skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Public choice theory assumes that Ikea will act in a way that benefits it as an organization (and its shareholders) and fuck the rest of you. Public choice theory essentially states that everyone is a self interested actor, the difference is that I have some control over those actors if they are elected officials, and none if they are a private company. Can I vote with my wallet? Sure, but be honest with me here, how much power does that actually give you? If a chemical company is dumping waste how do I stop doing business with everyone who does business with that company?

We can't, we don't have the information or the power. Instead we elect officials that do have the information and give them the power. This applies to all situations in which I simply don't have the perspective to make the decision, including taxes. Do I think the tax system is screwed up? Sure. Do I think that eliminating it will fix the problem? Nope, but hopefully I can elect people who will fix the problem.

I don't get how people want to put more power in the hands of private organizations instead of one they at least ostensibly control.
The graph must have been done by someone without a MBA...
You can do even better by inserting each element from the array into a hashtable and either discarding or doing a deep compare on collisions. Ignoring the probability of collisions, this is O(n) at the cost of extra space.
As we all know, this isn't the first time Microsoft has copied someone else. And I'm sure it won't be the last.

I think Google has a right to complain. Microsoft has resorted to these less than innovative tactics to monopolize themselves for a long time now, and it isn't fair to companies like Google who have worked their butts off (and gave 1.8 million shares - $336M in 2005 - to Stanford for the PageRank algorithm) to develop their superior product.
I don't think he was ever really an "online video skeptic". Mark wrote an article called "The future of tv is tv" where he challenged the delivery of online video, not the existence of it. The masses don't want to hook up a Google/Apple TV box to their TV and fuss with it to make it work. That technology should be built in like with the Sony/Google TV. Tangent - I'd expect to see an Apple HDTV come out some time soon. I wrote an article on my startup's blog about this a while back.
The right question is as important as the right answer.

The easiest entry is to ask a good question. The next time you run into a poorly documented problem, do some research, and eventually work out an answer, reformulate it as the question you wish Stack Overflow contained and ask it. You can always comment on things in your own question so you can guide the answers if they are going wrong.

• Two question up votes and you can vote things up.

• Five and you can comment anywhere
Attack of the Drones - Russian RC Helicopter caught smuggling Heroin
Just because you are big, doesn't prohibit you from exposing issues.

We really don't know how much value Bing puts on clicks made on Google. Perhaps a lot?

What's the Google's official stand on this?
I use a 1x3 arrangement, and it's pretty easy to keep track of where I am / which way to go when I need to switch.
I'll gladly attach a tripod to a roomba if you're willing to pay me $15k to do it.

But for you, special price! $10k!
I guess if you write an app that does your job, you're basically proving to management that they don't necessarily need you.

This varies depending on where you work. I know at least one investment bank has an explicit policy that if you make your job redundant, it can only benefit you [1]. Also, if you don't have an explicit replacement plan (i.e., a list of people who can do your job), it counts against you at your yearly review.

[1] I know of one case where someone (call them Q) made their own job redundant in 2008 (a time of many layoffs). The bank fired someone else (call them Z) and gave their job to Q (with a tiny pay boost, in a time when most people took big pay cuts).
4. By giving away a free valuable product, you create an imbalance in the relationship between the business and customer. The customer now feels indebted to you.

Works sometimes. But other times it creates an expectation of "free" that doesn't always extend to the larger sphere.

First impressions count for a lot, so it's not always easy to decide whether to give away a mediocre product for free, or to wait until you have something you think people will pay for.

We're running into this right now at the start-up I work for. It's a bit of a challenge to convince people that we are justified in the decision to charge money for this product we previously gave away for "free".
>The only major broken part (IMO) of SO is that the SE network is becoming so disjointed and your rep doesn't transfer between sites.

Putting rep aside, I don't even know what all the other development-related SE sites are, let alone can be bothered to monitor them all. This means that there are interesting questions I'll never see because I only visit StackOverflow.

I don't see how people other than complete SE junkies are supposed to stay on top of this site creation and forking extravaganza. Good for them, but I don't have the energy.
Many people believe Kaplan/other such test prep schools are such a hack, though the evidence suggests they create very little benefit.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124278685697537839.html
I wear nice shoes to work sometimes, and sometimes I don't feel like it. Rules tend to make me bristle, especially meaningless ones like dress style. Horses for courses and all that.
Maybe my enthusiasm for the quality of StackOverflow results in Google is because I remember the pre-SO days of scrolling through experts-exchange's hideous site and fictional paywall for a low quality answer in a tiny font.
I love my Galaxy Tab. I guess some of it might be because of Honey Comb.
What game and what advantage? It's a Q/A site. The only way you are going to game the system is if you ask clearly delineated questions and provide thoughtful and clear answers.
Quote from the article: "In fact, Google stressed that the only information that flows back at all from Chrome is what people are searching for from within the browser, if they are using Google as their search engine."

I'm pretty positive that's not true. If you run Fiddler when browsing with Chrome you will see constant hits to toolbarqueries.clients.google.com whether you're using Google or not. I could be browsing some MS site and toolbarqueries.clients.google.com gets hit. Chromium doesn't do this.

Edit: You can uncheck everything under privacy and it will still send those requests.

Edit2: What it sends back looks something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><autofillquery clientversion="6.1.1715.1442/en (GGLL)"><form signature="8551191143090325242"><field signature="620769395"/><field signature="2995202485"/><field signature="2175865763"/><field signature="904516291"/><field signature="2953051246"/><field signature="2649047790"/><field signature="2308153337"/><field signature="1003471793"/><field signature="3255484099"/><field signature="1305698505"/><field signature="3676143819"/><field signature="1275502930"/></form></autofillquery>

Looks like auto-fill data, but this happens when I click around a site, NOT when searching Google or typing something in the address bar. For some sites (interestingly, not all) it sends 3 requests for each page load.
Show HN: Its like your GPS shared with your friends
Scroll down for bar graphs of random polarity with occasional spurious entries using a pittance of available visual coding.

I think giving each compiler a hue and encoding the optimization level as saturation would have been a useful addition to the spatial organization. Rephrasing the data so that "big = good" would also save much of the mental "what am I looking at?" diversion at each chart view.
Hacker News clone for Quantitative Finance
So the exact same bug affects Javascript?
And they can see how much time you waste answering questions on StackOverflow rather than working.
This is to prevent "voting rings" using new accounts. It is a small measure of activity. All it would have taken from you was 15 rep,

1 Upvoted Answer (+10) and 1 Upvoted Question (+5) or
1 Question Upvoted (3 times) (+15) or
3 Upvoted Questions (+15)

(It is actually 14, since you start off with 1 rep)

That is really not a lot of activity/work needed from an individual.

Most likely a next user would have seen the answer on rails and voted by now.
enter invite code "hackernews" to get early access to Shaloc iPhone app
The concerns aren't separate, thats the whole point! The validation and view logic is shared in "both" applications as you put it, so we either have to duplicate code or try and only put it in one place. This doesn't work or requires monumental effort, hence the whole post.
Or not fully liquid. Look up The Reserve Fund for an example. People got nearly all their money back, but not for a while.
Because at low reps they are an anti-spam measure.

If I have demonstrated I'm not a spammer by having a solid score on SO then I should be allowed to post a comment straight away on cooking.

That's the reason for the 100rep liking bonus - it's a grandfather clause
My opinion is a bit more dire. Infographics are on a strange side of the line between statistic and art. While they're clearly meant to be flashy and emotive, they also tend to quite numbers and display data in a way evocative of authority. It feels a lot to me like being a brand parasite, or displaying a police seal in a not-completely-obviously-satirical way and then trying to cover your steps when the police arrest you for impersonation.

I think overall it's a good thing, really, though. I'm not sure there exists a strong brand for "sensational but detailed information that you probably shouldn't trust but instead just think about" but infographics (both the bad and the good, which are still often very pale demonstrations of interesting data) are filling that hole. What I hope is that they eventually teach people to be more skeptical and questioning of information presented to them, regardless of how statistical it seems.

The unfortunate transitory period is a flock of the confidently misled, I suppose.
Living standards are actually pretty high, at least in areas where education and political stability have allowed certain technologies to proliferate.

Take Fluoride for example. The CDC says it's use in cavity prevention is "one of 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century." It's application was not developed as an entrepreneurial endeavor, but rather as part of NIH research. Before Fluoride, didn't people used to have their teeth rot out by age thirty? Not, I'll bet people who drink fluorinated water have most of their teeth for most of their lives.
Well, the underlying JVM is written in C (C++ actually) along with a bunch of assembly. I figured this needs to be fixed at the JVM level and as such the fix might very well be a single "volatile" addition like it was for PHP.
Google wasting time embarrassing Bing? I think this is more interesting that learning what Bing are doing.

Google are clearly monitoring Bing (and others) as a matter of course. I'm interested to know what they'd have done if they'd found Bing providing better quality results. Would they have spent resources trying to figure out what Bing were doing right, or would that be "copying" too?
Apple didn't create the category. Archos did, even though they saw none of Apple's great success. Nor did Apple create the touchscreen mobile smartphone category, but again their success has seen a lot of historical revisionism. I guess it is, as they say, the victor gets to write the history books.

However your original statement didn't have a lot of substance beside calling Apple's competitor's a "joke", and I took from it what I could glean.
Any idea why thats being used as opposed to GWT?
their tanks were made by Opal (a GM subsidiary)

I came here to check that, but you seem to be right - see the wikipedia article on Opel (note correct spelling)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel
The company ... has been a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors Company since 1929.

Makes one wonder about the ways we are helping our enemies today

You don't have to wonder - google "US arms sales" or "us arms sales to dictators".
I think thats a big problem with the "accepted answer"

Firstly it's accepted by the questioner - who by definition knows the least about the subject, otherwise they wouldn't be asking!

Even if it is correct and well written - then it stays accepted years later when it's no longer the best way to do something.
Yes, but what about IE6? It is going to be 10 years old in August... There will still be people who just won't care about %newcoolsite%
I am not a lawyer, but as I understand it there is some precedent in the US of intentionally ignoring robots.txt being unauthorized computer access, exposing you to all the liability that entails (possibly criminal).
That's flat-out cheating. In one plan, you are willing to act like a rationalist, in the other you are a sheep. That's a useless comparison. The relevant comparison is "rationalist in the US" vs. "rationalist in the Outback".

For instance, the US rationalist has an easy solution to the keeping-up-with-the-Joneses problem: Don't. I've had great success with this. It's not that hard. While there is always a dick waving contest going on somewhere in a neighborhood it's really quite easy to opt out, and for the most part nobody comes and chases you down; the dick wavers simply classify you as a loser and you decline to correct them. QED.

That whole post is rationalist fail; he knows the forms, but he isn't dancing the dance. It isn't just another brand of marketing to slather over your preexisting point or desire. Well, actually it can be used that way just like any other good thing and this is far from the first self-proclaimed rationalist I've seen to fall into this trap, but hey, we all do it somewhere. We're all still human, no matter how hard we try.
They also probably should have tested to see if it happened with results other than the ones in the #1 spot.
Yes absolutely. I don't think anyone in this thread or in the article denied that the Google Toolbar sends data to Google. And you are absolutely right that Google's use of the data collected should be clearly stated in a privacy policy and EULA. It might be, I haven't read them.

But the article clearly covers the available public statements on this issue and patio11 dug up a post from Matt Cutts in his comment below that directly addresses this: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/toolbar-indexing-debunk-post/.
$15k to avoid travelling places isn't a bad price... unless there's another option in which you use computers, webcams, headsets and phones.
How to Keep Your Facebook Secure by Enabling HTTPS
Yes, you can't sell something people won't buy anyway. We raised our prices a year back with a little warning, and almost no complaints, on a product that we felt was worth more to the customer than they were initially paying. It was a really good decision as it's not only increased our bottom line but led to less customers paying little and expecting a lot (and much less support to deal with).
Let's just take one of those examples. The US revolution.

You are dead wrong in claiming that it happened without social media. They didn't have the same types of social media that we do today, but the version they did have they used to the hilt. Back in their day it was the printing press. Everything from pamphlets to Thomas Paine's Common Sense really were the social media of their day. And without them, the US Revolution could very well have failed.

Conversely were Thomas Paine alive today, can you doubt that he would have a blog and use twitter?
CoffeeScript has been a joy.

Because most of the code runs in the browser, we were able to use the WebKit debugger. I never had any trouble matching up the compiled JS with the original CS source.
I completely disagree with both the premise and conclusion of this blog post.

I'm a complete coding noob (http://www.7bks.com/blog/179001) and along the way to learning programming have relied on StackOverflow for about 10 questions.

For every single one I have received complete, thorough, helpful and patient answers. In short, I could not be happier with SO. As a beginner it's been a phenomenal resource both for searching and for answering specific issues.

The post makes the point that newbies can't answer questions - and for me this is one of the reasons the quality of the site is so high. If you let anyone answer then you don't know how good quality the response is. As a beginner how am I to know if a given answer is correct?

Of course, any community site still has problems like this and SO is not immune to it but IMHO this is one of the ways they keep the quality bar higher than any other Q&A platform out there.
I think the idea is to build a community - in order to use SO as more than a Google scrape you need to put in some work and become involved. Then you are more likely to go back and add answers yourself - so you contribute to the collective.
The article mentions this on the second page at the bottom: http://www.linuxatemyram.com/play.html
$500M transacted on SecondMarket in Q4 2010
Don't forget the Lahman Baseball Database with information from 1871-2010

http://baseball1.com/statistics/
Rich people have a vested interest in maintaining public goods (roads, police, military), but such goods comprise a minority of the government.

Most government spending is simply taking money from some people and giving it to other people. This is explicitly not in the interests of the rich.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/year2009_US.html
I agree. The iPad size allows me to, more or less, read web pages and standard pdf documents even with my old eyes.

7" must be a sweet spot for some people that don't need to read documents and want a screen larger than a mobile phone -- but still need the difference in portability.

But I doubt it is a large niche.
"someone who uses the site casually but who has useful things to say." will quickly get a lot more than 50 karma, so it doesn't really work against them at all.
Wired UK Tries To Creep Out Readers With Invasive Personalized Covers
Here's some more links to data sets:

http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/03/open-data-pointers.html

http://www.datawrangling.com/some-datasets-available-on-the-...

http://del.icio.us/pskomoroch/dataset

http://infochimps.com/collections/datamob (and the other collections on the site)

http://www.data.gov/
Microsoft: 'We do not copy Google's results'
That's troubling. I'd be very interested in seeing a response from Google about this. Are you aware of any? Also, can you use Fiddler to inspect the content of the requests? I'm not familiar with the tool.
Even Matt's allegation is softened by "I believe" here: there appears to be nothing that conclusively indicates Bing is solely targeting Google. For example, the observed behaviour could be a side-effect of a generic algorithm to extract and associate search queries with a user's click stream, which is only a minor variant of what Google itself does with its own toolbar.

If the case described above were true, then all Google has done here is to make inconclusive accusations and use the occasion to highlight its own dominance over search.

It seems to me this is just a cheap and slightly seedy PR stunt.
the beauty of jqtouch is that it doesn't pigeon hole you into any development techniques, so with a bit of careful planning your site will degrade well by just disabling the js and css. it's just html. while unsupported browsers may not get the best experience, they still get an experience (which is still more than you can say for native apps).
This paragraph: 'But what do you call memory that is both used for something and available for applications? You would call that "free", but Linux calls it "used".' is IMO the best way I've ever seen of explaining the issue. It also reveals the solution: call it free! It is free, after all. Nobody cares about how much free ram is cache unless they are doing something really specific, in which case they should be passing specific flags, or using a specific tool, to report it.

Unfortunately there is no chance Linux will do this, as the relevant reporting tools are too entrenched (and with good reason).
That's precisely the catalyst. The ISPs have finally figured out that their high-profit communications and video 'features' are going to be destroyed by IP alternatives and they'll become dumb commodity pipes. So they're trying to jack up the price of bits to compensate.
Theres some duplication between the server side (Ruby) and client side (JS) models.
This whole article complains about something simple. Web development sucks, but not because of form validations, it sucks because of IE. But that's another story.

> Services must be adapted to spit out JSON data for interpretation and rendering client side, or have their view code refactored to be accesible by fragment for use in AJAX calls.

It must be real hard to call your JSON encode function on your data set, that would make it 1 line longer. :)

> A radical departure from the jQuery mindset of DOM querying and manipulation, and use a UI kit instead. We aren’t in Kansas any more folks, its time to go where every other platform has gone and use the language to its fullest.

People wouldn't query the DOM if that wasn't the most effective way of getting stuff done. jQuery has a UI kit, it's called jQuery UI. And how is using jQuery equals to not using JavaScript to the fullest?

> The DOM should become an implementation detail which is touched as little as possible, and developers should work with virtual, extendable view classes as they do in Cocoa,QtGui, or Swing.

The author said "using JavaScript to the fullest" and now the author tells us to create "extendable view classes" in JavaScript. JavaScript is a prototypical language, you can't use it to the "fullest" if you force OOP on it.

> If we want to build desktop class applications we need to adopt the similar and proven paradigms from the desktop world. Sproutcore, Cappucino, Uki, and Qooxdoo have realized this and applied these successfully.

"proven paradigms" is a ridiculous term by itself in software development, putting it in web development context just makes it dumber. If desktop apps are so good, then how come web apps are still around?
There is a reason why people still prefer jQuery over many of those.

Overall I feel this article is highly biased and the author doesn't really understand web development. The author's complaint's are invalid because the stuff that he is missing are already around.
Ask HN: Do I need to reincorporate when I move?
If a business is registered in one state, and the owner of the LLC moves to another state, does the LLC need to be reestablished in the new state?
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes"> solves 2) - you do have to bookmark first though...
That works for already established connections, but how does that work for new connections from unknown remote hosts?
Depends on your propensity to consume all your in the short term. If you aren't too worried about quality of housing and want to maximise the amount of freedom you can enjoy on holiday then living (relatively) cheaply and working at high rates is a sensible strategy. If you can't live in LA for less than $23000 per annum and prefer to spend your cash on nights out on the town, the lower costs of living in some cities will be more important to you than the wage differential, especially given tax bracket advantages.

There's also the option of working remotely, but then you'd know better than me about that anyway...