skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You said 'utf-8' shows up as a parameter in almost every English Google search, and suggested that this would cause weird associations between 'utf-8' and random pages.

I pointed out that there's no reason to expect this to be true, because Bing engineers are likely smart enough to realize that if the probability of clicking on to foo.com is not significantly different than the probability of clicking on to bar.com given the presence of the 'utf-8' parameter, then 'utf-8' is a pretty poor discriminator between foo.com and bar.com, and probably shouldn't be used to determine search results.

It doesn't matter that not every page transition is Google -> another site. You still wouldn't need to special-case Google to determine an association with a parameter is useful or useless - the same code could build that model for any site with params.

They'd also be gobbling up tons of random things from forums and whatnot (which should appear on long tail searches, if we knew where to look), most of which spam the heck out of you with random parameters, forum names, and whatnot.

How do you know that they don't? Google pointed out some longtail results that look bad, and you yourself pointed some out in a previous comment.

Which is why I see no reason to assume that they don't understand or attempt to understand the actual meaning of parameters passed to one of the biggest sites on the internet.

You're misunderstanding what I'm saying. I don't assume that they don't; I'm just saying there's no evidence that they do, and that assertions of wrongdoing based on the belief that they do are just irresponsible speculation. I have no knowledge of what Bing actually does, but neither do the vast majority of the people on the internet who are talking about this, many of whom assume the worst based on a mistaken notion of what's technically necessary to see the results that Google demonstrated.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of ISPs in the States and Canada block inbound port 25 from anywhere, as well as outbound port 25 to anything other than the ISP-provided mail servers (to say nothing of spam blacklists having ISP-numbered pools listed). That means that the majority of users are going to have to go with a hosted solution or roll their own using a server (or VPS) that's in a datacenter somewhere.
Neat! I've never bothered to go to these websites before.

Although I should point out that most people today who have cochlear implants have 22 or 24 channels, not one. I have 22 channels in one ear and 24 in the other. (You have to click through to get to these channels though).

As I mentioned before, I never really developed appreciation for music. It's probably a result of never really hearing music as it should be heard. Oh well.
The short answer is "yes," but I'm trying something different here. [0]

Academic papers are opaque: data is never freely offered, data cleaning is never detailed, and (in the case of [0]) algorithms are provided by paid commercial software.

Academic papers are notoriously secretive about their details, so what I'm trying here is a transparent, "open-source" academic paper. I'll explain everything while trying to reproduce [0], including data cleaning, methodology, and any sentiment analysis algorithms.

Comments greatly appreciated!

[0] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1132332
AWS EC2 nodes are fairly cheap, and I like them for a lot of things, but there's also a whole range of virtual host providers like http://www.asmallorange.com/hosting/shared/ who provide Linux-based shared hosting with a GUI to set up email, web etc. services.

That'll avoid Google reading your email. On the other hand, if you're worried about the FBI reading your email, you probably need to either run your own mailserver or run PGP. Preferably both. There's an OpenPGP plugin (Enigmail) available for Thunderbird, works well enough.

(usual disclaimer: just a satisfied customer, etc)
As to the disclaimer, I think it's fighting back at the fact that many people (rightfully) refuse to talk over the phone because there's no paper trail, but companies are scared of actually being held to account for what their employees agree to.

If I were ever to have a remotely contentious situation with a company, I'd do it in writing, and if I absolutely had to do it by phone, I'd record the call.
Thanks jingweno, will start using it this week for my own dev slide collection.
I think this is a valid complaint. Sure, it looks "clean" and has some incredibly simplistic examples, but beyond that it's very much an alpha release.

Of course, once we get to the aforementioned 1.0 release with a stable API, things will get a lot better, either from the node guys or third-party guides.
> I have heard that babies do not realize that their thoughts are private and they assume that thinking by itself is a form of communication.

I've occasionally noticed other adults say odd things, followed a bit later by "oh crap, I said that out loud?", or more frequently people will "think out loud". I've also noticed once or twice (I think I might have to be fairly well distracted for this) that someone would say "hi" in passing and I'd say "hi" back... and then a few steps later realize I hadn't actually said anything, just thought it at them (rather like how on a sizable fraction of conference calls, there's at least one person who forgets to un-mute their phone when talking).

...also my wife sometimes says I'm supposed to be able to read her mind on a number of topics, but I think that's different.
"If you buy drinks for her, that indicates that you think she must be a good catch, i.e. she's out of your league"

Could you elaborate on why buying a drink for someone indicates that she's out of your league? Is there an alternate approach in a drink-serving setting that would not hint that?
Show HN: iOS developers can advertise Apps for free on the App Board
> Over the years, the index has been both praised and vilified. The latter by language adherents who are unhappy over the decline of their favorite idiom.

I can't say that I trust TIOBE's methodology (looking at search result volume), and that's as an ardent Pythonista.
Between modernizr and the google font loading engine it's pretty easy to handle the FOUT issue. It's a pain in the ass, but manageable after a little tinkering.
Lots of talk of UML. Surely if there is a software engineering concept that suits functional programming, it's formal methods.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_methods
Sometimes a language and its community are so focused around flexibility and power that I don't believe the language is meant for widestream adoption. Erlang is really, really cool, but php gets websites built.
Thanks for the flowers (I'm one of the creators of this little project). Regarding the packaging/download: We'd love to do that but it takes a lot of work technically (and currently this is more of a hobby project) and a lot of work regarding the licensing. Although currently all fonts we have should be free for web use, most of them would probably require additional licensing if we would repackage them. We'd love to do cooperations with services like fontsquirrel (most of our fonts are taken from their site and their excellent webfont packager), but that's future talk.

As a closing remark: It was (and still is) a lot of fun to see so many people care for something we built mostly in 48 hours during the railsrumble 2010. We had some additional iterations after that, but the core still is rumble material.
You raise an intresting point. Perhaps a new model for libre software would be useful, one that let you distribute customizable software whilst protecting the discoveries that make your work valuable. Black boxing certain parts of the code and publishing others.
That's not the most common usage listed; the most common, which also happens to match the fixed phrase you used, is "offensive to good taste", the second most common is "disgusting, sickening, repulsive", the third most common is "insincere", cf. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fulsome
There are 396 font bundles on this site, but no way to search through them. Ugh :(
It seems this isn't enough to make as much sales as you could. Even if your product is the best in the market, the other guy selling his inferior product may use the black arts of sales and manipulate people into buying his product. I think its very hard to take the high road if you want to make sales. If everyone else is playing the game and you're not, you automatically are a loser.
I think there were a couple trolls in that group.
Good article. One correction, however:

One of the big differences between ASL and many other sign languages is that ASL primarily uses only hand gestures, whereas most types of sign languages, such as BSL, rely heavily on facial expressions and other physical expressions outside of hand and finger gestures.

ASL places a lot of importance on facial expressions and body position to express tense and grammatical concepts. Many signs are a combination of a mouth morpheme and a hand gesture.

If you just do the hand-shapes, fluent signers will probably be able to understand you, but it would be the equivalent of mispronouncing words in a spoken language, or constructing sentences awkwardly.
It's more ment to save you the time, typing a list of 100+ app-names. I'm not afraid of talking to friends. But when I met them, i'd rather won't use the valuable time to talk them through a huge list of iPhone applications.
That's a good thing!
"This guy has to be some sort of serious genetic freak."

Doing it every day would be very difficult, but doing it six days a week wouldn't be that hard. The term 'overtraining syndrome' is actually a misnomer, because you don't get it from training too much, but rather from chronic glycogen deficiency. As long as you eat a banana or an energy bar every 45 minutes and drink diluted gatorade you'd be fine with that workload.

The biggest concern would definitely be joint problems and not muscular issues. The reality is that this guy probably did do a lot of damage to his body, but was able to mask it using an anti-inflammatory/analgesic drug like ibuprofen or marijuana.
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An alternative that's been around for a while is Pandoc, a document converter written in Haskell. It can make S5 and Slidy slide decks from Markdown.

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#producing-html-...
one problem with the author's premise:

IN the example he gave the copyright infringement occurs because audio performance is recognized as copyright infringement of a copyright of a text. And it comes about because that audio performance is replayed to many individuals.

We do not know yet if a click-stream of copyrighted work is in fact copyright-able yet..Hence the debate at hand
I've used the app a bit as well. At first I thought it was just design by committee, but I think that was wrong. It is probably closer to design by committee with a non-technical designer, followed by a development staff that never said no to any request. Either way, more effort was spent on 'cool factor' rather than usability.
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An intellectual hackers' site like this one [..]

That article is not about HN, rather, it's a rehash of the recent TIOBE report, itself widely discredited.

Besides, HN readership is not that sophisticated, if at all. For straters, DDJ itself is a respected institution in computing (up there with USENIX) and is read-widely by actual programmers, software engineers, and scientists.
Though I've admired the Groupon humor in their emails and PR, these ads just didn't seem funny...not sure what taste it leaves in the mouth...
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How did the title of my post get changed?
I like it and think it might be useful! Perhaps integrate it with Facebook (as an app) so that you can amplify it's social aspect. The design is great too.

One minor gripe is that i was served the German language version by default. Unless you are targeting 99% Germans, perhaps it should be the other way around.
His entire argument seems based on his assertion that Google has copyright to search results. I think they probably don't, for two reasons: first, there's no copyright notice on search result pages. Second, a search result is probably a database under copyright law, and databases (like the phone book) can't be copyrighted.
I agree. Saying ASL only uses hand gestures is like saying speaking only uses vibrations of molecules in the air. The world would speak like those strange text-to-speech animated bear videos.

ASL + Expression:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OL33OEW6QA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmKnQjBf8wM
Good point; I missed that he was talking specifically about their managed email service vs. their hosting accounts.

In terms of confidentiality, the Google Apps for Business terms and conditions are more reasonable than the free version. So, if he's open to paying a couple bucks, it seems like he could have just upgraded and saved the hassle of switching.

Looking at the Rackspace offering, I realized that one big item (for me, at least) missing from the comparison is push support for mobile devices. Unless I'm misunderstanding, the Rackspace hosting requires that you purchase the 5x more expensive Exchange hosting in order to get push email support.
PHP gets websites built. But what use do I have for it if I want to make software? you know, something other than pumping ascii over a socket descriptor?
Have you looked for a co-founder ?
Having someone else to work with or rely on is a great source of motivation...
So how many voted in the poll just to see what the stats were?
Sorry to be a snob but it's not a recent theory, I heard about something like this (men being able to sweat and run long distances, being scavengers, competing with hyenas) about 25 years ago.
Wait, both Groupon AND LivingSocial are running Super Bowl ads? Can we declare this a bubble yet? PLEASE?
I'm a native english speaker, and I don't dream in english, or any specific language for that matter. When I reconstruct the dream later, I put the characters' thoughts into words, but at the time, it's just telepathy.

Maybe I'm just weird.
FTL is equivalent to time travel into the past. If you have one you have the other.

People thought humans wouldn't break the sound barrier for engineering reasons, not because the laws of physics prevented it. And just because people in the past thought something was impossible doesn't mean it will one day be possible. 100 years ago, physicists thought perpetual motion machines were impossible.
I've been thinking about a few ideas relating to app recommendations, and I wish there were a way to do this on the device instead of running something on your computer. Having to run something on your computer is really going to limit adoption of a system like this.

That said, I think this is a good way to work with what's available.
Best experience ever! You guys should give it a try, it's worth it!

If you want more insights, read this Quora thread:
http://www.quora.com/Is-Founder-Institute-a-good-deal-for-en...
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This is awesome! So much better then taking a USB or downloading a file. Will definitely be using this.
This looks really cool. Can't wait to mess around with it and see how well it really works.
I particular liked the guy who just ignored the previous line and drew "-V-"
"The hedge fund manager pulled in a personal payday of $5 billion. This comes after his 2009 pay of $2.3 billion, $2 billion in 2008, and $3.7 billion in 2007."

I'm speechless.
love these. anyone know who made them?
"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and more steadily we reflect on them; the starry heavens above and moral law within. . . The former view of a countless multitude of worlds annihilates, as it were, my importance as an animal creature, which must give back to the planet (a mere speck in the universe) the matter from which it came, the matter which is for a little time provided with vital force, we know not how. The latter on the contrary, infinitely raises my worth as that of an intelligence by my personality, in which the moral law reveals a life independent of all animality and even of the whole world of sense--at least so far as it may be inferred from the purposive destination assigned to my existence by this law, a destination which is not restricted to the conditions and limits of this life but reaches into the infinite." (Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, 1788)
Entropy in action?
"what the hell is the universe?"

A mathematical structure? Perhaps a perspective/viewport/subset of the entirety of mathematical possibility? What's between nothing and 'something' (0 and 1)?

Seems to me that's only a valid question if asked by a consciousness experiencing it (tree/woods/sound yada yada).
Wrong argument. If improving a few specific things will give the greatest benefit, please give feedback.
There's no point randomly letting the other person wander with self doubt and hope for improvement in every area.
"The social obligation of business is to sustainably maximize long-term profits for shareholders"

Exactly. Part of being sustainable, and doing it for the long term can involve being socially responsible.

For example, a publisher might focus on literacy programs which would increase the base of readers who could consume product in the future.

Secondarily:

"targeted legislative approaches are a preferable solution to the externalities created by corporate conduct. "

Exactly. Well placed and properly functioning legislation can improve long term sustainability and growth.

What's bad is when companies use their money to muck up politics and bend the rules to their own ends, to the detriment of society, which happens all too often, such as in the case of big tobacco and subsidies for the oil or automobile industries.
oh, i mean it's out of the question to hire someone local because of the bootstrapping situation now. I've been funding development out of my own pocket until this point. I'm starting to look for a co-founder now.
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Will definitely have to give this a shot seeing as "little" things like this can really make a product look much nicer
I don't think it would work either. Take an app that needs, say, wake locks, Internet access, and SMS access. Say further than none of them is strictly required.

Now imagine that users can deny this access on a per-permission basis. Now instead of having one app to test, you have 2 ^ 3. It's not as easy as using existing error codes, because some of these things normally don't break -- in which case it would be excusable to have fairly basic error handling. Displaying a message and allowing the user to restart the app is a fair distance (in terms of app complexity) from being required to produce an app that not only keeps running but does "the right thing" for all possible degradations of required permissions.

EDIT: I don't meant to sound pessimistic. I do really like the idea, but it seems like it would make the dev / test cycle a lot longer.
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Yeah, that comment didn't really make sense to me either.

I'm fluent in ASL, and I have a working knowledge of BSL. What I can tell is that ASL is more conceptual than BSL. BSL tends to track the English language more closely. For example, ASL will have one sign that expresses an entire sentence, but BSL will most likely have individual signs reflecting the individual words in the sentence. (This is not always true, of course.)

All of sign languages depend primarily on gestures and facial expressions.
there was an article about bump's new app recommendation feature on techcrunch the other day. ios 4 lets you pull a list of recently opened apps...
This is nice, although it's pretty similar to Showoff. https://github.com/schacon/showoff
While I've been known for being anti-GPL, I'm totally for open-source software. My philosophy is to open-source anything that a) is too simple to be sellable, b) is an extension of something already open-source (like a Moonshine plugin), or c) I don't want to take the time or energy to sell.

A lot of stuff falls under c).
I agree and think this article gives a perfect example of why it isn't accurate. Why would Javascript fall out of the top 10 last year? It makes no sense if you trust the methodology. BUT...if you think about it a system that gives a lot of weight to "mentions" falls apart when frameworks start drawing attention because it divides the number of mentions (how many times have you seen a jquery or Sproutcore article that never mentions the word Javascript?). Hence the drop
The toolbelt of even the least experienced craftsman has more than a single tool.
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13k datasets, 100 million time series, 600 million facts
> "I expect this trend will continue, as I strongly doubt that many new green field projects would today choose Perl as the principal development language."

Maybe but checking regularly the CPAN recent updates ( http://search.cpan.org/recent/ ), it seems that Perl is still very active and especially in the activity of providing API or pipe to other technologies/libraries.

At the end, large or medium sized projects are using different programming languages for different tasks and there is no such thing as the "principal development language". Diversity is great...
"Then, put yourself in God or energy's place... You are in a "space" with nothing around you... everything is void... Then where did "you" come from?"

There was no "space" with 'nothing around you'. Space is relative. Without time it isn't just a void... it doesn't exist.
Yup - Three-card Monte comes to mind when people talk about being a hustler, but I suppose it's better than being a charlatan or a martyr.
Careful, that's a form of heresy around these parts.
Congrats on the success of the site. I just wanted to say that this is one of my favorite projects from last year's Rumble (also the first RR I didn't compete in).
> first, there's no copyright notice on search result pages

Irrelevant. There is no legal requirement in most countries to put a copyright notice on a copyrighted work.

> Second, a search result is probably a database under copyright law, and databases (like the phone book) can't be copyrighted.

Databases can be copyrighted as compilations.

The typical phone book is not copyrightable because it is insufficiently creative, not because it is essentially a database.
Thanks. And, yes of course. But sadly there is no API available and the only other direct alternative is to "print out" a list in iTunes.

Also appshopper.com, but the have to mutch overhead for simply sharing your apps, imho.
This is absolutely superb. Hopefully videos like this will inspire the younger generation to actually look into how things work and not just how to use them. Projects like Arduino really lower the barrier to entry to allow adults and children alike to explore these areas. Great work!
Right! Audio performance vs. click-stream is a bad (deliberately misleading?) analogy. Classic apples vs. oranges.

The idea of a click-stream being copyrightable sounds pretty far-fetched. It's not something that's actually created by Google or any other entity.

I think this whole affair casts Google in a rather negative light.
That's the way to do it ;)
Except that first, you don't have to explicitly show a copyright notice for something to be copyrighted. By default, a work is copyrighted. You can explicitly give up a copyright, but not putting a notice is not that.

Secondly, and I don't really know the 'state of play' of 'database copyright' across various countries but one thing is for sure: a phone book is a database of facts. Search engine results are a database of 'creativity'. The first link you see when you Google something is not 'the best result' as a fact. If it were a fact then surely Bing, for example, would know, for a fact, that that is the best result for that search. ie. they would also return the same 'fact'.