skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well he is, in part, driving his search engine with other search engines' indexes so it would be entirely fitting! :)
Granted it's a narrower niche, StackOverflow has a CPM of about $10.

CORRECTION: $5 CPM (general site), $10 CPM (tags). So Gabriel's pricing is on the high-end of the scale, but not awfully high in my opinion.
I usually just do

map <Tab> ^W^W

I only have one split at a time (very rarely going up to three).
Yes it does. I have described in one of my previous posts that it is what I earned monthly in my full time job. It is why it was a goal. Not sure where are you living but in Poland $1000 is enough for usual everyday living expenses...
Although it can be solved. Let me preface this by saying that I usually dislike privatization of public utilities. When I moved from Salvador to São Paulo, one of the biggest differences I saw was in the cartórios (civil registry offices, I guess; it's a place you go to when you want you signature oficially recognized or other bureaucratic tasks like that). Back in Salvador, where they are public, bribes are the only way to get anything done. Real state agents, for example, hire "despachantes" to bribe the right people in the "cartório" so they can make real state deals in a reasonable amount of time. Here in são paulo the cartórios are private and there is competition, so they are very efficient, and bribeless.

I guess what I want to say is that bribes usually come from giving too much power to someone. If there is a surrounding structure stopping any single person from deviating too much from the rules it gets very hard to bribe anyone.
It seems just about any choice is better than godaddy. I have found 1and1 to be pretty decent. Private registration, decent control panel, and around $7 as well.
Certum quod factum. - We believe what we build.
Facebook Privacy Options Untangled [chart]
OpenCL Optimization: Diagonal Sparse Matrix Vector Multiplication
Here are some comments from a friend of mine:

"What is this?
Why do I have to sign up?
Why does it have zero info"

I think he has a point. Maybe some screenshots on the front page would be helpful.
I figured it out. They hate wikipedia because it's socialist! Or maybe communist.
The Pros and Cons of a Closed System
James, I don't think the two qualities have two be orthogonal, you can be a creative person with great taste in a lot of matters or not. The quote does have a touch of "pop-psych" (or, perhaps, "pop-HN" :-), but that's what makes it memorable.

Let me paraphrase what the quote says yo me: There are three types of people: the source (creator), the sink (end consumer), and the filter (the critic). Now, when I say that, I mean people for which these characteristics are dominant, of course, we all have a mixture of both. Also, we may assume different roles for different fields. And some gifted individuals can do more than once at once; John Updike comes to mind, as a top notch writer and both an literary and art critic.

The non-creator types (end consumer and critic) are defined by their tastes, which range from voting with their wallets to the up buttons in HN and links in their blogs. We are the link creators, the judges, the filters of content. However, where does all this content, code, the good stuff come from, who makes these? These are the people who make the quantum jump to creation. Just like the fact that there's a huge difference between a product that is free vs that's priced (even 10 cents), there's the gap between the consumer and the creator.

Ooops, this already became a long comment, so I don't have a chance to touch on what the part about "excluding people" parts say to me. Let me finish by pointing out a wonderful book called The Mirror and the Lamp, referring to the roles of the critic and the creator. I cannot think of a better analogy. Currently I'm all mirror and I want to change that! People like _why are a huge inspiration.
I have reason to believe the latter connotation may have been a misunderstanding. As an Estonian, I am quite convinced that "Head ööd" means "Good night" and is in no way connected to wether you are actually going to bed. Unless you add a wink or something.. :)
SAP To Acquire Sybase For $5.8 Billion
omg, most of us have TAB mapped to insert-completion -- i've now got it mapped to snipMate.vim plugin.

In any case, ^w^w is quite easy to press twice without mapping, although that's entirely your call. It's fine if you have 2 equal splits and only want to jump to the other without resizing. When you have > 3, you definitely want to maximize the current split.
I never knew you could make so much at istockphoto? Has anyone else tried that? Do you need to be an awesome photographer, do you have to be lucky? What sort of photos are best?
The usability problems of running your own node can be dealt with: just ship an already configured Sheeva plug.

The real problems are hardware price, asymmetric bandwidth, and the filtering of some ports, like SMTP. These problems will be tackled when we collectively acknowledge the importance of privacy.

It will take time (just see the success of web based mail), but I think it will eventually happen. The recent Facebook scandals are a little spark that may lit a fire. And I bet there will be many such sparks in the future.

In short, the Glorious Distributed People's Republic of Privacy won't happen tomorrow, nor next year. But 20 years from now doesn't seems unrealistic.
Because functor is kinda-sorta a portmanteau of function object and people wanted to sound clever, I guess.
Are only the cool kids allowed in http://news.ycombinator.com/classic/ ? What is it?
Hey Jroes,

Thanks for the comment! I agree - you're right, the homepage design was kind of a last minute thing over the weekend as I finished getting the app's new design in place.

I'm going to add a little "what is liftrr?" link sometime this week hopefully!
dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1354289
The Top Five Fortune 500 Companies Using Solar Power
Yes, you do need to get certified if you are performing 20,000+ transactions or $1million per year in credit card revenue. Otherwise, you can do a self-check as you're a Stage 4 merchant.
I always thought it was 'FUNCTion operatOR".
I remember the arguments about the Royal Yacht - they seemed to make a lot of sense to me and I'm fairly anti-Royal. From what I can remember at the time it was stopped to provide some desperately needed class-warrior credentials for New Labour - the Royals being fairly easy targets as they can't complain too much.
When I first saw the title, I tried to figure out how Jason Fried was Diaspora's curse. :-)
Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) and the Multicore World
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Expectations for Diaspora are too high? Diaspora has a curse? I got the feeling from Kickstarter that people without expectations give money to a cause. When I donate money to Kiva, I know fully well that that money may never come back to me, and I am 100% ok with that notion.
What does that mean exactly. Are you talking about the no click stuff, or do you mean that DDG isn't crawling the web and indexing it, but using results from other search engines to build its own?
An interesting article and quite surprising , in the sense that an Indian bureaucrat is talking so openly but why is this on HN ?
Once More with Feeling... Pitching to Investors
Tech Support Is Sales
Supreme Court: Inmates can be kept in prison indefinitely after their term
A/B Case Study: How MEC Found a 404 Page Winner
Erlang does, sure. You can find libraries to make erlang nodes in most languages.
> or do you mean that DDG isn't crawling the web and indexing it,

He does his own indexing - but also uses (IIRC) Yahoo BOSS and Bing API's.
Not yet, but I haven't looked that hard. Offhand, it also seems like it'd be easy and fun to write, so I may write one anyway.
If Robert Reich is correct, the degree of dereliction of duty is horrendous: http://robertreich.org/post/604861772/bp-stands-for-bad-petr....
Diaspora's curse: They don't actually have a working product to show off -- or any product at all. This whole farce has been amazing. I can't believe anyone actually thinks they're going to produce -anything- that can actually be run or used.
Dallas Startup Traxo Launches Free Loyalty Points Tracker, Contest to Win $500
It's a consequence of fair labor standards laws. For example, the minimum wage is higher than zero.
Node.js - Python bindings
Nice looking site. My only thoughts are on the name. For something as specific as pet services, I think HeyHub is a very general name and I probably wouldn't remember it as a pet service website. Just my 2 cents.
I'm certainly not an expert but from what I understand there are active ocean wells all over the world:
http://www.offshore-mag.com/index/regional-reports.html
More from SCOTUS Blog: http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/05/todays-orders-and-opinions...
You just need to fill some profitable niche and you can make a way more. I know people that make 5 figures on istockphoto.
> Do you need to be an awesome photographer, do you have to be lucky?

No. You need a decent camera (as in a fairly expensive SLR model) and to know what people are looking for on Stock photo sites.

kreci seems pretty good at it - he's got a huge portfolio containing lots of very similar photo's (which is what you usually get) covering all the themes that are popular on stock photo sites.

If you want to do well his portfolio is good inspiration :)

There are people earning a lot more than this.
Look for Controversial subjects for Argumentative Research Papers
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It doesn't work in healthcare (at least not in the US). If you tell doctors "you are going to use this and like it" then many of them will pack up and go to a more flexible clinic or hospital. It's impossible to ram anything down their throats.
There's also part II and part III.

Thanks for sharing on here, guys!
Le Châtelier's principle: not just for chemists
The Silicon Lining
New Finance Website based on Arc / HN
When I tell non-technical people that Google is doing semantic analysis on their e-mail, (1) they believe me, and (2) they find that scandalous.

Unfortunately, this is not enough for them to switch. But if setting up and configuring a personal mail server at home took 5 minutes and no help, they would switch.

Now, we need someone to make Eben Moglen's "freedom box", to make is as sleek, as usable, and as cool as the iPhone. Then, people will buy it. Maybe not over privacy concerns, but at least, privacy will become a selling point instead of the major technical hurdle it currently is.
You're right. I didn't express it very well, but my point was really about where you choose to cut people out of your premium offering. As it stands, you're doing it 'on the way in', as it were, i.e. while people are entering data. I was suggesting you do it 'on the way out', i.e. when people have taken the time and effort to build something for themselves using your app, and now want to do something with the timeline.

That's separable from the question of how to actually make the cut-off (and deleting data, as you suggest, may be too brutal)

But anyway, it's just thinking out loud rather than a definite suggestion.
Actually, a giraffe in a boolean context becomes bipedal, so that shouldn't be too bad.
Sadly, I'm afraid that the only real hope for cleanup is to rely on natural processes. From the reading I've been doing about past oil spills and the efforts they've taken so far with this one, the dispersants and other chemical measures used to stop the spread of the oil may be more toxic than the oil itself. Although millions of gallons of oil leak into the gulf each year naturally, they are certainly not all at once and in so contained an area. We will feel the impact of this for a long time into the future.
I make about $20 a month from two photos I uploaded about three years ago. One is a picture of a dolphin jumping out of the sea that I took while hanging off a boat on holiday and the other picture was a picture of my toilet roll and holder taken in my bathroom at home. I just convert it to credits and spend on iStock but yeah, the potential is there if you have good skills.

I hear it's much harder to get photos approved now though.
My team just placed runner up in an ivy Bplan competition...and I absolutely agree 100% with what the article said.

We didn't enter the competition to demonstrate how great our idea was, we did it mostly for the monetary prize money, as well as a chance to practice our pitch and meet some investors along the way. At the end of the day, it is a great networking opportunity and a chance to practice presentation skills.
Fanboy: How the title of an obscure 1973 fanzine became tech's favorite insult.
Business plan competitions measure business planning. I once worked for a company that had won an award as "One of the 50 best managed private companies in Canada" several years running.

The procedure for judging this award consisted of accountants coming in and measuring the degree to which our decisions were driven by documented, repeatable processes. At no time did they measure how well our products were selling, the quality of the talent we were able to attract, or our turnover.

My point being that there are means and ends, and when you put a lot of work into measuring the means, you get a lot of emphasis on means. I will NOT suggest that your ends automatically suffer, just that the correlation between repeatable and universal ways of measuring means and the ends you achieve are loose at best.
And most importantly, they are not alone when it comes to making a living by blogging.

Neither are the millions of people who don't make squat from their blogs.

Don't be fooled - pro-blogging is hard as hell to make any real money on.
I've been seriously considering moving my domain from GoDaddy. For me though price isn't really an issue. In fact, because I have a .me domain it will end up being about 20 bucks a year no mater where I go.
To people who aren't reflexively dismissive, this isn't a story about exploitation or desperation, it's about determination and standing out from the mediocre crowd.

As PG often says, YC looks for founders who are smart and determined. The best early-stage employees also need to fit that description, so aspirants need to figure out ways of demonstrating those qualities.

Of course when everyone starts doing it, it'll stop working, and smart, determined guys like Nick will figure out some new way of hacking the recruitment process.
I use Mercurial and much much prefer it to Git (personal preference, I'll try not to evangalize)

In part he is dead on.

hg really can't handle large repositories; but to be honest if you're working with GB's of data then you're using the wrong tool :) period.

Point two is a "complaint" I agree with. The repository structure isn't particularly good - it "works" for the most part but sometimes you just want to kick it. And forget hacking around with it..

Silly things like "hg copy [file]" doesn't copy file history but does a remove/add & cp/rm are another ball ache.

Ultimately hg is a good tool; for lightweight, hackerish version control it is great. Beyond that? Yeh, use Git.
"The Court upholds the law passed by Congress to order the civil commitment of a mentally ill federal prisoner who is a sex offender with the commitment to continue beyond the date the inmate otherwise would be released."

The Washington Post article neglects to mention that this applies to mentally ill prisoners.
That is really hard to say. The source code is massive - hundreds of megabytes. The image created is tiny. It all comes down to what drivers and options are included.

Most generic kernel package included in Ubuntu is around 121mb. But it includes a lot of modules - see:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/amd64/linux-image-2.6.32-21...

Very few of these will actually be running on your system.

I work on embedded Linux and once build your own kernel with just the drivers you need, the image is tiny. I know the exact number of the top of my head but it was either a few mb or maybe even less than 1 mb. We had 256 mb of total system flash and we got our entire Linux distro on there easily.
No, not die. Simply regress from developing to 3rd or 4th world status.
I agree mostly. A large port tree shouldn't be checked into a source code management system,
The author states three reasons for switching.

1. Problems with storing big files in Mercurial. You can use the bigfiles extension if you really want to manage large files with Mercurial.

2. Inefficient renames. Making renames efficient is a currently recommended GSoC project. I'm sure this will be fixed eventually even if no one picks it up this summer.

3. Destructive commands actually, well, destroying stuff. This point makes me feel like the author knew git first, tried mercurial out, and switched back, making the blog post a little misleading. I don't know how you could expect a delete not to be a delete unless you were familiar with something like git already. If I were to run a delete command in Mercurial, I would read the documentation on the command first to make sure it created a backup for me. Only if it then failed to create this backup would I complain. Also, I think I prefer the bundle approach of Mercurial. You can always rename the bundles to keep track of them. You could even write your own extension in 5 lines that ran a destructive command and immediately unbundled the created bundle to restore your changesets, exactly duplicating git's functionality.

The first two issues he mentions I would consider to be actually valid complaints against Mercurial, the third just a personal preference of the author. I would consider neither of them to be major game-changing issues.
> The Unix machine have been packaged in such a way that the user don't know it or care what it is running on. Everyone knows how to buy something.

What has been done with pocket computers can be done with servers. An already set up Sheeva plug is all it takes. And it can be bough instead of downloaded.
But isn't also Git just as good at the stuff you think hg is good at?
Do you think the $100 + a Mac barrier has been a damper on the crowds of would be teenage app developers?
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I wonder if you're missing Steve's point. You say:

Everyone involved (including the judges) knows that the static business plan is merely a demonstration of the team's ability to pitch, not a rigid guideline for what the team would do for the next few years.

"Ability to pitch" is not a prequisite to building a business, it's an impediment. Learning to pitch the wrong thing well isn't helpful. And discovering the right thing to pitch requires an entirely different approach, often 180 degrees from traditional business plan activities.

Engaging prospects to tune or even radically change the business is a required step. Omitting that step doesn't create a subset, it leaves unnecessary errors.

It's funny how much less you need to be good at pitching when you know you have it nailed through proper process. Better to teach that process than to teach how to pitch the wrong thing.

What's the point of teaching "how" to do the wrong "what"?
Kevin Rose Gives A Glimpse Of The New Digg
It can also be targeted down to the tag though which makes it worth much more, you usually see people advertising on Ruby, .NET, SQL, etc. and not on the main site.
http://moniedinterests.com/

http://www.markenomics.com/
Isn't this almost what DDG is avoiding? That would just violate the less spam and ads point. Unless you kept it to say one ad per search term or something.
Thanks for this good article. I took a 15 minute tour of both HG and Git and felt that hg was overall a better experience, but felt if the community is moving towards Git there has to be some good reason. I'm always a fan of the underdog, so I've been asking everyone why Git (besides Github of course).

This is the first article that gives real pitfalls of one vs the other. I enjoyed the read and would love to hear more as well as counter arguments.
Another "good Google searching practices" anecdote.

When I was in high school (I live in Mexico) we were supposed to watch a human rights video for English class and transcribe the audio. But since I am somewhat lazy I thought tha maybe there could be a transcription somewhere on the internet. After googleing a while (only some very thoughtful searches which I don't remember) I came across a pdf with a full transcription from some Korean government site. I copied and printed the english text and that's what I handed in.

I failed the assignment and the teacher asked me to lend her the transcription so that everyone could have a copy.

P.S. When I found the transcription I passed it to some classmates and they copied the transcription by hand to their notebooks (they didn't fail the assignment).
Microsoft needs to stop trash-talking IE6 and just trash it
These massive project just don't work.
1) Pay consultants vast money to 'spec' out an insanely complex requirement.
2) Go through very long winded and expense tender exercise, with the usual suspects - all expensive and with many failed projects under their belt
3) Company builds from scratch to the spec.
4) Spec is obviously incomplete, discover too late, company asks for lots more money to fill the gaps.
5) Rinse and repeat (minus the tender)

You end up with something that has taken 10 years, and is delivering a 'requirement' that is 10 years old and now not relevant (even less relevant than the imperfect 10 year old spec).

The only real way to do this is to break these projects up - either in scope or in size - ideally get something as off the shelf as possible and iterate it until it suits the needs, and then roll out wider. I.e. get well away from a waterfall process of massive scope.

For example, instead of trying to put in place an NHS wide system (which then fails at great expense), get each individual Trust to go on their own with off the shelf suppliers or at least smaller, cheaper bespoke organisations. Smaller, more manageable and cheaper. You can define interoperability standards if that's needed; you can buy enterprise licenses if one supplier does end up being obviously better.
Can't see why we couldn't do that with the NHS - it's all state owned and paid for directly by taxes. It should be there to provide healthcare, not to provide comfortable careers for managers.
Ask HN: Facebook vs. Foursquare privacy concerns
What's scarier, having FB know who your friends are, what you like, and your status? Or having Foursquare know exactly who and where you are?
Great point-- I imagine this is quicker for him that an adwords clone, which might require some clickfraud protection, self-serve flow, payment processing, etc. AFAIK, the OP is just one person... I recall reading a study about who clicks on ads, and the OP's demographic is decidedly not it. You can play the "pay per click" game if your audience clicks. Otherwise, he might have better luck with the "pay per influence" stuff that The Deck does.

To the OP: a question regarding your stats page. Would you be willing to post more stats? Specifically, I'd love to know how many uniques visit more than 10x per month. In other words, how many people are using you as a primary search engine in their life?
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