skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to claim that it was easy to make a truly well-functioning search engine (i.e. Google). More that it's pretty easy to index a bunch of pages and return non-relevant results. While scaling is not a trivial problem, $33mm in capital should be enough to buy the expertise required to solve it. It's not a problem that hasn't been solved before. Of course Cuil might one day be better than Google, just like Company X might one day be better than Google.

The point is that they aren't there today so it is completely bizarre in my mind that they would come out guns-a-blazin' with these huge claims. How do we even know that they have a faster index generator than Google? What does this self-reported 130 billion page number even mean? Just that they have downloaded that many pages? It doesn't seem like they have indexed them all, properly anyway.
Yeah that phrase definitely needs to be revised. Site seems to be working well though, and fast!

I hate to beat a dead horse, but I 100% agree with the fact that you need to come up with a new name.
Del.icio.us 2.0 (now delicious.com)
1) One data point does not a correlation lend.

2) Voting on individual and particular comments on HN is arbitrary and capricious. You win some and you lose some for no fault of your own, or for that matter, for any particular cleverness on your part on a particular comment you made.

3) Only when the votes on many comments are aggregated that we can elucidate a particular trend.
The site is for entrepreneurs, mainly. As such, this article is completely relevant.

Maybe Rails isn't that popular here. (Personally I'm not crazy about it.) And Rails docs aren't really "news", are they?
We use XMPP for that now. Any major exceptions, errors or site activity across our farm is pumped to a monitoring app via XMPP. I can also control the cluster as well.
Pump up your positioning. I could barely figure out what I was looking at for a few seconds and almost hit the rewind button before I caught it in the middle.
Looks so strange after you got used to the old UI. Hover over effects and animations everywhere make it look like a kaleidoscope. Hate that.

Some link URLs have been changed and are normalized in the wrong way! Link to my site now has 'www.' prepended to it. Lots of scripts and apps that rely on URL being stable will fail.
Does anyone that really uses Usenet these days really care if their ISP carries it? It looks to me like the major Usenet-only ISPs are doing just fine. The system is far from dead, for now.
A good list of other bad names:

http://independentsources.com/2006/07/12/worst-company-urls/
Great comment:

Yale has too much of a business/MBA/manager orientation (read: inefficient, simpleminded bean-counting).

Unfortunately, the entire country is seeing the fruits of a decade or so of “investment management’s” influence.

Tech people need to understand that save for MIT and environs, the east coast is at best s second rate tech hub.
Feedback on Idea: dashnine.org
Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four. </quote> http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/12/computer_crime...

The Usenet is nod dead, nonetheless I find that the quote might be relevant.
I dunno how quickly they adapted here. Better would've been to release the alternative before being sued...
How soon do you all think they started working on this version?

Would it have been possible to crank this out in the few days between the time Scrabulous was pulled and this came out?
I had no idea what you were asking for in the first 3 paragraphs, so I left.
Looks good. Design point: I'd try to stick with a grid. The "beta" text seems to have a random position off to the right, and while the table of example searches are functional, they could use some consistent cell padding.

On the search page itself it'd be great if you tried to align the left margin better. Right now the top bar hangs out, which makes the page flow poorly for the eye.

In general, reduce number of vertical columns of alignment. A grid helps that. That's my advice.

Read this blog post / attached PDF -- it's fantastic: http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2007/0318_oh_yeeaahh.php
Is this a startup in the pure sense of creating technology from the ground up. It looks like you're using http://www.intelliverb.com/PESS/ - not that it matters, it's just a question of semantics. Yahoo Boss could be worth exploring too. http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/
Hi, I've been floored ever since discovering this community. A group of people with similar interests to mine that I didn't even know existed. Finding this community led me to an idea. What if there was software to help people find communities? Especially those who want to promote something. After doing some reading on correlation algorithms, I put together kindling. Let me know what you think. ~~ Raphael
Why not? It's extensible, it builds on tech people are already familiar with, and it's fast enough for most purposes.

It's also got lots of good libraries for many languages, and neat tricks like bridges between it and the web browser.
It doesn't get much better if you keep reading
I dropped out of college to go work on "that newfangled internet thing".
You're missing that they don't intend it as an RPC or REST interaction. It's to "stream" updates out of services, that can have multiple listeners.

This is already happening, but in isolated cases. Behind the scenes, Six Apart streams all the blog posts on its services directly to Google Blog search.

There are quite a few well-known services that get more API traffic (search engines, etc, pinging for updates) than actual human traffic. So something like this is ultimately necessary, whether it's XMPP or something similar.

I think they are aware of message queues, didn't they allude to them in the talk? Anyway they billed their talk as two guys who build web services making a tentative foray into the message-queue world, so if you think you can help, send feedback.
Paul, what about idea incubation? I went to a school similar to Yale in the mindset of Investment Banking, Consulting and Law School was the end-all-be-all; wouldn't this be a great resource for interested students to mix/match with successful alumni, interested board members and a rich network?

I'm strongly considering this for Georgetown.
if you google for [binary]"see point 1" this message pops up as the only result
reminds me of banner exchanges in the 90's and early 00's.
In like forth sentence I read "Business Plan".

Fail.
Perhaps, but there will always be a select few that push the traditional boundaries and challenge the status quo. Maybe there won't be too many, but those that do can reap the rewards.
Great question! We founded Intelliverb a search engine base on the PageScale algorithm. We are now using the power of PageScale to power qhoga.com and qwili.com.
More of a 'product search' then anything. Creative use of affilate marketing :)
Now that I use the new one I'm wondering what the long wait was for. The search stuff is ok, but I don't really see anything else besides that and the new look. It's much slower than the old one. =/ I hope they plan to roll out more because this is pretty lackluster considering how long they've been talking about it.
What happened to them? Why did they die off?
I really wish they would allow for adding links to a bookmark's description. It would make it so much nicer for making "via" links. Markdown, Textile, <a href=..., anything!
Open Source and Cloud Computing
"RubyFringe was profitable, people are happy, and the sky didn't fall. What now?"
RubyFringe didn't feel like a conference bout hacking, but it definitely felt like the organizers were hacking the conference format.
Can you explain in more detail?
RubyFringe didn't feel like a conference about hacking, but it definitely felt like the organizers were hacking the conference format.
DC Post of the Week - iControl for SQL Server Triggered Failover
In addition to periodically taking a mini-vacation; I also find it helpful to take a change of scenery. If I'm getting fatigued by working at my desk, going to get some work done at a cafe or meeting with someone helps get my energy going again. Maybe it's the caffeine, but I suspect it's something more. Nothing is more draining than spending 12+ hours a day, day after day, in front of one (or two or three) computer screen(s) at one desk.
Old-school audio technology still comes in new luxury cars
They had been in limbo since January, it's not exactly a quick adaptation.
Work benches | work stations
Then automate ;)
Also check out this Erlang/OTP AMQP server: http://www.rabbitmq.com

AMQP is very interesting. Check it out if you are building a distributed system or if you have a requirement for reliable asynchronous messaging. When I last looked into it about a year ago, the implementations (all two of them that I found - apache qpid and rabbitmq) were still a little rough but it looks like a lot has happened.

It's wierd how few people in the web world are aware of asynchronous messaging.
Download Reaper Episodes
In an era distinguished by popular TV series in which the heroes are the villains (The Sopranos, The Shield), it should surprise no one that the most charming and likeable character in the CW comedy-drama series Reaper was the Devil Himself. The story got under way when 20-year-old slacker Sam Oliver (Bret Harrison), one of the least stellar employees at his local Work Bench home-improvement store, finally found out why his parents (Allison Hossack, Andrew Arlie) had always allowed him to goof off and drift aimlessly through life while simultaneously demanding so much from his overachieving kid brother Keith (Kyle Switzer).
MaiMed Medical

http://www.maimed.de/en/
I, personally, try to save my clever comments for reddit. I attempt to abstain, here, unless I can say something that's germane, insightful, and original; or at least is a question I hope will provoke replies with those characteristics. Of course, if I can make it clever as well, all the better.
SitePoint's marketplace is great (I built a site and sold it there half a year later for $12,000); I'd avoid the buy/sell/trade forum on DigitalPoint, however -- there's a lot of scammers there and half of them can't speak English correctly.
Glad they changed the name officially. I could never remember where the extra periods went. Before the 'i' or after the 'i'?
Zed Shaw is angry about feed readers
It probably doesn't help that books on the subject have desperately unhip titles like "Enterprise Integration Patterns". The introduction to that book is actually a great essay on when and how to use asynchronous messaging, and it is online here: http://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/Introduction.ht...
Sprint early termination fees are illegal, judge rules
"stateful xml protocol" makes as much sense as "stateful ASCII protocol" or "stateful bits protocol".
As I understand it there is a 30% tax on worldwide possessions to surrender a US passport. Apparently the Russians used to do it to Jews as they fled the border but since the cold war ended theres no reason not to copy it.
The OP understands that XMPP provides pub/sub message queues. He's asking what XMPP provides over the other MQs.
Of course, some of these goals counteract each other. If we treat disease, we increase population and thus hunger and climate change. I wonder what kind of ROI we get on investing in population control.
The concept is even funnier than the actual result:
Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness in a quiet American suburb.
Android UI Themes
Was this worth the wait? I don't think so.

The changes are small and the design is uninspiring. Maybe I'll see the improvements take a bigger affect the more I used it.

This is would of been alright about a year ago, but now my first impression is... yawn.
Convertible Debt: Mandatory Conversion
Very cool. Interesting is seeing just how few movies sit on the top of the box office charts for more than their launch weekend.
(^-^'' on the internet it's impossible to tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Actually, I stopped because I have no idea how one would go about doing non-tcpip Networking without feeling like a shallow hypocrite who makes friends to use friends. If I'm motivated enough to find out how people do it and how introverts/nerds learn to do it, I'll probably write about it sometime and submit it everywhere like the attention whore that i am...)
Only thing this visualization is missing is the ability to highlight a given movie's trajectory by name.
That's what I assumed they did and that's why I am so impressed. I guess they might have been working on it before.
Unlocked Samsung i8510 INNOV8
The operating system of this phone uses the Symbian version 9.3. This makes using the touchscreen menu a breeze to use. Everything on the screen is so clearly laid out, within second you’ll be updating your contact information and taking photos in seconds.
Message queuing is old, boring, and well understood. The same kinds of people that are trying to convince us that REST is a huge improvement over WS-<star> (despite the fact that once-RESTful protocols are becoming increasingly similar to WS-<star>) are trying to convince us that XMPP is to message queuing as REST is to WS-<star>.

More cynically, XMPP vendors generally give everything they have away in hopes that somebody with money will buy support for it. Since customers of message queuing products are people with money, it is only natural for people to hype XMPP as the "worse is better", cheaper alternative to "enterprisy" MQ products in hopes of having some money fall into their pockets.

Less cynically, the people hyping XMPP understand it very well from their personal experiences with chat systems and "chatbot" like applications including Twitter. It is easy to say "hey, if a computer can IM me, I bet a computer could IM another computer." It is a little tricky to abstract that into "hey, that is the same thing as that old, boring message queing stuff," and anybody that gets that far realizes it's not that exciting to blog about.
Wundrbar seeking iPhone developer
Wundrbar is seeking an iPhone app developer for a short-term, ground-breaking project (approx. 2 weeks long, starting ASAP). It'll be a fun, innovative gig with an opportunity for great exposure and the possibility of ongoing work in the future.

Our ideal candidate:

• Killer UI sensibilities
• Reliable
• Excited about working in a fast-moving startup environment
• Available ASAP
• Located in SF a definite plus, but not essential

Compensation:

We're a startup, so we're on a tight budget. But we're willing to consider a small stipend and/or equity stake for the right candidate.

If you're interested, please send a little info about yourself and a portfolio of any relevant work to Andrew Dudley (andrew@wundrbar.com) by Tuesday, August 5th.

Thanks
-Andrew
Sadly, I dropped out of community college so my concept of Yale is formed by Mr. Burns of the Simpsons. My apologies for the bad joke. Besides, heirs and heiresses skip college and go straight to reality TV these days.
Mozilla Bug #448604 : Can't get out of Whistler
Startup Marketing Advice.
http://laserlike.com/2008/07/16/startup-marketing-advice/
You should put this sentence, with something like the edits in brackets, right at the top:

"Just take pictures [with your digital camera as you normally do] when busy with real-life doings, then upload the whole pile weeks or months later and it [will be] automatically organized [for you]."

Also, maybe it's just me, but this photo (http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/photo.html?th=u8/bj/d...) doesn't scream early adopters.
"XMPP as MQ mechanism may work better in Internet scale distributed system."

Why do you think so? What advantages does XMPP have over other MQ technologies at "internet scale"?
Isn't this similar to a low pass filter? It differs in that the filter constant grows as time goes on, rather than having a fixed time constant.

What leads you to believe that the order of the inputs is significant? The derivation makes sense, the final form makes sense, and I tried a few inputs.

(also, a high pass filter does not necessarily settle to its input over time)
Speaking as someone who vaguely knows many of the people who are involved in YEI, the yale students involved are very much in the same vein as the marketing folks who you'd see creating companies during the first web bubble, where the technology folks who actually do the design and whatnot are second tier.

There exist counter examples,but thats certainly the general trend
Very misleading quote, you should be a journalist..

You are pointing to a new project I was looking to startup - NOT my current project, if you quote the whole item you will see that "I cannot personally fund this project" - relating to the new project I was looking to startup.

The existing company (Travel website) I currently work for and manage is doing quite fine thanks, hence the comment in this post.
why couldn't you just submit this like a normal link?
last.fm 2.0, Facebook 2.0 and even MySpace 2.0 all came before delicios 2.0, and they all (even MySpace) at least feel worth something.

(also, couldn't you just have linked to delicious instead of TechCrunch? Lately I'm getting this 'telling you what you don't really need to know' vibe from them and it's killing me)
How about for non-web (or even non-software) companies? Two of the six YEI featured companies are in totally different industries (water purification and materials), are they really at a disadvantage for being in New Haven rather than someplace else?
Microsoft's "Mojave Experiment" Site built in Flash (not Silverlight)
It'd of course be possible if he was using flash or something, but it's just a PNG and an image map. I agree wholeheartedly with your comment though.
He means that they are already vested in a working relationship so why change a good thing.
I meant to say "of Flickr" when I said "Flickr"
just to let you know, there's a very populous county in Ohio named Cuyahoga, pronounced somewhat closely to your name. at first i thought it was a regional search just based on the name. you might want to take that into consideration
I think help with profiles is an excellent idea. Before I was married (met my wife on yahoo personals way back when it was still free), I dated a lot of people I met online and a couple of women showed me the "typical" profile of a guy who approached them and they were <b>terrible</b>. It was easy to see why women were turned off. I'm sure if the guys realized how desperate and needy they came across, they'd be able to do a better job of hooking up.
Apple now giving iPhone developers daily download stats
I wish that was the only thing it was missing! If I did this in, say, Flash or SVG from the start, I think I could make many more things visible on mouseover. The PNG tools are the closest at hand, though.

I also wish it was easy to search for a particular movie. I wanted to show a friend the interesting path of Little Miss Sunshine, but it took me a while and some mousing to find it again.

It's pretty decent for aimless browsing around for interesting patterns, though.
And then I assume another 2-3 hours of "dicking around" with RSS or other non-valuable computer activities?
It brought a fair few results I had never seen, and also my posts on here turned up as well.

Its also surprising to see how many posts were written and interest in its failings and downtime yet the response to an open honest explanation and reaction that they were approaching the search volumes of some of the big boys goes rather unoticed.
q)10+1 2 3
11 12 13
Still no search results for Cobol.
I agree some form of code example would have been much more interesting.
Lonk .
"Stateful XML protocol" makes complete sense, it just isn't very informative. It describes a protocol that is both stateful and XML-based. Those are independent attributes of a protocol; obviously, you can have both stateful non-XML-based protocols and XML-based stateless protocols, but I don't see why the OP's statement is nonsensical.
> once-RESTful protocols are becoming increasingly similar to WS-*

How so?
Isn't the title of these submissions legally required to be "Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted!"?
Good software should take sides
Detached Lever Fallacy
Interesting. Is this a side project or a portfolio piece? Or are you looking for feedback on how to build a business on it?
I thought someone else said that it sounds like a French word for rear end.

Do all the French words for naughty body parts sound the same, or what?
It was too expensive to use...

"This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world. Your message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing.

Are you absolutely sure you want to do this? [ny]_
I graduated from Yale in '06 and sold the company I'd been working on throughout college nine months after I graduated. Yale definitely doesn't have a lot of entrepreneurs there, but we do have the Yale Entrepreneurial Society -- of which I was a member -- that acts as a support hub for the few entrepreneurs to get together.

They also have the Y50K, which awards $50k to the winning business plan. Funny thing is, my company didn't even make it to the final round, but we sold a year later for probably 10x the current revenue of all the companies that did make it combined (sorry, I had to, I still feel snubbed). The problem with Yale's entrepreneurial endeavors is that it's far more aimed at traditional business / pharmaceuticals / brick&mortar rather than smart techies with a great idea. And, well, my company involved gaming and VoIP and they didn't gave a damn about gaming. (We went on to win $75k and first place at Case Western Reserve University's business plan competition.)
How to compare two articles..
hi...

trying to figure out what ways are there to compare/determine if two separate articles are the same...

curently researching semantic analysis, but figured i'd turn here as well...

thoughts/comments...

thanks

bd
Hasbro has been breathing down their necks and their getting shut down has been a very real possibility for months. I suspect they've been working on this for quite awhile.
Someday I'll have to tell the whole story.

Suffice it for now that the separation between product and engineering makes neither better.
Maybe we're tired of seeing yet another Rails documentation site. Regardless of how good it was, aren't there like 50 of those things out there?
To remember it, I got in the habit of pronouncing it as such:

Dell-dot-icey-oh-dot-you-ess

The hard part was calling it 'delicious' in conversation so I didn't sound like a moron.

I think, in general, 'url hacks' like del.icio.us only work if the periods go between words, like http://go.to/
The photo is of my mom alpha-testing the site in 2004.
The search is a lot faster, the safari bookmarklet opens in a new popup, the design is cool. Good first impression.

I like it.
Financial crisis: the next scam to fleece taxpayers
Zed is always angry. That's why we love Zed!