skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, they did just switch data providers. Now they're using TeleAtlas, before it was a combination of TeleAtlas and Navteq.

http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/09/19/google-maps-now-using...

also see:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-176096.html
And know the differences (in structure and operation speeds) between arrays, linked lists, hash tables, etc.
Very impressive. How long has it been out? Could be great to implement in a store.
Yes, the sources are all images. It's often the case that one sees a graph in a paper or on the web or something, and one wants the data that constructed it. This is one of those times.
Looks neat. That's the same thing i was going to do with www.jobzor.com with its redesign (http://sicret.net/jobzor).

One bit of advice: make a Facebook app.
Choose one of the web frameworks RoR, web.py or Cappuccino and write something cool on your own. Something small enough to show your future employers that you can write good software. It would help you to make the transition and also gives companies confidence that you are capable of making this career change.
The name gets to me. Affiliating "jam" with anything that has to do with vehicles makes me think of traffic.

Just my $.02.
Not that I'm planning on getting knee surgery (more rehab . . . sigh) but I'm intrigued.

Care you expand on that?
superficially speaking the logo is great but can i suggest you consider the layout of the page. thing is the search seems oddly re-contextualized down there like it's an example of a search rather than the real deal. at first blush i thought it was a gif of the search you "could perform".
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"I don't think the 'from' field makes an sense in the address sense (unless you are just geocoding to region or something)"

- Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by this.

"Not sure what you are thinking of with respect to a use-case."

- Bands and venues hopefully will create theses event or even use our pre-build calendar. (I plan to create more features on the calendar too.) Then the use-case would be the people who regularity visit band/venue sites. And that way even people with ride space will be reminded about carpooling.

"If I were you I'd spend some time getting REAL events,"

- Totally. I have a few crawlers that get bands, venues, events. I just haven't put them on yet, because I don't know about legality issue.

"Maybe even a screencast of who the actors are"

- Will do.
In fact, I think that you can make the Web Application a bit more humanistic. For instances:

1. Everyone now is so concerned about Global Warming. Maybe you can add a "Carbon" bar on each user on how much carbon they save when they take a car pool instead of driving their own cars. Same, you can tell the people who are willing to offer the car pool on how much carbon they save by offering a carpool.

2. Make a small social circle among the users. Usually, people who take car pool are people who will go and forth from two different spots quite frequently. I think people will always go back to the same car pool with the same driver.

Anyway, just my 2 cents.
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It'd be nice if the internships on the frontpage related to the user's location.
Another thing about american auto makers I could never understand is that they have always believed in selling 2nd grade crap to general public, splitting their products into two very distinct niches. Ford and GM can innovate, they have brilliant engines and great designers, but all that stuff is generally reserved for european models or for "luxury" divisions. Two examples:

1. GE has always had two different lines of V6 and V8 engines: low-tech, gas-guzzling one (for cheap Chevy/Pontiac models) and high-tech modern ones for Cadillac and European Opel and Saab.

2. Ford is even worse. They make cheapened-down version of Focus specifically for US, while selling a great little car in Europe. I just got back from vacation and I truly enjoyed one. Just compare these two photos from european and american versions of Focus, see all that cheap hard plastic painted fake aluminum in US version? Jeee....

American: http://www.fordvehicles.com/assets/images/vehicle/pg/fcs09_p...

European: http://img.worldcarfans.com/US/2007/12/4/9071204.006/9071204...
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Silverlight DRM helping Mac users. Oh, the irony...
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Nice. This could be combined with a "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" button to learn your tastes and recommend personalized things, just like Pandora.
1. Great idea. In fact, a lot of carpool sites have them. That will be a feature to implement in the future. Right now I'm just more tied up with the main features.

2. Yes. I thought a lot about whether I should make this community "profile centric" or "anonymous centric". There seems to be pros and cons in both. It's hard to decide.

Right now, I'm hoping the social circles will be people who like the same musicians.

Maybe uploading user photo?
Yeah. I agree that it can come off like that.

I just really like the word Jam.
"Though it has paltry revenues and just 20,000 registered users, the company pays only $8,000 a month to rent its offices in San Francisco and has received $8 million from investors."

$8 million? And all they can get is 20,000 registered users??? You've got to be kidding me.

"The company raised $35 million three years ago and, thanks to financial prudence, has $20 million in the bank."

$5 million burn rate a year for failed company is prudence?

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All reading this sort of coverage does is make me feel that anyone wanting part of our company will have to pay through the nose for it.
I agree. Where would you recommend to put the tagline?
Yes - the donkey meaning. I think actual donkeys might also have been more common in the USA.
Powertop is a very nice tool. I used it to tune my laptop shortly after installing Ubuntu Hardy (A lenovo R61e), and vastly improved my battery life.

edit: This site is filled with goodies if you're into reducing power consumption on your linux box.
Sigh. Just what we needed; another authentication plugin... that uses crackable salted SHA256 to store web passwords. Of course, it provides a plugin interface --- including, inexplicably, support for symmetrically (ie, recoverably) encrypting passwords. What it doesn't do is support bcrypt-ruby, which is the only correct answer to this problem.
if you opt of the clean feed

I just meant that it isn't possible to do that for the ordinary citizen. This doesn't take away from your main point.
Jakob Nielsen's Useit.com has lots of good, test-discovered guidelines in general. Though not specifically aimed at 'download'/'purchase now' buttons, all of the "Top 10 Mistakes" articles are worth reviewing. You could start at:

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html

Jakob's "Law of Web User Experience", which is "users spend most of their time on other websites", is also a good guide. Study and mimic the best practices of other more popular sites that use the same sort of 'download'/'purchase'/'add to cart' button. They've done the testing and trained the users; novelty usually confuses.
They're Amazon. They already know what most of us like from our purchasing history, but for some reason they aren't using it here.
I really like the name. I may try it out just because of the name.

Authgasm.
Thats 3 million copies from the site. How many did got pulled from various repo's?
Emoticons are less intrusive method of aggregating the public sentiment. Would you want the contents of you emails analyzed to help predict the future?
One crude way for them to measure this right now is looking at the number of requests that are made for the emoticon image. There are some problems there (caching, does emoticon sent or emoticon received, how often do you count a request per ip)...far-fetched...but as long as we are dealing with a hypothetical situation...
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Logic is good, but in my experience, it's virtually impotent in the face of intellectual dishonesty (and this is a great list). If the person you're arguing against is so invested in their opinion that they're unwilling to seriously consider the possibility that they might be wrong, then your appeal to logic, no matter how clear or rigorous, will fall on deaf ears.

But more important than even logic, in my opinion, is sense, which is the stuff on which logic is based. But it's also the basis for much else that makes up what we call "judgment", which relies on considerably more than the exercise of good logic.

After having my ideology overturned many a time, from conservatism to socialism to objectivism to liberalism, I've learned that the best intellectual policy is to simply assume that even your most strongly held beliefs are wrong, and attempt vigorously to prove it.
Your design looks very olympicy.
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A trivial search turned up this: http://www.uniphiz.com/digitizing.htm

I'm sure there are more tools out there like it too, but you may need Windows to run them.
I would suggest sliding div#Search down for options, or maybe just adding a "expand" button (on http://new.youintern.com/search/filter) for showing the content of the list-items corresponding to search (employers|internships|reviews)?

After doing a search that suggested that I "try choosing 'include old results'", it was entirely non-obvious to me that I needed to mouseover the checkboxes, and the options under "employers" went past the bottom of my browser window (firefox 3.0.1).

Other than that, this looks like a really awesome service. I'm bookmarking it in case I actually end up going to college in a year or so in the hopes that it grows into what it has potential to grow into.

Good luck, and thanks for launching a project that has immediate practical use to a lot of people.
This is more like a list of ways to be a swell guy than ways to be intellectually honest. I know lots of brilliant assholes whom this wouldn't fit for.
I just tried CoolIris, what a pain -- both to install (a 13mb download) and to use (the sweeping scrolling animation lasts way too long, very impractical).

I actually enjoyed windowshop... for me, it captures the experience of walking through a bookstore, finding random stuff along the way, but even better, with music and video playing automatically. I agree that auto recommendation would be a 'plus' but as for search, when I want to find something I would use their normal interface (much faster).
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Who cares? They explained why this was the least-bad option, and the provided rationale make sense. Yes, if they had not made so many bad choices over the years, they wouldn't be here, but they did, so they are.

You shouldn't be using PHP anyway, it's a toy for kids.
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I don't have numbers on hand, but I've seen them improve with something like http://www.skype.com/intl/en/download/skype/windows/download... (beware the download starts automatically) that informs users upfront about the installation process, security warnings they'll have to click through, etc.

A fair number of people are petrified by the idea of spyware, and bail out of an installation when encountering normal warnings.
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I've been working through the CS229 (Machine Learning) notes - just the handouts, for now - and am finding them pretty uesful. There's a lot of good stuff in there that I didn't learn in Electrical Engineering at college.
What are those little hard licorice candies you get in Holland called, in Dutch? Not the Allsorts he mentioned, but called something else?

Also the European dark chocolate is of a much better quality.
If government policies destroyed the unions, why are the public sector unions so powerful?

I think it's mainly just because politicians don't want to shit where they live.

I'm in the capital city of my country, ~50% of the jobs here are public, you can't turn around here without bumping into a government department. As slow and plodding as any public bureaucracy is, if the politicians were to start attacking the public service union, they can say goodbye to any hope of getting anything done, and they know it.

In my country, the early to mid 70's was probably the peak of the left-wing socialist ideal prevailing as the popular paradigm. This scared the hell out of conservatives (of both major parties) and they've been doing their damn best for the last 30 odd years to pull the political spectrum so far to the right that even the left-wing isn't very left-wing anymore. Curtailing the power of unions was part of their strategy. It wasn't just an unintended byproduct of ostensibly peripheral phenomena. And you know, I'd actually have a lot more respect for those guys if they just came out and said: "Yup, we don't like unions and we're trying to gut them for reasons X, Y and Z."

I'm not trying to argue the all in, pro-union line either, but lets call a spade a spade.
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Yes, or some type of localised browsing. More likely than not, people would prefer to do the internship in their home city.
Apache has hundreds (1000+) of committers across it's 60 projects, all of which successfully use a single SVN repository (which is how subversion was designed to be used).
> Somebody else's sickness has no effect on me in most cases. And in the ones in which it does, the CDC is there to help. Nobody would suggest that the government doesn't play an important role in protecting against epidemics, which is most analogous to your fire metaphor.

In most cases, someone else's fire has no (direct) effect on you either, so I'm not sure what the relevance of that assertion is. Nor am I talking about the spread of disease, but rather the socioeconomic effects of having an untreated medical condition, which may not affect you very much, but which can have serious effects for a family and their ability to contribute to the economy. See Gladwell's The Moral-Hazard Myth: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/08/29/050829fa_fact and Uninsured in America, a book which Gladwell cites in the article.

I'm also not sure how you got the impression that I think the public should "protect people from all of the bad things that can befall them." What I believe is that an entity capable of making a credible threat on the public's behalf must ensure that market incentives are properly aligned with the public good, when they are demonstrably not in alignment. That entity tends to be the government. If there's another entity that can do the job more effectively, that's great. I don't entertain any sort of dogma about the "proper" role of the government.

I don't see how tort reform counters the inefficiencies of the health industries.

And diet certainly is a problem. But I'm not sure how the fact that there is a cultural basis to many of our health problems bears upon the problem of misaligned market incentives in the health industry. No one is saying that government is the sole force in ensuring the public health. People who think the government might have a role to play typically don't think that individual judgment goes out the window.
The scarcity of their everyday lives means they have to hack together innovative uses of what we would consider junk, or do without many of our strictures.

For instance, I bet you've probably seen the youtube video of rush hour traffic merging and crossing on an Indian street without stoplights, signs, or road markings. Maybe even witnessed it first hand if you happen to be Indian. I saw a lot of this kind of driving.

You'll also see interesting combinations of car, bicycle, and motorcycle parts. Someone created a bicycle version of the ubiquitous rickshaw, v. useful for the crowded inner city such as around mosques and temples.

The street food vendors often have constructed their stoves out of random assemblages of metal.

That's about what I can remember right now. Sorry I don't have more instances. I mainly took away the overall impression that the Indian populace, at least in New Delhi, are pretty innovative. This impression of the general Indian psyche is reinforced by people like Ramanujan.
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I know what you are talking about, but I forget the name as well. They are a strange flavor, since they are salty too.
I use mostly is.gd, haven't had any problems yet. It's also the shortest :)
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URL shrinking is a funny little business. With the right implementation, your product only gets worse as it gets popular (and the URL's get longer).

If I were running one of these, I would focus on buying as many short domains as possible and getting people distributed across them to counter the effect.
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I think, that anti-aliased font is dangerous for eyes.
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Also, it's kinda hard to see how JamRides is different than other service from the homepage. You guys should really check out the about section too. (Specifically the section explaining the difference.)

http://jamrides.com/about.html
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Nod. "Freedom from coffee and copies" should be replaced with "Bringing students and employers together".

I'd also change "But you need a great internship, one that moves your career forward" to simply "A great internship that moves your career forward."
Wow, Kalman Filters are awesome. Time to dig deeper into the wikipedia rabbit hole!
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Please do e-mail your mockup, greatly appreciated.
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I would be very happy if they could move in some standard user authentication into rails. Tired of the stream of plugins that become abandonware in a couple of months.
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They're probably working on it. They probably thought it would be a good idea to get the default version up and running and then worry about personalizing it later.
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I am actually playing with Django. What project would you call small enough to show to a prospective employee ?
> Given sufficiently powerful and narrow-banded LEDs, this kind of light source could simulate any spectrum.

As far as I know, this is currently extremely unrealistic, if you're looking for something like a display. If you just want a light bulb type source, you could maybe do a rough approximation, very expensively.

> complain that artificial lightning doesn't produce the same sensory response (and thus psychological well-being) as sunlight.

It empirically does not produce the same sensory response. Psychological well-being is a bit harder to measure.
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Yes, I have started to brush up on those. I came out of school 2 yrs ago.
andrew-desktop:~/x> svnadmin create ~/repo/x
andrew-desktop:~/x> svn import file:///home/andrew/repo/x/trunk
Adding y
Adding y/example.yy
Adding example.txt

Committed revision 1.

Sure, it's about 10 times as many keystrokes, but it's not a great burden.
I see what's happening here. Many companies don't deserve investment. Investment is for companies that need money to get started or to grow - like companies in the mechanical, electronics industry or web companies that are growing too fast (like YouTube).

For many Web 2.0 companies, taking outside money is not something that is good for business. Outside money brings in problems and gives you too much space to fail, since there is this money cushion underneath you. It makes the companies get used to spending money at the stage when most other companies learned about financial prudence.

Investors don't care about this, however. They care about getting a return on their investment. So if they feel the hype will be enough to get someone to buy it out, or for the stock price to shoot up on an IPO, they will invest in companies that should not be invested in. They gamble there.

But right now, those gamblers see something different - the gambles are not going to pay off because the hype is dying down.

If your company does not offer true value, then you should not take money. You should fight in the market till you have a product that offers real value, and only when external money is needed should you take on capital.
I've been relieved to find that my local Asian markets have a wide array of imported chocolate, candy, and snacks. American chocolate, in particular, is made so cheaply that it's not even pleasant, anymore. I used to find a Snickers and 5th Avenues a great "guilty pleasure" now and then...but, the last couple I've eaten tasted like wax and corn syrup and not much else. I'm certain the actual food content has declined dramatically since my childhood (I was trick or treating in the 80s), and has been replaced by food-like substances that don't taste as good and are worse for my health.
could you use bcrypt instead of something like the
restful-authentication plugin ?
I like git, but until there's a compelling version for Windows there's no chance in hell it can be used to replace subversion. We have mostly Linux and OS X machines at work but we do need to do some development in windows to run emulators and such. Also what about all version controlled challenged that use Eclipse or Tortoise to work with the repository - how would they handle git?

Also lol have everything in a separate repository. Who wants to maintain a list of repositories? Oh, no to check out THAT project you need to go to repository X... when people have trouble remembering a single subversion URL.
Hmm. Compare this article to the way presidential candidates behave.

Interesting.