skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoyed the part where you addressed any of the issues that have been brought up over the past few years of having this be in core, instead of an "optional" app.
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Just want to note that shortly after I posted this, someone from SVB emailed me personally to let me know that they agree their online banking needs improvement, and have a relaunch in the works.

In our offline experience with them, we've found their customer service to be very good - personal, efficient and understanding (the latter was important given our circumstances as immigrant founders).
I just whipped up an image and uploaded to Zazzle. I'm going to submit an article called, "My 4-Minute Profitable Startup and How I Did It."

(I didn't actually. Just pretend I did. I'm 100% Lean and Agile MVP Customer-Driven Pivoting and yet flush with cash from a $100m Angel/VC convertible note series C friends-and-family IPO Dutch auction fantasy in my dreams.)
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Yeah you'd have to title the link with the search term. Personally I think the analogy someone else made to web directories is perfect, and that discussions is more interesting.

It seems entirely appropriate if you have a legitimate right to use that link to parse it for structure.
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jQuery Mobile is not a mobile version of jQuery - it's a UI library for mobile devices. A better comparison would be jQuery Mobile to jQuery UI. Both projects depend on jQuery proper, and both provide UI-widgets (they are absolutely "narrower" than jQuery, as you say).
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The diversity of its occurrence is one among hundred individuals. It affects individuals irrespective of sex and race. But it is noticed that most of the people after age of fifty experience through it, even younger people have been observed suffering with this disorder.
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I'd speculate that if this review were done in 6 months, Balsamiq would be the hands down winner given the writer's criteria.

The balsamiq team is working on a new project: myBalsamiq https://www.mybalsamiq.com/ . It looks like it will make both sharing and collaboration dead easy. You can even get a sneak preview of how the Balsamiq team are using it. https://our.mybalsamiq.com/projects/
You are undoubtedly correct on both of your points. Again, I stated that this was based upon my observations.
when your app is stable and your friends are using it constantly
Best use of nesting instinct ever.
I recently saw a similar question. Someone suggested try using the Google DNS (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) and it worked. YouTube has loaded horribly on my Comcast Internet for years. Never have an issue with streaming HD Netflix though.
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Perhaps, I could help you out a bit.
Clearly the DOT employees engineers that are severely lacking if someone is able to put together a report of 'engineering-quality' that bamboozles them into doing something that doesn't make sense.
About to turn 50. Still having tons of fun (in the computer gaming industry, of all places).
I don't get nearly enough exercise. Last fall/early winter I was hitting the Bowflex 3 times a week and walking about 4 times a week. Was feeling pretty decent, but it got cold and I quit. These days the only exercise I get is Disc Golf. Plenty of walking, but it's not terribly strenuous other than that.
Yoga, 2-3 times a week. Motivation: I enjoy it.
But, I'll admit taking a class also makes me commit to showing up regularly and on time.
>"We need a standard measure of web quality. "

To think that you can come up for an objective standard of quality for any search term is ridiculous. Why not just have a search engine return whatever your objective standard demands everytime and have a perfect score, if it's so easy?
Look, I love Django, but to be fair this is kind of a bullshit response.

There are things I hate about Git, and I could fix them myself, but I don't submit patches to Git. I just use Mercurial instead.

"Send patches" isn't a be-all, end-all response to any criticism of an open source project.
> but Google defends it because their data "tells them" it's optimal.

C'mon, I'm not one to usually come rushing to Google's aid, but from Matt Cutts' comments on HN and recent blog posts on the official blog is seems to me that they are working hard on this problem, which would imply they don't think the status quo is optimal.
Yeah, I did the same thing. The babynamewizard was a neat ooh, aah, tech demo, but (as of early 2008 when it was literally nothing more than a dynamically updating prefix-based stacked line graph) useless for actually helping choose a name. My contribution to the genre, with the goal of being helpful in choosing a name, was:
http://nametrends.net
My comment was not a defense of Bing but an attempt to point out the absurdity of applying academic standards Microsoft's conduct. Were one to apply academic standards to Binggate, it seems somewhat probable that Google's experimental results would have difficulty passing peer review.

Interestingly from a plagiarism standpoint, the description returned by Bing for cfacu.org is far better cited, since it is directly from the website itself rather than from an entirely uncited site like Google's.

In terms of academic standards, the results returned by Bing would probably not to be categorized as plagiarism but rather as not meeting style guidelines [such as APA format].
looking forward to that, thanks for the work
$1 just feels more affordable to me than 99c. Plus no hassle of dealing with pennies.
75,000 mediocre job apps == 1 mark zuckerburg
I was in my first year of college. In brief discussions with one of my professors I mentioned I did PHP amongst other things. A few months later he passed me in the hallway and asked would I meet with him about a project using PHP, MySQL... traditional stack. Basically he saw my work in class plus saw I did work outside of class to know I could handle it.
Looks great - wish it had been available when we registered. We had a lot of frustrations with the BRU registry process. Some suggestions:

1. Have generic options for clothing, since there is a huge turnover in baby clothes at most retailers (BRU doesn't even offer pictures for most clothes on the website) - size and item type (3 month onesie, newborn footy pjs, etc.)

2. Offer some suggested items / basic lists to get people started, or consider more social aspects to let people give feedback on other people's lists - there seems to be a big market for this kind of info (see: baby bargain books). This might be a way to keep users engaged after they are done with their own list.

3. Have options for non-purchased gifts or other items to be added, like home-cooked meals or babysitting - lots of people wanted to offer these kinds of things

4. Have options for monetary donations - this is how a lot of cultures work (red envelopes for chinese, etc.) and it would be great to support it in one place

5. Provide links to sign up for store registries to get all the freebies they provide for signing up - lots of people love this kind of thing. This is also a competitive point to consider - the discount stores provide to "complete" your registry was a good way to get a discount on the high-ticket items.

6. Consider ways to offer future gifts - diaper subscriptions or clothes for older babies that could arrive in the future so you don't have to worry about storing it and remembering it 6 months later.
NookColor pulled from shelves to prevent hacking?
I think implicit in the parent is that the equation is not solvable for ∀x, whilst you're saying ∃x where x converges toward a "solution" of 2 = x^^\inf.
My hobby is Olympic weightlifting. AMA.
Mostly the animated transitions. I get about 4 frames total for the entire transition. Scrolling is also a little slow for the first few seconds after loading a page, but it quickly reaches normal speed.

I'm not working on any mobile webapp projects right now, but if/when I do I'll be sure to provide more detailed feedback on the issue tracker (if I encounter issues at that time), and otherwise contribute back to the community.

At any rate, keep up the great work! I finally took a detailed look at jQuery UI as a result of seeing this post and there's a very good chance I'll be using it in the semi-near future.
you don't have to be circumspect about it, it's also the description google uses if you search directly for cfacu. yahoo also uses it, and it's in several business directories, which you can see by searching on that phrase.

can you actually source it from DMOZ though? if so, they should call them on it, the open license seems to require attribution.

edit: I see google says they use DMOZ to populate descriptions if they don't have one: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...

yeah, sorry, I don't find Bing's behavior particularly egregious, but I'm finding equating it to compliantly using open material about as compelling as the arguments that are forgetting that robots.txt exists.
I really like the new division system this time around. I thought I was good, but got utterly crushed last time! HuK commentated my match though, which was amazing (even though he made fun of me).
won't this make it really easy for spammers to create fake accounts on other sites?
Game on. #Disqus
They can get confused for sure, and pissed:

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1017-245631.html

One suggestion is to have your pricing page show a random price, but after the user clicks "yes please" you tell them immediately that "actually, we are having a discount today to $8", telling them the lowest price of the bunch. The danger with this is that if people find out about it, it could taint your test as they know that the displayed price is not the price they will be charged at the end.

I'd be interested to hear if people have any other good ways to tackle this. The only things I can think of ad extra variables to the equation (tainting the a/b test) e.g.: write "limited time offer" next to the cheaper prices, or run the different prices on different days.
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There is also a good ebook from Neil Davidson, that provide a nice overview of how to price software. It's short and easy to read: http://www.neildavidson.com/dontjustrollthedice.html
You're right. I get kinda pissed when people call me "dammed irresponsible" because I can't find the time to solve some technical problems. It implies a sense of entitlement to my time that rubs me the wrong way.

You did exactly the right thing: figured out how to solve the problem regardless. That's something that'll motivate me; calling me stupid or irresponsible won't.

So yeah, you're right, it is bullshit, and so is the attitude I responded to. Garbage in, garbage out, I suppose.
Nice. Can any one please highlight the differences between this and jqtouch?
So far they'd paid themselves nothing, but starting in 2011 they'll all receive $20,000 a year.

Really glad the interview included this. It's one of those details you don't hear about much in company profiles.
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You don’t get jokes, do you? This is definitely not HN material but it is also not drivel.
Here's how I hustled my way into an internship with a hot analytics startup (as a non-technical, learning PHP like you. Business degree, almost 2 years after graduating). I emailed the co-founder and told him about my interest in the industry and that I'd be interested in working for free. That was enough to get a skype chat, and a meeting down at the office. Granted, that while I had no work experience, I had co-founded a short list of cool projects with my friend and programming partner, of which had tons of coverage and users. Even so, I was actually rejected until they had a change of fortune and began on a growth spree. I started last month as a marketing intern and I'm learning tons and tons of good stuff that I otherwise would have never come across (one of the benefits of working with smarter, more networked, more resourceful people than you). I only get paid $2k/month, but I get free breakfast everyday and some other perks.

I figure that even if I can't get a job or stay with this company, I can parlay this internship into another one until I'm where I'd like to be.

So for you:

1) Build interesting projects which you can learn from. Or join someone's project. Do something crazy, get press, get users, have something concrete to show for it.

2) Hustle startups in industries that interest you. Not sure if working for free is actually a good idea, but at the right places, what you learn can be very worthwhile.

Gooood luck!
Ha, funny seeing this on Hacker News. I live a half mile from the intersections they're talking about. Will definitely need to drive by and do some "unlicensed engineering" of my own.
If my brother has a headache and I give him an aspirin, am I practising medicine?
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The average Win32 program or Java web app has a dizzying list of dependencies and it would be impossible for the programmer sitting on top of that software stack to make any guarantees about the stuff underneath.

That, divorced from further arguments, is not an extraordinarily strong argument against liability for defects. After all: the engineer who builds upon such a stack has presumably, more or less consciously, made the decision that defects are acceptable - otherwise they would have chosen something less complex. Is there any particular reason someone should not be held accountable for that decision?
$12/year is an annual pricing model. It's also a small enough number to be an impulse purchase. At $1000, people are going to stop and think longer about it, so it might not have the same effect. (I would still prefer $1000 to $999.99 though.)
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good. don't worry about polish, just make it easy to find. i use github for this since it's very code-centric. doing stuff like this (it might not even need to be OSS) can be a bullet point or URL on a resume. you'll be ahead of many candidates.
This is a classic example of observation bias. We literally only observe the prominent cases, but forget that the vast majority of Google hires (and there are thousands of them) are NOT "high-profile" developers or startup founders.
To be fair, that's 1244 _lines_, not bytes :)
SVB's personal level of account service is fantastic, but the online site predates web 1.0 which is an ironic tragedy.
Does anyone know how to use bcrypt on App Engine? py-bcrypt is not pure python and hence can't be used.
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I usually don't post my address, but this is too good to give up on! I'd like an invite, if possible.
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Bing never addressed the points made by the "ambush".

Which points did they not address? (I haven't been keeping score so I'm genuinely curious.)
PageRank hasn't been their main algorithm for years. PageRank remains prominent because Google was so open to talk about their ranking algorithm in the early years (to be fair, Messrs Brin and Page were PhD students at the time). They won't make that mistake again.
In this case, I think "You Too" is a pretty good argument.

By the standards of web search, pioneered by Google, bootstrapping rankings from clicktrails fits right in with lots of other gray, indirect reuse of others' editorial judgement. The de facto standards here are looser than standards in traditional fields, and that's a good thing!

I want Google to be able to liberally use text snippets from around the web. I want web crawling to be allowed by default. (You have to take affirmative steps, adding a robots.txt or other directives, to opt-out. No other written material is treated the same way!) I want most incidental 'infringement' from automated or user-driven processes liberally forgiven. I want Google and all its competitors to use clicktrails and similar signals, if legally available, to improve rankings and fight search manipulation.

As much as such practices offend copyright maximalists – a category Google has rarely been included within – these practices also create a giant bonanza of public benefit.
> The £.99 pricing also makes people in shops operate the till every time to make change, preventing theft.

In most US states, the listed price isn't the amount that the customer actually pays. In most retail establishments, sales tax isn't included. In most online sales, there's some shipping and handling fee.

As a result, even a "round number" price ends up being something like $12.31.
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I'm 15, seemingly a small minority.
As a taxpayer, I'm quite happy to pay for this type of friction. Because the flip side of that is that government employees are constantly aware of the possibility of a FOIA request. I've no doubt it also places overall friction as everyone is constantly in CYA mode (I've worked in govt before) but even still I think the benefits outweigh the negatives. Even tax officials have to be polite to you, even if their objective is to extract a massive fine.
Call me when it's Street Fighter.
Having several open source projects of my own, and contributing to a few more, I definitely know how you feel.

Here's what I want to know about this in a nutshell:

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?

Is bcrypt not the best possible security, or reasonably close to it?

If not, why not? I'm not even remotely close to a cryptography expert, so although bcrypt's support for arbitrary work factors seems to provide very good security to me I know I could very well be horribly wrong in this thinking.

Is providing bcrypt hashing for passwords in contrib.auth not within the realm of reasonable effort? This could mean rewriting bcrypt in pure Python and including it in contrib, to support Windows users.

If not, why not? Perhaps rewriting bcrypt in Pure Python is not easy -- I haven't tried it myself.

If bcrypt hashing is secure and reasonable to implement, and Django wants to provide the best security possible (within reason), why is this not a blocking issue for Django 1.3?

I genuinely don't know the answers to any of these questions, so I'd really love to know.
Rock climbing is awesome! It's safe. It's a full body workout. You can do it both indoors and outdoors. No pressure, relaxed and noob friendly environment. You don't have to be very strong and the don't need gear to start. Renting gear at your local gym will do. Progress is measurable (as you get better, you'll find yourself doing higher grades of climbs).

All you need is a partner (guy/gal that you trust) and a local climbing gym. Go sign up for intro courses, that'll probably only take a day for the basics. It's really simple. The Boston area has metrorock.

Also, hackers will definitely make the connection between solving a "problem" in a route and regular problem solving. Most good routes (especially boulder problems) have a crux, where it's really difficult, but the way you get past is usually not by muscle-ing through but doing some unintuitive move that takes a leap of imagination and creativity. After some trials, you'll get the "aha" moment.

There's bouldering, which is low-height, and you fall on a map. A little more muscle strength required. There's also toproping, where you're climbing high walls but are protected by rope, and a partner belaying you from below. There are a few more styles that you can google if you really want to, that are not quite for beginners.

Tips (that you'll ignore anyway but then remember in the future):

- It's all about the fingers. After your first day, they will be very sore.

- Body positioning and movement is very important. It will reduce your tiring rate, and get you past positions where you can't quite get to the next hold. Watch other (advanced) climbers do their thing. Most won't mind. See how they move around fluidly and gracefully, and try to imitate that.

- Muscles will help later on but initially it's not as important as the stuff mentioned above. I have no muscles and I can pull of a decent 5.10-5.11 (ratings start at 5.6-7, and almost exponentially increase in difficulty to 5.15 for world champs.)

- Start easy, and try not to go up levels too fast. Many beginners fall into this trap where they already have lots of muscle and they can power through to the higher ratings. This is cool, but if you find yourself doing tons of arm-wrenching pull-ups and slamming your feet and knees into the wall, time to lower a level and practice a bit more until you get the sequences down perfectly.

- Practice falling. It'll reduce your fear of falling, and give you that extra boost of confidence to do that freaky move.
Where's walking? I walk tons each day.
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Meh, Zack's the real deal, exactly what the poster mentioned looking for. He has some pretty good ideas, executes on them as much as he can, and outsources what he can't.

I understand your point, I just think there's a difference between the stereotypical dude-bro idea marketing guy preying on developers and people who can carry their own weight.
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HuK was commentating last time? Didn't notice that
12 hours per year is indeed not a big deal. We probably waste a lot more in other trivial activities.
I was using "standard" in two different ways there. Let me fix that:

>You're addressing the letter of the "law" not the spirit. Do we really need a new formal standard to indicate that this is unethical? To me it's pretty plain from the ethical standards the web has already agreed upon.
Ask HN: What front-end design framework do you use with Rails? 
I'm wondering how to make Rails development easier on the front-end design side. Our team is strong on Rails and the back-end, but we're weak with the front end (don't know much css, javascript, ajax, etc.). We've got a social web app that we're prototyping and we need some tools to help us build the front-end. I've looked on HN and found some people who've suggested:

Compass (http://compass-style.org)

Sass http://sass-lang.com

960.gs (http://960.gs)

YUI App Theme (https://github.com/tylerhall/yui-app-theme)

BlueTrip (http://bluetrip.org/)

YUI 2 Grids (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids)

Web App Theme (http://pilu.github.com/web-app-theme)

Less Framework 3 (http://lessframework.com)

There seems to be so many things out there, but I don't want to waste our team's time by trying to learn everything. I want something that's simple, easy-to-learn, solid and will help us build the front-end of a Rails social app fast. Any suggestions?
I can only stand running for 5 minutes. Granted, I run on the treadmill which is pretty boring but running outside doesn't appeal to me. I favor Pilates as a way to sculpt my body. Capoeira is also useful, but only for those who are physically able to handle intense muscle strain and cardio endurance.
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Doesn't the browser own the click even before the Web page gets it?

If Google's terms of use want to claim that a browser can't record clicks on their web pages, then perhaps browser terms of use will say they can do whatever they want with any data returned to them by the server.
Is Google's ranking algorithm somehow more sacred than my HTML? Google mines that to create their page rankings. Sure there's robots.txt but likewise Google could opt out of serving information to Internet Explorer since that's the only browser which has Bing toolbar. The entire search engine industry is based on using whatever someone has failed to opt out of.
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