skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's just so much that they execute well on that I hate to pick any bit of it, but one thing everybody with linkbait should probably do is create something spiritually similar to the bar which pops up when you're done with the article. It is a force multiplier for all pillar content you write, it increases the viral factor, and the way it grabs someone's attention just when their brain is known to be vacant is sixteen flavors of brilliant.

I did something very similar for a client today, and after I get a little better at manipulating code to do it, I'm probably going to try something similar for getting trial signups. ("Looks like you're done reading about it. Feeling confused about what to do next? WHAM, signup box.")
Currently a gram of medical grade marijuana (or any 'good quality' pot) is around $20.

The author says that a gram costs, and always has costed, $10. This can certainly be true today if he's buying relatively low quality marijuana. If he's been smoking for many decades, he'd notice the quality of pot has gone up significantly, but so has the price. The kind of stuff my generation's parents smoked in the 70s is now what people are selling for $10 a gram, and apparently what the author is still buying.
Will some integration be done for those of us that search on the Chrome navigation bar instead of opening google.com in the first place?
The headline "Rick Santorum donates $5 million to gay marriage advocacy group" would be politically much, much worse than the status quo.
> If all you've seen is succesful projects, you can only guess why failed ones fail.

True. The project I have been a part of do have problems though. Sometimes the problems get resolved quickly and sometimes it takes a while or never happens.

Failure comes in many forms. I'm not pretending to have encyclopedic knowledge over the various ways projects fail. I do know that issues arise on the team and good communication often helps resolve these issues.

Also, having a good attitude is important. It's easy to be negative to your teammates (I have this problem), but it's also harmful and inappropriate at times.

In my experience, the biggest issues (or the largest cause of my stress) were often issues within the team.
Are your pants lying to you?  An investigation
interesting UI issue/inconsistency (in Chrome)... when pressing tab, it can either complete the current word/phrase or move to the X, so <enter> can either do nothing or clear the search box
Economic Conditions and the Quality of Suicide Terrorism
This would be easy in a graph db. Just move the node and its children come along for the ride.
I'd actually point out that HN is self-correcting. When you offer a comment that goes against the group orthodoxy, and you get downvoted to hell, all it takes is one additional comment pointing out that the downvotes were uncalled for, and that you do have a point regardless, and HN will self-correct. (Personal example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1661588)

Most times, however, people stop after they get unfairly downvoted, and think to themselves: 'well, that's group-think for you!'
It's always dangerous. It's not always that something like this happens but, at least, with open-source and a competent support team (your support team should always be competent anyway) you can, at least, be aware of any risks you may be subject to.
If you're talking at least in part about procrastination, this is one book I've recently gotten good mileage out of. It's a quick but useful read though, as you say, there are no silver bullets:

http://www.procrastinatorsdigest.com/
In general VCs and investors are looking for folks who want to take the minimum salary necessary to live off of, while pumping every dime into the product.

Of course most VCs are making $250-$1M in salary per year. That doesn't count their carry... that's just their base salary.

here is what VCs generally do:

1. Pre-launch/Pre-revenue, 20-something founders: $50-100k

2. 30 something with two kids in private school: $100-250k

3. Profitable company having just completed a C round of $15-30m: $200k with a $200k bonus on hitting a huge milestone.

Also, the secondary market for stock has helped this... i.e. reports are the founders of Wordpress, groupon, facebook and digg got to selling a couple of million dollars in stock.

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You can download the entire database, including history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

Or, for a direct link,

http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20100130/enwiki-2010013...

31GB. Decompresses to TBs.
Tethering: it's a good deal
No, for the current configuration to work, you would have to create a way to move data in both directions from the "old" backend to the "new" backend. Ideally, you would slice up the beast so you didn't have to do this with everything all at once.

It's not a system that would be ideal for something transactional like a bank, but it may have been possible for an organization like Digg.
>Anonimity is the counter to hypocrisy.

Care to explain this?
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I was around for The Dark Ages for sure, and even including everything there, this button is worse. I'd even prefer a Java applet mirror reflection button to this thing.
I for one turn off google suggestions on every new pc/browser I use, it is a distraction to me and actually causes me to type slower. Maybe because I've been in front of a computer constantly for 15 years but I can type my term much faster than being distracted by results and clicking on the dropdown for them.

I just wish I could disable this account wide so every time I clean my cookies/cache in Firefox I don't have to go back to preferences and turn it off again.
How to Make your Blog mobile friendly on the fly
Because migration is a scenario that may go horribly wrong, you should be prepared to tackle it in small pieces. So often (especially with relational databases, I don't have much experience with the NoSQL realm) everything is in one logical and physical data store, even for non-related features. That makes any migration harder than it needs to be.
I built exactly that about a year ago, serving up billions of images (not billions of different images but billions of requests) every day.

The way I ended up doing the scaling (we didn't need any other format conversions) was using the retrieval URL and a 404 handler that is smart enough to be able to access a list of 'allowed' sizes (so that doesn't become a potential attack vector). So if you access a file in a size that hasn't been made yet it gets created on the fly.

The whole thing has been up and running across 9 servers for a year now, it has triple replication and a bunch of varnish servers on the front end to make it fast.

We have two ways of putting data on there, one through an API that accesses the servers directly, another using a queuing mechanism.

To improve the legibility of the urls we used a virtual path rather than a bunch of parameters.

so http://mycdn.com/storage/client/format/id/id/id/id/id/id/id....

where the 'id' bits are 2 digits from the image identifier.

The nodes have 4TB storage each. Originally we used XFS but deletion was too much of a bottle-neck so we ended up switching the system after it was already live to EXT3, which improved performance quite a bit.

I'm sure that if you build this 'properly' (as in nicely abstracted, multi-user, with redundancy by using multiple locations and so on) that there is a market for it but I'm not sure how big that market would be.

So yes, this probably has legs.
I have mixed feelings about this.

On the one hand I feel this is kind of "rude" and distracting. By "rude" I mean that I haven't finished typing and the page isn't waiting for its turn to interject.

On the other, this is just the logical extension of autocomplete on a search form. Even on a mobile phone, we already have this kind of predictive text functionality.

I guess we'll see with usage. For the most part though, I use FF's built-in search box, so I won't get to test it much.
Ask Jason: How much should a founder's salary be in a series A round?
That was enlightening. I guess it's something I should've known, but never thought of.

I think what the author dismisses as an impossible solution, however, is exactly the right solution: a government mandate.
I also agree with the sentiment that nothing is ever as simple as it seems. But, yeah, isn't this what relational databases are for?
Couldn't you just set up a port knocking for ssh (or anything else for that matter)?
I agree, that is a great paper. It's the one I linked to in my article :)
Why good companies choose freedom
Inspired by the Netflix presentation found on here recently.
TLDR: It's a little pixel tracking server that aggregates hits in memory and flushes them to your web application with an internal REST call. Useful if you have lots of traffic on static pages, and need tighter integration with your application than Google Analytics can provide.

Some more links, for the curious:

Annotated source code: http://documentcloud.github.com/pixel-ping/docs/pixel-ping.h...

Announcement blog post: http://blog.documentcloud.org/blog/2010/09/code-drop-pixel-p...

ProPublica's reference implementation: http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/pixel-ping-a-nodejs-sta...
A lot of people seem to be saying "market". But for us, it was based entirely on need.

After talking to our families, each of us came up with the minimum salary required to maintain our current lifestyle. The idea is that a founder should not be saving any money, but they also shouldn't be forced to move into a smaller home or stop eating out.

What's interesting is that this produced 3 very different salaries, even though our "market" rates are roughly equal.

Our VCs were completely supportive of those numbers and did not push back at all.
"online deg" probably isn't the best example, but there are still going to be cases where a prefix autocompletes to a different target than the final intended search, that SEOs for the final intended search will want to start ranking more highly for. Finding those cases will be part of the fun.

Ask it another way: do you think a service that shows what the current google autocompletions are for every prefix of a given term becomes more or less interesting to SEOs after this announcement?
As a fantasy sports fan, I would enjoy reading interesting insights from various sources and would definitely appreciate a "digg for fantasy" type site. But, as a fantasy sports player, when I find information that could potentially help my team, the last thing I want to do is "Digg" it for everyone to see and possibly give up my competitive edge. The site looks nice though.
Well, it's impressively fast, however, I'm not sure I will ever get to use it considering I do most of my search from the Google Chrome Omnibox and very rarely visit the actual google homepage...
Google Instant Makes SEO Irrelevant
Ask Jason: Is it wise to build a platform on someone elses code?
Great question from This Week in Startups.... did Neil and I get it right?

Disquss :-)
Actually there is a big section of the SEO world that focuses on the long tail keywords. This change is going to harm those folks, but up the reward for anyone that does rank highly for the frequently used terms. Good and bad, hopefully this will lead to less spammy junk, but also reduces the amount of real estate available for new entrants (or at least makes it more pricey).
You basically have to press enter if you want to search for a term with possible pornographic, violent or hateful content (that’s what they just said in their Q&A). That seems like a sensible solution to me. Safe Search doesn’t figure into it.
That was pretty funny. Put weed on a modern commodities market and you can be sure stability vanishes.
My question is how will this and previous auto-complete moves by Google effect the "long tail" search market. Will this reduce the number of truly unique queries and instead group people into already existing term categories? I know auto complete has been in effect for a while, but I wonder if this will only make it even more effective, thereby changing user behavior and simply re-enforcing the already existing terms.
Hurd must have one hell of a lawyer if he negotiated that type of severance without any non-compete language. To that gentleman I say, well done sir. Well done.

At any rate, I bet it will be difficult not to breach the confidentiality clause, though that really depends on how broad it is. The lawsuit is probably just designed to scare Hurd away from the job. Does he really want to risk that severance package for the freedom to resume working 7 days a week?
Scrambled eggs and cheese. Glass of milk.
Is Blumenthal's crusade against craigslist a shameless pandering PR stunt from a (popular) politician running for higher office? Yes.

Is the underlying concern nonsensical? No.

Did craigslist take a real step to ameliorate the concern of AG's around the country over trafficking ads? Yes.

Did craigslist eliminate trafficking ads (and ads for prostitution in general) from the site? No.

Is the Internet changing the game for the illicit sex industry? Yes. Is craigslist assuming a central role in that transformation? Yes. Is craiglist actively pursuing that role? Probably not.

Is it fair that they're bearing the brunt of public outrage over the Internet's role in making the illicit sex market more efficient? I don't know. Maybe.

Articles taking the piss out of CT Gov candidate Blumenthal for making a campaign issue out of craigslist: peachy keen.

Articles suggesting that public outrage against craiglist is intrinsically wrong, or articles that don't say that directly but form arguments clearly premised on that notion: not so great.
Solution: type faster or downgrade your internet connection. ;)
I don't think there actually is any difference between what I call a startup and what you call the 37signals model.

A startup is a company that creates wealth rapidly by creating technology a lot of people need. While I don't know the details of 37signals' finances, it seems likely that they'd count as one by my definition.

I think the thing that makes people think 37signals is not a startup is that they currently seem to have no interest in selling the company, but instead pay themselves a lot of the revenues as dividends. That's a matter of personal preference, but as I explained here,

http://www.paulgraham.com/prcmc.html

they amount to the same thing.
I like the idea that it's the same search for both - think about the number of terms that would bring back adult content based on the prefix, but given the entire term, are something entirely innocent.
I've only recently joined, posted my first request for advice and received some great advice. In a world of social sites where people just tell you what they had for dinner, this site feels like a great find which is full of interesting articles and debates. My only gripe is that I would like external links to open in a new tab or window if anything.
Strangely, it's not working yet for me in Chrome (dev channel) but it works in Safari 5.
Yeah, I find myself doing that, too.

In fact, I made this observation in response to one of his comments a couple months back.

I will also start reading a discussion thread that I'm pretty sure he will comment on and stop so that I can come back later to read what he has to say.
for example, just type 'degree ' (make sure there's a space - you get results for "degree symbol" (or at least I do) - now all i have to do is rank for "degree symbol" and put links to my online degree affiliate links...

there are certainly keyword results that are a) in autocomplete, b) substrings of keyword results also in autocomplete, c) easier to rank for than the longer phrase.
Ahah. http://techcrunch.com/50-days-of-logos/
Interesting how many times this got re-submitted. That's got to be a record of a sort.
Use something like the @FontFace generator from font squirrel:
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator

This will give you support for most browsers (though it will muck up your CSS a bit)
sigh

Lookit, if teachers unions were the main culprit, then education outcomes in right-to-work states (the South, mostly) would be significantly higher than states where teachers unions exist. This is not the case. The problem is one of attitudes (both familial and institutional) and one of teaching talent (the students who enroll in Schools of Education are below the median for GPA and SAT scores for universities that offer education degrees).

Attitudes are hard to explain; Friday Night Lights (the book) examines but doesn't explain. The quality of teaching stock is explainable, but no one likes the explanation - the opening of the workforce to women has taken a lot of high-quality women out of the classroom and into the previously male-dominated workforce. All those great women doctors, lawyers, managers, engineers, architects, and so on would have been teachers 50 years ago.

I don't have a good answer, but Waiting for Superman's demonization of Randi Weingarten and the unions is a terribly small portion of the problem. Boogeymen are easy to hate; it's harder to point the finger at ourselves.
This would be awesome on image search.
I missed your second point. Gray, Fenty's opponent, has been elusive about his thoughts on Rhee; silence is undoubtedly playing in his favor here. Rhee has already made it clear that she won't stick around long without the level of support (and freedom) Fenty has given her so far.
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While normally, I'd agree with you, OKC has a high poly and hookup population, so normal relationship scarcity constraints do not necessarily apply.
I also quite like the fact that the community moderates the content. Big plus point for me.
So, does the referrer still include the keyword phrase used?
What I like most about HN is that it's an incredibly efficient filter for reading.

For instance, if I come across a fairly controversial article, or a fascinating new data set, I no longer spend as much time pausing to critically think about it - I instead open the HN comment thread and read all the intelligent for/against arguments that arise, naturally, in the comments.

In simple terms, HN becomes a secondary brain for me. And that saves me time.

Of course - this doesn't happen in a vacuum. The beauty of HN is that if you've read an interesting article, and there aren't many comments at that point in time, it's your duty to add your thoughts to HN, because sometimes you can see things that nobody else can and that's valuable.

And the mutual thinking, the group powered fact-checking and the argumentation - all this is contributed to by all, and enjoyed by all.
Not to mention copyright restrictions. The upload would have to come with some kind of a non-commercial-use waiver.
12,5 grams is 60 liras (~$45) in Turkey.
Robot 9000 systems seem to work pretty well.
In practice? It's not easy, but nothing is. I see three options to the big ball of mud problem.

1. Wallow in it (work with existing structure). Sadly, this is what a lot of people do. I left a job once because that was the only way out of the ball of mud. I was afraid I would turn into a mud-person.

2. Slowly crawl out of it (incremental rewrite). This is hard, but do-able. It involves setting up barriers to mitigate ripple effects, automated testing to be comfortable with frequent releases, and tolerance for temporary imperfection (basically, you need to be willing to frequently release things that are only a tiny bit better than status quo, even if it's not ideal). Not everyone is willing to accept this persistent imperfection and lack of conceptual consistency, especially when option #3 is more exciting and fun.

3. Try to leap out of it and land wherever (total rewrite). This is very, very hard, and prone to total failure or spending valuable money and time to effectively stand still in the market.

I've seen development teams leap directly out of one ball of mud into a different one. One where nobody even knew their way around anymore. How is that anything but a huge waste of time and resources?
They also allow you to input the languages you speak (which include C++ and Lisp, btw) and how well you speak them and then write your profile in each of those languages, so they have extra data about it.
Give me a break. craiglist picked a fight. They disabled the adult ads, and replaced them with a "fuck you" to the state AG's.

They have every right to do that, and I'm glad they did; it's more honest that way. However, nobody has any business feigning outrage that the AG's then questioned their step. Most of the time, when people stamp "censored" over content on their site, they do in fact intend to put it back.

You can break out the Ayn Rand when someone passes a law requiring craigslist to genuflect, instead of just issuing a sharply worded press release in an ongoing pissing match.
Sure, if you can touch type. There's still millions of people hunting and pecking, especially on mobile devices. It's certainly plausible that people will stop to look at the results.
Exactly what I thought. It's a great feature, but just going to google.com takes up time. Maybe future integration into Chrome?
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The tech industry seriously needs to organize to have a bigger political clout.
Count me as interested. Whatever business model you end up with, it sounds like you can find decent names, which I would gladly pay a small premium for.

Since this post will fade away soon, you should set up a basic email list so that people here can at least follow what you plan to do.
I saw a "view map" a few days ago--sorry, I forget where--and it showed that the hottest (most viewed) area of the screen was the upper-center right. I believe that the top left was the second most viewed.
Commercial standards are an excellent use of government. Ever since Sumerian law standardized the size of weights, standardization has been a very important government function.
And you think craiglist prostitution ads are the rallying point for that?
Feedback: The "Cancel anytime" as a feature seems out of place to me. Likewise for the Better than money back guarantee. It sets the wrong tone. I want this software to be so awesome it will be a privilege to be allowed to pay for it.

The log in box doesn't fit there in location or in style. It looks like it's a sub-point of FAQ right now. It draws the eye away.

The little screenshots all look like they come from different applications.
I had a similar experience - I interned at a government organisation that only recruited at Oxford/Cambridge because they wanted "only the best".

But it was such a crap place to work they their actual hires were from 3rd rate institutions. They would have been better focussing their recruitment on them. But that would mean admitting there was a problem - so much better to convince yourself that the Oxbridge grads all went to do PhDs instead.
From the Q&A: That will be out in a few months. They are working on it.
I agree, although it's a somewhat sensitive thing to write about if you're doing it in practice. I sure as hell don't want to be known as the guy who comes in and calls all of the existing code a pile of shit.

I guess I could "change the names to protect the innocent" and tell some stories about digging out of tight places incrementally. If it would convince even one development team that they didn't absolutely have to do a total rewrite, it would be worth it.
I think he's referring to buying by the gram, not looking at bulk costs.
It looks like zqqx is (for whatever reason) one of the words for which instant search is disabled. Try the four letter word starting with f, you will see exactly the same thing.
Hypocrisy, maybe, but not misdirection. Anonymity makes it easier to build straw men to defeat, or make it sound like your opponent is an idiot, because nobody knows if you're you or you're them.
Granola bar + glass of water before bike ride, blueberry bagel (plain) afterwards. Out of bananas or I'd have had one with the bagel.
Only if it's secure and stable. Meta System Transition is the stuff of evolutionary / developmental progress, and this applies to software and Mega Meta Platforms (like in3d.com).