skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe Ehrlich's tests for indoles, a family which includes tryptamines, but also lots of other things. Colour tests are never conclusive; increasingly persuasive results are usually obtained by combining several different colour tests, for example this post discussing LSD testing: http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1101068&....
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It's one sucky business model. Force people to sign up in the hopes that they'll stick around. It sounds fun, but the existence of services like BugMeNot says otherwise.
Why did Nintendo put the A and B buttons the wrong way round?
How would google determine that the content being served to other users differ from what the crawlers see?
The private airline/airport has no say. The government, a la TSA, is the one who will not just refuse, but jail, you for opposing the unwarranted search.
FWIW, the gunicorn in my Heroku web dynos is set to use 12 workers, though it hasn't been stressed at that level.
I don't think that thin will help in this case because Rails is blocking in general. So, you are right because other IOs will still block.

You probably need an app that is built on like: https://github.com/raggi/async_sinatra
Could it also be the case that if you looked closely enough at any prolific and successful (both conditions) non-fiction writer, you would discover pretty much the same thing?

I see this akin to Doping in upper echelon Bicycling - it's not the case that you found the guilty one, it's just the case that you paid close attention to one, and they are all (at the highest echelons) pretty much guilty of the same thing, so of course the one you paid attention to was guilty. Even the cleanest of the clean, Lance Armstrong, turns out to have been guilty.

The writers who never plagarize, never tweak their quotes, never make up a few memorable and interesting (and perhaps somewhat fictional) might be those you never read because it's by doing those things that a writer comes up with interesting material. (At least those who write a substantial volume - it might be easier to be a highly successful completely clean non-fiction writer who only generates a smallish volume)

Long ago I basically decided that everything written down is almost guaranteed to be completely false, so I look to it for entertainment, and I'm never disappointed when it turns out be fraudulent.

That's why I never understood the excitement over Daisey and his, Chinese Factory Monologues - of course they were fictional. All reporting is, to some degree, fiction.
but it also brought to light that the passive reaction to hijackings was something that needed to change

That is actually the only thing that absolutely needed to change to prevent another 9/11.

Some of the other stuff is also a good idea, but the only actual effective solution is to stop being passive in the face of hijackers and fend for yourself.
The real lesson is that the money isnt there until the check clears. Selling your house and moving on a promise is risky. Even trying to raise money is a huge drain.
It doesn't. Part of the reason is urgency, and part of the reason is not fully trusting what I have found with my research (or not knowing if there is something better, and maybe I am missing out). I thought about this before posting, as I don't wish to shirk my own responsibilities, but from your response and others, I am glad that I decided to post, it has been very helpful and encouraging for me. Is there any reason this boot camp might be better than the others? I do not know anyone who has attended these camps.
Most likely by someone at Google hearing about it if it gets negative coverage like this.
Being unhappy isn't likely to change Opera's decision, of course, but... the reaction to Opera's decision is likely to influence other players.

For example, the difference between "bring on the monoculture" and "this is a sad day for web standards" is likely to influence Mozilla's future direction, both directly and indirectly (via the choices web developers make in supporting or not supporting Firefox).
They will if the request is CPU-bound. In that case, throwing more concurrent requests at a server than it has cores just slows all of them down.
Having historical pricing data seems particularly interesting. I've thought about building a fashion site that predicts pricing trends so you can predict when to buy items on sale, and it seems like this could serve as the pricing infrastructure.

I wonder how I can tell what product sources are available, and whether new ones appear? I.e. is this only going to cover amazon.com, or does it know about nordstrom.com too?
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Hence my comment Creeping judicial decisions have in effect destroyed that restriction. Same kind of reasoning which turns synonyms into antonyms.
The pull model is very hard to implement because the router behaves like a proxy for a much larger set of dynos (think tens of thousands). When you have 10K clients yielding "i'm available" 10 times a second, you have a nightmare, it's not sustainable.

A possible solution for the proxy and the dynos to agree on a protocol where the proxy passes a request to the dyno and the latter can give up with a status code that says "retry with another dyno". This could go on to up to the 30s timeout limit that Heroku has now.
Thanks. I didn't realize this was a paper on congestion. I couldn't find mention of that in the linked-to page, nor is it mentioned in the abstracts of the relevant paper. So I'm confused about how that's related to the analysis.
It's not the same as Experts Exchange which would make you pay for content unless you happened to notice you could just keep scrolling. Quora isn't making users pay for the app. They're just pushing the app because they seem to be more invested in it (perhaps sentimentally) than the mobile web experience.
That's quite a cool idea. Nice find.
Just penalize any content from Quora.com in page rank.
It looks neat, but unfortunately it's currently only for Windows, and only 32-bit Windows to boot...

Maybe open-sourcing will help them to add support for more platforms though.
If it's simply divs masking the content there must be a way to load the page on an iOS emulation, screencap the entire length of the page, and compare the amount of "content" in the source to what shows up in the screencap.

I'm not saying it's worth the trouble for Google. Quora is probably the worst example of this bullshit. But it's certainly possible to automatically catch devilry like this, isn't it?
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I do hope that someone brings this up during Heroku's "Waza" developer conference. It's the perfect opportunity to air it out.
Probably if enough people report them for cloaking: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreportform?hl=en
This has a simple explanation. Heroku was targeting the ruby-on-rail crowd, which more or less belongs to the "Stupid Rich" quadrant when it comes to hosting / deployment.

Meanwhile, AWS has been a dominant presence in the "Stupid Poor" market segment.

The other two quadrants do not exist.
First, enjoying food does not imply spending hours cooking food. If you think so, this is one thing your culture taught you wrong. Good food is simple, can be frozen, or even eaten raw. Also, there's no explanation to why one can order chicken wings by phone and have it delivered in 30 minutes but not something healthier other than pure ignorance.

Second, this is a reductionist, naive view of nutrition. There's more to nurturing than swallowing a mix of nutrients. Smell, taste, chewing motion, the brain. If you don't enjoy your food, you don't feel satisfied. If you don't feel satisfied, your organism doesn't work as expected, neither your mood. Food and pleasure are intimately associated, you cannot have a whole human being by reducing the act of eating to an inconvenience.

If you were right, enteral diets (Google what it means) would be completely normal by today.
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Change user agent to crawl as a mobile browser.
Just so that we don't feel left out, we have our own UK equivalent with a weirdly similar name:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari#Journalistic_contro...
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Judaism it not a religion. It is a complex mix of culture, religion, language, history, nationality, and ethnicity each to varying degrees. Being a Jew is never predicated on what you believe, athiests and believers - traditionalists and liberals - are both jews to equal measure. There is such a hodgepodge of viewpoints and movements that you will not have to dig long before you find observant Jews who are skeptical about the existence of god - or most likely just don't bother with that question.
"But surely if we can send a man to the moon, we must be able to tackle porn on the internet."

If I recall correctly, it wasnt Iceland that sent a man to the moon. Oh well, at least they are protecting their women.
Love the free plan, and the cheap pricing option for people who want to run this on a small scale.
Isn't Hacker News suppose to be about tech stuff? Why is this political stuff making it to the top? I realize a lot of people here fly a lot and so anything TSA related is relevant to them, but there are other places on the internet to discuss these political issues.

As a side note, some of the posters rabid hatred for the TSA is borderline concerning. These people are normal folks with a crappy job doing what their bosses and the US government tells them to do. They aren't heartless demons whose sole existence is to make your air-travel uncomfortable. Every time a TSA post comes up (which seems like once or twice a month) I am shocked by the type of comments people leave here when they refer the the TSA and their employees. Frankly I expect a lot more from comments here than in other places on the web.
The big fish (experts exchange etc...) are big enough to be caught manually. Programatically they can crawl with a typical browser user agent, from a netblock not registered to google nor announced by their ASes. They'd need to account for the dynamic nature of sites to determine if the difference between different crawls is a sign of trouble, but as luck have it they're already in the business of algorithms and archiving websites.
I am on Quora, but I can't for the life of me remember how I signed up. One day I got an e-mail saying that somebody was following me.

There seem to be some interesting debates going on there, but I haven't used it that much.
Quora is irritating in this respect; they're always so pushy. They keep sending me weekly digest emails even after I asked them not to and repeatedly tried to unsubscribe. As it happens, I then started reading them and found them quite interesting, so I guess it worked -- but I still resent the tactics used.
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One weakness I see in arguments based on the amount of time required to discover something is that they don't take into account the possibility that lone inventor A used a painstaking brute force search to come up with a solution to a problem, when independent researcher B could have solved the problem in five minutes by applying known theory.

"If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor." - Nikola Tesla
Would love to talk to you a bit more about this. This is very much a real issue for me, and I would like to further understand what you mean by finding practical things to do, etc. I would greatly appreciate any further response. Thank you.
Well, he's restating something posted on something called TSA News Blog, which was just repeating something mentioned by Jonathan Turley, who was reporting this little factoid courtesy of Infowars, so yeah, I'd say it's completely credible all around.
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And men. Let's not be sexist here.
Same thing happens if I sell something in a real or internet shop. Why is this so surprising?
Absolutely! We can keep going until the waste heat from our energy liberation melts the polar ice caps/melts lead/melts the earth's crust/is hotter than the sun.</sarcasm>

This isn't about knowledge. We simply cannot indefinitely grow our economy/energy usage. And no, we're not going to find a workaround for the laws of thermodynamics. They are the most certain knowledge we have.
How does this work? Is there a database of the most popular online stores and you're constantly scraping (or GETing) product data?
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They weren't making money, and they did contact the company. Comments like yours piss me off greatly.
Not sure what point you're trying to make, but there's only 168 hours in a week.
Well, I did my part in reporting quora. I wish there were a way to track the progress of this report. The process makes me feel as if the message was lost in the ether
The guideline behind the free plan was to provide enough calls and functionality for any developer to build, launch and maintain a moderately sized app. Shout-out aghi from Mashape for helping us with the pricing.
That wouldn't help if a site served different content to the google block of ip addresses
> The point of the TSA is that its use is in providing the charade of security because it is the only tangible proof of increased security that most people will see/experience.

I think at this point it has overplayed it's hand.
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I was referring to automated processes, not a manual intervention
I just can't understand why Quora continues ... in an existential sense (why does it exist). I also find it odd when anyone in this sort of community has anything but derision for it. They want to play this identity game and control their users like little children. It's just too much. At least Experts Exchange, in the old days at least, didn't basically ask me for my social security number to figure out why my winmodem wasn't working or whatever.
That's true if you believe the DPRK can survive over the long term. But the conventional wisdom is that it cannot; that it will inevitably disintegrate, especially if it can be prevented the use of allegiances and commercial relationships with other countries.
Bill Clinton seems to be having fun.
I agree, although I'm probably no better informed than you are, that a China resolved to the elimination of the DPRK would result in the elimination of the DPRK.
"the Beirut bombing, the (first) World Trade Center bombing attack, and 9/11 were, at least in large part, a response to the destruction that the US has been wreaking on foreign soil for years"

Because nothing says "retaliation" better than deliberately attacking innocents with zero culpability for whatever it may be that is pissing you off.

By your thinking, we could have gotten bin Laden by announcing that, until he was turned over to us, we'd drop a 1000lb bomb on some occupied point in Afghanistan every day. There would be logic, right? They had harbored a known murderer and killer, who had gone and killed thousands of people. The Afghans were responsible, in some sense, for the safety from which he operated, and culpable by knowledge of his aims. They should have settled him a long time ago. So let them settle the problem now, or pay the price.

By _your_ logic. Which is stupid. If everyone behaved that way the world would be completely unlivable. The US is by no means perfect but it is, by and large, a nation of laws. That means very little to those innocents killed in its mistakes and evils, but means an enormous amount to the very many people who are not killed by its adherence to some standard of humanity. And to all of us, living in a world where the mighty hold themselves in some manner accountable to something looking like justice.

Here is a thought experiment on the difference between the likes of the US and bin Laden. Imagine what bin Laden would have done if he got ahold of, say, a single nuclear missile submarine. Or any of the destructive powers of this country. That is the difference between an imperfectly ethical power, and a murdering piece of crap. For me, I think it is a really, really important difference.
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"...and all of this can be directly attributed to the lack of airport security"

Supposedly. You can never be sure about that. Just as people doubt the official version that Jack Ruby did act alone to be alone to know and come so close to Oswald, people can doubt the official version that people managed to hide x-acto knives (or whatever) due to a lack of airport security.

The attackers may have had insiders smuggling the knives in. It seems accepted that the hijackers had a support network inside the U.S. They may very well have had help from employees working a the airport.
"Maybe 1 game per-year? For a company of around 400 with essentially zero effort/free publishing model that's pretty poor."

One game per year is actually pretty good for studio of Valve's stature, especially if you consider that many of those 400 work mostly, and maybe exclusively, on Steam. It is not uncommon for highly profitable studios to release just a few games each decade, especially if they are independent. So it is important to keep things in perspective. Half-Life 2 was released in 2004. Per Wikipedia, this is the list of games developed by id Software (200+ employees) since 2004:

- Wolfenstein 3D Classic (2009)

- Doom Classic (2009)

- Quake Live (2010)

- Rage HD (2010)

- Rage (2011)

- Doom 3 BFG Edition (2012)

Of those, probably only Rage sold a significant number of copies across all platforms. id Software also published the following games in the same time frame:

- Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil — Nerve Software (2005)

- Quake 4 — Raven Software (2005)

- Doom RPG — Fountainhead Entertainment (2005)

- Orcs & Elves — Fountainhead Entertainment (2006)

- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars — Splash Damage (2007)

- Wolfenstein RPG — Electronic Arts (2008)

- Doom Resurrection — Escalation Studios (2009)

- Wolfenstein — Raven Software (2009)

Of those, my guess is that only Quake 4, and maybe Wolfenstein, sold in significant amounts.

Since 2004, Valve has shipped HL2:EP1, HL2:EP2, Portal, Team Fortress 2, L4D 1, L4D 2, Portal 2, Alien Swarm and CS:GO. While none was the hit that HL2 was, few studios have achieved that level of success in the same time frame.

Or take a look at Blizzard. They have at least five, maybe ten times as many employees as Valve, but have released "only" five or six games since 2004, most of which were WoW extensions.

My point is that if Valve is not shipping games at a faster pace, it's because they can afford it. Steam is probably printing enough money that they can afford to spend as much time as they want iterating on their engines and games. I would be very surprised if you were right about the motivations for the layoff.

"Valve is going to build a new cross-platform engine [...] HL3 will be the showcase for this engine."

This isn't much of a prediction. HL2 was released on multiple platforms, and it is reasonable to assume that HL3 will follow suit.

Edit: Gabe Newell has addressed the speculations.
http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/2/13/3986540/valves-gabe-new...
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I'm sorry, but you'll need to license the patent for a "method of patenting basic legal processes" first.
The figures for the PS3 are well known. And the Wii/Wii-U's profitability per unit is also well known and publicly admitted. With any console you can generally just look at the parts list and compare costs to retail.
Your proposal actually addresses quite a few sites that put lots of phrases in small font to boost pagerank rating
Anyone know what it means to "self-plagiarize"? I don't always give myself enough credit for my ideas. Do I need to make amends?
Patents are supposed to be an exchange. "You tell us how your invention works so other people can take advantage, and in return we'll give you the ability to make money from people using it for a while."

I don't think it's software versus non-software, but really just a matter of how high the bar is set to actually obtain a patent. If you can obtain a patent for any random thing a competent person could come up with in an hour, then there's no utility to be had in making the invention public.

When patents work well (and I'm sure they do in many cases), people will want to search for patents that cover what they're trying to do, because if they find anything good, it'll save them a lot of effort to license the patent rather than invent things from scratch.

Imagine having a really hard software problem, and searching the patent database for something that could help. In an ideal world, you might run across something useful, contact the patent holder, and work out a licensing arrangement. In our world, you're unlikely to find anything good, and if you do, the holder is unlikely to be willing to license it to you fairly. Meanwhile, there's a good chance of coming across a stupid patent that applies to what you're doing, that doesn't tell you anything you couldn't come up with on your own, but that you now would owe triple damages for if you used it, because it's willful infringement now that you know about the patent.

In short, the patent system can be useful, but the system must ensure that patents are only awarded for inventions that deserve it. If you can somehow pull that off, I think the whole question of whether it should be possible to patent software would more or less go away.
Yeah... pretty much have to start banning them from my Google search... definitely makes me rage if I search for something, click on what looks like a good answer in Google, and then get a nonresponsive page like that. Rage both at Quora and at Google. A page like that shouldn't show up in a Google search.
We aggregate data from a variety of sources (crawling, data dumps, rss feeds, and in some cases even manual curation) after which we integrate them into our data pipeline. We update them using a power law distribution, where the top 1% of best selling products (based on our internal ranking system) is updated hourly, the next 3% updated every two hours, etc.. The whole index is refreshed at the end of each month.
For that, we'd first need to be able to work up a new Federal budget, pass it in the House and Senate, and have it signed by the President.

It's been four years since we've even been able to do that much; I'm not holding out hope that anything, anywhere, will have its budget cut in real (or nominal) terms.
Seeing things like this makes me want to punch a hole in the wall.
Technically, yes. Simply using an infringing technology without permission qualifies as patent infringement. You'd probably have an excellent case to sue the manufacturer for damages if this happened, but you aren't automatically shielded just because you're the end user.
I don't think that's the plan at all. This is so user hostile that they must be at the point where they don't feel they need to grow any more (I find it very hard to believe they are still growing with these moves).