skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best way to learn, in my opinion, is by learning through examples. Usynk allows you to submit and view; examples, demos and codes created by the best. And in true Web2.0 fashion, Usync allows you to vote on the best example.

Also, learning occurs in a series of steps, so, at Usynk, we start with the basic examples and move on to the more advanced ones as time passes by. Users decide what set of examples are relevant/informative for that particular step and users also decide when we are ready to move to the next step. The ones with maximum votes are selected as winner for that particular step.

What could be a better place than Hacker News to announce the site.Please contribute your code (which you agree to give away for free) and a demo.
Xach's Vecto 1.0 released: Vecto - Simple Vector Drawing with Common Lisp
Neal Stephenson: Jipi and the Paranoid Chip
Re-Engineering Engineering Education
Usually no, but there are ad networks and TONS of affiliate programs available to you.
Oracle is stupid
"I suspect their voices had traits much more common in men, which may have a lot to do with the perception that they are 'not like girls you knew in college.'"

Actually you are probably correct there. So would this be the result of voice training, or more just a side-effect of being surrounded by only men at work for twenty years?

I think it's more than just tone of voice and body language though. For example, while I have no doubt there are many college women who subscribe to the WSJ, I have yet to actually meet one.
Kosmix releases Google GFS workalike 'KFS' as open source
The Semantic Web and tagging, etc. aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, if Flickr's machine tags are machine parseable then they're part of the Semantic Web already, particularly with those tasty intersite links between data.
Good luck with your app!

That said, how do you reconcile Holmes' beliefs about minorities with his role as the father of the American eugenics movement?
Wikipedia wars erupt
Mark has his "I told you so" moment that we all dream of. Good stuff.
Wow! Your HackerID tool is impressive. (I was wondering how I missed that and realized that I was vacationing in LA when you posted that... the very reason I wrote 'phr0zen news')

At the moment, I am just grabbing the front page RSS and posting it like a blog. I would like to do the following too:

1. Deep Search - Index target webpage, comments, weighted by points gained by post/comment itself and submitter/commenter-karma. For example, I was to be able to search and read everything ever said here about EC2. This will be very useful for me personally, so I have good selfish reasons to do this.

2. Relationship between users (as you mentioned) - a graphical representation... what we uncover might be interesting. ( Users that pg replied to will have a 'knighted' symbol next to them ;-) )

I will supply a feed as soon as I figure that out. Is there a way to grab ALL the data from HackerID? BTW, when I read 'name the best hacker news contributers', I thought it is a contest :-)
Thanks :-)

I wrote it so that it saves front page because that is how I personally read HN. On the days that I am not able to check HN (like it happened to me last weekend), I don't know what made it to the front page. You are correct that this is certainly not the best way to do it. As bootload mentioned, the 'best' page is limited to 180 links and if the points gained a new post is less than that of the 180th post in 'best', then it won't make it to that list. May be we should collect links from front and front+1 page that are more than a day old and sort them in descending order of points? Your thoughts welcome.
Video - Panel on Language Design (Paul Graham, John Maeda, Jonathan Rees, Guy Steele)
Learing Rails is Easy, Mastering Rails is Hard
About time. I brought this up a ways back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37850
Yes. Where is the down-arrow when you need it?
Vista has turned into the desktop operating system no one wants, and even MS is beginning to get it
Mastering anything is hard!
Be winners - not quitters
I agree WordPress will always rock in my book. But I think the author is interested in Rails CMS's and Radiant fits the bill. It's a plus to say Radiant come with good documentation.
The article tries to make a simple point - harping on the unfairness of affirmative action is more racist given there are bigger fish to fry.

This topic is another reason I love working in tech, institutional education matters little.
"How are college students treated in this brave new academic world? Not very well, at least not if this year's spate of bad news articles is any indication."

I don't know that this year's spate of bad news articles is any indication. College admissions are perennially weighted towards the already-advantaged, but once you're in, I have a hard time believing that motivated students were better off 30 years ago. The number of programs and opportunities for people willing to go for them is growing constantly.

Robg, your headline asks that question like it's a bad thing. There are certainly pitfalls, but it seems that if universities compete with each other more, students can only win.
At the last SF New Tech Meet-up these company's said their services offered programmers.

http://www.thoughtworks.com

http://www.artyllect.com/about_us.htm
Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

He was lucky though. Broadcast.com was the most bogus of all Bubble acquisitions. Cuban got the highest payoff per dollar of value created in the history of start-ups.

The fact that he worked hard for 20 years before that doesn't mean he didn't get lucky. Randomness strikes everyone equally.
The key quote here:
"The profile information that's available on Facebook or any other social networking site doesn't mean your click through rate will be higher," says Andrew Chen, an entrepreneur-in-residence at Mohr Davidow Ventures. "It's really important to not confuse, 'I'm interested in cars or skiing,' versus 'I'm about to make a transaction.'"
I could be wrong, but I don't think anyone's implying that these sites' success is due to their backends. However, backend choices do affect uptime, scalability, ease of development, ease of finding/fixing bugs, etc. So I would certainly take issue with your claim that "this sort of stuff is irrelevant".
The End of the Rainbow or Just the Beginning?
I would like to see someone create a new Wikipedia entry about Mzoli's that says "Mzoli's is a small restaurant in South Africa that sparked a fierce controversy among Wikipedia contributors..." Ironically, if deletionists were right before, they are certainly wrong now. Mzoli's does now have significance :-)
I am not a woman, just someone who has been around enough gender studies conversations to comment. :)
"Many of them told stories about being asked to order lunch for the group and expressing shock because "that's not how a professional should be treated." This contrasts sharply with the average entrepreneur, where part of the appeal is escaping professionalism."

There's a subtle point you missed here. Many of these women were asked to order lunch because the male thought it was the woman -- of lesser position -- who should take lunch orders. There's a difference between doing something because everyone is sharing mundane tasks in a startup and being singled out for those positions.

Those women were absolutely right to assert their status there in a corporate environment -- and in a startup environment as well if a woman partner is subconsciously being relegated the mundane tasks for no other reason than that she's a woman.
"If a company tried this in any other industry, people would howl to the heavens. Imagine the outrage if Apple or Microsoft sold desktop PCs that allowed you to connect to the Internet only through Comcast -- and then, if you tried to use Earthlink instead, the company would shut down your machine. Or what if Ford allowed you to drive your new Explorer only to Wal-Mart to buy your groceries; if you went instead to Whole Foods, a company official would come by and slash your tires."
I've not used Drupal. I'm only mentioning the CMS systems I've specifically wasted hours of life on making fit my needs. Drupal is actually next on my list of CMS systems to waste hours of my life on making fit my needs...I was kinda hoping it was better than all the other ones I've used. (You see? I'm sick. I have a real problem.)
Still, I think the point is that you only have to get lucky once. Sure, his last company was lucky. But if you start 10 companies, how lucky is it that one succeeds? Much less so than if you only started 1.
The headline was the subtitle in the Magazine TOC and more informative than the actual headline ("Academic Business").
The iPhone has been the best advertizing Nokia's N95 could get.
I've had good luck with getacoder before.

Odesk model is better suited for large corporations(at least it was 1 year ago).

My personaly recommendation is to find some mentors and start learning to program on your own.
Darn. I was hoping you would do that and then I could walk by and say "haha! i suggested he do that!"

But actually it may be a good idea. It would be great marketing.
If you aren't aware of them, then you're not subject to their deadly allure. Be grateful.

CMS systems provide:

1. Users and user management, and shared auth across all services (theoretically...Joomla is a joke on this front...nothing useful uses the native user interfaces, they're all bridged applications--at this point our "Joomla website" is actually almost entirely non-Joomla apps bridged into Joomla, and Joomla just makes things like adding new content or new applications harder).

2. Applications sharing a single API. This is least true with Joomla, unfortunately, as it's got the most applications. So, the more apps a CMS offers, the less well-integrated those apps are. In my past two websites I've needed: shopping cart, forums, issue tracker, wiki, and FAQ manager. All but one of those is a bridged app in our current website. They were all integrated, by some definition of integrated, in the OpenACS variant of the site, but OpenACS is a nightmare to work on--second-system syndrome has set in with OACS and it could be years before a Firefox-style simplicity revolution occurs for the codebase (if it has the community enthusiasm for such a rebirth to occur). To be fair to OACS, now that I've switched to Joomla, there are several things that OACS got right that Joomla fails miserably at.

Short answer is that, so far, every time I deploy a CMS, I end up wishing I'd just picked the best of breed applications I needed, and modify them to share a single auth session and state and use the same style. I'm pretty sure that, in the long run, will save a lot of time and offer a better user experience.

Of course, the simple fact is that I really don't need a CMS. I like (the idea of) the applications that come with some of the bigger CMS systems, but the CMS itself is useless to me. Even in a reasonably large company where a CMS seems like the right idea, I found that no one could ever be convinced to use the CMS to add content. When switched to a simple wiki, the website exploded in usefulness to everyone, and everyone started contributing content. CMS systems are just too ornery to use to add content. I've always dreaded the process with all of them except OpenACS (which allowed flat files to be part of the content of the site, unlike other CMS systems that insist on having it in the database). So, the more time I spend with CMS systems, the more I think lots of people are chasing down a deadend road, and I've followed them on more than one occasion.

Can you tell I'm a little frustrated with the state of the CMS world?
I have no idea where it comes from, I suspect it might have a lot to do with how they were raised, but that's a pure guess.

And I definitely agree that it doesn't entirely boil down to body language. There are biological differences, we are raised differently, and we care about different things. Voice and body language are most important with regards to standing up for yourself, being taken seriously, and appearing confident, smart, and reliable rather than cold, insistent, or calculating. (I'm not saying there aren't prejudices involved as well)

I didn't know any guys that subscribed to the WSJ in college either, incidentally.
What's your favorite place to meet Boston Entrepreneurs?
I like the MIT e-Club meetings on Tuesday nights.

The MIT Enterprise forum events are good too.

I also recently heard of OpenCoffee at the Andala Coffee House.

Where do you go?
I don't think you can equate admission to an elite college with social mobility. The two are probably not directly related.
I'm missing exactly what it is about Vista that everyone hates. I've been using it since day one on my Lenovo X60 and have never had any problems. It's far more stable. Windows rot has not yet forced me to reinstall, and I've never gone even half this long without doing so on XP. And it crashes far less (though still not never).

The only driver I've been unable to find was for a very old, very cheap Logitech webcam. Everything else has been no trouble whatsoever.

I think almost all problems attributed to Vista are actually due to shoddy hardware used by budget conscious OEMs. Buy a Dell and you'll hate Vista, but then again, buy a Dell and you'll hate any OS. Buy a Lenovo and it's rather pleasant.
Holmes' beliefs were consistent: some people will have awful lives because of the circumstances of their birth, so he wanted ot 1) mitigate the awful, and 2) reduce the number of people born into such circumstances.
my definition of luck is at the intersection of preparation and opportunity. Therefore, a better thing to say is "He was prepared". He had actually put himself in a position, through starting MicroWhatever to reap more through Broadcast.
Mark's entire "Success and Motivation" series is awesome!!

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.blogmaverick.com+%22...
Someone bulds a car that drives itself. Not only that, but it has an Ethernet port with broadband speeds. So whenever I drive to work in the morning, I can spend that half hour getting things done instead of zoning out in traffic (around 260 extra hours a year). Sounds like a worthwhile investment, yeah? Two catches though. You can only get your gas from your dealership, and your mobile broadband is from them too. If you try to get gas from a regular gas station, then your car will work but you can't take it in for maintenance anymore.

Here's the deal: I'd buy it anyway. The value it provides (saving time) far outweighs the restrictions. The iPhone has saved me a big chunk of time already. I was stuck in a traffic jam just yesterday, and the maps enabled me to navigate the back roads and get to a different highway. That probably saved me two hours. If my time is worth $100/hr (I'd pay $100 to live an extra hour) then the phone half paid for itself in one night. It saves time in other ways with pocket internet and pocket email. So if you don't like the restrictions, then there's a solution: don't buy it. :)

- Posted using an iPhone.
The engaget link: http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/iphone-update-facts-and-f...
It definitely summarizes the article better, so you were right to use it. I blame the Magazine, not you, for its tone.
Take a look at the Mzoli's article now:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mzoli%27s

This is really why Wikipedia rocks: the more people complain about it, the better it gets.
How "sea tubes" could slow climate change
Why does any institution of higher learning need a $35Billion dollar endowment?
Posthumous Steve Irwin paper shows that crocodiles are expert navigators
Webinnovators is pretty good, but it's every 2 months
TechCocktail
Dot-Name Becomes Haven for Scammers
Exactly. The whole cell phone industry abuses its customers like this, and what Apple is doing (with prodding from AT&T, most assuredly) is bad, but it's no different than what you'd get with a lot of other cell phones.

The author should have said that if you care about your rights, you shouldn't buy a cell phone--but that if you need one, and you want the best smartphone, you should get an iPhone. You get screwed on "rights", but at least you don't get screwed on usability too.
Bill Gates' Harvard graduation speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXCVYtYWVyU&NR=1

It's hilarious, he's like the anti-Steve Jobs. Corporate, insincere, forced humor.
Ask YC: What would the salary range be for programmers?
What would the salary range be for programmers (LAMP platform), to be hired by a S.F. startup?

What amount of equity (if any) would be included in the job offer?

Other than salary.com, what websites have this sort of information?
Some of these are great.
Really? Do I need to list the differences?
After much hype about any new product, customers check out new features first.

In this case, customers realized that the sidebar wasn't very special, the voice control features were iffy, and much of the software and driver CDs that came with their computers did not recognize this version of Windows and displayed error messages, or customers discovered by trial and error that they should go to each vendor's support page for the best and updated drivers.

Another thing to keep in mind is that many installations were upgrades, and not fresh installs. That also generates problems and differences.

Vista over-promised and under-delivered, but it is a good operating system.

Now, nobody cares about special features like voice recognition. They fire up their tabbed web browser and virtually ignore the environment altogether.

Yes, Microsoft has released many patches for Vista since its release. Also, nearly all software and driver downloads support Vista, while very few product pages listed Vista as a supported operating system earlier this year (and therefore hadn't been tested on Vista yet.)

But, after users install and configure their printers, file sharing, applications, and wallpaper, they don't even notice or stress about the differences between Vista and XP. I know I don't.

And why do you think Lenovo uses better hardware than Dell?
Yep, Bill Gates is kind of a megalomaniacal dickhead. Then again, how many billions of dollars have you committed to giving to fight disease in poor countries?
Nice article, Luc. Rails is awesome, but all of the hype drew lots of garbage programmers to the framework. Unfortunately some people claim to know Rails just because they can follow along with the "build a blog in 15 minutes" screencast.
jwz - PSA: Backups
1) Whatever you feel you're worth.

2) Whatever you feel you're worth.

The limiting factor in your compensation is usually your own reluctance to ask for "way too much".
Rules for business and life
Hah, I'd forgotten about likebetter. Just burned up about 20min. on it - the brain's gotten pretty good, hehe.
In a biography I read another story about Einstein and maths: he was allowed to skip the math classes because he was already so far ahead. He was already reading math books of university level at that time. Perhaps that story about Einstein being bad stems from elementary school, or it is only a myth.
Same here. I'm running Vista on my desktop now and I love it. Zero problems.
Need a little more information. Is this a startup without any programmers who is looking for an integrated team member? Or is there already a lot of technical people on staff and you're just looking to offload some of the work?

It makes a big difference.
Paul Graham is so good, he carries a needle to burst Dotcom bubbles as he's not affected by them.
... And he is also, at the same time, the smallest prime.
I think it's got potential, but you should work on your design and copy. It wasn't obvious to me at all why I should use it over instead of one of the many popular "social news" sites. For inspiration, take a look at what 37signals does with their products.

When you've got a startup that essentially revolves around one improvement on what vast numbers of competitors are already doing, you've got to make it blindingly obvious what I'm gaining by using your app.
Thanks!

WebInno looks great, I'll definitely check out the next one in November.

TechCocktail as well.
That's true for consultants; it doesn't hold if you're a full-time employee. For employee salaries, the limiting factor is still what the boss is willing to pay.

There's been a lot of noise about consultant hourly rates, lately. But make no mistake: consultants make more in large part because they have to cover their own costs (insurance, employment taxes, SSI, etc.) The true cost of a full-time employee is significantly higher than their salary.
In my very limited experience, it seems to hold true for full-time employees as well. You simply have to be willing to leave if they aren't willing to pay you what you want. You're a lot more valuable to them than they are to you.

All I meant was what the boss is willing to pay you is often higher than you might think.. And perhaps even higher than he might think :)
Cultural Hacking in Paris
As a side note, I'm curious: is anyone else here into 'forbidden' urban exploration? I was fascinated by this stuff during college.
I agree. But why would you post that using an iPhone? :)
I don't know if this counts as 'urban exploration', but a few friends and I used to scale the roofs at our university. Quite a few buildings are connected by walkways, so we would play manhunt or hide and seek around 2-3AM when no one was around. Great fun. Drinking was fun too (stupid of us considering the danger). We used to line the roofs with empty bottles and wait to see how long they stayed up there. They're all still there. :) I miss the roof.
No, but I'm betting that the CTRs will at least be higher than generic run-of-network remnant ads!

Disclosure: I'm working on an idea very similar to this.
On the contrary, having actually seen Steve in action I have come to believe he's the megalomaniac dickhead. Bill Gates has now gotten old and to the point where he isn't too concerned about tinkering with phones and computers and sees that as being secondary to solving real problems on this world.

What's really interesting though is how both men being college dropouts (although for Steve that's a bit generous) and here they are, old and experienced, explaining how the problems (for Steve being creativity and Bill diseases) isn't so much something that can be solved by the collective brain power in college. It requires people to just make an effort and try.
I'm sometimes able to see the bottles from classroom windows. Always makes me smile.
Proceed, if you would.
Didn't have access to a computer, of course :P
I'm running XP Pro on my desktop now, no problems either, so why should I upgrade? I use Vista on my laptop and it's slow and clunky, what good is a new version of an OS if it isn't significantly better than its predecessor?
I think users are right to worry. I worry. There's a kind of gravity that seems to pull down news aggregators. It's all too clear what happens; lightweight and/or politically charged stuff is easy to vote up, because it requires little thought.

I'm hoping weighted voting will solve this, but I don't take it for granted.
Would a buying a lottery ticket be an intersection of preparation and opportunity?
Novell Credits Microsoft with Tripling Its Sales
We used to break into this huge abandoned church near campus and climb up to the top of the roof, which was a big dome...such a view! Dangerous, though.
he just writes (paul graham) and yahoo will buy it
"Bill Gates has now gotten old and to the point where he isn't too concerned about tinkering with phones and computers and sees that as being secondary to solving real problems on this world."

This is bizarre in the extreme. The reason Bill Gates has the money to deal with "real world problems" is because his company created something valuable that increased people's productivity. Could he have started his foundation without creating a Microsoft?

In general, the road to solving what you call real world problems takes you straight through solving more mundane problems like getting iron out of the ground and figuring out a more efficient process for managing inventory.