skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This observation made the rounds at Google a few months ago. Note also it depends on the topic of your search. 3 ads in the yellow box are reserved for highly monetized queries - "flowers" or "car insurance" for example.

Queries about programming topics - "sinatra post parameters" is one I tried a few minutes ago - usually don't have ads.
One of the first things I did when I got my first 'real' job was get a custom-made suit from a place in our neighborhood; it was $1000 and he did like 25 measurements and said it would be 2 weeks until it was ready.

Turns out he was sending the measurements to Korea where the suits are custom made then shipped back, and then they do final alterations in the US.

I've ordered 3 more since then by just sending an email & choosing a color - don't think I could ever go back to an off-the-shelf suit - custom fit is so much more comfortable.
Pretty nice theme. I've been using wombat for a couple years so I'm happy to give this one a try.
ok granted it is doing better by allocating more space to the search results. But how about the search result quality? How's it doing there?
Wikipedia has somewhat intelligible (to me) information on the topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abc_conjecture#Some_consequence...
I've never come across the Duff's Device previously and after staring at it for a few minutes it made horrifying sense. I can't tell whether it's a piece of true evil or true genius.
I noticed this as well. The older search results have the same width as the new results.

It's also interesting to note that the old results page is displaying multiple results for single domains using result nesting, while the new results page displays only one listing for each domain. The end result is that the same number of 'effective search results' are displayed on the page for both versions.

The gradual transformation of white space into content is a natural evolution in the life of any web product. While the feature set is simple, the design can be sparse. Mature products benefit from rich feature sets, with the drawback of having to sacrifice the sparse visual design that may have initially distinguished them from the competition.
Could you avoid making baseless statements that an attitude is "particularly American"? I'm doubting you've done any sort of survey, even informal, to back this up. There's a mental shortcut a lot of people like to take, where if the USA does something one way, and another country does it a different way, it's because the USA is wrong, and the not-USA country is doing the same thing as the entire rest of the world. It's stupid, it's mildly insulting, and it doesn't contribute in any way to the conversation.

Your post would have lost nothing, in fact would have gained quite a bit, if you had simply left out the "Americans are weird" bit.
are the "highly monetized queries" queries also the most common queries?
wps: http://sviehb.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/viehboeck_wps.pdf

I've personally seen this used to crack a WPA2 network in < 2 hours. However this isn't a problem with WPA, and disabling WPS renders this attack vector useless. Thou as noted in the white-paper some routers are intelligent enough to slow the attack down.

WPA: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/wireless-security-hack,2...

yes the 4-way handshake needs to be captured, and can be compared to a rainbow table (fast) however (and if i understand correctly) if it is not in the table you can then throw computing power at it to bruteforce it (slowly)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXwteto3nNg

Yes its really slow, and would take practically forever for any reasonably long/secure passkey, but it is possible and only going to get easier as time goes on. I think it gives anyone with a wireless network an 'out' by being able to say they must have been hacked, either because they left WPS on or used a simple short passkey.

However i really have no idea if that would actually hold up in court.
Scaling out Postgres, Part 1: Partitioning
If there was _every_ a task ideally suited (no pun intended) for automation, this is it. Plunk the 16 measurements required and you should have a high quality bespoke suit.
I had this same experience. Literally giggled a little bit on the subway when it hit me.
I've thought about doing this too. The problem is my weight and body composition keeps changing a lot as I pick up different sports, so a thousand dollar suit I buy today may very well become too small or too big six months down the line.
jeez.. they just continue to find new and innovative ways to lose money
I'm not. I find it far more likely that the FBI doesn't know they've been hacked yet. It takes time for institutions that large to figure stuff out.
I believe the data, but the numbers given on that data sheet aren't percentages :-)

> Pregnancy rates are the number of pregnancies per 1,000 females age 15 to 19 years

95.46 pregnancies / 1000 females = 9.546%

(actually, you can't infer an exact percentage of girls who became pregnant from this statistic, as one female can have multiple pregnancies within a year, but you get what I mean)
I agree, unless he loses more than half his business, why not double his prices? Maybe he only makes one suit a month that way, but he would sure have a lot more free time...
It is important to remember that physical pain is divided into two categories by athletes. "Pain" that indicates a broken bone or injury, which is typically a lot sharper pain and "Pain" that indicates growth, which is being sore after a workout.

Taking a shades of gray approach such as the above is beneficial in most situations. "Pain" is not black and white all the time.

tldr; Learn what kinds of pain you should be pushing through.
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"Not well thought of by traditionalists" seems a likely description for a hacker.
I installed it for Sublime and the plain "Tomorrow" is like Solarized Light.. where as tomorrow night - xx are a collection of darker themes.
There were tools ones in eclipse that used comments / annotations to give you full "static" feeling with JavaScript... I wonder where did it go...

Here is a nice side project, static typed coffee script, with eclipse IDE support...

I really don't want to go back to GWT or move to Dart...

Scala's Javascript DSL is another hope I have, but it's still under development
Personally I love jellybeans.vim

It works great in a 256 color console and in a GUI.

https://github.com/nanotech/jellybeans.vim
I wouldn't be inclined to trust anything the FBI has to say on this, not because I have my tinfoil hat on, but within the context of the allegation they are an unreliable witness, so to speak.

The question is, are these UDIDs real? If so, then where did AntiSec get them from if not a compromised FBI laptop? If they'd hacked Apple or a carrier, surely they'd be quite as happy to crow about that as anything else.

I can understand the idea of pinning the leak on the FBI, I'm just unsure as to how plausible that is. They and their contractors have shown themselves leaky enough to not need any fabrication of evidence in the pursuit of lulz.
wow -- just installed Adblock+. the experience was a lot like finally progressing far enough in my career to not have to wear a tie; i feel freed from bondage...
The best strategy for getting a little spike in reservations may actually be something as simple as getting mentioned in the NYT. Getting mentioned in NYMag might be even better. No software needed for that; just some old fashioned PR.

Power of the press.
While I agree there's better options, MD5 has no known preimage attacks. So it's stretching it a bit to imply that someone could easily cause a collision on an existing archive.
not complaining, adding my opinion, since I saw a lot of people arguing against each other and nobody had the same opinion I had, that the naming doesn't matter that much.
And yet they flatly deny it instead of say they're investigating or they're not sure.

That takes some hubris. And that's a trait that has gotten more than one organization owned by Anonymous/*sec in the past.
For people using vundle:

Bundle 'chriskempson/tomorrow-theme', {'rtp': 'vim/'}
That's awesome news. Just being able to take a folder on my Drive, and say, "Archive this 5 Gigabytes of photos for the next 50 years" - and know it will cost me around $30 (and, as time goes on, likely less as the storage drops) and I won't have to worry (much) about it, will be a big win - even if you don't come up with an easy way of integrating with the normal S3 backups - I bet a lot of people will love that feature.
Indeed the pricing is difficult to estimate. I followed along with [1] in a spreadsheet to get a feel for it for my usage.

In my case I am looking at making a full backup of a 1TB usb disk. Doing a full restore on a 20Mbit/s (= 9 GB/hour) would probably take about 5 days. In that case I'll be paying $65 in retrieval fees for the full restore. (I'm hoping that includes bandwidth costs, that isn't clear to me from the FAQ).

$65 for a full restore seems reasonable for something I expect to never need to do.

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/faqs/#How_will_I_be_charged_wh...
Some people just really love what they do, love being busy, and want to be able to share their gift with more people.

The certainty of constant sales/deal-flow has a value all its own too.

But don't let that stop you parroting the same advice to every self-employed/contractor/business-person who claims to be popular/keeping busy that we see on every. single. thread. on. HN.
Not to be a shill for Duck Duck Go, but the amount of search information displayed is refreshingly dense:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=saas+help+desk

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=travel
Can America compete?
It's not written in stone that you need 2 QA analysts, a project manager, a developer, and a build master to fix a bug. That only proves that bureaucracy is expensive, not that fixing bugs "late" in the process is expensive!

I'm not sure what exactly the second QA person adds to the process. As a developer, I need to be able to reproduce a bug myself in order to have any chance of fixing it, so there's your confirmation step right there.

Project manager? No, just have your QA person file the ticket as a bug (with the correct priority) and have your developers pull tickets off your bug tracker themselves. At worst, a slight email/verbal nudge from the usual boss should do.

Build person? No, have a continuous, automated build system. The job of the build person should be to maintain that system, not to run individual builds.

Now you're down to one QA person to file the ticket, one developer to fix the bug, and the same QA person again to close the ticket. Add in a few minutes of another developer's time to code review the first developer (you don't even do that despite having all that process?) and it's still cheaper.

Unit tests? Developers write their own unit tests. Have a failing unit test that reproduces the root cause of the bug before you fix the bug--that's a best practice anyway. For testing above and beyond that, it's not unreasonable to have SDETs maintain that stuff, though you already have the root cause of the bug captured in a unit test so your main concern should be whether any existing tests actually rely upon the broken behavior.
I went to an IdeaMensch talk by Mike McGee (co-founder), and it was actually surprisingly little. They knew what they wanted to build (a physical school, great space, excellent teachers, etc) but one of their funding opportunities fell through right as they were running out of money.

They decided to see if they could bootstrap it by getting 30 students who were crazy enough to enroll when there wasn't any of the stuff promised in place yet.

There were way more than 30, and had to reject a number of applicants. They rented their first space (at Groupon I think) less than a week before classes started, and bought the iMacs just days before it started.

Long story short, they shipped, and it worked.
Come on!

(sorry)
Strange that the video is only 58 seconds long, but runs out for 2:08 with just the logo.
"tomorrow-night-eighties" is close to zenburn.

I've used Zenburn for about 2-3 years now, and it's pretty much the most restful I've ever found. Everything sort of is in the same 'area' of the spectrum, and stands up to those multi-hour working sessions.
They are being good guys about it; they could easily block all "Ad-Blockers" and ask you to disable the adblocker to continue (as some sites already do).
Book: A Futurist Manifesto, Built on PressBooks
O'Reilly just published "Book: A Futurist's Manifesto - Essays from the Bleeding Edge of Publishing." The book was made on PressBooks, a new book publishing tool, which outputs ebook, print & webbook, all from single-source HTML. PressBooks is built on WordPress.
A great case for electric cars, but remember that you will have competition from technologies built in long-haul trucking. But they'll love self-driving for their own reasons.

There's no reason you can't have a stop-station quick-replace batteries, preferably automatically. You just need enough safety there to make sure the batteries don't fall out on the road.
Only works in Chrome. That's not "a better Web" in my book. That's "a best viewed in Web".
The underwater workforce problem can be fixed for much less than $5 billion, which is what Facebook gained from pricing the IPO so high.
Try indenting the code two or three spaces, and then it should be formatted without parsing *'s and so on.
While you can read that claim as being "we are too clueless/dumb to even realize we were hacked" an equally valid explanation is that they know that they either do not have the dataset being distributed, have sufficient canaries in said datasets that they know which ones come from them (for finding leaks, etc), and/or know that no one person has access to a broad non-targetted list with this info.
How Close Are We to Immortality?
I wonder how many companies buy their competitors misspelled domain names
At first I thought "well, if you're using an ad blocker, it's different", but in Google's case, you just end up with white space instead of ads because the search results are still crammed into a 42em wide box. I wonder if there's a user script or chrome plugin to fix that.
Source FBI statement:
http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-on...

There's just too much wiggle room in that statement for it to inspire any confidence.
It's great. Thank you for releasing this.
First time I have seen mapquest used anywhere other than mapquest.com.
There are plenty of companies that already do that (Indochino, Modasuite, Black Lapel, etc). No one who cares much about fashion believes that they will overtake a good bespoke suit any time soon.

For example, measurement is not as easy as "wrap a tape around your arm". You have to take multiples to make sure you get people as they add water weight, you have to take it at the right spot which might change for each person, etc etc. Then, machine sewing still isn't as good as hand sewing. If each pattern is different then it's difficult to automate the sewing. Lots of little changes in each suit make it tough to both automate and maintain high quality.
F5 Cozies Up to VMware; Clears up Two VMware View Shortcomings
The problems with "retaining senior leadership, hiring new employees and overall day to day morale in the office" can be fixed by repricing options, which is cheap in respect to the profit Facebook made from their high IPO price.

Yahoo isn't considering a loser in the valley because of their stock price. It's because no one in the valley uses their products. That isn't true for Facebook.
Processing 2.0 Beta 1 Released
Arctic Startups competing for fame and fortune
I don't see how this is any different from people squatting on domains like "faebook.com", who later had to turn them over after legal action was taken.
They can be -- but not necessarily. It has a lot to do with conversions. Someone searching "car insurance" or "cheap flights" is most likely on the hunt for something they are willing to pay for; while someone searching "football scores" is most likely just looking for free information.

Of course this doesn't even scratch the surface of running a site for ad revenue that provides free information to common search questions, e.g., "how do I change the oil in my car"
If you get a custom suit (you don't necessarily need to spend 1k), usually they make it with enough fabric that you can adjust it in or out by at least an inch or so.
Vim users should go here: http://vimcolorschemetest.googlecode.com if they haven't before, that's where I found darkburn, a darker variant of zenburn that I've been happy with for a couple years.
I always feel that way when I try a light theme, but I wonder if it is a matter of habit.
For example, when I work with eclipse for a long time, I tend to forget that I'm using a light theme.
So what's the incentive to promote your app past $1,000 in revenue?
Changes: http://wiki.processing.org/w/Changes#Upcoming_changes_in_Pro...
Build $1 app; purchase 1000 copies; profit!
They did snag netfix.com though :)
It's to fix youtube's weird thumbnail choosing algorithm
I would have named the book "Go Learn Yourself"
That's slightly different. That's called made to measure. Its where you have one stock design and then its custom made to your body. For every M2M suit of a style, the patterns will match, label style will match, pockets will match. Its just the size that is different. I hear indochino does a pretty good job of making affordable M2M suits. For their prices I'd imagine a lot of the process is highly automated.

When you get a bespoke suit made, you walk in and sit down with consultant and you figure out every little detail. He helps you pick a pattern that matches your coloring, label width that matches your body size, number of buttons that match your personality. You end up with a suit that is 100% unique to you.
Duck.com redirecting to Google sucks.
Show HN: Stay foolish and dumb - went and built xervmon.com
I have ignored high paying jobs/ several contracting gigs to build Xervmon.com. I would really appreciate help to test the UI for UX. I want folks who can be brutal about the tool and give a feedback on which we can improve the UI and UX. The UI does standout, but to what level it stands out, I am not sure.

One catch : You need to sign up to navigate through UI. First I was shy to show my work, then angry and upset when users commented and now am shameless. Be my guest and give me feedback so I can take it as another challenge to improve the user experience.
Kinect to add Windows 8 desktop-app support
Cool, will do. Whats your email?
Teaching to the World From Central New Jersey
Really mean action made by blockbuster, hope netflix takes and wins legal actions against them
Some results are even worse. There were keywords where you could see only 7 organic results.

The rest was AdWords.

To make things worse, Google adds more and more "product search" results (paid placement).

With each day, there's less and less traffic for those people who don't pay Google. I suspect that the paid placement trend will increase until it is possible.

To make things worse, Google not only decreases the SERP "real estate". They also introduce frequent algorithm updates which tend to drop down websites which earn on search-engine traffic. Leaving those which may have lesser quality but don't earn on their traffic ( no monetization ). And if you do it to a million websites, you will gain quite a lot of new AdWords buyers. Some of them have to try your PPC ads. Let's say that 10% of them will try to get traffic out of PPC - now you've got yourself 100.000 paying customers.

It's obvious they want to force people both to buy and to click ads. They don't gain anything by sending free traffic to other affiliate websites ( which will then convert to sales/leads ).

The question is: Where do you draw a line between a search engine and an "ad engine"?

To many people, especially those less tech-savy, Google = Internet.

I personally think, it's pretty bad for the overall state of e-economy to have this one big mogul who administers the majority of targetted traffic. He wants his share of the pie from everyone. If you are too small to pay, fuck you. They don't need you. The consumer won't notice you are not in the search results, there are 50 other websites happy to take your place. Either you are at the top or you don't exist.

It'd be great if there would be something like Google but with a more "socialistic" approach. Instead of having a few websites occupying the top place, provide the traffic to other, smaller players. So the e-economy can expand more.
"Yes, we are mathematically illiterate"

I think it has more to do with how people respond to the word "cheaper" vs. "more expensive" actually.

A discount is a positive while "more expensive" is a negative.