skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Houndreds of startups are already on work at this one. Thousands of articles and proposals have been written about the problem. Yet no one seems able to describe in only a few lines a business model that does not involve just tossing out a few en-vogue words and other business bs like "revolutionary features" and "bundling" and "freemium". These are not a solution in themselves! Or am I the only one who sees it this way?

If it were that easy, "the" solution (just one?) would probably already have been found.

There are certain inherent advantages of reading on paper that just have not yet been adressed at all. Stop thinking about "bundling" or content - fitting content to a user's preferences is not the problem. Getting any time-pressed (and therefore potentially paying) user to at least consider consuming news/information digitally is the problem - it's just not efficient enough yet.
Worst cubicle contest photo slideshow - Week 4 finalists
You write that like it's a bad thing....
Jefferson's inventions are mostly one-offs, such as his house. Franklin's inventions scaled.
Might be fun to try making a javascript workers version. While it is not as powerful I am curious how many more users you can get.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=767824
Today I've posted (until now) ~ 4-5 posts to check the best period to put interesting content on HN :D

Later I was asking PG with some statistics (nr. of users online / day period) but without too much echo ..
Interview about Lift with David Pollack (creator of Lift) [audio 43min]
So, you have patches, and you haven't even attempted to get them committed?
“Cash for clunkers” site lets Feds take over your computer - Glenn Beck
Looks like it made it.

Maybe there should be a 're-run' option on HN :) ?

Plenty of good stuff gets lost along the way never to be re-submitted.
Wait ... the Singularity is over the corner! In 10 years you'll become part of this synthetic life.
Learning is a job, if it wasn't so damn hard and stressful everyone would be a quantum physicist. Teenage kids need to accept the realities of life.
The reason most people want to program for the web is that they’re not smart enough to do anything else.

said the guy who just finished saying it's too hard to program without an IDE that has a good debugger.

This guy also thinks HTML==web programming...
Interesting. I am writing an Android app that uses JSON. Using Protocol Buffers never even occurred to me. (JSON works fine, and I am not going to change for this app, but I will definitely consider it in the future.)
"We teach you how to learn" was repeated over and over again in my engineering department at my university. I always thought it was an excuse and justification that allowed them to save face and make it ok that what was being taught was going to be useless in the "real world"

That's a horrible argument that defines your disdain for learning.
If you feel that the only way you can achieve what you want is to take amphetamines then I would hope that what you are working on is very important (for you at least). The side effect from overuse are enough to take years off your life.

Also I suspect that no doctor would willingly supply you with amphetamines just so you can work harder. Doctors write prescriptions for medical conditions and not life style.

Ask yourself how long this difficult work can be expected to last, if it is essentially your job then you'll probably have to take amphetamines for as long as you have the job.

Paul Erdős only gave up for a month so I suppose we can call him an addict. And you are no Paul Erdős.
That's a pretty high res screen for a phone, I'm really surprised by that.

Even the 'smartphones' usually have pretty crappy screens.
How long do you work for at the moment and what are you aiming for? Some details about your current and hoped for day structure?

I've done a lot of personal work on improving these things naturally (after taking a huge dive off of a caffeine high and flunking the end of year exams for my second year of uni).

To give you a rough idea of my day now I usually work 10-13 hours of the day, sleep for 6-8 and socialise for 4-6 (all variable - usually I work 13hrs 3 days and 11hrs 2 days extending my social time for the shorter days)

All of this is on limited caffeine (4 coffees and 4 teas MAX) per day and mostly reliant on fruit juice as the stimulant :) (and discipline)
It certainly does both, but doesn't work as well enough as it should. Some of the corruption and image problems I've had on VNC also are on RDP.
Ok, you have problem with caffeine withdrawal. I think then that amphetamines are not for you then.
The Economist is not doing well online. The paper is, its reputation/brand is, its subscription numbers are, but not the website. They don't really care about the website.
I doubt it.

The singularity may be a fluke of observation bias, it is very well possible that because you are always at the forefront of technological development when you are alive (or you'd be living in the past) you perceive this tremendous advance during your lifetime, leading you to conclude that pretty soon we'll 'take off'.

The singularity has been nicknamed 'the rapture of the nerds'.
My advice, Don't. Taking them will not turn you into Paul Erdős.

Someone had to say it.
You could probably get away with one if you duct the cold air into each compartment, with a valve on each one. The valves would be opened and closed as needed to maintain the temperature in each compartment. When at least one is open, the compressor turns on; when all are closed, it shuts off.
You just need a way for drawers to slide up, without using up the electricity saved by this change, or being too heavy. or using too large a counterweight system or being to weak.
The problem is solved for him. He is really under no obligation to do anything else; if upstream is interested, they can just pull from his repo.
Totally pointless, besides entertainment. I enjoyed it though.
Somehow the front page should become customizable.

HN userbase became (too) large and there is much noise. The problem is not with the nature of the content/submissions but with the only one filter presenting the same headlines for many different point of views/groups of interest.
If you try changing your user-agent, you will see that it only shows up for IE6&IE7 but not for IE8. Maybe it is showing up for the older less CSS compliant browsers.

But switching to older versions of Firefox doesn't show the Chrome download though - so it could indeed have to do with some agreement with Mozilla.
Kate Elliott's next fantasy book sounds crazy
I am actually going to attempt to get them merged in, that's what I am saying on linked wiki page. I am just saying it might be not easy to push them there.
Well I got a down vote for correcting your false assertion, so karma is restored, or somesuch.
How about an upright fridge with a glass inner-door?

If the problem is opening the fridge to browse, and a transparent fridge is too unsightly, then a transparent door with an outer door would allow browsing without blowing all the air away.

Otherwise, an upright fridge split vertically down the middle. You pull the whole compartment out and apart, like snake jaws on their side. You have two sides, each facing you, each able to be like a normal fridge door - with covered compartments. Each shallow enough for easy browsing, positioned well enough for reaching the back, deep enough to be useful.
I think they mean you can't hijack 1000 other people's accounts.
PG's other microblog:

http://ycombinator.posterous.com/
Why don't you start small?

Seek out chess partners or whatever nerdy hobbies you prefer, offer "free entrepreur advice", make a weekly "technology meeting" and see what people show up etc. etc. etc.

You don't have to risk high expenses or consider moving already.
Sorry, but this isn't true. I am constantly testing cross browser issues every day and I have seen the chrome download ad on google.com in ie, safari, and ff at one time or another. I work on a Mac and have even seen it then.
that's already been solidly debunked:

http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/clunkers.asp
The Singularity must be the next metasystem transition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasystem_transition), the Control of Culture.

As soon as old media will get napstered and Culture will become impossible to be manipulated, and, as soon as we uploaded ourselves completely to the web --- we will have a new digital universe assuring parallel existences and a gateway to the 'old' biological life.

Is that good enough for a Singularity?
If you have a "continuous authority" facility enabled on your merchant account you can make arbitrary charges on card numbers authorised and stored by your payment processor. CA doesn't seem too hard to acquire, at least here in the UK it was easier than we expected at worldonahanger.com. The downside with this approach is that in the event that you want to switch payment processors, you have to ask your customers to resubmit their card details for reauthorisation (as far as I can tell).
I don't know how this would even be a legal agreement
This is a very interesting read with regard to unit testing.

I'll have to read it again a few times more so I don't miss out on any good conclusions.
I think (based on some experience) that if you go that route you are going to end up with a name that is very uncommunicatable and you will lose a significant portion of your visitors (and by lose I mean you will never even get them in the first place).

A business name is all about branding, you can use almost any pronounceable or semi-pronounceable (again, assuming you do not try to get overly creative) word as your domain name. Would you ever think "auctions" if someone said ebay to you? Did you think "voip" the first time you heard skype? Did you think "connect to old friends" when you first heard "facebook"?

Pick a unique .com name, build a brand around it.
[pdf]Roy Thomas Fielding dissertation on REST
Hey Matt,

I just lived in a rural and isolated (2 hrs of a horrible mountainous drive to the nearest city) town of 3k, for 2 years. We just moved to the outskirts of a city of 3.5 million about 2 weeks ago, due to a distant family member becoming ill.

I was lucky enough to have found a programmer friend in the town of 3k, and we were able to go out for beers and rant and rant and rant about the industry, technology, etc. I think that was the only thing that saved me from going crazy. Other than that... I'm not sure if your attempts to find like minded locals will be too successful. You may find some friends, but they may not adhere to your moral objectives or, know the rootin' tootinest thing about technology.

All in all, we're loving being outside of a major city. We can go hiking, camping, hunting, etc... and it's just a matter of minutes away. We can also drive 10 minutes into the heart of the city, and get any type of foreign food in the world. That was actually the crux for us. Also, if you have kids, that's a completely different factor as well, and was a big one for us. We didn't want to shelter them too much to the "outside world", but didn't want them to get sucked up into it either.

It's the small things in life that make life wonderful, no matter where you live.

Hope you find what you're looking for!
Internet Is The Singularity
Was about to post the same thing... <plugs ears and says "la la la la la">
it isn't, it's simply nonsense.
I wish! But just looking as to how long it took to partially fix IE, I very much doubt it!
1) Go to networking events. Even small cities have a bunch of groups who meet to talk about "social media" or "local business growth" or other B.S.

2) Cold call CEO's and business owners in your area. They're great connectors. Pitch them a project you're working on and at least 1 out of every 5 you call will hook you up with somebody. Some of them may even become a great contact in and of themselves. Do at least 2 cold calls like this a day.

3) EVERYBODY's RESUME SUCKS EQUALLY, just some people can present theirs better than others. So the only difference between yours and everybody elses is whether you tell people it's "awesome" or sucky. so... tell people it's awesome and that you have amazing skills that are already proven through whatever project or school work you did.

4) If you like living rurally, for God's sake don't work rurally. You can find a job where you can work remotely, "telecommute" or whatever.

HTH
Barnaby
If anyone has bothered mentioning it to them.

I sent some Erlang patches in years ago, and in due time, they showed up in the main release.

Obligation? No, but it's a nice thing to do. He's demonstrated he's interested in helping out by publishing them in the first place.
The title lies: September 9th
Monk, a glue framework for web in Ruby
Chrome in IE 6
Google Toolbar in IE 8
Perhaps his lack of concentration when he stopped for a month wasn't because the drug helped him concentrate, but rather that his dependence on it made him not be able to concentrate without it anymore - that is, when hes on the drug, his concentration is at the same level as those not on the drug.

Now, I don't know if this was the case or not, but its worth thinking about before starting this.

Personally, in the past I've used large quantities of energy drinks to get me through long project or study sessions. While it worked in keeping me awake, and more alert than I would have been without, I did notice my performance drop. That is, if I was well rested and worked for some number of hours, I'd get MORE work done that if I worked twice as many hours, but substituted rest for energy drink.

Sometimes the trade-off is worth it (eg because the deadline is earlier than it would take to get it done with rest; quality is less important than time etc etc), but other times its not. I bet amphetamines are similar, though I've personally never tried.

In the past, I have tried a drug for concentration purposes; not quite sure what it was exactly, some sort of legal cannabis alternative which contained small amounts of valium and other similar ingredients. Large amounts would put you to sleep, but small amounts really did help concentration a lot and a lot of great ideas came from this (including a project which myself and a friend came up with, designed and built a prototype and it is now being used by a certain university for research purposes, after rebuilding our prototype with proper manufactured parts). So, it certainly is possible to use drugs to enhance performance, but I'm wondering at what cost. I'm not convinced that prolonged use is safe and would be pretty skeptical.

You'll have to decide for yourself if the risks and trade-offs are worth it for you.
Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (classic)
I actually did pretty much the same thing. I had a solaris account at school and ended up filling half of my space on the server with gnu utilities because I didn't feel like learning Sun's "almost-right" utilities.

So many of these apply to me it's a bit scary
Oh man, another '.DD'. I don't think I've even figured out the difference between BDD and TDD yet.
I had a nice and crazy little Chinese professor for numbers theory in college. I never knew what he was saying, but he would tell us the questions for the exam the day before. I asked him if I could use my ti-92+ and he said yes, so I just programmed in brute force algorithms, entered in the data, then sat back while the 10MHz processor crunched.
Sure, it looks when we are awake the rest of HN is sleeping :)
can everyone outside of the US not judge those of us in the US based on Glenn Beck? Judge us on Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh, we'll look better. Its only fair world.
The HN Onepage Greasemonkey script. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30512

Allows me to load pages in a separate frame and then vote and/or comment on them. Saves me the trouble of loading up 15 tabs and forgetting to vote up the stories that I like.
The Cultural Divide In The Social Media Evolution
Aye, but you are comparing apples with oranges here.

To compare the poster with Paul Erdős is a fallacy, you should be comparing Paul Erdős without amphetamines vs Paul Erdős with.

It's a relative thing, not an absolute thing. And since the poster is anonymous you can't really make any qualitative statements about his mental capabilities (other than the ones you inferred from his posting).
Draw fridges are available now in the UK and elsewhere (Google Images for "draw fridge" shows several different configurations.

I imagine a lot of the benefit is lost with a drawer as the air turbulence from opening the draw (like opening a large freezer lid quickly) will drag out the colder air. If you have to remove half the stuff (chest freezer) to get to what you need then the fridge will be open longer and the items removed will gain more heat energy from the surroundings. Could still be a net benefit though.
He's about to get booted off Fox, it's getting embarrassing, even for them.
When government is the problem, as is the case here, more government is rarely the solution.
some users would be happy with this. but you bring the gravity back into the equation. this time putting it on the user to lift things up and down. in the vertical frig, the drawers slide out more effortlessly.

I love this horizontal fridge idea. Its good to see people thinking outside the box ;). But it only works for the early adopters with strong backs.
> as soon as we uploaded ourselves completely to the web -

I think I see a few technological snags there.
I agree, once screens hit 640x480 I believe the smartphones might start being capable of replacing PC's, but at present they're either a keyboard with a crappy screen, or a crappy screen.

Also one of the key things that has driven PC sales for the longest time is video games, yet the phone market hasn't grasped this, and despite nvidia releasing a mobile chipset for cellphones a few years back, I've never seen a big phone carrying it. I mean look at the sheer sales of the DS, all a developer has to do is stick a $200 phone into a DS and you've got the best selling product on the planet for $400.
"What about me, said C#. I look like Prince!" Couldn't have said it better! Now back to the funk!
Glad it's been solidly debunked - that idiot speaking has no concept of grammar (or he is a republican searching for reasons to have the government).
That must be the saddest statement about the state of affairs in the US of all time.

I know plenty of really great people statesside and I'll do my best to stick to 'don't generalize'.

Even if that is sometimes harder than I'd like it to be.
I don't understand you. Wiki page I linked to explicitly states "The intention of alterline is not to fork Erlang, though — the best outcome for it is to be merged into official source tree". And I already started pushing some of the patches out: http://www.erlang.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:451:200908:oal...
However, it looks like that test mode doesn't apply to the model that was cracked.
Validation should be done both at the entry level as well as the server. Banning inappropriate words is not as easy as it sounds and should also include things like viagra etc.. for spammers. Most routines out there will not capture this:

a s s :)
> all a developer has to do is stick a $200 phone into a DS and you've got the best selling product on the planet for $400.

Of all the ideas that float by here I think this is one of the very best.

Nintendo making a handset, it's totally logical.

edit:

http://wii.ign.com/articles/762/762064p1.html

http://daemon619.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/nintendo-wii-ph...
The two most common uses I've seen are:

1. Huge unwieldy URLs like the ones you get from Google Maps, which may get mangled by email clients.

2. Easy-to-type URLs to put in slides for presentations, since people in the audience can't click on the things you're showing them.
You really have TWO options here:

# Bring on a co-founder that is an obvious fit

# Have a plan that identifies what your own weaknesses are and how you plan to mitigate them.

From the sound of this thread, there is no obvious co-founder that you know of right now, so going with the latter is far more respectable and smart IMHO, and is something I would bet the YC panel would appreciate a lot more given your current time frame.
the google founders were able to easily explain "PageRank" in just a few words, yet nobody considered their approach during the era of Altavista & Hotbot.

There might be a simple & obvious solution out there, but nobody has attempted it yet.
using only about 100 watts of power a day

A little confusion in the units there...
It would appear the author means 100 watts for one hour, so 0.1 kWh per day or 3 kWh per month. Compared to the regular's fridge 30 kWh/month.
http://news.com/And-What-If-I-Start-To-Encode-My-Message-In-...?
We came to the same conclusion, shame about the rigid dominance of .com though
@jacquesm: how did you get 5539 karma points in 253 days? (20+ karma a day). You should have a good recipe hitting so hard ...
BDD = "should equal to"

TDD = assert_equals

Plain and simple! ;-)
I like having to put those patches on myself. I like the bare bones with a minimal additional features :)
As far as I understand something similar already exists, at least twice. I only remember the whereabouts of one of those. It's a service launched recently by the people from Clicky Analytics. It's called Contenture.

See here:

http://contenture.com/

http://getclicky.com/blog/164/announcing-contenturecom-a-new...
Not only the oldest participant, but also the only participant old enough to have been around during the IE monopoly. And then there's the people just parroting each other without any first-hand experience.

This is not proof. This is not even an indication. You have yet to show a single (real) site where compatibility issues with Opera arise, let alone "a considerably large amount of pages".
Lego 6-month profit surges to $177 million
It would have been nice to hear what he is working on.
Damn, the Constitution strikes again:

The law has long forbidden the government from requiring you to give up unrelated constitutional rights as a condition of receiving discretionary government benefits

For some reason, that didn't make it onto Fox News. I wonder why.
IGoogle Social Gadgets
640*360 is actually fairly common on smartphones outside USA because it's the resolution used by the Symbian 5th Edition platform. (Devices using it include Nokia 5800, Nokia N97, Samsung i8910 and Sony Ericsson's upcoming Satio.)
One of the funniest things I noticed too, I loved watching when my daughter stared at her hand and slowly moved it around after finally discovering she controlled it. One of those stupid little things probably only a parent appreciates!
"The world will be changed by the ability to routinely read genetic sequences into computing systems and then store, replicate, alter and insert them back into living cells."

Source: http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/synthetic-lif... , based on the current article.
20-70 per week, depending on how you define work. These days, my day is almost completely unstructured by nature: I have to structure it myself with scheduling and journals.

Would you care to elaborate on how you put in 10-13 per day? That would be wonderful.
FWIW, Google provides most of the funding for the Mozilla corporation.

http://www.betanews.com/article/Google-extends-its-investmen...
Yes, exactly my point. It will be a simple & obvious (with hindsight!) solution. I'm just saying that if it were possible with the current ideas floating around (not just here), it would already have been done.