skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had this exact same thing happen. I wanted to try out some advertising so I put up in $20 and an ad for some shitty clickbank book. Of course it went nowhere so I deleted the whole campaign and left it at that. I went back to check out adwords a year later and my account was banned. I tried to appeal but they just told me that the anyone who ever had those urls as ads were banned and there was nothing they were going to do about it. Now that I'm going to get into Android development I'm think I'm going to try what you did, different address, VPN, etc. I'm moving in the summer so it won't be so hard.
Notice that I actually agree that my words were too long! I rarely actually downvote people, and almost never when they're criticizing me.
These seems like an ideal solution to that particular problem of counting.

But.. considering the fact that they have many many servers and may need to do other types of analysis on their large data set, would it make sense to consider solving this problem with a distributed system like Cassandra?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3558844/how-to-increment-...
I'd say in general this is probably fine since if you want to save a story you probably are fine up voting it as well. However, sometimes I don't have time to read something but would like to save it to read it later. In this case I wouldn't want to upvote it. My solution has been to use instapaper since it spans all websites and not just hn.
I've read plenty of articles about political, corporate, structural viewpoints – all with details of recent experience, personal findings and data on HN. I'd say fictional short-stories would be the odd man out at HN.
We did (its transitional right now, both sites work perfectly on the same back-end as we slowly inform our users), thanks for noticing. We're hard at work absorbing all of the privacy policies of the web, good things are happening for privacy. Would love your ideas or feedback, robert@safeshepherd.com
Wow. I didn't even realize that existed. Unfortunately, it didn't help me find something I read via here last week. I thought I had upvoted it too. Sheesh.
I wonder if he'd still have adsense if someone "gifted" him 10k hits from an adult network + some run of site adult themed links?

Guessing it wouldn't take long, algorithms being what they are.
That's great that you won't lower the bar for female applicants. Does that mean you will remove gender-identifying information from applications before evaluation/processing? that could be a cool way to do things and a great experiment...
Go: Severe memory problems on 32bit Linux
You need a plumber right now. What company name comes to mind? If you live in the US it is likely to be Roto-Rooter.

Brands occupy a space in people's minds for various categories. Think of it as key-value coding for real-live categories.

Google occupies, no, owns, search and probably owns advertising in the eyes of a huge percentage of Internet users and business people. Everyone sees Google's ads on sites they visit. Naturally, when it comes time to think about advertising their own businesses they are likely to associate Google with this rather than the startup of the day. That's nearly impossible to buy.
The end of the article is bit of a nonsense: why, we have to save big failed corporations like GMC just because of the supply chain ?Are you kidding me? The supply chain of these manufacturers is going nowhere. If they were dismantled, other companies would buy their assets anyway and keep using them on American soil. Nothing is completely lost.
Since never. That's the opposite of what he was saying.

You: Turing machines only operate on sets with the same cardinality as the set of integers.

Jason: Integers are not a finite set.

Jason: Therefore Turing machines cannot operate on finite sets.
As a first time entrepreneur hiring out interns I have had a very a telling experience. I did all the classic mistakes of basing the candidacy on certain parameters or keywords on the resume - though I believe its their work not what they claim matters. I did nt meet with much success. One of the most insightful things I learned in this process was to ask the candidate to contribute a sample piece e.g. a small piece of his work for a fictional project. This filters out many of the non-committed types. Some look bad on paper and even fail the screening questions bu their work again is revelation. We also upped the candidates commitment check by asking them to dial in and pick a screening date, fix up a deliverable (sample only) and meet a deadline. We filtered out all non-serious, non-committal candidates and those that came after this elimination by virtue have turned out to be very committed. They are far more passionate. My lessons were simple
1. Measure and value their commitment
2. Value their work and through that their passion and sincerity
3. Challenge them with adversity and discouragement - watch closely on their reactions.

After this you end up with great people. Btw - we were hiring creative interns for copy-writing job (nothing fashionable like programming). So there you go my experience on this and your article strikes a high resonance with me for this reason.
Again and again, criticism comes up against affirmative action to get more women in computing. How can this possibly be unfair? How many of you know what it is really like to be a woman in computing? Can you imagine what it is like to go to a tech conference and be judged on your gender? To be approached as if you must be someone's girlfriend because why else would you be here, or otherwise be some freak of nature? To have to excel a thousand times over among your peers because otherwise you feel you are not good enough? To not want to use the computer room during your free time in highschool because if you don't socialize with other girls at that age you'll be completely cut out of the social-ladder loop?

Are you also feeling somehow ostracised because of your minority genetic dispositions or lifestyle? Then welcome more women into the field, because acceptance welcomes more acceptance. We rage about what happened to Turing, but I wonder how many of us in that day and age, if we were his peers, would have fought for him publicly. And yes, I put Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper on a pedestal. I put Ada's mother on a pedestal for pushing Ada into mathematics. Without a role model, every person of minority must make the fight to be the first, and why use that energy fighting to be the first when that energy is better spent innovating in the field.

I ask you all please, look to a future 20-30 years from now, when there is more of a balance, as it happened in the fields of medicine, law, architecture.. There was a time when being a woman professional was unimaginable and resisted. It took courage and fearlessness, and it happened. It can happen in our field too, just don't keep blocking it (unwittingly or no) with constant criticism, it's tiring.

I cannot wait until the day a post on HN about achieving a balance in our technical fields has zero comments wondering why this could possibly be a good thing.
Wow, that is very gnarly. I love that "Web experience manipulation" is listed as a feature on this page:

http://rgnets.com/index.php?page=features
Bush made the initial federal loans to keep them from going broke. Obama made a second bailout, but this time in exchange for equity, which gave the US government a commanding share in GM and Chrysler. It wasn't couched in so many words, but GM and Chrysler were actually nationalized.
Gcc-4.7 custom compiled for Windows (Mingw)
A few other countries have it more-or-less figured out the basics, though without this future need in mind. Countries with a "guaranteed basic income" do this. There's also Milton Friedman's "Negative Income Tax" idea. At some point, we're going to be looking at world where few /people/ are honestly needed to do anything, and we will in fact need a way to support them. The post-scarcity society envisioned by some is probably no longer centuries away.

What's more interesting is how thinkers from various political persuasions have had their opinions on the matter converge to this answer while the dominant narratives (in the US at least) stay centered on variants of no-rules early Capitalism (Republicans/Libertarians), neo-Mercantilism (China), or 1950s union-jobs-for-life (Democrats), all of which seem increasingly untenable. Watch this (starts getting really interesting around 1:00) for more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=K...
if you were really a ninja however, you would have stolen that line under cover of night, replacing it with a forgery that looked identical, before using a selection of grappling hooks to make a stealthy escape across the rooftops...
Excellent resource for anyone wants to try gcc-4.7.0 on Windows.
Thanks for the informative link. From the complaint, the evidence is pretty clear that it's a copy with a paraphrasing. Even their web site (according to the complaint) boasted that as a school teacher, you don't have to change your book, theirs covers the same content in the same order, just free.
>Bank VP is a different situation
Not in investment banks, which have no retail presence at all.
If playing by "the rules" gets you banned then people will stop playing by them.
You are on to something here.
If people want o make it a hipster contest don't use the recruiting op and waste it. It simply does not add up unless you are stuck in a mindset that is not conductive to anything productive. Nihilists are us should never be a place one "wants" to work at unless there are no other ops available.
I read it something like:
"We do not share ... information ... _except_ as part of [something you've] chosen to participate in."

Maybe they could bend it to say choosing to participate in the site allows them whatever they please?
Even though the word 'specific' is used, how can you use it in a legal sense? (How broadly can you apply the use of the word?)

I hate reading privacy policies for the exact reason of not being able to absolutely discern how they affect me without having to get a lawyer.
If I was your lawyer I'd tell you to stop blogging or commenting on HN immediately. You're about to lose big. Take it from someone who has had their word used against himself 10 years later.
Ask HN:  Why did my first blog post get no love?
I have a lot of experience running businesses and have a strong entrepreneurial education background.

While I have written many essays and research reports, I have just started my own blog to share some of my views in a more informal way.

The problem is: I posted my first blog entry both here on HN and also reddit but not a single person commented on it.

Feel free to tear it apart; criticism doesn't offend me. Looking for honest feedback on why these tech/business peeps didn't find anything to say about it.

http://shawster.com/blog/?p=22

Thank you.
Power-packed VC panel talks about going IPO
Minus actually took it from Dropmocks, which was created by a Googler.

https://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks
http://www.dropmocks.com/
This video requires a time commitment at 50 minutes, but it's well worth it for the content.
I added this feature for you. It will work as soon as I finish coding tests for it.
Air Quality Egg Kickstarter: open hardware sensor collects reading of NO2 and CO
In my area, Bing has much better imagery than Google. They have for years. Google Maps has better text layout than Bing, but Bing Maps has several features that Google Maps doesn't. The orthogonal "Bird's Eye" view lets you see the map from an angle, and you can rotate to see all 4 sides with the arrows in the top-right. http://binged.it/Iaa4xm
I guess you did not upvote it...
If one feels that the license is flawed, then why not? It's possible to not like the viral clauses for various reasons, such as incompatibility with other viral licenses, but feel there is some issue, like patents, that are not well-covered under the BSD license, for example.
> I did my first project for money in PHP when I was 16

Can I ask how you got those jobs and what you got paid?
News moves fast. Only a small percentage of visitors ever see the "new" page. It's quite possible that no one who cared even saw it in those minutes.
They help some but it doesn't go away 100%. Robots mean lower worker regulatory costs, but environmental regulation costs still count against the US.
I've played a fair amount of bughouse. You are right about the point about bughouse strategy. Stipulated.

These guys are enjoying themselves.
They feel rejuvenated for work after playing it for a few minutes.

Why impose your priorities on them and claim "it's a terrible game" and suggest they need a "solution."

It'd be like Lebron James telling you not to play H-O-R-S-E because it won't help you become competitive with him at basketball. If you like playing H-O-R-S-E, it doesn't matter that it won't help you beat him.
I'm CTO of a django-powered startup, which I link to on my website. Django is great for dynamic content, learning it will teach you about databases and help you make nice UI's.

My personal site is just boring static pages. Hyde (or Jekyll, for the ruby folks) is the right tool for such things.
Relevant article by Andy Grove on US manufacturing from 2010: http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/10_28/b41...
The 'assembling of sites' - those are the businesses that the salespeople are visiting every day - at least one level. The 'link exchange' idea for newspapers and their advertisers could be implemented quickly in many regions.

But... it's not that hard to believe it's not being done. This requires foresight and effort and some hard work that's outside the core competency of most media outlets. It requires a shift/pivot that most didn't see coming. Everyone wants the easy way out - just let google handle ours ads, and we get a check every month! Then one day you realize google controls a significant portion of your revenue, controls the relationships with the companies advertising on your site, and doesn't feel it needs you around anymore. Rude awakenings to be sure.

Additionally, most tech savvy people migrated to SV or NYC, leaving much of the rest of the country with less forward-thinking/visionary/tech-hungry people to drive this sort of thing. And if other papers aren't doing it, why should we? We might make a mistake!

There is a business model here to be developed, but it's also not one which is going to be a multibillion $ homerun overnight.

At the same time this sort of idea is being ignored by major papers/newsoutlets, larger companies like AOL were/are buzzing about "hyperlocal" and trying to get volunteers to write about local soccer games. Why? To have the content to drive hyper-local ads. At least, that was my understanding. But who's going to sell those ads? It should be newspapers, but they should be controlling local new media networks, instead of rolling over and playing dead (quite convincingly, imo).
The task he recommended as a quick break just happens to be one of the hardest games around, and a game that is despite appearances, all about going really really fast. Not what he wanted. Oops... And then he recommended a version that is well over twice as hard.

All good players play 2min bughouse, go on FICS and type "best B" and look through the game history. Or just look at the games in progress, it's all 2min. More is stupid. If you look at the current game history of the highest rated active player, one of the 2min games involves a 1:48 wait on like move 6. If that was a 5min game, it would have been a 4:48 wait on move 6. So 5min is simply stupid and zero good players play 5min.

You're doing a weird mix of pretending this isn't about the details of bughouse and then getting the details of bughouse completely wrong.

Similarly you claim that taking 2-5s per move is superior for new players. This is 100% false. You will get a worse record if you do that. Stop arguing about the right strategy for newer players in a game you're clueless about. Even if you go back to 1995 or something it was still 3min games, never 5.
Two problems though:
1) no one should use Google Analytics, especially not start-ups, because it gives Google full access to intelligence that you don't want them to have.

2) I block Google Analytics because neither Google nor fly-by-night Web 2.0 startups have any business tracking that stuff. In fact it should be normal practice for all web browsers to block urchin.js by default.
It's less than 2/3 of what it used to be. I'd say that's a big improvement :)
I'm guessing most of them were probably already in Google's pocket - having their ad inventory controlled by Google and collecting a monthly check. Classic short term vs long term strategy. Short term, the company can stay in business, long term, you're around solely at Google's pleasure.
This is a problem for me and lots of folks who run their web servers behind Amazon Elastic Load Balancers

Amazon Route 53 solves this problem with an alias record, though your service may be easier to use or cheaper than what Amazon offers.

http://aws.amazon.com/route53/faqs/#Zone_apex
As a traveling independent developer, I've run afoul of both Google and Apple's fraud detection algorithms because I'm moving around all the time. The difference is that straightening things out with Apple involved talking directly to an intelligent, helpful human being whereas Google just stonewalled me with forms and faqs.
I've only had to work in vegetable and fruit gardens belonging to my grandmother, but if it scales, then yes, it would be backbreaking. Only worth it if you enjoy it or otherwise derive self-actualization from it etc.
Well, you know, you could upload from your browser before, too. While it is definitely a nice feature, it is not like it adds functionality...
so your solution is to waste a bunch of legitimate ad spend from a legitimate advertiser by sending illegitimate traffic and clicks to a hacker's site? What if the person dropping those links in those hacked sites wasn't actually the owner of the target site and he did that so someone like you would screw over all of the innocent parties who happen to involved?

This is a problem Google needs to fix, hackers aren't going anywhere and god knows teaching them a "lesson" isn't really a good solution most of the time, black hat morals being what they are.
I read people saying things like "Google is always doing this". I'd love to see (and know that I never will) some numbers from Google about how many people get blocked for fraud vs how many people are using adsense and adwords.

I'm not saying Google is perfect. A few stories sound troubling. This one, for example, has a guy making a mistake, but listening to Google and doing what they say and being told that he's avoided trouble, and then having an account frozen. People do make mistakes. People sometimes do stupid things. We probably haven't heard on HN from anyone who outsourced their SEO to someone who was blackhat. (Are the blackhat SEO companies obvious? Would some naive website owner be able to make that kind of mistake?)

But yeah, fraud detection and prevention is unsolved, and would be worth a lot of money. (See also banks: You tell them that you're going abroad and give them a destination and a date. You go abroad. You use your card, and it's frozen. You make an international phone call to the same bank to have the card unfrozen.)
My friend had a pretty nifty looking resume, wonderfully laid out and spaced, while remaning very minimalist. He created it in InDesign. Just before I hit the job market last summer, I had a brilliant idea to do a full revamp of my resume in InDesign. I copied and pasted most of the resume from a spellchecked Word document, but I added a word or two directly in InDesign. There was a typo, and InDesign did not indicate anything. It was very slight, and after having stared at the resume for hours, the typo was pretty much invisible to me. When did I find out? After I had sent it out to 5 postings.

Whenever I read/type I often forget shorter length conjunction words, and a lot of grammer checkers won't detect it as a mistake. In fact, once I proof-read an entire email over multiple times on gmail, only to realize that I forgot a 'the' in one sentence after it was sent. Gmail showed no squiggly lines for that error. Grammer checkers often don't go off when you accidentally interchange singular/plural as well.

My resume still got picked up by a lot of places, so either it was impressive, or a lot more people read as quickly/carelessly as I do.

I don't know how exactly I developed this habit, but it could be a by-product of skimming code very quickly, or generally skimming things when perusing through articles/comments.
Are the prices adjusted for inflation?
I understand your point, but it is pretty clear that the topic comes up multiple times in the letter, most obviously in

> There is a huge amount of data in the world that isn’t publicly available today. Showing it in our results involves deep partnerships across different industries in many countries. It’s very similar to the work we did to get Google Maps off the ground.
Thinking about this a bit more... I doubt this is being done, but... MS should be private-labelling their own ad network technology to mid-tier news organizations, giving them training on how to sell/manage this, and taking a cut.

That said, I don't really want it to be MS. I thought their ad/mgt tech was awful, but... with a bit of polish, removing references to MS, and some sales, they could make a dent in this market.
How does it being fiction stop people jabbing and poking at it? And how have you read this far down the thread and still held that conclusion?

As for glancing at it and knowing that it is fictional, it is fairly obvious in the first paragraph, even without the names, purely by the style of writing.
Years ago, probably around 2006 or 2007, my gf learned how to design and slice in HTML and CSS too. Its a good starting point although the real challenge will be actually picking up a real programming language thereafter. Best of luck.
Moore said:
"GreenArrays' computers have a unique mechanism for implementing stacks with hardware: a stack is a set of registers with a pointer to the one currently on top. The pointer is moved up or down as required. The data is not moved, merely a pointer to the register in which the data is stored. This saves energy. "

Unique? I've been doing ASIC design for more than 20 years and that is how it has always been done.
> forcing you to call in and verbally OK the transactions

This is the bit that people seem to get most frustrated about. Banks have telephone numbers. Even if that support is outsourced to Mumbai you still get a person to talk to.
How to treat your customers
Onerous how? I'm not a business owner (well, I am, but with a staff size of one, which is mostly irrelevant to this conversation) - the regulations i've seen don't seem that bad.

Could you be more specific?
Or you could settle for Bitbucket? They allow private repos for free. This would work perfectly for such a thing.
Sadly we are not seeing any results. I get far more spam followers and mentions now, than ever before.
None of Dropbox is new functionality that wasn't available before. Somehow they're a 4 billion dollar company.
"No feigning surprise" or anything of the sort can be important. Years ago, I was in a college math class where the teacher used an analogy and mentioned John Elway. Yes, this class was being held in Colorado.

Anyway, one of the other women in the class asked who that was -- she needed context to better understand this guy's analogy. He was just flabbergasted, and could not believe that anyone could not know who he was.

It didn't help that this particular student had only been in the state a short time, was from New England, and probably knew nothing about football. This prof couldn't make heads or tails of that and proceeded to tear into her as if she was doing it on purpose.

There were many tears and a lot of bad feelings all around. I doubt she got much out of that day in class. I know I sure didn't.

Stuff like this can make or break a system.