skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would prefer the web to be better classified and less "guessing".
For my queries google has been guessing wrong most of the time and putting results of things i didnt search for in the top results page.

With the bangs and the zero-click duck aproaches what I think is a really good solution, for 'fabric' you get :
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=fabric
Which has in the zero click info all the meanings (including the python library), and if you would want python related results just do:
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=python+fabric
And it works beautifully...

I guess is a matter of how you are used to search
And pay WSJ to read it? (and potentially hulu for hulu plus, etc. etc.)
>donttrack.us also rips on third-party ad networks that are non-Google for extending the tracking even further

On the site it says "Those sites usually have third-party ads. and those third-parties build profiles about you,"

How are they able to do this? Because Google lets them. That's the message they are sending across to people. The entire campaign is anti-Google only in nature. It's not this fair and balanced reporting on privacy that you're making it out to be.

>nor has DDG claimed on the donttrack.us page that Google is the sole culprit in the destruction of user privacy

Their campaign only talks about Google. That's the only name and logo they ever show or speak of.
Spotify Signs First U.S. Music Deal with Sony
You're free to opt out at any time:

http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/
Expect all operator subsided phones to have that usability removed and only amazon market enabled soon.

It's not like the users will complain, if operators still in business até any indicator.

But I digress. The point here it's google position with market control. Do they endorse all family guy and simpsons jigsaws? Fox could easily sure them since they showed to have power to enforce policies, but decide to keep gaining money when it comes to somebody elses copyright
Thought this notable: SARTRE researchers say that around 80% of accidents on the road are due to human error.

I bet if we extend the definition of "human error" to "something that a human couldn't react to, but a computer could have" that number is a lot higher.

Around 100%, probably.
For anyone wondering, this comment has changed. After being told by ericd he was being a pedantic ass and downvoted he edited the comment. This isn't what it originally said.
I completely disagree - think of all the useful np problems that we'd be able to solve in the large scale.
What other features are you planning on adding to Punchd?

Also, does Punchd have an overall game mechanic like Foursquare badges?
I think Wired is mocking the HN community subtly.
Isn't it generally thought that life didn't appear here for around 100 million years after the end of the Late Heavy Bombardment?
320k downloads in a week is pretty amazing.

This really makes me wonder how many sales the top ten Paid Apps received. Fingers crossed that Rovio releases the Angry Birs stats.
Piece of code that can kill computer performance
It's my default search engine in Chrome, so I never have to type the name. In fact, I'm not positive I ever have. Well, just in case: DuckDuckGo!
New approach to CouchApps in CouchDB using CommonJS modules
Even if the site owner doesn't know that the referring url contained the search term "naked beiber pics" they still know you visited their page which most likely contains "naked beiber pics".
You can always use http://dukgo.com/
Yeah ... I really wanted to come. But clearly I'm not l33t enough :(
Facebook’s Hacker Cup Called A Failure
I must be dumb or something.

I think they just have a poorly designed site.
Unofficial invitation to a West African debate about innovation.
I am fairly sure that the issue is the browser passing on the referrer, not that Google is making websites aware of any additional information. I might be wrong, of course; there's a lot of FUD about this floating around.
Apparently you can play snake on Youtube
pause the video (must not have an ad) at 0:00 and hold the left arrow key for 2 seconds and then press the up arrow key and voila! Snake! I apologize if I was slow to come to this realization.
AFAIK this doesn't shut off the search leakage in the referrer header.
That's essentially what bootstrapping is. How do you define it?
Thanks. I dug in and looks like it's still a non-JS system: https://github.com/mozilla/cockpit - I was hoping there'd be something like a jQuery.fn.plugin system to hook on to the Ace editor and override specific things.
And now it's deleted, such a jerk.
I don't believe a bubble is what we will experience (First). What might happen is inflation, however providing liquidity in the market is Bernake's main goal and once he sees markets moving more fluidly he will start to tighten the money supply.
The Quest for Speed
SERPd Inaugural Show with Danny Sullivan » My Notes
Brief notes from the SERPd inagural show with guest – Danny Sullivan. Highlights of the ‘I SERPd it on the Web’ broadcast show were how social signals like Twitter followers, retweets etc., might impact search rankings on Google, comment spam on blogs and others.
I can't offer coding help but if/when you need beta testers sign me up for sure.
Its like we're playing a game of Taboo[1] in which I have to describe this set of technologies and I can't say HTML5. Only its no fun.

Sarcasm aside, if HTML = HTML5, how is one to describe this? "HTML5" wasn't perfect, but its a helluva lot better than "<canvas> and friends".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taboo_%28game%29
Editions: The App That Reads You; While In The Bathroom?
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Btw epi0Bauqu I love your new ddg logo!
Someone from http://www.teamgantt.com commented on my RMS, it looked pretty legit...
Yeah ... they had major issues. First off, the submit system was flaky (didn't work with common browser configs ... e.g. on my macbook pro with Safari). They had a 6 minute time limit, which caused a lot of problems. By the time someone realized their browser config didn't work, it was too late to try another combo. The questions were not worded precisely in some cases. And some people were cheating like crazy ... putting up their code/test cases for other people to use.
You can get that info via Google's Webmaster Tools: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
This is really big deal. Every time I fail to find a great co-founder, I just look up to Gabriel and decide to not give up even if I've to run my company as a solo founder. Running a company as a solo-founder is not new. We've many successful solo founders on HN. But running a Search engine is a really big deal, where many big companies have failed. So respect to Gabriel is even more...
My big takeaway from the article was that the Mac store is a solid marketing/discovery vehicle for applications and a decent way to pick up some new users.
What about the new HTML5 logo? Didn't they release that just two days ago? Seems like a bit of a waste...
YouTube's New HomePage
No, you cannot opt-out of the referrer header. However, you can use the SSL version, which doesn't send it in most cases (still sends it for HTTPS->HTTPS traffic).

Edit: sorry, I meant you cannot opt-out using http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/ or other HTTP (regular Google) settings.
Because you can't do second level aggregation, for example you wouldn't be able to see which keywords are resulting in high bounces (i.e. what are our users looking for but not finding) or high revenue ("what should we focus our advertising on@), etc.
I think the more people understand these technologies and their terminologies, the more people will feel comfortable using them, the more people using them the faster their development will progress.

I think these last 2 announcements have drastically helped clarify things. So as a web enthusiast I do find it great
I have nothing against GW and I wish him well, but what kind of guarantee do I have of his claim that he doesn't log my search queries? (I realize that the "Referer" thing is indeed verifiable.)
This is from 1997. Lots more info if you read Diamond's _Guns, Germs and Steel_.
txtwitterstream - Twitter Stream API for Twisted (Python)
The Angry Developer
> "That's the message they are sending across to people."

Which is true.

> "The entire campaign is anti-Google only in nature."

Well, yes. DDG is a search engine. They are targeting their chief competitor, a search engine, in their marketing.

> "It's not this fair and balanced reporting on privacy that you're making it out to be."

Correction: it's not a comprehensive guide to everything online that violates your privacy. But donttrack.us never claimed to be. You seem to be under the impression that the intent for donttrack.us is an entirely selfless, complete, and comprehensive guide. Now, I'm not affiliated with DDG, but it seems absurd to derive that from the site.

The way I see it is: yes, they're targeting Google, but that's not exactly unfair given that Google is DDG's chief competitor. If you were Subway, running attack ads on McDonald's on the obesity angle, why would you waste your breath also ripping apart I Can't Believe It's Not Butter?

Nothing DDG has said is false, nor (IMHO) have they deceived their users by omission. Everything in this campaign is accurate. I simply don't see the outrage.

Now, whether or not the privacy issue is even worth fretting about, or whether using DDG will reverse the tide of privacy destruction that you're exposed to everywhere else, that's another issue entirely. DDG hasn't claimed that switching from Google will fix all of your privacy woes, but what they do claim is that it will fix the privacy violation that Google directly allows. That seems fair enough.
Like their crappy products and horrible support weren't enough reasons not to buy from Sony.
I always wanted to see a plugin/widget for WordPress (and generic JS plugin for non-WP sites) that let you input the URLs for your friend's blogs, and it pinged their site to tell their widget (if they had it) that you've added them to your blogroll, and let them add you back.

A simple decentralized version of follow/friends for blogs and sites in general, without them needing to be on the same platform.
When a coder gets drunk
>Do any theoretical computer scientists seriously worry that a proof that P=NP would threaten cryptography?

Yeah, that's how crypto works as a field. As soon as there's a shadow of a doubt that something is secure in even the least likely edge case, it gets tossed out. MD5 was basically considered dead once someone showed to how create a collision with (correct me if I'm wrong) two very long, very unlikely, very similar (?) plaintexts. It didn't threaten anyone's actual use of MD5 in an immediate sense, but MD5 was shown not to be reliable and in the crypto world an algorithm's reliability is sort of treated as binary.

(I apologize to the true security folk in the crowd if I've oversimplified something here.)
Anyone who really cares can - and will - use HTTPS.

EDIT: It appears that at least one person disagrees with me. So, a quick question: Which takes more effort for the end user, switching to a new search engine or switching to https?
Seems like a really useful idea and great execution too. I've never used the real punch cards in action before, may be I'm not aware of it. But this is something that I would definitely love to use!
Very. Email sent.
We can already build self-driving cars. The obstacles now are societal and legal. In the next 5-10 years they will become common, which solves both the traffic problems of safety and traffic jams.
Just parallelize your algorithm and use n^5 machines ;)
I completely agree with that. But it seems that his "supporters" were invited at waves to give his post a boost.
>it seems absurd to derive that from the site

I'm not deriving that aspect of my argument from the site. I'm deriving it from your argument that it is balanced and makes mention of things outside of Google ("third parties").

>If you were Subway, running attack ads on McDonald's on the obesity angle, why would you waste your breath also ripping apart I Can't Believe It's Not Butter?

If Subway ran an anti-obesity campaign and only mentioned McDonald's I would feel the same way about it because you're making your largest competitor seem worse than they really are by failing to tell the whole story. If you're not going to disclose the entire truth about an industry you shouldn't bother delivering the half-truth simply because it's not worth your time to attack smaller fish.

>Nothing DDG has said is false, nor (IMHO) have they deceived their users by omission

But it is disingenuous to make it appear that Google is the sole search engine or Website that does this or affects users in this way, which is what you said I was being when I made the claim that this is just anti-Google FUD, which it is.

>DDG hasn't claimed that switching from Google will fix all of your privacy woes

That's the impression that I get from donttrack.us and I'm sure that was intentional.
Hey, the mention of "Symphony" for PHP - is that symfony (http://www.symfony-project.org/) or really Symphony (http://symphony-cms.com/)? They both look kinda cool.

I was able to disambiguate Django really easily, though, fwiw.
I didn't quite get the 6 minute time limit. For instance, I coded up one of their problems using a bruteforce algorithm. It worked perfectly with the sample test case they provided. But when I tried it on the their time-limited test case, lo-and-behold, it took a long time. So ... what the heck was the point of that? Since we had 6 minutes to upload the answer, I can't really convert my solution to something much faster in that time period. Should I have coded a faster solution from the get-go? Well .. that isn't clear cut as we had 3 hours to code 3 problems. Oh well. I had fun coding and I have a lot more respect for non-us programmers. Some of the kids coding on the contest were absolutely amazing and far better coders than me.
I've heard of the free-type patents and I found references to the patenting of OS dock (hasn't end free docks in Linux as far as I can see - especially, the Gnome Shell look a lot like a dock).

I oppose that Free-type patents like all software patents but they don't scare me too much because sub-pixel rendering's value is debatable and it's not something that should affect programming at a higher level.

On the other hand, in the context of the thread, when rbanffy said "Don't forget Apple (among others) has tons of silly patents regarding text rendering that Gnome developers have to program around", in response to "truncation in OS X is much much smarter", he seemed to imply there were patents on the level of simply truncating text.

Are there?

If there are, it sound horrible.
As a developer, it feels better if I didn't have to go to Vimeo to watch in HD. But this is just a nuance, and I'm picky.
On the contrary, compromised means weakened, and security of all accounts was weakened. The original headline was a weasel word.

Bait would have been to say 10M stolen, since they're not saying which or how many were actually taken. But any could have been, meaning all accounts' passwords are to be considered compromised.
Matt's comment is, basically, no fair for criticizing us for incontestably true things which are intrinsic to our business model. That was only fair when w were the scrappy underdog taking on the uncaring megacorp with the unassailable market position.
Indian Logic
Chrome OS Dev Update Brings File System Support, More Experiments
Where do you personally draw the line between derivative works and stealing?
I agree, when I search for "fabric" I want to see the same results (more or less) on whichever computer I'm on - logged in to Google or not.

If I want information on the fabric python library I just search for "python fabric" - works on DuckDuckGo as noted above and also works just fine on Google.
HTML5 Video and Audio Players : MediaElement.js
MediaElement.js is HTML5 audio and video players in pure HTML and CSS. It is allow us to use the <video> and <audio> in a browser.
Is the whole privacy on search thing really a big issue?

Yes it is, if you're a political activist. Both Yahoo and Google have a proven history spying on people on behalf of government.
duplicate.
yesterday's submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2117025
Tell HN: Palo Alto Hacker House has an opening
Rent: $450/month. You will be sharing the room with another person.

Within walking distance of: University Ave (numerous bars, coffee shops, stores) Palo Alto Caltrain, Stanford University (long walk - you'd probably want to bike)

Plenty of parking (private driveway & street parking). Internet: 30mb down / 9mb up Gigabit wired network / Wireless B/G/N, desks (there's space for at least 6 in the main area)

If you're entrepreneurially minded, then you'll fit right in!

Email rjvann@gmail.com if you're interested and tell a little about yourself.
For those who were not familiar with QR codes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code
Ask HN: What's the best article on piracy?
I need to convince a few people who pirate that their behavior is in no way justifiable, so ideally the article would be leaning against piracy. However, it should still have both perspectives on the matter. I've seen some great piracy articles over the years, but can't think of any particular ones at the moment.

Thanks in advance!
Wait, didn't you have to pay for it before? I saw it free in the app store. That would explain the jump in downloads.

When I saw it free, I considered installing it as well.
I was able to find this, though it's just some algebra tricks rather than a professional mathematician's musings:

http://www.innovatia.com/Design_Center/Proof_that_2=1.htm
Coq could be used to reduce automatically, and more!
The negative effects of ruining public-key cryptography completely pale in comparison to the benefits. The traveling salesman problem alone has so many practical and scientific applications that it would be worthwhile, and that's not even counting subgraph isomorphism or knapsack.
Colin, no offense, and you are certainly a good coder & cryptographer, but that doesn't make know about everything in mathematics.
Dumbo - Python module that allows you to easily write and run Hadoop programs
The article mentions that the HTTPS link to the resources is now default on Google's list of AJAX resources. I remember back in the day being warned that SSL connections have an appreciable overhead and so you should avoid SSL use unnecessarily. Is this no longer true? Has the overhead of https:// become negligible?
Here is one proof. I don't know if this can be attributed to Ramanujan.

Let a, b be equal integers

a = b
a^2 = ab // multiply by a
a^2 + a^2 - 2ab = ab + a^2 - 2ab // subtract a^2 - 2ab
2(a^2 - ab) = a^2 - ab
2 = 1

From p319, Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
Some old photos http://hackerhouse.bluwiki.com/go/HH/Photos
I don't think I have the mental bandwidth but if someone wants to collect the data I'm sure it will be interesting.

I get giddy about all kinds of empiricism, but I submitted this meta-item because I thought it was apropos given recent and ongoing interest in the ebb and flow of how HN ranks items.
Hrithik Roshan
Google Chrome and Earth available in Iran
Oop, that was me. It's symfony. Fixed in the docs.
The browser does it, and did it long before Google existed.
I was a recent college grad who was struggling with the job search process. I wasn't finding many companies that I was excited about working for, so I started thinking about how I could make the process better for people like me. A failed job search evolved into my now somewhat successful (paying all my living expenses and growing) startup.
Apple makes record profits of $6bn in last three months
So it's really just a time-limited solution, a temporary chance.
Of course you can. That's a setting in your browser.
Ask HN: Would you pay to play?
I am trying to figure out a pricing model for my application and I am left stuck wondering if I am doomed for failure because I force people to pay (at least $1) to play. The incentive is that you could win $100, so to me it kind of makes sense, but I know there are some people who still will find a reason to stop from throwing a buck up.

I was thinking I could potentially do a free system that allowed you to play and if you won, you would get N credits to use towards a paid puzzle (with a cash prize). It sounds like that may be better, but complicates my design.

So the quick question is this - Would you pay $1 for the chance to win $100 or would you put the work in to get free credits to potentially win $100?
Actually, with Google Instant, the search terms aren't in the URL anymore - does it still leak?
Once you have board they're your boss. Remember those? Their most distinguishing feature is they can fire you much, much easier than you can fire them. Bob Dylan wrote a song about this. Upvotes for the correct title...

As for the other board members, they're not looking for these kinds of precedents to get set.
That's a feature of how the internet works at an architectural level. How exactly is that Google's fault?

If you don't want referral headers to be sent from one website to another, use HTTPS, or turn it off in your browser.
Anyone else think there should be a DuckDuckGo of browsers that is similarly proactive about privacy? There way more ways than just cookies to track people nowadays and it's about time we implemented default behavior in the browser to block them. There's no reason to wait for Google or Mozilla to do it for us either.
It depends; there are some ISPs that have enough capacity in their burstable circuits, that they could actually do that.
@angrydeveloper:developers::@clientsfh:designers
Can't upvote you enough for this well-written post!
See also: https://github.com/bwhite/hadoopy and https://github.com/Yelp/mrjob
Pokemon Crystal on a JavaScript GameBoy Color emulator
Banned By Facebook. Advice?
My Facebook app, Profile Banner rose to over 1.25m users in less than a month. Facebook just shut it down for violating their terms. I was helping users tag themselves in photos that were not of themselves (possibly).

For sure a contributing factor was that I also allowed people to tag their friends in banners too, but I gave people an easy way to block themselves from that. And a tiny percentage of users ever used this feature. Really, I thought FB would at least contact me requesting a change before taking this drastic action. I'm naive.

Does anyone have any advice on how I might be able to recover from this?

FYI, HN user gdeglin called that this was going to happen. I guess a similar thing happened to one of his apps.
Ok, maybe, if it worked. But Google results have been tanking in quality. So now I vote for privacy. DuckDuckGo gives me quality results without being creepy.
This, obviously, is out of bounds.
And for anyone who didn't see it earlier: http://yahoo.github.com/oozie/

These four are the only one's I know of. Does anyone know of any others?
No, I do mean Blizzard Entertainment. Besides the fact they have total independence from Activision in terms of operation. They've also had a long history of doing stuff like this. They shutdown the open source project Freecraft in 2003 long before the Activition merger.[1] Yes, Vivendi owned them at the time. But they have done some equally sketchy things before the Vivendi acquisition as well.

The original StarCraft client silently snooped through the players hard drive and sent the gather information back. They later patched out the spyware "feature" after being hit by a class action suit.[2] I see a lot of fans with the idea that "Bliz is this innocent goodie good game dev who was forced to do evil by their giant greedy parent publisher corps". Trust me, I worked for them. That is absolutely NOT the case. All of these decisions came from with in.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratagus

[2]http://attrition.org/errata/company/blizzard01.html
But does the hardware prevent copying? It prevents you from running a game without Sony's imprimatur, but that's not the same thing.

If the hardware does not effectively prevent copying, the DMCA does not apply.