skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love to see if Facebook could create a better search engine by using an individual's social network to weight links instead of backlinks.

It might be too much work just to see if it is useful but I'm thinking they have a ton of data about where everyone goes on the web because the Like button is so pervasive. Why not use that data to make search extremely personalized?

Reasons why I like this:

1) It's not like anyone currently uses facebook for search, they literally have nothing to lose.

2) It would be interesting to see if the aphorism, "Show me your friends and I'll show you your future" holds up.

3) It's data that google doesn't have access to, unless G+ takes off.

4) It would be cheaper to crawl the web, essentially your users are your web crawlers.

Take the same graph theory algorithms used for backlinks and apply it to views and instead of page rank use time that their friends spend on the site.

Then you can do some interesting stuff like weight the page rank more heavily for individuals you interact with more.

Or super creepy (but statistically interesting) stuff could be done like if you want someone to reconnect with a friend they haven't spoken to in a while, weight the "long lost friend's" pages more heavily. Essentially, influence people to talk to each other by converging their data about the world.

EDIT: Another thought - if websites know that they're only admission into the search engine is putting a Like button on their page it gives them an incentive to do so.
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Can you share one or more sample queries with sample results?
I hate to say it but Facebook is not going to be overthrown, ever. It's planted very firmly. Backed by mega corps and huge international banks.

Facebook is down right scary in the way it has permeated the life of almost every person on the globe. It's monolithic and we have little insight into what they will actually do with all of our data. A little government + facebook cooperation and we'll really be a dystopia.

With that said, I don't use Facebook and hope some more people wake up and smell the coffee too. We need a decentralized network, as that is the only way to avoid corruption.
would employer allow a linux install then XP in a VM or several? All problems solved then.
"those two big engines ( Google and Bing ) couldn't probably adopt because they are simply too big." and "some good coder could simply copy it in like 2 weeks." seem very contradictory.
Some say you should have such a strong vision that listening to users stuck in the past is a mistake. Others say shame on you for not listening to users, how stupid. Apparently it's only OK to ignore users when it works out.
I don't think the criticism you're refering to is frequently directly at the articles; They're reactions to link-bait. Link-bait depends on sensationalism, which I think is opposite the goals of HN, so people don't respond to it well. Nevermind that its inherently misleading, which isn't a way to endear readers. It hurts credibility, etc..
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So what would you call a "men's issue" or a "women's issue"? Or do you think that no such issues exist?
DRIFT is a new image "discovery engine" I discovered here recently.

http://drift.io
Inexperience + being exposed to something you hadn't thought of before = "I just found something AMAZING!"
I think wolframalpha has a great potential to disrupt current search engine market in future.
Non-computability, unpredictability, and financial markets
And extra memory taken up at runtime by having to load the other versions of the libraries. And the I/O costs of reading them in. I'd think that'd outweigh the performance benefits many times over in nearly all cases.
Unfortunately, while the Android NDK supports native code on x86, ARM, and MIPS processors, GoogleTV doesn't support the NDK:

Does Google TV support NDK?

No. There is a pending feature request for NDK support on Google TV

https://developers.google.com/tv/faq#ndk

It is my understanding that the Intel-based mobile phones are the first x86 Android devices to support the NDK.
Dude, it's Instagram. It lets you add faux vintage to your pictures. Building pyramids we are not.
The idea is really simple but the results are nothing like normal search engine (it works differently than blekko, DDG, Google, Bing etc. ).

People are used to the way Google works. If they(Google) tried to adopt this new way, I am sure many people would resign / change their provider. But still for many people, it would be a better experience.
Thanks for reminding me why I stopped subscribing to The Economist. In addition to the usual simpleminded analysis that serves only to flatter its readers, we get an endorsement of fracking! Good lord!
On the other hand, this could be an incredible opportunity to pay it forward. If they're accepting the tips, they're participating, which is then just a few clicks away from funding others by providing bigger tips to promising projects.
The competitors of a bank practicing fractional reserve and cargo-cult security would have a major incentive in pointing that out, in order to gain market share.

The free market does not lead people to nothing. What 'it' does is to reward lucrative (i.e. economical and profitable) behavior and to punish stupid ones. It is a form of social organization with an embedded stabilizing mechanism.

The same could be said of centralized banking, or centralized anything, as could be more easily seen on the more socialist economies of the soviet block.

Given that, let the people invest their money as they see fit, and punish fraud (including fractional reserve banking) as the crime it is. Simple solution.
I eat bacon at will and am steadily losing weight. Paleo, which is similar to Atkins in that you much reduce grains (as well as sugars), plus light exercise is working great for me because I am human.
Google and Facebook are the exception to the rule. You are not going to be them. Also google are not making elevators to the moon, don't be so silly.

Photocopiers used to be banned, with huge punishments for ownership, in east Germany due to their power to spread ideas quickly. But it's as silly to say that xerox brought down the berlin wall as it is to say that Facebook is bringing down governments.

You are full of it.
…removes one potential buyer…

Facebook is not limited to one buy per category, if the users/talent/tech is otherwise attractive.
Common Crawl: http://commoncrawl.org/
I can't emphasize enough how important it is for the OS vendor to "set a good example" when designing their own apps for the OS.

Like it or not, devs will look to the built-in apps for guidance on what to make theirs look like -- this is also true for how buggy or unresponsive an app can get before it is deemed "unacceptable".

Put another way, think of first-party apps as a form of enforced competition. If do don't do better than the level we, the OS vendor, are competing on, then users will be disappointed in you.
Best point of the article is that you need to keep in mind your 'leverage' as owner of a product when implementing large scale changes. In Digg's case, the community had all the leverage: they posted links to content, curated the content, provided the pageviews for advertisers, and spent the time making the site great. In return, Digg had little leverage at all to cause users to stay if they pissed them off sufficiently.

Facebook and Twitter have leverage: their content is user-generated, and cannot be found elsewhere, this combined with their social graphs make it so if you switched you will not be seeing content from a majority of the people you know or care about any longer. Marketplaces like eBay and Craigslist have enormous leverage: eBay can push out a feature that pisses off 100% of their sellers, but sellers go where the buyers are, and the buyers are on eBay. Google has leverage over its advertisers for the same reason, though it's hard to think of how Google has leverage over its main audience, which is a testament to their cautiousness when messing with the search engine (at least until recently!)

I think this aspect is lost when you have sites like TechCrunch telling product people to just forge ahead and break stuff. Break stuff, sure, but remember that when Facebook break things and users eventually come crawling back, its certainly not due to loyalty or warm-fuzzy feelings but due to leverage. Do you have that kind of leverage?
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This is like saying helping a little old lady across the street isn't a big enough good, what a waste, ignore the lady and figure out how to save all of the peoples. Only then have you done something truly good. But the little old lady might disagree.
I do have a couple A/B testing platforms ready and I will definitely use those, but setting up the demo requires a week of work or so.

I see your point though and do agree that once the demo is in place, A/B testing will make sense.
What problem? You can bash a language without saying anything negative about its users. Not all programming languages are equally good, for any reasonable definition of good. This is a valid thing to discuss.
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If I snap the window to take up half my screen, the dumb (un-hideable) sidebar ends up eating most of that screen space.

I wrote a dotjs[1] script[2] that solves exactly this by letting you toggle the sidebar on and off.

[1]: http://defunkt.io/dotjs/
[2]: https://github.com/timothyandrew/.js/blob/master/reddit.com....

EDIT: Formatting
One core message of the video is that when lacking fundamental knowledge, that no matter how 'advanced' your knowledge is, certain processes are beyond your true understanding.

So jumping into an advanced topic is good, but you really need to apply rigor to ensure you understand the important fundamentals. Obviously trying to understand everything possible can be inefficient or even unnecessary.

All the same its worth considering.
Spool's killer function for me was the recording of flash video into mp4 so I can watch on my iPhone and airplay to my TV.

Too bad they're going away. Thanks for while it lasted.
"Because the companies leading the process are so productive, they pay high wages but do not employ many people. They may thus do little to reduce unemployment, while aggravating inequality."

That can't really carry on long term can it? Not much chance of infrastructure improvements without a tax base?
Misguided title as it may be, article (successfully) really suggests that GitHub is ignored in studies of social networks and group collaboration, and it shouldn't be, given its productive capacity, as opposed to time-wasting alternatives.

Many sociological and even political models could reference it in their development and study.

Love the Nimoy quote. Will be reused.
Not exactly a new kind of search engine, but http://www.millionshort.com

I think it strips out the top however many results you get from google. It can possibly (depending on the search), get rid of SEO heavy results that don't have much useful content.
They are closing down their services so this is a talent acquisition. http://blog.getspool.com/instructions/
Wrong. It's a network of tens of millions of people sharing data about their day-to-day life.
The article talks about the Pivos box already, it's supposed to be (check first!) this one:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0088IGPM8

Not affiliated, no experience with that thing, but I think that's the only device with hardware decoding support as stated by the article.
With this level of funding, they can try to achieve both small and big objectives simultaneously.
Already submitted to HN, but I'm sure a few missed out so thanks for posting again.
That's how we improve the society: not by improving individuals, but taking away responsibilities from them. What comes next? People destroy their health eating crap, so we just plug them into feeding tubes?

There are many benefits to self-driving cars, and sure, security may be one of them, but don't delude yourself thinking you can solve all societies chores by restraining what people can do. People still smoke, even though it's known to be harmful. People do stupid sh. Neither technology or regulation are substitutes to wisdom.
After reading some of the comments, it seems as though this has a tendency to turn into another one of those interviews where the interviewer gets to feel superior if you can't remember shit you learned 20 years ago verbatim.
Thanks. I removed the false statement as it was ancillary anyway. That said, in import it was not false. Linux is collaboratively developed using Git, and as Torvalds himself said when he did temporarily move Linux kernel dev onto GitHub, "But hey, the whole point (well, one of the points) of distributed development is that no single place is really any different from any other, so since I did a github account for my divelog thing, why not see how well it holds up to me just putting my whole kernel repo there too?"

I'd not be surprised if he makes a permanent move once GitHub fixes a few things: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546.... On the other hand, he is a known control freak.
Not really. Why do I have to take it out of my pocket and plug it into the machine? Why can't it just get on my home WiFi network?
how is the "bigger ipod touch" changing education? I mean, really, what is so great about and ipad that is changing education for better? Or are you talking about just a change in methodology and not quality?
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I consider writing Digest for a 3rd time. The first time was a proof of concept in Perl, the 2nd time was product in Java for [name of customer deleted]. The 3rd version could be in PHP for the masses.

Digest is not a normal search engine, but an XML description language to tell a spider where to find what on a web layout. Its aimed on the dark side of the internet, able to login on website, use cookies, and even delegate captcha solving.

The main problem of Digest is that its maintenance intensive because websites are changing layouts regularly. The idea of a Digest for the masses would be an open source distributed search engine, that runs on normal peoples web servers. So every (power) user has access to the search engine itself.

My problem, and question to this audience is: How to make money with such an project? The only idea I have currently is kickstarter.
Reading articles by Wolfram is like stepping into a alternative universe where the entire contemporary scientific community does not exist. Science and engineering are simply the progression of ideas and projects conceived by Stephen Wolfram. Hell, he has an entire company staffed with likely hundreds of engineers that have worked on his projects for decades, and yet talks about Mathematica as if he wrote every single line of code himself. I make an effort when I see him talk or write to find any references to this team of people who work tirelessly on his projects, and I usually fail to find even a single one.

If you handed his writing to a 3rd grader, they'd probably infer that actual research ground to a halt after the scientific revolution until, praise the Lord, A New Kind of Science was published. This seminal work broke all barriers and unified every single field of science through an elegant framework that had escaped mankind for hundreds of years. And, how was this great breakthrough possible, you ask? Well, it was only possible due to the amazing effort behind that other great work, Mathematica. And now, thanks to the breakthroughs of A New Kind of Science, the world is finally able to see the pinnacle of human achievement and computation: Wolfram|Alpha.

When he writes about historical progress of science and engineering, Wolfram peppers his points with citations to A New Kind of Science over and over again while not linking to, say, any other publication, ever. It's beyond egotistical, it's bizarre.
The majority of the most intelligent and productive people on Chrome don't blog, don't have github accounts, and they only way you'd have a hope of finding them is because Chrome is open source so you could trawl the repository and discussion lists. But there must be similar networks on tons of close-source projects.

I guess the takeaway is that:

- If you're looking for work, be public. It is still a huge differentiator. Edit: Actually you should try and make a practice of being public even before you're looking for work.

- If you're looking for people, personal networks are still probably the most effective approach. But looking through the activity of open source projects (not just on github) is also very effective. You'd have to put in a lot of work though to actually read code and discussions to find the best people.
What about Plex? IIRC it's a fork of XBMC and has been available for both iOS and Android for the last 6 months or so. Nothing against XBMC but Plex is probably a better choice right now if you want something stable.
Indeed. Don't just start sending weekly "WE'VE BEEN MISSING YOU" emails right off the bat...or ever, really.
Walking barefoot on broken glass actually isn't that hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQIVPonHhx8#t=7m59s
You realize that the users themselves control the look of the subs right? For example: http://www.reddit.com/r/googleplus/ , http://www.reddit.com/r/apple , http://www.reddit.com/r/diablo, etc x 1 million.

And power users use http://redditenhancementsuite.com/ suite, and http://userstyles.org/styles/browse/reddit

But at the end up the day it's about reading and not decoration, changing the UI would be a disaster of Digg proportions.
> So if at all possible, avoid 32-bit, 64-bit is the solution; PAE, AWE & 4GT were only ever workarounds.

PAE isn't a workaround, and is mandatory for x86-64 when operating in long (64bit) mode as it is still how the CPU addresses physical memory.
> I hate to say it but Facebook is not going to be overthrown, ever.

Just rhetorical exaggeration, right? But just in case you're that naive: IBM, Microsoft, Windows, Google. The Roman Empire, the British Empire. Need we go on?

I give Facebook ten years max. It may already be near its peak.
Yes

But you won't lose weight (meaning fat or muscle) unless there is a caloric deficit. Period

What happens is that high-protein diet changes the fullness sensation/hunger, so that's why it shows results and is easier to keep.

Of course: less grains == less fiber meaning "you may have a hard time"
Agreed. I was a big Spool fan (used their iOS app a lot) so I'm sad to see them go. Watched tons of tech presentations on my iPhone during long flights.
I would say one of the most important aspects to consider is the workflow of being a 'demo user' to signing up. Sure, rewriting your app's sign up process into an 'online demo' by automatically generating a guest account won't take that much time. But the real challenge is to make sure you're designing the whole process in such a way that you're not adding more confusion for the user. For example - and this is probably more relevant for B2B/enterprise apps - users might be really used to having to sign up with a password (or even worse, having to fill out a Request for Demo form and wait for a call from a sales rep). In that case I'd try to make sure your users understand whether or not the data they enter is private or shared, if it's saved once they "sign up", etc.

We also notice that our users sometimes create an account, play around a bit, but then leave and come back again a few days later because they were in the middle of something. I'm curious what the effect is of having no way of contacting them, or leaving a reminder in their inbox of where to find back the website. Maybe just asking for an email address would help.

In any case it would be interesting to see some more data. So far we've just been using sign up forms, but always try to keep them short and 'friendly'. We're definitely considering giving this a try, so hopefully we have some meaningful data to show in a while.
Only in the short term.

Picking up a new tool shouldn't take long, but can give a significant benefit. As I like to say, learning something well enough to use is an O(1) action where the benefit is in O(n) to how much you use it.

In the long run, the quality of the tool dominates your current familiarity with it.
The rules themselves can also be offensive. I know Apple blocked the free streaming app of the public tv here in holland originally.

The government was pissed, and considering legislation because the fact the app was not allowed was considered to be offensive. The app is allowed now, as an 18+ app.

And honestly, thats what we should do. Sue, legislate and full out war of the whole concept of these kind of policies. Stores playing culture police sounds like part of a dysotopian nightmare.

And the rules are so so so American. Sex is bad. Violence is good. Lying about products is allowed, but oh dear if kids get to see a niple.

The weird thing is, i doubt Apple realizes just how offensive their guidelines are themselves. Ah well, thell have their day in court.
"Out of touch with society and the market" is basically reactionary thinking right? We've all heard the "Ford" quote of "if I asked my customers what they wanted, it'd be a faster horse".

The people's opinions and the market are not sacrosanct - they are very often wrong in making human progress. George Bernard Shaw knew the attitude we need to make change:

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
How Google Street View is inspiring new photography
Related TED talk: Beware online filter bubbles.

http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu...
So? People can work on whatever ideas they please. The conversation ends there. Unless you're going to start forcing people to work on idea's that you deem will "better society" your comment is completely irrelevant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
Success - achievement of an objective (goal)

Wealth has absolutely no relation to success unless you define being wealthy as your goal. It's not even a consequence of being successful on whatever you set your life goals to.
Very informative post. Thank you!
> That can't really carry on long term can it? Not much chance of infrastructure improvements without a tax base?

This is a problem for large political units going back to at least the Roman Empire.

The government should be doing everything it can to empower small businesses. It isn't because of two-party adversarial politics, however.
These People are Ruining the Future of the Internet
Plex is closed source. An XBMC announcement is more exiting just by virtue of its open and non-proprietary nature.
All future Google TV's will be ARM-based, so it will run on it.
I wonder if they've thought about marketing it as a remote, in situ denture cleaning system.
My functional description is not inaccurate, nor is yours.

However, the poster I replied to did not substantiate the analogy and comparison of:

nascent computer science::geometry
Instagram::pyramids

There's a bunch of fluff in the post, as well as much poorly-articulated navel-gazing.

Also, something I begrudge about the comparison: Ancient geometry had nowhere near the formalism and maturity of study that computer science as a field does. And even if it did? Computer science doesn't seem to be closer than arms-reach to most projects.

Hell, your modern operations and engineering in many cases is just throwing together other people's libraries and fiddling with config files until you have a liquidity event that lets you buy real talent--themselves pretty far removed from the greats of the field of computer science.

About the only thing the pyramids and your socialized twitterscapegrams have in common is the waste of thousands of man-years of productivity and intellect in the pursuit of ego and fleeting fame.

Seriously, folks, let's not treat our industry with such gravitas.