skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where was the previous poster asking anything? He stated something blatantly false that could easily be disproven by a simple web search. How does him stating something provably false place the burden of proof on everyone else?
Google finally reveals AdSense cut: 68% on content
Official post by Google: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2010/05/adsense-revenue-share.html
Official post by Google: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2010/05/adsense-revenue-share.ht...
I noticed the part where Wakefield falsified data, as well as the part where the author criticized his sample size and methodology... so why didn't the journal's peer review process notice it? I find it hard to believe they couldn't predict that a study concluding that a poorly-understood but prevalent disease among children was caused by universal vaccination wouldn't be big news. Why would the journal even consider publishing an article making claims as big as Wakefield's on the basis of a dozen study participants?

The "in the end" where they retracted the paper was like six months ago, right?
There's got to be. I was looking for something like this as well. Hopefully some smart user will chime in.
He's saying YouTube isn't profitable because it's content is crap, at least partially.

The counter-point, of course, is that in the age of targeted advertising.. isn't broadcast advertising (in terms of CPM) completely over-rated?

I have a feeling that contextual video advertising is currently underrated, just as traditional broadcast advertising is overrated. In terms of dollar amounts spent.
and you're still short $300k. Even if they low-balled you it might have been to your advantage to license it to them for a year and then put your foot down.
Agreed re: live tv but for everything else "channels" where someone else bundles up content and controls when you watch something makes no sense.

How about a model where you pick what you want to watch when you want to watch it and either pay for it (no ads) or don't pay for it (ads).

At the end of the day the user will get a model that is enjoyable to use. Why? Because eventually someone will figure out the economics of an enjoyable model, users will flock to it and the other model (broadcast) will get killed.

How long will this take? Your guess is as good as mine. The incumbents have a lot of power and absolutely no interest in change.
I remember in high school I had a teacher who taught us the hierarchy of communication. In person is first, by phone is second and written is third. This is because more of the message is transmitted in person ie you get words,voice and body language, with the phone you only get words and voice and with the written word you only get the words themselves. To this day if I have something important to say I do my best to say it in person or on the phone. Too often in a world of e-mail, texting, and twitter we assume we are being heard clearly through words alone, but for the really important stuff nothing beats face to face communication.
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Lumbar punctures for children in a study designed to strengthen a bogus lawsuit? Yikes! That makes me angrier at the parents that volunteered(/were paid for) their kids' participation than at the doctor. Though still pretty angry at him, too.
In his own words (from HN, I think): http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1998-...

The way I read this, he should have called his paradigm "Message Oriented Programming", and Erlang is actually closer to his views than Java.
I found this game few days ago. I had few approaches to accept only equal number red/blue. First I attached binary yellow/green counter starting at 1111 to the end of the tape and with each pass of the tape I removed one symbol and incremented the counter if the symbol I removed was blue and decrementing it if it was red. At the end I checked if counter is still 1111

Worked perfectly until robot with only one empty space at the end of his tape was encountered.

Then I came up with much simpler solution.
I tend to agree with javery. The UI needs polish. Your homepage could use some as well; as it is now there isn't anything that wows me and I wouldn't use this over AgileZen (although I currently do not even use that, the only Kanban system I am using is physical and I use Pivotal Tracker for everything else because it's free and awesome).

UI and design are more important then you think. I don't care about features unless they are so disruptive and innovative that I just have to have them. Saying you have X, Y, & Z isn't really appealing to me. Competitors can easily add features but they can't easily build a better overall experience. Experience is a balance of UI, UX, general design aesthetic, and yes features. The keyword there is balance.

It seems you are currently focused on features and none of the other stuff.

Are you working with a good designer on this project or is it just developers?
SEM. What? How? etc...
Hi folks,

I'm currently working on marketing a silly little dating site (fonepong.com) and I need to get it some google love. Does anybody have any experience with promoting a non-content, entertainment application like this? Has anyone worked with an SEM consultant to increase traffic organically?

Thoughts? Tips?

Thanks!
Actually the mainstream press went beyond what was in the Lancet article, relying too much on spin supplied by Wakefield in press conferences. And that is noted in the cartoon submitted here on HN, as it has been noted by several critics of Wakefield's role in stirring up phony controversy on vaccines.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=3660

"Even though the study itself used the typical careful and relatively neutral language that we all expect from scientists, Wakefield himself was not nearly so circumspect. In a press conference announcing the Lancet study, he said:

"'He told journalists it was a "moral issue" and he could no longer support the continued use of the three-in-one jab for measles, mumps and rubella.

"'"Urgent further research is needed to determine whether MMR may give rise to this complication in a small number of people," Dr Wakefield said at the time.

"'And so began one of the most contentious health stories of this generation.'

"Wakefield’s Lancet paper, even interpreted as sympathetically as possible, concluded nothing that justified such language."
The same sort of thing is happening here in the US as well.
Hmm, now I need a js bookmarklet to toggle appending + signs on pages...
How many people at YC have proposed starting a ferry company I wonder?
Not really. Updating regularly with good content and some SEO and you could easily get $10/month with adsense.
I mainly remember him from his puzzle columns in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. I see now that I was missing out on a lot - sad to realize it because he died.
The Twitter Platform
Intuitively I would tend to agree, but being a physicist I would like to see some more quantitative data on this.

Both the links from the article address different sets of companies than what he is actually talking about, the one on tomuse.com is about the companies on that famous graphic, which of course had already gained a certain amount of traction, otherwise they wouldn't be on there. The other one covers a vast superset of that, and also covers a much larger timescale than what I imagine when I hear the 90% figure.
How does an umbrella insurance help with liability? Where can I learn more about this?
some kind of open EULA for various common SaaS models would be a great resource.

If there isn't one maybe those of us who are having to pay to have one written, could instead pay for an open one to be commissioned?
Open implies working with products from more than one vendor.

But "open source" does not imply that -- it implies that you will have access to the source code, and the rights to redistribute and to make/distribute derivative works.

Or, to maybe drive the point home in a different way: if, say, a game is released under an OSI-approved license, but for sake of speed contains some inline assembly, would you then claim it's not really "open" since it only runs on a single CPU architecture?
I find my mercurial love comes from two things neither of which have to do with the distributed nature of the project. It is faster than svn even on tasks that require "server" access. The second is the ability to stage checkins. Both apply to git as well.
This is a little hard to read but is the basic point programmers are making their lives harder by using the wrong languages?
Maybe in 2005.
The point is to a) not have to implement distributed consensus and b) require the user to have to design the database for localized transactions if performance is desired.
And at least one hundred HN submissions.
Somehow I didn't even know this existed, but it already proved to be very useful ten minutes after finding it so I thought I would pass it along.
Rogers in Canada offers tethering for free :D
I'm not familiar with kanban, other than by name. Site is visually appealing, but I'd suggest reworking the design to use a portion of the empty space on top of many of the pages.

I owned this domain for awhile, glad to see someone from HN using it now.
I think he's totally disingenuous. Yeah, we get it, you want to connect people around the world. At least be honest and say you want people to share more and more information so you can make money off of it.

He talks about being too granular with regards to privacy settings. Who is this op-ed aimed at ? Joe Average Facebook user is not going to know what he means by granular...
Don't waste your time. There is nothing to see here.
Apple's Incredible Efficient Growth
Javascript, "bind", and "this"
> Updating regularly

> with good content

> and some SEO

> could

That's what I said.

Updating regularly for $10 / month is a pretty hefty commitment, that's going to work out to what ? $0.30 / hour ?

Good content requires writing skills and editing skills.

SEO requires SEO skills, you'll have to do that yourself because at $10 / month you are not going to pass it off to someone else to do it for you. That's a good bit of reading.

And finally, that's a 'could', not a 'will' or 'shall', it remains to be seen if it will work for that particular case of content, update frequency and SEO skills.

For less than $300 / month you're better off washing cars.
wow that site thoroughly broke my back button
Jesus can we please retire the 37s/tatango/chargify/everywebsiteever design already?
Canadian Newspapers to also offer SEO??
Most certified doctor's aren't really doing much different than Jim Carey- they have just chosen the CDC as their trusted source instead of the anecdotes that Jim Carrey uses. So I would say people are choosing anecdotes over their country's public health recommendations.

I think not trusting public health recommendations is a good thing given that they are often not based on sound science. But unfortunately people are turning to anecdotes instead of critically evaluating the evidence of both sides.
You can’t pause it, you can’t record it, you just have to watch it, like broadcast or cable TV pre-TiVO. And that makes it an ideal commercial medium and one very good for preserving intellectual property rights, unlike all those others.

There's just one little problem, consumers don't want to go back to a pre-TiVO world. Emulating broadcast TV on the web isn't going to fly. It reminds me of 'push technology' which ultimately failed because consumers didn't want it.
Manhattanhenge
Here's 'grellas take on the same subject, which I think crushes this article:

http://www.grellas.com/faq_business_startup_005.html

In particular, the points he makes about "VC firms will want you to do X, so do X from day 1" seem to be flat-out wrong; setting up a complicated C corp and equity structure is more painful than just creating a simple temporary structure, because the lawyers are just going to re-do everything when you get funded anyways.
I'm not sure what their model is going to be. If they are going to host video, then yes, that will make it much more reliable. However then they will be liable for DMCA takedown requests and whatnot.
Maintainer of OpenCart dismisses csrf vulnerability as a user problem.
That's like saying it's trendy to sexually abuse your children. These are real diseases that actually kill people. Appalling.
Interesting thing is that machine you build is painfully stateless. Each test you perform which result you want to keep in mind has to branch your machine into two separate nearly identical branches.

It was very refreshing for me to think about whole state traveling around your program as a single container with very limited access.

I think it might have taught me about programming Turing machine and how different it is from every day programming.

Thank you HN for tip that I can flip element with space bar. Without this information I got stuck at Ophanim level. Maybe I'll be able to finally beat it now.
Seagate gets hybrid SSD/HDD right
From December to April the Alps get a hell of a lot of visitors - the big ski resorts (especially the French ones) are huge.
De-referencing short urls is a pain.

http://www.longurlplease.com/ is quite nice.

Bookmarklet, FF extension, and a JSON API. I've used the API, and it was a pleasant experience.
I prefer to nag people to not use shorteners at all if you're not on Twitter. I don't know if it works, but I feel that it's a habit that needs to stop.
It's well-presented and not everyone here is a salty javascript developer.
Did Twitter Just Kill TweetUp Minutes After Its Launch?
Google's AdSense Revenue Share
so they kill ads, what's next?
World touristiness map analyzes Panoramio photo distribution
Amusingly enough, I tried to sell two of the books he pictures there at my garage sale last weekend...
I think it is silly how people are so quick to blame the doctors and the hospitals, when the prices are set by the insurance companies 90% of the time. Where is the public outcry that insurance companies are price gouging and making millions off of denying sick people treatment.
This is why I quit -- I already have an everything-public social network that I like (Twitter), I don't need a second. People migrated to Facebook from MySpace because of privacy/clique thing, I imagine they'll go elsewhere eventually. FB will live on, but it'll be different.
could you give a more specific example?
I consider my 200 x 160 px profile picture personal information, or at least I would had I not purposefully uploaded a picture in which you can't see a thing at that size. Can't hide that.

Then there's the "This information, such as your Pages and list of friends, is still public, so it could appear elsewhere on the site and be accessed by applications you and your friends use" note on top of the Friends, Tags and Connections privacy page, which doesn't seem to be true at the moment, but which is very unnerving nonetheless. I consider my friend list on Facebook to be personal information.
Exactly, and bookmarklets can be useful for anyone... not just developers. I've helped a couple people create them for their sites before (like to post a new item, similar to HN) and I think if they had tried it with jQuery they would of been able to do it themselves.
The "UI Norm" is a broken attempt to reconcile hiding typed characters with being sure it was typed right. It fails this test if the user typos the same way twice.

The method of showing each typed character as it is typed, then changing it to •, allows a single field to provide privacy and be sure each character was typed right.
Here's a flip side.

When I see a link I like and I want to pass it on to others, using bit.ly lets me track how many people follow it. If I just give out the link directly I have no idea how much effect my recommendation has had.

This is especially useful when recommending things for business. Already I've seent aht one way of recommending things is getting far more attention than another. Without some sort of tracking I would've known.

It's much more of an effort for me to put up some sort of referring system via other methods I can track - bit/ly provides me with this for free, both in terms of effort and money.
Well, it might work if you could deliver the content when the consumer wants. Broadcast TV works because I know every half hour something new is beginning or I can look up in the TV Menu when something is going to come on.

P2P Broadcasting will always be chaotic in nature and thats the underlying problem. If they could somehow guarantee order and reliability, then they could pull it off.
The best description I've seen of Kanban in a software development context is Jeff Patton's article: http://www.agileproductdesign.com/blog/2009/kanban_over_simp...
Thank you for the detailed explanation of how kanban in manufacturing works. Here is how it works in knowledge work:

kanban is a pull system. You pull work only when there is capacity to handle it. This works well in a factory setting because you know exactly how much capacity you have. In knowledge work, however, it is likely that you do not really know what your team is capable of because:

- Knowledge work is invisible and highly variable.

- Most of the time everyone is working on everything.

- There is a hidden but significant cost of task switching caused by multitasking.

If you want to know your team's capacity, you have to limit the number of tasks they work on at the same time. This is called a Work In Progress (WIP) limit in kanban. Once you limit WIP, several interesting things will happen:

- A backlog of tasks will emerge.

- You will be able to measure how much time is spent on each task.

- Tasks will get finished faster.

The first two results are not very surprising because by introducing WIP limits, you have effectively eliminated multitasking, but how on earth, do tasks get finished faster?

- Unlike computers with multiple processor cores, our brains have one or at best two cores. Without WIP limits, when there are too many tasks to work on, we spend more time on switching tasks than the tasks themselves.

- Bottlenecks become visible. Since everyone is working on a limited number of tasks, some finish theirs on time, some get overloaded, and some cannot finish their work because they need input from those who are overloaded.

- Team members with free capacity can help those who are overloaded. Better yet, they can even come up with ideas on how to fix the newly discovered bottlenecks.
Some thoughts about SaaS and cloud computing
Some thoughts.

The people I know who do work in machine learning (Jon Kleinberg, Thorsten Joachims, and their students) work in straight-up C, not Haskell, as the author suggests. Most of the dominant methods used today, such as the SVM, boosting, and the dynamic programming methods used in genomics are (i) numerical more than symbolic and (ii) involve moving a LOT of data around, so you want control of your data structures. (Sometimes these guys compress in-memory pointers!)

I looked long and hard at Scala and decided that I didn't like what I saw. One problem is that, based on the JVM, type erasure is a big "broken window" that seriously damages the Scala type system. You can use generics for ~years~ in Java and never notice the problems that type erasure causes, but I find that 2/3 of the designs that I specifically want an advanced type system for do not work in Scala because of type erasure.

Another issue with Scala is that the interface with Java, particularly using collections, is awkward; people who want to work in the JVM but want concision might be happier with Groovy. Scala's Lispy-Lists are convenient for the pattern matching capabilities in Scala, but are much less efficient than the vector-based Lists that come with Java when your data gets big.

As for oCaml, the real excitement is in F#. You get the wonderful oCaml language and all of its features, plus you get an interface to the C#/.NET world that's much nicer than Scala's interface to the JVM. You've got access to the whole .NET framework base class library, plus all sorts of stuff that's been written for .NET.

I'd also put C# on the border between a "mainstream" and "advanced" language. C#'s generics implementation just added support for covariant and contravariant inheritance, which is one of the features that had me interested in Scala. C# has good lambdas, really neat stuff in LINQ, and "expression trees" which offer metaprogramming capabilities above and beyond any static language I've seen.

Note that there is a good open source implementation of the .NET framework, Mono, so you can develop in C# and F# and target Linux, MacOS and other platforms.
Good tools may be the new battle ground for developers: Sproutcore and other tools could be demoed. So designers can create applications in a more flash-like way?
No surprises here, especially to anyone with experience using both AdWords to advertise and AdSense to monetize on the same site.
Doctors engage in protectionism, limiting the supply of doctors by restricting the accreditation of medical schools

You might want to check the number of physicians per capita in a lot of different countries

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~mss/data%20analysis/Volume%20I%20p...

(the first listed source has a good discussion of methodology)

http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/02/health-care-costs-opinions-...

(the second source gets into a lot of related issues)

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_phy_per_1000_peo-physi...

(the third source shows data reported to the United Nations by national governments, some of which I find implausible)

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0934558.html

(the fourth source shows extreme cases from the U.N. data)

and look at their mortality and morbidity statistics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expec...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_rate

http://www.who.int/whosis/whostat/2010/en/index.html

to see how much that matters in cross-national comparisons.

Some comments about the recent medical insurance reform bill in Congress suggest that differences between the United States and other countries in health outcomes have more to do with population lifestyle differences than with medical-care differences.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08...

http://www.granttribune.com/index.php?option=com_content&...

http://www.cardiologytoday.com/view.aspx?rID=64007

And see also

http://www.indypendent.org/2010/05/12/prevention/

for a critique of useless medical interventions.
The bookmarklet works great. Thanks for the reference.
you seriously think that a man who has made millions as a professional liar (actor) is just as good as a army of public health officials who are dedicated to improving the lives of everyone?

I think not trusting public health recommendations is a good thing given that they are often not based on sound science.

Where is your critical evaluation of your own statement? Where is your proof for attacking a entire profession?
Skills If You are Required to Write on Argument Essay Topics
Writing essays based on argumentative essay topics is a challenging project. You need to ensure that you get your facts right, do the required research and put your knowledge into action by writing the most eloquent argument essay possible.
Having said what I did in a brother post to yours, on the other hand I'd say that the amount of practically useful stuff in a CS degree is surprisingly small, and I learned most of it before I went to college

Any chance you could give a list of that surprisingly smalll amount of practically useful stuff?
I'll be in NYC on Sunday and will try to get a few photos for anyone that is interested.
TonidoPlug shows just how crippled iPad is?
Google's Adsense revenue share revealed
I think the word you want is "SEO" (Search Engine Optimization), which refers to the organic side of search marketing. Although, technically, SEM should cover both paid (PPC) and organic, most folks use it to describe paid search exclusively.
That's "Revenue Share", not "Review Share".
New dev tools for HTML 5 development, to make creation of simple applications much easier. This goes along with iAds, and explains Apple's increasing confidence in slagging Flash in public.