skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not really the case, plenty of spammers optimize for long tail searches because 1. they're easy to rank for. 2. they're easy to create ambiguous, autogenerated content for
That's exactly what I thought. If Steve Jobs had been presenting he would have been constantly interrupted with applause. Instead, a botched presentation on a very cool product.
Sony Ericsson Xperia arc: Ultra-Thin Android With a Powerful Camera
Unlike Bigtable/HBase, cassandra is fully distributed, either, just as Dynamo...
Implement text-overflow: ellipsis from CSS3 in Firefox (pending from 2005)
Thanks for the info.

But how would SERP quality drop if pages without ads received a boost?

Many high quality sites have ads, but not all. Yet all spam sites have ads (or else what's the point of spamming).

So by discriminating against pages with ads, you eliminate spam at the (possible) cost of hurting a little legitimate sites with ads.

This should be testable.
I like the way they handle this at the Sudbury Valley School (http://sudval.org). They essentially have realized that there is no objective way to measure a good teacher, so instead they take the darwinian approach. Every year all students (and staff) vote on which teachers thay want to keep, culling out the bad ones and just keeping the good ones.

They actually have had teachers so good that they have been re-elected every year for more than 40 years.
Heat Presses
I am saying that a lot more than the base OS has to be ported. That includes, of course, Visual Studio, Office, games, utilities, 3rd-party titles, browser plugins (so you can do net banking), device drivers (so you can scan, print, use a smartcard reader). Windows benefits from a huge complex ecosystem that will have to move with Microsoft.

It took years before AMD64 was fully supported and it's semicompatible with ancient x86. ARM is a completely different beast. I am pointing out Microsoft tried to make this move before and failed.

When Apple did it (and they did it twice), the carrots were huge performance gains. This carrot implies a loss of performance. Unless hardware makers start flooding the market with Windows 8-compatible ARM machines, 3rd parties may opt to stay within the comfy confines of x86/AMD64.

It is a very tricky move.

Also, since most of what a Linux distro offers (and that includes OpenOffice, editors, IDEs, languages, games) already runs on ARM, this move would also benefit the competition that's already positioned to benefit from this without the need to convince 3rd parties to jump along. I imagine Microsoft will impose restrictions on what OS and software you will be able to install on those machines to counter that.

It will be fun to watch.
What's the right solution to dealing with slow 3rd party servers on the web?
With more and more mainstream web sites using widgets (like AddThis), Facebook Like buttons, and obviously ads served from external ad systems, the performance impact on web sites when these 3rd party servers are slow seem fairly significant. On top of that, even if you improve the experience for your end users (using invisible div or JavaScript defer tricks), don't we also have to now worry about the effects on SEO (since Google now considers overall site performance as a ranking factor)?

This applies to web sites of all sizes, but is particularly acute for your small and medium ones, since they have far less clout when it comes to trying to influence these partners/technology providers (to try to get them to add capacity or troubleshoot their molasses boxes.)

What's the right answer here? Faster timeouts in web browsers? New (X)HTML tag metadata which says "ignore this resource when it comes to ranking my performance, please?" A (requesting) server-side "widget/ad" caching protocol or system?
What federal regulations are you talking about? Most cities seem to at least have normal buses to their airports — all those service employees have to get to work somehow!

Seattle now has light rail directly to the airport, and Portland has for a while. In the DC area there's National just across the river with a normal subway stop and normal public buses to BWI and Dulles in the suburbs (that stop at subway stations).
You are not paying attention. The single-dose versions that were targeted at administration to children explicitly do not. The nasal inhalation version that was targeted for pregnant women explicitly does not. The multi-dose vials are the ones that contain Thimerosal, and those are explicitly NOT for pregnant women nor young children.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/expert.q.a/11/02/h1n1.thimero...
Many people will say rockmelt is different in so many ways that this will has nothing to do with them blah blah blah but yes, as you said, not great signal for rockmelt.
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I avoid parmesan cheese, but I didn't know about tomato paste. Thanks for the heads up.
Yamaha reveals real-time musical collaboration system over Internet
Similar technology: Ohm Studio (http://www.ohmstudio.com)
Yep, WebGL runs on the Nokia N900 browser out of the box. However, I cannot run a whole lot of the WebGL demos out there, others run out of video memory (textures, I suppose) while others just don't work and don't give any error messages. Some simple tests I've written myself do work.
Not just game forums, but forums for isometric 2D non-realtime indie RPGs. It's cliché but probably fair to assume that his customer base is likely selected from the rather more socially awkward end of the spectrum.
And this is where the downfall of Google begins. I also hate that some exact queries are being broad matched without my consent.
Source? I'll take just one peer-reviewed article, please.
Drug company Denied Extension of Patent, Could Africa gain
My place of employment currently allows users to surf Facebook, though it blocks many other sites. I wonder if the guys upstairs will one day pull the plug on FB when firing people is no longer an option to boost productivity. I wonder how much of a risk this scenario is to FB. There are a lot of un/der employed folks out there though.....
PR Conferences
8 million Kinect sensors sold in first 60 days
Why do people insist on blaming users when users use things in the "wrong" way? If you give a general feedback button to a user, they will give you back general feedback of all kinds - it's not that hard to understand, really.
If you want to get feedback specific to the quality of the search results, then provide another button that says "Tell us if the results you got are not useful / just spam". Be clear about what exactly the button does, and you'll get meaningful reports from the users. Note that I said another button - you always need a general feedback button for people wanting to report something else, that's how you get general and specific feedback.

Also, google is one of the worst companies, if not the worst company, at dealing with user feedback. You can't just expect people to give you feedback but never return the favor in any way. People have the feeling that giving feedback to google is like throwing things into a black hole - like talking to a machine - if you know no one will answer you and you will never know if anyone even read your feedback, not even a little thank you note or a clue that the feedback was useful, there isn't much incentive to give feedback, now is there?
As much as I would love to drive a wooden stake through its heart, shoot its head off with a 12 gauge shotgun and, just to be safe, put a couple silver bullets in Wintel's dead body and then help Nvidia on putting a couple nails in its coffin so we can throw it into the lava pit of Mount Doom, I am a bit skeptical. Wintel has a ton of momentum behind it.
Italiamac, Apple news and forum
Italiamac is the #1 Mac-related Community in Italy and it is the biggest Italian Apple-related news site. Born in the 1996, the site generated 7,000,000 (7+ Million) impressions per month. The community forum has 80,000 members and 5,000,000 (5+ Million) of message posts.
It's a lot less good than it used to be.
I apologize. My intent was to use sarcasm to comment about the nature of internet publishing and curating in general, and I believe it came across as criticism towards this author or work. That was not my intention. In fact it was just the opposite.

There is a lot of trash that gets returned in a Google search at times, yes, but there are also a lot of authors out there simply taking a subject and providing their own unique spin on it. Every time somebody publishes -- anything at all -- they open themselves up to exactly the types of criticism the author of this pieces makes about other publishers on the net. I saw other commenters doing this on HN about this particular article and the irony struck me as astounding. The only thing I would have added to his piece is a discussion about exactly what he means as "bad" or "good", since everybody fills in the blanks with their own prejudices when these concepts are mentioned, and that's not a good thing for purposes of the discussion.

I should have known better than to try to be subtle. Humor almost never consistently works the way you want it to on the net. Always backfires in some fashion.
> what is the difference between coaching football or basketball and teaching history or English?

1. A sports coach can force a player out of the games or out of the team if that player doesn't attend the practices. Teachers have no such power: students can't be forced to practice the material out of school, and they can't be removed from class for not practicing.

1. Standardized testing reflects, at best, decently the purpose and aims of general education.
A competitive game of fotball, on the other hand, reflects perfectly the purpose and aims of football training. Simply said, the purpose of sports is to train a player to win the game. The purpose of general education is not to write a test successfully. Rather -- it shouldn't be the purpose of general education.

The purpose of education is to disseminate knowledge and critical thinking skills. That purpose needs to be measured in a correct fashion.

Think how silly it would be, instead of a competitive game of football, that each team was given a set of drills to perform, on their own, on an empty field, to prove their worth in football. It'd be absurd. It doesn't fit the purpose of their training.
The purpose of education shouldn't be to pass some tests.

A more constructive conversation, I believe, would be to find places, distinct disconnects if you will, where the method used to measure progress and achievement in education does not reflect the purpose and aims of education.
Please see my reply above to nostrademons about the usefulness (or lack thereof) of that button.
The second iteration, of course, is to engage with every (valid, trusted, revenue generating, etc...) customer who searched, determine the quality of the results, and then feed _that_ information back into the algorithms. You could then bias based on domain experts (world class chef's feedback on BlueBerry Pies more important than an anonymous user)

It may be the case that (AllRecipes, TheFoodNetwork, Etc...) are NOT the best place to search for a recipe, and that, indeed, "http://pickyourown.org is knocking it out of the park this week.

There is a lot of room for search to improve - I think the company that beats google (if it's not google that does so first), will be the one that manages to start creating the search<-->Consumer<-->Search feedback quality looop.

PageRank was just the beginning.
Politicians have the same problem.

The last people you should listen to are the ones that are the most vocal, yet the only information you get comes from those very people.

Same with the forums - if you listen to the suggestions there you are listening only to the most vocal, but those are not necessarily the ones with the best advice/suggestions.

The problem with the most vocal is that usually those are also the ones who care the most - but they care about themself. And they care about themself a lot - that's why they are so vocal.
So in short, you can get some SEO juice by doing the Australian equivalent of this. :P
I don't know what a 'SERP' is but I don't think anyone shows up at Google bright and early in the morning with the burning desire to deliver the 'USA Today' quality of search. In fact, we had it before Google came along and it left much to be desired.

I don't know much about blueberry pie searches either or if the quality of Google results is really in decline. It seems pretty reasonable to expect original content (StackOverflow) to show up before copies of the same content. Or the top search engine to aim for a quality standard above 'USA Today'. Otherwise we can just use USA Today instead of Google.
> keep it .. we can assume mostly.. in a relatively
> cohesive lump for some 300 years.

I think I disagree but it might just be over choice of words. It's an interesting topic that I want to develop and I'll charge on.

On the topic of intergenerational wealth, it's not enough to say that you can keep a lump of wealth. During the 300 years you talk about, governments rose and fell, and currencies and sovereign debt with them. In order to stay above water, you have to float your position across multiple regimes and positions. Or keep it in a lump of gold. That didn't do that - they worked money hard.

Rothschilds took on huge positions in the Napoleonic wars that could easily have gone wrong. They then would have lost it all due to poor timing over the end of the waterloo campaign but leveraged up by taking an audacious position on sovereign bonds that paid off and made them even richer. My point is, they gambled the house at several points.

Part of what's striking about the Rothschilds specifically is that they kept a healthy mindset across several generations. This is a wildly interesting topic that has crossover with another article hacker news today link today to the atlantic, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2072200

In that article you see lots of people who came from aspirational backgrounds. But how do you keep that? How do you raise a wealthy family in a way that passes on those values?
Surface is a cool technology but it seems very cumbersome and obsolete compared to capacitive multi-touch screens and things like kinect. It's form-factor relegates it to only a niche of the potential market for touch-only UI computing. And that I think will ultimately doom it. Market forces alone make it more likely that Surface's niche will ultimately be filled by perhaps oversized Android or iOS tablets than by Surface itself.
I have a website where I talk a little about things I've done. There are some links on it to other resources. The link to it is in my profile (the one with "health" in the name). If you have some specific issue you are trying to address, you can write me privately and I can try to make some suggestions/give some pointers.
The Learning Behind Gmail Priority Inbox [pdf]
Are You Trying To Get Rid Of Acne?
Skin whitening,skin lightening,and skin bleaching cover a variety of cosmetic methods used in an attempt to whiten or lighten the skin.
The "vaccination causes autism" fraud
> plenty of spammers optimize for long tail searches

But how do they do it? By nature, there are many more long tail searches than frequent ones, and each one is rarer (or unique).

How do spammers find them?
I think you could form some kind of metric out of a) number of AdSense placements b) prominence of AdSense placements. There should be nothing against using AdSense, as long as the ads are secondary to (informative) content.
This might be a good time to mention that we are looking for volunteers for http://CompassionPit.com/. It was created by people who have struggled with depression for most of their life. The other day someone commented about it, "I used CompassionPit for the first time this week. I really like the idea of it. Reminds me of when I reached out to an online videogame friend when I was 12 years old when I was super depressed." I think many people here can relate to this. Anyway, if you want to contribute you can do it in two ways. You can either just join and be present for other people, or you can help with the source code. It's written in python. Your help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.

Edit: the source is available at https://github.com/zackster/CompassionPit - looking to add a few features... send me an email if you are available.
A private switchboard sounds complex, but it can be a single Asterisk server with 2 phone lines connected to it.

Dial in, optionally identify with PIN, type the number you want to call, Asterisk calls it for you, then connects your line with it.
Excuse my ignorance and lack of better knowledge with regard to American school system but what is the thing with high-paid coaches in school? What is the connection between a school and (semi?)professional sports?
Have fun trying to satisfy a bunch of knuckleheads.
> the real metric to look at is usage of the Google advert network on the sites themselves

Right, that's what AdSense is. That probably should have been made explicit though since a lot of folks miss the distinction between AdWords and AdSense.
If commitment is important, being able to concentrate on what you're working on must be important.

Junk foods tend to send me off to sleep or procrastinate... the opposite of coffee.
Vaccination-autism study 'an elaborate fraud', says BMJ
Well, as many has already said the power consumption of the ARM is interesting BUT I beg to differ :)

I don't think that's why ARM was chosen. Nvidia has been willing to build a CPU for a long time. And it's a well know fact that it has been barred from market entrance by Intel patents. ARM is beefing up its CPU line beyond mobile sector, so it's a logical choice.

As for power, well don't forget it'll be associated with a GPU, so the power advantage could easily be offseted by GPU hungriness. Time will tell.

On the other hand, tight integration and great compiler could allow Nvidia to tap into the GPU number crunching power through CUDA.

Still, it's not easy, just look at how the Cell hardly lived up to expectations. Interesting move from Nvidia. Wait and see the results.
Correct. However there are people who will say there is no correlation between degree and salary. This proves otherwise.
Unfortunately, I don't have the time to write at length this morning and by the time I get off work this discussion will basically be dead. So, in brief: Physics is very different from medicine. If you drop an apple to test gravity (per second per second measures, etc), the apple does not make a zillion and one choices that impact how it falls. But when you try to figure out what does and does not impact human health, people do make a zillion and one choices which impact the study outcome. There is also quite a lot of evidence that most studies concerning human health have serious flaws. Last, I would say that "peer review" is a form of social proof. Given how poorly that point is going over in this discussion, I will skip attempting to elaborate.

Peace.
As a note, I love unhealthy food. It’s
delicious and I’m not saying it’s evil.
I’m just saying it’s not a productive
addition to a 14-hour, high stress work
day.

Also: don't do 14h of high stress work a day on a regular basis.
Italiamac is the #1 Mac-related Community in Italy and it is the biggest Italian Apple-related news site. Born in the 1996, the site generated 7,000,000 (7+ Million) impressions per month. The community forum has 80,000 members and 5,000,000 (5+ Million) of message posts.
In most US states, a parent can apply for a religious exemption that will allow them to enroll their child in school without one or more of the required immunizations. Some states even offer "philosophical" exemptions.

The National Conference of State Legislatures maintains a list of exemption statutes by state:

http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=14376
> d rather have the government use an Exchange server

Why do you hate your government so much? What have they done to hurt you so bad? Nobody deserves that.

Having e-mail on an Exchange server is something I would expect to be offered to Guantanamo detainees, if human rights watchers allowed that. It's soul-crushing. It's worse than waterboarding.
Reference: http://www.bash.org/?925050
Freelancer.com logs 2 million users - From where do they come?
While I agree that we need to see more algorithmic competition in this space, I fail to understand how any of these new SEs would generate revenue apart from the current ad-supported/PPC model. If these SEs continue to use ads to make money, then the problem of content farm spam would simply migrate to these sites. All they would need to do is to figure out how best to game the new algorithm.
To followup: today multi-touch tablets are primarily consumer luxury devices (toys if you will). But as mobile OS's mature and move into the business market this will change. Tablets and tablet OS's will be used in businesses. And yes, this will expose some of their current weaknesses, but there are straightforward solutions to many of them.

For example, a docking station in the form of a monitor stand which turns a tablet into a monitor for a traditional mouse & keyboard. Or, laptop/netbook form factors with attached keyboards (this is not a new form factor, there are already touch screen tablets of this sort).

What makes the new generation of tablets novel is not merely their particular physical characteristics today, it's the method of interaction, the simplicity of the interface, and the simplified and streamlined methods for managing applications. All of those things will still be relevant if you add a mouse and keyboard.
I don't think this is an important indictment of Google at all, but I do think it is an important warning (mainly because of its simplicity and digestibility) to those people who don't understand how the interweb tubes work.

For instance, I forwarded the entire page as-is (Cmd-I in Safari if you have Apple's Mail configured) to my little sister.
Mlodinow in "The Drunkard's Walk" makes the very good point that the 'losing streaks' that lead to coach firings (and Hollywood studio boss sackings) are almost entirely explainable by perfectly normal random variation.

http://www.amazon.com/Drunkards-Walk-Randomness-Rules-Lives/...

Not only that, but the subsequent 'improvements' are generally due to regression to the mean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean

It's depressing that an pompously-titled site like American Thinker can completely fail to consider this...
It's possible I am misremembering the exact numbers from many years ago. But that doesn't change the fact that any accurate model of the scale of the solar system would not have fit in the classroom (and certainly does not fit on the pages of a book). There are scale models of the solar system in the world. They get laid out across several city blocks and things like that. One of them puts something (a star maybe? -- not something within the solar system, I don't think) in Australia when the model of the solar system itself is in some place like Great Britain.
You don't need much in terms of kitchen equipment & if you're located in an urban center (rather than a suburb) there is probably a super-market within a couple of minutes reach.

Buying some groceries & cooking a simple meal as described in the article takes me at most half an hour (usually less - a lot less if I still have enough groceries from previous days and I just need to cook it) - which you can probably afford to take & is likely to be good for you anyway (simply taking a half an hour break that is, regardless of the quality of the food).

That of course is a cafeteria type situation.
Like I said, on a smaller scale, catered
meals are a cost-effective doing this on a
smaller scale. Your best bet would probably
be to hire a cook rather than outsourcing
the entire process (eg someone in or just
out of culinary school).

That would not be within the means of many bootstrapped startups.