skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My mom used to have a power cleaning hour when I was growing up and that house was spotless! I can see how this kind of focused attention is great for getting through things that are a bit annoying to do.

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I for one would not want to associate myself with Russian wealth regardless of how squeaky clean Yuri or his firm might potentially be. On that latter point, I would try to conduct extensive due diligence on them and their investors. It strikes me, however, that there are too many potential skeletons in the closet when it comes to Russian wealth that even the best of due diligence may not reveal. I would just want to stay away from any possible connections with ill-gotten wealth of the sort that is widely known to have occurred in post-Soviet Russia. I am not willing to sacrifice my principles or reputation for the sake of business -- nor would I want to directly or indirectly benefit shady characters or associate myself with potential ill-gotten wealth that could be very difficult to detect when entering into such a relationship.
We've been doing some version of this for about a month, but now I feel like it's time to step it up! Good advice in here!
Exactly, if there are loopholes is because politicians had put them in.

Every single politician have their own interest, like the politician that come from states when there many porks, and add loopholes so their local community, families and friends benefit from them.

Here in Spain, all politicians on charge, even those that favor increasing taxes(socialist and communist) pay 0%tax income rate over an already inflated salary because they added a loophole for them.
I used to agree with you, the "old" IRC nets are full of rude, mean and cruel people. But FreeNode is an excellent place for programming. I have the most experience in the python, haskell and freebsd channels and the people there are excellent, responsive and friendly. The C/C++ and Java channels attract slightly more grumpy people, but even those are generally quite helpful if you try and act with a modicum of sense (if you are on HN you probably exceed the requirements by far).

EDIT: Incidentally, freenode is also the home of the unofficial HN IRC channel (#startups).
Java and C are the most common staples, and at lower-grade schools potentially the only languages.
Classic question, classic answer. Buy SICP and learn Scheme. You probably will never build any "production" software with it, but you will learn a solid base for the rest of your carreer.
Once you graduated you will have learned no language mastery, just how to to think like a programmer... If that is what you want

Which, honestly, isn't necessarily a bad thing. If you know how to think, and you have experience with a language that's at least something like what you want to learn, you can pick up almost anything quickly.
We started with Scheme, then in the second year C++ and some Common Lisp. Later Smalltalk. You learned Java on your own, which is near trivial if you know C++ and Scheme.
On the flip side, it really makes little sense to learn a language that is useless for what you want to do. If what you really want to do is program a microcontroller, it is my opinion that PHP or Python would be a very poor choice in first languages.
HFT - How to Build a Fast Limit Order Book
What are Google thinking: Part 2
Mammoth list of the best Android apps of all time
Everyone in Iraq kept a gun home, yet they never had a realistic chance against Saddam. As gun proponents like to imply, it's people not guns who do the shooting.
So...they couldn't afford to play music videos BUT they could afford all the money it would've cost in production of thousands of hours of tv and all the costs involved? Seems like a bit of revisionism is going on here...
Depending on how things go in the next few weeks, and how much the police there have invested in high volume paper shredders, I wouldn't envy the position those "plain clothed police" are likely to find themselves in shortly.
That makes sense, but theres still the problem that, even if you have 3 in a row that you think have a higher probability of occurring in the hidden part, they can still be X or O, not necessarily winning. Maybe theres a statistical edge in knowing that, but I doubt that would give you an edge of 90%.

Also, that seems to indicate the issue is due to the overall structure of the problem of choosing numbers for a game like this, while I got the sense from the article that the problem was more due to the algorithm the company used to control winners and losers (maybe I'm wrong on that). If it is due to how the company controls wins in some way, I could see how observing 3 in a row of singles more often than expected by a random distribution (whatever the distribution is for choice of number and choice of spot on the board) is a giveaway to some nonrandomness introduced by their algorithm. But if you were to approach it by finding divergences from this distribution, wouldn't you need a lot of tickets before you could infer this?

In any case - any guess on the expected number of tickets you'd have to have to discover a flaw like this?
Why Wikileaks got nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
I sometimes describe something as 'insightful' when it fundamentally changes my point of view or long-held beliefs.

But why do we need to fundamentally shake someone's core behavior or worldview? By definition, most startup ideas are not gamechangers. They're merely modest solutions that require a lot of hard work to produce.

I do agree that if you arrive at an unexpected psychological insight, you have an opportunity to change culture and create massive value. But that would be an unrealistic expectation for every startup to fulfill.
An interesting view on ISP download caps in Canada
As long as the number of ifs, loops, etc was small, the length of the function did not hurt maintainability.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity
Google should make their own toolbar that continually sends random bad data back to bing to screw up their results. I'd install it.
Why is Google so hysterically hypocritical about Bing using its public data?
Forward Internet Group in London, UK: http://www.forward.co.uk

We're a young entrepreneurial company that bootstrapped its way from its founder bedroom to a 150-strong company with very healthy profits in 6 years without any external capital.

We are behind uswitch.com, getinvisiblehand.com, omio.com, justcages.co.uk, petvillas.co.uk, forward3d.co.uk etc.
You can take a look at who we are and what we do at http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk.

One of our guys created statefulapp.com during the recent Rails Rumble (been on the frontpage of HN), many others contribute to open source.

We have been doubling our revenues every single year (up to £118m in 2010) and plan to continue to expand. So, we need great people!

We're looking for great developers (and many other roles too) to work on a variety of exciting online projects. We use Clojure, Ruby, Hadoop, Node.js, Sinatra etc.

Above all we're looking for smart, ambitious, entrepreneurial people. Full job spec is here: http://www.forward.co.uk/careers or here: http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk/

And it's fun to work here: you choose the hardware you want, you buy the books you need, the hours are flexible, no dress code, free classes (language, music and even poker), the people are reasonable and the entertainment budget is generous: for example the entire company hangs out in Las Vegas night clubs and casinos for 4 days every December and we've recently returned from Disneyland in Paris (birthday celebrations).

To find out more email me at evgeny.shadchnev@forward.co.uk with your CV.

p.s. sorry, all our devs are on-site, we don't hire remote devs. Also, given the recent changes to the immigration laws in the UK, it will be very challenging (maybe even impossible) for us to arrange a visa unless you're an EU national or already have a work permit.
(Presuming you want to learn programming for it's own sake, rather than work towards some specific goal that requires code)
To scrape, wouldn't Microsoft need to be following up to the followed clicks by sending a search query to Google? If that was happening, I'm pretty sure that Google would have said so.
Your specific implementation of an IDE might be dead. But the concept of an IDE and the use of IDEs lives on.
Agreed. That ambiguity is why Google's PR response makes sense.
While this is not completely Black and White, one thing which favours Bing is that a user has clicked on a search result which is determined using his own intelligence.

Google has assisted the user with that action. Bing is only correlating these two individual actions(search and click) by the user, to get some additional signals.
They definitely used results from Google.

They use results for terms users entered to Google to crawl pages that are not in their index (torsorophy example which is not an artificial one) therefore enriching their index based on google's results, incresing their depth.

As for ranking, it is more blurry, but When you record users clicks, which directly correlates with ranking, it starts stinking.
Great stuff here. Reminds me of high school when we had 15 minutes of "free write" in writing classes . We were instructed to just write for 15 minutes straight - anything that comes to mind. Some of my prized work came out of those sessions. Great advice!!!!
> It's not on snopes yet, but it seems unlikely that Fox's cartographers would be that incompetent (especially since they probably buy their map imagery from a third party)

Not really. There have been a number of instances of that from US domestic news services in the last ~10 years (Czech Republic labelled as Switzerland, Spain labelled as France, …).
It's a good idea to make sure that you write a certain amount each week (both for personal brand and startup brand).

I personally find that there are some days where I am incredibly driven to write, with the words brimming over in my head, and other days where I don't feel that at all - so I usually wait for the overwhelming urge to come instead of forcing it at a particular time, as I think that makes the writing easier and better. But then, there are some weeks where it never comes.

Perhaps there's some happy medium which both allows for creative spontaneity but ensures consistent weekly output.
Single founders what free tools do you use?
Im thinking of making a few free tools that are helpful for startups over at http://www.founderspeak.com

Question is

1) do you think its a good idea (yes / no)
2) what tools would you want? simplest needs please as i am doing this for fun at the moment to help others

Thanks

Phil
BitTorrent search engine
BTDigg is the real-time search engine and it helps to find the most relevant and the most popular content in the DHT network, showing the results as the magnetic links (SHA-1 hashes) and doesn't give any direct links.
People aren't saying they're going to build an iPhone-killer out of this.

They're saying it's a good platform for messing around and prototyping wacky ideas, ideas which might end up with potentially for being turned into real products (with 'real' production values, technology, supply chains, etc.)

Of course people aren't going to write a couple of programs and then sell an 8-bit microcontroller off the shelf, but as a platform for experimentation - that's what it's good for.
If you are not very traveled in Asia I recommend Singapore, everybody speaks English, the food is terrific, the weather is warm, and have a nice tech scene. I really like Philippines, a easy going and down to earth people. Good food, not as good as the Thai or Indian cuisine.

I know much better South and Central America. I recommend you Colombia (Cartagena de Indias is quite popular among Americans, but I prefer other places) and Costa Rica.

(Disclosure I am from Spain, but I haven't been there for ages).

Spain is also a great place to live. Very easy going people, lots of expats in South Spain, Barcelona Madrid or Bilbao. An world class food experience, extremely 'Fiesta' oriented and vibrant culture. In cities like Granada or Malaga a share flat with two people can cost around $250. From Malaga using Ryan Air and other low cost companies you can fly almost to anywhere in Europe for around $50-$70. You can also try to emulate Hemingway and be a bull runner in Pamplona.

Dont forget about Mexico!
I looked at the site, and I see some data but I didn't find what I would have hoped for. I couldn't find yield curves, and historical exchange rates <i> up to <i/> today (available on the ecb site in xml format). Certainly I would have thought yield curves were a front page item.

Things that would be very cool would be 1. financial statements in a database format. I know you can scrape this but I don't know if they are available legitimately?
2. Historial Implied volatilities and historical observed volatilities.
Clearly, I don't know swedish copyright law either. "Not a lawyer" is the default on the internet, right?
Wednesday + Thursday O'Reilly Strataconf keynotes video-streamed free
Schedule:

Wednesday, February 2nd

8:45am - 9:00am Opening Welcome Edd Dumbill, Alistair Croll

9:00am - 9:10am What Data Tells Us Hilary Mason

9:10am - 9:25am Privacy and Big Behavioral Data in the B2B Space James Powell

9:25am - 9:35am The Mythology of Big Data Mark Madsen

9:35am - 9:50am Data Without Limits Werner Vogels

9:50am - 10:00am Data Everywhere: There Ought to Be a Marketplace for It Zane Adam

10:00am - 10:10am Delivering Big Data: A Conversation with Mike Olson and Rod Smith Abhishek Mehta, Mike Olson, Rod Smith

Thursday, February 3rd

8:45am - 8:50am Opening Welcome - Day 2 Alistair Croll, Edd Dumbill

8:50am - 9:00am Free Our Data: How We Made Sense of Huge Datasets Simon Rogers

9:00am - 9:15am Posthumans, Big Data and New Interfaces Alistair Croll, Toby Segaran, Amber Case, Bradford Cross

9:15am - 9:25am Why Legacy Databases Can't Survive the Data Deluge - It's About Dollars and Sense Ed Boyajian

9:25am - 9:35am The Heat Death of the Data Warehouse Barry Devlin

9:35am - 9:45am Innovating Data Teams DJ Patil

9:45am - 9:55am Your Data Rules the World Scott Yara

9:55am - 10:10am Can Big Data Fix Healthcare? Carol McCall
No-one pays the list price. At least, no-one I ever worked with paid the list price and I've worked with a lot of companies that use Oracle.
It's not like a single youtube IP is going to stream data to more than 2^16 clients - the whole thing is heavily clustered and distributed, after all.

Yes, this may become an issue in the future.
Flickr's main competition isn't with services that have feature parity with them, it's more with the growing list of free image sharing sites. Imgur, twitpic, facebook, picassa web, even dropbox. Flickr's value add is rapidly becoming smaller and smaller, which could very easily undermine their business model.
On eve of 'The Daily' launch, rival iPad apps offer previews
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Really? It seemed quite fair to me, everybody paying the exact same share of his pie to Uncle Sam.

I find much more morally questionable that today some pay up to 50% while others under 10%...
I'm going to break the rules here and answer two languages.

First, you should learn one of the easy dynamic languages. This means Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Lua, Clojure. I think Ruby is a good choice because it has a lot of cool concepts built in to the core language that the others lack, and so it can be a foundation for learning many different styles of programming -- it does this, in my opinion, better than Python, and has a nicer syntax than Perl. _why's poignant guide to ruby is a bit outdated but still a pretty awesome and cool introduction.

http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/

Second, and this might come as a shock, some form of basic assembler. I recommend LC-3 assembler. And the main reason here is that a decent understanding of the memory model is going to help you a lot when it comes to dealing with pointers, complex data structures, or anything, really. You'll probably never write a program longer than 100 lines in LC-3, but the short things you do write will give you a deeper understanding of your code everywhere else.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LC-3

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072467509/student_vie...

There may actually be a newer "learning assembler"-styled language out there, but I am not aware of it. LC-3 is showing its age, but it was great when I learned to program, and I learned as much programming for three months in LC-3 as two years prior in Java.

That said, you should definitely familiarize yourself with control structures prior to jumping into assembler or you could break your brain.
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This is pretty awful. I have some sympathy for the support staff though, if their tooling allows them to irreversibly delete someones account (and it's history) they need better tooling. The realisation that they just deleted someones 5 year old Pro account and 4,000 photos... oh shiiiiii
Google makes money out of being the #1 search engine. Concurrence from others is one thing. Concurrence from someone stealing your source code (open source or not) is a whole different story. That should be reason enough, in my humble opinion.
Even more foresight, "The State"...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_State_%28TV_series%29

No mention of MTV2, either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV2
Welfare seems to be keeping USA from following Egypt with over 35 million Americans on food stamps [0]. Would you still call it profoundly evil?

[0] http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-11-02-food-stamps_N...
Temperature is a property of a system, not a single particle. Temperatures of absolute zero are considered impossible to produce because maintaining absolute zero requires a system with zero energy entering.
I read half of this. Its late, and I don't have the time or energy to refute point by point every single wrong thing that is written in that half.

Its easy to sum up. Yes, Google indexes hundreds of millions of sites. It does so in order for other people to be able to search and find those sites, which is important to their owners. Its a symbiotic relationship, not theft of intellectual property.

Google has spent billions of dollars in manpower and physical capacity in order to be able to do that. Also, each and every one of those sites can very easily say "don't index me" with a simple robot.txt file on their site. Some do, most don't, because most sites find it valuable for Google to index them.

Meanwhile, Microsoft is trying to compete in the same space as Google. They are also spending lots of money and manpower to build their search engine. But, by using Google's search results to improve their own product, they are acting as a parasite. Google gets no benefit from Microsoft using their data.

So to sum up my own summary: Google is a mass symbiote, Microsoft is a parasite.
This is starting to get interesting.

Google makes money aggregating other people's content. What happens when people aggregate Google's content? What's fair?
The release of Snooki's book caused so great a disruption to the universe that a closed timelike curve formed in spacetime, preserving causality relative to any reference point within it but causing such seeming paradoxes as cause preceding effect when observed from a separate worldline. Thus MTV's flight from music in the 90s was in response to the rising prominence of Vevo.
What about 'The Head'?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Head
Salesforce acquires Manymoon
While I agree that actual and direct comparisons would be very nice and useful, I feel the need to provide some constructive criticism of your post.

Windows -- Yuck

Some people like Windows. They develop on Windows. When they want things deployed, they might prefer a server-architecture which they already have intimate knowledge of, rather than some Linuxy thing which does have its different set of rough edges.

IIS -- Seriously? ... IIS maintenance across servers, but do they beat good ol' text config files?

IIS has since IIS7 had all its configuration in text/XML-files. While .NET on IIS5-6 only allowed you to move some settings from IIS metabase to an actual config-file in the site-root, IIS7 and newer allow pretty much complete configuration of any relevant setting, either trough this file or trough applicationHost.config.

Both are text-files. I'm forced to question how long it has been since you messed around with IIS.

C# -- Mixed feelings

C# as a language, while (IMO) not complete is still a very powerful, rich and expressive language. It does have its lackings, but you are writing your Windows/IIS hosted websites in .NET code and may as you please use any other .NET language.

Personally I'm getting more and more fond of F#, although I admit I haven't used it for web-development yet.

While your criticism about lack of direct comparisons is valid, the rest of your post reeks of a anti-Windows sentiment which has little basis in merit and entirely in preference. I'm surprised your comment is so highly upvoted.
Hmm. It might just be me, but I get the feeling that they aren't exactly fans of Google?!
The manymoon blog regarding the acquisition- http://blog.manymoon.com/2011/02/01/manymoon-acquired-by-sal...