skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome app. I think the domain name is a hit/miss. According to me it's easy to remember.

I would replace "Select the ingriedients you want to use:" with something like "What ingredients do you have in the fridge to make <pasta>?"

Another thing to think about is the color combination. I am no where near an expert, but it could be improved.
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There were search engines before google, is it the altavista?
There have always been questions for which Google wasn't the best place. Niche forums, obscure government databases, and even things like HN...I routinely use searchyc.com over Google. Twitter is only slightly more relevant to the wider population than any of these...I sincerely doubt that real-time search will ever be more than 1% of the overall search market. There's just not that much that really matters if it's 30 seconds ago vs. 30 minutes ago.
Craigslist succeeded because there is an ecosystem of people that makes it useful. buyers/sellers, job hunters/head hunters and so on. The same reason eBay is successful.
The difference is that these companies actually contribute money towards something. I don't buy Rockstar either. I don't buy Sony because they put rootkits on CD's. Writing a well-reasoned editorial that I disagree with doesn't rise to that level.

If Whole Foods contributed their profits to fund anti-health-reform PACs I guess that would be comparable, but they don't. They pay $1 in salary to a CEO who wrote one editorial in one newspaper expressing his personal opinions and experiences. That's akin to getting ticked off at something Paul Graham wrote and refusing to do business with any YCombinator-funded startups.

Actually it's even worse, since I'm pretty sure Paul Graham makes more money from YCombinator's investments than Mackey makes from Whole Foods at this point. And, unlike Mackey, Paul Graham's made some recent political contributions, so the money he makes from YCombinator actually goes to "the bad guys" (depending on your perspective) while Mackey's money either stays with him or goes to charity.

(OpenSecrets.org lets you search for political contributions. John Mackey's made some political contributions, but not since 2000 and even then, only to fringe nutjobs, which is the most harmless type of political contribution possible.)

The problem with politics is that people feel too strongly without thinking strongly enough. It should not be blood-boilingly offensive for someone to express the contrary viewpoint about most political issues.
Since one of the comments he's talking about refers to "coding dynamic web pages entirely in SQL," I feel obliged to link to a project my friends and I put together a few years ago:

http://sqlonrails.org

That's still up there as one of my favorite hacks. :-)
That's my comment:-)

I really was disappointed when I ran across the site and thought it would be something akin to TheDailyWTF.
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Ted Kennedy has died
This may not be tech, but the impact he's made is bigger than any one industry.
Reading the piece again, I don't even see Mackey as being fundamentally opposed to health care reform, or to the goal of treating people with dignity and humanity. Keep in mind that he runs Whole Foods as a company, not as a series of co-ops (as such stores are usually operated). Wouldn't it stand to reason that he's in favor of doing as much good as is financially sustainable? His main criticism is that the public option isn't financially sustainable. "We can't afford this, it will do more harm than good, and the individual consumer can be empowered to make a difference themselves"? That seems quite compatible with what Whole Foods is.

I get how it's bad PR on Mackey's part. But it's an unfair expectation on the part of the boycotters.
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I did the phone screen, plus on-site interviews. It was for a developer position - I've got 10 years experience.

I was going for an overseas position, which complicated the process, because they had to fly me to another city for a combination of onsite and video interviews.

Obviously they asked other questions, too.

My impression was that they hadn't planned on doing another round of interviews, but the mixed feed back I got confused them (I did very well on at least on question, but totally bombed on another). Who knows, though - the whole interviewing process was a bit of a mess to be honest.
...but someday we're not going to access all of the world's information starting with short query strings that we type into a search bar

Very well put. Also, wondering why no is mentioning SemanticWeb. Is this already written off as a non-starter?
There are wild variations between what two different "web developers" can produce. As the type of person who is actually interested in programming enough to be hanging out on a site like this, you are probably at the top end of the chart without even realising it. The bottom end is the schmuck clicking around in Dreamweaver, you never see him but he outnumbers you 20 to 1, and he is dragging the salary down to 70k. If you are familiar with statistics, you might say that 70k is the mode but I doubt it is the mean.

Everyone should listen to tptacek, he is absolutely right. It is the value you can deliver, not what your actual cost is. A good web site can be literally worth millions. Deliver the final product, end to end, and you can charge a good proportion of that. 70k is "sitting down money" and most good web devs should not accept anything like that.
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Every non-trivial app has vulnerabilities. One indication of a vuln is not "blatant incompetence"

I've responsibly reported my fair share of Twitter vulns over the years. In general Twitter fixed them quickly. (Except some CSRF/XSRF issue which was non-trivial and was when they had fewer resources.)

Dave Naylor was just irresponsibly publicizing something, which makes him somewhat of a jerk. Being a jerk is not necessarily a Bad Thing and of course we/I don't know the entire story here, but that's what it sounds like.
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Unless this site is doing something radically different, don't see why this is relevant to hacker news. Flagged. If the submitter could add a comment of something hackerworthy, that would be appreciated.

Otherwise it seems like a blatant (self?) promotion

Edit: seems like the account was created just for the submission.
Hey, sorry for the late reply. Thanks for mentioning Review Board. I'm a big Django fan anyway, so at the very least it'll be insightful to review it.

Thanks. And I guess we're out of luck on an open-source Backboard clone...
To comprehend the breadth of this man's persona, ask yourself "what do I do each day to help other people?" The man never stopped.
Cool that we have some results, but the display of the age and wage values seems simply to be a list. Is that normal? Having read another response, I guess it is.

I assume you'll be doing your own analysis as well and will deal with the problem in the summary you post.

And I'm finding this interesting - thanks.
Same. 4th year CS major at UF.
Totally. IBM got blindsided by software as a product. Microsoft got blindsided by the Internet. Google is not going to be blindsided by some kids who magically perfect search in 10 years. It'll be something completely outside their core competency.
>Not being content with your coding ability is healthy and natural.

That's true. I wonder if realizing that and still feeling like one's sub-par is also natural.
Thanks a ton for the props on Lowdown! After the rumble we plan on doing a lot more with it. If you're interested, give us a follow on twitter @lowdownapp to stay on top of what we have planned. Peace.
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His greatest influence on history, without comment,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act...
I don't think the knee of the curve is going to be very smooth. molecular engineering or AI would be more like a sharp spike.
Why couldn't China maintain a higher HR standard?
The ads are too invasive

The results presentation is confusing in that if I specify 5 ingredients, I should be able to get the recipe with all 5 at the top of the list. In fact I get one that uses 4/5 at the top and the one that uses 5/5 lower.

You have a parsing problem (unavoidable) in that recipes that call for "lemon, juiced" do not turn up as hits on "lemon juice".

To reproduce the above, search for hummous, then tick the following: chickpeas, tahini, cummin, lemon juice, olive oil.

On the plus side: good job - I often do ingredient-based searches (eg on bigoven.com) and this is better that what I have seen elsewhere. Now you need an iPhone app so I can do this easily in the grocery store :-)
who is to say what zen is?
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(edit: I have nothing to say, and I'm saying it. You don't have to upvote it but it isn't meant as a comment to be downvoted either, just an acknowledgment).
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This man's presence was earth-shattering. His legend will be even more so. The world has a lot to learn from him. RIP
Not only does a manual transmission help, but it kind of pushes everyone into that kind of driving. Maybe it's just because you don't need brakes as much. When I drive an auto (usually rental), I find I'm a lot more aggressive.

I also fond that places with a higher percentage of auto drivers are heavier on the heavy traffic scooch-and-brake.
The original article excerpted in the lifehacker post: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8219212.stm
Dennis Leary said it best: Great Senator, but a bad date.
So the computing industry as a whole? He's made more of an impact than that?
Avinash Kaushik is the authority on website analytics and optimization. HNers are urged to devour the man's writings wherever they can get them. His book is a classic, and he is donating all the sales proceeds to charity :-)
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The point of counting seconds instead of distance is that it works at any speed. People tend to keep the longest (time) distance at suburban speeds.

7 seconds at highway speeds can be over 200 meters.

I'm all for safety, but that is excessive.
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this is such a counter intuitive result that they're going to have to back this up with a fairly heavy duty inquiry before anyone should take it seriously.
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Except that this only gives you a linear amount of space with respect to your speed. You need space that goes as the square of the speed.
I volunteer as a lifeguard.
This is definitely a first. Is 0 comments a good thing or bad? Usually this site is great for its constructive criticism.
I suspect that (some) drivers instinctively measure their speed relative to other cars rather than the background. If they're not overtaking other cars, they feel like they're not moving.
is there a way to 'save' articles (like on reddit)? Articles tend to scroll off the bottom pretty quickly.
He did the seeming impossible: he lived up to the reputation of his brothers as their equal. An amazing senator. A very great loss.
Wow, looks like Programming Reddit found LtU. Sad.
At 10,000 swimming pools at once?
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I find Jeff Atwood to be extremely self deprecating at times. I know i'm not the best programmer, but as Jeff would have us believe, until we know we're all the worst programmers in history his job is not done. At least now I know the rationale behind it.
Your "hate" doesn't overshadow the good feeling of getting a lot of points?

Nope.
OK. You've gotten that out of your system.

Now go read this: http://xkcd.com/322/ and go back to Reddit.
Yep, it is by a considerable margin the most popular open source database in the world, despite what the MySQL might crowd claim.
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I got all excited thinking they had made something I could install in my own data center. While nifty, this still doesn't allow me to properly protect my data (whole disk encryption, etc). I want a self-hosted private cloud.
Sad to see him go-- on the upside, he can finally be reunited with his brothers and old family friends like Mary Jo Kopechne and Martha Moxley.
It is rather hidden but here are the formatting options: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Thank you all for your wonderful comments. I now have some concrete directions to look. I must say it is much harder than I initially thought.

Are there companies employing any of these techniques to provide some service? This seems to be the next step up from keyword-based search. I remember seeing some startups providing a gauge of positive press coverage on stock symbols. How do they do it?
http://open.eucalyptus.com/
Who’s Driving Twitter’s Popularity? Not Teenagers
I heard some young girl was drunk and got in a car accident, and left him for dead. (too soon?)
Great!

Doubleplus grest because it fully works without the need for Javascript and even Cookies, thanks.

I searched for a Pizza Salami, selected about 10 of the top ingredients and got about 6000 results. I then added some of the suggested ingredients and got more results (until I added an obscure one). Shouldn't more ingredients means a smaller set of recipes? Maybe you are using less strict rules (OR instead of AND) for later result pages, otherwise I cannot imagine why this happened. Well, minor observation really. ;-)
What is Ted Kennedy's lesson for the world? From my perspective, the guy was a career politician and part of an unpleasant dynastic trend in American government. How would the world be different had Kennedy not lived?
Man, 77, dies.
What's a good idea?
Is a good idea something that no one's thought of yet, or something that everyone's thought of? I come up with ideas, only to find them implemented almost exactly as I had imagined them. Would it be a good idea to just take the one with least competition, try to improve it, and go with it?
Indeed, nobody can question the reputation of this mans virility.
5 is something that Joshua Porter strongly emphasizes in his "Psychology of social design" talk. REALLY IMPORTANT for my startup. Give a read: http://bit.ly/1J00n

"...Providing a stand-alone use is the strategy that VCR producers used to achieve a successful launch and avoid fighting the difficult chicken and egg startup problem. Unlike the VDP, the VCR offered the ability to time-shift television programming. In fact, when the VCR was launched this was the only application available because the market for pre-recorded videocassettes had not yet developed. The standalone value for the VCR “time-shifting television programming” was sufficiently strong to get over a million people to purchase the product in the first 3-4 years after its launch. "
Exactly. I'm so sick of politician worshipping by the left and the right. Did Ted Kennedy ever have a real (i.e. private sector) job in his entire life? No. He was a drunken womanizer who spent other people's money. Good riddance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy
Should've gone with Ninjas and Pirates...
I'll be applying this winter. Have not applied yet, because I'm still racing out the MVP.
Thinking further, google does have some significant diversified revenue streams - it's all within advertising, but it's not all search.

Specifically, those ads you can have on your webpage.
And the competitor to this is a YC company, Virtualmin.
For 50 years Ted Kennedy has been the US government's leading defender of the poor. If he hasn't impacted your life, you probably aren't poor.
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Especially this one. I'm hesitant to comment on this because this article really doesn't belong here. But the fact remains Ted Kennedy left a woman for dead after driving his car into a body of water. He didn't contact the authorities when it happened, he instead went back to his hotel. When at his hotel (and I take this quote from the Wikipedia entry) he...

"According to his own testimony, Kennedy swam across the 500-foot channel, back to Edgartown and returned to his hotel room, where he removed his clothes and collapsed on his bed. Hearing noises, he later put on dry clothes and asked someone what the time was: it was something like 2:30 a.m., the senator recalled. He testified that, as the night went on, "I almost tossed and turned and walked around that room ... I had not given up hope all night long that, by some miracle, Mary Jo would have escaped from the car."
Back at his hotel, Kennedy complained at 2:55 am to the hotel owner that he had been awoken by a noisy party"

So he's complaining about the noise keeping him up while this woman's still at the bottom of the sea. The next morning (again from Wikipedia)...

"By 7:30 am the next morning he was talking "casually" to the winner of the previous day's sailing race, with no indication that anything was amiss.[2] At 8 a.m., Gargan and Markham joined Kennedy at his hotel where they had a "heated conversation." According to Kennedy's testimony, the two men asked why he hadn't reported the accident. Kennedy responded by telling them "about my own thoughts and feelings as I swam across that channel ... that somehow when they arrived in the morning that they were going to say that Mary Jo was still alive"

And the final kicker, he didn't contact the authorities until the body was found and the woman probably survived the crash. One last quote...

"Earlier that morning, two amateur fishermen had seen the overturned car in the water and notified the inhabitants of the nearest cottage to the pond, who called the authorities at around 8:20 am.[14] A diver was sent down and discovered Kopechne's body at around 8:45 am.[15] The diver, John Farrar, later testified at the inquest that Kopechne's body was pressed up in the car in the spot where an air bubble would have formed. He interpreted this to mean that Kopechne had survived for a while after the initial accident in the air bubble, and concluded that

"Had I received a call within five to ten minutes of the accident occurring, and was able, as I was the following morning, to be at the victim's side within twenty-five minutes of receiving the call, in such event there is a strong possibility that she would have been alive on removal from the submerged car."

So had he contacted the authorities she could have lived. And for all that he got a suspended sentence because he's rich and has a powerful family. I won't demonize the dead but I'm not going to sit by and let people lionize him either.

How is it that people can bash Michael Jackson after unproven accusations but let Kennedy off even though he admits to everything laid out above?
I'm as sick of politician hatred by the peanut gallery. Think back 250 years in this country's history, when blacks were slaves, non-landowners couldn't vote, and women weren't sent to school. The difference between that world and today's world is due to the efforts of politicians and activists. Do you think that Johnson's Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act were not "real" accomplishments?
Hey, what have you got against drunken womanisers ...

edit: so it's immoral to drink and womanise or something? He was using those words in a perjorative manner. I complain and get downvoted, is this Church Day or something?

Hm, all this talk is making me thirsty .. (grabs beer)
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/25/10-common-mistake...

Edit: you may find this useful
The comment was probably in reference to the incident at Chappaquiddick rather than a suggestion that one would be more effective at saving lives as a lifeguard than as a Senator wielding enormous influence.

In the version of events most favorable to Kennedy, he suffered a tragic lapse in judgment (failing to summon aid) which compounded the results of an unfortunate auto accident, and a young woman drowned as a result.

The version which is more charitable to the truth and less charitable to Kennedy: He was drunk driving late at night on an isolated road with a young woman who was not his wife. He got into a car accident, which involved his car falling into the water with the two of them in it. After extracting himself from the car, he went home, went to sleep, woke up, talked to his political advisers, then called the police and informed them that there had been an accident.

For normal Americans, that would have resulted in an investigation followed by manslaughter charges. Kennedy was never a normal American. He got off with a wrist slap after pleading guilty to leaving the scene of an accident.

The whitewashing of this incident has always been a stitch in the craw of his political opponents. His political supporters say some variant of the following every time it gets brought up: mistakes were made, it is long in the past, nothing was ever proven, and now is not the right time to mention it.

I'm sort of unsure about the etiquette myself. What's the polite way to say "Ted Kennedy was a man who did many things unrelated to causing the death of his paramour in the cause of protecting his political career"?
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So you're posting this here just in case hackers don't read newspapers?
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"In its latest version, official Russian television said ecologists had hijacked the Arctic Sea because they had ran out of fuel for their boats. " ... riiiggghhhhtt....
Regarding the competition: if a competitor is doing a good job, but there are still customers out there waiting to be found, then replicating their technology and capturing that unfound part of the market would be a good idea. Try to get a feel for how many people want that product/service. See the following for links on the infamous parrot ebook:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=520887

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516215

I suggest delving into a subject that interests you, but that isn't too difficult for you to both understand, and make a contribution to; e.g. focusing on cryptography itself would be a bad choice, but maybe you have a novel idea about how to use crypto in a P2P application. You can then apply your domain-specific knowledge in order to implement your idea faster and better.
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Surprisingly from Digg:

o The Civil Rights Act of 1964

o The Voting Rights Act of 1965

o The COBRA Act of 1985 (ever lost a job and still managed to keep your health insurance for 18 months?)

o The Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990

o The Family and Medical Leave Act in 1993

o Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
he is a great man. rest in peace.
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