skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If personal money wasn't an issue, there are a couple things I would do I guess.

- I'd more than likely hack/work on projects that I thought would contribute to society in a meaningful way rather than trying to do something for profit.

- Spend more time doing the things I enjoy, perhaps take on a significant hobby project that wasn't work related

- I'd probably also help my mother out a little more too.

- Maybe contribute a little of my time directly to community related projects, like volunteer work in something I found meaningful.

Sounds kind of strange, but I guess overall I'd like to be able to give more of myself to others and make much more of a positive impact in other's lives; sounds kind of tree-huggerish I know.
And the latest post on the front page (from 3 days ago) is about WaMu bumping up their CD rates... although he does recommend checking out FDIC insurance coverage.
I nominate Lawrence Lessig. :-)
That's actually what they're going to call it. The rebranding effort will rival Cingular/at&t's.

Microsoft, Yahoo! and AOL are the new OGC.
I'd be interested to hear more about this. I think there are some significant opportunities to make cities better (maybe by starting new ones, maybe just by working with our existing ones in new ways). And a lot of the ways technology has changed our lives recently has affected what we need and expect from a city, including things like:

- knowing our neighbors

- usable mass transit

- energy efficiency

- interaction with government

It's the sort of area that I think has a lot of opportunity in it, but that opportunity isn't clearly something that could make you rich. So as a general area of focus, I think it'd be well worth a hacker's attention.

P.S. If you think cities, architecture, and the community shaped by those things are interesting, you should definitely read "A Pattern Language" by Christopher Alexander et al. It illuminates a lot of what goes on in cities and buildings in a very concise way, and will probably give you ideas to improve your home and environment.
I agree. Craigslist it?
get another job, since that amount is not really enough
You're just jealous because we tied you in U.S. News rankings this year. :-P
1) I'd spend a year writing a web-app to teach mathematics and physics, open-source it, run it on my own servers and lobby to have it used in high-school education.

2) I'd put more time into promoting awareness of Humanism and showing people that morality isn't restricted to the belief that an omniscient police agent is judging your every move.

3) I'd try to get NATO to play nice with Russia and after that get China on board as well. A USA/Russian/EU/Chinese block should be strong enough to stop nuclear threats and have the added bonus of getting us to Mars faster.

4) Having brokered world-peace and ensured continuity for all mankind, I'd chill out, read Ceasar's De Bello Gallico in Latin, master Bach's violin pieces at solist concert level, learn Russian and Mandarin Chinese, polish my French and grow awesome grapes for delicious wine.
Here's what I posted on the Reddit thread (http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/73s7b/out_of_438...) for this article:

When I went there (01-05), there was a telephone signup form from Verizon in the orientation materials and it cost $17/month.

Landline use dropped off precipitously in 2002 when they started including a form you could use to have your cellphone listed in the campus directory instead of automatically listing your room phone. In 01, there were only like a dozen people in the freshman class without a room phone. In 02, that had jumped to maybe 20%, and by the time I graduated, the vast majority (maybe 80%) were cell-phone only.

I had a landline for freshman and senior years - freshman because you couldn't list a cellphone in the campus directory, and senior because I was living on the ground floor of a dorm on the low side of campus (Amherst is on a hill) and didn't get good cell reception in my room.
Proprietary plugins are just not the way to go…
Lucasfilm: The Real Magic is in the Data Center
A common theme in the halls of carriers and ISPs is that they want to evolve from being dumb pipes to value-added portals and content destinations. For example, the cell phone industry's solution to this is to sell ringtones (among other things).

I think that these numbers really highlight the folly of that line of thinking. These entire methods of communicating have been outmoded -- while nobody's saying that people are going to stop talking on the phone to each other, watching kids (defined as people and their peer groups who have always owned SMS capable phones) use their telephones is entirely different than the way people who didn't grow up with SMS do. The devices are more like portable IM terminals that can make phone calls when they need to talk to someone, particularly people outside their demographic.

At first I was kind of skeptical about 4G mobile technology, where every application runs in an IP stack -- even voice. It hasn't taken very many of these articles to convince me that this is absolutely going to happen, and sooner than I thought at first. But much to the dismay of the carriers, this growth is going to happen in spite of their portals, not because of it.

People are communicating in communities several layers abstracted from the infrastructure they're paying for. This is pretty disruptive, especially to the ISPs that are providing the means as they try to diversify into areas that are basically mature and becoming legacy (telephone and cable).

I don't have any magic solution or proposal for innovating in the space but it's going to be fascinating to watch the evolution.
Read XKCD on the iPhone .. Finally
and? Money in WaMu CDs is still there, and insured as long as its less than 100K
No, I'm jealous because you're close to Smith!
(1) Practice martial arts 4hrs a day, and travel around the world preserving some lineages that are disappearing this generation.

(1a) I want to meet some Khampas

(1b) I want to meet some of my teacher's teachers in Taiwan.

(1n) ad nauseum

(2) Set up a lab where I can play and build AI models, specifically relating to OpenCyc and neural networks, using Google news as training data then feed it people's RSS feeds and blog posts. Run the whole thing on the cloud and see what else I need to get it to start messing with people.

(3) Collect a huge library and read. Lots. Both non-fiction and fiction.

(3a) Get to the point where I can consistently beat the top Go software and can hold my own near the top kyu rankings. Then go back and read through history books with the skills I acquired from playing Go. Figure out if people make different strategic decisions based on whether they played Go or played chess. Maybe write a book about it.

(3b) Study all of Joseph Campbell's work, and identify the top active, modern myths operating on modern social psyche, both overt and hidden. Distill it and write something similar to Neal Stephenson's Primer (from Diamond Age).

(3c) Write a series of short stories in English using themes from classic wuxia theater (martial art fantasy stuff, like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and embed in there how to survive high school with your sanity intact. Then slip it out in the wild.

(4) Write a mobile MMO.

(5) Learn Ancient Chinese, maybe take a crack at Sanskrit. Dig up some old stuff and figure them out.
I guess if you're #3, and you buy and extinguish #2 that makes you #2 by default.

Somehow this gets by the anti-trust people because #1 is so much bigger.

This is an ego "measuring contest" plain and simple. There's no synergy to be had here -- AOL is lost in the weeds, and is at best a decent co-brand for content on news sites. Yahoo's corporate culture appears to have no synergy with the evil empire whatsoever; in fact, it seems that they've gone on as long as they have using MS as an enemy to rally against.

Bringing dead weight and a struggling enemy on board doesn't sound like the basis of a coherent strategy for taking on a master in the game.
I've seen quite a few strange behaviors in all the browsers whilst hacking away at CSS.

Not inclined to attempt a duplicate exploit, but it may involve some combination of visibility: hidden; with older tags that breaks the expected behavior. Absolute positioning w/z-index could be involved as well. That might explain why Adobe was upset about it - you can do some pretty weird stuff with z-index and the flash player.

That doesn't nearly cover all the possibilities I can think of, and it's probably not the last CSS exploit we'll see.
I will confess I know less about fission power plants than you seem to. Good point on the capital intensity. I suppose this does answer why there aren't major flywheel installations are not present at nuclear powerplants.

One thought: why aren't there flywheel systems at wind turbines, moderated by a CVT? This would get rid of a lot of transformation losses, and since a motor is unneeded it would be fairly cheap.
If it takes as long to get cut and paste as it took to get a right mouse button on the Macintosh you might as well stop paying attention for a while.

I think the analogy holds fairly well -- perhaps some people would be confused by it or something, but it's not that obtrusive and it would give a significant portion of the market a feature that would make them more efficient.
Sorry. The snark I feel is never the snark you read. I made a pretty borderline comment anyway.

Must remember </sarcasm> tag
Reddit's open source strategy.
Thoughts on how its working out? I can't find any examples of vibrant "powered by reddit" sites. this is the best one i've seen:

http://lipstick.com/

the techcrunch technews site is completely empty:

http://technews.techcrunch.com/
Larry Ellison on cloud computing
Long-Awaited Mac Version of µTorrent Leaked
Hope he didn't stick it in a WaMu account.
Is he really railing against cloud computing, or instead the rush to label everything cloud computing? It sounds like he embraces the model, he just doesn't like the dopey name (and inclusion of everything internet-related under the cloud computing umbrella).

same could be said of "web 2.0" or "information super highway" which were similarly overly-hyped and overly-applied.
I would be interested in a clarification, how do you find people who want to work as equity partners for your startup?

IE: smart developers who want to be a part of a growing company.
Does Reddit moderate for civility? I was under the impression that they didn't moderate at all.
Thank you for listing that site! I've been looking for something like that for a long time!!!
What time is the obama mccain debate?
JS.Class - JavaScript in a Ruby Style
I was just teasing you, I like the way you have it set up. I have a feeling it will lead to a higher total paid tip amount than requiring the credit card right away.

I don't know what you mean about the Pirate Bay though.
Congratulations.

The hits are dead on for obscure subjects.
Someone should put this on a business card:

python -c “import SimpleHTTPServer;SimpleHTTPServer.test()”

Now that's a web server on a business card.
"With the new layout, users will have one-click access to search rather than two-click"

Umm... doesn't the search already work with just one click? (well tap really)
i got the reddit code up and running for a niche site. didn't do much custom skinning since i wasn't sure how well the site was going to work out. as it turns out, it didn't work out too well (though not really because of the codebase).

imo, the codebase needs cleaning up, still (or at least, the version i downloaded did). it is very much reddit's source code, not a flexible open source project.

i haven't checked in a while, perhaps the codebase is cleaner and more sleek nowadays.
My thinking here was Sportsify isn't a place to check scores, it's a place to see who the favorite was - but I've had a few folks share your confusion so I'll probably tweak this.
The funny part is, the anti-mac core principles pretty much described the Web up until recently, but now we're starting to go backwards by making web apps look and feel more like desktop apps.
Re: page to list most accurate - great idea, it's on the todo list.
#1 grabbed my attention. I'm doing it right now in my spare time. Email me at be288@yahoo.com if you want to trade some ideas.

It'd be fun to talk about it with someone else with the same idea. Most people I tell this to stare at me like I'm a purple cow.
Zune service going down for up to 48 hours
Recently, there was a link to a new invention by the T9 predictive text guy with a flashy shiny predictive touch screen keyboard.

Apple should jump all over that. Right now. It's so obviously a brilliant idea that they should put the finishing touches to the decent iphone bluetooth stack that they undoubtedly aren't working on and do that next.

New safari? Who gives a cartoon expletive stlye %&$!*@? What more does mobile safari need except the ability to load pages in the background? It needs better text input, that's what.

New! Shiny! But not new Safari, that's neither new enough nor shiny enough. (Just quietly shove the spidermonkey javascript engine in while you're doing an update, though ;))
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Not so fast. Basically everything that you asserted about nuclear plants was wrong.

Should we assume that you've gotten that out of your system or ....
What you've just described is a stock option. This is an extremely common form of executive compensation. The problem is that it incentivizes greater (and potentially dangerous) risk taking. Greater risks increase the probability of large payouts and losses. But if there's a great loss, the CEO still makes the base salary -- he can't be held financially responsible for all the company's losses. So to the executive it doesn't really matter whether the company loses small or loses big. But there's a big difference between winning small and winning big.
Man, thats weird. I just got a message almost exactly like that from XBox Live. Its going down at midnight on Monday and will be down for 24 hours. Hmmm… I wonder whats up over in Microsoft land. ???

Later…
Richard
AutoTagger--making tagging on Facebook easier
Hi everyone,

This is a startup I have been working on with two friends. We're all UC Berkeley 2008 graduates. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Ken
What more does mobile safari need except the ability to load pages in the background?

It needs to stop crashing ;)

(recent gripe of mine after mobile safari crashed after I typed up a huge rant defending something on a bug report and tried to submit...)
I had a chance to use this app as an early beta and have been thoroughly pleased. It is now my method of choice for tagging albums.
Competent Elites are More Alive
The trend from voice to SMS is good for the carriers, because SMS is priced something like 1000x higher per bit than voice. In some sense it supports the "value-add" business model, because if the carriers were dumb pipes they would charge the same per bit for SMS and voice. I agree that content still isn't king, though.
Thanks!

I'm totally with you on this one: HN needs to cover whatever's interesting. But the thing that spurred me to finally put this thing out there is the dearth of business-related (not necessarily financial) stories on HN. For example, just the other day, I posted this: "Seven Ways to Fail Big" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315327 Anyway, it got 1 point here even though I thought it was a great article that you can learn a lot from.

Anyway, I've been waiting for someone to pick up some slack and start a site of their own but haven't seen anything come out in the past year.
I'm posting there too :)

But the reason why I started this one was because I want just purely business news. NonHN has a much wider focus which is great too. But I'd like to have 'one page of business news' site. After this financial meltdown is over, I guarantee you that there won't be much overlap between HN, NonHN and NM.
US Senate passes intellectual property bill (this interests software makers as well)
I'm not following. The discussion is about C++, which shares the same heap management as C, so I don't see what you are trying to say here.

You were the one who brought up C. But basically, all languages that require manual memory management fall into the category of "you probably shouldn't use them". Memory management is too hard for people to get right. Computers are much better at that tedious task. (As an aside, it is interesting that it's easier to write a generic memory manager than to remember to do it right every time yourself. Programming is an interesting art.)

Until you have, please don't condescend to tell Guido or Linus or Larry how to write their code.

Honestly, this is a bad example. When Python and Perl were started, there was no other option for writing a language that would run on UNIX. UNIX software was written in either C or shell. Now that Perl and Python exist, they are much better choices than C for almost any class of problem. That's why they were written. If Guido and Larry actually wanted to use C for everything, they wouldn't have needed to write their own languages.

BTW, the Perl6 implementation written with Haskell came together in about a weekend, while the C implementation is about as complete after 5-or-so years. C is a pain.

Finally, I find it condescending that you want to throw away the last 40 years of programming language research because UNIX is written in C. Remember the Lisp machines? It's a shame that UNIX lost out to them, because it was much easier to write software (and libraries) in Lisp than in C. Oh well, at least we have emacs.

C has its purpose, but its purpose is not for writing programming languages, web servers, or desktop applications.
Totally understand. The reason behind NonHN and NM is completely different and I don't think we're splintering anything. I'm posting on both sites and they complement each other. I don't think there will be much overlap between the two as soon as this mess is over.
What color do you prefer? Darker gray or lighter black would be better?
HN is pretty much the only site I visit daily and it got under my skin. I didn't wanna make any radical changes. I changed the font to make it more "business page of a newspaper" like.
I need to disagree: the syntax of a language does make it hard or easy to read. Anything with postfix syntax is going to be strange to the uninitiated. Lisp's parentheses everywhere is going to be daunting to many, at least at first. Heavily stacked pointer/array operators in C require "language lawyer" personnel in some shops. Perl regexps can be quite cryptic. APL? Fuggedaboudit!

What you are saying is that if you don't know a programming language, it's hard to read it. Well, yes.
The idea behind this is that every company buys their own Oracle-based grid. This means lots-of-money for them.

If everyone switches to "the cloud" with non-relational data stores, that's not so good for them. (Even if "the cloud" is Oracle-backed, they still only sell one copy.) They have made a lot of money convincing people that their product is magical, and they don't want to lose out on that.
It's fairly well established that the mean IQ (i.e. g, or general intelligence factor) of people of African descent is lower than that of people of European descent, which is in turn lower than that of people of East Asian or Ashkenazi Jewish descent.
Towns That Could Be Hit Hardest by the Financial Crisis
Ask HN: quickest, most dependable way to solve the money problem?
The criteria for me are merely: stay warm, have somewhere to sleep, get enough healthy food, and have 24 hour completely open access to an internet enabled computer.
Michael Lewis: America Must Rescue the Bonuses at Goldman Sachs
Is there a way to create a meta site for these 3, so a person can choose to view any combination they wish?
Leave and start a competing company that Does Things Better because you spend your time solving problems, not debugging pointers. :)
Cool, especially if access to the blogs remains open to anyone.
Are you sure that going back to school, and finishing your degree, will address the "I need to learn more" problem ?

You may need a degree to address a particular social issue, like not being able to be promoted in a particular organization, but presumably you would not have that need if you "solved the money problem".

What if you picked a particular topic and set out to self-study it, but instead of the usual "buy a text book, read one chapter, and never follow up" fail method, you found a small group of similarly interested people who agreed to meet regularly to discuss and provide mutual encouragement, pursued it that way ?
Ask YC: Surprised Twitter Made it Through the Debate?
I'm quite surprised and happy for Twitter that they stood the test. Rolling out a new function, taking the hits and came out with absolutely no downtime. That's for sure a strong hit for naysayers

Now if they can keep it up during the average work day when absolutely nothing is going on, that would be an accomplishment.
Does this do the actual face recognition and assign a tag automatically?
No problem, nearly 100% of my freelance projects are using CushyCMS to keep them from mucking up code. It's also GREAT for centralizing your work without having to manage multiple FTP connections so often. One quick setup and you're good to go.
We're currently working on face recognition. Facebook's existing tags are a great training set :) In the meantime, the application detects faces and gives you a much more efficient (and pretty!) interface for tagging since the faces are known.
I've heard Buenos Aires is nice.
Good choice mate, and allow me to add Argentina, The Czech Republic, and Poland.
Randomly visit message boards posing rhetorical questions.
Onellamas from HN to Techcrunch
Keeping comment spam off your site and away from users
Status Update: Merb 1.0
I'm guessing most people here also want a high standard of living along with financial freedom.

Has this question been asked before and I missed it? Seems like something everyone here would be interested in.

For what its worth, this is a little research I've done:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=122341
"I have to hand it to those guys - they are the only service I know of where users rejoice when they simply manage to keep their service live."

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/10/twitter-fails-to-fail-c...
There's no reason you can't start a city for a profit and get investors so that you don't need much of your own capital. I guess it's hard though :)
Easy, I'd travel the world with my laptop and write code on the road. Hopefully code that would change the world.
Not surprised - they've managed to sort out the majority of their performance/reliability problems since the last round of money raising which was dedicated solely to that problem.
"... python -c “import SimpleHTTPServer;SimpleHTTPServer.test()” ... Now that's a web server on a business card ..."

Where is the "on" button?
My WaMu account currently has a whopping $4.84 in it ;)

But in all seriousness, the FDIC arranged for JP to buy WaMu's deposits so they won't have to dip into (i.e. severely deplete) the FDIC insurance fund. Your WaMu account will just end up a Chase account in a few weeks/months.

Just logged in my account and got this message:

http://www.chase.com/welcomewamu/
Hmm, can you open an IFrame that is transparent, at a desired scroll-offset, and still receives clicks?

Then you could, for example, open an Amazon IFrame with the region at Amazon you know to be a one-click-order button exactly aligned over an attractive click-region in your exploit page.

If you can still detect the click before it goes to the IFrame, you could also simulate the click on your page so the 'teeing off' of the click to another site stays unnoticed.