skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand. However, I've seen public comment by Google folks that basically conveyed the idea that it was optimal -- by certain standards. Granted, they have many people and opinions can differ and vary over time.

Secondly, it should be possible to do something as simple as filter out obvious content farm sites in under a week tops. Or give all users a quick and easy to do it. Perhaps have a default blacklist of known content farmers, and then give users the option to remove things from the blacklist when doing their own searches. You might be dealing with a huge company if something as simple as this takes 20k employees more than a week, tops, to put into production. And I'm being generous with the week estimate, because it could be done even faster than that under more agile conditions. And a 'default blacklist of known content farmers' is not even the only solution which could be implemented quickly, you could also do something like add another variable to the PageRank algorithm which has a down weighing effect on any page under a domain known to be a content farmer/spammer. Supposedly, they are already doing this (IIRC) but again, the basic idea could be implemented and put into production quickly, if it hasn't already.
How about micro_httpd, an inetd-style HTTP/1.0 server in 200 lines of C. (http://acme.com/software/micro_httpd/)
I wholeheartedly disagree. While this instance is especially compelling, certainly, you're still attempting to argue that someone might invalidate their point by making 'too good' of an argument without the qualifications.

Someone presenting an argument to whomever (the public, the city, etc.) has every right to make their case to the full extent possible (implied: honestly, without representing themselves falsely). No one has represented themselves as an engineer falsely so... Uhh, this sounds like a big load of crap, both specifically and generally.
Humans like to gossip. That's why almost all reporting is boiled down to variations on horse race calling and theatre critique.
And who really likes taking back 1 penny :P
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I don't know of any pure-Python bcrypt implementation, but App Engine will let you calculate SHA-1 hashes with the built-in hashlib module. To make this slow enough, you'll need to iterate it a bunch of times (at least 1000 is the usual recommendation). Something like this:

import hashlib

def slow_hash(password, salt, iterations=2000):
h = hashlib.sha1()
h.update(password)
h.update(salt)
for x in range(iterations):
h.update(h.digest())
return h.digest()

I haven't tested this code, but hopefully it illustrates the general idea. Repeatedly run the hash function on the output of the previous iteration. You may need to bump up the number of iterations later as computers get faster. It's not as good as bcrypt, but it also doesn't suck, and it should run just fine on App Engine.
The question is, would we expect authors of libraries to indemnify other developers against liability if the fault is in the library itself?
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So is what the OP is talking about :o (lines vs. bytes)
What rev share percentage is reasonable for an arrangement like this?
Exactly. I can't even begin to see how making a case to a third party deciding authority instantly thrusts you into taking full responsibility for public safety. What an absurd concept.
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Brazilian jiu-jitsu, three or four times a week. Practices often involve conditioning, sometimes do circuits afterwards.

What keeps me coming back is skill progression and the satisfaction of doing something hard.
Travels reminds me of the Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy book as well as this "true cost" t-shirt

http://true-cost.re-configure.org
What would be the best term to describe such a system of governance? Ad hoc oligarchy? Incidental nomenklatura?
Me and my co-founder never thought...

Change that to

My co-founder and I never thought...

I know this is unrelated to the post, but it bugged me to see a grammatical error like this one the moment I started reading.
If you're willing to share the code, I'm sure many of us would love to see it.
Depends on how you train.
Have you tried Quickbooks? If so, what did you like or did not like about it?
Really, no shovelglove love? http://bit.ly/9OuEbd

I've been at it for a year+ and it's incredibly effective. It's sort of a modern take on the Müller system [http://slate.me/gDHIsE]: ~15min daily, varied movements, rinse & repeat.

Its analog, the No-S Diet, is also pretty awesome: http://bit.ly/fJL33Z
Nice... ;)
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Professor Damith seems rather reasonable in this correspondence, and I don't think you are providing any evidence that "innovation is marked down."

Damith points out that your grade is based on the product, not the process, because he can't measure that; a good product is a proxy for what must be a good process. He might have added, that in the real world only the product matters, and if a process was against all rules of Software Engineering and produced a better product, then the rules of Software Engineering would be rewritten.

It is very hard to rate or grade programmers. If you continue in the business you will soon find yourself attempting it, when you interview people to select your employees or your boss. If you can come up with any good ways of doing this, you will go far :)

When it comes to "how innovation is discouraged and frowned upon in an Asian context", I would suggest that the quickest way to find anti-innovation sentiment is by looking at any large bureaucratic institution or company, not by looking at ethnicity or region. I recommend to you the book "The Organization Man" by William Whyte, particularly the chapter "The Fight Against Genius". You may find it resonates with your experiences.
I have a rowing machine with a laptop set up next to it. I can spend as much
time reading HN as I want, as long as I'm exercising.
I never type ".com" in the url box anymore, and I assume I'm not alone.

When I want to go to Google, I type in "google", with no "www" or "com". Safari automatically interprets this as "www.google.com", although I realize that Chrome can't do this (as it interprets it as a search query rather than a url).

However, that is one big disadvantage of not having a dot com url nevertheless. Just something to think about.
The main difference is in browser support: jQuery Mobile is on its way to supporting Windows Mobile, Opera Mobile, and almost any new mobile browser while jQtouch is only for Webkit. Also, jQuery Mobile works pretty well in Google Chrome from my experience if you're inclined to use a mobile app on the desktop for some reason, while jQtouch doesn't have animations on Google Chrome.

EDIT: And it's officially supported, meaning it's here to stay.
That comment came from Rubin in the context of Jobs completely botching up the definition of "open-ness". Yet another out of context reference just to be an utter douche. He's been that way ever since Google went after Apple during 2010 IO.
Would be also useful if the government would issue us multiple identities we could throw away.
Companies like Netflix are "putting a great stress on the Internet and there's no incentive for companies to invest in maintaining the Internet." Usage-based billing would encourage people to adopt more bandwidth-efficient technologies

Charging more for less won't provide incentive for companies to "invest in maintaining the internet", though.
It's 4am here and I need some sleep - choose 2 numbers from within the convergent range and do the same slight of hand with them. Clearly we can argue that x^^\inf = 4 has no convergence and so makes no sense but what if the equations are both in the converging region x € [e^−e, e^1/e] about [0.066, 1.445]:

{1} x^^\inf = 2

we've shown in the OP that x^2 = 2 is a solution.

Consider,

{2} x^^\inf = e^(2/e)

similarly to the OP we do

{3} x^ (x^^\inf) = x^ (e^(2/e))

but this is just

{4} x^^\inf = x^ (e^(2/e))

and substituting on the left from {2}

{5} e^(2/e) = x^ (e^(2/e))

gives us (I think)

{6} x = e^ (2e^ (-1-(2/e))) ; ~~1.42267

Hence we've shown that

{7} 2 ~~ 1.423

Which isn't as neat as 2==4 but equally troublesome.

There is no issue now with convergence is there (or there shouldn't be if I chose my numbers correctly)?

---

Notations

^^ : ascii version of Knuths up-arrow notation
\inf : first countable infinity, aleph-0
€ : in the range, it's really a Euro symbol, but close enough
~~ : approximately equal to

===

Solution

y = x^2
= 9 give solution (3,9)
y = x^2
= 4 gives solution (2,4)

9=4?

They're just different points on the same curve ... doh! We're not showing that 9=4 we're showing that (3,9) and (2,4) are point solutions of y = x^2.

In the same way we have above 2 solution of y = x^^\inf.
There aren't any videos from the first one, are there? I don't see them on the site. If not, would it be possible to make them this time?
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Searching Ngram viewer for "killer app" says maybe:

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=killer+app

It's hard to establish a causal relationship though. Most of the uses of "app" prior to that were shortened versions of "application" as in the "I submitted a job app." sense.

Coming from working at Apple from 2003-2008, we used "app" all the time to refer to software. From that perspective, it seemed like a NeXT thing.

(As an aside, isn't it awesome we live in a time when a tool exists to research word usage across hundreds of years worth of books? Hooray to the future!)
Yes, we're letting end-users tag the web. Try this video: http://vimeo.com/14593120 ... for the spam example, you can mark a site as spam with a single click. That blocks it only for you, but occasionally we look at aggregate data, and that's why we dropped those 20 sites from our index: because our users don't want to see them.
Snatch: 110kg (~242lb), clean & jerk: 130kg (~287lb)

I've barely missed a 120kg snatch. I've cleaned 140kg but not jerked it.

I'm training for a competition in late March, aiming for 130/150.
It's better than the last round, but still has a bit of a ways to go on the iphone.

For example, the behavior of clicking one of the slide menus is:

1. The address bar pops down momentarily while the ajax call is made and then disappears after half a second.
2. The loading graphic overlay appears and then disappears.
3. The window pops you back to the top of the original page.
4. The page slides over, and you're on the new page.
5. The new page does a quick half second "flash."

It's progress to be sure, but these little kinks are what need to be ironed out before anyone should consider deploying it.
In regards to your edit, jQTouch was acquired by Sencha and is now officially supported (and maintained) as well.
Running; using Jeff Galloway's book, "Marathon!" as a guide to pain-free running. I like the ability to walk out my door and start running around the neighborhood.
Having several open source projects of my own, and contributing to a few more, I'd like to say that I don't think you're on the right track if you're trying to get a real response with your questions here; you're basically doing the "so, have you stopped beating your wife yet" routine.

Don't believe me? Your words:

Does Django (the project as a whole) want to provide the best possible security, within reason, for its contrib.auth module?
If not, why not, and why isn't it stated prominently in the documentation?

Of course we want to provide the best possible security, within reason. But reasonable people can and do disagree on what's "within reason", and Jacob's outlined some technical hurdles regarding bcrypt which -- so far as I'm aware -- no-one in this thread has bothered to offer solutions for.

If you're genuinely interested in seeing bcrypt in Django, and have constructive suggestions on how to overcome these technical hurdles, then I'm all ears. If, on the other hand, you're just going to post passive-aggressive stuff framed to make us look like we don't really care about security, well, don't expect me or anyone else to fall all over themselves trying to help you out.
This looks like a great idea to get more HTML5 games. Also, it brings more awareness to what you can do with HTML5.
It's not plain at all. Perhaps this is a good way for the debate about clickstreams and robots.txt to start, but its certainly not settled.
Ya, and? They are also taking information from a whole bunch of other sites collected by their users and incorporating that information into ranking search results. I don't really see how this is inherently wrong.
Hmm, I noticed number 3 mostly because I don't think that was a problem in the last release.
>nothing like the contents of the book.

Explain this to me. In terms of raw bytes it's probably more data than every book that has ever been written. It was certainly more expensive to write than any particular book. What is the important difference here?

To make it a little more concrete, suppose someone was doing the same thing with google's streetview data. Now, it's an empirical fact that if you go to such-and-such an address, and look around, it looks like the pictures that google took. Does that mean it's ok to use those pictures, just because their resemblance to reality is factual?
> we're as transparent as a new layer in photoshop...

That has to be one of the most interesting descriptions I have heard for ANY investor.

I have no affiliation with that company or the investors.

That line was pretty clever though.
That's interesting, but damn is that some ugly code. Slightly obfuscated on purpose? Though of course it wouldn't win the IOCCC.

On the other hand, it's notable that many IOCCC submissions happen to pack a lot of functionality in often less than 2k. I remember reading a few descriptions of some the winning entries, but I can't find that now. Here's a glimpse though: http://cboard.cprogramming.com/brief-history-cprogramming-co...
Actually, yes it will. It'll set a low standard for cheap internet, thus making it economically viable for new boutique entrants to the ISP market, bringing with them new technologies and strategies. Google? Wireless?

I don't believe in government interference.

Giving more incentive for better encoding is also a valid point. Netflix offered 10 million for better recommendations. I'd like to see them offer the same thing for better encoding.
Startup America's fast-track patent component
I just got back into running after about a year away from it and I'm not sure why I ever quit. It's amazing how much more productive I am when I go for a 30 minute run at lunch instead of sitting at my desk.
I don't submit patches to Django because I: 1) am not a Django dev. 2) Don't use it. 3) believe it is the job of the people who do both of those to do it.

I don't normally have this sort of attitude, but when it comes to security, "if you can't [be bothered to] do it right, DON'T." MD5/SHA/etc are designed to be fast. That is the absolute last thing you want in a hashing algorithm that you're using for passwords.
Think YC offers as good if not better value than Thiel. It's sort of the same thing, just less ideological.
1. there's caution, and then there's 'thinking small'

2. the owner of the domain is a single-location brick and mortar retailer, with no e-commerce. that would inform my thought process, were in in the OP's shoes
Nevermind the comment about it being slightly obfuscated. Have to realize that this is the creator of J we're talking about. He probably saw it as highly expressive code (much meaning in as few characters as possible). Though I can't agree, it is definitely amazing that something so small could be the start of something like J.
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We have a social game so Facebook works quite well. People are in a relaxed state looking for entertainment.
I pitched YC, was rejected, just closed a multi-million dollar round.
I realize it's not YC application season (edit: actually it looks like applications are open), but I figured I would post now since I would undoubtedly forget later.

A friend and I applied for YC Summer '09 for a search related company (actually what Greplin is doing now). We made it to interviews but didn't make the final cut.

I went on to do other things and about a year later ended up back in start-up land with a different co-founder and a different idea. We just closed a multi-million dollar deal on fantastic terms yesterday from one of the best VCs in the valley.

So the moral of the story is this: rejection doesn't matter. To quote Randy Pausch: "The brick walls are not there to keep us out, they are there to give us a chance to show us how badly we want something." Raising funding is only the beginning of this journey but if you didn't make it into YC or face a similar situation somewhere else, exceptions to the rule do exist (like us) and there's really no reason YOU could not be another.

Cheers!

(if you know who I am, please keep my identity a secret, thanks!)
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Nice job! I agree about the uselessness of baby name wizard. You did a great job making it more interesting. Are you having any luck getting visitors or higher in organic search?
Good timing for the idea. Last September Apple added the following to their guidelines: "15.5 Apps that includes games of Russian roulette will be rejected"
Okay, Google links to pages to buy that book. Revenue goes to Microsoft. You can see clearly all over the place that it's a Microsoft book. You can browse where it came from originally.

Microsoft "copies" the results. Does not say where they came from and presents them as their own. In this context, that would be copying all the text from that book, removing all the branding and creating a new book saying that Google wrote it.
I started refereeing soccer recently. It's a more appropriate outlet for my desire to be on the pitch than coaching. As an athletic activity it requires the same type of focus, study and training which I loved as a player.
A metric that can measure the quality of results but not produce them is entirely plausible. Many problems can be verified much more easily than they are solved.

For example, you can measure how often results are clicked but there is no straightforward algorithm to generate click-prone results.
Yikes, any time Apple can add this feature to iOS and put these guys out of business...
It's still harder than a catch-all alias on a domain hosted elsewhere.
I believe YC applications are open now, so its great timing actually!
so then that means $10 would convert even better?
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They should launch accounts they don't throw away.
The mods usually go through the moderation queue once a day. If you create an account, after a few edits are approved you get permission to insta-edit.
Having spent a lot of time meditating on it (as sofuture mentioned), it isn't "slightly obfuscated" so much as "stubbornly written like APL rather than C".

If you become inexplicably fascinated by that code and want help unraveling it, my contact info is in my profile.

I don't consider it noteworthy as a useful program under 2kloc (on modern hardware it usually just crashes, it's quite cavalier with pointer casting, and clearly a quick prototype either way), but it's like a pink space laser beam of insight about the APL mindset. Real APLs take more than a page, but not that much more. Eliding loops does that.

A lot of the IOCCC code is also delightfully perverse, too. Highly recommended.
Mmm, that's not how I read Steve's questions -- I took them as honest questions about from someone who doesn't really follow the project and isn't sure where our priorities lie. We have to keep in mind that at this point a bulk of our users don't keep close track of the development process and priorities. Heck, even I have trouble keeping up some times.
Depending on the season, I tend to focus more on:

Winter - Kettlebells
Spring - Running
Summer - Tennis
Autumn - Biking/Hiking

This way I never get bored of any of those disciplines and are able to maintain a pretty healthy lifestyle.
It was actually written by Arthur Whitney, the author of K (not J), though Roger Hui (of J) studied it beforehand.

I do recommend studying it, though. Their APL dialects are really something; I wish there were good fully open-source implementations, and writing one is on my queue. Kona (http://github.com/kevinlawler/kona), an open-source implementation of K 3.2, is also coming along.

Just be warned that APLer C is usually nasty, brutish, and short. :)

FWIW, the best thing I've seen for getting the J mindset is _J for C Programmers_ - as Henry Rich says, to do J you must "think big" - don't think "for each part of this list, do this, then this, then this...", think, "apply this operation over these.". That scales up to multiple dimensions, and can often be run in parallel. :)
Nothing wrong with using massive amounts of leverage for profit, it's definitely entrepreneurship.
Yeah, I realized that fact a little late. Relevant snippet from the link about that initial bit of code for J:

I showed this fragment to others in the hope of interesting someone competent in both C and APL to take up the work, and soon recruited Roger Hui, who was attracted in part by the unusual style of C programming used by Arthur, a style that made heavy use of preprocessing facilities to permit writing further C in a distinctly APL style.
You're comparing some apples and oranges here (maybe even a banana?)

Sass is a language, where as the others are frameworks. Compass is a SASS (and SCSS) engine that provides SASS-based frameworks such as Blueprint, which I noticed you didn't mention.

To answer your question though, I swear by Compass+SASS+Blueprint+HAML. SASS => CSS, HAML => ERM/HTML, Blueprint is the framework, and Compass ties them together.

The biggest reason in using Compass+Blueprint is semantic layout selectors, with mixins to define Blueprint grid widths.

Instead of <div class="span-16"> you can use .left-column, and then add a SASS mixin to tell left-column how many columns to use. This takes the content from presentation methodology a step further, which the grid system has always violated somewhat.
I'm the author of the post. I did actually come across their comparison table, which states that a web app is in the works, just I totally forgot to mention that in the post. I just played around with the project you linked to though and I must say, it is pretty amazing. Depending on the pricing scheme they end up with, I would definitely reconsider my choice.
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totally agree with the 'if at first you don't succeed' aspect of this post, but you have a different co-founder and a different concept now, so your prior rejection, while interesting, is not really related to your current situation.
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It gives this error message:
"Sorry the web site not work. You should try again.

Connection to SQL server is failed. Error 1045".

And then it keeps retrying to connect. I read the Rhizome article which claims this is part of an "art project" and that they actually scraped 1 million (not merely 250,000) Facebook profiles.

This is really strange.
I run 5-6 times a week. For me it's instant stress relief, and the best path to a clear head. I've solved countless frustrating problems while away from my computer running outside.
I found the same lovely-faces URL on this page as mentioned above. Same "Error 1045" message.
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