jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You're definitely correct that this post was light on the motivation for Django versus continuing with custom PHP. Perhaps it would be worth a follow-on post, as long as I can figure out how to not turn it in to a framework flamewar :)

In short though, we wanted to realize the obvious benefits of web frameworks over our poorly-constructed prototype raw PHP application (DRY, code re-use, reusable applications, MVC organization, testing tools etc.). We're now seeing basically all of those. Our code is clean and well-constructed because we were able to lean on the wisdom of the Django community. We use fully 24 different reusable Django applications, along with a couple dozen python libraries. Whenever we face a challenge, more often than not we can find a great blog post from the community that addresses a very similar issue and sometimes we can contribute back a little bit. When we hire new people, we can point them to Django's great documentation if they're new to Django, or they can jump straight in to our project and feel at home because it looks like basically every other Django project.

We're very very happy with Django and what it's given us over our own raw PHP. Other frameworks, like RoR would have given most if not all and more of these benefits, but the important thing in my opinion is that if you're doing a web application, you find a web framework that meets your needs. Honestly, when it came down to evaluating frameworks, it was RoR versus Django because that's where the community was. For me, it was Django because I like python's "one obvious way" versus ruby's many ways, which is a purely aesthetic judgement that plenty of people much more qualified than me make in the other direction. Once I realized that both of them would do a great job solving the problems our business was facing, I just made a decision and started writing code :)
The value of gold is not determined by the quantity the Fed has. The global supply of gold did not increase 3x. The Fed kept a fixed exchange rate for gold, while inflating the currency supply. As I said, such pegged systems inevitably result in a sharp correction.
The distinction here is between the software and the distribution.

This is legal in the same way that software that rips MP3s from CDs is legal.

On the other hand, distributing the content isn't. So you can rip the content and use it personally, but you can't distribute it without permission.
Thats not what this "web-app" is doing.
> "if you're one of the lucky people who'll go far in sports, performance is open ended (the top score isn't 100%) and, unlike schoolwork, you need unique training to develop your potential."

And that's how everything should be. Because that's true of learning in any other context. Sports, Music, Art, Mechanics, Science ... learning is learning and it's all open-ended. The only limits are self-imposed. And that's why our educational system is assembly-line garbage.
Just for information, CFGs used for processing natural language are almost invariably statistical too these days. Because natural language is inherently ambiguous and probabilistic.

"Fruit flies like bananas" can be grammatically parsed in [at least] two ways, but one if a much more likely interpretation.
"If you want to learn trig or calculus, it's set at such a pace in schools that it guarantees that only the absolutely best students will learn it."

Pardon my elitism, but only the absolutely best students need to learn trigonometry or calculus. I'd much rather high schools offer useful classes like personal finance or civics or creative writing than make average, uninterested students take a trig or calc class that they will have absolutely no use for later in life.
Uhm... Early Childhood Educators do give F's in walking and block stacking and a variety of gross motor, fine motor, cognitive skills. They might not call it that to the parents, but that is exactly what it is. They do screenings like the Denver, LAP, and eLAP that tell where a child is in development and point to exercises to do or the very real need to get specialized help for the infant / toddler. Failure to get help could cost us taxpayers big bucks (1M+) over the course of the kids life.

So, yes, your child can flunk walking or block stacking.
My guess is that there will be a dedicated app for this. You start the app which then broadcast your credit card info to the reader.
Well, is it surprising that the teaching unions advocate employing more teachers?
Trying to remember.

I think I did 3 hours core, 3x20 naps, then switched to 4.5+2x20.

The adaptation period was almost exactly three weeks, iirc. After that it wasn't too bad.
Anyone know how they drove so much traffic toward their bundle? Did they have partners that took a revenue share?
Snow Crash and The Diamond Age are good books, especially for just starting to read again.

Ubik is my favorite PKD book followed closely by Electric Sheep.

The His Dark Materials isn't really sci-fi so much as fantasy but it is quite a good read (though if you didn't have a kindle it might be embarrassing buying them from the young adult section, they are quite adult though).

I think a huge thing missing from your list is the Foundation series from Asimov (I recommend going in order of publishing, start with Foundation move onto Foundation and Empire then Second Foundation and more if you are into it).

My 2 cents.
I did, in the late 90s.
Yes. That was the use case. I would find it difficult to quickly get an idea about what everyone is been up to individually so I made it.
You are right in that this is especially useful when you are out of the loop.
I feel like some example use cases on the homepage might be helpful, perhaps as a short illustrated video or slide show. I'm not quite sure how this product will benefit me from a quick skim. What's the difference between a "lab" and a regular AMI?
Can you elaborate on Africa being free?
You do understand your plan is getting less and less likely to work, right? If it doesn't work on Macs why would it fare better on Linux?
A quarter of the country also believes Obama is not a US citizen. Whether the general public believes something or not has does not make it true or untrue.
Did you really not work more than 4 hours at that startup? That really surprises me. Care to elaborate?
Whoa, whoa, whoa. I was following quite closely when Marco Arment's article was published and the storm erupted around it. Marco's comments have totally been taken out of context here: the reason he regretted publishing the article was not out of fear of Apple primarily but because many publications took it and used it to justify the "Apple is doomed" narrative which Marco personally doesn't agree with. He was quite sad about that because the article was a serious piece highlighting particular problems that need addressing but it was just used as fodder for "This wouldn't have happened if Steve Jobs was alive..." headlines.

Whilst I didn't see the particular tweet when it happened, it's pretty clear that Cabel Sasser is also talking about the press in his tweet (note "dramapress").

Whilst elements of this article do seem a bit biased, there are some good points later on which aren't taken out of context. It's a shame that it started out with this.
What a move! :clap: :clap: :clap:

Apparently Microsoft has a few spare disks in their Cloud :)
> Where are these cities where a strong middle class has returned?

When I was growing up in the suburbs of DC, not only would nobody middle class ever live there, you'd only ever go there to visit the monuments. Now, large swaths of the city are being redeveloped into areas for people who can afford to patronize mom & pop establishments.
The cited Billboard article is fascinating as well:

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i3...
Yeah, sorry no sale, for two reasons:

1. Experian Hitwise samples data from reporting service providers. According to Wikipedia [1] that's 10 million users in the United States. We all know how problematic Internet sampling can be for browser market share and so on, even if it is a large sample; and

2. What does apple.com have to do with the Beatles on iTunes? Most people I would guess access iTunes through the iTunes application.

Now I'm not saying they're wrong. I'm just not convinced they're right. If Apple released their referrer stats, that'd be something else entirely.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitwise
I'm afraid I've never heard or come across a case or even an individual I know who has complained about eye strain with the iPhone 4s display. If anything people have been pretty happy with it and can't go back to a 3GS. I'm sure the same will happen with the second gen iPad if it indeed does get a higher res display.
This just changed my life, thanks so much
That has been true since the 1970's but unfortunately the latest numbers paint a very different picture. Birth rates are not dropping anymore in recently-rich countries according to the UN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_growt...)
As I see it, part of the problem comes from the attitude taken about enforcement when laws are written compared to actual enforcement a decade later. I've had it with statements like, "this is meant for corporations" or "on one would try to enforce this against a private citizen because there's no money in that" because those laws always end up turned against mom & pop operations. Patent and copyright trolls have put the lie to such claims.
This is an interesting application of human thought, certainly, and aesthetically necessary for a lot of old games run on new emulators.

However, I often find art composed of unnecessarily-large pixels appealing: see, for instance, the favicon of bravemule.com, or the sprites from Spelunky.
Help me out here, Joachim, because you know where I'm coming from: what's the setting in which this Javascript SRP implementation could improve things over stock-standard HTTPS login?
What house are you keeping? Is your house made of passion? I don't know about you, but my house is made of money. If I have no money, I have no house.
It's not just an old adage that power corrupts.
This could definitely use more discussion, but the code samples are interesting.
Thanks Sharmi. It's late here but I am already working on this recommendations; they really make sense. I'll keep you posted.
As a greybeard who was using Internet email in the 1980s, I could wave my cane around and claim this newfangled web thing is just a passing fad.

Instead, I will point out that, besides email's asynchronous nature (which others have mentioned here), email's biggest strength is that it is federated and open. (The latter two are also true of the web.)

Sure, many people either get their email from or host it on Google / Microsoft / BigInternetCo, but there's nothing stopping anyone from registering a domain, setting up an email server, and actually communicating with the Internet.

Try that with Skype / iMessage / Hangouts / Messenger / etc.
'eh. I think cause and effect are pretty hard to untangle here. Mostly I think you're wrong. But I'll admit that it's hard to bring real evidence to the table. There were a billion tweets before Ashton though and the celebs showed up because there was an audience to be had.

I can see your point of view though.
I think the headline is a misnomer. It's not a strong welfare state that promotes entrepreneurism but rather simply a saftey net. There's a huge difference. A highly centralized cradle-to-grave welfare state seems to actually facilitate the opposite. But the point is taken that a limited but efficient social safety net is facilitative of risk taking. A universal basic income would probably be more effective than either the strong centralized European welfare state or the inefficient multitude of highly specialized national programs in the US.
I don't know about you, but tooling has always been and will alway be an important aspect in development. Better tools can yield better products.

And no, this isn't just typing text into a box.
Hash tables have nothing to do with imperative programming. It's just a coincidence that some MLs or Schemes don't include purely functional hash tables; Clojure and Racket both include have them.
All time popular : https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&date...
The "alleged fraud" described at the end of that post is not fraud at all. That poster either doesn't actually understand options or is misremembering the post in question.
> Bill told me about the sounds that the engine and transmission made as we shifted gears were just as he had remembered them many years ago.

It's fun how these sounds imprint on your mind. I've (obviously) owned many cars, and when they're in a movie I can tell if the sounds the car makes are correct or if they were from some other car dubbed in by the foley people. Not just the engine/transmission sounds, but the sounds the doors make, etc.
They also have implemented Release 7 HSPA modem (40 Mbps down) on the SoC, Mali 400 GPU and dual multimedia DSPs. Support for 1080p video recording and output. It's powerful, but I don't know if that's incredible.
It's really just sort of a weird optimization trick. You shouldn't use it in a regular program unless you have a very, very good reason. The fact that it works at all (ie, that you can inject the start of a loop into the middle of a switch statement) is surprising to most people. I've shown this to people who've been programming since before I was born, and they struggled to understand it at first since they had no idea that it was syntactically possible to do that -- it's not the kind of thing you normally think of when writing a program in C. If you know an assembly language and how C maps onto assembly, it's pretty easy to make sense of though, after you get over the shock of the syntax permitting this particular construction.
Presumably this infringes on notch's trademark rights, no?
It looks like there's also a column of water involved, like with the cats.
"In Bushwick, I never really felt threatened. Now, the sounds around are more aggressive. I’ll see 20 guys ride by on motorcycles"

The whole article is hilarious, but this is especially funny. Sometimes I see 20 people ride by in cars. Hide!
All you have to do is cap medicare growth? Wow, that's easy.

How's that work? How do you "cap" it? Obamacare was a huge process just to limit future growth, and it involved talk about "death panels" in order to make incremental reform happen. What's a straight "cap" look like?
This exercise shows a projected budget deficit in 2015 of $418 billion.

Seems optimistic. The fiscal year 2010 budget deficit was $1.3 trillion, and the consensus estimate for the hole in fiscal 2011 is another $1.3 trillion...
Woops, sorry, my mistake. I live in the area of the 9th Circuit so it's sort of the same to me.
Some context: this was a DeCal class which is run by students.

From the DeCal website:
"DeCal is a student-run democratic education program at the UC Berkeley - here, students create and facilitate their own classes on a variety of (often unorthodox) subjects."
"One of the fastest supercomputers in the world for $1.60/node hour. Cloud computing changes the economics in a pretty fundamental way."

Good luck getting much computing done at $1.6 an hour... Supercomputing speeds are bound to cost a lot more than that.

But it's still cool to have an account on #231 of the top500 list. I have to brag about it someplace.
Energia is long gone.

RD-170 family is alive and well though. You'd still need a good sized hydrogen engine - a kind of SSME or RD-0120.

But may be you just don't need too big of a rocket. 25 tons on LEO could be enough for everything, and you'll launch that often enough so a single launch won't be expensive. You can assemble stations, create orbital fuel depots, even make on-orbit manufacturing if you want something really big in one piece.
Facebook makes far too much money showing ads to their "more conservative user base" to do anything more than token gestures to stop racism and calls to violence.
GNU's printf is Turing complete[0]... so "yes."

[0] Mentioned (but not directly linked) by TFA:

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity15/technical...
It was not an attempted insurrection. It was a show of force.
Me:

> The end goal is cessation of real and specific incitements to violence against people and property

You:

> So are we just pretending that March-September 2020 didn't happen in dozens of major cities across the US.

Apparently you are confused between "empathy" and "incitement".

That "supercut" didn't have anyone inciting violent behavior. No-one saying "Go out, damage and destroy property. Hurt people". It didn't have anyone saying "this is a good thing".

You have people saying "I can understand why this is happening", "I get why people are driven to it".

That's empathy. Not encouragement.
Parler has been hosting TONS of incitements to violence and seems to refuse to take it down (or is at least extremely slow to). I don't see why it's particularly crazy that Apple would want to avoid the liability from that.

FWIW, I think alternatives to Twitter, like Parler and Mastodon, are a good idea, but Parler acts like they have a fair takedown process when it's evident that it is not working particularly well.
If I create a platform that only follows US-law and allows everything else, I would:

1. Be deplatformed

2. called a racist

3. called a pedophile

4. have my life threatened

that's the state of politics in this country. Thank you Media.

We need something decentralized and bullet-proof. Enough of these charlatans.
And the core network is even more aggressive in censorship (err, defederation) than the tech giants.
I mean, of course they have. Who is the least bit surprised?
Are they though? Half the people here come off as oblivious to the problem.
Debatable, but our hope is that $3000 for a uncommon but easy to remember portmanteau word would drive brand identity better than some random name, like "incuby"[1]

[1] http://www.inc.com/ss/the-worst-company-names-of-all-time#6
check out this scanner camera too:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectese
It goes the other way too; many communities are now dead because heavy handed moderators who were seldomly the folks who grew said communities. Often, after the death of the original place, the same people can be found stomping on original though in the next popular place, because such people seek their power.

If there are people trying to clean up 4chan, they're probably simultaneously damaging it, because let's be honest, the lax rules, for better or worse, is what it really has going for it.
> Where is the actual evidence or theory of why it cannot possibly work? The problem you have is that any example of torture yielding the intending information disproves your position entirely.

You are missing the point entirely. Sure it can sometimes work (hence my lead pipe comment). However, it is widely documented as one of the poorest methods available for getting accurate information. The only reason left for favouring it therefore is simply an emotional one - and a deeply nasty emotion at that.

Your pseudo-utilitarian line of argument could just as well be applied to rape or murder. But these are cultural universals - the fact is that all societies consider these things, including torture, to be immoral and crimes (and yes they still occur of course). To be debating 'both sides of the argument' in these issues as if it were somehow a reasonable activity is therefore objectively a sign of individual and societal sickness.

Don't fool yourself, the systematic practise of torture is no different from the systematic practise of murder or rape (indeed it often includes those acts even in modern times) - to be an apologist for this is something that will shame you to your grave. To paraphrase Father Phil from The Sopranos, now you can never say that nobody told you.
I'd like to think I would cope just fine. In fact, I'd probably be elated.

My concern was more what would happen on a societal scale, what would become of humanity as it was known.
> Probably less than the cost of a single parking ticket.

I really doubt that, but my point is that none of us know. Design is a lot easier when you're ignorant of any cost or logistical constraints.

> As for your corner cases, there are some signs depicted with text at the bottom...

I guess it's better, but it seems like greatly more complexity in creating and managing signs for only a little benefit. At least around me those aren't corner cases: pretty much every sign would have one or more additional restrictions or exceptions. In front of my house it's two-hour parking Monday through Saturday except for residents, and no parking on Mondays during the Fall. I think that's pretty typical for DC.
Well, I think it's fair to say that "among the Unix-derived OSes, macOS is the one with the best hardware support for the hardware it typically runs on." I've wasted months of my life futzing with Broadcom WLAN cards...
It's a legitimate concern. Although the fuels in RTGs (PU 238) will not engage in a chain reaction, like a traditional nuclear reactor, they could be used to fashion dirty bombs. No such uses are known, but the material has caused serious radiation burns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
It used to be amazing. You could start a real time text chat even in the middle of the night, and they were so helpful, professional and friendly, and followed up when they said they would. It was shocking and wonderful.
Well, how do I know it was the flu though? That's why I applied the quotes.
On the grander scale, there's no equilibrium.
They made it an optional extra that you had to pay more for.

This would be fine if we're talking about carpeting on the flight deck, but the AOC sensor is a critical feature.
I know you're being intentionally obtuse, as is the fashion right now, but I'm going to give a straight response to this for anyone genuinely engaging.

We don't know what went through that officer's mind. If you're standing watch and someone stands next to you and clicks a photo, is there anything you can and should do? Should you, as the officer, wrestle him to the ground, knowing there's a riotous mob right behind him?

But even if it's the case that the officer enthusiastically posed for the photo, it's probably best not to understand police like a monolithic entity operating perfect information, but rather as a group of heterogeneous actors working in a fog that limits their awareness. Otherwise, if you extend the "one officer did X therefore the motives of all officers are established" logic you quickly get really stupid contradictions. Over the summer, I saw several photos of officers kneeling in solidarity with BLM protesters -- I guess that means all police everywhere support the aims of the BLM movement now?

Probably not, because police aren't a monolith, and subsequent police actions contradict that solidarity. Likewise, police teargassing, manhandling, and shooting these other protesters also paints a more complex landscape than "one officer took a selfie, therefore they're all collaborating."
Because, almost insanely and extremely worryingly in itself, it seems the Mueller investigation concurred with the controversial opinion that a sitting president cannot be indicted. Presidents are above the law. So he has to be impeached first, then indicted.
I love my kid, but it has flipped my life upside down. My boss is understanding. I WFH, we have a nanny for 4 hours a day, but still I start work at 1:30PM. I have almost no will to learn new things. I was working on a side project and have little will to continue. Our personal life is suffering as we are both tired.
We are considering a full time nanny which is going to hit our finances.