skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll agree with this.

Pylons is a win when:

1. You need SQLAlchemy.
2. You're not really leveraging the Django admin.
3. You don't need anything in pinax or the rest of the django apps.

I actually prefer the various wsgi options over Django (I was a TurboGears committer for a number of years) but Django is better for banging out sites where you need to implement common features since there's a fairly large pool of django apps to draw on. If you're doing something more complex, then there's no real technical (dis)advantage to Django but you'll have an easier time finding people who know the framework and the docs are better.
Any of the Source engine games should run great on the last few generations of MacBooks and iMacs. Half Life 2 actually ran fairly well on my old GMA950 based MacBook. I know Valve has added some bells & whistles to the engine since then however to target older Mac's they may simply disable some of those features when running on Intel GMA or X* hardware.
This is the kind of thing I picture vividly when someone says a phrase like "you can't have your cake and eat it too".

Amazon brings enormous value to states like Colorado, but the politicians only see another slice of the economy that they want power over.

I'm glad a company is finally doing something to defend itself against this sort of thing. If Microsoft had defended itself over the monopoly charges, maybe they would be a little more innovative today. After all, they were punished for doing what has made Google so beloved: giving out something for free to drive sales to their main product.
I find it interesting that the women never discuss the high concentration of single men nearby -- yet outside of -- San Francisco, on the Peninsula and South Bay. Why is that?

Back in the early 00's when I lived on the Peninsula and went up to S.F. to try to meet women, I had no luck. They lost all interest after I would admit to living in Mountain View. Many of my friends from the south bay found the same attitude. So, I don't think it was just me.
Programmers: What To Do If You Get Fired
http://www.chaosscenario.com/main/2010/01/when-can-a-comma-c...
"I agree that it's very possible for many to feel limited by the ORM and standard templating system."

For me Django 1.2 is smoothing both of those over. The raw_sql method lets you construct your own select statements and turns the results into python objects. Also the if tag is much better. If template tag creation got cleaned up, I would have almost no problems at all with the template system.
shooting while retreating would be one scenario I can think of. Someone else said it but the typical fps setup is wsad space jump, ctrl or shift =crouch or run with mouselook.
There was a TED lecture by a founder of Gap Minder that showed this data in exactly the same way a few years ago.

It really opened my eyes that the things I had been told all my life, and was still hearing from people who thought they were smart, were in fact, based on very dated information that was no longer true.

Once a fact is learned by the general masses, it's practically impossible to get them to unlearn that fact after it changes.
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It should be renamed "Appldroid" and not Android. It's misleading.
I totally disagree with that advice. A good portion of SEO isn't expensive or time consuming. In fact, none of it should cost money. And a single update to Google's algorithm rarely harms folks who are doing white-hat SEO.

SEO effort is a multiplier. You can have outstanding content and make no SEO efforts and yes, you'll probably do okay. You can have crappy content and be brilliant at SEO and you'll do great, too. The best scenario is to have great content AND great SEO.

Of course, part of SEO IS building something worth linking to (and doing a bit of social engineering to get folks to link to you more than they otherwise would). Check out Mint for an outstanding example of this.

Great content/software and SEO are not mutually exclusive and 95% of the SEO tactics you need can be learned in a weekend and implemented as you go along.
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There is another aspect to it. You can experimentally learn to make toast.
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Already many students are using Apple laptops at school, and perhaps have a PC at home since you can also play games on it. If you could play all the new cool games on a Mac, instead of a home PC you could consider either getting a beefier Mac laptop or a Mac desktop system.

While there may still be a lot of people preferring a PC, I think their future number just went down a lot. Time to long AAPL?
I disagree. It certainly doesn't force you to do anything. I am working with a team on a legacy web app we are converting to Django. Because of the legacy nature we have had to extend and override some of the functionality provided by Django and have found it an easy and logical process.

And grouping models/forms/views/templates etc certainly has made sense for us considering the large amount of code we are dealing with. Finding the relevant section of code is a painless experience.

I do agree with the articles complaint about obscure import errors. My solution when dealing with that is to drop into the shell and do the import there to get a better error message. Not ideal but so far it has been the only pain point we've had to deal with.
I suspect Amazon could've notified Associates ahead of time, but declined to do so in order to cause maximum damage to them, thus maximum outrage / political benefit for Amazon.
Nice examples, I was wondering about this myself (having not done any functional programming).

Any suggestions for starting a functional language? And which to start with? I'd love to eventually get really deep into it, but I'm really busy lately and can't devote a lot of time to get my brain over a high hurdle.
Tell HN: I'm giving away a sample dataset -- URI scheme frequency
Hi everyone,

I've released a small, sample dataset based on a 7.5MM page crawl. The dataset lists the frequencies in which URI schemes appear in the anchor element's href attribute. The list was truncated at 300 URI schemes (for this sample) and is available in TSV format. The columns are: uri_scheme, frequency, unique_pages, unique_domains.

http://webscaled.com/static/samples/uri_scheme_part-00000.tsv

Please keep in mind that this is rough data. This file came straight from a MapReduce job. The values have not been classified (as they will be in the full version of the dataset), and a few are just people attempting to write "http:" but failed.

You are free to do whatever you please with this dataset. I just ask that you reference http://webscaled.com/ somewhere. Also, send me an email from the Webscaled contact form if you're interested in the sample dataset for top Doctypes.

Edit: Probably best to release under a license. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Thanks for your time
Some of the latest MBP's have a 9600 as well as the 9400. The 9600 runs mirrors edge pretty well on a 24" monitor at native resolution.
If anyone on HN needs that video or mp3 email me.
> IMHO it's manic enough to shoot their own small business people (by squeezing services like Amazon in this kind of corner).

But if Amazon pulls out completely, then they don't get anything while at the same time hurting their small business people. Where is the gain?
I think your sentiment here is pretty correct. We have been using Django to build SWIX ( http://www.swixhq.com ) and for the most part we find Django to be a blessing. It does much of the heavy lifting and helps us keep all our code modular and loosely coupled(at least when we are doing it right).
it varies by handset. my mytouch 3g took a lengthy process involving 2 microsd cards, a hex editor, submitting some id numbers specific to my phone/microsd cards to some random website and getting emailed a "gold" file, and reflashing various files. my nexus one took all of going into the settings and unlocking it, then reflashing a cyanogen firmware that had been downloaded to the phone.

i would imagine that if at&t is locking down this particular phone, they are (or have instructed motorola to) lock down the firmware reflashing process.
I always thought that HN didn't really have any standards for relevance other then just being an interesting article. The article isn't very hacker related, but it does keep me interested.
It's a fairly strange list mostly because it seems the guy doesn't do a lot of programming. The whole 'only focus on one thing' is pretty well known for writing, which is why the vairous writeroom clones exist.

I've always felt that vim was pretty awkward when working with text instead of code because it doesn't reflow the text when you delete so you hit a `D` and then have to `gqgq` to get the text back into a paragraph.
> Amazon brings enormous value to states like Colorado, but the politicians only see another slice of the economy that they want power over.

More like "balance the budget" translates to "find more things to tax, rather than cutting spending on things we don't need" in politician-speak.
Quoth the prof: Most risk analysis offers that in the face of substantial uncertainty, you opt for the more conservative path or hedge your bet (e.g., do not show up an hour late until you know the professor has an explicit policy for tolerating disrespectful behavior, check with the TA before class, etc.).

Really? I always heard that it was better to apologize later than to ask permission first, at least when you're doing something as harmless as entering a classroom with a lecture in progress.

Galloway sounds like a butthurt nitwit who missed his calling as a librarian. He probably isn't, of course, but he certainly doesn't take the high ground in his response to the student's perfectly civil letter.

It's true that many doors open in the business world when you make a habit of being early, but it's also true that many doors open when you show up someplace where you aren't supposed to be at all.
Async-rack: making async really work with rack
Sure. You could mechanically couple one of the plates to a generator of any type. Keep in mind though that the Casimir energy is conservative--meaning that you can't extract more energy out of it than you put in. You'd get one extremely small electrical charge... and then need to use more energy to pull the plates apart again.

The plates do need to be extremely close for this to be noticable. Definitely nanoscale. :)

The wavelengths of the particles are any which satisfy the boundary condition that the transverse component of the electric field is zero at the plate boundary. That's basically satisfied by any photon with wavelength above the plasma frequency. For aluminum, that's about 15 electron volts or 82 nm. (warning, back of the envelope math) Obviously the lower frequency bound depends on the distance between plates.

You can indeed make springs with the Casimir force, although the force depends quartically instead of quadratically on the distance. Measuring the springy oscillation rate is how we experimentally measure the force.
I disagree with this analogy. Without food, you _die_.
Video of a pseudo unboxing of the fake i7 box / demo unit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54tDqM5-6RU

...and a little bit of commentary from another customer who received a fake/demo i7:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmEgSg9m89U
I'm sure that possible course of action occured to them and, based on the fact they didn't choose to do it, they decided it wasn't worth their while. I'm sure Amazon is looking out for Amazon, as they ought to be.
The best statistical graph ever made, Napleon's March, on an interactive map
I agree. There is questionable relavance in this article(I say this even though I am good friends with one of the coaches in the article).

If it helps, when I first ran into my friend couple years ago, he was very average with women. It took couple years and 1000s of hours and lots of ego hits to get to where he is at now.

The subject in itself can be super hackerish but I wouldn't say this article is the best for geeking out on the nuances of dating!
Ask HN: What are typical eCPM for Google Mobile Ads?
iPhone App Developers, Mobile Web Site Owners: I'm hoping you guys can help me out. I'm looking for typical eCPM rates (perhaps include # of visitors/month, PVs/month, and type of content/app) for those that use Google Mobile Ads and/or AdMob to monetize. Would be nice to know what type of targetting you guys do as well.

I'm researching push text/sms notifications monetization as well as mobile ads and what the rates would be for each channel and mobile ad companies can improve in this area. Please ping me at steven[dot]loi at google service provider if you can help!
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Sayre's Law states, in a formulation quoted by Charles Philip Issawi: "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the stakes at issue." By way of corollary, it adds: "That is why academic politics are so bitter." Sayre's law is named after Wallace Stanley Sayre (1905-1972), U.S. political scientist and professor at Columbia University.
Allowed by whom? Google went out of their way to give handset makers and carriers almost total control over how they choose to package Android. I suspect we'll see more of this simply because the carriers will want to create a low end SmartPhone market to replace the dumb phones out there. They'll only run a few carrier approved apps and may not have access to the regular Android Market but instead a carrier run market instead.

I know in the on-going Internet race to judgement Android has been anointed the White Knight role but Google's choice to give carriers/handset makers so much control over how Android gets into consumer hands is nothing to be proud of. We shouldn't be cheering on a solution that really isn't nearly as open as people suggest. Even a more legitimate Android phone like the Droid or N1 is crippled from doing wifi tethering unless you root/jailbreak it. Why? Because carriers didn't like it. If we're really looking for a 100% open mobile platform Android isn't really the solution. It's probably the best bet out there today but that should not stop us from pointing out why it's also restrictive.
This all seems like good advice too. I think the top SERP gets more than 42% of clicks though... more like 70. SEO is in many ways a winner-take-all sport at this point, and it's gotten more so over the years. Google released some eye-tracking data and people just look at the top 1 and then top 3 results, then they re-search.
Yes, but they aren't meaningless without it.
I'm not so sure this is true. We had one site up for a few months and eventually realized we had done something silly (WRT SEO) with our internal site/link structure.

So we did a minor fix and within a week Google had indexed twice as many pages as before (& ramped up traffic too).

Sometimes it's the obvious.
I don't think the title of this submission is accurate. More accurate would be "summary of sports business conference, ft. Michael Lewis and Mark Cuban".

There was little analysis to suggest these limits, really.

Further, Moneyball was NOT (as is commonly believed) about walks in baseball. It was about finding and exploiting market inefficiencies. And you need quantifiable, reliable, data in order to do that.
Sorry I did not answer your question earlier. I used that particular page in the post because it was an example of how these autogenerated pages come into being in the first place, from a post I did back when I first called Jason on the practice. It was the actual page that I had seen the noindex tag on after Jason added it. You can get to any of these autogenerated pages by running a query on Mahalo itself.

It was never an issue of how many of the empty pages were ranking per se (although quite a few do, just not that one), but rather of the sheer numbers of them that were collecting enough tiny quantities of of PageRank each, that was then (and is still, as a matter of fact) adding up to massive amounts of self-sustaining ranking power:

http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2010/02/22/apparently-j...

I hope that helps.
What's the point of responding if the trolls just vote you down?

see:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1176362

This is becoming sad. Really... some folks need to get a life.
> "There's no pressure to grow up here," she says. "The way I act now is pretty much the same way I acted when I was 24. It's culturally reinforced here. Nobody cares that you're in your late 30s and have roommates."

Isn't the idea that being 'grown up' means "owning a house in the suburbs" part of what fueled the recent real estate bubble? Shouldn't we disenfranchise ourselves of the notion that you're not a 'grown up' until you have the responsibility of paying a mortgage?
Who is this Napleon fellow?
Tethering app was only removed from the US T-Mobile store, it is available everywhere else.

http://androidcommunity.com/google-allowing-tethering-apps-f...
They may be worried about political reprisals and investigations. For example, Humana faced a federal investigation when they sent out a mailer with statements that contradicted claims by Senator Baucus. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32954068/ns/politics-health_care...)
> It turns out that the vast majority of our readers block ads without thinking about it, because they think it doesn't matter, or by mistake (seriously).

[citation needed]
This is from a cell phone forum and the "mobile skin". This value is all of last months traffic:

Impressions: 426,784
eCPM: $1.39
Revenue: $592.15

Won't say which site, hope it helps.
It also sucks for developers that Motorola is still actively releasing new Android devices with such dated hardware. This is basically a glorified G1 (~500Mhz CPU, 256MB RAM) I'm not sure how that's going to play when we're very likely to see 1.5Ghz multi core CPUs with 4x+ as much RAM being released this year That's quite a big gap in specs between the low end and high end for brand new devices that are going to be in use 2 years from now and beyond.
And I've heard that it will generally select appropriate presets when you do the whole "export for web and devices" option...
That's great, a few months ago I saw a US VC overview of "investing in Canada"...it was scary. A common route is to use a whole whack of sibling companies (like 3 or 4) to transfer the money, it was a mess.

Their conclusion: just move to the US, it's easier.
One thing that I'm wondering is whether I'll be able to get the Mac version of Dragon Age, for example, through Steam without having to buy it again since I've already bought the Windows version through Steam. I'm sure there could be some licensing issues there, but if Valve managed to convince other game developers to allow them to do that with non-Valve games, it would make this even better.
Is there someway to interpret this other than the Professor is a arrogant a-hole? What's interesting about this?
From the comments, an alternate form of the (.) . (.) operator:

foo = fmap fmap fmap

Nothing says "welcome to Haskell!" like an inscrutable pile of fmaps. Oh, pointless style, how beautiful you are.

In all seriousness, though, there are a lot of cases where a pointless--er, "point-free"--style is actually clearer and more comprehensible, typically when you're writing functions intended to be used as combinators. Similarly, applicative style sometimes looks a lot cleaner than using do notation.
They still do not allow wifi tethering apps unfortunately -- or they are blocked on Sprint (HTC Hero)
I was thinking the same thing. The poor English, and the even worse translations, seem like a dead giveaway that these are definitely the worst of the worst: FAKE DEMO UNITS! The world will implode in 5.4.3.2.1...
If you get the phone from Google or T-Mobile it is trivial to root them and install your own firmware.

Hopefully Motorola won't lock down the bootloader too badly on AT&T.
That's applicable to cars too - when I bring up the fact that I am without car, people immediately take me less seriously. When I talk about the benefits of being car-free I get the whole "uh... suuuuure... if you insist" reaction.

shrug
A lot of kids (and they are kids) turn up at third level education (some institutions more than others) with an overweening sense of entitlement. Lessons like this aren't out of place.
Add the ability to do research - most of my computer troubleshooting is just search engine use. His kettle corn could've been made right the first time if he'd googled around a bit before embarking on the project.

Edit, after thinking about it. I glass-bedded one of my rifles recently. This is a procedure involving epoxy and a disassembled rifle. If you do it very wrong, you will wind up with the barrel stuck permanently to the stock; I suppose you could mess up the inner workings, but that would take more than willful ignorance. But the internet provides all the information necessary to do it right the first time.
as I've said, all these pages are being deleted, redirected or built out.

also, the no index thing is going to be on all pages under 100 original words.

we are working as fast as we can to resolve all these stubs, but many are owned by users and we don't want to just nuke them.... so, we're busy at work.

thanks for the feedback....
That is actually quite typical of you, Jason. You respond to well documented and well written articles that cast you and your actions in a negative light by avoiding any discussion whatsoever that actually addresses those facts, by making more stuff up with zero substantiation, and by insulting and lying about the authors of said posts... but anyone who disagrees with you is a troll.

You are a fucking piece of work Jason. Seriously.

@Devilboy - technically speaking it was the noindex tags that disappeared (and which he refuses to address). There was never a nofollow meta tag on the pages.
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You were downvoted because you didn't address the question at hand (disappearing NOFOLLOW refs) at all!
Yes. That the student is an arrogant and inconsiderate a-hole.

But, there's hope for him or her - they may learn better with lessons like this one.
"We don't even know what it is," Valencia said of some men she has encountered around the city. "Is it gay? Is it straight? Is it a friend? Is it a foe? Is it looking for a job? Is it looking for a place to crash?"

Maybe stop referring to guys as "its"? I'd certainly find that disturbing in a man talking about women.

Personally, I'm amused at the assumptions. Men who can't find a partner are somewhat pathetic, but if women can't find a partner of sufficient quality, something's just wrong with the city.
Yikes, that is quite unfortunate.

Do 3rd party markets apps like Wifi Tether from anda.pk work?

http://discuss.gdgt.com/htc/hero/support/tethering-with-the-...
Agree. I fear that "fundamental" is becoming debased in the same way as "evil" seems to be.
Dressing someone down for doing something that is usually tolerated (sampling classes at the beginning of the term) is actually a little out of place in my opinion.
Speaking only for myself, I have to say I actually find your point-free version of "sum" more readable. The extra argument is just visual clutter.

Pointless style only gets really confusing when you end up with a bunch of composition operator sections shuffling the order of things around in unclear ways.
i like this professor. i trust that the guy learned his lesson too & will remember to show some decorum in the future.
Now if only it were possible to buy a good graphics card on an Apple computer. I say this as a proud owner of a Macbook Pro, by the way.
It makes sense - Apple has been interested in Macs as a gaming platform for years, but has never been serious enough to put their considerable muscle behind it.

If someone else is willing to throw their money, time, and influence at the problem, all the better for Apple.
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