skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the hypothesis here is that: big sites do shitty SEO but they are still big sites, that is why google is evil.

this hypothesis if flawed: just because they are big site - and are still big and show up in google - does not mean that they get away with it.

google's response - from algorithms, mini algorithms (which just target a specific vertical of sites) and spam actions - are most of the time subtle and seldomly targeted at a whole site (especially if the site overall delivers some value)

i have consulted websites - market leaders in their markets and vertical - which had major SEO issues from their technical setup (shooting themselves in the foot) + manual penalties + (user generated) spam issues on their site. still they were the market leaders from brand perception and overall site traffic. they were performing well compared to the competition, they were not performing well compared on how well they could (and later did) perform without these issues.

my recommendation of loves looking at crappy SEO at other sites: And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? - in general a better use of your time and ressources
How do you feel the same way about websites that require you to use Facebook, Disqus, or Livefyre to comment on the site? Do you choose not to participate if they require one of those?
I agree with your reasoning and preferences, but some of us just like cheap beer for the taste. In Northern California a lot of the breweries focus on hoppy flavors, which I don't prefer. I'll just take a bud. My reasoning? Why pay for expensive beer! A bud tastes fine.
e911: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_9-1-1
Cool, always glad to read an article on design from a company that barely understands it.
I think this is probably broscience bullshit. Yeasts produce ethanol from sugars and tend to leave a lot of excess lying around when they finish.

If you want a biological assistant, what you really want is to swallow the "mother of vinegar" acetobacter culture biofilm from unpasteurized, naturally fermented vinegar, and eat it with something dense and sugary before you drink. The acetobacters actually metabolize ethanol into acetic acid and survive in highly acidic environments such as the stomach. As they are aerobic bacteria, you will also need to swallow air while drinking. The amount of time that alcohol remains in your stomach makes it unlikely that you will make more than a tiny difference in the amount of alcohol that enters your bloodstream.

But it is much more scientifically plausible than baker's yeast.

An actual, significant reduction in drunkenness from ingested alcohol would have to overstock the liver with ADH1B, thiamine (vitamin B1), ALDH2, ACSS2, and n-acetyl-L-cysteine (Acetadote). This would require an intravenous injection before you start drinking, and is probably very dangerous in the absence of any real medical necessity.
> Social + Maps = Seeing that my friend goes to this restaurant and likes it.

How would that be relevant to me? I want to know that someone who likes other restaurants I like goes to this restaurant and likes it. I don't care what restaurants my friend likes. We're not friends on the basis of liking the same restaurants.
The difference is how Comcast interprets its competitive position compared to its peers. The barriers to entry in the last mile is high regardless of the ISP but it is willing to leverage/extract rents/push the boundaries more compared to others that may be building goodwill/not push the regulatory boundary/sitting and waiting.

In other words it is acting like a monopolist or a shrewd business.
Halfway through the tag space of a 160-bit tag is 2^159. You're looking for an exact match, not just a collision.
It's very simple. But your description is unclear:
>a simple tool for asking quick questions and getting extremely fast answers to that question.

It's really a tool for creating and sharing simple yes/no polls.
Thanks, I really didn't consider that side of what I was saying, though I can see how it came across that way.

You are right there is definitely a wide range of addiction and I shouldn't have indicated there wasn't.

In retrospect it was really just an emotional response to the OP labeling Koch an alcoholic.
Hmmmm. Bullies pick on the weak/inactive/defenseless. Key is to nip it in the bud, swiftly and vigorously. Don't allow it to fester.

Bottom line: I want my kids to know they can come to me and I will take action, immediately, so they never have to feel alone.

PS The writer seemed half-hearted in dealing with the bullies [I didn't want them to get arrested, I just wanted them to stop]. That was a major mistake. No repercussions so more bullies pile on.
Minimalism was a great theme and that round had some of the best ludum dare games in my opinion.

On the other hand, I agree that things like "You only get one" are not very inspiring.
In my opinion, the oddest thing is the lack of comment by the VCs & board.

The VCs who have invested in RadiumOne (and are on the board) are:
DFJ Esprit,
Trinity Ventures,
Crosslink Capital,
& Adams Street Partners

Additionally, Steve Westly of The Westly Group sits on the board.

The more there is no comment/action from these groups - the less I think any entrepreneurs should work with them in the future.
I'd say it's mostly:

- Landlords and real estate developers (who are making a killing in the current bubble)

- B2B companies targeting startups

- Professional services (lawyers, etc.)

Chris Dixon has written about selling pickaxes in a gold rush: http://cdixon.org/2011/02/05/selling-pickaxes-during-a-gold-...
I agree, but I don't think it is ever that easy. The problem is bullies target people who they know won't fight back, whose personality makes that particularly difficult. There is usually more than one bully involved, too, which makes one feel like s/he has to try to fight back against all of them, an overwhelming proposition.

Benjamin Franklin's solution to getting a person who hated him to like him was to get the other person to do things for him[1]. Doing something for somebody you hate causes cognitive dissonance, as you do positive things for a "negative" person, and the way this often resolves is through a reduction of those negative feelings (empathy may also play a role). Suspension and other punishments don't solve the underlying problem, which is a lack of empathy. A punishment of service to the abused seems like it would be more useful.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Franklin_effect
What makes you think that "the Valley so far has no problem with" that? What is you evidence of that? I see a lot of strong evidence to the contrary.

The fact that he worked the legal system because he's rich doesn't mean "the Valley" or the rest of the world doesn't have a huge problem with what he did.
>>>> But I am pretty firmly of the opinion that the school system tends to greatly underestimate the impact of bullying, conclude based on their actions that they are far more interested in not seeing it than in making it go away

Fully agree with this. I remember telling a teacher about bullying near the end of school and he talked to those 4 bullies.

Talking in this case was basically taking them out of the class (while smiling) and then talking to them for 2-3 minutes. When they came back, they were walking proudly and clearly pointing at me. A few weeks later, it started all over again. And the optimist in me died a small death.

I just finished reading Paul Graham's essay on why nerds are not popular and it kind of resonates. It is not about bullying but talks about schools in a completely different light.
Cogent is the bottom of the barrel transit provider. You use Cogent when you have a lot of bits to push and don't particularly care if they're going to get there (seriously, Cogent has like 25% packet loss at peak times.) Most companies use Cogent for overflow; i.e. they purchase enough transit through other providers for 80-90% of peak load, then fill out the rest with Cogent. It's not that Cogent is a terrible company or anything; they just provide an inferior product at an appropriate price point. Cogent wasn't interested in paying Comcast for better service because quality of service is not the product that Cogent provides. Their business model is to take advantage of their free peering status to sell unreliable transit at rock-bottom prices. Again; it's not evil or anything, but when you use Cogent that has to be what you expect.

But Netflix was using them for almost 100% of their traffic delivery. That's insane. There are other transit providers they could have paid more to and gotten better service, but that would have meant higher costs.

The whole irony of this situation is that I've heard rumors that Netflix is paying less per gigabit to Comcast than they paid Cogent while getting better service than they would get from a top-tier provider. If that's true, other companies will be lining up to get a similar deal because they'd just be cutting out the middlemen.
What do you think about Google's Calico?
I just find it so amazing. Thoughts?
How solving a real pain made us $1,000/month before the big launch
Shouldn't that be b/n (where b = bus factor, n = team members)?
Yeh sorry, not technically correct, while localstorage is great for quickly storing small items, due to having a sync api and having to encode / decode complex data its a non starter more data driver applications, so I always automatically exclude it
Could be. But I know I'm a much happier person.
Literally, A Browser Extension
We've been pretty transparent (I think!)

We will deliver 1.0 as soon as we feel that the core api is intact and we are comfortable supporting for 6-12 months.
The problem is that you get removed from school and given a label of "potentially violent" which will follow you around for a while.

Some countries will prosecute youths involved in violence. Even if prosecution is avoided there might be something like the English "caution" where the person accepts their guilt and accepts a caution (which is kept on record) in order to avoid prosecution. This could also follow you around. Being arrested could make travel to another country tricky.

Finally, beating one or two bullies might not be sufficient. If there is a group of people around you could end up very badly beaten, perhaps hospitalised, and potentially even dead.
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If you go to this site: https://www.rainforestqa.com/jobs/
And click apply it’s a Challenge...I don’t care about the job I just want to figure out the challenge loll it's been bugging me.

So far I believe it's some sort of JavaScript challenge which would then unlock into the application site....
This link might help understand also: http://www.jsontest.com/
Fully agree! Sadly, incidents of [Responsible Capitalism](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/ca...) don't come up on radar as dramatically as corporate overreaching.

I'm going to research this as a possible opportunity within my company.

Thanks for the comment!
My understanding is that HSTS is purely for the client side. You can still have a server that serves http if you want, but any client that supports HSTS that has visited your domain since you started sending the header will simply add tls to any http:// link that it comes across.

So your image link can still be served, but if the client does support HSTS it'll see the header and then make all subsequent requests over TLS.
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The victim blaming that I've seen permeate some HN comment threads has been extremely disappointing. I'd like to think we're actually starting to move on as a society but the HN comment threads always manage to slap me across the face as if to say...tsk...tsk.
Smart guy. And I love this quote "I like to think that because I had the courage to take my shot, good fortune came my way, but it could have just as easily gone terribly wrong." Isn't that the truth and he has the humility to say it.
Why did you bully? Why did you stop? How do you feel about your actions now?
Maybe he could just release the surveillance tape footage to "prove" his innocence?
I would hope that ads are generally useful to the people placing them.
I think that YouTube comments have become unusable. I used to read through the comments and lol at the arguments whilst listening to music, voting various things up and down as I went. But now the comments seem to come in no order, often aren't relevant and when I've tried to vote something, the music stops and it starts taking me to another page. I've never waited to see where it's taking me mind.
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How do antibiotics cause this? Do they kill off some of the intestinal flora that would normally digest the sugars?
My sister went through the same things about the same time. She put a hockey stick in the face of the ring leader in the end, smashed her teeth and broke her jaw. She was arrested but the duty officers agreed to write it off as they'd already been contacted by my parents about the bullying it and they said the CPS wouldn't touch it in this case.

So up turns a guy at my door one day (the girl's father) ready to kick off at my sister and my parents. He was removed by our dogs.

Two years down the line from this, her father is in prison for robbery and the girl was in youth custody for assault.

Moral of the story: half the human race is shit not worthy of a breath of air. Fight fire with fire. No sympathy regardless of the background for any behaviour like this.

Also avoid living in shitty suburbs of Nottingham (this was Woodborough Road next to St Anne's).
There are other options, this is just a master card. Look for Coinkite.com thats a real Crypto Card.
No one expects to write something in Python and port it over to C# with a serious amount of effort either. I don't think changing databases is more common than changing programming languages.
I would think the opposite. If this settlement goes through I would say that the cost of doing this type of business has been decided.
The fact that anyone can experience bullying, survive, and go on to be a productive adult is impressive.

My point is that many don't. Perhaps most. Your comment serves as "comfort food" for those who would like to ignore the problem: "It's good that most children are strong! And it's a pity that some aren't." But most aren't. People who can be changed so fundamentally for the rest of their lives aren't strong people.
Honestly, a theme doesn't have to "inspire" in order for you to be able to explore new game mechanics, or even make something interesting. It is there as a guideline, a limitation in order to bring about real creativity. On top of that, having a prompt to bounce off of helps focus each developer into making something within the short amount of time given. Even the theme "minimalism" could bring about all sorts of interesting games if you give it enough thought. (heck, you could basically do anything you want under that, if you define the theme to mean minimalistic graphics/abstract representations of something in a minimal way. or even minimalistic mechanics that allow for complex puzzles/levels. look a VVVVVV, that could EASILY be a candidate for the minimalism theme, and is a widely popular and acclaimed game)
Well done guys. An important step in adoption and a vote of confidence.
>> The writer seemed half-hearted in dealing with the bullies [I didn't want them to get arrested, I just wanted them to stop]

This may be based in the fact that we are taught from childhood that we should forgive and be good.

And many of us take it seriously. I "let it go" bullying for too long, though in my case, it wasn't this serious!
Funny that you mention that. I sit 1 desk over from a doctor who brought that up as I was writing my earlier comment. We all had a good laugh.
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It's a social custom.

Same as playing poker even if you're not very good at it, and know you're going to lose.
Especially due to the name Nokia. If you gave me a choice between Nokia and HTC, I know what I would choose - based purely on reputation
Is this a different implementation of Diffie–Hellman? As far as I can tell (and I am likely wrong) there needs to be one successful connection attempt using a secure protocol, in this case HSTS, to detect if the redirect was indeed to the correct site or a MitM attack.
The approach I like is to use a key/value document store as the system of record (SOR). If any data conflicts arise between Redis, the document store, and the graph database, then the SOR wins. A good SOR should contain all of the data necessary to rebuild any other data source in its domain.

Graph databases can scale write throughput fine when those writes are being fed to it from a single source so it's best to have a service who's sole purpose is to keep the graph database in sync with the SOR. The graph should only store the data you actually need in order to get the queries that you want.

The specific queries in my domain are exactly the kind of thing I'm not supposed to talk about, but I will say you can do things like:

Give me 50 users who who live near me (lat/long bounding box), who I'm not already following, who I have not already sent a message to, who have at least two friends who also live near me, and who have matching tags, order by number of followers.

there are a bunch of great examples in this awesome book: http://www.amazon.com/Graph-Databases-Ian-Robinson/dp/144935...
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As some who was/is(by managers) being bullied.

The best line of defense against bullying is to become indifferent to bullying. And act like despite the best efforts from the bully, you are just not getting bullied. Or the bully is trying his/her level best and you just don't take them seriously at all. Nothing pisses off bullies as badly as this. You can literally enjoy the expressions on their face when you see how you have defeated them mentally. And know one thing, bullying is mind tactics. And you have to fight it out that way.

Like many innocent looking nerds. I was not only bullied by kids, but by a few teachers too.

Last year, one of my school mates called for re union at a local cafe. Everyone gathered, among them was a guy who helped my Math teacher in high school to bully me. He not only bullied me, but fed the teacher with all sorts of wrong information and got me bullied through him. Anyways the guy was present, and he doesn't seemed to done anything much in life so far. Then my other friends sort of praised as to how far I had gone among all other dudes in our class.

For whatever that brief moment. It looked like the bully's face had dried, gone cold and the expression on his face looked like a greater defeat had been handed over to him.
Clint is a cmd tool not parsing tool
Why is taking antibiotics relevant to this effect?
I noticed you just removed your Portfolio At Risk statistics completely (unless it was moved elsewhere)?

https://www.zidisha.org/index.php?p=43

The statistics page was also changed to only show lending statistics for loans disbursed in the last three months. As a result, new visitors will see the write off rate stated as 0%. These loans haven't had time to be written off, so that write off rate is always going to be 0%.

Meanwhile your all time write off rate is still 18.66%. That should be the statistic displayed to new visitors, not 0%.
NoSQL is absolutely competing with Oracle and other relational DB vendors. You are seeing it today with the valuations for companies like Mongo or DataStax. SaaS is hardly a big enough market compared to say every enterprise. And surely the companies listed on the client pages agree with me.

And people forget something important with SaaS. Data sovereignty. Here in Australia for example there are many enterprise companies who are forbidden from using ANYTHING that is hosted in the US due to the grey legal area e.g. Patriot Act. So in-house databases are absolutely still here to stay.
Here's an example of how YouTube comments suck: if you post a video on your google+ with a comment like "hey guys watch this", that post appears as a comment on that video's page. So now you have a bunch of comments on videos saying "Just found this cool video" or "you have to watch this"...something that makes no sense to the typical viewer.
>> What if they had recorded it somehow and complained? <<

I couldn't imagine someone being ready to record a conversation in the first 15 second of them opening their front door.

It's a matter of judgement, to be sure. I have a spotless police record. Both of these parents do not (and the father's was violent in nature). As another replier here noted "restraining order." I would have enjoyed a legal battle with these parents, as they have not near the resources to draw on as I. I also had evidence against their child in the form of notes and drawing that were violent and threatening in nature.

If that had of been some other type of parent, I'd maybe had done it differently. But with these people, that's what worked.
1. don't work under market or signal that you will unless you are actually an under market-skills programmer. 60-70k for someone with no professional programming experience might be the market (which is currently flooded with junior devs from the various hacker schools) -- it really depends on your skill level.

2. It might take a few weeks to land something -- have you negotiated a payment plan with your creditors. What is the least amount you need to make for a side project that will take some pressure off?

3. your email is not in your profile. Contact me: loumfranco -at- gmail -dot- com

4. I will tech screen you today (or this weekend) if you want and give frank advice. I can make intros in NYC -- I am a consultant and my clients are all hiring (as is nearly everyone). This would be full-time in NYC (contract and perm are available).
LD14 has a very innovative mechanic, you should expand on that.

Did you use Box2D in your games?
There are well respected standards such as SQL 92. They could also just take SQLite specification and use it.

Many SQL databases support multiple SQL dialects.
Facebook's and Google's challenges are not unicorns. But they are leviathans, and the author is somewhat correct to observe that NoSQL solves problems that we all "would love to have".

Or perhaps only think we have - I know a lot of developers who believe that an RDBMS should be kept at arm's length and only spoken to through an ORM, or who've never spent much time exploring what they're missing by never straying far from SQLite and MySql. These same folks seem to have a remarkable ability run into "big data" problems that "can't be solved by an ACID-compliant RDBMS" well short of the point where I'd only be thinking, "Huh, this DB's getting big enough that I might need to spend more time thinking about my indexing strategy."

I do agree wholeheartedly that more and more companies will be encountering situations where ACID proves to be a impediment to scalability in the future. But that's then, this is now, premature optimization is the root of all evil, and "Getting ready for a problem we might encounter in the coming years" is often just a fancy way of saying, "Solving a problem we don't actually have."
Well, since 'nothing is wrong! its fine! google+ all the things' has been the dogmatic adherance for the last what? 3 years? ... you have to acknowledge that at the very least this is an admission their previous practice was stupid and harmful.

...which is a good change.
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Assuming you are micro independent software vendor (MISV) or one man web shop (OMWS), how do you reduce your Bus Factor?

http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/55554/what-are...

(longer term I want to put myself out of the equation)
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