skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This video gets reposted here about once every three to six months, and I upvote it every time. To be clear about how deeply I appreciate this video, I am a member of this "crappiest generation". I'm 24. Hi-speed cable and mobile phones became ubiquitous while I was growing up, and I know that I take my entire life brutally for granted. Anyone in my generation who watches this video and says, "What a jerk! I don't do that!" is either a filthy liar, or they weren't born into the predominantly white-upper-middle-class privileges that Louis C.K. is making fun of.

This usually is posted with the title, "Everything is amazing and no one is happy," which I think is far more poignant and fitting, because while my peers are largely guilty of the kind of "convenience entitlement complex" that Louis C.K. is talking about, it is hardly restricted to just us. The fact is, we do live in amazing world, where man can soar above the clouds while taking a dump, and satellites that cost scrillions of dollars to get into geosynchronous orbit are used to send naked pictures zipping across continents in the blink of an eye. I love this video so much, because if you listen with an open mind, it forces you to take a step back and look at what we're really missing.
Not if you're FRDB or the Richard Dawkins forum, but if you're a site that seeks popular appeal or bills itself as for the general populace, you'd do better to not alienate 80% of the US population.
Wow, if this is true (sounds sort of extreme, but I don't really know much about this area) -- that's really scary. It bodes very poorly for the WinPhone7 platform, too.
IBM maintain their mainframe business. While nobody's writing new applications for ZSeries, much like SPARC, there are some very profitable, untouched apps that run on Solaris 8/SPARC and they'll be around till the company gets the time and budget to port them.
Ask HN: What do you do with a finished product?
I'm ready to start getting some users on my site (http://debate-zone.com), but I'm unsure of how to do it. Buy ads? SEO stuff? Spam? Thanks if have advice!
Done!

http://guestlistapp.com/events/19938

Is the link. As for time, I set 6:30 because I'll need to eat once I get there, but I'm sure many people will show up at 7 or later.
I'm not sure if they gain much traction without some sort of "free" account level (say 50M or less).

Not even a video demo or trial account.
People give Cuil search a lot of crap, but I actually find their results to be pretty good. Their clustering algorithm is cool too and good for exploration. Which is something that other search engines don't seem to do very well.
I find the Neverlate product itself interesting. The same functionality is available as an application on just about every smartphone and most normal cellphones at this point. I wonder what this says about the clock radio form factor?

Maybe a bedside information appliance is a form factor with staying power, useful precisely because it is stationed permanently and won't be misplaced or forgotten? (Whereas I can imagine not waking up to my iPhone alarm because I left it on silent mode in my jeans pocket across the room.)
I thought it was "curl" at first, and it was due to some crazy late trademark battle. I was glad to see it was Cuil. (Just got in from a bike ride, sitting farther away from the monitor than usual.)
It might be worth noting that there's a decent amount of debate in free-market-capitalist circles over just how natural it is that these centralized entities emerge, versus how much they're encouraged/enabled by the government. A lot of the structure of the modern corporation is basically state-created: the limited-liability corporate status to begin with, the centralized form of management with a board of directors, etc.

If there was no built-in scaffolding of corporate status and corporate law, and it were just individuals operating in a free market forming whatever arrangements they want via private contract law, it's at least possible that large, centralized entities wouldn't emerge as easily or as frequently. From that perspective, the modern "sea of centralized entities" version of capitalism is itself centrally planned: the government decided that it'd be best if the economy were made up of a sea of centralized entities, and wrote the rules so that it happened.
I deleted the event I created. Feel free to ignore my email as well. :)
I think the main flaw of Reddit is that it allowed kids from Digg to overtake it and flood it with their personal drama, bullshit memes and uninteresting photos/videos.
I've had similar thoughts in the past and brought them up on HN here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=625917
Yeah, no kidding. Grow up in a third world country. You'll realize what luxury you live in. Hungry? Drive down the street for delicious fastfood. Even the poorest among us have electricity, running water, tv, computer, internet, etc. Most I didn't have when growing up.
You may be right about the profit sharing. I thought I remember him saying that it was divided according to how long you have been with the company, but maybe it's not apart of the same "formula".
I'm not sure what the article is trying to prove.. The imperative version is short and clean while the functional one is so much more hard to read. However, does it mean that functional style is bad? Some of those functional snippets could have been highly simplified.
...then after hours we'd play Network File System v4 (NFS 4) from Expanded Acronym (EA) Sports!
I also think using declarative isn't judicious for these exemples.
I doubt people are down-voting because of your views of the relative merits of this or that OS, but rather because the expression of those views is long on slogans and short on insight.
My Gmail just went down while I was emailing you back :S We both made them at the same time. Thanks for deleting yours (even though it was first :D)
Dinesh D'Souza asked someone why they wanted to immigrate to the US. Answer: "I want to go to a place where the poor people are fat and own TVs and VCRs."
Nope, they seem to think it reflects their vision: http://www.cuil.com/info/blog/2010/04/08/introducing-cpedia-...
Belay that. Do take it personally, reflect on it, but then laugh anyways.
Here is one.
One of the top results right now on Reddit is a picture of Turnip Rock.
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/bp49v/island_pic/
But Wikipedia doesn't have a page on Turnip Rock. Cpedia has one that isn't completely worthless.
http://cpedia.com/search?q=turnip+rock
Your comment works both with a straight reading and as sarcasm. Both readings strike me as clever, though opposed.
I find it hard to accept that the majority of small businesses last that long without making an operating profit, 8 years of continuous loss? What bank would accept this?

I'm referring to retail banking which is the norm outside the atypical tech start ups sector of all new entrant small businesses.

I'm assuming that a good chunk of all new businesses started are restaurants, corner stores, dentists & hair dressers etc. Surely it can't possibly be that these guys have to tough out a curve like this/face such a failure rate, which begs the question; if hairdressers can run a small business reliably then why can't a tech company aim to produce value right from the start?
I agree. I don't have any brand loyalty to search engines- if Cuil worked better, I'd use it. But I search for 'world war two' and the 4th result is "Scott's World War Two Page", which Chrome warns me could be hosting malware. I like some of Cuil's ideas, but it just doesn't work.
"PClark has never once asked for someone to pay for his passion to ride the old Auroras"

true that.
Great iPad UX Analysis From a 2.5 Year Old
Here's something I've been thinking about. Imagine Google or FB acquires of a small startup. The startup's product is either unwanted or incorporated into their parent company within a year. That means that for the next couple years of the payout period, a founder could be making $1M/year. Are they that much more valuable than the rest of the company's devs (who make a lot less)? (That's definitely possible.) Or, are the rest of the devs paid a lot less than what the value they provide? If the latter, why don't Google and FB raise salaries more? Could acquisitions be a kind of backdoor to avoid having to raise everyone's salaries?
Follow TorontoHN for all updates on the night :D
Would have liked it better if the comparisons paragraph starting with "At this point" was toned down. For example, others do REST _and_ binary protocols. Cassandra and HBase both do replication without SPOF. etc.
A huge market for high-end SPARC machines are enterprises, who use them to run Oracle RDBMS and SAP/other similar business software. IBM competes directly in this market with what used to be AS/400 and System/390 (not sure I know what they're called now, afaik iSeries and zSeries).

This isn't really about technology, it's about convincing these enterprises that it's better for them to scale vertically on a single machine than to scale horizontally on commodity hardware. From a technical point of view this has long been proven false, but for certain companies it may be true from a business point of view: if technology is a cost center (i.e., it's called "IT" not "R&D") and you don't have the talent needed to operate a cluster of commodity hardware (e.g, there are either no operations engineers who can program in your geographic area or they simply won't want to work for you) leasing/buying big iron (especially if it comes pre-configured and with a support contract) starts to sound attractive.

Even if SPARC is superior hardware, the customer simply wouldn't care. It would be more profitable for IBM to cut SPARC off and continue only with POWER. The professional services involved in this is the lucrative part for the vendor.

People who do care about technology, have in-house talent and do HPC (scientific computing, machine learning/data mining, Internet companies with scalability problems) are best served by x86_64 (in almost all cases excluding some types of computation), ia64 as well as IBM's own Power-based 1U/2U servers (what used to be the RS6000 series).
This post itself is spam. Check out his awesome anchortext for "mp3 and file search." :-|
Simplified how?
Eric Leebow (freezecrowd): I am free enterprise
Right, besides the acronym fail, he seems to be using the term correctly, so why give him so much crap for it?
Point 11/12 completely contradicts point 1.

Points 9, 10, 17, (at least) have pretty much nothing specifically to do with reddit but could be said of pretty much any online community.

Also, this is from 2006, and while I don't wish to suggest simply being a few years old automatically and inherently makes an article worthless, in this case it doesn't exactly help. An up-to-date feature on reddit flaws would probably include "is a SFW 4chan".

Overall a poor piece, feels like it was cobbled together as an excuse to drive traffic to the "Download mp3s Faster than limewire free!" section.
Ask HN: Who's hiring?
I know it's only been 17 days since the last one (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1215633) but the company I work for is awesome and has an opening, and it seemed pointless to post it to a dead discussion.
> Skilled computer scientists with some management responsibilities, for instance, often make base salaries of $180,000 to $210,000.

Really? Where? Is that in USD?
Not distasteful, but lacking information. People around here are very sensitive about the signal to noise ratio. (FWIW, I didn't downvote you.)

This latest post has a little more effort put into it, and I think it probably would have fared better.
Mods autocorrected to moods? Unintentionally funny, just like cpedia!
Twitter, Now Filling Its Own Hole (Pic)
Gosling himself strongly objected ("No fucking way") to being called "the father of Java".
"You Can't Submit An Article Again".

The author has apparently never visited reddit.com.
I think the main flaw of reddit today is the fact that 50% of the userbase has migrated from 4chan and digg.
The jrockway page is similarly excellent:

"Git doesn't include a source code editor, profiler, or web browser, either. That means your syntax-highlighted code-blocks look the same on your slides as in Emacs :)"

I'm not sure how it gets from here to there. I did write eslide, however...
If everyone's unhappy about it, though, maybe the world isn't so amazing, subjectively speaking. That's the usual assumption in entrepreneurship, anyway: If you've produced a product you think everyone should love, and they don't love it, maybe something's wrong with the product, not the people.
Their robots.txt is password protected now. (?)

I'm not sure what a crawler is supposed to conclude in that case.

I don't see a lot of cpedia content on Google yet. The only links I can see are clearly due to the threads here and on sites like Reddit.
Darn. I'll be in California on a business trip. If there's another next month, I think I'll come out to it.
Could this be a result of optimizing algorithms to solve hard problems? (Not understanding that the first trials people would send the thing would be simple searches to be compared to the Google results?)

Some of the results are so funny that some groupthink has to be involved as well.
An Easier Way to Search For Rapidshare Files
This was a very great writeup. Thanks!

I’m overzealous with keeping the amount of tags in my markup minimal. The button in this post looks sharp and detailed, but it would be nice to see a comparison with the same button being constructed with less tags. ie: just the anchor and one bold tag, or just the anchor, in addition to showing the best-looking result with three tags.
Plato said rich people couldn't be virtuous, probably for this reason.
If you ask immigrants who've lived in the U.S. ~10 years or so about the pros/cons of it, though, you get much more mixed answers. Some are still uniformly positive about how much better the U.S. is than where they came from, but many aren't.

And sometimes it just seems sort of incomparable. My mom grew up in a rural village of about 30 families in Greece in the 1950s that had no electricity, running water, TVs, etc. She objectively realizes it was a "deprived" childhood by modern standards, but she doesn't subjectively remember it being bad at all. It's just what life was like: you got water from the well, and it was fine, because that's what everyone does, and there was no sense that you were a poor person for not having running water, because nobody had running water, not in your village or in the neighboring villages. And subjectively she even thinks some things were better, like the community and social support you get from a close-knit group of 30 families who all know each other / bake bread at the community oven together / etc. I doubt she would go back to that lifestyle today given the choice, but she doesn't have an "omg that sucked, I'm so glad I'm now in the U.S. in a suburban home" view of it either.
This is the first I hear about a DoJ investigation, but this article largely comes off as FUD. It dances around a few weak claims, none with real evidence to back them up.

First, there's a shortage of computer scientists [1], which has led to an increase in salaries and fierce competition among companies to hire good employees. It's no accident that Google has had better perks than any U.S. company in history in order to attract top talent. They're already spending a lot per employee, and that they would fix employees salaries is ludicrous, considering they would lose out on great talent.

I don't even know what to make of, "skilled computer scientists with some management responsibilities, for instance, often make base salaries of $180,000 to $210,000" -- in Silicon Valley, at least, this is the top tier salary range reserved for only a privileged few. It would also seem strange that the DoJ would be helping these salaries stay at this high level. The government doesn't have a great track record of publicly trying to make the rich richer.

Somebody please enlighten us with the real facts.

[1] http://www.cis.udel.edu/jobs/market/
Also, it would only be subject to self-delusion and not the feedback loop of groupthink.
"If cuil were a bootstrapped one-person operation it would be very easy to cut the cord and move on to something else."

Or actually get it to work,like DuckDuckGo. One man operation. Impressive results. Contrasting DuckDuckGo and Cuil is enlightening in all kinds of ways.
Very nice. You should use this same idea for things that most people would understand, like news from google news.
"if you're the kind of person who likes to use self-important HR jargon"

Wow, talk about self-important. People have a term for something you just took a paragraph to explain. Can you guess why? This comes across as a pointless dig to make yourself feel superior.
Printed view:

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090401/how-hard-could-it-be-em...
It's got a nice meta-joke in it too. He's adopting the persona of the back-in-my-day nostalgist, to argue that in the past, things were better because people appreciated how much worse things were in the past.
Another elf leaves Middle Earth.
NoSQL, meh
Sony has plenty of exclusive titles as well. God of War will never be ported to other consoles.
Location: State College, PA, USA

Videon Central is looking to hire a software engineer:

http://www.videon-central.com/careers/openings/98

Primarily C/C++ on bleeding-edge silicon, fantastic people and work environment, and great management.

Joel Test score: 12/12

State College is located right in the middle of Pennsylvania and is the home of Penn State University. It's not bad for a college town, has great MTB trails everywhere and is not far from Philly or NYC.
I like my Mirra at home better than the Aeron I have at work. I'd check them out. Also been meaning to try out some sort of balance ball part time.
"One cuil = one level of abstraction away from the reality of a situation." http://bit.ly/PHPAR

One cpedia = one level of unintentional comedy.

For example, if the content that cpedia collected into an article ends up being unintentionally humorous, that's 1 cpedia. If the arrangement/ordering of the content adds to the humor, that's 2 cpedias.
Open source initiative to address SSL problems.
This site and JDownloader are a killer combination that can very often replace torrents. MegaUpload in particular is very useful, since it doesn't cap the download speed.
This is absurd and will probably be about as successful as GNU Hurd.
Where would somebody like Gosling go to find a home? In other words, what Sun-like industry Research and Development centers (not just research shops or application software vendors) remain?

Microsoft the software company has a competing technology to sell you. Microsoft Research does not ship code. IBM and HP are professional services, not technology R&D companies. RedHat's JBoss division had been (very positively) driving the direction of Java EE, but they're much more of a consulting/software vendor (focused on enterprise software, not on programming languages) than an R&D shop.

Google would be the most likely candidate: they use Java extensively, make their own JVM and contribute to Apache Harmony. They do highly advanced R&D work (you could say they're the modern day Bell Labs), but most fruits of it are internal (with some work ending up as research papers and a very tiny fraction going out as open source).

Seems like something is missing: a first-class R&D shop that's a home to top technologists (who aren't interested wealth through entrepreneurship, but would rather work on many different, challenging projects -- something focused start-ups can't provide) and which ships software and hardware to the world. I'd love to see Google step up to that plate, but is that realistic?
it worked if you were starting really late in the season and the rivers were very low, but then the heat would get you later.
Many businesses aren't funded by banks. They're bootstrapped the entire way. It's not uncommon for a business to lose money for the first few years, it's actually the norm. According to the US SBA, 50% of new businesses fail in the first 5 years.
Why do you only have "one shot"?
re: viral analytics tool: check out http://meteorsolutions.com.
It's good to be reminded that just 300 years ago, people didn't even have a concept of copyright. These days, copyrights are often described as natural rights founded on basic ethics, but that's just not the case. Copyrights are a set of laws that were invented by people to have certain effects on society.

I see things like these Amazon reviews for Tweet Nothings and I'm amazed at how effective the PR departments of the copyright industries have been at making us think like they want us to. Almost all of them could have been written by the RIAA or MPAA.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593597770
Some context: Freezecrowd is a "coming soon" page which promises to eventually kill facebook. Development has been slow, due to a lack of developers willing to work for free.

http://www.startuply.com/Jobs/iPad_Developer_Intern_for_New_...

But some progress has been made: the "coming soon" page now renders under firefox.
This content-free informercial makes me wish I had the capacity to downvote posts on the front page. I bet the four points it currently has aren't organic.
This is an EXTREMELY interesting observation, since most people think "market" and think "corporations," when the corporation is a fairly new thing -- at least, when it wasn't blessed by the govt (e.g. East India Trading 'Company').

It's simple to take it for granted that it's natural, when instead, it's about as natural as bamboo entrained to grow in loops. Made of natural stuff... yes. In natural form... no.

I KNEW all those individual facts, but you know, I never put it together until you put it just so.

What have you been reading that shaped your views/thinking? I'd like to check it out.
Perhaps this is more a branding/marketing fail than a technology fail. First of all, the cuil brand is so badly marred that it should be abandoned, but cpedia holds onto it. Secondly, what is cpedia? Is it just an interesting side project/proof-of-concept? Or is it trying to be a search engine game changer? Depending on what it is, I have different opinions on it, so it's important when launching it to describe what it is. It's actually a really cool side project/toy app.
Cool, I didn't know you could do this..
When you submit an iPhone app for approval, do Apple techs look at the code? Because this restriction would make their job much easier.

I wonder if someone submits obfuscated C code, will they reject it?
And the "us" vs "them" mentality. It's much easier to fall into for smart, sane people when they're surrounded by other people doing the same thing. After all, if it's so nuts, why doesn't Joanna / Bob quit?. Social proof.
FilesTube is also good.
The awesomeness of air travel has faded into the background and now we see the shittiness of service, the high prices, and the cramped seats.

Airplanes are still amazing technology, but they're wrong for most of their uses. High-speed rail makes more sense for mid-distance travel. At 300 mph, I'd even consider using it for New York to California-- much prettier, and not dependent on a fuel that will be very expensive in 10-20 years.
Apple's approval process makes the apps worse because they circumvent the iteration cycle. Companies cannot change their product to their customers' wishes without approval from Apple.

Besides, there are other solutions to the quantity/quality problem. For example, user feedback seems to work very well, and it scales!!!
This is a general problem with infrastructure. Once something cool is built, it becomes an expectation. The same is true of the Internet.
Dude, this video is hilarious. I voted it up..
Thanks for this incredible post. Having spent most of my coding days with server side languages, this opened my eyes to the art form that is front-end design.