skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary. As suggested by another commenter, it could be used to improve their algorithm. Greater number of exclusions would reduce their relevance.
Pagerank is based on number/quality of links.

Nobody links to an SO question, except perhaps mentioning it in a blog post. Scrapping sites create lots of links to the question, even if they are low quality ones
This is a great list. I was just thinking about what might be out there the other day. I'm very interested in Ruby --> JS. However haven't tried them. I followed Charles Nutter's work on JRuby for a while and it seems to me that it's extremely involved to actually compile a fully functioning ruby into another language and/or bytecode.
I am the OP and I posted for you (and others like you) to post thoughtful, agreeable, and compelling arguments.

(In fact I agree with you; I am Sowellian[1] economically.)

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[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell
I find the assumption that being on the correct site precludes me from clicking through to ads or vice versa faulty.
The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (WWIC: Why Wasn't I Consulted?)
Aperture was US$ 199 before.
I know about that trend. It obviously happens because people think college degrees are valuable, so if they're jobless but can get a degree, why not? I did that myself in 2000 when I graduated with my Comp Sci bachelors degree, looked around, decided the bubble was going to pop anytime now, and said, well, might as well go for the masters. (It did in my first semester.)

If word continues to get around that college degrees aren't generically valuable, and adding my personal assumption that many people either can not just become engineers, and/or will realize in advance they can't just become engineers, that trend will stop and reverse. I probably overestimate the abruptness, but it will happen. Increasing enrollment in college during downtimes isn't an immutable fact of the universe, it emerged from social conditions and beliefs, conditions and beliefs that are changing.

That's not so much proof that I'm wrong as the reason why I'm predicting this in the next year or two.
Chrome's inset box-shadow bug: Fixed
I'm getting a certificate error from your link:

secure.grepular.com uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown.

(Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)

Edit: On both FF 3.6.6 and IE8 on Win7
It's not. The traditional method(s) will still work.

For me the main selling point of the centralized app store is that you get all updates in a single place instead of having each app spawn it's own update mechanism.
It might have that potential but I think illustrators and architects will be the last people to adopt it. If you've ever used the last version you would see it was slow, imprecise, buggy, and gave you the feel that you were only vaguely connected to the display. There will always be artists on the leading edge of technology doing cool things, but for people who have jobs to get done, this is one to wait on.

There is a restaurant here in Tokyo where each table is a surface. It took us forever to order because we couldn't manipulate the menus. Our server had to leave the table while taking orders to reboot it. It interpreted input as chorded input because something or someone else was on the table turning pan operations into zoom operations. Quite funny, not practical.

There are already tablet/monitor hybrids (and I mean digitizer tablets with pressure sensitive pens) that don't suffer from the imprecision and accidental input of this and I think they are somewhat popular with artists. A Microsoft Surface, even an order of magnitude better than the last version isn't going to cut it.
Certainly, but by how much? It's not nature vs. nurture -- it's nature and nurture. They both matter, but a priori, it's not clear how much. Further, their relative weights of importance could very well change based on what is being evaluated (e.g., sexual orientation vs. career choice).
Also, the comparison with Detroit is self-defeating. It's precisely due to Detroit's strong unions that the local auto industry nearly collapsed. In fact, since the bailouts, they are public employees, and should be subjected to the same modicum of scrutiny. Nobody would really care if the auto industry had high wages and was self-supporting.
Political correctness hits new high: Huck Finn to be bowdlerized in new edition
Distribute Mac apps on the Mac App Store

$99/year

Hm ..
To be fair, it's a pretty complex program that does very sophisticated things behind the scenes. I used to hate it, and I still mostly do. But I notice that the only people that really hate it are powerusers. There are hundreds of millions of people out there that find it delightful and enabling. It probably says something good about your UX if you're only bothering powerusers.
The only thing on this list that I didn't already know was that you could bind "ajaxStart" and "ajaxStop". This will prove very useful in the future.
I guess it's meant to look like the AppStore icon in iOS. Which in turn looks like the Applications folder icon on the Mac
Link to the book:
http://www.amazon.com/jQuery-Pocket-Reference-David-Flanagan...
Why hasn't anyone else thought of this before!?!

EDIT: Sarcasm.... ;)
Time & Materials vs Fixed Price
An extremely easy way for a bunch of people to get together and destroy someone's ranking? That doesn't sound like such a good idea.
Yup, that is exactly that sort of "machine knowledge" that is beneficial.

I suspect where their algorithm isn't somewhat sure of the answer it essentially does A:B testing with users -- a while back I asked it who the governor of Illinois was and it replied Blagojevich (long after he was ousted). I pointed it out to a friend and they tried and got Quinn. In both cases it gives you the option of flagging whether it is wrong, though it seems suspect to let people who are asking the question in the first place declare its rightness, beyond egregiously wrong answers.
Buy, download, and even redownload.
its amazing how apple expected customers to pay for the same digital product over and over.
I note that doesn't read 'good JS' or 'fast JS'. You can put me in a tutu but I won't be a prima ballerina.
I use DuckDuckGo as my main search engine, since I figured out the bang syntax. If I don't like the results, I just resend the same query with !g prefixed (!google works, too, and so does !bing).
I can't figure out how people can make $30k per year and still manage to not afford food. I've personally made less than that several times during my bootstrapping years, and still managed to get by just fine.

Step one: Don't live in an apartment you can't afford.

Step two: Don't buy stuff you can't afford.

That's it. Cant swing $1000/month for rent. No worries. Rent a room from somebody who can. Can't afford to pay the lease on your car? Try getting a car you can afford next time.

I spend a lot of time traveling through parts of the world where people are genuinely poor. So when I come back here and see people complaining that they can't pay for food, I just don't buy it. What you mean to say is that you can't pay for your 40" flat screen and food. The solution to that is actually pretty straightforward.
Really that's a pittance. And it'll keep people from blatantly spamming the App reviewers with garbage.
Weird for somebody to complain about visual accessibility and have a site design that's so poorly readable. I mean, OK, I only got 2.5 hours of sleep last night and so I'm more sensitive than normal, but my eyes are still jangling from reading that.
A Gruesome Twosome for $16
6 quick notes about the Mac App Store
I'm not sure how this would be implemented. Where would the blacklist be held and how would it influence the search results? I know that they already do a lot of search customization but most of it is just aggregate statistical computations. It's not that they return results specifically tailored to you but more like results tailored to a very fuzzy average version of you. A blacklist seems way too specific to each user to be susceptible to meaningful aggregate statistical operations like spam filtering which is one of the reasons that spam filtering in google is so good. Each user contributes something and everyone benefits. I don't see that happening with blacklists. I think to make it worthwhile they would need to figure out how to feed the information from blacklists into providing more meaningful results for everyone.
You don't see a lot of that on the Mac, mostly because of the culture. A lot of the big players in the Mac development world have been developing software since the 90s or earlier, so have a tangible sense of quality about their work. Newer developers are usually attracted to developing Mac software for that reason, and they don't want to disrupt it.
Good point, but moderation takes time, as he pointed out at the beginning of the article. People don't become indie game developers so they can spend time moderating forums.

Moderation can be an art, but it's also a chore. I.e. you can't moderate 10 times as hard / smart and be done with it. There will always be more.

As a thinker / creator one has to be very careful about allowing recurring non-automatable, never-finished tasks into one's head.
Very cool. Reminds me of the "Circle of Friends" animations that the cell phone companies used to use.
The problem with only screening for dumb bots is that it won't screen for the 25-cent-an-hour Ukrainian or African hired to submit spam with a human-driven browser.
Aperture (and probably the other pro tools) has yet another style (greyscale), actually, but that only reinforces your point. The various different teams within Apple seem to be pushing their UIs in wildly different directions recently. iTunes was one of the first with weird UI (the back button in the iTMS is horribly broken); iPhoto '11 behaves quite differently to iPhoto '09, and unlike any Apple app before it. Now the App Store.
Block-by-Block Internet access map of New York
"Political correctness hits new high". Surely you meant new low?
If you get an error 100 (http://yfrog.com/h4b9kkp) attempting to download any apps, clear /Library/Caches and ~/Library/Caches. Something to do with the Terms and Conditions acceptance not firing.
That's the point, what I want is exactly a user-specific blacklist.

I can even do that already with Google's Custom Search, all that's missing is a little 'block this site' button. Instead I have to go and configure Custom Search manually for each URL mask.
Show HN: Want to learn C? Join this class on my website as we work through K&R
Between GAE and django nonrel, djangy, and this, there is now lots of action for django in the cloud!
I'll add to this. When A and B are correlated, there are only three possibilities regarding causality (which may work in combination):

1. A causes B

2. B causes A

3. C causes both A and B

If we apply this where A is majoring in computer science and B is high earnings, which answers are true? #2 isn't, obviously. #1 is plausible, since perhaps employers are impressed by a computer science degree. But I think #3 is the most significant, where C is a strong desire to be a software professional. Very few people complete a degree in computer science unless they really want to work with software.

We all know English majors, psych majors, and history majors who became high-earning software engineers. Those are the people who had C (the desire to work with software) but not A (computer science degree). C is the thing that caused them to have B.
99% of Mac apps use the same window elements and style too...
Fantom (http://fantom.org/) also compiles to javascript. However this platform is supported via direct AST transformation not runtime bytecode generation as for JVM or CLR.
Yep. The certificate is signed by cacert.org and their root doesn't exist isn't in your os/browser combination. I don't really want to turn this into a thread about my SSL setup so I will just say that if you want an explanation, you should read:

https://secure.grepular.com/Why_Does_this_Website_Generate_S...

Yes, I realise the irony about the explanation being behind the same certificate.
Dev vs Dev JavaScript is a Toy
Conversely, it'd also be an impossible problem for a lot of users, as for users that don't have that much activity a good global model is crucial to the proper functioning of the system, and you can't have that with completely local processing.
the problem I have with this is that some black hat people can do this to any site they feel they are competing with. what would prevent someone from blacklisting a legitimate blog or website just because they did not like the content?
The first example for the 2nd point is wrong:

The following two lines have the same effect, for example:

$('pre').attr("css", {backgroundColor:"gray"})
$('pre').css({backgroundColor:"gray"})

Not correct. The first line will create an attribute called 'css' while the second line will change the 'style' attribute. The author probably meant something like:

$('pre').attr("style", {backgroundColor:"gray"})
$('pre').css({backgroundColor:"gray"})

...but even these two lines are not exactly the same. The first one will reset the style attribute to the given value while the second line will just change the backgroundColor value in the style attribute.
I could be totally wrong but I think the issue was that Microsoft was willing to host it (the private cloud) on-premise whereas Google wanted it in their data centers.
That is a problem with all captchas
Google may already collect enough data to do this. They track clicks on the search results, so they can see whether you liked the results, whether you went back to a different result after visiting your first, and whether you modify your search terms for another search because the first one did not work out.
I don't see much change in terms of appearance over the next five years. It's unlikely there'll be a need.

Where I think HN will need to change significantly is in the way submissions are handled. Currently you need a score of about 4 - 7 in the first hour to make the front page, as the number of users increase, the score threshold increases with it. HN is at the higher end in terms of front page quality, but there's already a lot of good stuff that gets missed. Ultimately that will be compounded as things go on unless something is done to cope with it.
I would guess that the audience is familiar with 'Get Instant Access' as something that normally precedes a porn site asking for payment and therefore has some negative associations.
Neither does Opera on OS X.

It does. Try it. Click and hold.
Lets compare Safari to App Store in terms of distance...

Not sure what are you comparing there. I was talking about navigation on the web page, which can be anywhere and its distance from browser's back and forward buttons. I wouldn't be surprised if iTunes store and now Mac App Store views are indeed rendered by WebKit.
An excellent point. Blacklisting works both ways, and there's nothing stopping spammers from creating hundreds, maybe thousands, or even more, of throwaway Google accounts just to blacklist the original site. Sure, the logged in Google users wouldn't see the spam site (if they blacklisted it), but it would still appear, and outrank the original site, in standard search results for those that aren't logged in.
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As in Bodega, the pre-existing mac app store, or Sparkle, the mac app updating framework?
Best and worst bottled water brands
Anti-Personalization
What do you think most StackOverflow answers are? It's a karma-paid labor pool ... said the comment on Hacker News, earning the poster 3 points so far.
Skype To Acquire Qik For ~$100 Million
Ask HN: What are the best ways to attract users to a site/app?
For example, I made fluin.com but I'm having a hard time spreading the word. Any ideas?
Merit-based pay will never work as long as the unions and clueless administrators are in control.

In early 2002, I was working with a local high school's theatre group. Since I wasn't a parent, the rules said I had to get "hired" as a teachers' aide even though I was doing it for free.

I did the fingerprinting for the background check, provided a college transcript, and filled out the form. A month later I was rejected.

When I looked into it, I was told that I couldn't be a teachers' aide since I didn't take a college-level algebra class. In fact, I was asked "how did you get through college without taking any math?"

I pointed out that I had taken Calc 1-3, Diff Eq 1 & 2, Stats, Physics, and oh yeah had a BS in Electrical Engineering. But since I didn't have a college-level class with "algebra" in the name, I was rejected.

I didn't expect the administrators to know how to do Calc, but I did expect them to realize it was an advanced math class.
#3 is exactly what Montessori schools [1] attempt to address. It's mainly about learning through self-directed study and nurturing "the zone".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_method
I'm no big Kaminsky fan, but Paketto Keiretsu is freaking awesome. A collection of simple tools, but all great ideas.
I thought that the experts that answered the questions got paid? Guess I was wrong...
Pretty similar experience to the itunes store but I have to say it's interesting to see more professional applications on here.

Nice little detail it knows whether you installed an application even if you didn't do it through the app store.

One interesting little thing though.

It seems like the different applications icons still need to catch up to the quality of the ios app icons.
All code is a trivial recombination of working parts. It's all CPU opcodes in the end. Haskell's guarantees may extend a bit further but if your program isn't trivial it still needs testing, if only to verify that the program does what you think it does. I'm fiddling around with porting my HTML normalizer into Haskell, and even if the type system reliably lets me say "Hey, this has no type errors" and gives me some reasonably assurance based on the way it is written that it has no infinite loops (not a proof, but there's not very many places they could hide), I still need tests just to make sure it does what I think it does. A lot of them, actually.
Rule of thumb: if it has hard Math in it (engineering, physics...) or labs/facilities you cannot afford (chemistry...) or it requires a degree to work (medicine...) or you want to be a professor go to college, otherwise (literature, languages, philosophy, history...) you can do it on your own, it will be mostly on books.

Computer science is an edge case since it has some math/logic in it, that's why every two months there's a heated thread in HN/reddit/etc that started by someone asking or answering "do I need to go to college to be a software developer?" or similar.
There are a lot of apps that I'm surprised to not see in the store on launch day. Versions, Kaleidoscope, Skitch. I'd like to see a way for open source apps to show up here too, because I think managing my applications from the Mac App store will be nice.
Efreedom has been the bane of my recent programming related searches, polluting my results to no end.
Anyone else feel like https://chrome.google.com/webstore makes this seem old-fashioned? Seriously who's going to be running software on their local machine a year from now (apart from hackers obviously).
The dot-ME top level domain replaced the dot-YU (Yugoslavia) domain previously used by Serbia and Montenegro.
Certainly not before we know on what to act. What I gathered from reading his comment was that we have significant deficiencies in even how to classify good teaching, let alone measure it, let alone promote it. Skipping straight to the promotion part, which is what you seem to be insisting, would merely involve guessing and inconsistency at best. At worst, we would promote the wrong qualities and make teachers worse.

I'm not suggesting that we simply talk and talk and never take action, but it's hard to make the case that we know how to improve teaching given the state of education in this country. It makes good sense to fix our ignorance before acting.
It's still obviously far slower than an actual fullsize keyboard , but for a smaller form size hardware keyboard (such a phone), I've actually found Swype to be faster. It completely blows the on screen keyboard out of the water, but I was never that fast at that. I was a major fan of hardware keyboards before swype (in fact, it's why I got a Droid instead of another Android phone), but I'm beginning to find myself becoming faster on Swype than an actual phone keyboard, and that's even with a 2+ year headstart of using hardware keyboards.

However, this all depends on the size of the tablet. If it was laptop sized (with Fn keys to allow for slightly smaller size even), I'd probably take the keyboard over Swype, but it would really depend on where I was typing. Swype is designed to be used one handed, and would be perfect for when you can't just set your tablet down. If the keyboard would be netbook sized, I might actually take Swype over it most all of the time.
I think you are missing the point. This story gives those whose prayers aren't answered yet hope that it is possible.
I think your tagline "effortless production Django hosting" is too noisy. "Effortless" is too long, "production" is kind of obvious and "hosting" is so web1.0 =)

Why not just "Django in the cloud" or "Django + Cloud = Gondor".

Best of luck to you.
I have a two year old so have been doing the vaccination dance recently. We take her to a pediatric nurse practitioner at a rather alternative practice (they even have a shaman) and she advises getting the MMR vaccine. If the vaccine is standard there, then that is a strong indicator supporting your statement that the tides have turned.
Please look at the 265 reviews for this dentist coming from Demandforce. What is Demandforce and why is it being treated equal to Yelp by Google? Is Demandforce an advocate of and paid for by the dentist? Yelp has only 2 reviews.

http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hl=en&expIds=25657,270...
DJB's sha1 code won the Engineyard sha1 contest back in 2009. His code was 14 times faster than OpenSSL's sha1. They were testing 3,079,431,974 hashes/second.

http://cr.yp.to/nearsha.html

http://www.win.tue.nl/cccc/sha-1-challenge.html
Apart from hackers, designers, music makers, photographers, …, …, etc.
Maybe you should change it to Fatcomma? That's what it's called in Perl, where the syntax is still used.
Guess the UI is in transition to a more standardized one in Lion.
It doesn't automatically update apps, but it works like the iPhone App Store. There's a place in the app you can go to where you can see all apps that have updates available and then you can install all of them or selectively choose updates to install.
Define good in this context. I'm inclined to say that if it doesn't have cross-browser bugs and it's fast, then it's good. The output being readable to human programmers probably shouldn't be a goal when JS is being used as a compiler target.
For code versioning, e.g., in shared development, this creates unnecessarily large diff's. For instances, patches become more difficult to read, because they include lines that haven't actually changed content-wise, just layout-wise.

Well, no.

Here's an example. File a:

{
foo => 'bar',
hello_world => 'OH HAI',
}

File a with a long key added, let's call it b:

{
foo => 'bar',
hello_world => 'OH HAI',
longlonglonglong => 1,
}

Then we do a diff:

$ diff -uw a b
--- a	2011-01-06 08:51:55.725595229 -0600
+++ b	2011-01-06 08:51:52.285595452 -0600
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
{
foo => 'bar',
hello_world => 'OH HAI',
+ longlonglonglong => 1,
}

So see, that's not a problem.