skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an ex-Yahoo and a New-AOL’er, My Thoughts on One Portal to Rule Them All
I started using Python because of Google AppEngine.
Yes, WP7 is great and what a great way to say to Motorolla, "hey, we would like you to build new handsets that use our great new WP7 OS" than by sueing them.
IIRC it transitions into hibernation after 'x' hours of no activity ( I believe x == 6 ), not sure.
Cool idea. I think it should block for a day, then automatically unblock...
Pesonally, I like Python because it is simple, oo, lot simpler to debug and goes well with javascript/json(utf-8 by default).

I am big fan of Tornado - tornadoweb.org

Almost free hosting by google appengine is not bad either!
The model itself is broken. It is doubtful the population is bimodal, divided between people who are nymphomaniacs, and people who will be satisfied once they find "the one". I just don't believe that people don't have affairs, or that prostitution doesn't exist.

It is more plausible that the number sexual partners follows a Pareto distribution. It is likewise plausible that the economist sought to flatten the Pareto curve, even if this may result in the area under the curve increasing somewhat. Would it work? Maybe not. But this counterexample just reflects badly upon us. Programmers are the new physicists of this era.

http://www.xkcd.com/793/
I can have 36 desktops with the gnome in ubuntu 10.04 (not that I do, I just use 6 ;-)
It's not really a "ray" because the reflective panels don't direct all the light to one location. It just directs most of the light to a smaller location. To qualify as a "death ray" it would need to be shaped more like a giant magnifying glass.

If they wanted a death ray they could have put all the reflective slabs on remote controlled servos to change the pitch and angle. Then you could do as they did in this link, and melt steel in seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJot9WKybQE
Guys. Guys. Stop believing these conspiracy theorists. This story is craaaaaaaaazy.
I am not sure you actually meant code walks while BS walks; maybe one of those 'walks' wants to be 'talks'?

I think the problem is not just one of a feature comparison, indeed, the symbolics environment had more features in one area than almost anything existing today does.

To do a true comparison, I think one needs to consider the number of layers of stuff that sit between the hardware and the user of the word processing system.

While I think Joel's 80/20 article is quite true, perhaps it deserves more thought. Consider the possibility that his MS experience is with an organization that, in part, competed on features, and MS essentially won the battle. One then at first concludes that it has the features that people want.

Compare that to the automobile safety discussion of decades ago. Automobile executives and marketers concluded, at least publicly, that "Safety doesn't sell". However these days safety is a big part of the sales pitch. What has changed? Well, perhaps nothing has changed other than the thinking at the top of the auto companies.

As useful as Joel's 80/20 argument is, I am having some trouble holding that thought in my head (that is that a feature-laden word processor is what people really want) at the same time as Patrick's observation that most of his paying customers see his program as just another part of Google.

I think it would be useful to drill down into these concepts a little further.
Some good points there, but I will say one thing, and its not even original, I'm going to paraphrase Warren Buffett: Its really easy to win the game when the other players don't show up.

Put another way, it is easy to make a killing in stocks when most of the world thinks that putting their money into mutual funds is a good investment (or even index funds. When a company gets added to the S&P 500, all those funds have to buy it, and the sharks run up the price just before they do so you get to buy it at a premium.)

I'm no genius, and I never spent a lot of time on investing, other than reading some good books....and %20 a year, consistently, year in and year out, is really not that hard to do. I think anyone can do it, if they are disciplined enough to be rational.

Its the constant string of bad information from politicians and the media that gives people doubt and causes them to react irrationally when the market "doesn't seem to be going their way." or to irrationally get into the flavor of the day.

I'm a longtime fan of apple, but I've never once owned their stock. I saw them at $13 and they had $6.50 in the bank, and I said "damn, that's a screaming buy" and I didn't buy, because they don't fit my discipline. Yeah, that's the one that got away, but I take a lot of comfort from the fact that I made the right choice.

Being a good investor is understanding that missing out on a 40 bagger is sometimes the right choice.
Is this an "in-your-face" resignation letter?
I'd recommend Objectify instead of JDO.

http://code.google.com/p/objectify-appengine/

The reason why Google chose JDO as the default interface to the AppEngine's datastore instead of JPA is because the datastore is not really a relational database and JDO is much better suited for non-relational backends.

However, there's a lot of stuff in JDO that you will never use in an AppEngine application.

Objectify is a thin wrapper around the low-level datastore API. It's a pleasure to work with and it will save you a lot of time.
I humbly disagree with you guys. I personally don’t think the name played that much of a role. In my opinion Mint won because of 3 reasons.. 1) They won techcrunch disrupt and had people buzzing 2) They gave customer what they wanted. They had the right "easy" approach to the problem. 3) They got higher value users by doing SEM.
This is the real reason AFAICT. Anybody who tries to pin it on Python's obvious superiority to Ruby is just not paying attention. They're not the same, but not so different that one has a clear advantage over another in most people's minds.
What about anti-aircraft ground fire?
Python rules.
I want to try to avoid hyperbole here, but I think this may have instantly jumped into my top 5 list of favorite movies. Its pacing and acting is unbelievably tight, and it happens to be about one of my favorite topics ever. I have a feeling it's going to give a lot of fellow HNers a queasy feeling in their stomachs like I got; like you need to get back to your computer and start coding right away, and everything is passing you by, that you could catch fire if you just found the right combination, and you should have and maybe did think of it first.. Ugh.. it's what this is all about, HN, startups, etc.
Well, that explains that! Thanks.
Could be.

But, is TechCrunch a reality show or a tech news source? Or a reality show about a tech news source about a rea.. Eh.
I like it. My project is similar: http://almost.at
There are fast SSDs and slow SSDs. You probably got a slow one. The Crucial C300 and Intel X25-M are really fast.
Yeah.. that struck to me too.. i thought Parker was his middle name or something?~
In Tax Cut Plan, Debate Over the Definition of Rich
To be fair there'd be no way it could ever be 100% accurate - this is how it goes in real life too. Ask 100 participants in the Facebook history how it all went down you'll get 100 different versions of the story.
The rest of the meeting, though, was designated as an “internal AOL meeting” and as such was strictly off the record. However, after giving that warning, the very next thing that Eun said was that we should all “keep doing what we do”.

Here then are the details of the meeting…

This is very funny.

I wonder if he's actually putting himself in legal risk if he signed an employment contract and still did that.
A self-hosting Lisp compiler that runs on the Flash VM
+1 Python stands tall with its rich library, for a relatively recent convert from java to python it was nice to see such vast applicability of a language and also the support it enjoys outside the typical commercial / "web" worlds.
COOKING TIPS FOR GAS GRILLS
'everyone? Personally I associate those billing patterns with, uh, less than reputable businesses. Now, I may be very unusual, but we have at least one counterexample.

Edit: I sound like I'm calling you a fraudster, and that is not my intent. I really want to hear about the other side of this, in part because some of my customers have asked me to setup recurring billing that doesn't require action on their part.

As it is, most people who cancel do so right after I bill them. if I was just taking the money rather than sending the bill, then for the same thing to happen, they'd have to ask for a refund. Which, I seems kinda bad to me- I mean, negotiation is waste. However I could automatically gave a refund if they cancelled within X days of me charging them, that would solve the problem.

Anyhow, I really would like to know more about what you think of how 'normal' people think of it. It's not obvious to me.
Shocked by online comments, reporter writes profile of hit-and-run victim
How Ink Is Made [video]
Another key quote for me was:
No field of innovation is more burdened by the judgments of idiots in the middle than film
Basically, you're seeing just as much Python as ever. However, because Rubyists aren't making such a spectacle of themselves, you don't hear as much about Ruby/Rails as you used to. And what you do hear doesn't get as much traction as it used to because after several years of ruby news the community has grown more tired of it.
Learn Python from the beginning.

It is well worth the effort. A designer or 'business guy' who can code has much higher credibility.
I don't know of any many trusted services, but I actually use Bank of America's tools to do the online budgeting thing. They built it into the site pretty well.
Why Larger Text Leading Helps Users Read Easier
JVM without an OS: JRockit Virtual Edition sits right on a hypervisor
In addition research has shown that cars drive closer to people with helmets than they do to people without them.
Personally, I attribute its use (at least in science / engineering) to the numpy, scipy, matplotlib combo. It makes prototyping fast, flexible, and rivals (surpasses IMO) Matlab.
Too bad I'm stuck with PayPal :/
In doing so, Lessig is reviewing the film he wishes was made about the internet, rather than reviewing this film based on the story it chose to tell. (Which is a compelling story.)

This violates the first rule of movie reviewers-- we don't care how great of a film director you imagine you'd be if you were in a position to make movies, rather than just review them.

I don't like slapstick comedies, but I'd never criticize one fro not being a scream sequel.
C++ --> Java --> Java
\--> Ruby on Rails
\--> Python/Django,etc…
\--> Javascript/Node.js/Sammy, etc…
\--> Scala/Lift
PHP ----------------> (still going…)
Perl -----> (???)
I don't remember. The issue was relatively trivial IIRC, more a matter of tastes- it was just one of those rally points. Like a MacGuffin.
Yeah, don't do that.

I am probably generalizing when I say this, but to some extent, you will find in that business that a good chunk of your clients will be using your services for the sense of luxury it gives them. It's often decided on a whim, as an indulgence. So chatting up clients as "class peers" often ruins this fantasy for them. For many of them it's their chance to get spoiled and catered to, so "yes sir, yes ma'am" is all you should say to them.

Another thing is that people, specially the well off and people in sensitive positions are weary of having someone with a clue in their house. It's not unusual to overhear sensitive conversations. So, try to be dumb and folksy.

Cheers!
I was definitely surprised by how good it was, I read the book last year (very good as well), but I was expecting the movie to be more cheesy. I would see it again with no problems when it will be on netflix.
After Ten Years, Round Two Of The Legal Battle Over Internet TV Is Here
It is somewhat remarkable that architects did not anticipate this. I know that early in architecture school students are taught how to calculate the line a shaft of sun will follow throughout the day at any given latitude.

And I would imagine that the architects on that particular job have even more experience that the above-mentioned students. And pretty much understand that the building is being built in essentially a cloud-free environment.

So they couldn't see this coming?
Yeah. I wish heroku offered more than 5MB on its' freebie plan.
Los Angeles, CA

Stealth-mode startup with solid funding. Currently have a team of 8 in the US and 4 in Europe. Looking for solid engineers in the LA area (telecommuting not an option, sorry). Experience building social networks or mobile development a plus (iOS or Android), but really just looking for solid engineers who fit with our small team. We aim to exit stealth by next summer.

Email questions to jaaronfarr [at] gmail.com

Unfortunately any important details require an NDA. Some people involved have been burned by early disclosure in the past, so we're playing it extra safe this time. And no, it isn't a social network, we just happen to have some typical social network features in the roadmap.
right, but my worry would be that if you increase your revenue a lot when you switch from sending a bill and waiting for them to give you money to taking money automatically until they ask you to stop, I would question how much of that increase was due to people forgetting to tell you to stop until after they've been billed.

As I said elsewhere, I think the problem could be solved, for a pre-paid service, by giving an automatic refund if the user cancels within X days of getting billed.
Lessig is no fan of intellectual property of any form. Apparently he's also not so much for effective contract or the value of someone's word as a bond.
Kayak for ferries, buses & trains (oh my)
I refreshed the article twice before I realised the image was intentionally made to look half loaded. A subtle dig at AOL no doubt :)
What is this diagram supposed to mean? Apparently it's not "X evolved from Y" as, say, Perl is not derived from Java. It also can't be "X was popular (for web applications) after Y" as surely Perl was more popular prior to Java and C++ was never really popular in this area (and continues to be popular in others). "X is superior to Y" would be comparing apples to oranges. What am I missing?
Your headline suggests causation. Sanchez has had bad ratings and been infamous for gaffes for some time. This incident could have played differently were he a hit. (CNN is where Lou Dobbs perfected his anti-Mexican shtick.)
Sure, there are plenty of startups whose future just isn't that bright.

My point, though, is that the list of people genuinely qualified to make those assessments is extraordinarily short, and even they get it wrong sometimes. The spectrum between stupid and crazy enough to work is an especially muddy one. It's easy to snipe at people, but in the end someone with their nuts on the line pushing a crazy idea has, at least, stepped up.

So if such a person wants to pitch a co-founder and hopefully make some magic happen, I'm not of the mind to criticize. No one has to listen to them, or join them, but let 'em pitch.
Anything is better than Matlab.
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Great to see cool things like this coming out of Australia! I'll use it during the GF and report back on how I liked it.
Imagine a jester from King George III’s court, charged in 1790 with writing a comedy about the new American Republic....

It annoys me that in a piece attacking Sorkin for having a cartoon vision of the world, Lessig uses an analogy with a cartoon understanding of the world himself. The British monarch in 1790 did not have court jesters, they were long gone ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jester ).
A Culture of Service - @gapingvoid explores rackspace
I downloaded a swype keyboard application for my android phone that does a similar thing."To Swype, use one continuous finger or stylus motion across the screen keyboard. Keep your finger pressed to the surface of your device. Use a drawing motion to trace entire words".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ-RAefCG_c&feature=playe...
I think Safari for Windows isn't really something that Apple cares if people use much. It's not like they make much money for it directly. But it does mean that designers who work on Windows can test for Safari compat without the expense of a Mac, which greatly increases the chances of websites being tested on Safari.

I agree, Chrome for Windows is a lot better than Safari. On my Mac, I use Chrome and Safari about 50-50 (my RSS feeds are still in Safari, which is a large part of why I still use it). Chrome's extensions have been making me slowly drift towards Chrome, but there are still some Safari features I find nice (like Reader, Safari's adaptation of the Readability bookmarklet).
All you do is choose different words than I do but I suspect we're not a million miles off. You talk of "not being a bully, not being a softie." That is sufficiently vague as to be acceptable and populist. But it is a hard line to walk and it is at the heart of what I was getting at with heat vs. light. I suspect if we sat and talked about it you'd find that we aren't that far off each other in management style. I am neither phony or manipulative. Although I can see why nuance is lost when I write quick blog posts and choose words that don't resonate with you.
I'm a great deal more impressed by his status as the battle-tested CEO of a global behemoth at age 24 even though it is fashionable to dislike him. I've met a lot of skilled and innovative programmers, but self-made billionaires are in short supply.
Yaler: access small devices over the web
Lots of subcultures have their own movies. I'm just glad that ours is so damn awesome!

Also: I think the screenplay, the directing, and the score (Trent Reznor!) will be nominated for Oscars.
You'll be less happy when China uses the same techniques to destroy Google
Google Street View now in Antarctica
You can say what you want, but anyone who has been to go from 0 to a net worth of 5 billion is a "fucking" genius. Good genius, bad genius, I don't know, but genius for sure.
Do you have any citations for that? I'm not doubting you, but genuinely curious (and ambivalent about helmets).

There seems to be a pervasive attitude in the US that if you're a cyclist hit by a car when you're not wearing a helmet, you're automatically at fault, because you're not being responsible. Which is weird, because the risk isn't coming from the bikes...and there's a good chance that it makes cycling seem more dangerous that it is, which
makes cycling more dangerous (by making safe cycling techniques more obscure, making it less likely that drivers know how cyclists are likely to behave, etc.).

As a data point: I've been in two collisions in eight-ish years of cycling as my primary transportation (in and around Grand Rapids, Michigan). The first time resulted in a skinned knee and elbow, the second time a bad mood, a bent wheel, and a hurried (but passed) Islamic history exam.

I don't think urban cycling is particularly risky, once you know what you're doing. I feel more in control cycling than when I'm driving on ice (physics!), and I've been driving here for a decade. (Fixed-gear bikes are particularly stable on ice, though.)
Education and curriculum developer in Saudi Arabia,
It's a good introduction to Python for those who cannot yet program. I recommend it to the economists who want to use my Python experimental economics user interface library, and they usually like it.
Packaging systems are very good for a lot of the system basics. However, there are a few things that I do outside of the package system; that is, I download source and build from that.

I do this for Lisp (SBCL, CCL, Clojure), Emacs, and Ruby. And I do this on the mac as well as on linux/freebsd. The closer you are to the front edge of the wave, the more you will thank yourself for keeping up to date this way.
Free Car Wallpapers for your computer background
It's fair to say that Mark is the Bill Gates of our generation. A technical prodigy with limited social skills that saw a boundless opportunity and just took the leap. Now he is rich, powerful, and hated.

He is not a murderer or a saint. Just a dude who wanted to win more than anyone else.

No idea is 100% original and are usually the sum of many great ideas that already existed.

People who didn't take the leap fully just blamed him/sued him instead of trying to build something better. I bet you most of them couldn't if they tried.
Some of us might have just moved out here to SV, and are still building our networks.

I would like to meet anyone that is interested in one day starting a business or has already started on and is looking for a tech partner in crime.
i have an elearning app i am working on
Very engaging and reflective of the current culture/generation.

As a geek, I liked how they didn't do a lot of fake flashy computer stuff (looked like he was using KDE3 and it was butt ugly). Though netbooks weren't around yet in 2003. ;)
I think he's trying to show the progression of the popular consensus of "the new web framework". Either that or he's showing what he thinks is the average developer's progression through frameworks.

My alternate one is showing what I think is the popular consensus of which framework to use. It branches out at the end because we don't have consensus yet.
I've heard claims that caloric restriction only works in the lab because the average lab animal is fed plenty and sits doing nothing. Under those circumstances, yes, most animals live longer when fed less ... die(still chasing the link down...).

Anyway, articles I've read describe caloric restrictionists as going from average build to barely underweight. I am currently barely underweight with my unrestricted diet. It seems pretty clear that any further reductions would be unhealthy in my case. But I think that pretty well shows that the generalizations about caloric restriction are over-broad.

Looking at it with that lense, the original article is one experiment concerning markers for markers for something that's arguable, the very common product of biological science: an experiment that settles nothing except if its taken with a thousand others (and maybe then not).

I wonder why the thing is in the economist with some crazily optimistic headline...