skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, you're authenticating yourself, and searching other non-publicly-searchable people's ID? Or you're authenticating, searching your own, and seeing people who don't list themselves as public? Or, you're seeing people who aren't public, but in your friends list, and you're publicly searchable?

If it's the first, then that's definitely a problem, as anyone can be a FB user. In that case, care to post the command somewhere? This should be made known, as it's definitely a privacy concern, and FB tends to do nothing unless threatened.
SEC Filing: http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/00011931251001705...

This isn't necessarily a good thing for the sector/company.

Also:

Risks Affecting Us

Risk Factors:

our limited operating history makes evaluating our business and future prospects difficult, and may increase the risk of your investment;

we have a history of losses and we expect significant increases in our costs and expenses to result in continuing losses for at least the foreseeable future;

our future growth is dependent upon consumers’ willingness to adopt electric vehicles;

we are dependent upon our ability to fully draw down on our loan facility from the United States Department of Energy, which may restrict our ability to conduct our business;

our distribution model is different from the predominant current distribution model for automobile manufacturers, which makes evaluating our business, operating results and future prospects difficult;

we are almost entirely dependent upon revenue generated from the sale of our electric vehicles, specifically the Tesla Roadster, in the near term, and our future success will be dependent upon our ability to design and achieve market acceptance of new vehicle models, and specifically the Model S;

we anticipate that we will experience a decrease in revenues and increase in losses prior to the launch of the Model S;

our production model for the non-powertrain portion of the Model S is unproven, still evolving and is very different from the non-powertrain portion of the production model for the Tesla Roadster; and

we may experience significant delays in the design, manufacture, launch and financing of the Model S.
Microsoft always seems to need one or two attempts before they make a really good product. Win95 -> WinME -> WinXP. Zune -> Zune2. Vista -> 7. They may not be as agile as Google, but a lot of smart people work at MS. I hope they succeed with good search. Google needs some competition.

Having said that: Bing sucks b*s in Germany.
Pretty much the only thing that's making me consider switching from my Sony PRS-505 (it's the one pictured in the blog post) to a Kindle DX is the ability to read PDFs without the annoying and buggy reflowing. Cutting pages doesn't do the trick for me though.. I probably *will& get the DX :(
Judging by online version calling this book a definitive guide is somehow misleading. There are still many crucial details about CouchDB that you cannot find in this book and you have to search for them in mailing lists/blogs/wikis. I think a title like Starting Couchdb with Couchapp fits better for this book.
Why Ke$ha went #1…and why it could’ve been bigger…
JQAPI - Alternative jQuery Documentation
Interesting. Some practice with this could make textbooks (especially smaller ones) useable on the regular Kindle / Nook / Sony reader.
Microsoft roadmap leak -- Windows 8 in 2011?
Thanks for the comments.

- I will definitely put the "View Demo" confusion on my todo list.

- Never even though of video games. Are there leagues out there for that? (I don't play video games that often)

- I will take a look at your site. My faq's are pretty static right now, but that could definitely change.

Thanks again.
For quality search results theres also still http://www.ask.com and http://www.alltheweb.com . I wonder why we hear so little about those.
See, the problem is the idea that "social" technologies necessarily mean telecommunications. There are a lot of technologies for talking to people who live far away from you, what's missing is technologies for socializing with people in person. In this sense, maybe having an IPS screen with 178 degrees of viewing angle fulfills more unmet social needs than just another IM client or VOIP app or videoconferencing technology.
That was exactly my use case for creating it in the first place :)
What drove you to writing backend code in JavaScript? Having written several projects (client-side, but minimal DOM junk) in JS, I cringe at the thought of having to use it where it's not required. Some people really seem to like their JS, though, so I'm wondering what drew you to it?
http://searchyc.com/ask+hn+tools
Not the only thing I would say that they "suck at".
Well, you have to believe in a placebo. Who would believe in a cheap sugar pill?
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IMFT samples 2-bit 25nm NAND, available in SSDs by Q4
He's saying that when you order coffee you order you can order:

"black coffee"
-> This is coffee without any thing added ( that's what the 'black' part means )

but

"black coffee, no cream, no sugar"
-> is confusing because it is redundant. Sleepy baristas and dinner waiters/waitresses will hear that and think:
"coffee with cream and sugar" because, why would you order "black coffee, no cream, no sugar" it makes no sense.
I'd rewrite this sentence: "To create a user or log in, click on that button", maybe something like "To create an account or log in, click on the button below"?

More generally, I don't understand what this app will do for me (and didn't want to give up my credentials to find out).

As imp asked, do you have a lyrics database or do I need to key in the lyrics myself?

Once I have lyrics, what exactly will the app do for me? Is the answer simply format them into two columns with zebra striping? What happens when there's not enough room on the screen for the full lyrics? (You promised me no more scrolling, does the font just get smaller?)

Maybe I'm just not in your target market, but I'm having a hard time understanding the value proposition here. More importantly, while I'm a fan of the MVP approach, your site does not currently inspire much confidence. There's no way I'd give my credit card details to this site if I encountered it in the wild.
Special bonus tip for HN readers! To get a set of good starting values for cropping the margins, use the existing pdfcrop utility with the --verbose flag.

It will display the existing BoundingBox property as it processes each page. Let it run for a few pages, kill it, and use those numbers as a starting point. They will probably not be as tight as you'd like, since they won't cut out page numbers or headers.
I found Bruce Sterlings - very sarcastic - comments regarding this enterprise very interesting (and funny): http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2009/06/male-libertar...

I share his views insofar as this is internet ideology run amok without much consideration towards social equality and similar aspects.

Consider the idea of 'coaststeads': How is this different from simple tax evasion? The idea does not seem to have the coaststeaders sleep on their ships - they simple commute there in order to evade regulation.
YA "lifecycle of a programmer" post
I've been let down by Ask so many times over so many years (... more than 10?), I do not even think about them.
Wikipedia is noncommercial.
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"Q. What's green and commutes?
A. An abelian grape"

Mmhmm.

What's green and commutes, and is worshipped by a limited number of people? A finitely-venerated abelian grape.

What's green and had all of its children involuntarily committed? A simple grape -- it has no proper, normal subgrapes.
So, you're saying that when a customer says a phrase with unambiguous meaning, it's excusable for an employee to misinterpret it as a similar, but more common phrase simply because they aren't actually listening to the customer? When you're taking orders, your entire job is to listen to what the customer actually says, not what you expect them to say. If you're half asleep and acting on reflex and as a result you screw up, you deserve to get yelled at by the customer and your boss, because you've failed to do your job.

I'm quite aware of the psychology research that's been done and discussed here recently regarding cashiers operating on auto-pilot and reflexively asking "You want fries with that?" after a customer orders fries. These kind of mistakes are common, and to be expected. That doesn't change the fact that you're being paid to not make those mistakes, and if you don't have the mental discipline to catch those mistakes, you aren't fit for the job.
I respect Cohen less for this. He has contributed good things to OSS which we all appreciate, but that doesn't mean that we need maintain reverence for him regardless of his actions.

I would much rather employ and/or associate with a "kind and humble soul" that writes mediocre software than an arrogant dickface who writes excellent software. Clock cycles are much cheaper than tolerance and faith, which diminishes upon exposure to such a man.
Does sponsorship still work?
> When you can say in 2 words exactly what you want, you shouldn't be using 5.

Right, because human beings should strive to be as efficient as possible and throw anything that isn't as efficient as possible. Love? Too inefficient! Socializing? Not getting enough work done! 5 words instead of 2? I'm so embarrassed that that seppuku is the only option!

> When a worker hears "Coffee, no cream, no sugar" what they're actually hearing is 'Coffee' 'Cream' and 'Sugar',

So you're saying that the workers aren't paying any attention to what the customer is actually saying, and that it's definitely the customer's fault for not knowing the 'secret code' of the coffeeshop?
The smart thing about this list is that at least to some extent, it frames local business as a tangible net positive for the consumer. It bugs me when people suggest that you should shop at local businesses as an act of altruism or sticking it to the man. There's only one reason to choose any business: they give you the best results for the things you care about.

People don't respond well to nebulous, "this strengthens the community"-type stuff. They like good products, good service, low prices, and a nice user/shopping experience. The crucial point is that whatever the good things are about your business, people have to feel them in a single interaction, the very first time — not years down the road. You can't depend on people subordinating their short-term interests to a vague community benefit that a) won't show up for a long time, and b) only shows up if everyone else in the community also makes the same sacrifice.
> If it keeps people from abusing antibiotics then I'd say it's money well spent. Unless you'd prefer getting MRSA.

It's the healthcare professionals that should be stopping people from taking antibiotics like candy. It's everyone else that should understand that having an unhealthy sense of entitlement to whatever drugs they can get is a bad thing.

> And if it makes them feel better, then why give them real medicine with real side effects? Side effects which, in aggregate, would cost billions to deal with.

Because people have suffered needlessly and even died as a result of ignoring good advice from their doctors in lieu of this quack medicine. How much extra is being spent because they waited forever for whatever they had to go away with homeopathy but it didn't and maybe even got worse? If it was only something as trivial as a case of the common cold or something I don't think people would be arguing too much with you. But there are people out there seeking these out as a substitute for things as serious as cancer treatment.
Why not? You could encode the original video as multiple segments, in order to watch the next segment, you have to watch an ad. Maybe use some kind of long polling to ensure that the advertisement was watched in its entirety -- supply a unique key at the end of the 30 seconds that the client has to rehash. It's a relatively minor engineering challenge, but I'm sure it can be solved.
OK, meetup this Wednesday. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965 for details and rsvp.
I smell a chamber of commerce's involvement.
Since homeopathy is a form of sympathetic magic, you're perfectly justified in calling homeopaths "witch doctors". Which is awesome, because I've always wanted to call a quack a witch doctor and be correct.
On ask.com I have to scroll the page to even reach the first organic result after the block of sponsored results. If you use it on a regular basis, don't you get tired of doing that?
I've had the DX for about six months. Love it. Rotate it into landscape and it does great with technical PDFs.
If you read the comments one reason FreeNode is in disarray is because Rob Levin who ran the site died in a bicycling accident a few years ago.

In fact the chaos and drama at FreeNode might be the real story here.

http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/72298.html?thread=1000554#t...

Fragglet writes (in the comments):

"This shouldn't be surprising to anyone with any experience of Freenode. Freenode is a perfect example of how open source projects tend to acquire the personality of their founder. In the case of Freenode, that founder was Rob Levin, famous for his online begging over wallops and for being completely incompetent in general. Levin's incompetence, begging and dictatorial style where he branded everyone who disagreed with him a "troll" gradually alienated all the sensible and technically skilled people from the network staff until the only people left were his equally incompetent sycophantic underlings.

"When Levin died several years ago as a result of his own stupidity (riding a bike without a helmet), they took over. I haven't heard of mquin before but it looks like the cycle continues.

"Your best option is to close the Freenode channel and move to OFTC, the staff of which consist mostly of the sensible and technically skilled people who left Freenode."

Here are some links with more details,

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/01/29/buy_a_piece_of_net/

http://antisec.wordpress.com/2006/06/27/eyeballing-rob-levin...
It's more math than English, but yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifurcation_theory

In case you've never studied bifurcation theory.
I agree and am really sick of self-diagnosed "Aspies". Asperger's is the new ADHD, which is to say, the new favored scapegoat for an awkward child (or adult in this case). This will only get worse as publication of Asperger's increases; there's a new movie coming out about some guy with Asperger's, I expect it to do bad things.

ADHD remains the favored scapegoat for a disobedient or hyperactive child.
If you want to include them, boolean logic still works for advanced search tags. You can search for 'somethingorother site:.edu OR site:.ac.uk'
Thanks for your comment and for reading my post. I totally relate with your story regarding that online project aiming at too many things things... having a too scattered scope is as deadly as a vague scope.

And, as you say, "later" is a help in letting everyone prioritize what's important and urgent: the vital elements for the project's success.

Thanks again for the insights!
Except the FreeNode channel registration process takes months or years (I'm not entirely sure it works at all for already claimed channels, even if the prior claimant has no relation to the project, and there is no doubt of the claims of the new person attempting to register). You'll starve to death if you plan to have lunch after ops are obtained.
What managers really do
As pointed out below, he doesn't even have a real diagnosis. He hides behind the label to excuse himself from learning appropriate behaviors.
I definitely agree that having "alone time" from your co-workers helps foster creativity because your mind wanders more when you're not engaged in a focused discussion.

It reminds me of how Archimedes discovered the principles of buoyancy and density in the bathtub.
I agree. Around 2000, I remember reading all these articles in video game magazines talking about how microsoft will never be a major player in consoles. "Microsoft is not a video game company, its not in their dna". Fast forward a bit and look at the console landscape now. 5.5 million xbox 360s were sold in the 4th quarter of 2009. The xbox can now be considered a runaway success, despite the numerous setbacks that have occured (red ring of death).

With search the landscape is a bit different, but we shouldn't be so shortsighted as to count microsoft out of the game or think that bing will never gain >50% marketshare. We could look at articles like this in 3-4 years and laugh out how off the mark it was, just like the articles in game magazines bashing the xbox in the early 2000's.
Is it just me, or is a swath of source missing? The Pure64 secondary loader which does a lot of interesting tasks to do with understanding the processor appears to be binary only.
You could make the same argument about almost everything Google's done except for search/advertising/youtube.
Google phases out support for IE6
OmniGroup: iPad or Bust
Yes, but MongoDB is so easy to use, at least with Ruby and the mongo and mongo_record gems, that it would be a very short book. BTW, I just wrote a 3 part article for developer.com that has CouchDB and MongoDB examples.
My preferred argument is that high labor costs increases supply which reduces the total cost of labor.

For example, in a city I need one DBA which costs me $100k. In the country I need two DBAs at $60k each, because if one leaves I'm not confident I can get another of sufficient skill before the business falls apart.

This applies less to larger businesses, which have internal economies of scale and so don't need to rely on the outside market as much. It also doesn't apply to those reliant on lower skilled labor which has a higher supply by default.
Information Management: A Proposal by Tim Berners-Lee, CERN, March 1989
There is a nearby private storage facility they point you to. It's expensive. Good business for who-ever owns it.
True but there is surely a lot of use cases and interesting advanced uses that could make for an interesting book. And I'll check your articles out!
Clojure is actually one of the languages I've moved to, from Python, and is currently my favourite programming language to work in. Functional programming, immutable data structures, great built in data structure support, macros, excellent concurrency support, a good standard library and direct access to Java libraries all make Clojure a beautifully powerful and easy language to work in. The clojure community is also very friendly and growing every day, so if you need it, getting suppor is not hard.

I do still like Python, but theres so much more nice things out there. Besides clojure, I'm playing with Yeti and hope to give F# a look soon too. Maybe some day I'll have some time to play with Haskell also; its been on my todo list for a long time.
This reminds me of a point I heard someone make about (I think) a Heinlein novel. Heinlein (or whoever :)) had predicted the widespread use of telephone answering machines. Their point is that this was kind of easy to do - but what Heinlein also did was predict that people would use them to screen phone calls (in the book, the character hears his Dad call in, and picks up the phone and says something like "I'm in for you, Dad.")

The point is that predicting how people will use stuff is the hard part (as you say).
Cal Ave Trees Have Returned
Having done this for my L1 visa, and jettisoned the USB key I forgot was on my key ring, I'm still puzzled by the author.

All the documentation is very upfront about this procedure. I think it should be obvious to anyone vaguely technical the range of small bugs that can be made now.

As such removing disambiguation is pretty sensible plan. Rather than airport security which makes a pretense of banning "dangerous" items at least in this case they can say you were warned and there is no room for misinterpretation.
I'm kind of curious: hypothetically imagine Google had super crazy search personalization... and knew when you were interested in scientific sources in a field versus just the wikipedia article. Would you be happier because your searches are great, or freaked out because you feel your privacy is being invaded.
Q: What do you get if you cross a sheep with a kangaroo?

A: A woolley jumper.

Q: What do you get if you cross a mountaineer with a mosquito?

A: You can't cross a scalar with a vector.
So far as I know, the rule was always "don't bother buying any MS software until version 3".

MS-DOS: v1.0, v2.0, v3.3

Windows: v1.0, v2.0, v3.0

Windows NT: v3.1, v3.51, v4.0

Word for Windows: v1.0, v2.0, v6.0

Visual Basic: v1.0, v2.0, v3.0

There's probably other examples, but I'm not sufficiently familiar with Microsoft's other (or newer) products to list them.
But why? Really, is there any fundamental reason we should expect Google to remain perpetually on top of the search engine business?

I think the difference in quality between Google and Bing search results is negligible; at this point it's just a matter of mindshare as to whether people, on average, go to www.google.com or to www.bing.com when they want to look something up. There's no vendor lock-in propping up Google, to the extent that there is behind the Windows or iTunes monopolies. Mindshare can be altered, Microsoft just needs to figure out how to do it.
There are two reasons why I picked JavaScript. First, V8+node.js is an amazing runtime system. One should remember that V8 is implemented by a highly skilled Google team that's led by Lars Bak - who was the lead architect for Java's HotSpot VM (the current VM that's used in Java...) So first choice, performance. node.js is also very small in size, so I figured out I could patch if anything wasn't working.

The second reason to pick JavaScript is that it's already geared towards event based programming, because of following things:

events in browsers and
closures are a natural part of the language, e.g.
document.addEventListener("click", function()...

Event based programming is needed to implement highly scaleable non-blocking servers. So JavaScript is a really good match...

And really, JavaScript is a great language and it can emulate almost any paradigm that you may like. node.js also introduces a module system which makes it much easier to manage code. JavaScript isn't perfect and there's tons of bad code written for it, but it's possible to create beautiful code in JavaScript :-)
I wonder if we're having a Violent Agreement.

I'm not saying that you have to consciously play status ("decide to play"). I'm saying that when you interact with someone else, you are playing a certain level of status in relation to them, whether you are aware of it or not.

Engaging in some phony behavior will, of course, make people perceive you as a phony, with all the loss of respect that that entails. Respect, of course, is a big part of status. When you don't respect someone, you tend to play higher status toward them.