skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
:-)

Fortunately they changed their minds and gems are auto-approved now, so the barrier is still there, just a little bit easier to lift ;-)

Again, GitHub rocks. We tried to create a simple script to make it easier for us to also deploy to RubyForge (mainly because of the username prepending and the --source).

We'll be looking forward to your feedback, James!
First of all, congrats on your TC coverage.

I'm interested in your approach for the pricing of the service. I have to agree with joel_feather that 12$/gb/month seems a little too low for a niche market. Do you have any estimates about the average storage needed by your targeted users?
It's not an LCD display, it's a CRT. Check out pictures from all angles here: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/06/04/necs-massive-43-cur...
Poll: Best Of
Craigslist has a section called 'best of' where people highlight the best posts made to CL. It seems to me that the same thing could be done here with comments. Some of the comments are great and full of technical information. How about we add 'best of' voting to comments?
Ironically, I was very careful with my choice of "virus vs. virii" when I wrote that message. I looked up the Wikipedia article for Plural of Virus ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus ), and noted the sentence "In reference to a computer virus, the plural is often believed to be virii...".

As an amateur Latin geek myself, I agree that "viruses" is proper from a grammar standpoint, but I sided with Wikipedia because I was using computer terminology.
My post below:
It's very interesting what people say about our name. One thing for sure, the name Woobius is like marmite, some love it, some don't, but everyone remembers it.

Thanks for the honest comment though!
When you have many clients each with a diff database. All other times the argument is moot.
Feds Search for Daniel James Murray Allegedly on 'Mission to Kill the President'
Default bing search on IE6 has been resolved on June 3rd, It seems it was a bug and it is fixed now.
[pdf] The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville
awk and perl will let you do magic, my friend. Advanced "grep" features are only in GNU grep.
IIRC the nationwide average for public schools is about $9K/student, and that includes areas where the cost of living is a lot lower than it is in NYC. So if they can actually get six-figure-salary teachers and still keep costs down to $10K/student, that would be fantastic for the profession.
I also use this natty little function in my .bash_profile to cd to the last opened finder location.

This is a script written by a colleague. http://www.visualcortex.co.uk/.
Add the following function to your .bash_profile in Apple OSX. Now open a directory in Finder, then open terminal and type cdf, your terminal will now change directory to the same one as the last Finder opened.

# function to change directory to the one set in the last opened finder.
cdf () {
currFolderPath=$( /usr/bin/osascript <<"	EOT"
tell application "Finder"
try
set currFolder to (folder of the front window as alias)
on error
set currFolder to (path to desktop folder as alias)
end try
POSIX path of currFolder
end tell
EOT
)
echo "cd to \"$currFolderPath\""
cd "$currFolderPath"
}
That was a convenient "bug."
Ask HN: What is PG like in real life?
It would be terrific to know...especially to those who didn't have the chance to meet him.

Thank you!
Mobile is a waste of time. Mobile apps are too cheap, people can just call each other. And the construction industry is a niche, because we're talking about the intersect of construction and web apps here.

The web designer industry is a niche in the overall economy, but it's one of the largest in the web based economiy. The reverse is true for the construction industry.

I have experience in selling B2B. Their pricing is wrong.
Congratulations. I also read your article about document control, and immediately liked your approach. For example, restricting folders to just one level and not folders-within-folders, seems to have helped you in eliminating gratuitous complexity.

Side question out of sheer curiosity: Do you have AutoLISP/ObjectARX plugins that interact with your site?
The way I figure it is, some days you work harder and need more sleep, some days you need less. So I try to be like a machine: I'll wake up at 7am and go to sleep when I'm tired.

This results in me getting about 6-8 hours sleep a night - and no sleeping in on weekends! It throws my pattern completely out of whack.

As a previous poster said, the most productive hours for a hacker are the wee hours of the morning, when the wife/neightbours/kids piss off and let you code - but I think it's important to keep your waking hours as closely tied to sunrise/sunset as possible - it's all a compromise and one size doesn't fit all.
Video of VC Bootcamp
Some interesting info: http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/05/javascr...
VCs Generally Retain Pro-Rata Rights
Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 Picture
Yes I like the idea of using Ruby I find it a little more intuitive. Thanks.

Also you may want to look at commandlinefu.com: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/tagged/34/bash
Indeed: if this is repeatable, it is repeatable in private and charter schools.
These guys need javascript to do tabs? wow!

I'm doing tabs with plain html and CSS; am I an idiot who is missing something, or am I some kind of pioneer who owes the world a few alistapart articles? ;-)
In the late Ottoman Empire ~3% of men had more than one wife. Keep in mind that the wife's legal position was better than in most of Europe too. In cultures where the husband is expected to support wives and progeny it gets expensive fast. OTOH there are a lot of places poorer than e.g. Saudi Arabia. In places where the father is further along the continuum to useless sperm donor, like W. Africa promiscuity and the prevalence of multiple concurrent sexual selationships makes it very different.
Study: Twitter's Close to Completely Useless (according to subway rag)
The problem with this is that while 20 years isn't a long time pre-Industrial Era, and isn't insurmountably long in the Industrial Era, in the Information Age (let's say 1980 on), 20 years is a crazy long time. Twenty years ago, supercomputers where about as powerful as the desktop I'm sitting at now, a desktop that's by modern standards slow (at work, it's a P4 with like 512 RAM). Twenty years ago, BBSes and IRC were as good as it gets. The Web 1.0 forums and Geocities sites would have been cutting edge, much less something like Reddit or Wikipedia. The cutting-edge stuff people are doing on here with location-based social networking (Loopt) or seamless on-the-Internet file storage (Dropbox) is the sci-fi of 20 years ago. 1,000 bit/s was considered a decent connection speed, whereas now anything under 1,000,000 bit/s (1 Mbps, or 128 KB/s) is considered slow.

In this environment, a 20-year patent lasts a life-time. Amazon's One-Click patent was granted in 1999. That means you have to steer clear of it or license it until 2019. That's 20 years that Amazon will be controlling a crucial feature of e-commerce sites.

MP3's patents will run until at least 2012. By the time MP3 (standardized in 1991) is patent-free, it'll be obselete, at best a legacy format. Heck, every music player (software and hardware) for the last few years has supported either MPEG-4 audio (AAC) or WMA, both of which sound better than MP3 at the same bit-rate. By the time patents on MPEG-4 stuff expire, it'll be at least 2020, and we'll be 1-2 generations further advanced.

My point is that for algorithmic, software, and business-model patents, even if they should be legitimate, a 20-year lifespan in the modern era is insane. Measured against the rate of progress, patents are lasting longer and longer, and by the time the patent is expired, there's no longer money in the previously-covered area.
Look what happens in a culture where the wealthy/powerful are allowed 4 wives, on top of there already being a shortage of females.

What specifically does happen? In the culture I live in, there is aspirational lifelong monogamy as an ideal, and practical serial monogamy as a commonplace lifestyle, but I don't know what happens in a society with a highly skewed ratio of males to females. Especially, I don't know what happens if some men can have four wives and others none at all.
Why does scribd do or allow this?
I found that the complete text of "Predictably Irrational" is available on Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/13495985/Predictably-Irrational-The-Hidden-Forces-That-Shape-Our-Decisions-Harper-2008

Why do they allow this?

And why, when I visit that page is the search box filled in with the text "masturbating "mother-in law" hidden -torrent"?

http://i39.tinypic.com/25as2gl.png

Do other people see the same behaviour?
Thanks for saving me the time. I wish HN's RSS feed would drop you in the comments for the post instead of sending you directly to the link. Newmogul.com does this and I think it's a better way to serve the feed.
Cuil who?
As a language, it's pretty painful to use and you run into those limitations pretty quickly. You also put more processing in the database, which isn't great for scalability. It is nice being able to test changes via the sql prompt though. A library + console app might be a good compromise.
That seems like a decent security precaution.

However, since astalavista was the site in question, you will probably be safer to visit after the hack.
"Unix" sounds freaking awesome compared to "Woobius". As do the others. Microsoft is a fantastic name, what are you talking about?

I think more than a few founders here are in denial about their companies' ridiculous names, but whatever, it's not my fight. Hey guys, if modding down my (polite, reasonable) comments makes you feel better about naming your company something a 3-year-old would laugh at, have at it.

[edit: the having-at-it has commenced all right, but are people really defending these crappy names? I might come across as an asshole but I am actually serious here - I think these names are awful! I think they are costing otherwise good companies customers! What is wrong with telling the founder community to try harder?]
Not that obvious (even from this description): you can simply do a grep -3 to get three lines of context, etc.
I use a function that looks like this:

find $1 -name $2 | xargs egrep -nC3 $3 | less

So, say:

find ./ -name "*.rb" | xargs egrep -nC3 'gsub' | less

You'll get the matching line, three lines before and three lines after, as well as file name and line numbers.
Well, you might have summed up the blog post, but I think more interesting is the comment thread on Fred Wilson's blog. In particular, I find it extremely refreshing reading Fred's responses to the thread. The fact that Fred was willing to leverage his personal network to help out an anonymous 17 year old who left a fairly crude comment on his blog not only sets an example for how people should treat one another, but is indicative of his investing philosophy. He is always looking for the diamond in the rough, and he isn't afraid to dig for it.
In case you are interested I sell original relics of PG for a reasonable price.
Time Wounds All Heels - Dishonesty Is An Entreprenurial Handicap
A patent on a ball-point pen only affects how you make your pen. A company can make a competing, non-ballpoint pen that still writes on the same paper and is still the same color (though it might be more expensive or messier or whatever), so not licensing the patent isn't disastrous. Even with a patent on something like an engine, I can still design my own (likely less efficient) engine, which'll still drive on the same roads and probably even use the same gasoline that works slightly differently.

A patent on something like MP3 or One-Click-Ordering prevents competitors from including a feature. If I want to make an e-commerce site, I have to have multiple clicks to order something or I have to license Amazon's patent. If I want to make any sort of media hardware or software that can encode/decode or import/export or even play the content out there, I need a slew of patents licensed. There's no work-around or alternative method, I simply can't include that feature without licensing.

It's the difference between "licensing this patent lets me build off the work of another company to make my product better" and "licensing this patent is mandatory to compete in this field". In my mind, patents of the first type are fine, while patents of the second type are bad.

I should be able to create something that can (for example) play MP3s without licensing, but do so at the cost of efficiency or power (because I'm using a less effective method).
>> So, in the real world, will Java AP help me a lot?

I am of the opinion that yes, knowing Java will help you a lot. But will Java AP help you a lot? It depends on you. If you took a class on C++ and were forgetting it by the time you took the final, that means you weren't using C++.

You can't learn to program from a class, you have to do it yourself. So learning Java will help you, but that won't necessarily happen if you take Java AP.

My strategy has generally been to take the easiest possible combination of classes to get a degree (because let's face it, that world wants you to have a degree), and I spend a lot more time trying practical things. Last semester I wrote my own UNIX shell. I'm friends with a guy who took a class on UNIX, and thought I should take the class with him. But I can tell you right now - he hasn't got a clue how to use his knowledge. So who came out of that semester with a better education?
The government is not a charity. The programs that have the outward appearance of charity in reality operate for the benefit of the employees.
I think this challenges the honesty of Paul's essays. Or perhaps it demonstrates the independent drawing powers of HN.

If it's the latter, I recommend checking :: http://paulgraham.com/articles.html

It is my belief that an essay collection found on Paul's site requires nothing less than full and honest commitment to acquiring and sharing knowledge. Even it's mistakes, if you think there are some, are open to expand from his efforts.
I know only what the high priests have spake after consulting the Stone Tablets of Ancient Prophecy, but by all accounts, pg is twenty feet tall, with fiery glowing eyes and fiercely flaring nostrils. His golden halo is shaped like a matched pair of parentheses, and his arrival is heralded by heavenly trumpets and a choir of angels.
Especially since New Year's Day is a US government holiday...
"Native Resolution 2880 x 900"

I guess you're not supposed to sit very close to it..
http://danhau.posterous.com/our-fearless-investor-paul-gra
I've met him a few times (at the MIT Spam Conference) and one time while passing through Boston when I had brunch with him. He's an ordinary looking bloke, perhaps something like a friendly teddy-bear hacker.
Don't Google Trends show search trends? Surely in the beginning people google for twitter, but later they just go to twitter.com directly?
The creator of Monkey Island plays and narrates his game, 20 years later.
I often use this to watch youtube videos

mplayer `clive -e http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZRyry_B7TY | awk -F'","' '{print $2}'`

You would need 'clive' package.
He is 7 foot 1 and made of nothing but muscle and gold teeth.

His hair is flowing, long and luxurious and it smells like roses and babies.

He once punched a man in the nose and sent him into space. That man was named Neil Armstrong.

When he walks into a room, women swoon and men cower in fear. Also: dogs love him and lambs lay down at his feet.

The Mayan priests wrote about him but Arc got done a few years too early - they didn't expect it until 2012.
but if you read on.. "or, less commonly, viri, but both forms are neologistic folk etymology[1] and no major dictionary recognizes them as alternative forms."
Are you saying that's a bad thing? Getting traction is extremely challenging. Most startups reliant on UGC do this, in the past we've done it with Amazon MT too.

I don't think it's something to look at negatively when you take into consideration the judgmental nature of a consumer. Most consumers don't know or care how new a product is, if it looks inactive they won't use it. Faux-ing a small amount of activity at the start gives you a chance to set a tone and direction for user-generated content, and helps overcome the initial bias of a new site.
No - Jimmy Carter Did It
I heard that they have allocated $100M for marketing Bing. A lot more coverage might be yet to come.
I saw him once! But he was over 40ft tall, and 4 hands each with 20 fingers to be able to type more quickly. He is able to solve hard problems just by looking at them, and he is accompanied everywhere by 30 beautiful maidens.

I think this type of speculation is how we arrived at this, once upon a time (before the printed press, TV and the internet): http://bestiary.ca/
Don't use grep. Use ack.
This Week on Github: In Good Company
I'm cool with Gates urging, I'm not cool with the government forcing
Conversely, running "open dir/" will open the dir in Finder. I tend to use that a lot.
Mozilla JetPack: Lowering the Bar to Extend Firefox
Also fun as far as ruby on the command line goes: Rush http://rush.heroku.com/
Ask HN: Review my site - Wunbar (one bar to search across the web)
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From Debt Missteps of Kadoink to the Clouds of Modular Innovation
I thought this wouldn't be very useful, but when I visited that sample, I looked through the list and was convinced - those are some good articles, it'd be great to have them all collected like that.

One other suggestion (and I don't know if this has been brought up before as I'm quite new here) is a search feature. Often, a few days after I see a post on here, it comes up in conversation and someone wants me to send them the link. But after a few days, finding some posts on here is a lost cause, and Google just has too much data for some searches.
The guy who started this would have been a customer. Maybe he knows a bit more about what customers want the pricing to be.
Yes, I agree - I really value a fast-loading website, and am very annoyed if the site I clicked on takes forever to load.

Your theory that it could happen naturally is interesting, but I don't see it working in practise - ie, I don't notice any correllation between pagerank and site response time. I am sure Google et al have the resources to measure it in a reasonably non-game-able fashion; I'd certainly welcome such a development.
Your friend may be a good teacher, but I bet the reason she's getting $100k is because she's been there 10 years - and possibly because she has a masters in education (which has been shown to have little or no correlation to being an effective teacher).

The quote from the article that struck me was this one:

“This is the first time in 30 years of teaching that anybody has been really interested in what I do.”

That's the really terrible combination of teacher's unions and the public school bureaucracy. Bad teachers can't be fired, good teachers aren't paid more, and the way you get ahead is by sticking around for your automatic raises and early retirement.
Java is very closely related to C#, and I've used a lot of C# lately at my job. You say you'd like to focus on web-based languages. Well, VB and C# are the primary languages for ASP.NET, which is a big part of linking databases to the web.

Even if you wind up using Ruby more than anything else, knowing how ASP.NET interacts with the web won't hurt.
It's a neat idea; but I have to say, I wouldn't use it because I can already set up these kinds of short-cuts in my web browser (OmniWeb) with more flexibility.

To give an example of what OmniWeb can do:

- Define any shortcut pattern with any name.

- Map that to a URL, where the string can be substituted in at any point. This also means you can set key-value pairs for queries, etc.

- Specify GET or POST.

So a useful addition to your site might be user profiles that allow people to define anything they could ever want.
Cool I like it.
There is /best but I like the idea for the best comments, not just submissions.
What's the point in offsite backups (for security reasons) if they're connected over network connections?
Ask HN: How would you reinvent telematics systems for cars?
Google Wave attempts to answer the question of what e-mail would look like if it were invented today.

Given that I work in R&D at a major car manufacturer, I've asked myself the same question of in-car telematics systems. We now have things in the car like speech recognition, image recognition, GPS, and Internet connectivity. Yet virtually the only thing I use in the car on a daily basis is AM/FM radio.

What are some of your ideas (while keeping safety in mind) for seamlessly connecting the driver and passengers with these cool new technologies that are available today?
Voice communications via acoustic means has been around since World War 2. Look for the UQC systems. They used single sideband modulation. VLF broadcasts have been around for a long time as well. During the 90's, I'd walk into radio on the USS Cavalla to go on watch and we almost always had the VLF fleet broadcast coming in on the teletype printers.
"If programming in LISP is sure to result in victory then you must program in LISP!" Paul Graham said that, and I'd say he knows a little more about programming than you do pal because he invented it! And then he perfected it so that no living man can best him in the thread of honor! Then he used his programming money to buy two of every animal on earth, and then he herded them onto a boat, and then he PROGRAMMED THE CRAP OUT OF EVERY SINGLE ONE!

Ehehehehehehehehehe.

And from that day forward anytime a bunch of animals are together in one place it's called a 'zoo!'

Unless it's a farm!
Steve Blank: Faith-Based versus Fact-Based Decision Making
Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OS
"lambs lay down at his feet."

I think you meant lambdas?
I de-Googled my browser at work for the sake of trying out Bing and so far I've only needed to use Google once.

Overall I'm very happy with everything except a few search annoyances. Bing Image search vs. Google Images is no comparison, the Wikipedia "enhanced view" is simple but great, Live maps > Google Maps with the birds-eye view, so pretty much all my regular usage has been slightly improved by Bing.

That's a win and I'll probably stick with it for now. Right now I'm using Google just for comparison sake to see if Bing is "on track" with searches.

I think a lot of people are to the point where they are willing to give "Google competitors" a test drive, and most of them fail instantly (Cuil, etc.). Bing hasn't done that, so we're all pretty surprised.
The AppStore approved us suddenly without warning. It too 25 days to get approved and we had the release date well in the future (May 30th), but last night we were all of the sudden in the store.

So we are scrambling a little on the website :(

We are starting with iPhone with Android and Blackberry following soon.
if modding down my (polite, reasonable) comments

Your initial comment said it would be a "cold day in hell" before you used Woobius and that the name was "utterly stupid." That's an interesting interpretation of polite and reasonable.
The federal government doesn't fund sports at all. Stadium subsidies are usually a municipal or state matter at best.
Also keep in mind Bing is a start. It's a change to the brand name timed with some fairly significant technical refreshes and some obvious ideological changes about search.

There is a lot more to the space of "search" as we move forward into the next decade, much of which Google, Yahoo and Microsoft haven't even tried to move forwards on. Hopefully the kind of technology and infrastructure related to search will start to be re-purposed for other uses.
Interested in any other perspectives on this.
One of my favorite parts of Bing is the "Popular Now" items at the bottom. Very cool to add that "real time" feature, reminds me of the twitter "trending topics".
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