skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Autogenerated in the bad sense is link farms like fakesite.com/buy_drugwiththisname_now.html, with drugwiththisname replaced with 500,000 different possibilities

Actually there is no difference between search page result sites like the OP and what you said. Having a URL that ends in .html does not mean there is a static html file on the server. For examples, nextag and pricegrabber have URLs like blah.com/digital/Canon-EOS-7D-SLR-Digital-Body/m739295014.html. Scroll around these sites and you'll see they're anything but static.

Each page is simply a result of a query. Whether the database is local (like nextag) or remote (like Amazon API query like OP) is inconsequential. Personally, I would be VERY happy if Google hid/ignored these kind of search-query sites. I have not once found any of these sites useful. Problem is the large gray area in which these sites operate and what I find useless, someone else might find useful.
I'm not saying that the issues aren't fixable. But when the site came up for a review, we saw things that violate our quality guidelines: autogenerated pages with hundreds of affiliate links that consist of lots of keywords, and the links/keywords are duplicate content. If he fixes the issues by e.g. blocking out the autogenerated pages, then I expect his homepage will be found in Google. The autogenerated pages are also less useful to someone landing on a page because the pages quickly get stale: prices change, things go in/out of stock, etc.
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Looks like this is his shtick here on HN. http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=alperakgun
I agree on the Twitter thing - open this up to anyone, let them grab a login with Twitter if they want, have a secret admin url if they want or have no editing ability at all - if they want.
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Perhaps they did so because of a total ban on advocacy ads within X days of the election? We wouldn't want people to hear about what a snake their Congressman is, when the election is close enough they might remember.

There's a heck of a lot more to McCain-Feingold than just a $2300 limit.
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Congrats to the team, I've used the product and it was extremely simple to get up and running, and a huge upgrade over the terrible search I was using at the time, and for free (even if I did have to heavily cache things around the earlier query limits).

But now I'm wondering who would be next. I see they're setting up some new providers, but I wouldn't know who to trust and if _they'd_ be around in a few months as well. Guess we'll see how it goes.
I too would like access to said resources, should they be available.
Please don't put words into my mouth or make assumptions about me. I am primarily an iOS dev. An app I worked on won an Apple Design Award and multiple other apps are in the Top 5 paid apps for their category in the iTunes store. To say that I develop for iOS at a basic level is laughable at best.

XCode isn't perfect, but I don't need google for blog posts or spend hours writing scripts or messing with configuration files in order to get it into a usable state.

Being open source has nothing to do with how easy a platform is to develop on. All that means is that the platform's source code is available.
Umm the email sent out says LinkedIn has agreed to continue supporting the service for the next 6 months. Does that mean you guys won't after that?
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From my experiences with Gentoo a couple of years ago, the documentation is mostly outdated, (although a number of articles have been updated to tell the reader that large portions of the article are out of date and not to be followed.) I eventually gave up working (and failing) with Gentoo at the time because I was rather inexperienced and could never get a working X system using their docs. That said, I still learned a lot about Linux during that period and do not feel as if I wasted that time spent working with Gentoo.
Steve wore full beards during the early turtleneck era with frightening consistency.
Not only is good writing hard, but technical writing is even harder. I have a blog with a few articles on technical topics, but it takes a lot of time to write, edit, and make sure everything is correct. To put something up at the quality level I want ends up taking too much time and interfering with working on my projects.
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Just got the email. Congrats guys! You're one of my favorite start-ups, and I'm really glad to see you guys succeed.

When's the party? :-)
What you're saying is true, but OTOH there is only one series of iPhones/iPad Apple has to worry about simulating whereas there are thousands of different Android devices, each potentially radically different than the next in terms of resolution, aspect ratio, cpu, device capabilities (gps, microphone, camera, etc).

Of course this diversity is both Android's largest blessing and its biggest curse.
hmm, i wouldn't necessarily say that arch is more current. both arch and gentoo use rolling releases, and the gentoo community is still fairly active. what i might say instead is that the arch community has become quite active, and created a lot of new documentation whereas gentoo, whose documentation is still updated frequently, hasn't recently had any kind of redesign. but, it's still gentoo's stated goal to have the bleeding edge of the linux community development process, aside for possibly gnome3, which they've been actively masking out of the stable (and even dev) branches.

the real difference is that the predominant number of packages in gentoo are compiled specifically for one's machine based off of the specific set of use flags and package.use, and package.mask parameters, and relatively few precompiled binaries exist for gentoo. with arch, there are a lot more precompiled binaries and not having to compile everything from scratch (yes, i know you still can with arch, but this is not the default model) is more appealing to some.

all this said, i absolutely love emerge. arch's pacman is a very good package manager, but emerge is just amazing in my opinion. for someone just starting with a rolling release distro of linux, i'd say take a look at the documentation for both gentoo and arch and see which one you relate to more. after all, you'll be reading a LOT of documentation either way.
There may be a reason to build 20 backblaze pods, but I doubt there is a reason to build 1. The whole point of a backblaze build is to move the redundancy out of the individual box.
About ten years ago, a similar checklist was the default response to proposed solutions to spam problems.

And then someone wrote a proposal that checked many of the boxes on that list, but had the odd feature of actually working quite well.

I think that guy quit went on to start a news web site. I guess he was discouraged by the checklist.
Damn this guy is good. Check the whole site out, well worth it.
Great to see a fellow startup get acquired.

But, I wish they held off on the acquisition until other "cloud providers" were willing and ready to implement these services that will be open sourced. Or at least keep your service up until then. This is great for the IndexTank team, but screws all of their customers (of which I am one).
c'mon people, sign up! There're 700+ peeps attending, we should find some sort of way to pre-organize stuff a bit :D
Super happy for you guys, congrats!! :)

Super not happy to find a new search solution in the next six months. :(
Muy contento por la noticia :)
Today yes. In 1995 it would get 95% market share.
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"...its ability to convey a signature style..."

This is important yet overlooked! There is a lot of advice for up and coming founders on HN (and other places) ranging from scalability minutiae to naming your company, which are all important of course, but there is very little advice on how to dress to create a personal signature style.

Why hasn't a site that aims to do this hackers/startup founders crop up, with advice like, what sort of sweater would look good with your Timbuk2 bag, etc.
> Actually there is no difference between search page result sites like the OP and what you said

Uh, yes there is. http://www.somesite.com/index.html?q=foo is obviously a search (right down to the choice if q for query), but http://www.somesite.com/buy_foo_now.html does not look like one.

You might say that technically they could have the same back-end, but the web is flexible - just about any URL scheme could resolve to the same back-end. The difference is that the first is honest and the second one goes out of its way to hide what it does.
Congratulations IndexTank!
You've got your history wrong. The S-100 expansion bus was widely used in early microcomputers and predated the Apple II by about 3 years.
It's funny that it really, horribly clashes with the idea of "Think Different", though.
The funny thing is that, watching some of Apple's product announcement videos, some execs wear a similar black-shirt-and-jeans outfit. Scott Forstall jumps to mind.

I actually have, from a friend of a friend, a black long-sleeved sweatshirt made for Apple promoting iMovie. It's not quite a turtleneck but the resemblance is interesting.
The user neelk states that one of the bad things about the language is "Null. In 2011." Can someone clarify for me why having null in a language is bad (other than how dereferencing/calling-a-method on null in most languages results in your program crashing)? Come to think of it, I'm not even aware of a language without null.
Ironically, he also went on to invent a programming language with many of the same checklist items.
I suppose this means that LinkedIn is moving away from Lucene NRT Search?
Amazon probably complained to Google and Google despite already having the rules on the books decided to enforce it on this one site, while also keeping many other low traffic clone sites offering the same service alone. Call me paranoid, or cynical but I've seen much worse from Google on the AdWords side of their offerings.
Reading LtU makes me sad that an entire generation of computer science students were raised to think programming language design is coextensive with type system design.

Not that I think that Dart is particularly creative from a PL design standpoint, but I read the complaints about covariant genetics and think: who cares about the type system? It's optional after all!
Yep, founders+investors win. Customers lose.

I guess that's the new way to run a business. Exit > customers.
An app to figure out what happened last night...
[ ] the name is a common word, a single character, or
two characters, one of them not easily pronounceable,
and you are neither a demi-god nor a multi-billion-
dollar company.
He sounds rather bitter about his experience at apple:
http://worrydream.com/#!/Apple
Search is indeed a real big one. Google built Chrome and Android just so they could control the search box. Siri did away with the search box. That's crossing a moat.
URL shoppers, how stable is your cutesy vanity domain?
I understand how it gets here, but I wish people wouldn't upvote this kind of pointless pandering. I'm sure it has a place somewhere, but it's not HN.

Some new things fail because of obvious flaws. Some fail because of non-obvious flaws. A very few things succeed despite both kinds. Nothing succeeds because it's perfect-- and that includes every programming language we use today.

If there's one thing HN drills into our heads, it's that failure is the only path to success. Yes, your new programming language is very unlikely to take off. It might be for reasons that occurred to this one dude, it might not. Either way, failing to make a new programming language is one of the best ways to come to understand the decisions that went into the development of the ones that succeeded.

There are useful criticisms to be made. "Here are some things you probably haven't thought of. Here are some projects you probably aren't aware of." Many people have managed to write such essays quite lucidly, without discouraging people from experimenting with failure on their own.

"You won't succeed because you suck, and I hate you," which (s/snark//g) is all I read here, is completely unhelpful. Cleverly though it may be written out, and apropos as it may be on a programming humor blog somewhere, it's antithetical to everything HN is about.

And anyway, none of this stuff applies to MY language.
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http://www.justbreastimplants.com/forum/ is self-explicatory, fairly busy and has a female audience.
I know this is a pedantic point, but consumers may choose only from what Apple has chosen for them. The "minimally useful and didn't contain malware" expression is missing the "may replace or complete with Apple products" and "may upset some deep-pocketed special interest group or the CEO" qualifiers.
Definitely not a one-off project. It's part of his "Kill Math" series that he started earlier this year. Check out the introduction: http://worrydream.com/KillMath/
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The point of this article isn't the damned turtleneck -- the lesson to learn is that Jobs was best friends with Issey Miyake. Think about that for a minute: How many other folks who work in tech in the valley have any friends who even work in fashion design? Add to that that this is the same guy who hired Paul Rand the grandfather of American graphic design to come up with the logo for NeXT. This is also the same man who hired I. M. Pei as an architect and powered the team that made the first computer animated motion picture. You can start to see why none of his peers even come close...
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I neither have nor want a Twitter account, but even if I did, there's no reason to want to link it to this service.
Yes, I agree, it's a very interesting concept. I wonder how their app will look and behave. Sounds kind of like imdb or freebase, but maybe with a different ui, or a new set of views into that sort of data.
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Sam Altman's two layers of polos and popped collars at Macworld was certainly a "distinctive" look!
Congrats to the LinkedIn and IndexTank folks for the successful exit/acquisition.

Apologies for tooting my own horn here, but for anyone wondering about alternatives for hosted search, there's always Apache Solr and fizx's and my hosted service at http://websolr.com/. We're bootstrapped, profitable, and going on two years old. And we intend to be around for a while!

Feel free to hit me up with questions!
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Ask HN: What web hosting service do you use? (2011 edition)
Hosting companies seem to have the same packages since 2006 - 512 MB RAM, 40 GB disk, etc... What kind of hosting companies are you using these days? Any new and innovative ones out there?
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Agreed. I've pretty much gotten used to refreshing before I click to the next page every time...
It is not like that. Check our FAQ out: https://indextank.com/documentation/faq2. We're talking to several interested parties who would like to take over the service.
I think this is great news. I remember the excitement of first discovering Nginx back in 2006 and realizing that the world's most popular web server (Apache) was based on inferior technology. Here was this unknown proxy server written by one guy in Russia, but inside the well-structured, completely undocumented code base was the power to serve almost all the world's web traffic. And he was always more than happy to respond to dumb questions on the mailing list and incorrect patches to his personal account.

"Going corporate" will make Nginx feel like less of a hacker's playground, but I think that's OK. Like the Linux kernel in the late Nineties, Nginx has grown up and is stable enough for huge companies to rely on for critical functionality. Now that Nginx has a marketing budget of more than $50, it will be installed on many, many more servers and generally make the web faster and more reliable for everyone. That seems like a great outcome to me.
Not all teams are co-located. Real-time communication mediums are sometimes the wrong choice, like when you need to curate your message. Meeting minutes are just another kind of team-wide status report. Collaboration is complex and nuanced. Status reports have their problems, but they have a place.
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A sequel would be terrific because, if you recall, the main story arch was the Gate's philosophy of profit by any means wins over Jobs' (misguided) ideals centered around creating a tasteful product. In the end Gates wins (last scene of the movie was Jobs announcing MS bailing out/investing in Apple).

That movie came out pre-Apple device dominance. As we all know things have change and the principle of tasteful & desired products actually works out pretty well.

However, the next movie will probably not be on TV. With the obvious interest by the mass public of Jobs' life & death, a big-screen movie is probably coming. Maybe using the soon to be published biography as the source.
Can someone list some alternatives to IndexTank? We rely on them pretty heavily and this is going to leave us, and I imagine quite a few other companies, in a bind.
I actually tried this my freshman year of college: wardrobe of nearly identical shirts, pants and sweaters. I was actually inspired by the idea that whenever cartoon characters opened their closets you'd see it full of just their signature outfit. I didn't use the term 'personal brand' but I had the idea, and also loved the convenience.

Turns out that if you're not Steve Jobs this doesn't work so well. After I had ended the this phase I received a lot of comments from people assuming I just never changed clothes, or at the very least found it to be unpleasantly eccentric behavior. I'm pretty sure that if your true goal is a personal brand, unless you're already a very public figure, you don't want to go this route ;)

On the other hand if you aren't interested in personal brand, or are already branded as eccentric this does make clothes shopping and choosing an outfit much easier.
I think that HN is just open-minded. Psychedelics aren't for everyone, but everyone should have the option.
When I do the search [filler item], one of the top results I see is http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-5-amazon-filler-item-finder... which shows five different services to fill this information need, and that also has pictures. I do think that's a pretty helpful result.

I mentioned filleritemfinder.com as a random example (there are many of these services), but filleritemfinder.com appears to use AJAX to keep results on the same page rather than making a new url.

"filleritem.com, a google customer, was blocked, but filleritemfinder.com, doing the same thing, is the number one result."

The filleritemfinder.com site is not doing the same thing, because it's not generating fresh urls for every possible search. But you're not really suggesting that we should treat advertising customers somehow differently in our search results, are you? The webspam team takes action regardless of whether someone is an advertising customer or not.

"shouldn't this kind of advice be given to people who appeal being excluded from the index?"

This advice is available to everyone in our quality guidelines. It sounds like the site owner reached out to the AdWords team, which gave him clear guidance that the site violated the ads policy on bridge pages. It sounds like the site owner also filed a reconsideration request, and we replied to let the site owner know that the reconsideration request was rejected because it was still in violation of our policies. It doesn't look like the site owner stopped by our webmaster support forum, at least that I could see in a quick look. At that point, the site owner did a blog post and submitted the post to Hacker News, where I was happy to reply.
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Perth is not Australia - it's not the East Coast.
Perth and WA is comparatively moribund for start-ups, and years behind when it comes to adoption. They still have thick sections of classified advertisements there in the newspapers, and the dominant marketplace is a weekly classifieds newspaper - Quokka.
Meanwhile, as you say, the economy market is overheated with the mining boom.
But there is some great stuff happening in Sydney and Melbourne, and some awesome things happening across in New Zealand. Auckland and Wellington are closer to Sydney than Perth - and a lot more advanced.
FWIW I actually agree about the generics, both that Go needs them and that bolting them on afterwards typically doesn't work as well as having them from the start. But in general I wouldn't call it "broken" and view being "not innovative enough" as a feature for a systems language.
When you graduate from /. you move to HN, see http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CmdrTacoMalda
Which, from an objective standpoint, is a rival government.
Not really - he did indeed Think Different by doing exactly what most other CEO's (then and now) did not, imho.
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You couldn't get your software onto cellphones without going thru the carrier.

That's not really true. Before the iPhone was released it was possible to develop for a great many phones using J2ME. Some carriers did restrict what APIs were accessible on their phones without a signing certificate (cough Sprint), but others allowed everything necessary to develop games and basic apps that could connect to the site where the app was obtained. All you had to do was throw up .jar and .jad files for your app onto your web site.
Really, it only needs one:

[ ] It is a new programming language.

Not really a judgement of the language, though, and it equates 'work' with 'be used by people who did not develop it'.
It's not null that's the issue, it's that everything is nullable by default (and there is no way to statically guarantee something non-nullable).

OCaml and Haskell are not-nullable by default, and things that are nullable have an extra layer around them that must be dealt with. This is quite sensible.
I like the backblaze pod just in terms of using it as a comparison, where it is the absolute cheapest possible storage really. (Sure you could prob go cheaper.)

I think they've done something that makes sense for them. It doesn't make sense for me to use it for storage where I work, but it works for them in this instance. And it seems to work for Backblaze.
Ok, well I am willing to give that a try. Just implemented. Thanks Matt!

http://filleritem.com/robots.txt
Been wondering the same. I am stuck on godaddy for several of our company's sites and they are driving me nuts for both operational and political reasons!
Very impressive, but I am not sure his comment about Mathematica is right. The Wolfram Demonstrations project is about aiding such explorations in Mathematica. It may not look as pretty, but it's definitely capable of enabling explorations using the Manipulate[] command.

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/

Example:
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/DigitalTiltShiftPhotograph...

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/Manipulate.html
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Thanks endergen! You're right, this isn't something that gets a lot of excitement in places like HN but it gets a ton of enthusiasm from our users. And yes, there is impressive technology under the hood.
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Thanks for doing the right thing, we've really enjoyed the service. I'll look forward to the source release -- maybe we'll bring search back in house. Again -- congrats! :)
This is a bit annoying. My company has an IRC bot that notifies us when someone fails to properly fill out an important AJAX POSTed form on our front page and soon found out all the "errors" we were seeing on IRC were generated by googlebot.