skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It creates instances of models.Model objects for testing purposes. For example, instead to use static data in a fixture.yaml file (terrible idea), use the dynamic-fixture to do that.

There are other tools that do that (http://djangopackages.com/grids/g/fixtures), but I think django-dynamic-fixture is the more complete tool, check it out and compare (http://code.google.com/p/django-dynamic-fixture). bye
You're totally right and I'm glad you brought my attention to it. I don't use vimeo myself and my designers were of course only supposed to use images they had rights to.
Monetize it! Artwork, you already have the name of each piece. Large prints, it's the equivalent to half the art produced anyways, plus it has some meaning to it.
That is an awesome GC and I wish I could have it. AFAIK they are having trouble because they mmap/munmap a lot, and virtual memory systems on modern OS don't do that efficiently enough.
Peter Thiel? He's a transhumanist, and this seems pretty doable. Anyway, if he hasn't pitched Thiel yet, he should do it, the worst thing that could happen is that Peter says "no, that's not how I want to spend my money", and that'd be fine.
HOLY CRAP!

I have been picturing this software in my head since i was 15!

Although, my version was a game which you build 3d tunnels and Manage a triangle of resources/ant-classes
Not so fast.

1) Push notifications are not free if you're on metered data plan.

2) SMS notifications are still the lowest common denominator, unless you know for sure the receiving party has a smartphone.
I've often wondered what real impact it would have if an American football team decided, as a rule, to never punt and always go for it on 4th down. Current strategy highly favors punting, even in circumstances when that seems obviously non-optimal, and I'd like to know whether we can calculate specific scenarios for which it's better to punt or go for it. Right now the whole thing seems very fuzzy, and I think the biggest driver is a coaching staff's fear of failing by doing something different.

I've heard of people running simulations on Madden, for example, but I'm not sure if that offers the sort of hooks into the AI that it would take to alter strategy to that degree.
>It would be like me, a programmer, walking into a meeting with venture capitalists with a business plan I had specifically designed to make no sense and walking out with funding for a startup.

Sounds like 1999-2000.
JQuery Mobile App fix for IE 
I built my first jQuery Mobile app base off of alpha 3 and found it didn't work in IE for desktop which was a big issue because it had to be a "universal" app. I found through the right css, and jquery code I code make it work in IE 6-8 as well. Just do a view source in IE and look at the fallback.css and hardcoded jQuery selectors for lists, buttons and header nav (only about 7 lines of code):
http://greensmoothiesblog.com/recipes/
No, the difference is lossless compression algorithms have a defined lower bound on how packed the bits can get. No such lower bound has been asserted here in terms of compressing your work, just the idea that you can drop 24 hours off the end of the week with no loss of productivity. Clearly 24 hours is arbitrary, why isn't Thursday a half day?

A more sound argument would be one with actual data and measurements about how reducing the workweek affected overall productivity of the team. Without that it's just opinions and guessing.
My first jQuery Mobile App
I love modeling traffic jams. Was one of my first hands-on experiments with NetLogo.

If you're like me, you might find interesting this recent paper on the topic of the economics of parking: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2277553
I think the rules may differ in Europe (the way things are classified) - but the insight I had was that something that seems clearly to be an asset to my naive view (sales) can actually be a sort of accounting fiction to make the balances come up right, and thus be shown as a liability. Without checking my notes on a specific translation I did about 15 months ago, I don't even remember if it was sales or not. (I have computers so I don't have to remember things, obviously, ha.)
Biofuels to anti-age your face. Seriously.
Business Insider is the only news service I follow on Twitter, I rather like their content and frequency, I do however think that they go rather overboard on their slideshows.
Modii Coverz King
How JavaScript Event Delegation Works
Phantom of the Floppera
You can increase your intelligence and 5 ways to do it
So what's the value for these charts? Does it co-relate to the fact that the more followers the more successful the YC company is?

I really don't get the point of this post, and I'm commenting because I care about knowing the point of this post.
What about Pixar? Couldn't they turn their renderfarm towards bitcoins and crowd everyone else out?
Translation because Nokia has to use part of that Billion dollars in Mobile Operator device subsidies that the Symbian Biz was only worth about $650 million..somewhat lower than Nokia's market cap right now..Nokia sold out for far low-ball price indeed..
Is this just spam, or do you have links to the technical details? It sounds like it could be a huge boon to lots of iOS devs.
Microsoft to Nokia over $1 billion
> It's a sad state of affairs when people do not care about the contracts that they read.

That's where your analogy fell off the rails. Signing an NDA is a binding agreement, while reading an email footer places one under no obligation whatsoever.
Money creation by banks has nothing to do with people "failing to pay back loans".

It works like this, banks have an account with their money, and an account with your money, and an account with Bob's money, and an account with everyone's money.
Bank: 100$.
You: 100$.
Bob: 0$.
Bank's Vault: 200$

If you loan 100$ to bob the accounts now look like:
Bank: 100$.
You: 0$.
Bob: 100$.
Bank's Vault: 200$

If the bank loans the money to bob, who deposits the loan back into the bank:
Bank: 100$.
You: 100$.
Bob: 100$. <- Magic!
Bank's Vault: 200$

However, the bank is really adding a new account Loans's -1 00$. Note: (Loan's: -100$ + Bank: 100$ + You: 100$ + Bob: 100$ = Bank's Vault: 200$ ) By law they can can only give a negative value up to ~90% of the Bank's Vault's value to Loan's. Granted world wide there are more than 1 bank, but because people don't keep a lot of hard cash on hand loan's just end up being deposited in another bank in the system which can then loan the money back to your bank as needed etc.

PS: Now when Bank's Fail the Fed can actually make huge amount's of money from thin air, but that's a separate process.
I make my bread as a PHP developer myself. If you are looking for another scripting language to learn then these days you might be better off going with Javascript with Node.js. This would give you the opportunity to get an early start on a platform with a big future and get more practice with Javascript, great language to be fluent with.
it makes sense to me, I shall give it a try and report
Remarkable in that it's polyphonic instead of monophonic as all earlier variants. My first encounter with this was in 1991 on the Amiga; a program called "Drivekiller", which played "The Blue Danube" on the floppy drive, effectively killing it in less than a minute.
That's awesome, thanks for the fix, I hope they add IE support into the release candidate for jquery mobile. Nice work on the app green smoothies and raw food app http://greensmoothiesblog.com/recipes/
TechStars 2011 Startup Madness Tournament
I don't see why the pedigree of the creators of Tex/Latex/Word was relevant to this article. Perhaps mentioning the clout of Knuth and Lamport was excusable, but I don't think it was reasonable to pick on the creators of Word for being less distinguished.
Tip: use replaceState for the animation so that the back button still works.
Crazy: Google Robocar Racetrack Ride
Http://bit.ly/SheensKorner
I'm using a 5 year old iMac here (running 10.6) and it's close to instant. no discernible delay over opening any other app.
I have been spending my free time in JavaScript for these reasons. In addition to many wonderful server-side JS improvements to come (in Node, that is), there are many client-side improvements (IndexedDB, localStorage, etc.) that I anticipate will blow the lid off of the current JS scene.
From WD's press release:

Calendar 2010 was a year of tremendous opportunity for the hard drive industry with 651 million drives shipped. That's 330 million terabytes of storage capacity sold into a broadening set of applications and markets. At 16%, this was the industry's strongest full year unit growth in five years. Rotating magnetic storage remains the dominant technology solution for high-volume mass storage of digital content in both the consumer and commercial markets. Full year revenue for the industry expanded by some 13% to $34 billion.
Google buys Next New Network to boost YouTube
Don't Google profile links work as OpenIDs any more?
There's no specific point or statement, it's just "interesting data" that you can draw your own conclusions from.

For one, it's a nice overview of which YC companies are active on Twitter and which are not so much. Which are recently growing a lot, and which are stagnating.

It's also interesting to compare the number of followers to the number of following/tweets. We can see that Dropbox has very disproportional numbers, turns out this is because following @Dropbox on Twitter gives you a reward on their service.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago
nice work mind if I copy your code?
go for it, anyone can copy or reuse the jquery mobile app code I wrote
thanks, feel free to copy the code for your own projects
More or less. Virgin Mobile is a no contract provider, you pre-pay for each month of service as you go. All the plans are unlimited (~5gigs) data/ unlimited texts - $60 gets you unlimited voice, $25 gets you 300 minutes, and there is something in the middle at $40/mo. The $25/mo is the best US deal for a capable android phone that I know of. You do need to pick from these plans though, you can't use their x cents a minute pay as you use it plan afaik.

EDIT: Link to the thread (thanks georgie) about it being $129 w/ $20 gift card at target. Damn good deal, note the one I played with worked fine over wifi before it was activated with VM. Sale started yesterday: http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=27...
Definitely don't go the route of quitting especially if you have children and a family to support.

Personally for me, what I did was talk about my idea with a cousin of mine. He got really interested in it and now we're working together on it. I would recommend talking to other people (your wife, your kids, your friends, etc) about your idea and see if you can get them excited. I did - and I got even more excited to hear their excitement.

Also, always try to set goals. Both long term and short term. When you see that you are achieving those short term goals, you'll feel like you've accomplished something and sooner or later, hopefully it'll snowball. Good luck!
This is only "by definition" if companies are always big. Perhaps they'll get smaller over time?
Contrary to what the article says Word (2003) does both kerning and hyphenation. I didn't bother to read the rest of the article.
I've avoided any authentication that requires FB. The day I'm forced, I'll be setting up a dummy FB account and keeping things disconnected.
The effects of taxes
Honestly I am in the same boat. Always 5 ideas I am moving downfield, but after 3 years I don't have much to show for it. While if I had bought a franchise, I could build it up. Not as cool as a internet startup but I'd have support, community, independence and a plan.

PM me if you want to bounce ideas around or get your ideas peer-reviewed.
The $900 figure comes from the assumption that the $90 they lend out eventually lands in somebody else's account, and they then also lend out 90% of that $90, and then recurse that all the way down till there's nothing left to lend out again:

perl -e'$s = 100; while($s > 0.1){$t = $t + $s * 0.9;$s = $s * 0.9;} print $t'

899.140495544283

(edited: I have no idea why HN dropped out the asterixes in that code...)
I found my apartment through PadMapper! Great app - I'd encourage anyone to use it - makes life quite simple. Great job Eric.
I have a really beautiful simulation of ant foraging I coded up in Processing a while back. I'm currently porting all of this kind of work I have done to Python (via Pyglet) and will have to remember to post a link to it here when it's done. (See my profile info for linke to a very small sample.)

* Edit: "A very small sample" of the kind of thing I've been doing. No samples of the ant simulation to share just yet...
You mean like the builds on http://www.macruby.org/, that are hosted by Apple?
I'm located in Lafayette, CA. My current startup stage is the beginnings of development, using Silverlight for media and Ruby on Rails for website. I'm looking for someone whose decent with both Silverlight and Ruby on Rails, as I'm decent with Silverlight and quickly learning Ruby on Rails, and I want someone who has a very similar skillset. What I bring to the table specifically is a great knowledge of the targeted market, hobbyists and (grades) 6-12 students/teachers, as I'm in high school myself and I'm a hobbyist as well. As a result of knowing the market / being a user, it enables me to envision where this can go and how far it can go much better than the average joe.

The idea is a file-sharing platform for learning. People can create groups of mutual interest, or course groups. Within these groups users can share files with one another, including documents and videos. All content is viewable in rich format online, and it includes a very powerful document reader, along with the promise that all content distributed is free, downloadable, and shared for everyone else to benefit from.

If it sounds promising to you then feel free to email me at jarredsumner@gmail.com
OK, but websites have used alert() since the dawn of time to trap you on the site with an endless stream of annoying modal dialogs. If this ever catches on, browsers will do exactly what most have done with alert(): if the webpage calls it more than X times a second, the browser asks you, "Do you want to allow Site X to continue to screw with your location bar?" and you can say No.
One of my favourite reasons why it's superior to Office is that LaTeX documents are VCS friendly.

Definitely helps when working on SRSs and SDDs in my final project course (being that it's a group of 7 makes it even more valuable).
Early iPad 2 benchmarks: CPU performance remains mostly unchanged
Thanks Nick! Great to hear :-)
On a (kind of) related note, there's the story of Freddie Keppard.

Freddie was, by most accounts, paranoid - he was an incredibly talented musician but he was always afraid someone was trying to steal his material. People say he even played with a handkerchief over his fingers to conceal the notes he was playing. Because of this, the people that do remember him remember him as the guy who turned down the offer to be the first ever recorded jazz artist.

The Victor Talking Machine Company (makers of the Victrola) then made the offer to The Original Dixieland Jazz Band.

The record sold a million copies... in 1917.
Maybe you could make this green smoothies raw food recipe app a standard mobile app:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/green-smoothies/id409966779?m...
it looks like there's already an iphone app:
http://greensmoothiesblog.com/green-smoothie-in-your-phone/
You might try VoiceMac from http://mrgeckosmedia.com/applications/info/VoiceMac . I've not used their SIP support extensively, and it's primarily aimed to be a Google Voice client, but it might suit your needs.

I also don't know if the version on the page is the latest beta, or simply stable.

The developer has been quite responsive to bug reports, etc.
I think its a fallacy that if you quit your job you will have a do or die mentality.

If you don't have a plan, a proven business, or clients, then the probability of you spinning your wheels and going broke is very good.
A common misconception, but OP is right. A single bank can't create money this way, but a network of banks in a fractional reserve system can. Wikipedia has a particularly clear explanation of how it works:

"When cash is deposited with a bank, only a fraction is retained as reserves, and the remainder can be loaned out (or spent by the bank to buy securities). The money lent or spent in this way is subsequently deposited with another bank and increases the cash reserves of that second bank, allowing that second bank to keep a fraction of the new deposit and lend or spend the remainder. Thus the excess cash travels from bank to bank to bank creating new deposits as it goes. Although no individual bank does anything other than lend part of what is deposited with it, the practice of fractional reserve banking in a multi-bank system expands the money supply (cash and demand deposits) to a large multiple of the cash reserves in all banks."

There's a good table and graph illustrating the process down the page a bit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_reserve_banking#Exam...
"... I am thinking of moving my blog there (statically generated jekyll site). Can anyone comment on whether it's practical or not? ..."

Practical yes, you can even use your own domain, cf "Custom Domains". Jekyll is a great bit of software, I've read through all the source to see how it works.
Thanks for the feedback on the green smoothie app, anyone have any ideas on how to charge for it? luckily it's a raw food recipe book for all mobile devices
> You write a really long document using one citation and formating style, and then you find out the journal requires a completely different style. ... If you are changing to a known style such as IEEE for example you can simply download appropriate templates, toss them to your project directory and add one or two lines to your document.

It's another question entirely if you have to create your own style.

This is one point where Word wins, but it's a big one. The learning curve for LaTeX is already pretty steep, but it goes vertical once you start to mess with layout. It works in academia and publishing because there are a relatively limited number of templates everyone conforms to that are written by LaTeX gurus.
Ninja Communicating
Well there is no reason the service has to rely on SMS. In this case it does, but in the future there does not be a lock in right?
Hey Facebook, Your Code Is Showing (Comment Login From Google/Twitter/Etc)
Kite: A New JavaScript Templating Engine
We'd love feedback on Kite - a new JavaScript Templating Engine developed here at Move by @andrewterra. It has a Mustache style syntax but does include conditional sections and custom formatters (and currently 180 lines of code). In our limited testing, we're seeing much better performance than Mustache and jQuery Tmpl, but (on occasion) slightly slower performance than jQote2.

http://code.google.com/p/kite/

http://code.google.com/p/kite/wiki/TemplateDefintionLanguage

A little history - we've been evaluating templating engines for mobile HTML5 based web applications.

Thanks. All feedback is appreciated.
Any plans on livestreaming/recording this and making it available afterward?
If you want a relatively easy way to use your GV number for inbound and outbound calls with the SIP client of your choice, just connect it with Asterisk. The easiest way is to use "PBX In A Flash". I've been using it at home for a few months and it's been fantastic.
I signed up at sip2sip.info and just tried dialing my GV in SipDroid, but it got stuck on "dialing".
Actually this makes me wonder, why dont most web-views of VCSs dont come with a web based text editor? Would be ideal when working behind firewalls/proxies.
The flipside of that is actually pretty important too: Apple can rely on their "private" version of Ruby not being randomly updated underneath them because the user wanted to install cool-rails-app-de-jour.

This is pretty important if Apple are planning on using Ruby for important OS tasks.

(and now I'm officially feeling old - who else remembers this exact same argument from over a decade ago? Did the "private" Sun perl binaries catch anyone else out? How many times did I cause myself trouble forgetting to type #!/usr/local/bin/perl instead of #!/usr/bin/perl ?)
Unfortunately, X > Y shows up too commonly online, which really serves as a call to declare partisan allegiance rather than an invitation for discourse.

LaTeX is superior to Office how? To my eyes, LaTeX produces more attractive typesetting than Microsoft Word does, and it behaves better in most version control software (though you have to remember to manually wrap your lines if you use an editor that does soft wrapping and you don't want a one-word change to mark the entire paragraph-in-a-line as modified). However, Word is certainly easier to use, and tasks such as inserting an image inline can be done through a few clicks rather than Googling to determine the best package for floating images, creating some code, and continually recompiling into dvi to see if the result is acceptable (and then copying and pasting the ur-example into new documents for the rest of time).

(Perhaps an actual competent LaTeX programmer would disagree with the above, but that's how I and most of the people I know use it).

I prefer LaTeX over Word (or OpenOffice, since I run Linux), but this is because I tend to create documents in plain text first, and if I decide they need to be presentable it's easy to throw some boilerplate around that text and produce a nice-looking document. But is it superior? I really don't even know what that means.
Sadly we don't have lossless compression of all inputs, merely a subset of inputs whose content is somewhat predictable. There's no way to uniquely represent all of 2^m distinct input bitstrings using 2^n outputs where n < m. In practice we assume input that's typically used has some predictable and redundant substrings, and that makes compression a win on average. But if you try to compress a high-entropy bitstring (such as comes out of a good implementation of /dev/random with noise from hardware), you will find it gets slightly larger, because the compression algorithm has to resort to supplying a literal copy of the input plus some small metadata saying it did so.
The old Redis protocol was also not binary safe. If you are able to access the value in some `redisCommand("SET %s %s", key, value)`, you are able to inject other commands there.

But the new Redis protocol is safe against that.
It would be pretty easy to include as another node in the graph though.
Every unsubscribe page should be like this http://www.groupon.com/austin/unsubscribe
Watson May Have Jeopardy but the New York Times has Rock, Paper, Scissors
The original paper, while not conclusive, presents an intriguing idea. But the conclusion of the article is extremely trivial. Do you really need experience working with autistic kids to know that challenging one's self is good?
The thing is, it's easier to do it the right way. It requires a special, deliberate effort to do it wrong. That seems like a reasonable implementation of a "magic" feature. PHP, as usual, gets it exactly backwards. It's easier to do it wrong, and requires a special, deliberate effort to do it the secure way.
The one for Dropbox is wrong, if only that it misses the larger history and trends.

We doubled followers in a weekend by testing but not launching http://dropbox.com/free

Then we did Dropquest, and got another bump.

If we add twitter following to the getting-started quest http://dropbox.com/gs we could blow those changes out of the water.

A graph with context:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mwmyb8zmt4kufis/at_dropbox.png
I agree with you, but also pointing out a strength of a language that supports phantom types helps this issue quite a bit. You can design your DB API to not allow unquoted queries.