skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years ago, I decided that I wanted to make a really good Wikipedia search engine. I downloaded the entire Wikipedia dataset, I downloaded DBPedia, I setup graph database, wrote code to query everything using SPARQL/RDF, and after much trial and error, went a completely different route: Google Ajax/JS Search API

http://chir.ag/wiki/cat+disease+brain

I did this because in the end, Google still gave very good results very fast. I made mine search-as-you-type so if I wasn't satisfied by the results, I could reedit my search text instantly.

I know because of Wikipedia's no-corporate-alliance reasons, they probably won't use Google search. If you're thinking of answering Greplin's call based on textual-analysis, my gut instinct says you will have a VERY hard time beating Google. However, if you go the DBPedia route, you might end up with something really neat. Powerset did something similar and got bought up by MS.
One question. Who would then have access to this conduit? Any company? All Companies?

Someone has to own, operate, install, maintain and fix that fiber.

So, does the company that just laid their own fiber last year get penalized as someone can come in for a much reduced cost and run fiber to compete?

This would have been a good idea 15 years ago. Now it's kind of moot. We already have fiber that's anywhere near a federal highway. Most likely we will have to go _under_ that highway and cross it in metro areas.

Federal grants have paid to put a lot of fiber into the ground in rural areas: http://www2.ntia.doc.gov/

Disclaimer: I work for a Telco that owns a lot of fiber.
Where does the President get the list of potential members to appoint to the Board?

How can the Fed make a loan to the unqualified wives of Morgan Stanley executives with zero-risk to them without repercussion if they are so well controlled?
"A new element is discovered" - zAppium.com - App Discovery
Waiting for someone to beat him out with $3,141.59.
And right now, I think we're going through the human revolution, where we use applications to make humans be better, and do better, and everything is centered around the human experience.
Very interesting idea, but doesn't another YC company (ReadyForZero) already do something similar? It sounds like Debteye has more options to negotiate/restructure debt, but I see a lot of overlap here.
VNC + node-rfb + node-binary + node-png + dnode + browserify

http://github.com/pkrumins/node-rfb

http://github.com/substack/node-binary

http://github.com/pkrumins/node-png

http://github.com/substack/dnode

http://github.com/substack/node-browserify
Will do that. I'll redesign the pricing page altogether and make it obvious what's what.
Put black text on black background and no calibration in the world will help you read it ;-)
Am I the only one who thought "8GB, how underwhelming..."? In this case including the actual ammount of data stolen in the headline takes away from the impact of the story.
Source for the military spending? Wikipedia says otherwise http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_federal_budg...
It's a great way to make money. Loyalty and trust --> more money. This statistic should be an abject lesson to all not to rush crap products to market.
I think "soft skill" just refers to people skills, as opposed to computer skills.
> This setting removes some frustration from the game, like you settling on two sixes but getting only eights benefiting the enemy, but obviously makes "lucky wins" less likely for you as well.

I've played regular board-game Catan about 10 times, and every single time either 6 or 8 has come up way less than it "should". It's been roughly equal whether it's helped or hurt me, but it really takes some of the enjoyment out of the game when people fight for those spots, only to have them be worthless.
"Do I continue down the path of steady, stable employment in a field I don't hate but am not passionate about, or do I make the jump into a field that I love but doesn't offer the level of perks that my current job affords?"

This is the challenge of leaving a local minimum and getting out of your comfort zone.
Here's another. It's strictly inferior to the x&(x-1) one, but the idea that makes it work is so pretty it seems worth mentioning.

y = x | (x>>1);
y |= y>>2;
y |= y>>4;
y |= y>>8;
y |= y>>16;
y |= y>>32; // for 64-bit numbers;
return y == (x<<1)-1;

So what's going on here? Well, it's easy enough to locate the lowest set bit in x -- it's x & -x, the same basic idea as the x&(x-1) trick -- but what the code above does is to locate the highest by "filling" rightwards from that bit. After the first line, the 1-bits in y are the 1-bits in x, and the bits one to the right of them. After the second, it's the 1-bits in x shifted right by 0..3 places. After the next, 0..7 places. And so on. Eventually, that comes to "all the 1-bits in x, and everything any distance to their right". So, e.g., 000101000100 -> 000111100110 --> 000111111111 which then doesn't change.

The nice thing is that the number of steps this takes goes like log(word width). It's in the same spirit as the 0x33333333 popcount trick.

(On some processors -- all x86 ones since 386, for instance -- there's an instruction that does something similar directly, but on at least some x86 processors it's rather slow.)
What these explanations lack, and is so hard for the educated layman to understand, I think, is why this is so important to physicists. If you were a "layman" reading Maxwell's work (or rather Oliver Heaviside's, who put it in the much simpler form we know), you question would be similar: "I understand about photons and the electromagnetic force and the coolness of predicting the speed of light using theoretical mean. But what is it useful for?" Mathematicians face the same difficulty in explaining Riemann's hypothesis or the Poincare conjecture to people.

Someone needs to explain the following clearly:

* What if the Higgs boson doesn't exist? does this mean Gigg' theory is incorrect?

* What is Higgs' theory is totally incorrect?

* What if the boson has mass 10M (or 10000M) rather than M, how would the world (universe) be different?

* If the boson is found, are we "done", i.e. can we proceed with a coming up with a GUT?
In that case, I'll heap some more on.

I've been prevented from doing anything meaningful on a startup of my own for ~5 years, primarily because I was intimidated by the big picture of how much went into making a "real business". But in that same time frame (and in front of my over HN-ed eyes), Patrick has done great things and inspired me to refocus on small, incremental progress that adds up over time. Now I make sure I don't let a single week go by without doing something to improve my technical and business situation.

Patrick is inspiring because he seems like so much more of a relatable Everyman that more developers can relate to. Plus he's a super nice guy!
Functional Programming With Ruby
To be noted, it sounds like it's a problem with the current Flash version and Lion, rather than Twilio themselves.
Previously:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2754949 (July 2011)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2471659 (April-ish 2011)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2518898 (89 days old)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=585693

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1449842

(Not trying to be coy, just trying to be helpful, but search is valuable in this case.)
That's an understatement!
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These are the two things I would suggest, too.
Thanks for the feedback! Right now the app is pretty barebones. I can see what I can do to hack together a better user / presence system when I get some time.
patio11 Thank you for your all your advice and insight, it is truly motivational.

Have you always been so cheerful or is it a product of your environment in Ogaki, or maybe even your success?
Whoever can pay to lease a conduit would have access to it, I'd imagine. The company that leases the conduit would be responsible for buying the glass, pulling it, and splicing it. I imagine a contractor would be selected to repair and maintain the conduit in the event of back hoe.

Power companies and some telecoms do this now for "pole rights" on aerial fiber/copper builds.
You should consider teaming up with http://compassionpit.com/
Great. I just wasted 30 minutes on it. Game on!
This part made me skeptical (wouldn't a professional debt consultant be better at negotiating good terms than your average layman?).

If you assume the debt consulting is working for the debtor, then yes, it would be reasonable to assume they would be better at negotiating terms than the average layman. There is a very dangerous assumption in this sentence.

If you ever have a credit related problem, and are considering talking to a credit counselor, jump into a vat of pond scum. There, I just saved you several thousand dollars, and you'll feel cleaner in the bargain.

(Serious advice: you will get better advice from either a lawyer or the Motley Fool Credit Cards and Consumer Debt forum than from credit counselors.)
GPU acceleration isn't going to make a difference here. Bespin started as Canvas-based and moved to Ace's DOM based rendering because there wasn't a significant performance advantage to keeping it on canvas.

Mozilla and the ajax.com guys have put a significant amount of effort into this area (the current system is the third rewrite for the Mozilla guys) and both teams had a pretty good set of js hackers. I disagree with some of the decisions made (mostly due to scope and what I think is important vs what they think and my background in writing several Vim plugins) but the decisions weren't made from technical ignorance or not being willing to experiment with non-DOM backends. If you aren't familiar with what they're doing, you're going to spend most of your time rediscovering pain points. The simplest example I know of is that there isn't a good way to figure out exactly what the user typed other than having them type into a hidden text field and reading the results back. The obvious approaches seem to work for US/EU keyboards but fall apart on the CJK family.
Quiz: How well do you know CPUs/Microprocessors?
In a presentation with Tom Jenkins (CEO OpenText) in 2009, he said that the dark fiber was projected to be fully used within a year.
I don't understand how having a GPL license will improve your funding situation.

Are you expecting that people will come along and pay $4,096 for an MIT license?

If they were doing it to support the project, then they would do it just the same if it was MIT to begin with, but who would do this just to get a different license?
Personal debt reduction is primarily about behavior modification, much like losing weight. I don't see much in this startup that focuses on changing people's habits.
Interesting idea, but I had to reduce the Safari font size in order to see the login button, since I'm on an 11" MacBook Air. For some reason they've turned off overflow on the entire page.
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_CanHaz: Underscore template inspired on ICanHaz
Well no, I can see Einstein but letters are still blurry without glasses. Reading that way is a great way to get eyestrain and headaches.

Also your study is about children - nothing says that will reverse myopia in adults.
Downloaders aren't sued only because the copyright holders can't find them.
> The list could only cover a few, few universally recognized crimes, like theft, fraud, and criminal trespass. In other words: this wouldn’t work for politically inflammatory speech or copyright infringement;

Copyright infringment is theft for a non-negligible segment of the population (mostly the one in power).

Also, I have some doubts about the 40 billion figure. most of it seems to come from "IP theft" which I would love to see defined in more precise terms.

I agree with the general idea of suing phishers and spammers into oblivion. Though I guess a lot of precautions must be taken to avoid the collateral damage described above (abuse of the law for political reasons) which makes it way less simple.
If it's any consolation, hearing from a patent troll means you've built a successful product.
Any reason for having javascript alerts? Instead of inside the game window?

BTW the javascript alert shows up on a different monitor in my dual-head setup.
I hope the winner gets built as a customizable addendum to the Mediawiki code and released as an extension. This way if Wikipedia doesn't use it other Mediawiki instances can.
Completely agree. It made me cringe to read that the founders are already "credit councilors." It's possible that they could have the debtor's interests in mind, but unlikely given the state of that industry.

The best advice I have found is from Dave Ramsey. http://www.daveramsey.com
Perhaps some instructions would help. I'm on a pad and lost 4 times in a row with no idea what I'm supposed to do. Tapping the "field of play" seems to have no effect.
Backbone capacity is not nearly as big of an issue, despite traffic growth. Long haul DWDM systems get denser, higher bit rate transponders get built, etc to push more bits across the same fiber.
Fascinating. I think the lesson must have backfired.
I agree with you and I feel the same! As a co-founder, I recently did risk analysis for next iteration of our product; for everything we had risk mitigation strategy in place. But for "getting sued"; we will be screwed and shut down the business (if its hundreds of thousands dollar claim)
Yeh it's fairly slow going. I'm at 3,706,382,752 and am going to call it a day. Looks like the code works properly.
I use a cassette adapter on my 2001 Honda. It's low-tech and ugly as hell but it gets the job done as well.

http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=13981611
That taboo is gone; nobody bothers to hide it any more.
Very true. While unlikely, it is certainly possible to rise to the top of the industry in CS without even graduating high school. Medical field? No way.
It might be fun to extend this idea to bet on RottenTomatoes scores before the reviews start flowing in.

And if it turns out that your users are any good at predicting movie biz metrics, there might be some value in the data you collect.
Google Bans Adwords use for Facebook
I believe he meant technologies that have the bulk of their logic server side, as opposed to on the client side (ie, old Twitter vs. new Twitter).
From Wikipedia:

Non-compete agreements are automatically void as a matter of law in California, except for a small set of specific situations expressly authorized by statute. They were outlawed by the original California Civil Code in 1872.

...

Exceptions - valid non-compete agreements in California

There are limited situations where a reasonable non-compete agreement may be valid in California.

1. If an owner is selling the goodwill in their business.

2. When there is a dissolution or disassociation of a partnership.

3. Where there is a dissolution of a limited liability company.

Read more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#California
Has Google Overtaken Oracle As The Open Source King?
I'm glad you re-posted, actually, since the original links (when posted) didn't include audio.
Luban: a generic “language” for creating user interface
Ask HN: A different way to travel?
I'll be graduating in December, and have decided I want to travel as much as possible for the next few years. Unfortunately, a traditional job with 2-4 weeks of vacation a year doesn't allow for the type of extensive travel I'm hoping to do. Equally unfortunate is the fact that I don't have the money to simply take off and go see the world. So, what I'm hoping to do is leverage my fairly useful skill set (as a developer) to make this happen. I would honestly be happy working short contracts for room/board (and maybe enough to make a student loan payment every month) if it gave me the ability to see the world.

Here are my questions:
- Has anyone had experience with this type of arrangement?
- Would any of you bring somebody in under this type of arrangements?
- Is anyone else interested in this type of work/travel?

If so, I would seriously consider attempting to build a network for interested workers and employers.

Advice/Suggestions are much appreciated.
We just released this over the weekend, it was built from a very similar mindset - Cloud9 looks great but not 'open' enough. If you like it, pass it along: http://www.wiode.com
What do you mean by heavily modified? Wikipedia is running version 1.17wmf, basically 1.17 with some fixes pulled from trunk. You'll find it here: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/wmf/1.17w...

You'll find the installed extensions here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version
I've heard that it's a game that destroys friendships.
snagged in this bundle after mostly ignoring it despite people raving. i played Metal Storm on the NES and nothing i saw from vvvvvv looked like it trumped that, but i plan to try it out. i'm sure it has more charm that doesn't come through in most people's videos demoing it.
I don't want Google to block any sites. I don't need nor want a personalized internet filter bubble. What I want Google to do is learn to recognize spammy or irrelevant sites and rank them lower.
Congrats Peteris and James! I've had a lot of fun watching the progress of Browserling through interacting with it. And congrats to Jonathan and Laura too!
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well its less approved and more known to work because hardware vendors provide proper drivers or support, etc.
Wow, "3 hours ago" they were under $100k? They're at $235k now. $40k/hour in sales ain't too shabby. It's amazing watching the total-revenue number grow.

$26k in sales per dev (and counting) ain't too shabby either. Good on them.

Also, heh, how many names do you recognize out of the top 10 contributors list?
That's exactly right! in fact credit counseling as it exists today is essentially "client-side" collections. We're essentially trying to change that by 1. recommending behavior modification techniques focused around budgeting and responsible spending, 2. finding current avenues to find savings from creditors and reduce your monthly burden and so you see an immediate benefit and 3. reduce your long-term dependence on credit, at all. In a sense we are compiling the best advice out on the market today and packaging it into an easy to use software and guides you through the process step by step.
Point 3 depends on the workloads. Most SMT [1] implementations replicate integer functional units - otherwise the threads would stall on basic things like computing addresses - but they don't replicate floating point units. So if you have lots of floating point heavy work, then you're limited by the number of cores, not the total number of SMT contexts provided by all of those cores.

So it's not that SMT pipelines are slower, it's just that they share resources with the other SMT pipelines.

[1] Simultaneous multithreading (SMT), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_multithreading, is the generic name for what Intel calls hyperthreading.
The history behind Schwartz's "praise" of Android using Java
"the fear of Islamisation is all but irrational."

"While the radical feminist movement is embraced by present day Political Correctness ideology, derived from cultural Marxism,"

There are 1500 pages of nonsensical ranting, elaborately constructed with the most tortuous logic. It would take weeks to parse it, weeks I intend to dedicate to far nobler purposes.
They would probably get sued. By Apple ;)
I stopped reading after "cities routinely survive nuclear bombs".
YC isn't afraid to invest in companies that do similar things - both ZumoDrive and DropBox were YC companies.
Structuring Your SproutCore Application: Part 2
Well, shit.

At least that explains assorted dopey behavior.
I went through the process out of curiosity, and I got to a page asking me to enter my bank account information. Huge, huge red flag for someone who doesn't know you from a hole in the wall. Why would I give you my bank account information at this point? Am I already approved? Is this a loan? What happens? When is my first payment?

All of these went through my head before I tried to find a way to cancel my account (couldn't).

I like this idea, but there is simply not enough information about what you're going to do with my financial life. How exactly are you going to help me?
I've been waiting for this for a long time, kudos Google!
MonoTouch 4.0.4.1 is out, First release from Xamarin
Good work! I've had some cool ideas for Twilio projects but so far the pricing has made them all impractical. The Twilio Client is really opening some doors in this respect, being 1/4 the cost of a phone call and a cool feature to boot!

I still hope you have some throttling in place though because 1000 concurrent users will cost you $150/hr...
I would agree with you here, and I hope you will judge us on our product rather than the "state of the industry" One HUGE difference between ourselves and credit counselors is that we don't get any sort of pay out from creditors, our clients are the only ones we have a responsibility to, whereas credit counselors, even non-profits, take what's called a "fair-share" fee from creditors, which is basically a % "donation" based on how much the credit counselor collects. We believe this aligns our incentives a lot closer to our customers!
Good luck and godspeed.
Tried a demo, and when I went to close it, I got a popup about it not supporting the back button. :\
Because Helvetica looks so bad on Windows, a good compromise for a CSS font stack is something like:

font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif;

Helvetica Neue (a minor reworking of Helvetica from 1983) is a Mac system font, but few Windows PCs have it. So Mac users get nice fonts and everyone else gets Arial.

Many CSS font stacks list Helvetica after Arial, but that is silly because nearly all computers (like 98%) have Arial, so Helvetica will never be selected. :(
you should really try the "tree style tab" extension for firefox. it's pure bliss for tab addicts.
Hell, even I still do it. Typing "fb<enter><enter>" into chrome is easier than "facebook.com<enter>"
Thanks for the advice! we'll definitely add more guidance here. Basically when you reach that step we don't do anything with your information until we've reached out to you and confirmed the plan details and walked you through what the product is. Very valid points about lack of education throughout the registration process.
Interesting! Good luck going forward with it. I feel like 4k is really a small amount for such a huge project..?
Thanks for the reply. I meant that the overhead is going to your page, instead of just shooing an email from an email client; it is minimal but still it's a big step to remember your site.

I commented this because I had similar idea before. I planned to have it more public with points, so most thank you notes would be public and it would say "Jack Jones thankend Jill Jones" with a note. Each of them would get points each time they thank and get thanked (Two counters). In a way this would be like recommendations on linkedin. People would have their profile pages with all thanks and they could use it to show if off.

An idea: video thank you notes, that could go for a premium. You can easily capture and record video from a browser. That's more personal than physical note.
We target a slightly different market than ReadyForZero, RFZ targets customers who are trying to set up a structured approach to paying off debts on their own, whereas we help guide those customers who may not have the finance resources to be able to pay off on their own.
I'll announce tunnels in my next blog post! They are already live (the ssh icon on the right, when you use Browserling) but I haven't announced them anywhere, so almost no one knows about them!

See you soon in the Bay Area!