skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Toronto is nowhere near as expensive as New York.

In Toronto, you can get a decent detached house in a downtown blue-collar neighbourhood or (a nicer one in the 'burbs) for under 500k.

You can get a beautiful home in an elite neighbourhood for 750k.
Google works hard (or maybe less) to keep their front page UI ultra clean. I do think users could benefit a lot from a small drop down arrow under the search field that stretches open another field to input the words searchers do not want included in their results. Most of us in the Hacker News community know this can more easily accomplished by including a "-" (minus sign) before such terms; we know how to use "-" and "site:..." to narrow query results. However, I'd say 50% of Google users don't know these tricks and waste time navigating to the advanced search link.
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This could be very painful for the likes of Mahalo. I remember Jason Calcanis mentioning, perhaps when he first noted a change of direction for Mahalo to high-quality content, that he'll make sure Mahalo is the number one Google result for "how to cook a turkey" and similar queries, where they've spent hundreds of dollars (maybe more) on quality content, notably videos. I just Googled "how to cook a turkey", without quotes, and Mahalo is nowhere to be seen! Not sure if tha
t's a good thing or a bad thing, but the guys at Mahalo might just be freaking out right now.
Its Across the river, but the Hoboken tech meetup was a great place to have been last night.

There's also a happy hour/party for new work city tomorrow night as well- I'm sure you can find details on meetup.com
True. I had my cellphone picked from my jeans when trying to board a bus. My attention was on ensuring whether i was boarding the right bus and i was relieved off my cellphone in a matter of couple of seconds.
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I find this law only holds when you're doing something that is significantly new for you, and/or has many elements or individual components which can interact in complex ways and suffer from leaky abstraction effects.

But if you're doing just one thing. Or a few things. And/or it's a set of things/activities you've done almost exactly the same way previously, and knew how long that took, then no, this law does not hold, and sometimes things go faster or about what you expected.

Developing new software for clients and/or on top of new components, almost always is applicable however. Too many moving parts will bite you. Black boxes can bite you. Developing on the frontier, as opposed to walking along a well-trodden cow path, will bite you.
kiss - keep it simple stupid...
jQuery too much overhead? What kind of environment was that?
+1 another great approach. This is sort of the position that we are in with our own startup company. However, we've been able to take it a step further than that and have generated some nice revenue to substantiate itself as well.
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You know, I was just thinking that I'm colored very unimpressed by this and that it reeked of a desperation move, and then your comment completely flipped me around.

Great perspective!
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Google is now as far ahead of their competition as they were in 2003.
$100k at what point in your career?
jQuery != jQuery UI
Because it costs more.
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I suspect it's going to be a matter of those who hate adverts hate these too and those that are indifferent to adverts think they're a neat idea. I have time to kill, if I got these adverts during a TV show (like the article uses as an example) I'd fill it out. I think it has the problem of getting too old fast though, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.
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Barcelona is really bad. I lived there for a while, and was never pickpocketed but was attempted multiple times, each time in the metro down at the south end of Las Ramblas. I have seen people's wallets get picked in the tourist areas. This is the same area where all the shell game people are.

I was eating in a cafe with a girl once in Gracia, and her bag was stolen off the chair next to her (dumb of her to put it there, dumb of me for not warning her or paying more attention).

Another time I was out at night with friends, and the girl walking in front of me on the sidewalk had her shoulderbag straight ripped off her arm by a speeding moto, knocking her to the ground.

The key I think is awareness of your surroundings, and preventive measures like checking your belongings regularly (I have a habit of tapping my pockets when passing people etc). And don't go into any place where you feel uncomfortable.
Be born in wealthy family.
I wonder how much longer it will be after Google's changes go live that we start to see the exact same changes "magically" appear in Bing as well.

cough
Given the Air's recovery thumbdrive, I think Apple can start sell the next OS X version in thumbdrive form =).

1st thing I did when I receive my Snow Leopard DVD is to RIP it to my firewire HDD.
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Then they are winning the game.
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Not his, but mine: "split string python"
Tip 2: Be born white or Asian in America. [1]

Tip 3: Be born in a rich country with a growing middle class

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_household_income#Median_...
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A nice place to live, a nice car, and frequent restaurant meals. Easily done once you escape the gripping fear going broke and never making money ever again (irrational).
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1. Move to Australia
2. Take up one of many trades (tiling, concreting, wiring, plumbing)
3. Answer your phone. Respond to emails quickly
4. Show up when you say you will, quote when you say you will

From my experience dealing with trades working on my house, I am confident that any tradie who is able to do these basic things would have work on tap and expand with lackeys quickly.
I don't know of any resource of ranking information, so you would need to have collected the data beforehand. That being said, I've been collecting data on some queries that showed a lot of eHow results, and I suspect something related to knife sharpening may have been on my list (but I'll have to double check.) Data is stored locally at my office; I'll post a quick update here tomorrow if I have something interesting.
1-4: python.org (good, though one result is for version 2.3)

5: java2s.com (terrible. no content, huge ads. Thank you, flashblock)

6: tutorialspoint.com (w3schools-like. Borderline content farm)

7: stackoverflow.com (pretty relevant, good result)

8: diveintopython.org (should be the first non-python.org result)

9: diveintopython3.org (good)

10: oreilly.com (sample chapter for "Learning Python", excellent)

So, 1-4 are python.org, results 5-6 blow, and 7-10 are superb and should be nearer the top. Not a bad performance, but not perfect.
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kalvin, there would be no way to do that unless you were prepared and happened to store the queries beforehand. However, if you take a look at the Alexa page for one of the sites in question you can see what some of the top queries were that used to bring those sites traffic, and then manually go see where they rank now. For instance, Mahalo used to be in the #1 spot for many of the queries listed on it's page:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/mahalo.com

If you look now though you can see they are at #5 for [mcdonalds coupons] (which is still higher than they deserve), #6 for [how to play guitar], more than 5 pages deep for [bed bath and beyond], etc. Check ehow.com and you can see similar results no longer ranking:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ehow.com
Totally disagree. I've lived in Van for 15 years and it's hilariously more affordable than LA or NY (where I am now). The Mercer 2010 survey put Van at #75 in the world which was surprisingly one spot ahead of Toronto.

Sidenote: the job market of Vancouver is much slower and lower paying than what's happening state side.
Yes, I'm a little confused too. So there's basic markup in a WYSIWYG editor, and...? Maybe a short video defining the problem and presenting this as the solution would help. Right now it feels like a lightweight version of a wiki.
I guess I'm in trouble. My software does the opposite of helping people get laid. It's related to anime.
The prelude certainly needs to be improved, and so does the whole system. It's an open source effort, and largely driven by a one man force. This is just a first 'official' snap-shot dedicated to the developer community to get the discussion started.

To your question: It is a "Document authoring system". So documents are entered by the users themselves. It will also be some sort of community. As of now you can search for other people's documents. A technical speciality is that documents are exposed as data rather than just text. http://substance.io/documents/substance/substance. Here's more about the internals http://substance.io/#substance/substance-internals

Thanks for your points!

-- Michael
Even with some false positives, I think it's still worth it.
We, ahem, tried to book in Vancouver BC, but had a few issues. Since I know the airbnb folks hang out here, I will elaborate: We tried to book a room and found that the slow response time from our candidate people made it impossible to fix up a place in short enough notice.

However, there was something in this process which might have alienated the spouse from airbnb forever (much, much more than the convenience/ time lag factor): We exchanged emails with the airbnb people, who were quite helpful, and in one of them said something like "the owner pulled back from the agreement at the last minute because he lost power from a snowstorm, which is quite reasonable." Or something to that effect. A couple of weeks later, the owner emailed us, basically screaming "why did you post such nasty things about me?" Turns out someone from airbnb had put "the owner pulled back from the agreement at the last minute" onto the owners feedback page, with neither our permission nor any context (like, the power went out because of the snowstorm). My wife emailed airbnb and the comment got pulled, but it didn't leave a great taste in our mouth.

I may not be remembering exactly the exchange, but it was pretty close to that. If you ever want my wife to consider airbnb again, it will probably take some cold hard cash.

Otherwise, I love the idea!
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This is a planned feature. We'll use LaTeX to render proper PDF's. We'll also add images along with other content-node types.
So I started tracking rankings on 164 of eHow's top keywords (selected based on SEMRush report of their most-valuable, SearchVol * CPC).

Anyway, here's the downward movement since the algo started rolling out:

http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+build+a+robot+from+scr... (-1 ranking)

http://www.google.com/search?q=eurotop+bed (-1)

http://www.google.com/search?q=watch+live+cable+tv+online (-1)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=find+answers+to+cro... (-1)

So while this may have hit eHow to some degree, 4/164 doesn't seem like a massacre. That said, seoMoz only updates rankings weekly, so maybe next Wednesday will be a different story.
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If Hotels.com had launched on HN, regularly had founders and employees interact with members here, then I think Hotels.com too would get upvoted similarly when they achieved such feats.

There are so many YC companies that if every YC company was upvoted similarly, there wouldn't be anything but YC coverage on the homepage.
Agreed, comparison of San Francisco in $100k to San Antonio, TX where I'm at now...

Comparable salary in San Antonio, TX $58,363

If you move from San Francisco, CA to San Antonio, TX....

Groceries will cost: 24%less

Housing will cost: 66%less

Utilities will cost: 13%less

Transportation will cost: 11%less

Healthcare will cost: 15%less
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see my comment above about the 164 eHow keywords I started tracking last week in anticipation of something like this.
Especially when you realize your red stapler is missing.
Or a chef at a mine.

Seriously.

Here's a FIFO[1] position paying 80K + 9% retirement, plus it provides accommodation while you are onsite: http://www.seek.com.au/Job/mine-chef/in/perth/19143356

[1]FIFO in this context means Fly In, Fly Out. They fly you to the site for a couple of weeks, then fly you back out for a week off.
I don't see any major dip on WiseGeek, which is directly-measured traffic:

http://www.quantcast.com/wisegeek.com
Actually, I was wrong. The results are US only, so (for now, anyways) you can view what the results looked like before the update by changing the language parameter (&hl=) or the &gl= parameter in the url. For instance, pre-algo rankings (Mahalo #1):

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&...

Same query after the update (Mahalo at #7):

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&...
There is more than one human biological drive. The behaviors driven by evolutionarily prompted tendencies to reproduce are well-liked behaviors, on which one can build a profitable business model, but even celibate people have to eat and sleep. A product that reliably brings about a good night's sleep (either before or after sex) would still be a killer product, even if if had no direct effect on the user's love life.
My 4am thoughts on the matter...

If a site has N copies associated with it, then you could compare that to the average number of copies associated with sites of that pagerank. If the difference between N and the average is high, then that's a likely spam site. Let's call this difference σ.

This gives us a problem though, because while σ is a good indicator of spamminess, it's not foolproof. A low pagerank site could have been copied from lots of times, which would unfairly earn it a high σ.

What we can do is calculate a σ', by inversely weighing each copy with the σ of the site on the other end. A copy of a site with a low sigma will increase σ', and a copy of a site with a high sigma will have less of an effect on σ'.

So while our high σ may have initially suggested the site to be spammy, all its copies are from high σ sites, which are counted less towards σ', leading to an overall verdict of not spammy. [I wonder what would happen if you iterated this process]

As for your example, the smaller site wouldn't be penalized, because N would be low. If it were say, a full wikipedia mirror, then it would be penalized. Wikipedia would not be penalized, since it has an ungodly amount of pagerank. There's also no bias against smaller sites, since σ is calculated relative to pagerank.

What have I missed?
If this is true then what value add does RIM bring to the tablet world? Why not just get a pure Android tablet instead?

If I was going to buy a tablet because it could run Android apps then I'd much rather buy an Android device directly and avoid any potential and inevitable compatibility issues.
if you go into more specific questions (e.g. jsf select menu or oracleresultset tomcat), the top result used to be from efreedom, which rips off from stackoverflow. now, no more efreedom! freeedommm!

roseindia is still around though.its contents are usually a rewritten form of javadocs. and its like the epitome of horrible UI.
Just a quick note: it took me forever to find the "Create an Account" call to action on the front page.
edited: to respond to abraham's post directly

There's a difference between training with that data and testing against it, which is precisely what I wanted to highlight here since many expected Google to use such data for training. You can't do that since you can overbias/over-fit given what little daat we, plug-in users, are able to produce versus the amounts they have access to.

2nd edit: it should also be noted that that 84% figure they mentioned related to the extension data is a measure of recall. Assuming Google wants to do a better job with precision in these cases (don't want to get many false positives), that recall is still fairly good in mind since I'm sure there's some noise in that data.
> No clear profile is coming up on what they're being replaced with.

Do they necessarily have to be replaced with something?

What I mean is, could it not be that these 'big' site are give - say a 300+ penalty and that's just about it.
In any movement there will be differences of opinion; and sometimes the fallout will cause ill-feeling.

It is a universal human trait that we connect the ideas held by a person to whether we wish to associate with them. Freedom of belief/worship and freedom of association are two faces of a single phenomenon.
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The way the site uses Embedded JS means it is completely un-crawlable for search engines. I imagine in the future a nice source of incoming traffic could be from long-tail referrals on whatever content is published, you might want to think about how googlebot crawls the site. http://www.google.com/search?q=site:substance.io&hl=en&#...
does this get rid of expertsexchange? <cross fingers>
And here's another really thorough response further down that thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/frw5l/redditors_e...

-------------

entrepreneur_taway:

I run a start up media company. I am 26. This year I've made over $100k. Here's how.
...
TL;DR:

1) Work for yourself

2) Borrow [build a credit rating buffer]

3) Become an expert, but fake it in the mean time

4) Sell constantly

5) Hire labour

6) Fire bad apples

7) Look after key accounts

8) Charge properly, make profit

9) Be targetted in your sales/marketing

10) Expand

11) Keep control

12) It is a hard game

13) Give them no ammo

Additions:

14) Have principles

15) Decide fast

16) Read

17) Learn from mistakes

18) Flexibility

19) Embrace risk
> $100k isn't successful, it's the bare minimum as a professional.

As a professional what? Man this place can be a fucking drag sometimes.
Wow, ok $100 now? Must be getting some pretty serious orders to jump from $20 to $50 and now to $100? Good for you. I'm with the rest of them though, I'd like to see some results/examples!
I'm vaguely disturbed by all the talk about "sites people want to see fall". That sounds like almost manual bias against certain sites to me. Didn't hear anything about language analysis and figuring out what is high quality vs low quality content.
That's true, but Jaime's point it that it's _spectacularly_ unlikely to get written as "open source".

How many times have you heard people with big plans to "re-implement Microsoft exchange as an open source project"? I think someone I know somehow ends up involved with one of these plans every couple of years, and that's held constant for at least 10 or 12 years, with universally half-arsed execution. They all end up building the bit Jamie proposes (easily sharable group calendars with email/IM/website integration), but _nobody_ ever implements the "Managers" half of what Exchange does, because nobody writing open source software has that itch to scratch.

It's not 100% cast iron guaranteed, but the observation that "enterprise software" gets written by people on salaries in cubicles, and "open source software" gets written by people who don't have to wear suits to work - is so overwhelmingly often correct that we can use any of the very few counterexamples as "the exceptions that prove the rule".

Note too, that "founding teams" are not "typical open source developers", I think a small startup with a great plan and some enthusiastic early-adopter corporate customers is most probably who'll take down the MS Exchange market monopoly... (If they can crack the market before Google does)
I'm aware of that. I'm going to make use of Google AJAX crawling scheme. http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/specification.h...
Similarly, the new document icon in the top right corner wasn't obvious to me either.
The official Google post on this update addresses that. This change is purely academic, not based off feedback data from their recently launched spam tool.
Kind of tangential, but here's a list of people on the so-called "Sunshine List" - public employees making over 100K in Ontario (Canada). By law, they must disclose their salaries to the public.

There's lots of them. And they're not all super-qualified engineers or hackers. We're talking transit employees, teachers, principals etc. Not to demean those professions, but not typically the professions that come to mind in the US when people talk about 100K salaried positions.

http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/publications/salarydisclosure/20...
Here's a specific query moultano:
"ikea malm bed"
before: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&...
after: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&...

The ProductWiki page moves from rank 5 to 9 being beaten out by eHow and Scribd.

The ProductWiki page contains more than a dozen reviews and a slew of comments/discussions.

Seems like we got hit as a "low quality" site while scribd and eHow didn't. Amazing.
Ahh you're not the first one — it's probably too big ;-). Will change that. The startpage needs some reworking.
Baseline and "not all that unusual" are very different things.
If memory serves, the deals they offer on websites are terrible. 50% stake, $250k sort of thing. Also, they don't have any worthwhile experience to offer. I don't get why tech startups would go to them.
That is kinda staggering given that there are still many stars that are doing pretty well...that YC is yet to exit. From Dropbox to AirBnB to WePay to Wufoo to Justin.tv to Posterous to Scribd, etc. All of those I suspect, if they have an exit (I doubt Wufoo will - mainly because I don't think the founders are interested), it will be pretty substantial.
ah thanks! still kinda noobish to talking on HN. I mostly lurk.
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Ohio is a big place. There are even cool people here.
Oh hellz yes. I was there. Like rhizome says, it's a bigger factor than that; you can host stuff in the cloud now for nothing when we had to cohost a used Sparcstation for, as I recall, $450 a month. That was 1996, and we could only do that because we knew the hosting company in Bloomington.

I glommed space on that machine for my own stuff for free - but I still had to pay $20 a month to host the DNS!!
Having a doctor that reads and post here on HN is like gold for anybody developing medical software. You and the folks behind DrChrono really should touch base.
Buffet is the exception that proves the rule.