skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your assumption is wrong. Ahrefs is a backlink compiling bot that tracks, documents and records in/outbound links. They do not sell services directly.
Independent of state (medical or otherwise) marijuana laws, employers still drug test (even in WA, where personal pot use is legal, for example). Pot users aren't a protected class for discrimination purposes, afaik. I agree that it seems silly.

Things are a bit different in the software world, where employers are moving away from drug testing because they need all the talent they can get. It turns out some potheads are actually pretty productive members of society if you give them a chance.
Your posting is rife with an "elitist" mentality.

The Census asks people if they have a computer in their home...

http://www.census.gov/hhes/computer/publications/2011.html

...and one out of four households does not.

"Here is computer". Well, for one out of four households, no one has ever said to them "here is computer".

I used to volunteer at a hackerspace/ISP which gave away very old, cobbled together PCs to black kids in the nearby housing projects. For most of them, these cobbled together PCs from old DIMMs, hard drives, motherboards, etc. they were given were the only computer in their apartments. They lucked out being located near us. Some of their parents migrated from a southern state where their family couldn't vote, ride in the front of city buses, own property in certain areas, take a leak in certain bathrooms, drink from certain bathrooms, go to decent schools etc. In 1963. Which I guess must be ancient history to all the 18 year olds here who were not alive yet when Pulp Fiction was in movie theaters...

Silicon Valley is full of people born on third base thinking they hit a triple. Look at YC founder Robert Morris. He wrote a virus and crashed the Internet, did zero jail time, then went to an Ivy League school, started a company and sold it for millions. Now he's pointed to in HN circles as an example - some smart, hard-working guy who had the personality to hack the system and win. But the guys I knew who hacked into systems with much less damage at the exact same time went to real federal prisons. The spark in their eye was seen as a threat to the system, they should be "made an example of" as the judge said. They were just "spics, niggers and white trash" as a security consultant said at the time. Not a Brahmin WASP whose father had high connections in the government and intelligence establishment. My point is that I learned these lessons of how the world works long ago. People can go on for a long time oblivious, decades, but at some point in time, the real world comes crashing into the palaces of the Louis the Sixteenths and Czar Nicholas's of the world...or the Pentagons...

Of course none of this happened, the system is fair, everyone is born on a level playing field in this American system of Horatio Alger stories where anyone with gumption and a work ethic can be rich...
Most tech employers never had it to begin with. I don't understand how it's legal, honestly.
> I like the "block" abstraction. It seems like a good way to visually work with structured content.

I've seen this idea in the real word, and it fails with editors. If you provide WYSIWYG, editors expect to format content just like one does in Word or InDesign, absolutely positioning elements, and the result to be identical (which is obviously a problem nowadays with elastic layouts and mobile sites).
> 'Ranking' on Google is very much a pay to play kind of thing these days with their page layout

Could you expand on this? Are you referring to how AdWords content is visually privileged over organic search results?
Based on the title of the article I deemed it appropriate.

"Please, Keep Paying $80 a Month for Cable So I Can Enjoy Cheap TV"

The author is picking up my scraps and he's welcome to them.
Show, don't tell. Provide an opportunity, guide them through solving interesting problems, set up the problems in ways that can appeal to them: competitions like FIRST Robotics; real world connections like rudimentary or introductory mechanical and electrical engineering and how it can solve their problems.

I can tell my functional programming hating program lead all day that it's great and very applicable to what we do, or I can write up a program we've been needing for months in two days and 200 clear lines versus the 2000 line C# version that's still got bugs in it.
*not that I am aware of.
It's certainly the case that gold has problems that bitcoin does not.

It will indeed be interesting to see how things play out, though interesting isn't always good. It might also not be a very good experiment. Path dependence is huge, and the store-of-value role seems likely to play a bigger role in trying to shape expectations around an otherwise ephemeral digital currency while bootstrapping, yet a focus on it might nonetheless wind up ham-stringing us in the long run...

Which, to be sure, is very much like Darwinism has played out in many other contexts.
So, you have a problem with Ahrefs, too? But what about Ezooms? That's a very annoying bot for my site, drives zero traffic. Also, what about Cyveillance? They show up with a lying User-Agent field ("Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2)"), but run Linux, and they ignore robots.txt by not even asking for it.

I actually blocked Ahrefs, Ezooms, Yandex and Cyveillance by IP address range in httpd.conf for a while, but I've decided to send them randomly-generated HTML (http://stratigery.com/bork.php) instead. I'm really surprised by Ahrefs and Ezooms appetite for gibberish about naked celebrities, condiments and sweater puppies.
Not exactly. The drawings I've worked with had lots of annotations on them (e.g. dimensions and manufacturing instructions). I agree it's not a perfect analogy but perhaps uncommented/undocumented source code lies somewhere between the physical thing and the drawings (or CAD file). My point though is that in theory every bit of information can be observed from the physical object it is a poor way of storing that information.
I'm not sure a P2P SSH system would be any better.

With SSH, you still need to manage and verify keys. This is where the PITA is with PGP. People don't like generating keys, fiddling with key rings, etc. So I don't see significant usability gains there.

Conceivably, you could do something with ephemeral keys, but then you're moving away from an SSH model. And ephemeral keys have their own problems. Namely, you have to verify the other person's key every time. (Often people use voice verification for this.) So while managing keyrings in PGP is annoying, so are ephemeral keys. I think crypto inherently imposes annoying burdens on end users.

Also, a big advantage with PGP is that it works asynchronously. I can send you a PGP-encrypted email, and your computer doesn't even have to be turned on at the time. With P2P, both parties have to be present and have their clients running at the same time.
In that case, yes. But what if the domain is somedudesname.com and that is the blog of some company's CEO? It'd be preferable to have a title like "XCompany changes direction, elects new leader".
> multiple

Approximate number? Are we talking 2, 20, 200?
But I bet they don't have a foozball table or all the Red Bull you can drink! They aren't COOL!

Are they?

ARE THEY?!
Once you’re an entrepreneur, it’s hard to go back
You really should look at it that way. The armed forces are directly representing your democratically expressed will. We should feel responsible, because we are. If the government is not interpreting our will accurately, we need to change the representatives.
What about years of experience. Was that factored in ? FB attracts younger folk. Networking code needs a bit more experience than JS/html/css !
You didn't really give me a query to debug. I also don't think that's an accurate characterization. (Here's a link to the discussion for those curious. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6426892) People like w3schools probably because it has code samples front and center on every page. People find that very useful, even though as a reference MDN might be better in an abstract sense.
As we learned from IASIP, "you got to pay the troll toll".
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No better way for the journalist to show the value of the service than to have a MobileWorker write it for him. Good stuff.
Does Ahrefs not respect robots.txt? Their website says they do, https://ahrefs.com/robot/index.php
See netflix.ca

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/09/09/american-netflix-can...
php.net, sure, but what about more obscure domains?
Why does that matter? My ISP is a cable company, too, but I don't subscribe to their TV service.
Sorry, but SSDs have never had a good history of being reliable. I've been lucky, but I hear too many horror stories. Backup is essential.

No medium is reliable, and it's good you were backed up recently.
I was just going by this page: https://ahrefs.com/pricing_plans.php

It is possible I am misinterpreting what they are offering.
I dont understand why private businesses discriminating even matters. They just put themselves at a disadvantage by limiting their applicant pool based on whatever tests/discrimination they want.
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It was a startup and was purchased by Nokia in 2009.
They are trying to find, track, and compute a shot at lots of things that can be very stealthy or go very, very fast. They would also like some redundancy since a server fail gets very costly.
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Another solution:

1. Allow submitters to submit with whatever title they want, but pull the //title from the page anyway, just to store it.

2. Add an option beside the article (maybe visible only on the expanded view of the article-abstract that appears on the comments page) called "flag title". If a few people click this, the title is automatically reverted to the retrieved+stored version.

This way, the people who do "read every article on HN" will be made responsible for deciding what is, or is not, editorializing -- but instead of giving them unlimited power to change the title, they may only reset it to the "true" title. I think that provides the proper balance of incentives.
I also noticed on my own site that Bing pulls 5-6x as much traffic as the Google bot. Ridiculous...
This was motivated by an idea from the Open Knowledge Foundation: https://github.com/okfn/ideas/issues/59

It is built with Flask & Backbone/Require. Source is available here: https://github.com/joehand/DataNews/

I mostly built it as a learning opportunity. It is my first major Flask app. I would definitely recommend this type of app as a great learning opportunity once you have a handle on the basics. There is enough complexity to make you think but not too much that its overwhelming.
I just want to throw in here that with a small amount of effort, you can antenna yourself free television in full high definition.

Content: (I live in a 54,000 population town: 20 channels or so, nbc, fox, abc, etc.), major shows on major networks, live sports on certain days; Drawback: no Breaking Bad or other specialty channel shows.

Quality: Unbeatable all channels 1080i - No static, you either get the channel or you don't.

Functionality: I use Windows Media Center which works like a dvr.

Cost: $40 tv tuner on ebay, $20 antenna from Radio Shack. No contracts or subscriptions.
How about using Crawl-delay at robots.txt?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard#Crawl...
I don't toss this around lightly, but Wal-Mart is one of the very few companies I absolutely always do business with because it is cheap, reliable, and I hate going to multiple stores on a single shopping trip.
The shape of that windshield seems sub-optimal for holding back any significant water pressure. Could the prop actually be submerged at all?
I didn't hugely enjoy school socially, but I did find the classes, well, educational. I learned a lot of things on my own or from parents as well, but in high school I had basically a few hours a day set aside to studying stuff that I might not otherwise have studied, from math to U.S. history to art theory. I also got better at communicating an argument in short (2-5 page) essay form, which has been a useful skill later in life.

One additional aspect is that, while many classes were too easy/slow-paced for me, the fact that they weren't for everyone else made that a useful experience too. For one it was interesting to understand what people found easy or hard to get. For another I would often help other students with their homework, which was good practice in how to explain subjects understandably, basically in how to do tutoring.
As you know, we were never short on ideas :)

Someone made a good point yesterday. You want to have debates about whether you should do A.1 or A.2 not A or Z. Even amongst likeminded people (like HH, BMA, Ian and I) there's plenty of debate.
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54 PE ratio, growing at 6%. Welcome to another extreme Fed bubble, round three. A round of POMO shots on the house!

What happens to stocks with 60 and 80 pe ratios, growing at 6% to 12% when the music stops? Same thing that always happens.

Need a Dr. Koop example? How about RetailMeNot (SALE). By the time this bubble is done, they'll probably have a $2.5 to $3 billion market cap, with not even the slightest of fundamentals to support that.

Yellen's dove policy will see this stock market pushed to the limits, and then see it crash spectacularly, again. Repeating asset bubbles is the only trick they know.
Wouldn't you need a special(shallow angle) entry point to the water.
That, and Google have been introducing more services into the results page (flight shopping comparison, for example).

You can see an article by Danny Sullivan from this summer here: http://searchengineland.com/google-results-too-ad-heavy-1662...

And this is great breakdown of the various types of results Google is providing these days: http://moz.com/blog/mega-serp-a-visual-guide-to-google
The distinction between comments and link titles feels a little false because there's no obligation to link to the root of the primary source document chain, if there even is a canonical primary source for a given story. A submitter could legitimately wrap a link in a thin blog post on their own site and achieve the same effect.
On point 1 - I agree with you in theory, in that anything we spend externally needs to be paid for by either selling something against it, or borrowing. This is Germany's issue too: they lend people money, so that others can buy their goods. My sense is that the Chinese aren't propping the currency up as much as they used to, but that's not based on hard data.

On 2 - In general countries (though not necessarily specific individuals and companies) do better with cheaper goods. This is why the gains of trade almost always exceed the costs. The question is does a forced cheapening by China create inefficiencies by moving us to tasks that we don't have competitive advantage? I don't know the answer.

Good discussion, and I appreciate your insights into economics.
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I switched to DDG a year ago; it was painless. I think I have gone back to Google for a search maybe twice.

I still use Google Image Search, though that's kind of a different beast.
Yeah , FOSS projects should add "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil." to their licenses ! though it is not clear how one would define evil ;)
Verify, then trust
It's just too bad they can't pay their retail employees a livable wage!
I agree, except I didn't see much "actionable" content here. A blog post rarely just says "write modular code", it tells you how.

Let's say I'm the boss at a startup with around 20 employees, but only four women. How do I fix that?
The irony of the situation is the crawlers specifically allowed are most likely the only ones that bother to abide by robots.txt in the first place. It'll be interesting to see if the change has any impact whatsoever.
Facebook is to privacy as Wal-Mart is to small retail business.
Curious about the 'Tesla nod'?
Pure novelty.

Subs are not energy efficient. Water is 1,000x more dense than air, & moving through it takes far more energy.

And, hybrid (land+water) is going to require far more hardware, driving up the price & weight (& thus efficiency) of a vehicle.

But, it's cool & he has the budget & gumption for it, so THANKS Elon, for keeping us entertained!
Anybody remember the USS Yorktown?
The one that ran Windows NT 4.0 and had the apocryphal story about blue-screening and having to be towed back to shore?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_%28CG-48%29#Smart...
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as an extensive traveler, i experimented with in some years ago. it never really gave me what i wanted in terms of ease of use, nor did the community reach critical mass to yield good suggestions. gorgeous app, neat in concept, but it didn't really take off.

sorry to see it die.
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> No one will take the time to look at it.

No, I think you are making a wrong assumption here. A bug report like that, that pinpoints a line in question and provides observable metrics is the best kind of performance issue that you can file against V8.

Back when I was on the V8 team I would immediately set aside some time to investigate and triage/fix/explain it because stable performance is as important for any VM as correctness.

So don't hesitate to file bugs like that against JavaScript VMs be it V8 or SpiderMonkey. You might be surprised with VM engineers' eagerness to investigate and address performance problems.

> What I want is information.

There are ways to trace optimizations and deoptimizations in V8. Unfortunately nothing as simple to use as JIT-inspector. Most of what V8 has right now is geared towards VM engineers.

I have a tool called IRHydra[1] that can display some information that V8 dumps in a more or less digestible form. It's most useful for performance investigations in the console but to a certain degree works for browser as well (biggest problem for it "multithreading": because V8 dumps part of the information into stdout and as a result it can arrive arbitrary mixed if you have many workers).

[1] http://web.irhydra.googlecode.com/git/hydra.html
I agree completely. Blocking everything but Google and Bing is horrible and extremely short-sighted.
Scenario 3: content with (author's/publisher's) [sensational] title -> never reaches front page because it sounds like a bunch of BS
Wonderful, just what the US needs: more weapons.
The examples compile super fast. How long did it use to take?
You are wrong to judge his skills this harshly in this domain, he introduced the only thing you needed to know, and he stuck with it the whole way through.

It's unstated actions that have to be intuitive, but this page outright explains the only action required.

Nothing counter-intuitive or unfriendly here.
Let's not forget how many millions it takes to write, develop, and throw away pilots until you get a series that works with the viewers.

AMC would never have had the money to do this and Mad Men without the subsidy of cable bundles funding them during the early years. If AMC was an ala-carte channel in 2005, none of this would have happened.
I liked this actually, but overall, I think it was more trouble than what it's worth. Maybe if tweaked or done differently, it would be much better.

Rather than bash it though, I'll give some constructive criticism.

1. I noticed a few glitches during the tour. As the guy runs through the world, some of the effects lagged, and didn't display the parts of the resume/portfolio that it was suppose to.

Once I ran back and forwards through the level multiple times, only then did they displayed correctly.

2. With this being interactive, it kind of distracts from actually looking at the resume itself. I felt myself more concerned with progressing through the world, than actually looking at the qualifications.

3. The controls would have been better if it were <- and -> to move the guy. Pressing up and down is a bit strange, as I think most people prefer using a keyboard over their mouse to go through this.

Pros:

1. Very Creative, and cool idea.

2. Refreshing take on a resume/portfolio.

3. Shows off your design and coding skills.

4. It's unique.

Cons:

1. Probably not the best way to convey your information to possible employers.

2. Controls are a bit weird.

3. Not all the animations worked off the bat, and were delayed (I had to run through the level multiple times before it worked).

Suggestion:

I think if you're going to do an interactive resume/portfolio, you should just make it into an actual video game. Simple one level game where the user unlocks parts of your information as they progress through the level.

However, I think you should include at the bottom of the page or something, a link to a normally structured resume and portfolio as well, for people that may not have time to do the interactive/game thing.

Closing Point:

You've got a lot of negative, and positive feedback from your post. Don't let yourself be discouraged, but also be willing to listen and use this feedback to do it better, and adapt/change things where needed.

Good luck with your ventures!
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I don't think so. The amount air in the vehicle would require a very heavy car that would not perform on the street.

Rinspeed design tryed it and the closest they got was the scuba concept that is open for exactly that reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E4q7p6R3Og
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I once had to deal with someone working in the test prep industry that had two ivy league degrees and couldn't get the population of the US within 200 million. It was striking that this was someone who represented the pinnacle of our education system, training the next generation to get into the elite.

E.D. Hirsch [1] has written a lot about needing to know content in order to properly reason. Some of this goes by classical education, elsewhere it's cultural literacy [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._D._Hirsch,_Jr.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_literacy
Right, but my point was that we get to consume more than our GDP because we're an an attractive place to park cash. When that ends, we can pay off our dollar-denominated debts but we won't be able to keep spending more than we generate.
That's a very interesting theory, and quite plausible.

But higher inflation is not necessarily a boon, since it would further encourage people to borrow money and consume, while punishes those who save and invest.

Also, it doesn't necessarily push people to invest their money in start ups, they may choose to invest in things that can keep up with inflation, like properties and gold.
Maybe we could change the social norm on HN, rather than seek a technical solution.

Users who think that the original title is a poor fit for Hacker News can create a post on (say) their own blog with the desired title, a brief summary, and a link to the original article and context -- similar to "reblogging" on Tumblr and such sites. Then, they submit their "reblog" page to Hacker News.

If the new title is indeed more useful than the original title, the "reblogged" post should get more clicks, upvotes, and comments than the original submission, and because the "author's original title" on the reblogged post is the editorialized title, reverting to the "original title" does the right thing (in the eyes of the submitter). And if it isn't a helpful title, the link just falls off of newest like every other link that get submitted.

Thoughts?
You're approach works too and I'd think HN would do better by either. My variation considers the case where the original is worse than the imperfect submitted one.