skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a classic book, but I'm in two minds if it actually helps or hinders new developers.

(Hear me out on this sacrilegious statement! :) It's just that some of the design patterns are really low-level and often described in terms that modern frameworks reuse with different names. Now this isn't the GoF's fault but it does get confusing for people. I'd pitch the book at someone with a bit more experience as I think 'getting patterns' helps when you've gone off the rails a bit and can see the benefit a bit more - otherwise they just seem too abstract and a bit arbitrary IMHO.
I wish I had the ability to up-vote more than once. This deserves to be printed and framed.
I think these opinions to have a lot to do with how the public is primed to behave by being exposed to things like TV where a censored message is portrayed and Football is an accepted and popular game and the drugs message is most anti all drugs reguardless of what the individuals giving the message think.
"At Google, most revenue comes from advertising, so Google must satisfy advertisers to stay in business"

I don't think that is quite correct--they don't have to satisfy advertisers. They just have to be less unsatisfactory than the alternatives.

I've not heard many advertisers who are actually satisfied with Google. I've heard a lot of complaining about how the price for advertising keeps creeping up but the effectiveness of the advertising does not (with some speculation that the way advertising traffic is allocated at Google is designed to make it always look like bidding higher will be worth it, so as to get customers into a never ending cycle of bidding up).

Many internet businesses need advertising, though, and Google has such a big share of that market, and so the businesses pretty much have no choice about using them.
Apparently "real men" can't be iPhone users. Good to know.

:)
Even if it requires work, I'd rather be in an environment where I don't perceive it as such. This is actually a continuous goal I have in life.

Some wise words from Max Levchin - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWDMaLgT7is#t=4m35s
It's interesting to think about Facebook cross-fertilizing with Wave but man, hard to believe it would lead to a decent UX.
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"Basic, quality food" isn't the issue. Right now we have an abundance of junk made from subsidized crops. High fructose corn syrup only came into vogue because there was a surplus of corn lying around because of corn subsidies.

Food represents such a small part of the average American's budget (about 12%) that the real restraints on healthy eating are convenience (Chicken sandwich---five minutes of ordering and waiting in line on the way somewhere. Grilled chicken---25 minutes at home) and education (looking up how to make grilled chicken---10 minutes). If anyone actually looks at what they're eating, they can almost certainly increase quality AND decrease cost.
Many of the subsidies are price supports and protection from foreign competition -- which raise food prices.

'The Man' is keeping milk prices up; read this expose from the (usually very pro-government) Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12...
So far it looks like a really cool site!

A couple of things: First off, using Silverlight or Flash will drive away the free-software-only users (though comparatively, that's a pretty small number), so if you do go with Flash, keep the JavaScript version.

Second, is there anyway you could go with Python or Perl? Those languages can usually be implemented better, they're compatible with almost all browsers (no extra plugin needed), and they're free. Java is also a good language to try, though some will disagree with me on that. :)

EDIT: cough cough Had that backwards! Sorry! :)

Other than that, great job!
Agreed, post what you need as a comment.
Possibly, if staying in relatively the same area, improving Facebook chat, which is tending to be the default chat people use these days but is lagging behind alternatives. It's only got so big because your friends are already on it and people are already on Facebook.
"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion." -- George Bernard Shaw

Edit: note that the article only claims a maximum of 93% of economists agreeing on any one of the items.
You are missing the point. This debate is about freedom and dignity, and not having to cow naked before government agents to simply take a domestic flight.

With these machines, America is less free.
I think you're right. If you look at the standard HTTP header fields, almost all of them demand/specify information about the resource itself, its representation, or the mechanics of the transfer thereof.

The others:
Host - necessary for multiplexing over the predominant transport protocol
Date - necessary for caching
Referer - mostly useless and optional anyway
User-Agent - information about the client and essentially useless
Server - useless

And then there are the bastard children:
Cookie/Set-Cookie - used to turn HTTP into a stateful protocol
Authorization/WWW-Authenticate - used to transmit information about the relationship between the client and server.
I see a haze of confusion and anxiety, usually.
>Those don't seem like a great idea.

Well, with your taste to great ideas you'll have fun looking at this one as well http://www.correctionscorp.com/ :

"CCA's 19th Annual Chairman’s Charity Golf Classic hosted nearly 300 golfers and donated almost $150,000 to nonprofit organizations in Middle Tennessee. "
Abercrombie & Fitch's Fierce scent contains 11 harmful (unlisted) chemicals
And here is the study

http://safecosmetics.org/downloads/NotSoSexy_report_May2010.pdf
Problem is it's an association of private companies. Maybe a better way is to pressure the government Network Rail to offer a similar service, as they also have the information.
you are typically limited by the % the company is willing to sell.

higher valuation deals tend to raise more.
Perhaps he's discovered a retro-consulting market.
Link to actual study:

[PDF] http://safecosmetics.org/downloads/NotSoSexy_report_May2010....
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I wrote one of these for a project. The trouble is that to write functioning python code, even for just the primitives, you have to add a lot of extra scaffolding. I eventually stopped working on it since Pyjamas seemed to be doing a much more complete job (http://pyjs.org/).

I may still write a limited one for use in creating code blocks in my project MongoAlchemy (http://mongoalchemy.org/).
This. Is. Awesome. I was recently brought on as the lead developer at a heavily traffic'd site to redo their front-end due to my mad JS skills. After building out a widget framework of sorts, I found my self frustrated by the insane lack of any coherent lightweight solution for extensible JS and more or less went through the same experience that must have led you to your current solution. I saw backbone a while ago, and put it into the back of my mind to remember to integrate into my next rev, though I wasn't sure what that was going to look like. You my friend, have solved that for me and CHEERS AND KUDOS for that! It's obviously a rough outline, but there'a seed of something great in there that I have frustratingly not seen to date in any JS libraries/frameworks/design patterns.

I would highly recommend the use of @getify's http://LABjs.com for something like there where you may find yourself loading additional MVC files after page load.
Thanks!

In terms of the browser front-end it uses a mix of jscript and Silverlight. The pure jscript alternative is still quite nice, but hard to make any faster (Chrome works best). You can see it here even if you have Silverlight (Windows/Mac, with Moonlight on Linux - man, that's slow though...)

http://www.zoomread.com/ZoomReadjs.html?map=2010-10-03_04-40

The 'back-end' is all Python, as in the server generates tiles as it goes and dumps it out for the front-end to find (the browser bit).

I think with any new site it's hard unless you use completely open software with no browser dependencies, as any barrier can become a stumbling block.

Linux/OSX/iOS is (I think, happy to be wrong here) the primary desktop of a lot of leading tech people - and if they can't use my app then it's hard to reach 'mainstream' people. I think ZoomRead will fall victim to that unfortunately...

PS Had a blast doing it though! :)
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The government has very little to do with keeping food inexpensive, in fact through various forms of subsidies and tariffs they make some foods more expensive - sugar vs corn syrup.

Also:

Myth #3: Maintaining a cheap and stable food supply.
Some contend that food markets would fluctuate wildly without farm subsidies. In reality, food prices of both subsidized and unsubsidized crops are relatively stable. Given that the percentage of family budgets spent on food has dropped from 25 percent to 10 percent since 1933, any potential price instability would have an increasingly small impact on family budgets.[7] Even if price stabilization was necessary, price support programs have largely been replaced by commodity subsidies that stimulate overproduction rather than stabilize prices.
Nor do farm subsidies contribute to lower food costs. Two-thirds of food production is unsubsidized and thus relatively unaffected by subsidies. Of the remaining one-third, price reductions caused by crop subsidies are balanced by conservation programs that raise prices. Furthermore, food prices are based not only on crop prices, but also on food processing, transportation, and marketing costs. Bruce Babcock, professor of economics at Iowa State University, has calculated that eliminating farm subsidies would have virtually no effect on food prices.[8]

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2007/06/how-farm-su...
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I think that's exactly what it will let you do, that's the whole point.
Fuel taxes are a great way to reduce fuel use, but they aren't a very direct incentive to reduce fuel waste. Since there's no viable replacement for fossil fuels for cars (and public transportation in America generally sucks and can't be fixed quickly), it's fuel waste that needs to be attacked more than aggregate fuel use.
Instead of an aircraft carrier (which is nowhere near big enough for an airliner) I suggest Bermuda.
I fail at clickable title text, so:

http://www.ZoomRead.com
You also have to think though, if it was going so well they wouldn't have sold in a talent acquisition but continued for a far better payoff later on.

This service looks like a great deal of time and polish has gone into it, replicating it would not be easy. It's also a very competitive space, sure this service takes a slightly different take on it but the file uploads area is pretty saturated.
In that case, why not spend the subsidies on reducing taxes for those poorest people, or on giving them benefits in other ways?
The subsidies cause harmful distortions. They ruin farmland and create unnecessary pollution because farmers overproduce. They put farmers in poorer countries out of work because we export our excess crops. This causes harm to relations with our neighbors and hampers trade agreements. They cause unhealthy eating habits by making high fructose corn syrup artificially cheap. They make our cattle sick because we feed them corn instead of grass. I could go on and on.

It's fair to say we don't want people starving, but removing farm subsidies wouldn't have a large effect on grocery prices and there are better solutions such as giving additional funds to the poor.
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I assume you're right; my memory of a talk I heard almost 30 years ago is unlikely to be completely correct.
I'm on the same arc (especially the template Kool-Aid phase), except perhaps further along: now I forgo C++ entirely and write plain C because it's so much easier to wrap from higher-level languages.

I do miss smart pointers, but on the other hand, dealing with malloc and friends keeps me honest about what really needs to be written in C.
The fat Model vs fat Controller argument has raged since the days when dinosaurs ruled the seas and monkeys hadn't yet learned to fly. I myself am a fat-controller proponent, however, I find myself in development really needing something more like a MVCRouter solution where the router acts like what fat-Modelists would consider a controller and the controller subsumes the inter-object business logic often found in fat controllers.
Many TSA workers are on a power trip. Get off your high horse.
No mention of security improvements, so still useless.
can you quote something a little less biased?
This is exactly what I was thinking while watching the Lion demo especially with the full screen applications. AppStore or no AppStore the average Mac user isn't going to impulse buy an expensive, complex, multi-function application without an obvious purpose communicated through 2 or 3 screenshots. The key to the Mac AppStore is going to be de-constructing these multi-function applications into smaller task focused tools with re-invented UIs (iOS stylized) at lower prices.
>In terms of the browser front-end it uses a mix of jscript and Silverlight.

I see now. I think I had things a bit backwards. :) I think JS/Flash, Silverlight, or Java may be your only choices here for now.

>Linux/OSX/iOS is (I think, happy to be wrong here) the primary desktop is a lot of leading tech people

I think your site could be very popular amongst news junkies, who primarily use Windows/Mac.
What happened to fail early and fail often? Just because they're a huge corporation doesn't mean they're not allowed to try to change the world with a new idea which might fail. They just have the money to try a bit longer before giving up than most companies.

I think Microsoft does chase a lot of new shiny things. But they're really giving what the devs are asking for. I know, I'm one of those .Net developers :)
This study smells of FUD. Has there been on overall spike in schizophrenia that one would expect? What's the sample size? What's the hypothesis on the mechanism (just saying correlation isn't good enough)? Etc.

It also has little to do with the debate over prohibition, since prohibition has done little to curb consumption but certainly incentivized stronger strains.
Actually, you'd like federally unsubsided foods. It would mean more locally grown produce and meats. Most of the big agricultural subsidies are for corn and sugar, the really bad stuff. Agricultural subsidies are making the nutrition crisis worse, not better.
Also, read about what ethanol subsidies are doing to prices elsewhere. Farmers are replacing fields of grains and other crops with corn, in part because corn was already profitable before the subsidies. This has in turn increased the prices of a wide variety of food. One sad example are the prices of hops and barley, which has strained beloved micro-brewers.
Not sure why this is being down voted. It was a comment that added absolutely nothing to do the discussion.
Getting arrested is traditionally the point of nonviolent resistance, though.
Sure, no problem.

Like I mentioned in the listing, I work for a startup. One quick thing I wanted to do today was to get some very basic data on our competitors from an online source. I wanted to retrieve the following data for each of them:

(a) full company name
(b) current stock price
(c) market cap
(d) price-to-earnings ratio

I assume it wouldn't be too hard to extend this to other data as well, as long as it's visible in a basic corporate financial profile on Google/Yahoo finance or something similar. There's functionality to do this through Google Docs (a function called GoogleFinance()), but I'd like to try to do it manually (so I can learn).

I've retrieved data from webpages before, but I'm not sure how to ensure I'm getting the actual values. I know it's probably trivial to get this directly through some tool that creates a CSV file [e.g., http://www.gummy-stuff.org/Yahoo-data.htm], but then I couldn't beat Mr. C (I don't hate C, I just want to show him it can be done with less code).

I've thrown up a small subset of our competitors' info into a public spreadsheet you can view:

(https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AgbmjbWQrdmgdGZLb3V...)

Each column is a different competitor. The abbreviation before the colon is an abbreviation for the market the stock trades in (some are international markets, others are nonstandard) and the part after the colon is the stock symbol.

thanks for your help guys!
>I guess we could all print fake boarding passes, though.

That would actually be really effective. What's a good upcoming holiday to pull that as an act of civil disobedience? Thanksgiving? Thanksgiving might be an ideal day to reassert our belief in freedom as a people. Not flag-waving, not heavily political, just stopping by the airport to wish our loved ones off with a fake boarding pass.

And refusing the scanner.
I'm not sure how the HN algorithm works, is it possible to get to the front page at this point? We seem to have shot up 10 points in the past hour or so, but it seems the time for the front page has passed.
There are already anti-smoking laws in place that prohibit you from smoking in many (all?) public places (at least in SF). Worrying about your freedom to breath clean air isn't in any way related to prop-19, it's about smoking in general which for the most part has already been dealt with.
I found #4 and #11 to be interesting because it is difficult to spend money, reduce taxes, and not have a deficit. Everyone can agree that it'd be great to have all of those things. Economists are far less in agreement when it comes to what the correct balancing act is.
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I think gizmodo have caught onto an undercurrent of media hypocrisy regarding real-life violance and its association with computer games. If this murder had occured in 'connection' with a mature/violent video game, there would be a huge furore followed by baseless claims about cause-and-effect. The fact that this violence stemmed from a session of 'Farmville' of course completely undermines the 'violent games cause violent acts' hypothesis, hence the broader media and public are ignoring it.

Disclaimer: I've never played Farmville. I assume it's non-violent gameplay.
One problem with C++ templates is that they're infectious. You're right that the Boost source code is quite unreadable compared to vanilla C++, but even using Boost types and algorithms in your own code often makes it impenetrable, too.
wow, thanks Matt. This is the answer i have been waiting for. this is my misunderstanding. i get it now, it's not that a basic shopping cart isn't trivial, it's that it quickly expands to a full time job. thanks for enumerating specifics.
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I don't think ADO.NET belongs in that category. Even though it's not the primary method of data access in modern .NET software, to my knowledge everything else is built on top of it, and it's useful if you have some understanding of what's going on underneath the hood.
I find it rather strange that even predictions that should be fairly clear-cut and straightforward (e.g. "A ceiling on rents reduces the quantity and quality of housing available.") only get around 9/10 agreement. As a non-economist, I would have thought that a seemingly simple (and testable!) question like that would be like polling physicsts with the question "Does F = ma?". And I would sure hope that more than 93% of physicists would say yes.
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Sorry for my ignorance, since I'm living in Asia, and I have never deal with drugs, so my knowledge are basically from news.

How is this Prop19 will 'surely' change everything? Especially related to drug cartel.
I still think the diaspora-design is an non-starter.

However I do have respect for their persistence even after receiving so much negative feedback.
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Except as permitted under Proposition 215 and SB 420 laws, persons age 21 and older may:

use marijuana in:
a non-public place such as a residence or
a public establishment licensed for on site marijuana consumption.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_19_(2010...
Indeed. A lot of the junk food culture comes from agricultural subsidies, not just the obvious corn syrup. I recall (but can't find the link) a study showing that a really high proportion of supermarket products had traces of corn (even meat).

When you cross the border you see these effects more clearly. Here in brazil, for example, for most of my childhood McDonalds was an expensive-ish place people went out to eat in, and even today junk american-style chocolate bars cost way more than standard not-so-junky chocolate. With an exception for soda (which can be cheaper than bottled water in some places) junk food is not at all attractive if you don't actually have a lot of money (the standard no-money food around here is beans and rice, with maybe cheaper cuts of meat thrown in the beans or served with the food; junk food costs a lot more than twice that).
Your position is up to you but it is strongly against the ethic of the society you have chosen to join. In America, everyone in the community has a voice and right to participate. We even tolerate rallies by illegal immigrants.

Democracy is too important to be limited to just citizens. If you live here and you have ideas worth listening to, you have a responsibility to participate. We'd like to have you at the phone bank, or driving old people to the polls on election day, or writing letters to the editor.
In SF you are allowed to smoke cigarettes outdoors most places except near public doorways. You are definitely allowed to smoke while you "walk around town"
It seems to me that you've started with a conclusion and found facts that fit your thesis. That's the wrong way to go about reasoning.

The known facts about the Mac App Store are that it is only going to be an additional way to obtain software. It doesn't make sense to condemn it as "Bad For Developers" based on groundless speculation and presumed irrationality on Apple's part.
Well, if I get too high, I find it difficult, but if I'm just a little high, I find it beneficial in that it helps me focus and sometimes helps creativity. I'm currently employed and don't get high on the job, but I code on my side projects high pretty often. But I don't generally get high with the intentions of coding. Usually it's just that I happen to be high and just want to code and make progress on my projects. Often times it's not until I've sobered up a little (but not completely) before I start coding, though.

I didn't used to do this when I was younger (I'm 32 now). In college I found that while I could do homework high, it usually resulted in me correcting a bunch of errors the next day, so I reserved pot (and alcohol) for when I was finished with my work. But these days I'm so compelled to work on side projects that having used pot (and sometimes alcohol) earlier in the evening just doesn't stop me from putting in a few hours before bed time.

As a side note: I gave up regular usage of caffeine after I got out of college. I found I no longer needed it once I was able to get 7-8 hours of sleep every night instead of 4. But I very occasionally have caffeine and yes, as others have said, pot + caffiene is a good combo.
No, but buying up drug based domains in the event that it becomes a legal market doesn't sound too bad.... cough oregoncannabis.com oregonbud.com cough
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We know what happened to Larry and Sergei, but I was curious what happened to Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg:

Scott: http://www.zdnet.com/news/life-after-google-with-millions/18...

Alan: http://www.thealarmclock.com/mt/archives/2007/05/google_weat... / http://news.cnet.com/Start-up-warms-up-personal-robots/2100-...