skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can have private thoughts, but good luck communicating them to someone else without the possibility of it being recorded. It's a valid concern for the future as brain to computer interfaces are going to become more common. Scientists have managed to extract images of what people are imagining from their brains already.
From user's view, some sort of rating/feedback and/or sales figures (perhaps just ranges as in google play) would have been great. Especially for the non-free games.
And then the parent calls the phone and the kid doesn't answer.
Mahbod's early growth strategies on Quora: http://i.imgur.com/vsnk8V5.png
How does new, disruptive technology enter the company if the consequence of such technology is hiring new A players and firing the existing A players?
Textadept: a Fast, Cross-platform Text Editor with Gtk and Ncurses Interfaces
Seems to support CoffeeScript and Go syntax highlighting out of the box, works in the terminal, and has keybindings/behavior that are 'normal' and easiest to me -- cursor keys, shift-arrow to select, control-c and control-v to copy and paste, control-s to save, control-q to quit, and tab/shift-tab for changing indents on selection.
Ask HN: Best books you read in 2013
My favorites were Decisive, by the Heath brothers, Little brother, by Cory Doctorow and I listened to the Graveyardbook, by Neil Gaiman.
Wrong title. Google didnt do this. They did this to themself. They broke the rules
Hobbyist Challenges Papers on Growth of Dinosaurs
Christmas drunk design.
Just before christmas I had an email referencing DUSA document. Nobody knew what it mean. I replied: try checking UDOAA (Ultimate Dictionary Of All Acronyms).
I had few spare hours and decided to make it real. It contains explanations for any* acronym you can think of.
Matt Cutts should also probably recuse himself from this issue. He is an investor in a YC round and multiple YC companies. That's an obvious conflict of interest, whether or not it affects the outcome.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/disclosure/
They shouldn't, but they probably will due to their investor.
What's your definition of "oil"? It's still hydrocarbons, and can still be refined into at least some of the same compounds that so-called "mineral oil" (petroleum) is.

The big difference is that it's more or less carbon-neutral. The carbon released from burning petrochemicals was underground for tens or hundreds of millions of years, and hence increases atmospheric CO₂ concentrations. Like all biofuels, on the other hand, the carbon released from burning jatropha-derived fuels was sucked from the atmosphere as the plant grew.
Not really midwest, but I'm in Colorado - it's not hard to find $100k+ jobs for experienced programmers, and buy a nice house for $250k. It's an amazing confluence of cheap to live, but high pay work.

Plus mountains.
I consider it an impressive contribution, and I checked it out a year ago. It lacks many of the refined features that happen with a paid staff, but art, sound and gameplay are amazing.

It's also totally addictive. Stay away, if you value your free time.
I know some companies that just have a blacklist of services that can't be used (popular cloud ones); then of course you can use the N+1 clone of such services, until it gets popular enough for the IT dept to ban it. Eg: Dropbox & Drive are blocked, but maybe copy.com isn't.

IOW they block Drive not because they don't want people to download open source tarballs from it, but because they don't want them to use it for company files/docs.
The genius of the original PageRank is that links serve as machine actionable artifacts of 'social and reputation cues'.

But of course Google's algorithm is way more complicated now, and takes into account all sorts of things. They of course have all sorts of smart experienced people working on improving it, and apparently still determine that links should count for a lot.

I'd guess there are actually lots of links to stackoverflow.
awesome, thanks. Looks like that backport may be only for ruby 2.0 (not 1.9), and is a compiled C extension.

It won't take many lines of pure ruby code to do it for ruby 1.9 too, although presumably not performing quite as well as a C version.

At any rate, this is definitely something I and people I know need to do all the time, although apparently most ruby devs never need to do it; but I'm glad it's finally made it into stdlib.
Soviet Ternary Computer uses DSSP
The NSA already believes its actions protect national security. It follows its stability protects national interest. Keeping tabs on people who control its budget and accountability keeps it stable.

They have means, motive, and opportunity to collect evidence to compromise government decision-makers.

The only reason I could imagine them not acting on it would be accountability, which almost no one who could hold them accountable is exerting. At least not yet.
No, if anything goes F2P in the near future is CSGO. It's already have items, market, growing community, huge competitive scene... etc. And it's updated weekly (unlike L4D2)
Missing (2012) tag, and also you'd have to be crazy to switch from Chrome's amazing dev tools to the horribly organized, buggy Safari ones. This was especially true in 2012 when they started this rework that, IMHO, has completely destroyed the usability of Safari for debugging.

I was working on HTML5 games for Nickelodeon in 2012 and let me tell you: Safari was the only way to debug iPad safari and it was BRUTAL. It would disconnect from the browser all the time and occasionally crash. You were better off using Weinre (even though it slowed the browser to a crawl). Oh, and occasionally the console would just fail to connect with absolutely no way to fix it besides restarting the whole browser and reconnecting to the device.

I don't know if they've added the option to de-obfuscate source yet, but that was a major sore point for me when code was failing in production. Chrome is a little buggy setting breakpoints in large codebases, but restarting the browser usually fixes it. Safari is pretty useless in my experience, especially when you have to set breakpoints in large, obfuscated files that make up your production code.

Just thinking about how frustrating my experience with this was gets my hackles up. I can't believe Apple would ship such crap in an unpolished state like that.

tl;dr: Safari's inspector sucks horribly for work more complicated than simple webpages.
Google isn't the only way to access the internet. All this complaining of not being able to type "rap genius" in google to go to the site sounds real juvenile, doesn't even rise to first world problem status. Try typing rapgenius.com and using their search mechanism. These actions may stop some of their growth, but should not be a hinderance to anyone complaining here.
Great work! My favorite two apps: Great Words & Routines. 2 problems I always have and you've solved em! I only wish I could create iOS apps as fast as you haha.
It's not different. As mentioned earlier, paying for links is against one of Google's Webmaster Guidelines[1] and your example specifically falls under the Link Scheme[2] category which is affecting Rap Genius.

Those types of links reviews for a link, are considered advertorials which Interflora were "famously" penalised[3] for and something Google specifically identifies within their Link Scheme examples[2]

[1] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769

[2] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356

[3] http://searchengineland.com/google-says-no-comment-on-why-in...
Cranked RSS reader
You don't _have to_ install it and finish it. Just start installing to add to your account.
I don't think there's any real difference between biofuel and regular fuels except that biofuels might (don't quote me here) be a bit less energy dense which is just an engineering problem.

The big problem with biofuel is that it takes farmland to grow it on which means said farmland isn't making food crops.
It's not different, and Google will penalise as needed (if the site is unrelated to the reviewed object, for instance, also the FTC can sue if there is no proper disclaimer)
> To wilfully distort their view on reality

And what exactly makes you think that your view on reality is the super best most correct and perfect one?

From their point of view you are the one with a distorted view on reality and perhaps your children should be taken from you before you warp them.

Do you really not see this? Or are you so stuck in your viewpoint that it's utterly impossible for you to imagine anyone having a different viewpoint?
Magazine-fed laser pistol
> do you think RapGenius should have the ability to negotiate with Google

No.

> Do they have enough traffic to justify the conversation

Yes, maybe.

> I'm uncomfortable with what appears to be almost a direct line the RapGenius gents have with the Google team to come to what they've coined as a "resolution" between the two entities.

So am I.

In the past I have seen Google responding and resolving penalization with some sites, where in the problem lay in the internally, with intentional/unintentional shady practices.

I have no problems with this.

But RG took some of their activities to a whole different level, one that I have seen before by blackhat marketers only. Just like I would not expect blackhat marketers to get away with it, I would not like Google or any other search engine to open doors to the possibility of people who got caught to have an easy out.

Maintaining neutrality and upholding previously established best practices would also be fair to any new start-ups that may want to enter the lyrics space.
I also think it's pretty bad how the RG guys seem to be able to invoke Google at will.Especially considering how they've broken almost the most basic of Ranking Rules and used black hat techniques.

I'd like a direct response from someone in charge from Google. Why, and how, are the RG guys getting 1 on 1 support?
Are people from RG creating accounts on YC and trying to fight the after math of a tsunami?

I'm not going to stop using Google because they caught someone red handed cheating the system. This is crazy.
Wait.

I was about to ask if the lesson to draw here was to make it look organic.

But mostly serious question here: how does TechCrunch have any Google rank then? How do most tech publications, for that matter? PR hits are extremely common; they're the name of the game when it comes to cheap content.

It's okay if it looks like it's mutual self interest, and not if it overtly competes with Google's advertising platform?
This is great but I don't understand why this broke other properties. E.g., when this announcement went out, the dota2 matchmaking service fell over. Very frustrating.
Just add it as a custom search engine in the browser of your choice. In chrome you could just type:

rg justin bieber
He's unfortunately the SEO poster child though, which is hard. Do you think there should be any line of communication between Google and a site for SEO?

I'm torn on whether or not there should be a more formal process or they should just keep it completely locked up.
They should just receive links to usual webmaster recommendations and Cutts' YouTube. And that should be it.
can you provide some insight on how you would setup your flask stack using a config manager?

I've heard people using Nginx + Gunicorn + Flask combo. Can someone explain why you need Nginx + Gunicorn?
I'm actually developing a node.js application right now and I wondering if there was a easy way to live update my changes instead of restarting my app manually.

This is going to be a great help towards that; props to the author.
Eh, US propaganda is generic "rah rah we have the freest greatest people".

For example, an American citizen can read your claims about America's flaws. A NKian can't.

NK propaganda is "we have the highest per capita income".
I'm happy every time it's made clear that search engine results are the product of subjective factors and aren't "fair". It bolsters the argument that their results are expressive and protected as such, shielding them from interference by politicians.
For Fitness, Intensity Matters
This is why many (including me) believe that US's greatest defense against foreign terrorists attacking US soil is to make the US so supportive of immigrants that attackers would just defect on arrival.
It was essentially the same tactic as comment lurkers, IMHO.
"There's nothing a leader wants more than a highly visible enemy to unite his or her people."

This is a fair point. Though does that mean US citizens are now highly visible enemies that unite the US military?

A friend of mine participated in a GoRuck challenge in Portland. The team my friend participated in were mostly military or former military, trudging along in one of the most liberal, anti-military cities around. There were folks throwing out taunts (weirdly, most of them were on the top floors of buildings and other relatively inaccessible places). She said it was the first time she felt like kind of resentment and hate the military feels from civilians. She watched her teammates bear with it stoically, focusing on the mission. It was a sort of honor and duty servicemen feel when they stake their lives and sacrifice their innocence, dirty their hands to protect folks back home, even when those same folks don't appreciate it, can't understand it.

There's honor in that. Sadly, there are often agendas that abuses this. And there's always that nagging bit, that maybe all the stuff you've seen and done was for nothing.

The real change, I think, isn't a reform of the NSA. It's a greater and greater openness and awareness of the insanity of war and conflict. The root of the problem here isn't that the NSA are spying on ordinary people, it's that we've created enmity and now we're having trouble getting disengaging from conflicts. It comes from ordinary people demanding security, it's not something that can be pinned exclusively on the military.
For what it's worth, Matt Cutts has historically put his responsibility as head of webspam above other interests. For example, he's penalized Google itself.

http://searchengineland.com/google-chrome-page-will-have-pag...

There's still a conflict of interest, and it is possible he is giving his interests more leniency.
I don't think there's functionally much of a difference between flat-out blaming the victim and "merely" saying that victims can stop the behavior with what basically boils down to "one weird trick".
People figured out that Google Code made a great file hosting site for piracy and Google didn't want to invest the resources to combat it.
Article on getting ahold of Google: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/006900.html

Funny how most of the ways to get a response involve causing a scene to get attention for an answer.
Well in the past,RBI has shown no remorse towards online currency, for example Paypal.

They had a free run, until RBI got into the scene. Now their business is as good as nothing.

It allowed many Indian paychannels to emerge though, Paytm is a good example.

Indian financial policy makers tend to have a "safe and proven first" attitude towards such things. No wonder, we fairly did better than many european countries, during the 2007-08 subprime losses fallout. Not a single bank defaulted, ICICI which had the highest exposure(if my memory serves me right), was still in black even after the write-off.
Whoa. Why are they requiring that? Tell me this isn't the next trend.
The hate seems to be coming because they're "unprofessional", "disrespectful", "juvenile" and "arrogant" - like people in the hip hop industry haven't heard that before.

Don't listen to the haters. Stay on the grind.
how does TechCrunch have any Google rank then? How do most tech publications, for that matter?

TechCrunch does not post advertorials, they post content for free and they actually posted on their site to reaffirm this fact[1].

Sure there may be some PR firms etc who might get paid to get that content on to TechCrunch or another tech publications but TechCrunch writers are not directly compensated for doing so.

As a result the content they write from a startup launch to a new feature etc is considered "natural" by the search engines as they're choosing to write about it.

Moreover, those publications get the majority of their search engine traffic through being in Google News ala. posting about "Twitter" and getting inserted into the "Twitter" SERPs within the "News" section. Additionally they also leverage internal linking to boost their SERPs potential e.g. whenever they talk about Zulily (they're in #9 for me in Incognito mode although they might be higher/ on Page 2 for you) instead of linking to the site they'll reference the "Tag URL"[2] as well as referencing Crunchbase[3] (although CrunchBase isn't really 'internal' as its an external site). Likewise, Google loves "fresh content" so they will naturally be inserted with little/no links within the top 7ish results for something generic (although this does not always happen) such as "credit card numbers" when they do a post about "credit card numbers" and will naturally lose search engine positioning for that term over time.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/08/we-are-worth-at-least-3k/

[2] http://techcrunch.com/tag/zulily/

[3] http://www.crunchbase.com/company/zulily
The other option is to offer the same shitty filtering that everyone else is offering, with a big simple

[ ]ON
[x]OFF

option, and with links to sites offering information about democratic representation.

As always, people in the UK have left it far too late to do anything so we're stuck with yet another stupid pointless law.
But won't Google Drive have the same issue then?
How about they just ask their employees not to use it for company files? Or do they think their employees are idiots or not trustworthy? How do they think that reflects on them and their employees?
Wow. I'm more amazed at the variety of libraries you've written for Lua than the end product itself (which is definitely an achievement on it's own) to be quite frank.

I mean, come on, a web framework for Lua AND and a scripting language that compiles to Lua AND Vim and ST2 syntax support for said scripting language? Seriously?

Great work. Oh and sorry for typing like a 3 year old in a candy store (with a laptop in hand?).
This was on HN some time ago: http://www.trevormckendrick.com/my-first-year-in-the-app-sto...
extremely interesting read. if the building blocks of all matter can exist in infinite number of states at the same time, isn't it also possible on the macroscopic level? Why would it be only restricted under a microscope?
Quite honestly, it's never a problem. In fact, I think it's a huge advantage. I simply would not be willing to give up the ability to change an actor's behavior dynamically.

We use the FSM helper [1] heavily in our backend at Conspire. For data-pipeline use cases, it's invaluable. Keeps our code concise, readable and testable. Even basic become/unbecome operations are big for us, I've written up one of their use cases on our blog [2].

[1] http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.2.3/scala/fsm.html

[2] http://blog.goconspire.com/post/64901258135/akka-at-conspire...
Right. So what code hosts actually still allow downloads, which are imho the best way to handle disciplined releases and to feed into package managers?
Anyone remember the Viewpoint Datalabs archive that used to kick around, in the pre-long-September days (before AOL got on the 'net) .. it was one of the largest open collections of 3D materials on the Internet, totally free .. you could, though, buy a CD with all the models, and this supported the site.

I'm still missing those days. They took that site down and .. nothing has come along to replace it. Sometimes it sure seems we're going backwards, in this Web 2.0 world ..
How The Google Webspam Team Penalized Dating Site JustSayHi & The Oatmeal
Well, my comment stems from a very superficial overview of the language and some libraries. Perhaps I'm wrong. But I haven't seen any heavy usage of high-order functions or lazy data structures, and this worries me.

I don't just want a fast MATLAB replacement. I want a fully-fledged multi-paradigm programming language.
Quantitative System Performance: System Analysis Using Queueing Network Models
There's a good chance that they're gaining page hits from this controversy and, knowing the founders of Rap Genius (vaguely), I wouldn't be surprised if they capitalize and conjure as much attention as possible here.

On a slightly different note, it doesn't seem right for Google to intervene with specific companies' page rankings. Although Google isn't breaking laws, the "black box" type of generic algorithm seems more ethical. Rather than favoring individual groups/sites/corporations, I think Google should maintain credibility by encompassing all rules, regulations, and penalties within one algorithm. Search engine results shouldn't be subjective.
github offers free homepages, i use mine to host an installer for my github project
USDA Prime beef won't complain when it's rewarded for the 60-hour work weeks with a firing.
XSLT's a better example of XML not being declarative, as it's a turing-complete pure functional programing language. There's also some toy languages actually intended to be full programming languages that happen to use XML as their syntax.
What happens when non-techie people discover web developer tools
Watch Only Bitcoin Wallet HTTP Service base on BitcoinJ
Docs: https://code.google.com/r/c1devrandom-bitcoinj/source/browse...
As much as Rap Genius probably deserves it, this seems like it is treading dangerously close to Antitrust territory. Any lawyers on here?
Use a real Windows 7 partition in Virtualbox / KVM / VMware Player under Linux
As you might imagine, others have encountered and solved this problem already with stick on high friction disks. They've also used cheap, steel cups to direct and strengthen the magnetic field:

http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/page.aspx?p=32066&cat=1,423...

Also, I've used those nice shiny magnets in outdoor applications and can attest that they rust in fairly short order. But one might be able to address this by enveloping the magnet in sugru. Of course, this too is an already solved problem - plastic and rubber coated magnets:

http://www.kjmagnetics.com/products.asp?cat=164

Given all this, I'm not sure what this use of sugru is "hacking". It's performing the function of glue? Expensive glue in a nice package.
4OD want to install some stuff for content management.

Chrome needs he setting: Privacy [Content Settings] Protected Content

Some content services use machine identifiers to uniquely identify you for the purposes of authorizing access to protected content.

[x] Allow identifiers for protected content (computer restart may be required)

turned on, if it isn't already.
Funnily enough, it was thanks to the Christmas theme that I realized that "Threads" was highlighted when I went to "Profile -> Comments" to view my comments.

I have been doing the latter for years. PG does need to review the naming of those links.
So.. paywall.
People build sites that are very good all the time, often 'the best site for X by a mile', but they don't make it to the top because of poor SEO or marketing. Just because they are a good product doesn't mean they get to the top. RapGenius should be no different.

And what about the majority of people who simply want their lyrics, instead of all those messy annotations? The other sites give me that and that's why they've been at the top for the past decade.
I found ridiculous so many things here:

1. Their black SEO practice around Justin Bibier as they call themselves RapGenius (LOL)

2. Those are the guys we're talking about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NAzQPll7Lo (show me love ...yes)

3. They were 100% illegal, beside the big investment they got, they didn't pay copyrighters for using their lyrics. http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/11/13/rap_genius_co...

Now that said, why the hell someone like Google has to negotiate with them ?

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