skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good rule of thumb is that every time you see an article saying that [some crazy technology] could replace silicon you say "Pschya, right!"

Or we could make it a drinking game.
If someone suggests something will replace silicon, take a drink.
If germanium replaces silicon, take ten drinks.
If GaAs or some kind of III-V semiconductor replaces silicon, take fifteen drinks.
If non-silicon-based quantum computers (e.g. SQUIDs) replace silicon, take twenty-three drinks.
If graphene or diamond replaces silicon, take fifty drinks.
And if DNA-based computers replace silicon, take Avogadro's Number of drinks, cuz that's pretty darn implausible.
I'm in Spain and I have Spotify. I must be one the few that actually don't like it.

I love music but I have no clue about artist names, bands, etc. This is why I LOVE Pandora.

Just enter a familiar name, from the few that I know and I can spend hours listening to good music.

Actually is so good is annoying, because I have to constantly upvote all the songs.

I tried many many times to like Spotify, but Pandora wins by a long shot.
It would be fun to develop but they are offering less than a years pay. Why would I (or any engineer) spend a year of development (say) on the off chance I might get paid? Did I miss something in the article?
Well, on one level, it's a great idea. On another, it gives Google the keys to the entire freaking web.
> This is the biggest problem I have with search engines - you want to deep index all my sites? Fine, but you better ...

For _most_ of the websites, its in _their_ interest to have good SERP ranking. Not the other way around.
People who found interesting companies are more likely to fail-to-conform in other ways as well, which is why other venture capitalists don't fund them - they want jeans, not someone wrapped in a towel.

People who engage in standard trendy forms of "nonconformity" that everyone immediately recognizes as "nonconformist" are called "dangerous" or "edgy" or "innovative". People who lack the imitation gene are called "weird" or "crazy".

That's probably not exactly the way Peter Thiel would phrase it - I'm uncomfortable speaking for others - but I don't think he'd disagree.
This was great advertising for pg. He's a great writer and success story, obviously. But he comes across a lot nicer than I thought he was.
Scheme Project that People will Find Use For?
I'm currently going through SICP (in chapter 4 now) and I'd like to start a 3-4 month project but I'm not sure what project to start building.

I know the answer is "scratch your itch" but I find that I don't usually have any itches. Usually, my main motivator is people using the project (ie. my main motivator is customers). I don't have a lot of experience in the LISP world so I'm wondering what project would be useful for the community right now. I'm using Racket btw.

Thanks for all the suggestions.
My other early morning links are:

http://www.weather.gov/

http://www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-anchorage-bg.html

The first one gives a lot more info than your typical storm front map.
The second tells me what the radiation levels are at nearest monitoring station, which is good in case there are any nuclear "accidents" in Asia, like Fukushima.
Google AdWords reps are far from authoritative.
JFK Tapes Show Man-on-Moon Dream, Worry Over Stunt
Noted. I'm willing to rescind that bit, unnecessary hyperbole intended to drive home the point that most of the scarcities which have driven up the real costs of media production over the years have recently evaporated, yet the "budgets" and the compensation which producers expect—and apparently, "deserve"—remain astronomical.

You'll note that despite its phenomenal financial success, Avatar was unsuccessful in its bid for Best Picture, an accolade which one would assume is of greater importance than "moneymoneymoneymoneymoney" to artists (read: the people who actually make this stuff). The Hurt Locker—a film which cost ~$11M to produce—came away with that honor. Perhaps if Mr. Gianopulos is concerned with ensuring his fair compensation, he should stop allowing James Cameron to convince him it costs $300M to make a movie people will pay to see.

As an aside, if you want to float me $55,000 I bet I can find a way to arrange a few dozen iPhone camera sensors into an array that would beat the pants off of any "professional" solution available c. 1995.
There's a difference between doubting the phenomena, and doubting this particular attempt at demonstrating the phenomena.
Something like wsgi/rack/ring would be cool (actually, ring could be your inspiration: https://github.com/mmcgrana/ring )
I still don't know how they analyze shows airing for the first time. They could recognize voices, but what if an actor opens in two different TV shows?
Seconding tptacek...
Tsk, tsk. On a side note, HN's robots.txt is returned with a content-type of text/html.
I've been a big fan of smoothansi for a long time. It's part of the artwiz project.

http://codeblog.palos.ro/2008/02/08/smoothansi-font-best-for...

http://artwizaleczapka.sourceforge.net/
How many swipes are required to unlock your Android phone? Is there an upper limit? Also, how many hot spots are there on the screen (I assume it's not a free-hand gesture...)?
I wonder how many bitcoins Google could get if they cranked up all their CPU power towards mining...
It looks like a pretty clear case of semantic confusion. When the article named it, I just assumed that was the actual name of Orville's standard Gourmet popcorn. Both the real and fictional names are a mess of generic advertising words, neither particularly memorable or distinct unless you're keenly interested. Most people won't even look beyond the "Orville Redenbacher"on the title barring searching for a specific descriptor, like "Gourmet" or "Kettle Corn," because those are the only meaningful terms that will pop up on the box of a popcorn.
The sarcasm was because the idea precisly explains what we have today, it is called the web.
How does the tech work? Are you looking for some sort of standard deviation from what a "correct" image should look like or farming out the work to monkeys, or something else?
You are right. I guess the idea that it would speed up the internet is because less traffic would yield less congestion, or faster server response.

People who downvoted you didn't understood or think your comment is not pertinent.
>Either way though, you still have to click your way through the installer.

So just replace the installer with any other executable that can install to Applications and provoke the user into launching it?
He just told you what the web is today. As it was since 1991.
"Each of these robots takes up a considerable amount of my resources. For June, the Googlebot ate up 4.9 gigabytes of bandwidth, Yahoo used 4.8 gigabytes, while an unknown robot used 11.27 gigabytes of bandwidth. Together, they used up 45% of my bandwidth just to create an index of my site."

I don't suppose anyone has considered making an entry in robots.txt that says either:

last change was : <parsable date>

Or a URL list of the form

<relative_url> : <last change date>

There are a relatively small number of robots (a few 10's perhaps) which crawl your web site, all of the legit ones provide contact information either in the referrer header or on their web site. If you let them know you had adopted this approach then they could very efficiently not crawl your site.

That solves two problems;

@ web sites on the back end of ADSL lines but don't change often wouldn't have their bandwidth chewed by robots,

@ The search index would be up to date so if someone who needed to find you hit that search engine they would still find you.
It may not be a modification. Did people even say "watch a baseball game" before television? Surely no one said "listen to a baseball game" before radio. What you've demonstrated is that "watch" in some contexts implies watching on a television. That's not the same as demonstrating the "addictive, yet passive" nature of television. It does demonstrate its pervasiveness, though.
Pandora is available in Spain? I was under the impression it was USA-only.

When I try to access it from here in the UK, the message reads:

We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome is correlated with SQL and Access tutorials:
http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=irritable+bowel+syn...
, while NoSQL matches pulse rates for men, marriage confessions and social anxiety disorder
http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=noSQL&t=weekly
You mean, why would you want to know if a particular account or IP is attacking your customers/your business?
Google's WebP Adoption
probably fewer than they could get if they included this script on their properties
The trick is to call the various groups you have to pay (utilities, credit cards, etc) and tell them you want your bill from them to be due on or around some specific date, the 15th of the month, for example.

Then set a calendar reminder for the 10th of each month, to login and review this month's payments.

On the 10th, you login to your checking account. Review/adjust the pending autopayments; add anything else that has come in recently; and you're done for the month.

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Have seen exact on a 7 and broad on a 10.

Discussion about probable reasons why in the comments of http://www.rimmkaufman.com/rkgblog/2010/09/28/negative-keywo...

Because of some negative keyword trickery on the broad match version we decided it was a reflection of the account level QS
Presumably if they're on the East Coast they get the shows first (at least for the major networks and national cable). And then if you're watching it at the same time, they're encoding in real time.
"I think the 'listen to the same music as your friends' bit is pretty interesting."

You can always tune the same radio station... :-)

I know you don't get to pick the songs, but it's an easy solution.
It strikes me that the entire article/proposal is based on a faulty premise:

"After all, the value is not in the index it is in the analysis of that index."

The ability for a given search engine to innovate is based on having control of the index. The line between indexing and analysis isn't quite as clean as what is implied by the article, if only for the simple fact that you can only analyze what is in the index.

For example, at it's simplest and index is a list of what words are in what document on the web. But what if I want to give greater weight to words that are in document titles or headings? Then I need to somehow put that into the index.

What if I want to use the proximity between words to determine relevance of a result for a particular phrase? Need to get that info into the index, too.

In the end, what the author really wants is for someone to maintain a separate copy of the internet for bots. In order for someone to do that, they'd need to charge the bot owners, but the bot owners could just index your content for free, so why would they pay?
For example, has someone investigated the exact history of "Hollywood accounting"?
Finding a (legitimate) excuse to post on reddit (or similar) gets a surprising number of hits. I can't tell you anything about conversion rates of those visitors, but just the other day I broke down and submitted a company blog post to the relevant category on reddit and got a few hundred hits in a few hours even though it didn't get many upvotes and zero comments. It was an actual essay, not a sales pitch, but at least they ended up on my company's site.

As far as I can tell, it seems that lots of people are interested in "this is where I see my niche going" posts for any industry or technology. The people who will end up at your site probably are already thinking about that niche, but they are probably your best bet for early adopters, anyway.

Maybe all that is obvious and old news. Like you, I find it hard to get excited about social media marketing so I'm just now begrudgingly experimenting with it. It's not a long term strategy, but it should be enough to build some traction.

And if you really want to spend money, a good copy editor for every word that ends up representing your product definitely gets you better copy much faster.
This is great news! Have been missing this feature for a while now.
Debugging/security logs are probably one of the last things that I'd want to hand over to customers without some serious scrubbing first. Either on purpose or accidentally (backtraces, var dumps) I've found things that I wouldn't want turned over to customers (passwords, access tokens, etc.) in logs of various project I've worked on. That var dump on a random object that was put in when tracking down some issue that could only reproduce on production seems innocent enough until someone adds an object to that one and all of a sudden the logs have passwords/account balances/etc. in them. Even if you are scrubbing them, handing over the debug/security logs just seems to introduce too large a point where you could accidentally leak information. The safe solution is to build out logging as a feature and then I completely agree with patio11 that if you need audit trails etc. you're in the enterprise game now and it (rightfully so) comes with a price tag to match.
I want to contact you. Please share some information. thanks
My guess? Maybe more warning boxes for software downloaded from the web but their priority will be making the Mac App Store the place to go for software for all their users (no warning boxes there and overall a seamless experience).

I do not believe that Apple will stop users from installing software they didn’t get from the App Store. There is just too much legacy software out there and it is doubtful whether Adobe and Microsoft (both crucial for the continued success of the Mac) will ever move to the App Store, even if pressured.

The Mac App Store is inherently more secure (or is the right word ‘safer’?)†, that’s where Apple wants people to get their software.

†I do not argue that there will never be malware in the Mac App Store.
Spotify already does all of this (with Facebook integration, too). The new feature is supposed to be synchronisation (listening to a song at the same time as your friend).
I doubt it, since most people who go to www.google.com probably don't have the Nokia WebCL add-on installed.
Yes it is primarily intended for mobile and small screens. That it works in any browser is a value add.
Ask: Is this a good idea for home page?
I am thinking of a totally new way to design my products homepage. I did a quick mockup of the page http://tinyurl.com/3s3hv4x

Please Share your thoughts and suggestions
If someone thinks it's a good idea, they'll invest money into it. Rough parallel, but always remember: it's not a principle unless it costs you something.

I'm not sure that execution always trumps ideas, but I'm pretty sure that no "great" idea is static and any idea requires more than just potential energy to turn into anything--plus, I'd be way more interested in the personality and abilities of the person presenting the concept than what the concept itself. Chances are if they have sufficient confidence and endurance to plow through the inevitable challenges, they won't ask your opinion.

Simplified (not necessarily) simple concepts tend to work the best. Sounds obvious, but you can't always complicate to profit.

Years ago, before taking my first job, someone told me that the keys to success were pretty simple: persistence, commitment, and patience. I thought I had the first two wrapped up neatly, and would eventually find that "patience" thing. Turns out, I had NO idea what persistence meant and didn't understand the first (or second, or third) thing about commitment.

You don't learn about those things by having a few good ideas. You learn about them by doing things, over and over again.
They have the logs. They don't have it in a form which they can give to you, and they don't have an easy way to expose them to you.

Imagine if every piece of data that involves their cloud service is accessed using a custom piece of code and spread across a multitude of locations all over their network, unsorted. Now they have to build an application which can consolidate a specific customer's logs and provide an interface for them to download it. It's certainly "doable", but it's also probably the very last feature they're thinking about implementing.
Well, you can do that already (with optional Facebook integration), so I wouldn't have thought they'd take that away.

Especially since there are lots of existing paid accounts which aren't connected to Facebook.
I find it strange that our team came in 5th place in the hackathon, and yet they choose not to post our presentation nor our interview. They posted the other winners + more. Our hack was kind of a joke, http://venturecrapital.us, but it must have really offended some people if they decided to not even show it.
I assume he means to block all search engines except the big guys: Google, Bing, Yahoo. Anyone else has too little impact. Not sure how one could do that, it's not like a request tells me "hey there, I'm a robot! Let me in?"
I can second the recommendation of that book, I've heard a lot of good things, though I haven't read it. It's recently been updated in a 2nd edition [1], though I have no idea if there are substantive changes, presumably, there are, given more than a decade has elapsed. If anyone's read the updated version, I'd appreciate knowing if and/or how the book's changed, I've been thinking about picking it up.

I have read pretty big sections of Manning's Introduction to IR, and it served me fairly well as an introduction to the field. It's available online.[2]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Information-Retrieval-Concepts-...

[2] http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval-book.h...
A direct clickable link http://tinyurl.com/3s3hv4x
Show HN: Why we need to leave HN
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2581409
WAS my thread. The title of the thread was "Unusable HN, scared hackers" I created it. it does NOT matter if I am right or wrong but I have a right to initiate discussion.

now I cant comment on it. there are questions being asked on it by people like ColinBright (challenging me to create an alternate HN, which I never undertook and is besides the point)

and it is shut down! WOW. way to go HN

edit: the usernames are different because I cant post anything new at all from the old one! again, it defies logic. but thats how HN rolls

edit: I was referring to the unusability of HN where...
- where HN repeatedly gives me link expired errors
- is managed by PG and therefore influences the thinking in the posts here (for example, no single founders)
A GIF decoder: an exercise in Go interfaces
What's Wrong With Silicon Valley Libertarianism?
I use this service http://unblock-us.com/
They put it in Shazam...

Seriously though - DFT -> key -> build giant R-tree. You can probably munge the key to get the week offset. Seems like a straightforward mapreduce problem :)
RTFM FU
Would help to know what the hell you are talking about ;)
Interesting if straight forward stuff, we've put a lot of that into practice at http://infostripe.com. We are trying to break some molds as to what is an app and what is a website, blog or other.

It's tough sometimes but having supportive founders, friends and family is key.
would help if you could read first http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2581409
There's already place for doing this in the http protocol. I would assume that crawlers respect this, if provided, although I haven't tested to verify my expectation.
Use your friend ask them advice and to promote word by mouth ,, spend more time networking and do Favour to other people who can help u with marketing ,,,, but more important keep asking for help never stop !!!!
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P.S. After spending time with some of these questions, we have a new direction and new energy. I used to say, "It would be nice to have a mentor." Now I think it's absolutely critical.

Our startup is Kongoroo (http://kongoroo.com). If anyone wants to be a mentor to us, we would deeply appreciate it. My email is in my profile. Thanks.
In a way, my company (let's call it MegaCorp) discriminates in favor of the unemployed, though it's really just our own soon-to-be-unemployed. We have to get special approval to hire outside the company, because our corporate masters desperately want us to hire from our "surplus" pool, the pool of people who are being laid off from their current positions, so we can report fewer layoffs. Apparently, we care so much about our layoff numbers that we go out of our way to retain even the employees that topped somebody's "least essential" list. We occasionally see strong candidates from that pool, however, so we do pay attention to their resumes.

Personally, I was unemployed for over a year and am very, very aware of how much easier it is to look for a job when I have a job. I and other people I know who have been in that situation don't look at unemployed candidates as damaged goods. We look at them as potential victims (bwahahahaha!) who, shall we say, will negotiate from a much weaker position and then come to work much more eager to please! No, seriously, we look at them the same way we look at people who are unemployed. There are lots of well-paid losers and plenty of people who are out of work because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
If you look at the removal process in the support document from Apple it doesn't really look all that bad: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4650

Just kill the process and delete the .app file. Compared to Windows malware this is a breeze to remove.
Yes, this will be possible - I will go in to more detail in a blog post, but essentially you will be able to create a group of people who can pool resources, and then pay for servers with funds from that pool.

It might not be in the beta - if not, I will add it soon after. I have a few features aimed at groups/clans, as anecdotal evidence suggests they are the people most likely to pay for a server.
I'd like to see a search feature that maximizes "happy accidents," kind of like how major scientific discoveries have been made inadvertently. Goes along with the notion that sometimes it's more important to create conditions in which success can occur rather than just "zero in" on something that you think (possibly inaccurately?) to be successful.
alternatively, ask again. or (you kind of prove my point), block this thread as you would love to do
Differentiating based on pricing alone is tricky. I'd suggest convenience of setting up dedicated servers -- 0 to frag in 15 seconds or less.

In terms of pricing, charge hourly but have an easy discounted day/week/month pass option. (1 hour for $0.25, 1 day for $5, 1 week for $20, 1 month for $40 -- I have done no market research, these are just to show the discount curve.)

I strongly suggest selling credits rather than doing actual utility billing. Gamers are pathological customers in a lot of ways. Wait for credit cards to break, massive fraud issues, etc.

I do not like Cloud* branding for someone who is not selling to developers. That doesn't seem to communicate value to the customer for me, since Cloud is a meaningless buzzword outside our industry. MultiplayerOnDemand, your strap line, sounds better. (GameOnDemand?)

In terms of getting users for this, you have many options. Advertising rates for gamers are low... for a reason. You probably monetize better than T-shirts, so that is a definite plus. I would start trying to recruit folks for it right now, individually -- your gaming buddies, clans, what have you. If you can't give it away, you'll never be able to sell it.
Thoughts that win
Interesting. Possibly to skirt the Oracle/Java mess? If so, I think it's a great idea. iOS/Obj-C has shown that devs will use a new (to them) language if need be.
There's another Inconsolata derivative named "Inconsolata-g" with straight quotes, dotted zeros, and other small fixes to make it a "programmer's font."
http://leonardo-m.livejournal.com/77079.html