skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will be non-partisan, be free from political influence, and non-ideologically driven.

Really? No bias? How about this: you'd be a sucker. People apply for grant money and are rejected because the grants are often terrible. Sure, sometimes good grants get rejected, but, overall, the review system is pretty functional. I don't know much about NSF in particular, but if they reviewed grant proposals and then gave out money without passing judgement on quality, they'd be wasting a whole lot of money. And you'd really have to remove all judgement if you wanted a system where all academics are equal. So, judgement is back. Now, tell me this: now that we're judging, can we really keep ideological bias out?

You have to remember that grant money can pay salaries. If you give it out to anyone, people will abuse it.

You make a valid point about the Bush administration, though.
I always thought someone should clone Seaside in Python. Looks very intriguing.
Very good design. You are obviously very talented.

However, I don't think your site solves the problem better than a pen and a piece of paper.

I'm going to paraphrase a quote I read once: "the web is your hammer, and everything looks like a nail." Every problem is not best solved via the web. I think this may be one of those cases. But I could be wrong.

Either way, great looking site and good luck.
not necessarily, although TC definitely sources articles from hacker news, and seemingly a few alley insider articles as well.

does it matter to me one way or the other? nope. good journalists/writers find stories where they may, but more a reference to how influential hacker news is/has become
Search engines square off in new battle...rap.
aren't these google results spit out here (for obscure searches)..

I don't see any attribution..? (e.g. 'swarmware')

at http://www.seekng.com (and my others) I allow explicit selection, and model the SearchProvider (connecting to search results memes in a graph)
I see, Yahoo, not google (per links)

I'm just curious myself about the legalities
With every story about the G1 this week comparing it against the iPhone, I wonder whether Google should regret setting up the comparison with Apple rather than the legacy players. Android stands up better against Palm and WiMo phones than the iPhone; had they aimed for a "strong second place" rather than gunning for first immediately, the PR might have been more positive.
Nice work. I agree that tts refreshing to see a service where I understand what it does in 10 seconds.
Your logo and red and yellow colour scheme make me think of fast food.

You should add Javascript to make my browser display the URL in the status bar when my mouse hovers over a result.
I searched for poop (didnt have anything meaningful to look for), and got:
Aspect-oriented programming, "Post Object-Oriented Programming"

made me laugh.
Framework announcements should always come with sample code. Always. Talking about how great it is doesn't help me understand how it works.
awesome work! would you mind telling us how it works? :)

I got decent results, but for a small number of search terms:

When I searched for:
"com surrogate encountered a problem"
I got decent results, but when I searched for
"com surrogate encountered a problem norton ghost"
the results were off completely.

I then tried the second search query with google and got precise results.
It's weird, high brow people have a stereotype of high brows and visa versa. I didn't think the terms were so literal.
I lost 5 minutes of my life trying to find a relation between that article and this site.
The days of carriers locking users into 2 year contracts are numbered. It's encouraging that both Google and Apple are considering breaking this uncompetitive market up.
IStockPhoto revenues up - US Mega-Churches one of their biggest customers
I'm a blogger and I absolutely use HN as a resource.
Nice design that provides immediate comprehension.

Understood it in a few seconds!
Ack. Good results but not yet so impressive that it's a Google killer. I gave it a quick spin and it gave better results than most prospective giant killers, but still not notably better than the giant itself.

Unlike most, I'd be prepared to give it another go at some future date though - so this definitely has some potential. I hope the developer keeps on working on this.
Too much cognitive overhead from choosing all of these options. I want inexpensive (unlimited) high quality service, ideally with no service contract. Choosing between five service providers every time I want to make a phone call (or even every time I go to a new city or state) is insanity. See e.g.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/03/01/040301crbo_books

on having too many choices.
+1 on elevating the importance of the "Sign Up" button.
UNEMPLOYMENT: "sucks when your job gets blow'd up"
... 8 Mile meets Silicon Valley?

Ok...
Pretty good results, but some of them seem to be at least a few weeks out of date.
I promise that your regular HN programming will resume after the financial crisis is over.
A person can do a lot for the world with 10 trillion.
What kind of guarantee did that have?
Good. I'll get my post at CERN and then work on getting citizenship.
1B is enough to take over Equatorial Guinea... the failed 2004 coup attempt was financed with a pathetic 20M. This says that the military budget of EG is 150M/year (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/spending.htm) and I suspect that is a very high estimate.

It would be easy to invest in modern pharmaceutical manufacturing plants in African nations with generous IP laws and then start making modern HIV medications available for practically nothing.

Curing cancer is more of a crapshoot, but throwing several hundred billion at the problem would be a good start, if nothing else.

Proper distribution of the money remaining could go a long way towards eliminating extreme poverty.
Most people I know rent, and pay ~$500/m per room for an apartment (within walking and biking distance to downtown office space, which is generally pretty cheap too).
Thats great, but doesnt seem to face feeds for submissions unfortunately.
Out of all the submissions on the site, this is my favorite.
If you'd have said "review my app", I would've said it's awesome. Great job.

But the moment you call it a startup, I have to ask how you make money. So, how do you plan to make money? Students are poor, and cheap, and I'm not sure ads would fit it even if you had the traffic.
Sounds about right. This is something worth adding a trillion to the US Debt for.
Facts about the Yahoo-Google advertising agreement
What did you use to implement the SMS service?
While I agree for the most part, I think it'd look better if the logo appeared directly on the darker blue background as opposed to being boxed in white with a blue outline. Otherwise, it looks great.
Probably a better one than anything that Paulson is giving!
I think that on a vast cosmetic scale, high school grades mean the least of nearly everything. Unless you run across a snobby Ivy kid - and most Ivy kids I know tend not to care about your school so much as your mind - they change nothing.
Shouldnt it be Duck Duck Goose?
I'm for this as much as the next guy, but Google filing a patent != end run around the wireless carriers
There are lots of more complicated tools for this (Blackboard, Moodle), but I've yet to see a super simple to the point one... interesting idea.
IMHO this is reasonable but obvious advice coupled with a funny picture, more digg than HN. Blog articles written in this way don't really teach me anything.
F# supports functional programming better than C#, and functional programming is good for creating domain-specific languages.
The birth of UTF-8
too many serifs!
I think that depends on where you live...

Remember - most of america is not SF!!!

Get a mortgage on something like this:
http://www.househunterbob.com/Listing/ViewListingDetails.asp...
and for $50K per year - you can buy 500 houses!
In fact, it is impossible to determine the best possible use of your time without determining, without doubt, the meaning of life.
It's a real shame that they killed Muxtape. It was such a great site and a fantastic way to discover new music.

:'(

I really wish that there could be a way for sharing good music with others without all the hype and commercial crap that normally surrounds it.
yeah I would flag this if it got another point
The ajax loading is good, but instead of having to click, let it auto load as they scroll down to get the "infinite search results" effect. Also the large amount of whitespace at the bottom is annoying.
I'm just using an email gateway now, so carriers are limited. Hopefully that will change in the future.
Here's something you don't see often in Apple advertising--an asterisk
Wind Power Anywhere? Looks Pretty Cool.
I guess they're showing now, or I was doing something wrong before (or, everyone was, given the number of upmods...)
Or, for other means of comparison, $700b is about:

87 next generation aircraft carriers (or about 155 current-generation aircraft carriers)

500 stealth bombers (or 5000 stealth fighters)

10 years of federal education spending in the US

1.1% of the worldwide annual GDP

2/5 of the combined net worth of the 100 wealthiest people (or, if you prefer, 12 times the net worth of Bill Gates, or about 1/6 of the combined net worth of the 1000 wealthiest people)

23 times the total annual income tax collected from the lower 50% of filers with positive adjusted gross income in 2006 (see http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html)
That was... terrible.
It was interesting experiencing that first hand. Not so much the exploitation, but the awkward position that you're put in when quitting your job could mean losing your entire life. I stuck it out at my last job for about a year longer than I was really comfortable with because I didn't want to take the chance of jeopardizing my permanent residence papers. I gave my notice within a couple weeks my permanent residence going though (and naturally, shifted over to working on my startup, another thing that was impossible for me to do previously :-) ).
ok just curious. actually, i don't think SAI really does, but we should - lots of good stuff here.
I would buy massive amounts of gold and start a anonymous, secure digital currency backed by gold :)
Since it seems like defaulting mortgages are the cause of the situation, why not use the money to pay off those mortgages?. If it took $50,000 on average to save an individual mortgage, then you could rescue 14 million mortgages. Some would say that presents a moral hazard, but it seems like that cat is way out of the bag already.
Securing Remote Desktop for Windows XP
No, you're right. They show for some results and not others. I used to show them for all results, and maybe I should just go back to doing that.
Shameless plug

Have a look at Feedity (http://feedity.com) for creating custom RSS feeds from virtually ANY webpage.
Scott McNealy: To have a successful start-up, be careful who you marry
I'm guessing you are using wikipedia to vet the query and determine the type of things to display, and then have some mappings from that into other data sets.

I'm sure there's more to it than that, but very clever.

The fact that everyone is commenting on the design is a good sign, that stuff is easy to change.
Replace the US auto fleet with Better Place cars http://www.betterplace.com/ .
I mean something the size of the moon
and to beat you to the punch: "thats no moon, thats a battlestation"
In addition to working well and presenting results well, the _name_ is _inspired!_ Please don't let anyone here convince you otherwise.
Persistence is a key component of success.
Will Bailout Stabilise World Economics
Grameen bank?
Kevin Kelly: Where ever attention flows, money will follow.
i think the root of all problems/evil in africa comes from lack of (bad.. very bad!) leaders.

You don't think IQ is a factor?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_Global_Inequality#Nation...
Intrade Betting is Suspicious
New Helium-Based Microscope
Just out of interest, does anyone have one of these G1 phones? If so, would you recommend it?
Well, I'm youth. What would you do if you were in my place? (High school, likes hacking, general geek, plays DnD, etc)

I'm actually sincerely curious, since somehow lately I've been feeling that I'm not doing anything significantly awesome or useful - nothing I'll remember in a year or two.
You're right. Strangely, the original article title does have a '!'.
Official Google Blog: The next Internet
Actually my brother and a good friend recently attended a conference on the subject, and I'm not pulling numbers out of the air. Clearly there is room for dispute, but between 10B and 1000B is a most reasonable range. I also disagree in principle that anything could cost $700T dollars. Are you telling me that the whole of the US working for 50 years couldn't build it? Because US GDP is ~$14T.

Also, you don't launch a company and next year make an elevator. There is a lot of tech to develop. You don't just sit on that tech. Materials made cheap enough to build a earth bound tether would have plenty of other applications. As would the automated or teleoperated construction robots.

Also, the first elevator on the moon wouldn't require much innovation in materials at all.

But I do have a very armchair understanding of the topic.
If by "the majority" you mean "a multiple".
There's a difference between doing good and just doing.

If your pudgy slow kid wants to pick his nose on the soccer field with chocolate ice cream on his uniform, by God let him.

Sure, at some point you help to lead them to excel... but before that point let them engage in whatever they want.
Ask YC: clustering in Glassfishv2
Have any of you tried Glassfish in a clustered environment? It looks pretty easy on the deployment and management side, but I am wondering about the performance of it.

If you have not looked at Glassfish, it makes it
Or about 4 more rounds of stimulus checks.
> I don't know ANYONE who texts regularly with a QWERTY keyboard on their phone."

You must not know many young docs doing their residencies.
A hero that has not even reached orbit yet.
Multiple assignment?

I think that goes too far. I would like an Erlang with modern string handling and built in re but not if the cost is losing one of Erlang's strengths.
Mark Guzdial's Amazon Blog: Programming is central to Computer Science
Agree except the "sign up" button needs to be above the fold.
You're right, I should have used "web app" instead. There are ads (which doesn't hurt to have), but I'm thinking of other means of monetization. Thanks for the feedback.
MIT solves 100-year-old engineering problem
At the very least, very stupid people tend to have trouble getting into college. Except maybe if you're rich and go to Yale.
I...don't really like this article, frankly.

Other than being fairly light on information to begin with, the title brings up (what I believe is) the least important part of the article. I can't really speak to being married and trying to run a start-up (still in college), but from what I've read, it is entirely possible. The major thing is having kids -- not being married, or even who you are married to (at least, not nearly as much). If the "married" thing is a metaphor for some of the other rules, such as #2, then they're really stretching it.

I do agree with numbers 1 through 4, though they really could have beefed up the article with some more information and detail. For example, one sentence for #3 gets the point across, but leaves me hanging a bit.

On my earlier note though, can anyone speak to being married/having kids and trying to...start...a start-up? I'm curious what the experience is like, as opposed to being single and/or just having a girlfriend.
The same goes for Tim Ferriss, Robert Kiyosaki, Paul Graham, Joel Spolsky, the 37signals crowd, and many other authors.

Really, writing about getting rich is probably one of the most surefire ways to get rich.
Your engine actually seems superior to Google in some ways, which is fantastic. I've always wondered if a single person could do something technologically novel in search; you seem to have done so. I wouldn't be surprised if your engine opens the doors to real, widespread innovation in search.

Your UI isn't great, though. Some unordered points:

• Your name is bad.

• Your text is too big.

• The whole thing feels too unprofessional.

• You need to show more search results by default. Four results feels claustrophobic. People won't get overwhelmed, they've been living with long results lists for ten years.

• You need to make the traditional ordered list of results distinct from the other pieces of information that your search engine thinks are relevant. Right now it can be hard to distinguish results from extras, and I think that will be an impediment to getting users (if getting users is in fact your goal). In particular, don't put the topic-filtering questions above the results — put them to the side.

• Don't highlight the result that I'm mousing over.

• Get rid of the little arrows next to links.

Actually, I'd suggest going to Google, writing down every difference between their UI and yours, and asking yourself why you did it differently. I don't think the Google UI is necessarily the ultimate way to present search results, but I don't think you've added much, either, and theirs is pretty damn good.

Technology: right now your search engine doesn't seem to understand that recent events are more important, typically, than past ones; a search for "explanation of the economic crisis" didn't produce anything in the top four results (although the fifth one, ironically, was relevant). Google gave me what I was looking for (although it's notable that if I hadn't been looking for stuff about the current crisis, your engine would have been better).
Except that nobody uses the term in that sense anymore.
That sounds great on a message board, but in the real world, it would be a debacle. What are the "mutual compromises" that should preempt someone's legitimate commercial rights? On the other hand, big companies would love it, because they've already had your idea, and just gave it a different name: "mandatory binding arbitration."
Well, I'm going to burn some karma by bucking the conventional wisdom here, being needlessly snarky, and repeating a comment I've made here many times already:

Selling stuff you don't actually own: not a great business plan.
Blackboard is HIDEOUS and bloated. I'd love to see someone dethrone them.
I love IStockPhoto and stockexchange. That's how I get all the photos for my blog.

I like the flickr CC license too, but the byline for credit is irritating. I wish flickr would offer an option to either purchase or provide credit.
I search for something and get a wikipedia page, a website for a book and the FDA's website above the results which actually interest me. Infact, they are in a larger font than the rest.

Are these sponsored links or something? I'm not sure I dig it.
Actress Jolene Blalock Hot bikini pics in Cancun
I have no idea how this is hacker news, put I found it pretty interesting nonetheless. :)
I thought this was going to be about cofounders...
Technical Books for Multi-Core Software Developers
msn's rhymes were as weak as their search
can you define use cases more clearly? I think the problem with up and coming search engines is that they are always generic, coming up hard against google, which works well for 80% of the cases (simple search), but sucks for 20% (when you do not really know what you are looking for).

do email me at mingyeow@gmail.com if you are interested in more thoughts on how use cases can be more clear!
Kosmix Eschews the Needle, Delivers the Haystack «
The table under Evolution of vomiting is especially interesting. Never saw vommiting pigeon!
It might not be technology or computer-related, but it raises some interesting questions. For instance, are humans more susceptible to toxins than rats? Also, if being able to expunge toxins increases survivability, then why wouldn't rats have it?
It's a good idea. I can now feed both by tech and financial demons.
Longevity. Hook me up with some new organs.
I tried some stuff and the results were good.

Is this a serious attempt to beat google?
Do you index the whole web?
What technique do you use?

Or is it a proof of concept for some idea of how to improve search?

Do you have funding?

Have you built it from scratch or are you building on top of other stuff?
Not without a pretty weird lisp VM or something. Or maybe separating different threads into processes and doing the communication hidden inside the macro? Hum, I dunno. Might be worth looking into, but it seems either very hard or impossible... granted, I don't have as much experience with macros as other people on this site might have, so maybe someone else will correct me in my assessment.
It is also very close to the word for funeral (soushiki).
Review: EFiX Dongle Perfectly Transforms PC to Mac
Poker vs Law School vs Trading
Great piece. It's the flipside of the "shotgun approach", which I like for diversification, but like any multi-tasking takes you away from focusing on the issue at hand. I think it's a tough balance to strike, and probably depends on how much wiggle room you have before you run out of money.
Infographic on the process (and time) of legal immigation to the US
This is a bit of a misconception about how memory works. Erlang's strength of processes memory encapsulation and share nothing semantics are not compromised by alloying multiple assignment. In fact you can very easily model Multiple assignment with Single Assignment, and hand off the managing of that to the compiler.
His peers were not "wasting" their precious time, they were having fun and doing something they enjoyed.

Moderation is good, and its good to remember not to take yourself too seriously (you appear to have serious plans for arjungmenon, greyman, stop taking yourself so seriously).

I doubt your days of hard programming were a waste. They are an experience at least, a side of life you are aware of that your peers might not be.

Knee-jerks - bad. Moderation - good. Trying new things - exceptionally good.
One effective technique to use is to write the shiny new thing down. It goes into a list of things you are working on or want to work on. Let it sit for a couple of days, jot down extra ideas and details as they come to you, do a little scope statement. Initially I assign everything as "normal" priority.

Periodically come back to the list, review all items and reprioritise. If it is complete junk, scratch it off. If it's worth moving quickly on, put it high on the list. If it's worth thinking about some more or dealing with "later", lower the priority.

If you complete a current project, pull a new one off the top of the list. Not necessarily the very top, depending on time available, interest in that topic etc.

Issue tracking software is great for this (I use GNUe DCL which is a little difficult to set up but really nice once you get it going) but you can use a notebook or an emacs buffer or whatever ruffles your feathers.
Very nice! I like your search results and the image display. However, like other posters here, I think that the text is a bit big and the name could use some work. The one thing I think that you're missing in the UI is some familiarity to ground new users - and most importantly a link to see more links that consistently appears on the first screen without needing to scroll. URLs appearing on all links would be better as well.

Just my 2 cents. Keep up the great work!
Psych2020
PG was rich before he was known as a writer. Spolsky and the 37signals crowd more than likely would have been rich either way, just not near as quickly.

I 100% agree for Tim Ferriss and that pile of shit, vapor peddling, scam fuck, Robert Kiyosaki.

http://www.johntreed.com/Kiyosaki.html
Is everything a startup now? Every time someone makes an application, it's a fucking startup...

The design is nice, but it looks like a secret love affair with 37signals products. I guess some might say that's a plus...

I'll also echo the comment that I'm not sure this is particularly useful/needed.