skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely agree... I'm surprised Flickr hasn't responded with this already. These other sites must be eating to their user-base.
Ok for some reason this search is not returning the appropriate results

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=duck+duck+go

Good Job anyways!
Pen and paper won't text me when I have an assignment coming due...
Students, teachers, administrations, and IT departments agree! Blackboard is a monstrosity!
Also, if you add jokes in the right way, you can often turn your geekiness into a "cute" joke with girls with incredible ease. I've yet to achieve results, but I'll tell you about it if I do.
Did anyone else feel a little tiny bit like vomiting while reading this?

It's fascinating.
Yeah, cause every other space agency actually got off their asses and put men on the moon, deployed and operated a space lab, deployed and operated a largely reuseable launch vehicle that hardly ever blows up, drove rc cars around mars for months, etc.
I'd like to see it geared towards professors and teachers rather than students. Students frankly don't care unless a professor says "I put the assignment on Soshiku" in which they can also turn it in there.

Also, look into whether or not www.quizlet.com has an API so you can help students collaborate not just on homework, but on studying/quizing too.
The competition for skilled migrants is going to heat up. I think in 10 years many european countries and US states will be desperate for workers - particularly countries like Italy where population is aging rapidly.
http://longevity-science.org/Population_Aging.htm
Wow, the quality of your search results is really impressive -- I went in expecting another Cuil, but now I intend to give it a spin as my default engine in Firefox.

I was wondering... to the extent that Duck Duck Go takes its cues from "human powered" sites e.g. Wikipedia, are you using a pre-defined list of reliable user-generated sites out there, or is your search engine somehow identifying these algorithmically?
The most fascinating thing to me is that people have actually devoted studies to finding out whether or not a large swath of animals can vomit.
Fixed. =)
money2india - It's run by a reputable Indian bank, ICICI.
JPMorgan Buys WAMU
4.28 billion year old swath of bedrock discovered in Canada
Remember To Make It Easy To Buy
Building a successful product is hard. You think so much about what features a user needs and how you can have a better product than your competition, how you can win. However, sometimes we forget an important part of the process, how do I make it easy for a customer to buy.
funny i was just thinking about payment methods.

why dont more services just offer an activation code via sms?

i do not want to giveout my visa left and right and it is too complicated anyway.

but just sending an sms and getting a verification code is simple and safe and fast.
The organization by relevance is interesting, but through some test searches I did, the more obscure the search, the less this helps. Basically, for something with a Wikipedia/Facebook/Myspace/official site it looks nice. However, for something less known or employing more vague terms, the results page look like I mistyped a url and ended up on a page parked for typosquatting.
Ask the TipJoy team.
"MIT" doesn't solve anything. Anthropomorphizing institutions is bad bad bad!
Not so hard to believe, given that Intrade allows Americans and Betfair does not.
Ask YC: Boston or Bay Area?
I have just been offered a position in Boston. Current I live and work in the south Bay Area. It's an equivalent position, so not a jump in the career ladder, but to an industry I'm really interested in and a really great company. I'd be getting a lot less equity though.

Has anyone here done the east coast/west coast relocation? What's it like? Any transitional issues? Any suggestions for one city over the other?
Oooh, thank you! Making them more obvious (an arrow like GMail seems to be the standard now) would have helped, but maybe I'm just stupid :)
better than cuil. really
Your right. But it's very easy to carry around a to/do list, piece of paper in your pocket and keep an eye on things. Never failed me. The drop rate of SMS's is 2% or so on the other hand(not to mention dead batteries, lack of coverage, silent ringers, etc.). I've also seen many businessmen at the top of their fields using paper: a very simple, reliable and effective method.

I'm not saying this is a bad idea. It's definitely something useful. I just think it's not a great business idea. I think you have demonstrated great abilities, and you could put those to work on harder, more profitable problems.
Introducing NonHackerNews.com
For a certain value of "perfectly". He had to acquire and install a 32 bit copy of Windows Vista to update the firmware of the dongle for it to work with his video card, even then it can only find half of his video RAM. His machine only runs at 800MHz FSB despite being a 1066MHz machine and though he claims it to be a Mac Pro now he is missing one processor (two cores) off the low end configuration. But when he compares his new machine to an old Mac Pro benchmark he can beat it in most categories.

I assume he is stealing the copy of OS X since in his dollars and cents calculations he only counts the cost of the dongle. He is certainly violating the license.

On the more interesting side... the dongle is perhaps just a USB drive (with nifty anti copying technology), but packaged so it has to go inside the computer so you won't be tempted to share it around between machines.
Announcing the Disqus API
Ask HN: help i've moved computers and can't find a password emailer option
is it hiding somewhere right in front of me?
For the lazy, from http://duckduckgo.com/about.html

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Keyboard shortcuts: → ← ↑ ↓, Enter (go), n (news), i (images), r (related topics), h j k l (arrow alts.), and / (search box).
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- if you are working on a project and Soshiku has a Facebook app you can just add your classmates to it and have communication be central and clear.

Unlike the real world where you often call one person and that person calls another person in the group and so on. Where there is no central repository for sharing links/resources for the school assignment.

Soshiku has a great design and fills a sizable need in my opinion, getting schoolwork done. I for one, probably would have used it in high school.
People have devoted careers to finding out which animals can vomit. A fellow named Borison has numerous entries on the final table -- assuming it's the same person, this bright spark hit the scene in 1953 with the finding that crab-eating macaques and rhesus monkeys can spew; and decades later, in 1981, he followed up with the surprising finding that while most rodents can't upchuck, the woodchuck could.
Regarding the "highlight-and-underline-on-hover effect", I liked that. It is really nice that the whole text area works as a link, clicking on a hit is easier. And the highlight, well, highlights that.

Works for me.
"About damned time" is all I have to say about this.
I agree. The RIAA's interest is to keep the old business model alive. Their experience is that if their copyright cannot be contained within a physical object, the lose control of it.
Ask YC: Love to drive? Find the best routes. Check out my app.
Full Pass of Acid3
Sunbelt Blog: World War 3 spam
boston when it stops snowing.
Check his HTML.

Judging by the unsemantic markup I'd say this chap has a way to go before lecturing us on software quality. I mean, <p>&nbsp;</p>, really.
sounds like the question is, money or something you're interested in?

i don't think anyone on HN is fit to answer that question for you.
These mockups look great.. I love the watercolor look.
i like the concept, although i would've opened up to travel iterneraries in general. and then from there, more possibilities come into play.
Einstein's green refrigerator making a comeback
Microsoft Is Getting Much More from Its Investment in Facebook
Virtual Earth 6.2 and Virtual Earth Web Services 1.0 Released
My sister has pet rats, and I had to babysit them for a while. They're actually really cool, smart and interesting. I recently finished the book "The Omnivore's Dilemma" which draws a lot of parallels between rats and humans (basically we have a lot of the same adaptations around eating). I'd recommend the book and the pet.
Facebook Applications See Success On the New Platform
WaMu Fails. First major comercial bank to go.
New on Campus? .torrent files blocked by your uni? Convert them to .zip
Solution is simple, paste the link of the torrent in the bar at toxt.sexopmijniphone.nl so you can download the file as a .ZIP file.
Enjoy, good luck!
I had Chase when I lived in Chicago and when I moved out to SF there weren't any branches so I got Wamu. Sad to see Wamu go. I wonder what will happen to my awesome savings account interest rates.
Going to the moon was a horrible idea. It was a very poor use of resources. That's why we haven't been back in 40 years.

The Mars rovers are the exception the proves the rule. Operational for years after a few hundred million dollars spent, while each shuttle mission eats over $1B.

Any reasonable manager would have scrapped the shuttle long ago.

The reason NASA does more is that we have more money than others, not because they are better.

The goal after all is long term benefit to the human race (or profit). Nasa hasn't done all that much towards that end. If anything, they were a good excuse to design ICBMs.
I know some people like the duck name. I have the domain "askShare.com" that might work better for you. The top part, ask could be the search input and make a bottom part for share, then have a scrolling list of things people are sharing (feeds, etc). I noticed you have a couple of applications based upon sharing (photos, groups) so you are into sharing.
Given the $1B spent on each shuttle launch, I'm sure he could make it.
I'm noticing that some of the comments are one-worded or just off-topic drivel. Either there should be a stringent culture of down-modding those comments or moderators should actively communicate with those users and discourage that behavior. It's better to set the bar a little high at the beginning than too low since the level of discourse will inevitably decrease as more people join.
agree. and not enough white space. Especially vertical.
Not bad actually, if you're not just scraping results from other engines (or even if you are), you should keep working on this. When I did searches, I actually found links I was looking for in the first few results. Name is strange but it could grow on me.

duck duck go it!
Oracle on Amazon EC2 - Now selling their own hardware
maybe I should just go back to doing that.

Definitely, because you have many more types of links than a normal search engine--some of them are requests for clarification. A URL tells the user "This is a 'hit' that will take you to a different website".
Wow this is great..its the only search engine that actually returns my website when I type in my name (sam liu)
My God. You're right. I don't really know what to think here.
The Truth About Globalization
How the Googleplex Works
Monetizing Twitter?
Google's Tenth Birthday
Very nice--fewer links, but they were all of extremely high quality. Suggestion: Throw this up on 99designs and get some better graphics. The current ones seem amateurish, and not in that good Google kinda way.
Could you give an example? :)

I think it would actually be pretty hard to find ways to spend that much money. 10 trillion is an awful lot.
I love the name it's so cute!
finally figured it out, but still think there should be an email me option
Twitter's Election 2008 site
itunes might disagree.
But I agree with the principle.

"Make something people want" is a good creed - but making something illegal (or of questionable legitimency) is perhaps not a good move.
Yes, the ajax loading is much less intrusive than loading a new page. It makes it far easier to search through the existing results. It needs one or two UI changes:

1) When you click 'more results' add a divider before the first new result to make it clear which new results just appeared. In most cases the first new link will already be highlighted since the mouse will be hovering overy it but any antsy mouser will not have this benefit.

Also, I notice that I have the tendency (and need) to move the mouse off the first new link so I can read it. This is very inefficient so it would best to append the new results one line below the 'more links' link.

2) Consider adding an auto-scroll to put the first new result at the top or middle of the page to reduce scrolling. This may be disruptive, however.
Skype opens up for asterisk
Test flight of RRL Rocket Racer with Armadillo Aerospace
For anybody who doesn't know, Armadillo Aerospace is the brainchild of John Carmack (Doom, Quake) and they're one of the few startups who have a serious shot at achieving privately funded spaceflight.

Here is John's explanation for the flight:

http://armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_i...
I have a few WaMu accounts, and I just received several emails from them offering me a higher APY (4%) and 'holiday savings starting now' right before I clicked over to HN and saw this post. I've never gotten a promotional email from WaMu before, and then I suddenly get four in one day?! At first I thought it was a phishing scheme, but they're all legit emails.

It also seems like AIG has increased their advertising for certain business units AFTER their recent plummet...

I shudder to think about taxpayer money being used for new marketing campaigns to "bolster confidence."
The search engine seems to have been built on top of Yahoo BOSS
Check more financial news at http://www.newmogul.com/ , founded by nickb.
The branches are being acquired by Chase. Perhaps the interest rates may be similar to what Chase offers.
You can call them the "first major commercial bank to go", as if they're the ominous start of a trend --- and maybe they are, but weren't they also basically one of the ringleaders of the mortgage valuation debacle?

Notice also (if you're a tea-leaf reader) that the WSJ and NYT stories on WaMu didn't end with "raises new and troubling questions" about some other big financial; WaMu was a festering infected band-aid waiting to be ripped off our carcass, just like Lehman. Is there another big one? Wachovia is the next-most exposed company, aren't they? And they're considered pretty strong.
Ask HN: Looking for a software developer Akl/NZ
Hey, just started a new job and we have a need for some good software development skills. I'm looking for someone that likes building software that helps people visualise data on the web. We are in the energy/electricity industry so there are a lot geographical/time based aspects to it. Initially we are just trying to showcase how better tools are out there. This gig would suit someone graduating in November looking to get industry experience and build a portfolio over the summer. I'm not going to tell you what tools to use but i'll take some convincing before i change from preferring to use free and open source. and while i can't program, i am partial to a python/javascript/SciPy/django/matplotlib type arrangement. ultimately, we're looking to build and trumpet a better toolbox but these first baby steps are more 'mash-up some location data with google maps on a webpage and add some sliders to move through the data set', ditto with matplotlib on some market data. If you think this sounds interesting, relish the opportunity to improve upon the 'download a .xls of this data' paradigm and you're in Auckland over summer (or know someone who is) drop me a line at: joe a_t neri dot org dot nz and i'll spell out our vision in a bit more detail.
700 billion is 1400 times the operating budget of Harvard Medical. So I might do that a couple times.
Create a new space station and possibly try to go to mars.
Good One!! I am on H1-B at the moment. I really understand it.
Maybe you should also invest in a spell checker...
I agree, they really need to stop billing app engine as "able to run Django and other frameworks" because most of them are so neutered by the time they get anything running that they're worthless.

One thing though with Django is I think its kind of weird that someone would complain that .96 is included... 0.96 was the last released version for a veryyyy long time when app engine was first launched, and I think its a bit crazy to demand that app engine upgraded their Django version all the time, if only because it would really piss off all the people who are using the old bundled version of Django and must now fix their code.
Ask HN: just started a company, which bank should I go with
So I just recently incorporated as an LLC and I'm looking into setting up a business account. What's a good bank to go with and why, especially taking into consideration the current economic conditions? I'm located in the valley.
Twitter to launch election site tonight
Most programmers SUCK at marketing.

Too many projects waste valuable front page space with minutiae before they even tell you what the hell the project is or why you should care. Programming project sites are usually more focused on people with commit privileges than they are on recruiting new users. Which is probably a big reason why so many projects never gain any momentum beyond the founding members.

One of my personal pet peeves: Why do so many open-source projects make you search everywhere (or even download code) in order to find out what freaking language they use for the project? With most programmers only knowing/using a few languages, it seems that this would be a prominent bit of information to impart on the front page, yeah?

I shouldn't have to download code to learn that the project is written in Intercal or C#, ferchrissakes!

"This project is written in XXXXX" is more helpful to me than knowing the last few esoteric bugs that were fixed.

I cringe every time I see the most valuable real estate on a programming project site used to show the revision history.
Steve Ballmer Visits SV, Talks About Microsoft’s Future In Software, Search And Mobile
My point is that the world we present to children should be more representative of the real world.

I agree with that. I just think it's very difficult to tell if a child is innately bad at something and should try something else, or if they are bad it but could greatly improve with practice.
In Chicago, WaMu had much better business rates than Chase. I used Chase for some personal accounts because of ATMs, but WaMu for several business accounts.
At this point, stick your money under your mattress...
HUH???? This guy points to a app that is tricking people to send invites as an example of an app that is growing under the new redesign? Newsflash! tricking people to send invites will result in massive growth under ANY design.

Besides, I call bullshit on redesign being at fault for the app fallout. The real culprit is the ban on incentivized invites.
Patent Crisis and The Age of Open Source Ideas
I suspect that we are too focused on web applications as potential businesses to the exclusion of other ideas.

I recently attended a "Startup Camp" barcamp thing. We had an idea session, and it started with the reading of a prepared list of ideas -- the audience stopped that, and requested first that the list be filtered to only software ideas; then when a desktop app idea was read out, requested the list be filtered to "server software", and when one of the ideas was a rsync type backup system for your servers, they further explained that by "server software" they meant only web apps.

I think this is mainly because web apps are perceived as requiring little capital to launch, compared to other ideas, especially hardware. Desktop software is (rightly) suspected of being a morass of weird APIs and hard work.

Java and Java-Webstart are not the correct ways to write desktop software, in my opinion. If you only know Java and your application is mostly a one-off or demo, it will probably get the job done. But it is not encouraging to see most American programmers, when faced with the task of writing a computer program to run on the desktop, immediately get off in the weeds exploring various ways to make web apps run on the desktop. There is a large body research on how do to that, going back 30 years now, and lots of good ways, and systems to make it easy -- it's sad to see a supposedly technical person fiddle with trying to port web apps instead of just cranking out a program.

But back to the narrowness of current startup ideas: the cost of doing a hardware product is often over estimated. Don't knock it till you have checked out mfgquote.com. One of the major trends in hardware has been making things customizeable, such as FPGAs instead of ASICs, so no matter what you think up, it is probably not as hard as you immagine.

A common objection to hardware ideas is that "I will put a lot of capital into the idea and then cheap chinese manufacturers will copy it and rip me off." This is silly because webapps and software are even easier to copy.

The hardware idea that triggered the barcamp audience to request only web apps, was to take the "Mr. Lee catcam" and commercialize it. Unknown to people there (including myself), the guy who did that hack was already selling it -- check out http://www.mr-lee-catcam.de/pe_cc_o1_en.htm
but doesn't aggregation add value?
Yeah, that's also pretty bad. It doesn't show what you can do with the function.
I think the font size is the most obtrusive to begin with - it's just insanely huge. I'm a Web 2.0 fan as much as the next guy and think most websites use a font size that is to small but... ouch.

I think that would be a good place to start - once you do that you may find that the mouseovers are distracting or jump around way to much now that your line-heights are smaller. Jury seems to be out on those, personally I'm not a fan but enough people said they do like them that it's a questionable change.

I think limiting the use of mouseovers could be valuable. By making off-site links (the actual SERPs) not have a mouseover while making in-site links (narrowing of categories, the more... link to activate BOSS, etc) could offer a subconcious identifier to your users as to what the next action will actually do.
Best practice can be wrong (for you)
In spring of 2005 I did a back of the envelope calculation on the total cost to produce the mass of carbon nanotubes needed for an elevator with cross-section of 1 cm^2 using the methods available then and got a result of about 1.25 quadrillion dollars--a sum truly large enough to be meaningless. It appears there have been several significant advances since then, including the revision of the intended cross-sectional area downward, and improvements in the production costs.

And my estimate on costs was precisely in the vein of "next year make an elevator"--I do not doubt that there will be a space elevator long before the next 50 years pass, I merely doubt that $700b is sufficient that a feasible short term effort could be made.

A lunar elevator, while a nice proof of concept for a terrestrial space elevator, has two major problems:
(1) There isn't really a point; the moon's gravity well is too weak for it to be worth it to construct an elevator any time soon.
(2) Getting the material there without an existing terrestrial space elevator (and possibly even with one) is a prohibitively expensive exercise.

Research into the construction of a space elevator is a worthwhile pursuit likely to result in many useful technological advances. But $700b is not enough to construct one in the short term from existing technology, and is too much to be usefully applied to further research.