skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then I found the "Hide" option.

I didn't know Facebook could do that! In general, I find fb's user interface confusing. Recently, I was trying to get it to display a list of all my friends; I managed to get it done eventually, but it took effort and frustration.
Doesn't this passage suggest that Google ignores robots.txt in its own cross-comparisons of search relevancy:

Google said in October that it found statistical evidence that Bing suddenly became more Google-like. More listings in the first page of results of both search engines seemed to match, as did more of the number one results.

How would you get statistically significant results for such things, over time, without constant automated probe queries against Bing?

I think such probes are both legal and wise... but Google should drop the pretense that robots.txt is a sacred barrier across which no analysis can be done, no matter how indirect or for what purpose.

Also, I'd wager at some time in its history – if not constantly even today – Google has shown panels of users results from Google and its competitors in various combinations – side-by-side, with and without branding, intermixed randomly – and used their reactions to detect areas where the competitors are doing well, and Google could improve.

Further, either human eyes or algorithms then tried to determine adjustments to close any gaps in user satisfaction. The net effect of any such process is – surprise, surprise! – leveraging strengths of other engines to patch weaknesses in Google. This is normal, expected behavior by any serious search competitor.
>> And for the other side of the coin - what about not being reminded exactly how much value you got out of the government every time you drive down a road?

> I suppose this question is because you think I object to taxes; I don't. I'm fine with them but with as much transparency as possible.

I'm not sure I follow. You want transparency for government revenue and for every person to be in tune with the cost of government. Do you think it is important for people to be in tune with the expenses of said government? You could easily make the claim that explicit transparency in terms of how much money is spent on $government_service would be beneficial (true cost of "free" roads, money spent on each military base, etc). Sure, you could look it up in the budget, but most people will never look at one.
love the app and the team.
Until 2002 it was actually going down. Then the increase was moderate and it finally exploded in the 2007 recession.
Absolutely. It is the nature of the profession that DBAs are conservative. If you have something that works, you want it to continue to work. So if it is working well enough, don't change it!

The optimizer is great. Wonderful. It found plans that are working well for me. Yay!

Now what? The potential upside of it finding an even better plan is minimal. I'm satisfied with its performance as is. The potential downside of it deciding that a worse plan is better is huge. Let me go and tell it to not change its mind!

Relational databases already have enough "fall over with no previous sign of problems" failure modes. (The hard one has to do with locking, if a particular fine-grained lock is operating at 98% of capacity it shows no sign of problems, but at 101% of capacity the database falls over.) There is no need to add more.

Update: I've actually run across people recommending a workaround for this problem: turn off automatic statistics gathering. That way you know that the query optimizer won't automatically change what it is doing. I bet I know what this particular developer thinks of that strategy!
Most of the searches I do are on the firefox search field. If I want to search within a specific site, I use the "site:" parameter to restrict results by domain.
The redesign is visually pleasing, but it's no longer usable. I now have to scroll down to see the 5-day forecast. I switched my bookmark over to http://www.wund.com, the lite version.
forget the redesign, give us an api that works!

http://api.wunderground.com/auto/wui/geo/ForecastXML/index.x...
I would love to have something like this for sketching out UI/design ideas. Digital tools are typically too bulky, and awkward for collaboration; pencil and paper lack the ability to save and re-edit easily. And at $99, it's cheap enough that I'm willing to gamble on it. Consider me sold once it's available for sale.
This looks very promising, and I hope that they're able to pull it off (especially at that price point--it has enough potential that I might be willing to buy it sight-unseen for $99... heck, I'm considering putting in a pre-order already!)

Reasons that I want one:
* E-INK
* Optionally in color! (I like the blackboard aesthetic, to say nothing of green-on-black)
* Lightweight
* Long battery life
* Ability to read text files (on the dev roadmap, at least)
* Open-source firmware (in case the ability to read text files doesn't manifest itself quickly enough for my tastes, and for general hackability)
* Central place that I can keep all my notes and easily take them with me pretty much anywhere

Additional things that I probably need in order to have it be more than a fun toy:
* Responsiveness (as others have mentioned, too much lag between pen motion and stroke appearance is probably a deal-breaker, though if it only happens occasionally it's okay; my current tablet has the same problem and it's still usable for me)
* Better navigation (it seems pretty shoddy; I don't want to have to flip through a hundred pages to find a particular note... and once I do, how do I get back to the front page?)
* Hierarchical ability to group pages together (so I can keep my shopping lists in one place, my notes for classes in a different place--sets of pages grouped together by specific lecture, which are then grouped together by class--and my todo list in another place...)

Additional things that I want but don't need:
* Ability to use external keyboard to write to text files (this would be awesome, but I can also appreciate that it might go against their ethos)
* PDF and text file annotation
* Infinite paper with scroll and zoom (I'm less certain of this, though; seems like it would be great for mindmapping and stuff like that, but it also seems like it could be easy to lose things off in the middle of nowhere)
* Ability to rearrange text (rectangle/lasso select and then drag/cut/paste)
* Tactile sense of drawing on paper (This would be awesome, but my tablet works pretty well for me without it)
Your Facebook profile could be one of 250,000 on 'dating' site
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I've been there, and have the scars from it.

In several cases, I have order by (id{primary key}+0) desc just to bust up the very strong bias to just backwards scan on the primary key till it fills the limit window. That's perfectly fine if you're looking at the end of a time series, but if you're actually looking 200k records back, even if stuff is cached in memory, that's a hell of a hit.

The case that first triggered that one was when the query planner went from a constant time lookup to that index scan, and took the time to do a large update from 10s of seconds to 12 hours.
I think there is a major difference between identifying areas for improvement and copying a specific search result from a competitor.
Was an employee, but the company mostly fizzled. Now I'm finishing grad school.
Contact me privately. I'll show you a way that worked for many people. No obligation. This isn't a joke.
(PUA stuff won't help you. Task 1 is internalize what makes a woman unworthy, and how to pick the worthy ones).
Hope you get it! Go Love With Food!
Exploiting Google Search Results to Rank in Bing?
"If illegal loggers or miners contact these people, they won't shoot images... They'll shoot guns."

Very few realize that there's more to protect in the Rainforest than trees.
The average American is a mirage. Replace that by the median American, and it's immediately down to $7k. Then notice that this "excludes most non-cash income(e.g., like employer contributions to social insurances, or the value of government provided health care and education)" and we can argue whether, after paying for health insurance and retirement/kids college savings, the median American really is better off.
Thank you for being the one person here that seems to consider point of view without the fanboy-ism. What people are calling "HTML5" and "CSS3" is really getting nebulous. It's almost as if just mentioning something shiny and new somehow makes it part of the spec.

I do think prefixes are better than hacks, but to call a prefixed single-browser feature "CSS3" or "HTML5" kind of blows my mind... no matter how unpopular that view may be here on HN.

"The word heretic ought to be a term of honour..." -Charles Bradlaugh
What U.S. Unemployment really looks like
If You Sell Your Startup, Don’t Be a Punk About it Afterward
I like his debt snowball approach. I don't have a debt problem (and plan to never have, but crises happen). The way I understand it, you pay off your smallest debt by whatever means necessary, make minimum payments on everything else. Then you take what you were paying on that debt, and apply it to the next. Over time you are eliminating debt and applying all the money you spent on the eliminated debt towards the next debt. So you start paying off faster as you go. At least that's how I think the plan works.
scarily, exactly what i was thinking of after seeing the tab. run a web server on the tab running in hotspot mode and you have document transfer.
Programming for Heathrow Airport Parking
When traveling, it is important to book your plans early. Furthermore, booking your plans through websites like Hotwire and Parking4Less will allow you to cut costs by purchasing bundled options.
I am pretty sure this is a hoax (too many jokes in the copy below the image), but I think an "e-ink thin client" seriously is not a bad idea. Think livescribe, but bidirectional (not just the writing on the pad is saved, but it can also be viewed). Link it to a web service a la Evernote and go :)
Remembering the Egyptian martyrs
I was wondering about LiveScribe as a note taking tool myself. What about it don't you like?
That doesn't work so well either. :)

The solution is teaching the kids, not hide/lock away the problem.
"BACON JAM"?? I need to learn more! +1 for a table.
I'd love to be there - Playtomic will be hitting iOS about that date.

It's real time analytics for games currently doing over 10 billion events/month, and with a growing collection of services designed to make casual game developers lives easier.
It is a pain, whether the restrictions are carrier-induced or not, to do this. I had a truly open and flexible desktop-like operating system when I was running Maemo OS2008.. I could install and compile my own software, it was common to have desktop software ported to the device, there was tons of interest in hacking on different supports (I had Wiimotes on a NES emulator, a regular sized USB port, etc.). I have an Android-powered device.. and it is definitely not at that level, despite having a custom rom and the whole nine yards.
Corning Sees Tablet Market Boosting Demand for Gorilla Glass
"Egyptian state television has actively tried to foment the unrest by reporting that “Israeli spies” have infiltrated the city – which explains why many of the gangs who attack reporters shout “yehudi!” (“Jew!”)."

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/latest-updates-o...

(To be taken with a grain of salt obviously. But interesting to note this comes from the government)
I find that statement a bit weird. Germany are on the hook for something like 120 billion in this bailout. That's €1500 for every man, woman and child in the country.

And that's after essentially funding the EU for the past 20 years. Though things have levelled a bit of late, they used to have net contributions about 3x higher than the next one (the UK).
Media, Morals, and Money
Simple: you just have to put a EULA at the top of every search result page... ;)
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ravi-simhambhatla/1/283/982

http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickwysong

Search your contacts for intros. I have a shared connection with Ravi - whom I could ask to connect you.

But you need to build the example first - then SHOW them that it is already running.
Last night an Egyptian in Toronto, who felt powerless to help in the midst of the bloodshed, asked if we could create a place for Egyptians and the world to remember the lives that have been lost in the protests in Egypt.
Hi Jason,

We launched CakeDeals (http://www.cakedeals.com) last October. We are still in beta.

The idea is very simple. With the crazy amount of daily deal sites popping up every week, it is getting extremely difficult for users to keep track. We do the heavy lifting for our users by bringing all the daily deals from 20+ sites per city into a single page (or email). We have great features coming up to help user manage their coupons, discover deals, share deals etc. We are competing with sites like Yipit.

Thanks for checking us out. If we don't get picked, feedback will be awesome as well. This is my contact: simon@cakedeals.com
And I am sure they were making money off them, thus didnt do anything about it.
http://www.hipmunk.com/results?from=SFO+-+San+Francisco+Inte...

Seriously though. Why not just fly there? It's a couple grand to likely get back $50k (cash or merchandise). People are far less mean in person.
The problem is that I want to help, but I can't. If they've added what other users have suggested, that anons or newbs can provide answers/edits that have to be approved by a more senior user that probably covers about 99% of the situations that I'm concerned with.

You're right that the system can't know my insight. But the community can. It is a community right?

I'm cool with going through some sort of approval process. If it means that it takes a few extra minutes for my changes to get in then so be it.
Avoid digital rectangles. Begin to notice your breathing.
Begin to pay attention to how your body feels, what goes around you (peripheral) and in front of you (3 point of awareness), explore hypnosis tapes and soothing music, reduce stimulus overload, return to nature.
that "to be announced" ratecard on influands is kind of a giveaway :)
I have been accused of "laziness" my whole life. Part of the reason: I have a medical condition that wasn't diagnosed until late in life. I just didn't have the energy other people around me had. Still, I graduated high school STAR student, national merit scholarship winner, state alternate for the governor's honors program...etc...while missing 18 and 19 days of school every single year and dragging myself to school sick much of the rest of the time. My youngest son had trouble learning to write. He was qualified for the gifted program in 3 states, so the teacher refused to work with me and insisted he could do it, he was "just being lazy". I pulled him out to homeschool. He has a learning disability. I got him caught up in writing, improving by more than a grade level in three months.

It has not been my experience that people who get labeled "lazy" really are. They usually have some issue and figuring out what the real issue is and helping them with it is generally far more effective than simply labeling, blaming, and condemning them.

I also get accused of "arrogance", a huge ego and many other things. I really don't think any of that is true either.

So I am sorry but you and I aren't likely to see eye-to-eye on this topic.
Man charged with the task of protecting indigenous people from intruders flies overhead in a plane named after the Cherokee indian tribe.

Insignificant in the great scope of things, but I smirked a little.
I don't see it as that different. If the panel suggests a competitor's top-10 result is strongly preferred, and then Google examines why they didn't have that in their top-10, and tinkers with their weightings until they do, then they've used a competitor's output signals to train their own systems.
that jumped out at me too, but one has to think that a bunch of clearly dedicated scientists (I'd have gone home at -10) would have given thought to pumping CFC's into a pristine lake.

Let's hope so
It's hard to tell if your copywriter isn't perfect if they're doing it in a language that you don't know as well.
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I wonder what kind of disturbance just the helicopter (or whatever method was used to capture the footage) caused on the tribe.

Obviously the tribe was aware of it, but if they've never been contacted, would they be able to even fathom what such a thing is? I'm genuinely curious because I'm also genuinely ignorant on how "uncontacted" tribes like that are and what their civilization is like.

Could anyone enlighten me? It seems like such a fascinating area of study.
I've taught computer science and I've seen that one's brain either understands computing concepts, or it doesn't. I've seen people with no programming experience pick it up pretty quickly. I've also seen people who were otherwise smart not get anywhere at all. If people can get past assignment, indirection, and boolean logic, they'll probably do fine. Understanding concurrency is also a sort of fundamental brain ability, but is something that fewer people have the ability for and is not necessary for every programming task.
How about "I had a startup in the past"?
I think you can reset the administrative password using an html file or dns record to verify you own the domain.

Just go to www.google.com/a/zionadvisors.com and click can't access your account.

I personally would do this and delete the account and then wait the 10 (or so) days it makes you wait to re-register it
Did this shatter anyone else's perception of how well-connected we are, as a species?
Can you back up a notebook page easily, send it instantly to someone the otherside of the planet, tag it for search and lookup on a computer, perform OCR on it in-situ, etc. ... horse for courses I say.
Technically ICANN isn't a US gov't agency but they do have a MOU with the DOC.
openDNS has little to do with actual NIC stuff. See openNIC for actual alternative root stuff.
Screen size seems to be about the same as a Kindle DX. That goes for $379 and is thought to be a loss leader for Amazon. Also, I suspect that if somebody found a way to do stylus input on e-ink, AMZN would already be offering (or at least hyping) it.

So yeah, I'm going to agree with you...
We use Redis for this kind of stat tracking at http://www.formspring.me/

At 10,000,000 responses per day, we're not that small.

Here's the source from our collector: https://gist.github.com/794474
Somewhat related, but Joel Spolsky has a really excellent tutorial on Mercurial:

http://hginit.com/

It covers a lot of the conceptual differences between the distributed version systems and subversion, and gives a similar sort of story telling walk through of use cases.
This snippet from the article makes me think their proposal only affects one query at a time:

For example, one which allowed you to put "SELECTIVITY 0.1" after a WHERE clause
"overextending" oneself, especially if you have dependents, is irresponsible.
Usability And You: The Design Process
It is inappropriate, and I'd never do it, but it never would have happened if the chiropractor paid their bills.

I can't imagine the particular designer will hurt for doing it - its not like his contact details are stamped on it.

If he does great work and it's what I need I'd use him, since I make a habit of paying my bills.
Learn to Google: How do pyramid schemes like Primerica still work the web?
The idea of uncontacted tribes - still in existence - is awesome. ...but it's a little scary too to consider the famous Arthur C. Clarke quote "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Sure, these tribes may not have been contacted, but what mythologies have evolved to explain the strange, huge bird in the sky that circles around them from time to time?
Here you go:

Collections.synchronizedMap(new HashMap());
Keys To A Powerful Business Plan
These domain seizures are setting a scary precedent.
I can't take the credit. The page was created by hunterloftis (http://twitter.com/#!/hunterloftis). I just submited, so that more people get to know his work.
The Key to Getting Attention: A Guaranteed Cure for Writer's Block.
Firefox 4 betas have been shipping with STS support since June. See http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/5dc3c2d2dd4f
I assume you're hinting at the theory regarding the Native Americans not being able to comprehend Columbus's ships.
It would definitely be an interesting research study, though getting the paperwork filed might be a bit of a challenge :-)
It might help to mention the stack you're on, as well as your current hosting setup. Maybe someone can help you by letting you borrow a few servers, or help you tweak things.
http://www.wunderground.com/about/background.asp

>The growing Internet weather program was given the name Weather Underground, a reference to the 1960's radical group that also originated at the University of Michigan, which had taken its name from the lyrics to Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues, "You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows."
my mother listens to him a lot, so i've heard him quite a lot. his advice is good, of course, but i find it interesting that every program is the same thing over and over, like its a reaffirmation mantra that people need to hear in order to successfully not spend the money they don't have, or how to deal with it when they forget they're not supposed to.
Is This UFO Caught By Multiple Cameras a Real Alien Spaceship?
Putting yourself in heavy debt to make sure your kids have a good shot is not difficult to defend.

It's not something I'd do, but I have a hard time blaming someone for making that sacrifice.
phlux - you're awesome.

It's really unfortunate timing, I have guests arriving to spend the weekend here in about 10 minutes but can we talk further by e-mail? jon@flightlite.com.

I'll try to get something together tomorrow if you think they might be interested. I'm happy to completely co-brand the site for the right sponsor.
I've been waiting all my life for BACON JAM! +1
EC2 small instance at the moment. I can afford to upgrade that for a while but I don't have the time to do it this second, I will be doing tomorrow though!

It's all on a LAMP stack.
You know that Golden Rule?" Not the one that VCs quote, but the one that goes "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you?"

We should think about that when we choose how to deal with uncontacted tribes. It may be that one day another intelligence will need to decide how to deal with us, and on that day I hope we can say, "Yes, we used to have a habit of massacring technologically inferior peoples we encountered, but we grew up a little and we don't do that any more. Then we used to keep them alive but destroy their culture and identity while mouthing platitudes about how we were helping them, but we grew up a little and we don't do that any more either."
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/01/5965571-newl...

This has better photos. According to NBC report in 2008, an agency has been aware of the tribe and have been tracking (and not contacting) them since 1910.
Do you have to plug in "1000Memories (YC S10)"?
Why was it humbling?
Nope you can't do much. But if you really want to do something the best would be to go there and contact the authorities (local party officials forget the police, bring cash, wink wink) and get them involved.

In the future it's best to have an expediter in China that can check the facts on the ground. Also you should not have to pay for manufacturing before the product is shipped or at least checked by an independent contact in China. Usually terms are around 30-90 days depending on the industry and product (sometimes up to 6 months).

I put up a manufacturing guide a few months ago where I talked a bit about this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840896
How does Etsy manage development and operations?