skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, this announcement reads like a word-for-word rendition of a feature suggestion I made two weeks ago! It's almost as if the Heroku developers are reading this site and implementing user requests at lightning speed!

Many, many thanks. I've got to try out the emacs and git stuff.
This is sweet. So useful for getting help with code or showing someone how to do something.
I hope posts like this aren't the future of Hacker News.
The reason "chips" are called "chips" is because they are essentially 2d, as soon as we bump up to 3d (though it will probably be more like a high surface area crumpled up shape (not unlike the brain) for cooling reasons), I expect at least a few more doublings.
I fall asleep on my stomach, then roll to my back while sleeping. That's the key to success. Anything less and YOU'LL NEVER GET ACQUIRED!!! Mwhahahaha!
Seconded. It's not really a framework as much as a url mapper. Plus, it's quite small so if you're having trouble understanding something, the source is available.
Personally, I don't care to support Watanabe at all after the Inquisitor thing.
That's it. I'm leaving rescue time to use 8aWeek.

Just kidding. I agree with you - conversely, a complete lack of competition is probably a bad sign.
Or if your typical user is a MySpace retard, your site will become known as that weird place where everyone has a boner for Dick Cheney.
Can you link to a single good composition program? I have heard Wolfram's and I thought it was crap, and the only decent one I have heard was one which could only emulate old composers.
All right. Let's say you're correct, and companies are hoarding cash to manipulate the financial system. Furthermore, let's say that the Fed is not going to react to this.

ExxonMobil made about $40 billion in the last year. If they save every single dime (in cash, not in savings accounts, investments, or anything else that transfers liquidity), they will be able to reduce the money supply by -- wait for it! -- almost 3%! That is a gross change of 3%. Factor in the expanding money supply, and Exxon hasn't even reversed inflation, much less brought about a deflationary crunch.

Even if they can do this, how much do they benefit? Exxon will have sacrificed the interest on $40 billion in cash (that is a lot of money, even these days) in a risky scheme to reduce asset prices. But Exxon isn't the only bidder -- it has a market value of $460 billion, compared to a global market value of $51 trillion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_capitalization). So if Exxon is using their stock, and they're a rational actor like everyone else, they're going to take 100% of the risk for less than 1% of the benefit. In other words, the total return on their 'investment' in deflation has to be at least 10,000%!

And even then, you have to factor in their shareholders' reactions. Manipulating the money supply is not exactly a great use of corporate cash, and you can't even admit that you're doing it if you want the manipulation to work (otherwise, other actors will treat the mysterious, tiny drop in money supply as a temporary aberration, knowing that Exxon will cut it out some day). Given this apparent flagrant waste of corporate resources, you might expect their stock to drop precipitously. Exxon earns about 39% on equity (probably something closer to half that on marginal equity). Dropping that to zero won't make shareholders happy, and I don't think that risk is priced into the stock at $86/share.

So. Your theory is insane.
To be clear: I'm not involved in running this site, but I'm happy with how it is managed. Perhaps if you don't like it, another site would be more to your liking? (http://startupping.com/ has some startup related content, for instance). Or perhaps you could adjust enough to get some value out of this one, as well as contribute value of your own? If not, it's not going to make anyone here very happy, neither you nor 'them', and therefore seems a bit of a pointless pursuit.
Would you prefer an Ask YC: where in the world are you?
more importantly, which 6?
I'm sorry, but all 'evidence' of a benefit to capitalism is bull

My standard response to this:

South Korea vs. North Korea

Taiwan or Hong Kong vs. Red China

Modern China vs. Red China

West Germany vs. East Germany

USA vs USSR

Socialism has failed over and over, and I'm not going to argue the point.

Please, quote properly.

Uh huh. And then you quote yourself by adding in text that wasn't there before. Good job.
I can help. See profile.
You could be in orbit, right? They have the internet on the ISS.
The 2008 one needs an update as of.. yesterday.
For a second I didn't get what the big deal was here. Sure you have to keep your pickled python objects in a secure place on your server. Sure you could have problems if someone could get at those, but they would need to crack your server first and then figure out how your app worked. If they could do that you're hosed anyway...

Then it hit me.

He was suggesting you give the pickled object back to the client in the session cookie and load whatever the client sends later right back into the interpreter. Whee!
I am quite against database ORM, so that's no con for me. Documentation isn't great either but things are generally very easy to figure out.

My only cons (last I checked):

- Connecting to multiple databases is kind of a hack.

- Depreciation of cheetah over aaron's templating system.

So, it's just about perfect for me.
Cool. This is one of those things I didn't know I needed, but give it a week and I won't be able to live without it ;).
Whatever makes you happy and lets you get the job done efficiently.

Don't get stuck in paralysis through analysis. Find something that seems good and go with it.
Silence of the Sage: What Warren Buffett’s letter didn’t say
I can respect the need to question an entrepreneur's judgment if they insist on retaining Uncle Bob for their legal counsel, despite the fact that Bob is a personal injury lawyer in Kansas City.

That said, I don't understand why it's so darned important for a zygote entrepreneur to retain counsel at Perkins Coie or Davis Wright Tremaine, especially when most of the early-stage legal work is boilerplate, and thrift should be a top priority.

Where I live, (Seattle) investors seem to place disproportionate emphasis on your ability to hire an expensive firm, and I was reading between the lines of the article a bit to assume that's what the author meant when she wrote about the value of your choice of attorney.
In Django you could build the core of either of those two examples in an afternoon. I have done so just for practice. Yes, you won't use 90% of Django's potential. But the 10% you do leverage lets you build something like that very easily.

For a simple blog you would need to write only a few views and templates, and then I would use the the built-in admin system to manage the content. Same sort of situation for the simple news site.

I always get flamed for suggesting to not reinvent the wheel, but if you want to do build something like a quick news site, why not leverage all the pre-existing work you can. Technology is not your differentiating factor.
/rant
They're both absolutely brilliant at the things they do best, which seem to be slightly different. For other things they have varying degrees of difficulty but still tend to be, in my experience, pretty good.

If you need a quick database driven website (less of a webapp) then Django is perfect, I find the included admin is a real timesaver.
Poll: Is it OK to submit stories from your own blog?
Around a week ago someone submitted an old story from my blog - probably from going to my site through my profile. I haven't updated it in ages and mainly kept it for exercising clear writing in English.

Since it actually got a few votes and some good comments I'm thinking about taking it up again and updating it regularly. I just don't really have the time to promote it, and it's so much more fun when you have readers.

So my question is: Is it OK to submit something from your own blog that you think would be of interest to the community or would that be seen as somewhat self-serving or spamming behaviour?
Yes it's fine to submit your own stories
No, it's not fine to submit your own stories
I don't care where the submissions are from, as long as they are interesting.
the number of comments on a thread is not related to the value of the post. For example you could post something that most people disagree with. So they all comment stating their disagreement. Other folks come along and vote up the comments since they also dislike the post.
Widespread disagreement that people feel compelled to post about, rather than ignore, is notable!
http://codepad.org/pclJNMvg
pararell batch processing springs to mind.

I have an idea for a broadcasting system that could use this and I am now tempted with the price drop.
First, define "value" ... then refer to your own post on "Should Points-Based Ads etc.".

You think it's an interesting idea. I do as well. The poster does. As of now, that's it. Yet that's what I'd expect a lot more on Y.

But so far "is this troll trolling has 2 dozen posts" ... "is t.v. good or bad" attracted PG's attention and the second he comments his army of fanboys instantly add 50 more comments along the lines of "I agree with everything Paul Graham says."

Then new readers see the popularity and get sucked in.

So unfortunately, you could look at thinks like you described above, but something tells me you wish the "Should Popularity-based Advertising" etc. post got as much attention as the "Is T.V. good or bad?" post.

Which I doubt it will. I could be wrong. But I think this time tomorrow you, me and the poster will still be discussing it while everyone is rushing off to make sure everyone knows they agree with whatever post PG just made last.

Honestly when I was refered here I thought most posts would be along the line of the one like Popularity-points advertising, etc.

Creative new ideas meeting with technical talent.
South Americans? Reply here! :)
I meant to upvote you but I hit the wrong arrow again (small arrows, iPhone and train don't work well together).
My point exactly. This is one of the more interesting ideas I've come across on Y ... and as you say it's cheap and I bet people can come up with the nuts and bolts relatively easily.

Who's talking about it here? Now compare the top posts at the same time as this and perhaps you can understand what I'm talking about?

And yet, "Do you watch TV" got like, 100+ responses in mere hours ...

I hope this post becomes popular because this is an idea worth at least discussing, if not pursuing.

Bet not too many people will pay attention to it though ...
It's definitely ok to submit your own stories. There's a point when you can could be submitting too much from your own blog but it is probably the same point as submitting too much from the nytimes.
no, it's not. Making it notable simply promotes flame wars and trolling.
Very cool stuff. How are you keeping the backend secure?

You should put up a page of the most popular code samples :) And of course, let people vote them up and down.
Exactly. How are you going to promote your own startup if you're too afraid to post something you sunk some effort and thought into?

This should be a FAQ.
Darn, my code snippet to call system("rm -rf /") was met with some nonsense about forking disallowed.
Sounds like a fine policy. I'm curious what the numbers of people that learned Lisp in Eclipse will be 5 years from now.
Sure, we should judge posts based on content, but someone's motives should be taken into consideration with sock-puppetting. Why does someone want to say something that they don't want to attach their name to? I'm not saying there are or aren't good reasons to do this, but I would be suspicious of comments that someone insisted on making anonymously.

Another problem with sock puppets is that these sites run on the principals of democracy. Allowing multiple accounts ruins that.
I agree that voting with extra accounts is definitely bad.

But a lot of the posters here are anonymous. If you wanted a site with no anonymous people, that's reasonable, but this is not that site.
The point is that people already consider it notable (which is why they are replying). When it's not notable, they'll ignore it.
California cows start passing gas to the grid
I've submitted entries from my blog -- "Think before you code", "Wuala: Willful ignorance, or fraud?" (which started out as a reply to a post here), and "The Depenguinator, version 2.0" -- when I've thought that they would be of interest to the community here. Many other posts -- mostly concerning FreeBSD Update -- I haven't submitted because I thought they were of interest to too small a niche.

In short: Motives matter. Submitting blog entries because you think they'll be of interest to people here is good; submitting blog entries because you want to attract readers to your blog is bad.
Gary Gygax, Dungeons & Dragons creator, dies
I agree with you!

However, I'll add the caveat that things tend to get a little crazy around YC application deadlines. My feeling is that some people seem to feel the need to 'fall in line' around that time.
Elephant intelligence
"Didn't seem very modular, you can only use the Django ORM and templating engine."

Very common misunderstanding. You can use Django with SQLAlchemy (I have done in the past). You can use Django with Genshi, or Cheetah, or whatever template engine you like (I would strongly recommend using something like Genshi for outputting XML). It's usually better to stick with the Django ORM though as it will let you use many of the excellent extension applications for Django (such as django-mptt, django-tagging or the Django admin package). The same is not true for the Django template system - replacing it with something else has no disadvantages at all that I can think of.
you're doing it wrong

http://codepad.org/0COPIsn9
The basic strategy is to run untrusted code (including compilers) under ptrace to disallow a bunch of system calls. It's also chroot jailed, and subject to resource limits and a timeout. There are more details at http://codepad.org/about

Popular code samples are a good idea! I'll add that to the to-do list.
It's inane.
I was spanked something like 4 or 5 times by my father, and I agree with your action->consequence statements. I made sure to pass on lessons learned to my little brother and sister as well.

My dad and I have been laughing about it for a long time now. I think my sister was only spanked 2 or 3 times. The last time any us of were spanked happened when my she wet her pants in Dad's lap. We laugh a lot about it, actually.
You're joking, of course...but I can't help but point out that the Dungeons and Dragons empire has been very successful, and has influenced many of the biggest software makers in the world over the years (and I shouldn't need to point out that the most profitable video game in history is a direct descendant of D&D).
Thus the incentive to change it. I like it!
Web 3G: The Third Generation of the Web
Well, you could always skip forking: http://codepad.org/BThbEnMn
Ah, thanks -- the about link is not so obvious with a really wide screen browser.

Since I think every single person is going to try to do something naughty to your system, a list of the most creative attempts to hack it would be cool too.
Just as a warning. Its not listed here, but stay away from Zope3/Plone for a while :).
I tried that last year for a little while in a very inexpensive part of Europe.

Holes:

1. Connections, funding, publicity. Kiss those opportunities goodbye.

2. Travel expenses will cost you, add another $2000(?) just for that.

3. I didn't speak the language at all... Makes it extremely hard to get a good deal on housing. Affects quality of life.

4. Places with very low costs of living and relatively high quality of life tend to attract lots of annoying foreigners. Locals then tend to dislike foreigners.

5. Moving can have big overhead. Basically all of the apartments were occupied in the city I moved to for the first 3 weeks. Pre-made plans fell through.
to b specific now Haiwii, b4 Phoenix, b4 Atlanta, b4 Cali, b4 France (not really..just walk through) b4 DAKAR, Senegal, West Africa...
Unless you can point to some stats somewhere else, I think it's interesting to see where our community members are. Although the bulk will be in North America, I couldn't tell the proportion in Europe for example (what if it'd be 20% already?)...

Even if it's by no means a scientific way to find out, it can give us an idea.
If you want to be adventurous, you can also look at Werkzeug (a collection of WSGI utilities) and choose whatever ORM (SQLAlchemy, SQLObject, etc) and template system (Jinja, Mako, etc) you want.
10 Steps to Set Up Your Network
Law of diminishing returns
I would think PG could whip up a quick page off the logs:
http://www.hostip.info/dl/index.html
"Just because it's included doesn't mean you have to use it" sounds like a pretty good argument to me. The Python standard library has hundreds of modules that most people never touch, but no one complains that it's too heavyweight. Django tries to take the same "batteries included" philosophy.
I like Pylons. I've used it for both big sites (http://www.bittorrent.com/) and small ones (http://codepad.org/), and it's been pretty good for both.
It's worth it to me to pay the extra electricity to never have to turn my computers off...
Hmm. Are you saying that electricity in India is sufficiently deregulated that there is competition for backup electricity suppliers?
Pylons is also WSGI-based, and lets you use whatever ORM and templating components you want (although Mako is the default for templating).
Privacy is a competitive advantage if implemented well.
No, not what I have observed. What I have discovered. I have met a large enough sample set to make these statements.

I am judging their morals and how honorable they are against a scale that I perceive to be true. Honor and morality is highly subjective.

Even within the most honest folks I have met, very few reward the people they stood on the backs of to make it to the top. Woz gave some of the original Apple developers over a million dollars of his personal stock in the company as they were about to go public because he felt they were under-compensated - how many people would do this?
django. this isn't an even reasonable question to be asking.
Definitely sounds like a good idea. Add to that a decent message/spam filtering mechanism (like karma) and you're in business.
If they considered it important they would upvote it. But they chose not to.
Steve Jobs hid cancer for nine months
Django does the job better. It's not about content, it's the quality of the work.
I hate the name, but I've been very happy with cherrypy. Some things seemed too big (Django, Turbogears) and I liked how cherrypy managed routing and config details more than I liked pylon's implementation.
Alan Kay at TED:  An infectious idea for teaching ideas
It's reasonable to try to narrow the landscape down. There's a lot of information out there.

Although I agree, Django is really your best choice here.
Javascript Haskell compiler compiles Haskell in your web browser
Richard Dawkins: An atheist's call to arms (video)
Republicans use social networks too. The challenge would be to come up with some universally disliked person to use. I nominate Mr. Bean and Peewee Herman.
Timeout is working:
http://codepad.org/nQQKVWfa
Third World Biotech: Blood Test for African Sleeping Sickness licensed under CC
There aren't very many Republicans that still like Bush and Cheney...
Those are my two favorite paradigms for social news sites:

1) A machine-learning engine which gives you recommendations based on your behavior/tastes.

2) A focused community where articles revolve on the same topics, ordered by popularity and freshness.

Whereas the first one seems intuitively more powerful (I'm currently experimenting with Tiinker and Jaanix), the second one (for example Hacker News) has given me better quality content so far.
you took it insanely; I mean what I said, they are holding cash, while other companies struggle - then acquire. Them holding the cash has nothing to do with the other company.
shouldn't we only be able to vote for one option in the polls?

I guess I could live in North America and Antarctica...
might work at the top or something in addition to breaking stuff down by category - would help you stand out a bit make it less boring if you've scanned 50 cvs that day already...
No, I meant that it is inexpensive to set up your own backup. By 'far away', I didn't mean miles away... I meant far enough that you can't hear the noise.
I tried to write an infinite loop in C, but couldn't remember what I had to include. FAIL.
Poll: Would you be interested in doing a startup with someone from YC news?
There are obviously a lot of intelligent and driven people here, bound together by the interest in startups.

As many of you know it is hard to do a startup on your own, and almost equally hard to find good founding partners that are complimentary to your skills. YC news seems to be a hub for potential founders.

Would you consider doing a startup with someone from YC news? What about doing a startup with someone from another country or continent? Is that even feasible?
Yes, I would consider doing a startup with someone from YC news, but they have to live close enough that we can meet.
Yes, I would consider doing a startup with someone from YC news, even though we live so far apart that we will probably only communicate through IM/e-mail/skype
No, I would want to know my co-founders before I do a startup with them.
From Brazil.
Hackers attack MySpace and Facebook
jaanix can be both - for example: http://jaanix.com/security or http://jaanix.com/rails are pretty focused.
The probable answer is that there is an existing business/financial relationship between the VCs and the law firms. I bet if you examined the VC's past investments, you would see the paw marks of specific big Northwest "white shoe" law firms like Perkins Coie, DWT or Stoel Rives all over them.
No lisp? No arc? ;)

Seriously, that's really cool. I want to break it now.
I fully agree - it seems as though some people truly have nothing in their head of greater importance than a "poll" as inane as this . . .
Nothing: http://codepad.org/t74Brroa
It's a perfectly normal word, if you talk like this:

"Once you incent knowledge workers to leverage their core competencies, you empower them to impact the bottom line."
It has scheme! (PLT, too, so I guess arc would be easy to add.)
>That attitude may lead to more risk taking, but it will also be a constant source of unhappiness.

Not necessarily. It may be a source of unhappiness, but it may just be a calibration effect. Consider the question, "on a scale of 1-10, how happy are you?" I know 1 == sad (not me) and I know 10=="a marijuana forest full of strippers?!?". But what does 5 or 8 mean?

Say I'm the sort of person who might rate myself a 9. But If there is a person, real or hypothetical, who is "happier" than me (1), but not quite a 10. So that leads me to conclude HE must be 9 and I must be 8. But I'm not less happy, I just don't know how to answer a "how happy are you" question.

Similarly, I might want to rate myself a 5, but then I think about how I wasn't eaten by velociraptors, and jack myself up to 7 (my understanding is that something of this nature occurs in Denmark).

(1) His beer comes from further away than my beer and his wife's ass is higher up than my wife's ass.