skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His analogies portraying search engines as "borders" or "gates" are ridiculous. Without search engines most of his "streets" or "islands" of content won't ever be discovered by users. Pre-google Internet was small, categorized and somewhat boring. Search engines don't create borders or gates, they're expanding the "continents".

Moreover, I find google search results to be extremely accurate. Yes, some of our competitors are ranked higher than us in organic search results. That's because they've been around longer, their products have more reviews on independent blogs and they have more existing users. Yes, as a user searching for "XYZ" more often than not I mean to find the most popular "XYZ" at the moment, not the most innovative startup that's trying to displace "XYZ".

What I don't like is Google's adwords system. If something's broken, you're fucked and there is no customer service or an explanation what happened. It's like me coming back home to find out that my landlord changed the locks and won't pick up a phone number so I won't even be able to get my shit out of the apartment. Yes, it's illegal for landlords to do that but GOOG can.
Well, it contains the string "Twitter". (To be fair to the media, I don't think they're "pretending" it's significant - IMHO they, like Morgan Stanley, really have no idea anymore what's significant and what's not. Next stop - Nobel prize :))
If that wasn't a joke, then it was depressing.

I'm choosing to be optimistic.
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Ask HN: What happens to your Facebook account when you die?
We all know that when you delete your facebook account, it still exists within their servers but the reasons why that make sense (i.e. in case you want to come back, their data using purposes) are not as applicable if you've passed away.

So there is the question of ownership. For example, could your family request control of your account? I'd rather this than facebook or my account sitting idle but then again, if you haven't consented to it, that doesn't seem right.

There is also the question of your footprint. Does facebook delete your account on your behalf (assuming they are notified) or does it just sit there like a virtual tombstone?

Finally there is the question of information. Assuming facebook knows about your passing ans deletes your account, do they still hold that information in their servers as they do with other people who have deleted their accounts?
Wow. The guy that suggested it is a 200% neocon war-monger and ardent supporter of George W Bush. Just read his Wikipedia entry which is obviously very flattering of him, maybe a tad too much...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pfeifle

Plus he currently just has 239 followers n Twitter. Maybe this is just "get more followers" stunt.
Just getting something on the front page does not signify that it's hacker news. This article got there, for instance, and was subsequently killed:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=693525
Flagged because you lack similar sense of humor? Wasn't aware that was a reason to flag.

http://twitter.com/360JobInterview
http://twitter.com/truebusiness

Those two organizations who are serious businesses seem to have no problem finding the humor.
Their ploy changes sometimes, but the answer is always there on the page somewhere.

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Apple/Operating_Systems/OS_X...

If you scroll down a bit it says "answer is available to premium members". But the page would not rank on Google if it didn't have actual content. Scroll all the way to the very bottom of the page. (APPLE-DOWNARROW on Mac) Bingo.
That feeling of not wanting to stop, while responsible for most of my noteworthy accomplishments, scares a lot of people. I have had several people who have tried to "fix" me because they decided that me being up most of hte night finishing something was unhealthy. They never seem to understand the idea of ramp up time, nor do they seem to understand the fickle mistress inspiration. There was one guy, a kind of mentor to me, who tried to tell me it was a moral imperitive to get up early and get to work, to show the bosses I cared. For some reason staying late didn't show the same thing, particularly if i took advantage of the flex time and showed up around noon. Fortunately this guy was not my boss, and instead I get to be productive in the way that fits me best. Fortunately this guy broke off the mentorship after I got promoted in spite of my "terrible scheduling habits".
There is a special 'In Memoriam' mode apparently, although I have yet to see it.
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Maybe I simply wasn't willing to digg deep enough, but that seemed more like marketing material than anything technical of real value to hacker-type people.

Some circuit designs, examples etc of how you can make truly clockless designs that "just plug and play" would have been appreciated.
Actually, it's great news for Microsoft, since the market share for Vista is less than 20% (http://e-janco.com/browser.htm), and I'm guessing almost all of those are home users who got it by default. 40% is great if your market share was closer to 0% previously. :)
Acknowledging that slaves had real economic value is in no way a declaration of support for slavery. The fact that you can make such a jump in logic is profoundly disturbing to me. Those sorts of conclusions take away from honest discussion.
I'd also very highly recommend this book, but anyone looking to buy might be interested to know that the 3rd edition comes out this fall (9/30).

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Third-Thomas-C...

"It includes two completely new chapters, on van Emde Boas trees and multithreaded algorithms, and substantial additions to the chapter on recurrence (now called "Divide-and-Conquer"). It features improved treatment of dynamic programming and greedy algorithms and a new notion of edge-based flow in the material on flow networks."
Probably a bad sample to go from for the report. Same as getting a "social media guru" who is 15 years old to tell you otherwise.

Twitter isn't liked by teens, but for other reasons outside the article.
It implies that you need to pay to see the answers even though they are presented there on the page. The first block of "answers" is deliberately mangled to imply you need to pay to see them, and then there is a block of advertisements, but below that is the same answers presented in plain text.

Very shifty indeed.
Of course, but these are a bunch of middle-aged analysts we're talking about. Actually getting some first-hand information from teenagers is going to be a huge step up regardless of statistical bias.
Van Emde Boas tree - all operations in O(log log n) time
Unfortunately the numbers are rather misleading here, since the benchmark scaffolding he uses has very different performance characteristics on different implementations. He's passing the symbols naming the functions to test to time-tests, but funcalling symbols (instead of functions) is very expensive on sbcl. So it's pretty much a benchmark of the speed of symbol-function, not of different case implementations :-)
Digital assets after death are still handled extremely poorly. In most cases your information on the digital servers is your property, so you should be able to direct your executor / executrix to notify the necessary sites and have them act accordingly. However the action is not going to be speedy.

My option is to save all my necessary login informations, encrypt it, and leave in my will for the executor/trix to handle and act out my instructions.

This topic is one I've pondered as a basis for a startup but I have yet to find a really significant business plan surrounding it.
The author is an executive at a private company and has anonymously written an article calling for transparency, disclosure and government regulation in the online search industry. This is utter garbage.
I quote per job, rather than tell them my rate is $100/hour. These are "billable" hours though, not actual hours. Time spent corresponding, etc, doesn't get factored in. So the effective rate is a bit lower.

Most of my projects tend to be as a subcontractor to other developers/designers, so the requirements are very well-defined. If you work directly with clients and quote the whole job you need to make sure the scope is WELL defined and you fully understand the client's expectations or you could get burned with changes and out of scope aspects.

All of my work comes from referrals or directly from conversations with acquiantences.
This comment is wrong bordering on the obscene. Does he think Bing, which competes with Google feature-for-feature, can be built by 30 people, while Google itself needs most of its 20,000 employees to build its search engine? The same goes for the ChromeOS vs. Windows case. It's as though he thinks both Bing and ChromeOS are just toy products, mere demos designed to poke the competitors or rile up the press. They're not.
Also, regulations tend to lock-in the current market structure.

From the article: The anonymous author is an executive at one of the largest sites on the internet.

Why wouldn't he want to lock in market conditions?
Wow, harsh.
Well, I would hope a sample text at least. Free advertising.
The rule i usually use is take your yearly salary and divide by 1000 (not 100) and add another 10% to 15% to it.
There could be other reasons why they retain data. For example, it could be to maintain data integrity. Let's say you've sent messages to people, left comments, written on walls, etc. When you delete your account it's going to be much easier to flip a flag somewhere to indicate that the account is no longer active than it will be to remove any trace of your existence there.

Think about it. It's not an especially easy problem to solve. The data that people put on the site can relate to each other. If you remove some pieces those relationships break and context is lost. Not to mention, finding and removing the data could be an intensive task, especially when it could be scattered across many shards.

There's also the matter of how remaining users will feel when data you've left for them suddenly disappears. If you've sent me a message and I chose to leave it in my inbox indefinitely why should it vanish because you've decided to delete your account? You sent it to me. Isn't it mine now?

The reasons for abandoning an account are independent of the reasons for retaining the data associated with that account so they would be just as applicable in the case of death. That said, I have no idea how Facebook would handle the situation. It really seems to be an issue of control of the account and not so much data retention.
I don't think that your family can request control of your account, but they can request that it is deleted (or hidden, I don't know what FB does internally).

I've had friends who've passed away, and their facebook is still up; people write messages on their wall every once in a while saying that they miss them and so forth, so in a sense, it becomes like a virtual memorial. I've also read stories about families that wanted their deceased relative's facebook account deleted, but they didn't know any of the security questions or other information, so Facebook wouldn't delete it.

I think a good solution would be for Facebook to automatically deactivate (but not delete) your account if you haven't logged in for a year. Thus, if you ever go away for a while, forget about your account, etc. it will be there when you get back, but if you've died, it's automatically removed (in a sense).
Wrong. Your Tor client won't necessarily choose them. Tor doesn't work like most P2P applications choosing other peers depending on the speed. It chooses an aleatory sequence of 3 Tor nodes that changes every 10 minutes.
The title is not a typo. Time is exponentially better than a self-balancing binary search tree. Assuming your problem can fit within the key constraints, and that your tree is sufficiently dense to make it practical. ;)
I don't know where OP lives, but I heard it in the news.
I'm in New York, everything is expensive so I thought it was pretty reasonable. For example, one job I gave an estimate on, would easily be a 100 hour job. So I gave an estimate of $5000. They wrote back to me and said they got another offer for $1500.

I'll defintely try raising my price.

Any thoughts on good places to look for work. I have been primarily using Craigslist. I've been getting a good amount of replies. I do not like the sites that make you bid for the work. Seems like that requires a lot of effort, for low prices.
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That's a good idea. But it is also 'gameable', in other words let's all do bad stuff on ww.com so we can ban ourselves over and over again...

The only thing I can think of that would really crack it is software that will analyze the images from the camera and ban the perps before anybody gets to see the images. That's a pretty tall order software wise though, I don't think I'm good enough for such a task (even though I occasionally get mad enough to try my hand at it again).
Ironically swearing when talking about swearing falls flat, always.
So, a teen points out that many sign up to Twitter but few bother to use the service after the initial novelty wears off.

That reminds me of another fabled kid who pointed out that the emperor was walking around stark naked.
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That's not what the article says. The article seems to draw its conclusions entirely on this statement: "After 10 hours of being awake, the early birds showed reduced activity in brain areas linked to attention span, compared with the night owls."

I saw from your comments above that measurements were taken at two different times. However, the article, not the study, is linked prominently on the front page of HN and that's what I'm taking exception with. I have no doubt that the study is rigorous and careful but the conclusions drawn and the tone taken by the author of the article are sketchy at best.

On top of that, as you mention in a previous comment, the study is comparing what the two groups can do in "their relative evenings". Again, this seems like apples to oranges to me. Of course morning people are going to be less effective in their evenings because, well, they are MORNING people.

I guess I would be interested in understanding what we hope to get from a study like this. The article says people who are extreme in either direction are genetically predisposed to their own personal direction. If we identify that one group of people is better than the other based on their genetics, what does this do for us, long term? That's something I'd be interested in hearing about.
Google Adwords has kick ass customer service if you just have to know where to find it (admittedly not a trivial undertaking).

1(866)2-GOOGLE (US Only)

More than once I've spent days going rounds with some sort of sophisticated responder bot (or maybe it was an Indian, I honestly couldn't tell) on a problem that was solved in minutes by calling that number. Now, I just call first and skip the email support. I've never been on hold for longer than a minute or two.

I hope this helps you in the future.

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If I was a 15 year old, I think I'd find twitter completely useless too. I use twitter for professional networking -- almost everyone I follow or am followed by is a potential customer, vendor, recruit, or employer.
i'm curious, what kind of software are you developing / what kind of companies are you serving as a freelancer?
No, I scroll all the way down and don't see anything. Do you need to be logged in? Even if you only have to be logged in without paying, it's still annoying as heck.
In NYC, $50 is definitely too low, I think. Of course you didn't say what it is you're doing (reworking PHP scripts, or writing financial models in OCaml, or whatever), which makes a difference too.
That does not sound right.

100,000 / 100 * 1.15 = 1150$

At 1/4 time 1150$ * 20hours a week * 25weeks = 575,000.

PS: I would say current salary / 500 for part time work ( < 20 hours a week for less than 1 month) and around salary / 1000 for full time work for 6+ months. With a sliding scale between those numbers.
You're probably right that a nice board is worth the money. But this spray has been working perfectly for years now on my cheap board.
Hmm what browser do you use?

Firefox and Chrome on Windows XP dont appear to have content hidden anywhere.

This is what I see on the example you used.
http://screencast.com/t/mJLb2rsD Any ideas where I am missing it? (checked the source too)
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You're right, and I think that's exactly what the submitter tried to do by asking here. Still, it's probably a better question for the people turning down the work.
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Hardly, its good advice.

I would add thought, that when asking remember that the person may not be telling the truth. They may actually want to hide something if they are doing it out of some personal prejudice they don't want to admit or because they have already made up their minds about the winner but are going through a bidding process for show.

Also, they may think they are telling the truth but actually being influenced by something they don't realize. For instnace, if the poster were unusually young they may feel he is immature or lacking experience even in the face of evidence to the contrary.

One way to at least mitigate this is to solicit opinons from many people that originally turned him down.
I've used the Xbox to watch media almost every day since the day it launched. I download all my files through bittorrent, stream them to the Xbox. I also use PlayOn to let me watch Hulu there.

It's not too noisy if you have the latest version and aren't running a DVD. A Mac Mini is not better (though it is smaller and quieter) and it's significantly more expensive and harder to use for living room applications. I know because I tried.

The Wii has a browser, and I've used it once and then only to check it out. Wtf would I want a browser on my TV for? All the Xbox needs is a YouTube app, and then there'd be no reason for one.
There's that term again. How do we know that real life "early birds" and "late risers" are actually following their natural sleep rhythms?
If you don't think advertising works, seven words for you: The Most Interesting Man in the World.

This campaign has done insane wonders for Dos Equis and the ads aren't about beer. They're about some old dude with a beard.
Down 35% YTD is what you call 'unaffected'?
"The product needs to come close to the hype"

hn may be the one place where this still goes without saying.
"After 10 hours of being awake" is correct actually.

For the behavioral part of the study, "In their relative evening, late risers are more alert and can outperform early birds in a reaction time test assuming they're allowed follow their natural sleep rhythm, whereas there are no such differences in the morning" would be more accurate.

For the imaging one: "Ten hours after waking up early birds show patterns of activation similar to those of sleep deprived people (1 night skipped). Late owls show patterns associated with optimal concentration". The sleep pressure in EB is also greater as demonstrated by the amount on slow wave sleep in the first part of the night.

> Of course morning people are going to be less effective in their evenings because, well, they are MORNING people.

Not necessarily. In absolute time, it's obvious it will be the case, but why, beforehand, would it be when you adjust the measurements to the sleep cycle? At least it's not obvious for me. Read the detailed methods in my post above. Furthermore, evening people are as performant as early people in their relative morning. The only difference is in the relative evening where late types are better.

I'm not sure it has much impact in terms of eugenics. The paper shows that late people, who tend to be seen as slackers in general, actually perform better (at some tasks) if they are free to follow their natural rhythm (up at 10+am, go to sleep at 2+ am), which is impossible to do for most of them in the current socio-proffesionnal environment.
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If two monkeys in one group died under anesthesia, that doesn't constitute ground to conclude they were more likely to die: it is simply not statistically significant. Hence you may subtract them from the age related deaths.
The note at the start says "This is an exact transcript of this podcast". The actual content is full of "@$#%!" and suchlike. So does the speaker in the podcast say things like "Holy at-sign dollar hash percent exclamation mark"?

An article about the same research at the researcher's university -- http://keeleuniversitypressoffice.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/s... -- is more specific about what sorts of word the subjects were allowed to use in the two conditions. It wasn't that they were "only allowed to use more socially acceptable words" in the no-swearing condition; more specifically, they were asked to use "a more commonplace word that they would use to describe a table". The abstract of the paper says "a neutral word".

So, in particular, it isn't that subjects were having to expend mental energy thinking up socially acceptable expletives :-).
I recall reading something similar with regard to the new, chipped U.S. passports. If the chip fails, the document is still valid. (Though I expect you might well be in for some hassle. And don't take my word WRT the document's validity; I'm just remembering some random thing I read.)

I would imagine, though, that intentionally disabling it represents some form of criminally liable tampering or vandalism. Hopefully not forgery; I seem to recall that forgery carries some big penalties. I wouldn't see disabling some of the information as forgery, but I don't know how a prosecutor might argue the situation.
Interesting. Most of my customers are government, so I guess that's where the difference lies -- they like having a number to point at and say "that's how much it costs". Whether or not it's the cheapest product, it's preferred to ambiguously priced applications.

Of course, that's one of the main reasons they invented the GSA I guess.
It's classic emotional appeal marketing and it works in the short term. In the long term it can undermine credibility, which in this case it has.
The companies cite "lack of time and resources" as the reason they won't upgrade. What does this include? Training? IT support time? Actual put-the-disc-in-the-machine-and-wait time?
Craigslist is practically the bottom of the barrel for freelancing.

There's a ton of other services and non-traditional sources including tech blogs like Techcrunch and GigaOm (sounds nuts, but biz people go through them).
It's the same with everything else in life no? The large number of people who watch trashy TV, the large number of people who eat fast food, etc. Principle of least effort and all that.
It only works for certain referring pages. Google being one of them. Direct access, or a HN referral will not show the answers.
Sure, give an estimate, but then stay in close contact - if you're slipping, alert the client as soon as possible.
Keep your hourly price as high as possible. Like other people have pointed out it tells the client that you're good, but it also filters out dead-beat clients that only care about price.