skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mainly because venture investors need to get their capital back, so they can invest it in new startups.

But another problem with dividends is that they'd be so easy to spoof. It would be easy to claim that a business was making no money while finding ways to funnel it to oneself. That's what record labels have traditionally done to musicians: they give them a percentage of the net, then arrange that the net is near zero.
it's xml based http://www.waveprotocol.org/draft-protocol-spec

looks like XMPP to me

I really hate XML
From Dolly to Injaz: The Cloning Revolution Takes Off
Browseology is available now! Developed by myself and kineticac. You can browse together in real time with Amazon support, but more coming very soon.
Yes, writeboard.com by 37signals. It's not real-time though. Something very much like SubEthaEdit but totally web-based is etherpad.com. I'd be interested to see a feature-to-feature comparison between SubEthaEdit and EtherPad.
The White House press secretary said yesterday that opponents of Obama's SCOTUS nominee should choose their words carefullywith nary a peep from Dems.

When Bush's press secretary said the same thing, Dems went ape-shit.
> Conservatives: think it's OK to give your money to rich bankers so long as there are no strings attached.

The strings weren't attached when the loans were made. Moreover, some of the bankers didn't want to take said loans.
Agreed -- it looks like Wave will dump MORE information overload upon me. I want less, dammit! Less e-mail, less IM, less pictures. Give me only what I will find of utmost value.
Thanks. Actually I just saw that on Slashdot. I think you just created a sticky neologism too: http://www.google.com/search?q=fakeponym I like it.
Beyond Bing:  Applying Intentional Programming to Web Search
What would happen if we apply intentional programming to web search?

Intentional programming is demonstrated in these videos:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tSnnfUj1XCQ

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZZDwB4-DPXE

Also see:

http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~gpollice/cs509-s04/Readings/simonyi95death.pdf

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/simonyi96intentional.html

For web search the idea would be to open up your search engine so that anyone can submit code for domain specific query entry, search, ranking, and presentation of results. Moreover, such code submissions would compete with each other, with more effective ones rising in popularity in their respective domains.

Unlike APIs that are currently available, the submissions made by users here would make up the core feature set of the service.
It's a video demo of bing, a supersonic flyover of the features. The demo is obviously consumer oriented, but the teaser in interesting enough that I will give it a try for my consumer searches. Recently my SO and I made a trip to Virginia and Washington for her daughter's wedding. We did a lot of tedious planning using Google. If bing can ease the process, I'll use it.

Most of my searches are tech related. Google is pretty painful, but I hold little hope that bing is going to be my salvation. When in the name of <insert your favorite deity> is anyone going to implement HN-style modding for search results?
Hulu Desktop (Mac and PC clients)
Google wave doesn't do browsing, but they packaged all the email, chat, and picture sharing all into a nice platform. It's really interested. Browseology currently does collaborative browsing focusing on Amazon product research. What would you guys do with collaborative browsing?

By the way, clickable link: http://browseology.com
An interesting analogy, but I'd be happier if it were accompanied with some examples. Hg got everything right? Cool. Like what?
First thing that'll happen is that shady SEO ppl would find ways to mess with it.

Followed by the devs locking it down, itunes-app-store-application-style, and everyone will gripe. And then go back to using Google.
Yeah. The playback feature alone is a very difficult feature to successfully implement.

The possibilities of this product is mind boggling. But will the complexity and learning curve be a stumbling block in adoption? Even if the consumer product doesn't take off, I expect wave to be hit in companies where people need to collaborate frequently especially since they can host their own wave server and not worry about hosting data with google.
I believe it's called flensing.
I'm waiting for the first one built with relays :-)
It looks like it will be the Zune of search engines.

TEH WOW STARTS NAO GUISE LOL
Thanks Google! This totally validates our collaborative browsing startup, http://www.browseology.com

If you don't want to wait for Google Wave to see updates from everyone in real time, check it out.
Not ready to get excited, right now.
Talk about a link bait title.

I really don't see why this is getting up voted.
We agree with Google. This is the same idea behind our newly launched startup, http://www.browseology.com

If you don't want to wait for Google Wave to see updates from everyone in real time, check it out.
It's not about being "lost" it's about total revenue generated. I haven't heard any revenue success stories from the android land (which is probably why they feel compelled to jump-start the app development process by awarding those prizes).
SEO people can mess with anything if reasonable precautions are not taken. Why is it a priori obvious that the situation here is unworkable?
duckduckgo.com the search engine recently featured on HN might help you.
Probably the real reason they put up such a fight against Boxee.
Ned! Ryerson! Bing!
Hulu Desktop Lets You Rot Your Brain From The Comfort Of Your Couch
People in the Bay Area should visit the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

http://www.computerhistory.org/

They have an example of a computer used on board the Apollo missions that was entirely wirewrapped. The docent said that when they were done debugging they would then pot the whole thing.
The Daily Start-Up: We Don’t Need No Venture Capital
In a VC-backed company, 5% is a huge number. Much larger than it sounds like. A CEO might have 5%.

In a situation like this, where you're talking about part-time dev and forum moderation, it's unlikely that anyone on your team is going to value equity as much as you do. Which means that any reasonable allocation you create is a lose-lose.

More importantly, if you're successful, the allocations you make today will be a headache in the future. For example, it effectively locks you into whatever corporate structure you have today. You can't grant LLC equity to employees. Also, to safely grant equity, you need a vesting plan.

Equity isn't worth anything until you start making money. So maybe you should look into something more along the lines of profit sharing.
It's in principle pretty simple to interconnect two n-bit CPUs and obtain one 2n-bit CPU.
The only element that scales above linear is the multiplier, and it's not even quadratic.
Topsy Bets On Real-Time Twitter Search With $15M Backing
Bing--bad logo, over dramatic
Why do they think we want a big, dramatic image as a background to our search page?

The logo is a good inasmuch as it departs from typical Microsoft logos, BUT it's still ugly.

Especially since it's not live, all we have are these 1st impressions. And frankly the design choices are lame. Will this have an impact on it's success?
that's one ugly logo you've got.
Neat.

OpenID please.
http://www.hulu.com/labs/

Other features added today:

-- Video Panel Designer for clip embedding

-- Recommendations

-- Time-Based Browsing
Why Adwords Won’t Work For Social Networks
This is interesting, but I'm not sure how well it will work when there is already a method (SFIR http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr/) that works around this licensing issue completely.

I suppose it will really come down to pricing, but they're going to really need to cut into those expected royalties if this is going to fly. It'll be interesting to see if font designers are as pig headed as music labels, or if they can understand that a lessor percentage of a larger total is the better deal.
It's an XMPP extension.
I thought the random background image was a cool idea. Gives you something to look forward to, assuming they change it every day, and you have it set as your homepage.
Human Language Gene Changes How Mice Squeak
CSS would pick that up and just use the next specified font, presumably. The same way that if I specifed: font-family: {fancy font, Arial} your browser would automatically render Arial.
Manual directory submission
I found this squidoo lens extremely useful for the newbie who has brand new website and seeking its search engine optimization. It beautifully covers the most basic SEO service i.e "directory submission" like "A to Z"...simply amazing!
Palm Pre has a better chance of becoming a success than other devices which tried to unseat iPhone

* The UI looks extremely good and intuitive. This is the biggest factor in people like iPhone. Blackberry and Nokia though that adding a touch screen to their existing clunky interface is sufficient but it was not be

* Verizon will carry Palm Pre in 6 months. This is really big. verizon is huge and has much better coverage than Sprint or At&T. They have been losing some customers to AT&T due to iPhone. Pre will allow them to stop that slide and offer a real competitor to iPhone. This is a win-win for both Palm and Verizon. Many were of the opinion that the biggest weakness of Pre might be its sole association with Sprint. If verizon backs Pre, it has a huge potential to be a hit. http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN283374932009...

* Palm Pre Will Sync With iTunes: The feature will be built right into the device so you don’t need any third party software. But it won’t be able to play the songs you bought from iTunes Store as they have DRM. http://www.tuaw.com/2009/05/28/fortune-palm-pre-syncs-flawle...
To some extent, hacks like CPU design have already moved into software, or at least HDL code (depends on your definition of "software", of course). Check out the selection of FPGA-usable projects on opencores.org for examples.

That said, I suspect there will always be a desire to make physical machines with our hands. Even decades after such a thing stopped being a practical tool, this still looks fun.
(Mozilla)Jetpack FAQ
Undoubtedly there's a category of "languages" that, despite their power, are only really useful for a specific application (make, yacc, SQL, PostScript) distinct from more general purpose languages. Perl used to be in the camp of specialized languages (need to munge some text?) but now it's squarely a general purpose language.

I've always seen Prolog billed as a general purpose language. If it's intended as a special purpose language, then it doesn't even make sense to criticize it compared to Lisp or C.
Btw, I think playbacks of uploaded songs are shortened to only play a segment of the track. Can you verify that's definitely the case?
Or if you're more hardware inclined but don't feel up to spending the time and money needed to make a wire wrapped cpu, I'd recommend learning vhdl or verilog and designing a cpu in that. It's at the logical level rather than physical, but it will still let you get a feel for the factors that go into designing a processor, and it is easier to add in more advanced aspects to the design.
"Kumo" is about a billion times better as a name than "Bing".
Let me save you 30 seconds.

Denzel Washington is a great actor. Other than that, he lives a pretty normal life. What's interesting about that?

In contrast, Wesley Snipes gives the world lots of things to write about. Tax evasion. Conviction for reckless driving. Martial arts.

People admire Denzel Washington. But Wesley Snipes is simply more interesting.
no probs, i genuinely think there's a place for this...
Most likely it is:
1. Load font.

2. Render.

3. Is font available? If yes render, if not, use next font.

If that download is taking forever, I'd imagine the page would render in the secondary font until the Load font command is eventually successful.
It is very interesting that a short survey (< 30 questions) can provide solid insights into deeply held political perspectives.

Politicians / marketers should both be deeply interested in knowing how powerful / profitable this knowledge can be.
"When in the name of <insert your favorite deity> is anyone going to implement HN-style modding for search results?"

Google already has it. Have you played with SearchWiki?
LaunchBox09 Officially Begins
Is this where Kumo ended up?
IPhone Doom Classic Progress Report
We don't know until consumers reach the UI, but it certainly looks the part and seems intuitive, so it's making all the right noises. In some ways, it seems like an improvement, particularly for power-users - the hidden 'dock' bar and the use of keyboard shortcuts, for example.

As for games, I play them on my PC (I have a hundred games in Steam), but I don't play them on my phone, which suggests we agree that it's of secondary importance and people only get them when they're available.

Perhaps "business" is the wrong term, but I meant that hte emphasis is on "professionals". Those people who buy Blackberry's, those who used to buy Palm products, who have particular need for features like contact sync, multiple calendars, and other similar features, rather than real-time features like games. I think it will be these users who will really feel the benefit from multitasking on their productivity, because, for example, being able to flip between an e-mail and a calendar would be extremely useful.

I think my main point about applications makes sense. The point is there may be more applications on Platform X than Platform Y, but as long as there are no "killer apps" and both have thriving developer communities that's all that matters.

I think my comparison with Blackberry and Nokia was perfectly apt, because that's the market Palm are actually entering. Palm are going to be releasing many phones on many networks on multiple price points based on the same operating system - the Pre is just the first of many. If you were to believe the hype, you'd imagine that Blackberry and Nokia don't matter, rather than selling the millions of smartphones they do, and that Palm couldn't potentially have huge success without selling their phones to a single iPhone customer. I think it's only fair to compare it to other manufacturers on many carriers, not Apple's self-enforced network limitations.

I'd be very interesting in reading what you personally think Palm should be doing, because apparently a relatively small company building something that compares favourably to the market leaders in their (expanding) product area isn't good enough. I think the Pre is exactly the product they should be making rather than forgettable Windows Mobile handsets, and I think the fact we're actually having this discussion and the hype over the Pre shows that to true.
I learned a new word today.
Even if I agree somewhat with your feelings about xml, I think I prefer something like xml over (a sample) of:
RFC 1939	POP3 protocol	Updated by RFC 2449
RFC 2449	POP3 Extension Mechanism
RFC 822	STANDARD FOR THE FORMAT OF ARPA INTERNET TEXT MESSAGES	Obsoleted by RFC 2822
RFC 2822	Internet Message Format
RFC 2045	MIME Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies	Updated by RFC 2231
RFC 2046	MIME Part Two: Media Types
RFC 2047	MIME Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text	Updated by RFC 2231
RFC 2183	The Content-Disposition Header Field	Updated by RFC 2231
RFC 2231	MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets,...
RFC 2387	The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type
RFC 3462	The MIME Multipart/Report Content-type
RFC 2111	Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators
RFC 2632	S/MIME Version 3 Certificate Handling
RFC 2633	S/MIME Version 3 Message Specification
RFC 2821	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Yes, Kumo (and Kiev) are the internal codenames.
It'll be interesting to see how this works. As a user I'm a fan of thick clients, but it's an unanswered question whether and when thick clients are a valuable companion product for a web app. This is another data point to that question.

(I guess Twitter is another example of a place where thick clients have a clear place alongside the standard web thin client, but that's somewhat different in that these thick clients are, if I'm not mistaken, produced by third parties rather than Twitter.)
Same reason I like Nissan vehicles: their design decisions tend to resonate with me and I've had good experiences with the ones I've owned. I can't be bothered to research everything out there, so if I'm in the market for a new car my first inclination would be to see if Nissan makes something I like. Then I look around to see what else is similar and switch away only if there is substantial benefit.
The Future Standard Browser?
Google Chrome is now faster, does anyone see a reason why it wont become the standard in about 5 yrs?
Went Walkabout. Brought back Google Wave.
MIME isn't complicated, nor does it look any more jumbled than XMPP.
Why not wrap these new features into "Live", it seems like they are also going to be competing with themselves.

The tag line is horrible: "When it comes to decisions that matter, Bing & Decide." I prefer the name "Live", since it seems more relevant.
suggests that the amount and quality of participation goes up radically when comments can be interleaved at a paragraph level.

The way emails grow with repeated and old information and forwards is something I really dislike about email and like the sound of wave.

However, unfortunately wave is destined to fail. Exchange 2010 with Outlook 2010 claims: "Improve user productivity with the ultimate inbox experience." - http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/apr09/04-15Exc...

Since Exchange/Outlook will have "the ultimate" inbox experience, Google Wave can neither equal it nor improve upon it.
> Svante Paabo [said], "We will speak to the mouse." He did not promise that the mouse would say anything in reply.

They do however whistle back. The "humanized" baby mice do so at a lower pitch than normal mice.

I find it interesting how precise genetic engineering has gotten.
I was not aware of that - I'm pretty sure I didn't watch the keynote. My impression was that they were trying to encourage people to provide web services as their apps and that's why no SDK was available from day 1.

I think creating a web-driven SDK would have been good thing, if nothing else to increase the development opportunities of non-Mac users.
Plus, everyone knows that the first step in great UI development is covering an application's background in stock photos.
It looks more like a 1990's era "portal page" than google's trimmed search engine. I'm not sure if that is a good thing, since google already killed that dragon.
overall, good idea, and good execution. I can see myself coming back to use this. My only concern would be right now the list is small, but as it grows in size it will get harder to filter through the sites. example would be go2web20 . They have a lot of good sites, just difficult to go through them all and find good ones.
We just had to do this, but shied away from the variable data printing, which was pretty expensive compared to getting a huge batch of identical cards (10x cheaper). We added the codes with transparent sticker labels. We had to affix them ourselves, but they look almost as good.

Also, we used Xyzzy to generate pronounceable codes. The 10-character ones were the most fun.
This could be revolutionary, however email is the way it is because that's just how we've communicated as a species for eons, all the way from letters to tablets to cave paintings. You think carefully about your message, create something representing it, and share it. It seems like Wave is essentially condensing that process into one step, more like a conversation. I'm not sure everyone will welcome that.
I didn't get that far, but I assumed that it surely would. Still, there will be many people who will be unaware of this, at least long enough to make an initial snafu.
looks like Linux fanboys hate to know the truth - that all desktop Linux distros combine eat up less than 4% of the market!

Or am I missing something here? Please enlighten me before downvoting, thanks!
Despite being Air based, do you think the os x performance will be any better? I hate flash mostly because it performs horribly on os x.
Agree - and if/when they do a deal to put Hulu on the Apple TV, then the Apple TV would be a much more compelling product.

I like Boxee, but I don't think I would use it if Apple TV provided an easy way to add custom 'websites/channels' e.g. Hulu.
SVN is Morgan Freeman as in 'old and boring'?

What about CVS and the best tools of all: ClearCase and SourceSafe? :-)
hmm..are you outside the US by any chance? I think iMeem limits songs to 30 seconds if they don't have the rights in that country. It sucks pretty hard but I'd rather go through this (legitimate) channel than host the songs myself and face potential legal issues.
It's a good thing we can all be easily classified into two groups.
I didn't realize distributed VCS's were black.
Am I the only one wondering how Google Wave is going to combat spam?
"they'd be so easy to spoof"

This could be managed through stipulations in share class or additional contract with the investment.

The reason record companies get to screw musicians is because the musicians don't get to negotiate the contract.
Most of the people I know will see the image on the main page and think it is some type of specialized search engine, and not come back.
Yes! get you some krating DAAAANG, pop a few amphetamines with it as well and you can drive that sip-laaw all night long
Hockey Stick 2.0 - flat is the new up
Well, the title is technically copy and pasted from the post and you could argue the same about most TechCruch and CodingHorror stuff...

I am curious, however. I have a few opinions about things that I don't like in git myself (and the post links to a bunch of the author's own opinions about git), but I'm not familiar with hg.

Can people who are familiar with it enlighten me as to what makes it good (or what about Mercurial is not mildly annoying compared to other vcs's)?
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It looks like its a kind of Firefox plugin that works like Adobe Contribute. It seems fun.
45 Step-by-Step Tutorials on Web Design with Photoshop
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