skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, yes of course, the default engine. But it is more of just an index. It just shows the link names, and it links to purely what was posted on Hacker News.

What I am dreaming of is something like Google bot with the Hacker News links as the seed to start indexing... Also displaying the results with snippets and rating the results.

What say?
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> It's not an event that can make the average person upset.

Not yet anyway, but public opinion is changing and faster than many think. Carr mentioned the updated European Data Directive due out today, but right on it's heels will be a report from the FTC[1] and one from the Department of Commerce[2] formalizing drafts released last year that outline privacy reforms in the US.

Events like Google recording Wifi spots, Carrier IQ gathering data and even the story of Apple secretly recording location data are becoming more prevalent. I think we are only 12-18 months out before scattered public opinion changes to real momentum for privacy rights activists.

[1]http://www.privacyrights.org/ftc-protecting-consumer-privacy...

[2]http://www.iab.net/public_policy/1495162
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Ask HN: a good marketing book?
Hi guys, I'm looking for a book that focuses on b2b marketing, especially targeting small to medium businesses. Do you have any recommendations? The industry is payment and creditcard fraud protection, although I don't think there're any marketing books directly focusing on such industry. Thanks a lot!
One point of the article that rankled me was his concept of a G.I. Bill so that everyone had access to higher education. That seems very misguided in my opinion. Instead of focusing on "higher education" should we not attempt to remake our primary education system such that we provide people with more relevant knowledge and skills?
> I could not find one that would trigger an email from my Gmail account if a contact had not responded.

You might want to look into a more powerful email client. Gnus (a part or emacs) could be programmed to perform such a task. Setting it up to download your gmail over IMAP and the running a process filter would probably do the trick.
The ARM chip is not open source, and probably won't be at release either.
Move to Mandatory Timeline Confuses Facebook Users
O2 statement on the mobile number issue
For example, a search for 'mongodb tutorial' on HNSearch should have given me more useful results than searching on Google. But it is not so, because the results aren't presented well.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=mongodb+tut...
really appreciate it! it is definitely useful.
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The only time I've experienced this is on a file that was downloaded but not installed. Installed applications pop up pretty quick. Not sure if Windows catalogs uninstalled files for their search.

Granted, on my Windows XP laptop at work, I use the run command for almost everything. Win then R then "cmd", "notepad", "firefox". It works pretty well for what I want it to do.
Agreed! If you are using the RSS feeds, there should be an easy way to include us Canadians :)
Poker is - in that sense - not gambling. The comparison as far as I understand it is between social games and slot machine. The link says that the democraphic is primarily female, so "The Facebook crowd is far more casual, far more female, and far less into tangible, liquid rewards than the gambling crowd." would fit. Slot machine users are also not into liquid rewards but are addicted for the entertainment.
Bing: The New King of Search
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Because the people with money who are willing to make high (or higher) risk investments are in the Bay Area. If you're not interested in large investments or need to rub shoulders with other companies to get started then I don't think there's anything wrong with any other city in the world!
Unfortunately, the github repo is private because I can't open source the whole algorithm right now. But I'll definitely do a write up in the next few days.
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Way back when I was in Boy Scouts, I tested for my lifesaving merit badge in a mountain lake in October. In my opinion, anyone who has the self-discipline to do this regularly isn't going to have any problem lowering his weight whatever method he chooses.
>No. You're thinking imperatively. The pure form would express something like:

>given the property sorted(s) defined in this way

"Prompt SET"

>let s be a set such that for all elements e of s, e is an element of the program input. ... such that sorted(l) is true.

"SORT SET"

>Then let the output of the program be the list l

Display SET.

You've changed the wording and grammar, but you haven't stated anything different.
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Thanks for the feedback!

We've pushed up a new version:

- preloads the next image, slightly faster than before.

- smarter ordering, the newest and best content is pushed in hourly.

- finally, a tweet button to spread the love.
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The PS3 has 256 MB system RAM and 256 MB dedicated video RAM. So it has twice as much RAM as the Raspberry Pi.
From what this looks like (what with the all-rave reviews on that site), I guess the report says "make a site like this, selling these reports"; not interested in buying one, sorry. Are you telling me that people still fall for this scam? Oh the sweet nostalgia of 1996...
I've always felt a little conflicted regarding term limits. While they are one possible solution for cutting dead weight, the problem is you also end up needlessly firing people who do a good job.
Ask HN: What's the Airbnb equivalent for boats/yachts?
Yes I'm amazed with that too! And really enjoying it myself!
Which committee decides exactly how many million dollars a man is allowed to make in his lifetime? I nominate Hugo Chavez for chairperson; he's an international expert on these affairs and surely the Venezuelan economy's current state of double-digit inflation and economic contraction in all sectors (except for oil) are completely unrelated to his confiscatory policies. ;)
By the time it's out it probably won't be, sadly.

I hope they get lots of community add-ons (cases, etc). For $50 you could have a very nice airplay video/audio device.
Despite the fact that this same "serious flaw" exists with classical cryptography devices, only worse (since the quantum attack doesn't reveal plaintext A until B is sent).

How would you do this with classical cryptography?

Isn't the point about this particular flaw that it is pretty much undetectable (other than inspecting the hardware itself (which is outside the scope of the article that treats it as a black box)). If the same were to be implemented on classical cryptography it would be comparatively trivial to detect if someone tried to sneak in an old message interleaved with a new message (you know the plaintext + key and thus you know exactly what that will generate).

The compelling argument for quantum cryptography is that it is provably secure (well, that's the theory) and it is quite difficult to prove that the hardware has not been tampered with.

The thing you could do with classical cryptography is to in some way "leak" the key (such as what debian inadvertently did with openssl) but the whole point of quantum cryptography is to have a perfect key distribution to combat any known or unknown attacks.

I found the abstract, http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.4407 , shorter and more informative than the article.
/s/term limits/meaningful campaign finance regulations/
I think that is opening up a can of worms I would rather not see opened. Technically caching could be seen as copyright infringement.

Quite a few ISP's run transparent proxies for caching and technically every time you visit a website you are creating a copy of it on your local drive. If I disable javascript or run other scripts (like via grease-monkey) I am also technically creating "derived work".
"It's better because it's available now" isn't an incredibly appealing argument when the price different is around $500.
I think that we're taking the concept of "average" too literally. Picture two lines: average worker competency and need/requirement for the company to be competitive. The author states that historically those two lines have been so close as to be equivalent in management's eyes. Now the second line has moved up.

So according to this definition, the average line is no longer acceptable. As a result we need to move it up to realign with the need line.

Under this definition the author is not as problematic as before.
"...kills the till then legitimately produced Mac-Clones, because they were technically superior"

Given the alternative was being driven out of business by the Mac clone manufacturers, and the fact that Apple employs A LOT of people in the United States (far more than a few niche hardware companies ever did), it seems like they made the correct choice for US jobs.
What I think you want to do is:

1. Take all URL's that have made it to the homepage.

2. Weigh them by the points they've been assigned.

3. Only go out say n deep (maybe three) by following all the links.

4. Let this be your corpus of HN relevancy and rank the results returned by the weighted points assigned to the original link with a decay factor so that by the time you hit the last n deep links it has decayed appropriately.

I have 204mb of HN scraped by user. I don't think this would be useful to you, but if anyone else is interested or is looking for a fun project that is related to linguistics that's half started you can contact me at noah@noahc.net
Please don't learn to speak a second language. It can be hard and even with tools like Rosetta stone, Berlitz et al, many people just don't have the passion to learn these sort of things.

Or...
You could try and see if you like it. Awesome tools exist nowadays to enable us to try many different disciplines. Many of these are over-simplified and will only get you so far, but maybe you get a taste for a new hobby or a second career.

I get what the article is trying to say, in places. However, I really believe in the try it and fail approach. You can discover talents and passions you never knew you had. That is unless you don't try to learn...

On the other hand, they say ignorance is bliss.
We fixed it! Thanks for the heads-up.
We use Bones as our code loader in this case though depending on your use case a straight node `require()` might be simple enough.

The npm JS api is quite usable, so it was simply a matter of establishing a directory for plugins (in this case `~/.tilemill/node_modules`) and using the npm API to install, uninstall, etc. plugin packages to there. We identify plugin packages by the `tilemill` tag in the npm repo and each plugin is required to declare their compatibility with a particular tilemill version at the `engines` key.
I've been at Roswell nine years. I intend to retire from here. I'm also a Buffalo native and I can't think of anywhere else in the city I'd rather work.

Roswell is run similarly to a college campus (I've had previous experience supporting NY State colleges), meaning there are many departments, each run fairly independently of each other and each with different technical needs.

The departments usually fall in one of three categories: there is an educational group that works with UB's medical campus, a clinical component that treats patients, and obviously a heavy research component. During my time here, there have been at least four startups/companies that have formed as a result of research I've helped support.

Roswell currently has about 3,300+ employees. The Programmer/Analyst positions you have seen are an attempt to fill needed positions in various departments.

Everyone's version of "cool technologies" is different. I'm of the opinion, for the most part, whatever gets the job done thoroughly and accurately works.

In the past nine years I've written and maintain about 20+ applications in VBscript, C#, Actionscript, PHP, Ruby, etc with the various associated frameworks. Since every department requires something slightly different I've had to adapt as needed. However, recently we've been running with an inhouse PHP framework called Surebert which was/is written by a co-worker.

http://www.surebert.com

https://github.com/surebert

Interestingly enough for me, I've never written anything professionally in Java, but a lot of my co-workers have.

Out of the five of us on the web team, I'm the Apple fanboy. So I'm on a MacBook, iPhone, etc. Another one is on Fedora, another is using a Dell (ugh). To each their own.

And Roswell lets me moonlight on the side. I've had fairly steady freelancing gigs for a couple years now.

Interesting place to work. Good people. Very little complaints (nothing's perfect).
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Even if it doesn't technically violate the DPA there must be something this violates?

I wonder if this was in the T&C when I signed the contract?
According to the founder of Airbnb, the answer is Airbnb[1]. I think there's room for a startup exclusively focused on boats however if you can really target the community of boat owners. I would go to the local marina and talk to the boat owners one by one if you're interested in starting one.

http://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-service-like-Airbnb-but-for-...
Just to be clear, I didn't post this because I found it enlightening. I posted it for its stupidity.
Although it's interesting to formalize it, it's never really been the case that directors of normal companies are legally required to maximize profits above all else; they're generally given extremely large leeway to run the company as they see fit, as long as they're up-front with investors about what they're doing and why, and aren't engaged in shady things like trying to benefit insider shareholders at the expense of external shareholders. More: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3227980

This probably will still help, though, because many directors of normal corporations believe they have stronger profit-maximizing duties than courts have actually ruled that they do, and they're in any case worried about even unsuccessful shareholder lawsuits.
There is nothing here, they are simply preventing spoofing probably. Move along, move along...
Facebook "timeline" goes mandatory
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I find the disassociation of corporations and people strange. Corporations are made up of people. Those people have a set of ideas that govern the direction they take their company.

As corporations grow larger, they typically disassociate by nature. Megacorps like AT&T, Comcast, etc intentionally diassociate with their customers in order to reduce costs. The depersonalization of customer service is probably the best example.

I think what drives consumers' connection to Apple is that they have intentionally avoided the customer disassociation model of business. Apple incorporates their customer idea in to their products and their advertising. Apple's products are opinionated.

Think about that last statement for a moment. Opinion matters. Our opinions are a large part of our identity, and humans are inherently tribal. We associate with those who share our opinion. This is observable in everything from politics to commenting on HN. Writing that expresses strong opinion typically solicits the greatest number of comments. As a corollary, no one likes soft writing. We use terms like "wish washy" and "waffling".

It is no coincidence that Apple's users are their greatest advocates. Apple has created a company and products that allows me to identify with them. I won't be shamed for doing so.
O2 have responded

http://blog.o2.co.uk/home/2012/01/o2-mobile-numbers-and-web-...

Selected highlights:

Q: How long has this been happening?

A: In between the 10th of January and 1400 Wednesday 25th of January, in addition to the usual trusted partners, there has been the potential for disclosure of customers’ mobile phone numbers to further website owners.

Q: Has it been fixed?

A: Yes. It was fixed as of 1400 on Wednesday 25th January 2012.

[edited to add]

I find this a bit weaselly:

Q: Which websites do you normally share my mobile number with?

A: Only where absolutely required by trusted partners who work with us on age verification, premium content billing, such as for downloads, and O2's own services, have access to these mobile numbers.
>when I've got so many GHz and so many GB at my disposal?

Because like most laptop and desktop users youre IO bound by your slow mechanical spinning disk. My desktops at work at home and my laptop all have SSD's now. I have a level of responsiveness that's very close to what I get with an ipad or my transformer.

Don't blame the software, blame the hardware. You can't really compare flash-based storage to mechanical storage. A lot of the "bloaty" OS's really aren't. Its the damn mechanical storage. I mean, there's literally a mechanical arm that roams around spinning platters. You can't compare that to electrons dancing on flash media.
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You are right, I'm not intimately familiar with all the research out there and with all the details. I do think I have some useful things to add, that a "practical" angle is missing in many approaches, and that many attempts fail just because they get lost in trying to achieve theoretically elegant solutions, rather than building practical tools.

At least, I'll learn a lot. At most, we get something new with the help of other people.
"Bansi Shah, 23, picked up her undergraduate diploma, then took a job at Lattice Engines, a small San Mateo startup, where she makes “near the top” of the company’s $80,000 to $130,000 range for an entry level product manager, plus equity"

Is this the norm in silicon valley, entry level positions making close to 130k plus equity? If this is the exception great!, but where does someone go from there? If right out of school your making 130k, does that mean your going to make 200k after 6 years?
Apparently now fixed:
http://blog.o2.co.uk/home/2012/01/o2-mobile-numbers-and-web-...
is there any evidence this is legitimate?
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So because Apple staying in business is good for US jobs, they get a free pass?
Google is FUBAR
Scamming continues!
We just added preloading for the next image, sometimes you hit one which takes a while - it's faster than before though!
The author makes the assumption it was a security breach in Drupal's CMS that was at fault but gave no insight as to why they think that to be the case.

Until I hear differently it could as easily have been a hardware or OS vulnerability that was exploited.

Even if it was a security breach in the CMS, the fact that it was an Open-source CMS does not inherently make it bad. Did the company IT dept. regularly update to the latest version? Did they modify the CMS's core code to suite their own needs? To many questions to blame it on open-source.

Comes across a bit like an "I could write a more secure CMS", post to me.
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My desire to interact with a waiter varies depending on the nature of the restaurant. Clearly this system isn't going to be installed at a 4 star restaurant any time soon, but if I go to a restaurant just to eat it would be useful. It would also be useful in a crowded pub where the service is generally slow and terrible and the social aspect is more about hanging out with your buddies than being waited on with a date/wife/kids. People could enter their food and drink orders and they would at least know they are in process.

In San Francisco there is a sandwich shop called Specialty's that has installed iPad kiosks patrons can order from, which allows them to handle the lunch time rush with essentially no line and two cashiers. You are also assured that your order is correct because you can see all the ingredients on the sandwiches and make additions and subtractions. It's really quite great, although I have thought it is the sort of thing that is much more likely to be successful in a technology hub than in most cities.
Anyone else having trouble installing/running the .exe?

I've installed okay, but when i click "Start TileMill" nothing happens :(
Not to mention there won't be much of an incentive to work better (at least when they near their end of term).
O2 have responded, admitting the issue existed, and stating they've now fixed it.

http://blog.o2.co.uk/home/2012/01/o2-mobile-numbers-and-web-...
It is like the French with their food compared to the UK with theirs. The French spit bad food out, we just stomach it.
I'd suggest adapting this for your needs:

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
http://www.amazon.com/Immutable-Laws-Marketing-Explained-ebo...
This is fascinating! Has it been accurate?
I totally understand and concur with the need for the tools to build bridges by rigorous design. I also think we can look for better tools to build bridges, if we understand better the seas and rivers we are crossing, and if we analyze the limitations of the current tools.
indeed. I get that for sure and the game was free.

I still sort of wonder how much work it would be to release an update that i just new floors, not other new functionality.

I imagine it is work..still sort of want it!
The fact that the account was just started 1 week ago suggests to me that Github had been preventing squatting on the account until it was official.
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"but only with certain trusted partners."

Hmmm.... not sure I believe them on that part.
Predictable, nothing too surprising. I think they're going to have a lot of questions to answer around age verification though, seeing as they put in an age verification program without customer request or warning over the last year or so.

From this I'm assuming that the company they used for this (Bango I believe) would have been sent my mobile number in the past if I ever tried to access content they thought should have been verified. There has not previously been any messaging from o2 around this. Disquieting indeed. I would not have agreed to that transfer of information (nothing to hide, but it's MY information).
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Code is on github, feel free to fork https://github.com/motyar/mchat
C'mon, everyone understands "the central role that the Internet plays in their constituents’ lives", more or less. What they don't understand is how the Internet _works_. I doubt that before last week there weren't more than a dozen Congressmen who could explain DNS, never mind think through the implications of filtering. All of that was for the "experts", whom Congress turned to for "assurances" that everything would be okay. The media were scarcely better.

So they're no better than their experts, who are, hello, conflicted, or / and cherry-picked by conflicted players.

If we really want to get out of this lobbying complex, we might insist that our representatives demonstrate some actual knowledge before they legislate.
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