skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DDT has never been banned for vector control. It's been banned for agricultural use, but only after it was so overused that most agricultural pests had already become resistant to it.

The idea that there exists a worldwide ban on DDT for vector control, and that out-of-control malaria and "millions of dead humans" were the "real consequence" is a complete fantasy. And a rather disgusting one, as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT
Neither solves 'the problem', if one describes it as 'make all/most web content semantically richer'. Both just provide a mechanism, but nobody is going to invest in tagging their data without a good use case. so, it is sort of a chicken and egg problem.

Worse, marking up my data in the database from which I serve my web pages may benefit me, but currently, marking up my data in my web pages just costs bandwidth.
You seem perturbed. Would you ever consider setting up your own Digg competitor, given Digg is going down?
I didn't even know Chrome had its own PDF viewer. Thanks for sharing.
I played high school football and this is what my august was like from 8th grade until senior year. Crazy were the farm boys who worked in the field all day between morning and afternoon practice.
The question is: do you convert that sentiment to subscribing?

I ask because the only way good journalism venues can survive in the short to medium term is through print subscriptions, which subsidize their websites.

(For those of you about to level the charge of hypocrisy: I get the New Yorker and the Atlantic. Reading the latter starting when I was a college freshmen has probably taught nearly as much as all my non-technical classes combined.)
I remember reading some interview with the digg-staff around the Cassandra switch. I remember that the "problems" they were facing with the relational databases were mostly bad queries designed to exhaust even a decent DB.

Instead of just writing proper SQL, they wanted to replace their entire server architecture. To me that looked like a pretty bad decision and I would halfway label that a "technical problem", although it may be more related to the technical competence of the staff than anything else.

Now ofcourse I can't remember where I saw it, or what the specific issues were and I'd love to revisit it. Anyone got a good memory or a link handy? :)
Awesome. The wakemates tackled a tough problem. Really excited to see how it turns out.
No. That's only part of the analysis. Mosquitoes may benefit, as well as harm, humans. For example, they may be keeping more dangerous animals or diseases in check in extremely subtle ways.
Also, it is irrelevant.
There's no clean path with regard to this.

Either you plan too much ahead and you end up tweaking your design forever, eventually building high-level cruft code that still won't get anything done because you don't dig deep to the ground to find the real culprits of your solution.

Alternatively, you plan nothing at all and end up rewriting your program several times because you just won't see the big picture as you're just digging up dirt from many different spots.

I think it works best if you plan only as much as you initially can and then start coding a proof-of-concept version as quickly as possible. You can only plan what you know of, and it's not much at first but it's something. Quickly getting to coding helps you understand the problem better, and you will throw away a many approaches that turn out to be suboptimal or solutions to the wrong problem, but there's nothing wrong with that. When the coding brings in more knowledge, then you can plan a bit more, and repeat.

If you're good, you can do that most of the most of the time. A conservative estimate might be half the time. More importantly, you will never hit the optimal planning versus coding point but you wave around on the both sides, sometimes planning too much and sometimes coding too much.

Experienced programmers can keep the amplitude of that zigzagging low, inexperienced programmers rush from endpoint to endpoint doing too much either.
Don't assume things.

When you're developing, there are a thousand little decisions to be made. Don't assume that the server will be up before the client. Don't assume that the file you open will be writeable. Don't assume that the database is there. Don't assume that the user knows what you know. Don't assume everything works.

Maybe it's because I spend lots of time in teams developing large (overly) complicated systems, but a common problem is simply finding out what went wrong. Strictly speaking, you can sometimes accept something as a precondition if it is explicitly stated as such--but you still at a minimum need to at least fail loudly and obviously if it doesn't do what you expected. Silent failures suck.

Don't assume anything while debugging, either. As mentioned elsewhere, when debugging I find it useful to take the symptom and think of every possible failure that could could cause the symptom. Then, start paring down the list by doing more tests. Do not assume anything. Don't assume the cables are connected. Don't assume the code is current, or the driver is working, or the the library documentation is correct. Verify, verify, verify.

By all means, use your experience to prioritize your search space. I personally prioritize stuff that's easy to check, or stuff that's known to have a problem. Of course, I generally suspect my own code long before turning my gaze toward third-party components. But don't assume! Remember the old saying, "it's not a compiler bug?" Well, yeah--that's really the last thing I'd suspect. But if I ruled everything else out, I'd at least do a Google search to see if anyone at least brought up the possibility.

But of course, I've never gotten that far. So far, every debugging problem has been reducible to a failure to check my assumptions.

There's a fantastic Mark Twain quote that I was amazed to find the other day; apologies if I've included it here before: “It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”
He connects sellers and buyers, just like a grocery store does.

He gives business to t-shirts producers who wouldn't necessarily be able to chose what t-shirts to make, to market them, charge for them, etc. And he helps buyers by giving them a convenient way to order and pay for t-shirts.
It may not only be Cassandra, but it would not surprise me to find that the reason the VP was let go was because he oversold some architecture or combination of architectures as a panacea. When everyone else found out that Cassandra + whatever else wasn't going to be the magic bullet after all, someone's head needed to roll.
Taking breaks for tea/showers/walks in the fresh air is the one thing with the best chance of helping me solve a problem. Of course, this is only effective after staring at it long enough that when I eventually do take a break, I can't stop thinking about it (and I'm so embedded in the problem that I know enough about it to continue thinking without referring back to it).
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Caffeine. I'm surprised nobody has admitted this yet.
In addition to that flaw, the prices are nominal. Even if the real price were staying exactly the same, you'd still expect to see an positive slope on this line because of inflation. What a worthless visualization.
The real question is... will this increase or decrease Google's revenue through Adwords on the result pages?

They will for sure show more ads, maybe making chances higher for a user to click an ad, but at least for me, after trying it out a bit, it seems like I focus more on the results themselves when typing, as they change all the time, without giving attention to the ads.

And as already mentioned, long tail searches might be used less often, so you cannot buy cheap uncompetitive ads to drive traffic to your site, you have to use the big keywords that are suggested.
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But what if the more dangerous things that Mosquitos are keeping in check would rid us of even more dangerous things, if there were more of them?
Take a look at the terms/privacy by wordpress.com... it is under a Creative Commons Sharealike license, save those legal fees for raining days. I find it quite easy to adopt for most businesses.
Looks neat, though I don't have a smartphone. Someday maybe, huh?

I guess my question (and I find myself asking this question of pretty much any free service) is: If it's a startup and it's free, how are you going to make money off it?
At the risk of sounding like a troll, I think the title is unnecessarily specific: yahoo didn't just drop the ball on instant search, photo sharing, social bookmarking, x, or y, or z. They just dropped the ball. Period. As has been extensively documented, Yahoo is a tech company that has never wanted to be a tech company.

Given a few more years, I'm sure they'll get their wish when they cease to be a company altogether.
We can always keep some mosquitoes in a cage in the CDC in the unlikely event that they do turn out to be useful. Of course, I would be very interested to know what kind of benefits mosquitos provide to humans. Remember that while malaria's death toll is 1-3 million, there are 350–500 million infections per year. The cost of these infections is immense, both economically and in terms of human suffering.
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" Humans are basically the minimally conscious and intelligent creatures that could take over a planet."

I believed this about a year ago and thought myself well and properly cynical.

Then it was pointed out to me that humanity is the minimally conscious and intelligent population such that, with some random genetic shuffling, you wind up with 2-5% capable of taking over the planet, and pulling the rest up with them.
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"For his [1]"

Her [1], in fact.
This is from Wakemate's April 1st email:

"The next batch of units will ship no later July 30th, 2010. Based on your pre-order date, you should expect your WakeMate no later than 07/30/2010, but probably significantly sooner."

Wakemate has got to stop lying in emails. I give huge kudos to Wakemate for trying and it's probably a lot tougher nut to crack than I can even imagine, but Wakemate has - through repeatedly not fulfilling their promises - lost all credibility in my eyes.
Assuming I don't know shit yet (but that sometimes I do know something).

When I was younger, I hoped I knew pretty much everything I needed to know. Oh boy, that was hard. That effectively cut me off learning because if you don't admit you don't know something you can never learn anything. My learning was diverted to many impractical programming mindgames instead of bare hands-on programming.

Luckily, programming is a very binary thing. A program either works or it doesn't. If you don't know something or you don't understand something, you can't solve the problem. Enough of the cases where someone smarter had written code that I just couldn't have written the same way or as elegantly finally returned me back on my feet.

Then I dipped slightly to the other side of the axis. I assume I don't know anything about some problem or new piece of code until I study it enough to confirm that certain similarities to what I've seen before do exist. The downside is that it takes time until I find my confidence but eventually the magic will dissolve, I see how the program works, and I finally touch the code and start making modifications. But I remain very careful unless I'm really, really, really sure I know better to make a big modification.

While it is stressful to the ego, for me it's a much better way.
I'd argue any database on modern hardware where you can't do a single transaction on a few hundred rows without noticeably affecting performance does not have "working transactions".
> ssh prod-db
> mysqldump what-i-need > file.sql
> exit
> scp prod-db:file.sql .

I remember running across a tutorial/blog post once about how to automatically setup back-channel on an ssh connection so that you could do:

> ssh prod-db
> mysqldump what-i-need > file.sql
> scp file.sql mymachine:.

Edit: Here's a similar article (the one I was thinking about is older than this one) --

article: http://codysoyland.com/2010/jun/6/ssh-tip-automatic-reverse-...

hn discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1409263
Good point. I should add that some countries still use DDT for malaria control and any country that wishes to use it to fight malaria is free to do so, there is no treaty banning its use for malaria control.

However, many mosquito species are becoming resistant to DDT, so it is not really useful any longer. For example, India has greatly reduced the use of DDT because most of its malaria bearing mosquitoes are resistant to it.

DDT kills mosqito predators too and the mosquito predators are usually bigger more complex creatures with longer lifespans so it is much harder for them to evolve a resistance to DDT. Thus the idea that you could wipe out mosquitoes with DDT is ridiculous. Mosquitoes just evolve resistances to it. However, you could wipe out many bird species with it.

Here is a good fact sheet on the issue:

http://www.ipen.org/ipenweb/documents/work%20documents/ddt_i...
I've had almost no problems
I wouldn't say I am perturbed. I would say I am amused by all the "guess-timations" related to digg whenever the subject of "Digg is dead" comes up. I feel that there are very few people outside the digg power-users who understands how systematic the gaming was going on. I am sure people knows that gaming was going, but I don't think a lot of people understands or knows the fine details.

Hopefully, by sharing my thought I could influence the widely held idea that "Digg finally screwed up bad this time" to "Digg finally did something right for the first time".

Honestly I feel that digg management is incompetent at best. Jay was more interested in selling Digg to the highest bidder as soon as he joined digg and after that didn't work out too well, he was more interested on generating revenue (nothing wrong with that) at the expense of taking care of the site and the community.

To answer your question. No I don't think I would do something like Digg. Digg in its current form, and even when it started, is a glorified RSS feed; which doesn't even reflect the choice of the hive-mind or your interest. The real meat is in the community (just look at reddit). If you get the software right, the user will take you from there. Besides who else wants another source of distraction to get news?
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Try typing 'F#', the instant results are irrelevant to F# the language (probably due to the # symbol), but when you click search they become relevant.

I would prefer it to be consistent :)
I'm in NYC, and I only know a Java dev in MN.

I work for a startup in Mountain View (a fairly well known one?) and I still haven't ever worked for a company that exceeded a 5 on the Joel Test.

That particular fact is why I'm considering leaving web dev altogether for embedded or something where external constraints force the development process to be more structured. We'll see though.
Ya that's a lot of money. It makes sense that if you are concerned with VC backed executive salaries $999 is probably a minor expensive. Google had a link to an older one on scribd:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/13743949/2008-Compstudy-Report-in-...

NOTE: In the description it states this is an abridged version. It looks like the detailed version(s) are what cost so much money.
The more books you own, the more % of them get read.
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Is Google Instant trying to trick people into clicking on ads?
Oh yeah, definitely not gonna be getting a php job anytime soon. I think the problem is less that you can't list these kind of things on a resume, but you can't name your category "Seen Before:" y'know? Resumes have a certain expected level of formality to them, and it's sustaining this formality that frustrates me.

Maybe the "cool people should submit their github repos as their resumes" group has a point. :)
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How do you pitch your products to big Companies?
I have a product that might interest some big players (Microsoft , IBM, Oracle....), there's a need. How do I approach those companies to pitch my products. I know that Paras of VWO (Visual website optimizer) could get some high profile clients on board, since I have no insiders in those companies, how can I approach get them on board?
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I think the debate would be much easier if we hadn't chosen them as our national symbol.
I like the formula suggested by Steve Pavlina (http://www.stevepavlina.com/): Intelligence = Truth + Love + Power.
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I'm a fan of the idea of the Google interface.

But I don't think it could have made up for an inferior search. If you don't get what you want, you won't care how quickly you get. By 2005, Yahoo had lost on the basic search infrastructure side and even revolutionary interface wouldn't change that.

I'm not even much of a fan of the present implementation of type-ahead on Google. On my machine with an average broad band connection, all it does blank my old results till I've typed my new results. It could be because I'm using Firefox on Ubuntu. Still.
One of the benefits of Quirk is that only one party involved in the connection needs to have a smart phone. In other words, you can set up a profile and download your QR code (and store it as a picture on a less-featured phone, or have it on a business card), and contacts you make can scan your code to connect. You can follow up on that connection later from the web interface.

We're going to have data about the types of businesses you connect to, and eventually where you're making those connections. We think that's data that can be monetized. In the case of specific communities making concentrated connections (like conferences), that data can be honed into valuable insights into the community, and hopefully the organizers of those communities will find high value in those insights.

Hopefully, there's a business to be built among nurturing customer relations, fostering communities, and analyzing the social graph.
The whole bald eagle or malaria dichotomy is false. Any country that has an actual malaria problem can use DDT to control it, if they think it is effective (however it is becoming less and less effective, because mosquitoes are becoming resistant to it). Some of these countries still use DDT. The US eradicated malaria from our borders by other means long time ago.

In the US the debate about DDT was whether to use it as a pesticide. So the choice was about killing the bald eagles and most of our other birds, or slightly increasing pest control costs for farmers and people with lawns.
I don't think I disagree with you. My whole argument in these posts is that tax evasion, although very real, did not lead Greece to this mess neither will its reverse take it out. The problem is the bloated public sector with all its related problems. I think fixing that should be the first step towards a real solution.
"Of course, you should look before you leap"

True, but there is something to be said for throwing yourself in the deep end. Totally agree that until you do start, you've only got other peoples experiences and knowledge to go off, which is never going to be exactly the same as your own.
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The difficulty is while we are well aware of this law, we don't know if it will apply. Did the world miss polio when it was gone? Or the bubonic plague?

There are always consequences of everything- hell, it's one of Newton's laws. But it's entirely possible there are no terrible awful consequences.
Have you tried noise-cancelling headphones? I use the Sennheiser PXC-350's whenever I am not working at home, you can get the benefits of reduced ambient noise without having any music on (though I mostly do). It's NOT complete sound-proofing, but much nicer than hearing everything that is happening around you.

Here is the comparison that convinced me (the Sennheisers are at the end): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQdbcDTiIas
Racket has something similar. You can insert images to the source code, draw new images to the REPL, etc.

http://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/index.html
Other than feeling the need to list all of 37signals products, why would he use Ta-da List when Basecamp and Backpack both have to-do lists as well?
It affects other species as well. Also, eagles becoming extinct will have far more consequences than a few fewer birds in the sky. Since they are apex predators, everything below them in the food chain will be affected. And guess what's also part of that chain? Farms and livestock.

Ecosystems are complex enough that we have very little information on all the interactions that could happen. It's more than just a bag of organisms mixed together. A better analogy is the network of files and components loaded up during the boot process. Especially early on, each piece is crucial to what happens next.
Ok, enough already. We need to move on to the next step.

Assuming you're right, and we are in a higher education bubble-

- What are going to be the consequences?

- How do we fix things?

- In an effort to avoid the bubble, what actions should an individual take?

If you won't be helpful about it, as far as I'm convinced you're just another doomsayer.
A can of Diet Coke and a banana.

I seldom eat before noon, when I do it's usually a piece of fruit.
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Yeah, I've suspected that the most important piece of hardware (and software) is the one between your ears.

Macbooks, $400 headphones... Bah!
I remember, back when Instant was first ramping up staffing from prototype to production levels, saying,

"It's going to be a spectacular failure, but I am very, very glad that I work in a company where we can take risks like this."

(In my defense, remember that chart Google released today showing the resource usage of various incarnations of Instant? It was in the Prototype stage at the time, with a total cost roughly 10-20x existing websearch. We were talking about having to build new datacenters to support it. And the UI was nowhere near as polished; I found it very jarring to use at the time.)

I think there's a lesson for entrepreneurs in here somewhere: imagine where the technology could be, not where it is. Almost all innovations are pretty crappy when they first come out. That's a reason to improve them, not a reason to cancel them. Many problems that look impossible at first can be solved given enough engineering effort and creative thinking.

I think it also says a lot about the management style of Larry & Sergei vs. the MBAs at Yahoo. There's a tendency, as companies get bigger, to look at things rationally and say "We have $X to lose if this fails, and some uncertain $Y to gain if it succeeds. The chance of success is low. Let's not do it." Larry & Sergei say "Okay, we know what the risks are. $X is high but manageable, and $Y is unknown but potentially big. Let's do it."