skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does that mean Arc3.2 might show up soon?

Also, thanks for putting years on the dates of newsnews.html . You might've done it before, but I just saw it now.
OP here: has anyone used this? Any projects you especially enjoyed? I'm about half-way through Lutz's Learning Python, and starting to get antsy. I liked the simple video game.
I cannot help but think of the recent story about Knuth and his secretary, reading (and replying to) mail by proxy as well..
Going back to a “non-smart” phone – why I want to, but can’t quite do it
The thing with something like a free dinner is that most people's reaction is "I'm unlikely to win" (they're correct), so they're usually not that bothered.

Look for something that all users can get, such as thetrumanshow's suggestion of a "trendsetter badge", or something that a lot of people can get, such as "one out of every ten people to sign up will get a voucher to..."
Man, this would still be cool even if it wasn't rendering the 3D/webgl, the composition is very good
When you add site 5 in the mix that has:

* Content ABC

* Content DEF

It makes it much harder to identify.

If you are a blackhat SEO, then you keep track of the last time google indexes you (including the anonymous crawlers, which is tricky), and backdate scraped content to just ahead of the time you were last indexed. Then you can send a complaint through googles tools about the site that wrote the original content.

Blackhats make content duplication a really challenging problem, and having a complaint form isn't going to solve much. The blackhats can take advantage of that as well.
they've already announced HTML5 support with chrome and native client.
Oh yeah, forgot about that. Here's the ticket:

http://mongrel2.org/tktview/8506d37df4c3bdcebc43233003ad119e...
In the past, Al Qaeda operatives have expressed a belief that PGP is tainted/backdoored/etc by the US government, so they generally shun it.

It's probably better for attempting to elude the NSA, as well. Get lost in the mix, as opposed to having big large red flags in your messages.
My biggest complaint about CoffeeScript is lines like these:

$('.shopping_cart').bind 'click', (event) =>
@customer.purchase @cart

Perhaps it's just me but it feels like there's no rhyme or pattern to the use of punctuation and spaces. This is how my brain parses it:

variable(string).variable string, (variable) =>
@variable.variable @variable

Specifically it doesn't feel obvious that 'click' is a parameter of bind, and event is a parameter of a new anonymous function, and @cart is being called with @customer.purchase. If I stare at it enough, I can figure it out, but it's not obvious.

Compared to normal JavaScript...

var self = this;
$('.shopping_card').bind('click', function(event) {
return self.customer.purchase(self.cart);
});

If you're using a framework, you can even get rid of the 'self' bit with a wrapper that binds the 'this' context.

In JavaScript, where there are parenthesis, you know that something is being called. In the CoffeScript example, there are 4 calls:

$('.shopping_card')
bind 'click'
, (event) /* (Update: This is part of a function definition, my bad.) */
@customer.purchase @cart

Two are called with parenthesis, two are called with spaced positional arguments. Why?

If I understand correctly, parenthesis for calls are generally optional, but I would argue this is a bad thing. The inconsistent use prevents me from being able to skim code and get a feel for what it's doing. Also not to mention the optional commas in lists:

contenders = [
"Michael Phelps"
"Liu Xiang"
"Yao Ming"
]

I see more good reasons to keep the commas (improves flow, explicit) than to get rid of them (I suppose readers could still figure it out if they tried and it's one less character).

I am a fan of the space-based blocks and single-line lambdas like square = (x) -> x * x

Instead of Python meets Haskell, it feels closer to a mix between Ruby's ambiguous syntax and YAML's indent/line-based parsing. If anyone else ran into these "issues" and but grew to appreciate them, I'd be interested in hearing about it.
Four Modes of Seeking Information (2006)
The code is as beautiful as the interface.
How much a college degree is actually worth, in dollars
direct link to market https://market.android.com/details?id=com.netflix.mediaclien...
Is that on airBnB yet? :)
He provides useful code and explanation of how the website was made: http://www.ro.me/tech
SMTP over sneakernet
An interview about interviews. Awesome!
If by "bubble" they mean companies that aren't profitable are being valued at enormous amounts, and continue to garner investment even without any clear revenue or exit strategy, then yes we are in a bubble.

The problem is the web industry considers investment to be revenue... in which case you're never in a bubble because profit doesn't really matter. Success in the web industry is simply getting someone to throw money at you.
This is really amazing, just spent a few mins trying to pick out objects.

The Andromeda galaxy, the pleiades and the Orion nebula stand out in the photo in a very similar way to the real night sky.
If Android tablets are to succeed with consumers, it's apps like Netflix which will prove instrumental in the uptake. One of the few reasons I went for iPad 2 vs. an Android tablet is Netflix support. Even HP TouchPad promises Netflix streaming when it'll launch and Windows Phone + iPhone already support Netflix streaming.
These are just potentially poor decisions made by people with lots of money. Tech startups are inherently risky -- many more succeed than fail -- even if they are well funded. It is a fundamentally different equation than starting a bagel shop or a car wash.
the recently launched http://codeyouridea.com looks like an interesting take on the problem. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2540909
I really hope it runs in all Chrome browsers.

However, at the very least, Linux users should now be able to run ChromeOS in a VM instead of Windows for Netflix.
FYI: Those"Not for resale" messages have zero legal implications do to first sale doctrine.
Um, I didn't say the problem was imagined. I said the problem on a macro scale is just the extension of behaviours on a micro scale.

In other words: the best way to change the world is to change the person looking back at you in the mirror. The extension of your hatred, your desire for revenge, your jealousy, your moral outrage is all these things you are complaining about.
> That helps, but I guess it begs the question of why you would want "10 processes asynchronously responding to one browser"? And what does that really mean?

Two use cases: A background task that involves a few systems, but you don't want to block the main app stack. Simplest case is say image crunching on an upload. More complex case is what you'd do with something like Gearman.

Second: You can carve up your pages into each piece and plug the pieces together. This would require a bit of coordination, but you could have a backend for headers, one for content, side bars, footer, etc. and they all respond when they get results directly to mongrel2's socket with a chunked-encoding.

> It would be really awesome if Mongrel2 could support something like Socket.IO.

It already supports Flash sockets and long polling, so Socket.IO should just work. Haven't tried it though. Check out the docs and look at the chat example in examples/chat/ for a quick (slightly old) demo that's just using jssocket.
This is amazing thanks! How similar is this to the Django admin panel?
Django-rel cannot work because the Google datastore is very different from a relational-database, having low-level features that can't be exposed in a database abstraction layer in a general / elegant way.

Basically, if you're not using the GAE API for dealing with the datastore, you're asking for trouble.
While certainly a potential fix, Google seems very averse to non-algorithmic solutions (see their issues with customer support).
Why not GPG? It's open source, unless there's some crazy obfuscation in the source code it would be pretty hard to hide a backdoor in plain sight.
Desperate Americans Buy Kidneys From Peru Poor
Eats your back button in Safari 5.
Bezos On An Amazon Tablet: “Stay Tuned”
You are correct, though the scenario could still be true in that the PR firm could feign naivete in knowing that the reporter would do this, if so - then brilliant play...
When you're buried in the details of a problem, reframe
Very interesting insight - could you have gotten around the chicken-and-egg problem pre-twitter? What would your approach have been?
Well...I'm another real case.

My father's friend had a wholesaler's license (or whatever it is you need). I got her to buy me snacks/candy/soda from some big wholesaler. I sold it at the local pool/lake out of a cooler for much lower prices than the snack bar.

I had a number of similar "businesses" like this over the years, culminating in a much more successful web design business when I was 14-15.
This doesn't surprise me, having 100+ USB's lying around with content does.
Can you imagine 20 billion over ten years given to DARPA to come up with alternative energy sources? And mind you that in many cases energy companies don't share the profits from drilling done on public land.
Lot of money at stake, don't be a naive idiot.
But maybe you don't want more of "every so often" type clients — you should market for the clients you want to get. Do another site for $2k jobs and define what those are (and they won't be "code an idea" -- more like "make me a thingie")...
Bad News: Sitting Is Killing You
You crushed it with your video. The voice over is killer. Hilarious. One of the best videos on a startup I've seen so far. You made me signed up because of humor and the product.
It's so frustrating and terrible to see the situation in NK trivialized by comparing the US's prison systems unfavorably to it. No initiative, no activism, no outcry can be raised because its wind is immediately sucked out by foolish people screaming moral equivalence. How do you think refugees from these gulags would feel to hear you compare the average US prison inmate's experience to their own? Do you acknowledge that some concentration camps can be objectively and morally worse than others?

Are there bad prisons in the US? No doubt. Is the average US inmate experience anything like what is the RULE in these gulags? No. Does the scale between the two matter? Yes. Do the crimes (sometimes "crimes") and due process issues matter? Yes. Can we go on and on with specific, provable differences which make the NK citizen's experience far more horrifying? Yes.

Problems with the prison system in the US belong in their OWN THREAD, where they don't distract from THIS PROBLEM. The fact that some folks feel the overwhelming urge to bring them up here speaks a lot about what they think is important: Scoring points against the US. The US prison system is not relevant to the NK prison system. This isn't a game. NK doesn't get to pick out worst case practices from the US to justify its sweeping unchecked abuses. And it certainly doesn't deserve the aid of willing amateur PR people on random internet message boards.

NK is the same country that quietly let millions of its people starve while it spent a large fraction of its total wealth trying to build the tallest hotel in the world! That's the philosophy and those are the priorities of the organization behind these gulags. But you're telling me the REAL story here is the US prison system?

But this is why NK gets to go merrily about its way starving and torturing its citizens.
Oops, fixed, thanks.
It's remarkably easy to hide backdoors in plain sight.

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
Overstock.com Offers $1 Million For Improved Recommendations
Most examples of corporate wrong-doing probably can't be correlated with traits of their CEO (they're just mistakes made by inept, or possibly malicious, individuals or groups).

Nobody expects the CEO to be an angel. What's important is how the CEO reacts when someone under him screws up at the expense of customers, stockholders, or both.

Case in point, the Sony rootkit fiasco. Products go out the door with Sony's name on them, equipped with a 'feature' that would get any of us little people hauled before a judge on criminal charges. Response from the executive suite? Promote the manager responsible to President of the Global Digital Business division. Fast forward a few years, and consumers are still wandering around with confused, vaguely hurt looks on their faces, wondering why they never seem to get a square deal from Sony.

Same situation with Facebook: can a leopard change his spots?
I believe Panda also looks at originality, content freshness, document authority, trust factors, usability factors, site authority etc.

I'd agree that the denying of Adsense was (obviously?) wrong, if this is all there is to the picture. As for looking at ipad information on the internet, after a manual inspection of that site, I, as a user that cares for quality and relevance, don't need any of the results on justanotheripadblog.com in my top 100.

The order of relevance, discovery and editorial quality seems to flow from:

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-20023976-233.html

>

http://ipadinsight.com/ipad-tips-tricks/how-to-make-airprint...

>

http://www.info4arab.com/how-to-make-airprint-work-with-just...

With a lot of intermediate steps.

iPadInsight.com is not a cheap scraper site, but is it a site that does original research, beyond rehashing what is hot in the industry? I think Panda might have judged correctly in not assigning higher rankings to this site.

The site seems to have had a canonical problem with the comments in 2010, inflating the site size in index to * 10. The depth of these comments is usually not much more than: "Great! Interesting Article! Love this! Thank you!" and might just as well have been auto-generated.

Also the shareasale footerlink "Thesis Theme for WordPress" alone, might disqualify you for running Adsense, as you dofollow an affiliate link (and this is not allowed in the webmaster quality guidelines).

The trademark inside domain name might be another issue.
I started an outsourcing company in Indonesia... not sure if it was any more or less fraught with problems honestly. Certainly are quite a few people doing outsourcing there though, no idea what the threshold for booming is.
They might be able to claim it but at least it'll Also give the content creator a tool to deny that claim.
Not very directly alas. Maybe indirectly in the sense that it's a sign that I'm not so busy with YC that I have time to actually write code. But unfortunately those windows seem to be getting shorter.
The article above is about his problems getting an AdWords campaign approved, not about his ranking in search results.
Nice landing page. Really nice.

Your hit counter should distinguish for unique hits though - the sample tacker below doesn't.
Two Types of Design Thinking You Need
>>>Mirasol is not ready for prime time.

Who says? And why do you think the tablet will arrive tomorrow? Fall.
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2011/05/10/theres-good-new...
OS poll
How to Write Bad History
You think Facebook would ever tell an intern about secret negative PR campaigns?
Sorry, I don't get it. Can you explain the joke (even if it kills it)?
Rafee Kamouna already proved that ZFC is the same as Falso:
http://kamouna.wordpress.com/
I don't understand your reasoning to justify that "half of all possible statements are true". It seems to me that of the undecidable statements, some (such as those of Gödel's construction) are true or false, but that some simply have no truth value. Did I get something wrong?

[Indeed, this is all assuming that ZFC is consistent. Thanks mjw.]
I assume you meant many more fail than succeed?
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Those problems are one and the same. He can't get an adwords campaign approved for the same reason his search results rank poorly, he's being scraped.
It is okay (and good!) to criticize power but there has to be a good reason other than resentment, otherwise you just fall into the trap of sounding like a bitter guy who lost at life and has nothing better to do than to externalize his failure at the current status quo.

I grew up in a former communist country. There, if you were a critical thinker with a strong personality striving for your own economic well-being, you would generally end up labeled as the enemy of the state. The modern capitalist economy tends to reward such people, yet some still feel resentment (hint: in any system, egalitarian or not, there will be those who feel resentment).
This is way better than ActiveScaffold ever was! awesome.
The scraper is the one where the content appeared last.
I can't take too much credit for the landing page. I'm not a designer, so I got it off of ThemeForest.

Hits vs. Uniques would be nice. I'll have to think about how to do that.
Google Not Following Own Best Practices for Own Web Site
How do they plan to do content protection in the <video> tag?
A simple SOCKS proxy would have saved him a lot of trouble.
As someone who uses this on a few of his own projects, let me just say that ActiveAdmin is a game changer.
Coffeescript does inherit its parentheses-are-optional attitude from Ruby, and as a Ruby programmer, it makes perfect sense to me. That said, just because they're optional doesn't mean it's required to be omitted; I'll often use parentheses when I feel that adding them improves code clarity.

Having been writing Ruby for a few years, I really dig that parentheses aren't required - you can write code that reads a lot more like English and a lot less like...well, code. It does take some mental re-training though. Once you've grown accustomed to it, it scans really nicely, and while it's very possible to write code that's difficult to visually parse, good programmers will use parentheses when they improve clarity, and omit them when they don't.

It helps a LOT to remember that in Coffeescript, you're more or less never naming functions - you're just passing around a bunch of lambdas. The function syntax tripped me up at first, as well, but once I got a handle on what it was doing, it makes a lot of sense.

I've described Coffeescript as "Javascript in drag as Ruby with a Python under her skirt", and I think it's a fairly apt description. :P
I am also a software developer and an avid board gamer with a special interest in strategy games. From what I've seen, there is no connection between being a developer and enjoying strategy games. Like you, most of the people we game with are in completely unrelated fields, and amongst developers I know, the number who are really into board games is probably 1 in 50. Whatever the actual number is, I'd bet that a poll of the general public would result in the same numbers.

The key to good gaming is finding the right game, the right group, and the right location. Everyone will play for their own reasons and are unlikely to be the same as others.

Besides the casual game of Chess at lunch though, I wouldn't call it a break -- it's just something we love to do! Possibly another way to look at it is that the skills in logic and planning gained in a software development career translate easily to boardgames where there's a lot of if/then/else situations as well as cases where making decisions where more than one are good come in handy.
Most shops call their VWAP-benched algo "VWAP".

http://www.thetradenews.com/algorithmic-trading

VWAP algos try to beat VWAP over the order's timeframe, which is almost never the entire day.
> The headline implies that he's penalized in search due to scrapers, which isn't happening.

In this case the phrase "Google penalizes" = "Google denies access to adwords". The word penalize doesn't always refer to site penalties in the Google search index.
Personally, I'm always hesitant to promote a product I've never used, especially if I know my promotion is helping me win something.
I vote for more, smaller, promos rather than large one. Something like a free sticker that anyone can get seems more accessible.
Assuming it's consistent, that is!

Perhaps they shouldn't be so ready to belittle their competitors -- you never know, ZFC might yet turn out to share all the advantages of Falso :)
This is the cover of this week's Economist, despite the fact they really only have two other articles in it...one talking about the Skype purchase and another talking about the increased investment of web technology companies in both the US, Europe and China.
That's also how I understand it.

Anyway, you people should upvote a3_nm, he is the one who did the job (for Falso and the Security Password Checker), I only encourage him and host the pages :-).
Erm, I think you're confusing the GEMA with the GEZ, which would be the equivalent of the British TV licenses, i.e. your fee for state-run broadcasts. Not aware of any equivalents in the US, things like C-Span, PBS and NPR are more independent if I'm not mistaken.

The GEMA is something entirely different, about as capitalistic as you can get get. And so to no surprise there are equivalents in the US, e.g. BMI and the Harry Fox Agency.
Firefox and Chrome are going to be on more equal footing in Ubuntu now, so webkit is more likely to be needed. Also, how large is webkit compared to Gnome? Maybe they want to get the login on-screen faster?
A good headline would have been "Google rejects an original content site from Adwords due to scrapers." He may have a quite legitimate complaint, but it doesn't seem to involve search.
Not just the design, but the copy too. Concise and to the point. Effective.
The reason it's on top of HN is almost certainly because that's the conclusion everyone jumped to. That seems to be how the word "penalize" is consistently used with respect to Google.
Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur
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Ask HN: Anyone using Python 3 in production? (2011 Edition)
This question was asked nearly a year ago here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1464199

Is anyone now using Python 3 in production? Would you use it if you were starting over?

This was discussed briefly at Google I/O this week:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKQS8EDG1P4&feature=player_detailpage#t=2554s

key slide:

Python 3: next generation
Do this if completely new
Python 2: current version
Most books/tutorials still here
Do this if have existing software
Bottom line: either is fine
Chromeless 0.3: Community Apps and Native Code
I love Scala. So much so that I've wrung my brain trying to find places where it'd really make sense in my toolkit. I keep coming up empty though. I work primarily in Rails on the front end and if I need some "boom-boom" on the backend, generally that's going to involve services written in node.js, Java (rarely), or C. There are excellent Java libraries that I can exploit for heavy lifting by using JRuby. I've never had issues "scaling" business logic from either a human or a technical perspective in Ruby.

Is there a "killer app" for the Scala/Akka stack that I'm missing?
Instead of reading or replying to things as soon as they come in, I just silence everything on my phone except phone calls. That way, I check emails, texts, tweets, etc. at my convenience. It interrupts me only when necessary.
This has been demonstrated in the past to nurture dependance and a sense of entitlement towards the free food.
Comcast reaches out to assist Pirate Bay
Is there a "killer app" for the Scala/Akka stack that I'm missing?

Many people don't like to maintain polyglots. Scala is expressive enough to write your frontend code in, but fast enough to also handle your backend code.
A typical US retired couple will be millionaires just from government benefits
just put it on my Droid X

http://www.droid-life.com/2011/05/12/download-netflix-for-th...

NOTE i am running leaked rooted gingerbread
How not to get accepted to YC or Techstars