skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What, in particular, are you looking for when you search for forums? Example queries and the tasks that generated them would be most helpful.

There is a fair bit of data on forums that is not exposed in the UI, simply because no frontend engineer has had a chance to look at it. I'm a frontend engineer, I'm potentially looking for a new project or some 20% work, and so examples of where Google isn't quite working right are pretty helpful to me.
Thanks for all the replies, I've read them all and have decided I will let the domain expire.

I will also do my part to increase the average number of people unhappy customers share their experience with.

I look forward to the day that the semantic web will replace our statist legal system.
Yes, it's him (who else would submit his posts?). He's got several accounts: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=brilliant
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I would agree with this - wiki's are an example where collaborative social technologies are far superior to policies and standards which sit stale in PDF's which are updated at maximum once a year are
I hardly think "it is a solution looking for a problem". There is a healthy demand for social media tools both inside and outside the workplace. Effective enterprises encourage collaboration and diversity of thinking - especially as workforces are increasingly globalized. Social media tools can be a lot better than the existing collaboration tools such as Sharepoint at doing this. Where I have seen tools like Yammer deployed it is the business users not the technical IT users who are the first to jump on board
Ask HN: Bundling version control software with your final product
Hey guys,
Does anyone have suggestions for a lightweight version of version control software that can be bundled into a product? This could be used by customers for versioning any configuration files they use to run the product. I was thinking more of an API from a library to link with, rather than requiring the version control software to be installed at the customer site.

SVN/Git all offer wonderful features for versioninig source code within a company, but has anyone had experience with bundling them in their final product?
Google's discussion and categorization of the issue here:

http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_threa...
so what you're saying is that people who exercise are genetically predisposed to exercise, and those who don't, aren't. therefore any study that suggests the health benefits of exercising should take this into account.

how would you measure for something like that?
Best of luck with Newsley.

In terms of competing with Google, Bing, etc, I'm on it. I'm incredibly excited about launching my latest service, which hopes to gain a decent market share of start page users. Basically, it's going to be a search portal. Not another one of those crappy multi-tabbed "search 10 engines at once" pages, but rather something much more... substantial. That's why I started to thread, to see which sites I should include in the index. I'm glad somebody else sees the same potential in the search market as I do.
The "If By Whiskey" speech
Of course human error applies here too; But it's much simpler to get one type right than to use the type in the right way everywhere. Per example: The Red-Black-Tree implementation mentioned in the examples. If we define a tree that cannot be unbalanced, we can skip all explicit checks for whether the tree is balanced, thus eliminating a source for errors (forgetting/bungling the balance checks) and also increasing productivity (since we don't need to write the balance checks in the first place).
It seems to me that putting this post up on his domain could provoke eBay into taking actual legal action.
How is any language going to fix the problem of bad programmers programming badly?

And, more relevantly—how does the fact that a language can't fix those errors make preventing other errors a useless endeavor? It's true that there's no such thing as a programming language that can only write good/safe/acceptable programs, and a lot of people (myself included) who advertise programming languages as a solution to problems tend to overstate the relevance of type systems, correctness proofs, pure functions, &c, but that doesn't mean you can't eliminate a certain variety of error through good language design or by enforcing programmer rigor.
Twin studies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_study) aim to examine the differences due to genetics vs environment. One naive method is to look at identical twins who have been separated, and see if there is a difference in exercise levels.
I'm on a whiskey diet, I've lost three days already. - Tommy Cooper
Well, the larger HN community seemed to not take kindly to my comment, which seems odd in and of itself.

Regardless, I concur with you - I can't speak to business people directly as it's not my particular domain, but yes - I've seen the same behavior that you have.
It's the test Martin Seligman gives in the book. One interesting fact is that even when they tell people to try and game the test by appearing optimistic, they can't.
Considered as a separate site, Youtube is actually #2 in search volume behind Google and ahead of both Yahoo and Bing.

Craigslist and Facebook are both in the top 10 search engines.
Newzbin. Bespoke C in-memory search engine with full substring matches and loads of metadata to play with, indexing data Google has no interest in.

I may be biased, since I wrote half of it. Funny seeing it turn into some kind of zombie :/
Most likely, eBay will try to dispute the domain name by UDRP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Domain-Name_Dispute-Res...

There are many examples of this if you search. The most recent one that interested me was the fight over wargames.com.
This is precisely why we should be living in the San Francisco Shoreline Indentation Area.
It's interesting how spiders that many consider terrifying, look almost cute and comical in pictures like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/opoterser/2914038202/

It actually reminds me of Monster Inc.
In reply to the name comment I love it! It is different, fun, and super easy to remember. I can definitely see how it might not jive with some people though, to each their own.
Procrastination can lead to wonderful things (video)
Fast and Finely Crafted, Spindizzies Still Dazzle
Have to agree on the first point, Google doesn't have all that datastore for nothing.

However, that didn't stop me from switching. DDG is my default search engine, and while it's a little slower than Google, that difference isn't significant. Do note however, that I'm using Chrome, and found the speed difference to be a little annoying sometimes on Firefox.

That said, I love the bang syntax. If your search fails in DDG, just add !g and you're immediately in Google. I've been using it for about a month now, and slowly gets a hang of what type of searches are better done in Google vs DDG (eg: shopping -> Google, documentation -> DDG, discussions (groups/forums or otherwise) -> Google, reviews (products,etc) -> DDG)
How does it compare performance-wise to the Netty solution? Is it better at 100k+ connections?
From an non-financial perspective, presumably they are useful for testing the service? Adding experimental features, seeing how they react, not having to worry about up time on their servers. Understanding how the service scales, in case you get any enterprise-style customers. Learning what sort of features are missing etc. Essentially a loss leader to improve the service.
You may have an argument here, but your ad-hominem attack made me tune out pretty much immediately.
If pip/Distribute eventually works as smoothly as apt-get, I'll be a happy guy.
I'm playing the gold rush in multiple ways.

1) Owning physical gold (and silver).

2) Buying shares of gold and silver mining stocks.

3) Buying the mining stocks on the Toronto exchange, in Canadian dollars, so as the USD continues it's decent my investment also appreciates through the better exchange rate.

Thoughts?
Note that the USPTO is asking for comments on how it should comply with the Bilski decision, not for rants about software patents in general. Your comments will presumably carry more weight if you can explain why many software patents have more in common with business methods than with machines or transformations.

This looks like a good place to start: http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Bilski:_analysis_of_Supreme_Court_d...
Maybe you should post how much you are looking to sell it for.
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There is also the matter that the whole "correctness vs. productivity" debate is a false opposite. There is nothing mutually contradictive with correctness and productivity, so there is no reason why you can't have both.
OMG...Facebook isn't secure <grin>
Are you Competing on Value or Cost?
Where can I find a list of the sites with the highest search volume?
That's pretty sweet. Thanks for posting the link. Now to find something for the TTL serial LCD I have...
I prefer BTJunkie
I recommend using The Archivist, which is free and will automatically save your tweets forevermore, for easy download at any later time. I've used it a couple of times to dig out old tweets of my own! http://archivist.visitmix.com/
Dear eBay,

FuckBay YouBay!
GOOG:
http://www.google.ca/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:GOOG

Their stock is pretty much invincible.
I did, and it let me straight to your post.
If anything you're infringing on thepiratebay.org more than ebay. Maybe another route is take a hint from pirate bay, and move your operation offshore.
Haha! I wonder how pirate bay will react to this!
Forbes: The Race to Exploit Social Media
In my experience, most layers that make things easier generally suck under load. I would think it's especially true with something that adds a layer between you and the database.

How is Active Record with regards to performance under load?
The best way to search StackOverflow is definitely using Google. site:stackoverflow.com

That's one of the first ways I will refine a search about a programming topic these days, but no need to use stackoverflow.com search.
Can Twitter stop a genocide, or anything bad? - Weekend project?
Discard half your options out of the gate and you get the scarcity you deserve, IMO.
A company has to defend its trademarks in order for something like that to be upheld. The problem is that there are already hundreds of software companies with "soft" suffixed names. Because Microsoft was likely not the first software company to use the "soft" suffix, nor have they taken action to shut down any of these other companies, they can't suddenly do an about-face and claim trademark dilution against one of them (maybe unless there was more to it than a -soft name, e.g. a logo closely resembling Microsoft's, or other attempts to trade on Microsoft's reputation).
If they did, zuckerborg's dystopian vision of the future would crumble...

http://youropenbook.org/?q=cell+number&gender=female
I received one of these years ago, ignored it and they never followed up. YMMV.
From the peHUB post[0] cited in the article:
>Arrington declined to say if he had been contacted by law enforcement officials.

Could law enforcement force Arrington's silence if he was contacted directly? Or can we expect another post by him titled, "So the FBI walked into my office..."?

[0] http://www.pehub.com/83069/angelgate-is-“100-percent-accurat...
Dear Microsoft: Please Do Pinned Menus Like This
Could it be that somebody else unrelated to ebay and who is interested in that name send you that email?

Could they have placed a backorder on that domain name and trying to force you to let it expire?

Even if it is an automated mail, I would find it very hard to believe that such a mail would not have some contact info under the "Edith eBay......"
I'm finding Google less and less useful for queries about specific programming problems.

I'm finding myself going to DDG and Stack overflow for answers to those problems first, just because I don't have to sift through results from crappy forums or Experts Exchange to get to answers for my specific query.

I do prefer Google results to Bing's results for those topics, because I can query Google groups, which also tends to have higher signal::noise ratios.

As I said, Bing has Travel search down pretty cold as far as I'm concerned, and I travel quite a bit. That may well change since you guys bought ITA, which provides Bing's data. Brilliant move, btw. I do use http://matrix.itasoftware.com a ton after a quick overview search on Bing because of the domain specific language that itasoftware lets you use on your searches.

Amazon does much better for shopping and product search. My first inclination these days is to go to Amazon and look for a product. If the price seems reasonable, I have Amazon prime and the product gets shipped to me for free in 2 days, or I can spend $4 and get it shipped next day.

I found myself living over at Edmunds.com when I was searching for a used car to buy two months ago.

I think that the results from Wolfram Alpha on company financials are much better laid out than Google Finance or Yahoo Finance. I'm much more likely to use Wolfram than GOOG or YHOO to get an overview of a companies financials.

I think there's a lot that can be added when it comes to financial news search, which is why I'm building http://Newsley.com

Looking for recipes on Google pretty much sucks. I'd much rather go to the Food Network.

The reason that I think you guys are hurting at times in search results, is because your mission is to categorize "all the world's information". So, you're approach is to pull in as much information as possible, and then sift through and sort though what's important.

If a site takes a semi-supervised approach like DDG or provides search over a specific silo of curated content like Stack Overflow, then I think you guys are going to be hard pressed to compete.

And on a certain level, it doesn't make sense for you guys to try and compete with sites like Edmunds.com or Stack Overflow. You guys are looking for niches that can provide the next $0.5 Billion to $4 Billion in revenue. Small verticals like programmer searches, recipe search, financial news search etc... aren't really going to be worth a huge investment for you guys to dominate.
> The system right now significantly favours whoever can invest >$50000/month in infrastructure (regardless of trading volume).

You're drastically overstating the costs. I can put a server at the Nasdaq data center using Lightspeed Trading as my broker for $1,000. For no additional fee apart from paying the standard Nasdaq professional market data fee I can have access to the multicast Itch data feed. The rawest form of market data available from the Nasdaq. These aren't hypothetical numbers. These are real.

If you want to form a broker/dealer and buy a membership and host your own infrastructure, etc yes you might pay more. But for that the only added benefit you get is the ability to access the market rather than just access the data feed. You get your own MPID or you trade through someone elses. Regardless, you're execution might be about 300 microseconds better than using a broker that caters to this stuff like Lime Brokerage or Lightspeed.

> For example, in the recent flash-crashes (e.g. 6-may), anyone using the "standard" feed had a lag of several minutes on price data, whereas anyone using the newer interfaces (at $10K "pay-to-play" minimum) got up-to-date prices. While this was extreme, it did happen 4 times in the last 6 months; And it happens every single day to a lesser degree.

Go read about why many of the high-frequency firms pulled out of the market. They pulled out because the exchange's data feeds themselves were starting to fall behind. Their data was suspect, just as was everyone elses. If your data feed is lagged 4 times out of the last 6 months then you might want to go look at DTN's NxCore product. It doesn't lag and it's costs are quite reasonable for anyone who might need data at that level of fidelity.

> Also, "flash orders" which got everyone raging last year are still permitted.

Where? Please cite a specific exchange and point me to the specific order type in their documentation. I've read the specs of nearly every major futures and equities liquidity venue in the US, so I doubt this is a true statement.

> Their only purpose is to let the faster players profit at the expense of the slower players. The regulation here is broken.

Wrong, the purpose is to provide incentive for participants to trade at a specific exchange by giving them an opportunity to trade before the broader market does. For this they must improve the NBBO to match the flashed order.
I had actually misinterpreted the title as implicating that the users are the inmates.

That is, I assumed it means the following: when you're building software, you have to accept that the users are the ones "living" in it. Even if the users are bat-crazy, you need to build them an asylum that makes them feel like they're running the show, rather than treat them like inmates to be subdued.
Do you have a good story on why you believe that gold will keep going up for while? I can think of one maybe the US currency will continue to decline and the world will change to a basket of currencies backed by gold...
Personally I am going long on a gold company just to benefit in the laging effect of high gold prices on the earnings of these companies... other than that I have no real story on why gold keeps going up and more importantly when/if it will peak and take a major fall
Is owning physical gold and silver because you think the US will colapse like the roman empire and you want some quick currency to escape?... aka Peter Shiff ? (http://amzn.to/bTVMIj)
ActiveRecord has great performance. Mostly because it's a really thin layer over database tables. The only additional overhead is instantiating one object per row returned.
It's not, which is the point. loup-vaillant's comment implied that it was possible to write a "perfect" program in a proof-oriented language, as it would have no vulnerabilities, and people could trust your code.

I wasn't intending to imply that, because language X does not solve likely-intractable problem Y, language X is worthless. Just that likely-intractable problem Y is likely intractable in language Z as well as X, as it's an inherent quality of the problem.

edit: I will however explicitly imply that more syntactically complicated languages are probably more likely to hide many kinds of logic errors. More brainpower spent decoding your code is more brainpower not spent analyzing your logic. Each to their own, clearly; I most definitely side with highly-readable code, and know several people who would likely feel right at home with Omega (e.g.: my brother is a math + philosophy double-major).
I attended a military conference once on future threats.

They don't understand the Internet.

I mean, at all.

Imagine every stereotype about how old people don't get the Internet. That is the stage of thinking the military is still at.

One of them was trying to futuristically imagine Internet-coordinated mob attacks, and I got up in front of the conference and told them that this was already happening in real life and they needed to ask a fourteen-year-old how it works on 4chan instead of making things up.
Thats popular opinion but for example I bought apple at 240 at a good rate of leverage and it is sitting pretty behind a trailing stop at the moment.... if you belive in the fundementals, follow the industry (i.e. invest in what you know) no reason why you cannot get good returns with large cap stocks
Anatomy of A Referral: Leveraging Social Media to Grow Your Business
eniro.se is much better for looking up people or companies in Sweden (basically yellow and white pages). I'm sure all countries have some sort of local equivalent.
Carl Sagan: The Gift of Apollo
Galaxy if you want an Australian stock, Western Lithium if you want a US stock
1. There are only really 4 versions of RSS, and Winer wrote two of them. There were 3 different groups involved, which was the problem - the problem isn't having newer versions.

2. You could say the same of Mark Pilgrim's social problems. He is very difficult to get along with, is very arrogant and lead a crusade against Winer for years. He on one hand argued that RSS was fragmented and incompatible, but his solution to that was to start yet another syndication format.

You are forgetting that what made syndication popular was the simplicity of RSS. There were other formats before it, and there have been formats since - but the ease of implementation and simplicity of RSS ushered in a whole new era of services and nothing less than blogging itself, podcasting and all the services since that have built on that foundation (ie. 'the social web').
I continue to be impressed both by DDG's search results and by its dedication to privacy and security. Seems like a great way to celebrate their 2nd anniversary.
To an extent, but I think the two are intrinsically related. Maybe this isn't the proper place to talk about it though...
I can't help but say that I think that there were more deserving demos, in terms of how impressive/fun they were compared to the winner, though I'm glad to see the chess one up there. Not to knock the winner though, it's also a good demo and probably won because of better cross-browser compatibility or something.
What is wrong with you? First, you have no idea if I'm a customer or shareholder. Second, they have an obligation to their users and customers to conduct business in a reasonable way. If you actually read what I've been saying, which I know is very hard, because we have a tendency to skim and let our biases let our emotions get the best of us, I'm not saying anything crazy.

All I'm saying is that Google should set up some processes so that issues that can be major, such as an accidental delisting, or similar be addressed with some level of human interaction, whether it's an actual response, or an automated response letting you know the issues, nothing more.

In my opinion, and hopefully sometime in the near future the US Congress will agree, that it's not OK for something to have that much sway over the web and not be accountable or have any reasonable processes in place for corrections. It's just not.
Correctness stems from expressing not only the algorithm but also the results you expect from running it (as types and/or test cases) so they can be verified. But if you somehow convince yourself that you haven't made any mistakes, it's always less work to just write the algorithm (and omit the expected results).
In the about section:

>One of Dave Winer's many handles. (I can never remember my password so I create a different account on every machine I use and stay logged in. Sorry.)

Jeez, give OpenID a try, or use a password manager. Both of which are also significantly more secure options than adding more passwords to your own memory / relying on stale cookies.
It's not an attack on him, it's a warning to others.

All these technologies are yours, except those that Dave Winer claims ownership of.﻿ Attempt no landing there.
Leveraged bets at the moment personally:
Apple - great company, great management, rosy future
Google - dominant market share, interesting new products expected
ARM and Qualycomm - processors for virtually all smart phones and tablets
Was annoyed I missed some of the big security M&A's McAffee at al - so owning Juniper, Symantec and Checkpoint short term in case it continues
Galaxy - lithium
Newcrest - Gold
Corning - gorilla glass for smartphones

Would love to hear HN's readers thoughts the above, loving my trailing stops at the moment :)