skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
gmartin$ whois -h whois.arin.net 174.132.225.106

OrgName: ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc.
OrgID: TPCM
Address: 315 Capitol
Address: Suite 205
City: Houston
StateProv: TX
PostalCode: 77002
Country: US
That's just laziness or lack of foresight on the part of the developers, adding customisable keys should be trivial.
GPL v2:

http://drupal.org/licensing/faq
Not news, www. They're separate servers.
pretty cool, but I just tried it out on my iPad and the actual text-editor part doesn't work (you can't type any text into it).

The chat seems to be working fine though (thank god for that haha)
Certainly not as fast as the full sized keyboard (which I'm using to type this comment right now), but it'd be a great alternative orientation for when you can't lay the iPad down on a stable surface.
With datatypes and protocols it's now possible to get pretty much on par with the speed of Java classes while staying idiomatic.

For an example of how idiomatic this can look in action, check out http://github.com/ztellman/penumbra/blob/master/src/penumbra...

This vector math datatype will be as fast a Java class + the cost of an object clone. The upside is that you have a value entity that has the exact same concurrency safe semantics as Clojure's built in datatypes.

This coupled with Rich Hickey's plans for 1.3 (support for returning primitives from fns) means you'll truly be able to write highly idiomatic Clojure code with host performance without jumping through hoops (much less or no type-hinting, no macro inlining, etc).
So your network traffic is guilty and sentenced until proven innocent.
Wow, that sounds more horrible than I was imagining.
I'm not surprised. All third-party content on whitehouse.gov has been under a Creative Commons licence since Obama took office: http://www.whitehouse.gov/copyright
Thats some good customer service there Lou. (Said in Chief Wiggims voice)

Seriously-they couldn't just email the account holder?
I only hunt-peck when I am standing up... otherwise I have no trouble setting the iPad on my lap, and typing as if it were a normal keyboard
Excellent use of Spivak pronouns
No, it was fairly gradual.
HTML5 webapps broken on the iPad
I remember when the iPad was announced, I saw the keyboard and instantly thought it would be better if it were split for thumb typing, but now that I have an iPad the standard keyboard works well enough that I forgot about the split keyboard until I saw this post. If I'm standing and typing I'm gonna be brief, but it may be worth having as an option in certain situations. I'd be more grateful to have the single quote available without a shift.
I'm willing to bet that if you have hundreds of pages of unique, relevant content, plenty of legit, relevant inbound links, and good on page SEO, things like site speed based on geography are negligible.
Things should be back to normal now. Trevor just moved www.ycombinator.com to Slicehost, and I just told HN to refer to static stuff there instead of serving it locally.

Interesting how easy it is to move your whole web site. Good customer service is important when users can switch so easily.
Boulder Startup Week May 4-8 (free airplane tickets to HN)
May 4-8 we are having Boulder Startup Week. http://boulder.me/boulder-startup-week/ We have had quite a bit of activity for our small town on the startup front. There are over 100 development jobs open now or opening up in the next month.

We are throwing a big week of events to welcome people looking to check out Boulder. There will be coffees, hikes, coworking, New Tech Meetup, Ignite Boulder, rides, tours, hacknights and a few parties. Five days and about 50 events. No launch parties or overbearing sales pitches, just a bunch of people living here welcoming hackers to town.

I would love to invite you all out to experience Boulder. If anyone wants to come out, leave a comment and I will buy two commenters a round trip ticket to check out the week (most upvotes on why they want to come to Boulder). Looks like I can buy a ticket from almost anywhere in the states for <$300 so ticket or voucher to fly out of $300.

http://boulderstartupweek.eventbrite.com/

http://plancast.com/a/25sh
As a non-musician, it's interesting to read about the frustrations and tensions involved in tuning. So similar to the trade-offs we have to make in writing software, and equally obscure and surprising to non-participants.
The problem is that Windows and Office have little long-term potential as profitable products. So what do you do when your core competencies become obsolete? You have to get new ones. You could try really hard to learn new ones, but when you have the money you can also just buy them...
This site was on a shared hosting box?

And of course they are going to disable it without warning if it's causing problems for all the other customers on that box...
This is almost as bad as the reason for my server's downtime recently: http://beerpla.net/wp-content/uploads/img_2958.JPG

My server literally had its plug pulled.
Not to mention incremental roll outs, which would have caught this problem before it hit every win xp machine.
Massive Speedups in Matlab
Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens
Just show me non stop adult swim shows
"We just figured out what caused the
problem. Apparently Pair Networks' procedure for requesting
that users upgrade to a dedicated server is to shut down their site without warning...."

I think you should upgrade to a more "dedicated provider" rather than a "dedicated server"...

But seriously, not even a warning?
Ask HN: are headline fails getting on your nerves?
It's starting to bother me that twisted or outright misleading headlines are becoming more pervasive, even on the NY Times. It's irritating because I can't trust an article's headline anymore to click it and read it. I now read the top commenter's summary and typically do away with the article as standard practice for most items.
Digital triumphs: Film is Dead
Just started working on apsurd - a collaborative network for school clubs/organizations.

http://apsurd.com/

I'll be entering this into the http://refresheverything.com contest May 1 because I believe it will have a positive impact on students and their neighborhoods.
Woo. I wrote the backend for this. See the comments on reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/bu580/springers_new_la...
Is there a reason they chose not to use rdf/microformats?

Because RDF sucks? And microformats only help in some cases

This is their proprietary FBML markup, I believe

It looks a lot like JSON to me. What are you looking at?
What if there was no outside scrollbar? Would you still accept an inside toolbar/menubar and 95% of the screen filled with a scrollable doc pane like Google Docs (except perhaps with a little less toolbar)?
>In the matches where one side dominated the other outfit color made little difference. In close matches, however, combatants in red won over 60% percent of the time.

Very interesting.

Thankfully, red gis are not allowed in Brazilian jiu-jitsu competition. Though it might be a good idea to sew red patches all over a white one...
I own property and rent it to others. I rent property from someone else to live in and have mobility. Best of both worlds.
This Is How Velcro Was Invented
Not this site, www.

There was no sudden spike in traffic. If they'd bothered to check the logs they'd have found that the load, whatever it was, was no higher than it had been.
Nice to see them release some software. Would also be nice to see them release some human beings (i.e. Guantanamo).
Detexify is also available as an android app. Much easier to draw on a touchscreen than with a mouse.
Considering what a big deal "reliability" is to most hosting companies (and customers), this is a shockingly stupid response.
To computer viruses and biological pathogens, add virus scanners--that model holds. For example, if this incident causes sufficient negative publicity for McAfee, then perhaps it could disappear.

Does anyone recall the Michelangelo virus? One of the virus detection programs special release for that wiped the boot sector of every drive it was installed on. I think it is fair to say that in that case, the anti caused more monetary loss that the virus.
Shared hosting is generally sucky for anything remotely successful. I'm amazed you got away with storing your static assets there so long! When I got 100k hits in a day on my first blog, Dreamhost promptly shut it down without warning (in the middle of a slashdotting!)
Thank you ! Procrastination becomes much harder when HN does not provide a continuous flow of interesting distraction.
I've noticed that even legitimate news outlets are starting to use linkbait titles. We often rewrite titles on HN as a defense against this.
On what basis do you say no? This is a single large, noticeable incident, but that doesn't mean that it outweighs millions of tiny ones prevented.
I don't know about you... but I was able to run my javascript application, "hello world", on lots of platforms with very little modification ;)
Hey smart idea for promoting Startup Week.

As a developer already living in Boulder, just want to back up what Andrew said - Boulder is great for startups and has a great community. It should be both really interesting and a lot of fun.
In reference to both the comments up thread, real scientists don't use a "consensus" to bludgeon someone bringing up an inconvenient fact.

WRT to the above, if Foo's proof upon checking turns out not to be correct, real scientists/mathematicians will prefect or throw away the proof, not the check that falsified it.

When someone says "The consensus of climate scientists is that the planet is warming and it is anthropogenic" and it's pointed out that contrary to their very specific predictions the planet has been cooling for the last decade, what do you say real scientists should do?
>> "Things should be back to normal now."

Hopefully that's the normal of months ago when loading comments/threads etc was quick?

Still taking 10-20 seconds to load most pages. One thing I haven't tried yet is just creating a fresh account - maybe mine just has too much associated with it (Maybe I comment too much etc).

edit: ah I see it only affected static content. Shame :/
The LHC crew are on safer ground. If they don't find the Higgs, they're still likely to find something interesting. (After all, various people have been worried they'd find something a bit too interesting. :-)
Any particular reason for Slicehost as opposed to any of the other similar options (Linode, prgmr)? I'm not affiliated with any, though I run my site on VPSes from Linode. I was convinced by a Dec 2009 post by an HNer, uggedal: http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison
I've helped the Bank of Canada (which is the Fed of the North) to start releasing Wordpress plugins: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/profile/bankofcanada
This API tastes so much like the old FriendFeed APIs. Compare http://friendfeed.com/api/documentation and the Facebook API's and you'd swear that it's just v3 of the FriendFeed API.

(This is a good thing, btw. I guess there is now doubt that Facebook got good value out of that purchase)
Ask HN: Why and how is Lisp better?
Disclaimer: I have not looked much at Lisp previously and in light of the potential ITA Software acquisition, I was curious about why Lisp is liked and for what domains of problems it is useful for. ITA's QPX is held as a common example but in some quick searching, I see no article showing why it was a preferable language to code in as opposed to some other higher-level language.
There's a parallel between the headlines of articles on the internet and advertisements for products: the currency of the internet is attention/page views. It was unethical for people to advertise products as something they weren't, just as it's unethical to advertise a piece of content as something it's not: you're benefitting from deceiving the public. We got Truth in Advertising when they did it with physical products… maybe the same idea should be applied here.
Really they are only open-sourcing GovDelivery. There's a lot of questionable code in there. Is this really how you'd do this?

// the user may have put in an address of the form "Full Name" <email@domain.tld> instead of just the address,
// so we want to filter to the right address
function govdelivery_filter_email($address) {

// borrowed from the drupal valid_email_address($mail) function
$user = '[a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.\+\^!#\$%&*+\/\=\?\`\|\{\}~\']+';
$domain = '(?:(?:[a-zA-Z0-9]|[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9\-]*[a-zA-Z0-9])\.?)+';
$ipv4 = '[0-9]{1,3}(\.[0-9]{1,3}){3}';
$ipv6 = '[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}(\:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}){7}';

// setup an array for the matching expression
$matches = array();

// the regex below is adapted from drupal's valid_email_address($mail) function
preg_match("/$user@($domain|(\[($ipv4|$ipv6)\]))/", $address, $matches);
return $matches[0];
}

The module uses MySQL-specific functions (FROM_DAYS, TO_DAYS, FROM_UNIXTIME) so it is not portable. Relying on these instead of the PHP equivalent makes me wonder how many other shortcuts are in there.

Several undefined constants are referenced (NAGIOS_STATUS_*).

I'm not sure what's going on in odmService.php.

The module was authored by Chris D'Antonio of Acquia (which we can assume has a contract with Uncle Sam), aka http://drupal.org/user/250704
To be honest, crying would very likely work for an ugly dude too. With a few exceptions, nobody wants to have to sit and watch anybody cry.
Here in Boise we have a wee bit of "Boulder Envy" - but it's time to turn the tables, eh? But before we can dazzle you guys, first we need to learn from the masters! (Even if Paul Jerde is involved somehow...)
@entrep_thinking
Outage only 14 minutes? Kudos to the Heroku team.
Oops. s/default/'defeat'/
ZeroCater is hiring an Account Manager
I did see http://www.lispworks.com/products/myths_and_legends.html but would like to see HN's input on where Lisp would be useful in today's web world of <insert web20 catchphrase> of tools.

PS: I know asking a question like this may cause some emotional responses but I am genuinely interested in use cases for Lisp. Thanks in advance.
It's worth noting that Chromium was still giving me bad images/css even after the outage until I moved to a completely new tab. (Even with trying ctrl+F5, though I'm unsure that Chromium binds that to 'reload + reload cache' like IE did/does.)
To Facebook the answer must be no
Yet another reason why the ipad form factor isn't as good as a netbook.
HTML5 audio visualizations - Nihilogic
I think I might be able to make it (from Phoenix, AZ), but I don't want to eat up one of the giveaway tickets.

I already know Boulder rocks. I already know the people there rock. I already know Boulder startups rock. The tickets should go to people who A.) would be looking for work in Boulder or B.) would like to go but otherwise wouldn't have the means to get there.
Microsoft just doesn't get the web at all...

What exactly is the usecase for making excel spreadsheets that I can post on my facebook wall? They even copied the "beta" thing from Google.
> I'd be more grateful to have the single quote available without a shift.

A quick way to get an apostrophe is to swipe up on the comma key. Here's a demonstration of it around the 2 minute, 50 sec mark:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVRfs4VGh9Q#t=2m50s
I'm not having a problem with Chromium 5.0.365.0 (42923) on ubuntu 9.10.
And this is why I don't recommend shared hosting for anyone
How exactly did he lose it? The 45-day PayPal chargeback window is still open.
I think this is pretty common. When Joyent shut down my shared account way back when, I discovered it in a comment in my httpd.conf
I took a trip to Boulder last year to check out the startup scene and it was awesome. Coworked at a few companies and coffee shops, went to the new tech meetup and opencoffee and met a bunch of really cool people.

When I came back, I quit my job and started working with startups. Boulder wasn't the only reason, of course, but the experience I had made the choice much easier.

Looking forward to visiting again in a few weeks.
Request and censorship: Google has released details
http://am0nr4.blogspot.com/
The talking only confirmed their community's observed actions up to that point. Anyone paying attention knew what they were doing, the emails just made it "crystal clear".

And it's funny you should bring up Chicxulub and the K-T extinction event. When the Alvarez team proposed that hypothesis, it was not ... warmly welcomed. But they were allowed to argue their point and the community eventually agreed they were (likely) correct. If their work had been in the climate science domain I don't think we would have seen the same outcome. I know we wouldn't have seen the same process.

With regards to the "consensus" that the "planet is warming", that "fact" has not been true for the last decade or so, so that "fact" is indeed potentially irrelevant (we need to wait a bit longer to be sure).
Just got tweeter this: http://yfrog.com/7458383894p
Couldn't agree more.

That is exactly the situation that Apple wants to head off. Apple wants iPhone and iPad applications to fully integrate with the infrastructure they are providing such as fast task switching, social gaming and iAd.
Writing is just another form of communication. Be it grunting noises, speech, or song, it has been in development for a very, very long time.

I won't comment on the difficulty of becoming a good athlete to that of being a good writer because it really is like comparing apples to oranges. That being said, becoming a good athlete can be incredibly tough both physically, and mentally.

Take a relatively simple sport like running. You will find a huge variation in the efficiency of joggers, even though it is a "natural" motion for the body. This is not even taking into account training, or nutrition. In fact, there are actually people who study the science of running:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrOgDCZ4GUo
Facebook Expanding Virtual Currency (30% cut)
looks great. how do you plan to gain traction
HN is the single slowest website I use regularly and not just because the www server was cut off today. Typical page loads are 10+ seconds and if I want to view my threads page it usually times out before finishing on the first request (sometimes it's the same for the home page). It's quite absurd considering the audience.

Oh and it took three tries to post this comment, I kept getting timeouts.
Google Closure: How not to write JavaScript
I don't think we need to move to special machines, we just need to move to sensibility in choices. Why do these need to be running Windows? Even if they're running Windows, why do they need an antivirus? Are you letting people on attachments from their email or browse the internet on the same box that you're using to read X-rays and other medical imagery? Kind of weird to do that, right?

I need to think about how to exploit this to promote the installation of *nix-based systems and get people to hire my company to do it.
So were they just jerking you around then?
Simple Attitude Adjustment for Social Media
But it sure comes in handy for other stuff.

If the contractor clause is not applicable to this work even releasing it under the GPL is questionable, because that's most decidedly not the same as releasing it to the public domain.
I was out in Boulder for Techstars events a few months back. Community and tech feel seemed better than when I visited Palo Alto (spent 4 days at both Palo Alto and Boulder with friends' startups). Would highly recommend it both as a place to live and as a place to start your company.
' Awesome ' Thanks.
Dreamhost? Their main advertising point is UNLIMITED TRAFFIC!!! I guess I'll scratch them off the list of potential hosts.
Android vs. iPhone
Exploratory programming, where you have an idea but are not sure how to get there, is an area where lisps arguably outshine everything else. Thanks to macros you can shape the way your code looks to fit the domain you are working in to pretty extensive degrees.

When you throw in the power something like Clojure gives you, with lisp style syntax and macros but access to all the libraries on the JVM (including Jetty/Hadoop/etc) you can accomplish a lot.
Criticizing the quality of open source code is a little weird, isn't it? Contribute a fix and make it better. This is a huge step.
I'm not sure what is more ridiculous: that they disabled the site without warning or that they were too lazy to look at their logs or do a simple Google search to find out that Hacker News is real site with lots of regular traffic.
The same here. That was AFTER the fix that pg announced of changing his static content over to a new hosting service.
head hunched over staring at your lap? :/ I can't see that being comfy for long.
Dell Lightning: the ultimate Windows Phone 7 device leaks out
"- There are plenty of good products available, some of them are free, ..."

Care to list some please? I don't use Windows, but I'm sick of my dad's PC being infected by the "Windows Security" scam application every 4 months. Not to mention the set of other viruses I find when trying to clean it up...
Yeah, I'm doing that today as well. I'm going to miss the photos, but FB trying to sell my info to everyone is getting old. I wish there was some sort of federated social network, where everyone could provide their own lists of friends and activity streams (i.e. http://activitystrea.ms), and clients I authorized through openid/oauth could read it. Use pubsub for updates, some sort of common JSON or XML representation for users and their graphs...
I'd love to come up for the week (from SF) because Jed still owes me a drink from SXSW!

(Best excuse to finally meet you and Jo that I've ever had!)
By the Numbers: Facebook’s Road to an IPO
I might be wrong, but doesn't Microsoft have a patent on the corner-screen touchpad keyboard?
Jeeze I'm out of the loop, had no idea there was talk of allowing functions to return unboxed primitives. Apparently I need to hang out in #clojure again or the like.
Air and light and time and space - A poem about creators
The other reason is so people can DM them. That's usually the reason why popular accounts follow people.
They could activate it with a "pinch apart" gesture going sideways on the keyboard. That way, you can do it with the thumbs you are about to type with.