skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some satellite hamlets that are attached to larger metropolitan areas that I feel sort of achieve this.

I am specifically thinking of Carrboro, NC. I spent some of my childhood there and I feel it had all the good qualities of the suburbs (I have lived my entire childhood in them) but mitigated a lot of the bad ones (alienation, etc.) because it was in an area that is denser and much more progressive by Southern standards (Carrboro/Chapel Hill).

A negative example would be Cary, NC. A small one-block 'downtown' surrounded by vast urban sprawl and conservative values all around. It is a malignant growth attached to Raleigh, NC.
I don't get it. If you're worried about someone taking the user/password you gave them and being unscrupulous with it, exactly what does tracking IP addresses buy you? The thing you're most worried about is that they're going to sell every asshole on the Internet a DVD with usernames and passwords on it.
Playing golf can 'damage hearing'
Probably a simple MITM attack. I think it's time twitter.com invested in a SSL certificate.
It looks like something broke since the author wrote the article, and he reverted to using Google. Example links lead to blank results, while the search box on top of every page of the web site mentioned in the article leads to Google-powered search results. Anybody have luck with integrating YBoss results?
You know... I wonder if Steve should go on SNL when he's feeling better and pull a "Shatner" just to put the stockholders and rumormongers in their place...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_a_life
Also, I know of some people in Atlanta who are at least tentatively interested in something like The Hub model..
Great Depression Inventions (including Xerography)
I think that there is no way to explain this fully without invoking "the Cult of Mac." A lot of people see Steve Jobs as a visionary and important to the development of a number of products that they care deeply about. Very deeply. I don't know another consumer product like it.

Further, Jobs is wasting away in front of everyone's eyes. That makes wonderful press, just like the opposite tends to do: CNN tells me that Oprah has gained her weight back.

I guess I don't really judge anybody for being curious. I certainly don't judge Jobs for being jealous of his privacy. It's a human tragedy and one that we'll all face one day ourselves (those of us who aren't lucky enough to have our heart give out unexpectedly while on top of a 17-year-old mistress in a seedy hotel that is). Man is mortal and all our works perish.
So, everyone gets that each stage in the reduction reduces the number of rotations per second, and therefore the stage that's embedded in concrete is moving very very slowly.

...but still, concrete being very brittle in tension, shouldn't it crack?

The answer is no, because of something called "backlash". In short, there's a little bit of play in each of the gears, and one can "take up the play" in each stage before force is transmitted through the stage. There's two kinds of play: actual air gap, and also elasticity of the steel gear teeth.

Dealing with backlash is a key component in designing machine tools like metal lathes and milling machines.

High end CNC tools use ball screws and other techniques to reduce the amount of backlash experienced.
This is the first time that the catalog of the Beatles is legally downloadable. Gotta love loopholes.
Consider: "ramen profitability" is only OK as long as you're OK with living on ramen.
The drinks can actually enhance breast size
Good post. If you find this interesting, check out Shriram Krishnamurthi's talk "Swine Before Perl" (http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Talks/SwineBeforePe...) and/or the linked textbook.
Thanks for the info!

I think the cookie/cache reason explained why virtually all major websites (millions hits/day) redirect naked domain to "www." subdomain.

I also found the following info from here http://blog.bigcurl.de/2008/08/redirect-naked-domains-to-sub...

"That is why I wrote redirector. It is a little application which redirects all the apps in your Google Apps account from a naked domain name to a subdomain.

Eg. bigcurl.de --> www.bigcurl.de

If you want it can also do this vice versa but be aware that you are not taking advantage of Googles geocaching mechanism with this approach."

So using "www." domain for GAE seems to be a better solution if one wants faster access/response.
I would suggest that the general fund is a Ponzi scheme backed by selling IOU's. We are borrowing more money to pay the interest on money we already borrowed and adding more debt on top of that. Long term we need to start borrowing less than the interest on our debt - inflation. Which is not all that high a number vs GDP.
As I noted before, the really old are a small fraction of SS. If SS were really just protecting people against outliving their investments (say, it kicked in at age 90) and against disability, I'd have little objection to it. That's just insurance, and a small portion of SS.

As for GDII, I'm not sure how SS helps there. That sounds like a place where the ponzi-like nature of SS will become readily apparent: not enough money from new investors to pay off the old ones.
Comparing the Performance of WPF/E, Flash9/Flex, Javascript
I think they're working on it and this is more of a preview (though I don't know for sure).

My first impression was that the feature list next to the logo needs a different font. In general it seems like a nice improvement over the old site's visual design.
i will admit to two things -- one is that because of my lack of ability to execute currently, i've not thoroughly thought through things as well as i would like to have done before airing my ideas in public :). and two, you've taken it in a different direction, which i like, but don't have many thoughts on.

the concept i was thinking about was not to give any actual cash to any company, but exchange the services of the space for equity. basically, whatever they would need to survive for X months, including (possibly) food and a place to sleep. would allow the company to focus on bootstrapping themselves when they don't have to focus on paying for groceries, and by bootstrapping themselves, they would hopefully become profitable faster without having to worry about obtaining more funding or dying from excessive debt.

i'd not thought about the idea of diverting some time to worthy causes, but i do like it and would probably implement it, as it works well with the model on several levels.

edit: added a few things
AWS -- we run our entire insurance company, and its multiple applications, using the EC2, EBS, S3, SQS, and FPS services provided by AWS. I think the only AWS we haven't used to date is Mechanical Turk. We highly recommend AWS: we started with dedicated hardware years ago, migrated to an excellent virtual host, and then finally moved to AWS last year when they implemented EBS and provided the SLA. Once you have multiple servers, it makes increasing financial sense to use AWS.
"A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it needed to become my #1 priority"

I'd say he is in fact implying that his decision was related to learning about his health problem.
Seems to work for me...
Hypothesis:
From a mental recharging standpoint, meditating about a passive scene from nature is close to being in nature. Lets say for 20 minutes a day.
You'd be paying for the privilege of not getting spam. In my hypothetical scheme, you'd be paying Amazon for transfer of the key and whoever setup the system to generate the key. Also, I would expect most people would end up paying less than the equivalent of one latte/month. It's only the spammers who (one hopes) wouldn't be able to afford it...
Google isn't very good for displaying backlinks. Try yahoo site explorer. Quarkbase (for buzz) & websitegrader are also excellent.
Disintigrating personal friendships have killed more startups than divorce has. The divorces are just more memorable.
Making Cities Fun Is The Best Stimulus
i know a few as well. perhaps your few and my few and a few others could combine to make enough.
Ask HN: Rate My App
http://zhongd.org

I made this online Chinese dictionary over a year ago because I didn't like anything else available. I've only shared it with my friends studying Chinese, who seem to prefer it.

I'm attempting to bootstrap a startup in Boston at the moment and was thinking about trying to increase traffic and make a few bucks off ads to fuel my real baby.

I'd love feedback on its functionality, appearance, or how you would approach making money off of it.

Thanks HN!
2008 In Review for Music- 2009 looks bleak
I think people read the Highrise chart in the opposite direction that you suggest. They look for the cheapest first, see if it meets their needs then move "up" (left in this case) until they find the one that is the most affordable that meets their needs. They were probably getting a lot of Basic sign ups, so the emphasis would be getting those people to double their payment level by highlighting the next level up as the best deal.

I don't think highlighting the most expensive package to make the others feel cheaper by comparison is very user-friendly either. Users want to quickly find the best package for them and not feel like they're compromising by picking something other than the highest level. Highlighting the highest package sends a signal of inferiority for the rest of the items. By highlighting the middle one, they're saying "hey this is a great package" on its own. If you need more, go higher. If you need less, go lower.
Ask HN: Incorporating in Ontario - Advice? Recommendations? Experience?
I'm working on a hosted billing app (in a nutshell) that looks like it might see the light of day. Since the application deals with actual cashdollars, I'm thinking a limited corporation makes sense (looks more professional, can't be personally sued, etc.). I've trolled around the internet looking for advice on how to do this, if I should do this, that kind of thing, but it is precious scarce.

Actually, most of the "advice" out there comes from companies offering the service, which doesn't fill me with tremendous confidence.

HN, have any of you incorporated a small business in Ontario or Canada? Why? What issues and pitfalls did you experience? Can I trust these companies whose services cost half as much as the others? Can I trust these companies whose services cost twice as much as the others?

Bonus question: I plan on dealing with Americans as well as Canadians. What challenges does this pose to a Canadian business?
Slicehost can be cheaper because of the included bandwidth, but AWS can be really helpful too.

Here's two examples:

Database server. EBS is a high-performance disk system offering speeds of 70MB/s in the real world. Databases love fast disks. Slicehost's disks are slow (at least for high performance databases). Xen doesn't have great disk access speed and they're just plain old local disks. So, if you need to scale up a database, AWS is going to accommodate that better.

Infinidisk! With Slicehost, you have a fixed disk size and you can't buy more. With EBS, you can just keep getting more and more disk - you can even stripe volumes so that they show up as a single disk to your instance.

Life is about trade-offs. I love Slicehost and use them for all my stuff. I've set up EC2 stuff for other people who wanted it. So, it really depends on what you need.
They didn't mention whether they controlled for individual city/country preferences amongst the study subjects. As evidenced by the comments here, people tend to have very different conscious feelings about cities. What if they had conducted the study at NYU and not Ann Arbor? Likely the students at NYU feel more favorably towards big city life than those in Michigan.
it seems pretty functional and useful. the design could use some polish, though.
Yeah as of last night I had a 4.33 ranking. No projects on GitHub yet, and and am being followed by one person.
You shouldn't act like terms exist in a vaccuum. Remember that the Republicans and Democrats were on completely different sides of the political spectrum less than a century ago.

Classical liberalism is a doctrine stressing individual freedom and limited government. This includes the importance of human rationality, individual property rights, natural rights, the protection of civil liberties, individual freedom from restraint, constitutional limitation of government, free markets, and a gold standard to place fiscal constraints on government

In a modern political climate these would sound somewhat conservative (mainly 'free markets' and 'limited government'). I think the best modern-day fit would be Libertarianism, which is considered by many to be far-right.

This is why we as a society should really adopt the two-axis means (political compass) of understanding "ism"s. I really hope the public is smart enough to factor just one more dimension into their political analysis, but mass stupidity is always full of surprises.
Ramen profitability is OK if you're OK with living on ramen... or if it's a passive income stream which can support you while you go off and do other things.
Conceded, but will YC fund a team that plans on being a side project? Didn't think so.
Acquiring a natural edge
Ask HN: How do you follow people's submissions / comments on here?
Increasingly finding myself wanting to "follow" certain people on here. I don't see it built into the system I am guessing you use RSS to do this?
Sorry; you are definitely right about that. I was so focused on the mom with the T-shirt that I did not even think about being able to count the states with the girl, but yes, the answer is obviously 50%.
Emulating Ruby blocks in Python
The Chameleon: The many lives of Frédéric Bourdin.
https://twitter.com/ does exist and work. Is there a problem with their certificate?

EDIT: honest question, I'm not trying to be snarky.
I think you're both right - this is a big if. The other thing that's important is that this is dependent on being a company that sells a service - rather than something that's looking to build a big community before it monetizes. That's another big if.
>> translate.google.com that's as good as the average bilingual

So, a few orders of magnitude harder than sci-fi?
Chomsky is a pretty hardline radical liberal, so it's fairly likely that an HN reader or two thinks what he writes is pure and utter garbage.
hmmm interesante - i'll be talking to them on tuesday so we should stay in touch. nathaniel@change.org
Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accounts Hacked
Ask HN: Where have the "Review my startup/app" posts gone?
So, I'm wrapping up a little project I built over the holidays and I'm hoping to post it to HN for some bashing this week.

Then, it dawned on me that the frequency of "review my app/startup" posts seems to have dropped lately. These have always been some of my favorite and (IMO) most helpful HN posts.

Is this because we're in between YC submission periods?

Just a holiday lull?

Trend?

Am I just crazy?
Obama, Fox and Britney Twitter Accounts Hacked
I don't think you can, with any intellectual honesty, call Milton Friedman a "liberal" economist without pointing out that you're using a different definition of the term than the mainstream. If he's a "classic liberal", he's also an "anti-progressive".
Not necessarily, but we're focusing on architects first. Why, do you have a suggestion?
How do you at one point in a thread discuss how "liberal" is an ad hominem, and in another part of the thread dismiss someone as a "hardline radical liberal"?
Source code is on a mix of Github and Subversion servers

Customer data (basically, SQL data) is backed up daily, archived, and put up encrypted on Amazon S3 with the date/time appended to it. The files are tiny so we have no issue with keeping year-old ones there as the costs are minuscule.

All other things like documents, staff related items, pictures of products are stored on a single server, that uses rdiff-backup and sends it to a second drive on the same pc. rdiff-backup is very nice as we've had a few instances where we needed to fetch a file from 2 months ago that was heavily modified since. The version history helps a lot
I'm just saying that his idea here should not be evaluated by a comparison to a group of people that he isn't even a member of. I do like the two axis chart though.
Ruby 1.9 - What's new? What's changed?
Isn't that what I did by busting out with the wikipedia link?
I haven't really noticed a drop. There is not a whole lot of consistency to how often they are posted, but it seems to be about the same to me.
W...T...Fuck?!? I'm sorry, but the way that I read SJ's letter was "Don't have to prepare...cool. Oh, BTW, minor health issues, thanks for prying assholes"

Apparently Gizmodo's reading was "Oh, god! Too sick, must spend holidays with family recuperating...not...dead...yet!"

...just a guess, but I wouldn't hold my breath for Gizmodo's live-blog of the next Apple event...
@barackobama was hacked as well.
Project FROG is a 'Best Clean Tech' finalist for the 2008 Crunchies
Rather than insulting me, take a moment to think about the consequences of what you're saying: you're arguing that by announcing the sex of one child in a pair, the probability of the other child's sex being a particular value changes to 2/3. Does that make sense to you? Really?

Again, this has nothing to do with symbols or notation. There are two sexes, two symbols: M, F. The undergrad probability 101 mistake you're making is that options:

MF, FM

take order into account, while options:

MM, FF

do not. This is incorrect. If you take order into account for the mixed-sex case, you must take order into account for the same-sex cases. MM and FF encompass four options with ordering, not two.
Sorry, but I can't see that idea equating to links, quality targeted traffic, or interest in his service, only interest in 1000 dollars.
In northeastern CT, it means a type of cow[1], which made the headline humorous.

Mildly funny story: my grandma once said at a family gathering, telling a story of somebody in the hospital, "then they wheeled him off on a guernsey", which everyone thought was pretty hilarious.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernsey_cattle
The hormone that matters most for fat is insulin. And yes, that puts things smack dab at the door of the pancreas. An insulin shot will tend to make you gain weight (like it does to type 1 diabetics). Don't know what Jobs' doctors are telling him to do.
"do you see any problems??"

Yes:

- You're still submitting your password to an untrusted entity. As soon as they have it, they can: (a) change your password and lock you out of your account (b) attempt to use that password for other services you use as most people re-use their passwords

- IP address filtering is useless. The attacker just needs access to a botnet to flood you with requests.

Something OAuth-like is the only way forward: granting revocable, fine-grained access to whatever subset of operations is required for the service in question. Bonus points for being able to undo all operations of a certain type resulting from that third-party access. (i.e. 1-click undo of all DMs, tweets, etc.)

I really hope they make this work soon.
Diplomatic Efforts Intensify as Israel's Gaza Offensive Continues
I use http://ycfeeds.com/ for this.
I'm guessing you either don't use knives very much or haven't used a really nice one. I use a chef's knife every day, having a good one does not make me a sucker. It's like paying for the leather option when buying a car--it's not essential, but it's damn nice to have. The knife's a lot cheaper too :).
Vortex Induced Vibrations
Next netbook - thinner, cheaper, better, Linux
NYT on analytical versus subjective risk management
Announcing the Rails activists
looks like its a widespread problem...I guess there is some vulnerability being exploited
Gems Point to Comet as Answer to Ancient Riddle
Ok, I just made it. It takes about 30 minutes to put together. The instructions are easy to follow but halfway through I changed to watching the video. Which is linked to in the instructions.

Mine fly's really well, it has a lot of lift so it could almost use some more weight in the tail section.

I added some tape to the tail section to hopefully add some weight. It didn't really help and thus my reaction is to say it isn't the "best" paper airplane. I don't think there is any "Best" paper airplane.
Defense spending is a lot, but it is actually one of the few things that the federal government is supposed to do and it's only 20% of the federal budget whereas medicare and ss are at 60%
Thanks, this was one of the posts I was looking for. Thanks. Now, hopefully someone will post the other one.
This is true.

The $10 knife and the $100 knife were probably made from the same material in the same factory in China. The $100 knife was just marketed differently.

If you want good performance, learn to sharpen your knives. The best way to learn is to sharpen many many knives. You can put a razor edge on any knife out there. There is no magic to it. Don't buy any fancy gadgets. Just get 3 good sharpening stones. You can get 3 good ones for under $100.

The $100 knife usually won't have better edge retention because it is probably made from the same material as the $10 variety. It was probably heat treated in the same way too. The only difference is that the $100 knife probably has better quality control. It probably looks nicer and feels nicer in the hand. These things matter to some people, but don't fool yourself into thinking that it will cut better. It won't.
The True Story of the Telephone (2009)
I'm still going to have to disagree. You are only looking at one side of the equation, those receiving the benefits and ignoring those who are harmed. How many companies go out of business because they can't compete due to these taxes, how much investment is lost/misdirected since an individual cannot decide where to invest their funds. I could have invested in a store in my neighborhood, but instead the money will be spent by someone in some other area. It's hard to know exactly what we're missing out on because of the massive amount of wealth redirection.
It in Job's interest to serve his shareholder's interest.
Or just search Craigslist's free or furniture section. You can often find people moving who would rather give away or sell their perfectly fine Ikea furniture than move it (probably because they're going to upgrade).
You can report spam to the @spam user. That's only effective against users who are spamming, however. It doesn't really help in the situation where an account has been compromised. I strongly doubt "every twitter account is hackable"; someone probably just got hold of the passwords of the accounts in question.

EDIT: looks like more accounts are being compromised. Maybe someone has found a hole in twitter's servers. Or, a disgruntled employee decided to have some "fun".
Internet-Ready TVs Usher Web Into Living Room
Ask HN: Free accounts for students?
We charge for private repositories at GitHub. As a result, we often
get emails from students asking for free, private accounts (usually
of the $7/mo or $12/mo variety).

"I'm working on a website with some friends and we don't have any
money. If we start making money, we'll gladly move to a paid account!"

While we offer free private accounts to instructors for classes, we
haven't given students free accounts to work on commercial projects in
the past.

Should we? Would you?
Want Erlang concurrency but are stuck with Java? 4 Alternatives
Of course not -- because YC is built around the idea of companies raising VC and reaching liquidity so that the YC principals can exit in a cash position. As soon as you take outside investment, "ramen profitable" isn't good enough even if you're happy living on ramen -- because even if you are, your investors aren't.

But not everybody fits into that model. I think most bootstrappers would love to build a company which provides them with a passive revenue stream.
Music Startups to Watch in 2009