skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The content of the article is a fine introduction for the layman, which is framed with the stupid and condescending "Artists gets it wrong" angle.

It would be like an introduction to the web which begins "professional software developers believe that the internet is the same as the blue 'e' icon on the desktop, but actually..." No, software developers does not believe that, but the layman reader may.

Btw. I disagree that mixing primary inks yield brown because inks are imperfect. Rather, brown is the color you would expect according to theory, because mixing pigments should average their effect.
Leaked cable tells of 3 previously undisclosed members of 9/11 plot
"Open source is not a product. Open source is a community effort. If you don't want to use it - well, it's your problem. No one will shed a tear about it."

Bullshit. Open source or not, a product is a product. If nobody uses it, you've waisted your time (and the time of the other contributors) building it.
I wonder if this can be tested somehow, just like Google did.
Which doesn't make his point less or more valid. Just because you dislike something doesn't mean you can't provide insight and valid opinions about it.
We had a kid shot in front of our house a fortnight ago (he survived, four arrested, we spent a few hours nursing coffees in McDonalds while forensics closed the street). So the numbers from this site were never going to look good for us!

1500 in the 'area'; only 3 on our street although that doesn't include the aforementioned shooting (unless 'attempted murder' is not classified under 'anti-social behaviour').
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Fair enough, but the ethical thing is for Google to exclude bing.com from the clickstream analysis, and I hope they have.

The big search engines are large enough to show up clearly in any of their competitors statistics (and there are always human teams monitoring the automated process) and should specifically exclude data from their competitors.

For Google to use Bing clickstream or vice versa also perpetuates a vicious circle where bad results from one search engines will spread among the others.

Bing either hasn't acted ethically, or hasn't though through the consequences of absorbing clickstreams of competitors' sites.
We think Wynn's points are good points, we (the Nuxeo project) have been using similar ideas to guide our community effort.

See: http://blogs.nuxeo.com/fermigier/2011/02/top-10-reasons-for-... for more details.
Exactly the same.
you have to read between the lines. i think googles engineers are just pissed after doing all the work and research to 100% proof that they mimic (mimic, copy, clone, imitate but "stealing" is the wrong word here) the results and bing/MS is just ignorant denying it like a HUGE asshole.

its easy to proof that im right with that because there are only individuals yelling at each other, its not like google is filling for a law suit against bing for stealing company strategies or whatever a clever lawyer could come up with.
Very related: Know your compiler and what optimisations it will already do for you. I have often seen code which is very hard to read because the programmer has tried hard to optimise it (e.g. reuse same variables etc.).

Here is an interesting read: http://www.fefe.de/know-your-compiler.pdf

And also a lecture video: http://chaosradio.ccc.de/camp2007_m4v_1952.html
Although this is a terrible mistake on Flickrs part, and it shouldn't have been possible to do this by accident, am I the only one that is happy that deleting a Flickr account really means _deleting_ it?

Most other services like Facebook, GMail are explicitly designed to keep your data forever, and if you don't want that, well, you should have thought of that before using the service. I would actually be happier and feel safer if we heard more complaints from Facebook users that accidentally deleted their account and couldn't get it back. It would be a clear sign that their system was designed with privacy and "data hygiene" in mind.
Not cool. This is the reason I went with Mozy. How is this hard to predict? It's not rocket surgery.
They're fans of Apple. It's the guy from Appleinsider writing and Google is clearly considered to be an enemy of Apple.
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I had to reread the original Google article to verify a point. The signal Bing is alleged to be using is that users CLICKED on the result that came up ... not the results that just came up first in Google upon a search query. And these are users who agreed to install the Bing toolbar!

Here's a hypothesis. I suspect Bing is making use of data that is typed in the toolbar or browser's search box ... not data captured from text typed directly into Google's search page. This might explain why their "honeypot-take" rate was only 8%. This is a subtle point. So ... imagine if you are the coder who wrote this signal collection feature. Would you capture "term in search box,next URL clicked" OR would you capture "if search box search engine == BING or Yahoo or something else then capture term in search box, next URL clicked".

Let me propose an alternative experiment. The test clickers should have clicked on the second or third (or some position N where N > 1) link. This would have demonstrated if Bing is using the actual click information or the search results themselves directly. The former seems completely fair on Bing's part. The latter might be debatable. My point is this ... the Google geniuses fail to distinct these two cases and are muddling it up for the PR drones. This waste everyone's time and productivity. Moreover, they belittle the hard-work of engineers and scientists. It is sad that this is what it has come to.
This has been my experience as well. Actually, it's worse. I actually managed to earn a bunch of points on SO by finding some questions that needed better questions...but it took a long time to get there for all the usual reasons of not wanting to jump through those hoops or spend lots of time trolling the site. Then I did something really stupid: I had an outstanding unanswered question about a really obscure subject, and I thought well, is someone answers this they deserve a bounty, so I added one. I didn't really care about rep, and my question was hard, so I put most of my points into it. It didn't occur to me that spending most of my rep would cause my account to degrade back into noob mode; I was thinking I had earned the privelegs of a normal user and they were mine to keep.

Worst of all, my question went unanswered, and the bounty was just claimed by the system.

I haven't earned back enough reputation to be a normal user again, although I have stumbled across many SO questions/answers that could use my insight. Since I can't use the site correctly, I just leave.
'Violent crime'?
My first language was QBasic i think, been through VB since then but i can't remember anything. I then began learning C/C++ which i still understand to this day but i keep a book close. Since then mostly Python and Ruby but really only Ruby since 2007 or so. I feel i have good understanding of code now at 22, still without CS education. I helped my friend with Java problems his second year in CS without having used Java past hello world, i know there are holes in my knowledge based on lack of experience but i feel i can read most languages without much trouble now. I think the main objective of learning to code should be to learn how to think as a programmer, learn how to understand code and really most importantly learn how to search the web.

Once you can master understanding programming syntax regardless of language, how to write good code and how to solve problems then you are well on your way to becoming a good developer.
I have to say, the more I think about this, the better an idea it is. I want to go back and read your blog posts as they come up, and while I may never use myGengo, the blog posts mean that you have a way to take mindspace with me and I'll be more likely to say "myGengo" when someone has a translation project I can't handle personally...
GoDaddy says they "have not touched anything". Of course, this may mean that they have built a self-serve seizure system in the past, but still...
I think that Google are claiming that Bing were specifically spying on Bing users clicking on Google results.

My position is that it's simpler to assume that Bing were spying on Bing users regardless of what page they were on, a side-effect of which is that Google had a lot of influence over-all, especially noticeable on 'long tail' queries.

"How exactly did Bing violate Google's terms". I don't know.

"Who "owns" the content the user "created" by typing in a search term and clicking a link?" Good question, I don't think there can be a definitive answer to this. Google can make a decent case that they own it (just like they own the directions given between two points on google maps, it's a consequence of their algorithm). But I think that's missing the point that, if I'm right, Bing weren't just targeting Google, they were targeting everyone.

Obvious sarcastic reply: "Oh it's all ok, Bing were spying on everyone guys, not just Google users, yay!" but that neatly brushes under the carpet the fact that everyone who runs a website spies on their users to some extent. This underpins the entire business model of most web businesses, especially search.
It seems like a _very_ good policy from a privacy perspective, if I accidentally uploaded some pictures that I really didn't want online (easy to do with an upload tool pointed at a directory), then I'd feel much more assured if Flickr would tell me that they didn't keep any copies of my pictures floating around "just in case".

Of course, deleting a complete account without any means of rectifying it sounds like a very bad idea and shouldn't have been possible. At the very least there should have been red warning signs flashing when the support person deleted a pro account with 4K+ pictures in it.
Egypt connectivity coming back
I think that LA/SF/NYC is not the optimum location in you strategy. I remember seeing an analysis somewhere comparing salary/cost of living and size of city in the US (I tried googling the original article but came up empty).

Basically if you start in a little village then move to a small town your salary rises faster than the cost of living and so you end up slightly better off financially. Then if you move to a larger town you're slightly better off again. And so on as you move up in city size.

This relationship holds except for at the very top, where the curve flattens off and drops slightly. You're actually slightly worse off in the banner cities like LA/SF/NYC.

In other words you, as an individual, are paying a premium to live in those places. The sweet spot in the curve financially is the next tier of cities down. I suspect this curve might have some degree of regional variation and might be different in other countries too.
World's worst hacker
They're using the company name as a collective noun or as shorthand for "people at company X or product Y", makes sense to me (a Brit).
So people should stop complaining about high taxation, in fact we should raise them and give them to the poor, because you'd still be obscenely rich in a global sense right? Or were we going somewhere else with this?
Yeah I am pretty happy about the fact that I got an acronym
I've written a followup post addressing some of the common reactions to my first: http://www.puremango.co.uk/2011/02/what-are-google-thinking-...

On HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2169690
I find it amusing that Dilger mentions Overture, which bought alltheweb from FAST in 2003. FAST, of course, was later acquired by Microsoft in 2008. The number of connections among the major search companies is rather amusing, if not necessarily surprising.
Microsoft uses behaviour

I doubt they are only targeting Google. But I completely agree, the data is not being mined from Google, it's a relationship for search term a to page b created by the user, not stolen from Google.
I agree that programming a micro-controller would make python a poor choice. That aside, I think its a great language.

I don't use it for months at a time. I proceed to forget everything. Shortly after, a need arises so I pick it back up. A week later, I'm a pro again.

The error output is what make it so amazing.
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> I read half of this. Its late, and I don't have the time or energy to refute point by point every single wrong thing that is written in that half.

It's dilger, why would you bother reading that tripe at all?
In any case, if Bing is indeed copying Google's results, it is utterly unethical even if users are receiving accurate search results. As mentioned in the article, what Bing is doing is analogous to copying Google's "exam," which by any reasonable standard is wrong, even if a "proctor" didn't specifically state this rule.

Perhaps Google has patented a few of its search algorithm components.
I'm GLad YOu LIke IT, But it's a sHamE ThAt YoU DiD'nT TakE the OPpoRtuNity To acTUally mAke USe Of thE BilIteRal cIpHEr in YOuR ComMent (AS IhAve in THis rePLy).
It's trivial in Oracle, just do a Flashback Query. You would just need to support that in whatever front end interface the customer support people use.
The phone call is dead..........NOT
Given the case of misspellings, Bing appear to associate what the user types into a text box with the link they subsequently follow.

I think this counts as extracting information from the Google results page.

<meta name=robots> is designed to prevent search engines automatically extracting information from web pages. By involving a human in the process, Bing are (presumably) avoiding this rule. Is this a good thing?

I accept that Bing don't access the page content itself, so wouldn't be able to see the <meta> tag if it was there.
So is Python!

I don't feel that a newbie should be learning a web language as his first. It just seems like an unintuitive learning process to me.
I Disagree badly... It's a wonderful environment for developers. I personnaly love it and I only have 101 points. that doesn't keep me from doing a thing there.

Really bad, bad article.
> certain he's spotted "the real situation". How did he fact check it

By reading the official MS blog post[1], watching the Farsight conference live, and being confident in my own judgements based on the observed evidence. No other conclusion is supported by the evidence - you say "It is monitoring user behavior on search engines" - where's the evidence that it's exclusively search engines they're monitoring? Let alone exclusively Google? There has been no evidence yet presented. Therefore all we can conclude from Google's sting is that Bing use URL/click data. Which is exactly what I said in the original thread[2], in my blog post, and lo and behold it's what MS later said. That's how I know it's the real situation.

[1] like where Harry says "A small piece of that is clickstream data we get from some of our customers, who opt-in ... To be clear, we learn from all of our customers".

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2165947
Asia or Latin America: a bit broad my friend :-) Do you prefer big cities or relaxed countryside? What kind of things would you like to do? If you don't like mountains, Nepal is not the right country etc.

If I had to pick one place in each:

South America: Buenos Aires, Argentina. A european touch, affordable prices, great culture & nightlife, a beautiful country. There are also a few tech companies there so there might be user groups etc

Asia: I haven't been there, but I heard good things about Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia is quite a diverse country, and there is a thriving developer & entrepreneur community there.

Coincidentally, I'm about to live internationally and start my business. I'm going to travel 5 months in South-East Asia, staying for a few weeks/months in each location. My first stop will be... Kuala Lumpur :-)
My impression is that Google is not claiming a violation of terms, and certainly they have not stated an intention to take legal action. Google is claiming instead that any comparison of its own results with Bing's should be taken with the grain of salt that Bing (apparently) is not above "Googling" queries it doesn't have an answer to itself.

Hence why the last line of the official blog post on the matter is "we'd like for this practice to stop," and nothing stronger. This is PR, not litigation.
Cool stuff! When will they institute a, "Clean Break" feature to purge 100% of your data?
Ahh the dangers of 100%... A notable exception: Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2054297 )
How the Nielsen TV ratings work — and what could replace them
Code that is unnecessarily repetitive is annoying. Annoying is not boring.
Google can already calculate this ratio of organic traffic to search engine traffic using the Google Toolbar stats - no need for Google Analytics.
Features - Product based FAQ's for osCommerce...
I'm a Brit (and not a lottery player) so not fully familiar with US state scratchcard lottery game mechanics :-) The longest odds straight lottery over here is 75m to 1 which is definitely enumerable, but if you say these cards get into the billions and would crash my server then I'll believe you! Agreed that you can still generate a controlled prize distribution with random tickets generated individually rather than pregenerating all combinations - it's a bit more fiddly but perfectly doable.

All this I agree won't help if your card design is as poor as the original article was, but to address the complaint of the poster before me it's perfectly possible to randomly generate tickets while controlling the number of winning tickets - you just have to have a screening function which prevents more than your controlled number of winners making it through.
apparently, myspace is powered by pimpled faced geeks (see output below [X-PoweredBy]).

But that was said as a joke, talking seriously, there is no doubt, the web is powered by the open source software.

Most of the major sites, are using the tools which are not made at Redmond.
There are however, some large sites which are exceptionally using the WISC stack, but amongst the largest sites, take the top 100, top 1000, you name it, they are the minority.

root@clonezilla-srv:~# wget -O- --server-response --spider http://www.myspace.com/
Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists.
--2011-02-02 13:25:18-- http://www.myspace.com/
Resolving www.myspace.com... 216.178.39.11
Connecting to www.myspace.com|216.178.39.11|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Length: 74124
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Expires: -1
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-Server: 896c6f7da640823d4508c54f3b48fc12058736fbc4e59bcf
Set-Cookie: MSCulture=IP=81.218.172.217&IPCulture=he-IL&PreferredCulture=en-US&PreferredCulturePending=&Country=SUw=&ForcedExpiration=634322139193426057&timeZone=0&myStuffDma=&myStuffMarket=&USRLOC=QXJlYUNvZGU9MCZDaXR5PUtmYXIgU2FiYSZDb3VudHJ5Q29kZT1JTCZDb3VudHJ5TmFtZT1Jc3JhZWwmRG1hQ29kZT0wJkxhdGl0dWRlPTMyLjE4MTcmTG9uZ2l0dWRlPTM0LjkzNTgmUG9zdGFsQ29kZT0mUmVnaW9uTmFtZT0wMiZMb2NhdGlvbklkPTA=&UserFirstVisit=1; domain=.myspace.com; expires=Wed, 09-Feb-2011 11:25:19 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: SessionDDF2=8Q/cYHD2nDXwG4IfpqngrVTCZxMtlFsPs8sS2KKXpeayPKeoIq6z3xJLZvQ7dssRE48xuBfthlzlt6O7FCHJxQ==; domain=.myspace.com; expires=Sun, 02-Feb-2031 11:25:19 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: MYUSERINFO=; domain=.myspace.com; expires=Wed, 19-Jan-2005 08:28:17 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: MYUSERINFO=; domain=myspace.com; expires=Wed, 19-Jan-2005 08:28:17 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: USER=; domain=.myspace.com; expires=Wed, 19-Jan-2005 08:28:17 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: USER=; domain=myspace.com; expires=Wed, 19-Jan-2005 08:28:17 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: SECUREUSERAUTH=; domain=.myspace.com; expires=Wed, 19-Jan-2005 08:28:17 GMT; path=/; secure
Set-Cookie: SECUREUSERAUTH=; domain=myspace.com; expires=Wed, 19-Jan-2005 08:28:17 GMT; path=/; secure
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
X-PoweredBy: Pimple Faced Geeks
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:25:18 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
X-Vertical: globalsites
Length: 74124 (72K) [text/html]
Remote file exists and could contain further links,
but recursion is disabled -- not retrieving.
Apparently, the 'hacker's web hosting account : http://ely.uv.ro/ was suspended.

Edit: Another would-be hacker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPypZSZiF3g
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Huh. I'm British and I would always use singular for a company (not for sports teams necessarily ref: that wiki link). Are we really supposed to say "Google are having an earnings call on Tuesday"? I would say "Google is having an earnings call on Tuesday".
But yikes, please don't put that into production!

Given a stack trace pointing to that single line of code with an exception, could you immediately figure out what had gone wrong? Would you know what to fix before you even had the code up in the editor?

That's something you can do with well-written production code. It's not particularly sexy to look at, but it's built for debugability.

Split that little kernal of awesome into 7 distinct lines that your CS101 nephew can explain back to you. Then it's ready to go live.
Good code is never boring.It must be simple."This is all there is" implies simplicity. Not interestingness.
Paypal's fraud prevention routine does it again
Once again Paypal suspends an account for suspicious activity and asks for clarification. Except this time it's a repeat of the same "suspicious" activity that has happened for the past four years, asking for the same documentation that has been sent through previously.
"All rights reserved"
See getaddrinfo(3) man page, that should be almost all you want. Making code mixed v4/v6 that way actually seems easier than v4-only solution with gethostbyname(3) and building struct sockaddr manually.
Why not just wang Lua into it and be done with the problem?! :)
Thank you kindly, sir!
For those who are interested in the honeypot part of it, have a look at https://code.google.com/p/kippo.

If you're interested in the same and want to display stats about the connection attempts, passwords tried etc. I have developed a "kippo stats" webapp in Perl/Mojolicious, at https://github.com/mfontani/kippo-stats
Flickr Accidentally Wipes Out Account: Five Years And 4,000 Photos deleted
Scheme is not in this list?
Aerobic exercise can increase brain size, keeping you mentally sharp
Actually, /64 seems too small for customer allocation. What if customer wants to have more than one network?
Regardless of whether you think Google is more or less evil than Microsoft, what does it matter how many billions they spent?

It's silly to hold onto some murky moral click-ownership here. It would still be silly, even if it hadn't given Google billions of dollars in profit, every quarter.
This is clearly something that google should have acquired, with such great integration to google apps. Hopefully Salesforce builds and integrates this service. A win for Salesforce!
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-hacker +script kid. The most emotional part what when Perl was downloaded from the Microsoft site. An excellent display of how dangerous automated exploits can be in the wrong hands. Enabling emotions to run wild without assuming any risks at all. Yay, I got into a box with my script. Yay, I'm going to run a script to packet flood someone. Yay, that was meaningless.

I also enjoy how the tar had a file called "scam." Shows the generation gap in what used to be in a swiss army tar. Bot nets and things of that nature aren't fully utilized to terrorize the infected and targets! They can be used to click ads, send emails, give website hits; oh endless possibilities for MONEY.
I'm surprised google didn't just use this to poison the results.
The site is slow to load for me, but here is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJagxe-Gvpw

Also, this is pretty funny, and seems like it could be the same guy: http://kippo.rpg.fi/playlog/?l=20100316-233121-1847.log