skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard the suggestion to use Cake PHP as intermediate step from frameworkless (or "custom framework") PHP, to Rails/Django. Basically it will result in organizing your code by model/view/controller, so the structure will be more similar to what you would have in a Ruby or Python framework.

I'd love to hear from anyone who's tried this approach.
The Quest for Reliability on the Internet (5 Nines)
Removing the clutter is definitely a step in the right direction, not sure if its a big enough step...
Meetro deadpools.  Loopt becomes more valuable.
" I noticed that at least in web industry before Web 2.0, web designers were treated pretty badly by most management teams because they think designers just need to type in some HTML code/cut and paste some photoshop and site is done."

It wasn't just the managers - the general view was that design == graphic design (nothing to do with usability). Plus graphic design students saw $$$ and suddenly went into web (I saw that a LOT, more so then any management problem).
Along this thread, what are the rules for naming a product?

Could I name a news website something like
mrtron.com presents Swoosh - a new social networking site for skydivers!

Or is there copywrite infringement from Nike even though its not remotely similar? How do I determine if a product name is legal/good? Does the process differ from a company name?

Could I name my product the name of a company? Could my product be: mrtron.com presents Fruits of the Loom! A social networking site sharing the results of weaving!

To answer your question...I pick funny names like the ones I just mentioned (not necessarily an existing product though)....mainly for my own entertainment. I usually figure I will rebrand later but rarely do.
For comparison:

rand() on Linux:
http://www.therealnewsfeed.com/randimg.php?fn=rand

mt_rand() on Linux:
http://www.therealnewsfeed.com/randimg.php?fn=mt_rand

To me, at least, these are pretty indistinguishable from the "true random" image, so it seems like the bigger issue here is the faulty rand() on Windows.
because it's the government is what makes education affordable.
I'm not getting it either. This is a joke, right?

Right?
um, have you ever been in the military? I was in the army for 4 years, you can't really get fired. You have to do somethign way over the line to get kicked out. Out of many hundreds of people I knew only a handful got kicked out. The vast majority of those failed drug tests, usually twice. One guy got kicked out for sexually abusing a few women (sneaking into their rooms at night while they were sleeping and ...). And I think I knew one that got kicked out for being too fat (but I knew a lot of people that were too fat and never got kicked out.

Now let's address this efficiency claim. Do you want to know what we did most of the time? Absolutely nothing. We hung out, did some cleaning, hung out some more, played some play station, hung out some more, took a nap. Yeah, that was my usual day.

We can also attack this efficiency claim from another angle. The U.S. spends almost as much as every other nation combined for military purposes. No company that did such a thing would be considered efficient.
Breaking away from ERP as bookkeeping
TweetCube, dead simple filesharing on Twitter
Can Microsoft ever be seen as hip as Apple?
With a smirk, most likely.
"But there are instructive test cases:"

Yes there are. Look at all the countries at the top of the list on education. They all have strong federal education. No country with a purely private education system is even on the list!
In a moment of lazy clicking, I clicked on this without looking at the URL, expecting to see the biggest webpage of all time, depicting Space, to scale.
34% of IT workers have gained more than 10 lbs. in their current positions
generally you prime the generator with the current system time
I've said this a lot, but I can't recommend Code Igniter enough when working with PHP. Quite fast, almost feels like an entirely different "real" language with so much library support from the framework.

Even when I work with Django (being a huge Python man myself), I miss having some of the better aspects of Code Igniter (and definitely CI's user guide is stellar).

Don't switch languages mid-way unless you have a great reason. PHP blog-flak isn't a good enough reason (IMHO) unless your team is fluent in another language they can code more securely.
"any smart coder can pick up Ruby quickly"

True, but can they pick up ruby quickly, and rails (rails is non trivial these days), and rspec, and rake, etc. I'm guessing it would take at least 6 months to become merely comfortable with all of these. This is far different than having a proficient coder walk in the door.

You'll have much better luck getting a proficient rails coder than a proficient django coder. On the flip side I'm starting to get a lot of rails candidates that aren't really interested in rails, but used it at their previous job. For while if someone had rails on their resume it meant they took the time to learn it on their own (which is a good sign). Those days are gone.
Altheles may have a genetic predisposition to be more healthy. Regular exercise may reduce risk of clotting but it may not have much influence on the upper bound of your lifespan. A search for '"twin study" resting heart rate' found that a few genes significantly affect resting heart rate ( http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2350/7/17 ) and that environment significantly affects active heart rate ( http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/94/8/1864 ).
I couldn't agree more. Pick the one you like and run with it. Which you choose isn't going to make or break your business or career.
for some odd reason, the ubuntu packages for ruby/rails are setup in an overly complex way.
Statistical randomness is pretty well defined. Say you have a set of independent and identically distributed (iid) random numbers, then if you plot a long run histogram it should resemble the probability density function of the distribution. Irrespective of whether it was generated by a pseudo-random algorithm or by quantum disturbances, your set of numbers is statistically random in a practical sense.

Your question seems more philosophical, though I think at the quantum level things become more or less random whichever way you think about it. Furthermore, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle suggests that we'll never have sufficient technology to measure both the position and momentum of a particle, which I would say is a pre-condition to observing a deterministic process at work on the quantum scale.
You know what happens in April? Exams.

To me, all this means is that their prime audience (students) are actually working. It'll be interesting to see what happens with their May numbers.
Car Purchases in the Context of Negotiation Theory
Just use a codeword until you either think of somehing good or need to start selling to users, hires, or investors.
Main point, make sure you don't pick something that is already a trademark.

Second point, it should be memorable, and ideally - the .com should be available (even consider the .com resale market for a generic name if you have the funds)

Best of luck!
finish your project in PHP, throw it up, start making money. Then in your spare time if you feel like it, switch to another language. Or if you are starting to have some performance issues.

If you are going to change your language every time some new language gets hyped you'll never finish.
Thanks. We already use PHPTAL. Will Code Igniter work with PHPTAL?
i.skydive or we.skydive would be a better name than swoosh. Web 2.0's have lost the point that a name should describe what it is, myspace, facebook, the names are what they do.
New Balance is a better name for a shoe then nike. Nike has spent a lot of money for an association to exist between shoes and nike.
What i would recommend is to go with a term that skydivers would know that non skydivers wouldnt know until they dove from a plane. The niche is more closely sync'd if they can have a name that only they understand, it adds to the experience. Also people will want to explain the name to others.
http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive#t...
You're posting this problem to the wrong place. There are too many enthusiasts in the Ruby/Rails and Django camps for you to get a reasonably straight answer.

Instead of asking here, I suggest that you pick a subset of your project that can be put together as one program and try to write it in both Ruby on Rails and Django. When you've seen what's required for either, you'll then be able to go back and build the rest of the system in your framework of choice.
We switched from PHP to phython after six months of working on the project, it has made all the difference. I would do it again 9 month or even a year into a project. Django is the best.
No country with a purely private education system is even on the list!

That's because no such country exists. But no country had freedom of religion (in the modern sense) until 1787, the year the U.S. Constitution was ratified. That doesn't mean it was a bad idea.
Check out acts_as_mappable aka GeoKit.
The era of small government was the era of the robber-barons.

I'm still amazed some people can look back on a time when children as young as 12 performed industrial labor with nostalgia.

Don't get me wrong, I'm in favor of efficient government. Large transfer payments with less bureaucracy would be preferable to what we've got now.
When Twitter launched a lot of the early commentary was about how that style of application had already been done and done better, where better meant more features. Upoch had groups. Dodgeball had a mini language for describing what you were doing. But neither of those applications had the one feature that mattered: people.

So, I think the author has it right when he says that simplicity makes it easier to get at the network effects. In many cases the value of the network effects dwarf any other feature you could imagine. However, that doesn't mean that social software can't be complicated. MySpace is complicated. Facebook only seems simple because it's compared to MySpace.
The answer depends on the purpose of the project. If you're building something to make money, you should not spend the time now to switch languages unless your NEW language has some library or feature which your current project simply cannot work without. However, if this is a learning exercise only or just a fun project, there would be no harm in spending the time to explore both the Python and Ruby options.

The key to your decision here should be how much time and effort it would require to duplicate a feature you want to use in your existing system as compared to what comes out of the box with either a new language or an existing PHP framework. If it's a pain to do and the functionality is critical to your project's success, then you should port. Otherwise, I'd recommend you keep doing what you're doing.
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=157575
Gifts for babies - Baby Clothes UK
Gifts for babies, Baby Clothes UK, Premature Baby Clothes, Baby Products, Baby Born Clothing, Baby Accessories, Baby Gifts, Baby Equipment, Christmas gifts for baby, Baby Wear, babycity.co.uk
The Right Stuff: Building The Team
Baby Clothes
Premature Baby Clothes, Baby Clothes, Baby Clothes UK, Baby Clothes Online, Baby Wear, Baby Born Clothing, Designer Baby Clothes, Designer Baby Clothing, babycity.co.uk
Baby Gifts
Christmas gifts for baby, Premature Baby Clothes, Baby gifts, Baby Clothes Online, Baby Born Clothing, Designer Baby Clothes, Baby Clothes UK, Baby Accessories, Baby Equipment – Babycity.co.uk
" There are probably others, but nobody has ever heard of them, so they don't matter. "

Simply untrue. You, and your opinion, are grossly misinformed.
I feel precisely the same way. The book excites me, but also makes me laugh.
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=195532
>...the blazing speed and low overhead of Lisp...

Actually, there are some Lisp implementations that leave Ruby in the dust. (Not saying much, I'll grant you that.) There are some Lisp implementations that let you compile code to machine language.

sigh yet another clueless spreader of programming urban legend and old prejudice!
I'd be really worried if I hired someone that took 6 months to become comfortable with the ruby/rails (and rspec, rake, capistrano, etc). Now it might take way longer than 6 months to fully master everything, but if you already have a good quality code base to learn from and a team of experts any smart developer should have no problem picking things up quickly.
You're missing my point: finding a good Blub coder, however hard, is a constant-time problem. The polynomial-time problem is maintaining/reading/understanding an established code base in Blub.

If Blub is an order of magnitude more difficult to maintain/read/understand than Foo, then even if it's far more difficult to find a Foo coder today, it makes more sense for me to use Foo for my new project.
Really? I agree that ethics doesn't really apply in this case, as what Tim Ferriss suggests is just basic capitalism (companies always profit off the backs of their workers... what has changed?) but you don't even consider it? i.e. professional assassin is fine as long as pays the bills?
This page is meant to be displayed on first load after the browser is installed, so that's probably why there isn't a link to download. This isn't a promotional page advertising the download itself.
http://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm
find a funny-sounding word from Dr. Seuss books and get back to the product.. worked for a few startups
How did you format the form you filled in with adamsnames? I've sent an email to their "robot", but haven't gotten a reply yet. Can you show me how your registration email looked like?
Hey babycity,

This site doesn't take well to spam. You're best advised to stop posting this site.
Decide which fits more to your life philosophy: A framework that creates about 10 files and folders and wants you to change them to fit you needs, or a framework that creates 3 files with minimal code and you write the website using the provided libraries.

RoR functions like a skeleton you fill in. Django functions like a supporting pole on which you build on top of.

One is more flexible than the other, but the other constrains you less.
Just hire me for an IM brain storming session, and I'll help you come up with a name. No cost up front, and you send me the cash when you have a name you're satisfied with.

Not to brag, but I'm one of those creative types.
Very big mistake if you are serious about bussiness. Django and Ruby are very tough to find cheap programmers for, but there is no shortage of cheap PHP programmers. Expect a language change to throw you back 3 months or more.

And there are many PHP frameworks, don't implement a new one.
Advanced Google Analytics: Conversion Goals (Part One)
OLPC outlines XO-2; Can it deliver?
Twitter is complicated enough to explain with just one feature. If they launched with more I'm not sure the behavior for which it is now famous would have come into existance.

We've had to change the feature we've had front and center once we discovered friends were having trouble explaining it to one another. Part of it is just a marketing problem -- you need something to be naturally expressed in a short period of time.
Big ideas don't need big words. "Negative" works just fine.
If you are not hiring programmers, then go for the cheap office space, but spend money on the furniture to make it look really nice. The location is important though - it should be in a lively area. Also, make sure you don't have to look at someone the whole day long, i.e, people are reasonably separate.

One can turn almost any space into a nice looking room. You just need an appropriate amount of inspiration and some outside help.
Why Small Really Is Beautiful
The government doesn't have a monopoly on education, especially not higher education.

Transfer payments aren't the same thing as a centrally directed allocation of goods. You can still choose where to spend them. Even targeted assistance for education still lets you choose what institution to attend.

The transfer payments in the current system pay huge dividends over market allocation of educational goods, because the market tends to give these goods only to the children of those who are already well-off.

However, the primary and secondary public school system is radically broken, mostly through the fault of the government. It needs not only more competition, but also the elimination of local funding through property taxes.
That might explain Apple's purchase of PA Semiconductor ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=173830 ). A successor to the Apple Pippin ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pippin ) could be successful in today's market. Apple can efficiently utilise processor designs similar to those found in contemporary consoles. Plus, it could extend the "halo effect" of the iPod and the iPhone. For example, consumers are keen to access the web on the iPhone and a console with similar capabilities would offer better resolution and faster access.

Consumers would probably like wireless broadband, OSX Leopard, Safari, a 48 inch screen and a Wiimote.
Executive summary: newspaper of the rich arguing for lower taxes for the rich.
SemTech Panel: Taking Semantic Technology to the Masses
I've actually started losing weight now. The trick was getting keyboard/monitor stand that can be adjusting to the standing position. It's not that we have to stay in one place, it's the sitting:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/story?id=3922069
"It is a judgement of values"

The fundamental disagreement between libertarians and progressives is that libertarians do not find the values of a mob/majority justify violence upon a minority.

I used the word violence carefully: you don't pay your taxes, an armed man will come to put you in a pen for years.

The problem with asserting positive rights, versus freedom from oppression, is that they come at a cost to someone else. For example, asserting a right to health care is asserting the right to take from a health care provider.

"As a matter of record, tax rates are higher for the lower income brackets, and lower for higher income brackets than at any other point in US history."

Tax rates are still higher for higher income earners.

They make more, and a flat percentage would proportionally cover their wealth, but you insist on a _higher_ percentage. That is pretty hard to justify, especially considering the benefit of government is diminished proportional to increased income.
Microsoft Doloto: Download Time Optimizer
I think the answer kind of depends on the nature of the project.

Re-writing something you have now in another language/framework can be (in addition to fun) a great way to learn the new language/framework. If this is just a fun project, well, cool - best of luck to you. If this is a business, something that you'd like to start making money (or at least getting press) from, then maybe the delay will hurt you more than the fun will help you.

In my case, the website was the online component of a small university department. I inherited a PHP codebase that worked, but that I really didn't like, and opted to re-write it in Python/Django. I'm really happy with the decision: I think it was a great way to learn the framework, and the result is a lot better than the PHP site that it replaced, but I don't think I would have done it if I hadn't had a working PHP site to placate students while I was working on it.

Good luck with whatever route you choose to go.
it would be self balancing in a supply demand curve too. the more people that opted out the more power the remaining votes would have until equilibrium was reached between money and votes.
Granted the OP was being facetious in claiming the beauty of Perl or blazing speed of Lisp, but he was sincere in analogizing Ruby to Perl and Lisp. In that sense, he was wrong. Ruby is nowhere near the speed of Lisp. Peter Norvig claims Lisp is "about 1 to 2 times slower than C++" (http://norvig.com/python-lisp.html), and I don't think anyone would sensibly equate the speeds of Ruby and Lisp.
I think edw519's point flew past you. Here it comes again:

Kinda mean.
I would have to agree with swombat. As with so many medical topics, many people instinctively respond without knowing anything about the published literature, let alone even the broad characteristics of the thing they are talking about.

Ritalin is a stimulant, like speed or caffeine. They are broad-acting jackhammers that boost your entire system, including your heart for that matter. Not exactly something to take lightly.

Modafinil affects the chemicals that the brain uses to regulate wakefulness, and surprise surprise many of us sleeping too little are actually a little bit sleepy even when we have just finished sleeping.

Many of the positive effects people ascribe to the drug are simply the effects of being truly totally awake.

ANYONE considering using modafinil should note that a single 200mg pill is a far more powerful dose than you probably want. That dosage is for a patient with severe wakefulness problems, to force their body to stay awake for an entire day.

Exercise restraint and caution.
I sent it as plain text to "new@adamsnames.tc". Subject was "New Registration".

Then I just pasted in this entire form:
http://adamsnames.tc/register/short.txt

Here's a modified example taken from a real one I submitted that got a response right away:
http://paste2.org/p/29938

Two things to consider: Last time we bought domains (ri.ms and oh.ms) was in January. Also, we got a notice that they may not be selling MS domains anymore. If seeking .ms nowadays, the robot might not respond, I'm not sure.
April Search Data: Google 61.6% of Market, Yahoo Falls to 20.4%
Try CodeIgniter (PHP framework) then.
On average, a man will tend to gain about 1 lb per year as they age. I wonder if 34% of IT workers have been in their current position for around 10 years?
I think this is statistically relevant, as rich Americans pay a big part of taxes:

During Fiscal Year (FY) 2006, the IRS collected more than $2.2 trillion in tax net of refunds, about 44 percent of which was attributable to the individual income tax. This is partially due to the nature of the individual income tax category; containing taxes collected from working class, small business, self employed, and capital gains. Of the Individual Income Tax, the top 5% of income earners pay 60% of this amount. [8] [9]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Service#Tax_co...

The top 5% pays 26.4% of tax receipts, and changes in the marginal tax rate for the top bracket usually affect tax rates of lower brackets. I'd say this news is pretty relevant.
http://web2nam.es/ is also a good way to find English-word domains and domain hacks.
Yeah, you need actual math to get anywhere. The pictures are mostly for prettiness and visual proof of non-randomness. But even with math you aren't measuring "true randomness". The best you can do is to confirm statistical properties that random information would also have. It's impossible to tell in general whether a string is "true randomness" or, say, a sequence of bits from pi.
i think you should go where your passion is.if you are board with php, you might be willing to put more hours in to another language.

you will find that the more languages you know the easier it is to switch.

i also think you should keep in mind on how you plan to progress in your company, the further you are from writing the code, the more you will want to be able to recognize a broad set of patterns.
Ask YC: Best Place to Hire a Front End Developer?
We are having a difficult time finding a great front end developer for our side project start up (http://www.ingamenow.com)...

Advice on where to look for front end folks?!
Firefox 3: Tightened Local File Security
Post-tax! Must be a patent attorney. Yet somehow he's posting on Hacker News...