skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard to think of a worse use of everyone's time than a constant stream of pitches.
Hopefully this is a trend that continues in favor of students. Currently paying $100+ for a single textbook that has such
a short lifespan (for the original owner, and for others due to the planned obsolence model by textbook publishers) puts quite dent in the wallet for "starving" students.

Renting for a semester makes much more sense.
Almost all good email clients are able to manage mailing lists nicely, even gmail have a mailing list filter which can be set to make emails from the list go directly under a folder, skipping your inbox. So with a sane email client, a mailing list doesn't necessarily get in the way, you can check it once a day.
Good post, misleading headline. You have to pay someone to do all the things described in that post unless you want to invest a substantial amount of time to learn the trade yourself.

Btw. Neil Patel is one of the most well known search and social marketers.
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A mailing list is different from a chat room in that emails are typically longer, insightful and doesn't need instant response chat room needs.
purely from the charity side:

what if your idea of good isn't the same as mine? maybe i don't want my money going to xyz? and would you be sending 100% of the donation through? If I want to do good, I'll do what I already do, donate directly to the charities of my choice.
there ought to be a place to save little gems like this. Thank you for that!
What are your requirements? 2 seats or more? Need to move stuff? How much stuff?
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identi.ca.
Call me a masochist, but I find the "Comment on our startup" posts the most inspirational and useful on this site.
I demand an SUV that gets 100MPG, but I'm not going to stop using cars in the meantime; if you support Free software, you don't have to be Stallman; etc. Being at either extreme, a pure idealist or pragmatist, is cutting off your nose to spite your face. Take the middle road and get the best of both roads.
Sounds like a good profit scheme - invest money so companies create apps so people have a use for 3G so people pay for 3G.
I think that maybe this could have some traction and get AT&T more in line. Though I don't know since the suit seems to be based on some fallacies. AT&T does support MMS for phones that are not the iPhone. Credible speculation seems to be that AT&T flexed their muscles with Apple (and anyone who saw the WWDC 2009 keynote can attest annoyingly so to Apple) to delay MMS on the iPhone until they upgraded their towers more to handle the load. My friends and I would send each other MMS messages from our Sony Ericsson & Nokia phones years ago. I was on T-Mobile and they were on AT&T.
The point made near the end of the article is really interesting. Is it better to go for grants/prizes or to try to raise traditional funding? Both are risky activities, both take time, but one of them costs you equity and the other one doesn't.

PS: Oh, and for what it's worth, we (woobius) are competing in this... if you want to help you can vote for us at http://www.vodafonemobileclicks.com/vote :-) Cheers! The mobile app we're building is described at http://woobius.com/scribbles/posts/0021-woobius-eye-beta.htm...
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I think mailing lists are great and have a purpose, I'm subscribed to several. Btw, mail clients are a matter of preference, being able to handle mailing lists does not qualify a client as 'good', and not being able to do so does not qualify one as 'bad'.

I just can't see the case for essentially moving HN off-web to a mailing list.

If there was a sufficiently narrowly scoped mailing list I might do it (say, one for announcements for startups looking for seed funding, or a mailing list for 'it flies' announcements for startups that make a certain benchmark, say profitability, or a successful exit).

Generalized stuff not so much.
The halting theorem, which this result relies on, relies on the infinte length of the tape in the turing machine.
People just don't grok cryptography. Once you decrypt the thing (to READ it) it can be copied, decrypted. Game over.
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You mean this?

http://athlon64.fsij.org/~mikio/wikipedia/cms/passwd.txt

Full contents in case they fix this:
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I think this is a great move, and I know and can happily vouch for the people behind it. Neil has been a big fan of Y-Combinator and that is clearly part of the inspiration.

As for their motives, I see part of it is about 'real-world karma', and part of it is that it's really not a huge cost to them with a range of benefits.

Providing (presumably spare) office space and canteen meals (albeit in their nice company restaurant) to a small team for 10 weeks isn't going to be a huge cost to a company that employs 160 people.

If the startups they have fail, but they have smart people, then it's potentially cheap recruitment for them (it costs about US$10k on average to recruit an average software developer in Cambridge via agencies). If the companies succeed, at least to the point of getting a promising product, then presumably it provides a range of commercial opportunities.

I think this is a great move, and something I hope other companies might follow. Red Gate are in the fortunate position of being profitable and not having external shareholders to worry about, which has perhaps made this easier for them to do. But if they can demonstrate the model can work, then it will make it easier for others to copy.
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Well then let them follow the trajectory that SMS has - since in many ways twitter is just SMS over HTTP. Let twitter be coerced into interoperability like the telcos have ( http://bit.ly/jft6w ). Surely the necessary technical bits could be plucked from XMPP.
If we get 40 more members, we'll be viable. Considering that we managed to get 35 members in the last month, I think it's possible to triple that number given that there's more entrepreneurs here than anywhere else. Visit any coffee shop in silicon valley and you'll see why.
The graph, as you say, is only for one aspect (retweets). It would be neat if a tool can figure out the context and build multiple social graphs.
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I know (though I have found chatterous to be somewhere between the 2 extremes) but it seemed to suitable for what the OP was suggesting.
I've always considered twitter to be nothing more than an indexed comment.
Yeah, this guy seems to have a standing policy of just plain not paying. He was at $18k outstanding for a while before I talked at least a little sense into him. The developer before me is still owed about $8k.

I suspect I'll never see the balance, but it would be nice to inflict $2000 worth of pain.
Can't go wrong with japanese cars. Very reliable, low maintenance, and hold their value really well. Check out Toyota Camry and Honda Accord.
Apple and AT&T sued for false advertising, lack of MMS
See here:

Hacker Spaces (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace) all over the world:

http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces
I sympathize with you.

For that kind of money I'd get a lawyer buddy to write a threatening letter and simply sue the bastard for breach of contract.

Bad on you though for letting it get that far.

You have to split your bills into smaller portions so that you get some idea of the credit worthiness of your customers before it starts to hurt real bad.

The 'cousin Vinnie' approach is attractive but it will only get you into trouble with the law, I would definitely advise against it.

Simply get the law involved and make sure it sticks.

And get the developer before you on the docket as well.
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I once owned a computer with similar specifications... 11 years ago. It was a piece of garbage too.
And? That doesn't change the result. Whether you can implement the turing machine or not is irrelevant, it's simply that you are able to frame the problem as "does this halt?", which is unanswerable in the general case.

"Running out of storage" doesn't really count as "termination", especially because we can't reasonably answer the question "will this run out of storage?" in the general case either.
stand up and take your laptop to come to Hacker Camps/Conf, you'll meet 70-90's hackers there:

* http://har2009.org

* http://events.ccc.de/congress/

* ...
The same issues, just smaller.
Great idea! This is just a random thought, but I wonder if there's some way you could incorporate the google sets API that was posted recently to get 'related' articles from the search terms if you don't get any results initially.
We clearly need a open microblogging standard where Twitter updates would not be controlled solely by Twitter itself.
a really good idea i've read on HN was that:

If you are 3 cofounders, take 10% each and divide the other 70% according to each participants activity over the next 3 or 5 years.

The distribution system has to be defined before, but in general this sounds like a great way to split up and staying away from a lot of troubles and possible conflict points between the founders.
a/v pfft, that was a signal generator and an oscilloscope when I was at school!
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What if it takes 2 or 3 places to get all the information? Or 300 places that aren't the mainstream media? My problem with the current notability theory is that it isn't flexible enough for what should. For now, deletionists versus inclusionists isn't going to end, but the current notability policy could explicitly allow for the inclusion of articles with no mainstream media sources.

For example, I think every professor that has ever had an article published in Nature should have their own Wikipedia page. More professors than just that, but I don't think there is any argument against a scientist that is extremely respected in his field, even if no one in the mainstream media has decided he is worth mentioning left.

It is bad to depend on the mainstream media for what is notable because Wikipedia is already beyond that. I used the SFGate to establish notability on an article. Techcrunch has a better Alexa rank than the SF Gate, but Techcrunch doesn't count for some reason.
When all you had was the machine and some electricity you had to learn. Typing listings made me good at debugging.
Basic with inline assembler, the sheer joy.

javascript, keep it
I would subscribe to a list with "Ask HN" type of discussions.
Well, you can't compare the OLPC with this here. The only thing they have in common is the projected price.

The OLPC has been built years ago and almost matched the 100$ price.

Also the OLPC XO is high tech that will work even in sub-Saharan Africa while this thing here will break before reaching Africa.

The OLPC did not work out as well as planned because governments did not buy enough of them so it's rather a mistake to work with governments on such a project.
Absolutely, I believe that is an important part of living forever. My immortal soul will get bored sometimes and have part of himself reincarnated.

Interesting knowledge will continue to exist into the future for a while. If no one has built a particle accelerator the size of a planet yet by the time I get my PhD in Physics, I'll build one for my dissertation. Then once we find the second and fourth dimensions, we may discover the actual secrets of the universe. Or AI will do it for us.

Ultimately I think the thing to do will be to colonize the universe for humanity. To try and reach the next type on the Kardashev Scale. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
This is solid advice. When I was a kid, my first computer was a Commodore Amiga. I hated PC's and felt the need to go trolling on BBSes about how the Amiga was superior in every way (sorry, keep in mind that I was 12). Of course, there were lots of PC games I wanted to play that would take over a year to be ported to Amiga. Not to mention countless other things like various hardware add-ons that were PC-only.

At some point I realized that I wanted to enjoy computers, and if I went with the flow and used what lots of other people were using, I would be much happier. My new philosophy has been "use what works" ever since. It's a much happier place to be, rather than binding yourself to a set of ideological restrictions where you only limit your own choices.
The tag encourages users to delete the article rather than fix problems. That is the point. It is not personal.
After reading the first paragraph about having a lighthouse on the island and seeing the photo, I thought: "Ah, that must be what that ugly tower is in the middle of the island. Too bad he can't get rid of that."

Turns out it's his windmill.

It's really a shame that wind power has to look so ugly. I mean, those huge turbines they have in Spain are cool to look at, but even if you're a zillionaire with your own island, you can't get a house-sized windmill that looks like that. His looks like an ugly little cell tower.

There's gotta be a market there.
Interesting. I'd tie de Botton's with Liz Gilbert's talk (http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html) for first.

For those that haven't seen it, it's really worth your time. Her speech skims across the surface of several ideas, and in the last few minutes comes together into an elegant and cohesive whole. I wish I could speak like that.
11 years ago ???

802.11b was the first widespread wifi standard and it was not even released 11 years ago (October '99), and yet you had a computer with similar specifications ? I assume you refer to a laptop using 'wavelan' ?

The closest that I can remember from those days to what is offered here was the compaq contura aero, after that the Toshiba libretto, neither of them had built in wifi (heck, they had no networking at all, just a serial port, and a pcmcia slot that you could plug an ethernet expansion card in if you felt like spending more $ on that than on the whole laptop discussed in this thread).

Both of these machines were of a build quality that the machine you're looking at here probably could not match, but their price points were considerably higher.

What make & model was it ?
Tell me, did Van Gogh or Sylvia Plath do focus group/market research so that they could decide which colors and content category would be most pleasing to their audience before they set out to compose their painting/poetry?

There's nothing to prevent you from becoming the Van Gogh of programming, so there's no need to bemoan the mundanity of corporate coding either. It's obviously not your cup of tea, so do something wonderful instead.

If you want to do something amazing, just pick an amazing project and go crazy.

Maybe you'll start the next Google, or maybe you'll struggle to get by for 35 years in a row. Life is a series of compromises, disappointments, challenges, and all kinds of weird and wonderful things sprinkled in between. Pick your poison.
Quite surprising that other companies do not utilize this observation too much, investing in the ecosystem of their own products and, thus, increasing their value.

€150k sounds like a pocket money for Vodafone
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Indeed -- There is a article/discussion on BMI here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=689349
Agreed, but why split that off to some other medium, that works well enough as it is.

That just gives you two places to look for the same information, once in the mailing list and once on the site.

The one really big advantage I think to mailing lists over the current HN setup is that you'd get rid of those ridiculously small pageback limits.

There is plenty of good (make that great) stuff on HN but you are not going to find it by browsing around.

The only way to do that is to use a search engine and search engines do not work well unless you have something specific in mind.
Is there something wrong with an ideological boycott? If the "cost" to you of the boycott is less than the perceived importance of the issue, why would you continue to use something even though you disagree with it?

The nice thing about a boycott is that it provides a direct financial disincentive to the manufacturer simply ignoring the public's concerns. If lots of people are upset about an issue, and they change their buying habits based on that issue, either the manufacturer can choose to change their strategy to correct that issue, or it provides an opportunity for a competitor.

And even if you're the only person in the universe who cares about a particular issue, "everyone else is fine with it" doesn't necessarily mean that you feel like involving yourself in something you disagree with enough to believe that you can live without its benefits.

So I'm all for demanding purity if that's more important to you than the perceived benefits of the impure thing.
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Your demo, had me a little confused, but based on your oneliner and other peoples comments it makes more sense.

That said...

Great little concept.

* If your majorly concerned about dodgy injections of referrers. Might be worth taking a leaf out of bit.ly and linking a system to filter out urls based on something like http://www.surbl.org/.

* Maybe even include the ability to offer unique things to visitors from wherever they might have just come. A unique article only they can see, whom knows.

* What sort of reporting could / would be good for the site owner?
Also, if you never make your case -- then what's the impetus to make things change?

This article seems is too reductionist for me. Just because things always have their flaws doesn't mean you don't try to make it better.
on this side of pond, Morning Star Farms makes frozen "fake-meat" - found in frozen ("breakfast food") foods. Pretty darn good "sausage" patties - and "crumbles" (substitute for ground beef), precooked, but can be browned up a little more in fry pan (olive oil) with spices (e.g., taco seasoning packet).
Yeah, me too. "You won't make a difference, so don't bother trying" seems a rather dull way to approach life.
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My comparison was meant as an exaggeration, sorry if that wasn't clear. The country does not design however the culture, accepted standards, less regulation, the regular market they cater to, etc, do mean that china more often than not design products that may be considered sub standard quality. I've lived there so you would know when you've actually held and used some of these genuine china made products. At the north American int'l auto shows, chinas prototypes had visible defects, were hell ugly, and partially constructed of bamboo.

Now this company may be better, but chances are this computer has poorer build quality.
The Walter Reed scandal would really reinforce what people have been saying about for profit healthcare.

Walter Reed is a huge military complex with Army and contractor buildings on the base. Most vets that go to Walter Reed end up under the military care. This is the old colonial style buildings that most people see. They are in pretty good shape and most vets don't have a complaint about Army care. The real fiasco is the private contractors. This is the part of Walter Reed people read about in the paper. They work under VA but since they are for-profit companies, you know the rest.

People like to use Walter Reed of why the gov't shouldn't get into healthcare at all. Walter Reed is an example of why private, healthcare companies have no business being in healthcare.
Wow that's one bizaare claim in the article "Emails, Facebook messages, and Google Docs can all be set to disappear into thin air". There is not the slightest possibility that Facebook or Google are going to enable this as a feature. Email is conceivable, but only if the recipient has an email client that is enabled for this kind of cryptography. Typically poor BBC technology journalism.
I would just like to thank you all for the time you took to look at the site and the comments you've all made.

The feedback has been incredibly useful, and has really given us an idea of where we need to focus our efforts.
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Couchsurfing.com's official response: http://www.couchsurfing.org/news.html?id=269

Also, some safety tips: http://www.couchsurfing.org/news.html?id=200
This one does... I prefer to SF to realistic fiction though, I get enough realism in real life thanks!
I didn't know that. I would actually like to see more re-reviews on HN. It's encouraging for me to see other people sticking with a project and making it better in response to feedback. To me that's more exciting than a shiny new thing that will be discarded next week.

That said, I'll take a look at launchly.
If you restrict yourself to a limited amount of storage then it is possible to decide if a given program halts.

There are not many pieces of code that run with an infinite amount of storage.
Sounds awesome, I'm in once RIT is back in session.
Corporate intranet software is where "we" need to be at.

I think there's a lot of wasted potential where Sharepoint is. Is that what you're getting at, or something else?
So, he tells us he's not a web developer (he is now!). But what is his background - is he a gutter at the chicken factory or is he a very young professor of theoretical physics.

The implication is, though he specifically states it's not, that you can follow his model and do the same thing. Knowing what level of intelligence/intellect he has helps to determine if that is at all possible.

Interesting story though.

I only skimmed over the text but missed whether he did all the design himself, it looks quite slick, especially compared to his hand-drawn wireframes.
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Wow $100 dollars for some cables and an oven door! What a deal, I've always needed a replacement oven door.
Great clarification. I lived 10 minutes away from there - and it was on the news all the time - but I never heard that side of the story. Very illuminating.
So I'm new to codebetter.com, but this announcement is ony about a ?face-to-face? meeting? Whew - I hardly remember them. I was expecting an article/interview. That not appearing I looked for a video. No.

Am I missing the link to streaming of the event? ...or there nothing beyond an RSVP to Alexandria VA (if I can fly cross-country that day)?
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I don't think they did much designing other than to take the atom reference motherboard and find a way to graft an ARM in there, all the rest looks like a dead ringer for the eee pc.

Build quality is something you can only establish by looking at the product and preferably disassembling it. Even then you still have to remember it's a statistics game, something may look excellent and yet it could fail miserably and in large numbers over a longer period of time.
It won't be hard to build competitors to Twitter—systems that do as much as it does but whose decentralized design ensures that they're not a single point of failure.

For a given, plucked-from-thin-air definition of "hard", no, it's not hard.

In the real world, yes, it's hard.

I don't see why the fact that people rely on Twitter should mean that they need to be broken up or opened up or any such thing.
To be fair, the early hackers didn't really have an aura of cool, except to other hackers. Popular opinion painted them as basement dwellers (many of them were) and maladjusted youth (script kiddies - many of them were that, too).

The fictionalized stuff didn't reflect reality. Just a little bit more extreme than the fictionalized stuff now (big payouts, glamourous parties, etc).