skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About science fairs: I used to spend my summers working on my science fair project, then in the US (MA) win local and regional fairs to eventually get to the State Science Fair, where you could win $1k-3k in cash 'scholarships'. Better than a summer job, and looks good for college.
Click-to-play doesn't let you disable it temporarily, which is a problem for some sites that rely on background Flash files. On Chrome, I prefer https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gofhjkjmkpinhpoi...
Facebook nixes virtualization, eyes Intel microservers
Echelon is largely old news. The best modern, public look at the current series (yes, series, and disparate at that) of systems is James Bamford's latest book, "Shadow Factory". It is full of fairly technical details, names, and places.

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Factory-NSA-Eavesdropping-Ameri...
Yeah, I knew about August, but that sort of late stage investment is not what the thread was about.
Wrong in theory, inevitable (or at least pragmatic) in practice.
I use scribtex.com. It handles all the packages and compilation process. I can't say, really, about the debugging, and I haven't used different image types, but moving Tex on Latex online fixed a lot of problems for me.
It's on google street view -- have a look for yourself ;)

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
Passwords as usernames, human sacrifice, dogs living with cats. Mass hysteria!

Seriously though, I can't understand what their rationale for this would be. Not to mention, as other commenters have pointed out, how they will handle all the users whose former passwords were common phrases like password, secret, ilovebieber, etc. will now be duplicates.
A mobile version of the Drudge Report. Before the days of modern smartphone browsers it was an especially frustrating site to visit and I wrote a scraper that reformatted out all the long lists of unchanging links. Didn't think about it (or use it much really--it was more of an academic exercise) and then years later realized it had gained [significant] popularity.

The news out of Japan has increased traffic. 140k page views yesterday and 3.4m in the last rolling month period according to Google Analytics.
I'm not sure I understand your meaning. Using just click to play in about:flags, on a page with blocked plugins you can click the icon which appears next to the bookmark star and select "Run all plug-ins this time". Is that not sufficient?
Shown HN: An example of how to lie and get backlinks. 
I'm a member business in an organization called Local First Arizona (www.localfirstaz.com), an advocate group for supporting local businesses that apparently has devised a deceitful way to grow their SEO.

I just received their letter for an annual renewal. There is a section entitled "How to Improve your Own Ranking on Google and Others" with the following text:

"Did you know - By linking your web site to us, you improve Your Ranking? So when someone searches Google, we and you have a better chance to be listed at the TOP of the page and not the bottom [...]" It goes on to include information on how to setup a link with the proper anchor text or banner image.

Now I'm no SEO expert, but last time I checked Google doesn't give you jack for linking out to other pages. If anything your ranking is diluted. However, their several thousand, technology challenged, small business members will jump at the chance to get all that Google juice on the interwebs.

I really haven't decided if I think this clever or dishonest.
I will call your UPS logo and raise you a Xerox:

the timeless http://bit.ly/h7p2hX

vs. the new http://bit.ly/4YBIew

While we're at it, let's toss in MySpace:

the meh http://bit.ly/dWqJFi

vs. the WTF-worthy http://bit.ly/eRmxK1
Ha! Where's your bcrypt now, suckers?
Facebook looks to take on group-buying deals 
"Facebook is testing a Groupon-style local-deals service that the social giant hopes will let it secure a slice of a social-commerce market. The move effectively adds a local layer to Facebook's existing Deals service, allowing brands to target promotions to users in their area and use Facebook's social tools to generate buzz around their offers. BIA/Kelsey estimates the social commerce market will hit $3.93 billion by 2015."

looks like facebook is trying to envelop more and more services. the group-buying model is so easily duplicated that there is no advantage in simply entering it. Facebook needs to create an edge to differentiate itself from the hundreds of group-buying website. One way is to markets itself as an all-in-one social media platform (whereby friends could easily "suggest" deals for you and you could look at which friend has bought the deals)- making group buying even more of a social experience.
This argument has always baffled me.

First, don't attribute to malice what could better be explained by incompetence.

Second, isn't Ajax the most fundamental usability feature that allows web apps to compete with desktop apps?

And who created the XMLHttpRequest object?

Exactly.
Lessons from MetaFilter
Careful - have it vest over time! Don't sign over equity immediately to someone that could bail on you and keep the equity.
My hometown paper, growing up. Seriously, though...
With a fast parsing algorithm, you could parse as a programmer types, unlike the current syntax highlighting editors which use only rough pattern matching instead of having a real parse tree. Imagine seeing syntax errors the moment you type them.

That's what Xcode 4 does with the new Clang/LLVM machinery inside.
Real World Moderation: Lessons from 11 Years of Community
whats your site ?
which is what google is doing, especially with its launch of "real time" search which includes recent tweets. There are two paths google could take- to venture on trying to own all the social signals (which is what bing is trying to do!) or work on securing its image as the "objective" and professional platform. There are rumors that google will start its own "facebook"/ social network tool, and many users have voted against it, claiming that they want to keep gmail and other google usage professional rather than social.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2318849
To a certain extent, yes. After the "it turns out" post I think some people went around to other parts of my site and started submitting different posts to HN. There was one point where I had three posts simultaneously on the front page (it was a glorious moment).

That converted into about a doubling of my RSS subscriber base to just over 100.

But culling RSS subscribers seems to be mostly a game of posting and linking and getting buzz on close a daily basis, whereas I'll occasionally have one or two months of inactivity.

Otherwise, somewhere between 0.5 and 1% of visitors ever check out other posts.
Probably some variant of "Whoops. We named the username column 'password' and the password column 'username'. Guess we need to fix this!"
You can have a well-defined spec that's easy to understand without having to shoe-horn your API into HTTP's document-orientated semantics.
Former NSA, CIA Chief: Declassify Cyber Vulnerabilities
That's from Thoreau.
Some mobile web app "stores", like http://openappmkt.com/ , provide all the JS and HTML to force users to install the app to the homescreen first, in the interest of preserving their user experience.

Try installing an app that is based on OpenAppMkt like http://khanapp.com and notice that it asks you nicely to add it first to the home screen before running.

As an iOS web developer you can use the navigator.standalone JS var to detect if the app is running straight from the home screen, and ask the user nicely to install it if they haven't done so.

Why would you prefer users to do this? Because it removes the location bar chrome, which can result in a near-seamless fullscreen interface that more closely resembles a native app.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera sits on top of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_hotspot

Hotspots seem to be unaffected by plate movements - plate moves but hotspot remains in place. That's how Hawaiian island chain has formed, actually.
Discounting the absurdity angles of all of this, there is always one positive: We'll all have an opportunity to update our list of disallowed passwords.

The usual suspects will be there (within the parameters allowed by the application), but there will be new ones to add to the list.
dishonest and should be reported.
Fun read, interview with the guy who came up with that arrow: http://www.articlesandtexticles.co.uk/2006/09/02/the-fedex-l...

PS: The original article is apparently here: http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000273.php - I get some encoding errors, though.
They are based in the US, so I think that the amount of their users that use a French keyboard layout is quite small.
it's a new site to meet people with similar interests. http://www.GetToLike,me - it's not explicitly a dating site, but I figure the environment will be similar.
Yes! Yes! Yes!

"HTTP API that’s not as hard to use as SOAP"

My current employer calls our API ...

... RESTful like .
Wouldn't alternative implementations be at odds with your stated monetization plan? I mean, it'd make sense if you were running the platform, but isn't this just a bunch of JSON files in a shared Dropbox folder?
Note the post you're discussing explicitly says "SERP CTR":

"It's well known that traffic and SERP CTR has a significant impact on rankings."

We can see they're measuring it, it's obviously at least worth investigating as a signal, I'd be absolutely astounded if they aren't using it.

(I'm also a little surprised at Matt's continued insistence that the search team don't use CTR data from the Adwords and/or Analytics teams data. As a user-of-search, I'd like them to use _all_ available signals, and I suspect the Google Analytics data contains information which would noticeably improve the quality of search results).
Interesting question. I think there are some. Does N hz
"sound like" N*2 hz and N/2 hz across cultures? I expect the answer is yes, but I don't really know.

Have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A13_QGMtlRE. I think Bobby McFerrin would say that there indeed are music universals.
If this is a problem with the UIWebView in general, then the problem affects a lot more than just saved Web Apps. Many, many native apps use the UIWebView.
Perhaps I'm biased as I run several Ruby sites but http://www.rubyflow.com/ is probably the closest to what you want. It's a community driven Ruby and Rails link site. Anyone can post there but I "curate" it (delete spam, edit descriptions if they're weird).

I also run http://rubyweekly.com/ which is a weekly Ruby e-mail newsletter.

I'm also co-host of http://rubyshow.com/ which is a weekly Ruby news podcast (and covers much the same stuff as the newsletter). There's also http://ruby5.envylabs.com/ (which I'm not involved with) if you prefer shorter and sweet news coverage in podcast form.

http://planetrubyonrails.com/ is a cool "planet" site if you want a roundup of blog posts though it's not as up to date with sources as it used to be but is the best planet site nonetheless. http://rubycorner.com/ has more links but doesn't show the items inline.

Last but not least, http://reddit.com/r/ruby is a Ruby subreddit and has a reasonable selection of stuff. Including, often, stuff not on the other sites (but the same goes the other way too, of course).
Where's johnnycache when you need him? ;-)
WHOIS for Facebook
Social Graph in the simple tabular form
There are others who just act on the 1st email in a group of 3. Fire those people too!
> is Apple playing favorites? The Kindle app and the Netflix app are both very popular. Apple forcing them to use the new rules could lead to them to pull their apps from the iOS platform

This is what everyone should have expected to happen. No doubt Amazon and Netflix got on the phone with Apple and got a special deal sorted out. Apple definitely doesn't want to pick a fight with someone its own size.

The purpose of these new rules is to ensure that the majority of companies who on Apple's platform conform to certain guidelines. Letting through a few important exceptions won't harm the user experience nearly as much as not letting them through at all.
Interesting. It looks like it depends on Flash to take that screenshot.
http://www.jongales.com/drudge/
> First, regarding the "natural monopoly", I just can't understand why you'd say that

Why do you think AT&T has basically remerged back together (with the exception of the RBOCs that make up Verizon) after it was broken up?
Nuclear Power Plant Locations and Global Seismic Activity
I'm really ignorant about the pragmatic side of politics. Does it help some bill like this to have a couple thousand internet supporters writing positive comments and floating the news on social networks? Is there a danger that by putting a tiny spotlight on the bill, it could become a more partisan issue?
Guy hacks Times Square screens with iPhone transmitter?
http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

(PS: most of the comments on this item aren't very useful. Try to be useful when commenting, even in the face of stupidity such as this)
That sounds like it would be a fun system to inherit.
I'll probably call them out on my blog, maybe even send an email to their director first. It's a little more complicated because of politics and personal relationships, but it won't stop it.
This also works with "qwerty" (i thought something was wrong the first time, but couldn't find what, thanks !)
Why would their web servers be virtualized" With the exception of Netflix, The cases I see being made for virtualization is that you have many services that do not need a full server. Virtualization allows you to disassociate these services from hardware, decreasing total hardware outlay and allowing for failover in the event of hardware failure.

And in Netflix's case, they seem to be more interested in outsourcing hardware than virtualization.
Compares favorably to modafinil. Well, in my case modafinil tends to give headaches, so it loses by default, but comparing 50 mg to 10 minutes of meditation:

- meditation works faster - 10 minutes compared to about 1 hour for modafinil

- meditation tends to be shorter term (but it varies) - 2-4 hours vs ~6

- modafinil has several side effects (though your mileage may vary)

- meditation kills most of my social instincts. Unless I focus on interaction, I tend to be really quiet and slightly non-responsive. But if I do try to focus on being social, it's ok.
Milk: Machine Learning Toolkit for Python
"As a maintenance programmer, it seems like I'd have to learn a whole new language with each program I have to maintain."

I used to think the same thing. But I'm starting to realize that you have to make some assumption about what tools future readers of your code have at their disposal, and that these assumptions change the cost and overhead of abstractions.

Here's a degenerate example. We all know that where you draw your function boundaries hugely impacts readability. You don't want one single function for your entire program, and you don't want every function being one-liners either. There tends to be a sweet spot that takes into account how often a code fragment is needed before extracting it into its own function. But if you take into account that a java programmer reading it in his IDE can jump to the call with a keystroke, that tends to move the sweet spot downward. Now I need less reuse to justify method extraction.

A less degenerate example: ruby has monkey-patching, where you can change a function or class's behavior without touching the file where it's defined. This tends to be viewed as a bad thing because now it difficult to visualize a function's b does. But I'm starting to realize this depends on how hard it is to search for the function. It's painful when you have a load path and have to search multiple disjoint directory trees for a monkey-patch. But it would be fine if everything's in a single flat directory.

I've been working on an arc-like language, and I find I can be extremely promiscuous with my monkey-patching extensions because the language implementation is designed from the ground up to live in the same directory as your app, and finding monkey-patches takes just a simple grep. (Hopefully it's not just that it's just me hacking on it.)

Here's my implementation: http://github.com/akkartik/wart
Ask HN: Know html and php, which language to learn next and why?
Greetings all!

Thanks for all the tips and insights over the years.

I have been agonizing over a decision recently. My son knows html and php fairly well, and he asked me which language he should learn next.

His stated goals are to learn a language so that he can make mobile apps (games). Objective-C, Java, C++, or...?

So which would be best for an 11 year old? Which one is close to the logic structures of php? Which would be best for his long-term development given that his goals will change as he ages?

Much appreciated in advance!
it's more important than any of the people along the way

Uh, no. A widget isn't more important than a person. Maybe the quality of the widget and what it means to the Apple brand means more than someone's ego.

I tend towards this value system.

People who equate their ego, their saving face, with their value as a person? There's too much communications overhead involved with this.
Amazon announces a virtual private cloud
While I agree that the healthcare industry is ripe for innovation, I think it's a very hard industry to get into. My gf is an ICU nurse here and is constantly telling me how averse to technological change everyone in the hospital is. Nurses and doctors have even quit when the hospital has implemented new software in the past. In addition, a lot of people are jumping on the healthcare bandwagon right now. Lots of great ideas out there, but I'm skeptical that a new system will be taking off on a large scale anytime soon.

Just my two cents, but best of luck to all the startups trying to shake up that industry.
Thanks for the feedback. As to the registration: we don't like that and we want to fix this. What do you use as a browser and operating system?
How One Man Waged War Against Gravity
Dr. Scott Turner on March Madness: The Pain Machine
It really depends. When I criticize Windows, its innards, .Net or C#, I get consistent downvotes. Less consistent when I criticize Sharepoint (which makes sense - nobody likes that monstrosity). Internet Explorer, OTOH, gets little love from everyone and seems even less popular than Sharepoint.
ARM-based Servers?
Wow, very deceiving title. The combined number of deals by both New York and Boston was greater than of Silicon Valley. And that is just the number, not the actual amount of invested capital. This is just link bait.
Can Facebook credibly challenge Groupon and LivingSocial?
I really would love to have this work with my new RoR3 app!
ISP Proposes Piracy Mitigation, Detection and Punishment Framework
You're totally right. However, the greater danger right now is apathy, that people don't consider this a worthwhile use of their political time.

We also got a good amount of 'old media' press yesterday and today, which will be a post-SXSW roundup post when I get back home.

Also, putting the call out for more startup stories. SXSW has been great for building out a backlog, but there's always a need for more.
Sorry for that. It is a kind of platitude... and perhaps I should originally have stated that it wasn't my own invention.

That said, I do find it useful to use this presentational pattern in meetings and also in formal conversation. Using this approach in my email has also served me well and this is why I suggested it in response to you.
Sword of Damocles...
I think it comes down to: Amazon and Netflix have enough money to pursue legal action against Apple. You don't. Hence, the rules that apply to you are different from the rules that apply to Amazon.

Remember what happened to Microsoft for bundling IE with their OS in order to put Netscape out of business? Making competitors' ebooks cost 30% more than your own ebooks on your own dominant platform can look a lot like that to the right eyes.

(Who would have ever thought that Apple would be worried about anti-trust suits!)
The actual bill is very clearly intended to throw up a prohibitive roadblock in front of any municipal buildout. Cities are forbidden from entering into any sort of public-private partnership to build a network, etc. etc.

Judging the bill by its actual content, a more honest version of the bill would simply be a full ban on municipal networks.
i created http://nibzy.com for my own purposes because I prefer on tablet and mobile to go to mobile sites, I find it faster to switch and navigate through content. http://home.nibzy.com/plain link to fast loading plain text list of best mobile sites
I have a drudge report app installed that uses your url. I always wondered why it did not use the drudge url.
http://www.learnivore.com/ - great screencast agregation
תכנון סלונים - איך לתכנן סלונים
> First, regarding the "natural monopoly", I just can't understand why you'd say that.

If you don't understand economies of scale or network effects, why are you commenting on this post?
In another thread discussing this there was the suggestion that Nitro's JIT compiler may need special privileges to mark writable memory as executable as iOS doesn't allow that under normal circumstances.

Maybe that flag's been set for MobileSafari but not set for Springboard.
A plugin exploit is another vector through which one can attack the sandbox.
Google Moves Forward With NFC Mobile Payment Tests While Apple Backs Down
And they're point-free, to boot! :)
Video wrap-up of SXSW 2011 highlights
What's the app? This could all start to make a lot more sense... It uses my URL because the main URL has three columns and a lot of static links. Looks terrible. With mine you can just swipe down through all the new stuff.
My guess it's mostly due to regulations and labor / material costs in Finland. Moving a reactor really isn't easy, the things are made of tons of concrete, and need a pretty huge foundation.

That said, there probably is a market for portable reactors. However, I'm not sure how happy countries would be with importing a reactor made and filled in China :).
On a more theoretical point: The source points out that parsing of CFGs is still not solved. But CFGs are themselves pretty narrow types of grammars; fully general parsing is even further away, since we are probably going to need a near-human specialized AI for that.
wonderful. thank you!
Check out PracticeFusion.com. It's free for an unlimited number of doctors and is a web application, so you can use your existing laptop/desktop.
I'm unfortunate enough that I don't work for a company where everyone else is smarter than me. (How cool would that be?!)

My solution to this is to be extremely specific in what I communicate (while avoiding condescension) and and to make my communications as easy to filter for other people as I possibly can.
A new version was just released: http://freshmeat.net/projects/milk/releases/329513

(I'm the author of this package).
Much appreciated. I'm working my way through Michael Hartl's railstutorial.org video series while also reading Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby.
It would be amusing if someone was somehow selling your website as a simple web view app on the App Store.
> There's one thing to be offering these services but another thing to ban competition in the same areas.

You are aware that this article is about a bill, written by Time-Warner, to ban municipalities from competing with them, right?
Ah, so it's not protection services, then?
Just Start it ...In the end- Hard Work..Pays Off
No, but it does help Dave McClure's funded startup Votizen get users.
Android controlled robot (via Bluetooth)