skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, there is some kind of faint R in the French, but it definitely doesn't ryhme with "see no star".

English: http://inogolo.com/pronunciation/Pinot%20Noir
French: http://www.forvo.com/word/pinot_noir/#fr
I'm not a big fan of rails, initially that learning curve stopped me from making progress with ruby. I went with sinatra instead. The simplicity of the sinatra framework let me get right down to writing code. I learned alot of ruby that way and getting to know the MVC model was much easier because I was constructing pieces of it by hand, which some might deem wasteful but honestly rails can be overkill for the things you may want to do.

Rails has been the web framework of choice for ruby for some years now and will continue to be but thats not to say its the best tool for every job. Sometimes you have to peel it all back. Thats where sinatra is brilliant. Sinatra is becoming more mature and will continue to pick up steam.
But they don't want Apple to distribute it. Apple is telling them that if they want to distribute to Apple users, it has to be through Apple.
Because if a designer was signing up for a profile, they use that same list – if Paris wasn't on there, I'd have to add it manually when someone needed to sign up.

It's not the best solution – this is where my programming inability shows through. Going to be revamping that soon, but right now, it's on there so people can sign up with it. :)
Why not just explain your situation to the company interviewing you, and ask for a delay? If they say no, then that's a warning sign anyway, and if they say yes, you do the right thing and learn that they care about the same.
I second the student loan suggestion, rates are really low right now, I'm assuming you're in the US- you can get a loan for around 5%, $2500 of the interest that you pay will be tax deductible. This will allow you to work part time and reduce stress as you won't have to worry about paying for your schooling/basic expenses.

As for depression, exercise and socializing helps. A few years ago I was in a new country, heartbroken from a failed 5 year relationship- lowest point of my life. But you know what? That lowest point is a great time to rebuild yourself! Keep at it, things will get better!
1) Making the attributes clickable is in the pipeline.
2) There's a brief blurb in the 'about' but you're right it's not clearly explained. Any thoughts on how to display that? Bottom of page? We've got some ideas for stuff to add but trying to keep it uncluttered.
It's a reference to Haskell's extremely elaborate Turing-complete type system and the many contrarian (for lack of a better word) choices made in the language design — purity, default laziness, utter rejection of OO. Most people are unlikely to have used a language like that before. Even OCaml lacks those qualities.

And I don't think anyone would disagree that Haskell is extremely serious about safety ("prophylactic techniques") and carefully marking impure portions of the program by tainting them with IO.

The only part of the Haskell description I didn't get is the "person you're with no longer resembles Haskell."
What is this PuSH client and protocol? Is that just another name for Pubsubhubbub? My google-fu is failing me on the term PuSH protocol.
Because it fucking matters.

Look at the education market:

Right now schools are signing up to give iPads to their students, and text book companies are beginning to ship their text books as iPad apps. Not as HTML5 apps, or both Android & iOS apps, but exclusively on iPads.

The same thing is happening in any industry you can name, and the nature of these things means once a platform gets a lead it's pretty hard to catch.

Personally, I don't want the iPad to be the Windows of the next decade, with every other platform relegated to quasi-supported status like the Mac was in the 1990s.

The only way to stop that happening is for other manufactures to ship credible products in numbers large enough that software companies cannot ignore them.
Ditto to that. I play pickup rollersoccer with Michael and Martin, and during those games I have probably learned more about in-depth Javascript and Python than any fundamentals of the sport.

Saw a demo of the SDK yesterday, and all I have to say is: congrats dudes, it looks sweet. I'm not even a game programmer and I want to give it a shot :)
I think we are in agreement. I like the idea of a "hole". Basically, if a new job is created at some company, then in the long run eventually someone unemployed has to get hired, it just might not be at the company where the new job was created.
Amazon Lets Users Buy Android Apps Before Its New Device Even Ships
Even at $5.60 it would have been totally fair. Kudos to you for making it available to others for so little.
Interesting. Also creates a "chicken and the egg" problem — if someone wanted to rate their designer who didn't have a profile, what would happen? How would I convince people to rate their designers unless I tracked them finding the designer though the site in the first place, getting into a bigger middleman position that I originally wanted to be in?

Good questions to ask myself, thanks for the comment. :)
Thanks for passing this on, I'll check it out!
There's another idea :)
Got this error when trying to sign up for tweepsect:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 515, in __call__
handler.get(*groups)
File "/base/data/home/apps/jsoauth/2.346920482575371317/main.py", line 127, in get
token, secret = client.get_credentials(oauth_token, oauth_secret, oauth_verifier)
File "/base/data/home/apps/jsoauth/2.346920482575371317/oauth.py", line 150, in get_credentials
return self._extract_credentials(response)
File "/base/data/home/apps/jsoauth/2.346920482575371317/oauth.py", line 165, in _extract_credentials
raise OAuthException("Problem talking to the service")
OAuthException: Problem talking to the service
Yeah... that's a problem I'll be encountering with WeddingType someday. The printing aspect scares me, which is why v1 of WeddingType is PDF generation for print at home. :P
Ask HN: Can a 21 year old college dropout get a non-technical job at startup?
My brother is 21, and after hearing me talk about how awesome my job is, he is debating whether to drop out of college to move to San Francisco and work at a startup. I told him he should just apply to as many places as he can to see what happens.

He's studying accounting and philosophy now, at University of Cincinnati. I told him if he gets a job, he can always go back to finish the degree later if he really wants to. Am I being a bad older brother?
Try sorting the questions by "best". The quality seems to improve a bit.
> Fascism has a definition,

Yes, but I didn't mention fascism. I merely described what the program in question is actually doing.

> We've been funding energy research for decades,

Yes we have. Is it unreasonable to ask whether said funding has been worth what it cost? Is it unreasonable to ask whether proposed funding will be worth what it costs?

Or, are you claiming that the decision to fund synfuels obligates us to fund every alt energy proposal?

> and there are a lot of reasons for the government to try and kickstart green energy.

Unless you think that said reasons justify any and all things that one can call "kickstart green energy", that statement isn't all that useful.

You don't get to assume "we're going to have good results" in the abstract. You need to show that the specific proposal is likely to work. Surely experience is relevant - if something has failed before, why will this time be different?

> silicon valley works

Actually, silicon valley doesn't work in the sense that is required by your argument.

The part of silicon valley that works is folks risking their own money and they don't agree on winners before the race. Govt programs lack both of those features.

Also, VC model actually doesn't work that well. The average is fairly low which means that the standout funds mask a lot of horrible performance by the vast majority. What are the odds that govt will be like Kleiner and not the typical fund?

> If it was under the DARPA line item would you be more ok with it?

No, but it's nice of you to try the ad hominem slam.

I'm happy to concede that I'm a bad person and you're a good person. However, that doesn't change the fact that these sorts of programs have been a disaster.

I suspect that you place a lot of weight on "good intentions". Are those intentions really all that good when they consistently have bad results?
100% intensity white is overused all over the place in computing. You simply can't have the combination of (a) high total contrast (b) white that doesn't cause some level of discomfort when flood-filling the entire screen, and (c) evenly discernible relative shading differences at all levels of brightness.

Contrast flattens the total range, brightness shifts the range up or down, and gamma changes the shape of the curve to be more or less steep (accentuating relative shading differences at different levels of brightness).

When you're looking at a photo of a sunlit scene, the bright parts should be bright; there should be sufficient contrast to see into the shaded areas, which should be dark; and the photo shouldn't look murky or washed out. To get that effect, the contrast needs to be pretty high but evenly spread, with the brightest white being bright enough to shine out.

I run my own (Dell) monitors at 15/100 brightness - which happens to be pretty damn bright compared to the brightest laptop screen - but I still don't use white as the window background colour in my UI preferences - I use a sky blue with RGB:207,207,239.
This is not my cup of tea.

1. I don't like magic string names like "AjaxExample1". Why not return an object, and use:

var AjaxExpample1 = amplify.request...

2. It is not clear how you mix get parameters and post data. If I want to POST to "/users/{id}/", how do I separate the post values from the parameter?
I don't see much value in it to the user. Your competition is the netflix algorithm...how do you differentiate?
I choose what TV show to watch based on what's on while I'm sitting on the couch. In addition to that, it has to be agreeable with anyone else here. If I'm looking for a show to watch, I'd check tv guide before this site. If you integrated show times, that might make it more valuable to me personally.
Rotor ships, aka Flettner ships
They're sold out at the moment, but I bought one here: http://hackertees.com/
Hrm this happens sometimes when the Twitter API fails in a weird way. Try again?

One of the cool things of Tweepsect is it runs 99% in-browser JS (including all the API calls). There's only a small piece of the OAuth that had to be done server-side which lives on AppEngine. I need to add better error handling to that someday. :)
Github's brilliant organic traffic acquisition strategy
I don't find it works well in this metaphor though, because the stereotype of Ada is that it's straight-laced and proper and thus popular with the Department of Defence. To me that doesn't mesh at all well with this picture of it bringing out the bondage gear to play "Mistress of Pain" of an evening.
Might seem obvious to some people, but wasn't obvious to me :)
Those are highly biased reports. Moreover, all the issues raised in these reports apply to big open source projects where women are claimed to be excluded.

For argument's sake, let's assume that this is true. What about individual projects then? Surely no one can exclude the primary author from his own project. Where are the female counterparts to Daniel J. Bernstein, Fabrice Bellard etc.?
Same here - like the app, don't like the name.
Yes. A good brother would advise him to drop philosophy and finish the degree as quickly as possible while taking some CS classes.
That's funny. Just about every HR person I've ever worked with has (a) been convinced that they're Doing The Most Important Job In The World and (b) completely incompetent and unable to deal with geeks.
Why do the specific findings of damages and penalties matter here? There was more than one case and they intertwined and resolved in not-so-obvious ways. I'd say it's naive or simplistic to ask "What exactly was the penalty?" the same way it would be to ask about the end result of IBM's antitrust case (13yrs, dropped). Does that mean there weren't any penalties?

One of Microsoft's results was that they were found guilty of monopolistic practices and that will never go away, even though the larger case wound up being settled (as is standard when a rich and/or powerful defendant is going to be found guilty). That their hand was in the cookie jar is a fact of public record.

While many decry the settlement itself, it's also important to look to history for the circumstances of the agreement: it was hashed out in the weeks following the 9-11 attacks. You take your eye off the ball and some scumbag is going to take it, in this case Microsoft and the Bush DOJ workers shaping the agreement.
I want a tablet with flash that I can also use as an USB drive.

Neither of those things are stuff that doesn't impact consumers.
Is it possible? Yes. Is it likely? That depends mostly on how capable he is. If he's not energetic, intelligent and has a great attitude then it is probably not a good idea.

I was able to get an entry level job at a startup as a dropout and have made it pretty far since then. I have zero intention of finishing my degree.
> I've provided concrete examples of how it has done the opposite.

No, you've merely shown that there were some benefits. You didn't discuss costs at all.

> Also I am pretty sure any grant writing process is definitely based on merit.

"merit" means only that the best proposals were funded. It doesn't tell us whether funding those proposals was a good idea.
Kind of true - and kind of not. She swore, tore down the students, and generally ranted.

There were constructive ways to say what she said. I know, she has the right, but they also have the right to fire her.
It took about 30 minutes to do--and, that long because I had to trace a few glyphs from FF Meta (the font) in Inkscape, since I don't own it. I'd be absolutely thrilled if enough people bought one so that mine is free, but, I'm not expecting that to happen.

The other shirts in that shop were marked up to donate to random open source projects. I think all together, I maybe gave $30-40 away from those sales?
The whole local coupon / flash sales aspect seems really easy to launch - not too much technical complexity involved etc.

However, as established retailers try to launch their own 'flash sales' site, they realize that it is not as easy (operationally) as it seems from the outside. Flash sales / local coupon sites have to fight a dual battle: one to acquire users/customers and the other to acquire great merchants / deals.

That explains why many of them will end up acquiring existing players so that they can 'hit the ground running'
NoteSlate Site Update
I guess we're aiming more at the DVD-buying/heavy tv-watcher crowd. Granted, a lot of show discovery comes from those sitting on the couch, but I often find channel surfing to be rather tedious. If I already know what I like, flipping through Comcast's 1,000 channels often yields nothing.

And the TV guide doesn't do recommendations, just tells you what's on.

That said, we're looking into getting local times integrated with the results, as that would obviously be hugely useful.
For concern #2, If they parameter names are found in the request, they are replaced in the url and removed from the POST form data. Full explaination here: http://amplifyjs.com/api/request/#url_substitution/routing
> Because its paid for by taxpayers doesn't make it automatically a bad idea either.

If it was such a good idea, how come folks won't fund it voluntarily?

> Many things you use on a daily basis are thanks to government / taxpayers, including the internet you are using to read this.

Actually, very little internet funding came from govt. Yes, govt funded the basic research, but the infrastructure came from private investment.
filter was renamed -ms-filter and the syntax was changed in IE8.
All of what you've said is true. However, there is still a trend in rising valuation (near bubble level), of which many other investors have noted as well.

Mark Suster: What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/11/14/what-angel-inv...

Fred Wilson: The Dot Com Bubble Is Back http://www.secondshares.com/2010/11/18/the-dot-com-bubble-is...

The Trouble with Bubbles (talent, angel & incubators… oh my!) http://calacanis.com/2010/11/18/the-trouble-with-bubbles-tal...
Amplify is a set of components designed to solve common web application problems with a simplistic API.

Pretty sure the author means 'simple' rather than 'simplistic.' It's an important distinction!
Yes, Katie Price could add a thing or two about the situation in the UK:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Price
Agreed. Consistency would have helped a lot.
The thing with Netflix is it only works after you've given them your money. They do have a great recommendation algorithm, but ours lets anyone get results, without requiring you to 1) be a paying customer and 2) already have chosen dozens of things you already like.

There's no barrier of entry.
National Broadband Map Launches (by Stamen Design)
Intel CEO calls Nokia's WinMo bet a "mistake," looks for new MeeGo partners
From the pictures, it felt that the y-combinator is placed a little high up on the shirt - might work better place to place it lower.
I'm on OSX 10.6 on an MBP too and it is slow on my Safari. It doesn't lag on FF4b11 though.
I would expect people on a business-related forum to understand exactly why the Kardashians make as much money as they do. It's like business 101.

They produce things that people want to buy.
No, parent poster did not mean to provide more free advertisting.
Another thing which is needed is for Palintir-like systems which can peek behind the scenes, uncover connections between posts, patterns of posting and patterns of speech, to be written and open sourced.

How about translation tools that convert writing by one person into the style of another? I suppose it would just be another escalation in the arms race...
I think one of the problems, possibly with the Op, is learning MVC and understanding basic concepts. Sytax is a big thing. You'll find many examples of why writing in ruby or python is sometimes preferable to other languages. Otherwise, if you understand core concepts and language, learning either one is preference. I like the Ruby ecosystem a little better, and moves really fast as problems come up, but this is my personal preference.
Thank you - that is the post that should have been submitted.
Did this competition hurt Jeopardy in general because it is now obvious that the winner is mostly decided by buzzer skills among top players?
Employers with absurdly rigid hiring criteria (like ruling out candidates who've been jobless for more than 6 months) are most likely NOT worth working for. One has to wonder what other ridiculous rules are in store for the hires that decide to come on board.
I know. But neither works in IE9 standards mode.
This is true, but the examples are incomplete. The "RESTful" POST example excludes parameters in the URL. Small mistake, but very confusing.

I'd fix it, but they don't mention how to submit patches.
I'd rather play "Ask Watson Anything"
Carl Barks (one of the most popular Scrooge McDuck writers) had an enormous impact on the world. Without knowing chemistry he invented methylene 20 years beforehand. His drawings laid the foundation for Japanese Manga as well as large swathes of Disney artists to follow. You can read more about him at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Barks
E-ink, or an LCD variant with a low-power mode (Pixel Qi or a transflective panel) would be a nice improvement, I think.
>They will answer

or Watson?
Yeah, but I'm talking BIG Y...like whole front of t-shirt Y. And maybe even posthardcore-band-merch Y.
Or even grunge-style Y.

But the Y must be massive.
I agree. I would have gone with a Catholic school headmistress or something like that. I was just explaining where the (overly literal) description came from.
"ot of effort required to sell things directly to the customer"

I think its a misconception that having an app on the app store is automatic success. The difference is that if you app doesn't go viral (or apple never puts your product in a curated list) on the app store, then what other channels do you have. Selling things directly for a lot of apps also has to be done as well or figuring out different marketing strategies and to me this is no different than selling directly to the customer.
I can't agree more. The site is also incredibly irritating. Why split an otherwise average length article over 4 short pages and stuff each with pointless images? We really shouldn't be linking to such crappy sites.
Wolfram's book "A New Kind of Science" is an interesting take on cellular automata as well, although readers should be warned that it borders on crank science, has tons of hyperbole in it's treatment of CA's potential impact on science, and waters down the contributions of others in the field.
The fact that free speech has always carried risks doesn't mean that it always should.

By reducing the risks and increasing anonymity, people will be able to say things that would've been too risky before. In some cases that's a bad thing, but in general I expect it to be beneficial to democracy and society.
We were so caught up in the photo shoots and magazine covers
what is your app ?
While I'm certain most people around here understand that free accounts are an awesome marketing strategy, I don't think this strategy is all that obvious.

Now that I think about it some more, the really interesting thing is that many of the most popular sites use a similar strategy (StackOverflow comes to mind).

Can this be called SEO? Can't it because it isn't evil?
Show HN: I made an Android app that gives you an extra phone number to give out
Autodesk Buys Simulation Software Company Blue Ridge Numerics For $39M In Cash
On Culinary Education Site, a related concept perhaps could be a three column recipe format whereby each row has:

Column 1: Ingredients involved in that step.
Column 2: Instructions.
Column 3: Reasoning, extra info. Things like why you're blanching and not boiling beans. Or potential substitutes. Or pain points to avoid.

Optionally a fourth column with the best user/tester annotations.

Some recipe sites end up looking like an eHow/similar article with just the most basic of info. I cooked a couple of tandoori lamb racks on Feb 14 as one course. The recipe I used was brief and didn't mention whether the tandoori paste should be left on the meat when roasting it, or wiped off or what. I was torn between imparting maximum flavour and going for the best roasted appearance - ended up sacrificing some of the finished look to go somewhere in the middle.

(Very simple and easy recipe if anyone wants the URL.)
Off the net.
What Big Shoes Can Teach Startups About Jobs-To-Be-Done Marketing
It's not as wild as it was then, no doubt about it. But the investors pumping money into Zynga and Facebook are still significant.
Naughty Dog used Google SketchUp for Uncharted 2 development
Keep the accounting, drop the philosophy. The accounting is something that will always be useful and he can always fall back on.