skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny, I have spent years trying incredibly hard to be less "disruptive".

I typically do things way outside the norm and it is socially disruptive which then creates an atmosphere where it is impossible to keep talking about what I do. Yes, I have done some radical things in terms of coming up with solutions where others say something can't be done at all but I had no goal of upsetting anyone by sharing that information, much less upsetting the status quo. I have found that people tend to split up into roughly two groups: Those folks that act like I'm the second coming of Jesus Christ and those folks that act like I am a liar, charlatan, and snake oil salesman. I recently concluded that the older accusations against me that I was "egomaniacal" imply that people think it can be done, just not by me whereas the accusation of "liar, charlatan, and snake oil salesman" means they think it simply cannot be done at all, by anyone. Period.

I still need to figure out how to turn it into a business model and make money off of it so folks can coo over me being "disruptive" instead of pointing fingers over it. At least that's the theory.
Armin has stated that he thinks that declaring URL routes with decorators is a bad idea. Has he warmed up to it or decided it bearable being a minimal framework?

I think they are a bad idea. I love urls.py being kind of a TOC for your application. Apart from that I can see a lot of good ideas in here. Solid template and HTTP layers, signed cookies, avoiding the ORM, short lived messaging, proper __html__, simplistic URL reversal. I love the simple request object API (args, form, files).

I can see additional libraries around this core. High level forms library at least.
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Surely making the codec open source isn't in itself that interesting, considering that x264 and FFmpeg form a high quality, open source codec for H.264? It's not the code, but the spec that matters in spreading adoption of VP8. (Of course, publishing the code would create a de facto spec).

More interesting still is the patent issue. VP8 is still effectively irrelevant unless Google announces they've performed a patent search and found VP8 to have no known patents covering its methods (or at least any that might incur licensing fees). After all, it was the patent issue with H.264 that bothered Mozilla.
They won't recode from h264 and drop the originals immediately. There are too many hardware h264 devices out there. My guess (given how their transition from h263 went) is that youtube will add it as another encoding target and use it for their web formats as soon as flash supports it. Mobile will remain h264 in 3gp, but that's only one out of six formats.
I like "A/B test your emails" better. I understand the problem of having to rewrite emails over and over again that are delivering the same message for the same goal, but need to be tailored to some specific-case scenarios. You might be entering into the email newsletter space with the more functionality you roll out so I would think it best to concentrate on those instances where you are doing customer development type stuff. The need to reach out to people in a very personal way entails that I DON'T spam them from an email newsletter, but yes I would want to approach it in a systemized fashion. Have a way to iterate on emails and refine your pitch - I like that.
(1) Really? I think I have the bootstraping concept all wrong :P

(2) You are right. I've done both on most of the site listed (and WordPress implementation). I'm working on my new portfolio and there I'll make that stuff clear.
If having an education causes women to enter the workforce more (either in order to pay off college loans or because they feel like they'd be wasting their degree if they stayed at home), then that could cause the correlation. Total hours per person would be more in the educated states, but hours per worker would be less. But we'd need more data to figure out if this is actually the case.

His result: Education seems to play a big role in how long a state’s average resident works, and for what wage.

This sentence is false based on the data given. The data in the article was a survey of employers. Thus it only measures how long employed workers work, not residents as a whole.

UPDATE: The full study is behind a paywall, but the abstract states a contradictory result from that of Florida's: "ws us to construct a longer time series. We find several interesting patterns. The married women with the largest increase in market hours are those with high-skilled husbands. When we compare households with different skill mixes, we also find dramatic differences in the time paths, with higher skill households having the largest increase in average hours over time." Source: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do;jse...
I haven't tried this in IE for a while, but can't we do something like push down an ActiveX control or plugin to render this video with IE pretty trivially? It would simply become part of the magic incantation web developers would use to embed video.

Flash did not obtain its dominance by coming installed with IE.

Unless Microsoft actively moves to block it, I don't know that Microsoft's explicit support is actually that interesting.
yeah onepageperday is supposed to be more of a "1% per day" sort of thing...
In any sense, for other developers or users to discover, or maybe to be seen by only one specific person, maybe even just just so you and you alone can take joy in knowing its there :) And nothing malicious of course! All in good harmless fun and spirit.
@tryruby
I'd just like to say, dude your ex is a moron. She fell for a scam, got bailed out by her credit card company and fell for another one by the same company. She's out $800 because she couldn't be bothered to consult with a lawyer who would have told her the letter was boilerplate bullshit.
"There was a big discussion whether HTML5 should require support for some codec, and in the end it does not."

This could cause them to reconsider that decision. In fact I'd go so far as to say this should cause them to reconsider their decision. Perhaps they'll come to the same one in the end, but this is a radical landscape change and it is appropriate for the standards committee to react to that and not just passively say "Oh well, the standard is written in stone, so sad."
I've seen, and enjoyed your work before, and had no idea you were that cheap. ;)

Drop me a line with your new rates, I'd love to keep in touch for future work.
Freelancing while trying to run a start up can be extremely tricky, I know, I've done it. I often found myself burnt out from client work (the work I didn't really want to do) which impacted the quality and quantity of the work that I did for the start-up (the work I did really want to do).

I'd say, if you must go down this route, really try to limit the work you do for others, take as little work as possible. Next, try and set times that you work on client projects, and times that you work on the start-up. Stick to the schedule you set up (put the start-up work in your most productive time slots). If you can't manage that, work like a demon on the client project exclusively, bang it out, then get back to the start-up asap.
Well... Notepad, for instance, is very limited.
I guess Knuth would opt to disagree. (Though the article itself is more reasoned and balanced than its title.)
We can't borrow from knowledge we'll have tomorrow, any conjecture on what will be found is at best a hypothesis in its own right. Data and verification for relativity is just well established (but arguably more research dollars go into that than evolution).

Viewing the odds of discovering something tomorrow or the next hundred years is very subjective -- case in point, I view the odds of discovering something contradictory to evolution far higher than something contradicting relativity. So we are at an impasse, and I'd suggest we need to go on what we have now, rather than how something might unfold based on our own biases (I am not denying my inclination towards astrophysics!).

If evolution could be harnessed to make verifiable predictions, I think it would be further along in terms of being a grounded and less disputed theory (with the understanding that no matter what, there will be dissenters). Or if alien life was found, I think evolution science would benefit from having a second playing field and might be on a better footing.
That thread is fantastic. Situation comedy gold. Wow, elitemeeting is completely shameless!
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> Within each of these areas I am not allowed specific features. Recursion. OMG. I did that once and never again. Big nono.

We tend to frown on loops and mutating variables.
I agree with you that money isn't everything, and money, if it's just a little, like 10% or something probably doesn't matter much at all for the vast majority of the people.

I do wonder, though, what would happen if microsoft decided to start offering top search engineers from google twice what they are currently getting.
If this is true, when does the revolution begin? And, will it be televised?
Whoa. Then never mind. I take it back: that price is absolutely ridiculous.
You can always get it for free.
I don’t know and I should have written “Wave concepts”, not “Wave tech” :)
JStorage - simple JavaScript plugin to store data locally
I've never tried it but is this similar to what you are looking for? http://www.peopleperhour.com/
SSL doesn't prove identity. It just proves that the connection is encrypted. CA's try to add a layer of trust on top of this with their different levels of certification, but that doesn't guarantee identity.
When a power law applies, the majority is below average because of the long tail.
You should always check the URL in the browser before entering your secrets.
"and it looks like the Zune HD UI we're accustomed to"

all three of us, that is.

(no, actually not me. I have an iPod)
'1) Just so, and I didn't mean to imply that I personally believe the shamans' version of how their medicine works. Regardless of their beliefs, mine, or anyone else's, however, it does; there's no way people would continue to come back, over millennia, to what can be one of the most harrowing experiences I can conceive, if it didn't.

2) Moreover, there are documented studies, done by genuine lab-coat-wearing scientist types, with measured doses and control groups and everything, that detail its effects, and its unambiguous efficacy. It's only the prevailing sentiment towards psychedelic compounds, and the restrictions on their study that engenders, that have prevented the kind of exploration I think we'd both like to see -- which is the point TFA was making in the first place.'

1) You're talking about a very small number of people, relatively speaking, over a very long period of time, compounded with a lot of mostly second hand, passed down knowledge that has absolutely no recorded data, ie: at best a ton of correlation without causation (correct me if I'm wrong). Humans have been wrong many times before like this, and for just as long, under similar circumstances.

2) You're talking about something very specific, reproducible, and testable. I don't mean to be culturally insensitive, but there is a very real and demonstrably greater value to this kind of information.
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Well not entirely. The differences I was thinking about was to do that, but also have people post their jobs to bid like on Elance. The difference is that a client would see local developers to their location first. I was also thinking of getting recruiters involved and having developers do the moderating. So yes like that but more.
They chose the path that would lead to the fastest adoption of the technology which lowers their bandwidth costs. Keeping the technology Chrome-only is against their financial interests.

Apple and MS pay yearly licensing fees for H.264. As soon as they adopt VP8, they can stop.
I was with you til the last three words.
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No worries, it just wasn't clear from your writing what was your position. It's good to sympathize with both sides of an argument (it's called being a grown up) but it's confusing to argue for opposite positions :-)

Cheers!
> It just seems odd that I have to pay someone so that I can write stuff for their OS.

Unless you develop on something non-Windows, you are already paying Microsoft in order write stuff for their OS.

And that's their evil plan. It's sheer elegance in its simplicity ;-)
Yes and no. I've tried this sort of thing before, and obviously the machine can't know when you are actually reading a paragraph slowly or when you've just been distracted. It would have to be clever about weighting an overall average with a short term average. I'll be curious to see how they do it, definitely.
Surprisingly, we came about another way. We actually applied to YC with a sort of Disqus clone designed for newspaper. We slowly migrated over to this after talking to lots of journalists over a couple of months.
VP8 support is currently mostly nonexistent. It's currently just a minor proprietary codec that almost no one cares about or uses. Of course, Google certainly has the money and resources to fix this relatively quickly if they really want to.
Unless you suppress whitespace (not sure if it's always a default setting), ColdFusion will render blank lines where CFML has been run.
Let me know if you guys have any questions/comments/concerns. :]
Its 80% of all revenue, and adsense is just the simplest thing to go with right now. We're in talks with multiple other revenue streams, mostly for syndication, and better ad rates. Stay tuned.
(My earlier reply was to the original version of your comment.)

It will benefit Google in two ways:

First, it insulates them from encoder licensing fees going forward, and from decoder license fees if MPEG-LA decides to back off their free-for-web-streaming arrangement. It also means they're free to bundle the codec with Chrome.

Second, if you believe the publishing hype, it could save them up to 50% bandwidth. I doubt it's that effective, but at Youtube's scale, processing is cheap and bandwidth is expensive; every 1% helps. If they can reduce the number of storage nodes, bytes transferred, and by extension, open conns/sec, that translates to very real savings.
Opera Mini approved for iPhone
It's possible to have skills, connections, experience, etc. to contribute to a startup without knowing how to build software.
Amongst the many features we offer in the "you couldn't find the time to do it yourself, but we'll do it for you" category, is SEO.
Opera Mini iPhone App Approved
My iPod can do every one of those things you mentioned at a fraction of the weight, size, and cost. Why would I buy a tablet? This was exactly my point--tablets occupy a gray area between laptops and iPhones and the jury is still out on whether there is any value there.
Docs has really replaced a lot of our use of MS Office

Really? Wow, I require WYSIWYG editing pretty rarely and even then I thought Google Docs / Zoho Writer was not enough, and usually had to resort to Open Office. However the latest round of improvements (like tab stops) will cause me to look again, and I definitely want to give the drawing app a spin.
So you're saying it's a hugely successful product, adapted and tailored for a specific niche that doesn't generally have the know-how to do it themselves.

Sounds like a winner to me.
Alice for the iPad
Right, but with a much better revenue share.
Armando! Glad to see you're doing well. Good post and good luck, bud, I'm subscribed.

Hire this man, he's very reasonably priced and works fast on top of that.
Video would be better if we could really watch what's going on instead some sort of Michael Bay short film with movement and zoom and movement and zoom and movement and spins and zoom!
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He is right, China is investing billions in this initiative.
> If your RAM, disk, and CPU let certain software perform as fast as necessary, any "bloat" you are asribing to things is purely psychological, philosophical, or due to something else like poor UI design.

Actually, bloat is measurable. It's the difference between being able to use a tiny netbook for a whole day without bothering to recharge it (provided you have a big enough battery pack) and having to be tethered to a desk for the whole day.

Of course I would love to have 16 cores of pure performance, 32 gigs of RAM, a couple terabytes of wicked fast SSD storage. Unfortunately, I wouldn't be able to fold it up, throw it in my shoulder bag and leave the office in order to work from a charming cafe while I watch the sunset. At least not for the next five years or so.

Everybody has priorities.
This may not solve the problem, as companies like Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Nokia, etc need to get on board as well. They are likely to continue the same arguments they raised against Theora; most importantly that VP8 is still vulnerable to patent extortion despite being independently developed. It's probably too much to ask for Google to provide indemnification from patent lawsuits, but hopefully they've at least done some work to help assuage these concerns.
The counter is still counting...
http://my.opera.com/community/countup/

edit: They've added a message, although the counter is still going
If you work for a startup that is less than 3 years old, with less than $1 million in yearly revenue, you can get it for free via BizSpark (microsoft.com/bizspark)
Hmmm. I gave this a little thought as I drove home, and I think I've got the answer.

On the whole, both regulation and the free market are able to deal with most of slavery. But at the margin, it becomes cost-ineffective to mop up the very last instance. In both cases, the instance is low enough that most of us will never come face-to-face with slavery. But ferreting out one more evil person costs society more than it would benefit.
Using PVRTC images to keep RAM and bundle size down in xCode Projects -Omegasoft
Of course, I would want to know what definition of "friend" people are using. It seems to me that some folks say "friend" where another person would say "acquaintance". If you are using a more shallow definition of "friend" than someone else, its easy to claim many "friends". But if push came to shove, a lot of those folks would abandon you.
It's not available in the store yet.
> If evolution could be harnessed to make verifiable predictions

That's an 'ID' talking point and verifiable false.

There are many thousands of cases where evolutionary theory could be used to predict the outcome of an experiment and each and every one of those has held up.

The interesting one would be the first -and only- counter example required, but to date not a single one has been found.

Support for evolution is rock solid, to the point where the only people that try to undermine it usually have some kind of political agenda to push.

You have to hand it to the ID (formerly creationist) groups though, they are doing an excellent job of sowing doubt amongst the uneducated, and they are getting skilled at the debate to the point where all but the most interested lay people can see the holes in their arguments.

But when they go to hospital and need treatment suddenly science is a-ok and never mind the fact that these bacteria have evolved to become resistant to such and such an anti-biotic, give me the stronger stuff...

Your viewing of the 'odds' of something turning up that would contradict relativity is at odds with that of for instance, one Albert Einstein, who searched for a way of unifying general relativity with electromagnetism, without success. Once found it is widely believed that either one or both of the 'parent' theories will need some adjustment.

Evolutionary theory is much more vulnerable to falsification, a single example of a creature that could not have evolved and it would be history. In spite of millions of species that we can observe today and the many very motivated people searching for such a counter example none has been found.
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Or Monodevelop, or SharpDevelop.

Or just your favourite text editor coupled to the build system that comes with the .NET framework.

You could even write an Emacs mode for this.
Doctor Who regeneration was 'modelled on LSD trips'
Opera Mini for iPhone approved
This is pretty much it. I'd make an intuitive guess that the average number of friends of friends is Sum((F_n)^2) / Sum(F_n), where F_n is the number of friends that person n has.
The reason listing on Amazon etc. is that you can built a review rating that most people will trust. When I see something self-hosted and trumpeting its own positive reviews, unless they are by somebody I know of, I will wonder what the negative aspects are.

If you want to build a community etc. through self-hosting, why don't you do both? (Unless the Amazon TOS forbid it, which I can't imagine).
On the competition page it does say

When do you think Opera Mini will be approved by Apple?
I'd be interested in a quote or link from Knuth if you have it. Or a page number, I'll look it up.
Please send me an email as well. zackster@gmail.com. Thanks.
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My original guess (on the first day) for when it would be approved was pretty close; I was two days off.
Emacs runs comfortably on my netbook. I seriously doubt Visual Studio 2005 would be able to do it.
Hey Sunir, What about remote Vancouverites?
Does the Opera browser app itself not interpret javascript? Is it offloaded to the iPhone's WebKit/rendering engine? Otherwise this would seem to fly in the face of the recent change to 3.3.1.