skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll give you one thing, at least you're up front about it.

Here's my take on the whole thing:

The www was getting along fine without all the bottom feeders and people 'gaming the system'. Now it's an arms race, and like in any good arms race the people that make the money are the ones selling to both sides.

Poor unsuspecting bystanders in the middle, who still believe that 'content is king' don't stand a chance amidst all that violence.

If all the so called-seos would lose their net access for the next two decades or so I think the quality of the net - and of search engine results - would go up dramatically.

The only reason that google was able to get their foot in the door in the first place was because altavista was too easy to game. Now it's an expert matter, so lots of money is to be made because traffic is 'king'.

Fortunately for me search engines are only a very small %age of my traffic. And no, that does not mean I could be doing a whole lot better if I hired you.
The only reason I kept from switching to Opera was that I would have to re-learn some keyboard shortcuts.

But you know what? I don't care anymore. Firefox has become too bloated anyway, and this just seals the deal.
In the context of the article, why not?
Gentoo on my laptop because I want the extreme flexibility there, but my official "home machine" is Debian testing/unstable because I wanted something more consistent that was easier to maintain.
Sounds like a beautiful setup. What is your electricity bill like? ;)
Also, you registered just to make this post?

I would suspect that a fair number of users have registered to make a post, so I'm not entirely certain what you're getting at. (Unless it's just curiosity, in which case I'll allow YorkSEO to speak for themselves).
I've written a non-toy webserver in C++, it's been making me money since '98 or so, it's still cooking along at http://upload6.ww.com/_/stats.html 25M hits / day, 5 servers like that. It's a single threaded 'select' based webserver that pushes images posted by one user to many others.

I could have done that in C, but C++ seemed nice at the time, so I used it. Finally, after debugging obscure runtime issues and memory leaks it dawned on me that the program was ok, I just wasn't competent enough in C++ to do this quickly and error-free. So, bit by bit I started to get rid of the OO features, the program became faster, and more reliable. When it was back down to bare-to-the-metal 'C' with C++ comments it ran faultless, and it has been doing so for well over a decade now.

The webcam software was a different story, because it had to run on the microsoft platform it had to be in C++, fortunately Borland C++ builder was an excellent environment, and I never regretted using it instead of using C. The GUI features of C++ builder made life a lot easier.

My 'take home' was if you have to use C++ be very careful and use as many quality libraries as you can find so you don't end up spending a lot of time chasing obscure bugs.

And if it is systems level stuff, stick to C.
I'll definitely give Chrome OS a try when it comes out.
Yeah, but guess what? More than your single application typically hits your database, so now you have to make sure any and all applications do that runtime input verification and do it correctly.

At Massify, we have 5 different applications with entirely different code bases hitting the same datasources, so now you want me to go and make sure input verification is the same across all of them when I could more easily do it in one source?

It doesn't nullify anything I've said, in fact it proves it!

It would be a HORRIBLE IDEA. Nothing about this is a good idea, if you think it is, please turn in your developer license!
That's a classic.

But seriously this article does make me think about netbooks and other portable devices. If a stolen cell phone could yield so much information how about a stolen computer?

It seems to me that when you keep so much of your life on an electronic device you are naturally going to be vulnerable in multiple ways.
Ok, what about new companies entering a competitive niche? You can have a perfectly optimised website but still not get any traction in the search engines. These days a good cms will do your on page optimisation for you, but links are what you need to make your site visible. Yes you could build links yourself, but it probably isn't the most efficient use of your time as your success rate will usually be lower than that of an experienced seo.
And yes I'm a long time lurker who registered just to post this
Haskell's purely functional core and ability to localize computational side effects via monads make it a natural fit for multithreaded programming. Pure (i.e. side-effect free) code can be semi-automatically parallelized (with the programmer giving guidance about where profitable parallelization points are, but just that). Shared-state concurrent programming can be made easier (and, most importantly, more modular) with Haskell's Software Transactional Memory support.
You're a startup. You have neither the time nor money to do it all yourself, and if you're not first to market it's curtains. The best language for your startup is the one that has the most people kicking out free, modular code that you can pull off the shelf and use. This would seem to be Ruby for the time being, but the main point is you need to pick up the fad du jour and run with it.
I could find out for free how to do a lot of things. Make my own whisky, fix my car. However I'm not a distiller or a mechanic so I leave those tasks to people who know what to do without having to read a manual every time. Someone who also knows what not to waste time on(meta tags for example which for some reason still seem to feature high in all entry level seo step lists).
but the article said:

"the Supreme Court, in its 2003 decision in Grutter v. Bollinger ruled that diversity is a permissible objective for the use of racial preferences in admissions"
Thank goodness -- the Java bashing season seemed to go on forever.
Wow. This article is very wordy, but it does a tremendous job of explaining how the stock market is basically completely corrupt. Its a wonder that our American economic system hasn't collapsed already.
If you're truly committed to "the right tool for the job" be prepared to become a polyglot programmer.

We use 5 (or 6, depending on how you count) different programming languages regularly at my startup and for strong business and technical reasons each of them is "the right tool for the job". We also have some other languages squirreled away in odd corners. In those cases, the languages tend to be "good enough" tools for their jobs (so there's no sensible reason to change something that is already working).
"Computer simulations can have iterations that are several magnitudes faster than anything you would likely see with bio evolution."

I think you are missing a critical point. Bio evolution operates with a level of detail unlike anything you would likely see with computer simulations.

It may still take a long time to run enough simulations to get comparable effects.
Using a video game to treat ADHD
Puppy Linux 4.3
"Fortunately for me search engines are only a very small %age of my traffic. And no, that does not mean I could be doing a whole lot better if I hired you"

No, but increasing your number of search engine visitors would increase your revenue would it not?
spammer trial link. If you can 'flag' then do so, that will keep the new page clean.

edit: had a look at your profile, you can't flag yet, I think the current threshold is 200 or so.
It's a mystery to me that nobody took that to court and claimed as the victim of an unfair contractual arrangement.

Also, good luck trying to get any of your personal information removed from it (eg I added my date and exact birthplace years ago in the mistaken belief that I could filter my own private/public data). Their attitude is that once you've given them a piece of data, they own it.
Maybe I've misunderstood something about "SEO" as a position (thinking it was all about page optimization/design), but are you saying that its about building incoming links to a site as well?

Do companies hire you just to help build the number of links to their sites from other sites? How do you do this? Isn't that just plain old "marketing" at that point?
I think you missed the mark on Squirrel, completely. This is, to me, one of those things that you can show people and they'll think this is why I have a computer or cell phone.

There is only one bank (USAA, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/technology/10check.html?_r...) that accepts photographed checks on the iPhone. Besides, I don't know anyone that carries checks around, whereas almost everyone I know carries a credit card and some (usually small) amount of cash around. The cash usually doesn't break up easily. Whereas with credit, you can bill the exact amount necessary. Only, its pretty difficult for people to accept credit cards from a friend.

Squirrel changes this. It's person to person, peer to peer payment. You can go out to dinner with someone and split the check, exactly and not have to deal with "Do I owe you $10 from last weeks dinner? Didn't I buy you a few beers last night?". You can have a garage sale or a stand at a market somewhere and accept payments right there in more forms then cash. This is likely to be far more convenient to use then a check is.
I thought apple was allowing accessories to connect to the dock at the bottom after the 3.0 software update. Wouldn't it make more sense, and be sturdier if it was at the bottom? Also, with a bigger piece of hardware you might be able to use the quick pass functionality of some cards (the ones with ultra super secure RFID).
Doesn't your last point about meta tags prove that SEO shouldn't be placed in the same category of "experts" as mechanics and distillers?
And while I'm also uncomfortable at the gas station doing the same, I have a higher degree of confidence that the station is legitimate.

Why can't a gas station use this software?
Quote : "I almost never need more than one window to focus on."

That's not suitable for most of the programming work.
It probably would not.

One of the main tenets of SEO is that everybody will profit from traffic from search engines.

Very few people actually take the time to see if that statement holds true for their site.

The major keywords that my site is found on indicate that the users that come through that route are freeloaders, eating up bandwidth and never ever signing up for the premium package.

I can't blame them, I wouldn't either but that's a different story.

Targeting different keywords would be possible but it would require unethical behaviour wrt to building links and I don't go for that. My competitors do, I wish them best of luck.

The users that support the site are not in the hit-and-run category, they've found the site because their buddies are on it, and they stick together.

So, that's why more search engine traffic wouldn't help much, if at all. After all, if (increase-in-sales - (cost-of-acquisition + cost of freeloaders)) leaves you with a net loss then there isn't much point.

And if it would, then I probably would still find using SEO an unethical thing to do.

Maybe that's strange and maybe I should be going all-out to squeeze every last penny out of the internet but I prefer to get my users through references.
This works really well for embedded applications since the code logic should be doing some type checking and verification before insert.

SQLite is a very well known relational database with dynamic typing, it's quite possible the most deployed relational dB in the world since it runs in everything from browsers to mp3 players and if the data inserts are well controlled, don't really result in any particular problems.
Current financial sector harms the real economy
And it's a fantastic free (public domain licensing anyone?) embedded dB with readily available support and custom dev services at the end of the phone.
You implied that somebody “all serious” about minimalism should only use solid color wallpapers. Anybody else apparently doesn’t have the street cred or something.

He already uses a very toned down wallpaper (mentions that, too) and I honestly don’t get why in that context your snide comment was necessary.
I love Arch. They've done a great job straddling the line between minimalistic and easy to use. It reminds me (in a good way) of how Linux distros tended to work many years ago.
obvious puff piece on being afraid of your cool new tech... clearly all tech should come with a surgeon general's warning proclaiming:

"warning: entrusting this device with your personal information may be hazardous to your health"

I couldn't really tell but it looked to me like none of these phones were 'locked' with a password that wipes your phone after so and so many incorrect log in attempts. Also, the guys are professional data recovery guys who work with the police and they had physical access to the devices which means they could have bypassed the soft lock entirely.

q: what kind of 'wipe' does the iphone and bb do when you hit the lock reset limit? is it like a multi-write to the 'disk', which is obviously ram based and not platter based. does the multi-write work for such devices?
Perhaps passive credit cards should use a barcode instead of a magnetic stripe, so any endpoint with a camera can swipe them.
Because of sarcasm.
Arch too, I thought it'd be in the list : )
I can't believe that in that entire lengthy article they never mention the severe groundwater pollution that comes from pumping a witches brew of chemicals into the ground. Ask the people living near those shale wells - the people with the burning tap water (I'm not joking) whether this is a "clean" source of energy.
Three double martinis helped Ray Bradbury overcome his fear of flying
Historically, I don't think it was necessarily the sleaziness of the industry that led to regulations as much as a moral judgement against it. (Traditionally, that religious doctrine frowned upon it; with a modern sheen, that it preys on common cognitive biases in a way that impoverishes individuals and communities.)

With states running lotteries and so much gambling easy to access via short trips, online services, or underground venues and personal relationships, I'd agree the lingering restrictions are usually due to regulatory capture protecting gambling-industry incumbents, with an occasional assist from morally-motivated anti-gambling crusaders.
Quantum Mechanics and Immortality
If you don't like paying your mechanic, you can learn to fix your own car. That doesn't mean he/she is ripping you off.
It helps to think of it as a game. The money's just for keeping score.
Either that or plain old linkspamming.
The innovation isn't really in the device, but what is going on under the hood. I'm extremely excited about the platform.
Why a post with only a link to a C++ FQA is that much high rated? Maybe I missed the point, but everyone with a bit of C++ knowledge already know that website. Suppose I post a FAQ on python, will it be top 10 ? I don't know, the author could have added a bit of explanation.
"Horizontal" means a bunch of servers on a shelf. "Vertical" means a bunch of servers in a rack. :-)
"an x86 based Unix well ahead of Linux, an IP concentrator/router for ISPs in early, to quote two examples"

Any links ?

Other than the distortions that 'easy money' introduced, the few startups that tried valiantly to make products never even made it even to the foot notes. Some of these guys were so idealistic that they committed themselves to a non-existent "Indian market". But there is easy money to be made in the US as well.Dharmesh'sixth point about cultural factors might make people uncomfortable, but it's generally true of the IT folks of the last two decades:

"I’ve found Indians to be almost overly practical (in the short-term sense) and not passionate about some of the softer things (like user experience, marketing, branding and other things) which in today’s world are large contributors to future outcomes of software startups. "
I figured it is an excellent distillation of what to avoid, and more importantly, why, written by someone with a lot more knowledge on the subject than most and in a style that I thought was quite humorous.

That last bit seems to have been received in a 'mixed' fashion judging by the responses.
Stealing is taking another person's property without permission.

In this case, taxpayers handed over money to the government on the understanding that it would be used for the public good, to support common infrastructure and institutions. Instead it is being paid to the stockholders and employees of banks for doing exactly nothing: they are taking money from one federal account and moving it to another, producing no value for anyone but themselves.

So I guess, technically, it's not stealing. But it's a massive violation of trust that should be criminal.
So imagine we get to build a probe for the sole purpose of flinging it out there between V1 and V2 at the highest velocity we can muster. What sort of instruments should it have?
Hopefully they can overcome whatever knocked the PayPal crew off this idea originally:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Beginnings

Maybe the ubiquity of iPhones was the missing ingredient?
MMORPG in Sherwood - Free Massive Multiplayer Web Game
fpgeek explained what I was talking about in Haskell far better than I can.

Perhaps I mispoke, being the very earliest of beginners in Lisp. I had thought that in realms of compiler controlled concurrency for certain types of functional programs it was very similar to Haskell in that respect. I apologize if I erred.
I guess it depends on your definiton of "collapsed".
For six years, even!
But that's not how it is now, isn't it.

An seo is not a mechanic that fixes your car, an seo is a person that will lead lots of people to your store (so they say) because everybody else is also hiring hustlers (so they say).

They don't fix anything that was broken before they arrived on the scene, but once one person starts misbehaving in this way everybody else that's purely in it for the money will have to follow suit.
Not sure I follow — are you suggesting it's distracting at a subconscious level?

I find it a stretch to say any of the examples you mention are analogous to small static monotone icons in the corner of a screen; they no more distract me than the 'Eject' key on the keyboard does.
there have always been haves and have-nots, those are the facts of life. but these guys (read: gs) are laughing their asses off at us. and I'm pretty pissed off about it.
The problem is that our whole system is based around rewarding essentially detrimental behaviour.

We'll be forever wondering what the landscape would have looked like if those banks had been allowed to collapse.

I personally think that short term we'd have been much worse off, but longer term quite possibly much better.
Perhaps, but then perhaps a database is not the proper store for that at all, and a relational database almost certainly isn't.

If you really must do it via a relational database, you could use something equivalent to varbinary(max) to accept whatever stream of bits is sent in and then parse them out into something meaningful later (or just store it for the applications retrieval).
This is an appealing train of thought, but it turns out to be very hard to make this pay off, at least in all the concrete situations I've been able to consider. The reason is subtle: "I/O bound" workloads often only become so when they started out "memory bound." If you've got more memory, you can often buffer or cache your way out of being I/O bound. And squeezing the last few percent out of machine memory is a weakness of the productivity languages' runtimes, because it runs counter to the natural goals of a garbage collector.

Consider, say, a database. In its equilibrium state, serving a read-biased workload, the DBMS's ability to use every cotton-picking byte of RAM to cache precious blocks will powerfully determine performance. The workload only really becomes "I/O bound" once you run out of RAM, and a runtime that exacts an X% tax on RAM will become I/O bound that much more quickly.

This seems to be an inherent trade-off in the "automatic memory management" paradigm; even Sun's JVM is not immune to this. It's also the right trade-off for a huge majority of code. But it's one of the reasons systems programs in minority languages are driving into a stiff wind.
Maybe I'm missing something...woudln't it be better to use PayPal in situations like these?
One thing I don't get about naked short selling: if I bought shares from a short seller and it turns out these shares don't actually exist, what happens to the money I paid to the short seller?

In other words, does the buyer of the phantom shares have no recourse?
Learning about Redis through writing a Twitter clone
There was a ban on short selling financials for a while to stop this kind of stuff. Maybe they rescinded it too soon.

http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-211.htm
If you think "collapsed" is a legitimate description of the present state of the American economy, I tremble to contemplate the words you would use to describe, say, Zimbabwe's.

Edit: That, alone, is a tad too much snark with a tad too little data for me to leave it unadorned in good conscience. Here's a couple points of interest:

1. In 2003, the Zimbabwean economy shrunk by 18 percent.
2. In 2008, the estimated inflation rate in Zimbabwe was 231 000 000 percent.
3. By late 2008, official statistics put that at 516 quintillion percent
4. The Zimbabwean Dollar officially ceased to exist on 1 July, 2009
(quoth Wikipedia; I'm not making this up).

America's doing just dandy, all things considered.

Edit again: On a non-economic front, it might be interesting to note that Zimbabwe's life expectancy is in the mid-30s for both sexes.
I wonder what a language with a three character Fibonacci sequence would be like. You'd probably need Unicode, if the language wasn't specifically designed for the Fibonacci sequence.
you can use SYS.ANYDATA and SYS.ANYDATASET if you use Oracle. I'm sure other databases support similar feature.
If you want to do Java, lisp and web I would recommend clojure.

All the cool kids are doing it ;)
Beijing's been doing this for a while too, though they're typically aiming at drought or hailstorm prevention
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Weather_Modification_Of...
But you're not understanding SEO, are you.

I do SEO consulting in addition to web design and development consulting. And most of what I do in this area is exactly that: fixing what's broken.

Almost all sites we encounter have one or more of the following problems:

- Content that is unreachable by crawlers
- Improperly used HTML tags, or lack of semantic tags in general
- Poorly designed, or non-existant, information architecture
- Lack of meta descriptions, alternate text, etc

And almost all sites we review could benefit from:

- Keyword research and targeting
- Load time optimization
- Internal linking optimization
- Content creation
- Link building

How exactly you equate that with hustling is beyond me.
It appears that at least some of the time, the shares are delivered many weeks after the transaction date instead of the required 3 days. This would give the seller of the stock time to wait until the price had fallen before acquiring the stock and giving it to you to settle the transaction. However, I'm not sure how this would work when the number of promised shares far exceeds the actual number that exist.

I would love to hear if anyone knows how this works.