skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or how about the complete lack of privacy?

Let's be real, the government has a thing for overstepping its right to follow you around. Why turn every action on the net into a key, value pair that clearly identifies you, just to stop a few teenagers from crapping on a writer of novels for young people and a rock star?
You should build that out! I've set up scrapers for my wife to help her stalk sweaters and shoes. she loves that, and i'm guessing there are a lot like her out there who'd use the service.
Another article to end anonymity while being utterly blind to the problems of oppression that dominate the majority of the world's population.

People of fame need to accept the trade-offs, particularly people who strive to become famous. So they may not be able to use Twitter like the rest of us. Although I think most people of reasonable fame are using it just fine.

We're talking about about Trent Reznor here, not everyone encourages and profits from typically very young people by writing consistently dark, sex-infused and anti-authoritarian lyrics. He's gonna have to take his lumps.

Plus, like the article says, there are places he can go, like Facebook, where he can deal with a more well identified group. This article is just pushing an agenda that's removed from the real nature of Trent Reznor's online experience and options.

I wish that people who write these calls for removing anonymity would get a more mature world-view.
You're right. Though we're getting rid of that registration requirement anyway.
Does this new rating system imply that you can sell the company once you hit Ruth's Chris profitable? :-)
The idea is to keep this crowd more or less narrowly focused. Economics/politics discussions tend to degrade quickly, and draw in a lot of people only marginally interested in the site's main focus. In other words, the set of people interested in Obama or the world economy can crowd out many times over the set of people interested in how Erlang is put together.
Or you can eat at Ruth's Chris every night. Either way!
That was a combination joke/my attempt to bring back the word wench.

What can I say? I like the word itself, we just need to find a new meaning or someone get rid of the implications of the word.
I'm a couchsurfing afficionado as well, but this site appeals to me, partially because it ISN'T free. I always feel too obliged to my hosts, and handing over a small some of money would assuage my guilt that I hadn't thanked them enough.
It has to be a registered trademark, not just a trademark.
Also note that the AMA is in favor of additional payments to doctors, and therefore want to see more McAllens.

(Both parents are docs, both are AMA members, both don't care/know about the organization's politics. sigh)
menfacingdivorce.com

menseekingdivorce.com

womenfacingdivorce.com

womenseekingdivorce.com

(We were going to call our cheesy 90's cover band "men facing divorce" I got a little register-happy.)
Google Native Client grows out of research phase
Think about stuff that bothers you and ways you could improve it.
Are You Being Watched?  That blimp may be watching your every move.
"It's not a minor thing if naked pictures of your daughter are permanently circulating around Internet porn sites."

Maybe, maybe not; we might be moving toward a world in which this is closer to the norm than the exception.

Even if it isn't, I would observe that your daughter is an autonomous person with a will of her own: that others should be punished for her own voluntary acts seems ignorant at best and extraordinarily cruel at worst.

"I am specifically not making a stand."

Maybe not, but your first sentence implies otherwise.
like http://parselets.org ?
beerstobone.com
The Well is fantastic
First figure out why you want to do a startup. Then figure out if a startup will actually meet the needs and expectations you have of it.

If it will; and you don't have an obvious business that you should be getting into, then do some research and look for problems that you are uniquely situated to solve better than anyone else.

Don't just pick an idea and run with it, be critical of your ideas, and of yourself. A startup is hard work with relatively small chance of reward; and if you don't have a sense of why you are doing it that is strong enough to carry you through you won't last the distance.

See this wiki page for inspiration as to what your idea should look like though http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Hairy_Audacious_Goal
Just checked...nope.
Europe gets Microsoft to strip IE from Windows, solves problem from 1995
Funny. However $wife can ++$startupfund if properly selected...

At the same time, if ($kids > 0), $startfund can be declared as a small int.
Techcrunch turns 4 (i thought it was much older)
You should find Steve Blank's post today helpful -- "Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime" ( http://steveblank.com/2009/06/11/am-i-founder-the-adventure-... )
From the tone of your question, it seems that you are attracted to the idea of a startup but haven't identified your passion yet. Toiling away in BigCo means that you should be able to build up considerable cash reserves for when you go full-time in your new venture. The prudent course of action goes something like :

1. Find your passion

2. Develop the business around your passion in your spare time

3. When you predict that you can be ramen profitable, and only then, quit your BigCo job

4. Work harder than ever before

As someone on HN commented, "mega-successful entrepreneurs are the statistical outliers". But that shouldn't stop you from having a go.
Woman who missed Flight 447 is killed in car crash
If nothing else, this should be interesting because transferring money is a way to transfer information: someone is making a very significant statement about the US. If the bonds are counterfeit, that statement is that the US is still a creditworthy country, whose debts are more trusted than anyone else's; if they're real, it's a statement that the US is not so trustworthy at all.

Of course, people make statements about this kind of thing all the time. Since few of them stake billions of dollars -- in cash or in reputation -- few of them could be considered as committed to the view.
Ask HN: Where to get a ML for my open-source project?
I'm trying to create a mailinglist for GitX, but I can't really find a good place to create one. There's Google Groups, but I don't like its interface, and it does weird things with fixed width input. It also shouldn't line-break stuff like patches that are >80 characters wide.

I'd like it to be as open as possible, so no need to register to post, and preferably an easy registration process, like just entering your email address, or subscribing by sending an email (like mailman does).

I don't really want to host this myself, so I'm looking for a hosted solution, which should be free. It'd be nice if it had some support for this workflow, but shouldn't get in our way. That means it just should stay a mailinglist, but optional stuff like (inline) patch syntax highlighting etc. would be nice. It would also be great to have a spamfilter working on the web interface.

Anyone know of something that we can use? Google Groups seems to be the big guy here, but I don't really like it. Things like SourceForge allow you to host a mailman-like mailinglist, but I'm looking for something of this century.
Hmm -- all right, I'm on it.
If you're really bored with a domain and don't want to squat it, you could turn one of your short domains into a URL shrinker, we just opened up hosting for that yesterday:

http://tinyarro.ws/info/custom/
Here's an example

1. write a sed script that strips out html-tags from arbitrary, well-formed HTML.

It's pretty hard to fail to notice that 5 people used the one-liner from http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/unix/sed.html, but can't explain what the hold-space is. Also hard to hide the fact that you used the hold space!
Ah, cool. Thanks so much for the "picture," I get it now.
That's an infinite loop.

Or, that's what it feels like to me, anyways. :/
Start out simply. What sorts of things are you doing in your day job? What technologies do you use in your day-to-day work? At a more conceptual level, what sorts of problems does your work attempt to solve for its customers? From there, ask yourself what other problems could be solved for the customers? Were any potentially profitable ones overlooked? What other existing technologies that you are not presently working with can be used to solve those same problems more cost effectively? Looking at the technology set, what other related problems can you solve that either no business is currently working on or that you could solve cheaper/better/faster, etc?

The intent behind this questioning is the important thing. In an evolutionary context, the work you're doing is like an organism that is adapted to some degree to its business niche. You may be able to strike out on your own by making a business 'better adapted' to the same economic niche through changes in the technology/skills used. Alternately, you may be able to find a niche that better supports the toolkit you presently have to work with. This is the simplest way to generate innovation but it will likely not produce results that are the best for your overall happiness.

For that, you'll have to determine what kind of niche can support you financially and which you personally are well suited for. From there, it's a matter of figuring out what adaptations in your personal skill and technology set are necessary to transition you over to that niche from your existing job.
Consulting has both pros and cons

Pro: Being exposed to many clients may help identify a need that you can develop into a product/service.

Con: Having clients is a distraction when you are trying to develop and launch a product/service.

In the given situation, hanging in at BigCo provides for steady income and the freedom to pursue ideas in free time.
I like thinking about how to solve those problems myself, but in this case, I have to write about them. So I thought it would be good to have an idea of the "official" version.

Edit: I suppose I could code something and then put it out for discussion somewhere, before presenting it officially.
No IE in Windows 7 E(urope)
More details here: http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/archos-announces-archos9-...
You don't (want to) know yourself
I have a had many domains over the years that I decided to just let go of by not renewing, and then watched someone take them and do nothing with it. It's aggravating because now I have the ability to make these sites and can't because someone has had the domain for 6 years and never once updated it!

Currently, the only domain I'm really sitting on is:

www.hackershabitat.com

Currently infested by 4789 bots, and hasn't been touched in over a year. I just don't know what to do with it.
genodate.com
Send in a DNA sample and we'll match you to a member most unlike yours.
Break out of the loop by exploring lots of areas of interest, sooner or later something will grab you and once you have found your passion, you will be unstoppable.
I'd be interested in lifetagg.com if you dont see a use for it anymore ...

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I think having no ideas is almost better than having tons of ideas. I would get on crunchbase, look at the hundreds of startups on there, and see if there are ones that you find interesting. More than likely that company failed, and you can improve on the idea it was going after.
Speculation from New Mogul: It's fake, possibly North Korean agents with Japanese ID. http://www.newmogul.com/item?id=11485

But, as said on Reddit, if these are fakes they are perfect copies of the originals and can only be disputed by finding the originals.
Respectfully, this doesn't make any sense to me at all. Being beholden to a BigCo gives you more opportunity to develop ideas than having control over a sales and delivery pipeline?

So, no. But I think you have a kernel of a valid caveat there, which is that as long as you're bringing money in that isn't coming from your product, you're going to be distracted. My proposed solution for that --- one that's working well for us --- is to get to a point where you can simply hire people to do one or the other. Hard to argue that a full-time product person is "distracted" because his paycheck is coming from a consulting practice instead of a VC fund.

This is also why I recommended starting a two-person company, and not simply becoming a freelancer. Freelancers do get sucked into "temporary W2" consulting hell.
Certainly is here in Australia.
Techcrunch turns 4
Start positioning yourself in a setting where you are more likely to gain ideas, find a great co-founder, and build up some capital and connections.

A startup is a long haul. The idea part is a minor portion, start working on the rest and the idea will come.
Japan Going to 10 Gigabit/s symmetrical internet access starting 2010
The rationality of political violence
Interesting? Certainly! Appropriate? In my opinion, no. That's the distinction I make... there's plenty of stuff that's fascinating, but probably shouldn't be here.

For instance, Cadel Evans managed to lose the lead at the Dauphine Libere to Valverde, who was down by something like two minutes, in today's race with a summit finish up Mt Ventoux. In comments after the race, Evans was talking about why no one else would pull, which seems to demonstrate some weakness on his part, perhaps more mental than physical. It seems vaguely reminiscent of Sastre riding away up a hill to take yellow at the Tour last year.

I find that very interesting, but it's certainly not appropriate for this site, and I don't think it would be even if I could get a group of like minded hacker-cyclists to vote it up.
It is being discussed http://docs.parrot.org/parrot/devel/html/docs/pdds/draft/pdd...
but not much has been documented yet: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Parrot_Virtual_Machine/HLL_Inte...
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The problem that most people (including myself) have is that they jump at the first halfway decent idea they come across.

Don't do that!

Sit down with a piece of blank piece of paper (metaphorically - you'll want to use a text editor) and start writing down ideas. Make them crazy. Zero negative feedback. Get the creative juices flowing.

What do people pay for?

Services. Information. Money saving. Social opportunities. Access to money.

So, let me get the list going for you with some bizzare / useless ideas, based off of one random concept - "sneakers".

* software to manage collections of high end sneakers
* software / service that lets you design and produce your own custom sneaker
* social networking for fans of sneakers
* sneakers that verbally encourage you to take the stairs
* sneakers with GPS that issue you different reminders at different locations ("you're in the lobby of the office, on the way out - don't forget to pick up chicken on the way home")

All idiot ideas. But maybe buried in there you come up with "software that lets small shoe stores manage their inventory", or something.

The point is this: until you've generated 100 ideas, you'd be foolish to leap at the first one.

...and the second point is this: once you've generated 100 ideas, you'll be more practiced and fluid, and you'll find it easier to generate the next 100.

Run the ideas past a few friends, and ask them each to pick 10 that are interesting.

Chances are, there'll be a point of overlap. And maybe it's even something that was already tugging at you.

It's an interesting exercise.

Go do it.
If it has a mirrorball, I might be interested :o)
Some of the most valuable feedback we can get is of the 'unfiltered' variety. Unfortunately, according to this article, when we watch videos of ourselves, we have a filter. The camera, it seems, is only an objective witness when we have someone who is objective (a neutral 3rd party) to critique the video with. In the Toastmasters club I was a member of, we allowed members to videotape their own speeches. Coupled with the detailed written evaluation from a single assigned evaluator and the anonymous mini evaluations from other members of the audience, I think it was an effective foil for our own self-biased critique.
iPhone/mobile app charting countryside pubs along interesting walking routes?
any suggestions on the best scripts to set something like this up? I have a similar "ornot" site that I would love to get off the ground but not sure which platform to choose
greatideasteve.com is available...
kcombinator.com
I found the case they were talking about on Wikipedia. This strikes me as bat-shit crazy:

"Hand wrote that he could consider only the percentage of the market in "virgin aluminum" for which Alcoa accounted. Alcoa had argued that it was in the position of having to compete with scrap. Even if the scrap was aluminum that Alcoa had manufactured in the first instance, it no longer controlled its marketing. But no, Hand defined the relevant market narrowly in accord with the prosecution's theory.

Alcoa said that if it was in fact deemed a monopoly, it acquired that position honestly, through outcompeting other companies through greater efficiencies. Hand applied a rule concerning practices that are illegal per se here, saying that it doesn’t matter how Alcoa became a monopoly, since its offense was simply to become one."
Just out of curiosity - why would you want to tag somebody's content?

You lack imagination! :P Tagging = annotation ;-) why wouldn't you want to be able to add some form of notes/annotations to some document??
Hey, I'm that James in Santa Monica.

Come to the next L.A. Web App Meetup or another meetup. http://web.meetup.com/34/ was the last one I went to.

You will get a chance to meet a lot of people who are looking for partners. I met 2-3 people there last time who are exactly in your shoes.

Also, a VC/Incubator called the Mail Room was one of the sponsors.

BTW, there were several disheartened announcements for rails developers... "We've got jobs for rails developers... if there are any left in l.a., southern california, southwestern u.s.... buhler?"
Agreed. But the statement from the father really really irks me:

“This country has laws in place to protect children. Those laws need to be enforced, and parents need to pursue those laws to the fullest extent to protect their children.”

The idea that destroying the rest of a young man's life because his daughter sent him a naked picture is just twisted. Being labeled as a sex offender is no small matter. It's much worse morally than going and beating the shit out of the kid (assuming no long-term damage). If convicted the kid's life is ruined.

Furthermore, if the law is going to protect his daughter (assuming some harm to her), then the proper application would be to prosecute his own daughter and send her to jail. Of course that's ridiculous too, but not as ridiculous as prosecuting the boy.

Now I understand the guy is upset and I don't totally blame him for acting irrationally, but the legal system needs to step in and set some precedents here.
Whenever you find your idea and whatever you end up doing: Do it with passion, Focus on value.
Why should the webpage server/provider have a monopoly on how you consume their content?

They should be using overlaid personal tags as well, it's just when the webpage is served, their tags would be sent over as well. Then you can choose if you want to use their tags or your own personal ones.
Setting Up Facebook Connect for Wordpress
Of course the counter-argument to this is that it can teach students more real-world methodology - ie don't re-invent the wheel - instead try to find alternative sources where the same problem has already been solved. I
n practice (my experience) it tends to be a lot more common and is practiced widely, resulting in students that "know" the answers but can't apply the theory to new problems - having never learned how to discover the wheel. Which tends to emphasise the devaluing of a university education even more.
I believe the exams / term papers where the lecturer came up with a new set of problems were more successful in weeding out the "learn by memorizing" over the "learn by understanding", but that is just anecdotal experience.
Anyone got any hard data to back this up???
I tried zsh on cygwin and I found the behavior to be odd when resizing the terminal window (using a number of different terminal interfaces, rxvt, putty, etc). The screen wouldn't redraw as one might expect. Is this common to all zsh or is it just a cygwin issue?
Just for the fun of it, why exactly is this not a minor issue? The pictures are (i presume) obviously amateurish, and from what I gather more erotic then actual porn. So in what way would having that videoclip on youporn or in a torrent affect her in a major way?
stop dreaming about killer ideas.
start looking for problems.
If you find a problem that's big enough and people are willing to pay for a solution, you can start bootstrapping.

Joining a startup should be a good experience for you. You'd find out whether you'd really enjoy startup life or not.
How long have you been holding on to that first one?
Very awesome idea. It's super cool seeing so many folks trading, selling, and even giving away domains to other hackers looking to start a project.

Myself, I've only ever owned domains for intended projects and when it became clear that a project wasn't getting developed ever, I'd simply let the domain die for someone else to hopefully get it and make a project out of it.
Mobile handsets teardown wiki
The benefits are clear, but the web browsers will have to adapt to them. Also, the implementation is fucking awful as I mentioned in other comments :/
Let me know if you whip up something - it's a nice idea you've put forward
I find that stackoverflow.com generally has very good answers about stuff like best practices.
exactly. just like 23date. (23andme, etc)
Does upvoting something here after it has been [dead]'ed contribute to its potential resurrection? I think this is pretty interesting, even if it has already been posted on reddit.
Just wanted to say I love GitX.
I discussed the need for a tagging standard over 2 years ago in a blog post - check out the comments on the article, they have a lot of insight to offer.

http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/the-need-for-creating-tag-stan...

There are a couple of comments by startups dedicated to managing/organizing tags across different sites with some of the various ideas they've used to tackle this issue.
The Taming of Comment Trolls
Ok, I read the article and perhaps this may come across as naive but isn't that what Flash more or less is already? Aside from the fact that Flash is designed more visual animations, it certainly does have an application-style framework (Flex)... one has to wonder what is the Goog bringing here that's different/better?
RDF or RDFa plus any of the myriad schemas that are available. You would use Dublin Core for the first, and you could reference the IMDB URI space for the second.

Commontag does not appear to do these things.
Work on Ideas! Look out for problems that have to be solved. For example "Why is tea sold in smaller packages than coffee? Although you need more tea per cup."
I don't think that ideas pop out of nowher suddenly.
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