skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So long as it's marketed as a fun toy and not a practical transport there's nothing wrong with that.

Recreation is full of inefficent ways of doing things just because they are fun.
I don't know about you, but g0atbutt sounds a lot more credible than Michael Arrington to me.

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"(Did I dodge the Godwin's law bullet...?)"

If you have to ask, then no. Of course you haven't.
Does this mean that 'tags' can now to be used for more objective sorting of data, such as a multi-dimensional Dewey Decimal System? If so, I hope these tags are appropriately applied to each work- I would hate to miss out on content simply because it was tagged haphazardly.

I imagined tags to be useful for classifying content in a subjective manner. Tags are to content as blogs are to events.
O.. M.. F.. G.. I had no idea they did this. I mean, what is the point? Talk about "not invented here" mentality: "I've got a fantastic idea! Unicode already has an official name for every Unicode character, so let's throw all of that out and come up with our own names that have no relation to what those Unicode guys did! And while we're at it, HTML4, HTML5? Version numbers are for pu$$7$s, so lets drop that too, and then randomly throw in a few hundred extra character entities every two to eighteen months for a fresh 'What's new' bullet point!"
If an idea saves you a month of work, its value is exactly equal to the value of a month of work, right?
These people will be contacted by the modern world one way or another. I choose to help them not treat them like animals to be set on display at a zoo. Let them be the decision makers in their own destiny. Like the guy said, loggers will come in and kill them. We can at least give them the ability to speak for themselves. And that unfortunately means someone is going to have to make contact with them.
wow, I might get this for writing my dissertation
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I really do to, and that was one of the reasons I focused on Mercurial ( after I abandoned my first love, Darcs, after a rather lengthy merge. Really lengthy. )

Mercurial is a beautiful tool, with very few of the sharp corners poking out. But, at least for the source trees and development branching style I deal with, I'm convinced Git is more adaptable to any workflow you can imagine.

In the end, it may very well be the case that you HAVE to understand Git that well, because that means truly understanding the tree perturbations you're trying to manage. I've been slowly coming to believe that has to be true.
I thought it added value with the listed evidence that a founder has non-technical chops. I have similar conversations with people, it always comes down to asking them how they justify their expertise above and beyond having the idea.
To extend this terrible metaphor, you need to start by first going out on dates, holding hands, the first kiss, then some action, THEN pregnancy.

If you think like a 19 year old, you will go for the close too soon and end up with an abortion or an orphan.
Perhaps, but it really depends on what you want to do exactly. You can probably store a lot less and get the same throughput.

- VoltDB isn't log-structured, so you really only have to store the state. How fast you can mutate it isn't limited by RAM amounts. We see use cases with utter firehoses of data that update just tens or hundreds of gigabytes of state.

- Beyond normalization, you can probably reduce the number of redundant counters, e.g. use SQL to count which URLs start with "amazon". This would be painful in many systems, but depending on the query, can often be done at scale in VoltDB.

- The byte overhead per counter is also likely much lower in an ACID/Relational store.

Finally, VoltDB is designed to migrate data to disk based stores (such as Hadoop or an OLAP store) as memory fills up. This is a feature we're working very hard on see as a big differentiator. It adds complexity if you need to query across stores, but you get a best-of-both-worlds feature set.
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That's because it deals with death that people are more uneasy about it, many other companies popup when events happen that their service is well equipped to assist with. I think the nature of their subject matter though means they do have to be more careful about the practice than other businesses.
> We (the CS students) do believe that a good engineering school requires a strong CS department. I guess this is not so with either of you...

I understand your frustration, I went through the process when they switched to the College of Engineering (I refused so I graduated from McMicken). I doubt they will simply kick you out, they will have to let you graduate from the program they admitted you to. They will probably stop receiving new freshmen into the program.

You are right, I do not see it as a big deal. You end up with the same professors there. Just switching names and departments a couple of times doesn't really matter. What's his name Schmidt is still going to do Celestial Mechanics no matter what Computer department you put him in. That's the real problem.

> We (the CS students) do believe that a good engineering school requires a strong CS department.

Of course, because you are CS students. I am sure Nuclear Engineering students believe the University requires a strong Nuclear Engineering dept. -- it validates their choice and the huge investment of time and money. Back in the day I would have though the same thing (that's why I stayed in McMicken, I wanted to have CS on my diploma, looking back though, it didn't matter really).

EDIT:

As a side note. I think this all started with Zimpher. She is gone now, but it all started to go downhill with her. They built shops, stadiums, wasted money on crap while the govt. was subsidizing the student loans, increased tuition to astronomical proportions. While some colleges were printing tests in 7pt font, double-sided, because they didn't have money for paper.

Look at this fucking shit:

http://www.uc.edu/president/former_presidents/zimpher.html

* $1.7 billion spent on stadiums and "Uptown Cincinnati".

* "Established UC's new Center of City designed to facilitate innovative and productive partnerships that blah blah blah..." WTF does that even mean? I guess it means we wasted all the money ...

Sorry, don't mind me I am getting old and jaded. You are doing a great thing by organizing your fellow students. Hopefully someone will listen to you.

EDIT2:

Also, don't forget UC is a public school, so you could try writing a petition to Columbus, it surely won't hurt. Especially if your parents are from Ohio and have been paying taxes there for the longest time.
Feedback and traction are 2 different things. For feedback: directly contact people in the sector which your product is intended to serve. Send people whom you respect in the industry an email and ask them for their thoughts.

Getting 'initial traction' is likely about not losing interest while waiting for 'real traction', and being confident that your product/service accomplishes it's core function/value very well. Someone correct me if I am wrong: traction is measured in gaining popularity ( increasing users, or sales at an increasing rate ).
Ask HN: RSS Reader that doesn't suck?
So apparently I'm a bit late with the whole RSS thing. I've always had a general idea of what they were, but I've never really looked into them before. I thought RSS was only delivered through e-mail =) I had no idea RSS readers existed up until a few minutes ago, when I was setting up RSS for my blog and discovered Google Reader through Feedburner. Conceptually, they are awesome. Visually, they are the ugliest things I have ever seen. Google Reader is messy and cluttered... and apparently it's the best one there is.

They make a lot of sense and I could see myself using one instead of manually checking my favorite blogs. I googled around for a few minutes and couldn't find anything decent. I figured the iPad would probably have something nice, and I was right. Every single one of the RSS readers for iPad look awesome - especially Reeder. Too bad I don't have an iPad. Are there any web-based RSS reader apps like the iPad apps? If not, I might just have to hack something together this weekend. This could drive me crazy.
I didn't think it was that bad. :(

Social network in a box. Ning would be a competitor.
From Jakob Nielsen's "Response Time Limits":

"10 seconds is about the limit for keeping the user's attention focused on the dialogue. For longer delays, users will want to perform other tasks while waiting for the computer to finish, so they should be given feedback indicating when the computer expects to be done. Feedback during the delay is especially important if the response time is likely to be highly variable, since users will then not know what to expect."

Read on crystal clear explanation of why this is and how to build around if load time is a must:

http://www.useit.com/papers/responsetime.html
If the runway is big, you have to treat it as multiple small runways.

But psychologically, this is very difficult.
The irony for me is that the author's demo worked for me, and yours did not. I used Firefox 3.6 for the test, and I instructed NoScript to let your demo work (but not allow anything on the author's site).
I don't see a problem with this at all. Sure, it's largely about advancing their company's goals, including profit.

But they're doing a magnificent job covering this crisis, so I don't see a problem with them doing some advertising that says, "See how good we are at journalism? Maybe you shouldn't shut us out of your country just because we come from the same area as terrorists."
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I hope you don't memorize the IP address :P
I really hope it is not fake. One data point: seems like their site is hosted in the Czech Republic.
Sage for Firefox is nice https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sage/
It was pretty awful.

You want to build a Ning for businesses? Since you don't sound like an engineer, here's what I would suggest you do.

Pay a designer 500$ for mockups, then go sell it to 10 businesses at $10k a pop, and if you can get contracts signed, build the product with that cash.

Your description above sounds out of focus, start with one thing, do one thing and do it really well.

If you are an engineer, build a prototype - what are you waiting for?
I find it's not so much the reader itself thats the problem with RSS, but the fact that everybody broadcasts their content differently. Some blogs include a full article, some just a few lines before asking you to click though to their site. Some embed images, some even ads.

If you have dreams of sitting down to a nice application and reading people's feeds in an orderly, unified fashion you might be disappointed.
Do you think any A/B testing or science went into the new design? Was this design chosen because it was cool, or because it optimized advertising click-throughs?

I ask because I too find myself returning to NOAA (especially their 2-day graph gasp Java applet) as a definitive (if not deeply hidden) best source for weather info, and I lament the horrific local TV station weather user experiences are foisting on people. Attention TV meteorologists: many of you have a big enough following and brand to form and monetize your own sites (TV contract-permitting).
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True, though they may have filed it away as an unexplained phenomenon, given that the plane was tiny and the camera was shooting from a mile away.
great response. thanks! do you find it okay to email people in the industry for their thoughts on an idea your planning on building? is this considered an ok email etiquette practice?
Just read The Daily: Indexed at http://thedailyindexed.tumblr.com/

No wait, full articles, with video. Plus it works in any web browser, not just the iPad.
I spent 1 minute trying to figure out how to set the units to metric system and I failed. This should be easier.
Since Authorize.net came out with their own .NET SDK, I've considered making http://sharpauthorize.com support multiple gateways including paypal. Any interest?
Hi, I'm the one that did this map. We do semantic and field centric maps all the time and they get no attention. This map got worldwide press for some simple reasons:

-you can see historic connections (links between Europe and Africa)

-it underlines the fact that some part of the world have more research (obvious, but all cool to know)

-and it's pretty nice looking
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I wouldn't consider myself a design snob by any means, but I will not be using Google Reader because it's just unpleasant to look at and navigate. If I had the choice between visiting blogs manually and reading their feeds via Google Reader, I would visit them manually. Now if you throw iPad Reeder into the mix, I would definitely choose iPad Reeder - it seems pleasant, and that's what I want when I'm reading/browsing. I think I can handle those little imperfections you mentioned. Worse case scenario, I click through to the site.

> If you have dreams of sitting down to a nice application and reading people's feeds in an orderly, unified fashion you might be disappointed.

And I don't think it's as much as a dream as it is a preference. Have you seen the iPad RSS readers? I don't think I'm asking too much, this isn't rocket science.
I don't think there is (without what follows)... I've tried a couple experiments, but without adding spaces I don't think it works. (though if you have one * on its own, followed immediately by a space, it keeps the * there).

The correct way, though: add two spaces to the front. Then you get mono-spaced font, reproduced verbatim.

Kinda like this: **************
Ask HN: What are your favorite AuthorsGoogle talks?
Hello,

I'm talking about Authors@Google talks:

http://www.youtube.com/user/AtGoogleTalks
http://www.google.com/talks/authors/index.html

There are hundreds of them. If you are following, what are your favorite ones?
Would you tell me how to enter my moves so that I can play it? I've been trying to figure out the correct format but can't seem to get it.
That's actually a really good idea. I'm envisioning Macbook Pros with touchpads that are seamlessly integrated into the laptop body, spanning the entire width just below the keyboard. You could use two hands and it'd almost have iPad functionality.

Edit: Actually, it looks like this is almost what the MagicTrackpad is, just not quite as wide as it could be. http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/
I've been thinking through the same problem recently, and while I don't have any good suggestions myself, I did find the following particularly helpful, perhaps you will too:

http://blogs.balsamiq.com/product/2008/08/05/startup-marketi...
(hacker news discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=267639)
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I've had this idea for years, hope someone finally does it.
It's always good to be prepared. Because the plan is to be filthy rich in the near future, and singledom has its navigational hazards.
Turn on email notifications. In fact, they are on by default.
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If you are a parent of a young man who spent so many hours of video games now, is that your child can be expensive if you do not know what to do. You spend so much in buying a video game, only to see your money wasted your child beat the game and be done with it, he usually just put that in addition to collecting dust and start bore you with requests to buy new games. Of course, you will not be able to withstand continuous nagging your child.
This is what happens when you pay people on commission.
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> And Google can't call them on it because they do the same

Didn't Matt categorically deny that Google uses Bing's users' clicks in Google's rankings.

edit: just after the 10:30 mark. http://bigthink.com/ideas/26740
This is a pretty fun example of how to run a PR story when the product is hard to sell =]

Samsung memory cards are just one of many products that can't necessarily push PR pieces by the product itself. Trying to get coverage for a new manufacturing technique or a higher average performance just isn't going to cut it.

This story is pretty ridiculous and also the kind of fanfare you can push to a large number of media outlets, even outside of IT in general.

That or I may just be influenced as I'm Australian ;)
Hi,

I don't have much CC debt right now, at all. What I do have is Student Debt, and bags of it.

I've rummaged through the relevant federal repayment and waiver options, and I don't see any efficient ways for a software engineer to deal with the debt except "push as much money at it as fast as possible". Loan management options seem to extend debt payments out to about 30-40 years, which generates some eye-hurtingly huge interest payments over time. (think 1.5x the original loan amount).

One of the nasty little twists in federal student loans is that bankruptcy won't affect them. They do have various deferment plans, but those can keep the interest ticking along, which can be harsh if loans are large.

So: my question is: does readyforzero.com have any plans to work on student loan debt in the future?
This got me inspired to try jruby on my larger Rails 2.3 application.

With both class caching turned off (development) and on (production), jruby 1.5 performed about 2x worse than REE+Passenger. And used more memory. Not sure why.
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Seems like a symptom to me, not a cause. If people wanted to travel abroad, they'd go get passports.
You know, it's a good thing that people are not all the same. There is harm in trying to make everyone alike - both at a micro level and a macro level.
Have you considered a consumer petition side as well? My immediate thought upon looking at this (late on a friday night) is "I'd like to sell something here, but I'm not sure what people want that isn't here."
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I think what this really points to is the need for a background content-fetching API in iOS. Battery life spent loading is battery life spent loading whether the user is there or not; the key is to integrate it into the push framework so that battery life isn't wasted on polling.

I'm really hoping this is part of iOS 5.
Ah thanks, fixed.
I've seen no statement that Google throws out Toolbar (and other) clickstream data for sites/pages that Googlebot can't visit (which includes not just robots-precluded but also login-required pages). Not that I think you should throw such data out; that's not what robots.txt was meant for, and the user arguably has more claim to that interaction trail than the site. But that seems the standard you're suggesting.

If Google doesn't want IE features or the Bing Toolbar observing its site interactions, it can disallow such visitors. A steep price to pay, at too coarse a level of control? Yes, just like a site deciding to bar Googlebot.

I would agree that a 'fair use'-like analysis makes sense.

I would further agree that any site solely, or predominantly, powered by indirect observations of Google users would be an unfair taking. You'd crush such a site in court.

Meanwhile, a site that tallies Google referrer inclicks for itself, or for a network of participating sites (as with analytics inserts), even republishing summaries of Google source URLs and search terms as public data, is almost certainly fair use. It's taking data you're dropping freely onto third-party site logs, and making a transformative report of it.

What Bing is doing seems to me somewhere in-between. The mechanism avoids literal copying of specific artifacts but the net effect in some cases approaches the same result. As with other 'fair use' analysis, it's rarely black-and-white. The magnitude of the information used, its effects on the market, and the value-added transformation afterward are all important. I don't know how a court would rule in such a suit but the discovery process would surely be fun for spectators like myself!
What I'd love to see in this project is not just articles about "hot startups" but also articles that are focused on "lessons learned" from failed or pivoted startups. That would really increase the value of this website for me.
Ask HN: A web-based PDF editor?
I am getting a wedding brochure made and need to go back and forth on the PDF design with the publisher.

For some reason, Crocodoc has a 25 MB limit and my file's bigger than that.

Using Adobe's web app is worse than stabbing myself in the eye.

Everything else I found on google doesn't work or looks too spammy to trust my document with it.

Are there any other options?

If not, can anyone please build this for me? It is a weekend after all...
A little off topic, but in the 7 days since you created this account, you've asked three questions on this topic. You've commented on them, and that's your entire history here.

I'm all for Ask HN, but please just hang out here a bit. Contribute with some comments. Provide unique insight. Don't just tap into the great resources here - become a part of them.
Wasn't recommending it, sorry for not being clear it was more of a joke. I know of a few people that operate like that though with great success, but yes you need to know the culture. Usually that's what expediters are for (even though they don't tell you that directly), that's why the good ones are worth what they ask.
You could sell on http://www.freemarket.com they only take 20% if your a high volume seller.
I'd be interested to see the distribution of passports geographically across the US. Some parts of the United States just don't lend themselves to easy travelling. Other than Canada or Mexico it isn't as easy to travel abroad (or neccessary) as it is for Europeans. The US spans Mountains for skiing, beaches for surfing, jungles, deserts, you name it - we've got the geography for it. In fact, it would be interesting to compare these statistics to possibly europeans leaving the EU zone (since then we would have geographically equivalent sets).

In conclusion - get a passport, travelling is awesome!
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Likewise! (currently a first-year)
This is why Facebook needs to become your inbox, because it allows Facebook to better understand who you are interested in, and stay relevant.

I wonder why FB haven't asked for your web mail logon, and mined the emails to better understand who you already interact with.
And that it also pays for your friend's cigars. Because the banksters have to be represented in this analogy too.
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If this was the 90s we could turn off images.
I haven't used contracts, but I think if you have more assertions in your code then you need fewer assertions in your tests. But you still need to exercise the code with about the same number of tests, or your testing won't find the bugs.
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> What will they receieve?

I'm going to guess that some recepients will start entering all their classmates one by one until system will yield a match. Not because they have a crush on the whole class, but because they would want to figure out who the person on the other end is. For example, I know that I would've been mildly disturbed receiving an email from a site like yours, and would've wanted to sort things out.