skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did not see any mention of full-text capabilities. MyISAM is the only option in MySQL for doing full-text searching and it's pretty limited due to the table-locking issue. Are there any plans to have a good full-text search feature in Rethink? Having a lock-free full-text table in MySQL would be awesome for many many sites out there.
On the other hand, if becoming a serial entrepreneur during your teenage years leads you to use the tagline "I'm kind of a big deal" on your blog then I think there might be something to the asshole theory.
After one of our contractors suddenly quit, left the country, and dramatically changed his lifestyle, my old manager started to joke that in the future he'll only ever hire people with a mortgage.

What do you value the most?

Slightly more practical advice - this depends entirely on your situation, but what about consulting? If you can transition to that and still make enough to cover the mortgage, you should have much more control over your schedule.

Along the same lines - I once worked with someone who was only working 4 days a week. Why? Simply because he asked. It didn't affect his role on the team, or his effectiveness, he just wasn't there one day a week. If you're willing to take a 20% pay cut, it's an option to consider.
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I just think the whole notion of borders on screens is very limiting. A digital screen is like digital real estate and I want to be able to expand it more organically than I am currently able to. I think that in the absence of borders, a slew of interesting applications would emerge. I don't have the resources to implement this myself, but I would love it if someone else did. :)
I'm pretty sure most ISPs prohibit using their service to host a site.

There are plenty of ways to get $100 in your pocket which can get you going for a while.
Electrons don't take up much space. Following websites takes TIME, however, so it's up to users to decide how they like to use their time.
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The best way to assert your rights to a police officer is to be calm, polite, and firm. Remove emotion from the equation, and you'll come across credible. Get all worked up, and you fit the pattern of an unstable, dangerous individual that will probably need to be subdued.

Keep in mind you can also decline a search or ask a questions like "do you have probable cause", "am I being detained", etc without being a jerk. Taking the high road costs nothing, might avoid a lot of trouble, and might even teach a police officer that not everyone who believes in their civil liberties is a ranting-and-raving asshole.
Paraphrasing worse is better: hammer out the code to quickly solve half the problem, and then take the time to improve it.
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Doubt they do AB testing for their front page for such a big change, else TechCrunch would be all over that.
They need to do something about the spammers who use it brazenly to remain continually on top of the search results.
The world needs more Bill Hicks types. He was -- still is -- my favorite comic, bar none.
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Emacs 23 is very near
If it's in php it should be reasonably easy to port to linux or *nix. Have you looked at using ImageMagick instead of .Net? To resize a pic you can `convert original.jpg -resize 640x480 new.png` for example. To make it faster use a php imagemagick library.
The Google killer isn't going to be a search engine, just as the Microsoft killer isn't a software company, just as the IBM killer wasn't a computer manufacturer.
That's an argument against the "helpful" little box that pops up when you select on NYTimes ... but that's not what this is about. This is silent (until you copy/paste anyway).
Cool -- good to see that you're thinking about this stuff ahead of time rather than sitting down to write code and suddenly realizing that you painted yourself into a corner. :-)
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Latency and slow upload speed are usually what makes a home server unfit for this kind of duty. Not to mention you'll be violating your TOS most likely.

On the other hand, no need to buy hosting until you have something to put on it, so you might as well go with this setup while you test/develop your service.

You can get two months of a 256 slice by mowing someone's lawn... hosting shouldn't be hard to come by once you need it.
True. I was thinking about growth in which it was not an oscillating reaction.
It looks like this rng uses a publicly-available seed.
haha, those are spam to me! I hate it when I hover the mouse over some article text and it pop ups some with text, most often ad links
Narragansett Beer injects itself into the National Gates-Crowley-Obama Debate
Narragansett Beer - the old, "Hey Neighbor, Have a Gansett!" beer brand from New England dropped a case of its brew on Gates' doorstep. Is this a new level for marketers? Over the line? Is there a line anymore?
Busy couple of weeks. Good luck!
It would be interesting to analyse past articles about IBM and Microsoft and check at what point of the cycle, now with Google, we are.

Also, one must realize that there is no such thing as search market, as well as there is no such market as restaurant's market. There is only market of finding answers, or buying food and social status.

Thus, to get a new Google we have to wait for a paradigm shift. Computers enabled IBM; personal computers enabled Microsoft; Internet enabled Google, etc.
This may be somewhat off topic, but it's also somewhat on topic. A former co-worker of mine recently posted a status update on Facebook claiming that her former boss "was the devil". The bosses name was not mentioned in the status update, but could be inferred by other co-workers, employees and etc.

Her former boss emailed her and sarcastically thanked her for the kind words, to which she replied "you're welcome". This, in effect, confirmed who she was speaking about - though it was not in a public forum for anyone else to read. He quickly threatened to file a lawsuit against her for slander, though I do not know if anything has come of it.

I'm no lawyer, but based on what I've read here and in some of the linked articles, he has no case. Obviously this is libel and not slander as it's written word and not spoken, so my assumption is the "boss" was just using scare tactics on here as had he gotten the advice of a lawyer, he would've known this. Not to mention, there is no way to prove that someone is or is not the devil, therefore the remark can't be used in case citing deformation of character, correct?

Just curious if anyone wanted to weigh in on this.

On topic: I'm curious to see if this lawsuit pans out. I'm honestly hoping it doesn't, but it will be interesting to see the outcome. Personally, I agree with most that the company should be trying to make their customers happy, not suing them over something like this.
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Reading about these rules and recent iPhone rejections/removals, (Google Voice...) I'm wondering if the project I'm working on might end up just being rejected... and the only way to know is to wait for the end of many hours of work.

I really love my iPhone but I'm starting to get annoyed and worried by the App Store.
They're free-as-in-beer, but double check the licenses before using them.
I was thinking the same thing. I think their focus has shifted. Seems like they'd rather communicate what they do first, then convert higher quality users.
I don't think you are complaining. I see a site like this every few weeks, and even though the icons are different, the majority are also just plain and not-unique. A site that was full of unique icons would be interesting.

Basically, I have no idea who would use the majority of those icons. Most look completely useless as a set, and that's the problem. If one were to use icons on his or her site, most likely he or she actually wants them to look good. I find it hard to believe the majority of those icons could ever be used on a good looking site. ~It is almost as if the creators made the icons to show that they could make icons.
I'll buy this once cached results start showing text added to the DOM using javascript.

I suspect that the googlebot found a link containing a url to the resource in question, and crawled it.
However, most members of society need to be working and at least marginally productive so they can continue to keep themselves functioning. Better or worse, it is the way we've organized the markets that bring people the essentials. Sentiment on whether it is better or worse seems more muddled given the current turmoil.

It largely depends on where one sets the threshold to define something as functioning. I've noticed at least a couple of different thresholds being argued about in other threads.
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You say they get to keep IP jointly with the University. Then you say that that person who keeps IP doesn't exist...

You are talking on the general plight and struggles of academics, which is another subject, and a subject I have no comment for. This or that aspect of being a professor really has nothing to do with this topic.

I am saying, again, that anything a professor develops, designs, or discovers while collecting a salary or having his research otherwise paid for out of tax revenues should have no ownership of it or financial compensation for it whatsoever (prizes are not compensation), and it should be placed in the public domain, just as the work of a government employee would be.

Financial benefit should go to the party taking the financial risk. A professor takes no financial risk when he researches things, as he collects a salary regardless of his success or failure in any course of research. Rather, all financial risk and cost is paid out of tax revenues.
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I played a version once that shipped with an old windows game pack. Each turn, each player was allowed to add one cell of their color and remove one of their opponent's, after which the rules were applied. The goal was to eliminate all of your opponent's cells. I remember finding it fun at the time, but I haven't played it in years.

Edit:
I found the wikipedia article for the game:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Genesis
seriously, this story should not appear here.
What is the success rate?
Currently I'm tied fairly tightly to 9-to-yuck employment, but I think a lot of knowledge workers are not. We make gobsmackingly good amounts of money. Many niches in our industry/industries tolerate frequent changes of employment well. What is to say that instead of taking continuous employment at an annualized salary of X you tolerate working for an annualized salary of 2/3 X and spend a third of your life between jobs? (Heck, after doing that for a while, wouldn't it be more appropriate to say that you spend two thirds of your life between periods of intense concentration on things which matter to you?)

Where is it written that the one acceptable business model for individuals is selling precisely 40 hours a week of your services to one company, with the contract to continue for many years at a time? That model is a historical accident, not a law of nature.
Web form usability: Better form submission feedback with jQuery
Browsers fail to give users effective feedback when the user submits a form. Users respond by clicking the submit button over and over. The problem compounds when users find out they’ve been charged 5 times or when you receive 5 contact submissions. Bummer.

The solution is to replace the submit button with a friendly message letting the user know the form is working.
I can't speak for other browsers, but in Firefox there are some brief but distracting UI changes when you select text. It is a side-effect of the click tracking code they use.
The icon set "Fugue" is my favourite. It has over 2000 icons and can easily be edited, layered etc. I have built an entire web application around them. But yes, I agree.
Thanks a lot for your comments :)
I don't think it's "having to know what to set it to up front" - its more experimentation and seeing what has the best performance. Too big heap and poor code, you might end up having really, really long GC pauses. Too small heap and you'll be out of heap space.

I like it as there's only so much physical memory on a server, and there's only so much virtual memory a kernel can provide. Swapping is not a good idea if you're looking into performance, and hence limiting the heap size can turn out to be a good strategy to ensure that your application does perform within expected boundries.
I highlight to track my position, so it's easier to keep reading after I scroll.

Hmmm, scrolling is not ideal for reading (e.g the Kindle pages, I think). Problem = opportunity, so maybe one solution is a plugin that automatically adds pagination (not actual pages, just mark them with horizontal bars - I think easy enough to do in greasemonkey).
OK. firstly I don't have any particular belief in EM-sensitivity. I am just as much a believer is science as you. What I objected to was the clear bias you demonstrated in your post. The readiness to declare the 'total failure of anyone to demonstrate "sensitivity"' rather than to provide any references suggested an extreme partisanship on one side of the argument.

The link that you finally provided has some useful information. To me it reads that suggest mixed results but mostly favouring no effect. If I where a betting person I'd say maybe there is a 10% chance that the effect does exist in some form based on my reading of that information. Maybe your interpretation of the probabilities implied by the studies is different to mine. But it leads me to agree with the conclusions of the authors of the meta study that "more research into this phenomenon is required".
I don't know. I'm not really a cloud advocate but I do like the idea of having access to my data everywhere and not having to worry about my own personal server going down. That's a killer feature for me. So if you want to talk me into a home server and desktop apps you have to be able to do something impressive that a cloud soution can't.

I don't see that here. Moreover, the tone of the "pro" part of this piece really turned me off. I won't blame the company because I don't know who chose the tone but to me this was fear mongering to sell a product (and for the record the one seems to be emulating their website). "All these evil big companies shouldn't have control of your data so you should fear them and run your own server"

Well, I don't fear the power of one company's cloud. If they abuse me I'll just move to another. Beyond that I'm an IT manager so I know servers occasionally go down and at home I don't want to deal with that.

Again, I'm open to desktop apps and local servers. But they have to use the power a local soultion provides to impress me. This doesn't seem to do anything a cloud solution couldn't and that makes it a no-go for me.
Does Twitter really have someone who writes up the explanations manually for trending topics? For example:

Google Voice is a popular topic on Twitter right now.
July 27th: Apple blocks Google Voice applications from the iPhone app store.
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I'm not really a huge proponent of e-learning since I'm very much a fan of sitting in a classroom and actually listening to a professor or teaching assistant give a lecture or lesson, but sometimes, I'm forced to interact with my university's Blackboard installation. It's mediocre at best and a waste of time at worst; it really does nothing to help the whole learning process aside from acting like a clumsy file locker that is best provided by something else like, maybe, a directory listing.

That said, given that Blackboard has also had control of WebCT for some time now, they run pretty much a straight-up monopoly in this market, and it's actually nice to see them get yanked of at least one of their toys even if they were allowed to cause severe damage to another company in the process. It's a shame, but this company really needs to get with the program and understand that this abuse of intellectual property law won't be tolerated.

Nevertheless, yes, why was this patent awarded in the first place? I'm curious since my tax payment somehow went into making this whole mess happen, and that fact alone is making me somewhat angry.
First thing I noticed was that the search button is slightly off (Google Chrome).
Perhaps the best solution Apple could offer, besides creating an unambiguous rule set, would be to offer an address to send app ideas or designs for vetting before anyone bothers to implement them.
Still doesn't work, even with using the Edit menu. I setup AdBlock to stop the NYT doing similar (as others have mentioned), and possibly it's blocking this one too.

I feel so isolated from the everyman. The web I see is not the web he sees.
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AFAIK, the license says you can't sell RethinkDB support, not that you can't sell support for software that uses RethinkDB.

From the license:

Prohibited
activities include but are not limited to:

Selling support for products which incorporate RethinkDB.

This is the problem with rolling your own software licenses.
I've learned to tune out "advice" like this. My experiences in life have differed so much from what people said they were going to be like that it's hard to listen to these things anymore. You have to make your life your own, stop listening to debbie downers like the author of this article.
I was SO eagerly waiting for anti-aliasing on emacs. Now it should be awesome.
Thanks for all the responses so far !

I agree that $100 doesn't seem like a lot to raise for hosting services.

A couple of things things to the contrary though;
First, Its a lot harder to raise a $100 when you're from a third world country :)
Second, I do have a little money to spare, but its parked aside "In case shit happens".
Finally, Life sometimes puts you in a place where raising even a $100 is hard to do.
I understand that running a homeserver for this sort of thing violates my ISP's terms of service, if I could put the money together for hosting, I would.
Yahoo finance is probably the only yahoo service I still use also. Flickr very rarely.
Tom, Ultimately the power and usability of applications win. Why don't you give it a try. promise you it will be worth your time. The underpinning of Tonido is control of data. Even we have plans to offer Tonido on your own VPS.We just provide an alternative to cloud . Thats it. we don't hate or fear cloud services
Fully agree. And it's also almost impossible for Google to change their presentation, because they would immediately confuse millions of users.

This is a weakness that can be exploited by a new competitor. Cuil did some work in that area, it was promising.
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But why? My issue isn't that your solution looks bad it's that it looks no better than cloud solutions and I don't want to manage my own server unless there is an advantage. The only advantage I can see is "we're not in the cloud" and that means nothing to me. I'm not against you I just don't see the benefits (and since you're on HN this might be the perfect place for you to lay them out)
It doesn't say what it does. Who do they think they are, Google ?
I was a little surprised that the tango icon set was in the 'mini' section, considering it contains everything up to svg copies of the icons.

It seems free icons are somewhat unpopular around here. I mostly use them as application icons on my desktop, considering many of the *nix GUI apps don't have an icon, or even a logo.
Well to be honest I saw an icon set one time that was so artistically brilliant (don't ask what that means) that I HAD to use them for something, thus I made an application just for the icons.

I'm not saying the icons are completely useless, but to use them, you have to have the application centered around the design of the icons! ~Which, in my opinion, is not how I want to start a website, or a project. I want a good idea and then apply the correct design and layout, but it's not important. Doing what we did is fun, even though it may not be very practical in all cases.
Yes but why are you defining this as an extraordinary claim? The thread starter post of makes a good case (in my view) that EM interference would be expected by default. If you disagree with this you should address it instead of assuming that everyone shares your assumptions. This is what I mean about bias.
Given the positive reception of the Nintendo DS within the demoscene, I have the feeling that we'll be seeing sceners doing interesting things with whatever iteration of the hardware that anyone has handy for several years to come, much like we've seen with even the old first-iteration Game Boys from 1989. It's really catching on there, and I wouldn't be surprised if we see some excellent games come out of this area from a few Swedes or Finns who have way too much free time. :)

Semi-relatedly: Interestingly enough, for those of us born through during the latter half of the 1970's and through the 1980's, the Germans call us the C64 Generation, which is a label that I really wear with pride since the C64 was my first foray into tinkering with micros after I turned three in 1990.
I doubt you could make the border smaller than a pixel; pixels are tiny these days. Having worked with display walls in the past, even a 1-pixel border between displays is really distracting, to the point where I'd rather just use the 2 displays separately as in a normal dual-head setup.

If you really need a borderless display the way to do it is with a projector. You can seamlessly combine projectors to create a display as big as you want. Normally the projected images are overlapped a few pixels on each side and blended together to cover up alignment issues. I'm certain this is how they make that enormous display that towers behind Steve Jobs during his keynotes at Moscone Center.

If you're interested in joining the displays from multiple computers together, check out http://code.google.com/p/synergy-plus/ . It's like VNC in reverse.

Also, X Windows theoretically allows moving running application windows from one device to another but I don't think any implementations really support it.
Keep in mind, for your application example, that's a need for locks or merging logic on the application level - this project is a bit "lower-level". MyISAM and InnoDB don't solve this issue either, locks or no locks.

Locks in this context refers to readers and writers at the DB engine level.
Emacs is overkill and has very poor default key bindings.

Windows has notepad++, which is an excellent free editor.

On the Mac I use Aquamacs Emacs, which is ok, but I would still prefer something like notepad++. (For coding I use the xcode editor.)
I can see how what you describe could decrease expenses, and increase profit, but how could it increase revenue?
I can't believe they have this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E072dWriCBw YouTube video on their site promoting their product. It's a little over the top and I have to think it would turn a lot of people off to the product regardless of it's merit.
twitter is turning into google reader. and google reader is turning into twitter.
The potential DOJ interest in Google isn't about android, it's about advertising. Playing nice in a non-core area won't win you any points from the DOJ in another.
Very easy! I agree, this might be the wrong audience for this. Maybe look into telling the credit relief orgs about it.