skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that there should be some way for Google to see the
original creators content before it goes live to the internet; some sort of
pre-publishing protocol. Essentially tell the Googlebot "This is the content
I am planning to publish; have a look so you will know who created it first."
Breaking car windows with spark plug ceramic is easy and just like piracy, you don't directly bear the costs. Cheap and easy isn't a justification for immoral behavior.
Your rant screams inexperience.

I've been rewriting most of my financial analytics code in Scala & its a genuine pleasure to see code sizes reduce 5-6 times...

What did you write your analytics code in before?! Most quants use R, Matlab, q/kdb+, OCaml, Python, etc. I can't imagine an analyst would ever use a language like Java or C++ for research.

M$ Excel, M$ SQL Server, M$ VBA macros

Also known as: what most of Wall Street uses. Are you sure you want a career in this industry?

what about front-end solutions for this newfangled language, does Scala do reporting, does Scala talk to Bloomberg, do other IB's use Scala

All of which are legitimate concerns. Did you bother to address any of those?

As the others have mentioned, banks aren't looking for "fast" or even "productive"; they're looking for "reliable". Wall Street doesn't chase technology the same way Silicon Valley does. Remember the FourSquare outage (MongoDB) or the numerous issues with Twitter back in the day (Ruby on Rails)? Banks need to have better uptime than that.
I had the same problem with an iPad giveaway. Didn't move the needle.
Skype buy was very expensive...but all of that is private investment

meh?
Google does eliminate more than 90% of scrapers. It's just really easy to create scrapers; they can outnumber the original content by more than 1000-1. So you need many, many systems to remove scrapers.
That makes no sense at all to me.

If your IPv6 is working you can't go to the site to test it unless you also have working IPv4.

There is absolutely no reason why test-ipv6.com can't have both an A record and an AAAA record.
About 2.3 million people are incarcerated in the United States. Recent figures say more than 12% are raped or endure sexual assault. Twelve-percent of 2.3m is 276,000 and 276k > 200k.

Not defending North Korea. But I'm a strong proponent of "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" mentality. Let's take a good hard look at ourselves before deeming others violent, ignorant, dictatorial, or cruel.
"pipe so small" - ironically, the symptom you describe are also indicative of the Path MTU problems. Not that this is necessarily the case, but I could not help but notice the wordplay.

The wireshark would show you the TCP three-way handshake successful, then the GET request would go out, get acknowledged, and then nothing.
>I'm not prepared to accept that random algo modifications having big impact on their revenue are done without concerns.

The effect on adsense revenue isn't even measured let alone used. The people who make decisions about changes to ranking algorithms don't even see the data on adsense revenue because we don't even have a system to collect it for ranking changes.

I work in search quality, and there are many metrics I have to collect to launch changes. None of them involve ads.
I was really hoping for something explaining how to simply make designs that will work well for any topic, and instead read about how to use a paid for theme.

Disappointing.
The Changing Face of Aging
(I used to work on Google search quality.) In general, the problem with such systems is that scraper-writers use them much more diligently than original-content-writers.
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Brutal title (Not OP's fault).

The article basically suggests that algos are reducing market volatility.

Algos don't try really hard to get VWAP. VWAP is REALLY easy to achieve, _beating_ VWAP is what most banks are trying to do when they trade large blocks.

A lot of the stories about warring algos and detecting each other are just that: stories. Yes, it has happened, but by and large thats not the game thats going on.
You're right about gdm, still I didn't noticed it until you told me. I think most people just change the wallpaper and at most apply a different control theme.

Well I don't really get you point on the controls and screen estate then. To me "bulkier" controls precisely ease their use on netbooks and tablets.

Well the search is a great feature if it is fuzzy and intelligent enough to match on related keyword. Now, for now, it doesn't quite work that way. Regular people don't dare searching because they might not even know what to search. So to me gnome-shell as a better compromise it does not force search on you. With Unity, if you don't want to search, you need extra clicks to get to the actual application list.

There are currently 9 Gtk+3 themes on gnome-look.org that's hardly enough to leverage the possibilities of the theming engine. Better theme will come and will harness the power of the new the engine.
What a blatantly ignorant article. Most of these tips are yawn-inducingly normal. The last two are almost offensive.

I think it's cool if a company is willing to support someone who has come forward as having been diagnosed with Aspergers. Someone with this condition might have challenges in the work place that other people do not. Any support and understanding is a good thing.

But I think it's ignorant to hire someone with Aspergers "because they have that genius disease." It's just plain wrong and totally not what Asperger's is.
Google has a lot of people working on improving search quality, and solving content duplication is a big part of that. It just isn't a trivial problem, because there are far more SEO black hats in the world working to outwit the Google algorithms.
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how to simply make designs that will work well for any topic

If you can figure out a way to do that, I think you'll become a very rich man :)
It doesn't need to do it between billion of pages. As soon as they detect duplicates, there is a high chance that it will be done again. So monitoring the two or more site with same content is doable but not very efficient. Ideally, the author subject to scrapping should be able to reference its page to google to prove anteriority. The scraper won't be able to do that.
Wow. I am shocked that information I explicitly block to users (such as profile picture) are publicly available through a simple URL trick.
Matthew Garrett opinion on the matter : http://www.advogato.org/person/mjg59/diary/296.html
FBI: If We Told You . . . (Part II)
Privachi- a properly private Facebook clone
Per the FAQ:

Q: Why is this web site reachable via IPv4 only?

You're right, there are no AAAA records, intentionally. A percentage of users are unable to browse sites that are dual-stack. If the users can't connect, then they can't be told they have a problem. This is a big problem facing content providers today; of which, I work at one for my $dayjob. As such, the main test page requires IPv4 (either native or translated).

At some point, when the percentage of "broken" users has gone significantly down, I'll consider making test-ipv6.com dual-stack..
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Do you have a citation to back that up? I do not know about publishing, but I can guarantee you that lack of Microsoft Office compatibility would have been a dealbreaker for several of the Mac owners that I supported when I worked in educational IT.

Apple's own marketing campaigns targeted at "switchers" tout this fact: http://www.apple.com/why-mac/its-compatible/#office
afair, WebKit is just one of backends that LightDM can use so it shouldn't really be a problem.
Okay, so that's a big red flag for me. Google can't have my private keys, so I can't use it. Thanks.
Only slighty more roundabout than RMS's system for browsing the web.
it can be hard to put together something with a consistent look

Totally, and that's why I go with a whole site theme and leave it there, definitely don't have the talent to go mixing and matching :)

I agree with you though, although I don't know if it would be something designers would use... but I really like the idea of going to a site, picking through different elements and combining them into something amazing. Any designers like to give us their opinion? :)
Just concerning the first 2 points:

1. "Attacking the overlord" - People bash Google all day, every day; for privacy reasons and what have you. Seeing as Facebook is Google's biggest competitor and vice-versa, attacking Google doesn't seem to be a mistake.
2. "Bringing attention to Circles" - It's the "but THEY're doing it too!"-method fb is using when it comes to privacy and Google, plus, "we care about privacy". However, you forgot the main point: Nobody was supposed to know Facebook was the one behind the reports.
I mentioned TemplateMonster in another comment as being useless, honestly I've struggled to find another site that's as consistently high-quality. Does anyone know of any others?
Looks like getting hold of a second optical drive sensor and using that on your third party hard drive/SSD is the best solution. No shorting of the existing sensor necessary.

"I purchased... [an] Optical Drive Temp Sensor, and it works.. tape it to the HDD just to the upper right of the sata plug on the back of the drive.. on the black aluminum; middle of the drive.(according to seagate, thats the optimal place for a temp sensor) and voila.. the answer..

How I came to this conclusion was, I originally took the optical drive thermal sensor from my ODD and put it on the HDD thinking this should work.. well the HDD temp and fans work perfectly.. and the ODD fan is at full blast.. so I tried to contact APPLE for the replacement ODD temp sensor.. Mistake.. and then I found the Link above.. and used it as a replacement.. TADA!!!"

Source: http://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/14068/SSD+compatibility+%...
Thieves install debit-Card skimmers to steal Michaels shoppers' data
Makes life easier, as the various design elements have already been split up for you :)
For some reason, people don't dig the plain white page with tons of controls.

Heh, totally - I remember playing with RadControls years ago, and always being severely disappointed that placing the controls on the page didn't magically transform it into a masterpiece :)
You're going to have to become more knowledgable about git anyway when you start serious development. Basic commits and pushes aren't too difficult at the beginning. I use Linode, but it requires a little more technical knowledge, as you're actually just. Given the raw virtual server space and it's up to you to set up your development stack for the pieces you need on top of a Linux distribution. They simplify that process a little bit by community provided StackScripts to get you started though. If you're still new to Rails and sysadmin, I'd recommend to stick with Heroku and gain some experience locally in setting up Rails and a web/DB server (works great in a VM or just using Mac OS)
VMware Co-Founders Named Winners of Computer Entrepreneur Award
Great article in Communications of the ACM, with a foreword by Vint Cerf:

"Successful Strategies for IPv6 Rollouts. Really."

The gist is that changing everything at once will probably fail because of how large the task is. Instead, change the web-facing load balancer to offer IPv6 to external customers, while translating to IPv4 for internal communication. That is the fastest way to get started.

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/4/106582-successful-strat...
Likewise: If the thing that isn't legally available to you is "the best use of your limited time," then you should accept no substitute and acquire it anyway, as otherwise your limited time is being wasted. No?
Show HN: Social Shopping
Hey there HNers,

First of all, apologies for the shameless "self-promotion" - just felt like sharing :-)

I've just launched a very simple project on the e-commerce front and although I'm currently involved in a few "bigger and bolder" projects, decided to give this a go. It's a DIY e-commerce tool that allows people to setup stores on Facebook, for free. We started this project as a weekend hackathon to help a friend bring her products online and decided to turn it into a product, so there's still definitely a lot to be done.

Apart from showing off, this thread is here to start a discussion around the social commerce market: what is your take around the market/concept? Thoughts? Predictions?

Comments, observations and even blunt criticism on my little pet project are also most welcome!

ps.: yes, I'm looking for cofounders, investors, partners, designers and everything!

ps2.: almost forgot - if anyone's interested on checking out the app, the beta is on http://getnovelo.com
If I was using this service, I wouldn't be looking for film star charisma, but I would want good communication skills. If someone isn't a good communicator, I'd feel unhappy either hiring them for remote work, or doing remote work for them; there would be too many possibilities for misunderstanding.
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I would care more about Facebook and Twitter if all my friends could easily tell that I was there long before any of them. The point is, I think early adopters take pride in being the first one in their social group to try something new, and they might invite their friends just so everyone would know they were first.
5,000 megapixel photo of night sky stitched together from 37,440 exposures
I don't live in the US any more....so no local AMA for me :(
Harder than you think. OTOH, how hard is it (on your feelings) to type 'i am human'?
Only charge developers a monthly fee? Last I checked it is hard to find developers and not hard for developers to find work. I doubt many developers would pay to be listed, I know I wouldn't.
I am not sure what you mean by the headline is inaccurate. It would be more clear if it said, "Google penalizes an original content site because of scrapers", but the meaning is the same. You seem to agree that an original content site can get penalized if Google thinks the scrapers are the original source of the content.

I personally don't see what is news about this. It has been known for a long time that newer or less frequently updated sites can get beaten by scrapers, though it usually resolves itself later unless the scraper is a decently reputable source like the Huffington Post.
New version of jobs code
Something that I've never understood.

We have markets that are based on allowing trades to happen at any agreed on price, as fast as people's minds can meet. Which can therefore result in very high volatility.

Why hasn't anyone tried building a market that goes the opposite way? Prices drift at a fixed rate (eg min(1 cent, 0.05% of price)/minute) in a direction determined by whether there is an excess of buy or sell orders, and trades execute as soon as both a buy and a sell are available at the right price. This would give greatly reduced instant volatility in return for uncertainty about how quickly orders will complete.

The advantage of the latter strategy being that it is very resistant to attempts to compromise it via high frequency trading techniques. That 1/100th of a second time margin doesn't matter because the price changes too slowly. Therefore a long-term investor knows that they aren't getting charged "rent" via the automated algorithms.

It might be objected that lack of trading volume would make such a market initially useless. But arbitrage would keep its price close to the mainstream market. Hmmm..I guess it initially comes down to whether you're paying more in rent on arbitrage or on HFT...
Hell with Facebook’s replacements; it’s Google who needs a replacement! (Note: I am currently thinking about possible alternatives for PageRank.)
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From http://telehack.com/telehack.html

"Telehack is a simulation of a sylized arpanet/usenet, circa 1985-1990. It is a full multi-user simulation, including 25,000 hosts and BBS's the early net, thousands of files from the ero, a collection of adventure and IF games, a working BASIC interpreter with a library of programs to run, simulated historical users, and more."
I stand corrected. That makes sense (even if it is frustrating).
I'm pretty sure the processing step of the biomass they're using for the modelling in this paper is not exactly the most recent. Sadly, our techno-economic modelling guy is out of the country at the moment, so I can't ask him what he thinks of this model. Still lots of problems to overcome, but I don't think this model captures them well..
caveat: I'm extrapolating from the descriptions and screenshots.

I think it's kinda neat, textual shells need to embrace the power of graphical representations (as in CLIM for Common Lisp). Nonetheless, I don't think that overloading something like "cat" with the ability of showing images is a good idea. Classic unix tools have a precise semantics, and if you start messing around, they may become inconsistent. (For example: does "cat pic.jpg | strings" extracts EXIF? "cat pic1.jpg pic2.jpg" concatenates two images in a single image? Horizontally or vertically?)

If you decide that you don't need the power given by homogenous textual representations, scripting and anonymous pipes, maybe something like the verb-noun metaphor of QuickSilver is more suited.
If they can make it available for Android, can we have it for Linux in general? That's the one thing holding me back from renewing my subscription.
He was denied access to adwords due to a mistaken impression that he's a scraper. He did not lose search traffic due to that.

The headline conflates the two things, so is inaccurate.

I've never seen an actual instance of a site with original content being penalized because it is getting scraped (though it is theoretically possible.) Our systems for this are robust and quite conservative. When a scraper outranks the original site it's because we weren't aggressive enough in demoting the scraper, or don't have enough data about it, not because the original was penalized.
It doesn't seem like Apple really has a plan for it's pile of cash. They just don't want to pay a dividend and they don't want to buy back stock and they don't want to acquire much so it just keeps building up.
Having done actual experimentation with weaponized acoustics in college I can assure you that no amount of noise generation on a web page is going to cause harm. Annoyance, yes, harm no.

Now if you're on your gaming rig and you have a 300 - 400 watt subwoofer hooked up, I've got a couple of sound files that can give you cramps :-)
WooThemes is a pretty good one: http://www.woothemes.com/

According to their blog [1] a lot of their templates use 960.gs, which might make them more friendly to use than ThemeForest.

[1] http://www.woothemes.com/2008/12/why-we-love-960gs/
Duplicates detection with ElasticSearch
Ask HN: Any advantages of Facebook canvas app vs standalone websites?
I'm building a Facebook application and I'm trying to find if there are significant advantages of having it inside Facebook's canvas and not as a standalone website.

Any thoughts would be really helpful!
Scala 2.9.0 final
When Web development company ArsDigita wanted to expand its programmer force in the spring of 1999, founder Philip Greenspun went extreme: He parked a yellow Ferrari F355 in the parking lot, and promised it as a reward to any employee who referred 10 qualified programmers.

Since this "tactic" is over 12 years old and we know what happened to ArsDigita (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita), this might be about the worst idea you could have...Shame on you Inc for even publishing this crap.
I'm working on a proof certified operating system. The original plan was to use Coq to verify the code, but Falso looks like an excellent, not to mention faster, alternative.

It's already verified the correctness of my code, which is a vast improvement over the string of errors I got when running it through Coq and Isabelle.

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This post has been verified by Falso for correctness.
According to their blog [1] a lot of their templates use 960.gs, which might make them more friendly to use than ThemeForest.

Just to play devil's advocate, plenty of themes use 960 on ThemeForest. I think all of them have used jQuery, but I've definitely bought a couple using 960 :)
This I totally disagree with. Saying there's no evident solution for a problem is one thing, stating that the problem is actually "imagined" or just has something to do with our perception is a totally different thing.

I believe in cultural relativism only weakly, I firmly believe there are well-defined wrongs: female circumcision is wrong (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/opinion/12kristof.html?_r=...), putting your own citizens in concentration camps is wrong, etc. To say that these acts are unequivocally wrong has nothing to do with "our own personal hatreds and prejudices".
Atlantic article, "North Korea's Digital Underground,"

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2011/04/north-kore...

makes for very interesting reading about attempts to help the common people of North Korea know what is going on in their own country and in the outside world.
it's not available for all of Android just yet - it is limited to a set of < 10 devices for now... so I'm guessing open Linux support is a while away
How about making the job titles green (or whatever color) to make them stand out more clearly on the fornt page?
Dude -- definitely get on the phone, it's hard but you'll find that the conversion rates are usually way better than email. :)

Feel free to email me directly if you need anything -- should be in my profile.
For those curious, here's a link to the full text of the Isaac Asimov short story that was mentioned in the text, The Evitable Conflict:
http://members.multimania.co.uk/shortstories/asimovconflict....
This is a helpful article, but the theme of the site it's on is really tacky with its faux wood paneling which sort of takes away from its message about awesomeness.
Good question, but the more important one is whether filesharing is doing that. This is where the question of whether someone would have bought something otherwise or not comes in.

Anecdotally, most of the people I know who fileshare just consume more now than they did, in a wider variety. Some of them have stopped buying stuff, but most of them haven't, and many went to Hulu, iTunes, Grooveshark, Pandora, etc. as soon as those became a good enough alternative.

You don't need to prevent it completely, that's putting your eyes on the wrong goal (though this seems to be the tack that they're taking). You just need to make the alternative as easy or easier and inexpensive enough to not think too much about if you're moderately well off. It's a stupid company that tries to force their market to act in the way they want it to, rather than finding a way to cater to them.
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A Functional Reactive Library (FRP) in F# with XNA demos
A prison city? The prison isn't that big. Either way, these people will be locked up for a great deal of their lives. And one day they will be out on the streets again.

Why lock them up in dehumanizing crime schools? Though, we have some of those too.

Here is another example: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4125865,00.html
Sure there are always going to be edge cases, but can you point me to documents that point out that they fail more so than other drives? My original iBook I bought in 2004 still functions with the original hard drive.
There is a comparison table on the page, it says that in ZFC less than 50% of the statements are true. A quick google search gave me nothing, does anybody know where I can learn more about this statement? Or is it a meta-joke?