skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used Yandex for many years for Russian-language searches and also I read all PG essays and I've never thought about using Yandex for English-language searches. If I search Google for "Succinctness is Power" with "Russian language only" option I will get similar results. 99% Yandex users don't expect it to search anything but Russian. And each search results page have links to Google, Yahoo and MSN at the bottom where you can search for the same keywords globally.

Yandex explicitly state its limitations at http://company.yandex.com/

Being No.1 Russian-language search engine they do compete with Google in local market (few years ago Google wasn't even an option for Russian-language search).

And its slogan is Russian-only ("найдётся всё") - only for Russian speakers.
Yes, but not enough to get this post voted up enough to be visible, probably ;)

What would the meeting entail?
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Looking for a place to stay tomorrow night (Tuesday) near San Jose
I'm going to be at NVISION'08 for the Programming CUDA track on Tuesday and Wednesday. I'm looking for a place to crash Tuesday night, preferably somewhere with easy access to San Jose (ie. close to Caltrain).

I figured this might be a good opportunity to meet some members of the community. Also, if anyone is up for getting a beer Tuesday night, I'll buy the first round.
afaik, there aren't any major businesses doing it. plenty of smaller ones but no one industry giant. i might just be drawing a blank, though.

my approach was to learn it all myself (i'm a big fan of bootstrapping and having a broad knowledge base).

if you want any tips, feel free to either do a search for this topic on HN, since there's good generic information on here already. any specific tips would require more info on your startup, so you'd have to either elaborate here, or if you'd like, drop me an email.

or, alternatively, i might be willing to do some of the work you need as a consultant if you're interested (again, drop me an email)
Consider having the next one closer to 280 or 101.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/6_year_old_stares_down_...
In other words: His statement may hold true for the version 1.x VM.

Thank you for your explanation. I have not really followed .NET development, nor did I take the time to search out an answer before asking my question; apologies for laziness.
Nice concept, but i'd work on the design a bit. Overuse of the color red might be a bit much for some users.
This is pretty cool; that's what we need in Cambridge, MA
Surprising how accurate the predictions are for computers but entirely off for other technologies.
I am not so sure it is logical. Obviously groups of people have genetic differences. Sickle cell anemia is a great example, here we have exactly one gene which gives malaria resistance with one copy and immunity and anemia with two. And endemic malaria is one hell of a natural selector.

But suppose I claimed that the long standing domination of Romanian gymnasts was genetic. And then I came up an elaborate explanation involving contests of balance and bouncing set to music that decide which maiden gets to marry. Strictly speaking a logical theory but not very smart.

Cultural reasons are a huge contributor, just look at the Russian relay team and their baton passing skills.

Then there's simple genetic drift and founders effect. Those are most often responsible for genetic differences. The Ashkenazi are descendant from a VERY small group of founders. What is a very rare genetic mutation, by accident became common in the Ashkenazi population.

That's simple genetics, but natural selection is much more complicated. The Jamaicans might have more fast twitch muscle fiber due to natural selection, or they might have it because of a genetic bottle neck in the slave trade.

The few Africans who got to Jamaica first happened to have rare genes and there you go founders effect. Or it just might be all cultural with no genetics.

The elaborate scenario with villages and night time warfare and running (but no moats?) is only slightly more serious then any scenario involving music coordinated gymnastics based natural selection in Romania.
It's definitely everything for most "normal" users (like my sister or Russian-only speaking friends). Mentioning of Russian-only limitations or providing English-language results would be confusing for such users (most of them don't even know what Google is).

Not long ago I submitted .com English/Russian/German site to them and they refused to index anything but Russian part, but Russian part was index successfully (although the sever is in Russia).
I second that. A whole bunch of people are in the business, from ad agencies to SEO consultants to "marketing firms." I'd keep your skeptical glasses on at all times when looking for someone, as there are a lot of fakes. I'd recommend looking for someone local if you're in a big area. Talk to owners of sites like yours, see if they've heard of anyone, and get references AND check them out.
To paraphrase: "in the future, we will be able to consume more than we produce."

The physics and engineering are fuzzy because nobody with the requisite knowledge would proclaim such a thing.
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From http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/01/leppie-ironscheme:

There are several limitations I have yet to overcome to be able to be 100% compliant, most notably being continuations. Currently IronScheme only supports 'outward' continuations for non-local returns. This is an approach used on the JVM too. I have had a look very recently at how the IronRuby guys are approaching it, callcc only exists as a comment in their code.

So it sounds like the professor's statement may still be correct in the sense that IronScheme's continuations don't have the full range of functionality that Scheme's continuations do. Another blog post implies that Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) -- on which IronScheme is written -- is unlikely to get this functionality in the near future:

From
http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=175:

When speaking with Jim Hugunin, it sounded as if he would prefer to avoid including support for continuations in the DLR.
Watch out for Silahsiz Kuvvetler the Turkish hacker.

Seriously ;)
Massive RedHat Perl performance issue
You have your own box hopefully? $100 is about right then if that's the case.
I think it's awesome that I've only just begun to learn python and there are all these other languages out there for me to check out.

I haven't even heard of half of these, so I know what I'm doing the rest of the day.
Under "Future directions" (http://www.codeplex.com/IronScheme/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Road...):

> Complete support for inward continuations (if this is ever possible on the CLR).

So it seems the jury is still out on the issue.

The CLR does not support continuations natively. It could be implemented be writing an interpreter on top of it, but that would be slow. Perhaps they could be implemented by eschewing the CLR built-in stack and call, and instead compile everything into jumps or tail calls and keep a separate stack? I'm not sure if this is possible though.
If we get any traction, I will definitely put some time into improving the overall look of the site. I really want to get away from the digg-style, but I just don't have time right now to dedicate.
If you've only got 30 days to get this site up to speed, you'll want to do something big. Do something outrageous, then submit a press release. Get all of your friends to create accounts and post "just for fun," and then claim in the press release that this is the next big thing.

This advice in pretty generic, I know. What I'm trying to say is that you want to see growth similar to the million dollar home page or the ebay add where someone sold advertising space on his head for a month and it took off. In both of these cases the concept was not particularly novel or even useful, but the media caught on because it was interesting and the ROI for advertisers in both cases was much higher than it would have been on its own (how many people would normally see a forehead in a month?). Basically, a dating advice site can't stand on its own feet after only 30 days, but if you create a story that the media loves then you should see exponential growth.
"Stop Serializing/Deserializing Messages. It boggles my mind why we still serialize and deserialize messages. Leave messages in a binary compressed format and decode only on access. Very few activities waste more CPU and cause more lock contention through the memory library than does serialization."

[citation needed]
Amazon may enter college textbook market with new Kindle
Download Shark Episodes
Imagine all the latest TV shows right in front of you? Imagine how much time and money you could save if you knew how to Download Shark Episodes almost for free? No more paying $40 for every TV show season because you can actually download high quality TV shows and movies for free.
If interested I'd be happy to take a look at your website and make recommendations. You're doing well if your eCPM is anywhere above $1, really well if it's around $3.
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C#, F#. MPI isnt a language, it's a || programming comm library
i also second this.

there are a lot of consultancy firms that wave magic wands, practice black-magic voodoo and have secret sauces.

the reality of the situation is that there are bread and butter principles to follow, and then its down to just optimizing/tweaking things.
The original article, if anyone wants to resubmit:
http://highscalability.com/latency-everywhere-and-it-costs-y...
F# (OCaml)
Well, the DOM and stuff works (mostly) but it still sucks to actually use. This is about making a useful interface on top of it all.
I.. seriously hope that this is a joke.
Have Facebook Developers Been Flocking To OpenSocial? No
I'm not a big believer in the whole "social media" thing, but I do like this site. It's entertaining and besides that, I can see it being useful to get a different perspective on relationship problems. The nice thing about this is that for it to be useful you don't need commenters who are "experts," just people who can see things in a different light. Sometimes that's all it takes!
Difficult to make a meaningful choice when only two of the options (Lisp and Ruby/python) have any familiarity to me at all.
I feel ya... and yeah, I'm giving myself roughly 30 days in regard to how much attention and funds I drop into the site. If after 30 days there is decent growth but it can't self sustain yet, I'm not going to cut my losses quite so soon and will move forward another 30 days.

However, there is a tipping point where this project will get pushed to the backburner if up-take just isn't happening. Mostly because I need to focus on income generation (finding more freelance work) so I don't have to take a desk job. :)
Upvote the real link.
There's no button to say don't breakup, only to breakup. Talk about negative!
Socialmoth was also a community-driven support website. They let you expose personal tidbits on a public forum. You might try e-mailing them about it, see what sort of problems they had.

I think the UI design of the site is great, but the social design needs a lot of work. Breakups are quite personal and messy -- it seems like the last thing people would want to do is expose details on a public forum.
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of course it applies to them and they know it - but no one in their small gang will ever tell them
But at the same time, most hackers are introverts. Even today people are incredibly reluctant to show code before it is "done" for fear of rejection. It's going to be very difficult for the shy kid who may be a great coder but is bad with rejection to walk into that gauntlet knowing full well that people will give them a rough time.

It's only a kind of renaissance of sharing exemplified by sites like github that are showing a return to the enthusiastic sharing of early hackerdom.
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First, 80% is an off the cuff comment/estimate. Obviously its not that high, but it is still very high. I had meant to say 'feels like 80%'.

When you work for a large company and the major decisions on visual design are made by other people, you have little control over how it looks or behaves, and only the freedom to code. Unfortunately, this breeds an atmosphere where people with little concept of the difficulties of implementing cross-browser designs are the ones expecting and demanding that they work in IE6 and "it should look like the picture from the design team."

So yes, a site or feature that takes me hours or a day to code up and be proper in FF, Safari, and IE7 usually adds up to 4x the same amount of time to make it work in IE6. Not always, but often enough that it has become an issue.
I'm game
"I also found that even with 1000 visitors a month, I was making less than $5 per month with adsense. That would be fine if it didn't take a continual flow of real posts to build content, but it does.

This soured me on adwords based based businesses"

$5/month for 1000 monthly visitors is not bad for ads in general. Assuming maybe 10% of those visitors are really active and the others are just one off hits (1-2 pageviews) you're looking at about 5000 pageviews/month which would equate to $1 eCPM on AdSense, which is actually a pretty decent ad network eCPM.
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hahah, yeah I thought about that too... but figured "don't breakup" was implied by drama not getting pushed to the home page. I've got a lot of ideas for a version 2.0 though, that deviates away from Digg/Reddit style while retaining core functionality that makes it fun to use.
He might also want to consider some sort of contingency contract. If the consultant is any good, it should be an easy sell, something along the lines of 5% of any monthly growth in revenue, or stepped bonuses based on the conversion rate.
Forbes tool for organizational structure.
The original link was on news.YC recently:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=284413
http://emo.com/ was taken? I don't want to sound like a troll, but i will, so don't take it personally, but when im in an emotionally bad situation the last thing i need is advice from random people on the internet. I also find it boring/stupid to try to give advice to random people on the internet(hey, im doing that now :D). There is a difference between a community and a mass of random people you know, the former i trust(sometimes). Hope you don't fail miserably or get bored/frustrated with you project, just thought some opposition would help.
A youth teen would probably disagree with you regarding their comfortability exposing personal information on the web.

A benefit of BreakkUp is that we're not trying to be a social 'networking' site, it's mostly geared for individuals to use with relative anonymity.
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I guess it depends on the need, i was able to hack in 2 proof of concept app some 2 months ago with it. which later end up as production apps.

I've been trying to suggest heroku to a friend of mine to use it to introduce ruby/rails to his students since the amount of time to setup an environment is really crazy and sometimes incomprehensible for new students trying to learn ruby/rails.
Perhaps a clearer picture:
http://www.itulip.com/realdow.htm
F# (and not OCaml)
Just wanted to say thanks to all the feedback, was not expecting this much and we really appreciate it!!! We're going to incorporate a lot of the changes and suggestions that have been mentioned thus far, I only wish I had more time and 10 arms!!
I'm still getting better at Python but I'm really intrigued by Erlang and Lisp. I'm not sure if I want to delve into Lisp but we shall see.

Fun fact: I've never heard of Q, MPI, and Cuda .. time to wiki em :)
Since he did so much schooling himself (the only reason he could even write this article and do the necessary research to be taken seriously is because of school) it's hard to take him seriously
Just for your info - You might need to give credit to Pligg according to their licensing terms somewhere on your website. You need to link it to their original site. Something like -

Powered By: Pligg | Legal: License & Source

I do same with http://siliconverge.com on About page.
Audacity of hypocrisy
I second you, asdflkj. It is always best to analyze first hand sources. Unfortunately, free media does not exist in Russia. Pitty.
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just try a simple google search. Will bring up sources from all over the world. Shame that the number one indexer in Russia only lets their users access Russian content from the former USSR.

http://www.google.com/search?q=russian+life+expectancy+chart
Scheme (does this fit under LISP?)
Um...why are Ruby and Python combined?!

Creates separate choices
I would say Russia is not a great country. Russia has great people. And it certainly deserves better than Putin and a continuation of oligarchy.
Ah okay, I misunderstood it. I did not read the rules :( Okay, I still think it's a good idea.
Simple is always bad except when it suits Occam's Razor, eh? There is nothing simple about Russia, unfortunately we all need to live with her.
I wasn't thinking it was bad for adsense. I was thinking it was a bad price for my time... It took a lot of hours to create the content, and was difficult to get others to create it on their own.
can't help you there, but i have to say i'm very curious about CUDA. the "billions of little cores" parallel architecture seems good

i think it's because it gets straight to the heart of parallelism. when you only have two or three cores/threads you might be worried about how to apportion some task to each core/thread, and worried about things like thread safety, whereas having to deal with hundreds of cores cuts that out completely and encourages purer parallelism/collective/emergent/"natural" algorithms

my thinking is that maybe instead of starting with RISC processors and trying to control some number of them, we can instead start with a full parallel architecture (perhaps like what CUDA uses) with millions of cores, and "emulate" RISC/x86/etc on top of that, wherefrom it would be natural to add parallel opcodes and whatbeit

these are just notions though
Reading between the lines it sounds to me like Putin would love to have his former satellites back. I guess the Orange and Rose revolutions were not an adequate consultation of the population.
What I think this is trying to say is know your shit. If your building a jabber-do-hickey know how it works. If someone asks you a question be ready to answer. As for the audience this would probably be better as ask away, try and learn about it and get as much information on the a/w/c as you can.
Hmm. So you would take the opinion of a car mechanic that has never driven a car?

His 'necessary research' was a period of traveling, observing, and critically attempting to understand these issues, not some 'Education Reform 101: Introduction to Critical Thought' lecture course.
Thanks and I will do that when I make changes to the footer / about section this week.
Just get a hotel room instead of trying to leech off of the News.YC community.
No it does not... but this is my choice.
I actually blanked that out, too. I think it's because it's the same size/placement as a standard ad. It's easily ignorable.
It's sort of a combination of the two; Lisp Flavored Erlang, for real time control.
> But at the same time, most hackers are introverts.

This cuts both ways though... will most hackers really be able to muster up the will to tell someone to go away? I know I wouldn't really like doing that. While I have no doubt that Zed - or at least his internet persona - could, I wonder how it'll work out in practice.
I think that the "we" means the average Joe and Jane Schmoes, not the aggregate society. Or maybe we just outsourced out production to other, poorer countries that don't have domed cities and still vacation on land.
Post to Craigslist personals to drive traffic.

People hitting up the personals likely have funny stories to share.
He also calls Windows Mobile a "total failure", despite me having a hard time seeing a single smart-phone not a Windows mobile phone when out among people. I honestly have no idea how he can possible come to a conclusion like that.

Granted, I don't live in the US where the carriers have a history of killing any interest in sophisticated mobile devices with high speed mobile internet trough vendor lock-ins, non-competition and asinine pricing.
I thought the same thing here - unique languages with distinctive paradigms, deserving of separate choices.
Also, check out http://www.divorce360.com . It seems to be doing pretty well. Maybe you could modify the site to be more of a portal than just a community.

You could add some content to the site (theres lots of information about this topic). Get articles like this:

http://www.wikihow.com/Break-Up

Because of the domain name, you could get a nice rank on search engines.
"This was a huge shock, and it turned out that an unusual teacher was the culprit. She was a natural kindergarten and first grade teacher who was also a natural mathematician. She figured out just what to do with 6 year olds and was able to adapt other material as well for them. The results were amazing, and defied all the other generalizations we and others had made about this age group."

What the heck was she doing? How many other people have it figured out but don't share it? Why isn't there an effectivity assessment on curricula or instructional word choice- "mindset" type stuff or whatever it is that actually works.

I've tried the Betty Edwards printed material quite a bit and it is just amazing what you can do when you stop thinking about it in the same way. You can have a non-productive thought pattern getting in the way of understanding.
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My thought process was, if Python and/or Ruby is on the to learn list, they would look at both, but go with one of them.
Is Ruby/Python similar to C/C++?
It's not. At least i don't think it is. It's part of some old spam that used to go around the Internet and I know at least a few folks take it seriously; you know, that same folks who are still pushing geocentrism.
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which language are you talking about?
I missed that one, seems to be really popular now thanks to the iphone.
i voter for ruby/python, but i already know python well, so its ruby.
Lua

An elegant, minimalistic and fast scripting language. It's like Javascript without all the cruft.
Au contraire. If someone says that doing something or going somewhere is a waste of time, I'd be much more inclined to listen if he had actually done so himself.
Ocaml is another popular language that I missed. Sorry.
no.

C precedes C++ (and uses the same basic syntax) and C++ changes the paradigm to object oriented (but like C is statically typed and compiled). Ruby and Python are part of the same paradigm of dynamic, object oriented languages.
I remember reading about this in the Wall Street Journal about five years ago when it was still in the early planning stages. It's nice to see that the project has survived.

One problem, however, is the disks will be very expensive, ranging from $1,000 to $25,000 (see http://www.rosettaproject.org/about-us/donate/donate). This not only prevents interested people from purchasing them, but also interferes with the ultimate purpose of the disks -- spreading an archive of soon-to-be lost languages to the widest possible audience, which will ensure that the record survives across the millennia.