skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Common examples that are given are consumer goods, like household appliances. I tried ‘hoover‘, ‘washing machine’, ‘hair dryer‘, and I had relevant results: deep link into relevant and safe stores, both web-only and the web-arm of brick-and-mortar. However, I'm searching from abroad (France) and not in English, obviously.
I suspect you'll get a fair few more comments via this link, since it's at the top of HN. If I were you I'd wait a bit and improve the site some more before resubmitting, assuming you get at least 5 or so extra comments in the next few hours...
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Isn't this depend on the job description? There's no shortage of great perl programmers doing devops related work.

That's the comfortable niche that they enjoy. Why would they want to lower their salary bracket building web forms?
IMO the problem won't be incoming inventory, it'll be outgoing sales. Inventory won't be a problem because fewer people will be buying new physical books, plus a certain amount of people will replace their physical books with the digital counterpart.
The cover/spine out is a marketing thing by the publisher.

Cover out sells a lot more books, so the publisher will insist on certain books being displayed like this, or prominently on 'new book' stands.

Sometimes the publishers pay for this service, but more often it's blackmail - "put our new diet book cover out or you will get the next Harry Potter book a week later than Amazon"
I guess the screenshots with details didn't help?

Here goes:
1) It connects to your Twitter & Facebook (oAuth)
2) You make a list of keywords you want to follow (up to 20)
3) Refynr looks at those you are Following on Twitter, and only shows matching tweets in your Refynr Stream
4) Refynr does the same with your FB News Feed and shows those posts in your Refynr Stream
5) Refynr saves all those "refyned" items in it's own database so that you can view them at your leisure (overcoming the limited time that Twitter saves tweets for search, etc)
6) Optionally, Refynr can send you a Daily email of your most recent items in the Refynr Stream

More clear?
"I don’t know anything about Tim Ferris’s exercise regime. He came through our Sport and Fitness Evaluation Program for some testing a number of years ago. He did not provide any information about his purpose. In fact, I only found out that he put my name on his website after receiving an inquiry from someone who had seen the website and asked if I could confirm his results. I cannot — he signed a consent form that states that individual results will not be disclosed. Although he contacted me about being retested, I am not willing to do that because he is apparently using my name and San Jose State University for his commercial purposes, without asking for permission or notifying me of this."

The above quotation is allegedly from the doctor that Ferriss sites at the beginning of The 4 Hour Body. I have not verified that the quotation is legitimate, but I found it within this review of the book: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=337...

I found the review when I was researching some of the claims he makes within the book, claims which, to me, seemed to be obviously fraudulent. Assuming it's true, I have a hard time understanding why anyone should seek him out for advice on any matter.
I gave up coffee for Lent last year. It was the most excruciating time ever. I was irritable the whole time, I couldn't focus, and I felt like crap all of the time. It took about 3 weeks to get over the symptoms of withdrawl before I was "ok." The 4th week, I was just blah. After that, I started up with coffee again.
The author makes a minor mistake.

You can make an unbiased estimate of the variance using the formula s^2 = (sum of squared deviations) / (N-1). However, taking the square root of this gives you a biased estimate of the standard deviation due to the concavity of sqrt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessels_correction
Ahh yes, but it's not that simple. You can also account for the plays these are on - some people crack under pressure. If you just add up the numbers without accounting for other conditions, results can change dramatically.

This isn't to say your example is wrong, but simply to say that all data is not equal and to make sure you use the right data for whatever you're trying to accomplish.
wpacracker.com is run by Moxie Marlinspike, not this Thomas Roth. (and no, Thomas Roth is not his real name). Furthermore I can't find any link between this (or the others) news article and Moxie's wpacracker.com, and I can't figure out why he would only be presenting wpacracker at blackhat now.
Speaking from personal experience - after years of using Perl, switching to Ruby was an immensely pleasant and gratifying experience. Many fewer wtfs per minuite, and a largely expanded set of capabilities. Perl may be capable of 95% of what Ruby can do, but learning the special cases and sticking points is a major PITA.
Define "run" ? They don't decide what you eat for lunch, so what do they decide and what don't they? I ask since you can't argue against a statement that isn't even coherent. All you can do is point out that it makes no sense.

Bear in mind Hanlon's Razor : Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

Also, as others said, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".

If it bothers you and is senseless, choose other people to hang around with.
Ask HN: Please give us feedback on our (anti-social) tool thinkery.me
Alex and I built this tool (http://thinkery.me) because we were unhappy with existing apps like Evernote, delicious, historio.us, pinboard.in or other software on the market. Every tool we examined needed too much work to organize your stuff or does only one thing.

We wanted an app that extends your brain by:

- making it super fast to add new things, urls, todos, just throwing everything at it that is in your brain

- automatically extracting relevant content like text, audio, video, images (using oembed but also scraping the page identifying the relevant content)

- quickly finding your notes with instant-search

- keeping things private or making them public (to share them on twitter, facebook)...

My public things: http://thinkery.me/nader

Example of extracted page (truncated due to copyright reasons, private things dont get truncated): http://thinkery.me/nader/4d2ec7f67477595c14000000

Example of oembed content: http://thinkery.me/nader/4d245b10747759f448010000

We're not perfectly sure what direction to take. What we're sure of is that this needs a working mobile version but for the rest...would you rather focus on making the app more social or add features like:

- assigning things to / inviting other people (@-syntax?)?

- dragging'n'dropping of images into it?

- create filters so you can only display private / public things?

- extracting even more content by aggregating similar things?

- automatically retrieve tweets you favorited?

It would be awesome and very much appreciated if you gave your thoughts, feedback or posted any bugs you encounter. Also say if this is a tool you would use or what is missing so you would use it.

Looking forward to it!

PS: There is a delicious importer in case you want to try that out: http://thinkery.me/delicious.php
Yes it is hard to believe, but if it is true that he is making $100,000 per month, then he was right not to sell it, wasn't he? The site still has a good traffic and a lot of potential.
> When I read a critique of an article that starts with a personal attack on the writer, I take the critique much less seriously.

I don't have anything personally against Krugman, why would I? It's just that when you write a 8-page article in the NY Times bashing the Euro and you don't mention the protests in Hungary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_protests_in_Hungary), which practically demonstrated that an European country not affiliated to the Euro cannot devalue its currency, then I'd say you deserve being criticized by anonymous guys like me on the internets.
Ah, very cool.
The main reason to use standard deviation instead of mean absolute deviation is that

sqrt((f(x)-g(x))^2)

is differentiable, while

|f(x)-g(x)|

is not. Though exaggerating the larger differences is often a desirable property, the ability to do calculus is nearly always a desirable property.
reCAPTCHA only knows what one of the words should be, so you only have to get one of the two words right. The other word is being transcribed by crowdsourcing.
The book Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! sounds like it would be a great read for you.

http://www.amazon.com/Surely-Feynman-Adventures-Curious-Char...

As far as mailing lists go, I also would be interested in this.
If I say "with additional research, it may be discovered that there's a correlation between eating corn and various degenerative diseases, and therefor you should not eat corn" with no evidence to support that assertion, it is FUD. Similarly, if I say "with additional research, it may be discovered that WebM infringes on patents, and therefor you should not use it" with no evidence to support that assertion, it is FUD. If a claim is unsupported but used as a criticism of something - especially a reason not to use a product - then it is FUD.
How bizarre, kind of sounds like he's trying rope him into a scam or hack attempt. I'd be cautious
Get them to read some books on complexity theory and emergent behavior; convince them that real life is definitely a "complex system" and point out that no group of 5-6 men could possibly control the emergent behavior of such a system. There are just too many independent, autonomous agents competing to fulfill their own desires and interests.
The lack of knowledge alone would be enough to ensure that such a thing couldn't happen.

Now that's not to say that there aren't cabals of people who do wield influence over certain things, or cabals of people who want to control things, or who think they control things. Take the group of bankers who run the Fed, for example... that's a fairly small group of people who have a fair amount of ability to influence things (in the US anyway). But that's still far removed from the kind of detailed control that the conspiracy theorists usually talk about.
Because programming is such a study-able thing... except it isn't. Too many factors to take into account, not least individual developer ability/experience/etc.
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I fail to see the misogyny in that line or anywhere in the op. "Banging on her" doesn't imply any sort of hatred towards women; it more brings to mind a time when you and your sexual partner collapse at the end of a session soaked in sweat and barely able to speak because you are both out of breath and exhausted; usually you converse at this point with only grunts and short bursts of laughter. At times, the activity may have resembled violence to an outside observer and the passion may have reached a level common to warriors in battle, but the emotions were lust and desire, not hate and anger.

The only sexism seen here is the idea that rough, enthusiastic sex is only enjoyed by men and that women engage in it only to fulfill their need for male acceptance.

Back on topic, I loved the analogy and while I don't have any experience with Haskell, I have felt the same confusion in other areas before. The cerebral thrill that cannot be sustained but irregardless is longed for after it's gone.
"I'd be doing this completely differently." indeed.
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Local bookstores seem to be booming.
Amazon is taking out their competitors (B+N, Borders, Waterstones) while offering them a global marketplace to sell used books online.

The ones that have put any effort into a pleasant environment, local books, reading events etc are doing better than they have in years. Remember HN are not typical of the general population when it comes to book buying or ebook reading.
Ah sorry. I got the impression there was a link die to how it was presented.
Guess the site wasn't Web Scale...
Google's dropping H.264 in Chrome is not a step backward for openness.
I can't help but secretly hope that there is more to the story: The author of the blog post we just read is actually the one who did not write the app. That the original app author is at this moment trying to figure out a credible way to say "No I created this app". Really, how clever would a preemptive "you stole my app" claim be to steal an app from someone!

Actually I don't really hope that, but I would find it far more entertaining.
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These proponents of the theory cite our prime examples of the existence of early alien contact in human history.
There was once a wonderful independent bookstore here in St. Louis whose sales floor was 2x the size of the average B&N or Borders. They were run by people who knew books. I especially appreciated how they had a really good selection of technical books, way better than any of the chains.

They had big community book fairs, they ran the only coffee shop that was open late for a mile in any direction, they brought in local music acts.

In '97 the owners decided to retire and sold the whole operation to Borders. Borders ran the store for about a year or two and then shut the whole place down when a huge strip mall development containing a Borders store opened a mile away.

In hindsight I guess they planned that new store all along, and bought out the little guys because they didn't want the competition from someone who actually knew how to run a better bookstore.
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This is an awful analogy because the author is using a scenario with which most hackers will have no familiarity (having crazy sex with a mysterious woman) to make a point about a scenario with which hackers are much more familiar (trying out a different programming language). Any point he wanted to make about Haskell would've been better made by talking about Haskell instead of his sexual fantasies.

Dollars to donuts the situation the author is describing has never actually happened to him.
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Yes, I received a 33% off one item coupon yesterday. They sent 50% off one item coupons around the first of the year.

I never buy anything at Borders without a coupon.
A rebuke from Opera: http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2011/01/13/openness
Probably through the ads that are shown once you submit the form.
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Very incomplete list. His algorithm skips multiple permutations of the same word.

Doesn't even have popular ones like d34d, c4f3, b33f, and believe it or not 1337!
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I'm not saying your critique is wrong (although I'm not sure how programming taught you that putting in more hours always means getting more work done), just that "Like always, Mr. Krugman gets it wrong" crosses the line from attacking the argument to attacking the arguer.
Wait, are you saying that Ruby _doesn't_ have "weak-ass" multithreading, horrible memory leaks, and screwed up variable scoping?
He is an angel and entrepreneur. A pretty good one from the looks of it. Not only that, but he openly shares information, has plenty of data to back it up, and is an effective marketer.
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Ask HN: One thing you wish they teach in your undergraduate CS course?
After some 10 yrs in IT, I still dun see much value in my CS degree, why dun they just teach me these instead;

Step 1 - Find a(another) problem.
Step 2 - Build an awesome product to solve the problem in Step 1.
Step 3- Tag a price to your product.
Now go back to step 1.

It make so much more sense.
> Most of the second line is on the programmers shoulder.

Train-and-blame is a poor and ineffective way to ensure quality and consistency. Good engineering designs quality and consistency right into the system. It's possible, for example, to write ugly, unreadable code in Python, but the language design itself strongly pushes you toward writing elegant, readable code.
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That would be awesome. Sounds like a David Mamet script. Or Charlie Kaufman. I want to see this as a movie.
I'm absolutely certain that Google's legal team didn't begin studying On2's patents after the acquisition. There was probably at least another 6 to 12 months of analysis before the acquisition occurred.
you are right. I was referring to the lows and I should have stated that the "problems" are probably caused by the carbs and the blood-glucose fluctuations, not the sugar itself.

Hypoglucemia (or not being used to it) is what makes you "crash" and get hungry again after a big blood-glucose and insulin spike. In his case the improvements have probably more to do with removing the sugars than the caffeine.
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Honestly, every language I've ever used it painful without an IDE> I should never ever have a typo in my code. "Oh, I meant to say stackFrame, not stackFram... silly me". If that happens, your dev environment is broken.
> Or do you really believe that Apple is actively preventing Flash just because they really care about the consumer?

Microsoft (Exchange), Cisco (VPN), Yahoo (Mail and Weather), and Google (Mail and Maps) all have code and/or data provided by the OS in iOS. In all of these cases, these third parties improve the iOS experience without any significant trade off.

Flash on the other hand has a huge trade off in application responsiveness and battery life. These are features Apple touts as being important to how their device is the best device for their customers. Flash would undermine those features, and Adobe has had a poor track record of delivering on promises regarding Flash (significant performance improvements are always one release away, for example), especially for non-Microsoft OSes.
I've optimized for queries that have never happened before. A big fraction of that 25% comes from hyper-specific queries from a known pool of terms. One could optimize for, e.g.:

[size] [color] [quality] widgets

And have a page that ranked for:

Brobdingnagian Fuchsia Middling Widgets

Even if that term had never been searched. You wouldn't have to try too hard--your bespoke widget company could just list all of the types of widgets it could potentially manufacture.
I do work out fairly regularly and try to take mental breaks(sometimes too many, haha). I just wasn't sure if there was something unique about the benefits that one gets from coffee.
Judging by that guy's message, you had your app hijacked by a Gungan.
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I've long believed that a civilization's natural, or sensible power structure reflects two things: the communications technology available, and the size of the economic/political structure. Greek city states could have a (slave-owning) democracy, because they were small enough that politically relevant information could travel to most of the citizens fast enough for them to act on a relevant opinion. But as states became empires, the communications became stretched across wide distances, and a more autocratic system had to come into play - ordinary citizens could not get relevant information fast enough to make political choices.

But as we got modern postal services, the telegraph and so on, economic events on one side of a continent became pertinent to people on the other, and they would hear of them in short order. The technology made people feel invested in a nation's politics, so they could, and felt they had a right to, participate.

So I would have said that in today's information society, in the age of TV and Wikileaks, a 5-man dictatorship can't effectively function. Too many people feel too invested in national and world events to permit it without a Soviet-style iron control of channels of information. But the effect of corporate money on what kind of information gets mainstream attention is a whole other question.
I dont like Ferris. I read Tim Ferris 4 hour work week a while back. While he has some valid points, overall i think its a big scam. Hes a genius in marketing himself and his mediocre books that make things all so simple, but thats about it.
"Facebook is making less than $2/user, compared with $20/user Google sees"
Ask HN:  Is it a good idea to use a 3rd party blog site for a company blog?
Thinking about using tumblr or some variation instead of setting up wordpress on a machine. Is there any drawback?
While this is clearly an opinion piece arguing for inclusion of H.264 in Chrome, I feel like this article actually does a great job of actually portraying most of the facts that affect both side of the argument. Certainly it feels like the most informative article I've read on the subject (again, despite its bias.)
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Celebrating its 1 year birthday {sniff, sniff}, I would like to get some HN ideas, cause I know you got 'em!
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And most importantly "Why get your startup on Hacker News"?

I don't know of any major (or medium) startup whose success had anything to do with appearing on Hacker News.
I think he sees that himself now: I think I would accept the offers now, because I'm much more educated about it.

Regarding the money: The article mentions redirecting these users to FriendFinder.com, that should probably read AdultFriendFinder.com. I find it highly plausible that this kind of traffic has a very good conversion rate on an adult dating site.
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Me either. And they come out all the time on their twitter feed: http://twitter.com/#!/borders
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Google also assumed the user only wanted pages that contained ALL the search terms, while (IIRC) Alta Vista would return pages that contained ANY of the search terms. That small change was a huge improvement.
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Hm. The people that hate/don't like T. Ferriss: Can you summarize in one sentence why?

(I understand that we sometimes just don't like people for no conscious reason, perhaps some of you failed following his book, but there must be more?)
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You gotta do what you gotta do, but your example probably doesn't do what you want in R.

> system.time(vec1 <- rnorm(1000000))
user system elapsed
0.200 0.000 0.199

My computer takes .2 seconds to generate the million random normals and assign them to vec1.

> vec1 = rnorm(1000000)
> system.time(vec1)
user system elapsed
0 0 0

My computer only takes 0 seconds to evaluate the existing vec1 of length one million.
>Why is this option not already available?

I think the answer to this question is the same reason why google's results have become spammy. Allowing users to exclude specific domains, or even having a "report as content farm" button, are in direct conflict with google's business model, to a certain degree.
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Site looks great and I love the video. It would be nice to be able to collapse/close the video though.

Although I usually don't put much importance on startup names, "E" seems awkward. This is coming from someone that uses e (the text-editor) and whenever someone asks what editor I use, I say "e", look at a blank face, then reply "it's basically Textmate for Windows".