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Just to fill in come context, SIOC is an RDF vocabulary that describes web content and communities. In my mind, any site that's based on a CMS or a database should export a version…

The "private beta" is a web 2.0 trope that's going to disappear in web 3.0. It's something you can afford to do when you've got a rich sugar daddy, but when you're trying to make a…

Class-D amps aren't a common project for the electronic enthusiast: although the theory of the Class-D amp is beautiful and simple, there are a lot of details in the construction t…

I got a PhD but never found my voice writing as an academic. For a while I thought I was a bad writer, but I spent a year or two, a few years later, where the bulk of my income cam…

Maybe it's the state I'm in, but whenever I've looked into high deductible plans it doesn't seem that they save much money. Most of health insurance premiums go to pay for very exp…

How come people aren't looking at this from the other angle: a twitter client could pre-preemptively look up URLs from url shortening services and annotate the tweets with the full…

Frontier DSL, which also serves communities around Rochester, NY has also been talking about a bandwidth cap -- at a ludicrously low 5 GB/month. Frontier serves a number of rural a…

That's very possible. No matter how I interpret it, Prozac made my life like a Phillip K. Dick novel.

Personally I'm not a fan of antidepressants. For me, Prozac had the side effect of extra-sensory perception: I couldn't do anything without having immediate karmic effects on peopl…

This is ludicrous. You might have been able to blame labor unions for the economic problems of the 1970's, but capital has been ascendant everywhere since the 1980's. Power has bec…

I'm in a rural area with monopoly DSL from Frontier. These days they use repeaters to service people that are more than 18k feet from the CO: http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_houl…

I don't agree with this. Jeff's post had some thoughtful things to say about designing rules for communities. He's thinking a lot about what the rules should be for his community a…

My sites have done OK w/ advertising since Fall 2008, but I'm more weighted towards PPC and CPA. Web advertising has it's challenges, but it's clear that advertisers are wildly ove…

There a lot of people chasing the kind of opportunities that he advocates: ones that have strongly superlinear scaling. That kind of investment comes with a possibility of an explo…

this is why i like hacker news: anything about PHP gets downvoted into oblivion on reddit.

I can't say if it's really "hacker" news, but it's definitely sugoi!