skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Cute Cat Theory Talk at Etech
Y2K, the Credit Crisis, and the Rosencrantz Fallacy
Great list. Thanks!

Why weren't the old SICP lectures included?

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...
Let’s not be squeamish - what design ignores
If its something truly ground breaking, just go and find the story on one of the other sites and post that.
Economic Summary in Graphs
One Minute With PHP6
Oh come on, we all know it was pay-per-post and whether we accept it or not, it comes from redmond.

And TC is their propaganda lab.

No credibility at all.
UI for logging out of sites using HTTP authentication/phishing attack preventer
Google Asks to Join European Antitrust Case Against Microsoft
my google reader JS subscription :

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user%2F15326952957925465...
Yes, and it's actually easier.

The trick is not to think in terms of 'supporting graceful degradation', but in terms of 'javascript enhancements'.

Which means, do your entire app to work in html. Then add javascript wherever you can to enhance the app.

Force all your javascript to run /after/ the page loads, it's a constraint that will stop you from cheating.

An example is a delete button. Do it in html as so:

<form class="delete" action="/delete/something" method="post"><input type="submit" value="delete"></form>

Then, with your framework of choice (jquery here):

<script>
runOnLoad(function(){
$(".delete").submit(function(){
var form = $(this);
if (confirm("Are you sure you want to delete this?")) {
$.post(form.attr("action"), function() {
form.replaceWith("Deleted!");
});
}
return false;
});
});
</script>

(Code untested)

So instead of the delete button causing you to go to a new page, it will just popup a confirmation, and when you click 'ok' will do the ajax call, and change the button into a 'Deleted!' message.

With a decent framework, the code to 'enhance' will maybe add a tiny bit of overhead in terms of loc and time, (this example for instance, 3 lines more than if it was javascript only).

But you get a much easier to debug app and it works everywhere to boot.
And can you back up that claim?
Who Controls the Stock Market (Network analysis by physicists)
After the newspapers die, who will watch the police?
The Mini Site Formula - MINISITE FORMULA
> Now James Glattfelder and Stefano Battiston at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in
> Zurich have included these factors in a study of the control and ownership of stockmarkets
> in 48 countries around the world. Their results are startling.

1. The Capital Group Companies
2. Fidelity Management & Research
3. Barclays PLC
4. Franklin Resources
5. AXA
6. JPMorgan Chase & Co
7. Dimensional Fund Advisors
8. Merrill Lynch & Co
9. Wellington Management Company
10. UBS
Tom4370 - you write - "Heck, I wonder if semi-decent mentorship for founders from people who actually got something out-the-door would be more helpful than just having some VC opening the checkbook." . . . .Yes !

The CED should have offered this hands-on mentorship program for entrepreneurs. And I am not talking about another conference or speaker series or fraternity mixer.. . . .very disappointing.

And "yes" - there is a very strong talent pool of techie folks, business folks and support folks (one of the nicest people I know is actually a Lawyer - Fred Hutchison).

As for "customer base" - 2 points - RTP, depending on your sector has a strong customer base. But,the necessary proximity of the customer base is more dependent upon what you ar doing, who can introduce you, etc.

And finally, my comments about "passivity, complacency, and parochialism" were not directed at just the entrepreneur base - if anything, it was directed at the VC base, the Incubator base and the Mentorship base you mention in your comment above.

Entrepreneurs will be entrepreneurs and work hard and innovate and . . . . . only if the rest of the Seed Community around them gives them a good reason to be Entrepreneurs.
tom4370 - just noticed your queston to me about going to school there -

I graduated from UNC. My middle brother graduated from UNC. My oldest brother attended law school at UNC. My nephew graduated from UNC. My niece graduated from UNC. I have been in SV for about 30 years now.

And, even if Carolina does beat Georgia Tech by 30 points, I am still very, very concerned about this on again / off again defense from Carolina. And, don't blame it on Ginyard being out.

The heartbreak
BT reprograms biz customers as hotspots
Speedy: I get an instantaneous "Error establishing a database connection"

What's the point: Can't PHP5 achieve this as smoothly or quickly?
Ok let's take a simple example. Website, where all outgoing links go thru jump script. Some are affiliate links. Typical example.

How do you block those ads? How do you know it's an ad and not just a link.

The difference between a link and ad can be nothing to observers. (obviously intrusive ads are another matter)
Apple iMac murdered, reborn as all-in-one DreamCast mod - Engadget
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=THE%20INTERNE...

It's an Internet meme.
It is not about vision, it's about mantra.

Theirs is to fuck up everybody for their only benefit and that doesn't fit with my view of a cooperative world for the benefit of all.

Call me romantic or idiot, not both.
Yeah. As I said, I'm not objecting to the idea of sites being banned. That seems fairly reasonable to me. However, it'd be nice to know which sites were banned, and for what.

Gawker, I can totally understand. Infochachkie, on the other hand, seems like a pretty decent site so I'm not quite sure why they were banned. Are there others which were banned that we don't know about? Were they banned for a good reason? Can your own site/blog/etc get banned in a similar way? What are the criteria? What should you avoid doing? etc.
Folks seem to be constantly confusing the Seed stage of the Risk Investng industry with the traditional VC stage. They are differnt.

The point for this conversation is that the VC stage does not create jobs or innovate. The VC stage provides growth money, business development contacts and a network for team building.

Innovation and initial job creation (which is then expanded upon during the VC stage) is created during the Seed stage.

Please review the powerpoint - The START Fund - http://www.slideshare.net/ElliottDahan/start-fund-feb2009

Please review interview from VC Experts - http://vcexperts.com/vce/news/buzz/archive_view.asp?id=642

And - the last thing anyone should hope for is having the People's money go to VCs. Scary thought.

The People's money is already helping to support a good Seed Infrastructure of Incubators, Academia, Tech Transfers and Economic Development Agencies. The People's money should continue to go to the Seed Infrastructure.

Private money should go to investing in worthy portfolio companies of this existing Seed Infrastruct5ure. And, this private money should be investing on a For Profit basis
San Francisco water is pretty good too - it comes from Hetch Hetchy near Yosemite.
I typically utilize Alexa and Compete or others as a good way to compare sites of a similar demographic. Having access to google analytics for two different sites; one being my blog and the other site is the company I work at.

I know that my blog gets about half the traffic of my companies site but the corporate site is ranked 370,673 and my blog is ranked 395,487. I would think there would be more of a difference in the two sites ranking.

But if I compare several of our companies competitors sites the numbers seem to line up. The numbers also make sense as trend data for a single site. I know from monitoring my blog when there is a spike in traffic; Compete and Alexa show a spike in their rankings.

Because Alexa captures their information through a browser plugin you want to make sure that the set of people that visit each site are equally likely to have the plugin installed. If people that read hacker news are half as likely to install the Alexa Plugin then people that read the new york times then there would be variability in comparing those two site.
Pretty shallow overview - a list of minor syntax changes mostly. Not particularly helpful, I got my hopes up thinking I'd see some analysis of new features, etc. Then again I suppose the title does say 'one minute'.
Interesting. It's illegal to bet on baseball in most places. But Jordan's Furniture can buy an "insurance policy" that pays them money only when the Red Sox win the world series.
Could you please explain this one?
Copyright is Broken Because it Doesn't Scale
For the curious, here are the lines:

http://skitch.com/swombat/bgqky/news.arc

I think it just ignores the comment, rather than autobanning.
Craigslist always seemed like a good candidate to have its wings clipped someday. CL works because it's the most widely used classified in the States, the design doesn't get in the way, and it's free. But aside from minor redesigns, the site is stagnant. Certainly, CL isn't the best and final way to do classifieds online?

While CL has the network effects going on, the issue is that cross-posting an ad isn't that much effort. For instance, Recycler is big in LA, and I looked at both Recycler and CL side by side when looking for a car. I even saw a couple of the same ads posted on both sites.

So if a competitor builds a viable new site that grows, you'll see people use both until CL evolves or gets relegated to second tier.

I will say - I do like Craigslist, it seems like the founder and staff there are nice people, and I've used it for a few things and it worked well enough. I just think once someone gets classifieds more right and builds the userbase, people will look back and say, "Damn... I can't believe we used to Craigslist all those years when it didn't have xyz, abc, or def, and it had all those ghi problems that we just took for granted."
> It is not like a single company can make the devices, the software, the infastructure, the economic environment, the incentives, etc.

Apple?
Bloggers and the twitterati
Check out reddit.com -- that's the website with the "wisdom of the crowds", "people having fun" and no editor intervention. And the wise crowds want lolcats and snarky one-line comments.
I know Australia is down under even if I've never been there.
This is a pretty awful standard of journalism. I'd expect much better from Wired.

I hate to wish bad things onto people, but that's a basic ethical fault that should be punished, because it decreases the credibility of the whole paper (and a newspaper with no credibility is worthless). Not saying he should be fired, but harshly reprimanded, definitely. Twisting the facts to make a story more sensational is very improper.
For handling protocol buffers in Python, it is much faster to generate the C++ protocol buffer wrappers, and then swig them. It is bothersome to regenerate this every time you change the proto definition though.
Read the article. I don't see bloggers and twitterati having the same social impact as a crime beat reporter with a circuit court judge's card in his wallet. All you're going to get from that is photos, opinion, and a lot of waving and yelling. Stuff like "secret police videos". I don't see much crime analysis, deep reporting, and investigative news from those formats. I might be wrong, though. Does anybody know of serious in-depth crime reporting that's come from blogs? (I'm not even going to use "in-depth" and "twitter" in the same breath)
Alex Jones.

And it is not like the newspapers are aggressive against the government, they let them get away with way too much.
I would make the argument that police are becoming more accountable, not less, as a result of technology (particularly cell-phone video) and common knowledge of FOIA statutes (at least in the US). The cases of the man shot on Seattle transit and the abusive officer in Saint Louis that were both caught on video and punished (and otherwise may not have been) come to mind.

It's probably better that responsibility for tracking cops is more widely disseminated, so that one or two lazy (or corrupt, or ideologically motivated) reporter(s) can't set the tone for an entire city.

On the other hand, it does help to have these things spread by someone seen as neutral, and willing to do some leg-work. Perhaps we need something like a consumerist for police? (I could see this being generalized to local governments too). Or perhaps it will fall into the purview of hyperlocal sites like everyblock. Right now most of these seem to use a highly automated approach, although I imagine they'll evolve into a more user-contributed model.

We need something more than the patchwork "Hope someone catches it on video and it makes youtube's front page" model for accountability than we have now, but I'm not sure that local newspaper reporters are the best solution going forward.

There's been talk for years about getting a standardized accessible electronic format for crime data across the US (John Udell in particular has discussed this at length) but I think we're a long way from any real implementation of that, sadly.
“The Cloud Is The New Dotcom” (Video Highlights)
How do you define what is and what is not a 'Silicon Valley'? that is, when would you declare such an experiment as a success? It has to be some measure which is not only
scale - for otherwise a small scale (30 start-ups) pilot could never be considered a success.
For example, Route 128 in Boston and RTP both have start-ups and other IT companies yet in a smaller number than SV.
What is it precisely that they are lacking and would have made them 'smaller SVs'? I recall seeing a statistics saying that Israel has the largest number of start-ups per capita in the world. Yet it is far too small to have a 'critical mass' for being able to compete with SV. In that sense, can the Tel-Aviv - Herzelia area be considered as a successful 'small SV'?
Unfortunately I don't know of any profitable way to provide local news without having it subsidized by classifieds, car ads, real estate ads, etc. Newspapers used to be profitable because they dominated all these things. But on the web, they become detached. Ebay and craigslist can efficiently serve many places and scale up effectively. But it's hard to watch the police in 100 major cities at once.

How much money would people pay to provide the service of watching the police? I'm afraid the answer is... not much. It has to be tied to something else, or to have a nonprofit structure.
if you're not getting new information from HN, Reddit, etc where do you get your daily hit of techi? My route is to check the following:

1.)HN

2.)Delicious top links

3.)Reddit
Roundup: Sony CEO’s power grab, Dell droops, and are Facebook friends real?
Reminds me of the Longhorn promise (WinFS, etc), and we ended up with Vista (it's a decent OS, but as an end-user, it just hogs more memory, I don't see any other benefits).

I hope they make this happen though.
For fuck's sake, the Huffington Post asked a question at President Obama's first presser. There will always be a vigorous press in this country - it's just a matter if the legacy media wants to get their act together enough to be a part of that in the future.

At the very, very least, new organizations free of legacy costs will step up. In Chicago, the Chi-Town Daily News (http://www.chitowndailynews.org/) is one of them. They've got a bunch of citizen journalists, supplemented by a handful of paid staff.

Journalists are called to the vocation the same way that artists, musicians, priests, and others are called to theirs.
The blog entry does not show up...
But I when I visited the blog's home page, I was able to read the post.

EDIT: Thank you so much for this list, I really needed it.. although it contains words like: "she", "the", "and", and such words that I don't really consider it words.

EDIT: Do you know what? After I read the technical part of sorting this list, it gave me an idea.... Here is the idea:

1- Crawling news articles on daily basis, from some well known news websites.
2- Each word found in an article, submit it to a list of words.
3- About the list of words: If the word is not found in the list, then add it to the list and give it rank 1. If the word is already in the list, then increase it's rank 1 point... so if it's 1, make it 2, and if its 30, make it 31.
4- Sorting the list by rank... and here we will have a real solution for finding the most found words!
5- We can make some filters to guarantee that a word won't be repeated... and also filter to detect names and remove it from the list... I am talking about names like public figure names, companies' names, countries' names, and such names.

P.S.: We can do it with any language... as long as we can find a news websites for that language that has new articles everyday!

What do you think? :)
Its just a matter of hiring enough lobbyists to get the leverage limits changed. I think as we see the true consequences of the current crisis Canada's system will look better and better.
What An Antitrust Case Against Google Might Look Like
Talking Points Memo has done some good in-depth reporting. For example they helped expose a lot of the scandal around U.S. attorneys being fired. I think they also started the scandal around Trent Lott at Strom Thurmond's birthday party.

I guess this is not "crime reporting" in the Baltimore Sun sense. A lot more bloggers will go after national news, since it's more common for blogs to have a national audience. Blogging just isn't organized around the city level like journalism is.
I'd suggest that things like the Innocence Project actually are in-depth crime reporting, but with a point of view and with a purpose. And with tools like EveryBlock, citizens are going to be able to have access to CompStat-like data. We're going to have a more informed and empowerd police reporting.
San Francisco Chronicle may close "within the next few weeks"
To some extent, investigative reporting is necessary because we don't have video of all the events. As video recording becomes more and more pervasive, it will become less and less likely that a crime or the immediate surroundings were not caught on record. Of course, criminals will go out of their way to avoid recording (as according to the author's fictional crime series, The Wire, they avoid cellphones), but only criminals and privacy weirdos will do that, and there are a lot more criminals than privacy advocates.

Of course, some investigations will still be needed, but even if there are currently no investigative reporters who blog as their primary outlet, other types of reporting has successfully made the jump. I couldn't find him in google just now, but there was a blogger from several years ago who was embedded in Iraq and made his living off of his blog and occasional freelance stories sold to other outlets (newspapers? Dunno).

One objection to this might be that governments will just legislate against cameras recording their workings, which they're already trying, but in the long run, as cameras and other recording devices get smaller and become more integral to everyone's life, this will have no more effect than Canute's courtiers' plans to roll back the tide.
I don't see much crime analysis, deep reporting, and investigative news from those formats.

I don't see much from newspapers, either. That's the point of this article: The guy is telling us that newspapers are already dead, and the problem is visible right now.

I don't see any reason at all why a blogger couldn't be just as effective as a crime reporter. Except for one: They need to have enough money to survive. We're going to have to work that out somehow. But I wouldn't be surprised if Twitter turns out to be a part of the solution. People use the tools they have.

Of course, even if we work as hard as we can, the future won't be perfect. But neither was the past. Despite the best efforts of folks like the author of this article, police brutality and corruption weren't exactly unheard of even in the newspaper-reporting heyday of the 1940s and 1950s.
Press is show. Single anecdotal cases make headlines. What doesn't make a headline doesn't get reported. "Crime is down everywhere" doesn't sell. Some "news" like fear mongering with terrorism or a cute lost child get full.

It's time for a change.
If this is a glimpse of our technological future I don't think it will be coming courtesy of Microsoft. All they need to do for me is concentrate on actually delivering an operating system that I can use for a change. They need to stop the dreaming and show us some of the things that they are working on now. I mean they have one main product, and its been a botched mess since XP.

If any company is going to deliver these kinds of solutions I think its going to be Google and Apple.
I would expect that many cities could support a dozen independent crime/police bloggers, either via ads or direct donations. Smaller municipalities probably wouldn't be able to support any full-timers, but they may only need part-time watching, anyway.
Sleuthing Software Can Reassemble Deleted Photos
Is Google App Engine the wrong product for the market?
I can't tell if you bothered researching the facts or reading the article, but I would guess that you didn't based on your comment. So here it goes: the iPhone is free because that's largely what the Japanese are used to. Most of their phones are free and come with cheaper contracts. SoftBank making the iPhone cheaper = trying to increase the sales by making it comporable price-wise to other phones, but it doesn't say anything about whether the sales are low or not. In fact, based on the claims of the Japanese journalist, it would seem that the sales are fairly good considering the amount and quality of competition.
Doesn't the author refute his own point when towards the end of the article he admits that it has become very rare for reporters to actually research those things? Also, he only provides anecdotal evidence when he says "no blogger was trying to cover this". There are probably countless other offenses that no newspaper reporters are trying to cover, either.

I wonder if newspapers and other media overestimate their power? They would like to think that they can sway public opinion, but maybe ultimately they are simply forced to write scandalous stories, but they can not manufacture them. Like they can make a lot of money out of "Britney Spears cut her hair", but maybe if they tried to make a big fuzz about that police incident, nobody would care and nobody would buy the newspaper anyway.
The structure for controls is there. It just needs a fix. Write your representatives.

Journalism backed by advertisement pushing consumerism isn't a valid democratic institution, IMHO. It doesn't represent anything. As a control system it is a travesty, you don't vote them and you have to pay for access. And then it forces candidates to be press-visible with the same marketing machine, with the same backers.

Full government transparency is required, not just rhetoric. The technology is available already.
224 Word Palindrome
The TV stations? If a cop shoots someone in the back I want to watch the video. If a cop beats the crap out of a 15 year old girl I want to watch the video. If a cop knocks a bicycler off his bicycle I want to watch the video.

+ Its not like the newspapers do anything about it, they just report it. Its the redditors and 4channers and youtubers who go on a crusade to hold these guys accountable
Sorry for the repost, my first submit was blogspam (now deleted.)
Blogging just isn't organized around the city level like journalism is.

This sentence is probably true at the moment. Yet it still amuses me greatly. It's like living in 1910 and reading an article about the automobile. ("They're great toys for rich people, but they just don't have the same rich infrastructure that the horse and buggy does.")

The word weblog is not yet twelve years old. The short form, blog, will celebrate its tenth birthday in a couple of months. This technology is a baby. And on the local scene bloggers compete for audience with newspapers, radio, and TV, which have had a headstart of between fifty and four hundred years, and which even now command large budgets, large staffs, and a lot of very flashy advertising.