skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No worries. Going back to the original earnings transcripts is nice because then it's official Google statements, not something I'm claiming.

I'd been meaning to find those quotes anyway; back in January, a few skeptical people wondered whether Google "has a disincentive to algorithmically weed out the kind of drivel that exists for no other reason than to make its publisher money via AdSense" -- that's a quote from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2127937 .

What the last two earnings calls show is that Google is willing to accept an impact in our revenue to improve our search quality. So it was a helpful exercise for me to track down the relevant bits from the earnings transcripts.
I've got a ticket to the Exhibits.
Ask HN: When people ask you what you do, what do you say, and how do they react?
I'm an entrepreneur and I currently run an online business that is very profitable and it is my full time job. I'm a non-technical person, but I come up with ideas, and work with a designer/programmer to build them out, and I take it from there.

I'm 22 years old, graduated college 3 months ago. At my graduation party I saw a lot of family and friends, and a lot of people said: 'so what are you doing now?'...and I told them I run an online business and I always got a weird look or a comment such as "so does it make any money?'

What are your stories on this? It just seems these days that people don't think you can run your own business online or work online as a designer/programmer and actually make enough money from it to be considered an actual 'job'.
I use them in the Fexl language http://fexl.com .

Although the Fexl language itself has syntax for recursive definitions, it translates everything to combinators internally, so there are no "symbol tables" or "environments" at run time. Therefore it uses the Y combinator to implement those recursive definitions.

A while ago I wrote this detailed example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2719635

tl;dr here is a non-recursive definition of the append function for two lists:

(Y \append \x\y x y \h\t cons h; append t y)

If you need more parentheses for clarity, here you go:

(Y (\append \x\y x y \h\t cons h (append t y)))
This is a clear case where 'Exodus for Google+' would have been a much better name.
I bet most people don't care. On a dating site for "fellow nerds" though, it might not fly.
Good post, but unfortunately getting hired in Japan involves a lot more aspects than how you answer/ask questions.
For one thing, the process of hiring "fresh college graduates" in Japan is a particular beast of its own, rightly deserving books written about it. As a recent hire here, for the past year I have gone through multiple gauntlets of psych exams, hand-written/online tests, group discussions, test cases, interviews, etc. Here's my tips to increase your chances of getting hired:

1. An introduction/recommendation by someone from the inside trumps everything.
Before even handing in a application, get to know a person from the company that you are going to apply into, preferably someone in a high position. If you went to a Japanese university (especially a high-ranking one), a professor's recommendation is basically gold. At the very least, any employee's introduction (even non-management) will get you past the HR filter and most likely give you the first interview directly with an engineer, where your various social faux pas will be forgiven.

2. Engineering skills aside, employers are concerned about 2 things: a. How good is your Japanese? b. How long are you going to stay in Japan?
How you answer b. is up to your judgment, but you have to be straight-up honest with a. If you ever had any doubts about your Japanese (as I have), just be up-front about it. No sense in bullshitting, as they will figure you out by the first interview anyways. On the other hand, if you did a lot of prep, you will surprise them and exceed their expectations.
to clarify on the reference - i'm assuming she only mean employment history, and I thought employers were only allowed to say the dates of your employment and validate you did work at a company. Also I think you would have to explain to the new company your interviewing the gaps in your employment history, if you didin't list it at all.

As for the reference I assume you would ask a person first if you are able to use them as a reference prior to listing them as a reference. So if your manager fires you for reason xyz, I doubt you'd want to use them as a reference
Ask HN: Please review my site QuizMakr.com
http://www.quizmakr.com/

Check out my web app, quizmakr. I'd love to hear any feedback.

Right off the bat, I know the create.php page isn't very user friendly, it is set for a major makeover in the next update
clicky:
http://www.quizmakr.com/
Most people won't think anything you are doing is "real work" until you are making a substantial income.
Is there a typo in your nubmers (filed for in 2010, valid from 2009) or is it really how patents work over there in USA?

Whole year worth of time travel -- i.e., of retroactive monopoly?
I have been a huge Rdio fan for awhile and after playing with Spotify I have come to the conclusion that Spotify is great if you don't want to pay, if you want to pay then Rdio is much better because of the method in which it presents new music to you. I get the feeling in 6 months the front page of Spotify will be new albums which compete for attention space on your monitor by how much money is put behind them - pushing them into your view, where as Rdio (because it is paid for) will continue to be a screen full of albums liked by your friends or people you follow. I much prefer the later, however the former isn't a bad option if you don't want to pay for anything.
Can't beat the Apple Cinema Display 27 inch (or if you're a PC guy, the Dell UltraSharp 27 inch). Got two of them, love them, would never go back.
If you have to write this, it means your previous comment needs editing.

No-one "labor[s] under the impression that [you] don't know how taxes work", they simply dismiss your comment, or downvote it, as someone who doesn't know what they are talking about, unless you are some kind of celebrity, which you are not.
They are a radio service. This is a review of on-demand services where you can access songs whenever you want and build your own playlists.
You have a perfectly valid reason to fear about that too. We need the best people from around the world to come to the US and make a life here if they want.
Good points, but default is not the automatic consequence of failing to raise the debt ceiling.

The issue is just creating more noise and static that distracts from the core issues that the GOP doesn't want people to notice: that the GOP wants to cut funding to the FCC, and without the FCC and more stringent net neutrality regulations, companies like Comcast can exercise whatever kind of monopolistic behaviors they want.
Seed stage stealth startup looking for RoR and jQuery contractors 
Job Description
•	We are looking for two mature developers to join us in a stealth startup project using Ruby on Rails and jQuery. You will be working on a consumer facing social website that will be ready to launch by September of this year.
•	You will be working on the trendy Ruby on Rails and jQuery frameworks.
What’s in it for you?
•	If you are a builder like me, you will love this job. You will be 100% in charge of building new pages.
•	We will pay $30 to $45/hr depending on experience. The project will be full time 40+ hours per week and likely last 8 weeks.
•	You may choose to stay with us after the project. This is an opportunity for you to join a dynamic startup at seed stage.
Who should apply?
•	This is a very independent programmer position. If you a looking for senior developers to hold your hand along the way, don’t apply.
•	If you don’t have any RoR experience, don’t apply. The project is too fast pace for you to learn on the job.
•	We love to see passionate developers apply. Do you have a github repo?
How to apply?
•	Send an email to me (Clark) clark.zhe.li.fwd@gmail.com with the following information
1.	Copy of your resume
2.	Link to your work portfolio
3.	Why you think you have what it takes to get the job done. (Hint: What is your RoR experience like? Do you have a github account? Etc.)
About Us
•	I am a developer with computer science undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and a MBA degree from UCLA. I have 8 years work experience on large scale projects.
•	My partner is also from UC Berkeley and has 5 years experience building start-ups.
•	We are building the next generation consumer oriented web company.
Fexl http://fexl.com is essentially nothing more than a thin layer of lambda calculus on top of C, implemented using combinators.
"Y in Practical Programs" by Bruce McAdam:

http://www.dsi.uniroma1.it/~labella/absMcAdam.ps (or search with Google for an HTML translation).
I have to believe that the TSA has thought of this scenario, but they appear to have either not come to a conclusion on how to address that concern, or they are just hoping that it doesn't happen because it may be too much work to change the way security checkpoints are designed.
> The problem is, "what is page 2"?

Sure, most solutions to this problem will involve compromises and won't be perfect, but just about anything would be an improvement over the current situation.
I'm still with Slicehost because of Pickled Onion. Only because I know that if I need to do anything with my servers, the articles will definitely help me. Worked every time. And even though there are better and cheaper solutions now, I haven't even thought about moving.
Yeah, it's tough when a few make up a large percent of the business. You definitely have to drop everything to help them. I think our top 50 clients make up 25% of the business. Top 100 about 50% and the other 400 the rest. So we are less beholden to one large client as maintenance, hosting, SEO, PPC, and redesigns help balance all the new projects that we would need to sign.
At least one of these patents is apparently fundamental to Android which means Google needs to get off their ass and step up.

I believe the timeline is 60 day review then judge rules (which could go the other way, usually doesn't change much) and of course there are appeals.
If we're going to see life as DNAs way of making more DNA, Genghis Khan's mother did just as much reproducing as his father.

I absolutely agree with you about that, and in fact, the genes that made Genghis Khan reproduce so wildly may have even come from his mother. They may not have been linked to sex at all, and might be expressed equally in his male and female descendants.

None of which changes the conclusion, though, which is that if there are any sex-linkages (either by presence on the Y chromosome or by preferential expression) amongst the genes controlling risk (reproductive risk, especially), then they will tend to accumulate in such a way that the high risk male genes are much more strongly selected for than female ones (which will be mostly neutral if they're not deleterious).

Put another way, the "risk-seeking" phenotype is not the same as the "encourage male offspring to be risk-seeking" phenotype, and while the former is only beneficial to male genes, the latter is beneficial to everyone's. And the end result is that male risk seeking is encouraged in the gene pool in many ways - in fact, what you've suggested is that the social reasons that male risk-seeking is encouraged are actually quite strongly selected for individually, which puts the conclusion on even stronger genetic grounds (as opposed to what comes up often as the more PC theory, that it's just an accident of history that society decided to bring up males that way, not an evolutionary imperative).

The stuff about bonobos is quite interesting, I hadn't seen that before. They have a quite different power structure that makes things very unusual (almost inverted, in many ways), and it's very interesting to see that increased reproductive variance there is not linked to dominance, but to keeping a good position within the female hierarchy. It makes very clear the point that while a lot of (human) male traits may be evolved in order to increase reproductive variance, those traits do not necessarily achieve that goal (or any positive goal) in general, but only within the context of our other evolutionary peculiarities. As usual, it's difficult to evaluate anything in a vacuum.
Android 3.2 Release Notes
I've been developing in a similar environment for over a year now. I have a linux VM running apache + associated software, with Samba running. I mount my code as a shared drive, and edit it that way. This means I get the power of linux + linux tools, but I can still run Windows as my primary OS.

I am perfectly happy with this setup, and haven't run across any downsides.
ITC judge finds HTC in infringement of two Apple patents
What is so difficult to imagine about an Ubuntu machine running server software?
I make enough from my online business that it would be the same as me getting a full time job making 65-70. The thing is, many people that are not in the tech world have no idea how much money can be made online.
check your .html files in to your repo and serve them from projectname.googlecode.com. You can even set your project homepage to redirect there automatically if you are clever.
How do you respond when people ask "does it make any money?" How do they react when you tell them that it does?

I think the problem here isn't necessarily etiquette so much as it is ignorance. Most people don't know anybody who works for themselves, and a little education will probably go a long way towards maintaining normal relations.
Escape for what? MySQL? MSSQL? PGSQL? All have slightly different things that need to be escaped.
It's even worse than that: a search for "doc" does not return results that contain "document".

Gmail is great, but it's search is appalling, and it's even worse that it's coming from Google.
Photoshop not required: Visual.ly wants to makes data visualization easy
The VOIP data is probably not delivered over the internet for local calls. The calls probably come out of the cable network and hit a softswitch in the same city. For local calls, they probably have a TDM interface (T1s/DS3s etc) to the incumbent carrier and possibly other CLECs too.
I say yes it makes money, it is my full time job. They just reply with "oh, well that's good, good for you". Instead of saying I run an 'online business', I've just started telling people I run a marketing company (which it is), and that seems to fix the weird looks and comments that I have been getting from family.
I just worked through this for myself. Maybe someone will find another approach useful:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/93526/what-is-a-y-combina...
They can say just about anything they want, but if they cross certain lines, they can be sued for libel. So they don't.
Valid points.

There is no question that competing on account coverage is nearly impossible since Yodlee/CashEdge claim to support 10-12k interfaces.

While I do agree that building out really wide coverage initially would be extremely capital-intensive, what about just building out the top 20, 50, 100 institutions? I would imagine that accounts have a very long tail, but supporting the top banks would yield the majority of accounts. Of course with aggregation, limited bank support can ruin your value proposition. But what if you build-on-demand? I mean, you build out support for the top 50 banks, then rapidly build out new ones as they are demanded? Still costs a lot of money, but if you can get revenue to roll in then it's more manageable.

A lot of online bank UI's offer the same data options (download CSV, MS Money, Quicken, etc). I really see 3 big activities that can be abstracted, then customized based on URL structure and UI:
1. Login and security verification
2. Gather account information (nicknames, balance, limits, interest, etc)
3. Gather account transactions (download statements in one of the provided formats) Many of these formats even include categorization text or SIC numbers.

Normalizing the data would be a pain the ass, but could get better as you have more raw bank data to analyze.

Of course, there will be tons of outliers, but a lot of banks could be supported with slight modifications.

Just feel like this whole aggregation space is ripe for some disruption.
I remember reading somewhere that they are doing it, and releasing all the information about how they did it, as well as common pitfalls. The purpose of that was to give other cities the information they needed to successfully implement it.
"Even as late as the Victorian ages, several of the traits we now think of as immutable part of being male or female were swapped around. For the Victorians, blue was for girls and pink was for boys, and all women had the potential to become insatiable, incurable beasts for sex, one reason it was so important to keep chaste. This model of sexuality fit what the people experienced in their daily lives, just as ours does to us, and they had their studies that revealed women who enjoyed sex far more than was proper."

Enjoyed your post. In particular, I am very interested in knowing what your sources are for this info about the Victorian period. Thanks.
If a country has no debt, what security is being rated AAA?
Because you can put them in a "Waste of Space" circle.
Thanks! (And agreed on the 0.5.0 changes, just went through the upgrade on an app ourselves a few days ago.)

Definitely hear you (and others) on the previews - we agree they'll be good to have.
No. Generally the agreement works like this: "we'll set up a peering agreement between us. As long as the traffic differential is within 3%, peering is free. Beyond that point, the exceeding party will pay an excess penalty of x/GB."
You have pointed to guidance on the "massive lag in growth" by partner sites but not to the "stellar 2011 Q2 earnings" by Google sites. The latter earnings growth is truly exceptional:

Google sites grew 39 percent in Q2 2011 vs 22, 22, 23 and 20 percent in the prior four quarters (!). Foremski wrote, "Google sites' growth jumped suddenly and without any explanation." That explanation is still nowhere to be found.

Something is missing here. I'm not saying it's nefarious or not, and I'm not saying you /need/ to address it, just that you haven't, and that Foremski's question still stands. You seem to be saying (roughly) "nothing to see here," but that appears to be incorrect.
Free online to do list -:Strike.
<i>"Also getting fired is something that shouldn’t come as a surprise"</i>

Sounds like an unhealthy work environment. Management was pointing fingers at other management? Lame. Getting fired should never be a surprise.
Bad News For Android: ITC Rules HTC Violated Two Apple Patents
I think however, that if you really want to get the job, following the AskTheHeadhunter strategy is probably best:
1. Actively choose the companies you want to work for. It doesn't matter if they have an open position or not.
2. Research the company, discover the people you need to know, get to know them, find out what the key issues are.
3. Be able to do the job they need done
4. Be able to do the job the way they need it done
5. Be able to do the job profitably
6. And do the job to get the job. Anything else is interview skills, which have little value except to HR jobs.

And gaijinpot is probably not the best place for technologists. Nor any job board that doesn't focus on your specific skills sets. Headhunters, just outsource the above steps for you. Except they can't do the job for you.
what do people search twitter for? back when google used to insert live twitter results for particular web searches, the comments were always silly and not useful.

i've only done it a few times from search.twitter.com to check if anyone else was complaining about a particular service being down. in those instances i didn't really care what the people were saying, i just wanted to see if there was any recent activity about it.
We are slaves to our genes plus our conditioning, both of which are greatly influenced by our ancestors and completely influenced by things outside of our control.
Yep, we're big believers in hands-on learning and delivering code with this book is a big part of that.

I'm not 100% on the idea of one app for all the chapters. For books we've written and workshops we've delivered in the past, this has actually been more trouble than it's worth, and we ended up adding superfluous content in order to build a cohesive app.

We're aiming to have a code base delivered with the app where examples live, but the examples might not always cohere - we'd rather each example best illustrate its content.
1. You can't automate running of the UIAutomation tests. Square really wanted this for continuous integration.

2. Writing the UIAutomation scripts is really tedious (though
it's much better in iOS [redacted]).

3. The UIAutomation tests ran very slowly.

4. Having to write all the tests in JavaScript isn't very flexible.

That said, just like UIAutomation, KIF stands on the shoulders of the great accessibility features in iOS. In many ways KIF is like an Objective-C version of UIAutomation.
Great suggestion! We don't have any on the site yet, but I'd like to add some as we're able.
Fleet Commander is a Galaxy sized RTS
Its not a black or white issue. Licensing is incredibly complex with ownership sometimes changing between territories, products, people and having the technology in place to enforce specific terms so all parties are happy. I'm not completely knowledgeable about the subject so I won't comment on that further, but its not something we turn a blind eye to. Our content ID system is getting better and better. Ultimately its a question of resources, and when you're a cash-starved startup, you're spread super thin.

My point is that we genuinely do our best to help artists. We're good people. If you want your band's presence taken down, you're entitled to have that done for you. You can also leave your music up so millions of users can discover it and find out more about who you are. We have tens of thousands of individual artists managing their own music and we get tons of fan mail from artists who say that our platform has not only decreased piracy but has actually encouraged fans to buy more of their music and see their shows.

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/040811grooveshark
> By pretty much any reasonable metric, the British Empire has contributed more net good to humanity than any other nation in history.

From an utilitarian point of view, correct.
Actually having worked at TC and gotten the HN numbers from pg, I can assure you this is not true. HN is very similarly sized to TC. I left TC before the Aol homepage which I'm sure is driving much more traffic, but HN has rocket-shipped and all without things like sharing features.
Other comment - 250GB/month is less than 800Kb/sec. Cheap DSL is faster. Hulu uses 1Mb/sec. If you are one of those people who like a TV playing in the background, you can go over your cap just from running free television 24x7.