skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it does casually suggest that there should have been a test for the '/' literal, which seems simplistic.

In addition to testing for google.com, a more robust test might be to assert that >90% (or some such threshhold) of results for a basket of random searches are not malware, as a sanity check.

Of course it's possible that a large proportion of random search results suddenly become malicious. But in that situation I'd want some alert to trip anyhow and get someone figure out what was happening to the web!
It wouldn't be surprising if internal domains are treated differently in some ways.
There are only two reasons to do anything:

1. because you like doing it.

2. in order to do activities in the first category.

It may be that you can earn money doing what you love, but it may not. If not, you may have to spend time doing category 2 activities in order to do category 1 activities.
> A better question would be "How many potential drugs have not been developed because they cannot be patented?"

It depends on why they couldn't be patented. There's a nasty interaction between regulatory delay and patent terms starting at application which means that drugs that don't have huge markets don't get developed, but I'm pretty sure that you're not referring to those.

Let me guess - you think that there are substances which are unpatentable because they fail the novelty test but have great utility as drugs. If said utility is newly discovered, that satisfies the novelty test. If said utility is "folk medicine", then the only thing stopping anyone from selling them as drugs is the regulatory testing costs.... (Drugs don't have to be patented.)
Ahh, didn't realize that, but interesting to know.

What I meant though is that you could create enough call volume so that there wouldn't be enough operators to handle all the calls.
I think the idea of startupism, or startup mentality, is that one believes most of all in starting things - kicking off great ideas - rather than being a shopkeeper. There are other people who like being shopkeepers. Let them run it after you've created and tamed it for them, so you can be free to kick off other great ideas - or to help new entrepreneurs do it.
Ask HN: How do you support your users/clients?
Hi all.

I'm looking for a great way to handle support requests from our clients. We're a 6-man consulting shop, but we also provide ancillary services to our clients such as web hosting, network administration, etc. Our current support system (which isn't really a 'system') is very inefficient.

We are thinking of providing 1 email address which is delivered to some ticketing system (advice on software is much appreciated) and 1 phone number for absolute emergencies (I realize the impact of this, but our clients expect this level of support).

Our first thought was to roll our own ticket tracking app, but then we calmed down and decided to survey the landscape a bit before coding it ourselves. Most of the open-source projects I've found so far seem antiquated or abandoned.

Does anybody have a system that they absolutely love? Much Thanks!
I'm looking for hot discussion but HN is just day-old Reddit news. What gives?
I'm interested in innovative e-mail marketing opportunities and collaboration with over-the-counter herbal enhancement products. Anyone interested? You can work from home and the ROI is guaranteed.
Something about "management guru Jim Collins" makes me dubious, although I can't quite put my finger on it.
> He went wrong in a much more subtle way, and one that I can't really blame him for. He went wrong in the assumption that humans would continue to grow geometrically until all resources were expended, then be forced back down by resource starvation.

You are badly misrepresenting his theory.
Ask HN: how many of you are using Arc in production?
I'm thinking of rolling out a B2B system. We need support for web services and UML. Is Arc ready yet or should I use an industry standard language such as VB instead?
it is probably crap they didn't need anyways. Foreclosure people are probably moving to smaller places, or going to live with family. People are only keeping stuff that they really need.
Thank you, I couldn't have said it better myself.

The author seems to think it's either all tables, or no tables. From one extreme to another.

I prefer not to use tables for layout, but I will if I have to. :-)
Re your edit - Ask yourself what your comment added to the discussion. That's what I do when I post something that gets downmodded.

The answers to down-votes usually come from that.
>>Huh? Somewhere north of $2 Trillion is being pissed away because of govt regulatory failures and you think that my money is safe?

> Again, Investment Banks != Deposit Account Banks. If you were investing in a mutual fund, there was risk.

Who said anything about mutual funds and investments? The financial mess was in regulated institutions. We've pissed about $1 trillion into them so far and are about to pass a $1 trillion "stimulus" package.

It was the regulators who put tax incentives on banks holding Fannie and Freddie stock, which put many of them under when that govt created house of cards collapsed.

> The CRA allows the bank to lend to people who otherwise couldn't get loans.

No, that's not what the CRA does. The CRA "encourages" banks to make certain kinds of loans. Banks were free to make those loans without the encouragement but weren't, hence the "need" for a law.

The article that I linked to is one example of how the CRA is used to "encourage" banks to play ball. It gave "activists" a tool for blocking unrelated banking activity.
theres tons of info out there. Andrew Chen has a lot of great articles. You should post your compilation when you're ready here.

We can throw ads on there just to see, but im a believer in if you do something do it right. Advertising to us is more than just embed adsense.

I think our reason for leaning towards freemium boils down to our focus on being a utility more than a novelty.
Why is your title nothing to do with the content? If I could downmod the submission I would, but I can't.
Mining Poop For Gold
Ask HN: Glad the override feature is gone?
At first I was vexed that the noprocrast "override" feature was taken away, but since Hacker News has become my main tool for procrastination, I must grudgingly admit I'm happy it's gone. Anyone else?
Being exceptional and interesting is the way to getting covered. (Read Purple Cow. Seriously. And then read every other Seth Godin book.)

Being famous/well-known is another. (Sounds tough, but you can really reach people by teaching.)

Before you redesign your front page which -- I agree with everyone else -- is confusing, you have to get clear on why YOUR service is so special that journalists would love to write about it. If it isn't, you have to make it so.

Remember that "the media" isn't there to be a mouthpiece for your product, but they are always hunting for interesting stories because that's their job.

My app launch got covered on RWR and LifeHacker the next day (not to brag, this was unintentional). Apparently they follow what I launch because of personal projects I've done before that captured a lot of interest (http://www.twistori.com).

Since then I've also been interviewed for WebWorkerDaily and th Startup Podcast. Those came from the interestingness of our approach with the product, and respect for one of our marketing efforts (http://jumpstartcc.com/), respectively.
I think recording music has actually helped the indie scene. More independent bands are able to make a living because they have a wider sphere of influence. They are able to tour more places and get more people to their shows.

It's a lot easier to carve out a small niche if you have access to a lot of people. Lets say that a band's fan base can reliably get x number of their fans to their shows every six months. Well, those fans will bring their friends, and promotions will get more people into the show who think they might be interested in the music. Well, most of those newcomers won't want to see that band has often as the fans do. So a band would get more people if their fans were spread out. because more of the surrounding community would be willing to support.

I personally am not interested some of the concerts that they have had at my college, but I've gone to them before with friends. I'm sure I would not be interested in seeing those artists again if they were local and played more shows.
Sounds like a very solidly-grounded CEO. I wouldn't merge with FB at gunpoint; all signs suggest they burn money like it's a fucking fossil fuel.

Side note: What was all that garbage about the accommodations at the beginning? MA needs an editor. And didn't he very publicly announce a few days ago that he was taking a month off of this stuff?
Also I imagine there are economic and practical factors related to China's literacy rate. Compare for example Japan

Japan is of course more prosperous than China, and long has been. But Japan also has pervasive use of syllabic writing (the katakana and hiragana syllabaries that are each capable of exhaustively writing anything a speaker of Japanese can speak, with very few written characters).

Prosperity may actually have more to do with effectiveness in spreading a standard national spoken language. The paradigmatic example here is Taiwan. When the Nationalist (KMT) regime from China fled to Taiwan (formerly occupied by Japan) after World War II, hardly anyone on Taiwan could speak Mandarin. Mandarin is about as cognate with Taiwanese (or Hakka, the other main language of Taiwan) as English is with German, or arguably even less cognate. But today anyone my age (fifty) or younger in Taiwan is conversant in Mandarin, even though the great majority of families living in Taiwan have older relatives who didn't speak that language at all. Prosperity brings telephone conversations and radio and TV broadcasting and travel and other human activities that converge language usage to a common standard. By contrast, the population of (mainland) China has long included a sizeable number of people whose native language is within the dialect category of 北方官話 (Mandarin) but that initial seed value hasn't resulted in a very impressive increase in the percentage of Mandarin speakers in China during the post-war years. That's a sign of the stark difference in prosperity between Taiwan and China.
They show large TV's and family pictures, nice furniture etc. being thrown out. It really is insane that people wouldn't at least try to Craigslist some of that stuff.

If the reporters were really trying to do their jobs correctly they'd have found some of the people who ditched all their stuff and asked them why they left it. Instead, they resort to speculation.
And your terribly inappropriate user id should be banned from this site.
Nope, I waited my requisite time and then turned the no-procast option off. So now it doesn't matter at all.

I'm actually not too happy pg did this without some sort of warning. Last time I checked, he wasn't my mother. At any rate problem solved now.
What features do you plan to differentiate the premium version with?
The Case For Web Applications
I don't think so, though there's a sample chapter here: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/ . I checked this weekend - I'm waiting for the sequel in the mail...

The way the books are formatted, having the text online would probably reduce sales -- they aren't reference books, but rather relatively thin books of exercises and commentary, all designed to introduce you to several deep ideas. (Also, some people are really turned off by the style or find the writing overly cute.)

The Little MLer is excellent for learning how to think in types (as in OCaml and Haskell), btw. Highly recommended.
More mobile browsing = automatic market share loss for IE.
"especially in the shiny makeup/polish/perfume aisles..."

as opposed to the shiny computer hardware aisle, which is obviously totally different.
People are asking to give you money for features, so make that your primary focus. If someone is offering an unsolicited idea that they offer to pay for, I'm sure that feature will be worth your time to implement.

How much work would it be to set up your site with some ad network? It may not be worthwhile for you optimizing the ads you are selling, but it will at least give you some money from the free accounts.
Lets call them zealots since they're mostly not really trolls.

CSS zealots are a lot like TDD zealots. Both CSS and TDD have huge, huge benefits that you shouldn't write off before you actually take the time to learn them. The problem is the zealots talk about them as panaceas and ignore the fact that there is no one methodology that separates the pros from the amateurs. Instead they use their expertise in one tiny niche to prove to themselves how their work is so much better than the majority of similar work due to a few arbitrary criteria. Then they form small self-congratulatory communities to pat themselves on the back about how brilliant they are and how much everyone else could learn from them.

These are the people who you find trolling your blog. Usually they aren't even particular skilled at what they do, which is why they cling to dogma and feel the need to attack other people.

But let me be clear. I haven't layed out a website using tables since 2001 (and I used tables for 5 years before that), once you develop your mental model of CSS (and browser deficiencies) there are actually only a few edge cases where tables are easier. CSS can actually solve 90% of web design challenges more elegantly than tables. CSS makes it easier for designers to and developers to work together (I am both). There are many techniques which are only available in CSS. All future technical developments in web design will be in the realm of CSS.

So it really is worth the time to slug it out with CSS and figure out what's what. That said, web design coding (ie. HTML/CSS) is just one tiny piece of a huge potential set of web development skills. Why does google put CSS inline? Because their design considerations are driven by 100 things that are so far over CSS Zealots heads they can't even fathom it: scalability, latency, back-end HTML generation, js compiled from other languages, etc.
Seems more like Target has better looking products, especially home decor stuff, but it breaks just as much. Walmart has stuff of fine quality if you don't buy the absolute cheapest coffeemaker they sell.
I worked for a VERY large international bank which just started rolling out XP internally about two years ago. I mean, they need to be careful about stability, but come on!
From that page: "The Google AJAX Search API lets you put Google Search in your web pages with JavaScript."

I've never understood why they call that an API. It's not. It's a web 2.0 widget.

Google used to have a SOAP-based API for natural search results, and it was sweet. I miss those days...
This is so cool, and great to hear.

I've never quite understood the anti-Walmart sentiment. What do people have against low prices? Poorer people can afford to buy (or save) more if they are fortunate enough to have a Walmart nearby.

One reason to despise the retailer: Walmart has recently been lobbying congress to raise minimum wage.

If successful, this could force more small businesses to go under because they cannot afford to pay their employees more, but Walmart can. And they know it.
I've always been confused by google's use of tables and inline styles in their homepage also. Is it to shrink the file size and send less over the wire? Is it to maintain support for IE 4 or some other archaic browser?

Using one of the css frameworks like yui grids or malo gives you table like designs quickly and easily. Yeah there could still be cases where a table is easier for layout but I feel like there are less and less excuses for that.
What a farce. It's disgusting that they pay new teachers so little, and very few of the older teachers are worth $100k. This is nothing but two things.

First, senior teachers control the unions and take care of themselves at the expense of younger teachers -- it's disgusting. A salary spread of $50k to $100k is too much for the same job, and I never noticed older teachers being much more effective than teachers with five years of experience.

Second, the unions have convinced teachers that any measurement of quality will be inaccurate, arbitrary, and a front for administrators' political and personal animosity. Hey, welcome to the real world! Most professionals work in jobs where performance is subjective and difficult to measure. It isn't as bad as you imagine, except when it is, and then you get a different job. It wouldn't ruin education any more than it has ruined law, medicine, engineering, or any other profession where objective measurements of performance are problematic.
phonetic activation

Thanks for using your very specific phrase in describing the research you recall. That helped me Google up a later study (I also had vague memories of the earlier study) that found that there is no particular difference in brain processing to the advantage of traditional Chinese script.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17885613

In the papers I have read on this issue, that seems to be the better replicated finding. As always, I recommend Peter Norvig's paper

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

as a checklist of what to look for in experimental research.

Because everyone who is neurologically normal and with good hearing can speak, and understand speech, we can be reasonably confident that there are powerful brain short-cuts for dealing with phonological processing. Cross-cultural comparisons do show a variety of societally relevant efficiencies from writing systems being more rather than less user-friendly in representing speech sounds. The long argument on this point is given by John DeFrancis's book Visible Speech.

http://www.amazon.com/Visible-Speech-Diverse-Interactions-Co...
The only real advantage that I can see is that cloud computing makes it possible to scale quickly on demand without the associated capital expenditure for 'stuff', you just pay for usage.

That's got a downside too, at the moment you reach a steady state it is probably cheaper again to buy the actual hardware and colocate instead of using cloud services (which after all exist to make money for their owners).
And it manages to get emotional without personal attacks and judging their values. That lets the people change their behavior without admitting to themselves that the situation might have been caused by a personal defect, which means one less barrier to payment.
Hit the 'flag' link.
will you please post it here ? or mail me a link ? j@ww.com

I'd be very (very!) happy to read it.
Perfect candidate for EmotionML?
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/emotion/XGR-emotionml/
> Python has two main built-in collection types, list and dict

And tuples.

> To enumerate over a dict's key-value pairs, you use .items():

You can also use enumerate.

> But to enumerate over the key-value pairs in a list, you have to use enumerate():

Just like you can with lists.

Python's collection operations do the right thing on collection data types. The fact that those data types also have type-specific operations merely means that those data types have some properties that are not common to all collection types, which is pretty much the reason why they exist.
Yes, it is scummy. I sure don't set up many outlinks to sites that frame other sites. I don't recommend them actively in online discussion either. I would never set up framing like that in any site I administer.
The author seems to think it's either all tables, or no tables.

I don't think he is saying that at all.
Agree completely. The author is getting dangerously close to hypocritical by berating CSSers in the way he hates being berated by them.

For me, (mostly) pure CSS is always faster in the long run, but I would never tell another person how to build their site. I usually, however, get pretty cranky if I have to make any layout changes to sites with nested tables that someone else built. But that's my problem, not theirs.
Macy's cuts 7,000 jobs, slashes dividend
No problem. Physics goes through a major revision every ~100 years. Last revision brought us relativity and QM the latter of which may result in computers which are exponentially faster than the ones we currently have. The next one is around the corner and I am sure that will open up even more opportunities for progress.
"The marriage has been saved by a well-timed bankruptcy." Probably the best quote I've heard in a while.
Because I care more about the truth and right than your vindictive downmoddings on my post, I'll reply:

It has everything to do with why people end up in foreclosure. The video does not showcase an isolated event: it showcases a phenomena that has been happening almost everywhere for the past few years. Take note of the statistics mentioned during the report about how many families are affected by things of this nature. Care to guess how many pounds are going into the landfills?

Realtors don't make money when people are allowed to stay in their homes; they only make money when people are forced out of their homes. The key word in the video snippet is "contracts" . . . as the video stated, the people being _paid_ to _trash_ homes are under contract to not leave anything out or "by the curb."

Surely I'm not the only person who takes note of how utterly wasteful this is.
I generally agree with you. Although small personal accounts might be nice for small purchases where you didn't feel like discussing it with the other person. Disclaimer: I'm nowhere close to being married, so this is an idea from personal observation and feelings.
hm - no source tarball, but perhaps others find this Leopard binary useful:

http://www.joel.lopes-da-silva.com/articles/computer-science...

(including man pages etc.)
Caveat: I didn't try it myself (I don't have Leopard).
A lot of what I find lacking in a standard terminal, Emacs makes up for with its shell and terminal emulators. I find that an editable buffer with the contents of my entire session to be eminently powerful when combined with keyboard macros and the search/replace commands.
What does "pure CSS" page offer in terms of usability and accessibility that a mixed-use table/css page wouldn't?

If anything, CSS would be worse as its difficult to render the same across all the different browsers and platforms. With fixed width tables, you can pretty much guarantee your results.

I'm not advocating either and tend to try to use as much CSS as possible but sometimes you spend twice as long to achieve an inferior result. After many years of working with HTML, I think most people find that happy medium.
The once and future e-book: on reading in the digital age
This is a very hard engineering problem. And very very expensive.

There are loads of problems, some such as hurricanes and rogue waves discussed in the article, and some such as fire not discussed. None of which are trivial.

Basically what they are talking about is an oil rig without the oil equipment. These will set you back many hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions. And they still aren't 100% safe. In 1988 a fire broke out on the piper alpha [+] platform in the North Sea, resulting in the death of 2/3 of the crew. The whole platform sank to the bottom of the ocean.

And as marketer notes in the above comment security is a huge issue too.

[+] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_Alpha

[+]Video: http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&client=firefox...
Stanford Writes In World's Smallest Letters
Tech Reporters From 1981 Ask: Will People Ever Read Their Newspaper On A Computer?
Because it's not default.
Facebook growing seven times faster than LinkedIn
They did it once.

Google Admits To Cloaking; Bans Itself (March 2005)

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050309-092708
So only the rich identity thieves will be able to duplicate your identity. The poor thieves with less than $1000 will have to wait for the price to drop.
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The big question is: Where will they get the data?