skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holy crap, you mean I shouldn't use a company that isn't a domain registrar as my domain registrar?! This is like complaining when you get a dedicated server from GoDaddy -- they're a fine registrar, but a completely horrible host and many employees will tell you not to order servers from them.

There's a reason that no company can truly "do it all" -- it's just too difficult and quality starts to suffer. Google does e-mail pretty well, which is really the only thing we use the Premier Apps for.
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I don't get it. So, if he writes crap, why do people upvote him on HN? Why did I even have to click the article? Don't we have better things to do?
Sam seems to think so and apparently YC agreed with him (well, maybe): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=453303
I think it has very little to do with the industry and a lot to do with human nature when provided with the Internet. It's a terrible thing, though completely heard of and quite predictable once someone reaches a certain level of fame.

Sure, TC just covers start-ups, but actors just make movies and musicians just make music and people have been spitting on them and giving death threats forever. You just need considerably less fame to attract crazy people online because there are so many more of them.
Forth words are nested lists of other words (before compilation). It's not as good at dealing with nested data structures as Lisps, agreed, but the poster above is asking about syntax and DSLs.
I don't read TechCrunch, but I know exactly why some people hate Michael Arrington [1].

For various reasons [2], human beings tend to think about social groups in us-and-them terms. We're naturally suspicious of Them (whoever they are), while we tend to give Us (our own group) the benefit of the doubt.

Arrington's problem is that he wants to provide information to Us. That means he's One Of Us, because he's helping Us and because we don't listen to Them. A lot of the information he's providing is about a particular group of Them we'd like to join: successful Silicon Valley people. This is a valuable service, and on a rational level we know he has to work hard at it. Even so, when he describes TechCrunch as a startup, associates himself with other successful startups, and even takes credit for some of their success, our emotion-driven social circuitry hears: I am an insider describing to you outsiders what it's like to be inside.

If Mr. Arrington knew about this dynamic, I'm sure he'd spend less time talking about being "battered for three days straight with product pitches from entrepreneurs desperate for press."

[1] In case it's not clear, I'm ambivalent about him. It should go without saying that spitting in the man's face is too much, and threatening his family and business is beyond the pale.

[2] http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/01/a-tale-of-two-tradeoff...
A return to the Supreme Court's software patent ban?
stuff like this is why you need to keep your personal life and your business life separate.

Sure its nice to save the few grand and work from home...but is that really worth putting your family at risk?

Hell, the least Arrington should have done is get a P.O. Box and used that as his address for techcrunch whois.
> Anyone here also TV free? How many years?

Never owned one.
UK will not legislate against piracy
There is always room for better solutions. Think about Google...there were other search engines around when Google was launched but where are they now. If you can deliver a better solution always go for it.
I think technically that spitting in someone's face would be considered assault. Not 100% sure on that, though.
if you want users, techcrunch is not much help. if you want adventurous corporate clients or investor awareness, it's top notch.
I think photo-sharing services need to verticalize and create niches.

I see a clear case for a photo-sharing service specifically designed to host high-resolution images (big size) images which are rapidly becoming the norm with higher resolution cameras rolling out.

What would it take:

1. Uploading will take more time. Should happen in the background.
2. Browsing can be made better - by showing reduced resolutions on the fly - zooming out on parts etc.
It's okay, they increased the cost from $150 to $200, so the rush will be more balanced now.
Yeah, it's tough when facebook is becoming the default for everyone uploading their pictures. If facebook expands that aspect of their business it might hard between them and flickr already being huge.
It's bloated writing. He tries to pass himself off as intelligent, but his rambling clearly shows this is not the case. When people use big words and obscure references, it's usually a sign they are trying to imitate intelligence.
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I agree. Google maps is built for this sort of thing. People know how to use google maps, panning, zooming, etc.
of course there is. even the biggest photo sharing sites like Flickr have less than 1% of market share of internet users, plenty of space to go in.

Also you have to remember that its a standalone service, so users will get value from day 1. So just throw up a good looking user interface and first time users will sign up to try it out
You think that spitting on someone should be illegal!?

Yes, spitting on someone is illegal.

Fun game: stand on a busy street corner and spit on everyone who walks by. If you're arrested before you're crippled, you win.
You may be online everywhere you go, but believe me, wi-fi is not everywhere yet, and often where it is, it's slow and/or broken.

I, for one, welcome our new offline e-mail overlords. :-)
There are two PR calculations: the internal one and the publicly visible one you see on the toolbar.

Google uses the internal PR value as one factor (out of reportedly hundreds) in determining the rank of a page in the search results.

The publicly visible one is, for all intents and purposes, an entertainment channel like, for example, Comedy Central. It is never an accurate reflection of the current PR value Google uses internally.

So what to do? Use the Webmaster Tools and authenticate your site. The Webmaster Tools give you a ton of data about how Google sees your site which is a lot more valuable from a little green progress bar.
There are probably a lot more of these sites out there than the "big ones". I estimate in the tens, but possible 100+. I'd spend a few days enumerating and categorizing the competition in terms of approach taken, features, etc. learning what their Google footprint is, whether they're mentioned in blogs, what Alexa says about them, etc. This would give you a better picture about what your chances of success are. Without actually doing this research, I'd say it's a crowded segment, so your chances of succeeding are probably relatively low. I'd wait for a better idea / differentiator.

Good luck!
Nah, not assault. At least, in my country neighbouring Germany (Belgium) spitting in someone's face is considered a 'verbal insult' for legal reasons.
it's only feasible in the US currently.
I didn't know until today that Google Gears is available for Safari. I don't know why but I always assumed it was IE + FF only.
don't forget you would have to add a shebang line to make it truly executable
All buttons should be eradicated.

I can't wait for the day someone creates an affordable brain-to-computer interface. (And one that doesn't require you to drill holes in your head.)

Man, that was a huge tangent. Anyway...
Pagerank (edit: the "ranking algo") is calculated from hundreds of factors? Wow. That seems overcomplicated. It's hard to imagine that the best way to rank a page is to consider hundreds of influences.
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I contacted G once when I noticed that someone had clicked on about 8 pages in a couple of seconds. I had a simple question: "did I pay for this click?" They were unable or unwilling to answer. I've been suspicious since.

And I second your observation on content networks. It seems to be largely without useful controls.
fromthat other site

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7n9q8/ask_progg...
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Thanks for the info, I was somewhat sceptical we had just jumped from PR4-7 overnight, I have seen a large number of new inbound links but seeing as we only migrated the site over onto the new servers and propagated the URL last week we still have loads more work to get done on it.

Our keyword market in travel is as anyone would expect extremely competitive so hopefully SEO over time will prove to be a good investment of our time and effort, we were just rather shocked this morning at the new crawled Pagerank!
It isn't specific to MySQL, but an excellent book for understanding relational databases is _An Introduction to Database Systems_ by C. J. Date. Reading that (even just the first several chapters, and then others as needed) will help you understand the mindset behind both SQL and relational databases in general. While I had figured out the basics of SQL on my own, I found that getting the big relational ideas made it much clearer why some schema designs are better, the intent behind some aspects of SQL that seemed strange, etc.

It has a new edition published every couple years (it's a textbook), so you can usually get the previous edition for quite cheap.

Also, note that a lot of the books on SQL deal specifically with MySQL, SQL server, etc., and don't always make it clear which aspects are the implementation vs. which are standard SQL. (I was learning with SQLite and Postgresql, so I probably got bit by this more than you will.)
Confidence at VC firms drops further, "some will even close down"
My number one symptom of rotting design is a lot simpler, I keep postponing touching the code... If I do this for more than a couple of days it must be really rotten.
No, that's not what I said. PageRank is one factor out of hundreds that determine the rank of a hit in the search results.

PR is, very basically, a network analysis algorithm. A simple way of thinking about it is the random walk analogy: Imagine randomly browsing pages on the web by clicking on links, what's the probability of you landing on the page in question? The higher the chance of you randomly finding the page the higher its PR.

But again, this is a very very simplistic view and the actual algorithm is of course very very secret. The idea isn't though, and you can read the original paper by Brin and Page at http://cli.gs/qVDNYm .
why would they? They get paid whether or not someone does a real click or not. And 17% of entire adsense revenue is a ton of money.

And the advertisers still get 83% of result, so its not like they spent thousands to get 0 results
Totally agree.. They need you to ascertain theirselves. Wish I had read this earlier.
I hope he stops writing. I really do. If you're reading this, Michael Arrington, please go away and never touch the Internet again.
Well SEO on its own is not that useful. SEO to drive conversion is very very useful. To generalize, what's the final objective of doing SEO? Common answers are "get more buyers", "get more subscribers", "get people do download X", etc.

To give you an example: I have a PR5 page that ranks in the top 10 for a 50m results query. The page has links from really (really) awesome sites (think multinational companies). Traffic from this query? Minimal. Why? It's not a commonly used keyword and certainly doesn't drive that many subscribers to the site.
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I don't like the vista look, but this looks like a toy compared to it.

I hate to be critical, but those desktop & taskbar icons just ruin it. They are like the retarded child of apples icons, and you can almost guarantee they were drawn by a programmer not a designer.

I use linux every day and wish a great designer or two would work with them and gnome to give it the "polish" of other operating systems. A pixel here and there makes a huge difference if you ask me.

Other nitpicks: taskbar text should be vertically centered. Consistency in font appearance is a must. Text on the mail window seems to be off vertically by a pixel or two. The clock text is far too prominent. Etc etc etc...
PageRank is one factor out of hundreds that determine the rank of a hit in the search results.

I'm referring to the algorithm for calculating the rank of a hit in the search results. If there are hundreds of influences, then it seems overcomplicated.
Trouble is - some of those bullies are psychopaths and do not respond as Seth would like us to believe they would. Still - perhaps it is better to get fired when you run into one of them than to try and work with them
I'm referring to the algorithm for calculating the rank of a hit in the search results.

That's not PageRank but the ranking algo.

If there are hundreds of influences, then it seems overcomplicated.
Well it needs to be a general algo that works with all types of content, all fields of knowledge, work around all known types of spam, in all languages, while working on HTML quality.

Complicated? No, necessary.
Just allowing bigger files would be a start. I have a Canon 5D M2, and I keep ending up trying to upload > 10 mb jpegs to flickr, which has a 10 meg limit.

Perhaps expensive though.
Arrington gets a lot of shit. I mean honestly he's a journalist. The core problem is that when someone's livelihood is on the line, people change. When someone is out of work looking for a job, there are usually two responses to a rejection: depression or anger.

TechCrunch (and Arrington to a lesser extent these days) get hundreds of tips or requests for coverage from companies and when TC passes them over, these people who are relying on press to get their name out there, can sometimes get angry. And when TC does cover a company in the same market, or sector, but not their company, it can be interpreted as an insult.

Arrington is the face of TechCrunch. As much as Erick and the others write for the site, Arrington is still seen as the embodiment of it.

I don't care for him, as he does come off as unlikable, and he is also prone to sensationalism for the sake of traffic I feel sometimes, but I hate to read this post. No one deserves that sort of treatment.
AskYC: a wannabe scientist... that dropped out years ago
So, I dropped out university years ago, and I did my successful career in software nevertheless, just as many others. I feel ok (or even somewhat glad) regarding what I did in the software world.

However, since a kid, I loved science, and recently I realized that it seems you can't do serious science from outside the academia. It's ok to drop out if you want to do great software, but if you want to do great science it's suicidal. So I feel like I did a very serious mistake in the past, and that maybe it's very late to fix it (and yes it makes me very sad).

Does anybody else feel like that too? Can you do your share of serious science, even as a hobby, if you don't have a degree and you are outside of academia? Maybe applied science (technology) isn't so restrict regarding titles and academia, so that's probably a solution for this. But in science, I think if you don't have a degree and you try doing something, you are most probably seen as a crank.

Sorry but for some personal reasons I need to stay anonymous.
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The irony is that, if you put one of these next to a cat, guess what will happen... Yum :)

I could write a long rant about how wrong I find this kind of campaigns, but I think it's not the time nor the place. I'll leave it at saying that I agree completely with the last paragraph.
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I wouldn't call 'Free trial' the 'original freemium model' Surely, its the original 'try-before-you-buy' model.

So we're left with only two options:

1) Active free users - adding value by doing something, like creating content

2) Passive free users - adding value by just using the service, like attracting others on a dating site

Users that neither do something useful nor attracting others should be forced out (?) or forced into the paying group (maybe by offering a fix length period).

This will be another way to look at 'try-before-you-forced-out' model, where one can prove her usefulness to the service
That's not PageRank but the ranking algo.

That's what I'm referring to! Hehe. I feel insane. Am I really failing at communicating?

Let me try again: If the ranking algo considers hundreds of influences, then it is an overcomplicated mess!
I wouldn't surprised if it is thousands or even millions of influences, many of which might be generated automatically.

Part of it might just work like a spam filter, for example, so even single words could be factored into the algorithm. Just guessing, but there could be a rule like "if site contains the string '$$$' reduce rank by 0.5%" and so on - all automatically generated, just as it would happen in a spam filter.

Also take a look at SpamAssassin, I have heard it let's you manually combine configure and weigth all sorts of algorithms. At the end of the day, most of Google's employees concerned with improving the search results are probably doing just that most of the time.

Even if some Google researcher comes up with a new algo tomorrow, it will probably just be factored in, it won't simply replace the previous algorithms.
What do you think the user tolerance for paying to host large images would be? Obviously bandwidth and storage cost money, and if a site is to allow 4x larger photos (driving 4x larger costs), the site needs to make 4x more money somehow.

Page views and ads and referral arrangements to photo printers aren't going to automatically scale with photo sizes for a free site.
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Kindle 2: Should you stop buying all those iPhone eBooks?
Very impressive work.
But the only thing 'flashy' about this is the zoom and fade in effect. I don't think this is worthy of being promoted as a great example for "jQuery instead of Flash " app.
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Lest you think he started with the finger - it was hot dogs first...

"Ultimately, it seemed like the most reliable technique would have to involve contact detection, Gass recalls. And because your body has an electrical capacitance, it offers the potential for that. I figured that if you put a voltage into the saw blade, your body could absorb some of that signal. Then the voltage in the saw blade would drop.

Within a week, Gass formulated most of the idea’s details in his mind. Thirty days later, he completed his first working prototype. Initially, he tested the prototype by touching the side of the saw blade with a finger. And while that proved the saw could stop in a fraction of a second, he still didn’t know if it was quick enough to prevent serious injury. Gass wondered how deep a 4,000-rpm saw blade would cut into human flesh during the microseconds that it took to stop the blade. To answer that, he needed to touch the blade teeth.

"I came up with the idea of using hot dogs, and it worked pretty well," Gass says. "It’s cheap, readily available, and you don’t get any protesters coming to your door."

From a Design News article - he was chosen as DN's Engineer of The Year 2007 (aside: DN is one of the best pure applied engineering publications that I actually read - apply for a subscription)

http://www.designnews.com/article/print/5897-Man_on_a_Missio...
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How about that, it is illegal, at least in the US and some other places. I had no idea. I disagree, too; it's highly distasteful but shouldn't actually be criminal - but that's getting off topic.

Anyway I stand corrected.
Violence is not a matter of sympathy.
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"If we could interactively configure our screens to reflect our interests, publish them out via a social graph to our natural affinity and peer groups, and then test content and information flow against advertising models until we find the best mix…. The growth would be explosive, the stickiness fly-paper strength, the incentive for third parties to build and market to power users an offer they couldn’t refuse."

Say what now?
i like newmogul a lot - has become an instant hourly reload for me
I find myself writing like him sometimes. Sometimes you have complicated thoughts and you want to word certain things precisely and it comes out like a bad version of Dennis Miller with qualifiers on top of qualifiers, adjectives and adverbs all over the place... except most of us reread that and go 'whoooooaaa' and rewrite the whole mess.
In the U.S. it is assault.
Forget about your page rank. It won't get you anywhere. It helps you know where you are at, but what matters most is search traffic. You want to make sure that continues to climb. A high PR helps, but focusing on it won't help. Focus on building links with good anchor text, that match the keywords you are focusing on.

And if you do have a an actual PR 7 in Google that is great. It means you have a lot of link authority. Use it by targeting certain key pages on your site for the keywords that will drive traffic.
Actual ranking at the time of your search does not involve too much computation, because a lot has been precomputed and stored in those Google indexes.

In theory, you can view every search as a function of your query and all the web documents out there. This function is partially evaluated for a fixed universe of documents and super optimized.

Evaluating hundreds of parameters is common sense for machine learning tasks. If you look at the papers explaining how the top Netflix prize competitors achieve their score, this is again what they do: they run literally hundreds of algorithms over the dataset and then blend the results. And this is for a domain where their data is only (user, movie, rating, date) quadriplets.
My buddy Allen Stern (of CenterNetworks) said something recently in a podcast that I liked and is relevant here. Paraphrasing, he said something like, "In New York City there are a thousand pizza places and new ones opening up all the time. Many of them are successful and some of the new ones will be, too."

Or, in other words, there is always room for new startups that do the same thing. Just do it better or differently -- have better crust, better toppings, faster delivery, free breadsticks, etc.

As you said, "there are always people who are looking for a better solution." You just need to make it.
blissfully unaware of fb?
considering photo tagging (and then showing up in the news feed) is just about the killer app on fb - and its 150mil users growing at 10mil per month -- I'm tipping this is a reasonably small market...

(ie - savvy enough to use/explore your site while not knowing about fb/flickr/etc)