skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the Bing Instant: http://www.istartedsomething.com/livesearch/

It's actually from a year ago. It doesn't automatically search for a predicted query, just uses what you've typed in so far. But you can mouse over the query suggestions to search for them.
Go-between or not doesn't change the nature of their revenues.

Buying a domain is a subscription (you pay annually) and they cross-sell you on a bunch of other "enhancements". It's also pretty sticky for the vast majority of domain holders.

That type of recurring revenue is valuable. Salesforce is a subscription as well. GoDaddy prob doesn't deserve a p/s of 10 like 10 but 1 seemed low. That is what i was pointing out.

Not sure why I got down-voted but sorry to someone at Salesforce who I offended :)
What's required to maintain a healthy body in zero gravity is still contradictory. One of the biggest problems is due to decreased immune system, which likely isn't caused by space itself but that 1/2 of all astronauts get less than 2 hours sleep in a 24 hour period while taking sleeping pills, which sleeping pills themselves are known to have detrimental effects on health in the long term. Apparently the other 1/2 don't get that much more than 2 hours, certainly nowhere near the 6 hour minimum for 'average' sleep.

IMO solving the sleep issue will solve a lot of the health problems. However, what's required for solving the sleep issue will likely also solve the remainder of the health problems, and I'd be willing to put money on it being simulating gravity for at least the persons sleep cycle.

I've wondered for a while if something as simple as a centrifuge-like hammock would work.
Most stuff on the internet are free anyway, which should be ample evidence for my argument.

What stuff? Stuff that's paid for with advertisement dollars? Do you think this stuff would still be free or marginal cost without those advertisement dollars? I think the fact that so much software and media (probably well over 90%) is paid for in some fashion by consumers (either through advertisers or directly) is evidence to the contrary of what you are saying.

There's no such thing as a free lunch. Econ 101.
Great idea. You probably need to keep soliciting feedback to tweak specific areas of the site. Like awfulcoder14 mentioned I did not like not being able to scroll through the animation back and forth on hompage.

One Bug: I could not login using FBConnect. Tried a few times, FB login popped up, logged in and when the page was trying to reload/redirect -> error.
Will carriers destroy the Android vision?
I used to want to get everything for free, until I made historious. Now, my mindset is "these guys deserve my money for their product" (if the product is good enough, obviously).
Can I help you with the design? I'd love to spend a few hours. Email in profile.
How is it different from http://www.librarything.com/ ?
Berkeley DB is an embedded database with no network story, let alone distributed story, so it isn't really a complete solution compared to the k-v stores people talk about. It can be a building block though, e.g. memcachedb uses it.

ASN.1 is hideously complex, part of the appeal of all those new wire protocols is simplicity.

SQLite is Berkeley DB's main competitor... it's actually funny that NoSQL on the server is all the rage, but SQL use is now really popular client side.
I used getharvest.com ... to input my expense from my iPhone, and at the end of each month I reviewed how/where I spent my $$$ each month.
This sort of thing is not unique to China or "Asian cultures" but to all underdeveloped countries with too few good schools, where going to the wrong school can be a career death sentence.

Personal experience: I am from Turkey and had to go through two testing periods that determined my life: One, at 11, that determined which secondary school I could go to. Every private school had its own exam, so as a kid you had to take 6-8 exams in about two weeks (the system has changed since then, now there's a single exam).

The worse one was the university entrance exam (actually two exams, a couple of months apart): close to a million people took it with me. The top department in the top university admitted only about 50 students each year! These 2-3 hours really determined your future, since if you couldn't get admitted to the 1-2 popular universities your job prospects were pretty much doomed. I still remember the hordes of anxious parents waiting outside the building where the exam was held. The level of math and physics you had to know/memorize was mind boggling; compared to that, the math part of SAT is a joke.

I used to both envy the US students who didn't have to go through such a grueling, trial by fire selection process to go to good universities and also think that our selection process was much superior, since it it made you learn much more. After finishing my PhD in the US, teaching classes here, and working professionally, I now know that this is not true. This forced feeding approach to eduction mostly produces socially awkward, nerdy people who are experts but are not creative. I know, this is such a cliche, but believe me, I can back it up from personal observation in the workspace.

I think, neither the relaxed, "it's the job of the professor to make me learn" US college attitude nor the extremely competitive test based approach elsewhere is ideal. However, I think the correct approach is much closer to the former than the latter.

EDIT: Just remembered a personal experience that illustrates the point: I recently interviewed at a software company. One of my interviewers of Asian origin asked me an algorithmic question. I came up with an approach (admittedly not very good) and tried to give my reasons; he wasn't satisfied. At the end, he got up and declared "The answer is ..." He wasn't interested in a method or approach, but the answer. I think the worst thing that a test-based education can enforce is this "answer worship", since that is such a warped way to view problems.
The knowledge of enclosed vespine corpses just adds one more item to my growing list of things I hate about fig trees, of which I have two. Two fig trees are at least one and probably two fig trees too many. Too much pruning is required because spring growth is extensive. Too much fall raking is required because there's a ton of foliage too. But the real pain in the ass is harvesting. Figs really have to ripen on the tree, but as soon as they're ripe they're liable to fall. Without daily vigilance, a big crop will result in lots of smashed, rotting fruit on the ground, which sticks with insane determination to the soles of unwary shoes. Naturally in the season of maturation the fig tree is also the haunt of 17.6 billion insects of every variety, so while it provides ample shade from the sun, it's better to just suck it up and burn. Also less than the most satisfying experience of one's life is picking figs from the tree with a view to either engaging in the messy and overrated process of eating them, the laborious and not especially rewarding process of drying them, or merely in the pathetically futile effort to protect the ground beneath. Mucking about in the middle of that foliage is massively irritating to any exposed skin because of the sticky residue that seems to find its disgusting way onto every leaf and branch. The severity of this irritation is such that extraordinary caution is recommended before following the presumably divinely-inspired path towards modesty followed by Adam and Eve.
This is really cool, but I couldn't help but think of the line from Terminator: "The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy."
Do you mean something like this?

main(l
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for(d=atoi(a[1])/10*80-
atoi(a[2])/5-596;n="@NKA\
CLCCGZAAQBEAADAFaISADJABBA^\
SNLGAQABDAXIMBAACTBATAHDBAN\
ZcEMMCCCCAAhEIJFAEAAABAfHJE\
TBdFLDAANEfDNBPHdBcBBBEA_AL\
H E L L O, W O R L D! "
[l++-3];)for(;n-->64;)
putchar(!d+++33^
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(source: http://www.ioccc.org/years.html#1992_westley)
Some how I have a feeling this little show is going to come back and bite them.
If you can come up with an idea of “student progress” that everyone can agree on and measure, you’ve just solved education.
Ask HN: Should I disclose that I am working on a startup in a job interview?
I recently found a kick-ass telecommute job that could help me finance my startup while I bootstrap. I'd like to be honest with my potential employer about my startup project but I am afraid it might play against me. I don't want them to believe the startup is going to overlap on the job but at the same time, I wonder if it could demonstrate that I am motivated and really love what I do as a developer.

PS: The said company operates in a totally different market so there's absolutely no risk of competition with my startup.

So, should I disclose that I work on a startup in my free time?
It shouldn't affect load time at all. Don't load the preview until the user requests it. That's the one feature I thought was missing. Otherwise, it would be awesome. I mainly use iTunes to listen to preview, removing the step to go to iTunes for that would be awesome! :)
Hi Hiten. I know you guys must be slammed. Very cool for you to drop in. I'm glad to hear you are "accomodating to bootstrapped startups". I had been following you, but assumed I was priced out of the product. I'll be reaching out this week for info.
So, is Monsanto plotting to kill off the fig wasps and replace them with something they can profit from yet?
PGP WDE doesn't prevent sleep from working on my MacBook. It disables hibernation, but that's not a security choice. It's just a limitation of the implementation.

What you say is the right policy to maximize security, but PGP WDE doesn't enforce it.
Fascinating. Here is a video showing the wasps collecting the pollen inside a male fig flower (as described in the first paragraph): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZCYoEdavDk
"useless" is more extreme than "sucks". I think it is dismissive in the same way as describing something as "FAIL". People are being exposed to more options and are being asked to make more and more judgements. I think making a gray analysis like "It's good at this but bad at that" is hard to keep track of with the quantity of options. It is far easier to simply lump things into black and white buckets of good and useless.
"On the contrary, free stuff is the overriding trend for stuff that have the marginal cost of replication close to zero. It is not so much culture that is driving it, but the economic forces that does."

Currency also has little value (and is relatively easy and cheap to replicate). It's just ink and paper, but we value it as much higher.

If you bought software from me and I sent you random bytes instead, would you be satisfied? According to you, they have the same value.

You aren't paying for the bits that are assorted in a specific order. You are paying for the time, effort, and knowledge it took to assort those bits (which is still unique as the average person can't press a button and create Photoshop with no effort).

"Also, the allegedly common complainers who only want free stuff is unquantified. You will need some evidence to show that most people are conscious freeloaders who complain a lot."

As a simple example, look at some of the startups here on HN. Many have gotten rid of the freemium model. The reason? Freeloaders are taking up resources and they can't afford it.

Freeloaders are driving the cost of software to $0. Because software isn't something tangible, its value is based on what people think it's worth. If anybody can download your app for free (because freeloaders have downloaded it and spread it around), the perceived value will rapidly approach $0.

The general attitude about getting everything for free will just lead to less commercial software. Personally, I'm not selling software anymore. I'm selling SaaS. So Instead of paying a flat-fee for software, my users will now be paying a monthly fee. Business owners aren't stupid. They will eventually realize that piracy is impossible to defend against. The consequences are less freedom for the customer/end user.
It was an interesting article, but it would be interesting to see what the author has to say now (it was written about a month ago) after the spectacular failure of Digg/Cassandra.
Blogga please.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe#Strategy
"which are often inferior products due to inconvenient access"

It's interesting because DRM and the "inconvenient access" you speak of were created as a direct result of mass piracy.
I hate it. I'm very precise with my queries, so it's faster for me to type the whole thing in. I particularly hated how the search field grabbed focus when you pressed a key anywhere on the page, because if you did it unintentionally it would register in the textbox and the search results would change. I dunno, maybe I'm just a curmudgeon, but I had no problems whatsoever with my previous search workflow.
If you hypothetically pull a Facebook here, do you want someone coming out of the woodwork eight years down the line with a credible claim that they own your core IP? No? Then disclose and get explicit assurance that they do not, in fact, own your IP.
Meh. I'm old enough to have been aware of what things were difficult for the previous generation and how they're easier now. And: there are new things that we have to deal with that the previous generation could never have conceived. In my experience, life never gets easier; it just changes.
It's expensive, but worth it for the people you meet and the unexpected directions you may find.
Five years with the master of Pac-Man
Can I regrow my dick?
I don't see this as more than the guys having a bit of fun, after probably a very hectic work schedule. Great to see them celebrating in this way.

Of course, I don't see Microsoft displacing the iPhone at all, but they do have deep pockets.
That assumes the user is a willing participant in that matter and will give over the PIN.

Suppose the user is a remote employee who's just been sacked -- the boss and IT are hundreds of miles away and can't just take the phone from him. That phone has some product-related emails on it that, if they were to get out, would tank the company's stock price. They have to be able to wipe that data without waiting for the user to hand over the key.
No. Owning stock in a Fortune 500 company generally doesn't even give you a vote, because those are "privileged" shares, or even a share in the profits of the business (dividend).

Even in the case of a smaller company, operating according to how joint stock companies are theoretically supposed to operate, this would generally not be legal. The board and officers have a fiduciary responsibility to all the shareholders, and they are not supposed to do something that benefits one shareholders other interests while costing the others through inefficiency.

In a system where all investors where roughly equal, the loss from cheating company the one company should roughly equal the benefit of the other, and crime would not happen often.
India's $35 Android 7-inch Tablet to Hit in January
Congrats on this clear, uncluttered thinking. Most of us could learn from this. Also, nice mention by Jason Calacanis re: job offer! Next up - Mashable and TechCrunch...

Well done!

@LeslieCBarry | Iphso
According to this, readers of "The Holy Bible" are about 150 points dumber than readers of "The Bible".
I do find it hilarious that the "I Don't Read" landed higher than all the erotica, Fahrenheit 451 and 'The Holy Bible'. It appears the books that don't work on more than one level are least useful to your intelligence (assuming SAT is relevant to intelligence).

I do find it highly interesting that many of the books with a wide score-range are books known to work on multiple levels; Dune, Shakespeare, Alice in Wonderland, Lolita, Catch 22, etc.
Is it really that hard to search and replace a tab with four spaces?

%s/\t/ /g

should do it in Vim. Make it /gc if you have tabs in your code for some reason.

If it's really hacked up, then a source code beautifier might be a better bet:

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=python+source+code+beautif...

The alternative is to have wild, all over the place indenting in languages like PHP. Except that the code will still run, so nobody will fix it.
Backwards searching in your browser
I have to say from experience...

If you move into a house (purchase/rent/otherwise) with a fig tree and plan to relandscape. Be very careful. Fig tree roots run very shallow, and even older trees are susceptible to damage to the roots.

I found out the hard way - rototilling an overgrown back yard due to too much grass, weeds, bulbs, etc. The 'till chomped through two or three large surface roots (< 8" deep which were more than 4 feet from the tree). The result - one dead 20+ y/o fig tree.

Be careful when gardening/redoing a yard.
Agreed. I didn't like the blog's tone, the team has every right to party. However, I found the iPhone funeral interesting, given how it's Android that's eating everyone's lunch.

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1434613
"Look at pirates who offer download of vista for free on bittorrent."

Microsoft is one of the largest software companies in the world. They can afford to take the hit with piracy. The thousands of other smaller companies that sell software don't have this ability.

"Webcomics are free. Most Asian comics that are available in English are in actual, pirated and scanlated, but are often available in way more convenient format than the legitimate things(which are often not translated and probably never will make it to the shore of foreign countries)."

This is a bad example. Software and Music are exact duplicates.
This is basically what private equity does, and is otherwise known as a "hostile takeover". It's been done legitimately for decades - Warren Buffett's mentor Benjamin Graham made much of his money buying controlling interests in companies that are selling below book value, then forcing them to liquidate the company and return the money to shareholders.

The only protection that shareholders get is the market itself. If someone wants to perform a hostile takeover on a firm that's selling below book value, and the shareholders believe that the firm is worth more as a going concern, they should be able to convince a deep-pocketed investor to come in as a competing bidder and buy the remaining shares instead. Such an investor is called a "white knight" - examples include Kirk Kerkorian for GM or Warren Buffett for Salomon Brothers.

If the firm is not worth more as a going concern than under liquidation, it behooves the shareholders to see it liquidated.

(And in your particular example, where they pay $100M for an autograph instead of liquidating and returning the money to shareholders, that just invites a shareholder lawsuit for breach of fiduciary duty...)
We simply disallow people working on company projects with personal equipment.

If I drank enough rye to kill the requisite number of brain cells required for me to allow people to sync their personal gear with our IT, I'd definitely tell people "we will be nuking your gear from orbit periodically as a precautionary measure".
It was a bit buggy but I beat the cpu. If you play tic-tac-toe the player who goes first should be able to win or at worst case force a draw. If you go second you should be able to force a draw. With two players who both know how to play an optimal game, you will always have a draw.

Tic-tac-toe is basically a solved game which should make it easy to code.
SO assuming you held voting stock -- isn't all you can really do vote in a new board/chairman/etc? Elect yourself + cronies to the board. Fire the ceo (or appoint yourself) and then you could do this.

BUT:
Then you run into the maximizing shareholder value legislation -- which we normally put up as why big companies screw you over -- but are in place to prevent abuses like this.
Time to quibble!

1.) Wasps as man's greatest enemy? Really?

If we were being poetic, here, then I'd say that Man's greatest enemy is Man themselves, but this is HN, so I won't. For a runner up, I would at least choose an animal that can actually kill a healthy human, rather than one that and annoy a healthy human and kill a subset with allergic reactions of venom.

2.) There are a lot of species of wasp. According to wikipedia, 160,000. Not all of them will sting, or even can sting humans. Fig wasps count among them. There are quite a few wasps that are beneficial, in that they predate upon insects that are slightly more annoying than the wasps themselves.

3.) Nectar is produced (generally) by flowers, to attract pollinators. By design, it's easily accessible by insects, and not protected by the rind of a fruit. The juice of a fruit is just juice, not nectar.
oh sure. But TB hard-drives are cheaper still.
The concluding chapter of Dawkins's _Climbing Mount Improbable_ is all about this, and it needed a whole chapter because it's mind-blowingly intricate.

http://books.google.com/books?id=erRC0ELnZdsC&pg=PA300&#...
Which part did you find buggy? I would like to tighten it up. Thanks!
Yes. You have to, because you're going to need exclusions from your IP contract.

If your prospective employer is an established company, you should also be aware that --- right or wrong, frivolous or not --- the mere filing of a lawsuit against you down the road stands a good chance of killing your startup. Lawsuits are spectacularly expensive, and they take f o r e v e r.

Even 1099 contractors --- people that aren't even technically employees! --- can fall ass-backwards into situations where clients end up with legal influence over personal projects (this is why you need your NDA's and "standard contracting agreements" reviewed by an attorney). This isn't an area to mess around in.

You may be thinking that this is low risk, but this is a great example of common pattern of deceptively terrible risk: the kind that only matters if your startup ends up mattering.
If you have a controlling share of the voting stock you can replace the board. The board can replace the officers. Thus with controlling shares you can effectively force the corporation to do business with whoever you want. However, if you have a controlling share in some states you have duties to minority shareholders to act in their interest.
I was there for this celebration. It was all in good fun. The funeral was such a small portion of the day, it's being way overblown. It was like 15 minutes of an all day carnival. There was games, monster trucks to ride in, live music, and all other kinds of celebratory stuff going on (face painting ftw!). There was an all out party going on.

I'm on the Windows team, but the WinMo7 guys worked their asses off and actually made something pretty friggin cool. They deserved to party.

As for Microsoft's chances in this market, people never thought Microsoft would dominate Sony in video games. I wouldn't count Microsoft out just yet... it'll be interesting to say the least.
Yeah, that's a good point. The site doesn't really sell the framework. Until now I haven't really devoted a lot of time to evangelizing it or anything. Beyond open sourcing it, I didn't really put in the time to grow a community around it.

What I wrote here is more of an early notice to the hackers out there who are interested in developing kick-ass applications in PHP. If you ask me -- and I've gone through a lot of frameworks -- this is definitely designed to help you achieve that with a minimum of fuss and a lot of power. I finished the documentation, but the sales job needs a lot more work. If anyone wants to contribute their time and energy to helping me grow this open source project, I'd much appreciate it. You would definitely have a huge role in the framework community if you did that. At the moment, though, I am more focused on my startup, and bringing developers on board to help with it. The documentation is there to help get them up to speed.