skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$> rails myproject && cd myproject

$> script/generate scaffold item name:string description:text

$> rake db:migrate

$> script/console

>> item = Item.new({:name => "thing", :description => "blah"})

>> item.save!

>> Item.first

That's a start. The console helps quite a lot if you just want to play around with Ruby or any of the Rails modules. The list that carbon8 posted is a great start as well, and explains all the different aspects of the framework, etc.

I'm a fan of Rails and Ruby. Also, I recommend maybe switching out my "scaffold" example, installing the rspec gems, and doing "rspec_scaffold" instead. It's a good idea to get used to a testing framework if you're going to be involved in a significantly scoped project.

Enjoy!
Thanks! I've spent the last week lawyer shopping for my startup SpeakerText (http://speakertext.com) and ran into a couple young, ex-Gunderson Dettimer lawyers who had started their own firm. They already had >5 years each under their belt and new what they were talking about. We had margaritas last night and even though I went with Wilson Sonsini, this was essentially the advice I gave them. More lawyers should do it, if you ask me.
I didn't want to sign up either, maybe a demo link to a video showing how it works, or some screen shots or something. I have no idea what this is, how it works, or what it does...but i'm asked to log in.

It is much harder to get users to sign in to something than it is to get them to watch videos, look at pictures, read testimonials. Don't sell you site short by not marketing the sites benefits.
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If your dog is sick and he shows the symptoms of the Kennel Cough, then take your dog to the veterinarian. if your dog is diagnosed withe the Kennel Cough will probably prescribe an antibiotic which is done to prevent your dog from secondary and a cough suppressant.
Woooow, that is some bad website design. Hmm, sounds like a project I can work on :D
If the Future of HTML5 Is Like This, It’s Going to Be Delicious
Drive-by-wire can be made safe

I absolutely agree, but I'd still like a kill-button on my car (ie, ignition switch), and brakes should have a physical backup in worst-case-scenario. And, frankly, I don't trust any one company to do it right; it's the sort of thing that's ideal to make really public, so others can spot problems before they happen.

The ejection seat in those fighter jets aren't exclusively by-wire, last I checked, though they're probably enhanced somehow (not implying I'm an expert on fighter ejection seats, though). Your ultimate-backup should ALWAYS be an independent, simple, physical system that effectively cannot go wrong.
The worst answer might be that it hasn't been identified--they can't find or reproduce the problem.
Sure, but I think pretty much everyone given a bit of ego massaging would at some point pull a "Do you know who I am?" at some point if they were pissed off enough. Personally I don't hold that against anyone. It's just human nature.
There are already some porn apps(mostly censored tho) in the app store. About 3-4 in the top 25 paid apps and top 25 free apps.

BOObies(No. 13 paid app)

Boob Party(No. 24 free app)

Tasty Pasties 18..(No. 45 free app)
"Cohen never sought a formal diagnosis but turned his considerable attention to the matter"

Self-diagnosis. Are you fucking kidding me?

Just because you were picked on in highschool and are a huge pain in the ass to work with, doesn't mean you have Aspergers.

Guess what, Bram Cohen's probably just an asshole who writes good software.
How about the infamous Minix? http://www.minix3.org/
Good point -- I had missed that, obviously.
On most other networks, he would have been glined for behaving like this.
gtani: thanks for the links. I am also interested in the beautiful presentation used by the artist and I asked him http://twitter.com/feltron about his technique; I'll post here if he replies.
Thanks for the tip. You saved me from having my standing amazon order ship to a former workplace on an inconvenient continent.
California designates historic site...on the moon
No. Once again you are misrepresenting the alternate hypothesis.

Simply put, the economic effects of modest increases in the minimum wage floor are sufficiently complex that it is difficult to conclusively prove that there is a negative aggregate effect on unemployment.

Further, a useful analysis of the matter would also consider effects on labor force participation, distribution of wages, the poverty rate, entitlement expenses, the cost of living, incentives to attain education, incentives to work, consumer expenditures, prices, etc, in addition to unemployment.

Minimum wage laws cannot be usefully discussed by saying "increasing the minimum wage increase unemployment, it's that simple." Because it's not that simple. And even if that one variable did change that simply, it still would not be a useful policy analysis.

That said, I no longer get paid for presenting or analyzing policy, and your personal opinions have no effect on me, so I'm going to go spend my time doing something more useful and profitable.
That may just be a fault in the transmission. Although it's new enough that it shouldn't be a wear issue, it could be gum in the valve body (do they still have those?) or a fluid problem.
I think this is the difference between a reason and an excuse. Though his condition may have contributed to his behavior, it's still not a reasonable way for an adult to act. Part of the burden of Aspergers is having to learn what others intuitively understand about social interactions. I hope Bram learns something from this.
PeeWee Gets an IPad (Tech Commentary From a Sexual Deviant)
Mildly amusing.
Fair enough, dude. Perhaps we can agree that a sense of humor is in the eye of the beholder. I was simply commenting on the fact that you had famously switched off ZSFA because you were going to tone it down, and your most recent post seemed awfully similar to stuff you had done in the past, which of course is your right.

Furthermore, I made the mistake of engaging in a forum which is no longer what it once was. I'll try to spare HN (aka "Reddit 2") my humorless comments from now on.
Website seems down, Google Cache:

http://209.85.135.132/search?q=cache:http://www.tompinckney....
How to make multiple accounts on twitter with same email address?
Hmm. i've never sent anything to AOL (that i know of). There is some more info about google apps and DNS settings here: http://forum.slicehost.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=291
I think I'll have to contribute some J code (can anyone uglify Python this much?):

(*$:@:<:)^:(1&<) 6

Finds the factorial recursively. J programmers are masochists.

(From: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Factorial_function#Recursive_11)
That's actually one of very few tech IPOs that makes some sense.

I wish the Tesla people lots of strength, the car industry is a very bad place to be active in at the moment.

They have a unique proposition, they've done some clever marketing. By taking the 'prius' out of the electric car market and showing they can be sexy as well as good performers they've made a lot of people less skeptical about electric propulsion.

Let's hope they stick around and will manage to establish themselves as a long term brand, it is probably a requirement for at least one party to fully focus on electric instead of having to offer a whole range of vehicles, like that they can optimize where others will have to compromise.

Their model S is still two to three years away, if and when it starts shipping it will be a very interesting development.
Watch any of his talks or speak to anyone who has ever worked with him.

It's not just about being rude but genuinely not understanding the socially correct behaviour to his own detriment.

Exhibit A: not realizing that it is a bad idea to post a chat transcript of you dressing down a volunteer to a free service.
Relax...
"The lower prices leads to lower revenue which leads to less money to cycle back into the economy." How so? The customer still has that money, and will likely spend it on something else. Either by going out to eat more often, buying that new HDTV, or taking the kids to a sports game. I fail to see how that money doesn't end up cycling back into the economy. Unless we are to presume the money saved is hidden under a mattress...
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A new blog-like project where you can ask questions and get video answers from a real british physics scientist!
> Drive-by-wire can be made safe.

Sure, if you're willing to spend 70 million dollars on a car.

Snarky one-liners aside, this hits on one of my pet peeves: software quality. I mean, there's no reason why my IDE should die every time it tries to open a .sql file bigger than about 500K, but it does; there's no reason why MacOS X shouldn't have a "refresh" command in its Finder views, but it doesn't; there's no reason why I have to bang my head against software issues every single day, but I do.

So, while the optimistic technologist in me would like to see what cars could do with more advanced computer-controlled systems, the experienced and pragmatic technician in me is really not looking forward to it.
Well done - I love projects like this and think it has great potential both as a utility and a teaching tool: particularly impressed with the little 64-bit ASM tutorial.

Great website too...but it's missing a donation button!
He says he doesn't have any more info about his technique http://twitter.com/feltron
The current set of countries are protective of their oligopoly.

Generally, some nation will come and take it from you. Wolf Hilbertz developed an technique to electrically accrete limestone out of sea water and was using it to build a micronation, but it was almost certain that it would be seized by Mauritius when it broke surface.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saya_de_Malha_Bank#Artificial_i...
I completely agree and don't think it excuses his misbehavior but rather helps explain it.

I'll leave the moralizing and righteous indignation to the others.
Like with so many things in life, it helps to be the type of person who can take a step back and reflect objectively, rather than reflexively reacting to everything. It seems that far too many lack this ability, or at least haven't learned it.

Offtopic: It's a small world. I went to the same little school as Derek, albeit much later. Now I know why we could only drink water at lunch.
I find that really patronizing. The subtext of your comment is that "people with Aspergers can't help but be douches with a massive ego". On the contrary, I think that many people with Aspergers are quite nice. Autism is not an excuse for publicly "shaming" a Freenode volunteer.

From my experience, I think Aspergers can be an excuse for saying irrelevant things like changing the subject to baseball cards in the middle of a conversation or casually commenting on someone's weight, not realizing that that is taboo. However, it has little to do with entitlement and in general being rude.

I don't want Aspergers to become synonymous with douche and ego. When someone says something awkward or inappropriate -- sure. Don't associate it with "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM -- FIX THIS YESTERDAY -- I'M POSTING THIS ON MY BLOG". That's not Aspergers.
Interesting, I always recall the title was CouchDB: "The Definitive Guide". Perhaps I forgot this earlier title
Apple pulls flash content from iPad promos
Genetics Research:

Pedigree Analysis: A Family Tree of Traits

http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_...

Materials and Equipment:

Paper

Pen

Access to a photocopier (optional)
Wap chat, Mobile Chat (WinWAP CHAT) - Mumbai
Tinkerer's High Noon
No, I'm suggesting that the majority of computer use will invalidate this as a viable method of identifying users. Connecting from home versus a cafe or a friend's place; browser upgrades; plugin changes/upgrades; using a different browser; installing or removing fonts ... all of those will break this.

The prospect of having this in place instead of cookies would be a huge victory for privacy.
The crowd at reddit has gone rapidly downmarket in the last few months. Take this comment thread from a couple of days ago:

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/ava3b/australia_bans_sm...

Obviously the idea that the Australian censorship board is banning all porn that features breasts below a certain size is incorrect, yet not one commment in the > 1000 thread has questioned the accuracy of the article.
You can read whatever subtext and be as offended as you wish. My only purpose was to highlight his well-known issue with Aspergers.
You can do with it as you like.
Even better way (IMO) to handle it: Register a new nick, ask a Freenode support member to give him OP-access to #bittorrent. Ban trolls - have lunch.
Paradoxical, no. Unconventional, yes. A good article that outlines a conventional marketeer's view of 37signals' approach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-I_MJFlZbs
there's no reason why MacOS X shouldn't have a "refresh" command in its Finder views

What would you use it for? It already updates in less than a second. If you're looking for extremely up-to-date info, you're probably not a "Finder-only" user, and know how to use the terminal, so use that.

OSX is tiered, it doesn't give you all options at the simplest level, which is a HUGE reason for its success. Correctly so, IMO. No option overload, it "just works". Want more control? The terminal is right there. Learn how to use it and you'll pick up better practices than mashing the refresh button. (not implying you are, just making a general statement)
Pretty similar to what some of us did nearly 2 years ago:

http://projects.mvalente.eu/TwitTV/

-- MV
"No cream, no sugar" means no cream and no sugar -- what else could it mean?. I'm really not seeing your point here. I don't think the customers who say that are necessarily being deliberately difficult. (FWIW, I'm English, now living in the US, and to me this does not seem like a strange way of ordering a black coffee -- especially since just saying "black coffee" leaves it open as to whether or not you want sugar.)
Let's say you operate a business in a deflationary economy, such as Japan. Deflation --> Prices go down.

Yes, consumers will be paying less for goods, this is true, and on the surface seems good, but dig a little deeper. When deflation strikes an economy, almost all businesses are affected. That is why economists worry so much about it and are willing to use inflation to combat deflation.

Think about it: The beef bowl restaurant has lower prices, so they make less money. They will be unable to keep on as many employees, they won't have the excess capital to use for expansion, they will have less money to give suppliers, might not be able to pay rent... employees who are fired will be without incomes so they wont be able to take advantage of lowered prices. These are the ripple effects you need to look at.

The reason people fear deflation is because it is able to rapidly spread throughout the economy and infect almost any business.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation#Deflation_in_Japan

^ you can read more about the deflation problem in Japan.
The monotype is a really techie touch.
Personally, I do. In addition to showing a distinct lack of class, in cases like this it also dilutes the advantage of being well known in the first place.

Thanks to "who he is," Bram can direct the attention of a lot of eyeballs. A levelheaded post calling out the policy and the problems it causes would have focused those eyeballs on the policy; a ranty chat transcript that shows you repeatedly playing the d-bag card focuses those eyeballs on your willingness to play the d-bag card. It's a stupid, counterproductive distraction and a wasted opportunity, assuming you actually care about solving the root problem.
>however saying 'no cream' or 'no sugar' sounds like a request.

It sounds like a request not to have cream or sugar!
Qwit 1.0 Beta su Ubuntu
This one's a pretty good idea. His family is huge (both sides of his family have their reunion in my barn, so I know) so he should have plenty of data. I didn't know the thumb business was a Mendelian trait.
Yea, thank Flash for rushing HTML 5 into our browsers, don't blame them. Not like there was a viable alternative before.
I think that this is the most likely answer. They probably figure they can gain some time during the recall and fix the actual problem. Question is what will happen to the pedal manufacturer whose name has been dragged through the mud?
Just because you suck at something doesn't mean you should automatically give up. I think it's to Microsoft's credit that they're continuing to go after search. And they're making progress with Bing, albeit very slowly. I don't see anyone else attacking Google in search.
My Favorite "Bare Bones" System - Starting with Logic Gates, then assembler, then virtual machine, a language, compiler, and finally, operating system as a very high level construct:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&...
Not understanding social contract is not necessarily Asperger's. Also, exhibit A could also be seen as not caring, there is no proof that he did not realize.
idk... people get pissed when their account gets shutdown.

When Google decided to shut off my account for a week, I was pretty angry. If I'd contacted google, and they'd told me they have a policy of deleting accounts that aren't used for 60 days, I would have probably ranted at them a lot.

I don't think the fact people are volunteers really means you can't be angry with them if they have a silly policy.
The Finder frequently loses sync over Samba networks; the "updates in less than a second" doesn't work perfectly (or even really all that well in a lot of cases).

The only fix for such a situation is to restart the Finder.

I don't see how Command-R wouldn't be a better solution.

Incidentally, I'm far from the only technician dealing with mixed environments on a daily basis that's had this complaint.
Oh, a couple other points:

Clojure is very fast. It generally runs quickly, but then you can profile and add a couple of type hints and watch it run about as fast as java.

It's still a dynamic language, but names can only be defined in specific forms (eg def, let etc). This means that the compiler pulls you up on referencing symbols that don't exist. This is a huge productivity win.
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SF Bay Erlang Factory Conference Preview and Old-School vs New-School Erlangers
> Mabye it’s time the company sold off its online division to a company that is just that – like Yahoo.

I don't think Microsoft could find a buyer for its online division.
Some sort of uber pyramid scheme ... just as an experiment to see how big it could get.
I believe the specific scenario being worried about is the following:

People are not going out to eat more often or buying that HDTV. Instead, they are saving the money. Normally this would stimulate investment, but due to uncertainty no one is borrowing.

I don't know if this is correct, but it seems to be the worry. There also seem to be some cultural attitudes at play: "When you buy something cheap, you lower the value of your own life."
Samba networks do that for me on Windows too, despite the ability to refresh the window. More often, it'll crash Explorer rather than actually update the info if something is already clogging the tubes. Plus, network shares almost never update that quickly, and expecting them to do so is rather ridiculous. Round-trip time to a server clearly wasn't implied as part of the Finder update speed.

And again, I'll point out that the terminal is right there. If it's Finder that's slow, the terminal will still work. If the terminal doesn't keep up-to-date, then it's a problem with their implementation of Samba, not Finder, and a refresh button would do nothing (except maybe nail your network with unnecessary requests by most people mashing it when something doesn't work).
as said in the article, attacking Google in search is not going to get them anywhere. Facebook, or Apple, or Nokia (with its free GPS service on its smartphones) may steal a bit (or a lot, perhaps) of the show from Google, but I doubt Microsoft ever will.
I feel like this is just a bunch of nerds and kooks who want to meticulously plan their great utopia while living comfortably in their suburban homes. If they were serious, they'd already have a few boats lashed together and would be planning their spar and updating the site from some idyllic remote location in the sea.
Great Idea. Rather than re-flow, it cuts up the pages so they fit in 'landscape' mode.

Reflow works well, but not with diagrams and images.
IE6 support and google chrome frame
Lots of talk continuing about removing support for IE6, which I agree is a great.

However, when building business focused apps there is always the possibility of having a customer who must run IE6 due to legacy systems.

Even things like Google Docs, should be available to these customers.

So, I have a two part question.
1) why do you suppose google is removing support for IE6, rather than just forcing IE6 users to install the Chrome Frame plug-in?
2) is there any reason why I shouldn't just force IE6 users to use chrome frame?

I'm surprised how little discussion of this I've been able to find on the web.
out of subject.. but, do you know what is the theme used in screenshot?
According to the graph in the article they actually made profit in 2004 and 2005 and only a small loss in 06..

I'll admit some of the web products suck (hotmail?) but not bing, they haven't been able to profit from it. I guess currently they are after marketshare rather than profits. Think of it like a startup burning through some initial VC money to get customers except that they have a lot of money to burn!

Disclaimer: They pay my bills, but am not really a fanboy just not anti-microsoft.
I'm not sure what the broken window fallacy has to do with anything.

As for technology, see the comments in the article by economists about the difference between lowering prices based on improved productivity (good) and just lower demand (bad).
The iPad has a screen reader built-in, so they can pretty easily text-to-voice the caller id, and the text messages, too.
If SF weren't such a liberal city, it would have far fewer homeless. Part of the problem is all the services that San Francisco provides to people down on their luck. It makes the city a good place to live if you have nowhere to live. But some shop owners have lost their patience, and I don't blame them. I think I'd lose my patience too, after having to hose human feces off of the sidewalk outside my store several mornings in a row. In some parts of the city (like the Haight, anywhere near GG Park), it's gotten pretty bad.
But the placebo effect is not what homeopathy is claiming to be is it?
But even people who have unchecked that box show up when I make the same request authenticated as a Facebook user.
IEEE Spectrum: How Hard Should It Be To Stop a Runaway Luxury Car?
Really well laid and easy to understand. Your landing page was great for showing me exactly what it was and what the features were.

One bit of confusion was the "View Demo" link on the Pricing. Because it said "View" AND had a picture of a TV next to it, I was expecting a view to pop. I got confused and actually clicked it a couple of times before I realized a demo was being show for me to use. Suggestion: change text to "Try Live Demo" or "Try the Demo" or "Try Demo" and maybe change the icon. Mouse cursor?

I see you have an FAQ page, awesome. May I humbly suggest you use my http://breezyfaq.com app to power it? It has some really nice features.

Anyway, great stuff. I wonder if you could easily branch into video game leagues? Those are notorious for being unorganized.
Why You Can’t Use Your Phone’s SIM in the iPad
Mathematical and Scientific Joke Competition
Whoa. I totally failed to see that paragraph. Many apologies.