skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As infinite8s points out, EPD from enthought is really quite nice.

Personally, I rather like Python XY ( http://www.pythonxy.com/ )though. It is totally free, open source, and for small little scripts I am a huge fan of the Spyder IDE. It lacks some of the features of bulkier IDEs so I also use Eclipse from time to time. But Spyder is light and much faster than Eclipse with every feature I would want when working on small projects that can be contained in just one or two files.
Too long, tighten it up.

How about?

My company, Startup Garage is developing a Facebook application to help entrepreneurs overcome their lack of motivation by providing social pressure to execute.

If the people already have a job, have you considered doing something similar to app sumo to sell them services? If they have a day job they have disposable income, but not capital.
Nah, and to be fair, this was a while ago - when the async stuff had barely been released in beta. I hope the situation's improved somewhat now because of it :)
Your website does not look so bad. What you need first is a clear presentation of your product. Start by having one simple headline explaining what it does and one call to action. Get rid of the pricing page considering there's no detail on it anyway. See this article for more help - http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/landing...

If you are not looking for a unique design, just run with a wordpress theme - see woothemes, themeforest, richwp.
I would be reading it, if Jordan's estate hadn't requested delaying the ebook release by one year. Luckily Sanderson has intervened and the delay is only three months, but I'm still pissed. They could have at least communicated this to people, rather than allowing Amazon to accept ebook pre-orders. I would have paid the hardback price for the ebook to get it now, instead I'm waiting and sorely tempted to look for torrents.
XZ Utils 5.0 released
Don't Make Me Think - by Steve Krug

A classic in good UI design for webpages.
The Web Browser is Dead. Or Pregnant. Or Something.
SurveyMonkey lands massive $100 million dollar debt financing
I was reading Paulo Coelho's "The Winner Stands Alone" and I just left it midway, it's insufferable. I tried before "The Witch of Portobello" and I couldn't get past a few pages so I guess I'm done with this author.

Before that I just finished Clavell's Shogun and I liked it, I just wished I had read it when I was in my teens.
Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit (hardcover)

The Psychology of Humor: An Integrative Approach (textbook, via kindle)

The Nicomachean Ethics (kindle)

Date Hotter Girls (PDF, kindle)

I went on a reading binge earlier this year, but I've since slowed down. This thread may or may not inspire me to get back on it.
The Plan9 debugger, ACID is awesome, even in Unix.

http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man1/acid.html

You can debug a kernel on a remote machine with a different architecture.

Shame that we've got to go back to the dark ages of GDB for Go.
like "supply"
Art of Travel by Alain de Botton, Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1, and I think I'm going to try to pick Garrets and Pretenders by Albert Parry back up and finish it.
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

- Zodiac by Neal Stephenson (rereading for the nth time)

- The E-Myth by Michael Gerber
Another option is to just install Sage. It "just works" to install. Though it is less about numerical computation than symbolic computation. (Though both are targets, there isn't really equal focus, in my opinion.)
It sounds like your manager actually suffered a bout of insanity or was a thief.
In addition to what jat850 said, there's also the fear of jeopardizing their positions. Right now the senators receive a significant salary ($132,300/a) for not much work. The Senate has notoriously low attendance.

If they do something to piss off the Canadian public, the Prime Minister could use that as an opportunity to push through legislation to change or even abolish the Senate. Harper, our current Prime Minister, talked about Senate reform in his election campaign, and he's not the first to do so, but it's never been urgent enough to actually do anything about.
Introducing Facebook Deals
Poker champ Barry Greenstein on bridge & poker
Franz Kafka short story collection

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy
This is what Jack Welch did at GE in the 80s, firing 10% of management every year. It's not universally derided as an HR/Management policy. I mean, it's pretty much the entire premise of the TV show "The Apprentice," no?

Pro: http://www.cogmap.com/blog/2009/11/12/force-ranking-to-fire-...

Con: http://www.missionmindedmanagement.com/where-jack-welch-got-...
If only your student body showed fiscal constraint, this wouldn't have worked.
Peter Seibel's Practical Common Lisp which is a really nice albeit long tutorial with interesting case studies.

Peter Norvig's Paradigms of AI Programming which is quite dense (in a good way) and extremely interesting.

I just bought and started the Land of Lisp for something light to pair with PAIP.

I'm also off-and-on reading Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (which needs no introduction), GEB (the same), and Coders At Work (which is humbling).

And Erik Larson's The Devil In The White City which is pretty entertaining.
I got down voted, but was actually serious. I've lived in the "deep south" part of Florida, Boston, Iowa, California and Montana and have never heard anyone say that. I then thought maybe it was something from south park, like that one "durka durr, teykin our jerbs" episode. Maybe it's from Texas, or Pittsburgh? I've always found phrases I've never heard before are always from those two places, or maybe new Orleans.
Not sure why you were voted down here. I have the same question. And I looked around their website and couldn't find anything.

There isn't even a statement of who or how one would benefit from something like this.

Their homepage badly needs a mission statement, or a "Welcome, PHP for Android is for those who...... something"

That being said, I think I may understand a little as to the "why" by looking at the scripts that are on the site.

It appears that this is for people who just like coding in PHP and would like to use that language when coding for Android..... I think. It's about the language.

I am probably going to test it out. I'm wondering if the apps written using this exist entirely inside an embedded browser. That might be interesting.
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
I'd go to college and get a degree. I was kind of burnt out at the end of high school, so I did two things, the first was go work in the mountains for a summer and then went to college. Four years later I'm kind of burnt out on the whole college thing, but I've made a ton of friends, learned a lot, and gained a lot of interests outside of computers, which have actually fueled my love for computer science.
My Design Process: Everything You Need to Know
A recent How Magazine article dealing with the creative process led me to think about my own process. From what I can remember, I never went about trying to create a creative process for myself. I simply tried various techniques over the years and have come back to the ones that have consistently worked for me.
Ah, but it is not an elephant, it is an éléPHPant. :)

It was never intended to be a PHP logo, but there is this crazy talented designer in France named Vincent Pontier who thought the letters PHP looked like an elephant.

Watch the short video here on the birth of the éléPHPant:

http://www.elroubio.net/naissance_elephpant.php

He also has a series of PHP pinups:

http://www.elroubio.net/php-images/index.htm
The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back by J.W. Rinzler. Between reading this and The Making of Star Wars I now understand Lucas' attitude of "fuck sets and live props, we'll film everything in front of a green screen and fix it in post."
10,000 statuses over the course of year is not a significant percentage. Did he just pool his friends status's?
I am not sure how they are going to manage the large delta between deal sizes. If they are going to make more Skype style $50MM deals then the smaller deals are just not going to 'move the needle'. In that a spectacular return on a $50k (which he cites) or even $500k deal is not going to make significant absolute returns.

That said - it's good to see they have been successful with their new fund, as the more 'right kinda VCs' in the world the better.
Why haven't more successful startups emerged from New York?
http://groups.google.com/group/mod-pagespeed-discuss
or
http://code.google.com/p/modpagespeed/issues/list
AKA "The Peter Principle."
To be notified when someone replies to me I use Notifo (http://notifo.com/) and put my Notifo username in my HN profile. I don't think you need a mobile device to use Notifo, you can install a desktop app that provides notifications when you get a reply. http://notifo.com/desktop
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1864688
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1865350
But it isn't the US vs the World, its the US vs other individual countries. Which other countries make up 30% of Facebook's population?
Well I think I'd also turn down most jobs that said, "We'll pay $150k/year with no further financial incentives ever". Unless my goal was simply to to do as little work as humanly possible, yet still collect a check, I'd be hardpressed to work there. And if I did, despite non-financial that exist in the world, I really don't think you could get me to work more than 40 hours per week.
Weird. I'm using version 1.6b9 which claims to be most recent but it does not have such an option.
What in particular about the rewritten filename would be detrimental to image search traffic?

The filter retains the original filename as well as the alt text.
The 4G forgery: Why no US carriers have anything close to a true 4G network
Yea it doesn't look so bad. A little redesign of the homepage could make it look good.
you WILL get frustrated by some things - some of the matrix concatenation operations are less convenient, some of the libraries are less polished, it's been worth it for me. msg me if you need help.

use IPython, not just python shell for interactivity.

also checkout 3d datavisualization with mayavi, that stuff is really awesome.
I'm also currently reading Godel, Escher, Bach. Simultaneously, I'm reading Coders at Work, which I am going to follow up with Founders at Work and Hackers & Painters by pg.
So, your point is that baby boomers on the whole are more comfortable with emerging technology than younger generations? That's absurd on its face.
World of Warcraft - The Shattering. Yeah, I said it.
Don't hate on us not-as-technical hackers! :)

But seriously, it's helpful as I dive more into the command line.
I doubt it's the last. I thought that of Civil Campaign (Miles' ultimate triumph ["Why, yes, madam. Now?"]) and then Diplomatic Immunity. I think once the little git got in her brain, it was all over. Clearly she loves him dearly. So do I. Really, I believe the tricky part was figuring out new ways to get him into crises, since he keeps winning.

Unfortunately, I don't think I can even say anything more about this without it being a possible spoiler, but I can think of more ways to write Vorkosigan books even after the final scene of Cryoburn.

At least, I certainly hope so.
"lent once" as far as I can tell hasn't been defined as "lent once and only once" or "lent once every 14 days"

Have you seen any clarification for this?
Facebook Gives Developers Access To Full Set Of Places APIs
Exactly my thoughts. I just came back to London from New York (JFK) a couple of weeks ago. The immigration & customs officers, the TSA officers were very quick, polite, nice and helpful. It all went incredibly smoothly. One TSA officer lady even flirted with me lightly (which doesn't happen very often). In general, it was an A+ experience.
If you want to build software that interests you, do become a startup entrepreneur. Your product, your decisions, doing what you enjoy.

Why go to school, if you are not sure what your passion is? Only do that if you are 110% sure that's what you want to do the rest of your life.

Take some time off. Do sports, have fun, talk to friends and other people more. Discuss actively the things you like and don't like.

Enjoy whatever you do. Forget about things you don't like, or even worse. you hate.
no, it's pretty awful. but $200 isn't likely to solve it.
Hijacking is Buffer Overflow
sudo cat ~/something.txt | grep 'hello' | sudo tee ~someoneelse/result.txt

or use "| sudo tee -a" (append) in place of >>
I didn't see the post initially, and I didn't know Luke personally, but it's a shame to see someone with his nature go; my condolences to his family and friends -- I can't even imagine their feelings.

But this is one of the reasons why I love HN. Rather than just a group of like-minded people, we have one of the most incredible, supporting, helpful communities I've ever seen. Thank you for posting your eulogy, and thank you to everyone on HN for doing your part to build such a great community.
Just finished The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf and started Starting Strength (2nd Edition) by Mark Rippetoe & Lon Kilgore.
Charles Stross and Ian McDonald are my new favorite sci-fi authors. I just finished Accelerando by Stross which had lots of great ideas played out over the next several centuries. Cyberabad by McDonald is a collection of short stories that push at the fantastic edges of where tech could be going.
Definitely go to college. As much as it seems like that stupid piece of paper they call a degree is worthless and doesn't teach you anything, it shows more than that; it shows that you have the dedication to follow through with something difficult (difficult aka. boring as hell in the case of community college) and that you have some basic skills.

It's awesome that you already have a ton of experience under your belt, but no matter where you go, missing that degree is usually a red flag. Even if you end up as an entrepreneur, it will get you away from a lot of awkward questions. Not only that, but in taking some basic courses you might find that you have some other passions that were hidden before. Not to mention the hundreds of people you'll meet and make connections with.

Also remember that you might not have to go to a community college. Go to some prospective schools, talk to their admissions officers and teachers. Your three years in software development do mean something, and theres a chance you could get in to a school that would actually teach you a lot.
I would challenge this. Let's replace your trivializing phrase "a 'thank you' from your boss on the company newsletter" with just recognition, which obviously can take many forms. We have evidence, cited in this thread, that recognition is generally more satisfying and motivating than financial rewards are (at least those produced by formal incentive plans). What evidence do you have that this effect only holds "at a certain threshold"? Or that it weakens as one's work becomes more important?

It's important to resist one's intuitions when faced with a counterintuitive finding, which this is. Most of us have been conditioned to think of "never mind the touchy-feely, show me the money" as hard-nosed realism. That it turns out not to be is immensely interesting.
Free online tool for editing PDF documents. Awesome.
Right now, Charlie Stross Wireless, a short story collection. However, what I'm going to read very shortly will be Moby-Dick for the third time; my daughter just read it in her high school English class and it became clear to me that it's time to read it again. Good Lord, that man could turn a phrase.
Once again, a perverse incentive accomplishes the opposite of its intended objective.
Will There Be a Web 3.0?
PHP pinups of elephants on scantily clad women is not a great way to promote this. Really do not want.
Does Google use this internally? I got the impression that it was written specifically for external use.
> "termination over lawful activities conducted outside the work place."

What I mean to ask is: doesn't that statement right there cover any responsible person who might want a puff or drink during the work day? I'm not talking about having a martini or a smoke at your desk or on the loading dock.

I just don't understand

1: why anyone would be concerned that the law might allow someone to show up with marijuana in their system at a non-impairment level, when they might already show up with alcohol in their system at a non-impairment level.

2: why a law that explicitly re-iterates that you can't be fired for engaging in a particular lawful activity outside the workplace is viewed as a flaw, when the general case of any lawful activity is already law.
I keep having to buy new copies of Forever War and Good Omens. I lend them to friends, and never get them back.
Guru Meditation - Avoiding the Infinite Abyss
You can get a good wordpress theme for $25.
JavaScript based redirects to a mobile version are annoying also, because they seem break the back button in mobile browsers. When I hit back, it goes back to the page that redirected me, and I end up right back at the place I don't want to be anymore. I hate Wikipedia's mobile browsing because of this.
Chrome OS Beta Appears on Chromium Version Report
Predictably Irrational. A really fun read and great educational material for an aspiring entrepreneur.
Also, if you get stuck in a community college make your first year or two mostly gen-eds, and transfer to a better school after proving yourself. Most bigger university's run the community colleges anyway and will let you transfer between the two easily, so pick your community college based on what it can provide to you in transfers.
This is a really great textbook. Probably one of the only textbooks I kept around after school.
The networking aspect of school might help him, although I guess now with the internet and all these accessible events he might be fine without it :)
Ask HN: Do flyers/give-away pens/tchotchkes work?
Part of our marketing involves in person interactions, typically in market-vertical conferences, sometimes in sales calls.

I'm wondering about the efficacy of spending money on printed brochures, branded pens we'd give away, and various other tchotchkes that have been proposed.

Is there any return on these things?

Our audience is primary business finance. Just about everybody else that markets to this group makes a big effort on their print and promotional materials. I'm loathe to spend the money without knowing what my real return will be.

Anyone have experience / words of advice on this?
The answer is a proper, centralized project, with a mailing list for communication and coordination, and for the forkers to at least make a stab at getting involved.

If that's not working, one of the forkers should fork the project, not just the code.

Projects are things involving people, when all is said and done. Community and communication are what make an open source project work, not the ability to bounce code around with push/pull requests. Those things help, because they're more efficient than mailing patches around, but people have been doing this stuff for a while without github...
It's not only about the money, but it's still about money. No matter what the company's 'mission', anything that changes the distribution of equity or profits will bring out that truth awfully quick.
An option:

It's almost winter. Ski resorts are hiring. You can meet awesome people in a very low pressure work environment (hey -- a non-college ready made social scene that doesn't cost 40K a year) and have access to head-clearing, soul uplifting physical activity that beats the hell out of jogging. And you'll still have the time and energy to code if you want. And if you want it to be not just a distraction, well, it's a big time industry with connections to other big time industries, and it's really easy to meet and talk with the higher ups at the resort about how your talents might find a place in that world that's not just shovelling snow or selling tickets.

Caveat: I also upvoted the "go to college" comment.
My adsense scripts almost always freeze my webs waiting for them to load.

Do you fellow HNers know any way to speed up them or at least load them in the background?
I just finished Wireless last night! Charles Stross is pretty enjoyable. I loved his novel Accelerando. (It’s focused around the singularity and some pretty interesting ideas…)
I wasn't even aware there was a C book besides K&R.
Does it add anything?
I think you definitely need to change things up. Try taking up a new platform on the side. Take a new job. Go to school and work part-time.

You don't have any kids, mortgage, etc... so the world is pretty much yours to conquer if you really wanted to. You can try whatever you like to find your passion. What's the worst that could happen. You run up a few thousand dollars of debt at age 21. Most of your peers will be around 30k in debt once they finish college.
the entire point was that it's not mapreduce, it's a stream processing system. try http://wiki.s4.io/Manual/S4Overview#toc1 for a "what is S4" intro.

The architecture resembles the Actors model, providing semantics of encapsulation and location transparency, thus allowing applications to be massively concurrent while exposing a simple programming interface to application developers.

and

S4 is a general-purpose, distributed, scalable, partially fault-tolerant, pluggable platform that allows programmers to easily develop applications for processing continuous unbounded streams of data.

go stream processing. also see Flume for related recent works.
Google is lost in location-based battle with Facebook
The pinups have nothing to do with the PHP Android project. I was just explaining where the elephant came from. Vincent happens to also like drawing scantily clad women, but the PHP Android project is just using the elephant.
Invisible Ink: A Practical Guide to Building Stories that Resonate by Brian McDonald
Why don't you just give them back the money you stole from them in the form of profit? I'm sure they'd have plenty of cash to buy your company then.
For the Ruby developers, do yourself a favor and install the cheat gem (gem install cheat).

Then just type 'cheat git' and you'll have nice tidy reference for git (and a host of other subjects) right from the command-line.

cheat sheets

cheat ruby_one_liners

cheat textmate

cheat svn

cheat sql

cheat mysql

etc...
Thinking Forth by Leo Brodie.