skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, for one, didn't know.
Video of Amazon Web-based AWS Console
I believe the same is true for companies in the other incubators; a lot of funding has not been announced.
Security Risks Force Meebo To Remove Unapproved Facebook Support
Understanding Science - Beta
Yes only compiled public info.
The feeds are cached, so items may not appear right away. Plus there is an additional lag depending on how often Google pings the feed.

Anyway, I checked out your case and I see the link in your feed now. I plan on dropping the cache time once I get off the shared hosting.
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from:amichail+reactions+O...
Well, I hope for their sake that it's a lot better than the iPhone, because good enough ain't gonna cut it. Not if it's going to cost more: http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090108/live-from-ces-palm-...
5 Steps for Planning the Direction of Your Blog in 2009
The above 5 steps are the way I approach planning on my blogs (in fact it is how I do it in other areas of my life also). I actually do this for each of my blogs. The mission generally is much the same for each one and at times there are similarities in other steps.
I think big dog is still cooler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww

Asimo too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfaAiujrX_Y
I'm pretty sure _why is really like twelve guys just messing with our heads.
If you use Firefox and don't want to have to re-login everywhere, you can get the same effect with CookieSwap: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3255 . 3 cookie profiles... pretty neat.
Something that produces iPhone code out of Flex/Flash code and vice-versa? That sounds impossible (I don't know either one) but if it were, it could be cash cow, no?
don't delete your cookies. just temporarily use a different browser than your normal one (opera, camino, chrome, or whatever)
Imagine something that balanced dynamically like Big Dog, but was a biped like the Asimo, and you'd have:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CQ5AKaEi3U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnTy_smY3sw
Kind of like a mint.com of internet activities? I like the idea. I'm not sure how easy it would be to be exhaustive. I can see how you could add the regular places you hang out at. Casual comments would be harder to track but a bookmarklet could help there.

But isn't that kind of like a YC startup? I forgot the name though but I remember the website being a place where you could follow people's comments on blogs.
Is your idea focused on forums?

I like the idea.
Xkcd - What happens when you boot up in Windows 7
It is a pity IRC is so widely underestimated. I like seeing every utilisation like this.
Get the web developer toolbar addon, and choose delete domain cookies. That way you don't loose cookies you want.
They forgot that someone can sleep in the bathtub too.

Reminds me of this craig's list ad:

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/nyc/907788944.html
You know, I'm not a big fan of Facebook, but this site should use it for vetting. You don't know much from a name, picture, and some attributes, but in all honesty I'd be more inclined to trust someone (at least to not be a psycho killer) after looking at their drunk pictures and wall posts than anything any central authority could issue.
We've played around with a few different notification systems at Flashbang/Blurst. It started with our scrolling LED sign, which would display commits along with text-to-speech on the office speakers (video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJer51_DoFc).

Over time, though, we started putting more and more stuff into Growl. We get Growl--via the network stuff--for all kinds of things now. This lets people configure it how they want, disable projects they don't care about (each project shows up independently in Growl), and isn't as disruptive all of the time.

We also use a Google Talk conference bot running an account on our Google Apps, powered by: http://coders.meta.net.nz/~perry/jabber/confbot.php . If we had the bot running first we would've probably used that rather than Growl.

We still use the sign for some fun things--we had it doing real-time sales notification of our iPhone games (which talk back to our server), but that became too distracting too quickly. For parties we turn on a webcam and let people type messages into it.

Long comment short, if you don't have real-time notification of source control commits and things--even if you're in the same room--you're missing out on something very useful.
Copy and Paste Trick iPhone & iPod Touch
Most of the iphone and iPod Touch User coamplain about lack of copy and paste Feature. Today, however, copy and paste between Safari and Mail is really coming to the iPhone, courtesy of two nifty JavaScript bookmarks from Pastebud. To start copying and pasting, you only have to bookmark two JavaScript files. You can do this either in the iPhone’s browser, or the browser whose bookmarks you sync to the iPhone. The final step is to delete the first few characters of the bookmark, as it isn’t possible to bookmark an actual script on the iPhone.
Do they still have that mascot King - gave me the willies
I really like that idea. domain name taken :) -- i presume you didn't want to do this since you didn't buy it yourself.

If I get to it this weekend, I'll submit to HN when I have something ready. Thanks for mentioning uclassify -- I hadn't heard of it.
That's a perfectly good application of a reputational economy. There's pretty much infinite possibility. I'm not sure if it has been explored in fiction better than Doctorow's Down and Out Magic Kingdom, about a post-scarcity, post-singularity society with a reputational economy. http://craphound.com/down/ Available free online under a CC license.
This robot makes small jerky movements. I think the others are much more natural in appearance. Perhaps it is more of a hardware issue than software, as it does seem to have pretty good balance.
I have to admit: the irony of the founder of a business purporting "life management" strategies blogging her mental breakdown is... ripe.
Oh man... with 30:1 leverage I could make a killing.
I've been playing with this Portable Keyboard Layout utility and it works nicely: http://pkl.sourceforge.net/

You can also try it online: http://blite.iki.fi/lab/alternative-keyboard-layouts/colemak
Hop lists
Do Sitemaps Affect Crawlers?
Like any other person out there, I fall into habits, good and bad. Recently while working on a client’s website, I created a Sitemap and submitted it to the search engines, like I always do. I started to think if this really helps the site out and what’s the effect when I submit a Sitemap on the site.
I hate to sound discouraging, but when it comes to job interview techniques, making it hard to game is the entire problem, not just a detail.
In Hard Times, Chipmakers and Suppliers Butt Heads
http://www.amazon.com/American-ApparelFinest-Quality-Tailore...

$5.99. (just to save the long debate)
"more natural in appearance"

Truer than you know. The reason the Asimo's gait looks so smooth is that it's preprogrammed. It doesn't balance dynamically. It looks smooth for the same reason animation does.
Not to be a curmudgeon, but how is this Twitter "proving itself"? There was a fire; the guy and his family luckily survived; and then he tweeted about it, and other people responded after the fact. Why is this surprising/notable?
Have you considered the iPod Touch? It's a significantly thinner iPhone, minus the phone and camera.

Not sure on battery life (my iPhone survives for at least four days if unused), it has no GPS, and is missing common PDA niceties like an SD card slot. But it is a modern platform with people making PDA-esque apps.

StyleTap license GarnetOS (aka PalmOS) and make an emulator for Windows Mobile. They claim to have an iPhone version in the works, but there's no recent news and I could see them having big problems with App Store approval. The GarnetOS folks also have a virtual Palm for the Nokia internet tablets in the works: http://www.access-company.com/products/gvm/
Being profitable doesn't mean you not should raise money. If anything it's an opportunity to raise money on favorable terms as you don't need VCs.
That is one scary article. I knew Denmark was pretty communist, but I had no idea it was perverted to this point. An eye-opener, for sure.
Games are going to be a big question, however. CSS+JS?

Don't forget canvas.
There's a library called CoreAnimation that's similar in some ways to Flash, supporting keyframes and tweening and such. The iPhone also has (an unofficial) port of Rhino, to run the needed ActionScript. (Compiling that to native code would be a whole 'nother matter.)
Sounds interesting, could you expand on that?
Four were (ramen) profitable by Demo Day this summer. Two of those did take money from investors. The other two might still at some point. All four have had offers.
A big problem I have is I want to post a single question to a forum and be on my way. I hate having to sign up. Same deal but worse with mailing lists. What if your app had login accounts to the top say 10,000 forums so people could pop in and post questions some how?
Truth. Still, every other component of the Mac is more expensive, and in the end ($2000-mac + $20) > ($1000-similarly-spec'd-pc + $20)
Wow, this console is actually really awesome. It's the first non-command line based tool package that I'll actually be using. I was surprised when they launched AWS that they didn't have something like this in the beginning. The service seems complete now.

The learning curve is now reduced to a level where normal people can figure out how to use AWS in under an hour.
Someone should make an OS out of something like this, with everything coded from the kernel up in Lua/Potion.
Room service robot for hotels. It could basically be a motorized cart. It would be easy for it to get around in big hotels with elevators.
Video games for dogs?
Sell sunscreen in little packets (like ketchup packets) that can fit in your wallet. That way you'll never forget sunscreen. Should I patent* this?

* I hate patents.
open a new window in incognito mode for chrome.
I would think you'd have to be doing "piece work" to not have to fire people, that is an employee's compensation would have to be a direct result of their accomplishments, otherwise you won't have a way to deal with the slackers and "in cube retirements".

You will eventually have people who choose to produce less work than their benefits cost, much less salary.

[long grisly example of a firing deleted. short version, guy joined company, got extraordinairly expensive medical work taken care of, took the telecommuter version of "in cube retirement" until we fired him so he could take unemployment while ramping back up his previous independent contracting customers. Left us to pay back his probably fictitious hours billed to customers, health care costs, and unemployment insurance. See, the short version is even long and grisly.]
Scan in ISBN of a book, have it posted for sale on Amazon and craigslist.
Report: Gmail about one-third as expensive as hosted e-mail
FF extension - Search within a textbox.

(I hope I'm not posting too many ideas)
http://www.google.com/products?q=sunscreen+packets&oe=ut...
I think Guile was rather less successful than was originally hoped. Quick, name three GNU applications that use it. :-) At this point, I would use Lua if I needed a lightweight embedded interpreter and Python if I needed more power. Just IMHO, of course.
Is the camera in stereo?
screen -e^}]

Makes screen's commands prefix C-]. That really works very well with Emacs. Since that is command prefix of telnet, all other software avoids it.
Here's the real link: http://pastebud.com/
American Apparel is an amazing company.

'A 5,000 person, $500 million low margin clothing company, operating from a single factory in the least business-friendly state of one of the highest "cost" manufacturing countries. Beating the overseas sweatshops and still growing rapidly.'

/article
gnus email/news-reader already provides, such a fature via scoring. You can score somebody up/down. At a configured threshold, you dont get to see the posts/articles from such folks anymore. love to have something like this in gmail.

[edit]: the same can be done for articles/persons etc etc. for more info http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual//html_node/gnus/Sum....
screen is the best thing to happen to greenscreens since the buckling spring [1].

and FTW: try "nethack on" in your .screenrc [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckling_spring

[2] http://dotfiles.org/~manoogs/.screenrc
See http://iolanguage.com/
A company sells 1000 shares. All get sold. Any further rrselling of those shares aka the stock market does not benefit the company.
+1 for mystique
I switched to Dvorak about 10 years ago. I never regained my full QWERTY speed (which was 100+ WPM--from what I hear, the faster you type, the harder it is to regain your full speed. I type fast enough that I don't care that much, but it's still annoying), and always find it annoying when I have to use a QWERTY keyboard. I found no particular demonstrable benefit (more ergonomic, better speed), except that it's more aesthetically pleasing... your fingers don't fly around as much. If you type QWERTY after typing Dvorak, you feel like you're trying to make your fingers fly around some computer for a 1950s science fiction movie (exaggerated, pointless).

Overall, I don't really regret it or think it was a good decision. If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't bother, but I'll be using Dvorak for life.
Advantages And Disadvantages of Geothermal Energy
Geothermal energy is derived from beneath the earth's surface. There are a variety of different thermal resources, each of which creates its own engineering challenge as to the way that the energy can be tapped. In some cases current technologies are not practical or economic for successfully extracting the thermal energy. To all intents and purposes geothermal energies are renewable because the latent quantities of energy are so large we cannot imagine them running out.
Excellent point. There has been nothing remotely libertarian about the Bush administration.
Amazon already does this. Actually, I think it's required to list an item on Amazon.
Especially after the people next to it figure out that nobody's actually watching the feed.

At this point, it's probably trivial to make it go past everybody every few days just to scare people, right?

That's the logical result of widespread adoption of this, isn't it? Similar to (most) security CCTV right now.

Either that, or elaborate "moon-landing" setups to trick the remote factory (or weapons) inspectors.
Filter or customize your tv ads. I hate it when a horror movie ad comes on and I have to scramble to change the channel. Similarly, I may like watching John&Kate+8, but that doesn't mean I want to watch the typically associated feminine hygiene commercials.
I remember years ago, when I basically lived on IRC. Hell, I still have channels open 24/7. Now anytime I read about some company using IRC, I get really excited. And every time I use a web-based product that is basically an inferior replacement for IRC, it drives me crazy.

The most disappointing thing is that IRC is still awesome and bots make it infinitely more useful than a webapp could ever be. Unless I can setup Campfire bots or something.
> I've been approached by some investors who want to invest in my startup. They've asked me to put together a business plan - listing costs/revenue etc.

Are said investors paying enough for what they want? Or, would you be better off doing something else?

I'm assuming that you have enough of a plan to run your biz and enough accounting to know what's happened in the past.

If that information is not what they want (and "not what they want" includes "we need it in a different format") or they don't understand what you've got (assuming that you're willing to share a redacted version), why do you want them as investors?
Maybe you are referring to Disqus.
i've been a big proponent of aws in general and ec2 in specific. this move by amazon just underlines their willingness to broaden their products appeal. and broaden ec2's appeal it will. frankly, a majority of people who read this site know how to get ec2 running via a command line. however, if for no other reason than showing your non-tech clients how ec2 functions graphically, this is an obvious win to the non tech among us.

go amazon! great job. (yaya ec2 web gui exists already - but its not directly from amazon so you lose a bunch of people in translation)
But what do you do when you have sunscreen on your burger and mayo on your back? I think this might backfire.
I think it's the same story as with any other platform vendor for - no partner is absolutely safe from incursion. The ones that survive are the ones that have large, loyal customer base (e.g. Quicken) or can move very fast.
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HN bug when upvoting?
Sometimes when I upvote stories, I get this error:
"Can't make that vote."

Does anyone else have that problem?
Might it be easier to just build a dedicated sort of line for each room? Like a part of the wall that opens up and is connected to the kitchen/wherever, to deliver your food. Would be harder at first but it'd be much easier down the line, and more efficient.
If you like this, you probably want to check out Rightscale's free package:

http://www.rightscale.com/

It's not as ajaxy, but RightScale's stuff can do a good bit more than Amazon's EC2 dashboard. Honestly, I was hoping Amazon would create something at least as good as free RightScale when I read this-- but it feels a bit worse than what most of us have been using for a good while.

This interface does look slick, though-- if they get it caught up in functionality I'd probably use it over RS. The release of this tool might reduce RightScale's valuation a tad since it does kind of indicate that Amazon's not in the market to buy someone like them.
Web 2.0 is so over. Welcome to Web 3.0
I'm an ec2 noob and I liked the video
Does TopCoder have a job posting feature? I can't find it.
This is true, but I don't want to describe the details in public which would only make it easier to game. I am just wondering if hackers would use the service if it was available.
I've always thought of Twitter as a crap implementation of IRC. It's like they're trying to do something which IRC has been able to do for so long. I think this article sums it up: http://stubblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/how-to-fix-twitter/ - though the point of people using it is valid. The IRC network I maintain peaked at around 5000 users about 6 years ago, now its down to 700.
What does YC do? One startup or many?
I think you mean http://www.backtype.com/.
It's more than just a few lay articles, but your point is well-taken. And I appreciate the book suggestion. Alas:

Macroeconomics by N. Gregory Mankiw (Hardcover - April 28, 2006)
Buy new: $117.47

Ouch! I think we've discovered something about required textbooks and the economics of cartels.
You could just ask the French. The harder it is to fire employees, the harder it is to find a job in the first place.

At the limit, you would just reach a no hiring, no firing steady-state with a minimally functioning economy.

The only activity would be new companies hiring until they were overwhelmed by dead weight and companies going bust. (Wouldn't that be a little like firing everyone?) Strange and ponderous unintended consequences lie here!
Great - got it now.
[Everybody] is born with ... a right to NOT be coerced.

I was born with a right to not be coerced by gravity?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity

What entity is charged with enforcing my right to non-coersion-by-gravity?
Or Misesians. Those guys are crazy.

How so?
Rightscale's UI is horrendous. It is so bad that I would rather use the command line tools.
I think currency.com is already taken.
US scientists learn how to levitate tiny objects
he probably wants news.google.com but in a format like mail.google.com's threads. kind of like techmeme, i imagine.
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Yes, but there are many networks still going strong. QuakeNet, Undernet, EF, DAL, etc. Freenode is still the best place to get instant tech support for basically everything that matters. GameSurge is still hugely popular.

Many people probably left when better file sharing methods showed up. I remember all that, before bittorrent was even a dream, when you'd have a bunch of fserves instituting their own caps and queues and stuff on dozens of different mostly-content-specific servers. You'd have to navigate all those insane directory trees trying to find stuff and make drug deals to get the "good" files. Ah, the good old days.

The scariest thing to me is that I'm not even that old, and yet so many people these days don't even know what IRC is. It's like Usenet or something. I think I did a good job of loosely applying this monologue to your reply :P
Some forum software accepts openID now. I agree completely, at this point I have so many forum accounts on random sites where I just needed to ask one question pertaining to some program or something. The other day I needed to ask a question on some forum and was about to make a new account when I found that I already had made an account. Now I've decided to only use openID for new forums if possible and just not join others unless I think I'll participate a lot.
a bugmenot type service...except it would act as a proxy. The proxy will be used to hide the actual login info, and to prevent the users from screwing around with the actual account.(basically I see this as changing the username to XXXX, not letting users go to pages like usercp.php etc).

Right now bugmenot is pretty much useless, since all accounts are dead almost right away.

This way the passwords etc will remain private, and the accounts won't go dead right away
hotels rent space. your suggestion limits space. do you think that the advantage of robot server compared to humans would offset the huge decrease in available space to rent?
Why Apple needed the Palm Pre
The Risk of ePassports and RFID
Today vonJeek/THC released his tool and a video how to duplicate (clone) and modify a Passport with RFID chip. http://freeworld.thc.org/thc-epassport/ The weakness is in the way the system has been rolled out. The terminal accepts self-signed data. This attack is different to the grunwald attack. VonJeek's attack makes it possible to copy, forge and modify the data so that it is still accepted as a genuine valid passport by the terminal. Using a Certification Authority (CA) could solve the attack but at the same time introduces a new set of attack vectors:
Finally - a really great way to piss off all of my Hindu friends...
> For the people in the middle group, I think the big danger is not knowing what to do next.

That was the big reason for me. There were a bunch of contributing factors - rejected by YC 3 times, no luck with other outside investors, better opportunity came up, all other founders quit, scope of the project was much bigger than we envisioned, continuous problems simplifying the UI enough that I'd want to use it myself, and some doubt about whether current browser performance is even good enough to run the product - but I kept going through all of them until I really had no idea what to do next.

Joel's comment about it taking a long time before you can even know what knobs to tweak is right on. Early-stage products are almost completely wrong, and oftentimes they're so fractally wrong that nobody will bother telling you how to make them right. Launching helps, if you can get users. But many startups fail to get even one loyal user.
"By the way, are Facebook's numbers even public? How do you know they're losing money?" -

http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/07/technology/hempel_threepoint...

"[FB] Revenues for 2008 are expected to be about $275 million this year, according to several sources, and it is still not profitable."

it's common knowledge that none of the recent major "web2.0" players have made any or significant profits.
Entrepreneur.com 3 Weeks to Startup is a joke. 23 days on BS, 1 day to code? Really?