skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i'm not sure what you mean by "worthless". it's just taking the two terms and going by their def'n. seems fairly obvious.

news - wikileaks provides information to the public

hacker - ummmmm, i'd have to ask you what your def'n is here. this is just fairly obvious. a lot of their data is acquired through electronic means.

p.s. i don't post often (not much time), and i've been here quite a while. my karma is due to one comment making a digital underground reference not many people got (look it up). that's all irrelevant tho (only people with X karma and X years on hn are qualified to post?).
Step 1: Learn to program.
Step 2: Program games.

Seriously. Why do people make this out harder than it has to be? Sure, your first few games won't be sale-able. They'll probably be crap.

-NOTHING- you can do will skip the crap games you are going to produce at first.
this amounts to a bunch of whining over the fact that "at present, on various platforms, it’s true that the full capabilities of the platform are not exposed to web technology based applications, particularly via the browser"

will you have to write different code to make the best app for different platforms? yes, you most likely will. especially if you want to use platform-specific features. just get over it and get to work.
Okay, you're right.
Why limit to 48 hour rails contest?

I am trying a new tradition called "weekend blitz". The idea is that I create a new rails app every weekend or so to expand and develop my rails chop as well make me a deployment and monitoring master.

The hope is that most of the rails project will pay itself off in by 0.03 cents in revenue each day, and some will pay big from the start.

Nearing the end of the year domain hosting for each of the project, I either decide to cull them by selling or keeping them and develop it further. Eventually, it will narrow itself more and more to profitable enterprises.
Be careful, in the larger lots they scan the license plates every day. I only know this because we forgot where our car was and they looked it up in seconds. So, potentially, they could map your license to your ticket on checking out.
App Store Politics: Dictatorship Versus Democracy
Thanks for paraphrasing, but all that was implied in what I wrote. It was company policy to promote the illusion of paid undertime at the expense of no paid overtime. The only problem was that they'd written the policy in a way that it could be exploited.
I thought Scoble's take on this was actually kind of interesting.

http://scobleizer.com/2010/10/22/starbucks-cio-shows-why-nex...
so are all people that risk people's lives scumbags?

what if the people he releases info about are ones that risk more people's lives than he does?

part of war is about putting your life at risk in order to preserve the lives of many more. a small sacrifice for a larger one. if you don't like war, don't participate in it.
you forgot to mention smart ass remarks or lame attempts at humor. That's an easy way to get down voted. I've seen down votes also for opinions which go against the grain but those are rare, if you down vote something like that, at least post a reply.

Be polite, reread your post (I don't always do it) and bring something new.
If you don't mind using Firefox, the web developer toolbar extension gives you the ability to toggle images, js, redirects, meta refresh and many other things. Adblock is also great for blocking a lot of crap you'll never want to see even when you do want images and js to load.
So? I'd expect to see similar results in the other groups if they were facing increased regulation towards publication. A study funded by Greenpeace, would obviously not be considered industry funded, but could arguably have biases towards Greenpeace's position.
My thoughts too - if it wasn't Foursquare it'd be whatever other service they chose to use.
What's up with the comments on that entry as well? Feels like people are commenting to promote their own stuff; it's horrible.

[edit] Just checked out the Carrissa O'Brien twitter link - and her latest tweet has her location in it...
Four reasons why you choke under pressure
also, from hn guidelines
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3.""

so i guess you don't get hn either....
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By far the best bandwidth meter I've ever encountered is BitMeter: http://codebox.org.uk/pages/bitmeteros

BitMeter OS is cross-platform, displays all data through your browser, and makes a number of things simpler. You can also set alarms, keep long-term logs, and the logger runs as a service so you can leave it working happily in the background. It'll also import from another logger or two, and has simple data import/export.

If you just need Windows integration, BitMeter 2 has a floaty display and a few other niceties.

For myself, I hit > 40GB monthly, less than a gig of which (typically) is torrents, so that's all browsing + download traffic. Removing videos of all kinds, it'd probably be less than 10GB. A lot of my browsing is on mostly-text content (frequently linked from here).

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Run AdBlock, and depending on your browser, disable images or install an image blocking plugin. A plugin is probably a better option, as they usually provide simpler ways to download images selectively than outright disabling.

A Flash-blocker can also save quite a bit, as a lot of ads are well over 100KB for simple behavior. Some go over 500, and that adds up quickly.
I have a login, but still can't see the bug. I assume I don't have sufficient permissions on my account.
I don't remember this interview very well because it was several hundred interviews ago, but IIRC we were already sufficiently sold on CouchDB just based on its reputation, and the main thing we were trying to figure out was whether Damien would be able to survive as a single founder. Which would explain why our questions might have seemed random to someone who thought the point of the convo was to sell us on the technology.
I run nginx as a static file server and reverse proxy to uwsgi (via a local socket). I find the setup to be simpler than Apache/mod_wsgi, though both approaches meet my performance needs without any trouble. I run PostgreSQL as my database. (This is on a reasonably low traffic, but fairly data heavy site. It all runs comfortable on a Linode 512)

I'll just reiterate what Daishiman said regarding DVCS (like git or mercurial), virtualenv, and South. Use them! All three will make your life much easier 6 months from now.
why it didn't go as up vote to existing ? wondering.
Grady Way is just a few hundred feet north of I-405, and it's a fairly busy (traditional) intersection.

Also, the concrete median the truck had bounced off of ends just before Grady Way. It's likely the guy would've either crossed traffic at Grady Way or moved into oncoming traffic. Either way, there's a high likelihood of serious injury or fatality stemming from an out-of-control vehicle moving through that intersection.
Sorry, my comment is going to be relatively content-free, but I thought it important to emphasize stakent's suggestion.

You should really do an ebook/book on this. Your subsequent post was very well-written, and it have a good income/effort ratio.
I've also figured out how to get myself well while living with Cystic Fibrosis. That should be worth something too and is way cheaper than the drugs and stuff I got off of. But it's mostly been worth a kick in the teeth (I just left yet another health list yesterday on less than amicable terms).

The lesson I have learned: When people used to accuse me of being egomaniacal, they meant "I think it can be done, just not by you (bitch)". Now they accuse me of being a liar, charlatan and snake oil salesman, which apparently means they don't think it can be done by anyone at all, not even with the help of the right scientists, doctors, research facilities and hospitals, much less by some loudmouthed brassy broad, former homemaker and financially challenged divorcee. They just can't wrap their brain around it. A webcomic may be the only hope I have of actually educating people and has some hope of paying my bills as well, which is pretty darn important to me.

"Know thyself". The whole save-the-world, goodie-two-shoes, I-just-want-to-HELP schtick is really so not working for me. It's not like I haven't tried.
I am a SLOW typist. But I can tell you this much.
With the amount of work I get done I could not care less if I could type faster. Why? Simple: I write a lot of code generators and scripts that create/execute scripts.
Given that I would say that the quality and time I get my job done is far way ahead many people that are much better typists

Just my $0.02
How (not) to Organize a Community
That's stupid. I love what I'm doing right now, there's nothing I'd rather be doing. But five years from now, I'll probably be doing, and loving something different. I think maybe that's why so many people hate what they are doing- becAuse they feel like they have to do that one thing for the rest of their life.
The one thing I am willing to do for the rest of my life? Everything!
In my university they gave sequential IP addresses and phone numbers to all the room, I combined this data with our uni LDAP system, so I could go from any identifier (photo, email, name, room number, telephone number, ip address) to any other identifier.

It's was more for a fun hack than anything else, but it raised the issue that from someones IP address you could figure out who they were and where they lived, so my uni ended up changing IP allocation procedure sometime after that.

Also as a side effect I found a number of "black holes" in the LDAP system that queries for certain users returned a null result, after going through the list by hand I figured out that they were "VIP" students (typically sons/daughters of the powerful/famous) - it turned out that by merging the data sets in the way I had, I'd also built a system that highlighted the personal details of the "secret" students, the exact opposite of what the university had intended.
Then don't think of it as helping people, but as providing a useful product for cash and prizes. Backsearching HN will give you ideas on how to generate income for your insight here.
How To Make Innovative Ideas Happen
Fascinating statement:

Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.
I wasn't suggesting that you suggested jail. This thread is about an article in which Stiglitz suggests jail.
Read the post and you'll understand the question in a different light, why it's hugely relevant even to tech-founders...and who really asked it.
Doesn't Instapaper in fact already do this?

http://www.instapaper.com/extras under "Kindle automatic wireless delivery"

Regardless, interesting little Ruby lesson. Thanks for pushing your source to GitHub for all to examine.
Know of any tutorials appropriate for a Linux server noob (I'm comfortable with the Linux command line but haven't done much web deployment other than basic one-click xampp stuff)?
No, I think that Assange is a scumbag because he's a hypocrite.
Heck yes did I take them. At the time I had little interest in biology and I felt that it was interfering with my real education, which it was. Nothing against biology, but most of the things that I learned in college that I would call "valuable" (professionally and otherwise) I did not learn in class.
Apple's Flash competitor is iOS, which normally requires fewer hardware resources, but doesn't run on anything other than Apple hardware. Among the advantages for Apple are better developer lock-in, better access to user data and stronger branding.
I jumped to a conclusion there.

Curious--does anyone have a ratio of the total number of submissions to the "submissions that stick" for lack of a better term?

I posted a couple of fascinating (to me) articles that were pretty quickly subsumed.

Given the number of fascinating articles/resources that hold up on the front-page, the world is an even more interesting place than I thought.
Neat little challenge. I used it to improve my Python skills. How fast can you get both programs to run? Post here!
Ok. You are burn out by helping people. I understand.

I'll change the emphasize. You have great product at the hand. Product which can earn you money. Period.

Passive income. For you.
They did. It is said on this very blog: http://damienkatz.net/2009/12/relaxed_inc.html :
I, Jan, and Chris are building a startup around Apache CouchDB and Redpoint Ventures has invested $2 million. Pretty cool huh?
Rails scaffolding does this for Rails. You need to provide a way to implement custom functionality on these pages though.
This isn't that naughty, just a little subversive.
I used to be the team lead in the tech support department at a company that manufactured high tech products. Our research department where all the super secret new products were developed was anshort walk from our building.

I discovered that there was a meeting room in that building full of super secret, half finished, one of a kind products- and anybody could book the room.

So I booked the room for our weekly team meetings (which were a waste of time anyway). So every week we (a bunch of geeks) got to check out the new stuff, while the other tams talked about customer satisfaction and average hold times (bleh$.

I told my team that although we weren't doing anything wrong, if we asked for permission we'd surely be denied. We never got in trouble, and we had tons of fun. Later on I figured out how we could spend an hour playing games once a week, but that's another story.
Video calling?
What happens if you replied to one of those emails that solicits money
I think that people just climb in the bandwagon of finding someone to make their product with without first asking themselves if it is really necessary to do so at this time and if the other person really is needed.

If you have an idea, please develop as far as you can alone while you're able to do so within your means. Hell anyone can make a prototype in Omnigraffle or Keynote to later pitch the idea. There are lot's of things a non tech founder can do before requiring a cofounder and vice versa. Hopefully while doing so you'll find a person that's a good fit and whom you can trust and respect. And of course, even then create vesting agreements for either a viable but "not too soon" time or based on goals and acomplishments.
Ask HN: Wired Magazine - "The Big Score"
I just finished reading the article entitled "The Big Score" in the issue of Wired that turned up in my mail box today. (I'd link to it but I don't think it's available online yet.) This was the first forum I thought of for discussion. I'm a big sports fan so this was a fascinating article. If you haven't read it it's about a sports book that calculates and allows odds on all kinds of in-game scenarios during sporting events.

I have a lot of questions but my first is: How long until someone writes a program that can game their program?
Windows usually has a three year cicle. Vista stopped this mostly because of the development hell that it was.
ah! I was thinking the same :)
thisbookwillselfdistructin15days.com seems free ;)
Exactly.

Site which sells ebook about parrots for example.

Which population is bigger? Parrot lovers or potentially divorced?

This is no brainer.
These are some excellent points, the only things we do differently are:

- We keep a local settings file for each environment, and those /are/ versioned. We have a /settings_local directory which contains each of the variants (localdev/dev/staging/df/live). The appropriate one is sym linked to /settings_local.py, which in turn is imported into settings.py.

- We bypass Apache entirely and just plug Nginx FCGI into Django directly.

- We have a separate pip requirements file for each environment (also kept in source control)

- We use a Puppet to configure our systems. Perosonally though, I have found Puppet to have an exceptionally steep learning curve, so you may want to shop around.

I hope that helps!
Completely disagree. "Hunt and peck and mash the keys using their biceps"? Way to paint anyone with a different opinion as cavemen. ;-)

I used to be in your camp (started with the original Microswitch MIT-AI Lab keyboards decades ago, which are the best mechanical keyboards ever made, bar none), but I've become very fond of the thin Apple keyboards (and Apple laptop keyboard), which I find quite comfortable for fast typing.

The main thing is the short throw and light touch needed to produce letters with less finger movement and strain. (Just the opposite of what you posit with your biceps comment.)
Artists should start negotiating for contracts that explicitly contribute their work to public domain after XX years. Shouldn't be that tough for major directors and musicians, after all the CEO's they negotiate with run public companies with quarterly spreadsheets. They will be willing to sell out the 20+ year upside for a point or two on the deal.

Artists gotta start thinking about their legacy.
No problem. Your article was well written and to the point, thanks for writing it. It really planted a good question in my mind and I hope it benefits the rest of the HN community too.

It's like how Steve Jobs wants to 'put a ding in the universe'.

For me it's beyond money or fame, it's about science and spirituality coming together to solve survival-related problems.

I'm two months shy of being 21. I have dropped out of college to follow my heart. I have spent this entire year studying cosmology, anthropology, industrial design, Eastern spirituality, and computer science while just having new life experiences. I am tying it all together into a startup that will change the world for the better.
Typically, all organizations get bureaucratic when they grow above certain level, and still work the same way they used to -- and even then it's difficult.

My typical response has been to play by their own rules: If they say I've omitted some attachment from some application (the formal applications always seem to be important!), I swamp them in paper, which usually makes them more reasonable;

I go around them in the organization, and reach the bureaucrat from on top -- their work is surprisingly effective, when pushed by their own bosses;

If they try to play me out of the game by refusing to give me passwords to accounts I need for my work -- they'll tell me to clean up their server and then give me a regular restricted user account, because to give me admin privs, they'd have to click a radio button -- I will just go around snooping to get the credentials for some "general" admin account, as the computers have several admin accounts, although some are more equal than others. But they really don't store their passwords the way they should! ;)

I loved this story about weaseling a useful piece of code in a product update that was at the top. Been there, done that. :D

Sometimes the admins just don't check the code, even if they had the knowhow.
Wow! This all sounds incredible! You should write a book about it all...very intriguing.
nginx in front of gunicorn is fast, simple, efficient with resources, and reasonably scalable. Today, there's nothing else I would recommend.

Of course, use [d]vcs, setup.py, virtualenv, pip, and south (and a reasonable test suite!). Using these along with gunicorn as mentioned above has streamlined my deployment to a "one-click" process that leverages all of these packages to create an isolated, repeatable, rock-solid [re-]deployment with nothing more than a generic Makefile.

I've been doing Django development and deployment for over four years now and it is the closest thing to a "silver bullet" I've found.
In my university's game design society, we have a short competition to make "pong with a twist" near the start of the year. Use of Game Maker and similar programs is encouraged, because we're "game design" not "game programming", but it's the same principle: if you want to make games, start by making a game.
Yeah, using that hack in college might be a little more shady. I have always subscribed to the belief of "you ask a stupid question, you get a stupid answer" so my actions were usually fueled by my opinion that the writing assignments that my instructor was giving out were essentially "stupid". I know, that's a pretty crappy form of justification but that was also around the time that I was learning html and graphic design which I considered more worthwhile ways to spend my time.
Another great tool that hasn't been mentioned yet is Fabric. Combined with a VCS it makes pushing changes to the server an absolute breeze. With the simple fabfile shown below I only need to do "fab update" to push all of the latest code to the server:

#!/usr/bin/env python
from fabric.api import *

env.hosts = ['example.com']

def update():
local("./manage.py validate")
local("./manage.py test core")
with cd("/var/www/example"):
sudo("git pull origin master", user="www-data")
sudo("./manage.py migrate --all", user="www-data")
sudo("touch apache/django.wsgi", user="www-data")
I use fabric for deployment, testing, log maintenance, database backups. For almost everything on remote machines.

Learning curve is rather not steep.
I think his point is to not focus on an engine. You don't work for a studio and are just starting out, you need to get the experience and knowledge first. Sure when you're working in Starcraft 3 or Quake43262 you'll be using an engine made by someone else, but the fact that you now know how that engine works on the inside because you didn't use them when you started makes you invaluable. It's the same deal with Ruby programmers and only Rails programmers we have now.
Love, Rage and the Texas Rangers
Thanks for the feedback. As for SkreemR, basically it stopped making money and we did not want to go in the hole, so we closed it down. I think basically we are too busy to do anything with the code right now. Besides, you could probably make an audio search engine that uses YouTube as a source in a day or two anyway.
The Kelly criterion is a money management strategy to maximize profit given a positive expectation, which roulette does not have and cannot.
http://www.djangy.com - in private beta, by wednesday we're hoping to invite several hundred more users.

if you're in a time crunch, email me (dave@djangy.com)

EDIT: email
Since the car was in gear I wouldn't be surprised if a slow and controlled breaking would cause the engine to stall.

He passed out because his circulation was poor, which I take to mean that his foot was resting on the accelerator, not that he was pushing it to floor.
Especially true for beginners who for a long time wont be able to write that kind of code anyway. Python + Panda3D on the other hand allows even a beginner to get a few simple models on the screen within short time. And that kind of motivation you can get out of it will pay for itself, even if you plan to add C++ in the future.
Firefox 3.6.11 MacOS

The issue I'm seeing is on the logo, btw.

(Checkout browserlab.adobe.com for testing btw.)
If Apple's serious about being anti-Flash, this is another way, over time, to reduce the overall number of copies of Flash in the world (they say there are 50M active Mac OS X users), if everyone has to download it first.

In fact, if they just drop the percentage of pre-installed Flash engines from 95% to 90% to 85% to 80%, etc., then the Flash ubiquity argument falls apart, and further hastens the decline of its influence.

(Personally, I'm all for it. I just see Flash as Adobe's cynical attempt to create an alternative (and lousy) operating system that runs on all the existing systems.)
On The Care and Feeding of Ideas