skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DuckDuckGo is actually worse for this query (they seem to not be ranking as high as they used to in Google SERPS), but it brings up an issue that I've never seen satisfactorily answered anywhere.

http://www.google.com/search?q=soap+with+flash+as3 brings up the following link from bigresource.com: http://www.bigresource.com/FLASH-SOAP-with-flash-AS3-PvTRLrv...

The BigResournce content is scraped from Actionscript.org and surrounded by BigResource's ads, which is pretty standard scraping. Clicking the link to "view original forum thread" redirects to a framed page with more BigResource ads, and the original content in a frame. The frame is handled internally by the site, so I'm doubtful they're even showing an actual link to their scraped content.

I've seen this specific site debated in this thread: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=... and I know several users including myself have reported this site as spam (I even went the extra mile and changed Chrome to append "-site:bigresource.com" to queries using the default engine).

My question is this: Is there something that BigResource is doing that exempts them from being classified as spam? As near as I can tell, they add no extra value to the content for the user, and push the legitimate results they scraped further down in results (because they have many, many pages).
i think the title is misleading - they mean if the earth stopped --rotating-- around its axis
Could also make this a settings based feature...
If they where using a multicore server

Where would they find a single-core server these days?
I'm glad Paul Graham doesn't write new essays very often. Constantly checking his website for new ones is a bad enough addiction as it is. Reading and discussing a new one every day would keep me from getting much work done. So far, though, it's been a very helpful "addiction". Keep the essays coming (but not too quickly)!
I agree, keep an eye out - we'll be sharing the results and lessons in a future blog post, appreciate you reading regardless :)
I too wouldn't move the text area towards the keyboard, but the other way around: position the keyboard just underneath the text area.
You really don't know any debt free 25 year olds? I'm 27, and nearly everyone I went to college with is debt free. If you go to a state school, work a bit in college, and don't run up credit card bills, it's not that hard to do.
SQLite... Oracle? never used either one, but I believe it.

I'm talking about MySQL vs. Postgres.
Yes. Almost everyone here knows.
I thought it might be a bit hard to notice the pdf link - I'd visited several times but only noticed the CC license because of an Amazon review.
If I ever have to care, hopefully I'll be hiring some guy with a beard to think about that for me.
I am sorry if I make a fool out of myself, and I am really sorry if they are some mistakes over here (it's 4 AM and I need to sleep), but I'll try to do this.

#TIAM objects are closed under + as it is a union of two sets and we are not including any element outside that set. So basically I get a bigger set that includes all the elements of the previous set sans repetition. Now, since I am including all the unique elements of the previous set this means that no new symbol is over there.

However, the last operation (the shift one) isn't one with closure.

#It is commutative as it is the addition of the two sets with an algebraic operation. So it doesn't matter what order in which I add the stuff together. The results always remain the same.

#Yeah,

[0, {}]
Despite whether you agree with him or not, Alex is one of the best technical writers around. This post is exemplary of that.
Silly things to do with shebang lines
Here's another invite code for the private beta: http://www.zumocast.com/?i=hackernews

You have to give your UUIDs for iPhone/iPad and we'll send an ad-hoc build shortly after. But you can install the server app and see the web interface immediately.
Are there any weight loss products that have no side effects
Peer-to-peer special edition of "The Yes Men Fix The World"
If you get rid of the browser chrome at the top, how do I know what URL I am visiting?
Rise of the Reality Merchants
I'm thinking on a fairly medium scale, I guess, and mainly just about PG/MySQL. (You mean other databases exist?? Never even seen such a thing!).
My reference for this is a series of post by a Dr. Davis, cardiologist, who blogs here:

http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/

Check the archives for more.
Awesome feedback.

Name will definitely be changing so watch out for that.

The design is also going to get a serious overhaul in the next few weeks, so watch out for that, too :)
Would have been way funnier if they played Mozart's Requiem Mass instead of Fur Elise.
I don't have accounts right now so it's a bit tricky. If there was some way people could export their Google search history, then I could use that. Feel free to email it in anonymously.
I have run into problems where the machine would not survive reboot after updates but did not find this out after months.
Counterpoint: Intel and Apple clash by no means inevitable
Awesome reply.

Thank you.

I'll reply when in the evening. Right now I need to crash and it's 4 AM and I'm mentally impaired.
I think gojomo has a really good idea here. However, there is no reason to bias it against Google's ad network. We need an advanced search option to find non-ad supported sites, that behind the scenes attempts to filter out every known ad network.
The use case wouldn't be an all the time thing, it would be when you are searching and get results that are overly polluted with ad-based content. Having the option to filter to non-ad based content lets you focus on those sites that have a motivation other than page views for providing content. I imagine this would include both sites actually selling products and non-profit sites like Wikipedia and open source.
But Wikileaks does curate and (to a lesser extent) editorialize. I don’t think that’s a bad things. News organizations without any curation are a pipe dream.
Adding facebook, ms/live/bing and other networks would make more sense than only being obsessed with google.
Olark (YC S09) launches Shopping Cart Saver
Do you have links to those? I know of the MIT ones, but I've also seen links to his Order of Magnitude Physics materials (at Caltech) floating around before.
And that's one point for specialized hardware. On a zSeries mainframe, CPU errors are detected on-the-fly, faulty CPUs are deactivated and their processes migrated to functioning CPUs.

They cost a lot, but they deliver a lot of confidence too.
It would get annoying as it would start to hide that function you use occasionally.

One of the reasons I would disable those features in windows that would hide functions in the pull down menus.
I have enough trouble keeping up with the academic literature in my own field, I'm not going to monitor the toxicology literature as well just in case. I doubt you do, either.

Anyway, while I'm perfectly willing to accept that phthalates are dangerous in sufficiently large quantities (this holds for pretty much any organic chemical) I remain unconvinced by the unproven assertion that it holds a significant risk of sterility when applied externally to the skin in small quantities in the small concentrations present in cheap cologne. Alcohol is also present in colognes, and that's well known to have all sorts of bad effects at large dosages.

I'm also skeptical of the even broader claim that exposure to phthalates is why one in five couples is infertile. Infertility has a zillion different causes, from Robertsonian translocations to endometreosis, and is a common human problem dating back to antiquity (see, for instance, the Bible, where every second woman is apparently infertile, at least until God shows up).
Good website. But not every company shows how to apply. :(
"To do this, you have to get free of the "hold yourself accountable" mindset. You do not have to meet anyone's standards, you don't have to achieve anything, and you don't have to prove anything." - that's how i broke free to discover myself.

Now i just need to remember it every so often :)
Do sunlamps work?
I agree, but unlike the early US, a startup country would stop once a while to see what has organically grown and proliferated, then unify the hodge-podge that results by refactoring. This would lay a proper foundation for further incremental growth.
Some Dell laptops offer trackpoint keyboards (a big draw for me).

Unicomp sells heavy, clacky-key, IBM Model-M style keyboards with the trackpoint built in

http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/en104wh.html

Sort of pricey, but really nice whwn you want to hack with your feet up and the keyboard in your lap, and not have to reach for a mouse.
The TI-82 was the first model I ever saw it on, in the early 90's. Considering that the most readily available way to distribute the game was an audio cable, there were probably several versions from several authors floating around. A few kids at my high school wrote their own versions.
It's OK to reboot from time to time. What is not OK is to have a reboot imposed on you when you would rather continue running. It's not a huge disruption to reboot a cluster node, as long as the rest of the cluster takes the load.

Rebooting makes sure the filesystem is properly scrubbed, temporary files are removed and any stale data in memory gets removed.

Uptime competitions are pointless.

But forced downtime (Windows Update-style) is unacceptable.
Well, that is at least one of the advantages of Common Lisp… ;)
The latest dev version of Google Chrome performs (most) of these CSS3 transitions too. The one transition I didn't see was the "video in a round frame". Maybe it's my system, but I thought the text rendering in the first transition example was sharper in Google Chrome than in FF b2.
Cool, thanks for your thoughts.

I always felt like Clojure was attempting a permissive system, whereas Erlang really is pretty up-front about the environment it's designed to work in.

I keep meaning to fiddle with Reia but never got around to it.
CSS3 Tilt-Shift Text Experiment
> A credit score isn't going to tell you how likely somebody is to make their mortgage. Unless there are really desperate circumstances, most people will pay their mortgage. A middle-of-the-road credit score really doesn't tell you much about how likely somebody is to have desperate circumstances. That makes it a poor predictor.

The above implies that a company that does not use credit scores when making mortgage loans will outperform one that does.

What's the the name of your company that makes mortgage loans and does not use credit scores? More to the point, are you taking investment or borrowing money?
Why don't they just code such a chrome and publish it in the AppStore..?
I think there's an assumption in most mobile browsers that knowledge of the url isn't too important.

That being said in the example the address bar gets moved to the top of the keyboard which you can launch from the side menu.
Ask HN: Minimalist Web Framework for Haskell?
I am beginning a senior design project at CU-Boulder, where we work with local businesses to create a year-long project to be used by said businessess. Most of the past projects have been nothing to write home about.

Screw that.

I want to do something sweet, and get some experience repping a product.

Does the HN community think that a minimalist web framework for Haskell could gain traction?

I was thinking a routing based framework similar to Sinatra or Node.js. Are there enough Haskell devs or willing-to-be-Haskell-devs out there for this product to be useful?

Any other ideas for that matter?
Cool. Correct me if I'm wrong, this is how I think the article describes it:
- Stop the machine (one cpu running, the other ones are stopped).
- Verify in all thread stacks whether the address range of the "C" function to be patched (begining to the end) to be patched is not referenced in the stack - e.g. if some function have to return to the said one (there might be false positives).
- Put the new code in a free memory for execution. Change the first 5 bytes (x86) of the old function with JMP to the new function (granted the function should be at least 5 bytes).

Function changes that won't work:
- Change to the function return type.
- Change to the function argument list.

Things to be aware of:
- If the same function is to be patched again, then you should check the stack for all pervious versions of the function (the stack might be in the old function, doing a JMP to a newer version that's doing another JMP to a newer function, etc.).

What else I might be missing?

Still don't know how they deal with data structures...

In Common Lisp, one can update CLOS objects, but these beasts are full of metadata, and only the compiler knows the inner parts.

Still quite interresting.
I'm glad to see people starting to push back against the cult of “Evented is faster.”

It may be, it may not be. The idea that it always is, though, that's balderdash.
I've actually experienced this years and years ago on my grandmother's machine. It played Fur Elise because it had a short. We needed to figure out the name of the song in order for tech support to help us identify what it meant.
Interesting concept, but I don't think toolbar real estate is much of a concern on the iPad; if it was they could just automatically hide the toolbar altogether like on the iPhone.

And I like having the name and URL visible at all times, as well as my bookmarks. I don't think I've ever complained about having to reach all the way to the top of the screen to tap my Google Reader bookmark.

Address bar attached to keyboard is an nice idea, and something I've thought about myself. I find myself wishing there was an input mode that simply attached an textview onto the keyboard, especially in Safari.

I also wish the iPad keyboard had select all/cut/copy/paste keys, arrow keys, next/previous word, start/end of line, forward delete, delete word, etc. I love actually typing on the screen, but positioning the cursor and revising text can be a pain.
And with a large number of countries to choose from, the ones with the best policies will tend to win out over the long term. Say to start, let's have fifty of them.

I don't get the feeling people really move from state to state for the politics though. I would guess things like natural resources, weather, and historical accident play a bigger role.

I'm in California, apparently because Fredrick Terman encouraged a couple of his students to start a company here [1], and because the place has nice weather.

[1]: http://www.slideshare.net/sblank/computer-history-museum-112...
I've used a lot of pointers (keyboard, joystick, mouse, trackball, trackpad, multitouch, retinal motion, wacom) on a lot of operating systems (TI-94A, solid-state radar displays, Apple II, whatever was behind ACDS and CEC, Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac, FreeBSD, etc, etc) in a lot of different contexts (tracking targets, directing fire, games, fetal ultrasound, planning and reading MRI, CT, Da Vinci machines, surgical microscopes) etc, etc, etc.

I don't think the Mac trackpad is anywhere close to a placebo. It's a parachute issue. (http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/327/7429/1459). For the platform (personal computing), the mac trackpad is a hands-down winner.
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It's just obvious how "threaded" can be slow even in low scale scenarios. It's less obvious how evented can be slower than the hardware allows (not saying it can't be). If nothing is known about the large scale, it still looks like a clear win for evented.
One way to practice interviewing is to conduct more interviews. Yes, I'm suggesting that you volunteer to interview candidates at your current job.
As a researcher in the area of runtime software upgrades, I'm excited to see this post here and am curious what the HN community thinks of Ksplice. Does your product demand extremely high availability with the further constraint that you can't just shift the workload to another machine to perform an OS (or application) upgrade? If so what are the circumstances? (e.g., Does your program maintain long-running connections that can't be broken?) Are there times when you have been unable to upgrade your OS or server program because you couldn't sacrifice availability?

I'd love to get in touch with people who are working under these constraints.
Does anyone have video of a computer doing this? I'm curious to see what it sounds like.
That would take actual work. Feel free to do it yourself, though.
The Holy grail of newspaper apps
The thing that bugs me most about articles about "women in CS" is that they seem to ALWAYS ignore the most important contributing factor to why there are fewer women in the field: interest. In my experience at my university, it isn't that women aren't smart enough or dedicated enough to do CS. Its just that they don't find it all that interesting to them.

If I found CS boring, I doubt I'd stick around either, regardless of what the opportunities looked like.
Similar in spirit to http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer.html
Data as a service
Can you please explain "impression-weighted precision" and how it's used? Sounds very interesting.
I suspect it's a bit of all of these, but mostly 3. There are strong regulatory barriers to setting up new financial institutions -- which of course work in favour of incumbent institutions. The banking industry could do with a bit of disruption.
There is another side of credit scores, not mentioned in the original article or in the comments.

There was a time, before credit scoring became ubiquitous, when you would walk into a bank and get a loan from a loan officer directly, who would have very little to go on besides what you immediately present. That meant that women and minorities, even ones who would be excellent credit risks, were less likely to be able to get credit.

Sure, the current system has lots and lots of flaws (mostly from reducing everything to a single immutable number), but there's something fundamentally good behind the intention of judging people based on their concrete financial activity instead of just on the color of their skin and/or the cut of their suit.
Your problem sounds mostly psychological. You may have a case of anxiety disorder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety_disorder). See a professional counselor if this is bothering you to the point that it is robbing you of your happiness.
this has got to be one of the most beautifully set blog posts I've read recently.
You are completely wrong. I am very good friends with one of the Deans of SCS at CMU and have heard first hand from him that the reason CMU has more women in CS than the avg university is because they DON'T do this.
It's not that I think this security theater is so logical or effective. I think it's often a waste of money and resent the ubiquitous impositions it creates, although I think this may change somewhat after next year.*

But it does attempt to address some basic realities: the most attractive place to cause damage is at the incoming station, where a crowd will be waiting for the train; getting a parcel onto the train will require passing armed police/troops (and who knows what else? dogs? electronic detectors? the uncertainty is meant to erode a terrorist's confidence); there's a reasonable chance a bomb would be carried by a human, given a) the demonstrated preference for suicide bombings among Islamic fundamentalists and b) the relatively low participation by Islamic countries in winter sports, reducing the probability of a would-be martyr inadvertently blowing up co-religionists.

In a nutshell, the sight of heavily armed guards is, sadly, meant to look familiar and imposing to potential terrorists - because many Middle Eastern countries have paramilitary-type law enforcement. Polite and discreet security (eg the US secret service guys in their suits, or friendly-looking beat cops) wouldn't make a terrorist feel especially nervous - the same way that kids don't take mall cops very seriously because they don't have guns or tasers.

* When I go downtown, the subway station restrooms are still locked with increasingly faded stickers on them saying 'closed for security reasons due to September 11 attack'. The 10 year anniversary of that event will be a sad one, but at the same time a decade seems to be the difference between past and present for most people. So my hunch is that after it passes, there will be a lot of questioning along the lines of '10 years on, do we still need this?'

In that light, and with an election the following year, the question of budgets will also arise. the Department of Homeland Security costs about $56 billion/year. For comparison, the Department of Justice (including the FBI, DEA, and all the other law enforcement agencies) costs less than half that amount. The entire Federal court system costs under $7 billion/year. So I think a reassessment of our security strategy is on the horizon.
Ah yes, the second system syndrome. This time we'll get it right.
Sorry, I have to keep my online activities and work separate. :-) But I didn't mean to infer my company doesn't use credit scores... They use them plenty.

>The above implies that a company that does not use credit scores when making mortgage loans will outperform one that does.

The point is, while we don't really know how these algorithms work, we know they don't control for the type of loan. You just get one number. That one number is not always meaningful.
Ask HN: Hacker Friendly Accommodations in SF
I'm coming to SF between the 17th of August and 24th of September and wondering if there are any Startup People with an empty room to spare.

For that one month I don't feel like staying in an empty hotel room, and AirBnB doesn't have a 'private room around hackers' filter.

Will pay dues, cleanup, help with coding and what is requested.
People absolutely do move between states for politics.

People who move directly for political reasons (taxes, regulations, etc.) are relatively small, but for instance I left California due to California firearms laws and taxes.

A lot of people move for second-order effects of politics -- there is more new business activity in Texas than in Louisiana, New Hampshire vs. Vermont, and in South Dakota than Minnesota, etc. due to government actions, and people move for those jobs.
What Face are you wearing today?
During my second winter in Portland, OR, I started to feel chronically tired and nearly unable to wake up each morning, no matter how much sleep I had had. Once I realized something was wrong, I started Vitamin D supplements and within a day or two, I felt like a brand new person. It was really dramatic. Since then, I take them every year during the colder months.
Still wouldn't have made it true. Without any relevant data, I could speculate that non-techies are less likely to buy a computer based on technical merits, and more likely to decide based on what their friends have (especially technical friends that they could bum help off of)
In general we want to measuring what matters to users, so removing a lot of spam that nobody sees doesn't really make anything better.

By the same token, if you are trying to launch a new spam classifier that has some false positives, if one of the false positives is yahoo or facebook, it doesn't really matter how good it is, it will never be worth the collateral damage.

As a result, rather than measuring precision/recall as a percentage of domains or as a percentage of urls we usually try to measure it as a percentage of results that appeared on a search result page or results that users click on, mined from our logs.

This is one of the bajillion reasons why it's absurd to expect Google to throw away all its logs data. The logs are essential to coming to any meaningful conclusions about the current quality of our search, let alone finding ways to improve it.