skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd really like to figure out the best way to communicate what things like sinatra are compared to stuff like rails, django, spring etc.

Is it a mini-framework? un-framework? lightweight framework?
Please folks, give me some good ideas for the best quick term to capture what sintra and its ilk are.

By its ilk, I mean 'frameworks' that really do 1 or 2 things for you, do them well ( like routing ) and get out of your way. Others I've used that fit into the same idea... compojure & seaside...

So please, terminology suggestions?
The Little C Function From Hell
"... doesn't the fact that Techmeme drives traffic cause the echo chamber - and how do you change that? ..."

Spin in any article is like spraying "Cheez Whiz®" on a plate load of "Water Crackers" then claiming the discovery of the "new" Brie. [0][1] To the cheese connoisseur, you know something is wrong straight away. Instead of the soft white gooey cheese melting out the sides of the light chewy rind, we get an orange blob expertly sprayed on a cracker.

The echo chamber effect is dampened by the HN readers who are connoisseur's of hacker related information. [2] Spin is detected at both submission and reader level. A pre-spun article might escape submission, but the average HN taste is attuned to poor substitutes.

[0] Cheez Whiz® ~ http://www.kraftbrands.com/CheezWhiz/

[1] Carr's Crackers ~ http://www.carrscrackers.com/history.shtml

[2] Submarine ~ http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
HN, please help... My host just screwed me over
I put 8 months of hard work (70+ hrs/week on average) into my app (my first startup) and just so happen to officially release it today... which had to be coincidentally the absolute WORST time to release it.

Without telling me, my host decided to perform a file system check (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsck) and so now my server is offline for a few hours.

An hour or two ago I began telling dozens of high priority potential clients to check it out... each of which could bring in thousands of dollars per month. About 30 minutes ago I noticed the site was offline... and I'm pretty sure quite a few have tried to look at it since then. None have responded. And I'm afraid they've all gotten a bad first impression, and may never bother to check it out again.

I've sent them all messages informing them of the server maintenance and that it should be back up soon. I'm planning on sending them all another message when it's back up.

This is absolutely infuriating. It feels like 8 months of work just went down the drain because my dumbass host didn't telling me they were going to perform some maintenance.

What can I do to make sure I don't lose these clients?
No, facebook is here to stay. 500M users will not go away any time soon.
Nice product, will be bookmarking and using in the future. I sent you a bug report to your woodmill email, hopefully you got it. I agree that you need to verify requests in some way, although my friends hopefully enjoyed talking to at&t and verizon randomly just now, I certainly enjoyed them getting the calls :)
which fits your requirement for interesting-ness

Sorry, the threshold of interestingness for serving static assets is even higher. ;)

A single nginx on a moderate host will barely warm up before ~10k reqs/sec. The network tends to be the bottleneck here. Anyways, ~800/s should be doable from a $10 VPS.
I can't remember the last time I needed to update my resume, probably about a decade ago. I've managed to get pretty regular work as a contractor without one. I'm planning a career move perhaps into a permanent role and realised I haven't spent an awful lot of time networking with other developers or even digital agencies. I'm not suggesting I'm in the top 1% of devs but I'm sure there may be others in my situation who are in the top 1% and have just neglected their networking duties and worked somewhere in relative isolation. In these situations a good resume doesn't hurt your chances of getting where you want to be.

In fact when I realised I needed a new resume instead of just updating mine like I normal person I ended up writing an app called Mighty CV. Initially the service is aimed at developers and will hopefully make the task of creating and updating your resume easier.

Check it out - it has a LinkedIn importer and a dynamic PDF generator for when you need a paper copy. It'll show basic stats from HN and github too. I'm really keen to get some beta users from the HN crowd to test drive it so if you agree that the resume is not dead (at least for the other 99% of us) perhaps you'd like to sign up for the beta:

http://www.mightycv.com

Invites will be sent out in the next week or so.
First just write some small little tool in python. I need a command line tool that will parse a website and write it out as a database record.

eg: http://www.tourdust.com/products/844-atlas-mountain-sahara-d...

I need to get that and write it to a database with its fields like description, photo, cost, number of people etc.

Let me know if your interested. In return I can answer guide you becoming a better hacker ie, what you should read, questions on C,Python etc ...

But one warning - in the end its just about sitting in front a computer building something till its done. :)
Ask HN: Need a new wordpress theme for my personal blog
Need some help in the search for a good wordpress theme with great typography, affordable price and some good features. More or less, a well designed theme for a personal blog.

Thanks for any help!
A 65 year old social experiment yields new facts
"That’s because they could care less." - Article

ARGH!
Self serving? As far as I'm aware, the vast majority of my ancestors (mostly Italians, Irish and Greeks) never got their shit together well enough to colonize anyone. In fact, if I recall correctly, Ireland was basically a colony of England, which resulted in my ancestors fleeing the country to the US.

Oh, while we are on the topic: Ireland was a colony of England. Some Western Europeans were colonized, mostly by other European countries (e.g., "France" wasn't always a single nation). And while you are cherrypicking Japan as an example of uncolonized Asian countries, keep in mind where Thailand ("Land of the Free") got their name.

(Also, Native Americans were a very special case. Unlike most of the rest of the world, North America and the Amazon had no livestock. This rendered them uniquely vulnerable to communicable disease.)
First developer release of Web Apps Project
Thanks very much - greatly appreciated
My kids have standard White Wii, but talk longingly about owning the Red Wii.
Care to elaborate, how was Google bashed in the demo of Garage Band, iMovie, Smart Cover?
Was Google even mentioned?
Scrape Your Facebook Friends’ Emails with Python
A lot more work has been put into working out psychosis than creativity because it's a higher priority to treat the psychotic than to study creativity. And more grant money available. It's just a matter demand basically.
My head feels strangely empty after reading this...
Ask your host to send them all an email explaining the issue and apologizing for it.
From the article it seems like Jack floundered around a fair amount in his early life. This makes me think his success was a fluke, in the sense that there are many people who are just as determined and talented who don't end up succeeding.

Of course, it's quite possible that every successful person's success is a fluke.

And for what it's worth, I'm just trying to figure out how much to copy successful people in order to be successful myself--Jack sounds like a great guy and I don't mean to dis him.
Why the downvotes? I want my mum to chat with my niece. Mum would have an iPad, niece a MacBook. Mum should look good on the MacBook.

Also, Facetime has been a major element of recent Apple ads.
What are some warning signs to look for when dealing with VC firms?
SourceForge.net Gets a Shiny New Look
In just the last week, great news in the CF world on this front as positive phase 3 study results for the drug VX-770 were released:

http://www.cff.org/aboutCFFoundation/NewsEvents/2-23-Phase-3...
The data shows that Techmeme's choices of topics and perspectives result in an overwhelming majority of stories by guys even in situations when more women than men are writing about it. Why don't you see that as a gender bias?

I don't know the data on Britannica authors. If there are more guys then women, then there's gender bias, and Classic Stance may or may not be a contributor. But in any case, I don't see what that has to do with Techmeme situation. Ditto with whether or not there's gender bias in the medical profession.
I'd welcome a patch to make hg-git have hg use any .gitignore data checked in to the repo. It's not impossible, just nobody's done it.

(I'm the hg-git maintainer.)
My ex is from the Philippines, she used to say "Why do you always say America is the land of the free? If you have a party that's too loud the cops come, you get tickets for parking anywhere, you get in trouble for crossing the street, you get fined for everything! Where is the freedom? Why are there so many laws dictating what you can do?"
RE: "...a bigger contributor to the massive improvement in (purely economic) standard-of-living for most Chinese"

Hong Kong's prosperity influenced China to transform into a freer economic system. The roads, schools, and other infrastructure built from China's centrally-planned economy would've been much more affordably built with a higher and growing GDP; instead, doing those projects shifted much-needed resources during its Great Famine and many other periods of starvation into unnecessary and ultimately lethal projects that caused the deaths of a lot of people.
It seems so... 1998!
How edgy.
This dispute will be worthwhile to follow. Lets look at the 'value' equation here:

Value received: Reader gets content to view/read.
Price paid: Advertisements are pushed with content.
Market Evaluation: CPM

The more advertisements and advertising 'gimmicks' (click throughs, pop unders, talking flash) that readers deal with raises their perceived 'cost' of the content.

The more Ad clicks, views, mouse-overs, demographic sharing/tracking the web site gets increases the revenue generated by the content.

Costs associated with generating the content - CMS operation, rights clearance (author, images, other media).

There is lots of evidence that as people put more and more intrusive advertisements on their web site readership goes down (higher 'cost') and mitigation efforts (AdBlock, Flashblock) go up (user attempt to lower the cost). Interesting experiment at Ars with blocking content if Ads are blocked: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/03/why-ad-blocking...

Versus the paywalls (very explicit cost structure for readers).

All this adds data points to the questions of 'can readers distinguish between good content and not-good content' and
what is the marginal value of 'good content' vs 'farmed content'.

Really fascinating to watch these systems getting tested and evaluated in real time in the real world.
Get another host immediately, put your app on it, use a subdomain or even a new domain if necessary (temporarily), send all your potential clients an explanation that your host did not tell you your server would be down but you've busted your butt to get it up on an alternate host, and give them the new link.

Then as soon as humanly possible, transfer your original domain to the new host and never use the host that screwed you ever again.
Holy crap, I've never heard of such a thing. What kind of server plan are you on?..
Apples will never replace oranges.
ThinkPad is the best computer out there aside from the MBP - the only problem is with the OS typically found on the ThinkPad. My time isn't worth saving $100 with Windows - sorry.
Good enough for us - if nobody's screaming scam by tomorrow morning we'll have a few more guys pitching in.

Cheerio.
A founder Truism, Revisited
K Screencast 02 - MapReduce in a few lines of K
That is not part of the history, nor is does it jive with some of the ongoing land claim. Changing wording and trying to convince people that something that didn't happen did does nothing except base your leadership and cause in a lie. Changing perception is only a good thing when it brings you closer to the truth of a situation, not clouds future decisions in more fog.
It's a great redesign (even if it's clear where they got the inspiration from) and one can only hope for a "simple foundation for the rebirth of the entire SourceForge.net site" as they say on the front page. Because it's been a while since I hosted my last project on SF, and it's been ages since I last saw anyone else use anything but GitHub for a code repository. SourceForge has de facto become a free distribution mechanism for binary installs now, but the actual source management has gone elsewhere. I love GitHub, but I'd really like to see SF stay competitive, too.
I wonder if Tumblr would be where it is today if it took that approach.
I live in SF too, and I don't think that someone who was siting or lying down punch you in the face. They were probably standing when they punched you.

We should have a law against standing on a sidewalk. I mean, you could get punched in the face! for crying out loud.

Additionally, I heard when SFPD was on the NPR promoting the ordinance as a TOOL that SFPD needed - I dont think criminalizing shit should be seen as a tool.

Now, on the other side of the coin, I had walked out of Macy's in Union square, and there were protesters sitting right in front of the doors to Macy's protesting the anti-sit/lie law.

I said to them "Don't you think sitting in front of the doors and blocking access to the building works AGAINST your cause!"

Sure, I don't agree with making more laws to criminalize anything - we are enough of a police state already - but seriously, sitting in front of a business to call attention for your rights to sit is retarded!
Cars? Pretty much every other consumer product in history? Other than those two, I totally see your point.
Thanks, just saw this. I'll give it a go now, much appreciated.
Trying to triangulate the position of a wifi AP ;)
Makerbot thing-o-matic: Photocopier that'll 1 day make a Stradivarius
Err, choice is either good or bad, pick one. Every company from Nokia to Dell has colorful variations of most devices. What I remember was people praising Apple for their simplicity and elegance in deciding your color for you.
Just wait until there are free candy dispensers all over the office ;)
Yes I do. I'll look into this, thanks!
>...absolutely insist in pan handling for their next bottle

What assholes! I mean, I know plenty of people who have the audacity to work in high tech to support their alcoholism!
"Developers are being shown that their apps — and their months or years of hard work, and in many cases, their entire businesses — can be yanked by Apple’s whim at any time for reasons that they couldn’t have anticipated or avoided."

Exactly, it's the classic bait and switch. Now after spending the time, money, and effort involved in developing the apps developers are forced to either cut their losses and abandon ship, or continue giving into Apple's demands.
Seed investment via wepay donation page 
Our startup believes we can crowd fund our seed investment... help us proof we aren't stupid! (and we also wanted to test the new wepay.com features): https://www.wepay.com/donate/192908
And yet in electronics (computers, smartphones) this is still innovation, alas.
Immigration For Startups, this may be helpful to u .
http://christophergolda.com/immigration-for-startups
does not the employer have a problem here, perhaps more so then yours. After all without clearance their IP is tainted from a purchasers POV. And you did declare it before you were hired. That they did not do the due diligence BEFORE an offer is made, and accepted, could really cause problems for them. You should really talk to a employment Lawyer, your position may be much better then you think it is.

good luck
Ron Conway, Keith Rabois And Others Invest $1.7M In ContextLogic
Three Tech Companies That Raised Funding Today [poll]
You can use the camera to record, and then upload non-realtime. Like youtube for example.
Agreed. For example, you can intentionally leave the color of the bike shed unspecified. So the other folks can launch into heated debate over something they can understand and take ownership over the final decision. Meanwhile, the overall shape and functionality of the shed gets accepted per your design, even the very necessity of the shed may be blindly accepted.
10 Questions Internet Execs Should Ask & Answer
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You can use the camera to record (and compress), and then upload non-realtime. Like youtube for example.

A small tablet probably doesn't have the CPU power to compress an HD stream, but a laptop should.
People that don't like lying?
I couldn't find a reliable directory of newsletters, so i decided to make my own.

Any criticism or suggestions would be appreciated.
Yeah, the important part is in the header just before that response. "Puffing."

This refers to "puffery", a common advertising/marketing term. For example, the owner of a hamburger restaurant is permitted to claim he serves "the best hamburgers in the world" without actually producing an empirical study backing it up, because that claim is puffery, and nobody would reasonably take it literally.

I don't know which claim of Apple they are saying is puffery, but they do produce a lot of it ("magical" iPad, anyone?)
I chose that wording to parody the comment I was replying to. When you see wording in a reply that is very similar to wording in the original comment, you should switch your language processing unit from the "analyze exact literal meaning" mode to the "read for entertainment value" mode.

From a strictly literal standpoint, Jobs made a lot of jabs at the competition for iOS, which is phones and tablets running Android now. Android is developed by Google.

A specific comment would be the misquote of Samsung's CEO. Samsung is not Google, but you can see how Google is involved; they make the OS that the Samsung tablets run.
Not just developers, but users as well. 90% of my ipad usage is with 2 apps - Netflix and Kindle, and now Apple is threatening to mess with them. I am not amused.
So, which apps were banned and business ruined because of the new rules? Or is this just some wild guessing?
The most interesting part of this is the irrational thinking it exposes in the developed world.

What's the difference between extending Canada to include a bit of Africa, and letting more Africans move to the existing Canada? I think it's pretty minor. Then why would Canadians bother with Romer's plan, when they could simply relax their immigration laws?
Would/Do you use Cloud-based IDEs?
I'm wondering what people think of using a Cloud-based IDE such as shiftEDIT.net or cloud9ide.com.

Have you found it useful? Do you like the idea? Would you use it?

I'm asking as a developer looking at different tools out there.

While the idea is enticing - being able to use the same IDE where ever I have access to Internet and browser - it seems like these IDEs are missing support for back-end technologies like Rails/Node.js/PHP/etc.

What do you folks think?
> Has any other company used color in such a way?

Compared to Apple, all the other computer companies look socially inept. It's like the difference between someone who actually understands how people work, and a bunch of Mr. Nerd McDorky.
Somehow, I think you'll see exactly that in the retail stores come March 11.
I feel as though Marco is remiss in not disclosing that he has ties to a company that has a real dog in this hunt (Readability):

http://www.marco.org/3044068415

Context:

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/02/21/readability

It doesn't invalidate his points at all but as an advisor to a company deeply affected by this policy, the honest thing to do would be to make that agenda clear. If he wants the trust of his readers, it's worth letting them decide "Is he saying this because he believes it or because it benefits his associates to convince people this is true? Both?"
Happened to stumble on Engadget's review of the U36Jc: http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/03/asus-u36jc-review/

"The company has an extremely great handle on what components are needed to make a really awesome thin and light machine – standard voltage processors, a dedicated GPU, a good sized battery, lots of ports – but it consistently forgets to pay attention to the small details. And in the case of the U36Jc, those details include a wonky mouse button, glossy bezel, and some heat issues. It's those things that hold systems like this one from being the best of the best."

Spec-wise, there are tons of laptops that can match or exceed the MacbookPros. It's the little details where almost all of them fall short.
So it turned out it was webrat that was the problem, but your instructions actually fixed the problem! I'd researched for hours previously. Genuinely much appreciated!
You tell them that your ISP is having unexpected system problems that took your site offline and that it will be back as soon as they fix it.

There's no need to be melodramatic about losing thousands of dollars per month; you haven't lost your work so nothing is "down the drain." No ISP runs fsck for no reason, in the middle of the day, without warning, nor as a matter of routine maintenance.
The Gamecube was also released in a range of colours.
http://www.gamecubeconsole.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/G...
A couple similar frameworks -- Flask [1] and Tir [2] -- use the term microframework or micro-framework.

[1] http://flask.pocoo.org/
[2] http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1289384533.html
The science wars
Facebook doesn't seem to be dying to me. But personally I've never used used it, and neither do any of my friends (who all grew up with BBSes and IRC in the 90s and still use the latter). Looking at how quickly Myspace seemed to die though, who knows? Facebook could be dead in 5 years.
Have you searched http://themeforest.com?
Facebook Pages Get Compromised. Who Does It? Facebook Support
Hundreds of Facebook pages are being compromised, all that by writing to Facebook support and miss-using a glitch in their policy.
Well, I'll be. That certainly paints a different picture than what's stated in http://www.r-project.org/Licenses/

Thanks!
I refer to them as "convenience frameworks" as they usually provide what I need most often such as very basic routing, auth(thentication/orization),sessions, templates and maybe an ORM but also easily allow me to plug in something else. I tend to stay away from the "heavy" frameworks such as Rails and Catalyst and Django. Those might be called "full stack" frameworks.

I consider something like Perl's Dancer and Python's Flask(based out of Werkzeug) as very similar frameworks to Sinatra.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulse_response#Acoustic_and_a...

(eta: just posting the link seems kinda snarky -- this ties into your post, but i don't have anything else to add)
"Then what's the difference between being 5 and being 20?" -> you're not hiring a 5-year old. If you're old enough to hire you, you're old enough to have done some programming. Why would you hire someone who hasn't??
We (blocket.se) are hitting almost 1b/mo and I can assure you that it's irrelevant wether the average p/v per second can be handled by some basic hardware or not. During peak hours it's an order of magnitude difference.
Worth mentioning though that we are tightly focused in only one country, and probably have larger variations during peak hours than stack overflow does. I'm not sure what our traffic looks like combined with our other local sites.
Don't know how I feel about this. It's definitely attention grabbing, but then again I didn't extract any real information from this page. It's simply too long, and who likes reading a bunch of questions?
...and it raises the question for every other iOS developer: am I next?
Right, SHOwnsYou pointed that out. I missed that the original context was hiring, and inserted the context that's relevant to me (my current situation).