skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"And if you can't code, and you can't get brilliant coders to like and respect you, you probably shouldn't be an entrepreneur."

As a non-technical person, this advice is harsh, but it's true. Yeah, your life is much easier if you have friends from high school who became coders while you went off into banking. And, yeah, it's all-but-impossible to find great coders except by happenstance, but it doesn't make this advice any less true.

Of course, someone (maybe not necessarily VCs and angels) could make a killing if they would match up interested business guys with experience and understanding of large markets with brilliant technical people, but I suppose that hasn't happened to date for some reason. It's beyond my meager understanding, but there must be a reason.
cool thanks for the promo code :)
Proposal for Authenticating Web Callbacks
Generating RSS feeds via BeepBeep
the 303 has quite possibly the worst interface in the history of the galaxy (imnsho)
Fatcow uptime & Fatcow review for August 2009
Fatcow uptime by FatcowReview.org for August 2009: 99.977% over the internet. More fatcow review at fatcowreview.org website.
The likely rationale is that there's probably quite a few people who want the deployability of PHP without having to work around the problems with the language.
There are many apps stuck with a 17+ rating due to the app being able to access content from the web which may or may not be kid-safe. It's a policy which is paranoid and inconsistently applied, but it's not entirely arbitrary.
The value of twitter is questionable at best. For example are people still quiting twitter at such large numbers? You don't see people quiting facebook all of a sudden.

I quit twitter about a day after friends got me to sign up, I used the real time search for a couple weeks after that. The problem I found was that real time search wasn't very useful (except for maybe mass panic about mj dying).

If twitter can someone grow and KEEP users then maybe they will have a business with worth but they are going to need a bigger pull than tweet what you. are doing/thinking or heard.
I might have just found a new obsession.

Here's a google map: http://ow.ly/qfC2
> How do you make pre-commit vetting of code quality scale

Use distributed version control, and work on your next patch while waiting on review of your first. Even if you can't use it officially, you can use it locally: http://spyced.blogspot.com/2009/06/patch-oriented-developmen...
Ask HN: Idea on Crowdsourced Deal Hunting
Just bouncing a idea around, let me know your thoughts.

* Background: User wants to a buy a product, Laptop XYZ, best price he finds is $1900, wants better.

* Idea/Solution: User visits website, says they want New XYZ Laptop for $1800.

* Internal: Crowd-sourced people or outlets/stores can look at requested product/price and see if they can match it. Someone finds a deal for $1750.

* Finish: The original user gets the product at the requesting price $1800. The deal hunter keeps the difference $1750.

Current issues: How to handle the money/item transaction. One way is for the service it self to charge the difference first before revealing the original deal site.

If you are interested in this problem and want to work on it, contact me. (Just trying a open approach see what happens).
Rollercoaster Tycoon brings back great memories. I've always loved games where you were given a blank slate and had to create something from scratch, as opposed to first person shooters where all you do is shoot the guy wearing a different colored vest.
I play Old-Time banjo: http://aaronblohowiak.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/cold_fr...
Ten Ideas to Save Newspapers
Maybe you could set it up so that the buyer clicks on your affiliate link for the product, and you kick back a percentage to the deal hunter?
Well in the big-company that I work for some groups still use a unix directory as their SCM system. Some groups still use fortran and some groups still link everything into one executable which is around 975mb for one instance on the file system.

By big company what you really mean is "work for google".

Again the only thing you'll learn is tech. You wont learn sales or business or accounting.

Taking your example of organizing code and designing C++ code, you could develop these skills by just working on open source code will give you that.

Infact I use a lot of the tools/programming idioms/libraries that I've learnt from the open source community at work. It actually gives me an edge over the crap they do at my big-company.

Again, if by "work for big company", you mean work for Google then I totally agree.
Imperative and Functional Languages
Clearly you have never worked for a big company :)
I don't know of any newspapers that aren't already doing most or even all of these things. These tips aren't really all that helpful. They're obvious.
Ah yes, instead of the difference using a % good idea. The trick is probably convincing the actually seller to give out a certain percentage back for the referral.

Definitely makes things easier for the Buyer.
China is definitely an interesting high level examples of what leads to growth. Surely its quite hard to say that the China could have grown faster if only XYZ. If there is always a correlation between growth and state non-intervention, it either does not apply in every case or isn't the only (or even the the strongest) predictor of economic growth.

I have heard a reasonably coherent argument that a strong central system can be beneficial to a state that is "behind." These are less reliant on big revolutionary innovations. They have industries that get a lot of benefit from just simple capital investment. Basically, since you can see the path to a more prosperous future relatively clearly from the present, you can plan the economy more efficiently. In some cases this might be more efficient then allowing the economy to plan its own course.

Take some large country with an underdeveloped economy but no prohibitive political or social hang-ups. If you try to imagine a prosperous future for it, you can usually see some of the parts of it. Agricultural methods (assuming that you think agriculture will play a big part of that economy) will need to improve. This will over time, yield 2-3 times more crops with the same amount of land and fewer workers. You know what those methods are and you might even be able to guess at the appropriate ownership structure (micro farmers vs larger farmers with employees vs cooperatives vs corporate farms, etc.) because you have examples. The country might need a industrial/manufacturing industry. You don't really need the market to figure out what a good industrial complex looks like or what conditions are needed because you have examples.

Germany (to take a random example) is not really in that position. You won't be as accurate in your guesses.
Tweetdeck syncs with our desktop experience. For people that need to filter the stream to grok it better (read: eventually everyone), Tweetdeck is better.
"Again, if by "work for big company", you mean work for Google then I totally agree."

Man, I have failed again in my quest to experience every kind of employer.

I think my next job is going to be at McDonalds. I've never worked in food service, and perhaps it won't be quite a distorted perspective as where I've ended up.
The article in text format (rather than MS Word):

http://gist.github.com/raw/190081/6731e974f7175b26e351b40dff...
Now if only someone could tell me why my Spaniel steals socks from all over the house and hides them under tables.
Japan Wants to Power 300,000 Homes With Wireless Energy From Space
German pop music. Formerly major label.

http://www.rivodrei.de/

The first album was recorded and mixed in Logic. The second album was recorded with Logic but the engineer who is currently mixing it switched to ProTools. The music itself is all handmade by us, the musicians.

I quit a well paid job in IT to do this full-time a few years back when we got signed. I guess the experience was much like being an entrepreneur.
Are you saying eve online lets you do stuff like buying guns on planet X for 80 and selling them on planet Y for 200? B/c if so, I am going to have to get it.
I think everyone got the allusion the first (funny?) time, before the explanation. It's still 'beneath you.' It's contributing to pulling the conversation into an uninteresting place, just like getting you talking about what you did and did not say.
Sorry, I must have misunderstood your intent then. Python and Ruby are probably fast enough for compiler construction as well; I am sure they could be tweaked by an expert to yield acceptable performance, but I am just not such expert :-)
Counterpoint to 2: I hate when mostly boring people start talking to me public transportation, especially planes. I am usually pissed and stressed out by the lousy service so just leave me alone.
Doesn't the article you link to tell you that it's eaten by foreigners? i.e. tourists and expats?
The response rates for direct mail is lower, but from Arlingtons point of view that is a great thing, since he can ignore those who don't matter enough to be on Techcrunch. So naturally he prefer email only.
"Are you saying eve online lets you do stuff like buying guns on planet X for 80 and selling them on planet Y for 200?"

Eve Online Trading Guide http://www.eve-online-fan.co.uk/trading-guide/

Enjoy!
It is properly the best guarantee that they will post regularly a new user can expect.

And I would love to hear the story behind it.
One of the authors conclusions (see section 7 of the PDF) about PHP threading is 1/2 wrong. There is the PCNTL extension. And I actually wrote some code for a project of mine that does batch processing using multiple processes; my code works with vanilla PHP, unlike the PCNTL extension.
comradity,

I think you are missing the point. The essay doesn't discuss the value of this content but it's price. These are not the same. Price is somehere between the maximum the buyer is willing to pay, considering his other options & the minimum the seller is willing to sell at, considering his opportunity cost.

In a competitive market, the price usually creeps close to the latter because consumers have more and better options to consider. In a monopolistic one, it creeps closer to the latter for the opposite reason.

The reason the price of content might be zero in the content industry is that A) The opportunity cost for the seller is 0 & B) The market is more competitive.
Lol...

39a) All web necessary pages must established on secure servers with custom certs not recognized by any browser...
First I am sorry to hear about your grandmother.

Second, how far you take the instructions in the booklet obviously depends on the work you do, and the higher up you are, the easier it is to screw up something without being found out.
Well, I think a really good Twitter client (which it is) certainly is a killer app for a mobile platform, given how many people now regularly use Twitter. I know, for anecdote's sake, that Tweetie is almost certainly the most-used application on my phone. If you want to belittle Wired or iPhone users or Twitter users (and Lord knows it's trendy to do so), feel free, but do expect to get hit with the occasional bout of sarcasm in response (just as I expect that people who believe in the myth of the Wonderful Hacker News Comment Community will downmod all such comments into oblivion).

As for "discourse", well, I've been active here for a while and lurking for longer, and my first impression was that HN was a site that syndicated TechCrunch articles. Took me a while to realize there was anything other than an echo chamber here, and I'm still not entirely sure about that.
Making Flash Apps More Sharable: Adobe Launches Services for Distribution
Copying Y Combinator - Why and How
And then do PHP.JS. http://phpjs.org/

What have I done?
You can outsource it, and you can make something even if you don't code.
The time frame is very problematic. With most Grameen style lending, there are several year long cycles where the size of the loan increases each year. So in year 1 you get a tiny loan, if you pay it back then in year 2 you get a slightly less tiny loan, etc...

In the first year, its fairly common for that loan to be used to refinance a loan at a really high interest rate from a local money lender, but this does provide some benefit. Now you are paying back a loan at 15% instead of 50%.

Also, a lot of the money goes into paying for kids' education, something that will not have any real ROI in the short term. I'm curious about the mention that education hasn't improved, from what I've seen this doesn't match but I haven't really done a large scale survey.

Its true, some recipients use the money for non profit-making activities (e.g wedding dowries), but my understanding is that many of these would happen anyway with loans at a higher interest rate.

In any event, anyone who thinks that one type of financial instrument is going to solve poverty is mis-guided, but I don't know that these studies really show a lot.
That's a fictional story.
Well, they have to do something to get people to watch. Imagine how may people out there almost fall asleep when they hear the word "History".
Did you even read my comment? I specifically addressed this when I said: "Will microlending alone solve the problem? No.". I simply argue that microlending is one tool out of many that we should use.

Indeed, you seem to agree with me: "credit can help carry you through periods where you might lose a lot due to unlucky circumstances". Allowing families to hold onto a lot of resources they would have lost certainly is helping to fight poverty.
hello madchester!
Ask HN: Review Beatnex - An effort to make the RIAA obsolete
What I have right now is, in every sense of the term, a minimum viable product (hopefully). I've noticed that I'm really spinning my wheels though, so I decided it was time for a reality check from HN.

As the link bait title (sorry about that) suggests, my ultimate goal is to eliminate any value that record companies provide to bands. I am a firm believer that the functions of these dinosaurs can be accurately simulated through web technologies.

(Note: I am not a programmer--just a business student with some passion. Also, the user data stored on the site is all fictional test data at this point)

http://beatnex.com
clickable: http://beatnex.com
Isn't Amazon (or Newegg) the cheapest place to buy pretty much anything like that online already?
If you sign up for LinkShare and Commission Junction, you'll have thousands of retailers covered, so you should be able to find most products and collect 1-15% in referral fees. Here's how I would set it up:

1. Sign up with affiliate networks (LinkShare and Commission Junction, etc.)
2. Set up website to allow people to post product price requests
3. As requests come in, automatically create Amazon Mechanical Turk HITs to search for product and price
4. Use affiliate API or have outsourced team (India, Philippines, etc.) create link for product.
5. Reply to user (a la Priceline.com) or post to site that you have found their price, and display link or require registration to get link, whatever you decide works
I wasn't sure if it was 303 or the x0xb0x, but I agree (they're slightly different, I think. I haven't used a real 303)
Is anyone else getting tired of articles about "the value of twitter" or about what should twitter do next and so on?

I mean yeah, it's an interesting case-study, but shouldn't we be focusing on other stuff too instead of rambling on and on about a messaging service?
I have come across gay men from Orthodox Jewish backgrounds. Since secular or even atheist Jews are a perfectly possible thing to be, they can have an identity as Gay & Jewish. Most go that path. But some seem to want exactly what this article is talking about to be developed. They want some smart rabbis to come up with some smart reasons around the contradiction.

The Jewish tradition doesn't really emphasise a rule against homosexuality as much as many think. Many of the much more explicit rules (eg. If your brother dies, you get his wife) have ways around them or are ignored. They are sort of vaguely interested in the how and have this sort of instinctive understanding that it's possible.
I've been reading stories about this place since I was a kid. Given the state of the art in archeology you would think that they could have solved this mystery by now -- if there was anything to solve.

Seems to me it has turned into a marketing campaign for the island instead of a real search for treasure.
Designing sitemap using writemaps.com
Anyone have a reference for this? I'd be curious to see what the code looks like.
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This was a band I was in a few years ago: http://www.myspace.com/sometimesitrains

We recorded with Cubase.
I just posted the first chiptune I've composed in many years here (LSDJ on an original grey Gameboy): http://8bitcollective.com/music/algernon/Snuffles/

And this is a rough mix of an old punk rock tune I wrote years ago but recorded for the first time earlier this year (live guitar and vocals, live tracked electronic drums, and synthesized bass, recorded in REAPER): http://obsceneart.com/examples/better.mp3

I've been trying to figure out how to mix punk rock and chiptunes, but haven't actually made a solid attempt at it yet (though a C64 is playing bass on that second track; the later versions have live bass playing, and I liked it better, but they're inaccessible at the moment, on a machine that isn't exactly working).
The Amish Paper The Budget Explores a Move Online
Today's the 20th anniversary of the Mac Portable. Let's tear one down.
It's absolutely true -- the best way to learn something is to have to teach it to someone else. You must get organized and this focuses you.
Well, I got to drink for free when I played ... :)
I think this is one of the best posts on HN ever. Somebody should accumulate the top ten of these and make a Hacker News album!

I'm a Sonar user but I'm still trying to figure the dang software out. I bought the full Cakewalk suite, I am an amateur keyboardist, and I can improvise melodies and such, it's just the software that is so complicated it destroys my ability to be creative.

But I'll get it one day. I've setup my rack behind my development desk, so whenever I need a break from coding I'm playing with the system. It's just a matter of time.
My general rule of thumb with meeting new people is just to be genuinely interested in learning about them.

Even if you're asking the "what do you do" question, the authenticity you deliver the question with will make all the difference.
Genetics may determine age of first sexual experience
Did Facebook’s purchase of FriendFeed comply with FriendFeed’s privacy policy?
Which is the one that says to omit parens unless required? :)
If you're going to submit a link to your own blog to HN, have the courtesy to:

use a permalink to the post in question
delete your contentless test posts
make sure the links to the primary subject of your post work

In your case it would also be good to explain why the hell you'd want to use a convoluted 'ESI' system instead of a straightforward eTags-based caching reverse proxy or even static generation.
Making a copy of the book without the boring parts is illegal. This is what I think Instapaper does.
Going back to using PHP after extensively using ruby is pretty brutal, even with just a subset of the functionality, this is a pretty nice little project, imo. Maybe one of us will drag it back from the grave.
Bacteria make nanomagnets for navigating the oceans
You do need permission to make a derivative work, especially one that directly competes with the original, unlike Google's cached pages.
I found this article extremely insightful and decided to prepare it for the print so that I could read it more carefully and add some notes on the margins.

While I was doing it, I realized how awfully true was the fact that science people _can't_ write.

No disrespect to Mr. Blum, but really, what is going on with the writing in this article? New line every several words, unconsistent emphasis, various writing styles, quick abbreviations in some places, but not in others, inconsistent division in paragraphs, several misspellings.
I looked up this Daniel Clemens guy. Holy shit. Rhodes scholar. Wow.
I think the markets are fairly efficient. In the US, brilliant coders get snapped up eventually and are paid fair prices.
Is it normal for a MySQL ALTER TABLE to run for 22 hours on a table with less than 50 million rows?
Does the Instapaper iPhone app do the stripping, or does Instapaper serve the stripped version? I'd say the former is illegal, and the latter is legal, though it'd be nice if a publisher could opt out and/or provide their own stripped down version that the app would use.
Its Amazing to Remember
My life changed after she came to my life. This thing called love is a wonderful felling.
If anything, Eve gives you too many options and strategies, to the point where becoming a seriously skilled player means a major investment in time. So yes, but it's exponentially more complex than Elite, to the point that you should be able to use a high net worth in EVE to wangle a real job in commodities trading.
I was a psych major in college, but took Real Analysis, Discrete Math, Information Theory, Number Theory, and Abstract Algebra so I could get smart CS people I want to build businesses with to respect me. Everyone in #startups thinks I'm a loser because I code in PHP, so I'm moving to Rails. Yee-haw
I do solo (mostly)electronic music under the handle robad pills, just put out a (free) new album at http://www.sickmode.org/ called "let's get cynical"

There's also 56 other releases there, maybe more hacker in spirit than technical prowess though ;)
Khmer people cheer Sene Dolta Festival
Next Ubuntu named "Lucid Lynx". Mark Shuttleworth video here.
So putting people into debt doesn't help them get out of poverty? Is this surprising?
I saw his original presentation in Prague - Euruko 2008. Nice to see that he completed the project. Congrats dude, it's a huge project to take on. Will you be pushing the code on github?
Deltacloud from Red Hat - API for the Cloud
Python Arduino Prototyping API
http://www.myspace.com/10jackdiamond

Using cubase, a midi keyboard and VST's. It's mainly down-tempo with electronic and hip hop.
EF++
My initial reaction upon seeing that is that it sounds like an up front apology. Something along the lines of "Look I know that last post was unfocused drivel, but we had to get something, anything up by midnight or be in breach of contract".

(disclaimer I have not read the blog so I know nothing of its actual quality)
With the recent spate of "write your own compiler" posts, it's nice to see one that doesn't use Lex and Yacc. Certainly, there is a lot of history (and therefore documentation/example code/wise old hackers, etc) surrounding these tools, but some of the alternatives are really compelling. Besides OCaml, I'd also love to see someone do the same sort of post with Antlr.
I wrote this tongue-in-cheek number one night when I was frustrated and didn't feel like coding:

http://files.dangrover.com/siliconvalleylament-sofar.mp4

I just thought it would be funny to write a song about Silicon Valley in a cheesy broadwayish/Sondheimish style. Might finish it if I get around to it.

The song was improvised on keyboard and recorded, then I used a speech synthesizer for the vocals, as I hate the sound of my own voice.