skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone else mentioned, the only method I've seen work is either a niche with very high CPM rates, or to garner a lot of traffic.

On the ton of traffic side, there are a lot of examples, but Google has nuked countless of those over time.

eg: http://www.markosweb.com/

They were once one of the top ~1,000 sites in the world, and that site was generating over a million dollars per year via AdSense. They'd show up for nearly any search for a random domain / site in google. A lot of sites were using that domain info technique to spam traffic (they'd show things like pagerank, alexa rank, estimated value, blah blah).

Well that concept is still functional, just not as lucrative. Today you can find "sites like X" sites that are plentiful in the serps. There is still a lot of traffic in it.

Some presently still successful examples (some are spammy, some are less so; Google has hit some of these hard this year; if you asked most of these sites, they'd claim they're valuable tools):

http://www.semrush.com

http://www.network-tools.com

http://www.ip-adress.com

http://www.prchecker.info

http://www.intodns.com

http://who.is

http://www.aboutus.org

http://www.similarsites.com
NuclearJS (Flux implementation)
British Tourists' Tweets Get Them Denied Entry to the U.S
I thought they were saying "bolt" instead of boat. I was confused as to why they aborted early on because of a bolt in the exclusion zone.
Why Is a Math Proof Like a Unit Test?
Or that a lot of their target demographic has never been taught that, and so they've optimised their delivery to be accessible to the majority?
A Startup Entrepreneur's Biggest Weakness: No Perspective
Nice work! Great to see new CL projects.
People love not to think...
Google is a business and the primary objective of any business is to make money (the vision/mission and others is for the people who love free lunch)
Why captcha? to provide a service in a trade for "free" human recognition capabilities.

Q//But google now is better at recognizing those numbers....
A//Right... that's why they now request the next "way to expensive" to implement "free" service from you, your recognition... and association capabilities.
I was interviewing at a company in Chicago with the open office plan, foosball table right next to the engineers, and people blasting the Indiana Jones theme over the speakers.

They said they had trouble finding senior people. If I had been more aggressive I would have told them "have you considered having an adults table?"
Well for now AWS still charges a large premium over discounted hosting companies such as Hetzner. Over the past years it doesn't seem like anybody is catching up though. AWS is still by far the most advanced cloud hosting solution. Some great features:
- ELB
- Cloudformation
- RDS
- ElastiCache
- The BOTO api client
- Snapshots (Also see snaptastic btw, https://github.com/tschellenbach/snaptastic)
Why software estimates change and inflate
I'm a bit curious, as to whether AWS has a open DNS like the Google DNS?
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE – What Is Spirulina?
When I do the simulation, I get 47.5% Rockets win, 48.2% Kings win, 4.3% ties. It's not quite as bad as the post makes it sound. That being said it is interesting that the problem isn't symmetric. The distribution of x (points scored by the Rockets, who are shooting 3s in this example) is skewed, while the distribution of y isn't. In general three-point results will be more skewed than two-point results, because shooting percentages are generally less than 50 percent, and three-point shooting percentages are lower than two-point shooting percentages, therefore further from 50 percent.
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Yup 100%. Worst case, I could have still turned it around and immediately sold it for 25k. If I was more patient, likely 35k.

To me, ignoring the opportunity cost of the cash itself, it was a ~10k risk. Worth it.
Cool, thanks! That helps a lot. Even though I knew what the axes were my intuition struggled a bit, I think partly because I'm so used to the bottom/X axis being used for time.
How would one go about getting a job as a #3 with an MS in economics but no practical finance experience? I can code reasonably well, know stats reasonably well, and know calculus reasonably well, but could easily bone up on all 3 in about 2-3 months, enough so to confidently pass the interview process. But how would I get an interview without any finance connections?
I would also highly recommend Influence. Preemptive word of advice for anyone looking for the audiobook version: it's under the title Influence: Science and Practice. Which is the title of the textbook version of the book.
The goal isn't to make things harder for bots, it's to make things easier for users.
All relative and the curve is certainly right tailed.

There are trader/quants who basically work for free for just upside at lots of prop shops + HFs. There's actually deals WORSE than that where people sacrifice a lot for upside participation in their strategy.

Trading at a bank is a mixed objective problem generally -- much of what you do is NOT about making $ so understanding how and why people make what they make is not trivial.

I can't imagine a world where any of these wouldn't be at least low 6 figure roles -- the banks/HFs/prop-shops have to pay to compete with the Googles/Facebooks of the world.
This sounds very close to the late 90s penny stock pusher:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Lebed

Now maybe this new kid was not as nefarious as Lebed but pushing your own penny stock agenda is given when you play to win. Only question is whether you slip under SEC radar.

The fact that he is starting a $2,000 newsletter is pretty much an indication that whatever edge he had is gone.
Right, but the traditional core ecosystem tools have pretty poor performance (long deploys, etc). Point is there is something there that "needs to be fixed". There are tools that do that, but those are hard sells in an enterprise environment for a lot of reasons.

Businesses tend to be wary of building long-term solutions in flavor-of-the-week frameworks/environments/etc. Even when it's just a dev tool, even assuming that the tool behaves exactly like a real production environment, there's overhead to throwing away your workflow that Just Works and getting everyone used to something new. And developer culture right now is that there's a new must-have "Hottest Tool/Framework/Library That Will PUMP UP YOUR PRODUCTIVITY!" every couple months.

And rightly or wrongly those tools are often a hard sell to management when there's ongoing costs - we can't get funding for a JIRA server let alone JRebel. Yes, the time it saves me would be worth more than $1.50 per work-day, but that's often not how managers look at it.
True, but if they spent less time going from ready states to standby states and back again (aka recycling the clock) i bet they could have launched.
That's very much a speed. It's a really slow speed, which is what was indicated with the sarcastic remark.

12 years/mile. So, I see rate (1 mile) and time (12 years). If you want to REwrite this, you can say (1/12)mile/year.

And that's also a speed.
with a hack as big as this why hasn't it affected their stock price?
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Possibly, but the amount of polish needed to turn a simple flash game into a billion dollar flash game requires more than a single programmer.
Breaking (down) Java News JDK 9 Images Modularised
I'm not sure if this site qualifies as "small" enough, but I think Ken Pomeroy does pretty well with his site kenpom.com. He takes college basketball box scores, runs a cron job that does some mathematical analysis and puts the results on his site. He has built the site out in the last few years, but there are still only a handful of dyanmically generated pages on his site (rankings, team stats, player stats, game stats). A subscription to his site costs $20/year and I would guess he has several thousand subscribers (myself included).
Ring CEO responds to critics
> They can afford to pay creatives, but they can't afford to pay for a few more security engineers?

So how do you measure their risk and the probability of being damaged? Serious security experts are STILL trying to figure out how to calculate these things. Insurance companies still have trouble "properly" pricing cyber insurance. The insurance companies are doing it, but they are way behind their ability to price for other forms of disasters.

So how much should they spend towards cyber security? How far off are they from that amount? We don't know. (well maybe we'll know from the leaked documents).
The Flash Player Version Detection script[0] dates this as AT LEAST 2007?!

[0] http://cs.nyu.edu/webminor/Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js
I Don't Want “Creative Commons BY” to Mean You Can Rip Me Off
I don't know if I agree. The Angry Birds games are very polished with a lot of details.
2.10.2014 Rovio started employee co-operation negotiations because the growth hasn't been what was expected. The negotiations resulted to reduce the workforce by 110 people.

This procedure is required by Finlands law and this might seem abit strange to people from other countries where firing someone is not a case of 2 months.
My friend got doxxed from this. SSN, passport, hiring agreements, everything. This hack basically dumped every single document Sony had out on the web.
I cant stand that much Comic Sans.
People act like finance is some secret inner sanctum, but it isn't. Finance companies/hedge funds advertise on job boards like any other company. They also often use very aggressive recruiters so finding the recruiting company du jour in your area and talking to them can help.
Huge coalition forms to kill the Comcast-TWC merger for good
TLDR: The coalition is called [StopMegaComcast](http://stopmegacomcast.com/) and includes both public interest groups and rival pay TV providers who are united in their opposition to the merger.

Some of the members include...

* Dish Network
* the Parents Television Council
* Public Knowledge
* the Consumer Federation of America
* the Writers Guild of America

[And a few others](http://stopmegacomcast.com/about/)
And that's why Google can make you answer a captcha if it thinks you're a bot doing searches.
Google New reCaptcha using PHP - Are you a Robot?

http://www.9lessons.info/2014/12/google-new-recaptcha-using-...
Analytics from the 68M raptors unleashed on Vogue.co.uk
In regards to edit 2, I couldnt agree more, if you are a tourist the street dealers in Amsterdam can be kind of nuts, one guy even followed me for almost 5 city blocks completely incredulous that I would not want to buy cocaine from him.
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Lots of options:

One-hops (1-2 year stint then transition out)

1. Programming gig at finance facing software shop
2. Programming gig at exchange

No-hops

1. Work on popular open source framework in heavy use (ZeroMQ, QuickFix, pandas, sympy, sklearn, etc)
2. Find headhunter/recruiting agency
3. Attend local finance oriented meetups and schmooze

I wouldn't trivialize the hiring process -- all of these roles are pretty competitive.
Developers are stubborn, vain creatures. And I’m one of them
Show HN: Top Apps on Google Play API for 45 Countries
Someone asked about brain teasers. They do get asked, you have to deal with it, whining in an interview that this type of question gives no useful hiring indicator won't get you hired.

Or to put it another way: if your hiring culture enshrines shallow, game-show style intellectualism along with such a condescending, "just suck it up" attitude towards candidates... then don't whine that you can't find decent programmers.
Most quants do NOT have Comp Sci degrees. There is a lot of Math degrees in teh field but physics, signals processing, etc are also common.
How many photos are in the universe of possible photos? How long would it take for outsourcing the process to tag all photos so a script could then do the matching?

Is the whole point of this to encourage hackers to get working on this AI challenge of identifying similar photos?

Either they need to hire a lot of people to sit around making these sets or they have an automated way of creating these sets which can be reversed. It would seem to be an arms race where google is paying people, but attackers can have people break it at a cost less than creating them (takes less time to match them up then to find good photos, clean them up, tag them, etc.).

An attacker would also just target the database where this is all stored. With the text recaptcha, it would seem that they have all of these photos and scanned books and you have 8+ character strings of [a-zA-Z0-9], random guessing would not be good enough, so the attacker needed to solve the OCR problem.

However, given the option to select x of 9 images, if you assume that the extremes are less likely of 1/9, 2/9, 8/9, 9/9- then I can hope to get lucky picking 4 or 5 each time, the order does not matter. If you distribute the attack to get around rate limits, etc. - perhaps just picking the first through fifth images gives you a sufficiently high success rate.
I'm sure someone worked hard on that, we should all definitely make fun of them.
How the NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks Worldwide
Synchronization Between Nodes
Isn't the Angular framework totally changing in the future? How will that affect supersonic?
They are if you block ads, scripts, and cookies.
I'd like to understand more about the rationale that led you down the path of creating this.

In my years in enterprise, user and market research has driven the push to create UIs that are more compelling, that make users feel more at home and comfortable (as they would be with mobile and consumer products), while maintaining a more narrow focus on tasks instead of providing a generic one-size fits all paradigm.

This framework stands in contrast to that, making things dull and boring. What caused you to go down this path?
They did try that by publishing apps under the Rovio Stars brand. None of the published apps became as big as Angry Birds though, so it was moot.
Wikipedia doesn't need the money. Here's what a WMF insider has to say: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-Decem...

Every year we get promises that they'll work on making the banners better.
However, it seems when they say better, they mean more effective from the
perspective of generating revenue. The message from the fundraising staff
and Lila is more of the same.

This year I've started having people I know worry that Wikipedia is in
financial trouble. It makes me feel ashamed when I have to tell them
Wikipedia is in fact fine, but that the foundation uses this messaging to
more effectively drive donations. It makes them angry to hear it.
> In many real situations good and bad things come together.

Completely irrelevant to the points being made. No one is denying that.
Ask HN: Easiest / cheapest host to spin up wordpress sites?
I'm working on a new project that will require me to spin up wordpress sites for a bunch of clients. Wondering what the best / easiest / cheap solution you've come across is?

Currently checking out Azure & I really like the interface.

Going to have to think about thinks such as managing accounts, versions etc

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,

Adam
Disclaimer: I am not a Lisp hacker. I prefer to ship.

The syntax for this query language is beautiful. Really exceptional. Lisp has such an excellent way of representing deterministic programming that no other language has really been able to match.

I know this doesn't scale right now, but I don't see any reason why it couldn't at some point. The query syntax is much more digestible than SQL.
Here are two more great resources:

http://justinvincent.com/page/1421/bootstrappers-kickstarter...

http://microisv.com/ - hasn't been updated in forever, but some good content

I couldn't think of it when I wrote the above comment, but "microISV" is the term you want to search for. Stands for "micro independent software vendor"
>> It took extra work for Apple programmers to add a function to iTunes that removes songs not purchased in the same region.

I certainly wasn't involved in the project, but it's easy to imagine a scenario where it's actually easier to do it this way. "Replace data" is an easier operation to implement than "merge."
Perform the search from a different IP appearing as a different browser! This captcha arms race is already making me knackered
Seriously guys? This made to the top of the front page?
First of all, to all people saying "HUR DUR GOOGLE WANTS YOUR BROWSING DATA", well they already fucking have/had it for a looong time.

Secondly, If you tell me that one dude [author] ruled the one+ year work of the engineering team at google as a flaw and simplified it as [So what Google is trying to sell us as a comprehensive bot detecting algorithm is simply a whitelist based on your previous online behavior, CAPTCHAs you solved.] and that you believe it, I would question your intelligence.

This is supposed to be tech savvy community at least to some degree, what the fuck.

Now, in the google's blogpost it reads [Advanced Risk Analysis backend for reCAPTCHA that actively considers a user’s entire engagement with the CAPTCHA—before, during, and after—to determine whether that user is a human.]

[However, CAPTCHAs aren't going away just yet. In cases when the risk analysis engine can't confidently predict whether a user is a human or an abusive agent, it will prompt a CAPTCHA to elicit more cues, increasing the number of security checkpoints to confirm the user is valid.]

So my guess would be they analyze users behaviour on the page where captcha is located, things like mouse movements, time it takes to type out the words, spelling mistakes corrected and whatever else humans do differently than bots - and only then combine that with your historical cookies. Maybe it is much more complicated than that, I, as well as you, don't know the details.

Do you really think that they would go ahead and implement a such system without rigorous testing of effectiveness? I am sure that they tested it extensively with users, AND with bots, and decided that it is better than the current system, and ONLY then deployed it.
Rant off.
Amazon DNS is done via their Route 53 service I believe.
Show HN: Visualizing a 27-year-old, 12M-word email list
Why can't they be like Sony Music, and not pay creatives at all.
I hate having to be vague here, but suffice it to say there exist a few developers-oriented web applications which did one small thing well apiece. One day, a Silicon Valley company tired of paying $500 per lead to AdWords just sent them bolt-out-of-the-blue offers. Suffice it to say that the numbers involved were fat yearly salaries for nights-and-weekends style projects.

If you want to catch a bolt out of the blue, getting together a coherent commercially valuable audience increases your chances. That said: the easiest and best way to make money is to make something people want and trade it to them for money. If you're smart enough to build something that 50k web developers use every month then turning that into six figures is straightforward.

P.S. "They do not offer enough value to charge for" is a solvable problem, either by adding value or by using equivalent engineering time to build solutions to problems that matter to people with money. I mean, it's not like BCC's for loop and random number generator are a commandingly high bar of technical prowess to justify the $29.95 price tag.
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You seem to have completely missed the point. This is for when the app throws an error in development, it's nothing to do with live.
https://github.com/hylang/hy/blob/master/docs/contrib/loop.r...

I thought this is not possible in python. Can someone explain ? Python doesn't have tail call optimization and hy produces python AST. Am I missing something ?

I tried reading through the source, but I am still a lisp noob.
https://github.com/hylang/hy/blob/master/hy/contrib/loop.hy
Perhaps instead of assuming that they don't offer enough value to charge, you could spend some time figuring out who would value them enough to pay for them.

e.g., when will the sun rise in city x -> send me an email 5 minutes before the sun rises in city x (because I told my girlfriend who's working overseas that I'd call her when the sun came up).

There is probably value in what you're doing. The trick is to find out who values it, for how much, and how can they pay you a possibly tiny amount with low payment overhead.
That's nothing compared to the brochure: http://cs.nyu.edu/webminor/WPA_App_Minor_Brochure.pdf

This site, designed to get people to create on the web, should probably look a bit more professional BUT lets keep in mind that this is an outdated site, the "Intro to Flash Programming" listed in the brochure is not a course they currently offer accourding to the most recent course list: http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/fall2014/courses
... Okay, why not establish a session then?