skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google recently suspended all my ads for advertising services (AdWords competitors) and for ad tracking services (Analytics competitors). These are sites Google had advertised for as long as 6 years without issue. The reasons all seem a stretch (http://www.w3roi.com is suspended for 'misleading claims' - what claims?).

Someone's rewriting policies and cracking down over there, and it's a big problem for any business when the largest display and search advertising service in the world decides they won't allow you to be a customer anymore. Sleepless nights for me, as I had just mortgaged a new house before my ads turned up suddenly suspended.
There are no dice. It's entirely about self-interest and betrayal. So why would you think that? ;-)
B2B Enterprise sales, an inside view
Iirc, CA law says cyclists should use the bicycle lane when safe and convenient, but should not hesitate to act like a motor vehicle in the normal lanes when needed. Like you, I've found staying to the left of right-turn-only lanes prevents a lot of cutoff situations. It sounds like obvious advice, but it can feel intimidating for cyclists not used to traffic.
Touché. It all seems rather petty, though. They can either both allow ads, or both ban ads, and the public probably doesn't care which scenario happens.
Great idea but hope you guys are changing the UI/UX. The diagonal lines being blue and the text being blue cause the eye/brain to want to close the shape which is quite distracting. Take a look at the contrast and fixing the anti-aliasing.

Really think about the emotional response you want to trigger in your customers. For a lot of people this is a very harrowing experience and the design should provide comfort. There's a evolutionary psychological response called the savanna preference, it triggers a clinically tested calming emotional response. Should work wonders. If you have questions about how to trigger different emotional responses (trust, calm, etc) in the design, feel free to reach out. Plan on writing a blog post about it at some point in the future.
Definitely - work remotely - go to places where you can live and enjoy the culture, but with just some net access you can still make something near your current wage. You'll be amazed how far your cash will go living in India or the rest of Asia - so you won't need to work all the time - just enough to keep things kicking over. By all means take local work, but there will be visa issues etc. to bear in mind.
In the audio version, they mention several times that patent law is founded in the constitution. I wish they would actually read it though, as it's not very complicated:

The Congress shall have Power To [...] promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
And this wouldn't have anything at all to do with Facebook first banning adverts for Google+?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20080054-71/facebook-bans-...

Or Facebook banning Adwords in all Facebook apps?

http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=91182&...

More: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Facebook+ba...
Is this a joke? They want $18,000 to make what looks like a low quality flash game? They don't have anything beyond an idea and some pretty horrible looking concept art and people are actually giving them money?

Am I missing something here?
Startup Quote: Adam Smith, Co-founder, Xobni
I don't make comments like this that often, but that is hysterical (and, off-topic :). I don't have any insight into the modern gaming generation, so this is an especially interesting comment because I often feel like I'm missing something, but my underlying suspicion was that their was nothing but a vapid notion, at most.
Anyone with a US legal background know if this raises any antitrust issues?

It would certainly raise some red flags under Australian competition law.
Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Mango Update To Handset Makers
Facebook removed Adsense from their list of "approved ad providers" earlier this year. http://developers.facebook.com/adproviders/

This may be a response to that.
An editor on top of Chromium. A desktop program!
Focus on the user.

- Adam Smith (@asmith)

http://startupquote.com/post/8103810989
From news articles and personal experience. There have been dozens, if not hundreds of articles about age discrimination in high tech. The people in my extended family who are doctors are all still practicing in their 60s, whereas the two who were programmers were laid off at age 48 and 52, never to work as programmers again. I worked in Silicon Valley, Boston and NYC for 12 years and I can count the number of programmers I worked with over the age of 45 on one hand! (Maybe even on 1 finger, technically the other guy was no longer working as a programmer...)
Running cloud9 on their hosting isn't free for non open source projects, but you're welcome to download the source from GitHub and install it on your own server.
Operation UnManifest
I would like to see the same strategy used to identify and shut down botnets. Unfortunately this requires making ISPs liable for the traffic that goes over their networks. Which gives them a very, very good argument for not having net neutrality.

But I personally think that it would be a significant improvement to move responsibility for finding machines on botnets from Joe Q. Public to the ISPs that are routing those attacks. There is no way to get the general public to understand enough about computers to recognize when they are the problem. But ISPs are supposed to understand something nontrivial about networking.
I'd be curious to see some real numbers on this. How much is this costing Google directly? How much does the offensive damage Facebook in the pocketbook?

Unless there's a genuinely huge advantage at play, I think this is a bad move by Google. They're supposed to be the good guy against Facebook, and they're just pissing that competitive edge away.
There is often a difference between what the customer says they want (which they label "requirements") and what they actually need. Sometimes they need to be told no, and when they ask for the third time and nothing's changed, that's definitely crap that your developers should be shielded from.
I'm more interested in last-mile solutions. Where I live has abysmal internet service. In fact, DSL was unavailable in our neighborhood until after cable made its appearance. I'm willing to pay for a decent, business-class solution for internet service, as our consumer package craps out every month or so. However, the top business-class package for our cable provider is only 10/2, and that would run north of $300/month without any other services like phone or TV.

I would love a solution like Verizon FIOS but they don't serve my area. Fiber to the home is what I really want.
I've been using oDesk to do some remote work. You can definitely scale remote working to where you have enough money to travel.

Most places I've been always have an internet connection in easy reach.
Seriously, do you know such a person?

I'm looking for an analytical genius who has experience with cohort analysis and with managing large online ad campaigns, facebook ads especially.
I said it last time and I'll say it again: I don't get why people are impressed by these demos. This game moves too quickly, there's no built-in restart ability, it uses alert(), and it's something easily assembled with a day's worth of javascript knowledge. And no, I'm not mad, but I just really want to see HTML5 evolve beyond the simple demo state.

Here's a game I made for my girlfriend in a couple of days for Valentine's Day: http://ektomarch.com/games/VDGame/VDGame.html (excuse me for the hammy dialogue)

I wouldn't normally make this public, but I think this better shows what's possible. It seems that HTML5 games haven't even begun to approach the state of flash games in the early 2000s, and this is a problem.

Also, I'm running on a cheap-o server, so things may die/not load.
The Nine Lives of Chloe King Season 1 Episode 7 
The Nine Lives of Chloe King Season 1 Episode 7
The title and focus of this post is a good example of the problem I think Boston has: they want to do research and create some languages - they don't like going into the trenches and doing the lower level stuff that builds companies. that's an extreme generalization but I think it applies at least a little.
Thank you for this. The lack of working flash in Lion has been a really PITA.
"A hack" = a quick and dirty fix to some code to make it do something extra as required by some non-technical manager

"Hacking" = trying out different random changes to a codebase until you stumble on the one that does what you want

Those are the definitions (from 1980's Australia/NZ) that stick in my brain, despite being exposed to the "new", more positive, definition from Hacker News.
This sits among the more passive-aggressive posts I've seen in a while.

Mozilla makes a browser. It is evaluated in comparison with other browsers. It does not matter who makes those other browsers or why--and it's not like the primary contenders are "maximizing their profits" off of it anyway! The WebKit guys aren't "maximizing their profits" by writing WebKit. Google isn't "maximizing their profits" by using WebKit in Chrome. There may be some knock-on benefits for Google, but it's certainly not directly making them cartloads of money. But what they have done is written a very, very fine browser.

I was a Mozilla user well before Firefox--heck, when Mozilla Suite was EOLed I was a SeaMonkey user for a while. And then I left. Why? Because Mozilla's browser stopped being worth my time. The competition blew past XULRunner (lol) and Gecko (ouch) and Mozilla simply has not caught up. Maybe the memory issues have been fixed in recent years; I wouldn't know because the reason I won't go back now is performance and compatibility. Lofty goals that we poor benighted consumers don't "get" are nice to have, but bringing them up because your browser can't hack what WebKit can doesn't excuse it from not being able to do so.

It is notable and both sad and funny that the only time you get the "people don't understand what we're doing!" spiel is when you don't have people singing hosannahs to your greatness. If you want them, compete successfully. Don't come around whining that people switched away because the things that matter to them were inadequately addressed by your development team. Because that's solely and singularly on you guys. I want you guys to do well. I truly, honestly do. Right now? You don't compete, so I avoid Firefox. Sorry.
If you are interested in Data Warehousing, you should read Ralph Kimball's "The Data Warehouse Toolkit": http://www.amazon.com/Data-Warehouse-Toolkit-Complete-Dimens...

When I started learning about BI (Business Intelligence), a few members of the Pentaho community advised me to read this book. I'm glad I did. Kimball is one of the "fathers" of data warehousing, and his book had a lot of great insights for dimensional modeling. It helped me avoid many design mistakes while building my DWH, and gave me insight I might have taken years to discover.

It's a "theoretical" book, in the sense that it does not focus on any specific technology; it's also a "practical book", because he uses real-world scenarios (inventory management, e-commerce, CRM...) to demonstrate the various dimensional modeling techniques. I also liked the part about BI project management and encouraging BI in a company (= how to engage users and how to "sell" a BI project to management).

He also has a newsletter with many DWH design tips (archives here: http://www.kimballgroup.com/html/07dt.html ).
He's helping himself by disassociating himself from the community that supports him. That's a prisoner's-dilemma defection: if everyone is afraid to acknowledge being a hacker when they're talking to journalists, journalists will only ever learn the criminal definition.
I wish I could afford a MacBook. Unfortunately in the UK even refurbished ones seem to be far more expensive than equivalent hardware :(
Ranking something lower, especially if it gets knocked off the first page, has the same effect in kind, if not degree, as blocking.

I'm not sure which part of this you think contributes to the filter bubble effect (which I'm skeptical about in the first place). If I block a site, it's because I don't want to see results from it, and I was never going to visit it anyway.

How is using blocking data as part of the algorithm any bigger a filter problem than any other part of the algorithm? Google uses many, many search signals and this is just one of them. And I imagine a pretty good one.
I never considered visa issues. Sounds like finding remote work might be the best option.
Another up and coming cloud editor: http://codulo.us
I am a fan of flowroute.com, but they apear to cater to a more wholesale crowd. Maybe get your close family and friends to create a cooperative?
I can barely put up with all of the jerks in our industry as a man, I don't want to think about what it would be like as a woman.
Cherish the Journey as much as the Destination
Perhaps not directly, but they result will indirectly affect them when developers resort to shadier monetization practices because they can't use one on the other.
That's the article's point: for the last decade companies have been talking up creativity and innovation and hiring like it was 1959.
Generally I've found that going all in on an early monopoly, on the first two sides of the board, is the key to victory. The auction rule's important to this strategy - let people waste money on expensive properties, so they have no money for houses, or will at least be more amenable to trades involving cash. By the time you've bought all the greens, your opponents will have hotels on the light blues, purples and (most desirably due to the proximity to jail) the oranges, and you'll never have enough money to build any houses. That said, you can always bid just below the mortgage value of a bad property, and sometimes get lucky.

It partly comes down to who you play with. If, like my wife, they utterly refuse any and all trades (and I even like to propose very generous ones just to get an early monopoly), then you might as well just be playing a game of chance.

Anyway, upon discovering D&D and Magic: the Gathering, I lost most interest in board games, but despite the rivers of tears my family's shed over the Monopoly board, I still fully intend to put my kids through the same rite of passage.
Sickbeard is indeed fantastic, and it's got quite a bit more polished in recent builds!

Also check out nzbmatrix as a NZB source, it's done me quite well.

Finally, SuperNews is a Giganews reseller that is a bit cheaper if you're looking to save money (though with all that Apple gear it's unlikely).

Also check out the SABconnect++ Chrome Extension.
I spent ~4 years working for a UK charity that provided a free debt advice service and I assure you that it's perfectly possible to get free high quality debt advice from somebody who is not going to derive a financial gain from the advice they give you.

The problem you are referring to largely comes from the businesses trying to sell people IVAs etc. Those products are not bad in themselves but they are heavily mis-sold to people who should really be going bankrupt instead.

web forums are sometimes OK for advice but it's a bit iffy in my experience. I wouldn't use a lawyer - very costly and usually a little outside the scope of their regular work.
As far as I recall, David Miller's one was actually invented to explain Higgs to Margaret Thatcher hself, the "ex-Prime Minister" in the analogy, back in 1993:

> Imagine a cocktail party of political party workers who are uniformly distributed across the floor, all talking to their nearest neighbours. The ex-Prime Minister enters and crosses the room. All of the workers in her neighbourhood are strongly attracted to her and cluster round her. As she moves she attracts the people she comes close to, while the ones she has left return to their even spacing. Because of the knot of people always clustered around her she acquires a greater mass than normal, that is she has more momentum for the same speed of movement across the room. Once moving she is hard to stop, and once stopped she is harder to get moving again because the clustering process has to be restarted.
For what it's worth, businesses that fix incentive alignment problems fall firmly into the "things I want to see more of" category. CarWoo is a good example, I hope you guys blow it out of the park.
if I feel that site X is spammy...why should I be forced to keep seeing it in my search results so that I avoid a personal internet bubble?
Why I Don’t Use Autocomplete (ircmaxell's blog)
The original article linked by this post had it right: the cultural ad-hoc rules for Monopoly evolved to make the game less frustrating for young children.

Traditional board games like Monopoly are mostly played by families, and games that require strategic thinking are obviously biased toward adults. Children hate losing, but they're pretty good at detecting when an adult let them win. Therefore, the most popular board games are mostly (or entirely, like Candyland) games of chance.

The problem with Monopoly is that it doesn't degrade gracefully when you remove the strategic components. Like a game of chess between players who don't know how to set up a checkmate, it devolves into pieces shuffling purposelessly around the board until everyone gets frustrated and quits.
GI JANE
Poll: Do you pay a patent troll?
Does your company pay license fees to a patent troll such as Intellectual Ventures? Please only answer if you are in a position to know and your company is at risk of being targeted.
Maybe you don't realize how serious this is
Thats not what he meant. Pentium 4 had two underlying core architectures. NetBurst and Perscott. One of them didn't have HT so the author is incorrect IMO.
Just to clarify, I was kidding. I'm fairly certain the GP was referring to COBOL's "ALTER x TO PROCEED TO Y" statement.

All of you who didn't get the reference, you don't even know how lucky you are :)
isn't this a year old? is there something new to the skimmer?
There's not many games released for Linux, so when they are released, people get very excited.
It's funny that you mention Settlers, since every time I've played it's always been quite obvious after the initial pieces are laid who will win hours later. If you don't have the good spots, it's a painful, slow grind to defeat.

However, it is a hugely popular game, and I'd love to know why.
GCC 4.4 isn't very recent, but it generates a popcnt with -msse4.2.

GCC 4.5, using popcnt on my Core-i7 860 takes the trivial loop mentioned using "Complement and Compare" from ~10.5s to ~7.5s
nice job. I don't think you are right about the HT btw. Reference?
The Damming of the Mind
It should be noted that the challenge is for design, not for actual search algorithm implementation or anything technical.
Seems like excessive transfers. I achieved a "real time" counter by having requests return a start value and a rate of change per second. The GUI would then update every second with the estimated values. My AJAX requests would happen much less often and update the start and rate of change.
Can you define developer looks? Might help to see the site.

I'm not a designer by heart, but I just look at other sites in the same market for inspiration. Most of the sites I design come out looking pretty good. It's all about prioritizing. Take a look at this amazing post Allison House: http://thinkvitamin.com/design/how-to-arrange-interface-elem...
As with the Apple TOS issue, I also call shenanigans on this.

Sigh whatever happened to just competing fairly?
"There is nobody that cares. Maybe you should be that somebody."

Okay. Waiting for someone to call... ... ...

This is the most inefficient way to rickroll anyone ever
I feel like a broken record on this issue, but every few weeks I'll get fed up with something about FF and look to see if Chrome finally has a decent port of this and I'm always disappointed. One day, I hope...
Whoops: Powerful Logging for Rails
Just an aside for anyone who cares about maps and city boundaries, Cambridge is not a part of Boston and never was in any shape or form. I know the Boston Innovation guys are [really] trying to stretch it with this piece, but they got what the asked for when they named themselves after a city where very little innovation takes place.
We got the same letter from Kelora. It's more than just you and me too. I just sent you an email to the contact info in your bio. Give me a call.
Goodbye, w3schools!
Is it because we as a culture have decided that "men are focussed on building things" and "women are focussed on social interaction"?

"Decided" or "observed"?
I think I remember reading something where PG addressed this issue. To paraphrase, you don't know if both you and your competitor are aiming for the same goal. Even though your products might look similar and provide similar technology, yours might be better for a certain vertical that isn't being addressed. Having similar or even the same idea isn't bad, just make sure to stay focused on what you're really trying to achieve.

Hell, there's a reason they haven't cornered the market.
Ryan Dahl's Node.js update at OSCON (PDF Slides)
What I like is that, even more so in the past, the financial figures are just so small in comparison to what we normally read. So many HN stories are about billion dollar valuations and million dollar investments, but with Patrick we see $30k presented in epic detail and with pride because for a humble side project I imagine it's been quite a journey. (I have a side project too that grew from a bit of mucking around to enough passive income that I could entertain a modest retirement, so I know where he's coming from.)
I can't +1 this enough. w3schools is a plague on web development search queries
I'd be curious to know if this service is limited to helping people set up payment plans? I'd be pretty concerned if this is the case - I used to work in this field for a charity providing debt advice in the UK and pretty much rule number #1 is to advise somebody of all of their options, including stuff like bankruptcy.

A service that does not do that is doing a pretty bad job imo. If you have spent any time with people who have debt problems you would know that by the time they seek help they are in a situation whereby (for a large % of cases) bankruptcy or court-ordered payment plans are the only viable option they have. Getting somebody onto a payment plan when they should be going bankrupt is doing them a huge disservice.

I considered some years ago going into this market myself but I could never get past the need for face to face meets with clients. Getting them to accurately provide you with enough information that you can give them proper advice is hard enough in person, let alone online.

In any case, I'll be interested to watch this and see how you guys get along with it. Good luck.
Thank you, finally someone who managed to mention it. I was at some point thinking that I've misunderstood the whole concept of load, but now you just confirmed my initial doubt, they are trying to sell a product.

How did this end up on HN? You have equally good articles on load at Wikipedia.
This is really the answer for all the fields. When women enter a field, men don't really leave. So the total number of practitioners goes up.