skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The <link rel="prerender"/> will be on Google's search result pages instructing Chrome to prerender the most relevant search result. The control is in Google's hands, not the site owner, by default.
Really, New York Post... Really? This seems like an incredibly slippery slope. What happens when the Detroit Free Press signs an exclusivity deal with Samsung in an effort to try and reclaim some of their lost revenue from floundering subscriptions and a bad, ad-based business model? You can only read the mobile Free Press on your Galaxy Tab or Galaxy phone.

Makes me think of the Berners-Lee filter bubble talk I just read about: http://www.thefilterbubble.com/web-inventor-tim-berners-lee-....

Obviously, Murdoch is just throwing sh*t at the wall but what happens if they have a metric that says it works?
The difference is philosophy. The RoR guys think of things like built-in admin interfaces as appropriate for plugins because not every app needs such a thing.

As a guy who happens to have a security background, I'd discourage admin interfaces built into the same app as the user app, especially when it's named /admin. Keep your admin functions in a separate and locked-down app if at all possible.
People who like quality often don't mind paying for quality. That's how to match up the audience with those types of producers.

For example, a high end fashion blog would do well advertising high end fashion products. A mass market fashion blog would probably not do as well advertising high end fashion products.
We've already passed the technological singularity, we just don't realize it because we assume machine intelligence is going to act like human intelligence.

Look around, computers have been more intelligent than humans in many different domains for decades. Computers can solve complex equations billions of times faster than humans, they can play chess better than people that have dedicated their entire lives to mastering the game, they can sift through the information of billions of websites in hundredths of a second, they can answer obscure and complex questions better than the best Jeopardy players, they can accurately model extremely complex systems like the world's weather, and the list goes on and on and on.

But guess what, your calculator isn't plotting to kill you because unlike humans it hasn't been programmed to do that. There may come a time when someone is evil or careless enough to program these traits into a machine capable of acting on them, but this is a game humans (and life in general) have been playing for a very long time, and we're very good at it. Good luck programming a billion years of evolution based learning into your calculator.
Not that bittorrent needs justification - it is a legal technology that has about as much to do with piracy than a CD burner does.
What did Google do to my Wordpress.com hosted blog on Jun 14th?
It assumes the opposite - more development, less marketing. My point is I'm not trying convince you to want it. If I do my job properly by building a great site- my current users will do the marketing for me.

This is exactly what great restaurants do. When was the last time you saw an ad for your favorite restaurant down the street? I have never seen an ad for the top three restaurants I go to. Their food is awesome, and my friends told me to check them out.
I am writing my masters thesis now. I know only my 3 readers and my dad will ever read it. A strange tradition
Consider the following: We built working airplanes over a century ago, but powered ornithopter are still quite the engineering challenge, to put it lightly.

A working understanding of biology is not necessarily a prerequisite for "machine intelligence", or more generally, a technological singularity.
I have - what I would consider - very basic terminal skills. I'm comfortable moving around, modifying configs, downloading and moving files, changing permissions, adding users, installing things with a package manager, and have a healthy fear of the rm command. I was sad that this article taught me nothing.
Good question. I am not sure I know how to answer it.
I wouldn't say that phrase is actually anti-science.

Science is fundamentally a social institution where groups of people can great bodies of knowledge that can be used to make accurate predictions about the world. This body of knowledge is imperfect and so periodically people challenge it, making predictions where they hope their theories will be right and the standard model will be wrong. The thing is, there are many more ways to be wrong than to be right, and the large majority of people trying to challenge established knowledge are wrong.

Because of this we generally ought to use commonly accepted views until people challenging them can point to ways that their theories can make predictions that are superior to accepted theories. New theories might be intuitivly appealing, but if they can't pull their empirical weight they shouldn't get anywhere.

In fact, my reading of George Robinson's theory is that it would predict that the US economy would be much more unstable after going off the gold standard, when in fact it tended to be more unstable before we did. Now, if his book actually did predict "fewer but worse" recessions maybe we should look into it, but I'm worried that it doesn't.
editor: please change link from https to http? thanks.
I want to learn how to program compilers
Thanks, but I couldn't seem to find anything through the HTTP links.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/5.0/ ("We aren't quite finished qualifying Firefox 5 yet. You should check out the latest Beta.")

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/5.0/... (404)
The Weirdness of Walking to Raise Money
SFChronicle feature on Pixar CEO
In Praise of Not Knowing
Economists are no more the target audience of The Economist than they are of The Wall Street Journal.

The Economist originated as an organ of the free trade movement, particularly concerned with the repeal of the corn laws. I believe that the title was meant to articulate that free trade was a more principled and intellectually defensible political position than protectionism.

I can't say I think the title reflects the contents of the article well enough, but I guess The Economist is suggesting that their evaluation is economically sophisticated.

Cf. http://mitpress.typepad.com/mitpresslog/2007/01/from_corn_la...
Choosing a date time picker UI – jQuery
We're comparing this to writing bare HTML by hand.

All of your criticisms apply equally to the technique it replaces.

Now since however, I didn't really specify what went into the checkbox function behind the scenes... lets assume.

1. It creates unique id variations.
2. It handles the case where you have multiple checkboxes with the same name. Perhaps by passing in differing parameters (e.g. checkbox(id='?', name='foo')).

You're criticizing an unspecified strawman example. Until someone actually goes out and writes this library, neither you nor I know how 'fool proof' it really is and what edge cases it leaves unspecified.
10 crazy correlations between unrelated things
re-TARD, actually.

And it gets stress on the the first syllable where it's used as a noun, second syllable as a verb. cf "address", "attribute". (I do realize the noun–verb distinction doesn't come play in the UK for the former.)
"Using float for layout isn't a great idea, but sometimes you have to. CSS Lint simply checks to see if you've used float more than 10 times, and if so, displays a warning. Using this many floats usually means you need some sort of abstraction to achieve the layout."

what does this even mean?
All of them are .COM domains; is it because .NET/.EDU weren't around back then?
The fourth oldest domain on the list is MCC.COM. Anyone know what company that is?
The data is what it is. I collected as many scores I could, without the preselection bias that you find with metacritic.
Indeed, I do not take into account "individual scoring systems" that various reviewers used, although I did note whether they used a 0-100% scale, or 5 stars.
The bottom line is, many a reader will look at the scores to decide, even if you feel that is not the case. Also, reviewers that only use 65-100 are basically incompetent. Use another system if you are not going to use the rest of the scale anyway, or - if you think the actual text of a review matters only - just don't use any scoring system at all.

I present the raw objective scoring data, and these data indicate there are two bell curves possibly, and those bell curves prove the interesting point. I don't care if you project whatever I feel about the game in question on the validity of the data, because that's just nonsense. The data was collected without selection bias, just gathering as much as possible given the timelines. The only thing that matters is that we felt there was something amiss with certain reviews based on our own experience of this game in particular. From then on, it was a tool to expose certain reviewers for showing incompetent behaviour. You can rest assured that I don't care whether DNF sells or not. I do care when reviewers at major sites show questionable conduct. DNF is the tool, from then on we will watch them, also in retrospect. Bad reviews can make or break a game in certain cases, and this kind of power in the wrong hands is not to be tolerated.
How to deal with massive technological disruption
Whenever I see a facebook login required for site access, I decline to use that site.
It was Socrates (but probably through Plato's writing). I can't remember the exact source in this case.
The original article about Bitcoin that appeared on the Economist blog contained a wealth of technical information and a balanced debate on its merits and problems. This article reads like a poorly summarized version of it. This is unfortunate, considering it is based directly on the original article:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/06/virtual-curre...
Universities were heavily involved in the creation of the internet/ARPANET, and IIRC, the University of Utah was the third host on the internet (in 1969 or 1970), so the list probably just omits the non-dot-com domain names.
I couldn't disagree more. Only because of the fact that those restaurants more than likely didn't just open their doors and people came. They had to do some marketing first. You will, as well.

If you think if you simply build the site, and people will come... I think you're going to be sorely disappointed. Right now, you're a tiny tiny fish in the Pacific Ocean. If you want people to come, they have to _know about you_.

Chances are the site is viable enough already. If I were you, I'd focus less on the code, and more on the marketing efforts. :)

When you have more customers, and product is moving (so to speak), your priorities will change, and the code will be more of a priority.
Or maybe a pretext for DHS to shut-down any torrent sites?
"Comprehensive." That word does not mean what you think it means.
Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microelectronics_and_Computer_T...
Does design really matter for startups?
Serious question: Is it worth implementing this kind of data structure in Python. Wouldn't Python's overhead overwhelm any speediness you'd get?
The idea is that using IDs reduces the reusability of your css rules.
I've read some of his books yet I initially read his last name "McClure". I wonder how we'll reflect on our history after a decade of information overload? Seems like our ability to forget will get kicked into overdrive as a coping mechanism. Maybe reading a good history will be therapeutic.
Ah, I saw this talk from a live stream! Really felt your pain but I think the audience was sympathetic. I took it as a good lesson to have a demo-fallback which also works offline, although admittedly that's not as realistic.
Back in '97 it was the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation. Not sure about the time before that...

http://web.archive.org/web/19970214020411/http://www.mcc.com...
I don't know where you are getting the idea that Django's community is more than marginally smaller than Rails'. Google Trends, StackOverflow questions, number of GitHub projects, average followers/forks for popular Django/Rails extensions, number/popularity of significant sites built with each, and the number of stories I see pop-up on sites like HN for each framework are all relatively equivalent.

Django for AppEngine is barely a variant, it's just a different handler for the ORM to interact with the non-relational backend. Jinja's a template engine that you can plug-in on top of Django if you want (like if you wanted to use HAML instead of ERB). Plenty of Django devs choose Tornado for their COMET needs (I know of almost no one that uses it as their entire web stack). Flask and Bottle are nice micro-frameworks, but aren't well-suited at all for large sites unless you feel like doing a lot of extra work yourself. Jekyll isn't a Python project, it's Ruby's static site generator (but does have a Python port called Hyde). Pylons (now Pyramid) is the only significant contender to Django. Think of it as Sinatra's market-share compared to Rails.

So when you actually compare the two, Python has no more "framework fragmentation" than Ruby. To someone outside of the community just listing off frameworks that they found on Google, sure it might seem that way.
Most of them are companies, and most of the very earliest are tech companies. So looking over the list was not much of a surprise. Except for the very first one: SYMBOLICS.COM. They were a computer manufacturer, though I'd never heard of them. Sadly, going to symbolics.com revealed a "parked page" that admitted that it was a parked page looking to make money off the fact that symbolics.com was the first registered domain name.

I say sad, because I was rather hoping it was the original site, preserved in all its html 1 goodness.

EDIT - Actually, html wasn't around back then, so... I don't know. I guess I'd like to see an emulator revealing what the site used to look like.
In a discussion of Linux on the desktop, I don't think people are concentrating on the kernel.
Does anybody make 4:3 laptops at all?
Good to hear these sorts of things when trying to develop your own plan for your startup. My approach (which MANY will say is a failure) is to build in the evenings and keep a day job to cover personal expenses. The ultimate goal being, once we gain traction, go into the company full time. With the situation I'm in (fairly serious gf and finishing uni soon), this seems to be the best route. Thoughts?
I'm not sure I'd dismiss your argument so quickly. If one considers the "just" to be the best decision, given the circumstances, then most criminals are trying to be just. They may badly need money for their family. Or perhaps to feed a drug habit (In which case, as you said, perhaps they are ignorant of what really is just.) If they didn't think it was the best decision, for some good, why would they do it?
Sprocket asset tags internals
If you dislike these kind of byzantine constructions these high-level web frameworks make, have a look at CherryPy. http://cherrypy.org/
If a Gömböc is built to 10 micron tolerances, does that mean I need a cleanroom and the world's flattest table to be assured it will work?
The recent demonstrations of Bitcoin's volatility, on the one hand, and security issues, on the other, seem to have a lot of people spooked, and rightly so.

I think one way this could play out is that people might remain wary of using Bitcoin for large transactions or keeping large quantities of Bitcoins around; but small transactions are another matter, and I have no trouble imagining people keeping $20 worth of Bitcoins in their wallets to spend in small bits (pun intended).
In short, we may finally have here the solution to the micropayment problem.
Thoughts On Building Your Startup Whilst In College
To me, this choice comes down to what type of site I am building.

For an API: Sinatra. A CMS: Django. A sprawling web app: Rails.

Each frameworks was built to address a very specific set of problems.
What's great about "accessibility problems" is that they're usually huge annoyances for everyone else too. Curb cuts are essential for bicyclists, closed captioning at sports bars, etc.
Tales from the Copyright Wars
Symbolics made Lisp machines. Great company (for some definitions of "great"): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics
I'm going to try this since it's free, but to future android developers, make it easy (or possible) to register on the website; having to register ONLY via the application is a lot less convenient.
Why would you need to store your coins a bank? Most people use banks because they make it easy to buy things. If vendors accepted bitcoins you could easily transfer them without needing a bank.
Fair and Unbalanced: All Star Game Protest Against Anti-Immigration Laws
Place your link on all your pages.
thepagepost.com now allows you to place your link or a page topic related link on all your pages. Drive traffic to your website ,blog, or a page related website through the pages you create.
I've had this thought too. I think meat eating may well be another one, unless the population contracts at some point.
Oh, that. I know it by its more common name/appearance; a lump of bocconcini cheese. :) At least that's what immediately came to mind.
As "theoatmeal" says:
"Use a label tags with these; that way I don't have to be a goddamn marine scout sniper to sharpshoot the tiny little box. It's 2011 and 90% of the websites I use still haven't figured this out."

Nice little usability rant:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/shopping_cart
Ask HN: I have debt and owe back taxes — can they take my startup?
Throwaway account.

I have credit card debt and owe back taxes, all totaling around $50k. My small startup has paying customers but does not yet have enough left over to actually pay me enough even to cover payments.

First, can companies or the IRS sue to take my company away from me?

Second, is my personal situation a liability for attracting a round of funding?
Roulettesystems
I recently came across the Play Framework for Java. Though I haven't started using it in a real project yet, it does seem very interesting and rails/django-like with very similar tools and workflow, though for Java.

So for folks who are trying to decide between Rails and Django, Or come from Java background, that is another framework to look at.
Nice article overall but the free will arguments towards the end were a little shaky. I also took issue with:

> No amount of threatening will chase away depression, but a little pill called fluoxetine often does the trick.

Isn't therapy more effective than fluoxetine? Sugar pills certainly are.
If this problem exists on some app which you [pay to]use daily, wouldn't it be better if you just dropped an email to them instead of discussing it here.
Actually he's right. The typical user (which none of us here are) has one account on FB (and "maybe" a Twitter account). That account they use to connect to friends, family, whatever. They see a Facebook Connect logo on some site they want to comment on, they gonna use what's familiar.
I'm interested in the tolerances on that 10 micron distance...if you could build an approximation that works most of the time with much less precision, then you might be able to make sale-able objects that do such...
I'm sure Adobe will be happy to hear about this patent as well. It pretty much describes adaptive encoding in media streaming applications... and it is ridiculously generic.
What I don't get is why they're the oldest domain. Even the first few nodes of the internet (BBN, SRI, etc.) were registered as domains later than symbolics.com
>I guess this means that I believe (so far) that abstract algorithms should not be patentable while software implementations (which carry not just algorithms but also a cultural component) as applied to specific problems should be.

How do you distinguish between the two? If you come up with a revolutionary new cryptography algorithm and implement it in C, you would only be able to patent that implementation. If I came along later and merely re-implemented your innovation in Python, I could free-ride off your innovation without paying you a cent. Is that right or fair? I don't honestly know. What I do know is that its dreadfully hard to separate concept from implementation in a field as abstract as programming.
I don't believe you can in OS X - even though it's vector drawn, a lot of assets are raster.

Apple pushed (weakly) a "Resolution Independent" interface in 10.4 (I think) that would have promised drawing the screen at whatever DPI you want without looking terrible (and giving people who want larger text a better option than decreasing resolution)

It didn't really happen; though, and recently I remember seeing them push pixel-doubled assets, ostensibly in preparation for desktop retina displays in the future.

I didn't know GTK3 was vector drawn - that's really awesome!
I tend to agree with you, but it's important to remember that you should never say never.

Stranger (and more asinine) things have happened.
And game modders distribute their mods using it, since pushing a several GB download to thousands isn't that cheap, and more importantly everyone can download a newly-released torrent right away rather than maxing out the server's bandwidth.
I wondered the same thing when I saw the wooden table, which surely has deviations > 10 microns. Possibly there are approximate Gömböc shapes that are "good enough" without being mathematically perfect.
Design informs your implementation. Implementation is king.

Decoration merely helps.
Do you really think that's true, that each was built to solve a specific set of problems? Or do you think each team thinks of their tools as much more generic, and applicable to a wide range of problems? I'm not aware of too many frameworks that tout themselves as being built only for a narrow set of problem domains.
Except that some countries tax blank CDs for this reason. (good job, content creation lobby)
The title posted here is misleading. Why do you think your blog's traffic numbers imply that Google did something to impact Wordpress.com as a whole?
As per recent news (amongst other things), links/linking are in the process of being criminalized in some contexts. Do you want to hit a page containing a link and become "guilty" for using/following that link, without ever clicking on it?

It may seem far-fetched at the moment, but I'm reminded of that East Coast teacher who was fired because the classroom computer was infected (apparently, not by her actions) and started popping porn up on the screen.

Common sense quickly demonstrated that she was not, in any personal sense, at fault. Still lost her job; was, IIRC correctly, at least considered for criminal prosecution, and had to spend months and probably lots of lawyer fees attempting to clear her name.

I am mindful to be very cautious about assuming a limit to the stupidity or maliciousness of people who will be making assumptions -- or, regardless of their own understanding of a situation, simply have an agenda to push -- in the future.
Sega Customer Database Hacked
What you are your work are "worth" is of little importance.

The ONLY way you are going to get a significant salary raise (where significant is defined as more than they're planning to give you), is if you are ready to walk.

So.

1. Have a number in mind. (ie. what are others similar in the same company making?).

2. They'll offer you less than that.

3. Say: I'm truly sorry, but I can't accept that offer, it would be hurting myself, so I have to respectfully resign. (Don't bluff, mean it)

That's really the best way.
One major area that the author did not cover: Modules.

The idea of 'Gems' in Rails(ruby) are exceptionally well engineered.
Many powerful tools can be added by simply including a Gem.

On the Django side I have found the situation to be much worse.
Many 'Apps' are hard to integrate and often it is easier to rewrite simple things than trying to customize them.

This is what caused me to switch to Rails after a year with Django