skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And, if rumors are true, the camera(s).

I would like to see an iPad with 8 cameras (four corners, middle of four edges) that produce eD, but I doubt it is economically feasible to make one.
If it a user-driven project, I almost always do a UI layout (which looks amateurish because i suck at UI), then make a database scheme, then write 'glue' to go between the UI and the database, handling any random bits of gathering, massaging, and manipulation of data along the way.

If it's a machine driven project (eg a micro controller talking to another device or whatever) I usually will hardcore/hardwire almost everything and then slowly add support for inputs, interrupts, etc.
It looks really polished. the work you've put into it shows.

I think you'll find people love/hate the design, but you can put me in the 'love' side. that goes for the image in the footer too. Did you do all your own artwork?

Only question is, I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to be doing.

oh, who wrote all the articles? Can't see a byline on them. Surely not you (based on the amount of work required)?
TripIt Gets An ExIt – Acquired By Concur For Up To $120 Million
One option would be to have the language (in this case Pascal) support a hint keyword that indicates that p is side-effect-free and doesn't modify any global data, or any data outside of its local scope. Then the compiler can use a simple common subexpression elimination optimization. The SQL 2003 standard does this with functions in order to aid the implementor's compiler/optimizer ability to optimize functions that don't modify or read any data and are purely functional.
Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 11.3
I cheat and spend $20 on a theme :) So far I've had the most joy with ThemeForest, but would love to know what other sites people use.
For the most part I like the Flickr UI. It takes a bit to understand photostreams, sets, collections, and group pools, and the online organizer is a little different. But for the most part it's efficient and is broken a lot less of the time that Facebook's photos.

But my average friend that would go look at my Flickr photos can't figure out how to navigate or download full-resolution. (That's mostly other parents.)

Leaving Flickr pro does mean losing letting other people download full-resolution of my photos, but I can only think of a handful of photos where that impacts me. I can upload those other places for free. It does mean only seeing my last 200 photos in my photostream, but apparently all my photos already added to groups will remain visible in the group pools. There's some other pro benefits like number of sets, set size, video length, etc. that I don't think will bother me at all.

I think they're in a tough spot of giving too much to free users and not enough benefit to Pro users. I can't argue with their price though. I've considered dropping pro before but $29 for the year is an easy payment to make. The last two years I've just shrugged and payed it rather than deal with it.
Why You Can't Hire Great Perl Programmers
Buy 2008 olympic Basketball Jerseys,
Mozilla Labs Game On Gallery is Open
Talismans of Productivity: Or give up coffee.
From his user settings page, the topcolor box.
And don't forget: want to pay for :)
Now I know why the name sounded familiar!
Sorry about not explaining correctly. I meant: read the article, give it a spam/ham status (or 1 to 5 start rating or ...). Then on the next article(s) (in the near future) based on the words in the already classified article's words (which can be links to specific domains too (e.g. subscribed to some link aggregator, but it sometimes sends spams)) the unread article should be classified as probably ham/spam. And I don't want to see spam below a threshold... In short: Bayesian like learning...

And yeah I can use something like rss2mail and a MUA with spam filter... But I'd prefer a dedicated application (which lives on the desktop but syncs with the cloud, and multiplatform).

Is that too much? ;-)
Amazon EC2 enables brute-force attacks on the cheap
This is very cool. Unfortunately browsers in many corporate environments don't support this or springy.
I got called by a recruiter a few weeks ago pitching lead FX dev role at a day rate of £1000 GBP, which works out to around an annual salary of $350k USD. That's definitely at the high end of the scale but it shows it's not infeasible (£600-£750 is a more typical rate).
Don't discount the value of short term optimization
That probably is not going to happen for a long while.
> Living with parents at 30 is not just a cultural inertia

It depends where you're from. In many parts of the world it's not only culturally acceptable, it's actually expected of you to remain with your parents until you get married, or decide that you don't want to. This is especially true for females living in conservative societies. Some communities also prefer this arrangement because it frees up some financial responsibility from the dependants, and they can focus more on paying for their education. Often, the parents will pay the tuition entirely because education is seen as their responsibility.
Why Not Regulate Guns as Seriously as Toys?
Fool me once shame on you...
Re; Win95 - Yes, and I still have them somewhere in my attic. I even have the original Windows 95 beta floppies. :-)

Another one that was a doozie was VC++ for Windows 3.1 - it was about 13 or 14 3.5" floppies also.
This guy charges $300 per inch
Ubuntu masters of the universe
he-man reference :)
I don't think Gruber is framing it as "good vs evil".

More - "why are you dropping support for H264 on grounds of openness but not dropping support for Flash (and MP3 and AAC) on those same grounds?"
Putting Sales in Perspective
Creative HTML5 and JavaScript workshop
"If you and I are neighbors and we agree that you I will pay you 250$ a month to not park you car in front of my house (while you legally have a right to do so), should that not be allowed?"

I don't know how it works elsewhere, but in the UK there are a number of legal rights that cannot be signed away. For example, tenancy agreements with illegal clauses are simply enforceable for those clauses, whether it's signed or not. Another example; one cannot consent to Grievous Bodily Harm, even if you really want to (this one was taken all the way through the legal system when someone consented to having a nail hammered through a rather sensitive part of his body).
Awesome story, it reminds me of a Dan Pink talk about the candle stick problem.
WCF WebSockets
The last person they list as being sued on their news page is Lidl, a european supermarket chain.

http://www.mpegla.com/main/Pages/Media.aspx
You still won't save that much because you will usually live the lifestyle of your peers which will be very expensive.
make sure you watch the video

real interesting story on knife making from nathanC's new site. see here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2099538 for discussion (on the site, not this article)
I give up coffee every year for at least 40 days. It takes at least two weeks to start being as productive again, but after that cooling off period my productivity begins to rise. I have more energy in the evenings and sleep less.

+1 for the give up coffee advice.

My 40 days is in observance of the Christian Lent period. I'm not Christian, but the 40 day stretch is as good of period as any to make a change in your life, and I like that I observe the same rituals of many of those around me.
The guys who survived the concentration camps in Germany were the ones who had found peace, meaning and value in their lives even in the worst condition imaginable.

Do you have any evidence?
I agree. Python 3 will not see significant uptake till it is the default on most distros.

It is the usual chicken and egg problem. Distros won't upgrade if there is no reason to. In fact, many are reluctant to upgrade to 3.0 since it breaks a few mini-apps developed in 2.x (as happened to me on ArchBang Linux a few weeks ago).

You need a killer app to force through the migration. Viz Rails and the number of hosts who now have Ruby hosting (if only in name) even on their cheapest hosting packages.
The linked post mentioned "Dell Services". I am assuming this is a, uh, service company, not a commodity hardware design and sales company.

The vast majority of value, or at least the perceived value, provided by Accenture to its clients comes directly from Accenture employees by the very nature of the consulting business. They might sell you physical hardware, but the real reason you're hiring them is the expertise in knowing how to use it for your specific project, otherwise you'd just get it directly from Dell yourself. They don't, or at least aren't supposed to, design a product once and then sell it to millions of customers. On the other hand, once an iPod is designed (to be fair, that isn't trivial), it's handed off to a third party who no longer figures in the employee count and basically used to print money.

Maximizing profit per employee is reasonable, though cross-industry comparisons can still be problematic. It's revenue per employee that's a little meaningless as mentioned by _delirium.

edit: this post follows the value proposition of Accenture services as stated by Accenture itself. Let's not go into how accurate that is right now.
Django's own documentation is extremely good. You can work through its tutorials to get going.

But start with a python tutorial. I don't know which is the best, but other people should be able to help you.

I would suggest this order of learning though:

1. Python
2. Django
3. App Engine

Each introduces its own elements, so you're better proceeding step by step. Obviously you don't have to master python to get going with django, but you want to be comfortable.
I think the hardest part of this advice is training yourself how to see the water.
No it wasn't. "Open Standard" was coined and defined precisely to indicate an affinity with "Open Source"

If you read the ITU reaction to the attempt to define "Open Standards" this is obvious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard#ITU-T_definition

Any limited use of "open standard" before that point was as meaningful as someone referring to "free software" or "open source" before those terms were defined.
An interesting perspective, I've copy-pasted this to my blog.
They say it's taught in Japan; I teach in elementary and junior high schools here and have never seen this. Kids here memorize multiplication tables just like kids in America.
So why do you go back to coffee?

I find it really interferes with my ability to work. So I don't drink coffee on a work day.
So, if this is good advice, why do you return to the coffee habit?
I once made a GPS navigation system using IE 6 (!) in fullscreen, the Adobe flash plugin (for SVG and ECMAScript), SVG files on local disk and a small program that got the GPS coordinates from the receiver and added them to a file in the same directory. This was a few years ago before mobile internet became cheap enough for mainstream use.
I don't live in Venice ;)

Edit: but even if I move to a bigger city, like Milan for example, what's the point if there are no money to fund startups?
In a similar vein:

There was a Japanese TV program a few years ago testing talented youngsters. One brain teaser was "On this table you have six match sticks of equal length. Arrange them such that you create four triangles."

The match sticks are presented lying flat on a table, and approximately everyone tries to solve the problem in 2D and fails hideously. The right answer, which is a peculiar kind of perverse clever that math teams and startups are fond of, is to make a triangle on the plane and then point the last three match heads upwards from the vertices, creating a pyramid. Each of its four faces is a triangle. Half of the wunderkids got this right.

One kid ran out of time and didn't get it. After being shown the 3D solution, he skipped the next problem entirely and would only say "It works in 2D, it works in 2D, I know it works in 2D" and continue playing with his match sticks.

He eventually solved it halfway through the next problem, confounding the host because his solution was not written in the notes: make two triangles in the plane, flip one, and arrange them to form a Star of David. (Nobody here would call it that, but I'm assuming most HNers know what one looks like.)

Quote the kid: You said I had to make four triangles, but you never said anything about the fifth, sixth, seventh, or eighth.
I think even more important is "to thine own self be true" part of which is to empirically know yourself.

I use journaling and automatic tools to measure my own productivity. I experiment and make adjustments as needed.
many thanks for the compliments.

The design was done by Julien Morel,(joolz.fr), the same guy who did the previous design of Matt Mullenweg(http://ma.tt/). he has done a lot of great design for a few french sites as well. You should check his portfolio. He is a nice guy. He is now working on a costumed page for my twitter account (@exaggerated_com).

Content creation has been a nightmare to produce this far. Spotlights are easy to generate, cause they are aggregated live in our admin database and are all pre-populated.

Original content however is something really difficult to produce on a daily basis.
I had a redditor to produce the articles, I used to pay him like 800$per month. but he cashed in the money before xmas and never re-appeared... I have just found a great content provider now who is charging me 5$/article.

Definitely creating a startup has been hard as hell!

I am a private banker/ portfolio manager in Geneva Switzerland. I founded the site just for fun during my spare time.

glad you enjoy it.
Sounds like a lot of opportunity for success to me (all your competitors have clueless management). What stops someone from disrupting all these clueless people? Just money?
If it's going remove features for poorly-articulated ideological reasons, it would surely make sense to apply that ideology consistently

No, that doesn't particularly make sense. Choose your battles. They are endless in number. Nobody has time to fight them all. Fight the ones that matter most.

All else aside, there is nothing hypocritical per se about taking a stand on one issue and not another.
>Still, nothing you couldn't do on a decently fast "local" machine for cheaper

The fun thing is that you can now do it in the field. You could potentially grab the hashes with a netbook, then crouch in your hiding place behind the bins at Enemy HQ for six minutes while EC2 does the cracking, then go straight into the network, without having to risk sneaking out and back in again. Past the guards.

Dunno what espionage-based fantasy world I'm in today. I don't even play video games! However people really do this stuff. And now we can all have a go! Hooray! The kind of people who do these things dont generally have to worry about expenses though...
Knowing yourself is good advice. But accepting yourself is much harder to do.

I found the caffeine lows interfered with my ability to accept myself.
Ask HN: How do you design your personal (toy) projects?
I am about to start a personal web-based project, it is of no commercial value - just something fun.

How do you go about designing your personal projects? Do you hack them straight out or sit down and design them first (pencil and paper/UML)?
Any info on Node.js?
Former TSA contractor gets two years for damaging data
You need a killer app

The larger problem is that all the existing killer apps need porting over first. Python has a large ecosystem of killer apps (or rather libraries) already, so no matter how killer your new app is, it probably won't outkill the sum total of all existing killer apps.
I enjoyed that, but I'm not sure about a couple of the claims.

I switched from AltaVista to Google because it gave me better results almost all of the time - if that weren't the case I, and however many millions of others, wouldn't have switched. The 'expensive data centre theory' may have sped-up the demise of AV et al, but I don't think it's fair to say Google succeeded by having low costs rather than a superior product.

I'd also like to see data to back up the claim that "The vast majority of users are no longer clicking through pages of Google results". Again, not my experience, but I recognise that I am a datapoint of one. I do note that increasingly Google's own answers (especially maps and images) are providing me with the direction I need in response to a search query, but even then I usually click through.

Edit: Re-read that. At first I thought it meant clicking through to the pages that are returned as results; it may mean not clicking through the pages of Google results (1-infinity below). Still, I thought <5% of people ever clicked through to the second page (most people refined their search if the first results weren't what they wanted) so I'm not sure if anything has changed.

I think Google search is damaged, not yet a product failure but not yet "no longer" a problem.
there was something deliciously ironic about the way every in the audience is thinking "Sean who?" in the Social Network scene where the college girl is excited about "the Sean Parker"
Thanks for the pointer. Actually what I'm looking for is edit/add/remove functionality. Something suitable for making a web-based concept map.
(adventure games aficionado here)

I've played all King's Quest and Space Quest titles. Though I played and enjoyed "Love for Sail", I never tried the older titles of Leisure Suit Larry. Now I'll give it a try :)
Using the holocaust to prove your self-help mantras is pretty indefensible.
I'll give you one more reason: they decided to start coding in python and ruby instead.
design? :)
This is exactly what the current coffee culture of North America needed: input from productivity blogs.

(Disclaimer: I quit coffee before doing it was cool†, but I'm quite partial to teas.)

(† because it was messing with my stomach)
All of the articles, particularly this one, seem to be missing the point. They attribute Google's actions to abstract ideas of openness or competition between codecs.

But there is a concrete issue involved: under MPEG-LA's licensing terms, Google should be paying $6.5 million a year to distribute a H.264 decoder. Under that license, the end users only get the rights to use the software "for personal and consumer purposes": they couldn't fork Chrome, redistribute it, etc. The Ars article mentions this, but immediately moves on.

It's possible Google expects MPEG-LA to try to enforce the patents, and that's why they're dropping H.264 support. After all, Google is the only browser vendor not in MPEG-LA worth trying to get money from. The yearly licensing amount just went up by $1.5 million, which might have influenced the timing of the announcement.

Comparisons with Flash are irrelevant: it may be less open than H.264, but not in the way that matters to Google.
>>You'd be there, banging away at your regular girl, and find yourself thinking "you know, if I was with Haskell, I'd be doing this completely differently." You'd think "I could be doing so much bigger and better stuff with Haskell."<<

This sounds a bit peculiar in light of the fact that Haskell is named after (male) logician Haskell Curry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_%28programming_language...
Just curious: why is font-size such an issue?

I mean, I like my size how I like it - and adjust it all the time ( cntl/cmd -/+ keys) as I move from site to site or use windows of different sizes. [And have even set a hot-key combo to toggle on/off Safari's "Zoom text only" feature.]

I've been told that only the geekiest 1% of population are even aware of the possibility of text zoom, but for us... doesn't anybody else tweak on the fly all the time?
Flash (Gordon) reference .. ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNf9rEPoc8Q
Did it make you more productive?
And I haven't found anything in my ten years of using R in statistical analysis where '=' didn't work either. I've written a lot of R code. A hedge process on €2bn is being monitored with '=' signs as we speak. Dastardly.
Ask HN: Who should I interview for my Master's Thesis on freemium?
I have earlier used HN and Quora to get some ideas for my Master's Thesis on freemium (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1652597). Now I have chosen what to focus on: optimizing customer acquisition when using freemium. Last semester I wrote a paper on freemium (http://www.scribd.com/doc/46680854/Succeeding-With-Freemium) where I found that word-of-mouth was a core element of freemium, and this will be the focus of my thesis. To be more specific, my focus will be on companies such as Dropbox that incentivizes people to share Dropbox with others to get more space for free, and how that effects Dropbox's freemium model.

But who other than Dropbox should I contact to try to get an interview?

(Also asked on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Freemium/Who-should-I-interview-for-my-Masters-Thesis-on-freemium)
I'd guess that current hires would be getting significantly less than existing hires. To make really life changing money you'd need to get in a couple of years ago.
[another pop-culture disconnectee here]: I wouldn't know the name if he had not instigated an infamous "wardrobe malfunction" at a superbowl (not that I actually watched the game/halftime).
Tic Tac Toe is a good example of the concept, but you're right about it being too simple (I hacked TTT using brute force in the shower as a kid and haven't lost a game since).

Don't assume chess will put it out of reach, though that depends on your audience. It may be a great way for eager novies or middling players (like myself) to learn about the game more by playing alongside others. Of course, if you're plan is to create something and roll it out to thousands of different communities, then chess may be hard - if for no other reason that a game at one move a day will take months.

Perhaps Checkers? Just remember to make automatic jumps when the player has no option, rather than giving the group a day to decide to do something they have no choice in.
And not all contracts are enforcable. ATT got slapped pretty hard by saying you are unable to sue by agreeing to this contract. You give up some rights in a contract but certainly not all.
Even if you're non-Apple users interested in UI/UX, the news will be of interest because in this field most everybody ends up copying Apple. flamesuit on
Don’t Dork It Up: Advice for building web applications
Also, you can take Python (or one of the other regular girls/boys) with you to work in a lot places. You can bang Python for money quite easily.

I, for one, struggle to find anyone who'll pay me to bang Haskell. Maybe there's a way to carve our own business but it's a big strain on the relationship...
This is a very useful story that everyone should be able to explain.
Many of the worlds' greatest have "skipped the water", so to speak.

-Jesus

-Moses

-Airplanes
Any chick named Haskell that has Monads must be a dude :-)
Perhaps someone needs to come up with a startup that treats S3 as storage medium for images, while retaining all the features of Flickr. Then you will truly own your images and not have to worry about company going out of business.
Dan Pink's TED talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html

And a transcript for those who want to skip the video:
http://dotsub.com/view/e358ac0c-314e-473a-b051-f0a2deaa3a7b/...
A few years ago I was interviewing people for a Perl programming position. The general level was shocking. Asked to rate themselves, many would give themselves a close to the top rating, where later it showed they had never done OO, didn't know the basics of unit testing, etc etc. Sad state of affairs indeed.

I really doubt this is unique for Perl though.
Hard to say as I don't closely watch my productivity. It didn't make me significantly less productive, in any event.
edit: And it's nice to feel that I can actually get stuff done without regularly needing coffee.

(Grandparent post is sarcasm, no offense intended.)