skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What actually happened: We did no wrong ... but here have a free bumper

And of course this all happened out of pure love and altruism from Apple. Not like it had anything to do with a class action lawsuit or something...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-57380685-248/settlement-re...

Looks like the reality distortion field is still going strong, even post-Steve.
How about Spermacide or Condom? They're gender-specific and inherently sexual (as in, pertaining to sex organs). We're not in the third grade, you're right. But apparently the author of this app is. If he's not behaving seriously, he can't expect to be taken seriously.

The reason to be okay with this name is because you have a third-grade sense of humor. The reason to not be okay with it is because you're mature and the author is not.
You have that backwards--Meta actually means "prepend Escape" (or 8th bit on, but that's another discussion).
Honestly I'm not even a layman; I use DuckDuckGo and Google and read HN (obvs), but I've never even heard of Blekko. Looks nice, but I completely agree: it's a little disingenuous (or perhaps tunnel-visioned) for him to believe that people really know about it.
How do you propose one come up with valid statistical data on something which is inherently an opinion?

Isn't this what polls do?

Need every single bloody point be scientifically rigorous?

It's a great ideal to have for any discussion.
For all the pipe lovers in this thread, here is a Perl utility I wrote to help debug shell pipelines. I call it `echoin`, and whatever it takes on stdin, it prints to stdout (presumably the terminal) while also treating its arguments as a command (sort of like xargs) and repeating its input for that command's stdin. So I can do:

foo | echoin bar

This is like `foo | bar`, but I can see what's passing between them. It's a bit like `tee`, but reversed. It's what I irrationally want `foo | tee - | bar` to do.

my $args = join ' ', @ARGV;

open OUT, "|$args" or die "Can't run $args: $!\n";
while (<STDIN>) {
print $_;
print OUT $_;
}
Which trademarks are you refering to here?
Cash-poor Sharp mortgages display factories, including Apple screen plant
As I said, call it whatever you want, I'm not outraged. Simply put: it's up to you if this project is something you want to put on your resume or Linkedin and be taken seriously,
You have a right to name it what you want. If you have goals related to other people using, forking, improving, etc, then this name will make that harder.

For example, in Showing to HN, you probably wanted some frank feedback. Your name is working against that as all you are getting is discussion of the name. If that's what you wanted -- well, mission accomplished.
I'm not a woman, and I agree. It just opens the door for lame, offensive jokes and doesn't have anything to do with the project. There probably was no negative intent, but it should be renamed.
here have a free bumper as it reduces the problem

That's a huge oversimplification. The free bumpers didn't go out until the outrage level became too much to ignore.

And at first, it was ignored, or at the very least handwaved with "stop holding it that way". I very vividly remember the videos on Apple's site which showed signal degradation of competing smartphones when held a certain way.
Google, 3 to 1.

All searches were related to pages I know and I searched for some keywords or parts of the domain.
How do you propose

I'm told that polling people can be done accurately and scientifically.

Need every single bloody point

Yes.
Money launderers typically like to avoid leaving a trial and I would think PayPal keeps a very accurate trial of where its money flows. And since they are regulated as a bank (at least in the EU) I suspect PayPal will simply need to hand over that information to the authorities when asked.
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Solid idea! Real value. Clear ROI for business. Great job! I look forward to seeing the progress.
Can't we agree that both names are equally horrible?
Vision, Mission, Strategy
Facebook ad tips gleaned from SEM techniques
It may be that Google uses location information from your IP address, which, for the Microsoft servers running the competition, is in Redmond. If you search "what is my ip address" in the competition, Google's results show "Your public IP address is 131.253.25.46" (or something similar). This is a Microsoft IP in Redmond. Interestingly, a reverse DNS query gives msnbot-131-253-25-46.search.msn.com as a domain name for this IP.
I'm glad you have the time and resources to commit to research such a significant point, because I sure as heck don't.
This is an interesting thesis, but not self evidently true.

This is your logic:

A is independent of B.

B could be anything.

A is independent of B.

_______

But...

B could be a Set such that A is a subset of B.

A and B could also be terms in a Set Z, which includes A & B
Deep Underwater, George Bass Has Seen Pieces of the Past
That's definitely a classic article. It just doesn't apply here. Hard to explain why without going into a ton of details, but basically:

Layervault in 2012 != Netscape in 1996

Netscape's crufty spaghetti C code != Layervault's elegant but slow Rails code
I'm not a layer but cases have been won against this very practice:

http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/3334934/goog...

I suppose you could argue the services aren't really free, it's just that advertisers pay for them and not the users directly. So Google isn't really providing a service below marginal cost as long as the marginal revenue of advertising is enough to cover it.
"Profit is a solved problem: we know, to a pretty good approximation, how to make companies profitable."

This whole article was somewhat laughable, but this phrase in particular stood out to me.
Programming is a craft, you can always improve it with more experience and hours of practice. I think what makes it interesting is that new languages and environments emerge and programmers have to learn to apply their existing knowledge while continuously unlearning parts of their craft.

I've been programming for almost 30 years now and even within the relatively constrained world of low-level C programming I still learn new skills all the time. I would say, though, that it took me a good 2 or 3 years of regular practice to get to the point where I avoid most common mistakes and develop debugging skills to find the mistakes I still make.
According to the 1st Edition and 6th Edition manual pages:
NAME	cat -- concatenate and print

See:
http://man.cat-v.org/unix-1st/1/cat
http://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/1/cat

I'm pretty sure based on the timeline of pipe (~1973, roughly V4) that the cat command (~1971 V1) predates pipes.
Did you read the article? There are head-to-head photos taken between an iPhone and a Lumia 920, live during journalist hands-on time (i.e., not doctored), and the difference is indeed impressive.

The real standout here is low-light performance, and it does in fact look a great deal better than just about any phone on the market now.

Which begs the question, why the hell did Nokia feel like it needed to lie on their commercial? These live demo results speak for themselves.
However, "Hold Differently" is a close approximation of Apple's initial response (via leaked email). It was only after continued pressure from consumers and in the tech press that Apple acknowledged the issue and took steps to make their customers whole.

In Nokia's case, they quickly apologized for something which didn't affect anyone.
Amazon Seller Account - Automated System?
So it appears that I'm not the only one having issues selling on Amazon. They close my account for no reason, claiming that I have multiple accounts, I don't! I submitted an appeal, no response. I followed up and I magically got another automated response. Do they really investigate? They are holding my funds for 90 days! Next move: Contact the BBB and the CEO of Amazon.
The convo goes as follows: I'm contacting you in regards to my recently suspended account. I previously contacted you on 8/16 and was supposed to have a response the following day, but I haven't heard anything yet. For some reason there is a bit of confusion going on here. Amazon seems to think that I have violated policy and have two accounts (or my mom has two accounts). This is untrue. I reside in California and my mother in Indiana. I recently flew home for a visit and told her about my success in selling on Amazon and suggested she do some spring cleaning and give it a shot herself. I helped her get everything set up so that she could continue selling on Amazon. She wasn't familiar with how to input the items, buy shipping, best way to package the products, or how to price the items, so I walked her through how to do all of that in order to ensure that she was successful as well. It was neither of our intention to violate any policies. I wasn't aware that showing someone how to operate the sellercentral site was in violation. By no means do either of us have multiple accounts. Neither of us are making money off of the other. In addition, we live across the country from each other, I'm sure you can see that. It would be very difficult to operate two accounts across the country from each other and operate from both sites. Aside from the fact that we are two entirely different people with totally different names, contact info, and bank account info. Please reconsider the actions you have taken against both of us and further look into the matter.
"There aren't any, that I know of, male-specific genital hygiene products."

And isn't this the REAL injustice?!
Google 5:0
And yet you want him to turn to a bank to help secure Paypal's position so that would indicate that the costs of the risk are not wrapped into Paypal's processes (i.e. the transactions between the two parties).

For Credit Risk banks and other financial institutions use interest rates.

For Operational Risk they use fees. The freezing of accounts comes only when the activity of the merchant approaches a threshold not covered by the fees not prior.

As a base coverage all banks are required to keep a reserve just in case their losses start to mount and then they kick in the extreme measures. Paypal has no such standard to meet in the US (not sure what being a Bank in EU/UK would do).

Truly the Merchant should cover the risk directly with Paypal and the fee structure if they are legitimate. But that is not your solution... a third party must enter the equation to cover where Paypal is deficient in their risk assessment.
This comment is for all those people who have written against Lisp in this thread.

Lisp was designed to represent/design/play with/experiment with advanced and complex algorithms. Now, when was the last time you wrote a code that was algorithmic or was about some new cool algorithm, try to remember, let me tell you the answer: most probably never ever in your life (and there is no hope in future as well). What you people do is stitch APIs, or more precisely, iOS API, Android API, Some web framework API, DOM API, API API API... look at your code and see it is just a bunch of APIs call thrown in a mix. This is absolutely fine because what you guys build is "Application" (not "Technology") which grab some data from here and there, store it in some shiny DB and when user want it show him in a shiny new UI, that all you do and for this purpose go ahead and use whatever language those APIs are in, no problem at all, but please don't rant about something that you don't understand.
THE AUTOMATED RESPONSE THAT I RECEIVED:

Hello from Amazon.

Thank you for writing. After a review of your account by an account specialist, we have decided not to reinstate your selling privileges.

We regret we are unable to provide further information on this situation. Further correspondence regarding the closure of your selling account may not be answered.

The closure of this account is a permanent action. Any subsequent accounts that are opened will be closed as well.
Regards,

Seller Performance Team
Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com
So the back story, and the source of my amusement, was that we've talked quite a bit to Bing. And in those discussions they got to see the positive benefit of some curation, and got to play the 3-card monte game for themselves (and lose a lot :-). And then they went out and did 'editors picks' and now they've done this 'bingiton' site. So its always nice to be driving the conversation around search, and amusing too.

So do I think the 'layman' cares? Yes and no. I think they care that they get good search results, I don't think they care where they come from. As pg points out building a replacement search engine is a Hard Problem(tm). You can make a competitive search engine with just 15 - 20 million dollars, but displacing the existing player is more nuanced.

This is something Bing knows all too well, they effectively created a clone of Google's search capability and they only pull in about 30% of the market. Blekko has been steadily adding share primarily by not being the same as Google, rather we've added specific features that were valued by different segments of the market (we're still the only search engine that lets you completely turn off ads as a user preference for example) but mostly folks just use what ever the search box provides.

[1] Note that both Yahoo and Bing are effectively the same search engine as Yahoo is 'powered by' Bing results. http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2012/6/c...
Another item to note that I edited out for brevity from the letter:
"If your developer account is still in good standing, you may revise and upload a policy compliant version of your application as a new package name."

This means I lose all the ratings I have (300 with an average of 4.8/5 stars)?!
I got Bing with 2-0 with 4 draws. I used 1 technical keyword and 1 "normal people" keyword in spanish. It was really tied though, most results were different but pretty relevant, very hard for me to pick a winner.
Yesss but there's lots of apps like that do similar / overlapping things that you'll sort of have to steal/borrow from. In particular, some form of social bookmarking/tagging would seem to be a necessary component of a service of this kind.

The trick then is to pull this off without drowning in your own web of complexity.
Al Williams: Radio Active
The notion that we shouldn't try to contact aliens for fear they might destroy us is a silly one. I would rather be destroyed by an alien race versus being destroyed by any number of natural disaster or nuclear war.

There's also a good chance that by the time a race can travel between interstellar space, they'll be mature enough not to kill everything they see.
>Ebooks have almost no marginal price. Just because someone else wants to sell ebooks for a higher price doesn't make prices lower than that predatory.

To Amazon ebooks have a marginal price as they're paying the publisher a fixed value for every copy. They were charging customers less than that value so that's where the accusations came from.
This is the thing for me.

Of course it's going to be a draw for most searches (especially the suggested ones: "math games", "coupons", "time zones"...), they're generic and easy to find.

You can use any search engine you want to find those things. Shoot, even AltaVista was good at those kinds of searches, and that was 10 years ago.

The ones I care about—even if I'm not a programmer or technical user—are the difficult searches. What if I need to find a specific car part that only ever existed in the 1972 Ford Pinto? What if I want to find a plumber who specializes in pre-20th-century homes? What if, what if, what if.

I used searches like that and more in this comparison, and it was 100% Google. I could even tell easily why it was Google, and it was pretty clear which one it was. I still chose Google (despite being basically unblinded) because it was fundamentally better at these specific searches.

That's what bing needs to compare. But will they show it? Of course not.

Edit: I did 5 more searches all non-technical but specific and picked only based on result quality. Again 5/5 google. (for those curious, the searches were: "lego mindstorms", "Mars curiosity hi-res", "home developments in myrtle beach", "used bookstores in portland, or", "top baby names in 1982"—the last one was very cool because Google also provided links to the 5 surrounding years right below the 1982 result. It's the little things you know...)
And yet no terrorist attacks have occurred.

So either people got more violent after 9/11 and therefore brought more weapons, or people were always bringing guns onto planes. I’d bet on the latter, and yet how many terror attacks occurred? Hmmm…
I'd be happy with that. Frankly, PayPal's perception of risk is clearly killing businesses. They are going so far into being risk averse that it's killing business. I would rather shoulder the risk that suffer PayPal's "protections". They're like the TSA of online payments.
We're distributed across the US. Easier to solve, but still timezone problems. West coast, Midwest mostly. Sometimes folks in the field e.g. Japan, Hong Kong. 75 people in the company.

We're Sococo, and we eat our own dogfood. From the day audio streams came up for Alpha test, we abandoned other tools and have made ourselves live with Teamspace. From the coders to the CEO, we inhabit several virtual spaces by team.

It solves some of the issues brought up here. The presence information is tremendous, making it possible to see who's talking with whom, when a meeting or standup is starting, what they're doing. Yesterday we had an all-hands, the whole company. Half are in Mt View CA, the rest distributed.
I didn't know where the meeting would be (which virtual room) so I looked at the map, saw folks congregating in a big meeting room and clicked in. Spookily similar to what happens when physically present - you follow the crowd.

Anyway we had everybody on video (in groups, so 7 or 8 thumbnails); switched our map between Mt View video, shared docs and shared screens as the presentations went on.

Q&A was very interesting. It was actually easier to follow questions from other virtual participants - they all have their own mic, so everybody could hear the questions. Folks physically present were just some mumbling from the back of the room in Mt View; the speaker would forget to repeat the question half the time.

I cannot emphasize enough how much immediate and present you feel in a virtual tool like this. I actually feel anxious when I have to participate in a conference call or talk to somebody on a phone - the experience is so crappy and disconnected. Instead I 'call out' from a virtual space. At least then I can collaborate with my team while interviewing somebody, or talking through a customer problem. I can add a virtual participant into the call with a click. I can leave the call for a moment, get an answer from an Engineer, get back to the customer transparently.

Sorry for the gushing. Its hard to explain how different it is to be virtual without sounding like an advertisement. Anyway, there are definitely many tools out there to help with the distributed-team problem. And now some are integrated complete solutions, which is a whole new ballgame.
> The antenna problem can be clearly demonstrated by anybody with any phone, a finger, and a few minutes.

FTFY
>>As far as I know, long term effect safety studies are only done on animal models. And the benchmark is always illness or disease, not optimal health.

We know for a fact that ice cream is bad for "optimal health." It can cause tooth cavities, sore throat, stomach aches, obesity and diabetes. Yet we still eat it because it tastes good.
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Neat app!
So this is specifically trying to measure a customer's satisfaction with your customer service (not their satisfaction with a specific product or the sales process for example)? If you were trying to measure those other things, I wonder how this tool would handle it? And how do you make sure the results are focused on the customer service (rather than the other stuff)?
In my experience with measuring customer satisfaction, folks can be very happy with the quality of service they receive but absolutely loathe the product or the process they had to go through to purchase it and then ultimately give you a low score on "Would you recommend this company?"
The IE privacy policy is at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/product... . Look under the section titled "Suggested Sites." Here's the relevant section:

"When Suggested Sites is turned on, the addresses of websites you visit are sent to Microsoft, together with standard computer information. ... Information associated with the web address, such as search terms or data you entered in forms might be included. For example, if you visited the Microsoft.com search website at http://search.microsoft.com and entered "Seattle" as the search term, the full address http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?q=Seattle&qsc0=... will be sent."

Most people have little idea that allowing a feature called "Suggested Sites" will result in their Google searches and clicks being sent to Microsoft, or that Microsoft will use clicks on Google search results in Bing's ranking.

MSFT also uses something called the Microsoft CEIP (Customer Experience Improvement Program), and I think that's either opt-out already or they're making it opt-out in Windows 8--it's built into the "Use Express Settings," I believe.

Again, I haven't looked at this very recently, but if you're using a recent version of Windows and IE, you're probably sending your searches and clicks to Microsoft unless you've been very careful about how you configured your computer.
Make 5 breakfasts, pack 3 lunches, jump in the shower, check the weather, put on shorts t-shirt and flip flops regardless, look everywhere for my keys and someone's missing shoe (someone's always missing a shoe), toss kids in car, kiss wife, drop kids off at schools, drive 15 mins to office while listening to WSJ podcast, get coffee, get to office.

That's all about 7:30-8:45am
Of course. You'd be hard pressed to find a scenario on the web where selection bias doesn't come into play. Regardless, there's a level of distinction between "I had a bad experience" and "Paypal has inexplicably frozen my funds."

I agree that there are numerous positive experiences out there. I would imagine PayPal would struggle if there wasn't a large user base that was satisfied. The point here is that some people are starting to reassess and or question the net-benefit offered by PayPal at the cost of these inconveniences.
Why are there both web developers and backend developers? By web developers did you mean frontend developers(primarily JS) ?
Sir Tim Berners-Lee accuses government of 'draconian' Internet snooping
The point is not at all that PennApps is more popular than Justin Bieber. The point is that, for a certain demographic, hackathons are getting crazy popular.

There are a lot of things that are scaled here. For one thing, this is about perception and expectation--who would think that a hackathon would sell out in less than an hour? Everyone expects Justin Bieber to do that, but a hackathon?!
Where Free Press got it wrong on the new broadband “tax”
Uh did anyone really think that they shoot an advertisement with a mobile camera?
PayPal strike again
Calling it an open source Buffer app seemed more elegant than calling it an open source Buffer clone :)
"The Instagram Services contain Content of Users and other Instagram licensors. Except as provided within this Agreement, you may not copy, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any Content appearing on or through the Instagram Services."

Perhaps Instagram made a complaint on the basis of the above clause of their terms of use. Although I would argue that the tags are not copyrightable due to their short length, Instagram may feel differently. Although quite how they are being harmed by your service is difficult to see.