skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"This is pure nonsense, and so is the rest of your post." Thank you. I don't really know how to respond to thi

I apologize for the unnecessarily mean-spirited reply, it was uncalled for.

>And the food industry is not about the ingredients, the cooks and the recipes, but about providing users with a dish suitable to their tastes. In fact, we could do without the cooks, recipes and ingredients. er...?

You're wrongly combining "food" and "the food industry". Food is about the end result, regardless of how it came about. The food industry is about all those things you mentioned. The same goes for search.

>it isn't about if Microsoft is "copying" or not anymore. You can win that semantic game.

You're right about this, "copying" or not is purely a semantic game. The problem I see is that Google started it intentionally. They could have used more precise terms and actually started a conversation about the real issue here, which you correctly identified, as Google results showing up in Bing. But they chose to go the sensational route.

This is my reply to moultano that addresses your point:

The value of a search engine isn't any particular result, or any set of results. Its the quality of all the results over time. If Microsoft's algorithm picks up a tiny amount of signal (ahem 1 of a 1000) indirectly from Google's results, this does nothing to artificially inflate their position off of Google's back. There's nothing inherently wrong about using user signal for this.

There are many sites on the internet that generate a set of links based on form data. Google is one of many in that respect. This technique is effective in gathering search information on this "deep web". Special-casing Google positively or negatively is the wrong approach here.
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What would be the value in knowing that weight without knowing what it's relative to?
I've heard stories about companies being responsive re: feedback, but I had no clue that twitter was so awesome about it.

Neat exploit, too.
The usual "Don't dig for gold, sell shovels" type thing and in this case the analogy holds up very well.

The SC2 players are digging for gold and only a few of them make a big strike and the casters and distributors are the ones making all the cash selling shovels.
Yeah, and you're usually glad to as well :-) I have 8500 subscribers on my account so far and it's $75/mo well spent.

(But boy, do they ratchet the tiers up fast. Once I tip over 10k subscribers, it leaps up to $150/mo! A few more intermediate tiers please, MailChimp.. otherwise my 10,000th subscriber will cost me $75/mo alone ;-))
Still wondering why I should care...
Beyond bubble: Google loses its mind
This is a follow up to my post last week about my "80 line" JavaScript wiki. I've extended it to treat embedded <script> tags as live in-line examples.

I'm finding this useful for documenting JavaScript libraries and other JavaScript snippets I want to write about.

I hope other HN users find it useful - I plan on doing more "plugins" that enable things like DSL's for UML Sequence diagrams.

Would love to hear feedback or suggestions for improvements.
Most referrers do not contain search terms. You can't look at REFERER and infer it indicates the subsequent URL is correlated on a given keyword. If that's what you want, you write a parser to look at URLs, recognize human-determined search indicators (q=, s=, search=), and correlate the subsequent URL with the indicated keywords.

Hand waving that this is "clickstream" data doesn't mean Bing is not looking specifically for Googled search terms and the resultant user selected URLs.

I personally don't mind them doing it. I just think their post is non-responsive in hopes of persuading the non-technical reader there's "no deliberate copying to see here" when they're clearly intentionally ingesting an extraordinary volume of Google-keyword-to-Google-result data and using that data to map keywords seen only on Google to results on Bing.

Flattery, etc.: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/06/kayak-bing/
Yeah, I went back to my code and realized there was a precision problem I had to fix for numbers approaching 64-bit minimum. Once I fixed that issue, it went back to hanging again :(

I updated the post, and I'm looking for new alternatives now.
What's next for Egyptian entrepreneurs?
Nothing unethical about Bing v Google.
I would expect he has insurance of some sort. In America, that is typically tied to employment, however, he probably has individual insurance. Depending on how his business is structured would depend on who pays for it. Who pays for it in this situation is probably a function of getting the best tax deal out of it.

Now, he might have straight health insurance. In which case he pays x%. His insurance company may or may not have a deal with the hospital to negotiate a lower rate. In either case Andrew would pay x% of the finial cost up to a certain cost. There may also be a copay he would be responsible for.

If he has an HSA, then he pays everything unto a certain amount typically $3500 - $5,000 and he can put tax advantaged money into what's called an HSA account.

HSA's make sense for young people, 'regular' insurance makes sense for older people or people with lots of health problems.

EDIT: Interesting Side Note...

In America, it is typical to get "This is not a bill" bills. Basically, it is a statement from the hospital that outlines all the expenses, but it states, "This is not a bill" on it. You will then get the real bill from the insurance company, which is typically a lot less. For example, a family friend spent 3 or 4 days in the hospital before she passed away and racked up ~$300,000 in medical expenses. The family ended up paying about $2500 for the medical expenses.
Good question. I do believe that laws matter. I'm just skeptical that they'll always prevent abuse by the leadership. Look how the Patriot Act invalidated many basic rights, rights that were enforced by laws. Now they want to reauthorize it. Can you blame me for being skeptical?

I'd rather give the government just enough power, rather than a large amount of power "just in case". In this specific case, I'd rather the president not have such a power, lest he decides to use it in an absurd way in the future. (e.g. America gets attacked again, like 9/11, president pushes button.) Especially since these laws are being proposed and voted on by people who think that shutting down the internet is the way to protect yourself from "cyber attacks", whatever that may mean. They are obviously unqualified to make such a decision, as is the president unqualified to decide when the button must be hit.
Comparing the price of each tool individually yes. However, if you add them all up then it really starts to be costly if you want to use most of those tools. You are limited in what you can budget for as an individual developer and are forced to look at the marginal cost of each new purchase as well as the opportunity cost of not buying some other tool unrelated to your purchase.

(Just in your example, we are already at $1335 not including the price of Visual Studio itself since the free express edition does not support add-ins such as ReSharper and other productivity tools)
"Even search results that we would consider mistakes of our algorithms started showing up on Bing."

If it was a popular query, and both google and bing made the same "mistake", doesn't that seem a tad suspicious to you?
I'm confused: is Cloudflare an HTTP caching proxy like squid-cache?
This sounds a lot more like Path loses its mind.
Thank god i never leave my private info in the comments of support tickets. Lets hope all this funding twitter has will help patch this stuff up quick!

Thanks for making this known to the public!
Apparently. Immediately got flagged when it went out. It was a blog post about how I bought & fixed up a bike for $150. I mentioned I got it off of craigslist and it set their filters off.
I hope Andrew feels better - I've only spoken to him once over the phone, but he struck me as an extremely passionate and geniune man with a lot of wisdom to share about the art of entrepreneurship. May he have a speedy recovery (and get back to eating cheeseburgers, as he indicated in his post ;) )
I suggest using morning digests like Politico's Playbook by Mike Allen. I subscribe to that, Morning Money (Politico), Breaking News (Politico), and Financial Times updates (for the more international piece). All of this is delivered to my inbox before I am up in the morning and compliments my first cup of coffee nicely. As well as saves a bundle of time.
Reading this article raises a question that I ask as devil's advocate (mostly): why do we need to get into space?

I can think of three reasons:
1) We need to put up comsats.
2) Military superiority
3) Because we can and it's cool.

To the first, as the article stated the sky's already getting a bit full as there are only so many comsat "slots"

To the second, SDI never really worked and that threat doesn't exist anymore.

To the third, well...is it worth the brajillions? I personally think it is because we don't know what's out there, but that's a really poor sales pitch. :)

Perhaps it's my limited imagination and understanding, but I'm unable to conjure the reward that offsets the risks/costs.
and they don't need to index or crawl google pages to do what they are doing.
I predict e-sports to develop almost identical to american sports. Thus, before any real money can be made (for players and distributors/producers) elements of american sports need to be echoed: big money backers (owners), betting, and a more structured and and centralized league system.

The problem is e-sports is still so immature for the above three things, both technically (cheating is a major issue) and in popularity (e-sports has yet to prove exiting to the uninformed spectator).
NASA Kepler finds family of planets in habitable zone
To some extent, isn't InternMatch structurally incapable of providing the same amount of validation as a college program?

A college program has few qualms rejecting someone. After conducting an interview, and reviewing writing samples and a resume, a college program will form a subjective opinion of the applicant. If the applicant garners a negative opinion s/he will be rejected, and the college program has no problem doing this.

On the other hand, InternMatch could have real trouble telling someone, "no we won't vouch for you"--it would be like telling a customer to leave the store.

Also, don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to attack you or your biz model at all--just offering my POV. Best of luck and congrats on the funding.
It's required here in Massachusetts - you have to send in proof of insurance with your state taxes or you get fined.
It does seem that the cofounders, as well as the simple domain name are a big part of the reason they can get an offer like this. It does seem though there are a heap of services out there doing basically the same thing and tweaking the parameters a bit, like the friends list size, sure they could end up quiet successful but it's a big gamble I guess only those already financially secure could afford to take.

It does matter a bit about the terms to, who knows, maybe Google wanted to roll it into their upcoming offering instead of having it as a standalone which would be a deal break for those heavily invested in their concept.
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yeah but how much? has a market actually taken form or are those casters who are making money nothing more then novelty?
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http://www.johntreed.com/Kiyosaki.html

"A number of people asked me about Robert T. Kiyosaki and his book Rich Dad, Poor Dad. When I said I didn’t think he was a real-estate guru, they insisted he was. Several told me I would like him, that he preaches a message like mine. Eager to find such a guru, I bought his book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, in a bookstore.

Summary
Rich Dad, Poor Dad is one of the dumbest financial advice books I have ever read. It contains many factual errors and numerous extremely unlikely accounts of events that supposedly occurred.

Kiyosaki is a salesman and a motivational speaker. He has no financial expertise and won’t disclose his supposed real estate or other investment success.

Rich Dad, Poor Dad contains much wrong advice, much bad advice, some dangerous advice, and virtually no good advice."
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What guarantees are paypal offering on handling their bank statements?

Even assuming paypal aren't crooks - is doing this OK with the Scottish Data Protection Act, Charities commission or Company registration?
Blizzard makes the most money as the copyright holder. They can shut down any of the casters streams whenever they so desire.
To me, the most interesting and exciting quote from the article is "When we put our next blog post next week", which I interpret to mean that they'll keep analyzing the data they have access to.
I agree, but even for the largest players, there are broad "themes". E.g. Amazon's core retail frontend is written in Perl Mason, but most of backend services are written in Java and C++ with Oracle as a primary DB choice.
I think there are two things our investors provided that were unobtainable before they came on board.

1. Access to their networks. If we need something or someone and it or they did not exist inside of our existing network we have been able to use our investors to help us acquire the thing or person we needed much more rapidly than if we had not had them. This led us to being able to execute and or scale much more quickly than we might ordinarily have had.

2. An additional sounding board of experience to help us avoid most of the common pitfalls many start up businesses make when they just don't know any better. Sometime you have to learn from experience, however the more negatives we avoided by taking lessons from others and by evaluating the advice of our advisors the quicker we were able to succeed in our market place.

Our investors provided a lot of other benefits both tangible and intangible but at the end of the day we probably could have done without their money, however I am not sure we could have done without their advice, contacts, and resources.
I was super excited until I read the article. We don't know that they're habitable or if they even have water, just that they're in a zone where water could possibly exist.

I kind of wish we had an estimate for masses too -- an Earth-sized planet would be less attractive if it massed much more or much less...
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Very interesting idea. Is there any way I can be notified when you get some merchants in the Baltimore/DC area? Or maybe when you get that far, it'll be on HN...
for the same reason that after the age of 14-21 normal people don't live home with parents.
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One could argue that, while being a successful professional gamer is hard and rare, it's probably much harder and rarer to be a successful caster of professional games. Casters also have to tackle a broader range of skills: they have to remain very current with the game they cast (and they're generally expected to be above-mediocre players themselves), they have to understand the production and distribution process (audio, screen capturing, uploading to Youtube/other video site, etc.), and most of all, they have to get and maintain fans.
I think this response is convincing. Period. Full stop.
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Maybe I'm having a brain fart, but... under what legal auspice could Blizzard force them to shut down the streams?
So, being on Facebook is non-conformist?
"For example, there are millions of asteroids of different sizes and composition flying throughout space. One category, known as S-type, is composed of iron, magnesium silicates and a variety of other metals, including cobalt and platinum. An average half-kilometer S-type asteroid is worth more than $20 trillion."

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/lunar/featured-article/spac...
This is probably intended as an (inevitably partial) defense against people copying application .APK files and their associated data between devices, or altering the .APKs to be able to get stuff without paying for it. Here's a discussion of the issue in the context of their licensing verification library:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/09/securing-andr...

I'm not sure that precisely the same threat model applies, but they may be thinking "better safe than sorry" regardless.
I have mixed feelings about this statistic. On the one hand, I get to feel cool because I was into reddit before it got popular. On the other hand, reddit has jumped the shark with all of the awful people that have recently joined to get it to the 1 billion monthly pageview category. But, then again, that's kind of a good thing because I don't visit reddit anymore so I'm a million times more productive than I used to be :)
Mine has been locked for nearly 10years

I signed up when it was only available in the US now it's avialable in Scotland I tried to register for the UK version. You can't register for the UK cos you have a US account, you can't use the US account with a UK credit card.
I asked them to delete the US account and it's now stuck in some sort of Limbo where I can't open a UK account cos I have the US one, and I can't log into the US one because it's been deleted. Once a year I spend a few days emailing them to try and sort it out.
The great thing about reddit is that you can unsubscribe from all the crap and only follow the niche sub-reddits that you are interested in.

It's an entirely different experience when you remove /r/reddit, pics, videos, wtf, athiesm, politics etc

Here's a useful doc that lists all the active sub-reddits https://spreadsheets0.google.com/ccc?key=ttpCnxB3rDcEbGTxSi9...
Wouldn't it be better if Blizzard employed them? Set up internal league systems and actually embraced e-sports as a revenue generating area? I think the next evolution of e-sports will be a big name company actually doing the above. Problem is it is pretty risky to do. Games with huge fanbases and legacies of e-sports like starcraft/counterstrike are probably the only ones were it would work right out of the gate.
Rumors puts popular casters at around 250K a year, just from youtube revenue.
The parent's point about it not being linear is that the initial gains novices see don't continue. Getting stronger and gaining endurance are adaptations.

If your fitness base is extremely low because you spend all day, every day sitting down, then any regular training program is going to force your body to adapt. But once you do adapt, you will need to either change programs, increase the intensity, or increase the frequency in order to continue seeing gains. This is simply because your body has adapted to those fitness requirements.
U.S. seizes sports piracy websites before Super Bowl
#1 reason: Not listening to your customers.

That's interesting because I think that is a psychological problem more than anything else.

Getting your product or service in front of a 3rd party (not your mother or buddy) is scary for many people...myself included!
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How would you say "Gizable"? It doesn't sound right.
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Well yeah, if the goal is to make money, trying to become a top player is probably not the smartest path.

But like for anything else, the real top players are doing it primarily because they really love the game.
Google doesn't say how long they were working on it or anything at all about the methods they used. Indeed, they don't even seem to be certain how many honeypots they injected.

However hand they issued twenty engineers laptops which is more consistent with an ongoing effort than a single afternoon of Bing and beer - particularly when you consider that if there was a single method applied and it was known beforehand, one engineer could have automated the whole exercise.

The inability to accurately measure honeypot injections is a bit odd. As pure speculation, it may be that they were not sure if the methods they used to get Bing to show honeypots number 8 and 9 were legitimate.
Pretty impressive. Much of this money likely goes to further tournaments and such anyways so a lot of the money is probably finding its way back to players.
Just received the book today; Code looks fine and readable!
Does anyone know of an easy way to migrate to MailChimp from Aweber?
Next time it will probably be "eHarmonization".
I wasn't aware that cheating is such a huge deal in pro gaming. Source?

Also, it occurs to me that cheating has been a big deal in regular sports, too...! ;-) In fact, I would say the same about interest levels. I found football excruciating until I learned the rules.
what kind of "common sense" is that? Because I certainly lack it.

will you please make one of those blog post calculating exactly how many of your (former) users have it?
Well, take your numbers, and reverse them for me /shrug/
Really? I would have thought it is fair use, but I guess no Machinima producers have true tested the law in this regard? Certainly Blizzard attempts to control the use through the TOU and restrict derivative content to non-commercial use only.
Wasn't that what I said? Aren't we in complete agreement? Am I too tired for my own good? :)

I'm definitely less appreciative of them than many, but they've obviously capitalized on their success - opportunity didn't just drop into their laps.
Once I got a hold of someone at Twitter, it was very easy to work with them to solve this issue. +1 for twitter staff
Link: http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-...
Yea, it's crazy that twitter actually has staff to respond to all support tickets. 100-200 per hour gets submitted.
I'd imagine the top players in Korea would get marketing and endorsement deals?
"When the President does it, then it's not illegal."

- Richard Nixon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejvyDn1TPr8
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Err, robots.txt doesn't even enter into the picture. It would matter only if Bing's server was requesting pages off Google's site. That is not happening. The only things that are going are the Google URL and only the clicked URL(not the other Google results that the user didn't click on).

The user gave permission to Microsoft to use this info by installing the toolbar. I don't see why or how the Bing tool bar should visit Google.com/robots.txt to see the blocked folders unless they were crawling Google pages.
In the USA, fair use legal precedent has mostly been superseded by laws such as the DMCA. I don't agree with it, but that's the legal situation we're in these days.
Its definitely a very very grey area

From the current docs for Google in app purchase:
http://developer.android.com/guide/market/billing/billing_ov...
"You can use in-app billing to sell only digital content. You cannot use in-app billing to sell physical goods, personal services, or anything that requires physical delivery."

I'd check the terms and conditions of the stores about using other payment gateways as well

http://www.android.com/us/developer-distribution-agreement.h...

Payment Processor(s): Any party authorized by Google to provide payment processing services that enable Developers with optional Payment Accounts to charge Device users for Products distributed via the Market.

However the advantage of the Android platform is that the market is not the only app store available and also app stores are not the only means of distribution