skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the first half of the 20th century, industrial giants like Ford, General Electric, AT&T and many others were extremely consumer-focused

I couldn't really read any more of the article after seeing this outright lie. In the first half of the 20th century, At&T wouldn't even let you plug in a third party telephone. How is that customer focused in any way?
I personally kinda like that decision. You don't need both parens and braces to remove ambiguity. Since braces are useful for denoting code blocks, parens are basically noise.

I'm not a language expert, so if anyone can correct me on the theory I would appreciate it.
It's similar to MSFT vs. Borland, MSFT could undercut the compilers because they sold the OS. Compilers and developer tools are a complement to their core business. Smartphones are a complement to Google's search/adsense business.

To Google making sure that people have cheap smartphones increases their search revenue. It also ensures there will be a smart phone platform with Google defaults. On an Apple or RIM device MSFT might have enough dough or other leverage to change a search default. And on WinPhone7 you can be pretty sure the search default will be Bing.
You may want to check out http://reddit.com/r/askscience and target advertisements to it.

It seems that many researches frequent that subreddit.
I posted it buddy, I liked your demo a lot!
By giving away free OS and services they are killing the paid OS model and using the search monopoly to subsidize for it. But as I said below everybody does that in one way or another. Nothing specific about Google. It's just that some ways are more easily discernible than others.
The Copyright Lobby Absolutely Loves Child Pornography
I think Go is a pretty mediocre language overall, one that would have been a killer early 2000, but this article basically boils down to: "Go sucks because it doesn't support tail call optimization and continuations".

Way to miss the boat.
I feel like there's a lot of room for another kritik at the point when the 'quals' of this card are called suspect: Opp questions 'quals' of famous blogger, thus marginalizing independent authors in favor of institutionalized analysis... which limits free speech... leading to tyranny and nuclear war.
Oh, whoops...brain fart. I was making things more complicated than they needed to be. Thanks!
I agree that this is the best analog. I posed the same question in a similar discussion a couple of weeks ago. Can the government compel a defendant to decode a handwritten note or provide the key to the cipher? If so, this is the applicable precedent, much more than safes or doors. As a sibling comment states, there has to be case law on this. I'd be interested in the comments from any HN users in the know.
Funny that the NYT didn't link to Bob's website, given that the whole article was about Bob not being able to rank well on Google. I wonder why.
Looks like you've already started to get spam in the technologies list.
Regarding formatting: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

Using two spaces indentation can work

Italics also work.
> The name sucked, so the Japs changed it to "Sudoku"

I would reconsider your wording here as "Japs" might be seen as derogatory.
This looks nice... I wish it didn't only let you select the possible options for input though. Makes it a bit too easy.
the quote in the article seems to suggest that they are indeed killing the blogger brand.
I know that this is the wrong mentality, but I want to become an expert in a language that is as good as it can be. Can Go evolve to address some of these issues? Would it even be go anymore?

I tried Googling, but why are Scala and Haskell automatically classified as "academic"? Is there value in learning them purely for that reason? I walked through some Haskell tutorials after reading this, but I'm rather stare at the sun than read Scala.
Thanks for the tip Scott, some examples would be awesome and much appreciated. I feel like I can make it work by stumbling around for a while, but in the end I'm more interested in building something that makes commits, not the actual git internals code.
According to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics the price of average domestic airfare has fallen by about 30% from 1975 and about 75% from 1950, in inflation adjusted dollars.
Yes, but AT&T was a special organization in many ways in these days. So it is only the AT&T example that is bad.
Underthesite itself does its work behind a server:

http://underthesite.com/sites/underthesite.com

All you can tell from it querying itself is that the work happens somewhere behind rails.
With a name like gcc you kind of have to!
It was found on yahoo.match.com, which is a bug because it shouldn't go off domain. I'll look into it.

http://underthesite.com/technologies/jQuery/matchers/5?site=...
Will Apple approve program of Memories Calendar?
A best of breed garbage collector is a strong argument for the JVM.
The read is indeed true but hasn't it taken the nose and beans analogy a little too far, beyond reader's interest? It could have been a better read if there was a little diversion from nose and beans to some actual scenarios.
How to Make Video Call at Facebook
What's the site?
On the other hand, if nobody reinvents the wheel your language isn’t going to travel very far.
That's a sign that you should look around for an employment situation (another team, another company, or yourself) that values/needs your work.
Viagra to Levitra
CMU recently changed from java to python as well.
Personally, I think python is better than java in terms of educational purposes
> Covered adnauseum in the 'iPhone prototype left in a bar' thread.

What on Earth are you talking about? That phone was still the property of Apple. Gizmodo's blogger was investigated for involvement in felony theft. Leaving your property does not stop it from being your property. If someone finds your property and refuses to return it (or in some cases simply neglects to turn it into the police), they are guilty of a crime.
Your skills don't just scale down to asking out a date or going to city hall. They can scale up to $ billion mergers

Maybe the world would be a better place if you had influence over that kind of semi-arbitrary wealth transfer as opposed to whoever has it now.
:) hhaha
IE Surrenders First Countries To Chrome
Yumm... Anchovy pizza.

I recommend a veggie special + anchovies. If you don't want all the veggies anchovy and black olives works too. Don't combine anchovy with pepperoni or sausage as its salt overload.
Nice site guys; reminds me of www.quarkbase.com in some ways. But I like the focus on what's under the hood - keep up the good work.
> In a way, I am happy that Google was outbid in its bid for Nortel patents. This highlights how broken this system really is. It is being abused by big corporations to maintain their hegemony.

That makes no sense, unless you think Google is not a big corporation.
Concur, but so far I haven't seen much improvement with 4.1, which, I believe, is also using llvm by default for new projects.
A is the Fukushima Nuclear Plant

B is the center of the earthquake

http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=37%C2%B0+25%E2%80%B2+22.7%...
I tried Googling, but why are Scala and Haskell automatically classified as "academic"?

It's what people say when asked about languages they don't use or understand.

I.e., damning with faint praise.
Automatically dimming 'taken' numbers really ruins a lot of the challenge. I prefer to write available numbers into each cell in a 3x3 grid and strike them off as necessary. Brain Age for the Nintento DS has a great implementation, IMO.
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses” – Henry Ford

Alas, there appears to be no evidence that Ford ever said this and nearly all appearances of the quote are from the last few years. Also - a tell-tale sign for bogus quotes - the wording frequently varies. And I'm pretty sure that by the time Ford came along, people were pretty familiar with the idea of the automobile. Oldsmobiles, for example, were around before Fords.

But Ford was indeed a proponent of understanding people's needs rather than doing what they (say they) want. From his autobiography:

The salesmen [...] were spurred by the great sales to think that even greater sales might be
had if only we had more models. It is strange how, just as soon as an article becomes successful, somebody
starts to think that it would be more successful if only it were different. There is a tendency to keep
monkeying with styles and to spoil a good thing by changing it. The salesmen were insistent on increasing the
line. They listened to the 5 per cent., the special customers who could say what they wanted, and forgot all
about the 95 per cent. who just bought without making any fuss. No business can improve unless it pays the
closest possible attention to complaints and suggestions. If there is any defect in service then that must be
instantly and rigorously investigated, but when the suggestion is only as to style, one has to make sure
whether it is not merely a personal whim that is being voiced. Salesmen always want to cater to whims instead
of acquiring sufficient knowledge of their product to be able to explain to the customer with the whim that
what they have will satisfy his every requirement--that is, of course, provided what they have does satisfy
these requirements.

Therefore in 1909 I announced one morning, without any previous warning, that in the future we were going to build only one model, that the model was going to be "Model T," and that the chassis would be exactly the same for all cars, and I remarked:
"Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black."

http://www.scribd.com/doc/13250680/Henry-Ford-My-Life-and-Wo...

Edit: I've submitted the "faster horses" line to the proprietor of the excellent site http://quoteinvestigator.com in the hope that it will catch their interest, in which case we might get to find out where it really came from.
YouTube - ‪Jetlev it cost $130k+ Tony Parker rented one for $5K (Amazing)‬‏
To access my voicemail, you have to enter my pin. If I have not set a pin, there's still a default one. The way around this is to spoof my number (on a phone that uses pinless voicemail access) and pretend to be me. In no case is my voicemail public, either in practice or in intention.

I'm not sure how you think an answering machine is different from voicemail. I can access my answering machine from any phone in the universe, too, or at least I could if this was still 1995. Voicemail is just an answering machine than handles a lot of telephone lines.
Nice math fail:

“Why is the portfolio worth five times more
to this group collectively than it is to Google?”
said Robert Skitol, an antitrust lawyer at the
Drinker Biddle firm.

The winners paid 5 times Google's opening bid. Generally, one's opening bid is far lower than what the item is worth to one. The proper comparison is with Google's final bid, not the opening bid.

edit: fix grammar error.
RIM has much more marketshare in developed markets, and it can still turn things around.

WebOS has a technology advantage over Microsoft's offering, but a bad starting point. Still, I would not rule HP out.

But to be honest, I am not sure third place will be a significant thing. The mobile market is looking to repeat history with how things turned out on the desktop. Do we care much about third place there? Not really.
It's not the same thing. MSFT would impede innovation with sneaky tactics (e.g. hide or change apis) in order to stay in the lead. I have yet to see Google do something like that. Google is winning by innovating.
Use the term zealot then, or something even milder (like "supporter"). The problem with a term like fanboy in a serious discussion is that it is heavily derogatory, and derogatory terms typically shut down debate.
There's no way.
I think it's kind of like as a portuguese speaker I can never learn to speak spanish properly. It's easy enough to understand, but I can never remember the different words because it's too similar to compartmentalize.
I don't understand what was wrong with that sentence or what made it lazy journalism? Is it not one of the largest IP auctions of all time or something?
Getting started with Gems tutorial: How to create a gem for Rails 3
Are Google Music and Amazon Cloud Player Illegal?
Awww, I wish I didn't have to leave SHDH before the lightning talks started!

I wrote a Ruby program to do something similar to what you're doing: https://github.com/jpf/domain-profiler - If you ever start profiling sites using information from places other than what the server returns, perhaps what I've done can help inspire you?
On the other hand, I love when I search for the answer to some specific question I think I have, and find an answer that points to the thing I ought to use instead. People often follow the same wrong paths to a solution.
Let's say the average iPhone user makes $100,000 a year. That means the $599 iPhone is about 0.599% of that person's income. If they work 40 hours a week, out of a total of 168 hours in a week, that means they spent 0.143% of their year working to get the phone. But the person who designed the phone spent 100% of their working on the phone.

So the average user spent less time on the phone, and they didn't design the phone, they just gave AT&T a tiny bit of their money once a month.
Government incentives aren't that big? In the US or in China?

You think empty cities crop up all on their own? With no rents being collected, you think people will just keep building and tying up their capital for no reason?

If you mean the US, the incentives are not trivial. Interest rates are a big one and they are kept artificially low. You can write off your interest. You don't have to pay capital gains taxes on the first $250k of profit on a house.

There are first time buyer programs too. And standards for lenders were greatly relaxed around 2000, with borrowers no longer required to put 20% down.

Fannie and Freddie also helped by accepting the risks of loaning to buyers with less than adequate credit. Lenders had no incentive to even check the claimed income of buyers.

So, not sure how all these things aren't that big. I guess housing prices just double on their own for no reason.
If you were talking about doing academic research in Machine Learning (ML), I would strongly recommend your way of approaching ML, i.e. exploring and learning different algorithms/models then trying to find a problem that can be used as a case for the model in hand. By doing this you're focusing more on the algorithm, which could lead to some advancement in the algorithm, but not necessarily leads to better products.

For a startup, I believe that you would get better results if you started by looking for a problem that you're passionate about or that you think it needs more development, and then you could apply the (right/best) ML algorithm/model to it.
I did not say Google is not a big corporation. The emphasis is on patent system being used for by big corporations (against big or small entities) for a purpose that is not "good".
The Best School $75 Million Can Buy
Zip files all the way down
It wasn't an unknown group that won. As the auction moved past the limits of various bidders and they dropped out of direct bidding, they joined up with remaining bidders, and the winning group was such a group. (So was the losing group).
Your analysis is silly. The iPhone is a status symbol, just like a BMW or Grey Goose. There are going to always be dumbasses identifying personally with these things in a vain search for self-esteem. In reality these people are a tiny minority with an age distribution skewing well under the age of full frontal-lobe development, but they make enough noise in forums that you'd think the fate of the world hinges on this bullshit.
Craaaaaaaazy.
550 million? I guess that would be the cost if you included the cost of developing of all Google software that is associated with Google+.

Am I the only one thinking that other than Hangouts Google+ has actually not been a capital heavy project executed by a relatively small team?
I don't think Go's creators are as ignorant of academic ideas as you say. I've seen Rob Pike refer to OCaml a lot for instance. They just don't seem to like many of those ideas.
Not sure which text size you're using when you take your screenshot, but it works 100% for me using Jane Austin's Pride & Prejudice. The only errors are where I clip the descenders and is much faster than typing:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10RqUDWTGgpZQueJW19QhLxL4...
A lot of MBAs graduate and get into management consulting--basically they get paid to make bullshit Powerpoint decks and provide expert guidance in torpedoing their clients. In the consulting world, everyone agrees senior-level consultants (with an MBA) who are hired for C-level positions will run the company into the ground.
Noticed that not a single website is using django. Am I missing something?
I'm not sure that there is a django matcher yet. Django is hard to reliably detect. Do you know of a good signature (like a header or form token) that it always uses?
“We pointed out to [the governor] that there are overlaps between the child porn problem and piracy,” Mr. Sherman [The RIAA president] said

If most politicians knew anything about technology, they'd probably laugh him out of the building for saying that.
> The corporate culture of exploiting engineers will soon come to an end.

That seems exceedingly unlikely. Care to elaborate?
I feel that gadgets can be a proxy for people to feel superior to each other like with cars, sports teams, and purses. I don't know what people hope to get out of arguing about it other than entertainment perhaps.
Android app that can truly lock orientation (no rooting required)
Hey guys, I made this new app that locks the screen's orientation (not just turn off the rotation sensor, but actually lock to landscape or portrait)
Yahoo Shutting Down "Site Explorer" Later This Year
Minimum $25 for anyone confident enough to do it; which anyone familiar with any of the APIs he wants, will be.

So for $500, thats 20 hours of work. A perfectly decent amount of time (and rate) for integrating APIs. But WITHOUT decent views, which at a prototyping stage aren't that important (by the sounds of this idea anyway)
> Run some FP calculations on an AMD CPU and then an Intel CPU you'll get slightly different results.

Are you saying that the exact same x87 or SSE instruction sequence will yield different results on AMD vs Intel? As far as I know that isn't true and would be a very serious CPU bug.
That was clearly premature, but I don't see why we won't eventually arrive get to the same point we've reached with laptops & desktop computers where aesthetics and battery life count more than stats for most people.
noooooooooooooooooooooooo
The issue of floating-point determinism only really comes up in lock-step networking where you are in effect simulating a distributed state machine. Rather than continually transmitting the current state, you synchronize the state at startup and afterwards transmit only actions. In an RTS, where lock-step networking is still most commonplace, an action might be "order unit to move from A to B". In this context determinism is absolutely paramount, because any mismatch in the simulation between clients will compound itself over time, so even if the divergence starts small, it will soon grow to be very large. Whereas with client-server networking, as in Quake, a mismatch in the floating-point specifics between clients will only manifest self as a constant level of error. The error does not contaminate the simulation since it's client-side only, and the server is authoritative.

The issue of latency is totally unrelated and something intrinsic to the workings of distributed systems.
I'm not a Google supporter on this one but any situation where Apple is happy to join forces with Microsoft is a big red flag to me. We need a presence like Android for the mobile. It may not be truly open or free from liscensing fees but it's the only thing keeping the mobile landscape honest.
I think for small scale problems, it's easier just to have a 'wrong' solution that works right, than it is to go the 'right' solution which inevitably involves more complexities and analysis.
Google on today’s massive Google+ spam influx: “We ran out of disk space”
Minor point but there's a typo in the title: 'Soduko' should be 'Sudoku'
Typically whenever people start throwing insults around, the debate has already shut down and people are just scoring points from the audience. The use of the zealot/fanboy insult is just to point that out to the audience in case they missed it, since someone can still be completely polite yet still a fanboy unwilling or unable to spout anything but their own set of talking points. So shutting down a discussion isn't necessarily due to the person who cast the first insult, and sometimes there wasn't one to start with.

It's the people who insist on being polite that you have to watch out for; you can be a lot meaner, with polite speech, than with derogatory speech.
> just recently, someone from Johnson Space Center spoke up on a Reddit thread about the space shuttle, when a Redditor asked why the shuttle wasn't left there for additional storage or as an escape vehicle. Of the various reasons that the qualified person gave in answering the question, I think maybe one of them was one that I'd thought of ahead of time.

Care to link the thread?
It doesn't seem any more negative than 'zealot' to me.
Where you're wrong is in assuming this affliction is only with dumb people or a minority. We're status-seeking creatures, it affects us all. Of course to degrees, but it's not as if educated techies don't get into pointless flame wars all the time.

jrockway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
Very cool - I've never played with sending special terminal characters before to clear the screen and the like; like others, I will definitely add this to my repertoire!

My suggestion for deciphering it - let's not forget about `indent`!

Both iterations of the donut.c program: https://gist.github.com/1074316
Skillful marketing encourages people to define themselves by the things they buy. Apple in particular is very good at this.
Bang on for my app's site! Very cool.

In terms of features, I'd love to see more emphasis on the aggregate/comparison data. For example, most popular server side framework, most popular JS libraries, most popular hosting platforms and so on.

I like it a lot :)
Follow @underthesite for updates as I implement all of the great suggestions that you guys have made here.
Offline Google Docs starts playing peek-a-boo
Dumbass doesn't necessarily mean dumb. Lord knows i've participated in my fair share of flame wars, but I've grown more resistant to it as I've aged.
It's not fully-baked yet, but I'm starting to do just that:
http://underthesite.com/compare/jquery_and_prototype-javascr...

Thanks for the feedback!
Is there a working example of domain profiler please?
http://www.ratemyneighborhood.net
It seems like you could hire someone to tell you you're right for much less than the cost of a consultant, though, since they wouldn't actually need to be any sort of domain expert.
Wow, that's not intuitive. :)

Throwing in a "defer close(ch)" and that range thing did exactly the right thing. I'm not sure my API is right, but I know how to get it right now. Thanks a lot.