skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But they may not know of any other solution.

I actually had a similar problem just an hour ago. I needed to look up the price of a piece of metalworking equipment. Since I had purchased items from Wholesale Tool in the past, I entered "www.wholesaletool.com" into Firefox. Then spent the next few minutes trying to figure out why my search for a 1-inch threading die wasn't turning up anything useful.
It turns out that the site I really needed was www.wttool.com instead!

And I'm a software dev who spends a lot of time on the web! How much longer would a non-expert have wasted before figuring this out? It's not necessarily anyone's fault; it's just that the web can be awfully confusing at times!
David Cameron at TED on the use of IT to change government
Well, one can definitely say Pitchfork has better PR people then Tumblr.
Ryan : Within 10 minutes, a tumblr representative responded: “Hi, Megan. Those URLs are now free. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can help you with. Thanks for using Tumblr!”

Meagan : As per our policy, we emailed this account’s address to inquire about the dormant account. After you failed to respond for 72 hours, we released the domain.

Was it 10 minutes or was it 72 hours?
I honestly don't think I actually disagree with what you're saying; I just still don't see this as a "failure" on Google's part, and that was the impetus for the post. I don't think Google should have been expected to anticipate this sort of thing.

Learn from it? Sure. Expect it? I still don't think so.
No, seriously, the fact that there was no other corroborating evidence means that there are NOT enough grounds for suspicion.

A credit card number is way too easily jacked / faked / cloned. I've had it happen to me in a restaurant, before I finished my trip home (another 700 km drive) there had been a few thousand $ of online charges on the card.

A credit card number is not an identity. If it isn't enough to cross a border with then it certainly shouldn't by itself be a reason for an investigation.

Especially because in cases like these the chances of the perp using fraudulent information are substantially higher than when looking at the transactions for say amazon.com.

Of course pedos are going to try to cover their tracks, using a stolen credit card number is a lesser crime considered to the one they are already committing so the barrier is a pretty low one.
I bet these people were typing in 'facebook login' into the Firefox URL bar, which did an I'm Feeling Lucky search on Google. Most days, that takes you to the actual Facebook login page, but that day it went to ReadWriteWeb. How confusing for people who don't understand the complex rules of how the address bar works, and who are used to seeing Facebook redesign their page without warning every few months.
Because Apple's is the only OS that gets this crucial bit right?
Tableau appears to be all expired.
10 years is a long time to implement this with only 100Mbps. By 2020 many other countries will be on gigabit connections. I think they're aiming too low here.
I'd prefer to see new, karma/age verified items in a second column on the right of the main page, rather than at the top of the highest rated items. This could be an effective way to use the empty space on the right.
If they were to remove it I think it would have happened already.

The video was posted in '06 and has since had about 23,000 views.
Interesting - I just finished reading Gregory Benford's novel Cosm, which explored an experiment much like this, at the Brookhaven RHIC (using U-238 rather than gold, and with much more dramatic results). A great read.
In other words, I think your 400 estimate is much too high, where did you get your numbers?

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_United_Sta...), the US has 104 reactors which produced 19.6% of the electricity we used in 2008.
I would say the problem is not understanding the concept of search results.
The JVM is a great platform if the language in question is relatively close to Java, and you're just layering on higher-level syntax like closures. (Sure, it would be nice if Java supported them, but they're not hard to implement as anonymous inner classes, and to simulate real closing over variables you just need to wrap all captured variables in one-element arrays or other wrapper objects at the declaration side. It's annoying, but it's livable).

The further you move away from the Java typesystem or execution model, the less fun your life will be and the fewer benefits you'll get from the JVM: moving to dynamic typing will cost you a large amount of performance, for example, and you'll have to fight the Java type system a fair amount. I can only imagine what it would mean to do lazy-evaluation in a JVM language.

If it matches what you're trying to do, though, it's really a great platform: the bytecode format is pretty simple and easy to learn, the JVM runs of pretty much any platform you need, and it does a huge amount of optimization for you. If you're doing a statically-typed language and compiling down to Java-like bytecode (as opposed to handling dispatch yourself, as you have to do in a dynamically-typed language), you also basically get debuggers and profilers for free.

It's definitely a little weird, though, that they'd set up the motivation for HLVM as due to the weaknesses of the CLR's cross-platform capabilities, without mentioning the JVM at all, given that the JVM was, in spirit at least, the precursor to the CLR and still the most widely-used higher-level VM and one that works basically everywhere.
Hacker Arrested in Billboard Porn Stunt
The Conservative Technology Forum http://www.conservative-technology.org/
I was thinking of something like this when the Facebook login story on RWW came out a week or two ago. With a start page that looks like an [iPhone|Android|your favorite device] screen , there's less risks of being confused.
"It is okay to expect people to invest a little time to learn how stuff works and to retain an adequate portion of that education."

Amen.
Actually there are plenty of astronomers that consider the Earth - Moon system to be a double planet.

A double planet is basically any planetary system that contains moons that are relatively massive compared to the primary mass in the system.

Our moon is also quite large (1/4 the diameter of the planet).
No known practical application, but hey, it was just discovered. Besides, new physics is just plain interesting. The discussion of chirality in proteins was an analogy that just added to the confusion if you didnt know a little organic chemistry. Look up chirality in Wikipedia for a little background.

A dark matter universe would be a pretty bleak place because ther would be no ordinary matter, no galaxies, no stars, no planets, no me, no you,
Portland and Austin seem to be quite the standouts.
Normal Googlebot IP addresses resolve to names like crawl-blah.googlebot.com. These ones don't. You could use whois to detect them, but it's a lot slower than DNS. I guess that Google expects the SEO guys not to be smart enough to use something like pwhois to quickly check that the IP's on a Google AS (likely).
How Much Would You Pay For Gigabit Broadband?
How WooThemes Quietly Built A $2  Million Per Year Business Selling Themes
That's why exactly _how_ someone is detained matters. If they're doing it politely, apologize for my delay and make sure I don't have to pay for another ticket I don't really have that big a problem with wasting 5 hours for raising flags. It's pretty clear I'm not the only one wasting time there, overall there were probably close to 10-20 man hours involved in it.

If however I have any reason to believe this was a powertrip by a TSA employee, or I was not treated with common courtesy , including an apology for the time wasted, then I do complain. And don't feel the least bit bad about it.

Exactly what the flags were matters less, as long as the professionalism of the TSA employee is not seriously questioned.
Attractive, yes. But why, exactly, is this better than my browser's bookmarks?
To be fair to Google, they do get inundated with spammers, so a certain level of distrust is understandable. The problem is that like Pierre mentioned this is very easily gotten around, which makes it fairly ineffective, and to anyone who actually uses traffic logs for any kind of stats tracking, any fake referrers can be quite annoying.
Actually, "In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
But it's not crucial. I'm perfectly happy with whatever text rendering my browser uses. I can read the results, and that is sufficient. Just let my browser render your text in accordance with my dictates, and don't try to interfere. You're less likely to break things that way.
Couldn't agree more. Who knows what the world will look like in 10 years? This is tomorrow's technology half a year after tomorrow.
THIS is why I help build the web:

he began writing an online journal... It has become his life's work, building and maintaining this massive monument to written debate... Out there, his voice is still his voice — not a reasonable facsimile of it, but his.

"It is saving me," he says through his speakers.
Google the Evil Genius
TSA apologizes for forcing 4-year-old to remove leg braces at airport screening
That's overstating the case. The DMCA doesn't require instant take-down, it promises the converse: if you take it down in a timely manner upon receipt of a complaint, you cannot be held liable. The hosting provider is allowed to make its own determination about the validity of the claim, and in fact most do.
who now sells encryption services

Also: How to use the internet through Indonesian proxies and install OSes on hidden volumes.
You would be surprised at the number that are caught using their own cc. The standard approach in such a case would be to ask the guy in (or arrest him if you were suspicious) and sieze the computers. Then you decide what to do depending on the interview.

Rereading it maybe your right; it shouldn't have gone so far.
We’re the Stupid Ones
This is what the "Top Sites" feature of Safari is trying to accomplish. But it didn't convince me so much…
That's 23k visits over 4 years - it's barely a blip on their radar. Let's see what happens after half of HN visits the link and someone blogs about it. (I may be wrong of course, but there were some cases of "dangerous" material being removed before afair)
Dude, you really lost your goodwill with your upgrade.
You gave people a free app and now you sneakingly have stolen it back. I know you want to make money for your hard work but this way trashes your rep completely. You had really good reviews and could have start charging. A grocery store that increases traffic and word of mouth doesn't try to take back the free stuff after it gets the traffic and goodwill. You could have updated to advertise your new games but you used it steal back what you gave away for free. It's looks like a bait and switch and your rep may never recover.
Buzz'nation
I totally agree, but I think that anti discrimination acts in housing, employment set the tone for the rest of society. If a gay wheelie can't be hired by a Fortune 500 company, what message does that send to everyone/the rest of the world?
...so far.

The thing that occurred to me as I was reading this is how different life can be depending on how much energy is cheaply/freely available.

Think back to within the last century: I have more horsepower sitting in my driveway than the average small village of 100 years ago (and that's not counting the actual horses in my pasture :-) . Kilowatts of cheap electricity are available at every wall socket. How has that changed our lives? How much different would life be if gigawatts of power were available at that same wall outlet at the same cost?
I get excited by these services (iGoogle, Netvibes) and end-up using them for about a week before defaulting back to google's homepage. Love Fav4's design though!
Wait. Is it 1998 again? When did we go back to using images for text?
What are you doing for DDOS protection now?
I don't think that is the point. I am pretty sure the author was using the CLR as an example. You could write WPF applications using F#, IronPython, or IronRuby because the are all compile CLR code. If the most popular languages on Mac and Linux all compiled down to LLVM they would be a lot more inter-operable like the CLR languages. It would be much easier to leverage the Cocoa framework from Python, Lisp, or Java if all were build on the LLVM (or the HLVM which is built on the LLVM).
I just slap those links in my bookmark bar, and start on about:blank
What's a gay wheelie ?
Yes, this is a dupe. Any mods about? Please kill it...
On the other hand, difficult now doesn't mean difficult forever; an eighteen-wheeler would have been written off as requiring impossible amounts of energy to use, if someone had described it in the 16th Century. ("_How_ many horsepower?!")

"The same day as an article on the subject" is probably a little premature for any theories about its utility, too, although I'll certainly be interested if anyone who knows what he or she is talking about with physics thinks that this could be used to build an ansible or something...
I disagree. Manager-types call the years where you spend more money than you should "investment years", as in, you're investing in the business. If they took the money and are sitting on it, they clearly are't running the standard VC company playbook.
Well, at least we're seeing profiling based on objective issues such as "Countries Recently Traveled to", and "Flashcards with BOMB and TERRORISM" written on them.

As annoying as it was for the traveler, anybody who visits an airport knows they can't even whisper the word "BOMB" - so, someone falling into the obvious profile (young male traveling through suspect countries) carrying cards with the word "BOMB" and "TERRORISM" really shouldn't be too surprised if he's held for a bit.

Seriously - can you imagine what would have happened if there had been an incident, and it was revealed that the TSA _was_ aware that he had been identified with the BOMB and TERRORISM flash cards, and had the interesting travel background on his passport? Particularly as they've been criticized for letting the underwear bomber on the plane even with his iffy background?

People can't have it both ways - either you do solid background check on suspect individuals, or you let a few slip through.
This Gospel
What do you define a "Successful Venture?"
I know this is a discussion site built by Y-Combinator and it made me think. With all these Seed Companies, how is a successful venture defined? Do you see past the profit and look into how satisfied your audience is? Do you look at your statistics and where are ranked among your competitors?

I personally look at where I stand in the community I'm targeting. What can I do to better satisfy the need of those using my service? Something better can always be done and thats where the profit comes into play. I always picture my product as something I can use to solve my OWN problems.

What do you guys think?
We're using redis, exclusively, to power http://pycon.djangodose.com/ (A live stream of everything going on at PyCon).
Made something like this before but never made it public, though mine looks more like the iPhone home screen.
It is in the UK (well, it's unlawful rather than illegal, but the gentleman should have recourse to an employment tribunal)
my response to this: http://i47.tinypic.com/2eg5j4o.jpg
Maybe it is because the strategy more closely resembles the relationship between the CLR and DLR than the JVM and nothing. Like you said the JVM is not dynamic language friendly, and Sun/Oracle has really shown much interest in making it so.
I'm sure they are; most of the time they're not guarding national security, but a few soccer moms and football fans complaining they can't get into their laptop because their fingers still have Cheetos on them could be a PR problem.
I am no expert, but I have been working for a few months in a user experience team for enterprise collaboration software. In the enterprise sector we need to assure that our applications can be used as intended by a teenager as well as a 65 year old CEO. There are ways to make user interfaces intuitive. One is to copy things from the material world: folders, archives, tabs, etc. The other is to follow abstract paradigms that have been popularized by a few big applications: microblogging, my profile, my wall, etc. In my opinion, the use of paradigms that were created just a few years back, such as most of the interactions in social networks, cannot be assumed to be understood by everyone (stupid or smart) and should be made as intuitive as possible.
Growing Your Development Environment
4 years ago while i had a severely sprained knee, denver tsa made me hop about 20 feet total without my crutches. that was awesome fun.
Excellent! I've got this added in to my issues for pitchforked. Will be implementing it in the next couple of revisions.
Music Journalism is the New Piracy
I sort of tackled the "what is race" question in another comment. [1] I kinda agree with you on culture is important, but I find that generalizations there fall flat, as subcultures within a culture tend to contradict each other. In all cases, the fundamental fallacy of bias comes from using attributes associated with some group to make decisions about an individual, who may or may not share those attributes. Our brains attempt to create heuristics for us, we have to actively work to supplant them with logic.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1129487
I agree. You build a tool to solve a problem, not for the building sake. And if it turns out the consumers are using your tool for a different purpose, it is in your own interest to understand this new use and optimize your tool to fulfill that previously unnoticed problem.
Also swapped around the levels so the first bunch are not so hard.
Kublax deadpools after failing to get more funding
True. Reminds me of Derek Sivers's first follower idea that's been making the rounds lately: http://sivers.org/ff2
Kevin Smith and Southwest Airlines
Thanks, UK Government, for Not helping me build my startup
Like Opera's Speed Dial?
Clearly this is a major UI-fail on HN's part for not knowing you wanted just the article and not the comments link :)

That doesn't bother me, though. What bothers me is that your site isn't facebook! WHAT IS GOING ON!?
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5 million Dropboxes
Looks nice, but why do I have to choose 4?
That depends on how you slice the phrase "intended to." Google is not supposed to return whatever Page Rank spits out, it's supposed to return the most relevant page to the user's query. Page Rank is a means to an end. If Page Rank is returning an article about facebook logins, rather than the facebook login, for the search query 'facebook login,' I would not consider it to be working as intended.
As per usual - Opera had this in a form of its "speed dial" page for a while now, Still using the Firefox though :)
The differences between Core Data and a Database
If you don't believe that, ask yourself whether you call people Asian, as if the huge proportion of people from the most populous continent on Earth share some fundamental attributes based on the geographic location of their ancestors that are worth distinguishing. Ask yourself if there is some proportion of ancestry that you use to distinguish one race from another...

Agreed. After the last presidential elections, I was always a bit frustrated when Barack Obama was hailed as the first "African-American" President. It's not clear to me what this really means in the first place. But by any logical definition, I can't see how to label him as "African-American". Isn't he every bit as much caucasian?
Human retrieval adds a lot of noise. It's not just how well people do readings, its when (during the day) they do them. No, they don't necessarily read them the same time each day.

Moreover, even if we had automated retrieval at the correct time, there are issues with the stations.

“The story is the same for each one. The popular data sets show a lot of warming but the apparent temperature rise was actually caused by local factors affecting the weather stations, such as land development."

That's from John Christy, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a former lead author on the IPCC.

These stations, they believe, have been seriously compromised by factors such as urbanisation, changes in land use and, in many cases, being moved from site to site.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article702...
Ask HN: What would you do with 1Gbps to the home?
More specifically, what types of products and services would you create in a world where 100+ million homes in the US had 1Gbps internet connections?

Equivalently, when's the last time you've been thinking about a business idea or a product feature, and thought to yourself, "this would be great, but people don't have enough bandwidth?"

I talk with lots of people in telecom, and the perception is that there is no general demand for connections faster than about 10Mbps downstream, except to the extent that people want to keep up with the Jones' or get the best 'value' possible. I always answer with the standard party line about how we can't even conceive of the type of services that will use super-fast connections until we have them.

But seriously.... what are we going to do with 1Gbps?

(Personally, I'd like to see better latency, jitter, and packet loss characteristics become widespread first. A 1Gbps connection will still suck if there is a possibility of your packet getting caught in a buffer for 300ms.)
The other way of following first
It was worth it because Rackspace is a much better host. We used to run our own data center in toronto before this. The DMCA is a major annoyance but doesn't really factor into the bottom line.
Download Real Player and turn off the buffer.

Seriously, though, if Google were to provide a static IP I would start hosting small web projects from my house.
Awesome. Dropbox is an awesome product. I install Dropbox on every single machine I have.. it's one of the first things I install. And it's saved me countless hours.

Now if only they could sort out the folder sharing model so large folders shared by someone else (who upgraded) don't use up my personal space... (yeah, I know they're working on it.. hurry up!)
> Clojure has run into a lot of problems due to the JVM, probably the most famous one being the lack of tail call optimization.

What in particular about the JVM prevents Clojure from being able to do tail-call optimization? My (admittedly naive) understanding of TCO is that it involves turning tail recusion into a loop, and Java can certainly handle loops OK.