skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where's the setting to separate the address bar and the search bar?
A new kind of volume control
Google replies: http://blog.google.org/2010/03/gooey-googley-energy.html
Please, be safe. It's a jungle out there.
As Kejistan said, you don't buy an iPhone instead of a computer. Most people are used to phones that can make calls, send messages and little more, so the iPhone is more capable. Tivo is also not a replacement for a computer, but for less capable movie/tv players.

Most people may just be browsing the web most of the time, but they also use the computer to copy photos from a camera, make party invitations, etc. Netbooks may not be suitable for running Photoshop and Excel, but they can when you need to. This is why they are so popular.
Wow. That is going to make me think twice next time I flame somebody on HN or Slashdot.

Apparently, it is not just karma I am burning. It is human feelings!
The Internet is like your car.
To be clear, most of this is speculation. All we’ve confirmed is that Google has acquired a company with a new enrichment process and that they have begun researching small, nuclear portable generators.
Whoops, submitted before reading guidelines. I should have cropped the starting number and gratuitous adjective. Sorry HN!
From someone who lives and develops in the real world, your prices, current offerings, and future offerings are right on the mark.

Simply GeoDjango you are not. Nice job.
So, the difficulty here is not being able to give enough feedback where it counts: the talent/portfolio section because Austin shows "empty". So to echo feedback already left, perhaps change it to operate like:

I need a [Designer] based in [Anywhere] and my budget is [Bootstrapped].

This would make it immediately more useful until you have critical mass on a per city basis -- and even then, isn't the trend being able to work essentially from anywhere? It's definitely nice to be able to zone talent by city, but in the end I don't really care if a landing-page rockstar is based in NYC if they fit the style and price I'm looking for.

Good idea though, keep at it. Look forward to this getting populated.
Why do you actually need two separate text boxes? If you don't type a valid URL, your text becomes a search. You can easily pick which search engine to use, if you don't want Google logging your searches.

Does the combination search/URL bother you for some reason?

Edit: If you're worried about the silly auto-suggestions issue, just uncheck the setting in the "Under the Hood" options tab: "Use a suggestive service to help complete..."
This is utter nonsense. Why is it that you assume that negative emotions are necessary and valid? I'll read the rant and maybe learn something from it. If the girl doesn't respond to me, there's a reason for it. Pain is a fleeting thing, let it pass you by. It is not necessary to identify with it other than as a signal that something needs to be dealt with. This does not diminish positive emotions. Quite to the contrary.
Ok, here we have an ebook, in one single html file.

http://code.google.com/p/onlisp/
Maybe a big ask, but any chance of international support (Europe)? or if not, a look at the source?
>$646 per month or around $16.65 an hour

You may want to divide your price per hour by 4 assuming they work an average of 40 hours per week
New Book by Fred Brooks - The Design of Design
I have nothing but good things to say about SQLite. Small. No dependencies. Lightning fast. Public domain. I use it exclusively for all things databases where the customer for whatever reason does not demand one of the other players. I'm glad to see a major actor in the DB industry picking up on it.
Not all services scale perfectly linearly. They are likely limited by certain costs associated with using an Amazon infrastructure or their own infrastructure, or it is simply a matter of customer hot spotting trends and perceived demand.
OK, I'll quite happily agree with that. I'm generally wary of people who won't venture outside one language (one-trick ponies). I personally try to avoid using C++ except where it's clearly the best choice, mostly because I used it as my main language for the best part of a decade (high performance computing and game development). The thing is, C++ is still possibly the best choice in that narrow segment where C alone is too tedious but a high-level language won't work for some reason.
I did not know about this project at the time I started with pdfcrowd. But anyway, I just took my existing pdf library and integrated it with WebKit which was not that hard as one could think.
SQLite outperforms it by far. That could also weigh in a little :)
Kia is the only one I can think of.
This is really interesting, I might be able to use mogotix as an adjunct to the startup we're building at the moment.
Court Says Bush Illegally Wiretapped Two Americans
At first I didn't get it. But then I tried it. And I like it! How cool would this option be for 'books on tape'.
Google has been considering going nuclear since at least 2006:

"Should Google Go Nuclear? Clean, cheap, nuclear power (no, really)"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606#

Granted, other than the title they've chosen for the video, there isn't a focus in this video on Google actually adopting Nuclear energy. But they were clearly trying to start changing the perception of nuclear energy as far back as 2006.
Because having just one stream of income, no matter how reliable it seems is a huge risk. Before you know it you can be back in the treadmill again.
While this may be true, it sounds like FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) coming from Microsoft.
Two more issues I noticed:

* The keywords I enter on my profile keep getting re-ordered automatically by your software. It wants to put javascript first, but that's not my primary language, so I don't want it appearing first below my name. I've opted to delete it from the list instead.

* I'd suggest that the "time to complete" and "cost for similar" fields in the Add Project form to be optional. I prefer to not have this kind of information posted publicly, so I had to enter dummy values.
In these occasions I find myself writing a draft of a letter, then re-writing it 5 or 6 times as my anger subsides. What starts out as a 10-page tome usually turns into 3 paragraphs of "Hey, this wasn't so great, Here's how I'd love to see it done."
How do tickets arrive in phones? Actual barcode/graphic stills or how about text strings? Can the latter be scanned as well?
Well, when you put it in the search bar, your intention is to send the information to the search provider, after all, that's the whole point of the search box. However, with Chrome, as the two boxes are merged, the autocomplete function sends every keystroke to the search provider even when you wanted to go to a website directly, information that the search provider doesn't need at all and that is maybe private.
Politeness is good for us. Weakness is not.
This used to be why I liked OKCupid. If you rated somebody with a 1-star rating, and they did the same, then OKC told you, and there were no hurt feelings, just "hey they're not interested". At some point someone got hurt feelings, and the instantaneous feedback of "if I give her a 1 star, do I get an email telling me she's not interested, since women tend to be indirect and not want to hurt feelings" went away. It turned into a wall you threw your introductory messages over, with a bottom-less pit on the other side of the wal.
Do you have any benchmarks to support that claim?
We send a SMS with a link. You can try it out here: http://example.mogotix.com
I actually also mean : stop letting every negative event that occurs set you into a downward spiral of negative emotions. My philosophical beliefs are that the vast majority of people allow themselves to put far, far too much energy into negativity.
The point of the video is that IE8 separates the address bar from the search box, so that nothing gets sent over the network when you are just typing in a URL or searching your history. Some might argue that the IE8 design is worse from a usability standpoint, but it seems clearly better from a privacy standpoint.

Back around IE4 or so, everybody was bashing Microsoft on privacy, because if you typed something that wasn't a URL and pressed ENTER in the address bar, IE would do a MSN search automatically.
I saw the video and it just looked like turning "no clip" on for a piece of the puzzle and moving it where it's supposed to be. I'm probably missing something about how this is supposed to work..
This was the whole point of the first half of the video. I want auto-suggest on for web searches and off for everything else, as explained in the video.
I've used berkeley for hundreds of concurrent queries -- it is quite good in those situations, SQLlite is not -- its just not designed for those situations.

combining the two brings an easy interface that sqlite provide, and the concurrent performance that bdb has, is definitely providing value.
Photos Around You: A GeoLocation Mini Photo App using YUI 3.1, YQL, & Flickr
Interesting. I hadn't noticed that, but you are right. I only get suggestions for searches I've made during my incognito session (so stored locally in the browser's memory) or for pages in my history for that session.
Yeah and man did I get taken. Arrington just RT'd my tweet announcing the blog post. Argh!
When framed in the right way, people will pay you for the opportunity to level up. See: World Of Warcraft.
Google Pranks: A History Of The Companies April Fool’s Day Jokes
You're only 3 years behind on this one. http://www.google.com/tisp/press.html
Great. We would love to talk, anytime.
I had a similar feeling but I can't imagine the game would get so much hype if that was really all there was to it. Maybe different locations on the 4th dimensional plane have different obstacles which would make you need to keep a tally of each landscape in your head? That could get very tough depending on the situation.
The video was location data we aggregated during SXSW for our vicarious.ly visualization. We have lots of work to do on messaging and documentation.

What bugs did you find? We use the Python client internally and the iPhone SDK is being used in production. Maybe post on http://help.simplegeo.com?
What I Know About Designing Credit Card Forms
Fred Brooks, for those who don't know, is the author of the software engineering book The Mythical Man Month ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month )
How to Register a Start-Up
A 6 week search engine experiment
The Biography of 37signals with Jason Fried
Most importantly: The best tested software out there: http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html

"As of version 3.6.23 (all statistics in the report are against that release of SQLite), the SQLite library consists of approximately 67.2 KSLOC of C code. (KSLOC means thousands of "Source Lines Of Code" or, in other words, lines of code excluding blank lines and comments.) By comparison, the project has 679 times as much test code and test scripts - 45678.3 KSLOC."
Apparently, you've already fooled them into interviewing you.

So, the only way to top that would be to fool them into thinking you are actually qualified to work there. That's a joke that could be good for days... weeks... even years worth of laughs before they figure it out.

<shaking head ruefully>
BetterTouch is a good too, it's pretty active development as well.
Even better if you could get it working automatically. I wonder if there's any existing work on using signal processing to turn audio of spoken words into a whisper or a shout?
I agree. I do like that it defaults to local people and supporting local freelancers is fantastic, but when a local search doesn't return what I need it would be nicer to expand to "anywhere." I don't particularly prefer local over remote for my work or for those I'm working with. And hey - more eyeballs = more money! So says @garyvee at least! ;)
It was cool reading about all your geeks so far. Go team Twilio.

If I wasn't based in NZ and I wasn't working hard on my own startup I'd apply :)
Define 'tremendous' and present hardware specs and numbers please. Shopify runs varnish (we run varnish on Twitter search) - are speedups coming out of varnish or ngnix for you?

We've done plenty of simulations, load tests, and lots of graphing that shows ngnix's performance gains are negligible given our hardware configuration. We've also got huge dependencies on mod_rewrite right now and didn't want to convert to ngnix for that very reason.

There seems to be this awful myth, completely unsupported by science, that seems to state that unless you're running Rails with ngnix that you're doing the wrong thing. The prevelance of ngnix in the Rails community is astounding.

It's a good server and it certainly has it's place in the world, but it's just not for us and not supported by our benchmarks.
Ah crap. What a moron. Sorry bout that @ajv!
GNOME 2.30 Release Notes
Most people consider password security a non-problem (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3639679.stm ). Should we stop caring about XSS? Or passwords being stored as plain text?
This is what we have to deal with when we elect ordinary politicians. If you live in CT, you should really pay close attention to who gets the old Dodd seat. Look for Peter Schiff, you'll notice that he's not like other politicians, he's actually a successful businessman.
I live in the Northern Virginia area. Which is Washington D.C. metro.
Kind of cute; nice HTML5 example. He says it only works in Firefox, but worked fine for me in Opera.
Silicon Valley's Innovative Approach to Creating American Jobs
The idea that you need to hack yourself ie trick yourself into doing things is pretty well-known and not limited to just tricking yourself by rewarding yourself somehow.

We already have a point system that works: money. For all these points systems to really be adopted they need to be tied to money or to "social value". Basically, the points only work if they help people with more of them get laid. We already have those, we already deal with them.

This line of thought is not that revolutionary, disturbing, or disruptive.
The scary part is that delete and send are pretty close to each other in gmail.
When we deployed we didn't know about bluepill and wrote a quick script. Stormcloud does a fair number of other things such as tracking min/max lifetime of children and it attempts to sort out why the process died in the first place.

Thanks for the bluepill link though, we'll take a look at it and might consider a rewrite of our internal tool at some point.

I'd like to open source Stormcloud when it becomes more accessible. Unfortunately, it's laden with internal dependencies to our monitoring systems, and not publicly consumable at the moment.
You could expand this to a choose-your-own-adventure for audio clips.
I agree, it would have been much better without the swearing and the sense of self importance of the author.

This just gives a better reason for Dodd's staff to ignore the email altogether and he will never even see it.
mpdf is really nice if you care about page breaks and the like...
This post just generated a tremendous amount of discussion in my company. Not just for the SQLite wrapper, but also about the Berkeley XML DB. Anyone have experience using Berkeley for medium-to-large scale data stores (1-100GB?)? How's the concurrency? What's the licensing model? Is there a way we can use this without having to give away our source?
I keep thinking of the 'shadow world' parallel universe gambits other games have already used, like Twilight Princess
An Auto-tune for emotion?
Ok to send the ticket outside the US, what countries do you support? the number to be entered in the form should be "++ [country code] number" right? If the tickets are not delivered to the phone, does the user get an email saying so, or even just having the form provide a status report straight away.
User Ignorance Causes Cloud Security Leak (AWS related)
I once heard someone say, "The quality of a man is measured by the size of his drafts folder relative to his sent folder."
What kinds of data are you collecting?

I have sometimes wondered whether the concept of a profiler could be applied outside programming. I'll bet if you put all expenses of an average big company into a profiler (plug: such as sysprof), you'd find tons of things that could be cut.

Though I guess this is what operations research was supposed to do.
it would seem highly unlikely that they'd do well b4 the ipad launch -- people i think are hesitant to buy anything in this space at this point b4 trying the ipad at least. joojoo's opportunity will depend on a certain amount of people wanting a tablet doing something the ipad doesn't.
ow ow ow. is this aiming "for trying so hard it goes past trying too hard and enters an unexplored, painful dimension of clumsy, heartbreaking honesty"?

(so, would you hire someone telecommuting from s america?)
"Or run parallel to a set of Florescent light ballasts."

Really? Crap. I've just run the cable down to a back room (for an x360) - and it goes straight alongside a couple of flouro tubes.
One day I want to meet Derek in person, because he just seems like one of those people in life that it's just good to be friends with.

Thanks, Derek.
Most users don't see a real distinction though.

Either they stuff an address in the bar and it 'works', or they mistyped it or didn't type a valid URL, and it shows them the google results, and they click on the thing they wanted.

So I think yours is a niche usecase. In any event, probably best for you to just disable auto-suggest, and bookmark http://google.com :/
I have an iPhone and I like AT&T provided that I'm in a city with good coverage. I feel like they've done a decent job in LA and they're improving constantly (faster and faster 3g it seems), and they're about on par if not better than the service I get from Verizon. I don't know that many iPhone users in LA that are angry at AT&T. Only if they can't get service in their homes, or if there's some major outage...happens occasionally, but not enough to be a serious bother.

That being said, I go up to San Francisco like once a month, and up there my calls exceeding 1 minute drop at an alarming near-100% rate, my text messages are delayed, half my phone calls can't even be received, location services never works because data never works, and if I can't even get GPRS, there goes all my email and more. It's a complete wreck and I can totally understand the AT&T griping then.

Part of me thinks that Apple is caving in here to AT&T's requests because the level of service AT&T is providing is hurting Apple because a lot of people are refusing to buy or are no longer buying iPhones because of AT&T. Also because for AT&T to upgrade their network, it will take time, and these little changes can make a big difference while we're waiting for these upgrades to happen (now, whether or not AT&T is actually upgrading their network is a different question....).

Lastly, I feel that this kind of situation is one that any carrier would have run into if they had a phone like the iPhone available on their network. It's not just any smartphone, it's a smartphone that changes the usage habits of the users, and changing the user experience of what these users are looking at...no wonder we're all using more data. It would be a strain on any network.
Duke Nukem : Hardware Edition
More importantly, is something that Microsoft could do to make IE's phishing filter work better at protecting users' privacy? After all, you can disable it if you don't like it, but having it off just increases your vulnerability to another kind of privacy problem.

It is a similar problem to OCSP vs. CRLs for X.509 (SSL/TLS) certificates. CRLs are better for the end-user's privacy in the sense that the protocol doesn't tell the CA what websites the user is actually browsing, while OCSP (as implemented today) does. But, OCSP allows something more like real-time certificate status checks, and CRL information will almost always be more out of date.
Actually we only work in the US right now. We were using clickatell but they are going through a huge audit right now. As soon as clickatell gets their act together we will support other countries. Shoot us a email and I will let you know when we have it working again.
> "show me all ratings for every book that was written by the authors who currently have a book in the top 100 books list."

Why not? That seems like a pretty basic SQL query to me, with one nested query. I think we even did something almost exactly like that in my undergrad dB database management class in the first few weeks.

something like (sorry, I'm the world's worst SQL guy)

SELECT title, ratings FROM books WHERE author IN (SELECT author FROM top100books);

If I just had one table with the sales figures, titles and ratings in it, I could even derive the answer in one query also.

I'm sure my syntax is all wrong and messed up, but that's not the point. The point is most of the notional "only RDF could make this possible!" examples I've heard are pretty much completely doable in one or two queries in SQL, and not even particularly complicated ones at that.
A rant: "See Plans and Pricing"
RDBMSes, of course, don't have hierarchically-organized "resources." That's the whole point of the "R" in there. However, the rest of the URL format still applies to them. The resource and query-parameter parts of the URL are indeed "a binary blob"—but that doesn't matter. Why?

The great thing about URLs, within a protocol like HTTP, is that they're discoverable—if the protocol associated with your schema guarantees some sort of non-destructive querying operation on a resource (ala a GET or HEAD operation), then you can retrieve the / resource of a server to get a sitemap, and use the further, hyperlinked URLs to find all of the site's resources in turn. You're supposed to treat the resource and query parameter parts of the URL as a binary blob; they're a token you give to the server to get other tokens.

URLs let you turn a your meaningless binary blob—a.k.a. a URN—into a (where to ask, what to ask for, who I am) triple. This is a useful thing, even if the "what to ask for" part is still opaque! It means that you can always dereference a URL starting from the Internet as a whole, whereas with a URN the "where to ask" part has to be figured out on your own. If you combine this with a discoverable protocol, you enable your URLs to be spidered and thus indexed—and then they can all be found and used by anyone who has a single graph edge pointing into your site. That's way better than, say, an ISBN number, isn't it?

"mailto" and "file" and those other ones you mentioned aren't URLs, as the term is commonly used. They are, in practce, URNs—they consist of a schema (namespace identifier) and an opaque blob. They don't decompose into a (where to ask, what to ask for, who I am) triple.

URLs are amazing, but to call something a URL, it has to already be uniform, and to decompose into one of those triples. So the original article was silly (see the sqlite3 example—that's a URN right there)—but at the same time correct. Use URLs to locate your resources. Just don't make something up and call it a URL; do the actual work of having a standard, uniform string that has a resource and a location in it. And if you don't have the weight to make your own standard and make everyone treat it as uniform? Use someone else's. Use HTTP, even! REST is basically people realizing HTTP guarantees nice things about URLs and taking advantage of that.
"First, everyone is on Twitter, so there is no chance that an entrepreneur wouldn’t be able to reach us."

False assumption your rich asshats.
As an aside, Shoooes 3 is almost ready...
Contacts in the Browser - 0.2 released
Pigz - multicore version of gzip.
What ever happened to being simply polite, and thinking about people before you lash out? Hell; you should even be polite, and keep the tone civil if you hate the person at the receiving end.

I think, to an extent, this is what's gone wrong with online communication and political discourse - when did civility become something we simply wear when it's convenient?