skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why shouldn't I ask my customers to provide feedback on Internet? A business must encourage their customers to spread good word by various channels like social media, word of mouth, blogs, links, reviews, invite friends etc.

This practice has existing long before Internet, and internet has made it easier than ever. Google is essentially telling us not to ask our customers to evangelize for us.

Why such hypocrisy? How about the invites system Google uses for many products including Gmail where users are encouraged and incentivized to invite friends.

According to Google's terms if I link to my Dropbox referral link on my blog, Dropbox should be penalized for it because they incentivize users to do that.

The internet should not work according to Google's algorithm and policies, it should be the other way around.
I guess we didnt visit the same place... Detroit is a dump and nobody wants to pick up the tab.
Yep, this is the case here as well. Paying Comcast for TV + internet because it's $15/month cheaper than internet alone. The cable box they sent me is sitting unpacked in the closet.
And what are men's considerations in long term relationships? It doesn't seem like they are just going along with the first woman who deems them worthy.
It watermarks into the audio track and is by all accounts incredibly sophisticated and robust. Pirates have been trying to destroy the watermarks for years and all they achieved is making the soundtrack unlistenable.

For bypassing the software verification, it can be made quite hard although it's kind of irrelevant today because it only became mandatory (via BluRay Consortium "regulations") in 2012. So there are still lots of players around that don't do it and this will be the case for the forseeable future. Verance is doing a big push to get it into TVs and other things but I'm not sure how successful they are being. The technology works without a doubt but of course when you add up licensing costs, etc, it's not always necessarily a win.
The way this works is that the system-level packages handle setting up the metadata for the language's module system, either through files or install-time scripts, and the language package itself handles the rest.

This is how it works in Python, Perl, Ruby, Guile, and even Emacs on at least Debian(and derivatives such as Ubuntu), Fedora (and derivatives such as RHEL, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and a couple others), Arch, and some others I won't bother to mention.

It doesn't matter whether you're using DPKG/APT, RPM/YUM/DNF, ALPM/Pacman, or whatever, the logic is handled in what files are in the package.

In a world where systems have decently-functional package managers of their own, there is no need for a language-specific package manager.

Language level package managers exist because on major desktop and workstation platforms, system package managers have failed.(OS X and Windows both have several broken, incomplete package managers; none of them are installed by default.)

The fact that this got upvoted so heavily is not surprising, given that judging by the current frontpage of HN, much of the userbase doesn't even know ^R does reverse interactive search in most terminals since the '80s.
Other than the tax increase, no change. (And I say that as someone who thinks giving everyone a wad of cash is more honest than the means-tested favoritism welfare we have today)
No, it's not truly bad, just very anecdotal, and I think we can do better. (But I didn't flag the article.) Also -- the peripheral concerns around this particular writer, who has written on a variety of red-button topics, can make things go downhill fast.
I didn't really like matts answers, some of them are not answers at all.

But! You may have hit the nail on the head. if i had to guess i would say that storing exceptions means that suddenly the algorithm had to check part of the corpus for these exceptions. at the scale at which google operates this could probably lead to rather big size and speed implications.

But maybe i'm just fantasizing.
I interviewed recently for a Data Engineer position in Chicago and was surprised when 2 interviewers from the data team introduced themselves as astrophysicists. They reasoned that they weren't happy with the career path in academia and so found a way out.
You are not to old. Five years ago I started training martial arts again. I had only done it of a few months in my twenties and it was the only "sport" I ever enjoyed.

It is great, as I really sucked at it, but so did everyone else. Five years later I am still not particularly good at it. But I am better than the beginners and it gets better every few months. But, the key thing is not what it did for my martial arts, it is what it did for my life.

I am much more disciplined in everything I do. I have more stamina. I get up at least an hour earlier in the morning. I am not suffering as much from a mostly static job, sitting behind a computer all day (these days I stand). I take stress better. The list goes on.

It has thought me to deal with the issues you list, specially: 1.2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8.

I can't really say it will do the same for you, but if you find a serious club, where competition is not the focus, but collaboration. Maybe it could work for you too.
Between YouTube, Twitch.TV (and related, like Azubu, Speedruns, etc), Crunchyroll, and occasional piracy (GoT), I never turn on my TV unless it's the Chromecast the aforementioned content.
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Are you really questioning whether Game of Thrones is popular? Of course people still watch TV. A lot of them just pirate it.
Obviously there are some differences, but type classes are pretty similar to the way python normally works - type classes specify methods that a type has to have. So in the case of 'print', the type specifies that print can be called on anything that implements the method that turns a value into a string. The neat thing, of course, is that if you try to call it on something that doesn't implement that method, you get a compile error (and with proper tooling, I actually see red squiggles in my editor if I make this mistake, which is about as good as it can get).
Not sure when the post was made, but ronnier later replied that it's http://www.softsyshosting.com.

I definitely agree though - they sound like a very poor host. One of my websites received an invalid DMCA via my host, and my host handled it well (i.e. listening to my side of the story, before deciding not to pursue the 'complaint').

Any host that handles DMCAs so poorly (i.e. threatening their customers without knowing the facts) doesn't deserve to be in business IMO.
I used ngrok pretty heavily a couple months ago for a period of weeks and it never never down when I was using it. This is the first time I've ever seen ngrok (service or site) down.
Calling a turd "transparency regulation" instead of "intellectual property" is just changing the name of the same thing.

Under any copyleft type of regime, even if you remove copyright and replace with some other enabling law, you're still using legal controls to enforce rights management of bits and bytes.
Why not? AT&T has a fraction of the video subscribers that DirecTV has. They're not a major player at all.

If you really want to avoid AT&T, then Dish still exists as a robust competitor.
I don't think many people outside of the US have ANY positive feelings about the US military.
Munchausen by Proxy is not something you want to do in science - it's explicitly faking data (child injuries) so you get attention that you desire. It's not causing the problem, but faking the problem. MbP definitely is a very serious problem, but it's not the problem that the parent claims is happening. A better semantic fit for the science world for MbP would be faking data to get grant money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchausen_syndrome_by_pro...
I guess that's kind of beneficial for Google though - now if people want to find out more about the showers your client fits, they have to Google for them, and Google can sell lots of profitable advertising space on those searches to competing bathroom fitting companies. I wonder how often it's in Google's financial interest to break hyperlinking on the web?
the rate of false positives is very important
Google simply doesn't have the data in the UK, it has probably a tenth of the footpath and cyclepath routes compared to OSM, let alone all the information about surfaces, unofficial paths etc.

Share the recommendation for komoot, although it's quite new, and a bit buggy.

OSMAnd is also useful, not so polished, but you get a lot of power over the way you use the map, for instance searching for attractions, pubs, cycle parking, etc along the way, and it's completely offline.
If manually disavowing a link truly has the same effect as getting it removed by contacting the third-party site's webmaster, then why would people still ask for links to be removed? Is disavowal somehow penalized, i.e. it reduces but does not eliminate the penalty induced if no action had been taken? Or is Google's line that the penalty would be eliminated, but people don't trust that Google's algorithms work the way it says they do, and still ask for the takedown to be safe?
Yes, we get tons of spams on our blogs and forums.

Thanks to Google for creating these parasites. The link-spam problem has been caused by Google in the first place.

I don't remember getting such spam in a pre-Google Internet world.

Small website owners like us may not have the technology and human resources to combat such spam. Therefore, we are caught up in the fire and get penalized by Google.
Consider the age of the program. It was first developed in 1997. The png format was very new and not even standardized yet. Some (most?) web browsers didn't support it or only supported it in the latest version, at a time when auto-updating browsers didn't exist.
Meanwhile, the bill’s momentum has also been sputtering as a result of the trial lawyer bar pressuring other Senate Democrats to slow the bill.

This is probably as big or a bigger issue. Leahy may be taking one for the team here.
What I do is call them and outright refuse to pay more for just internet. I tell them to lower my bill to below that each year my "promotion" expires. They forward me to the "Loyalty" department and somehow find a new promotion for me each time.

Fuckers.
Sports. ESPN + NFL Redzone + TNT + Local channels in HD have no good alternative on the internet. If they did I wouldn't pay for TV.
To support the point from the article. StackOverflow had to put significant effort to figure out a policy that would allow some links to have a 'nofollow' attribute but wouldn't impede organic traffic from Google (see a discussion around this questions: http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/51156).

Such things should be handled automatically by the ranking algorithm. High quality sites shouldn't need to research what are the ranking algorithm internals. Today most sites prefer to stay on the safe side and put 'nofollow' on everything, which is detrimental for original content creators.
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Aren't noise barriers more cost effective solutions?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_barrier
Call me old-fashioned but I think the previous, less fashionable version of this page (site?) was much more usable [1]. At least it gave you a much better idea of all it takes by having it all the links in one page.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140408204512/http://www.staff....
Do not confuse epigenetics with culture.

There are a ton of calorie restriction experiments involving all species (except humans, since that is not realistically possible). These studies show that calorie restriction clearly results in weight loss.
It's even worse than I thought it was. Lots worse. Amazing job by the OpenBSD guys though.
A 30 engineer + 20 support staff company, I still bet they have a higher $/employee ratio.
This is why they want a tiered internet. They would make a tier specifically for streaming sites, and a discount if you have cable with them.
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The downtown is resurgent, and is certainly not a dump. Many of the suburbs are very affluent. There is a large area that is in very dire shape (which is, of course, the area that people focus on when they seek their ruin porn), but is no worse than it was 20 years ago, and in most cases is significantly better.

Detroit had been in decline for many, many decades. It hit bottom and is getting better.
I've read the thread up to here, and I do think Google is to blame for some heavy-handedness and some rather tone-deaf spokespeople (not that Matt_Cutts ever identified himself as speaking for Google, though he acts like it). But I think the bigger point that everybody is missing is that the Internet has become awash in all sorts of information, "good" and "bad," well-curated and spammy, human- and machine-generated, white-hat and black-hat. Just because YOU post information, and post a blog article about how it is good information, doesn't make it so or not so to an objective observer.

Google is what it is: trying to sift through all that information algorithmically and using some forms of AI so it can extract what humans think is good information. I agree that a good forum that has good policies is getting hurt by some of google's actions, but it's the larger system, not Google. To make an analogy: almost everybody drives and everybody uses roads, but nobody should say: I'm a good driver or I don't drive, I've never been in an accident, therefore I cannot be in an accident. With all the information and intents behind such information on the Internet, and with google as the self-appointed traffic laws, there is still bound to be some collateral damage, sometimes because of how Google tries to deal with the dreck.

As an aside, one can view Google as a just one way of monetizing information on the Internet, competing and co-existing with many other ways. You can also view it as a giant AI algorithm that gets rewarded (advertising revenue) when it finds the good information that humans are looking for and defends itself against others who have other interests.
Neither. :-)
Are you implying that, with current technology, we may expend more energy confining antimatter than we could derive from a controlled annihilation?
Previous discussion from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7761041
I use tcsh, and I've bound up-arrow to do this.

bindkey -k up history-search-backward
bindkey -k down history-search-forward

Very useful.
> IT’S spring again. Hip deep in asparagus — and, soon enough, tomatoes and zucchini — farm-to-table advocates finally have something from the farm to put on the table.

Huh ? I live in western Europe and every Saturday morning I meet up with some fellows (~40 heads) to retrieve my vegetables and dairy products that are bought from local farmers. We have vegetables in winter. Do Americans really have no vegetables in winter ?

> Perhaps the problem with the farm-to-table movement is implicit in its name. Imagining the food chain as a field on one end and a plate of food at the other is not only reductive, it also puts us in the position of end users. It’s a passive system — a grocery-aisle mentality — when really, as cooks and eaters, we need to engage in the nuts and bolts of true agricultural sustainability.

Most people going into the farm-to-table movement I know are doing it to support their local farmers first.

And yes we are rediscovering old "winter" vegetables. It took some time to find out how to cook some of them (eg: https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTBngVF...)

I re-read the article again and I am under the impression the slow-food movement or the farm-to-table movement is really at the beginning in the US.
AFAIK, there are several experimental results supporting low carb diets, but all are refutable, as in someone can always come up with a counter-argument. Robert Lustig and his "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" lecture (available on youtube) is probably currently the best-supported argument.

There's an initiative called the "Nutrition Science Initiative" (nusi.org) that apparently attempts to put an end to the debate with irrefutable research, which will finally convince everyone one way or the other. They seem to be still in the early stages.
"There is a large area that is in very dire shape... but is no worse than it was 20 years ago"

This is absolutely untrue. I live in Detroit and work with its property data on a daily basis. The physical state of the city has deteriorated significantly since the financial crisis of 2008-9.

The downtown that is resurgent encompasses 7.2 of 139 square miles. Most of the city has not bottomed out. People continue to leave, properties continue to burn, and the news of Detroit's resurgence remains greatly overstated.

Take a look here to see how Detroit has fared since 2008:

http://goobingdetroit.tumblr.com/
Yes! Cable = Sports. If they somehow decouple those two then I'm all Internet.
I can't help but wonder why Google thinks links from OP's site are "unnatural" (assuming they're all natural). E.g. is this a consequence of allowing do-follow links in comments - and if so, does vigilant moderation make a difference? Or perhaps an indication that the site was compromised and there are pages of spam hidden off in a corner somewhere?
Because I'll switch to Comcast or Verizon if I'm an ATT customer and their internet service is bad?
Previous Discussion From Yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7761346

Includes WePay response.
When I was losing weight I was trying for around 2100 calories per day, and that brought me to around 1 lb/week of weight loss.

From what I've read, the rule of thumb is 3500 calories = 1 lb of fat, so in a week, you want to run a 500 calorie deficit each day. That, and most of the online calorie estimators seemed to cluster around 2600 calories/day for "maintenance" for me, assuming a mostly sedentary lifestyle. So I came up with 2100 and that mostly worked.

It's important to "dial it in" though, by weighing yourself at the same time every day and keeping track of how much you've lost in a given week. At first I was doing 1800 calories per day and I was losing too much, so I bumped up my number up to 2100 and leveled off a bit.

Nowadays I'm doing 2600 per day and I'm coasting pretty well, maybe losing a tiny bit, but making up for it by blowing my budget on occasion. 2600 is very easy to hit though... I can still do fast food for lunch and have no problem making my budget so long as I don't overdo it too much.
If my website is getting spammy links, which I did not create. Additionally, it is out of my control to create / edit / remove those links.

In such scenario, how does Google determines if I created the links? Does Google have precognitive abilities or it can spy on my communication channels (Gmail, Google Voice, Hangouts etc.) to figure out if I am innocent?
One thing I didn't realize until recently is that it's not just "hard" engineering-wise, it's hard theoretically, i.e. NP-hard. With version constraints, package managers actually have to solve a problem equivalent to SAT solving.

All the "practical" package managers rely on relatively terrifying hacks and heuristics to get around this. I have been looking through Debian metadata, and I am very surprised at how unsound it is. The metadata is very tightly coupled to apt-get ("virtual" package handling, etc.) Not to mention that all the algorithms basically only work in one direction (going forward, not backward).

It appears that some academic/niche package managers are incorporating SAT solvers.

"Managing the complexity of large free and open source package-based software distributions"

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=162491025473640248...

More references:

http://www.mancoosi.org/edos/references/

Anyway the root problem is that C headers and other language-specific interfaces are not always a good way to interface software components... developing more stable binary protocols would greatly ameliorate the versioning problem.
Nice library! For some strange reason, Excel, Mathematica, and bessel on npm (http://npm.im/bessel) disagree with Jmat.js for the bessel family:

SetPrecision[BesselY[10,10],20] -0.35981415218340272205
require('bessel').bessely(10,10) -0.35981415215916784
=BESSELY(10,10) -0.35981415215916800
Jmat.bessely(10,10) -0.3598156646154304
If you're having trouble relating to the numbers, here's a great episode of Parts Unknown that shows how bad Detroit is now, hosted by a guy who really likes Detroit. http://www.cnn.com/video/shows/anthony-bourdain-parts-unknow... (not so much the videos, but the text below.)
Rather than just shuffling the bits, you could do a invertible operations, like you'd use in a block cipher. An unbalanced feistel network (24 and 23 bit halves) would be easy to implement, or even just invertible operations like "x=x^rotate(x, 5)".
$ apt-get
bash: apt-get: command not found
Also... what happens when, as a consequence of us ignoring requests, Google decide that a site with a high number of disavowed links is a spammy site?

I figure already that you'll eventually consider that a valid signal, but I'm sure you could already check my site and that there must already be some disavowed links, yet you personally admit this is a well-maintained forum.

There is a fear that we are being caught in the crossfire, and it's hard not to believe that quite a few of us are going to get hit by that crossfire.
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Roads aren't free, we pay for them in taxes and tolls.
I mean, I don't have an option to switch away from Comcast because their internet service is bad.

That's why they can refuse to upgrade their peering with Netflix in the first place, because they know I'm stuck with them, when I'd dump pretty much any ISP who didn't upgrade their peering with a major website that I visit (in like 3-4 months) if I had the option to.
Doesn't work on AS/400, Windows, VxWorks, QNX, ...
There is some overlap with CCAN (http://ccodearchive.net/).
Do you get ESPN3 through your ISP? It covers most sports both live and recorded, and doesn't require a cable subscription.
Just a ton of little things that piled up. No single problem took a significant amount of time, but it seemed like every little task took 5 minutes here, 5 minutes there. For example, and this was last summer so my memory is a bit vague, but one of the commands issued without an argument wouldn't give the "wrong argument" message you expect, but instead would just error out. So I thought something was really broken, but I was just missing a -- flag on something. Wasted a few hours.

That's what I mean by learning curve.
Drug prohibition is old. But the militarized quasi-Schmittian state organs devoted to enforcement them, and their attendant juridical pretexts, are of a more recent vintage.
This acquisition is actually pretty easy to make sense of, unlike WhatsApp acquisition of Facebook. This is a company which made USD 31.7 Billion in revenues last year[0].

[0]: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1465112/0001047469140...
Can you give any specifics? Unless I'm too stupid to figure it out, mathematically, the only possible way to do that is simply ignoring (potentially) spammy links, instead of considering them negatively. I mean, SEO linkfarm --> publisher site looks the same as Competitor's linkfarm --> publisher site.
Police must have been busy rounding up someone for jaywalking on an empty street.
I completely agree. I can't wait until webdevs rediscover "have all content on one page" and it becomes a new trend.
Yes. This is not only a trivial, inconsequential point to raise, but your arithmetic is also off ($48.5/19 \approx 2.55$).
BSD-ish licenses are "permissive", in that you can release modifications/derivatives of the work (in binary or source) that restrict how those modified versions are distributed.

e.g. I write a BSD-licensed song, and someone remixes that song and says that I cannot copy the remixed version.
I just added "Difficult Conversations" to my to-read list. Thanks for the recommendation.