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all your great business ideas revealed in search queries are now hidden from big brother. :)
who in search is really innovating? probably the biggest plus for bing is akamai. thats not an algorithmic improvement.

innovation in search is going to slow down because it is too important to screw with. the risks of trying out radical new approaches to search far outweigh the gains...the fact is, most people have trained themselves to form queries that search engines like
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Was there ever a "X killer" that actually killed the X? I cannot think of one example. If something is branded that way, must be a loser already. True "X killers" are like ninjas that come unnoticed and unexpected.
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Looks like it's not open source, though they're apparently considering it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=729338 . For such an important part of infrastructure, I don't think closed source will do, especially not from a startup that's worked on it for only a few months. Open sourcing will:

- Allow others to vet your codebase for stability and security

- Give customers some recourse if your startup folds

- Make you comparable to MyISAM/InnoDB/PostgreSQL, unless you want to be compared to Oracle or Microsoft SQL
Since fabricate makes Python, a full language available, it's not that there's things that cannot be expressed, it's really about ease. So I'll tell you about something I did when I was a grad student.

I was using an up to date TeX install. My advisor wasn't. To placate him, I had to copy all of my packages, and all the packages they referred to, and so on down the line so that he could compile my papers. I did this entirely within make + some small shell scripts. The fact that I could write scanners for %.tex and %.sty and %.cls and have GNU make (obviously) automagically use them to build the dependency scripts I instructed it to include was immensely convenient. This is not impossible to do procedurally, but it was inconvenient, and the all-make solution had the attractive side that whenever there were bugfixes to the packages they got automatically included in what I was doing.

A better example, come to think of it, is the typical LaTeX woe; you can't build the final .dvi until you have accurate page numbers, references, tables of contents, indexes. You get all of those by--building the .dvi. So there's a strange circular dependency here. Make doesn't deal with this especially well, although it can be done. Ant and SCons don't even try.
Of course, any serious user of a C64 had an Epyx Fastload cartridge. Then you could just type $.
"I don't look to jump over 7 foot bars, I look around for 1 foot bars that I can step over."

Attributed to Warren Buffet.
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The part that most people fail to see is that regardless of the profession, it's hard to compete with someone who don't need to make money.
Removing django.middleware.http.SetRemoteAddrFromForwardedFor seems silly, since this can be nice to have information, even if it's given the caveat that, yes, this isn't trusted.
In this case, to cast this as an "overreaction" is to let these people off the hook. They are engaging a calculated action against those they see as weaker than them. It's not ridiculous to them if it works and it's worth seeing that it doesn't.

They are bullies, self-described bullies in this instance.
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> Right! Systematic - that means happening all over the place. I don't think it is

You must be white.
LOL,

"I would first like to take this opportunity to apologize for tongue in check comments that were made previously made regarding our approach to litigations"

http://www.horizonrealtygroup.com/UserFiles/file/PressReleas...
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> The U.S. also has a very high crime rate compared to China and the European countries. More criminals means more people in prison.

That's a natural result of outlawing so much victim-less behavior. If for example, drugs were legal, much of that crime would simply disappear and our prisons would be much less crowded.
Ooo I can't wait
(That sounded sarcastic in hindsight but it wasn't)
The hardware is fine. The bandwidth is passable, if you write a clean and minimal site. Can you pay a small amount extra and get a fixed IP ? Dyndns will suffice to get you started, though.

The main thing is not to let the problem of lacking hosting stop you from getting your project to the point where you have users and some potential income, as fast as possible.

Which is more likely: a) you halt work on your project because something is not up to "professional" standards, start making money on something else, and your project just dies or b) 1 million people instantly decide to visit your site as soon as it is launched, and can't get to it, and then methodically check the whois on every site they visit for the rest of their lives to make sure you can't do another startup ?

The answer is, if you know a way to get a few users now, do it. Try the site yourself from other internet connections, and tweak it to make it fast on your connection, but don't get bogged down on it. When you have a few users get hosting. Or, just put a small text line somewhere, saying "my service needs hosting, if you like it and can offer me a very cheap deal please contact me".
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I haven't done the math but I'm prepared to bet that when it actually comes to the crunch you aren't as confident as you say. 'it can't happen' implies 0% probability. Well I'll go you one better as I'm prepared to bet on it at 0.01% for $1. I'll even send you the dollar as long as you agree to the bet. So that's my $1 vs your $10K. Talk is cheap.

What I'm trying to demonstrate is how certainty can vanish when faced with actual consequences.
I really like that- it would be nice to see that become popular for inputting passwords. It's a nice way to check to see if your confirmed password is the actual password; Furthermore, it might even help one generate more complex passwords because he or she might want a certain set of colors.
Some of this will repeat earlier comments, but I'm including them here for completeness. I'm not an expert in this, so some of it might be wrong in the detail.

Firstly, there is a comparatively simple pattern that grows endlessly - the Gosper Glider Gun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_%28cellular_automaton%29

Someone asked about the processes used to create these sorts of things. If you read about Bill Gosper:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gosper

you'll see that he's a hacker's hacker. If you analyse the GGG you'll see that it can be broken down into smaller pieces, each of which is a small modification of something small and easy to understand. In essence, you can build a GGG from small components, and then optimise it, the entire process being like writing a computer program, perhaps in something like BrainFuck: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

I might meet Gosper in March next year. I've made a note to ask him if that's actually what he did. From what I've read, it is.

The question about "growth in which it was not an oscillating reaction" is hard to pin down, and it's not clear what you mean. I would guess you mean something like:

A pseudo-periodic pattern is one which can be
divided into two areas, P and P'. Inside P the
pattern is periodic, and in P' the pattern is
comprised of units, each of which is periodic
under some isometry.

Well, using GGGs you can beat that definition too, because you can construct patterns that build GGGs at a distance, and then you can make a Turing Machine that computes the digits of pi, then you can build GGGs at distances that get further away by the amount that is a digit of pi, and then you have something that's still sort of predictable, and still isn't what you want, but still satisfies the above definition.

Part of the problem is making precise make precise what you mean. I suspect you're trying the equivalent of proving the existence of non-computable numbers, and then asking to show one. Counting arguments suggest that amorphous patterns that grow indefinitely exist, but they're the equivalent of uncomputable numbers. I can't show you one.
Accused drunk driver blames swine flu 
A New Zealand woman had a novel defence when she appeared in court on a drunk-driving charge.It was swine flu's fault.
Gandi is running 30 day free trials of their VPS hosting. You could use that to see if you can make a VPS solution work for you without having to splash out any cash.

I haven't used Gandi's hosting, but have used other VPS providers. You will need to be vigilant. VPS providers can degrade your experience as time goes on. I suspect they either increase the load on machines due to cost pressure, or sometimes you just get bad luck and some CPU pigs end up on your server with you.
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I tried your recipe today, it's not quite as good as the dal the Bangladeshi mother of a friend of mine makes, but it was quite scrumptious and amazingly inexpensive.

I substituted cardamom for cloves and Tapatio sauce for cayenne pepper, and it still turned out well.

Thanks for posting this!
Good luck slava! And don't forget to send the compatibility patches for clsql-mysql ;-)
Funemplyment? Really?

What is going on inside of these people's minds? Did they just people forget to grow up? Must be...

I guess that's what comes of a career path always being so well-trodden before sheeple. Nice high school, college paid for, then a nice "secure" job at a nice "big firm". And when those jobs are suddenly out of reach, it's not because of "the bad economy", but because bullshitting your way through college half-sober on your parents' dime didn't teach you in the least how to be a productive member of society.

But fine, lie to yourself, call yourself funemployed. Ha, it's funemployment until the credit cards run out or mom and dad decide to retire. Then you realize you're back to square 0, except not any younger. That's when we realize that the vast majority of our society is a bunch of morons without a clue, replace truck drivers with computers, most of the Walmart employees with cheap RFID tags on goods, and watch the true economic divide appear - between people who have useful skills and those who don't.
> They actually should be able to arrest people who totally lose their cool, because who knows where it might go from there.

No they shouldn't, preventative arrest is wrong and crosses a line that should not be crossed. If you can't handle angry citizens then you have no business being a cop. The day we can be arrested for merely speaking out against the government is a day we should not allow to ever come.

I was a cop, I put up with plenty of verbal abuse from people, it's part of the job. A cops safety is not more important that citizens rights.
you must have programmed once in your life then.
To your points:

- Nothing much I can say about stability and security, but then again, we're not saying it's stable and secure yet. Besides, people trust Oracle without seeing their sources, don't they?

- If our startup folds, I doubt we'll drag our source to the grave. That said, maybe it gives our users incentive to make sure we don't fold? :P

- There are closed-source MySQL storage engines out there with whom we'd rather be compared (TokuDB, Falcon (is Falcon open-source?)).

We just don't want to close any doors yet. If it makes good business sense, we'd be glad to open the source.
Do you know anything about emacs? There is actually not that much bloat.

There is code to support each platform and windowing system emacs runs on. There is support for managing buffers, and other very primitive editor functionality like that. Then there is the Lisp VM and associated data structures ("Lisp_Object") to glue everything together. On top of that are some primitive functions ("and", "cdr", etc.), along with some primitive editing functions ("next-line") implemented in C. That's about it; the rest is all Emacs Lisp code that you can simply choose not to run. (Yes, some gets compiled right into the Emacs binary to speed startup, but you can skip that.)

Sure, you can argue that many emacs extensions (hello, Gnus) are bloat. But you can just pretend it doesn't exist; nobody is forcing you to use anything. Plain emacs is a very simple toolkit for building your own editor. Emacs with simple.el (and friends) is still a very simple, but rich, text editor. As you add packages, you add functionality and complexity... but you can choose what to add, Emacs is infinitely malleable and does not care what you do to it.

I am not too familiar with Eclipse, but I doubt that it is simpler than Emacs.
And the weblog entry. http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2009/jul/29/1-point-1/
neaterrific
Not all inspirational in my entrepreneurial ventures, but here is a selection from my TftD file that I'm compiling. Some are designed to make me smile when I think about some of my customers, others are to make me focus on more important things in life.

"Never argue with idiots. They drag you down
to their level and beat you with experience."
-- Dilbert

Always do right. This will gratify some and
astonish others. -- Mark Twain

Practise random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

Some people are like Slinkies ... not really good
for anything, but you still can't help but smile
when you see one tumble down the stairs.

The hardest job kids face today is learning
good manners without ever seeing any.
-- Fred Astaire.

The whole theory of modern education is radically
unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate,
education produces no effect whatsoever.
-- Lady Bracknell, The Importance of Being Earnest.

The young today are casual, bad mannered and have
no respect for the old. -- Socrates

Why do we bother bringing this canary down the
mine? All the damn thing does is sleep ...

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with
us. What we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal. -- Albert Pike

Finally:

"Bother," said the Borg as they assimilated Pooh.
Eclipse sometimes can't keep up with my typing. That's amazing, but not in a good way.
Awesome! I'm glad it worked out. To be honest, I've never tried any other variety, I've been so content with this one.

I may have to change that.
Just compile the CVS version and use that, then? That's what many of us have been doing for years -- Emacs 23's exciting new features are mostly very old news :)
I've always wanted to work on long-distance model airplanes for the same purpose - maybe I'll do it in my 20% time if I ever get to work there.
I'd be surprised if they weren't recording GPS data to go along with the photos

Of course they are, that's how they know what street you're on ;)
Neither Singapore nor China allows drugs, yet their crime rate is much lower and their prisons much less crowded. Most European countries also outlaw drugs.
I say go for it. You might find that you might not even need to upgrade for a dedicated or even a VPS for maybe half a year. I mean, who really knows how many users you're going to support? Necessity is the mother of invention.

searchyc.com runs off of a home server.
Stupid Bowl of Soup
You know how you're just looking around, poking into this and that, and suddenly you find this good recipe that looks really, really easy and that you just want to put your chef's hat on, fire up the stove, and start cooking? Well, this site will serve as an online repository of anything and everything that is food.
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Wow, must be a real kick in the nuts for the Live Search people, to go from "Google killar?!" to "replaced by Google's old pretend-rival".
I was going to say the exact thing. Government is the real killer.
I actually wrote myself a greasemonkey script to hide results from w3schools once upon a time. I'll try to dig it up.

Their docs are almost always missing the one piece of information I actually want (usually a function definition) and they nearly always rank very highly for such queries.
I went to BIL last fall and I wasn't really impressed by it. Understandably for a free event setup by volunteers at just an average CSU campus it doesn't have the same polish and glam as TED, it was... still... very hokey. Most of the talks were geared towards the speaker not so sneakingly pitching his merchandise. Holding it the same week as TED wasn't really helpful either as it doesn't attract better speakers or conference go-ers.
I have been there, it took a long to force myself to leave the situation.

A wise man said about overly restrictive religous regulations, "Sabbath was made for Man, not Man for the Sabbath", meaning the rules of rest on Sunday and etc are meant to make our lives better, we were not created to suffer for the glorification of some set of rules.

A job is supposed to make your life better -- steady income, you can have more stuff, etc. If it is taking up too much time, requires you to live where you don't want to (my case), then the job is not doing it's job.

A house and mortgage are supposed to make your life better. You live in a nicer place, you can observe your equity and wealth increasing month by month, you have more freedom to change your house or take up hobbies that you might not do in a rented house. If the mortgage requires you work too much to enjoy the house, the mortgage isn't doing it's job.

I'm not advising making any rash decisions like going full hippy or something, but in a more gradual and moderate way, you can feel out your boss about working four days a week; look at your life and cut some spending, ditching the house and renting if that is what gives greater freedom and security; etc.

Careers and houses aren't worth that much. They don't hang around that long or increase in value that much in the long run. If you look at the number of times the average American moves or switches careers, any helathy cat or dog will outlive your current career and house. They just aren't worth giving up life long dreams or health for. Now your marriage, that could be different.

Try suggesting to your boss that you will commit to being in the office 10 hours a day, but need every Friday off. When he shoots it down, wait a week and then suggest trying it only one week a month.

Also, take your ideas and break them up into extremely small tasks, that take an hour or less. If you can look down a TODO list and see something quickly achievable, that can get you going even when you are exhausted.
Looks nice, but what about people who are colorblind?
You got it backwards. Yahoo is scrapping its search engine technology and will use Bing results.
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One of the bigger aspects of this deal is that it makes it much harder for yahoo to be acquired by parties other than microsoft.

Essentially microsoft gets two things out of this deal, they get to keep their cash while getting the same effect for free and a big boost for bing.

Yahoo gets to control their cost a bit better.
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What about them? Things continue to work as normal for the colorblind. This is just a visual aid, not a new method.
Congrats guys. Good article by TC.
Grats guys, you had my vote on YCPTD, btw!
I don't think this has much to do with innovation either. But if these companies wanted to innovate in some radical way they could do it on sites other than their main properties.

I don't think innovation in search will slow down any time soon, because there's just too much to be gained for anyone who comes up with a significant improvement. Not jeopardising their current business is a strong motivation, but not losing out to a newcomer speaks to their paranoia.

Yes we have been trained to use search engines in their current form, but I'm pretty certain that we will unlearn quickly once a better way has been found.

For instance, today, I feel it doesn't make a big difference to use grammatical sentences for searching. If I knew a search engine would try to understand what my intention is, I would start to use grammatical sentences.
What an incredibly good idea! It would probably not be too difficult to build this as a firefox plugin, so that all password fields (or all blanked out input fields) on the web will automatically get this feature... Anyone? :-)
Now for some fun Douglas Hofstadter self-reference.

Challenge:

Can someone find a password that describes the colors it makes?

e.g. "redgreenblue" shows red, green, and blue
I'm using the openCV library with .NET for some image recognition. I've looked at imageMagick but its not suited to this purpose unfortunately.
Using Apple's Xcode and Dictionary icons in the banner of the RethinkDB website looks pretty skeevy. It's hard to do by accident, and beyond violating Apple's copyright, it doesn't place your company in a good light.

I wouldn't bother commenting on it, but surprisingly this is not the first time I've seen someone lifting Apple icons for their startup website, and it's something that needs to be addressed: artists are expensive, but you can't take other people's artwork, and worse yet, it's blazingly obvious when you use Apple's.
Translation: "I can afford private school for my kids; fuck everyone else."
I recall Jessica Livingston defining "died" as "founders stopped working on it", which I think subscribes to the while there's life there's hope school of optimism (which is very appropriate in my opinion, especially when many startups only become successful after they've completely redefined their business. Is it "the same" startup? I dunno, but it's the same founders, and that's what YC funds.)

But it also means that "I'm not dead yet" doesn't necessarily imply "successful". I think relatively few YCs have been bought out/received further funding; and I would guess for most of them, to be realistic, it's simply too early to tell, because of the above.
I'm somewhat facing the same dilemma. I will be having a good amount of free time in a couple of months' time (4 weeks, at least, possibly more), so I really want to do one of these, even if it only ends up providing me with a couple hundred euro per month.

I have one micro-b2b idea, but I'm not really convinced of its value. How do you generate more ideas of the sort? The impending time pressure isn't helping me either :-)