skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two things to know. 'aa' < 'z' , which I think is expected. And 'z'+1 == 'aa', which is debatable, but not far-fetched.

As far language blunders go, I don't see this as unforgivable, especially since it only appears when you're treating a string as an integer (a dumb idea, anyway) from within the for construct.
I mean what if some one steals your cookie from your machine and copies it to his machine, this way he can login as you. I feel there is a way to prevent this, but I have no idea
Why Obama Should Learn the Lesson of 1936, not 1996
It looks like user yatsyk built http://hnresources.com/ for this purpose.
All they have to do is wait for the C&D and then take it down and not put it back up. In America at least, this is often a first step. Of course, if the value of a single particular image/video is so high that they could justify fighting it in court with a reasonable chance of winning they'd probably go down that road. I doubt there are many cases like that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cease_and_desist
For those with stamina, single page link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/education/07china-t.html?_...

This collection of snippets about Chinese undergraduates in the US doesn't really have much of a hook.
Bear in mind that 'unsatisfactory' is purely subjective term. :)

I have seen your startup's presentation two weeks ago at MIMUW and I was genuinely amazed that people do such things here -- so were my friends. Most of them work for corporations.

I agree that startup scene is not mature. For many people, it is easier to move abroad and start there, than struggle here. This is understandable, although it holds back the development, which results in vicious circle.
I do wonder what "discipline" means. Cause it often depends on what the CEO wants.

For me, as a software developer, discipline means TDD, repeatable process to write code (no, it doesn't mean we should throw-away creativity).
Wait, that last sentence also applies to a lot of universities.

Not really. At least in the university programs I know about, the biggest problem is that teaching sucks because the administration doesn't care about instructional quality at all. That's why you end up with professors who literally can't teach: their value to the organization comes from the grant money they pull in, not their ability or interest in teaching.

Given how wrong you are about the problems of university level instruction, I'm not sure whether to trust your claims about primary and secondary education.
"Just" is unofficially a banned word around here. :)
Teaching MIT Scratch to kids at the Memphis Public Library
Thanks for the post but I find the title of the link a bit confusing "Comparing Python frameworks: A simple webapp in Flask, web.py, bottle, juno ..."

I'm not sure what you're comparing.
If I could live again my life,
In the next one – I’d try to make more mistakes,
I wouldn’t try to be so perfect, I’d be more relaxed,
I’d be sillier than I’ve been,
In fact, I’d take things much less seriously.
I’d be less hygenic.
I’d run more risks,
take more trips,
watch more sunsets.
I’d climb more mountains, swim more rivers,
I’d go to many more places where I’ve never been,
I’d eat more ice cream and fewer peas,
I’d have more real problems and fewer imaginary ones.

I was one of those people who lived
prudently and fully every minute of his life;
of course I had moments of joy.
But if I could go back I’d try
to have only good moments.

Because if you don’t know, thats what life is made of,
only moments; don’t lose the now.

I was the type who never went anywhere
without a thermometer,
a hot-water bottle,
an umbrella and a parachute,
If I could live again, I’d travel lighter.

If I could live again, I’d go barefoot
from the beginning of spring
and stay barefoot until the end of autumn.

I’d ride in more carts,
I’d watch more sunrises,
and play with more children,
If I had another life ahead of me.

But now I am 85…
and I know that I am dying.
ShowHN: Test your Geography Skills
A simple Geography game that shows you maps pulled from the CIA Factbook and you have to guess the country. The design is very simple. Would love some feedback.
URL: http://bhoogolvidya.appspot.com/
I gotta say, it doesn't take long to identify the docs who did well on those tests: they're generally the best docs.

Do you have any evidence to support this notion at all? Or is thus just some religious notion that we're supposed to take on faith?
web2py deserves a place on the list. I've found it to be more productive than django.
Well there was this girl, whom I didn't go after...
In the end of every person's life the one thing they'll have, no matter what, are the memories that they've made throughout their life.
In one of my site I published an article about respiration and included an image from wikimedia. But mistakenly I chose a picture which is not in public domain. Within weeks somebody emailed me and made a big deal out of it. It was just one image still released under creative commons.

That's what I meant by issues when they do it in a large scale.
Making A Better Open Source CMS
My family lives on the east coast. I live on the west coast. Christmas and family vacations are the only time I get to spend time with my mother, father, sister, and brother. My parents are getting older--- I see them seldom enough that every time I'm surprised at how much older they look. This among other things makes me acutely aware of how we're each missing out on one another's lives.

I hate traveling as much as the next person. Maybe more so since I do it regularly, around Christmas, every goddamn year. It's awful. It's hideously expensive. For my fiancee and I, it's costs more than $1000. And sometimes it's downright enraging. Of course I've questioned whether or not it's worth it, numerous times. My parents and I email one another. We talk on the phone. I play L4D2 with my brother online. But there's three hours' difference, and you might be surprised by how difficult that makes things. And for all of technology's virtues, nothing compares with having a once-a-year, sit-down dinner with the whole family; shootin' the shit in front of a warm fire; and so on.
I think even clearer would be: "... easier for patents to pass the nonobviousness tests". That is, they're making it harder for examiners to reject patents as obvious.

Contrary to the blogger, I think the obviousness bar is still much too low, and that this is, in fact, the biggest problem with the patent system. Now they're making the problem worse. I find this very dismaying.
This is great. Kudos to you. Let me know if you ever need help running something similar in Boston.
Unfortunately, that's not the case. Watching someone and his family suffer through Alzheimer's is really tough.
Offer HN:Ticket to Page Turner: The Asian American Literary Festival 
Offer HN NYC: Free $30 ticket to PAGE TURNER: The Asian American Literary Festival - Happening right NOW

Little bit off topic, but number of VC's donated time to this including Harj from Y-Combinator

I hate to see the ticket go to waste.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1104085200/page-turner-asian-american-literary-festival

I donated to this group and have a free ticket. I can't go I am in SF right now. First person to message me can have my ticket.
DM on twitter.com/SteveMorin (I would appreciate the follow)
or email steve@stevemorin.com

Featuring Susan Choi, Tao Lin, Tan Lin, Richard Price, Tim Wu, Henry Chang and others!
Sunday, November 7, 11am-6pm
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This is pretty cool. Do you have any idea if this stuff is manually entered, or does he mine HN for it?
These definitely happen all the time.

Another thing to watch out for is for unfilled seats that can change the board dynamic. If multiple parties have to agree on the board seat, then an intransigent investor can maintain an advantage by never approving any candidates. Don't put off filling these seats! Ideally, you should agree on a specific person before you sign the docs.
Considering the number of my co-workers who have been raving about their HTC Desires for the last 6 months, I think you should be careful with your generalizations.
Good point, I haven't used emacs in 8 years, but I know a couple of developers who use it with a lot of passion, even though I imagine its hard for non developers to use it. But using the formal exported by that may not be a bad idea.

I would love to flesh out the core elements (the model in the MVC sense) required that defines a task and its context. The format itself could be exportable as XML, JSON or Org-Mode consumable files.

PS: Sorry about your issue with Disqus, I actually recently installed it because it allowed me to connect with the commentors even more since they signed in with Twitter etc. I should probably look into some graceful degradation back to core wordpress comments when needed.
Placebo buttons
Largest is 746 gb? Bull. Largest active, perhaps (ignoring the Touhou one mentioned elsewhere), but I've encountered 1.5 tb and greater. Maybe it's been dropped from a few trackers?
It's in the github repo.
Wordpress brute force update for Cloudflare
The reason my website generates SSL warnings, and why that's ok
I realize that scalability probably wasn't a concern when you made these demos.. but it doesn't look like any of these can handle many concurrent requests (incoming, or outgoing to facebook).

Are any of these frameworks even compatible with the event driven mechanisms like twisted, tornado, etc?

I'm having to pick up Python since a lot of the webapp infrastructure at the startup I joined is Python/Django and I haven't really liked it so far, especially since everything we do would benefit from being done in an event loop (tons of IO to background services that make web requests block)
close to the front of the plane, but not the front row. this makes de-boarding the plane very quick. reason to avoid the front row is because there is no seat in front of you to store your bag/laptop under. they'll make you use the overhead bin which can be a hassle to get to.

window. this has absolutely nothing to do with view and everything to do with being able to control shade. you'd be surprised at how many people will not block the sunlight. bonus points for picking the window on the sun side of the plane.

exit row window can be a very bad seat. sometimes they don't have army rests on the window side.

extra leg room seats generally come with an extra price (this includes exit row). not worth it to me, could be worth it to you.

first class. if your airline has first class ask how much an upgrade costs when you check in. i use to fly las/msp 2 times a month on north west. the upgrade was 49$ and there were always seats available. now a days all the 'good' airlines don't even bother with first class.

saving time is huge. your time is generally worth much more than the cost.

fly when there will be less delays, redeyes.

boarding quickly, exiting quickly. don't waste 20 minutes standing in line to board the plane. it's much better to sit in the waiting area on your laptop and be the last to board when there is no wait. this can be a problem if you need overhead bin space. exiting quickly is all about being near the front of the plane.

dont check bags. just buy your shampoo/liquids at your destination. think of this as cost vs time.

avoid change overs/stops.
I've explained the SSL situation here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1880051
This isn't talked about enough. Scenes exist to promote themselves in an overly glossy, media friendly light. Most of the good stuff is, as usual, outside the scene and is what you don't hear about.

Of course, this is true in just about anything.
> They also run BigChurch.com, which is a christian dating site. You cant make this stuff up.

Someone should try to "cross the streams" and randomly move some rows from FFN database to BC and vice-versa.
Best CS research group in the world. Have added very small incremental value to MS as a company.

The two issues, as I see them are:

1) MS is really slow productizing MS Research innovations. I think part of the problem is that MS imposes a higher bar on "product quality" for things that come out of research than things that come out of the product groups.

Had the iPhone multi-touch on a phone UI come through MSR it would have taken MS 5 years to productize it. Apple did it in 18 months.

2) A lot of MS Research appears to be done in a vacuum (with respect to Microsoft, not with respect to the research community). I think Live Labs was a reaction to that. But frankly, I think having this separate research units don't work. Rick Rashid has no ability to really get Steve Sinofsky to do anything.

The research group needs to be part of the product teams. The research teams should be tiger teams attacking problems with the express goal of integrating back into the product along a certain time horizon. Everyone needs to be invested in their success -- both the core product team and this tiger team (and note, the tiger team shouldn't be a distinct team... at various points, different members of the product team are a part of it, depending on the task at hand).

The MS research model I think is becoming dated. The amazing thing Google did is to get top-flight researchers and faculty members working on writing code that ships, even if it is Javascript and PHP.
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Why should a consumer care if a vendor is profitable?

Because profitable vendors offer many advantages to consumers: 1) better support, 2) more R&D for future innovation, 3) better product (result of better r&d, better parts, etc).

I've been buying Apple products for about 25 years. They tend to hold up well, have good support, and continue to offer me great new innovations.

Have you ever tried getting help from a vendor that you know is selling something at 5% margins? Good luck to you...

The customers of our startup(s) also want us to be profitable, because they buy into our vision and want us to succeed, and if a company isn't profitable, it dies, and everyone involved (customers, owners, employees) loses.
Sure I am. There's general disrespect in academia for work that is incompletely reported in a way that hinders review and reproduction. It's a historical accident that refusing to publish source code has come to be treated as a special exception to the principles of good scientific practice. The more the basis for that exception is undermined, the more justified researchers will feel in demanding source code when they're skeptical of a result.

And here's the key incentive: lack of source code can be used as an excuse for ignoring and devaluing competitors' contributions. Scientists may be reluctant to raise a standard that would result in more work for everybody, but they can't resist a means of denigrating their rivals' work. Once the cat is out of the bag, scientists with weak reputations and disruptive results will be forced to publish source code to prevent their work being round-filed. Established scientists will find it untenable to hold themselves to an explicitly lower standard than everybody else, so they will eventually be forced to start publishing their code, too.
I hate to say it but I'm kinda with you. I actually weigh the value of a trip versus the inconvenience of the flight.
Why would you assume that airlines can effectively lobby them?

From a government official's perspective, the truth is that when an attack happens, they're going to get blamed. People aren't going to blame the airlines, they're going to blame the government. The more bizarre and nonsensical the "security" restrictions, the better protected officials are from blame when the inevitable attacks finally occur.

There's nothing an airline official can offer a government to compensate for loss of shielding from blame. As long as Americans are pathetic and fearful, we will have the government we deserve.
So, I added all of the resources up to this point in the link: http://resourcey.com/site_details/2/news.ycombinator.com/

Feel free to add more to this list.
The war on terror is over. The terrorists won. God save us.
He's only counting public trackers.
An approach on multi-user real-time heatmaps with HTMLCanvas
my comment only applies to universities, esp. those that function more like country clubs, and doesn't really apply to big reseach-centric schools like Berkeley or UCLA. You are correct that teaching quality there is a reflection of university administration priorities
If you have no reputation and results that contradict expectations, you definitely want someone to reproduce your work. Otherwise, people may follow a Bayesian argument and decide the mostly likely conclusion is that your work sucks.
Glad you like my project. All links are added manually into textile documents. All sources available at https://github.com/yatsyk/HNResources .
I would first read Tim Bray's "Don’t Invent XML Languages" http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/01/08/No-New-XML...

Then use html's list structures, possibly with a microformat. Or maybe atom.
http://thefunded.com is a great community of founders and CEOs, and includes many bitter people who were burned by investors. I've seen a handful of horror stories on there.

See this post for example, even though it doesn't speak directly to your question of being broke after an exit, because it talks about investor control:
http://thefunded.com/funds/item/5822

"From a purely technical standpoint, venture capitalists can't easily 'fire founders' either, yet two thirds of founding teams are eliminated. In fact, most investment agreements have more provisions to force a sale than they do to eliminate a founder. "
Judging by the public facebook photos I've seen lately by my friends in their 20s, I think women are getting less, shall we say, "modest".
Lending e-books
Have Wordpress require minimum word count for posts
TSA and the "audacity of grope"
Everything You Need to Know about Aluminum Oxides and Microdermabrasion
The fourth most abundant compound in the crust of the earth is aluminum oxide. Aluminum oxide is the ore from which aluminum metal is produced. The gemstones: rubies and sapphires are aluminum oxide. Aluminum oxide is used as an abrasive in many polishing and grinding applications. Aluminum oxide is used in the dental and surgical fields. Aluminum oxide is also known as a technical ceramic. The category, technical ceramics applies to all materials known for their hardness and chemical inertness. And now, we have aluminum oxide and microdermabrasion.
What rhizome said and most people don’t care whether their credit card company knows which porn they enjoy. As long as said company doesn’t write a letter to their boss or spouse or friends or parents detailing recently bought porn the knowledge of the company is inconsequential for the one who bought porn.
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It is new wrt the history of science, or more specifically the history of academic journals. I am aware of the history of scientific computation -- that's not the point.

The point is that scientists don't need to publish certain things, one of them being the source code that helped them discover their findings.

Shell scripts and database migrations aren't super interesting, but you would want them if you needed to replicate results. I'm not saying they're interesting as published research, but neither is that random piece of scratch paper you used while trying to understand what is going on in some biological process.

It seems like the problem is that non-scientists don't understand the way science happens, and that often the source code isn't something that you would include in an academic journal.

Should science be done differently? Maybe. But that discussion is different than "why wont they publish their source?"
It's not always the case, but I believe it is in the majority of situations it is.

I'm deeply sorry for what you went through though. Tough does not even begin to describe the utter destruction that Alzheimer puts a family through. My ex-girlfriend's father went through that. I can't easily put into words the absolute despair I felt watching him fade away from an outsider's perspective. I cannot, and hope I never can, imagine how she felt.
Too bad the invasions of privacy at TSA checkpoints don't do anything to prevent "attacks". If you're going to cover your ass, at least do it in an effective way that doesn't offend your intelligent voters.
About 6 hours for reading on the various frameworks, about 6 hours to code.
I'd recommend checking out Drupal Gardens by Acquia: http://www.drupalgardens.com/

It's hosted Drupal, similar to Wordpress.com but you can point your own domain at it for free, and you can do custom CSS for free. It's completely free for the ad-supported version and very reasonable after that. It has most of the blog/gallery/social media/videos, etc stuff that anyone could want.

The biggest feature is the ability to export your whole site, database dump and and all if you want to host it yourself, or add other modules that they don't provide.
This is partially a response to some of the comments on my "Kik Messenger Insecure" post discussed here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1878211
Probably over the next weekends, Ill do a basic blog in these frameworks.

Not complex, but should give me a chance to test the ORM, Session, Cookies etc.
Ask HN: (UK) Do you use the giffgaff mobile network?
I only heard of this mobile network today and wondered if any of you in the UK had used it. It appears to be tailor-made for savvy smartphone users:

http://giffgaff.com/index/pricing

It's a separately branded sim-only service run by 02. The main attraction is genuinely unlimited mobile internet (if you order at some point this month, excludes tethering).

Any thoughts? Pitfalls? Too good to be true?

(Sorry if this sounds like a plug. It really isn't.)
Perhaps in the US, but porn already had pretty close to zero taboo in most of Northern Europe.
Most people don't care if a corporation "knows" they did something; they care if their neighbor knows.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Tell+me+a+joke.
I understandthat arguing with the TSA screeners at the ceckpoint is pointless as they have no ability to change policy and you don't have time to miss your flight, but I have also wondered wht kind of person can work for the TSA and be happy getting paid to do this.
Can folks respond to this and let me know if I am on the right track?
I wonder if this will ever get bad enough that we'll see people start to use trains again, even if it does take significantly more time.

Of course, if rail were ever to get popular enough again, they'd just institute the same scanning procedures there too.
Here is a similar treatment of Das Racist lyrics:

http://blog.mtviggy.com/2010/03/16/an-exercise-in-futility-d...
Why I bill hourly
They were public. If I remember correctly, they were on some of the bigger ones as well.
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I'm sorry, how is a mosquito a vector?
The author of that appears to be Jose Luis Borges:

http://books.google.com/books?ei=zvzWTNPpKsT_nAf7j7DpCQ&...
This is also known as hindsight bias.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias
So how much of that are you going to change, starting today?
The Paypal Wars
Eggless Baking Recipes
Reminds me of CDixon's article a couple of months ago:
http://cdixon.org/2010/01/03/the-next-big-thing-will-start-o...
I hope there's going to be a followup discussing the strengths and pitfalls of each, along with the the original specifications of the app, so we can see where a framework imposed limitations or even provided a better approach to implementing a feature.