skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, if you are published, that should also show up online.

People who are published usually are a higher pay grade than I'm allowed to hire for, so I don't worry about it too much, but choosing people who are published, I think, would actually be a very similar metric (though, much more expensive) to looking at people's patches.
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People need tutorials:

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=web+X&...
i think you might be biased, there.

Domain Name: PRESENCE.CO

Registrant Name: Tamer Rizk

;)
Ask HN: Does anyone use the 'comments' link in the navigation, if so, what for?
I wonder if there is a good use for this that I am missing.
Clojure-conj: Present and future
Google Launches Boost, Easy Local Advertising With Artificial Intelligence
We sure did! We had chef-client run continually throughout development so it continuously deployed as we pushed changes up.

For RailsRumble, in order to "complete" the competition, you have to tag a commit with "railsrumble" and make sure that was deployed. Once we had setup that tag, all we had to do was make a minor adjustment to our recipe and we knew that we'd have that tag deployed according to the rules.

This isn't the first time we've deployed with Chef which was great since we didn't have to fight with it at all.
I panicked a little bit when I received an obvious spam message (my mail program thought so, too) from this strange facebookmail.com domain that had all this personal information about me. (How does some random spammer know who is a friend of mine?)

That panic didn’t last that long (I have some capacity for logical deduction and Google helped) but I do think that it’s not really a very clever idea to send out your mail from a domain you are not normally using. There might be technical reasons but I think the user experience is just not great. I’m not sure, though. Most people probably wouldn’t even notice.
Hey Jason, I'm a web developer and I make hosting recommendations for my clients. We'd like to recommend WPEngine.com for some of our clients, but there's a couple of features that would really help us with that.

Are you interested in feedback? If so, drop me a line (george@illuminatikarate.com).

Point being: the sales cycle here might be longer than you expect. You'll get a few accounts through me (and thus through the blog post), but you won't know that from analytics.
Good thought! I did the same thing and let a few domains expire this year. If i have not worked on it for a year, there is a good chance that i will never do it in the future. Better ditch it and focus on other things!
That's why I never tap out an "RIP" comment or forum post. It's insincere to do that then flip back to whatever else you're doing on your computer.
I'm willing to concede that I'm not a typical person, but really, how often do literature, history, politics and music come up in a "normal" person's everyday life?
Actually, studying etymology (which probably doesn't stand for icons yet) is fun because of that reason.

Even our letters are left overs from old icons. Alpha for the ox, Beta for the house. I am just suggesting that the floppy probably won't have its letter someday.
It's ridiculous because it's the worse advice.

Create a rectangle object.

Step 1: Select the rectangle tool

Step 2: Draw the rectangle and edit color.

Step 3: Double click on the layer to open Edit Layer Style

Step 4: Select stroke and edit size, and color.

Done. I could do that in less than 20 seconds.
I agree with the post here. To me, there is a sense of complete hollowness in almost everything that I see fostered on Twitter. It's so easy to tweet that there is no commitment to anything most of the time.
But Twitter has just started what will probably have a long future of product development. Twitter has fought the plague of twitspam and will maybe surprise us with a more sophisticated version of tweets if they take the $200M they are rumored to be raising.
This is an even worse analogy for so many reasons, not sure why it hasn't been voted down into oblivion. Must be all those people using that great new OS written in PHP.
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Glamorous Nature of Vinyl Stickers and Vinyl Banners
There is no denying that they are glamorous types of products. When it comes to vinyl stickers, they are essentially intriguing kinds of decals due to their versatile colors, designs, contents, concepts and prints. That is why they have grabbed the attention of a larger number of audiences globally.
I like the driving analogy. It seems that whenever I'm working on a tough programming problem, if I decide to go for a walk I'll get a "eureka" moment within a couple minutes of going outside.

There's a disturbing tendency for the eureka moment to be, "Aha! I don't even need to write this program in the first place."
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I think the claim in the title still stands, though. Carpenters never call themselves hammerists, but there are cabinetmakers. The point inherent is that there's some truth to saying that a true programmer's skillset is only informed by but not demarcated by the languages he or she is fluent in. It's the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in another form!
You can use a subdomain of your personal website for testing. There will still be a good domain name available when the project is ready to launch.
Runnig a proxy from home which uses HTTPS might help.
Tilapia also eat algae. Are you going to suggest we eat that too?
A cheap linux VPS is a couple bucks a month. Mine is three. If you aren't looking for a deal, there are many many options at the 5 dollar price point. If five bucks is worth peace of mind for the next month, then that's your answer. This will also have the benefit of getting around filters that are operating on WiFi network you are on.
did it work?? how long before you got your first check from buildansandcastle?
sodium nitrite? please enlighten us :)
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Did you not want to read the paper? It's really short and clearly written.

They just randomly assign people to group A or B. Group A is told about the actual theory that willpower is a finite resource (“Working on a strenuous mental task can make you feel tired such that you need a break before accomplishing a new task”). Group B is told a competing theory that willpower compounds (“Sometimes, working on a strenuous mental task can make you feel energized for further challenging activities”). They administered surveys to confirm that they had successfully influence each groups opinions.

Then, the experimenters tested the degree to which using willpower became harder or easier throughout a task. On average, group A exhibited willpower fatigue but group B did not.
That's a rather frightening amount of spelling errors.

alot: 2
APs': 1
beta's: 1
concievable: 1
concieving: 1
CPU's: 1
did'nt: 1
dicovered: 1
DVD's: 3
effecient: 2
effectivly: 2
equasion: 1
fortunatly: 1
implimented: 1
nessecary: 1
repetative: 1
subsiquient: 1
thier: 3
was'nt: 1

For a grand total of: 26. From a cursory glance, using Google Docs' crappy spellchecker to find them quickly. I didn't bother reading for grammar errors.

I am far from agreeing with everything Atwood says, but: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/11/we-are-typists-firs... and for God's sake, run a spell-check on your high-profile page.
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I give an example of my quick and dirty solution here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1828631

For more robust solutions I set up my own openvpn instance on a home server which I can use that from any coffee shop and I have a Witopia account (which I use when abroad as they have servers all over the world which speeds things up a bunch). I make the greatest use of Witopia from within China as they have servers in Hong Kong.
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An embedded systems programmer has absolutely no need to understand the intricacies of XML schema or the finer points of CSS parser bugs

They may not have a need, but they should be able to dig through all that because it's all just functions + data + dealing with some other idiot's code.
I found that my eyes were unable to focus on any of the text within fifteen seconds of opening this link. Buzzwords floated in and out of view as I scrolled from top to bottom at speed.
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Charles Schulz resigns from OpenOffice.org project
Excellent, want work?
I think you're over thinking things. Worry about it if/when it becomes an issue.

And if it is already an issue, providing more details about the type and quantity of emails you are sending, and the blocking you are experiencing, will help you get better answers.
As everyone else said, both is best. If you're looking for which one to get started with first, I've always felt that Django has a less steep learning curve.

Check out what's generated for you when initially starting a rails app: http://twitpic.com/30sz41
vs. a Django app: http://twitpic.com/30szgk

I think Django is a little less overwhelming for beginners.
Not that I know of, but decent VPSes are relatively cheap - for instance: $5/mo - http://prgmr.com/

If you can't afford that, you can always run a SSH server from your residence and use that.
Pay more to make yourself sick.... Maybe we all should watch SuperSize me again.
I think this is more of a decision between languages rather than Frameworks.

I'm a passionate Pythonist with a deep respect for Ruby. I personally find Python to be extremely elegant in both syntax and paradigm, but Ruby is the next thing I'd use if Python were to disappear today.

In my experience, Python generally has more backend libraries and tools, while Ruby has more frontend. Of course, there are hundreds of exceptions to this, but the premise of what I'm saying is this: Python developers tend to come from other unixy backgrounds, and Ruby devs often are web-centric.

As far as the frameworks themselves are concerned, Rails has a bit more magic "convention over configuration", while in Python "explicit is better than implicit", so Django is a little more engineer-friendly.

I highly recommend you read the Zen of Python to see if the language is a good fit for you: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/

Something to keep in mind.
I used the same dish trick when I was single, it's dead on.

Not to get into a Lifehacker-esque technique-of-the-week, but what method/materials do you use for your to do list?
Every now and then, Twilio fires the transcription callback with a blank transcription. Unfortunately, we didn't encounter the problem until about 20 minutes before demo time, at which point it started to happen pretty frequently, including during the demo. There isn't a code path in place for when that happens yet.
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I'm sure I'll remember that the next time I need to search on a phrase containing a slash.
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True, though until semi-recently SiCortex offered MIPS-based HPC/supercomputer systems -- sicortex.com has been offline for a while, but see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiCortex
So the reputation of the asmartbear blog didn't net many sales...but reputation of one of employees did.

So reputation IS powerful then, as long as you have one that's catered to your market.
The fact that we're even arguing it is what makes it ridiculous :)
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Who searches, "Why is Europe so warm"?
It's freezing here at the moment.
Just sent you an email to review http://www.tripntale.com. Thankyouverymuch!
I've stopped myself from buying domains for projects. I also force myself to let a domain expire if I don't use it within a year. It's extra motivation to shit or get off the pot.
And at the moment it is the only thing working. None of the links work on the page.
I tried (and still working) with both languages that power the respective frameworks, and from my own opinion they are the same. I've been in your situation too and the best way to find what framework suits you is to go and try them, build something.

I wont respond to your question as I've a little more inclination to Ruby/Rails than Pyhton and I don't want to influence your decision, you should really try them both and find by yourself.
On another note, I have reason to believe that Ruby + Rails will be the next go-to "language of the web", as PHP (is) was two years ago.

On yet another note, Pythonists are in HIGH demand. Good Python devs (who aren't actually Java devs who've dabbled with Python once or twice) are hard to come by. Excellent job opportunities because of it.
cost does not matter when it means you can have an independent processor family to control your nuclear missiles.
Do you mind sharing a link to one of these sites so we can "see" how it works?
Ubuntu moves away from GNOME
I actually eat very few hackers, but thanks for asking.
In the Internet age, it's not where you are, it's what you do, imho.

With the Bay Area thing, I get the impression that you're trying to run AWAY from where your life is now, rather than trying to run TO where the action is.

Great post, thank you.
Thanks for taking a look. You have provided some excellent feedback on both our product and the website. We have been focusing the bulk of our efforts on the actual device over the last 10 months and have had little time for website revisions and promotion. As development approaches completion we are now starting to spend some time on product identity. Your suggestions are a great start for this. Thanks.

With the help from a large USA golf accessory manufacturer- we hope to see the product hit shelves in 2011.
Even the SEO advantages he gets from his popularity will make a huge difference.
What tools you folks use?
i use cowpatty http://wirelessdefence.org/Contents/coWPAttyMain.htm
I'm providing a hypothesis to support the data they claim exist (and I'm inclined to trust that it exists.) Unless you can provide information on case studies where deregulation has provided benefits, I'm going to trust the OP.

Data > intuition.

Also, alternate hypothesis: cabs are less likely to use meters when things are deregulated, so most people don't know what they're paying for, and overpay.
I am totally guilty of buying domains for side projects and then not following through.

I own 17 domains, 5 of which are currently actively hosting meaningful content or webapps. I went through a scrub of the ones that are unused, and realized that I need to let some go.

Here's a list of ones I'm letting expire. If you have a meaningful project idea for one of them let me know.

concoctail.com
geogames.org
gpsrpg.com
istherewind.com
jamhunt.com
runubc.com
http://media.englishrussia.com/ya/0_59819_f6ec66d1_orig.jpg

Looks like "Russian" from some Hollywood movies. Not a single word in real Russian :-)
I would stick with PHP and try codeigniter. Going down the 'Rails' or 'Django' path. Ultimately just gives you a new toy.
I wouldn't say it was worth it. But that depends on what your goals are.

Ruby is a nice language though. I do all my non-web stuff in that.

I highly recommend Peter Cooper's Book: Beginning Ruby, Link:http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Ruby-Novice-Professional/dp/..., if you'd like to get started with it.
You ran FC? That was one of my favorite blogs, for some reason it helped me a lot through my post-dot-com bubble depression.
Wow, three? I thought prgmr.com's $5 system was the best deal I'd be able to find.
I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't the person who wrote it.
I reboot my MBP every few days. It gets sluggish if I don't. I'd love to know why you don't have to and I do! I suspect it is the heavy amount of stuff I have running compared to my available RAM? Anyone else have this issue?

Basically I have 4GB of RAM (on the latest MBP) and regularly run: Netbeans IDE, Safari (and a bunch of tabs), Firefox (ditto on the tabs), an FTP client, a Subversion client, iChat, Mail, a notes app, alarm clock, Dropbox, Evernote, terminal, one other text editor (MacVim or Textwrangler), Photoshop, MS Word, a clipboard app and sometimes VirtualBox running Windows XP (with 1GB of RAM assigned).

The killers seem to be Netbeans and VirtualBox. Once I have those both going I know I'm in for a reboot before too long.

I assume it's just a RAM issue but it is annoying that 4GB isn't "enough" (assuming I'm correct about why I have to reboot).
First place I go when I seek a new icon. Simply perfect and easy to use.
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Try a URI-encoded char code for X
Wildcard certs don't match the underlying domain, though. See, for example, dropbox.com instead of www.dropbox.com; they've got a wildcard cert and it's not valid for dropbox.com.
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- Integrate RDP 6.0 (Vista and up) support into rdesktop. It is the one thing keeping a lot of us from using Linux exclusively (http://goo.gl/1pm8)
This ties in with the Federal Information Processing Standards (http://goo.gl/RKUD) which will make rdesktop useless for U.S. government mandated connectivity requirements.

- Fix suspend/resume on Linux or work towards integrating TuxOnIce/Suspend2 in the mainline. At the very least, improve DSDT debugging tools, so that non-geeks can help developers identify why suspend is not working on their desktops. http://goo.gl/oUzF

- Create a SVGALIB backend to Plymouth, so that nvidia/ATI cards dont have shitty bootsplash (http://goo.gl/1D52)

- Fix SIL-Graphite support in Pango so that Asiatic fonts (using smartfonts) are better supported.

- Fix upstart scripts for postgresql, php-cgi and a zillion other services (migrate them from the old style - it really messes up having them in different places.)

- And of course, the long running IPV6 slowdown bug (http://goo.gl/y0SN)
It was a special deal featured on http://www.lowendbox.com/. If you can pay by the year, there are even cheaper deals.
I'd say saying "I'm a C programmer" is more analogous to saying "I'm a helicopter pilot." You can probably fly a commercial jet or fighter, but they are very different aircraft, with very different use cases and operation.

And there will always be a market for helicopter pilots.
The save icon on Ubuntu's default theme uses a downward arrow pointing at a hard disk.

With the move towards Flash SSDs, even this is going to become quaint. If Apple keeps going the direction it is now, OS X or its successor is going to have orthogonal persistence cached on local SSDs and replicated in the cloud. Eventually, no one is going to even think about saving things anymore.
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As well as being slow and bloated, it also seems rather rough around the edges. It doesn't feel like a particularly polished product somehow.

I doubt everything will fixed in six months, but Canonical tend toward the Google model of development; release something rough first, then refine it on the whetstone of user feedback.
Switching from coffee to white tea is one of the best things I've ever done. I typically drink several litres a day.
Meh.

Do a tutorial in each language, it'll take you a day at most. Then pick a framework that matches the language you liked better.
Digg Loses Another Key Exec
These types of rants always strike me as being ignorant. It seems like it's just taking this one person's view of software development and trying to apply it to everything. To me, it's on the same level as saying "real programmers use X".
Right. It's been long enough since it appeared in R&D labs, that orthogonal persistence should become the norm. OS X already has it in the System Preferences.
No. The existing Filesystem abstractions conflate namespace APIs and storage APIs and handle both poorly. It's time to break'em apart!

What we need is storage atom/fabric APIs that provide individual namespace (tagging, hierarchical or whatever) and storage (dedup/sync/versioning/replication or whatever) components to enable applications to innovate UX for each domain.

In the next a few years, we shall see the passing of traditional Filesystem APIs and blossoming of new storage APIs.
at least the alphabet is right :) the rest looks pretty believable though, makes me wonder what that text is supposed to represent
Haven't thought too hard about passive attacks, but you're not secure against an active MITM like airpwn (http://airpwn.sourceforge.net/Airpwn.html), because the MITM can inject JS into the unencrypted content that steals your JS security scheme's secrets. Effectively, an active MITM allows XSS on plain ol' HTTP sites.
I just use Viscosity which is a menubar app that lets you easily connect to an OpenVPN connection (you punch in the address, authentication type, etc and it lets you just click the server name from your menubar to connect).

I don't host my own server though, I use http://witopia.net I think I pay like $50-60/yr. But they give you a bunch of servers to connect to worldwide: http://cl.ly/2zEY
It searches for both "sword" and "%sword%" (with wildcards in both ends). It ranks results with exact match for "sword" higher than wildcard matches and what you are seeing are icons with the keyword "pasSWORD" since it hits "%sword%"
"and prevent commoditization of the platform layer"

This is an extremely naive perspective, but one you often hear from a certain type of crowd.

Really it's not about quote/unquote preventing this specific layer. It is about preventing commoditization of where profit/revenue is derived. And every company does it.

Try to commodotize mobile apps and the app store and see what Apple does. Try to have an open ad market where all revenue goes to non-profits, and see what Google does.

And frankly the reaction from all of these companies should be to show they can accelerate faster than the commodotized market. When MS does it, it's called embrace and extend. When Apple does it, its called "we've patented all over this thing and its the next great thing" and you wait in line for 48 hours to buy it.
This is fantastic. Thanks for sharing. This will save me many hours.
I looked at javax.sound yesterday and estimated it would take me 4-6 weeks, full-time, to do a production-quailty port using Core Audio. I’ll bid the project out at $20,000.

How about Kickstarter?

Desktop Java is a ruinously expensive legacy that they need to do something about.

All the angry screeds against Steve Jobs won’t change the fact that this is the “ball and chain” that’s pulling Java below the waves.

I think attempting to do cross-platform UIs held Smalltalk back as well. You either have Least Common Denominator native UIs that stink, or emulated UIs that don't look native. "Cross Platform" failed for the general public end-user. Web Apps took up their niche.
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Cool. I always thought Unity looked awesome, I'll be happy to have it on my desktop.
I think it's a great move. They were wasting time and energy in spats with Gnome. Now they can do what they want with the desktop without anyone getting upset that they are not trying hard enough to work their changes in upstream or adding features that aren't wanted upstream.
I must say, when I was doing some domain research, I though to myself more than once : "this is, this is criminal".

These were domains dealings with quite serious subjects and just seeing them sitting there full of ads, making it so very much difficult for me to acquire, absolute gorgeous domain names, just felt not only immoral but purely and simply criminal.

Of course I got over it and moved onto domains which were available and suitable and just as good, but, and this is not to you personally but companies who buy such domains names en mass hopping to profit, simply, find a way to make money which allows you to get sleep at night.