skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
oh i hate these pricks and their "oh i know you would give your nuts to be in the same room as me, here are some pointers" posts

fuck you douche, i neither want or need your money

who will want money from you is the dipshits who threw a substantial amount of cash into your sorry funds in the first place...right now they are probably wondering if your zero-return, high-risk investment vehicle is worth the paperwork. something tells me you will be returning their calls
Advertising spam that has no place on HN, eh?
Sometimes I catch myself Getting Awesome when I work on things like open-source codebases, user interfaces, and relational databases. I wrote a book about it 5 years ago but I still blog about it in your faces.
move your servers to venezuela and tell them to fuck themselves
Why can't we call it a loan, but in the fine prints say that there is no guarantee to repay if the company goes bust. EDIT: And the loan is made to the Inc so if the companies fails, the owner credit will not be affected.
Google Tool Lets Users Edit Search
astoundingly i have met people who are stupid enough to use this service, which is curiously expensive

christ folks, if you just want to whitelist all your contacts, go to fastmail.fm and edit a sieve script
How do you prevent unfortunate GC pauses for your game engine? I have two conflicting thoughts lately:

"I want to use Lisp for everything! Oh but what about GC pauses in games?"
I've used it and it is good. Highly recommended. The videos you get aren't super great quality but they're useful and the price is right. The only complaint I have is that I'm a tad jealous I didn't start this site.
Better option: Reduce taxes so that money can be invested by the people who earned it. Radical huh.
Sure you do. Microsoft's offering provides a trimmed down Exchange with Outlook Web Access. Simply login to OWA and can create a rule to forward all messages.
PC Magazine, a Flagship for Ziff Davis, Will Cease Printing a Paper Version
Healing Health Care
I couldn't agree more. By referring to "LISP," I meant the general family of languages, but really meant Scheme (which I use).

Edit: What am I even saying? I didn't mention LISP, it was a quote.
Note that for publicly editable wikis (like BarCamp, for instance), PBwiki does not charge for folks outside your organization. (Otherwise BarCamp would owe us tens of thousands of dollars a month they don't have!) You'll only have to pay for as many people are using the wiki at your startup.
Mytob virus spreads in hospitals
PG,

You sound like a bitter Bostonian who was priced out of New York because you couldn't afford to pay rent on your studio in Alphabet City.

And as a Bostonian, I'd expect you to have enough cerebral instinct to be less transparent with your intuitive writing style. But alas, you all to easily portray your hometown's sad trace of pragmatism by holding ideology over realistic execution, hence why you were probably priced out of NY to begin with.

Another down year on Wall St., yet my bonus alone still affords the Cambridge flat you so wish you could afford to purchase. Hope you grow up some day, and find yourself, cities aside pal.
Paraliaka...
I think they explicitly say that they offer advice for these situations, so it's certainly worth a shot.
Google I/O Sessions ‎(Google I/O Session Videos and Slides‎)
No Silver Bullet Reloaded Retrospective OOPSLA Panel Summary
Often, I've thought that it would be really fun to invest a very small amount of money into a start-up, say $25 to $50.

Even though I wouldn't have any delusions about a real ROI, it would be fun to be part of the "insider's circle", such as a founder's forum or special deals for micro-shareholders.
'Fish technology' draws renewable energy from slow water currents
History of Lisp by John McCarthy (1979)
Dreamsongs Essays
that too helps everyone - no it doesn't; not in the long run.

I honestly don't know what McCain & Palin have been saying about this (nor do I care) but corporate welfare undermines accountability at the corporate level. Accountability is absolutely essential to functioning of the market and handouts such as these have been undermining the US auto industry since the fifties. This is a very large part of the reason that they are in trouble today. If we are concerned about the employees, we should just give them the money directly, but giving the money to the corporate execs is essentially rewarding bad behavior and staving off the inevitable. Corporate handouts are like stimulants for the economy; they provide a short-term high, but they will be followed by a corresponding low and the longer you prolong treatment, the longer and more powerful the low.

BTW a labor surplus isn't necessarily so bad a thing; employment for the sake of employment is almost as bad an economic policy as corporate welfare (It's one of the more obvious failures of the New Deal.) and if the big three are no longer profitable, that is what this bailout amounts to.
nda is over and done. And it may be that for this guy free apps + and a reasonably priced source distribution is the most profitable business model.

None of these apps strike me as uniquely useful.
Resale rights for E50 on 9 apps? That's a surprisingly good deal.
Is the Next Steve Jobs Already Working for You?
China 'using cyberwarfare to challenge US power'
I worked on the Netflix Challenge last year but did not come far and gave up after submitting a few mediocre results. Actually, I was proud of myself for my result did not explode but was within the range of the Cinematch's algorithm. The experience has given me a lot of respect for companies that are developing recommendation algorithms.

There should be more great competition like this. At this point, I'd say the benefits coming from all the research and development by the Netflix Challenge community as well as the experience obtained by many hobbyists like myself as the result of this competition has already exceeded the $1 million winning prize.
I wonder if one couldn't put together a software package that Mechanical Turk participants could use to generate similar (if lower-quality) data?
There's a version of this interspersed with commentary by a history of computing person (a German I think). If anyone has that link I'd be much obliged.
DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 63 - A Hand Or Less
Linus Torvalds can be sent to /dev/null and come out the other side.

Linus Torvalds defuses a fork-bomb... by crushing it in his bare hands.

Linus Torvalds has seen localhost in person.
Google SearchWiki 101: An Illustrated Guide
has anyone found stress testing proof of where couchdb is at? production sites?
I like the idea. I'll probably use it at some point.
To put that "billion dollars" in perspective, General Motors' current burn rate is apparently $6.9 billion a month. Ouch!
Why?

The main deliverable in user testing is quality. It's much better to have 5 detailed pieces of data than 100 that don't say anything at all.
Programmer Interview Questions: Two Bowling Balls
Lego Safe is ultra secure
It's easy enough to find out if the letter is legit with a few phone calls and consultation of reliable phone directories.
To be frank I often surprise myself with the tastelessness of my own comments on Youtube, when I bother to make one there.
It's a cool idea. I'm not sure that selling mainly on price is a good move business-wise, though.
I've been looking around at the school's interface and at the Windows Live account area and I haven't found anything yet. If https://owa.msoutlookonline.net/Login.aspx is the OWA you are talking about, then I can't log in to that.

I remember someone saying that forwarding was turned off so that people would have to use the web interface. I don't know why they would even make than an option.
It's a bit of a preposterous comment if it's the only appropriate one.
Probably didn't make it down, certainly not intact. The huge flash likely comes from it breaking up.
Educating with java?
Getting started with electronics, open source hardware... on the cheap
open source hardware and arduino has come up a lot here so i got a special code for 10% off for hacker news readers (i realize it might be shared outside here, that's ok) this is for the Maker Shed, i'm senior editor @ MAKE magazine.

http://www.makershed.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=20

use code: MKHCKR on checkout and get 10% off - this is one of the few/best deals on arduinos and electronic kits. we now stock the new arduinos too.

this expires 12/1 - hope this wasn't spammy, i'd like to see more folks build cool projects.

if you're interested in the biz model behind open source hardware, wired has a good article...
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/magazine/16-11/ff_openmanufacturing?currentPage=all

and here's a presentation i did about open source hardware too:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/open_source_hardware_over.html

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/04/open_source_hardware_what.html

cheers!
Users don't care (just give them a virtual piece of chocolate) and obviously Twitter doesn't care, so why should you?
TechCrunch Ad Rates Slashed 35%
Ask HN: Do you read partnership/distribution proposals?
Ask HN: Do you go through several pages of distribution and partnership proposals or do you prefer receiving a short email that describes the nature of the proposed joint venture?

Thanks
Lua is used in games often. It does have GC, with an incremental non-compacting generational GC. If you do get pauses then there are various methods of forcing GC on a regular basis, or just generating less garbage. It works well in practice.
Arduino is great open source hardware, but the rest of this is just "stuff in a store". File this link with the radio shack flyer that came in today's mail and move along.
Followup (better late than never, right?) --

A few days after my post, Eric Florenzano put up a how-to for multi-db support in Django:

http://www.eflorenzano.com/blog/post/easy-multi-database-sup...
Sadly, the logic is done in digital form. I think a mechanical lego safe you have been much geekier.
You'd also have to reduce qualified investor laws.

And honestly, reducing taxes even further in this crises doesn't strike me as a reasonable way to handle a global credit crunch...
There would probably be demand for a more expensive, higher-quality service. Someone else in this thread mentioned adding eye tracking. It also might be useful to add multiple trials from random individuals and create some sort of aggregate statistics. These are both things that you could charge a large premium for.

What is cool about this site from a business perspective is that it is a low-capital, low-cost way to do things with just one person, much like girlinyourshirt.com
If those teams got together, hacked up a program that ran 2 or more independant systems (entries) at the same time and averaged the results, they'd probably get to 10 percent.
Maybe this comment is already here and I just missed it, but languages naturally have life cycles, and thinking in terms of Ruby's life cycle might explain both some of your early enthusiasm and your current discontent. (I'm going to draw in broad strokes here and will probably get some details wrong.)

In 2002 Ruby was young: half-formed and exciting. It's problems didn't really look like problems: they looked like things Matz hadn't gotten to yet (and, even better, opportunities for other programmers to get to first). In late 2008 Ruby is established; the problems come with a set of reasons why they aren't likely to be solved. (The other problems were solved.)

This is natural and normal for any multi-year group endeavor, be it a company or a rock band: it starts with a world of potential. If it is one of the lucky few to survive for any length of time, it becomes mostly a specific reality, with a humdrum future. (More often it goes from having a world of potential to not having any future at all in short order.)

You cite as counter-examples Javascript and Scheme. Javascript is benefitting from the HUGE externality of being the client-side language for the single most important application category going. As for Scheme ... there's a paraphrase of "Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be" that's escaping me, but suffice to say that if the 73d time is the charm for Lisp's taking over the world, I won't be too embarrassed to have bet against it.

Ruby's momentum 2002-2007 was like Python's momentum 1999-2004 was like Perl's momentum 1993-1998: the momentum of a firework or a homerun. It was glorious to watch them rise; it shouldn't be sad to see them return to earth.
Jeff Bezos Gives Advice on Long Term Success
Ask HN: Seeking pre-demo feature feedback on my storefront software
I run Greaterscope, LLC, a (currently) one-man company that's developing storefront software with developers in mind. In other words, we're focused on several PITA features that are important to growing online stores ... multi-lingual support, handling complex product attributes and pricing, multiple storefronts.

I'm hoping to give developers a better starting place when they need to create something custom for clients. It won't be free, but will be open source. Hopefully my efforts will be appreciated.

I don't have a demo yet (hopefully by January) but I'm impatient so I wanted to solicit for feedback early to make sure I have the full range of needs in mind as I continue to build this thing out.

If you have feature ideas or issues with tools you currently use that should be addressed, please let me know via UserVoice:

http://greaterscope.uservoice.com

Technology-wise it's written in object-oriented PHP5, MVC (database abstraction, templating system, ORM), supports databased sessions, and is not limited to MySQL. I have also considered creating ports to other languages (Python, Ruby).

Look for a demo some time in December. I'll definitely announce it here once it's up. The first version should be ready in the first quarter of 2009.

My company website is http://greaterscope.com

Update: We're also looking for beta testers. I think I failed to mention that.
Search Me: A Hit on the iPhone
This article is garbage. And how is this Microsoft's fault? The hardware industry has been shitting out incremental weak hardware for years (I'm looking at you Intel)
You're going to be compared instantly to shopify: http://www.shopify.com/
I've often wondered if P2P or distributed computing could be done within the browser itself, without some kind of add-on as this appears to be... for instance, what about a javascript map/reduce framework? when i visit the site, the javascript GETs the lastest thing to map or reduce, and then POSTS the result back? anyway... ;P
My mind is buzzing right now...
Poll: Internet, Fox News Are Most Trusted News Sources
@jws-- that's not true at all, mintyboost, minipov, brain machine, blimp bot, game of life, tv-b-gone - all open source hardware, all the gakken kits from japan (i personally went there and met with them) there isn't anything there that's at radioshack, maybe a breadboard but c'mon - this isn't "stuff in a store".

if you can find any of the kits at radioshack i'll give you a year of MAKE :)
There are many products and services for small/standard storefronts ... but we're innovating elsewhere. I've tried to outline some of our differences on the website but it surely needs further clarification.

We're targeting shops that need the type of features you have to design for at the beginning.

We're also not a hosted solution, as that limits the ability for other developers to customize our product.
Ask HN: Most Hacker Culture in the Northwest
I currently live in the Midwest, and the entrepreneurial and hacker culture is practically non existent out here. I'm looking to move to possibly either Portland or Seattle, but I wanted some input on where would be a good area, maybe with some near by universities. I know all about Microsoft and Amazon etc. in those areas, but what about the culture?

Your thoughts?
Ask YC: What do you think of my new mini site?
Apple’s 2008 ad budget: Nearly a half billion dollars
Poker's Life Lessons For Entrepreneurs
Poker offers lots of life lessons, especially to entrepreneurs
It would make sense to me that every cell in your body is in a polygamist marriage, which is you, which can in turn marry other things.

But does that mean that your liver cell is married to your partner's brain cell? Not at all.

What this means is that marriages are potential partners as well! Model that.
Former Enron Prosecutor Hueston Calls SEC Case Against Mark Cuban Risky and Flimsy
I would like to see a cost/benefit study of such onerous regulation. "It saves lives" is a cop out justification the same way "for the children" is. Costs. Benefits. Calculate you some, or get out of the way.
Thanks for the up-vote. My point is that it's easy to fool an amateur. But classical music, which is what Hofstadter thinks he understands/knows, is often beyond the realm of the amateur. It's not that an amateur can't love classical music, but to understand why a piece of music is great when another similar one isn't is often a rather complicated question.

I think my point would be illustrated by this experiment, similar to his original experiment. Take a piece by Chopin, and a piece by a contemporaneous unknown composer. No doubt to the amateur, they would sound like they could have been written by the same person. Add in the piece by EMI and an amateur would not be able to tell which one was which. The reality is that in order to really understand great music, you need to know a lot more than Hofstadter does. I am confident that I could play him 10 pieces written in Poland in 1835 and he would think they were all by Chopin, even if all of them were utter crap.
I just realized, it could be really interesting to have access to the history of karma over time for stories and comments, and perhaps accounts.
You too, huh? I thought it was just me...

Edit: people don't like sarcastic replies to sarcasm?
Facebook gets exemption from SEC rule that forced Google to go public
I had an email from Archos threatening to sue me when I was developing an open source alternative to their firmware on the Archos handheld video players. I reverse engineered their firmware format and started on a new firmware.

The EFF were helpful and gave some free advice over the phone, though mainly it was emails back and forth between me, and the Archos CEO that seemed to 'resolve' it. I think they realized they didn't really have anything to fear with an alternate firmware, and got tired of paying a lawyer to email me.

These companies aren't taking anyones freedom away, they're just being big companies protecting their interests.
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Seth Godin is not a hacker.
They gave some good advice to me when I was threatened with being sued by Archos a few years ago, so I'd definitely recommend talking it over with them to see where you stand.
300 preorders? Not bad for a new expensive product/technology.
Samsung Starts Mass Production of 256GB SSDs
Short answer:
If you love coding, learn Python. If making web apps is just a means to an end for you, learn PHP (and a framework like Code Igniter).

Long answer:
If you want to code web apps primarily for the forseeable future, go with PHP and a great backend framework like Code Igniter.

If you want to eventually code larger scale backend pieces, and grow into other areas of development, go with Python.

I love Python, but have a renewed loss of skepticism for PHP given how well CodeIgniter has performed for some of our major web apps. I personally feel Python doesn't feel as inherently interconnected with web concepts as PHP, so there are more complications/hurdles to get past in order to build a 100% functional/pretty web app. But you'll be much better off long-term for learning Python if you're going into sysadmin/backend/app development.

I love coding, so I learned both. Good luck!
Microsoft continues to go the way of IBM, takes on big govt project
Ahh, thanks for that.

I haven't listened to any of them yet, but I am surprised by how few there are. There's only one Chopin-like piece, for instance. This causes me to worry: how many bad Chopin-like pieces did this thing spit out before coming up with a passable one? If there's still a human intelligence sitting there and sorting the good compositions from the bad ones, the program is significantly less impressive.
And make sure your domain is not with godaddy.
Business big shot: Arianna Huffington, online entrepreneur
I love it, will definitely use this.

But please add an affiliate program.
Sure, currently Amazon is the best Cloud Computing platform.

The thing is in 5 years, when the price of the whole current Amazon infrastructure will cost $10000/month, Amazon will be left with ... lot's of AMI's (apart from original Amazon.com business).

And Google will have list of everyone's attention data, searches, video watching, mails, readers, pictures, news interests just to begin with.

As various GAE applications will gain popularity, those applications will use Google Accounts for authentication, well some of them at least, and 90 percent of your web traffic will go through Google. Now they can start REAL targeting.
Life's hard. I don't know if that many of us here on HN have had suicidal thoughts, but i have. I wasn't serious though, i was more like an attention whore. There is this thing that keeps us going, and that thing is very deeep, and is older that our species, and when that thing conflicts with our modern brain, we get confused. What is the meaning of life? Why should i go on? The answer to these questions can't be "our instincts tell us to", it doesn't make sense, but it does, actually life is worth just for the living, and we should just go on, because our instincts tell us, they know better, they had billions(not millions) of years to evolve and refine them selfs, our minds have been around for only a few million years, which one should you trust? I have more to live for than what my instincts tell me, but many don't, and they have the power to ignore them, and we have no right to judge them, they overcame the most important of all our instincts with their minds, that takes will, even if its a stupid decision, its a valid one(not always of course).
Supercomputing: It’s All About the Software
IPhone Apps for Managing Your Basecamp, Highrise and Backpack Accounts
Comparing EtherPad and SubEthaEdit
I was curious how much the reviewers got. A little digging reveals that they get $10 per review.
IE 6: now coming to a cell phone near you
Beauty Is Truth In Mathematical Intuition: First Empirical Evidence
Private placements - Raising capital by customers becoming investors
WikiMatrix - Compare them all
I prefer the capitalist approach.
Reminds me of my college days of playing cards at business school - I was usually the "sucker" at the table
It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations
40+ CSS Creators, Generators, and Makers
A smaller sample means a greater chance that it's not representative. If 10% of the population is colorblind (or left-handed, etc), you stand a greater-than-50% chance that a random group of five people won't identify a problem for this segment.

A larger number of available testers means more fresh eyeballs, hence a better chance of repeat queries yielding accurate first-impression data.

Feedback from people whose job it is to evaluate websites may not be representative of the average site visitor. They may be more familiar with common site layouts or have specific pet peeves.
These companies aren't taking anyones freedom away, they're just being big companies protecting their interests.

The first part of this sentence is not true. It also doesn't follow from trhe second part.

If I bought an iPod or iPhone I'd want the freedom to use it however I like. This includes the freedom to program it, or run someone else's software on it. If Apple don't like that, they should sell electronic devices in the first place -- once they have sold them they have no moral right to decide how they are used.

Apple and other vendors attempt to lock down hardware and software with DRM. The whole point of DRM to to remove people's freedom; therefore Apple clearly are taking people's freedom away.