skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use boxee on a HTPC and love it. Boxee is heavily based on the XBMC code base but adds hulu, netflix and other VOD streaming and a nicer (IMHO) interface. There is also a standalone boxee player, I don't have it, and there have been some problems with getting all the supported content on it, but I believe that is getting worked out.

I used XBMC for years, but boxee is just a nicer experience for an Internet connected HTPC imo.
Money.

Pretty much any sentence of that piece could be spun off into an individual post on techcrunch &c. Spread your insight over a dozen blog-posts, and you get far more ad revenue

The New Yorker, on the other hand, gets the very best writers and gives them massive amounts of time to write a very small amount of text. So when you read, say, an article by Seymour Hersh, you know he's spent anywhere up to 6 months working on it.
I have no experience in this so be skeptical of this. It might be a good idea to bring on an adviser for this sale? Perhaps talk with a VC just to help on the sale for some flat fee -- say 5k$ + 3% of the sale - transactions fees? Use your own numbers of course.

If they are offering serious money (being BigPharma I imagine it isn't peanuts) you will want this handled professionally. Peace of mind that you are getting a good deal and while they company maintains interest.

Kudos on the success!
Hmm, maybe putting together a oneliner for that would help a lot of people. Added to my todo list.
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Whatever solution is created, I don't want to have to manually verify every transaction.
On a similar note, how is the expert sex change site still in your index? They very clearly are serving different content to the crawler (as evidenced by the "cached" link) than they are to people who click through on the SERPs. I though this was a big no-no?

For an example (which was submitted as search feedback a month ago), try searching for "XMPP load balancing" and look at the third organic link.

(Edit: actually, in that case it appears they're using JavaScript to hide the indexed content. Same effect, however: the cache link shows the "solution" but clicking the search result displays an ad.)
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Saccharin is toxic waste. I don't see the problem there.

(Okay, Wikipedia tells me it's no longer considered carcinogenic, but certainly it was considered so during a period in which it continued to be used as a sweetener.)
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Google AdSense for Domains ( http://www.google.com/domainpark/) really makes a lie of not wanting useless content. The designed a revenue source for parkers/squatters.
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The first comment is great:

http://techblog.tilllate.com/2008/07/20/ten-methods-to-obfus...

Different approaches to obfuscating the email address and comparing spam levels.
Because it's very slow compared to application-layer segregation.
"Dumb" is the wrong metric. "Costs in excess of benefits" is the correct one. But this is hard, because it "ought" to be done in terms of costs to society and benefits to society, but instead since the government is doing the audit it gets analyzed in terms of costs to government vs. benefits to government. (How could it be otherwise?)

The cost to the government of a new regulation is zero. Either they will appropriate the money from the endless money fountain to pay for the necessary expansion, or they will simply fail to enforce it at their discretion. The benefit to the government of a regulation is always positive; if nothing else they get the choice of enforcement, and the corresponding power.

It is no surprise this system never produces results, beyond cosmetic fixes. I don't know what the solution is but somehow the incentives to the government have to be fixed first.
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The reason you can't in contact with people at Google is because you're not the customer. Paying businesses are the customers. Not just trying to sound snarky - it's true.
Sadly, Facebook.

EDIT: Ill add some detail to my point;

Google ramped up huge to where they are now, Facebook has been ramping up as well - but as Google enters maintenance mode with all of its service and tech - Facebook is still in a massively growth oriented position.

Even if they're new user adoption slows, or even stops - the number of products based on their data-set alone, for their 500MM users that can be built is huge - and the value of those products even larger.

This is why all the defections from Google have occurred.

They built an amazing foundation for the internet at Google, now they will build upon that with far more specific and deep information of the user base and how they are all related to each other

What facebook has is something that is required for the true "semantic web" which has been talked of for decades. Very very deep and specific information on every aspect of it's users interests. This is something that Google thought it was going to accumulate - but the problem is that from googles view, every person is a silo of interests - where they would have to do a lot of correlation on the back-end (which they have done) through their varied products.

Facebook, rather, has built a true interest portal and people are throwing ever single bit of human interaction data they can right into i - and linking it all up for facebook.

There is a very very interesting future (albeit scary) if facebook doesn't fuck this up.
The top rated answer has a couple of interesting techniques to get around this problem.

Also, not everyone has a Gmail account. I'm sure virtually everyone on HN does, but some of us also wind up making websites for people who are less savvy. So techniques for obfuscation could still be useful.
One of my favorite things about XBMC is the plugins. The plugins are basically web scrapers that present content within the interface. If there isn't one you want for a particular website, build your own! They're written in python and could make a fun weekend project. Once your done, commit it to the official repository.
While I'm not a fan of that site either, it's not true -- scroll to the bottom of the page. Sneaky? Absolutely, but the content and solution is there.
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It is ambiguous: "a lost (life's work)" is the intended interpretation.

"rediscovered" is more like it.

Of course you could talk about "a (rediscovered life)'s work" in an interesting way too...
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I hate when people submit a rambling blog post that contributes no content to the actual item the post links to.
While you're right, I'll note that it isn't that easy to get in touch with a person at Google even if you are an actual paying customer.
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think the CI community branch will detract any from this project?
I think so; willful infringement triggers the triple-damages provisions.
There's a lot to be said for going to an Ivy League school, it definitely gives you a head start in a lot of fields - the connections you can make while at school, the brilliant people you'll learn from, and the vast support network you'll have when you get out are not matched at the thousands of lesser schools across the country, and the extra kick you'll receive from being at an Ivy will be most useful right after you graduate.

But the fact that the "lesser" schools can't quite give you that same push doesn't mean that they shouldn't exist, or that you might not be helped immensely by going to one of them.

Not sustainable, sure - YC is the elite of elite accelerators, obviously it's going to be extremely difficult to reproduce its success. But there's still room to grow here, and a lot of people going it on their own that can't get into one of the elite accelerators (if I'm correct YC now accepts a vastly smaller percentage of applicants than Yale or Harvard) but would greatly benefit from some funding, advice, and being helped through some of the unfamiliar business dealings while they focused on their products.

Maybe 500 accelerators is a bit much, but I'd imagine that we could certainly do with a few more, unless we've already reached a point where spots are going unfilled...
I guess if you find it helpful, nothing. I always skip their results because they're always really shallow. The kind of article you'd expect if you were paying someone $4 to research and write an article on a topic they know nothing about.
I don't understand the point of using a one-liner vs just doing it in a process and getting an understanding of whats going on at each step.
I posted the following guide the other day:

http://ryanbigg.com/2010/12/ubuntu-ruby-rvm-rails-and-you

Sadly it languished with no upvotes. :( I found it extremely useful, however!
Nowhere near 1000 years. We're scheduled to be at 11nm in 5 years. That's 1/3 the width. So, in 1000 years, it'd be 1/600th the width, or 50/600 = 1/12th the width of an atom.

We really don't have very long left with the current paradigm. Past about a decade or so, we'll need something new if we want to continue growth.
While I love the idea, the problems is that the key of success for these accelerators is finding people who really have experience and can help, money isn't enough.

In Miami we see these happening a lot. People from completely other businesses, such as real estate, are jumping in this startup accelerators game without a real direct experience, with the only goal of taking advantage of inexperience young entrepreneurs.

The money isn't the problem, neither creating accelerators. The problem is finding people like PG or you that have a real experience and that are willing to share it, outside of the few well known tech hubs, like SF, NY or Boston.
Is rvm commonly used for production or just development environments? I can see where having a script to get your production (or testing) environment up and running with minimal user work would be useful, but if this is meant for just development I agree with your point.
The result looks extremely close to what I end up writing using CodeIgniter (http://codeigniter.com). You should give it a spin sometime.

To me, CodeIgniter felt less bloated than CakePHP (which is also an excellent framework, just not my style). CodeIgniter seems to stay out of the way more, and aside from having to initially rely heavily on the documentation, the framework is laid out in a way that makes sense.
I agree with you on point 1; if Google's search quality is not the best than people will (eventually) go elsewhere.

I disagree on point 2. Users on low quality AdSense sites almost certainly arrived there from a search engine so if I can display my adverts on a users landing page it will be almost as good as if they arrived on my site straight from Google.
Most tech journalism is purposefully dumbed down to appeal to a wider audience. Just like reports on government economic policies don't include references to specific economic theories and complex equations.

In this case, the article is purely factual, so it's also short. If the editor has some pages to fill, he wants it long, and to pad out the article, a journalist will fill it with fluff opinions and emotional statements.
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Nice! Was long overdue for an update - wasn't a fan of the old site, and hated the inconsistencies in product names / branding. Thanks for sharing.
Assuming we are looking at the same results, the pages at position #6 and #10 are not copies of the stackoverflow content at position #8. They are copies of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1399293/test-priorities-o.... Unfortunately, the only place that the word "delay" (which is in your query) sometimes appears on that stackoverflow page is in the "related" links in the right column. At the time Google last crawled that stackoverflow page (see the cache), "delay" wasn't on the page, only "delayed". Whereas, the last time Google crawled the other two pages you mentioned, they did have "delay" on the page. Google should still be able to do better, but this little complication certainly makes things more difficult.
It seems to me that people are always valuing Facebook by its potential, whereas Google is judged by its actual performance (which isn't exactly slouching, numbers-wise).
It wasn't coupons, it was a sales team. Groupon has customer-facing sales down to a science, especially when compared to Google.
This is a pretty amazing video. I like the tone it gives. It's respectful, yet informative. There's so many subtle things that makes it just perfect for the service. Huge props, you guys rock.
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(a) If Android, Inc., didn't have all the policies in place that larger companies do (e.g., code review), then it would have been easier for a naïve engineer to make the mistake. If so, it might actually not be willful.

(b) The longer ago it happened, the more likely it is that any evidence of how it happened has been lost. If so, even if it was willful, Oracle might have trouble proving it.
When I say "artificial" what is mean is that if for example a turn-around CEO and/or team is compensated partly or largely in stock options then they can decide the best way to raise the stock price is not to grow sales and profits but to spend the company's cash reserves on a buyback.

Other investors are often supportive of this as it gives them a profitable exit from the soon to rise stock.

On its own, less supply leading to higher prices is perfectly natural.
That used to be the case, but the complete page as it appears in Firefox to me now: http://i.imgur.com/Lw0Mh.png.

The indexed content is blurred out and there's a big ad overlaying it, with no close button or other method to display the content, other than the Google cache link.
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Edit: typed this before you add detail, which adds weight to your argument. Thanks.

I don't think so.

Google's revenues 2010: $29,321,000,000

Facebook's revenues 2010: < $1,000,000,000

Google is also solving much more challenging technical problems (not to dismiss the smart people at Facebook, but Facebook is really only interesting because of its extreme scale. Except for that, it's pretty much a CRUD app)
The regular journals out there really need to step up and start making a community around this low-energy nuclear reaction stuff. The Navy has rekindled interest in this and other similar electrolysis experiments. The problems are many, but key are 1) what is the working formula to explain how this works and what all is going on 2) where are the dead grad students and 3) do you need to answer those two things before using it.

The American Chemical Society has had a meeting about all of this most years, and a lot of great videos on the topic can be found from a meeting at the University of Missouri (google video search http://bit.ly/exACQU ).
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"Leaving" or not, there's no way he or the trio or the board would allow the notion that he'll be leaving in the post. I side with the author. I just don't think he would be stepping down if he intends to be the chairman for more than a few years. Also, if history is any indication, before he joined Google, he only assumed the role of chief strategist for a year or so after relinquishing from Novell's CEO position.

The one place I see him going is Microsoft since he was credited to have turned Novell around during his CEO years there. No one would argue his abilities at Google as well. Microsoft desperately needed someone more capable than a car salesman. In some ways, it would also be a more challenging task (and something new) for him to turn Microsoft around than for him to compete with FB and Apple at Google. One thing for sure, Microsoft would be incredibly lucky to get him since I don't envision anyone else capable AND willing. My 2nd guess would be Facebook, but I don't think Mark wants that unless he truly sees him as a more capable CEO.
I like that your approach is clean, yet configurable. Then again, most web-friendly languages already have a grip of MVC frameworks to choose from. Nice proof of concept, but I don't think your blog post would convince someone who didn't use MVC to give it a shot, like the conclusion seemed to suggest.
There are different kinds of virtualization. OS-level virtualization like Linux-VServer and FreeBSD jails have little to no overhead while being very secure.
I wish we had a term that meant "things like regular expressions, that may not actually define regular languages". A real regular expression can always be translated to a DFA, and be executed in O(len(input)) time. Perl regexpen are not regular.
Remember this?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362082

Do you still think that's a good idea?
I totally agree that you should become fully comfortable with setting up a box manually. But when you perform the same setup over and over and have the process memorized as I do then writing a little shell script to get the job done never hurts.
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I wonder how many black hats just cringed as they lost the ability to invisibly harvest the contents of heroku app databases.

And I wonder how many of those databases remain vulnerable because of previously exposed credentials.
Its pulp / fluff reporting, and it distracts a ton of people from doing something valuable
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2039029
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In Google's most recent cache, the efreedom result has the word "pass" on the page due to some related links content near the bottom, whereas the stackoverflow page does not. If you modify your query to [parse json body to spring mvc], stackoverflow is at position #1, and efreedom is at position #4. This still has room for improvement, but it would seem like the simplest explanation is just the better match on your query terms.
Most 4's probably went out of business a long time ago. It's hard to sell something new in markets that don't trust new things.

You place the ethical/unethical line where you feel it should go; personally I don't see anything wrong with copying designs. I have a few wealthy neighbors. Know how they made their money? Everyday, boring easily copied stuff like car washes, rental real estate or owning a couple of fast food joints. Even the people I know who got rich from technology businesses were doing fairly pedestrian stuff like industrial instrumentation that's been around since the 50's.
Saying people do not know what they like is clearly shortsighted. In large aggregate there are trends and lessons to be learned from consumer data and it is not all noise, nor is it to be taken with a grain of salt.

Analytics is a tool, along side vision, design and innovation. If analytics were simply asking people 'do you like this color better than that' then it would not have much viability. However by segmenting sufficient numbers of people into groups and observing the behavioral differences makes for valuable data.

Your argument is similar to the criticisms leveled at Twitter as just a bunch of people tweeting about what they had for lunch. There is enormous semantic data in this 'noise'. For example, while people are tweeting about hamburgers they are not tweeting about an Earthquake in Silicon Valley, or a flood or shooting or.... Sometimes noise means something more than it might given only a cursory glance.
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Really nice idea.
The Firefox extension "Mouseless Browsing" should really be mentioned here!
http://www.mouseless.de/index.php?/content/view/14/26/
I don't agree with your "very slow" sentiment -- can you provide a source that shows that linux-vservers are very slow compared to running on bare metal? To my knowledge, vservers have almost no overhead vs running directly on the machine.
It is both: if you find yourself abandoning systems after 3 weeks, then something about the way the system fits you is wrong. Perhaps it's too complex. Maybe it isn't flexible enough. Maybe it inherently creates too much guilt so you get frustrated and give up.

It may help to think of the number one goal of a todo list as a place to get onto paper (or bytes, whatever) all the things you have in your head that you think you need to do, NOT as something which will help you get more done. The primary benefit is to remove your anxiety about having to remember everything you need to do. Once it's all out of your head and in one place, you can easily determine what it is you need to be doing right now, and forget everything else.

Complicated GTD or todo systems just bog you down and take too much fiddling and constant review/maintenance. I use two lists: a "dump" list where I put anything/everything that I need/want to do, and an "action" list where I move a few things from the dump that I'm going to focus on for the day or very immediate future. It's a simple matter to go through the dump and pick out the highest priorities and move them to action.

If you're struggling, I'd advocate trying something simple like this and forgetting more complicated systems. Google Tasks is perfect for something like this.
Most of the value in YC is in their partners and their alumni network. While there is no question that the YC model can be duplicated, I'd be surprised if 500 clones would result in anything close to 500 able competitors. When you're giving away 10% of your company for $20k and advice, you'd better make sure the advice is top notch. Or at least that you're buying into a helpful brand name.
Anecdata: Spam just isn't really a problem. I've been using the address dmd@3e.org very publicly (as in, unobfuscatedly posting to usenet, forums, etc) for about 15 years now. It currently forwards to gmail, where I get roughly 3000 pieces of spam mail each day (yes, that's a new spam every 30 seconds, round the clock). Of those, typically 0 or 1 end up in my inbox. I have, in the past, done spot-checks of my spam folder to check for false-positives, and have never found a single one. Gmail is really good at spam filtering.
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It's no longer true.

Short version is: they used to, and got busted for, serving answers to the spiders and ads and pitches to the surfers. So now they show the answer at the bottom of a pile of ads and pitches.

But they still suck. Horribly. And are the number one example I hear when people say "I wish Google would let me blacklist domains".
Mine go further (230+) but I got a weird duncecap-like structure over the rear wheel that keeps cropping up, putting the center of gravity too far back and making them fall over backwards. Interestingly, instead of getting rid of the balance problem, my cars are evolving a wheely bar to prevent the backward flip at the expense of speed.

I wish the goal involved speed in combination with distance.

Update: stagnation after generation 10. I spun up another instance and it is amazing how different that one is evolving.
So, here's the difference that I found. If you're coming from Google SERPs (the referrer is Google) the answer is shown near the bottom. If you copy and paste the link into a browser (empty referrer) I get the results you show in your screenshot.
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In other words, people are far more impressed with this article because of the newyorker.com in the URL than they would be if it appeared anywhere else.
Who exactly anointed facebook top dog on the web and how exactly was this measured? I keep seeing this claim floating around, but very little justification for it.
um, this isn't Slashdot. Feel free to address the issues in his analysis and comment on them.