skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a thread on DDG's community site DDG uses Yahoo Boss (not sure if that's Bing powered now) but I would bet anything it can fall over to Bing without too many issues. It came up during a discussion of the new Bing pricing which should come into affect in 2 days or so. DDG does crawl some things directly as well (DuckDuckBot) but its nowhere close to the scope of Bing/Google. DDG also does meta searchs using API's such has,

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=hn+Marissa+Mayer+Googifies+Yahoo

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=copperhead+road+lyrics

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=code+perl+%3D~

The top zero click result is from other sources on the web (disclosure the last one comes from my site).

The only search engine I have found which gets close to this is VerticalSet although with the new Bing pricing I am not sure how long it will exist for now.
For the record, Mozilla is a 501(c)(3).
> Yes, and that's more than enough reason to boycott the games, and loudly demand their abolition [.]

No, that's reason to loudly demand their reform.
I wasn't. Just simply trying to provide a perspective on why someone younger might also have valid advice.

Life doesn't have to be one or the other. :)
Link to source (in Chinese) - http://ilab.cc/news/5888.html
100% agree. Wasn't trying to imply this is the only or best way--just that it's the sort of thing you can do in <60 sec with Heroku/Sinatra.
The particular finding in the article is just the most recent insight from next generation DSI computational modeling breakthroughs. The article highlights the hardware/device engineering, but the real news is that by using these new modeling techniques, nearly all modern MRI scanners can benefit, largely unmodified.

As someone who works at the intersection of informatics & device engineering, I find these visualizations stunning.

And the embedded video in the article is not just eye candy, it actually represents a class of diagnostic tools that didn't exist a couple of years ago.

Guilty as charged on a modest bit of editorializing; just google DSI or its related cousin Diffusion Tensor Imaging and tell me that's not pretty cool.

As for "no math" mentioned in the article, that is true. But a cursory search for the terms tensor or fractional anisotropy and weighted trajectory projection models will quickly reveal just how much math is involved, regardless of a press release that glosses over that fact.
yes, there's a lot of misconceptions here on hn about what DDG actually is. Indexing the web, now, is beyond the capabilities and budget of individuals, you need the resources and backing of a company like google, ibm or microsoft to do so. DDG is federated search, not a search engine. While they might crawl a few sites, it's Bing that you're seeing in the result, the work of Microsoft engineers (along with any remaining PowerSet guys.)
Pretty much. I don't really care if you know the languages we use because you'll pick it up in the first couple of weeks on the job. People who can really solve problems are rare.
"What if Marissa made it known that Yahoo would be the best tech company in the world for hiring women execs, putting women in leadership positions, and advancing the opportunities for women in the workplace (as Sheryl Sandberg is so well-known for promoting at Facebook)?"

Sounds discriminatory to me.
Neither does a very good job if a good UX is a concern. I haven't encountered any PhoneGap apps that feel native.
As expected, "skeptics" are now denying that Muller ever was a skeptic[1]. It is unfortunate - everyone should be skeptical, but when people start pulling out new, highly speculative theories (eg, the latest one - which I saw on HN - is that cosmic rays are responsible for climate change) to attempt to explain climate change it's hard not to think they are just denying for the sake of denying.

[1] http://www.climatedepot.com/a/13375/Befuddled-Warmist-Richar...
Is there a python (perhaps django/flask) equivalent to this?
I'm not going to comment on the contents of the story as it's really just a formal announcement of long-leaked information, but the descripion of Muller as some type of 'climate sceptic' is a PR stunt. He has always been a firm believer in the catastrophic human caused global warming movement.

Some quotes going back over time:

"It is ironic if some people treat me as a traitor, since I was never a skeptic — only a scientific skeptic. Some people called me a skeptic because in my best-seller ‘Physics for Future Presidents’ I had drawn attention to the numerous scientific errors in the movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth.’ But I never felt that pointing out mistakes qualified me to be called a climate skeptic.” - Richard Muller in an email to Huffington Post, 2011

“If Al Gore reaches more people and convinces the world that global warming is real, even if he does it through exaggeration and distortion – which he does, but he’s very effective at it – then let him fly any plane he wants.” – Richard Muller, 2008

“There is a consensus that global warming is real. …it’s going to get much, much worse.” – Richard Muller, 2008

“Let me be clear. My own reading of the literature and study of paleoclimate suggests strongly that carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels will prove to be the greatest pollutant of human history. It is likely to have severe and detrimental effects on global climate.” – Richard Muller, 2003

It would seem that Dr Muller is more intent on creating a headline and grabbing publicity than contributing to the body of knowledge. This would be great PR for a startup, but I find it a questionable tactic in this field.
No, the main reason not to do that is that the barrier to usage for non-technical people is a lot higher than with a no-install website, and you need to be using a browser that supports extensions, so its aggregate usefulness is much lower.
It's ok on my laptop (not touch-based), but the issues really start getting rough if you add a second monitor in. There's no good way that I've figured out yet to move the start screen or any of its' metro apps to the other screen - they're just stuck there. When it's just one monitor, going to the desktop at least removes you from the Metro interface.
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This is an interesting question, but I think a bright-line distinction is fairly easy to make.

It's not unethical to try to influence someone, even subconsciously, even by the choice of arbitrary design elements ("you start with 2 of 12 checked") -- as long as there's no deception. Introducing deception crosses the ethical line. So faking a purchase that was never made to gain a benefit is unethical.

Perhaps there's a bit of grayness in that the 2/12 stamps makes people prone to underestimate the magnitude of the remaining effort ("5/6ths remaining") compared to an absolute measure ("10 of 10 purchases remaining"). But without there being a misrepresentation -- for example, a claim that the first 2 stamps are a special favor not usually granted -- all info for a proper evaluation is available and truthful. And it's even possible that such an influence is to the consumer's net benefit: maybe there's another cognitive bias against completely-unstarted efforts, causing people to overestimate effort required and never get started on things they'd actually enjoy. In any case, once the alternatives start requiring discussion or even controlled study to evaluate, it's harder to apply a stark label like 'unethical'. That label is more useful on easier-to-evaluate actions like prima facia deception.

(Still, the point is well taken that these are some sort of continuum, and it might be the case that a certain superficially-truthful offering is so likely to be misinterpreted by an average reader/listener that it is still de facto deception. I don't think the reward-stamps case is anywhere near that line... but carefully-wordsmithed political ads, designed to create false impressions without being blatantly falsifiable, often go right up to and over the line.)
Ah: The Racket Guide. http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/

Call a plumber and the faucet starts working.

But the question still stands, where would you point and experienced C-side programmer to start off in racket?
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I feel it is worth pointing out here that asymmetry is not original to Twitter. Consider e.g. LiveJournal.
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It's not like before Popper scientists didn't know they had to design experiments to test their theories. Popper himself, from what I read of him, considered his work more useful as a way to tell apart real science from fake science (he gives Marxism as an example of the latter), than as anything that could help real scientists do their jobs.

In chapter 7 of "Dreams of a Final Theory", Steven Weinberg argues that philosophy has been mostly useless or even harmful for physicists, and whatever positive effects some philosophical theories might have had, had to do with undoing the harm done by other philosophical theories.

Weinberg is not hostile towards philosophy, he has warm words for it and says he enjoys reading certain philosophers, he just acknowledges that philosophy is not at all helpful in doing science. Exact quote: "I know of no one who has participated actively in the advance of physics in the postwar period whose research has been significantly helped by the work of philosophers." (Weinberg considers this surprising, and contrasts it with mathematics, which is extremely useful even though there is no reason why it should be.)
Hey. Quick tip: I knew what gittip was in the first sentence. But what is Work for Pie? There's no mention of that on the blog so I clicked the link. It sounds a lot like github but you can sign in with github? Pretty confused.
Sadly, that M2Crypto script doesn't check for certificates which are not trusted for issuing SSL server certs. So whilst it happens to skip a few, it will include over a dozen inappropriate certs in the final output!!

This is exactly the problem that https://github.com/agl/extract-nss-root-certs was written to solve. I'd strongly recommend using it.
The author mentions Quora and Pocket as the only examples of hybrid apps he knows of. What about the LinkedIn app? I always thought that was a good example of a well-done hybrid app.
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I've started implemented a diff-based text storage engine for PostgreSQL. It accomplishes the same principle, but using Postgres as a backend, instead of Git. It's very rough, but I'd love to get some feedback!

https://github.com/singingwolfboy/postgres-text-diff
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I think Mr. Caldwell makes a convincing argument that there needs to be a compelling (not ad-supported) alternative to Twitter. My question is this: Why can't this alternative have a "free tier" that allows the average user to access and use the service without paying and have additional features available to those who pay for them?

In determining a payment model for app.net, it seems he's never addressed why there isn't a free tier...
This is an interesting idea, but the title is dangerous. As has been pointed out a lot lately, making something "pink" doesn't mean you can sell it to women. :)

Edit: Just noticed that Gina Trapani helped forge the headline... It's probably OK ;)
The actual news section of the podcast did not begin until 13 minutes after the show started. In my view this is much too long. I'd request to limit guest chatter to a few minutes per guest.
As one of the few women on Hacker News, I'm going to come right out and say it: I think this is a fantastic idea, and Marissa Mayer would do well to take it to heart.

Imagine if Yahoo made a serious bid for Pinterest, and then Marissa went really crazy and made their homepage into a Pinterest-like site. Not only would it cause a great sensational uproar in the press, but it would make Yahoo a serious contender again.

P.S. Not offended by the fact that Dave said "pink".
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It is not just that, many people severely overestimate the net worth required to put you in the "top 1%" just by working backward from the numbers. The best estimates put the "top 1%" point at around $1.2-1.3M using the IRS's method of calculation.

People with $1.2M in net worth are usually pretty middle class, especially in the more expensive parts of the country. The bulk of the top 1% are hardcore savers and small business owners. Not nearly as many fat guys with top hats and cigars in the top 1% as is often implied.
If you trust the cURL folks, there are regular conversions of the Mozilla root certificates available[1].

There's a Perl-language converter tool available there, for those that don't have Go handy for the extract-nss-root-certs tool.

And there's also a shell script there that uses the certutil tool [2] that can be used to extract the Firefox certificate store.

[1] http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html

[2] http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/release_not...
I do remember at one point the celeron had a very locked (like 66mhz while the good stuff was 133mhz) front side bus.

But again, if you don't need FSB performance, it's not actually a loss but a net gain - same calculations for less money.
Like loading screens that go faster near the end? I don't know that making the wait time look worse than it already is (40m vs 30m) will please customers.
IOW, as an earlier manager of mine would say, "Set low expectations, and exceed them."

I am still ambivalent about that, though.
It is weird to use CLOS with Emacs. First off, you don't get a real CLOS implementation, you only get superficially similar syntax. Many critical features are missing. Secondly, your users lose the ability to customize your package in ways you didn't design for. (In other disciplines of software engineering, you're writing software that must run unattended without error for years. In Emacs, you're writing software for a programmer sitting in front of your program. The engineering compromises to make, therefore, are significantly different.)

To do something like OO in Emacs, define variables that are buffer-local, and then use the buffer as the object.
See __DIR__ if >= 5.3
I wonder if actually making the rows early-redeemable, for less than the proportionate total reward, could also help.

For example, in a 4x3 card, maybe each row of 3 gets you 15% off if redeemed early. In this way, you're always close to something with provable value; you're more likely to value/carry/protect the partially-completed card; but you're also still likely to go for the 12-for-100%-off rather than stopping at 3-for-15% / 6-for-30% / 9-for-45% off.

(The various App punchcards bring the possibility of running many more incremental tests in this area, and novelties like 'awakening' dormant customers with a gifted stamp or two.)
Maybe just try and get actively involved in Mozilla.
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It sounds good. This may give her the moral authority to make less popular changes down the track - she's signalling that she wants to make the place like Google, which will make the troops more sympathetic to anything she does.
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It has crawling as well, just currently it is falling back to Bing outside of its core competencies.
Interesting...

Mozilla and Yahoo would make a good strategy, considering Google/Mozilla relationship has cooled in recent years.

I like your Github/Meteor suggestion as well, albeit unlikely that either of those companies would take money or influence from Yahoo.

Also don't think Marissa Mayer has the vision for these sort of changes, although hope I'm wrong on this.
That part would likely be legally risky, but the essence of his post is an interesting idea. And the hiring lots of women in leadership roles part may simply follow naturally from pursuing such a course, rather than being an explicit policy.
Ha! Good point. Wanted to take the emphasis off of us for a bit, but I understand the confusion.

Work for Pie is a community for software developers--and especially for developers who contribute to open source software. Joining gets you two things: a portfolio, and a score. Portfolio puts the emphasis on open source work, and score is based on meaningful participation in dev-centric communities (right now Github, Bitbucket, Stack Overflow, and Hacker News with more coming).

In the future we'll be doing a couple things:

1) Making it easier for developers to connect with like-minded individuals

2) Making it easier for developers to discover great companies without the pressure that comes from working with outside recruiters or the frustration that comes from searching the job boards. We'll be sure to do a Show HN what that stuff is ready.

Thanks for asking! Feedback is welcome and encouraged cliff (at) workforpie.com
Scaling is not the issue. Keeping it relatively clean is the issue. Dealing with criminals and law enforcement. Keeping the community satisfied. Classifieds ads sites are a magnet for spam and all sorts of nastiness, and Craigslist is the biggest one.
The twilio-ruby library does this by packaging a set of root ca certs. There is a configuration option to override this with your own set when you construct the client.
Your point may be true, but this is not a good example, since the question discussed was of political nature, and even very smart people will ignore whatever evidence contradicts their political choices. That your argument was ignored had nothing to do with the innumeracy of the faculty members, and everything with them being liberals. If the room had been full of Google engineers, the outcome of the discussion wouldn't have been any different. (Although obviously they wouldn't use the phrase "confuse the issue by introducing numbers and percentages.")
I plan on using an actual DOM parser on my next pass as I fully stand by and believe that you should never parse markup with regex.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454
unfortunately his knowledge of basic Lisp is relatively small and his Lisp style is also quite bad.

He does imperative programming in Lisp:

(let (a b result)
(setq a 1)
(setq b 2)
(setq result (+ a b))
result)

code which is more than four lines is often from different sources.
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I'm not American, and US broadband rates are eye-popping, so I agree the business is high margin as it is. But once there is serious competition, by the implied entry of Google Fibre, then the margin will shrink quite a bit.
We've been using cucumber with Rails at our startup since we started. Once we have clients trained up a little bit, they are able to use and understand our cucumber tests very intuitively.

Non-developer people aren't stupid, they just need a little help to understand. Cucumber lets them be valuable contributors instead of someone to grapple with over acceptance testing.
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Which, since he's using an anonymous function, he would be.
I'd love for them to make a Leanpub version (PDF + EPUB + MOBI). I've tweeted at Blake asking him if he's interested, and obviously anything that is made should be done with Peter Thiel's approval.

It would have taken us 5 minutes to make a Leanpub version, but we respect copyright, both Blake's and Peter's, so we haven't :)

Anyway, Blake, please email me (peter@leanpub.com) or tweet me (@peterarmstrong) if you're interested...
I agree, but that's not Google Fibre's model. Their 5Mbps service, for example, is $0/mo...
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Haskell, for starters. But more seriously, the motivation is to have a wiki with the capabilities of Pandoc: a bunch of formats -> a bunch of other formats. One comment already pointed out literate Haskell, which is nice.
By this evaluation, they have utterly failed. Craigslist is full of spam and criminals and users who are bitterly unhappy with the lousy UX.
JSON always seemed so obvious to me; I'm amazed it wasn't "invented" sooner.
Other people will care. I edit my files directly as often as through a wiki, and I like being able to use Darcs instead of Git.
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I'm not one to complain about the distribution of training information, but isn't this a little... simplistic for HN? This seems more the typical /r/PHP content.

I mean, is there anyone here who doesn't know what the ternary operator is?
Any areas in particular?
I think RubyMotion proves that alternative languages don't need to come at a cost to performance. It's tougher to write a custom compiler like RM uses, but the end result is identical performance to normal Objective-C. "Just" write a similar compiler for Android/Dalvik and you're there ;)
If you write Lisp like Xah suggests, people will laugh at you. Just read the Emacs Lisp Introduction that ships with Emacs, that actually teaches idiomatic Emacs Lisp.
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Just curious, how much Google stock does she have, and does that affect what strategies she can pursue with Yahoo? i.e. it may encourage a more cooperative stance with Google than a competitive one, even if the latter is better for Yahoo individually.
Given that this is licensed Creative Commons under Attribution, Non-Commercial, and No Derivative Works, -- and notwithstanding a general desire to respect the authors wishes (http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/22922727433/read-share-p...) -- it becomes a question as to whether it is a truly derivative work.

Since the meat-and-potatoes of the work is entirely textual, and faithfully reproduced, you could argue that work is non-derivative and within the license.

CC puts two additional restrictions on “transformation” and “alteration,” but it is not clear on what those would be. It would be reasonable to argue in the spirit of the license, that as long as we do not alter the meaning, intent, or spirit of the original work we did not alter or transform it. Any stricter interpretation would like defeat the purpose of licensing something CC, as any form of distribution requires some, however small, amount of altering (eg, I have to convert it to photons before I can hit your retinas).

There are precedents for what is considered a “derivative work” in the US, but usually as to define “new” works that may desire protection, but not likely as many in this reverse situation where we wish to argue that a slightly altered version is equivalent.

If I made printed-to-PDF from my web browser, is that a derivative work? a transformation? a substantial alteration?

If we take a strict (perhaps stretched) interpretation of Masters desires: you should read it only on my website and share only links to it from there? Then why license it as CC BY-NC-ND? Such interpretation of the license gives you no rights you did not have before under fair use (or fair dealing).
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I think the advice to Quit should be qualified by: only if the company has more than about 25 people. Otherwise, there may be hope.
It's not. At least, I've never seen the movie. I forgot where I heard that. So I googled it.

In a search looking for that exact quote, I came up with only a few links. All from either comments I made previously or a blog post.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2504632

That was where I originally used it.

I was proud of it, mostly because it was short and to the point. I'm usually not short and to the point.

Anyways, in writing about this on my blog, I had a wonderful surprise happen.

http://www.jasonlotito.com/advice/sometimes-i-amaze-myself/

From his LinkedIn profile, I take it he never got/took the job. But, he seems to be doing well.

But yeah, I think it's good advice.