skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good in that it will be temporary: specifically 30 days.

Please don't preach about SEO if you know nothing about it or aren't up-to-date with how SEO works because, this is completely wrong. The penalty that Rap Genius have will be applied until their site fall backs into the Google Guidelines[1] and they help webmasters to get their site back in line with those guidelines through informing them what type of penalty[2] their site has.

This may take 90 days as it took JC Penney[3], 11 days as it took Interflora[4] or even 30 days. However, it should be relatively quick and straightforward for Rap Genius to recover from this penalty because, the penalty is based on links they've built themselves through their "tweet-for-links" system meaning that identification and removal of links should be relatively quick and straightforward.

This is better than a fundamental algorithm change like Panda or Penguin because there's no coming back from those.

Again this is wrong. Essentially Panda looks at content and Penguin looks at links - both of which are within Google's Manual Action penalties[2] - and both of which you can recover a site from.

In order to fix a Google Panda penalty you need to completely overhaul your site to remove any rubbish content as well as, to improve the content. In cases where you cannot improve the content to add unique user value, you should completely remove it from the site.

In order to fix a Penguin issue, you should see my overview here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6963785 although essentially, you just need to identify the links which need cleaning up, try and get those links "cleaned up" yourself, submit a disavow file (if necessary) and then get Google to reconsider the site.

[1] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769?hl=en

[2] https://support.google.com/webmasters/topic/2604771?hl=en&re...

[3] http://searchengineland.com/90-days-later-google-lets-j-c-pe...

[4] http://searchengineland.com/interflora-gets-google-rankings-...
Where do you see this "direct line"? I've seen no sign of that.
Very cool dude.

I hope more OC gets posted to YC, instead of the boring old news articles.
Ask HN: What backs the value of a Bitcoin? Isn't Bitcoin the only currency which is in fact backed by Nothing valuable?

Paper money imo is backed by regional Economy or iow labor + what labor can buy/buys/saves.
I'm pretty sure he understands that Google is his employer and not just some nice person giving him stuff.
in unofficial benchmarks with Rails (running different rake tasks and benchmarking them). 2.1.0 seems to be 20% faster than 2.0.0 and 2.0 was about 60/70% faster than 1.9.3 so that would make 2.1.0 about twice as fast as 1.9.3.
No, but they might learn something and start pushing publishers to go away with all that DRM and spying crap.
What happens when you Google "santa"
ReactOS isn't even mature yet.

I don't see this project taking off in the foreseeable future (though I do think they will hit their funding goal)
It's not about where the line is drawn, it's about the distinction between difficult and painful. Figuring out how to draw the line is sometimes difficult, but it is never painful, at least not for me. And, I submit, if it's painful for you, you're doing it wrong.

The question of whether or not I will "let" you be free to steal my stuff is a straw man. The topic at hand is freedom of speech, not freedom to steal. We can have a separate discussion about that if you want, but it's a different topic.

But even in the case of freedom of speech there are reasonable limits on things like slander and raising false alarms (shouting "fire" in a crowded theatre). "Freedom" does not mean that everyone gets to do whatever the fuck they want whenever they want. That is a childish caricature of freedom. Real freedom involves making the tradeoffs necessary so that everyone gets to make their own choices as much as possible, with "possible" being the operative word. Letting everyone do whatever they want whenever they want is not possible in the real world, and so maximizing freedom, like any optimization problem with real constraints, is hard work. But doing this hard work need not be, should not be, and, if you truly value freedom will not be, painful.
Looks cool ! The screenshots weren't really explicit to someone not familiar with haskell. Is there any video available ?
Do you know of a good open source ebook reader?
I'm sure a lot of people would welcome a free alternative without ads. Now go code it. Oh, wait...
Why should the investment pay off after mostly wiring just one city? The first house certainly didn't pay for all development work and physical plant, and nobody would expect it to.
Another way to make use of 3D graphics in Windows, from Linux seems to be booting Windows VM in xen, and passing through a spare GPU to Windows. I'm aching to try this out as I am frustrated working with SolidWorks in VirtualBox VM and I have finally upgraded my desktop PC with hardware which should in theory support this.
Did something similar with an Ubuntu guest a few years back. Fun times.
May I ask how many people work for you?

The kind of delegation you use sounds a lot like micro managing, which scales to teams of 20 at most.
Why are you assuming growth on one plane? Can't these crops be stacked? Also from a hedging perspective, alternative supply from this (assuming fuel is interchangeable) doesn't need to be equal to oil.
Non-tech books, I read and liked in 2013:

Influence: Science and Practice by Robert Cialdini

$100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau

Anything Your Want by Derek Sivers

The Monk and the Riddle by Randy Komisar

Are You a Stock or a Bond? by Moshe Milevsky

The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks

Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
One coincidence is that Finney was diagnosed with ALS around the same time Satoshi stopped posting. On the other hand, if Finney is Satoshi, he would probably like to use his bitcoins to fund ALS research.
I have one of these Unicorn Jobs.

I'm paid 40 hours a week, most weeks to warm the couch. I get time to work on my own projects.

But, alas, I'm a contractor and some point in the not too far future this ride will end. knocks on wood Hopefully its not soon however.
Fast food ppl are just too slow [for known reasons :)].
I don't understand the mentality of "I'm an atheist therefore I can't participate in Christmas. So much that I felt dirty eating a Christmas dinner and listening to 'Christmas' music" (As if "winter wonderland" and "jingle bells" are religous songs)
I would think that an atheist would love the commercialization of Christmas, or the fact that most of the traditions are non-Christian.
But even all that, even if you don't believe in God, doesn't mean you can't enjoy being with your fellow humans and enjoy a season of giving.
It seems to me that is being a non American and refusing to watch fireworks on the Fourth of July... They are still fireworks, and they are still cool to watch.

I can understand if you were a non Christian religious person that doesn't believe in Christmas. But as an atheist, why should you care. Enjoy the holiday as a day off work, with some cool lights and seasonal music.
I wrote a helpful answer. Then I re-read your question Is welfare mom an insult I wasn't aware of?. Then I realized you and the OP have the same condition. You mean nothing ill, but you just don't get it.
How does this show that? All this shows is that there is risk do doing growth hacks. It does nothing to show if these hacks are worth the risk. Rap Genius, is, after all, the most well known and successful site for rap lyrics as far as I know, so (ethics notwithstanding) unless this kills their business, it was a smart move.
http://www.memrise.com/courses/english/english/
The title could be more specific that it is jet-fuel, using plant seeds as biofuel isn't new.
10 Small Mistakes That Can Ruin Your Finances
Bitcoin is more similar to gold than it is to a currency.
Drunk Santa goes too far in Boston?
Is this alcoholic Santa Claus going too far in Boston? Peeing in public, throwing up in public, and snorting something in public? Funny?
Is there any reason a website owner should act and remove the links? Surely it's not my/our problem?

You should only remove links if they do not provide any value to your audience.

A website owner does not need to act and remove the links at all, you have the choice to not respond or refuse to do so. This is why Google allows people to disavow those links via the disavow tool[1] so they are no longer "counted" as providing the site with any link equity.

[1] https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main
You might be interested in nodemon https://github.com/remy/nodemon
How I not do Work
"In an open office (and to a lesser extent, places with open cubicles), you can have constant interaction with other people. You can scan the room quickly to see who's busy, who's concentrating, who looks available for a quick chat, etc. You can hear all the technical conversations going on and are able to jump in at any point if needed. Someone's sketching something out on a whiteboard, anyone can just glance it over if they're curious or feel they can contribute."

This is exactly why people don't like open office plans. People can and will pester you all the time when you're deep into writing really difficult code. In lines of work which involve more interpersonal communication (and don't require long stretches of uninterrupted concentration), designing the workspace to encourage as much face-to-face talk as possible is an advantage. However, in my line of work (systems programming, and this probably applies to most programming jobs), it's a huge disadvantage.
Maybe some of the infrastructure is shared (i.e. the pipes that serve L4D2 downloads also services Dota2)
I agree the penalty is brutal, If they had dropped 5 ranking vs. 5 pages I think the punishment would suit the crime (provided that Google didn't look at their links and find that their were other egregious violations). I think part of that is that the abuse was exposed so publicly and not really fully denied/remove by RG, and part of it is that RG has a big reputation and everyone has heard of them. For Google, it's a great time to make an example of someone and help push the risk:reward ratio in their favor, so more startups think twice about trying black/gray hat tactics.

I'll be 100% honest, I've been approached more than a few times by people with approaches to SEO that are somewhat black/gray, and I've been really tempted to work with them because of the promise of additional traffic/business. It's always the fear of a JC Penny style backlash that kept me from engaging. If the punishment was more of a slap on the wrist, there would be a certain point at which it would be worth it for startups to try and game the system (how many startups are currently trying to game the system? I would argue a good %, just most don't end up with it out in the open like this.

From everything I've been told, however, they'll be able to get the penalty lifted as soon as they remove the bad links and get back to even footing. Shouldn't be more than 2-4 weeks.
The value of bitcoin, as of any other instrument of exchange, is backed by the trust that someone else will exchange it for something else in the future.

Everyday goods, like corn or crude oil, additionally have intrinsic usefulness and thus gain value from this.
Government issued currencies have another aspect, namely that you have to pay taxes in gov issued currency, and thus there is always someone who wants gov issued currency, thus it is easy to trust. There are also often "legal tender" laws, which force people selling to the public to accept gov issued currency. This also makes it easy to invest that trust.

But basically it is just how much you (and by extension the market) believe you will be able to get for your instrument of exchange in the future that determines its value.
No. My example is when MEMBER of minority (or other protected group) bullies other people. In that case it is much harder to fight bully.
Epigenetics enigma resolved: First structure of enzyme that removes methylation
Well, you can already do java based config, which is not the same as annotation based config. As with XML config, Java based config lives outside of your application code in classes dedicated to configuration. You just use Java instead of XML, which makes things much nicer.

See here: http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/3.2.7.BUILD-SNAPSHOT/sprin...
Suing Google for libel because Google misrepresents them as a dead company through purposely hiding them from customers who search for them on Google?

It's a reasonable conclusion for searchers to make that RapGenius doesn't exist anymore because they doesn't exist on Google, just like it's reasonable to assume that businesses removed from the Yellow Pages doesn't exist anymore.
See this discussion about bitcoin, including the comment section:

http://unenumerated.blogspot.de/2011/05/bitcoin-what-took-ye...
I think the lucky bastard that got bigbang.com wins this
Startup.com (2001)

Bit gold (blog post, 2005)

The Social Network (2010)

The Cryptocurrency (2014) ... it staggers the mind at what the plotlines could be and the characters incolved. Some rags to riches to rags story meets its opposite. Maybe a 2015 release would yield more possiblities... the greater awakening of cryptocurrency is about putting money into perspective, and finding some equality in it all: it's not about replacing one paper elite with another (who could end up the same people anyway.) I think this was SM's intention to begin with: new technical structures, creating new economic structures, creating new social stuctures... the characters that realize this earn or retain their money (or fame) in the film.
You're gonna secure something to a bike with caulk? Not so sure about that...
Not sure if sarcastic. If you have to use a crutch it is probably a hassle to pick it lying on the floor.
Ask HN: Is meditation entirely a placebo effect?
yes, and according to webarchive. strangely Nagy's post is gone in the archive, but present today. perhaps some quirk in blogger or webarchive.
Subtext website, for the other curious http://www.subtext-lang.org/ .
Too true. Another hilarious example is google banning BMW for using doorway pages - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4685750.stm

If I remember correctly the site was completely deindexed.
I remember doing something similar to diagnose a boot problem a while ago. It was much quicker mounting the partition on a live cd, changing something, unmounting and trying to boot in vbox, then repeating, than it would have been to use any other method, if nothing else because it sidestepped repeatedly waiting for my the slow real mobos bios to post
FWIW, the main goal of Light Table is to provide a platform for people to experiment with and build these kinds of experiences without having to worry about all the other standard editory stuff. By using a browser for the UI, we have the opportunity to very easily play with all sorts of really interesting display and editing paradigms.

Unfortunately, the notion of editing an AST is by definition language specific, so it's unlikely that someone could create the structural editor and just have it work for everybody. Moreover, as they mention here for Lamdu, it often requires looking at the language slightly differently and enforcing some rules that wouldn't normally exist in the code. But, with a decent foundation we can at least make writing the necessarily language specific parts relatively straightforward.

For those new to this world and wondering why this stuff doesn't seem to exist, one of the biggest problems with projectional editors is handling the translation problem. How do you reconcile changes in your representation with changes in the underlying code? Can you reliably parse handwritten code into your AST representation write it back and so on without any loss? What happens with handwritten styles that maybe don't fit into the projection's way of viewing the world? What if I know a better way to output the AST than you? It's also particularly difficult dealing with change over time since there are no true unique identifiers for bits of code.

The approach they're taking is likely the correct approach for the "future" - we should be designing languages and approaches to coincide with the ability to tool them. Even better would be to never have a handwritten format at all: the cannonical representation is always the AST. And though you might be able to edit a projection of it as text, you're never at a loss for how to get back to your "good" representation. This is the world I think we ultimately need to get to and you'll be seeing some really cool stuff from us in that vein early in 2014.
See Kobo's Reading Life: http://www.kobobooks.com/stats
Animate SVGs with CSS3 & jQuery
interesting. at what odds would you bet? I think the distribution is fairly flat, because it could be a random, unknown guy who just happen to work on it his whole life. it seems to me that satoshi had to be non-academic.
Yea, I couldn't believe that. There's quite a few other decent ones though.
"industry" is the key word.
What you're talking about is decoupling interface from implementation. This is good (well, it's good if there is a genuine need for more than one implementation, otherwise it's just decoupling for the sake of decoupling which is a form of waste. Remember YAGNI)

My understanding of reuse is when the same peace of code is used in different areas of the project. This could be different classes, different packages, different modules, etc. Now the more the code is reused, the more tight coupling between the two pieces of code i.e. change to the interface of the reused code 'could' mean change(s) to each and every place the reused code is being called.

Secondly, if you put reuse high up in the design requirement, what you sometimes end up with are very generic interfaces/classes that can be reused in lots of places as opposed to very specific interfaces/classes or unnecessary inheritence trees required to change the base class behaviour in those places where the required behaviour is 'slightly different'.

Lastly, not so long ago, DI containers did not support package private visibility. This means all injection (constructor, setter, etc.) required public visibility. This lead to a lot of developers also 'reusing' code even in places where they shouldn't just because they could i.e. it's right there!
Easy of use, Sugru is trivial to apply with minimal effort.

It is a user interface victory. Pay more for easy of use.
the analysis is fairly flawed. the words are naturally related, because of the topic. szabo might have collaborated on the project, but its hard to tell. his counter arguments to bitcoin are quite convincing (which of course implies he is not satoshi).
Reddit tried to resolve it through, a code level setting of the lang within their source code. However, Google ignores all code-level language information including lang attributes and document type definitions (DTD)[1] etc because, some CMSes set this automatically.

However, Google over the years have also worked on their international/localisation identification of sites. As a result they allow webmasters to geotarget them within WMTs[2] which seems to resolve the Reddit issue.

Having said that, there are other methods to fix the issue as well such as using the geotarget option within WMTs to using the rel alternate tag etc.

[1] http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/working...

[2] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/62399
Nope, 2005.

http://classic-web.archive.org/web/20060329122942/http://une...

Blogger updates the date in the article but not in the URL if you repost something you posted earlier.
And so, by cleverly digitizing his precious type specimens -- which he fought bitterly to protect from automation -- we've done exactly what he strove to prevent. Are you happy now?
>>>Remove the DRM from your ebooks

You've missed the point. Something like a Scribd or Oyster subscription use an app and its own eBook format. The books are cached or streamed, not downloaded permanently. You are paying to read, not to own.
Size alone doesn't make something "essential infrastructure". A lack of alternatives does.
Awesome ones:

likesecret.com, mixtapes.io, mealguru.com, happyhot.com, bigbang.com, homies and roomies.io, lllllllllllll.com

Then there's cultclassic.xxx
Well, at least they did write some code of their own...

Most copycat coins I know of (including some highly-priced ones) did nothing but merely changed some config parameters of the Bitcoin codebase. Github repositories of theirs seem dead for years.
I dunno man, fappyholidays.com ?
Also similar to this:
http://sclang.sourceforge.net/index.php?p=Media
They've never been impartial, not for years :) if they were, SERPS would suck.
So how are we organising the transfers? Private message?
I believe the idea is that both dollars and bitcoin are valued due to the collective trust of their user base. However, only the dollar is easily susceptible from the Fed which has the power to dilute the value of the money held by the dollar's user base.

Personally I don't know if the argument holds in reality. For example the dollar has also ulterior valuable properties, namely that businesses are mandated by the state to accept it, meaning that you can buy everything with dollars in the US. And Bitcoin is currently very easily influenced by the core developers and the big mining pools as well as anyone with a sizable amount of cash.
That is still a rule for their product, not for the internet.
I believe it's an MVNO for Sprint.

I haven't used Internet On the Go, but I have used TruConnect which is the same company. TruConnect worked alright. I have a personal connection to the company and did some work for them at one point in time so I'm not completely impartial, but their average customer was a 200 MB / month customer. Any more and a subscription would makes sense.
freudian slip ?
I'm sorry but this is what bothers me the most about unregulated capitalism. You are discounting the massive advantage Google and other corporations have which they have accumulated over the years in the form of:

* IP and patents
* Actual employees and knowledge capital
* Actual working designs and infrastructure
* Brand recognition
* Amount of businesses that rely on them

If you say that a new startup can just start building a computer to rival the iMac, for example, you're missing the 1000 little things that go into it. Sure, your competitor might have a more open operating system, say. But it won't have the agreements with chip manufacturers. It won't have the "retina" displays, or other technology that Apple has accumulated over the years.

At some point, the giant corporations just have too much for a startup to defeat. That's why most startups are basically picking off one little part and then the corporations buy them. It used to be that NEW technology was where startups were able to expand while old players couldn't adapt fast enough. For example, Microsoft was still small when the PC software revolution came about. However, now with "moonshots" and ambitious VC activity, the corporations have set up quite a few obstacles to that happening anymore.
before i switched back from linux to mac i took out my ssd and put it in a thunderbolt case. i can now boot it directly and everything works perfectly or i use virtualbox. sadly the permissions are a bit questionable(see below).

Also, one caveat is that the virtualbox vm write tops out somewhere around 100-120 mbyte/s (idr), while the boot from linux gives me 360.

sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~myuser/Library/VirtualBox/VDI/raw-linux.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/disk1
sudo chmod 666 /dev/disk1*