skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Germany, we have had public radio and tv stations for decades, funded by a tax-like mechanism for people owing tv and radio recievers. Since they are public instituions, political influence is obvious.

Contrary to jerf's assertions, however, it seems to work both ways: It provides news that is often carefully balanced and 'factual' and there are also formats that pursue a political agenda and publish inconvinient stuff.
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stop words/phrase removal can't be done in a too simplistic manner. words like <how to> signify a different kind of intent. Also if stop words are always removed, queries like <who's who in america> wouldn't work properly.
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Ensuring that Google analytics downloads the js script using https on websites that are themselves https served in order to prevent IE8 visitors from getting a security warning.

Discusses segmentation in GA and some other issues too along with the general concept of checking conversion rates for different classes of visitor.
I hadn't thought of that but that could easily be the case as well. Very sad also.
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In the first instance I would say you were being unethical, in the second stupid.

That is my opinion, and the experience you shared is yours only. I think, much does depend on what you are expected to do and what you consider yourself is right to do, but when it is so easy and there is no accountability at all, considering that a first class degree is so much different from a third class degree in the work place, why on earth would you not find the answers from the book and take a day or even week.
How many albums do "normal" non-pirating consumer buy a year?

Myself; about 30-40. This is probably a high number; most of my friends will buy anything from 3-5 (in a quick straw poll of about 30 of them).
How about trying to sell ads directly to booksellers? Even if affiliate programs won't work, you could offer users up the same kind of book list as sort of a customized banner ad. Being able to serve up that many impressions must be worth something, even if only for a short time. Even sites that don't directly sell books, but are related (back to goodreads, because its the only one I have really used) would probably be interested in this. Hope you get something off the ground.
Mocking seems to me to be a perfect example. Of how obvious it is that we are fighting against the flow with so many of our tools and we are merely lacking the advances in language design which embrace these use cases at their heart. It seems very similar to the clumsy, piece-meal attempts at procedural programming through the use of various macros and such-like in the early era of programming, and later of the attempts at object orientation through various techniques and conventions. But none of those efforts were able to fully exploit the potential of procedural programming or object orientation.

You can't just bolt such fundamental shifts in programming idiom and practice onto existing languages and expect to achieve maximum potency. It often takes new languages, which have internalized the "paradigm shift", to fully achieve the potential of transformative development methodologies.

No amount of assembler macros can be as elegant or as effective in facilitating procedural programming as the C language, for example. Similarly, you aren't going to create Python within C unless you already have the idea of Python to work with.

I suspect that these aspects (mocking and unit testing especially) will become ingrained in future languages to degrees we can hardly imagine. I suspect that unit testing will be as much a part of many future languages as loops, assertions, and methods are today, and that running unit tests will be such an integral part of the build process that it will take explaining to describe how it's even possible for them to be apart.

Unfortunately, I think too many language designers are too satisfied with the current state of affairs and don't see the future in these terms.
If you are looking at mocking in .Net, make sure that the framework you select can easily mock properties and delegates as well as simple method calls. I don't believe they all do!
I presume you mean cheques of money sent you from Amazon?

If it's too much hassle to cash potentially huge affiliate checks then you're rich enough, give the site to someone else that wants more money.

Seriously FB has 400Million active uniques. If you capture one-hundreth of a percent of those and then of those 1% convert and you make $1 on each conversion that's $400.

Even if it took me a whole day to organise cashing the cheque that would be worth it.

For Amazon though the problem is that they fragment their affiliate scheme (to create less opportunity for small sites to break the cash-out threshold presumably) so AdWords or whatever might be better.
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What's wrong is the PUA gurus are selling their products to frail and insecure 17-year olds who need professional help.

If you feel you need to change yourself for the better and improve your personality then there are people far better qualified for the job than some sleazy PUA sales rep.
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Lovecraft here.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult."

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thanks for your feedback moe. Fashinating is mainly a facebook app right now, hense the negative greeting message. In the near future we will build more logging mechanisms for the standalone site. Living the experience from inside facebook, there is none of the screens you mention. You are right thow that they can be confusing right now.

Regarding your quest for shorts, there are two main factors that might sabotage it. First of all this is crowdsourced, so it is possible that the algorithm didn't have enough data to fetch you more shorts. Finally since the algorithm keeps track of what you see, you probably saw all the shorts we had good data for and then continue to see other items that we have less data for.

thanks for your time, your advice is valuable.

petros from Fashinating.com
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There is no info about the 'famous writer'. At least an Amazon affiliate link to the author should generate some income. Also, the first paragraph from Wikipedia would be useful.
> When I asked to use a single line by songwriter Joe Henry, for example, his record label's parent company demanded $150 for every 7,500 copies of my book.

Not sure on what basis they are demanding that money as the record label does not hold any copyright over the lyrics of a song. Song lyrics copyrights belong to the songwriter and the publisher, if the song is published.
Obviously this would be something that would mean a lot more work, but how about.. Tracking a users's blog feed, parsing each post and see how their writing style evolves over time?

This would certainly increase the longevity of your app.
I really like this idea and will give it a try, but FYI http://news.ycombinator.com/best serves a similar purpose.

I'm not sure of the exact criteria for it, but its basically very highly-voted articles that are fairly recent.

I've been thinking of limiting myself to /best to keep my HN time in check, so you're definitely onto something.
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First, let me say that I really like the idea of this site. You already have the tools built to scrape HN every 5 min so why not expand on this idea. It would be very interesting to create something that scrapes HN and then provides the N most popular articles (by vote) for the day where N is defined in the URL. It would also be interesting to scrape the "New" section and then have a special section that has more stringent than the HN front page. A sort of "HN Plus" (forgive my reference to Hulu). Personally I like that HN trickles (sometimes torrentially) in through the day. I will admit that sometimes I feel overwhelmed by the content but it is always a good break from whatever I'm doing. Maybe that should be an "Ask PG" of my own but the idea has been rolling around in my head for some time to do something similar. I'm glad you're a lot less lazy than me and doing something about it. Is there any way you would be willing to put the source up on GitHub?
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Google didn't copy Yahoo when they created a new search algorithm and a minimalistic search page.
Apple didn't copy Microsoft when they focused on design, marketing and on producing most things themselves.

You shouldn't copy others either (only learn from them). Look at, what the big guys are missing instead.
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> I'm not sure which people will vote for, the site or the announcement of the site

Apparently both :)
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Meh. He missed the point.

It's not that you can't know anything, and so you can put anything you want in there. It's that 1) some things are beyond knowing, and 2) all science is provisional. These two things mean that creatively explaining the unknown has a rich and critical part in our existence.

He's presenting a false dichotomy. Yes, some folks will use religion to tell you why the sun comes up, but that doesn't mean all religious belief systems are invalid.

Religious beliefs are simply shared creative responses to the unknown. In this sense, they are about as close to the theory-formation part of science as anything can be. The difference is that theory-formation in science occurs inside a highly structured system of other theories and rules and observations, while religious explanations can just be made up by anybody.

I get tired of this "post-modernists think there is nothing solid" nonsense. Yes, some of them got the title but missed the subtext. But the point of understanding the provisional nature of science isn't to somehow discredit it, it's to keep in mind how much more there is to discover. You can be highly-critical of the political nature of how science is conducted, as I am, and still be a huge supporter of the practice and continuation of theory and research. Knowing the difference between the philosophy of science, the politics of the practice of science, the epistemological nature of science, and the pattern of scientific revolution? In my opinion, this is when you first start having a clue about what all these debates about science mean.

We've come a long way since Descartes and his brain in a jar. The conversation isn't at that point any more.
The problem with /best in my view is that links gradually come and go -- it's the right format for "what are the recent interesting stories", but it's not the right format for "what are the most interesting stories since the last time I was here".
How do you decide the top 10 links of the day if you scrape every 5 minutes? (the top links keep changing). Couldn't you just scrape once a day?
Of course relationships are a game: two players, several actions available to each player, and payoffs dependent on both players' actions. That is, by definition, a game.

But it gets more interesting. Relationships are power games, as the player with the most power will dictate the tempo and pace of the battle. If you have more options and are less invested in the relationship than your significant other, then you have power over her. This power gap translates into luxuries like avoiding visiting her family (too often, at least), or not bothering about remembering her girlfriends' names. Moreover, if she's constantly terrified that you'll leave her if she gets fat, she'll exercize often and stay in shape, so that she can sexually arouse you for years to come, thus disincentivizing you from dumping her. You reciprocate by paying attention to her, by pretending to listen to her illogical / irrational arguments, and by abstaining from (too much) philandering. This balance of terror works great for both parties.
Yeah, I wasn't expecting that. I figured that once one had received a significant number of votes people would just pile onto that one.

(I considered only submitting the blog post, but I figured that if I didn't do it someone else would submit the direct link, and by submitting both at once at least I could have links pointing back and forth.)
I fetched a document I wrote and entered several paragraphs, and got a different author each time. What does that say about me (or your algorithm)?

Congratulations on the traction though!
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In no way am I advocating a frail and insecure 17-year old going off and paying someone to tell him how to harass women in bars.[1]

What I'm taking issue with is the idea that you are somehow selling yourself out by making changes to your personality to achieve a given goal.

And really, I'm not sure that your frail 17-year old should be trudging off to any professionals[2] before he's tried hitting the gym, doing some travel and getting some hobbies that actually include a decent number of girls.

[1] After all you can do that for free, as my fine collection of restraining orders confirms.

[2] With the obvious disclaimer that if he's mentally ill he should go seek help.
provides the N most popular articles (by vote) for the day where N is defined in the URL

Aside from the "don't include links which were on a previous Daily Hacker News", this is exactly what I do. The top-10 list for YYYY-MM-DD is at http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/YYYY-MM-DD.html

s there any way you would be willing to put the source up on GitHub?

I'd prefer not to do that, simply because it would encourage people to add extra load to the HN web server -- besides which, the code is extremely trivial and I'm sure anyone who wants to could replicate it easily. :-)
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I am about to make a presentation to investors and thus looking for some authoritive numbers to calculate and proove my financial projections.

Does anybody have information/links about the typical cost structure of a SaaS company: how much needs to be calculated per visitor/prospect/customer for support, marketing, acquiry, infrastructure, ... (did I forget something important)?

And is there a way to build in the positive effect of word-of-mouth in those projections?
This paper built upon work that Stephen Hawking did.

"The hypothesis of gravity being an entropic force has a history that goes back to research on black hole thermodynamics by Bekenstein and Hawking in the mid-1970s. These studies suggest a deep connection between gravity and thermodynamics."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_as_an_entropic_force

someone might be able to find a better source.
Part of the problem is how Hacker News seemingly have turned into something more akin of News. The hacker tidbits are far and few between, and the overall amount of new submissions have skyrocketed.
Actually I've seen recoverable exceptions in C++, at my previous employer (ARM's Belgium office) using all sorts of creepy long jumps. It was ancient, arcane code, but it still worked - and was cross-platform.
Agreed, but the principles articulated about Apple can be applied to any field. You may not be able to out-apple Apple in computer hardware, but you could certainly use that strategy elsewhere.
The /news page ranks links based on score and time since submission. I'm only ranking links based on score (and whether it has been on a previous daily).

I could scrape the entire site at midnight each day, but I think PG would be very unhappy with me if I did that. Scaping /news every 5 minutes imposes much less load, and since highly ranked links get almost all of their votes prior to falling off the front page, this gives me almost as much information.
They only laid golden eggs because they were relevant. If his clients decide to migrate away from Solaris, they may also decide to migrate away from Oracle. Being legacy-only is not good for long-term revenue.
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Nothing good.
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I recently started up a new blog (http://nextended.com for Sony NEX users) and searched around the available platforms. I've used blogger in the past but it's pretty clunky these days. I still use self-hosted Wordpress for my personal blog but I've always been annoyed by the post editor, less-than-simple customization and frequent security breaches.

In short, I now pay SquareSpace $12/mo to look after hosting, a very attractive and useful CMS, some good looking templates, point-and-click CSS customisations, drag-and-drop layout, and built-in analytics.
You could do the same with Wordpress (and, in fairness, customise it more) but SquareSpace wins if you value your time.
This is a great idea. I'll do this when I have time, thanks.
Completely agree on your frugal approach and about the last point, one thing that anyone in our field needs to develop is the ability to eventually gain expertise in a new area if interesting opportunities arise.
I just pasted some irc logs. IRC writes like Mark Twain...
I'm guessing that for your purpose, you might catch more interesting stories from the /classic page than /news.

Do you mind sharing the scraping code?
I'm in a new country (Montenegro), haven't got residence permit here yet, don't have a permanent address, and don't speak the local language to figure out how to cash checks.

Anyway, I've added Amazon affiliate links now, maybe I'll cash out with gift certificates.
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If you're gonna downvote something straight into the basement, some kind of reply is appreciated...

EDIT: logical conclusion: I actually managed to send HN'ers into an illogical blind rage. props to me. Oh look, there goes my respect for the place. <- did I get it right?
> "A certain amount of knowledge you can indeed with average faculties acquire so as to retain; nor need you regret the hours you spend on much that is forgotten, for the shadow of lost knowledge at least protects you from many illusions."

--William Johnson Cory

All programmers do not need to know the many details Drepper goes into about cache refreshes and dirty bits, it is true. But most programmers will care about performance at some point, and most of those will be helped by even vague memories about the memory hierarchy and remembrances of how large the performance penalties of cache misses are. Even inklings can be enough to motivate someone to reorganize their loops, or to investigate cache-oblivious algorithms (which are a high-level topic on their own).
I'd prefer to not post the code publicly, simply because I don't want to encourage people to put extra load on the HN server -- but if you want a copy, send me an email and I'll provide it.
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So the derivative in respect to points over time of the link bait story would be much higher than non link bait story?
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I think link-bait stories probably peak earlier.
I was trying to refute the argument that a government-funded news source is necessarily plagued by conflicts of interests and results in poor journalism.

As to your point about the source of funding... Given that most written news is moving online, would you support a tax on internet service to support written journalism?
What you've described may be how your relationships usually go, but it sounds a lot like a living hell to me, and is nothing like my experience.
Agreed, when I first heard about this problem I said to my wife "it sounds like people are hitting the gas not the brake". There were complaints of the vehicle accelerating faster the more the brakes were depressed, which is the mechanical effect of depressing the accelerator.

I don't care if you're 20 or 80, male or female, everyone makes mistakes and everyone panics. I'm sure if I hit the brake and noticed no braking action (or even acceleration) my first reaction would probably be to floor the brakes, and I'd be screwed if I'd caught the gas by accident.
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Why is it that Hacker News linked blog posts and comments and such are so full of "you are not X" and "don't try to be as good as X because you are not, take the safe route and be safely mediocre" type stuff?

You guys are harshing my mellow.

Seriously though... no, adopting some superficial Apple-like guidelines will not make you Apple. But understanding at a conceptual level how Apple does what it does might help.

I think the root of these kinds of comments is what I've come to call "success mysticism" in business. It's the idea that the successful have some mystical thing called "what it takes" that is opaque and cannot be understood. You either have it or you don't. This is bullshit. Success comes from experience, intelligence, hard work, dedication, and a little bit of luck. Only the latter item is at all mystical.

Business is really different from science, engineering, and hacker culture in that it's really really superstitious. People usually refuse to examine the black boxes of success, and when they try they usually draw superstitious and superficial conclusions.
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I think there's a part II to that piece of advice. The full version would be:

Have a clearly defined leader that is not an idiot.

Having a clearly defined leader that is an idiot has the opposite effect. The order of excellence in companies goes: brilliant leader, well managed group, idiot-narcissist in charge (in decreasing order of successfulness).
1. Quickly send an email to the Top 20 writing sites out there. And make them an offer: they could get a white label version of your script to be on their URL with their logo for a fee. Strike while the iron is hot.

2. On the results page, quickly create a form that asks for peoples email id. And then publish a newsletter that helps folks become better writers. Capturing email ids also give you a big base of folks with whom you can share your future apps with. Faster seeding.
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Thanks. Just emailed you.
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If I was offered the choice, I'd ask, "come on, am I absolutely required to choose one? This is almost as bad as election year."

Then, if I had no other option, I would choose the sex.
Living hell for her, heaven for you!? Not really. My approach makes her obsession last longer. She never knows when she finally has you, so she keeps fighting to conquer your heart. Since this is a lifetime endeavor (or, perhaps, a death march), then the relationship never gets stale, and she never gets bored with you. Makes marriages last longer, is less traumatic for the kids, and (ultimately) is better for society.

PS: next time your s.o. forces you to visit her boring family or some friends of her that you hate, you'll wish you had more power. Enjoy the whipping!!