skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So as the author, I'll try to clarify.

The article isn't about Google's influence on the web, as a whole. Google has had a huge influence on the web in many ways, from making it easier for people to locate information to sites considering how to speed up their content, to become mobile-friendly or to use secure connections, because Google rewards such things with ranking boosts.

The article was specifically about PageRank's influence on the web, in terms of link brokering and link spam. Before Google released PageRank scores, some of this happened. It would have happened even if scores had never been released, because it was well-known that Google leveraged links and thus, links had value.

But PageRank scores were an accelerant. They allowed people to use Google's own scores to assign value to pages, value that could be translated into monetary value. It really did reshape the link economy, to the degree that we had a court case with a First Amendment ruling on Google's search results (amazing, when you think about it) as well as an entire new standard to restrict the credit links could pass, nofollow.

I doubt Google anticipated this. Showing the scores, as the article explains, was meant as an incentive for Google Toolbar users -- "Hey, enable this feature, and we'll show you how valuable a page is deemed to be." Google's gain, of course, was that anyone enabling this sent their browsing patterns back to Google, so it better understood what was happening on the web outside of its own properties.

The unintended consequence was that PageRanks scores fueled an explosion in link buying and selling, as well as link spam.

Also, I didn't say the web was better before Google. It had plenty of problems, though it wasn't "pretty much un-navigable pre-Google," as you say. Many people used many of the search engines that were bigger than Google successfully for years. If it were really that bad, by the time Google came along, people would have given up on the web.

Google, of course, was a huge improvement in search and for the web as a whole. The article wasn't that Google was bad for the web. It really was just focusing on one aspect that didn't help the web, how releasing PageRank scores ironically fueled some of the spam Google has to fight (and which it fights well) as well as the spam third-parties have to deal with.
Just because I can't see the score doesn't mean I'm not going to what I can to increase it.
What would you do if your latest commits went live and they indeed did have new things in there, e.g. attribute values?

You might just roll the whole thing back a release, in the first instance to 'update' the hacker to a 'safe' version. If there were a need to roll everyone back then some type of patched new version would need to be released, or, if speed really mattered, just remote downgrade everyone to something safe. The major version numbers might not be the safe releases, the last release from a previous major version might be safer. Hence back to v.12.x.y for him. No malice be involved, just prudent reaction.
It's not just drones. Law Enforcement often flies surveillance flights, circling over locations of interest. These planes often have thermal/visual imaging video cameras and, according to some stories, may also be carrying other tracking or signal interception hardware (think Stingray). HN user jjwiseman [0] scooped most of the press about this.

You can locate such "interesting" flights right now, using your browser. Just open up ADSB Exchange Virtual Radar [1], which doesn't filter out flights with certain squawk codes like other online virtual radar sites do. If you do, select "Menu" from the map (with the gear icon), then "Options". Select the "Filter" tab, select to "Enable filters", select "Interesting" from the dropdown listbox, and select "Add Filter". Now you can zoom out over the country, and see all the "interesting" flights using the table on the left. Note any flights with the "LE" or "FBI" or "DHS" user tag.

Right now, as I write this, an FBI-owned aircraft is circling over the Norwood/Bronx area of NYC [2], tail number N912EX, registered to OBR Leasing (one of the "shells" that the US Gov't uses for registering its law enforcement aircraft), as mentioned in an AP story last summer [3]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jjwiseman

[1]: http://www.adsbexchange.com, select "Currently Tracking [number] Aircraft on upper-right"

[2]: http://i.imgur.com/EUYqx98.png

[3]: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/4b3f220e33b64123a3909c60845da...

Edit: Another one, flying around NW Los Angeles, right now: http://i.imgur.com/PwRpqRe.png

Edit2: Any aircraft squawking transponder beacon codes between 4401-4433 are engaged in law enforcement operations. More on the various squawk codes reserved by US Gov't operations can be found here (pdf link): http://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Order/FINAL_Order_7...
It seems to be picking up for sure. I'm hoping that continues since I'm headed there.
> Introduction of support to hardware keystores, with the mention that one use case is to prevent jailbreaking

This makes no sense, android already has hardware keystore support, jailbreaking is an ios term, and this is not mentioned anywhere in the lost...?!
Or perhaps the car detected its firmware had been tampered with, and auto-reverted to a backup image.

Not enough evidence to say for sure, so Occam's razor applies.
Posse Comitatus Act: severely limits military operations domestically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
Finding Hashtags in Elasticsearch 1.7
Difficult to believe that 'better social support' doesn't mean a government spending more money. Is the tax payer expected to fund people to 'safely enjoy drugs in moderation'?
>If you think that's a viable proposition feel free to
start it.

Yeah, I don't think it's a bad idea. I don't have the funding to start it, of course, and VCs crap their pants at the thought of anything that has overhead, so it's probably a non-starter.

>nor that recognized industry experts want to spend the majority of their time reading a huge amount of content and rating it for pennies an hour.

The recognized experts would be paid more than pennies an hour, and they wouldn't need to spend the majority of their time reviewing content. They'd be "super-reviewers", so their opinions would hold a lot of weight. It'd be a way for them to make some extra money without a lot of overhead, something they'd do occasionally for an hour here and there. Honestly the main thing we'd be looking for from these people is information about the cutting edge; things that are trending that we haven't picked up yet, things that are new and thus don't have a lot of consensus markers but are still worth attention, and information about the perception of the content within the industry. That classification can be used to inform on a variety of axes that could be good search parameters. We'd need to make sure we got opposing industry leaders so that the index didn't become solely representative of a single viewpoint.

Normal reviewers in a position analogous to a news reporter are more affordable, more consistent, and can classify the majority of content for a sector fine. Maybe Yahoo! could take their niche content mills and reassign the staff to rate pages in their index, then maybe their search will get somewhere.

Then you'd have MTurk style reviewers who provide the bulk of the content rankings and just give back a few basic pieces of info. These are the people that would be working for $2-$3/hr or less, at their convenience.

All of this is on top of a more traditional automated ranking algorithm that would use consensus markers and computer-perceptible quality markers to rank content. There's not necessarily an obligation that every page is sampled and reviewed by a human.

It'd be great if we could get good traffic data too; we'd be able to see where people are actually going instead of just what they put links back to.

>But it's the least worst algorithm anyone has come up with, and adding human tweaks leads it subject to subjective bias.

The bias is there regardless, it's just filtered through different parameters. This is inescapable. In general, not just in algorithm and computer design, we need less faith in cold systems and more faith in human intervention and judgment.

Yes, you have to be aware that any process is subject to gaming, manipulation, or bias, but I think affording sufficient room for human opinion and circumstantial judgment as very highly-weighted inputs prevents most of the egregious failures caused by runaway systems.
Which tool is the best for a task is not always the major factor. Other things like the developer team experience with the tools, the community support and the planned deadlines sometimes makes the decision a little harder. If the ms teams are already familiar with tweaking linux distros to their needs, then it seems like a good choise
Elon Musk != Tesla

Or at the very least, Elon Musk is the voice of Tesla, but there are many other people who work there. You judge a company by their actions, not their words. I'm a huge fan of what they're doing, but not necessarily how they're doing it.

The cars are absolutely awesome.

Unfortunately, they only provide service manuals in Massachusetts (where they are required to by law) and charge $100 per day to view them. Do not sell parts to the public. Ports in the car (obd/ethernet/etc.) are disabled by default. API is undocumented/proprietary. No access to OS. No access to diagnostic information.

Very similar to how Apple does things.
Graphics APis should be common. Not making them common is about petty greed. Control of the platform here is done for the sole reason of making cross platform development harder. I.e. hindering competition.
On genetics Oliver James is on a different planet to the rest of us
Web rings enabled access to related content. Definitely a pre-Google thing, I recall them from my introduction to the Web in high school circa 1996-1998 (not certain when I first saw it, but in that range).
> Before that, the Chinese leadership under Mao were doing their best to drive all of China into poverty and famine.

Drought is widely seen as the fundamental factor the caused the great famine. Government policy was one aspect that was poorly implemented. It is easy to say in hindsight - but this was a national emergency on a scale that no other country had experienced.
The bit about attribution is critical, but misses a more important basic piece which is "make sure you setup and properly QA your conversion tracking."

So many companies launch FB ads without proper tracking and then are surprised when they have no idea what it did for them. FB tends to group everything under the sun as "engagement" and "conversions", so really digging in and understanding those settings is key.

For example, 1-day view-through credit by default is probably a bad idea for many advertisers, particularly when you have no clue what the quality of a view-through is, and what they are worth to you. They are VERY different in terms of value, but FB wants to give them 100% credit with their rules within 1-day. That's simply not how most savvy people approach attribution.

Google Analytics offers some great basic attribution tools out of the box that let you experiment and compare different static models, or create your own static model. Ultimately static models themselves have inherent limitations because attribution is a much more dynamic thing that exists at the individual user path level, but it is a great start.
Bingo.

Being cool means being able to say "fuck 'the man'"

China's history is to be "the man" at any cost.

The Chinese government will never allow homegrown "cool" for fear it undermines their authority or create culture by decree.
The title is about "Google PageRank score," not Google PageRank.

PageRank was one part of the reason we have a search as powerful as Google, the use of links to assign an authority score. Another big part was the use of link context -- which isn't part of PageRank but part of the overall search algorithm at Google.

PageRank score is when Google revealed those scores to the public for any page. That's not something it had to do, in order to use PageRank as part of it algorithm. But in doing so, it fueled an explosion in link spam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter

Incidentally, moving out of reach of NSLs just means you're now in the reach of the CIA/NSA with no need for a warrant.
Personally, I think its one of things that sounds scarier than it is. I mean, sure, I would be nervous if there was evidence that armed helicopters/drones are flying over the US in the situations we are talking about here. But as long as they are unarmed, I'm not too worried.

Even if the government used a specific fleet of non-combat related drones, that wouldn't stop them from switching over to combat-ready drones tomorrow if they so wished it.
Did you try the verbatim mode?
Most North Korean Refugees Are Women. Here’s Why
Or Phoenix, where I have lived for years after selling my SV home in 2010 because of traffic and living costs. We have an amazing tech community in Phoenix that has come together to work on cybersecurity, bioindustry, health care, edtech and SaaS. The weather is great, housing is inexpensive, and we've got Blue Apron, Uber, and all the stuff you need.
Phantom limb is actually an interesting case that may reveal more about idiopathic pain as we study brain/body mapping better. If anyone is interested check out the work of VS Ramachandran, here's a somewhat old article about his work with phantom limb patients: http://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133026897/v-s-ramachandrans-ta...

His latest work has been investigating body integrity identity disorder which is sort of the opposite of phantom limb: where you feel like a part of you doesn't belong.

I believe this gist of the work is that there is a mapping between our body and our brain (this is what enables one to 'know' where your body is in relation to itself when your eyes are closed) that sometimes is overloaded or malformed and can result in these issues.
I tried to read this on my i-phone and all I see is the company logo, the hamburger icon, and a white screen.
Changes:

https://criu.org/Download/criu/2.0
I truly believe that history will judge us for the current state of prohibition nearly the same way it has judged us for slavery.
A relevant thread in misc@:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=145357927822796&w=2

naddy@ also weighed in:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=145359161725192&w=2

deraadt@ said this a few days ago:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=145715162325192&w=2

My guess is, this was a "the VAX guy dropped, the hardware failed, and it was slowing down the project", rather than anything to do with project direction.

Big news though. Wonder which platform is next.
Actually, Android users surpassed iPhone users on Facebook back at the end of 2012. I haven't heard that they're not displaying ads on the Lite version, so that shouldn't have an impact. That said, I've noticed that the battery drain doesn't seem to be as bad on an iPhone when compared to the drain in Android (which is why I uninstalled that app a while ago).
Ok, fair enough. I see now in your comment,

the part of the Android market I actually care about

Don't know if I wasn't paying enough attention when I replied, or if you ninja-edited, but that's certainly relevant context.
I like https://www.fixmystreet.com/ more, since it's open source. They don't have any sites in the US, but there are several other countries represented: http://fixmystreet.org/sites/
In what ways is the BSD networking stack superior?
It wouldn't surprise me at all. Up here in Carlsbad, someone is flying an IMSI catcher over the city out of Palomar every couple of weeks or so. I have no doubt they wouldn't bat an eyelash at flying military drones in the sky.
Why isn't updated this page for very long time?
How to get your iOS app featured in the App Store
You need to change your markdown to "kramdown" instead: https://github.com/rohit01/rohit01.github.io/blob/master/_co...

Did you update to the Jekyll 3 gem? I do not see a Gemfile.lock to verify. But you should move to the v3 of the gem to make sure. "bundle update jekyll"
Amazon leases 20 Boeing 767 freight jets for air cargo programme
I wrote a lot of APL code for one semester. Trust me: mine was write-only to a point I wouldn't be able to figure out in the afternoon the code I wrote in the morning...

In time, it's possible to become fluent and recognize the idioms and larger patterns that form the language, but it seems to be a painful process.
Not the best choice, certainly, but I would question not useful. I suffer from chronic pain (mostly headaches), and opioids (tramadol/codeine) are the only drugs[1] that have given any relief. I've been using them for about two years; they are still useful, and when I stop using them the pain is about the same it was before.

Fortunately I don't appear to find them addictive - I stopped taking the tramadol after about a year's usage (my consultant raised similar concerns to you - restarted them about three months later as it had been shown they weren't worsening the headaches) cold turkey (I was told it would be worse than stopping heroin), and suffering absolutely no ill effects or withdrawal.

[1] Multiple others have been tried (ibuprofen/diclofenac/amitriptyline/sodium valproate/naproxen/gabapentin and a few others I can't remember), and made no difference to the headaches. The amitriptyline is helping with pain in my hands though.
Why not Visual Studio Code?
No love for C11?
If you stripped away all the anger and emotion in your comment, it would still read just as inflammatory. Maybe more so. Because it's absolutely true. Even though addicts are sick and need help, that's not how they are viewed. They're viewed as lazy worthless members of society who can go die in a gutter.

Yet the most brilliant colleague I ever worked with had be resuscitated twice from heroin overdoses. A hyper productive individual, capable of incredibly feats of software engineering who yet maintained a great work life balance. And while he was sick, society viewed him as a worthless parasite.
I thought they already did, and it was called RHEL. I guess that's not Debian.
I thought they already did, and it was called RHEL.
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I've pondered doing something like this, but it kindof crosses a line I'm not yet comfortable crossing (changing users' HTML without them noticing), and would require a way for me to convert from/back when the user edits their site. Technically it's pretty difficult: HTML/XML parsers like Nokogiri like to "fix" html when they parse it, so they can do a lot of changes to your document you didn't want to make.

I've said I would decide to cross it if I ever ran into a major security issue, but so far that hasn't been the case. I've even decided against web page auto optimization ala things like ngx_pagespeed for this reason.

One place I do cross this line is for our https://neocities.org/browse gallery in order to deal with iframe issues (I make the A links on a site open a new tab with a javascript inject), but that passive model won't work for pagerank issues because it uses the browser to make the changes.

And honestly, let's be real, even if I put on nofollow and Google stops using pagerank, they're probably still going to do it because they're basically shady pagerank scam artists in the end, fooling gullible people into sending them money. They don't understand they're feeding into a botnet meets army of underpaid pagerank spammers, and it's basically impossible to fix this with education.

It would be excellent if Google gave me an API to report pagerank spam. For all the money they've made on pagerank, it would be nice if they could defer some of that money into helping us deal with this, and would definitely help to improve their search results.
Not only Google and Facebook [1]:

Facebook, Intel, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Rackspace, Cisco, Juniper Networks, Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, Lenovo and Bank of America

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Compute_Project
I didn't say anything about one pill not being enough to get you high. Also, that's not even the question I addressed. The GP said "That's what's necessary for pain relief." -- which is an overstatement.
Kratom still comes with risks of withdrawal. Pure leaf kratom would be difficult to OD on, but extracts and tinctures could easily be overdosed on.
I don't work for them, just a customer. It just happened to be what I typed for their URL. I'm not intimately familiar with how every site I visit does their redirects.
Why not tax the drugs themselves to provide this support?
https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/
You're way overthinking this.. it's easier to type without the wwws. It'd be easier to type without the http:// too but HN might not autolink it
How would one move beyond the reach of NSLs?
Rails 5 makes rendering partial from cache substantially faster
_jomo, who submitted it. It's "I submitted this already but wasn't the one who got the fake internet points."

_jomo, it happens. Don't worry about it.
JSON field constraints with Postgres
I like how it supports nested JSON expressions. Now I can stop constructing JSON in Bash HEREDOCs.
HTTPS and HTML were designed on a NeXT with 24MHz CPU and less than 64MB RAM over a 56kbs connection. Yet these technologies are considered too heavy for a Galaxy Y with 600MHz CPU, and 290MB RAM over a 500kbs connection. Instead facebook needs to invent a proprietary wire protocol and layout engine.
developer.android.com and the Android Developer blog are good sources apart from XDA, G+ for various Android low level devs - this particular one came from - http://developer.android.com/preview/api-overview.html
Interesting. There is one over northwest LA as well.
I run a MUD which has alot of people from all over the world as developers. Most are not technical and do simple thing like create areas for the game etc.
Explaining how to convert files from CRLF to LF only has turned out to be impossible.

When they use modern FTP clients which automatically handle ASCII mode it just works. SFTP seems to work for some users. It probably depends on the clients support for ASCII mode..
> On the other hand, if some guy found a major security flaw and posted it all over the internet I bet the car would be remotely driven into a brick wall at 100mph+ with the driver inside.

That's a bit much. They'd probably just revoke his license to use their software, leaving him with an expensive brick.
It's cute to seeing freebase ids surfaced in all sorts of projects. It's incredible how powerful and useful that project is.

Interestingly, those mids are hashes of an earlier id system, which itself sourced from (i think,) wikipedia/en titles. There's kind of an accidental archaeology happening, from the anonymous hard-work of many smart people.
Let's encrypt really helps get ssl everywhere. It is not super easy to set it up, but I am sure this will get better as time goes, this is huge.
The alternative theory you seem to be putting forth is "poor people remain poor because they make bad decisions and have no impulse control."

I would call that a bad theory.
The war on drugs is a lie and a complete failure. Big Pharam are the biggest drug kingpins in the world...yet their stuff is "legal"
Let's just say once the acid kicks in you'll realize why people said to try it ;)
PageRank is still visible today?!? Where? (I am just curious, I thought it's not visible anywhere for years)
Life imitates (comedic) art ...

http://www.mslinux.org/
The new title being kicked around. NSALINUX.
How much does a cessna pilot for the FBI make a year?
http://mashable.com/2016/02/03/tesla-refuses-rude-customer/
That would be awesome but I think it's a huge job so it really need a purpose. Java is awesome but I love rust, yet that's not really a good enough reason I think.
My first thought too! Somebody check the temperature in hell.
But how much traffic do clickbait titles get from search? I would guess almost none. Clickbait titles are an optimization for social media and "content discovery" ad platforms like Outbrain or Taboola, not search.