skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Search Engine Marketing
The Sem corporations have put emphasis on Adwords in order to publicize their Search Engine Optimization and Sem services. They have also defined that the Adwords are the most practical method in order to improve customers earning on Internet advertising. The search engines use was not that necessary in many industries in past few years, but today search has become very vital to discover different types of information requires by almost all the companies, as it is system to improve their business expansion option.
Defendants now get to decide whether charges are "weak"?
It was never about Chomsky or whether he's "worth the teacher's praise".

I don't care how great somebody is. It still comes off badly to refer to them as "the great man" and appeal to their authority if you want to persuade your reader of something.
I don't suppose you have a link to whatever article's that from? I'd like to read it, but google's not bringing it up.
Using multiple database models in a single application
Oh wow, I completely missed that. Thank you! I will contribute that post.
Americans Spend $422 Billion Per Year On Sports
I'd be willing to bet (e.g. longbets.org) that objects of size 10^15 amu (which is large enough to be visible to the naked eye) will be interfered in this century. Baseballs are 10 orders of magnitude larger.

In any case, the point is that it's not a matter of the slits becoming too small. It's a matter of controlling environmental decoherence.
Install a Stackato Micro Cloud in One Command
Rainbow["onHighlight"] = Rainbow.onHighlight;

Isn't that line useless since `obj['property'] == obj.property` is always true?

https://github.com/ccampbell/rainbow/blob/master/js/rainbow....
Guess which one evaluates to boolean truth?

The one that is an error?
Book chapter: How to test a random number generator
iPad 3 Review: Better Than Anything Else, but Kind of a Letdown
The smell of freshly-cut grass is actually a plant distress call
Capital One Introduces Consumers to the Breakage Model
These are my favorite resources:

Compiler Construction: http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/CBEAll.pdf

The Elements of Computing Systems: http://amzn.to/GQycqj

MetaCompilers: http://www.bayfronttechnologies.com/mc_tutorial.html

How to Create Your Own Freaking Awesome Programming Language: http://createyourproglang.com/

Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing: http://www.rano.org/bcompiler.html
I know. But you were needlessly agreeable. I thought some salt needed to be rubbed into the GP post.
I was more talking about the difficulty of testing the performance of a multithreaded dynamic memory allocator. Because moving dynamic memory allocation off the critical path of an application is a common first optimization, it was difficult to find interesting applications to use as benchmarks.
> YouTube lets you watch and listen but you can't take what you see and hear home with you (read: download it).

Yes you can, and most non-tech-savvy people I know actually prefer to do that, than to download their music from torrents or "download sites". Which I can imagine because they're much less likely to get a virus and they just need a firefox extension and everybody knows how to find their favourite tunes on YouTube.
So is there no search bar...?
I feel the same way about cross-browser testing. Everybody knows that this is the worst part about web development. A number of startups already exist to solve it, but there's easily room for more solutions. This is a blindingly obvious startup idea.

But I get indigestion just thinking about it, because this means taking on the worst aspects of everyone else's job. There's no major win that I can offer for being clever, just for being more willing to focus on unpleasantness.

Or am I kidding myself? Is that focus on something unpleasant the very soul of entrepreneurship?

Sometimes you luck out, and something that everybody hates is something that you love. But there are some things which are probably universally unpleasant to even think about.
Tumblr’s Updated (and Hilarious) Terms and Why They Matter
"4 of those copies are for backup or personal use"

If they're for personal use, why are the publically accessible (and actually being downloaded by hundreds or thousands of different users) and not restricted to the account that uploaded them?
If you think that's bad, try removing the www in the address. It just hits a GoDaddy parked page.

Also, take a look at this site: http://hadhwanaag.com. It's the most popular news website in Somaliland. I'm pretty sure someone can make a pretty penny just by setting up a nice themeforest-based theme for many of the country's websites.

The hard part will be convincing them their website looks atrocious.
I think it was from the Economist's special report on Germany. See the series of articles starting at http://www.economist.com/node/15641069?story_id=15641069 .
Everything apenwarr (Avery Pennarun) writes is worth reading, be it code or essay. He's been writing much less since he's started working at Google, but there's a lot of history for you to read.

Of his open source stuff: bup is awesome, sshuttle is awesome, and wvdial is a lifesaver for those rare times you need it. I'm quite sure do/redo is awesome, although I can't provide 1st hand testimony.
That's similar to what I found. (See my paper referenced elsewhere in the thread.)
In addition to the things you mentioned, I'm also quite happy about the existence of a party containing many young, inexperienced members in the government. They seem to be reinventing the wheel at least partly out of ignorance of the way things have always been done in German politics, and while that does lead to some chaos within the party, in some cases they're reinventing it for the better.

Even if they don't manage to push through any meaningful changes at all by themselves, their mere presence seems to be enough to shake up the traditional parties, and show them that they need to be more open and inclusive towards the general public, and particularly younger voters.
No. If there is more than one error condition that needs to be handled by the caller, then sure. Enumerate them and provide a "SUCCESS" value. But if you are seriously arguing that "enum { OK, FAIL };" is good code, I weep.

edit to avoid stringy flame thread: but it's a discussion on STYLE. If this was an example of how to write an error API, I wouldn't care (I probably wouldn't read it either). But it's a discussion about how C/C++ is written by presumably talented authors, and by inference how other people should write code. And the code sucks, sorry. And I'm horrified at your identification of dead code and needless whitespace as "syntactic fluff" not worthy of consideration as an important part of style.
I have found one thing disturbing about autocomplete: Suppose I find a new "association" between 2 ideas, one of which is rare. I intend to follow the relationship up as a researcher or a programmer. Because of the rarity of the first topic, it is suggested to anyone who types in the first keyword - (s)he discovers the association for free, courtesy of my flash of inspiration and my carelessness to search it on google.

It is surprising in the history of mathematics how often the same results are proven simultaneously in several places - see for example, the HOMFLY polynomial. It is as though the "result was in the air". Now this is a concrete way of leaking such information so that if any one makes a connection, it "leaks" to others.
Ha! I was going to post a Perl 6 version of this to show how much shorter it is when you don't go through all the rigamarole, but of course you remind us that it's that short in C++ if you do it in a sensible manner. Bravo.
"what is the basis for pricing that item when it isn't linked to anything concrete in the physical world?"

The same basis that is used to price physical goods: demand, or rather, the maximum a consumer is willing to pay. Supply and demand are not a pricing strategy, they are macro concepts that gravitate towards equilibrium.

If I am Apple and I sell iPods, how do I set its price? Not by looking at how many I can produce, but by looking at what people will pay.

You are confusing two things:
- limited supply: there are only a few items of something, and therefore they are valuable.
- substitution options: people want to pay for this song because it's the one they want to hear, not some recording of my neighbor playing his ukelele.

"Could the attribution of money to virtual goods without any link to a physical resource lead to bubbles / economic breakdown, because there's no ceiling on the amount of wealth that can be generated from it?"

No, although I'm not quite sure how to argue because I don't understand the assumptions leading to this question. An economic 'bubble' is, generalized, a sociological phenomenon where people ascribe an unrealistic value (as in, real value) to a good (the 'irrational exuberance'), leading to a bidding war fueled by the prospect that this value will continue to rise. Then at some point, it becomes clear that the good is overvalued, and the people who at that point own the goods are left hanging, much like musical chairs. If they borrowed to pay for the goods, they're double screwed because now they can't pay on their debts, the effects of which can then ripple through the economy. Bubbles don't come from too much wealth being concentrated in one hand.
Just to be clear, the pirate party (with 7.4%) is in the parliament, not in the government.
The government will most likely consist of a coalition of the parties CDU and SPD, so that the Pirates will be in the opposition.

I am sure you meant that, but it wasn't clear to me.
I'm kind of wondering how much smaller they can get. Going any smaller than micro would appear to me to need a new pad to talk to the chip on, which might make adapters more difficult to make.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. It seems the principles could be applied well. Though I think, the principles are definitely directed toward an introvert's preferred style of working.
Manifold Learning vs Manifold Embedding
Any writeups on the design and algorithms used?
Could the mind play a bigger role in healthcare?
Google Plays Around
Why the Google Play re-branding was a necessary evil, but done incorrectly by Google and how it still doesn't address the biggest problem Google has to address.
It's a consistent syntax with smart defaults you can leave out. You wouldn't say Unix's wc is inconsistent, would you, just because it has default behavior?
Facebook page of Saudi-owned news network Al Arabiya has been hacked
Parse officially launches (out of beta)
When looking at silent install files for ANSYS, I discovered that the install file simply records the keystrokes the user makes when a setup is recorded. That means that it also records any typos and backspaces. I must have really had trouble typing that license server name!
Measuring to improve: comprehensive, real-world data center efficiency numbers
> But calling it "tricking people" is misrepresenting it completely, in my opinion.

You're dealing with average internet users here. They will have no idea what's going on, and will just click the premium button.

From my tech support experience, I can guarantee that 100%.
The DMCA requires service providers with actual knowledge of their hosting of infringing material to act "expedititously" to remove or disable access to the material. I don't know where this argument about "links" comes from.

This whole argument seems like a bit of a red herring. What the DMCA actually says is that service providers aren't liable iff (a) they don't have actual knowledge of infringement --- and that if they themselves become aware of infringement they themselves without prompting remove infringing content, (b) don't have a financial interest in infringement, AND (c) respond to takedown notices.

It beggars belief that MegaUpload could pass (a) and (b). All three need to apply to avoid liability.
> This looks like code generated by an IT employee at a local soap manufacturing company

Too bad you go and ruin a perfectly reasonable comment with that crap.
Wonderful presentation with the fade in.
"I think one would most reasonably hold that it is both a form of exploitation and a form of enrichment."

Sure. But that's how it works. If I pay a photographer to take my portrait then I am exploiting as well as enriching him, it's a 2 way street of trading things the other person wants. In an unequal relationship such as between the developed and developing world then sometimes the exploitation can seem a bit much compared to the level of enrichment. However, at present there is no known better way to enrich the developing world. In the short term it may seem like it's only exploitation but in the long run the overwhelming likelihood is that it pulls people out of poverty. And this has been true not just in recent times in the countries I've listed, and others, but also farther back in countries like Japan and the US.

However, I should make clear to differentiate trade from other kinds of work. It is very possible to make use of labor in the 3rd world without enriching the people there. There are certainly a good number of examples from the history of colonialism where that was the case. But manufacturing seems to be fundamentally different.
They would make the video at the end use silverlight
Traffic from Techcrunch for a startup related product:

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Regarding 1.
The author states that he purposefully did not include the code to remove the chrome and making it a "web app", since all external links opens up in Safari.
Microsoft Apologizes to Blogger Over 'Smoked By Windows Phone' Fracas
it wouldn't even run on Android phones. from one of the comments.

>i downloaded it 3 times, and it didn't even start at my lg p500 android 2.3.
No, it's not useless when it comes to advanced minimization when Rainbow.onHighlight might be minimized to Rainbox.a. By doing Rainbow['onHighlight'] ensures a method called onHighlight exists on the Rainbow object.
This is because I'm using Google Closure Compiler in advanced mode so all methods that do not get used get renamed.

In order to preserve the methods and keep them public you have to reference them like this.
Hashtag Activism, and Its Limits
If anyone has a tighter estimate for the number of MPAA represented movies produced in the past 70 years, that'd be great. The number should be out there somewhere, right? I'm fairly sure that ~38k MPAA movies since 1942 is guesstimating way too high.
When is it right to steal ideas?
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A CI system just needs to be able to ingest the test results (usually as junit xml formatted text). You can easily do with with jsTestDriver or Selenium as your bridge from the running browser instances to the CI server.
Why 'data breach' isn't a dirty word anymore
There are something like 20 different rips of _The Muppets_ on Torrentz.eu right now. It is not at all hard for me to believe that the majority of the content on MU was infringing --- not that that matters, because it's even easier to believe that substantially all of the monetary benefits of MU involved improving access to infringing content.
What would I do? Delegate the care and feeding of this beast to two hires and get a marketing guy to continue the push for new business/deals. In short: hire up until I had outsourced all of the objectionable aspects of the technology to someone else. YMMV.
Yes, see this excellent reply by Lazare below: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3756021 .
Colourlovers Buys Forrst
The Most Comprehensive iOS App Development Course Ever – $89 Instead of $197
Well yeah, that's what often happens when one takes a libertarian stance.
The more fascinating question for me is can you demonstrate the double slit experiment on something small enough that you can detect the effect in two separate scales with the same object.
I used the term "downvote" figuratively -- I don't mean literal downvotes on this poll (I don't think anyone can downvote a poll option anyway, and even if you could I wouldn't be able to isolate upvotes from downvotes since we just see the combined number); I mean votes for "least favorite language" in the other poll.
Seems really useful. One thing I would love to see is a summary of why a certain movie was recommended. Like:

"You and your friends all liked X and Y is very similar."
Thank you for your insights, that is indeed helpful.
JSONP is considered by most to be a hack and a security risk. CORS is extremely easy to implement, as it only requires you to send some headers to the browser.
For example, in a node app I recently wrote, adding CORS was just a matter of adding these lines:

var allowCrossDomain = function(req, res, next) {
aptUtil.log('using cors to allow for cross domain xhr');
res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*'); //any domain can submit requests to us.
res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET,PUT,POST,DELETE');
res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'Content-Type');

next();
}; app.use(allowCrossDomain);
I love the idea of offering your own mini-course. Teaching is by far the fastest way of cementing your knowledge of a subject. It would be great if someone could create a platform /'app store' for providing stuff like this, free or otherwise.
I'm finding the details of this operation to be very fascinating, but I'm also rather conflicted about it. It seems like Microsoft is doing a lot of good going on the offensive against these troublemakers, but I'm also concerned about abuse and collateral damage. I don't know enough yet to know if those concerns are unfounded or not.
Is it really much of a difference from Google "tricking" advertisers to pay to ride the coattails of that "pirated content"?

FYI: Many full movies are uploaded on YouTube without permission of the copyright holder.
I was surprised at how many people who commented on the first post basically told her to "lighten up". The other kind of response I was disheartened to see ran along the lines of "just give them some of what they're giving you", which really boils down to "just stoop to their level".

I think I assume these issues are fairly visible, and that people who don't see them on their own will recognize the problem as soon as it is pointed out to them. I guess not.
> While the Premium button is immediately available and the other isn't

Since we're talking about "the average user", the argument should probably stop here. Most people on the internet will click the first button that looks like it will get them what they want, usually without even reading the rest of the page. Hell, they may skim past the word "Premium" in their rush to hit "download".
New bitcoin android app.
>It beggars belief that MegaUpload could pass (a) and (b).

Again. Rapidshare, hotfile, youtube. Also innocent until proven guilty, etc.

Also, remove or disable access. Killing the link does precisely that.
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This looks like a very worthy replacement for http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/

I can't see the license specified anywhere, any chance you could add a LICENSE file or similar?
Is the content in this version any different from the ebook by the same author and published by O'Reilly? (Because I bought the latter awhile back...)
Parse 1.0 is released
Rapidshare, Youtube, Hotfile. Which of these things is not like the others?

These kinds of razzle-dazzle arguments don't make you sound more convincing. "MegaUpload wasn't mostly infringing content". "Youtube is just like Rapidshare". This is Hacker News, not a court of law; who's mind do you think you're changing with statements like that?
And this is one of the reasons I love HN. I would be interested in hearing more sometime. For example, if you were to write up a speculative blog post and submit it here...
>If they're for personal use, why are the publically accessible

Because it becomes "publicly accessible" the moment the link to the file is generated when the upload completes. I.e. you can access the file if you know the URL.

The law does not require you to do this kind of research, besides.
To clarify, I assume you mean that FAIL is the one that enumerates to true, but that you dislike this idiom.

"For the purposes of the exercise I’ve deliberately limited the amount of error checking; this isn’t meant to be industrial-strength code (so don’t gripe to me that I haven’t covered all the error cases!)"

I think it's pretty clear (at the very least, it's charitably inferrable) that the author is accustomed to errno-flavour error codes. Everything else you gripe about is just syntactic fluff* that makes no difference whatsoever to the analysis, and is dialect-invariant anyway.

* Edit: by syntactic fluff I mean that it has both the properties of being easy to mechanically change and that the given mechanical change wouldn't turn bad code into good. One can have strong feelings about the density of white space in code or the proper place of constructor definitions for a class not defined in a header file (I don't, but whatever), but when the solution to it is to run it through a program for a perfect result, I think it becomes not worth discussing.
The researcher programmer, a new species?
Although you are correct about the pocket thing, the point is that you don't know when someone may be listening to you.
Mobiscroll 1.6 released - featuring ICS Skin for mobile date&time picker
Templates typically expand to one chunk of code per type handled, so no, executable size does expand if you use a lot of them.

(A C++ fan would counter that they are faster than pointer-based generic algorithms like C's qsort and that you'd get the same code size manually typing it out.)
Wait a Second-will the iPhone screen Ever be Bigger? Maybe not
Depends, do you have one that states the majority of MU's content was infringing?
It's under Apache 2.0. Just not specified in a LICENSE file yet.

https://github.com/ccampbell/rainbow/blob/master/js/rainbow....
Another problem is that, even if MegaUpload had all the MPAA infringing content you can imagine, taking all of those 25 petabyte offline is kind of similar to nuking a big city in order to take down a few local drug dealers.
Anyone else notice that there have been exactly zero specific cases of an employer asking for a FB password? It seems that "Employers ask for FB passwords!" is more of an outrage tool than an actual issue.

For those who watch TDS/Colbert, they poke fun from time to time at Fox News et al for making up scary things that kids supposedly do - the latest was soaking tampons with vodka and sticking them up your butt. This feels like the "soaking tampons with vodka" of the professional world. Someone probably has done it, but it is really uncommon and not worth losing sleep over.
WebSockets, Erlang and shattered glass
OK, why does any P2P site ever get in trouble? If the standard is only linking and not hosting, why were Napster, Kazaa, Grokster, isohunt, oink, etc. shut down? None of these were hosting content, they just provided links (or the equivalent of links).

The reality is that the courts have recognized that operators who should have a knowledge that the content on their network is almost completely infringing don't have a viable excuse by just saying "we just provide links, we have nothing to do with the actual content". See the Grokster case.

So, here's the question: how much of Google's index is out of copyright, and would it be reasonable to expect Google to know that they are making money off of a catalog that is almost entirely copyrighted content without any license from or compensation to the copyright owners?
So he's lying in the interview with TorrentFreak? Can you support this claim?
Care to elaborate? Because, you know, he actually mentions in the article upping the delete quota for Warner Bros.