skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an example of value derived from consuming generic data, but how do you get value from providing it?

Providing generic third party access is a rare case in business. Usually, data is used by third parties for a specific purpose that requires substantial domain knowledge, in which case an RDF description is probably redundant and useless.

There may be business models based on generic data but those businesses will face a serious bootstrapping problem as they will likely require either a critical mass of generic data providers or consumers, which are mutually dependent.

The bootstrapping will have to be grassroots, as it was for the original "unstructured" web, which succeeded due to the ease of publishing HTML documents, which is much simpler than publishing structured data.
While it's true that Erlang is a production ready language from many years now and it may make more sense to learn that language, it's also true that these projects helps people realize that it's possible to build other languages on top of the Erlang virtual machine.
Yup - but humans changed its habitat. There are now more pools of still water (damns, etc...) because of human intervention than before.
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Sennheiser HD280 Pro http://tinyurl.com/dd475w

They are massively comfortable, and quite tight on the head so no one else can hear anything. If I dont feel like music I sometimes wear them anyway as they are great at blaocking out the noise.

Oh and did I mention they sound amazing.
I think A-Data is more than "no" name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-data

I too bought a 32GB SSD from SanDisk a year ago to replace hard drive in my IBM ThinkPad X60s to get silence and shock resistance (I guess I'm paranoid on those issues, but it made me happy) Sequential write perfomance is noticeably less than even in 5400 rpm drives, but I didn't care much; it's okay for me.

Yet I would call people who use SSD in their computers early adopters; the outlook for SSDs is optimistic but I guess it will be a few years at best till SSDs will be able to become mainstream.
I've had good luck with AblePlanet headphones (http://www.ableplanet.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_...).

Very similar to Bose technology, considering Bose has since sued them for patent infringement.
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Hmm, like the quote says, remember Friendster? Anyway, the same things that prompt all of us to drift apart from old friends, I should think. New friends and social circles, different lifestyles, different jobs, different priorities, different interests, etc. The same things happen online. I'm sure many people have irc channels/forums/games/sites they used to visit daily and members from that site they used to confide their deepest secrets to. I know I have. Now they're all no longer a part of my life.

I used to visit Facebook daily too, but I've mostly stopped visiting it, except when someone uses it to send me event invitations or someone tells me to go view pictures there. For everything else, there's IM. The thing is, if someone is really a friend of mine, then I don't need Facebook to stay in touch with them. If not, then I don't need to stay in touch with them, so sites like Facebook really had no intrinsic draw for me besides novelty or perhaps a business opportunity.

Now my main guilty pleasure is HN, and none of my friends are here. Then again, I am a bit of a loner, so this could just reflect my own atypical usage patterns and you could well be right in that most people will use Facebook for the rest of their lives. I doubt it though. I don't think Facebook addresses a need as fundamental as Google does.
Kevin Rose, ah yes, that famous Apple predictor. http://is.gd/nx0e
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It makes me wonder if he is pleading guilty to a ponzi scheme to hide something more criminal... I mean, taking investors' money and putting it in a bank is the least wrong you can do - you could just downright spend it, or use it in all manner of ways that could be off record and hidden by a 'fake split strike conversion' strategy.

Who knows, he may have been this close to curing cancer before investigators came in...
> Too dangerous to protect African children from wasting death,

Why? Do the mosquitoes only bite black people? Are they racist?

> Too dangerous to protect African children from wasting death, but perfectly safe to prevent casual nuisance at your next barbecue?

Treatment of malaria is usually effective. The biggest hindrance in the prevention and treatment of malaria is corrupt and despotic African governments - not white people who never visited the continent.If he wants a thing that shoots skeeters at his barbecue he will not hurt anybody.

> Psst: what is the size of the average American backyard relative to the average African dwelling?

The size of many African backyards is about the same size as that of Americans homes - it depends. In rural areas (where malaria is the biggest problem) the are around the home can be much bigger.

People (at least in my country) spend a longer time outdoors - and the use of other areas (non yard) is higher.

The are of only the home (kitchen/rooms) is however smaller (flat size).
Actually I'm just the opposite. I prefer hacking media and business to code. I'm more interested in how twitter will fight spam than how erlang can scale. Each to their own but I see this as a kind of 'Business for (ex)coders'.
Facebook doesn't have the live search that makes Twitter so powerful. This is a large part of the user experience for many.
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No, it gcs after a while. Memory usage steadily climbs until it hits a certain point and then drops back down.
We have to agree to disagree here. There are people who take reluctance to fight for weakness. And even if you are really the turn the other cheek sort, what if you are not the one being threatened, but someone close to you? Would you still find violence unnecessary then?
Disclaimer: I haven't read the Article

Everything is in the genes!

I see genes as the frying pan and the ingredients, you have veg, meat, spices, salt, etc... The environment is the cook, he decides what dish will come out and whether it will be cooked to the right degree, how the ingredients are mixed and most importantly whether the dish will be delicious or rotten to eat.
Would work fine in IE if he just added the ExplorerCanvas js file (from Google) http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/
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They act like ear plugs (expanding foam in your ear canal) but play pretty darn good music quality too. And cheap. Really, I can't go wrong with these.
"One thing I found through doing all this hardware hacking is that people who wield a soldering iron in NYC are kind of secretive. I mean, they’re nice enough, but they really hold their secrets close to their chest. Take sourcing parts as an example. I would go to meetings where people showed off cool projects they made, and ask them where they get their parts. They would just evade the question, or tell me “digikey”, which is bullshit because I saw some Radio Shack shit in their gear."

Why is this so?
The problem is the screen. 600x1024 is the bare minimum. I use an Acer Aspire One, which is a great netbook, very responsive, runs everything I throw at it at decent, if not breathtaking, speeds, but the screen is the weakest point. When on a desk, I always hook it up to a desktop monitor.

Unfortunately, the Intel GMA driver is buggy (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/302227). Annoying but functional.
Grado SR80: http://www.gradolabs.com/product_pages/sr80.htm

Very nice.
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I opened the article in a new tab to read it later. When I got around to reading it, it had apparently gone to the last slide automatically, and it made absolutely no sense to me. It doesn't look like a slideshow, so I just assumed that it was a poorly written article in which the author expected us to already know a lot of info that we couldn't have been expected to know. It makes a lot more sense coming back here to read the comments.
Ah, ok. If there's a skewed payoff for B, then yes, you're correct. I read your post to mean that you were not considering the payoff, and only the probabilities.

As for the rest, what does "opposite trade" mean? For instance, going short versus going long carries very different risks. It's unlikely that your payoff would simply be mirrored.
both reddit and HN are open source http://code.reddit.com/ http://arclanguage.org/install (news.arc is included in the arc source).
The concept is a neat addition toa growing list of python non-traditional concurrency options: Stackless, py.greenlet/eventlet, kamaelia, fibra, and twisted's defer.inlineCallbacks offer similar featuers.

Of that list, Concurrence is most like fibra and kamaelia, which also use python 2.5+ generators to achieve microthread concurrency.
I concur. We have largely solved the publishing issue with linked data. Now we aim to realise the read-write Web of Data - http://vimeo.com/3663028 is a screen cast explaining and demoing how this can be done (and this is a grass-rooted, open community project building upon deployed and already used technologies whilst offering a generic processing model - consider signing up and contribute!)

Cheers,
Michael
If you just mean hierarchies of threads then I know Drupal forums do this. But if you are looking for the voting and vote ordering then I'm not sure. I suspect you'd find some module in Drupal though.
Well, if you want something with the features of HN or reddit, why not use the source code of HN or reddit?

They're both open source and you could alter it so that submissions couldn't be links if you so chose.

http://arclanguage.org/
http://code.reddit.com/
I see what you mean.

But people buy stupid stuff, it's up to them to decide what they spend their money on, not for some arbiter of fairness to ban products that they think are too expensive or don't provide enough value.

Capitalism isn't ethical, it's morally neutral, if you start banning people from selling books that are too expensive or that you think don't provide the correct information (have you even read it?) then the whole economy doesn't work.

What about razors? They cost $20/£10 and the advertising preys on men who are likely to be convinced of the necessity of "FOUR BLADES!" when in fact it makes no difference at all. They don't have to buy the overpriced razor.
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Get a copy of this book if you can:

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Chapter 9 describes a set of combinators for logic programming in Haskell, covering both your examples and more.
Will everyone just subscribe to Seth's feed and lets stop doing double duty?
Brilliant headphones BUT they are open back and send just as much music outwards as they do inwards, so not a good choice for commuting or if you work in a room full of people.
Offtopic: How can I ask question here?
Or go LFE

http://github.com/rvirding/lfe/tree/master
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Etymotic ER-4p in the office and Er-6i out and about.
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all the specific problems mentioned were fixed a while ago

I presume you mean the specific Ruby problems. Anyone know if the cultural problems he alleges, namely lack of disclosure, have been fixed? Or are Ruby and especially Rails run like a benevolent oligarchy of insiders?
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Reia is going to be a much better fit for web scripting than Erlang. I'd prefer to use it over Erlang where possible.
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i'd stay far away from bbpress. reddit would work or you have drupal forums as dejb pointed out.
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It's like being a C programmer, and someone asks you - "How do you declare a variable". You could try to explain, but it's not very interesting to answer such basic questions. If you don't even know where to buy electronic parts, you're not even at newbie level yet. You have not even started.
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One related question. I came across this book from the article "Making things talk" and I kind of like it (from what I can tell by reading excerpts at books.google.com). Can I enjoy this book and make cool programs like the one in book if I don't have a background in Electronics? Just curious.
My impression is that you have no idea what Twitter actually is. Maybe you should read one of the articles about it once in a while?
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I am definitely with you on the zoom capability rather than just leaving windows all on top of eachother. If you have that, you don't necessarily need automatic window layout (Expose).

I think eventually when people have enough experience with ZUIs on phone browsers etc. all of the OS/window managers will have to provide zooming/panning (at least as an option).

I am building a ZUI javascript components / thing because I think its also useful for browsing the web.
Sennheiser CX300S Canalphones. Bought them on a whim from newegg but I'm pleased with them. I can't be isolated for more than about an hour before some emergency crops up so the comfort is less important.

The HD280s are amazing though, I think I'll be getting a pair of them for home soon.
The discussion of "coding for other people" shouldn't apply to start-ups, but I recall being bitten by this around 2001 or so. We were in a VC-backed startup and the VCs kept pushing us to rent their pet architects to "help us scale." That's right, we take their invested money and spend it on them, diluting ourselves into oblivion.

Any ways, said architects wanted us to rewrite everything in a buzzword-compliant fashion, J2EE, the whole works. Their reasoning? They wouldn't be able to sell our company to IBM unless our code was IBM-compliant.

Happy days indeed.
I did this. I built the prototype for my first startup in Goa, India, using GPRS internet (unlimited access for a fixed price, because it was a beta).

I even recommend it, assuming you can connect with real alpha customers before moving over there, or if you have a bizdev guy stateside. I had to download overnight but it was workable. I spent my days floating in the pool reading books like 'Design Patterns' and Java/Eclipse books to help me understand Eclipse well enough to build my app using it. I programmed by night. I got the prototype done.

The ticket over from Atlanta was $1200 or so. My rent was $400 a month in a 4 star resort on the beach (off season), and that was my only appreciable expense because food was basically free. There was even another entrepreneur with a PhD there doing the same thing, and he had brought his entire book library with him in an ocean container!

BTW - I came home with about six feet (when stacked) of books, because they were so cheap. A good technical book in paperback is about $5 at the TATA bookstore at IIT in Bangalore. I couldn't help myself, I bought a complete library and two suitcases to carry it home in :)

Disclaimer: I heave a 'weak stomach' and I got dysentery twice, methanol poisoning once and other weird stuff in between, but mostly they are avoidable if you get your shots, go vegetarian (they make it EASY), and be super strict about bottled water.

I met several hackers who moved to India to be able to work on whatever they wanted without doing much in the way of consulting. One guy was there productizing Israeli mesh networks to supply wifi and VOIP to Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala. Another guy was building FOSS tools for college professors. There is an entire subculture of people that do this.

Just watch out: its easy to get distracted. And check your calendar and remember the monsoon is no joke :)
I appreciate that you've taken the literal interpretation of the world "all", but if you're going to be pedantic (which isn't very helpful or interesting in any case) at least be correct, please.

Eventually all the kinetic energy in the spinning platters is converted to heat. It is converted continuously to heat by the process of friction between moving parts, and by the time the platters stop moving, all of it that was kinetic is now thermal.
Hi PG, I don't know whether you're watching but this seems like a good example where it would be useful to grey out the URLs in downvoted posts as well as the message.
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Yeah, I actually like the fact that it's changing, because it's improving and it's interesting to watch a new language evolve in useful ways. And the communication level on changes is very high. Just something to be aware of if you're starting out...
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From the article, it seems the MBAs are intruding on his traditional creative meetings for hackers, making it hard to ignore them.
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As with most things Kevin, it was built by digg employees. During their off time of course (nudge, nudge, wink, wink).
Agree with Hates_ - My SR80's 'leak' a lot due to the open back - they are very good headphones, but this makes them impractical for office use.

I ended up with a pair of KOSS TD-85 as they are completely closed-back - they barely leak sound at all, and are reasonably comfortable. After a full day wearing, the headband can dig in a little, though.
Typically sites with multiple servers put there web and database server software on different machines. Hacker News doesn't use a database and stores everything in memory, so this wouldn't make any sense for this codebase.
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I don't think that's a very warming idea. Feels kind of shady to me. Another step further and I'm expecting the service to remove other people's affiliate IDs and adding their own.

On other fronts, we offer one approach on tinyurl "differentiation" via http://tinyarro.ws (super-small unicode URLs). For minimalists, we did http://ri.ms.

Not an overabundance of room nowadays to differentiate. But with TinyArrows, the concept is interesting enough to people that it has taken on a life of its own on Twitter, and we actually get a little traffic out of it to our other sites. But it's not enough traffic that I could recommend people spend much time on their own URL shrinkers (unless they're just bored and have a really compelling idea).

I suggest using the services as a feeder for leads for your other products-- I personally see the affiliate thing as a bit shady. The only cool place to do it is in those awful spam emails that spammers overload the URL shrinkers with to hide their target site-- you could steal their revenue. But then you're making money off of spam...
I can't remember where I heard good things about this one, but I believe I did at some point:

http://getvanilla.com/

You might also look into whether http://intensedebate.com/ would work for your purposes...it does have threading and voting.

Finally if you or your developer(s) know Python/Django, you could check out the following two Django plugins:

http://code.google.com/p/django-threadedcomments/
http://code.google.com/p/django-voting/

You could pretty easily put together a threaded, votable discussion thread based on these. (In fact, you can find a whole lot of other social networking features in Pinax, which I'd describe as a social networking framework for Django: http://code.google.com/p/django-hotclub/)

Hope some of these suggestions are helpful.
I have Microsoft LifeChat LX-3000s (http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-JUG-00001-LifeChat-LX-3000-H...), since we use skype once in a while. They're nothing remarkable sound-wise, but they're pretty comfortable, cheap, and they have a mic.

My only point against them is that there's a volume / mute box about a third of the way along the cord from the headphones, and it tends to bump into things, fall off the desk, etc. That's probably true of many similar headphones, though.
It started out sort of vague (I joined the mailing list quite early), but as it acquired definition, it seemed to be ending up excessively concentrated in a "Zed"-like niche, i.e. the combination of scripting hacks and music / theatre-like performances.

So I drifted away and terminated subscription, and I guess many others did the same (and have had that impression confirmed from a couple of private emails).
kind of duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=517920
Well, people said that before we launched tinyarro.ws and I think that was different enough to catch people's attention. There are probably a few ideas out there left to try.
Ask HN: Where do uk startups go for advice online ?
While I'm building my own startup one of the things I'm looking at is what makes it harder to startup in the UK versus the US. One of the main problems I'm finding is that it's much harder to find UK specific advice online.

I've attended various meetups (techcrunch uk, the songkick ones) and they're great for making contacts, but there doesn't seem to be an equivalent on-line community.

So where do all the UK startups hangout online ?
I'm a pretty big fan of Vanilla (http://getvanilla.com/). It doesn't natively support threading, but I think there may be a plugin for that. It's out of the box install is very clean, very simple, and very useful.

Rolling something from the HN or Reddit codebase sounds like a pretty interesting project, though.
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where are you based?

My startup is in Cambridge, and I'd love to meet you and chat startups.
I have these. I found that, for my ears, they're more comfortable if I take off the foam part and turn it around, so the wider part of the cone faces outward.
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Maybe it'll startup again with new found interest. I'm moving to NYC and would love to start going to some of these meetupy type events.
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What I find most attractive in SSD is the IO performance.
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I'm not so sure about long term storage reliability. I would currently prefer to combine both type of storage.