skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're quite right, i was in a bit of a rush writing that original comment so perhaps didn't elucidate enough. The point i tried to make was that the major damage that cannabis can do is to your ability to achieve, the consequence of which is probably far more widespread and damaging to our culture and advancement than any other ill-effect.

Now i'd be lying if i said i was a drop-out who hasn't achieved anything in the last ten years - i've done remarkably well, putting myself through university, graduating, getting a good job - but there's so much i want to do when i'm not working that i just put off because i get home, get stoned and suddenly nothing is boring - i could probably stare at a wall for hours without a hint of tedium. And therein lies the real point, that cannabis eliminates boredom. Without boredom people don't feel the need to push themselves, try new things, achieve what they want etc.

I've just been postulating on the issue of procrastination so much recently, this post really struck a chord. Also it was a strange coincidence that i wrote a poem on topic yesterday, as i literally never write poems; and i hoped someone might like the excerpt.
Looks good on Chrome (OSX). The only thing which stands out as not perfect is how your "A new indie album every Wednesday" bullet doesn't fit on one line. Perhaps you could re-word to make it shorter (eg drop the indie, or say week instead of Wednesday) or make the layout a bit wider
From my personal point of view, I help webmasters when I see an issue. It's part of my job and it's something that gets me fired up. I help when I go on our forums, I do that here, and I'm regularly helping webmasters on Google+ (my team does regular webmaster hangouts that anyone can join - see my profile: https://plus.google.com/115984868678744352358 ) and also on Twitter. We can't cover everything, we can't be everywhere, but when we come across something we can help with, we try to help!

Another important point about this thread: this is a very common issue that regularly comes up, and no site is immune from it. I regularly see major sites have a firewall that auto-configures itself to block Googlebot, and the webmaster doesn't know what's going on. Raising awareness about this problem and how to fix it adds to the importance of replying.
very surprised to see this kind of following for NodeJS, but does anybody think this will actually turn into Node becoming the platform of choice? Is the Rails framework falling out of favor??

Or is it just that Node is more interesting than rails?
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Another great way to shoot yourself in the foot (and getting it way way wrong) is to block all Googlebot IPs except for one.
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The video has a lot of FUD, but is a pretty awesome info graphic and nice breakdown of Stuxnet.
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> but is generally quieter about it

As someone who uses Python (as well as C# and various others where appropriate) often outside work, this has been exactly my experience.

I only recently discovered a Python meetup in my area and have been extremely impressed with everybody there.

Python is an amazing language with a powerful module system and vast community to rapidly prototype and research almost anything. That said, I care less about its "beauty" and more about its minimalist, lack-of-magic Pythonic philosophy backing the language that lets me get things done quickly and collaborate with others with little overhead.
OH: "But something amazing is happening. The world is starting to imagine things we hadn't even thought of."

(Emphasis mine.)
Not sure why I was downvoted here, perhaps I'm wrong but I've had enough negative experiences with these sites in the past to be skeptical.
If only we could all get our Google woes fixed in such a manner.
In the vein of shaking up your ways of approaching things

The Zen of Creativity (http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Creativity-Cultivating-Your-Artist...)

The Zen of Seeing (http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Seeing-Drawing-Meditation/dp/03947...)

Learning by Heart (http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Heart-Teachings-Creative-Spir...)
http://www.google.de/trends?q=python+programming%2C+ruby+pro...

http://www.google.de/trends?q=python+language%2C+ruby+langua...

http://www.google.de/trends?q=learn+python%2C+learn+ruby&...

You can make the results almost anything you want based on the specific queries you choose. It's not an especially useful measure.
If it's wrong, it's wrong, whether you do it to your best friend or your worst enemy.

A big company can absorb the cost of a schedule slip or missing an opportunity to hire a great alternative candidate.

That doesn't make it any more right to break your word.
Some of the mirrors had it , then (pulled it?).

Here's a US mirror that has the Final isos now:
http://mirror.yellowfiber.net/linuxmint/stable/12/

For the rest of the countries, try tweaking the URLs similar to the above and you may get lucky.
Was the query for a domain name or just hacker+news? How do we know?

Does <title> make any difference?

I don't think of this site as "Hacker News". I think of it as ycombinator, and the subdomain, news.

Should users of hackernews.com think of that site as something else, e.g. whatever is between the title tags?

A searchable list of domain names, ranked by popularity. Or even a searchable list of main page titles. Is that how some users are using Google? If so, Google does not need a full, current cached copy of the crawlable web to provide that.
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Yeah, what you said. This book is great - I think I went through it about 3 times in High School. Was a gift from my mom. Was happy to see it included.
The problem with your concept of utility maximization is that utility is subjective and non linear. Non linear is not the same as irrational. For me, 10 billion isn't nearly 10 times as useful as 1 billion. And if I had 10 billion and you offered me another 100 billion for debugging your 1990s style Word Basic macro I wouldn't do it. But all of that would change in an instant if I was in love with a woman who adored men with a net worth of more than 100 billion. Is that irrational? I believe not.
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Seeing threads like this remind me that HN is still a pretty tight-knit community of real people doing real things.

It's good to see this stuff sometimes. Thanks, Matt!

edit:

And then reading some of the other threads on this topic is a bit...something.

Guys, can you calm the conspiracy theory nonsense a bit? Please?

If you're not on this site very much, you might not realize that Matt pops into almost every thread where google is doing something strange regardless of who they're doing it to, and tries to help figure out what is happening. This isn't HN getting some sort of preferential treatment, this is just the effect of having a userbase full of hackers.

You'd see the same type of thing on /. years ago if you frequented it enough.

This is nothing new. This is what a good community looks like. Everybody relax.

Honestly if you read the things that Matt and Pierre have said, they just looked at "freshness" (I believe that is what it is called), and inferred that PG had blocked their crawlers.

This is all stuff you can get from within google webmaster tools (which isn't some secret whoooo insider google thing. It's something they offer to everybody, and it's just like analytics.)

OH! Wait! I mean (hold on, let me spin up my google conspiracy theory generator): thehackernews.com has more ads on it so google is intentionally tweaking their algo to serve that page at a higher point than the real HN because of ads!

DUH!

C'mon, guys, look at their user pages. They're both just active users of the site trying to help out.
or faster : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2382728
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When I'm on someone else's phone or computer, I just search for [hn] to geT here quickly.
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I think that's what they call "establishing precedent."
http://kuznets.harvard.edu/~aroth/jama.html

Offers with an acceptance deadline simplify life for the employer, so they do that. Refusing to accept the deadlines or reneging on acceptances simplifies life for the applicants, so they do that. Employers can respond by rescinding offers when someone better comes along, which applicants can counter by accepting and holding as many offers as possible. Employers then realize they must make multiple offers for each position with the intention of rescinding those made to applicants worse than the best one which accepted. Applicants likewise renege on every acceptance except the one from their most favored employer amongst the employers that extended them offers. The time scales on which this all happens compress until it is essentially one big chaotic race condition. When everyone is predictably acting in support of their own interests, the outcome is also somewhat predictable.

It's interesting to observe the tech intern labor market retrace the path that other candidate / organization matching processes, ranging from sorority rush to medical residency applications, have gone down. The amusing bit is that the apparent endgame, where both sides submit ranklists to a central clearinghouse that uses some form of the stable marriage algorithm, sounds like something a tech company came up with.
A few months ago, I was talking about the Stanford ai/ml-classes to one of my friends. He asked me if there were any more classes and I said "Yes, take a look at the front page in Hacker News, there are some links. I visit that site frequently, it's very helpful."

There was one little issue though.

The poor guy didn't know what hackernews was, so found that site (hackernews.com). He then scanned the Twitter stream over that site several times to find those links and started visiting the site for several days to find those other helpful links.

When I saw him again a few days later, he told me: "What a silly site HackerNews is! And I couldn't find the links to those classes over there."

He also told me that he was disappointed of me for visiting such a silly site.

Now, can you guess the look on his face when I told him that he was visiting the wrong site for the last few days?
I have no problem being identified with freedom geeks. I don't think lumping all 4 groups you listed as one group is a foregone conclusion. It seems to me that for the most part people recognize that you can be a member of one while not being a member of the other.

While it may take a certain amount of technical skill to participate that still leaves a free, as in freedom, route open for the dissemination of information. That is, after all, the first step. You can bet that as long as a route remains open then that route will be made easier to use. I point you toward the LOIC as an example. My mother if she were so inclined to take part in a DDOS with that. Something that as recently as a year ago would have been beyond her.
A lot of people are viewing this from the employer ...

I view this as simple ethics. You keep your word, period.

For those that object to this on ethical grounds, consider this scenario: the company has their preferred employee who passes on the job and then they offer it to you. If that first guy comes back and changes his mind, will the company say "oh sorry, we've offered it to someone else". They might. Or they might not (and I've had it happen where they haven't).

If a company rescinds their offer due to no fault of your own (e.g, misrepresentation), then it's just as unethical as you rescinding your acceptance of the offer.

If you're not sure, then simply do not accept the offer. They'll either wait (or they won't), but it's the only ethically sound decision available, and you will avoid the possibility of making a bad name for yourself.

I'd certainly remember someone that accepted an offer and then backed out without cause. Nobody responsible does this.
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This was a really common tactic at Microsoft back in the 90s, which is probably why Joel is familiar with it. It worked on me--I took an internship with MSFT instead of Apple, because Microsoft gave me under a week to respond, and the recruiting manager at Apple was on a week's vacation.
If you use Google Webmaster Tools it will in-fact tell you all of this information without having to ask someone at Google.
Apparently the page in the top spot now hasn't been updated since: 2011.07.08

It now only consists of ads, a twitter feed, and a "Abba-da-dabba-da-dabba-dabba Dat’s all folks!" line.

So what if Googlebot thought HN was dead? Why would it opt to show a "more dead" page in place of it?

I think you're fibbing.
Interesting, but not disturbing. I think it's just a consequence of people at Google initially reading HN for the stories, then finding that the HN community forms a useful 'brains trust'. I for one am glad to see that HN has a hotline to the Kremlin ;)
If a startup needed that one extra employee, they wouldn't have made the starting date months in advance and the decision period three days.

For that matter, I would not advocate signing for a job starting months away at a company that can be made or broken by one junior level employee unless your risk tolerance is extremely high.
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The problem surely is that your evaluating by employment rates right now , this will not necessarily be so in the future and the govt probably isn't the best at predicting future demand. Geography is also a factor here.

What you risk doing is grossly over subscribing 'boom' fields and driving down salaries of competent people within those fields.
I wouldn't say they suck - they're based on the purchasing patterns of similar people.

However, they're not great. But you still find good stuff - got to the third page of my Kindle recommended page before I found something, but that's better than nothing!

Their emails on the other hand...
Sometimes I want to find HN but am using a different device, sometimes that device is also a touchscreen and typing is a pain. Usually Google is very close to hand and the autocomplete saves typing out a full address or full set of keywords.

So I'd only need to type "hacke" in google and click "I'm feeling lucky" in the drop down rather than type "http://news.ycombinator.com/ into an address bar.

Didn't know about the hackerne.ws domain name however.
If you don't know somebody that works for Google at this point in your career, you're working in the wrong industry.
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This is very true, even if the government does not outright ban use of darknets their use could be stigmatized enough in society to the point that people who use them would be viewed with suspicion.
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What a waste of government time and resources.
I find it disturbing that as a non-US citizen, US restricts my access to these sites.
At my workplace (a large game developer), Python is one of three or four primary languages we use for everything. C++ for the games themselves, C# for UI heavy tools (this is relatively recent, C++ is also still used for a lot of tools), and Python for gluing it all together. (Lua would be the fourth, for in-engine scripting only).

In my world, Python replaced Perl as the language of choice for anything in a very broad "miscellaneous" category of tools. Mostly that happened 10 years ago, I haven't seen any Perl in a long, long time. Additionally, as it makes more sense to have web-based tools for certain things, Django has found its way in too. Since Python already has a strong foothold, Django makes a lot more sense in our environment than Rails.

I can find a smattering of things in other languages in our code bases, including Ruby and Erlang, but for the most part Python is the language of choice for things that aren't actual game code or Windows tools.
seriously. i can't get a hospital to show up in google maps... no human for me to talk to. HN is number 4 instead of 1 google page one, they're right on it.
> Also, instead of forking it on GitHub, he just reuploaded the whole thing again

He responded in his comments:

> If not, the fork will remain buried as a Pull Request with no visibility at all.

Which is loads of bullshit. By design git is decentralized so upstream is a mere convention, where usually the closest to upstream is either the original author's repository or the most active repository.
Last year: 82 domains seized
This year: 130 domains seized
..waiting to see if this game goes exponential..

The funny thing is that a large percentage of those domains contain trademarked names. Can't the trademark owners go through normal channels (get court judgement, then file with ICANN) to grab the domains?
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Thanks! Glad you like it.

For the time being, we are doing a run with the special edition box. The future of the packaging is still to be determined, but we will be trying a few different directions.

But for now, we are really excited to have a box that people can keep & use after the chocolate is eaten.
If you don't love what you do, there are these things called jobs that basically just pay you to put in a days work and then go home. Starting a business is way too much trouble if you're just trying to get paid.
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Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson - http://www.amazon.com/Prometheus-Rising-Robert-Anton-Wilson/...

A proposition offered by Wilson on the nature of the human mind - "Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves."

"Of course it is fairly easy to see that other peoples minds operate this way; it is comparatively much harder to become aware that one's own mind is working that way also."

Realize that when you think X, all of your successive thoughts attempt to reconcile or solidify the notion of X. In this way, we are the artists of our realities, everyone's reality being different than others since all of it is based on conceptions. Your conceptions and ideas rule you, from who you think you are to what you think the world or your environment is about. It is how you make sense of all sensory data. Not everyone organizes their reality in the same way you do, because they all went through a difficult accumulation of sense data (and subsequent reaction to and organization of said data) throughout their lives to get to where they are.

More: http://deoxy.org/wiki/The_Thinker_and_the_Prover

The question then becomes, can we then transcend our conceptions and perceive reality as it is? We may have to consult the Buddha on this one.
> I am glad Google is a company made up of humans and not uncaring robots

That's exactly the problem. Google is notorious for providing horrible customer support, so why some people get personalized help, while the rest of us are stuck with the uncaring robots?
It seems to me that for the most part people recognize that you can be a member of one while not being a member of the other.

Do you think so? People can be very quick to paint people into very broad categories. I would imagine that if you were to join a network where child porn was readily available then it doesn't matter how much you shout about doing it for freedom of speech etc, many people will assume that your secretly only there for the child porn.
Yeah, I usually get here that way, but today was the first time I haven't seen it on the front page, let alone first result.
Seems like all I ever read in blogs is an author adducing results from their own experience to everybody on the planet, with a prescription to go with it. If I were a psycho-scientist, I would call it "one pill to swallow them all syndrome".
Damned if you and damned if you dont.

All the people in this thread, including Google-related users, are trying to do is figure out what changed. That could just as easily have been at Google or HN's! It could also just as easily been a correct change.

If it turns out it was something HN changed and they did not use or even aware of the proper Google tools available for everyone to optimize their site, then I hardly think any reasonable person could object if it is pointed out to them - even if it's by Google personnel.
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This post strikes me as advocating for doing business for the sake of getting money - not actually changing something for the better in this world - or at least solving a problem for some people. Instead, it's talking about how you should be making money, etc. - not doing what you love. Even reveling in how someone was able to tune out their love of what they did for the sake of "building a nest egg".

No one can argue that business is often the appropriate vehicle to bring an idea to the masses, but this emphasis on money seems to be what's currently driving startups to the lower common denominator. It's those who want more than money that truly affect progress for the better.
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Are you kidding? Matt is basically a superhero who helps anyone he can find. He's solved problems for people complaining on Twitter, on Google+, he hosts regular video office hours when anyone can come to him with problems, etc. It may be the first time YOU'VE seen him rush in to help someone, but this is Matt Cutts' standard MO.
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Google, the search engine, was written in Python for a period of time, after an initial attempt in Java.

See http://www.quora.com/Code-Quality/What-was-the-code-quality-...
Don't link to Google search results!

It's personalized - everyone sees different results. Even if you don't have a Google account.

For me http://news.ycombinator.com is the top page. But when I use TOR, http://www.hackernews.com and http://thehackernews.com/ are on top.

I don't think it's possible to get a real "invariant" result page. It all depends on which computer you use (cookies, language setting, ip address).
I don't know if it really was 'our' pg who commented on the blog, but I'm 100% with them
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The FBI is allowed to seize domains which are US based (e.g. dot com). If you setup your site with a domain from another country (e.g. dot co dot uk) the FBI can do nothing.

From what I have head they want SOPA to fix that by allowing them to block the domains they can't seize from being viewed within the US via a system like the one China uses.

So if you set up your site right the US government cannot stop anyone outside the US from viewing it.
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All the new programming languages I hear recently does not seem to be innovative. They are just mixing and matching old language features borrowed from dynamic/functional programming languages.
Is there any new programming language which brought any new feature/concept which is not available in languages like Lisp, Haskell, Python etc?
I'd like to have this too, its great to see other people's projects and would make it easier to support fellow HNrs
It seems like the "ask" link is just a collection of threads that do not point to an external URI, though, since not all of the threads there even have "Ask HN" in the title. Indeed many of them are show threads.

Not that I disagree that it would be difficult to do this, I'm just pointing out that I don't think this is how it's currently done anyway.
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