skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm amazed at the HN readers who are doubting this. Loftus and her colleagues demonstrated a long time ago that memory is a constructive process and it is incredibly easy to implant false memories in others.

Some of the factors that help implant a false memory:

1. If the person was distracted at the time of the memory.

2. If the false memory is plausible.

3. If there is social pressure indicating that the false memory is true.

4. If the person is reinforced in some way for recalling the false memory.

It's stupidly easy to make people remember stuff that never happened. Psychologists have known this for a long time and it's one of the most bulletproof findings in psychology.
What I see from this is that I could make a lot of correlations seem 95% certain to laymen with this tool that don't mean anything. Almost any term can get an unrelated term matching perfectly. Search "Eco fashion".
Ask HN: What features would you like to see in Email?
We're developing a web-based mail client which is currently integrated with Gmail. Was wondering if there are features not currently available in Gmail or your typical email setup that you would like to see.

Our current direction is aimed at simplifying email and how it's used (aka Facebook messages). We also want to speed up the way you find emails through UI simplications.

Thanks for any suggestions.
http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=hacker+news&t=w...

So many git commands...
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Correction from the notes and the talk slides, re: PyCon
"2012-2013: Toronto; 2014-2015: Bay area"

s/Toronto/Santa Clara

s/Bay area/Montreal
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Follow instructions, select 6x13. Problem solved.
Why is it so hard to develop an MMO?
WYSIWYG editing for small pieces of text
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The first step would be for some top companies (Google, Yahoo...) to share the index. That way, there would be some speed up of the internet, and the index would not be open to abuse by arbitrary people/companies.
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I'm not sure I understand your point/perspective.
They would know the meanings for most of the names (classes, functions, operators) even if they don't know English at all.
>Getting drunk at a party and posting pictures on Facebook should not be grounds for you getting rejected at an interview.

it just provides additional information about you - type of drinks, environment, your friends/girls ... - i mean looking at some pictures one may want to join the party, while looking at others - "thanks, no".
> Google Correlate is an experimental new tool on Google Labs which enables you to find queries with a similar pattern to a target data series.

I don't understand what the correlation is here. Is this just matching queries by frequency of search?

So you could have completely random and unconnected search phrases/queries "correlating" because the quantity and time/date are matching?
This is easy as hell when you're friends with business people who own LLCs. For people who I know are qualified for simple jobs (receptionist, etc.), I am happy to connect them with friends who can give fake references.
I'm sure their CEO will be heart-broken.
Copyright(s) come in two forms: (1) moral, and (2) economic. You are talking about the moral rights, OP is talking about economic rights. Both are part of copyright law (at least in Canada). Also IANAL.
There are protocols for bots. Not all of them follow it... so block requests from them.

Problem solved... like a million internet years ago.
Does anyone know how they can match these so fast?
The amazing numbers behind World Of Warcraft (in 2009)
A couple of thoughts come to mind:

1. If I were Microsoft, I wouldn't trust Google's index. How do I know they aren't doing subtle things to the index to give them an advantage?

2. Having the resources to keep a live snapshot of the web is one of the big players' advantages. Opening the index, while good for the web, would not necessarily be good for the company. Google could mitigate that by licensing the data: for data more than X hours old, you get free access; for data newer than that, you pay a license fee to Google. Furthermore, integrate the data with Google's cloud hosting to provide a way to trivially create map/reduce implementations that use the data.

3. On the other side, what a great opportunity the index could provide for startups. Maintaining a live index of the web is costly and getting more and more difficult as people lock down their robots.txt. Being able to immediately test your algorithms against the whole web would be a godsend for ensuring your algorithms work with the huge dataset and that your performance is sufficient.

Here's to hoping Google goes forward with it!
I have a different experience from you.
I am a rookie at this entrepreneurship thingy.
When I ask for advice, I really am looking forward to following it. Try it and see where that leads.

My biggest skepticism is advice from people who never tried it themselves. They are successful so they feel the right to give advice even if they don't have any experience.

The best quote about startup advice that I've ever heard comes from Paul Buchheit, Limited life experience + Over generalization = Startup advice
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It's also worth noting that copyright law is not something that encapsulates the kind of deep wisdom that only age produces. Indeed, the very new and deeply intractable problem of the law vs. reality is that in the digital world, anything you do involves copies. Suddenly, there’s no part of human intellectual activity that’s outside copyright regulation. If anything, wisdom regards this with horror.

The current, and notoriously short-sighted beneficiaries of the copyright cartel see this as a good thing, as it appears to hand them a massive (and totally unearned) expansion of their power. The (mostly young) people who are most exposed to this hubris display a reassuringly mature recognition of this badness, and resist accordingly.

Good government (i.e. government of, by, and for the people) would avoid open conflict by adjusting the law to the benefit of the people's constitutional liberties, challenging the old commercial order to adapt peacefully or die gracefully. The fact that this isn't happening is de facto evidence of growing corruption. If anything, the wisdom of age makes this less - not more - tolerable as time goes by.

After all, there is no precedent (at least in America) that suggests a system providing total domination over all aspects of cultural and intellectual is a good and worthwhile thing. Indeed, much of America's involvement in the 20th Century revolved around violent opposition to the horrific and miserable places that did try to institute this level of control. Today, we're discovering that we can't even be 'friends' with countries that behave like this (Exhibit A: Egypt), since majorities everywhere find these orders deeply hateful, rendering them inherently unstable. Indeed, no modern totalitarian regime has survived for more than a few decades, let alone the lifetimes that democratic republics boast.
I'm sorry if I offended you. It wasn't my intention. Looks like my writing skills could use a little work! :)
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It might not be as valuable as ranking algorithms, but that doesn't mean it has no value at all. A deeper and more timely index is a clear competitive advantage, the former for long tail queries and the latter for topical ones. What would be the benefit for Google to let Microsoft leech off that effort? And if it for some reason was done, what would be the point of continuing further development of indexing quality?

I think a more correct title for this post would have been "Google exec tries to politely dismiss a silly idea", but of course that's not as punchy.
I poached this from the answer in a StackExchange submission cellis made, pretty incredible numbers and it's had two more years of development since then.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2585212
No description of their methodology. I can surmise some of it from their results, and things that trigger alarms in my head:

- All of the metrics are subjective judgements from the participants of how they feel, and I can only assume the people knew they were participating in this study because it's hard to hide the fact that you're asked to stand several times a day. So, placebo effect.

- No listing of the questions themselves - were they leading?

- No data on how many people started the study and how many were around at the end.

Standing instead of sitting may be beneficial, but I don't think this study, as presented, actually supports that conclusion.
Do you know if Backblaze has similar limitations? I cancelled Mozy due to their pricing changes and I'm looking for a replacement.
I have a potentially stupid question. When the author says "45% of my bandwidth", does he mean 45% of a QUOTA? Or actually 45% of the pipe is being used?

If it's the former, this seems like it wouldn't help speed at all.
BI field has been moving slowly but steadily into mainstream as more and more businesses recognize the need to be able to analyze internally generated information.

What are the biggest unsolved challenges in the field as of today?
1) Is it difficulty in getting a project up and running quickly due to lack of in-house expertise?
2) Is it expense of getting all the moving parts (software/hardware/personel) together?
3) Is it lack of strong management buy-in?
4) Is it bad/incomplete/fragmented data?
...

Please share your thoughts...
a priori - from before, not based on prior study

I use it here in the same sense as "an a priori estimate" as opposed to the more common logical use of something being apparent without requiring study but only the application of reason.

I take it you're more a logician than a Latin student. If the later then I guess you'll probably correct me?

Are you sure now, let me know.

--

Aside I've had chance to read teh article and there was no mention of taking near-IR images at day and night. So presumably it's my language use that's getting me heavily downmodded?
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"The idea of taxi licensing is that you can identify a cab on the street and get from A to B without any serious worries about..."

But that is not the idea of taxi "licensing" as it exists. It doesn't merely regulate taxi driving; it prohibits it altogether, outside of a protected group. It's not licensing, but cartel enforcement. Its aim isn't protecting the safety of the public, but protecting the business monopoly of the taxi industry.

Uber isn't prohibited from operating taxis because they're unsafe, uninsured, or unwilling to subject themselves to registration, inspection, insurance, background checks, or whatever "public safety" requires. They're banned simply because they are competition. And this has nothing to do with public safety!
I don't think it's quite that simple. The index that google serves search query results from is a direct result of the algorithms they've applied to the data the googlebot has gathered. If by 'index' the author means the data the goolebot (for example) has downloaded from the internet, that's quite a bit different, but still probably serves the purpose the author is looking for. The index is a highly specialized representation of all the data they've collected.
This is not robust to outliers.
See for instance:
http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=payday&e=payday...

Maybe they could use a different (and probably more computationally intensive) correlation to fix this.
You get it, as long as you have a legitimate story and reason people who you would actually want to work for wouldn't care or even be envious. However, if you just sat around the house, went out drinking with your buddies all the time, and lived off savings - that could look bad to most people (not all, but most).
> Raising prices will help

...

> before costs of living gets out of hand
It helps to include the words "lang" or "language" in the search. Kinda frustrating.
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Actually Uber doesn't operate the cabs, they operate a dispatching service. The livery cabs are independently owned and operated.
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> just that they shouldn't attempt to make a project look like employment if it isn't.

What is the difference? I am having a little trouble drawing the distinction.

- If a self-funded project is not employment, does it become employment when someone else funds it?

- If you self fund a project and you are able to sell the result of your project, does that make the work leading up to the sale employment? What if you are never able to make a sale?

- Do you have to be just another cog in the wheel of a big business to be considered employed?

- Why is searching for a job not the same as searching for new customers (i.e. sales, a real profession)?

As far as I can tell, they are all exactly the same. Where does the line get drawn?
Show HN: Business/Idea guy who built something to learn how to do it
I’m a non-technical idea guy and a business guy that has been successful in my work for other startups.

As someone who has been a founding employee at more than one startup, I’ve gotten to a point where I am sitting on ideas I think are brilliant and would love to build.

I’ve noticed how difficult it is to find a technical co-founder, let alone convince them to come on board with an idea. That turned into a project for me, learn to build something myself. So I built a site that is meant to help idea/marketing guys connect with technical co-founders and vice versa. http://www.incubationqueue.com/

My main goal wasn’t necessarily to get any attention or traction with it, but just to learn, and that I did. If it proves useful to people I’ll support it and maybe rebuild it in something more challenging, with greater functionality to continue the learning process.

If nothing else, I have a little more insight into what it takes to build a site.

I'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions on the site and how to improve it.
Just as important: if I am already most certainly aware, why are you wasting my time by telling me?

The same goes for people who write "obviously". If it's obvious, why write it? If the person doesn't already know, then you sound pretentious or the person feels like they missed out on something. It's pretty much lose-lose.

On a more related note, I'll probably check this out sometime. The dashboard looks nice.
So:

* Regulations need to catch up to Uber, fast. Uber is good.

* Cabs should be regulated, for public safety and consumer protection. They're a unique intersection of low-barrier-to-entry, vulnerable-consumer, and serious externalities.

* Cabs are not well regulated now.

* I am ambivalent about business plans premised on "everyone recognizes that reg X is broken, so we'll force the issue by ignoring the reg and going right to market". If Uber gets to, maybe so do investment banks.
Not having my emails in folders would make it impossible to skim an email "conversation" prior to picking up after 3 months. It would be impossible to archive a project and send it to people.

Foldering has its uses. Search has its uses. I do both.

What is this current fad for telling me how I must do things. I'm an individual, and I have strengths and weaknesses. My strengths don't match yours - don't make me work the way you think I ought.

And get off my lawn!
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It was a joke, I get it - I was arguing against the implications of the author's perceived actual thoughts behind the sarcasm. Java is an incredibly good language in many useful ways, yet also incredibly bad in others. SQL has not been successful without reason, either
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You can't decompile a program if you don't have a copy of said program.

However, when the decompiled sources are uploaded to a public server, nobody needs the original program, to use it.
This is cool, but I'd like to see it include the volume of the search term and provide a way to filter out terms above or below a specified volume threshold (i.e., show me the terms within the top 20% of all terms by volume that best correlate to this curve).

If that's too much to ask, it could at least provide a way of skipping the step of manually entering the returned search terms into Trends.
Don't the apps just fall over when they try to perform a revoked operation? I doubt they'd expect it
Thanks for bringing this to my attention! I have a thing I like to do with friends called I call 'song sharing' in which we listen to the same song at the same time and write what we are picturing from the music. Once the song is over we all press enter and see what each other's visions were. It's a really interesting way to get to know someone.
It would be nice to some more of this.

For Google Apps (for Business, Education, and ISPs), information on logins (both successful and failed) and logouts is already available to the domain administrator: http://code.google.com/googleapps/domain/audit/docs/1.0/audi...

For personal accounts, you have access to SOME of this data: select "Details" next to the account activity information in the footer of Gmail's web interface.
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I guess I don't understand, if someone provides me with a storage cluster of the_whole_internet for free, won't my proprietary_search_algorithm significantly degrade the IOPS and network bandwidth of the storage? Where would it all be? In some google data center that now anyone can demand colocation in? What happens when I accidentally or maliciously slow down Bing's updates and degrade their quality? And, as others mentioned, what happens when people push data into the index that doesn't represent what they're hosting?

It seems like this would be quite a complex project with a for the public good approach. Maybe it could work as an AWS project to sell amazon compute cycles.
7 or 8 people got one of these things at my office. and it was a pretty random assignment (for the record, i wasnt one of them and probably wouldnt have taken it had i been offered). basically there were a few free ones that were offered to 8 people (that didnt either ask or not ask for them). but all accepted. after 1 year, none of the original people that got them still have them. it took a week for some, a few months for others to give it up but in the end, everyone did. for some, it was more a function of the "ricketyness" of the ergotron device. since the whole set up (keyboard, mouse included) has to be able to move up and down its not very fixed to anything. so it wiggles and shakes as you type or click. and its bulky, takes up space on your desk, forces you to put the monitor at the very edge of the desk, killing any room on your desk for anything else you dont want to reach around a monitor and giant bar to get to. for all who used it, any benefit of being able to stand up didnt outweigh these costs. before i saw this ridiculous "study" i disliked the product. now seeing the "study", i dislike the company. unfortunate.
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So I'm really disappointed. It appears that the post has been updated to note that this patch set will never make it into CM, and the people commenting on the code review request are openly negative about it, citing concerns about pissing off Google/app developers/carriers, and making it more likely that manufacturers will make it harder to root/unlock devices.

Of course there's absolutely no evidence that any of these things are true, though I'll grant that they're valid concerns, to some extent.

It still pushes the notion that, despite being an open-source platform, Android isn't really "ours". It belongs to Google and the wireless carriers, and our ability to run our own version of a supposedly-open mobile OS is entirely at their whim.

I absolutely love CM and have been running it on my N1 for close to a year now, but it just sounds like they're too afraid of backlash to add features that could (with some refinement) really protect users.
Good pointers! Definitely will take that with me to my future posts! Also, thanks for the compliments! Hope it helps!
There will always be people who murders other, doesn't mean we should never try to lower the possibility of murder.

Same thing with death. We should lower the possibility that you will die within in the next 5, 25, 100, and thousand of years, or even million.
45% of his total monthly bandwidth used. So say he's getting 50 gigs of traffic a month, the bots make up 22.5 gigs of that
So, the friend which gets hired straight away gets hired straight away, whereas those who don't don't. ;)
Youtube, which has been profitable for a while now, is a huge social site for music.
I backed up about 600 gigs to Backblaze in about 3 weeks
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It sounds like she may not be connecting with the right people. Specifically, she might want to talk (in person, repeatedly) with managers / other decision makers. Once she's convinced one of them, then they can push internally to get her hired.

Basically, the goal is to convince the correct people at a specific company that they want to hire her. This is rarely accomplished by resume carpet-bombing.

It's worked for me. I landed my first job when I was still in high school (which allowed me to drop out). I landed my second job by talking with their lead designer over IRC / AIM, showing him how enthusiastic I was, explaining the kinds of things I could do, etc, until he finally gave me a chance to prove it.

I should probably mention that both times, I never brought up money until they did.

Good luck!
I made the Mozy to Backblaze jump a few days after Mozy thanked me for being an early adopter by quintupling my bill. I only had about 250GB to back up, computer was on 24 hours, I throttled it a bit during evening hours to not interfere with Netflix, and it was about three weeks to finish the backup. I don't know if they have a graduated scale if you have to back up a lot more.

So far, I'm very happy, but I haven't had to restore yet...
I'm blinded by what you are trying to imply sarcastically.

A rough distributed model could be implemented similar to the way we (hackers/coders) use github as a central repository for a distributed system. People contributing to the index on a private server could do whatever they want but since that instance of the index is not public, no one else will care about what the owner has done to it. Forks can be pushed to a public staging area where others can view it and verify it's accuracy, and then the major players can merge those changes into their forks.

The complaint (with github) that it is hard to figure out the canonical repo is also invalid in this model, as one can start with a fork of Google or Yahoo's public repo, and then build their own through merging or hacking directly on it, just like one can fork Linus' Linux kernel, and then merge in other's forks to incorporate other changes.

Remember, the index itself, as in the raw data taken in by GoogleBot or Yahoo! Slurp bot, would be the shared information. The analysis of the data, as in pagerank and other factors that Google decides makes one page more relevant to a keyword than the other, would not be shared as that is the bread and butter of each engine.
I think everybody should just call it "golang"
This article is about an year old. [july, 2010]
Interestingly, migraine headaches (http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=migraine+headaches&...) correlate with:

- small business development

- us copyright office

- education grants

- legal advice
The reason Google (and Bing and Yahoo and Yandex and and and) is in the position they are in is because they have the bandwidth and computational power to crawl and index the web with the speed and reach necessary for it to be useful. They aren't going to just start giving that away any time soon...
Dear lord -- Clojure is the most pornographic programming language ever!
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