skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TravelSupermarket have been doing this as a long-term strategy and get away with it.

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!searchin/webmasters/...

I'm hoping someone from Google can explain, or at least commit to investigate why the leading brand in our niche (travel) has escaped a Penguin 2.0 demotion. It may come across as sour grapes as yes, we were demoted following Penguin 2, due to links built by an SEO agency in 2008 that we have tried (pre-pengiun) to have removed for years, despite passing a manual link review and having a manual penalty removed, the algorithm clearly has no discretion and re-penalised us for the same issue, however the fact remains that the largest brand, a household name, in our niche is engaging in far worse and at a much greater scale and continues to do so that has left them top of the pile for a huge number of very lucrative search terms.

Here is just a small sample of paid links, paid blog posts and article submissions clearly designed to manipulate the SERP's that are no doubt paying huge dividends for them. Isn't it about time Google stepped in and stopped these brands being so well protected, whether it be from manual or algorithmic penalties. We've been watching their dominance in the travel market for 2-3 years now and assumed that one day Google would take a look but so far nothing and now we are in a position where we are laying off staff due to factors outside of our control (and accepted by the search quality team), whilst the largest and most active spammy link buyers in our niche go from strength to strength.

http://www.heatheronhertravels.com/ paid
http://1000fights.com/how-to-kiss-correctly/ paid
http://1familyvacation.blogspot.com/2009_04_26_archive.html paid post
http://2backpackers.com/8940/usa/fleet-week-san-francisco-tr... paid post
http://2nomads1narrative.com/2012/07/03/guest-post-signature... paid post
http://acrossandabroad.com/2011/08/23/dubai-holidays-diving-... paid post
http://activetap.com/554567-Flights-Viva-Prague.html paid post
http://alcudiaholidays.org.uk/reasons-to-visitalcudia paid post
http://allfiji.com.au/travel/fiji-beaches/ paid post
http://allfrance.com.au/the-best-budget-hotels-in-paris/ paid post
http://allthailand.com.au/touring-thailand-top-tours-in-thai... paid post
http://allusa.com.au/americas-greatest-parks/ paid post
http://archive.anfieldroad.com/news-archive/201009063972/fc-... paid post
http://archive.anfieldroad.com/news-archive/201103084572/a-g... paid post
http://aussietopia.org/2011/03/ paid post
http://aussietopia.org/category/cities/melbourne/ paid
So if you pay to advertise on a social network, how do you do it without invading a uesr's personal space? Isn't that kind of that point? That is why you are paying to do it. Or does the author just mean if you are invading a user's personal space, you should do it something every single user you are targeting will find clever?
I don't think anyone sane would use that as a value store.
It doesn't stand out very much in this question because it has a big block of code which has the same styling as the alert box. When your interface design has so few colors, this kind of stuff happens.
How drugs are offered on Instagram [video]
The Scientifically Best Time to Drink Coffee
If its usable why did they bring back the start button again after initially removing it?
No one would bother with Freicoin (which leaks money) because no one will invest in it when you can invest in Bitcoin. So it will not have a crowd of people that value it, therefore it won't have "value", therefore it won't be used as currency. Because currency is something that has widely-acknowledged value (by those who save it, of course).

There is no such thing as "transactional currency".
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!searchin/webmasters/...
A presentation about Frege from the author itself: http://fregepl.blogspot.jp/2013/08/talk-at-karlsruhe-functio...

Actually it is the link to the blog entry that contains a link to the presentation.
While I agree with your critique about headline but "pessimistic" is wrong word as well. Question about wind and solar energy indicates that they are optimistic. People are simply wrong quite often.

Here is "related" video about wisdom of crowd:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOucwX7Z1HU

I wonder if we could apply idea of "wisdom of crowd" to those quiz questions.
From what I've read, the price of an electric car is a less of a concern in Norway, due to very heavy subsidies and high petrol taxes.
Why I Never Bill by the Hour Redux
We've considered doing the same thing at our startup. I'd love to hear more about your experience. Did you simply build a node.js UI server that made calls to a C# service that did the database accessing and business logic? Or did you cut out C# all together and access the database and perform business logic directly in node? We're worried that re-writing major components in node would slow us down too much at the moment, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on the productivity boosts you found.
Well, "enterprise" software does have APIs in the form of EDI protocols.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_data_interchange

Admittedly they're not perfect, but "hackers" weren't the first ones to think of automating back office processes. Most invoicing, payables, receivables etc. happen over these protocols.

Naturally these functions will probably eventually move to REST over time as the broader enterprise software ecosystem moves in that direction, but it's not like wild uncharted territory.
Yes, and in music too. When I worked as intern at IRCAM FFT was a big deal, and was the only part of the code we weren't allowed to checkout.
There are many companies that use various lisp dialects. Not many would be described as startups, but a bunch of them exist. A quick scan of http://lispjobs.wordpress.com will give you a few names:

* http://grammarly.com a NLP startup from the Ukraine, they provide a grammar checking tool.

* http://dwavesys.com a Canadian quantum computing company.

* http://agri-esprit.com is a French agriculture startup offering software for farms

* http://onshored.com equipment scheduling and resource management software. From Chicago

* http://zenrobotics.com a Finish company making, you guessed it: robots.

* http://www.novasparks.com/ FPGA

* http://siscog.pt/ Portuguese company, offers solutions for transportation companies

* And just today on reddit I read about http://bikefriday.com whose powered by CL(read more: http://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1q1a1w/check_out_my_cl... )

As you can see, not a lot of traditional "cat pictures as a service" companies, but javascript is good enough for those, they don't really need lisp, unlike a quantum CPU manufacturer :)
I took the meaning of the OP to be generically 'those who pay to influence politicians', not strictly the lobbyists themselves. So although you are technically correct that there is a distinction, the spirit of the original one-line comment was that individual voters don't have the power that organized interests do. I gave a practical example in which the interests of individuals are overshadowed by leverage that an employer has over those individuals. It's a case in which a vague threat of 'hey, you want a job don't you?' turns into aggregating money into the hands of a few people who lobby (in the generic sense) politicians to support things that may be against the interests of the employees. Such is the game they play.

As to your last statement, largely it is the shareholders and executives who are the beneficiaries of the lobbying they do. You can argue that the employees are beneficiaries in the sense that they have a job, but that misses the point: the benefits of lobbying fall asymmetrically. Again, it's a leverage thing. They leverage the desire of the little guy to have a job and raise his family and in turn reap huge rewards for the shareholders. So although you can say everyone benefits and gets what they want, the result is really a distortion of power and influence.
It's meant to be a teaser for tonight's BBC TWO show

"Don't Panic — The Truth About Population"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2013/45/this-world...

This video excerpt makes it looks like it's going to challenge Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" in all fields of over-the-top presentation exaggeration techniques — including the use of ladders:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpdyCJi3Ib4
Bitcoin isn't so broken after all
Surprise raises are more effective than higher salaries from the start
I think of the value of any asset in the form of expected value. For bonds and stocks, it's present value for forecasted future cash flows. For Bitcoins, there is an element of underlying value, but also an element of acceptance as a broader currency. As the probability of Bitcoins becoming a more accepted currency increases, so does it's value. While the underlying currency value may not change (or perhaps it does, hard to tell), its probability of acceptance is going up as Bitcoins enter the mainstream via publicity and mass adoption.
Looks really cool! Oh, it runs on the JVM. Hm, too bad.
They need a turn around because they feel it won't last and for good reasons. Market penetration in mobile phones is very low and some believe this is where the future is.

You don't start asking questions and changing strategies when everything is bad, otherwise you'll end up like Blackberry. The latter has no debt at all and $2 billion in the bank and everybody think they're dead. It won't be long till everybody thinks the same for Microsoft if they carry on like this.
My grandmother learned to use Links browser in terminal. I sometimes use telnet to send emails via SMTP. But most people would probably call it 'unusable garbage'.

Usability == productivity.
Even if you did have x86-specific code chances are it wouldn't run on this anyway - it's basically a 486 and even a lot of Linux distros won't boot on hardware that ancient anymore.

Also, it's quite power hungry.
Interesting.. how would you have worded it? I mean we charged KS folks $39 per device, which pretty much worked out to our COGS. Covering postage was something we included as a good faith in our early backers and the patience they've had with us.
I think (and a lot of other would agree with me on this) that the Xbox division within Microsoft is the most customer-centric of any company in the entire world.

The people at Xbox are die hard gamers who really want to help you solve your problem whatever it might be. I don't know if spinning off one of the best divisions would be such a smart division specially when it is already profitable, unlike Bing.
The Twitter IPO: The numbers behind the hype
This is pure innuendo.

The Bitcoin paper at least presented a thorough argument. Andresen, who did not seem (in his Bitcoin Reddit post) to have grasped that argument, is obviously unhappy that "Bitcoin" didn't get a preprint or approve its presentation to the press. But the authors of the paper signed their name to it; the lead author is a lecturer at a serious university.

Instead of rebutting any technical point the paper makes, Andresen casts aspersions, alludes to a "peer review" process that would not have prevented the paper's publication, and then suggests the paper is flawed technically. Well, how?

Here, instead, is a vastly superior critical response by Ed Felten:

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/bitcoin-isnt-so-br...
If you bought $0.25 before it was cool, you probably have over $1000 in bitcoin (like me) by now.
First Workshop on Bitcoin Research: Call for Papers
Actually, I've heard of German professors who used the word "Schoenfinkeln" instead of "currying". You sometimes get people who try to fight the English influence off at all costs ;)
Well people were saying it was a bubble over a year ago when it was only $19. How do we know if it's not a bubble though? Is there any way to estimate what the "true value" of a bitcoin is? Like the number of bitcoins in circulation and the total size of the bitcoin economy?
Not to mention that the vast majority of the cases of paypal "screwing the customer" are because something actually violates their ToS.
That's inserted automatically when questions are closed as duplicate.
INDOCTRINATOR shows you how to become obsessed over practically anything, in order to gain mastery at a particular skill faster and get more done.

Think of it as switches in the mind you can flip on. These "switches" were discovered with my own obsessive behaviours and from extensive hypnosis training.

I should probably beef up the page to give more info - thanks for the input.
How to Create an Early Stage Pitch Deck
Actually there is quite a bit to suggest that a state actor created bitcoin. Satoshi is probably three people and the CIA and NSA don't really screw around when it comes to this type of thing. Even if they didn't create it, they had the man/computer power to control large chunks of bitcoin.
Marketing as a service has been around for years. They are called Ad Agencies.
"Lines of code: In general they have seen code size shrink by factor of 3-5 by moving from the Java stack to the Node stack. Even the number of files shrunk by a similar factor."

How do they went to 3-5 times less files without recurring to several classes, controllers, etc in the same file?
Even if they do, the mixing service must be anonymous too. The blockchain provides irrefutable evidence, and you need at least one step to make the coins anonymous.
ClimateCorp (who were recently acquired for ~£1bn) use a lot of Clojure, they've also open-sourced some of their Clojure projects: https://github.com/TheClimateCorporation
Is there any promise-less guide, that helps to grasp the concept of function* and yield in JS?
The main argument I heard against bitcoin from a Russian tycoon during the Cyprus shenanigans for bitcoin being a good store of value was that there was no quick way to liquidate large sums of bitcoin if you wanted to (I presume into some fiat currency for spending.) An interesting point: it wasn't really about the currency losing value it was about liquidity. But the counter-thought is that it's better having a store of value that one can't spend than not having anything at all! At least time is on your side with bitcoin in terms of liquidity, it's not with fiat if you look at capital controls on the increase. Capital controls are an issue especially if you want to move between countries. Anyone with $100mil+ and not in bed with government should move into bitcoin and get a good anonymizer .. the rest of us just get a free ride. Assume some goverment will then come after (if not those bitcoins) then you. And so the end game of bitcoins is when goverment ends up with most of them (or at least wanting them.)
I agree the log chart is the desired way to view the data because then a straight line is showing steady growth.

But look at the chart you posted. I see a sharp uptick on a nice linear trend since July. Now go look at the rest of the chart and ask yourself what happened every time there was a sharp uptick? Hmmm

I believe bitcoin will continue to grow, but I wouldn't tell people this is a good time to buy. Wait for the "correction" then buy.
This isn't true. Most of the early bitcoins are held by one "person" named Satoshi whose real identity we don't know.
On top of that the SSH tunnels provide more security to boot. I don't understand why people are still deploying PPTP today when SSH, SSL based and IPsec VPNs are generally trivial to get working appropriately. If nothing else than to move traffic to a specific geo location this is OK, but beyond this use case the solution is weak from a security point of view.
1) It's "Intel"!
2) School boards buy into brand names "Kids should lean on Intel boards because they will be using Intel machines when they join the workforce"
3) the ad kinda reads like "Intel is finally legitimizing the Arduino and maker movement."

Administrators and PHBs (who BTW may hold Intel stock) are influenced by such things.
For some jobs listed, one could make the argument. For some others, like say - mining machine operator- you'd need a beefier formula that accounts for the fact of where the jobs are located. In many(but not all) areas, the most diverse are the bigger cities. Not going to find many mines in Chicago or New York.

That said, the veterinarian one surprised me a bit. I'd be fascinated to read a deeper dive into it. My suspected guess is that in rural areas, many veterinarians make 'house calls', and every resident has a -lot- of livestock, vs inner cities where one veterinarian can service a big chunk of the population. But, again, just a guess.
Because people whined about it. It was usable, you just had to get used to it.

People hate change. My mom is a prime example - she found Chrome to be unusable because it wasn't 100% exactly the same as IE...
You know exactly what input transactions contains tainted coins, so you know the amount, and thus how many untainted coins there are.
PS.: working on label printing at the very moment. Anybody wants to beta test? Ping me
I'm not clear about Intel's motivation for releasing this. Are they looking to capture a part of the hobbyist/education markets, or do they see this as being a product that will used by businesses (who I'm guessing are the majority of their customers) for serious embedded applications?

Note that I'm not saying at Arduinos can't be used for "serious" applications, only that my perception is that so far they haven't displaced existing microcontrollers in industrial/automotive/etc applications.
Twitter's IPO makes giant admission on scalability fears 
I was surprised digging through the Twitter IPO. Their load balancing between datacenters leaves a lot of problems open.
That's a good summary. We definitely underestimated the cost of customer service. I'd say that after a year of having our KS campaign, we've spent 40% of our time keeping people informed. The irony is that with that time we could have easily added the quality and polish that most customers are upset about.
In most cases position: fixed is unnecessary. But it's especially unnecessary when your navbar takes up a quarter of the height of the screen. Please reconsider this approach, it's really not needed for users to see your sitemap at all times while reading a technical article.
That would be a breach of ethical practice (billing the partner rate for work not done by the partner). Generally, the complaint about summer associates is billing for their work at all. Clients don't feel like they should have to pay $200-300/hour for the work of a law student. It's a reasonable complaint, and as a client you should try to get a good deal. That said, the billed rate is a fiction. Most time billed by summer associates is written off by the firm. When they do put together presentable work, the time will be marked down. E.g. some summer associate spent 10 drafting a simple document, the client will be billed for 2-3 hours or however long a junior associate would have taken to do the same task. Generally, of course.
This looks at it only from the context of the single dev's machine. I care more about the consistency of the source code that's checked into the repository and not getting false file diffs based on white space differences, and other formatting discrepancies. And for some reason, this seems harder than it should be.

I'd like to see a diff tool designed around this.
Absurdly large and static navbar syndrome
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It wasn't so easy back then. I tried to buy bitcoin for a couple weeks as it went up in price from a buck fifty to around four dollars. I ended up having to meet a miner in person with cash.
unregulated

PayPayl is licensed and regulated as a money transmitter in multiple US states and as a bank in the EU¹. The idea that states would allow it to transfer the amounts it does without being regulated is funny, but not realistic (and not true).

¹ https://www.paypal-media.com/licenses
Big day, who's investing in Twitter?
Twitter's Market Valuation Suggests Wall St. Sees Huge Growth Potential
It's not a plain 486. The SemiAccurate article[1] offers some more details:

How did Intel achieve a P5 ISA on a 486? Easy they added the handful of instructions to the old core while they ripped and replaced just about everything else.
What did they add? Obviously the few new instructions on the P5 but not in the Pentium MMX generation. On top of that PAE and large page support was added along with local APIC style interrupt support. - -

The Quark designers did start out with a 486 design and promptly threw most of it out. Most of it is a new core but some bits were actually carried over. Why start with a 486 rather than a Pentium if you throw most of it out before adding in all the new ISA bits but not the architectural advances that the P5 line brought to the table? Easy, power. The 486 uses less while providing the performance Intel had targeted. On top of this more traditional C-State support that is much better than the 486 could dream of but nowhere near a modern CPU was added to the Quark core.

They also threw out the 486's front-side bus and replaced it with a modern SOC equivalent with PCI Express and ARM's "AMBA Fabric".

With this many changes, it sounds like a reasonably modern x86 machine (except for a total lack of MMX/SSE vector instructions) that should be able to run a Linux distro that targets older hardware.

[1] http://semiaccurate.com/2013/10/28/intel-talks-little-quark/
Don't know off the top of my head. I suspect it does have countable dimension but I don't know how to prove it.

The space of continuous functions with the sup norm is actually a much smaller space than the space of L^\infty - the former is not even dense in the latter.

I suspect actual functions on R with the max norm probably is uncountable, but that's also a very weird space. The overwhelming majority of functions in there are unmeasurable.
PayPal processed $44 billion in 2013 Q3 alone. It's miles ahead of everyone else right now. That can obviously change, but when a the slow giant gets a little quicker on it's feet, everyone notices.
The easiest for the US is coinbase.com. Unless you want to buy a lot. But they are not an exchange so you can't setup buy/sell orders.
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One of our top level goals is to build a uniquely fun and growth oriented company culture. This is a journey, not a rat race. Knowledge sharing in any capacity is highly valued here -- are you interested in prediction markets or PGP encryption? Do you enjoy teaching posture techniques or purely functional data structures to others? We pair program, design together, and generally create a learn-and-teach environment here.

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Is there an API you're using, or is this scraped from somewhere?