skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't the Ars Technica headline sounds too sensationalistic?

I'd like to be the guy from The Neutral Planet and sit this one out until it sorts itself out.
Sure, the question is how you differentiate those actions. Some one typed in [x] and then clicked [y] could certainly be generic, but that would be a massive amount of data to crunch and would require a significant amount of congruency to be enough to modify the Bing algorithm.

How would it differentiate between a form submission and a search? And if it's not and still sending all of that data back to MS, that's far more disconcerting than them just watching me on Google.

It's certainly more believable that the sites were either targeted or were extracted from massive amounts of data for this purpose.
Maybe they should use the piracy prevention method of old games.

"In the last paragraph of the linked article, name the person quoted."
So, in summary, we've made counting on computers so complex that we're still failing to get it right. Similarly to how we've made the alphabet (unicode) on computers so complex that most programs are still trying to get that right.
The information on Stack Overflow is fantastic, but I just don't want to be a leach. And contributing something useful is challenging. Maybe I just don't have anything wonderful enough to say.
http://www.nyc.gov/simplicity works!
Are we trying to make HN like digg or something? maybe a little restraint could help.

"Look! That Hacker picked his nose!"
Agreed. This title is quite obviously biased. I don't see a reason not to use the linked content's title as the title for submission.
Apple's official response:

"We are now requiring that if an app offers customers the ability to purchase books outside of the app, that the same option is also available to customers from within the app with in-app purchase."

It's talking about purchasing from inside the app, not access content that you purchased somewhere else.
Do you have weekly stand up nights featuring the CEO?
In my experience, validation logic is either trivially represented by a struct (could be a json structure, which is easily shared) or requires some form of I/O. In the latter case, it is usually easier to just handle this on the server side. On the former case, I agree that a simple validation library has yet to emerge as the One True Way to Validate.
It takes a few clicks just to find out the technical details of how it does things, as soon as I clicked on the "solutions" tab chrome alerted me that the page contained some elements that were insecure and turned the https text in the location bar red, and every URL on the site includes "admin" as the first directory. Doesn't instill much confidence for a security firm.
Xeround | DBaaS vs. DaaS vs. Cloud Storage – What’s the difference?
In Xeround's latest blog post, Razi Sharir discusses the differences between cloud storage, such as Amazon S3 or Dropbox, cloud data-services, and DBaaS (database as a service).
You're too kind - there's nothing new, here.
I now have zero faith in our financial sector. How can you justify making investment decisions based on the "mood" of the market which is discovered by data mining Twitter? The "mood" of the market only shows you where the market has been, not where the market is going. Any previous information showing that the Twitter mood reflects the market, is causation without correlation.
> When the experiment was ready, about 20 Google engineers were told to run the test queries from laptops at home

An interesting side-effect is that Bing has in its logs the home IPs of the Googlers involved in this research (i.e., anyone who searched for "hiybbprqag" in Dec. '10).
I downvoted you for being sarcastic, and because I was discouraged by the tone you used in this SO comment:

Gordon, you downvoted my answer and left a misleading comment because you
assumed that a user wouldn't edit the textarea? For shame. Your solution is
not "pure CSS" but rather uses PHP to duplicate a textarea and then
hopes that the user doesn't its content before printing.

Please chill out, dude. There is absolutely no reason for a discussion involving Javascript and print stylesheets to require usage of the term "For shame."

To phrase it differently: Try to avoid being the guy from this Xkcd. http://xkcd.com/386/
As always, buried under the platform hate and apologists from both sides, the answer probably lies somewhere in the middle.
In some states, the lottery accounts for more than 5 percent of education funding.

Am I the only one who finds this ironic?

Edit: Except, of course, for those who learn to predict 19 of 20 tickets correctly.
That actually isn't correct: the bulk of jobs for foreigners are in factories. Assuming we scope this to "licit jobs a middle class American would actually consider doing", illiteracy is about as big a barrier to gainful professional employment as one would expect. The exceptions are English teaching, service work at particular bars/etc, and doing weddings as a fake minister (orders of magnitude rarer than teaching).

In particular, so help me, I was ready to kill interviewees at a Japanese megacorp who expected to be placed as engineers despite total inability to read a design document or discuss technical topics. ("No! It is not kawaii that you cannot describe what the black boarded algorithm does in Japanese. No! Knowing the word "kawaii" is not worth points on your application.")
I can make no possible reading of the App Store guidelines that results in this policy - it's clearly new. I guess if Google can't make the Android App Store attractive to developers, Apple sure can. Surely, this cannot be "official" policy, or if it is, it can't be one that lasts more than a couple of weeks. It's not one of those geek-annoying App restrictions that 99% of the iOS target market wouldn't care about even if they knew it - this one affects every end user, and you can bet will be widely publicised by every non-Apple tablet maker.

Realistically, three things can happen to people with App under this policy. Take, e.g., Kindle.

1) They withdraw the Kindle application
2) The add In-App purchasing
3) The add In-App purchasing, but with a 30% price hike

Frankly, 2 is very unlikely - 30% is probably their entire profit margin on the sale. 3 is possible, but makes every Android tablet look vastly better to new purchasers ("The same apps from iOS, but with content 30% cheaper!). 1 is also quite possible - they just EOL it and say "For future Amazon purchases, please grab a Kindle or Android tablet), thus showing a huge chunk of Apples target market a big banner for the competition.

I suppose there's another alternative: that this becomes one of the annoying "Not for big player" rules that they just have a sub-rosa agreement with B & N/Amazon to never enforce. That in itself is pretty underhand.

Overall, my favoured interpretation is this is a re-run of the "Nothing but Objective C Apps in the Store" debacle. Masses of bad press, a dent in developer confidence, and a rescinded policy within a month or two. Apple really are their own worst enemy with this stuff.
While it may seem like just a gaming aspect, there are a lot of benefits as you gain more reputation on the site. Unlike many "points systems", SE actually allows you to become essentially a moderator of the site as you gain reputation. Once you've hit a certain mark you can edit, close, delete, etc. I think it's brilliant.
Inaccurate. “If certain users have Googled obscure keywords, results may subsequently appear in Bing for that keyword” is all the experiments showed. Bing is NOT fetching Google queries on its own.
In the hypothetical situation above, it has almost nothing to do with the search engine - it is both the user providing the query and selecting the result: this is the data of value, not which intermediary provided the list of results to select from.
Great panel session. One of the best I've seen. I think you made your point, although I think MS did a good job neutralizing it too.

My question for you Matt... is there any way for Google to build a toolbar that effectively does what the Bing toolbar does (or even a joint one?). I jump to use the various search engines because no single search engine is sufficient. But clearly when Google isn't sufficient, you don't get the value of when I go to Bing. And vice-versa (as I don't use the Bing toolbar currently, but that may change now). Or do you feel that with 65% of the market, you don't need this info?
AFAIK Amazon uses kind of a loophole by directing the user to their site in Safari to buy Kindle books (that's how it was explained to me, i don't own an iPad or used the app). I don't see what's not ridiculous about Apple's desire to receive 30% of that money. And I as a (potential) user don't appreciate it as I'll end up paying for Apple's cut.
Only thing I could find is this: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=57527

and this: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=60422
Do they have a competitor whose angle is customer-powered support? I don't know anything about this business, but this sounds like a response to a competitor.
Non-Free Google data:

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=...

This data set, contributed by Google Inc., contains English word n-grams and their observed frequency counts.
What’s the Internet? – Hilarious Video of NBC’s The Today Show in 1994
By 6 people, do you mean 6 developers? If so - the market rate, at $166,667 annual per developer, is extraordinarily higher than I thought. That seems a bit pricey for a developer working at a scrappy startup.
Stack Overflow is a wiki — that's part of its design. If you're so attached to your words that this pains you, then a wiki site really isn't a good fit for you. But that's a matter of your personal idiosyncrasies, not a problem with Stack Overflow.

But just to be clear: When somebody edits your post, it's noted on the post and anybody who's curious can click to see what they changed. They are not "putting words in your mouth." They are cleaning up the question so it is more useful to others (and will get you better answers as a bonus).
Sorry about that. I've checked now. I even up voted your answer because it deserves at least one up vote. But I would say that perhaps your overall SO experience would be better if your comments on SO were less abrasive. Your answer might have been "right" based on your assumptions (i.e. the user has JavaScript enable in the browser) but it might not have been right if some other assumptions were made.
Box.net CEO: Honeycomb will put Android tablets on top in enterprise
I find Greplin to be one of the most interesting YC companies. Can you tell us anything about your tech stack?
U.S. Seize (Spanish) File-Sharing Site That's Declared Legal in Spain
The forum thread on page 3[1] however reads:

side-by-side comparisons do however indicate that Clang performed as good or better than ICC or GCC when -O2 is used!

And through the link by yread you can see that clang really performs very well overall.

[1]: http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?29090-CompilerDeat...
Check "Do Not Track" Settings for Firefox 4
If the issue is that Apple wants 30% of all eBook sales for anything that can be viewed on the platform, that's really scummy and an abuse of standards.

If instead, they just want to make sure that if you can buy it on a Kindle/whatever and read it on the iPhone that you can also BUY it from the iPhone in the first place, not such a big deal.

There seems to be some confusion on this issue.
Exactly, they could just observe what user clicks after search (on any search engine, including Bing) and use it as a signal.

If that is indeed the case, then they are not copying results from Google, they are just tracking users' choices to improve position of interesting results on Bing. Personally, I don't see anything wrong about that.

Keep in mind that in Google's experiment, they always clicked on the first result, which is probably why their result was send to Microsoft and that the experiment "succeeded".
I'm hoping there's more to this than meets the eye right now. Sadly, I suspect we won't know until Thursday.

I can think of a couple of scenarios that might fit what we know so far:

1) Apple might simply declare that they want 30% of all in-app purchases. Amazon will likely freak out. This, to me, would seem to be a seriously dangerous move on Apple's part.

2) Apple may drop the 30% cut entirely on in-app purchases. That'd be pretty disruptive but aside from adding a technical hoop to jump through for content providers to link content with Apple's in-app purchasing system, I don't think they would be quite so upset about it since they wouldn't really be losing money on each transaction. Of course this is still pretty harsh on Apple's part, IMO, but it's better than #1.

3) Apple simply requires developers to link purchased digital content with an Apple ID via the in-app purchasing system, but not necessarily requiring that Apple be used for the actual money transfer itself. The purpose of this would likely be to ensure that purchased digital goods are always linked to an Apple ID - even if they were purchased externally. If that's the case, then this is much less of a big deal, IMO, and a huge win for users. For instance, if you restored your device, you could be assured that all your digital content you bought via the Kindle app itself would be restored with a single tap - no need to login to Amazon again or anything like that. Thus Apple can help better ensure that the user will actually get their content back when the device restores which is required of all other in-app purchased content using the in-app purchase API.
I've seen it used in JavaScript for compression before, on the same theory as one of those installers that starts off by unpacking itself. That's not as important now that everything gzips.

I've also used it myself on occasion in quick-and-dirty scripts, but never in production code. It's just too easy to make a small mistake and blow your security wide open.
The Future of the Internet (OFC/NFOEC)
How long till I have to pay Apple 30% for ordering a pizza using an iPhone? How long till I have 30% premium to pay for shopping online using a mac computer?
Or just rename "free" to "wasted". I usually tell people the free number indicates how much RAM they paid for but aren't using.
> HN wouldn't accept a comment listing all the successful JS frameworks that use class based inheritance because it would be too long.

That certainly doesn't mean that class-based ones are the most successful.

> Your understanding of web development may be amiss, how the tables have turned! Web apps are around because of the delivery mechanism: the web. Not because they offer astounding experiences compared to a hypothetical desktop counterpart, but because cloud storage and scaling, always on availability, and browser ubiquity can be leveraged by users for great gains. Web application developers constantly struggle to provide the "native" experience while leveraging all the benefits of the web, but its hard, hence the post.

The browser would be long dead if it wasn't for JavaScript.

> an extraordinary tool

Agreed.

> you and I both use religiously

There is no religion on my part, it simply gets the job done, and allows me to focus on architecting my application instead of DOM bugs.

> However, I have found that its hard to scale up a large complex client side app using only jQuery, and I and seemingly many other feel the need for more structured frameworks to leverage in that domain. Do you disagree?

This is not a yes or no question, it depends on what's the problem, as I said in another comment, it's really easy to fix your dual validation problem, by writing a small micro framework, if there isn't one out there yet. It has become really easy to bridge the server and the client. You could abstract away any problem, but you shouldn't get too carried away with hierarchies, JavaScript is a semi-interpreted language and as I said, it's more function and prototypical than object(class) oriented .I agree that web development is hard, but as I said earlier, it's hard because of archaic browsers.
This article tries to sensationalize and obfuscate something that is pretty simple in reality.

RGB are the primaries in light. By mixing these three colors you can create any color the human vision system can perceive (yes, because of tristimulus).

When white light hits a material, some of those RGB wavelengths are absorbed (subtracted). RGB - GB(Cyan) = Red, RGB - RG(Yellow) = Blue, RGB - RB(Magenta) = Green. Thus, Cyan, Magenta and Yellow act as primaries (colors from which you can construct any visible color) for materials that absorb, not emit light.

The forth primary in print media, Black, is simply added because inks are imperfect and a mix of CMY inks yields a kind of murky black (plus it wastes ink).

It's a historical simplification to say that "red, yellow and blue" are the primaries for paint, the red works like a magenta, the blue works like a cyan. They sell Cyan/Yellow/Magenta primaries for oil/acrylics and if you paint with these you'll get a brighter, wider palette but you can get there with a traditional palette by adding whites and other pigments.

The tone of the article is awful. The opening sentence, "Ask any artist..." is flatly untrue, this stuff is basic for most visual artists (I first learned about the CMY primaries in a community ed. Painting I class). It's not that the article is factually wrong, it's just basic stuff presented as if it were obscure or clever.

None of this makes the color wheel or any other color theory any less valid. The "four color" wheel he lists at the end is not wrong, it's just silly: you could pick any points on the wheel and their opposites and have the same thing.
Q&A with SV Angel's David Lee, on the controversial Start Fund
That's why I try to avoid StackOverflow as much as possible when I can ask my question on a smaller StackExchange site such as http://askubuntu.com or http://programmers.stackexchange.com. The quality of answers on smaller SE sites is usually 10x higher.
I liked the old site A LOT better. This one seems slightly amateurish and too artsy. Why a big blue hue on everything? This isn't art class, and we don't need to see their creative side.

Show me a cute monkey, show me emails.... Don't drown me in blue!

I'm looking at the site on a 1680X1050 display, and I cannot see WHAT the site is about... It did not occur to me to scroll down, because it seems to "end" at the fold, what with the boxes that typically precede the footer being there and all. No one looking at the site will have any clue what MailChimp is or does. Their logo doesn't appear above the fold, the word "email" doesn't even appear above the fold! I don't know what they think they did!
It is great to admit but this is also good lesson for developers... you should always blame yourselves first; I have heard lots of funny stories over the years.

1.) I think there is an issue with the compiler :)
2.) The Java Classloader is broken :)
3.) Git is broken :)

My response -> "I will think of a million things it could possibly be on my way to your desk of those; the compiler, the classloader and git won't even be in the list"

3.) It doesn't work in IE 6...

Well ok, I guess the browser is the one area where blaming something else might be appropriate.

If after looking through all the possibilities that could be a reason for it not being your fault, stand up get a coffee and look at it again.
Submitted lots of times. Here are a few:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2156163

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2157322

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2159550

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2161820

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2163105

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2163466

Currently no comments on any of them.
That problem could occur in other scenarios, and not particularly tied to web development.
I must have missed something as a seven-year-old, because this is the first I've heard that blue and yellow were supposed to be opposites. To me, it always made sense that blue and orange were opposites, both conceptually and visually. The same with purple and yellow.
good point, i forgot about the factory work. although, thats the case for most first world countries, really.

i imagine there's a good bit of fanboy culture creep in any job that allows foreign applications. does a megacorp software position not require N1?
Valid, but asking questions is hard to do consistently. I've only ever asked questions if I've been unable to deal with a problem. Answering questions is something I can do on my own time because it's fun. Answering questions is what draws me to the Stack Overflow community.

The way I view it it's just a particularity of the way Stack Overflow has been set up. I think cletus is correct - rep cannot be your goal or you're bound to get frustrated as the OP found out.
We're going to be sending out beta invites starting today - so sign up on the front page if you're interested.
Duplicates, but with no discussion :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2166461

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2166456

Related:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1192132

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1181208
Tell HN: My half-joking unbounce page is going viral
I made an unbounce page for an idea I had and it is blowing up. I thought the idea was humorous in nature, but I thought that it might get some traction.

In any event, it is going viral now. Everyone signing up for it knows that it is supposed to be a humorous site, but that it will be transformed into a real business if enough people sign up. It started going viral about 40 minutes ago and I have over 60 people signed up, more than 1 per minute and about 2000 visitors.

There arn't many technical challenges, only one real one that I can think of, and it doesn't even need to be in the MVP.

I have my own full time startup about a month away from full time launch, and I don't want to lose focus, but I definitely want to see this built and would like to be involved in some small way. Does anyone want to take this startup on?

The site is www.crtcrazy.com (also www.crtcrazy.com/1 as a page I was going to split test, but Unbounce makes split testing pages you've set up difficult and I like the root one better anyways).
The thing that will really blow your mind is are there things that are red, or a group of things that have a common appearance that our minds just label "red." And what if what if the signals that reach my brain when I view "red" are shifted one to the left on the color wheel? The gradual perception of color change would be perceived but we would be looking at different colors even though we both agree that it is "Red."
Thanks for that feedback. Great point. I'll try to keep it in mind.
> I often just turn swap off entirely.

And you're smart to do so. Swap is useless for 99% of end-user systems. ChromeOS doesn't use any swap partition, for instance.

As for hibernation, it's not available if you use a crypted swap, which is wise to use (at least on a laptop).

As a result, I, too, disabled swap completely.
My favourite line in the whole article was about the way he alerted the lottery board:

"The package was sent at 10 am. Two hours later, he received a call from Zufelt. Srivastava had correctly predicted 19 out of the 20 tickets. The next day, the tic-tac-toe game was pulled from stores."

I know that we're supposed to be fascinated by the statistical work done cracking the code, but my real sympathy is for the head of security that received that package. How do you react in such a situation?

As an aside, the statistician seems really cool too - it's a very forthright interview and the article's much better than I expected. Both the statistician and the author seem to be very surprised by the lack of concern shown for the apparent evidence of security breaches. This, of course, has a direct analogue with the way large multi-nationals treat computer security. I was only surprised to get to the end of the article and not find that the statistician had been threatened with prosecution or similar.