skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More detailed information/discussion from fellow geeks in NANOG (North American Network Operator Group). This is the go-to mailing list for me when anything weird happens on the internets.

Connectivity status for Egypt - http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2011-January/031313...
Egypt Telecom AS isolation - http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2011-January/031377...
3500 Egyptian prefixes? - http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2011-January/031407...
Would rather the comments are less about the jobs (happy to answer, but probably best for email) and more about best ways to attract great talent. We're working on a lot of "inbound strategies". I'm big on writing as you know, so using this is one way that might work well. Hiring is a bitch. How are other startups dealing with it?
In that case, CoderCharts would be helpful since for beginners, they don't necessary have to take part in competition. We have non-contest puzzles of various levels for users to try their skills. We have plans to push out more social features to enhance the users' sense of pride in their skills, so this would help nurture freshmen's interest.
I would encourage you come to our site and play around yourself, so that you have a better understanding of how to make the most out of it. :-)
Read this paper: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.34.3...

In Prolog (as with Haskell, OCaml, and others), you can define new operators with user-definable meaning and precendence. ->, !, and some other operators used in Erlang were left undefined in Prolog specifically for making DSLs. (That's also why Erlang code looks approximately like Prolog code with a bunch of extra operators added - it was a Prolog DSL.)

Prolog is a pretty good language for quickly protyping interpreters.
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It is a little contradiction to the statement "My philosophy is that they're right if their feature request is right only if it works for 80% of your customers.".

Apparently sometimes a small minority of customers still can make all the difference.
The last ability doesn't target.

And I just added face-down cards as something else that wasn't "open".
Those color cycling demos are amazing. Unfortunately, color cycling has fallen out of practice both because it is too hard to teach artists and because the double-lookup-per-pixel is memory bandwidth intensive on modern hardware (old systems had dedicated hardware to support this).
Talk to swombat on #startups, you guys should link up!
Do you know which ports need to be forwarded?
[negative allelopathy]

And, in those cases where the content mills do have a few morsels of useful information, they've usually just pushed other less professionally/cynically optimized sources for the same info down off the first page of results.
I actually have a lot of respect for DDG and what you've accomplished (well, until the recent ad campaign, but that's a different issue...)

My impression from the FAQ and your comments here is that you start with Yahoo! BOSS results, merge in other results that you suspect may be useful from your own crawl, filter out known spam pages, and possibly re-rank things afterwards according to whatever algorithms you have. Hence, "Bing with a bunch of twiddles on top." I don't really get a different impression after reading this comment - "50% of queries show information from my index" could mean as little as reranking one result, and query distribution is known to be heavily biased towards the fat head.

Although, I just looked at one not-quite-head-but-not-quite-long-tail query ([modern family episode list]):

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=modern+family+episode+list

http://www.bing.com/search?q=modern+family+episode+list

And the top 3 are identical, but the rest of the top 10 are about as different from Bing as Bing is from Google. Twiddles can be fairly powerful.

You obviously don't have to disclose everything you do in response to criticism - Google and Bing certainly don't. But that was my perception from your FAQ and posts, and certainly seems to be the perception of many other HN users as well.
A few alternatives:

https://teambox.com/
http://goplanapp.com/
http://www.assembla.com/
http://www.codebasehq.com/
Sony went corporate American.

After the Betamax debacle it decided it would win the next format war by owning studios.

That meant that anything it built for the consumer also had to be good for the studio.
So for example it launched the excellent minidisk player (a 76Mb minifloppy) with better than MP3 quality when MP3 players were 32Mb for twice the price.

But it refused to release the minidisk drives for computers, because that would lead to piracy - so the only way to get music on the units was to buy all your albums again on minidisk (the studio's preferred option !) or record them on the microphone in. Then they did the same again with the PSP.

Suppose Apple had decided to ensure the success of the iPhone, not by making it great, but by buying a cell carrier - then limiting your calls to other iPhone users.
I think it's hilarious the same people who complain about corporate/government interests affecting Western media often praise Al Jazeera. Do you really assume Qatar's Emir funds the network out of sheer philanthropy, or some passion for quality journalism?

Al Jazeera does not cover issues that are uncomfortable to Qatar - whether it's the WikiLeaks Qatar documents, where they urge the US to strike Iran or issues within Qatar itself. Their hard-hitting coverage is limited to issues that won't harm Qatar's interests - in much the same way USSR's Pravda might cover American corruption.

It's amazing how easy it is to fool people with just a slightly more sophisticated approach.
Probably previously posted, but "36 hours in North Korea without a guide..." is really interesting as well:

http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/
Yup, since 2008.
http://quickbase.intuit.com/ ???
What makes an application stand out is founders who have a history of achieving things, and who seem to have thought deeply about the idea they're proposing.

(We don't care that much about the nature of the achievements. They could be anything from having a high GPA at a difficult school to having built a cool piece of open source software.)

The median application is from a couple guys who are programmers, but not particularly enthusiastic ones (e.g. haven't built anything interesting outside of school or work) and who have what we call a "made up" idea, meaning one that sounds plausible but which no specific person they know truly needs.
Thank you. The sad thing is neither Google nor Search HN found that.
Quora responds to influx of new users with tech & process changes
> I'm not a basecamp user, but if $24/mo is make-or-break, I'm not sure how much you believe in the startup.

Many people believed in their startup and they still failed spectacularly ... so belief doesn't mean anything to me.

I like data, facts ... you know ... that sort of thing. So we're proceeding cautiously spending as little as we can till we see an opening, then we'll run like the wind.

Basecamp is nice, but its simply not worth $24/mo to us. For the money I'd spend on that in a year, I could get a html person to convert our designs into html/css so I don't have to do it ... thats worth more to me at this point.

Also, The plans go from free (0 projects) to Basic (15) ... surely there is a middle ground (4 ... 8 projects) there that is being missed ... not that they care, but I don't see why they'd pass up that revenue.
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breathes sigh of release

deletes whole bunch of other editors from hard disk

Seriously, I can't believe this wasn't recommended to me before now.
Colonel Kalashnikov was paid by a west german company that owned the marketing rights to the name - I think they made aftershave!
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And who exactly did you send the email to?
I'll believe you when I see the "caps lock question" on Quora.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090903085749AA...
I've written for screens smaller than 480px. I have an android that, landscape, is 860px or something. In that case it won't work, and I'd rather not make the assumption that it's a mobile screen.

I presume your android is larger than 480px and that's why you say this?
Vik, are you located in Holland, MI? My office is actually in downtown Holland.
The British army only just relented - the new SA80 is the first fully automatic rifle to be standard issue.
Thank you ... I forgot about that.
As an aggregation site, your SEO shouldn't expect to outrank the content you're sourcing - that's unethical. At best, your SEO should focus on the service you provide.

Looking at your site, it's easy to see why Google bumped you down:

http://technifi.com/

http://technifi.com/news/Egypt-Leaves-the-Internet-3841691.h...

It looks like your service is nothing like Techmeme, adding ad-related pages prior to accessing significant content. And the context-aware parts seems to lack any form of editorial choice, such as the Google-image Vodafone photos. In short, you have no insight, let alone opinion, and thus add nothing of value to the information.

Now aware of your site, I don't find any benefit and would ignore it or add it to my block list in my custom Google search.
There might be an AI solution to discriminating real social media chatter from fake content.
There's lots of random fluctuation with this kind of thing; I wouldn't attribute anything overly specific to it.
This is the original source of the photos in Russian.
I see NFLShop.com as #1, but some of the rest appear to be spam (in some cases it's hard to tell if they are legitimate or not). I looked for legitimate sellers of NFL jerseys and by and large they have terrible SEO. I don't know how companies haven't gotten wise, but check out FinishLine.com's NFL jerseys landing page:

http://www.finishline.com/store/shop/nfl/nfl-jerseys/_/N-2z7...

They have "nfl-jerseys" in the URL which is about the only redeeming thing. The page title is unrelated, which is what would show in a SERP. I clicked on the top result, a women's Ben Roethlisberger jersey and the page has nearly zero information and the images 404 (!).

http://www.finishline.com/store/product/reebok-womens-pittsb...

Compare that to one of the results that comes up in Google and you can see why. Great titles, URLs, the filters don't require forms.
Have you seen netflix's offerings in Canada?
Yet again someone showing how important it is to stay simple.

I can no longer count the number of companies I've talked to who imploded under the weight of their own features.
It is a good idea, but I feel that your first-five-upvoter share is too strong of an incentive. It will encourage upvoting for the sake of karma rather than to reflect the overall quality of the article. There could be up-vote spam. It could also come in the form of vote herding on the new page because once an article has 2-3 points, there will be a rush for the remaining 4-5 slots. The result is a more cycled-through front page with worse quality articles.
There is a difference between "We will understand it if you choose to go with a different company. However you should know and we are working hard at resolving these issues." and "... Please go Away."

Seriously, it is not as if the guy insulted them.
I think I would be interested in having the option to filter out all search results for shopping sites. There already is Google Product Search for that.
well the results can't all be the first one repeated over and over.

if you search for 'nfl jerseys' you're probably looking to buy a jersey, and at least a few of those (eg football fanatics) do in fact look like legitimate stores.
The other downside is you only get 2 channel audio.
Al Jazeera's relationship with Qatar is similar to the BBC's relationship with the UK. Their internal reporting is very different from their international reporting due to this, just as with the BBC.

That doesn't change the fact that their international reporting, much like the BBC's, is quite good. To compare it to Pravda is ridiculous.
This isn't really evidence one way or the other; its the sort of statement they could make in any event.
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The WAM isn't the final word on efficient Prolog implementation, it was just a major improvement at the time. See the theses Peter Van Roy links to here (http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/classic/message1618.html#1108...), one of which is his.

Another major direction for practical Prolog implementation is constraint programming. I've been studying that off-and-on for a while, and Daniel Diaz's papers on clp(FD) (http://cri-dist.univ-paris1.fr/diaz/publications/) and adding CLP to the WAM seem to be a good intro.
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I really look forward to reading this site!

I suggest you get in touch with Andrew from Mixergy.com - he has plenty of connections to get you started.

Good luck!
proper formatting:

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nmap H :tabprevious<CR>
nmap L :tabnext<CR>
It's a real challenge for Quora. Introducing some kind of automated ranking system seems like a natural way forward, but Unless Quora’s really careful, on most of these systems, longer-term users generally are “higher quality”: they have more posts, more upvotes, more followers, more experience knowing how to do well on the quality metrics, etc. So Quora’s current techie male base starts with a huge advantage, which will make it hard for them to expand into other areas. On the other hand if you don’t give the current base an advantage, they’ll be justifiably bummed. A tricky situation.
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Ask HN: An interrupt-free computing experience?
When I first started computing, everything was text-based. It was awesome, nothing could distract my attention. No Instant Messaging, no software asking two or three times if I really want to do that, no pop-up windows telling me there are updates available, no software interrupting my current focus to give me some pointless status message, and no software in the background trying to steal my pointer and cursor's focus when I'm doing something else.

How can I get back to this? For every Growl that I disable, there's another piece of software popping something else up, playing on my ADHD and making it that much more difficult to get anything done.

Any tips/tricks/suggestions?

(I wonder if I can post this, being a new user means Hacker News only lets me post once or twice a day before telling me that I'm submitting too fast".)
Some people may recommend http://www.google.com/ncr, but have you tried actually asking for English when you request pages on Google? It sounds like you don't have your Accept-Language header set to English. If an Accept-Language: en header doesn't fix the problem, you should complain on HN (with a new thread) about it instead of using /ncr. Google really should support that.
"...If this revolution goes through it's 50/50, liberal democracy (ElBaradei) vs Islamic theocracy (Muslim Brotherhood)..."

If that were the case, I think American leaders would sleep relatively well. The issue is that if those latest elections had not been rigged by Mubarak, then the Muslim Brotherhood would have won by a clear majority. I think the narrative that Western media is pushing about El Baradei being the future leader of Egypt is just the sort of somewhat fanciful thinking that has brought us to where we are today.

The power of technology only serves as a multiplier for the effectiveness of the people utilizing it. It does not change their hopes, or fears, or tastes, or biases.

It took me a long time to realize in my euphoria about the implications of widespread access to technology, that the Human Element is the weakness in the system...

Or its strength.
CS 06
Manslaughter doesn't, however.
Those services add value to the content - comments, votes, opinion, and/or journalistic research.

You guys have it, but it's buried under a pile of spam. Lose the spam and you'll recover your integrity.
Why does a suicide bomber need a remote control?
"Amazon trades for 2.2 times revenue. Facebook, said to have 2010 revenue of $2 billion, has a price-to-sales ratio of 41.5."

41.5 is an extraordinarily high price-to-sales ratio. Facebook is not an ordinary company, to be sure, but is there even a historical precedent for this? Has there ever been a company which has traded at anything close to this ratio, without resulting in a burst bubble?
Maybe they watched The Joker do it in The Dark Knight movie?
I go to Google when I want to find something. I click on a link when I think I have found what I'm looking for. When I click on that link, I want to go straight to my destination, not get lost in an maze of sites that do nothing but link to each other and dilute the content.

I go to Google because it provides value to me. Aggregator / republishing sites trick you into visiting them with the lure of what looks like actual, original content. This makes the internet less useful because you end up reading the same content over and over.
Light shines on quantum computing
I'd say a mix of something fundamental and something random. Probably the same can be said for a product's virality... or just about anything.
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I might be missing something, but if that's the case then you can't call them suicide bombers! If they are not actually the ones in control of their own death, it's not suicide.
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Here's where Hulu lost me as a consumer, it was simply the decision to make their premium service provide extra content and mobile features instead of eliminating ads. Netflix wins because it spares me from advertisements. You have no idea how much I'd be willing to pay companies [even on an individual basis] to never see another advertisement of theirs again.
From my understanding it's for the handlers to activate the bomb if they get cold feet for any reason.
Nice android. :)
Us Linux users are used to using unsupported/"use at your own risk" software, so that definitely lowers costs.

Right now what prevents Netflix from running on Linux is Microsoft. They will license PlayReady DRM but won't license it to run on Desktop Linux boxes, citing some sort of bogus "security" issue. I would think that an XP box would be much less secure than a Linux box. It's just a business decision masquerading as a technical decision.

http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/t/94992.aspx
Future phone networks to use miniature base stations
The bomber needs a remote control so that they can detonate the bomb that they strapped to someone else.

In many (most?) cases, the 'suicide bomber' is being coerced into participating, and can't actually be trusted to fully follow through. The real bomber, the person making and orchestrating the bombings, needs the remote control so that they have control over the detonation.
To be honest, I kind of like the tone of Techcrunch. The fact that many of the writers on Techcrunch have their own voice makes Techcrunch more fun to read than other tech blogs.

If you're looking to build a competing startup news blog, I think creating a unique voice for yourself is a good way to build your brand.
This "article" is basically a re-tweet.

Real article here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/01/28/...
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Yeah, pretty much. It's an extremely simple (albeit clever) design so there's only so much you can get wrong when you're copying it. Note that the Type 56 like most other AK knock-offs are really copies of the later AKM "improved" model, which was cheaper to manufacture. So comparing it to the original AK-47 is probably not fair. Then again there aren't many copies of the original model around anymore.
I know this isn't a perfect solution. But I made this site that uses Google's Custom search to allow you to maintain your own blacklist so that you can filter out sites you don't want displayed.
Here's the link:
http://blacklist-search.appspot.com/
Sort of like how you can't do squat with music/movies on iOS unless it's through iTunes?
I suggest you look into Unity 3D. It's easy to make 2D stuff with it, even if it's primarily a 3D engine.

The basic version is free, so you can use that for development. When your game is ready to ship, you can upgrade your license to an iOS one and then convert and ship your game with it.

If you want to stick with XNA, there's an interesting project to port XNA to iOS platforms (http://rockethub.com/projects/752-exen-xna-for-iphone-androi...), and there's XNATouch too. I haven't looked into those yet, but if you complete your game on XNA, by the time you'll be done there might be a viable solution to easily port your game to iOS.
it doesn't matter -- in putty, forward your choice of ports (I use 9853 randomly), make sure the type of forwarding in putty is set to "dynamic", and set firefox to use localhost and that port as a socks proxy. works well for skype as well, by the way.
Your last sentence is pretty flawed/ad-hominem. That being said, I do agree in the sense that the comment at the end of the post annoyed me and degraded the value of the article. Certainly, blog about whatever you want, but if you just picked up some new technology, don't write a link bait title and post it on HN. HN needs more breathless hype articles like I need a bullet in the head.
I know little or nothing about iPhone programming. I figured I would plug a friend of mine's startup since it seems like just what you are looking for. (note: Not connected in any way other than having gone to high school with the founder.) http://gamesalad.com/
Like a Groupon Daily deal, but for websites? All eyes on one site, hosting one particular content. I can see how that could catch one. It would depend on the traction initially. Meaning you would need very unique and viral content to get the first viewers there. After you have a viewer base then it can become quite beneficial as a daily advertising platform.
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All of sudden, my life seems so much more than how I feel about it.
I think this is a much simpler content, as in not being a literal copy of another's text.

To be an "original" wine blog, write your own blog entries. Don't copy someone else's.
I didn't know about Sugar Sync when I was sucked in to Dropbox hype. I have changed my mind.
I actually enjoyed this one:

http://books.google.com/books?id=nN8DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA476&...

It seems that "Learning C++ in 30 days" is not a new concept.
Ugh, Tiobe. I wish we could come up with a better measure for this. I don't really feel that Tiobe's index is worth anything at all.
Much the same sentiment powers the Islamic hardliners in Turkey.
Great suggestion. Just sent him an email from his contact box on his site.
To put it bluntly, this is an ignorant response. Many systems have constraints beyond the control of the developer. It isn't an excuse to say, for example, that doing save/load from a PS2 memcard is slow and non-trivial; that's just the way it is.

A good designer will have a deep understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the medium they are working with. (Think Jonathan Ive and the countless testing they do using all sorts of different construction materials.) A poor designer will come up with a grand idea, but no idea how to implement it, and then blame the programmer if it's impossible to do.
Or maybe the writers of The Dark Knight occasionally watched the evening news...
You could always do it?