skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might appreciate what Jerry Neumann has to say about that:

http://reactionwheel.blogspot.com/2011/04/advertising-fallac...

Short quote: "In that case, if I put an ad in front of someone, and that person decides to click it, then I must be solving a very difficult problem indeed.", but the article is best read entirely.
Off-topic: I wonder when Wolfram engineers will discover the technology of Redo (a.k.a. Ctrl-Y,) so I won't have to be mortally afraid of hitting Ctrl-Z and losing my work every time I work with Wolfram Mathematica.
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A PhD in particle physics from Caltech ... at age 20?
Possibly not for long, but that's why there's value in their limited roll-out that many people have been criticizing.
I'm one of the founders of Distilled (mentioned in the story) and I also come from a technical background (maths mainly). The thing I love about SEO is that we get to work on harder problems in more fun ways than any other industry I've come across. You can make it whatever you want - Justin is a great example of this.

And, yeah, he rocks - but you all worked that out already.
Indeed! I liked Wimmer's notes on SSA in HotSpot too, though for other reasons. Too bad there were no slides for the GCC experience report.
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The hostname returned from DHCP doesn't affect the computer name in Sharing.

What causes the (2) and such to be appended is if mDNS finds a record for whatever the computer's trying to use. I don't really have an idea for why this is happening for dhess since his laptop itself should be the only device responding to the mDNS query...
Definitely agree that it's easy to burn through the good streaming material and hit a roadblock where it's only worth checking news additions. I think in addition to that, there are certain people that still go online on Sunday/Monday to order a physical DVD for the next weekend: namely my parents.

I got a Roku for them a few years ago to make it easier for them to stream. Last time I was there I noticed it was gone. When I asked about it they said that once they got a new TV they didn't really want to set it up and gave it to my sister (I didn't take any offense, and at least it's being used now).

I actually enjoyed it since it was a good reminder of how everyone has a threshold for the new/innovative/convenient vs. the familiar/comfortable.
the most interesting part of this was the first comment, which was a rebuttal of the ex-googler blog post talking about how new open source projects and ideas are more advanced than the 'dated' (his quote) Google stack.
I love a story with a happy ending!
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Ask HN: How do you start your hobby web app?
I've been wondering how people start out their hobby projects as I'm having some difficulties myself.

Do you guys just dive right in after you get your initial idea?
Or do you plan it out, right down requirements, wireframe etc.?

Maybe you even have some specific process if you have done a lot of projects?
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Actually, there have been some serious issues with NetFlix mail causing problems for the USPS.

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/11/30/ne...

This is a bit outdated, but I couldn't find anything that indicates this problem has been fixed (if anyone is aware of that, please let me know).
Yes, I'd actually never heard of Closure until I read this. I wonder how it compares to jQuery/jQuery UI?
Closure has been available for a while and is being used with Maps, Gmail, Docs, Reader etc. so I don't see why the addition of another Google product would make a big difference in adoption.

It is a large, full-featured framework, comparable to sproutcore, cappuccino or EXT. It ties in a lot with Java and (update: not GWT: I must have missed this since I never used GWT). I tried it, but found that I prefer a lighter stack of loosely coupled libraries (eg. backbone + mustache + zepto)
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You can use pseudonyms, they just need to sound like real names. I'm pretty sure that Google doesn't ask for an ID card.

If this was the actual policy - and not just the side effect of their inability to control them - I think it would be reasonable.
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> let's not pretend that Google were trying to do any different.

Let's not pretend that Google were trying to do something other than: buy a way to tax hardware makers who choose to run a competitor's OS?

Sometimes patents are defensive.
Can anyone find a TTF/OTF on that site? Incidentally, the text on this page looks like utter shit:

http://www.studiostudio.nl/en/project-dyslexie/
http://i.imgur.com/xhjKI.png

At least in comparison to the video.
Great move! Congrats to Heroku.
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Input validation would be nice.
Ask HN: Are we about to get screwed with this iOS publishing deal?
Our startup is developing our first game on iOS (free with in app transactions) and want a mobile publisher to handle marketing etc.

One publisher has proposed the following:

IP owned by studio
18 month right for all language, all location
publishing right on iOS and Andriod platform
publisher responsible for the translation to other languages, marketing, advertising and user acquisition
revenue share on the in-app purchase and paid revenue ( after all channel cost deducted)
Tiered level of share ratio based on monthly revenue amount.
An example here, $ in USD monthly revenue :
From $0 to $x , 50% publisher / 50% Developer
Next $x to $y, 55% publisher / 45% Developer
Then $y+, 60% publisher / 40% Developer

Anyone with experience working with iPhone publishers care to comment?

ps - I know this is "how long is a piece of string" question, but any guidance is welcome..
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Good article.
Now, I begin to build a todo web service.
reading the title i thought this has to do with RFC-4039 a.k.a rapid-commit-option for DHCP, which basically allows clients to acquire configuration parameters in 2-message exchanges rather than the usual 4...
I have a checklist I go through before I invest significant time into my own side projects: http://www.puremango.co.uk/2011/05/why-your-web-app-wont-wor...

Then I plan everything to the last detail, then I build it. When I was younger I just built it, and that's a great way to learn lots about both social economics and code. Nowadays I feel my time is better invested in producing something with a high chance of success than just a messing-about project. Unless the concept really grabs me, like http://thingsinbooks.com, in which case I just build it.
How to attend YC when you are on H1B
I have searched YC and got following links

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=158969

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4408

But none of them has comments from actual people who has done it.

If any of you guys who has already attended YC please respond back

1. What visa do i need to get if my intention is only to be here for 3 month duration to attend the YC program

2. If i want to stay back after 3 months, Which Visa should i get

I know YC do not help with Visa. Wished they had collected the details from other founders (and how they did it), and posted it for the rest of the world.
Quitting no, switching is always an option though. I.e put feelers out, silently pick up a second more interesting offer and give notice. If you have a large amount waiting to vest you may be able to get a match from another employer.
Hah, indeed. I thought of that fact myself as soon as I had created the vote. However I remembered that there have been votes about the upvote-count being reimplemented since it has been turned of, so I hoped there would be a upvote-count for topics starting with "Ask HN". Obviously not. :(
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So they wouldn't have attempted to get patent fees out of Apple, RIM and anyone making Windows Phone devices? They'd have just spent $3bn on the patents to stop anyone else having them.

The whole Google are victims thing is getting pretty tired.
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Hehe... honestly I'm even less sneaky and didn't realize that comment upvotes give you karma as well. Now I'll have to craft more submissions of this kind (e.g. "Should larelli get the karma? Yes/No?").
To someone like me who's interested in compilers but doesn't have deep understanding of their workings, this is a really fascinating article! I appreciate the history, maybe should dig in to some of the linked papers ...
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Steve Jobs also uses words like "revolutionary" and "magical" when talking about his own work. Why can't Stephen Wolfram get a pass?

Personally I appreciate that Stephen Wolfram tries to talk about his work in a larger context and using terms that even a layperson can understand, rather than hiding behind specialist jargon and the false modesty of a traditional expert persona.

He may not be right about computational program-space mining becoming a trillion-dollar industry, but he's brave enough to frame his long-term enthusiasm in these terms. What's the worst that can happen? If it eventually turned out that he was right, he'd certainly be remembered. If he's wrong, no big deal -- it doesn't take anything away from his accomplishments as a programmer and CEO.
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It's like that with a lot of things I suppose - you make it what you want. For a while I scoffed at "SEO" but my cofounder dragged me into starting a company and before I knew it I had more interesting engineering problems to solve (still do) than I could shake a stick at and I'm having fun.
Agreed, this is less than 1 WELS().

()one to ten Wolfram Egocentricity Lineal Scale.
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> So they wouldn't have attempted to get patent fees out of Apple, RIM and anyone making Windows Phone devices?

I believe that's what I implied.

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22google+sues%22+patent

Do you have some reason to think otherwise apart from that it would be bad business sense in your opinion?
I have a son who is turning two.

Our local supermarket is a great primarily organic shop. They have carts made for the little ones and we normally use that to do all our shopping.

I usually let him pick things down from the shelves or give him things from them to put into his cart. Sometimes his picks are random but mostly he fetches three things that I normally get.

1. Milk
2. Pasta
3. Swarts Broot

After that we go to the counter and he fetches the things for me to put up on the desk. He now even packs it.

I have found that involving him like this makes it much easier to set boundaries because he can relate to them.

It's quite different to be told to put only some of the things back rather than everything.

It's quite amazing to experience the emergence of consciousness.
Love it, good job.

Is the voice-over woman on the demo video a bot? Her sentences don't flow well and sound awkward, why not use a real person?
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My advice is: don't.

There's a good reason why lawyers seem inclined towards conservative interpretations of the law.

If you're not in a position to pay a lawyer, you are definitely not in a position to be messing around in an area with hazy legal parameters.

Point your creative process elsewhere.
I will mention some technologies/resources we used in the new interface. Hope it helps others.

* For generating screenshots, we used the awesome PhantomJS http://www.phantomjs.org/

* Color scheme was decided using http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html and http://colorschemedesigner.com/

* We used fonts from Google Open fonts http://www.google.com/webfonts

* Icon set was discovered (and subsequently purchased) via http://www.iconfinder.com/

* We used jQuery heavily for AJAX based test creation and reports

* The charts developed using Flot library http://code.google.com/p/flot/

Would love to hear feedback on the new interface. We worked hard on this one :)
The ex-googler who compares Protocol Buffers to MessagePack is either lying about his understanding of Protocol Buffers, or hasn't looked at MessagePack beyond a simple glance.

First of all, MessagePack throws up a benchmark on their front page bragging about how it can deserialize 3 integers and a string faster than Protocol Buffers. Lovely. Of course, besides being a silly microbenchmark, that's in an array - not a keyed map, and since your protocol is going to evolve, you'll need a keyed map. Since MessagePack serializes map keys with the message, you're going to take a big hit there. Let alone when you have a protocol that grows over several years and has to support a service with over a hundred keys. Eventually, your string keys will become too big of an overhead, and you'll switch to integer keys. Then you have to roll your own translation layer between your space-saving integer keys and useful names for your keys. It's roughly at this point you wish you had picked the "creaky" solution which has done the right thing™ for almost a decade (though of course not open source for that long).
Steve Jobs doesn't have a pass either and is annoying as hell.
Interesting list of difficulties by language.

In Chinese, while he and she is pronounced the same way ("ta"), the writing is different for he 他 and she 她. That's the only difficult part I could think of in Chinese, there are no changing word endings, etc.

In German is should be more difficult, because there is no "their" like in English to replace her and his.
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Nope, voice-over is not a bot but we outsourced it. Didn't realize she sounds like a bot. Let me collect some more feedback on this.
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Loved new interface. Its slick. Keep up good work! :)
If SEO loses its importance and existence then the search engines will lose their true meaning for ranking websites keeping the quality web parameters in mind as they will become a platform for just displaying Ads. Only those search engines will survive in the long run which can rank quality searches and help people find what they are looking for on the search engines. Else search engines will be the domain of those corporates who can spend more for visibility.

SEO helps in making the web a better place and focus on quality rather than make it a money making machine only for some. As the SEO techniques offer a global platform and equal platform for SMEs who have limited budgets and is one of the best web presence stategies for SMEs. As search engines do not rank websites on organic search on the basis of their fame or strong balance sheets but on the basis of the quality aspects of the websites.

But as earlier said every coin has got 2 sides there are some people who misuse this but that does not reduce the value of SEO in any way.
Say I create a follow-protected twitter account, which only I follow, write a couple lines of ruby to retweet stuff randomly to myself and a crontab entry for it ... did I miss anything?
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I've joined Google 4 months ago, and so far it is the most enjoyable job I've had, including grad school. I've worked at 3 start-ups before, and after working at Google, I think promise of future riches is the only reason to prefer a start-up. If you are proactive, you get full freedom to choose problems you work on, a ton of computational resources and many very smart and supportive people around you. I had an opportunity to join Google earlier as a "general pool" SWE, and I turned it down because I thought I might get stuck maintaining some boring piece of code. But if I knew what I know now, I would've taken it and would probably be in the same position as now -- SWE's have ability to reallocate themselves, and if you find a better team, your old manager isn't going to fight to keep you
great article! It reminds me of Curien's work on categorical combinators, where the machine definition is given by the equational axioms of the model, in this case the cartesian closed categories.

I don't think McCarthy was informed by the lambda calculus either. I've heard his background was in functional analysis and he was motivated by symbolic differentiation when inventing lisp. I'd be interested to know this history better.
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This seems like one of those things the usefulness of which I habitually underestimate.
I'm not sure what this quote mean, because http://lesswrong.com/lw/31/what_do_we_mean_by_rationality/ http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Hollywood_rationality http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StrawVulcan

The way I see it, the whole world, including Google, would fare better if people where actually more rational. And one Spock (calculating and mistaken most of the time) is already one too many. So, unless "irrational" and "rational" didn't refer to the same concept, I cannot help but dismiss the quote as not well thought out.

Either I missed something (besides the obvious aura of Deep Wisdom), or this quote actually is quite terrible.
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Everybody is discussing whether Apple is cheating and whether is it worth it, compared to the speed of connection of the Galaxy (0.03s vs 11s).

Note that the Galaxy takes more than 10s to connect because is trying to be clever. If it started just doing the DHCP negotiation it will get an IP in 0.7s.

Are the problems Apple devices create really worth saving 0.7 - 0.03s?

BTW, 0.7s is an awful long time to get an IP. Anybody knows why a router takes so long to answer?
Parents who give their kids a regular diet of "High Praise", "Agreeableness", "Supportiveness" and "Positive Interaction", but don't send them to college create children who have higher socioeconomic statuses than children of disconnected parents who send theirs to college. Multiple studies done confirm this.

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Adam Savage from Mythbusters claimed his love of building came from his parents encouraging him to make all sorts of crazy inventions. Moral of the story, encourage the children to build stuff, keep them on track but don't do it for them.
> So you just have to severly emotionally abuse someone and that's terrorism?

Well, if you severly emotionally abuse they, you know, feel terrified.
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http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=S+Wolfram+and+...
I'd love to hear a little more about how this was built. Very nice!
In legal situations, you don't have a "core argument". You have as many parallel arguments as possible, even if they are somewhat contradictory. One argument is that the photos are un-copyrightable (public domain), as they are not the creative works of a human. Another argument is that if the photos are copyright, it's "fair use". He's keeping one foot on both boats, in case one of them sinks.
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That comment has an extra layer coming from you.
Odds are it's because of the word 'game' in the domain.
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+1, I wanted to recommend this feature to the gReader team, tried using twitter and sending this perfect artistic mock up http://twitpic.com/56aj27 but nothing came of it.
Thanks - that's very useful
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While working for a social-game maker, I've been wrist-slapped for a game that ostensibly pre-filled fields. After multiple internal reviews failed to find the offending form/screen, we finally reached out to our facebook contact (thankfully, the company I was working for was important enough to have one).

It turned out that we pre-filled the name of the user's town (this was a city-building game) with "Firstname's Town". Changing this to a blank field wrecked our funnel, but heh.

Point I'm trying to make is, it's often hard to tell what/if you're doing wrong, when you get a rejection like that.
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Select [Standard]

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This is a really good idea. I don't usually sign up for random newsletters, but this is different. I have just signed up.

I assume you're going to place health/office related adverts in the emails, and Like/+1 links?

You could perhaps add a link that people can click once they've completed a task, and maintain a running score for them or something? Turn it into a game.
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