skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like you need a license to import Modafinil into Canada, and can't get it without a prescription. (Schedule F Part 1). Can anyone that knows how these laws work confirm that?

EDIT: Confirmed. See Section C.01.045 of http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/alt_formats/hpfb-dgpsa/pdf/legi...
Ya. Thats true. But purely from an data standpoint, having the same index as Google has would be valuable. Just because you can do so many things with it. Like, figuring out how to increase the page rank of your site!
Perfection. Of course. Its not a choice. Its a demand.
Just redirect. When people are typing in a URL manually and by habit add an unnecessary www., they're probably not typing https. I have www.ourdoings.com redirect to ourdoings.com for example.
Cool! You guys have thought about everything.
It's bigger than you.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/why-women-really-d...
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Its the classic Chincken and Egg situation !
You wont succeed without traction so you are forced to grow regionally like Yelp and City search etc .. If you launch Nationally you will spread yourself too thin ..
Yep - Building the software is one thing Marketing is a different beast all together ..
Maybe YouTube got ahold of it. Seems like similar commenters.
Who told you that names are supposed to be short and distinctive? Security Situation is a pretty damn good name if you're starting a security company. Impressing the web 2.0 fanboys with misspellings makes your company look illiterate to everyone else. If you're simply going after those fanboys (or girls) as you target audience then that is fine but considering how many people are web 2.0ers and how many regular people there are, when starting a company I'm probably going to go after the far bigger market.
Also a list of indexed files would be interesting. I've recently looked for a spider of a couple of large sites (for us to use for demos for potential customers), but I'd like to know what's in there before sorting out space to decompress a 22 GB file.

I notice on the Internet Archive file that you link it mentions that those files are no longer accessible -- are there similar places that you can grab spidered content?
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Ask HN: Employee benefits/perks as a recruitment tool
We are a small startup that is currently looking for a developer, locally. We are not having much luck and had a review of our recruitment process today where we decided that we need to "sell" our company better.

Right now our ads simply state that we offer a competitive wage, room for growth and a health/dental benefits package, but given the calibre of people we want to attract, I would think that people would expect those things at a bare minimum.

What are some other things that a small IT startup can do/offer to "attract" better talent?
Repeat the thing I said right before "How many times must I repeat it?" It's not hard to follow. Here's where I said it before:

> Floats are simple the closest thing we can practically use

Furthermore, I did not define the "available subset" as floats. I'm saying that floats are the best available tool in that available subset for implementing table-like behavior. And yeah, they suck for that purpose, but _there is no better alternative_.

If you still don't understand that, then I'm afraid there's no use in continuing this discussion.
Hulu and bittorrent are, which is where I watch "TV".
It's beneficial to the webmaster, not the user. If most people were presented with a choice of whether or not to provide this information, they'd decline.
I went with a comodo SSL through NameCheap.com - works great.
I'll remember that trick. thanks
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This one is a monthly re-occurring charge of $58.61 (sort of an odd number, maybe they hope it blends in?):

> "If you have not cancelled the free bonus within the 7 day trial period (if offered on product purchasing), you are agreeing to purchase the bonus material and/or service at a monthly reoccurring cost. The resource center is billed at $58.61 monthly."

(That's hidden in the terms, not on the sales page.)
It's win-win. If a webmaster knows that traffic is coming in for a specific term and how long that traffic sticks around, they can decide whether they have sufficient content there to keep those users happy. If not, they can add content or tweak the site, which benefits the user.
What are some other things that a small IT startup can do/offer to "attract" better talent?

Convince me that the work is interesting.
some other thoughts:

offer equity. offer a competitive wage and then some (i'm assuming competitive = average -- which means you'll get average recruits). offer a serious office setup (good computer, big monitors, nice chairs, etc.). offer a flexible schedule and relaxed environment. etc..

most of all, though, the job itself needs to be interesting/engaging.
http://www.google.com/#q=test sends me to a blank google search with no results.
Is their tracker working for anyone? Not so much here.
So basically it just looks like the vast majority of us will be getting Home Premium and being just fine with it.

I don't see why this is such a big deal, honestly. The reason that there's not the same number of flavours of Ubuntu, say, is because Ubuntu is aimed at such a small niche of people (and they STILL manage to have four versions: 32-bit desktop, 64-bit desktop, 32-bit server, 64-bit server).

Microsoft is trying to be all things to all people, which is honestly what their market dictates anyway. Having this many versions of W7 isn't ridiculous, it's a requirement.
If a user comes across a site because of a google search, it's more likely than not that he's there for a specific purpose and does not plan on returning. If the webmaster is able to glean useful information from his behavior and use that to improve his site, then it's possible that users in general are better off, but the original user is long gone.
Did you mean 4.2.2.1 - 4.2.2.6?
> Take an honest look at, say, the Perl example.

I did. It doesn't even compile :)

(It is mostly correct, but they have a semicolon incorrectly placed between arguments to the LWP request function. I usually test my code before putting it online. Usually.)
VMware has open sourced their client for virtual desktop
Code is hosted at google-code.<p>http://code.google.com/p/vmware-view-open-client/<p>which indicates something brewing between the two. ?
Welcome to the official website of the United States of America... we'd like to thank Joe Schmoe for making some Javascript. Now, moving on to foreign relations...
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I've had a similar experience with AT&T Business ADSL. For years I had problems with my router just hanging and needing a reboot (Cayman 3456). Early on, I wrote a script to ping the router just on the other side of mine, and to reboot the router when it noticed a connectivity drop for more than a minute.

So, a few weeks ago I just got fed up. After a while on the phone, I was lucky to get a local tech. She told me to get a modem (not router) at Best Buy and do the routing on my Linux box. I did and I haven't had one connection problem since. 6 years of pain, and it was the router all along, which had been replaced (then SBC) with the same model.
Search results to the old ?q= google will still work:

http://www.google.com/search?q=test
I was clear on what you wrote. I was, and still am, unclear on what you're disagreeing with, i.e. why you wrote it.
cacert.org - And it is free :)

And running multiple SSL/https domains from a single IP is also possible when using recent enough software (Apache with mod_ssl which has SNI support).
More info about the SNI here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
The right margin?
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YES. Sorry about that.
I have to agree. Being in ketosis is the best thing has happened to my career.
I think that's why ownership is usually separated from management.
The tracker is down, but I found some by adding some open trackers and activating DHT:

* http://tracker.thepiratebay.org:80/announce

* http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce

* http://tracker.soultcer.net:80/announce
There are a variety of things which I don't think anybody has noted. First of all, for those without Javascript, the old Google page is used. So, you'll still see some sampling of keywords coming in... albeit only 2% of what it originally was. So it's not totally ruining things. You'll still get some sample of referring keywords.

The benefits to Google are more than anybody is reading into. It is definitely an intentional move to cloak their redirects and keywords. And it definitely increases performance for them.

Performance gains:

The back/forward buttons do not cause anything to be reloaded. This should save a nice percentage of page loads which were along the lines of "what was my last search?" and going back and forth between pages.

If you look at Firebug, the Ajax request is actually going to the proper google search page... google.com/search?q=... Google is taking the entire search page and essentially replacing it without a page refresh. This doesn't really mean anything significant, it's just a neat observation.

Strategy:

More than anything, in the long run this will improve search results. It's not about locking down the "analytics" arena... as one poster noted, they probably won't be able to show Google search terms either (unless they set a cookie on the Google search page, and read it on GooAnal [yes, GooAnal] pages, which might actually happen). The important thing is: SEO gamers now do not have access to which google keywords work and don't work. Without giving SEO gamers which keywords are working and which aren't, it's going to be a lot tougher to game the system. These SEO firms that manage to get the spammiest crap on the top pages won't have much to work off of other than the raw amount of visitors coming from google. I imagine that Google has secretly rolled out quite a few significant changes in their search algorithm as well, to work in tandem with keeping analytics in the dark.

My prediction is, in a few months, you'll be thanking Google for the much better search results. I welcome this change with open arms, because I'd much rather see quality content rise to the top, rather than gamed content targeted at keywords. The trade-off that people running websites won't be able to see referring keywords... well I guess Google might lose .001% of their market share.
A change of this magnitude is not to plug their analytics service. It's to improve search results by cutting off the feedback they're currently giving to SEO gamers. Read my other comment below.
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Hashtags in referrals will not happen. That would break a great deal of things, considering an unencoded "#" in the URL is not expected by nearly any server side scripting language. It would probably be treated as part of last GET parameter.
I don't think it's the best use of the CEO's time to wait a couple of hours for the connection every time there's no direct flight from point A to point B, or wait 1h for the checked-in baggage to arrive (more than once if it's an international flight to the US with a connection in the US). I also don't think it would be good for business if they miss meetings every time they miss a connection. I'm not talking about waiting in the check-in line or for the security, because I assume people flying first class don't do that--but there's no way first class can save you from missing connections.
I think Google has no big ideas
Who is this a problem for? It's going to improve search results because now SEO gamers have less data to work off of. If you're a website, you should know damn well what keywords your website attracts... and you shouldn't be tweaking things around just to trick Google into sending you more traffic.

Now web sites can focus on creating content, and google can focus on creating good search. Both parties will benefit at the cost of spammy SEO gaming websites, who are now blind and will be pushed to the bottom.
ga.js can be static, and can read cookies.

You go to Google and do a search, Google stores your search sessions on the server, and assigns you some unique ID. If you click on a search result, google logs that in your session.

You visit site with Google Analytics. ga.js reads the Google.com cookie to get your session ID in some clever way (perhaps embedding an invisible iframe in the Google.com domain, which can read the Google.com search cookie). Now, Google Analytics knows that you're the same person who just clicked on that search result .2 seconds ago... a match in my book.

They could also tell you things like "visitors to your site also search for XXX" but that's clearly a violation of privacy. They get this data, but we don't.
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Please no more CSS/Table Layout debate
Lets just use whatever that works best for you and get back to building some great apps!
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search.wikia.com uses Grub:
http://search.wikia.com/about/crawl.html

And that index is also open for download, though I haven't looked much into it.
VMWare's brands within brands within brands continue to confuse me.

I'm hoping at some point this leads to a client for OS X and/or X11 that can talk to ESXi and VMWare Server. At the moment you have to manually configure each VM to expose a VNC-compatible server, or run the VMWare Windows client inside cough a VM.
There are plenty of sites like rentacoder.com, odesk.com, elance.com where you can post a project.

If you're looking to attract someone from this site to work on the project, it might be helpful to explain more about the project, what you bring to the table, and what advantages you think you have against companies already in this space.
you know, it's cool that you do that (quite neat in fact), but why is this better than scp'ing something, pray tell?
Nonsense. They could just as well sell the basic thing to everyone and provide a simple online service where you can pay for and immediately enable the features that they decided to cripple.

They don't do that because they realize that users would feel even more ripped off when they just bought an OS and are then supposed to pay again for basic features that everybody else (OSX, linux) provides for free.

They probably also do that because they still phantasize about this hindering piracy anyhow. Well, who knows, sometimes luck is with the stupid...
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I do. I also see nothing wrong with that.
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"Joel Spolksy is wrong about my work" - Kent Beck
After introducing a bribe:

"In one week, the percentage of adults in the district who had taken a test went to over 80 percent from less than 20 percent"

Think of all the expensive public service announcements we see in the U.S. (AdCouncil etc.). How many more objectives would be met if this more cost-effective strategy were adopted instead?

In this case the bribe contents looks pretty useful. But even with junk, people will waste silly amounts of time in line if it's free.
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Some of these are pretty neat; I didn't know about the MEMORY (formerly HEAP) table type, but it does seem ideal for storing session data.
I very much suspect that is the case. One of them even said something like "you're getting a free service, so stfu and let facebook and I line our pockets".
is it a bug or feature that I can keep just answering one puzzle over and over and build my "sickles"?

Also it seems pretty that this could be hi-jacked by a cabal of users sharing answers to puzzles and "block voting" on stories. I like the general idea though and I am trying to think of a suggestion for how puzzles could not easily be manipulated like that.

Maybe having a much larger pool of generated puzzles which when answered correctly are taken out of circulation permanently? At least this would make people looking for answers have to learn the general theories behind the puzzles and thus in a round-about way rehabilite the cheaters. haha!?
Ah, the thing I just realized that I know more about divs and CSS and yet I can still use tables better. Having only worked with table a dozen times, I still know exactly what a table will look like when I create it. I know that I won't know, exactly. what div/CSS is going to look like when I'm done.

And mod-up "Regardless, one thing that bothers me is when people claim that it's entirely your fault if you can't use something, because you didn't bother to learn enough about it." A good language, a good system, a good process "makes easy things easy and difficult things possible". As far as I can see, CSS fails with both. And, today was the tipping point for me personally. I would have endorsed CSS yesterday.

Well, I know CSS is great if I want arbitrary rectangles place on the page.
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I am building what I think is a sweet e-commerce site, and am looking for cool people to help me get this going, i already have about 35% of it built. If your in the bay area, talented, fun, smart and love building cool stuff please let me know.
Is there any reason to check this out? I've been using virtualbox for a while and can't think of any reason to stop.
I'm from Switzerland. Those peelers are available in all supermarkets here - both the plain metal ones and more advanced ones with moulded plastic handles. Typically the plastic ones are more reliable.

I was not suggesting that it will necessarily break, but there are many ways to find yourself needing a new peeler. You could lose it. You could lend it to someone who doesn't give it back. Your girlfriend could borrow it and then break up with you before having given it back (though hopefully it won't be because of the peeler). Or it could just break - the handle won't break, of course, but the blade might eventually get dull, or the joint between the blade and the handle might get loose.

I agree that this guy was a good salesman, by the way, and that we can learn from that.
I know. I just went to Taiwan and they were everywhere there too.
I'm not conversant with Cake or CI so I couldn't comment intelligently here.
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Which is weird because FB knows a lot about you and can target its ads perfectly. I mostly get ads for stuff related to things in my interests/activities (e.g. diving/snowboarding shops, geek stuff) and dating services (since I am listed as single). But occasionally I see one that's completely off the wall, there's no need for it really. I just downvote them, if everyone did the same they'd disappear.
The day after my birthday the text of the ads changed from '32 and still single?' to '33 and still single?' - that's just mocking me :-(
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=462697

Still forbidden ... I guess they aren't going to let us look.
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That would be great. Plenty times we are required to quickly chat with someone, but we dont want to add them as IM contacts (think interviews). This would be a great solution for one time chats.
Regarding "Pingdom's Full Page Test"... for me the "Tamper Data" firefox plugin is a great way to get the same graphing.
It seems pretty cliche to quote a book in response to an article, but this article was pretty light on details and heavy on opinion.

A book I highly recommend to entrepreneurs is the 22 immutable laws of branding. He cites a lot of statistics, and explains a lot of phenomenon that I have observed over the years. Perhaps it just fits my biases but it is the best explanation of branding I've ever read.

Anyway, specifically in that book he principally discusses highly specific branded products versus this "master brand" idea. The problem with master branding strategies is that people make up their mind about a product based on the brand, and they don't change that if it's for a new product. A for instance is the tradition Chevy / Ford / Dodge debate. Most people seem to be drawn to one of these brand, and they generally don't switch between them. So even if Chevrolet introduces a brand new car that would solve someone's needs, if they are loyal to Ford, they won't cross that line. Oddly, with a sub-brand like Corvette, it's positioned outside of that battle so people don't feel like they are crossing the picket line.

Other examples include Pepsi / Coke, Mac / Windows / Linux, etc. Food companies have known this for a long time and don't prominently feature their company brand name on their food products. Instead they focus on the brand of the product.

So what is the theory that underpins this belief? Most people associate a brand name with one thing. Quick off the top of your head, where do you buy your home electronics? How about computers? Where do you buy your Garden Supplies? What about your books? Did you know that Amazon sells all of those things? Most people associate Amazon with books, and while they do sell those other things, the bulk of their revenue still comes from books.

The article claims a sub brand approach is more expensive, yet everything I've ever seen shows differently. It's much more expensive to try to build a brand than to market the specific benefits of a given product. Particularly for a startup, the best way to enter into a market is with a highly focused niche in an industry. Focusing on a master brand makes that extremely difficult to do.

Sorry, kind of a long rant, but I really think that article is misguided.
Two things:

1. You're in an industry which is obsessed, quite irrationally, with youth. Steve Jobs might have been a young entrepreneur, but he didn't create the iPhone at 29. Rupert Murdoch might be ancient, but he's still a player (in all respects, apparently!). Older people are a lot more interesting and competent than for which our industry, and our youth-obsessed culture, give them credit.

I would also like to note that people who get too much too quickly tend to burn out, lack social context, and suffer from other ailments which lead to general weirdness. Pop stars aren't the only ones who face these issues. Work is important, but you can't buy back your youth -- so enjoy it. It is the single most valuable asset you have.

2. My good friend Inflation would like to have a word with you about your retirement fund.