skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coincidentally (or maybe not, if someone at Google has a wicked sense of humor) PaidContent published an interview this morning with the CEO of Demand Media:

http://paidcontent.org/article/419-interview-demand-medias-r...

Check out his response to the question: What happens if the company you’re most synergistic with turns you off? Is that something you think about? Do you have to make sure you have other revenue that isn’t reliant on this synergy with Google?
What if?? Listen, we went from a wagon and horses stepping in their own shit.....overnight to the moon.....of course star wars theories are real....listen, stopping thinking about what God to pray to and start thinking as if you were a fish at the bottom of the ocean, think that fish knows the ocean has anything above the water?? when you look up, think whats on the other side looking down - GTV
By "entry-level," I mean a first job for an individual. Do those companies often employee programmers with no previous job experience?
The implementation of the algorithm didn't rely on it, but they did test it using that data.

>However, we did compare the Blocklist data we gathered with the sites identified by our algorithm, and we were very pleased that the preferences our users expressed by using the extension are well represented. If you take the top several dozen or so most-blocked domains from the Chrome extension, then this algorithmic change addresses 84% of them, which is strong independent confirmation of the user benefits.
Yup, I'm from Turkey. Maybe it is a Middle East thing.
His response (for those who don't want to read another article):

"That could happen but it would be against their best interest and the consumer’s best interest. It’s kind of like Zynga just got a $9 billion valuation. Facebook could turn them off at any time. The iPhone could have been turned off by Verizon or AT&T (NYSE: T). There are a lot of synergistic partnerships that make sense for both parties that last a very long time.

We are diversifying our traffic because the internet is moving that way. We’re aggressively focusing on diversifying traffic. We had 100,000 individual eHow articles receive traffic in December alone just from Facebook. We receive traffic from Twitter. We receive traffic from Digg. We receive traffic from all across the web. We receive direct traffic and traffic from apps like Livestrong. We are naturally diversifying our revenues—not because we’re afraid of Google but because that’s where people are spending their time."
Would love links to the queries if you can remember them.
I think being the sole provider for my family for the last ten years I've just assumed I needed to make more money year after year. I can't really ask my wife to go out and get a job to make up the slack so I get out there and try to be the best programmer I can be. If a company sounded cool but wasn't willing to pay me what I need to provide for my family I just move on. Given the lack of tech talent there isn't much excuse for not making that much if you're a programmer.

I always laugh when I read people say that great developers (not saying I'm a great developer) don't care about money. Often times that's written by people who don't have children to provide for. I have no choice but to care what I make and therefore it's an important factor for me when choosing a job.
Right, and where exactly will you get both the specs and license for reading proprietary MS Tag codes ?
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And I take it physicians, lawyers, dentists, and other professionals, on top of all of the entrepreneurs who have sold their beloved companies for millions, aren't doing meaningful or engaging work. If you're good at any of the careers I just listed, you can easily make at least $300-400k+ per year. It's attainable, and there's a ton of meaningful work to be had at those levels.

Success and meaning can be found at levels other than the dude settling for $20/hr because he gets good free time to really 'discover' life and find 'meaning.'

Maybe you're hanging out with the wrong people.
My brute force algorithm runs in about two minutes... It's C++. I'm sure you can see why I'm so interested in better solutions. :-)
The Tag system uses a cloud-based back-end that provides access to data that just isn’t possible with earlier QR codes, such as reporting on how frequently and where your Tags are being scanned.

Translation: spyware.
Sad thing is that I can always assume that my audience hasn't heard it before. Kids these days. They don't read anymore!
Intel announces a BIOS Implementation Test Suite (BITS)
So thunderbolt is PCI-E at the end of a cable, Cool.
I can see people building neat, cheapo numa boxes with this.
Think sgi altix on the cheap.

For those that don't know, the SGI Altix has a special chip that intercepts memory accesses and maps other systems memory to be seen as "local" on each system. If thunderbolt is just pci-e on a wire, you may be able to connect a few systems together and just map memory across systems. It'd take some trickery, and wouldn't be quite as fast as infiniband, but the thought of building a ghetto supercomputer would be useful to many people.
Why do people rag on Demand all the time? I thought Cracked.com's lists were in vogue. Or is it just eHow people are mad at? Genuinely curious.
Awesome. Two monitors on a MBP with Thunderbolt. Now, where the hell is the adapter to buy that will actually let you connect two monitors?
While I'm sure that Roma, Sinti, etc carry out a disproportionately large number of these crimes, the way they are viewed and treated in Europe is just ridiculous. It's just straight up racism and the deportations sound like pure politics.
Apple reportedly clarifies its cloud strategy to the music labels
> sites that copy others’ content

It would be interesting to know how Google determines, in an automated perspective, which site is the original and which is the copy - especially when copying could go both ways. For example, I could write an article, license it under the GFDL, and someone could copy it to Wikipedia. I might then copy the Wikipedia improvements back to my site. Technically, I had the content first - so would Wikipedia be penalised?

If there is a bias against smaller sites, this might make smaller sites be reluctant to license their content under licenses that let bigger sites copy them.
I'm especially curious about the 16% the new algorithm doesn't get rid of.
" ... and I came back here and told the other guys what you had said, and they were all, `Oh, fuck. He's right.'"

I suspect JWZ hears that quite often...
Facebook has replaced Evite, but it really doesn't do calendaring in any meaningful way. JWZ seems to be talking about software that make serendipitous real-life interaction easier and better; Facebook seems to mostly have the effect of isolating people all day, replacing parties and Monopoly for wall posts and Cityville. There's still a lot of room to improve.
I personally never thought the content farm problem was as big as it's blown up to be - but I am genuinely curious to see how far their stock drops after this update. This is mostly because I have little awareness as to how markets work, or how much something like this could potentially impact their stock price.

"Tanks" is just a superfluous term that makes it seem like I personally have it out for them, when in actuality that's not the case. As an SEO, though, they (and other content farms) do compete with many of the websites I work on, so I am glad that they have dipped - although I have no particular ill will against them.
Please please roll this out in Australia too.
>Lock in enough people, and you're a success!

The credo of all proprietary software companies.
Hmm... knowing exactly how much DM will be affected could give someone a trading edge.

Anyone here willing to admit they've done this?
At any rate, those are "lowest-level" SDE jobs available at such companies. They hire _many_ recent grads with nothing but a few internships worth of experience too.
I googled "sharpen a knife" yesterday early afternoon and I'm pretty sure I got ehow high on the front page. Now it's halfway down the second page.

Appropriately, the summary for eHow is: "on 3/31/2009 This article provides a high level overview of sharpening, but doesn't provide enough detail to enable a beginner to sharpen a knife ..."

Is there some tool SEO people use to compare results before/after Google algorithm changes? Would be interesting to see.
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Yeah, I'll probably write up some of the stuff I've been doing with Fancy soon.
This intrigues me as well due to the fact that many news and sports websites simply post official Associated Press material. I would think that this sort of thing is not frowned up as strongly as simple content farming due to licensing agreements.

But of course that is relative to the observer.
1. Prepare nice demo video if you can.
2. You need to post more detailed also post it on reddit , as well as relevant communities .
More like URL shorteners.
He must have missed the memo. Apple and Zynga have contracts signed in blood that keep them from beig "turned off". As we saw today, Google has no reason to keep Demand Media's lights on.
I don't know if it's live yet, but my concert listings site is now number one for a lot of common searches (philly concerts, philadelphia concerts).

It used to be like 2 or 3 pages down below a bunch of content farms, very glad about this.

Edit: Actually, now I'm number 4 for philadelphia and number 1 for Philly, still pretty happy though.
There is no way what they are talking about is a function of the tag. It is more akin to a physical URL shortened, I imagine.
Yeah, this distinction is important. Recently in Germany this report made the news how nearly a quarter of professional football players are broke at the end of their careers. Considering that these are all people who make a lot of money I was pretty shocked about this.
> I was looking for standard tree algorithms like AVL trees

What did you need to use AVL trees for that std::set/std::map could not provide?
> Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?

Awesome, I think I've done this.
My software lets the student pay to sit with a girl he likes at dinner, anonymously.

I posted a link, but have removed it so as not to hijack the more general point of the thread.
How is dropbox a revolutionary tool? Fileservers have existed for quite some time. File server accessible over the internet have existed for quite some time. (It was easy even in windows 95).

Focus on your needs and ask IT to develop a way for you to access your corporate resources on the go.
Looks awesome. Wish there was a way to host a free app with it, Google App Engine style.
Is this John??
If not, you must of read of application for funding, so in that case. How are you? Here's a deal...help me build a team for my visions and I'll invest 50% of my profits for life into an amazingly detailed screening process so true talent will never be overlooked. That's a good deal for Y...
I might have missed it shooting through the threads, but has anyone announced a PCI express card with thunderpeak? I'd love to have 10gbit between my workstation and my NAS without having to buy multiple FC HBAs.

In fact, I'd probably take all of my current DAS and add it to the NAS pool as well. It would make my home office much quieter if I could hide all the spindles in another room and still have fast storage access.
Of course. Microsoft and Google are likely the biggest recruiters for cs students.
"The reason we don't do pair programming is that our programmers are at least twice as good as yours"

"Only take out enough to win" (with reference to Milt Berle for you youngsters)
And? What kind of boast is that? Do you want applause for being superior because you don't try things, or aren't curious, or diss anything you don't already use?

I see HP's WebOS tablet is going to have a "touch your WebOS phone to your tablet to transfer information between them, such as your currently open web page".

Well, you can do that right now - add this bookmarklet to your browser: http://code.google.com/p/qrbookmarklet/ and click it to get a QR code popping up encoding the URL of the page you are on. Scan it on your phone and you can quickly take the page you are on to your mobile in a cross platform way, without needing to dropbox or email the URL to yourself.

Just like HP is advertising with their WebOS tablet and WebOS phones, only without being WebOS only.

(The bookmarklet works in mobile safari so you could go the other way, if you could find a desktop reader).

I'd also really like it if there was a way to walk up to a bus stop, point my phone at it and have my phone know which precise bus stop I am at and then check on the net and say which busses are due next. Also trains.

Also, anything with a phone number such as a taxi or pizza place flyer could have a useful QR code with a vcard contact on it.

QR codes are not just a "learn more" marketing scam for URLs on adverts, it's a no-typing way of getting information into mobile devices.
12% is HUGE. I fear the inevitable false positives.
I have a decent list of queries I've been collecting data on to compare once word came that a change was rolled out. This is an interesting one that I saw in a comments thread somewhere...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=&q=how+to+renew+an+expir...

The Demand Media angle is really interesting too. I love the bit quoted in the Searchengineland article from the CEO, wondering how they got tagged with the "content farm" label. Pretty sure this is where I first saw it...

http://www.theawl.com/2010/11/my-summer-on-the-content-farm
They're also selling Azul hardware as a service.
> The Tag system uses a cloud-based back-end that provides access to data that just isn’t possible with earlier QR codes, such as reporting on how frequently and where your Tags are being scanned. In addition, Tags allow you to dynamically change your data source – unlike other 2D codes that are associated with a single, permanent URL, Tags can be updated as frequently as you like to point to new websites, allowing you to reuse campaign materials.

These statements range anywhere from lie to falsehood to sly twisting of the truth. In reality, a QR Code-based system can do all of this as well. What they're trying to confuse with is the distinction between the printed code format and a supplementary service backend that can do, well, whatever one wants it to do, with the data scanned. Microsoft has obviously arranged for one particular service to be created, presumeably to monetize in some way.

I happen to have done some personal R&D in this area in recent months. One of the things that stuck out the most about QR Codes is that they are effectively an open format, not necessarily tied to one app or vendor. Well, more of a format framework for whatever app-specific format and processing system you choose to devise. Think bar codes raised to the power of two.
Did launching a web startup become 10x cheaper between 1998 and 2011?
In fairness, Pick would be a lot of the secret sauce here.
Sort of, but not really. A URL shortner has nothing else to do but lookup a central database and resolve a short URL into a long one. The short URL is more friendly for some formats, which is to the end user's benefit.

A QR code already encodes a URL. It can already be decoded and opened on your client with no other help or services.

The Tag equivalent sounds like a URL shortener in that it looks up a code in a central database and converts one to another, but the Tag is not shorter. It is not done for the end user's benefit, it adds nothing for the end user, in fact it adds a slow WAN lookup and all the reliability issues that go with it. It adds a third party into your data exchange for someone elses benefit.

It's more like a MITM attack on your transaction than a URL shortener.
Looking at it, I have no idea what the product does.
Of course if you have IE6, gzip can be a problem.
The university needs to have enough demand to keep their price high -- and MIT is NOT losing applicants because they can listen to Gilbert Strang for free. Or even if MIT is losing applicants, it probably doesn't impact the number they admit each year.

On the other hand senior professors (not universities, at least to the same degree) trade in fame, not enrollment; Gilbert Strang's career has almost surely only benefited by the fact that we all know his name. MIT probably benefits as well.

However, crappy on-line universities (National, etc) might really be taking a hit from these things -- though, again, one pays for certification not (just) learning.
Google's listings aren't really about being "frowned upon" or not. It's about the best results for a given search. An RSS aggregator like the Planet X sites or local newspaper simply running AP stories isn't doing anything wrong, but that still doesn't mean Google should return them to you when it could send you to the original source. Scrapers and content farms are parasites, and again to the extent possible I mean that term morally neutrally. It's simply what they are. Google doesn't have to make a moral call about parasitism to determine that it isn't in their interests to return those pages.
I feel like a stick in the mud doing so, but i feel obligated to ask... then why post it?

I don't think the point of HN is to throw things at the wall and see what sticks :\ there's been a lot of talk of the decline of HN recently, and i can't see how posting w/o reading helps. But perhaps that's just me.

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You must work for Oracle, the best sales & marketing organization in the world.
I've got a 15" dell xps with a core-i7, total piece of shit. Build quality is crap, broken hinges and keys. The battery holds 2/3 of original charge after 6 months. Overheats due to acpi bugs not reporting the temp correctly. Bulky.

Really miss my thinkpad. Never again.
Ha. So, they're saying that you can't use a URL shortener with analytics on a QR code? They're saying that their own system is more flexible than the URL, which anyone can put any dynamic service they want behind, rather than having to go through Microsoft? They think that you can't re-use a URL with a redirect for later campaigns?

Or maybe they're just lying through their teeth to try and sell a crappy proprietary product that will harm the entire mobile tag ecosystem for their own profit, or will fail like so many other attempts to control a market that they don't really understand just like PlaysForSure did, but probably causing some confusion and harm in the meantime.
Probably because Intel's chipsets won't support USB 3 until next year. Current PC motherboards are supporting it with third-party controllers, which presumably Apple didn't want to bother with.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Make-the-text-on...
Enjoy the ride :) You may have hit the google lottery!

We launched our music start-up(now dead) and it was getting few k uniques/day. Then overnight we start seeing thousands of visitors from Thailand. And each day--literally--the number would increase by a few grand. Turns out YouTube was blocked in Thailand and we were getting a good chunk of YouTube's traffic from Google. Eventually YouTube was unblocked(six mos later) and our traffic flat-lined.
College recruiting is pretty important for Facebook, Google and Microsoft at least. In programming world "previous job experience" is a bit vague, as contributing to an open source project or building some non-trivial Web/iOS/Android apps is not "job experience" in classical sense, but adds significant bonus points to one's resume.
When folks here posted their blocklists, there were a few borderline sites that I noticed. About.com is the notable one that comes to mind.
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My lifestyle-biz friends working over wifi at the beach in Thailand are making 1/4 - 1/2 million/year. Just like any other job, you just have to know what you're doing and do it well.
The UI is visually pretty but confused me.

More critically, I'm still not sure what it does. Your "Learn more" blurb is way too long and put me to sleep before I reached the end of the first paragraph.

Write and annotate documents right in the browser.

Okay that part is clear, I guess. But where do the documents come from? Is this a CMS? Wiki? Some sort of community where I can also see other peoples documents? What problem are you solving? Who is your target audience? Why is all this not explained on your frontpage?
I'm helping one startup currently that in some way can help with this. Not directly/explicitly, but close.
I liked the movie, but it seemed to cut off suddenly before it was quite finished. I also wished there was a way to make it fullscreen.
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OK, you're right. It seems that small form factors (Mini) and all-in-ones (iMac) are generally classified as "desktops". Though workstations (Pros) are not.

By "desktop", I meant "towers, mini-towers, and those horizontal towers that used to prop up CRT monitors". Computers that you could stuff high-end (but not workstation) video cards, and quad core processors into.

It's only recently that the iMac used "desktop" parts, and not "laptop" ones, isn't it?
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You might be taking it too literally. In your case, "just show up on time" means you still have to work (almost) every weekday, even if it's remotely. The implication is that you don't have to be a super ninja rockstar, just do your job and eventually you'll earn 100k (assuming you're an IT professional in US).
Oh! I think it's because I'm using the 'chromeless' YouTube player, not very usable. Double click for full screen, single click for play and pause. I'll fix that, thanks for the heads up.
I think the "Not enough" was aimed at Intel, not you. But you seemed to have missed the point of the question.

No hardware developer in the consumer space charges developers to access their hardware. Spec owners frequently do charge other companies to implement their specs, though.

Intel has a mixed record on this - some specs - like USB - they have led but have been implementable licence free.

Other things they consider their propriety interfaces and have sued over - see the recent lawsuits between Intel & Nvidia over their memory bus.

So it is very reasonable to wonder if Nvidia and AMD are going to be able to implement this freely, or are they going to have to pay a tax to Intel. As far as I can see your answer doesn't address that question at all.
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This happens all of the time. Unfortunately, that's the reality of international politics.
I try to register (I would really like this to make it possible for me to work on my novel using my Android Tablet), but I keep getting an "Unknown Error".
I don't think there is an "original source" URL for an AP story. The content on hosted.ap.org is more like a scrape of various client newspaper sites than vice versa and it's certainly not the most usable interface to AP content.
An infinite recursion doesn't imply an infinite amount of time - the series can have a bound, depending upon the coefficients.
I'd say more than that. The article didn't even mention the cost of a T-1.
>"Apple removed your post on Apple Discussions"

It's good to see Apple has provided Winston Smith with suitable employment.