skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they increased the cost of living, but they dramatically increased the quality of life ...
Similar setup for PHP: http://gravitonic.com/files/talks/php-quebec-2009/vim-for-ph...
I would pay 2 to 3 dollars a month for HN. Sometimes I I think I would pay up to 10 dollars per month.
http://www.last.fm/forum/21717/_/535934/7

a lot of screenshots and quotes, they seem to literally be deleting anything that might be in favour of last.fm

I know who I trust
Quality Control via The Blogosphere. That's one way of crowd-sourcing, eh? :-)
If you're in the NYC area next week, stop by Hackers & Founders: http://anyvite.com/events/home/vnq9pdylxo
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For (2), the RIAA could act upon data from last.fm without mentioning that they were using the data from last.fm

Examples: RIAA uses last.fm data to find IP addresses of people they suspect of filesharing, and then tries to find other evidence on those IP addresses breaking copyright etc. The filesharer gets busted based on the additional information and the last.fm data never gets mentioned.
I've always been told that before you marry someone you should discuss money.

Whether that be how much credit card debt and student loans they have outstanding, how much money they have saved up, or whether they have declared bankruptcy it is important to know the financial history of someone you are legally tied to.
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grr, formatting.

http://ed.cranford.googlepages.com/vimrc if you're really interested in seeing my vimrc. I'm not fond of plugins.
I think it could probably get away with charging $99.99 and still avoid losing most users
I like the part where he takes a screenshot of an email and suggests that this makes it more... proofy, I guess?
Varian is an expert on what may be the most successful business idea in history: AdWords...

And there I stopped reading.
Steven Frank of Panic said it best:

"Of course, it’s not all bad. As everyone knows, the iPhone app submission process works like this: Develop app / Submit app / App rejected / Blogs raise a stink / App approved. So, these guys are merely mired in step 4 and we can look forward to their app being approved within a week or two."
My favorite Vim customization for Python coding:

:nnoremap <C-P> :w !python<CR>

Also works for PHP

:nnoremap <C-P> :w !php<CR>

You put these in the respective ftplugin files.
"Varian is an expert on what may be the most successful business idea in history: AdWords"

How about selling oil?
Not to mention Amazon is the only one to ever see your financial data, and has a well-executed refund policy for fraud. Consumers are adequately protected on Amazon in a way eBay never achieved.
You underestimate how many of us are college students.

The functionality of Hacker News is very basic. It's the community that matters. Charing money would reduce the community, and somebody would quickly make an alternative site for people to jump to.
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Hacker News: attend the meetups in your area, talk on #startups, be sociable, Ask HN.
I read technical/science articles in the NYTimes mostly out of curiosity about what the larger public thinks about these things and how all the complex research and work in technical and scientific fields gets distilled down and summarized for the mass public. I find it interesting to know what people outside of our bubble think. But, yeah, if you are reading this article seeking new information about AI, then this is a waste of time.
hey! thanks for that link.

CollabFinder seems good. I just signed up. The message boards seem to be filled too. nice!

But I think someone should come up with a site for entrepreneurs/developers/designers like speed-dating. Maybe based on online chat... like just keep changing the person you are chatting with every 5 min. That's like giving a person 5 minutes to explain himself and understand the other and hit it off. :)
http://news.ycombinator.com ?
http://cofoundr.com
I shared a bank account with Abby before getting married. Having intertwined finances is actually good practive. It's also a dead simple way to split things down the middle. Get a join account, each put in $X/mo., and don't worry about having to split anything after that. Just pay with the joint account. If someone makes Y times more, just put in Y*$X, if you're into punishing success :)
This process could actually be formalized. Picture each app submission coming with "references", like on a resume: well-known beta testers that Apple will phone up or email and ask what they thought of the app.

It seems like this is how the reviewing effort should be balanced between the reviewer and the reviewee, actually: developers want to be "hired" (published), but Apple doesn't care much to "hire" (publish) a merely-mediocre developer. The developers should be tasked with providing Apple good reasons to "hire" them, or, more neutrally, good, hard customer data upon which to base their decisions.
Most of my actual learning took place during the summer. The busy work of school finally out of the way, I was free to tinker uninterrupted. I remember one golden summer just out of 5th grade with a C64, 300 baud modem and a stack of books on basic that changed the course of my life.
This one seems decent (aside from collabfinder): http://programmermeetdesigner.com/

Really, it's hard to make a commitment without doing some side projects with an individual or KNOWING them. There are a lot of ways to get scared.
He's not a cofounder. He makes 60k a year (or 36k, if he accepts a bad deal). I'm pretty sure both of us have been bona fide cofounders with employees, and that we both know the difference; we don't talk about our monthly paycheck, because we eat last.
There is no need to learn every "must learn" language out there that gets hyped. Pick up theories of programming language semantics and a clean, easy to parse syntax and experiment with every evaluation model your little heart desires.

The problem then becomes a matter of learning various types of "lambda calculi", or similar formalism, usually in 10 minutes, and you don't have to waste a life-time learning the indentation and semi-colon termination rules of yet another procedural language thrown out at you from the blogosphere.

sigh
Reduction in community size might actually be beneficial. It may be able then to reacquire a set of common interests, thus making stories and comments more relevant to everyone.

Of course using monetary barrier may not be the best way to achieve this. I don't know what would work better though.
On the flip side, this may have possibly been the most effective promotional strategy he could have hoped for.

Prior to all of the sound and fury being raised, what do you think the odds of me purchasing a $9.99 Book Reader for my iPhone was going to be?

But, I saw the video, read _tons_ of books on my iPhone, and am actually going to make my first $9.99 iPhone App Purchase.

And he has Apple to thank for my Purchase (or at least bringing the app to my attention.)
What I would pay for is for someone to read through stuff and only bring interesting stories to me. Depending on quality I would pay many hundreds of dollars per year for it.
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The sound has never bothered me at all.
For me Twitter would /never/ replace RSS. In-fact, just the idea of the little RSS icon in my Firefox "Awesome Bar" being replaced with a Twitter icon makes me cringe.

Sure, an online newspaper/blog/magazine can fit their headline and a shortened URL into 140 characters, but there would be no room for a blurb or image, as most newspapers include nowadays in their RSS feed.

One thing that RSS COULD learn from Twitter is to keep the summaries short, please! Some RSS feeds, in particular Smashing Magazine and Six Revisions, put the entire article into the RSS, which isn't cool especially when it's one of those bottomless "100 cool Photoshop brushes" types of articles.

Also, I've found that RSS is great for keeping up with the latest versions of open source software, for most code hosting places like SourceForge offer RSS updates when new program versions are submitted.

The idea of Twitter "killing" RSS seems completely unrealistic to me, especially since Twitter is a company and RSS is an open format... More Twitter hype.
Money works for some things. It worked for Metafilter. It would not work for Hacker News, where until recently the best thing it had going for it was how nobody knew about it. Its apathy towards gaining users gave it a real edge.

But hackers are often the penniless idealist sort, and you need that sort to complement the actual businesspeople. As I said: college students are valuable for this site. And for something as generic as a social news site, money isn't worth it unless there's something very specific gained for the purchase, and there are already pay-for social news sites taking our valuable cash.
The author also asked on Usenet and got some answers there:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/...
Exactly. The trick of real-time chat is the real-time part, i.e. getting the message as close to when the user sent it as possible. Storing chat history is not interesting, we all understand how to post a form to a DB table. The solution to this problem is related to persistent connections to the server or polling the server... Whether the chat is persisted is completely besides the point in the context of a real-time chat demo.

So the interesting part of this demo is not CouchDB but the refreshView() function, which uses the long-polling AJAX messaging technique - see http://cometdaily.com/2007/11/15/the-long-polling-technique/ or just google "Long polling"
I remember a time when webpagesthatsuck.com didn't suck. Now it's full of ads.
I wonder how many developers get fucked over by Apple without being able to generate the press that this and other apps in the same situation were able to.
There were a lot of signs that we were in a housing bubble. Why is it difficult to understand that subprime mortgages + leveraging & rampant house flipping created inflated, unsustainable prices?
CLIM has input editing and output recording. Look at the McCLIM shell which freely mixes repl-type input with graphic output.
Blogging is for the most part an echo chamber of regurgitated information. Period.
Bubbles are inevitable. The United States experienced a huge one less than ten years ago in the equity markets. The bubble isn't the crisis, leverage is the crisis. The real lesson from the events of the last two years is not that you have to keep bubbles from happening because you can't. The real lesson is that you have to protect yourself from the consequences of a bubble by avoiding excessive leverage. The last bubble wasn't so damaging to the financial system because there are strict regulatory limits placed on the amount of leverage that you can use in equity investing.
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I think charging a $1 registration fee would kill spam pretty effectively without too much downside.
FWIW: Keep the "cofounders" to a minimum, my choice is ONE. This is not for greed but for focus and unity in vision. Feel free to offer people all the perks you want, but try to keep the steering-wheel in as few hands as possible.

[Edit: I can understand why a VC might be interested in having multiple cofounders, and aside from the obvious diversity in opinion, VCs might also be interested in having a team that might be easier to break up at the right point; paying out the least interested cofounder early leaves more for them. If you're self-funded hire others.]
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for Wired, "history" == "since Google IPO".
I feel you can't force co-founders or look at it from a traditional standpoint. It just happens. No exact formula. Hacker News probably works best so far for this: whether it's a hacker or biz focused co-founder.
I think leverage made the difference - but at the same time, leverage ratios of European banks are significantly greater than that of US banks. There are others who have also said that it was the bubble in excess capital/credit which made the difference between this one and the tech / real estate bubbles of the past. This excess capital was caused by a number of factors that included the USD as a reserve currency (which is why those like Stiglitz now think that a move away from this is a good thing - though this is happening because of the massive borrowing by the current US Administration) and prolonged low interest rates by the Federal Reserve,
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I think the popularity of the app store shows that people do care about downloadable apps. It is a good thing that it takes the hassle out of the process. But this doesn't necessitate not allowing technologies such as flash to be installed. Or what if you wanted to use a different browser? With web apps latency will always be a limiting factor.
At the bottom of the post, there is a video of an excellent lecture at Google Talks.
Until very recently, I had no faculty for buying things online. It wasn't poverty, it was lack of a credit card. So I have a latent bias against blunt user fees without any trial first. That may be coloring my opinion here.
So we need the hackers (people who hack instead of talking about nosense such as evil operssion by $evil-du-jour or who shared data with riaa etc) and (aspiring) busines people. How do we build a filter to keep everyone else out?

I'm coming up short on ideas. Recommendation-only memebership?
In your plan, do you each have individual accounts in addition to the shared account?

We sort of go the opposite route, with individual accounts for discretionary spending, and a separate account for paying the fixed costs, including the allowances to discretionary spending. We found that spending from a shared account required excessive coordination. It was easier for us to separate the responsibilities and manage our own budgets, like departments in a corporation.
This article gives me the same feeling of when I watch movies with a horrible scientific plot (eg The Transformers). It's entertaining, but so off the mark.

I guess writing about the Multilayer Perceptron, Support/Relevance Vector Machines, and Markov Models isn't as sexy and probably wouldn't sell well...

Then again, I guess what they ARE writing doesn't sell well either...
wasn't that what newspapers were for?
And he surmises that the sense of hearing evolved from the need to protect teeth. Seems that nerve endings in teeth would have been more likely to evolve.
An IRC panel, perhaps? Private torrent sites handle things that way. Prospective members go on Mibbit and ask IRC for an invite, and the IRC people determine if the person seems like a cool person. No outright rejection, since anybody can send an invitation email, and the community retains some control of the proceedings.

Of course, that gives the IRC channel a lot of power. That might not be a good thing.
“When a competitor reaches the kind of dominance Google has, it’s almost impossible to catch them”

Eh, didn't they say that about Lycos, Altavista, and Yahoo? Google is pretty sweet, but internet folk are decently fickle. Show them a better product and they will love you forever...err...until something better comes along.
Interested parties can also look at how the Tamarin VM implements those bitwise opcodes natively.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/

Flash opcodes into Nanojit IR:

http://hg.mozilla.org/tamarin-central/raw-file/4eb9f961a087/...

Nanojit IR to native x86 translation tables?

http://hg.mozilla.org/tamarin-central/raw-file/4eb9f961a087/...
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Perhaps leverage limits on home mortgages are in order? It would cause prices to fall, but the coming inflation could balance things out.

There used to be a bit of a leverage limit as anyone paying less than 20% was required to buy PMI. Somehow taking out a 80% loan and a second loan allowed people to work around this, or in some cases the lender was paying the PMI. In any case, one would have thought that the negative effects to the lenders would have been mitigated by PMI, but it seems to not be playing a role in the unraveling...
CBS handed over USER DATA (including IP addresses) to the RIAA
No, newspapers were in business of printing that which appeals to majority of people (with some segementation - e.g. conservatives vs liberals or some other division in large enough groups to support the business). Conforming to majoirty's interests is counterproductive when my goal is to learn what's behind the next turn.
The problem with http://collabfinder.com/, http://programmermeetdesigner.com/, http://cofoundr.com, http://partnerup.com is that they seem like job boards. I'm not looking for an employee to execute my idea.

I want to discuss ideas with them and agree together on what we want to work on.

I'm looking for a co founder who is willing to share some of risk of founding a startup. They may contribute capital, programming skills, design skills, but it's really the startup mindset that's most important. That's what makes them different from an employee.
I really like your idea of speed dating idea applied to cofounders.
I'd hesitate at calling AdWords an auction. It is a non-transparent black box process, some aspects of which are auction-like. (And I like Google.)

If it were an auction, the highest bid would win every time. That is catastrophically untrue with AdWords -- quality score, account history, Google's desire for variety, and a few hundred types of secret sauce mean that lower bids routinely float over higher bids for the same keyword.

Contrary to what many people believe, Google also sets essentially a reserve price on their keywords -- if you manage to discover a credit card keyword that nobody has ever used before (highly unlikely, but roll with it), that is probably worth well in excess of a dollar per click to you. Will you get it for 5 cents? Nope. Google will establish the minimum somewhere close to neighboring keywords, and you'll end up paying over a buck to be the only add on the screen. (Real auctions have a word for when you're bidding against the house, but I'll try to be polite.)
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No, and I didn't mean to suggest that something else had.
More nerve endings in teeth mean it's harder to eat if you get decay or are eating something hard. Given the state of dental hygiene back in the day, it makes some sense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teoma - aka ask.com (now).
I think these sorts of sites are the best you're going to do if you nobody you already know fits the bill and hence you and your potential cofounder are starting out as strangers. The qualities that you're (rightly) looking for are much more easily selected for among people that you already know personally. Meatspace is your best bet, news.yc is a distant second, and partnerup and the like are third.
What do they look for? You can't look just for technical skills (consider slashdot). I suppose you have to look for other things such as absense of zealotry, absense of intention to conform/conflict and pursuit of that which works?

Yeah, that's it. That's what I'm looking for in an ideal community - relentless pursuit of that which works. This describes both the hackers and the business people.
The Techcrunch link was just the list of finalists but not the list of those who was actually accepted in the incubator program.

I'm curious who else made it. Do you have a link for that?
The book on the global brain is by Kelly, not Kurzweil.
I understand. I was teaching myself Ruby in the evenings, while spending my days at work involved in a large project written entirely (yes, entirely) in PL-SQL for Oracle 8
Reminds me of a certain relationship between two entities in our government.

President suggests, Congress rejects, President gives a speech to the public masses, Congress reluctantly accepts.
That's kind of what I'd figure. Nothing tech-focused: just people deciding whether they want a particular person as a constant presence on the web site.
It's been tried: google "kittenauth". The problem is that you need to collect the images from somewhere, so the keyspace is too small.
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Well, I reacted bit out of emotion there. Hence the shot at Greenday. I've been in a bad mood today, sorry. I didn't mod you down by the way, your comment doesn't deserve a down mod so I righted it.

Our ideals are different, and I disagree that the one you suggest, that Wal-Mart should be obligated to sell their customers the best product. It isn't exactly what Walmart does. I believe that Walmart is as consistent as a company its size can be expected to be. With movies it falls back on the expectation that a 17 year old can make their own decisions, and likewise with games. So, I don't mind dropping GTA during the scandal, and not Saints Row, which hadn't scandalous content; I just think they were dumb because the content required effort to get to. With the music you referenced I'm not sure that the other recording didn't just slip through the cracks.

I don't believe Walmart should be expected of anything more just because they have a lot of stores. I rather that the burden be placed on me to know better than to support their music, video game, or film sections. You can make the distinction between being scammed and ripped-off, but even if I accept that, I only see myself as ripped off if I am dumb enough to buy that censored album. I want the trouble to be on me.

You're right, I was being too harsh on Greenday. They didn't bring it up and I reacted emotionally to something that was barely there. When I read Greenday complaining like they did, even though they're rich, it sounds to me like some punks complaining that The Man is keeping them down, that society is keeping them constricted, and they just won't play along with the rules. Like angry young men. But, they could be a mini-Bono.

Well, I don't think we really disagree, so this can die.
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I just ported it to Java. It took me five minutes.

It's 40 lines of C++, most of which are of the `k *= m;` variety. You literally paste in the C++, fix the type declarations, and replace the point increment looping with standard indexed array iteration. Remember to replace `const` with `final` and you're done.

Using JNI for a high-speed hash function makes only slightly more sense than putting a SOAP interface on it.
I guess you are right. Most people I know arent startup types and are satisfied in their job. The startup types I know have their own startup or are working in a startup.

I'm trying to find startup types who are looking to start a startup.
Our app got accepted immediately, and was developed by someone who had never done an iPhone app before. It's pretty simple if your app isn't controversial and you are good at following directions.
"That's only true in cases you actually copied them. If somebody else handed you copied discs, then it is they who broke copyright, not you."

However, it follows logically that, if you are in possession of a copy of an album prior to its authorized release, someone in the chain has committed copyright infringement by producing and/or distributing copies of the album without authorization from the copyright holder. Which means you'll still get to take part in legal proceedings regardless of whether you're the defendant (you can be compelled to provide information about how you obtained the unauthorized copy).
The real problem is the definition of "controversial". How many people would've batted an eye at a plain-text version of the Kama Sutra if this was released when it was first submitted?
well, if you like to work on it, I would be glad to describe the idea to you.

P.S: I would really like to see something like this