skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Submission text (I thought it'd appear above):

Jared Huggins lost his little savings, partly while playing poker. He became homeless, and desperate.

The community of poker players 2+2 gave him support, ideas to go forward, and countless donations. Now he's got a home again, and this is the thank you video to that community. Here's the main related thread: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/54/poker-beats-brags-varia....

This story tells quite a lot about social interactions.

Some quotes:

- (OP) Getting dressed to go out and apply [at Taco Bell] now. I'm 5 peanuts and 2 cups of water into my day.

- Do you want some money OP?
Based on their recent actions, Apple won't be allowing Flash and Java into the Mac App Store, but that's just speculation on my part.

Also, it sounds like the author's never looked at pirating iPhone apps - iPhone apps are more tied to an unique identifier, and that hasn't stopped iPhone apps from being pirated. The level of effort the masses are willing to put into getting a $0.99 app for free does more to limit piracy than any technical countermeasures.
From tl;dr to Techcrunch: My Rumble app's story
PHP has been able to chain method calls and members since 5.0. The main thing that can't be chained outside of PHP trunk is array access after a method or function call.
My guess:
1. the port of Java to Mac OS X Lion is affecting the schedule for a summer 2011 release for Lion.
2. Mac App Store is not accepting desktop Java app.
Cash4gold is a scam in the sense that they prey on uninformed people, and make it difficult to get items you do not wish to sell back.
Please don't use URL shorteners here. Space isn't a constraint, and lots of people like knowing where a link goes to (in this case, it's just an image of the tablet, so it's safe, but it could lead anywhere).
Interesting, but there are some issues: I couldn't get to black or white..? Also, you are mistaking luminosity for brightness: luminosity is a device factor, brightness is a color factor.
"Apple. Just figured out a way. To stop. Software piracy."

Counterpoint: Now pirates just need to break one DRM system, and you as developer have no way of fighting back.
Its simple, but it works well, especially to pick main theme colours, mrspeaker rightly points out that doing so in a tiny preview window rarely gives you a proper indication. I'm not entirely sure that it actually fits into a designer or css workflow, but it _is_ enjoyable. Plus it appears to be HTML5, so it has electrolytes.

A few thoughts (without necessarily providing any solutions!):

* While interesting that the logo changes colour, I find that it nearly always picks a gradient which is extremely uncomplimentary to the background. It would be less of a distraction if it was only white/black.

* When you click to lock the colour, it would be nice if it could leave a marker to show you where your choice was, so that you could make minor adjustments more easily (I guess the luminosity makes it a little tricky!).

* The links for the colours at the bottom of the app say rgb(239,16,146), which would be great for CSS to copy-paste the correct format, but when you click it actually enters '239 16 146'. The hex code is the only one which gives me a useful value straight into the clipboard.

* I missed the note about luminosity at first (I count myself as a typical user in that I do not read instructions), it makes sense and works quite well when you actually start scrolling, but is a little hidden.
These are a great read... The Usenet FAQ archive has all of them available:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ai-faq/neural-nets/part1/

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ai-faq/neural-nets/part2/

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ai-faq/neural-nets/part3/

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ai-faq/neural-nets/part4/

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ai-faq/neural-nets/part5/

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ai-faq/neural-nets/part6/

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ai-faq/neural-nets/part7/
Added it to the lists
Ask HN: What does an ideal django workflow setup look like?
I've Googled, but have not found any really organized and layman-friendly overview, which is why I came here

I know how to get python/django working on my computer (PC or Mac) and have developed simple test apps using django's built-in dev server and a mysql back-end. So I can get things to work and don't need help on installing stuff.

But as a coding hobbyist, I don't know how to set up a pro workflow. I don't know best practices on how to setup and maintain a dev and production environment, how to efficiently publish to production, how to integrate all that into a version control system (i.e., git), basically anything that a pro coder at a startup would take for granted as "the way to do things".

I understand there are many different ways and products to use to setup a great workflow for developing in django, but would like to hear how you or your startup team (or corporate dev group) does it. Specifics would be amazing, as I need a little hand holding, i.e. please cover anything and everything that I should know in order to develop efficiently, robustly, and eventually collaboratively.

Basically, please explain it in a way that a layman can follow the steps and setup a workflow without pulling his hair out. =P
What Lack of Innovation?
I do for my team. As a small business that sells commercial software, I am totally not opposed to paying for good software.

I've been watching Fogbugz for a while. Our previous solution was Trac + Subversion for about 5 years and it served us very well. Before Fogbugz added Kiln there wasn't enough of an advantage to making a switch. The other factor that won me over was EBS.

We transitioned to a self-hosted FogBugz+Kiln install a couple months ago and I've been very happy with it, especially with the development velocity and very flawless upgrade process and customer support.
Any idea how this deals with the DOM?
All rockets have to look like phallic because of physics. But you could argue that their phallic nature helps shape our attitudes about them.
Check out searchyc.com

This is a commonly asked question.
Well with all the open source CMS's available and services like http://www.squarespace.com/ and http://www.lightcms.com/ on the SaaS side of the equation I just can't fathom to spend 1K. I mean even expression engine is cheaper at around 300 bucks.
Google is smart and they are not alone in running their businesses like this. Pros and Cons -- sure the gov't misses out on some revenue but also many of those savings are reinvested into hiring and generating jobs and even more profits, which in the end, can still generate revenue for uncle sam.
they have better CPU than I do (and this is unlikely to change... but you know? very few things my customers do are CPU bound.)

I also give you fewer VCPU on the lower-end instances. they give you 4, I give you 1. the idea here is to optimize for the worst case (if there is contention, and you have 4 vcpus, that's more context switching and more cache flushes. on the other hand, cpu is usually mostly idle, and in that case more vcpu is more performance. My large instances have more vcpu.) I'm experimenting with my vcpu policy and may bring that more in line with linode. But really, I regard this as relatively unimportant because VPSs are rarely CPU bound.

Our disk quality is likely about the same (I use 7500rpm "enterprise" sata, which is about as good as sata gets without getting into the expensive 10K stuff, and if linode was using 10K disk, they'd be advertising the fact.) My ratio of disk to ram is 4 disks in raid 1+0 for every 32GiB ram/8 cores I'm not sure what Linode's ratio is. But Linode has better mechanisms for limiting heavy disk users than I do. (heavy in terms of performance rather than in terms of space... limiting by space is trivial.) My understanding is that they keep iop counters or similar, and first warn, then limit you if you use a lot more iops than most people. I don't do this, and sometimes overall disk performance suffers because of it. But I do plan to emulate Linode in that regard at some point.

And, of course, my most noticeable deficiency is that I do manual provisioning, and Linode has a nicely automated setup. but I'm (very slowly) catching up.

Now, I'm about half the price, too, but you already knew that.
I picked up PHP because it was like C (which I use since I was born) with training wheels and some quirks.

It gets the job done, sometimes spectacularly, sometimes not so very much - depending on who did the work. It's a workhorse, and has been demonstrated as such millions of times so far. Performance depends a lot on deployment strategy, but it can be fast.

I really see no point in bashing PHP. It's a tool, it has tons of documentation, libraries and available helpful people. Sure, I'd like to have some tweaks here and there, but with what tool wouldn't you?

There is a saying around here, roughly translated: Rusty cock minds every(single) pube.
Lots of awesome ISRU(Insitu Resource Utilization Presentations) http://www.isruinfo.com/index.php?page=srr_11_ptmss
At least you know they're not faking the video...
The Source of Resistance
How about this one:

If you swipe left from your first home screen to the search screen, the icons dim gently as you swipe. If you swipe back to the first home screen, the icons are at full opacity right away and don't fade back in.
Until we know what Oracle is gonna do about this, all the talk is useless right now.

The fact that they split the feature-set for JDK7 due to time restrictions (aka plan b for jdk8) does not make me feel confident about them being able to throw out another VM for a different platform so quickly.
> To work on paper is a pretty standard way of working for creative people, I think.

For the 180 degree opposite way of doing it, check out Stephen King's "On Writing" - he creates characters, fleshes out their personality, puts them in weird situations, and lets them figure it out. It's why he's gotten so many books out, though you do some serious deus ex machina type events in his works, as well as interesting books just petering out and dying after a strong start. But hey, he's shipped a lot of books, and some of them are pretty stories. I'd definitely recommend On Writing for anyone who wants to do any serious amount of writing.
I was searching yesterday, the results only really offered good stuff for typography learning (which I'm working on now), but overall graphic / web design are left out a bit.

Here are the resources I drilled out of the threads I came across:

Type:
http://www.amazon.com/Logo-Lettering-Bible-Leslie-Cabarga/dp...
http://www.amazon.com/Graphic-Design-Manual-Principles-Pract...
http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Brin...
http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Typographic-...

Usability:
http://www.amazon.com/Think-Common-Sense-Approach-Usability/...

Design:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592532616?ie=UTF8&tag=...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592533485?ie=UTF8&tag=...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159253192X?ie=UTF8&tag=...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592532349?ie=UTF8&tag=...

Web Design:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0975841963?ie=UTF8&tag=...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/032145345X?ie=UTF8&tag=...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1847192505?ie=UTF8&tag=...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735712069?ie=UTF8&tag=...

Sites:
http://dribbble.com/
http://www.deviantart.com
http://forrst.com/
http://lookslikegooddesign.com/
http://webtypography.net/toc/
http://ui-patterns.com/
AIX and HP-UX are very much not minor platforms in this space. 1) direct competitors to Solaris (and Sun back in the day) and 2) there's a hell of a lot of Oracle running on AIX and HP-UX (even more so in the early days of Java).
I had a friend that did exactly this in France starting in 2007. I didn't hear about it anymore a year later, so I'd say his venture ended, but I really am not sure. I can't remember the name and google doesn't find anything anymore, as anything touching eBay is SEO'd to high heaven.
No, Google is being sued because it doesn't implement the JVM. Instead Google created a completely independent VM for Android called Dalvik, and, crucially, a JVM to Dalvik bytecode compiler. Thus Google can leverage all the standard Java programming tools, but at the final stage of deployment they convert it to Dalvik which they claim is "not Java".

Very clever and very sneaky, which is why Oracle/Sun is annoyed.
I remember some time ago seeing a Youtube video of a leaked testing version of the Slate. The reviewer flipped it over and pointed out the hardware ctrl+alt+del button on the side. Everybody thought the video and device were fakes or a prank, because who in their right mind would include a hardware ctrl+alt+del button? But now I see according to this Wired article that it is indeed for real: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/10/hp-slate-official-800...

The article mentions the button though I can't see the button myself in the pics. Way to go, HP!
how is Linux a closed platform?

Is it as easy to move from Azure to a co-located windows box as it is to move from ec2 to a co-located Linux box? (e.g. install the image on the new box and replace the kernel?)
Welcome aboard.

A few things, quickly, then I need to get back to coding. ;)

It's fine to lurk a bit, or to ask questions, or to simply post links that you think are relevant to the general developer/entrepreneur community. I think PG et al. would rather see you asking earnest questions than being mute.

Most of the people here have strengths in either programming, business development/marketing, or strategy/execution. You'll see "customer development" and "lean startup" terms coming up a lot, which combine biz dev and strategy. Some people here have design/UX chops, too, although those topics don't come up as much. I'd suggest keeping an eye on the newest threads (http://news.ycombinator.com/newest) and seeing where you can contribute either by adding your own insights, or by asking thoughtful questions.
I tried this once, but they figured it out very soon and it generated a lot of additional anger. Many trolls honestly don't consider themselves trolls, and will be angered by being invisibly treated as trolls once they found out.
It's hard for me to imagine writing anything without a word processor. The amount of times I would move entire paragraphs, cut words, and the like in just a standard college paper was unreal. I envy the letter writers of days gone by who would draft long letters (any one of them easily longer than any I've ever written) only to crumple them up and toss them into the fire. Despite the frustration of having to throw away something you've spent substantial time on, it must have been pretty refreshing to look at that blank sheet of paper and know you have the chance to fill it up with something even better.
People have broken the DRM system from Apple in the past, (Fairplay), and Apple keeps fixing it.
It also didn't help that the early ports that they did were heavily customized - far more than they needed to be

I respectfully submit that the man who thought AWT was an acceptable GUI toolkit doesn't have a leg to stand on here.
Hot and Hotty Mallika publicizes her new movie by going topless
I wouldn't argue with the notion of Jobs being "delicate", that's for sure. And, apparently same goes with the feelings of the HN crowd toward all things Apple.
Beautiful. If Mr. Aurlien could somehow work in CSS3 gradients too, something like this - http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/ - I'd be willing to pay for it.

I wish there was an easy way to buy web apps like I can buy iPhone apps. I'd easily throw down a buck for Piknik + some kind of gradient generator.
Political ideology of US company boards.  Surprise, tech is strongly Democratic
Programmers Who Defined The Technology Industry: Where Are They Now?
Full vs Incremental vs Differential Backups
You've taught me a new adjective. Thank you.
I'd actually be curious to know of any banks that use Mac servers.
Apple. Just figured out a way. To stop. Software piracy.

I'm pretty sure it's possible to pirate Steam games. I know it is possible to pirate iPhone apps. I wonder what makes this blogger thinks Apple will to better than with this app store.
What is Opcode Caching?
Longer term JavaScript + HTML5 will get you most of the way there.
Why Nokia "lost" to Apple in the US mobile war
As a Brit I feel duty-bound to mention James May's record-breaking track:

http://www.worldamazingrecords.com/2009/08/wlongest-scalextr...
Funny! I've come to associate slug-type URLs (like the former, that have no numbers or anything in the URL) with content-free websites that have been SEO'd. The latter is also scary though, because it's too MANY random-ass numbers. I have sort've come to expect a combination of a numeric identifier and readable words for reputable sites.
Bible.com investor sues company for lack of profit
What worries me is that Steve did not confirm whether Oracle will be releasing Java on the Apple platform. He just says that Oracle supples Java for all other platforms - they have never done it for Apple. So there is still no commitment of Java support on Mac OS X.
Learning Python: day four.
New Stack Overflow data center
One thing to remember is that German tanks generally outclassed the western Allies tanks by the time of D-day. The M4 would lose going one on one with almost any of the main line German tanks, unless it had very favorable terrain.

The number of Panthers that Germany could field in the west was very much important to the success of the D-day invasions. Had the allies had solid intelligence that Germany had several times greater number Panthers and Tigers, it's entirely possible that they would have done D-day completely differently.

Of course, this is all with hindsight.
Lucky people have worked hard to put themselves in a position to be lucky. Its also called opportunity, and it comes to those who are ready.
The San Francisco Bay Area has the only Mediterranean climate in the US

The coastal parts of Los Angeles and San Diego also have Mediterranean climates.
The problem is not what Sun said to Apple or what any of them said to Oracle or the other way around. That's not my business. The problem is what Apple said to Java developers at a time when Apple was weak and how needlessly ruthless and brutal Apple turned against Java developers once they were strong.

I'm not naive enough to see this as a moral issue. It's a quite rational and understandable business decision on Apple's part. I just doubt that treating your partners or even ex-partners like that is beneficial in the long run.
Ask HN: Developing a recurring payments system, what do I need to consider?
I'm starting work on the payments portion of our saas load testing app. My partner and I have been dogfooding our app for a while on our own load test consulting gigs and we're at the point where we want to roll it out. The app is written in rails. I was planning to use a "credits" system, and thinking about using Braintree.

I'm wondering what things I need to consider, and trying to reinvent as little as possible. I'm wondering if there any full example apps I could work from. Maybe something with templates for Success emails? Failure emails? Card expiry? One time payment/monthly payments. Also wondering what libraries I should look at, etc.

I'm interested in pointers to libraries, samples, what to look at and think about, etc? Thanks!
I use Xournal on a Lenovo ThinkPad X-60 tablet as a white board. It works well (almost as well as a $10 white board).
At least, if not more.
Hi Alex
Here are my ideas. I apologize for mixing up the good ones with the stupid ones.

TossitAndProfit

BoxitAndHawkit

FillPhilsBox

RustyDustyMustyAndBling

CashForYourStash

OneMansTrash

AnotherMansTreasure

SloughOffYourToffStuff

WrapYourCrap

HunkOfPlunkForYourFunkyJunk

KnickKnackBricABrac

BarmyGitsKaboodles

FackYerTackle

LesMoore

JackDawse

LowellWatt

SellDeezTingsMon

TallyMansBananas

MoolaNoFoola

DoshForTosh

TankitAndBankit
And, put a minimum on it. They pay you $10 per box (for example) up front, and when it sells you pay back the difference.

You don't want to get burned by people giving you junk that won't sell for anything.
I think you'll find that the basic principles of good design are shared between most design philosophies. Reducing coupling and increasing cohesion spring to mind.

Stop thinking in terms of whether a language claims to be object oriented and start thinking in terms of how you'd apply object oriented principles to the language.

The language is merely a tool, sometimes with support for a specific implementation of object orientation. How you use that tool is up to you.
I consistently read about ruby & python web apps are deployment issues

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Thats news to me ... if anything deploying Ruby on Rails apps has become much much easier over the years with the advent of Phusion Passenger, Enterprise Ruby, cheaper VPS's, Heroku etc
Great to hear from you. I remember being impressed by how short and straightforward delayed_job was when I first explored job queues. That's actually one of the only reasons I even considered building/porting something myself.

You're welcome, and thank you for delayed_job!
cash for trash, junk 2 cash, turn around crap, cleanup shop, garbage cash, fill it up, empty my trash... i dunno, anything that makes it seem like you're taking peoples unwanted stuff and giving them cash and is easy to remember. You can always have two names, one for collection, and the other for sales... for sales, use names like: valuable bits, hidden treasures, needle in a haystack, cheap electronics, etc. You get the idea.
Very interesting... every color I stop on looks good in this, because of the transparency in the design.
He meant Mos Eisley.
The Need For A DNS Emergency Alert System
What about people who want to get rich so they can work on things that help mankind but can't easily (if at all) be monetized?
And work as an iPhone while it's in your pocket.
It's nice. I like that it's a full screen perspective as opposed to the usual 10x10 box which makes it truly impossible to show how a color may look on a larger scale.

In reply to the numerous comments regarding the lack of features; I think that's a feature in itself. If I'm looking for a boat full of features I'll open up an image manipulation program.

Open up a browser, throw the mouse pointer around until I see something I like, click, done. Simple. I like it.
Cassandra and ElasticSearch backends for Django-nonrel
PHP isn't even a good compilation target. There's no native FFI (you can't write pure PHP code that makes arbitrary syscalls), the extension interface exposes extremely brittle guts of the interpreter, it performs very poorly (compared to, e.g., JVM bytecode), and calling user-defined functions to work around the stupid misbehavior of the builtins (e.g., == which isn't even an equivalence relation) is only going to make its performance worse.
Cool. I found myself wanting to know the hex values of the bottom box (on and off state) as well - an instant palette.
If history is any indicator, it's only a matter of time before the pc tablet prices drop below the cost of the iPad.
That footer is one of those "If you do this in an email, I hate you" bits from the Oatmeal: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/email
Absolutely, dropping Propel is TODO #1. I just figured I'd throw it on github and see if there was any interest first.
Very true. I bought the O'Reilly book on it last month and plan to start on that today. That library is full of linguistic goodness.
I've always wished there were a way for articles to be manually "collected", so that when we can see two links are the same, we can flag them as such. I put this in the feature requests page at one point.

But for now, apparently only URLs that are absolutely the same (down to the last character) work this way. If someone submits the print version, or a blog talking about the story, or whatever, it becomes unique.
It goes above the Kármán line (100km/62 miles), which is the international standard for the boundary:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n_line
Does it matter though if your going to 60 or 100 miles, the experience would probably be similar?