skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When showing the search results display either "picture available" or "picture unavailable", but not both. The absence of one implies the presence of another. Also, it's unlikely that people will be searching for items that do not have pictures, so the two respective checkboxes on the left can be safely collapsed into one - "only with picture(s)".
Ruby and Python are both fine at bit-level data handling. I've written kernel debuggers in both. Python ctypes used to be much better than what was available on Ruby, but I've found that not to be a major distinction in 2009.
Eee with dual core? Which model?
I have found that weird. I'm a huge loner and don't particularly need to talk to someone on a regular basis, but I get messed up if I'm not at least around people a lot. That's the exact reason Starbucks is my second home right now.

About the no interruptions - I can't remember the last time someone's interrupted my at Starbucks. But that could be that I always have my headphones on and have my eyes fixated on my laptop screen or book.
Nice use of ajax. The site feels very responsive.

Buuut I have to type in my zip code every single time? I'm too lazy (srs). You could always tie it to the session? The next step is to get hold of a geo-ip database.

In Camino, the "look!" button on the homepage is blank. You should use a button tag instead of an input tag. In fact, the whole header is broked in Camino.

The page headers look clickable, but aren't. Same with the table header on the list of blog posts.

Why are there separate electronics, computers, cell phones, and video games sections sections? Same with home and furniture. And wtf are events? You should add a better default category than "Apparel".

On the homepage, the "Just type in the product..." copy looks dense and misplaced. The copyright notice seems lost as well.

Definitely add photos if legally possible.

Haha that's plenty. Good luck guys!
i wish there was a website i could go to and stream every free cable channel at $1/hour. i don't have a tv, but use justin.tv/ustream to watch some sports events...
>"In reality, the energy cost of impregnating a woman is so low that it doesn't really matter that much"

I guess they don't have child support wherever you're from.
You shouldn't require users to select category, that extra step is a huge pain in the ass for the user.

Overall its a decent looking site, but there are a ton of sites that do the same exact thing.

You need to figure out a way to differentiate yourself from all the other scrapers.
Docstoc launches Itunes for documents.
Ask HN: In-memory Webserver
I've been thinking about my needs for a webserver and seeing as how I'm
only going to be serving static pages I want to concentrate on speed and
simplicity. In my scenario I'll have a set of pages that aren't going to
change, and if they do, taking down the server would be okay. My question
is then:

Is there a webserver that, when started, reads all pages into memory and
then never touches the disk again? Would a similar effect be better
achieved with something like Apache + memcached? Other suggestions?
Interesting article, but 0 technical detail. Mimicking the human brain in terms of neuron/transistor count is one thing, but it's not a scenario where you can just copy the hardware and expect it to work. Research has hinted that myelination plays a role in cognition, but we don't know exactly how, let alone how to engineer it.
I might be wrong but I like the way Scarface (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086250/) does business. There's a lot to learn from him.
Dvorak's pretty well known (for better or worse); I'm not sure "random blogger" is the right pejorative, here.
I'm using apache+varnishd, I've heard good stuff about http://nginx.net/

Good luck!
Craigslist TOS says we are prohibited from using their data if we ourselves are providing classified services. I looked around and found that all sites that were asked to stop their use of Craigslist data were sites that were constantly scraping the site to populate their own database. The way we see it, a user searching on our site, and us querying CL, is no different than that user directly searching on CL. We're querying them per user search.
Just signed up our small startup for this. We had a server on Amazon go down last week really hard - so hard that monit never said anything and we only knew because an external server does pinging on it every half hour or so. Will give this a try for more prompt phone calls!
Adding support for http://www.kijiji.com/ would be nice.
you skipped over the best part... how did you do it?
Worth noting that not every B&N has an “upstairs”. Indeed, most of the B&Ns I’ve been to have been 1 story, though the ones in large, wealthy, shopping areas have been 2.
nginx+memcached or nginx+ramfs?
Yeah, that's on the list.
I don't like floating elements like that; it's distracting. When I first load the page, it's just lined up with the 'H', 'w' and the sign-up graphic. That feels out of place. Personally, I don't like floating elements like that because it violates what a website is, to me. I want to navigate through information, and I bristle when information is forced on me like that.

Consider the amount of "special" things you have:

- Floating feedback link on the left

- "Sign Up" link/tab is highlighted red. (This also means I have to use some small cognitive effort to realize "Home" is black because I'm there, "Sign Up" is highlighted, and the rest are normal links.)

- "call you" in the blue banner is both bold and italic

- Lead-in text is bold

- "calls you" in lead paragraph is bold, italic and green

- green check marks for the features list

- Play button on your UI graphic

There's nothing inherently wrong with any one of these things, but they're all design elements that say "I'm important! Look at me!" But when I see seven competing things evenly spread out over the page saying "Look at me!" my first reaction is to give up and look at nothing.

I think it's possible to include the same amount of information, just presented in a clearer way. Personally, I think the star of your show are your UI pictures.

Of course, keep in mind I am, like you, a hacker, not a designer. But I'm taking the time to explain what I see because I think you've come up with a neat idea for what sounds like an untapped market, and I'd hate to see you run into problems because of simple presentation issues.
Wikipedia makes money through fundraising.
Ask HN: Web Based data flow diagramming tool ?
Is anybody aware of a web based data flow diagramming tool, an ajax based version of visio or something to that effect ? Do you have experience with a website like that ? Are you happy with it ?

My regular A4 notebooks are becoming a little unwieldly for what I'm attempting, a bit of electronic help would be great!
Microsoft is not restricting whether or not their operating systems will run on the netbooks. They are only restricting whether or not a particular netbook will get a deep discount on the operating system. Netbooks are cheap enough that the full cost of Windows is significant compared to the hardware cost, so a netbook without the deep discount would need to compete with other laptops instead of other netbooks, effectively killing it.

One business reason for the discounts is market segmentation. Netbook purchasers have a different sensitivity to price than purchasers of full computers. By charging less, Microsoft may be able to sell more copies of Windows -- perhaps enough to make more total dollars than at the undiscounted price. This is also the reason why there are many different editions of Vista available at different prices.

Another business reason is to keep Linux from getting a toehold on the user desktop market. Price is the one obvious advantage of Linux, which is why it powered so many of the initial netbook offerings. By offering a steep discount only for cheap computers, Microsoft effectively defuses the threat, without cannibalizing its sales on more powerful systems.
You are raising an important point. Let's say half of the value of an MBA is in the teaching of business, which the article covers. The other half is in getting the diploma, the network and the brand recognition.

I guess my view is that for the average MBA person, whose goal is to get a high-paying job in a mid-size to Fortune 500 company, the piece of paper and the network are very important - go get the formal MBA.

For the 1% of hackers who like to get ahead of everyone else and take the fast lane to life, the App Store is an intriguing approach. More efficient.
I think it's important that if you are going to raise questions about someone's reputation, you make a real effort to find answers before throwing those questions out into the public. An irresponsible question can still be very misleading.

As an example: Do you still beat your wife?
Exactly. John C. Dvorak is a professional internet troll disguised as a tech journalist. He uses misinformed rants ( or "controversial opinions" if you like the euphemism better ) as a source of hits. He has trolled the FLOSS and Mac communities for years. But trolling the White House ?. That's effing crazy.
I think it's a good idea. But I think the implementation could be better.

First of all, login+invitation is a bit much. You're not google, I don't think you'll submerged in requests without any heavy marketing.

I think you should get a graphic designer to redo your buttons and logos.

There's a lot of information on the screen and it's a bit difficult to navigate. I would use tabs for each category(videos, flickr, mainstream media, blog feeds, yahoo groups).

English second language, sorry for the grammar.
I just remember other sites (like Housingmaps.com) being exceptions because they were totally non-commercial. I didn't actually read their TOS until now. It looks like you're definitely in violation of their TOS.

They might not really care or notice unless you grow though.
Might want to take off the anchor in the link.

Having worked in Auckland with a small company, I can't say there's anything that compelling about it. Sadly my least favourite NZ city.
doh! in size 40 font nonetheless. thanks for pointing this out so i could fix it :o)
It's worse than that if you want to get to anywhere other than the major cities. If I want to visit my grandmother in Motueka, I need to fly BOS->LAX->AUK->NEL, and then drive an hour from Nelson. That appears to be the most direct route, and with flight schedules being what they are generally takes a couple of days.
Some people object to the advertised links on Google. But when I'm shopping, I really think they're helpful. So this is one place where I quite intentionally leave the ads in place.

Having a wife from China, it appears to me that ad presentation has cultural differences. More specifically, ads on Chinese web sites tend to look like someone threw up on the page, with all kinds of bright colors and blinky things. This stuff gives me a headache (really), so really feel the need to block such ads.
Its really innovative, huh?
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The library staff is a lot more nervous about the library being empty than they are about it being full.

This I can attest to.

At our local public library there's a lady who is constantly picking up and re-shelving kids books only to have some kids take a bunch out and toss most of them on the table or the floor.

When I asked her if she wasn't frustrated, she said counter-intuitively that she's actually happy to come in to the section and find a ton of books to re-shelve.
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hustling:
The Entrepreneur

some business history:
Pirates of Silicon Valley

business culture:
Barbarians at the Gate, Rogue Trader

wealth:
Bonfire of the Vanities
By "iTunes" they mean "iTunes store", not "iTunes library". For most companies, having a network-accessible iTunes library of documents would be more useful.
My camera test search query ended up getting good results after modifying it to "powershot -battery -cable -case -protector -charger -adapter"

Would it work to attach a "accessory word blacklist" to the end of every search query that does not explicitly have one of the accessory words in it?
Not different at all. And I guess the probability of theft would be greater in a coffee shop.
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Measuring MPG doesn't make a lot of sense for a car that gets plugged in. Miles per dollar would be a lot more interesting, but with this style of vehicle it depends highly on your daily usage. This is a great marketing hack.
> There's no dispute today. There was during his tenure at the IMF.

No, there wasn't any dispute. Someone has to pay SS taxes on earned income. US employers can be forced to pay half and deduct the other half. The IMF thinks that it is exempt from following US law wrt withholding, but that doesn't eliminate the requirement.

More to the point, the IMF GAVE Geitner money specifically to pay these taxes AND had him sign a form saying that the taxes were his responsibility. IMF's position was that they weren't responsible for withholding, not that the taxes weren't owed.

> Geithner didn't attempt to hide his tax liability. It was in plain sight. When it became more troublesome to avoid paying taxes than to square up, he simply paid them. I don't understand the political drama behind this. Geithner simply wasn't a tax cheat.

Almost every "forgot to pay" person meets that template, and we call them tax cheats.
Exactly. I just moved from Takaka to Seattle, and still have to travel there from time to time. SEA->LAX->AUK->NEL. My last trip was from Nelson to Connecticut: NEL->AUK->LAX->ORD->LGA->BDL. Ugh.
Yeah, if you hit the coffee shops, watch out for guys trying to recruit you into web-based pyramid schemes.

You can usually identify them by very generic terminology about internet business and (seriously, every one of them) a paper planner.
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In the next version of Emacs we'll just do M-x solve-hunger and be done with it!
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Its dishonest to imply the degree is from University of Maryland. UMUC is not UMCP. It is in the University of Maryland system, it is not "University of Maryland".
Also, permanently save whatever zipcode I enter (as a cookie or something), so that I don't have to retype it when I come back to the site at a later date.
Other suggestions?

You're thinking way too hard. As long as you have enough RAM, your operating system will cache data; so you don't need to do anything fancy at all. Set up whatever web server you like, in the default configuration, and measure its performance; odds are that you'll find that you don't need to tune anything at all.
Dvorak has a reputation for publishing these screw-ups. It has been going on for years. The guy is the shock jock of tech columnists, or maybe a Bill O'Reilly, or at least that has been his reputation for a long time. This sort of history, going back years, should be taken into account when people judge the most recent actions. This is just common sense.

Your personal ignorance does not mean you are correct to chide those who do know of Dvorak and his history.
I completely disagree, I think it all works really well together, and just the right things are popping out.
To me, a "programming language" is a language that allows me to express computations. Markup don't need any concept of computation, so I don't consider them programming languages.
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No, it's ok to call them incompetent. However it is ok to call self-admitted trolls jackasses, so you're safe :-P
Yeah, the difference is 100$+ a day. In other words it's whether you can afford it or not to travel. Most people can't afford travel until they get a real job which nowadays might be well in their thirties. On the other hand mostly young people travel around the world. So a site like this really makes the difference.
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Huh? How do you infer that individual effort was controlled for by quoting "each extra required maths course raised the annual income of black males by 15%"?
Ask HN: What materials things do you covet?
It is a good exercise to write down the material things you have to get in your life. I tried to make a list several times, and I have never been able to go above 10 items. Here are the items that remain constant:

- Rocio Romero LV or something in that nature. ($125k maybe)

- Vintage Schwimm bicycle ($500),

- A motorcycle, a cruiser preferably, and it does not have to be new. ($5-$7000)

- A lifetime supply of Hanes ($9000, random number).

- A private jet.

What are some things you feel you must just have (maybe once your startup exits successfully)?
Why can't they pull the same information from the towers and wifi APs themselves though ? They are big enough provider to have this sort of analytics support already in place.
I just posted this on the other thread. It is in the University of Maryland system, it is not "University of Maryland". "University of Maryland University College" is not "University of Maryland".
However, Walton had been a successful manager for similar stores (IIRC, Ben Franklin) at both the store and area level before. Sanders had been in the food biz for decades as well. (I don't know about Toyoda.)

They started their "make it big" biz later in life, but they'd been in their biz for decades.
Integration with a ticketing system is a great idea. We are thinking of adding support for Lighthouse, so you can coordinate, document and work with other people on resolving triggered alarms.
Tweetmeme is now the most popular UK website (in the US)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10206988-56.html - "Microsoft, TomTom settle patent dispute". I am going to have to disagree with you on this one. Some of the patents that MS was beating their war drum over are silly and ignore that the only reason TomTom uses some of these features is to support MS windows users.

I frankly hope they have to payout a half a billion dollars like they did with Eolas so they realize that no software patents is likely cheaper than paying out and paying for lawyers.
The article describes these agents as "negotiation ninjas" based on "a series of simple rules - known as heuristics." That's far from artificial intelligence. Nothing in the article suggests that the agents do any kind of learning.

The problem with heuristics is that the best ones make very specific assumptions, so they usually don't scale to new problem domains, and don't adapt to changing market conditions.
"Executive Suite" - The essence of running a business is captured beautifully in William Holden's speech to the board at the end.

"Glengarry Glen Ross" - great depiction of salemen selling a commodity on commission :-(

"Wall Street" - 20 years later and they're still cheating as much as ever.

"The Godfather" - notice all the references to the difference between what's personal and what's "strictly business".

"The Devil Wears Prada" - I just want people like Meryl Streep on my side.

"My Big Fat Greek Wedding" - Look at what life can be like if everyone just keeps working. (How many small businesses was that family running anyway?)

"Other People's Money" - similar to Wall Street, but a little more uplifting.
What a deal; in exchange for implementing expensive filtering Fox will allow them to exist.
That sounds like something Apple would do. I think they should be more upfront about it, and set the default to "disabled" like most other phones with GPS do. While it would be very useful to know where people are and what programs they are using, this should be weighed against the (arguably) more important privacy concern.
nice. i did a web-based version a few weeks back found here: http://hnsort.com
I'm happy to link to your script on that site if you like
I'd add this as a firefox search plug-in
Wall Street,

Boiler Room
As mentioned in the comments on that page, this is a different issue. You can opt out of sending the information to Google, but you have no say in the matter regarding Palm.
Yes, he got his degree from University or Maryland University College in 2001. And what about the biology degree?
Just like how AOL was collecting statistics and decided to release them "anonymously". But that didn't work out so well.
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Seconded; for extra performance enable sendfile().
But it is necessary to write them to test functionality and if the functionality is correct, surely the types are correct as well (and if they aren't, who cares? It works.)

There's less functionality to test if you've described your business constraints in concise type declarations. The type contract is short enough to be validated at a glance.

Static typing makes it marginally safer to not have tests at all, or to have incomplete tests. If you have complete tests, type checking is redundant.

If you have such "complete" tests, you're wasting your time by trying to be a human compiler.
And look_lookatme posted the following nugget as a reply to a post similar to yours. Quoting verbatim:

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Of_Maryland

"However, in 1997 the Maryland General Assembly passed legislation allowing the University of Maryland, College Park to be known simply as the University of Maryland, recognizing the campus' role as the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland."

No one of thinks "oh one of those Maryland universities with different faculties and different quality of education" when they hear University of Maryland. They think of College Park.

It may be splitting hairs, but we shouldn't even be having this conversation, as it should be clear on the bio page.
good old 6th-grader-quality research.

correlation mistaken for causation...so frustratingly pervasive in our society.
So if I understand you correctly, you're saying once you get to know Dvorak, he really is a jackass.

Let's grant your point. Then still, why call it out? Let's suppose Dvorak is the worst jackass in the history of jackasses. Let's also suppose that anybody who knew Dvorak would agree that he is the epitome of jackasses. Proper response: "Remember when Dvorak did X, Y, and Z? I'm not sure what the situation is now, but this looks like it might be one of those situations."

Why get so emotional? It's just a web column, for chrissakes. The truth was outed almost immediately. Whatever damage happened happened for about 2 hours. Do you guys live some kind of perverse emotional life through these tech columnists? If so, get a life already. Words are cheap. That's why we always ask for links, and double-check sources.

When you call somebody a name, you're attempting to shut down anything useful they might have to offer in the future. It's the ultimate ad hominem argument: no need to listen to anything Dvorak says because he's an X.

I think it's completely idiotic to go there. Everybody has something useful to offer at some time or another.

In those Frankenstein movies there always was a large crowd with torches and pitchforks who stormed the castle looking for the monster. I'm sure there was some guy in the back who was going, "Hey guys, couldn't we just send the sheriff? Why all the yelling and panic?"

I feel like that guy.
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Your site was my inspiration.
Actually, you can put together a much cheaper system. I put together one for about $400:

* Dell Mini 9 on sale (~$200)
* Memory and SSD upgrade (~$100)
* Retail Mac OS X (~$100)

http://gizmodo.com/5156903/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-9-i...
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