skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, I happen to be within walking distance of the USPTO. I was going to offer to post pictures, but I see the MacRumours article already has them.

Independent of the Steve Jobs exhibit, there is also a talking video "portrait" of Woz in the little museum they have there. It's not long, but his portrait is up on a wall along with Edison and Telsa and whatnot. That's a very flattering, if obscure, public compliment.

(I haven't been there in a while, Telsa might not actually be there, but there are several famous inventors in the exhibit.)

EDIT: There is a little more info (but unfortunately no pictures) on the exhibit Woz is in at http://www.uspto.gov/about/offices/opa/museum.jsp#heading-2.
Apache ZooKeeper 3.4.0 has been released
Here is some:

http://wordpress.tv/2010/07/15/mixergy-interview-pearson-mul...

http://mashable.com/2010/07/22/thesis-relents/

http://wptechguy.com/2010/07/matt-mullenweg-and-wordpress-v-...

http://jane.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/thesiswp/
That's an entirely different discussion on the increasing privatization of public space.

We've long established that companies don't have a right to "play by their [own] rules." For example, in the US a mall cannot discriminate on basis of race, and it must follow ADA, OSHA, and other requirements.

Remember, companies exist only because of government regulation. They exist because otherwise individual people (the owners) would be responsible for mishaps and debts, and that's too much risk for most people. Since we set the law, companies must abide by our rules.

And that leads to an entirely different discussion on the influence of companies on lawmaking.
So, just so we can be as specific and absolute as possible: you also think that every Google SERP is dishonest. Because the whole premise of Patrick's post is, "here's how Google's ads work; I wonder what would happen if I crafted my ads to fit into pages the same way Google's do?"
I really hope (for Yahoo's sake) this happens. About half a year before I left, Yahoo turned down the offer from Microsoft that was in the $30/share range. I couldn't believe it.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/feb08/02-01cor...

Yahoo was bleeding then and has been bleeding ever since, still trying to be too many things to too many people--none of them well.

Hopefully MSFT can clean house, invest where it's needed, and put things on track.
It's easy to sink a lot of money into renewables. (Look at our govt) Great that Google didn't have the hubris to chase this too long. Being great at search doesn't mean solving world peace, boiling oceans, or solving the energy crisis.
The site gets cash, but the user loses value and doesn't get anything in return.
Not to be dense, but are you saying it's a pleasant surprise or that the USPTO shouldn't be doing this?

EDIT: For what it is worth, the USPTO has a mission statement at http://www.uspto.gov/web/menu/intro.html. This isn't clearly within their "mission" except to the extent that it "encourages investment in innovation and fosters entrepreneurial spirit".
Tactics like this are utterly immoral. I hope browser plugins like adblocker become massively mainstream and people start to learn to actively oppose this kind of rubbish. People that spend their "careers" advertising; contribute FUCK ALL to humanity.
Electrical signals are actually more like waves in water. A conductor contains many loose electrons that behave like the water. Sending an electrical signal is like one person dropping a rock at one end of a glassy lake and another person watching for ripples at the other end. The signal gets through pretty fast, but all that motion dissipates a lot of energy. This is why wires heat up when you put current through them. Electrons moving about = heat.

Photons do not require a medium to propagate through. They go through vacuum just fine (while electrical signals don't). Photons are incredibly good at traveling vast distances without interacting with matter. If we can see a star in the sky that is a billion light-years away, that's because at least some of the photons emitted by that star have traveled that distance without being absorbed by anything other than the rods and cones in your eye.
Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More
This is at least a productive comment. It's the review stars that bother you? If he took the review stars off, replaced them with some other element, you'd be fine with the ad?
Are you able to solve it? (from the teenagers programming contest)
I don't necessarily agree with the author that "it is the right thing to do". He may believe we are morally obligated to give back to the community, and that is his belief, and that's fine, but I do not share his belief.

I'll contribute back to the community happily. I do so because I want to. But I do not feel that I am morally obligated to do so. I'm sorry, I simply don't.

The author makes the point that one should give back, for example, simply because one "used the internet". It is one thing to say that you should open source your code and give it back to the community if it is derived in some way from another open source project. It is quite another to say that just because you use open source, you are now morally obligated to give back to the community.

All of you out there using an Android phone - do you feel morally obligated to open source your work simply because you use a phone that is built predominantly on open source code?
If you want to see the ad 'in real life' you can find it here:

http://busyteacher.org/classroom_activities-vocabulary-works...
Why do companies set the lockup period to be the same for all employees? Do they want a sudden dip in the stock price?
Well, we still have 2/3 of those things in the US and 3/3 in many European countries.

I was more alluding to the idea of "this website sponsored by ___" being inserted into the content in a tasteful, subdued way - kind of like how "Beat the Clock" was actually "Calgon's Beat the Clock".
You're conflating the internet access that ISPs sell with the PC technical support they're forced to provide so granny doesn't cancel when her ethernet cable gets unplugged. Of course the bundled PC support won't troubleshoot your 20 device home network. For technical users, PC technical support is just an annoying hurdle to clear in order to fix a connectivity problem.

I was comparing residential connections to small business connections, which only differ in static IPs and contractual guarantees. Most people engaged in home business activities do not have these connections.

You're engaging in 'contract fundamentalism' because you're bringing up all these vestigial clauses inserted by the ISP's legal compiler into their document-that-nobody-reads while ignoring the actual contract, which is determined by the understanding between parties. As far as any user is concerned, the only actions of theirs that matter are whether they pay their bill and whether they set off the ISP's hassle-this-user system. I'm sure many ISPs have clauses about multiple devices, running "servers", piracy, business use, wifi, swearing/offending people, etc. But the only time they even come close to mattering is when the ISP is the target of a legal attack.
Conjecture:

For each set of numbers 2^2^n+1, 2^2^2^n+1, 2^2^2^2^n+1, etc., none of these sets contains exclusively prime numbers.
Nothing, in and of it self. My rant was more at this whole group of grey/black hat SEO, a group he most defiantly IS in.
Thanks, I'll take that into consideration. But what about the actual platform? You can easily create an account to tryout.
It's not personal -- I'm a fan of Patrick's. My only problem is with this obvious intellectual dishonesty, on display in his post and both of your comments.

These ads are dishonest and pretending they're not is really absurd. I don't think he even truly believes that, hence the signification rationalization in the post.

I'm doing what I would to any friend of mine: calling them on their bullshit. You may want to consider whether you're impulsively defending a friend or actually agree with him.

I will stop commenting on this though. I don't have anything more to say and I'm not trying to be negative. I don't think Patrick is a bad guy or anything -- just wrong on this.
Probably. At the very least, I think that if you have user-hostile advertising you instantly lose any right you had to complain about adblock.
They added line by line committing!

That is awesome, I've been using citool for that forever, even though it's ugly on a Mac. (Along with diffing, commit surgery is one of the few tasks where a GUI really scores big).
The official contest is over but you can try out here: http://www.spoj.pl/HSPLARCH/problems/HS11CNSM/
I watched that Mixergy video too, and was inspired to try something similar :)

BSA is great, but if you need more inventory, you can get this strategy working on Google AdWords, too. You just need to create a new ad group, and use "managed placements" to specify the sites you want to target.

Since you probably don't want 100 ad groups, you have to get a bit more generic with your ads, but there are plenty of ways to do that and still get the "this is useful information, not some off-topic ad" effect.

Here's another tip: Once you have an ad that exceeds about 0.2% CTR, you'll often get much lower cost-per-click by switching the campaign to CPM bidding.

For example, if you're bidding $1 CPM, and getting a 2% CTR, your effective CPC is only $0.05! In CPC mode, you'd often have to bid $0.30 CPC just to show up.
Usually 6 mos after IPO.
> They have 287,000 employees.

That's their employee count worldwide. Shouldn't only the US-based numbers be relevant in the current context?
Another trick that works: break your website.

When I ran a somewhat large music site(100K uniques/day), we'd make significantly more money from adsense when our streaming server went down.

Why? Because when hitting the play button on the player didn't work, people start clicking on the ads.
As a large publisher who uses Outbrain, I can say that I'd much rather have the Outbrain paid links on my sites than running PPC AdSense with belly fat ads, and Work From Home stuff.

Outbrain actually links to content - often, decent to good content - where then publishers can monetize the click as they choose, but from a publishers standpoint, the Outbrain widget is one of the least objectionable drivers of revenue I've found.
Web 2.0 Summit 2011: A Conversation with Ron Wyden on Regulating the Internet
Every single time I see news about window managers, I'm surprised that i3 (i3wm.org) isn't mentioned. i3 is the supreme tiling window manager. It's mature, fast, feature-ful and it's BSD-licensed. This looks like an advert, but I'm just a pleased user that's been on the i3 train since 2009.
Why? Most popular consumer magazines don't even cover the cost of printing and postage with their subscription fee.

If Time magazine no longer needs to print and mail their product, should't they be making MORE money?

One of the fundamental problems that no one mentions is that advertisers have been grossly overpaying for print ads for decades. They had no measure of the effectiveness or reach of their ads except "X magazine has Y subscribers".

With digital targeted advertising, we know exactly how many views, clicks, length of view, not to mention tons of demographic data on the reader. That's worth something. It's worth a lot more than an untargeted ad on a page in a magazine that might go straight from the mailbox into the garbage.

I'm not claiming to know what will happen in digital advertising, but I really don't think paywalls or micropayments are the future. My guess is something like major media companies will get rid of their entire ad sales staff, outsource advertising to Facebook/Google, and deliver their content through multiple channels/feeds/API which can been interpreted by various apps or devices to be viewed in the way the consumer likes.
There is also an non-insignificant number of patents that expressly cover an algorithm that would have been found in most computer science textbooks - verbatim - since the '70s. One notable example is the Quicksort algorithm (US 5,175,857). Another is arithmetic coding (known since at least 1976), which has been patented no less than 31 times.

If basic information theory can be patented, there's a problem.
I've wondered a lot lately whether our bureaucracy might someday collapse under its own weight. Given the scale of many of our problems, and seeming incapacity of our bureaucracy to solve them, it seems like eventually people might come to the conclusion that the only solution is to throw out the bureaucracy and start over.
Funny thing, I am in Pakistan and this add shows up in my chrome browser. I can't even order chromebook here
>No ebook license (or any other "virtual" good) will ever have a license that confers 'ownership'.

You've forgotten about the public domain.
Of course web devs use them, but like you said it's a waste of bandwidth so the production version should be minified and combined.
If you're a teacher, and you're at a site looking for how to teach a lesson on subtraction, and I tell you bingo cards do that, and you pay me money for bingo cards, you're saying in the most explicit way that people know how that bingo cards were exactly what you were looking for.
Great answer! Thanks for your insights.
It is, except with a more addictive business model...

Back in the day (freshman @ uni so 2006) all the cool kids were making facebooks. You had to have a .edu email address which let you into that uni's network. Only the students/recently graduated could participate. Now everyone and their dog have facebook accounts.

To make something popular and or "exclusive" one needs to have a niche of exclusive/cool people willing to use that product and a bunch of other people that don't have access to it. This is EXACTALLY what Zuck did at Harvard. He created the ultimate cool kids club at the most exclusive university in the world. This would have been impossible at almost any other university, also Harvard doesn't have the nerdy reputation of some other universities in Massachusetts. Then they opened it up to the masses, and all the parents/people who are not students/hs students got accounts and the exclusivity went downhill. But that isn't their main strategy anymore, it is to keep people yearning for human interaction, but without any negative social consequences... There is a VERY good reason that it is not a good idea to ask a girl/guy on a date via facebook, which is the exact same reason which makes it so popular aka no negative social consequences (can look @ the cute girls bikini pictures all day long and you don't get yelled at) but only to an extent. That is the facecrack.

So yes, they will be able to maintain the facecrack of pseudo-social interactions. They will not be able to grow with the exclusivity that they once had though. This is until the next exclusive thing comes along though.

tldr:

1. FB grew out of Harvard and associated exclusivity & worldwide appeal

2. FB uses pseudo-social interactions to give its users a limited amount of good feelings, but does not have the consequences of real life interactions.

3. FB will cease to be king of the mud pit if something more exclusive comes along.
You are right, cash yield doesn't tell the whole story BUT it is the only data available to public investors. No public investor has had access to any projections, detailed operating metrics, access to growth drivers and no real information on the use of the IPO proceeds. The stock market is not a place for pure startups. Startups is an asset class that should only be for angel investors, VCs, and other niche funds. If you are selling me the startup story, I want startup returns, i.e. for each $20/share I buy I want to have the "certainty" I will be able to make $200/share in 3 to 5 years. Consequently $200/share is an implied $127bn market cap. Can you see how weak that "Groupon is a startup" argument is?

Having said that, Groupon is not a startup: 7,000+ employees, over $500m in revenues, considerable international presence, large M&A transactions, etc. This kind of company should be be valued using a DCF. Growing at 100% per annum is no excuse to be able to perform such exercise. The devil is in the detail, and trying to find excuses to argue that Groupon is a startup, and consequently valuing it by god knows what random vanity metric is not a valid argument.

Can you give me a data based argument/point that shows that Groupon is not overpriced at $20/share? I have given you one.

Bottom line: all I'm saying is that Groupon should be valued fairly, $20/share is not a fair value, it's overpriced. Investors are left with no upside. I'm not saying that Groupon hasn't got a valid business.
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No wrong done here in my opinion.

The content of your post has brought up a topic I have been thinking about recently, which is intensely devoted sponsorship advertising. For example, if you (Patrick) want to write this piece about your positive experience with BuySellAds, then you could write the entire blog post with heavy mention of the product that YOU TRULY LIKE AND PROMOTE.

The trust factor will go a long way in helping you. I have watched "This Week In Startups" on Youtube and noticed they use a similar approach. They stop the broadcast so that Mark Suster could talk about how X product has helped him.

Most of that is off-topic, but your blog post got me thinking...which it is supposed to do, right? :)
Kinect integrated into next-gen TVs?
Searching for "torrent" lists tpb as the first result for me, as does "tpb" and "thepiratebay". Similarly, "isohunt" returns the expected site, and isohunt.com ranks third for "iso". It doesn't seem to matter whether or not I'm logged in.
Ask a subscriber to Vogue magazine if they'd prefer a copy with or without ads, both the same price.

9 out of 10 will take the ads, because the ads are beautiful and part of the content, but they are still ads.

That aspect of print advertising has not yet made the transition to digital. People love ads for stuff they like, are interesting, or/and funny.

The solution will not be to remove ads, it will be to improve ads.
It's not so much that people like ads, as that they are so inured to them that they don't even see them enough to get annoyed by their presence. Sometimes I set up a new computer and forget to install AdBlock for a long period, simply because I can't tell the difference between a clean page, and a page filled with ads I just don't mentally register.
Can Desktop Linux Stay Relevant in the Era of Cloud and Mobile?
That is terrible and hilarious at the same time.
Newspapers here in Australia will have those catalogue inserts (we don't really have coupons) PLUS ads on almost every page. In fact, the amount of pages in the daily newspapers is directly decided by the ad inventory they have - fewer ads and they'll leave out content, more ads and they'll find more stories or lower the bar a bit.
I think this is awesome. I've bookmarked and I will share it all the young people I know.

One thing that bothered me a bit: "My message to fellow programmers is stop making excuses, man up and do it."

I am in a tiny minority here, but I just don't care to travel. I know in the day and age of Tim "Superman" Feriss we're all supposed to be pumped up supermen bouncing around the world with a supermodel in each arm. But honestly, I really enjoy the things I do where I live: reading, enjoying time with friends, working (yes I don't view work as something to be avoided - dare I speak heresy against the cult of the 4HWW?).

In summary I just wanted to offer a counterpoint to this author (and others in the "travel at all costs" cult) that some people simply don't enjoy travel compared to what else they could be doing. Sometimes it's not about "manning" up and doing it, it's just about doing what you enjoy regardless of what bloggers and bestselling authors recommend.
I think they announced the EOL'ing of the browser plugin.
Since 2009, Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on Bing and is losing $1 billion every quarter.

How is this even possible and how is buying Yahoo going to plug the holes? Bing search is horrible and their adcenter product is even worse.
Opa Plugin Development with a PubNub Example
The third sentence (in bold):

"Google’s blacklist prevents the names of sites appearing in their Instant and Autocomplete search services, while the pages themselves remain indexed."
How about this: instead of showing you match %'s, they show you profiles and you rate them. Then use recommender systems [1,2] just like netflix. There are two immediate problems with this: you have the cold start problem [3] and also if you don't show random profiles, then you introduce bias into their rankings. The first problem could be solved with side information (you still answer questions) and the second with a nicely chosen exploration/exploitation trade off. PMF[4] for the win!

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-million-doll...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering

[3] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1352837

[4] http://en.scientificcommons.org/42513739
Also wanted to mention that they also routinely email me suggesting I swap out my text-only ads for image-based ads (which in my testing don't perform as well).
I'm non-technical, still finishing up studies, unable to move to SF, etc.
People may suck at knowing what they want, but I think it's more that people do not necessarily know what criteria they should want to select given their goals for finding someone.

Another problem is that a lot of users are probably more casual about the weights, such as selecting mandatory. (It's common for people to select an answer and then mark that same answer as unacceptable in a match, for questions in which it makes no sense for them to do that.)
All of the search terms showed up just fine in the auto complete and instant for me.
Excellent.. thanks so much.
Unfortunately third party developers will have to play in whichever app store ends up winning on a platform. The only real leverage we have is en masse, and that kind of growth/death in a developer ecosystem tends to take a long time to play out.
> I can't really think of what that thing might be that would give Amazon the right to lock this guy out?

I can easily imagine several scenarios; the one I'm having trouble imagining is one where they can't tell him why he's locked out.

Honestly, the only thing that is even remotely reasonable is an investigation by a three-letter agenchy.
Extremely inaccurate title, torrentfreak should be ashamed.

The results are "censored" only from autocomplete, not from the index itself.
My mistake (I just took the 1 minute google answer), it's only 133k in the US.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40545/000119312511047...

This cuts the estimate of their tax subsidies by a bit over $200M, so 1000x the remainder would be about $700B. Is it your contention that GE dodged taxes equal to roughly the cost of the US military?
How do you think this compares to google's ads at the top of search requests? That is the comparison this article is making.
This doesn't really explain the back story. Google's autocomplete used to suggest searching for torrents (e.g. type "the dark knight" and it would autocomplete to "the dark knight torrent" because so many people have searched for that). While this was certainly a boon to certain sites, Google has no obligation to provide it (considering that autocomplete didn't even exist for many years). Google's new policy for pirated stuff is the same as for porn: if you're explicitly looking for it they will find it for you, but they won't suggest it. This particular article is just complaining about some new fine-tuning of the same policy.
From the article "Google’s blacklist prevents the names of sites appearing in their Instant and Autocomplete search services, while the pages themselves remain indexed."
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