skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i'm sorry, but, how is that difficult? most of that involves basic procedures for verifying someone's identity before providing a cert plus an independent party for auditing and other purposes. you don't even need any money, just to set up the basic infrastructure and steps for issuing certs as documented in provided links. i think they basically hinge on the idea that they will match up your CA with real human beings and verify you gen certs safely, but this is not a roadblock for an attacker.

i think with time, patience, and an apparent genuine interest in doing things the right way, anyone could get mozilla to accept their root certificate. (and then generate certs for the black market for unauthorized people with loads of cash)
Thanks a lot. So I guess real-world development involve lots of OO idea.
I didn't even get that far. I don't like watching videos on the Internet, mainly because I usually have other music playing, and they don't play so nice with linux. I don't want to have to stop everything I'm doing just to see what some - probably irrelevant - website is doing.
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Not to be self-promoting, but I implemented this on tagdef.com a while back. Also using the Google translate api, it detects if a definition is non-English, and gives the user the possibility to translate. E.g one of the definitions for #lol at http://tagdef.com/lol
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Oww my brain! Please stop making up these useless buzzwords!
Ode is largely inspired and influenced by Blosxom. It's a:

single Perl script,
with content generated from plain text files,
and look/layout determined by standard (X)HTML and CSS.
I'm glad to see the recent expansion of translation efforts from Google. Franz Och and the team are doing a kick ass job!
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You're right, that was dumb.
it's a ..... drumroll ..... web forum. With shiny web2.0 gradients.
With Bayesian average (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1219154 , http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_true_Bayesian_estimate_m...) you can easily put a slider saying how much the missing votes count (or how much preference do you give to items with more ratings).
Great - I really like the question form embedded on the front page. It would be cool if SE ported it at some point.

There are also some SE sites desperately trying to change the language through javascript-based rewriting (since SE is not localisable) - shapado could help them a lot.
The Croteam guys made Serious Sam in Croatia while the Americans were bombing them (or at least there was a lot of trouble there.) Great game I loved it.
The GNU version might look intimidating, but I think that's just the code style getting in the way. I'm betting that, compiled to assembler, it doesn't consist of many more tokens than the first version. (Anyone care to test? Don't have a toolchain in front of me at the moment.)
A hell of a lot higher than a person's height. Gravitational force is in inverse proportion to the square of the distance from a body.

The classic gravity analogy is billiard balls sitting on a stretched sheet of plastic. The force of gravity is like the slope of the dents on the plastic - very steep around individual bodies and dropping off quickly after that. So drop something close to any given body and it's going to have a much greater influence than a larger body further away.
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Assuming it fixes your app, instead of using "python" to run it, you just start using his version. The joys of open source.
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Well actually, it's common in the printing business to have each article to be of a unique style. Take National Geographic for instance.

One article has a different theme: http://www.valeriedaysings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/na...

from another: http://www.simongarnier.com/images/wordpress/ft_hdr.5.jpg

Well actually, those are title pages, but I've read those articles and I can attest that the different designs set a suitable mood for the topic at hand.

I applaud web publishers for taking up this paradigm and applying what publishing graphic designers have been doing for some time. Of course with most methods of design, it depends if the occasion is suitable. Some online publications can do well with a consistent design: http://www.alistapart.com/

While others do well with differing designs, almost as if each posting of their articles is a treat for their readers: http://trentwalton.com/articles/

just like D.Curtis does, so good on him if he has inspired others to do the same.
Wow I was excited and confused for a second, I thought the impossible had been done! That's fine that it hasn't I am happy with Twisted Spread for multi-process RPC needs.
Very interesting to see his list of a few points-of-pain in moving to Canvas (over 4 days of coding, he estimated). I hope that folks developing Canvas will continue to take note of developer feedback.

When Canvas can really achieve web dominance will be when the hordes of average site designers can use it easily, even with Dreamweaver [oh, wait. Nevermind.] But maybe when eJohn isn't doing anything on jQuery...?
Ask HN: What's your philosophy on page scraping?
Hey guys, I'm curious to hear what you think about page scraping. Are you happy to page scrape other sites? Are you happy to have yours scraped? What's your view on the ethics?

I'm asking because I'm aware my site's started to be scraped (by more than search engines), and I'm trying to figure out how I feel about it. In this case I'm happy because I know the audience/user base is smallish. If an app went mainstream that did it, I wouldn't be happy.

Of course the pragmatic answer is simple - 'build an api' - a few more weekends and I might.

But right now I'm interested to hear people's opinions on it.
Nothing wrong with it.

I am not sure you're asking the right question. If you need a language that is close to the machine(but not assembly), then you go with C. If you need the OO concepts, you go with C++. Mind you, whenever you start using abstractions such as OO, you start to get away from the machine.

You can still use C++ to do procedural programming. So that's not the problem. Just that for some projects, using OO concepts to model the problem domain makes more sense.

Use whatever is right for the problem at hand.
The space-age car which swerves away from danger by 'talking' to other vehicles 
OK, it's not quite as foldable as the space vehicle that cartoon figure George Jetson pops into his briefcase as he heads into the office. But the EN-V concept car, GM's 'automobile solution' for the future, just might fit into an apartment foyer.
You need to read this http://web.mac.com/jimbokun/iWeb/Site/Blog/AB35C167-7755-411...
Yes they are, and all three major bond rating agencies have recently publicly stated that treasuries are in danger of being downrated due to the massive increase in federal debt.
If this is "good enough" for a portion of the people who would have used Stack Exchange, that means SE either has to be "more premium" to differentiate itself, lower their prices, or be satisfied with a smaller market share.

And yes, having Bugzilla, Redmine and company out there does lower the cost of FogBugz. It's called "competition".
“Still, the author calling HN posters Neanderthals was a nice touch.”

In this case quite appropriate, though. Having to scroll down one third of the page before you get to anything resembling a meaningful discussion about the actual content of the article cannot possibly be a good thing. Neither can the sneer and arrogance displayed in this thread.

(I’m kind of aware of the irony of me participating in this thread. Resisting the temptation to be self-righteous on the web is hard.)
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You fail to mention that Apple had a net loss of $816 million in 1996 and in 1997 it even went further down into the red.

I wonder if you can back up the 'a few billion in cash' statement with a source?
Does anyone know if there's an archive of documents released by wikileaks? I've not been able to find them through the website's homepage.
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I'm confused by it not being intuitive. I imagine a chid would say the pen would drop as they probably know nothing of 'low gravity' and all that math stuff so they will imagine what would happen on the earth and extrapolate that to the moon. They may even recall seeing people WALK on the moon and thus assume it's just like earth and say the pen drops.

This seems to me that years of physics/science teaching has ruined the ability of these students to actually think.
OK I really tried to like this. However, most of the content seems to be at this level:

"Favorite historical person of importance?"

"Madonna. She was so extreme in her youth, that she made it safe for everyone else to be edgy."

I wonder how much that domain cost?
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I guess it depends on what they're doing with it. I'm not particularly against scraping per se, but I would look askance at some of the more sleazy uses, like just republishing (slightly modified versions of) blog posts on some AdSense-laden blog as if it were their own post. The key issues to me are: 1) transformativity, i.e. it produces something genuinely new and different from the content it scraped; and 2) proper credit to the source of the original content.
Facebook is a social news site.
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I don't really doubt the ability of the US government to pay back my loan to them. The economy would have to be about 1000x worse before I would start worrying about that.

On the other hand, inflation could increase faster than the yields on those bonds, in which case you are out of luck. (And some yield curves look pretty strange these days, although not the USD yield curve.)
I actually implemented something similar just for fun(http://twitpic.com/xcwtb). But didn't release it because i never thought anybody would actually use that. It's very unlikely that someone is going to follow a person who is tweeting in a language they don't understand.
News Corp to charge for online news
Take a look at http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/MemtableThresholds and http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArchitectureOverview#Write_... for the specifics.
Get earcandy. It automatically fades music players once a flash video or a video player starts playing: https://launchpad.net/earcandy

Edit: regarding Gravity: I agree. While I do enjoy video's, because often they get the message across incredibly fast. This video doesn't. It's cute, but once I click explore and see a forum, it's a letdown.
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The Times website to start charging £1/day from June
Depends what it's being scraped for. MFA spam blogs stealing content, or some valid use that could further your own interests.
I like to call from ActionScript out to JavaScript and call the normal logging component there - means that Flex/Flash log entries are shown in the same log as entries from JavaScript component.
He shows the flaws of both examples but only gives a solution to the first one. How does one nicely sort a rating scale like Amazon's that does have more than "yes" and "no"?
Headline's kind of sensationalist .... it's 1 pound per day or 2 pounds per week which is much more reasonable. It seems kind of high although the real question is if people are willing to pay anything, the right price can be established after they find that out.
Close, but I'd agree with ihatemummies in that it's closer to Yahoo Answers (at first glance at least). It seems more like a collection of forums (although I'm stretching that description as well).

But with a new scrollbar.
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Great effort. SE did a very good thing to find a working model for Q&A sites, and for that they'll do well. shapado is likely to reduce any rent-seeking behaviour by SE, and spur on a bunch more innovation from them. Everybody wins.
That's hardly sensationalist. The key point is that they are charging. Would you pay the £2 per week?
Andrew, please not edit headlines unless necessary. This one should be "Times and Sunday Times websites to charge from June". Yours is inaccurate as benologist already mentioned. See http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I'm pretty relieved to discover I'm not the only one who misread that heading as a Spice Girls lyric.
>£0 is unreasonable. I doubt they'll get many subscribers at all.
Mr Leonidas' writing style is perfectly in line with the image the University tries to portray. Writing is useless unless it is "academic" and it isn't academic unless it is overly complicated. Gerry's other job is writing legal contracts.
I think its best summed up by a quote from some Perl book I read (sorry, don't remember which one).

"Programming languages differ not in what they allow you to do, but in what they make it easy for you to do."
Hi xal, can I use Shopify for charging monthly subscriptions for my webapp?
>"There's a bit of free-tard culture stuff... The truth is that if you let those people influence your decision making too much then all you're doing is sacrificing your own quality of life to like uh, appease a bunch of abusive, worthless sacks of crap that don't care about you, so yes you'll always get blow-back when you try to charge for something, but you can't like, you can't internalize it too much because it's mostly like a reflection of those people's internal lack of self-esteem and internal lack of value that..."

Those must have been some terrible emails! It's kind of surprising that the had that problem since only the new customer's rates went up (and existing customers kept their old rates). Then again with enough traffic... I suppose you'll be visited by all types.
Maybe they won't. Maybe they will although I expect the price will end up being lower for longer.

I don't think > 0 is arbitrarily unreasonable though.
Out of curiosity, what exactly do you use it for? Couldn't matching on newline accomplish the same end?
Looks interesting! As someone who's been considering using Blosxom (when I finally get around to it), this is definitely relevant to my interests. Are there things in particular that you didn't like about Blosxom that Ode does differently? Put another way: if I were choosing tomorrow between Ode and Blosxom, apart from Blosxom not being (apparently) actively developed, what would be reasons to pick one or the other?
Nope (I get my news from other sites), but like I said in my comment the first step is to see if people will pay anything at all, then they can find the right price. It's a lot easier to reduce the price then raise it. My guess is they'll end up doing monthly for a few pounds in the long run.

There is a small number of sites I would pay to have access to if I had to.
At least the patch as first proposed suffered from all-the-world-is-Linux (see the discussion of CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID)...
Actually, the GIL is needed to execute Python code (well, access Python objects). It is released by I/O- or computation-heavy C code, so e.g. SciPy or reading files allows some level of parallelism, but pure-Python code will be serial.
If you want fixed width, please centre it!

Just me?
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Lots of good ideas here. One thing, its probably easiest if you start with people with very similar interests (development or otherwise) so you know the topic well.
He wanted to work for Microsoft, but they didn't employ him (to be fair, he was not US citizen and he didn't fulfil the H1-B requirements).

After that, he started Gnome (complete with the CORBA-fiasco) and later Mono.
I will subscribe. Especially if I can have it on an iPad when its out.
I agree on the last part there that there is lots the average person doesn't know. But one can also easily overestimate the knowledge specialists have, as they often don't have that knowledge either. Most doctors I know shudder at the thought of entrusting their lives to many of their med-school colleagues, and will off-the-record go on and on about how many doctors are 10+ years out of date with their knowledge of current medical literature, and how much cargo-cult "well this is how we do things" medicine is still prevalent, despite the attempts of EBM to wipe it out. Most also recommend that I do my own research before believing any doctor, though that isn't the advice they give their own patients.

I don't think it would necessarily be the case that a smart person with access to a good library couldn't do a better job self-diagnosing for a wide variety of routine conditions, especially since they would be willing to put in more research than the average doctor does. We're not talking about performing your own heart surgery, but more like the 80%+ of cases where the correct thing to do is a relatively routine decision that depends more on diligence in research and being informed about current best practices, than on any specialized skill. There are computer programs that can outperform the average physician in many areas (though not necessarily the top doctors; but you aren't likely seeing the top doctors, either). The self-diagnoser also has one key advantage, in that they are (presumably) only interested in their own well-being, not in defensive medicine and fear of malpractice suits.

Of course, it does require being a relatively level-headed person who knows how to read the relevant literature. Excitable folks, people who have never read an academic-sounding paper, and hypochondriacs are probably all better off not self-diagnosing.
The price war that mweb started when they launched their uncapped ADSL offering is indeed a huge deal at the moment.The fact is, SA has a HUGE population that's never been exposed to broadband internet since it's just been too expensive. If broadband suddenly gets affordable there is a chance of a tech mini-bubble emerging here a couple of years late.

But will we see a xhosa social networking site soon? Who knows.
I would. Its a good paper
I am wondering why we cannot just merge stackless python in cpython along with gevent in standard library...
Actually, though I'm using 2.X in everything I'm doing, I'd rather see it only appear in 3.X. There has to be something that drives people to port stuff to 3.X or it's not going to happen. Dramatic speed improvements such as what this potentially provides would be extremely helpful in that regard. The other hope right now, is of course unladen swallow, which hasn't proved to be very significant yet, as far as I'm concerned.
As a citizen of this country and can't do anything on this, I feel SAD.
I imagine a child would say the pen would drop

A child that has seen a movie or documentary about astronauts floating around in a spacecraft, may very well guess that the pen would float. "Space" seems to be the common denominator, not "on a large rock". From most perspectives, the earth looks nothing like the moon.

This seems to me that years of physics/science teaching has ruined the ability of these students to actually think.

The more you know, the more options you have to consider before coming to a conclusion. Considering all the, mutually influential, effects that could play a role, you may simply get overloaded. The problem isn't the capacity to think, it's the ability to easily and swiftly dismiss all irrelevant factors. I believe I could have made this mistake in my first year as a physics student.
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Source available does not mean open source. The term "open-source" has a very specific definition.

Singularity is not open-source, though its source is available. So was the Rotor, for example.
Start charging £1 without any changes to the quality of the site?
IE9 has just announced SVG support. Also the SVG library he links to falls back to VML in IE 6, 7 & 8 so the SVG comeback has been on for at least a year and is only cemented by upcoming IE support.
Is there a port of Acme to OS X?

Or are there any similar editors?
In patent infringement, they will sue your users. Since there is nothing like the EULA in free software, the publisher of the product is not liable for your use of it.

Frequently, the threat of patent lawsuits is enough to turn potential users away, specially those with deep pockets.
Indeed. This is the same as Microsoft saying that Linux infringes on its patents. It's probably true, but nobody cares.
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I find it funny that about half of the comments are about the "horrible" web design of the article.

If you agreed with the message you would never have wasted that much breath on it, but you don't agree with it, and you don't have any good arguments against the article, so "Too orange!" it is. :-)
Yes, when I get an iPad (or other pad) I probably will
There pricing is using some nice psychology and "forcing" people to subscribe for the £2 per week, People see the £1 per day and say oh wait, I can get a whole week for just another quid.
In colder countries like Russia antibiotics are available over the counter. And you know what? You don't have to drive to emergency when you get severe strep throat at Saturday night.

And what about right of the human being to own necessary emergency supply of medicine? I'm not even talking about equilibristics you would have to perform to stock pile Relenza or Tamiflu in US.
This is ridiculous. I get the International Herald Tribune delivered to my door in London for £0.53 a day. Same goes for the guardian, with subscriptions under a pound a day.
Yes, people will pay for convenience, but this is not a competitive offer at all!
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> For any patent lawsuit you'd have to prove that the technology was invented entirely in-house

No. That's no defense against a patent lawsuit. Not knowing the patented technology existed may only prove you didn't infringe on purpose.
they are launching two new websites (separate for the times, and the sunday times) in may
Article also reports a 3% drop in revenue for 2009, Microsoft's first.
X Forwarding. And for those of us that are emacs users, use emacsclient to connect to a remote server or use Tramp mode--this is a solved problem.
I'm happy to page scrape other sites and not happy to have mine scraped. ;-)

More seriously, if there're bots that you don't want scraping, just robots.txt them away. If they ignore that, then they're being rather rude and you can figure out some way to auto-block them.