skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"On the [Southwest Airlines] query you can see that there's no redundant ad anymore - the navigational ad and the first organic result are combined. Calling that whole box and ad, when it contains the same content that the former top organic result used to, is misleading, but makes for a much more sensational headline when you want to claim that most of the screen is ads."

Calling that result an "organic search result" is also misleading, more so than calling it an "ad" considering that it is visually dominating the results page.

Would a fairer headline be "Google experimenting with selling search result placement"?
> "Professional women often still carry with them some of this 1960's mentality and refuse to "date down.""

Which is the crux of it. Though I wouldn't say it's fair to consider it self-inflicted.

Even if a woman decided she was comfortable with the idea of dating a less-successful/educated man quite a few years younger than herself, few social circles would accept it without friction (far fewer than see any problem with the arrangement were genders reversed) and fewer (desirable) men are themselves comfortable with it.

So, sure, every 20-year-old woman is fairly well aware of these factors and ought to plan accordingly. But even if they shake the mentality at 30, while they can improve their pool, erasing the disadvantage entirely is simply not something that's under their control.
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Well, yes, that's why I asked…
I'd argue that long after his business acumen is just a footnote, Bill Gates' charity work will stand him head and shoulders into the top people who've ever lived.

He'll be remembered as a business tycoon probably among the likes of JP Morgan or Carnegie, but that will fade with time. His charity work, on the other hand, might eventually work out to save _tens of millions_ of lives.

If the foundation prospers long enough to beat malaria and waterborne disease in the developing world, they'll re-shape the population of a continent. They may not only save more lives than anyone in history, but manage to save more lives than any dictator was able to end, which is a sadly astonishing achievement.
I left graduate school bitter and resentful. Now I'm hearing it's a cliche.

Once you leave academia, you pay for all of your thinking time & how have to confront that humans decisions collectively by what looks and feels good in the short term. These days I am hoping to pay for my own "academic freedom" through service -- by working.

Then people go to the opposite utilitarian extreme. Not everything I do has to buy me a car or impress girls.

Actually, that could be very persuasive...

Learn algebraic number theory, get a car, impress girls!™
My wife is in academia. Although, not in the ivory towers. She's at a community college in California, and she's both on the tenured faculty track and administration as a program director. So, her experiences may not speak entirely to this article.

There are lots of problems inherent with academia that most people thinking about this field are not really thinking about. The biggest problem, I think, is that for most 99% of all professors, once they are tenured, they are LOCKED down geographically. And, that sucks. My wife and I have one foot out the door all the time. We go where the jobs are. But, now that she's on the tenure track, we wonder if this is where we'll lay down and die. It's pretty sad, when I think about it. You hear about it time and time again from so much of these guys. One of my old math professors had a page devoted to this. He complained a lot about living in Hawaii and how his wife divorced him because of it. He had a page up here:

http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~lee/

But, apparently, after some time he decided to take down the more controversial stuff. The index.html page to his ramblings are down. Anyways, that's a huge problem for academics. And, I thought about it, and I think the biggest problem is the whole tenure thing. I think it should be abolished. Professors should be able to move to new institutions without worrying about that entire process, and they should be paid a better wage because of it. It should be like any other free market enterprise we have nowadays. And, Universities should also be able to get rid of dead weight. I've had some professors in the past who just gave up on research and life. For example, said professor mentioned above. He gave up on math research because the University kept screwing them over on pay. He retired with only 17 publications under his name. My other friend who is now a tenured math professor at a 4 year college has 17 publications at just 37 years of age. My other friend who has been teaching for about 10 years now has only 2 publications: his math Ph.D. dissertation, and a one page paper that probably isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Anyways, I think it's high time tenure is made obsolete. It gives professors more latitude to move, probably better pay, and more incentive to do research or teach better. It also gives schools and students the opportunity to get better teachers and lose the dead weight.
I think most of the humanists writing these are trying to bootstrap a longform journalism career and want eyes on it. ;)
Some of this is cute-ish: "* 20 per cent of males - the most attractive ones - get 80 per cent of the sex" OKcupid used to have a blog with funny posts on stats like this.

Some bits, I don't really know if I should dismiss: "It's wall-to-wall arseholes out there". It's too easy to find negative anecdotes and sentiments that things are getting worse. Especially month the nonvoluntary singles.

"Women with degrees want a smaller group of men with degrees" will fix itself. A degree isn't what it used to be in exclusiveness. Women might even be doing more degrees specifically because they are under a little less pressure torn.

I think preferences at different ages plays a bigger part. Women tend to be at peak attractiveness in their 20s. Men in their 30s. Both want to settle down in their 30s. Also men can* have kids later so even though attractiveness goes down they have longer. This makes it easier for men in the settle down phase and women in the play the field phase. The 30something women's complaint (can't find a nice guy to marry) just seems more reasonable than the 20something Men's.
That's why I'm admiring their restraint this time!
eh, some guys maybe. went the funny/hot receptionist route once and was mostly bored at how uncultured/uneducated she was. you don't just marry for fucks and giggles.
Ironical yes, but the reason generics is hampered in Java is backward-compatiblity, which was not Martin's decision from what I read.
Will Congress agree to a Skype testimony from Edward Snowden?
Why the hate? Because she's not tech? so much speculation without concrete evidence. HN, you never cease to disappoint... If it was some bullshit JS/Node website with 1 million users with no fucking revenue, it will be alright if it's valued at a billion, because some VC invested $10 million for 1% right?
Another reason, if you live in a city like where I grew up (Port Arthur, Tx), you had better be ready to be viciously attacked if you are out on a bike (or even out walking).
I was wondering when InDesign would come up in this thread. It is completely badass. It has layout/design power in spades. If you want to spit out an invoice or write a paper for school, use Numbers or Word. If you want to professionally layout an annual report, illustrated book or magazine (think Motor Trend, Cosmopolitan, or The Economist) you do it with InDesign. Most of those magazines likely use InDesign for in house layout.

On a side note: InDesign is a pretty powerful wire framing tool for web and app development because of it's robust support for styles, page templates, and linked graphic resources. Like much Adobe software, you can spend a lifetime mastering it.
Also it is interesting how a lot those women want a man with already established career, etc, but it doesn't work out like that. In most cases those men achieved such career heights with the help of their significant other and therefore already have one and might only be interested in an affair, not marriage. "How to become a General's wife? You marry a Lieutenant."
15% of Americans think the Brits use the Euro. Some others don't care ;-)
I am imagining it. The only effectively useful feature of this is actually adding an extra server layer, not removing one.

--

Case 1: Startup X makes a webapp cluster that looks up user information and returns results. It calls a library, which looks up a hash key to query a disk, and returns data.

Problem 1: Lack of load balancing. If there are three disks, and user FRANK is on disk two, and user FRANK's data is getting queried 50x more than the other users, that second disk is toast performance-wise.

Problem 2: No redundancy plus short lifespan of disk means when the disks die the user data goes too.

--

Case 2: Big Company Y creates a storage application layer to intelligently do things with the data. They have a small cluster of machines with apps that take queries and do things with the data, and manage the data using key/value pairs on disks attached to a private storage switch.

Problem 1: Dependent on ethernet (and its overhead, and latency) for each query doesn't perform as fast as other disk interconnects; have to use hacks to increase performance. Network management now critical component of your storage functionality.

Problem 2: Because the Virtual Memory Manager is no longer managing a filesystem cache, all key/value fields must be cached by the application, so you're re-implementing a VMM layer in your storage application. (Because nobody is stupid enough to not cache random disk queries)

Problem 3: Relational queries become almost completely useless. Performance drags due to all the individual queries, and you end up building a new cache layer just so your database can speed up searches, or at worst case end up with an index-only cluster of these disks.

--

As you can tell by reading Backblaze's site, there are lots of different uses for storage and different requirements for each. But one thing that's pretty widely acknowledged is it's more efficient to have a really long single piece of storage versus lots of very short pieces. I imagine Backblaze will look at this and go: Why don't we just make our own?
Siz istediniz, o da #Windows8.1 ile geri döndü
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Dating websites suck. Even the good dating websites suck.

Someone who cracks that is going to be rich.

Perhaps one of the steps to cracking it is understanding why the current situation sucks for participants.
I think that figure is connected to do with high maternal mortality rates through history. Successful men could remarry when there wife dies giving birth.
Absolutely agree with all of that. Parentheses was my biggest hurdle in learning Knockout. Refactoring is a bit of a challenge also if you go from unobservable -> observable because of all of the parentheses.
Are manly food packaging insulting to men
I wrote one of these! It was fun and cathartic, as you can imagine. But, because it's complicated, and because I wanted to play around with d3.js, instead of a long diatribe, I built a model of my brain to explain why I left: http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=10176
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>>A professional, educated guy will marry the receptionist if she's funny and hot.

Try to sleep with maybe, but marry? I doubt it.

edit: This wasn't clear in my post, but I was speaking for myself. To each his own of course. :)
You'd need to take care of this anyway, since almost any asynchronous action otherwise carries the danger of being dispatched twice if the UI is left active.

Most frequently, this is done by disabling submit buttons or debouncing asynchronous function calls that happen as a result of a UI action.
If I own one share of Apple, Exxon, and Wal-Mart, then benmanns-backed companies have a valuation of 481.19B+387.73B+246.74B = 1.12 trillion dollars, but my personal stake is less than one thousand dollars.

YC has a diluted 6% of 13.7B. I would have an estimated 8.9286 x 10^-8% of 1.12 trillion.
Well they might be ahead at ages 20-29 but the full time siren doesn't go off until the dating game is finished... So the OP does have a point.
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The Liberator derringer[1] which caused such a fuss a few months ago only needed a nail, which wouldn't be detected under most circumstances. I imagine that using an epoxy pin would probably be suitable given the gun's other single-fire characteristics.

[1] It's single shot, uses a low-powered cartridge, and is a bitch to reload; calling it a handgun is an extreme stretch.
The game's decades old now. Do you think it's going to do them any financial impact, really? They don't even sell the game anymore apart from on the Wii store.

The only people playing it are those using downloaded ROMS on the internet using emulators or those with the original copy they had back in the day on a NES or NES-clone.

And by saying what I said, I'm saying 'good luck enforcing that'.
Think about it this way:

55 women & 45 men graduate. 15 of those women lasso 15 of those men within 5 years. That leaves 40 women to 30 men. 5 years later another 10 pair off. Now you have 30/20. The more pairs you make, the worse the ratio.
Berlin and the tech startup scene – 10 things to know before making the move
I haven't started meaningfully playing with nbconvert yet, but I think one of the really promising features are the nbconvert templates[1]. From what I gather you can make custom templates with jinja and invoke them on the command line. It would be interesting to create a docbook, msword, specifically formatted pdf templates which would allow IPython Notebooks to flow into existing print publication workflows (if I recall O'Reilly uses docbook, yes?). I haven't been able to find documentation about the nbconvert templates so I'm dragging this out of memory from an email or a tweet I saw once upon a time.

One thing I'm hoping to figure out is a way to transform IPython Notebooks into PDFs that satisfy my university's dissertation formatting guidelines (one inch margins, 12pt times, etc).

[1] https://github.com/ipython/ipython/tree/master/IPython/nbcon...
That assumes divorce is a bad thing.

Marriage comes from a time when women were unable to earn a living on their own, and we still hold up many of those ideals, even in our modern equal-oppurtunity society. Perhaps when a woman clearly demonstrates she is equally capable of being the breadwinner, the couple are freed to be more open to making relationship decisions on the basis of the relationship alone without feeling the obligations of marriage?
Crawling is certainly a complementary data collection strategy, but it's harder to avoid IP-based "filter bubble" effects w/out also deploying something akin to a bot. The hope is that by using real people using real browsers we'll collect data that reflects actual-behavior-in-the-wild.

You're right that poisoning is a potential problem if/when the data ends up useful enough to warrant poisoning.
We built Couchbase Lite as a serious embedded database for use cases like this. Our PhoneGap connector might be right up your alley. http://mobile.couchbase.com
New features on Twoodo MOAR hashtag organization and simplification
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Professional and educated guy will still be able to earn his money when he'll become a father, but it's not true for that professional and educated woman.
By animals or by people?
Thanks for this - surprised by the Basho/Riak connection.
100% of every possibility regarding NSA surveillance has gone from "That's possible, but surely they wouldn't" to "Wow, they did, and did it bigger than anyone imagined."

Why wouldn't that include suppression of political initiatives that could interfere with the NSA's mission?
Got it, thank you. Missed that critical caveat.
I think they are referring to how they perceive themselves. While you are likely correct that many "lawyers" are not "high status" by objective measures (Australia may be different than the US in this regard, as well), there is substantial cultural status associated with completing law school (may be changing now). However, most people who complete law school consider themselves higher status than if they did not complete it.
Auditing Open Source Security Apps
Hi HN, there's been a few posts about auditing OSS security/encryption apps.

I'm wondering though - how do we verify that the code we see on Github is the same code running live on a webserver?

Sure, you could ask for a "hash" but the webserver could fake it.

How do you prove what code is running on a remote machine?

I'm sure there's a proper name for this kind of problem..
> Another program, made by Bright Planet and called BlueJay, is billed in a brochure to law enforcement as a "Twitter crime scanner." BlueJay allows cops to covertly monitor accounts and hashtags; three that Bright Planet touts in promotional material are #gunfire, #meth, and #protest. In another promotional document, the company says BlueJay can "monitor large public events, social unrest, gang communications, and criminally predicated individuals," as well as "track department mentions." Bright Planet did not respond to a request for comment.

The firehose, which BlueJay presumably collects from, doesn't capture geolocations that aren't already in the public data, right? So it looks like the end of the road for criminals who tweet about their #meth lab and have let Twitter geocode their tweets. Hopefully, that consists of the majority of villains the police have to deal with
For Bitcoin’s Biggest Believers, Digital Currency Is Better Than Gold
Having this problem too, it is US$1200 minimum in my country for the repair... Cant even get my computer to boot for a couple of days now
Skype, backdoored by M$ & the NSA? At least they'll know exactly where he is if they need to send a drone strike.
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> "Not to be a pedant, but not everybody pairs up 1-1."

And that population is mis-matched to anyone who is looking for a pair-bond, so they're irrelevant to an analysis of the problems of pair-bonding.

You mean as well say "not everyone is heterosexual/monogamous/etc". And of course they aren't.

But it's hardly useful to suggest successful women can just find happiness if they would simply "choose" to never marry, or pair with another successful woman, or enter a companionate relationship with a homosexual man, or join an already-married couple, or whatever else.

One, because only very few people can consciously change what type of relationship they desire.
And, two, because the population amenable to such arrangements is so much smaller than the population at large, that it doesn't effectively increase their odds, even if they are open to such arrangements.
Seriously? Yes, of course.
They are Apple users, what else would you expect?!
>I've found that the best way to keep everyone happy is to finish 80% of the product in 50% of the time but show the client 50% of the product and spend the remaining 50% of time, finishing the 20%. It's a win-win, IMHO.

That is a very clever approach. I don't think I've ever heard of that before. I'll have to give it a try.
Yes absolutely. Toastmasters is awesome and totally worth it. It will help you get over the fear of public speaking, practice actual speech in front of people and build the confidence you need.
That's true, but Minneapolis, at the opposite end of the climate spectrum, is one of the most bike-friendly places, and bicycle commuting remains strong through the winter.
I live in an area that is incredibly bike friendly, but many people don't bike. Most of them either have far too long to commute or it simply isn't realistic given the weather. In the summer you see a bit more, but (at least for me), it is far more realistic to bring my bike to work hooked up to my car, and use that to get around from there.
It is not my experience that most men are even willing to consider how well a woman will be able to support them financially, since that is considered emasculating.
eh, read more to me like: "you make more than your man? You deserve better". Anyone ever met the one friend who instigates things in relationships by saying stuff like this? male ego is certainly a factor but entitlement that we create in America with feel good statements like ”you deserve the best, you're a catch, don't settle for anything less ” is probably more subtle but just as real a problem. We can't all expect the best, if you want a stable relationship you'll have to make concessions.
Hell, we did that going back a hundred years for the Banana Wars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars). This is sadly not news.
> you don't just marry for fucks and giggles

Many do indirectly. They get together with someone for that, then something else develops (or nothing else develops but the only way to keep the fucks and giggles is to keep her happy by marrying her!).

No all marriages are built on both parties pleasing/challenging each other intellectually.
Ofcource i cant claim that the sampling group was big enough for us to make a generic judgement. But for the record, we had 10 users testing it in realtime cooking environments and several others we follow closely at our curated community at facebook. What you claim as common typographic sense is not common to everyone, even in the world of design. People follow patterns and those patterns may or may not work for you in your projects. Assumptions are one thing, but validation is another. In a world where everything needs a reasoning, some process is required for answering questions like why this or why not that..
Well, yes, all my grammars are stochastic (else I'd be generating the same piece of music every time).
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I don't bike in Los Angeles because I have a family to provide for and I don't think it is safe at all. I do live close to work and I walk to work, because I like to keep a small footprint from both an economic (my expenditures) and environmental perspective; but my work is moving for the 2nd time in 8 years and it is not convenient to move house to follow it.

I do wish I could bike to work but I just don't feel safe. If there was a bike lane all the way to work, I'd feel safe enough to bike it.
Unless the maintenance guy wins American Idol or the lottery or something.
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What's most impressive about that build is that the AK47 design is optimized for specially-tooled mass production factories, not DIY. The AR15 is a more modular design that's easier for this sort of thing.
Wow, you definitely have some great ideas here, and given the enthusiasm about ipynb, I would not be surprised to see these things happen in the next 6-12 months.

O'Reilly does use docbook internally as part of the toolchain, but asciidoc is coming into style as well. I've done most of my work in docbook with a docbook editor, but did some of my latest boook in asciidoc, which was much easier. Just use a standard text editor of choice (like Vim) and get right to it. Much easier for me, anyway.

One thing I'd really like to see is ipynb supporting asciidoc instead of or in addition to markdown. You can go to/from asciidoc and docbook in a lossless way, IIRC.
Any ideas when this became the norm? It used to be seen as scandalous in both directions: upper-class men and women were not supposed to marry into the working or lower classes.
That looks pretty similar to Knockout - I don't think you can really claim that one is a library and the other a framework.
The legality of biking on the interstate is decided state by state. Some states allow it totally, some partially, and some not at all.
http://www.bicyclinginfo.org/faqs/answer.cfm?id=9
You simply do not have modern history without Euler or Gauss. Suck it fops.
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