skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presently we are using the various API's that are available for each of the services that we are linking into. We have some custom code which interogates this data and renders it to the user. In respect of historic searches and storing of the data, storing data is not something we are doing from day 1, however this is something we are certainly looking longer term. In terms of historic searches - again day 1, we search back as long as the various API's allow.

Sentiment Analysis is something we looked at, however at the moment we wanted to keep things stripped back - that's not to say we may not offer this in future as an advanced search feature or even a feature that users can turn on/off.

API's are on the agenda and these are actively being developed to allow others to call into the service. In terms of monetisation we are starting out with a contextual ad model (using Google Adsense to start) - which obviously hasn't worked out too bad for Google, however longer term we have some other ideas around this.
I think you mean monday 7/19.
I'll be there.
“Our correlation data shows that H1 tags do not carry the same ranking weight that we had originally presumed.”

- http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-best-practices-seomozs-new-po...

If their research is correct, this is likely to have little to no effect on your search rankings anyway.
github and p2h (last one is more a service than an app).
It is our intention to be an all-in-one social media search. If 'social search' does not portray this have you any thoughts on what a good tagline would be to meet our aim - any suggestions more than welcome. Thanks
Cell phone charger works off human movement
I'm inclined to believe that the ability to identify an opportunity is a necessary hurdle. If someone can't get that far on their own, it's not very likely that they'll will have the drive to pursue the idea very far.
would love to, but part of the professionalism at the company I would for is identical desks ( I have asked if I could bring in my own desk, was told no, it would encourage people to be unprofessional)
I think it will be easier for good startups, and harder for the type of startups that used to raise money from the mediocre VCs who are now getting GCed. Which are roughly though not exactly startups run by hackers and startups run by suits respectively.
Does anyone know what kind of architecture Tumblr uses to serve up that traffic?
I don't think they "gave up" so much as "saw they were never going to make a lot of money on it" and "were antagonizing the channel for the vast majority of all Android sales". G doesn't want to sell phones; they just want to control the OS that runs on them.
Ah, I am reminded of an old syllogism (stolen and modified from Cvltvre Made Stupid, one of my favourite books growing up):

1. Society should be run by the most qualified people

2. I am a tech-savvy software developer

3. Therefore, society should be run by tech-savvy software developers.
Isn't JRuby implemented in Java?
Well, the original Motorola Droid/Milestone might still be an option.
My old boss said something wise I reflect on often: "Clay, you're just not political enough to work in a company. You should try politics."

2 years later I was lead programmer of the Dean campaign.
There's about 5 people who've made contributions, mostly in writing external projects to implement protocol handlers for their favorite language (C++, Ruby, PHP, and Python so far). Most of the work is done by myself though since it's rather early for other folks to get in, but I'm looking for contributors.

Anyway, stay tuned for more information on the sponsorship thing.
True. But if you keep your old drive you can reinstall the main SSD and have it erased/zeroed. Some people recommend this over X months, depending on disk write usage.

Note: a great way to minimize small writes for developers is to create a memory filesystem and use it for temporary files. With SSDs access time is tiny but the next bottleneck is writing to the drive. Most modern Macbooks have plenty of memory for ramdisks. Perhaps the OP should buy more RAM if there's not enough (up to 900MB for big compile projects.) Again, YMMV.
Konrad Hinsen's Vision for Python 4.0
Nope, I'm in California. IIRC, the first N views are free, then they throw up a registration form for the next week or so.
It's funny you should say that - this is a feature that is high on the to be developed list. We are trying to take the release, iterate often approach - so hopefully this feature will be in soon. Thanks for the comment - any other suggestions ?
Do you think that it would have been disappointing to Google if Nexus One had sold like hotcakes?
The post I responded to said "language" so your comment about CPAN doesn't apply.

Somehow Perl 5 made CPAN possible (and by deliberate language design), so that guy in a kilt seems truly a Scotsman to me.
An unlocked iPhone.

But it cost more than the N1. Here in Italy Vodafone sell (if you can find it) the N1 without contract for 499€, while the iPhone 3GS is now 539€.
Thanks - we'll take a look into that
Yep - we agree - we'll have a look into this
Doing it using Node allows you to use application logic to balance rather than just raw traffic.

This entirely depends on the use cases you have.
The same price for the service with or without a phone is just a sign that the market doesn't work for some reason.

Before my (coincidentally, American) employer started paying my phone bills, I had a service from one of the local operators here. In my "smart" country the costs were as follows:

- monthly fee: 0,67€

- phone calls: 0,069€ / minute

- texting: 0,069€ / message

Admitting I indeed don't talk on the phone that much and I don't use data services, I rarely racked up more than 5-10 euros a month. I could get 512k-2M data plan for 10-30 euros a month. Still, any plan that comes bundled with a decent phone here is many times more expensive.
Netflix, Flickr, GitHub
All that means is you need to add a distance conversion factor in, and it all works fine, albeit tied to that distance. And, lo: "Now assume it flies from San Francisco to London in 10 hours." The two may not be directly comparable, but that's ok, because they weren't directly compared. Defining the bandwidth of that specific flight is perfectly reasonable and no "devil's advocate" is needed.

(And if you want to point out that this isn't a practically useful number... well, yeah. But it's perfectly well-defined and unit-correct.)
Memcached, a database?
Android-powered devices activating 100k devices per day over iPhone
HP files for "Palmpad" trademark
> The problem is that you typically pay the same monthly service fee whether you take a subsidized phone or not.

Yeah, T-mobile is really great about this. I'm saving over a thousand dollars over the life of the phone by getting a data-only plan.
I changed my "edition" to Canada, as that's apparently the only way to avoid the new design. Hopefully it takes them a very long time to push the new design to other editions.
As well as language religion, I hate license religion. I GPL things I think will only attract douchebags if it were totally free, like with Lamson. I AGPL things mostly as a joke, like I did with MulletDB.

In this case, I believe the cause of getting languages out of my damn web server operations is strong enough that BSD is a better choice.
I've noticed a trend where some high traffic blogs have trouble keeping the lights on and are switching over to tumblr for their bandwidth capabilities and collaboration capabilities.
Clicking on the site on Google Chrome, I got the standard-issue "Warning: Suspected Malware Detected."
These are awesome numbers. Posterous' dying platforms campaign looks ever more lame now.
The beta (Area 51) idea is that some subset of programmers will be gamers/cooks/photographers. They form the "seed" group, since they know the SO model but also have these less-techie interests.

Then we hope that they'll tell two friends, and so on. That's the experiment.
Chrome gives this warning:

The website at www.mikesingleton.net contains elements from the site 85.234.191.190, which appears to host malware
There's also Android tablets aplenty in the works. Thank you very much for your work on Cydia, I am a delighted user of it on my 1st gen iPhone.

The old tc1100 supports basically 90% of the use cases for my iPad, but the iPad is just more comfortable to use, particularly since it lacks the stylus. (With the one exception of drawing.)

Also, just because the jailbreak itself doesn't cause more CPU use, this doesn't mean that the jailbreak couldn't enable something thermally harmful. It's also not reasonable for Apple to have to determine forensically that you didn't harm anything -- it's impossible to prove a negative! Now, if someone was playing a game on an non-jailbroken device plugged into the charger and fried it, they would be entitled to satisfaction from Apple since they were running it on the terms Apple sold it. If you don't like these, either don't buy the device or take the risk of not having the warranty to fall back on. The similar physics of these two situations isn't the issue here, it's all about the legal terms of the sale.
National underwear at work day
Thanks for taking time out to comment.

As you say Unscatter seems a similar idea and we can see where you're coming from re: context.

We hear you on the speed - this is what we are trying to focus on - make this a super quick, great user experience. You're right in that caching is the way to go - again it's one of those release early and iterate items. We don't presently do any caching as such so this is no doubt something we will iterate on.

In terms of monetisation - for the first few months we are looking at adsense to get a feel for how contextual the ads are and what the relative click through rates will be. After this we have some ideas that we hope will work out well.
My iPhone 4 antenna-gap fix
Nokia Siemens To Buy Motorola Unit For $1.2B
Someone has done it before[0], but the feed doesn't seem to be available anymore.

0: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=542334
even at break-even [affiliates] are profitable because of positive SEO

Not necessarily true in all cases, but broadly accurate. Also, you can work the backend. (Solicit upgrades, upsells, and repeat purchases from the customer, which would typically not result in you paying additional commissions to the affiliate.)
Samoa switches to driving on left
Stick with it- you're probably young, but you're going to run into projects like this again and again. Get used to it. Revel in the chaos, don't sweat the small stuff, and be thankful that you are an expense, and not the one paying the bill for the 'clusterfuck'.
Programming for Wikipedia
It would really be helpful if each item had a link to the actual article.
Shoving words into my mouth? I am not saying this nation should be entirely run by the tech-savvy. I'm saying that there should be representation for that sort of expertise amongst its legislators.

If the doctors of country X noted that there was a disturbing misunderstanding of medical issues in the legislature, I don't think they'd be unreasonable to suggest that perhaps a few representatives with medical degrees would help.
After lusting after the phone for a while, I ordered an unlocked N1 last night after hearing the news. Did I rush it?
The best comment I've heard on this news came from John Gruber:

"Here’s the list of Android phones you can buy today other than the Nexus One which support Android version 2.2: {}."
Lawsuit [against Scribd] Alleging Copyright Filtering Infringes is Dropped
We happy (and often!) re-root repos to show point to the canonical one in the case that projects get abandoned and picked up by someone else.
Exactly. Unsubscribe the front page, make sure you're subscribed to /r/programming and /r/coding, then peruse through the other subreddits and check out the quality of submissions for ones that are relevant to you. Lots of good stuff there.
looks cool...
Personally I don't think that Google tried very hard. I hardly ever watch TV, but I've seen TV commercials for Droid. I didn't see any for Nexus One.

I upgraded from a dumb phone recently and wanted to buy a Nexus One, but T-Mobile lady told me Google required a much more expensive plan, that the buy-one-get-one free sale wasn't applicable, and that there were all other kinds of undesirable things about it. It also cost a lot of money for the device itself, and I don't have a lot of money.

So while I would have really liked to buy a N1, I bought a G1 for $99, got another G1 for my wife for free, and took them home, rooted, and installed Android 2.1 and I'm perfectly happy with it. We're on a plan that is about $30 less than our separate dumb phones and includes unlimited data and text. And none of this would have been possible with a Nexus One.

I don't see any reason why this would be part of Google's fundamental strategy. I don't have a problem with Google selling phones online or directly or being the exclusive dealer, but the Nexus One was just too much hassle and would have cost much, much more in the long term.
Eh, it's not that hard to win a Congressional seat. I've worked on and with dozens of campaigns. And only if you're in a super swing area against a well funded candidate do you have to do the cynical pandering stuff. Ultimately, shoe-leather and hard work can win elections.

Plus, something tells me Paul can raise enough money to win in a few minutes.
If they read Hacker News, I think it's safe to say they're the outliers.
Boston wasn't in your list of cities so I lost interest pretty quickly. That's fine, but it looks like there were other cities on your site that are completely devoid of posts. I can immediately think of two options here to improve the experience:

1) Explicitly state on your site that you're only launching in one (or a few) cities, and then actually restrict postings to those cities. You will then probably need to do lots of creative marketing for your site in those cities to get initial traction. You could also have a sign-up form for people who want to express interest in posting in a different city, and then you can notify them when you open the site up to their area.

2) Find a way to easily (and legally?) populate your site with data from competing sites like Craigslist. This way you don't have giant empty sections on the site.

There might be other options as well, but having cities with literally no posts in them doesn't seem to me like it will attract (or retain) users.
I'm thinking that the only reason Google would have abandoned the Nexus One is if the manufacturers promised to ship upgradeable phones running the latest (unmodified) Android.
I eagerly await the public beta of Stack Overflow's "What Should I Start a Stack Overflow Clone Site About?" site. Seriously, this is getting silly. Some forms of knowledge are not best organized in a sprawling question-and-answer format.
so the items aren't hyper links and when i try to select the text to google it, it actually drags around like an icon...
Your life in plain-text: Org-mode 7.01 released
While shipping tapes fits the original metaphor (station wagon full of mag tape was what we were told to never underestimate back in the 80s) a more practical example would be to use 2T hard disks. You would lose out a bit on information density, but the drives could be slammed straight into a storage array without the transfer step that tape requires.

A 2T disk is about 400cc of volume and 660g in weight. A 747-8 freighter has close to 690 m^3 of cargo space. Round that down to 680 and we could put 1.7 million disks into a 747-8 by volume. Unfortunately they would weigh more than one million kilos. By weight it could hold around 212,000 disk drives containing 424 PB. This gets you close to the same numbers that jgc came up with, but in a more useful format for attaching directly to a storage array.
It would depend on the quality of the ideas. If you could list ideas with clear potential and which you backed up by research that might be something, especially if you did preliminary market validation by speaking with potential customers. I'd probably even pay for it. I'm an entrepreneur (and have a growing list of ideas), but there are things I'll never think of because I'm simply unaware the problem exists. For example, I often see semi-trucks for grocery stores or supplying other retail businesses and I wonder if the Internet can make some process in that system more efficient. I'm pretty sure there is, but I have no idea where a pain point might be because I've never been on the inside of that process. That's just one example, but there are tons of internal business processes that I'm simply unaware of because I'm not exposed to them. As a result most of my ideas are consumer focused which I can relate to, and this is a fun (e.g. facebook, myspace), but crowded and fickle market segment for Internet startups. Going after b2b is less sexy, but can be quite profitable, and in some cases I think easier to implement and gain traction.
Looking forward to Google buying t-Mobile and calling it g-mobile.
Isn't "break the religious hold that programming languages have on organizations," kinda-well-I-dont-know religious?

I don't know about you, but I just had a religious experiences reading the post. I got the experience when I used http://kayakhttp.com/ for the first time. It changed my life!!!

Programming languages have religious backing not due to HTTP or anything technology related but due to management fearing polyglotism/increased complexity by redundant code/multi-deployment/multi-service management/other people issues.

To end the religion that infests programming is to end humanity. And, unless Mongrel2 has skynet built into it, it's not going to break the religious hold that programming languages have on organizations.

But, I'll drink some of zed's koolaid and hope to live in a state of denial.
When I read the title I thought that it was the Motorola Mobility unit (the one that makes phones).

But Nokia (Nokia Siemens Networks) bought the Motorola Mobile network infrastructure unit.

Still a big news (1.2B$ it's a big news for me), but Motorola is still in the mobile phone business (and Nokia still don't have a valid phone OS).
This is a good idea and I wish you luck with it.

Another great way to build your portfolio is to approach local non-profits and ask to volunteer to make web apps or website improvements for them. There is almost always a way to make a big difference.
Thanks for your suggestion, I always love reading detailed descriptions of what people would like from GitHub. However, now I've got a bit of a question for you...

My opinion is that every extra field I add to a page means I've personally failed. It's so easy to correlate databases to HTML that people often go feature-crazy adding fields to solve their problems and you end up with a product like JIRA.

However, as a designer I'm directly opposed to this idea. Every field I add to a web application torments me. I think about it constantly and scheme for hours trying to come up with any alternative to adding another field. I've been known to dream about "simply adding another field" for weeks. I need to make sure that this field is really going to positively impact my users. That it's more important than any other field already on the page.

So, would this inactive/status flag provide a significant benefit over editing the name/description/readme? I guess that's the question I'd like you guys to think about.
If it were my product, I would have made it possible for anyone to create a StackExchange site instantly. I am of the opinion that their current proposal/ vetting model is yet another misstep. The first misstep was the high pricing model of StackExchange before it went free.

I'm a big fan of StackOverflow and Joel, but the way they're going now, I'm not sure they can make lightning strike more than once.
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There's a "subscribe and save" link next to the "add to cart" link on some of the product pages, as well as a "subscribe and save" link on the navigation bar from the Health & Personal Care section. It's pretty straightforward from there.
Squid static page caching helps them a lot, I'm sure.

S3 for image serving.

Backend is written in PHP, IIRC.
Look like a particularly un-funny place... :( Are you allowed to laugh sometimes, or is it too "unprofessional"?
Sure, and I did. That doesn't change that today's announcement was not what was anticipated.
Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community [1996]
Great link Peter! Just the sort of info I am looking for at the moment as well...
Did an Underground Nazi Factory Cause Disaster?
A security clearance doesn't grant you access to all the information at that level of security, only specific things you need to know to do your job.
Ask HN: Best Paul Graham Essays
Add and up-vote your favorites. http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
Ask HN:  Market an iOS game using a free Android version?
Is this a reasonable thing to do?

Would people still be willing to pay for an iOS version given that it is free on Android?
It was certainly accurate in Rent.com's case. Working the backend is another good idea, but not one that Rent.com used. (Typically once people have found a place to live, they aren't in immediate need of another.)
You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss: http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html
I've used both very recently, and I would definitely avoid MySQL given a choice.

From my experience, postgres is faster, especially at more difficult problems (complex joins). I've never had issues in postgres joining several tables into 10 million plus row relations, and then filtering down to the set of interest.

I did a recent test adding a similar column to a MySQL table with 3 million rows in it compared to adding a column to a postgres table with 30 million rows in it. MySQL took 3000 seconds, and postgres took 82 ms.

Functional indexes. Doing things like "create unique index user_emails on users (lower(email));" works great in postgres.

A quick google reveals this:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Why_PostgreSQL_Instead_of_My...

It's a bit old, but it might provide more insight.
Please don't editorialize the titles.
Masti4Free
Here is my version: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1529790

Honestly, I think it works better.
"Every day 160,000 Android-powered devices are activated -- that’s nearly two devices every second."

Why does Google explicitly say "devices" instead of phones? What other Android devices are being included in the number?

If the number does include things besides phones, why not compare with all iOS devices like the iPod Touch and iPad included in the number?
I think they want a diverse range of branded sugar waters. Allowing them to profit from multiple independent markets.

It's not one or the other - it's the whole spectrum.
Startups in 13 Sentences: http://www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html
What Startups Are Really Like: http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html
Penny Arcade uses Dropbox and Tarsnap for backups
With TechCrunch, LifeHacker, New York Times, etc (and any other blog), we usual generate about $1 per unique visitor

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's conversion rates... but darn.
The passive gets a bad rap a lot of the time, but getting rid of passives isn't always the best way to go about things. An approach which forbids all passive verbs often results in less readable or less appropriate prose, because there are honestly places where the passive is the correct thing to use. Broadly speaking, it's better to educate yourself about those situations than to treat it as wholly bad and eliminate it entirely.

I'd go into more detail, but Language Log has discussed it in great depth: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://languagelog.ldc.u...
Ramen Profitable: http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html
The Flashbulb. Good ambient music, doesn't get in the way when you're really focusing on your thoughts...
I think Google must have underestimated the task.

Or overestimated their own interest in playing this game.