skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Energy Is Not Conserved [in General Relativity]
Jason Huggins QA, creator of open source Selenium cross-browser testing tool
Wal-Mart buys online-movie provider Vudu
Cracked is not owned by Demand Media. It was a second-rate competitor to MAD as a print magazine, but has found tremendous success online.

Their model is similar to Demand's in that it is UGC + payment, but that's about it. The topics are not generated by an algorithm, for instance.
That goes without saying.
Dan is a programmer/comedian ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/3504210382
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> unfamiliar with a particular language's mod operator

Just anecdotally, over some hundred interviews, I've never ever ran into a candidate who failed one of these FizzBuzz style loop writing tests because the didn't know the mod operator, or were nervous enough not to remember it.

I see a lot of candidates that can't remember what params some standard system call is supposed to take and I always tell them I'm happy as long as they define what they think it looks like. Heck, most of the time I have no clue myself.

I'm not claiming the candidate you describe (competent but can't remember a for loop) doesn't exist, just that I've never personally encountered such a beast. Quite the contrary, with a technically open minded interviewer it seems hard to get even the most introvert candidate to stop talking shop .. :-)
PyCon 2010: Sanjiv Singh on TurboGears Geographic Information Systems
"Their eye is still very much on their own bottom line, not the advertisers."

I know for a fact that Google is balancing advertiser ROI against advertising spend and ensuring that they don't upset the apple cart.

However you are absolutely right that Google is maximizing their profit – having the ROI numbers in hand lets them drive down overall sales-from-adsense margins while still keeping the customer.

So my original point is that if Mahalo was flat out non-performing crap, it would be tossed.

An argument could be made though that they use the Mahalo stuff to grow ad inventory, while balancing out the ROI to their advantage since it likely converts on the lower end of the scale.
Another problem I find is that important concepts are often given without motivation of why they are important. A proof obviously starts with definitions of terms, but it's worth knowing why these concepts are important and why they are defined a certain way.
Yup that's what I did. Maybe the particular google datacenter I hit had a high estimate there.

It also says 59,300,000 for scribd.com which I can't help but draw comparisons with this.
am seriously thinking about leaving the iphone as well. apple's app store policy pisses me off.
Car quality - the shift from mechanical to software-based
Can they then at least pick one scraping site from all the others (to prevent duplicate information)?

Although this is perfectly legal, there is quite a few big sites that scrapes Wikipedia and adds ad-sense. If you are searching for a narrow topic, page 1-2 is WP and WP copies.

As a sidenote - I see that Google Search has upvotes, comments and deletes in the search - yet it does not seem as if anyone uses it. Why? Why can't the user at least blacklist sites?
WOW this article is a mess in scope, structure and grammar. He should have stopped with the title, it's such a good point; but the following narrative doesn't do it justice.
"... There is tons of news out there, but there isn't much analysis. News analysis is rare and there are few good sources. And that's why I focus on news analysis -- original content that you cannot get anywhere else. ..."

Analysis the future of journalism?

I know this is how Janes works. News on conflict and defence rolls in every day and analysts provide insight into current situations generating new content which you have to pay to see. That is the simplest service but you can add a lot more. I'd like to think of newspapers as your own information gathering and analysis service. The question is will people pay if they can read free reporting?
As I understand it, their algorithm looks for keywords with little to no competition, but at least ~$10/year potential in AdSense revenue. If they can find such a keyword, they pay someone ~$5 to write an article or make a video on the topic.

The result isn't Pulitzer worthy, but its a lot better than you're making it out to be.

Using your example, here's the wikiHow article on "how to make pancakes":

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Pancakes

Its quite informative. How would you suggest they improve it?
I'm struck by how comprehensible the speech is, considering how incredibly limited the hardware is. Makes you wonder what could be possible with today's hardware if we wrote code as tightly and efficiently as they had to back then. IMO some of the great marvels of software were developed during that era - perhaps most striking of all was the chess program for the ZX81 that fit a graphical chessboard with AI into 1.5kB of RAM.
"... A little electrical tape will fix that. Sometimes the simple solutions are the best. ..."

Smearing the lens with oil or butter is deniable. Make sure you tape over the microphone port.
Mint founder on branding: Keep it simple
ynniv - you got him all wrong. He said "Extremes in wealth are not compatible with a stable free society." Could he be any clearer? Everything you said agrees with that.
I've lived in 3 different cities and shopped at many different stores. The Chiquita bananas that claim to be organic are huge and look exactly like the non-organic ones. I've always thought they were probably stretching the definition of organic so I've avoided those ones.
These kinds of problems are still occurring:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=887406 (Oct. 2009)
it depends on your needs. do you need a mapi-compliant server that works with outlook clients and does calendaring, delegation, etc.? or do you just need an smtp server with imap/pop3 access that works with everything?
Open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++
Very true, but most people don't realize it. Or worse, people will admit that money and time and effort on eduction produces rewards, but they don't equate those short term indications (grades) with the long term rewards (options in life, potential stability and/or self-determination). Amusingly enough, something that is a reward for reward sake (XBox Achievements) is accepted without question...
I grew up one township over from Lower Merion and am frankly shocked to hear about all this going down (part of my home township is split between Lower Merion and my school district)

It's the kind of absurdity that I wouldn't expect - it's a fairly wealthy school district and I'm not surprised at the giving of laptops to students. What I'm shocked at is that they seem to have completely failed to a) Hire competent and reliable IT staff b) Internalized and understood the security and liability issues at an administrative level.
There are a lot of good results that have a similar ratio of ads to "content" unless your definition of content is very sophisticated.
Thanks. I didn't search that much on Android. I just assumed that situation would be similar to iPhone.
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I think it's important to recognize that the truly interesting and useful research papers are hard to understand, too.

It's not supposed to be Harry Potter, and if you don't actually sit down and work through the steps on page two, you have no right to complain that page three is hard to understand. Feynman had a nice anecdote to this effect in 'Surely you're joking'...

Some of the most useful research papers I've come across have taken months for me to actually understand.
That's only if you are logged in, and it only affects that user.You cannot up/down vote the Google results for everyone.
Keep history in mind. The contractor/employee laws are by-products of the New Deal and related periods. They are results of the need to PROTECT employees and keep employers from abusing them.
Sometimes a tweet is enough!
As a lawyer, I try above all to work with clients in flexible ways. Every lawyer should do this and many do. A client should never feel that coming to a lawyer is something at all costs to be avoided unless and until he is prepared to pay in blood.

Now this is a thoughtful piece and I am not saying that this is the tenor of the argument.

But all or nothing is not the way to approach your company formation legal issues.

First, as early on as possible, you should meet with a good lawyer in the startup field to get a strategic perspective on the legal issues. What are the legal goals you need to accomplish? How do you best go about them? What are the likely costs of different ways of going about the process? Is there a fixed-fee package that make sense for your goals? This type of initial meeting might be introductory and general (and free) or might get into all the specifics of your case (in which it would likely cost you something, but not much).

If you are a sole founder, do the quickie incorporation and be done with it, as soon as possible. In that situation, it is not an issue of "doing it right" because you can pretty much stumble along blind and still get it basically right for the simple legal issues involved.

If you are part of a founding team, and need to impose vesting on founder stock, file 83(b) elections, capture IP via assignment agreements, set up equity incentives for key people, etc., then do not wait to shop this around to knowledgeable law firms. If what you hear is rigid and expensive, then perhaps you should wait but doing so carries its own risks. I think what you will find, though, is that you can get a knowledgeable lawyer to do this sort of more sophisticated package on reasonable terms, sometimes as low as $2K or $3K for legal fees if the founding team is reasonably sophisticated and does not need a lot of hand-holding.

If you shop it around and don't get the right quotes, then you can make a conscious decision to say, "I know I might need this but I will take the risks and wait in order to stretch my dollars." If you have gotten a strategic perspective from an initial meeting, and done the shopping, then you will make such a decision based on a careful analysis of the issues involved, giving each of the trade-offs their due weight.

Perhaps this is all another way of saying just what the author does ("hold off until you have the cash to spare") but perhaps you really do have the cash earlier rather than later if, by following these simple steps, you discover it really is not such an expensive process to "do it right" for your circumstances right up front.
I disagree. Luck may play a role in one's success, but it's not the deciding factor. The problem is that people like to play off their success as just "being lucky". Why? Because this answer is a lot quicker and sexier than explaining to someone how they spent countless hours working their ass off to get where they are.

Have you read Warren Buffett's biography, The Snowball? Sure, Buffett caught some lucky breaks, but the man has essentially spent his entire life completely engrossed in investing. Anyone who claims Buffett is just the luckiest investor alive should really take a closer look at how the man has accomplished what he has.
Good, but too easy. Assume you can't keep the file in memory.
Just need some data to see if we're heading in the right direction. thanks HN.
Coding Horror Proves That Good Is Good Enough
http://www.demandmedia.com/brands/

I was surprised, too.
Huh? These laptops don't open themselves up at the command of their BOFH tech guy. The mechanical latch would do nothing to prevent this. You still have to open up the laptop to use it, and the computer still has to detect that it's open so that it can 'wake' from 'sleep.'
There are 12 sitemap-mahalo.xml files, each with 50,000 urls in it. The 12th has 48,661 urls by my count. That gives a total size of 598,661 pages.

Methodology:

wget http://www.mahalo.com/sitemapindex.xml
cat sitemapindex.xml |sed -e's/[<>]/\n/g'|grep ^http|xargs wget
for P in sitemap-mahalo.xml* ; do echo $P ; cat $P |sed -e's/[<>]/\n/g'|grep ^http|wc -l ; done

Edit: Formatting
The internet is only moving in the direction where Google points and Google favors quantity over quality. All Internet problems flow from this Google unstated rule.

Google would rather make a cent each on a million stolen pages of crap than $10 on an original content, plus the spam "author" is not going to ask anything for the "content".
Agreed, except that FizzBuzz is more on the level of "play me the G major scale" than sight reading.
Jolie, could you perhaps apply some extra moderation on what you submit here? There's lots of good stuff on RWW - including lots of your own. But this piece is just a rehash of Atwood's ramble...
Are you connected with Codility in any way?
Didn't the Gnash folks set themselves up for epic freetard failure by refusing contributions from anyone who's ever installed Flash?: http://www.gnashdev.org/?q=node/25#eula
A court has the power to strike down laws for a variety of reasons. Only CRIMINAL laws tend to be held to the standard of review you are referring to. A few torts will be as well (for example Assault or Battery civil laws.) But generally to be more accurate you would need to say that the law CAN be struck down if the INTENDED CLASS is able to neither determine its meaning NOR guess it from their experience. Courts will do anything they can to uphold a statute.

BUT the above discussion is both correct and incorrect. A trial court can strike down a law that has not previously been ruled on by a higher court. So if the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on it no other court in the country can do anything about it ever. (more or less. They might rule around it or strike it down on different grounds.) If the U.S. Supreme court hasn't ruled on it then the court is free. It is more complicated than that because the relation between state and federal courts is being ignored here.

For the most part laws are only struck down for being unconstitutional for one reason or another. You are referring to when a law is "unconstitutionally vague."

Finally - The American Common Law tradition specifically comes from English Common Law. Continental Europe used, and still uses, the Civil Code system which is based on Roman and then Napoleonic Codes.
this is getting very, very old. can we move on? please??
Are you doing this on the site listed in your profile? From what I can see with a 27ms RTT request, there is a 9ms pause after the GET ACK and content -- and then only 4 full packets before an RTT. That's close to the limit of my initial window (5880) before content ACKs arrive. That would seem like a typical result unless/until clients start tuning their initial window as well... which was kind of the point of Google going public on this. Have you seen much aggregate benefit beyond a window increase from 2 to 4?
One of the things I really miss in google is a persistent blocking preference a.k.a. site blacklist. Mahalo would go straight in there, along with expert-sexchange, sedo parking and a few others.
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deleware c-corp through incorporate.com = $250. includes an EIN and a bunch of other stuff that i probably don't even need.

i've built dozens of projects, but have only incorporated 3 times. the only criteria i personally use: if i'm serious enough to where i may want some extra help in exchange for 'common' (or 'preferred' to invest) or feel there's a risk of getting sued.
You should employ good programmers, but even good programmers make mistakes. It's even better when you give good programmers good tools. Computers don't make mistakes, so it's nice when one will catch yours.
I agree that good software engineering practices are hugely important. However, there are also supposed to be additional failsafes in the system, namely trained operators and supervisory personnel, many of whom are falling down on the job as well. Even worse, in many cases, the government does not compel public disclosure of accidents, which certainly hinders investigation of recurring failure modes.

For more, see http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/us/27radiation.html
He's only the CEO:
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/krzysztofkowalczyk
Not to mention all the time you spent going from place to place.
That's OK; failure feeds their martydom.
The word "the" serves a similar purpose, to reset the vocal tract so the next word can be resolved more easily than if it was following an arbitrary word.
He's the CEO of Codility, according to his linkedin.
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Leo Laporte interviews Super Bowl Old Spice Commercial Creators
I agree, and I don't know why people don't see that Apple can totally have a half-hidden Adult category that requires you to login with your Apple ID and confirm your birth date before being able to view it in the dropdown list, with no mention whatsoever of the existence of the category on the main app store pages even if you're logged in.

I also don't know why people don't realize that Apple has parental controls and ratings for apps already both in the store and on the devices. They can piggyback on those to restrict adult apps even further.

Furthermore, the comment you replied to is mentioning a problem that is rampant in the entire store, which prompted Apple to do things like banning developers with thousands of near-identical apps (that I'm sure we can agree is abuse) and creating another category for books (remember those idiots that would upload 99 cent public domain ebooks?). Apple can improve the storefront in general to make it more optimized for searching/viewing applications, not music or movies.

Clearly these apps are popular and Apple needs to stop judging apps based on content (only rating, not judging) and just screen for security/stability purposes.
Ho boy, I am due to start radiation treatment next week.
Well the idea is to develop a web-based email client customized for their special needs (an alternative solution is also welcome). As such, MAPI is not a requirement.

Calendar and delegation are not a priority.

On another note, using gmail/google apps would be great if they offered some kind of API, but afaik nothing official is available.
Right, but lately there have been quite a few dupes. I've noticed a lot with "?feed=" etc.

What about HN also storing the page title ? Upon submission, strip after "?" to check for dupe, in case of positive, check page titles to confirm.

Or just check, upon first submission, that the query string is irrelevant (fetch pages with and without), and strip it out if it is.

A bit slower, on submission, but that wouldn't be bad ;-)
There's a big grey area between both extremes. While I don't want my browsing history to be public I acknowledge the fact it could happen. It's a risk I'm willing to accept. I might be more careful about what I search for knowing the risk exists. It's my choice to continue using Google's services. If I was really concerned about privacy I'd reward the companies who make it a higher priority. It's amazing that even when consumers have choice they so often stick with whatever is popular and well known despite what they think are major problems/flaws. One outraged blog post is nothing compared to deleting your Google account if you feel super strongly about it.
IPhone Game House ngmoco Raises $25 Million Series C, Buys Freeverse
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The more I here about this story the scarier it sounds. It's something straight out of 1984 and a complete invasion of privacy. Given that the children were all minors - spying on them secretly outside of school raises all sorts of moral and legal issues. Given that a student was reportedly disciplined based upon these spy photos, presumably the teaching staff (and not just one over-zealous & misguided IT bod) were fully aware of this.

This is the kind of thing the western media perceives as happening in countries like China, not in America, the 'land of the free'
While some of the newer, more exotic technologies may show some promise, reality is that the use of C is an Industry Best Practice that is Well Tested and has been Proven over many decades. So while perhaps, someday, some of the exotic technologies may become Standard, for now, when dealing with such important tasks, a conservative Wait-and-See approach must be taken.

Translation: Nobody ever got fired for going with C, even when it leaves a stiff on the table.
I think that the crux of their argument is that if people are 'used' to getting software for free it will erode their perception of software being something that you pay for, and in general, erode people's willingness to pay for other types of intellectual property.

But at it's most basic level this argument boils down to, "if you use company X's product, then you might not see any value in company Y's product; therefore company X's product should be banned because it is limiting the marketplace." In this case, they are painting things with a broader stroke by seemingly bringing up some sort of 'Open Source' vs 'Closed Source' argument, but the main point still stands. They are saying that because Open Source takes away profits from Closed Source companies that it must be eliminated, which is ludicrous.

They may put on a veneer, of claiming that they just want a level playing field, but it seems to me that they just don't want anyone inside of the government to have a preference against them (or be a champion for their competitors). Why? Not because of some sort of free-market-lets-join-hands-and-sing Libertarian nonsense. They feel that they can win government contracts when there is no one speaking out for Open Source because then their sales people don't have any competition when marketing their products to the government.
SEO is snake oil. This is further proof that the whole "industry" is ruining the integrity and usefulness of the internet.
What makes you think the only adult content possible is porn in the form of images/videos (or maybe even erotic literature) one views in a browser?

The "you can look at porn in your browser" thing is getting really old and stinks of the time when Apple was all "webapps should be good enough (on the iPhone)!" back in 2007. Yeah, that sure worked out well.
Depending on the browser you use, this is easy to do. I have experts-exchange and other useless sites blocked using greasemonkey/greasemetal.
This is really great advice. My first start-up was seed funded by some 'big-business' people. They told us we had to spend a lot of time writing up business/financial models, including 5-year plans(!?!). As a result, we spent very little time developing and iterating on the actual product. We had a feeling this didn't make much sense, as our idea evolved every day or so, and thus so did the business 'plan'. But we didn't have the confidence or experience to stand up to the people who gave us money.

On my current project, we are frequently testing all types of methods and keeping/improving what works. It makes so much more sense.