skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people will say it's XHTML. It's not just that. There's always been both in use and HTML has always been case-insensitive.

When Rasmus Lerdorf designed PHP in 1994, he made it have case-insensitive function names since at that time, neither side had won and he wanted it to look good in HTML:

<CENTER><B>Hello <? ECHO $you >!</B></CENTER>

<center><b>Hello <? echo $you >!</b></center>
I don't understand the downvotes, can someone explain? To my mind there is no difference between SaaS and "being the only one who can sell hosting for web clients".
That is the sysv abi, popular with unixy platforms. It's one abi. You have already mentioned there are others. So how is it "what I was trying to find"? My point is there is not one that is called "C".
No more or less absurd than Microsoft being forced to advertise rival web browsers.
And I was your trusted adviser.

Hand selecting x,y points was all the rage in the mid 90's.
Being that Google is essentially the gatekeeper of all content for today's world I kind of think they should publish it freely anyways on their own.

I realize there's a wiki page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank but there's clearly more to it for ranking of all things and it should be maintained by Google itself too.
With the entire 5 minutes I'm willing to look into it, it should be fine as long as the children aren't raised as Jedi.
Behind closed doors ? Or will the entire world get to see how Google search algorithm works ?
Built it in about 24 hours (non-technical too) so would love any feedback or ideas on how to improve!
That's actually pretty fair. All the big players more or less have a handle on how to do Google-style search. The big differentiator is the data backing that search algorithm.

The primary (not only) reason Google keeps its search algorithm details a secret is to prevent people from having an edge on gaming the system.
google belongs to google and if they want to shape the search results its their FRICKING Search Engine... they can do whatever they want and remove whom ever they want... its THEIRS get it... dont like it... use someone else... build your own.
> Why is it bad? it's definitely bad for Google but for french citizens I can't see how fomenting diversity in a market hurts.

How is it going to "foment diversity" ? it's not. You want to "foment diversity" ? Remove some of these stupid regulations and make France more business friendly. Forcing google to display 3 of its competitors on its search engine page isn't going to create jobs or new startups in France. Google is the least of France's problems. Its politicans on the other hand.
How often were you successful in negotiating to work for hire?
The Python 2.7 code freeze is totally working! All the horrid new BS is getting piled into 3.* and Python 2.7 is becoming sweet FORTRAN. Viva la BDFL! So wise! ;-)
There is no way they would reveal their most precious secret sauce for the sake of satisfying one country's law and I can only think of one way this can end - Google pulling off another Google News Spain, by shutting down Google.fr.

Forcing Google's hand did not go well neither in Germany nor Spain not too long ago. How are law makers failing to see this? How are even the lobbyists fuelling the whole thing not seeing this?
They did it to Microsoft in Windows to do the browser selection, so its a pretty small step in their minds to do it to Google. Its still absurd, but it fits their thinking.
Oh, so that's how that "threat to strategic stability in the Middle East and a nuclear proliferation threat" got started. Oh, but its okay "in a bargain with Prime Minister Golda Meir, Nixon accepted the Israel’s de facto nuclear status as long as it stayed secret—a controversial and unacknowledged deal that remains in place effectively through the current day."
That was what I thought when I read the homepage. Sounds like a Pizza Hut branch.
Google should make a really, really simple alorigthm for search and use that only for french people and show that to the french goverment. I don't see why that should not be allowed, they allready have diffrent alorithm for diffrent places.
Yeah. I was pleasantly surprised to open the MDN doc page and not see a deprecation notice.
It's bad because they were unable to compete in an open market and must turn to the government to handicap Google.

There's nothing preventing a French company from producing their own equal or superior search engine - other than competence or will.
It aims to be and I keep an eye on it, but it's very far from that goal at the moment.
Born April 15, 1452, this week 563 years ago
i walked to school alone i even babysitted my sister while immigrant parents worked... i was 8 she was 6... we went about a 3mi radius and played all day until the lights came on.
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At the age of 10, I commuted to a school that was 15 miles from my home (because it was better than the local elementary school). With two of my classmates, 'alone'. With train. Everyone considered this completely normal and acceptable.

Life is getting safer and more secure as time passes. 2015 is safer than, say, 1995. This whole thing is just sad and crippling for kids (and also for the parents, but it's mostly their fault).
A bit more absurd. A closer analogy would be if Windows was required to ask you on first startup if you wanted to install Linux (i.e. advertising a competitor to the thing you're using vs. a thing bundled with the thing you're using).
I wonder how much of it has to do with automobile traffic.
Part of the reason it works so well is that SEO people who are trying to manipulate the rankings of their site don't know the details of the algorithm. At best they can guess and run experiments.

Google making their algorithm public would result in it being much easier for website owners to inflate their rankings, resulting in lower quality search results, and giving companies who pay enough money to SEO experts an unfair advantage (far more so than is already the case today).
I know a lot of early adopters and I've never seen one interested in disassembling/upgrading their gadgets. They just go out and buy the next model up when it's available.
It's weird that you don't see the angle considering we're discussing it in a thread about how stupid feminists are.
Until the age of 10, I roamed in about a square mile of lakes, woods, creeks and fields. At the age of 10, we moved to a different state and city and my range increased considerably and it was common for me to roam miles away from my home. Granted, my parents just thought we were "in the woods" or "on the bikepath" and probably didn't know the full extent of our travels but they didn't make hard rules as to where we could be, either. The freedom I was given encouraged me to push my boundaries and it expanded my mind. I wouldn't trade those years of exploring woods, swimming in creeks and quarries and observing wildlife for anything. There weren't many other kids who traveled as extensively as my brother and I did. Perhaps more children would be persuaded to put down the iPhone and go outside if they had the freedom to roam as they please. Limiting them to their backyards and next door neighboor's house isn't nearly as enticing as "go roam".
A paradox of a safer society is that tragic acts like child abductions make more news than they would if they were more commonplace, inflating the perception of the threat.

People feel that the threat is greater in fact because it is so much rarer.
I think that some people misinterpret the premise of a free (or freeish) market to mean that, no matter how successful a player is, barriers to entry should still remain constant and neutral. This appeals to the ideal image of a lone entrepreneur disrupting industries from their garage with pocket money, sweat and genius, but obviously doesn't consider that the last thing any successful company wants is to provide a level playing field for their competitors.

Of course it's "anti-competitive", in a sense, but not unfair. No one is stopping other companies from competing against Google. It just happens that the market decided Google won... years ago. And now they own Youtube and Gmail and the OS that runs on a lot of mobile phones and they have so much money to burn they can try to make cars that drive themselves. No one is stopping people from using other search engines as well, it just happens that people decided years ago that Google worked better than anything else. This is the way it's supposed to work. The superior product wins and dominates, and redefines the market so that everyone has to play on their terms, while everything else dies, or limps along in the shadows hoping not to get eaten. But maybe if you're lucky, you find a niche, or the dinosaurs get wiped out.
A time when France was a lot more protectionist and interventionist than today, actually.
I imagine it being of similar difficulty to Microsoft describing how Windows' virtual memory subsystem and similar components work. Imagine trying to explain the intricacies of NTFS to a bunch of politicians who wish to evaluate it.
Ah thanks for the link, not even type one! Some way to go then ;)
The same way you determine a location based on any regularly occurring radio signal (in fact, the same way they propose to determine location in their requested spectrum). The only reason to encode a proper 802.11 message would be so as not to interfere with other devices in range.
It's too hard of a question. Of course, this is just an intuition. No formal proof or calculation implied.
I remember being at the 1983(or about) World Science Fiction Convention where Isaac Asimov was asked if he was upset that Lucas had ripped off so much of the Foundation Trilogy. Asimov replied he was a flattered. And in any case, Asimov said he used Edward Gibbon's "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" as source material for Foundation
I agree. Title should almost never be changed. Exception is length.
On the other hand, some photographers will sell you the raw files of your images, I even know some who will give them to you a year after the event as part of the original pricing.

Similarly, a lot of companies will insist on keeping a copy and the rights to the source of software they pay people by the hour to write.
It is not in Google's interest to flash the true power balance here by cutting off France anyway. They couldn't care less about french revenue, but it would be a global PR disaster, likely resulting in new EU-wide regulations that would then actually hurt Google.
The only truly egalitarian algorithm is a random sort.
Well back a few years ago I got 1500 people a better pension.

In terms of my day job IT Fixing a 2 mill shortfall for BT and Finding a bug that was costing total jobs 1/2 a mill a week.
It sounds like you probably have too tight a grip and write more from than the wrist and fingers than the shoulder and forearm. This was a solved problem more than a hundred years ago, when it had to be; in the U.S. it's famously associated with the Palmer Method[0], although Palmer didn't originate it by a long shot.

(While these books, of course, are written for use with dip pens, and frequently taken up by users of fountain pens today, the methods described do work with ballpoints, rollerballs, gel pens, pencils of not too hard a lead, nearly whatever you have lying about.)

Of course, retooling is almost certainly not worth it for you, unless you're dying for a break from computer screens (the only reason I ever write by hand anymore). But I'll leave the link in case anyone is curious, either for their own work or just to know what people used to do with a pen, and why writer's cramp was not as serious a problem before typewriters and computers as we might suppose it was, by how frequently we tend to induce cramp on ourselves.

[0]: https://archive.org/details/PalmerMethod1935
I was not criticizing your use of # at all. Using # to comment is perfectly fine I guess. Now that you mentioned it, it might be a bit confusing for newbies, but don't worry I don't think anyone would try to send the command 'Crap' over a super user session, although why the hell not? haha
I seem to recall older word processors having a "explicit" mode that allowed the editing of markup directly. But i don't know if that is still present, much less used, in the age of "drag and drop".
The author says they were on Sublime Text 2. I wonder if they would still see the same lag and problems on ST3.
Yesterday I needed to run some errands and it hit me pretty hard how silly we've become. My seven year daughter didn't want to come with me and while I'm sure she's mature enough to stay at home by herself I went to Google to determine if I'd be viewed as a criminal or not in the eyes of my parenting peers or the state. It turned out that my local child protective services had a Q&A on their site stating that it's okay to leave a child home alone at age 11. I then went to my city and state statutes and couldn't find a single law which said it would be illegal. After a bit more research I found plenty of parents recommending that kids not only can, but should be left home alone if they are okay with it. This helps to build independence and self-esteem. I ended up leaving her at home alone for about an hour and not a single bad thing happened.
I'm the author of this article, and I signed up to ycombinator just to tell you I can't get over your visualization. It's just friggin top. Any chance you feel like explaining how you did it? mexindian@gmail.com
I used to think that way but not anymore. We didn't just pop out of somewhere with randomly created features. We are the result of an evolution and (almost) everything we have serves a purpose. If we imagine a distant planet similar to ours, bets are the evolution there will produce life forms similar to ours. Whatever the dominant life form is there, it still needs to move around, to be aware of its surroundings, to communicate, to breed, to get energy in some way.

And even if you were designing a life form, it's hard to get creative with the "features". What would you invent to replace eyes? You may put eyes on the back, you may triple the count, you may call them "the seeing things"...but you still need to have something that makes the life form aware of its surroundings.

Now, the fact that we have evolved from monkeys may be a matter of luck. On other planets the dominant life form may evolve from birds or fish but I don't think it's very likely that it will be something that we can't even imagine now.

Of course, with all this I'm assuming a "simple" model of our universe - no God, no intelligent design, no artificial intelligence and no "living in the matrix".
Most proud of? Having been truly happy during some moments of my life.

Happiness is the ultimate goal. To achieve it, all areas of your life must be positively aligned. Even if luck might have an important role in some of these "positive alignments", is improbable that luck is taking care of all of them. So, it means that, at least, you must be doing some things really well.
This looks great, but it'll be even better with utilities that let you await multiple tasks in parallel:

a, b, c = atools.join([f(), g(), h()])

and select among multiple async tasks (e.g. to implement a timeout):

with atools.select({"res": f(), "timeout": timeout(10)}) as tasks:
res, which = await tasks
I managed to tell my dad how good of a father he was to me and how much I appreciated everything he gave me and taught me... one day before he passed away. An honest deposit like this isn't as easy as it sounds.
That's a cool trick. Didn't know you could do that.
I'm 19. Pretty sure I walked to school at 11 here in the UK. Probably earlier actually, I can't remember when I started, I just know I definitely went by foot to secondary school (which I started at 11).

I'm not sure I'd be okay with a six-year-old on their own, but they are accompanied by a ten-year-old. Why can't they walk together back home?

In Japan, it's common and encouraged for young children to walk to school on their own from an early age, or so I have heard.
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True, but at the same time I think that's also an issue. How many sites get unfair advantages from ex-Googlers or insiders? I don't actually consider it an issue today, but going forward it will only be amplified even more.
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My prediction would be that websites would develop private versions of their troll hunting algorithm that would include input from notifications and information sharing programs (PRISM, TAXII). This would enable services to respond to government requests with minimum overhead to respond to changes in foreign 'diplomacy operations/HUMINT'.
What is even considered overuse of event broadcasting and listening? I disagree completely with this being an anti-pattern. It is very effective and it helps encapsulate code and separate out concerns very well.

For example, if you are polling for new data, it is MUCH cleaner to broadcast the event and let each directive react and change their own state. In other words, each directive should be in charge of their own state. It is not the poller's responsibility to understand who's state that it needs to mutate.
Interestingly the title "Digital Refuseniks" actually appears as the title for the article if you check out the "Features and Analysis" list on the right hand side of the article's page.

Screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/Fv3cGSw.png
Child abduction by strangers is extremely rare and around 100 per year in the US although that may be an outdated number. The one stat I just checked said 515 stranger abductions between 1990 and 1995. And that was when free range children were far more common than today.
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They have no concept of how complex ranking is. There are millions of factors being fed into massive machine learning systems that try to predict which results users want (which is different from which they are most likely to click). It's like asking to see the algorithm for a cat.

They should go back to working on their own "Google killer" search engine :) http://www.infoworld.com/article/2672709/operating-systems/e...
No it's not - if I put up more webpages than you, the first random page is more likely to be mine than yours.

The only truly egalitarian algorithm is to send all queries to a state-run committee of experts and have them sort it out.

That said... are the Chinese worse off due to their protectionism that gave Baidu an advantage? I sincerely don't know. When everybody plays dirty, it's hard to know which sequence of dirty moves will let one get the farthest ahead...

(What's really interesting here is how much actual sovereignty the French have, and if it's enough to pull off this particular move. There are trade agreements and even regardless of these, governments intervene to protect their companies.)
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China has 66M google users, while France has 44M. However, if we split HK google users from mainland Google users, it would be pretty clear that Google is toast in China just like Excite in the US.
There are a lot of people in China. Only about half of those use the Internet, and only a small percentage of those want to consume silicon valley internet product. People say excitable stuff about the size of the Chinese market but forget that customes are only customers if they are buying your stuff.
I've found that whenever the media or lawmakers get caught up in some absolutely useless bullshit, they're almost always trying to distract from something more important that they can't address (or caused). It seems to hold no matter what country it is.
Wasn't that the whole point of the article? How many times did he point that out? More than two:

>Everywhere in the Operating System, whether it's Windows or Mac OSX, the default behaviour to navigate between directories is by double-clicking them. We're trained to double-click anything.

>Want to open an application? Double-click the icon. Want to open an e-mail in your mail client? Double-click the subject. Double-clicks everywhere.

>We know we should only single-click a link. We know we should only click a form submit once. But sometimes, we double-click. Not because we do so intentionally, but because our brains are just hardwired to double-click everything.

>For techies like us, a double-click happens by accident. It's an automated double-click, one we don't really think about. One we didn't mean to do.
Beware: optimising for speed and optimising for energy don't yield the same results.

If you want speed, you typically want to use your CPU as much as possible. If you want to save energy, you'll want to underclock your CPU. If we go all the way to hardware design, saving energy means going massively multicore, with simple, slow, in-order cores.

You can optimise both, to some extent. But there is a point where you have to chose one or the other.
I attempted the switch to Atom in December and had lots of performance issues. Specifically, the startup time for the program very slow, and opening large text files was very difficult. For me that was enough to switch back to ST3.
The author isn't from computer science nor have a computer science background. Outside computer science most people moved from typewriters to WSIWYG editors, which is the natural transition if you are unfamiliar with how to use a computer.

Nowadays, when most people being digital natives or being accustomed to use a computer, it makes more sense for people to move away from analog metaphors to proper computer-designed tools.
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I think he means like gardeners or mathematicians do not have "creative block".
Bizarre - thank you for highlighting this.

It's still less informative.
Truth to be told I did not. I read everything from anywhere, but I didn't find anything to fill the gap.

I tries "Newsweek", a 3-month trial subscription. It was horrendous, worse than the 'E'.
Thinking about block based "IDEs"?

I think the biggest difference there is that a document is "static". It is not supposed to process something else like code is.

Thus what you want to avoid at all costs is "boiler plate" bugs. Bugs that are not caught at compile time because it is semantically correct, but that end up producing wild results once a certain kind of data is introduced.
You should read the article. Your definition of plain text isn't the same as the author's.
Making sure my family (better half and three kids) got to do everything they normally did while I was doing my MS program. Big shift from Finance to Engineering and the learning on all fronts constantly, both family power and computing power has been amazing!
for non french, let me remind people what is the political debate in the country : on the left side, people want a state-owned economy, and on the other side, they want a state-governed economy ( "etat stratège", meaning the state takes all the strategic decision).

The belief that a state could stick to ensuring fair competition and simply foster innovation, instead of directly acting on the companies themselves ( or even worse, directly owning them), is shared by less than 5% of the population ( highest score of the "economicaly liberal" party during the past 30 years elections).

If they wanted to hurt google a bit, all they had to do is hit them at the tax level ( they're currently trying that as well, but it has a low chance of working, the main problem being that ireland is both in europe and has 0% tax).

Now, with all that being said, i'm still curious to know what are the true complaints regarding google search engine practices before i completely dismiss the whole affair as another typically french symptom.