skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were 2 projects back in the university that made me improve my programming skills: building an OS (multithreading based on a DOS system) and building a compiler (using JavaCC).

In a different way, learning Lisp and Prolog, which basically widen your perspective.

Also, I have a question; most people say that they learn by reading good code, which I agree. Do you have any recommendation of a piece of code that you consider it has "something to teach"?
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how can you expect your subjective experience to be of any use to me or anyone else?

Dude, I love to hear other people's subjective experiences. It's data of unknown dimensionality, the most challenging sort, and good input for the synthetic mill. I assign assertions a rough weighting along various axes, and then build out multiple overlapping, often contradictory models of reality. There are branches, revisions, mergers, etc. It's awesome.

Anecdotal data is among the most interesting data to deal with, because the weighting is quite challenging, and because despite all the noise and static, it is here that I most frequently discover something new and revelatory.
I would not pay for any of these services and a startup that already has traction is unlikely to need them.
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curl -X POST -d "email=your_address@gmail.com" http://nodester.com/coupon
"The bottom line is that Bing's index contains associations that it could never have figured out if Google hadn't figured them out first."

Actually, it is the users who are figuring out what is relevant not Google since a) Bing are collecting data on the links they click regardless of where Google ranks it (could be on the 20th page of Google search results for all Bing care) and b) Bing are collecting this data from all sites, there has been no evidence that Google search results are treated any differently to any other site.
What is the value of processing robots.txt in a case-sensitive way? If urls are to have different status when considering case change, the the site structure is just broken. Plus considering robots.txt in case-sensitive way has already result in lots of errors, this one included, and will result in even more in the future. Plus HTTP is not mandated to use case-sensitive URL (though it's recommended).
I can't think of any argument of why robots.txt should be processed in a case-sensitive way (i mean for a good reason -- obviously search engine have a very "good" incentive to handle it that way: the possibility to cheat and index more than they should, with an excuse when they are caught), on the other hand i can think of many for case-insensitive processing...
> Many would also argue that the majority of people that hang out here are not "hackers" but instead "developers that (mostly) know how to get shit done."

yeah, but why is it called hacker news then?
Yes, yes you do! So good, I finally decided to sign up for a Deluxe account after years as a free user(for my personal network), just because of the story! ZipGrid will be a proud user of OpenDns!

How did the new round of investors come to the decision to ultimately promote you(your passion aside)? Were they having a hard time finding a replacement or did they feel you'd been wrongly demoted?

EDIT: I'm a longtime user, but I think you should consider adding a demo page so people don't need to register to see what they're missing.
Yes. RFC 3986, sections 6.2.2.2 and 6.2.3.
"You're confusing ideology"

No, you are. I said science and explicitly held myself to the topic of science. You said you never met anyone willing to talk about the science, and that is all I addressed.

"You have made no scientific claims or scientific arguments."

And you are 100% utterly, totally, completely wrong. I told you, science isn't about big words or biochemistry or any sort of why, it is about what. Before vaccines, disease. After vaccines, nearly no disease. Causality established via details I didn't go into but you are free to investigate, at this point they are plausibly common knowledge. THAT'S SCIENCE. That's it. Right there. On the topic of whether vaccines are a net good, that is the argument. Mechanisms are irrelevant. Whys are irrelevant.

And the reason science works that way is that it avoids exactly the error you're trying to induce me into, where we bring various bits of "whys" to bang against each other until we're arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin and whether Pisces are more likely to marry Tauruses or Cancers, and all the other massive cognitive errors that way of thought creates, by valuing "explanations" over facts. The fact is that where vaccines go, deaths go down, and no amount of arguing to the contrary matters. This is exactly why science is so important, because it's one of the few ways known to prevent the error you're stuck in.

You're the one offering up psuedoscientific approaches and freely conflating ideology with the simple matter of how science determines the most likely outcomes for things. It is certainly a common delusion that science is about why, but the why comes later; once you establish that vaccines prevent disease, the next study hypothesizes a reason and tests that hypothesis, but no amount of fancy hypotheses will change the previous results.

You don't see science because you can't recognize it, not because it doesn't exist. You're asking for the ounce of proof and noticing the metric tons I'm handing you in the form of every living person who would be dead without them, in the millions. You may very well be one of them, even if you weren't vaccinated. Mercifully, we'll never have to find out.

(I actually freely admit the fact that vaccines are incredibly powerful and effective does not immediately prove compulsory vaccination is moral or correct, but I'm not addressing that, by choice. Science first, moral reactions to scientific results second. Neither step can be skipped but they should never be done out of order.)
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Have you tried delta debugging?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Debugging
> Stated by whom?

I assumed it was community consensus to condemn the abuse of the word "hacker" by the media.

But maybe HN is too cognitive dissociated from the hacker community to have a productive discussion going on about this topic.
> I think the burden of proof is on those who want to force everyone to be vaccinated to prove that none of these vaccines will ever kill a child.

That's a poor argument. I was once a proponent of further study based on Dr. Wakefield's "connection". Turns out his findings were absolutely bogus. And yet, it continues to impose unnecessary fear, and at times - death.

The burden of proof is far-stretching in this matter. For example, any one could supposedly find anything and then progress needs to stop to prove otherwise.

If an issue with a vaccine were to come to light, the solution is to make the vaccine better - not eliminate it.

It reminds me of Aspartame, probably the most studied food additive in the world, yet it still suffers propaganda from armchair MDs claiming carcinogenic, cancerous connections. Some of the connections being made aren't even scientific, just anecdotal hearsay. It's really disappointing to see people pushing fear instead of progress.
Google's hypothesis was "Does Bing use Google data in its rankings?"

I see. I would contend that that hypothesis is misleading at best, in bad faith at worst.
That's a good example of how much you learn by teaching. To paraphrase Richard Feynman - That which I cannot teach I do not understand.
Started an extraordinarily ambitious open source project when I was just naive enough to not know better.
Delta Debugging
The most important thing is to get WOMEN onto the site first, and mostly attractive women. A dating site is similar to a bar or club. Where attractive women go, men follow. Do you think you are going to get a lot of male signups if there's nothing but unattractive women on your site?

How do you use $50k to get attractive women, who can easily get dates in real life, onto your dating site? Offer them something they find valuable, but most importantly, wouldn't be embarrassing for them if their friends found out.

What might that be? What about a charity auction? Men bid on women's profiles and the highest bidder gets to take the woman on a date. 90 % of that money goes to charity (10 % to you, the owner of the site). Women can choose to either make their bid amounts public or private. They can also choose a charity of their choice.

Women don't have to be embarrassed about doing something for charity - in fact, they might drag their friends along for kicks (and among some groups of women - to see who can get the highest bid). They also get to go on dates with generous and/or wealthy men. Valuable + not embarrassing.

To set this up, start in NY. Throw events with the $50k where women get to set up profiles online and men bid on them, preferably with influencer type groups.

You can offer the reverse as well, so it's not sexist (although that sort of controversy mixed with charity gets you a lot of press) and because some women would delight in bidding on men.

Later, you can expand bidding to include other, non-monetary things: home cooked meal by professional sushi chef, help with moving, etc. So the less wealthy men can too have a chance at wooing the women of their dreams.
The Bing context might suck for you guys, but this is your problem - case insensitivity is every Windows server, not just the Bing website.

Why would anyone hosted on Windows have to specify every possible spelling variation to keep search engines out of a folder or file?

Here's another example:

http://www.ifma.org/robots.txt

These guys are disallowing /pv/

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

You guys are indexing /PV/
Fine. I reason I stated my point was so that others could chime in if they've had a similar experience.

Let me ask you and others this: Is the following robots.txt supposed to exclude all pages from my domain from showing up in Google results? Am I missing something? According to http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html I think I'm doing the right thing. Same file is returned for www.<domain>.com/robots.txt and <domain>.com/robots.txt. Google lists <domain>.com/<subdir> in results. I don't think it should be.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /
You could also argue that the user is doing the hardwork by going to Google (or any other site, since this is not specific to Google) and deciding which links are relevant by clicking on them. The user has opted share this work they have done with Microsoft (by installing the toolbar and agreeing to the terms) to help them get better results on Bing.
Show HN: Greasemonkey script to highlight rel= links
This is a userscript I wrote because I was curious how HN decides to put the nofollow attribute on links. Though I'm an experienced C programmer (among other languages), I decided it was time to learn browser-hosted JavaScript and wrote a Greasemonkey script instead of using one of the existing tools or userscripts.

As such, the quality's probably not great, but I'm throwing it out there anyway and would welcome any feedback or suggestions of better techniques to accomplish the same thing. If your curious as I was what the HN upvote threshold is for removing the nofollow tag, install the script and find out.

Here's the URL: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/96207
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I work at a community centre in a Canadian metropolis (I'm their computer-grant and education coordinator). I'm definitely going to bookmark this for them.
Another tip:

An ssh session's escape sequence is "<Enter><tilde>", which if you refer as "<X>", you can do the following:

1. Kill an unresponsive ssh session: <X><period>.

2. Enter an ssh command line, to open new forwarding ports among others: <X><C> Then enter <question-mark> for help.
Thanks for these links. Sounds like there are indeed alternatives, but they were considered before creating Cofoja.

I noticed in your report that you studied at Ensimag. That's funny: I almost went there! (I added it to my list of choices of Grandes Écoles, but finally opted for a generalist engineering school)
I didn't realize I was old and cranky...

I've been using gpg-agent with a smartcard for ssh authentication for the past six months or so. It's the way, the truth, and the light.

Real two-factor authentication. The key can't be compromised without trying to physically take apart the chip on the card and somehow access the internals. Three wrong password attempts and the thing locks. Three wrong attempts with the admin unlock code and the card self-destructs. So even if I lose the card or someone jacks it, it can't be brute forced.

(Yes I don't need that level of security, and I'm not even being paranoid; it's just neat. Makes me feel like James Bond or Batman or some shit like that every time I ssh somewhere. Yes I'm that lame... )

And since it's still using a standard RSA key for ssh authentication, I don't need to install anything special like experimental pam modules, on the host machines. Just copy the public key into authorized_keys. That's nice since I don't have full admin rights on a lot of my host machines.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your argument, but I think you're confusing the Windows file system with the URLs that a web service provides.
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1. Scientists have thoroughly looked into and still look into the safety of vaccines. The dubious autism connection, for example, was extensively researched. Nobody ever believed that the safety of vaccines is not important and doesn’t have to be tested.

3. As long as a vaccine kills less children than the disease it prevents, it is already preferable to the disease, there is no need to even prove that vaccines kill absolutely no one. A one percent likelihood of death is obviously preferable to a ten percent likelihood of death. (Numbers for illustrative purposes only.) All the evidence we have tells us that vaccines are perfectly safe — but even if they weren’t, they don’t automatically become useless.

I don’t think anyone has anything against being worried. Being oblivious to evidence and spreading lies kills children, not being worried.
Sounds interesting? Got a reference? Thanks.
It's a fascinating technique -- lots of applications. Andreas Zeller has been doing this for almost a decade now so I'm very surprised it hasn't caught on more.

Is anybody looking at combining delta debugging with Optimizely?
Hi zoowar, thank you for catching the no-ssl issue. We are working with our host to have that fixed today. I'll update everyone when ssl is setup because we do want to make the site secure.
ok so what so attractive women want - what will attract them to this dating site.

the cynical person would say show me the money.

another might say ... not sure.

However you don't just want attractive women, you want women that are looking. (Personally I would leave out the attractive since that is in the eye of the beholder.)

Ok so what are women who have recently dated and are looking to date - want. Hmmm.

Complain about bad dates
Learn about the happening things
New styles
New restaurant
theater reviews
movie reviews

Look at that silly show Cougar town or Sex in the City

What do they want? Where are they? Who are theY? What do they read? What are they concerned with?etc

Start with that mindset.
Well played, Nate, indeed.
Protip -- Don't try to reframe a common phrase with a distinct social message to sum up your article on "getting things done" because while there is a useful message here it is blunted by the reader having to wonder if the author is some kind of a rape apologist or something.
This is amazing. The line in the article, "gives me hope for humanity," is spot on.
"Be strict in what you emit, liberal in what you accept."

Bing failed the first part, Google the second. Both should fix that.
I think the burden of proof is on those who want to force everyone to be vaccinated to prove that none of these vaccines will ever kill a child.

No, the burden of proof modern medical science is built on is that the benefits of a procedure or treatment outweigh the risks of the treatment.

There is never a guarantee that _any_ medical treatment will not kill you. Acetaminophen (Tylenol) while great at reducing fever and treating pain is one of the most toxic drugs that can be taken in an overdose. Same thing can be said for aspirin. But, the benefits of taking acetaminophen or aspirin in the proper doses, outweigh the small potential risk that you may be allergic to the medicines.
Thanks. I think this may be the reason.

IMHO, Bing is being more reasonable here.

So, I have to let Google see any page which I want to prevent it from showing it to others. If I want Google to show NONE of my pages to others, I should show them ALL my pages. Conveniently, there is no wildcarded noindex, is there? Nonsensical, but since Google has more power here I'll probably have to bend to their whim.
I was wondering about that... I'm not a NetFlix user, so I take it the misspelling is not either an American spelling nor a variation used by NetFlix.

(Or perhaps the poster couldn't handle the consecutive vowels: http://xkcd.com/853/ )
Highly ironic, though, as DDG uses Yahoo as a backend, which uses Bing, which uses Google, which would use...DDG? I think there's a cycle in that list somewhere...
"Most of the people who die from drugs are either abusing the drugs or taking drugs that are necessary to keep them alive."

People dying from drug abuse is largely the government's fault, and relatively few people die from taking drugs that are medically necessary.
I don't think WordPress really uses cookies unless you're logging in or posting comments. As long as most of your visitors are read-only (which is usually the case, especially under heavy traffic), they won't get cookied.
Personally, I would like to see an app like Instapaper combined with a licensed AP news feed. I don't really need images or fancy graphics or movies; I just want to read the news.
Did any of the haters on this thread watch his TED talks? There's the one linked to in the article (from 2004), and another one Ze gave last year (http://www.zefrank.com/ted/2010.html).

Having watched "the show" back in the olden days before youtube, i'm convinced ze is a genius. He's incomprehensible to HN because he really doesn't care how it works, he only cares about how it's being applied.

It's all about the application of technology to make a human connection for him. His only metric is the quality of that human connection -- which is weird to people who care about clean design, or scalability, or neat javascript "fade" effects.
I think if he had been technical the damage would be seriously mitigated.

It's the kind of FML-clone site a lot of hackers would put up after a weekend sprint. It looks reasonably polished, but not 3 years polished. What was the revenue plan? Advertising?
a) Buy or Rent a Hot air balloon and let the best couples date on it.Choose a couple based on how much interaction they have had and their engagement with each other.(no.of messages passed between them)
b)Develop a FB app which suggests who are my possible dates among univ.alumni,friends & friends-of-friends.If I decide to date any one them use a) as reward .Ding !
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It's not a product, but I've been doing some research that involves Bayesian inference. One recently developed technique (called weighted model counting) converts inference problems into SAT problems and the group I work with has been thinking about implementing this technique.

A lot of really smart people have worked on SAT, so a viable start to solving an NP-complete problem (e.g. traveling salesman in airline scheduling) is reduction to SAT.
Hi enjo, we are using OAuth to access Netflix data. The reason we need your login credentials is because we first need to get your permission to access your Netflix Instant Queue data. The process of linking your Netflix account with Qpicker is only done once and you can always remove this permission from your Netflix account under "Manage applications".
I thought part of the point is that whatever Bing is doing doesn't work across the whole web. They need to associate the URL with a query, and most websites don't have queries. It's not just that Bing has recorded a click on Miley Cyrus's webpage; it's that they've done that and associated it with the query [kecgxjpgqoe].
Can you give some examples? The one that sprang to mind for me was the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, but that was a study on the effectiveness of an antibiotic (penicillin), it had nothing to do with vaccines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment

I wouldn't argue the point that unethical practices have caused legitimacy problems, but one might think that could be offset by the list of horrible diseases that are today unknown, such as polio.
I don't think your analysis is correct: in general, most families in the agrarian developing world do not have a surplus of land, so larger families are not helpful....
> Let me ask you and others this: Is the following robots.txt supposed to exclude all pages from my domain from showing up in Google results?

I believe that robots.txt is a way to prevent your site from being crawled by a robot, but it is not a blacklist against your site appearing in Google search results if it finds a link to your page on a site that does allow robots.

Check out this page: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...

Specifically check out the section "I want to completely remove a page from search results." It appears that if you use the "noindex" meta tag, you can prevent the site from showing up in search results even if other pages link to it. The noindex meta tag is documented here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...
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You might want to read Jared Diamond's book Collapse, particularly the chapter about how population pressure contributed to genocide in Rwanda.
What he says from 1:15-1:35 is a bit extreme IMO.
:-/
I think another important lesson here is that there's a big difference between putting in the time and putting in the work.

In the comments, he says the website took the developers he hired about a month. He doesn't even seem to associate himself with the making of the product. Of course I don't the situation for sure so I'll phrase this as a general comment. Sometimes, people think they can hire some programmers and think, "I put in money, I put in time, this should work." 3 years is a lot of time to run a website without learning to code, or reading a book about entrepeneurship. Putting in the work doesn't mean, "if I dont know how to do it, someone else will." It means "if I don't know how to do it, I'll learn."
Account sign-up requirement/retention ploy, Glassdoor
I use this all the time. It's amazing.
I don't know... I'm pretty sure the basic idea could work if implemented masterfully.

I can imagine a similar thread about threewords.me if it had been implemented by somebody else, and failed rather than "succeeded".
Folks who are concerned about things like thimersol are typically also very concerned about other sources of metal poisoning. And that's a whole other ball of wax that's quite controversial.
Hi glenra, Qpicker was a simple project we put together because had about 100+ movies in our Netflix Instant Queue. The problem was we were interested in watching all of the movies in our Instant Queue but couldn't make our mind up what to watch. The result was a simple and fun project called Qpicker.
Yep, it's actually misleading in TWO ways, as rst explains, and is thus doubly in need of an edit...
I'm very sorry about your daughter. And I completely agree that staying away from your daughter is a good idea, for her and for me both. I've been pretty socially isolated while I get well. I hope that changes at some point in the future when this process is completed.

Peace and best wishes.