skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you want to static-host your blog in 2011, you need to write code.

Or use software like jekyll.

https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll
haiku-os is amazingly good for an alpha. If you are feeling sentimental give it a shot.
I used it on my phone and entered 'craft beer', and I was actually impressed. I don't think it means to offer anything new and revolutionary, but it does a great job of showing people how they can use the web in different ways (outside of just searching) to interact with things they enjoy. This would be great for people who are new to the internet. Obviously, HN is not the intended audience.
World's Data More Than Doubling Every Two Years - Faster Than Moore's Law
Programming languages that compile into C/C++ source
This is an opinion too. What's your source?
You can't be a good designer without knowing your format. And working with those would seem like hell, I guess.
Chauffage piscine
de chauffage piscine sur une telle échelle consomme beaucoup d'énergie et permet d'ajouter jusqu'à factures de chauffage élevées. Par conséquent, sa devient nécessaire de choisir un système d'économie d'énergie de chauffage de piscine, qui assure le chauffage des piscines économique
Github identifies the project as email-spec (https://github.com/bmabey/email-spec). Note the dash.

Try searching with a dash instead of an underscore
Lampe de piscine
La lampe de piscine est l'un des aspects les plus importants pour une soirée ou une nuit festive.
Well, exactly. That's why people often put in a "reply" that includes a clickable link, and I was wondering why you didn't.

Alternatively, why not submit a link to the site as the URL, and your question as the title? Submissions that don't include links have a ranking penalty, so you're doing yourself down by submitting it the way you did.
Making stealth Grow Box
Learn how to make stealth grow box and pc grow box. Pictures and video of unique and stealthy grow box. for more info www.growboxreviews.com
I had never really thought of mathematics having its own language, but the parallels to learning a second language (after childhood) are interesting.
For this reason, I think I'm jumping ship now and moving to Spideroak or Wuala.
Ask HN: Why don't sites allow longer passwords?
I'm in the process of securing all of my online accounts using KeePassX to manage the passwords. Many sites (Reddit, Bank of America, Slashdot, etc) only allow 20 character passwords, yielding a 160-bit password. KeePassX suggests by default generating 25 character/200-bit passwords, which doesn't seem to be a bad idea.

It would seem to be a good idea to allow up to 100-character passwords, and I can't see there significant extra burden on the databases/sites to process them. Is there a reason for the 20-character limit that many sites impose?

It should be noted that HN allows 25-character passwords.
Sorry about that. Now it is fixed (at least most of them). I had to do some automatic updates of the underlying wordpress database and I guess that one of them messed the capitalization. I'll need to explore what happened in more detail.
I remember back in school that doing the math was not really a problem, but actually reading the textbooks was. I was the same way with programming when I started, where I could write but not read the language, but I'm suprised that I got through 4 years of university math without really being able to read the proofs that explained it.
Andy Rubin: over 500,000 Android activations a day, and growing
Garry Tan (2.5 yrs ago) pulling all-nighter to respond to HN
"Explore boobs in 3D" disappointed me.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1576969

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=85743

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=583977

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1509758
So basically a pyramid scheme mechanic for promotion?
Facebook Tests New Layout – Fixed Position Ads & Navigation
Hmm, maybe I should start a rule of 20 minutes of sitting/2 minutes of jumping rope. With the calories jumping rope burns, I'll look amazing in no time.
That's a pretty nice site, and I would certainly use it if were not for me having my passion somewhere else.

If you don't mind, may I ask how you got your initial users?
I uploaded a better quality version here: http://blip.tv/cdman/mastering-git-basics-by-tom-preston-wer...

Things changed:
- removed noise
- removed second track (which was mostly noise)
- passed trough Levelator
Google now activates 500,000 Android devices every day
Glad to hear it was so easy for you! For some reason, before I found a great tutorial, I kept running into errors on my installations. First it was because I didn't even have setuptools installed, then I didn't have some other dev dependencies, then I just got plain stuck. But after I got it up and running it was smooth sailing RE scraping!
AOL Consolidates 53 Brands Down To 20 “Power Brands”
Most spam offers deals.
Isn't ".bak" a fairly logical file extension for a cron job intended to, e.g., perform backups?
Does your writing pass the “mum” test?
The Leisure Reading Racial Gap
PDF of said book can be found here:

http://www.letterp.com/~dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf

It's on the author's site, so I presume it's legitimate.
First thing I typed in, reflexively, was "shit." To great unexpected effect.

Measure popularity of shit on the web. Explore shit in 3d. Buy all kinds of shit stuff. Make a photo album about shit. Watch videos of shit. Plan your shit events. Start a shit discussion group. Find shit nearby.
People say that even if Bitcoin is not the future of currency, perhaps a future similar currency will be. But I think if Bitcoin loses the legal battle here, it might be a lot harder for a future digital currency to get off the ground. If the US Government wins here (and gets help from other countries to stop it as well), the barriers to entry for a digital currency might be a lot higher later.

Bitcoin's hope is to provoke a Wikileaks-level Streisand effect, so when the Governments go after it, it becomes 100x more popular and it gets a lot more support from the mainstream all over the world.
The big ones: Watch out for proof by contrapositive and contradiction. Until you really get used to proving things by assuming bits of them are false it throws you off to see it used in textbooks and papers because most papers do not tell you they are using them.
No, it should be what you agreed to regardless of whether you were too lazy to read it or not.
CanIUse builds on top of data from eg. QuirksMode and gathers it in an easily scannable and filterable table.
Work With People Better Than Yourself
A "swift" new way to experience youtube videos
ytSwift is cool new (well a few months old now) concept that allows users to instant-search, simultaneously watch, quickly pull videos from a particular user, easily share, and retrieve all metadata for youtube videos. The goal for creating ytSwift was to keep the entire youtube experience limited to a single page, allowing users to do most of what they do without having to open new tabs, hit the back button, or browse through numerous pages to watch the videos they want to.
Ah yes, I remember that one. I seem to recall that I complained about the lack of a working prototype.

Have they come up with a working prototype yet?
And yet, very few smokers in Greece seem to understand that. There are even posters that read "Smoking is a choice!".

Apparently, going out to a place that doesn't reek of ash isn't.
Firefox Team Working On 100 New Features
Of those, only the most recent one has any substantial comments, and even that is now 10 months old and can no longer be commented on:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1576969
Also, a major new version of it was released just last week.
will cut them a check tomorrow morning. also, debian, eclipse, gnu and apache. it is tax time here is australia :-)
The iCloud logo and the golden ratio
Reality matters. Details matter. You seem to have lost focus on them:

- Did Dropbox promise its customers that it had very good security?

- Did Dropbox thereby gain an advantage over its competitors?

- Did customers, trusting Dropbox, put private data on their servers?

- Was some of that data quite valuable, and was there quite a lot of it?

- And did Dropbox open a gaping security hole in their systems and then leave one hundred percent of that data exposed for hours? And did that constitute negligence?

From what little I know I'd say the answer is yes on all counts. But I'll concede that reasonable people might disagree, especially after a detailed investigation. Fortunately we have a mechanism for adjudicating significant disputes among reasonable people by conducting detailed investigations: It's called a court.

Now, what I don't know is: Do these events rise to the level where a legal remedy is called for? How big should the remedy be? And are Dropbox's terms of service, which every customer presumably clicked through at some point, going to protect them from being held liable for negligence? Heck if I know. I'm not a lawyer. Fortunately, lawyers are lawyers.

I can't understand why you've picked this particular case to freak out about. Why are you so alarmed to see a company which was, by all appearances, negligent and in breach of contract getting sued for negligence and breach of contract? What kind of surprise is this? It's like water flowing downhill. If a company "accidentally" appears to break a contract, the company has to explain itself. If it "accidentally" breaks the law, it gets taken to court to plead its case. And if it is found to have "accidentally" committed negligence, it gets held liable.

Yes, I know that it seems like an understandable mistake that could happen to any engineer. I feel for those folks. But this is the big leagues, and excuses are not what engineering is about. Engineering is about anticipating mistakes and designing safeguards, and when real engineers (as opposed to fake "software engineers" like myself) screw up a project badly enough a negligence suit is often the least of their problems. They lose licenses and sometimes even go to prison.

Fortunately, nobody appears to have been seriously injured and perhaps nobody will even lose their job. A corporation has been sued, and maybe it will pay. In the meantime, it will re-prioritize its backlog to include better automated testing. ;) This happens. Don't take it so personally. This is what being a corporation is all about. This is why corporations exist.
I haven't had a chance to look at this properly yet but maybe somebody can clarify a few things.

This lets me do scheme->js in the browser using moby, which is implemented in racket. So my code gets converted to js on the server hosting this site. Does this mean I can (require ...) other racket libraries as well?

Bookmarked for later.
I'd say that not supporting browsers below IE8 (or even IE8 itself) is reasonable for many projects. I just looked at the stats for a few of our sites and total IE browser share is around 4–7% on them.

If you have a similar situation on your site/application, I think it's perfectly reasonable not to support anything other than modern browsers, but you have to look at your own stats.
Could you cite an example?
Carter Cast on the "Drama of Comparative Living"
Validate your HTML/CSS email code with Fractal
Living in the Era of Infinite Computing Power
More startups need to be sued for their failures. Maybe then there will be less ridiculous startups for services that are not secure.
Doctors aren’t accepting new patients with private insurance either
Your User Information - 100% Off!
I'm not very familiar with either, but isn't Stackoverflow more like Quora and Github more like Google Code projects? Because then the problem would be one of content, which is formed from comments on Stackoverflow.
Surely you'd disable the USB ports on computers that are connected to a "clean" network if you thought this was an issue.
I think there's no question that Dropbox seriously dropped the ball, but as programmers we should be extremely concerned about the prospect of companies being held liable not just for actual damages but theoretically possible and potentially non-economic yet non-existent damages.
The Official and Sad End of Nortel Tech
Also, DuckDuckGo just integrated Github into search results. If you search for "email-spec" you'll get a description directly from Github. Your original query works too.
It is interesting to note that some private plans are more restrictive than Medicaid. That's not what most people think and certainly not what we often hear.
there is no natural right to art

As a hobbyist photographer I can tell you - good photography is freaking hard.

And IMHO, there are 2 kinds of people in this debate - the ones that can make good photos and the ones that bitch about the existence of copyright.
Cool...when's that coming out?
That is brewing temp, mister. I'd be surprised if my coffee was hotter than 75 once it came out of the French press and into a mug.
Hacktivists Bring Down MasterCard.com Website
They may have thought something like: Someone could have taken advantage of the API key and used it to upload content for not-so-good reasons and rather then checking all content uploaded using that key, they removed it all.
Linux vs FreeBSD
Linux is the de-facto OS on servers and mobile devices these days — but i was wondering about why it is so far ahead of other OSes like FreeBSD. As far as i know, FreeBSD has equal(better in some cases) performance, matches linux feature for feature, and has some of the greatest technologies : dtrace and ZFS.
Why then, is Linux deployed on almost all servers, when other operating systems are a very compelling alternative?
Of the few observational studies I've read, smoking only increases your chance of developing Type 2.
They mention "a prototype gasoline engine that requires no transmission, crankshaft, pistons, valves, fuel compression, cooling systems or fluids." So maybe add the weight of the engine plus the transmission and extra fluids required for both?
and of course the whois information

Domain wdyl.com:
Margaret McLaughlin
76 Ninth Avenue
New York, NY 10013 US

Administrative contact:
Technical contact:
Billing contact:

Margaret McLaughlin

76 Ninth Avenue
New York, NY 10013 US
Phone: +1.2125659741
Fax:

Record dates:
Record created on: 2005-09-27 18:18:10 UTC
Record modified on: 2011-06-24 16:36:56 UTC
Record expires on: 2011-09-27 UTC

Nameservers:
myns2.fabulous.com:
208.48.81.137
myns1.fabulous.com:

Note taht the domain registrar "FABULOUS" is specifically intended as a service for "Domainers" people who buy and park||minimally build out||put up forsale signs on domains with the intention of turning a profit.

Check out the terms of opening a Fabulous account:

Request Membership

To be eligible for a Fabulous account we require
that you meet at least one of the following:

Domain portfolio must generate US$750+ per month
Transfer 750+ domains to Fabulous

If your portfolio generates US$750 a month or you are
willing to transfer 750+ domains to Fabulous, please
complete the form below.

So WDYL.com on a domainer's registrar and also a pretty shitty site? Yeah, more than just a little suspicious. I'm feeling pretty secure in saying that it's 100% not google .. but I'd love to know a little more about this Margaret McLaughlin I bet a search would turn up a number of other domains that she's got her whois information tacked on to.

EDIT oh my ... would you look at that. 76 Ninth Avenue in New York is apparently Google's new Manhattan office! Maybe it IS google.

Damn. Now I've gone from thinking it's fake to thinking it has some chance of being real.
I recently discovered CanIUse.com for the HTML5/CSS3 stuff. In some ways they aren't as detailed as I'd like. I wanted to see what browsers support <input type=number>, which Chrom(e|ium) supports, but FF5 doesn't. However they lump all Form Elements into one category, and tell me that FF has partial support. It would be nicer if they told me how partial, partial was!
Agreed. The minute you know the feature does have traction and won't go away any time soon is the minute you clean or rewrite that code.

This may be semantics at some level, but I think it's important to not imply you just don't care about the quality of your code. Prototyping intentionally sacrifices some quality to prove a point quickly, but once the point is proven, you throw it away and rewrite with your normal, high standards.
instead of cutesy shit like that, how about documenting stuff like customizing input methods. the SoftKeyboard sample doesn't have a single usage datum online. I, ahem, googled it. How do I enable a custom keyboard for just one text entry widget?

oops, didnt mean to interrupt the cute fest with actual question. fucking morons.
It's a shame these companies are so cheap that they don't hire real developers.
it is hosted by google:

$ host www.wdyl.com
www.wdyl.com is an alias for ghs.google.com.
ghs.google.com is an alias for ghs.l.google.com.
ghs.l.google.com has address 209.85.147.121

$ whois 209.85.147.121

Google Inc. GOOGLE (NET-209-85-128-0-1) 209.85.128.0 -209.85.255.255

and the domain wdyl.com is registered to someone who purports to have an @google.com email address.

but ghs.google.com seems to be the host used by google apps:

http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=48090#K

and as another answer suggests, the dns hosting is suspect. doesn't seem like google...
I forgot how awesome geometry was. Anyone know of any courses (online) that each geometry through functional languages (or maybe even vice-versa)?
Formula 1 goes sailing
Sosastaa == too cheap
Clojure: Lisp meets Java, with a side of Erlang
I think there are at least 1 billion phones sold per year from all the companies right now. That means that 5 years from now when Android phones could be sold at under $50, and with a market share of ~50%, there could be at least 1.5 mil Android phones activated per day, or 500-600 mil per year. So the potential for growth is 3x bigger than today.

The only requirement for this to happen is for Android to reach and maintain 45-50% market share, and it looks like it will. Also several research companies have stated that Android will have around 45% market share in 2015, even if WP7 gets to have 20% market share as well (and I still have a hard time figuring how that would happen, but anyways).

EDIT: 1.4 billion mobile phones sold in 2010.
The right sentiment, but I don't fully agree with this.

There are a lot of people who aren't kids, aren't mathematicians, but have to deal with maths all the time. In fact, our own field of Computer Science has a lot of math.

Now, I can't speak as a real mathematician (though I know more maths than most people), but I can definitely speak as a CS major - learning to use radians was never natural for me, and it is the basis of most of calculus. Had I learned it using Tau, I'm guessing it wouldn't have even been an issue. It wouldn't even be something I have to "learn". It just makes sense - one half of a circle is one half Tau.
Thunderbolt Firmware Update Addresses Performance, Stability
Sue this irresponsible company into oblivion.
Lots of servers run FreeBSD. You don't hear about them as much because the servers:sysadmin ratio is higher.
Ive scraped dozens of sites beautiful.soup is great, but if you want the job done as quickly and cleanly as possible, PyQuery is thr best.

Its the same as jquery, but in Python.

Working with beatiful soup quickly becomes.long.and messy and tedious

With pyquery, you get what you want with just a couple of CSS 3 selectors simplw and nice

wow android 2.2 is terrible for inputting text
Why not "sudo apt-get install python-lxml python-beautifulsoup"? Difficult to make the "olde" argument when you're installing dependencies from apt.
Please don't let rational thinking interfere with the marketing spin.
EML, MSG & MHTML Formats Support, Add/Remove Attachments in Message
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Extrapolating from the article there's no transmission or cooling system either - that probably doesn't get you to 1000 pounds, but removing the structure which supports those heavy components might get you close.

On the other hand, I don't think this would apply to cars with 25 kilowatt engines - a 1958 VW beetle only weighed 1600 pounds [http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/default.aspx?carID=10196&...]
Why did we move from Roman Numerals or other systems of writing down numbers, to the current numerals we use today? Simple - they make lots of things easier.

Now, no one is claiming that Tau vs. Pi is even close to the same level of importance. But it makes some things just that much easier.
One of my favorite features. I was trying to remember TermKit the other day and found it via this zero-click interface.
This comment really opened my eyes -- thank you! I am still a bit confused though. I think I was running out of entropy, but it seems nginx should use /dev/urandom, which supposedly doesn't block -- just becomes less random when entropy runs out. So is nginx set up to block when entropy is depleted and that is why this happens?
Google (possibly) rolling out updated UI
Today, I found out that Google looked a little bit different than usual.
Could it be I'm looking at Google's future UI?
That is the physical address of Google's NYC office.
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العاب تلبيس ومكياج 
العاب تلبيس ومكياج العاب تلبيس ومكياج العاب تلبيس ومكياج العاب تلبيس ومكياج العاب تلبيس ومكياج العاب تلبيس ومكياج
I Love Mercurial
"What Tau Sounds Like"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3174T-3-59Q

(Yes, we know that Tau doesn't really sound like anything, but this was fun and better than I expected.)
If it's 40 days of that kind of workload and you're only just done with the backend, your Minimally Viable Product likely has too many features.

Strip it down, launch with less.

I am in the process of kicking my girlfriend out of my house for this very reason. I'd rather be single and taking over the world than getting snuggly full nights of rest.
I suppose we also have no verification that the passwords are no longer stored in plain text either, so changing it seems to be postponing the inevitable -- it is now a target for getting hacked again, with a delicious plain text payload as the reward for anyone doing it.

If my doctor was leaking my medical records left and right to advertisers around town, I would sue him... at some point leaking my online identity has to have some sort of repercussions behind it besides me getting online and being openly angry on the internet.

Yep, that'll do it ;)

ADDENDUM. Speak of the devil (another HN story): http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2011/06/cloud-site-dro...
It actually applies to more than just exponential growth. Fibonacci and factorial growth rates also follow Benford's Law.
Go and Python
Beepl is a catchily silly name. I can't stop saying it: "wake up, Beepl!"
The majority of people find advertising useful. They buy stuff based on advertising. If they didn't advertisers wouldn't spend advertising money.

Advertising works, providing a service both to the advertiser and the consumer.

I know that's an incredibly unpopular viewpoint within this bubble, but there you go.

If it was the case that most people found advertising 'shit', then you'd see more and more people installing adblock etc. But that hasn't happened. It's still used by a very small minority of users as it has always been. It's sort of like the Opera web browser in that respect.