skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LJ doesn't really have any good rich media processing, especially over email. Also, LJ doesn't autopost to anywhere else.

Though for public blogs, you can autopost from Posterous to your Livejournal.

As for specific friends-only functionality, this is password protected so people without accounts can easily access it.
Theming is in our crosshairs right now.
The exact breakdown is here.

http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/fees.html

There are two examples:

* Developer A submits 7000 API requests in a given day. Each API call requests search results 1-10. Since 1000 requests of this type cost 3 units (for a total of 21 units) and each developer gets 30 units per day for free, Developer A is not charged anything.

* Developer B also submits 7000 API requests. Each API call requests results 1-100. Since 1000 requests of this type cost 10 units (for a total of 70 units) and each developer gets 30 units per day for free, Developer B will be charged for 40 units (70 - 30 = 40). The price of 40 units is $4.00 (40 x $0.10 = $4.00).

It's also worth noting that pricing is in units of 1000 requests however we will charge per request, it's just not worth quoting prices for units smaller than 1000.

Disclaimer: I work for Y!
http://www.physicsforums.com
Want To Be A Startup CEO? Better Learn How To Code.
wu :: forums - http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi

xkcd - http://forums.xkcd.com/

#math on freenode
Beware of Stephen J. Gould
I guess I should note that given my last two projects I would be coming out around $12,000+ a year, which is hardly survivable.
Yeah, esp in consumer apps (not so much in business and enterprise apps - they are destined to be cluttered), the uncluttered interface can bring in some real value. Years back when I kept looking at MySpace pages, I thought how can any sane person be on this interface? If it wasn't for clutter, MySpace would have been what Facebook is today.
It almost has to be at the level of myspace -- look, I can quickly add this picture, or this music, or this text to a page all my friends can see.
"I do remember the good stuff MSR has done, but does it justify the cost?"

Good question -- I don't know.

"Microsoft has probably spent about half its current market capitalization on MSR"

Whoa! Way off! My understanding is that normal software product develop counts as R&D for tax purposes.
I should say it's 30 "units"/day not 10k requests. Depending on the number of results you get back.

For all on-peak requests that would be a maximum of 10k search requests.

Off-peak it would be 30k search requests.

If you needed more results per request then the amount of free requests would be less. Spelling requests would also be counted as the same rate as off-peak. You can mix and match as much as you want.
Looks like you don't need a Posterous account to view password-protected content. Just the password. Not true on LiveJournal. (Not a user of either, yet, but this is how things look on inspection. Corrections/amplifications welcomed.)

There are lots of people in my life who I could give a link and a password to, but who I would not ask to make a LiveJournal account.
It looks to me that I'm going to end up with Delaware corp, paying all fees and taxes in both Delaware and California.
I'll bet that you'll find Hacker News readers prefer RPN disproportionately, since it's closer to sexp evaluation (albeit, of course, postfix instead of prefix). I prefer it because I did all my math-schoolin' years ago on an HP 48G, which also served as a platform for my introduction to programming.

I like the calculator; the only confusing part so far for me was that top row of controls--to me, they look like buttons, so I expect them to display what they'll do, instead of the current mode.
>So your shopping cart needs to be willing to continue the conversation with your customers.

Great advice, I like your insight into how users interact with shopping carts. I'll be taking this with me on my project!

FYI: the link to e-junkie at the end of the page is broken.
It points to: http://www.e-junkie/
Blockbuster adds games to by-mail rental program
I rarely drive from San Francisco to San Jose, or along the coast from Los Angeles to San Diego, and think: what this place really needs is another two million people and higher housing prices.

Would it be such a bad thing for housing prices to take a dip? Even after this bust, the last thing San Francisco is experiencing is a shortage of well heeled people trying to buy houses.
http://artofproblemsolving.com also hosts regular "Math Jams" - moderated, instructor-led real-time chats on solving various math problems - in which anyone can participate. http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Community/AoPS_Y_Math_Jam...
I have made Millions from this chair, wearing this hat. I sat on this chair and a made million writing kickass applications.

what a streeeeeeetch!!
"This is why the kernel cache size climbs steadily until it hits a ceiling. It’s not because the OS is garbage and hogs your RAM, it’s actually good behavior because in a way free physical memory is a waste. Better use as much of the stuff for caching as possible."

I am constantly surprised at the number of people who don't understand this.
Microsoft gets its 10,000th patent
You can try www.reddit.com/r/math although it is not that good. You may be able to digg up something nice at http://planetmath.org/?op=forums .

I don't think there is really a nice discussion forum for math :(
I hope this gets more people interested in private group sites for families.
The Hairy State of Linux Filesystems
Maybe stupid people would become obsolete.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_o...
Interestingly mobile phones used to ship with a tool for programming your own ringtones. My brother used to do it all the time. Nokia at least stopped bundling that when they discovered it was actually possible to sell ringtones.

He's a full-time C++ programmer now :-)
I did (sort of) read the whole thing and it did not indicate how much time the non-TDD teams spent fixing their higher defect count. Did they take more time than the equivalent 15%-35% increase in dev for the TDD teams? Perhaps it was a wash? I don't know.

How accurate is to compare the various project teams? It always seems to me that no two projects and no two dev teams are ever the same. How do you account for the differences? The researcher somewhat addresses this but I am not fully convinced:

>>"...The projects developed using TDD might have been easier to develop, as there can never be an accurate equal comparison between two projects except in a controlled case study. In our case studies, we alleviated this concern to some degree by the fact that these systems were compared within the same organization (with the same higher-level manager and subculture).Therefore, the complexity of the TDD and non-TDD projects are comparable..."

Perhaps more data needs to be collected.
If you're looking for family group sites, take a look at my startup: http://ramamia.com
Dawkins has excellent discussions in his books on areas where Gould is off track.
The best idea I got on this matter, is the link to http://www.maximumassetprotection.com/scripts/Download.aspx?... - California Registration Requirements for Foreign LLCs by Jacob Stein.

While I can find pretty solid grounds not to incorporate BOTH in DE and CA, for doing some of Internet projects; I'm still concerned about the consulting which is going to take place over here.
I reckon a smart kid with a couple of days work could have an IM bot that his friends could chat to, and all the kids are into IM now, doing cool stuff that impresses your friends is powerful encouragement to take it further. Even those kids with calculators were doing it to impress other geeks...
Ask HN: What's best for learning new hacker techniques - video or text?
When I see a link to a youtube video et al., I usually skip it because I feel it often takes too much time for the payback. I personally much prefer to read some well written text. What's your take on the issue?
Six months ago, I completely agreed with you. Now, I want housing to stay relatively constant, while my own earning power increases. This is the win-win situation that could/should be the outcome of a well-executed economic plan.
neither. the best way is doing. get the information from whatever source, text, video, a friend over your shoulder, and then do it. work it out yourself.

imo, of course.
Yes, this. (Says a startup CEO who can't code and can't even do SQL statements correctly... yet.)
No salary, everyone has stake in profits. The 'creator' retains 100% of his product's ip. If a partner is no longer interested in working on a product, he loses his profit share.

It's the best approach I've found for a boutique shop to minimize risk and a bunch of paperwork and headache. 4 products in 4 months by team of 3. AppStore is very hit-driven so until Apple makes some much needed changes in the economics, it could be a bumpy road for awhile.

+ 15% of a product's gross profit goes into the founder's fund.
+ the project partners split the remaining profit into equal parts (usually 50%). this is compensation.
+ every partner (including myself) is charged a "partnership fee" = company expenses divided by # of partners.

I like this method because success in the AppStore is really dependent on releasing updates often until a very, very strong product exists that you can sell for $5.99+. That's our approach this year and profit sharing keeps the developers interested in that goal.

Here's an overview of profit distribution for Jan. 09.

http://www.grabup.com/uploads/3ad2c56bf88717180fa1b5c77645e3...
In this, as with hacking, it's worth asking what your objective might be. Are you looking to learn math? Are you looking to listen to learned math conversations? Are you looking to ask questions about esoteric matters?

How do you see yourself interacting, and what are you trying to accomplish?
I see you watch your referrer log. Created an account here just to reply? Welcome to the site.
Plinky Launches As A Blogger's Friend, A Marketer's Dream
Ok, I wrote a large comment first but I dont want to waste all your time.

Basically it was giving a taxback service to people.

I'm in Ireland, and the average taxback you can get is €850, but only 55% of people bother to get it.

It's for things such as rent allowance, bin charges etc.

A small amount of companies offer to do this service, one charges 15%, about €125 on average.

So with the huge dole queues, I would drive around to these queues in the few social welfare offices around Dublin and hand out leaflets offering to do this service for them. Then an accountant I would hire would do the actual paper work.

There are 30,000 people joining these queues every month, 10,000 in Dublin. And these are people who need money badly, I know I do.

Now maybe this is just a dumb idea, I wouldnt reach all of of those people, and presuming I want to make a €1000 euros profit a week, (assuming the same amount of costs) I'd need to get 3 customers per work day.

Assuming 2% conversion that's 150 leaflets to hand out a day.

But all ideas start somewhere, and a few bad ones can lead to a viable one.

So that's my idea Hackers, let me know what you think and lets hear yours. It doesnt have to involve dole queues, heh, it can be anything really, but the way this economy is I'm going to need all the ideas I can get. There's a reason I know about the size of dole queues, I was in one myself today, and it's not a nice feeling.
The "user" cookie contains a base64'd username, the JSON responses include an echoed User-Agent, and I can rotate the "roomids" parameter to retrieve message logs from arbitrary rooms. Does security matter for this app?
[We’re looking for] an entrepreneur right on the cusp of starting a high-growth business. A teachable entrepreneur who will commit to the required activities, and the optional activities when possible.
An entrepreneur who will consider themselves the first investor in the project and raise the funds to pay the $500/month program tuition.

Huh? They should be paying THEM to participate! What value-add do they actually provide? If they're mentoring, what credentials do they have? From what I can see, they interview you and tell you your idea/product sucks or rocks and either boost or crush your ego. Is that all? You can find a desk in some quiet office for less than that amount and hack something out on your own and let the market tell you if your product is any good.

They don't even say if they're taking any equity for this 'service' that they're providing... but they must be. They also don't say how exactly they'll find your project once your own funding runs out. They're throwing the $1M figure around but they're not saying that they'll be actually providing you with that amount of funding or they expect you to make $1M by then end of 2010. My guess is the latter.
Shit. I'm now at serious risk of turning into a fanboy.

The only thing that really keeps me from diving in is that my data are owned by someone else. I see I can use it w/ my own domain, which is really cool (http://posterous.com/faq/), but is there any way to import/export data?

My content is precious to me. I don't want to give it to a web startup if I can't get it back.

BUT -- if I post by email, everything I post will be mirrored to my usual email places ...

Leaving only other people's comments on my posts, and submissions to my groups, that I won't be able to archive. (Cue sound of needle scratching across record.)

I can see this might not be a concern for a wide swathe of the potential Posterous user base... but for this prospective user, it matters.

Any plans to implement some data export/migration capabilities, rantfoil?

[edit: maybe there is an option to have other people's comments & posts to my group be forwarded to my email? Don't see it in documentation -- time to make an account & find out if the option is there.]
if you don't mind, i'd like to throw in a few desirable traits of a business person.

i've rubbed shoulders with business students as a co-founder of a student entrepreneur group. the problem usually starts when the business guy runs out of money to pay people in india on elance for his project. so he poaches other people's teams for programmers, exaggerates the heck out of his project (we built this in 2 months! [read: this has been sitting inactive for 4+ years]), treats the programmers like s*, gives ridiculous deadlines, and yells a lot.

but that's not to say the business guy is useless at all. here are a few things they could help the coders with:

[1] term sheets, make sure they're good.
[2] go do the fundraising (be really good at presenting in front of a lot of people too)
[3] talk to as many of the users as possible and let me know what the top complaints and compliments are. the rest i'll figure out from analytics. [4] get us partnerships that will help everyone immensely, the user, the startup, and the partner.
"....after administrators disabled Windows security updates, which were blamed for causing computers to reboot during surgery..."

I HATE!!!! that windows does that. When I saw that the first time, is when I was certain that windows has no place running a professional machine.

Someone told me you can disable it on the server versions of window - but why should I have to? Why can't I click "Don't reboot - ever"?
Cuba launches own Linux variant to counter U.S.
please don't go the tumblr route of having bizarre CSS markup :)
I actually love screencasts. The rubycasts (or whatever they were called) were excellent, and are only a few minutes long. He provided text as well so I could play the screencast on our television while I copied and followed along locally on my laptop.

So the answer, for me, "YES" ;) A screencast backed up with good documentation.
Once we've reached such a future, all basic necessities will be so cheap and plentiful that no one minds having the government pay for them. So I see no reason an "extreme income tax" will be necessary.
I really like irc.efnet.org #math
Debate Room: Let CEOs Make Do with $500,000
Sorry, it's not really meant to be a secure chat.
It's catered to people who don't want to signup or install anything. Who just want to go to a link and start chatting.
The great Atlantic Ocean swimming hoax
@Posterous: What about a feature that lets you embed your blog anywhere you want, such as on your MySpace page or on your own design?
Agreed, it's a fantastic forum for that sort of thing. It was extremely valuable during my 1/2 semester as a physics major.
It depends on what you're looking for. As has been mentioned, artofproblemsolving.com (aka AoPS) and mathlinks.ro are good for the contest types. I've taught and graded for AoPS in the past, and there is no other place that can compare for contest math.

On the other hand, the overall skill level at AoPS is very high and very contest math oriented. I don't really check it that often anymore but in the past it never struck me as discussion forum as much as a problem solving forum (or a "how to become a better problem solver" forum). In addition, the majority of the posters there are young, that is high school age and below (though there are still a fair number of older posters).

To put it a different way, when friends of mine that are interested in learning "interesting math" from a casual standpoint ask me where to look, I'm not really sure what to tell them. Certainly I recommend giving AoPS a shot, but I'm unsure as to whether it would be the best place to go.
They may not fancy about prada, lv, or etc. But, try to look at their street brands like Levis Fenom(Not Levis, crossover), Bape, Mastermind, Neighborhood, etc. Many of these things costs even more expensive than prada or lv. A pair of Levis Fenom jeans costs around USD900 if it is limited.

Reference:
http://cgi.ebay.com/neighborhood-04-metal-indigo-narrow-M-le...
Google Raises The Social Bar With New Friend Connect Feature
H1-B Visa holder can now get Canadian PR under fast-track program
The province of Alberta, with its booming economy and expanding cities, has been working to make it as easy as possible to bring in foreign workers to contribute to the provincial labour force. The Strategic Recruitment Stream, a new pilot project by the Alberta Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) can fast-track the issuance of Canada Permanent Resident visas to people who are in the United States on temporary work visas. No job offer required.

Many Canadian Permanent Resident applicants have previously worked in the United States on temporary work visas (H1B visas*). It is a fairly common path. Canada is much more open than the United States to the transition of temporary workers into Permanent Residents; so when U.S. work visas expire, many workers head north to Canada for Permanent Residency.

Source: http://www.canadavisa.com/in-the-us-on-an-h1b-Alberta-pnp-has-a-new-option-for-you.html
paging axod to this thread. Am sure there is some form of collaboration possible for web chat stuff.

few thoughts:

great signup form

the uploader squashed my non-square picture to a square :(

Privacy Policy. Especially if you're dealing with uploads and chat logs.
I look forward to seeing what happens to filesystems as solid-state drives with intelligent controllers become more common.

Optimizing file systems for disc rotational latency is so last century.
I think Jorn Barger coined the term "weblog", it entered widespread usage quickly, and Dave Winer registered weblogs.com after that.
Whats bizarre CSS markup? like {block:Posts}{/block:Posts}?
Do you mean you can't have both?
Good questions. Sorry I was not clear. I'm looking to learn math & also looking to listen to learned math conversations.
In the age of open API's, do you need to ask? =)

API's are coming, both for posting and retrieving. It's going to be one of the big tent pole features alongside theming we're excited about in the next few months.
They are not taking equity, looks more like a consulting firm.

"we don't invest capital" @ http://portlandten.wordpress.com/about/

"Portland Ten is a Y-Combinator-like incubator for high tech startups in Portland, Oregon, with one caveat– we don’t invest capital; we train entrepreneurs to get things done without it, and attract the necessary funds or resources as a result."
I think widget embeds are a no-brainer -- we've got a few other big things ahead in the pipe, but I expect this to come later this year.
Great write-up, as always. As a non-biologist, this sort of information is helpful.

Would it be slander to publish and market a book and website debunking Stephen J Gould directly?
Actually I know the people putting this on.

Long story made short, its a training program to get your business to the point where you can can take outside investment. This is a very solid program developed by an expert in the fund raising process, for getting the financial and business put together so your startup doesn't flame out.

The $1M figure is from the goal of the program which is to develop at least Ten companies in Portland (i.e. Portland Ten) with over a million dollars in REVENUE. So you don't necessarily have to get outside funding, but in either case your ready to grow.

No equity is being traded for this program. The costs are quite low compared to other programs of its kind.

Also office space is not provided, its an add-on at the new Portland co-working space, http://nedspace.com you don't need to use it but its recommended.

The program is solid. Check out http://bigpaperblog.com/ for the program developers website.
Learning to program now is easier than ever before.

Last week my partner was in Spanish class and the teacher told her that the most important languages to know in the future will be English, Spanish, and a programming language. Programming is the new literacy. She decided she wanted to learn to program. We opened up Terminal on her Mac laptop, typed "python", and used Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into Python as a guide. Done.

With a PC you at least have access to JavaScript (and Marijn Haverbeke's Eloquent JavaScript tutorial) which is more than suitable for a first language.
Python's Use of Dynamic Typing
Page speed matters - Marissa Mayer at Google I/O '08
Ask HN:  Are job postings acceptable?
I always thought that posting job openings would not be acceptable on HN.

However there was one recently posted at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=476495 and nobody commented that the post was unacceptable.

I ask because I do from time to time have contract work available, but, on the other hand, we certainly don't want HN to turn into a jobs board.

Forgive me if I missed them (I did look) but are there any guidelines regarding posting jobs on HN?
Of course, this depends on the stage of the start-up. If you want to start a start-up, yeah, for the first 9 months or so, all that matters is product development, so if you can't help with that you're no good.

After the product gets to a sufficient state, though, there are other things than coding to do for the company. Sales, marketing, deals, etc... Those can use a business CEO.
A simple one-way hash will provide sufficient security for most cases. Assuming you're representing items for sale in a Javascript array, you might send data like this to the browser:

var forSale = {
"book": {"price": 19.95, "description": "a book", "checksum": "c6da835c1fd2ee98d68eee3912dd199e41c82a32"}
}

The value for 'checksum' is just a SHA1 hex digest of the ('book', '19.95', 'secret'), joined by tab characters. It can be included as a hidden form field or invisible element within your page; it doesn't matter so long as you can capture it and POST is along with the item + price.

In your order-processing logic, just check that the hash verifies with your secret key ('secret' in the above), and you know with a reasonable degree of certainty that the original page was one generated by your server.
Ginx, an easier way to see what people are sharing on Twitter
yeah this was a big deal for us. Most other sites do access through accounts. That stinks. I want to share my family site with my 100 family members. No way they are going to create accounts. But they do know how to type in a password.
Moonlight 1.0 goes live