skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was concerned about this when recently releasing a meteor.js site, whether Google would index the pages and content.

Meteor serves pages as a single-page-application (same as AngularJs and other ajax frameworks), so if you simply view the source of the home page, you'll see mostly empty HTML. I didn't add any extra modules for SEO and simply published the site.

It looks like Google has indeed indexed the pages and text https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
If Intel and Micron's “Xpoint” Is 3D Phase Change Memory, Boy Did They Patent It
The Ultimate Guide to Timeouts in Ruby
Hm. "Found" does not mean "OK". If this were a serious, site wide proposition in a competitive vertical on a high ranking domain, you'd be risking everything going down this route.

A much nicer way to solve the problem I think these tests are trying to address is to implement pre-rendering of your ajax pages. Take a look at something like prerender.io.
Ask HN: Need help deciding between a small django shop vs. large .net company
This is my first job after graduation (I'm 23) and right now I just started a position as a developer in a small company which uses python, django, aws, and knockout/angular. I got the position because my past internships have been this stack, however after taking a week I've discovered that their processes and codebase is a little terrifying and I feel like I'll end up in more of a mentor position.
Today I just received a competing offer from a larger company (80-100 employees) which is similar in terms of salary but has many more perks: In house bar, fully stoked kitchen, free gym passes ect. Typically I'd jump at this however the stack is .net something that I'm not familiar with and am not to excited about as I'm not a big fan of microsofts history with their paywalled garden.
What I'm really struggling with is I would like to be in a larger company where I can grow more as a developer but I'm wondering if it's worth it enough to sink my time into a .net stack especially when I want to be moving onto the west coast in 3 years.
Any advice is more than appreciated.
I feel like there is some detail missing here. What constituted doing "very well" on the open-ended questions? How deep into the engineering did you get? Since you mentioned he "might be great at a PM-type job" it sounds like you didn't go very deep on int.
Hackers Trick Corporate Email to Steal Funds
Compression in Apache Kafka is now 34% faster
> Am I doing something wrong besides not making my friends vote?

No, you're not doing anything wrong, I've found HN to be very hit or miss. As other commenters have pointed out the first few votes (in <30min) are the ones that matter most. If you can get 4+ you have a chance of being on the first few pages of HN and from there it's truly up to the content before that... Luck.

I've posted blog posts (of mine) before and had them do quite well (top 5 or better on front page) and other on other interesting topics (like "My experience with Coin and why it will ultimately fail" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9929531) not get a single vote (though I have seen a jump in page visits after submitting). All of that said I would suggest against trying to get friends to vote on your posts as you could get (shadow) banned for running a "voting ring" even though 4-6 votes would allow your post to compete (It's hard to resist I know).
Which explains why, in the early 90s, all endurance sports records dropped like a rock, because of a major nutritional breakthrough....

wait, it was just the introduction of EPO.
> Google bot is a headless vesion of chrome

I highly doubt this is the case, what is your source?
A challenge would be that coffee trees have very deep roots [1].

[1] http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/ad219e/AD219E05.htm
This submission already has 23 points. Congratulations!

Seriously, though, the only way to "win" is to play a lot. Four submissions in 90 days is nothing. Try to get that down to four submissions in a week for better results.
Yes. They mention one in the article. I don't understand why people think that Bitcoin is some magical thing that is somehow exempt from regulation.
Build a SFW version of this. That's my one suggestion :) I'm not willing to test this, because, dicks.
Yes, that's something that I do as well, but will Core Data pick it up, or will it use the one that ships with the system?
What the Auto Industry Can Learn from Cloud Computing
HN has a very limited amount of front page area and the new page scrolls by insanely fast. Depending on the number of spammers active when you submit you might not even be on the homepage for more than 15 minutes. So if you want to help out then I suggest visiting the new page frequently, upvoting the good stuff (keep an eye out for dupes, and remember to check pages 2 and 3 as well) and flagging spam, those are the biggest factors in getting quality content noticed and not doing these things by enough people are a major factor in good content being lost.

How to spot a spammer...

It's a bit of a Bayesian approach but these factors help me to decide whether to flag content or not:

- new account

- no comment participation (or maybe just a 'test' comment)

- first link posted within seconds of account creation

- low quality content

- always submitting the same domain

- re-submitting the same url over and over again

- many submissions per day

If it's a 'mild case' then I flag the entry, if it is more serious (10+ submissions in a relatively short time for instance) then I mail the moderators.
They should try their site with the big stupid image at the top.
The "High Performance Conjugate Gradients" benchmark was proposed a couple years ago as an alternative metric for ranking supercomputers. Its proponents claim its behavior is more similar to real applications (irregular access patterns, lower ratio of computation to memory access, etc), compared to linear algebra problems like the "High Performance Linpack" benchmark currently used by the Top500.

The different performance numbers for top systems on HPCG vs HPL are pretty striking: http://www.hpcg-benchmark.org/custom/index.html?lid=155&slid...

Original proposal to use HPCG as an alternative to HPL for supercomputer rankings: http://www.sandia.gov/~maherou/docs/HPCG-Benchmark.pdf
"teledildonics" - nice, I might add this as a skill to my linkedin
The strong pressure I'm laying on people in my company is that Check Your Stuff In, so there might be a run-docker.sh that's checked in, which then can be reviewed and evaluated. It's not per se ideal, but it's a sight better than a nest of Jenkins scripts outside of source control.
Show HN: Note to Self – A Minimal Chrome Extension
Similar to the article linked in the post, SCOTUS has started clamping down on these sorts of patents.[0] I suspect this one will also be killed eventually. It's really a shame that the patent office is still giving out these sorts of patents, however, and wasting everyone's time and effort.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/supreme-court-rul...
10, 30 and 40 are easy to do because I have sources for those, so I will add that functionality soon (any other time frame would be a lot of work so probably not going to do it)
Pinterest launches innovative diversity project
No issues here in Firefox. I even disabled uBlock Origin and didn't notice any issue. Not about to allow flash, though...
You should ask an Indian lawyer that you pay for. Getting online advice for stuff that might get you fired or sued is generally a losing strategy.
> I just want to see the most impressive things the human body can pull off

This may be a ship-of-theseus sort of question with no widely agreed upon answer, but at some point doesn't it stop being what the human body can pull off if you modify it enough?
GoogleBot has understood JavaScript for years. Their mobile page tester is proof of this fact.
>> especially for IPython Notebooks which need time to be read/appreciated.

I agree wholeheartedly. You need to capture people's attention in 5 seconds or so.

That means visuals, soundbites, summaries, "what's-in-it-for-me", etc. You are in the media business whether you want to be or not.

Not that many people like wading thru two pages of math just to see if they might find something interesting.
It's an artificial distinction. There are good ("true") and bad ("front-end") in all environments. The language itself is immaterial.
But that is only feasible if you submit things you don't create yourself. Or you're a "rockstar programmer". There is only so much stuff people can do
http://musicbrainz.org/
How small businesses can successfully manage customer relationships
Sure, because they have no exposure to it. Doesn't mean they're not a "true dev"; that's orthogonal.
Having a fake phone number to give to creepy people that effectively tells them: "hey, what you were doing was creepy and made me uncomfortable": totally fine.

Having a fake phone number that autodickpics people, though? Who's the creep here?

"Show HN: Dickr, a fake phone number to creepily give people."
In my case, if I actually answer it, I read the question and pick the exact opposite of what applies.

"What is your age range:
0-17
18-25
26-35 <-Normal
35-50
50+ <- My answer"

That way, if they're using the information for anything then I've hopefully screwed up their targeting at least a little!
You can still target ES6 and have people use a transpiler to hit ES5, noting that not everybody is familiar with the tool chain(s) necessary to do that efficiently.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/30/mh370-aircraft-... Looks like I got it right - even if no one else noticed, this makes me feel pretty good!
Code 'transplant' could revolutionise programming
One application I can think of would be bouncing RGB colors off of three digitally modulated mirrors (like the Texas Instruments DLP chip), then combining the reflected beams into one. You could project a movie onto a screen from a mile away.

It seems like this could also be used for cheaper tri-color (or quad-color) holography. Such features are used as security elements in passports and banknotes.
His point wasn't that they are ads, it's that they will still be allowed so that users can be funneled into native apps, where there will still be ads. Since they can't make ad impressions on iOS users, maybe some of those sites will start offering a limited experience to iOS web users, inclining them to click that popup and install the app, where they will see ads that make Apple money.
The issue with things that are intended to be humorous is that they can be interpreted as an escalation. And escalations do not help anyone. Nobody "learns a lesson" this way. In fact, those "creepy people" may get even creepier as a result, too.
>> Come on, Apple didn't want DRM, labels insisted on it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080107121341/http://www.apple....

> The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat. If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store. Every iPod ever made will play this DRM-free music.

"Thoughts on Music" | Steve Jobs | February 6, 2007

-----------

And I've got a bridge in Alaska to sell you. Taking Jobs 100% at his word (i.e. Apple was dedicated to DRM-free music, was in continual negotiation with the labels to strip it, and was contractually obligated to continue to use it despite their reluctance), here's how the timeline ultimately turned out:

* October 23, 2001 - First iPod introduced

* April 28, 2003 - iTunes Store w/ Fairplay introduced

* February 6, 2007 - Job's "Thoughts on Music" letter

* April 2, 2007 - EMI agrees to sell iTunes catalog DRM free (initially for slightly higher price)

* ~ August, 2007(?) - Universal sells DRM-free tracks on iTunes Store competitors

* January-April 2009 - Apple completely(?) removes Fairplay from all iTunes Store tracks

Now, you can dig up a few different charts concerning Apple's iTunes music sales. Presumably, they're all compiled from SEC filings, so they track fairly closely. Let's use these two: http://www.asymco.com/2014/02/10/fortune-130/ or https://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/tag/app-store/ (both offer absolute sales, not % breakdown)

The most notable thing to me is that around mid-'07 to '09, you start to see music sales no longer experiencing the same growth. Incidentally, app and video sales begin in approximately the same period and fill in to maintain total growth -- no one ever accused Apple of being stupid. Point being, by the time Apple removed DRM (and debatable in terms of Jobs' letter's timing depending on how their higher-fidelity internal numbers were looking), music was on the decline.

End result: Apple had 4 years of first mover advantage, then did away with DRM at a time when music sales were no longer experiencing growth.

Are savvy business / PR decisions and coincidence from an altruistic Apple both explanations for the above? Yes. Do I personally believe Apple was pushing tooth and nail to undermine a key business strength of their platform the entire time? No.

(Feel free to correct my timeline or numbers if I'm off on something. This isn't exhaustively researched!)
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> Would you still block ads on the site?

Yes. Even the "non-obtrusive" ones. My computer, my browser, choice; I'm under no obligation to interpret their content as they intended.
If I wasn't on an Android phone which can be exploited by a text message I would try it out.

( http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/07/950-million-android-... - if I was a malicious hacker, would be trying to make a viral text message app right about now )
One of the many differences between Google and Facebook besides Google's revenue that's an order of magnitude larger than facebook.
Do you have experience with parallel HDF5? It looks like it has been improving a lot as of late, but I can't really test it myself at present.
Your time travel portal works really well!

How do you avoid ads being inserted into the stream?
True that the face is just a pattern, but matching and replacing in a manner that a human viewer is not aware of the manipulation is an entirely different matter. Integrated lighting, media grain, obscuring elements, including any reflections of your subject in the replacement, matching motion blur aliasing and so forth form the realistic problem to solve.
Because money is not the final purpose.. maybe in a utopia, money is only a tool to reach something else. Like John Lennon, I am a dreamer but I'm not the only one.
If your goal is to express ideas and get someone to contribute/download/convert, I don't think that's a minor nitpick at all. It was pretty painful to read certain parts.
Hacker News is very centralized: there's one main view that 99% of people see, and the vagaries of whether you end up on it are dependent on whether the train of someone who might upvote it was late today, or whether standup ran over.

If it's any consolation, Hacker News points track the drachma in value very closely.
Insults aside, there is a glimpse of sunlight in one thing you say:

I look at what's happening using "feminism" and its abhorrent.

If you say you are objecting to censorship in the name of feminism, this can actually be articulated from a pro- (or at least neutral-to--) feminist viewpoint. There is nothing about feminism that implies or demands censorship. Someone clamoring for censorship in the name of feminism can be reasonably opposed on the grounds of defending free speech, etc.

Now: companies are allowed to prohibit whatever speech they want on their site. If they think it will make their customers or shareholders happy, or solve whatever bullshit internal politics are at play, nothing can stop them. Risk-aversion leading to all sorts of ridiculous bureaucracy is rampant in corporate america and it ain't just about PC, it's also why corporate music sucks, etc.

The problem with you is your incessant trolling of feminism itself. It's ignorant and insulting, especially rolling out the repulsive "SJW" slur. People are going to fight for their rights, you can stand in the way and get run over, or you can seek to achieve a higher understanding.
No pardon for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, says US government
> Also, it's odd how the S&L crisis happened before GS was repealed

Not really. The 2000s banking crisis happened not long after banking regulations were repealede, the S&L crisis happened after S&L regulations were repealed. (In both cases, the repeals were justified on the basis that the increased freedom would strengthen the deregulated industry and the broader economy.)
Computers are intended to automate things, so the prior art is already covered by the very definition of a computer (albeit in an abstract sense).
I'm not arguing that people shouldn't be allowed to dope if they want to. Nor am I arguing that unnatural or transhumanist athletes should be "hunted down" by goon squads.

I'm arguing that athletes who perform in games and competitions must follow the rules of these games and competitions, or else what is the point of having the structured organization of a sport? No one would care about the Tour de France if it wasn't assumed that the athletes were all following the same set of rules. Athletes who dope should play in their own league, with their own set of rules.

I agree: the line between different performance enhancing technologies is blurred. I'm not trying to pass judgment on whether taking steroids is more or less "wrong" than following a high-protein diet.

All I can comment on is my decline in interest given the shaky boundaries and clearly unethical actions of the top layer of these sports.
Those are all of very narrow interest.
I am shocked that a post advertising a pornographic harassment service would acceptable per HN policy.
FireChat launches new offline private messaging option
Three things that make CEOs stupid
Sounds like you were on the losing end of some strong arm tactics. Or did I read your comment wrongly?
SQLite is the ultimate blackbox. Reliability beyond compare
The compound mentioned in the source article, FG-4592, is delivered in a powder form [1], not a pill.

It is available to researchers as they are able to use it in non-human assays, experiments and studies.

[1] https://www.caymanchem.com/app/template/Product.vm/catalog/1...
you're right, but HN is so focused that there is only one /new page, so the competition is brutal.
This is exactly the kind of thing that Menpo makes easy:
https://gist.github.com/jabooth/a52019f6e7c09f2a3e01

(Forgive the rushed nature of this, literally just whipped this up in the last 20 mins. Will provide a link to the menpofit model in a later revision)
you could hook Eliza up to the SFW version - although that would turn it into a greylist of sorts instead of a harshly rejecting blacklist
What if the venue isn't sold out that night?
I think the core difference is that you think ideal a society where people are continually coerced into unwanted social interaction is ideal. I think it dystopian. I much, much prefer a society where i get a choice.
Haskell (using function composition):

map process . filter notNone $ child
This story is an exception to Godwin's Law.
Everything Google has said that the bot does, plus a knowledge of coding. They aren't using a LYNX style browser to render javascript and determine the position of ads on pages. They have to be using a headless type of actual browser for that - and it's a safe bet they aren't using firefox or IE or safari.

They aren't telling us how Googlebot is coded, but it's pretty easy to deduce.

http://ipullrank.com/googlebot-is-chrome/ for more details
The pic I received was more ass than dick.
This is a much needed service! At Standard Treasury we set up a 401k (no matching, we're a poor startup) through Zenefits, which ended up connecting with https://www.myubiquity.com/ (formerly theonline401k.com). Ubiquity has an unpleasant and unintuitive user interface, poor support, etc. I'm really glad to see a YC company taking on this space, it's worthy of attack.
"Apple pushing ahead with this will just make Google desperately push Android as hard as they can."

What does that mean, exactly?

"they might be more willing to see Android devices put into consumers' hands at break-even (or even loss-making) prices"

That already happens. Samsung's profits and phone shipments are substantially down, LG made 1.5cents operating profit per phone in Q2, Sony made a loss, HTC made a loss; and those are the premium handset makers, most of them part of conglomerates. All selling Android.

"Apple will either see market share decline or need to sacrifice part of their margins to maintain share."

This is a common refrain since about 2010. Hasn't happened so far.
Great, write up convinced me to use Sqlite instead of Mysql for a simple in-house webpage.
You can look up the purity requirements of pharmaceuticals on the FDA website. When I worked in the industry, it was typically a maximum of 0.5% impurities, with no single impurity higher than 0.1%.

Of course, it depends on what the impurity is. If it's ethanol, you can have a few percent. If it's a suspected carcinogen, the level might be in ppm.
I'd really love to see speed measured by performance by a single collective computation of an O(n) or O(n log n) algorithm. This would emphasize the importance of balancing communication performance with computation. Not holding my breath, the LINPACK is strong with these people...
See: http://web.archive.org/web/20150329154655/https://netzpoliti...

and

https://web.archive.org/web/20150415155552/https://netzpolit...
Oh, that's why I see duplicate posts on /news...
I'll have to filter them out.
Meet Yahoo’s strange new live video and texting app
If you're just starting out and your experience thus far has been python / django then I'd say go for the .net job.

While .net itself may not be "cool" you'll benefit a lot from diving into an entirely different language, framework and ecosystem. Plus, it sounds like you may get some good mentorship, which is invaluable when you're starting out.

Bottom line: don't sweat the .net - dive into a different stack, spend a few years learning its way of doing things and then see what you want to jump into next.
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/01/07/nsa-insiders-reveal-wh...

This may be the source (though the people involved have said as much in other essays and interviews).
I find it interesting that they are investigating them for treason, rather than something like espionage. I know nothing of German law, but it feels like it would be difficult to prove that they betrayed the country
From what I understand, a lot of this caffeine is sold to soda makers as a byproduct of the decaffeination process used on coffee beans.

Does this mean the end of soda as well?
Intel and Micron: The Purple Swan (June 11, 2015)
Bad grammar on the website turned me off.
Ok, we changed the title in an attempt to make it more accurate. We can change it again if someone suggests a better one.
This is awesome. How long did it take to develop?
I'm not positive they use it for issue tracking but they may. In my case, I was dealing with a single repo with 1000 or so contributors, and they were community people so it was very hard to get them to file quality structured bug reports, and the system didn't really allow for asking questions.

It lacks strong organizational features, categorization, issue templates, search, and ability to save filters.

I've seen a lot of projects use it for pull requests and then disable the issue tracker, which is good and bad - you get a better tracker, you miss probably half of the bug reports.