skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Concerning example 3, I find that this comment sums it all up:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/search-plus-your-world/#commen...
Depressing... Watching the consistent motions, I think this says more about the people than it says about their presidents.
A short video of the app in action would be nice. Looks like a great concept.
Funny how time can sometimes heals all wounds. Contrast Truman's approval ranking on the graph from the OP's post with his aggregate ranking in this table from Wikipedia, where he is ranked in the first quartile.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_Presiden...
Approval + disapproval is almost always less than 100 in most polls.
The problem with this visualization is that you've got X/Y being disapproval / approval. The only case when they're not correlated is during the first few days of entering office.

There might be a less confusing way to display the data.
Maybe approval visit year of election(or when the poll was taken) I think that would show a downward tendency.
Thanks so much for making a site like this and sharing it on HN. It was veyr informative and inspired me to sign up. I have a kit on the way!
Then what was this ruckus about Microsoft bundling IE?
Right, thus the dependence between the two quantities.
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> Because if your software has some kind of copy-protection built-in (encrypts and stores serial numbers, hides and encrypts parts of the source code to protect from reverse engineering etc.) - an antivirus will most likely detect some "very dangerous" trojan.

Don't waste your time with this crap. You don't have any secrets on my computer. I will crack your DRM and reverse engineer as I please.
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People are very enthusiast for playing Nintendo Will games as it offers you best performance. Those people who likes to play various adventurous games for them Nintendo Will games is one of the most well-known name.
> "sort zips together, least-element first, the sorted first half of input and the sorted second half of input -- unless len(input) < 2, in which case it just returns the input."

If you're defining the algorithm to that level of detail, then I submit that you're writing the algorithm. What you just described looked almost exactly like how it would be written in one of the more advanced current functional languages, and the OP and previous OP that he was responding to both considered functional languages to be Not Good Enough. What they're asking for is pretty much just Sufficiently Advanced Technology to Do What They Want (i.e., Magic, or strong AI).

Aside from that, sort IS something that's so common that it tends to be implemented in every high level programming environment in one way or another. Baking several sorts into a language isn't odd, so I don't think "sort" is a good example, because I ALREADY can say "take this list and sort it" in any language I use.

An Euler integrator isn't built in to anything but a DSL for animations or games, though. And it's one of THOUSANDS (millions?) of algorithms that a program might need -- most of which are more easily described (by the programmer) in a traditional language than by trying to jump through hoops to describe what you want in a way that you'll actually get what you want.

So yes, the trivial problems could be solved by such a language -- but they're already solved by CURRENT languages. It's the hard problems where it would be hard to know how to even start to create a "describe the results" language. I think all you'd end up with is a DSL for each of the cases you thought to describe -- which, depending on the domain, could be useful for that domain. DSLs are great when they're well designed. But as someone else pointed out, you don't write a game in SQL.
Yeah, but these are the values that are measured with the polls. What other metric would you want to use that has been measured using the same way for all these presidents?
What about showing the disambiguation options ? based on wikipedia's disambiguation page ? THAT would be useful
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How does a guy with no marketing background promote their social media startup?
I'm currently the cofounder, architect and one-man marketing dept of my startup based in the Philippines and am at a loss about how to go about promoting it.
How sure are you that it is an option? I followed the link you gave, went to search settings (here: http://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en) and found no option to disable it. I went to the dashboard and attempted to find an option for it, but did not see it anywhere. At this point I am under the assumption that while this may have been an option, it's been removed -- and if this is the wrong assumption to make, then all I can say is that it should not be this difficult to find it.
We have one so far.

Let's see how many comments we can get explaining why this was bad when Microsoft did it with IE but just fine when Apple does it with iBooks.

Bonus points if you somehow spin embrace-extend-destroy as a good thing by conflating what's good for the users with what's good for Apple and its shareholders.
He made a valid point. Why is he downvoted?
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>Apple shows every indication of being a much worse monopolist than Microsoft ever was.

Difference being, they don't have a monopoly in any area with the possible exception of music players. They have a minority market share in every other product they ship, so the consumer has a ton of choices. If Apple had Google's Search dominance in smartphones, then it would be an issue. As it is, if you don't like Apple, don't buy their products.
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I agree 100% that various levels of opting out should always be possible.

Some of that is available now - e.g. incognito mode in Chrome (or the equivalent) or simply not being logged in, Search+ has the toggle for whether or not to include personalized results are the examples that come to my mind first. One could imagine other controls that might be useful or desirable.

"But I don't want it to take my entire online life into account when I am doing a search"

Personally I think that over time, the difference in the quality of the results provided by search engines that don't know anything about it's users will so much behind those from search engines that do that we will look back and wonder how we ever found anything.

But time will tell.
Maybe it's a good thing the Foxconn employees will be replaced with a million of these in a few years:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1qJyAWZeV4

Work that requires you to do one thing 5000 times a day shouldn't be done by a human anyway.
1.Send your project to friends.
2.Give your project to someone to review.
3.Right a column related to your project
4.Right a column related to an area in which your project may help
If someone reinvented Smalltalk and Erlang (and it saw widespread adoption), I think we would see a lot less "programming sucks" posts.
Maybe the one trigger your wife's asthma is the lack of oxygen circulating inside the pocket pillow or due to materials used.

Hehehe... I understand your feeling that someone might smack your head on the table. For sure. you'll not be able to have a nap because of your worries.
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Why single out the iPad?

A) page views

B) hedge funds trying to short AAPL by spreading negative news the day AFTER a record-breaking quarter.

C) A & B
Or maybe that certain presidents make certain promises and then consistently break them. Obama has been very disappointing, I had high hopes for him.
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So, are donut holes more important than life or not?! What's the bottom line, man!
> Could you point me to the obvious internal disquiet?

It was to this [0] article I was referring. I don't think he was misrepresented, but the Larry Page quote was really beside the point.

Edit: reworded the paragraphs below for clarity

> impending but vaguely characterized misuse of that data.

There have already been a number of occasions where either Google's network was compromised [1], a rogue employee has misused data [2] or users have had their accounts hacked [3] en masse. And of course, on top of this, various government and intelligence agencies have had access to your data [4].

None of that should be the least bit shocking or surprising, because such outcomes are inevitable when a large company holds so much data. I'm not going to blame Google; none of those incidents served their interests and indeed compared to most companies Google are unusually transparent and responsive about these issues. But knowing that these things will happen regardless of their good intentions, Google should seek to minimise and not maximise the amount of data they hold on us.

> > Once they have the data and it's been mined for further meaning, it's inevitable they'll find new uses for it.

> This does not seem at all self-evident to me.

Perhaps I should have said, "it's inevitable they'll find new ways to make money from it". They're a company, after all.

> In fact, it seems to me that Google's incentives are such that it's pretty much in their interest to use the data well. [...] And they have every incentive to keep their users' trust.

Well, we could say that about any company, and yet abuses occur regularly. If you set a companies profit motive against the best interests of it's customers, the cost of a breach of trust will simply be factored into the equation. Unfortunately it is frequently the case that while a breach of trust may be costly, it's not always costly enough.

I don't think there's anything exceptional about Google here. They're not immune to corruption. Google has served us so well so far because our interests are aligned; it's the surest way to prevent an abuse of trust in the future and why I'm so concerned about their new strategy.

[0] http://pandodaily.com/2012/01/24/larry-page-to-googlers-if-y...

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01...

[2] http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-09-14/tech/29992918...

[3] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/01/google-hack...

[4] http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/
Sorry I am late getting back on this. Long day!

I think the best thing I can do to explain this is to actually watch the video at http://informationdiet.com/live. It'll take you some time. I'm carving it up now.

But there's a lot in there.

The overarching theme though is that good persuasion is a function with two parameters: sacrifice, and effort. The more sacrifice and effort involved in your persuasion to Congress, the more likely it is to be well received. Thus, a visit to Washington, DC is much more effective than a phone call. A phone call is much more effective than an email. An email is much more effective than a form email. A form email is much more effective than a form fax. And so on.

Here are some tips:

http://www.informationdiet.com/blog/read/how-to-be-a-better-...

and

http://www.informationdiet.com/blog/read/how-to-talk-to-cong...
D) Apple can have the biggest influence in Foxconn's work policies.
freshhawk "you get used to it" is what a good friend told me about the troubles with using only apple products, did you see how much money they made
I don't mind the downvotes. Some people like to downvote when they actually mean "disagree" -- happens all the time here in Washington.
You're right on with identifying the number one problem I knew I would face when Cheekswab was even just a thought in my mind: how do I make people care? It's still something I think about constantly, both when I'm conducting a drive or staring at my computer.

I hear what you're saying when it comes to the photo of the patient/baby, but the number one thing I didn't like about some of the existing sites out there is that they read like a brochure. The reason why people donated for Amit Gupta is because even if they didn't know him face-to-face, they felt some sort of personal connection to him via his products or technical notoriety or positive reputation or whatever. Maybe even the bonds of being a technical guy in a technical industry. I distinctly wanted to avoid having to go the route of finding a stock image of a bald chemotherapy patient or teary mother because I feel like it's manufacturing sentimentality. We're surrounded by manufactured sentimentality concerning cancer. Turn on any episode of House and you'll see what I mean.

I feel like too much of that detracts from the cause, because cancer, sickness and bone marrow transplants are real. They happen to real people, with real families who have no idea what to do or where to turn. I do share my personal story with cancer on the "Founders Story" page, but admittedly it's (very) long and not everyone will take the time to read it. But some do, and early feedback from many is that it helps them empathize in a way they've never done before. And there's no way for me to condense that story into three quick-hitting bullets on the homepage.

There very well may be nothing I or anyone else can write on a website to convince someone to donate marrow. There are way too many factors that I cannot foresee or control that will impact that decision. But if that person's life is ever touched by circumstances where a bone marrow donation is necessary, my hope for the website is that at least they'll already be aware that the cause exists and know where to find more information.

But your feedback about the homepage in general raises points that I will definitely consider.

I have some more ideas in the pipeline that I hope will help further personalize the cause. I've shot a video with a friend who recently got called in for a marrow donation. I've been in touch with an old classmate on Facebook who took part in a PBSC donation and met her donor. I'm convinced that it's these types of things that will create conviction and empathy in others, and I'm working on it.
Perhaps this would work:

x-axis is time, y is approval/disapproval, width of line represents percent neutral. But then where's the excuse to play with the neat video library?
Adblock (or rather, AdBlockPlus) can hide elements within web pages. Killing images and the like is only the beginning of a decent adblocker.
The scrollers and sliders are glitchy. I think it may be some interaction between the touch events and scrolling specific to the Android webkit implementation when hosted in an app rather than the native browser.

If you switch to "paged" mode rather than scrolling the article the transitions are generally fast when you tap or swipe - atleast with testing on a Nexus S and a TouchPad both running ICS.

I dont think its purely rendering speed, but some odd DOM interactions.
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It reminds me of Lord of War
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399295/
Thanks for the feedback! I definitely am going to take a hard look at modifying the design on the main page, including making the main point more prominent, visible, and easy to read!
I assume you mean "write a column." But where? We're a startup in a developing country, so the interest for that kind of thing over here is pretty thin.
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I found his story more sad than funny, this guy clearly had some inadequacy issues. Evidently he was a hacker of some ability; had he stayed that way today he could have been leading a medium sized legit startup perhaps.

But what's even sadder is the cavalier attitude Germany has shown towards him: after his first set of crimes, during the extradition from Thailand he should have got a more severe punishment it seems (what good that would have served with a guy like that is another question altogether). Insider trading was not a crime until 1995? It was banned around 1930s in the US I think.
Wrong. The Chinese government does.
I think Storm is more of "web" real-time, deadlines on the order of seconds, rather then traditional real time systems which have deadline accuracy requirements on the order of milli to microseconds.
It will be great once USB Flash Drives become as cheap as DVDs. For one thing the memory of the flash drive will continue to increase while maintaining the same form factor. And for another they don' damage as easily as a DVD.
The problem is, Javascript continuation syntax is ugly and verbose. All the nested indentation fails to map to our human sensibilities about what the code is actually designed to do.

Someone needs to fix this
SPYW is Spy World. The hilarious part is that I didn't even have to bring in my own words. SPY is right there, dominating the word and guiding the way you would attempt to pronounce it, and World is what the W actually stands for.

Spy World. What were they thinking?
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A UX lesson I just know: It is better to have options than unchangeable defaults.

Another UX lesson: do one thing and do it well. Apparently Google forgot that. I still think it is a great one. And yes, I know it pertains to the function software plays and web empires are a different beast, but I find the poetic irony of the down the rabbit hole fiasco being related to a *nix quib delicious.
I still don't understand how they are getting away with the 'agency model' for ebooks. With those deals, no one but apple can make money selling ebooks in a native app on an iphone/ipad.
Beautiful website. Also, I don't normally read the About section of websites, but your Founder's Story was excellent. Very well written, couldn't stop reading it:
http://www.cheekswab.org/about-cheekswab/founders-story/

I don't have any technical feedback for you on the site, but I will say that it has finally pushed me over the edge. I just ordered the kit. Thanks for putting the site together, I think you've made a very nice contribution to the web and to humanity.
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That's a great example, as it shows anti-virus scammers are just as bad as the airport security scammers. Someone being named Osama Bin Laden has no bearing on their likelihood of hijacking a plane.
doesn't it mean could be 20k wrong images?
Apple has nothing like the monopoly position Microsoft had, certainly not in ebooks.

The closest to that would be Amazon, whose reader doesn't support epub at all.
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I am always on the hunt for good domain names. Keyword search is a start, but I've always wanted to just browse random domain names to spark ideas. Built this quick web app in a weekend to shuffle through expired domain names which are available for registration.
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I'm amazed he was convicted/pled guilty three separate times in Germany and yet never had to do any prison time. After going easy on him twice didn't work, you'd think they'd want to try something else.
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An e-mail sent to the HTML Working Group [WHATWG] by Hixie, explaining in a detailed way, the tag article and it's use.

It's worth reading.
There's at least one company using it for algorithmic trading, although I don't know the details of how they're using it.

Storm isn't intended for sub-millisecond type processing, but latencies on the order of milliseconds is certainly doable on Storm. Obviously a lot of that depends on how complex your processing is.
From a developers standpoint, MSE is pretty damn awesome. Never had an issue with it :P
Or the SVN repositories of binaries that are 4G just on the trunk branch. The HDD basically never stops.
> As someone hiring, I'm just thinking the time would be better spent on code samples than writing a resume.

I guess it depends on what you're looking for and your point of view.

It sounds like that given the choice between coding something in order to show employers versus creating a resume you would rather produce the code. But as an employer, do you want code that they wrote to show off, or do you want code from a project that they enjoy and to solve a problem, rather than as a demonstration? And as other people said, you don't know how long it took them to write that spiffy code they're showing you. If you spend enough time on it, the turd will eventually be polished.

Resumes are pretty much universally accepted. Startups are tending towards more code based, but I get the impression that you don't know going in if they want to see existing code, or a specific problem solved. Given that situation, your bang for the buck would probably go with a resume. Even if you tweak your resume to have 3-4 versions in order to apply to different positions it's probably time better spent than creating contrived code examples to serve as a resume.
Even at $450/share it seems a little silly to sell them one at a time.
If the company is specific to the Philipines, like "The best clubs in Manila".
1. The approach in the US would be to write a column in a newspaper, but this is quite hard to do. To do this you might want to try to hold a marketing event if its possible, this would allow you to send a press release to a newspaper. Look up "how to write a press release". I am assuming everything is the same as it is here in the US as far as media contact.
2. You could try University, because students are more likely to try new things
3. Marketing in-person at a University.
4. Remember, University students almost everywhere are the same. I think this might be your market even though I don't know what your idea is.

What is your idea?
The reasons for this are obvious, and probably have nothing to do with the cost, difficulty, or politics of streaming. It's more likely due to the majority of their by-mail customers routinely going inactive for months at a time, while still paying for the service.

That inactivity is so well known that it became a talking point in social commentary and has even been the punchline of late night jokes.
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The sort of delays I'm speaking of happen even with no other applications running. Windows itself is probably the most demanding software system on many PCs.
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The hackers that came up with the name way back when weren't corporate PR hacks, that's why.
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I plead no contest to PWI. I swear that it was all straight in my head.
The animation is very pretty but half of the links bring up broken data stating only 700ish page views with no outbound links to stories.

====================

On a separate note, does anyone else think that yahoo has an identity crisis? Although they have a large web presence, I can't seem to think of one thing they do better than their competition. When I picture yahoo, I think of it as an internet tabloid since most of the main real estate of the page is dedicated to link baited columns. They have search, but no one under the age of 55 uses it. They have made a series of acquisitions but you could argue none of them have really added much to the company. Since 2006 they have tried to be a jack of all trades, and I don't really think that is a good strategy for any company. Yahoo should figure out what they want to be good at, and drop all the other crap they are doing.
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The old DVD-by-mail model was hugely profitable, so they decided to confuse everyone by re-branding it? What?