skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
False. In 2010 facebook's was "not too far off" from 1.1b [1], whereas Zynga's was around half that [2].

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/22/facebook-revenues/
[2] http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/03/zynga-revenue/
I suspect that this isn't the only way they determine search results :-)

My guess is that they have a relevency metric from their own algorithm, but some results return poor relevency results -- then they may go to this set of secondary results and say, "Are there any results for this query that a higher percentage than expected users clicked on" and then add those results to the list.

IOW, this data probably isn't the common case.
Maybe I'm missing something, but what if I want to work as a software engineer?

Spending the rest of life as a bartender or receptionist doesn't seem like a good prospect, regardless of pay.

And if I ever have the chance to go back to work as a software engineer, the years working as a bartender or receptionist won't help.

Or maybe I just don't like money that much.
No surprise, as both DDG and Blekko disclose that they use Bing for long-tail queries, but it works at both of those engines, too:

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=hiybbprqag
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=mbzrxpgjys
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=indoswiftjobinproduction

http://blekko.com/ws/hiybbprqag
http://blekko.com/ws/mbzrxpgjys
http://blekko.com/ws/indoswiftjobinproduction
The problem I have with your statements below

" However I, and billions of other people, haven't opted to buy it. The market waits for something that fits our needs better."

are that this could have been said of any object 9 months after its appearance. This could have been said about movies, TV, radio, cell phones, etc.

I think it's clear that there is a market for iPad like devices.

My statement about shape versus experience is that there are a slew of tablet devices that clearly have been rushed into production. I think companies are doing this because they want to say, "We're in the tablet market too." Samsung made a tablet for the sake of making a tablet. I don't think they put much thought into the device. They were more focused on having a device than on having a device with a good user experience. Apple spent a lot of development time before they released the iPad. This shows in their product.

There is nothing wrong with a 7" tablet. There is something wrong with a 7" tablet using an OS not designed for such a device. Android isn't tablet ready and people should not expect Android tablets to be as good as the iPad.

BTW I don't own an iPad. I never buy first generation hardware.
This is what a non-neutral net looks like
Link to the results:

http://global.phoronix-test-suite.com/index.php?k=profile...
Interesting, and I think people should definitely consider "off the beaten track" opportunities like this more.

But for most of us here... it doesn't account for the fact that you're working as a bartender. I don't know about everyone else, but I want to enjoy and be fulfilled by my work. When I'm building awesome software I loose track of the workday... slinging rum for 8 hours a day sounds like some terrible purgatory.

And from anecdotal evidence, I don't think there's nearly so many great income arbitrage opportunities in the high tech sector.
For something that simply works without any painful hacks, Android 2.2+ has a built-in WiFi hotspot feature. Turn it on and you've got a personal WiFi network that goes out to the world over your mobile's data connection.

I've used it for about a year with no problems at all. If you're using the WiFi hotspot for a long time and you find you're running out of battery, you can just plug it in to your laptop to charge over USB.
I might make me here unpopular, but I would say: No, you did it wrong! Let me clarify on this:
Yes, in CS you might not learn how to program well, this is true. However, when you study you get knowledge about several interesting computer science problems and how to solve them. You will see that problems later in your programming carrier however now you have a good background to solve them. Just a simple example:
You given an array (let's say integeres). How would you remove all duplicates? A naive solution would be to check for every value, if there is more of this in the array. This has a running time complexity of O(n^2). The better way would be first to sort your array and then just iterate and remove all neighbours which are equal. This corresponds to O(nlogn) + O(n) complexity.

What I try to say, as a young "coder" you might not see all the troubles (in this case performance) you make when coding just straight away. You need to understand what you are actually doing, for this CS study gives you a good background.

The other really important point is: Startups fail with very high probability! CS diploma (or whatever this is in your country) gives you a solid background on which you can relay, when looking for a job position after your startup time.
So, complete with your study is maybe a very classic way, however this is the most secure way for a long term.
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I think it's clear that there is a market for iPad like devices.

Of course there is, as the market has clearly shown. I suspect that there will be a market for 5", 7", 10", 12", and so on tablets. Consumer choice is good.

Yet your post seemed to posit that because the iPad has succeeded where the Tab hasn't, every decision Apple made with the iPad (in particular form factor) has been validated. That is specious reasoning.
Is there some actual content on the middle of all these ads? I gave up on page 2.
"The popularity of Dropbox" according to Syncplicity co-founder Isaac Hall
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I liked it. parseJSON() breaks the syntax highlighter though.
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The Windows task manager has a separate field called "Available". Right now I have 8190 MB total, 3627 cached, 4151 Available, and 537 free (not sure if that adds up perfectly, it was changing while I typed it).
I strongly bet that pg has discovered some extremely weird (i.e., extremely human) correlations, and uses them, but possibly cannot reveal them for fear of ridicule or worse, people gaming the process. For example, big nose == great non-technical founder, esp. in terms of communication! Something along those lines. :-)
Poor spelling doesn't help much either.
There are lots of things that cost the same regardless of where you buy them. New cars, flat screen TVs

Not really true. You're ignoring local taxes, import tariffs and other markups. I nice car costs at least 3 times as much in Norway as it does in Germany for example. A lot of countries have tariffs on electronics meaning TVs and computers can cost up to twice as much you'd pay in the US.
As it happens there's an exact historical precedent for this. Post code <-> long/lat data is copyrighted in the UK, but users were using Google Maps (and others) to do conversion and supply them to open source databases, the end result is that Google had to change their licensing/API to restrict this sort of behaviour.

Just because you're copying the data indirectly through a third party doesn't mean you're not breaching the copyright.
Statements like, The company plans to pay them "regardless of their participation." make me think otherwise
M-PESA is routinely discussed at mobile payments conferences and among top bankers as the proof of concept for mobile payments. It's always a bit strange since it's not often in the technology industry that Africa seems years ahead of the United States.

I think it's a good example of a space where not a lot of institutional investors (VCs, angels, others) here in the States have been willing to commit dollars because it's a long-term endeavor with competition--in other words, exactly the kind of business that venture capital is supposed to help bolster. It's a shame, really, because there are probably many other innovations with serious implications (i.e. not consumer internet startups) that have suffered a similar fate at the hand of a weak and risk-fearing investment community. Maybe Obama's new policy will help change that.
EU warns it lags behind in global innovation race
http://infochimps.com also has a bunch.
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It's a contemporary, deconstructionist, accessible, self-referential, stark, self-explanatory work, addressing the fleeting nature of digital ephemera across huge, seemingly permanent structures like the Internet and Google.

I like it. :-)
I don't know what this statistic really means and I doubt anyone yet does. For years I've encountered people on the Net who think nothing of ordering the latest device just to "try" it and return it! They've stated so outright. So I wonder if this 16% does nothing but reflect those kind of people who make things miserable for everyone else who just want to buy?
In case anyone was unaware: http://www.appsumo.com/hacker-monthly/

Thx, Noah.
All of the answers on this Quora post were worth reading, but this one really stands out.

Isaac Hall gives a breakdown on just how his service (Syncplicity) missed the mark which the "Dropbox kids" nailed so effectively.

Personally, I have recommended Dropbox to many "normal" people in my life...friends, colleagues, family members that can't be bothered troubleshooting their disk quotas, overwrites, etc. To be honest, I'm surprised that Google has never delivered on the much-hyped Google Drive which has never materialized, but would probably be popular to the masses. I would love to have Google address the data back-up problem as they've addressed the email problem (which lead obviously to GMail).

Another great quote from this post:
If you're starting a new company, the best thing you can do is keep your feature set small and focused. Do one thing as best as you possibly can. Your users will beg and beg for more functionality. They will tell you their problems and ask you to fix it. My philosophy is that they're right if their feature request is right only if it works for 80% of your customers. Until you have a lot of resources, stay focused on your core competency.
I had a front row seat for this test. I believe the experiment we ran provides conclusive proof. I'm on a panel with a representative from Bing later today and I'll ask Bing about this directly.
Let's say that Bing sets up a script that sends queries to Google and then records the results. That's clearly copying.

I'd question even that hyperbolic interpretation. Let's say that Google sets up a script that sends queries to websites and then record the results and incorporates what links are shown on that site into their search rankings. Is that clearly copying? No, that's just pagerank.

If you have a web directory, a link page, a blogroll--isn't Google "copying" your work by using it to improve its search results? How is that any different from what Bing's doing?
Does it auto-update as the bus moves? I finally found a street-view image, but it's just sitting there.
This is a completely content-free comment. Unlike lots of HN people, I think ad-hom has its place. But it only adds value when it's relevant to the article. It isn't here. McArdle isn't asking you to put faith in her meth suppression or pharma background to understand her argument. She could be a semifunctional psychotic and this article would still be solid, if a bit boring.
Basecamp Mobile is written in CoffeeScript using our in-house Cinco mobile framework, which ties together Backbone.js, Zepto, the Eco templating language (https://github.com/sstephenson/eco), and Stitch (https://github.com/sstephenson/stitch).
I will never understand how someone can spend hours on a piece like this without reading it once to check for basic grammatical errors.
"Is this illegal?"

IANAL, but in certain jurisdictions, most certainly yes. Many countries have copyright laws that protect compilations of things that are individually not worthy of copyright, for example telephone books. Copying down an individual telephone book entry is of course not a copyright violation, but copying the whole listing in a systematic fashion is.

I'd guess that this law applies to search engine rankings as well - rankings/listings of individual items that are not protected by copyright, but where a lot of effort goes into producing the listing itself.
They should be randomly delayed, like MTA trains.
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The Tab got some good reviews, some people comparing it favourably with the iPad. And they did rejigger some of the included apps for the bigger screen. Most of the negative chatter seems somewhat ideological, what with it apparently having the "wrong" size or "wrong" OS rather than any specific issues caused by these decisions. Even if this return rate applies across the globe they've sold more than I would have expected.

Since people repeatedly harp on the price, which has always been the same or less than the iPad+3G I'm guessing that the continued lack of a Wi-Fi only model is the real bone of contention (and/or the fact that tablets in general are too expensive for most folk, even/especially those who've already spent thousands on a slightly smaller, data-connected touchscreen slab that they carry as a phone).

I'm guessing the lack of Wi-Fi only was the (unforseen?) consequence of Google's restrictions on device capabilities which meant you needed a 3G radio and phone capabilities to get access to the Market. Google is supposed to have relaxed these and a Wi-Fi only model has been teased, though whether that will be eclipsed by the 2nd gen or not is a matter of timing.
Interesting case to raise. Reminds me of the NFL terms voiced after every game about the broadcast being for private use only. I imagine that if their terms don't already include a clause like this, they can try to suggest that a toolbar tracking user clicks is violating the terms.

Very murky waters. If Google starts complaining that other people are tracking their users, they might end up educating users about how much they and their advertisers track.

...I hope DuckDuckGo figures out a way to capitalize on this brouhaha...
Bartending: a part-time job that provides the lazy with easy access to alcohol and a stable social life where the only requirement is to have passable looks and the ability to show up, stay awake and not steal (too much). It looks like fun, but it's a very dangerous occupation if you're thinking of actually doing something with your life post-booze dalliance.

The fact that someone would promote dropping out to live in the outback serving beer to a bunch of tourists is insane. To back it up with tax-reimbursement math is ludicrous. Working as a slave for more than one tourist season should dispel any rational thinker of the notion that they're better off scraping by on minimum wages than working at a real job. To be successful in the real world, you need to acquire domain experience, competent skills and build lasting relationships with people who also work in your industry, not to mention developing your talents in order to have access to higher-paying/rewarding employment. All of them take time and none can be done while you're picking your nose at a tiki bar in Florida, Thailand or Australia.

Don't kid yourself. Work is hard and there are no easy way about it.
CONNECT BY/STARTS WITH can be brain-bending, too, if you are doing anything except the most straightforward use case. I found the "pseudocode" on this page under the "Interpreting connect by statements" header to be very enlightening:

http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/sql/connect_by.html
Has anyone here had experience working in Australia (or as an expat in another developed country) as an actual software developer?

I do enjoy what I do but I'd love to be able to see a different part of the world while I do it.
that's Jeff Jonas: http://jeffjonas.typepad.com/

i have no idea what he is talking about
Phoenix? Do you go to gangplank or heatsync?
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The point of the piece doesn't seem to be to add anything of value to a debate, rather than to grab some easy traffic and make a joke. Whether it succeeds at the latter is up for debate, of course, but given the aims, who cares about the grammar?
Since when has reverse engineering been cheating? If the article is correct, there still is no allegation that Google's algorithms have been used. I don't think Google is in much of any position to cry foul over any company using data mining to tailor search results.
We agree that it is copying, the subject open for interpretation is whether it's "wrong" in some way. Information is all about copying, that's the whole point :-)
This is what all toolbars do, and is largely the point of why big companies offer them and pay little software companies to make them optional installs (see Corel's WinZip, which installs the Google toolbar)
Heh, a day after he leaves HN he makes the first page. He will still be here whether he visits the site or not.
I think it is still a bit early to rule out 7" tablets, since Tab is the only 7" device in the market now and running a non-recommended OS.

"Price" could be a deciding factor in this case. $649 is a ridiculous price. ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00480P67K/ref=asc_df_B00480P67K141... )
Pricing it above iPad is unbelievable. Someone who pays $649 (or $599 through discount stores) expects a greater value than iPad experience, which Froyo does not meet.
https://datamarket.azure.com/

Some free, some paid.
IBM is one of the largest employers in the US, with over 300,000+ people working there.
I find this excelent. The enforcement on higher abstractions is great. It might take longer to write the first time, but as we all know, its more important if it is easy to read then if it is easy to write.
To much clojure i see today has 20+ lines long functions with an abstractionlevel al over the map. Using midje will most likely help to even out the abstraction level and make it alot easier to read.
My original post mentioned that Apple spent a lot of time thinking about the user experience of the iPad before they actually produced it. Samsung hasn't put nearly as much thought into the user experience. The point being that it's natural that the Galaxy Tab has a higher rate of return than the iPad.

It should be the case that iPad is the market leader in this category. They created the category and made a very nice device. The other tablets are not nearly as polished as the iPad and this is obvious once you use them.

Concluding from what I've written that I think that "every decision Apple made with the iPad (in particular form factor) has been validated" is a miscarachterization.
You're right. I wasn't thinking about crossing borders when I wrote that. Within the US, it's essentially true. Comparing US to Europe or anywhere else and it's all over the map.

I guess that's just another variable to throw in when working on your arbitrage strategy. Personally, I'd opt to take that contract job in Oslo if it were an option. Given how much they charged me for beer when I was there, I can only assume the wages must be nice and high!
I didn't tell him not to participate but I asked not to dump his view on other readers since this isn't a site about political or economic theory.
Reminds me of this article : http://lesswrong.com/lw/3gv/statistical_prediction_rules_out... which talked about similar algorithm in statistics
I'm pretty sure that was intentional (or, at least, part of the joke), since there's this text right above it:

Also you can get your own infograph done for about $150 bucks from
"derri_hasmi at yahoo.co.id", although proof reading the infograph before
you publish is recommended.
There are browser toolbars that aren't spyware? I'd think anyone likely to actually hear about this would have already been assuming that all browser toolbars are spyware.
Google scheme to lower corporate taxes :

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_44/b42010431...
Please keep us posted as best you can.
Me too. Hope: Google's dark fiber, Verizon's fios, WiMax providers.

Actually I have a fantasy in which Google becomes an ISP. I'm not sure why it doesn't. It has the cash and the corporate friends, and it certainly could help make its own (YouTube) problems go away by getting into the business of the last mile.
No worries, it happens to everyone. :D
I don't get it. Is a collection of made-up facts supposed to constitute satire or something?

> Infographs are usually very pretty, but it's really a gimmick, they're not useful content, it's link bait to get traffic to a blog.

Why so cynical? God forbid somebody represent data in an aesthetically pleasing manner. If infographics are a gimmick, then so is anything anybody ever does to make their creations interesting to read/view/use.
We should certainly proof the article better, but it was an experiment. We paid $150 for the graphic, it was done and an overseas fellow in a couple of weeks. I sent him three emails so the overall work was about 15 minutes and cost 150 dollars.
Well I can see your motivation and technical background. The question is: will coders bother ;) It's the people who finally decide so you'll probably have your bit of advertising/explaining to the community..
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The article suggests that the Bing toolbar monitors what its user click and uses that information to improve Bing search results. Is that what you have conclusively proved?

I'm interested in another experiment. If you set up a honeypot, search for the term, but never click on the link, does the honeypot start showing up in Bing? The article doesn't say whether you tried this. Did you try it? Are Bing scraping your results from the page or only tracking their users clicks?
I seriously doubt that is the only thing they use the information for, and unless someone can find somewhere in the google toolbar/chrome EULAs that specifically asserts what they will/won't do with the data, I'd assume the they use it for all sorts of things.
>Packets != Electricity -- in boston, I'm not getting electricity generated in california.

You're right. You're getting electricity that was produced several million years ago under ground in [probably] West Virginia, then transferred to a station near your house where it was released and made available to you.

But where it is produced is a completely moot point. We're talking about the internet. The difference between sending a .jpg to my neighbor and sending a .jpg to you in Boston is trivial.
You're welcome; and thank you in turn for being so appreciative! I hope it helped a little.

Edit: FWIW: I was introduced to code at age 10, but I honestly believe that there is no "best" age. As kids, we have the inbuilt zen-like child mind that lets us delve into the vicissitudes of even the most simple toy; a programming language is even more fascinating. It is the nature of adults to lose instant accessibility to that mindset, but it is by no means unachievable. Conversely, discovering code as an adult has its own advantages beyond general experience and improved cultural context: The adult mind possesses a vast array of existing systems, analogies and frameworks to aid in the understanding of higher-level concepts.

I guess what I'm saying is, it's easier for kids to motivate themselves to learn programming, but it's easier for adults to learn programming. I'm sure there are fine arguments to the contrary on both points, but there is undeniably something interesting going on there.
I don't suppose the sum total of items I've assembled from IKEA amounts to 10, but I must say I've never had a problem with it.
IANALE, but in the US where both Google and Microsoft are headquartered, directory listings are not protected by copyright (though the book itself can be).
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This was going to be my first question. Thanks!

Any chance Cinco will be up on GitHub in the future, or are you guys holding it close to your chest?