skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Total mobile wireless internet is here, every iPhone has it. Bandwidth usage is a concern though. Some kind of hybrid caching/streaming might be effective. Store every 2nd or 4th byte of your audio files and then stream the rest. That might make it more feasible. /me resists urge to hack up a proof of concept.
Battery life is as much of an issue as bandwidth.

In the same way that the iPod classic caches music into RAM from the hard drive, you could cache music from IP into RAM. This would allow the wireless hardware to only be active when you load a new song or playlist.
I assume 24/7 Wi-fi iTunes/anywhere.fm streaming would get you kicked off of an unlimited data plan. We need to know exactly how much bandwidth you are really allowed before the sweet spot for hybrid caching/streaming system can be determined
See also http://hop.inria.fr/ (especially the "Demo" page)

It's french, too and it's developed by Scheme hackers at INRIA.
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Success is defined by the goals you set for your startup. Some people may create a startup in hopes to match their current salary at their "real job", so that they can quit. Once that goal is attained they consider their venture a success. Others have higher, loftier goals (go IPO) and if they don't achieve that goal then they feel that were unsuccessful and thus continue creating/joining other startups and ventures until that goal is reached. One man's failure is another man's success.
http://www.pluginaweek.org too
I felt this was in fun as well. It applies to me, I laughed, I upvoted. Now I'll close ycom and go back to my project :)
.... "The leadership dictates sometimes in great detail how members should think, act, and feel?"

Pay attention! Simon says you should perceive this post as "So Dumb".

>> Cult members tend to be passive people.

By definition, cult members of rapidly growing cults can't possibly be that passive or else their cults wouldn't be rapidly growing. And we all know the bits about Jehova's Witnesses showing up at your doorstep.

>> Who need someone to tell them what to do.

Would this qualify: paulgraham.com/articles, ie, "How Not to Die", "The Equity Equation", "The Hacker's Guide to Investors", "Why to Not Not Start a Startup", "The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups", "A Student's Guide to Startups", "How to Present to Investors", "Copy What You Like", "The Hardest Lessons for Startups", "How to Do What You Love", "How to Fund a Startup", "Ideas for Startups", "Writing, Briefly", "What You'll Wish You'd Known", "How To Make Wealth" ...

>> But if you funded startups like that, they'd all go off and immediately fail.

Not true! They'd all be encouraged to read "How Not To Die" and keep plugging away!
Comments on the site have good points - though a neat design, the house really wouldn't work in say, Boston, or even WashDC.
101 dumbest moments in business
Like the book "20 years of high tech marketing disasters" says, it's often not about who gets it right, but about who avoids screwing up more than the other guys.
All ships cross the Atlantic on one "load" of diesel fuel - they can't exactly stop to get more diesel 300 miles out now, can they?
Best Way To Get Your Company To Fly You Around The World For Vacation.

1) Become a "journalist" for Business 2.0
Roundup of startups from Red Herring Conference in Canada
I don't know who "Stan" is but the fact that you assume anybody who makes a post you don't agree with must be this "Stan" person says a lot more about you and your relationship with Stan than it does about me or this post. You Sir, are the one with issues. You're just in denial, which results in cognitive dissonance which you try to resolve by displacing your own condition and projecting it on to me. So your assertion that I have issues is really an admission of your own condition. Think about it. And if you disagree with me, well that's just further proof of how far in denial you are about your own issues. Let "Stan" go my friend ... just let him go.
Whatever happened to the Kiko fellows? Last I heard they had the wackiest idea in the game.
Actually, I doubt they'll be hiring any journalists any time soon. They're going under:

http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/M/MAGAZINE_CLOSURE?SIT...

Too bad, since I think they're one of the best business-tech magazines on the market. I just barely renewed my subscription, too. Bummer.
Tell me, does it get lonely all the way up there on your pedestal? Why do you assume I got "turned down" by YC? Narcissistic much? Hmmm?
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No, people care, interest is growing. There's even an /O'Reilly/ book, 'Programming Collective Intelligence'. If the growth rate hasn't been enough to catch your un-aided attention, well I don't have data, but my sense is that the technical culture knows it's the /here/ thing and the way things are going to be. (A popular-level book, 'Super Crunchers' just came out too, btw.) If it means anything, be glad you're that little bit ahead of the curve; but the curve is there.

I share your frustration that Machine Learning isn't part of the /core curriculum/ of every CS program, but I bet it'll become more widely available at least. The job market for ML professors is no doubt going to be very, very good shortly.
It's often hard to tell trolls from nuts. But in this case the signs point to nut: a large number of really long posts; lots of exclamation points; tinfoil hat stuff:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=52085
Why does every rss application suck? Solve it with your startup.
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But most cults start out benevolent. When was the last time you heard of a cult that openly proclaimed mass destruction, chaos and anarchy as part of their recruiting pitch?
> they made no guarantee that the price wasn't going to drop

Interestingly, they do guarantee that if the price drops within 14 days of you buying the product then you can pay the lower price.

http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/salespolicies.html#...

As the return period is 14 days too, this is probably to stop people returning the product just to get a new one at the lower price.
Hah, I hadn't realised it was the same guys, good for them.
They're going out of business because they waste their budget flying people around the world drinking coffee, checking email, and getting haircuts.
Easy Glider electric "chariot" for city use
CopFind - collaborative project to log speed traps
The freakiest things being sold on eBay
>> "us-vs.-them" mentality where "them" consists of people who "just don't get it"

WE'RE illuminated. All those who disagree are just profane/nuts/trolls/useless eaters, etc.

Yes, definately tin-foil hat stuff:

http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2006/09/research3.html

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/12/0738233

http://discovermagazine.com/2007/feb/toxoplasma-gondii-cultu...

>> But in this case the signs point to nut: a large number of really long posts ...

Takes one to know one, Mr. "http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html"

And of course, we all know that the human brain is definately NOT an electric system and is therefore immune to attempts to manipulate resonance, which is why TV for example does NOT induce narcotic trance states which makes the mind more susceptible to advertising and therefore leads us to conclude that advertising on TV definately does NOT work and so major companies are just wasting billions of dollars.

I am such a nut.

And of course my sometimes long posts have more to do with my being a nut than the simple fact that I may just not care to take the time to edit my thoughts. That must be it.
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Beyond "stretching your mind", I need a compelling reason to learn Haskell. I think that that marketing aspect of programming languages is something lots of academics tend to forget about. Erlang, for instance, is far more interesting because it clearly does a couple of things much better than the competition. And indeed, I have been, and currently am paid to work on Erlang code.

It's not just "can you do real stuff with it?". Of course you can. The real question is what exactly does it do that is so much better than other languages that there is a reason to learn a whole new language just to get that thing.
What a weird comment on that site. How is an electric vehicle not green? Nuclear and hydro-power are green and clean aren't they?
Of course. Using the 'standard' firmware on anything is just downright boring. Most firmware uses like 50% of the hardwares capabilities.
Why do I have to register to use?
Argh, another asshole link-jacking :(
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How do you (or whoever runs this site) deal with constantly changing locations? How do you deal with time component?
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Hey, you just can't learn some of this stuff:

"Service is always included and tipping can be taken as an insult, as if the recipient helped with the expectation of payment." (notes from the article, on culture in Helsinki, Finland)

without knowing of someone with or having, on your own, some real-world "in the field" experience. Something tells me it wouldn't be the best idea to accidentally or otherwise insult Finnish people. :)
Adobe is developing software to let home users create movie-quality 3-D graphics
Startups are getting pretty marginal.
>> Total mobile wireless internet is here, every iPhone has it.

Oh ok, so this is a US-only service we are talking about?

Which do you think is hypothetically feasible?

25% of the population with a WiFi device and only 50% of them consider using this content delivery mode

-OR-

80% of the population with Internet access and only 50% of them consider using this content delivery mode
It took me a while to realize he really did get "dessert" wrong. He's talking about the meal.

I kind of agree with the message, though. Kind of. I'm not sure if self-discipline is as genetic as intelligence, but I'm sure it can be exercised.
Greasemonkey script to force news.yc links and discussions to open in new tab/window
Patent overhaul approved in House
Bionic arm powered by rockets
Unit Testing 101 (great tutorial, requires Firefox/Camino)
He doesn't learn from mistakes.
"My Own Business" - Free Online Course
How to start a business by bringing others together?
Instead of a "CONFIDENTIAL AND SUPER FUCKING SECRET" preview why not release and start getting users? I see a lot of very rich functionality (a good thing), but are they sure users really want/need all of that at this point?

It looks good already guys, you should let everyone else start using it
Ultraconserved Elements in the Genome: Are They Indispensable?
Good idea, Bad technology, Bad implementation. For this to add value it must me something totaly mobile. It has to be a small GPS app that user can have on their phone, that detects their proximity to one of these spot and send them a text message or gives them a call.
In some countries (Germany for example), students have been herded into career tracks at a fairly early age. So, some 13 year old may be sent on a path towards becoming an auto mechanic, while another is guided off to become a surgeon or some other professional. I'm sure there are ways to break out of your track, but there is a big formalized system working against you.

In the US, someone can spend all of high school in auto shop, and still have a chance of changing directions and ending up with a successful career at 33 that some bureaucrat never would never have predicted 20 years earlier. If may take him longer than the kid whose parents and teachers were guiding them towards medicine or business from age 13, but the doors are open.

I think this is a strength of the US, both economically, and with respect to various liberal, democratic, egalitarian ideals. It isn't perfect though. There are certainly people would be happier and better off if they started learning a trade at an earlier age.
Yeah, I almost tried it but didn't. I wonder why I feel such a barrier to registration? It just takes 5 seconds, but it feels like there's some other cost.
All humans have a right to have their 5 seconds (sorry, minutes) of fame.

*) If I meant the author or the subject, is left as an exercise to the reader.
Or what if you could tell it routes you normally take and at what times, and it will email or text message you if there is cop activity. Maybe you could just subscribe to a road or a location?
This is spam. Take a look at where their 404 pages redirect:
http://copfind.com/asdf

goes to:

http://myspacegateway.com/

I wouldn't register... seems really sketchy.
Even better: your phone will check for cops on your way, using GPS. When you locate a cop, you can report him in real time, and someone driving 200m behind you, using the same site, will get an alert.
Gosh, they really should hire a designer for their home page.
I hate the over-use of Flash. I couldn't upload images because of it.
My 2 cents:

"it's hard to be impressed by yet another strong AI like me" - I think the point is that it won't be like you but orders of magnitude smarter.

"As I type this, billions of bacteria are actively trying to digest me. It's no big deal" - there are several bacterium that are very successful at digesting people which are a big deal and worth worrying about.
I wouldn't mind. It's the mentality of YCombinator's crowd (Apple, hate MS, hate features bloat, short-attention span) and I'm ready to be downmodded. Outside YCombinator's, tons of people would agree with me (and I've met some of them personally that share the same mentality).

Some people just need to think (or look, or hear) outside the box perhaps?
Well...if I were match.com's CEO I would probably buy you guys. Strip out 90% of the features/flash. Make you build something that integs with current stuff while you vest.

What you've done shows major framework/flex talent, but tone down the features. Just my uneducated .02c.
Damn, I have to get off my ass and launch http://www.rescuetime.com so that people like this guy can see exactly how much this discipline gets him... (for me, having actual data to play with on this front has been huge)
"You exercise every day? That must take a lot of self-discipline!"

"You never strike your children? That must take a lot of self-discipline!"

It becomes right when you get past "self-discipline" and get to "that's just what I do".
Alright, it's solidly nut then.
Ahem:

Jaron Lanier Jaron Lanier Jaron Lanier Jaron Lanier Jaron Lanier Jaron Lanier
Pure functional programming (referential transparency everywhere) plus some bleeding edge support for abstraction starting with type classes and monads. Those are the features.
Hmm. Where did the post go...?
Thats amazing. Even as I read this, I cant help but mention

http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/187085.pdf

for anyone looking for a read.
I've filed a bug a couple of days ago that i can't upload images on Debian even with Flash.
"Perl flattens lists by default."

Perl has several data types. You can get all the unflattened goodness you want by passing array refs. We do it all the time in our code. It's merely syntax.

"All subroutine parameters are passed via @_, resulting in an imperative-style parsing of variables at the beginning of every sub."

Likewise, pass an array ref, and you don't fiddle with parsing @_. TMTOWTDI.

(Note that I'm not suggesting passing array refs for everyone or all subroutines...it's just a somewhat lispy way of thinking. In OO development, a more "imperative-style" is appropriate, and we use that too.)

"A perl program is a file of perl statements, a lisp program is a lisp list of expressions."

OK. Wonderful. Nonetheless, you have first-class functions in Perl. Currying is possible (and not terribly ugly) in Perl. Closures exist in Perl.

Macros do not, yet, exist in Perl 5. But they exist in Perl 6. That's the only significant gap I'm aware of (where "significant" means, "a concept that cannot be replicated in the language without huge, long-winded, hacks"). Syntax is arbitrary, and smart people can disagree on what good syntax looks like. Power is a bit more tangible, and on the power continuum Perl holds up just fine.

"Perl has contexts."

So? Merely syntax.

"Also, Lisp reserves almost no characters. I can use square-bracket as a symbol name if I want."

Again, so?

I'm talking about power, you're talking about implementation and syntax preferences. You may feel that the beauty of Lisp is in the details, and that's wonderful. I think Lisp is nifty, too. But, there is also beauty in speed of development, and nothing is faster to develop than already written code. Perl has the largest collection of free pre-written functionality of any modern language in CPAN. It also happens that for my problem domain (system administration automation) Perl is effectively already a nearly ideal DSL.

For me, built-in grep and map and file tests and operations and regular expressions and taint mode and efficient hash tables and native Unicode and cheap enough concurrency and lots and lots of libraries are all killer features and Perl has all of them. Sure, Lisp has a better map, by some definition of better, and I can pull in a regex library and probably a POSIX file library. Erlang has better concurrency by all definitions. Other languages are strong in other areas. But nothing has them all...except Perl.

The nice thing is that we can both use our favorite languages for anything we want. I will never come over to your house and force you to write (or read!) Perl code. I promise.

I do think folks are missing out on some interesting ideas by closing their eyes and going "neener neener neener neener" with fingers in their ears every time someone mentions Perl, but that's no business of mine.
Pre-fab is the future. It's turning a luxury into a commodity: good design.

It'll also make it easier to automate the construction process.

I was talking to an apartment developer at Ignite Boston who said that the Chinese are about the trounce all construction companies in the US because they actually have process-ized and optimized their methods. This is what allows them to build manufacturing cities so quickly.

As the industry gets globalized, US companies will experience what the "big 3" automakers felt with the Japanese.

The winner in a post-processized construction market will be the good designers.
Multi-core's most immediate application won't be to algorithmic parallelization, which is a ball-breaker of a problem even w/o awkward theoretical results. It will be to multitasking, VMs, etc. - scenarios where the utility of extra cores is pretty easy to see.

Those scenarios make the most immediate sense inside the data center. I think part of the push towards SaaS and web-based applications will come from the fact that Moore's law will begin to apply disproportionately to hardware used to serve those solutions. Soon, the same CPU might be able to run either one desktop or 50 virtual servers, making servers cheap relative to desktops.
The last diamond (good story) makes it special.
Wanted: YC co-founder for Erlang startup
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How about a Linux version?
86 the flash and sound so bored people at work can use it.
PG cites Ron Paul proliferation on Reddit as "evidence of design flaw in version 1 of social news"
Does this pass the "do no evil", or the "improve users' lives" tests? Unknown speed traps are arguably good for us.
If anyone needs an invite, lemme know.
So the obvious question becomes: How does version 2 of social news prevent this? How does/will news.yc deal with it?

For the sake of argument (though it may be true anyways), what if we assume the Ron Paul voting is totally organic? What if over time a critical mass of existing reddit community members decided it was important to knee-jerk upvote any Ron Paul story without reading each story? So you have a block of legitimate users using the site for something other than the expressed goal of the site (social news), presumably to the detriment of the rest of the user base.
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Those are 'features' for computer scientists at universities. 'Features' for working programmers are what those things might enable you to do.
4) This is why you raise capital through equity rather than debt. The investors know there is risk, and that they can lose everything if the venture fails. If they do fail, the Xobni's founders images may be tainted, but they will not be screwed.

And these are big name investors who are SMART people. Dont think they take their investments lightly. I can guarantee you they thought about it carefully and deemed that there is potential with this company (probably more than what people on the outside see right now).
It's highly task dependent, making the "theory" pretty useless, no?

Hell, we could even say it's multi-task dependent as any real, deployed system won't be trying to complete a single task.
What is needed is a simple framework to clean inter-process and inter-core communication and data sharing. It must be non-blocking, fast, and high level, e.g. use a /networkName/machineName/coreName/processName path to make a connection.

People talk about the lag in software to be designed for multi-core. They're right, but that is an ambiguous statement.

I'd love to have this framework in a high-level language where the code is the configuration, e.g. python modules can be edited live to make/break/configure connections and streams. To optimize, move around the processes to different cores and eventually drill down to implement what was in python in a low-level language.

I'm pretty sure lots of companies have seen this coming for some time, and have worked on such a tool. Either way, it would make a great startup.
I'm not convinced. What if the upvoting really is representative of a large number of the users?

I don't upvote that often on reddit, but probably half of the time (at most once per day) it is for a Ron Paul link (and it's always something that I read and liked).

RP may be marginal at the national level, but that doesn't imply that he's marginal at all other levels as well. And of course, "...great new things often come from the margins, and yet the people who discover them are looked down on by everyone, including themselves.
...
But the best thing of all is when people call what you're doing inappropriate. I've been hearing this word all my life and I only recently realized that it is, in fact, the sound of the homing beacon. "Inappropriate" is the null criticism. It's merely the adjective form of "I don't like it." So that, I think, should be the highest goal for the marginal. Be inappropriate. When you hear people saying that, you're golden. And they, incidentally, are busted."
It's hard to believe YouTube was ever a success.
That said, news sites probably need some kind of clustering in order to ensure that there is a diversity of topics on the front page. Google news and Techmeme both do something like this, of course. There's no reason reddit couldn't.
We were moving servers. Sorry, should be working now.
John von Neumann invented flowcharts, and they were in a sense the first real high level language. Of course, the "compiler" in this relationship was the human, who would translate a flowchart into alterations in relay switches (or other bare metal hackery)...which themselves don't have a step-by-step logical quality.

Flowcharts were 100 percent obsolete when Fortran and COBOL came into use. However, some managers still insist on the presence of them in design documentation. This is, perhaps, the single greatest indicator of incompetence available to us.
Nice logo, and I like the idea of open-sourcing the installation so that some of the work can be done for you by interested parties.