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How is this a Sam Altman story?

Is this for real or did Google start with the April jokes early this year?

Google car.

Anyone from HN comming?

What they do have right is the open API, the features and innovation comes from third-party services.

I like 960GS (http://960.gs/) a lot better than Blueprint.

Is anyone from HN a member of some of mentioned networks? Is it of any value to you so far?

Me too. Do you (or others) also want to build something on top of it?

I heard a similar story. Back in the day, when computers were big and slow, there was a debugging room in the Bell Labs. When a programmer had difficulties debugging his piece of code, he went to that room and talk to a teddy bear about his code and the error he's getting. This should have made him realize what he's doing wrong. I don't know how successful the method was for them, however it works often for me.

A lot of people submit "rate my startup" links. There are two ways to do this - either sumbit a link to the homepage with an appropriate title or submit a question-like post with the homepage link in the title and additional commentary in the text field. In the first case, the author must add a comment the regular way which may not be at the top/visible the whole time. In the second case, there's no direct link to the homepage, one has to copy it or type it manually. I would appreciate if HN would improve the UX with these kind of posts. I won't suggest a solution, I'm sure PG will come up with something clever if he decides to implement this.

Those hot girls on the photos will definitely boost sing-up rate.

I can see so it's probably a problem on your side.

Does it actually fly? It's not airborn on the pictures.

Way too much hand movement is necessary to interact with the interfaces.

My impression from the talk is that they still don't have any clue on what they've built.

This can happen anywhere, with any hosting solution as long as you don't have physical access to you servers. AWS, Linode, Slicehost...they all can go down.

Google, being a good friend of mine, didn't mind me asking. His answer: Fisher Discriminant Analysis (FDA), Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). I'll introduce you: http://google.com

Sorry, I have no clue what are you talking about. Can you elaborate? What /is/ the problem with RH?

You know that RH employees actually work on OSS, right? They're a major contributor to the open-source world, they have a community of enthusiasts (Fedora) and everything goes to upstream.

Arrington is on vacation, Erick Schonfeld wrote that.

Small things I really like about your site: 1) "share the love" icons; 2) ability to log in using my twitter account (you should make it more visible, missed it the first time); 3) the way updates are formulated: <user> <action> <status> (particulary "user replied to another_user" is so much better than Twitter's); 4) rocks!/sucks! reviews

Good luck to you and many satisfied users!

My prediction for 2009 is that Google will buy Twitter.

Yup, this is what I had in mind.

Do people speak good English? How hard do you think it would be for a foreigner (not speaking German) to get around in Berlin?

Definitely comming. Who else from HN is going to be there?

Thanks for the 960gs, looks great. As I'm starting a small side project without a frontend developer and I hate writing CSS, I'll consider using it. The previous candidate was Malo (http://code.google.com/p/malo/).

I want this feature too and add ability to hide stories I'm not interested in but I've already seen on the front page.

I get that. I'll definitely consider it. It's on my list of open-source side projects.

The closest thing at the moment would probably be Lispbox (http://gigamonkeys.com/book/lispbox/) altough it's a bit outdated, so you'd be better with directly downloading SBCL (http://www.sbcl.org/platform-table.html). Use cl-build (http://common-lisp.net/project/clbuild/) for to ease library download. and install. I guess it's too complicated for a newcomer, but there's no easier way atm, sorry.

Yeah, you are probably right. Because of Java's popularity and high demand, hosting providers have to be Java-ready and nowadays, it's not a problem.

However, it seems I've been living in a cave. Besides the Reddit case, I haven't heard (or at least can't remember) about problems running a CL environment. Can people who had this problem please reply - what disto, what implementation, what was the issue?