skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not entirely disagreeing with your argument, but isn't it kind of like saying "if the industry demands that people write job applications to get a job, they will be flooded with bad applications"? While that's true, it doesn't change the fact that you need data to evaluate applicants on. I don't see how people will think that writing crap code will improve their chances.

Besides, there is absolutely no difference between "counting something as a bonus" and "not holding it against someone". Hiring is a zero-sum game, your advantage is necessarily the others' disadvantage.
You must have a more interesting job than me. Most of my personal projects are way more complicated than what I get paid to do.
The thorny issue of using question banks in medical board exams.
Indeed. Most companies don't produce code at all.
My recent experience with PayPal Custom Service: I got a large payment via Square right away into my account from a client (first payment ever on a new PP account). So... Couple days later customer rep called me, asked about the transaction, if I would be receiving the same kinds regularly, confirmed a couple details about me and then ended the call. Few days later got an email saying my account has been unlocked and the money was now avail.

Seemed all perfectly reasonable.

Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal.
You are most excellent, Alex. Thanks.
Review: 'Contraband' predictable but has its thrills
Ok, I'll be the guy who says that he likes the previous version. :-)

I don't dislike the new look, but it's not a dramatic departure. And I fail to see the problem that the new look solves. The red bar doesn't bother me, but is there a reason why the search button switches from green to blue? That seemed visually jarring.

I still have it as my default search engine, so don't worry, you haven't lost me as a customer.
Well, I have little to no respect for journalistic ability these days so I would expect "feel good" lines to be thrown into an otherwise factual story.

My issue with the "mindset is everything" idea is that it is, itself scientifically false.

And no, I don't think its to any one's benefit to believe bullshit. You can bet some slimy "self help" guru is already planning to feature this story in his next sales pitch.

The problem with this idea is that it gives false hope to people who either lack the natural (genetic) ability or the social support structures (family, supportive schools, access to research facilities, etc) to succeed.

There were obviously several factors important to her success: innate genetic potential, a supportive family, access to supportive researchers. To isolate and credit one factor just perpetuates myths that do no one any good.

Finally the thing that I find most amusing about the "mindset is everything" idea is that mindset itself has a large genetic component and to the extent it can be enhanced it requires some pretty heavy intervention (cognitive behavior therapy, possibly certain meditation practices).

See the fnords (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord) guys, they're always there.
For a second, I thought : "Bad choice for an example query. It doesn't even finds the real HN."

Turns out Google has trained me to scroll past anything looking like a Sponsored link a bit too well.. It took me a few seconds to spot the "Official Site" link.
Sweet! Would be great if you could preview the change without going back to search.
I'm happy for her but I hope she realises how lucky she got.

I've been considered to be pretty smart since I was born and when I was younger I devoured all knowledge around me. But the problem was that I didn't have parents that knew a lot of physics, biology, chemistry or whatever, nor any other people in my environment. They somewhat supported me but there was just so much they could do. I quickly went through all books in the library about interesting subjects (not a lot). And that was it. My parents didn't want to buy me any books or give me access to any more information, something for which I still resent them to this day. The internet wasn't nearly as big as it was today.

And of course the school system tried to break me too. I did biology, maths, physics, English etc... with ease but I almost failed my last year in high school because I was unable to discover the meaning of certain poems. I got literally sent to the police for peeking around in the school network (no editing grades, cheating exams or anything even remotely malicious).

I still ponder sometimes where I would have been had I had a mentor or more supportive parents.
Excuse me, I will use better phrasing next time.
Thank you for the friendly explanation.
The development model has various people being responsible for integrating patches in various subsystems, with integration done in a tree-like fashion. A lot of people are contributing reviews. To get acquainted, there are some tutorials about writing minimal modules, and reference books like Linux Kernel Development, third edition, by Robert Love. If some area has changed since the book was out, LWN (Linux Weekly News) has an article about it, often quite detailed.
I totally understand, but I encourage those that feel strongly about this subject to learn those kinds of details. There's a lot of Pro- and Anti-SOPA FUD out there.
It's OK, but I don't use Adblock. I do use NoScript, but all the domains for Google Search are whitelisted.
My cursor isn't changing when floating over More, intentional?
I never worked for Codemasters myself, and left a studio just after it was bought by Codemasters (for other reasons). But I think everyone in the UK that worked in games knows their reputation. They are the UK equivalent of EA.

I know about 10 people that left the mentioned studio just because it was bought by Codemasters (they simply refused to work for them, preferring unemployment).

Hope you the best in this.
Maybe a startup is simply an unproven business and once it makes profit and has a proven business model, you can call stop calling it a startup?
I would be interested in knowing what the browser client was set to in the HTTP GET request. That would be something to grab next time something like this happens.
The previous ads on the right were taking up more space than this new sponsored link and they weren't being seen much, resulting in essentially zero effectiveness. Additionally, we continually get requests for actually having sponsored links in-line because when relevant they often add something to the result set.

So what we hoped to do is kill three birds with one stone: a) add in a relevant sponsored link (work in progress); b) generate real revenue to make the service self-sustainable (while still keeping it as minimal as possible); c) reclaim the space on the right side for more interesting interactions (more to come).

We've been testing this for a while on some traffic and it has preformed well with essentially zero complaint. We realize there will be some people who don't want it, which is why there is a setting to turn if off (ad block works too).

Also, the whole page has been compressed up so really it shouldn't be taking much more vertical space. In other words, with the smaller default fonts and other spacing changes that height has been removed from the page rendering it more of a wash with # of results on the page.
Got to this late, but you raise some points I'd like to address. And thanks for the history lesson. But, you can't keep calling your opponents names and expect to retain legitimacy. As to your accusation that I'm creating a "law" strawman of "responsibility of the press", please refute it. Once you start defining constructs that others must abide by, you're well on your way to creating laws.

The key you're forgetting about freedom of the press is that it cuts both ways.

The contract the press has with the public is "Sure, you're allowed to print whatever you wish, but don't expect us to BELIEVE you once you've exhausted all your credibility (and we don't believe you by default)". Likewise, if you continuously deliver relevant information and editorial you will be rewarded with higher readership/viewership and trust. No, this isn't perfect, but it beats the bejeesus out of a state controlled news service (which, btw, we DO have , it's called CSPAN and NPR but the masses here in the U.S. can't be bothered). What I'm saying is essentially to let the free market do it's job. It won't always be perfect, but at least if you hate it you can try to change it without cutting through loads of bureaucratic tape.

Now on to this law. What? Yes you want a law. You want to force the "press" to abide by a subjective regulation of reporting on the "truth". Leaving aside the obvious axioms of math and physics, "truth" is different to many people. My truths may not be your truths, so I'd like "truth" presented in a way that reflects my bias. And that is all the press is doing.
What a load of crap. Everyone contributes to society according to their want and abilities. Software and technology by design help people live happier lives. The article starts from the valid assumption that some software is built for the echo chamber (it's a tiny amount proportionally) and generalize to absurd statements such as

you lead a life of privilege.

the problems of our world can’t be fixed with software

Software helps fulfilling needs and most of us are just doing our job.
Yes, if you're going to try to make money by scamming people, obviously you're going to try to seem as legitimate as possible.
And they are not necessarily trying to "promote google initiative." According to the transcript, they have you come into their office and presumably sign up for their hosting after they developed the website. All they have to do is throw up a couple signs in their office that say google and no one is going to know the difference.

edit: i'm also not saying google is NOT behind it, im just saying wait to hear all the facts.
It Starts on Day One
Molecule in Earth's atmosphere could 'cool the planet'
I really like it. I think it's clean, modern a nice color palette and an improvement over the previous version. Nice work DDG!
Brendan Eich on three possible block lambda syntaxes for ES.next
Well, it will be interesting to hear what google has to say but meanwhile there seems to be a lot of people with axes to grind with google.On the other hand, what's taking so long, google should have given a statement on the issue.
I see. I'm not sure if that edit was there when I first read the article. Thanks for the clarification, anyway.
Most of the code is system-specific, either hardware or filesystem drivers. And believe me, that stuff is heavily compartmentalized or the kernel would have collapsed under its own weight long ago.
Seems reasonable to me to use the (generally) hardware back button as a 'system' back button and the ActionBar back button as the in-app back button.
I want to look back and say “I worked harder than I had to. I gave up time with my kids, with my friends, to do what needed to be done. To give back to the rest of the world, to enable them to live just a little bit happier, a little bit better.”

I don't want to say that. I'm rather fond of my family and my friends. Who are these strangers you're asking me to sacrifice for?
You can get most of the old colors via this link: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=test&kj=d&ky=g&k7=w&...

That uses our URL parameters: http://duckduckgo.com/params.html

You can also achieve this via the settings: http://duckduckgo.com/settings.html
Could not watch the whole video for the bastardization of Beck.
> It's a necessary logical consequence of the idea that people who are free to choose, will make the choice that serves their own needs better. If we can assume that, it all follows automatically.

I could assume that, but I couldn't keep a straight face while doing it! :-D

What planet are you from? This one we call "Earth" is inhabited by monkeys that habitually make irrational choices that are not the best or even harmful to themselves and others around them.

Rational free market forces are a fairytale, I can't believe you seriously made that argument. It's just as "out there" as the pacifist idea that if only we'd all be nice to each other we'd have world peace, or the anarchist idea that if only we'd just all work together, we wouldn't need government. Did you know Santa's not real either?
ACLU of TX: Help end family detention
It looks gorgeous. DDG has become my search engine of choice over the past month; clean design, no social media or other things garbaging up results. Use it!
All of this fuss, and it's only a few hundred million that's at stake?

If I had the money I'd get this into easily digestible form and plaster it all over TV so that people could see that a trivial amount of cash was being used to bring in appalling laws.
Yes, I agree. I'm curious to know how old you are though, I was kind of hoping things would be better for today's K12 students given the emergence of the social web and so much open source software. Maybe not.
Ask HN: Please send in examples of trolls' comments
I'm experimenting with algorithmically identifying trolls and other Internet Stupid People™ and automatically filtering their comments from blog threads, etc.

I have two issues: (a) what to consider as a 'troll' vs. someone genuinely asking a simple question; and (b) getting a corpus of these comments as examples.

So I'd like to invite HNers to submit real examples of dumb/mean/bad comments. You can do it here, but I'd rather they were emailed to <badcomments@dpk.org.uk>. If you include your name, in the From header or in a signature, I'll credit you publicly when I post about my results. (Unless you ask otherwise.) (If you include the URL of your website, I'll include a link, also.)

I'm not looking for made-up examples, however representative you think they are. I don't ask for a URL to prove their authenticity, but please don't submit your own deliberately-trolling comments.
Great, I'd been hoping that someone would patch Menlo, thanks!
The entire "More" menu seems out of place. I would expect it to have options related to search, and a few items in there definitely are relevant, but the presence of the Privacy and Feedback links make it seem like things were thrown in there because there wasn't anywhere else for them to go.

Minor comment: the spacing between the top of the page and the top of the search bar is inequal to the spacing from the bottom of the search bar to the top of the content body. 2px top margin to the #search_form seems to balance that out.

Otherwise, looks great. Love what you've done with the place.
"figure out what other software is putting that version in your environment and stop it from doing so"

I don't think you understand the context here. The Rails dev is saying (correctly) that nobody should be polluting the environment with a variable as vaguely named as "VERSION" this includes Rails.

Rails uses the "VERSION" environment variable temporarily for migrations. They're not trying to "claim" that variable name for themselves only.
Seems like you can set the user agent: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2743521/how-to-change-use...
I like the new look. I've used DDG as a default search engine on my main computer for several months now and kept Google on others.

Recently I've noticed that I am consistently missing some of DDG's features when still using Google so it must be time to switch over everywhere.
Nope, bug. Thanks -- adding to list. It used to be just a hover thing.
your income before taxes, so gross salary - health care - pension stuff...dunno how americans call it ;)
"The only time Apple ever lost the plot was when it put the M.B.A.s in charge."
At the end of the day your ultimate goal is to make money, that's all. I like the change you're suggesting. We're really just riding out the cultural wave that started when all the "dot coms" were startups, and so all tech companies under the meme of "two guys one VC" became "startups."

Historically you wouldn't be a startup if you bought three ships and sailed around the map to collect spices from India, but we might consider Christopher to have been a startup which collected VC funds from Spain before three ships came sailing.

We call them startups because our clan (two guys one VC) inherited the name from the businesses before us (Amazon, Apple, Microsoft). If you want to go and change the name you will have resistance, because that's what the name for our culture is. We're filled with names that don't truthfully reflect who we are, for instance, American is often thought of as the nationality of people from the USA, but that's silly because the Americas contain many more nations. Why aren't Mexicans considered Americans, yet Germans are considered Europeans? Everyone understands that Americans are from the USA, and Europeans are from Europe.

Everyone understands that tech companies are from the land of two guys who are trying to start a business with some funding. I like the idea of changing the name to something with great synergy for a new cloud-based webospher3.0 on the extranet, but to be totally honest it's simple re-branding of something most people involved with startups and VC understand. If your company is stuck starting up, I have a hard time believing it's simply because you called yourselves a startup. Many "businesses" are also in the same "startup" phase, and it's not because they call themselves businesses. I like the re-branding only because the name "startup" is a silly name, just like I wish we didn't call people from the USA a word that represents the population of two continents.
> My opinion is that most of the traffic on the Internet is due to pirated material.

This still does not mean that piracy is a problem.
What about MSDN? I suspect it will be on there as likely the only legal way for a user to install it.
Actually there is manual labor involved, see http://techcrunch.com/2007/12/06/google-books-adds-hand-scan... and http://books.google.com/books?id=lAIJAAAAIAAJ&printsec=f...
I can't believe the point isn't getting through. I'll take my shot at it.

--------

A is on the no-fly list. He is trying to fly.

B is not. The airline Computer expects B.

-

A brings the following things with him to the airport: ID A, Ticket A, Ticket B

Security: Ticket A vs ID A

Boarding (America): Ticket B vs Computer (B)

Boarding (Canada): Ticket B vs Computer (B)... vs ID A
>> I wish more people would have the courage and conviction to say this out loud.

There's an interesting story here in HN that debated this conviction: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2490457
What he factors contributing for this are
"Its tinting is very subtle and thus it blends into the site too well. Feels dishonest to me. Gonna CSS block it."

The tinting looks pretty strong to me. I think you may want to check the settings of your display.
The point that developers tend to live an extremely privileged life compared to the human average is an excellent one. However, I must strenuously object to the characterization of building tools for other developers as simply being self-pleasure.

If developers really can do good things for society, then by helping other developers, am I not helping to achieve that goal? If software is useful, and I build something that makes developing software easier/faster/cheaper/better, why should I be criticized for wasting my time while the guy who uses my stuff to build something else easier/faster/cheaper/better gets lauded?

To me, this is like praising a farmer for feeding the world while criticizing the company who builds his tractors for indulging in self-pleasure. Yeah, people can't eat tractors, but those tractors enable a vast increase in the farmer's food output.

The economy is a vastly complex interlocking web of interactions. You can help people enormously while still being far removed from the pointy end. People on the pointy end deserve our respect, but people far removed from it who still assist in some indirect way don't deserve our scorn.

User interaction isn't my strong point. Low level arcana is. Am I really going to improve the world more by resting on my weak points that would help people directly, rather than concentrating on my strengths and helping people indirectly?

Computers are enabling massive changes and improvements in the collective lot of humanity. And yet most of the innovations driving that started out as toys, as computer people building things for other computer people, or as tools for massive corporations and the massively wealthy. Imagine if the people working on early cell phones had said, you know what, I don't want to build flashy toys for 1% Wall Street types, I want to build stuff for the underprivileged in poor countries. That approach does not result in said underprivileged people obtaining cell phones, whereas the former does.

In short: this stuff is complicated and making enablers feel guilty because they aren't out at the front is counterproductive.
Hotmail ignores MX records if A record is running mail server
Reconyx Hyperfire HC 600 Game Camera
The Reconyx hc600 Game Camera has 3.1 megapixel, with a high output covert IR infrared technology to eliminate the tell-tale red glow common to other infrared cameras, and features a flash range of up to 50 feet.
Cupidtino, The Dating Site For Apple Fans, Releases iPhone App
i wonder how many technical books the average HN'er reads per year. My own personal goal is to read 5 books a year
Stackexchange/Stackoverflow support is also nice :)
This was submitted and heavily discussed two days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3448699
Schwarz: Society and TV, Back to Square One with Social TV
Time-lapse video of entire production of a 737
Why mobile money is popular in Africa, but not in the US
It does. Near the Capitol, you have the Capitol Police. And since the area is designated a national park, you have US Park Police. In addition to DC police. Finally, you have the Diplomatic Security and Secret Service that will randomly be in the area, and each building's own security force.
Hot for E-Teacher: 4 reasons your brain loves to learn online
IATA (the International Air Transport Association) requires airlines to digitally sign the data in the 2D barcode, but only when used on the screen of a mobile device.

That won't make a difference until they add the requirement to paper boarding passes (or phase out the paper boarding passes).

And this all begs the question of whether checking IDs does anything for security.
Now that I think about it this must be why iOS uses 9 minutes for the snooze interval, to avoid similar overlap (always wondered).
I'm not commenting one way or another on the overall story, but when I read (paraphrasing) "tried to upsell a domain name" I got very suspicious. Domain names are pretty near zero-margin... unless you're scamming uneducated and unconnected small business owners by charging them way more than they cost.
The 1M/1M Incubation Radar: GloMantra, Sunnyvale, California
I agree. The red bar is a little too attention-grabbing. I want to look at the search results, not the top bar.
Dmytri Kleiner: Kickstarter will never become big with it's current model
I got an NC100 from a friend of mine and I (hopefully just) blew a fuse by connecting the wrong power supply.

I must get it up and running again - the z88dk[1] compiler supports it. It also makes a serviceable portable serial terminal.

[1] http://www.z88dk.org/
Ask +HN: How do you deal with your HN Google+ circle?
FWIW, with Android 4 you should always be able to get the "base android" theme by specifying it. It will probably clash with the carrier/manufacturer's own theme, but it'll work and be consistent.

And b is a nice option, but freaking hard to pull off correctly (even more so in — as you note — a pretty fragmented platform). Tapbots does that very nicely on iOS (they've built their own "Bots" aesthetic and conventions — such as robotic sounds and drawers opening when selecting "list" items — and use that consistently in their own applications), but these guys are completely insane.
Plone has improved a lot in the past 8 years.

Zope is just a datastore that happens to be well suited for storing documents. Bad things happened because people did too much magic with zope. "With power comes responsibility" etc.,