skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look, it thinks Mike Arrington is Mitt Romney (http://www.cuil.com/search?q=techcrunch&sl=long)
To de-emphasize certain facial characteristics - e.g.. less eyebrow transfer? Or set_all to make a more average face?
As much as I love that, you do realize we're all logged in, no? The fact that it explicitly omits what they do with your data once you are logged in would be disconcerting if I was one to worry about things like that.

This is probably due to the fact that the "privacy policy" is older than Hacker News is.

The terms of use rock though.
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That is a working business model. They have more money than they began with after expenses. Hence: profit.

If you are asking for a 37Signals model, I believe there are a few, but given that YC is an place that you get funding from, they're going to pick companies that are going to give them ROI. Because of that, the results will be skewed towards models like reddit.
I'd like to see you explain yourself better, Paul.

How can free speech corrode anything? Is it like when you tell a kid there's no Santa Claus, then you've hurt his innocence with your cynicism?

It sounds like you've got your thumb on a very specific feeling, and I'd be interested to hear about it, but heck if I can figure out where you're going.

I'm a big free speech guy, and I love a good kick in the butt from time to time, so I liked it for that reason. WE always want to judge our position against our critics, right? If not we're just living in a echo-room. But that's just me.
Comparing Google, Yahoo, Live, Ask & Cuil with Actual Queries & Data
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So I guess that kinda shows that uni teaching should not be too vocational, other then for team/assignment/project work. Sounds reasonable. I pretty much had to learn C in that context, of projects etc, (we weren't initially taught it, we were taught other languages, and when it came time for C they threw the K&R book at us and said "off you go").
That search worked for me..
Looking at my script for building ffmpeg w/ x264 on osx, x264 is not the problem. Here is the ffmpeg configure line:

./configure --disable-vhook --disable-mmx --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl --enable-libx264 --extra-ldflags="-l m"

Getting all these configure options right was a real PITA. The ffmpeg mailing list is a very hostile environment and I found most of it from random googling.

My configure line for x264 was:
./configure

So yes, you guys are all good.

BTW it is a really great library. You should be proud.
no, notice that cuil.com isn't a result.
For a while at digg we were touted for the same thing - a new way to disseminate news more quickly than the mainstream media, but there was nothing special that made us better at that than any other vanity-publishing mechanism on the web (I'd guess technorati used the same type of marketing line before us).

I'd say the same thing about twitter - it's only as good as it's own network effect, there's nothing innovative that makes it better for this purpose than any other service, and a lot of people are already leaving for other ego broadcasting systems.

I think the service provided by the USGS should get most of the credit (and its a reasonable bet that the technology is more interesting and a lot of people worked a lot harder on it than on twitter). The article touts the "epicenter maps" that people sent him. Twitter didn't produce those - and a bunch of people pointing the author to them doesn't make them twitter-produced news.

We weren't as quick to use it as marketing fodder as twitter though, that's for sure:

http://blog.twitter.com/2008/07/twitter-as-news-wire.html

I find that kind of obnoxious. Not as obnoxious as if people had died, but still obnoxious.
GAH! Build it up, then tear it down. I'm sorta getting sick of these articles, I mean it was nice they were covering a new startup, but the rinse and repeat of 'here is something is cool and new' and then 'it sucks doesn't work' pattern is getting old.

The thing that sucks more, is i won't stop reading techcrunch because it does have value and does have relevant news. Sorry </vent>
Sure, why are we listening to a professor talk about job outsourcing? What does he know about the web development industry? Get me a business professor! Or better yet, get me a real entrepreneur.

The best developer with no people/networking/business skills is probably not in a better position to make money than an average developer with the best people/networking/business skills.
Making good use of existing libraries is a good thing. Lacking basic skills obviously isn't, but I think the reality is that many 'professionals' do lack these skills.

As to having a formal education - I did a year of Computer Science, and I'm glad I did, but I think that programming requires so much self-learning that it probably isn't that important.
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A Software Pricing Primer
Transportation may be a good, but infrastructure isn't, and there are good reasons why depending on the free market to invest in infrastructure is a bad idea. It is very hard (and wasteful) to charge for roads. Infrastructure forms a natural monopoly (worse even than the telecom industry). There are huge sunk costs. The existence of roads benefits everybody, even those who don't use them, but nobody wants to pay for them.

I like free markets too, but whenever there's something like the Tragedy of the Commons or Moral Hazard involved, free markets lose much of their advantages.
Not a bad article. I've seen far too many companies underprice their software.
It's only a matter of time until the screens get big enough to sneak a decent processor and a real OS along. Hopefully foldable screens as in minority report. I don't think jobs is trying to be #1. Maybe failing the first time around was too traumatic.

Not saying that's a bad thing. There are definite advantages to being #2 or 3. But the approach is very different & they probably don't know how to do anything else.
Probably a few years before a couple of well-used open source components emerge but it's good to see development in this space.
The next "Google killer" won't be labeled as such until it's already "killed Google" (whatever that means). It'll sneak up on the pundits by challenging assumptions so deeply seated they completely ignore it.

As for Cuil, I hope they build themselves into a great search engine. They're going to do that by returning super-relevant results, not touting a big index. One of my first searches was a real question I asked Google lately, "best time to visit Russia" (a rare full-phrase query for me). On Google, great results. On Cuil, not even close, i.e. missed that "Russia" is the primary subject of the query, not "best time to visit".
While its a decent effort, there's no clear indication as to how they rated on each crtiteria. What factors make the minimum and maximum scores in the marking scheme? Is it 1 point if xyz.com is the first search result ...?

Looks like the entire thing is based on one person's opinion, rather than actual market research or shall I say 'wisdom of the crowd'.
I've seen this post before but this is definitely cool if true.
I don't get it. Potential for what? Am I the only one that prefers depth and accuracy over haste and inanity?

According the graph one source had information within a few minutes and the AP had information in under 10 minutes. I'm sure anyone in the area knew immediately without Twitter's help.
Is the goal to represent news in the twitter format?
Interesting online Q&A about today's earthquake and earthquakes in general:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008...
I'm in favor of free speech as a legal concept, but that doesn't mean that I want to listen to and promote everything. There is some content that will actually make you dumber. Most tv news is in this category, actually. I'll try to come up with a better explanation though.
Someone vaguely respectable saying something vaguely sensational? Got New York Times written all over it.
no, not at all. closest thing to twitter might be the brevity and simplicity. it will be longer than 140 chars tho.
I appreciate them trying but when your rating is based on:

> To collect relevancy, I simply judged the degree to which the top results resolved my inquiry, and weighted those that provided the best answers in the first few positions higher than those that had better results further down.

There's not alot of stock that can be put in their results. Perhaps the title should have been "This authors own opinion on the search results of Google, Yahoo, Live, Ask and Cuil".
It's appreciated.

I support the legal concept because it makes sense both for politics and me personally. Something about how do you know you're wrong unless you listen to those you disagree with? After all, can't be right all of the time. [Insert clever J.S. Mill comment here]
If the "more data beats better algorithms" principal is to be believed, a big index is a requirement to have a shot at Google.
The paper says they used the OKAO face detection system.
> What I'm arguing is that such a loophole will only create inflation by directing the indirect tax cuts to spending.

Inflation would be caused here as the total amount of money in the country is the same. It's just that the people are spending more money and the government less money. You only get inflation when the total volume of money increases.
Let's do this: you vote for the posts you like, I'll vote for the articles I like, and we'll let the YC News ranking engine push the posts neither of us like off the front page.

There's aboslutely no need to tell people not to post stuff, unless you think that posts like Atwood's will get votes.
If by "pay more" you mean "pay less", then yes.

Apart from SS, the "rich" pay the vast majority of income taxes in the US. That's not to say that all of the rich people pay taxes - there's a lot of folks who buy Munis and the like for tax avoidance (supposedly reducing the costs of various govt projects) and then there are the folks who have managed their estates so they'll never be taxed (including Warren "the inheritance tax should be higher" Buffet).

Yes - it's reasonable to exclude SS. SS is essentially a bad forced savings account. However, SS is progressive in that the less you contributed, the better your return. For folks who pay the max, it's a horrible deal. Both "contributions" and benefits are capped so Perot doesn't get $1M/month.

The rich pay a lower fraction of their income in consumption taxes than the poor, but that's because they consume a smaller fraction of their income and they don't consume as much "sin". (Most consumption taxes exempt food, which is a larger fraction of poor people's income, but poor people also spend more of their money on tobacco and alcohol.)
I'm happy for their index to be enormous, but to proclaim it's "bigger than Google's" at launch entirely misses the point of search: finding things.

First find things. Then tell me your haystack is way bigger than the next guy's.
I think more data about each page would be more helpful than simply more pages.

That's what Google themselves did. Instead of searching merely the text of pages, they also considered more data - namely, which pages link to a given page.
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You could kind of do it in Outlook by creating a public folder with tasks in it, and having the boss set the priority level.
You are building the ad targeted site or you are looking for 3rd party targeting? Or do you mean, you want an IP-to-location lookup? Those dbs are available on plenty for free or a small fee(simple googling would find those).
We use Slinkset to do democratic prioritization.

slinkset.com
interesting company, could be useful.
Cool, but in a superficial way. Like the computers we use today would be futuristic by ~8 yrs ago, but we don't give them a second thought.
I was thinking the same thing, the CCTV camera concentration in the UK is the highest in the world.
"If you are going to feed the hype cycle, you’d better be able to deliver. Because it only lasts about 20 seconds if you don’t."

...until I write another article about how you're over-hyped
It could be a Greasemonkey script which would attach available summaries to links on HN, reddit. Summaries could be picked up from your blog or from comments with special tag "Summary:

"

EDIT: I mean m/^Summary:\n\n/m
Are the laws concerning taking pictures that much different in the UK than the US, or just the attitude?

In the US, if you take a picture on the street and there are people in the background, my understanding is that you don't need permission - they're in a public place and you're taking a picture. Is that not the case in the UK?
I like it actually. Had thought about that later on in terms of scale.
Project Orion is one of the stupidest, most wonderful ideas ever conceived in America.
Joel Spolsky wrote an interesting essay (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...) that explored this issue without being able to come to a conclusion, though I do agree with him that you should err on the side of greater volume and less per-license because there's a hidden value in increased volume (word of mouth) that can't be made up with fewer, more expensive licenses.
My #1 result was http://whois.ws/whois-com/ip-address/cuil.com/ . They had some other whois results, too.

I wonder if they realized how many people would read about it on Techcrunch, then search for Techcrunch on it to take it for a spin -- and quickly reworked the algorithm to give a higher weight to URLs.
"Starting to flip is starting to flop" - Who said that ? Dharmesh Shah ?
quick question -- who cares about this crap?

startup launched in a crowded niche, looks neat, doesn't perform as well as the big guys. sky is blue. dog bites man. etc.

i don't need 300 stories on it. or maybe thats just me.
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=679
A DHT thats based on a pre-existing DHT implementation? Who woulda thought..

TBH, I'm more interested in the tuple space aspects of Entagled then it's DHT bits. But thats just me.
While I agree with you, evading taxation is not exactly the way to change the system. I feel like I've been harping on this lately...but VOTE to fix the tax system, don't break the law. Every time someone avoids paying a tax, big brother goes out and takes it out of someone else ("you"?) or borrows it (costing more from "you" in the long run).

Still going to defend tax evasion?
<pedantic>It's CliffsNotes</pedantic>

/ducks

I do fancy the idea, though.
I said the same in my head.
Twitter can actually be a good acquisition for Google.
Annual road subsidies are around:

(~3 trillion miles / year) / (~300billion / year) = 10c/mile or around 3$ per gallon of gas.

Amtrak = $210.31 per passenger per 1,000 miles = 21c/mile but there are significant network effects so some routs are far more subsidized than others.

And with such a long history of investments in cars and roads it's hard to calculate what's the better long term value.
I've been using hostip.info, but have had mixed results - it's free. I suspect i'll be moving to a paid service in the future.
I think you may have misunderstood me...

time_management: "It's paying high taxes to support Bush's war and tax cuts for the rich that I have a problem with."

mynameishere: "Paying high taxes to support tax cuts for the rich?"

Hexstream: "If the rich pay less taxes then the non-rich probably pay more..."

I meant that if the rich get new tax cuts, thus paying less taxes, and the government wants the same amount of taxes overall, then the non-rich necessarily have to pay more to compensate the loss incurred.
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in the same day!
You can read these books. They are the same books I read while getting my MBA. The question is: will you?

Could you have earned the equivalent of your undergrad degree if you would have just read and understood the books. Probably.

Would you have done it if you didn't have a test to push you?

That is one of the real reasons for school. It pushes you to focus and learn on a specific schedule.
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If "fuck there was an earthquake" counts as news, then yes, Twitter is a great source.
I entered "iPhone 3G sales" (no quotes) and was given a porn picture next to an Apple PR link. I do hope they succeed in challenging google, but looks like they have work to do.
The reason why compilers are quite possibly _the most_ important subject of CS, and should be a mandatory course in every department was well outlined in Steve Yegge's "Rich Programmer Food" blog post. The quick-and-dirty summary: anyone who can do compilers has the tools to manage codebases that are a magnitude larger than someone who doesn't. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-food...
Twitter reaches Beta?
Don't expect less from the web
I am biased, but I completely disagree with you. I had him as my professor three times while I was at NYU, and Dewar is very much in touch with real-world engineering projects. Also, hardware and OS-level knowledge is very important during performance optimization, which very often gets left out in "real-world" programming jobs due to lack of time in the project schedule and lack of knowledge on behalf of the very same programmers that came out of a vocational education. This is something to lament about in the industry, and not say "oh well, since we don't do it and seem to get away with it, let's maintain the status quo".
"One of the four great intercontinental railroads was built entirely without government grants or subsidies. If I recall correctly, it also lasted the longest."

Which one? From what I've read they all got the government to make eminent domain seizures for them (so even if this one railroad paid for the land it got, it still had a government subsidy in the form of a strongarm).
He writes so much it's no wonder he eventually has to sacrifice relevance for lack of experience.
haha, really? i didnt know that. My apologies to Cliff.

Thanks :)
FWIW, when I searched for "search engine" on Google, the first[] results were Dogpile, AltaVista (?!), and Ask.com. When I did the same search on Yahoo, the first result was Yahoo, and Google was second. When I did it on Ask.com, the first result was for Ask.com and Google wasn't even on the first page (except for a "Narrow Your Search" link in the sidebar referring to "Google UK Search Engine"). Go figure.

[]excluding the "related searches", news articles, sponsored links, and other effluvia that gets put at the top of the page
Digital Element has the best data, but they are on the expensive end and their software isn't all that flexible in terms of deployment. Maxmind GeoIP is weaker in terms of accuracy but are far more flexible.
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Personally my treshold to upvote a story is pretty high, and to pseudo-downvote an article I don't feel has its place I'd need to lower my standards and upvote a lot of stories I don't like that much, but the system would think all those stories I upvoted have equal importance to me while this is not the case.
touche sir. (although that doesn't really affect my point)
You are correct. Like I mentioned in this comment stream, I also took his class. This was 5 years ago. I have to say that I learned a ridiculous amount of low level systems stuff from his classes, and very much enjoyed his classroom presentation - I completely agreed with his view that a professor is there to present his expert opinion on the topic that may very well be different or tangential with the curriculum that gets covered by you doing the reading.
Who buys these sites once they're fixed up?
The point is not that he thinks "Google is a simple web app". His point is that the vast majority of engineers that learn Java as their first programming language, and never hit systems-level stuff below that are unlikely to ever create a system as complex as Google. That seems plausible since we know how much low-level hardware stuff Google does to keep their systems running, from running a custom Linux kernel to writing their own in-house programming languages.
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...and apparently Paul Graham plays for the Chalotte Hornets in his spare time. There's also a goofy picture of him grimacing next to a link to his essay about trolls. :) (http://www.cuil.com/search?q=paul%20graham&sl=long)

Also, in the results for "Objective Caml", the 3.10 release manual is illustrated by a happy guy on a racing bike. That's pretty random, but fitting - I like the free association (however intentional it is).
Yes - Joe was engaged when we started it; he was having trouble finding good wedding vendors.
I'm surprised no one is comparing Cuil to Powerset.
my friend hit me on im ' heard of cuill' , i said yeah 'not impressed'... the lack of relevant results.. to me means they might be trying to sell there indexing tech. the problem is with 32mm to produce that tech the sell has to be 300mm , i feel for the investors and company.
_Project Orion_ by George Dyson is a decent book about the project. In addition to the historical narrative, it has some good and detailed (for a popularization, anyway) explanations of how the technology was supposed to work.
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I'd guess around 12-14 hours of actual thinking and working time. At a normal startup as an employee, I'm guessing you'd average around 10 hours, but more around crunch time
It probably associated it with an article* about how porn encoded for iPhones is supposedly becoming a niche market. Not as random as you think.

* Such as this one: http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-38365-98.html (is SFW, if it matters).
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The result might be the opposite of what those well-intentioned people want. If the alternative view is obviously lame and impotent, it only reinforces the mainstream. This is a well-known trick in politics. When Michael Moore argued for gun control in Bowling for Columbine, he let the other side be represented--by Charlton Heston, a particularly dull and inarticulate man.

You will probably agree that there are far more compelling objections to the ethos of Hacker News than this article.