skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hire HN: Co-Founder for Aggregator Site
I'm working on a "dead simple" lifestreaming/aggregator site and am ready to take on a co-founder.

Concept:
Without giving away an absurd amount of detail, the site pulls together content from around the web onto a timeline interface. Individual users have their own timelines and can post content to collaborative public timelines for places and events. The concept is a usability/UI play to a large extent, since I'm well aware that the components of the idea have been done before and are out there. I think we have something exciting on the UI side.

Compensation:
To put it all out on the table, I have about $4k in the bank that I can dedicate to the project. Ideally I'd like to give you some equity and put all the cash towards "runway". But if you are a rockstar and it would help you crank out the code by freeing up your time, I can absolutely allocate some cash your way.

Co-Founder:
My ideal partner here is someone that can come in and move to full co-founder status.. someone that is my counterpoint on the technical side (i'm a non-technical founder w/ an i-banking background and graphic design skills that is currently learning to code). Simply put, produce great code and this is a full partnership. My company is your company. Bonus points if you are based in NYC.

Status:
I have a decent amount of Flex/SQL code that may be useful as a starting point, but you should have the capability of building a front end dynamic interface in your choice of language and tying it in to content from around the web (I apologize for how ignorant that probably sounds).

Bottom Line:
I think this could be a fun project and I thought I'd throw this out there to see who might be interested from the HN community. It's simple (from a design standpoint), clean, and has a large potential audience. Feel free to call me out for anything that sounds ludicrous and, of course, I welcome any suggestions. For those interested in the business side, I promise to give out full details in a "review my startup" post down the road!

Contact:
Jason
e: jwb119 [a] gmail
p: 724.316.5682. (8am EST - midnight EST)
Seconded. Lynch's every movie is pretty twisted. Even Twin Peaks was bizarre.
I'll check some of these I haven't seen out. He's got a Hitchcock and Kurosawa film on there, and they're two of the finest directors of all time. Rashomon is actually one of my least favorite Kurosawa films, but it's still great - I just much more greatly like Ran (English: "Chaos", his best film), Ikiru ("Life", it drags towards the middle but the government council scene at the end is incredible), Kagemusha ("Shadow", wow what an incredible premise - really an overlooked masterpiece when looking at his career), and of course Seven Samurai. Then you've got Yojimbo which is an interesting story but kind of campy, and Rashomon which is a great piece of storytelling and a great piece of directing, but just isn't as satisfying of an experience as Ran, Ikiru, Kagemusha, or Seven Samurai. If I was recommending Kurosawa to a new viewer, I'd say watch them in that order, and then perhaps Rashomon.

I haven't seen all of Hitchcock's films, but it's something I've been meaning to do. The thing both of these directors (Kurosawa and Hitchcock) have in common - they're both absolutely obsessed with presentation. They don't waste a single scene in their movies. In their better films, Kurosawa and Hitchcock don't even waste a single shot - everything is perfectly constructed for a very specific reason. Really incredible experiences to watch them, and highly recommended for people who love movies, stories, or simply just art.
Donnie Darko is such a terrible movie. It's utterly lacking in craft and expertise. People like it because - despite claims - it's easy to comprehend and simplistic in moral, but it's plain bad.
Printing news should have gone out of style a long time ago. We should have had, for some time now, a lightweight electronic notepad-sized device that just downloads thew news every morning that we grab on our way out the door. The money spent on printing is unnecessary and obscene. While I concede, for those who grew up on printed news, there's a certain comfort in the experience...there's just so much of a benefit to a digital version of it..aka the internet!
The publishing of these books has nothing to do with a need for information about Twitter. It's a ploy to make money off all mainstream people who hear about "that Twitter thingy" in the media.
How I Might Deal with IE6
Betting on a Market - Entrepreneurial Heroes - Betfair
This looks like a good Hash and BTree implementation. It's done in C99 with bindings for many other languages. English language specifications are here:
http://tokyocabinet.sourceforge.net/spex-en.html

Benchmarks comparing to (among others) BerkeleyDB, TDB, and NDBM are here:
http://tokyocabinet.sourceforge.net/benchmark.pdf
The Exterminating Angel, Luis Buñuel, 1962. I still don't get it.
Besides that, it's pretty obviously PG written copy.
Having to work with and ditribute hundereds of documents to dozends of people every day - woobius is the best!
> This won't be a problem for most people, since they read stuff written by Dan Brown that really doesn't require a rereading 20 years down the line. But I understand the sentiment.

Hmmm... I have never read anything by Dan Brown but I do re-read Ian Fleming, Alistair Maclean and James Clavell.
Space crash called "catastrophic," lots of debris
A colleague once pointed out to me that my preference for flat file systems over relational databases was likely why I tended to have trouble forming and maintaining relationships. This I could not dispute, but nor has the knowledge altered my preference for flat files.
The AZW format has been broken for a long time. That fact is conveniently ignored by the people who like getting mad at things.
Nanogenerators produce electricity from running rodents and tapping fingers
You're missing the little thing under every HN post title that says "Points". This one has over 40.
Rate My Site - www.winningnynumbers.com
I ran into an old friend, who, believe it or not, had over 30 years (since 1977) of New York Lottery data...I asked him if I could play around with it and wanted to see if I could garner interest on a site, so I threw this together quickly on Drupal - so it's not perfect, and the design isn't great, but, I didn't want to waste my time with something that I wasn't positive would even have a crowd!
> Even so, it might be difficult to kindle the interest of pharmaceutical companies.

I don't buy this. By the exact same argument, Aspirin can't possibly be profitable because a headache is only a minor annoyance. It can't be that hard to market a drug where your target audience is the entire planet.
Business freedoms lead to human rights and general well-being. Having a thriving private economy gives people choice over their profession. Increased wealth means people have more choice over their lives. Cuba legalized the private purchase of cell phones and computers in 2008, but most people are far too poor to buy one. If that were to change, it would be a clear improvement in Cubans' lives.

Let us not forget the legions of Cubans who have risked their lives on makeshift rafts to find a better life in the United States.
That's why I love SciTE. I just tried it with 126 MB text file and it didn't break a sweat.

http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

Bonus: you can use it in your own wxPython application. Some brave soul wrapped it and made available as wxStyledTextCtrl widget.

http://www.yellowbrain.com/stc/index.html

BTW that's what I finished using for my app I mentioned in my other comment in this thread.
Key-locking makes sense, I'll give it a try. Thanks for the info!
I'm not sure I buy the claim that American papers are simply behind the curve on the Internet. The NYT has run a great site for years, yet they're still on the brink of bankruptcy. The problem seems to be more fundamental. Even with the large audience major newspaper sites draw, advertising revenue or subscriptions just don't pull in enough money to replace the old combination of geographic monopoly and classified ads.
I'd add The Thirteenth Floor for anyone who likes Dark City, Abre los Ojos, or The Matrix.
Record Labels Turn ISPs Into ‘Copyright Cops’ to Deter Piracy
I got invited to TechStars.  Should I go?
Hey guys, I got invited to http://www.techstars.org/techstars-for-a-day/ and wanted to see what you all think. Is it worth the money and time to go to the event? I have to fly in from DC and want to make sure I am using my resources wisely.
After the Techcrunch Bump:  Metrics that matter
You're assuming that learning a PC operating system is an end in and of itself. It isn't. People in the real world use computers to get stuff done. For a Linux-using population to have an "advantage" you first need to know what they want to accomplish, then you need show how it can be done more quickly and easily on Linux, which is where the Linux house of cards comes tumbling down. This is not "year zero" of the Linux desktop.
You're wrong on the fiat-money/gold standard point. You're forgetting about the price level. Any given economy can be run on any given supply of money, the prices and currency denominations just need to adjust. A gold standard doesn't transform an economy into a zero-sum game.

Pure fiat money has been functioning in the West since only 1971 when Nixon suspended the dollar's conversion to gold as a prelude to a rather shitty decade in terms of economic performance. Fiat currency has been tried plenty of times over the last few centuries; it was never a stable monetary regime. Our experiment with fiat is new and bold, and as yet unproven. If it turns out to be successful, it would be the first time.
Lynch's "Lost Highway". A fascinating mindfuck.
Android Market update: support for priced applications
easy. have prisons compete for prisoners. prisoners are allowed to choose which prison to go to. a natural equilibrium of supply and demand will develop.
There are many more mentioned in two related MetaFilter threads:

Mindfk movies

http://www.metafilter.com/79096/Mindfk-Movies

Help us rally around a common weirdness

http://ask.metafilter.com/109842/Help-us-rally-around-a-comm...
So what kinda people are you looking to attend this event. I'm interested, but i'm a developer. Nevertheless, i don't mind or wouldn't mind helping someone else out in the hope someone might do the same for me one day. Make sense? I have zero accreditation in investing.
Ask HN: where to find someone to maintain a Ruby on Rails project?
OK, I've got a site that I built a couple of years ago for a client; it's in good shape and is stable and very low maintenance. The client now wants some modifications to the site, and I've moved on in my life and am no longer interested in consulting.

The site is an order-taking system for a small business that sells pre-assembled ready-to-cook meals. Customers select from a menu of options, choose a pick up date, and then pay with their credit card. On the back end, the store's owner looks at a summary of each session, prints meal tickets, and schedules pick up times and menu items for the next month.

The site is at:

http://whatsfordinnerkitchen.com

The code is about 4000 lines; 1500 lines of app and 2500 of tests (in the test-driven style). I built it just when the Agile Web Dev 2.0 book came out, and it runs on Rails 1.2, not 2.x.

So, there're a bunch of job boards to choose from: 37 signals, Working on Rails, Ruby Now; what have you people had luck with? I want maximum return for minimum investment of time. Of course, the benefit of posting this on Hacker News is that there may indeed be a hacker interested in this project.
I worked with Documentum document management systems. Tags are critical to being able to retrieve a document once it's scanned in. The problem, of course, is mis-tagged documents.
Ask HN: Do You Twitter?
I'm curious to know the twitter names of other Hacker News readers to add to my following list. I've just started "twittering" recently, and it seems to have potential. Mine is at: http://twitter.com/gibsonf1
Best way to get a software job in Europe?
I'm a newbie when it comes to working outside the U.S. so I don't know which job sites are the best to search, but I'd love to get a software development job in Europe(specifically for Java technologies). Granted, I don't speak multiple languages fluently so I may be at a disadvantage. What is the best way to find and apply for software jobs in Europe?
I suspect that that design decision is failwhale repellent. The only problem with a search box on every page is that people would probably use it.
Cheap Valentine's Day Roses Are Killing Kenya, Says Biologist
Problem #1, they did not port classified adds to the internet.

Problem #2, it's a free website that requires registration to view add supported content without providing a reason to register.

Problem #3, high cost of content. It might not cost much to show a page but creating it costs more than user or software generated sites.

Solution: Either drop the registration or add some social aspect that uses the registration. If someone stumbles on a NYT article from Google and needs to register to view other pages there is a problem.

PS: Advertising is the only form of micro payments of the web deal with it or develop something new.
me: http://twitter.com/yan_i
Ask HN: How to display relevant adsense ads for your search engine
I have searched around and finally have to come here. How does, eg. Indeed.com job search engine, display relevant google adsense ads for the keywords you enter into their search engine?
That's still slower than, if my grandfather mentions a book he thinks I'll like, my going online, finding the book in 20 seconds, downloading a sample chapter within a minute, and potentially buying the book to read if I like that chapter. Furthermore, speaking as somebody who loves stuffing himself on torrents: it's very hard to find specific books on ThePirateBay, depending on your tastes. You can't download, say, Finnegans Wake, which I just searched for. All they have is the audiobook.
My prediction for 2009 is that Google will buy Twitter.
Sequoia Breaks Into Carbon Capture, Backs Stealthy C12 Energy
Mindfuck movies have the hacker nature.

Also, from http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or egregiously offtopic, you can flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.
From the guidelines:

What to Submit

Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Unless there's something I'm completely missing I don't see how this submission falls into the above category.

edit:

The question is partly serious: I've never owned a television, and haven't seen a movie for more than two years, so there could easily be something I'm totally oblivious to. It just seems like a post that would belong on Reddit.
To be fair, this is Scott Adams. He draws a mildly funny, fairly accurate depiction of life in a workplace. That's about it.

When Bill Watterson writes about quality and popularity, for instance, he's got a much different attitude, something more like "Popularity be damned: this is my art and I refuse to compromise it." I've seen it in every book of his I've read when he talks about work. He made comics primarily for himself, it seemed: it's why people got so much out of them. Scott Adams isn't nearly in the same league. He's smart, but he doesn't have one of the Great Comics.

Sometimes people like that get popular, sometimes not. (To be fair to Firefly: I think Joss Whedon has had more than a fair share of success, and he has more rabid intelligent fangirls than any other person I can imagine.)
Must not have a bunch of LPs lying around; they kill books on density.
Is it really a whole percent the size? That seems large to me.
The idea is very similar to devunity.com

Adding the code folding feature would be very nice too.
I am really disappointed in the pitifully short length of sentence that the prosecution offered. Eight years seems to pale in comparison with the level corruption and outright abuse of power that they committed.

Being sent to juvenile detention can ruin your life. Those aren't nice places to be.
“This is a new genre of writing,” said Mr. Sagolla. “A new form of literature, in some ways.”

Fortunately, literature has never been defined by the people who would claim anything to be a new form of literature.

Perhaps I'm biased, since I still see Twitter as a silly tool and wonder why individuals would find it at all interesting.
http://www.twitter.com/jboehmig
A few high school friends of mine got more obscure music players because they didn't want to be forced into using iTunes. One or two thought iTunes added DRM to tracks that wouldn't have DRM otherwise.
> I don't want to offend, because it's really not worth a fight over, but this was a senseless, sensationalized article that attacks something that's brought a lot of joy into my life, and I think that your implications are both personally offensive and entirely irrelevant to this web site, and I'm flagging your article.

Ick. I was with you until you took things personally and said this. Flagging articles are about removing abuses or spam articles, not removing things you disagree with. If nothing else, your lengthy and otherwise thought out response won't be read by others if this submission is removed from this site.
http://www.textism.com/favrd : Read Favrd for a few days and you should get the hang of it. If you need a book, you're doing it wrong.
mis-tagged is the same as mis-filed. This is where having a controlled vocabulary makes sense, or at least a periodic orphan cleanup process.
Sounds like del.icio.us... or scribd. ;)
me: twitter.com/vincentpants
transparency is crucial to a free market and democracy.

that said, there are times when privacy should be considered, such as health records (as long as insurance is private) and criminal records.

fortunately, privacy isn't always at odds with transparency (eg, anonyminity)
I flag articles that I don't think are up to HN standards. I seem to recall there was a discussion that said that was an acceptable use of flagging: in any case, that's how I've always used it, as a sort of "I don't think this should be here" button.

This article in particular, because it was sensational rather than debate-worthy. "This is why I wouldn't buy a Kindle" versus "I wouldn't touch the filthy, rotten awful thing even if you gave it to me for totally free." I thought it was worth a flag.
mtinkerhess
Sure. Just wait until Twitter becomes worth gaming, and see if its "Human Powered Search" is still good for anything. If a large enough number of people ever start using Twitter to research products, it'll be overrun with spam, and it will be much harder to combat than for Google.
Yes...then the need for prison marketing teams would arise, and each prisoner would receive glossy booklets extolling the virtues of the respective prison, with celebrity endorsements from the likes of Michael Vick and Martha Stewart. The golfing retirement community meets the prison system.
Twitter Blog: Opportunity Knocks
But given that they are making their money primarily as an advertising delivery device, how effective are ads on the Kindle?

One large advantage of the newspaper, as an ad delivery medium, is its size. It's hard to go from a huge visually scannable paper to a paged set of articles, where the ads invade the optimal page size.

I am completely sick of advertising, but it's hard to pay for a large news gathering operation without it.
why can't they both just get along
Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshots confirm Marketplace, iPhone icons?
"Google Devalues Everything It Touches"

Joel Spolsky described it thus: Smart companies try to commoditize their products' complements.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
mattmcknight how's that for branding? however, my twittering is not very interesting.
Ugh...

Canvas is fully supported in FF1.5+, Safari, Opera and Chrome out of the box. And you're only a short hack away from having Canvas emulation in IE5+. It's inexcusable not to build something like this cross-browser, when the underlying technology itself is cross-browser.
I know this is late, but...

> But... at the risk of sounding snotty, there just isn't anything that a public school could cover that should have the teacher scrambling to learn the material, unless the school did something radically stupid.

In my experience, it was usually just that. Either the teacher was given a new textbook or curriculum the prior summer with no evaluation period, or the instructor was transferred from one subject to another due to a financial or staffing pinch.

For example, I had a teacher who specialized in teaching algebra and trig, but had to be pressed into teaching calculus one year. While he knew enough of the material to grade and write assignments, his ability to explain the more obscure stuff in lecture was hobbled by his forgetting most of the material was about last time he was exposed to it. I've also had instructors bounced between teaching English and Social Studies because administrators thought they were similar because the tests of both subjects involved essay answers.

My experience may also be atypical, since at the high school level, I tended to take "honors" courses, which usually were an afterthought funding-wise than the majority of the "college prep" or "remedial" classes.
kd-Tree: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kd-tree

I've not used an R-tree before, but from the Wikipedia description, it looks like it's for static point sets. Your chicken positions are dynamic, which could cause you to constantly rebuild the tree.
when did you receive invite that you got invited ? and Yes you should go, unless financially its too difficult or time. Why apply for techstars in the first place if you don't intend on attending this event ? You could obviously get accepted without attending, but like they say , its so they can meet you and more than likely may increase your chances of being accepted in the end. Best of luck. If possible keep us informed
You look a little young for twittering :) But your latest comment is pretty good.
Sentencing guidelines being what they are, 8 years is pretty harsh. If the judges had snapped and shot one of the kids in the heart they would have gotten, statistically speaking, about ten or so.

As a normative question, I agree that we should punish the heck out of official misconduct. The possibility for damage is just so darn high. I mean, these men essentially engaged in serial kidnapping under the color of law. They need to be made an example of so the next time anyone gets a bright idea about selling their badge or gavel they go "Oh no way, not gonna do it".
http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2008/10/announcing-https...
Mental memo. :)
Roughly, twitter about 0.3% of the internet at large google about 30%.

Even if they're both off by 50% that still makes twitter an impressive achievement.

On a side note, I find it incredible that yahoo still is as big as it is, I never expected them to hold out as long as they did at the top spot. I really wonder what the stickyness there is. Somewhere in mid december or so I think google overtook yahoo as the #1 site.
Commodifies, not devalues. Devaluing something makes it less useful for the person buying it eg Mexico devaluing the peso. Commodifying makes it cheaper to produce by making distribution and/or manufacture more efficient, eg Tata figuring out how to make a car for one lahk.

The real danger is that Google is becoming the sole market maker for advertising, which means they can extract almost all value from the transactions.
When sites like Digg and Reddit revert to the mean -- is HN next?
ive been addicted to twitter for a while
me: twitter.com/rickharrison
http://twitter.com/poppinphresh