skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You miss the point. The damping factor is arbitrary. Changing the damping factor changes the results of PageRank. So Google's search results are, in a sense, arbitrary. When Google controls the fate of so many Internet companies (by determining if they get traffic) having their search results be determined by an arbitrary parameter is galling. At least when Google blacklists certain domains you get the sense it is a conscious decision as one that can appealed against.
The main currency exchange does about $1 million in volume daily. Getting $124k in new money in there doesn't seem so difficult to me.
How Chrome & Firefox are Winning the Browser War - Cheating with Version Numbers
Several weeks ago, Mozilla released its Firefox browser 5.0. Being a techie and a geek that I am, I hurried to download the beta version and try it out. To my surprise, I downloaded the 4.x edition. Or so I thought.
Yes it can do what Twitter does plus all the other stuff but most Twitter users don't want that other stuff, they actively dislike it. They like Twitter because it's simple, that's one of it's killer features.

Google+ is Twitter on steriods isn't a sales pitch for people who value simplicity.

The article mentions this but then goes on to completely ignore it in it's analysis but for me it's critical to understanding why people like Twitter in the first place.
The conflicting interests involved in building a search engine are a fascinating subject. This is probably a bit deep in the comment tree to start a discussion of it, but it's certainly true that it doesn't do you any good to present wonderful academically vetted search results, if the users don't click on the dang ads.

For the particular search here - yes, you do better than Google, but you don't have a million hungry SEO guys trying to game you. So it's not a fair comparison. If you get as big as Google, it will be a different story. Of course, if you get as big as Google, you might not care :)
Why don't you sell it? Like programming, selling is hard and challenging but it's not impossible and getting the first few wins under your belt feels pretty awesome.

Also like finding a great hacker, finding a great sales rep is challenging. A great sales person for your business is probably already in your industry and may be working for one of your competitors. To find them you have to go to the networking events and/or trade shows - go to the places they try to find customers. Or depending on your industry you might be able to call a purchaser of one of your larger prospect customers and ask them who they think are the good sales people - the purchasers know, they deal with (Or avoid) sales people all the time.
This is why we can't have nice things (e.g., free power in cafes and fast-food places).
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As an android user (I previously owned an iPhone 3G) I don't feel especially safe either.

I'm kind of worried by the current status of mobile securiy.
I kind of need to log on my bank account on my phone (That's why I own a 'smart' phone after all). But I really don't feel safe, I try to not install suspicious applications because I'm aware of the various risks but as someone pointed out the other day: "Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time."

Time will tell, maybe we need a Blaster/Stuxnet like event on smartphones in order to realize what's really going on.

Smartphone security feels like the Windows 9x era, let's go on the internet and pray !

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_pigs
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That's the whole point. As the amount of Bitcoins gets closer to the maxim, it will become harder and harder to mine them. But ideally, this should be overcome by Bitcoin's increasing popularity and value.

This isn't happening right now, and it appears to have stagnated, but that's not a problem for Bitcoin's future, because the continous mining of Bitcoin is not necessary to ensure its success.

This simply means that there has to be a bigger real economy behind Bitcoin's value, and once that economy is strong enough and catches up with Bitcoin's inflated value, the value should start rising again, and miners will appear again as it becomes profitable to mine them.
2. Human need will always grow to accommodate supply.

It's been doing a good job so far. If there's enough of something, we tend to multiply until there isn't. You also seem to take it as given that "supply" is constrained by available human labor (and the efficiency of its application) and not by the power output of the Planet Earth. (You may, of course, be correct. I have absolutely no idea how one would even go about refining such an assertion enough to test it).
Why is MS getting money from android smartphone manufacturers?
Why exactly are android smartphone manufacturers making deals with Microsoft, when it seems to have no relation to android whatsoever?
The Google+ circles concept is powerful and easy to use. It represents the defining, foundational difference between Google´s and Facebook´s vision for social networking. If this new model takes off with users, then Facebook will find itself in the uncomfortable position of having to replicate these features within its own platform. Unfortunately for Facebook, moving to this new paradigm will not be possible overnight. We are talking about a major architectural overhaul. In the meantime, Google will have a chance to attract significant numbers of users and influence.

There's a massive assumption here that G+ is blindsiding Facebook. Obviously there is no limit to human stupidity, however I'd personally be surprised if adding a circles-like feature to Facebook is an architectural nightmare, or that they haven't thought about it.

The idea that there are meetings at FB where people are saying "F___, we're screwed" is implausible. This has been discussed for years, and I'd bet actual money that FB engineers and/or product managers periodically propose adding this feature and FB decides that the time is not yet ripe. If and when G+ demonstrates that people really, really want this functionality, I expect Facebook will roll it out smoothly.
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It seems a shame that all the effort that people put into making padlocks is being wasted, what good does that really do?

Answer: padlocks, like bitcoin hashes, are a way of allowing people to collaborate without having to trust each other.
Licensing Microsoft patents.
Could you post splits of browser versions (Chrome, FF + IE?)
It was all a dream. I used to read (The) Startup magazine.
Unfortunately the obviousness test at this point is moot. Once the PTO signs off on it, overturning obviousness is very difficult. The prior art is a better way to go, especially if it is obvious the same technology as the patent.

BTW, what is the prior art on the two clearest ones (from the title -- which obviously doesn't mean the claims line up, but I suspect they do):

Meeting requets and group scheduling on a mobile device prior to 1997?

Common namespace for long and short filenames prior to 1993?
On one hand, I like to jailbreak my iOS devices to have the extra power and freedom.

But on the other hand, sites like jailbreakme.com really highlight just how terrible Apple's security is. Things like this really shouldn't happen and it would probably be better that jailbreaks didn't exist. With all the different types of transactions and personal information stored on iOS devices, it's really unsettling to think that a simple website could remotely exploit a security flaw and provide complete access to my iOS device.
brands would still be able to rank.

it's just going to get a lot more harder to rank legitimateISPs.net
I made this with redis, node.js, backbone (frontend and backend!) and jquery UI. Has taken about 4 months so far.

It's entirely open source, and you can (somehwat) easily set it up on your own server: https://github.com/apphacker/sphela

I should note that if you create a thread or reply directly to someone it will send out a tweet for you. I need to make that more obvious.
In case the spirit of my post isn't clear, let me be the first to acknowledge that I wouldn't have run into this problem at all if I had been less careless. The purpose of posting this was to raise awareness and hopefully help others avoid making the same blunder (and to point some links at the correct site with good anchor text).
Great find. Google is really lagging behind on the game. An italian blog should never rank higher than the jQuery site. If Google loses our trust, and we have to be on our guard all of the time, ...
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Thx!
And even with mobile security like Lookout installed, we still can't be sure it completely protects Android devices.
No, "being in a hurry" doesn't excuse downloading and including jquery from the wrong website. He is lucky that there was a syntax error and the script didn't work, this could have turned out much uglier.

Edit: the headline should be: "Everybody watch out, a fraudulent jquery website ranks higher in google than the official website". The syntax error is the best thing that could happen.
At least you're arguing the points of the article :) I haven't used either product so I don't have an opinion on whether he's talking BS or not...
i hate that these bullet points are patent-able. i dont think the system was ever intended for this sort of granularity. we should protect big ideas, not functions necessary to run any modern mobile operating system.
Private citizens, at least in the US, are protected from government intrusion without the executive branch proving probable cause to the judicial branch. This is a part of the checks and balances which keep our government from becoming a totalitarian state, no matter how much it seems to want to. No matter how illogical and unreasonable it seems to reject concrete evidence of wrongdoing because said evidence was improperly obtained, such procedure is absolutely vital in order to keep from becoming a police state.

While hacktivism can serve the useful purpose of keeping corporations and public officials honest, it also violates this fundamental tenet of our free society. While it seems very poetic and underdogish for a small hacker group to bring a huge, corrupt corporation to public humiliation, it is at the same time a terrifying incidence of vigilante justice. These corporations must be protected from this sort of thing by the law for the same reason that improperly-obtained evidence must be inadmissible in a court of law.
Those two solve it by encouraging everyone to contribute to the public stream increasing the chance that you will find your gold by looking in the stream. G+ does exactly the opposite and encourages you to not contribute to the public stream.
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This was how I got invited (out of the blue invite advertising some site) and how I invited over 20 people over a 24 hour period (tagging them in a photo/status update or sharing a status update to a circle/email address). They didn't get any "Exceeded Capacity" messages although the real invite UI still doesn't work. And it was after I heard on HN/Twitter that "the loophole has been closed". Maybe some cliques are more welcome than others.
Have I got a story to tell. I'm a founder of a bootstrapped startup in Central Florida, which is by all means on the opposite side of the world when it comes to tech. Got a great product and an excellent team but just struggling to break through. Southeast tech struggles.
I will give you hipstartup.com if you want a shorter (better?) name.

EDIT: LOL, I offer a free domain name and get downvoted :P gotta love HN.

EDIT2: Now, to troll, everyone is upvoting me :)
>> I'd be interested in seeing a web-based equivalent of MS Access - super easy database creation and hosting. Anyone got any links?

Tried Zoho Creator (http://www.zoho.com/creator) and its reporting partner Zoho Reports (http://reports.zoho.com)?

Disclaimer: I work for Zoho
Facebook's ads aren't personalized enough?! I post that a had a good BM this morning and there's an ad for Charmin and Welch's prune juice on the thread! How much more personalized do you want?
It's similar, but uses some tricks so that you don't have to heavily modify the build tools to use it.
It's a PDF FlateDecode block, i.e. it's DEFLATEd. The actual payload within may be different, but this much has been used before.

http://digdog.tumblr.com/post/894317027/jailbreak-with-pdf-f...
Definitely interested, let us know if you set something up. I think a forum would probably work out the best.
Exactly, i don't understand how he can pin this on google. Sure, it's a problem that google ranks a ripoff over the main site (as they did with SO before), but if you install jQuery from the wrong site, not once noticing the italian TLD, that's your own fault.
Am I the only one who is a bit offended by the cleavage shot on a post about looking for a CTO? Not by the cleavage shot itself, but by the idea that she thinks it might help her get a CTO.

Now that I think about it though, sadly, it might.
Consider adding to the philosophy stack exchange?
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Show HN: e-Geaux (beta) - Startup + Theater + Mobile Tech
Some compadres and I have put together a unique piece of theater that will be debuting at the Capital Fringe Festival (DC) on Thursday.

The premise? We're a mobile startup demonstrating e-Geaux, our breakthrough artificial intelligence app that uses enterprise cloud technology and social media data to optimize your life. Audience members attending the show opt into our custom-developed mobile app and loan us their real, live Facebook data. We use that data in a series of improv skits ("feature demos") to create the show from scratch every night.

It's terrifying to implement, but we hope it's amazing to watch.

It's a pretty groundbreaking show: one of the first pieces of theater to leverage mobile tech and definitely the first that incorporates the audience's personal Facebook data for a unique experience every night.

We've marketed the show to the tech/entrepreneurship community as much as we have to the performing arts world, and we've the show and website have been laced with jokes that appeal to both crowds. If you're in the DC area, we'd love to have you.
Normal people, and guess what guys that isn't us, don't care about or even notice version numbers.

Chrome is winning by getting a lot of people to try it, and then being a better experience than the persons old browser. Doesn't sound like cheating to me.
"if you look at their competitors, Windows is much farther ahead in the security realm" and that of course is not heresay but solid facts. If you exclude linux, bsd distros, and solaris of the "competitors", then you may be right. So far most of the securty / pen tests reports I have read (and my personal experience demonstrate) that it is way more easy to penetrate a Windows system than a unix / linux one. I like this sentence "There tends to be a lot of myths about Microsoft security particularly in the non-Windows using community" because the symetry is interesting: most non-unix/linux fail to see that these systems are usually more secure. I have used both kinds for 10 years and had much more security problems with Microsoft (which does not mean that I have stopped using it). I do not believe I am the exception.
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Apple slaps Open Source Amahi with ‘app store’ cease and desist
I think the blogger was being an idiot. You should check the authenticity of what you are downloading, not just snag it.

It's like eating a kebab dropped in the street.
I would love to hear about these problems, too. I'm currently planning (as in not having started programming yet) a web app that allows people to manage all sorts of data. Which of course would also include financial data. I'm always looking for new use-cases.
The goal of changing the difficulty is to maintain a constant rate. As the computational power dedicated to mining Bitcoins increases, the difficulty increases proportionately, to keep the overall rate of Bitcoin discovery more or less constant.

If tomorrow, everyone agreed with this guy and quit mining, the next difficulty adjustment would make it easier to mine Bitcoins, to keep the constant rate with a smaller pool.
> Uh, wtf, since when? They're allowed to do this without a warrant? They just randomly drive along the streets and check heat signatures?

There were pictures in an article I saw talking about one such raid that was taken from the air, so they are probably doing it from police helicopters. It makes sense - if you have the thing in the air anyway (perhaps returning to base having helped out with some chase) make better use of the fuel it is consuming by sweeping the IR cameras around on the offchance of spotting something odd.

Any yes, in many (but not all) jurisdictions this is something they can do without a warrant.
"Most professional SEOs of my acquaintance would note that, if one has a site burned, redirecting that site to a new site is a fairly risky endeavor for that new site."

I don't think so. If that were the case (and we were competitors) then all I would need to do in order to hurt your rankings would be to stuff a website with a multitude of buy-viagra-penis-enlargement-type of spam/malware and then 301 to your site.
I guess? It was a waste of my time, but you seem to be defending ad copy because pointing out the guy is a microsoft evangelist is somehow not useful information

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott in fact, if you read his posting history I think who he is severely tarnishes anything he writes.
If by "last few years" you mean the past decade and a half, you're right. Otherwise I suspect that you may in fact have been living under a rock?
Such arrogance from someone who clearly has no understanding of what he critiques. I hate to add to the dogpile, but seriously take a step back and realize that maybe there's something you're missing rather than everyone else being fooled.

Your issue here seems to be "this doesn't answer the question I want therefore this is useless". This is just a lack of imagination on your part. Sure, he doesn't delve into the nature of what it means to exist, but "I think therefore I am" crosses a huge chasm in its own right. It establishes existence. One needs to do this before you can begin to discuss the nature of existence.

The "uselessness" of philosophy for most people, and I think this is where it fails for you, is that it provides far more questions than it provides answers. Philosophy doesn't package the world into a neat little box; it provides you with a framework to develop your own understanding of it. You still have to do much of the mental legwork yourself. Contrast this with science, where it does provide you with neat little bite-sized answers to satisfy ones superficial curiosity (E=mc^2? Cool!)
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People always try to find ways how to be healthy. People often become healthier when they on holiday.
They usually fill leisure time with activities that are fun and interesting. But you could also feel the holidays in your daily routine.
Dude was careless, but that hardly excuses the blame the user mentality. People live in an ecosystem which bias behavior. Dude expected top ranking page to be the jquery site (invalid assumption) and presumably that if the top ranked site wasn't the jquery site, it wouldn't be spoofing the actual jquery site.

Dude fell for what amounts to a phishing scam. Sure he should have been on better guard, but the circumstances definitely contributed to his user error.
I am just wondering if Samsung cannot than make a PR campaign maligning MS for their patent trolling

I'm sure they could, but business is not like an episode of Degrassi Junior High. Samsung wants as many partners as possible. If a carrier wants WP devices, they want to be the one to make them. Android, they want to be there too. While Apple is suing Samsung, I'm sure Samsung would take more Apple orders if possible.

If anything, Samsung may push MS to collect royalties from other vendors, to level the playing field. And this is probably why MS is on a roll. If one company is going to pay royalties, they want to make it easier for MS to collect royalties from the next company. So they're more likely to provide collateral, in various ways, to strengthen Microsoft's claims. MS can use this to then go down the street to LG and say, "Samsung and HTC just openly admitted that this technology infringes. It appears you use it to."

I'm not a fan of the patent trolling, but I must say that I tip my hat to the guy in the MS IP group running this.
Ask HN: Any Google+ like feedback tool?
https://plus.google.com/118207880179234484610/posts "Send feedback"

Do we have any similar opensource tool?
More productive is subjective. There is a lot of private capital spent on inane stuff.

Also "central planning" is too broad a stroke. Are we talking about national central planning, i.e. government programs or are we also going to include central planning in corporate hierarchies, household hierarchies, software design or even things like activities directors in retirement facilities. All valid ways of describing centralized planning. Centralized planning is neither big nor small, you can have it at almost any level & it's success depends on the people involved. Which is why the vague statement made by the OP is somewhat confusing.
It's not the same. If I type jQuery into google, click one of the top results and the site looks exactly like the jQuery site, I'd probably be fooled too. The domain is close enough to not catch out of the corner of your eye.
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Whether he should have downloaded from that site or not, it's ridiculous that it was showing up above the official site in search results. That's his main point.
In the US, the unemployment rate for people with at least a bachelor's degree is only a little above 4%. This includes journalism, history, and interpretive dance majors.

Would unemployment be lower if these people got healthcare and engineering degrees instead? Of course. But I really don't think people with less practical degrees are nearly as big of a problem as people with no education at all are/
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