skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Path's name itself reveals the nature of their choice. Getting bought out is the end of their startup story, the conclusion of their "path". While the choice is apparently absurd, it at least stays true to their company's core values.
The sad observation is that Path simply isn't a valuable enough product to create a great story unless they undergo massive pivots. So it begs the question as to the motive, is this anything more than a silicon valley ego contest? Parker was fictionalized in The Social Network, Fanning wasn't.
Perhaps the purpose of the choice is to put themselves on a path to fame by creating not a groundbreaking product but a breath taking story, the path they blaze.
Metagames: Games about Games
Poetry Needs To Be Discovered To Be Loved
Editor of Gizable here, we launched today, and it's awesome to be on the first page of Hacker News our first day!

We pronounce it Giz-ah-bull, but this is the internet, I suppose you could pronounce it however you wanted.
God Startupcraft looks soo awesome, almost considering flying to USA to attend :P
If you're planning on running a business: The E-Myth Revisited, Michael Gerber.

If you don't have your own shit togethor productivity wise: Getting Things Done, David Allen.

This: http://managinghumans.com/ might be what you're after in terms of Engineering/Development management
No, fans of Fight Club on Facebook are much less conformist than other people on Facebook.

If you actually read the article and came to this conclusion then either I'm a bad writer or you're a bad reader.
Who the heck is interoperabilitybridges.com?
Well it was about common annoyances. Now it's mostly about the annoyances in social interactions.
Never mind. Seems like I forgot to transition that Google Apps domain to the new style of Google accounts.
The original Starcraft (Broodwar) is much more enjoyable to watch, though SC2 may be more interesting to play.
They also spend their money making videos like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzMhh8zhTiY

He really looks like he's having fun.
"...the Bing toolbar is effectively a search indexer which does not respect robots.txt..."

maybe i don't understand, but your logic seems correct until the above statement.

suppose you had a system that only used clickstream data. so you store a big list of url pairs (A,B) and a probability that B will follow A. i believe that your argument relies on the fact that it's possible for this system to violate a robots.txt file and i don't yet see it.
It's not like being the players and participating in tournaments is such a hard gig. They are often sponsored by various technology or clothing companies and get to do what they really enjoy. The casters also get to do what they enjoy but they serve a much larger audience of people that fall between casual and professional player so that's one of the reasons they make more money.
Renaming Speed to Speedkills: Getting People to Slow Down
Yes, but from what other relevant search engine would them copy that?

ps: FYI, Google does record the clickstream within their own search results.
Great response. Googling around led me to order this book on the matter:
"Mining The Sky: Untold Riches From The Asteroids, Comets, And Planets"

It's a bit old but looks interesting...sadly not available on Kindle.

http://www.amazon.com/Mining-Sky-Untold-Asteroids-Planets/dp...
Cheating is not a major issue. I follow StarCraft and have never heard of an instance of actual cheating. Match throwing to earn money on betting against yourself was a major scandal 2 seasons ago though.
Good luck on your launch!
In pro gaming not so much. What I mean here is "casual" pro gaming. This is a big issue in FPS games. Smaller player driven leagues have a hard time weeding out cheaters in games like counterstrike and other fps's. This leads into the other point as well. Football is just jammed down peoples throats so much that even watching TV/movies you probably got a decent understanding of it. Without casual pro gaming it is hard to gain interest in e-sports at a high level.
+ Cassandra :)
I'm about 80% in the "Nothing fishy here" camp on this issue, but you have pointed out the 20% very well right here.

Obviously they won't explain the first one, just as Google won't explain the specifics of why StackOverflow scrapers sometimes outrank StackOverflow, and for good reason. Explaining the specifics of the mechanism would open it wide to spammers.

The second? Yeah, that's the million-dollar question. They should answer that. Definitely. It touches on the smelliest thing about the issue. If I had a search engine (I don't), and I wanted to copy Google's results (I wouldn't), and I had the ability to collect user click data, I could use that click data to create plausible deniability for the copying. This is exactly the sort of thing Microsoft has done in the past on other issues.

The third? It's certainly relevant, but I doubt Google would be willing to tell me how its results would be different if it didn't use a specific metric.
I think this is pretty cool! Full disclosure, though: I'm definitely a Microsoft apologist.

That said, I've been thinking for the past few years that we're really going to start seeing more things like this from MS. Open Source & Apple aren't exactly "eating MS' lunch" but they are garnering significant market share. Microsoft can really win big if they start playing nice with other's services.
It may in fact be possible to have programming talent that doesn't involve the web.
That depends partly on what you are writing. For academic writing I agree, take the time to get it right. But for writing for the market, especially as advice to amateurs, I like Heinlein's advice, "Never rewrite except to editorial direction." Market writers need to get their work out there where editors can see it, or they can't sell it. And amateurs have a notoriously hard time bringing themselves to stop tweaking and start trying to sell it.
Internships are changing the landscape of labor where unemployment is still high. In today's economy, an internship is one of the most direct ways to gain access to ANY MARKET YOU WANT TO LEARN ABOUT. More and more undergrads are realizing this (and it's not just for those who are beefing up their resume). More grad students and mid-career folks are also realizing this. Employers are getting it.

Yes, perhaps YOU didn't get that job. But YOU can probably get that internship. Which LEADS to that job.

Sites such as InternMatch get that idea. They make this process easier for those of us who are searching. They seem to care about the search process and they keep it simple and personalized.

Keep up the good work InternMatch!
>Thus, before any real money can be made (for players and distributors/producers) elements of american sports need to be echoed: big money backers (owners), betting, and a more structured and and centralized league system.
>The problem is e-sports is still so immature for the above three things, both technically (cheating is a major issue) and in popularity (e-sports has yet to prove exiting to the uninformed spectator).

Just to be clear, you're talking about the west right. In Korea these things are all already in place. Huge sponsors throwing huge events, salaried teams making a lot of money, a large spectator community, 2 tv channels, proleague.
One more thing:

> "filled with dread, suspicion and an instinctual need to take a piss"

To take the piss, not a piss:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_the_piss
> Now that we have confirmation that Bing uses clickstream data on sites that they do not control, I'm surprised that no one mentioned this makes them sensitive to click-fraud.

I would expect that they know this. The question is how susceptible does it make them? The clickstream is just one of something like a thousand factors that go into the ranking. Perhaps on any real page, it would take more fake clicks than a fraudster can generate to make a worthwhile difference.

Keep in mind that Google was experimenting with pages for which Bing had no information other than the clickstream, so the clickstream made a big difference there.
Cassandra was most of why I included "+Java" ;)
haven't read that article yet, but my point is that if Google is acting as a payment gateway, they should probably provide some means to verify purchases with the server, not tell you to obfuscate your code to prevent people from reverse engineering the keys and algorithms.
Of course search engines don't like to reveal algorithms and weighting details, it would be a gold mine for rival and the SEO riggers. Why should Bing release such critical information to Google for 8/100 search queries?
Thanks. We're doing our best!
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for a much larger example, see Microsoft flirting with Yahoo before they bought out bing. It will be rather a long time before Yahoo is again worth as much as Microsoft was willing to pay.
Get well soon

Hospitals suck...but at least you caught it before there were any major complications
Very true, but there's a difference between showing your customers a product and not listening to them. I agree that the first step is pretty scary, esp if you're an introverted engineer who'd rather hide in a cave and code, but the main problem seems to be that when founders do solicit feedback, they'll hear what they want to hear, i.e. focus on the positive feedback and underweigh the negative. This supports a continued delusion that their product is as loved by others as it is by them.
Ada was the first language I learned properly, 1996 first year Computer Science. It was the last year that they taught Ada as the starter language at that University, they moved to Java after that.
His points translate more or less directly to nuclear fission - Uranium-fueled light water reactors are the result of another "hill-climbing process" and other reactor designs (HTGR, LFTR, etc.) receive almost no commercial attention, in large part due to the regulatory, accounting, and insurance burden of proof that any new design has to meet.
Any power given to the government is something to worry about. Any power given will eventually be used, and not always the way we thought it would when we gave it.
>I always want to smack people who complain about his stories' content and ending situations

Then smack away, because the end of Anathem sucked ass.
You can just do a bulk import.

So download your aweber list csv and then just upload it to mailchimp.

The only problem is that autoresponders don't seem to work for old users unless you do a dirty hack
The analogy to music distributors is a little off.

The SC2 replay casters are adding significant value to the content, in addition to sifting through what content is worthy of casting. They need to know where in the map to pan the camera, explain what is going on, decide which parts to fast-forward and pause, and probably many other nuances experienced SC2 players enjoy.

Casters are doing 2-3 jobs in one: pick one or two interesting replays each day out of many submitted, do all the work of a sports commentator, and then do all the work of a video editor (for non-live casts).

In other words, even if I knew a replay was a good one to watch, I'd prefer to watch it casted. On the other hand, a great song or a great sports game is probably fine on its own, but rarely a raw movie reel.
On chronic illness lists, inpatient hospital stays sometimes get referred to like it is a prison sentence. Hope you get sprung soon.
He probably learned the spelling based upon the old video game. I wouldn't fault him for that.
That sucks. Get better, Andrew!
BASIC, from a book, around 1978-9. This was several years before I ever actually saw or used a computer, because my dad was convinced it would be worth learning. Turns out he was right!
The real value of this is in the integration of unsubscribe lists and reporting on opens, CTRs, bounce rates etc... well played!
Im still very confused by instagram. What do they do that others dont? They announced a partnership with foursquare to provide photos to checkins a month ago. So you now need two apps to do what facebook does natively? And then you realize that less than 2 million people use these apps as opposed to the 600 million that use facebook?

I know that silicon valley has gone crazy for instagram, I guess I just dont see the need for a company that simply adds "filters" to your photos (of course only those taken on an iphone).

What happens when Apple says, "hey this filter thing is really cool, lets add it to our camera app" (just like they did with HDR)
How to Write a Better Weblog
ChromeOS: Demolab
Good luck Andrew. Hopefully it's nothing and you're back in action ASAP.
It was already "debunked" on reddit that reddit helped Ted Williams. [citation needed, but I'm too tired atm]
That's how their licensing verification stuff works. The problem is that someone could copy your app's code (the .APK file) and alter it to not communicate with the server, or ignore its response. There's nothing the licensing code or library can do once it the attacker has gone in and disabled it; their main suggested defense, for now, is obfuscating the code so that alteration is hard to do.
The top caster (H to the husky, husky) has a lambo and wasn't rich prior to casting esports.
But it's not Machinima... it's just a broadcast of their product being used exactly as it is intended. Wouldn't that be like a baseball bat manufacturer telling someone to take videos of their Little League game off of YouTube?
a general tokenizer might do the job.
With both games, I am a novice at best; but I'd be interested to hear why you find SC:BW more interesting to spectate.
New SF Muni Shelters Feature 4G WiFi hotspots.
I'm more inclined to have casters in their own category instead of players vs. distributors. As leelin mentioned, casters add their own value by adding spit and polish to the games, which increases the reach on the games itself.
Distribution platforms tend to not have any hands in the content but benefit more from getting a good "flow" of content through their network.
As for monetization though, in every industry, there are outliers in each category that make a lot more money but in general, (successful) distribution platforms generate the most nominal revenues and frequently the people adding polish don't. The more skill/polish added though, the higher the premium it seems.
I was really hoping this was cheap mechanical slave labor.
Gizz (as in gizzard) or Guys?
What's in store for local social media campaigns in 2011?
Here's the actual NASA press release: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/new_planetary_...
That's pretty hilarious considering it forces geo-location-based language localization on me, despite my google account being set to ENGLISH. Can't count the number of times that a google product has spit a local language UI back at me despite being logged in.
The massive amounts of resources in space are, of course, a plus... but I mostly like it for the long-term survival of the human race.

Setting up self-sustaining human presences in colonies on other planets/moons makes it vastly less likely that some random asteroid that we didn't see coming will wipe us all out. (Other potential disaster scenarios involve superviruses, grey goo, that giant volcano under Yellowstone, and so forth.)
OmniAuth:  Let users log to Rails apps in from Facebook, Twitter, Github, etc.
Is chat still not working in HTTPS for others?
Are you claiming that they made the queries without actually making the queries? Reread the first line of my algorithm: once you identify a query Q as more than just a one-off mistake—whether it's an actual new item or a common misspelling or, maybe, a trap—then you decide it's worth looking into.

Put another way, it's impossible not to clue Bing in on at least the fact that you are making these searches.
Actually, I think it's a bit strange that this isn't the case with conventional sports. When it comes right down to it, what makes sports interesting is less the absolute skill of the competitors and rather the relative skill. So a high school match is no less interesting than a professional match.

There's obviously a part of everyone that believes skill should be rewarded, but really what sports spectators are looking for is entertainment value - and completely unskilled players are just as capable of creating something entertaining to watch as skilled players.

Distributors on the other hand are judged precisely by how entertaining the product they deliver is, so their skill and effort should have a much more obvious correlation to their earnings. It therefore makes sense that it's more profitable than playing, since only specific people are any good at turning games into an entertaining mass-market product.
It's a pretty big deal in high-level sports, too. Ask Jose Canseco (the baseball player who most famously used steroids), Bill Belichick (the infamous American football locker-room videotaper), and He Kexin (the almost-certainly-underage Chinese gymnast from 2008).
But it's the perfect way to circumvent robots.txt! With enough users the law of large numbers applies (and how many hundreds of millions of users are using IE?) so you can a.s. copy Google's index.

In particular, you copy the most popular results, so if you weight the % of google's index that you copied, then it's going to be a huge number, and almost for free.

It's evil. But devilishly smart.
Ask HN: Automation. What you use, and how it does.
What types of tasks do you automate? How? and what do you use(websites, tools, applications)?

What kinds tasks you make your Virtual Assistant do? Where you found them?

Even processes you've setup to make work easier, such as content building.
I just bought one from a Radio Shack in Austin. They weren't on display yet, but they were in stock.

Signal: Pandora's streaming fine and I can browse the web as well as I'd expect to.

The phone itself: It comes with a little bit of bloatware, you'll probably want a bigger microSD card, and I don't know what the situation looks like for rooting the thing, but I'm tentatively considering it a solid value.
2 major hurdles:

-Competitive video games are very complex compared to sports

-Sequels come out every 2 years or so, making you have to relearn the rules

For example, do you understand what crazy thing happened here? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeM0rH_4ung
It's a great name... Social networks don't grow via SEO, but virally...
It's probably been beneficial to them, given the number of people who've identified vulnerabilities in the code then responsibly disclosed them. Reddit's never had a serious security breach, which is doubt due in large part to no sensitive information being linked to accounts, but also because they've had quite a few people point out potential problems to them.

There's a lot to be said for free code review.
Murdoch’s News Corp. Launches The Daily for Apple’s iPad
The contention you're making, and apparently Microsoft as well, is that the Bing toolbar is not a search indexer and does not need to obey the conventions of robots.txt?

Personally I don't think that flies. Should I be able to create a toolbar that rips the data from hulu.com and hosts it elsewhere?
I guess that means all our plans here in New Zealand are technically "unlimited"...

You know, the ones that give you X GB of traffic, after which you're throttled back to dial-up speeds.
Android 3.0 'Honeycomb' can encrypt all your data
A Fireside Chat with Guido van Rossum
All round nice guy. Get well soon Andrew.
He doesn't. At the end of Bainlings he says he doesn't even have the money to hire one.
Aren't those the same G sound?

Is it G as in Guy or G like Giovanni or Giselle (similar to a J sound)?
"L'État, c'est moi"

- Louis XIV
as he
I've depended on them (with Moneybookers backup) for about seven years now, with no problems once the original setup was all taken care of. I had slow but steady growth from just a few payers, though (translation agencies) - things would probably have gone differently had I had explosive growth of small amounts from a wide variety of payers.

Also: have a US bank and stick with it. If you leave the US, don't tell your bank! (I've had the same account since the 80's - it's gone through four banks now - and that might also be one factor in my looking stable.)

One of my agencies is a lady who did a round-the-world trip over two years, getting back a year ago. PayPal locked her payments - every time - while she was in Africa.
Yeah my first paid job was in dBase II on CP/M, aged 12.
Here are some examples:

1)Email, Newsletter, Updates: Mailchimp or aweber to manage several e-mail campaigns.

2)PPC Keyword Ad Grouping help: Wordtracker keyword grouping tool.

3)Content Creation Process: Outsource writer, have him send it to outsourced editor. These are for more complex jobs, but when I want simple writing jobs done quickly, I use tools like textbroker.com
Quick optimize of Ad groups on Adwords. Take each keyword's impression multiply by quality score, add all of them up, then divide them by ad group's total impressions to give you a good idea which ad groups need Quality Score Improvement. You can do this through excel by creating pivot tables.
Yours is the first explanation I've seen that makes any case for Microsoft not being intentionally cheating. All the responses I've seen from Microsoft are in the form "we're not copying Google we're just using user click information" which is poor since what Google showed is that they're associating click information with the search terms that were put into Google. But since those search terms are in the referrer URL it could conceivably be an innocent general algorithm weighing the words in the URL.

As for ignoring robots.txt, that may not be the case. Conceivably you could get the url A->B link, save the metadata for both, signaling them as related, and then check both URLs against robots.txt to see if you should have them in the index. Then if url A is ".../search?q=torsorophy" Google's robots.txt disallows it from being indexed and only url B gets in but the link to "torsorophy" is still there from the metadata.
Quick & Cheap Landing Pages: Unbounce.com. I could use more suggestions here. Attach these to my Google Adwords.

Quick Forms: Jotforms, or Wufoo. Have this mail me with submissions for quotes, newsletters, etc...
Having more people is a blessing and a curse. Same with having a tight nit group of people.

With more people, the pro is that there is more activity. With this, you have an effective mechanical turk of some sort since there are so many people to get help from and one of those people can be very useful. The con is that conversations are overloaded, so many try to post one liners to achieve top listing status in a thread. This discourages those with better experience and insight to make a comment since they have to spend a long time on a comment only to have it buried and ignored. The other con is that only pop submissions or submissions that take the least amount of time to consume (r/pics) have the most upmods. Take Hacker News. I remember when it was like reading a programmer's mailing list. Now with so many people, the most we can relate to are tech gossip.

With less people conversations are more focused and detailed. The con is you have to be lucky to have experienced individuals to provide better insight.

Still, don't quote me on this stuff. This is something a social scientist can explain better.

Nonetheless, complaining about the degradation of an online community isn't really something to get worked up about (and this is from a guy with a signed reddit bobble-head and a first issue reddit sticker). Entropy is a fact of nature. It's like a group of friends who had such a fun time together for a certain era then end up hating each other. Or like Forrest Gump who reminded me as a child that how your life is setup now isn't how it will always be. I cried when I saw that movie as a child for I knew my care-free childhood life was gonna be over anytime now and...shit, I just realized that happend.