skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates testified before the House Committee on Science and Technology and said salaries are not the problem when his company tries to recruit top scientists and engineers. "It's not an issue of raising wages. These jobs are very, very, very high-paying jobs," he said."

It maybe true that they are very high paying jobs but I doubt they are as high paying as say a job on Wall Street.
How is his authorship of the XML spec in any way relevant to the specific line of argument in this post? For all we know he also kicks puppies every morning and prefer Sanka over your favorite coffee. If his argument is so insubstantial, you should just refute it without the ad-hominem BS.
Yes, though Paul Graham's notion of conciseness is not the number of characters, but more like the number of `symbols' or words. So `monthly' should be fine by this measure.
in Silicon Valley, IIT is a name-brand.
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A couple of centuries late but it never hurts to reinforce common knowledge with a new study.
Monoculture, Apple branding and Apple control. I'm not that these things missing on Android are bad thing, though.
This will be the first 37Signals product that their staff don't use regularly in their own business. It will be interesting to see whether this means Haystack is less successful because they will be eating less of their own dog food.
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Haven't we had these sorts of attacks already in the various hotspots in the world? Both Israel and Iraq come to mind as examples of where attacks have been perpetrated against the checkpoints themselves, and the guards and people waiting there.
Indeed, Clojure's trampoline is a function:

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([f]
(let [ret (f)]
(if (fn? ret)
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ret)))
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In other news, eating bananas doesn't cure cancer, learning Arabic won't prepare you for a job as a SCUBA diver, and numerous other things don't do something they're not at all meant to do.
These are both good points by you and the parent that I never really realized. If you don't 'like' (for lack of a better word) configuration then Vim is definitely the better editor.

I'm indeed the type of guy that carries his config files with him :) (be it on a USB stick, my website, Dropbox, GitHub, etc.)
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In case you missed it, the difference is that real-time search injects "BAM!" between your query and the generated results.
They would "literally" drag Pakistanis back to their homes? Seems quite harsh.
Tax dollars at work ;)
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Realtime = Knowing who just trashed my brand, so I can go and fix it before or while everyone's paying attention to the issue. Including 'happening right now' sales in my search for an affordable camera. Hearing news that much sooner than I can hear it today.

Realtime + local = Knowing whether that restaurant I want to go to has seats available right now. Finding out about the wreck 2 miles down the road, so I can exit now. Asking if anyone in a several-block radius has a particular part in stock and getting an answer back quickly.
The quote he opens with:

If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table.

Is probably one of the best I've seen for a while. It probably applies as much to people here as the rest of the post alone.
To be featured on TopSEOs.com, you pay between $5000.00-$10,000 to enter a competition with loosely defined metrics.

http://www.topseos.com/seo-ppc-competition

http://www.topseos.com/seo-and-ppc-competition/index/evaluat...

A high buy-in fee for a competition removes any semblance of impartiality, as firms that do not want or cannot afford to participate are excluded.

The only conclusion I can draw is that even the SEO ranking sites are misleading.
A comment wouldn't signal an error if you modified the algorithm and accidentally removed the call from tail position.
It's pretty simple to tell when you are looking at it. However, you may forget/overlook that you are influencing a tail call. If it was optional, I would still opt to use it all the time.
Yo dumbass, to be at the top of that list you need >5m revenue. Sure some firms might not want to participate, but they sure can afford to.
1.

SEO is not fraud. But a lot of people who do search engine optimization sure don't know what they're doing.

2. Why isn't SEO fraud?

As a business, you create your promotional message. And then you decide where to run that promotional message. You determine where your right people hang out.

Say you determine that newspapers and radio ads are 2 good mediums for your message. But if you run the same message without any tweaks for the specific mediums, you won't do very well.

Your message has to be relevant for the medium.

If you determine that your business requires a website (or that your business is a website) - and that a lot of your right people will be using the search engines, you need to focus on SEO. You need to learn the tricks of SEO trade. And make your message fit the medium.

3. 5 Minute SEO

Two parts of SEO:

i. Onpage SEO: Search engines look at your web page to determine what it should rank for

- The URL of the page has to be keyword rich

- The title of the page has to be keyword rich

- Use H1 and H2 tags well

- Make sure the entire website is w3c validated

- Use meta description for key pages (especially product pages)

- Create an xml sitemap

ii. Offpage SEO: Search engines look at who is linking to you to determine how highly it should rank you

- Get links from authority websites

- Create good linkworthy content - linkbaiting is actually good

- Get thousands of links from directories (blog / article / rss directories)
I imagine a good SEO service provider could do a shitload of science for you. What keywords to optimize for, what markets to approach, how to be valuable in those markets, make sure your site works well for search engines.

Blackhat SEO providers can suck balls, but Google will just dominate them with negative PR. Whitehat SEO is a perfectly valuable business.

In my no shit humble opinion.
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I understand on-page optimization (for telling search engines what is important on your pages) and having good, relevant content to link to. But what is the point of having thousands of links from directories nobody would ever care to visit? Isn't that spamming the search engines in a way?
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Well, maybe it sounds like when I say "had enormous problems" that they didn't pass courses, or were stupid, they passed(with great pain through) and they were not, but I'm talking about boarding school with military discipline(and physical punishments) in Europe.

I think is difficult to understand this, specially for american people.

The fact that some people don't quite understand is that making a successful restaurant or company is as difficult or more difficult that study and fill an exam.
The thing that makes it smell like a fraud is that they can only improve a client's score if few others use SEO as well, and if a client is moved to the front page for some keyword, someone else has to drop off the front page.

So imagine a world where everyone uses SEO, what then? How could you ever move to the front page, if everyone else on it is using SEO as well? Cheat? Use better SEO? Who would win on an SEO arms race? Certainly not users, and I would imagine the search companies becoming even more annoyed about it.
Wonder if it'd be possible to do this in software - much like the cheat code type cheat systems that you load up, it could just load up the streaming software.

Might take longer to get working, but would end up easier sell/cheaper.
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We live in a time when average person will have multiple careers for shorter durations, so this is not a surprise to me. I personally feel that its hard to make life decisions about careers at the age 18 or 19, so a shift in professions after graduation considering science and engineering students have strong backgrounds in math, algorithms & models for better paying jobs is quiet understandable.
No humans will ever actually come across the directory links. But search engines still take them into consideration while ranking your websites.

It goes back to playing according to the medium rules.

Note: don't only do directory submissions. If all search engines can see is you're getting link backs from not so good pages, they won't rank you well.

And don't only rely on getting authority linkbacks. Because if search engines see that you have very few linkbacks, they won't rank you well.

So use them both: create good content and focus on getting authority linkbacks. And at the same time, submit your site to various directory submission services. Quality + quantity linkbacks = search engines ranking you well.
So?...

The idea is likely to more easily identify spammers.
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The real assumption here is that facilitating communications will help drive up traffic and thus ad revenue. A commendable initiative by Facebook if you are one of their investors.
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Google Groups is basically just a window to newsgroups (AKA usenet). You can post to usenet directly, bypassing Google' posting police.
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Me too. I started reading Reddit when I read a PG easy, I think he was talking about how he didn't liked the name or so, but then was great and simple.

I stopped reading reddit when I found the more serious Hacker News, and saw Reddit as the site of reunion of "We are superior, rational people, reason is the only important thing in the world" male character. Cult of radical Misogyny and Atheism.
Good point. So far about half have paid.

I guess the main reason this works for us is that we prefer smaller projects. We don't aspire to being a huge consulting company / agency taking on bigger and bigger projects. We like working on small projects that grow into bigger things.
it's probably 'us'
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The strict answer to your question has to do with humans being social, motivation, and strong AI, I think.

However, if we allow teachers to stay in the picture, software could (and should I think) be used more to support learning. It could improve students' abilities significantly if done sensibly.

Data-mining would probably be useful to tune such a program, but I wouldn't expect it to outcompete teachers on the structuring of materials and answering students' questions any time soon.

The question on how to grade students is fascinating. There's an argument for one long exam at the end of your studies: you get the grade corresponding to your performance at the end of your studies. If you "get it" late in the course you're not penalised for earlier performance and, more importantly, it encourages you to take a long-term perspective on what you learn. I've experienced both teacher + frequent non-standard test assessment in school and one shot at two weeks of exams after 3 years at university. The former is problematic because grades become uncalibrated (thus losing much of their intended usefulness). My main concern with the latter is that you can end up testing things you don't intend.

Calculating the grade from appropriate data captured over a long time would be great -- comparisons and profiles could be both more detailed and more stable than what a teacher could provide. (There are some things it couldn't test, like handling the pressure of final exams.)

Do you think computers should have replaced teachers? Why do you think that hasn't happend?
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Stephenson says the number of computer science courses taught at the high school level has dropped for the past six years, especially at advanced levels. In 2005, 40% of U.S. high schools offered Advanced Placement courses in computer science; that number sank to 32% in 2007 and to 27% in 2009. "It's clear that the number of students taking computer science is dropping," she says.

Heads of other professional organizations also criticized the study for its lack of specificity among industries. The argument is that some STEM students and graduates may be worth cultivating more than others. The report's authors said it would have been too difficult and costly to perform a longitudinal data analysis by individual industry.

There's your problem. Anecdotal evidence here: they're all medicine. Everyone under the frickin sun wants to be a doctor.
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I'd find a new name and go with it. How about using some of these:

http://www.makewords.com/default.aspx

http://www.nameboy.com/index.php
Two points:

* This was from the same period in which the CIA attempted to assassinate Fidel Castro with exploding cigars, and administered a couple of grams (not micrograms or milligrams!) of LSD to an elephant, just to see what it did. They were, not to put too fine a point on it, thrashing around without oversight. (Ranelagh's book, cited in the Wikipedia references, is well worth reading for more on the subject.)

* They had a real, perceived need to listen in on diplomats' conversations in noisy environments (Washington cocktail parties). Cats have very sensitive directional hearing and are less likely to attract suspicion than parabolic microphones. And the fifties and sixties were the heyday of interest in operant conditioning and brainwashing in humans -- and the use of techniques like Skinner boxes for training animals in quite complex behaviour patterns.

In other words: we may point and laugh today, but at the time (a) the Company was so far adrift from reality that this wasn't particularly weird by CIA standards, and (b) it's a classic case of "we need to accomplish (a)", "(b) is a possible way of accomplishing (a)", "okay, let's throw all our resources at (b) (however outlandish and weird it might sound to a sane by-stander)".
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2. The software takes this flowchart as input and as a output generates a web application that is nothing but a electronic version of the process.

I am running a business which can be run effectively only if the I get my internal processes defined right. Where the application should reach first, who should scrutinies it, who need to authorize it before it reaches a particular department etc. I know all this but dont want to invest in hiring developers and explaining it to them, they in variably screw it up.
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I've seen businesses in yellow pages using questionable tactics as well, especially in the over-saturated areas such as Taxi's and moving businesses. A lot of the businesses advertised are actually one business, and they often have business names like "AAAAAAAAAAAAAA Taxis" (this is usually found in small writing at the bottom of the advert).
It's gaming the system but it obviously works. Same can be said for SEO.
We snagged a bunch of the other domains.
Making games seems like a pretty decent sized side project to me. As a teen I did a number of game like things. Spent lots of time as a coder on a MUD and created a number of simple games. The majority of the people I knew well during that period are now programming successfully. Some of them are even making games for profit.

The problem is, I think, if you say "I want to make games"(or any other thing) but wouldn't spend your next few hours of free time actually starting something.
I had a bad case of survivor's guilt that month. I got over it pretty soon afterward, though.
It would be nice to see what he means with 'Chinese content will dominate the web', does he mean that in terms of importance or in terms of volume (or both) ?
To me it is baffling that while there is a revolution in many ways of life, the education system still seems to be following the long established norms for the most part. Use of laptops and presentations are just different mediums, the philosphy behind imparting knowledge needs to be looked at. I would like to live in a world where I am able to pick up knowledge on say latest advancements in the M-theory within weeks or months, but years at a university :)
I've recently looking around at possible back ends for a recommendation engine for my social news site. I've been interested in using neo4j for a while, but I was concerned about dual licensing and the costs. I'm bootstrapping, and my budget is pretty limited. So, I emailed neo and asked for a quote.

To make a long story short, Peter Neubauer from Neo called me, and we had a really great conversation for about 20-30 minutes. He took the time to forward some papers to me about using graphs in recommendations engines.

Their subscription prices were crazy reasonable. I was expecting Oracle pricing. I was actually suprised their prices were so low. Up to a million primitives are free. Up to 10million primitives is $49 a month.

I'm really glad to hear they got funding. So far, I've been really impressed by them. I'm looking forward to checking out their database.
Seems like engineers are under-valued then.
well it is too much to ask for a search engine to be able to actually judge the qualilty of services provided by the enterprise. The current system has its merits and demerits and like any other system, it will be exploited by some
So build up a lazy seq of fns and then dorun it. There are ways and means ;-)
'Don't tell me you're running a 'stock' kernel and never bothered tuning it for your application, or considered upgrading it.'

Not sure why you've got 'stock' in quotes. Vendor kernels are used by hundres of thousands of servers, each sharing the same bug reports and security updates. There's a massive benefit unless you think you can do those bug reports and security updates better than your OS vendor.

Most custom compiles are by people who don't understand loadable modules or read somethign written before they existed.
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I suppose google can't win at every project they undertake, the law of averages is bound to catch up. of course, there are other google projects with varying success, I use one called GWT whose succes is hard to measure
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Good point, I do not either what he meant. I think importance would be difficult to measure, but volume growth would be easy for Google to do.
I imagine that Schmidt is not talking blindly, he has access to the growth rates of content and the forecast may be accurate.
I can’t see much difference in comparison to a shotgun. I have had training with the older Sig SG 510 and the newer Sig SG 550 assault rifle of the Swiss Army and they’re both about as easy to use as an airgun.

Even if you walk around in public with your assault rifle, nobody becomes suspicious. Active members of the army have to show up for a mandatory shooting program every year and shooting matches are very common too, so “Rambo look-alikes” on the streets aren’t an unusual appearance in Switzerland.

Nevertheless, 40% of all homicides are commited by cut and thrust weapons and “only” 10% by guns. The latter accounts for about 70% in the US.
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You have to read to the end to see the kicker - because the headline is a bit misleading.

It was made in 2007 and got nowhere - only some luck got it noticed by a very big name in the film industry ;)
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Google pages aren't that useful, are they?
Using 'special' numbers seems like a really bad idea.
Wonder if someone did transfer $888,888.88 out, and then contacted fraud, could they convince them that it was an error and get the money refunded to their account, whilst keeping the money that was transferred? Probably a long shot, might make a fun movie script though :/
I wonder if the app is asking for permission to do it. If not, in my neighbourhood we call it "spyware".
Seriously, it is a clever idea but I hope they are doing the right thing and asking the user for approval.
In the old times of WAP, mobile operators had gateways, so even though you could get the IP address of the phone (from a server-side for example) the information was meaningless to locate the user.
With AT&T 3G I honestly do not know. May be someone could do some basic hacking and post some results.
The trouble is that as engineer or researcher you have to actually do some hard, useful things.

As for financial sector, so much money is floating around these guys that they can earn exorbitant wages almost effortlessly without having any skill at all.

I guess people claiming they can predict future always earn disproportional amounts of wealth without doing anything useful. That is as long as everything goes well.

Squeeze this free-riding and casino mixture that is called financial market a bit and you will have plenty of smart people available for hacking physics as they loose incentives for hacking money game instead.
Shouldn't the title of their article more accurately be:

What Google will MAKE the Web Look Like in 5 Years

(seriously, who's going to change any path they decide to take?!)