skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You can negative seo a site out of existence in about two hours and for about $75. It is actually super quick. Once you do it, it can take anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months for the site to loose it's position or be removed."

This doesn't scale without drawing attention to yourself.

It doesn't scale for an individual SEOer as a repeatable approach to ranking ahead of your competition. Most likely, it's mutually assured destruction - SEOers destroying each other, taking their clients with them.

It doesn't scale across the SEO industry. Too many people take this up as a tool, and the quality of Google search results suffer. That's when Google takes further action.

The one main way negative SEO back linking survives as a reusable technique is if it's used in small unnoticeable doses, and doesn't affect the typical Google user. Because when it does impact mainstream Google users, then Google takes the next step forward.

If the nightmare scenario materialises where SEOers destroy search quality results for mainstream users with negative SEO campaigns, Google flips the "spammy link penalty" off, all those sites affected bounce back immediately.

And then Google will comb through the data they've captured in that time period, and have an improved idea of what link sources are spammy. Google will have a much better idea of the network of sites you used (to benefit yourself before the penalty, and to negatively affect your competition during the penalty). It will stand out.

SEOers are in a classical prisoners dilemma.
> Both the chart and the map are virtually unreadable if you want to get an idea of the movement patterns in relation to education.

I think this map does a fine job of showing movement patterns in relation to education:

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/newsroom/img/posts/2014/06/Migrat...
Yep. We were using them prior... and honestly their service is amazing. Very un-google from a customer support perspective - Stackdrivers support is fantastic.
Thousands of bibliography styles, document styles, fonts in multiple formats, as well as basically every macro package ever written. And it's actually several typesetting programs: TeX, LaTeX, PdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX...
Sorry I misread your comment earlier in the tone that you were attempting to get an atheist to consider other religions.

I believe there is a difference in the aspects of religion I am interested in from what you are describing. I simply am not interested in making a study of the worlds various minor religions, and I know a great deal about the major ones already. I am more interested in the psychological damage that is done to people by fundamentalist religion and the negative impact it has on their lives.

I'm not sure why you are pushing other Eastern religions though – I'm aware of many of these teachings, it's just not my primary focus.

As for personal beliefs and what not – I don't care to learn how "god is in me" or "around me". The esoteric nature of religion is bothersome as are the delusional lies of the people who founded them.
> and deletes all existing automated backups for the instance.

That could do with some sort of gracetime, both against shoot-in-your-foot scenarios and bad guys.
You're not going to make the kind of software you want to make using the Web Audio API.

However, maybe the kid who's poking around with it on his computer today will be the one who expands on what they learn in that sandbox, and years down the road, sends you a resume that in addition to the typical work/school history, has the kind of exploration-driven side-projects on it that differentiate that resume from the rest of them.
Hmmmmm... I have a knee-jerk reaction to initiatives with names like "Everyone can <fill in the blank>." Everyone may benefit from being exposed to the rudiments of whatever activity you're promoting, but it is clearly, objectively, undeniably the case that no, not everyone can program, or dance, or sing, or build a curio cabinet for any personally or professionally meaningful definition of the term.

Now, it is certainly true that any fool can use a computer... Many do! But using one--or even learning by rote how to craft a Hello World program--is a far cry from being able to look at a problem and mentally break it down into computational steps, then build the program up from those steps. Until you get to the point where you're thinking computationally, I'm not convinced you can really call whatever it is your doing "programming."

Maybe I just need to adjust the onion on my belt and go yell at a cloud or two.
Huge plus for me :)

I already live in a place with sub-freezing temperatures half the year or more. Absolutely love it.
WTF. Blinding lasers aren't even allowed in combat during war, they're considered inhumane and banned under international law.
As someone who once upon a time worked as a bike riding mailman in Sweden, it's largely fine. :)

There's a good amount of bike lanes, and they are largely snowy in the winter rather than icy (due to not as much traffic as the main roads), or they are graveled when there is ice, so it's rare that it is too slippery (biking on snow is fine, ice can be messy). You have to go a bit slower than normal, sure, but it's hardly a problem.

Cold isnt a problem - you do fine with like a fleece down to minus 10 or so, and most places aren't colder than that very often (unless you are very far north).

Rain is the same as anywhere - no problem as long as you have some protective gear.

Thats just the winter though - summer it is perfect.
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"In those 20 years [Amazon] has failed to pay a single penny in dividends to stockholders."

That's not very surprising. Public companies typically don't pay out cash dividends if they think they can get better a return for their shareholders by investing that money into growing their business. And for shareholders, getting returns in the form of long-term capital gains instead of dividends generally lowers their tax liability.
Yeah, he talks about free education but not taxation.
I don't know if that's sarcasm, but you pay that in most large US cities for housing and nearly that for a burger (a nice burger, or one with a drink and a side - obviously not from McDonalds or similar).
I've been to Stockholm a half a dozen times for work. Nearly every time I go, I manage to get into have some decent conversations with local Swedes. That certainly isn't the same as living there and getting to know them socially -- they seem more outgoing than Finns ;). When I lived in Helsinki, getting to know locals was also quite difficult -- even with normal activities outside work (martial arts classes, yoga, meditation, etc).
> most modern dynamically-typed languages err way to far on the side of permitting (or ignoring) operations which should raise exceptions.

Dart is a good example of a modern, dynamically typed language that was designed to not just silently allow errors like these. Accessing an unknown property will throw. Likewise, calling an undefined method will throw, as will calling a method with too many or two few arguments.
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For fun, try reading this article again but with "developers" replaced with "musicians".

Putting out an 8-bit JRPG platformer with RTS and FPS elements isn't going to make you a millionaire any more than putting on some flannel and recording a record with three chords will.
For the reader who is not familiar with Tex/Latex: Tex is a typesetting system designed by Knuth with the purpose of enabling him (Knuth) to typeset a math paper in a way that a good classical typesetter would have done (with the skils aquired in years of training).

Latex is a set of Tex macros that turns Tex into something more similar to a Markup language where one does mark up headings for headings etc.

While Tex is exceptional in its quality, robustness and beauty (it is probably one of the oldes software pieces still in wide use), Latex has a lot more dark corners as user norswap points out.

Latex enables average users to use Tex without having to think about how to lay out a document. Latex makes a lot of good choices in Layout (and a few bad ones too).

Nevertheless -- and that continues to amaze me -- Latex and its documentclasses continue to be the only viable choice for scientific typesetting by PhD students who just don't have the time to learn plain Tex.

There are a few Tex-based alternatives (Context for example) that could be considered equal, but Latex seems to offer a reasonable experience.

In the WYSIWYG realm, there is hardly viable competition. Word or LibreOffice/OpenOffice, Docbook/XSLT/XML:FO, etc. Most of them produce inferior results or provide an inferior user experience.

I have heard countless stories of people who opted to not use Latex for their thesis/drafts, and the pain is unspeakable. A friend realized - when turning in his thesis - that page numbering was off on odd pages in the copy he meant to turn in last minute (was there on the draft printed out 3 hours before). A lecturer had his PhD dissertation published by its subtitle because by accident it vanished during the title. Countless How-to-write-your-thesis guides of the early 2000s adviced to not write more than 20 pages within the same document of a popular word processor since it was known to easily crash then. And have I mentioned how much more painful handling citations is in most word processors? Bibtex et. al is not comfortable, but I would prefer it to most other solutions on the market. The manual for a product at a company where I worked at had odd page numbers in serif fonts and even in sans serif fonts. It was produced not with a consumer word processor but with a "professional" tool. An XSL:FO based report generator that I once had to use produced horrible typesetting (and made the machine swap while formatting that textual output, 4GB of RAM were not enough). And changing things was nightmarish.

I wonder what the future of Tex and Latex is, but I do not see serious competition on the horizon, especially not in areas, where people have to get things done.

My best bet is, that the haskell folks will be able to provide an alternative in a few years, the diagrams library has already taken on Metafont and pandoc has been proven to be great for parsing text markup. The meta language of the diagrams library has shown that Haskell is actually suitable and expressive for drawing and arranging items. Until then, Tex will rule the world of outstanding scientific typesetting for the average scientist.
At or below freezing? Bah! I'll see your mild summers and chilly winters and raise you hot and humid and frikkin' cold!

http://www.holiday-weather.com/ottawa/averages/

Stockholm is positively mild compared to Ottawa.
MUC ( Munich Airport ) had a pilot until 2006 with hydrogen powered buses [0]. Last time I flew, they still use diesel powered.

I believe that if this company makes a good electric bus, the airports will be the first customers.

[0] http://www.munich-airport.de/en/company/umwelt/klima/luft/kl...
Well, no, bad eating habits and people with poor self-control led to a diabetes type 2 and obesity epidemic. (I'm not saying I have awesome self-control - it's a work in progress, but I'm not going to blame external factors when I'm the single largest determinator of what I put into my body).

Sigh.

I get sick of reading this, that people think it's some grand conspiracy, or that big corporations are poisoning you. Look, for most people (read - you, me and most people around us) - it really does boil down to self control. Eat less food, and exercise more.

I'm always amazed by the portion sizes I get when I go out. And then when I don't shovel down food like my friends, they're like, "What's wrong? Are you sick? You should go see a doctor".

I'm like, no...err, I'm just full?

Yes, I have moments of weakness and I have my vices (liquorice...yummy), but if you just cut down on food in general, and the sugar and processed stuff, you will lose weight. I went from around 75kg to 68kg that way - sure, I suppose I could go lower, but I don't think I could maintain that level of self-control 24/7...haha.

And another poster is right - a lot of the success of these fad diets is probably just due to people being conscious of what you eat - which they're normally not. The fact they're dieting probably means they realise exactly how much they're eating, and consciously or not, cut down on it.
You can use LaTeX in a Markdown document and convert to PDF with a tool like Pandoc. It might be a better option when you don't care much about custom formatting.
Depending on the types of cars, theft is a valid concern. HiGear was a car service that rented out luxury cars and had to shut down because they were hit by a criminal ring [1].

Agree that its not a showstopper if you're vigilant, so it's good that they're thinking about it from the outset.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/01/luxury-car-sharing-service-...
Python like decorators in JavaScript with pseudo operator overloading
How about when the hash is found, all currently active miners get X% of the payoff, where X is their contribution to the total hashrate?
Ummm, I'm used to rents on _houses_ being about $1,200-$1,500/month, and a good burger costing $10-15 on its own. I live in the prosperous capital of a Western state with a good tech job market, FWIW.
Or unsafe for non-portable solution.
Why was this down-voted? He is right, bitlocker is available only for some versions. Plus, there is no way to know whether bitlocker is better or worst and there is no way to audit it.
This will be great for people driving and reading a book on their phone with one hand....
I assume you talk about the winter?

If you live in a city, the bicycle roads will be plowed regularly. Get a wind stopping jacket and pullover for your trousers. Use two pair of gloves. (You will get warm from bicycling, don't use a too warm jacket.)

And use winter tires for the bicycle, they are pure magic.
More accurately: people are fleeing the North East.
A risk with that strategy is that it may only get you the tech-illiterate market because the other potential customers think your stuff is for idiots and don't want to look stupid.

With Mayday, I think there is another side to that risk: if they only get the market segment of customers who use Mayday a lot, that can get expensive, especially since they promise "Help in 15 seconds or less" (they do weasel out of that a bit by stating that is the goal, but if it comes to a court case, I doubt that will fully absolve them if average response time is, say, 30 seconds)
I recently relocated from Oslo to London. My living costs in London are higher than previously, mainly I think because housing standards are significantly lower in the UK. Certain things are cheaper in the UK, such as food, drink, and eating out. But housing prices are quite extreme.
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You can, but you have to enable side-loading (most people who buy this phone won't even know what that means) and then you need to worry about it getting out of date. That's a big deal for browsers and not having the app store automatically update you (as it will on Android) to the latest version is a big security risk.
The 3D capability of the phone has a lot of potential in terms of shopping. Imagine not this generation, or the next, but the one after that, being able to just lay the phone down flat and swipe through holograms of different products for sale on Amazon. You could draw your hands outward and that would scale the item. You could flip your thumb like there's an imaginary coin on it and a coin would appear next to the item your shopping for to show scale.

I'm not interested in making any predictions as far as how the phone will fare against Apple and Android, as this is literally a few hours old.
What about investments for new start-ups? I'm thinking to stay 2 weeks there trying to get an investment for my new company. Worth a shoot?
I'm curious why Los Angeles has an increase in Bachelor degrees but a significant decrease in levels above and below.

The article doesn't address that, only noting:

> [...] immigrants continue to flow into places like New York and Los Angeles. But these places are seeing a net loss of Americans of all education levels.

> San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Miami all saw their ranks of educated residents grow and less educated residents shrink.
Well know cryptographers opinion on this topic: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/47895635223707648...

He tweeted: Most commercial encryption products are junk.
> show that you have sufficient funds to support you during the first two years (SEK 200,000)

SEK 200,000 == $30,000 USD
I wonder how the Norwegians feel about this.
Agreed, but wait until I build mine first. ;)

Pingdom seemed to be the service that was one of the more prominent first to market options and then promptly sat on their laurels waiting for a buy-out. That seems to have come to fruition.

Based on the quality of product Solarwinds offers, I will now go delete any remaining monitoring I've been using from them.

I think the market could use a really good monitoring platform that does a lot more than what's on the service offering from the likes of Pingdom.
It's nutritional science. Long studies with not that much money means fewer subjects. It's better than nothing, I guess.
The meat of the S6RS spec is 55 pages [1]. This proves my point rather than refuting it: there's a lot more to Scheme than lambda – 55 pages of design decisions more.

[1] http://www.r6rs.org/final/r6rs.pdf
If you're in Sweden for a startup it's 20% for dividends and 30% when you're selling your stock. If you're there for a paycheck you probably won't make much more than $50k.
I've lived/worked in many cities/counties around Europe and have also lived in Boston, and one thing is for sure, there is no one perfect country – I don't take all of what the video says at face value. We (humans) think it is always greener on the other side, but it is rarely the case. Regardless, some of things that work, work very well, and are big problem solvers for citizens. See the case of public healthcare all around Europe.

Some people have already mentioned some of the downsides to Sweden (weather, job permits, etc), but to say that what Stockholm (and by extension Sweden) has achieved is "based in peer-pressured conservative egalitarianism" is being short sighted – the same could be said of Russia and other eastern European countries, and yet here is Sweden. What has made this possible are the people, who have made it pretty clear what their priorities as a society are on healthcare, environment, energy, education, etc. This doesn't happen because a country closed their borders (I take it you have a bad view on immigration), and by a stochastic process all this goodness happened. This has happened by design (and yet it is no problem-free, only better).
27% of Healthcare Spend Considered “Waste” to Tune of $765 Billion Annually
Just to clarify – religion is a template, not THE template.

The only proof I need is the proof of my own life experiences and the lives I've seen destroyed religion.

See my other comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7912955

And then take a look at these reddit communities:

http://www.reddit.com/r/exjw
http://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon
http://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim
http://www.reddit.com/r/moonies
http://www.reddit.com/r/exbahai

As I stated above, I recently read How Religion Poisons Everything as well. No idea if you've read this book yourself, but it has some very compelling arguments as to the evil nature contained within religion.

Putting faith and believing in the creative works of human beings, using those beliefs to start wars, shun homosexuals, commit acts of horror and atrocity.

And this doesn't just come from "large hierarchies". Have you considered the religious suicide cults of the world? Even on a small scale, group think through the template of religion can be very deadly.
Lifestream is now off.
I mean, it is secure against passive adversaries... but that's nit-picking.

ChatCrypt has made a large number of mistakes, though, I concur. They don't use HTTPS, it isn't open sourced, and the developer is practically anonymous.

I would still maintain that Matasano's article is problematic, though, because it has one of two effects on the reader:

1. The reader is more-than-well convinced on faulty basis that JS crypto should never be used.

2. The reader is still adamant on continuing their project, but is now alienated from a source that could have offered a plethora of helpful advice. (Example: "Please, for all that is good, use HTTPS.")

Of course, nothing will prevent the occasional surfacing of bad crypto, but their article certainly doesn't help any of its causes.
> Per unit of product I can see that this is the case as some of the value must be spent on marketing

You got it perfectly.

> but if more product is sold than would have been otherwise extra value can be created overall.

But selling product does not equate to value creation, it equates to an exchange.

I'm not sure why I am incapable of communicating this point more clearly, but value creation is a totally different thing than increasing turnover or profits or taking more or less money out of the hands of consumers.

Maybe there is a double meaning to this that I'm not aware of but for me 'value creation' is a fairly narrowly defined term and marketing does not enter into it.

> Engineers are also not philanthropists. I don't see what difference this makes

Engineers don't claim to improve the world by marketing either, neither do they claim to 'create value' when they write a piece of software.

However that is much closer to my view on value creation than the view that a marketeer creates value by getting a consumer to spend money on some product.
MDwiki – Markdown based wiki done 100% on the client via JavaScript
Can you describe more how it worked? I would assume as it's based on bsd ports that one is simply using a common Make file library and then building fairly Independant components.

The problem presumably starts when decomposing a monolithic build and how do you pull it all together again?

I have stalled at pyholodeck.mikadosoftware.com and need some inspiration to pick that over the 100 other things I needs to do :-)
To be fair, he only spent 8 hours developing it.
Since Brainfuck is turing complete, this is untrue – you can emulate procedures and then define car, cdr and cons as emulation-level procedures.
I think Alexis Ohanian and Kat Manalac are co-MCing.