skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1-1+1 = 1. Population growth?
I gave up on Hurd back in the late 1980s. I'm not kidding. Before it was even called Hurd. I had heard for several years that GNU was going to make their own kernel. Eventually I gave up and stopped hoping for a release.
The actual generator of the spoof covers: http://www.oreillymaker.com/

And some hand-picked ones: http://oreillymaker.blogspot.com/
The mom actually responded to this completely wrong as it's now become an internet meme. She should have flooded the web with other pictures of him to drown out the embarrassing ones.
At VoltDB, we're working on improving our SQL support. Initially, we focused on core SQL useful for OLTP. We've added functionality with every release and we plan to continue in 2011.

For example, the March release of VoltDB will support more than 6 table joins and has some improvements to aggregation and distinct code. It also has a much more usable explain plan feature.

We feel that VoltDB offers one of the richer query interfaces of systems that scale to its level, but we don't plan to sit still.
There is little space for a lot of choice in the tools market

Apparently not, as anyone in the enterprise software world can tell you. There's plenty of room for lots of shitty choices, almost all of which generate millions of dollars of "value".

I do agree with your final conclusion though, that it takes a higher level of competence and business acumen to start, say, an ISP than another run of the mill social network.
You can't imagine how right you are. Tribes like this do not exist officially. Loggers would not hesitate to wipe them off - problems solved, no questions asked.

What is more troublesome, is that nobody knows how often this has happened in the past.
Wow, this is excellent. Great work. Does this expose access to Gmail Tasks too?
I think your point about having financial reserves is relevant, and I also think that having the motivation to have a reserve requires financial sense that, unfortunately, is not wide spread.
I am an attorney that does volunteer work by handling bankruptcies "pro bono" through a local non-profit. Every bankruptcy case has it's one unique set of circumstances but there is a consistent pattern. First, the debtors don't have a good understanding of money or personal finance. Usually that's a product of not having parental examples of good money handling. Second (and perhaps because of the lack of understanding) they don't pay attention to finances if there is a resource to pay for things (cash or credit). Third, there is a watershed event like a loss of a job or a major health crisis. Fourth and finally, they wait too long before getting help. If I were king for a day, I'd make sure that financial education was mandatory in high school and was spread out throughout the high school years rather than being taught in a single quarter or semester.
Nope, but that'd be pretty cool. It's pretty basic right now, and exposes some basic user events and data. What I'm hoping is for others to use and extend it.
robots.txt applies to the source of the links, not the target.

So if, say, http://www.paulgraham.com/ links to http://m.bing.com/search, then http://m.bing.com/robots.txt does not apply to that.

EDIT: If you think this is wrong, please explain it instead of just downvoting me, because I think it is pretty unfair that I lose karma for explaining my interpretation.
Anybody on HN actually doing a product that needs sat solvers? They're currently in vogue in software security; they solve search and reachability problems on modeled instruction streams.
I apologize for being off topic, but the last national convention I went to (many years ago), the cops rounded up the protestors, blocked off cross streets and then forced them into a line of cops with billy clubs who beat the hell out of them. Fortunately, I was elsewhere so I didn't get my "fair share of abuse" as the stones(?) put it. But a lot of friends did, and I decided that if this is what "democracy" was like in the USA, I was not interested in it. (Attempting to educate people about the political reality of their government is more effective than massing large number of people in one location to protest... just my choice.)

Is this what kettling is? The article was vague.
I would never trust you to make decisions for my children. That is essentially what you are proposing, since you do not say "CPS should decide whether parents may keep their children" but rather say that CPS should follow your policy.

I consider people like you a menace to a free and healthy society.
This is almost entirely off-topic, but wow, I'm stunned by the massive amounts of (what looks to be) misogyny going on there. Now, I may be skewed by the fact that if my girlfriend had done that, I would have married her on the spot (don't worry ladies, I'm joking), but virtually every comment, and the article itself, call her a crazy bitch and the like. What if the guy in question had broken up with her after, say, getting her pregnant? Surely that'd be a deserved punishment.

Furthermore, there are how many porn websites regarding, basically evangelising "revenge" on ex-girlfriends?

Anyway, that's enough of a "Someone is WRONG on the internet" speech on an unrelated article. Kudos to the girl for doing that, I guess. I certainly wouldn't have thought of it.
I certainly admire the perseverance.
[off-topic as well]

There is that `saved stories' link in your profiles, that lists all the stories you upvoted. It links to http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=YOUR_NICKNAME, for example: http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=Bootvis is the link for you.

I believe the actual intent of ``upvote == bookmark'' was to encourage users to upvote mostly stuff they actually believe worthy returning to, or saving for friends. Somebody out there correct me on that belief, please?
I've seen similar reports about caffeine - which makes our observation about parties interesting.

A business I'm director of hosts parties, we used to have coke as a drink option at parties. The kids who had coke went crazy hyper compared to those who didn't. Same observation across multiple ages at multiple parties. We stopped serving coke (water, lemonade or fanta orange instead) and behaviour improved markedly.

If I'm feeling low in energy and want a pick up I'll reach for something sugary. It seems to work. Could be a placebo.

I'm going to guess that this hinges around what one terms hyperactive. Also if sweetener has the similar effect then any effect of sugar will be masked in these studies. Perhaps it's sweet things that make you hyper?
Alternatives include: JML, C4J, Contract4J, JASS, and Modern Jass. The most popular and well-known solution is probably JML.

I'd like to mention though that Cofoja itself is not so "new", in a sense; it is a rewrite of Modern Jass, which itself was a rewrite of JASS. Though the code may be mostly new, we've borrowed many concepts, ideas, and implementation techniques from our predecessors, and hopefully learnt a bit from their experience.

One could then ask "why pick Modern Jass as a basis while there are other more <whatever> framework available?" but that's another question.

Links:
C4J. http://c4j.sourceforge.net/
Contrac4J. http://www.contract4j.org/
Java with Assertions (JASS). http://csd.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~jass/
Java Modeling Language (JML). http://www.jmlspecs.org/
Modern Jass. http://modernjass.sourceforge.net/

And if you're interested in the fine details of the internal differences between Cofoja and other frameworks, you may want to read my technical report: http://cofoja.googlecode.com/files/cofoja-20110112.pdf
> failing to prove a link between autism and vaccines is not proof of the contrary.

What about the fact that rates of autism have not increased since the introduction of MMR - is that proof of the contrary? In Britain, the rates are 1:100 in adults which is the same as in children young enough to receive the MMR (since the 1990s).

It doesn't strictly prove the contrary, but it also doesn't prove that the World Wide Web does not cause autism.

I would also suggest that strong opinions expressed by Gates are often HN worthy.
I always felt that GNU continued Hurd development out of spite that no one would call Linux GNU/Linux.
I agree with the author here. I think that Google will come away from this looking combative and childish.
Bill Gates: We can lower the population through vaccines and medicine. Minute 4:42 http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html

Not really the go to guy for vaccine info.
The problem with background content loading is that you never know if it's content the user is ever going to look at. It would be pretty easy to install a few apps to try out that you never wind up looking at again, and then your device spends a lot of time and battery loading the content overnight, and you wonder why your battery is dying even though you're not using it much.
Why would someone with no authority over your site linking to your site override your robots.txt?

Edit: I didn't downvote you, but I think you're wrong because it makes no sense - if I link to your site that shouldn't give search engines a free pass to ignore your wishes and do whatever they want with your content.
I would avoid the dummies books. They are so unhelpful. They tell you the basics of basics and that is it. You are left hang to dry. Waste of time. I only say this with programming and hi-tech. The dummies book on Type II diabetes is superb.
I am an MBA(General) student at St. Bonaventure University. I like the motto of Khan Academy very much and would love to be a part of the organization. I am constrained area wise but if there is anything(Marketing, Human Resources) in "work-from-home" mode, I am all yours!
Bit different.
Not so fast:

1) Proving yourself in a technical field gives me a better feeling about your perspicacity of another technical field (counter-example: Richard Feynman) than someone who hasn't. Mr. Gates has this background, Ms. McCarthy doesn't. Not a guarantee, but a first-order filter.

2) Your statement when you could just do your own review of the data negates your premise, unless you think parent is an MD.

3) Do you have any idea what Mr. Gates has been doing with his time and money since leaving Microsoft?
Everything you learn about programming will help you if you decide to find a technical cofounder.

"Facebook for an untapped market" already exists, its called facebook. But really, you understand how facebook works and so making this site is a reasonable thing to play around with-- well, making the very basics of a site like this would be a good start.

Programming languages are like speaking languages. You don't have specific languages for specific types of books, right? So you can write websites in any language, or shrinkwrapped software in any language. That said some are easier than others.

Python would be a good choice because it is easier than java and popular for web development.

Others recommended PHP which I understand is very easy, but not good for getting good programming practices under your belt.

I think you should build a static website (which is just HTML and maybe some CSS) and put it on your domain. This would be a good first step.

Then look at making a little more interactivity.

You might check out google app engine. Free hosting and they have lots of tutorials and they have a simple web framework written in python you can use. (I learned what I know of python by working thru the app engine tutorials. prior to that I hadn't used python.)
Hackers penetrated Nasdaq's network
This looks like microsoft is assuming robots.txt is case insensitive?
Dear Microsoft, case-sensitivity is important. [1]

m.bing.com/robots.txt says "/search", not "/Search". All of the crawled [2] urls are "/Search" or "/~/search".

Also,

wap.bing.com/robots.txt explicitly "Allow:"s several search pages, which are indexed by google.

[1] EDIT: Case insensitivity is often important. Above comment notes that some robots are case-insensitive. I suspect Google is not, based on the results.

[2] EDIT: I said indexed, a reply corrects to crawled. Good point, thanks.
While it may be argued that `the obscure stuff' is harder to find or may be more valuable/important, I'd disagree with you.

First, the bulk of the search seems to be for the usual stuff. Thus the bulk of revenue from ads for the provider and _perhaps_ the bulk of added value for the users stems from searching for the usual stuff.

Second, as the obscure stuff oft uses uncommon terminology and names, it's technically easier to search for it and display relevant results. The trick is to give useful results for the most common things. Consider how hard it may be to automate (!) picking sensible results for words like `the' or `free'. Or for dates that are represented in one zillions of formats. Of course various approaches (like lists of & criteria for stopwords) have been implemented.
I understand a robots.txt "Disallow: /foo" to mean that it must not crawl that page, i.e. look at the links _inside_ that page.
It is fairly well known that the flu vaccine uses eggs in its production, and that people allergic to eggs shouldn't get a flu vaccine. Is it really so far fetched to think that something similar might happen with the vaccines given to children?
Motorola teases Xoom Super Bowl ad, paints Apple users as drones
You might want to read the actual findings:

http://www.gmc-uk.org/Wakefield_SPM_and_SANCTION.pdf_3259526...

Amongst other things: found guilty of serious professional misconduct; diverted £25,000 of lab budget without telling his superiors where it was going; did invasive procedures on children when (a) his contract at the hospital explicitly said he could not treat patients, and (b) he was not trained for pediatrics.

It doesn't however mention the "fraud" word (it calls him "dishonest" and "irresponsible" instead), but this is hardly the behaviour of a reputable scientist.
Aren't /search and /Search considered two different directories when it comes to robots.txt?
simple example? wordpress plugins.
VoltDB relies on syncronous replication to protect data from hardware and network failures.

It also supports continuous and transactionally-isolated snapshotting to disk.
ACLU develop for privacy mobile challenge
In Praise Of Piracy
I've always interpreted it to mean they're explicitly not allowed to touch it - no exceptions (unless you actually specified exceptions for them which you can see on the 3rd last example at http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html).
I personally don't use any of the traditional RSS readers that allow you to browse feeds one by one and look at their headlines. I personally want to see everything in a single overview, on a large canvas.

Therefore, I use the iGoogle homepage. It allows you to add a bunch of feeds and show each feed's latest 3 to 10 headlines, all together on a single page, separated in 3 by N blocks.

I'm using the A1 iGoogle theme for its simplicity, and the User CSS Safari extension to remove any further distraction.
OK, so you dislike right wing, and apparently despise left-wing. So what are you, apolitical? I have news for you : people calling themselves apolitical usually are right wing, preferably of the wingnut/fascistic category :)

Sorry to bother you. What kills me is that it's almost impossible to have a good coherent political discussion on usenet, forums, whatever. It devolves incredibly fast in flamebait, and that's a pity. That would be a great startup idea : invent a forum system that allows proper, reasonable and contradictory political discussions but somehow avoids the Godwin malediction. Am I asking too much?
A lot of guides online make the 'mistake'(a minor one) of still using DSA instead of RSA. The patent has expired. I assume a lot of those guides are out of date.

So, thanks for using RSA in the article!

EDIT: I just did some digging. Apparently DSA cannot be used to encrypt. One more reason to keep using RSA, I suppose.
Ok, since you feel I should forget about learning to code, do you recommend any books?
With respect to the author, the conclusion here is very flawed.

If you search for Bing in Google, you get Bing all over page 1. If you search for Google in Bing, you get Google all over page 1. That's not the result of Google capturing click stream data from Google Chrome and copying Bing's results, nor is it the result of Microsoft capturing click stream data from IE8 and copying Google's results. That's just the nature of indexing.

As for robots.txt disallowing those URLs, there is no standard for robots.txt behavior. I have observed some user agents treat it as case insensitive, and others treat it as case sensitive.

Honestly, this isn't even in the same ballpark as the Google accusations made earlier this week, and it smacks of just looking for things to accuse Google of in response to the "Binggate" (ugh, I typed it) drama. Can't we go back to more productive things?
Got employed writing software full time. Tried to make my job a little bit easier every day.
Rate my app (iconswitch.me) - iOS icon creator
http://iconswitch.me/

I got tired of manually exporting, resizing, and re-naming icons from Fireworks and Photoshop, so we built a PHP script to automatically convert a 512x512 image into the necessary bundle used for iOS apps, including iPad, retina, and spotlight.

Still unsure how I'll use it to promote anything, but for now it's something I made because I needed it.

Thoughts welcome.
Good article overall, but there is one major problem with the section on public-key auth; it's rarely a good idea to use blank pass phrases on your private keys, for two good reasons:

1. The security implications. Without a passphrase, anyone who manages to snare a copy of your private key can use it to access any servers where you've authorized it with no further credentials needed. Not good. Using a passphrase turns SSH auth into a poor man's two factor system: what you have (the key file), and what you know (the passphrase).

2. It breaks agent-forwarding, which is the system that gives you the ability to SSH onwards from the remote machine to other machines without (again) being asked for your password. This has practical implications when using SSH to drive things like application deployment over git, when you have to ssh onward from the server to your git repository.
Doing things this way sidesteps the awkward use of deploy keys, and is actually easier to set up and use as well as being more secure. With agent forwarding, there's no need to keep your private key anywhere except your 'home' machine, and yet you get the same benefits your would if you had it everywhere.

The annoyance of having to type in your passphrase every time is greatly lessened by the use of a key agent on your 'home' machine. OS X has provided a key agent since 10.5 I believe, and stores the passphrase in your Keychain (you know you're doing things right if an OS X dialog box prompts you for your passphrase when running SSH in the terminal). Gnome has one built in as well, and ssh-agent is always around for people who want to roll their own.

If there's interest, I'll write up a blog post about how to get this stuff set up. It's not really easily discoverable stuff, but it _is_ really simple and useful once you get it up and running.
Can complexity theory explain Egypt's crisis?
So far, most of the signups identify themselves as entrepreneurs. That means business products may fare well.

As things go, we'll come up with clever ways of segmenting and targeting the list, to maximize impact for entrepreneurs and relevance for subscribers.
A lot of things take more time than 27 years, but it is quite impressive to work for something for so long when they are getting nowhere.

It is also pretty stupid.
Ironically, GitHub warns against using unprotected private keys in their setup guide:

http://help.github.com/working-with-key-passphrases/
(thinking out loud: wouldn't be cool if someone at Google contacts me? I'd love to work for them :)
When processing messages, why would the software put trust in information from data soure(s) that were credible up till now? It seems easy to be fooled by a well-informed source that keeps posting accurate information from beginning right until the `trap' (police kettle) springs -- and kelping the kettle by posting a false piece of information at the right time.

Kettle planers would have both means and incentives in doing just that.
My Todo.txt workflow video
Your mention of Gnome's built in key-ring is rather interesting. I just setup keys on my desktop for my work servers and was met with a foreign prompt for this key. I was startled and unclear about what to do, until I did some digging around. I'm sure an article would be appreciated!
I switched from PCs to Macs in the early 1990s because I got tired of dealing with drivers, etc. Since then, on BBSes and not online, in the "technology" media and in advertising, I've seen no end of derogatory characterizations of apple users.

I am sure they don't think we're going to switch by insulting us. (A lesson Apple probably learned right after the original 1984 commercial.)

So, why is this still so popular? I think it is a form of ideological immunization. IF you characterize your opponents derogatorily (extreme example: comparing jews to rats by the nazis) you rally your troops with feelings of superiority.

Once Apple users are seen as inferior, all their arguments immediately become null and void. Political parties do this too- conservatives are characterized by liberals as rejecting science, liberals are characterized by conservatives as being irresponsible or pot smokers.

I don't think this is good for society. I much prefer (no surprise given I'm an apple fan) the "I'm a Mac" ads that apple did. Though I think PC users missed out that the PC was the most sympathetic of the characters, because they expected it to be derogatory to PC users and so that's how they saw it. (illustrated by Microsofts "I'm a PC" campaign which was a response to the ads they thought Apple was making, not the ads apple was actually making.)

So, when Motorola says Apple is Big Brother who are they kidding? Nobody. They're just spreading rationalizations.
Cheers for pointing that out.

I haven't taken the time to figure out key agent -- for shame! -- although I would be interested in a write-up.
I already recommend a slew of programming books. Forget reading. Don't be like me. I read and read and read. I do actually do but I read too much. Just do it.

What is the problem you are solving?

Why is they a problem?

How much does this problem cost?

Who is looking for a solution to this problem? Is it a problem they already know is a problem for them. Do they recognize they need to do something about it? What happens if they do nothing about it? Why bother changing from status quo?

Where are they? How will you find them? How will you get their attention.

Now do it. Call them, meet with them, ask them is this a really a problem.

Show them the sketch, will this solution help them with their problem.

How is this problem affecting their life.

What will their life be without the problem.

Now ask them how much would they pay $5, $15, $30 (give only 3 choices).

I am sorry I do not know shortcuts. I only know grunt work.
Small correction: All crawled urls are "/Search" or "/~/search". Note that www.bing.com/search/ is indexed (link was found on another page), but not crawled (result has no snippet).
Most residential chimneys nowadays are too small for people to climb into. Sweeping is done with a brush on a pole :)

Also, the glass pane would not have to be anchored deeply in the masonry, just set in slightly, enough to support its own weight. Thus any breakage would likely remove it entirely.
Or sites?
>never mind that Bing only used its toolbar as a url discovery device, not to 'copy search results'

Yeah, they just happened to discover high quality urls on google. What are the chances?