skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never said the Philippines was a "regular other country", thus why is this in quotes?

In my own personal business, I estimate without native English proficiency my employees would be worth 1/5th or less of what they are to me now. I would have to hire an bilingual manager to run projects, and that person would have to be paid a lot. My turnover would be higher and the accuracy of instructions would be diminished, thus resulting in slower project execution times.

Irregardless of the non-ideal situations of the past, current citizens with English proficiency benefit enormously -- in the form of money.

Being proficient in English is a really big deal. As an American child I was told over and over again that it was important to learn a foreign language to increase my ability to get a job. As an adult, I found the opposite, that English above all other languages was critical in running a successful international business.
Could've been from telling a friend "hey yeah... found this on Hacker News". Then the friend went looking for 'Hacker News' on Google and came across the current top result.

At that point that friend asks the OP: "by Hacker News, you mean <this other site>, right?". Then the OP goes looking...
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Don't confuse work ethic with motivation. I know a number of successful veterans who are kicking ass and making bank in civilian life. I also know a ton who are just 'retired' and enjoying their low-key life with friends and family.

You can't switch from studies and causation/correlation to just stating without citation that they suck at kicking ass.
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Abstract of the Science article on the recent archaeological find in East Timor:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6059/1117.abstract?sid...
cool job！
It's a nice coincidence that the previous comment points to the YDN articles that I also wrote. (If you click the "dicuss this rule" link on http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html you'll see the original articles were written by me: http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2007/04/rule_1_ma... )

There are many ways to get this material. I taught this Stanford class in 2008. You can use the class syllabus for free ( http://cs193h.stevesouders.com/ ). You can pay to watch 20+ hours of videos through Stanford ( http://scpd.stanford.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do... ). All the lectures are based on my two books (High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites). Each book has a companion website with examples etc ( http://stevesouders.com/hpws/ and http://stevesouders.com/efws/ ). And there are blog posts that summarize each chapter ( http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2007/04/rule_1_ma... and http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/04/23/even-faster-web-... ).

Hopefully there's a format and price point that works for most people. Read my blog and follow me on Twitter to stay up to date. @souders
I spoke with PrimeSense a few months ago and they won't sell the sensor chips unless you can guarantee to move hundreds of thousands or millions of units.
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Perhaps, but I agree they should be more up front about the way they use bandwidth.
Looks very nice to me (using FF 7.0.1).

But one thing you may want to do is to have the 'for artists' link, link to a webpage rather than a pdf.
That's why you use duck duck go.

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=hacker+news
Do you support/respect the "crawl-delay" directive?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard#Crawl...
Checked, still at 0.6.2: https://launchpad.net/~chris-lea/+archive/node.js
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What you call fundamentalism, I call 'rule of law'. Nobody cares about you doing 65 in a 55 either, until you either get pulled over or hit somebody. Then all of a sudden that 'understanding' becomes critical.

We'll agree to disagree - enjoy your frustration and lack of understanding of how these things work.
"Berkshire Hathaway" itself, the original company, was a textile manufacturer. Warren Buffet said this was a terrible business because what would be profit margins would just have to be re-invested in the company to upgrade the production capacity to keep up with competitors.

Solomon Brothers also comes to mind as one referred to by Warren as a "mistake."
I thought Windows Phones were irrelevant* and the title wouldn't fit as is (87 chars). I took the easy way out - removed WP, sorry about that - cannot edit now.

*Disclaimer: My only phone is a Nexus One.
I like... One thing though... If your artists use samples from other licensed music, the RIAA will come after you personally.

* NOT LEGAL ADVICE *
I see you have your domain info hidden using WhoisGuard. Good idea.

Better make sure that WhoisGuard won't give you up if they receive a demand letter from RIAA's lawyers.
* NOT LEGAL ADVICE *

One last Q... If anyone can listen for free, how will you stop people from downloading what they listen to without paying?
Does anyone else find it disturbing that google employees are bending over for pg/hn? Seriously, if any other webmaster blocked googles bots they wouldn't change their algorithms to accommodate, or see how they could use less of our resources.

Its pg's fault not googles, and I dont see why they should care. Maybe from their standpoint it would be more beneficial to google users who are used to typing in 'hacker news' to visit this site, but since when did that matter to google?

Also don't get me wrong I love both google and hackernews. I just find whats going on in this thread interesting..
That's helpful, thanks. I haven't kept a record of those searches (they were mostly programming-related queries), but I'd be happy to submit reports in the future. Is there a URL or email address for this purpose?
Ask PG: Could we have a 'Show HN' link
I'm wondering whether we could have a link similar to /ask, but for all the 'Show HN' articles. As I find it nice to see all the cool projects people on HN are working on.
Why is it that "our algorithms think the site is dead" so soon, yet when I search for a keyword, I still get sites that our dead or no longer contain the given keyword? Bad algorithms or is this "thinking dead" a time delayed thing?
I think it requires both isolation and time with colleagues/audience, but with fairly high walls between them. I.e. you need to be able to go off and work on something by yourself, and then when you're finished, show it to other people.

(This is one reason YC asks founders to move to the Bay Area, but not to work in our space. We want founders to be able to talk to other founders, but not all the time.)
IRC and USENET never went away...
I'm not a fan of domain name seizures, but, looking at the list of 131 domain names they have there, these ones probably aren't going to be missed.
My opinion is that it sucks, and there is not much you can do about it if your business's marketplace pressures require extracting value rather than giving it away.

Hypothetically, insurance is an extraction business -- pay out as little as possible so you have more money than your competitors to pay out commissions and advertise. Commodity product manufacturing works the opposite direction, make and price your product for as little as possible so companies purchase from you (and arguably, you are extracting that value instead from your employees in terms of pay and safety.)
is there a demo somewhere?
The python version available is 2.5.2 yet some of the tips use newer features and syntax. This is definitely a problem.
Try https://github.com/jcrocholl/pep8

You could show the output of this to the submitter (somewhat bad -- barrier to submission) or flag them yourself so you can correct them occasionally.

Examples:

$ pep8 optparse.py
optparse.py:69:11: E401 multiple imports on one line
optparse.py:77:1: E302 expected 2 blank lines, found 1
optparse.py:88:5: E301 expected 1 blank line, found 0

$ pep8 --show-source --show-pep8 testsuite/E111.py
testsuite/E111.py:2:3: E111 indentation is not a multiple of four
print x
^
Use 4 spaces per indentation level.

For really old code that you don't want to mess up, you can
continue to use 8-space tabs.
Normally there's a lag between when a site goes dead and when we crawl the site to see that it's dead.

It's also tricky because you don't want a single transient glitch to cause a site to be removed from Google, so normally our systems try to give a little wiggle room in case individual sites are just under unusual load or the site is down only temporarily.
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Thanks for the feedback! That's a really interesting point, I hadn't considered that. I will have to be sure to add that to the artist contract.

To answer your second question, the music will be streaming, so in other words, I won't be able to prevent them from download. However: a.) the album will stream at 128kbps (vs 320kbps if you download), b.) the tracks wouldn't be separated (it would be one big awkward sound file with no metadata), c.) the download is extremely cheap to begin with, and d.) I'm trying to build a community of listeners that really want to support the artists.
So then you could add something like a 'report' button to allow users to say what they think is mistaken.
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I've noticed several comments about small companies not hiring at colleges. In my experience, this is not the case. It could just be that I went to university in Waterloo, Ontario (AKA Silicon Valley North) but many of the companies recruiting were quite small. One company I interviewed with remarked on how their previous intern wrote their entire Bluetooth stack.

If anything, this is the perfect place for small companies to recruit. If the candidate turns out to be bad, you know their contract is up in a few months (it's probably possible to fire them early, but I imagine that that is a lot more effort). If the candidate is good, you can offer a full-time position. You skip the expensive hiring process and they can hit the ground running when they come back.
It's not disturbing at all. I am glad Google is a company made up of humans and not uncaring robots. Human nature is that people want to help others when they are in a position to do so. I would do the same if HN needed my help.

Of course, there are people who want to take advantage of people like Matt to give themselves an economic advantage, and I have no sympathy for those people if they can't get someone in Google to help them as easily.

It comes down to karma.
I believe that would be much harder than what /ask is because /ask is just aggregating the self posts.

You are probably better off looking at these two searches or looking through the /ask page.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=tit...

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=tit...
I agree! I intend on replacing the PDF with a snazzy video intro for artists when my video producer gets done with it. Thanks for the comment!
I read that book, and I think everyone should, but I don't think it falls in the category of developing mental models.

As for cognition, the book is a reminder, or a message, that humans have imperfect memories and we must use outside factors rather than obsessing an idealized form of godlike memory.
Couple other issues with this, which make it not very useful... for one thing, SELECT * is notoriously slow compared with selecting just the columns you want, and your select wrapper doesn't allow for joins which makes it less robust. Plus there's no way this can handle subqueries or anything like that obviously, so it's not really uh, useful.

More critically, you're using a lot of addslashes, which is not a safe way to escape input. You need to use mysql_real_escape_string or you're open to injection attacks.
"""Actually, search is always subjective. If another site which delivers news for hackers - even if they don't call it "hacker news" - rises in quality, popularity, or X other factors, it may be that users want that site over HN when they do that search."""

What I'm seeing in the results page are not those kinds of rags to riches stories. Mostly irrelevant obscure junk.
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Then make sure you all do the interviews reasonably close to each other.

Seriously I made so many mistakes getting my first job that the next time I am going to assume every company is out to rape me, at least financially, properly emotionally.
My plane is about to take off, but very briefly: people sometimes shoot themselves in the foot and get it way, way wrong. Like "crawl a single page from my website every five years" wrong.

Crawl-Delay is (in my opinion) not the best measure. We tend to talk about "hostload," which is the inverse: the number of simultaneous connections that are allowed.
There are plant upgrades, like various types of scrubbers, that can remove some of the worst particulates from coal plant emissions. I don't know what the marginal decrease in deaths per TWh per dollar would be, though, or how low it can go.

There are also a considerable number of deaths from mining accidents, which of course are drastically smaller for nuclear than for coal. Considering the relative amounts of mining required, this should not be a surprise.
I wouldn't have thought it'd be too hard though, as the system could simply flag an article with 'Show HN' in the title when it's added. And then /show could search for those articles with the flag.
Yes, let's give my search history to even more people...
It's really stupid to register domain names with "louis vutton", "NFL" or any other obvious trademarks in the name if you're planning to make money on it. Even if you're not planning to sell unauthorized goods by that company on that site, they'll still come after you within weeks, if not days. I've learned that the hard way ...
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"The places where this become stupid are things like using an integer for height and width, or returning a signed integer count. Why on earth would you want to return a negative count?"

Manipulating values that don't seem, at first cursory glance, to need negative values using unsigned integers can be thought of as over specification. The difference between two heights can be negative, and adding the differences in and out of measurements would be much more convenient if negative values were allowed. Altitude above sea level can quite easily be negative if we add in ocean depth. It depends on the context, and a blanket prescription is overly restrictive.

Even in your for loop example, it could make sense to use a signed integer. Requirements could change, and you might later need to start or end at less than 0. If you had prematurely specified unsigned, then you have to change and double check all code when you eventually need to change your loop. Again, it depends more on context than a blanket prescription.

"This is retarded."

This kind of language greatly reduces the desire to read the rest of your argument.

"I can only attribute the vast overuse of int to programmer laziness. unsigned int is just too long to write. Of course, that's what typedef's are for,"

There are other non-lazy reasons to use int. And I don't believe obscuring a primitive type is the best use of typedef, but that's my opinion.
"Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making", Gary Klein

"Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies", Charles Perrow

"Chaos: Making a New Science", James Gleick

"Filters Against Folly", Garrett James Hardin

"Judgment in Managerial Decision Making", Max Bazerman

"Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity", John Gribben
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I loved the phrase "with a crazy boss who couldn’t program a twenty out of an ATM"
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Indexing an order by clause? Sure
True, but kind of trivial when the topic at hand involves the preventable early deaths of millions of people.
When they came for the serial registrants of bootleg sports jersey and fashion merchandise domains, I said nothing...
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love the idea!

quick question: isn't this a packaging nightmare?

And along those lines: how cost efficient is your packaging compared with a main stream chocolate bar of the same weight/volume?

edit: assuming that the limited edition box isn't the long term plan.
Oh no, I don't believe that Ruby is all hype.

I actually find Ruby more elegant.

But it's kinda like Porsche 911 Turbo vs Aston Martin DB9. Where AM is arguably a prettier sight, but Porsche can do all the driving of DB9 while offering a far superior dealer network.
I want to "Learn ethical hacking training."
Disturbing yes but not surprising, HN is influential. Now whether it's hacking news or entrepreneur news is another issue.
what makes you say foodily is a UK company? I thought it was from Silicon Valley.

At the same time, I haven't seen anything remotely similar to this tool on foodily. Foodily is a recipe search site. The labs part here is completely different from what I've seen.
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maybe it is indeed part of some mental model, when we talk about systems we also talk about having checklists for systems, so its good :)

Here's some quotes from the book notes of Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin:

"Take all the main models from psychology and use them as a checklist in reviewing outcomes in complex systems." [1]

"It's a great overview of the lessons of Charlie Munger (partner of Warren Buffett) - and his approach to checklists of multi-disciplinary models to guide clear thinking" [1]

"Simplify and standardize processes, and use checklists to decrease the likelihood of operator errors." [1]

[1] http://sivers.org/book/SeekingWisdom
No, It sounds like @pg has blocked google bot via a firewall, So as far as google's automated systems are concerned, hacker news was shutdown and thus removed from the index.

I believe Matt is simply offering help/advice on figuring out the best solution for HN.
First they came for the fake merchandise sites...

> The fact that the authorities have once again launched a large crackdown on “rogue” websites begs the question why this legislation is needed in the first place.

Isn't the difference that SOPA allows them to mandate blocking of non-US domains by service operators? I think it's pretty clear TLDs owned or operated in the US are a lost cause at this point unless other governments oppose the TLD sovereignty claims.
It's sad to see that most companies don't really care about security, they care about securing their own jobs by covering their ass. This pentest that you talk about sounds exactly like that, just enough to cover his-or-her ass when the shit hits the fan but doesn't solve the problem. "See, I followed procedures and got the audit, and we fixed the top 5 most critical things. It's not my fault. How were we to know that the hackers would break in using the 15th thing in the list?"

I guess there's not much we can do about this, it seems ingrained in our culture these days, at least in the larger corporations. I know a bunch of Big 4 public auditors and some of the stories I would hear sounded like outright fraud. I would point that out, and they would say "Public auditors aren't in the business to detect fraud. We are only supposed to ensure that whatever gets published is accurate." The same goes for the financial "controls" that were supposed to be put in place with SarBox. Higher-level directors are supposed to sign off every quarter or every year that certain financial procedures are done, but they robosign the forms because they don't care. It's only when the shit hits the fan and people start scratching beneath the surface that everyone realizes that nothing is actually working as it's supposed to.
This is an example of why Goog's search algorithms (and others') should be open: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3268371

A subtle attack may be by making bots stop indexing it or using SEO practices to lower it enough so it would become unsearchable, and therefore, non-existent.

Or just crack into Google...
Is this available somewhere as a pdf?
Which reminds me how bad Amazon's recommendations pages suck. I'm constantly surprised that a company with their resources can produce something which is useless at recommending me anything.
> It bored me.

> The hard way.

Words don't teach; life experience does. Books are good for intro.
"Poor Charlie's Almanack" was one of two books which had a profound impact on my way of thinking ( "Charlie Munger - The Psychology of Human Misjudgment", listed in the parent post is probably the best piece in this book.)

The other book, which I read when I was 15 or 16, "The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence" by Ray Kurzweil was the other. Instead of looking at the universe through the question of why won't this work, I began thinking about problems as under what circumstances would this occur. Today, the book may be dated, but its effect for me remains.
I wouldn't call offering help/advice to a site you use as "bending over", I reckon any Google employee with access to the right tools would look into why one of their favourite sites has disappeared from the index..

Oh and, It could also have been a sign of a pretty major bug, considering the popularity of HN ;)
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Yes, it's VERY disturbing, no question about it. Matt can sound all helpful, and cuddly, and oxytocin-inducing all he wants, but he's basically stepping in and helping 1 site over another, when the whole process should NOT favor anyone. There are lots of webmasters out there that do stupid stuff like override a robots.txt accidentally, yet I don't see Matt sending them an email, asking them to check up on it.. Come'n... this is lame!
True. No reason not to keep HN on the hush hush, eh?
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After the election failure of the Dutch Pirate Party in june 2010, slowly but steadily parliament members are starting to make sense. The GreenLeft (GroenLinks) and democrats (D66) have the most pro-internet civil rights stances. That a D66 parliament member states no ACTA secrecy can exist confirms this.

Some statements from other more conservative parties (like CDA (Christian), VVD (classical conservative)) even smell to very, very, very small babysteps in understanding civil rights on the net. Still, too much idiocy comes from them (VVD actively supporting dutch equivalent of MPAA, CDA supporting censorship). But I do notice a slow movement towards understanding the net, and how civil rights should be protected on the net.
Presumably the $2000 course fee would allow for more formal and rigorous assessments to be used (e.g. hiring a test centre and giving a written, hand-marked exam).

That said, I think the DB and ML class homeworks have been very good, given the limitations they have.
The problem for this falls directly on vendors that make their crap hard to keep up to date. I'm not blaming Microsoft for this, as they're actually pretty decent - the problem usually is with 3rd parties that don't validate on the newest releases.

Seriously people - there's a reason OS vendors have prerelease software programs. If you're not testing your software on say the Windows 8 beta or on prerelease versions of OS X 10.7.3, then when it doesn't work on day one of release it's likely your fault, not the OS vendor for breaking stuff.

The larger issue is that software testing is a PITA... this is probably a shared issue between Dev and Ops. Every time I see a new single function "installs software X outside of package management" program, I have to think that both sides are doing the other a disservice. Dev's should be able to get their software on multiple platforms easily, and Ops shouldn't have to wrestle to get it installed. We've only been wrestling with this problem for the last 30 years...
This sounds like a fascinating study. Do you have the reference?