skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe I was one of the people who requested this. Namely, a better explanation of why DDG not tracking your search history is a big deal.

Implementation details aside, this page must exists and I applaud Gabriel for making it. Why? I must have been living under a rock, but I for one have never heard of https search for Google -- and I'm not exactly a computer newb.

Privacy should be the default, so "use secure Google" is a ridiculous response to legitimate privacy concerns.

Feedback:

1. I really appreciated how fast information is delivered. "One thing leads to another." And its very clear up to...

2. You lost me after the "Your profile can also be sold," with lolcat material. It really threw me off and I almost forgot what I was reading about. On my first run through the page, did not absorb ANY information past that point.

3. I only noticed the multiple (happens) links on the second run. Noticed one somewhere along the way on the first run, but not the reast. This is the important part. It tells me that this isn't a list of "imagine these unlikely events and fear", its a list of "did you know this actually happened."

4. The images establish pace for the reader, but, I can't stress it enough, they must communicate additional information. Up until the parental control cat we get a visual of what happens. I can also relate to the images because I've seen ads for "wacom tablets" follow me for months after I bought the freaking thing and I've seen the Google Analytics control panel. The image of the woman signifies that her profile is slowly building up. What information does the parental control cat or austin powers communicate?

5. The design is a little too bland, but as noted above, that's not the biggest problem. I wanted to link my friends to the page, but then got to the images and felt that the message would be lost on them as it was lost on me.

Hope this helps and thank you for making the page.
Ask HN: How do you go about naming a business?
I'm hell bent on going into business for myself. I'm going to do it even if it leaves me broke and homeless. I say I'm going to succeed in a very real way! I've been stuck without motion regarding this for years, and now I'm sick of it. Since I quit my job in November, I'm using this time as an opportunity/blessing to get started.

This now brings up the question of naming the LLC I plan to form.

Any tips for doing so? I'm not sure if I will be doing consulting through the business, or if I will create online apps, etc through the company. Does this matter?

Thanks for the help!
Yeah, he did a great job with this! I saw it on forrst a while back ( http://forrst.com/posts/iPad_simulator_with_jQuery_Css3-CTA ). I love how the browser works.
Interesting. I came to Reddit for the intelligent conversation compared to Digg. The commenting system was pretty great, as well as the subreddit system though, so I'd call it as a good mix of people and UI.

Eventually, I realized it was wasting my time like digg, just in a less obvious way. Also, the community had grown enough that those long joke threads and aggressive attempts at meme creation were hurting my enjoyment. These are not solvable problems on reddit in my opinion. I finally turned in the towel after an extremely long thread on how useless churches are in America: criticize all you want, (and I will certainly continue to do so), but churches feed and take care of homeless people and poor people in every county (and probably, town) of America.

My final solution was to add the following to my /etc/hosts file:

174.132.225.106 reddit.com www.reddit.com

This has saved me a lot of time. In exchange, I've missed (I imagine) many outrage-generating stories on US civil rights, a lot of great pictures of cats, and in exchange get to skip reading the perspectives of many, many 4chan alums.
The CPUs in all of the current systems (Wii, PS3, and the Xbox 360) use in-order execution cores.

My understanding is that for the prevalent workloads presented by most games, out-of-order execution's benefits don't outweigh its costs in chip complexity/size/power consumption/heat/etc.
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It also works on the simulation itself, although again you can't scroll, even to unlock it.
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Earlier this year VZW said they were stopping FiOS rollout and would only finish what they had already announced.
It's minor, but there is no messaging app on the iPad...
No, I'm pretty sure he does. The details of the deal are complicated. Most of the money that Goldman is going to invest for Facebook is not coming from Goldman itself, though Goldman will invest almost half a billion of its own money.
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It can't possibly cost that much to calculate a trajectory and send a giant single-stage rocket, can it? If we remove the monolith erection requirement, I think this gets much cheaper.
For a comparison between the two syntaxes, see this article:

http://www.broken-links.com/2009/11/26/css-gradient-syntax-c...
http://www.broken-links.com/2009/11/30/css-gradient-syntax-c...
Who gets to take the money to build it?
What websites would you recommend to register a SAAS company. I'd guess that a Delaware LLC might be the best way to go? Can anyone with experience chime in?
No, they would have bearing onwho is looking at them.
Agreed. Adding an arrow for direction would fix that entirely.
I believe that one day we will truly reinvent the wheel. Probably we will call it supersonic balancer or something like that, but everyone will knew that those shiny little boxes are actually wheels.

Like we know those iPhones are actually tiny supercomputers which Steve Jobs will use to conquer the world. Think about it! He had just started his evil plan by costing conventional countries millions by making their wage slaves show up late. Two words: EVIL GENIUS.
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Reddit has stated that Quantcast and Compete's numbers are pretty much flat wrong for them. You'd have to assume the same for digg.

http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/experts-misunderestimate-our-...
Energy efficient tweets?
The old twitter design embedded the tweet inside a html/head/meta tag. The new tweets relies in a bunch of javascript code, is this energy efficient?
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I don't even have a sufficiently updated firmware to take advantage of it. Still with my 3g, so the stories of horrible performance scared me right after the initial release with multitasking came out. Haven't updated my phone since then, because I don't really see a need to use the other features.
Nothing other than maps works.
That might be fine for dense cities but once you get any real distance in the lines the speed drops way off.
Reminds me of this bit from HHGTTG, paraphrased from memory:

"Update from the 'wheel' committee?"

"Well, we're having a bit of trouble there--"

"--Trouble?! It's the single simplest invention in the history of humanity!"

"All right then, if you're so smart, maybe you can tell us what color it should be!"
My understanding is Verizon has abandoned fiber-to-the-home and sold off the franchise to Frontier Communications. (Assumedly they still maintain a fiber backbone to serve their wireless networks.)
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I remember a few years back top bloggers and industry 'experts' talking about reddit being toasted in competition with digg. Amazing momentum after 5 years. Congrats.
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Ask HN: I have 423 karma...why can't I downvote comments?
I used to be able to sometime after hitting 200 karma. However, in the past few months, the capability disappeared. I've looked through the FAQ for a support email address but didn't find one, and I don't think emailing pg directly is the appropriate approach (yet). Any ideas?

Thanks!
This is great news. I have to rewrite a ton of my gradient drawing code, but it will be good not to have to write different code paths for generating and parsing different syntaxes.
Looking back, what are some warning signs that you can identify from some of your failed investments that you'll look for in the future?
Nonsense! The browser running the iPad Simulation works! :)

Well, kinda.
Reminds me of all the design pitches in The Hudsucker Proxy.
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I had thought "under construction" heavy web sites died out in the 90s, I guess I was wrong.
What about adplanner data?

https://www.google.com/adplanner/planning/site_profile?hl=en...

Seems to be right, as it comes from Analytics.
Jason Calacanis had written about this subject in his newsletter: http://launch.is/blog/2010/12/3/how-to-name-your-startup-and...

I hope this helps.
Why isn't it great?
Operators typically bring fiber close to homes, while still using DSL for the last mile. True, this requires investments, but not much compared to wiring each home with phone lines, cable, or fiber (all of which have been done before).

Note that part of the reason that cable is able to reach such high speeds is precisely because they use the same infrastructure I described: fiber to the neighborhood, then coaxial cable for the last mile. I don't see why DSL operators shouldn't be expected to do the same if they want to compete.
I for one found HN through Reddit.
iPad simulator inside Safari inside iPad simulator doesn't work :(
I think the new threshold is 500.
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Identifying the winners is more important than identifying the losers. It's the investments you don't make that kill you.
Well, back to the drawing board, cause the scenario I was hoping they'd fix is highway robbery.
Meh, just wait for the first private flight and ask them to send up a few panels to construct the 1:4:9 monolith, they'll probably do it for "free", they'll be geeks too after all, and probably just as soon as any effort to do this in any other way could work.
I hate it. There's no easy way to exit, rather than minimize, so I always end up closing 10-20 apps at once. It's useful for some features, but most of the apps I use don't use those features.
I find myself asking non-YC companies why they aren't yet in YC

Are there any legitimate excuses for a startup not to be in YC, other than rejection? I can't think of any (especially when you read http://paulgraham.com/equity.html).
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I have a 3g with a firmware that is not recent enough to use multitasking as well, although it is jailbroken and I chose to enable multitasking when I set it up (it was an option given by the jailbreaking program). Little did I know at the time how bogged down the phone would become. The performance is horrible (the worst thing I've ever seen), and if I ever get the chance I'm going to try to disable it. However, I'm wondering how bad it is in comparison to if I was using the official multitasking feature on my 3g. I mean, right now, it literally takes 5 or 10 seconds for the phone to react when answering a call and half the apps crash on startup. I really need to do something....
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You aren't reading very closely.

In vivo desensitization is what you're describing - slowly facing your fears piece by piece.

Rejection therapy is something else, where you actually attempt to be rejected X number of times per day. If you aren't rejected, you now have to do something that will get your rejected. It is essentially a defence mechanism to avoid true vulnerability.
If you've already taken money and your investors wouldn't be cool with it.
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Oh. My. God. The Apocalypse has begun!
Google is indeed getting worse for product searches.
However Amazon is not the worldwide answer for product comparison since for the vast majority of their non book products they refuse to ship anything outside of the US, thus making pricing pretty much useless. Google definately has more usefulness worldwide.
Not in my opinion :)

If an established entrepreneur like Joshua Schachter starts a company, then I'm going to invest no matter what, but for everyone else...

Watch the Facebook movie and imagine what would have happened without Sean Parker. (I think Zuck would have lost control of the company) YC provides that same kind of value (minus the drugs and women, unfortunately).
Then you have bad investors.
> Hmm, maybe it's because it's a very old address, but my Yahoo spam filtering is terrible.

My understanding of Bayesian spam filtering is that it's supposed to get better over time, not worse.
The 6502 was faster at accessing memory. I remeber Elite running a lot better on a 2MHz BBC Micro than on any 3.58MHz Z80 based micro, like the MSXs.
i can think of several reasons

- startup is outside yc's sweet spot
- founders already have a good network
- timing is wrong
They don't need security; they can just throw you in jail indefinitely, eventually give you a "trial" where some military types say they can execute you, and then execute you. BAI!

It's the phone manufacturers that have to use cryptography to prevent you from actually enjoying a device you just paid them $600 for, since they can't legally kill you if you do something they don't like.
Annoying to have such a big new dependency when I'm using Ruby 1.9.2 for everything else Ruby-related. Would make more sense to me to use a Ruby editor if it actually ran on the mainstream Ruby interpreter and not jRuby.
There are operational definitions of death and then there are more philosophical ones.

My point is simply that death itself can hold just as much meaning as life because meaning is deeply subjective. No scientific fact changes this.

Tomorrow we may discover a way to raise the dead - to turn the people you currently define as irreversibly brain impaired into... living humans.

The ancients used to refer to the breathe of life, now you have to refer to a very controversial operational definition.

I contend that this has little effect on the subjective human experience of meaning and whether or not the human emotions find meaning in death.
So do I. To summarize the reasons:

1. Most apps (as you said) don't support it

2. The apps that I switch back and forth between are not the ones that support it

3. There is no alternative to keeping the app open when you exit (see: http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/the-problem-with-home/)

4. There is no easy way to close all the apps at once. Everyone I know has to manually go through each app and close them, just as you said.

5. No one has ever fully addressed the issue. I'd like to see some tech people (or even John Gruber) explain their take on the seemingly useless feature.
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At least from my understanding there's a relocation component to it. I've certainly been in startups where the non-financial cost of relocating is larger than the return one would be from being in YC.

In fact, I suspect that is probably one of the biggest reasons why many startups don't do it.

Also "enterprise" startups (those not targeting consumers) I think will gain a lot less from being in YC.
Off the top of my head:

1. Incompatibility with current investors
2. Unable to move to SF (long list of reasons)
3. Incompatibility with YC philosophy

Regarding #3, YC has a certain way of viewing the world and doing things and I think it's definitely valid to just disagree with them enough that you wouldn't want to sell them 6% of your company.
Really neat! I wanted to do the exact same thing when I started using this other tracking app called Dayta. Any chances of a mobile app?
I'd guess that the cost is not just in the rocket itself, but rather the team, research, tests/trials, fuel and logistics of the entire operation. Getting to space is one thing, getting to the moon is an entirely different ball game.
40 points and no comments?

Just wanted to say it is great submissions like this that make me come to Hacker News...

Thank you for taking the time to write this up and post it here...
There's this other app called Dayta which basically does the same thing, although I'm not sure if the person that made it is actively maintaining it. What I'd really like is some way to do interesting correlations between some of the plots I make. Simplistically, lets say I plot exercise, caffiene, hours worked and amount of sleep, we could see some interesting correlations emerge. The app doesn't let me do that yet!
Established founders is certainly a good reason I think.
This comment is interesting to me. Does this mean you wouldn't invest in a company that YC rejected? Does it mean you wouldn't invest in a company that didn't even apply to YC? Are you going to be angel investing at all now that you've joined YC?
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Thanks. I guess I see why they took the link off -- that thread has turned into a tremendous wreck. Only the first 40 comments or so are useful. The remaining 1280 are all "please fix it!!!!!!!".

Though I did like the comment that said, "This is like text roulette, please do not fix."
Move on as nicely as possible to everyone, including yourself, but move on. If you don't have ideas and plans on what will make the sale happen, don't sit around waiting for lighting to strike.

Tell the founders your thoughts. Tell them that you will stick around for 2 months to interview and train your successor, or that you can just walk away if they want to go "clean" for a replacement, and indicate that if you are presented with the replacement to train you'll leave early. Spin it along the lines of "This situation is not one that I am improving, so I need to find a different position somewhere, where I bring a lot more value; this is in your interest and mine. We both need to be doing something different, because the current track isn't giving us our sale, so if isn't going to happen with me hopefully it will happen with a new person."

It's possible you might regret it later, but that's true of all big decisions. If they are sold soon after you leave, it's not necessarily that you missed something, it may be that your leaving catalyzed things and lit a fire under the appropriate asses, either buyers or sellers, and that it wasn't something that would have happened if you had stayed.

It's impossible to say what will happen to your reputation or etc; but after all, just coasting for a couple of years doesn't necessarily look good either.

I say all this mainly because it sounds like you want to leave anyway. Many people would regard 15% of 1.5 million in a stable company a very good position, and would stay and accumulate savings.

You don't mention what opportunities you have elsewhere.
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Using Safari on the simulated iPad, you can open the webpage for the simulated iPad :)

(If you're using Chrome, use the middle mouse button to scroll).
Used daytum for about 6 months last year. Worked well for me, but my advice would be to keep it simple for two reasons.

1) The more you try to track, the harder it is to remember to update it. I started spending more time updating Daytum than I did trying to complete the things I was tracking.

2) Staying simple keeps you in the free version of the software. :)
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I think you should probably upgrade to the latest firmware if you're experiencing that kind of performance degradation. My friends that initially updated kept up to date, and they don't notice those issues much anymore (exact same problem -- huge delays in answering phones... sometimes the phone wouldn't even pick up).

From what they say, that really hasn't been a problem for a while. But I just don't really see the need for it (multitasking is somewhat of a non-starter on the puny processor in the 3g... I think it's just a 533 MHz job). So even with the upgrade, I doubt you'll be able to multitask particularly well... but you will get your speed back.
I still invest in non-YC companies, but there's a much higher bar (e.g. I already know the founders, or they have a lot of traction).
We are considering a monthly fee, but for the economics to work we will need to be making roughly that $1 per hour of usage to cover phone call and other costs.

We are still searching for the demographic that needs some sort of web content on the go, can't get it on their smartphone and is willing to pay for it.

Any ideas would be appreciated.
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Cool. But why?
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I wouldn't participate in YC because I have a pregnant wife and young son, and I am not interested in leaving them alone while I take a semester of YC. YC doesn't provide that much money and YC isn't the only way an entrepreneur can find a support network.
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Indeed. Investment banks do not make money with some magic computer program that buys low and sells high eight billion times per second. They make money by buying something, "adding value", calling up clients and asking them to buy it, and then taking a cut when they do. In some cases, this has changed the way the world works; consider options.

(In general, it's really not as evil as it sounds. I write software to help price interest rate swaps, and those don't really ring any ethical alarm bells: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interest_rate_swap

I don't think the Goldman/Facebook thing is particularly evil, either. The government says that normal people can't buy Facebook shares, but normal people want to. Goldman invented a solution to the problem, and will profit from doing so. "Adding value" like this is great when it's a way to sell ads to web 2.0 users, but not when it's a bank? Why?)
> it sucked up entirely too much RAM for an app that is supposed to be simple. Hundreds of megs.

I show 175 megs of Real Memory used on OS X at the moment for Redcar. So still not "small," but since development is the primary focus of my machine, it doesn't bother me at all, especially considering firefox is at 241 megs at the moment.
I love Eclipse. I get by with vim and gedit, but I prefer to have all the tools that Eclipse encompasses.

That being said, I have tried the dynamic languages plugin in Eclipse for Scala/Ruby/Python as well as PyDev and the performance is atrocious.

So if Redcar can be half as good as Eclipse, then I'm all for it.
This is extremely impressive! It always surprises me how far people can go with web scripting languages like JavaScript and CSS. In fact, it reminds me of the iPhone icons made purely out of CSS[1]

Anyways, for anyone who is interested, the only two apps that work are Safari and Maps.

And for anyone who can't access it, here are the features:

In the meanwhie, you are welcome to checkout my blog : alexw.me
You can also fork this at https://github.com/altryne/Ipad-Simulator
and hack on this and do cool stuff because open souce rulez

Things that work :

-Moving Screens left and right with "spring" effect

-Dock icons have css3 "reflection" ;)

-All icons have css3 rounded corners and shadow similar to Ipads

-Search works almost identically to the ios. (using modified jquery live-search)

-Lock screen effect with returning lock

-Home button works (exits apps, goes to first page,
return from sleep mode,exits edit mode)

-Sleep button puts iPad in sleep mode

-Edit Mode: click and hold on any app for 2 seconds to enable edit mode

°Edit mode icons shake in chrome (using css animation)

°Move apps from place to place in edit mode

°Move apps to another page

°Move apps to dock

°Delete Apps

All he/she needs to add is multitasking and I think the app (or should I say, operating system) is complete!

[1] - http://graphicpeel.com/cssiosicons
yes it does :)