skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. There are definitely cases where spam has displaced good results. Although poorly phrased, I guess I was asking a different question: apart from intentional attempts to game the system, are there cases where pages one wants to see are consistently ranked after pages one does not? Which is to say, are there improvements that could be made to Google's ranking algorithms beyond making it more spam resistant?
Neat! So is this just a fun project or does Google plan to use this technology in any of their products?

Edit: You can use Scribe on any web page.
From the help section:
"Google Scribe can be used anywhere, on any web page, using the Google Scribe Bookmarklet.

From the Google Scribe home page, drag the Google Scribe Bookmarklet (located below the text box) to Bookmarks toolbar (or Favorites toolbar depending on your browser). To use Google Scribe on a web page, click on the Google Scribe Bookmarklet. Google Scribe will then enable itself on the active text field on the webpage. Enabled text fields display the icon at top end corner of the active field."
You sound like you have a case of the 'mondays'.
Wow! Very ambitious and bold startup. People are solving more society problems than the Govt itself. Website like yours will help gather international teams to look at community problems. This is like taking Open Source Movement to the "hard" world.

Wish you all the very best!
It depends on what your time is worth. Like I said, you my find it emotionally gratifying to release your application's source code as open source. In which case it very well may be "worth it" to you.

However, I'll stand by my point that it is very, very difficult to extract significant income from the average open source project.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_D...
See other remarks in this thread. Yes, this is a planned feature.
This is the sort of thing that belongs in the browser itself, not specified in the HTML for each page. We should be able to write text in HTML as ASCII, and if the HTML says "justify this text," the browser should know the hyphenation points for all of the words. It should be the responsibility of the rendering engine, not the content.
Maybe not "taking shots", but I also feel a general "ha, he missed that big one" attitude.

Newton was such a great scientist that he made his famous "I don't make hypotheses" statement in regards to the nature of gravity. Knowing the limits of your (current) knowledge is a fundamental trait of being a scientist (and a philosopher, e.g. see Wittgenstein's motto "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." and Socrates' analysis of the Oracle's answer to him.)
Online comedy about big enterprise software
It very well done and quite entertaining.
"Living off of $12.50 an hour" is a nearly meaningless concept without a specific number of hours.

That said, living off of $2,000/month is easily doable if:

1. You live in an inexpensive location.

A bit of research on Craigslist can give you a general idea of where to find inexpensive apartments. Sometimes they're rural, sometimes they're not. The key, though, is being willing to move to the inexpensive location.

2. You have very little debt.

This is probably the difficulty that most people encounter. And unfortunately, there isn't an easy way to make it happen unless it's always been a priority for you.

3. You're reasonably good at keeping your other living expenses low.

This means lots of cooking at home, not going to the movies all the time, and probably saving up for several months if you want to buy a shiny new television or game console.
At points I've submitted patches or very clear descriptions but they get ignored still. In other projects there is often a steep learning curve to get even a small patch in, like in Mozilla, particularly if it's a language you don't normally use. I think in most projects it's simply not feasible to drop in to do a couple of patches you really have to involved long term.

The only exception to this are security bugs where I've avoided the bug tracker and typically got fast responses and fixes.
I did this until it suggested "I'ma let you finish but Beyonce had one of the..."

I guess this particular phrase has been on the internet so much that it skews the machine learning algorithm.
Startups flock to Twitter headquarters
On a desktop keyboard maybe, but I'd much prefer this method of input on a phone with a touch-screen keyboard
Yes. There used to be a manager who would schedule a meeting at 10am everyday with me to force me to come in. I was like fuck this, if I have to work until 11pm/midnight the previous night, I should have a little leeway in coming a bit late the next morning. I don't want someone to babysit my time.
I don't commit anything with failing tests as a matter of principle. I want to be able to revert any commit at any point in the future and have some degree of confidence that the code should be in a working state.

Any "failing" tests in your workflow would be marked as pending rather than actually failing.
Best advice regarding this topic:

Write drunk, revise sober.
-Pragmatic Guide to Thinking and Learning

I can write code drunk, but I never would for work. When you need to get it right the first time, or work without a spec, or work on production code that's mission critical, you're going to start thinking of all the things that can go wrong (and second-guessing yourself a whole bunch). Try writing drunk for your personal projects where creativity is required, and try and keep the booze out of the (home?) office- can't imagine what good would come of it.
Also, a GPS satellite is actively designed to be found. A ballistic missile? Not so much.
right, the parent was commenting that yahoo is essentially throwing away a site that has a very high number of backlinks.

Seems to me that they would have been better off letting it go read-only, and then attempt to use it to sell other Yahoo services (I mean, if they thought the abuse costs of continuing to run geocities were too high; And I imagine that the abuse costs were the only real serious costs associated with continuing to run it.)
I don’t know what their home life was like, but they seemed happy.

PS: Average monthly pay was ~= 7.5$ * (40 + (1.5(overtime) * 40 (hours) * 4 / 12)) * 52 / 12 = 1950$ a month.

Granted this is 10 to 15 years ago so it went further, but he was also paying for school at the time.
Last.FM visualizes your daily listening patterns for the last year.
I shared a similar app here on HN a while ago that used Google's own suggest feature to guess the next word or two: http://chir.ag/projects/ktype/

KType was a demo for something like Scribe that I wanted to make for disabled users.
FYI there are grammar and/or spelling errors in most frames of the slider:

"We care about codes highlights as much as you, major languages are here, even more are comming!"

"Crowd coding, bring all peers immediately with simply a URL , in ignorance about Emacs zealots or Vim stickers, watch every others' each single scratch in truly real-time."
The job descriptions are wonderfully enticing and precise. It's like the writer peered straight into my geeky soul.
I would imagine the appeal is less towards native/fluent speakers at this point, and more for people who are learning or uncomfortable with english grammar.

I have several friends who use Google to as a first editor of their grammar by making sure that phrases they aren't sure are correct return lots of search results. This seems like a convenient way for them to streamline that process.
Indeed. The first sentence it generated for me was not a Markovian nonsense phrase, but rather a phrase that appears on a very large number of web pages: "The following content has been identified by the YouTube community as being potentially offensive or inappropriate." This gives some insight into their seed data.
How OpenAppMkt is giving iPhone owners more choice
How very redditesque.

"You sound like you have a case of the 'mondays'."

Because I have a rational business sense, and an ability to empathize with users (the ones who really don't care that you're duplicating basic functionality of Flash from 15 years ago, only less efficiently)?

I appreciate that this site is Hacker News, and that we all love cool tech demos, but I would hope at least some of the readers here have some ability to see things rationally, and to have some degree of business sense.

Instead it seems to be veering towards the typical insulated-from-the-world, to borrow from Redditesque, circle-jerk.
When they killed it it had a higher Alexa rank than Digg too.
If there is no way to tell, does it matter?

It's easy to see the flaw in many failed implementations: they don't manage their schedules, they don't have successful iterations, they don't manage their technical investments, and the only thing they don't do that agile suggests isn't usually worth doing is writing lots of specifications and documentation beforehand.
"When I was first exposed to this reality, some friends on the nearby Microsoft Word team shared stories about their app's own scary basement: a routine called FormatLine. Given a point in a document and a column width, FormatLine would lay out the next line of text at that point. As I heard it, this routine had evolved into a handful of functions that were each thousands of lines long. Developers assigned to descend into the depths of FormatLine were treated with the same respect and concern as spelunkers attempting to reach trapped miners."

This paragraph is hilarious and horrifying all rolled into one. That is not my idea of a fun project.
I think people are better off coding to a standard shell (as necessary), and otherwise using whatever shell makes them happy for day-to-day use.

Sure. I'm just saying that, in my own case, switching from zsh to bash has meant that instead of worrying about making sure that zsh is installed and up to date on all my systems and that all the various addons and plugins I used to need for zsh are available, I just have to make sure my .bashrc is available. And even if it isn't I don't lose much. So I get a functional, familiar environment in all the cases that matter to me with no extra hassles.
What problem do you have with the license? It doesn't require any release of source and it doesn't prevent sale of the software. It looks a lot like a BSD license.
Precession is caused by the gyroscopic effect.
"It was a dark and stormy night in the city of New York City Area Directory of All Stores International Sites & Affiliates Forum & Resources for Teachers and Students at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California at..."
Can you elaborate on this? I have never seen a wheel tilt when you accelerate or decelerate it.
The easiest option was simply to switch to a different search engine, which I did

That seems extreme...there are other ways to use google besides hitting the homepage. For example, I use the FireFox default start page: http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.m.... You can also use the search bar in most browsers.
We have a lot of decent developers on our team. But management is still stuck in 90's where everything is done as huge framework building waterfall exercise. The word YAGNI doesnt mean anything to anyone here.
So yea lot of skilled devs are writing useless frameworks when they could have producing real business value.
So I would say the most important thing is the process once you have a decently skilled team.
i did not consider the fact that they hold a board position and represent the majority shareholder block and because of that they have an influence on the company culture. i was wrong and retract my statement accordingly.
I think this puts into words the potential benefit I see in approaches like Google's GWT, which uses Java's ability to describe strict separations to separate "hairy cross-browser engineering fiddliness" from "view intent".

I did say "potential". :-) And the same lesson definitely applies beyond the need to separate UI concerns, but that issue seems to get the tangliest the fastest.
Is Transactional Programming Actually Easier?
This is an good app. The UI needs a lot of work. Look at www.foodpairing.be for some UI inspiration. Also, cooking is not just about ingredients its about how and when to add each of the ingredients. For example, you wouldn't make a gastrique by putting all the ingredients together then reducing, there is a specific order in which ingredients need to be added to produce the best flavors.
I understand.

BTW it seems you found an interesting problem!
Agile is just best practices
I'd always understood gravity to be a mutual attraction between two masses. So the thing I have difficulty understanding is how light can only be attracted to mass, but itself cannot attract mass, no matter the quantity present.
Yeah that list only holds for successful projects. A broken process can quickly move to the top of the list of reasons for failure.
Is it just me, or does this thing hate FireFox?
Using ISO 9001 For Implementing ISO 27001
Posted in response to comments in:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1669075
Well here is an experiment that I have done. I used a toy double blade helicopter, like these ones:

http://www.rc-airplane-world.com/coaxial-rc-helicopters.html

And it sure seemed to have a lot of rotational inertia. If you were right, then I could touch one side of the helicopter slightly and since it has no rotational inertia it would tilt to the side and completely change direction and fly off somewhere into the wall or the floor. This did not happen however, even when I tried to tilt it the helicopter remained horizontal. And please do not tell me that a $50 toy has an active stability system with internal gyros and all the required electronics and super fast servos.

And now that I think of it, I remember that the russians have been making counter rotational helicopters for ages. See for example this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamov_Ka-25

How does this helicopter stay horizontally stable in the air and does not fly off on a tangent when tilted by the slightest cross wind? Note that this one was designed in the late 50's before any electronic active stability systems could have been invented.
Jason Howell joining TWiT, will produce Tech News Today
Error ratio per KLOC is actually quite low in Microsoft.
You left out #0, which is "Knowing what to build." I suppose discovering that is in the realm of #4. Hm.
I can't think of a better way to put this than: so what?

They're providing a service to you on the assumption that they can monetise via adverts, they're perfectly within their rights to withhold that service if you disable ads. Sure, it shows they're not a very "web-savvy" company, but it's their business. If it's a bad move, someone else will come along and undercut their business (eg youtube)
There are so many things to say about this. Thanks to Google for creating this tool which I must say still seems a bit random in its objectives though.

I think the main issue here is that logic behind scribe is based on statistical frequency of co-occurrence of strings rather than any semantic logic. Granted, automating the semantics here could be tough and very expensive with the amounts of data available to Google's. However, there are some ways to do that if the index can be structured more efficiently and by using low-level semantic logic like taxonomies - I wrote a white paper about this if anyone is interested: http://www.exorbyte.com/index.php/White-Papers/ajax-incremen...
ACID = "reliable"? You need to define that.

Also you casually mix in "default state", so you need to decide if you're going to include all the possible modes of the more flexible stores out there or if you want this to be a silly attack on default configs.
Typing in "Larry and Sergey" produces

Larry and Sergey Dump Shares of the Company and their respective mascots, events and info in the top right corner of the world's largest international multimedia news agency

but after a few more phrases the story gets into a loop.
Ask HN: Getting the attention of a much larger potential partner
How do you go about getting the attention of a much larger potential partner, especially if that partner is in the consumer space where product people tend to be hidden behind layers of customer service and other walls.

We aren't in a position to interest a biz dev team, since there's no money ready to change hands, but I'd really like to build a relationship with the product management teams of the products we are basing our future on.
Brazilian Agriculture
Does anyone have experience with Beanstalk or has done a comparison VS rabbitMQ or other queuing technologies?
New Book: Conversions For Dummies (Free from Google)
H-P Sues Hurd After Oracle Appointment
The one-directional stability in steerage of wheeled vehicles (bikes, shopping carts, cars and non wheeled vehicles like boat rudders) is affected by more or less asymmetry between the center of pivot and the center of force. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caster_angle
Start with a word, hit tab 10 times, paste your result.

> Moneywatch MovieTome mySimon NCAA Showtime SmartPlanet TechRepublic The Insider on TV and radio.
If only it auto-inserted a space after words it would be so much more efficient.
Government startup? What a rare phrase
In what way is this a "startup"? It looks more like thinly veiled advertising for the government than anything else.

Some "challenges": "How Has Social Security Made a Difference in Your Life?" "Write about how you've used government information in your life and have your story posted on GovGab"

Ignoring the most blatant propaganda, the rest are just feel-good projects of no consequence. On the front page, the only project that even pretends to be significant is "Connecting Kids To Coverage Challenge". Apparently there are 5 million children who have de facto health insurance, but are counted by the census as "uninsured". Your challenge is to change their census characterization by encouraging their parents to fill out some paperwork.

It's obvious that our enlightened bureaucrats are unwilling to risk losing their jobs if a crowdsourced solution actually works better than they do (witness the backlash against, for instance, charter schools and vouchers). Why should we care that, as a purely propaganda move, the government is crowdsourcing the problem of teaching children how to become president?
DC: has strong growth controls in MD+VA, it's big enough that traffic becomes a meaningful constraint (Atlanta has this problem now as well), and it has one of the strongest most recession-proof economics in the country, so prices are still high.

I'm having trouble finding the list, but I can't think of a single expensive metro area (in the US) that isn't constrained by water, mountains, growth control laws, or all of the above. Rivers are generally not a problem because federal road funding and near-universal car ownership make it easy to distribute growth on both sides of a river. It is a problem when that river is a state boundary as well (which is often).
Our reality was build on a 299 792 458 m / s processor. Newer realities are much faster.
Queue NoACID haters declaring this the final nail in the coffin.
HP sues Hurd to stop him from joining Oracle
Suppose you're on the midpoint of a straight line 6e8 m long, which the dot traverses at uniform velocity.

If the dot moves at c, you would see nothing for 1s. Then there would be an instant where the first half of the line is entirely illuminated, as light from the dot at each point reaches you simultaneously.

After that, it would look like an ordinary dot moving away from you at c/2: if the dot moves for x seconds, it takes 2x seconds for the light from the dot at that point to reach you. (Note that a dot moving at c/2 would appear to be moving at c/3.)

If it's moving faster than light (say, kc, k>1), then when the dot arrives at you, you'd see a dot appear at your position, then move back to the original position at (k c / (k-1)), and vanish. (k/(k-1) is because you see it reach the start point 1s after it starts moving, and you first see it 1/k s after it starts moving.) If the dot had been stationary at that point before it began moving, you'd still see the dot there until the new one reached it, at which point they would both vanish.

Simultaneously, you'd see a dot move from your position to the end position at (k * c / (k+1)).

I'm not going to try to work out what happens if you're just standing near the path of the dot.

(I'm not sure about this, but it's what I get when I try to work it out. I'm especially not sure that I'm allowed to discount relativistic effects. I think I am because there are no massive bodies undergoing acceleration, but I don't pretend to fully understand relativity.)
Calm down guys, I counted the years wrong - I thought the drop was taking place in 2006-7, when Rails was growing quickly. Also, it was a guess, which was why I used a "?"
Most of these approaches are far older than 8 years. But, large companies often have an “education budget” and there is an industry that repackages old ideas, gives them a shiny name, and sells them for a respectable profit.

EX: Pair programming is very natural in a collage or contest setting. You often see people just default to that mode when under time constraints.
I think I'm correct in saying that the light isn't attracted to the mass, but the mass bends spacetime around it, so the path of everything traveling through that medium is bent, including the paths of photons.

This effect causis gravitational lensing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens
Their seed data is probably the n-gram dataset that they released (or maybe a more recent one):

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/08/all-our-n-gram-ar...

Microsoft also has an n-gram dataset that you can access through a web service:

http://web-ngram.research.microsoft.com/info/
"Can't we all just accept that different people work different ways rather than being constantly at each others' throats?"

We could if we all worked on one-man projects where you are the only one that reads the code that you write. The reality of the situation is, one day someone else will need to understand and modify your code. If you're inconsiderate about your coding style, then I would say, "No, I can't accept that you work in a different way".

Furthermore, given the choice and all things being equal, I'd rather work on the project that has a huge test suite than the one without it. From my perspective, I'd say the programmer who wrote that test suite is the more considerate programmer.
so how exactly does one go about procuring a .gov domain?
Yup -- they're pretty fun... The bicycle has had nearly 200 years of evolution, though, and the reason most bicycles aren't built like this is it's simply impractical. If the fun/coolness is worth it to you though, it's worthwhile :)
Yeah, I think we all design systems that try to prevent shooting ourselves in the foot, but the need for performance usually breaks this. From the article:

To get the most performance out of the PCs of the day, I believe he had the register itself more or less directly read and write transaction data from disk.

He's implying that the normal view/business logic separation wasn't fast enough.
Our startup is ChallengePost.com. Challenge.gov is the second site to use our platform.
It was common until the 19th century to capitalize all nouns in English as well.

I've found in reading older text that it doesn't noticeably affect the speed of comprehension, but the capitalization of nouns does seem to subtly shift the emphasis away from the action being described by the sentence and toward the things taking part in it.
Doesn't anyone pay taxes? $2k in revenue, minus expenses, then shave off 40% for taxes since this is self-employment income, and you're not going to be paying much with what's left.
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