skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
25 Things I Learned About Business from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"
I'd actually wait a couple months, and then buy in stages.

If you're still working on it after 6 months, get the .net/.org/etc Consider it a present to yourself for crossing that milestone.

I personally don't buy misspellings, but I will get ones that have a phonetic similarity (for instance, we have both doleaf.com and dewleaf.com)
I'd like to know too. I tried following a fox in the street on the way home last night as well (the same night!) but I lost him amongst parked cars and garden walls :(

Obviously foxes are busy on Monday nights.
There are some code examples on Eric Lippert's blog that are made of good C# code.
The "like"s you use in your examples make your point a tautology - "writing an IDE like Eclipse Idea or NetBeans" basically means "writing a big DE".

There are other models for each of your examples that can reduce the size and complexity of the application (or at least spread it around).
One project I found fascinating reading a while back when I was working on graphics, is AGG. It's a vector graphics toolkit, a bit like Cairo, Quartz 2D or Java 2D. It uses a particular style of C++ - a mixture of template programming together with regular polymorphism - to build up a collection of rendering components. The components are almost Unix-like - you plug them together to build your customized rendering pipeline, and the C++ compiler's template logic takes care of making everything hardwired (or dynamic, if you choose to use the polymorphic components):

http://www.antigrain.com/

The end result is a toolkit which is at a lower level than Quartz 2D et al, but could easily be used to build such an API. It can also be adapted for embedded, or high precision uses.
http://www.youtube.com/user/startupschool#p/u
I learnt a lot by using frameworks as symfony. The initial learning curve is steep, but then you can understand architecture better. The jump to other languages such as python and java was really easy after that.
Into someone's back garden. I assume it lives there. I used to have foxes living in my garden in Oxford, so it's not that unusual (especially in large British cities).
Your readers might want to think about accepting registrations and logins from Yahoo, Google, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, AOL, Hotmail, Windows LiveID and many other accounts using JanRain's RPX, http://rpxnow.com

Additionally, users can publish their activities on a website back to social networks including Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace which increases referral traffic to your sites and facilitates subsequent logins.

Clients include Sears, Kmart, Universal Music Group, EMI, Fox News, KickApps, UserVoice, Viewpoints, Get Satisfaction, Savings.com, FamilyLink, DC Shoes, Famous Footwear, and many others
Listia (YC S09) Gets An Angel Round To Help People Give/Get Free Stuff
If the service is superior to their competitors' offerings, there is nothing wrong with charging a premium. Actually, when you think of it, charging a lower price might be more evil if it undercuts the competition and puts them out of business (a la Walmart).
If you're an iPhone developer, Joe Hewitt's three20 is the best open-source codebase I know of: http://github.com/joehewitt/three20
bump Any takers?
Screencast on using Gemcutter & Jeweler to publish your own gems
If you ever want an interesting look into the psyche of a person / have them reveal themselves, ask them to describe to you situations in which they were 'lucky' (from a book "On Flirting")
Objective-C Tuesdays: for loop variations
I hear good things about the webkit source code
He will me more productive as Co-founder because his technical and business skills would reach peak stage by 30+
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Note - systemic risk != systematic risk.
The symfony framework and Doctrine ORM are both well written projects.
Yes. Anytime, anywhere. If it has a URL, it's OK to link directly to it. If sites don't like that practice, too bad. You don't have to care about them.
Does your social class determine your online social network?
How are you coping with Oracle buying Sun?
New Homes Kansas City
Kansas City Barth Real Estate specializes in offering New Homes with successful and prominent Northland neighborhoods including resale properties.
Here's the original pickle experiment, as documented in the DEC Western Research Lab publication: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/WRL-TN-13.pdf Worth a quick read.

No mention of the short lifespan of current OLEDs, either.
If it really is "more like a game than a tool," then perhaps they should add a point system.
Nice to have. GODDAMMIT. runs off and looks for a real job
article on the creation: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/technology/19apple.html?ex... - also - the bizweek article on why it will fail: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_21/b3733059....
The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference & Prediction[pdf]
From Minix' site: MINIX 1 and 2 were intended as teaching tools; MINIX 3 adds the new goal of being usable as a serious system on resource-limited and embedded computers and for applications requiring high reliability.

Is Minix 3 still readable, or do you recommend Minix 2?
A repost of:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=91140

I thought another look might be interesting given Ola Bini's article on the HN front page.
It would be interesting to see the trend of using "under construction" graphics over time. At some point it just clicked that web pages are -always- under construction, and we didn't have to be as explicit about it anymore.
Any recommendations for Ruby/Rails projects?
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=879305
There's a lot of excellent PHP code in the Horde Project's repository: http://cvs.horde.org/
Do you have a website for this idea yet? I know I'm interested. Maybe making a forum would help. The comments section of HN will only get you so far.
Analog DoS attack?
I would have agreed with your argument about not lowering the price if your offering is superior, but aren't we talking about a very poor country? doesn't Google have enough $$ to make a concession? (I'm not talking about giving the service for free just low enough to match competition).
I'd always buy .com+.net+.org+.co.uk The rest aren't that big a deal.
Yes; we should all DOS the competition. Brilliant plan.
Quake source code: www.idsoftware.com/business/techdownloads/

From a graphics and game engine perspective, it was very informative to go through pieces of of the source - I was mainly interested in the client/server and collision detection areas of the code.
I'm really looking forward to it. What a great line-up! It's an honor to be one of the speakers.

Anyone have any suggestions for topics they'd like me to address? I'll be incorporating a lot of Q&A into my talk, but I can seed the discussion with thoughts on a variety of topics. Let me know. Thanks.
For Java, all of Apache's stuff is good - particularly Jakarta. http://jakarta.apache.org/ This covers a wide range of topics and is designed to have a public API. http://code.google.com/p/google-collections/ and http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/ and http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/ are interesting in that they come out of Google, beyond their own individual merits.
On the topic of Geocities shutting down, I found an option in wget which ignores existing files - because Yahoo has a 503 error if you try to spider too many pages.

It's -nc which means 'no clobber' - which is the least helpful phrase considering you could say 'ignore existing'...

When you get a 503, wait about an hour, and then run wget until it fails, then wait an hour, etc, until you've got all 10mb of your webspace.

Also -np to only spider below your page on Geocities.
Chicago HN'ers: I made an iPhone/Android version of Metra's train schedules
I couldn't disagree more. When you start using Facebook, it becomes a must have. When I went about deleting all my online accounts, it was one of the two I didn't get rid of. If I got rid of that, I'd lose the most valuable communications medium I've got.
Awesome. At the same time, it's yet another Google project which is just so massive in scope and resources that no one else will want to compete.
Plan 9's source (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/)

The Lua VM's source (http://www.lua.org/source/5.1/)
If I understand this right, they are essentially crowdsourcing the addition of 3D models to Google Earth, no?

If so, that's a really great idea on how to get high-quality work done for lots and lots of cities, for almost free...
The danger here is that in optimizing for fast and cheap you may be prematurely optimizing yourself away from being able to do "good" without a complete re-write. Fast and cheap has a seductive nature of getting good feedback on broad concepts, but it also tends to lead to very shallow implementation of these concepts. Like a lot of evolutionary algorithms, it is easy to get caught in a local maxima and not realize that you have only reached the top of a foothill while a competitor that can see where the mountain really is will have made less progress but will end up miles ahead if you discover that you climbed the wrong slope...
I feel like you already have to know what with:public is before reading this. I got 1.5 paragraphs in and stopped since I had no idea what was going on.
Why .co.uk? Is it actually that popular, or is this UK bias?

Like for myself, would I replace .co.uk with .ca?
Especially its deep test architecture.
that is sick, thanks for the tip.
"Building Maker is not available for Linux/mobile devices."

:(
The MySQL MyISAM and InnoDB engines and a grocery checkout
There's plenty of discussions centered on the choice between the MySQL MyISAM and InnoDB engines. I've illustrated a case that has bitten me in the past.
Sweden's Internet Broken by DNS Mistake
Google's service must be better, right? Otherwise, people would just pay half the price. What exactly is wrong with charging a fair price in a competitive market. They might even be able to take some of those extra nickels, hire more people and build even more services.
Odd Spider Prefers Salad
The Chemistry of Information Addiction
Experimenting with a Neural Network-based Poker Bot
Qmail: http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html

It feels well organized almost throughout, and it's a joy to experience the clarity of thought that went into it. In fact, most of djb's code has a similar feeling to it.

Arthur Whitney's code: http://www.nsl.com/papers/origins.htm

Being able to read this (and not merely decode it, but read it, in a manner similar to how you would read a book) will broaden your horizons like nothing else I've seen.
There was less to know about the web back then, too. For starters, no CSS.
Mono's c# compiler is written in c#.
SharpDevelop is another good choice.
I liked Jamis Buck's (aka the creator of Capistrano) Bucketwise: http://github.com/jamis/bucketwise
Willie Nelson’s Got a New Broadband Plan
When I started out I owned just the .com, for years.

These days I would seriously buy the big three for so much as a good turn of phrase in a blog post. (If you're going to coin the next "Long Tail", own the domain and you'll own the idea by default.) Registering the big three for two years costs far less than writing a blog post does.

I don't typically worry about typos or adjacent domains unless they're extraordinarily likely to cause confusion (chinesenewyearbingocards.com vs chinesenewyearsbingocards.com -- I bought that after I was incapable of even writing my Apache config without mixing the two of them).

The competitor with every plural variation of my domains can enjoy the extra 10 visits a year he gets from them. I have better things to do with my time.
Good article, but much more applicable for enterprise products vs. consumer. The problem VCs have is that most of the time they need to figure out patterns by which to determine the potential of an early stage company, but most of the great companies don't fall into any pattern. Only after the fact, when looking back, can you see a pattern (other than founders, which is why they put such an emphasis on team, cause team does matter and team is more easy to recognize than product fit). By this criteria, twitter would be vitamin, facebook would be (be honest, has it been a burning desire for you to connect with long lost friends or have a social graph? not until you had it did you realize you needed it). So if your product fails these criteria, it's not the end of the world. But it is useful especially for products targeting enterprise customers.
Without going into the larger picture, if you do continue this I'd suggest taking good size doses of Vitamin D. In the last few years, research has been emphasizing the benefits on numerous fronts, including for mood and sense of well being. If your schedule is shifted this much and most of your time is spent in the environment you describe, your body may not be making enough vitamin D on its own.

And get the D3 form; it is supposed to be more bio-active. It's "dirt" cheap; affordable even on a student budget.
I don't see solidarity of video format coming. People with deep pockets are uncomfortable with the Ogg family and the unknown risks of litigation. People who do not wish to open their pockets won't license the MPEG portfolio.

My solution: The MPEG group should license their portfolio for free for HTML5 browsers. That will cement them as "the" format and they can recover their research costs and make their profit on licenses for devices and nonbrowser software.

(Thought I can only imagine how many lawyer hours it will take to arrive at a suitable definition of an "HTML5 browser".)
I'm in this exact space and there are plenty of people competing. Nokia and Microsoft to name a few.
I learned about sockets and networking by looking at the source for wget.

That's also where I saw calloc.c - A portable implementation of calloc. I distinctly remember it being one of the cleverest hacks I've seen.
oh sorry, slight bias (I'm in the UK), also I thought that if you search on google.co.uk it gives some preference to .co.uk domains.
It's disheartening that the Slate analysis does not calculate the approximate cost in dollars of alternate leaving-things-plugged-in strategies.

Even when prices are distorted by non-competitive markets, subsidies, regulation, and so forth, they remain vaguely related to the actual opportunity costs of a path of action.

According to this chart, the average retail price of a kilowatt-hour in the US varies from about 8¢ (West Virginia) to 22¢ (Hawaii).

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table5_6_a.html

So given Slate's estimate that leaving a phone plugged in an unnecessary 8 hours every day for a year would use 6.5 kWh, we're talking about a cost over the whole year of 54¢ to $1.43.

Is a full year of fussing with the charger to minimize hours-plugged-in worth a savings of $1.43 in time or energy? If once, over many years of following this strategy, it means your phone dies at an inopportune moment, was it worth the years of savings?

We spend energy all the time for convenience, and $2/year for not having to micromanage a device that's supposed to make life easier is a bargain.
Grooveshark signs licensing agreement with EMI
I have a confession, I was a little tight for cash when I got my google wave invite. I invited two friends then noticed what they where going for on ebay. I sold 6 invites at $25 a piece.

I listed them at 9:00 AM EST and they all sold in the hour between 2:30 PM and 3:30 PM. From what I can tell they went for a high price when others weren't selling because I marked them as international.
One of the issues with NN is that there is no way to find out the relative significance of the input variables and how they affect the output response. Atleast I couldn't find a way when I tried using them a couple of years back. Secondly, I guess there isn't a way to cluster similar cases together to analyze what rules bind different decisions together. Also, one cannot find the partial dependence of the output on a given input variable. All these problems are solved by the random forest classifier which I have been working with and really like.
Some (cynical) possibilities:

1. To sell invites would be "unGOOGlich"; that is, it may hurt Google's perceived "do no evil"/not-just-in-it-for-the-money/faux altruism brand.

2. Scarcity marketing increases demand for an already sought-after item.
I would be definitely interested.

Btw there is bunch of guys(startup people, entrepreneurial students etc) coming from Finland to visit the Valley roughly 23rd-31th, so some of our guys could perhaps attend and even help to organize the meetup.
Hmm. Well, thank you for your feedback.
Earlier this year I worked on a domain name finding site called Domain Pigeon. When I was telling people about it over email or AIM, people kept spelling it "pidgeon" like you would spell "fridge". I bought the domain name domainpidgeon.com and directed it to the actual site.

Kind of ironic, given the site was for finding good domain names...
Soooo...this teacher of mine said I could never go to the best class in the high school because only the best were going. I wasn't the best but I was stubborn: really, only the best? Teacher, you don't really know inspite of being my teacher several years.
I went to that best class after taking the exam. And i was the only one from my colleagues to do so. Take that...teacher!

I worked in a coal mine for several years (no other alternatives at that time). One day I tokk the chance to get out for good and do something else. My work colleagues said I will not find anything else (tough economic times, thougher than this one in my country). Well, I learned computers and never loked back. I'm working now as a web developer (10 years since I started).

I'm mingling now with theidea of changing my career again, becoming a filmmaker. I know I can do it and nobody can stop me, that's for sure!

Thanks for this post, John.
I'd buy all at once, i won't pay extra for something i'm getting at lowest price.
Great Site, even looks good on my Blackberry Curve!
Any good event-driven JavaScript (jQuery/Prototype is also fine) projects out there?
It's the same reason we have the word deceleration despite the fact that acceleration is technically just a change in speed over time, not just an increase. It's useful to use one word to distinguish direction.
All you need is Windows or Mac and to be online.

EDIT: Apparently Firefox or IE too.
That post has absolutely nothing in it specific to ObjC. Everything mentioned is part of regular old ANSI c.
Makes perfect sense. Knowing why is often as important (if not more important) than knowing what. That way you can avoid blaming the Holocaust on the Jews' bad attitudes.
Looks like it's down now - a day late and a dollar short as they say.
Anybody interested in this device? I don't see who would want to buy it?
Linguists might spell it "pidgin" instead.
Hey that's kindof a cool failsafe. Maybe a good idea to have some redundancy in our web services. As in some functionality, vs. no functionality.
Search Engines are Parasites
Agreed on hostels being the easiest way to meet people. You don't even need to try, which is why it actually might not improve your skills at home all that much.
A few keys to get to a few menu items really doesn't work since you have to remember them. In windows, you can use the alt key to both arrow through the menu AND to learn the specific hot-keys.

Plus I actually suspect that a many application don't implement the keys you've mentioned since I was definitely at-sea in my efforts to use any keys.

But thanks, I'll have more ammunition the next time I'm stuck Osx-land.
In mapping or in building 3d models of real world buildings?
Why are Facebook, Digg and Twitter So Hard To Scale?
Looks like wiki spreadsheets for structural data with API. Still has limitation that we can't add columns, for example latitude and longitude for restaurants.

On revenue model, it is ok to charge for premium API since it hosts infrastructure. Still hope to have some mechanism like Hg or Git to make open database distributed and synced, so other companies can host the data if they wish.
Linus Torvalds on Git
How do I market my patent
Just got it and it's good for protection of all media especially video. Talking to Microsoft already, but...
A mean spirited joke, I say!
Supposedly, it ships on the 19th. I pre-ordered. :)
The analogy is helpful, but leaves some things out. In one of the grocery stores, you'll find that if the lights flicker off and for just a second, half the products on the shelves may end up unusable. And if your store gets past a certain size, a sinkhole may appear and suck most of your inventory underground with no warning.

The only reason I can think of for using MyISAM tables in a web app is the terrible default InnoDB settings in MySQL. Users unfamiliar with InnoDB may not realize that the awful performance is an artifact of bad configuration, and easily fixed.
Thanks. My post was just a guess.
Yes, but if you take that attitude too far you'll never learn from your mistakes. It's quite possible that if you had stopped procrastinating and called earlier, you really would have had the chance the rent the house.
I'm still not sure why folks still use MyISAM. I'm sure there may be some edge case where it makes more sense, but in generally InnoDB seems like a better choice (not just regarding row level locking). Or postgres:)
Yeah I'm disappointed and too lazy to open up VirtualBox. Building Maker is probably better off anyway without my contributions.
I did read the article, but already knew the meme is stupid and wrong and thought the same of the HN readership, thus I'm surprised to see it in any form, pro or against.

And I comment when I disapprove of a thread because the flag and shut up mantra has never sat right with me. I prefer to explain why I dislike something.
Is Meebo making money?
I just finished reading their blog posts (blog.meebo.com) about startups in general, and it seems to me they talked quite a bit about what it feels like to be a successful startup.

True, they have 50 million users per month, but...are they making money? Is it a business yet? I can't seem to find any info on this, so I figure I'd turn to the HN community.
Squeak Smalltalk. For Java, if you can get hold of it, the old Acme Webserver. That was very clean code.
Be Careful What You Post on Twitter
Could you possibly use Google Calendar for this for now? You'd just have to set it up once with recurring weekly/daily events (like mornings for code) and set specific slots for office hours. People you invite can see which office hours slots you have open and type in their name

It's probably the fastest cheapest way

A vc also recently scheduled a meeting with me using: https://app.timebridge.com/login but not sure how useful it is
You're right, Amazon really nails the personalized upsell in a way that is tough to do in a retail environment (short of having talented salespeople on the floor).

As for the bar code scanning, isn't that what these folks are trying to accomplish? http://www.redlaser.com/
Some background - We think that hackers with hardware experience are the best people to build engineering design tools. Unfortunately, it's quite difficult to get startup capital for design tools so there hasn't been much innovation in the space. The end result is that only large well funded companies have had the resources to build design tools. We hope that by sharing revenue generated by the API, we can democratize design software by enabling hackers of all stripes to build new tools.
I recently did this exact thing for an upcoming venture -- didn't want anyone beating us to it.
Math summer camp program for gifted middle school students
Sounds like simple crowd sourcing. But please note what they are really doing.

They are providing an ideal training set for training machine learning algorithms to automatically extract 3D models from aerial photos.

Yes, so they can replace the crowd with bots.

Edit: spelling.
Free app on a device I already carry around all day vs. $99 single use-case app... no brainer.
Starting Your Own Business in San Francisco