skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8060206257543341917&...
We track our expenses using gnucash, which can generate cool reports like this one:

http://www.getdropbox.com/u/86/appjet-summer07-expenses.gif

So that's how we (2 of us) spent most of our $15k summer funds.
PPK
The dreaded smug lisp weenie.
the fact that you can't comment on it's api is a pretty big reason why you shouldn't be throwing out remarks like "walled garden" just because you see marketing sites (techcrunch) doing it, they too understand little about the technology they write about.

btw facebook released an api method to do the status change thing you can get more info here:
http://developers.facebook.com/documentation.php?v=1.0&d...
OMG gmail has a login screen.. eww data roach motel!!!

the information you read on facebook be it notes by your friends, their pictures, relationship status or what have you, doesn't make much sense in a public search. Either you have never used facebook or simply don't understand it.
There are only 3 types of mathematicans on the planet. Those who can count, and those who can not.
This is an interesting idea with a horrifically bad execution. It's confusing, ugly, and slow.

And who is their target market?
I don't get it either... email and blogging does what Facebook does so much better. I won't check Facebook or Twitter or MySpace for the same reason I refuse to check my voice mail at work -- checking too many things and having too many accounts is a waste of time.

Send me an email, or I won't respond. Once people know this, my life and theirs becomes so easy!
"Bring your bike inside from the front porch, because I promise you some kid with a hacksaw can take care of that cute little lock in about 30 seconds flat."

Who needs a hacksaw - when he can pick locks.
Yes, it's worth it. Especially if you tend to code late at night and do not really know what you are doing.

I used to lave darcs. But bazaar is simple and reliable.
I agree. It should be much easier to build a decent embedded lingo.
Real man don't eat quiche.
I know, but seems my fingers don't. :) I'll leave my post as is so your comment will still make sense.

I'm not so worried about living expenses, but rather how to answer the relevant application question.
malicious hackers and security researchers... it's coded in java, if that explains anything
Ask YC: how much time do you spend juggling to prepare your start-up?
How much time do you spend juggling to prepare your start-up?

- the pitch / presentation of your start-up
- actually working on the start-up business
- calling to date investor / due diligence to match up the investor
I haven't had to reinstall once, and with XP I typically would have 3 times by now.

I had no idea MS OSes were so bad. Reinstalling the OS is actually a routine thing?
"I know a friend" who googled for inurl:javascript.the.definitive.guide filetype:pdf
Convey my thanks to "your friend"
2.3 Internet-Based Services Components. The Software contains components that enable and facilitate the use of certain Internet-based services. You acknowledge and agree that Microsoft may automatically check the version of the Software and/or its components that you are utilizing and may provide upgrades or fixes to the Software that will be automatically downloaded to your Workstation Computer.

2.4 Internet Gaming/Update Features. If you choose to utilize the Internet gaming or update features within the Software, it is necessary to use certain computer system, hardware, and software information to implement the features. By using these features, you explicitly authorize Microsoft or its designated agent to access and utilize the necessary information for Internet gaming and/or updating purposes. Microsoft may use this information solely to improve our software or to provide customized services or technologies to you. Microsoft may disclose this information to others, but not in a form that personally identifies you.

I've always simply assumed that Micros~1 was doing this sort of thing without my knowledge. This is why, if I must run Windows, I do it on a dedicated machine or inside VMWare rather than dual-booting, and won't store my PGP keys on Windows systems. Just think of Windows as malware and treat it accordingly, and you won't get upset when it proves you right.
It got it awhile ago at buy.com $19 w/ GCO. It might be easier to read on paper than PDF.

http://www.buy.com/prod/javascript-the-definitive-guide/q/lo...
The MS OSes are terrible. Reinstalling the OS is actually a routine thing. More typical computer users just buy new systems when they become unusably slow after a couple years, which is good for Dell and the like.

What gets me to stay is tablet PC support and font rendering. Linux doesn't have an application that comes close to Microsoft OneNote for note taking. I wish that Apple made a touch screen Mac and I will probably switch when they launch one.

The font rendering on Windows blows away Linux and Mac, in my opinion. There is nothing so crisp as Windows standard font smoothing (not ClearType). Linux and Mac look incredibly ugly without subpixel font smoothing or other heavy anti-aliasing. I spent a while trying to figure out how to get Linux to render fonts better and gave up when it required a kernel recompile.

Has anyone here gotten Linux to render fonts well without subpixel anti-aliasing?
Indeed, I wasn't considering such implementation issues as the link limit of 180. Collecting links from some of the /news pages should be a good approximation. For longer times away, the collected links could be stored periodically and upon return sorted by points, descending.
Matt, here's the secret to buying from Dell: shop in their small business section, not their home section. I'm quite pleased with my Inspiron 9400.
Yeah, I only meant /best in the abstract, not considering the implementation limit of 180 links. In practice you could collect this information over time yourself.

The difference to what /news does would be that submissions with little points would not show in the results even briefly, and submissions with a lot of points wouldn't fall off even if you're away for a long time.
There used to be a real build quality difference between the Latitude and Inspiron lines but now some of the Latitudes are just black-painted Inspirons with marginally better support.

Lenovo is the way to go.
I'm not talking about Inspiron vs. Lattitude, I'm talking about the home line of Inspirons versus the SB line (9300 vs. 9400, when I bought mine). I find Lenovo's displays intolerably bad.
Oh, ok. What was the difference between the 9300/9400 Inspiron when you bought it?
yeah, that explains everything.
> Reinstalling the OS is actually a routine thing?

No. Reinstalling Windows is recommended by kids on forums - everyone else knows that a defrag suffices.
When I had 95, I would get up in the morning, take a shower, brush my teeth, reinstall the OS.
I don't recall exactly, but there were at least two components -- the video card and wireless card IIRC -- that worked well with Linux on the 9400 but not the 9300.
Getting started with Hunchentoot, a Common Lisp webserver
You are right on the font, Windows blows away while Linux blows.
Depends on usage. My grandma is happiest with Win 95. She never had to reinstall once.
Not sure I agree that a defrag will fix the issues. I will say that running anti-virus and not clicking on every link that says you've won $50k does wonders...that and using firefox over IE.
Yeah, you might have those problems, but believe it or not, Apple's quality control has actually gone up.

I had a 400MHz Titanium Powerbook back in 2001, and by 2003 it was a 1Ghz PowerBook G4 due to the seventeen times I had to send in various computers that were replaced. One of them even melted (http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/laptops/another-melted-g4-mac-lap...). So with my MacBook Pro having only a few minor problems (the power button has fallen inside the case, and the isight randomly stops working), I'd say the quality has improved significantly.

The networking systems in the Finder are so bad that when I use Vista, I actually breathe a sigh of relief that I can "map" network drives and have automatic discovery. Leopard somewhat fixes this, though.

As far as the iPhone debacle, I'm really amazed at how poorly Apple is handling the situation. Maliciously destroying their products and punishing their most geeky customers is retarded. Those geeky customers are the ones the non-geeky potential customers go to for advice. Hasn't Steve Jobs read The Tipping Point? When you've pissed off Brian Lam, you're really in trouble.
You mean Steve Jobs didn't pound it into your head by saying it 50 times at Macworld? The iPhone isn't a phone. It's a "revolutionary phone," an "amazing ipod," and an "internet communication device."

Also, it's not just a pretty UI. It is a pretty UI, but it represents a complete change in mobile device interaction. They took touch technology and they did it right for the first time. That's definitely a shift in the paradigm, and it will certainly change the mobile space forever.

Also, by introducing the first usable/decent web browser for mobile devices, they've hopefully inspired other traditionally crappy companies like Nokia and SonyEricsson and Palm to do the same. Man, I hope so.
This isn't a function of the platform itself, it's just an annoying thing that most of the app developers do. You don't have to require a login, let alone require the user to add your app, just to show a canvas page that says what your app is all about.
My plans are to spend as little as possible on living expenses. Just need one room and a kitchen for me and my co-founder. Food shouldn't be too much since I love to cook (no need to buy packaged food) and I'm sure there's more than a couple cheap farmers markets in the bay area. The more money we can put into operating the business, the better.
Unfortunately this silent update itself is not the biggest issue. The history teaches us that any new feature in Windows brings another security breach with it. I'm 80% sure we'll soon have a virus that will exploit WU and will silently install itself even if your automatic updates are off.

(dfranke, do you read your emails? I sent you 2 emails already. Remember our conversation about SQL?)
they don't need to. it already integrates with hadoop

http://lucene.apache.org/hadoop/
the answer to your troubles lies here: http://developers.facebook.com/terms.php
I agree; the users that complain about Windows stability (the ones that aren't Mac using journalists) are the type that install sleazy toolbars and slipshod freeware.

It's like having sex with everyone in the art department and wondering why you have herpes.
Windows rot happens if you install/uninstall a lot of programs due to DLL hell. I suspect I have to reinstall way more often than my parents, but it does happen even to them.
I defrag and run anti-spyware regularly. Use Firefox only, and never even see such a link due to adblocker. It's mostly the DLL nightmare.
I've heard that from a few people actually.
I always want to try OSX, but the ridiculous price and sub par hardware/build quality keep turning me away. All of my friends have Macbook Pros, had it not been for that I probably would have gotten one by now.
would you mind being more specific as to what part of the tos you consider to be so horribly closed? please complement your response with examples of other more open systems on the interwebs
I got the first one and just realized I mistook the second one for spam. Sorry about the delayed reply. I'll get back to you soon.

Edit: I did.
One thing not mentioned is to send it to yourself. That seems to trigger most of the emotional/regret glands associated with the send button, it stores the content of the message verbatim, and you can review it in the morning and really send it if you feel the same way. I also have Eudora configured so that it only sends mail once and hour so that even though I have hit the send button I typically have some time to experience the "l'esprit d'escalier" or "I wish I had said this instead" triggered by the send button.
I'm definitely not a fan of Mac fonts, but that might just be what I'm used to.
With Windows, you can turn font smoothing off completely and the fonts look like pixel fonts. With Linux and Mac, things look terrible without font smoothing.

See this post for an explanation of the fundamental difference between Mac and Windows font smoothing: Mac tries to render as closely to the printed typeface as possible and Windows tries to look good onscreen.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000885.html
The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, Part 1
In poker we have a saying about tournaments, which is that they are a lottery and the best players get a few extra tickets. The business world seems much the same. Luckily just like in poker, if you keep getting a disproportionately large number of tickets, and keep drawing over and over, your chances of winning approach 1.
Prof. Randy Pausch's last lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (video, full talk)
Actually the LG Prada was out in Europe before, and it is touch screen device, similiar screen size, and with a pretty UI.
Not as nice as the iPhone, but 80% close. What iPhone made, is people demanding pretty UIs from all their phones, which is a step on the right direction. Still, there are plenty of things that you cannot do with the iPhone.

But as far as businnsess paradigm shift, iPhone has been a disapointment. Look at the latest update, it bricks your unlocked device, cannot do song to ringtone convertion, (you can with many european phones), etc. etc. Either ATT has Apple by the balls, or Apple just doesn't care at all for the user, and tries to screw them as much as they can.
No hate here. I just haven't heard any reason good enough for me to spend cash on it. I'm opposed to DRM, so I'd need a really good reason to upgrade to begin with.
Dunbar's number really can't be the whole explanation of man's inhumanity to man. Among primitive societies where people live as small bands in which everyone knows everyone, the murder rate is high. (According to /Guns, Germs and Steel/.) There's certainly lots of intracommunal violence and nastiness among most other ape bands too. And don't people in our society tend to be murdered by people they knew?
Rails 2.0: Preview Release
"If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we'd have a pretty average record." - Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway
If you bet half on red and half on black you can't lose!
$150/month for phones?

I don't know what I'm going to do when Sprint kicks me off of my old Radioshack employee plan. $35/month with taxes for 3000 minutes, 7PM nights, unlimited text messaging, "unlimited" EVDO and a $50/month credit towards anything you can buy from within the phone software, like games and ringtones and Pandora and Loopt.
At last Rails catches up with the web...
And even then it's probably only certain applications. Office plugins seem to be among the worst offenders in my experience. I remember problems with both IBM Rational and FileNet Panagon. Those are both huge software packages developed by big companies, so I don't know how much blame to lay on microsoft.

Barring hard drive issues, I've never had to reinstall the OS on my personal PC.
I don't think anyone is claiming that it's "the whole explanation". It's only an explanation for why people don't care about other people, which sometimes has violence and suffering as a side effect. In other cases, violence and suffering is purposeful, and this happens for other reasons.
> What do monkeys have to do with war, oppression, crime, racism and even e-mail spam? You'll see that all of the random ass-headed cruelty of the world will suddenly make perfect sense once we go Inside the Monkeysphere.

There's plenty of cruelty between acquaintances in the world, and a great deal of it is random and ass-headed. Lots of that cruelty falls under the headings of oppression, crime, and racism too. (War and spam are between strangers almost by definition.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbnGiXm02OY

Chumbawamba - "On Ebay"
that includes the purchase price of 2 iPhones.
Right. Enjoy.
Looks like a nice, solid release. Lots of fixes, lots of tweaks to make things cleaner, easier, and more flexible. Nothing game changing, but a very solid job by the core team.
Boilerplate code says a lot about a language...
"That's the important point: the difference between merely implementing something in a language and embedding something in a language so that you don't lose the original power of the language. Lisp is a lousy language for doing any particular problem; what it's good for is figuring out the right language that you want and embedding that in Lisp. That's the real power to this approach to design." -- Hal Abelson
There's also kawa: www.gnu.org/software/kawa/

It's scheme implemented in java, so you can still call all the java libraries.

It may also be possible to recover the java code from the class files kawa creates using jad, but I haven't tested this yet.

Jad: www.kpdus.com/jad.html
I wish more courses were taught this way. I became interested in programming because I wanted to make games, and that naturally lead me to learn higher math to do 3d graphics. Plus, this gave me the background of trying to solve some important problems myself, so the solutions I was taught in school made sense and stuck a lot easier.

I think it would be possible to base a comprehensive education around making a computer game. Comp Sci would provide the technical and theoretical background, while classes such as history, english, art, etc. would provide the material for the game. This gets around the problem of a person having to waste comp sci time on non comp sci game related problems, and they learn to integrate everything they learn to a much higher degree. Plus, it'll be more fun to grade their work.
>> "Have you checked out the features Splunk or Google Analytics offers in terms of log analysys?"

> Of course.

>> Say I have a lot of users and servers where authentication fails. I'd love to be able to pick a period (by dragging along a timeline of logs), zoom into to a period, and get any messages regarding LDAP from that time. Then I'd like to take that group of server and regenerate a certificate for each of them to fix the problem

> I have no idea what you're talking about.

It seems like you haven't used Splunk at all.

I know your a lot of your competitors (eg Plesk) are similarly basic. This doesn't mean that it wouldn't be good to innovate.

> I wish you luck in your endeavors. ;-)

One doesn't have to build something to have an opinion on it. If you think otherwise, you may enjoy other forums more.
Regardless of who said the words, have they ever been used to market Facebook to users?

The jargon used makes it sounds like a conversation with contemporaries, colleagues or investors.
Y Combinator Inspires Imitators
Zingku Flips to Google: No Dodgeball Hacker Lessons Learned
Nokia Unlocked event - Mini Wrap--Up
iRobot and the Frankenstein Complex
"Perhaps if those Java-LISPs play reasonably well with Spring and Hibernate, a modern web framework for LISP could be built?"

There are several other options for combining a Lisp with Java (Armed Bear Lisp and SISC Scheme, for example. I know Kawa was already mentioned.) I'm not sure I would rely on ANY of these for something I was trying to build on any type of deadline. They might serve as inspiration, though. If you are looking to build something fast and just want to use the Java libs for productivity, I would personally choose Scala over Groovy or JRuby. I guess that is just a taste thing, in part. The Lift framework is pretty cool. You should definitely check Scala out if you haven't already.

I think that the Lisp and Java/Spring/Hibernate route is a dead-end. Or at the very least it would be a waste of time.
It could be done, but why just build another ADEQUATE web framework? If you are going to design a new web framework, I think you should be doing it:

1. to gain an actual strategic advantage for app(s) that you are working on. A massive increase in productivity is a really compelling argument for a new framework. (Unfortunately, the envisioned productivity increases sometimes never materialize...but that's another story.)

And/Or

2. as a learning opportunity and a chance to contribute something really compelling back to the programming community.

IMHO, if you're not going to really advance the game in one of these two ways, you might as well just use something that already has some momentum and that other coders are actively working to improve. Just throw your weight behind one and go.

In regards to reason one, I think you're unlikely to be able to 'outbuild' your competitors if you're using the same, cookie-cutter tools that they are. What strategic advantage does Hibernate and Spring give you if that is what many of your competitors are using? And are you SURE that building a proprietary framework on top of them is going to give you enough of a strategic boost to outweigh the time spent building and aupporting that proprietary framework?

If you're actually just wanting to work on a framework for its own sake (Sicko!), I think you would be better served by getting FAR AWAY from the standard Java libraries. You're more likely to build something really interesting when you get away from what everyone else is doing a bit. Seaside is a good example of doing that.

I actually like programming in Lisp in part because it saves me from dealing with Hibernate/Spring, etc. and it helps me to think out of the box a little. A Lisp/Spring/Hibernate web framework would just make my head hurt.
Reid Hoffman: How LinkedIn Beats Facebook for Business
iPhone protest vid uses Apple's own words to support the "crazy ones"
Radiohead to let fans pick price for new album
The download is any price, including $0.00. The only other thing for sale is a double CD/double vinyl set for GBP40.

:)

With Radiohead giving away their album and Trent Reznor planning on selling his first record-label free album online for $4, we are definitely seeing the middle of the end of the era of the RIAA.
What do you mean by a "node based approach" exactly?

Reference?
They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time it works, every time.
Hello Ma Google - The worst news ever for cell-phone carriers
"Evolution works by taking a single node of data and applying a set of transforms to it, which result in a preselected number of new nodes being created."

From this paper, which contains no additional information about the node based approach. It does contain an image of the GUI version of the old version of Maltego, which looks like nodes.
http://www.milw0rm.com/papers/172

The only thing I've seen that mentions the algorithms is this powerpoint from a talk the program author gave, but it's clearly missing a lot without the actual speech he gave.
http://www.paterva.com/papers/CSW2007.ppt
....And IBM Intellistations for desktop use. They're almost studio pc quiet, built like a powermac, and I have never had a single problem with one. They even ship with a decent keyboard. Just can't go wrong buying IBM....
I've reinstalled my OSX 3 times since March.
Cool, I didn't know they still made computers.

http://www-132.ibm.com/content/home/store_IBMPublicUSA/en_US...
downmodded for being slightly profane? Linux font rendering really does blow.
0.7 days per week
"She called his 'anti-showmanship' 'distinctly Asian,'..." (amazing guitar solo)
See:

http://www.alternet.org/story/56230/
Wow. I think it's a great play but I would never see Rent so many times that is costs me $6,825.
I really hope Google ends up controlling the old TV frequencies, just because it will be so much more interesting than the alternative.