skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google's stated they'd like to have native Dart in the browser eventually; that's likely their gripe.
Why not submit your site to that community for review (assuming it's as relevant as you say) and get a real star rating in the process? Your listing would look the same as your current ad and you presumably wouldn't be paying to advertise (unless the site accepts only paid submissions).
I'll agree with the adcenter, but Bing itself is a perfectly fine search engine. I consider it a drop in replacement for Google these days.

Yes i'm sure someone is now scrambling to find some edge case where Google is better, but you can do the same thing with Bing, and frankly all search engines have issues somewhere. I use a few search engines which have their own index such as DDG, Gigablast and Blekko.

I really find it amazing that people aren't cheering on some competition in the space. If Bing folded we would only have 3 players with their own index (that im aware of).

Purely subjective but I find Bings results page much clearer then Googles these days.
Angel Investing according to the guy that destroyed Facebook for you
> Why don't browsers support a sand-boxed python (or insert favorite language x) with some sort of standard dependency management? It already has JIT compilation, is cross-platform, bytecode, a wealth of libraries, etc. Why are we reinventing this wheel?

1. Python is not sandboxed. Security is necessary in a web browser.
2. Python has some JIT work, mainly PyPy, but even so is much slower than JavaScript.
3. You can compile Python into JavaScript (see demo at repl.it), where it will be sandboxed.

Similar reasons apply to other proposed languages, for a web language we need security, speed, standardization, and portability (and often we can already compile them into JS, so the motivation is lessened anyhow). I am unaware of any option that has all of those to the extent that JavaScript does.
The question should be: How good is this first line of code and for how long will it stay?
Stanford creates everlasting battery electrode & free, water-based electrolyte
> Microsoft has long since lost the ability to shape the face of the web.

In a sense, it did. There are tons of IE6 installations in companies that built "web-based" applications that run only on IE6 and they won't upgrade to newer Microsoft browsers soon. OTOH, IE6+7+8+9 still has a huge percentage of the market and some flavor of IE comes pre-installed on about every desktop computer sold and web developers still have to cope with partial or incorrect support for many newer standards.
I thought about that when I first wrote it but decided not to, because it's not a ruby app. The backbone-rails gem provides some convenience generators and other things... but I'm not sure I see the value in packaging the modelbinding plugin as a gem. Is there a specific reason you would like to see that?
Is there anything like this, but for linux?
A competitor's co-founder spouting off half-truths is legit. What you read on DMN should be taken with a grain of salt.
Strictly, not yet. They /did/ announce that IE in Win8 (in Metro mode) won't support plugins of any kind, Silverlight included.
It is crazy to think that a matching algorithm based on answers to seemingly pointless questions can predict the success of a future relationship. There is no substitute for interpersonal connection in real life. Those looking for love and meaningful relationships should get off of their computers and meet people in person. This is the problem with the majority of dating sites out there-too much focus on the online experience of users rather than the offline interaction. The internet is a great way to network and meet new people but nothing can replace spending time with a person in real life to determine whether or not you will get along with them.
I was using "Liu Liu's algorithm" in a colloquial way. Should have been more specific and used, "the algorithm which Liu Liu implemented".

As far as robustness is concerned I guess a lot depends on the quality of the training. The haar-caascade used in openCV is very well trained and generates few false +/-'ves. I wanted to know how this particular implementation of DPM performed.
Sorry for the ambiguity... I think it's a waste of time and resources.
I'm never a fan of advertorials, despite their occasional efficacy, because I think they devalue their surroundings. I'm particularly bothered by then when substantial effort is made to make it difficult for even keen-eyed observers to recognize their existence.
I don't think desktop Linux was ever relevant outside a small software-development centered ecosystem.

Now... Mint being the most popular Linux with more share than all others combined? Fedora overtaking Ubuntu? I wonder where their data comes from.
You may better try http://www.strongtrends.com for short-term analysis.
> Any chance Linux had in overtaking Windows on the Desktop was ended by Apple.

Which is sad, because I think I am more productive on Linux than on OSX. Running an OS that's much closer to the servers I deploy to is a huge timesaver (and avoids lots of "works on my machine" kind of problems)
Wow, that's a very valuable insight! Do you need a %0.2 CTR in order to switch to CPM (e.g.: is it disabled before that?) or is it that your bids will not be as good if you don't have at least that high a CTR?

Every time I experiment with adwords, something in their policies seems to drive me off (last time it was that I couldn't use the terms "iPhone" or "iPad" in the ad, even though we have a legal license from Apple to use them.

This time, the costs seem really high the ads don't seem to run often, and I'm getting outbid even on terms where no ads show up when I do searches.

Between google having a mysterious cut, and taking on the roll of "optimizing" the experience, they make it very opaque for people who aren't add placement pros to use their service... and very hard to make it cost effective, which means, we don't use it. A real shame.

CPM might make adwords viable again...we still have the incentive to produce a good add to get more clicks for our Mille.
"[Yahoo is] still trying to be too many things to too many people--none of them well."

And the things they did do well (Flickr, Delicious) have been abandoned or left to rot.
It really does depend on the idea, but I think a good rule of thumb is to try to have something in the hands of users between 2-3 months.

1. Map put all the ideas for the product on paper
2. Build a basic form of a UI through wireframes (Balsamiq etc.)
3. Analyze the product roadmap and trim down the product features to something that is achievable in 2-3 months.
4. Make two graphical layouts for the UI, one which should be as simple as possible, and one which is pretty to look. The reason is good design takes time and can often hinder the project. That is why a simple graphical layout is good to have while coding so that the basic functionality is there.
5. Start programming towards the specific trimmed down feature set
6. Make it pretty
7. Rinse and repeat
You're not wrong, they're just trying to make you believe that.
Seriously just buy a damn hardcopy. You can get them cheaper than most Kindle books as well. I find a fair amount of my reading material for less than 1 GBP in charity shops.
Check out GitX, it has supported this for a while.
I have to agree with you in a sense that this is a social problem (but of course that's what's interesting with graph integration and social media now). As a guy who took Attraction classes (or PUA training as some might know it) and created a much higher success rate for myself by negating the traditional online dating sphere I do believe time is probably better spent offline--however, I still think the computing angle of this and the way in which society is already headed, this is one of those holy grails of the internet.
I learned absolutely zero from this. No free chapters to review. It feels like blatant promotion. What am I missing here?
I got a relative lot of email on this (given that I normally get zero mail it was a landslide) so I blogged responses to the questions I got.

http://mattdeboard.net/2011/11/23/how-i-became-a-programmer/
Sigh. If this small gesture would appease those trying to ruin the internet with stupid copyright laws and delay their stupidity then why not? there is no harm there, the sites are indexed, this is by no means "censorship" and some lawyer could argue in court that with autocomplete Google is helping pirates or whatever. This is a non-issue.
Millions of check-ins provide a visualization of thanksgiving travel mayhem
But ads? Who ever speaks publicly in favor of ads (who isn't, like yourself, an advertiser)???

Have you ever had the after-the-Superbowl conversation? Or, take a look at the Youtube stats / comments / etc for e.g. Real Men of Genius or Old Spice Guy or Angry Birds or whatever. Or, watch HN when a new Google Doodle comes out. Or, talk to people who read trade press. Or, talk to people who read fashion magazines or bridal magazines or other things where every page is paid for. Or Steve Jobs keynotes. Or...

People love to buy things and they love to be sold things, at least some of the time.
This post is rather naive and shortsighted.

Google is a search company. Owning the platform is Google’s way of making sure they own search. Google does not care about facilitating app sales because they can make 15-30x the money from search.

Google benefits from owning the platform because the Google suite of software (AppStore, Browser, Mail, Maps), bundled on almost every Android device, drives search traffic to Google and encourages users to stay within the Google ecosystem.

Most Android OEM's are effectively forced to carry this software (and meet 'compatibility requirements' such as Google being the default search engine) because without it their devices are far less compelling. Replacing an email client is a solvable problem, a maps alternative is something that could be licensed, but creating an entire AppStore replacements is unrealistic for most companies.

Unless you are Amazon.

If the Amazon AppStore becomes a major player in the Android app market, and OEM's choose to license it, thus forgoing the Google software suite (most of which is much easier to replace), Google will be in serious risk of losing their leverage over OEM's. They will not be able to ensure Android devices drive users to their services, and could even end up paying OEM's (a'la Mozilla) to have Google as the default search option on these devices.
There is a corporate AMT.
Stanislaw Lem Google Doodle
I don't get it: the ads I see on Google have a clearly different background color. How are they not obvious?
I am Matthew Weathers, the author of the paged referenced here. Thanks for all the comments and insightful ideas. I've added an update to the page to include some of the ideas you all have mentioned.
anyone who saw your ad and didn't buy was looking for something else

What an astonishing statement.

Let's disregard the fact that some of the most popular entertainment in history first appeared as advertisements (everything from the annual, ephemeral crop of Super Bowl ads, to the 72-years-old-and-counting "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", to arguably every music video ever). Let's disregard the clear evidence that people deliberately search for popular TV commercials in YouTube. Let's ignore the philosophical debate about whether every one of 37Signals's blog posts is also an "ad" for 37Signals products, or whether every one of my HN comments is also an "ad" for YCombinator. [1]

It's still obvious that an ad can be valuable without leading to a purchase. If I go out to buy an electric guitar, I don't do so by clicking on the first guitar ad I see and then pressing the green BUY button. Instead, I do some kind of research. At the very least, I go to a store with a bunch of different kinds of guitar and stare at their packaging and styling. More likely, I visit the sites of a bunch of guitar makers and then choose one. But just because I chose to buy a Strat rather than a Gibson Les Paul doesn't mean that I didn't derive value from viewing Gibson's website, or reading their blurb about Les Paul.

Similarly, just because I'm ultimately not going to buy bingo card creation software doesn't mean I don't benefit from knowing that such stuff exists.

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[1] Yeah, but we're discussing a cheap little low-class interstitial ad on a website, right? Should I even try to compare it to a whole fancy thirty-second spot, or a music video?

Maybe, because a 140-character ad is better for many purposes than these bigger ads. It certainly takes less than thirty seconds to read.
The user is exchanging some portion of their attention to receive whatever service the publisher is providing.

If you want to watch this football game, you give some portion of your attention to our advertisers. If you want to view whatever the regular content is on the site patio11 advertised on, you give some of your attention to patio11.

There's nothing involuntary about it. If you don't like ads, don't watch TV shows, or view websites that show ads. The only part that's different from a normal transaction is that you aren't very strongly forced to give up the attention the publisher is asking from you. You can get up during TV ads, run an ad blocker, or develop ad blindness on sites. This extra ability of yours doesn't change the face that you agreed to possibly give up some of your attention to an advertiser to use whatever service you're using.
Does Android count as Linux?
Physicists set strongest limit on mass of dark matter
So, they are criticizing the approach they still endorse?
So? Most IT staff (certainly programmers, etc) are classified as EXEMPT and don't qualify for overtime anyway.
I prefer to think that if an HTML parser can't parse an HTML page, then I either don't have an HTML parser or I don't have an HTML page. ;D
Earlier you said: "What's different now is that there is historical evidence that open source projects can produce higher quality software than proprietary ones."

Now you say: "The open/closed status of the project does not determine the quality of the software. The developers do."

So mentioning open source was irrelevant then?
No bureaucracy collapses under its own weight. What happens, when rules become too complex, is that they start being enforced arbitrarily, according to the discretion of the enforcers. The system still derives its legitimacy from the supposed impartiality of written rules, but in fact becomes an ad-hoc collection of petty fiefdoms in a loose hierarchy.
There is also "git add -i" for that.
Well on one hand linux is free apart from support and the cloud would offset this support for a fee on usage. I think desktop linux will still stay prevalent for high-end computing. For example the London Stock exchange runs on linux starting from this year. Research projects in universities and institutions prefer linux over other OS's.
I also ask people if they have some "Kleenex", even though I don't think I've run into an actual box of Kleenex-brand tissues for a while now.

The fact that Google is a household word doesn't mean their hold on the market can't be challenged.
They are not GitHub GUI clients, but I like git-cola for preparing commits and Giggle for viewing revision history.

LWN article about Giggle:
https://lwn.net/Articles/390422/
just try looking at the subtle colouring on a slightly tilted laptop display. It just looks white!
VMWare or VirtualBox would help pave over these problems.
Because BCC's landing page / free trial is superior to the experience of the organic site, for both teachers who want bingo cards and for me. If it were one of the organic listings, I'd have to manually create 8 cards or whatever and then upload them. They'd go behind a signup wall. People would then be asked to signup to the site to download the eight cards. Very few of them would buy BCC. Instead, they should sign up for my site, where a) they can create more cards and b) the ones who experience a lot of value from classroom bingo will actually pay me money.
I just used it a month ago from FF6 on OSX and it worked fine. Well... as fine as adcenter works. I found it a little confusing at first, and often times clicks seemed to take a while to register. UI on it isn't great, but it certainly functioned.
A centralized medical records system is more political, social and procedural than any sort of technological revolution. The technology to create one has been around for decades.
Nokia: Lumia 800 is Flying Off the Shelves
Ask HN:  Do sites that use python like spotify and dropbox use a framework? 
Hello. I was wondering if sites like Spotify and Dropbox that apparently use python extensively use a framework like pylons or flask or django or if they create their own? Thank you.
This is why I do not buy DRM-ed things and rather become a criminal who has control over the things he "owns".
These are not adsense ads, so adsense t.o.s. do not apply. The ads are served up by buysellads.com. (see last line of the blog post)
A bit more informative post - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/11/parsing-html-the-ct...
Even although they make less money than apple by an order of magnitude, i've always felt like google was the more innovative engineering organization. Apple I feel is more of an industrial design organization at heart in all layers.
Congratulations, now do yourself a favor and read this:

http://norvig.com/21-days.html
I don't disagree with your premise, but the killer feature for me on a device with the full "gapps" suite is Google Navigation (the full Maps + turn by turn), not the Market, and it would be far more difficult for anyone to replicate Google Nav than it would be to replicate the Market, IMO.

Of course, Nav is more relevant to phones than tablets, but I wouldn't even consider any Android phone that didn't have Google Nav.
I venture that PG knows at some level that he'll be best remembered for the creation of YC rather than for the creation of Arc.
I'm not sure how locals() or code objects makes Python much more dynamic than JS -- even on it's own, but especially since it very rarely appears in idiomatic python code. Nothing in Python comes close to the dynamic mess that is JavaScript's "with" (bindings in Python are lexical; "with" makes bindings in JavaScript dynamic!)

Even if you were right, you could still make code that doesn't use these features fast, and slow back to interpreted if any of these features is used -- that's what JS JITs do when they see "with".

And finally, Lua is as dynamic as Python (both of which are, in my opinion, less dynamic than JS thanks to lexical binding). And Lua has been made significantly faster than any Python or JS implementation (Mike Pall's LuaJIT2)
Projects choose to go to the ASF. Who are you, or anyone else, to tell them it is not the right choice? Billions of dollars are made and saved every year thanks to ASF software (hell it's even in space)- there is a reason for that.

Can the ASF environment be improved for its projects? Of course it can - see my other comments where I address this point.
Maybe simplicity is a choice.

Imagine you consult with two colleagues asking for an explanation of a problem.

Colleague 1 begins, "Well, it's complex, ...."
Colleague 2 begins, "It's simple, ..."

All else being equal, just based on how they introduced their explanantion, which one seems the more appealing one to listen to?
Actually, as a device purchaser, I personally don't care about edge cases. (It can happen to anyone.)

However, as a service provider, edge cases are what keep me up at night but are fantastic opportunities for providing even better service. I'm not saying Amazon shouldn't care, but I personally wouldn't care too much about an edge case as long as Amazon does that person good.

As for DRM: if it isn't invasive or affect my experience with the book (Kindle and Steam are good examples here.) then I am okay by it. If it is used in some weird way to censor things? That's uncool.
Is there a specific timeframe where you think the US had that monopoly?
"hourly rate of not less than $27.63". Why hasn't the gov't figured out inflation adjustment yet? Laws are supposed to make sense indefinitely. In 30 years, that may be less than the minimum wage.
It's "search satisfaction", I think. People expect to look for (and dismiss) the obvious stuff.

This is similar to the notion that having the TSA check for liquids at airports is dangerous, because when they find a bottle of shampoo, they stop looking for other stuff.
Fair enough, didn't read carefully enough. Hope it gets resolved soon.
VMs are too much of a hassle. They also occupy too much memory. The only time my notebook hits the swap is when I have a VM running.
Two annoying things I noticed:

* Spelling correction in commit messages.
* Option-Z commits instead of undos when entering a commit message.
Simple solution. File a small claims court case for the cost the replace your library. The less offensive option that I've used in the past is finding the corporate contact from the Better Business Bureau and going directly to them. It works fairly often and fairly well because most companies value those reputations.

I agree with some of the comments here, simply because your company is an 'internet company' doesn't mean a 'Help' webpage is all you need for support. Actual personal support handling is virtually non-existent from large scale web companies and it's a disappointment.
How does it differ from existing tiling window managers, except the JavaScript spin? It sounds interesting, but it always makes me think twice if the only motivation for a new project is to do the same in a different language.
I wouldn't mind (and do intend to, even for a school website) having so much javascript on a page that it looks different, even broken without it, but I wouldn't load the content with javascript like Twitter do, that's too far (and may well always be). Mostly because I want to support screenreaders, or curl/wget.
> Just wanted to point out this was not a personal attack. I was just trying to raise awareness that not everyone has the same interests.

Don't worry, it didn't sound like one :).

Thanks for explaining your point of view. I just realized I didn't really stop and think about people who, like you, don't like Facebook et al. Personally, I think I'd be happy to use a browser plugin or whatever, just like I use e.g. Instapaper. Hell, in browser like Conkeror it would be even more convenient (for Instapaper I now just press "C-x i", it's even easier than pressing a button on the address bar).
the page is empty except for the js-alert telling me that "webkitMediaSourceURL is not available"
I'm not sure the author really understands the point that's being made about Amazon's "ownership" of Android app distribution. The concern is straightforward:

1. Amazon is --- probably, and for the next 18 months or so --- going to have the most popular Android tablet on the market.

2. Amazon does not provide mainstream users with access to Google's Android Market.

3. Android developers are going to be compelled to deliver software to Amazon users, because Amazon is going to supply a plurality of the entire addressable market for Android apps.

4. To supply Amazon users with Android apps, developers have to use the Amazon market.

5. Not only will developers need to use the Amazon market to address Amazon customers, but off-brand Android users can (and may) also end up relying on Amazon's market.

Google's Android Market is structurally disadvantaged. And, simply having to sell through Amazon is already a hardship for developers; Amazon has policies that developers are going to have to comply with, even though those policies aren't inherent to the Android ecosystem.

Saying that Google doesn't have to care about native apps, that the web is where it's at, that they're "skating to where the puck is going to be" --- that's all besides the point. The concern is specifically about the Android app ecosystem. If you don't think it matters that Amazon is redefining that ecosystem, well, OK, but that doesn't make it not a concern.