skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Class-based views represent a huge advance in really simplifying what goes into getting a lot of data quickly to the end-user. Check out the updated documentation; this is really much easier to wrap your head around if you're new to the framework and goes a long way I think in facilitating cleaner (and DRY-er) code.

The inclusion of this feature is the result of a ticket filed three years ago. The 1.3 release of Django promises to be awesome. The strength of this release is not so much new features, but closing out a host of bugs and other aging tickets like this one. This is really a great step in the right direction for Django overall.
please look up the terms 'public good' and 'private good'
is this really that different from, say, Dell? I imagine their tech support also has a database or two.
Totally in - sent you an email
"My vote is going to the candidates that at least vector in that direction."

This implies he is going to vote Republican. The problem is that not even the Republicans live up to that standard anymore, they just pay lip service to it until they get elected, then deficit spend the nation into oblivion anyway. This should have been made completely clear during the Bush administration.

From $5T in debt to $10T between 2000-2006, then to $12T by the time Bush left office, it's clear the GOP is just as unable to control their tendancy to spend as they accuse the Democrats of. The main difference is that the Democrats at least tend to raise taxes to fund that spending, so the citizenry is more likely to feel the cost immediately (instead of punting it down the road with deficit spending and additional interest payments).

Ironically that's one thing Carmack is arguing for - the benefit of taxing people in such a way that they feel it, rather than having it hidden in the income tax system.

When even staunch conservatives like Chris Buckley, son of the founder of modern conservatism William F. Buckly, abandon the GOP over this hypocrisy, people like Carmack should take notice and realize that voting for the GOP is in no way a vote in support lower taxes, more efficient government, or any of the other related outcomes they want:

"Eight years of 'conservative' government has brought us a doubled national debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to nowhere, poster boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war conducted by politicians of breathtaking arrogance. As a sideshow, it brought us a truly obscene attempt at federal intervention in the Terry Schiavo case. So, to paraphrase a real conservative, Ronald Reagan: I haven’t left the Republican Party. It left me." - Chris Buckley, 2008

I do not think the modern GOP is who Carmack thinks it is.
Of course I know what the term means. The point is that the term is mushy enough to be meaningless in all but the most trivial of applications. Nobody thinks the government should be competing with Sam's club in the retail breakfast cereal market. If something's being debated, it's almost by definition in the gray area.

"I don't think the government should produce private goods" means effectively nothing.
Dunno....looking at the code examples , particularly PolicyNodeImpl.java looks like they where simply converted straight from the original code. There is simply no way the Google code was not copied/generated from the Sun code.

You can view the example here ->

http://www.scribd.com/doc/40316099/orclgoogcode
I'm sorry, did not pass my scan test :)
Wont this dilute the deal a day buzz ?
Sorted by frequency:

At work: Java, Scala, Clojure, Python, Emacs Lisp[1], ad-hoc scripting in Perl and shell

At home: C, OCaml, C++, Scala, Java, Clojure, Scheme (mzscheme), Python, Perl, Emacs Lisp[1]

[1] I usually do (require 'cl) with emacs Lisp, does that count as cheating?

Dream environment (unconstrained by existing projects): C, OCaml (or Scala if there's need to be on JVM), Common Lisp or Clojure (can't make up my mind between Lisp-1 and Lisp-2), Perl (I like Python, but I don't see what problem it solves that Perl doesn't).

Considering adding Erlang to the mix (worked halfways through Joe Armstrong's book). Considering learning Haskell (although I am already familiar with Monads, ADTs, pattern matching - from OCaml and Scala - and semi-familiar with ideas behind type classes from Scala's higher-kindred types and OCaml's modules).
This blows me away: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/10/27/... "The average American ... carries $5,100 in credit card debt". No math education? Don't care? Peer pressure to buy crap? Or is that money really going to groceries and rent? I guess I live in an entitled bubble, but I really can't wrap my head around how people get in that state.

Is it relatively easy to get access to a user's credit card statements, or do you need to negotiate with each provider? Or do you just get their passwords and scrape?
As someone who worked tech support for four years... this.

That's why I always try to be as entertaining as possible (while still being clear and helping them solve my problem). I recently had to exchange a pair of pants that I really liked but didn't fit on an online store. I ended up describing receiving their pants "As if the mighty Norse god Thor himself rode down from Aesir with a lightning bolt in one hand and these pants in the other."

I figure their lives are hard enough, might as well make them smile sometimes.
No way. Come on by. We talk about photos all day...it'll be nice to discuss something else.
This has been very tricky for me. I know a few banks will do it but a) I forgot whom, b) the ones who did were all very inconvenient for me (ie: far). If I remember correctly, Wachovia was one of them.

I decided to try a few banks in upstate New York since it's not too far from here. I've been turned down by a few, namely Key Bank and Citizens Bank.

I ended up opening an account with RBC Bank in Virginia Beach, VA while I was on vacation. FYI, they have branches in Florida too. This is a great way to write off your vacation :) It was extremely easy, probably because they're mainly a Canadian bank and I'm Canadian.

You should call them and see if they'll do it for you. If not, look for an international bank such as HSBC.

On another note, I hired a lawyer to write a proper certificate of incorporation. The default one isn't usually suited for Internet startups that might require external funding, have an option pool, etc. You can see it here: http://bit.ly/9POOZe . Feel free to reuse it.

Everything was fine with it during the acquisition so I assume it is pretty darn good.

Hope it helps!

EDIT: The Certificate of Incorporation file also includes a note/warning from my attorney. I thought I'd include it because it is very important.
I agree, Python is our language of choice as well. The logic we use is that it's in most/all of the cases the lesser of the two evils.

You can always argue "Oh! you are doing "that" use <said language> it's amazing and has that built in." However we find that Python focuses a lot on the programmer as well (white space etc...) and that was the tipping point.
So was slavery at one point.
Maybe it's just me, and maybe I'm wrong or over-thinking it, but this question bugs me. I think this is a trick question, because there is no single right answer unless the question is prefaced with "in [language X], define polymorphism." I've lost track of the number of times I've been interviewed and had that awful question tossed at me.

Without fail, every single interviewer in my experience was looking for an answer strictly in terms of whatever language(s) they're using at the company, or whatever language the interviewer is most familiar with. If you stray outside of what they know and what they're looking for, they have no idea what you're talking about.

Polymorphism in Java is slightly different than for Ruby than for C than for Haskell than for yadda, yadda. No matter what, it's always going to be somewhat arbitrary and tied to some kind of language dependent implementation or feature. If your language doesn't even have classes, the answer is different, if your language doesn't have functions, it's different, etc, etc.

I suppose the closest thing to a right answer would be to define it in pure mathematical terms using Turing machine notation, so as to make it universal. However I have no idea if such an answer even exists. If anyone has seen such a thing, please do share it.

A better version I would ask would be:
define polymorphism using x86 AT&T assembly.
or:
define what polymorphism represents
I know it's not your question, but to the same problem I found http://www.2checkout.com/ to be the answer. It's roughly comparable to the US based ones... more choice would have been awesome, but it works. Also PayPal.
Small asks first
You're in Champaign? So you must go to U of I. I'm at Bradley up in Peoria. Send me an email if you'd like (your email isn't in your profile). I always enjoy meeting folks in the area.
So... "No."
Mimic Octopus
Looks like C# is borrowing even more from the F# playbook. Though from the looks of it, I still like the F# implementation better.

Next in C#: workflows ( aka F# monads ).

I really wish they had dabbled more in dynamic programmic. I'd have loved to see something akin to Python's multiple inheritance. ( EDIT: is this technically dynamic? :p )
There's no reason you can't have great collaboration with close friends or mentors without giving away 55% of your company. I know the rebuttal will be "but the collaboration is more intimate and thorough, and the other person cares"....well, I bet you 10 people's opinion you trust is as valuable as a co-founder's.
Ironically it took my many years of schooling simply to digest that very long winded article. Knowing what bits to skip, to skim, to read carefully, to remember etc.
Wonder what the cut Groupon makes on these, doubt it can be 50ish percent like the deal of the days are. This company almost has a license to print money, I wonder how long it can last.
Ask HN: is it unusual for hackers to get grey hair, should i be worried?
im 21 years old, im not depressed or anything, i actually love life, but i got a lot of grey hair on my left side of head, i do stay up all night hacking, i just love building stuff, im actually thinking this could be from me hacking, thats only reason i got the gray hair? is this normal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimic_Octopus
Unfortunately the entire photos team works in palo alto. If lunch goes well we might be able to convince a Dublin team to do the same.
Did Alex Stefanov's collection of free online math resources make it in? It was an awesomely comprehensive list.
JQuery and YUI 3: A Tale of Two JavaScript Libraries
Lotharbot pointed you to wikipedia which explains it pretty well.

Interstate highways are a public good, at least for as long as technology is not advanced enough to make metering them/excluding freeloaders feasible.

As for what I'd cut, social security, medicare and welfare are at the top of my list. Quite a few conservatives (the limited government kind, not the "Dem + Christian nationalism" kind) have explicitly stated this, for example Paul Ryan. See our conversation from a month ago, the last time I pointed this fact out to you: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1745714 (I believe Ron Paul also pushes cutting SS/medicare.)
I'm usually the last to 'get' some of these things, but in my experience, people are usually not in debt because they don't know how to get out.

I would not have thought you could make billions of dollars from selling coffee either, so all i can do is wish you guys luck.
What the f....

How?
Do you not picture a distinction between a landline (non-cordless) phone and wireless internet?

By 'trivial' to tap into, you mean I'd have to physically cut your line somewhere and attach a listening device, right? It seems very reasonable to expect privacy on a physical point to point wire.

With Wifi, if you're my neighbor, I need to sit at home with my computer and your photons come straight to my antenna. It's like you're giving them to me. I don't see the similarities.
If I was a merchant, I might have some qualms about effectively having a subset of my sales revenues reported publicly.
partially true, you are talking about Fiat money, and it is true that it is a fairly modern invention. Taxation was more abusive system prior to Fiat money, your local lord, or city state with its self issued currency, it was not a rosy experience always.
That would be against Adsense TOS, as far as I understand.
"Dynamic programmic" would be a sweet name for a band.
My favorite programming question to ask is:
Write a function that given an integer n returns the number 1 to n in random order

I find this is a good mix of not too trivial but not overwhelming, I don't expect people to come up with the fastest possible algorithm on the spot. If they code the naive solution, that's OK if it makes sense and they can describe the performance characteristics. Then we'll talk over the algorithm and I lead them to something better and see how the conversation develops.
Curious what software you use? I bought a vinyl plotter (Graphtec CE3000mkII) a few years back but basically gave up on it because all the software I could find either sucked ass, or was incredibly expensive for what it did. Plus, I couldn't find a good affordable Mac option.

If you want, email me your mailing address. I've got a bunch of premium vinyls still left over and can send you some cool stuff.
Does Dell do face-to-face tech support?
The bigger the company, the easier it is to do this. I try to track major things that either avoid expenditure or save money while improving services or eliminating useless spending.

Generally, I'm able to hit 3-4x salary. Once I was able to save the place 10-15x my salary by aggressively decommissioning some ancient, expensive to maintain legacy applications. Of course, this work is usually a team effort... but it's still a good feeling.
I like Go, it gives me the feeling of python in a compiled language (also goroutines are great)
By this logic, any investment is a public good.

Of course, education isn't a public good. It's rivalrous (you and I can't simultaneously enjoy the same seat in a classroom) and excludible (if you don't pay, they don't let you in). That makes it a private good.
I don't see any interactivity with it. That's the problem I see. Otherwise it's a scrolling animated movie.

When I see an interactive RIA so easily converted to HTML5 then I will be impressed.
There is a hope. Be organized, consider your life needs very carefully if you have the maturity to do so, and schedule your time accordingly. Although there's creative benefits to "flying by the seat of one's pants", it can be a quite hazardous path.
what a great idea! Good luck my friends, will definitely try it out. Glad to see your local too!
"Dot Net" is not a programming language - just as the JVM isn't.
Quote is from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression
Same thing happened when "AJAX" came to mean any kind of dynamic webpages. People like having these big bucket reference points in technology.
It is probably nothing but please go ask a doctor. If you google hard enough you'll find lots of reasons to think "it's nothing" and some good paranoia-inducing reasons to think.. ask a doc.
How common is it for homeowners to have a friend replace roofing tiles for them? Such a job is as easy or easier (and cheaper in terms of materials) than replacing solar panels.

In practice such things are not common at all, people don't have friends who will just go up on roofs and do serious work. The best you can hope for is something as easy as installing Christmas lights (which doesn't even require getting on the roof itself, just up to the eaves).
I've working on http://toeflnow.com.

The primary market is ESL (English as a Second Language) aged 17-24.

We are not converting. We actually had a much uglier out-of-the-box wordpress site that was converting better than this website.

What's your advice about how we can improve conversions for our paid products?
"When you dive deeper into Ryan's story, for example, you discover that he grew up around farms and went to Cornell to study fruit and vegetable horticulture in their world class ag school."

That's great, he knew what he wanted to do, worked very hard to be prepared for it, and then when the time came he worked very hard at it.

But I don't think most people know exactly what they want to do when they're deciding what major/school to apply for at 17-18 years old. So encouragement to leave the comfortable pay-the-bills type job is helpful for a lot of people.
Delaware franchise tax is done two different ways. You pick the method you want to use. The first method is based on the par value of outstanding stock and the second is based on net assets of your company. Delaware will send you a bill using the method that maximizes the franchise tax. You should use the method that minimizes the franchise tax. You can have 10,000,000 shares outstanding at a par value of .0001 and still pay, essentially 0 in franchise tax (or the necessary minimum) if your assets are low.
Can't replace adequate product testing.

For example I think the biggest problem with the iPhone4 was not attenagate but the material chosen for the camera lens.

After 3 weeks the phone camera is completely unusable due to blurriness from the act of setting it down on a table due to the lens being made of a non scratch resistant material and being flush with the casing that is.
Fanboys Would Like Fat Peter Jackson To Direct 'The Hobbit' - OnMedea
I would suggest that he should start out at a bare minimum of £150 a day, especially if he has web sites that he has done before that are public facing (i.e. he can demonstrate his work). It is easier to lower prices than to raise them.

A second piece of advice is that if you are going to be a freelancer you should join the Professional Contractors Group (www.pcg.org.uk). They have an enormous amount of info on their pages, even more for members, and just by becoming a paid up member you get £70,000 of tax audit insurance.
I add code that does the "run something at the CL and print the result" type work into a t/ file. Then, when I'm happy, I change it from a print to a test, and move on.

This way manual testing becomes automated tests with very minimal additional effort.
I'm one of the only hackers/startup guys I know in my age bracket (late 30's) that does NOT have grey hair. It's not common from my observations to see grey hair around 30 in this business.
Thank retro! Mighty nice of you. If you still have the bandwidth, can you please take a look at the home page of
http://caniafforditnow.com and offer an alternate design.

If you need anything, my email hrajagopal(at)yahoooooooo.com
You can be sure they have tested the concept for a few months now and they have entered enough numbers on excel spreadsheets before launching this. So to answer your question, it will dilute the deal of a the day buzz, but it will increase revenue.
A bunch of us Illinois CS/ECE students, alumni and various stragglers hang out on irc.nullirc.net's #cs.
Even in the "modern era", most interesting apps can't run on F@H.
I wonder how much of a role the fact that Americans mistrust their government (and one part of the government mistrusts the other) plays in increasing the size of government - at the end of the day, every last piece of legislation - good or bad, needs checks and balances, right? Could it be that the cost (in both time and money) of checks and balances eventually outweighs the benefits of having them? Perhaps that should be a way to measure if a government has grown too large.
This is probably one reason why Apple is able to belt out products that customers wants. They put a lot of thoughts to the concerns of real customers who come to their store to report or have something fixed. They are relying on these data/information to make their next product, stand out far better than their last one.

I think they are living by the mantra - "it ain't cheap but it's worth it."
Have a strong company culture or Fail
Most of your taxes are simply taken and given to people less productive than yourself.

Citations please.
Ah, but that's what "event.currentTarget" is for.

http://api.jquery.com/event.currentTarget/
Yeah, "death from above" through collapsing sheets of ice are things worth avoiding, generally :)
Just out of curiosity, how will you verify that your clients actually own the site they want scanned?

And what sort of contract will you have in place for outages caused by the scanning, liability limitations, etc?

I absolutely think you could flourish with a service like this, but there are some kinks you'll have to work out.
Indeed. I know of someone quite poor that paid $500 to have his credit repaired. They got around the laws by calling it education. Most of it amounting to having him send out form letters that looked like fraud to me. The letters would say debt wasn't his. He didn't seem to read or understand any of it, but happily sent out the letters. I wonder what the court that had a judgement against him for child support thought on getting a letter saying it wasn't his debt?
When someone says the little things don't matter, tell them that those who'd bought Apple stock in the early 2000's instead of a pack of cigarettes or 6-pack of beer could have ended up with a couple of hundred dollars for each one instead.

It's a major adjustment, but people should live within (below actually) their means. Unheard of to do without cable tv, cook your own meals from basic ingredients, or give up alcohol or smoking? Some people need a serious reality check.

I'm extremely suspicious of a for-profit venture to "help" consumers. Just what is there that a consumer can't get or do for free? It seems many consumers have fallen victims to so-called help. The article mentions plenty of easy to relate to grief situations, but is very short on solutions.

Remove social stigma for debt? I'd say that depends on the circumstances. Some would have made better choices if they'd seen MORE social stigma attached.

Talk to people about paying rent, and few are very happy about it, but let them rent money.....
I'm bullish on the category. Scalable advertising which actually works for small businesses is, and should be, a license to print money. I might grumble at the $1,500 I paid Google this month but if they told me they had $15,000 of traffic on my keywords I'd happily max out my credit card for a few days.

Take a look at the yellow pages: it's unsexy, it works, it is a multi-billion dollar industry.
Thats awesome info, thank you. I'll be checking it out right away.
my weapons of choice are Clojure, Ruby, Objective-C, but in this pool I voted Ruby just because is fun :) and do like to code for fun :)
Dude, just apply the definition. No honest person is debating that SS/medicare are private goods, they are only debating whether the government should pay for them anyway. Just to avoid being accused of handwaving, I'll write out the obvious reasoning explicitly.

Medicare: Rivalrous (the same dollar can't reimburse the doctor for your benefits and mine) and excludible (if you don't pay, they don't reimburse the doctor). Private good.

SS: Rivalrous (you and I can't both spend an SS check) and excludible (if you don't pay in while young, they don't send you a check when you are old). Private good.

Should I do the same thing for cheese fries or can you figure out for yourself that cheese fries are also a private good?
You clearly have a problem constructing sentences that contain facts.