skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google's ads don't flow PageRank and thus don't affect search engines.
>But IP does also mean that the "property" can be owned by people that did not create it. This notion is fundamentally wrong

How is that that "fundamentally wrong"?? It's just a natural extension of giving exclusivity to the creator of the work. Are you saying it's "fundamentally wrong" to, say, commission a creative work from an artist for your exclusive use, the way it was done for thousands of years?!? Treating creative works as a kind-of property, greatly simplifies things.

>and de-valuates any creative work.

HOW?!?! How is _paying_ for a creative work, devaluing it? I'm sure there are multitudes of examples when the artist was screwed out of profiting from their work, then again there are multitudes of examples when artists greatly profited from their work (Hey there, George Lucas).

>The most of the value goes not to the performers of the art (eg music) but to the distributors.

Sometimes that's true, and sometimes that isn't true. But even in the former case, there are good reasons why that may happen. Furthermore, it's not like this is limited to music or creative works. A condo developer may sell a piece of (physical) property, for moderate profit, to a savvy real estate agent who then flips it for twice the amount. Did the developer get screwed? Maybe, maybe not. That's just the way things are.
> Apparently Google convinced them, via their Webmaster Tools portal, that the link looked “unnatural”, and that they should use the Link Disavow Tool to discredit the link.

This is pretty typical of 2014 Google.

To be honest these days I pretty much regard Google as one of the banes of my existence, you guys hold so much power and influence so much of the internet the rest of us have to work around you, I'm currently pulling all our customers off Google Apps for Enterprise for a multitude of reasons (buggy code, broken imap implementations, impossible to get an actual human answer) as well as moving myself away from all Google services (including Android).

I remember when you guys where the good guys.
This is much too complicated. The path from the federal appellate courts are all the same except for the court of appeals for the federal circuit, so you only need two boxes (and arguably, one) on the bottom.

Same for the states above: one box.

The Supreme Court's original jurisdiction isn't listed on the diagram, e.g., cases between different states.

What would be more interesting would be to look at the data, that is, the number of appeals coming from each box and each state. The S.Ct. only accepts 150 or so cases each year; does looking at the source of these cases teach anything? That is a study that hasn't been undertaken. Is it just a question of population (in which case you'd expect the 9th and the 2nd to predominate) or are there other statistical anomalies. For example, if a third of the S.Ct.'s cases came from the 8th Cir., a relatively small area in terms of population, something must be going on.
AT&T In Talks to Acquire DirecTV
Not so much about the service itself, but about the site.

At this page:
http://www.jellynote.com/en/premium/presentation

it's nearly impossible to scroll in order to see all features, I'm using a 13" macbook pro: http://lry.be/fGL0
> higherpurpose, nowhere in the original article did it say that Google said the link was bad

Yes, it most certainly did!

From the article:

> Apparently Google convinced them, via their [read: Google's] Webmaster Tools portal, that the link looked “unnatural”, and that they should use the [Google] Link Disavow Tool to discredit the link.

(emphasis added)
Ok, I used my list of logical errors incorrectly, my bad.

Still, yes, for him, maybe he does in fact know more 'failed' physicists than junkies. However, there are many many many more junkies with much much worse lives than almost all PhDs.

I'm going into neurosci this fall, so I don't know yet personally. However, the attitude expressed in that sentence is so very toxic. If that's what the professor publishes, then I'd never want to hear what he gossips to the other professors. Maybe, just maybe, the professor is a jerk. And maybe, just maybe, the only people that are left near him are the ones not smart enough to avoid him in the first place. I don't remember what bias that is.
You missed the entire point. Software uses patents, so people literally can't imitate others' works like some artists do. And that's the problem with over-generalization: it's a useless abstraction that doesn't generalize well.
This is a distorted variation on Goodhart's law [1], although in a non-economical environment. In other words, poorly thought incentives generate poor behaviour (this is not the core of Goodhart's law, but rather a common consequence). I'm not sure if all the blame for those incentives is on Google, or SEOs are culprits in some way.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_Law
> the tl;dr: pagerank is thoughtcancer, if you start thinking of links as some flow of mystical pagerankjuice you will make bad decisions, decissions that will hurt your business, your users and in the end the internet.

Golden. It's not Google who's breaking the Internet; it's the people who try to game the search engines.
Have a look at http://blackhatworld.com its one of the biggest internet marketing forums, and in between and the guff posts there is some good ones. Basically you can do all the things the pros advise you not to do to yourself to your competitor.
Congratulations, class of 2014: You’re totally screwed
Splitting a sandwich and not feeling deceived
How is duplicate content made "for users"? Why would I want to find exactly the same prose in multiple places?
Class, Cost, and College
Maybe we should change <a href="..."> to <google="...">. or insert a google-search into the href-url!
Vaccines, Thimerosal, MMR, Mercury Not Associated With Autism
The frequency of these fanatic events does tell you something about the subject as you can compare them to the frequency of events of other subjects (workouts). Being able to easily to find 10 edge case gifs tells you a lot about crossfit - and none of this is positive.
They are introductory in the sense that they are more about the horizontal bar of the T than about going in depth in a particular topic. But I guess I have to admit it was a poor choice of words.
There is no spam, you algorithm is wrong. Wrong because it's implying the link isn't mean to be there.

It appears after years and millions spent it is impossible to get the perfect search algorithm.
Not just a good idea this is actually done already by the blackhat guys, they also use the same technique to extort you in the classic "nice website rankings you have here, be a shame if anything happened to them" manner.
I have zsh set up to indicate when I'm in command mode. Mostly based on this post: http://paulgoscicki.com/archives/2012/09/vi-mode-indicator-i...
Show HN: CMS on Sails.js, like Wordpress but JavaScript
What Farm-to-Table Got Wrong
Is that new though? I remember loads of people signing up to CS courses (both university and vocational, as well as self taught) during the 1st dot com boom in the late 90s. In my native Israel that was particularly extreme, everyone was trying to get into "computers".

And yet 15 years later we still have much higher supply of work than workers when it comes to experienced talented programmers.
Programming is a profession that's become a part of society. It function as electricity does, in that without electricity modern civilization wouldn't exist.

Science is more of an investment that is important to the future of society, but can only be achieved if basic needs of a society are met. It's like other profession such as math, art, or philosophy in that it makes the society itself more flavorful, and progressive.
You can check it out yourself if you like - I provide a live feed of barometric data from Android sensors at http://pressurenet.io/. The data I collect is polled every 10 minutes, and while the exact pressure is often nearly useless due to noise, trends in the data are very clear. I'm looking specifically at the weather, so over periods of ~6 hours we get really really clear trend lines.

When a device moves rapidly in a short period of time, you know that the sensor data will be reflecting the altitude changes and not the weather changes. Moving the device from my feet to my head shows a clear change of ~.5mb typically.
I didn't know they did that, I wonder how strong a signal it is. If you search for a review or something of a recent TV show (my favourite is eg game of thrones S4E5) and forget to mention you want reviews, you find lots of sites that must be getting DMCAs. Also Youtube must get a lot of them, probably one of the top served sites at a guess?
Maybe you run a store where you sell Widget and Deluxe Widget. The only difference is Deluxe Widget has a higher max RPM, but the operating instructions for Widget and Deluxe Widget are identical.

As a consumer, if I came to the website looking for instructions on how to use my [Deluxe] Widget, I would reasonably expect to find the same operating guide on both product pages.
I am absolutely against these kinds of public shaming lists. Either somebody is breaking the law (i.e. in cases serious threats are made) or not.

This hyper sensitive "let's ban anything that is different from my own world view, because TROLLS" is getting more and more ridiculous.
> Please don't reply to this if you don't fully agree with my points.

I agreed up until this, but I think it's meant as irony?
The issue here is that a link is not supposed to say "I vouch for this site".

A link is supposed to be a hyperlink.

Google creates a false incentive to link/not link, and then complains when people link in a way that they don't approve of. This is a problem of Google's making.
>In general, if you weren't trying to create spam links, then it's very unlikely that any of this is an issue for you and the burden isn't on you to fix it.

So if Bing wants to rank Bing.com higher than Google.com on the keyword "Search Engine", all they need to do is to pay link farms to link to Google?

Like everything this could go both ways. If you penalize sites for having links from link farms, what is stopping your competitors from paying link farms to link to your website? or worse yet, some link farm owner comes up with an ingenious idea to hold other websites hostage until they pay up?

It would be more understanding if Google din't have any other resources on hand to make smart decisions but heck you guys have hands on realtime experience with most traffics via Google Analytics, Google Adsense and even DNS. All these resources and can't even distinguish a link farm from a legitimate site? Doesn't sound believable.
Overcomplicating the rails 'core' is my concern. I'd much rather start from a lightweight 'base' which solves most of the common cases ...

Background jobs are a common case. How many web applications never send an e-mail?
If you are selling "ads" that transfer PageRank, you are selling links.

I do not care that you do this, but you should be aware of what you are doing.
Challenging a DMCA takedown requires you to accept that your whole site will be taken down for ten days while you wait to have a right to challenge the takedown. Businesses or projects that have to keep functioning have to comply with any takedown regardless of its validity because they can't just go out of business for ten days in order to challenge it.
Did you even read the article?

> Apparently Google convinced them, via their Webmaster Tools portal, that the link looked “unnatural”, and that they should use the Link Disavow Tool to discredit the link.
What Matt Cutts is saying, is that as collectively smart as his employer Google is, they aren't able to always figure out if a link is natural and when it's "paid for" as part of linkspam. If they could, they would obviously put that in their algorithm.

Matt Cutts' job at Google involves him making tons of videos explaining how the Google algorithm works. It isn't omniscient, and the guidelines show how to work within its limitations. If you don't care about optimizing your Google presence (as we don't) then you shouldn't care about Google's guidelines either. But if you do comply with some guidelines, then this will probably help your rank in other search engines which also take similar measures to TRY and detect linkspam.

Google's customers are its users. It tries hard to have the most relevant results (or provide value some other way, or just maintain a brand image so people keep coming back). The advertisers come because the users find them and spend real money. And the users want relevant search results, not spam. That's why Google spends a ton of resources on combating the spam.

How do you propose they magically "know" when a link is natural?
Even that trivial `print` annotation breaks duck-typing; the print function can actually accept anything that responds to `__str__`.

Similarly, is there any reason the example `add` function in the OP shouldn't be able to add strings, or lists?

I've seen a lot of these quick-runtime-type-checking libraries, but they always have the same problem as manual type-checking: they make the constraints much stricter than they need to be and prevent entire classes of useful behavior.
"most people" are people that have grown up in a civilization that has some legal understanding of "intellectual property" and the economic effects thereof, so their intuition is already pretty skewed towards the status quo. Even if, after having experienced an alternative, they would prefer the alternative.
Thanks for the link. And yes, I am.
The name looked familiar... then I realized, there's multiple Finches. https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Finch
> you write a Ruby package and now you have to support apt-get, yum, Gentoo, Arch, brew, MacPorts, etc

wrong. that's the package maintainer's job.

moreover, sensible package management systems have templates or libraries (eclasses in Gentoo) to properly handle all kinds of packages.

all we ask for is that developers don't actively break package management by bundling everything as is done here.
* Paginated content with different filters or sorting? Almost the same content on multiple pages

* Product with a category name in url, or without, or under multiple categories

Both are very useful for humans, but have to be massaged with canonical urls to please Google machines
Well even in relationships these same considerations apply. A woman's investment in a relationship is higher since her biological clock is ticking, so to speak. She is most desirable in her teens and twenties and it falls off from there. Just ask who's chasing who after 35.

So, she will try to optimize her time in long term relationship with the best marriage / long term love partner prospect. That's why she cares about more than looks.
Let's please evaluate the current article on its own merits. I'm really tired of the new witch-hunt-as-acceptable mentality on here and the news.

It's frustrating reading the comments and seeing it filled with complaints about unrelated articles by the same author.
The exact advice I'd give to people today, having done just that.
> It's because we need a user-space package manager.

that word doesn't mean what you think it means

> System package managers require root access to be handled

nope, Gentoo Prefix can be installed by anyone, as long as you have somewhere that's u+w and exec.

> and tend to provide only a single stable version of each package.

nope, Gentoo allows any versions of every package to be mixed and matched, as long as the underlying platform and package supports it.
You're being naive. We mass produce animals for slaughter.

Those ants are pests, I pour boiling water down their holes and leave poison around my house because once in a while a few get on my counter, or they cover the sidewalk when they go to war with each other. I have a pet rabbit, vermin, but I put out mouse traps.

An alien species entire reason for making us extinct or pushing us back to the dark ages might be as petty as because we were a visual nuisance, or like Douglas Adams suggested: we got in the way of road construction.
... Exactly. Someone took it upon themselves to hassle the OP to remove a link. Google has made a tool to allow you to have links that you don't vouch for to be not counted, but the webmaster in question decided to try and do it "manually".

It used to be you would get sketchy emails asking you to link XYZ and now a few years in the future the sketchy emails are asking you to unlink XYZ.
Without IP you wouldn't need Wine, you could just copy Windows as much as needed.
Mr Katz, please remove the third party link to the "German" translation (http://uhrenstore.de/blog/seikeinwissenschaftler ). The translation is completely off - probably done using machine translation.

e.g. first two sentences:

Don't Become a Scientist!

wrong: Sei kein Wissenschaftler!

correct: Werde kein Wissenschaftler!

Are you thinking of becoming a scientist?

wrong: Denken Sie an einen Wissenschaftler zu werden?

correct: Spielen Sie mit dem Gedanken ein Wissenschaftler zu werden?

or: Möchten Sie eine wissenschaftliche Karriere einschlagen?

(the uhrenstore.de website is a fake website - all blog articles are machine translated and makes no sense, probably part of a SEO link farm network)
This was the link:
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jayjay1010

http://linkaudit.co.uk/

Which I've blocked:
http://ihackernews.com/by/jayjay1010

My host is Softsys hosting.
http://www.softsyshosting.com
Another similar idea: http://inkwell.github.io
I believe that copyright law should be abolished. (Eventually, slowly, responsibly.) While I release some works as CC0 [1], I still use the GPLv3+ on much source code because it's the best way to protect freedom given the existing system. This isn't a dichotomy nor hypocritical.

I would prefer for the GPL and other copyright licenses to be unenforcable; unfortunately that isn't the case. So I prefer not to BSD-license my works because then copyright could be used against me to take my rights from me.

[1] http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
The one with structure and specific goals, public organization meetings, elections to specific positions, and a hand-off of leadership over time.
More specifically, I believe people feel they aren't being heard at this point. Rationalizations are the tell.
> In this case the author says he created the link independently, because he thought it would be useful to his users. That's, by definition, a genuine, organic link.

Genuine organic links can still be spammy. The OP seems to be a genuine affiliate marketer/spammer, it's not inconceivable that his links aren't treated with a ton of respect.
Answering my own question; you have actions call DAO objects directly, which make any async calls, which the action can then callback into and fire off another action.

Adding another question; do you try to prevent stores from knowing about each other at all?
I've had this in place for a very long time, since I use vim for most of my editing/coding, but recently I've took a look at emacs. I'm far from being anywhere near proficient in emacs and my main editor is still vim. Also I don't like the fact emacs uses meta so much since on a macbook pro laptop keyboard it isn't so obvious to reach, while I did set my caps-lock key to ESC/Control, and even my tab acts as hyper when combined with another keypress.

I did however remove that binding and use the emacs commands in my terminal, because.. why not stay a fit flexible..

But that's my opinion of course.
It seems like you are heading down the path where black hat anti-SEO on competitors becomes an increasingly viable business model. For example, company A competes with company B. They are cutt-throat so they pay a blackhat SEO firm to generate obviously spammy links for their competitor, not in an effort to bring up their own ranking, but to tank the ranking of their competitor relative to their own. At the end of the day, you do not know the intent of a link. Discounting a low quality link is reasonable. Penalizing the site it points to is not.
Put the pitchfork down; he's just giving non-specific answers in response to non-specific situations. For all we know, the two domains in question are `bestquickdietfatloss.com` and `levitracialisfreedietpillscanadamexicoblog.com`, in which case it would be correct of Google to indicate that the author's link is linkspam.
Is HN an example of a site that makes it trivially easy to sign up and drop a link on the user profile page?
This is a nice rhetorical technique she used.

Since there are no standards when you become a CrossFit gym, all gyms are different. That means some will be better and some will be worse.

Which means some of those members are correct when they say their gym does things correctly.
>A basic assumption with drones is they are great because the US has them

Maybe this is a common opinion among Americans but I don't think many people outside the US see it that way.
On the Computer Science side of things. You are spreading yourself too thin if you say that you are interested in type theory, FP, Compilers, and so on. Each one of these fields is a discipline in itself. You could spend years and years acquiring the 'deep' knowledge of one of those itself. Don't set yourself up for impossible goals. Try to focus and selectively figure out what you want to do and how much "depth" you want to acquire.

> mythical stuff before it's too late.

Too late for what? What is the hurry?
PostgreSQL 9.4's secret weapon? Yes, it's a new file format
I'm no fan of imperialism or the military, but I think it is possible for a self-interested nation to treat its own citizens well while acting immorally abroad.

However, I don't think such differential treatment is desirable, and it increasingly makes little sense as technology more deeply interconnects us over the trivial lines we draw in the sand to create discrete countries.

I think we think along the same lines in terms of power, although I'd phrase it more in that power is self-perpetuating -- something that (like bureaucracy) ratchets up but is hard to prune.

For example, even if most citizens of the world wanted more cooperation between their respective countries, and to dial back military developments such as drone warfare, the self-interested power accumulated in the government institutions of countries would likely resist.
with the ssh example, you should set up aliases in .ssh/config for that.

or more generally, just set up aliases for all the commands you use regularly.
Someone needs to send a couple of millions DMCA takedown requests from random sources to random targets, to make this problem visible.
These are gifs of people doing dangerous things in a gym. Some are likely Crossfitters, some likely aren't.

My point is don't believe everything you see on the internet. Take some responsibility and do your own homework.
Community things - open source, food banks. Even in some games (currently Minecraft) I spend much of my time making infrastructure for other players, my home is basic, my creations and influence are large.

Personal things would be perfecting the smaller joys, because the larger joys (e.g. what TV I watch, how and where) that I've already worked on in spare time are where I want them to be.
>And we've got to power the warp field with something, so what are our most energy-dense options?

The most energy to mass ratio is antimatter, which is why it is chosen as the substance for Star Trek TNG to power the warp core.

Second place is helium-3 if you count helium-3 fusion.