skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"advanced" here is a string literal, not an adjective, so it belongs in quotes.
Compared to free traffic, I'd agree. What I was trying to say was that, if traffic is so important to one's business, one should try securing it... but even that isn't really valid since, why would you spend money on something that you're getting so much of already, but for free, especially in a business that doesn't scale.

Either way, Google's organic traffic results are probably replaceable through purchased clicks, and I'm guessing the proprietor appreciates the value of it more than what they otherwise might have, so who knows? Maybe all the free traffic is just Google's upsell.

"You remember all that traffic you used to get? You can have it all again, for just $149 a month."
That's not accurate at all. The phonebook doesn't provide any useful ranking - it's an alphabetical sort usually. It's closer to a factual database than anything. Google could solve all criticism of its results simply by returning all URLs in alphabetical order -- but they'd lose all their users, too.

The situation is much more akin to a hotline to call up and ask what a good place is for Q. And usually the hotline refers people to your business for Q, but now they don't. And since the hotline is part of a massive organization and answers are generated by a massive, complicated, AI, it's hard to find out why the hotline decided to not refer people to your business anymore.
I am super-pro bitcoin supporter, but somehow I have a horrible feeling about this...
Not really. Your role is to tease out the real issue for discussion, rather than shutting down the conversation with demands of testable hypotheses. Offer the other guy a chance to save face or explain himself. Being utterly contrarian is pointless.

Here, the next time someone calls bitcoin a bubble, give him this link (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/0ca06172-bfe9-11de-aed2-00144...) to Soros's Theory of Reflexivity and ask him to provide a hypothesis within the framework Soros provides.
I could not find XBTFUND symbol (or any other search with the term "bitcoin") when I went to Fidelity.com

Anyone know the symbol?
I owned my own company throughout university so I just got letters of reference from customers (aka my friends) that vouched for the work I did.

Remember, rules are made to be.. um fitted to your needs.
Yeah, but I don't recommend singing in the shower for 1.5 weeks while your employer is paying you sick leave ;-).
Another site that was intended to raise her page rank, but in the end got her site blacklisted:

http://www.linkstrategy.com/links/home-furniture-specialty-u...
thanks! please let me know if there's any general feedback as well.
As a frequent Canada Post user, it still gets me that it's cheaper to send something to Europe or the US than it is to a fellow Canadian.

What factors allow USPS to be cheaper for the consumer while providing better service?
You may have picked up on the author's not-so-subtle self-congratulation in the use of the phrase: "our great culture".

There is a lot of wonderful material to be absorbed in the ancient texts of India, but the text of that page has a strong Hindu religious nationalist tone (which in Indian languages is called "Hindutva", or "Hindu-ness").

The vast (in time and space), and diverse Indian culture that produced these works was far more tolerant and open to the world's ideas than the apparent mindset of the individual(s) who created this site.

So try to enjoy the actual linked texts, but observe, and then ignore the religious nationalism that seems to have inspired the site.
Because, to him, it tastes like soap.

> In the largest genome-wide association study of cilantro preference to date, 23andMe scientists compared genetic data from more than 25,000 individuals with European ancestry who declared whether they liked the taste of fresh cilantro or whether they thought cilantro had a soapy taste. We found that people with the AA genotype at rs7107418 had higher odds of perceiving a soapy taste in cilantro and higher odds of disliking the herb compared to those with the AG genotype, and people with the GG genotype had lower odds of perceiving a soapy taste or disliking cilantro. This SNP is close to a number of genes coding for olfactory receptors, one of which (OR6A2) is involved in detecting certain chemical compounds called aldehydes that are key components of cilantro aroma.

https://www.23andme.com/about/factoid/cilantro/
>> Next time you get a package from UPS just don't answer the door.

Well you actually have to do it way before that. My package was held at the border in Windsor/Detroit for a few days before it cleared. Once it's on a truck to your house, it's already too late to avoid brokerage fees.

What's sad is that UPS actually offers a slightly higher rate (only a few bucks more) that bypasses the brokerage fees, etc on shipments to Canada.

The problem is that most smaller online sellers don't know about it or care to research it.
he was comparing the working class (i.e. the people who live off the sale of their labour) to unemployed and homeless people (what Marx would have called the lumpenproletariat).

I guess your confusion stems from the fact that working class typically means manual labourers rather than intellectual labourers in common parlance. In this vein, one would see software developers as middle class, due to their relatively high income. However, this income is more a function of a temporary shortage of developers, rather than anything intrinsic about software developers.

I think he is right to use the term working class, but completely wrong in everything else he says.
Why?

The more mainstream investors come on, the more people will have a stake in BitCoin, the less single individuals can influence or manipulate the price, the more points of failure there are, the more stable it will be.

I have a fidelity IRA with risk spread across very risk-averse mutual funds with dependable year after year growth. For me, this will just be one more thing I can add to my already fairly stable IRA, shielded from taxes, which is great...
> If you took the time to talk to "those people" you would likely find that more often than not they are victims of circumstance out of their control, plain and simple.

I have talked to "those people" (I'm from a far less privileged background than you think) and, while I do admit there are some good people who drew the short stick, I have also seen a lot of assholes. Not everyone who is poor is that way because they're "unfortunate", many of them actually have bad habits and work ethic.
He said including Google, not including Gmail.

Gmail should not be indicative of whether or not web apps can match desktop apps. It should be indicative of whether or not the engineers behind Gmail have focused on making it work as well as a desktop app (they have not).

They've spent a lot more time making Gmail Offline work well. Maybe sometime in the future they'll spend time optimizing; but it's probably not a priority
This is pretty interesting. So I can theoretically bring down a competitor's rank by creating spammy websites and providing unnatural backlinks ? Even if the competitors figure it out from the webmaster tools, they will have no way to remove the backlinks. Right ?
If you need a primer for this horrible corner of the web, this is a fantastic and compelling article: http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/charlotte-laws-hunte....
That partly comes from the ignorant uncivilized outsiders calling India ignorant and uncivilized, at the least before the internet era.
Since the above techintro documentation seems contradicting, I looked around and found a better page at http://www.i2p2.de/how_tunnelrouting.html which explains what you said. Tunnels got a max length of 7, and is clearly easy configurable in a session config file.

Thanks, Im going to take second look now that that is cleared up.
I LOVE the idea!
How does the request function work? Can I put multiple company names separated by comma, or should I put one request per company I'm interested in chatting with?
Webcam + Skype + Wallet ID + Lonely Person = Bitcoins.
> A large amount of our homeless are mentally ill and live on the street by choice.

Yes, that's true (though "choice" is a little bit of a misleading term to apply to a mentally ill person -- their "choice" is often between the street and some mental institution which is not much different than a prison). But I don't see what that has to do with the topic at hand.

> There are shelters in most places

It is an extremely rare shelter that is not already heavily oversubscribed, especially when the weather turns nasty.

> the 'smart' homeless people hitchhike somewhere warm

That's true too. But the crop of folks who will be hitting the streets in the next few years as a result of unemployment benefits coming to an end are probably not very street-smart.

But your point is well taken: we will probably not be seeing dead bodies of homeless people being hauled away by the truckload. But (I predict) we will be seeing a lot more homeless people.
There's a science fiction novel waiting to be written that incorporates the ideas from The White Plague and Ribofunk and the 21st century IT world.

Imagine the genetically-engineered counterpart to the CryptoLocker ransomware. Private and public antivirus research. MacAffee for your white blood cells. Imagine ad-supported biotech.

The internet has created a sort of commoditization of fraud. Scam spam, ad-ware, spyware, etc, often run by companies operating right out in public. Professionals openly discuss security from both sides of the line.

Imagine this sort of bizarre professional attitude in the a low-cost engineered-virus biotech field. What would the Windows of this world be - a suite of programmable bacteria with a solid API?
If they released support for this header with Firefox and Chrome, almost immediately, people wouldn't bother hotlinking to sites which utilise it because a good proportion of their users wouldn't be able to see the content at all.
You're at a small college. I've been there. You don't have the same huge career fairs and prestige that many other large colleges have to attract internships.

However, you have something better. You have 1 on 1 connections with your professors who (hopefully) have some ties with industry around your area. Talk to your professors and start applying for some REU programs if that seems interesting also.

I was in the same position, my graduating CS class had 5 members. I had done some research with my advisor in undergrad and she hooked me up with an REU, internship, and a job once I got out. Your professors are one of your most valuable connections in college.
A quick 2-minute check shows that yes, indeed the site violates Google guidelines. If you check the backlinks using any number of checkers (Open Site Explorer, Ahrefs, Majestic SEO) you can find a number of over-optimized 'unnatural' backlinks residing on spammy link-exchange pages in clear violation of Google's guidelines. The only reason to place links on these pages would be to try to rise higher in Google's search results.

Yes, it feels unfair when Google drops you in search results, and Google has changed the rules over the years and it's hard to keep up with shifting guidelines.

In truth, the website can recover from this. The same people who placed spammy links on 3rd party sites in order to manipulate rankings are probably savvy enough to mount a clean up effort to get those links removed and/or file a disavow request with Google (which basically tells them to ignore those links)

Ironically, Eric Schmidt once tried to scrub Google of unfavorable search results about himself, and he was told they do not do that for individual results. ;)
It isn't what you mean, but you can get some by buying them.

Mining bitcoin without special purpose hardware is pointless. Your best bet would be to predict whatever copycat was going to get popular and have mined some of it before that happened (but this isn't a simple prediction to get right...). Then you can probably trade those for bitcoin.
Perhaps I am missing something as I have not been following the issue very closely.

Didn't the FAA recently announce that use of mobile devices during flight, or gate-to-gate, is now allowed?

What is the incentive to pay $2 to send iMessages vs. simply turning on your data connection & sending iMessage as you would regularly?

Is the issue that Southwest Airlines has not opted into the new FAA regulations? Is cellular coverage poor during most flights (I admittedly haven't tried using my cellphone during flights)?
>> Wealth tests

Apparently, you can lie: http://www.quora.com/How-do-you-become-an-accredited-investo...
Fair enough - they should probably add this.

I'm not getting a 5 second delay here. It's instant (~0.5 seconds).

You're right about the changes not being marked up, although it does do this on Office 365 so perhaps it's a market segregation thing.
That was never my point. In fact, I didn't say anything was "wrong" with the results at all. I just pointed out that saying "that's what you get for depending on Google for organic traffic" is more like saying "that's what you get for depending on oxygen" web-wise. It just ignores the reality of the web today.

It's safe to say, at this point, that we don't know why her site isn't showing up for the common terms it showed up for before.

EDIT: This comment has some good info on why her site might've been penalized: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6891141
I wish they would do this in Philly I currently Use PeaPod by Giant.
what could the possible benefit of a convex screen be? i can see some (admittedly very limited) utility in a concave screen featured inlast months samsung and lg phones. but convex? *headscratch
Why I Write Code
I mounted it (by the ways of qemu-nbd and so forth) and chrooted into it. It seems like there are no accounts with a valid password in it..
The Palm Pilot's Creator Reflects on Good Design [1998]
I guess people forget that we carry phones in our pockets.
We can argue about the price point, but charging a la carte is a great idea.
You can mine litecoins and sell them for bitcoins... I hear there's a ASIC LTC miner around the corner...
I'm from a family where people think it's OK to smoke while pregnant, my parents divorced when I was 7, and I grew up in a formerly communist country (which is still doing pretty badly 20 years later). I got pretty far on hard work and brains, and I stand for what I wrote earlier.

EDIT: My point is that there are people from crappy families who still manage to get very far in life. There is such a thing as individual responsibility.
>> the less single individuals can influence or manipulate the price

972 people control half of all bitcoins, right now.

What makes you think things will get better?

source: http://www.businessinsider.com/927-people-own-half-of-the-bi...
Thanks! I almost thought this was about some cult trying to finance armed Irish groups using Bitcoin.
He moved to SF in late 2011. I'm guessing he moved to or was in the cheaper hipper places, which is exactly where the crazy, homeless, drug dealers, dropouts, and trash hang out. They were there before he was. How long has the Tenderloin been the way it has been, specifically how many decades?

This is a rather standard gentrification wedge issue rhetoric being regurgitated without understanding the background. At least the PR people got to him this morning to start working on fixing the damage.
my own use case is 30-45mins on the laptop each evening, smartphone during short breaks throughout the day.
This is what I'm excited about as well, but also can't wait until more games are announced for SteamOS early next year.
"Users can't pick the exact song they want to play right away, and will have to shuffle through their playlists.
"This is the way the next generation will build their music library," said Spotify CEO Daniel Ek. "It's not about purchasing one song or other. it's about adding it to a collection."

Oh yeah. So that's a feature now...
First off I know nothing about SEO as will likely be apparent from my comment, that said.

As someone who knows nothing about SEO it looks to me like it could of triggered duplicate content detection portion of a google algorithm.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66359?hl=en

Looking briefly at the source she has the entirety of the following in the title of every page other than the main page I looked at Portrait Quilts - Memory Photo Quilts with up to 96 Photos! Personalized Memory Quilts, Picture Quilts and Photo Blankets

info - Portrait Quilts - Memory Photo Quilts with up to 96 Photos! Personalized Memory Quilts, Picture Quilts and Photo Blankets

and half of it in the title of the main page

It seems like some maintenance could be order for the site.
Bitcoin and Intrinsic Value: a layman’s response to Alan Greenspan
At this point there's almost 200 "the new thing" alt coins. Everybody wants to be in on "the new thing", which makes them all just pump and dump economies. It's a futile idea.
You are correct, I was mostly interpreting his post to be about a purposefully engineered virus with specific properties. One could throw darts and hope to get "lucky" by recombining and tweaking existing pathogens. That individual would be wrong a lot, but with concerted effort might find something. I'm not sure that is new technology though. This could have been done at least 15 years ago.

One point that I didn't have time to make was that high mortality is not generally evolutionarily advantageous. Even if you cooked up a strain that was especially nasty, it could take considerable effort to prevent it from mutating in the wild into something less so, since the mutated virus would have a survival advantage of not killing its host. Unlike machines, a creator can't really control what happens to a biological system in the wild as it interacts with the environment. In the scenario you describe, there is considerable uncertainty as to whether it would actually spread as engineered.

This is the crux of what I've clearly done a poor job of saying: we know so little that all these scenarios still rely on incredible amounts of luck more than technology.
Seems like most mainstream coverage about bitcoin is in the context of an investment instead of a currency.

I wonder if this is hurtful in the long run -- thinking about bitcoin as something to stock away for retirement rather than a useful tool in transactions. Great for prices in the short term I guess.
I implemented something like this in my https://github.com/lunixbochs/actualvim ST3 plugin.
927 people controlling 50% of all BitCoins is better than it was at the beginning, with 1 person controlling 100% of all BitCoins. So it already has gotten better. I see no reason to believe that BitCoins won't diffuse further, given the recent growth of the network and trading volume.
Added a note about this. I think there's quite a lot of these but not sure how startup friendly most of them are.
But that costs money!

;)
Finding an internship can suck, can't it? I'm going through similar issues myself. Mediocre (but above 3.0 GPA), little luck, getting discouraged. HN can be pretty unhelpful about finding internships. HN has a bias towards the Ivy League/successful/US Citizen types that have few issues getting hired.

So what can you do?

1) Breathe. You'll find something. You're working in the hottest field in the world right now. Somebody once told me that anxiety is simply looking too far into the future. He said that if you start thinking far enough ahead, you'll realize how little control you have. You still have plenty of time.

2) Realize the holidays are here. That's great for two reasons. One: nobody is hiring right now. Very few interviews are going out and virtually nobody is sending out offers. Wait until the new year to begin the search again. Two: you have a whole break to better your resume. Build a project, contribute to open source (this one's a biggie), learn a language. You have a free pass to better that resume of yours.

3) Submit your resume on this thread. Hopefully, HN can give you some tips.

4) Use connections. Start with your parents (although it sounds like they might be overseas). See where they work and look for internships in your field. Have them refer you. Then do the same for friends who have interned, their parents, their connections, professors, anybody. Start knowing where people work and ask for favors. It takes a minute or two of their life to send your resume to HR.

5) Don't be afraid to go after "bad jobs". This has been my biggest issue. I've been going after the biggest, best companies out there. And that's fine- to a point. A big-name internship sells itself when job hunting. A smaller, less sucecssful company internship can too. You just have to work harder to sell it.

Now, I haven't addressed the elephant in the room - your citizenship. That's an issue. Very few companies are willingly to go through the effort to get you a visa. Fear not, you have a couple options. You can try to get some kind of visa on your own, although I'm not an expert with that. You can find a company that has overseas offices. Work overseas for your internship, then transfer to the USA for a job. Or you can simply get an overseas internship. That experience will hopefully help you get a job here.

Quite the novel. I know it can be depressing to not have something just yet. Especially when friends have their dream jobs. I must say that writing this has been very cathartic. But don't focus on this too much. Study for finals, go drinking, play video games; just get your mind off of it. Any job search is going to have more negatives than positives. You only need one yes. Every no is one less until you get your yes.
You can place it on your desk and spin the phone when you're bored
And what's your security model? Each user that needs to run services has to run them under their user account? Or are you going to also allocate some number of service accounts to each user and pay the cost to manage these accounts and the combined quotas they entail?

Now how do your users' service accounts share resources? Someone will need a web server running under one account and a job processor running under a different account (different accounts in order to allow for limited privileges). Are they restricted to communicating through named pipes (hope no one else binds the pipe)? What if they want to share some disk-based resources? Shove them all in a group and set someone's home directory to 770?

How do you handle it when one of your users needs a SQL server? Do they need to install this in their home directory, too? And lock down their install so that hopefully other users on the box can't call it?

What about port binding? Just luck of the draw, and everyone binds on what they want? Then they file a request for you to forward to the port they happened to grab? And they hope that they never lose the port due to a server reboot, or a service crash?

People could work in the environment you describe, but it would be miserable. And you (the server owner) would have to sink a massive amount of resources into maintenance. This isn't a shortcoming of the OS. It's a fundamental mismatch between the goal of sharing a server among many users and giving those users sufficient control to build what they need.
I beg to differ: http://youtu.be/FarGT40V8tc
I can't tell if it's (a) exactly the sort of thing that would catch on among the VC elite-- which is what makes it so damn believable and funny-- but hasn't, or (b) if it's a real thing. I'd guess mostly (a), but who knows.
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I've never seen any of the unreliability you're talking about, and I've very rarely had a document structure get messed up.

It's like you're reviewing a completely different product from the one I've used daily, for years.
cell coverage is poor.
I wonder if he's going to pay $250 to get his photos off of mugshots.com
Well I've been holding my breath on this whole CO2 thing, can finally take a sigh of relief and not worry about contributing to global warming.