skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be ahead of the curve...I'm going to start saying Web 5.0
I used to play UO back in they day, first and last mmorpg for me (huge time sink).
I agree that Franklin's advice might lead to explicit dominance behavior being replaced by the subtler status-seeking antics of convoluted text. That would still be an improvement in my opinion.

Fortunately, the internet has an existing idiom for "simplify and shorten your message", which is of course: "tl;dr".

Franklin's prose could get very convoluted! I don't know whether he was showing off, or whether it was just the style of the time that he didn't think to change. He was fond of listing things in dense paragraphs so it's unfortunate that bulletpoints weren't invented until 1958 (seriously). Modern pundits are aware that simplicity can lead to more effective messages; we have widely-publicized advice like "Keep It Simple, Stupid". Maybe that's a modern insight or fashion.
I prefer Web 12.0 because it starts with a "t" and then fools people.
The harder it is to fire employees, the harder it is to find a job in the first place.

Tenant-rights laws work the same way. The harder it is to evict tenants, the harder it is to get an apartment in the first place.
Maybe I missed the day where they fed us the bullshit that it all is a zero sum game. You cannot "make a fortune" at the expense of others, but only by offering others a better deal and, thereby, making them richer.
This is great for occasional users to check anywhere that they haven't left a stray instance running, especially if they start them via scripts. I, of course, have totally discovered that only after getting the bill a week and a half later...
http://astartupaday.wordpress.com
Also, how about not having to see the same ad three times during a given show? At this point maybe we're getting too close to tivo for the advertisers to feel comfortable.
Skype client for Android and more
What kind of corporate structure would let people decide to leave on their own, not have someone force them out?

Why bother firing anyone when, instead, you can simply reduce their compensation?
A Taxi service site and iPhone app. Lets you send your current location to the cab company with your iPhone and then track the cab as it arrives. Maybe even offer a prepay option so you can pay with your paypal account and just read off a confirmation number to the cab driver or something at the end of the trip for them to bill you with. Maybe in order to prevent confusion over more than one cab being called from the same location the app can light your phone screen up in a unique color for you to call the cab with as it approaches.

This wouldn't really be necessary in NYC where cabs are ubiquitous but in DC it would be useful.

EDIT: Crud, already sorta exists: http://taximagic.com/
Note that this is not the most up to date compete.com numbers. The latest came out today.
I want to cry. I found his example of code he needs to janitor to be positively blissful compared to what I often wade through. "When will the hurting stop?"
But does the display at the other end live up to the Yes Men's Management Leisure Suit?

(nsfw)

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=yK9Cs_UcTEE
It really bugs me that virtually all of the top-rated comments here are petty attacks on the author. This was better written and more interesting than 90% of the puff pieces I read about startups, here or elsewhere. I don't see why it merits such a mean-spirited response.

I think the comments here are a great example of why women don't want to be in this industry.
or you can just turn twitter into irc http://code.google.com/p/tircd/
How about at least filtering the online ads. Just put a little link in the corner of the ad that allows you to say "no thanks, I never want to see this ad again."
Motorola C975 Unlocked 
The Motorola C975 is an all-rounder and comes with a host of great features. This trendy phone featuring a 'candy bar' shape, comes with 3G functionalities and can be used for video calling and video content downloads.
Have this idea/started web design, but busy with work.
It's a crazy out there possibly good idea or bad.

http://fornicatur.com - a new way to meet people for well...

Though tech could be white labeled for any topic - beyond theme of domain above (GPS locate hiking buddies in central park, people who like your favorite movie, tons of stuff... interesting new way to meet people).
IE4. Yes.

You just needed to remember to use DIVs for IE and Layers for Netscape 3. This sort of thing was actually easier back then.
War Was Never A Solution, Will Never Be. So, what is India's alternative?
Ok Ok. So many people bashing this guy. What I want to know is...how he does it himself. Of all the stories I've read, none have given me THE answer. Do any of you have a clue? "Writing efficient code" as the article states isn't exactly a helper.
You could invent some sunscreen mayonaise.
Ah, but in this implementation, clicking on the new content doesn't make it go away. It's really not intuitive for a first time user (like me for instance).

We actually used this effect inside of Twiddla for a while, with universally bad user response. Ditched it in favor of boring lightbox-style pseudo popups.
Has anyone tried to run the ascii art piece from the README as a Potion program?
Can simulated handwriting stop the spambots from getting through?
For what it's worth, it never occurred to me that this was supposed to be an innovative new UI metaphor. I just assumed that the author was proud of himself for discovering element.scrollTo().

As noted above, it's not a good UI, nor is it revolutionary or even new. So I guess I have to argue that it is not, in fact, progress.
Richard East Books
Alibris UK has new 38 used books by Richard East, including hardcovers, softcovers, rare,45 print first editions, signed copies, and more.
thanks much.
I have been coding a prototype of this in my free time over the past couple of weeks. It's fun, but I'm not sure it actually makes lots of sense.

Not only is it really hard come up with a model to convert currency from many places into a "standardized" format (or even to allow for OpenID-style distribution) - it'll also not be easy to provide data to other sites that allows them to do useful things easily. Tags might be as good as it gets.

One other thing Y-people might not like: this SHOULD NOT have a revenue model, I think. Freemium completely screws you and ads on a reputation site would just feel wrong. Besides, it's a platform.

That's why I keep thinking about open-sourcing what I have, especially in order to try to solve the distribution problem before an alpha site might go online. Being a hopeless idealist I really want to see a service-decoupled reputation service that is NOT facebook/google FC.

Please let me know if any of you'd be interested to join me in playing around with this.
Powerful Solar Storm Could Shut Down U.S. for Months
The way he describes his implementation sounds like a digital Utopia. A live scrolling feed of topics people care about, with the ability to look things up from the past.

Twitter is definitely a simplification of this concept: You get your own channel to post into. And you also get to choose which other channels to merge together into one mega-channel that you read. Hashtags can send your posts to other "meta channels" defined by the community. Search basically makes each word in a post go to a channel defined by that word. It's all quite simple and beautiful, and stoneage.
This is smart but I'm not sure what the fundamental transaction on such a market is. Keep in mind that there is no rivalry for karma (in an economic sense) and that people always keep their karma after giving to others (or possibly even increase it).
Microsoft trains next-gen coders with XNA's Kodu
Also note that for several of these (like Frogmetrics, Picwing, and others), pageviews aren't the best metric of "success" because the website isn't the product.
Tips the scale more in favor of AWS in my decision ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=419460 ), though it already seemed to be in favor of them anyway...
Palm’s New Reach: Can its latest smartphone help spur a comeback?
I for one, don't have a console and I game pretty hard. On a desktop.
'Its incredibly slow because Vista attempts to cache everything in memory, but then doesn't have enough memory to handle program launches.'

Using left over memory to cache things is what you should do. Linux does it too, I would assume OS X does.

You periodically flush any changed bits in the cache to disk.

* When programs try and use more memory, you simply throw away the cache (except any changed bits you haven't yet written to disk).
* When they don't, your file access is 300,000 times faster
Best quote:

"I don't listen to the users," he says. "The people who suggest things are the vocal minority who have stupid ideas that only apply to their little niches."
homepage 404'd?

http://airbedandbreakfast.com/
Nevermind, looks like its fixed now?

For a second there I thought it was just a 1-pager :)
There are countless websites and communities using IRC that you may not realize is IRC. The old big networks are still dying off, quakenet etc, but there's a big surge of growth from smaller networks. Freenode, oftc,

The thing is, IRC is tried and tested. IRC has developed ways to combat spam, abuse, irritating kids, etc etc. That's one of the things that makes it more attractive than any new solution. And of course it's easy to write bots for.

I know I'm biased, but I expect IRC to have a real surge of growth the next year or 2, and take over somewhat from other less immediate forms of communication.

Massive growth from video streaming/chat sites - ustream, justin.tv, things are only going to get more real time interactive, and people are likely to go with IRC.
This is Frind's response to this on his blog --

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I found myself reading an entrepreneurship forum today talking about the Inc Article. I thought I would post here as well as some others might find this useful.

1. I hardly call myself lazy or a sloth. I built the site in 2 weeks 5 years ago. Since then and even now all the user interaction happens in only a handful of pages. At the end of the day there are only so many ways in which you can reorder the search results. It’s like trying to rearrange the deck chairs on the titanic, it accomplishes nothing.

2. The only way to grow a site once its running its self is to have brilliant ideas. Great ideas don’t come from sitting in front of the computer screen for 8 hours of the day wondering what to do next. You have to inspired or have a really deep understanding of what is going on. So a Brilliant idea may start a business but you need to have many many more brilliant ideas if you are going to go from one of many to an industry leader.

3. Opportunity/luck doesn’t come to you, You are the one that creates it. I debated with myself for weeks before posting the million dollar check, and I figured the best way of doing that was by creating a blog and give myself a voice. I knew my free site competitors where going to venture capitalists and asking for huge sums of money, and my competitors where claiming to be first movers etc. After posting that check their chances of raising money went to 0. The wall street journal called after reading that post. WSJ article came out, next day the Today Show Called. The next week my total US site traffic was up over 50% and kept on growing. In Fact many things i’ve written on my blog have made it into the national papers. Inc Magazine story was a result of my blog, and i’ll be going on a national talk show next week again as a direct result of my blog. I post a lot of things on my blog, many of which seem like bragging, but when reporters read that it gives them an idea for a story which is the whole point of a blog anyways.

4. Work smart not hard. If all you do is work hard making incremental improvements you are just like a hamster running in a wheel and never really getting anywhere. If you want to get somewhere you need to come up with great ideas, or something that is significantly better than the competition and execute on that. Then you go back again and do the same thing over and over. Far too many people think entrepreneurship is like an attendance award, where you can win just by showing up.
Hilarious comment, but seriously: after 4 or 5 clicks, I just didn't feel like clicking on anything else. I didn't see anything interesting until a small little list of a few interesting existing itineraries.

It's trying to be too many things. Do one thing really well. Are you about making lists? Be the best dang list maker there is. Get people bought in as soon as possible. This doesn't mean grab their contacts or get them to put in invited friends. This means get them to create some content they have an attachment to, and fast.

Demonstrate value as early as possible, and keep the user's attention. Every part of the process should be analyzed with a fine tooth comb -- each piece of UI and call to action should have a strong reason to exist. Otherwise, you're just wasting valuable and finite user attention.
It's a very personal situation, so chances are the cofounders are all stressing and working to resolve it, but there is nothing more demoralizing than not hitting payroll. It's forces you to confront so many well hidden issues, especially from your employees. Issues that, if sales pick up and things start rolling, are best swept aside. The amount of guilt one feels is directly proportional to how much you are to blame.

The fact that she was able to even write about such an experience is mind boggling to me. All I know is when I've run out of money, about the last thing in the world I wanted to do was to share either the lack of funds nor my downward spiral dealing with it.

The investor called her. He offered the pre-bridge loan to her. Sounds like she is running the ship.
In 2003, Dell Computer Corp. dropped "computer" from its name and became Dell Inc. (That's always a bad sign.)

Are they calling a top for Apple? (http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/apple-drops-computer-from...)
I'd extend processing. There's already ports for java, javascript, flash, iphone.
Wake me when they have a working build for linux.
Transparency is all well and good. I am sure that is happily accepted oversight/regulation. So I wouldn't expect any arguments that hedge funds need way more oversight/regulation. On the issue of transparency, why not require hedge funds to disclose their short positions? This is all such a farce. To hell with them.

How can you ignore the possibility that having a derivatives market that is ten (10) times the size of the global GDP, might be an issue?
Aria Systems Achieves Highest Level Security Standard For Online Billing Transactions
Aria Systems Inc., the leading provider of on-demand billing and customer lifecycle management, today announced that it has been approved by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council as Level One PCI Compliant. This level of security certification is extremely rare in the Software as a Service space.
I've always thought about a system for teaching kids about programming by building AI players for online games. The system would consist of 3 components:

1. A screen scraping/computer vision toolkit that would supply most of the AI primitives to interpret games
2. An interpreter for each game that would provide an machine usable API to interact with the game
3. An AI program that would then play the game

Component 1 would only need to be built once, Component 2 would need to be built once per game and then Component 3 is what the kids would get to build.

I always thought this would be an excellent, gentle introduction into the world of programming.

Take Fishy (http://www.xgenstudios.com/game.php?keyword=fishy) for example. It would be really simple to build a dumb AI that could do ok but to build a really great AI would involve some really sophisticated path planning and optimization algorithms.

What better way to get kids inspired and wanting to learn about programming than have them solve the games they're already playing?
AA produces t-shirts and underwear. Do you consider Hanes ugly and bland?

I think you're too busy trying to troll that you forget that they're not trying to be Dior or Gucci.
there will be a GSM 3g friendly pre
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/08/palm-pre-in-depth-impress...
A site dedicated to connecting Technical Business Analysts with Software Developers.
Imagine, Facebook realizes that people just friend people willy-nilly, so they team up with Burger King to find out who people value less than a tenth of a hamburger (McDonald's quarter-pounders, if memory serves, are $1.25 or so). Pretty slick marketing.
1. $ 1 billion is missing from Satyam

2. CEO, Ramalinga Raju has admitted that he committed fraud

And yet Satyam interim CEO Ram Mynampati has not filed any police case against either Ramalinga Raju or Satyam Auditors.

Mr Ram Mynampati seems to be a co-conspirator to this fraud.
This seems like a really bad idea to me.
A cradle that updates the baby's facebook page based on decibels, activity, dampness.
When I grow up, I want to be like _why.
Something like:

hardstatus on
hardstatus alwayslastline "%{rk}%H %{gk}%c %{yk}%M%d %{wk}%?%-Lw%?%{bw}%n*%f %t%?(%u)%?%{wk}%?%+Lw%?"

in ~/.screenrc gives an always-visible status line.
It doesn't say "1 day to code" ...

If you're building a Web 2.0 application or any website that's core to your business, then you might have to settle for simply having begun by the end of the three weeks.

For most businesses, you can have a website built very quickly. Think about the basics elements of your website, and at least get a site up with basic information about you, your business your products and your services.
It is WAY cheaper to use a human to deliver the orders.
You need the ISBN, but it's not as simple as scan it and you're done.

Delicious Library might do what you want?
That wouldn't make any sense anyway. You'd have to keep separate cookies per tab, but tabs have no identification for persistence.

So you open two gmail accounts, one in each tab. Close them both. Open a new gmail tab, which account will you be in? The logical conclusion is that, in your scenario there are no cookies written to disk.

With profiles, each profile has its own set of cookies and you are deliberate with respect to the profile you are in. Cookie behavior is well defined, predictable.
The Joy of Grading
I've always wondered why social networks don't ally with music labels and promote/sell music. Small networks can contact indie labels, and huge networks can work with sony, etc ...

It just seems to me that music is the perfect social product...
"I always wondered why Indian IT companies pay people so low when compared to the rest of the world."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity.
Partly.
No need to delete cookies. Whether you're on Windows, Linux or OS X... just create a new user account for the particular purchase you are interested in. When you use the browser from that account it will have no cookies. When you've finished, delete the account. Next time you want to opt-out of their 'previous customer' pricing, just create a new account.
3 Ways a Twitter Hack Can Hurt You
As Twitter investigates how several high-profile accounts were attacked, security expert Graham Cluley points to the potentials risks to all users when a system is compromised.
I've heard a number of people say that, but I get the sense that they're not heavy Twitter or IRC users.

Fundamental to IRC is the concept of rooms. Twitter is a web of one to many relationships.

"Conversations" on Twitter are much more segmented and have less depth. I see the Twitter concept as a much more broadcast oriented sort of thing rather than a real conversation facilitator.
Life is more interesting when you don't assume that strangers showing kindness are going to hack you into pieces and throw you into a dumpster. Always take candy from strangers. And smile.
Bad title, this is an article about setting up a business, not running a startup. I get the feel that articles about startups from a technical perspective tend to assume the work listed to do in these three weeks takes zero time.
I've been waiting for the magic bullet phone, and this is looking like it could be it.

I've been (and still am) a long-time Palm user - most lately the 700p, then the 755p all with Verizon, and though the OS is clunky and old, it works well for what I like in a phone.

But this new one looks like it'll satisfy exactly what I'm looking for.

I've considered the iPhone, but I dismiss it because of its shady AppStore policies.

I've considered the Blackberry Storm, but its on-screen keyboard doesn't really allow enough space for a reasonable SSH session with vim.

I'd also like to at least try the G1 for a week, but T-Mobile's network is weak at best.

I tried a Samsung HTC phone with Windows Mobile with a slide-out horizontal keyboard early 2008 and found it practically unusable.

This phone looks like it's going to satisfy every major requirement I have, especially if it comes to Verizon. It's absolutely imperative that my phone be SSHable, and Vimmable, and doable out "in the sticks" when I'm on vacation.

And the slide-down keyboard looks amazing. You shouldn't have to use two hands to type on a phone's keyboard.
I just tried out Twiddla, it's really cool, congrats.

As per this slide-in UI, I'm going to change my mind here and say you're right. It really is kind of pointless... it's the same thing as a lightbox, only vertical, and more disruptive and disorienting.

I do think there could be some use for it... maybe someone will make a twitter app that uses it.. twitslide perhaps.. and we can all be amazed that they did it in x hours just as a side project.
I've already got used to this neat feature :)
"Things I see on the pay sites that should be left out: - letting job seekers post their resumes"

Not sure about this one. Recruiters will pay a lot of money for access to resume bank, for a niche that isn't available anywhere else... and you don't need to do much to implement this feature - just a form with file upload.
I actually worked in a hospital where they paid for robots to deliver medical records to doctors/nurses. The nurse would request records, and then the medical records department would fill it up and send them out. I think that didnt last too long, not efficient enough.
Rules Engine or Event Collaboration
> IRC is tried and tested

It actually predates the web, by just a little bit.
An app that increases the number of hours a day has, e.g. makes time flow slower. That way I could accomplish more ;)
I bet more than half the people who get the coupon will get fries and a drink with their free whopper. Which is probably enough for breakeven.
New Venture Capital Model Coming ?
from what i've heard, i'd say semco. no wait, i read the question as 'which company would avoid layoffs'...
It was interesting in a "Watch a car crash" type way. If you're short on cash, you don't have a "House manager".

It doesn't sound like she makes a good CEO to me at all. Not because she's a woman, but because firstly, she is spending more money than she should be, and secondly, because she sounds like an emotional wreck.
I feel exactly as you do. I've stuck with my Treo 755p (and 700p before that) and avoided the phones you've mentioned for all those reasons.

I'm completely stoked for the Pre.
I just don't see how it is technically feasible, as most sites don't provide a way to transfer karma? Or is the idea more that of an independent karma service that other sites could plug in to (like gravatar does for profile pictures)?
I use C-\ for the escape sequence. I'd add:

(3) Easier-to-use shift-pgup/pgdn equivalent

My .screenrc:

escape ^\\
hardstatus alwayslastline
hardstatus string '%{= kG}[ %{G}%H %{g}][%= %{=kw}%?%-Lw%?%{r}(%{W}%n*%f %t%?(%u)%?%{r})%{w}%?%+Lw%?%?%= %{g}][%{B}%Y-%m-%d %{W}%c %{g}]'
shell /bin/bash
defflow off
startup_message off
defscrollback 1024

'defflow off' lets C-s work. The status line lists the current shells, computer name, time, and date.