skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear you, and thanks for the feedback.

The idea of this webapp however is to do things more than that. You could say some people prefer using even bookmarks or in my case sometimes I used to use notepad for keeping track of car ads for example.

But the websites has some advantages.

1) It parses out data for you automatically [unlike excel or notepad], like car mileage, color, price, etc (or in the case of other types of searches - parses out relevant information like monthly rent, number of bedrooms,etc) (which allows the user to really sort and compare all the options)

2) With future enhancements it will automatically detect ads which have expired from everything you saved (not easily done with bookmarks)

3) Also it can be accessed anywhere, being a web application

4) But most importantly it saves one time to look through everything, eg. all options.

For people who really take their time to make decisions when buying certain items like a used car, an apartment rental, or something else, it would be useful to be able to really compare everything you found for things like best price or lowest mileage across all ads you found from different websites.

Try doing that in notepad or with bookmarks and it quickly sucks up your time (which was one of my main personal motivations for creating it).
Twitter :-)

http://twitpic.com/1riij4
I am running at 42% of storage. What I do is archive my messages every couple of weeks. I have noticed it always helps.
This was an awesome article. Can anyone point to more articles like this? I'm looking for ways make my web-app (a social discussion forum) more engaging.
Freeday: SmashBox Meets DrugstoreDiva
Ladies and gentleman, we have something pretty spectacular going on today. Yes, yes – it’s our usual Freeday, but today is special. Today we’re teaming up with Lisa from DrugstoreDivas to bring something special to both of our readers!
Scribd 102. Excellent. I would like to know how much financing each one of those site took to date.
Go to All Mail.
where is google in that list ?
Proof that Facebook is Making Money Revealing Your Private Data
Next Apple TV to have A4 internals, be cloud based and cost $100 -engadget
List of memory biases
clojure.org

You know where we are :)
Context is a killer. You would think with 24-hour news networks, the history of similar events would get reported so some context could be given for the current event. It hasn't happened. Heck, take a look at the time devoted to "cute girl kidnapped"-stories versus the deliberations of the Supreme Court. I wonder which one will affect my life more.

Given all the information, the killer app will be something that allows us to see the history and put an event in context. I think it will pay, just look at how people start clicking links at TV Tropes or Wikipedia and don't stop.
Are you using a Mac, by chance? The Mac version of Firefox isn't the best.

Linux is not Firefox only by any means - Google Chrome for Linux is very good, and the development tools are identical to the Windows and Mac versions of Chrome (which are the same Safari's tools). Opera for Linux is also top-notch.

Have you tried IE 8's dev tools? Firebug beats the pants off of IE 8's tool in usability and features, for me. Like most of IE, the dev tools are adequate, but lack a decent interface and are not updated or improved often, if ever.

I like Chrome and Safari's tools, but my personal assessment is that Firebug is more comfortable. It has all of the featured you mentioned except possibly the local database inspector.

For the site I work on the most, twice as much of our audience uses Firefox as Safari and Chrome combined, and FF even exceeds IE usage. So not only does it have my preferred dev tools, but is the most important browser for our audience.
People were fighting to pay double for an OLPC (buy one give one) just to get their hands on a small (cheap) laptop.

That sort of thing gets noticed by manufactuer's marketing depts. Well at least by succesful maker's marketing depts, HP, Dell, IBM, Toshiba, Sony etc were probably all dismissing the idea as they chased enterpeise deals.
The slides note that the new HTML5 doctype works in current browsers. Does it trigger quirks mode in older browsers (e.g. pre-2010 releases)? If so, that essentially makes it a lot less usable that the slides would suggest.
A 6-9 month trip around the world sounds good
Plus, if you discharge the mass, you will have to somehow reclaim it when turning back into an human. Destroying the Earth wasn't a good idea to beging with, but freezing it doesn't sound better.
Do something else. Travel. Go to Burning Man. Get away from the keyboard.
If by "ghetto" you mean not limited to the first world market only... sure, I guess.
"Excuse my buzz word but I think the only way you can make it spread is to embed a virus".

I guess I can't take that as a compliment, but will acknowledge much room for improvement of the website :)

As for SEO, I'm not just looking to optimize it for SEO as the main method of 'putting it out there', but rather looking to figure out ways to market it and place it in it's niche (which I'm still not sure of).
The feature you're after is called 'Watch any folder' and it needed selective sync to be done in order to be implemented. It's in the works! :)
Two major problems I see with people straight out of their course:

1. They've never heard of source control, let alone understand why or how it should be used.

2. They know exactly the frameworks they've been shown during their courses, and think that anything else is either completely foreign and useless, or needs to be dived into head-first, rather than seeing any framework as just another tool to be used based on first principles. (Replace "framework" with "language" and you get the same idea on a different scale.)

Maybe these comments are specific to Australian courses?
They don't seem to want to admit that the problem is not how complicated it is to set privacy levels, but that there are things you just can't control any more. For example, whether your profile picture gets shown to people outside your network, or whether what pages you join get shown to people outside your network. These options left long ago, and show no signs of coming back.
What is with all the Firefox hating in here?

For me, Firefox takes about 1 second to open on my Mac, 2 seconds in Linux, and 3 seconds in Windows. No idea how you see it as similar to IE 8 in any way.

I agree they have a long way to go to be as slick as Chrome, but sorry, it has nothing to do with Opera - Opera never had even 1/10 of the market share that FF has now.
Memorial Day in StartupLand
Everything looks ok from the payment processor side. I did put in a ticket with them, but wanted to see if anyone could think of something else (like the bing cashback comment) or maybe this guy just has some sort of disorder, in which case I'd be interested to know if anyone else has had a similar experience.
lol, I was trying to find that, hilarious!
Probably because Mozilla and Opera aren't easy targets for lawsuits from disability groups and governments in the same way that Microsoft has a bullseye painted on it.
Direct link to the blog post: http://roachpost.com/2010/05/28/14-traits-of-successful-entr...
Maybe ... but they are very serious about accessibility, going back to at least when they did the NT rollout in San Francisco where they made sure to put in everyone's hands a short paper on the subject.

If someone could point out where they've clearly used accessibility as an excuse vs. being truly serious about it I'd be interested.
yeah. for at most one day. Then it's back to the old level of speed. Unfortunately.
That's the beauty of it. You don't have to.
Is there a quick, painless alternative though? Can't really decapitate or bleed out a heavily armored invertebrate. Maybe drown them in wine or spirits?
With iPad out of the way, AppleTV to get some love?
Very good stuff.
Yes - the secondary market for lower end laptops is awesome. I've set up probably a dozen people on the Latitude D600 through eBay, all of them for less than $200.

I find it somewhat ironic that the cool new laptop from Dell just a few short years ago, is now considered to be a "netbook" class device.
Thanks!

I've been collecting some links to presentations and posts on designing for engagement. See the list here: http://www.kartme.com/phil/web-design
[OT] As anyone tried out Kyoto Cabinet?
Can a Society Function With 1 Out of Every 5 Dollars Spent on Health Care?
See the comment above: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1385172 (Sports Illustrated showing an all-HTML5 demo that looks a lot more compelling that this Wired app).
I'm sorry, but even though I've never needed Google support for Gmail, that doesn't excuse their lack of it.

If they want to be taken seriously, or considered at all for real enterprise app replacement with Gmail or Google docs, they need to have a real live phone support, 1-800 number that lusers can call to get someone that will try to help them.

Let me give you a terrible example: I sync my Exchange calendar with Google Calendar so I can get it on my mobile devices. As I work for a large Fortune 15-20 company, one of my meetings was a weekly recurring meeting with 2,000+ participants. This is not unusual as our quarterly all employees meeting requests are sent out to 50,000+ participants.

This recurring meeting with only 2,000+ participants was cancelled, but I was completely unable to remove it from my Google Calendar. Google Calendar is broken, and after searching online for about an hour for a solution, I found many other people have the same exact issue.

So, here I am with a recurring event in my Google Calendar that I cannot delete: An error has occurred. Please try again later. - this is the level of support I get from Google.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?tid=51...

Basically, search the forums and find the bug has existed since 2009, and no communication from Google about fixing it. Do they really expect to be taken seriously in the enterprise space?
Battery life might be the deal breaker on this device. But yeah, if that isn't terrible, why have a $500 picture frame, home theater controller, and toy for the kids when you can have a $100 one that fills those roles just as well?

How soon till a proper reviewer can get their hands on this and put it through some paces? Engadget, how about putting that checkbook journalism to some good use?
Ask HN: Help us figure out cofounder equity split.
Dear HN,
We'd really appreciate your input on how we should go about splitting the equity among our three founder team.

Project: Social Game Startup

Dilemma: Equity Split

Team:
Eddie: Eddie worked at two of the major gaming companies for 1.5 years. He also co-founded a gaming studio that saw a modest exit (<50k) before his MBA. He has been working on this idea throughout his time in business school and is now graduating. He has a design document with mockups.

Eddie will be working on this startup full-time. He is in charge of business and game design.

Mark: Mark has been a software engineer for five years, at major companies and startups.

Mark has a 20 hrs/week part-time job at a software firm. The remaining time will be dedicated to the startup.
Mark will be writing the software and building the UI.

Fred: Fred has been a software engineer for four years at major companies.
Fred has a full-time job at a software firm, and will spend the remaining time at the startup.
He will be writing the software with Mark, as well as any future native mobile apps.

Mark and Fred cofounded a startup and ran it for two years (lets call it Flippr) in the social space. Flippr did not gain significant traction, so they decided to join forces with Eddie. Code from Flippr is projected to be 35% of the new project. Mark and Fred built a prototype of the new project in a couple of weeks, based on Eddies design document.

Other Notes:
- Everyone will be working for sweat equity. No funding yet.
- The team gets along and would like to work together.
- Company expenses are split equally among the team.

Given the circumstances mentioned above, what equity split is fair? And why?
Take art classes with local artists and get to know as many people as possible.
The Chrome video was cool. I watched the "Making of" video and got bored pretty quickly and didn't finish watching it.
Mostly because I want to see how it works.

That and I can't shake the fear that one day my Google account will be locked for some mysterious reason and I'll be stuck without any of my email until I can figure out how to get it turned back on.

I don't have the advantage of being a blogger, and that seems to be the only reliable way to get customer service from Google.
Gmail's web interface would do that too. It's not like it just blocks with a white page while it waits to send.
I don't think this is anything new; according to http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/maps/thread?tid=428921..., it's been that way since at least May 2009.
google isn't on that list?
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" ... um, they're a private company. ..."

Screeeeeeech! http://www.google.com/finance?q=goog

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Well, she appears to be fairly attractive.
My experience (google docs API problem), was that I could provide sample code that looked like it ought to work, but actually triggered an internal server error from google, was on a paid support contract, and it wasn't resolved for about 9 months, with months often passing between google responses to my email on the subject.
No, by "ghetto" I meant "ecosystem of knockoff products fraught with quality issues". Android desperately wants to be the low-cost alternative to iPhone OS, yet low-cost also means compromises in usability, responsiveness, etc.

I have an Android phone, and though I like the Sprint service better than AT&T's, compared to an iPhone using the phone itself is an exercise in clunkiness and awkwardness.

I just flashed it to 2.1 (itself an exercise in unnecessary foldirol) and it feels somewhat smoother, but not Apple-smooth.
If you are running Gmail through google apps for enterprises, then you do have customer support options. Of course, then you also pay.
It doesn't take a genius to see that Europe is in a deflationary spiral right now, with Greece and Portugal leading the way. Why would you want to bet 30% of your portfolio against the trend of Euro/Dollar weakness?
My question is, if reddit were on that list, would the moderation system be able to prevent it turning into Digg? I don't think it could, although maybe the subreddit system could. Places like /r/politics/ are fairly useless for intelligent debate already. Such link sharing sites don't have the same "my friends are there" grounding force that Facebook has, it's just the "vibe" and community so running away to a new site is easily mounted.
It's also not that hard to build a slightly nodded copy after someone else has already spent millions on R&D figuring out all the difficult bits.

And of course this appears much more of a physical/appearance clone than anything. I'd like to see some 3rd party reviews of durability and battery life and so on.

In the end, it is no different than cars and other consumer goods. Some people appreciate a product with real design and innovation, and some just want the cheapest thing possible in a given form factor. I think there are markets for both.
A few months ago my gmail was slow I deleted my mail down from 23k msgs to under 1000. I nuke all unstarred msgs from mailing lists, etc. Seemed to help. Although still not lightning fast (like the Chrome browser :-)).
I'd take the colostomy bag, even if it's an extreme struggle. Then I'd spend the rest of my life doing what really intrigued and fascinated me, like traveling, and meeting new people.

But, since Im not in your situation, I can only guess what I'd do.

Also, keep your chin up, and don't be afraid to ask for help. Meaning, if you wanted to change the world, get to it and ask everyone around you to help you do it. What do you have to lose?
5. Be Positive [...] conscious effort to stay positive can get you back in the saddle quicker after a letdown, like when you were been blown off by that VC for the umpteenth time.

It's a tough one to remember, especially if you're somewhat thin-skinned by nature like me, but very important.

You do meet a lot of jerks along the way.
Report: Apple Prepping Cheap, Cloud-Based Apple TV For War With Google
Wow, cool I am going to do a timeline app for london start weekend. Planning to start prototype this weekend.

Just some feedback lower the barrier to entry. From the initial look of it, it seems like it would have a steep learning curve.

Your stats look great though. Spend $60 and get $145 back, you are on to something.
The Video-Game Programmer Saving Our 21st-Century Souls
Wow, did you know Elon Musk has a cameo in Iron Man 2? I didn't either.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228705/fullcredits

Elon Musk	...	Himself
Give it another shot. It's not an action flick, you need to give it more than 10 minutes.
Chinese doesn't have culture for innovation, they have always had culture of replication. Even from within innovation has been something that as suppressed for many centuries.

China is a world's factory. With disregard for copyright and intellectual property its hard to see when their own people will get motivation to invent and develop technologies.
Perhaps you could work with some of the classified sites themselves (start with smaller ones) to add an "Organize My Search" widget. Pitch it as a way for them to increase engagement and drive more return visits.

Also, many car enthusiast forums have "Cars for Sale" sections, and they're utter disasters. It would be valuable to be able to save those listings easily (bookmarklet?). A little word-of-mouth campaign on a forum can go a long way, and you can kick it off with a forum sponsorship with commercial posting rights.

(Side Note: The question in your header is implied -- don't state it, just answer it.)
speaking of (relatively) low budget films, "The Man from Earth" is awesome (it's low budget relative to Hollywood, not relative to Primer; $200,000)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Earth
My android gmail app is just as fast as the web. I have 35k messages, about 1.5gb. The web interface is slowish, but I haven't noticed the phone app being any slower.
The reason that deep drilling is done is not because there is an abiogenic origin for that oil. There has never been evidence of oil wells replenishing themselves in human time scales. Instead, oil production from any given well always follows a relatively predictable depletion profile.

The real reason for deep drilling is that the alternative easier sources are either already mostly gone or more expensive/slower to extract.

There is still plenty of "difficult" oil left. Unfortunately there are signs that most of it is not economic to extract at prices which the global economy can support. I think this is what caused the current recession and volatile oil prices, and it is only going to get worse.

See also http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6517
"Method and device to remotely deploy a stack of patent applications to block the passage of moving vehicles at a designated intersection"?
I guess the hard part is that I fee like I wasted my life. The plan was to do .com's and things until 30 then retire. I was well on that road and now this. Thanks for all the suggestions. I literally don't know anything but code. I have no friends only work colleagues. Even when I broke this news people wanted to make sure that all the projects were transferrable.

I cant take the bag. I already have confidence issues and girls kind of think I am a loser. I cant imagine what they would think then (yes i now that is shallow and unreasonable logic.)
The best thing about Primer is that it felt completely real. I felt like I could go out to my garage and build something amazing.
Use a text editor? This seems to be the thing people say they like most about Firebug compared to the WebKit tools. I don't get it. Is the cost of a refresh really so high? There are dozens of editors with built in auto-refresh/live-preview too.
Before OLPC, a 'cheap' laptop cost $1500

Really? I distinctly remember cheap Dell laptops selling for $400-$600 in the Dell catalog back in 2002-2005.
# 824 stackoverflow vs # 994 expertsexchange

Perhaps another confirmation of what the SO folks have been saying about their popularity.
TokyoCabinet is embedded through the http://github.com/edvakf/node-tokyocabinet node addon.

It's used to implement storage (b-tree). Each vertex is a set of key value pairs in the following format:

pid/s/name (slot record)
pid/m/name (meta record)
pid/p/name (private record)

Since all keys are lexically ordered, you can efficiently iterate (and jump to) vertex records using a cursor.
> Just curious, do you see oil dependence as a problem too?

Which "oil dependence" problem? The US dependence on imported oil or the developed world's dependence on oil?

I don't see imported oil as a huge problem. It's actually a much bigger problem for other countries.

The US is still a huge oil producing country - it just uses more than it produces. It gets the vast majority of its imports from Canada and Mexico, with a significant fraction from South America. If the Middle East went south, the US could survive by blocking exports from this hemisphere.

As to the world's dependence, I don't see it as a huge problem either. It's also a choice - we could have more nuclear power.
I don't think he's advocating for artists not to remain profitable; I think he's referring to the fact that most artists have had to tour to make some serious money off their music.
Wired jumped the shark when Louis Rossetto sold out to Conde Nast and left the business.
the daily mail at 236 aarrgghhhhh!!!!!!!
> It does actually sound like most people involved are doing their best job, except for the safety inspectors who let the thing get built that way in the first place.

Not at all. The cleanup and reaction people failed horribly, and most of them were in govt.
OmniTI announces web scalability conference
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Would be curious to know if IMAP is slow for Weinberg specifically. Others report good web experience, and disjoint others report good IMAP experience.
iPed is a better name than iPad :-)
50/25/25 - You want to keep them motivated and part of that is feeling like they still have control, ie 50% of the company when teamed up.

Startups are all about whos working on it now, not who may leave their job later to go full time. Those types of people are not cofounders, they are future employees.
A curious list of restrictions... I wonder what kind of site would be in the top 1000 that didn't have publicly visible content or load properly? Pure Flash sites, maybe?
Geocities still running in Japan after being shut down in the west? Wierd!
Take the bag, fall in love, and do something worth staying around for. Have children, invest in singularity-inducing tech, fight pirates on the open seas.

You'd be surprised how powerful the urge to live, despite daily I-can't-take-this-anymore frustrations, is when you've got a child's life to look forward to.
When I interview someone the most important questions to me are "What value can they add?", "Does their skillset overlap or fill a need in the skillset of the team?", "Will their personality and career goals mesh with the position?".

The resume is fodder. It helps to not add fluff or make fairly easy tasks sound overly impressive. What did you learn, add, or improve in a given position? What would you do different? Why was it a success/failure? I think it makes sense to use it as a potential red flag if you're looking to fill a managerial position that is expected to last 5+ years.
That's much more farcical, given that a normal "good" productive well produces 20-30,000/day and the really good ones 50,000/day. The oil from this well has get past various obstacles and the latest serious estimate I've heard is between 12,000 and 19,000/day.
Am I the only one annoyed by "China Rips Off"?

China is a country. Some folks in China did something.

Unless said folks are govt, "China" didn't do anything.