skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked for "81" in the page and found nothing. Apparently, he never said that 81.5% of the area is made up of ads. He may have edited it but I think his criticism was towards the unused space for results, not especially towards the ads.

And if that is the case, I must concur. I fail to understand why Google added a large side bar instead of adding more top bars in the unused space next to the logo (perhaps right under the search text box). The designers at Google may disagree but the Jitbit guy sure has a point.
He didn't go to Google looking for navigation, he went looking for the results of his search.

So the way he discusses the real estate devoted to fulfilling his purpose is quite reasonable.
Assume I store 150 gigabytes of family photos. I pay $1.50 a month ($18 a year) for storage. Assume I've uploaded the files in 150 * 1 gigabyte archives.

I decide to retrieve it all. The 5% (6 gigabyte) retrieval allowance is negligible. The data transfer out fee at $0.120 per gigabyte will cost $18.

If I retrieve 150 * 1 gigabyte chunks every hour retrieval will take 1 hour; the peak hourly retrieval will be 150 gigabytes; the data rate will be 341 Mbps; and the retrieval fee will be 150720$0.01 = $1,080

If I retrieve 7 * 1 gigabyte chunks every hour retrieval will take 150/7~=22 hours; the data rate will be 15 Mbps; the peak hourly retrieval will be 7 gigabytes; and the retrieval fee will be 7 * 720 * $0.01 = $50.40

If I retrieve 1 * 1 gigabyte chunks every hour retrieval will take ~7 days; the data rate will be 2.2 Mbps; the peak hourly retrieval will be 1 gigabytes; and the retrieval fee will be 1 * 720 * $0.01 = $7.20

If I share an account with 20 other people with the same amount of data stored, the 5% allowance would be enough for my entire download; I could retrieve as quickly as I liked without incurring a retrieval fee. I would still pay the $18 data transfer out fee.

TLDR: Retrieval isn't as cheap as storage, but if you lost all your family photos, you'd probably be willing to pay it.
If HN believes creative thinking is a waste of time I’ll get downvoted for this but I fancy just letting my imagination go wild so here goes...

Video gamers can supposedly differentiate between tones more similar to one another than non-gamers. Perhaps, if you made a theme of very similar colors, you could achieve the same benefit from programming. Although I suspect it might not work because the difference in the colors has to have significance for your brain to really start paying attention to it. So you could have a color-sensitive language. Or maybe color could be the only significant thing, then you could just bind each character to a color in your text editor and use a normal language.

While walking in the wood today and looking at the detail on the ground and searching for ripe fruit in the trees I was thinking about how our brains are really good at picking out specific visual things from noise and how more complex visual things are sometimes easier to recognize than simpler things. Also its possible to get really good at picking out subtle clues from very complex input: think about a native American Indian’s ability to track moving animals over long distances.

So I think what would be really cool is to have a way of representing each function of a program as a visual form, ideally a 3-dimensional one. You could then look at these form and over time you would start to be able to see certain things about the function just by looking at the forms. I wonder if that might be a much faster way of searching for specific things within a large body of code such as you might do in a security audit than actually reading through all the code because it taps into the innate concurrency of the right-hemisphere.

There would be some difficulty would be in generating appropriate visual forms. The form has to be meaningful. The ideal would be if it were meaningful to the point where somebody well used to them could write the code a form represented just by looking at the form or, at least, infer the gist of it. Of course you don’t have to limit yourself to one form per function, you could have 10 different forms per function, each representing different properties, or forms generated from by dividing the code in lots of different ways (not just functions). Or maybe you could simplify everything I’m saying here and just have a lot more statistical static analysis of code then displayed with charts and infographics.
I have often been tempted to go get a suit from these guys ( http://www.syedbawkher.com/) who promise a bespoke suit as good as Saville Row. However, the number they quote ~ $1000 is not exactly cheap enough for me to experiment.
I've noticed that a lot of sites I visit (facebook, etc.) redirect to the wrong site. I think this is a DNS issue... and even though I change to 8.8.8.8, the problem still persists...

Does anyone else notice this issue? Happens usually once a week...
Is that actually so different from the way things used to be? If you run the example 2008 query, "open source social networking," the number of ads hasn't changed.

It seems like most of this complaint should be directed at the navigation sidebar to the left. I'd imagine Google tested the sidebar ad nauseam, though, and is leaving it there for a reason (probably increased engagement in other search products and more readily exposes advanced refinements).
Neither am I, but I suppose the humour was a little too barbed.
I'm not a robot, or a social media expert consultant, whatever that is.
Here is a similar exposition with links to further info, on GNU and other platforms:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix_commands/
Since I am one of the crazy fools who started this thing (Mike McGee), I guess I'll chime in...

July 2011

Our main focus was just trying to build the site. Since Neal and I hadn't really built a professional site before, we didn't really know what we were doing and it was pretty damn hard. Luckily we got a lot of help from our instructor and other advisors who were developers and designers to lighten the load a bit. Still the main product was ours and it was definitely an MVP - http://bit.ly/PZpoSt

August 2011

By August I was down to about $200 in my account and we had still not received the funding we thought we would to market Code Academy to the masses. So we just decided to launch the site and see how many people we could get to apply by using Twitter, Facebook, sending emails, and going to meetups in Chicago. We launched Thursday, August 4th 2011 at 9am looking for 12 students to fill our inaugural class.

While we had the benefit of having a lot of support within the Chicago community, the applications we were getting were from complete strangers. We were getting applications from realtors, retail workers, lawyers, accountants, journalists, teachers, etc. They were also coming from across the country. California, Texas, North Carolina, Florida, Wisconsin, New York, the list goes on. Even people from outside the country (Israel and The Philippines) applied to our inaugural class!

By the end of August we had 88 quality applications from people all over the world without spending a single dollar on marketing.

September-October 2011

From there, we decided to accept 35 students instead of 12 and we started our first class in October 2011 with two web development courses instead of one.

I think the biggest reason why we were able to generate so much interest was the fact that we were addressing the right problem at the right time. There were so many people out there looking for a program like ours, but it just wasn't there yet. When our inaugural students heard about Code Academy, they jumped at the opportunity.
cut some slack - maybe she's busy you know, helping 30-odd underpriveledged kids expand their horizons. when the heck did this community start only focussing on the nitpicking? as the OP said 'small point'...
Pretty close @tg3! Glad I was making a little sense up there...
Seriously?

function verifyAds() {
if (!adContentsVisible()) {
loadAdContents();
}
setTimeout(verifyAds, 1000);
}
verifyAds();
jellybeans is my favorite color scheme ever. There is a Visual Studio theme for it here:

http://studiostyl.es/schemes/jellybeans
I think most of us can easily tell the difference between bad pain and the kind of pain he's talking about here.
Different menus for lunch vs dinner vs weekend brunch?

Chalkboard menus?

"Market price"?

Gosh, what will the next innovation be?
Ask HN: Why do I have to Login to the websites ?
What problem does the Login mechanism solve ?

Is it possible to get rid of it ? What can replace it ?

How long will it take when we no longer have to login to use a service?
What's that corollary about titles that ask questions?
Object lesson here. ANYTIME I notice myself mistyping my startup's domain name, I register that misspelled version ASAP.

After all, if the freakin' company founder can misspell it, odds are someone else will too.
I used to use Fusion on my mid-2010 MacBook Pro and found it pretty much unusable as it was so slow. However I recently installed Parallels on my Rentina MacBook and I've been amazed at the difference. It can run 3 different OSs at once on top of OsX with barely a performance hit. It makes debugging in IE finally practical. Probably the single biggest benefit for me for upgrading my MacBook.
Millimeter waves are not ionizing, while the x-rays used by TSA backscatter machines and medical x-rays are.
Because they do, and it isn't.
I mean more like "People who pirate your show also pirate Breaking Bad and Sons of Anarchy, but of the people who pirate Breaking Bad and Sons of Anarchy, there's more pirating of Futurama than your show." or "Though you think your show appeals to Friends fans, the people who pirate your show tend to pirate 2 Broke Girls more significantly than they pirate Friends."

Even more interesting to me are the surprising highly trafficked music and movies that are long out of print. Might be a good indicator of when to bring them back, and what fora to announce that in.
Sorry, no hard numbers for privacy reasons.

The basic living needs of my family (food, clothing, mortgage, utilities, cars, etc.) has been covered by my investment portfolio for several years by now. Any additional income goes straight towards increasing said portfolio.

Rough estimates for the source of the principal for the investment income:

- 50% - savings from worked income

- 30% - earnings from real estate investments

- 20% - earnings from outside consulting / freelance software projects.

I personally believe that anybody who exercises a fair amount of discipline to save away their income and spend reasonably can become financially independent within 15-20 years. Thanks to what I learned from my accounting classes, I was able to accomplish this in less than 10 years.
As I've learned from the TV show "The Newsroom," ask the follow-up! Have they looked for evidence? Could the data have been on an FBI agent's personal laptop rather than an "FBI laptop?" Do they consider data in the class of Apple UDIDs to be "private?"
A new type of spring: soft when pulled gently and stiff when pulled strongly
Except you use the navigation to improve your search. No one wants a page completely full of organic results.
Sounds like your DNS requests are being intercepted at the network level. Probably an infected router, but it could also be an evil ISP.

If it happens even when you're on (for example) public wifi, then it's malware on your own computer.
Thanks for doing the math on this!
$16,015,769,788,215.80
Sweet. Thanks. I was only indenting by one space.
Until people show me that paid results aren't relevant (hint: they usually are), then most of the real estate is fulfilling his purpose.

Also, if Google decided to some how change to using 2 columns of organic search so they could squeeze 16 results into a single page, you'd hear just as much, if not more, complaining.
Yes, but all objects are not iterables. If you list1.extend(object1) as the cheat sheet describes and object1 has no __iter__, it won't work. Likewise, you can iterate strings, so understanding the target of the iterable will be frustrating for list_of_strings.extend('newstring').

This is better described in python's native help documentation:

$ python
>>> help()
>>> list

searching for extend via '/extend':

| extend(...)
| L.extend(iterable) -- extend list by appending elements from the iterable

Concise and correct.
"Inter-universal Geometer" is a pretty badass job title.
> Perhaps there is an opportunity for a paid integrated search/email/calendar/reminders/maps/events application? You pay them $5 or $10 per month, and they do their best to create the best possible experience for you.

You've just described Google Apps for Business (well, except for search).
so does this article. reddit used to be almost entirely programming, then it got into libertarianism, general engineering, and articles like this and eventually transformed into cat memes.

just wait...
That makes some sense; sort of defining what the whitespace is "devoted" to.
> * Author has a small screen.

Author has a big screen. His screenshot shows five results above the fold. I can barely see two on my 1280x800.

The argument works both ways.
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$4000.
I supported a local bakery here in Seattle with the promise of some (literally) delicious rewards and they delivered several days before the begining of the estimated delivery month.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1185564491/hot-cakes-an-...
(glossi + pinterest) * couples = Us2
I'm not bombarded by fifteen different ads, who are all trying to pretend like search results?

The results are hit or miss...I probably !g about half my queries. But the other half are entirely pleasant experiences and I'm hopeful DDG continues to get better.
The skill in measurement is an entirely different skill from that of doing the sewing, however. If you had a machine that could sew as well as a human, we could have an army of measurement experts sending them to the machines, which would churn out custom-made suits.

I think the bigger question is how to automate the sewing. If we could do that, I imagine it would make it much more scalable.
I've used Monokai since the realease of ST. Then i switched to Solarized light but it wore me down really fast on long hours, i tried Solarized dark but to no avail (the blue is just too much). I then saw a reailcasts video and thought it was worth a shot. Then i moved to zenburn (wich i still use at the terminal and vim) but switched to Espresso Soda on ST2. I just swtiched to Tomorrow since it looks more coupled in terms of a swatch.
Watching a trained businessman pull a Tommy Boy on a receptionist is a really awe inspiring thing.
In my opinion it's a lot of money, but can be very well spent.

A fantastically fitting and well designed suit is a powerful weapon in business, politics and life. Trends come and go, but suits always seem to come back into vogue, and you can really tell the difference between the highest quality bespoke suiting and shirts that the CEO/HNWI/high ranking politician wear, and the ones that lower levels are wearing.

Like it or not I've found that suits really work to project "rank" (whatever that means) - working on me and (sometimes) for me. So it's worth the money to invest in at least one very good one. Some say we should dress for the job we want next, or in ten years.

Add-ons beyond the initial investment can add up, including a range of shirts, ties, multiple work suits and suits for other purposes such as formal events and outdoor events in summer. However purchasing well means that these can last for years and years.
Suits for men are a lot easier, cheaper and last longer than business clothing for women, who have another order or two of complexity to deal with.

It's the same with "casual" clothes. Some people wear casual clothes that are not so casual or cheap on closer inspection.
All we have is a claim, and a disclaim - both being equal likely to be false.

What is left to do is find out the original source. was it apple (can 12 million devices really be all devices from date X?), a carrier (is 12 million apple customers reasonable), or is it from an app?
Yes, but it's easy for a browser to just override your verifyAds function.
My Dad is a tailor, from ye olden days as well and cut his teeth measuring, marking and cutting. Yes, you can get a made to measure suit that's pretty much damn near perfect but when a truly experienced tailor works to produce a suit it's essentially a hand-crafted, one of a kind piece of art.

And oddly given my love of tailored suits I generally buy off the peg ones as I'm way too hard on clothing to justify the outlay (even with a family discount).
Wow I just searched NCAA rankings and saw no ads.
Huh? Extension can override JavaScript on the page, too, you know:

window.adContentsVisible = function () { return true; }
Bespoke and a made to measure pos for a $100 are two completely different things.
If it's client-side, it can be defeated. Let's not enter into an arms race of larger and more bandwidth-intensive checkers/blockers to try to get the upper hand. If someone ad blocks, they're not likely in your target demographic anyway.
If this was to prevent fraud, that would be what the signs on the machines say. "Malfunction voids all pays" is to minimize payouts, even when the gambler is not at fault, e.g. buggy software, non-verified software, unrelated tampering or tampering attempts. It's sufficient that "something" is wrong when the jackpot is won.

The argument I was trying to make was an ethical one: By accepting the gambler's money, the casino should take responsibility for the state of the machine at that point, thus incentivizing them to be diligent. To void a jackpot, they should have to prove fraud by the gambler or their associates to a court of law.
How about: Build $1001 app, purchase 1 copy; profit! No?
RIM must be very confident that nobody will earn more than $1000 from a BlackBerry app in order to make an offer like this.

Either that or they are just trying to pump up their stock price for the BlackBerry 10 launch so that the executives can dump their stock before the company goes bankrupt.
greasemonkey:

function adContentsVisible() { return true }
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I've lived in extremely high crime areas before. One study of my neighborhood predicted I had a good chance to be dead within 5-10 years because of crime.

The truth is that unless you're part of the drug trade or other nefarious dealings, you're usually pretty safe. I can't speak for Detroit, but I'm always suspect of these stats.
I do.

Well, except perhaps my query at the top so I can refine it if necessary.
So Dell is over-self-bought - they are a large counterparty to the all selling on the open market.

Buybacks make sense for a company when the stock is weak compared to the value of the company. Apparently when Dell was doing great, they thought the stock was undervalued?

The reality is that the CEO and officers of the company are highly vested in the stock, and having it in the gutter consistently is bad for business - thus the buybacks (which I consider a form of artificial inflation)... the only problem is that Dell as a company isn't doing well enough for those re-investments into the stock to have paid back - which may never happen either. Don't the stockholders have a say as to whether the company can buy back it's own stock - perhaps the voting stockholders are to blame here.
I bought a suit when I graduated and was looking for a job, wasn't custom tailed just off the shelf. It worked (I guess) I got a job as employee 4.

I haven't worn a suit in _years_. In fact if someone were to judge me by my uniform I'm fine with saying "sorry, this isn't a fit" (pun intended).
> At this time, there is no evidence indicating that an FBI laptop was compromised

Yes, there is. It's on pastebin.

They need to say why the evidence is false.
I've been on the receiving end of these sorts of comments before, and I cannot convey how annoying this attitude of entitlement is. Someone has worked on this theme, off-and-on, for almost a year. He's built something useful, and he's giving it away for free. If you want a feature, gpmcadam's comment is a good example to follow. Simply point out the missing feature and say how it would be nice to have.

Ideally, submit a pull request. Even if your NetBeans theme isn't perfect, it'll be a starting point for discussion.
Also, it is possible to block 3rd party ads without touching the browser by going straight into the underlying IP routing tables.
Right, because the clothing industry at large has always been good about how it 'consumes human life energy'. While I get where you're coming from, I think it's more egotistical to deprive someone of their job because you think it's too hard for them, or that they'd be better off doing something else. It's his job. Plus, he's making 50 grand a year. Which is more than most teachers in the U.S.
This seems to have been my experience and interpretation as well. A bug is not a mistake in coding, but a mistake in selecting core architecture, 3rd party libraries, etc.

Making a mistake picking the wrong storage engine can cause major problems if you find it can't scale to your load after 12 months of development. That's a ton of code to change if you're switching from MySQL to Redis (for a crazy example).

Make a mistake in copy or layout, and that's usually much easier to change.
The failure of A/B testing. More ads => more revenue. People won't abandon the site immediately just because a new ad or two showed up, like a slow boiling pot, so short term effects are always positive.
HTML5 Tic Tac Toe game with local storage and canvas
Went through extra scanning at the airport and are angry? No worries, here's a lottery ticket for a Bespoke suit!
For those who don't know, Jordan Ellenberg (the author of this blog) is a relatively famous and extremely well-regarded math professor at the University of Wisconsin. I was fortunate enough to have him on my Ph.D. thesis committee.

Terence Tao (see the blog comments), as many HN readers know, is a Fields medalist and quite brilliant. Brian Conrad (again, see the blog comments) is a professor at Stanford who is incredible, he knows algebraic number theory as well as anyone, and he has a great nose for bullshit (as well as no patience for it).

This paper is outside my immediate area, so I can't comment scientifically. But I can speak for the culture of mathematics. Evidently, this paper is not a bunch of obvious BS. The paper could be correct, perhaps not. It could be like Wiles's first proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, which contained a fairly serious gap, which was nevertheless later fixed.

In short, outstanding people are taking this seriously.
School Bullies Prey on Children with Autism
Which makes total sense. AMD would rather you buy a more expensive discrete GPU if you purchased a higher end CPU. But that's just good marketing since the people buying those high end CPUs probably don't have much of an issue with buying a video card as well. Intel doesn't care if you buy a discrete card since they don't chase that market but it does care to have the marketing bullet point.

Intel's lower end chips may not have a GPU built in but I would imagine that's intended for a market where it doesn't matter.

But I'm still willing to bet that almost all computers sold today have a decent video card in them. I can see my statement as it was is a bit much since I was implying that all AMD and Intel CPUs have GPUs built-in, which obviously they do not. But I'm sticking by my thought that almost all computers sold today would have a decent video card in them. All of them may not be able to play the latest and greatest games but they can go a long way with the rest.

To me, in today's market, if the computer doesn't have a decent video card then it was built for a specific function in mind and gaming is more than likely irrelevant.