skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it's an interesting idea, in this case it isn't clear what the value is as the typical risk of violence hasn't changed significantly.

The numbers are such that changes in tiny subpopulations have a big effect on the averages. US cities are not "unspeakably violent" - certain blocks or buildings are.

FWIW, the murder drop didn't start until the mid 90s.
I actually find the reply to all button quite useful. Often times there are several people in the office that should see a particular email thread (whether they choose to read it) and achieving this with just a reply button would be more than a little annoying.
Remember the answer doesn't have to be a phone device. I might be something else...created bottom-up.

I still think that a narrow strategy focused at a specific market might be a success..like a dream mobile linux device - with something extra to it..
Of course, the advantage of HN is that articles get annotated with interesting notes by people I've never seen -- people who don't all work at the same company. And I don't have to commute to an office with a break room in order to read them.
Does anyone know how this happened? It seemed like they were running a relatively low overhead business and had released some successful products. I seem to remember them complaining about a 90+ percent piracy rate- maybe that was the cause.
Imagining College Without Grades
There is no such thing as an average consumer. There are power users who use a bunch of little Windows-only shareware applications, who would truly be in for some pain as they had to relearn everything if they switched to Linux, and then there are people who just use Firefox, who would hardly notice the difference.
All of the sequence functions and special forms work on all of the sequence types.

The "redundancy" is that there are also functions/forms that work on specific sequence types. It would be surprising if there weren't because if two data types have exactly the same set of operations, one of them may be unnecessary.
One advantage of 0-based is that using array[mod(i, length)] works. It mostly seems to me like 0-based vs. 1-based is a relatively arbitrary decision, though. Each just leads to fencepost errors in different places.
The first place to look is probably "The Implementation of Lua 5.0" (http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/doc/sblp2005.pdf).

Short paper, but very interesting.

The LPEG paper (http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/peg.pdf) is great, too.
List of best sites/podcasts in tech
I didn't say that it lowered the standard. I suggested that "great delivery" is something of a cop-out.

I doubt that you posted thinking thinking "great delivery". I suspect that you posted thinking "great message".
Stanford writes in world's smallest letters (3 angstroms)
It also only runs on i386.

In practice (not micro-benchmarks), I've found LuaJIT to be at least twice as fast as the standard version, and in some cases three or better.
I think "they" were the developers, though (not the publisher), and they weren't "complaining" so much as commenting. I think this kind of piracy rate is pretty common with software.
I lost two or three years of digital content before.

I no longer tend to download things, especially since sites like Hulu and others exist.
While it would be an interesting project, the Ruby wouldn't necessarily be faster for it. I don't know Ruby well enough to say, but there are probably aspects in the language design itself that make it slower (as a trade-off for expressiveness). Lua is very fast, but that comes from aggressively simplifying the core of the language. Most things are ultimately built on only a few central constructs, and they have been very throughly optimized.
The advantage of the newspaper at work is that [...] It gets annotated with interesting notes and drawings by everyone.

I thought that was what a wiki was for. Once your newspaper for a given day is annotated, how do you search it in the future? http://images.google.com/images?q=newspaper+stacks How would one even store something like that? http://www.georgeweber.net/radio-curtis_office.jpg

http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/wp-content/uploads/200...
Getting 300 movies is fairly easy.
LaughHN: Google's going nuts
Every Google search result is being marked as "This site may harm your computer." for me. Anyone else seeing this?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=google&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=
Google giving Malware Warning on all search results (now fixed)
Janine Sligar:Prison secretary
i have it too right now
Google search results marking everything as 'This site may harm your computer' ?
Is it just me or is every result from Google at the moment marked "This site may harm your computer" - see screenshot.
Yea, I'm pretty sure its a unviersal bug. Both my brother and myself discovered it about the same time. Freaked us out.
Thanks for sharing this presentation, it's very insightful to see the process behind /programmes
"Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer"
Honor to the first submission with a correct title, I deleted mine. It's official, Google is broken. It was so unexpected that I wondered if I hadn't a malware.
All Google search results marked as malware (link to pic in case it gets fixed)
heh we posted these at the same time, deleted mine since it would be best if there wasnt a hundred OMG google is broken on the front page

I bet whoever just deployed the upgrade is kicking themselves right now though
> Slicehost or Amazon Web Services.

I would highly recommend, and have used, both of these. They require you to know what you're doing, however.

I absolutely cannot recommend Joyent. In my experience, their customer service was terrible, their servers were slow, and their prices were way too high.
As a longtime Lua user, you're probably aware of this, but I'm also writing for the other people reading the thread... :)

Look at LuaRocks (http://www.luarocks.org/). It's an attempt at a CPAN-like package collection. The stdlib and bitlib libraries, in particular, are pretty necessary. (Also, http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/ has some others.)

Lua errs on the side of only putting what can be implemented fully portably in ANSI C in its standard libary, which makes it a bit spare.
I just saw this - glad it's not just me.
yes, weird
I read this book but didn't really care for it. sh1mmer basically had it right. He wants people to be genuine and try to phrase things we want in terms of the gain for the other party.

I haven't got to reading it yet, but a friend who I trust recommended "Influence: Science and Practice". He said it was a lot less fluffy than Carnegie's book.
Seems to be affecting everyone: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%22may+harm+your+computer...
One may still benefit greatly from the experience of posting and commenting rather than observing. I was reading hn a while before I got an account, and never really thought about karma, submission titling or type, or comment voting.

I have often wondered why the posting, submission, and voting guidelines haven't been more prominent. I appreciate Paul's active role in this community--I think it account's for much of the civility to have benevolent moderators--but definitely making the principles easier to access would be helpful, too.
Deleted mine too, here's a screenshot in case they fix it

http://tinyurl.com/b4k25q

Its really LOL that they mark google.com as "may harm your computer"
maybe make this post a sticky, so that everyone will see it right away. Can be temporary one...i.e. first 90 days you see this thread at the top of the list, then it goes away?
Its like the Internet just stopped.

It is midnight in Japan and here I am writing emails to customers saying "No no, don't worry, I haven't infected your computer... it is Google that has the problem."
Google flags all internet as malware
Wow. Since clicking on any search result brings up the warning page, Google is unusable. Everywhere. I never thought I'd see this.

I wonder how much this is costing the global economy per second...
Why "imagine" college without grades, when there are plenty of (healthy, well-functioning, accredited) colleges without grades out there, with decades of experience?
1. Even if you completely disagree with the message, Kunstler's delivery alone is worth the 20 minutes.

Does Kunstler's delivery not seem like bullying to you? Let's consider some of the things he says:

"We're normal we're normal we're normal we're normal we're normal, please respect us we're normal we're normal we're normal." But we know what's going on in these houses, you know. We know that little Skippy is loading his Uzi down here, getting ready for homeroom, we know that Heather, his sister Heather, 14 years old, is turning tricks up here to support her drug habit

Would you say that to a parent of teenagers who told you that he intentionally chose to raise his children in a suburb because he believed, and still believes, it is good for children to grow up in suburbs? Would you stand up and say that at a townhall meeting of middle-class suburban homeowners and parents?
First time I've ever used yahoo search.
I think they should at least move away from reporting overall GPA. I know too many people that were taking easy classes or professors to keep their GPA up. No one else benefits from that move.
Moving away from grades probably makes sense too. Unfortunately classes are too unique to have simple objective standards and there is no way for anyone to make useful sense of them.

The overall goals of grades, to measure students knowledge of the subject is only useful if you are comparing a student with another student who took the same class from the same professor. Since no one really needs that limited of a comparison, a more objective standard is needed.

That's why programs with specific
I think this is overboard....instead of deleting the reply to all button, it should be limited to only 10-15 people.

Because if you limit reply to all button as it is..what happens if you need to reply to even 2 people?
It's .co.uk .de .fr and others too.
I was doing searches on Google and everything was OK. Then I did a search for "Bill of Rights" and I got all those nasty malware warnings. It really freaked me out until I realized Google was doing that with any search :)
Well I post here once in a blue moon when I see something of interest, and I also comment. My long term goal is to break 100 points on my next submission.

It's a sad thing that it's been years now and we still have to have guidelines that essentially say what everyone was told by their mother when they were a child. I think this will improve some day when either 1. we ban dogs from the net or 2. we start shooting the bad ones :)

As an aside, PG, congrats! I saw recently that you were promoted up a level. It's a wonderful thing, non?
for the first time someone did ask me about google alternatives. live search and yahoo are having the most users sinse ages today..
Went from 37 results to over 300 in the space of a minute.
The Day Google Broke.
I think it's the safety filter feature from Chrome that they're implementing site-wide, gone wrong.
I know. Even when I search for google properties, everything comes up with that same error. Interesting.
Same here. It doesn't matter what I search for. All "sites may harm your computer."

A software release gone wrong?
it's also google.com

If you enter google.com/ncr anywhere around the world you get to the google.com Version, which often sports more features. By adding the ncr (no country redirect) you don't get forwarded to country specific sites.
From all the downmodding of the linked comment, I gather a lot of people are going to disagree, but I actually think the comment may have been the most helpful one in the thread.

Its message was:

Prioritize, focus on things that are relevant to
your success, not on things that only matter after
you've succeeded, i.e. see the bigger picture.

Perhaps the delivery could have been better.
I wonder how much it's costing Google per second...
Would be interesting to see stats in the aftermath on site traffic drops or if Yahoo traffic increases.
Well, the important part is that AdWords doesn't seem to be broken ;-). I can click through those links with no warning at all! Even when they're the same link as one of the malware links. New way to make money?

On a realistic note, do you think Google will refund their advertisers' money during this problem (since I'm guessing there will be higher click rates for things like "apple" where Apple Computer is both the first "organic" result and has purchased ads, but now the organic results are "malware")?
That's a strange statement. Lists and arrays are different data structures for different purposes. It's like saying that people prefer btrees to structures. Lisp has arrays as well, so if people want to use them they can.
... while standing in the unemploymment line, yeah.
I bet Omar Shahine at Microsoft is smiling right now: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10153165-2.html

"Cutts responded, in effect, that Google knows plenty about running big Web sites, thank you very much. 'Google runs Web services with many users and servers too and we launch changes weekly or faster,' he said."
It's not even just English: http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=news&btnG=Google..., http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&q=乗り換え案内&btnG=G...
HN Alternatives: Where do you get your news & discussion?
Apart from this site, where do you find interesting news & articles? And where do you go to discuss them?
For those who don't get to see it.

http://myks.org/stuff/google_may_harm_your_computer.png
Oh dear, that'll hurt...
and .se
The best part is, I thought it was Chrome at first since there is a malware option in the configuration settings.

That sucks. It's going to take twice as long to fix since the engineers fixing it have to edit the URL on all the googled results for "How to fix Google".
Seeing the same thing. Someone is getting a wake-up call, I hope
(Answering myself to start, hope you find these resources interesting)

* http://givemesomethingtoread.com/
* Twitter - Friends share links that I like
* Tumblr - As Twitter

The trouble however is discussing these links. Posting to news.yc doesn't always get upvoted, and when it does there isn't always interesting discussion and debate. Are there any alternatives?
The compatibility with subversion is a major point, and reminds me of what Eric Raymond said about Wine being essential for linux to succeed (as macosx parallels is proving as well). See
http://catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-dominat...

There is a pattern here: embrace the legacy without giving up any advantages of the modern.
Since the parent got downmodded, I better explain myself a little better.

My point was that the average employee in a large corporation doesn't see the implications of a reply-to-all, and how much e-mail overload and lost time it amounts to down the road. This isn't implying that these employees are less intelligent or otherwise impaired, it is simply implying that this is not something an average employee would think about. Just like I will forget to change the oil in my car: Obvious to a mechanic, but I just don't think about it, or don't know.
Wow, I can't seem to get to StopBadware.org today, I wonder why?
I even gave msn search a go!
First it was that Android root shell fiasco. Now this. I wonder if this whole "holier than thou" attitude towards Google will finally start to subside.
It's working again... at least for me
It's interesting that ESR implies netbooks are an endpoint. Replacing his opinion with mine, they're not. In general, laptops are still too expensive and heavy, and phones still haven't caught up in functionality/cost. My netbook is a stopgap measure, and it works because I do most of my work on bigger hardware; when I replace it in a few years, I won't be looking to replicate the experience.

Quick math: if the burn rate is $12bn/year, and there are a (handwavy) billion Windows || Office licenses bought or renewed each year, that's $12 per license to break even -- and that's excluding revenue from Sharepoint etc. Pricing on both products can fall quite a bit before they're in the red.

And it probably won't matter, if the home PC goes the way of the landline phone. I assume that's the market ESR is concerned about, anyway.
Seems like it is fixed now. www.google.com
Google doesn't quite think that everything may harm your computer. Neither wikipedia nor facebook will.

Interestingly:

http://www.google.com/interstitial?url=http://www.google.com...

Google thinks Google may harm your computer.
In other news, people standing on their toes makes measuring height meaningless. Therefore, we should stop measuring height.
My mum just called me to ask me if her computer was infected.

I wonder how many people around the world are now panicking?
Looks like it has been fixed.
and the false warning is back...

edit: If I refresh I don't see the false warning every fifth time or so. This happens on the .com and .ch page. It seems they are pushing out an update that hasn't reached all servers yet.
I wonder how much it's costing me per second. I was right in the middle of some research! Now I'm going to spend a hour surfing HN looking for fresh new Google jokes!

On the other hand, nothing brings people from around the world together like a bug in Google.
Heh, I think it has something to do with where you are. I don't know a single person with a hotmail account, know 2 with a yahoo account, and everyone else has a gmail account. (So, what? 100+:2:0?)
I always get nervous when there's something wrong with Google, be it a minor issue or not, they just control too much information to be anything less than...well, perfect.
I think this is a good option for "are you sure you want to send this to n people". (Of course, you would need a way to calculate how many people are on a distribution list.) It would be even better if it looked at the length and complexity of the email and attachments, estimated how long it would take to read, multiplied by an hourly cost of like $100/hr, and then made you at least aware of the cost...
They've fixed it. That was quick.
Fixed at 10:17 AM EST
Its like the Internet just stopped.

A la The Source of Magic. One day, all of the magic in Xanth was turned off. For awhile, Xanth was like Mundania. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Source_of_Magic
It's nice having a president with both the capability and desire to communicate like this. An added bonus is that he doesn't constantly remind me how much terrorists want to kill us.
not all results gives me the malware

check out searching "hello"
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hello&btnG=Sear...
Oh crap, Google broke the Orb! Now we're in for a four-hundred-year Interregnum! I'd better start studying witchcraft!
It looks like it only effects you if you're logged in.
I just searched YAHOO for "Google malware problem". Oh wow, I never thought this day would come.
looks like it's fixed. even trying to go to the old link this thread linked to gets a 403 Forbidden, and some basic searches show fixage
if i read correctly, that's talking about the mathematical notations, not arrays or the indexing of such, of that programming language

and while we're considering sources of "clumsiness and mistakes," 0-indexing is an exceptional candidate, from my experiences helping a friend learn C++ and my own memories treading through those early days

i look at it from the perspective of usability
I'm not sure whether to be impressed or terrified that Google can -- and, apparently, does -- roll out updates across their entire server farm in a matter of a minute or two.
That's an awfully crass analogy to make.
Where did the new spike come from?
This is an enormous bug - its similar to Microsoft Office not working for half an hour.

I can't fathom how much this will have cost google - in terms of $$$ and reputation -- millions of people will now be unsure to trust googles "this site may be unsafe"

It'll be fascinating to see if Yahoo/MSN get a noticeable spike in searches.
Sadly, I'm not surprised. I know that everyone loves downloadable software, but the piracy rates are just so high for PC games that it's incredibly difficult. You need to get distribution inside Best Buys - the publisher for Big Buck Hunter et al does exceptionally well but the gaming press never, ever talks about guys like that.
Thank you for this, what a great find.
In my line of work (law), people can be offended or grow suspicious if they are left off of an e-mail. They don't want the feeling that a discussion is happening behind their back, or without their having the chance to give input. It's often better to load up your cc line than it is to risk offense.
Is that line in Twelve as well? I loved Eleven so much that all my friends refused to let me see Twelve.
That looks about the same as it would have 6 years ago. It's still mostly Windows, then Mac OS. In fact, I'm surprised OSX hasn't grown to more than 5.

Open source hasn't stopped Microsoft or even slightly slowed their growth. The only thing that's had any noticeable effect is the recession.
True, but don't those also tend to be schools with vastly different curricula and non-traditional teaching methods?

For instance, I know about Hampshire College. I know there are other examples. But if you're a traditional school, the prospect of removing grades but not changing too much else may be too difficult to fathom. They might, rightly, see grades as tied to their identity. Change one and you change the other. That may sound absurd, but I understand it especially when institutional inertia often spans tens of decades if not over a century or more.
12 is a good one in a different sense, it grows on you. 12 has the most class IMHO.
The important difference is memory. It's generally possible to trade space for speed in a JIT and accelerate anything. SBCL is lisp with a JIT. It's as fast as Java - it's as fat as Java (to within 5x either way). Lua is both small and fast, and is more or less on its own as an interpreted language in that category. (Forth is smaller and faster, but forth is about as low level as macro assembler.)
In IE, before firefox, I opened a new browser for each link, and used the taskbar as tabs (you can switch with alt-tab instead of ctrl-tab). Maybe firefox making it explicit increased awareness of this approach.

For me, the huge value for firefox is as a software platform: an incredible array of extensions, even including another platform: greasemonkey. I always preferred the bookmarking of NN to IE; but I think it was adblock that made me switch to firefox.
It may be earning them tons of money. The only links that actually work are the ad links.
YEAH WTF, I hated google for half an hour there.
The method a person uses to convey that idea is important. The way it was said, there was likely too much work to be done extracting that simple idea compared to the ideas worth to the parent poster.
I think everyone's opinion is that the way we communicate our ideas on this board is also important.
Apropos of nothing, my friends have suggested Xanth to me on and off again for over a decade now. I know nothing about it except that Amazon will deliver it to my doorstep. What three books should I be buying?
I was never a fan of this book. The problem is that his primary rule is "be genuine" but then he spends the rest of the book telling people to follow a rules designed to conceal a their personality and turn them into an always positive cheerleader.

Honestly, I’ve met people who follow his advice to the tee and they always come off a little phony to me. Look at his advice for "being a leader" for example and ask yourself "is all that posturing really being genuine?" I’d rather have a boss that just gives it to me straight.

I guess what I’m saying is this. If you have a business or something and are trying to suck up to people in order to get something from them this is great advice. If you want an actual friendship with people in which you feel comfortable being with them and don’t have to parse every word you say this book isn’t for you.