skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting idea. However, it made me think that one major flaw of Dropbox will limit its potential as the "ultimate storage."

Dropbox is very memory intensive, even for my 5 gigs and my 40,000 files in the Box. If you cover my entire hard drive, that's over 100 gigs and millions of files. Each file (and each sub part of a file, sort like like a Merkel Tree) must have its finger print stored in memory. Currently those 40,000 files use about 70 MB, and when syncing, consume an entire CPU. I can't imagine how resource-intensive it would become if I indexed my entire hard drive now.

I don't think Dropbox can push order-of-magnitude improvements in resource usage, even if they move away from Python. I'm sure they're already doing very well. I have multiple friends working there, and I have talked to Drew and Arash. All of them are very brilliant people and I doubt that they haven't consumed all the low hanging fruit in performance.

Sure, in the future using 20x the memory may be OK. That's just 4.3 doublings, so maybe memory increases may balance it out. But don't forget that the amount of data I have will also increase.

So I don't think it's feasible (with the current trajectory of technology) to have Dropbox serve as the ultimate storage medium, unless we develop a different way of syncing files.
grubwithus (current YC class)

inkling markets (first YC class i believe)
I agree, but it might then be nice to offer several alternative TLDs perhaps? Just a thought!
Boatloads of $???
It got "how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a wouldchuck would chuck wood" right for me. I am impressed now.

But it couldn't handle "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" Maybe I'm not pronouncing it quite right.
Unfortunately the answer is no and no. Foursquare returns the closest 50 venues, period.

Facebook on the other hand is much better. They let you set a radius and a limit to the number of results you want. The limit can be huge, you just have to page through the results (max 500 per page).

If you are interested, checkout apigee.com, they have a cool console that lets you experiment with multiple API's.

What did you think of the Google Earth visualizations at the bottom of the blog post?
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Another problem of Italy is how English is taught. In 12 years I never had to speak a single word of English or write something longer than 80 words. Most of my peers (21 y/o) can't understand the dialogues in non-dubbed videogames.
Your son will learn more English from tv than from school
I recently saw a TV show with the ambassador of Japan and he apologized at the end of the show for the possible mistakes he might have made since he didn't speak in his native language.
Please could someone explain Minecraft to me?

I've watched the video at minecraft.net, and I've read the entire Wikipedia page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft

Despite this, I still can't figure out what the element of this game is that makes it addictive and what convinces people to have spent a total of $30m+ on this.

It's easy to see why Angry Birds or Portal or CounterStrike or Desktop Tower Defence or Need for Speed is fun - but Minecraft's draw confuses me.

Is it something that can only be understood by playing it?
Then 'curl get.pow.cx > pow.sh'. Take you time and look at the script, then run it. Worked for me.
This is article is only talking about search.twitter.com, isn't it?
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll look into that. Hackaday is a good suggestion too :)

Touchosc looks interesting too, I'll have to give it a try.
Recently discovered your site, freaking genius. You guys profitable these days?
> Not surprisingly, a recent law that forces private schools to reserve 25 percent of the seats for financially disadvantaged children has become controversial

http://righttoeducation.in/media/no-objection-25-quota-say-p...
> but there's no reason you can't produce a small, well written app which does some of what's needed and build from there.

Depends on where you work, I guess. Part of my personal hell right now is our architecture (which was written "elsewhere" and is given to us from on high) prevents such luxuries. It's an all-in affair, and deviation is met with retribution. Unit testing is nigh impossible with it, so I try to unit test the best I can of MY stuff that gloms onto its bulbous, massive exterior.

I agree with your point; don't get me wrong; but sometimes there are external forces at play that make the "right way to develop" hard to impossible.
there's not alot in here about dropping Rails particularly.... it's more some Rails powered front end stuff for SEARCH that needed to be ditched to speed up the crazy insane search load they get.
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If you give me a few months, I might get there. But this is the reason I wrote a blog post and not a paper ;-)

Fair enough. I'll keep my eyes peeled for a paper in a few months. :-)
You know, my 7yo has been asking for me to let her create a web page for some idea she has about crime reduction. Might be a decent test case.

Also, GeoCities 2.0, c/d?
Are you sure you pronounced all the schwas?
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I am great at estimating time. I can tell you within 15 seconds plus-or-minus how long it will take to copy files from one server to another.

That's where any valid comparisons to construction or manufacturing end.
Ohh Apple is on a completely different planet.

They follow the principle of "The best way to predict the future is to invent it"

so yes you are totally right about that.
Good move.

When a company gives a low-ball offer to a potential developer then counters with a more realistic offer, this raises a big red flag to question the company's intentions and morals .
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I'm one of the co-organizers of Entrepreneurs Unpluggd (http://www.entrepreneursunpluggd.com) and we plan on putting together events quarterly currently, if not more frequently.

Our inaugural event was Feb 8, next even is April 26, then late July after that. We really hope to create an evening for entrepreneurs to network, learn, and strengthen the ecosystem.
"If people shift from search to sharing as the primary means to find information, then Google needs to figure out how to tap into social, and fast."

Ah, but how are people going to _find_ this information in the first place? Links don't just grow out of a vacuum. Someone searched for it _then_ curated it.

And, really, if Google wants to own the _future_ of consumer "information sharing" in this era, they don't have to become a lumbering Facebook me-too clone. Just buy Twitter (be ready to pay a soul-crushingly high premium for them, though). Boom, they'll now have 4 of the top 10 global Alexa ranked sites (after Google, Youtube, and Blogger). Integrate them all with some non-trivial alchemy, and you'll rule the Internet.
Personally, I read it more as Google _applied_ -- developed useful software -- speech-recognition technology that works. I can recall testing countless softwares like Dragon Talk (mentioned in the article) for assisting my writing of school papers, to no avail. These softwares were sluggish and woefully inaccurate -- this may no longer be the case, as I haven't given them a second chance since.

I don't think the article disparages past and present work from the NLP community, but you have to expect Google to catch the limelight for the application of such technology. I don't really see anyone else attempting what Google is attempting at scale.

Why wouldn't Google be praised (or an "owner") for being a generous benefactor to a community? Would you not consider research at Googleplex (or any of the 100s of satellite campuses) to be Google's?
Hey Kyle. I was wondering if you would be available to discuss your experience managing various online forums with me (email or phone, whatever works). I recently built a tool that has niche traction in the space and we are considering a more direct step in that direction. I would appreciate speaking with someone who manages these kinds of communities.

leo at groupie dot mobi
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Nyppex, the company the provided the figures for this story, needs to avoid reporting such ridiculously precise numbers:

"Zynga…rose 81 percent in value…"

"Facebook…climbed 57 percent…"

"LinkedIn Corp.…rose 43 percent…"

"…Groupon Inc. increased 19 percent…"

"Twitter Inc.…rose 7.7 percent…"

These are not publicly traded companies. These valuations are not precise. Valuations almost never are, unless some sort of transaction is taking place, and none of these companies is or was involved in a transaction at either the prior or more recent valuations.

False precision is irritating and—ironically—encourages sloppy thinking.
Show HN: "curl … | sh" is bad.
I think that's the way to look at it. You have to remember that Twitter is at a completely different level of traffic than your company will likely ever hit, even if it becomes hugely and wildly popular.

It's like looking at Google's server farm and saying "I can't be successful unless I too have a server farm like Google's."
Sorry to pollute the thread, but I can't find your email address. Can you email me at the address in my profile?
Flagged.

Ignore the gauche of sending me a link to your service instead of the story for a second--consider your audience! Why would a HN user who clicks on a link to a story want to read your summary first?
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The implication of Option B is that Rails isn't robust. A lot of people are going to avoid Rails because of that.
CoralRift and the sites it is hosting are hosted by Dreamhost.

As a fellow Dreamhost customer, I'd be curious to know how it is handling the subdomain creation stuff ... Dreamhost API?
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In addition to visual effects, I was asked to record myself using a unix terminal doing technologically feasible things. I took extra care in babysitting the elements through to final composite to ensure that the content would not be artistically altered beyond that feasibility. I take representing digital culture in film very seriously in lieu of having grown up in a world of very badly researched user interface greeble…. In Tron, the hacker was not supposed to be snooping around on a network; he was supposed to kill a process. So we went with posix kill and also had him pipe ps into grep. I also ended up using emacs eshell to make the terminal more l33t. The team was delighted to see my emacs performance — splitting the editor into nested panes and running different modes. I was tickled that I got emacs into a block buster movie. -- Josh Nimoy

Source:

http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178

P.S. I love the word "greeble":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeble
Insert molten salt battery between erratic power source and grid.

Nobel prize please. outstretched hand
I'm assuming that this is the article you're talking about:

http://blog.imranghory.org/facebook-ads-the-cheapest-traffic...

Sounds like you have to decide which is more important to you: your startup or the veracity of your article. Facebook doing a case study on your startup could be great. If you're worried that it will look like your article was written dishonestly then you could always withdraw the article or give it a big fat disclaimer.
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> Italian dubbers are among the best in the world

It's well known that during the Italian cinema golden age in the 60s and 70s, the general habit was to entirely dub sound in post-production, for some reason. So all movies were dubbed, Italian and foreign alike :)
I think it's strange that Google is going after social.

Search isn't going away. It's here to stay. Will search become social? I tend to think it won't. But if it does, I think it'll only be a small component and it'll occur in niches. For instance, searching for a movie on Netflix based on what your friends like/recommend may become more common. Though, searching for a pair of new shoes online won't be a social activity. I like what I like.

But Google should worry most about search. Google.com. Searching on Google has gotten worse and worse for me over the past 2 - 3 years. To find what I want (if I find it at all), I have to try several queries and comb through several pages. This is time-consuming and my solution has been to just search less.

Google needs to stop worrying about what others are doing and focus on Google.

Make search better. Once you've done that, keep making it better.

I know Google wants to build new things, etc., but it shouldn't be social.

Edit: (1) I could be totally wrong about this. (2) I think of Google going after social meaning it wants to build something that replaces Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, etc. Perhaps its social strategy is different than that.
For me, it's become a -- perhaps counter-productive -- defense mechanism.

Expensive things don't bring me much pleasure. But, once you've had a significant illness or other setback, you learn that money can be the difference between quality of life and being screwed over. (Though it's no guarantee -- there are vampires who are good at taking advantage of the well-endowed.)

Secondly, I'd prefer to live where I can ensure I don't have to listen to my neighbors at all hours, depending on the luck of the draw.

P.S. I like _delirium's response, as well. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2423741
Go ahead and view the source. Try to spot the hack.

It's harmless to run.
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There's an incredibly common roadblock in math education when you make the jump from mechanical maths to creative maths. On one side, math makes sense as a set of powerful rules which help to guide you to understand and analyze the world. On the other side, math is more like a penpal friend while you're living in a foreign country. It offers advice, but largely you're on your own in a confusing land.

Academic papers are written from the far side of that roadblock. They're often best considered anecdotal pointers to how to survive abroad rather than comprehensive guides like textbooks (or review papers) offer. Reading them is thus both an exercise in deciphering something distant from your comfort zone and learning to apply its vague knowledge to your own situation.

In order to understand academic papers then, you've kind of got to become a traveler yourself. At that point you appreciate the vague note passing because even though it's difficult, there's a real opportunity there to see something few ever have before.

---

So practically, academic papers are never easy to decipher unless you're basically part of the same communities as the authors (or they are really dedicated and skillful communicators who have an uncommonly deep understanding of the topics they're writing about). If you're doing work that cannot be solved by what exists and is common knowledge today, however, they're your best bet at finding a guide and no matter how difficult they are you want to read them through.
And all those things you've just said are valuable pieces of information to the person asking!!!
"It even works if you've got an accent."

I have an indeterminate accent and my voice is on the low side of Bass so I trip up google voice pretty badly - it's mostly useless for me. FWIW, Rockband also can't make sense of what I say. I do wonder when it'll be good enough to understand me.
>"I have no doubt Google's search will be superseded by an even more competent product"

I don't think it will be a matter of technical competence, but of economic competence. The achilles heal of Google's model is it's dependence on advertising and the incentive such dependence creates to skew search results and engage in "creepy" behavior with respect to individual privacy. The way in which Google monetizes search is increasingly susceptible to significant social and legal backlash. the structure of Microsoft's revenue stream is such that Bing could be adapted to the radical changes such a backlash would entail more easily than Google's data mining based revenue stream would allow Google Search to be adapted.
Submission title is misleading. The main Twitter website is still running Rails and the article gives no indication that that will change. The article is about the Twitter Search frontend moving away from an architecture where their application servers would synchronously query the search servers, which wasn't scaling with their load.
I've written several top 10 games in the Android Market and have sold over $100K in product in just a matter of months.

EDIT: Top 10 games in their respective categories, I have NOT broken into the top 10 for "All Games" in the Android Market yet.
i feel like there should be some way to calculate this by looking at regional cost of living and factoring in scarcity of the profession along with some normalized salary range for the job title, because as mentioned, salary diffs b/w sf, sd and la are likely to be significant.
yeah it is ..
www.samevisions.com
so is there any advices ?
If it's the case, then no "unlimited" bandwidth/disk storage for them:

Here are some specific examples of things not allowed:

Making your account resources available (whether for free or pay) to the general public.

http://www.dreamhost.com/unlimited.html
Marshall, the post says $45K to $90K for full-time bloggers, that's annual pay, right? (I might look sheepish here)

If you can tell us, how much does RWW pay? And yes, it's one of the most fabulous blogs on the Internet.

PS: thank you.
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Actually, Reddit is the exact site I was thinking of when I made this post. They opened up the Reddit Gold, it helped a little, but lately the site seems to go down daily, or even more often. It's almost like it's getting worse.
I would guess they have a VPS. A VPS with Dreamhost allows you to do wildcard DNS, so I'm guessing they're doing something along those lines.
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Speech recognition, like machine translation, is academic in nature.

I don't understand why you're trying to make this an "us vs. them" thing. What is it about academia that makes it so that Google's research can't be considered a part? Does the fact that there are students around somehow make it different?

Google is the company that takes existing research and adapts it.

I also think you're missing an important differentiator, that between science and technology. The research you're talking about could be summed up as "learning why the world is the way it is"; that's what a scientist does.

But the novel things that Google has done are largely technological. They take that understanding that the scientists have given us, and find a way to apply that to the real world. By and large, Google is full of really good engineers, as opposed to scientists.
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I've done recent contract work in both SV and LA. I would say SV/SF pays 10-15% higher. In addition the work in SV is much more interesting to me and probably other HN types than the work in LA. Within the Bay Area the arc from Berkeley, SF, Palo Alto, San Jose was more interesting than the East Bay/Contra Costa.

I used CraigsList so there may be a SV vs LA bias in the listings.
to be clear, i mean a space that is heavily geared towards web based startup/technology hackers.

noble tree is a coffee shop and chicago jelly meets there, but it is not a space where you can expect to go meet random hackers

pumpingstationone is nice but last i checked it didn't appear to have a strong technology startup type vibe.

i understand that curating the "vibe" of a "hackerspace" (whatever that means) isn't an easy thing to do, but i've been INCREDIBLY IMPRESSED by general assembly and hacker dojo. pumping station one is a great space, its just not quite the same. I'd consider:

nycresistor:generalassembly::pumpingstationone:"what i'm asking for" -- basically "general hacker types" (macguyver, picking locks and being generally crafty) vs "programmer hacker mindset" (hey, i wrote a really cool thing in node.js which i learned over the last 48 redbull fueled hours).

Chicago is an amazing town and there are tons of great people for it: birthplace of RoR, cofoudners of django live there, plenty of YC startups, groupon, beyond the pedway (woot, @timjahn, calling you out -- attended your "Entrepreneurs Unpluggd" event in Feb and I think that may be the best event I've attended in Chi), grubwhub, grubwithus, i think restaurant.com, etc.

However, the tech community isn't quite as unified and its a lot harder to get in touch with likeminded folk. At hacker dojo, you could turn to almost anyone to get feedback on a web app or ask for javascript advice, which I am not aware exists in Chicago.
Ask HN: How do I find the start-up scene in Vancouver?
It appears that the technology team was at its peak when it changed from Live to Bing, and has declined since then.

This is the take from one insider. I suspect if you were talk to someone else on the Bing team you may get a very different story.
If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think the main thrust of the article is factually correct (you can't estimate the creation of something new), but I don't think that's a very satisfying answer because you can't do anything about it.

In my opinion, the single biggest problem with developers doing estimates is that they think they're being asked for a commitment, or they are being asked for a commitment but the asker is calling it an estimate. This creates a large number of problems in expectations and communication, and it causes the whole project to break down.

There are some things that can be done on a project to help improve communication about estimates, commitments and targets:

- Ensure that estimates, commitments, and goals are understood to be three separate things.

- Ensure that everyone knows the benefits and uses of estimates, commitments and goals, as well as the non-uses. This is doubly true for estimates: many people treat them as commitments, but in reality they are supposed to be indicators that can be used to help control a project and make it successful.

- Encourage people to put effort into their estimates. Developers often don't like working on estimates because every minute they spend working on them (or on other stuff like timesheets and status reports) is a minute they could have spent thinking, designing and coding. Ensure that everyone knows that spending time on estimates and other activities is truly valuable to the project and the group, and helps ensure success.

- Do everything possible to remove stress and pressure around estimates. Reinforce the idea that estimates are used to help steer the project to success, not to hold peoples' feet over the fire (if a PM is trying to shrink estimates or pointing to estimates after a project has started and saying "tasks x, y and z are late," they're doing it wrong).

- Make it known that estimates are supposed to have some uncertainty. Don't accept or expect single-point estimates, and make sure the people delivering the estimates aren't pressured to do so.
One assumes that the NSA is doing a lot.
Yes, we have a VPS with root access
Our president is no more cases.
I like it, very simple and easy.

small bug/feature is that single letter domains are not working, i.e. http://a.coralrift.com