skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Works great for a company that risks generating a lot of noise to consumers (i.e. producing and marketing physical products). But for Google it's pervasiveness and breadth of services were part of the appeal, it's not like it's minor products interfered with the major parts of the company nor cost them much to maintain.
Fair use usually allows one to quote people, especially given that they were linking people back to the originals. But the AP has always been funny about that, so you're always best off quoting another source.

Remember, the AP doesn't care how little you quote or if you link back to them. They've gone after random forum posts, too[1], so you're best off just not reading their stuff. That will make it better, right?

[1] http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2008/06/17/ap_goes...
Author here. Would love to get some feedback about how to make this scale of innovation work better.
Personally, I think if it weren't for Search and Gmail with its tie-in effect, people would have moved out of all other Google services a long time ago.

I do not like this new direction Google has taken since the past few product redesigns (Gmail, Google Groups, Image Search among others) where the products have gone from beautifully functional and feature rich to outright broken even for basic features. Groups has become absolutely unusable.

The Gmail redesign was a sore point and I customized it to be as close as it could be to the older design, but I expect them to break it further in the future.
Excellent article!

A couple of observations...

"Aristotle's idea of the scala naturae, the ladder of nature, put all life-forms in rank order, from low to high, with humans closest to the angels. During the Enlightenment, the French philosopher René Descartes, a founder of modern science, declared that animals were soulless automatons. In the 20th century, the American psychologist B.F. Skinner and his followers took up the same theme, painting animals as little more than stimulus-response machines." <- rudimentary systems of ideas.

And I kindof gasped towards the end of the article, when I read this: "The one historical constant in my field is that each time a claim of human uniqueness bites the dust, other claims quickly take its place. Meanwhile, science keeps chipping away at the wall that separates us from the other animals."

I mean, as I said, excellent article, but let's not falsify by omission. We are the only species who can build on previous generations' achievements; and the only species who can abstract indefinitely (i.e, always make a statement about a previous statement). These are both due to the special linguistic behaviours we are capable of.
I didn't know that it was patented,thanks for the info. There go my plans for githubbing a small pandas(python) based version of same. Ill also look into the SPA now. People also need to consider the kelly criterion,and abandoning Technical Analysis as "not even wrong". Signal Processing is TA for grownups but even then people have to bear in mind that the assumption of a linear system (a default assumption for signal processing) is generally incorrect as far as the market is concerned.
In the strange position of having a potentially very viable trading model myself and no time or funds to trade with as yet.Potentially a better position than the converse however.
I'm fine with income taxes so long as they're progressive and have no holes, such as investments in the stock market not being considered "income" so that people can make $800,000+ /yr and pay some obnoxious 15% in taxes while people making under $100,000 can easily pay over 25%. Feels like we're losing out on a few hundred billion/yr in tax revenue due to nonsense like that.
Thanks! I thought about astroturfing my area with accounts just to make it not look like a ghost town, but felt it was against the spirit. I felt the best thing that I could do in this respect would be to make sign-up as frictionless and semi-anonymous as I could (plus let people toggle on and off account visibility) because I and most other tech folk I know are hyper-protective of their identity online. One of the huge turn-offs of Coder's Coffee for me was mandatory sign-up-via-linkedin. My modest goal for the end of the week is to make one local appointment for myself.
Comments like yours are great reminders of why real legal counsel is so valuable.
I wonder when will Google discontinue Gmail and offer to download all mail in a file.
Hmmm, here we have a distinguished economist, who could no doubt live easily from his university job, instead spends time trying to bring scientific economic analysis to popular topics.

Meh... you could make a pretty compelling argument that economics isn't a science, and a pretty compelling argument that Krugman is a radical ideologue who is good at marketing himself. In any case, whether he's distinguished or not, whether or not he has a Nobel Prize, how else he could theoretically support himself, don't really enter into it... evaluating this piece of content (as well as any other) should be done on it's merits (or lack thereof).

It's kinda disappointing in this case, because that actually is a really interesting article from an economic perspective. But when he mixes it in with his psuedo-socialist, big government, leftist ideology, it immediately turns a lot of people off. I almost didn't click through just because it was Krugman. But he sucked me in with the catchy title. :-)
Out of interest, has anyone else who's had their personal server mentioned on HN's frontpage noticed an uptick in SSH scans from those lovely folks in the PRC? Certainly did here.

Welp, 221.192.143.73/24 is going in the firewall config.
That would be a massive redistribution of wealth, much more than needed. The billion wouldn't end up being a billion though, due to runaway inflation.
My understanding is that the EU itself does it guarantee bank deposits but rather it requires members states to have bank guarantee schemes.
Are you logged in? There is a link at the bottom of the page to download it. It isn't very prominent; I almost missed it.
Multi-threaded wouldn't help the case of a single request, which is what this post is reporting latency numbers on.
Oh god, I've completely forgotten about expertsexchange! The horror, the horror.

This product shutdown is a little surprising, because it makes Google's core product worse and less useful.

Maybe they're confident their current ranking algorithms get rid of all the crap content farm sites now, and as someone else mentioned, this appears to be the case. But I suspect they'll enjoy a resurgence someday. Ugh.
Thank you! You are a great human.
>Their offered download link doesn't even work for me, it just notifies me of its shutdown.

After you go to that link and read the notification, there is another link to download the blocklist as a plain-text file. Mine contained a number of domains I've added during the years.

It's quite interesting to see all the domains I've blocked so far :)
I'm really starting to get annoyed at the whole "whelp, Google Reader died, therefore everything else is unsafe" mantra being carried by the tech industry as of late. Sure, it was worth mentioning early in the game (and more importantly once), but at this point it's become a bandwagon.

The press is declaring Google Reader a sign of things to come, but for the average user this has little effect. If we assume Google wasn't lying, and the users were dropping off, it makes sense for them to cut off a product that wasn't being actively developed in the first place. I'm a Reader fan, and I hate that it shut down, but that's beside the point - Google is trying to build new, better products, not let old ones fester without support or development.

This doesn't even tackle the fact that Keep isn't a true Evernote competitor. It's more of a supplement/addition to Evernote. For once, a Gizmodo article is relevant here: http://gizmodo.com/5991723/6-obvious-evernote-features-googl...
How to Market like a Startup
My apologies, I stand corrected. I may have been conflating the start of WWII with WWI.
A Relational Model of Data for Large Scale Data Banks – E.F.Codd (1970) [pdf]
Unless the C89 standard says something about VM interaction (I'm too lazy to check), it seems like your complaint is misguided.
Show HN: who's stealing your domains underpants
After mistyping my domain for the nth time and landing on another parked leeching website, i decided to find out how many more there were registered, quite a few it turned out. Thought it might be useful to others:
http://domainbrandprotection.com
Just a little heads-up:
The example on http://emberreddit.eviltrout.com/ links to a github page that does not exist:
https://github.com/eviltrout/ember-reddit

The right page should be:
https://github.com/eviltrout/emberreddit

The link to the github project on the parent page is correct though.
It matters because a good versioning system indicates to users what to expect from the release. If version numbers are major.minor.patch, then incrementing the patch number should indicate that you've only fixed bugs and it should be safe to install without risking new bugs. Incrementing the minor number should mean you've made feature changes but everything is backwards compatible. Incrementing the major number should mean you've made major changes that break compatibility.

See http://semver.org/ for more details.

Edit: others have pointed out that this is more important for libraries and less so for user-facing applications. For user-facing applications I'd recommend two version numbers so you can distinguish between feature releases and bugfix-only releases, which can be a useful indicator to the end user.
I'd venture to say that this is all Larry Page. The start of this "myopia" seems to coincide with him taking over as CEO.
What is the alternative explanation? Reader evidently needed a very non-trivial amount of resources to maintain and didn't have anywhere near the amount of users to justify it. I lament that they couldn't keep it going, but even the guy who started the project inside Google said he and people working on it felt like its days were numbered from the outset.
Thanks! Originally I just wanted a way to add a src attribute to any element, I eventually realized that it could be used to finally fix my issues with templates; too much javascript scaffolding.
Appeal to ridicule? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_ridicule
It doesn't require Mint to run - I'm posting this comment from Cinnamon running on Debian Unstable. Cinnamon is also in the ubuntu 12.10 repos.
> It goes without saying, but communicating over text always leaves some small room for misunderstanding.

Definitely. Even spoken English is rife with misunderstandings, and when the tone is almost entirely removed as in writing, that just makes it all the harder.

> In addition, while perusing various Perl repos I remembered how much I once liked writing Perl, and will probably revisit it in a side project (if not production just yet).

Nice to hear!

Re: metacpan, it's amazing what interesting modules show up when you follow some of the metacpan dependency graphs. IMHO, once you're above a certain number of modules, the problem starts becoming less of whether a solution exists and more about how the candidate modules rate WRT reliability, platform compatibility, dependencies you do or do not already have, etc.
Is there a chance that the toxic environment derives from the people who "care" about the company, giving the culture a bit of a "too many cooks" problem? That is, not caring about the company itself can contribute to a "pure work" attitude that benefits the actual success of the business.
"Such difference is not impossible between languages" You are correct in wanted to make sure the algorithms and data-structures used still have the same run-time complexity. But saying this is impossible is not accurate.

This kind of difference is not uncommon when BOTH the before and after program optimally handle IO (network,file,db,etc), BUT the before program is from the interpreted performance tier (PHP,Perl,Ruby,Python) and the after program is from the compiler tier (C/C++,Java,C#,Go,Scala,Haskell).

These micro-benchmarks, while not proving anything, at least suggest that you could be wrong as well: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t...
I think they're implying that you should switch to Chrome. They've shown notices to people running the latest version of Firefox that they should consider upgrading to Chrome on search pages before.
It was more than a RSS client. It's also an API for third party apps.
No your point specifically is nonsense, because its a false comparison. Having a basic billion dollars would be massive wealth redistribution, as opposed to minor, and would have many additional negative consequences due to the severity of it.
While the article points out many uses of paper that are indeed rather questionable, there at the moment appear to be no viable alternatives:

- I would rather get a bill on paper than an email saying that I can download said bill somewhere after logging in, re-entering my passwords and sometimes entering another PIN (German o2). Of course there are also companies capable of attaching a PDF file to an email, but these appear to be the exception rather than the rule.

- Tracking expenses by means of little strips of paper could be improved by putting little QR codes on said little strips of paper. You could scan the code, track the expense, drop the paper. But this would require a standard of sorts, and I doubt that it would be easy to implement in the fifty bazillion legacy checkout systems.

- Scientific work (read: calculations) either require paper or blackboards, the former being easier to handle if there are many calculations, the latter better if there are fewer calculations and more thinking. But then you also want to be able to see at least three different pages with four different formulae at the same time. Given that carrying around three iPads is rather unhandy, you’ll either need a book (or two or three) or print out those damn lecture notes.

And if you just printed 150 pages for some calculations, you can hardly complain if you get a few bills each month…
Creating a Build System for Coffeescript with Ant
Yet don't you think your last statement there is a perfect example of walking through a quiet wood and declaring a woodpecker absent? We certainly don't understand non-human languages/communication systems, and significant evidence is piling up that it's often far more sophisticated than we think it is. And "building on previous generations' achievements" is a little ill-defined; isolated groups of individuals often form a unique society, even if they aren't conducting research on human intelligence.
True, but it would help average request latency under load. I am hoping with Go 1.1 RC coming out next month that Google might enable multi-threading on the GAE.

Note: Even with Go only given a single core a developer can still write a Go program so they are concurrent. That way when one goroutine blocks on IO, another can use the CPU to make progress; furthermore, when multi-threading is enabled the performance upgrade will be substantial and seamless.
Just imagine if you had gotten one from a non-expert.
What PS3 "Journey" tells us about customers
I still see it sometimes. Meanwhile, Quora is in the works to become next EE...
Unless you're a service provider who supplies SSH access to generic customers, there's no reason to continue running sshd on port 22. Use some other port and your random scans will drop by ~100%.
Honestly, I still find no reason to go to Mint after Cinnamon has been made available in Ubuntu.
Academia Is Eating Its Young
We're in a complete agreement. As I wrote: "Such difference is -not- impossible between languages" :) I just find it rather unlikely.
> [Banks] are a place to store money securely* and make sure it's easily available and exchangeable.

Not at all--what you're thinking of are "wallets." :)

Banks are places we put money to prevent it from losing value. Money kept in a wallet (or under a mattress) steadily loses value because of inflation. A bank counteracts this by loaning out the money we give it (earning it money on interest), and then paying us another, smaller interest rate for our deposits in turn, which will offset inflation to whatever degree. Other entities also do this--mutual funds, for example--but banks do it while also making our money still somewhat convenient to re-liquidate and transfer; others may require, for example, 30 days' notice to facilitate withdrawal.

One thing that's very interesting about Bitcoin is that, once it's all mined out, there won't be any inflation (or deflation) of its supply--the amount of Bitcoin out in the world will become effectively fixed. This means that, by and large, "banks" (in the "savings bank" sense; investment banks are a separate beast) are pretty irrelevant to a Bitcoin-based economy: there's no need to protect the value of your money; it's stable just sitting in a wallet.

This property of Bitcoin might do strange things to the global economy if Bitcoin becomes more widely adopted. In effect, it would be a global version of what some Eurozone countries have experienced, where they have control over their fiscal policy (taxes and spending), but no control over their monetary policy (ability to print money.) It's common wisdom in Economics that at least a little bit of inflation is good--otherwise people tend to hoard money instead of investing it ventures that improve GDP. In a wholly-Bitcoin economy, there's no particular fear-based incentive to invest over just sitting on your money. (There's still a greed-based incentive to invest with banks for increased risk = increased reward in good economic times, but in times of economic volatility, the "flight to quality" toward stable Bitcoins would be absolute, moreso than treasury bills or gold have ever been.)
Measuring labor-saving devices by how much labor they save is a great idea. But, how would you apply this to things that don't augment or replace human abilities? (Eg, spacesuits.)

Edit: It just hit me, a spacesuit sitting on a shelf has absolutely no value. Only when used for something does it have worth. So, since the biggest practical purpose of spacesuits is keeping people safe while they fix things in space, the labor worth of a spacesuit is the cost of building a robot to replace it and the human inside it, minus the cost of the human.

If the spacesuit is being used to so something a robot could do better, (like, say, hold a camera steady in orbit) then the labor value of the spacesuit is negative.
They both talk about the dynamics of a product that has network effects and becomes a public good.

No, both Krugman and Avent are talking about private goods with fixed costs to the producer.

Network effects might increase the consumer surplus, but that's all. They aren't that important to the analysis. The important part here is the inability of the producer to engage in price discrimination.
What's it like being in the neighborhood?
I didn't read the comment as a troll or any of what you said about the tone. It seemed to me to be an accurate account of what has happened before: Bitcoin bank/exchange gets hacked or has other issues, and people lose confidence. This is empirical. To deny what 30 seconds of Googling and a review on BitcoinCharts.com confirms speaks to your "evident knowledge of the Bitcoin ecosystem".

You are right that you can store Bitcoins anywhere, and aren't restricted to banks/exchanges. However, this protects only the coins themselves, not the value. As things stand today, Bitcoins are only as valuable as you can trade them for fiat currency, or for products/services that continue to accept fiat currency. Where and how you store them has no impact on what the market is bearing as value for Bitcoins, and faith in the banks/exchanges plays a huge role (though there are other factors as well) in the market value.
Nice work guys. The demo is quite exciting and easy to understand.
I would use it for its cool quotient - I can press next on my phone without anyone noticing - magic!
Though, network connectivity and document confidentiality are major concerns. What do you think?
You're right. I have an Alfred (http://www.alfredapp.com if using mac) shortcut to search google with "mdn" suffix.
that's exactly what i was trying to say. the thing to do is notice the context that leads women to disproportionately find sex jokes uncomfortable, not to conclude that "women are different from men and therefore..."
Fabsie hopes to help the mass market enjoy the fruits of the DIY movement
Wonder how long until they shut down Keep with everyone having put a lot into using it. We should start a web site for pooling bets...
Well, Google isn't generally thought to replace human abilities. And fast transportation isn't either, yet with both you can reduce those things to human work. See my follow-up to this: http://herdrick.tumblr.com/post/45193590173/the-boat-engine-...

But spacesuits... hmm. That is really tough.
The Attachment That Still Makes Noise
Hold on. I got this:

http://www.shortpacked.com/2013/comic/book-14/09-same-planet...
I really like this idea, because I think it solves a problem, also the implementation looks very nice!

I'm assuming this is a Show HN (if so I'd be a good idea to rename), but anyway, heres some of my ideas. First, the keyboard shortcuts (new, just text, and twitter) aren't working for me on chrome with a german keyboard. Also I've run into this problem many times before with keycodes, there's not just the browsers, you gotta worry about language keyboard mappings too. Otherwise, everything worked nicely for me.

As far as suggestions go, I would love to be able to create an account where code snippets could be shared privately with other members of my team (like git does for repos), there's a lot of times where we would like to share code snippets (skype blows everything up), without having to scp to/from the server or dropbox it. If you could make that really easy through this webapp you'd at least have one paying member :)
I have hundreds of starred articles in Google Reader. So yes it was more than just RSS.
So far, not much has been found. I'd still take it over CurveCP.
"Beta": why didn't AIG think of that?
> and whether Google has hurt its reputation as 'organizer of all the worlds information.'

This is my biggest issue with Google, past the immediate concerns about the Reader shutdown. Their new "focus" strategy sounds suspiciously like putting all their eggs in one G+ basket, regardless of whether it's a good fit for the problem at hand.

Spreading out lead them to create lots of good products that served all sorts of niches - the loudest outcry about Reader has come not from tech nerds, but from journalists of every stripe. Keep eliminating niche products, and soon enough it adds up to a large chunk of your audience, each of which had a different need that Google decided wasn't important enough to serve. There's value in diversity.
Honest question, what sort of process does it look like for you to total everything up? Do you keep running totals or do it at the end of the year? Do you have an accountant? Would you prefer that online stores collected for you?
This was what struck me too, sort of like explaining to non-programmers that the motivations here aren't necessarily fame and fortune. Its obvious to me as an engineer that this is true but it is also clearly not obvious to some folks who try to market to me. (or recruit me for that matter)
You can remove up to the top ones million sites with MillionShort: http://millionshort.com/about.html and you can specify individual sites to remove via settings: http://millionshort.com/settings.php
Does someone know of a Firefox extension achieving the same result?

EDIT: just found this Greasemonkey script https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/33156
Here's a great example of the RESTfulness backbone provides: http://duganchen.ca/backbone-js-and-restful-web-services/