skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was getting ready for bed when I caught the headlines and news clip that the plane hit the tower.
My first thought was "How did the pilot had an accident like that?"
I saw like the second plane hit and I was like ", these are not accidents!"
It's just a preview of the first 9 results. Apple only returns back a limited number. I need to find a better way of displaying if there are more than the 9 results. Any ideas?
Just have to ask: did you spend it in portland, or in a nearby suburb? I spent a week there just to see if I liked the city, couldn't get over the lack of diversity (felt like a lone brownie in strawberry-shortcake city), high income taxes, and seeming lack of a tech scene (unless you're in the burbs). It's a beautifully laid out area though.
We have a bunch of companies in our portfolio that are hiring just check techventure.com :)
I'm going to go with dumbass. Nothing personal there, but you turned up the level of service and continued to use it even though you didn't want/need it anymore. The fault is entirely on you. Think of it this way, they provisioned load to you which in turn even if you didn't use, couldnt be provisioned to others w/o potentially over provisioning.
From your mouth to Marissa Meyer's ears.

My ultimate Google fantasy: An account setting called "2008 mode."

No instant search.

No fancy, annoying endless scroll Google image search.

No word clustering/auto-substitution.

It would be awesome.
I don't understand the Gmail complaint at all. Sure it has its weaknesses such as the policy to not spend the resources stemming emails causing search to suck, but Gmail pretty much defined the usable webmail interface for power users.

The interface on my webmail software feels like a mail client should -- easy navigation, threaded conversations, multiple window panes, and it's fast. Google on the other hand took years before they could be bothered to add buttons to Gmail, and even now Gmail's interface is an ugly monument to 90's era design principles.

Uh, in 2004 when Gmail launched it was one of the first widespread AJAX apps. It made Hotmail / Yahoo feel like molasses, gave you 200x storage, and added the idea of labels instead of folders. They obsessed tremendously over performance to make it usable by people who hitherto had only been able to tolerate desktop mail clients.

Now I realize a lot of things change in 6 years, but hell, Dreamhost is still using SquirrelMail. The author just throws it out there like amazing webmail is a foregone conclusion, yet I've not seen any webmail that beats Gmail even by a little bit. Can someone enlighten me?
Of course nobody wants to hear that you are working on a startup in your free time while you are working at their company ...
> (BTW, do you have any idea how much extra time you
> noscript guys add to web development efforts? Ugg.)

I can't quite form words around the feeling, but this feels like a very backwards statement to me.
That's not how clouds work.
Adioso (YC W09): founded on persistence, abandonment of bad ideas, and naivete
The semantics are fairly straightforward once you figure out the two main differences.

Vectors, matrices and arrays are atomic/homogeneous objects, and only differ in their dimensionality. Vectors are 1d, matrices 2d, and arrays are 3d or higher. Calling a 2d homogenous structure is a matrix is just a convention: a matrix is identical to a 2d array in every important way.

Lists and data frames are heterogenous/recursive. Lists are 1d, and data frames are (essentially) 2d (each row is homogenous, but each column can be a different type).
A lot of people blame Lisp for too many brackets, but I generally feel they are not the issue after reading Lisp for a while. What may make it scientist-unfriendly is to write math formulas in infix grammar.
This brilliant job ad with bonus shibboleth was linked in #startups months ago: http://bnjmnhggns.org/jobs.html
that video at the end is epic.
So BitTorrent clients will use the real server as a "peer"? That's really cool; seems like the best of both worlds.
I think the big deal there is yeah, Gmail works but it doesn't $50 a year work.
Among the differences, DDG blocks MFA content mills and junk sites. If you report one they add it quite fast.
Heroku runs on top of EC2, and they get charged the same amount of money by Amazon whether your instances are idle or on fire. That doesn't matter, though, because businesses do not do cost-based pricing.

There comes a time in a young man's life when "haha, whoopsie, I'm a kid who is not responsible for his own decisions" is no longer sufficient for a do-over. I am not sure when that is, but if you're running a business, well, welcome to being an adult.
Speaking of [I, I prefer Shit-8 (*) or Shit-3 (#).
I think Facebook is worse. For the scale at which the platform operates, the quality of the documentation is abysmal. They're constantly breaking things and making huge shifts in how the platform works, or even just where they're focus is. Very frustrating, especially when you have to explain to a client that you have no idea why feature X just stopped working, despite no one touching any of your code.
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Vectors are not the same as 1d matrices/arrays because a vector does not have direction (i.e. it's not a row vector or a column vector, but will work as either depending on circumstance).

> all.equal(1:10, matrix(1:10, ncol = 1))
[1] "Attributes: < target is NULL, current is list >"
[2] "target is numeric, current is matrix"
> all.equal(matrix(1:10, ncol = 1), array(1:10, c(10, 1)))
[1] TRUE
Screen can help with the accidental closing of a window or a dropped ssh session. You can even restart X and just reattach to the daemon when you log back in.
Find out why you were rejected (it could be for a very specific reason or no reason at all) and then apply again. I think there are a good number of people who were accepted after a rejection.
Mocking is fine. But is this the only thing you can do in a fraternity?
Ask HN: Ask for credit card before or after free trial?
Say you have a web based service with a 30 day free trial and subsequent monthly subscription charge. Is it better to ask for the credit card information at the start of the free trial when the user first signs up, or to wait until after the free trial when the user is ready to buy?

I could see arguments for either way, so I'm planning on testing both, but I wanted to see what people's experience with this has been.
You're right, with "&v=d" added to the URL it displays "I'm feeling ducky" and "relevant results" whereas without it displays more 'standard' results.
Emacs might be insanely flexible, sure, but at what cost? Bloat? Infinite complexity? Heck, I get frustrated with my VIM configuration sometimes because I forget the less used keybindings when I really need them, and need to go spelunking.

So sure; if you're willing to trade the up-front investment of time (not insubstantial) Emacs will go far - and the wall is way off on the horizon and someone scribbled "complexity" on it.

Up-front investment can't be underestimated; there's a reason why things like Textmate (which starts simple, and grows out well) are so popular. Low initial investment, and plenty of ramp, and it works out well until it simply doesn't.

That low initial barrier is easier to climb, and while emacs (or even VIM) might have a wall that, when compared to Textmate's, is infinitely far away, textmate will still have fantastic adoption. The wall textmate has is further off then most people are willing to worry about.

For most people, a framework, like, say, Django or even Rails offers a wall far enough out that most people don't need to worry about it, but when they hit that wall, they're going to hit it hard, and kinda be mad.
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I wonder if part of Google's speed increases involve dropping some of the more complex keywords while creating the index so that the search space is smaller.
Ask HN: What are some middle man businesses in the market?
I'm young adult and I'm looking to start a business. I'm particularly interested in businesses which let me enter the market and become a middle man. I just need some ideas for products that I can buy from whole sale suppliers and sell to others. If any of you have ideas but wish to discuss them privately please contact me.

Can you help me HN?
Nice, too bad I don't shop the App Store by keyword search.
FYI, search history is one of the parts of the account you have to put your password in again to view. So it should be safe from prying eyes.
Need to read before and some time ask about
I'd be interested to learn how to add missing value support into an existing language. It's pervasive in R, so important for statistics, and it seems like it would be hard to patch onto an existing language.
OK, too bad Apple limits it like that. It really kills its usefulness then. Books in the App Store (aside from the ePubs in the iBookstore) is a rat's nest that's hell to wade through on the desktop. An Instant like this would really help with that.
I can write Ruby, and I'm a student who's looking to build a portfolio. Check out theJohnnyBrown.com and get in touch with me. It won't be free but I can work with your budget.
Wow, I can see this making major waves. It seems like this would be legitimately useful tech for any site with legal media downloads, but the fact that the top of the site deliberately links to torrents of movies etc means it probably won't be used this way.

Does this technology expand the scope of who the authorities go after for piracy? Will takedown notices extend from beyond the torrent to the site that seeded the 'burn' of it? Or am I misinterpreting what it does?
Finally! A use for caps-lock
Still appears to be broken.

"Red Laser"

"Better Christmas List"
And yet, we keep using the service. Hrm.

I like http://identi.ca/, an implementation of http://status.net/ .
I'm having trouble with their use of "burn". Is this a common idiom? I keep thinking it's like.. burning a disc? If you burn a file is that creating a torrent of that file?
Rails i18n TextMate Bundle: myGengo/Google to localize your Rails Yaml Files.
Brilliant and easy.
It's not new. And + doesn't mean required any more, either. It's treated as increased importance, but not required.

I've been complaining about these changes for years.
The Dilbert comic strip needs to end with what dignity it has left with Dilbert finding himself in an erotic asphyxiation scene gone wrong. Then, to bring it back to its mundane subject matter, Dogbert can tweet about it on his Blackberry.
I keep waiting for an article describing a bad experience with Y Combinator. Not that I think there's anything wrong with YC, but I feel like I'm getting a one sided story when all I read are glowing reviews.

Even if you wouldn't classify your experience as bad or not worth it, there's always room for improvement. I'd love to hear some criticism from people within the program so I don't feel like I'm just reading propaganda.
this makes me glad blogs were invented. if this is truly fidel castro's blog, it is fascinating.
I don't agree with the majority of the decisions he has made a s a leader, but there is no doubt he is a thoughtful man. Having a vision into what makes him tick...available on your computer or phone any time day or night...kind of remarkable.
I have a similarly hacked up IntelliJ environment (with IdeaVim and other things) and it's actually gotten to the point that I'm taking a hard look at Emacs again. Having all this functionality available in a single integrated package with a visual debugger thrown in is starting to look strangely appealing.
Oo, it's up to 92 now, top 3% of sites. Colour me proud.
Though Yahoo did do things to clean up some of the dipshit decisions made by the founders after they left. Originally if you uploaded anything but photos taken with a lensed camera (like illustrations or screenshots), your account would be marked so that everything you posted never appeared in searches or public site areas. This practice only stopped maybe 2 years ago.

They also finally redesigned the photo pages to display them larger than 400px wide. It's no longer lower-res than Facebook, but it's still much slower since they don't prefetch images.
The economics still don't seem to work out. Even with a modest-sized 40-person orchestra (and overlooking the massed choir for Beethoven's Ninth) that's only $275 for what must be at least several days' work. Are "world-reknowned" orchestras really that hard up for cash?

Heck, if I can get a full orchestra to play me a symphony for a thousand bucks then I might just do it for fun.
From my understanding of the service this seems like an excellent idea. The one main weak point of torrents is that old torrents die or get painfully slow. Keeping them alive for longer is a superb service.
Which begs the question, are there regions of the web that just simply aren't indexed?
think feedburner
Both worked for me. Can you try clearing your cache?
More to the point you can usually buy a crappy recording for two or three bucks on Naxos or some similar label.
I agree that Google search is the easiest to replace. I've been using DDG for a few weeks now and I've been happy with it. I tried to look for a good competitor to Gmail but every other competitor is just plain bad. It's like everyone just gave up on email after Gmail came along.
To be fair, $20 million acquisitions would not be the first time money was wasted at a publicly traded company. That is actually pretty cheap compared to running a line of business with no future, such as the search engine at Yahoo or the automobile manufacturing at General Motors. (An obscure American health insurance company, misnamed due to funny historical issues.)
I met someone a few months ago that preferred "Squall". Gave me a case of the chuckles.
I think you should reapply. Joe and I applied the year before and got an interview, but it was on a totally different idea, and we were rejected.

We came back again with a much better product, and it showed that even though that first idea failed hard, we still were working together and improved a lot more.

Just make sure if it's the same idea, it's dramatically better.
Yahoo certainly tries to do that too, although I guess you're getting the union of yahoo/bing's spam-fighting and DDG's spam fighting.

I suspect that of the two, yahoo's has a much bigger impact given the size of the teams involved.
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This is pretty cool...

Basically the bundle works with your yaml file and allows you to order translation, either by machine, or using myGengo's human translation service.

The guy who created the bundle has pretty much thought of everything. We're pretty excited by it as it's a great use of our API.

[disclosure — I'm one of the founders of myGengo]
Wow, but I guess this doesn't work on file sharing sites like mediafire and some such?
Just burned the final Python2.6 release to play with this

http://burnbit.com/torrent/153621/Python_2_6_6_tar_bz2
For me, I remember how great Google was when I started using it around 1999, compared to AltaVista or Metacrawler; it was great because it was able to find results that the other two just couldn't, and it did it quickly.

Lately, I've found myself feeling like search is back in 1999 again.
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Thanks for replying.

I didn't know about OpenViBE. In your opinion, how is it compared to emotiv SDK? (I'm referring to the API, quality and things you can do with it -- with minimal coding)
Yes, please.

The image search has been a pet peeve of mine, especially because of the way the results are provided to the end users. It seems they do everything they can to stop people from visiting actual websites through the image search.

Instant search was fun for about 30 seconds. Then it's back to work and then it is rather annoying. At least you can disable it (just to the right of the search bar there is a little settings menu).

The word clustering and auto-substitution are a real pain in the ass, especially when it keeps coming up with stuff that just isn't right but is more popular. I really can't stand that. I find myself using quoted queries far more frequently than in the past.

2008 sounds just about right, they can market it as 'google classic' for all I care.
I noticed DHH said in the comments his beef was not with the founders selling their companies, but with the Megacorps that let their acquisitions rot.
I use Dovecot + Postfix + Roundcube + Managesieve + SpamAssassin and am pretty happy with that stack (although I've currently got a very annoying Roundcube problem, so ...).
http://openbittorrent.com/ have been providing a free torrent-tracker service for a while now. At least originally, OpenBitTorrent's trackers happened to have the same IP addresses as TPB's trackers, although I'm not sure that's still the case.
I don't think 37signals is necessarily complaining about founders selling out, of course they have the right to cash out if they can. The condolences are for the industry as a whole. It's about the loss of potentially revolutionary innovation being swallowed up by the Borg. Events like the loss of Dopplr are bad for everyone in the world except maybe the sellers and the acquirer. No matter what Facebook does I will always admire Zuckerberg for not taking the early money and running, and now he's changing the world. Some people have the balls others want that mojito.
Someone needs to tell him instant can be turned off.
Argh. I will fix this. Sorry.

edit: fixed.
I'm in austin, and I'm used to having fairly cheap living and no income taxes. I'm considering SF/bay area for hopefully better opportunities, more outdoors stuff (surf and snowboarding), and less driving.

Here's what I noticed spending the last week working in SF, staying in outer richmond.:

* Transit - Compared to Austin, any transit system that is used by more than just students or poor people is good. My one complaint is that I still can't figure out if the bus system lets you buy a week or month pass (tried going to the "clipper card" website too).

* Outdoors - see comments below, but I'm basically happy with the variety. Austin is great for outdoors, but I feel like I reach a hard wall where I need to own a motorboat or be willing to drive a ways to do things beyond running around townlake/greenbelt. I also like how certain pockets of golden gate park seemed to hide you from the city (used to be the same in Austin, not so much now that we have more of a skyline). I liked walking to land's end in the evening - you can escape in the greenbelt/twin falls in Austin, but only when there's water flowing.

* Cost of living - I'd like to hear from more HNer's about this. I'm still afraid of the cost of living out in SF, along with the economic situation. I did feel like many of the small grocery stores were fairly expensive (I'm assuming safeway is cheaper though).

other notes:

* Everything is beautiful, and everyone else wants to see it too - Crowds can be pretty long during labor day when driving out to the beach. We managed to avoid it, but still realized I'd have to get used to living with lots of people

* Hope you like hoodies - I came to SF after dealing with 100+ degree heat in Austin earlier this month, then was wearing a sweater/hoodie almost every day. I don't think this will bother me much.

* The mexican food sucks - Only tried Gordo's and Baja Fresh (which I used to love), but the food just isn't as greasy, spicy, or cheap as in austin. Maybe there's a gem like torchy's tacos out there?

* possible solution - try to drive less in austin. I'm considering staying in town, but move back to hyde park (north of ut) or barton springs (south of downtown). Downtown Austin is fairly recently built, and thus many of the nearby restaurants and establishments are new, but upper-class (read: expensive)
The external site is my business server, which hosts the JS package that the personal site uses. I wasn't aware of the border issue until just a bit ago. Sorry 'bout that.
I applied with what was, in retrospect, a weak application. Bootstrapped a different startup for a year and got accepted on that.
Those that blacklist googlebot on their robots.txt
"Web seed" has been supported by various clients for a while, it's good to see someone finally taking advantage of it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(protocol)#Web_seeding
There's this: http://html5games.com/
Our game is up there: http://html5games.com/2010/07/onslaught/
There are third-party solutions for that, like this one: http://github.com/ddollar/heroku-autoscale
> Lately, I've found myself feeling like search is back in 1999 again.

You're spoiled then.
They way the system work is that it will collect all the data in the order it arrives. Today we had a bunch of people enter new URLs so some of the requests for data were queued up. We were also experience some latency in getting the data back into the database for a couple reasons (badly timed database backups...)

Sorry for the inconvenience in getting your score promptly. On a good note 92 is a really great score. Our score incorporates the following items:

- Time it takes to download the HTML
- Time it takes to display the title
- Time it takes to paint the page
- Time to Interactivity
- YSlow! score

We take all these measurements from different locations so if you get a 92; it means that no matter where in the world you user is - they will have a great initial experience with our site.
Amen brother. I found instant to be uncomfortable. Sometimes DDG results were not as good as google's, but pretty good. Gabriel is also incredibly responsive and tries to solve problems quickly, every problem I've asked about has been solved or had a serious effort to try to solve. Its so "personal" that I just feel like its a search engine that cares about me, vs me being just another face in a crowd.

In any case, I still love gmail, everything else has been crap.

Also try replacing google EVERYWHERE on an android device, quite well embedded and hard to change in 100 places and still browsers use google as the search engine.
As far as I can tell Google is basically giving up on the search business. About a month ago I reported a couple spam sites that were in the top ten results for a fairly popular search phrase. Over a month later they're still there. These are sites that are literally just a list of keywords with no actual content of value on the site, and Google does nothing even though they come up at the top of the results for a phrase that gets several hundred searches per day. That has to be in the top .1% of all searches, and while I realize they probably get tens of thousands of complaints per day this one would have literally taken less than 20 seconds to recognize it was a scam site and delete it from the index. And since clearly any algorithm should have moved this to the front of the queue based on both the popularity of the term and also the good standing of my account, the only real conclusion is that Google has basically just given up on trying completely.
Ask HN: How can I learn how to invest in the market?
Hello, I'd like to learn how to invest in stocks, bonds, options, etc. However I find that there are no classes, and no realistic( please no make 100K in 5 days!!) books that would teach me what skills I need to learn.

I'd just like to learn what to look for in market trends, how to accurately research stocks, and how to make money etc. I know some basic terminology and researching but I'd like to be better before investing any money.
> If you report one they add it quite fast.

Probably because few people report sites.
I seriously wondered if he would have saved the half hour by answering the first question with "I have the right not to answer that question as I am a citizen re-entering my own country"
instead of
"None of your business"

The former would still be asserting his right, but in a more polite way