skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, your not. But that isn't a bad thing. From your link:

"we do not expect to be wholly independent from third-parties."

That is the technical difference, search engines do expect to be, if not wholly, then at least materially independent from third-parties, they are the third parties, search providers are all about the experience.

But lets be really clear, that terminology distinction really only matters when you get behind the search bar as far as the world is concerned we're all search engines, even if, like search.com, they don't index anything, and while DDG provides tailored indexes which support key aspects of your site's experience. The differentiation is the experience in that case not where you get your data. And I fully recognize that this distinction is not important for a large chunk of the Internet [1].

For a general audience, yes, we're all search engines.

For a technical audience, no, we're not. And the distinction is whether or not you have a generalized web index or not.

For organic search they present to the end user in a nearly identical way, caveat the 'experience' benefits of one over the other.

But for other things, like "tell me all the sites on the internet that copied this article verbatim." or "give me a rundown on link authority to all inlinks to this page" those kinds of things you need both a web index, and rights to use it like that. That's a pretty objective difference in capability.

So in technical company (and I consider HN to be technical) I try to be crisp about the terminology, in non-technical company I refer to all of these offerings as search engines because it is less confusing and frankly they don't care what its called, they type in words and get results.

[1] My father in law (part of the 99%) thinks he logs into "Google" to get to the internet because Chrome defaults to Google's home page when it starts up.
Two columns of text. It's a horrible reading experience. Who wants to flip back and forth back and forth with their eyes to read?

A | B
C | D

It's like reading the House of Leaves except that I don't feel any more enlightened when I'm done.

The actual construction of a timeline I haven't heard any of my friends really complain too much about.
If it's in a regular audio format yes. I have a couple LearningRails.com podcasts on mine and they work great.
Pandora and Spotify Rake In the Money and Then Send It Off in Royalties
So to me the real advantages of convertible debt are:

1. They often don’t have control provisions. With equity often investors want “blocking rights on a sale or future finaning” that they often don’t get in a convertible debt deal. If this is the reason you’re doing it, then perhaps talk to investors about whether they’d be willing to give up that right in a Series Seed equity deal.

2. They often don’t have board seats attached to them. Again, this should be negotiable with a Series Seed.

--Summary of the argument.

The rest of the article is useful, too. It provides good background and context for his conclusions.
MasterCard takes step towards first Myanmar credit card
Ah. I was just curious about the terminology. Normally you see the same developers doing both Rails and JS.
I personally love Perelman's story. I think many (most) people have a very difficult time understanding motivations that differ from their own. People are amazed Perelman turned down a Fields medal and a Millennium Prize, they can't fathom any sane person doing that.

Similarly, people can't fathom why _why decided to do what he did.

I think people are inherently uncomfortable with people who live in a way that appears to contradict or call into question the very goals that the uncomfortable people are themselves pursuing with such abandon.

Perelman turned down a sought after prize (two of them) and _why ducked out from a kind of localized fame/recognition that a lot of developers crave. It calls into question the value of these kinds of rewards/goals, and not everyone is comfortable with those thoughts.
I read this as "The New Kindle Paperweight." I sincerely hope that it's a successful product so this pun doesn't show up too often.
Thanks for posting this gorkemcetin - this is james from mobyaffiliates - we got a lot more similar lists on the blog covering other areas of mobile development and marketing
Nanana... I know both, and Scala and Groovy are complety different tools

Groovy is great to Websites and fast development they remove the code complexity and verbosity of java using type inference, some functional goodies like closures and add DSL capabilities,I use it everyday and it's a very nice tool.

Scala is another kind of tool, it also does type inference and add functional goodies and support DSL BUT it have a deep love to parallelism (actors and non mutable objects as an example) and is way closer to the functional paradigm than Groovy, but it's more complex.

So you gotta choose wisely so you don't end up with the hammer to a screw kind of problem.

My view:

Groovy is for fast development and WEB stuff mainly because of Grails which is an awesome tool as well.

Scala is more a backend tool when you need Horse Power, but that's because the lang is more complex, I don't like Play and Lift is not as easy to understand as Grails.

Again no Flamewars please.
Ask NH: Personal Vs. Company Blogs
I have a small company that I use for working on my side projects. I want to start blogging more often about my experiences trying to launch a startup but I am not sure if I should blog on my company site or start a new personal blog.

Any advice would be appreciated.
Nothing new, a worm similar to this called LilyJade got a few million installs (using crossrider - a cross-browser extension thing) by spamming users facebook effectively bypassing csrf because they can read the webpage and spreading itself and banking the spammers a few hundread thousand dollars with CPA (survey scams - "please do this survey to unlock the content")
There is a lot more to front-end than just Javascript.
Seriously, do you think that they did not special effects for the following iphone commercial? I'm not a cameraman, but i guess it's simply impossible to get this quality by just filming a real device.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSAje0EgYjY
It is too easy to write dense indecipherable code in Scala. Until someone at least comes up with an "Effective Scala" that is as complete as Josh Bloch's "Effective Java" at outlining the best practices for readability and maintainability, Scala will not be an acceptable replacement for Java in larger organizations.
"As a trivial example, someone needs to pay the author, which is typically done through royalties. But the publisher also needs to get paid, as does anyone the publisher employs."

Those aren't marginal costs.
I once wanted to do a startup like this but it already exists. Not familiar with it but check out: http://www.l-mail.com/ and http://voices.yahoo.com/mail-letter-online-services-print-ou...
Logos Of Famous Brands, Then And Now
Local type inference is not necessarily expensive. Type inference is abundantly used in Go, and yet it's probably one of the fastest compilers.

There are also languages that do Hindley–Milner type inference (ML, Haskell) with good compile times.
Removing files is a common need coupled with find yet many readers don't know of -delete; I was pointing it out. That doesn't weaken xargs's valid uses. You seem a little defensive? :-)
The impact of Silicon Valley on success
I read the article. Out of 4 images shown, one was of the live demo and 3 were suspected doctored photos from Nokia's promotional materials. The article doesn't clarify whether the live image taken with the Nokia phone was taken in front of the reporter or if it was taken ahead of time. Without that knowing that, it's difficult to gauge whether the conditions were truly similar and if this was a fair apples to apples comparison.
This is the first I've heard about a delay, seeing as how this product hasn't even been announced yet.

Premature much?
Why Estonia Has Started Teaching Its First-Graders To Code
> I have a ~3 year old PC and a ~2 year old mid level graphics card and I can still run most modern games with the graphic settings turned up pretty high.

Well there is a new console generation looming in the near future which probably will bump requirements of upcoming PC games too.
It doesn't surprise me at all that Google tends to handle the long tail questions better. --They're much larger and have had many more years to collect data, build synonym dictionaries, etc.

When I tried to come up with obscure queries, Google does better at the technical queries, and Bing is doing better at the non-technical queries. But the technical queries usually weren't that far off.
This is discussed online ad infinitum but getting funding, navigating legal issues (incorporating, hiring, etc), building critical mass.
Article ($32): http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...

Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3909
Right. So the TSA won't arrest you. They'll call someone else in to arrest you.
Google patents dynamic pricing for electronic content
Is it possible that you accidentally typed *a# into a GMail window? Those are the keyboard shortcuts for "select all" and "move to trash".

Fear of doing that sort of thing has led me to disable GMail keyboard shortcuts altogether on my account. (To do that, press ? in a GMail window and click the link on the second line of the overlay window.)
Awesome. Free 3G wireless is back on a touch kindle! Hopefully the refresh rate is increased, browsing on the old keyboard kindle was cumbersome and slow... but it is still the best device to take traveling... MP3s, Books, and it is free to check email.

This becomes more true everyday:
http://xkcd.com/548/
Real-timify Django with SockJS
Kindle Fire HD
shall we have a new rule, your business is the average of the 5 closest business in the same domain ? ;)
I Sure As Heck Didn't Build It
Congrats guys! Sean gave us a demo of this at the last Stripe Hackathon.. definitely cool stuff.
Now I'm imagining Maurice Moss examining his frotzed Raspberry Pi board, finding the "Made in Great Britain" badge, and shaking his head in resignation.
Do you have a merchant account? You can charge anyone with a credit or debit card, and with a payment gateway you can automatically bill.
I'm not too familiar with Azure, and that's mostly because of bias from my side. I have this idea in my head, that Microsoft never ever just sells a development tool on its own merits. As if any product created used Microsoft tools automatically makes that product part of the vendor-lock-in of Microsoft, in some sense.

And while I was thinking that, I came to the conclusion I haven't looked at any of their products targeting developpers in almost a decade. Maybe things have changed. But all the stated differences in the linked article seem to suggest, things are not that different. But it's just one article, and you seem very informed, am I wrong, in this assumption? When Microsoft creates a development tool, is the intention to capitalize on me, as a developer (which I would like), or to control what I can capitalize on in the market space? (which is just unacceptable)

Is it not smart, that the majority of developers, tend to always favor independent parties, where we are the core customer. From Heroku, to Github. Neither one has any interest in what platforms we support. They only care about supporting us, so we keep paying them. One could even argue, that most development tools provided by platform vendors, are intrinsically destined to be anti-competitive.
Wal-Mart sees online boost from new search engine
I think she would be very surprised to learn she was just a pseudonym. :-)

http://www.edge-online.com/files/images/AI_heads_two.jpg
basically copy & paste from http://stocklogos.com/topic/original-and-current-form-famous...
Recommended read "Founders at work". There is chapter about PayPal.

I wonder if other Elon Musk's creations (SpaceX and Tesla) will become something like this after he will sell them.
>And that's assuming that the screening technique would actually catch a determined individual, which it won't, because he's a terrorist and he's thought things through.

This is the real head scratcher. Say someone did get an explosive liquid through the initial security screening. Why would they then be drinking it later while waiting for their flight?
And also 3 new tablets. Kindle Fire upgrade, and two Kindle Fire "HD" editions.
I'm sure I had a video of the "Kinect" concept (from Microsoft Research) from 4 or 5 years ago! I could be mistaken, but I think they released a lot of "concept" videos like that through out the years, and then released the actual device.
I'm excited. I have to admit that I really like the Nexus 7, but I can't really get into fiction books unless I see them on something that looks like paper. I can't really explain it, but I'll probably be purchasing one of these things. If only Google Play Books worked on the Kindle :)
I'm a little surprised that after inspecting each plugin and finding:

"the first 3 plugins work well and do remove the Timeline after the user logins to Facebook. There is no suspicious activity."

that the final conclusion is:

"In conclusion, we would like to warn all Facebook users to not try any Facebook Timeline Remover apps or plugins."

Why take issue with an unsuspicious app that works as advertised? It's a little unfair to the people who built these apps.

Aside from the general privacy concern presented by every single FB / smartphone app which has access to some level of your personal data, it seems like this is being too specific in its claim that "Timeline removal apps are scams."
268x Query Performance Increase for MongoDB with Fractal Tree Indexes | Tokutek
I used to as well, but I discovered that VNC completely beats X forwarding in terms of responsiveness, reliability, speed, clipboard management and OpenGL usability. Modern apps simply draw so much so complex things that the recipe is heavier than the effect.

The philosophy is different, I admit, and it needs certain setup, but it is totally worth it.
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Fortunately they fixed that errant man page. :-)
http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/cat
Wasn't trying to start a flamewar. Yes, they're completely different tools. Per the original quote though

"it (scala) allows enterprise developers to taste some of the goodies of Ruby / Python"

Groovy fits that bill far better than Scala if you're primarily looking for a taste, without having to adopt the complexity of a new worldview.
Infographic: Conference Calling
Pose Brings Its Fashion Photo App To The iPad
New Attack Breaks SSL/TLS to Hijack HTTPS Sessions
http://twitter.github.com/effectivescala/
Amazon announces Whispersync for Games
Thank you all for your answers.
Pocket (iOS) adds support for Chrome, App.net, Kippt and more
Amazon's new 7-inch Kindle Fire: twice the RAM, faster processor, $159
Customer: This small coffee is too big. I just can't slug that much head fuel right now, man. Do something for me!

Barista: OK, let me fix that for you.

(Barista pours out half of the coffee and hands the cup back)

Customer: Dude, you have blown my mind. This event will change the ways in businesses will operate in the 21st century. Steve Jobs gets it and you fucking get it, man! You get it!

Barista: Yes, Steve Jobs, that's me, thanks. You need anything else?

Customer: I'm going to be right over there watching you and blogging the shit out of this monemental moment.

Barista: Yeah, yeah, I know you're here like 8 hours every day doing that. OK, anything else I can get you?

Customer: What is your SECRET?!!! Jobs. Steve Barista Jobs. That's you ... I am learning from you.

Barista: I'm thinking of calling the cops actually.
Actually now that I think about it the the Java stuff must date back to NeXT. Probably a strategy to sell into "the enterprise", which they were pretty hot on at one point.
Both physical goods, cash and bitcoins once transferred are hard to get back. But this does not invalidate property rights and prevention of fraud. If two parties cannot resolve a conflict by themselves, they turn to a third party. This has nothing to do with bitcoins, paypal or any money system.

Bitcoin is valuable because it gives you a choice: you can either have third party to resolve issues and insure risks, or you can go by yourself. In case of paypal/visa/wire transfer you do not have such choice.
To withdraw shell programming from Unix takes away one of its strengths. Not everything warrants Python, etc.
Ultra Modern Slave: What is the price for water?

Private Gov't: We see in our bank records that you can afford $500 a month. We already started taking that out of your account.
Akshay of Picplum gave us really amazing advice. After listening to him (and furiously taking notes), it was no wonder that Picplum was such a joy to use.

Thanks for the help guys!
It's Ok if Some of Them Hate You
Perhaps , but I recall a report somewhere (possibly from Carmack) that next gen consoles really were more just catching up to the PC in terms of performance.

The industry seems more focused on new method of control and also on different monetisation strategies.

I think with graphics perhaps we are far enough into the uncanny valley that it's really going to provide diminishing returns in terms of horsepower/experience to gamers until we can get to the point where graphics can become literally photo-realistic.
I guess a complete "Effective Scala" would still be a lot thinner than "Effective Java" due to tons of "best practices" being the default. :-) In the meantime, the Style Guide and Scala in Depth do a good job, in my opinion.

Regarding "larger organizations": Well, there are organizations which prefer to pay for Java 1.4 and don't even consider moving to a more recent version and there are organizations like Intel, Juniper, UBS which decide to use it. I don't think sweeping generalizations like that are accurate.
Look at Evernote's Peek. It's not exactly flash cards but could well be used for it.
Keep both. Put any posts on the domain of your company (including tech, startup) on the company blog, and misc. posts on your personal blog. The posts are a good content source for SEO and backlinks as well as help to build your brand. It is also simpler for readers who may be only interested in certain topics, and may not want to read a lot of off-topic posts.

If you are looking to build a more personal brand, then putting everything in the personal blog is fine.
Woohoo! Glad that you were able to recover them!
Having used Scala some myself, I wouldn't be surprised that if we look back in ten years, we have come to the conclusion that Scala is the C++ of modern times. It tries to support relatively opposing paradigms (functional programming - object oriented/imperative programming), has a very extensive type system, and drags in a lot of historical baggage via Java.

I guess everyone has encountered the C++ is 'C with better strings and arrays'-type of programmer who doesn't use RAII or the STL. Or the template-fanatic programmer that wants to drag in template meta-programming into every corner of the project. Or the STL fanatic that wants to replace every for-loop by a function in std::algorithm, even if there is no appropriate fit or it requires building a bunch of stateful function objects (thank god we have closures now). Etc.

If projects do not impose serious restrictions, such a broad language will quickly become an incomprehensible mess.

Being a recovering C++ fanatic myself, I believe more in smaller languages try to solve a particular problem now. For instance, take Prolog, it's a beautiful language for what it is aimed at: logic programming. All the weird object-oriented Prolog experiments have died out by now, and it's a language that you use when you want to solve a particular kind of problem.
Congrats. It's a nice service.
I'm going to order the 3G model as soon as it's up on the store. The backlight is what was holding me back before.

Edit: Ordered. Should be here on October 2nd.
It will certainly keep me on the Linux platform.
Right, now that it has been adopted by large companies it would be stupid to call it a hype anymore.
Thanks, Michael. I'm doing the same thing; starting a Freelancers group here in Kansas City.
Well yes that does make a lot of sense. Kind of stupid of me to not realize this myself.
This is really cool. I'm currently bootstrapping my own startup and have tried to find tutoring work on the side to boost my income. It's been tough to find clients though, and navigating Craigslist and Kijiji is a pain.

How do you intend to promote Tutorspree in other cities. I'm guessing it is biggest in NYC right now?
“Paperwhite” display, which offers more contrast
and brightness

Brighter? As far as I know it doesn't have any backlight, so how can it be brighter?
Wow, does that mean you could end up with a "KDE-only" nvidia driver and a "GNOME-only" ATI/AMD driver?
It seems like it would be easier to just create another github user, add it to your organization as a read-only user, and then add each machine's ssh key to that user as a real ssh key rather than a deploy key. The downside is that you can't restrict certain machines to certain repositories, but the upside is that it's a lot less complex.
Nice to know there's some exciting stuff happening in my city for once.
It has front light. Thus it is brighter.
It's kind of interesting to see that the myth that functional and object-oriented programming are somehow mutually antagonistic is so readily accepted that it can even be perpetuated in an ode to an object-oriented functional language such as Scala.
Probably one of the most interesting features of the new Kindle Paperweight is this: "The display has 62 percent more pixels, and it’s super sharp with excellent contrast". There haven't been any new breakthroughs in the eInk department since B&N Nook Simple Touch and Kindle 4.
I am sorry I said no flamewars because of what I was saying, to point that I didn't want to start one.

Your answer was not the flamewars kind at all.

And yes Groovy fits perfectly in that statement.
Why in the world would you think that Emily Short is a pseudonym? Their games and code are quite different.
So people actually go searching out and reading others timelines? Seems so foreign to me.

Against my better judgement I've been on Facebook for years and outside of the occasional look back on someone profile to see when their kid was born, got a new job, etc I never leave the newsfeed view.

But, agreed on the horrible reading experience though, the only thing worse is

A | C

B | D

style that academic papers still use.

Edit: the above style is worse when reading on a screen of any sort, on paper fine, but screen inevitably leads to scrolling around and doing quite a bit of context switching
Brightalyze helps non-technical people to launch awesome apps
Amazon announces Kindle Fire HD 7-inch for $199
Err, deflation, right. Not sure why I conflated the two there.
I'm currently learning how to code. The biggest problem that I consistently have is getting the damn thing to work. I'm about halfway through the Hartl Rails Tutorial, and moving at a snails pace because I have to google error messages every five minutes.

I end up spending hours changing permissions, re-installing packages, and poring over StackOverflow posts. I get that real-life software development is very similar, but I'd really just like to build something.

Coding isn't all that hard (in my experience). It's the tangential stuff that makes it hard, and as a result, turns people off from learning.
Should Entrepreneurs Code? Founders Share Their Views
FYI, the 'Oulook Social Connector' provides a framework already setup for this, you'd just need to implement a provider.

http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-outlook/archive/2010/07/...
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