skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
straight out of the shot?

I'd start out with Drupal if you are comfortable with it; you should be able to bang out an accurate prototype in a couple of days. Then you'll be in a place to find out what you dont like about it.

So what if your app would keel under load? Do the detailed deployment work when you know you've got something worth deploying.

I wouldn't even be surprised if bits of Drupal could be tuned to perform very well under duress. No idea what sort of license issues that could bring up.
Ubuntu could be killing your laptop's hard drive
Oh, sorry. That button will have some much more exciting functionality in the near future, but we should fix that for now.
Thanks, we will.
We're all on a plan at Kaiser here at Xobni. They are the web 2.0 of the hospital world, really. I'm amazed that my doctor not only has an email address, but checks and responds to it. The online lab results is pretty awesome too.
And I think they're pretty reasonably priced. I don't know exactly how much we pay per employee though.
Mugr -- face recognition and search startup enters private beta
This begs the question if all of these social networks share the same information why use one over the other?
I would add a ninth point. "Leave distinctive footprints." I have written good code, that worked completed as desired, that I knew inside and out--that I then revisited a year later and couldn't make heads or tails of it. I learned. Now when I do something new, something elegant, or something complex, I document it immediately well enough to re-grasp it in short order--and document it idiosyncratically. When I come back to the code--or more frquently, come to another conundrum that will need a similar or transmogrified approach--that idosyncratic documentation is there, and I can search for it, and grasp the code ideas it embodied. It helps immensely with those disruptions that invariably occur. I still vividly recall when I first grasped the immense power of Select Case True because of the kitschy commenting I wrote for it--and I called up that commenting and that code for quite some time!
We're a Phoenix startup doing face search and recognition. We just released Mugr on Monday and would love to hear any feedback you have.
What Percentage of Startups Fail?
Alan Perlis' Epigrams on Programming
I'm from Sacramento. Didn't feel a thing. I wasn't jogging either.
Well, as a "college kid" myself, and a heavy facebook user, and a total social software dork, I think I know just about as well as anyone the value of Facebook to college students. I can sum it up in two words: Social Capital.

I'm not saying this "competes" with facebook,per se. Rather, it's just an alternative to the idea of an "open (proprietary) API" that has failed in so many ways (uselessness of applications, nagging app requests, lack of universality for things like classes, etc). I'll be writing a blog post on this very topic soon.

I hope that clears things up a bit.
Jogging + being on landfill must provide some insulation. Different story if you're in a building in the marina, though.
Hey MC, the service sounds pretty cool! I'm in the process of learning as much as possible about recognition techniques.

According to the FAQ, you're not performing face detection (you ask users to crop their photos). Did you find that the process was too computationally expensive?

EDIT - after completing the registration process I was given an error page. But the process must've completed, since I can log in and use the site just fine.

I have some additional comments (for instance, when cropping my user photo it'd be nice to see an example of a "good crop" so I know how tightly to focus the box around my face, without having to click through to the guidelines page). Is there an email address I can contact you at?
Panel on language design (2004): Guy Steele, Paul Graham, Jonathan Rees, and John Maeda [.mov file]
The video adds little to the audio, feel free to crank up the volume and clean your apartment while listening.
We're in SJ, about 8 miles from the epicenter. It was a good shimmy.

Time to by the pack of 100 MRE's to prepare for "The Big One" (TM).
Songbird 0.3 Released with APIs: The Firefox of Media Players.
I guess you are right, it is worth avoiding. I am just so used to that behavior that it is what I expect a page to do, but I guess another way to refresh the page doesn't justify confusing the user.
Hey Ed. Thanks for signing up. For the initial registration process, we decided it was easier if we let our users crop their profile images. Later on this week we'll see a post with an example of our software doing face detection.

Thanks for the suggestions. For my email address, check out my news.ycomb profile.
I wish you'd posted some context, like which year it was.
Great! Just FYI, you have to put the email address in the "about" text area. I guess the email field is only used internally by YC.

While I've got you here, I'll just my initial reactions:

- 100KB photo limit is waaay too small. Restrict image dimensions, if anything.

- Error messages on the side of the page (on the mugshots upload page) are not very visble

- What kind of things would I put in the "tags" box? Are they comma or space delimited?

- "The person may be from the orient, but they aren't oriented toward the camera." - This joke is in poor taste...

- Connections page is empty?

- I don't really know what to do after I've registered...

- Problem with links (I see http://http:// -- you gotta standardize your inputs!)

- I uploaded a photo to search, and am returned all users in the network? This page is confusing!

- In order to limit the number of returned users I cropped just my face and uploaded the photo for search. It seems like I was returned everyone but myself!
I felt nothing, as I was driving at the time :( Too bad, I missed the fun.
Good design but I have to keep scrolling to see everything on my poor man's 800*600 res.
Terminus is my font of choice.

http://www.is-vn.bg/hamster/jimmy-en.html
The 100-Year-Old Electric Car - Jay Leno's Garage - Popular Mechanics
social web is far beyond one platform or the next, fb may be winning vs. myspace, but they are leaps and bounds from nearing google.

this is big news for startups - there are a lot of great bits to use from this.
Our dorm in Stanford definitely felt it. Most everyone was excited about it.
Yeah, they're only 1/3 as valuable as an AOL subscriber. It's ridiculous to think that a walled garden is going to beat out on the web as a platform.
Wow, this is pretty impressive... I don't know about the valuation, but the revenue is awesome.
Sorry man...didn't know those existed anymore! jk :P
Felt it in sunnyvale. Pretty intense.
I just ditched monotype fonts a few weeks ago or so, and am not thinking about going back. Looks so much nicer, and so far I have never had any text I could not to line up neatly enough.

I am currently using "Vrinda" size 10 on my Windows Vista laptop with ClearType -- will probably use a bigger font once I buy a proper monitor.

Some nice discussion and inllustrations around this theme at Coding Horror: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000969.html
Arguably the most important part of that article was the bit discussing the caffeinated donut.
Did you know, sixty years ago, six young women programmed the ENIAC, the first all-electronic programmable computer?
I don't see how that one can fail.
Philip Greenspun's take on Women in Science
So if I send you a pic, you will search your whole database to detect who is on that photo?

How can I as a person keep you from putting me into your database?
Yea truly, I am beholden to its unadultered genius.

Will it replace ramen?
The genius is that it doesn't have to be donuts -- it could be any food!
Are you the soldiers for fortune guys?
I asked this question a while back and got some good info. Check out the PDF link provided by mdakin after the jump:

http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=51422
hi ... read ur essay... Im a programmer who started off great but am in a critical stage of giving up programming cos of working in adverse conditions similar to the ones u had mentioned.Ur essay I think might help me come out the situation... Thanx anyway...

Rajiv.
which dorm are you in? definitely felt it in sae, i was worried the house was going to fall in to the parking lot.
What happens if Facebook use these APIs?

What happens if no company takes these APIs to make something better than Facebook?
Social networking for the poor and computer-illiterate
What really matters is how distribution works. Will it be as easy as "Add This Application" and will they list my app in a high traffic directory somewhere? If so, I'm 100% in.
That's depressing shows again that ideas are worth nothing, it's in the execution. I presented the same idea to a german cornflakes manufacturer years ago ( coffein enriched flakes and other breakfast food), they tried to do it but failed.

Blog Article but in german:
http://id-o.de/2007/04/24/koffein-koffein-koffein-nachtliche...
isn't it what makes milk more creamier ?
Because it's an order of magnitude slower than things like C or Fortran.
Hackers' screen shots
After reading the article on fonts, I thought it might be kind of fun to share screen shots of our working environment. Just remember to edit out anything sensitive!
Here's mine:

http://www.dedasys.com/Screenshot.png
I've been using this for a number of years and still like it:

-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1

BTW, after thinking about this, I thought it would be fun to share actual screen shots:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=74605
German saying: It's the first bird that gets the corn, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.
I really like the name. Cool service!

looks like the homepage is down right now though :(
Btw, I was just checking how sites handle this, and here's an innovative approach by Nokia: Let the Home-link take you to a totally different page if you are already on Home:

http://mobilecodes.nokia.com/index.htm

;)
Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web (Marc Andreessen)
While they might resist at first, Facebook is likely to join in and support the OpenSocial API. That doesn't mean F8 is going anywhere, but OpenSocial has a lot of potential to unify social networks on the web, and I doubt Facebook wants to be left out in the cold.
Agree. Makes you think backing by YC can't be that hard to get.
When's the Apple iGame Coming?
i suggest you wait till Thursday to see what OpenSocial has to offer.
The time has come to learn javascript.
I had to look up what a Fantasy Sport was. Perhaps a one-liner in your FAQ could help.
is the request invite feature broken?
A Web 2.0 app worth its weight (literally)
Guess the meanings of words and feed poor kids.
I feel back for this guy, he seems really lonely and isolated. Life is too short to live like that, regardless of how much money you make.
I imagine the initial rush of apps will look inconsistent.

In a few months they'll hit upon the idea of making a standard set of CSS classes that apps can use to blend into the style of the host site. Hats off to google et al if I'm wrong and tomorrow's announcement already includes CSS guidelines.

This is exciting news.
Y Europe is inspired by YC, but not affiliated.
Shipping means prioritizing
Howdoyalikethat? Turns out I can! Monaco 9 AA, line-height at 0.8x is quite nice for log file monitoring.
If you're looking at Python frameworks - TurboGears also has built in Identity Management.

http://docs.turbogears.org/1.0/IdentityManagement?action=sho...

Then there is the AuthKit extension for Pylons. Although I really like Pylons, I had some problems getting AuthKit working with the latest version.
hacking videos for dummies
are there any videos that show you how to cool stuff on how to hack things on the net ,or our own operating systems ?
I looked it up when the first information about the Summer YCs was available. Nevertheless, it seems very difficult to get into, so maybe a tutorial would be called for. I am really not the target audience, though, as I don't care one iota for spectator sports. Although I am interested in game theory and gambling, so who knows.
A Simple Programming Puzzle Seen Through Three Different Lenses (power of Ruby, Python)
A lot of the sports leagues demand royalty from fantasy sports leagues. There have even been lawsuits over this as they believe it to be proprietary data. Are you guys paying them royalty?

Real good concept. Add a real money feature and i'd play.
Amazon Dynamo: The Next Generation Of Virtual Distributed Storage
The Web is Agreement
Intense Debate: A Very Sweet Comment Management Plug-in
Boston Hacker News Meetup. Sunday 8:30pm, Miracle of Science Bar
The Boston Hacker News meetup is still on.

When: 8:30pm, Sunday Nov. 4th

Where: Miracle of Science Bar

http://decenturl.com/maps.google/miracle-of-science-bar

From the Central Square Red-Line subway:
http://decenturl.com/maps.google/central-sq-to-bar

Top 3 Reasons to Attend The Hacker News Meetup:

1. Beer.

2. Celebrate/mope the result of your YC interview.

3. Talk to other Hacker News readers, founders, and hackers.
DocStoc Takes Its Long Shot Vision to the Public
Plan on going here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=74633
I was rather surprised how much money he is making. I'm living in germany and I don't think you can get even close to such amounts in any gamecompany here. Even as lead getting above 70000$ will be hard. Also from several own applications I had the experience that game companies tended to offer usually more than 1000$ less per month than any other programming companies. Is that different in the USA?

If you're a game programmer here you simply don't do it for the money.
Whois May Be Retired, Says ICANN
Announcing Ikarus: A native code compiler for R6RS Scheme
I'm planning on being at Miracle of Science Bar at 8:30
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=74633
In my first and only Bay Area earthquake (a smaller one than the one you just had) I had much the same reaction. It was just large enough for me to know it was a quake, and I kind of enjoyed the experience.

Then I went to work the next day at the fab and discovered that everyone there was distressed and nervous. Post-traumatic stress: They had all lived through the quake of '89, when some of the freeways and bridges had collapsed.

So, keep in mind that while it's okay to be secretly impressed by the awesome power of plate tectonics, doing so publicly is the sign of a Bay Area newb. :)

Now might be a good time to revisit this USGS earthquake safety page:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/2005/15/
I got an Andale Mono install for Windows about 10 years ago, and have transferred it to computer to computer ever since. Another vote for Andale Mono.
When to Take the Money Off the Table
Shock! Horror! Diffie-hellman in javascript is a really bad idea. Javascript would be unbearably slow for the size numbers you'd have to work with for a good implementation of DH, if it could even represent numbers that large. From http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/javascript/security:
"The problem is that in order to prevent brute force cracking techniques, these require the browser to handle numbers as high as 2x10^600 or higher. JavaScript is just not natively capable of working with numbers as high as this."

Why reinvent a great and secure technology like SSL? The overhead of SSL would pale in comparison to rolling your own DH in JS.
What is Statistically Significant?
British Army Tests "Invisible" Tank
It's too bad that this technology is used for tanks, of all things.
Why Is Nissan Mimicking MySpace?
Beautiful Soup for Python
I like the preseason 'beta' label. Very waggish.
Intangible capital of being in the U.S. = $418,000.

http://www.reason.com/news/show/122854.html
The Truth About Success - 10 Steps
What is the success formula? Here are 10 steps to get started.
Long Betting. Make Your Prediction.
Yes, but I'm not talking about it either. I work with interesting technologies (computer vision, virtual reality, 3d, etc) for the events industry. There are lots of opportunities in games other than retail and casual.
We are on Carefirst BlueCross BlueShield here in DC, we just chose one of the smallest plans for our business. You should definitely cost it out (and it's expected). Some startups do a lump sum per month. Others get a quote from an insurance agency. If you're just looking for a financial cost, check out RedFin's financial model (they're based in Seattle)- http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/10/glenn-kelmans-f.html.
Check out: http://www.longbets.org/1
I wonder if this will track parts of the OpenID movement? Many have registering more than once and everyone doesn't want to have to type too much stuff in to get what they need, while advertisers want to know more about you. OpenID doesn't provide that just yet, but perhaps it will.
yes in terms of individual machine benchmarks it is slower but it's built for concurrency and distributed computing (unlike the other languages you cite) - which means it can better handle do massive multi-computer computation/calculation jobs. (Parallel programming is hard, especially on languages not designed to make it easier from the start) O yeah anything that does distributed processing (including any libraries from other languages) needs to be reliable b/c if it isn't theoritically you'll either have to start your data crunching all over again or you'll have inaccurate results. If something is fast without reliability - what's the point?

Besides what do you think Erickson uses Erlang for? they use it for massive (and fast) calculations. C is very very difficult to make ultra-reliable, and Fortran is just archaic. which brings me to another point (the original one) if C and Fortran are so great why is AT&T not using it and instead designing another language? my original question afterall was why att is designing another language when they can just use erlang; not why other languages are better than erlang
One of my favorite earthquakes was around 1999 in the central valley, CA. It wasn't too harsh, but it lasted for a good 30 seconds. 30 seconds is long enough to realize that you're in an earthquake, and to enjoy it.

The waving of the ground was surreal.
I'm 39, and I understand where the "unconscious incompetence" comes from. There's a constant stream of fads that claim to be something new. You look at each one and find it's something you knew already. Repeat this for decades and you become conditioned to expect that there's nothing significant coming, ever.

It helps to be paranoid. If you constantly expect that the next big thing really will change the game and make your accumulated knowledge obsolete, then you keep your guard up. I don't have any tips for cultivating paranoia.
It is stolen from Yahoo! Sports?
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba
Not an intense quake -- at least up here in Redwood Shores (the land of Oracle) -- but what impressed me was how long it seemed to last. The long ones are potentially more dangerous, if they're also intense.
This article should give everyone pause for thought--women and men. It is a little disheartening to think that I went into engineering as a path to medicine (with better security and compensation) and got sidetracked by interesting work. As a tenure-track professor with an itch to pursue a startup, I am wondering if I should start scratching. If only there wasn't a family in the equation...
A Cloudbook on the Horizon
I'm assuming you're talking about pen-testing and not programming specifically. If that's the case, check out irongeek.com. He has some good tutorials.
http://irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/hackingillustrated

Also, you might want to consider watching some of the presentations from defcon 15.
http://www.roysac.com/blog/2007/09/defcon-15-session-and-pan...

I hope that helps.
This is exactly the kind of 'open garden' that people have said they wanted from social networks. It only makes sense that it wouldn't be any specific social network that made it happen. I wonder if we'll see Facebook and MySpace participate in this? I'm sure it will just depend on what apps make it to what platforms.
cool design

Have you consulted with a lawyer about the legality of running a league with an entry fee and a prize pool?

I have a feeling that is not legal in all 50 states.
@ardit33 - If you want the rights of a citizen, you ought to become one.
Request Invite requires a name with a space in it? I just put my first name in and got a generic error message.

It looks like you're using Flex? How'd that work for you?
I actually see a parallel between what's happening in web startups today and the telecom broom-and-bust that many of us older guys have experienced in 1999/2000. Back then we had Nortel acquiring Qtera, Xros and Coretek at about $3B each, thereby setting the venture business on fire and funded about 100 startups, all determined to be better.

Today we have MySpace, YouTube, Facebook and similarly numerous VC-backed startups that are trying to catch the wind. I suspect there will be disappointments as well and recently I wrote about my own experience in surviving startup failure which I entitled "What I learned from my Dad who taught me how to ride a bicycle". It is my sincere hope that this could be of value to someone.

http://www.lovemytool.com/blog/2007/10/riding-a-bike.html

--Denny--

Denny K Miu
If they're in the equation, cancel them out! :-)
Google Tries To Land Mobile Phone Deals With Sprint, Verizon . . . Anyone
Why Microsoft Overpaid for Facebook
thanks wil check em out
Not only that, but to implement diffie-hellman key agreement correctly you have to authenticate the exchange in some way. This is usually done with cryptographic signatures and that means implementing at least one other number theory algorithm with even more slow big integer exponentiation.
Tada: http://inglua.com/blog/screenshot.png
From the article: "once Facebook goes public sometime in the next year or so." That seems amazing to me but I guess with a $15B valuation it's not absurd. news.YCers, do you think Facebook will IPO anytime soon?
Yes we have. It is legal in most states. We will post this info in our terms of service once the lawyers finish them up. States where it is not legal are still able to play in free games.
That's about what mine looks like, except I usually have a browser window under the main terminal window, and I only use two workspaces instead of ten (!)
Ubuntu!
Great Choice.
There is a recent case against the MLB which says that the data is public domain. The MLB has already lost an appeal on this matter as well (see http://www.draftmix.com/news/index.php/2007/10/17/draftmix-n...) for details
Satisfying UI Design is Often Illogical
I think the privacy advocates have gone way overboard on this one. WHOIS is an incredibly useful database; among other things, it provides a way to find people squatting on your trademarks.

There's a simple solution already in place for privacy within WHOIS... almost all registrars offer private registration, and many of them offer it for free.
The browser is located in the lower left hand workspace, so it's just an alt-down arrow away from the workspace.
I dont think it is. What problem did you have?
why might looking at a larger font somehow save your eyes? presumably, if you take appropriate breaks, it shouldn't matter how small your font is. right?

cause if I'm wrong, I seriously need to rethink this small font fetish I have...
this is from some loser named Don Knuth: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/screen.jpeg
Google discovers MSIE's JavaScript interpreter has hardcoded GC limits
That's a moot argument, that Mexicans are more productive in the US doesn't necessarily benefit the individual Mexican. It _is_ a great boon to the employer, though, if he can keep H1Bs with equal skills but lower wages than equivalent US workers.

Not saying that this is how it is (I haven't studied the matter), but your argument is worthless.
Sure, but becoming a citizen should not be so hard for qualified people who are contributing to the country.