skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I explained what I thought the OP was here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1749696

I interpreted the OP as trying to portray the progression of the "popular framework." I mean, the original Ask HN question was about what they see a lot of people choosing. I didn't like how this chart was portraying it as Ruby vs. Python.

My point is that it used to be PHP, Perl or Java and I think a lot of Java people have moved into Ruby, Python, Scala, etc... Meanwhile, there are still tons of people using PHP (unlike the OP's portrayal that that has stopped somehow). The question marks is to indicate that I don't know what's happened with Perl. I don't know if people still use it for web programming or not.

I totally get how it could be hard to read. What is interesting is that it got voted up until you called it nonsensical and then it got voted down to 1 again. That means some people got it and agreed and some people didn't (which is totally understandable).
Not every hardware. There's still problems from time to time but in 95% of cases it works. And that's still better than having to deal with Windows and its problems.
These look good but no indication (that I can see) of pricing. Any ideas on what costs are?

We're based in the UK and use Worldpay and Protx (as well a PayPal and Google Checkout)
Suppose that we want to study the underlying genetics of a disease. To do this, we want to look at some people with the disease (cases) and some people without (controls). The trouble is that if the disease makes people more likely to die, they won't be enrolled in your study.

This is of particular concern for fast moving diseases like pancreatic cancer. In general this effect manifests as a bias against people with more severe disease -- occasionally these are exactly the people you want to study.

The simplest way to get around this is with an alternative study design. Rather than ascertaining cases and controls, you enroll a large number of individuals in a cohort. After that, you sit back and track the cohort for decades and watch for disease to emerge.

A famous example of this is the Religious Orders Study (http://www.rush.edu/rumc/page-1099611542043.html). A large number of Catholic brothers and sisters graciously agreed to participate on a study of Alzheimer's disease. The researchers recruited a cohort of non-demented clergy and have been tracking them for years. They perform annual cognitive tests on the participants to assess mental decline. All participants were gracious enough to consent to post-mortem brain donation. It would be impossible to get this sort of data with a case/control study.

Another type of ascertainment bias is population stratification which can generate all sorts of misleading results. Imagine that you're a scientist in Boston and you want to study sickle cell anemia. You phone up a doctor friend and say "Please send me the next 10 sickle cell cases and the next 10 non-sickle cell cases." After spending $300,000 and a year and a half on the project you find some great mutations. Ten minutes later you notice that all the markers you found are strongly associated with being African-American. Your cases included 9 persons of African ancestry and one of Mediterranean ancestry, while your controls matched the particular demographic blend that you'd expect to find around Boston. Oops.

I hope that helps.

p.s.
Is anyone in London looking for smart people? E-mail me. ;)
Personally if you're looking to learn another language I wouldn't bother with Perl. It's close enough to what you already know that you probably wont learn much [1]. You'll get more milage out of trying something like Smalltalk (Squeak is free and a decent environment) if you want to really learn OO inside out, Haskell if you want to learn functional (this will bend your mind for a while at first, don't give up!), Erlang could be interesting but very unlike most other things.

[1] You can probably learn things in Perl that you couldn't in PHP but if you pick a more pure language the lessons will stick out more. Perl also has a lot of extremely bad practices by default.
One thing about US-only services: I have read on multiple occasions that Google Checkout is US-only and was surprised it was an option when I wanted to donate to a OSS project from Germany. So it seems to depend on whether you use it for incoming or outgoing transactions.
Website rents female coplayers to lonely gamers
It really doesn't matter if they bought the 0days or researched them themselves - either way they either spent the cash or gave up the opportunity to earn the cash from them, which is equivalent. They still put ~$200,000 worth of resources into the worm.
You listed a lot of things you need to get to get Perl to work for you. In big orgs that would mean a lot of battling. For me it's just not worth the fight when e.g. Python just comes with half those things.
With photo at: http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2006/02/02/the_wisdom_of_parasi...
There was a time when you had to carefully choose your hardware to work with Linux. These days, you have to carefully choose your hardware in order to experience problems.

I am surprised by how many people do the latter.
Maybe this is the sum of multiple planes illustrated on one
google checkout maybe ?
Perhaps you should talk to your bank. They might have a solution.
"Hackers" are not a monolithic group that share exactly the same interests. Some people (hackers or not) might have intellectual curiosity about the lives of ordinary people, about how a media organization responded (or, in other stories, failed to respond) to nasty online comments, or about how a simple news item (man on bike killed in hit and run) can be given layers of meaning. Personally I found a great deal of stimulation for my intellect (much more so than reading yet another item about antenna issues on the iPhone), but I don't mean to suggest that everyone would see it the same way.
A simple way is to upload it somewhere where it's only viewable with a restricted Flash viewer to prevent copy/paste, then delete it once it expires. Of course, the person can always take a screenshot or photograph the monitor or something like that. Most temporally-limited email services do not deliver the message itself, but a link to it.
perhaps more affluent students have more time and money to spend on SAT prep material and classes, and thus have higher averages?

(On the flip side, and to agree with you, I think the strength of a school is really tied to the strength of the students, since it's one's peers that make a great educational experience, IMHO. Any strategy that gets a school to climb the rankings will likely get the school more ambitious applicants.)
Common Mistakes People Make in Their Video Resumes
Using Piracy as a Crimeware Defense
Get svn+ssh style Subversion checkouts in Windows
Wonderful post. Probably the best I have seen on comparing a traditional relational database and a nosql database. Also very well written.
These are usualy the expensive kind of solutions ...

If you want 100% control over your money, you could use http://paybox.com, they are located in france but I believe their solutions work worldwide.
I really just want to use Amazon, like Kickstarter does. However, ther are no e-commerce packages that support Amazon out of the box. Shopify, BigCartel, etc. All of them primarily support PayPal, and maybe support Google Checkout.
Microsoft sues Motorola over Android
Whiny and with no facts to substantiate his claims. Note that the only data he cited is provided by a company that sells exploitative 'extended warranties' for 3rd party products (SquareTrade), and that it's in their best interest to cast the most popular manufacturer of non-bargain laptops as less reliable.
What about Chargify? http://chargify.com/

About other countries and currencies: http://support.chargify.com/faqs/general-questions/does-char...
That would be a trade secret lawsuit, though. E.g. akin to a Qualcomm licensee who had gotten both the rights to use their patented CDMA technology plus the trade secrets of their special sauce on radio power management. If this is just on the basis of patents then in theory the information is all in the public domain (which is what patents are supposed to be all about) and the lawsuit is over the right to use it.
I signed up for a Chargify account a couple days ago, been working on integrating it into my app. Really simple, great API. I haven't run any transactions through it, but on the integration side, it's pretty solid.
We can directly place orders to Chinese manufacturers at http://aliexpress.com
RFC: is OpenGL not the Right Thing (TM)?
Ahh... Ubuntu. I've been using Linux since pretty much forever and I've gone through Debian, Mandrake, Gentoo, Slackware, you name it.

Sure, Ubuntu has its fair share of idiosyncrasies, not to mention idiotic bits and a... peculiar developer community, to say the least, but on the whole it manages to combine the flexibility and openness of Linux with some of the nicer aspects of closed platforms like OS X.

Bring on 10.10 and beyond!
worldpay? Depends on what you are selling, and to what market(s). eg, currencies are important, turnkey support for selling subscriptions, or electronic products, or virtual currencies(some payment processors don't do some of those). The fraud rate of your demographic(eg, products for teens in HighCrimeCountry might have higher fraud than old ladies in LowCrimeCountry). Some people only have paypal, and not credit cards too. There's so many factors to give a good answer.
Chargify isn't a payment processor, they're just a front-end for various other payment processors to handle recurring billing.
I was thinking specifically about ground-to-air fire. Other flyers should know where to aim. Any evidence of this knowledge gap in the literature?
Michael Lewis on the case of Goldman's missing traders
Why asset bubbles are a part of the human condition that regulation can’t cure
It gave me much need pause to reflect and recognize how fortunate I am to have found a career I can be passionate about. That people I generally don't think about could possibly be more interesting and have more to teach me than most of my associates. I also learned that having the latest iPhone (when the previous one didn't break) marks you not as discriminating and fashionable but as easily manipulated.
Another strategy is to assume the drivers are wearing hyper-reflective clothing and that you've been paid a million dollars to hit them. Someone try that out and report back.
The new ubuntus do not work with intel graphics cards. I do not want to go through workarounds just to get rid of the screen freeze when it boots. I used Ubuntu for like 7.04 but after 8.10 I think the gfx started to break and by 9.10 they are totally unworkable, I have to restart (hard) several times to start xorg.
BTW: “Curated” Doesn’t Necessarily Mean “Secure”

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1746346
Ask HN: how to test which domain name works better?
I plan to move my astrology site (sorry) to another domain. I have registered three candidates already: mondkalender.cc, mondkalender.us and mondkalender.me (it's a German site, currently on mondhandy.de).

My plan was to just redirect the new domains to the old one and try AdWords to see which domains receive more clicks. Turns out that AdWords doesn't allow redirects, though. I suppose I could create a dummy site for each of them with the text "there will be a moon calendar here soon", but it seems likely that AdWords wouldn't like that either?

Any other ideas for comparing? Chances are it doesn't make much of a difference, but I'd like to be sure before making the move.
Are you intentionally forgetting the part where Zuckerberg is working for the Winkelvosses, yet not performing any work for them, and coding a competing website at the same time, then launching his site, and telling the Winkelvosses he can't work for them any longer, because of their problem code?

What actually are the rules about that in this situation?
This is the kind of post that makes HN awesome. A person can ask for help and get a response from someone experienced in that area.
I've been having a lot of problems with Ubuntu. First of all,
wireless on Ubuntu sucks. I can't be bothered reading tons of articles on how to fix wireless, i just want it to work like it does on Windows. Ubuntu doesn't detect a few of my webcams. I can't even install Ubuntu 10.04 on my new laptop (though it seems they're busy fixing it), so i'm stuck with 9.04. I'm also having some trouble with Chrome on Ubuntu, but i should probably blame Chrome for that. Rebooting on Ubuntu doesn't even work. I can only shut it down. I could probably fix it in a timely fashion, but i don't see why it broke in the first place. I've never had any trouble with Windows of this kind.

Anyway, It's still a great OS, but there's no way the average computer user is going to be satisfied with Ubuntu unless the developers somehow fix these little annoyances.
I don't see how this is different from any other webcam prostitution racket, apart from the fact that it's ostensibly not about sex (which I doubt).
I would rephrase that "[some] Intel graphics cards do not work with the new Ubuntus". The problem is that Intel has chosen to prevent Ubuntu from supporting those graphics cards, not that Ubuntu cannot support them and not that Ubuntu choses to not support them.

In the cases that I looked at, Intel licensed graphics "IP" from third parties that had severe restrictions on what technical information could be published openly, making it incompatible with GPL.
Maybe by "another like him" he meant "another who is willing to work for minimum wage".
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A Facebook Field Trip To See the Facebook Movie
This is a very good post for me, although I'm not in the clothing business. I'm wondering at just what point will it be cheaper to ship a partial container load to a US storage location and then via USPS to the customer than air shipping from Asia directly to the customer? I'm selling items worth over $80 each and the shipping is typically $30 from Asia via DHL or UPS. If I only had about 1 cubic meter's worth of merchandise to sell, would I be better off using a partial container shipment?
"Asus, Sony and Toshiba all lead."

I wonder how would this comparison look like about 5 years ago, before Thinkpads production went to that chinese Lenovo.

Personally I recommend buying as an experiment an original IBM's Thinkpad, esp. T series, in some outlet. I did it and looks like I'm going to use this stuff for more than I usually used new laptops.
Apparently okcupid is coded in C++, and they're proud of that fact. It blows my mind.
Both Windows and Mac OS X have server versions, that can easily be installed on desktops.
Or the readability.
Realex payments?

Few other are - payvision.

Global players - Google checkout, Amazon checkout.
Amazon Launches Facebook E-Commerce Store
(-1) Unsubstantiated and anecdotal. There is really no product on the market with zero percent failure rate and whoever gets a faulty unit will often instantly hate the brand. I have had several iBooks, MacBooks, MacBooks Pros and never once has one of them failed. But at least I realize that it was pretty much luck and randomness - not any inherent quality of Apple products in general.
The drivers problems are a manufacturer problem, not Ubuntu's. Complain against the manufacturer, so that they know that people actually want linux drivers. Vote with your wallet, buy linux compatible hardware. Don't blame Ubuntu for others' mistakes.
Like everyone on HN I am annoyed disappointed by the natural tendency of online comments to give way to trolls. This article just seemed like a very classy response to troll comments.
The proposed solution is not even generic, it is specific to a list of cars.
Nitpick: they handed Michael Arrington millions, not Paul Carr.
There's no way the "average computer user" is going to be satisfied with an operating system that doesn't come preinstalled on their computer, that isn't officially supported by the manufacturer of their computer, and that they consequently have to deal with the various possible technical problems of.

Non-technical users don't install operating systems.

Ubuntu is the closest candidate to fixing the structural problem of "very few computers come preinstalled with a supported, free-as-in-freedom operating system". Until that problem is fixed, and as long as people are ending up having to install an operating system on arbitrary computers with millions of different hardware combinations, such annoyances will continue at some level.
Thanks for your feedback. Titled has been improved.
I just finished integrating Ogone in to an app. You pay a lot to use them but the product is solid, pretty straight foward to integrate, good documentation and support helpline.
The conclusions are flawed, but it's not the parameters that need tweaking so much as the dynamics of who is likely to have sex with each other.
While they are an alternative and available in UK, I would NOT recommend them. The technical integration via iFrame has so many pitfalls, especially for non-technical customers, that you will go through endless trouble. Furthermore, their fraud protection does not really work, and processing chargebacks was a total bitch. Disclaimer: I once used them for a german e-commerce site. We pretty fast switched to a different service provider (Wirecard).
The reason Paypal are popular is because they offer something no other service can. If you want the versatility and spread of Paypal then you're just going to have to suck it up.

Yes, Paypal do sometimes have problems, but if you follow their rules and regulations and don't build your business around them you should be okay. The majority of horror stories are knee jerk reactions to an unfortunate situation which are never reported on again when a resolution is found.

The reason Paypal have such over zealous fraud checking and don't hesitate to lock accounts until they're 100% sure it's legit is because of how large of a target they are for fraud and also because of how accountable they will be. If someone sends me $10 and I run off with it, Paypal will have to pay out that $10 from their own pocket to the customer, might be okay on a small scale but at Paypals volume...

Personally I think the best method is to have a basic merchant account (authorize, nochex etc) and also Paypal, use your merchant account as the default credit card processor and also offer Paypal for those who either have Paypal accounts or are only comfortable with Paypal. If you're smart about how you use Paypal you'll be fine :)
Everything breaks, especially mobile hardware. Anecdotally I think they are more reliable than other PCs. But most importantly I've never gotten such amazing no-questions-asked service in my life. Not to mention the turn-around for repairs or free upgrades if they can't fix it.
A few key problems in Redis persistence
This looks really good — thanks for the link! Besides the pricing, it's not clear whether you need to have your own merchant account? http://www.ogone.co.uk/en/Extra%20Services/Merchant%20Accoun... seems to indicate that you do, but the rest of their site seems to suggest otherwise. Could you shed some light on this by any chance?
Maybe not hugely strange, but:

http://raleigh.craigslist.org/web/1965373878.html

includes:

"have at least 7 yrs of experience and maximum of 9 yrs in developing web pages"

There's a whole lot of people they're not going to get because of that :)
I ♥ Ubuntu, and have been since 7.04
Running R on Amazon EC2 :Windows
Interesting article. I liked it.

I think you could take his basic premise - "staying out of a routine and breaking habits makes life feel longer and time pass slower" - and expand on it to also achieve more worthwhile pursuits.

Instead of changing habits randomly, instead aim to always be at the threshold of your competence.

I've spent a few years looking into this, and the best thing I found for myself is aiming to always be at a 70% success rate on my daily, weekly, and monthly goals/targets. If I'm succeeding higher than 70%, I increase the difficulty level or add new challenges. If I'm below 70%, I scale back and pare down until I get to the essentials.

It's good, because I'm succeeding more often than not, but I'm always at the threshold of my competence. I think a lot of people set goals too low to get to 100%, or they get discouraged when they fall short of ambitious goals.

Me, falling a bit short is part of my life, so I'm always pushing and expanding, failure is part of my life and gets easier over time, and there's always new things. I'm about to add a new set of targets - either I'm going to start doing bodyweight exercises and set some fitness goals, or I'm going to take up drawing and make more art. Or both? I'm doing this to replace "surfing the internet" with either drawing/painting or bodyweight exercises/balance/martial arts as entertainment time. Thus, life stays fresh, new, exciting. And whatever my goals are for strength training or art, I'll be falling a bit short of them - which is to be expected and embraced, always on the edge and threshold of my capability. But still, a 70% success rate, which is encouraging and I'm succeeding more often than not. Wholly recommended if you haven't tried setting goals and targets this way - if anyone has questions on setting something like this up, feel free to drop me an email, I try to make myself pretty freely available to people working on achieving things.
It's the whitespace. It makes the code more beautiful, and that does matter.
Another happy Ogone customer here. They're not cheap but the API is versatile enough and the support is quite alright.

For Dutch businesses: Ogone supports iDEAL and I think their transaction overhead is actually lower than when you do business with iDEAL directly.
AliPay is one to maybe watch. The leader in China they have announced plans to expand internationally.
As far as I can tell, you can only use Chargify in the UK if you have an account with Barclays. And, on top, you still need to get hold of costly payment gateways and merchant accounts...
The Future of the Web is HTML5
I don't know about this article (imho, the components on macbooks are pretty good), but I once spilled a cup of coffee on a MacBook Pro ... the keyboard and the dvd drive became nonfunctional and I had to take it to be repaired.

On the other hand I did the same thing to a Dell, twice ... coffee, and coke (with sugar). All I had to do was to clean it up a bit because the keyboard got a little sticky (and I could do this by myself).

Unfortunately I can't help it, any laptop I use has to be baptized with coffee.
Creepy video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxe60BcHbUA

Parasitoids have fascinating life histories. I'd thoroughly recommend the book "Parasitoids: Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology" by Charles Godfray.
Well, Zuckerberg eventually paid the brothers $65 million dollars (in Facebook stock), after his attorneys advised him he would not do well in a jury trial (according to the movie).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#ConnectU....
Sandman is correct in his asessment - I completely understand the point and context of the article as explained in these comments. I simply didn't understand why it seemed to be interesting enough to gather 100+ votes. You can call the original question an attempt to gratify my intellectual curiosity as to why this story is so interesting.

Your comment sheds some light on it, personally I still don't see the value of the article but I do see the sentiment for upvoting it. I merely thought there was some finer point I didn't get and wanted to understand it.
Unreliability is one of the consequences of Apple's constant redesign and application of new unproven manufacturing processes and materials.

For example, they used fragile metal for MacBook Air hinges -- I have screen replaced two times due to this (the second replacement had hinges made of a different material) http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2948

Now I have a new white MacBook and its newly designed beautiful rubber bottom began peeling off (and I know others with the same problem).