skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
final boolean b = a.exists(new F<String, Boolean>() {
public Boolean f(final String s) {
return fromString(s).forall(isLowerCase);
}
});

It's here that I miss lambdas to make functional code at all readable.
Wait until you turn 30.
If I understand the author correctly, "modality" might usefully be replaced by something like confidence indicator or confidence signal (in which case the last part of the sentence quoted by pg could be omitted).
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Good point. I guess I could get some help or advice from my brother: he's a chef.
I am reasonably search-savvy, and when I am starting to research something out of my comfort zone, I often start with a "how do I…" search. I sometimes find exactly what I need with it, but more often I get enough information to perform other, better searches.

Your assumption that people don't search that way is dead wrong, though: I've seen many non-technical people do just that sort of search. My mother being one.

I know: the plural of anecdote is not data and all, but I'm fairly certain most people don't think of search the way you suggest.
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In the interim, you can do your searches by adding -wareseeker -efreedom to the search string.
Its a very sad story. Its a sad ending to a sad life. I have known many people with a horrible past. I cannot understand their pain. I cannot understand their depression because I have never experienced it. I can understand their desire to end it all. By observing and listening to their pain that goes on year after year, I can believe their life is very sad. When I was younger I wanted to become violent against the perpetrators of such crimes. Now that I am older, I realize this just adds to the problem. As a parent, his note is very revealing to me. A warning about how I could make mistakes with my children. I did not find it to intense. I am very grateful he took the time to explain everything. I am grateful he talked about his family. I will spend quit a bit of time thinking about his family and the mistakes they made. We can learn from his pain.
So pretty much what you are saying is backing up what I have said. If thimerosal and other mercury based were responsible for autism then we should see a drop in diagnosis rates relative to the decrease in the use of thimerosal.

As there has been none there is no like, causal or otherwise.

But please keep going, this is almost as fun as playing Battlefield . . .
I made an account just to comment on this blog...

The part about the rocket scientist just irked me. Why are you trying to impress upon someone else your beliefs on the importance of money? Some of the brightest people I know are also the most distant from material goods; as long as they have a fully belly and a roof over their heads, they are completely satisfied working on what they want, regardless of monetary compensation.

Of course, HN is full of people chasing after money, but personally, I have a great respect for people who perform great work for the sake of great work, and I would NEVER chastise them for not hungering for wealth.
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Or C#'s var keyword, for that matter. Unfortunately, both will only work for local variables. I suspect this is one of the reasons there aren't any popular persistent data structure libraries around for these languages. At least the .NET/C# type system supports covariance/contravariance for functions ("delegates"). Plus, they managed to build F# on it.
ExpertsExchange (sells subscriptions) or StackOverflow (funded by ads) ?
And no more bloody experts-exchange...
Slides here:

http://cr.yp.to/talks/2010.12.28/slides.pdf
Actually, the reason for Office never being ported came down to two things: different byte order and lots of x86 assembly mixed in the office code for performance reasons. Office was never 'portable'.
Isn't that the exact same thing?
I believe giant Indian software engineering shops like Infosys, Wipro et al. pay that much (may be a little more now, like $6k) for an entry-level full-time employee.

(I worked in a similar place in a past life)
I'm going to go out on a limb here, you've never taught a class before, have you? Good teaching is not something you can package up, and lesson plans are very idiosyncratic creative works. They are not readily transferable between teachers.

No matter how good the teaching materials you get, from the school/textbook/other teachers, that's just the start of a good lesson. You have to review the material yourself, and tailor it to your own style and preferences, and then revise it based on how well it actually worked. I can still spend hours revising lessons I've delivered several times before.

It is possible to deliver a pre-packaged lesson from another teacher or the textbook company. But if you haven't put your own effort into customizing it, the students will recognize it as a sub-standard effort. And they'll treat you accordingly.
Combine this with customer RFID tags and an hourly free drink for the strongest/biggest pee-er in a club, + optionally a public score-board, and sales might skyrocket...

Interesting concept, and it might work better than salted peanuts...
Yes. And it's still so true :).
Although it's sad because it speaks volumes that we're fed up with all the garbage in many of our search queries.

I do hope those working on the algorithm are taking note.
I ask for feedback sometimes in my forum, and over the years the responses have gotten worse and worse.

There are a few core responders who have great ideas and are a big help. The rest (who are becoming the majority) don't read anything at all and just scream out that I need to add X, Y and Z.

At first, I tried to debate them, but that's a complete waste of time. Instead, just engage with the ones who are useful and do your best to ignore the buzzing of the rest.
As David Wheeler said, "all problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection".
The spamminess of a site is not proportional to it's ad click through rates. Strong web communities have the best click through rates (though they don't usually generate the most ad revenue). Yahoo Mail has incredible click through rates right now, and most people wouldn't classify it as being spammy.

The real question that google needs to answer is "Does this site exist to serve ads, or do the ads exist to support the site?". This seems like a great computer science problem to me, but I'm not sure if statistics will be the end all solution. I think Google will need another quasi-social hack, ala PageRank, to really solve it.
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Wasn't this a problem Google Search Wiki tried to solve?

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-searc...
That's what I thought too. I wonder if this means that Django is (or will be, when it's mature enough) a very good alternative for GAE. A memcache caching module would be especially useful, as it would enable the entire Django caching infrastructure to work on GAE.
I've discovered you can also set up a Custom Search Engine, with no included sites (default to everything), and specifically exclude the sites you don't want. Then do all your searches through this.

http://www.google.com/cse/

Usability-wise, though, it's not nearly as much use as a 'ban' button next to each result would be. But it shows Google already have the infrastructure and code that would allow this -- they just need to make it instant to use.

EDIT: The other downside of this is you lose a load of bells & whistles, e.g. previews, "pages from the UK" (without typing), icons for images/news/etc. Time will tell if I miss those.
I hear that in his words as well. It's as if he was scared that people with his secret could hurt him again somehow. I'd say that's understandable.

I've never had a counselor actually read notes in front of me. They do have notes, and they do read them, but not while we're in a session. When that happened to him I imagine he felt more like a patient than a peer (for lack of a better word). It's disappointing to me because that's what counselors are for — they're supposed to create an opportunity for someone like Bill to open up. It's clear to me he didn't like holding his trauma as a secret but was afraid of it being used against him somehow.

Relationships are just an escape. He was aware of himself enough to know that, which is (was) a good sign. Darkness like his allows you to feel like you're head over heels in love in one moment, and then in another wonder WTF the point is if we're just going to die anyway. It's as if it were a drug. And like a drug, its efficacy fades over time.

Good for you for being able to be honest and open about your problems! That takes balls.

One technique that's worked while I'm in a depressed state is to just expect & accept it. When I get into a funk and think about how all I do is feel depressed, I tell myself, "No shit Yogi, of course you're going to feel this way, look at all the crap you have to deal with". Those few words don't get rid of the sad feeling, but it helps me get past it. I feel like that's all most people need, a way to get on with it.

Even after years of therapy, I'm still amazed at how trained our brains can become. Unfortunately for many, that hard wiring forces them into a downward spiral, where from it's harder and harder to recover.
No mention of "You're in Control" from MIT Media Lab, the clear intellectual predecessor.

http://web.media.mit.edu/~hayes/mas863/urinecontrol.html
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"...only 44 percent of those alerts by the dogs led to the discovery of drugs or paraphernalia [...] For Hispanic drivers, the success rate was just 27 percent.".

Seems like a significant percentage to me on both accounts. I don't see how the words "only" and "just" are justified.
Yes that would be good. They could then look at the number of people blocking certain domains and de-weight them in the global results.

Traditionally google seem against human powered editing (as this would be), but I think as the black hat SEOs run rings around them, its needed badly.
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F# doesn't in fact make use of {co|contra}variance: it only needed generics. (Although F# used to run on .NET 1.x using its own implementation of generics - Don Syme designed both .NET generics and the F# language.)

For type inference, you just need a sufficiently smart compiler, although it's much more useful if your language knows about generic types.
But its not free, right ?
What is this, a case of the blind leading the blind?
exactly the example I was going to cite. In Scala this would be

val b = a.exists(str=>str.forall(_.isLowerCase))

or

val b = a.exists(x=>x.toLowerCase() == x)

There's no way I'd start using functional programming in Java if it's this clunky. Just stick with Scala.
Good point, but ExpertsExchange has ads too. It also behaves in a spammy way, burying the answers at the very end of the page. That should be detectable behavior.
> If people are saying bad things, you're doing something wrong.

Did you mean "If people aren't saying bad things"?
I just tried one of the example searches Marco lists and the result is very strange.

When I search for [2010 ira contribution limit], all the results are spammy. The real official answer (on irs.gov) doesn't even show up on the first page.

BUT, if I use Google Instant, it does show up as the first result. As soon as I hit Enter, it again disappears and only the spammy results remain.

The Instant guess suggests that it's because the IRS website ranks for the plural term with "limits" [2010 ira contribution limits], not the one with "limit".
I honestly don't mind that site - about half the time I search for an issue, I find it's been resolved by someone over at Experts Exchange.

Do people realise that if Google is your referrer, you can scroll all the way down and see the solutions to the question?
Is this related to the webcam 3D scanner video that was in the news about s year ago? I'd be interesting to check out.
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'cro-magnon' has been out of fashion for quite a while, at least in stuff that I read. I haven't seen the term in any decent book for, I dunno, say, several years.
I agree with most of your points, but I would truly value Google providing me with the capability of blacklisting websites for myself.

Such a thing is already possible with just browser plugins, but I'd like that blacklist to follow me around and grow algorithmically (based on preferences of similar users), and hacking around a product's deficiencies is really not "voting with your wallet".

And in such a case Google couldn't be accused of censorship / favoritism.
From the signup page:

"Standard edition - ads are required on search pages"

There's an ad-free premium version as well, but you definitely can get it for free.
It's free if you show ads on the pages. It costs money if you don't.
Many thoughts that flashed through my mind as I read the suicide note, but I decided to file them all away and share only this old story:

The old town drunk died. His two sons, the bank president and the new town drunk were at his funeral. An onlooker, surprised at how different the two sons were, asked each one how he turned out the way he did.

The bank president responded, "With a father like that, how else could I turn out?"

The new town drunk responded, "With a father like that, how else could I turn out?"

FWIW, I am like the bank president. I have no idea why. All I know is that no matter whatever anyone ever did to me, it didn't matter. I have no idea if someone who turned out like the new town drunk can change (although I imagine it happens all the time). All I do know is that it is possible for a victim to succeed and overcome all of his "darkness".

If anyone has any history remotely close to OP's and is entertaining similar thoughts, feel free to contact me off-line. I will tell you right now what I'll respond with: absolutely nothing. Because I don't know what to tell you. I don't know how to become successful after being abused. But I do know that it's possible; I am living proof. Sometimes, just knowing that something is possible is enough to pursue it until you get it.

I'm truly sorry that OP's story ended like it did. Especially sorry because I know it could have been different. I just don't know how. Now no one will.
Basic ad-supported version is free.
This would be a temporary fix. Spammy sites would move to a non-AdSense platform, and in Google eyes would appear to be totally ad-free.
If you use the cached text version of the EE page you find, you can get through the pay wall.
My experience with counseling inclines me to say that you took fuck all out of the counseling, not the other way around. It sounds like your issue in high school wasn't just anger, it was anger that might hurt someone. That's a part of the problem that needs to be addressed, even if a counselor deems it necessary to report you.

But — obviously nothing is that black and white, especially not after just a few sentences of background information. Just as there are crap professors, there are crap counselors. If you ever give it another shot, I'd suggest seeing a few of them (first sessions can usually be free) and finding one you feel comfortable with.

I agree that it might not be the right place to get really deep into this. Feel free to email me.
But are Apple fans just more vocal, is Ballmer not as good on stage, or are Microsoft's products less interesting?

Or all of the above? Just asking...
Or even better than using libraries for functional programming in Java, learn and use Scala. You can mix Scala and Java code where needed.
This whole thing has been making me think: It'd be expensive as hell and not covered by medical insurance, and it sounds crazy, but I wonder if talking to a lawyer would've helped. A study I can no longer locate found that talking to any intelligent person who shows an interest is comparable to a professional therapist; and lawyers generally take the privacy of their clients very seriously.
I have always known that, but I don't think a lot of people do. A while back I was working with a high dollar consultant who really thought he knew it all, but he seemed really surprised that I didn't need to use his Experts Exchange account to see the answer.
Yes, it works and it's completely free. Here's an example Custom Search Engine I set up:

http://www.antimoon.com/ce/

It includes only sites which are known to use (mostly) good English. It's designed for English learners/teachers who want to find correct usage examples without risking exposure to Yahoo-Answers-style English.
If there is a lucrative untapped market for that sort of thing it might possibly be in the enterprise market, where corporations/governments are worried about both data loss and the security implications of storing stuff on others' servers (I'm assuming it syncs files and devices in ways that go above and beyond simply offering the standard option to save everything on the company's network server)

Then again, it's a much harder product to build and market to enter...
Or Clojure for that matter.
The fastest implementations of HSPA-plus are actually coming close to the theoretical limits of how much data can be transferred on a given frequency band, but they have some big drawbacks compared to LTE.

The one that will be most noticeable at first is latency, which is at most half that of HSPA (the requirement is 20ms for LTE). The second is that LTE will be able to use bigger frequency bands than HSPA, eventually reaching a 100 MHz band.

Even ignoring that, AT&T's current HSPA-plus network is nowhere near as fast as HSPA-plus can be. They would need to upgrade it to get close to the raw speed of LTE.
Easy, reward the improvement in test results, not the test results.

This happens now. The problem that can arise, and I remember reading that it does, is that you end up rewarding poor performing schools and teachers that only marginally improve much more than consistently well performing ones.
Not to take away from the brilliance of this, but is it actually a good idea to encourage people to pee as hard as possible each time they use the restroom?
From Larry and Sergey's original Google paper (http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html):

Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. For example, in our prototype search engine one of the top results for cellular phone is "The Effect of Cellular Phone Use Upon Driver Attention", a study which explains in great detail the distractions and risk associated with conversing on a cell phone while driving. This search result came up first because of its high importance as judged by the PageRank algorithm, an approximation of citation importance on the web [Page, 98]. It is clear that a search engine which was taking money for showing cellular phone ads would have difficulty justifying the page that our system returned to its paying advertisers. For this type of reason and historical experience with other media [Bagdikian 83], we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.

Google solved the problem by turning it on its head, but now it looks like the spammers have indirectly implemented what Google avoided.
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Am I using a different Google than him?

I type in "how to wire an outlet" and all the top results look useful. Sure there are some ads embedded on the pages and the top hit is about.com with a 10-page slideshow, but every hit looks like it explains exactly how to wire an outlet.

http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+wire+an+outlet

Even when I try the spammiest searches, it looks like they're returning pretty relevant results:

http://www.google.com/search?q=best+price+on+viagra
http://www.google.com/search?q=wrist+watch+deals
One thing you have to realize is that a counselor/doctor is not your friend, but someone that helps you solve your problems with professional advice

Depending on the situation, it can take a patient a lot of time to even begin to have this thought.
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You said I will show you how to do it, thats why people expect a video of you showing how to do it and Watch Video worked better.
When you say Instant Access it sounds like you are going to allow the visitor access tons of information (in text format for some reason)
I bet if Google Books was a subscription only place, your Get Instant Access would outperform the Watch Video button by 95%
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Yes, a lot of things are stated from "common sense", but that doesn't mean they are true ("Reading in the dark will make your eye sight bad", "Going out without a coat will make you sick", etc...).

I grew up eating nothing but TV dinners and ramen, in college I added pizza and fast food to the mix. Since I've gotten married I eat regular healthy meals. Anecdotally, I don't notice any difference in my brain function, but I do weigh 40 pounds more then college :)
I think search quality would go up if Google gave me the option of blocking domains from SERPs. I never want to see results from a content mill (eHow, Mahalo, etc) in addition to all the made for Adsense sites I come across less frequently. They could also use the collective blocking data to help tweak the spam filter.