skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never understood the concept of black-hat SEO.

If your site isn't worthwhile enough to be on the front page of relevant search results, why would you pay somebody to set up link farms and comment spam et al that might get your site up the rankings; instead of just paying Google to put your site as an ad when people run the relevant searches?

Either way it's going to cost you money, but one is guaranteed to work & have no negative repercussions; the other isn't. Is it just about price, or do the SEO guys have really good marketing, or what?
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It is not a live search, it is a fine visualisation of the more sttaic trend lists ... http://hawttrends.appspot.com/api/terms/
I remember him participating in the Gumball Rally in Europe in 2001 (Filmed by Jackass) in a Mercedes Benz S V12 Brabus, I'd guess a $900,000.00 car. So my guess is that he was quite rich before starting MegaUpload (founded in 2005) :-)
It sounds to me like this is just a misunderstanding of what HTML5 Boilerplate is. Your professor should be encouraging you to re-use libraries, as that's what you will have to do in the real world. Not a single project goes by that I don't use a reset, or another library. Many libraries and tools have huge communities built around them, and are more tested than if I had done it myself.
I noticed this when looking to mail-order some espresso pods: there were eight versions of the same shitty German mail-order company in the top 30 results or so, each trying to look like an independent site targeting a different audience, which you only found out were the same when you tried to check out and saw the same ridiculous extra fees tacked on in the shopping cart. Took forever to find a legit store which was not run by the same guy.
Do not watch the video of cat number 4. You have been warned.
I don't mean multicurrency support; I get that from Xero.

I mean GST, BAS, the whole shebang. Generally the tricky part of moving into a national market isn't the currencies, it's the tax laws.
Thanks mate for your feedback. I sometimes thought products comes first on iOS because its easy and less devices to tackle with as compared to iOS. So, experimenting with iOS is a good way to go. Although I know that for revenue/monetization purposes iOS is more fruitful than Android.
That's all? I expected something like duetapp or better.. :/

Here's the same, but opensource so that you can customize to your own needs.

http://css-tricks.com/html-invoice/
True.

I know of at least two companies who have quote integration, but basically I only quote every few months. I don't feel like paying another monthly fee for that.
Here's a map showing the proposed linear collider superimposed on a map of the Palo Alto / Redwood City area, with the correct linear scale:

http://i.imgur.com/Y6Nve01.jpg

At point "A" you can see the current Stanford Linear Accelerator complex for comparison. At 2 miles (3.2 km) in length, SLAC is currently the longest linear accelerator in the world. The ILC would be nearly 10 times the length.

For further comparison, the main accelerator ring at CERN is 27 km in circumference, and the arms of LIGO are each 4 km in length.
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Let me guess, you're not trolling, you're "genuinely curious".
This is a great article. The best part is where the author suggests alternative icons for Zappos, Amazon and Apple. So true.
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Unfortunately, one of their favorite activities while roaming around includes killing a large number of birds[1]. While some may scoff at that, birds (even the ones considered less desirable) contribute to lowering the populations of insect pests that would annoy us or eat our crops. China nearly wiped out the common house sparrow in the 1960s and it helped lead to The Great Famine[2] as the sparrows ate much more insects than they did grain. Many types of the less invasive bird species also do not reproduce nearly as fast or in abundance as their feline predators. So while cats might have a few litters or more each year, the birds they are killing might only have one successful clutch, if that. Unlike mammals, most bird species also need both parents to raise their young. If one is killed, the other will most likely abandon the nest.

Countries like New Zealand[3][4] have had to worry about the size of cat populations lately just to keep birds like the kiwi from being wiped out. New Zealand originally had no native mammals and the birds there have not yet built up a sense of fear to them (or even us) in many cases. Although cats are a guilty party, we also did some damage by wiping out some unique New Zealand species, such as the Moa[5]. Until mammals came along, birds were the dominate species of the island, which is one of the factors that makes its ecosystem so interesting to study.

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/01/29/170600655/beh...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign

[3] http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...

[4] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8021...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa
Research 2.0: The future of scientific research
But it might only get worse.
Smear Brigade Goes After Snowden / Greenwald
The way Manning's trial has been handled and the way Snowdon's actions are being responded to make the truth obvious. There's a lot more shady business to be revealed and the U.S. government is scared as hell. They're absolutely desperate to discourage further would-be whistle-blowers. Obama just got caught in a rather public lie too. It doesn't sound like these Senators were briefed on PRISM before Tuesday even though Obama said, "every member of Congress has been briefed on this program". Honestly, if Americans will impeach a president for lying about his extra-curricular cigar-related activities, how can they let something like this slide?
Add the ability to upload a logo and that's the definitive winner in that field
> "Snowden already had a Top Secret clearance before he joined Booz Allen in April, two sources said, adding that he likely obtained that clearance - which involves passing a polygraph exam..."

I know for a fact that most government top secret clearances don't require a polygraph. Not that it means shit, since polygraphs have never been proven to prove anything. I just hate when I see things written by "credible" people that will be taken by fact by hundreds of people when it is not entirely true. Working in environments where all of the fine details are rarely shared, you see this a lot in the media.

Law enforcement in general (Anywhere from city to FBI) is known to give polygraphs before a conditional offer of employment is given. However, this is not the case with all agency's.
"Interesting" and even "practically useful" do not imply "theoretically interesting from an academic perspective".

Of course, the measure for academics is "can I get something published on the topic somewhere respectable" - it (mostly) doesn't have much to do with whether something is cool or useful.
Very surprised that Democrats would be in favor... perhaps because it's a Democrat president in office that's presiding over these programs? I can't think of any other rational reason.
This list confirms what I've been thinking about MSFT for a long time - their primary product is the Office Suite and has been for quite some time. As long as there are billions of people in the world vendor locked to the Office Suite as there currently is, MSFT will be around and kicking for a long time no matter how hard they fail on other fronts. It's no matter how badly Windows declines, as long as it runs Office and a web browser, (some) people will buy it.
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The currently-largest linear accelerator (SLAC) is located right next to the San Andreas fault in earthquake-prone California.
It'd be even greater if you could edit all the content, including table headers and field titles, so that users could, for instance, translate their invoices into different languages.
Love this lead gen strategy - offer free super simple tool to your target audience, and you get lots of opportunities to convert them to your full tool.

Adds a ton of value and shows you 'get' your customers before you engage them with your main pitch.

I also really like the personality (e.g. see https://twitter.com/invoiceomatic).
It's funny how they all seem to be rather theoretic, context-free comments, not taking the details of Snowden's circumstances in account. He wasn't really trying to hide, otherwise he wouldn't have made a public statement from a known location.

And it seems most of those spooks interviewed never actually had to run for their life, putting their theories to the test.
Scientists Discover New Layer of the Human Cornea
This feature is planned, hopefully will be available soon.
I'm not defending PRISM but how do you know it hasn't stopped anything?
To kill, cheetahs use agility and acceleration not top speed
The Remarkable Properties of Mythological Social Networks
From my experience, Arch with KDE and XP/Win7 are extremely similar with regards to user experience quality, so that I myself wouldn't be willing to call one or the other better. At this point, a person more used to Windows might get annoyed by having to edit config files on Arch/KDE every so often, and a person more into Linux might be frustrated that in Windows, some things can't be easily fixed. But these are more differences in preference than in quality.
I don't find it surprising, especially for someone that is already a musical prodigy. I remember dreaming of beautiful melodies as a kid, but lacking musical talent, I was unable to play them on a musical instrument. Thus, the melodies were just stuck in my head and usually forgotten shortly after waking up.
Maybe read through Patients like me?

http://www.patientslikeme.com/conditions/31-lyme-disease
I did this yesterday for my Raspberry Pi. Sad to say, that Firefox users will get a warning on the StartSSL certificate.

Works fine on IE and Chrome though.
Very nice CSS animation :)
It is hardly that simple, the costs involved could be completely different, high organic ratings might create a positive ROI whereas PPC might be far too expensive. Also if your content isn't at all really desirable it is possible you will have trouble running Adwords for it as well.
GoogleProof: Internet anonymity is the Height of Chic
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That post seems to talk about how to implement this functionality yourself - as in, what the server should do when someone pushes new changes to it.

In the case of App Engine, Heroku, Azure etc, that is all abstracted away from you - as is, in many cases, the concepts of binaries. You just package up and upload some code somehow, and their "mesh" decides where to deploy it and how to run it.

(I know Heroku gives you a little more control over this; with App Engine, you get a config file and a number of instances you can tweak, and that's about it in the general case.)

This is so far available for Python and PHP - not Java or Go.
Echelon, SIGINT, UKUSA, AUSCANNZUKUSA, Five Eyes.
> [1] I think this is called 'brown noise' these days.

Yikes. What terrible branding!

"Green noise" is better, sort of honest, and obvious.
But Microsoft have single product. While they do sell it from 5 different department is combines to one interwoven whole.

That is great on the rise but can be terrible when every customer lost means losing network effects. The more google apps/ Libre gain traction the less valuable the windows desktop becomes. The less valuable the desktop - the server becomens less valuable and from there the DB.

Computer ecosystems are like the real stuff - they can implode with a few strokes of stupidity and bad luck but are hard to be wiped out. And microsoft have somewhat bad track record in the last few years on quality decisions. There is no future in which there does not exist sizable deployments of microsoft software.

But also metric of a company is their relevance. MS lost their ability to be trendsetters and are playing catching up.

Unless there is strong change of direction coming I think that MS will have their soviet union moment in the next few years - they will vomit a lot of territory and they will still be huge and powerful afterwards, but just not among the superpowers.
It’s Time to Rewrite the Internet to Give Us Better Privacy, and Security
German-based Search-Engine releases its Software as Open-Source.
We have a very important decision ahead of us
I wrote something similar to this a few years ago:

http://billable.me

There's nothing wrong with a bit of competition and it makes me wonder if this space needs something... Why do these keep appearing?
Brown noise helps me concentrate a fair bit. Personally, I've got SimplyNoise generating brown noise in oscillation mode which sounds a bit like waves.
Have you seen /newest? Lots of stuff that I care even less than a Go release.
I dont get it. How is this so much better than having
a, say, rtf document template on your own computer and emailing attachments from there? Or if you want to email a pdf there's printing to e.g cute pdf.
Worse: "the FBI actually believed Dotcom had a Dr. Strangelove-style “doomsday device” that was capable of wiping out all evidence of Internet piracy with the flick of a switch." http://bgr.com/2012/08/10/kim-dotcom-raid-fbi-feared-doomsda...
I doubt "freedom of religion" allows you to get away from any law. After all, if an atheist marries a Catholic, the marriage fails, and the atheist wants a divorce, I doubt the civil divorce could be held up by the catholic saying "My religion forbids divorce!"
Ditto, but I never made it public.

I think things like this are nice because they are fun to design and build, but they also provide real value.
Note how that doesn't create a PDF.
> where software is incorporated into a specific product to provide functionality it can be patented.

Actually it is more like when a process like the one that can usually be patented contains software, then the software part can be included in the patent covering the whole process.

The key part of Art. 52 §3 creating exemptions from §2 is "as such" [0].

Say you invent a robot able to weld faster and more precisely. You can request a patent covering the robot and, being a fundamental part of it, the control logic implemented in software. Yet you can not try and patent the control logic by itself, nor sue anyone using the exact same control logic anywhere else, including in robots (as long as they themselves don't infringe on the patent). Conversely, someone using the same robot design but a different software algorithm may not be infringing the original patent. This protects both the innovator from being flat out ripped of and everyone's right to use algorithms and mathematics freely, while incremental innovations are allowed either in software or in hardware.

[0] http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/epc/2010/e/...
I use my own certificates internally, of course. I just want to prevent eavesdropping, so it's good enough, and I'm sure the NSA doesn't have my keys.

The problem is, of course, browsers won't have you as a trusted root, therefore displaying a warning to the users. That's not acceptable for a public facing site. We have to trust someone here to give us a certificate.
I think because it's a relatively easy idea to come up with, and the implementation details aren't earth-shattering. A year ago I was fixed on making a similar business called MeteorBill and worked part-time on it for a couple months before scrapping it .. I'm happy I did now, as my market research was clearly incomplete, and my UI was startlingly similar to yours and OP's. No great loss, I learned Erlang/OTP and Mnesia via that project.
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What does this do for me that the MS Word template that comes installed with Office does not?

EDIT: I'm serious. I can think of several reasons why I would not want to use this, ranging from "I don't want to have to remember a specific URL for this one purpose" all the way up to "I don't want to be sending my invoice data over an unsecured connection to some random statup-of-the-month."
You might want to look at System Center 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014. There's some impressive technology there.
Maybe explain that to Dotcom, who had a shotgun with him in his panic room when they cut him out of it.
By the way, the new EU data protection (i.e., privacy) directive is being written _right now_ and consumer representatives (or activists) report that there is a massive lobbying effort underway to weaken current privacy standards. Given the revelations of recent days, now might be a good time to support those that want a stronger data protection directive.
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Although it's been a while since I've done anything in Django, seeing this still gives me a warm feeling.
Sorry, but for me this article is a bit BS, because what the author describes as the destruction of the web is for me the healthy and eternal balance between good and evil, all over the society.

One one side, systems like Google, facebook... compete to be the best spam filters, on the other side, cheaters try to fight back by using more advanced spam techniques.

At the end of the day, the Web keeps improving and tons of new applications flourish. It also makes it harder to spammers who can then decide to go white hat.

I must admit the quality of Google's SERPs is going down since Panda, especially for long tail keyword phrases, but look, Hacker News is one good example of alternative to Google and Facebook, and the web is not just about Google...

I also believe black hats are the best friends of Google, because they push the level of anti-spam higher, where newer or smaller search engines can't compete because of its lack of history.
I imagine most cat owners are quite familiar with this.
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It was considered, at the time, the most expensive house in New Zealand. However, he only rents it. He tried to buy it, but the New Zealand government get involved in overseas investment deals/land purchase, and he was denied permission to buy it because he was "not of good character".

It is known within NZ as "the Chrisco mansion", as it was built by the owners of Chrisco - a Christmas hamper mail order company. People still get wealthy the old-fashioned way down under.
The problem with using Git push to deploy is that when you're first setting up your deployment, if you make a mistake in the settings, you can't amend the commit to fix it, because it's already been pushed - so the mistake stays there for all eternity. And if you try to fix it and your fix doesn't work, that's another bad commit.

I deployed my first project to Heroku a few weeks ago, and now my project history has a handful of permanently unremovable junk commits, which I made solely to force Heroku to rebuild my app.
Let's sing along: There's a long way to Tipperary, there's a long way to gooo. Sincerely Hans der Lobbyist
I'd love to be able to specify the subtotal after VAT is applied as well, since that's often what you quote in practice and converting that to pre-VAT prices is a PITA.

VAT is also actually called BTW here, so the ability to change how VAT is called would be useful as well.
This looks great. Looking forward to hearing more.

I think I belong to the target audience of this plugin (Experienced VS user who also loves Node.js), I'd also gladly help testing it, if you need that.
I think that LBJ is a great comparison. Remember that LBJ won by painting Goldwater as an unhinged warmonger. similarly, the Obama of 2006 talked again and again about protecting civil liberties and limiting executive power.
You can argue "harm" about anything. Especially if you include risk of harm. Under that model it would be valid to prohibit driving at any speed, owning a steak knife, etc., because there is some risk that activity poses to others.

The fundamental problem is proportionality. And the reason it's a problem is that perfect enforcement is impossible. The actual harm posed by driving down a residential street at 60MPH is not proportional to the existing penalties (i.e. reckless driving, jail time, suspension of license). You could do it a hundred times and likely nothing bad would happen. The problem is that a) if you do it 50,000 times then likely someone will be injured, and b) you can do it a hundred times and likely not be caught by law enforcement.

So here comes the trouble. If you set the penalty equal to the risk-adjusted harm (i.e. penalty for 60MPH in a residential zone is a $25 fine) then it serves as no deterrent because you'll only be caught less than 1% of the time which makes the risk-adjusted penalty 100 times less than the risk-adjusted harm. However, if you adjust the penalty to account for the low risk of getting caught, you now have a penalty which when imposed is disproportionate to the offense by a factor of 100 or more. Which is problematic when the effectiveness of enforcement increases without adjusting the penalties. And extremely problematic when the reason for enforcement ineffectiveness is that enforcement is expensive or unpopular, meaning that someone targeted for investigation (e.g. for political reasons) could be found violating many such laws in a way that wouldn't be financially or politically viable to investigate every member of the general public, and then be subject to 100X the proportional penalties for the offense(s) because the penalties were set under a set of assumptions about the effectiveness of investigation and enforcement that are invalidated when the investment of investigative resources is politically motivated.
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There's also some randomness and stochasticity to the process, and you just have to accept it.
The Google Economy has hurt the web in a number of ways.

There are some very large web sites I could deliver as a single page app (looks cool, loads faster, etc.) but that's like having a "cloak of invisibility" so far as Google is concerned.
Mustrrd: social news without the noise
There's a big political push in the UK for "electronic invoicing". This makes sense in that context.
Oh, I didn't mean to go all conspiracy theorist on you. The previous comment just sounded a lot like it.

I think China will be okay, as long as their economy doesn't collapse under its own weight.
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You nailed it. That is exactly spot on.
Because Kim is super rich, they wouldn't have raid him in the US. It would have been like the Madoff arrest, knock on his door an arrest him. Hell they may have even contacted his lawyers and asked him to surrender.
> We need more computer-literate people in Congress, because the current crop are dinosaurs.

In NL, one of the most important things Bits of Freedom (Dutch equiv of the EFF) does, is writing reports and summaries explaining just what all this computer stuff means, what the consequences are, that politicians can use and read to be informed. Afaik, they word them in a decidedly non-partisan manner, so they can be used by left and right, conservative and progressive all the same.

Now you might have seen the posts about surveillance in NL being at least as bad or worse, they're all true, but I've also seen politicians change their minds about things because of these reports. And not just the leftist or progressive ones, either.
Doesn't work. I click on the buttons and nothing happens.
That's not the sort of thing you'll commonly see in real world Scala code. It's the sort of thing that might be used internally by a library, but not likely something you will come across day-to-day in Scala code. Every language has examples of code where the syntax is hard to follow, but you need to look at common code rather than "ooh let's try some tricks" kind of code.
In Intuitionistic Logic, you cannot rely on ad absurdum proofs (no law of excluded middle). However, people usually believe in classical logic where proving that something is false is easy: we just need to prove it is not true.