skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.kdnuggets.com/datasets/index.html

http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/

http://datamob.org/
DC Metro area.
no, the "strike rate" is precision/recall. Good advertising CTRs is a side-effect of relevancy. Relevancy is measured by precision and recall.

edit to expand: If the measure by which a search engine evaluated itself was advertising revenues, they'd all have massive intrusive adverts, and no users. The only viable measure can be the quality of the search results themselves. As a happy coincidence, if you build something capable of delivering high quality results, you can very easily use that to produce highly relevant adverts. Imagine that each advert is like a little webpage, and rank them just the same as you do for normal webpages. (caveat: there's no link graph for adverts, so we're reduced to using a simpler text mining approach, eg bag of words vector space la-di-da).
We used to use Solve360 but we use Bantam Live now too. Solve360 is actually a very powerful CRM platform/toolkit but the non-technical people didn't really grok it. Bantam Live has some warts but it provides a lot of functionality without making many compromises. Second that it is worth checking out.
I think the Dutch Sandwich is something like - you move all the money to Netherlands, so no tax in the rest of Europe (common market) then to a Dutch owned off-shore tax haven like the Dutch Antilles - so you pay no tax in the Netherlands either.
More importantly, regardless of whether they said small or smooth, the fact that they didn't give a number or at least a ballpark number (e.g. 'more than 1.5 mil") for the sell-out is indicative of sales not being all that good.
But they really need a way to vote up comments, because there are a lot of them, it'd be nice to have the gems float to the top...
There are two frameworks that come close to this, both of them are rarely mentioned and I am not really sure why other than the fact that they aren't "sexy".

First is SmartClient:

http://www.smartclient.com/

SmartClient has the best databinding support I've seen in a JS lib. Binding is automatic between server and client, between controls, and validation code can be written once. It also has the richest UI control library I've seen, full of controls that actually work and aren't just a shiny layer over simple code.

Second up is OpenLaszlo:

http://www.openlaszlo.org/

OpenLaszlo provides a much more raw layer for creating UX on the web, similar to the OP's complaints about not having a UIKit like API. Additionally, it provides a declarative language for laying out controls, and also provides expression binding, so you can say "the width of this element is always 2x the height of this other one" and the binding and event handlers are created automatically. Its declarative language is XML, so there are some nice homiconic properties you get by making it possible to return XML from a web service to generate UI elements. As a bonus, it can generate Flash or DHTML.

Edit: Of course, both of these frameworks have their downsides. They're horribly ugly to look at (out of the box.) The declarative language for SmartClient is really ugly Javascript, and the language for Laszlo is really ugly XML.

However, they've solved the hard problems and left the "easy" ones. They're both open source. If someone were to come along and clean up some of the syntax and add some real polish to either of these, I think they'd really be remarkable technologies.
Girl Talk and why your company should give away something for free
The 2015 Banking Crisis Begins in Commodities
Not quite. In his comment posted at 31 January 2011 09:44:16PM, he explains:

I'm presenting what happens by default in both options, not one optimized and one non-optimized option. What you discovered here is that, the plan to save money in the outback is robust and succeeds by default, while the plan to save money in the US is fragile and fails by default.
I can't agree with this more. I was a bit of an outcast at my school and I still had the time of my life. I played in a few bands, went to a lot of shows, worked at the college radio station, took classes in philosophy, writing and photography and got a degree in Comp Sci. I would argue that the non-programming experiences are just as valuable to someone starting their own company.
Maybe not, but there were a lot of people needlessly going bonkers over the disk light blinking (SuperFetch) and free memory numbers in the task manager(exactly the same problem that the referenced site is trying to explain).

See http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/09/why-does-vista-use-...
If you read the article and other comments here it's been made perfectly clear that the Google toolbar and Chrome browser are not sending similar data back to Google.
Google gathers lots of user data on 3rd party websites via services such as (to name a few):
- Google analytics (opted in for data sharing)
- Chrome
- Google toolbar

@Matt Cutts - I'd love it if you could confirm exactly which user data you DO and DO NOT use to influence rankings. Or, at the very least say on record that you don't do what Bing are doing and use data from bing.com

Overall, I'm not surprised that Bing are doing this for some keywords - all the major search engines use a massive number of different signals. I'll be more surprised if it turns out this is happening at a large scale or for competitive terms.
> [An ISP-level] NAT router will have to handle large numbers of connections simultaneously, to the point that it will run out of port numbers. Ports numbers are only 16 bits, after all.

That's only if you track NAT by <my_port> only; just use <my_addr>,<my_port>,<remote_host> instead (Windows tracks ports only, but everything else seems to get it right).

Of course, big routers are still expensive, and the other issues are quite real.
Boxee misses January 2011 Netflix launch
Bing copying Google's search results is just evil. Not like copying Apple's iPhone design and user interface and giving it away to Apple's competitors, which is good. Right?

It's ugly and immoral and probably legal. Good job catching Microsoft at it (and I think the really really unethical and scary bit is that Microsoft is cheerfully stealing info from users via their browser). I also realize that Google got where it is in Search by innovation and iteration, and that Google's search team has nothing to do with Android per se, but you might see how Apple people feel about the business empires built on stealing their ideas.
From the main article link I clicked through to the forum thread[1] where the tester posted his benchmarks. There's more than one there as he progressively tested different compilers and different setups; I looked at the first 2-3.

[1] http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?29090-CompilerDeat...
Mozilla's Do Not Track header appears in nightly builds, does nothing
Someone should create another joke programming language, where the only tokens are double-quotes, the words "like" and "dude" and basic punctuation marks like comma, period, question mark and exclamation mark. Capitals could be significant and denote the beginning of a statement. Maybe another keyword: "and-i-was"
An Overlooked Source of Partnership Opportunities
I don't really agree here.. While I do have my own gripes with Stack Overflow, I don't think this is the biggest issue. It took me two days of casual browsing/asking/answering to get a reputation of about 50 or so and another few weeks to get into the hundreds. -- Keep in mind I'm not a super genius expert or anything, I just asked a few questions and contributed a few answers in areas I was knowledgeable about. It's not that hard.

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.
Publicly announcing my weaknesses as a developer
IIRC the Bell cap is 25GB/month with $2/GB after that.
Dependency Injection != using a DI container
I've never seen stackoverflow as a race to get the most rep possible. Reputation is just a "bonus", not a prerequisite to participate in the website. I like stackoverflow the way it is
Personally I haven't gotten involved in SO precisely because of this. I don't feel the prize is worth the amount of effort that I'd put into playing the game.

However, plenty of people do feel that it's worth it, and certainly the barrier to entry keeps out (some of) the griefers that inevitably show up in online communities.
For me ThinkPad is the product that represents IBM best to public - the "Think" in the logo, the feeling at the fingertips when you type, the timeless design, the trackpoint. There was also OS/2 but IBM blew it up badly.

Now that ThinkPad belongs to Lenovo I am wondering if IBM will ever come up with a product used by masses? Because other than this IBM is not visible any more to end users.
Depending on the space it is in, I know someone who would be interested. My email is in my profile.
Rerun button for HN & Reddit
How to Land an Internship at a Top Tier Software Company
No it's not. That's absurd. A clicked search result is a successful product. Bing is taking note of a competitors successful product and using that information in it's own decisions on the products (serps) it produces for it's users.

This is a bunch of microsoft haters making hay over nothing at all. Quit whining. It's not theft, it's not any more privacy-offensive than anything Google does, get over it.
I love that you don't try to correct queries. I hate when Google auto-corrects my query and I need to click another link to get to my actual query. Thanks for that!
This makes a lot of sense, and would have be easy enough for Google to test as well, creating some tiny, brand new, never before heard of test search engine that Bing would have no reason to copy, see if the same thing happened.
I bought a Mac Mini and returned it last year. If it had cost 1/2 as much, I wouldn't have returned it. It just didn't do enough for me to justify the price. If something turns out to be worth less to you than (the return value - time and irritation cost of doing the return), you return it.
The reason there is no problem with the iphone 4 antenna is not that it is impossible to obscure the signal or cause signal loss, but because the new design pulls in signals better-- over all-- than the previous design. The issues you can cause it to have exist on other phones as well.

It is a better design than previous versions, yet people seem to think there is a defect that makes it worse.

I don't doubt there may be better phones out there, and as you note the results will vary by location, and I'd add, carrier.
Horrible analogy. This isn't a test. This is a product.
We engineers really blew it with Y2K. Now when real shit goes down, people think we cry wolf.
My comment wasn't meant to reference whether it was wrong or right, just the logistics of what is happening.
Got any good examples? Looks much better to me.
Is there a chance this panel is being recorded? I'd love to be a fly on that wall :)
Well yeah, but the comparisons here are not just shipping the drive.

The original one is shipping an SSD and binning it at the destination, and this one is taking the plane with your drives and binning them when you're done.
Lawsuit claims AT&T cheats iPhone, iPad owners by inflating data transfers
The rate was raised to $100,000 in 1980. Adjusting for inflation from 1980 to current, the $100,000 would be worth $275,000 by today's standards. The move to $250,000 was overdue.

The prior rates are irrelevant to my point. See www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/banking/2000dec/brv13n2_1.pdf for discussion of historical FDIC rates, and the reasoning behind them.
My favorite thing about this is Jason Fried's response to a troll in the comments.

Troll - "Disappointment"

Jason - "Good morning to you as well."

I've been studying his responses to customer feedback, both positive and negative, for a while now and have learned a lot. Just read his tweets for a lesson in great customer service.
TECHRec
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Interesting idea. I was trying to think how you'd implement this. "Rerun" would be a nice signal for repeat content, but there's also value in trying to understand of what it's a repeat and group those items together -- for example, the way Goog does story collections on Google News.
I didn't read that as 'the company will pay them even if they explicitly don't want to be paid'. I read it as, 'the company will attempt to make contact and pay them even if they haven't yet signed up.'
I think of it more like a micropayment system and I like the idea. It's not like I can't continue to use readability (or Safari's built in add-on), but this sets up a system to subscribe to content with some value added. I understand your point that people might only use it for sites they use readability for, but I think it could also be used like instapaper, a way of getting your reading in one place the way you want it. You're probably right that there should be some incentive for sites that "play by the rules."

The move to all online content is actually a bit disturbing to me because, as a librarian, I see print magazines go under and leave libraries out in the cold in terms of getting the content to users. Paywalls are designed for individuals, not institutions. I hope the "one subscription" model might catch on as there's a way to include institutions in that mix.
I'm looking for some part time LAMP developers who are well versed in github. See my profile for my contact info.
I did not say "similar data" because "similar" is a bit too slippery a word in a technical context. There's too much plausible deniablity. What I am asking is if Google's tools send data back to Googleplex to be mined for the sake of search engine improvements.
"but you quickly realize that every question that’s not some vague, poorly worded, open ended impossibility has already got 10 answers"

Exactly :) Stackoverflow has built-in breaks to control growth. Maybe HN could benefit from this ;)
Oops, sorry. Found the link elsewhere in this thread!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2165861
"Rep grinds" (see how MMO-speak has influenced us?) on non-gaming web sites may be becoming the norm. You grind out some rep, and get privileges based on that rep. One can argue that this serves as an effective barrier to keep out would-be posters of bad content and discussion, but as we can see it also screws with "legit" posters. Determined individuals will figure out how to work the game to their advantage, both for good and bad.
Profitable companies have usually figured out that it's better to buy a solution that solves their problem rather than: (a) pay for engineer time to integrate a solution that isn't quite right, (b) take the opportunity cost hit while waiting for (a) to be done. These costs can pretty quickly dwarf the purchase costs of licenses and hardware. Of course if there's a free solution that just slots right in, double bonus, but for the most part the cost of hardware/software is noise next to the cost of people to maintain it.
Actually it is a test, and how well you answer it is directly responsible to how your business will or won't succeed.

Google has worked out their algorithms for processing the incoming data and generating an answer. Bing has apparently used Google's answer as a comparison to whether they are getting it right or not and when not, subbing in the other answer.

While in business this may not be illegal, is it still very much 'Not knowing the correct answer to the test'.
Oracle and AWS
The thing is StackOverflow really really works. If I search Google for a programming query I nearly always find links to useful information on SO, if not the precise answer.

(I've even found my own answers via Google when I have forgotten how to do something)

That is SO's first and foremost use case. And I reiterate - it works extremely well.

The community features are secondary to that (it's not Quora), and there are thousands of users who will tell you that it is not 'impossible' to use.
But we're going to have to live with the consequences, which include running dual stacks for a transition period that, he thinks, could easily take ten years.

I have a hard time imagining that happen. What I think would happen in such a situation is that some $newcoolsite will for some reason or an other run only on IPv6 and all the cool kids in the block will make sure to upgrade their equipment to be able to use it or even pressuring their ISPs if they're not IPv6-ready.

After all, even windows XP supports IPv6 with the right service pack, if I recall correctly. I think all the equipment I own is IPv6-ready, if not yet IPv6-enabled.

As for the domestic routers that only support IPv4, aren't most of those only there to do NAT in the first place?

10 years is a hell of a long time in internet time.
I think that the idea of giving away something for free as a business plan will only work in music and other verticals which do not require you to provide support for the something. This has been a key point in the recent articles on the pitfalls of Freemium.
Digital pen and paper out of the Blu
It's definitely true that there are a lot of people waiting for new questions so they can pounce with a quick answer and get a few upvotes. However, there's also a large backlog of unanswered questions as well (http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered) that are very much in need of a "thoughtful, correctly documented" answer. And while it's unfortunate that legitimate brand-new users are unable to post comments, the reason behind the rep threshold was to reduce spam on the site. Commenting requires 50 reputation, or about 5 upvotes on an answer/10 upvotes on a question (both of which can be easily accomplished in an hour or two) - just high enough to deter spam.
Is Stack Overflow a game in which the goal is to get the most reputation and badges?

Or are you using it as a tool to discover solutions to programming problems?

Or Both?
And as an added data point: living in silicon valley isn't much more expensive either. You can rent an apartment for 1400 [1]. State income taxes are a bit higher, but you'll also spend a lot less on gas :). Otherwise it's pretty similar (unless you want to live in the swanky parts of PA)

[1] http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/apa/pen?query=&srchTy...
Online video sceptic Mark Cuban invests in web video company Revision3
Nsasoft SpotAuditor 4.0.7
I think this would be probably great in the mind of the original person asking this question..until society starts raising children in a way that's against their core beliefs.

The direct democracy would be interesting too, because it would make it very easy for groups like churches to sway the votes.

I would also like to add that if society decides how a child is raised, it also get to decide who gets to have children.
The best in my opinion to protect yourself is to have a great relationship with the partner. Meet with them regularly, listen to their concerns, share your concerns, yada, yada. There is really no protection against a bad partner that doesn't involve legal bills either upfront writing up a completely protective contract (which will spook other side anyways) or when disputing with them and needing to bring in the lawyers once things go south. The best prevention is to choose partners wisely and bring any concerns up quickly. You aren't going to have great partners 100% of the time, but if you can get to 80% of the time that saves a ton of stress, hassle and money
So what? Is it a scandal that Walmart and Target both send employees into each others stores and actively monitor prices on items? It's called being competitive, and to be competitive you have to at least match what your competitor is doing, then beat them.
No. The hourly cost (which is still TBD) gives you access to a licensed copy of Oracle. You will be able to acquire an hour of database use if that's all you need.
I don't think Android devices being similar in some ways to the iPhone is even remotely analogous to what Bing is doing here. One is called healthy competition (and I don't see how Android is copying iOS). The other is literally just copying data.
Is rep important enough to warrant a blog post complaining you cant get enough?

Man, money is too hard to get. I wish this damned CEO wasn't getting a 600k salary + bonuses. Blog post upcoming.
> This is Bell.

No, that's been Bell forever, but following the CRTC's last decision any carrier using Bell's network will be forced into those prices, because Bell can now apply usage-based billing on their wholesale customers.
It's embarrassing for Google to complain about this. You FINALLY get a little competition on your turf and you try to make some big issue that, as a market leader, the product you produce is being watched, analyzed and in some ways incorporated by your competitor.

There is no victim here. They are not taking your 1st result and copying it. They are taking the result the user clicked. Obviously you didn't predict that with your algorithm or you'd have always made that the 1st result. Instead, what they're tracking is user behavior, not your raw ranking.

Obviously users give Google implicit permission to track their behavior by using your product. And similarly, by installing the Bing toolbar, they're giving Bing that permission.

This is beneath you Matt and it's beneath Google.
Because JSON can include floating-point numbers. If you pass { foo: 2.2250738585072012e-308 } to any JSON service, I'd expect it to invoke Double.parseDouble(...) as part of its input processing, and trip over the bug. This would probably occur before any type checking of the input, and thus would probably work even for a service which does not expect floating-point inputs.
Ask HN: Subscription or Micropayments
New HN account as I don't want to risk competitors tracking my asking this question.

I run a mildly successful niche website with a strong audience, for which the plan has always been to proceed from ad based content to subscription based.

Originally I had planned to go micropayments because of the competitors in the niche who follow a subscription model, they use straight up subscription. I thought micropayments would differentiate me and be a welcome option.

The more research and reading I do I am coming to feel that micropayments would be worse and that I should simply follow a subscription model.

Does anyone have input? Are there any compelling reasons to go micropayments?
I was considering putting up a kickstarter project to get one, let it roll around outside and allocate usage time among the participants. But at $15000 it would be quite costly for the contributors, around $6 to get a weekly control minute allocated to you.
Supposed change in Apple policy has e-book fans worried about their apps
That would be a nice way of testing it.

edit: I'm not even sure if it's only search engines that are being analysed by Bing or all pages, but it's possible that it is just SEs - they could be capturing query terms distinctly.
This reminds me of how geopoliticians wrote about the closure of uncolonized spaces around the turn of the last century. The Turner thesis looked at the effect of the open frontier on America and speculated in the political and economic consequences of the exhaustion of 'free' land. Halford Mackinder noted the closure of the final pieces of colonizable land and argued that conflicts between major powers would increase now that the safety valve of expansion was lost.

Now that 'cyberspace' is facing the closure of free 'space' we are seeing similar arguments being put forward about the economic changes that we will face in the new political-economy of a closed Internet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Thesis
Smartphone Stats Fascinating, Important, and Not the Whole Story