skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're likely over-considering the scale of your application if you're worrying about whether or not jQuery is adequate for the job. The biggest sites on the internet often depend on jQuery and its a very proven solution. Either you're designing an over-complicated behemoth if you're worrying about jQuery, or you're worrying about a non-issue.

jQuery is still just fine for large-scale applications. You can organize the code any way you have to. Its just Javascript after all.

If your app gets so large that multiple people are doing Javascript though, what you need to do is work on what is considered the boring stuff like version control policies, build processes (look at stuff like Sprockets (http://getsprockets.org/) for some inspiration for instance.

Other than that, jQuery is likely to be a fantastic choice in virtually any front-end engineering that you do.
No, the test process doesn't usually peg the CPU. Single threaded database connection usage in the test process is the problem.

Faster rspec: spork & parallel_tests runner. One test process per CPU core, and a preloaded rail environment, test run split across processes.
As an aside non-competes are worthless unless you include 'consideration'. What this means is that you offer something of value to someone in exchange 'in consideration' for not working for a competing firm. From personal experience with a good lawyer non-competes without consideration aren't worth the paper they are written on.
Time for a new Twitter tag
It was the original users of twitter who built the syntax we use today. The '@' symbol for referring to users, the 'RT' code for retweeting, the topic(?) '#' tag. The developers of twitter applications incorperated these into their applications, and eventually it became the standard, being adopted by Twitter.com themselves.

Since then Twitter has become a powerful method to distribute links to cool content. However, with the 160character limit, characters are a premium, so a whole bunch of services were born (bit.ly, goo.gl, etc.) to shorten URL's.

http://www.google.com.au/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=fluffy+bunnies (73 Characters or 45.63% of total tweet) became http://bit.ly/bRajwN (20 Characters or 12.5% of total tweet) a massive saving in tweet length. Why not take it a step further?

Why not remove the need for the "http://"? I mean do we really need to know that we are accessing the Hypertext Transfer Protocol? Google removed the http:// from Google Chrome back in April

By removing "http://" we will be saving seven characters from any tweet that has one link in it (or 4.38% of total tweet). TechCrunch recently reported that Twitter sees 90 million tweets per day with 25% containing links. That equates to 22.5 million links. All those links include "http://" that is 157.5million characters sent every day.

So if we remove it, how would my favorite Twitter software recognize a link? A new tag, hereby christened a linktag;

^

Why ^ ? Well @ and # are already tags. Moving along the keyboard, we can't use $ or % as I assume they are used quite a bit. But ^ is rarely used in text. It also looks like the head of an arrow pointing up, like a link out of the page.

The link tag will replace the 'http://' (7 characters or 4.38% of tweet) with '^' (1 character or .63% of tweet), this will mean that 135 million characters will be removed from tweets every day.
I'd much rather have a 10x return in one year than a 100x return in three (or five or ten, which are more typical numbers).

The above is a stupid exaggeration. It only approximates the truth if your average return is more than 3x per year. (Ok, the 10 year example works if your expected safe ROI is 30% per year over 9 years also works, but good luck with that.)
I'm veering slightly off topic here but something in this post fascinated me...

Are you sincere in your claim that you were genuinely confused because of the its vs it's mix up in the original post? I had always assumed people pointing it out were doing so just to be pedantic or to make the person who made the mistake look foolish, it never occurred to me that genuine confusion could result.

I'm honestly curious, not trying to anything subversive here. I always read the word "loose" correctly, even when by context it is clear that the author meant "lose" and end up having to pause or re-read the section, so I can certainly understand the experience, it had just never occurred to me that its or it's would really cause confusion.
xx,xxx, it's more than enough to live on as a single person, not enough to support a family probably (in a developed country)
I absolutely agree, both are incredibly great choices not only for seed capital but also the crucial guidance/advice/mentorship an early stage startup team needs. I'm just curious how the HN community thinks about the two.
We built it for android during weekend , but will release iphone version soon
I've been unable to beat a plain old notebook, and not for lack of trying. I don't think technology has solved this problem yet.

In the digital age, I use a simple "stuff.txt" file in my dropbox folder, which I manipulate with droptext on my iphone when I'm on the go. It's my notebook in the cloud, and, for me, it sucks least.
Sure, it's subjective. :)

I forgot to mention though that the idea is to use the shortest names possible for the core language operators. That's when they're the biggest win, since you'll learn those well enough not to need descriptive names, and they cut program length more substantially since they're used so often.
Haha thanks for that!
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Ask HN: How do I get past beginner-programmer? 
Hello. I've always been interested in programming, and I've learned some languages and programmed a few programs. I'm probably best, actually, with ARM assembly for a few reasons I don't want to go into- it has a bit to do with the DS and GBA.

However, I always take a very long time to do (what seem to be ) relatively simple things , and my solutions usually end up being terribly inefficient.

It seems like my problem is that, although I have a good command of the commands found in programming languages, I don't know how to use those languages well. Perhaps my problem could be compared to that of one whom can read every word of a foreign language, but cannot use the grammar at all.

To try to solve this problem, I've been trying to create a lot of relatively short programs that solve problems requiring some algorithm work, but I seem to be slow in improving.

In any case, I'm wondering if there's any ways to see faster improvement - if I need to sink a lot of time into improving, I don't mind; I simply don't want to if it's not necessary.

Thanks for reading,
sidek
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From what I have been able to understand till now, its some kind of voodoo magic that increases chances of getting into YC.

Joking :)

Everything that can increase one's chances of getting into YC seems to be founder qualities (thats what I can make out from what has been said on this by YC in various posts). YC saying what stage a company is in impacts their selection would be a paradigm shift in how it projects itself and its selection process, imho.
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I like that distinction. Then again, you can totally be committed on the wrong principles. See phrases like "Changing horse midstream"
Flurry is still allowed by Apple in iOS apps. We used Flurry to see how many beta users actually used the app. They were not personally identifiable, of course but we got a rough sense of how many betas were installed (via the 0.1 version tag) and a really good sense how they were using (or not using) the app. For example, only about 15% of the users ever clicked on More in the tab bar. As a bonus, Flurry will log your uncaught exceptions for you if you implement an uncaught exception handler. This is invaluable for finding those bugs you can't find easily. Always email beta testers personally when you get any feedback - you might get some improvement suggestions that aren't that hard to implement.
Agreed - that's why I was sure to mention, quality ingredients. Lean meat, not reconstituted scraps for example.
Or, if you only want to use these settings for python files, create a ~/.vim/ftplugin/python.vim file. Mine looks like this:

setlocal tabstop=4
setlocal softtabstop=4
setlocal shiftwidth=4
setlocal textwidth=80
setlocal smarttab
setlocal expandtab
setlocal smartindent
This was announced at Google I/O. But it's only for AppEngine for Business at the moment.

Talking to some Google people they didn't rule out making available for standard AppEngine.

One interesting thing about it is that it's built on a custom BigTable backend (or at least Google has a custom BigTable backend - it's my assumption that it's being used for this)
And for that privelege you've got to pay big bucks in monthly account fees, pass the 'merchant application' process and pay a percent on top of all your transactions. You'll also have to setup a credit card processing system and secure all those credit card details you've been collecting on your site. Good luck with getting an online-only merchant account as a new company with no trading history, because it's not going to happen.

With PayPal you can be operating in an hour. They're also cheaper than all banks, unless you have some serious transaction volume. You can hook it into a simple website and start processing payments without even a https cert.

Of course, any serious site will want their own merchant account, credit card processing and the rest. But before you get to that point PayPal is a very handy shortcut that has enabled millions of small sites and sellers.

When PayPal starts charging and acting like a bank, then you can compare the service levels. I personally think, that for the transaction scale and amount of fraud they have to deal with, PayPal does a relatively good job. They aren't saints, but for the vast majority, PayPal transactions work as designed.

In other words : you get what you pay for.
Jobster: $55M investment was sold for almost nothing
1) not everyone on HN reads Reddit

2) the discussion on HN tends to be higher quality than other sites, even Reddit
taking too much on due to technology allowing us to do more, getting stressed with it, not being able to stick to time management system.
Your best language is ARM assembly... are you serious?
I am puzzled as to why the choice of Android was made (assuming it's true). A company with Sony's background would seem to have the requisite OS experience, and one would they would have learned from the recent lessons of why control over your OS is a good thing.
This distributes the forces just as evenly as a beanbag distributes your butt force. I needed a tool that evenly distributed forces when applied to muscles and a tiny beanbag in front of plates that roughly approximate the surface is what I came up with.
I would buy that book, too, but I would feel remiss if I didn't point out that she could charge at least high four figures for a week of consulting and get it. The deck she produced here is worth north of $2,000.
Grab the "Chromifox Extreme" and "Hide Menubar" extensions for FF 3.6. These will give almost the exact same vertical screen space.
Time to drop Rails consulting and take up content... :)
Envy stimulates the economy;and is why you bought your iPhone
San Diego has bike lanes everywhere where they're not needed, but as soon as you get to a narrow section of road or an intersection they disappear. It can easily add several miles onto a trip if you are unable to take the freeway. Many destinations are also build on the top of mesas, and because the place is so car-oriented things are spread out to a ridiculous degree.

I bike commute here, but it's maybe probably less practical or convenient than when I was commuting to downtown Pittsburgh or lower Manhattan. My commute would be nontrivial for someone of normal fitness & not much experience on a bicycle: 20 miles round-trip, 2000 feet of climbing, a portion along Interstate 5.
Adobe demos 4k HD Flash video, 8-9% CPU use on Netbook & Macbook Air
Seems like the spreadsheet is no longer publicly shared.

Missed the party :(
1) Here's Jobster's traffic for the last couple of years:
http://www.quantcast.com/jobster.com

2) Remember GoJobby.com -- Alaskan' startup that Jobster bought while on $55M shopping spree?
GoJobby.com redirects to jobing.com now.
Lots of cell towers back then?
So the "time traveler" is talking to themselves?
Bike to work.

I'm fresh out of college, at my first desk job. I'm in the best shape of my life. A commute is an exercise routine that you're not about to skip.
better than rounded corners, drop-shadows, over-sized fonts and large buttons with shadows, I guess.

But I am noticing this new design style (more a layout) - and I am not one to really focus on that.
Everyone had a miniaturized femtocell? ;-)
Funny story -- if you remove Firebug, Firefox stops being so slow and leaking memory.
^ is often used by accounts that have multiple users. For example check out the way bank of america support reps "sign" each tweet with ^ and then initials:

http://twitter.com/bofa_help
Wow! That is a MUCH huger problem -- iPhone users don't always know/understand if they are on WiFi or cellular.
Perhaps page99test should offer discounts or early access to books.
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Or else he's going to work on a Nook version of Adobe's software for publishing glossy magazines on the iPad.
The studies I've been reading indicate anything more than 3 hours of sitting begins to impact your life expectancy.

I have no concerns as far as fitness goes, I'm very confident I'll be able to keep myself healthy in that respect.
Actually, if you read the 'Founders at Work' interview, PayPal sees itself as a fraud detection company who happens to process payments.

It is all about detecting fraud. PayPal lived while others died because they figured fraud out, and came up with working solutions to limit it to the point where the fraudsters choose easier targets.
side talkin all over again.
I thought the same thing, but not having a lot of experience hiring designers, I am curious what type of numbers we are actually talking.

1-5k? 5-10k? More?
As strictly an end user the computer voice annoys the crap out of me and makes me hate it. The concept is great but due to this one vice, I will never use it. It seriously makes me feel insane.
I preordered your book, can't wait for it to come!
FYI, "Pocco" is now "Pycco". Armin Ronacher of Pocoo asked me to change the name because Pocco was a little too close to Pocoo and I gladly obliged seeing as Pycco (and Docco, too) use Pocoo's excellent Pygments syntax highlighting library and I have tons of respect for him and his work.

Anyways, here is Pycco's new homepage: http://fitzgen.github.com/pycco/
I've been using Gmail Tasks for about a year now. Its advantages?
* I'll always have it open
* I can't help but see it many times per day
* It syncs automatically
Have you considered registering p99t.com and p99test.com as well as nice shortcuts? Both are available.
Actually, US govt spending per person was comparable to Canada's. (US govt spending is growing.)

US govt tax collection as a fraction of GDP doesn't bounce around all that much, independent of rates.
"I was already pretty dead set on learning a functional language (either Python or Ruby)"

Did I see something strange here?
As of last update, HN has 30 [1] moderators composed of YC alumni.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html scroll to "Who are the editors?"
I've banged this drum a few times, but if both of those are in your bag of tricks, your economic value to the right company is Very High Indeed. (Plus you can e.g. instrument the site to prove how much copy changes actually mattered. This decreases the risk of hiring you and allows you to charge higher prices because you are not also having the client self insure against the project being worthless.)
awesome! I was putting off ordering this while I finished reading Joy of Clojure, but the coupon code forced my hand. Thanks - Looking forward to the print copy arrival.
As said before, these tools [edit: the stupidly easy point & click ones, btw] have already been available for about 3 years. (e.g. http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...)

Butler isn't doing anything earth-shattering, he is just reminding everyone AGAIN that the current system is messed up.

There will always be this debate about disclosure, but you can't ignore that it works. Sure, innocents suffer (and they would[they are!] anyway), but at least it's one more reason why websites should change to https.
With MailChimp in your portfolio? Substantially north of $10k, just on design work (no CSS, no implementation), if I'm guessing right.
There's a joke here I don't get. Care to explain? :D
> there is a big difference between what property right abuse looks like now and what it would look like without a discernible and relatively incorrupt government.

Those aren't the only possibilities. (And relatively incorrupt is optimistic. It isn't consistently corrupt.)

Consider the sudan (no functioning govt) with zimbabwe (malevolent govt). It's not obvious that the sudan is worse.

Also, remember that the effective genocides have had govt backing.
Program more.
That's a very odd hold for a mobile phone. It's more likely to be a lady holding a small purse, frozen in a moment of awkwardness by a camera.
Offer HN: Tax Help for Startup Entrepreneurs.
With everyone offering their services, I felt that I should put my hat into the ring too.

Background: I'm a tax accountant with years of experience in PwC and KPMG (Big 4: look them up and you'll quickly see they're like the google and microsoft of accounting firms.)

I've had experience in federal tax specializing in REITs and real estate tax at PwC. I specialized in state and local taxation at KPMG.

Federal work related to 1120, 1065 and Disregarded Single-Member LLCs

State and Local: Income/Franchise, Sales, Payroll, VAT and Unclaimed Property

I currently have my own firm where I work with small to midsize clients.

You can pretty much ask me anything you’d like about tax. I’ll be pretty honest with you and let you know if I’m out of my depth. If you have any questions you can check me out at www.thekenggroup.com and contact me at contact@thekenggroup.com or just reply.

Cheers
That was incredibly interesting.
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Feedback Roulette is already doing great work in this area.

You review random sites, get karma points then your site gets reviewed by other users in proportion to your karma. Brilliant. Symbiosis at its best

http://feedbackroulette.com/
What's more likely: an old woman traveled back in time to 1928 and used a cell phone that didn't require cell towers, or said old woman is just holding something random up to her ear?
I have greatly enjoyed sucking the air out of plastic bags filled with all sorts of materials... This "jamming" effect has been used in all sorts of applications, and it's the second robotic application I've seen. This is great... I only wish I had thought of it first... in my experience I would try a less constrictive outer casing.. thin plastic produce bags work better than you would expect.
No, it's time for a move back to hyperlinks with anchor text.

People who require tweets over SMS are welcome to stay in the past.
I cannot eat celery. I think I loose more calories then I gain eating that stuff

Looks like you're right.
http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/celery.asp

Claim: Eating celery results in negative calories.
Status: True
Why not?

If every person who seemed to be talking to themselves were time travellers, you'd think we'd know.
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> MySQL-compatible

I hope that's free of Oracle's licensing DRM.
What drawbacks are you thinking of? Lack of colour and refresh time?
I would definitely use it provided that enough other people used it to make it useful :-). I was actually tracking the list of signups for Startup Weekend Phx before the event, looking for familiar names, and wondering about people's backgrounds. A concise profile list would definitely meet a need there.
I have used nearly every todo system on the planet, but the best and easiest for me is the good old todo.txt

1) Place todo.txt into your dropbox folder.
2) Create a shortcut on your taskbar to the file.
3) Set the file to open on startup.
Not with the lettuce, somehow. I have a lot of trouble with caterpillars on my other vegies such as broccoli, but they don't seem to eat the lettuce much. Maybe I'm just lucky. I have some organic bug spray but I don't use it much, I find it easier to just go and squash any uninvited visitors, and it's good thinking time to spend 5 minutes a day just looking for bugs (har har). I'm a rank amateur at growing - I experience tomato crop failures all the time. But for hardy stuff like lettuce and (most) herbs, it's really quite simple and rewarding.

I'm quite lucky with my climate though, but for a lot of people in California they should be similarly blessed (I'm not in California).

One thing I didn't note was that you'll need to plant your seedlings about 3-4 weeks before you're ready to start harvesting. But get it right and you should have an endless supply from about 6-10 plants, and you don't need much space for this. Just choose lettuce that the whole plant doesn't need to be harvested - ie, not 'iceberg' lettuce.

edit : here's a pic of my first crop about 4 weeks after planting. It eventually grew to about 4 feet tall. There's a couple of different varieties in here, I now only go for the ones like in the original article with a roundish leaf.

http://i54.tinypic.com/332p94k.jpg
Ha, since you put it out there...

Want to finish an open source Techmeme on AppEngine? A buddy of mine got half-way there building it but had to bail. I want to get it finished so we can stick it in an iFrame and add it to WindyCitizen.com as an alternate view of the local news in Chicago, showing you what's hot in the local media right now.
Well , I'm most experienced with it. I can get lots of things done in Haskell and Python too, but I know ARM assembly intimately.
Vac Man (http://io9.com/329398/vac+man-was-one-space-monster-who-suck...) has come to life! Cool to see this being used in a practical application.
Congrats on going from 'half-baked' to launch in 3 days!

Now that you've launched, can you take a look at the Hacker News 100 feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/newsyc100)?

Also, I don't know if this is intentional, but the feed view for a subreddit shows the subreddit page, and each item in the feed just scrolls through that page (instead of taking me to the comments of each link)
It boggles the mind how much economic rent and inefficiency is gotten through pointlessly proprietary formats.
I suppose I should have said single-core CPU bound, yea.
You've also put together an amazing site for the book! Both the video and comic are hilarious and top notch. I'd send anybody curious about Lisp to your book site in a heartbeat.

Long Live Lisp.
Could be an ear trumpet, or a crystal radio which does not require batteries to receive AM and power a small speaker or headphone... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio
Cell/mobile phone is just a term based on our frame of reference. For the sake of argument, if it is a time traveler, the device could be transmitting to someone from the future for all we know.
High level programming languages are like laws. (twit)
Just as programming languages have evolved to sacrifice efficiency for ease of use and reduction of errors, so too might the laws of the land follow.