skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my middle school I would help the teacher out by working with the slower students on their spelling or maths. I could vaguely imagine this working on more complicated topics - teaching stuff is a great way to cement your knowledge - but only to a limited extent.
It's not hype unfortunately.

Even businesses should be worried. Now I need to hire someone full time to tweet, digg, stumbleupon, and start a linkedin group, facebook group, a couple of blogs all the while making sure we're in Google's top 10 for relevant search words.

Whatever happened to build it and they will come? Information overload..? Yes!
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Ok. I think if they worked a bit harder at justifying that 'managed hosting' bit then they would actually be worth it.

With both mojohost and leaseweb I basically only bug them when there are network or hardware issues, for the rest the problems are mine. VXS is a different story, that's where all the web servers are, their operators help with warding off all kinds of attacks, proactively scan for security issues and so on. 24x7 cell phone of the manager of the hosting facility.

It's very addictive, that level of service.

They charge a pretty penny for it, but imo it's worth it, it is still much cheaper than having a full time sysadmin for our stuff, and they probably do a better job of it.
I can't really think of a better way to follow breaking opinions than real-time search. Sure, if you wait a while you can get news indexing from Google, but it's the bias that you want. Especially if, say, you're at a conference/event and want to know what's kicking. We found real-time search particularly valuable for a month-long comedy festival, as it let opinions aggregate, yet much of that information (so-and-so is doing a really cool show this year) wasn't picked up by, say, Google.
> Simple analogies (like the one Stewart uses, the carpool lane for rich assholes) are the way to go.

I wouldn't mind a non-neutral connection that's faster or cheaper for www than, say, torrents. I reckon it'd be market suicide for an ISP to cut off access to the web without paying more, so some mix of faster/better/cheap/preferential for the most popular sites or lower bandwith content would be okay with me.

Net neutrality sounds decent enough, but the government tends to pass laws while they're hot button issues that become arcane bureaucracy later. That bureaucracy is rarely revisited and scrubbed off the books after it doesn't make sense any more. Who knows what new technologies are going to come online in the next 10-20 years? Internet regulations stand to be antiquated really fast, to potentially negative consequences later.
Basically the only thing I find twitter useful for IS real-time search. I watch twitter during Apple Keynotes for instance. We saw a TON of police one night while walking home, I pulled out my phone and hit Twitter and instantly had some idea (if not always completely accurate) of what was going on. Real-time search is useful for, well, finding out what is going on in real-time.
I agree. In fact the China has already initiated the process of building a dam over one of the major rivers to flow into India (Tsangpo-Brahmaputra), and India has asked China to put a hold to this.

It is also to be noted that among the few Chinese people I have met, most seem to have a liking towards Indians and vice-versa. Also, you would not believe the extent to which Indians and Pakistanis would go to demonstrate their love for each other. A few years ago (2005, I think), when there was a bilateral cricket tournament between Pakistan and India in India (and the next year in Pakistan), Indians would literally drag Pakistanis to their homes as guests. This was repeated by the Pakistanis the next year.

Looking at the news reports and the way the Indian and Pakistani governments accuse each other, you would never guess such stuff could happen.
Real time search is not for researching a particular topic, that is what regular search is for. Real time search is used to find out what is happening in the world right now. For example, one day Pandora stopped playing music. I checked my connection and it was fine, then I went on twitter and searched for the word Pandora and BAM! 10 results saying Twitter is down and one results which said "Twitter was down, back up now." So I reload Pandora, and sure enough, it was working.

A second time, my wife was stuck in a traffic jam about 1pm. We thought it might be an accident, but weren't sure, so I searched twitter for the words "accident" along with her location, and BAM! Not only did I get tweets describing the accident, but also a link to an obscure, buried news report on it.

THAT is the beauty of real time search.
I'll give you a real life example. I was having some problems with facebook connection and posting. I searched google and all the posts from a couple of days back said that facebook had fixed the problem already. But a quick run to search.twitter.com revealed that many were still having the problem and it wasn't just me.

I'm sure once you see the results in your actual search results, you might see more value in it than it seems right away on the surface of it.
Why is refresh rate critical? It's not like an xterm has a lot of animation. Maybe scrolling in vim would be awkward. The only problem with refresh I see is that when you type, there would be a delay before the characters appear.

BTW: Someone has got linux running on a Kindle (well, it runs linux anyway... they got access to it).
In the context, I meant all users in mainland China behind GFW, not Chinese-origin users.
Somehow I think there won't be a liquidity event with breadpig...
I think the big question mark here is what are we supposed to be accomplishing with our education system? Are we going for equality or maximum output?

To get more total productivity out of graduates, there's a huge crop of low-hanging fruit in the form of unchallenged gifted students.

If we're aiming for equality, then we have to rely on a cultural motivation to get the above-average students to go out of their way to challenge themselves. As a once gifted student myself, I find this to be highly unlikely.
If you get a chance, do ask Steve what Twitter-app he's working on for the new YC round :)
Stickers, pins, and shirts are the currency of web 2.0 - I'm happy it left a lasting impression on you. Though I told myself (and probably a few others) that this kind of thing helped, it's nice to hear some anecdotal evidence. Thanks (and for using reddit for so long).
That misses the point. The rules that are set allows for quick screening without extensive training. If they were to screen based on appearance and smell they'd need to study each bottle (what if the contents are hidden?) and/or open them to smell. The time the extra screening would take would cause far more of an uproar with people than having to abandon their liquids now.

I'm sure they know they could allow most liquids on safely if they gave staff some extra training and put people through enough extra screening. But would the end result be convenient enough? Probably not.
Don't find JRuby fast enough?
I guess my point was more along the lines that "gifted" is a very undefined quantity and in my experience people who excel at class work are average in life. Also that given our education system, the best and brightest do not become teachers, thus any sort of "gifted" program is going to be for muppets by muppets. Given it is pretty much that already the news article has nothing to offer.
Would that be here: http://www.microsoft.com/msft/aspx/secfilings.aspx ?

Found no mention of Ruby or Rails there.
AT&T cellular IP reveals iPhone users' location?
I don't have experience with a wide range of hosting companies, but out of five, VXS is the only one about which I have had nothing to complain. They are very good. The primary difference with other companies is that their staff actually know their stuff.
This line toward the bottom really caught my eye:

"Cselle said reMail will soon add a feature allowing users to upgrade by inviting 10 friends to to download the app."

This is a brilliant move.

I might have to borrow a page from Gabor's playbook very soon. :)

(Also, congrats on the new feature launch. ReMail looks great.)
"The assumption here is that peace between nations can somehow be resolved by just communication among private citizens and individual friendships"

This only works when private citizens are allowed to influence government: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_peace_theory That's why 2 democracies have never gone to war.
Building lifestyle companies versus VC-backable startups.
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If you're bragging about 300ms average response times...

If you're using "spidey-sense" to determine the underperforming elements in your software stack...

There are a number of uncomfortable ideas in this article.
As I understand, iPhones get NAT IP (10.x.x.x) in AT&T 3G networks, and outgoing IP shows the gateway location (at least some located in Los Angeles).

From the article, the idea is interesting. But does it mean that it is possible for Stalqer to collect enough data to map AT&T NAT IP to 3G cell ID for location? I though AT&T would randomly assign NAT IP for users' privacy.
Of course it's not particularly useful if you're searching for "hotdogs"... unless there happens to be some current event involving hotdogs.

Obviously "real-time search" is all about real-time events. Stuff that's happened in the last few minutes, hours, days.

I've found myself using search.twitter.com for more and more things. For example, if I know some new movie trailer just came out, it's probably easier to find links to it on Twitter search than Google search. Or if some service I rely on just went down Twitter will know about it before Google search.
Not just gifted kids, but kids who simply learn differently, are being underserved.

I think there are so many more poor performers that they have hogged all the attention. So we've been attacking the problem of poor performers, and assuming everything else is working fine.
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Definitely agreed. Some of the comments I've seen from the neo4j author definitely lend to the fact that for most cases, the performance of neo4j itself won't be a problem at all.
Google Search goes Social
Yesterday, Google announced the introduction of Google Social Search. This service is available as part of a new experiment on Google Labs and getting started is pretty simple and straightforward.
An unregistered DBA wouldn't have a location.
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It's a case for better technical documentation, which was later fixed by putting a beveled rectangle around CONTROL and other modifier keys in written documentation. What he attempted to do was technically accurate given the instructions.

It's really hard to write technically accurate instructions, or at least it must be, because so many instructions are ambiguous. I followed a "friendship bread" recipe that said to, after making the batter, "put 1 cup of batter into four bags." What they meant was, "put 4 cups of batter into 4 separate bags."

After baking, I had a sloppy loaf, and got ribbed by my wife for, "not following the instructions." When I pointed out that what I did was technically accurate, she said I should have done what they "obviously" meant, not what they literally said.

Anyway, the bread was still good. :-)
Ordinarily I would be merely skeptical of a business model which a) competes with Google b) in search advertising c) to technically adept folks d) who never, ever click on ads.

The fact that it is a type of search which generates no commercial value is merely icing on the cake.

However, this is not the first time tech influencers have caught the fever for something which refuses to be monetizable. (Lest we forget, real time search is a buzzword now coming to the fore to make a basket of the last buzzwords finally see revenue. Microblogging, etc.)

[P.S. The tone of this post is not what we encourage around here. Skepticism is fine, please be civil in the future. Listen to Smokey the Bear: Only you can prevent Reddit.]
The types of comments I've found useful are ones that explain "why". Either summarizing a function or class at a high level (why I should use this thing, why it exists), or explaining a single line iff it's highly counter-intuitive. e.g.,

"This is a Foo to replace the broken one in the Bar library, which doesn't frotz Baz correctly."
"Yes, we actually have to do this because Qux isn't in magic mode yet."

I figure a comment is worth it if it's highly likely to save someone from ripping out/changing a section just to see why it's done that way (which is sometimes a fun exercise, but mostly just reminds you of some subtle detail you forgot).
Real-time results have a human element to them. It was tweeted by a 'real' person. The result is what is happening in that person's life and they felt inclined enough to tweet it. Top search hits are usually professional blogs, journalist articles or wikipedia. These have lost that personal connection.
Wanting peace and thinking we will get peace are 2 different things aren't they? I want peace, but I'm not so naive to think that humans will change their nature and we'll get it, so do I show up as a peace lover or not?
I really do not dig this tone. The guy is obviously not a system admin. He paid top dollar for rackspace managed hosting precisely so he wouldn't have to do the kinds of things you mention.

"You can't outsource responsibility" is utter nonsense. It is completely impossible to "own" responsibility for everything important in a complex society. Meaningless platitudes should not distract from the fact - Rackspace did not do their job.

Yes, he messed up. He messed up by making assumptions and not checking Rackspace's work more closely. That's not the same as messing up in your own work. His post is a reminder to be more careful checking on the work of your "upstream". There's no need to pile on with the "if you didn't know 'top 1' you shouldn't be running a startup!" etc.
This has to be a joke. There's no way that the CIA would expect a cat to do what they want.
"Real time search" is just a way to make sure you're not the only one experiencing a problem...

ie: gmail is down, cops hassling people @ a political rally, recommendations for parking in Miami Beach, reviews of Movies by real people, etc etc
Except that net neutrality is how it is now. Nobody's talking about imposing new rules or bureaucracy.
Can't argue with you there :)
Or hook Groups up directly to whatever spam filtering mechanism Gmail already uses. No idea if the architecture makes that easy or not.
i have to say, using a pop3 account on the iphone to do background pushing of location information is pretty clever.
This result is absolutely predictable by anyone who understands cognitive dissonance.

http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/cognitive_dis... has a decent explanation of cognitive dissonance. The same phenomena is what causes many programmers to protect their self-image of being good programmers by being unable to find the bugs in their own code, acknowledge that the bugs are their fault, and then to be upset afterwards.

For a classic reference on that phenomena and what to do about it I recommend The Psychology of Computer Programming by Gerald M. Weinberg. (Yes, it is several decades old. But human nature hasn't changed and its advice is still good.) I also wrote up an explanation of the phenomena at http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=270083 some time ago.
This actually happens in webmail quite a bit as well. Spammers open up a bunch of accounts, spam themselves, then mark their messages as "not spam". But the major vendors have figured this out.
We can't really know at this point. It's just trying to do something useful with a big pool of information that is a growing part of how we communicate with each other. People do go to search.twitter.com.

This is more a kind of thing where you say 'there must be something useful we can do with this' then the kind of thing where say 'this is the problem we are solving.'
Related, although Milgram was showing that people can explain away their own complicity by being within a chain of authority, while this experiment teases apart the perceptions of the complicit (or non-complicit) agent.
ITS vendor email accounts don't respond timingly and usually they respond with template replies instead. Try making phone calls to your local Apple Developer Support (ADC). It's usually much easier to talk to "local" people. They might be able to refer you to someone.

Did you ask them to change your account from a company to a individual account? They allow you to change from an individual account to company. Perhaps the reverse is possible.

For the record, I waited 3 months for my paid/free apps contract to be done. That means I had 3 months where I couldn't put up anything on the app store. (and yes I know, I screwed up first, to let this have a chance of happening).
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I agree. Though you only need one or two "difficult" children in a class for them to take 60% of a teachers time. The pigeon-holing of children in categories is also irksome. I never met an "all-round" genius, and currently schools are not set up to perform to strength. There is no rule saying that a child cannot be in grade five maths and grade two reading at the same time. University is set up with more flexibility, why not school?
Definitely true. There are of course patterns that can slow certain graph traversals down, like having millions of relationships on one single node. Otherwise Neo4j handles up to a couple of billions of nodes/relationships/primitives out of the box, which is a good starting point for most of the cases.

Disclaimer: I am part of the Neo4j team.
So in the £24k-£30k range? That's pretty poor if so. That'd be the pay at entry level in a tech that's past its peak, not something highly in demand.

Most mid-level developers I know of in London are in the £30-£40k bracket, with managers/team leads coming in at £40k+.

Unless, of course, you used $ signs where you meant £/GBP :-)
Be careful though. It's not as simple as just contacting them all. You really, really, really, really need a story that's of the sort they actually publish.

I get relevant press releases from time to time that are in my industry/field but are so "corporatey" that there's little my readers would really care about. Twist whatever you have to say into a story that fits the mold of what the blog already posts - it might take reading their entire front page to get a feel for this ;-)
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Ask HN: Have everything but the domain for a side project?
Side project checklist:

Concept? Check.

Design? Check.

Implementation? Check.

Hosting? Check.

Friends (guinea pigs) to test it? Check.

Domain? Er...some guy has a rarely updated blog sitting on the domain I want to use for this. I've contacted him to ask about buying it from him, but doubt I'd get it cheaply.

I could always pull a "thefacebook" and go with something lame, but would rather not.

What would you do in the meantime?
Why not to upgrade to Snow Leopard
Firstly, confession, I am a BIG Apple fan. That is until I decided to upgrade to Snow Leopard.

What a disappointment? Firstly, you don't really notice any better functionality.

Except, it is slower. It is continuously requiring you to force quit.

It is more like Windows?

Apple, what have you done!!
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You could get two other friends and be rock, paper, scissors. Then go around battling each other with character driven dialog. For example, if you're rock and you fight paper and lose, you would scream, "Why does this keep happening?! What does he have that I don't have?!?!"
I didn't say he shouldn't be running a startup, I said he should not be managing the servers their customers stuff runs on.

As for the tone, you may disagree with that but that does not distract from the fact that if you operate a business, that you should know your stuff.

And if you outsource something you should at least know how to check up on the bits that you've outsourced.

Outsourcing does not mean that your responsibility disappears, it simply changes from 'doing' to 'monitoring'.

Maybe rackspace did not do their job, I have no insight in the communications that went on between the party involved and rackspace.

All we get here is a pointing finger without any responsibility taken, that is not a realistic picture.

It could be the difference in the wording of the upgrade request ("please install another CPU in our machine" vs "please install and configure another CPU in our machine").

Even then, rackspace probably should get part of the blame, but really not all of it. The fact that the situation persisted for two years is completely on the OPs account, in two years you have many more opportunities than your hosting provider to find this out, after all they will leave your machine alone unless it malfunctions and there is no indication that they ever were requested to look in to this, and when they were they actually found the problem.

I quote from the article "In investigating an unrelated issue, we followed up with Rackspace on a Kernel patch that couldn’t be applied to our server. One of the technicians immediately realized why – we were not running the SMP kernel."

How come someone is trying to patch a kernel, can't apply the patch and then still doesn't clue in to the situation ?

Also, we do not know if the SMP kernel was installed or not, it might have been, and then on the final reboot the wrong kernel was brought up. And that's a very easy mistake to make.

But dmesg would tell you in a heartbeat, as would 'top '1'', which you would be using plenty of times while debugging performance issues to make sure all your cores are doing the right amount of work.
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As a software developer whose customers happen to also use twitter, I leave search.twitter.com open all day. Listening to happy customers tweet about our product is motivating. In addition, it keeps us honest - the negative feedback is unfiltered.

In short, twitter is a great way to ask "How do people _really_ feel about our software?"
Version 3.0 seems light years better than 2.0. Doesn't seem to lock up my mac instance any longer while booting.
If you're swapping out your web server software without doing some more careful analysis first...
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Tartan Maker. Priceless!
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SEO is fraud? Look at the size of these top SEO companies
I submitted this link because there had been lots of discussion lately that SEO is fraud and it isn't worth it. I stumbled across this link and the money that these companies are making really make me doubt that businesses don't value SEO.

What are your thoughts?

EDITED: corrected a typo
merging Skype and mail sounds good though. If Skype put out a mail client, I'd probably use it.