, because they don't understand rudimentary concepts of code, what can and cannot be done, how long things could possibly take, etc.
Uhm, wow holy shit. The results feel better than Google.
Website Redesign  Search Engine Friendly Web Design USA
Ennovate Group Inc USA Web Design Firm, Web Development Company offer Search Engine Friendly Web Design USA, Tableless Designing, CSS Based Web Layouts, Web 2.0 Designing, PHP Development Convert Your Website HTML to Search Engine Friendly Designing services
As a college student, I thank you.

However, one thing I would personally change is a small usability issue I noticed on the Courses page. I would like to be able to add a course, and not have to navigate back to Home to be able to add a new assignment. I think it would just really clarify things a bit better.
I would avoid TechStars due to that obsession, which is a nice word for it BTW. They really do consistently act like ass-clowns.

They do seem to have the second most well-attended demo days though. I don't know about how their connections compare to the others on that list. That might be the deciding factor for me.
"[In comments Eric S. Raymond] Says:
Um, what global warming? There hasn’t been any since 1998. Recently global average temperature has actually been dropping rather dramatically, enough to wipe out the last century of warming trend."

Good lord, did I really consider this guy a luminary in my teens? I am ashamed.
Good looking app. Stands out as distinct and memorable.

The name is a bit obscure and hard to remember. Might hurt word of mouth (which could be a big deal on campuses).

I'd recommend getting rid of the adwords. Highly doubtful that they'll make you much money, and its a big distraction.

An alternative monetization approach would be to search for keywords on peoples pages and have a sidebar that recommends books (on amazon affiliates) based on the keywords on their notebooks. Call it a book recommender. Fairly easy to parse out keywords and query recommendation on amazon, and you could even run this as a cron job nightly. Here's a good libary: http://www.caliban.org/ruby/ruby-aws/

Nice move focusing on email, sms, and facebook integration. This is the key features that will keep people using your app. More than any fancy html management interface. May be worth looking at iPhone/mobile interface and meebo support for chatting with partners.

Just a few random thoughts. Hope they are helpful.
Is this meant to finally siphon off all the finance news off HackerNews? Would be much welcome.
The complete canonical example of the counter.
Of course with the back button and browser fork working.

Launched with : nagare-admin serve-module counter.py:Counter counter
===============================================

from nagare import presentation

# A pure python Counter class
class Counter:
def __init__(self, v=0):
self.v = v

def increase(self):
self.v += 1

def decrease(self):
self.v -= 1

# Default HTML view on the Counter class
@presentation.render_for(Counter)
def render(self, h, *args):
return h.div(
h.p('Value: ', self.v),
h.a('++').action(self.increase),
' | ',
h.a('--').action(self.decrease)
)
Indeed. The "Go" may be the oddball...
Why social browsing as a startup idea needs to die
Ah yes, true, they're even closer.
KiCAD a Free and Open Source EDA Tool
KiCAD, a free and open source EDA tool, solves the stages: schematic capture, PCB layout, gerber generation or visualization and library editing.
If your webpages work in Netscape 3 they are likely to work in all browsers.
Seriously, bulk up, dress up, and use your geek-built analytical skills to do well in the social scene. Nice thing about high school is that nobody's really any good at that stuff yet, so climbing the curve is a matter of just getting out there & trying it. Everyone fucks it up constantly, so it's just a matter of hit rate. And getting some big knock downs is a plus here: tough skin later on's absolutely wonderful.

It's pretty liberating to pwn both worlds. B/c once you realize you're not limited to other people's pigeonholes (OPP), you look at the world differently.

For a good look on how not to do it, look up "The Game" By Neil Strauss. http://www.amazon.com/Game-Penetrating-Secret-Society-Artist...
I think you should state more explicitly that results are gouped and contain links to specialiced searches.
When I searched for Python i.e. I had no idea that clicking on "Python (genus), a group of snakes" would generate more results - I thought it would bring me directly to wikipedia.

Now that I know it I see that you ask me to choose a topic, but I totally didn't see it the first time.
Perhaps you could do s.th to the topic links to make it more clear for first time users that they bring you so to a search for that topic.

some other thoughts:

-Yes the font is too big first, but after using it a bit I actually like it..

-Yes the name is awful first but "duck duck it" is great and I just added it to my firefox searches :)

Congratulations! You took a freakin duck and did the unimaginable and beat google with it!
Duck Duck Go to cuill, is like Usane Bolt to me over a 100mts.
Prakash - thanks for posting this. Yes, we 'flicked the switch' yesterday on the first release of Swirrl. It's a hosted wiki designed for collaborating around data. The data side of it is in fact an RDF database with a spreadsheet-like interface.

It's early days for us, but we'd be delighted if any HN readers want to take a look and give us some feedback.
Failed me all the time; I would've used this in a second.
$7.5 million signing bonus? What kind of board of directors would approve such a retarded amount?

The guy would have taken the CEO job without the bonus; it serves zero purpose to the shareholders to give him $7.5 million.

Why don't companies base executive compensation on performance? Doesn't that seem logical?
The problem with "Django and other frameworks" is that the bulk of them pertain to feature-problems irrelevant on AppEngine.

They certainly fucked themselves a bit by not qualifying upstream library names with version numbers. Python3 will be a lot of fun!
Good results, could probably do with a few more results per page. You're doing tons better than cuil :) but so far there is nothing that Google does not already do. Which is, I suppose, the point. Why use your search engine and not Google?

We switched to Google from Yahoo, Alta Vista and the rest because Google was better. What do you have?
Look for the counter-intuitive idea and go after it.

The hard part is, you have to be right.
If you're using firefox, every website has keyboard shortcuts. Just press ' (quote) and start typing a unique word from a link you see. When the link you want is selected, press enter.
Yes! The webkit-gtk build breaks with some frequency, and not just the latest SVN -- at least once I couldn't get a 'good' milestone to build.

The blame probably lies halfway between Apple folks not worrying about it and Nokia having a weird dev environment.
South Africa has this as well. It's R6500 ($804) for the 8GB and R7600 ($940) for the 16GB
Kudos to you - I think you've done a fantastic job.

Plus it takes balls to venture into a space that's dominated by the mighty Google :-)

FEEDBACK:

* The name sucks - especially the "go" at the end. "Duck duck" I can live with. "Duck duck go" somehow doesn't feel right.

* Fonts/Colors etc - I really wouldn't worry about it. People get used to almost anything once they get good enough results. The hue and cry at reddit when the new version came out is proof enough of that. A few months on everyone has forgotten completely what the old version looked like and it hasn't hurt them any.

Heck, when Google came out their interface wasn't anything to sing and dance about. But now everyone thinks it the bee's knees and the cat's whiskers :-D. Just get good results and worry about the font/logo/colors some other day.

* For a few searches, the results were impressive and I liked the flow (I searched for "Haskell" and "Dragonfly" (the movie) plus my name etc).

I was really getting into it when my search for "Indian Recipes" returned recipes from Karnataka. The "more links" didn't seem to return very good results either. I had to go back to Google (which returned really good results).

* URL's of results - This is another big one. The way the URL's are currently returned is really bad - it looks like part of the text and is difficult to quickly scan for. It's really important for most users to be able to quickly scan the urls of the results. In your current interface we have to depend on the title, which is not half as useful.

Overall - it's a great job! I'm VERY impressed.

All the best!
The comparision maybe more like a top school like MIT to say something still very good like UIUC or UMich. Im pretty sure most applicants apply to both YC and Techstars, just like school if they dont "get into" thier first choice, they most probably might take second choice. I wouldn't dismiss these as clones. Techstars have shown pretty good track record so far(though thier sample size is small and if Im right thier entire first batch recieved some form of funding). I dont know about others, maybe something might come out since they just started and YC has been around for few years. As an entrepreneur defnitely community of other hackers matters, which no doubt YC wins, but still I wouldn't dismiss others as clones.

PS:I neither did YC nor Techstars, just my opinion
What is YC's hit rate? What is TechStar's hit rate?
I think it would be nice if there were a "Friends" tab so that users could filter links/articles/comments to people they know. Other than that, it looks cool and I'll keep trying it out.
Instant DNA Analysis on a Chip
Get a family website
Create a private website for your family with no trial period. Keep in touch with family members wherever and whenever.
It's just a bootable USB flash disk with an EFI emulator on it.

It's not remotely effective as a 'dongle' if there isn't any special hardware -- the best it could do is check the USB device identifier in software as it boots up. Expect a disk image to be available via public trackers soon.
"Does anybody have a reasonable explanation for why CS enrollment has declined?"

There was the dotcom crash... there's the slowing of growth as the market saturates (in the developed world, every person/company who wants a computer has one)... tools and applications have advanced to the point where it much easier to do most things (most things that people need can be done without coding).

The extraordinary thing about computer science is not that growth has slowed, but that growth continued for many decades.

I heard that, a few decades ago, Physics departments had very high enrollments, which eventually fell off.
Warehouse Management
Free - Over 70 Cost Reduction Tips for warehouse, inventory and multichannel vendors and suppliers