skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't looked at the source for this website, but I would assume that one of the factors that gets used in display ordering is user average karma. A user with higher average karma is, by some mathematical analyses, more likely to produce an interesting post than one with lower.

You guys have nearly identical total karma, but the top user has an average post score of 6.48 - yours is only 2.53.

That's my guess, but like I said, I haven't checked out the source.
Comments are ordered in part based on the author's average comment score: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1398764
"true object oriented architecture"? I agree with that, but what are you comparing it to?
> That's silly, LLVM bitcode is as portable as you like

LLVM bitcode is actually not meant to be portable at all. It is very specific to the machine it is built for - endianness, structure alignment, and so forth.

> Hell, you can translate it to javascript if you're truly worried about absolute browser portability: http://code.google.com/p/emscripten/

Thanks for mentioning Emscripten, I wrote it :) It's interesting though, that a main challenge in Emscripten is exactly to deal with the non-portability issues in LLVM.

The reason LLVM is used in Emscripten (and, I suspect, in PNaCl) is not that it is portable - it isn't - but that nothing portable exists which is as good as LLVM in other respects (clean codebase, well-defined assembly language, good toolchain, etc.).
I got mine for free from a user of my software who wanted me to add support :)

In fact I finished that just this week, I'm considering using it full-time for some of my machines now.

The nice thing as far as I'm concerned is that unlike some other similar devices, all the specs for the OTP generation and all the software components are open-source.
I've said this before, but JSON is actually more like sexprs than XML is.
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Wooga Social Game Stats:

Monster World, with more than 1.1 million daily active users (DAU), is a Ruby on Rails application with a MySQL/Redis backend that’s hosted on Amazon EC2. Brain Buddies (200,000+ DAU) and Bubble Island (another 1 million DAU) are both run on PHP with MySQL at Slicehost. Its newest game, Happy Hospital (already over 200,000 DAU), is a RoR app with a Redis backend hosted on dedicated machines at Hetzner.
they go away.
z is great. I don't know how I lived without it.

It's become so ingrained in my fingers that whenever I switch to a new shell it's the first thing I port over:

https://github.com/sjl/z-zsh

https://github.com/sjl/z-fish
Towards Building a High-Quality Workforce with Mechanical Turk
Just one of the many reasons to use ZSH.

What shell doesn't have a directory stack?
Why do people use .ly anyway? It's not like there aren't other two-letter domains out there.
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Ah, that would do it. Many thanks.
.. in only 300 lines.
Thanks for the detailed response, Thomas. My perception is that the community here is very selective which rule violations result in downvoting -- there are some great examples throughout this thread.

In terms of on-topic, stories related to barriers that entrepreneurs face, and the difficult tradeoffs we have to make as part of working in this field certainly seem to be within scope of HN. Interesting new phenomena are explicitly within scope and there are some truly remarkable things happening at the social network level with the grassroots resistance to the TSA -- and with so many key players in the security and software engineering communities taking an active role.

> Next time you start feeling the outrage welling up in you about how people are bitching and sniping about stories that most people on HN seem to like, keep in mind: Paul Graham has been having to punch in manual filters to suppress some of the most "popular" stories on HN.

I'm not outraged ... depending on the day, it's a combination of bemused, disappointed, and entertained.

> It may interest you to know that fully half of the top 10 pages of your best-ranked comments here are political

Good to know! Sounds like there's even more support here than I realized for my political stories. Is the story about my significant other, AWK code, and Brian Kernighan still number one?

It's an interesting discussion ... thanks again!

jon
IxEdit – JavaScript-based Interaction Design Tool for the web
IxEdit is a JavaScript-based interaction design tool for the web. With IxEdit, designers can practice DOM-scripting without coding to change, add, move, or transform elements dynamically on your web pages.
Probably at first because it was a common English suffix and/or had a lot of short, readable domains available. Now it's trendy on top of that.
this book is about 30% material about Batman, 70% "this is how X body system works"
I love projects like this. They so elegantly show what using the right tool for the job can do for you, in terms of code simplicity and conciseness. Doing this in, say, Perl or Python or Ruby, would be entirely possible, and folks who code exclusively in those languages might assume it would be easier in a "more powerful" language...but Bash has so many nice little built-ins that make it really concise and portable. One file, no modules, and it does exactly what it's supposed to do.

I think it's illustrative that the developer went through a Python-based version on the path to building z.
well-summarized :-)
The schadenfreude is strong in this thread.
Is IT Investment Hurting US Job Growth?
Stalin download doesn't seem to have changed since 2006.

Is "Stalin can hold its own against a hand written C and often beat it" just your paraphrase of wikipedia's quote from a bare assertion in Jeffrey Siskind's Purdue research statement - or due you have some numbers to share?
Obama talks R&D with Silicon Valley elite
What's the bash equivalent to zsh's "setopt autopushd"?
Sans jRoguelikes mainstream success:

http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=W...
Dear friends on Hacker News,

DO NOT worry about the 1000 person limit. We'll release more codes if we need to. You are all welcome :). I'm a huge fan of HN. Just please enjoy the course - we spent a lot of time convincing the Founder Institute to release these videos and I hope you like them.

Best,
Gagan Biyani

Co-Founder of Udemy
gaganATudemyDOTcom
It's some dumb marketing gimmick. The idea basically seems to boil down to "only old foggies use the major gTLDs these days, lets be hip and make our company name an adjective that is also our URL".
Thanks. It's right there in the last paragraph. Maybe the other guys didn't make it that far. :-)
FWIW - Doesn't load for me on either of the platforms I have easy access to right now.
Face.com api ruby library
Pretty sure that hadn't been published when I wrote my piece. Maybe you guys should try this new idea called "benefit of the doubt." :-)
Am I the only one thinking where is Microsoft in this? Some of the companies represented are in the same way old school giants like Microsoft is.
I do not believe that would affect DNS since it is distributed. The root zone file has five servers listed as authoritative for .ly

LY. NS AUTH02.NS.UU.NET.
LY. NS PHLOEM.UOREGON.EDU.
LY. NS DNS.LTTNET.NET.
LY. NS DNS1.LTTNET.NET.
LY. NS NS-LY.RIPE.NET.

I'm sure at least the uu.net and uoregon.edu servers are located in the US. Besides, your ISP DNS caches will stay warm for several days.
Huh, hopeful.ly isn't registered yet...
Ask the person who down-voted me.
Startup Toolbox - Follow up to "HN: We’re creating a “Startup toolbox”.
> It was a caveat I was informed of when I performed the conversion on my domain

Can you explain that. I have no idea what it means.
It's really a shame that JS has stuck around so long. Google is right to be looking into allowing developers to create something usable in the browser without having to use JavaScript or Flash.

Even Brendan Eich openly talks about JS's flaws and admits that it lacks a lot of important things, mostly attributable because he had only a few weeks to compose something to stop Netscape from doing "something worse". See http://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/10/every-day-i-learn-something-... .

I greatly anticipate the day when I script a web page in Python instead of JavaScript.
15 Strat Tips For Crafting the Coolest and Most Impressive Twitter Bio
I first was excited by title "Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal", but then it just turned out to be a blog post about making cd'ing quicker. If you want to boost your productivity, my advice is to stop cd'ing altogether.

I see a lot of people -- particularly vi users -- cd'ing back and forth through a large directory tree. I usually tell them to get a terminal emulator that lets you easily manage many terminals open. Open one per directory you want to operate in, for instance. Learn how to switch back and forth between the different shells.

But most importantly, don't quit the program to switch back and forth between directories and files. Learn to use your editor of choice properly: how to view directory listings, how to switch back and forth, etc. Vim can do this just fine btw. The choice of tool here doesn't matter so much. Just pick one and learn it. This applies to your choice of terminal emulator, shell, editor, etc.
They are Wordpress... Correct?
The price point was right for me; I just ordered one.
They mention a coupon on their site for the "VIP" token:
http://www.yubico.com/january-2011-newsletter
It looks like the VIP version is exactly the same as the regular, but it comes with a Symantec identity that can be removed.

Now to get two-factor auth working on my boxes...
It seems there is a Python PAM module:
https://github.com/Kami/advanced-yubico-pam-module
Isn't an auth code regenerated every 30 seconds? Just enter the new code displayed on your phone? Two passwords is okay by me for an added layer of security.
Superbug contingency to protect 5th fleet
Bahrain, home to the US 5th fleet has a contingency plan to combat any uprising that may compromise the fleets security. Namely the release of a short cycle super bug which US service members are vaccinated against. It is not lethal but will leave those afflicted unable to protest with vigor.
Ummm... By this method, the Ipad doesn't get made. Fail.
WiMP - Worlds Mightiest Programer competition
Because, if I wanted to use twitter.com, I wouldn't be using an app.
Agreed, but XML does a far better job of re-implementing sexprs badly.
Probably nothing will happen. Nameservers for .ly are
dns.lttnet.NET, dns1.lttnet.NET, ns-ly.ripe.NET, auth02.ns.uu.NET, phloem.uoregon.edu. Of these only dns.lttnet.net and dns1.lttnet.net are hosted in Libya. If the dictator will have the local internet shutdown, he probably will not go to the lengths of also clearing all foreign DNS caches listed above.

Nonetheless I would be more careful in selecting a ccTLD to base my business on. Read, for example, about Gaddafi's dealings with Switzerland and you know which laws Libya follows at the moment.
Pro: People stop abusing and overusing ccTLDs. (maybe not?)

Con: Many major services go done, which causes a lot of unhappiness and headaches. (does it?)
I have just tried to open a word file and it was impossible since Google Docs support Word files only up to 1MB! This is a big limitation in case that somebody would like to co-edit scientific articles.
This is why you shouldn't rely so heavily on third-party services for your business. Twitter can either change policies to make it so you can no longer make money or just out-right compete with you and put you out of business.
Or at least please use TLDs that together with domain name actually try to resemble some English words, and are not just "take a noun, cut suffix, add .ly" mashups.
We were a Founder Institute company and I thought the Founder Institute sessions were extremely valuable. Those videos are very informative - the people teaching them have all had a major success in their startup careers. Aaron did Mint.com, Adeo has started 8 companies, Phil is CEO of Evernote.

Gagan
It depends on the situation and the amount of money and resources your competitor has.
What do you suggest? Getting a .com domain? Have you tried to do that recently? All dictionary words and most two-word combinations are taken by squatters. I searched for a domain name for a new web app the other day and wanted a .com name, it was almost impossible to find anything. I spent two days searching until I found something.

.net and .org are better, but users always expect (and type in) .com.
Once again, praise kids for effort, not for 'smarts'
People on the street are not interested in browser implementations and are therefore not the group which needs to be impressed in this case.
So this requires you to first send a password in plain text (ie. unencrypted and open to anyone who sniffs the connection) before you can log in? Why telnet? This really makes no sense whatsoever.

Why not just require an extra ssh password? At least that way it couldn't be sniffed. And even that is simply ridiculous, as you could just use one password that's twice as long.

What am I not getting here?
> irrelevant

No, it's not. There is a reason not to implement h.264 - it's patent encumbered and eventually there will be licensing costs that will make free implementations impossible.

There is a difference when company G takes a stand against a bad standard and company M that can't implement simple features correctly despite the fact that it can dedicate humongous resources to its development.
Dammit, schadenfreu.de is already registered....
Autojump - the cd command that learns
I manage with a combination of pushd/popd, cd - and terminal tabs most of the time.
Argh, conflicts with django-district. I guess it's nice that there are so many local groups but it's exhausting my free evenings.
This doesn't seem correct to me. This seems exactly opposite of "correct" and feels more like, "This is what I like so therefore it must be 'right'."

Walk into a bookstore or browse an online bookstore. Find the most popular/stocked books. What are they: big, small, in-between? This can't be hard to find out for yourself.

If you truly care about making something that "the people want", then do your research and find out what "the market" is buying; don't just depend on one guy's answer on HN to control how you write/steer your book.

And David - I mean no disrespect by this. I'm not trying to single you out; I feel the same way as you about books I want today. However I do disagree that "people" prefer small books.
Conversation: Mark Cuban's new start-up, 'Motion Loft'
Soon your browser will be synonymous with your computer. There is a bunch of projects that work towards that same goal
- Chrome OS + NaCl (another part of their framework is called pepper) - WebOS - Various JavaScript SDKs (specialized like Game Closure or heavyweight like Sproutcore or small like backbone)
I always found it inefficient to 'install' software in multiple locations. It gives you a lot of headaches wrt updates, piracy etc.. I'm excited to see where this goes!
Notably not participating in the development is Apple, but I have a feeling they may be working on something like this as well (remember how the iPhone initially launched with just a JS SDK)
direct link: http://www.slideshare.net/MyCatStoleMyPPT/pgp-based-social-n...
Is that posterous toolbar at the bottom opt-in? or they just made it default for everyone? Floats in the middle of the page on iPad.
I don't know what that is, but does it do more than alias cd='pushd'?
And it was more-so under Bush than under any previous president, and under Clinton, and (I don't remember Reagan very well, but I suspect) under Bush as well.
I'm not taking a position either way - just stating that your suggestion doesn't actually change anything in question.
You got some of it wrong, in fact: The gang that existed while Batman was retired was the Mutants, a completely horrible gang of sociopaths and sadists (Miller is not one for subtlety) lead by a monstrous beast of a man (again, Miller not subtle). Their actions force Batman out of retirement and, once Batman defeats the Mutant gang leader in front of his gang, certain elements of the gang restyle themselves as Sons of the Bat and go after other criminals. Again, though, they're still horrible violent sociopaths and sadists, and Batman has to spend some time cracking their heads together.

So you got a number of the main points right.
I use "m1=`pwd`" and then "cd $m1" for example. No setup required, although admittedly slightly more typing and the need to quote directories with spaces in them (rare for Unix sysadmin tasks for which I'm using a shell in the first place).
The subreddit problem is why I started reading HN instead of proggit.

Anyone is allowed to squat on a subreddit and censor it to their whims. What is the result of this? You get moderators (who's name I will not mention for obvious reasons) who flood the subreddit with Haskell blog posts and bypass the Reddit spam filter. I remember seeing 4-5 Haskell stories every single day on reddit with low votes for many months.

When you try to submit your own story, you will likely get caught in Reddit's "shadow ban" spam filter where it looks like it was submitted but it never shows up in the "new" section. When you contact one of these "moderators", half of them won't respond and someone will fix it 24 hours later where it will appear on page 5, dooming it to never appear on the front page. The other mods then complain you were wasting their time because they checked it after 24 hours.

I did a little experiment where I submitted a Haskell related story. It was "shadow banned" for a mere 10 minutes (probably after one of the mods fished it out of the spam filter). Then I tried submitting other programming related news from HN, most of which never appeared. That was when I stopped participating in Reddit.

You might also be interested to know that Reddit censored the Athiesm subreddit off the front of the page so they didn't exactly grow organically.

http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/9efxf/an_explanatio...
because how else would my entire url be just my first name (car.ly)? true, probably a mis-use... but really fun, in a super nerdy kind of way.
I have a friend who is a lawyer that works largely giving in the housing-benefit sector, and I can tell you she is anything but well-paid.

For people struggling to get by, getting legal aid to prevent them losing their house is priceless. They cannot afford to pay a lawyer, so that kind of donation to pay for one is incredibly important to them.
Raise taxes, quickens deflationary collapse

Cut spending, quickens deflationary collapse

Print money (QE), hyperinflationary collapse

"Now, America's just another broke ex-super power looking for a handout and wondering why." - Max, Dark Angel
Lobes vs Taps
Did you read the story that this whole discussion is about? Everything after "make your changes" was the procedure that was followed in the story. The final result was a C program that was substantially faster than anything which the Scheme compiler could ever produce.

No Scheme compiler would be likely to do those transformations for you.
I agree with the argument but am also beginning to be convinced by the opposing argument for many cases.. Consider 37signals' products, they don't have the product name in the verbatim .com form for any that I see - they've had to append words on the end. Apple doesn't own MacBook.com. Even companies who own their product names as domains (e.g. Fogbugz.com) aren't necessarily using them as a primary URL. It seems customers/users aren't /that/ fazed by it.
.ch? We could use a few flags of convenience on the virtual seas.
I for one welcome our new Motion Loft overlords!
I would suggest mapping an alias instead of creating a function so that you will still be able to take advantage of parameter completion:

> alias to='cd ~/Sites/'
Back in 2009 I described another version of this here: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/117/fast-access-t...
I wonder if the "technology to carry payloads through USB drives" was used in Stuxnet?
This discussion, and probably.
I've had 4000 sales now (crikey), and precisely one chargeback. You can make your own guesses about FC's volume over the interval at issue, but I find "no chargebacks in four years" entirely credible.
Well, during the IE6 stagnation W3C was working on the incompatible XHTML2. WHATWG was created the year Firefox was released.
totally. i thought it was a 60% obnoxious 40% funny thing to post. i took a risk!
Read the Orbit thesis.
Another built-in worth knowing about is CDPATH.[1] I find that setting a sane CDPATH and bash-completion makes cd-ing anywhere I go regularly pretty trivial - just a few letters and a few TABs and I'm good to go.

[1] http://caliban.org/bash/#bashtips
That whole thread is an information goldmine on sampling functions.
> .net and .org are better, but users always expect (and type in) .com.

Which makes country code TLDs an answer... how? They're not .com either.
This advice applies not only to kids, but to everyone around us.
Literally the day after Apple's announcement, Google announced a competing and cheaper offer. A more clear cut case of "let the market decide" is harder to find.
Do you think there are a lot of bricks-and-mortar entrepreneurs who bitch endlessly about the lack of alternative planets on which to snap up cheap real estate or unique business name trademarks?

If the name you want is already owned, make contact and negotiate a price. You know, like everybody else in meatspace does with land, trademarks, etc.
Behind Watson and the DeepQA Project [video]
I was doing some site security tests a while back, and I noticed that certain inputs got cut off or disappeared. It was a lightbulb moment when I realized that the browser was eating all the input before the angle bracket.
So be careful, since this can lead to an XSS injection if you're not escaping html entities.
Windows Phone 7 and the problem with the word "free"
Its a website, but does have potential as a mobile app at some point.
I think my favorite reddit is

http://www.reddit.com/r/iama

Lots of tabloidy Jerry Springer show sex stuff but also lots of fascinating people too.

I think http://www.reddit.com/r/circlejerk is also great. It's a reddit dedicated to making fun of the rest of reddit. What other site has a section devoted to making fun of itself?
Odd - I wonder why it thought I was into "Home improvement/Flooring".
Hey Guys,

This is my blog.

FWIW, I've actually switched away from using the script mentioned in the link posted by OP and have moved towards using an improved version below.

http://www.huyng.com/bashmarks-directory-bookmarks-for-the-s...

This new version has 3 commands:

- "s" for save current directory as a bookmark
- "g" for jump to bookmark's directory
- "l" for list all bookmarks.
Paypal works for most of the world.

No US Only Bulls*it.
Email me at brennen@qlobe.com and I can put together an invite for anyone who wants to come. I will shoot for this first Sunday in March, right before SXSW Interactive.

Edit: I may need to repost the question with my email included at the beginning.