skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want this "exact phrase" - which Google might auto-correct to something similar or may drop altogether if there's enough evidence the page they want to return is what I want, even if it does not have that exact phrase.

I really want this +"exact phrase", and it must appear.

I appreciate that Google works better for regular users now. But I'm struggling to cope with Google's changing search techniques. Combined with content farms; link farms; lousy quality web pages in general; a weird amount of ads and other un-wanted content (youtube, images, etc. Why bother with the tabs if they just get pushed on top of my search anyway?)

There really truly is a niche for a different Google version for advanced users. Allow optional stemming, don't just automatically drop stemmed words in. Allow bracketing of terms +(this OR that) +(up OR down). etc etc etc.
From zero to 1200 teachers in two weeks. How it happend.
X-Associated-Content still requires each file to be broken out as its own, doesn't it? I'm thinking more of a single file with a manifest, highly compressed, that only requires one fopen() to push all of the data to the client. Sort of a browser cache warming file. "You need this Javascript, this CSS, and these images for any page on the site. Take this file and you're all set."
Python is a great language to get started.

In my opinion, at that stage you should definitely concentrate on smaller texts, do all the exercises and additionally write a lot of small but complete programs.

As soon as you start writing programs that take more than a couple of hours to write, you should start using a source control system.

You should also read some high-quality source code, especially small utilities and small web applications. This will help you learn not only to write idiomatic code but also how to organize the code, how to write makefiles, how to write documentation, etc.

To be a really solid programmer it's not enough to know a programming language well. You must also learn about object-oriented design, databases, memory management, computer architecture, algorithms, security and other topics. It's a long road, and (again, in my opinion) it's not necessarily a road you want to follow if your main goal is to be an entrepreneur.

Have fun.
Ars had a better take on it, but that is to be expected.

I was reminded of how MIPS used to be the best selling ISA but that was because it was in HP and Lexmark printers so tons were sold and nobody realized it.

The tablet/smartphone markets have really pushed ARM into a position where the shear number of implementations justifies the time and effort to build better software. The helps the architecture achieve better tool parity and that is something that is vital for its longevity.
It would be really interesting to have similar features in find-me-a-restaurant kind of apps: help me find a restaurant, guide me to the place, then show me a customized panel to greet me, display the menu, and even allow me to order from my iPhone directly.
Wiffiti is Citizen Journalism Visualized
The real point for me is that Reddit is a far better website - it's just nicer to use.

If not a subreddit, is there any reason why Hacker News couldn't use a forked version of the open source Reddit code?
Fitts Law and Full Screen Apps
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KZeiSKnhOBc (5 Monkeys)
Switch to CentOS and get extra long support for both desktop and server!
Processing.org
Welcome to PHP 5.3 :)
Since this is a PHP 5.3 library it's using PHP namespaces.
It's PHP 5.3's namespacing functionality, in a nutshell.

Symfony2 and Lithium are two frameworks I can currently think of that use them extensively. On the one hand, Symfony2 has a quite extreme implementation, and on the other, Lithium's is much more concise. The backslashes can be used to represent a hierarchy.
PHP's method for using Namespaces:
http://php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.php
Okay, perhaps this is easily explained, but I am baffled.

When you search google for a small phrase, for example, oauth authorization:

search query: oauth authorization
About 525,000 results

search query: oauth "authorization"
About 1,470,000 results

How does the result not only increase, but increase nearly three-fold?

I've always thought the quotes were meant to be more exact. For example, if you search for Web Design without the quotes, you will find results including web design and website design, but if you search for "Web Design" with the quotes, you will not find the entries that say "Website Design" so that reflects less results than the latter. So why am I seeing this oddity, does it make sense to anyone else?
Is it the case that some people only respect and respond to fear?

So Jobs, rather than waste time trying to figure out what makes every Apple employee tick (which wasn't a practical option considering Apple's size), he instituted a culture of fear and awe. This is akin to him wearing the same black turtleneck every day because he didn't want to waste brain cycles figuring out what to wear.
Heyzap is looking for an Ops Engineer to help us scale better than the dinosaurs
Juxta - we just did a redesign last week and haven't updated all the "how to" posts.

Here's a screenshot of how to integrate HelloFax with Dropbox
https://img.skitch.com/20111021-b2qqr3rbh5uew4jxh4c4n83pe7.j...

Hope that helps!
Thanks a lot, that was really informative!
Are there any points you would emphasize, consider dated, or add?
Seems like its all server code. It'd be nice to do x-domain posts straight from the browser to Dropbox.
That's what I wanted originally: a startup subreddit. But (a) Steve took a long time to implement subreddits and (b) I needed an application to test Arc on. So I wrote what was originally called "Startup News."
Another shortcut to whole-phrase is using `.`

hacker.news == "hacker news"
Exactly. Even if you think Reader is ugly as sin and difficult to use, there are plenty of clients out there that sync with Google Reader.
Because "Microsoft Research" doesn't have to consider silly things like profit (or even marketability), that's for big MS to figure out.
Six months. You'll regret buying it as soon as the lockup period expires and the insiders/VCs are free to cash out.
I've added this to my snippet's file. Very well written.
Self-Service and Freemium Are Important to the Success of APIs
Any word on fixing stability issues? In my experience that's by far the number one issue with the OS (keyboard crashes, slowing down after about a day without reboot, the actual phone app acting up, the call not going through, not being able to answer, text messages not being delivered all the time, etc etc)
I'm pretty sure he would have said the same thing with an iPhone 4 as well.
I've given up on hoping Google Reader would improve (where are my filters !, read later list, advanced search...).

There's a whole team at Google behind it, I wonder what the hell they are doing. Most of the Google Reader I know (and I was there almost since the beginning) is the same since 5 years.

I can't find any serious competitor, Newsblur is good but it's still too young...
I've always called this tactic "The Admiral's Pipe" after this story: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brada/archive/2005/05/12/417064.aspx
> It was the Blackberry era.

In North America.
thanks mike lol
Congrats on the launch.

I've used the app a couple times and it is incredibly easy to use. It's helped me clear my shelves of clutter that I wouldn't bother putting on craig's list and make a few bucks.

The auto pricing was the other killer feature for me. I don't want to have to search around looking for the market clearing level.

Eventually, I could see using for more substantial items as well.
This is excellent: I especially like revision control and "undelete" (still not as powerful as Google Docs but enough for majority of apps).

Allowing access to only a single folder is an excellent feature (Google Docs does not have that): basically you can make Dropbox as a dropbox or sendbox.

And shameless plug: if you need to real-time replication of multiple Basecamp/Google Doc accounts with Dropbox try this: https://cloudHQ.net/ (and you probably understand why we are excited to finally get "single folder access feature").
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Yeah, the trick to getting some people to go along with something is getting them to think it's their idea.

Leaving parts out so they can provide input and fill in the gaps is a way of guiding them down the path -- you're essentially manufacturing buy-in.
I think this is a valid idea. There's many times where there's things I'd like to discuss that is similar to, or related to, topics covered by Hacker News, but that I don't post here because I don't want to dilute the topics here with things that some people might not want.

A HN subreddit (or a subreddit with this purpose, not necessarily tied to the Hacker News name; maybe there is one already?) could solve this.
http://www.businessinsider.com/groupon-q3-2011-10

They seem to be growing while gradually reducing their marketing spend, just as they said they would while everyone was hemming and hawing about their "horrible burn rate."

As they've said, the spend was about growing a huge list, which would create the kind of barrier to entry that so many skeptics have been saying they desperately need. Now that they have a massive list and are getting closer to having most of the deal-seekers accounted for, they can slow down on acquiring new people for the list and focus on converting on the giant list they already have.

I'm not saying they, or their IPO, will be particularly successful (I have no idea), but the reactionary criticism that has plagued them surely took a hit following their filing today.
On the other hand, this will probably head of MIPS's attempts to encroach on ARM's markets.
Maybe it's cheaper to build a new one and send it into orbit.
I guess the purpose is to avoid creating more space debris, not to cut production costs.
Yea, but I think the real problem is that the old MBA courses taught a bunch of horrible stuff.
If not a subreddit, is there any reason why Hacker News couldn't use a forked version of the open source Reddit code?

For one, pg had created a new Lisp dialect (Arc) and wanted something to use it on; and - IIRC - HN came along before the Reddit code went OSS anyway. Although my memory could be betraying me on that latter point...
I want to live in the cloud
Is it really better to use? HN is incredibly simple, and everything works as expected. There's a few UI quirks with reddit that I don't particularly like. For example: I don't think it's obvious to a new user how to submit a story. Second (and this might be a personal preference) clicking the reddit logo in the header should take you to the main page for that subreddit, not reddit.com. Particularly when said subreddit has a customized logo.
Android 4.0 Browser HTML5 Support
That'd be Craig Federighi, he doesn't seem to have a bio on apple.com.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/03/23Bertrand-Serlet-to...
I'd contend communities with a large number of handguns (but no rifles) probably does have a crime problem, it's just likely the guns are a response to it, less than a cause.
Book Review: The Accidental Creative by Todd Henry
If I recall correctly, Zerigo's (http://zerigo.com) Watchdog service has a free tier.

I've used their monitoring and DNS hosting for a while, and have been thrilled with everything; performance, service, control panel.
This has appeared at just the right time, now I'm re-working my project's image manipulation classes. The PHP GD library functions are a nightmare for readability.

I'll be having a little play about with what I intend to implement and if it works out well I'll likely implement it in my project proper!

> “Why didn’t he keep width and height as simple integer parameters in every method that needed those?” or “Why is x and y coordinates are an object called Point?”

Seems to me that PHP needs to turn its own primitives into objects so they can be type hinted. Trying to figure out which of a dozen number validation functions to use is an utter clusterfuck at the best of times.
Misdirection and inauthentic, that's what I call Steve Yegge's follow up piece.

Internet attention spans suck.

Remember his first post? Amazon is doing everything wrong and Google is doing everything right.

If Bezos is a super intelligent alien, this begs the question, why is Amazon doing everything wrong?

Also, Google didn't fire Steve Yegge because he did what their 6-figured marketing people couldn't: With a single post, Steve Yegge brought millions of uniques to Google+.
That's kind of the point. I want to see if the tech industry's financial analysis wins out over general a fuzzy-good feeling in the market.
Stop Snoring Treatment
There goes my unique flask-extension documentation style. :(
A government that taxes more, forgives more debt at its whim, attacks bankers in new ways, etc, is a government exercising more power than it was before. If the protesters are not calling for government to intervene more muscularly than it is now, who exactly are they demonstrating to?

If you want to claim that the government is already hip deep into everything and already has a great deal of power, and consequently bears a very large degree of responsibility for the problems we're in today, well, you're singing my song, but you might want to run that claim past the OWS protesters. I don't think you're going to find too many who would accept that defense. I grant you they're an amorphous lot, but claiming they're largely libertarians wouldn't pass the smell test. (I know 'em when I see 'em...)
Offer HN: Free Front-End Development Work
For the past six months, I’ve been hard at work at both my day job and with a few large clients. I’ve decided to take a couple months off of “real” work, and want to work with some new blood, meet new folks, and work on some personal projects. A big portion of my 2011 income has come from HN-originated work, so I’ve decided to give back to the community a bit.

What I’m willing to do:
I’ll happily help build splash and landing pages to get your startup off the ground. I’ll take a design, slice it, and return excellent, semantic, valid markup. I’ll complete the work in a reasonable amount of time. I’ll also build WordPress themes, and take care of general simple page buildout. Also happy to work on more “involved” projects as long as they’re interesting and give me a chance to learn. I’m an experienced developer with PHP, Joomla (you better be Sofia Vergara if you want me to touch Joomla again, free or not!), WordPress, custom CMS, Javascript (and many frameworks and libraries), and general front-end HTML + CSS.

What I’m not willing to do:
Respond to 75 emails or phone calls a day asking where your gratis product is. I’m doing this to give back to the community and to remove stress, I don’t need any more!

What I expect in return:
Nothing! A pleasant testimonial would be enough for me! Maybe a referral or two, but really, nothing is expected at all. I’d be VERY happy to help folks that are financially unable to help themselves right now get off the ground, the satisfaction is all I really need.

My email is in my profile.
That is strange. Perhaps when searching "oauth" "authorization" it is increasing the distance allowed between the words available for search.

At least "oauth authorization" seems to behave more normal.
Promoting someone who is good at their job into a job they are not a good fit for is a much more common mistake.

Peopleware points this out as a reason to maintain distinct hierarchies for product development and software engineering.

And I do, too. :)
>Curiosity? The potential that it could help you? If it's easy enough to try, as in effortless and risk-free, you might well be tempted to give it a shot.

Those are compelling reasons for an extremely small percentage of first time visitors. Most just pad your bounce rate.
I think a good skill for a big company CEO would be doing debugging to see what is exactly happening here. If Bezos did that, they would have noticed what was happening and fixed the problem.
A fresh start for Google presentations
In the example you cite, I agree - if someone just aggregate links generally, and had no intention of pushing people towards verified child porn, there was no intention there. Those link shouldn't be penalized.

On the other hand, if someone did verify the illegal content, and posts links with the clear, sole intention of driving others towards the illegal activity - then what?

I don't think you can decouple the link entirely from intention - links are sometimes expressive, as this article points out.

Instead of just giving ultimate, endless rights to link to anything for any reason, we say: base case, free speech, link to anything. But if someone can prove your intentions were illegal (no easy task), you're not necessarily protected.

Intention is a tricky gray area, but this would be in sync with other free speech protections - e.g. someone can press charges for libel on things you publish, but the burden of proof is on them to show the statement was false, harmful, and was made with malicious intent.
Also B's can't tell the difference between A's, B's and C's.
Right now Ive has the best of both worlds, he has more power than anyone at Apple, and hes not the CEO. The CEO role comes with an extra layer of public scrutiny.

Knowing that Jony Ive has more power than anyone at Apple gives me a certain amount of relief about Apple being on the same trajectory for the next foreseeable future.
For the problems he's talking about, I would make this point:

From my experience, after taking away features and just focusing on user experience, iOS 1.0 beats Android 2.x in nearly every category. Even back then, everything just worked on iOS.
@nandemo (or anyone else) - Do you have any recommendations on small apps or utilities written in Python to learn from? I've just started learning it as well in the last 2 weeks. I'm learning from "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist" and trying to learn it properly. Any recommendations would be great. Thanks all!
David Brooks has a really terrible track record of horribly misinterpreting social science research and drawing completely unfounded conclusions from it. He's been taken down by academics many times over it, most memorably (for me) here http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=478
As a former Quickoffice employee, I love seeing people actually using the app.
Sheraton on the Falls General Managers Blog
You can click on "More search tools" on the left sidebar and below "Any time" choose "Past month," "Past year," etc., or "Custom range..." As a Rails developer I use "Past year" constantly because articles and docs from two years ago are utterly outdated.
Fair enough. You're much more confident than I would be about knowing.

I work in the Analytics group at Ooyala, a video platform company -- among other things we handle all the analytics traffic for all videos on ESPN.com and its various subsidiaries. We get huge amounts of traffic, weird data mangling constantly, and a wide variety of bad responses -- and that's only the stuff that gets past and mostly checksums.

It would take a pretty significant spoofing attempt for us to even know.
An in-depth look Etsy's localization logic
Can someone point me to a good introduction/resources to R? Especially for web stuff?
I'm actually seeing a significant amount of longer-format posts (especially from technically-minded people) on Google+. It's a mix of a Facebook status update and a Facebook note and it's pretty easy to write and publish. (Steve's privacy setting slip-up notwithstanding...) In a way Google+ seems to be doing to Tumblr (and in lesser degree Posterous) what Facebook did to Myspace.
>humans as super rational utility maximisers

Is not an economic model, it is a straw-man of the economic "model" which states that en masse and over time humans behave rationally where their interests are involved. (I put model above in quotes because even that is really only an aspect of how economics models human behavior.)

As many "critics" of economics have pointed out, and as Surowiecki reported in The Wisdom of Crowds, the mass often make better decisions than an individual because, among other reasons, their errors tend to cancel out.
For those who didn't read the article: their app does some clever image recognition on your iPhone and automatically figures out what is it that you're selling. Then fills out the price+description fields for your listing.

Fun to play with, works extremely well on used electronics.
After reading this thread, I think it's safe to say that nobody knows how to search anymore.
Steve Jobs timeline
I keep an eye on R-bloggers: http://www.r-bloggers.com/
It's like a bad dream, I used it daily to filter results. Why would they obsolete that?
I've been on Android for a couple of years now and just got the Galaxy SII.

It doesn't exactly feel wrong, but sure as hell it doesn't feel right, either. Everything I do on Android seems to take about two or three steps more than it should. Some things just don't work. Some things just aren't possible. I can't find certain software that I need. The worst thing, it's missing fit and polish half the time.

This is the least comfortable I've ever been with a tech purchase. Hopefully, T-Mobile gets bought out and then I can play the get out of contract free card and get an iPhone.
YC Alum creates TouchBase Calendar and shares App Store Marketing Tips
Oh yes...bad monkey...
http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/112108044/bad-monkey_bigg...
_I'm not sure who's in charge of Mac software._

I believe Craig Federighi is in charge of the desktop/server software. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20046998-37.html
Not seeing this across the board. But can this possibly be because they want "Google+" to be its own term and not "Google AND" shorthand?
You're right, that was the point I was trying to make.

One of the hardest decisions an entrepreneur faces is deciding when it's no longer optimal to keep pursuing an idea that just doesn't look like it's going to take off. If the founder is super-passionate about the idea, fine. But, there are likely founders that get to ramen sustainability, and find it even harder to "let go" because there's no external impetus to do so.
Relevant: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2095#c...
oh i agree, but if we aren't increasing funding for education, we're unlikely to ever see any change. we as a society don't seem to place education super high on the totem pole come funding time.
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LIC Jeevan Saral Policy is one of the best poilicy in term of saving and risk cover.
love R.. but have to say because it's open source, you do have to watch for the quality of libraries
Kindle Format 8, Now With HTML5 and CSS3 Support
I smell a disaster in the making. What if it goes into the wrong orbit? It could cut into the ISS! Also, wouldn't a giant magnet make more sense?
This would be incredible. Web apps that are 100% HTML5/Javascript/LocalStorage could then use Dropbox to store/retrieve data in the cloud.
indeed, but I couldn't find a way to make the sliders work without touching the mouse. maybe there are some keyboard shortcuts that I couldn't find. also I believe you should be able to tab over the page to reach any input element, for consistency.
Unfortunately there is no way to share app sandbox folders limiting their use in multiuser environments: https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/1916/share-app-sandbox-folde...
Netflix Opens 1080P Floodgates
How Steve Jobs Ruined My Life
I thought Nokia was going to be Windows or nothing on smartphones.
Surely that would still be the case under any license.
What startup videos and nipples have in common
Independent study concludes global warming is real
Your scheme can be a few more random bits, selecting from a finite number of "schemes".