skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not convinced you can make the mechanics work when you add the electrical connections in. They only appear to have solid models which don't work, with animations of them working.

Neat idea though. 13 amp plugs are a real pain. The only thing which is "good" is that they're the same size as power supplies, so multiple PSUs on a multigang extension lead don't block other sockets.
Just as computers and the internet have caused all sorts of problems with existing laws, so too will genetics.

In both cases, there is no solution in sight.
I moved a domain to them and I really really like them.
I don't think they're THAT oblivious to it, they have their own record label (http://www.myspace.com/myspacerecords). I do agree that they should try to capitalize on it more though. The only thing I use myspace for is to listen to new bands.
TextFree. They haven't added push yet, but I'm 100% sure it's coming.
The patent application is in the works. As far as the the data set - we definitely have it. In fact we were thinking of releasing it under some type of open license (i.e. creative commons) after the site gets some traction. In terms of search engines - we ARE in fact a search engine. Just type something in the box at the top and you can also use the available 4 score to filter rank search results. So the search works just like google but you get to sort the results by Controversial, Popular, Engaging, and Deceptive. Some pretty interesting combinations can be created using the scores. Like for instance, you can search for "paris hilton" but you are interested in her scandalous "achievements" rather than her community work. Well, then you search for "paris hilton" and sort by Controversial. Google can't give you that - i.e. sort results based on what impact are they likely to have on people. Thanks for suggestions!
Take a look of Vaadin Reindeer theme:
http://dev.vaadin.com/svn/versions/6.0/WebContent/VAADIN/the...
You just can not write something line that in few hours...
I give him a few days before he "disapears"
Why FastCGI, though? Proxying HTTP to backends seems to work just fine.
Networking for the Shy Entrepreneur
DynaDot.com supports bulk transfer. Pricing is not highly competitive ($9.25 a year for .com) but I have had no problems so far with 5 domains hosted.
It has all the usual stuff (DNS, own name servers, etc.)
I think I would do it just to honor the man......

Oops, I think I just got a website idea!!!
I came to mention that I definitely had seen this before...WriteWith performed a strikingly similar task in a very similar way, and despite pretty good execution (certainly very good technical execution, maybe not as strong as needed on biz dev or raising money) failed to go anywhere. I got the impression the guys realized somewhere along the way that they were building a cool solution looking for a problem...the market just didn't seem to be there. Maybe that was just that the market is not yet educated enough on rapid collaboration and shared creation (as Joe Kraus says, "being early feels a lot like being wrong")...but maybe it's something more serious.
JESUS CHRIST! That's more confusing than trying to figure out the regex on your own.
For several months I have a 500MB tmpfs ramdisk (which I will probably turn into a ramfs one after reading that article).

I put my browser cache, several logging files and other volatile things there. Whenever I download something just to dispose it later, it goes in there. If I try something stupid with a lot files or some big ones, it goes in there.

It feels much nicer than to fragment the harddisk for such things; maybe it is just a placebo but it makes me happy. And of course access and usage of those files is blazing fast.

PS: Having Opera's temporary download directory automatically wiped away alone is worth it... :)
I'm not sure how much better you could expect it to get. It complies with the existing standard and reduces the footprint substantially. Everything the designer set out to accomplish.

I also really like how it turns into it's own standard when collapsed and paired with the splitter.
"The killer use of this, IMHO, would be the ability to integrate your technology into an already existing block of text hosted elsewhere just by dropping a line of js into the page"

I double vote for this approach, for selfish reasons (i.e. I might be a customer one day). The reasons are clear: Getting to end users directly is expensive. It would be 'easier' to sell Revizr to vertical applications as a plugin and let them spend all that money.

However, that being said and being less selfish, I wonder if the world is ready yet to build web apps out of other web apps. I don't think so yet.

Scribd is a good comparison. They went ad-supported because that is probably the only model right now the market will understand, even if it is not viable. If the tables were turned and I was you, I would really want to charge directly for my costs like a proper subscription SaaS service. Here's a sobering take on Scribd's model:

http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/02/19/scribd-cool-feat...

Other comparisons are web-to-print (e.g. postalmethods.com) and web-to-fax (myfax.com) services, but people are more willing to pay for those because there are obvious hard costs for them.

I believe that your future is all about being a 'feature' rather than a 'product'. I suppose I'm saying you ought to explore this model alongside an alternate revenue stream that will keep you afloat.
Using an aggregation of the per-user lists to guide the evolution of the site-wide list would probably resolve that concern. It's also conceptually very similar to how submission flagging currently works here.
Moniker works well for me

http://moniker.com
Happy Birthday Alan Turing
Everyone's favorite founding father of computing would have turned 97 today.
I've been getting 503 errors, myself, but I get them with a lot of sites, so I think the fault lies squarely with our service providers (in my case Verizon, in the US) rather than with the way HN is set up...
Osmius
The only way to get accurate performance metrics would be to emulate the hardware at the silicon level. On the one hand, this is extremely difficult, on the other hand, it's also very slow. You're pretty much just going to have to suck it up and test on real hardware. Compared to certain game consoles, the iPhone tools are pretty good.
Being a loafer is even better than being a slacker. This essay reminded me of Dick Wolff's Parting Shot column from the April 1987 Guns and Ammo where he goes on about the joys of being a loafer. I couldn't find it with Google, so it may not be on the web (if it is, somebody please leave a URL).
On Acard's page that CD-ROM sized module supporting up to 64GB without memory included costs $550. The memory for it would cost about $900 more. Maybe Joel could get this for all employees after they get tired of their new X25s.
So that's how the digerati operate!
> "The killer use of this, IMHO, would be the ability to integrate your technology into an already existing block of text hosted elsewhere just by dropping a line of js into the page (like http://www.apture.com/)."

That would be neat. Certainly possible via a greasemonkey script or ff add-on. I've seen a few that do this kind of thing, either to share with other viewers (eg, http://shiftspace.org) or to grab text for personal notes or research applications.

Speaking of blog feedback, applying this kind of markup to "inlined blog comments" would be neat. There are js widgets and wordpress add-ons that provide simple inlining/annotation of comments on blog articles.

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Sometimes I'd like to be able to see what other editors have done. Is this possible? I wouldn't want to feel that we're all correcting the same spelling mistakes.

Another neat feature: automatic partitioning of file for different editors. Say I'm writing a long article or a set of articles. Automatically send different portions to different users. More efficient.

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Do you use version control under this? This feels to me like applying open source review process to text.
I think it would be cool to see some kind of google maps mashup showing various startups around to world. There would obviously be a lot on the US West Coast, but I'd like to see how distributed around the world they are.
A solution would be to allow violence in a controlled environment, rather than suppress it completely.

Boys like to fight. Instead of denying it, why not nurture it in a responsible manner? Get the angry teenage kids out of the cities and suburbs and give them a real challenge. Martial arts, full-contact, hiking, rock-climbing, white-water rafting. Whatever works to keep them busy and physically tired.

Most kids don't like to learn. Only a very few teenage boys can be entertained with math and programming puzzles. But if you give the majority of teenage boys some macho stuff to do, they will most likely embrace the challenge.
MySpace Cofounder Takes $7 Million Pay Cut
http://www.revizr.com/editions

you're competing with google apps... plus corporate enterprise software (assumed to exist, though at my last job the tech writers just passed around word docs)
Quite good, I didn't try the functionalities, but it will be very helpful for me.

I'm trying to write some articles and as I'm not native I get help from other people who master English. We use IM for that, so there's lot of problems especially we can't have the exact time to meet and be online.

I think your app can solve my problem so they revise my writing and then I see the correction.

Nice work!
> save as a png (with a background if you don't want to alienate the ie6 crowd).

You could also use pngfix, or super sleight, or apply the CSS hack manually to that one element.
Clearly, TED needs to vet their presenters a bit more. If a guy has no connection to the tech that he's presenting (other than he's played with a demo), then he should never have been invited.
I tried it for a couple of keywords with different ways of sorting and it seems to be working great.

My personal feedback for this would be: to make it sticky you need to have something similar to what google news webpage looks like and have 3 sections (controversial, popular, engaging) in every section. And then you should have similar features (keyword news and number of news article in every section) and I will make it my homepage, no kidding. Currently, you are not utilizing the complete web space very efficiently.
Sorry, I must have mis-read it or something.
I asked him about how his chapter in Founders at Work was written because I'm a big fan of the book. (I actually hold it up a lot in the interview.)

Because many of us read the book, I asked James questions that weren't covered in it. I think you'll learn some new ideas in my interview. Let me know if you don't.
How to design a good API
It is possible to see what other editors have done--it's a checkbox that the document owner sets.

There's version control here, but not git/svn.
Silicon Valley Circa 1956 - A Valley That Is No More
7 great places to work
Those just have similar names. It's actually a new combination of a bunch of established ideas:
1) PeopleRank
2) PageRank
3) Hilltop
5) Semantic Analysis
4) Web of Trust
5) Consumer Authentication Services
I'm curious to see how this turns out. I was under the impression that he burned his bridges with FSJ after his CNBC stunt:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jan/15/steve-...

Although, he did hint he would be back after Steve's recovery in this ARS interview:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2008/07/the-real-dan-lyons...
You might also want to take a look of this Vaadin theme example that demonstrates that DOM of the Vaadin widgets is optimized for easy CSS:

http://demo.vaadin.com/VaadinTunesLayout/
ATM Skimming and Identity Theft
In ATM skimming, a device is used to collect and record the information you enter during an ATM transaction. The reason behind the success of this device is that you don’t even realize if it is placed on the ATM machine or not, unless of course, you actively look for it
Progress Acknowledged Toward "Nanobots"
word :-)

did you roll your own repo? i can see advantages to matching up with existing technology for portability and outsourcing of features... or did you need fine grained control of changes? i guess each change could be a git commit, with your tables annotating the commit id.
I triple vote for a drop-in, because the ability to get corrections from your audience is a unique strength of online writing, but having those nitpicky corrections inside substantive comment threads is a distraction.

So I like the idea of not just cool markup but a separate, distinct 'copyedit/corrections space' that captures this useful-to-many but annoying-to-others feedback.
MIT Technology Review: Inside the launch of Wolfram Alpha
It's too bad the article doesn't provide more information and context. There are lots of studies that show people with gene x are more prone to y, but for a given individual the results are not a useful predictor of anything. Therefore it's a little troubling that people can be flagged as "potential violent gang member" based on their genetics.
"My guess is that it was because my phone is always in vibrate mode and every time someone sent me a message my phone would vibrate."

How would that be any different than getting a lot of text messages?
I think it's really cool looking. One thing that I think needs tweaking is the exact graphical representation of the edits. I think it's smart to try and replicate what it would look like if someone were to write on your document, rather than simply strikethrough words and the like, but I think you need to go further in that direction.

Right now the thin, angular red lines and tiny triangles don't communicate that association to me. They because they're so rectilinear, regular, and small, they just look like busy interface crud that's obscuring my text. They therefore have no semantic content to me and I find myself having to consciously interpret them, in exactly the same way I interpret the weird strikethrough/underline scheme of your competitors.

This looks like an area where you might have to find somebody with a real professional eye; actually managing to implement the precise and rich graphical look you need in order to make your new idea work won't be easy, but I think it's hard to ignore.
The interface sucks, but the tool is magnificent. Pure love!
This is supposed to be the same guy? The writing quality is down and the voice is all off. Or maybe I only read his good posts before?
Bing results do seem impressive to me (atleast comparable to google) , but I guess I got kinda used to the UI and feel of google homepage that I find it hard to switch.
This looks like a slow severance to me.

In exchange for his salary reduction, he agrees to not close his profile and remain an "ambassador" to the service? If you ask me, it just sounds like they're trying to keep some decent PR going in the face of some serious adversity.
Oracle kills Virtual Iron. Is MySQL next?
So for every 100 clicks Bing was getting before Microsoft spent a brazilian dollars on advertising, it's now getting 113 clicks. If I worked on Bing I guess I'd be happy about the bump, but it seems awfully expensive...

Also, how many clicks did Bing start out with? Is this actually as significant bump in market share as compared to Google?
Well, after the Casual Friday incident it makes sense...
I don't even have NoScript on this Firefox and it won't load... are cookies required to even see your page?
You could do this with RSS. Let me add an RSS feed to my account, and consider each new item in the feed to be a new revizr document owned by me. Consider changes to the item text to be authoritative changes, i.e. versions approved by me. Let me put a link in or around my posts that takes anonymous readers to revizr.com/from_blog/my_username/blog_guid where they can make edits.

This would make it a pretty viable "suggest improvements" tool for bloggers, very easy to integrate with any site that has a full text RSS feed.
It's so good, it deserves an ode
no fans of electric cars here, I see.
Except with a 'surfer bra wannabe accent?

:)
Yes, this is what we were thinking of having eventually - separate sections based on score. The current design is something we threw together very quickly to get it out of the door. Btw, the article tags are clickable and run a search for that tag in the background. Also, you can filter news by domain. As we accumulate more data, we can start ranking domains based on the articles they have produced so far. Kinda like PageRank but not based on links. Finally, the algorithm can guess authoriship and cluster articles based on author as well. So again, we can rank authors/people after some time. This seems to be a much needed feature as this links discusses: http://threeminds.organic.com/2009/06/docs_are_old-school_we...

I think the above article came up on HN today.
Google Wants You To Become A Gmail Ninja. Or Look Like A Huge Nerd Trying.
I'm curious, how are you dealing with the embedded markup in HTML? I imagine it makes it really difficult to keep track of overlays, no?
How to write readable code? 5 Tips to improve your code readability.
Yeah it is a little shady, but still an interesting topic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAOA#Warrior_gene

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maori#Modern_socio-economic_iss...

http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/120-1250/2441/
I hate to be a credentialist, but I would have more confidence in this analysis if it came from statisticians rather than political scientists.
I'm with you. It seems like the articles points are, "How to survive at a dysfunctional company for a while." The most successful people I know are the go-getter type, not fake "look how busy I am" people, but people who really took on unique challenges and did them. Being a decent soldier and shirking off a lot of the nonsense would make you decently paid with a some job security, but I reckon it's not the way to get far ahead. But everyone has different priorities - it seems like a lot of people aren't look for much out of work besides some stability and a paycheck, then they enjoy their families, hobbies, friends, projects outside of work. That seems like it can be good too.
James Bennett: Second edition (Practical Django Projects)
Or we need to accept this sort of thing as a tradeoff, the price we pay for a fairly lightweight TED system. Heavy vetting has a cost, too.
I got my Pre Friday, after a few day of using it the single biggest liability is the overall beta/alpha quality of the software. It's seriously lacking in features, it's buggy, it's slow, battery life is bad, etc. They could have definitely used another 4-6 months of development. I'm not sure it was worth the early release to "beat" the iPhone 3GS to market by a week. The big downside is, as an early adopter, I cannot give it an enthusiastic recommendation to anyone except other early adopters who might be willing to deal with bugs and missing features based on potential over present day usability.
Even with push, TextFree (or AIM, for that matter) can't be even reasonably disruptive to iPhone texting rates until they are ubiquitously distributed. Unless and until Apple makes AIM (or something like it) a default app or an alternate carrier comes on the scene, AT&T will continue to charge outrageous texting rates. Let's all hold our breath...
Tele Atlas uses data from drivers to map faster
Take a look at the "extract fields" feature in Splunk for an example of a much nicer interface for this kind of thing, although Splunk tends to make really ugly regexes.
There are lots of studies that show people with gene x are more prone to y

Yes, and many of those studies aren't replicated when another data set is looked at. Gene association studies related to human behavior are thus far very subject to failure of replication.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

Maybe some day there will be better studies with more reliable, replicable findings. Then there should be a way to tease out what environmental influences provide resiliency and protect against the effects of risky genes. Meanwhile, the first thing to do with this result is to see if it holds up in a different cohort of young people tested for gene associations to behavior.
I own the domain wordsmither.com

I was going to do something different, but similar targeted towards small bits of text. If your interested in discussing, contact me on twitter (same username).
Nairalist.com and nairalists.com are waging an interesting battle, the sites look exactly the same, even the categories seem to be the same. For now nairalist seems to be winning based on amount of classifieds posted, which is probably the only thing that users really care about.
Does anybody here use ramback? If so, please report your experiences.

Also, what other RAM-to-HD backup mechanisms are out there?
Social Media is Rife with Experts but Starved of Authorities
Intel and Nokia to collaborate
In a way this will be taken care of by the review process. All apps can be reviewed by anyone who purchases them, and the aggregate rating gets displayed in the app store. The lower your rating gets, the lower you'll show up in searches. It's a way of crowd sourcing the review process.

I know that at my wife's company (which makes iPhone games) they are very paranoid about bad reviews. Getting good reviews and getting featured seem to be the keys to success on the App Store.

Of course, some people will lose some money in this process, but that could be considered a cost of the system which will average across the users willing to experiment with un-reviewed apps.
Spent about 6 hours on this bloody thing...if i never hear about augmented reality again, i'll die a happy man. But, as always, any thoughts are appreciated.
Thanks for the follow-up. I only read the text excerpt because I didn't have time for the video. I'll see if I have time later to watch the whole thing.
They are not talking about the China in 1950.
This sort of thing has been going on for a long time, really. There are plenty of software programs doing this online already. In fact, many online games are experimenting with micro-payments now. Essentially they sell the product low or for free, but make the majority of their profits off sale of digital goods. The true cost of playing the game will not be apparent when you see a box on the store shelf for cheap.
Why link to TC on this and not straight to the goods? Just curious, not flaming.
Link to the google post: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/so-you-want-to-be-gmai...
Wow, what a nuclear hand grenade this is. By this logic maybe I can earn money every time my likeness is displayed on CCTV in a situation were more than one security guard can see it. That would be a public performance I would think.
http://twitter.com/Zee/statuses/2300198006
Even if they do stop developing it, will it make a difference?

Firstly, it's not like Sun were doing a great job of pushing it forward.

Secondly, MySQL is GPL and has an active community perfectly capable of forking it.
Origin myths of tech companies (podcast, first 7 minutes)
No, it's just a bunch of people whining about "their money" being used to foster innovation. It's OK when someone invests money in their web app for displaying porn with rounded corners and "type centric design", but it's a waste when the government tries to encourage the development of sustainable transportation technology.

Gotta love the conservatives...
This still cheesed me off much less than companies patenting sections of MY OWN DNA. Man, that's annoying.
It looks like the talk (http://www.ted.com/talks/chris_hughes_demos_easy_augmented_r...) has been removed from TED's website. It's advertised on the front page, but goes to a 404. I think its removal is a good decision, although I wish TED had replaced it with an explanation and apology instead of merely disappearing it.
Good point. I average about 1 text message per day, so I don't know.