skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever worked for a business that has had site problems? Let me tell you, when you are trying to fix something that can't be fixed in two minutes, some guy emailing the entire company saying "i hate u and u have no export functionality," when Tumblr indeed has a lot of export functionality, then "go away" is perfectly appropriate.
Google Bluring Ads Into Search Results
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RFID is Getting Locked Up
The point to which I replied indicated that you meet your smart friends at college, generally leaving behind most of your high school relationships. If you just happen to go off to school with one or two of those "smart friends" then likely you too are a reasonable candidate for college. You didn't go to college to build a social circle, you just happened to do so whilst you learned.
Respectfully - Sites like yours ruin the internet. You admit it yourself: you produce no content of your own. I do NOT want to see results from pages of that ilk when I google for things. Google made the right choice to de-index it.
I think someone should start a Kickstarter site where weatherized mobile base stations are developed from off the shelf parts, such that they can be quickly assembled, packaged, and shipped to neighboring countries where there is a totalitarian Internet blackout, so they can be smuggled across the border.

Even IM, SMS, and small still images are a threat to such regimes, especially in times like this.
Well, thirty years is still not a really substantial amount of time.
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What is the url of your blog?
Hylafax is an open-source fax server. Ran it a long time ago, surprised to see its still around. People still use faxes?

http://www.hylafax.org/content/Main_Page
How to add a ‘Like’ Button to your Facebook Static FBML Tab
Show HN: Twitch, the app/file/script launcher for keyboard junkies
Add a package.json and publish this to npm
Why is Cyber Squatter a Bad Word? The Value of Entrepreneurship
LivingSocial: We're set to overtake Groupon
Looks nice...

But I prefer the actual text based one, more info per pixel.

But keep it up.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/12/handling-... was the official announcement.
They're not a "bunch," they're like, a dozen. A dozen people trying to make a site work for several millions of people at once. That's no short order for such a small team.
Someone should set up pirate DNS and pirate backbones using sat coms and packet radio to link Egypt with the outside world.
How Steve Jobs 'out-Japanned' Japan
Nice feedback app for and made with flask
It is way harder to see the difference on a LCD screen but I can not see it clearly on any screen.
130 Ways to Fund Your Social Venture
Thompson and Ritchie Win Japan Prize
"We think it might have actually been the largest single day sales of a product in the history of the Web." - LivingSocial CEO on the Amazon Gift Card deal
Like I said, and others have said as well, value is in the eye of the beholder - if you follow your own logic, then every single aggregator, including the likes of HuffPo (something like 60-70% of their content is little "curated snippets" from around the web), are ruining the internet. There is very little "truly original" content out there, virtually every single blog rehashes the content of others. Is Techmeme of no value? Is Digg of no value? Is Topix of no value?

Also, we do actually produce some original content, we have a small staff of writers who create "featured posts" every day - sold ourselves a little short there.
Why all the skepticism? Of course you can't prove that it works how people imagine it, but the spec can be a lot higher level than the program itself.

You can already prove a lot of things about a large class of programs, depending on the language and tools, like the absence of buffer overruns, etc.

This project has a spec written in Haskell and then a proven 1:1 mapping at a certain level of detail between that spec and the kernel itself. You can prove an awful lot of things that way that do make a kernel like this more trustworthy and stable.
"The system cannot find the file specified."

Better use one of the mirrors in this thread.
>America is a country that constantly wants to, and tries to, reinvent itself. To always move towards betterment, as individuals, and as a country. And yet there are a great many vocal people who succeed in holding it back.

This is kind of a partisan viewpoint. Both sides of the aisle believe that they are working towards the betterment of the country - they just have differing ideas on how to do so.
> Sites like yours ruin the internet. You admit it yourself: you produce no content of your own

are you talking to the parent post or matt?

/sarcasm
HN: I'm building a TC alternative. Will you share your startup's story with me? 
Recently I've began to notice that the sort of articles I read on TechCrunch are less about startups, and more about business that are already established. There is nothing wrong with this, it's just not the type of articles I'm really excited to read about.

I know there are others out there like me. People who would love to read news exclusively about startups, so I decided to start my own TC alternative. I've almost finished the site, and I'm just looking to build up some really great content before I push it live.

Would you be willing to talk about your startup with me? I'm looking for 30-45 startups to write about over the next month, and would love to get started with the HN crowd. The site and Twitter account will be launched later this week. I wanted some time to write a couple days in advance.

Although I can't promise a huge amount of traffic, we will be regularly plugging it from our blog that gets 45k hits a month. I'm hoping to grow this site well beyond that.

If you would like to follow us our Twitter handle is @startupfoundry .

The best way to get in touch with me is to email me paul@codesketch.com.

Thanks HN.
Would-Be Suicide Bomber Killed by Unexpected SMS From Mobile Carrier
Indeed, not very Redis-ish :)

With WATCH is very easy. WATCH this keys. Perform your reads. Prepare to write in a transaction. If at least one key was modified in the meantime the transaction will fail.
Cantwell, Franken introduce legislation to protect net neutrality
Temporarily, IPv4 exhaustion is not a problem anyway. It is a long-term problem.
WC3 Draft Touch Events Specification
I have to second Niko's position here. Our main business model is "adding value through aggregation". We provide users in many markets aggregated content from a variety of publicly available sources on specific topics. While much of the content on our sites is technically "duplicate", so is much of the content on the NY Times. They syndicate content from the AP, as do many news sites. We do the same, and always take care to credit the authors and provide valuable links back to the original content source. Does this algorithmic change affect sites like ours?
Here's a query that shows efreedom above SO. I did site:efreedom.com and picked few titles until I found one.

query: Mailengine with .NET API

The right page that should show up is

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1720900/mailengine-with-n...

If you google the link below you'll see that the page is indexed.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1720900/mailengine-with-n...

However, the page doesn't show up when you use the query I mentioned.
Why Dropbox Succeeded and Syncplicity Didn’t
Google (in the context of search) produce no content of their own, are they ruining the internet?
Everything you said, plus scaling can sometimes be "cheap, and fun": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853196
Bonus trick. Experts Exchange actually often has some good stuff on it. The pages are designed to make you think you have to buy a subscription to see the answers, but if you simply scroll down beyond the ads for their service the answers (which aren't scraped from elsewhere) are visible near the bottom of the page. Yes annoying, I wish they didn't work this way, but there are times that I've found experts exchange to be the most useful result.
I'm waiting for netflix to start cutting deals to stream shows the day after they air, a la Apple. I'd happily subscribe for $20/show to subsidize additional costs on netflix's side.
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Young Entrepreneurs: How I Became a Multi-Millionaire
Hmm, one drawback is that you'd have to switch accounts on your kindle for every book.
"Show us what you can build."

Okay:

(1) As we know well from J. Doob's work in martingale theory and there the Doob decomposition, every stochastic process is the sum of a martingale and a predictable process.

So, using the data, estimate both processes. Then use the predictable part of make money?

(2) Also, from the martingale convergence theorem, every martingale either converges almost surely to some random variable or runs off to infinity. The interesting case is the convergence in which case the predictable part is more interesting. Look at the real data and test for and try to find convergence.

(3) For i = 1, 2, ..., let X(i) be the change in the price each time 'tick' i. So, each X(i) is a real valued random variable. Assume that it has an expectation and that E[X(i)^2] is finite.

If the set of all X(i) is independent and if all the X(i) have the same distribution, then, by an elementary version of the central limit theorem, for any i and for not very large n,

Y = X(i) + X(i + 1) + ... X(i + n)

will have a distribution that is quite accurately Gaussian. Since it is accepted, e.g., in the Jim Simons talk at

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2011/01/james_simons_sp.ht...

that the tails of the distribution are 'fat', then at least one of independent or identically distributed has to fail. I vote for independence fails. Then there should be some predictability. Look for it.

(4) If convert dollars to yen to marks to francs to pounds to dollars, then should come out even. Similarly for any such currency trades. But without trading to enforce these relationships, they need not hold in which case there will be arbitrage opportunities. Look at the currency data and see if there are some significant arbitrage opportunities.

(5) Imagine a simulation of currency values: Someone sells $1 billion dollars for pounds. Now other currency values have to change. In this simulation, the rule is, to get the currency values back for no arbitrage, can only make trades of currency pairs, one at a time. So, are doing crude two dimensional iterations to get back to a multi-dimensional 'equilibrium', and that can't be very fast. Or as we know well from non-linear minimization, such iterations tend to oscillate; we try to damp the oscillations with conjugate gradients or quasi-Newton iteration, but, still, there is a lot of oscillation. Also, we do not have accurate global definitions of all the 'supply-demand' curves. So, there should be some 'dynamics' getting back to equilibrium and some predictability. Maybe there will be some multidimensional 'ringing' that would result in some predictability. Look for it.

(6) Take some possibly related real valued stochastic processes and do a real time, distribution-free, multidimensional hypothesis test where the null hypothesis is that the processes are acting as usual. When can soundly reject that hypothesis, take a position that will make money when the process becomes 'usual' again. Where to get a family of distribution-free, multidimensional hypothesis tests? Glad you asked. Use the data to test this idea.

For "hacking", this is applied math, especially about stochastic processes, and not 'hacking'.
Note that Cutts is talking about a different problem: which are sites that 'syndicate' content and end up ranking better than the original site. People have been complaining about this for years (usually third-tier bloggers who don't have much ranking power) but people perceived that this became a crisis in the last few months.

The morals are also different too. Some people might not like eFreedom, but the fact is that StackOverflow is CC-BY-SA. Anybody who wants to repackage StackOverflow content in a different way is free to do that. I do think that StackOverflow should generally outrank eFreedom, but a site like eFreedom can potentially add value a lot of value.

On the other hand, other spam sites are generating original crap content with their own crap content generation system... And if they aren't, they can switch to some other content generation method to get around duplicate content filtering.

(And speaking of which, duplicate content filtering content of some kind is absolutely essential for a workable web search engine... It's not even a matter of spam. Building a search engine for one the largest units of a large Uni, we found that there were many documents that were duplicated all over the place for all sorts of reasons, and that since the on-page factors are the same, these tend to form 'plugs' of search results that displace other results.)
Your profile says that you know Ruby on Rails, so I'd recommend just installing Redmine on a spare or dev server.
Egypt: Tor Use Skyrocketing as Users Route-Around Internet Blocks
This is good news, but I feel like it is only treating a symptom not the actual disease.

If the algorithm properly detected site relevance, importance and viewer satisfaction, those copycat sites should never have ranked higher in the first place. In a way this is admitting that it is impossible to stop the gaming of search engine optimization, and that the only way to deal with it is to "win" in some special cases.

That being said I provide no real solution, this is a huge problem with millions behind each side.

Although this is good news it is also gloom news.
Not bad considering the first mobile phone call (from a car) wasn't placed until 37 years later, in 1946.
It's written in Python I believe.
See Boyd's work on OODA or ask a Go/Chess person about tempo.
Finally took a look at Visual Assist, as I've heard about it but never looked at it. That's very impressive. How much does it affect VS's speed on a fairly normal system?
Palin e-mail snoop got prison because he's a college man?
Eh.. realpolitik is short term and almost always misses the big picture. When things change, you wind up on the wrong side, like us with Mubarak right now. Or all that Taliban and Saddam funding once upon a time.

There's a balance of course.. but in a case like this, I'd elevate America the idea over America the set of short term interests, and I'm embarrassed by Biden's comments too.
One U.S. Corporation's Role in Egypt's Brutal Crackdown
In the article they say that paperback sales are still growing. It almost looks like ebooks are increasing the overall demand for books and are cannibalizing print books less than expected -- though without the actual sales data we can't be sure. Of course, the brick-and-mortar book stores have been closing a lot of stores recently, which is another explanation for continuing increased paperback demand.
Depending on how large a fragment of Prolog you want to implement, it can be quite simple. SICP chapter 4.4 (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-29.html...) describes a simple interpreter written in Scheme for a Prolog-flavoured languge (without cut, and also no parser).

For an even more dramatically simplified version, I wrote a extremely toy interpreter in about a hundred lines of SML: http://everything2.com/title/continuation+passing+style

Or of course, you can implement it in a single line of Prolog. :)
The Muslim Brotherhood is very much not in the driver's seat here. They're old and irrelevant, this is a moment for the young.
Show HN: My unique advertising start-up
http://theeverchangingwebsite.com

The other day I was thinking about web advertising, and how inefficient it is for almost all parties involved. I was particularly focused on the banner ad, and then I started to wonder what would happen if the banner ad and the site content switched roles. This is purely an experiment at this point, but I'd like to know what the HN crowd thought of an unorthodox advertising solution like this. Thanks!
This article claims that .eg urls won't resolve, but I can go to http://www.google.com.eg and that seems to work just fine. Does Google operate differently somehow or is the article just incorrect?
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I'm curious, what is your opinion of TechMeme?
Clickable: http://theeverchangingwebsite.com
Someone published a Debian/Ubuntu package:

add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://debian.jones.dk/ sid freedombox

and execute "aptitude install channel-server"
Does your game have a website or anything I can track? I play a few times a month with a group of people into things like that, and I'd like to keep abreast of this.
The positive aspect of asceticism: such a place would have far less overhead.
This is gorgeous, nicely done. I find myself wanting a better way of going to the next story, because some articles are very long. Maybe you could add controls? For example, keyboard shortcuts or a floating "next" button (anchored with fixed position CSS).
In July they announced that ebook sales had outpaced hardcover sales, so while sales probably haven't exceeded paperback + hardcover sales, it's certainly on pace to do so soon.
Tell HN: English (Pirate) a new language on Facebook
Change your language to English (Pirate) from English (US) (or whatever it is) and see the interesting interface. Its cool I feel.
But isn't the definition of global at #1 a local thread closure captured variable?

I don't see why this is global...
"He's young". "He's actually a nice guy".

These are the kinds of statements that should only carry weight when you have a personal relationship. A relationship with a company/website/app is no more or less than the sum of your interactions with them. I have a "good" relationship with Apple and Amex. A "bad" one with AT&T etc., based on transactions, not personal relations.

The unusual aspect is that the CEO was involved in customer service. It looks like a case of kicking the dog. That happens when people (nice or not) are under extreme pressure. What's up?
Preconditions of Revolution in the USA Today
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/01/reference-preconditions-o...
Using Amazon's Simple Email Service (SES) with Django
done! hope we get featured and goodluck with your endeavors. there is need for real* tech news now.
MySpace and Facebook profiles mined for evidence in criminal cases
I completely get why people love Netflix. But if Hulu can't be a serious competitor, who will be? I don't want Netflix to be my only appealing streaming option, and I don't want to pay cable operators a ton of money for stuff I don't watch.
RMS: 3RB

Creature -- Activist Hacker

R: Target permanent gains a chosen ability from another target permanent. Any player may play this ability.

B: Choose an untargetable or face-down card in play. Tap it. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

5/2
I'd like to mention that this is really an impressive way of working with the community Matt. Companies say all the time that they value their customer's opinions, but rarely do you see a grievance that's posted on a social news site being a.) initially responded to by the guy who's responsible for it, and b.) amended by that person and his team with a request for review. It's heightened my faith that maybe Google can actually keep that small-company-feel no matter how large they get. I really hope you guys continue in this fashion, and thanks for the search fix.
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People probably also had an easier time spelling 'Dropbox', than they did remembering 'Syncplicity'.
As an Ubuntu user in Canada, they've both lost their place in my world. Netflix is here, finally - 12 or 13 years later than the USA - but they don't support Ubuntu. And Hulu's still constrained to < 5% of the world's population.

There's so much room in this space to innovate, with Step 1 being LEAVE THE USA! And Step 2: Use the WEB! Why can't we get rid of these proprietary plugins?

Any company that does both 1 and 2 will be immensely successful.
Great idea. I was also thinking of a way to collapse articles, but I think I like your idea better! I'll work on it.

UPDATE: try j and k
I'm hardly the one to pay for anything, but I do play for netflix. And at just $15, it's a far far better alternative than paying for cable. I get to watch anything, at any time that I want? It's the way TV should be nowadays.

the only downside is that netflix recommendations don't work too well for me. Too often, I spend more time picking what to watch, rather than just watching something.
I googled for my own name "Kunjan Kshetri" and I still see sites like

1. www.peekyou.com/_kshetri

2. www.yasni.com/kunjan+kshetri/check+people

3. mobile.aa.com/mt/net35.ccs.neu.edu/home/kunjan/?un_jtt

in the front page. These sites reused my homepage or just have my name listed. They too add no original content. Please remove these sites.

Please note that searching in Bing produces more original content results.
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why not just use the - function?

Create something like:

http://www.google.com/search?q=google+-google.com&ie=utf...

I suspect you could hack together a quick greasemonkey script to automatically inject your negative site list when the URL is generated
"...but a site like eFreedom can potentially add a lot of value."

Genuine question here...are you talking specifically about eFreedom, and if so exactly what value does it add? When I've inadvertently stumbled in there, the questions and answers are an exact ripoff of SO, and I (and I suspect everyone else) just immediately clicks on the "from StackOverflow" link so all the responses in the original can be read.
I'd like to see this statement sourced...

And studios, despite some hemming and hawing, would ultimately rather make a lucrative — reportedly up to $100,000 per mid-season episode — deal with Netflix than rely on middling ad revenue on Hulu.

$100,000 isn't that much. Put it this way. The show Two and a Half Men pays its three stars a combined $3.2 million per episode. Another example is Big Bang Theory which just made a deal for 3 more seasons in which the network will pay $4 million per episode (and is probably making way more)

CABLE pays around $2 million per episode to syndicate the very shows Netflix is offering $100,000 for (http://tinyurl.com/48c5zo9)

So $100,000 an episode is more a joke than a real offer that Hollywood is seriously considering.
Very nice. My only feature suggestion would be a way to hide articles, something I wish HN itself could do but perhaps more important when articles take up more vertical space.
Very happy to see the end of copied Wikipedia sites.
I find the atmosphere at hacker news quite hostile to women, which is why I skim these days and rarely post.
David's response might have been prompt but it certainly wasn't kind was it...

I know I probably feel differently when I'm on the other side of this fence, but as the saying goes, you have to earn respect.
Literally beaten?
I disagree. Sites that aggregate information make it easier to peruse what you are specifically interested in without poring through an RSS feed or visiting site after site. And if only a portion of the text is presented, with a link to the original post, you can always visit the originating site to get the full article.
Realpolitik got you Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bin Laden, 9/11, Noriega and a whole slew of other problems.

Makes you wonder if it is really worth it.