skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using a proxy for Google does absolutely nothing to avoid their judgements of websites. Startpage will not provide you with URLs that Google has banished. As an example compare the following results for "Game of Thrones S04E06" on each site:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=game%20of%20thro...
https://startpage.com/do/search?q=game+of+thrones+s04e06
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=game+of+thrones+s04e06

The first two provide mostly spammy results or subtitles. The DDG results are mostly real sites with torrent or streaming copies of the show available. Which search engine do you think is more useful?
SubList: Email subscriptions for blogs
If you use Chrome try the Personal Blocklist extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
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I suppose that strictly speaking, the use of a phrase by many people does not imply that it has a "meaning" (for certain definitions of meaning) (if many people inserted "whum" as an adjective into some of their sentences, but had no real idea behind it, I suppose it might not be meaningful)

However, if many people say "invisible cherry" when they are talking about a door or opening, or means of accessing something, then it would be reasonable to say both that "invisible cherries exist", and to say "the phrase 'invisible cherry' is meaningful."

Also, while there is no set of all sets, I would argue that (again, for some definition of meaningful), the phrase "the universal set(the set of all sets)" is both meaningful and useful.

Also, if you wanted to avoid a flame war with that last bit, it may have been useful to instead claim that "magic" is meaningless due to being inherently self contradictory (by definition). I would disagree with that claim, but I think it would make a similar argument without being as likely to cause a flame war (though I doubt it would happen in either case)

However, I acknowledge that you did not say magic, and I am not attempting to use a straw man as if you had.
I have a particularly odd case where neither situation 1 nor situation 2 seemed to happen. Webmaster tools doesn't indicate that there is anything amiss and the pagerank >= 7. We do almost no promotion of our site and have never done link sharing of any sort.

How am I as an outsider of Google able to discern any information about what's going on in this situation? I assume this isn't a unique case but there is literally 0 information. I'd like to clear this up - not just for me but for the community. I know this may be the wrong place to ask (I'm not sure where the "right" place would be), but would you be willing to contact me? caudill m at gmail
This is a textbook ad hominem attack. Although I have very little respect for homophobes, this doesn't automatically torpedo every other argument a person makes. (Especially when it is on a completely unrelated subject).
Key observation.
> Is this an accurate description of the karma accounting?

No, it's false.
Google already has lots of people working on Maps to make the data better, correct mistakes, etc. They almost certainly have data about bridges and tunnels they can use here to make sure that you get a straight line for them instead of following the terrain profile.
Would your advertisers be fine with you adding nofollow? If so, do that and you're fine. If they aren't fine with nofollow you should realize that the other stuff is window dressing and you're really selling pretty links (which means watch out, Google is looking to penalize you).

Real companies selling real products to real people get in trouble for scuzzy SEO all the time. JC Penny comes to mind. Or RapGenius (though they aren't even selling anything!). It's the techniques used that are the issue, not what is being promoted.
A succinctly argued point and totally relevant.

http://www.buildyourowndrone.co.uk/ and others like it is a worryingly accessible resource that can easily be weaponised.

As well as the cheap, uniquitous and reliable drone (AK-47) we should also fear the Raspberry Pi of drone technology (simple, programmable).

In the future, shocking public attacks will come from clock towers and sniper points but also from drones in densely populated areas.
AT&T buys DirecTV for nearly $50 billion
except when he is disavowed as all the removal emails say they will do.

I've added rel="nofollow" as good-enough when trying to help out people throwing too-far of a net.
> A basic assumption with drones is they are great because the US has them

Are you advocating for some sort of 'red line' on the use of drones much like on the use of chemical weapons so that the use of such weapons anywhere in any context would incur reprisals from the international community.

That's really the only thing I can think of that would make this make your statement relevant. Regardless of what people in the US think of the legitimacy of using drones, unaligned parties will use them if they can.
That wasn't necessary. Your comments were more than fine. Comments speaking from direct personal experience are something we need more of here.

It's cool to see the card, though :)
I don't think the idea is to accelerate electrons. It is to produce e+e- pairs.
AT&T to Buy DirecTV for $48.5 Billion
they just re-hire the same SEO guy who bought all of the spam links in the first place. :)
Calories and energy sources (carbs, proteins, fats) are a small part of the riddle.
Besides calories our bodies need lots of micronutrients, amino-acids, enzymes,... - the quality of the food is paramount.

Our modern food is high in calories and low in nutrients, that's mostly due to the 'advances' in modern agriculture and the whole chain of food production and distribution.

Then there is the aspect of the mind. Look into the mind of any overweight or obese person and you'll find a bucket of psychological disorders, most of them caused by poor nutrition and most of them being the reason for the person 'fixing' them with more food or alcohol or drugs.

Few people ever learn to listen to their bodies and when their bodies scream 'I need nutrients', the mind hears 'I am hungry' and goes and procures more empty calories. That's the cycle which leads to weight gain and obesity and all the related health problems.
Yeah I love pkg-config and static linking is annoying. Generally what I do to get around that is in configure.ac something like:

libuvdir=`pkg-config --variable=libdir libuv`
LIBS="$LIBS $libuvdir/libuv.a"

That tends to work well enough for my needs. I gate it with a --build-static flag so that I can run off shared if I want to or not.

I'd rather take pkg-config+autotools over any of these newfangled options. Going to take a lot to sway me over from a tried and true option across osx/linux/solaris/eh fine hpux too but just cause i'm in a good mood.
That's not what he's saying, and you know it.
Well, at least Strava now has a global heatmap: http://labs.strava.com/heatmap. Makes it easier to avoid roads less travelled, I guess.

Regarding the data quality: At least in Germany the ADFC maintains its own cycle path network which also contains metadata about road surface, motor traffic and such things. This is also one of the sources Google licensed for their bike stuff in Maps (although back when they introduced it they had a very hard time matching up their two or three different data sets and there were lots of errors where junctions wouldn't connect, etc.).
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This reminds of something Feynman said something in "You Must Be Joking..."

"When I was at Princeton in the 1940s I could see what happened to those great minds at the Institute for Advanced Study, who had been specially selected for their tremendous brains and were now given this opportunity to sit in this lovely house by the woods there, with no classes to teach, with no obligations whatsoever. These poor bastards could now sit and think clearly all by themselves, OK? So they don't get any ideas for a while: They have every opportunity to do something, and they're not getting any ideas. I believe that in a situation like this a kind of guilt or depression worms inside of you, and you begin to worry about not getting any ideas. And nothing happens. Still no ideas come. Nothing happens because there's not enough real activity and challenge: You're not in contact with the experimental guys. You don't have to think how to answer questions from the students. Nothing!"

The internet has probably nullified this effect to some extent.
5'10" all their life? Must have been a hell of a childbirth...
There's no way this can pass, especially with the Comcast/Time Warner deal still in process. Maybe this will scare regulators into denying both deals.
I imagine this would be similar to the life in the GDR.

- I would invest in my house or flat and probably buy a second house or a vaction home to combat inflation.
- Rarer items would be only available for bartering, so I would spend a lot of time exchanging stuff for other stuff like the people in the GDR did. Probably always driving around with a hanger, just in case something becomes available that I need for my house.
- I would learn a trade to have something that other people want in exchange for the things I want (e.g. sanitary installations, woodworking).
- You didn't state in your questions if the basic income is world wide, so I assume it is only in my country and I'm not allowed to leave (like the GDR had to prevent their people from leaving). So I would take a lot of vacations seeing old castles and hiking. I would never fly again, always going by car or train.
>I prefer not to BSD-license my works because then copyright could be used against me to take my rights from me.

Can you elaborate on this point? I don't know what you're referring to.
> It is really sad that instead of discussing the merit of his argument, we are debating the quality of OP's site.

No it's not, because his argument is making the assumption that his content is high-quality.
The only thing missing is that the grants administrators are very often (I can think of two, dear to me counterexamples) people who got into science and couldn't hack it, making for sort of a bureaucratic dunning-kruger effect. I remember meeting DOE bureaucrats coming to visit our site, and being in awe at their complete lack of basic scientific concepts, and thinking, "these idiots probably get paid six figures to sit around pushing paper and get nice paid junkets to pretty places like San Diego while I'm struggling trying to push innovation and deal with failure as a postdoc on 30k". Of course you can't say that to their face, because you won't get your grant continued.

In one particular egregious example, I remember a grants administrator who came to our facility, got a ride in the boss' tesla roadster, and for whom a cocktail party was thrown. Several years later, this administrator's PhD research came to light as being very likely artefactual. https://raphazlab.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/stripy-nanopartic...

The uncharitable interpretation is that this person escaped academic science to administration because they knew they couldn't hack it, because the data are willfully overinterpreted and that wouldn't fly for too long. And of course wound up in the position of managing hundreds of millions of dollars in grant moneys. I can't accuse this particular person of that particular motivation; but isn't it evident that science funding positions would disproportionately attract such people, and is that a situation we want to be in?
Next up AT&T + Comcast merger... 'Cause why not?
Detroit: Bankrupt city turned corporate luxury brand
> Even if Google isn't penalising you for that today, they may well tomorrow. So using nofollow seems like quite a rational thing to do for any individual site as there isn't any downside as far as I know, only potential benefits.

Breaking internet connectivity is a downside for society as a whole.
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I started a group leader position (not tenured) since about 1 year ago in bioinformatics (UK). The trend only got worse since this article was written. It is particularly bad in biology but physics and chemistry are not much better off. There is an ongoing debate about what to do about it. A good overview of the debate can be found in this recent perspective published in the PNAS journal (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/04/09/1404402111).

If you have a passion for research and have a solid back-up plan that you are sure can always fall back then feel free to try. Keep in mind that your salary will go down. Also, age factors in and there is some bias towards people that have always been on a straight path of high academic success. This should not be a big issue for the PhD but it will start to matter for postdoc and tenure track positions.
you need to proxy paid links through another domain to make it clear that they're ads, or something.
> That makes no sense. Citing an original source, such as an article that inspired your own work or with relevant background for ideas you're building on, is common courtesy in any field, and it's directly useful to your readers in the Web case.

The OP is against "nofollow" links which only affect search engines. The links work just fine in a browser and visitors won't know the difference. Publishers aren't scared to link, they're just wary of vouching for a site by not using nofollow.
Software eating the world.
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Unless you have a better theory, I would call it an educated guess. "They're just being random" is not a better theory, IMHO.
I'd say that IP's origin is in the imagination, and only a subset is also from the intellect, the intellect being only a part of creative thought.

This is plainly obvious by viewing the general mass of the output of some of the major IP industries, such as Hollywood.

Intellect is not required to generate IP, but imagination generally is.

Personally I don't care that much if this makes the term seem less weighty, perhaps the term is currently overweighted and made to seem more lofty than it really is.

I mean, sure IP is used in areas like like biotech research into cancer treatments, but it also applies to stuff like copies of a kids drawing of a peanut man with the last minute addition of a monocle and spats, and I feel that to refer to the latter as intellectual is to do abuse to the word, however both examples could be accurately said to be products of the imagination.
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The smartest way to do it is to have everyone's special snowflake languages support automake. Because automake's tarballs are so common in the free software world, every package manager has special support to make packaging them easy (cdbs, eclasses, ...).

Then when you need something for yourself, you can go get it from an overlay (layman is the thing I miss most about gentoo), ppa or quickly roll up a package yourself.
I've been following his blog for a few years now. He's done some other really neat stuff like histogram work (http://www.ironicsans.com/2007/09/idea_the_histogram_as_the_...) and sort of an inverse Tetris (http://www.ironicsans.com/2009/01/i_wrote_it_you_made_it_mon...). Then there are the inventor profiles (http://www.ironicsans.com/interview/).
Awesome, that's good to hear!
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7761041.
As an alum of the physics department at WUSTL - the author of this piece has quite a negative reputation on campus due to his outspoken beliefs on various political matters. It has led to his removal from many important projects and nearly cost him his tenure

Removal from Obama commission during BP oil spill: http://archive.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=202393

One of his other essays, "In Defense of Homophobia": http://wuphys.wustl.edu/~katz/defense.html

Essay "Why Terrorism Matters": http://wuphys.wustl.edu/~katz/terror.html

Letter to school newspaper about global warming evidence: http://www.studlife.com/forum/2009/10/28/letter-to-the-edito...
Both industries are doomed. I'll stay tuned to see how this turns out in like 5-10 years from now.
Use this as a perfect example to explain to people why Net Neutrality matters.

"What incentive does AT&T have to bring you good streaming experience for Netflix, Hulu, or heck even Youtube when they'd much much MUCH rather you were buying DirecTV from them?"
The main insight is that it is possible to create a mutually beneficial situation whereby you leverage the expertise of grad students and post-docs to help business while simultaneously allowing those same academics to get a taste for realistic alternatives to the increasingly brutish environment of academia.

I'm of two minds on this development. On one hand, I think it is great to offer alternatives to the increasing toxicity of academia, and I would have enjoyed engaging in such a program when I was a PhD student. On the other hand, I'd like to see proposals on how to fix the toxicity itself.

That is, the increasing businessification of academia (e.g. profs do battle in the time-sink brutal competition for grant money to secure tenure) is troubling and there have been many articles that discourage PhDs from going down that track, because you will not end up doing much research, or you will be largely beholden to chasing money, which disincentivizes basic research not certain to pay off.

Are there any proposals on how to reform academia itself? Such that it returns to more of an engine for basic research and a place for creative thinkers to create fundamental knowledge, instead of a pressure-cooker for grant money (which may be tied to military/business interests instead of those of humanity at large).
I'm fed up with credit card and payment processors deciding that they don't want to serve everyone unless he/she is doing actually illegal things.

Hell, I'm fine with CC processors e.g. declining business for cow meat sale in India (iirc slaughtering/eating cows is banned by law there), but as long as the service being paid for is legal in the country of the merchant and the customer, then a CC processor/payment network should be obliged to provide payment.

Providing essential services and infrastructure should be discrimination-free. This in my opinion includes cannabis vendors and growers, too. If sensible regulation existed in the US (or, even better, laws which require infrastructure providers to enter contracts!), then a whole host of problems could be avoided.

@Techcrunch: what crazy JS fuck do you do? On my netbook, the text flashes up for ~1-2sec, then the WHOLE PAGE goes gray for 30-50 seconds and then the text appears again. Is this active discrimination against Adblock users?
I feel rather conflicted by any advice given to anyone to not become as scientist. I have been through the whole science treadmill all they way up to tenured professor, but I have recently given up tenure to work on my original start-up full time. I loved everything about being an professor except the pointless committee work and paper shuffling, but I reached the point where I felt I could do more good science outside of academia than inside.

My advice for what it is worth is do science if that is what you are passionate about, but work on side skills like programming, business and networking (yes networking is a skill) so that when you reach a point where science is not the way forward anymore you can do something else without feeling like you are a failure.
I'm not so interested in the game (I'm not much of a gamer) but I love seeing an application of some of the interesting work coming out of computer graphics and computer vision. Browsing, for example, the SIGGRAPH proceedings is seeing science fiction becoming reality (at least for me).
According to them lack of competition is good for the market. Maybe Zuckerburg can start a bandwidth company and bring another (desperately needed) player to the game.
Detroit has bounced off the bottom. While we might exult in the ruin-porn of Detroit, it is a city on the mend, and is really an interesting city full of significant potential. I say that as a Canadian who travels to Detroit from the Toronto area, never feeling a moment of fear but enjoying some great restaurants, entertainment, and sports.

Go Lions!
I've known Jeremy for years and he's one of the few I consider quite white-hat from my dealings with him.

Please do research before you judge :)
> The clearest way out of the confusion is to reject the term entirely.

Not really - just like the clearest way to separate criminal and civil liability isn't to just stop using the word "illegal".

The easiest way is to just learn the distinction. It doesn't take long.

It takes about 30 seconds to explain intellectual property (copyright = exact original content, patent = protects a general mechanism, nobody can solve the same problem the same way, trademark = about consumer confusion, only one company can use a word or other thing to sell a specific type of product).

Actually that was more like 15 seconds, wasn't it?

I have absolutely no problem with calling all of the above intellectual property, because all of it keeps me from doing certain things, just like I'm not allowed to walk on some tiles just because they happen to be in the middle of my neighbor's house, and his property is protected by law. I'm not just referring to taking them - I can't even walk on them without his permission. Property rights are a fine expression. If it causes confusion, this can be cleared up directly.

I just don't see the problem here.
You can save a lot of time by using a UUID/GUID and encoding in a different base for urls if you want to minimize length. They're 32 chars in hex or 22 characters in base-64.
Hurting innocents in the pursuit of political reform isn't the way to go.
Do you think the discussion in this thread is that bad? I don't—mainly because many people have been commenting from significant relevant experience. The replies to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7763777, for example, are really good.
Thrill does not allow you to solve problems (beyond what a competent engineer has solved for you behind a pretty API). In order to succeed at solving problems you must enjoy it in the first place. If you do not care about the underlying algorithms behind those calculations programming is always going to be boring.
I find the trend in our society that "if you say anything I disagree with, everything you say is invalid" to be very disturbing (the corollary of "if you agree with something important to me then I will forgive much, if not all, bad behavior" seems to be true as well). McCarthyism in any form is evil, yet people will hold up their own beliefs and say "this is the only right way to believe". I fear what this will do to important rights like free speech. It doesn't matter if you have the "right" if cultural pressure squashes any ability to use it.
I provided you with a google search that presented plenty of confirming results, quit being a pedantic jackass.
Do many young people watch TV anymore? It seems like netflix + youtube scratches that itch.
Yes. Except now the shows are timeshifted and streamed online.
Is this acquisition from cash that AT&T hand or would they go to a bank and work with them for capital?
Maybe it will scare another 10 or 100k out of a lobbyist.
I'd escape the country before it turns into a north korean hunger games wellfare state monstrosity.
Ugh silicon does not mean digital! It is beyond common to find analog circuits made with silicon transistors, diodes, etc.
The little scroller example thingy is weird. I tried to click on the green button more than the blue button.
The origins of "Privilege"
What's to stop someone from 3D print cloning a key?
Is it bad that I read this as 'AT&T to Buy DirecTV for 2.7 WhatsApps?'
Piggybacking requests in a widgety world
There should be a data mining textbook derived from data-mined data mining textbooks.
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