skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ht://Dig (http://www.htdig.org/) was my favorite back before Google was big. It hasn't been updated since the rise of Google, but it is still a very configurable, nice search engine.

Google Custom Search is probably the best bet for any site. It has a free mode for free organizations, and an ad-supported one otherwise.
Why don't you ask the small business administration?
Agreed, same thing I said yesterday:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=342705

Too much off-message content right up front. "Freedom from coffee and copies" and "new and improved" are the two messages you hit me with on first impression, which loses me. Your message seems to be, "YouIntern.com brings students and employers together." That's what needs to be in 1000 point font. You should follow up with your main point of differentiation, i.e. "by crawling 8 bazillion thingers and having a team of monkeys sort them to match your skills".
Betas of the Year 2005 - Where are they now?
LinkedIn Answers might also be good for it. Although I bet eMarketer has the number.
That's what I thought as soon as I read the title, too.

Firefox's record: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/worldrecord/
Well... nobody is perfect and Gnome guys have lots of room for improvement too.

But again... Quality of your UI software isn't everything. Sometimes a game-changing feature appears out of nowhere. Apple's multi-touch has changed how I use computer dramatically. And it has almost nothing to do with the software itself: it's a driver+hardware combination that I personally find impossible to live without. OSX allows me to do a lot with just one hand, so I can hold a cup of coffee in another: flip pages, zoom in/out, scroll up/down, etc. This was enough for me to stick to OSX for my daily non-programming computing needs. I even started reading books in PDF format, something I previously could believe I could do.
2Advanced conference table
Yes! I'm going to school in Troy, NY, which the geolocation figured out, but I'm looking for internships in Silicon Valley (where I spend my summers). I can't search by location, and I can't figure out how to browse past the first 10. Makes finding internships kind of hard.
Netflix brings online streaming to Mac with Silverlight
Just a note - it won’t work with IE6.

I'm not a MySpace user, but I am a web developer. This could be very good news indeed.
Giant "DOWNLOAD" buttons look kind of spammy to me
eMarketer has it http://www.emarketer.com/SiteSearch.aspx?arg=small+business+...

If you contact me through my blog (altgate.com) I can track that number down for you...
Introducing Amazon's Windowshop.com
I think most people tend to take for granted how difficult most software is to use. Blender is free, yes, but the UI is far from intuitive, even for hardened veterans in the industry. Even supposedly no-brainer apps like 3dsmax has a extreme learning curve. We've all sort of accepted this as the Way Things Are.

For comparison, I heard a talk by a very interesting startup about a year ago that was doing n-sided patch modeling... which is to say that artists were able to literally draw the primary curves of the shape they were trying to make, and not to concerned at all with quad-patches, lining up the vertices, etc etc. Artists with little to no experience in CAD/3D modeling were able to make complex shapes but merely drawing.

That is the kind of universal usability that the article's predictors were dreaming of, not the convoluted, brain-dead UI we got instead. When I read that article I cannot help but think of how it describes a software world that could have been, if people really just gave a crap about usability.
Your top productivity web apps?
Everyone keeps talking about web apps and how great they are. But I keep wondering: how many people use them, which web apps do they use, which ones have actually replaced their desktop alternative? How close are we to using productivity web apps in a mainstream fashion?

So, what do you think? What web apps do you use in your work routine? Which web apps have beaten their desktop alternatives?

Deyan
You bring up some valid points, but I would postulate that people talk about the recent past (i.e. events that affect the future), the present, and the predicted future, far more than they talk about far-past events... especially so if they're tying emotions into this discussion.

The geo-centricity of the data is definitely a problem. Forest fires in California would certainly incur a lot of grief emoticons from that area, and if the algorithm were not geosensitive it would presume there was a spike in global sadness, which would not be the case.
I think Apple should buy up Nintendo (I don't know what their cap is but assuming it is doable). They could even try to just enter the console gaming market themselves with the iGame or something similar...
Well, from my anecdotal evidence, most emoticon usage is to describe personal events, not global ones. There's way too much noise in this dataset.
It's a very nice design. It's been up for about a month now.
CSI: Art Imitates Life
Another surprising (or not-so-surprising) thing that happened in this episode is Sara (Jorja Fox) validating her belief that, indeed, this CSI life was just too depressing for her. She upped and left, somehow ending whatever it was she and Grissom (William Petersen) had – once again. However, unlike the last time, there wasn’t so much as a ruckus when she left on this episode, not a letter, nothing, she just did. Then again, Grissom himself has some eight episodes to go before he leaves so it’s unclear if it remotely matters
Yeah. I've also noticed that the maps look less pretty (kinda stairstepped/lightningbolted) in city areas as well. They did add address range data, though...
I've never had any trouble with my ford, and it was the cheapest car available when I bought it. I don't follow the auto industry, but it's my understanding that the statistics generally confirm that US and Japanese cars are of comparable quality (unlike in the 1980s).

GM deserves its coming bankruptcy. They made obscene money on light trucks and SUVs (trivially engineered vehicles--unlike cars, which are expected to handle properly). They could have come up with the next Mustang, or the next K platform, but...eh.
Firefox + leechblock + http://nowdothis.com

jottit.com (better than Vim, OpenOffice, MovableType or Google Docs for compiling a set of notes about a subject over time. See http://nixcommands.jottit.com for an example)

http://tmedweb.tulane.edu, sort of a corner case, but I think there might be a lot of room for this sort home-spun productivity site for a few hundred people.
Is there anything that sets you aside from the hundreds of other intern sites out there?
This is up there with ConnectNow and Buzzword as some of the best-designed and most innovative Flash apps I've seen.
"I think Apple should buy up Nintendo (I don't know what their cap is but assuming it is doable)."

44 Billion.

source: http://finance.google.com/finance?q=OTC:NTDOY
Review my startup: JamRides - Carpool to events
Overall the site looks good. I would like to see the average ratings for each company. When I check out Raytheon I have to read each individual review to find the ratings.It would also be nice to limit the searches to fields, like engineering, on the initial search.
I love having discussions like this: I like meeting people that I can talk with without having it before a flamefest.

That "window groups" seems really interesting, as does the hor/vert maximization. I don't know if I've ever seen that before. The groups in particular seems really nice: that would almost serve to do away with apps like Coda (which I use to program on the Mac, and which advertises a one-window everything device), at least for the sake of getting things done for cheap.

The virtual desktop isolation makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the clarification! I agree: it would be really nice to have an option for completely separating the spaces from one another. Chalk that up as another thing I didn't know Gnome could do.

Sorry my del.icio.us program didn't work. What fails with it? I'm curious, since it advertises indexing directly. You could try importing your bookmarks as Safari bookmarks, then opening them up like that? Though I don't think Spotlight handles bookmarks very well. I know Google Bookmarks get indexed, but handling two bookmarks sites isn't optimal.
Nintendo is not vulnerable enough
I'm with you.
I don't get it... The physics part is pretty minimal and doesn't seem to bring anything to the gameplay: the "corpses" don't really slow you down and the fact that your "bullets" can hit on the way down don't add much either.
Oh well, it's Sunday.
How would you use the data to predict the future though, assuming what you just said is accurate?
1) He mentioned releasing a new version of the software at the same time. It is almost a rule that announcing new releases in blogs or sending customers a newsletter always makes a noticeable increase in visits to your page, including downloads of your app.

2) Lots of shareware trackers check an industry-standard file on the app's web site to learn about updates, drawing more attention to apps that are "new" or "updated."

3) With a software product, as with web apps, the goal of your site is to get the person to use your product, if not pay for it outright. Therefore, there should be an actionable prompt to download the software on every page (though not always in the form of a big red button, of course.) As most visitors leave the homepage of most web sites they've never been to before right away, there should be something for them to do.
I'm the creator of JamRides. This is my first webapp, so please feel free to throw me whatever you can think of, especially the obvious.

FYI, I decided to leave out anything that explains what JamRides is about on the homepage, (check the about section) mainly because I don't expect anyone to come to JamRides through homepage linking. In fact, the main feature of JamRides enables anyone can post carpool links anywhere, so the traffic coming in will should already know what we are about (somewhat).

Does this make sense?
Stanford is offering some of its most popular engineering classes for free
I almost never like Flash-only sites but this is pretty awesome. I love the simplicity of the UI... just arrow keys!
For the past decade whenever anyone in Congress would talk about raising CAFE standards or requiring SUV's to meet the safety standards of passenger cars instead of trucks we would get the response from auto executives that they have to listen to the market. People won't pay for safety or fuel economy they would say. We are only building what people want.

Well listen to the market now - go die. No one wants the crap you are building and you were too short-sited to hedge your bet by making anything else. Why should we prop-up this aging dinosaur? There are plenty of profitable car manufactures making cars in the US people want - the Honda Accord for one.
as a creator of a live music search site (www.HearWhere.com), I love the idea that you are proposing.
However, i think getting users to post events is a bit of a challenge, and there doesn't seem to be much in the way of 'discovery' built in.
How will you manage how different people input the event differently? some might enter the band name, some might enter the location.

Have you considered using an api like zvents or upcoming?

I just realized in your demo all of your events are demo.
Why not have those listed on the home page, you could do a 'search from area'.

Also, you can use google to find the initial location of your users so you could list the events near them.

I don't think the 'from' field makes an sense in the address sense (unless you are just geocoding to region or something).

Not sure what you are thinking of with respect to a use-case. Do you think people who have extra space are going to post the event? Or people who are looking for a ride would add it?

Obviously the second makes more sense, but I'm not sure why the person with extra capacity would be driven to your site.
Maybe i'm just having difficulty imagining it without enough content.

If I were you I'd spend some time getting REAL events, and make the site something people could actually use (meaning working with real data, not demo data).

Maybe even a screencast of who the actors are, and what they would do would help.

The idea itself is simple to understand, but getting from 'people would use this to carpool to gigs' to actually getting the site used is a bit of a bigger leap than you expect.
I'm speaking from experience.
I've gone through many versions of my site since launching this summer, and it still needs more refinement.
Best of luck with the new site.
ASK HN: Slight Career Change
I am working as a QA Test/Automation Engineer in a Networking Company since ~2yrs, I'am now planning to move to a Web2.0 or Web App Company like Google, Facebook, LinkedIn as an Apps Developer. How/What should I prepare for the interview ?
Couldn't this be made in javascript? My fan just started (stupid first gen macbook).
I agree with your thoughts on leaving out explaining JamRides on the homepage, as it is simple enough to understand.
But if i where you, i'd put your tagline 'Carpool to shows, events, gatherings' on the page.
Not everybody will see the title, but that tagline is enough to describe what you are doing.
I actually liked the classes by MIT and Berkley. They atleast have more variety for foundation level CS classes.
"The last time you provoked an argument..."

Gee, nothing like making personal attacks when you've got nothing else to say. Please tell me, when did I make this personal? I didn't...

Anyway, to answer you question...what does Vista Media Center have that Apple Front Row doesn't? Well for one, CableCARD. Secondly, more hardware options, as usual. For instance, a Gyration remote (the best there is, IMO).

Please see this list of many other things, this person says it better than I have time for:

http://cybernetnews.com/2008/05/12/cybernotes-apple-front-ro...
What are your skills? (What programming technologies do you know?)
A nice design. Looks familiar with CoolIris. But, it is much harder to view more items since there are limited spaces for large, nice poster. There is no search bar for accurate search, no auto recommendation. It is something like best sell book on nytime or top50 on billboard. I can not get any sense about its usability.
Nice idea. Personally, I would hold off on the ads until you have some momentum. The revenue will be minimal until you have traffic and I believe not running adsense ads will make it more attractive to your early adopters.
Google recognises only document formats and shows them.

I meant recognising what the page actually contains? Is the page a simple HTML page or a very heavy flash page. This would help people in low bandwidth countries like Africa.

And it would be a lot better if you have a basic idea of what you want to display and create an image mockup, post it here and ask for feedback (after you get enough ideas from this thread). That would be the next thing you would want to do I suppose. That way you would be able to get more inputs for a close-to-perfect redesign. :)

Also,
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...

Thats the link to the MIT User Interface Design course from MIT OCW. Refer that for a better UI.

I heard from somewhere that placing the labels of input fields on top of the input fields increases speed of readability than when you put the labels of the input fields on the left. (I don't remember the source but I remember the content right)

Hope that helps!

Ah! if this is your blog: http://www.trk7.com/blog/about/
I can shoot you a mockup to your email address. :) Is it okie to do it?
Zoomii.com is a nice completely javascript version by a friend from a canadian startup. Focused completely on books. Zoomii's really impressive. Its speed makes google maps feel slow.
yes it can! see my other comment about zoomii.com
Oh and I actually run Windows theme-less and the default border is 4px. At 1920x1200, I have plenty of pixels left over. What resolution were you looking at?
Your point is that it is possible to iterate over any sort of data structure. This is true. The problem is that you have to use different sorts of iteration for different data structures.

Yes, it is possible to use macros to write code that works over both lists and other iterable things. But that isn't the most natural usage; Arc encourages you to write recursive functions using car and cdr. And if you have a lot of code using car and cdr, you have to rewrite that if you want to convert data from lists to another data type. Objects could possibly give you a polymorphic car and cdr, similar to Clojure, so you just don't have to worry about "what sort of iterable object" a function is going to work on.

As far as dynamic arrays versus lists, you can consider it "just an optimization step" as long as you can swap in a dynamic array for a list later on without changing your code. But that isn't possible in Arc because you will have to replace car/cdr with other iteration constructs. I think it's a little unfair to consider the difference between Lisp lists and dynamic arrays just a matter of optimization - there are plenty of things that you can't even play around with when random access is O(n). E.g. randomly shuffling the lines of a large text file.
sorry but it can not. Obviously, amazon's website involving with some kind of 3d transformation of covers/images. That is one thing existing javascript can not do. zoomii.com is impressive, but there is no 3d transformations though I think it is a minor difference.
What php does now make me have no confidence in its future. Already started a transformation for exist website from php to python. Like what Paamayim Nekudotayim said, these guys who develop php interpreter have limited vision from the global language development. Thus, it time to leave php behind.
Excellent Article. Loved it.
Thanks for posting it, hhm.
I use adsotrans.com for Chinese-English translation support. Collaborative translation support tools that don't screw around with grammar are great.
Qik Finally Brings Its Live Video Streaming To Blackberry
Trends in Internet Advertising: Banner ads share declining, Keyword based search on a rise... Ask HN: What does it indicate??
yep that was the first thing I recollected as soon as I saw this. I even commented on zoomii blog that this would get propagated to lot of shopping websites. good news really
A Gazillion-user Comet Server With libevent, Part 0
So, basically: Do more then code for 8 hours a day nonstop.

Does anyone even do that anymore? Or in the first place?
Make sure you can reverse a linked list in C++.
I don't think it's safe to measure various health care systems against each other

OK. How about measuring various health care systems against themselves? What I am putting forward is that given that we are talking about improvement in the types of metrics used to compare health care systems, the US system would improve it's output by being public to an extent.

Various implementations are possible from direct government ownership of hospitals to means-tested health care subsidies & everything in between. Obviously crappy implementation has the ability to make things worse. But within the realm of the currently probable, steps taken in that direction would probably lead to an improved result.

But again, that's a purely technical line of argument. I think that in this case the rule of thumb economic liberalism is wrong. I'm reasonable happy to let economists bash that one out. But I do think that in the absense of an overwhelming victory for one of the practical debates, the moral argument here is very strong.

practical grounds

That's an area worthy of discussion in itself. Even if you do believe that drug use is deeply immoral, but see that the consequences of prohibition on are so severe, it'd be very rational to let it slide. But then, I wonder what I would think if I did understand drug use to be deeply immoral in the same sense as rape or murder is immoral. Would I allow legalised rape if the long term if the consequences of prohibiting it were as severe as the drug case. I dn't know how to answer that. (*Most would say no to a purely utilitarian approach http://www.nysun.com/arts/putting-practice-into-ethics/69595...)

For me that particular issue is all about practical. It's hard for me to see any justification for drug prohibition on moral grounds, just the opposite. It's an infringement on liberties. So there have to be net benefit reasons. But I would consider the flipside. In Australia (where I live) Alcohol & gambling are legal. Certain communities (usually extremely remote communities) here have severe social problems linked to abuse of these. Very severe. Some have decided that Alcohol prohibition (like dry counties in the states) are necessary to get the situation under control.

Even though I think individuals should have the right to consume alcohol, in these circumstances the prohibition creates large net gain for the community. I'm OK with that.
Banner advertisments are possibly one of the few rich content medium options that marketers can use to communicate the benefits of the product. While the proportion of banner advertisement has gone down from 58% in 1998 to 22% in 2006, how far do you think can it fall? If not banner ads, then what??
Listening is the most productive form of communication
There is a big difference.

Education is seen as a right in The States. Everyone gets to (has to) go to school.
Totally agree. I was just testing the ads. Taking them off now.
Sorry my del.icio.us program didn't work. What fails with it? I'm curious, since it advertises indexing directly.

I dunno. It just sits there (running) but nothing ever shows up in Spotlight. May be an issue on del.icio.us side, though: they're known for changing/breaking their APIs.

Safari bookmarks get picked up fine and I use it frequently.
Introducing Authgasm: "Rails authentication done right".
Dell Inspiron Mini 12... Tasty
You guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Come on! Surely startups in the present economy would be aware that predicting the future has been exactly the problem that got us into this mess. If you didn't study it yet, get familiar with the history of the Black-Scholes model. The original quants behind Long Term Capital Management, and the quants today use the same math. Yes, it won the Nobel Prize in economics, but nobody said economists were brilliant mathemeticians (quite the contrary actually. In fact, the poor/dishonest reasoning of economists was the whole motivation behind the Post-Autistic Economics Review).

The Black-Scholes is based on a calculus used to by rockets to predict their navigational path through space while seeking their targets. Any rocket scientist can tell you, it doesn't work out all the time. Continuous calculuses don't respond well to unplanned discontinuities. So you might get away with it for a little while, but eventually you'll be wrong. And the consequences will almost certainly be catastrophic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-Scholes

Stop it!
Mine too. 3 month old macbook.
Actually I recall that Aveo is really a Daewoo Kalos, made in Mexico, brought to the US and then stickered with a chevy badge.

I think maybe I heard that GM bought all or part of Deawoo but its still a stretch to call this car a chevy.
Thanks for all of the great ideas. Here are my response:

"Have you considered using an api like zvents or upcoming?

- I have. However first, I want JamRides to be adopted by bands and venues, so that then can make or link to their own carpool page like this one:

http://jamrides.com/calendar?pblc_key=6619203945241087998

"Also, you can use google to find the initial location of your users so you could list the events near them"
- Definitely. In fact, I did that already. It will look like this: (if you live in berkeley)

http://jamrides.com/j?date=2008-10-31&from=berkeley,+ca
I'm not sure how practical it is, but it's really cool anyway. I felt like I was actually browsing a bookstore.