skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for taking the time to review HNSearch.

Your example search is sorted by date so it makes sense that the words "billion" and "almost" don't necessarily appear in the title. Here are the search results sorted by relevance:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=bil...

If you'd like to filter on stories with those words in the title, you can use the "title:" operator:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=tit...

Did you try sending us an email with your feature requests? Usually we respond very quickly to emails about feature requests.
This is exciting and all -- and much as I would love to see a serious competitor to Facebook, I still don't know how I would convince any of my non-techie friends that they should switch to this.

Circles? Actually I think that many people like the idea of their posts are being read by as many people as possible and not just the ones with similar interests. Although it looks like a big discussion group, the news feed is really a giant personality-defining display for vain people. I saw a programmer friend post annoyance over some Android API today and I suspect that this was more than just a spontaneous exclamation -- he was communicating that he is smart (to non-techies) and that he is "cutting edge" (to fellow programmers).

Privacy? I have the feeling that most really don't care very much. But ironically, I think the privacy-thing could actually work in facebook's favor. Here is why: I use fb a lot even though I don't like their privacy policies. I trust google more than facebook. Still, it bothers me when it says "logged in" in the google bar at the top because google watches my searches. When I am on facebook I behave like I am in public. I don't hope for the best and write secret stuff anywhere. But with all the google searches I make through a day, I am giving google a lot of very personal information that I would not like anyone to see. I would hate to see something that I was searching for somehow show up in a stream for my friends to see because I accidentally clicked a +1 button or similar.

Finally, there is the fact that even if I can export my graph from fb to g+, it's worthless until my friends do the same. And I just don't see that happening before they come up with some truly ground breaking feature that will allow me to get laid with any friend I choose by clicking on their picture :-)
python-markdown is in no way port of perl version. It's complete parser which can be extended and so on. But python-markdown2 is port of perl version, based on regexps instead of being real parser.
Introducing mdox - Pretty Markdown Documentation
GoldenOrb: Open-source version of Google's Pregel released by Apache Hadoop
It seems everything is based off the grouping "Circles" aspect. Which if they get it right it will be a home run for the rest of the projects they build off of it. I personally find the Huddle feature the most valuable. This is something I've wanted for a long time, but no one has built...except for GroupMe. Which I'm not a huge fan of.
How did it force-merge? I have both a personal and (free) Google Apps accounts and it never complained. I just use different browsers for each account.
It's horrible to think back and remember that I went out of my way to go for a "gritty" look, way back before I was even considering thinking about the marketing angle. There's one lesson well learned. I'm definitely going to take this advice to heart. Thanks!
The demo is using Flash.
Everything from Flash Player 9 onwards:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Player#Release_hist...

Too much stuff to mention, but the new VM especially. I personally haven't been working with AS2 (the old VM) in 3 years.

If one wants to create new content (and thus can "afford" to go back some versions) then this could be useful. Simple banners and whatnot maybe. But in that case, using many of the new HTML5 native editors is probably a better bet.
I completely agree. This phrase appears in even some of the most hallowed tomes of computer science, such as Introduction to Algorithms. The textbook puts important theorems and proofs in the exercises section, and does not even provide solutions online (at least for the later sections). Keep in mind that this book is used as a reference manual for many implementations of algorithms and data structures.
Looks like Rapid 7 is slowly becoming a model of how a proprietary company can merge with the open source world. People were worried that it would be another Oracle way back when it bought Metasploit.
If another startup creates a social network allowing greater privacy, smaller groups, levels of social circles, then I'd gladly switch to them. But never to Google.
Don't you think it's kinda silly to think these "build hype" signup processes kill products?

Github did the same in fact they recommend people to do it, and they're very successful.

I agree it's a little frustrating but it's the kind of frustration that makes you go back when the site is open for signups and signup. Nothing bad... Google Wave might just be an exception of this technique and people didn't use it because of the complexity of the product not because it made them wait to get an invite.
Wow. I really appreciate you going out of your way to help like that. That is awesome.
Biggest factor in adoption is product perception. People associate Google with finding information. Not with playing. They associate Facebook with games and pictures. They associate Twitter with celebrities and gossip. Apple with trendy devices. It's extremely hard for any of these companies to leap into another area and break that cognitive barrier no matter how good the product is. Especially when the product is deeply connected to the existing popular product. A lot of people think integration is an advantage but only if it's integrating related things. For something totally different it's better to create a new brand.
You should give circleriot.com a try. They pretty have much the same concept.
If the author paid by credit card, in that short of a window, he should be able to reverse the charges. It seems the shadyness in the tech industry never ends. It seems like we have been dealing with shady bandwidth and hosting vendors for almost 20 years.
What's valuable in this article: The applicants should know you before you even start looking for new interns. Having a long-term presence in their consciousness is invaluable.
Reminds me of Prezi (prezi.com) which I've tried out in the past that provides this same effect for presentations.
Wondering why he doesn't participate in a car sharing service...
This was just open sourced today. The code is here: https://github.com/raveldata/goldenorb
But if their content is all being funneled off to a "spam/noise" area, are you ever going to actually check that area? If not, they're effectively hidden.
That doesn't seem like an accurate analogy to me. Google was being investigated for what were basically accidental breeches of privacy, not for anything that was actively malicious.
Was MySpace Sold on the Cheap?
Secured conn to SimpleDB enabling entirely JS web apps (JS challenge for beta)
> Are you really concerned about 8MB? Are there even Android phones on the market today that ship with less than 8GB of space?

I have a brand new Samsung Galaxy S II. It's a 500 GBP (800 USD) phone. It has 2GB of memory.

The first gen and second gen android phones (which may be less than a year old) typically have 128 and 512 MB.

So yes, having 8MB x (amount of apps that can't be stored on SD) taken from memory until you uninstall the app is huge.
Really well done, interactive demo.
Thanks for the link.

I was concerned more with content indexing of URLs that are not meant to be public, to the point where that content could show in search results. Imagine my editor emails me a link to a blog article for approval before publishing. Or, as a designer, you create a draft of a web page to show to your client; and for the convenience of said client, you prefer not to have it password protected (nor take the time to set it up - you have enough to do!)

In both cases, imagine that someone loads the URL in their Chrome browser. If that action resulted in the URL being added to the googlebot's itinerary, even though no publicly visible webpage links to it, the result could be the exposure of information that we don't want. Or for the blog post example, it could even affect SEO by causing a duplicate content penalty.

Of course we can password protect the page, exclude the urls in robots.txt, etc. But there is a labor cost and inconvenience to having to do that, and there is always risk that something would slip through.

That said, what I write above is likely pure speculation; I don't know of any evidence that Google is actually doing this, and it seems unlikely to me that they would.
Really great article. Seems like the author has had a lot of access to the team working on Google+, and it makes for an interesting read.
Proposal for a Working Group on Programming Language Design [pdf]
> It is a demo, after all.

It's a goal driven demo that seemingly exists solely to show off the animations.

I would agree that a more free-form demo would be interesting, and could be less confusing, but it wouldn't fit as well with the rest of the tour page, IMO.
Only code written during the incubation is required to be open source, teams are free to fork it after that and continue onward (with traditional VC funding). However, Mozilla does encourage keeping the source open; certainly open source does not imply not profitable.
I see scriptability and automation through an API as important to 'cloud' classification too. Good point about the automatic resource allocation, I think that's actually the key. On Linode you're paying for a segment of a specific machine, more like a dedicated server than EC2.
Wave was great for project management. It was project management without the rigid structure.
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Not so. I see people all the time who just get a "This content requires a newer version of Flash."
What I gathered from discussions on the Haiku mailing lists was that -- sometime in the far far future -- file metadata will stay but the indexes will move out of the filesystem into an external location. This makes sense, since it allows you to index complex filetypes such as PDFs and web pages without affecting file system performance. I once worked on an index_server for Haiku that worked somewhat like Spotlight's daemon. A new and much improved version of index_server is already in the Haiku repos, but it's disabled for now. This will form the basis for moving indexes out of the file system.

On losing metadata: every modern filesystem in use supports extended attributes, so this shouldn't be a problem when copying files between BFS and NTFS, EXT4, btrfs, HFS+ or ZFS. The only filesystem that will cause problems is FAT32, which most people still use with USB drives. I don't know how that will be handled in Haiku.
The problem with Facebook is that your network is too small and constricted, people want to expand and reach many many people, not stay limited within their circle. Think about it, you already talk to most of the people who are your closest friends in real life via phone and chat. You don't need yet another way to contact them. They should have taken the opportunity to bring down the barriers of the closed social graph.

Instead Google makes another Facebook with a different UI. It looks like a cleaner Myspace that will be embraced by a small set of techy users. No way will this ever be cool.
Doesn't Google already know enough about us and our habits already?
The domain for this post is actually "news.discovery.com":

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=news.discov...

We're indexing the full domain name though we might want to change that.
I don't think it's surprising that department emails generated no hires. People who take internship opportunities from emails they receive are usually too lazy to look themselves, which probably shows a lack of drive. I say usually, because this isn't always true.

I love these stats though... Would make great presentation material on the importance of being active in a job search. Especially the part about what times to apply... if it's a rolling recruiting basis (which I'm assuming almost every company does), those would probably be advantageous times.
The Url below the keep me posted link on plus.google.com is:
https://services.google.com/fb/forms/googleplus/

services.google.com/FB

I really would love to know what the FB stands for.
Where's the love for eCos?

</troll>
NeXT came free with a Steve Jobs. That's a hard to beat deal.
Or the use case centered around friends when really it seemed more suitable for a business network.
Just out of curiosity ... how many friends involved?
Extremely well done. I didn't bother reading about all the features, but the demo made me go through all of it. I'm now excited about instant photos. Success, google.

I liked the huddle text input, you don't choose what gets written... pogo boots vanilla beetroots?
Rapid7 is doing a great job of supporting open source security projects. It is good to see a commercial company who "greps" open source
It is quite amazing how much your download rate will go up when you make the game free. Try the freemium model.
This is great. I looked for flights yesterday using hipmunk and the whole experience was just perfect. The hipmunk team deserves alot of respect
I've used it for small side-projects and liked it. What I would like to know is how to do logging, both day-to-day ("user Joe created") and for debugging (like JSON dumps of objects). It should work both with the built-in server and with gunicorn, for deployment. I looked but wasn't able to find a solution that worked. The documentation mentioned logging facilities, but I found no working examples.
e^(i * pi * x) for integer x is on the real line.

With 'tau' you only get the positive half (consider the integer values of x; which are 2, 4, 6 for 'tau'): http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+e^%28pi+*+i+*+x%29

I've dozens of subtle little reasons, but I think that one shows it off best and is easiest to understand.

I was going to add that zero crossings for sine waves (I am into sound synthesis) are at integer multiples of pi, but that's just a funny way of stating the above.
I have the same problem, too much spam, but about this solution having a huge potential... I feel like a lot of people feed on that "spam", i.e. gossip, to fill their lives, and make them more interesting. I think that's one reason why facebook is so popular and people spend so much time on it - there's always something happening, relevant/important or not.

Besides, FB has been offering features like this for a long time already, all the people that I know that actually care about privacy have neat friend lists and post only for specific groups of people, have limited profiles/walls, etc.
I'm working on something at the moment to try to explain exactly why what you've said here is, to a large extent, simply wrong. It's too long to include here, and it's not yet ready to "publish". You're about two weeks too early.

But let me ask you this. It's easy to cut a square into identical pieces so that all the pieces touch the center point.

In slightly more detail, the pieces are disjoint sets such that their union is the whole square. The pieces are identical except perhaps for details as to the boundaries. To say that they all "touch" the center point means that every non-zero radius disk centered at the center contains some points from each piece.

So now, how many ways can this be done? No, it's not five. And no, it's not six either.

When you start trying to work it out you find that the details matter, and they can't just be covered by a "childish" drawing to illustrate.

Details matter, and some of them are hard.

Yes, most math teaching is atrocious. We all know that. But it's not always just the teacher's fault. Sometimes it's at least partly the fault of the readers expecting everything to be made simple and immediately accessible with neither work nor effort.
Mozilla offers olive branch to Firefox business users
I typed in 'my wife' and Google gave me naked lady pictures.
I am disappoint.
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Unlike the first car which was about to McQueen returns to the earth and the American right is Cars 2 Mater and the emergence of a love letter to the world. At this point Cars 2 will hamstring Mater is the car version of Mr Bean or Clouseau teacher
Anybody knows about 3rd party apps? Sure uncle Google has considered us developers ...
Indicating social proof in the VC fundraising process
Unrelated but I have to point it out since it happens constantly...

If you're a start-up and you're directing people to your blog, please, please, please make an obvious and easy link from the blog to your startup's homepage. Don't hide it in the sidebar, don't make the 'home' link on the blog go to the blog's homepage, don't waste the damn traffic.

Make it brainless for me to get from your blog to your startup's homepage.
> Here's my experience with a Hangover 2 app I released 1 month before the movie came out. (it was taken down after Warner Bros sent Apple a C&D.)

Ouch. You're lucky they weren't total dicks and didn't sue you for damages. You have to be very careful with copyright / trademark infringement, especially if it's a clear case like this and you're clearly making a profit on it.
One of the nice things about the product is its whimsical nature — a puff of smoke and a -1 animation appears when you remove a friend, and when you remove a social circle, it rolls away off the screen.

Where do I sign up???
I would love to see a live cam feed inside Facebook today.

That would be interesting.
Show HN: Result of hackathon, interactive viz with Processing.js
Me too, maybe they'll be saved by the "hangouts" and photos features?
If Google has enough money to develop self driving cars, there has to be some for the development of remote seduction.
Yet again I'll be in a situation where I (potentially, hopefully) get invited but everyone else I know won't be, so I won't be able to use it. I think having this be invite only, especially where _Google_ is the entity doing the invites is a recipe for disaster.

Now, if they make it so that invited users can invite a good amount of other users (say, 100), then I think they _may_ be able to salvage this. If not, I'm not predicting a good outcome.
pretty much only thing you can do with lists on Facebook is assign people to lists.
Facebook's interface is much better than Orkut's interface, Orkut is a social network that was acquired by Google some years ago, and it does have the broadcast feature that made twitter popular, so Brazilians, were Orkut was really popular, loves Facebook.

I think that Google can leverage adoption by targeting android users and creating a good application for them.

EDIT: Orkut still is really popular here in Brazil but the majority of my friends migrated to Facebook and do not login in Orkut anymore.
Microsoft produced a search engine which is on Google's level and a Map that can compete with Google Maps. But As they were not much better, I had no reason to check it out regularly and compare. But I am on Google's services 40+ times a day. If they want to get my attention, they will get it.
Just out of curiosity ... why a windows server?
i just got an invite and am instantly bored. i already have a news feed, i already have a way to share pictures, i already have a place to share links and i already have a way to chat with friends.

on the + side (hah! get it??), the ui looks nice, so hopefully this means google with start paying more attention to the look and feel of their applications.
Server error unfortunately - this is something I'd like to see though as I basically stopped working out completely for the past four years of my start-up experience. I literally started running again last week, and it has already made a difference in my overall happiness.
Apple tried to use the same philosophy: everyone has an Apple ID, so there's no migration issue. Look how that turned out.

But I understand what point you're trying to make. This will get used, but I don't see it becoming a true Facebook rival because of the network effect Facebook relies on. If users were to migrate in masses, on the other hand, Facebook would be dead within a short amount of time. Sadly, that's not going to happen anytime soon.
No and no. They only offer Memcache.
Well: when I entered my name & email in the form provided, it got a 500 internal server error. When G's servers are overloaded, you know there's ginormous demand. And you know there're bugs still - they don't even call it beta! it's limited Field Trial. This is the way they rolled out GMail, which seems to be doing ok.
> One of the nice things about the product is its whimsical nature — a puff of smoke and a -1 animation appears when you remove a friend, and when you remove a social circle, it rolls away off the screen.

They left out the <marquee> tag or the comic-sans font, because that's what I call whimsical.

Anyway, I wish them most of luck in stealing FB's 500+ million users. They're going to need it, both the luck and the users.
Yes, it's used too often. Yes, it's used sometimes when it's inappropriate. Yes, sometimes I suspect that the author doesn't really know the answer. I'm less sure that the author uses it it all seriousness when the know the result is unproven or unprovable.

But it is a phrase that has its place, there are times when it's exactly right to use it. Don't reject it outright. I've used it in publication where the editor actually asked me to remove details and put the phrase in its place.

It's not always the author.
Testing some (very) old SWF of mine:

Custom font kerning is not supported. (2 occurrences)

Streaming audio is not supported. (17 occurrences)

Blend modes are not supported. (6 occurrences)

Scenes are not supported. (1 occurrences)

Filters are not supported. (426 occurrences)

Adjusting the letter spacing within dynamic text is not supported. (1 occurrences)

Advanced text rendering using continuous stroke modulation is not supported. (5 occurrences)

ActionScript 3.0 is not supported. (2 occurrences)
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HTC Desire S Vs Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc
Here I want to spot some lights on HTC Desire S and Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, which one is a must buy according to consumer point of view.
How To Own Google's First Page - personal branding
Are you freaking kidding me? Facebook, with its lax policy and 3rd party ecosystem (especially in the first years) is basically prostituting people's data.
I'm pretty sure the current on-board WiFi tech uses cell towers for service, which rules out over-ocean access right now.
I think you hit the nail on the head when you talk about the wall being a place for vanity. But it's still a self-censored place for vanity. I guess the question is whether people will go to Google+ to tell that dirty joke they don't want to say in front of their aunt, if they'll just not say it, or if they'll say it anyways, on Facebook.
I have a solution.

Instead of talking about why you are better than the other guy, let’s focus purely on why your system of choice rocks. That’s it.

Nice diagnosis; useless solution. Tool quality is relative. Fast, easy, safe, these are relative terms. Take me back to 1995, and CVS would be my best friend. Repositories rarely get corrupted, and when they do, they're easy to fix! For 1995 values of "rarely" and "easy", at least. Standards are different now because better competitors have emerged.
Braid is another example of this.
Form builder?