skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We just started telling people about the site two days back via Facebook/StumbleUpon and I guess HN now, and we have just above 40 signups so far. Conversion is pretty low, but that's expected without any real content. Need to fix that, add the demo perhaps. Part of asking what stuff people are into is to try to find a recurring theme, so I totally agree about that.

I think your comments about hackers are on target mostly, but I don't mind the criticism. It's really better than having friends tell you how great what you made is.

The logo was not worked on too much, and I'm not exactly good with graphic design. I'm definitely going to get a professional to redo it in the future. I'm not sure it would make a huge difference to whether people sign up for beta, but I can see how it might.
In case anyone else is wondering, The Rhino is a few blocks East of Dufferin St. on Queen St. West.
most employers don't go checking with your university, as it stands. i don't see why they'd be more interested in doing so under these circumstances. the piece of paper itself is rarely what matters; only what you learned getting it. and an employer that doesn't recognize that probably isn't worth working for.
Vimperator does this, too.
Enormous Ice Block Breaks Off Greenland Glacier
what did you say to pg et al when they asked, "what if google just does this themselves"?
Code Anthem
http://mamma.com/
This was the first page I found after the news stories when I did a Google search for "google net neutrality".
i've been using duckduckgoose for 6 months due to google's evil. but, now, it is because duckduckgoose is so good!
The terminal velocity in the stratosphere is significantly higher than at sea level, and the speed of sound is lower, at around 670 mph. Joeseph Kittingers' record was 614 mph, which is not that far off the sound barrier.

Pilots have ejected out at Mach 3 from a SR-71
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/sr-71_break-up.htm

In that accident, the pilot ejected without major injury, but the co-pilot was killed.
What to do when your site is "too large" for Google Analytics?
True. IF I understand the implications of the deal between Google and Verizon correctly (and to be honest, there's a good chance I don't...), I would argue that what they're doing is far worse than Steve Jobs saying, "You're holding it wrong."

At least, the actions of Apple (and Jobs) is limited directly to developers and consumers who choose to use (or develop for) their products.

Verizon and Google? This affects all of us.

Edit:
But to answer your question: Let's support the little guy and go webOS!
If we're at all optimistic that Google cares for more Neutrality than they "achieved" here, why would we think those goals are different from what they were arguing in favor of for three years?

The entire article is nothing but distinguishing what Google wants from what it settled for.
If they had written it on their personal blog, it would have had the perception of being more neutral, but would have been written knowing that their investors would read it. I think this is a more authentic approach.
IPhone update is out. But Jailbreak vendors say don't take it.
I have been reminded that the fairy godmother gets blown up. So 9 for 10.

So, it looks like the top US grossers only 1 was made without showing someone being killed.
http://lycos.com/
C++ it's getting ridiculous, just like strange mix becoming a Tower of Babel.

P.S. I've working with C++ for more than 10 years.
http://twich.me (based on http://chat.nodejs.org/) was the first live Node app that I've seen.
Mapreduce and Hadoop Algorithms in Bioinformatics Papers
Bing is actually a very nice search engine. It occasionally outperforms google in certain aspects of search, and has some extremely useful features that google doesn't have, although you'll have to dig around the site to find these (such as farecast, and the visual search).

I still recommend google for things such as technological search. For the majority of tail queries google still does better.

DuckDuckGo on the other hand is a nice search engine. However, it is objectively not as good at finding results as the other too. You can use statistical measures with RMSE and human rated errors to measure the accuracy of the machine learning and results pages that turn up in a search engine. DuckDuckGo is not even on the radar for google or microsoft because its core product--search--isn't even on the same level as the other two.
If github were open source

How would that really matter?
does it eliminate header files D: ?
not exactly sure about calendars specific features but you probably wouldn't have too hard a time running your own calendaring server
we didn't ask that question because we don't care what the answer is. the biggest threat is almost always from another startup anyway, not google/microsoft/etc so we want to back the best founders. if you've met the rapportive team, you'll see pretty quickly why we funded them.
I got the exact same email today, and had to read their terms of service to know for sure I wasn't being had.

Apparently you need an adwords account 'in good standing', I'm not sure what they mean by that because we do have an adwords account, and as far as I know and can see it is in 'good standing', only we're not advertising any more using google because we found that it isn't making enough money in return.

See:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1593898

I'd pay for analytics, it's a very useful service and I can't see the adwords angle, after all with something as vague as 'good standing' as the deciding factor how about simply charging for analytics?

I always figured that analytics was free because it provides google with useful data as well.

Maybe it's time to get my old stats suite dusted off and re-installed, I don't like operating against the TOS even if it is apparently something they'll let you get away with.
They've always agreed that the consumer needs to be protected. All the ISPs have. They've just disagreed with the FCC on:
1. how to protect them
2. who to protect them from
3. who decides what's good and bad.

Their previous position was:
1. trust us with QoS
2. bad users/apps
3. the ISP itself

Their new position is:
1. trust us with QoS
2. bad users/apps
3. a consortium of ISPs

Which is worse, if anything. Previously they were pushing an edge-network QoS strategy position that could be countered by competition.

Now they're pushing a position of de-facto collusion across the industry, to implement their brand of QoS end-to-end.
504 Gateway Time-out
nginx/0.7.65
You guys seem really positive. How do you stay positive in the face of so much negativity that must come your way? This post is one example, but I assume there's a lot more where that came from.
It is a backronym, basically. If you actually never "got it":

1. RSS is a polling (client-pull) protocol.

2. PubSubHubbub turns it into a centralized server-PuSH protocol.
I think you mean duckduckgo.
if you can code, and you can show it, you should never make so little
It rhymes 3 times! What's not to like?
cool. can you be most specific though? did you write software for banks/"defense" industry, or did you tell them what kind of software to write, or did you tell them how to wire their networks, etc.
UI demos by minority report advisor (TED talk)
Thanks for the pictures. I can definitely see how the traffic circle in Makkinga is safer than just a through street.

I didn't expect to see a bunch of Japanese labels on the maps of these German towns, though... :)
Site is down. I'm in Chicago and might be able to help, refer you to some rails developing friends of mine, etc
errr haven't we missed the boat on 0x? My calendar says 2010.
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1595526
I have tried DuckDuckGo, Blekko and Bing, all for about a month each.

I recommend Bing.

The thing that you almost forget after using Google forever is that they can always pull up relevant links to what you want, even from ancient forum posts if it's a really esoteric issue that only 5 people have ever had.

DuckDuckGo is decent, but it's no where near Google in that capability. Blekko not even close to DDG. (I have been using Blekko for my default search engine for a week or two now, but I almost always have to revert back to Google, except for really obvious results that I could probably pull up without a search engine entirely. I feel bad saying it, but it really isn't that good. Hopefully they keep working on it, though. )

Bing, on the other hand, was almost neck and neck with Google; it was only very occasionally that I would revert back to Google, and I used Bing for perhaps a month. I theorize that this is because Bing has millions (billions?) of Microsoft dollars behind it, way more than any other competing search engine.

I think I'm going to go back to DDG for a bit. I only used it a few months ago; I'm interested to see if it's gotten better.
This is what I would like to know as well.

Google employees some of the most respected and seminal names in the history of the internet and I imagine their reputations and principles are worth more than whatever Google pays them.

I'm dying to hear the first comments from Vint, et al.
I tried DDG for awhile, an honestly found the search results to be lacking compared to Google. YMMV.
He's being sponsored by Red Bull (http://www.redbullstratos.com/). Their marketing video is actually really cool, it includes plenty of footage of Kittinger.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyGmTV0q2kY (make sure you switch to HD)
What Types of People Raise Money for Web Startups? [infographic]
I like DDG and Blekko as alternatives.
I had a look and: http://twitter.com/ApressDaily (all Twitter accounts have an RSS feed too :-)) Or, you can just add the original page to Google Reader as-is. No need for RSS feeds nowadays since they track page updates too.
Very interesting. I think it would be difficult to help create an internet presence for those who don't already have some, whether in a community or not. But in the case of disconnected blogs and other content, where a presence does exist, there may be great potential to help unify all the bits spread all over the web. I'll look into this more, but I may have a hard time finding appropriate niches.

By "niche", I had really meant a group of like-minded people. There may be a more appropriate word. I don't want to stick to a particular niche forever, but expand to all possible topics eventually. The "niche" is just required to make sure there are network effects. People who try a new thing every other month are ok with me, as long as they help bring in others who are more likely to stay. Besides, some tools are rarely dropped by the tech crowd if they are truly useful, and I would hope that my application fell into that category.
Agreed, Bing is my vote too...if only they could increase their coverage a bit!
As soon as he brought up Social Security as the problem instead of, you know, two Trillion Dollar Infinite Wars^W^W^W^W infinite wars costing trillions or the Bush tax cuts, I stopped reading.
The Apple TV Is Dead: $99 Next-Gen Model To Be Called iTV, Run iOS
I tried taking the Bing challenge several months ago. I couldn't even make it for a week before going back to Google. Maybe it's time to try Bing again, but I'm really skeptical.
I recently read about another Dropbox text-editing app coming out soon too: http://www.secondgearsoftware.com/elements/. I've been waiting for apps like these for awhile. I like using TextMate to write and organize my notes as txt files but haven't had a good way to sync and edit them on the iPhone/iPad yet. I'm surprised it's taken this long actually.
"but they have other solutions to those problems"

No, they don't. They have some hand-wavey wish-aways. Who runs the government if it doesn't have any money? Volunteers?

There is in fact a model for this, and it's called anarchy. Again, see Somalia.
Actually the concept of Hamiltonian cycles is decidedly easier and less mathy than even basic algebra. At Kansas University the lowest level math class was called Topics, and one of the areas covered was graph theory, including Hamiltonian cycles. I don't recall anyone having problems with the concept, whereas the same group of kids would struggle to add fractions.
Try the English version of Yandex (http://www.yandex.com/) - the Russian search engine. They just released it one day fully functioning. It's not a complete alternative, but it's interesting and worth a try...
Research shows that consumers bond easily with scrappy underdog upstarts
Great video (Platige Images productions are usually great - this is a studio of Tomasz Bagiński).

Link to trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXD51CY8DkA&feature=relat...

Full video for now is only available in Warsaw in museum of the Warsaw Uprising, I hope it will leak to youtube someday - it is project paid by taxpayers, it should be available to everyone.
60% graduation rate is about on par for open admissions schools. (http://www2.ku.edu/~oirp/profiles/current/9-601.pdf)
Usual retention melt from fall to fall is around 20% dropouts after the first year. http://www2.ku.edu/~oirp/profiles/current/9-505.pdf

It's something the feds and various boards are really interested in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C1X is the new 'C' draft standard, I think that the C++ guys figured they'd be ready a bit earlier than this. They might name it C++09 to save face.
Personal experience has been that it's tough for me to type .co without automatically typing .com or .co.uk

I'm sure that will change over time, but it might be something to think about. It's not like the other off-brand TLDs - they tend to look nothing like .com.
Um, what?

This is like someone challenging me to implement merge-sort, and then I give him the solution to bubble-sort saying that there's "no reason to optimize" until necessary.

Granted the cases where Chazelle's linear time algorithm is necessary is less than merge-sort. But that is true of any field, including mathematics.
Google might be helpful...also if you want to save/make some money use my site: www.meshipu.com
Could you elaborate on why you wouldn't care? A competitor is a competitor, no matter if they're an elephant that can make waves, or a cheetah that can pivot on the dime. Shouldn't the mantra be to focus more on what your customers want/need rather than worry about threats from other companies?
Before you even bother with this one, consult Google about "Captain Cyborg":

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=captain+cyborg

Kevin Warwick is widely regarded as a self-parody.
Firefox 4 Beta: Experimenting With Multi-touch
PatentGate — Apple responded,  resolved amicably
Turismo: il cielo sopra Pompei, 12 agosto si entra gratis
To be more specific: the return type of the lambda can be omitted for a lambda whose body is just "return {expression}". The compiler could, if it wanted, always deduce the return type (since implementing type inference would be easy). The fact that it doesn't isn't to make it easy for compilers; it was a design decision of the language: having unspecified return types for complicated pieces of code hurts readability and maintainability.
This "study" is useless without comparing people working similar jobs. Federal civil servants are typically white-collar, well-educated, highly-specialized professionals. The average private sector employee is not.

The overall impression I get from friends and family members in the DC area is this: there's a strong appeal to the stability and pension plans available from working for the federal govt (although for young workers, the pension plans aren't nearly as good). However, once you're fully vested in the pension plans, almost everyone switches to private industry because the salaries are higher. (Frequently, this actually means doing exactly the same work, but as a govt contracter through a private company rather than a direct hire.)
I thought the same thing when I starting working with the new standard, but I've really grown to enjoy a lot of the new features, specifically the new pointer types, rvalue references, initializer lists, variadic templates, and better support for functional programming via binds and lambdas. C++0x really does fix a lot of things that were broken on awkward previously, while also expanding support for memory and speed constrained systems via things like std::array. For me, this stuff breaths new life into the language.
They should break down that compensation according to positions. I once considered a government job until I saw that as a programmer I could make 18k more in industry. Over the years this has not changed considerably. This is vividly expressed by the remarks of the current red-headed poster child, minerals management services. There people could earn up to 2x their salary by going into private practice.

Where my own personal analysis has not considered is the defined pension plans (which I've always considered more of a liability due to their chronic underfunded nature.)
HootSuite Announces Premium Plans (goes freemium)
Multitouch in Firefox 4
If you use the search engine, but no other feature including clicking on their ads, you are actually costing them money, are you not?

That said you should probably search for inconsequential things rather than not use them at all.
This seems to be my week to finally "de-lurk" around here.

I did a collaboration a few years back on this; it's a fascinating topic. If you're curious to learn more and have access, check out: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi...

I'll see if I can dig up a summary but am on iPhone at the moment.
Ask HN: opensource Ruby/Rails (or Python) based web app for source study?
We are building a small startup web app with friends and it's all built in PHP (Czech Nette framework). We all have extensive experience with PHP and the app is pretty nice design-wise (meaning data modeling, separation of concerns etc. It's also beautiful :))

However, after playing with Rails and learning Python a bit, I have my doubts about the choice of platform - Rails / Django with all the generation, pre-baked stuff, built in support for unit testing, supereasy deployment systems like Heroku, and yes, counting the current buzz that generates great support for these environments, I am ready to go for it.

I also built a simple but awesome system for world cup betting for my friends in an afternoon in Rails and hosted it for free on Heroku and it kind of sold me on RAD.

I'd rather change the app now while it's small (it's like 70% finished, no billing or other 3rd party stuff integrated yet).

So I guess I have 3 questions:

1) I need to study good Rails or some Python framework app code, especially data modelling parts, security, forms, validation. I want to do it right first time. Got any? :)

2) What do you guys recommend more - Ruby/Rails/Heroku (or some virtual) or some Python stack?

3) If you think that switching platform from "lots of experience" to "new world" in 70% of app finished is insanity, let me know. I just think that the work would be outweighted by benefits soon (plus the kick of doing something new), but I'm too close to the problem. Our current framework has community only in Czech and I think having international community for your tools is important (I am based in NYC personally).

Thanks!
Doesn't DDG use Google?
This is a problem in the federal, state, and local governments right now. The biggest issue relates to pension plans and the government's commitment to defined pensions. This is playing out with major consequences all over the country. Every state is trapped in pension plans for its employees. I'm not sure how you can justify pensions for government workers when most workers in the private sector have no pension plans at all. I've never been offered one nor do I know anyone who has been offered one. Then again I don't have a powerful union arranging these things for me on my behalf.

I'm sure nothing is going to be done about this on a federal level as budgets are only a concern for state and local governments who in some cases have balanced budget amendments to deal with.

Unions never will accept pay cuts for its members instead preferring that members be laid off instead. I don't quite get the logic but that seems to be how it's playing out all around the country.

As a country we're totally broke right now and we need to start acting like it.
We think we have all three of those things.

We do have plans for features that we think people will be happy to charge for. Right now, we're not ready to talk too much about those features, but we think there is real pain we can remove.

We feel validated by the fact that people love the features we have right now so much that many have asked if they can pay for them.

Free is a strategy. We'll let you know how it works out :)
For P/NP examples, I find SAT the easiest to explain to people not in CS. It's just: there are some things that can be true or false, and some statements about them using and, or, and not. You want to find a set of T/F assignments that makes all those statements true. And it's intuitively obvious to people that it's much easier to check if an assignment is right than to find one.
Yeah... Out of memory Exception.
Java::JavaLang::OutOfMemoryError (Java heap space):

The server has 64 gigs... but I'm on JRuby Head (jruby 1.6.0.dev) and Rails 3 RC, and the website is running in development mode...

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One more thing: the author of the article, Tom Vanderbilt, wrote a terrific book called "Traffic" and has a excellent blog (at http://www.howwedrive.com/). It was from his blog that I found out about David Hembrow's blog.
Yes, the book is in both metric and imperial measurements. Seems like an easy thing for an author to do to reach a broader audience... No idea why more don't!
I browsed through half-a-dozen pages, including "How it works" and "Product Tour" looking for the phone hardware and software requirements. No sign of them. I am not going to buy something without this information, and you have not made it easy to find.
Return types can't always be deduced since they can be ambiguous - imagine an if statement where one branch returns a float and the other returns a double. The desired return type could really be any numeric value since the types can be converted so the return type does need to be specified. Since C++ has overloaded functions the compiler can't just look at the function that the result is being passed into to determine the type either.
This sounds related to the accounting method businesses call "accrual" as opposed to "cash". http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/article-29513.html

I would also like to see one of these services predict periodic expenses properly. e.g., I pay my car insurance once every six months, and I would love to see this as an amortized expense (as if I'm "saving" monthly to pay this expense when it comes due). Mint does not do anything like this.
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Do you get that glazed, faraway look in your eye when you partner starts talking about a programming problem, or the newest testing framework? There’s no need to be bored. Ask questions, try to understand! When I meet women today, I don’t avoid talking about the work that I do, my love for pc gaming, or my fascination with D&D and other such geekery. Often I’ll get a response along these lines: “Programming? My husband does something like that I think.” To which I always inquire, “Oh really? What language does he work with?” Their response is always the same: “Language? huh. I have no idea. There’s more than one? I don’t really know what he does. I don’t pay attention to that stuff.”
This always blows my mind. You’re married to someone, and you aren’t interested enough in the person to know anything about what they do with nearly 40-50% of their time, aside from their job title? ...

(click the link above to continue, I don't want to repost the entire text)