skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that would have been a great way to do it as well. However, the most interesting aspect of the study to me was that they used Microsoft's methodology, comparable sample sizes, and examined the effect of changing search terms from Microsoft's "recommended" list to ones that study participants suggested themselves.

Incidentally, you don't need a giant sample to estimate the variance on the Google/Bing ratio -- you can use any number of resampling techniques like bootstrapping to get that estimate.
I like the one that asks "Why Google collaborate with the NSA?"

The one response is "you crazy".
Aleatoric: the sound of HTTP Requests
There's nothing wrong with a refurbished device like this, provided it's been cleaned. I don't understand why people always have problems with things like this.

Or do you have a problem with the cleaning tools the dental hygienist uses? Those were in someone else's mouth the previous day, after all.

I agree with your other points, although if the device cleans your teeth better, that may be worth it to some people.
Very cool. I've been looking into doing some speaker recognition, and I've considered using image processing algorithms as well - they seem like a good way to recognize patterns in a spectrogram.
Also worth checking out http://cubic-bezier.com/
I was kind of hoping this would be some sort of power socket shaped like a pocket flask.
Notion – San Francisco

"We shape our tools,
and thereafter our tools shape us"

The goal is to democratize software. Quite a shame that 30 years into personal computing, an average person's interaction still caps at word-processing. We'd like to change that.

A beautiful loft/artist office in the Mission. Best investors out there. Right now just a few of us.

You will be part of the founding team. You need to be able to make things and think conceptually. Experience with system design would be great.

ivan@makenotion.com
San Francisco, CA - Ringadoc. Founding Engineer.

We are a cross-platform communication platform (phone, web, mobile) for patients and doctors that has handled hundreds of thousands of calls for our highly-engaged paying doctors offices.

We are looking for a founding engineer to help us expand the capability and reach of our platform in terms of features, stability, and rich video communication. Our goal is to virtualize medical care through our platform.

Languages: Ruby on Rails, Obj-C, Java. We run on Asterisk and are hosted by RackSpace.

email jordan @ ringadoc .com
I was curious about the test, but, for me, http://bingiton.com/ goes straight to plain http://www.bing.com . Geolocation, I suppose. I'm in Portugal.
He utterly fails to make that point. His simple model explains the idea of maximum throughput / congestion.

It utterly fails to explain the extreme variance in real traffic throughput during congestion. The original article does.
AT&T to Deliver the First All Fiber 1 Gigabit Broadband Network to Austin
Sensor Platforms - San Jose California

Software Engineer - Tools and simulation development

http://sensorplatforms.simplicant.com/job/detail/14967-softw...

The individual hired for this position will be responsible for maintenance and upgrade of various internal Python tools, as well as ensuring their integrity for each release of the tool set. She or he will also be responsible for conducting periodic test scenarios of the product using theses tools, maintenance of tools used for real-world data collection, and help with test infrastructure for data anlysis in the cloud.
It's also very easy to extend. It may not be the prettiest code base, but I very rarely hit a blocker where I can't do what I have set out to do.

Even if you're not the one actually extending it, the fact that it's easy to extend means there is a wealth of plugin offerings.
He's derived the fundamental diagram of traffic flow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_diagram_of_traffic....

Up next: why F = ma really, really matters for space launches. Experts don't know this!
There's another possible explanation: some Samsung head demanded an extra 20% in unobtainable improvements (maybe offered bonuses?), so the engineers found a quick and dirty way to make it happen.
Retrotechtacular: Building BART
No! Read the original article this author is trying to critique.
Maybe they should make custom cleaning brushes that are tailored to each tooth-brush they produce.
This guy won't invest in you if you don't have a board
> Or do you have a problem with the cleaning tools the dental hygienist uses

They open a sealed set of new tools for each patient at all of the places I've been. Is this a US thing?
Addendum: Part-time welcome!

Overwhelmed with all of the responses I've gotten so far - unfortunately I don't have an HR department to handle these, so it's just me going through everything and might take me a few days to reply. Thanks!
I'm concerned that would create a temporary variable, I'll try and decipher the ISO spec to verify. Is LargeObject POD?
Ruby Association: ruby-lang.org Design Contest
I've been waiting for something like this to happen in books. Should be great for people who read at least one book per month.
Lets put aside the cleaning argument and discuss cost for a minute here.

Its recommended you brush your teeth for ~2 minutes. Lets say with this thing you shorten it to 30 seconds. That means you save 3 minutes per day every day on brushing, assuming you brush twice daily. This works out to about 18 hours a year. If your time is more valuable than 17/hr it's arguably worth it.

Time and time again I see people complain about the cost of daily use items but when you factor in how much you actually use them and the potential benefit you can get out of a them it quickly becomes worthwhile.

edit: there is a huge difference between being maximizing productivity and measuring opportunity cost, I'm arguing the latter. I don't expect you to get paid another 18 hours a year. I'm simply pointing out that depending on how YOU value YOUR time spending $300 on a fancy toothbrush is entirely worth it.
Me too, I wish it had got more discussion. I guess I shouldn't have posted it on a Sunday morning.
Sorry for not elaborating on what it is. You have to download the app because the web is just a view on some of the content. It's an alternative, pseudo-anonymous social network with a LOT of users (though not generally the demographic on YC). It's not a meme site / image macro site at all - it's just hard to see what it is the same way it was hard for people to understand Twitter for a long time after it launched. (Is it a blogging site, is it an RSS replacement? etc)
How can a product that is "tailor-made to fit into a person's mouth using 3D scanning and 3D printing" be sold refurbished?
Tornado is an excellent choice for websockets, but someone shouldn't have to switch web frameworks just to support them. This works well for people who like working with Flask and have existing applications that they want to add websocket support to.
Denver, CO

Open Book Ben is a startup in the Business Intelligence and Credit Reporting industry. We are looking for a lead web developer to design the site. Work closely with our UI/UX designer and data lead to create OpenBookBen.com. Be responsible for all site functionality including views, accounts, forms, etc. Make design decisions about frameworks and software to use. This will be an ongoing and iterative process as we add new data and requirements.

Requirements:

* Expert in Javascript, HTML, and CSS

* Expert in Ruby, Python, or any JVM language

* Extensive experience with one or more open-source web frameworks

* Familiarity with Linux command line

* Familiarity with Git

Familiarity with any of the following is helpful:

* JS frameworks, esp. AngularJS

* Virtual machines and cloud deployment

* NoSQL databases

* ElasticSearch

* Tinkerpop stack

* Continuous deployment/integration

Contact: jobs@openbookben.com
BingItOn.com down for certain users? Just tried to open it here and it just bounces me to Bing. I have tried it in the past so something has changed or they have narrowed the focus market.
The opposite is just as annoying if not more:

I search in English and google insists on translating my search terms to the local language and displaying local search results.

Again: idea for a startup: -like google but 5 years ago.
Given all the presumptions you've made in your article, it seems like many of these brands would be well-served to let Amazon handle the fulfillment. The brand would still control pricing, marketing, and manufacturing, but warehousing/shipping/returns could be handled by Amazon. This removes risk to both the brand and consumer, as well as spreads the high fixed costs of warehousing over a large pool of businesses.
All in one Google doodle's Gif
Fingerprints are Usernames, not Passwords
The parent’s link goes to “Show HN: A Search Engine for Developers, Marketers, Web Designers, and Hackers”, the Show HN post by nerdydata 68 days ago announcing the engine’s launch.
Not very obvious. The first time I met Jenkins, I think, it took about a day (or maybe even more) until I stopped tinkering the knobs.

Most of the time was spent not configuring it (I guess it took maybe a pair of hours or about so), but experimenting around and reading about features/use cases/examples to understand what I can do and what I can't.
They are not "new" - they are simply cleaned and resealed in packaging.

It would be crazy expensive to only use these instruments once.
Leftover women or an unappreciated feast?
You can take the imaginary high road and post as many walls of text as you want, every reply you've gotten thinks you're just an Obama hater regurgitating tired talk radio talking points. Good day.
Reminds me of this: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-11-13/
I keep seeing this book referenced; need to check it out.
Barcelona, Spain - Vreasy - Vacation rental software made easy

Looking for front-end and backend developers for a full-time position!

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We're a small startup in Barcelona, pushing the boundaries on how easy it can be to manage your properties for short-term rentals. We're working on continuously being ahead of our competitors and we want more people to join us in our office that is two minutes from the beach here in Barceloneta!

What we're looking for:

* We are looking for a developer who is versatile in both backend and frontend programming, but specialised in one of the them, preferably backend

* Knowledge and experience of OOP in PHP and how to use it in larger codebases

* Knows Git from inside out

* Comfortable with Test Driven Development - we are doing continuous deployment with CircleCI

* Works well in an agile environment

* Good team player - we work hard but also really enjoy each other’s company

Technologies we currently work with:

* OOP PHP and Ruby on Rails

* HTML/CSS (and Bootstrap)

* jQuery / jQuery mobile

* AngularJS

If you also like to play tabletennis and would like to spend some lunches on the beach, that would be a plus. So, please send a message to jobs@vreasy.com with an application or send an email to victor@vreasy.com / victorbjelkholm@gmail.com (me) if you have any questions. A requirement is that you speak english, even if we're located in Spain.
Interesting spreadsheet hack, but it's just looking for a 200 response. I use Pingdom, which allows you to look for specific content in the response, even on the free plan. It's a better guarantee that the page rendered successfully end-to-end.
This is a great blog. I was looking for a github link - this stuff would be good as book/classes on there.

He is a fine writer. Would love to take his TYL class
What improvements would you make?
1. This doesn't work, and I don't know why

2. I have no idea how this is supposed to work

3. Let's change some random thing that shouldn't be related at all

4. This works now, and I have no idea why

5. Pray to the gods of code that whatever it was that broke doesn't happen again
Actually, they should add R-MOTE only if it's true. If everyone puts "r-mote" or "no r-mote" then ctrl-f "r-mote" is useless.

Edited to not exacerbate the problem
I wish more drivers would follow the driving etiquette that advises one to "stay right except to pass."

On every highway trip I see countless cars camped out in the left lane but moving at the same rate as the rest of traffic.

One should only use the left lane for passing. Otherwise, stay right.

Traffic flows smoothly when people follow this system.
Anyone used elasticsearch as a database, like mongodb ?
Just musing: Many of the learning methods you cited lack user control. If you miss something on PBS in 1960, you don't rewind it, you just lose. Same for most classroom experiences (except for the 10% who actually raise their hands). That's a difference big enough to matter. Postal mail correspondence sound like a interesting comparator, though. (I started with "valid"; it probably isn't. Online education also has the possibilities to incorporate a ton of extremely swift feedback. But at least interesting in terms of measuring the effects of conscientiousness.)
I honestly believe it's the quick decrease in speed by drivers that causes non-accident traffic jams during rush hour.

Don't hit the brakes before merging and when someone merges in front of you, you should have kept enough space so you do not need to hit the brakes. Really, I think traffic would move much smoother if drivers leave at minimum 2 car lengths of open space between the vehicles in front of them and only hit the brakes on the highway when it is absolutely necessary.

If all the cars are put to a halt because of quick and hard braking cars ahead of them, its going to cause a chain reaction that is way more time consuming to drivers behind you than the author's "2 seconds slower to destination" factor due to a merge in front of you.
Good point - particularly as it's a fairly simple universe of answers. I wonder if we could get the raw data. But, I do think the Mechanical Turk vs "shopping mall" selection-bias factor overwhelms everything else.
Bing's abysmal performance on WP7 has seriously hurt the brand for me. If you're going to bundle the search engine into a dedicated button on your phone, you should probably avoid making it awful.
The overlooked value of domain expertise
I bet you this thing doesn't get your teeth clean at all.

It's also not for people with TMJ.
Axial - New York, NY (Flatiron)

Public site: http://www.axial.net

Axial Corps engineering blog: http://www.axialcorps.com

Axial is an online marketplace that connects private companies with potential investors, lenders or acquirers. Over 200 private companies every week, ranging from hyper growth software companies raising a series A or B to mature companies pursuing an exit, use Axial to find partners, sources of funding and establish their exit strategy. Our long-term vision is to create commercial opportunity for every member of the Entrepreneurial Economy, empowering entrepreneurs, their advisors, and investors with information, connections and tools to build a better world.

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Python Engineer: http://jobvite.com/m?3ckRZgw7

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Contact talent@axial.net for more details!
Very neat! Would be good to show the formula and/or code on the ease-function details page too.
Given that ants don't have this problem, won't driverless cars be able to adopt ant-like traffic protocols to eliminate congestion?

cf. http://www.phschool.com/science/science_news/articles/ant_tr...
DDG uses Bing + Google + its own secret sauce. I tried DDG for an year and was fairly satisfied but it was a hassle to even use hashbang (!g) with suggest. So gave up and moved back to Google. And Startpage.
What I found most important is to monitor Elasticsearch while doing that tuning. That's when I set up Graphite and StatsD and https://github.com/ralphm/vor.

First of, you need to make sure Elasticsearch can lock a chunk of memory (using mlock). About half of the available RAM is a good size, as other system processes need some memory, too, and not everything is on the heap.

You want to look for how many items you are indexing and how much of the heap the field data cache is using while doing queries. By default ES tries to keep the total heap size at about 3/4 of the allocated memory. The types of queries are important, too. E.g. if you do faceting or sorting on fields that have many different values, this will fill up the field data cache in no time.

Is that the kind of information you're after? I can go into in more detail if you have more specific question.
You should contact the Bing team to follow up with this:

https://support.discoverbing.com/eform.aspx?productKey=bingw...

I used to run the Bing Webmaster program, and I know they do support crawl-delay. It could be someone masquerading as BingBot, or simply a bug. Ping me if no one gets back to you and I can follow up.
A Take On A Facebook Co-founder’s Management Style At His New Startup
This, I claim, is ideology.
Why does something have to be better to be useful?
I assume they mean that your previous one can be refurb'd with new bristles, rather than it being someone else's.
Yeah, but these pirates put their own DRM on everything and generally get in your way as much as any publisher paywall. This is more like hiring Hell's Angels to provide event security.
Okay, when do you think people should start merging? Thirty feet before the "choke point"? One hundred feet? One mile? Three miles?

It's an arbitrary game, and everyone makes up their own "rules of decency" and gets mad when someone follows the rules of the road rather than the rules of their head. Yes, people "know" about choke points, but that doesn't mean it's wrong (or rude) to use open lanes. So long as those lanes are open, they are going to be used, so everyone may as well make use of the space.

Is it my fault that others choose not to use those lanes? No. Is it your fault that it upsets you? Yes. It's not rude. I'm not being impolite. I wish everyone would just follow the same set of rules so we could stop being mad at each other. Which set of rules should we follow? I vote against the ones that change in with the person you're asking.

Having said that, I don't really like when people change lanes just to jump ahead of one or two cars. It doesn't upset me and I think it's fair game so long as it's done safely, but I empathize with the distaste for that a little more.
> That was a joke ;)

I found your article interesting in light of the popular traffic piece you mentioned, but ending it with jokey suggestions after a fairly serious analysis doesn't really make it clear if you're joking or not.

But hey, maybe @themodelplumber and I are the only two who thought you were serious.
Same here. These days I work too much on project management and architecture, with occasional refactoring. I rarely get to spend weeks on end diagnosing a really niche bug anymore. New code and architecture is always fun (clean slate syndrome), but I really miss the debugging process. It's what makes programming worth it.
wells does same day ACH debits? when'd that happen?
And that's why I said "around 40%" but you're right, civil status changes it significantly

Well, effective final % as taxes/gross pay relation is more like around 30% unless you have a very high salary.

There are some online calculators that make it easier to calculate
"Omit unnecessary words."
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote

http://www.myrudis.com has several openings available for development, marketing/PR, etc.
Drone Deploy - San Francisco

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Drone Deploy is making it easy for enterprises to get stuff done with drones. Drone technology is fast, cheap and on the cusp of revolutionising industries. They just need better software. We’re building a drone command platform that makes operating swarms of them, simple, safe and reliable. We're pushing existing technologies to the limit and developing our own:

We are looking for awesome engineers who have experienced in some proper subset of:

- Python (Flask)
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We offer fun technical challenges, a fast moving working environment, 20% time spent flying drones at our private drone airfield, and all the normal benefits.

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HealthPost - Software Developer - Houston, TX

We're a tiny yet effective team with a product platform deployed at hospitals and clinics around the country and expanding rapidly. We'd like an experienced developer to join us, preferably someone who gets excited about brainstorming product features and giving ample consideration to the user experience. We currently use Ruby on Rails, and if you don't know it yet, we think you'll like it.

HealthPost is a leading provider of cloud-based health care search and booking solutions for health care systems, hospitals, payors, emergency rooms, medical practices and other outpatient services. The company's solutions have been successfully deployed at some of the largest health care delivery systems in the country based on a proven track record of delivering revenue growth, patient satisfaction improvement and care coordination benefits through a single integrated solution that spans the entire outpatient delivery network.

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Web and Mobile application developer building data-centered applications in Python, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Objective-C(iOS) with Ember, Angular and d3.js.

Also specialize in data crawling and mining to find insights in your data. Experienced using R and python (pandas/scikit) with AWS infrastructure.

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Pascal Metrics, Washington DC (Georgetown)

We're a healthcare startup focused on improving patient safety in hospitals.

Our software platform enables clients to detect, track, and analyze patient safety issues across hospital systems.

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Java Engineer - Core Java developer to help build out our SaaS platform. Experience with play! framework, event processing, distributed systems a plus.

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There are less terrifying, less dynamic alternatives:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrier_transfer_machine
"At the risk of being helpful, here are some things YOU can do that are actually guaranteed to improve commute times for everyone:
...
2. Don’t let people merge in front of you, ever."

How will the commute times of those who sit there waiting to merge be improved? If traffic flow was heavy enough they would never merge.

If they didn't pack a sandwich they'd starve!