skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Control" what? Where's the control for "gravity pulled the apple down" ?

It's called an existential proof. If you want to prove that a black swan exists, all you need is 1 example of a black swan.
Leaving the “cloud”
Ha, awesome! Nice to see all sorts of ideas around this space pop up. Love that companies have to give the subscribers something special to be featured.

(We submitted AlphaList, which doesn't do promotions and asks the e-mail list subscribers to give the founder feedback, ten days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2140672 )

If y'all need any help or have any questions, just let me know.
Hackers Gained Access to Nasdaq Systems
Tons of movies in your Netflix Que? What to watch? Qpicker can help.
Things to Never Say While Negotiating
It's ok- I'm taking the hits for you!!
They proved that Microsoft uses clickstream data to rank websites, and in 7% of manufactured cases that's all the data they have?

I think this is exactly as petty and silly as last week's news, and now they get to spend a week explaining how this occurred and that they do obey robots.txt.
I think we're targeting everyone who wants to learn!

If anything, I think that younger kids might have an easier time grasping some concepts than those who are older and might have to adjust their way of thinking. Kids have no baseline. All in all, my goal is to make these lessons as clear and easy to follow as possible for everybody.
An inspiring graduation speech.
I coded, a lot, on things just beyond my ability. IMO this is the path to success in anything: practicing, a lot, on something just beyond your current ability. It's not always the most fun though, because since it's just beyond your ability, it's hard and sometimes frustrating.
Shame on me for not reading that section in closer detail. The -t method of forwarding SSH through has a number of limitations, and isn't really the golden path for getting past gateway servers. What you instead want to do is add the following as a config option for the host you're trying to reach:

"ProxyCommand ssh <gateway_machine> nc %h %p"

You can do this by adding the above line in the relevant place in ~/.ssh/config, or on the command line like so:

ssh -o "ProxyCommand ssh <gateway_machine> nc %h %p" user@destination_machine
I think you missed the point of the analogy.

The "Miners" in this scenario are all the companies trying to cash in on the dot com boom. There are thousands of them, and only 14 are going to make it big.

Those thousands of companies will burn through tens of millions of consulting hours. Consider those hours to be picks, and hopefully you'll start to see what the analogy means.

If you sell 2000 hours of consulting this year, you're guaranteed to be ahead somewhere between 100k and 300k, depending on your rate. If you instead spend those hours building the next Twitter, chances are very good you'll end the year with nothing at all.

Just like 90% of the people who headed off to the Yukon with a shiny new pick in their hand.
Can you please put a link here?
> The idea that "things...are not up for debate" is the most profoundly anti-science (and anti-intellectual) thing that can be said. I have yet to meet a pro-vaccination person who was willing to talk about the actual science.

MMR doesn't cause autism, as was fairly obvious at the time and the now-settled science shows. Do you accept that, in this case, it is not true to say "those who are wary of vaccines are pretty well aware of the state of the science on the issue," and in fact those people were flat out wrong?

> their own health care choices,

We are talking about childhood vaccinations. I agree these are difficult moral and political issues, but you can't just quote the founding fathers and act like you've proved your point. Children do not make their own healthcare choices, their parents do, and society is more than happy to restrict the choices of both parents and children.

> politically correct

This is ridiculous dog-whistle. Please taboo it and use a phrase that describes what you mean in each case. It like "health and safety", to which I say: Do you object to having people not die in factory accidents or is it that you want the privilege of drinking polluted water?
Purification by Pain: A scientific study of guilt catharsis by self-torture
guy what are you looking for? they just launched, so there will be more features every week/month but they are focused on maintaining the simple clean intuitive design.

one thing i requested was to group stories from multiple feeds together
Start getting paid to do it. Once you have feedback coming in from customers who are your bread and butter, and you start trying to implement that feedback to keep them happy only to find your framework was ill thought out, you'll quickly learn to do things right from the start. Reading proper technique is useful, peer review is useful, but that first time you sit up all weekend revamping several core routines because you didn't plan well you'll learn more than the other two combined about not cutting corners. (edit: this also applies to learning to test properly too)

Disclaimer: the above comment may or may not be based on several moronic experiences the poster is too embarrassed to confess to over his 20-ish years in the 'biz'. Maybe.
I recall this from some years ago. I don't know whether it's original, piggy-backs someone else, or is a rip off -- or whether it's the site where I first saw this.

Anyway, the domain name sounds familiar, and these are some of the first O'Reilly parodies I saw.

http://www.bofhcam.org/co-larters/ [aka "oreally.com"]
A bold PR stunt like this might be a good gamble and get you the best return on the money.
It depends on whether you think you need to index the same fraction of web content over time. I think that's one of the unexamined principles of the search engine industry. Also, software costs are in some ways decreasing even faster than hardware costs because of open source infrastructure.

To go back to the Blekko example, I'd say it's pretty clear you couldn't build something like that with $10-15 MM (assuming they've gone through maybe half their funding) a few years ago.
It is. Only domain names are case-insensitive.

This document explains how Google handles robots.txt :
http://code.google.com/web/controlcrawlindex/docs/robots_txt...
Facebook Ads targeting people who are 'single', then offer those people free 'pro' upgrade if they refer 3 more of their facebook friends who are single (via a facebook share link).
I have read a bit about Crystal SAF, a static analysis framework for Eclipse from CMU:

http://code.google.com/p/crystalsaf/

What appealed to me was that it seemed to have a nice API against which one can write his own analyses. It exposes Java code at a granularity of control flow -- homogenization of for loops, while loops, etc. FindBugs works really well, and I use it on a reasonably large production codebase. However, extending it doesn't seem like much fun as one must express patterns in terms of Java bytecode! I tried using Crystal's built-in analyses on the same codebase upon which I use FindBugs, but it failed with an NPE.

Also, Soot from McGill (http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/soot/) seems worthy of consideration although the code is a bit creaky (it's dates back to at least 98, I think). It includes four different representations of Java code in various states between source code and byte code. Also, there are a lot of papers, theses, etc. which document various parts of the package.
I have a project at work that uses CouchDB & node.js, but it isn't hosted. I have Cloudant, CouchOne & no.de accounts, but haven't had enough free time to finish a side project to put them to good use.

Node & couch together are a pretty nice combo though, it's just JSON & JavaScript all the way. There is no context switching between programming languages like what is typical using Ruby or whatever for your application layer.

Been shoveling lots of ice & snow in my spare time instead :(
What makes a dating site work is having people who are going to chime with each other; you don't need mass-market hegemony. So, what you want is demographic similarity but little social intermixing – people drawn from similar, geographically close but socially-separate communities.

In other words you need a niche. I'd hit up – maybe even sponsor – something like book groups. (Pick a major metro and blanket it; that buys you the geographic proximity). Then, once you're rolling, use the success to knock over the surrounding geographies.
The guy featured in this photo looks suspiciously like the actor used in this Motorola Super Bowl advert preview[1].

Just a coincidence, or part of a viral campaign?

[1] http://www.edibleapple.com/motorola-teases-super-bowl-xoom-a...
"The Daily is actually all images on no text ..."

Well, you wouldn't want to risk customers stealing an article. Or a verb.

Gawd, you can almost hear Murdoch's bones turning to stone.
The original post of v0.01 Linux (by Linus Torvalds):

"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones."

He's referencing the project that became GNU/Hurd.

What I'm saying is that they've been working on it since the inception of Linux, and it's still not done yet.

(Found that post while working on a google summer of code project for Minix. I really really really want Hurd to come out because I'm pro-microkernels)
URL discovery is one thing; ranking that discovered URL at number 1 without any other signals is another. I don't think anyone cares that much about how Bing does URL discovery (unless, of course, the URL is supposed to be private and exchanged via email). Given that they have a new URL, what made them rank it #1?
The out-of-the-box Eclipse distro does include some static analysis stuff, but it's turned off by default. Preferences->Java->Compiler->Errors/Warnings. Under "Potential Programming Problems", you can alert on such things as guaranteed NPEs, etc.
100% of the photos that I've commissioned (including wedding photos) have their copyright assigned to me.
That is uncivil and inappropriate. You can't just push that on someone you don't even know, who obviously has a serious medical condition that they have had a lot of trouble dealing with. Walk in their shoes before you casually call them a killer.
Make it a concierge service. Manually match people and set them up on dates (maybe even pay for the dates). It's a lot more work but it's the only way to create incentives to join an empty dating site.
It's been awhile since I've had anything professionally taken, but previously I've never had any trouble finding a photographer unwilling to assign copyright with a bit of wrangling. I've never paid extra, but I have been quite adamant that I won't be paying at all without it.
> there is absolutly NO reason why bing should have linked to those documents

There is absolutely a reason. A user queried for a string, then followed a link. Biasing Bing's search results towards the followed links is a signal that improves their search.

> When students do this, it is called plagiarizing. The smoke getting thrown by MS is just to distract and divert while they scramble to hide what they did.

When I took exams, I wasn't allowed to consult with fellow students, read the internet, or open a textbook. My life as a developer would certainly be a lot different if I wasn't able to do any of those things now because it was "cheating" back when I was in school. It's an awful analogy and, as you've regurgitated it here, seems to be an effective smokescreen on Google's end.
FWIW, the actual article is by jwz - Jamie Zawinski (though the suggestion is a good one)
Mystery tickets raffled off to users to go on dates based on compatibility. (Credit goes to my mom for that one)
If a page is not crawlable, but listed in the search results based on anchor text (or the URL), then it will not have any snippets. You can show snippets only if you crawl the page itself.
Do 10k and a PR blitz with that idea, then a month later follow up with a contest where every referral of a new member is an entry in a drawing for a 10k prize. Then a month after that, another 10k contest for putting up the most pics (with a facebook import feature).

Edit: and start in NYC or one of the biggest cities in the world. A single sign-up in a high density city, is much more valuable as a search result because the population density is a multiplier for how many searches that new profile will be a result for.
The actual quote: "Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower [the population] by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent."

You can read that to mean that he wants to kill people off using vaccines, health care, and reproductive health services, I suppose. I would read it as meaning that he believes that if quality of life increases, making it less likely for an individual to die due to preventable disease or injury, people will have fewer children.
For completeness, PMD should be added to the list although I haven't found it as useful as FindBugs:

http://pmd.sourceforge.net/
+1 http://www.crowdspring.com/ they matched the designer for the Sencha logo http://www.crowdspring.com/project/2285240_sencha-logo-desig...
Keychain is the best. It also works with gpg-agent, if you're old and cranky enough to still think gpg is worth using.
Also known as 'kaiserki' in Poland, 'kaiser rolls' in the UK.
They're not trying to convert you, they're trying to convert the millions of people who haven't invested in an iPad yet (the vast majority of the population really).
Get a ridiculous prize for the affiliate that does the most volume for you (like Epic's playboy mansion parties), and spend all of your time and money trying to convince large affiliate marketers to drop whoever they're pushing currently and push your site instead.
Sponsor weekly dance lessons leading up to a competition at the end.
Make it exclusive and hip. To me, at present, dating sites seem to signal some degree of desperation. I suspect that is very common and why a lot of folks won't use them. I'm not going to go on a "date" with someone from a dating site because (a) I don't ever go on anything that get called "dates" and (b) I'd assume that folks that needed to get dates online are those can't get them in real life.

So, if you made them zany events -- like renting out a full restaurant and curating a list of 50 top matches where folks don't get to pick them ... all of the sudden that sounds fun. Or a first class at ball-room dancing. Or canoeing. Actually, I'd prefer even goofier stuff like the flash-mob-ish sort of things where you have groups that baked into their activity / assigned mission you have some reason for pairing them up.

If you can just create environments for people to do stuff that's fun and meet other people along the way without the baggage of calling it a date or the signaling of "I can't get a date", then it's cool, not desperate and attacks the largest part of the market: the folks that wouldn't use current dating sites even if they didn't suck.
Stanford CS major seeks sales/marketing monkey
Also the 25% number is from the article itself and represents measured empirical data from that pretty large sample set.

One could say with more precision, 25% of hooker hookups in Manhattan come from Facebook and there is just cause for that, it's not a fabricated headline.

If one wants to then say it doesn't even stand for Manhattan because there was not a survey of all prostitutes, one would have to discard pretty much every national survey result and medical study under the same reasoning.
The Mac ads are insulting to the PC, perhaps, but not the PC users. It's one thing to say "hey, there's a better way" and another thing to say "you're stupid for picking your way".
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robots.txt disallows (or did until recently) only "/search". The results shown have "/Search" in the url. Bing screwed up.
I used this video guide to setting up PuTTY w/ Pageant on Windows: http://vimeo.com/4856534

It's from a series on setting a a Linus VPS for noobs, and I found it indispensable. My only problem is that my Linode runs so trouble free, that I rarely need to go in and mess with it, so even though I've been running a VPS for a year, I still have a limited knowledge of Linux administration.
Look at this for ideas - http://www.doubleyourdating.com/
In general, why has static analysis not been more popular? When I first ran FindBugs on a 50 KLOC codebase I inherited, it identified several real, non-trivial bugs which likely hurt many users. Perhaps the average Java developer's skill level is too low to make sense of these tools' results? But, one would think that most teams have at least one "adult" who would love more visibility into a codebase.
One of the most impressive SSH tricks I've seen is the ControlMaster option. It saves your authentication information on a per-(user, host) basis, which lets you share one connection among multiple ssh/scp/rsync commands and TRAMP sessions. This is less useful if you use passwordless keys or ssh-agent (please use ssh-agent), but becomes much more useful if the host you connect to doesn't support key-based auth.

# multiplex connections to one host
ControlMaster auto
# where is that file
ControlPath ~/.ssh/master-%r@%h:%p

Other useful things in my .ssh/config, check the manpages before you use them:

# use compression
Compression yes
# really really compress it
CompressionLevel 9
# forward X stuff
ForwardX11 yes
# yes, really forward X stuff
ForwardX11Trusted yes
I don't understand why everyone is using the term "copying the results". I think what Bing did was very smart, they incorporated user clickstream data. One could accuse this method of walking a thin line morally, but I suspect that Google's accusation wouldn't have stood any water as a lawsuit.
Your idea about tracking daily pain points was the most important thing I ever did, as well-- sort of.

I tracked, over a one year period, every single defect that made it into production that I had to correct. I did this at the inspiration of a book on continuous improvement I read. I analyzed the underlying causes of the defects, organized them by category, made Pareto charts, and looked at my underlying procedures to see how I could avoid them.

What I learned surprised me, and changed the way I approached projects from then on. What I learned was that by far the number one problem I needed correct in order to avoid production defects and downtime had nothing to do with my code.

I discovered that the number one cause of avoidable defects in production had to do with the quality of my test data, differences between production environments and test environments, and discipline in how code gets promoted to production. And of course establishing a process for such things as promoting code-- a process which is formalized, followed, every time, and continuously improved as needed.

Learning this gave me a new respect and appreciation for the importance of a faithful and realistic staging environment that mirrors production as closely as possible. It's often impractical or expensive to various degrees to replicate or simulate a production environment faithfully for a variety of reasons. What I learned is that not all projects deserve the expense and trouble of that faithful reproduction of the production environment, running production loads in staging. But to whatever degree we don't do that, we take on more risk, and it's good to at least understand those risks.

Perhaps I'm talking more about project management, infrastructure, process and procedure than about pure "programming". But what I learned through this one year exercise was that often times when people think about wanting to get better at programming, improvements in some of those areas are really what's needed to get to the higher tiers of excellence.
I think the author of this article is the same researcher mentioned in that chapter. And the drug dealer story in Freakonomics. Either that, or all Indian names sound the same to me.
It is indeed starting NYC-exclusive to begin with.
It breaks agent-forwarding

How does it break agent forwarding?

I haven't tried but don't see why that should require a password on the private key.
I've always gotten the impression that TDD is one of those things that many people think they should do, but have a hard time making a habit (so it's not surprising it gets more talk than action).

Speaking of books, Real World Haskell covers testing pretty early on; granted, being Haskell, whether or not it qualifies as "Real World" is still a little subjective at this point.

If you're looking for resources to tutor yourself, there are some TDD katas out there (I admittedly haven't tried it myself, though) - http://www.osherove.com/tdd-kata-1/
I definitely thought this was an article about minecraft. :-/
It's called an existential proof. If you want to prove that a black swan exists, all you need is 1 example of a black swan.

Strictly speaking, yes, non-controlled experiments exist. However without a control you cannot eliminate alternate explanations. Since we know that an alternate explanation exists here, the experiment doesn't show anything.

In the case of the black swan there's no credible explanation for that thing you see being anything but a black swan. The control is essentially Occam's razor.
Things should always be up for debate.... because sometimes we get it WRONG. New science replaces old.

Personally? I think it's not up for debate. The exact age and type of vaccine used might be if there are various options and risks to weigh, and as a parent I might want to choose those, but vaccinating our children against incurable diseases they are likely to be exposed to isn't up for debate in my mind. Why, as a society, would we not want to wipe out said disease?

Now, I think of my own vaccination history (hypothetically). When I was a kid, they didn't vaccinate us against Hep-B. They didn't. It wasn't part of the program. Then a few decades later when I had a Hep-B scare and read up on it, I said, WTF, how on earth are we not vaccinating our society against one of the most virulent diseases on the planet?

(The answer would be cost, and chances of someone from my country contracting it short of travel to other locations or IV drug use)

We stopped vaccinating against smallpox before I was born. IF smallpox shows up again, that will change.

Handling this a society requires trusting your health organisations - and that's where the problem comes in - people these days don't trust the established authorities.

A single unvaccinated child in a vaccinated society is not a risk to the entire society. A small number of unvaccinated children spread around a vaccinated society is not a risk to the entire society.
At a certain number, i imagine, things suddenly go from "safe" to "deadly" with no middle ground.... so this is the type of problem that can probably be dealt with through education rather than force.