skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not mentioned anywhere on the site, but it does do that. Unfortunately, the browser history doesn't contain as much data as boomtango tracks (the full content of the page, any information we grab off the dom, thumbnail previews) etc. It's still handy, but not quite as full featured as the history you generate after it is installed.
Friggin genius.
If you get this far down the list then I'd love an invite!
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Oh lighten up I wasn't totally serious.
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Thanks.
Thanks in advance. Here is my email
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Browser issue? The colors seem to differ dramatically between IE and Firefox. In IE, it is quite readable. In Firefox, it hurts to look at. Same for Chrome.
That's a very good idea.
Will be useful I think only after the day has ended right?
Hm, weird, all the previous dates other than today are blank (and today only shows what I loaded after installing).

Also, I noticed that when I switch to the boomtango tab it shows 'phantom' entries, as soon as I click on them the day shows as empty.
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thanks!
O sweet, hook me up!
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I click on the comments link, and then the link to the article. That way, if I think the content warrants reading commentary, I just hit back instead of having to search the page again for the link.
Thanks for sharing this. There is definitely a good chance this thread is a lost cause.
>8. What Memory (RAM) Is For

The best analogy I can find for RAM is short-term memory. RAM holds less stuff than long-term memory (hard disk), but is faster to access. And if you don't put an item into long-term memory (write to disk), you forget it (when the power is turned off). People seem to understand that.
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I disagree about the first paragraph bit. In every case where showing something like that works, it's setup so the poster can add such a description. Examples would be Slashdot, which is often a long form summary, and Digg, which is short form. Here on HN there is no summary. This encourages short, accurate, descriptive subjects. The base argument I'm trying to express is that either model works well, as long as it's human edited. However, automatically grabbing a semi-random chunk of text and displaying that as the descriptive paragraph isn't useful and makes reading the headlines difficult.
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The implementation here is nice and I like the GUI, but you might piss off content creators. Scraping the content and displaying it on your own site is worse than the DiggBar.
If there are any left, thanks!

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The Magnolia trademark hasn't been issued to Magnolia Systems yet. It's only been published for opposition. Which means if the gnolia.com crew have been using the mark in commerce before March, 2006, they can file an opposition claim.

The whole cease and desist letter is bogus until the trademark has been approved. However, if gnolia.com doesn't oppose the trademark claim now, before it's approved, then it's an uphill battle if the other company decides to sue.

Note Magnolia Systems is filing under multiple subsections - the only one you care about is the online commerce section. They can have all the others.
He would probably love nothing more than to get sued by Apple, honestly.
Can you explain the dichotomy of constant space / linear space here? Because constant = {whatever} and mine is linear because it necessarily doubles the constant space?
I really hope these issues have not persisted into 2009. I think basic computer literacy up to introductory programming is equivalent to literacy of the written word : not difficult, but revolutionary and absolutely necessary.
It is my opinion that teachers learn nothing useful after 2 years. One source (among many others):

http://notebook.lausd.net/pls/ptl/docs/PAGE/CA_LAUSD/FLDR_OR...

So I suppose that a more careful cost-benefit analysis needs to be made.
Could we also drop the use of web 2.0 and "startup" as synonym for "Web startup"?
The icon is changed because it doesn't do the same thing. Try the site again and click the +. It expands the article, it don't upmod the article. This is a little confusing, how would you handle it? Maybe put the + under the title?
When people refuse to check out the content of your site because the color scheme is so alarming, it's probably a good idea to change colors a bit. I'd say that you can use those colors, but peel off the saturation on the green and lighten up the black a little bit. I tend to use #111 for "black" backgrounds, and #3f5 or something like that for green. The lower contrast is actually much easier on the eyes. I'm sure there are articles out there on the internet about that, but I'm too lazy to go look for them anyhow.

As far as the content goes, I'm not sure that I see the net advantage of this "terminalcast" idea over either a written tutorial with screen caps or a full video. A written tutorial can provide all of the information that this terminalcast provides, but you can go through it at your own speed. A regular video can show a lot of other different things visually that you're not going to be able to with just terminal text. It's a neat idea, but I just want to know what purpose it will serve.
Exactly. It'll still be lucrative for the hardware dealers to bundle Microsoft with their computers.
I would greatly appreciate an invite. Thanks!

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Sadly, the underlying table structure and layout of the site isn't condusive to this. I spent a few days earlier this year trying to write an iPhone interface for HN by just modifying existing styles and it didn't work out so well.
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"permanently destroyed by Google's system" - I find that hard to believe with all there duplication of data across locations and hardware.
ooo, this might be nice
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If anyone can be bothered. Annoyingly I actually got the email invite for the dev sandbox a while back, but the form to actually request the account didn't seem to work for me.
This had to be proved?

I'm still wondering who these people are that think JS is a "kid's" language.
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The interesting thing is that Google can easily read data in Gmail. I would have been happier if it was actually encrypted using the user's password or a one way hash of the user's password.
Wow, that's a lot of people who want invites but I might as well add my name to the list. Email in profile.
I remember there was a similar add-on for firefox. It stored the entire content of pages you visited on your local hard drive and you could search through it. It's called breadcrumbs. How is boomtango different from breadcrumbs???
EXCELLENT list. One, that of having a choice in software, had never even occurred to me before.
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License: GNU General Public License v2

Hint hint.
writing a chat bot is a good hello world to erlang, they are also useful and quite fun.
First, let me say that I agree it's usually a bad idea.

But...

Not everyone works as a software developer and there are many jobs where coding while you work isn't a detriment to doing a good job. Any job where workers bring in books & magazines to pass the time is a candidate here.
I knew someone who was a plant engineer at a water treatment plant. His job consisted basically of being onsite in case there was an emergency. And he managed to bang out a nifty niche application while working there, along with upgrades! (not surprisingly, the app was based on automated monitoring of process systems...) His boss simply didn't care, since he had done that job himself and knew that it really didn't require much attention.

So: generally not a good idea, but in some specific instances it can work out OK.
The point at which you create real value is when a person is offered and accepts a job. Trying to charge people just to use the service while they are looking probably won't work since if they are out of a job paying for a service might not seem like a good idea. Although somebody looking for a new job while currently employed, might be willing to pay for some extra features.

This gives me four ideas where to collect money.
For the person without a job looking you can collect money from them after they found a job with a donate feature, with ads - seeing as though they are looking for jobs this can lead to highly relevant ads, or with offering them continued access to special features after they have found a job which could come in handy later on.

For a person currently employed they might be willing to pay for some premium features TBD.

Or as others have said with a job board that companies pay to post to, or some affiliate program with other job boards - could be related to you advertising scheme.

So a number of good possibilities there.
Awesome idea and thanks in advance!
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Thank you - I'll send you an email shortly.

One thing I'm wondering about is, should you email them with your price or ask them for an offer?
No. CouchDB doesn't support partitioning, so all your replicas need to be able to handle the full write volume.
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Invite por favor?
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I'd like to see some comparisons of active safety (the ability to avoid crashes and retain control in adverse conditions). I suspect the improvements in handling and braking in the average car since 1959 aren't nearly so dramatic. Aside from the SUV craze, the average front-wheel-drive[0] family sedan built today feels like it wants to fall off the road every time it encounters a corner.

I have to wonder why the average car buyer doesn't seem to notice or care. I suspect most adults have, at some point in their lives driven a car with decent handling and braking.

[0] Front-wheel-drive alone is not to blame for this; I've driven FWD cars that did not feel like that.
She makes a lot of good points that relate to anyone on the forum who's wants to start a business/startup. "The real deal is that we need to take ownership of ourselves, and take it up a notch when it comes to personal responsibility."
Thank you for specific color recommendations, much much appreciated. Any idea for a link color. (the orange was a bit of a joke).

The advantadges of a terminalcast compared to a video are as follows.

1. You can copy and paste directly from the screen into your terminal

2. The file size is a lot smaller for the same quality. I will post a huge resolution terminalcast in just a bit, 2560x1600 imagine the size of a video with that resolution.

3. Since its all text, I will be able to search terminalcasts in ways that are not possible with videos.

4. You will be able to go through it at your own pace and set bookmarks, I just haven't implemented that yet.

Granted there are some things you can't show in a terminal, but I have a couple of ideas for getting around that.

Thanks
kinda sad they didn't plan for spam better, since they bill wave as the second coming of email/jesus

if it takes off, spam will happen. gmail's spam filtering is really good (can't remember the last spam message that made it through to my inbox), so maybe they can borrow that from gmail.
I love the irony that it's written by a member of the Physics faculty.

Ah, Cambridge.
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Thanks!
I'd love to test it out as well.

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will be thankful. TIA

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Exactly, its cluttered and I could not stay more than 5 mins. I appreciate the effort and if we keep trying may be we will get better interface. As of now I would stick to HN.
Using unecrypted emails and web based email services for corporate communication is really bad judgement. In Canada one of our banks used to fax confidential documents to a scrapyard operator in West Virginia - for years.
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Wow, great idea. If anyone has an invite left please feel free to donate me one ;)

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Can you put the code for this on GitHub or something? Might get some interesting results if anyone could fork it and make changes to either the style and/or functionality and push it back...Just an idea.
Thanks for writing an alternate and reasonable perspective. I generally hold very poor opinions about schooling and sometimes forget that it can and does work for certain types of people.

As someone who dropped out of high school to go to college, and then subsequently dropped out of said college, I am struck by the early similarities. I am you but perhaps less disciplined - a lot of 'hyperbrain' characteristics.

I'd also finished up my high school requirements by sophomore year (including 4 APs), although trying to set up dual enrollment was like pulling teeth in my school district.

However, like mrshoe, I thought school damaged me educationally. To be straight I'd say school was what killed my motivation - something along the lines of that one Einstein quote - and allowed me to form maladaptive study habits which I have never successfully eradicated.

Even now I am still unsure of what kind of advice to give a smart but demotivated youngster. Usually default to:

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake. -Frank Wilczek
postcode database is controlled by Royal Mail and isn’t public domain

That makes no sense at all to me. How the heck can you function with people's addresses half secret?

Strange.
Ask HN: What do you use to track leads and prospects?
For those dealing with leads and prospects, I'm wondering what you're using to organize those leads and follow ups, and how you manage the process?

I'm interested in installed FOSS, or cloud solutions. If there are any very active Rails solutions, that might be interesting, as well. Thoughts?
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This is basic strategy really - being a dick to people will almost never bring you closer to a goal you've set, which means there's no point in doing it. The success rate of "calling people stupid until they agree with me" is quite low...
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OH REALLY?

bg.
In fact, I wish the link in my google gadget went to the comments page first and not the submitted link.
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I find it a little ironic that the server hosting this article is down.
Machine learning and the like is often done by people outside the computer science department. EE, statistics, math and physics are common.
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I would love to try Google Wave. Thanks!
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Happiness is different from pleasure. Pleasure is closely related to the reward system in our brains, something specifically designed NOT to provide long-term emotional changes (otherwise we would stop seeking rewards).
Nice Project!
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I like that idea, but what do you do when someone changes their password? Decrypt/Reencrypt all their messages?
Can someone from the python community say if this is pointed at someone in particular?
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I disagree. Frequently the articles which don't have any comments are the ones that either only apply to a niche field or that don't have any particular stance. The only example currently on the front page is something about pubsubhubbub (something I've never heard of, and thus less likely to click on and read), and going to the article it seems to be rather short and a gripe about it not working.

That is not what I would call "thought-provoking" its a post of limited scope which, while it may be interesting to someone who knows about the topic, does not leave much to be discussed.

It is the discussions that bring me to HN and keep me coming back. I frequently don't even read the articles, because I find the commenters here are of a much closer mind-set to myself, and often know as much or more about the subject than the blogger making the post. A heavily commented article is one I am most likely to read, because it means there is likely something I can add to the conversation.
I don't know who this is for, except it's not me, but, after reading it in with no person in mind, i read it again, like it was adressed to me, and i thought "He's right"
Some of these are unbelievably bad. I can't even imagine a reasoning why these cars shipped.
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As someone who had an education startup in the past, I think this will be big for Weebly. Teachers are very vocal/social, so if a few fall in love with it and spread the word, it could grow fast.

I'm not too familiar with Weebly's current feature-set but if they added (or simply re-named) a feature that was teacher-specific and pain-reducing, it would probably help even more.
Upvoting in agreement.
I would like one.

And I'm not scared of spam or people knowing my email:

melgray@gmail.com

Thanks in advance to anyone that sends me one.
Parents and teachers need to take part of the blame for making a big deal out of innate intelligence.
I made the changes you suggested. For now the links are pink. At least you can see them.
Sure, that is possible.

Lets imagine that he simply stopped talking about the back door. Is this something he is asked about a lot? If so, he would have to recant eventually, why not now?

You are correct, and I shouldn't have assumed anything. However, I still believe legal action to be the likely cause.
Zed Shaw maybe?
benjamin dot pollack at gmail dot com, if you don't mind, would be awesome.
This is the 'Peltzman Effect' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peltzman_effect

"The Peltzman effect arises when people adjust their behavior to a regulation in ways that counteract the intended effect of the regulation. So, for example, when the government passes a seatbelt law, some drivers may respond by driving less safely"
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I've seen people around me trying to unnecessarily add irrelevant technical jargon to the simplest of matters which they want to tell me. In 99% of the cases, it turns out to be something I have a really good laugh on.
Just brighten up the blue some... #38f worked okay when i tried it for the links on the black background.

And those advantages make some sense to me. Thanks for clarifying. I guess as you implement more things the benefits will become clearer. I'll be sure to watch and see what you do.
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promise to come back and share :)
Youtube: "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Insurance Institute For Highway Safety."
:(
One of my favorite machine learning textbooks, if you can call it that. It's a little oddball though. For any topic, it's extremely interesting and insightful, though usually not comprehensive enough to rely on it as a reference.
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I would love to try out google wave! Thanks
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The data isn't secret, but commercial access to the database is restricted. If you want to find a few postcodes (I think <=5 per day) it's free. More, or if you want a manipulatable copy of the dataset you need to pay.
I went back and looked at their applications for w2009 and s2009. They almost made it to interviews in w2009. Several things combined to push them over the threshold next time:

1. I recognized wheels's username as someone who made thoughtful comments on HN.

2. Their description of what they were doing was much more specific.

3. We added the video in s2009, and we could tell from their video that they were good.
For anyone interested in learning algorithms (and not just free books), I would also suggest Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Chris Bishop. Not free, but worth while.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cmbishop/prml/
I'm 28 and my primary inclination was to think that newer vehicles crumple while older cars do not, leading to more internal injuries for passengers of older vehicles and more vehicle damage of newer vehicles. However it appears that the older vehicles lose on both fronts.
He would probably love nothing more than to get sued by Apple, for something he has a legal leg to stand on.
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I would love one!

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Thanks!
You send me an email by mistake. And you want my email provider to delete my account.

I love this world.
Pretty curious about this!
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I hate those "web2.0 popup" like searchengineland.com has once you jump into their website grrr
Brilliant! I've been using Highrise to similarly organize my job search, however your approach is fantastically elegant and will probably begin using the two in tandem.

I've found that the networking aspects of jobseeking are not only critical in breaking past the resume firewall but are also among the hardest parts to manage, particularly trying to balance several open opportunities and inquiries.

The approach of systemizing all open opportunities, though, is brilliant. I'd suggest finding a way to integrate contacts & contact history within the site, almost making it more CRM-like, to make it a jobsearcher's dashboard.

As to a business model, I'm not sure it's immediately robust enough to begin as a subscription service and I'm no longer sold on advertising as a sustainable revenue stream, particularly with niche web apps.

Frankly, partnering with a LinkedIn might be the best outcome, but it's a real longshot. With the market for unemployed jobseekers outnumbering employed jobseekers, it's going to be a tough opportunity to make money on.

That said, best of luck - it's really quite brilliant.
I'm all for good customer service, but this article didn't make me feel good about Apple. This reporter is running around trying to get 10.6 for his PowerPC laptop, and he ends up with an 8GB flash stick, a copy of what I can only assume is 10.5 (but he thinks is 10.6), an Airport Extreme and a 2TB USB HDD. Great that he feels good about buying all that, but hearing his story only makes me think that he got deceived, upsold and generally screwed.
Right, that was the idea.
You've got something that is inherently an order of magnitude slower than other solutions. Why would you bother to try to scale it? It's not the right tool for the job.