skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Matt, I am the webmaster of http://TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles.com -- before I took the site over, the forum was hacked (~2010) and we were hit with a ton of bad links (posted on our forum and lots of underage adult websites linking to us).

I've been working the past two years, from contacting all the webmasters via WhoIs information, creating unique content on a weekly basis, having a good social media following, and still for the life of us, we cannot get ranked well organically on Google.

Could you personally look into this or give me any advice on resolving this issue because I feel like I've done everything possible and we put a lot of work into the website over the years. I would really appreciate it.
You're right; I don't think your tradeoffs are as reasonable as you believe, and I don't think they're tradeoffs that most would be willing to make.

The reality is that those "minor" platforms you refer to are ones where a lot of big iron and expensive systems are. While Go / LLVM will eventually be supported on them, Go is still a very large dependency, and is currently not suitable for OS systems programming.

If you did choose to write a new security library in Go, and supposing that the shared library issue was addressed, you'd still have to severely constrain the design of the library to ensure maximum interoperability.

I'm just not sure it's worth the compromise.

Rust, if it was ready, and its runtime dependencies were also better supported, would be far more appropriate than Go.
The bash manpage runs 103 pages (bash | pr | less). That's quite a few features to learn. In my case, ^R was something I didn't discover for 3-4 years, until I saw a co-worker navigating history far faster than I'd seen before (I was aware of Bourne and csh history commands). And that was after over a decade of Unix use.

zsh has 17 manual pages, or zshall which combines them into one, concise, easily absorbed 483 page manual.

Ignorance is curable. Cluelessness (and spite) aren't. Many Linux tools have copious feature sets of which many users, even advanced ones, know only a small fraction of.
Do you want to know what the results are, or how it works?

The results are essentially that a central party can pool together an arbitrary number of bitcoins, then issue a derivative instrument against that pool. Those derivative instruments can be constantly recreated, so they're not maintaining any history or linkability. Once you receive one, you can also redeem it, destroying it, and claim an equivalent value of bitcoin, which is removed from the pool.

Except there is no "central party", except at the initiation of the system; you can build it so the central party creates parameters but doesn't save anything, so he's just a normal participant after that, and can disappear. So it's almost as decentralized as Bitcoin/Satoshi.

How it works is a bit more complex; it involves zero knowledge proofs about the derivative instruments. This is sufficiently advanced crypto that it will be a burden to anyone trying to understand it.
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Teen Breaks Guinness World Record for Fastest Texting
Wikipedia article on that episode : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Worlds_of_Planet_Eart...
This is an ongoing discussion between my girlfriend (a grad student) and myself. I'm of the mind that the one of most valuable changes that could be made is to tie a school's accreditation (or more accurately, a given department's) to their tenure-track:phd ratio. If every school were required to maintain something approaching 1:1 in those numbers, the disproportion of phd's to open positions across the industry would eventually level out. likewise tying accreditation to a maximum ratio of adjunct faculty would force schools to increase tenure positions. Finally, grad students should unionize. In the grad student level, schools hold far too much power over student's careers with no moderating influences. Given the amount grad schools depend on their own students for duties ranging from teaching to research, this is unacceptable, and unionization is historically one of the few effective means of balancing the scales.
The combination of insurance protection and high return is not something you're going to find. The general argument is to invest in a broad market index (or even a spread of several stocks and/or bonds (6-12 gives a pretty high level of diversification, though a broad index based on the top 100, 500, or 1000 securities is of course even broader).

That will give you protection from volatility in any one security. You won't be protected against general market (or financial system) risk.

There are several bond issues which are specifically inflation-indexed, e.g., TIPS for the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasury_security#TIPS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation-indexed_bond

You're not going to find a 6-10% return on these though, generally.
> eventually program something that to some extent can think for itself.

Depending on how realistic you are as to what you are trying to do, this could be easy or enormously difficult. Artificial Intelligence in the sense of what exists in Movies is either hard/close to impossible, despite several breakthroughs due to large scale processing.

However, there is a significant body of work that has been done in this field that may be off interest.

1. How does a Quadrotor fly? This could be an easy problem of getting an off the shelf quadrotor? Alternatively, you could learn a bit of control theory, get some modeling work done and figure out how to build your own Quadrotor? This is typically hard and you would need some math in your belt (Linear Algebra, Calculus, Dynamics and Control Systems ). Something off the level of a senior in an EE program.

2. Now that you have got the thing flying, what do you need next? You want it to follow someone. Let us make the problem simpler. Say, you want it to follow a line on a path. This could be as easy as building a program that tells the Quadrotor to keep following the line, which you will detect using a camera coupled with some edge detecting software.

3. How do you go after this? How do you make sure it follows someone? Same principle, instead of detecting edges, you have to make sure it detects a small moving object. Once you have figured that out, you iteratively progress till you figure out how to make it follow a person.

This is not the same as traditional Machine Learning. Although the same principles, a math heavy background with good programming skills can help you translate and make the switch.

If you are into Robotics or ML, a heavy math program coupled with good coding skills will always help you. It doesn't have to be an EECS program. I did EECS. I know some excellent people who came from a Mechanical background. As far as courses are concerned, just go to college and keep working on your own personal projects, the structure of any Engineering program should be sufficient for your purpose.
How to embrace imperfection and turn it into creativity
isn't soylent basically just dog food for humans?

Pretty much, but that doesn't turn me off to it - hopefully they make a spinoff breakfast cereal and call it Bachelor Chow.
Minimum Viable Product and Why Velocity Matters
Travis CI adds a list of new deployment providers
5 Metrics You Should Be Measuring for your Startup
I think with real property (and probably with "major" capital goods), enforcement and registry are pretty intimately collected. If there's a specific organization I'd call to get a non-owner removed from my property, I'd probably just let that organization maintain a database of the property, especially if it's using some cryptographic technique to prevent forgery (through time, if nothing else), and some replication strategy.

Where it gets really interesting is with things like cars (and eventually cellphones and other similarly priced goods); putting effectively activation locks and DRM into the equipment. IFF you could trust the whole system, it would make theft much less of a concern, which is great.
Yeah, different countries/ providers really impacts peoples experience.
On the whole it does seem to be better for more people now though.
One of these assholes incessantly calls up my grandmother (and everybody else in her building) daily, proceeds to scream at her when she denies owning a computer, insisting she does. Then calls her a liar (that she is lying she does not own a computer) until she unwillingly hangs up the phone... upset and confused as to why some young man is calling and yelling at her.

They're all coming from random phone numbers, and there seems to be literally nothing you can do to stop it. Apart from screening every one of her calls for her.

There really are some scummy people out there, unfortunately.
Swiss Reject World's Highest Minimum Wage
Large companies tend to err on the side of taking down more than they legally "have to". I know of YouTube videos that were taken down because of copyright claims that were outright false (that is, the entity making the claim didn't even have any rights to the material that was allegedly being infringed). There's a lot of room to be more lenient than YT and still on the right side of the law.
So is this something that can be added on top of Bitcoin or is it a separate coin with improvements? It isn't clear to me which it is from the abstract.
> You can't buy links, but you can if you do it from us. What a scam.

You seem to be confusing how Google's advertising work. You can't buy a page rank passing link from Google. Adwords and Adsense ads do not pass PageRank. No legitimate advertising does (for starters because they all want to track visits and send you through redirects, but also because it's usually injected remotely and not part of the page that can send PageRank).
too bad about the GLib dependency. Kind of ruin the idea of running this on embedded device.
Is there something similar for Chrome?
> HN is not /r/politics or the Daily Kos. Try to keep the rhetoric polite.

Agreed.

Disappointing to see the parent comment upvoted on HN.
Note the "clear browser cache when idle" option aggravates a referrer logging side channel for sites embedding Google Ajax libs or Analytics.

That aside, I'm in love!
Facebook And Snapchat: One Way To Fight A Distributed Mobile Threat
No write-up, but people I know have left physics for:

* Quantitative finance

* Insurance (working on models that were beyond what the actuaries were trained to do)

* Data science

* Scientific equipment R&D

* Scientific equipment sales

* Popular science writing (this is a bit of an outlier!)

* Defense contracting (engineering, "scientific" programming, etc)

* Programming

* Door-to-door insurance sales (no joke)

I usually tell people to brush up on their programming skills as much as possible. If you're a theorist who only does pencil + paper or maybe Mathematica, it might be hard to find a decent job. Also, it never hurts to talk to / network with any industry people that are related to your field (software or hardware vendors, etc).

I'm now doing data science, but have also done hardware development and electrical engineering related things (signals). When I was transitioning to data science I also did some very specialized consulting related to my PhD. A few people paid me to do simulations and/or help then implement some techniques that I worked on as a grad student.

Also: I had a very supportive advisor, who encouraged me to accept a job offer before I graduated.
The chicken and egg problem with marketplace websites and social networks
I'd do a lot of bad things for a few millions. I do believe I'd spend a large part of the rest of those billions making things right.
I hope.
Do they (along with the personalization aspects of the relevancy algorithms) boost aggregate awareness & CTR - which in turn further drive rank?

A look at Ask.com's history on a tool like SEMrush makes this line of thinking rather compelling.
This seems exactly like prerender.io but with more code to insert (harder to use) and more expensive..
From a quick look it is videos, not streaming? Also mobile only? It isn't really currently the same space.
I love this if only because it highlights that package management is a hard problem, still unsolved in even the most mature languages.

Package management is something that sounds really easy on the surface but once you get into it you are overwhelmed with details, tradeoffs, and drudgery. If we're ever going to solve it, we first need to acknowledge that it's a very difficult problem.
For anyone that hasn't read it, I highly recommend 'Irrational Exuberance' by Robert Schiller, a professor at Yale which covers the theme 'This time its different' in depth, in a long term context covering around 200 years of economic data, in particular regarding herding of investors and thought (as sheep herd, then scatter, then herd). One of the interesting observations of the book is that there has been a recession every 10 years for as far back as the data covers (100+ years) +-2 years of the end of each decade.

A link to the site, with data sets the book covers freely downloadable: http://irrationalexuberance.com/
Feynman had an offer from IAS which he declined for the reasons discussed above.
Oh this is a very good interview. I have read and seen others but this is one of the most detailed ones on Binney.

Binney came before Snowden and he raised all these issues and it didn't really sway the public. That was pretty frustrating. He didn't bring a database with him so naturally some assumed he was making stuff up because he was bitter his system was being used and deployed under a different compartment and he was sort of not part of it.

One interesting thing here is that it really undermines the often repeated PR phrase "Oh why didn't Snowden just come to us (higher ups) and tell us. There was no need to go public like that". The implication is "we could have listened and fixed the problem".

Here is Binney years before trying to do that. Yes he didn't go directly to his bosses, I think it was clear they wouldn't have listened. He went to Intelligence Commetee (Congress). Went to DOJ. Nothing happened. Some anemic 90% redacted reports. "Vows to take to be more careful in the future", nonsense like that.

All it ended with was FBI raids and persecution for those involved.

The crucial part comes at the end and that is Snowden studied their case and he made sure to take documents out with him.
When you scrape the HTML from a single page app (let's say the default app homepage) do you re-write the javascript links to be HTML links with unique URLs?

If not, how does Google find anything more than the app homepage?
This tweet from a friend I assumed hated YouTube and loved Twitch sums up why this might actually be a home run https://twitter.com/macpheed/status/468237136882597888
It's mentioned at the bottom of the article, and it links to http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/netflix-youtube-bandwid...
I live in Canada.

But when I realized there was going to be a delay (and added cost) I had them ship it to a friend in the states whom I regularly visit.

According to their facebook page, you are correct. There is a delay in shipping international orders.
Not really.cthere are competitors but they suck too. I use reason with them most of the time. Once You Are transfered to the loyalty department it doesn't even matter. In some cases, just ask yo be transfered to loyalty. Losing $30 a month per customer isn't worth losing the customer or the negative social media.
Yes, none of that is problematic. You should just make sure you're not indiscriminately linking to third parties who pay for the privilege. In your case nofollow would be very simple and would prevent any damage.

Quality content is awesome and I'm sure your site is great, but Google's thought process here is that your site's reputation should only be handed on to sites that earn it organically (e.g. not through their buying it).

It's really for your own benefit, with the way PageRank works your outgoing links are votes that are as powerful as your page's reputation is good. If you link to bad sites your page's reputation takes a hit and thus your PageRank goes down. If I pay you to vouch for me (e.g. link to me) that only means that I have money. If you vouch for me without any money that's a much better signal that I have quality content.
I'm amazed that topics I've long taken for granted, like plate techtonics and seafloor spreading, have only been widely accepted for a few decades ... and indeed, 50 years ago such ideas were "new" and "controversial" and even ridiculed / fought against.
Yes, thanks, corrected.

There's a set of heterodox economic schools which hold that it's principally energy which is responsible for economic growth, and specifically the abundance, const, and convenience of that energy. Hydrocarbons, especially liquid hydrocarbons, are a spectacularly convenient form and store of energy. Electricity is a useful form of energy, though it's not particularly storeable. This has been suggested and explored by numerous economists and others since the early Industrial Revolution, notably: William Stanley Jevons (The Coal Question (1865)), US Navy Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, Kenneth Boulding, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Charles Odum, Charles A.F. Hall, and others. Generally, "thermoeconomics", "biophysical economics", or "ecological economics".

Decoupling of energy (and resources generally) from GDP growth has been argued by numerous authors, though I find their case unconvincing. It's been argued against by others.

Global GDP vs. primary energy consumption shows a pretty strong correlation, and I find the causality argument plausible: http://i.imgur.com/42I4Jmf.png (from Wolfram+Alpha).

Yes, efficiency has improved, but so has overall consumption: http://i.imgur.com/Hu0NWsI.png

As for oil and GDP cycles: my point is that while the price and supply of oil were highly stable, GDP variation was very regular. As oil price and supply began to vary, GDP stability went all to heck.
Paper prototyping the functionality of your app
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Of course, that fund was just an example.

John Bogle, founder of Vanguard, recommends "your age in bonds". So if you're 20, make bonds 20% of your portfolio. Some adjust this up or down depending on their appetite for risk (I think age minus 10 is the common advice from Vanguard now).
Google to Name and Shame ISPs With YouTube Buffering Issues
It can be, what people describe it as though is it is the digital equivalent to going to for example a football game. There is going to be a lot of toxic statements/ yelling made there as well but overall it adds to the hype of the event.

If you are watching a match with 100k people on Twitch of course there isn't going to be any valuable back and forward in chat but the chat stream as a whole adds to the experience.
I'd actually argue almost entirely the opposite.

Near-term economic forecasting is difficult (though there may be some accuracy in the very near term).

Long-term, you can accurately forecast economic trends based on overall resource availability. See the Limits to Growth baseline model.
- What is the level of 70 for USD?

US Dollar index: http://www.fxstreet.com/rates-charts/usdollar-index/

- Also, through what mechanism do you think rate will rise (real or nominal)? It'll have to be with a nudge from the FOMC which implements the monetary policy by buying/selling treasuries from/to the banks.

Yes, the Fed will ultimately raise rates, just as Bullard has signaled:

"...he repeated his own expectation that rates will likely need to rise by the end of the first quarter of next year, as inflation recovers to its desired target. That is several months ahead of the summer rate rise many investors now expect." http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/16/us-usa-fed-bullard...

- Additionally, just because banks have money to lend doesn't mean they're going to throw caution and credit concerns to the wind and start lending again.

Watch them throw caution and credit concerns to the wind. You will have plenty of time to see that they are doing this before taking an action. I do not have any doubts based on how they have behaved in the past, are behaving now, and how they are encouraged to do so.
I don't think they should be mutually exclusive. etcd is too baked-in to CoreOS. My plan is to try out Consul in containers rather than in CoreOS itself.
It hasn't turned me off of the idea, either.

It's just that all of the "high grade dog food" vendors call bloody-murder over the fact that we're feeding our dogs industrial chemicals and that doing so just couldn't possibly be healthy for the dogs.

I'm actually curious to try out "dog food for humans" and if I feel as good or better... I'm stopping the extra time, money and work involved in making my own dog food and feeding her kibble with the occasional piece of meat now and then.

What a relief that would be!
Speculators are still alive and well. I'm still hoping some new software will come out to record prices automatically, making this issue irrelevant.
Even if the sites are not relevant, the existence of a link does not mean the site which the link points at was responsible for creating the link. In some cases (especially with website hacking) those who create the spam will link to innocent third parties to create a smokescreen. Google can & does burn some of these "drive by shooting" sites to a crisp.

Check the people who try to drop profile links & comment spam links on your blog and such. Are there any websites which have as many spammy inbound links as YouTube does? How many people does Google allocate to cleaning up YouTube's spammy link profile?

There's another factor in that Google may shift what is considered reasonable over time. A buddy of mine got an unnatural link warning where the link cited was a link that has been in place LONGER THAN GOOGLE HAS EXISTED.

Now consider that some websites are bought & sold, change ownership, etc. ... does it make sense to penalize today for something which happened 10 or 15 years ago?

Another factor is that just by ranking you will pick up some scraper site inbound links you do not want. Many of those sites in various forms or fashion are monetized via Google ads. Google continues to run their ads on many of those aggregation sites, yet you may get an unnatural link penalty for having links from the same sites.

Good enough for Google, NOT good enough for you TM
First law of branching in version control
Why code matters
Fixed. Updated to "implore".
There's a setting for both 'Keep local data only until you quit your browser' and 'Block sites from setting any data' under Cookies in stock Chrome.

I don't use it though, so not sure of the effectiveness.
A friend of mine was approached by a similar operation to help them acquire a merchant account. As part of due delegince he went to their office and did cursory research.

He got them the merchant account. And then he started seeing the money roll in. Within 24 hours he heard from his merchant company whom he had a relationship with. They alerted him to the scam. He immediately refunded everyone charged despite his "friend" begging him to release the funds.

They give India a bad name and will ensure no call center business remains.

Scumbags.
Just listen to your body, if the weight is too much remove, if the reps are too many take your time or do less. If you want to show off or feel peer pressure then you shouldn't be crossfitting. I am doing CrossFit for the last 6 months and I always stop when I feel uncomfortable or in danger.
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