skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. I can push apps to my phone and it happens instantaneously. I wonder how that works and if I can manage to push apps to other peoples phones. :O
Hey Rob, thanks for replying. I'm sure you're right that email lists are more valuable although I was wondering more about the difference in half-life rather than response rate.

I guess it's obvious that tweets quickly pass by leading to a short half-life. I'm still slightly confused why people would clickthrough from an email days (weeks?) after it was sent. Are they storing the emails to think about it and return later? I suppose the reason doesn't matter, it was just idle curiosity.

Also, I've learnt a very valuable lesson about HN. I submitted this article when I read it before lunch Irish time. Unfortunately, most of the U.S. and the HN audience hadn't woken up so the link fell off the radar. Sorry for inadvertently burying a very interesting article. Keep them coming (and the great Startups for the Rest of us podcast)
The problem is that Google's "experiment" didn't include a control group. Is Bing copying Google's results, or just measuring click data?

The trivial addition to their experiment would be to add those nonsense words to a few Wikipedia pages, and click the links with the Bing toolbar installed, and see if those pages show up in the Bing results.
This does make one inquire -- is there nothing to learn about business? Or is it impossible to teach business in a school setting?

I'd find it odd to hear doctors say the same thing about medical school, or even lawyers about law school.
Surely it would have made more sense to at have, in big bold letters, "Update: we've since realised the data we've used is bogus" at the top of the post instead of flat-out removing the article, which is highly suspicious.
It's interesting that when you delete the account, you get a page saying "Why not try another great option?" and linking to match.com. I wonder if it did it before the acquisition.
Which means they do not know the boundaries of their problem. What part of googles argument is countered by it though?
I'm not saying this is specifically how the gibberish Google probes landed in Bing; I'm saying this is a way that, even for popular queries, Google's ranking judgements and unique results are going to slowly diffuse out over time, and be echoed elsewhere, even without URL-trail mining (which shortcuts/supercharges the process).
Law 36

Disdain Things you cannot have: Ignoring them is the best Revenge

By acknowledging a petty problem you give it existence and credibility. The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him; and a small mistake is often made worse and more visible when you try to fix it. It is sometimes best to leave things alone. If there is something you want but cannot have, show contempt for it. The less interest you reveal, the more superior you seem.
This is like trying to find the answer to an unsolvably hard problem on a test whose answer should be "None of the above". Then, peek at your neighbor (who has a reputation for scoring well), and on realization that his answer is different, change yours to match his. Plain lack of confidence in your ability.
Apple channeling Microsoft?
"the data that OKCupid gathered from Match.com's public filings [..] were not completely accurate, he said, which he realized once he saw the real data"

Is he saying that Match.com has fraudulent filings?
If you push any science fiction hard enough, you will find something impossible in the real universe. If this is your criterion, stop reading science fiction. You need to cut them at least a little slack.

Further, I don't think you are correct it your interpretation. My interpretation was: What changes is not what is computable and what is not, but what bandwidth the components are capable of communication with each other at. Bandwidth limitation limits the power of distributed computational systems, and when you're limiting things at the atomic level that includes the brain. And it is implied that it was constructed this way.

Yes, that's probably impossible. It's probably also impossible that there is a computational threshold above which you can do FTL.
All I can say is, that google engineers must be really jealous for not coming up with the same idea of ranking sites based on what people enter into search boxes and what links they click on. Sounds like Pagerank 2.0 to me.
Regardless of whether or not one agrees with Yusuf Mehdi's conclusions, I can certainly understand his passion in defending his team. Google's accusations yesterday were very accusatory and polemic (e.g. "We look forward to competing with genuinely new search algorithms out there—algorithms built on core innovation, and not on recycled search results from a competitor. " ouch).
Whichever has always been at war with Oceania. Please report to minitrue.
another wonderful book about writing is maugham's "the summing up". i found it in a used book store on a thai island a few years ago and still have it on my bedside table :)
This is classic Nate Silver. He will happily write a 1000 word essay explaining why, in great detail, with very high certainty, and despite the fact that pundits across the world are flapping their jaws about it, there is simply nothing to say about a topic.
"Had" or "had had" are both correct, even though the latter sounds a bit silly.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_ha...

Welcome to English. We're sorry.
I can think of no other Internet company that was so far (a decade?) ahead of its time.

I loved that damn product so much. This has nothing to do with the thread, but I just want you to know that you had at least one rabid fan from 1994 - 1998.
Yeah, and that guy was someone researching code UI interaction: Lutz Roeder. It actually even required you to sign up with your email to download ;P. (I'm the guy who had the open source alternative back in the day called Anakrino, which was frankly too hard for people to help me with because it was written with C++ WTL and a ton of custom COM glue code. If I had written it in .NET I may have gotten a lot of traction and code submissions.)
1. Most obviously, jQuery is completely encapsulated, whereas Prototype extends the DOM and pollutes the global namespace fairly rampantly.

2. jQuery is designed for ease of use. It is concise and understandable. Its learning curve is lower.

3. jQuery is becoming fairly ubiquitous. More people use it, which means more developers know it like the back of their hand.

4. The community, availability of plugins, extensions, tools, tutorials, and so on is much better for jQuery.

This is an outdated resource, but many of the facts still stand: http://ajaxian.com/archives/prototype-and-jquery-a-code-comp...
That bit was hilarious to me - Microsoft and Google joining up to form a patent pool with zero patents in it. If that's what it takes to get MS on board with WebM, why not?

Also, it's worth pointing out that "patent indemnification" is a stronger guarantee than MPEG-LA gives for H.264.
This was a really long way to say "bandwidth limits are horse-shit", with an additional aside that explains that pricing schemes aren't very sensible, and you can get better deals by choosing the non-intuitive option.
I've been on OKC for about 8 years, been poly on there, met poly girls there, had poly friends there, never once heard of anyone getting harassed for polyitude.

I'm not saying it didn't happen... but it might be kind of like saying "planes aren't safe, I had a friend that was in a plane crash."
They not only parsed the search queries, they also copied Google's results and added it to their own results.
I've heard Matt Cutts say this several times, once in person. He doesn't seem like the kind of person that would lie or stretch the truth.

Don't forget, this is with regards to google. I'm not sure what the position of the other bug guys are (but if bing is just copying google, I guess they're the same).
But think about that claim: a result that shows up in Google's results for a popular query also shows up in Bing's results for a popular query.

Maybe because it's a good result? Possibly Bing arrived at it the same way Google did? Or has Google been slipping paper streets into their queries for longer than they're telling us?

In short: how did they know that it was "URLs from Google search results" that they were seeing in the Bing results?
The author of this article wrote a interesting book chronicling his experiences at HBS. It's a quick read and helpful for anyone considering B-school (skip over the technical chapters and focus on the anecdotes). I don't agree completely with his assertions, but it's another useful datapoint to take into consideration.

http://www.amazon.com/Ahead-Curve-Harvard-Business-School/dp...
Hi there. Any reason why you feel that would be a good change?

Here is my thinking (So you can see where I am coming from). It is better to articulate the end-goal, or what the client will get in return from using the product, instead of articulating the functional way it goes about to achieve that goal.

You think differently. Any thoughts or experiences on why that may be a better approach?
We didn't censor it. We just removed it because it was "common sense" not to have it available anymore. Don't you get the distinction?
I think Google is being disingenuous with their "bing is copying my data" story.

However, please avoid linking to roughlydrafted.com. At the risk of going ad-hominem, I just wanted to point out that if you have read any of the material on the site, you will know that it is just full of flamebait articles with an absurd Apple fixation.

Everything Android does is copying Apple. Everything Microsoft does is wrong and stupid. If flash is not supported on iPhone it is because it is the morally correct thing to do. When Apple announced the iPhone without an SDK roughlydrafted called developers stupid for asking for an SDK and that javascript on the web is the new SDK. This post however takes the cake, you must side with Bing because Google is a greater threat to Apple than Microsoft. Seriously, how does Overture even enter into this discussion. It is tiresome to see this site linked to all over the web.
Ask HN: Most helpful thing your Angel/VC does?
Would like to hear the things you found most helpful from your Angels and VCs, the more specific the better. With the amount of funding going into YC and other early stage companies, rather than just writing a check and getting out of your way what set certain investors apart? Can be behaviors, scenarios, etc.
Massive Health Raises $2.25 Million From Massive List of Investors
1. Rent server in a U.S. datacenter

2. Download and zip up multiple things via ssh and wget

3. Use service to mail large amount of data.

The plausibility of this depends on how much down/up bandwidth costs in a datacenter.
http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/05/Lugaru-goes-open-source
Ex-Apple, Delicious Library designer founds Push Pop Press (ePublishing)
A better analogy using Italian restaurants than his would be something like this. You are standing on the street, watching people go into businesses. You observe a man and woman walk up, and the woman says "which of these restaurants should we dine in?". The man pulls out a well-known restaurant guide, and clearly looks up both. Then they walk into Mario Batali's restaurant.

Later, someone comes up to you and asks which is the best italian restaurant on that street. You recall that the couple with the restaurant guide picked Batali's, and so you point them to it.

Google would say you are ripping off the restaurant guide. Microsoft would say you are just using the observed behavior of the first couple to guide you.
Does anyone know what the rules are with Android and iPhone about selling physical goods through an app? I want to sell seeds through the SproutRobot app.

Near as I can tell you're allowed to have users punch their credit card into your app and bill them using your own gateway, on both iOS and Android. But the recent events with Sony make me unsure. And Google seems like they'd be more liberal about in-app payments, but these docs say they are for "virtual" goods.
The New Politics: bedtime for democracy - and so what?
No, he's saying that the data that OKCupid inferred from Match.com's public filings are not completely accurate.
It is all fun and games, and a bit childish. Obviously google are not offended, just trying to get some PR about it - just business.

But the argument "I rather Google spend.." can be applied to anything - it isn't as if they haven't be tackling other problems, and they are clearly worried about bing (at least in PR, bing spends big - lots of MS employees posting on forums, including here, which I am sure is encouraged). Bing is losing a lot of money for Microsoft, so by that token, I could say that they should stop it, and spend money on xbox (which is fantastic - no idea if it is losing money, but what a leader) - make it stupidly cheap, make it dominate the home etc ...
It's not mentioned in the article, but in addition to his work as a writer, Neal Stephenson once worked as an advisor to Blue Origin, the spaceflight company founded by Jeff Bezos.

Blue Origin is focused on suborbital space flight using rockets. But I remember Stephenson making some vague statements about his work there (at a reading of Quicksilver at the University of Washington) that included research into space elevators and other less-proven technologies.
The point I got from it is that the girls worth dating don't pay for it. Girls that don't have to work to get guys might sign up for a free site "just for fun" but they certainly would never pay for a dating service.
"Since it's from Google" is an unproven assertion. They may do this for other data sources as well in similar circumstances.
Well, to be fair, what he actually said is that Match didn't tell them to censor it - headline is misleading. So yeah, it was self-censorship rather than new-owner-censorship... which may well be bad too, just a different sort of bad.
Fair enough. I agree that naive indexers will make lots of crude and meaningless associations. I don't think Bing falls into that category though.
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Sounds fine if all you want to do is go home, watch TV, and surf the Internet. But if that's what you're doing, you're probably not going to get sued anyway.

This is a community of entrepreneurs. What's at stake here is the next YouTube. If you're just a fledgling startup that shows videos online, can you afford a sudden surge in popularity, or will it bankrupt you in patent royalties? Can you estimate your future costs in royalties, or is it subject to change when MPEG-LA thinks it can get some more money from you? If you want to use video in some disruptive new medium, what will MPEG-LA decide to charge for that once they see its promise? Or will they refuse to license the patents at all for this purpose, in favor of giving MPEG-LA members exclusive dibs on this new medium?
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Except that in this case, the honeypot searches were not done at bing.com
Disclosure: you are also a restaurant guide.
Afterward found DF review from PushPop's Twitter:

http://daringfireball.net/2011/02/push_pop_press
BASIC. Specifically, TI-BASIC on the TI-83+. I started out small, but I experimented in writing:

Fractal renderers on the graph screen

GA solvers using the L_1 through L_6 lists

Pong, on the homescreen, with an AI, with ']', 'o', and '['. I think I found a memory leak somewhere, because the game would get slower and slower if you played too long.
Way to go guys! It's awesome to see the company grow constantly. Keep up the good work : )
The test you suggest doesn't address the actual problem that Google is complaining about - long-tail, rare searches, especially ones that contain misspellings.

This is the very thing that Google is saying that Bing is stealing with their clickstream data, and it's also the one that you're agreeing would occur - "that the only relevant info is coming from the toolbar" for highly unlikely queries.

So it seems to me, looking at your argument, that you actually agree with Google's point.
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The Last Psychiatrist: Are Law Schools Lying To Their Applicants?
From the article's conclusion: "How much value Microsoft’s engineers are ultimately adding is hard to say. Both they and Google are extremely circumspect about revealing any detail about their algorithms."

It's common sense that they are using data from Google. That has pretty much been proven conclusively. Nate Silver telling us this again is not interesting. The possibility that he might try was.
The author certainly doesn't make that point clear. For one, I don't believe it, but more importantly there's no evidence in the post of it.
Let's go one step further from your argument:

Why should Google improve their search spam algorithm? Would they gain anything if MSFT then their compares their own results against Google's, to delete the spam farms thanks to Google's work?
Hugh Gallagher's College Admissions Essay
As a startup founder and as someone who has been spending the last two weeks in a hospital with similar stomach sounding problems, this hit home:

"I keep fantasizing about getting back to it. (And about getting to eat a burger and fries again.) I can’t wait to get back to work."

Thats pretty much the only two things I think about. Getting back on the startup grind (its addictive) and eating tons of dumplings and pad thai.
And those of us with our own DNS servers know exactly where google.com is.

I wonder how smart the Bing Toolbar really is.
Yes, they censored it. It was censored by OkCupid, which is now owned by Match. This just shows how quickly and completely people assimilate to a new organization, and how thoroughly people identify their organization's interests with their own interests, and their own interests with what is right.
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This essay reminds me of the classic College Admissions Essay from Hugh Gallagher.

I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone
playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with
unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in
twenty minutes. I...

http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/joke/essay.htm
Measuring click data that gets turned into a correlation between the query string and the result on Google's SERP is copying Google's result, because that's the upshot of it - that is its effect, in these rare long-tail searches.
Roger Hart (Historian at U. Texas, wrote something on the history of linear algebra I liked) has a lean summary of the book at http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rhart/courses/materials/papers/tri...

Hart misses my favourite list, the Seven Nevers:

1. Never begin a sentence with But or And.

2. Never use contractions.

3. Never refer to the reader as you.

4. Never use the first person pronoun I.

5. Never end a sentence with a preposition.

6. Never split infinitives.

7. Never write a paragraph containing only a single sentence.

each of which Trimble delights in breaking.
Is Deploying to Production 50x/Day a GOOD Idea?
This is really good issue (including a great article from il) and I'm proud to offer Ginzametrics as part of the accompanying AppSumo marketing bundle.
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In the US at least, you can -- and should -- set up a bank account with a debit card. Sometimes it requires a parent to cosign, but it is quite worth it.
"The Star" - Arthur C. Clarke
Nope, you're mistaken. I've made tens of thousands on ads... and hundreds of thousands on products. Products that cost money. It's easier to control, more rewarding intellectually (because your interests & customer interess are in sync), and much more profitable -- without counting on a stroke of luck.

If people pay you a percentage of their cash flow, that's a mere scrap. Sell your own product and you get the lion's share.
according to OKCupid's response (http://www.observer.com/2011/tech/okcupid-we-didnt-censor-ou...) something has changed: OKCupid's CEO "got to know" match.com a little better (through access to more accurate statistics, etc.) and has backed off his previously "exaggerated" stance against paid models

the timing definitely leaves this difficult to believe
I don't understand what you're trying to say here. The Google blog post says that they inserted 100 honeypots into Google. Then it says "within a couple weeks of starting this experiment, our inserted results started appearing in Bing."

Where are you getting the 7% number?
Told ya!
All this talk and not one person has discussed the fifteen-minute O?
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Well, it's the first line of the post. But they don't go into that aspect as much as I'd like, because I think it's the more important one.

I personally would never date someone I met on a pay dating site, because desperation is an honest signal of poor quality. But that's just anecdote.
thank you - it was a good product, but sadly the company melted down, took something that worked and decided to spend a year re-writing it in COM; meanwhile portal sits like Yahoo! came along and eat their lunch. A disastrous CEO that turned down a huge exit opportunity was replaced with an equally disastrous one that spent most of his time worrying about what particular rain forest he wanted chopped down to have this desk made from.
http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/37737/Secrets-Of-Freemi...
Is that why you have a short past? ;-)
I'm no expert on the field, but I believe the optimality of Grover's algorithm strongly suggests that the upper bound on the speedup from quantum computing is quadratic (and I apologize if I'm fudging something here). I have no idea about non-linear QM - really over my head - so I suppose I'll have to concede that point.

I agree with you that having conscious carbon but not conscious silicon is arbitrary and silly. Once we understand the brain better we'll surely be able to build one. Again, not something that should depend on location, nanomachines or not.
Blabber is a short story, Vinge's first foray into the Zones of Thought Universe, and features several cameos from A Fire Upon the Deep:

http://books.google.com/books?id=txBNZiQw2GUC&pg=PA78...
Nice video! Grumo videos are way cool :)
I've seen this 1k signals BS repeated over and over by HN commenters, as if somehow copying from 999 other guys makes this a nonproblem.
I'm doing it as well, and have seen similar results. Not as drastic, but very impressed. It's all about a lifestyle change for me, just needed a little kick in the pants. Excited to read your blog post.
All game assets and demo data (should all be in "Data" folder in the root of the source tree) are not under the same license as the engine code. Wolfire has allowed the _data_ to be _freely_redistributed_ for _non_commercial_purposes_, but it is forbidden to use in any revenue generating works.

http://hg.icculus.org/icculus/lugaru/file/97b303e79826/CONTE...
Fuller disclosure: you are in direct competition with the first restaurant guide and have released public statements explaining why you are better than the first.
So you paraphrase 'hard' as 'impossible'.

I actually think Silver makes a useful contribution, mainly because of his background and gift for illustrating data perception problems. If you're looking for hard facts and (more) smoking guns then you would naturally be disappointed.
https://beta.swype.com/android/get/

Except it is. You have to get it from their site instead of the Market.
And you don't bother to consider the other 999 aspects that are screaming at you to look up and see that the restaurant doesn't even exist.