skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a UI designer who works on web apps during the day and Mac/iOS apps at night, and, in my experience, designing APPS compared to designing WEBSITES makes you far more marketable. And you make a ton more money. I don't do much iOS UI work nowadays (I work on my own projects) but my rate of $150/hr was comparable with my friends who do app UI work. Compare that to web design hourly rates and there's really no comparison.

I think the bottom line is if you can tie your work to the actual bottom line of the company (more people signing up and buying the app) compared to just building marketing websites, you're always better off. The key is making sure the higher ups at the company know how big of an impact you make as a designer so they see you as a money-making asset rather than just another sunk salary cost.
Well gosh, developing ever more elaborate versions of the algorithm must have cost them tens, maybe hundreds, of millions of dollars over the years. How the hell are they supposed to cover that kind of expense with just billions of dollars per quarter?
Maybe instead of complaining that people take the "most idiotic interpretation possible" from your comment, you should write more than one word in order to give your question some meaning and context.

As it stands your basic grievance seems to be that people aren't capable of intuiting what that one word question meant in your mind.
agreed

typical conference: your cost anywhere from $300-2000

typical Meetup.com-style meetup: your cost anywhere from $0-5
You can't continue to get affordable insurance if you are continually making claims.
I think i would put it more succinctly this way:

Bing and it's boosters have been touting their search engine results as better and more relevant than Google's. As it turns out, the reason for that, is because they are tracking all of Google's results without reporting that they are doing so.

Additionally, the article posted here is disingenuous. There is a difference between tracking general click tracking, and what bing is doing, which is scraping queries and click results. That is not a general browsing feature, this is a search engine specific feature, designed to benefit off of the results provided by others.
OK, out of curiosity I actually tried installing the Bing bar (on IE9 beta, which, btw, makes you manually activate add-ins after they're installed. The installer for the addin itself is pretty upfront about it sending your click data and stuff - it's right there on the one and only options page, next to one of three checkboxes - though the box is checked by default which I think is dubious).

I haven't been able to influence the Bing search results (no surprise there, since I've only spent a few minutes on it and not weeks like the Google folks) but one thing I did find very interesting was that if you search for something on another site, the Bing bar actually lights up and populates its own search field with your query so that with another click you can search for it on Bing.

As far as I can tell, the bar doesn't seem to be using any heuristic to tell what is a search query but just has a list of sites/URL patterns it knows about. Besides Google and Bing itself, these include Wikipedia, Yahoo, Ask.com, Amazon, Facebook, eBay, YouTube, MSDN and IMDB, but not Twitter or DuckDuckGo. This doesn't prove anything about how it's feeding search results of course but it does at least suggest that the Bing bar is very interested specifically in search queries, though not only on Google.
You don't get throttled if you have XXL, though.
Yeah, point to Palm -- a company built by ex-Apple people that produced a lower-cost Newton clone.
There was more to the negative comment. The very next sentence was this: If it’s not native on iOS, it’s not worth using. There was nothing constructive about his comment.

I also don't think customer service should be synonymous with ass kissing. I appreciate knowing there's a person with a personality responding to my inquiry instead of repeating canned phrases. You can be polite to a rude customer without giving a phony 'sorry' or 'thank you'.
>if a site robots.txt file prohibits bots from gathering data,

Pages in a robots.txt file still get put into Google's index they just don't get parsed. Surprised me to find that out; http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/robotstxt (see "Why Meta Robots is better than robots.txt").
"a pretty clear indication that they've special-cased clicks from google" - just like pretty much every piece of web analytic software since awstats has done for over 10 years, right? To imagine that _any_ half serious search engine isn't special-casing any referrer information it can get it's hands on from the top half of http://www.alexa.com/topsites is surely naive?
Huge amount of data and statistics from Cisco on mobile usage
Al Jazeera is producing some of the finest global news coverage in the world today. I became a regular viewer recently so I could keep up on political debates with my family based in South Africa who have AJ on satellite.

Watching AJ reminds me how human-interest and emotion-centric the local news has become. The Egyptian coverage on CNN is nauseating. Yesterday a caller phoned in from Cairo and was falling over his words just spilling massive amounts of useful data and the anchor woman interrupts him to ask him about his feelings.
Some argue that "cliche" is onomatopoeic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliche#Origin

A world like onomatopoeia being onomatopoeic isn't that far-fetched. Perhaps the word could be named after a very common onomatopoeia, perhaps one that has gone out of use. A word with that sort of etymology is "shibboleth" - its current meaning is derived from what was a common shibboleth.
Pretty funny result.

Makes me think if machine translation is to improve it will almost certainly require human translators to contribute. The style in which Google is doing this seems like this will happen more often.
How do you know its the former and not the other. Google's experiment doesn't discriminate between the two.
No, the main reason is that RGB is an approximation of color not true color. Light in the real world isn't RGB. Human beings do not see in RGB. Read the damn article. (There's also a lengthy post above which tries to make the points over again.)

Do you think CMYK will reproduce sunsets if you shine a bright enough light on a piece of paper and use black enough ink? Same argument.
Apple got the $800 worth of hardware sale + ongoing monthly lock-in to ATT contract. 'nothing', hah. Apple makes a TON off it's users, without having to do anything once the phone is sold.
To quote the first comment from LWN:

" I've seen situations where the same (src ip, src port, dest ip, dest port) are reused within 3 seconds of the FIN from the first connection coming past. A large corporation NATted behind a single IP."
Seems like codeconf isn't interested in talk proposal submissions.
It's funny that Google has a problem with Microsoft using their content (the search rankings), yet has no problem taking content from places TripAdvisor (http://www.tnooz.com/2010/12/14/news/tripadvisor-shrugs-off-...) and newspapers (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=5&s...), even when those companies specifically ask Google to not.

Google should be more careful here: either it's OK to repurpose other site's content or it's not, and Google has built their entire business around repurposing content. They shouldn't be surprised when their competitors start doing the same.
Explosions in the sky (It's a band) either on my Ipod, or on our stereo.

This is the only band that paints a soundscape(picture with sounds, like a landscape) and I will listen.

Im sure the same effect would occur with classical music as well.
All About NSA's and AT&T's Big Brother Machine, the Narus 6400
Thanks for the helpful response.

How has your time in Bangalore been?

While traveling, I would like to eat tasty food. Having a good night life in the city I am is ideal. Being able to visit beautiful nature and sites to see in and around where I am staying is great. Still not 100% sure what I want out of my travels 100% but I hope that gives a bit of a better picture.

As far as a program, it could be anything from university classes (unlikely to work on my timeframe, to the ability of getting quality local tutors to help me, to something like the Hacker Dojo http://wiki.hackerdojo.com/w/page/25437/FrontPage). Anything that could accelerate my learning.
The first post-YC fundraising is usually made up of convertible notes. So in your example, that $700K at $3M pre would not trigger the conversion of Start Fund's note, which would instead convert at the valuation of the next round of fundraising.
Grabbing a piece of graph paper and hand-drawing some "pixel art" is quite relaxing due to its simplicity yet gradual complexity. Check out "Zentangles" for other interesting simple->complex doodles.

You can also try listening to a talk radio (CBC Radio 1 is great), or some podcasts. Podcasts will be pretty simple to stick to a routine, since there are some that come out weekly (or even daily).

Good luck!
Python and Lisp
Nissan Automobile: Nissan Frontier
Although the /8s have an entire infrastructure relying on their current situation, it is not unthinkable that the economical advantage of making subsets of their space available to third parties will become more attractive than just letting it sit idle. It might even justify the migration costs. So maybe we'll see parts of IBM, Apple and HP transform to IP/DNS providers.

Apart from that, it's not a question of having the /8s 'give back' IP adresses -- it's about them monetizing their available IPv4 space, out of their own volition.

Whether that relieves the IPv4 shortage for weeks or months doesn't really matter. What matters is what value they can extract from it.
"google offers"
all im saying.

they arent "stealing" results - how would that even be possible? they just mimic search result behavior.

srsly. who cares. bing would be better off copying blekko or duckduck results.

that goes along with my switch from google to duckduckgo on all devices & macs. why? cause google results are 99% spam. only splogs, content farms, fake communities scraping content from real content sites and so on.

im that close to create my own twitter clone that will never support things like 4sq, gowalla, postly and what not. it just gets annoying on every level of information.
Could they not simply charge 130% for books purchased through Apple's system whilst offering them elsewhere at a normal price?
Do you actually expect better of them though? I mean really...
Hehe, nah. I want to try other viral experiments, though. That I'm actually on :)
Then you are intimating I am a liar or you have poor reading comprehension.

My grievance as stated is that people who do not have enough information to go on jump to the worst conclusion. So which is it, am I lying, did you not understand my previous comment, or is the notion of multiple interpretations too intellectually advanced for you, or is it something else? Note that I ask, and do not jump to conclusions.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2158531

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2158462

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2158331

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2158521

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2158644
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Go to the local park and do some sprints on the grass. There's nothing more invigorating than running as fast as you can.

After the sprints, fall on your back and do some sky gazing.

The sprints clear your mind, the sky gazing relaxes you and lets your mind wander ;-)
Sure. As Harry Shum said; this is a new kind of clickfraud. Just like when googlebombing become a public technique, Google would have been foolish not to change the behaviour of their algorithm. I'd be amazed if Bing didn't swiftly change their click tracking behaviour to explicitly blacklist google.

And if Google had waited for Bing to reply privately before making any of this public, I'm sure we'd have avoided all this drama.
Running for 2 hours at 160 bpm.
Doesn't any app that allows you to query an arbitrary URL or web search technically provide customers the ability to purchase books through e.g. Amazon? This way lies madness.
My Beta List: Create your own beta list
Lifting barbells.
>Your beta registration could not be processed for some reason. Maybe you didn't type in one or more of the fields or your internet connection hiccuped? Message: error

All the fields are filled out correctly. I did forget to fill out the comments section the first time I hit "send", maybe that's behind it. Why is the comments section even a required field?
This is the first solution I hit upon: show the user the pricing of each option and see what happens.

I wonder what creative solution Apple will come up with. Bah, it won't be creative, it'll be:

* An app will not charge consumers more to purchase content in-app then they would in other locations.
Google clearly stated in their blog post they used IE8 and the Bing toolbar with settings that provide user experience data to MS (for the Suggested Sites feature and such). I'm sure Google's toolbar and Chrome phone home if you let them, too.

Unless I'm missing something just running Windows isn't enough for MS to do the kind of data collection Google is claiming.
It's true that freenode is relatively quiet when most people in US time zones are asleep. But even then, it's rarely completely dead. In the larger channels, it's quite likely that someone will be awake and answer your questions even then.

But you're right about the searchability of SO. That is one of the strengths having a good, searchable archive of questions and answers. Forums, some mailing lists, and Usenet also share that strength, to some extent.

On the other hand, some IRC logs have been published, and google search results do sometimes happen upon such public logs.

You can also keep your own long-term logs, just by turning on logging in your IRC client, and leaving your client idling in the channels that interest you.
In Europe there are specific database IP rights.

Re the decision you cite it seems to be spurious. The notion of whether the data is factual or not is irrelevant. Was the presentation copied?

>would mean that no one could ever reproduce or copy actual facts without risk of reproducing a false fact

Unless they actual did some work and checked the facts rather than making a slavish, infringing, copy of someone else's work.

>If such were the law, information could never be reproduced or widely disseminated"

For limited terms of never (not limited enough mind you but nonetheless limited).

This is interesting though - if you can copy facts with impunity then can't I copy the "fact" of the score for Katy Perry's Firework for example?
Anyone wanting greater understanding of the regional dynamics in the Middle East should read al Jazeera regularly, just like anyone wanting to really understand local politics should read their local newspaper for a year, instead of reading an NYTimes article about their local politics. Watching it when there is a crisis really doesn't help understand, it just helps give you more information.

Similar to how a pipe fitter in West Texas reading HN once a month wouldn't really help them understand the culture that exists in the Y!Combinator/startup world, watching AJ when there is a crisis without watching it regularly leads you to impose your own cultural lens on the issues. I lived in a Central Asian country for three years, and it took me about two years to really understand how much I didn't understand the local culture.
Well, no.

Imagine I am the Bing toolbar and I am spying on my users.

The Google search result for fake word zxczxczxczxczx is then a web page with a single link, and the user I am observing is clicking that link. So I am Bing, and I make a connection: zxczxczxczxczx (which appears on this web page) is related to said link.

Since the word is artificial and doesn't appear anywhere else, it's eventually going to produce that page as a search result.

So I think the author is right - what Google has done is they have proven that Bing toolbar tracks what users are doing, and sends the results back to Bing to improve their search.

They have not proven that Bing treats google.com differently from any other page. For that they should have seeded 100 random web pages from different domains with artificial words, and have these pages contain a link which the user with Bing toolbar installed then clicks. I bet that it would yield the same result as the Google test, e.g. those fake words would get matched to the linked web pages.
I don't buy it. Simply making infringing data unavailable has to be legally sufficient, except in cases involving removing secret or confidential data (which would likely require a court case) there's no harm in having the data merely inaccessible. Moreover, it simply must be the case that this is how it works in practice.

Consider how deep this rabbit hole goes. If expunging any copies of copyrighted data were strictly necessary, then:

What of data existing on backup media? Should those be re-hydrated, the target data expunged, and then recreated in abridged form?

What of data existing in various content caches (such as memcached)? Should all of those systems be flushed of any possible contaminant?

What of the actual data on physical media? Deleting a file on any modern form of media does not expunge the data, it merely unlinks the location of the data on disk from the file system directory. It might be necessary, depending on filesystem and drive type, to scan all of the unused sectors on an entire disk to find out if the target data or any part of it existed.

As you see, quite quickly you get into absurdities. Nobody goes to that much trouble to delete merely copyright infringing data.
Only do as much as you feel good doing. Most people when they start out do too much or expect exercise to give a bad feeling, I know I did 2 years ago. Hell, I was even famous for hating exercise in a show called Nerds FC. But recently I have started running reallly really long distances at an "easy" pace, and it is the most enjoyable, meaningless thing to do! When you enjoy it, you won't need a "routine", you will just let yourself indulge.
I can't speak for Flickr, but I can tell you that one of their larger competitors simply does a logical delete. That seems to take care of any legal obligation.

I should note that this not true in the case of child porn. Once the feds give them the signal that is completely purged.
how would you expect a search engine to be able to surface a web-page given a specific query in which there is no data to create the relationship except the signal from google engineers spamming bing with click data.

these are cases of outliers. they don't exist on the real internet, or at least where pages exist without any other data (anchor text, inlinks, outlinks, words from the query in the document) they never get surfaced from a search engine.

abscent fake click-data there is no way google could surface these documents for the specific queries. in fact google states this openly in their "attack piece". before they manually changed the rank of these document they didn't surface these either.

the only evidence of "cheating" is that bing surfaces document for which there is no known relationship between the query and the document, except for spam created by google engineers. this is evidence only of a bug in bings ranking algorithm. clearly it is using signals from google. just like google uses signal from CNN (keywords, inlinks, outlinks, anchor text, etc).

i'm sure bing is thankful to google for helping find this defect in their system and are hard at work to fix it.

people talk about bing copying search results like google invented search results and put a lot of hard work into them. in this case the only hard work they put in was designed to spam bing.

i can only conclude that google is getting worried about bing quality and has run out of ideas on how to fix their own problems.
You are welcome. Great content deserves better design/layout.
Mmmyes, but APPLE wins. And really, isn't that what everyone wants? Doesn't Steve DESERVE more money? After all, his shiny things are Oh So Shiny.
+1. I am very fortunate to live in Sydney, where ditto.
I guess Eric Schmidt was wrong; it sure looks like adult supervision is still needed.
Yahoo drops its own Hadoop distribution
Ask HN: What to do?  Fed up with Apple, but dislike the existing alternatives?
Not trying to troll, but I love the iPhone, the iPad and OSX. I'm starting to seriously dislike the business entity behind them. I can't stand Android/Windows/Linux on the desktop. How do I have my cake and eat it too?
According to the Searchengineland.com story, the smoking gun is that Bing does not offer a correction for "torsoraphy" yet returns the Wikipedia article. http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-...

But the difference is really in what they do after they get the results from Wikipedia. Google searches for the term returned by the Wikimedia engine and offers it as the intended spelling. Per the screenshots, Bing returns the Wikipedia page, a page related to it's contents (long island surgery) and the results from Amazon (plus whatever else isn't shown).

Bing appears to offer broader searches when faced with ambiguity, whereas Google takes the results of the Wikimedia engine as gospel.
You fail to understand the issue here. None of this stuff is on by default in Windows. You have to install the Bing toolbar.
in 7-9% of the times google tried to spam bing. not in 7-9% of search results. this indicates that maybe google isn't that great at figuring out how to spam bing or that bing is pretty good at defending agains spam. maybe google could take some lessons from bing on cleaning up spam and problem that seems all to prevelant on google these days.
This is factually incorrect. The google toolbar records clickstream data across all sites*

* all with some specific exceptions for perhaps SSL and locally-resolved zones, or something like that.
The vast majority of "design jobs" out there are from marketing types wanting whatever trendy bubblegum is fashionable this minute rather than solving customers' real problems.
The Emperor Taboo
Diino is a good option. US$49 per year for unlimited back up.

Also, Diino are quite big and offer white label back up services to large companies like ISP's. This is good to note as it shows they'll be around for some time.
There is a reason why people endure higher costs of living to be in locations of higher population density. I'd also like to see the same cost benefit analysis over a 5-10 year window. I guess the alternative US scenario mightn't be much better.
Does the Bing toolbar algorithm associate all query string parameters with the subsequent click action? Or did the Bing algorithm toolbar have code that specifically targeted click actions on the Google search engine?

Was it just the top result that was copied or were more of the results copied as well?
I think that danger is very real. I used to be a Flickr Pro member but I've been taking fewer pictures the last few years (for several reasons) and can't justify the Pro account anymore. However, the side affect of that is that now some of my older pictures are less accessible and my old photo sets aren't browseable. At least to me this seems like a bad business plan for Flickr, especially amidst an abundance of rabid competition.
Have a conversation with yourself and 100's of usernames. Worked for me first time I made a forum in the late 90's Within a couple of weeks the site membership was exponentially increasing and out of control.
I haven't used them before but my assumption would be that they charge you based on the number of emails sent rather the size of your contact list.