skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A virtually unknown HN users posts a blog posting from googles official blog and aces the previous #1 (and will probably go up a lot further still).
So much for the theory that submissions get voted up to 'what they're worth'.

I'd say that is proof that who the poster is doesn't factor into how people are voting on a threads worth. I'd call dfranke's thread an exception to that rule.

(it depends on your feeling of worth; the HN hack was extremely impressive and clearly, locally, worth lots of votes and kudos. On the other hand the Google announcement is huge news for lots of the tech world :) )
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Never knew levenshtein was in there, just wrote my own function for it when I needed it.
I've use quite a few of those but:

sys_getloadavg()

Is a new one for me. And actually really awesome because I can integrate it into a current project!!
Yes, but knowing about it was pretty much unavoidable.

It is about as mainstream as it gets. Not that I didn't get a few valuable insights from the discussion here but still, HN is interesting because it has the other stuff, not the mainstream stuff. (or maybe both?)
Have you not been consuming any American pop-culture for the last 15 years? :)

I recall an episode of the Late Show with Letterman, where Letterman would call up people living in a small town Eager Beaver Creek (or something like that) and ask them all sorts of questions.
It's also a poor way to decide whether to stop serving pages. Depending on circumstances, it's possible for request handling to be still reasonable or completely wedged for same load numbers. The number is also dependent on the configuration of the machine so moving to a box with, say, more cores might make whatever magic constant threshold you put in your code even wronger.
Why I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails (2007)
Both I think. Most of the other commentary elsewhere about Google.cn has been mundane (or "OMG ROXXORS") :)
There are definatly a lot more people now, stuff of limited interest can pull 100 or more upvotes, I guess a better way to compare would be upvotes / active users.

The graph should only count things that have reached at least 50 karma, or even maybe 100 recently.
You probably shouldn't - see my comment below.
I have started paying attention to this: I tend to vote up people who have done something, whether it's a company, a cool hack, or something along those lines. If a "blah blah" post like the Google one has already got a lot of votes, I'll tend not to vote for it (especially since there's no classification filter or anything like that), even if I like it.

I also tend not to vote for stuff if it's already in the top 5 spots - what's the point? I'd rather let other things bubble up.
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The Economist, unlike WSJ, has the fresh article accessible initially, and only restricts access to past issues and the audio edition.
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I would be concerned that doing something full time that you describe as "a pain in the ass" might get to be something you dread.
I'm also a user of vimperator. I wish someone would port it to Google Chrome as I'm tired of beeing locked in to Firefox.
"Is HN becoming reddit? "

A post with a badly rhyming version of 'The Real Slim Shady' about single founders (OK startup related, but not really insightful) was sent to the front page a few days ago.

Right now there's an article from Boingboing about putting a gun in your carry-on luggage so the TSA secure it (which is very much Reddit) and the Haiti earthquake, and genocide of natives in America (general interest yes, 'Hacker News'? No).

I've gotten into the habit of flagging non-tech related posts in the hope that will fix things.
I like the general concept of the site, but the tweets provide specific information and don't convey the broader point. Also falls under mystery meat navigation, but that seems fine in this case.
A small overhead for a small gain. Neat idea.

If this idea catches on, you will have to watch out for spam though.
This article was written in 2007. Since then both PHP and Rails have undergone considerable changes making much of what is being said only of historical interest.

This is supposedly a site about news which by implication is not something that happened three years ago, unless you have been living in cave.

Old articles can be interesting, for some value of interesting, but this does nothing for me as either a Rails developer or a PHP developer. I can see no reason to post this or perhaps I should hunt down some old articles about the deficiencies of Java 1.0?

If a Rails developer has switched from a current version of Rails to the new version of PHP I would be interested but even with that being said the article is comparing a programming language to a web framework. Ruby is not Rails just as PHP is not Drupal.

Can we have some 'new' in our news please?

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And he's doing an amazing job, from what I can see. I can't imagine the pressure he'd be facing.
nah, I saw that - it's not my intended use :) (I want it for rudimentary load monitoring)
I doubt they meant to do that, I'm was sitting there thinking wow they want people to pay for this and they make mistakes like that that I never usually see from bloggers.
"... a society that would force this couple to go bankrupt financially and emotionally because their peers will send them to a life of misery in prison if they refuse to keep two completely handicapped and malfunctioning children on feeding tubes for as long as is medically possible."

Except that it is quite lawful and moral to let them die, and is routinely done. From what I've heard, what generally happens in cases like this is one or more family members flip out and become obsessive crusaders for endless medical intervention. Their loyalties and motivations are understandable, even if their loss of perspective has appalling consequences. It would be interesting to know which of the parents were the medical crusader(s) in this case.
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That's pretty close to how I upvote submissions as well.

I also upvote Ask HN style postings if they are anywhere near on topic because I think that's a great use of the community (most of the time), and I try to answer them whenever I can.
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Another one like it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=904018
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I have updated the title to add the year [2007].

I am not a Rails programmer but as far as I know it is fair to compare PHP to Rails.

Please down vote if you think article is not relevant.
The International Federation of the Red Cross is a hypocritical organization. In Muslim countries it is called The Red Crescent (and any aid packages/vehicles are marked with a crescent moon).

Yet only one muslim country (Kuwait) figures (low down) in the accounts of top 25 donor countries for the IFRC for recent years. But 10 of the top 25 beneficiary countries are muslim. Thus the many of the donations from christian countries to an ostensibly christian emergency relief charity actually end up going to help muslims and are branded as aid from a muslim charity. (Either most of those oil-rich muslim countries aren't giving to charities, or they're only giving to charities that aid other muslims -- and it's probably the latter.)

I have no objection to people receiving aid whatever their religion (or lack of). But it disgusts me that that aid given to a "christian" charity uses the religious imagery of the donating country to raise money and ends up deceiving the recipients into believing it came from a muslim charity.

Donor and recipient end up being deceived by this duplicitous organization. Most people I've talked to about this have no idea that the IFRC is branded as the "Red Crescent" in muslim countries.

I prefer to support Médecins Sans Frontières. They seem far more honest about what they are doing.

The American Red Cross looks like it is not part of this IFRC duplicity.
I would label those technological advances in a different dimensions than moral acts. And usually the meaning of bad and good regards morals , not other fields of human behaviour.

And since as a nation their positive moral acts was so little relative to their negative moral actions you can call them "bad".
1920 is really convenient because you can have two windows side by side, or even try to squeeze in a third skinny one, such as an IM client.

Just make sure you have the eyesight for it. The 1px dot on lowercase I's can be maddening.
It's probably a good thing for Google that Schmidt doesn't have the final say in these decisions. He seems to have a misguided product sense. There was a Charlie Rose interview where Schmidt he was convinced that Adwords was going to be a flop, and tried to kill it. He didn't really want Chrome or Android. It's too soon to tell whether or not this China move is a good one though..
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I feel tired as the day ends, but never that I'm too tired to think stage until just before I'm ready to sleep.
The article misses an important point: Google simply didn't make any money or not as much as they expected from China. They got harassed constantly and its Chinese competitors received a lot of preferential treatment from the government (e.g anti-porn raids often shut down google).
I got this from here, but its german: http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/international/google_beugt_sic...
The link that the article is refering to: http://www.c3headlines.com/2010/01/cet-temperatures.html
People build websites with Ruby+Rails. People build websites with PHP. So it is fair to compare the merits of Ruby+Rails vs PHP for building websites.
For the vast majority of the primary target audience of scientific publications they are effectively free. It's a cost their employer eats and they never see. So there is no big reason for them to fight it. What would a researcher gain by going out of his way to disrupt the current model. He can easily access all the papers he needs and just about everyone in his target audience can read his published papers for free as well.

I'm not supporting the system or saying that I wouldn't love to see it changed, but I really cannot see much reason for pressure to change it.
I think that comparing PHP to rails is not the best way to get an idea of where both stand.

Ruby, the language and PHP the language vs rails on one side and CakePHP or codeigniter would be more appropriate.

I understand that since most people that use Ruby are also rails users and since most people using PHP hack their own little framework.
Also How about implementing login functionality to websites with such a command ?

lo::facebook (could use your save username/password in firefox)
or
lo:facebook -u username -p password

Since many a times the login page on websites is uninteresting
And how will China's "knights" deal with Google? Presumably it involves less swords than the assassination of Thomas Becket?
To some degree it is relevant (it's not about fixing the transmission of a Ford Cortina) just not very relevant given the changes both languages have undergone in the intervening times.

If you are a PHP programmer how would you view an article about someone who started to use Drupal found that they didn't like some aspects of it and switched to programming in Java. You would probably think that giving up on PHP because of a framework when there are plenty of others to choose from was pretty short sighted and was representing PHP unfairly.

This is why comparing Rails, which is a framework, to PHP, which is a programming language, feels wrong. Rails is not the only framework, it just feels like it :D
Just go get HadCET yourself and do some analysis: http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcet/ I wouldn't listen to the rantings of The Daily Telegraph, and specifically not this commentator: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/jamesdelingpole/

OK. Downvote me then, but if you read the original blog post he's talking about (http://motls.blogspot.com/2010/01/warming-trends-in-england-...) and you look at the '30 year bands' he's chosen they are cherry picked. And he's saying 'Look here in 1661 or whatever it warmed faster than it's warming now'. Seeing fast warming in central English in the past doesn't disprove man-made global warming now.

If you dig into his Mathematica code and take a look at it you'll see a plot he's made (which he doesn't blog about) that looks just like the global warming trend plots everyone is putting out.

See: http://imgur.com/K8Pcn.png

Wonder why that doesn't get a mention?
What about doctors and nurses going to rich countries ?
This reminds me of blackhat SEO techniques! (see http://www.nigritudeultramarines.com/), nevertheless +1 very neat idea!
Submissions have to be either new or interesting. There are a lot of submissions that aren't necessarily new, but still have interest for this community judging by the votes. An example that's on the frontpage right now is this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1051493 which is from 2007.

Personally I think the linked article is interesting because of some of the truths hiding between the lines such as this one: "But the main reason that any programmer learning any new language thinks the new language is SO much better than the old one is because he’s a better programmer now! You look back at your old ugly PHP code, compared to your new beautiful Ruby code, and think, “God that PHP is ugly!” But don’t forget you wrote that PHP years ago and are unfairly discriminating against it now."
I toyed with the idea of doing something like this ages ago, but decided against it. I felt it would become something akin to signing things, and it's open to the equivalent of forgery.
What's to stop someone from creating content you don't agree with, and then putting your tag on it?

To partially offset that you could create a page under your control that has a link to every page with a verified personal tag. Use Google alerts to send you the links automatically, and anything you don't recognise, check it out. Have an "I refute ..." or "Name and Shame" section to highlight those occurences that are not legitimate.
Funnily enough a mate of mine traveled into Holland with replica weapons recently with no problems at customs. He's a stage magician.
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PHP is a "framework" in the sense that it provides the core mechanisms for doing webby things - accessing query string and POST variables, sending HTTP headers, reading cookies, mapping URLs to executable code.

I actually think comparing stand-alone PHP to frameworks like Rails or Django is reasonable, since they all solve the same problem. Of course, such a comparison should also take the existence of higher level PHP libraries and frameworks in to account - it would be silly to criticise PHP for not shipping with an ORM, for example.
But a big part of the Christian message is to give what you can to those who need it. Note that it doesn't at any point say in the Bible 'Give money only to Christians in need' and because of this the 'Donor being decieved' isn't especially important.

However, I disagree that anybody is really being decieved at all, it is readily available knowledge that the Red Cross give money under the Red Crescent branding in muslim countries.

It would also make no sese at all to brand themselves at Red Cross in muslim countries - the symbology would have no meaning to the locals at all.
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Item 2 actually works if the text typed is not in any links, my bad :(
Simply because you don't like him or the paper doesn't make them wrong.

And could you get a mirror for that post on blogspot for me, I live in China and can't access it, cheers.
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doing same thing on my tv all the time. i simply change channel while keeping ad in a small window in the corner. love that feature. panasonic, ideas for life.)) i think its just a question of time when all tvs will have this feature
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I can't believe that anyone in the U.S. who has a roof over their head couldn't get a computer if they really wanted one.

There are plenty of computers similar to the one I use every day on eBay for under $50
http://computers.shop.ebay.com/PC-Desktops-/179/i.html?LH_BI...
Old CRT monitors, keyboards, mice can usually be picked up for next to nothing. And if that is still too expensive there is always http://www.freecycle.org/ . If someone wants a free up to date OS, then Ubuntu will ship CDs for free:
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You can pick up a Xbox with games for $35
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and they are hackable with Linux

You can pick up cell phones for next to nothing and many of them run Java apps.

I learnt to program on a BBC B (8bit, 32kb memory) computer I shared with my family and books from the local library. I'm not sure how "kids today don't have access to computers" compared to then. Back then computers and phones were expensive and now they are cheap. Also the internet is full of communities to help people learn programming.
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i guess the author should try step into 2004 and php5...
"I know several research scientists with several hundred publications to their names which these 'authors' have not even read."

Now I am not completely familiar with academia, so I was wondering if you could provide some context. Is is blatant plagiarism of other scientist's work? And if so, is this something that most scientists can reasonably expect to get away with if they tried. Or is it something where the scientist has some link to the work, such as heading a lab or working with the main author, but just has not done much work on the paper?
We actually tried to implement the #1 feature. But, as it turns out, there is no easy way of doing that via JavaScript. It definitely would've been awesome.

For #3, we experimented with a hyperglee mode. In that mode, gleeBox shows up automatically when you open a page. It actually exists but is an undocumented feature (since we weren't completely satisfied with the results) :)

In Chrome, you can turn the hyper mode on/off by executing '!set hyper=on/off'. Doesn't work too well in Firefox, though.
The author chooses to limit his options to women who already have college degrees, to women currently living in London, etc. People aren't plants or inanimate objects. They can move to different places. They can go back to school. Etc.
That sounds useful. We'll think about it. Thanks!
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that's a nice and simple solution, I might do this in the future. Since I wanted to extract the data from google and set up a list with links to all my content I could easily decide to not include spam, false comments or just things I'm ashamed of afterwards ;)

Of course the verification problem is basically the same now, anybody could sign a comment with my name. #ptfjib80
I agree!

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Seriously, can you imagine everyone doing that in every comment here, for example? It would get annoying real quick.
I guess you could send out a unique session key with the page, have the JS run AES or similar.

Wait, stop, crypotime.

I'm appear to be trying to design a protocol for secret exchange. I should just go and do some reading instead.

Do you know if there's any value in http digest auth these days? It's deployed in http clients (but only with md5 algo?) and I think it requires the server to store single-hash-of (salt,realm,pw) which you've eloquently pointed out in the past is a bad idea (single-hash of pw is vulnerable to bruteforce since hashes are fast).

My current thinking is that http basic auth over ssl would be preferred to http digest (as an auth method widely, natively supported by http clients), since it avoids pw in plaintext and allows server to store stronger hash (e.g. stretched sha-256, bcrypt) for pw.
In case it wasn't clear yet, the 'units' for the axis are simply the rank number of the postings, 1000 postings vertically, blocks of 1000 postings horizontally. That makes the time-axis non-linear.

No, it wasn't. Why aren't these graphs labeled? They make no sense without knowing what they are already.
here's my view on this:

the worst carpenter on the planet is the one who whines about the tools he/she has at hand to complete the task, cheeky because he/she doesn't have his or her favorite hammer around.

the best carpenter is the one who gets the job done with the tools at hand. go php. there are just bad programmers, not bad tools.
Fairly interesting that they've now jumped ship again to aspx. I guess Sivers gets an itch any time a new web language turns the corner. What's worse is that CD Baby feels considerably slower than when I used it ages ago.
I agree, but it's pretty easy to get all my comments out of HN anyway, because I have a dedicated account here. It's more useful for distributed content on sites where I just post one or two comments.

In a second step it would be pretty simple for HN or any other site to just give me a field to enter my personal tag and add it to every comment (maybe in grey behind the username).
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gleeBox and vimperator differ a lot in the way they work even though their core functionality is the same, that is to aid in navigation.

And, with gleeBox, you can do a lot more like search bookmarks, execute bookmarklets, yubnub commands, etc. Plus, I think it is more easy to use for the non-vim junkies :)
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Ask HN: what apps could help with events like in Haiti?
Just wondering if there is anything one could hack together that would help. For example maps - but then I suppose rescue teams must have their own ways to manage the logistics?

Or maybe something to help the "normal people" on the street - locating relatives and friends and resources, for example?
As far as I know Sivers is no longer at CDbaby. He sold it.
http://sivers.org/bye-bye-baby
The 30-year thing is significant; the AGW advocates quote trends since 1979 usually, which is significant as during the 1970s scientists were most worried about global cooling and pointed out a cooling trend since the 1950s.

The side with the least-arbitrary data set wins the credibility debate; "since records began" is a good one.
Considering that the 17th century was just after the start of the little ice age (wiki it), it would be shocking if England wasn't warmer today. Is England warmer today than it was in the 11th century though? Indications are no, it's not. Take from that what you will.
This is rubbish. As Charlie Brooker stated, if you can do the idea yourself DO. Put it on Youtube, make them come to you.

As soon as you go to them they will be changing your idea, suggesting you wear a cowboy hat and you wont have a strong bargaining position to resist.