skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true, but to someone who isn't steeped in Wikipedia-lore, saying that a language's page should be removed from Wikipedia, for whatever reason, is a statement about the language's fans, users or authors, because why would you remove a topic that's useful for a lot of people?

(Not to have the debate implied by my question here -- but that's the thought process, and I don't think it's unreasonable.)
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AliceML is an edge case where arguments can be made on both sides (I would have kept it). However the rule is more setup to avoid people adding their family tree and favorite recopies to Wikipedia etc resulting in 10 billion articles and no way to manage them. Overall I think it's a fairly loose standard ex:(Random article) gave me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookpeople_(distributor)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Nash_(basketball)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Holme_Larsen

I can see keeping the first and possibly the second, but why not delete the third?

PS: A different option might be to build a custom AI to validate things, but for now balancing Notable around the size of the community seems reasonable.
Also if somebody makes a picture it doesn't require you to be logged in to view it.
Yes, but trialware publishers are up-front about this difference. Sennheiser was not.
You might be right, but I think your claim is more controversial than you imply. For the most part, I think the league would prefer the rules be applied mechanically. The one exception I can imagine is giving a player a warning about borderline instances of some infraction before calling a penalty.
My first version was just `ugly'. But I guarded it.
Because the tech bloggers all use and like it.
twisted and a few others rely on zope.interface too. I never saw the draw personally
can you have multiple staff, for example in a massage parlour, or is it for single person businesses?
You want customers, not a customer. You can only be one customer. It's probably best to build for customers, since that's how you make money.
You should ask them.
Thats true for many things, but often money is involved (say amazon or some other online shop).

And telling your customer that they are out of luck may not be acceptable.
Porting is actually fairly trivial in many cases. If you go and look at most of the porting stories for Python 3, you'll find the authors saying "I was worried it would be hard... but it was really easy".
I'm offended on behalf of all of the smaller projects who basically just got told that their work is worthless.

I'm also offended that the value of a project seems to be based on how well someone can market it. If your project hasn't made a name for itself, then it's worthless, right? Personally, I'm content to hack away on things that no one has heard of because I enjoy what I'm doing. If someone else happens to find it useful, that's awesome. However, deleting things from the Mecca of knowledge-seekers in an attempt to purify it in this manner is nothing short of crapping on the ideals that Wikipedia was built on.
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Ask HN: How to find beta users for our startup - www.allmybiz.com
We are bootstrapping our startup (www.allmybiz.com), trying to get a good number of beta users so we can get feedback and perspective to use for deciding on our follow on features. This is a question we have, possibly others on HN may may as well. Any advice or feedback is much appreciated.<p>Thanks.
Well for starters, why do you need to put comments in your email? That can't be used to make it more useful as a communications format.
I am not sure whether relying on 'hope' is a good approach.
Java: write once, debug everywhere.

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Your parents should have known not to name you "Rider". What were they thinking? It's bad enough you're saddled with the surname "Giraffes".
The permalink for this is http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Christopher_M...
Ask HN: Why is IE6 still so popular?
And will it be for much longer?

According to some stats[1], IE6 has about 11% market share. Seems kinda high. Are these users worth bending over backwards for to allow them to use your site?

I'm almost done implementing a new web app. I've been using Chrome during development almost exclusively due to its great set of debugging tools. From time to time I'll then go open it up in firefox and fix little CSS inconsistencies.

But now that we're nearing the launch of our v1, we have to consider IE compatibility. Since we used tools like JQuery, the site behaves as expected, but the CSS is all messed up.

By technology standards, IE6 is ancient. Why don't IE6 users install Chrome, IE8, Firefox, or anything else?

Is IE6 still popular because it was the default browser in XP, people don't want/can't upgrade to Windows 7, and since they're using a pirated copy, they can't upgrade IE?

I'm sure there are some enterprise users, like my wife, who are forced to use IE6 because IT hasn't been given the budget to upgrade everyone. But they shouldn't be more than a percentage point in browser market share, right?

How do we kill it? Do we turn our noses up at it and force users to at least install Chrome Tab? Have other developers found this to be a workable compromise? Is there a javascript library that will automatically convert a site's CSS to a versin that's IE compatible?

[1] http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2
> a project that contains all human knowledge, on all subjects, without any constraint

I would have said that's (one of) the role(s) of the internet.
The world is a bigger place than internet memes.

I live around the corner from a Scientology chapter and often see a motley crew of kids standing across the street from the place picketing. Their appearance, their slogans, and their actions don't seem to invite what they're looking to happen, which is either to engage/educate passers-by or enrage Scientology.

Their behavior only seems to say "ignore us, we're just some loons with nothing better to do on a Saturday afternoon than to wear some cliched Guy Fawkes masks and carry posters with internet slogans."
Anonymous as a whole isn't juvenile, though many members certainly are.

The point, as ErrantX replied, is that they are being deliberately absurd, and this is a powerful one, as it calls out the absurdity in Scientology that is not deliberate. This is likely too subtle a point to actually impact anything, sadly.
Python 2.7 is now on the roadmap.

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html
I'm First Generation White Collar
Because those RFCs are insane.

Seriously comments (nested even) in email addresses?
A superconductor doesn't stop being a superconductor if a cosmic ray ejects one of its electrons. It would however be erroneous to conclude from that fact that quantum mechanics plays no role in superconductivity.
I like the last one, about frozen water.
<grin> I should've known someone would make the comment.

Oh no - wait - I did.

But no, I didn't try to register with RiderOfGiraffes. That would just be silly.
You can buy a doll at the toy store that does that. Do you believe they are sentient ?
Even more helpful would be import / export to wordpress.
China's GDP Exceeds Japan's
More than 1,000 Nokia employees walk out in protest at Symbian phase-out
Well I'm not sure you could say the same for this example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwHgszH0aqI (printing a working flute, multiple plastics at the same time).
Javascript--the language of Platonic cavemen
My phone translates foreign languages, provides maps and directions, recommends restaurants and tells me the news of the day. It lets me communicate with friends around the world and in general, allows me to function. All my knowledge depends upon access to communication services: my email, my calendar, my maps and guidebooks. But all of this is at the mercy of the service provider.

While I agree with his post on the whole, nearly all of those smartphone apps are available offline. His point is more valid when it comes to content.
Because the quality of answers are good.
> saddled...
If this is true, then there's a bit of a circular dependency Django is a pretty high-level project, though, with a lot of other dependencies of its own. I believe that the stated position of the Django core team is that there's no point in porting Django until some (all?) of the core dependencies are functional on Py3k. This, at least means wsgi and the database connectors, and possibly more.

So I hope that the rest of the Python community isn't sitting around waiting for Django to take the lead here.
For what it's worth, the stuff that passes for discussion on the AfD pages makes me wonder if something like the Scholarpedia model for articles is the better way of doing things.
Well...eventually 2.7.x is going to be it except for security patches. The future of Python is the 3 branch and I am confident that everyone will port. You have to keep in mind though that P2->P3 was laid out as a 5 year process. We are only half way through it at this point.
Facebook mafia, thats about it.
I have updated the app to clear this confusion. Thanks again
I think the author is making a series of hasty generalizations. In my experience a really good developer is more likely to have interesting or eclectic interests outside of, and far removed from, programming. Development is a mentally demanding task, and those who aren't able to find a way to unplug and recharge - usually with something worthwhile and enjoyable out in the real world - don't last for very long.
FYI this isn't a "feature of gmail". It's a feature of many, if not most mail systems (sendmail, postfix, qmail, etc.) and was around for many years before Google even existed.
saying that a language's page should be removed from Wikipedia, for whatever reason, is a statement about the language's fans, users or authors, because why would you remove a topic that's useful for a lot of people?

The notability guidelines, as you can grasp from the name, speak to whether something has been noted, not whether it is useful. Example: My last bike used something called a Hammerschmidt crank. It was a two-speed planetary gear device that behaved like a two chainring front crank, but had all the mechanics inside a drum.

It is very useful, was featured on many OEM bicycles, and people love them. There is no Wikipedia page for it right now, just a mention on the Crankset page.

Is the Hammerchmidt notable? If we do a search, we find reviews, the manufacturer's page, and classified ads for them. It isn't notable yet by Wikipedia's rules. If you think it ought to be notable, your issue is with the rules, not with their application.

Now, I just discussed Hammerschmidt cranks and their notability or lack of same. Nothing I said says anything about their manufacturer, distributors, users, reviewers... The damn things are useful and I admire the people who make them and sell them. But once we grasp that useful != notable, we grasp that a statement about their notability != a statement about their users or inventors.
Is there somewhere to watch this online?
Does it strike any one else as at least a _bit_ disturbing that he thinks his "mind" is in his smart phone, and finds no problem with this other than that service providers are greedy?

An obvious way to avoid becoming beholden to service providers is to retain some independence from our devices. It's not like people didn't travel before the invention of the iPhone.
Foursquare adding recommendations next month
Real names are part of Quora's premise. They can afford to reject people who make that hard to pull off. If they'd been founded in another country, they'd presumably have the same problem with some standard American names, but since they weren't, Hasan Hasan's argument falls a little flat.

If he needs to use it, he can go by a middle name. I go by my middle name, because I share my first name with my father. No TechCrunch drama required.
On the importance of control groups
It's one area in SoCal, which is enormous. Enough geography for today?
> CS is just plain unwelcoming, no matter who you are

I think this is the problem we need to address first. Even after working in the industry for years, I'm still constantly struck by how contentious and irritable this industry is.
> Learning from your faults is critical.

Learning from others' faults is better. Oh, and don't forget to pass along what you have learned on your own anyway. Open-sourcing is not just about software ^_^

I'm not an entrepreneur yet, thus I can't pass along my wisdom. The fault I will try to avoid with all my strength when I will become one, will be thinking that hacking are just about software. I will try to keep myself surrounded by marketing hackers, communication hackers and so forth, everyone respecting the skills of each other.

Have fun ^_^
About 20 hours of print time, 4-5 hours of assembly time, and around 400EUR of nonprinted parts (motors, electronics, fasteners, hotend parts)
Since we're sharing quotes, here are ten programming quotes that I like:

* If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan.

-- Andrew Plotkin

* We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.

-- Ellen Ullman

* I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.

-- Bjarne Stroustrup

* F U cn rd dis U mst uz Unix.

-- Tim Roberts

* In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.

-- Brian Reid

* Ah programming, never before has a profession held itself in such low esteem.

-- Stevenvotich (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8y348/my_progra...)

* Now, I have to point out that making fun of Emacs Lisp is kind of like kicking a puppy... a puppy who's been dead since 1981.

-- Jamie Zawinski

* An operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language. There shouldn't be one.

-- Dan Ingalls, Design Principles Behind Smalltalk

* C will not only let you shoot yourself in the foot, it will hand you a new magazine when you run out of bullets.

-- Charlie Stross

* Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

-- Donald Knuth

* The Advanced Automation System suffered from that peculiar form of dissociation from reality which seems to happen only when lawyers try to tell engineers what to do.

-- John J. Reilly (http://www.johnreilly.info/ggov.htm)

Yeah, I know; this list goes to eleven.
It's the roman orthography of the closest sounds in Japanese to the word "Lisp."
Looks like Quora could do with reading patio11's myths about names: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
IE6 is still the browser of choice in some rigid, older enterprises, and if your target audience consists largely of Enterprisey folks, you've got to support it. Their reasons for refusing to upgrade vary, but are largely irrelevant-- it's a reality that has to be faced, for whatever reason.

If, on the other hand, you are after the consumer market, I'd suggest you forget IE6 altogether. Any home user still using an un-upgraded copy of WindowsXP is not going to want to spend money for software anyway, so forget them.

The point is: it doesn't matter if IE6 has 11% of the global market share. The important question is: what percentage of your target audience do they own?
In a world where Facebook's oddly named "Graph" API does not allows an authorized user to see friends of his friends, Semantic Web is just a day dream.
This claim seem about as believeable as the claim that computers would create the paperless society.
You'd be surprised how often those two things go together. I hate to break it to you, but truly excelling in a field - where excelling is defined as being one of the best at it - takes tremendous amounts of hard work, long hours, and more than a little luck.
Anyone else find it amusing that there aren't quite 3000 votes on the Python 3000 wishlist?

Package	Number of Votes
Django	760
wxPython	423
scipy	366
matplotlib	328
PIL	295
py2exe	243
Twisted	169
PyGTK	157
Pygame	117
web2py	91
----
2949

OK, probably just me.

kb
FWIW, Sennheiser USA's CEO says the mod upgrade claim isn't accurate:
http://twitter.com/#!/SennheiserUSA/status/37092187850153984 ("Urban myth deserves no response. Read the specs; do the tests....all factual. Listen to both and you be the judge.")

I interpreted "urban myth" as a slam instead of a firm answer, but he confirmed that's their position:
http://twitter.com/#!/SennheiserUSA/status/37163867276574720 ("Urban Myth=Not True.")

I asked him to comment here, since I'd like to hear more than can fit in a tweet. With 170 comments in 16 hours, it should be in their interest to describe any manufacturing differences in more depth.
I suggest a study program in social signaling, but I'll summarize the relevant part:

People of unknown status must provide a signal that their status is appropriate enough to warrant respect and attention: if you're taking your Valentine's date to a Michelin 3-star restaurant, you wear your best clothes.

People of known high status have the capability of signaling their status in a seemingly perverse way: by countersignaling. When a movie star shows up to a Michelin 3-star restaurant, he wears jeans and a faded t-shirt to show that he's high-status enough to break convention there.

tl;dr: C-level execs backed by the strongest VCs have earned the right to write informally and still be taken seriously. Most of us have not.
Prioritizing: Eight Tips to Help An Entrepreneur Just Say ‘No’
The "10,000 hours thing" isn't a law, or a rule. It's an anecdote. Interpreting it as a fatwa against a personal life, or interests outside of a lab, would be a bad move.
Oh, very nice! That's quite handy.
Maybe Wikipedia is not the place for obscure esoteric programming languages
IE9 coming to Windows Phone 7 this year
The Internet as a microcosm of humanity?
So I've been entertaining a thought due to the state of the internet and recent events that I decided I'd share with HN. Is the internet a microcosm for all of humanity? Consider the history of the internet and the history of humanity.

In the beginning, everything was open. There wasn't much governing the internet, no powerful forces. There wasn't much structure. This was like precivilization. Small groups in different pockets of the world.

Then came an age of powerful closed empires, AOL & Yahoo, monarchs or dictators that controlled information and wealth.

Then everything became open: Google, and the rise of open source. For humanity, this happened at different points for different civilizations: The people revolted and there was chaos. People got their freedom but didn't always know what to do, which led to civilization today.

Psuedo-Democracy. Most nations claiming democracy are still ruled by special interests to varying degrees. The successful ones satsify the average user/citizen by being free enough on the surface. It's the age of Apple & Facebook.

As far as a thought exercise, this may be a bit of a stretch for some, but if you could entertain this thought as well, what happens next?
One issue with Android which seems to have escaped mentioned is Oracle's lawsuit over Dalvik and concerns about how vigorously Google will ultimately defend the suit given the role Dalvik plays in their revenue model. Two years ago, adopting Android would not have come with the baggage that it does today.
Good point. But if enterprise developers continue to support IE6, then there will continue to be a lack of pressure to upgrade, which will perpetuate the need for IE6 support. How can we break out of this vicious circle?
After all, unless you’re Cher or Sirhan Sirhan, nobody has the same first and last name.

One of our top managers' name is Herman Herman. 10 years ago or so, he was working next to a guy, whose name was Martin Martin. Of course, Martin Herman was lurking nearby as well.
I know you said YMMV, but wouldn't it be expected that the rate of new bugs would remain close to constant while their peak occurrences shift to earlier in the afternoon? It's just moving a "deadline" back.
I think you're missing the point. The only thing I have questioned is a very specific claim that you made in your original post, which was: Saddam Hussein's Iraq, whose military was entirely funded by Western powers

All I've asked for is a citation for that claim. There really isn't much more to this than that.
nice idea.. exactly what i wanted for my valentine!
I've got a few invites for Chicago post if interested.
And Steve Balmer is #33, also neither a founder nor a relative of one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer
> This betrays a bit of a self-confidence issue on the part of the author

That, right there, is probably the biggest reason for the low percentage of women in CS. CS - and by extension, software engineering and development - are fields that unrelentingly punish those without the confidence to stick with them. Combine that with the (sadly) endemic lack of self confidence in women in our society, and it's not hard to see why there are so few women developers.

Every time I hear about how we should be doing this, that, and the other thing to lure more women in to tech, one of the thoughts that springs to mind is, why aren't we doing more to address the general lack of confidence in the female population?
Let me be the first to say that this is pretty damn fast.

For reference, try to ping a remote host in your LAN. You'll see about the same roundtrip time (~150 microseconds) and that's without a payload to speak of and without any processing going on.
HBGary INC's secret rootkit project: “MAGENTA”
> I believe you're being overly specific in your definition of what constitutes something more than mere partisanship.

Huh? You wrote "Saddam Hussein's Iraq, whose military was entirely funded by Western powers"

You've yet to provide any evidence supporting "entirely funded".

Yes, the US embargoed Iranian funds, but that's not the same as providing funds to Iraq. And neither is "the war wouldn't have happened without American blessings".

The fact that bad things happened does not support the claim that certain bad things happened.
Libertarianism and Science Fiction: What’s the Connection?
China overtakes Japan as world's second-biggest economy
I just realized: Python is supposed to move slowly. Maybe they should have come up with a better name?
Most forms I have seen validate this way - or at the most, check for x@x.x

Agree that anything beyond this may be a little overzealous- the real purpose and value of email validation is to help the form-filler discover typos/mistakes, to make sure you reach your willing customer. I can see though how some programmers would be tempted to distort this goal into the goal of having "a clean database." (Although worthy, but not the end goal)
Interested in hearing from front end visual designers and backend PHP devs with good MVC/HTML/CSS experience. ross at oneblackbear dot com
Argumentative Research Paper Topic Brings Out Obsessive Writing Fashion
Students are at an advantage when they are assigned the argumentative research paper. This provides them the ability to express their opinions in a persuasive manner. The topic they select too will enable them to write passionately.