skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seth Godin's Blog - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/

Mark Cuban - http://BlogMaverick.com

Paul Graham - http://PaulGraham.com

Gary Vee - http://garyvaynerchuk.com/

538 - http://FiveThirtyEight.com fascinating

Freakonomics - http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/ as above

ZenHabits - http://zenhabits.net I met him in person and Leo is as genuine as they come

My Life In A Cube - http://www.mylifeinacube.com/ Great comic

And like, hundreds more ;)

Also the best place to find stuff I like is my StumbleUpon RSS feed at http://tr.im/sidsu

I think it is all pretty spiffy stuff myself. And of course, my blog is at http://sidsavara.com
Was thinking the same. As I remember, Elon's X.com merged with PayPal, then Elon proceeded to oust the original PayPal founders and convert all the PayPal infrastructure from linux to windows (which was X.com's platform of choice). All this infighting went terribly, but I don't remember who ended up on top in the end.

I'm not saying Elon did nothing for PayPal, because it's still dominant, so he probably helped it grow, but calling him a 'Founder' is a bit of a stretch.
Why did they create fbjs in the first place? It gave js development in fbml an unnecessary learning curve. Other companies had already mastered the js sandbox by then so there was no reason for these js wrappers.
The only reason multi-page presentation exists (on the web, not in print) is to manufacture more page views.
This is really well executed. Coming up with a bookmarklet is straightforward too. For example, for the international site you could use javascript:location.href='http://pwn'+location.href.substring(11). Of course, this can be refined to handle the presence or lack of www and international prefixes (e.g., ca.youtube.com), but you get the idea.
so how long until they get shut down. youtube has argued that this is against their terms of use.
I don't think the flash file will play. Try it.
Trillions! Yes, you! can control 2/3 (or more!) of the GDP of a region by facilitating multi-currency transactions over the internet there!
Content looks good, although I'm not a member of the target demographic so it is not personally compelling.

Design-wise a few minor tweaks would make large strides.

I'd axe the black bars at top and bottom, make the logotype strong and unique, and strengthen your headings. Also truncate long entries. And some bad mojo is goin' on with the footer.
Google Code Jam's Ranking Library Released
Out of curiosity, how does Hulu.com prevent its videos from being copy-able?
Actually this could be a take off from "Nightmare Factory", a haunted house here in Austin that was around for a few years (Not here anymore - House of Torment and the Horror Haunted House are the two big ones now.) When I saw the name, "Capital Factory", I immediately thought of "Nightmare Factory" anyway, but maybe that's just me! :-)
because Facebook is stupid and is building a walled garden?
Steve Jobs: The Rolling Stone Interview
$10 laptop coming from India on February 3rd, or so they say
Ha, yes, that's a major concern for us. We lucked out and found some very experienced people who've worked with federal financial data. We're assuming major security threats from (before) Day Zero.

One advantage is that all Boffery accounts are private. No one knows you have an account on Boffery unless (1) they email you a friend invitation on the site and (2) you accept. While this only protects against certain forms of attack, it does make us a slightly less inviting target. There is no Barack Obama or Kevin Rose of Boffery until they choose to publicize their accounts elsewhere.

Plus we will not use a dictionary-searchable admin password. Ha.

I'm sure I will waste all my karma this fall asking HN to pick apart our security plans. But for now, I just wonder if choosing sex as the test of this sort of high-security, process-intense visual social network format wasn't just the thing to keep us from scaling TOO fast to keep up with reliability and security.
SEC investigating Apple over Jobs' health
I love Austin as a town and people have that southern hospitality charm. The university and talent pool is great too. However, Austin suffers from the big fish, small pond syndrome. Things are changing slowly but surely, hopefully Capital Factory does well and empowers young entrepreneurs. Josh Baer's OtherInbox is a kick ass product too. But idk, ycom is difficult to reproduce if your intentions are fiscal bound.

In other big cities, finding mentors is a dime a dozen. In Austin, it's a lot more difficult to find that type of leadership which is why so many talented people leave and gravitate toward the coasts I think. The new Mayor seems to be a lot more progressive, he's got a twitter account even. yay!

http://twitter.com/bmccracken

I'd also say that with the economic squeeze taken into account, TX is still relatively shielded. It's a great place to be doing business, and a relaxed low cost lifestyle. I've been seeing a lot of out-of-town plates lately, but we don't spit on you. ;)
Panic's story about Audion and iTunes has been posted here before, and it's still an excellent insider look into Apple from the POV of a ISV.

http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/

"We were thrilled to say the least. So much so, we had almost forgotten about the fact that the answer to our SoundJam mystery was about to unfold, right before our eyes, in one week...

iTunes was, of course, and I'll say this now, brilliant. It single-handedly taught us an entirely new philosophy on software design. Do you really need that Preference that 1% of your users will use?"
Poorly done HDR often looks that way. Search for HDR on flickr and leap down a few pages, you'll see some ugly, ugly stuff.
ok, thanks ;) . I have learnt a reasonable amount about the subject..

I'm still pretty confident that if all you possess is some hashes, with no knowledge of the hashing algorithm, salt etc, you won't be able to work out any of the IPs. If you think that assertion is false, please educate and explain why.

But as you say, forums leave way too much room for misinterpretation in the finer details...
There was a pretty good discussion on this here on YC:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=454146
Collaborative music composing using Muxicall.
Since it's run by two major networks, I'd imagine with a big legal sledgehammer.
I had a 486 Dx4 120 (AMD), eventually with 64MB of ram, it always ran NT4. I remember downloading mp3s in 1997 or 1998. The machine couldn't play the mp3, but I could decode it in bulk to wav files, which it could play.
yea, Austin has quite a tech scene going, affordable city to live in and it's actually quite nice city to live in too. Don't forget Texas BBQ all year round!
I use a slinkset as my RSS reader. It's at http://andrew.slinkset.com/
In the short term, no one will likely bother to copy the code and open a competing (or even related) site. So business-wise, opening the code doesn't have any short-term impact.

In the longer term, if they were to become hugely successful, then many people would love to copy them and having access to the code would make that very tempting. But "hugely successful" is a big if. By then, they probably would have enough of a community that copycats wouldn't hurt them too much.

We have been toying with similar ideas for our startup, especially since its concept lands itself very well to community-based development. No decision yet.
-- In AppleScript while I wait for tea to steep...
if application "Terminal" is frontmost then
tell application "Terminal"
get name of first item of windows of it
if result contains "ssh" then
set red to false
set yellow to true
set green to false
end if
end tell
end if

-- or a one-liner...
if application "Terminal" is frontmost then tell application "Terminal" to ¬
if (name of first item of windows of it contains "ssh") then set stoplight to "yellow"
Yahoo sucks
I think you're on the right track. My sister (of the overactive nephew) has a set of favorite childhood books that she wants to pass her love of reading, when the time comes.

And, of course, I was unable to parse whether you were a parent based on the 3rd person subjects you were using.
A decent helping of NIH syndrome probably had something to do with it. Facebook engineers are pretty decent, and they like doing things in-house if at all possible.
Awesome. Now, please someone make this for Vimeo.
Very nice write-up... I remember the days when Winamp was King. I even got an Infrared receiver for my PC, and had it working with Winamp. It was pretty sweet being able to fast forward / rewind / shuffle, etc... with a remote. This was in the Napster days I guess about 7-9 years ago?

What bothers me is the hysteria surrounding Apple. They make a white remote with 4 buttons and suddenly it's "incredible design" and "pure genius."
Many people view free as a reason not to use a service.

Clearly, if I was going to use the service as disaster recovery, I'd pay for dropbox. (I use dropbox for free right now)
The word you should never use in sales, unless you’re referring to your competition
This is cool, are there any other programs like this out there except Y Combinator and Capital Factory? I would have thought that the success of Y Combinator would launch a lot of copycats
I suspect "mechanical" would be a better word

Yes, exactly. Thank you.
The $10 looks like a transcription error. It should probably be $100 and the current version costs $200 which is consistent with what an OLPC XO laptop costs:

http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/01/30/10-laptop-coming-from-i...
Sorry, I should say that he's not the new mayor... yet :)
The Smart Growth Manifesto
Synopsis: don't use the word "cheap".
I enjoy random blogs (yay for link agregation sites), but MJD and Steve Yegge continually write content worth reading:

MJD: http://blog.plover.com/

Yegge: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/
> he continues "[...] in the last sixty years, with atomic weaponry, we’ve created the potential to extinguish ourselves. [...]"

Urban legend. http://glasstone.blogspot.com http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aglasstone.blogspot.com...
Beautiful, beautiful blog. The photography, the writing. The author's humanity -- her soul, if you will -- comes across and that makes it entirely win.
Parallels Desktop at Target: more evidence of how mainstream the Mac is
Hahaha, I just had to say, that isn't "small world", that's coincidence.
i recommend it too, but only cause ramit's my brother :)
I've spent a lot of years doing both "internal" and "external" arts.

Even though I've always 'known better', I've still been tossed on my ass more than a handful of times by a soft arts practitioner, once or twice by a guy who was almost 80 years old.

It's an interesting thing, you can get tossed around for a couple of reasons:

One, you can be a subconsciously willing partner - even if you don't realize it, you want your partner to succeed because it validates what you're spending your time doing.

And two, your partner cheats and uses force in a sly way.

Taiji, Xingyi and Bagua guys are absolute masters at body mechanics. After lots of years spent practicing, they know as much about body leverage as a lot of judo guys. It can be shocking, and your body often won't realize what's happened because it encounters an overload - there's a foot and two hands touching you all of the sudden, and your brain doesn't know what to make of the sudden stimulus when you're already in a mentally stressed state. I honestly don't think that a lot of the practitioners even realize it, hence the devotion to "chi flow".

I've spent many many years studying kinetics as it relates to power generation, and the internal artists are amazingly good at it; it's just not immediately obvious what they are doing.
> and (trying to) solve P = NP

http://www.mathsci.appstate.edu/~sjg/futurama/futuramatalk10...
I saw that too, but they could make it some kind of integrative portal.

If their goal is simply to stay as they are, just with more content, that is, quite literally, incredible. If I'm wrong though, hats off a million times to them.
He's your co-pilot on earth too, just doesn't let you take any breaks :)
> Of course, all this research does nothing to help explain dumb jocks.

Wasn't expecting to see that there :-)
San Francisco to Get Bike-Sharing Pilot Program in 2009
Thanks!
I just wrote about it:
http://tinyurl.com/cr27rp
Digging a bit deeper, yes:

http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/loader_cli.html

Has the source to a command line downloader (GPL)
Before Bayh-Dole allowed universities to commercialize their federally funded research, companies had no trouble doing in-house R&D. They made it a reasonable part of their budgets because they had to do so, if they wanted to exclusively profit from their inventions.

Thanks to Bayh-Dole, University research is far more commercial, companies have slashed or eliminated their research budgets, and it's harder for scientists to get jobs. The private sector doesn't feel the need to pay for R&D, when the universities will do it on the government's dime.
Downmod 2 minutes in. Not that I care, but here's a sloppy poll: is it better to refrain from posting whimsical responses with pedantic corrections?

Whimsical, because posting and not posting does not change the meaning of the parent's comment, and likely does not increase the total knowledge.

None of this is important, but it does cause a delay in comprehension :)
I haven't been following the rulings by Apple as to published books relating to the iPhone SDK. I thought this was not allowed.

Could someone clear this up for me?
On the mechanics of the post itself: I like putting the footnotes off to the side of the body. The alternative - using hyperlinks to jump back and forth from the location tot he end - is more intrusive.
> If you knew anything about human language...
> My pet peeve is people like you...

Wow, that was kind of mean. I understand that you have an opinion about this topic but I don't think that's a legitimate reason to be insulting.
Very true; I should clarified I meant technically.
I'm not your demographic either, but seeing as it's a student site, did you consider facebook connect instead of registration?
Very very nice! :)
I think feeling the benefits of deep meditation is difficult for your first few months to years. It requires a lot of dedication. If your research makes you interested, you may even try Yoga as a good bridge into the practice.
Ma.gnolia.com crashes hard -- no backups?
Thanks for the links. I appriciate the exercise advice since it's something that I'm still working on.

My diet homever is in a quite good shape, its mostly paleo/low carb. For almost a year I have completely opted-out grains and sugar and moderating carbs, prosessed foods and omega6. Keeping insulin levels low is linked to longevity and greater neural processing http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16482-eat-a-little-les... http://www.diabeteshealth.com/read/2008/01/13/5617/insulin-l...

I have never been overweight so I'm just trying to maximize my current health, cognitive performance and longevity. With my current diet, I seem to have more clearer mind, can eat less often and don't have desire for snacks or sugar. Green tea seems to have relaxing effect(it's also measured that l-theanine increases alphawaves) on me and alcar+ala has a slight energizing effect.
Wow -- this is so cool. Thanks, guys. (I'm the author of http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com.)
There are a couple, Techstars [http://www.techstars.com] in Seattle is one that comes to mind.
Another is iVentures10 in Chicago [http://www.iventures10.com]

However, YC still has the brand and the experience with this format.
Work smarter and harder
Aside:

The beauty of that logo!

Clojure's logo is beautiful too.
The Last Psychiatrist - http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/
Yegge - http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/
Terrible GUI design ideas
Why? You can download almost any Vimeo video if you're logged in.
Watc Skins episodes online
Concur.

I think footnotes are an artifact of dead tree printing; that it has been translated directly to interactive media is ludicrous. I predict its extinction, but the wait is very surprising.
But I don't see any other way around the lack of R&D.

A perceived possibility of an alien invasion. I'm serial (c). The Cold War sent us to space and gave us Internet and Lisp machines, while wars on drugs and terrorism don't scare anyone enough to pour more money into fundamental science.

Aliens, I'm telling you.
Microsoft: One Windows 7 release candidate will be enough
For this reason, they should have instead named it pwntube.com
Commentary on The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar
Did Arrington leave TechCrunch to the marketing weirdo's?
Here are a few that I don't think have been mentioned yet:

The Cooper Journal http://www.cooper.com/journal/

Google Testing Blog http://googletesting.blogspot.com/

Knowing and Doing http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/
They always say this, and always release at least two.

We'll see, but I don't believe it.
Seek out a local Buddhist temple. They will probably have public meditation sessions; novices welcome. The religious aspect is almost absent, especially if you do not understand the language(s) of the chanting.
Eric Raymond: The sound of empire falling
@barackobama: Look out, Republicans have discovered Twitter
The Baby-Eating Aliens (1/8) (Novella by E. Yudkowsky)
Similar services have been around for a while. Then, there is the DownloadHelper plugin for Firefox.
5 Essential Survival Lessons From The Guy Who Studied The Dot-Com Bubble
Right, the old joke:
"What do you call the person who was bottom of his class at med school?"
"Doctor"
Online direct response shows booms and busts by category
Once Apple lifted the Developer NDA (http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10269) it became ok to publish books on the topic. I actually don't know why this is being posted as news being that Manning published a similar book a month ago (http://www.amazon.com/iPhone-Action-Introduction-Web-Develop...)
People prefer arrays to singly-linked lists. Python gets it (but doesn't get many other things Lisp gets)
I believe it was the NDA that was preventing publishers from releasing iPhone native application development books.

Since the NDA has been lifted to allow people to openly share iPhone development knowledge (only for APIs that have been released in public iPhone updates), that should allow everyone from book and magazine publishers to bloggers and tech conferences to share such information.
What do you mean by "YC still has the brand"?
Austin, Texas has a technology startups incubator starting from today
I've never written a FB app but aside from getting some of facebook's canned ui components, why would one use FBML and FBJS?

It seems better to just run your whole app in an iframe and just use html/css/jquery and have complete control while hitting the REST api yourself.
What I meant was, before anyone downvotes josefresco's comment, please look at the picture.
Shotput Ventures is a new one launching in Atlanta this summer. It will follow the YC model to the letter.

http://www.shotputventures.com/
Wow, just spent the last 15 minutes reading that. What an engrossing story.

Here's two things I've learned about making things happen: say "yes" to everything you can and do your best. And don't worry about "fair," worry about doing the best for yourself and your customers.
But the language will still be statically typed, as the correct resolution of a Dyn into an Integer, String etc, will still have to be ensured at compile time.
Ask HN: Which accounts (twitter, gmail, etc) should I secure?
I'm going to launching a couple of things and want to be sure I get the right accounts set up for these .com's.

I'm thinking: @mydotcom (twitter) and mydotcom@gmail are essentials.

Of course this has to do with what I'll be launching, but off the top of your head: what accounts are crucial to own?
I like using both Pandora and last.fm through PandoraFM: http://pandorafm.real-ity.com/

That way I get last.fm's recommendation to provide seed songs/artists for new Pandora stations.
If only there were an easy, standard way to pop up a temporary "tooltip window" within a page. At that point, clicking on a footnote would pop up the actual footnote, rather than scrolling the browser to the bottom of the page.

(Putting footnotes within the page itself causes the page to be wider, which could potentially make the article harder to read on mobile devices. But at this point, a Javascript "popup window" solution would probably be worse.)
One of the advances of Clojure over other Lisps, is that vectors and maps are just as well supported as lists. They have their own reader syntax (using [] and {} as delimiters, respectively), and all three implement the Collection interface, which means a lot of Clojure functions work equally well on all three. There is also syntax for destructuring. And the use of vectors in places where destructuring is possible (like function arguments and let bindings) makes it easier to identify code structure at a glance (a complaint against other Lisps).
Lua vs Ruby benchmarks (similarly "high-level" languages, insanely different performance)
If you believe it's possible to have bulletproof software, then the TPM is a bad idea; we should just make our software bulletproof. This is what Daniel J. Bernstein believes.

If, like most of us, you don't believe it's possible to have bulletproof software, then at some point you need something like the TPM to bind a known-good running kernel to your hardware securely. Without it, any bug in your kernel leaves you with no way to trust your system from that point on.

I think the TPM solves way more problems than it creates; for instance, TPM-related techniques will allow us to get rid of clunky hardware crypto tokens, and instead bake them into our machines securely; it will also potentially allow us to have public kiosk computers that are safe to use.

My only objection to TPM discussions is that EFF-types engage in a lot of hyperbole about them. It's true that the TPM makes it easier for Microsoft to enforce DRM and copy protection. But that's just a property of having better system security. Most of what the TPM does, you want.
One of the big advantages of YC is the notoriety associated with being a YC company. Easier introductions to press, investors, and partners. Notice how much coverage YC companies got on TechCrunch this last round? There's a reason, it's because YC does a great job pre-selecting good companies to showcase to press/investors and they've built up a good reputation on that.
Didn't pay close attention at first, but the kanji brush-stroked lambda certainly says "Zen of Lisp."
YC has always had the brand image of turning out good, well trained, companies. I remember a post about it a while back, on how YC was like the "Harvard or Stanford" of the seed stage incubators.
Here's a good explanation:

http://www.ccheever.com/blog/?p=10

FBML allows you to do specific Facebook-only features easily, like friend requests and searching for your friends. It also has documentation and tutorials, which is not trivial when making the FBML/iframe decision.
Do you think YC get good coverage from TechCrunch because YC companies are better than anyone else?
His note says it's January 31st... What will get fixed first? The date, or the data? I'm betting on data.
just to clarify...do you mean YourBusinessName@gmail.com?
Brilliant website and use of a domain name, which I'd guess will bring you 97% of your traffic!
Exactly. Updated post to clarify.
Lessons from Week One of a Small Team's Scrum
The djangobook does it quite nicely (not footnotes but it would work either way).
Dragon door has a really good selection of articles on body weight exercises. Most can be done with only your body or common items like dowels, or on things like a tree branch.
Linkhttp://www.dragondoor.com/articler/mode2/Workouts

Body weight exercises seem to be really underrated right now by most people. One of my exercise goals, once I start working out regularly, is to be able to pull off planche push-ups. It's like a normal push-up, only your feet are kept off the ground for the entire time.
A Touchscreen for Super Bowl Security (vid)