skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been considering the same thing as you and I haven't reached any decision, but maybe I can add my impressions.

Ruby and Rails does seem to be better targeted for web development, both because (as some here have said) Rails is more meaty than Django and because there seem to be many more web development jobs out there requiring RoR.

Python on the other hand seems like a much better general purpose programming language, with a far richer set of libraries (ScyPy and NumPy on which Sage Math is based, bindings for wxWidgets and other toolkits etc)
Wow. Suddenly everyone is using "deleterious". I've seen it 3 times in the past 2 days. That was my word dammit! Now I'm not going to get those quizzical looks whenever I use it.

Oh well, I guess it won't be as bad as when the writers of Star Trek usurped "anomalous". That was a dark day in vocabulary land...
I written sites in both, and I think that you'll find that Django is easier to get started with, but Rails is ultimately a more powerful and flexible option.

I have a huge problem with the lack of focus on testing in the Django community though, so I'm somewhat biased.

Again, as many here have mentioned, we need to know more about your problem in order to offer an appropriate solution.
top authors is interesting, maybe you could automatically display articles, in the frontpage, from authors whose articles I credited.
Maybe its just me, but I'm no fan of typing in passwords without encryption.
As to hosting -- try openhosting.com. $20 per month for a virtual server with root access. I've been a happy customer for the past 4 years. By the way, their founder is the guy who wrote 'mod_python'. They know a few things about open source and about servers.
It's pretty confirmed:) The folks that run AT&T's websites are being told to prepare for the 9th. I personally can't wait.
Would anyone mind explaining the "Ya" => backwards R dealie?
Criticism for 'UK database' plan
Thanks, VPS service is obviously going to be a need, but is $20 somewhat pricey or normal for such service?
Can Alex Bogusky help Microsoft Beat Apple?
Do you feel the same about donating to a free software project? Donating to a cool software service? Donating to NPR?

The point is that we're not necessarily talking about "tips" in the sense of "additional personal gratuity on top of an existing purchase". Very often, in this context, it involves making a donation towards efforts of someone you appreciate as, perhaps, the sole means of funding a project.

I agree that I probably wouldn't be so keen on a service that encourages tipping people during an existing transaction. For example, I likely wouldn't tip a tech support rep for a company I host through (well, unless they went above and beyond in an overwhelming way).

But I sure as hell think it's great to be able to pay a little to those who otherwise get absolutely nothing (other than a bit of respect).

Just as I might buy lunch at work for a coworker who saved me a lot of time out of their generosity, I'd like to periodically pay back those who make my life easier out of the kindness of their hearts.

For this purpose, I think TipJoy is one of the best alternatives I've seen for online "appreciation" donations. We plan to leverage it on our sites where it makes sense.
A Fully Buzzword-Compliant Development Blog Post
Microsoft: Half of Exchange Inboxes to be Microsoft-hosted in 5 years
The differences between the two are not important for most web applications. Python has been in style since google app engine came out - especially on HN; before that Ruby was more fashionable. Your question is basically "Which hammer should I use to drive a nail - claw or ball pein?" Either would work fine.
Apple under pressure to fix Safari ‘carpet bomb’ flaw
Here's a good starting point...

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/07/how-to-write-a-.html

There's tons of gold in his blog. Go mine it.
Written Russian language uses Cyrillic alphabet instead of Latin. That alphabet has 33 separate letters and one of them is for sound "Ya", it is spelled like "R" but backwards.

A mix of Russian and English in a brand-name for a Russian company was a popular thing to do, at least in the nineties. English part makes it cool and trendy while Russian part makes it less alien and more domesticated.

Ya is also the word "I" (or "me") in Russian, thus "Yandex" is a pun on "Index" (referring to "indexing" of internet).
Making bad law from good intentions?
'Asbestos warning' on nanotubes
Uh, what if taxes sort of trend up everywhere?

And there's hostility towards tax havens? They get cut off from wires, and you have to smuggle in cash / diamonds in suitcases, and it's a total pain in the ass and you become a social pariah?

Not saying that should happen, but it could happen.

Dumb article.
Cheaper than most for such quality.
Heh, we made http://ri.ms as our (memorable) URL shrinker that lets you choose your own URL if you want.

We hope to expose some of the other cool features we have in there, but there are a lot of these shorteners out there so there's not much incentive unless it's fun.

I keep meaning to release my Python script that would let people search for free 2-letter domains on a handful of country tlds-- it's wicked easy.

Also, to mention, it makes me oddly happy to see other web services using the same "Grenada" tld we did for bug.gd.
Google at Hills Plaza - Tomorrow's San Francisco, on view today
EDIT #2 (Sorry I can't post above, I have used all of my edits)

I must say that I am pretty new to web development, so it is somewhat hard for me to determine both the feasibility and what will be needed to perform certain tasks, but people have asked if I could elaborate on what issues I will need to tackle, but please excuse me if these are unrealistic demands.

These are some of the things that I need to accomplish:

-Manage a numerous amount of small credit card transactions

-Create an algorithm that would self manage the database for certain areas based on date (delete data past a certain date or data that has expired)

-Allow the uploading of images, but also create thumbnails for those images

With regards to size, the application would focus on the area specific to where I live (so that I could market it easily with normal advertising methods), but scale simply by adding a new location (simply by cloning the first site and changing the location) similar to craigslist like I said previously.

Sorry if anything I had said does not make much sense or is unrealistic. I am new to web development and am trying to approach this in a very logical manner without wasting too much time.
I personally have noticed more job ads for rails developers than django developers. Actually none so far.
Finding the Best Way to Cook All Those Vegetables
Trying to Break Nicotine’s Grip
Nerdfest: BigTable / HBase is cool
Yeah that was one driving factor, I am graduating soon and because RoR demand was high I figured that if this fails I could use the knowledge from RoR to get in with another start-up.
Threadless frontpage Inc: The Customer is the Company
EDIT #2 DOWN BELOW: sorry for responding to the first comment but I ran out of edits for the submission and I wanted readers to know I made a comment for Edit #2 down below
Many of the interesting macros I've seen use list operations heavily to slice and dice their arguments and body code. Most experienced Lispers use macros quite a bit.
10 Green Heresies: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green
I don't think it really matters that much. Both are solid platforms and either could be argued in favour of the other reasonably.

Rather than spending time on both though as some have stated, I think you're much better off just flipping a coin and digging in head first, fully commited, and concentrating on the more important thing... your app design.

One of the great things about full-stack frameworks like Rails and Django is that you don't have to agonize over all of the components, so why agonize over the framework itself?

Just do it. Switch for your next webapp if you feel like it.
MySpace Moves To Limit Spammy Applications, Just Like Facebook Did
Anatomy Of A Failure: Lessons Learned
I don't know how you can assume that. I mean, there are both types of managers, but I'd guess there are far more who are just pansies. Given no other information, I'd be more inclined to choose that than chalk it up to some stunning realization.
Cool. Now if you could just convert the PDF to HTML, you'd have something there.
Clever. I saw the visual pun since the shape of the Я contains the I. Very cool that it's also reflected semantically.
One more thing to consider: Google App Engine is a nice platform that you can play with (for free!) and it's currently only available for Python.
That is what he is saying, he just doesn't understand that if he took the rake out, the bot would be doing much better than breaking even. And much better than breaking even plus 30% rake back at a raked game. About 3x better (not counting any strategic adjustments).
I hope more startups do this. As PG wrote in one of his essays, if you can figure out a lot of possible ways to die, and avoid them all, you'll probably succeed
Maybe he shoulda done the math.

Using his logic, if exercising increases you pulse rate from 70 to 140 beats per minute for 30 minutes per day and decreases your pulse rate from 70 to 60 beats per minute the other 23 1/2 hours per day, how much longer would you live after 50 years of this?
There's a Firefox extension to view PDFs as HTML.
Python snippet to find available two-letter domain names for some TLDs
YouTomb: Videos Taken Down From YouTube
It would alter strategy a little. You should play more hands. There are a number of hands that are very close to 0 in EV that become positive EV with no rake. Not that many though, especially in low limits.

I'm sure the bot would be modified accordingly. My guess is it would add a couple percent more hands in. I'd further suspect that the increase in postflop play would then lower the bot's expectation (bot's are incredibly well suited for pre-flop play, not so much after) so though it would still do better than at a raked table it wouldn't be the 3x you'd expect.

It would do better though. The skill differential would be nowhere near large enough to overcome adding a hundred or more dollars per hour to the table. It'd still probably be at least 2x I'd guess.

The bot would also make more in the long run because the people it makes its money from would go broke slower.
I've used the Scotiabank business plan writer before and fount it to be pretty good. It is an online app now but the last time I used it, the writer was a standalone program. I imagine that it's the same though.

http://cgi.scotiabank.com/planwriter/scotia_sb.html
Any of the Russian folks here care to comment on how useful they feel Yandex is? What is your preference for searching Russian pages? google.ru or yandex.com? Do you use one or the other exclusively? Or is yandex.com better for specific tasks only?
What I like:
- the ability to EASILY select what news sources I want news from
- Rss feeds for well .. ALMOST EVERYTHING! I live in Google Reader for about 2 hours a day so this is great
- Slick design, but as some people said yes, very close to NYTimes (Actually thought it was for a split second before I blinked again)

What I don't like / other critique:
- The up/down arrows for the "sources" made me think it was to show more, not to hide it. I think a minimize/maximize style box which is more natural for any user would work better

Great service, but I'll still use reddit for finding all the other kind of news. That's the one thing I kind of hate, there's no PERFECT thing out there. Reddit is great for all the various news, fun articles, even random pictures at times and this is great for getting good stories from quality sources, but then you miss out on those fun, obscure extras reddit picks up on. Find some way to get that, and you will win me (and probably others) over. :-)
Thanks, this is a good suggestion that I did not think of. It is nice to know that I can try working with Django without making a commitment to a hosting service
This is just a little handy script I used to find some domains. This came up in another topic so I thought I'd share the code. Normally you can't buy two-letter domain names from any registrar, but adamsnames allows it.

To be nice, the code should probably force a 1-second delay between checks but adamsnames doesn't have a restriction on that because the API is used by domain resellers.

Hope this helps someone. I've found it pretty useful as I'm particularly fond of two-letter domains.
Plaxo to be acquired by Comcast
A Letter from the CEO and Founders

Dear Plaxo member,
We are excited to announce some of the biggest news in the history of Plaxo. Plaxo has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Comcast, the nation's leading provider of entertainment, information and communications products and services. We've got at least a few months to go before the acquisition is completed, but we wanted to send you this note to let you know what's coming up and how it affects you and your account.
Plaxo will remain an independent brand, organization and entity. We've been busy at work on our networked address book service and our next-generation social network, Pulse (if it's been a while, please come back and check out all the new features). And, through additional projects with Comcast, we'll be able to take these services to a lot more users and places than we could on our own... including the TV, phone and more.
If you'd like to read more about some of the great new things we're planning, please read our official announcement.
So, what does this mean for current Plaxo members like you? The services you know and enjoy from Plaxo will not only continue to exist, but will also continue to evolve and improve. We will continue to make our basic services free, and we will continue to serve customers in multiple languages across the world. But, we'll now be able to invest even more in our services, and we will enhance them with more users and more content available across a wider array of devices.
We will also continue to protect your privacy and give you control of your information. We will continue to protect your data with one of the strongest privacy policies, which will remain in effect even after the transition. And, we'll continue to be a strong advocate for the open social web.
We've put together a quick Q&A about your privacy, account and your data.
Last, we'd like to extend an enormous thank you. Whether you've been a Plaxo user for a long time or just recently joined Pulse, we'd like to thank you for making Plaxo a vibrant network. We are excited to open a new chapter today and look forward to helping you keep in touch with the people you care about.

Sincerely,

Ben Golub, Chief Executive Officer
Cameron Ring, Founder and Chief Architect
Todd Masonis, Founder and Vice President of Products
jmzachary, you're welcome! Would you recommend me some resources on CBIR?

Thanks in advance!
You do actually get discounts (regardless of volume) for being near certain UPS locations. About 20 minutes from where I live, there are shit tons of trucking and mail order catalog fulfillment warehouses because it's next to Rt. 80 and almost halfway in between NYC and Chicago. UPS rates from there are ridiculously low.
The article doesn't even seem to acknowledge the existence of economies other than US. If you are trying to propose an economic 'law' then you really need to look at more than one country. In fact there are many other succesful economies that have a higher percentage Tax/GDP ratio than 19.5%
The thing that annoys me is he's still whining about the platform, like he knows that is the issue. I wish he'd read the thread on HN discussing Twitter's problems and paid attention. If only "journalists" understood what they were writing about. sigh
Moreover, it's quite obvious from the article that the author hasn't actually tried it to justify those comments. I've not tried Ritalin and such, but I have tried Modafinil. Though there is certainly some downside to the sometimes a little intense high of it, it definitely has been useful at times (such as when I was working a full-time job and starting up my company in the evening!)

I haven't noticed any issues with creativity on Modafinil. If anything, I find that I think of more interesting answers than otherwise - as if my lateral thinking was enhanced rather than diminished.

Daniel
"Steve has engineered a kind of 'JavaScript on Rails' in order to fit into Google. All to avoid programming in Python."

If only it were true.

Steve wrote Rhino on Rails while working on a project that requires the JVM. At Google this infers a choice of Java, Python (Jython) or Javascript (Rhino).

Steve chose Rhino over Jython for reasons you can read about here: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rhino-on-rails.html
Well, it's on the first page so the community has already told you: they want this.
Neil Armstrong could be right. He may be referring to Kleiber's law ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleiber%27s_law ) and the Metabolic theory of ecology ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_theory_of_ecology ). Apparently, "for most organisms, the average # of heartbeats in a lifetime is equivalent. Elephant ~ 30 beats/min. Shrew ~ 1,000 beats/min" ( http://members.cruzio.com/~zdino/psychology/ecology.htm ). "The size of these hearts differs enormously, but over the course of each species’ lifetime, they appear to beat the same number of times - approximately 1 billion" ( http://www.wellcomecollection.org/exhibitionsandevents/paste... ).
emacs (...or vi... sigh). hands down.
Provided the code and tip for buying some two-letter domains here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=195541
I counted:

Chief Process Scientist;
strategic partnership;
change management consulting services;
vision;
Software OnDemand;
business model;
outsourcing;
play;
Lean;
business agility;
pull based near/on-shore outsourcing model;
software engineering value chain;
maturity;
thought leader;
scale;
craft based labor-arbitrage outsource businesses;
Lean Thinking;
Software Factories;
orders of magnitude improvement

Did I miss any?
How to finance solar power with no capital costs
Little Orphan(ed) Artworks (of Copyright)
This is exactly what I did, and I strongly recommend it.

I learned more from launching a demo application in both (I used a blog and a poll as an example) than I could have by asking other people. I found what suited my tastes.
Why we hate Lisp - A conversation with some legitimate gripes
Switch to another language in the middle of a project?
Hi,

My friends and I have been developing a website in PHP on weekends for almost a year now. From what I have read, PHP is not as good as Python or Ruby. I am wondering if we should switch to one of the two. If so, what's the best way to switch?

If not, I am also thinking about implementing a PHP framework. We have been developing without a framework. Do you think we should? Doesn't the implementation mean rewriting the code?
That's surprisingly light on information. The hyperlinks possibly have more information than the words.
Is there really anything that is truly random? I've always wondered about this. If you define random as meaning "when rand() is called many times in a row, you will most probably get a different number each time" then both the Perl function and random.org are random, but to different extents.

But if you define random to mean something like "caused by unexplained or mysterious forces" or "non-deterministic", then how can anything in the universe be truly random? Even atmospheric noise is created by a sequence of deterministic events, right?

A dice roll is too (brain fires synapse, I move my hand forward and release the dice, dice interact with air in certain way, dice hit table and F=ma predicts their movements, etc...). Maybe since we don't have the facilities yet to watch a person throw some dice and predict what the outcome will be, this process is non-deterministic simply because we lack the technology to sketch it out. But with sufficient technology to scan the situation and chart the end result of the dice roll based on the initial conditions, doesn't the process become completely deterministic, and not random?

But maybe I'm just stretching the definition of random to mean something that it was never meant to mean.
+1 Obviously haven't read much Yegge when making statements like that. Ontop of the above defense, there's a video on Youtube...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1QD9XQm_Jd4
Some of us bloggers are actually former developers, and do know what we are talking about. Unless Twitter does something drastic, they will end up a footnote of what not to do with a start-up. I know that PG has said before not to worry about revenue, but this is what happens. It also relies too heavily on the database, which means any time they tank the db, they have to bring the whole thing back up. Last week I was one of their biggest defenders. This week I'm pretty sure they have no interest in actually fixing the problem and running it like a business. Fail.
Couldn't you see the grid in the first one? It's in the middle, you can tell by the density. There are 9 sectors in it.
Well, I think you should start learning Python or Ruby.

Learning enough to make an informed decision (heresay doesn't count) should only take a few weekends.

After that you can decide for yourselves if it would be worthwhile.
Please explain how it's slavery.
You value your free time at a rate of 300-600 dollars an hour? Wow.
I highly recommend reading the book Peopleware by DeMarco and Lister. It devotes a chapter to the programmer's environment and speaks passionately about how important it is to get it right. They get into details about offices. They also say that if you can't get the environment right, you might as well stop there. Of course, "environment" also includes things like frivolous interruptions, etc. Anyway, it's an excellent read:

http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-S...

Joel Spolsky (another big fan of Peopleware) wrote on this when he had his office designed:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BionicOffice.html
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/636
This is great from a beginner's stand-point, but might seem to realize that all web frameworks are basically code generators with a bunch of glue. Which, for 90% of the useless crap out there on the internet, is fine.
Given that macros take lists as input and output lists, it would be surprising if they didn't use list operations heavily...
I think edw519's point flew past you. Here it comes again:

A resting athlete's heart rate is lower than a resting couch potato's heart rate. What does that mean in the context of what you just posted?
The argument is over what point we're at on the Laffer Curve, as well as the specific shape of the curve (i.e. is the right side so steep that we can tax at whatever rate we want up until revenues collapse entirely?), and about how tax enforcement policy can affect the shape of the curve.

"They," meaning progressives, don't fail to account for anything. They just disagree with your analysis.

Finally, the reason nobody knows or cares about this particular research is that most tax cuts were made with an eye toward maintaining revenue at a constant percentage of GDP. That is, the graph is a self-fulfilling prophecy. It doesn't predict what would happen with subsequent changes in the tax code.

Furthermore, this isn't even in any way connected to MTRs for the rich. All that this graph reflects is that as taxes were decreased for the upper %1 over the past half century, they were increased on everybody else. It doesn't illustrate increased collection rates, just increasingly regressive tax policy.

Brief mathematical analysis of what this article said:

TaxRateforRich x RichEarnings + TaxRateEveryoneElse x EveryoneElseEarnings = TotalRevenue

Then they told you that as TaxRateforRich dropped, total revenue remained constant, and thus concluded that the amount of earnings reported by rich people (RichEarnings) must have risen. What they ignored was a rise in TaxRateEveryoneElse.