skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CodeIgniter is still PHP4-friendly. It's not "hot" by any means. CakePHP is still actively developed, but it's pretty miserable. (It's slow, too - so much so that framework devs usually benchmark against it because it's so reliably slower-than-everyone-else.)

If you're going to use PHP, I can't really think of a good reason to use anything other than Symfony2.
Underpromise & over-deliver vs over-promise & under-deliver. When you over-promise you're raising expectations that you can't possibly meet, but when people have nothing to compare the product to, e.g. the first iPhone/iPad and it's launching in days/weeks, not some ethereal date subject to change a year or more away. Remember that HP-Windows 7 "iSlate" Ballmer showed off? Vaporware. Why even bother telling lies if it's only going to inevitably disappoint? Maybe they are just naive?
Their setup doesn't seem extra-ordinary in any great way, and reads more like a justification against a strawman argument. The author sets up with "PHP is regarded as a clumsy and amateurish technology, best left to development newbies". I am not sure who it is that regards PHP in such a way. Sure, it's not as sexy as Clojure, Scala, Ruby or Erlang these days, but I don't think anyone needs to be convinced that PHP is a worthy technology to build a platform on - some of the biggest sites out there are running on PHP just fine.

PHP has a bit of a reputation for attracting unskilled programmers, but that's because it is so easy to get started with, which leads to a lot of newbies writing it. All that means is that you may have to filter your candidates more carefully when you hire, and nothing to do with the language itself.

In short, the post seems subjective and opinionated, without showing any concrete problems that they overcame with alternative languages or frameworks. "Codeigniter is bloated" vs "Paraglide is awesome" are both so vague as to be useless. "Ruby's syntax sucks" is even worse.

Much better to have had a list of specific things that dissuaded them from using one framework or language, and some killer features that convinced them to use the other - if all I see is a personal opinion without any reasoning behind it, I cannot make any useful decisions in my own situation.
thanks. Interesting idea.
Django, Rails, and Future Employment
I totally agree. As a non-tech co-founder it is up to me to sell value to the prospective tech co-founder, investor and eventually to the customer. If I can't do that then why work with me. That's my main function.

All that being said, I think there is a call for humility on the tech side of things too (I know I might get flamed for this) but most good BD people I know may not be able to code but they do know the business and what is possible. Any great product will go no where without good sales and marketing and that's a fact. Both sides have to have respect for each other's visions.
Actually -- then it would make sense for twitter to become a PR extension. They should bolt on a ton or PR services - like managed delivery, metrics, event tie ins etc...

They should work exclusives with celebrities to promote their albums, concerts, movies and events.

There should be special rewards for followers to engage via retweets such as free tickets, lower pricing etc.

There are so many media engagement models that I am just amazed that they aren't doing any of this.

When I interviewed there recently, the only takeaway I had from the experience was organized chaos.
Paraglide and Paragon look decent to me.

PHP makes the need for a framework minimal. Cake is neat but overkill in a lot of ways unless you happen to be one of the developers of Cake and know it inside and out. Same goes with Kohana, CodeIgniter, etc.

If you know PHP well, it's almost as efficient--possibly moreso--to program your own minimal MVC framework. PHP has so much of what you need done for you that only an efficient ORM is a bit tricky.

You're not going to have the widespread adoption of your framework that Rails enjoys. This is because Rails increases the utility of Ruby for webapps by a factor of 10x while your PHP framework improves PHP for web apps about 2x.

BUT, if you are using PHP you might as well write your own internal framework because it's a fun programming exercise and will take you only a little longer than mastering someone else's.

I went down the same path(created my own minimal php framework called uno a while back), though if I'm doing MVC apps nowadays it's almost always using Rails. Rails has the advantage of loads of great devs that know it. Also, once I learnt Rails well I grew to depend on certain features that I just didn't want to emulate in Uno.
I thought git integration into Coda was an absolute must but after using Git Tower, command line (inevitable) and really understanding how git works (http://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/git.from.bottom.up.pdf) I've surprised myself in that I don't see git integration as important any more.

More interested in code folding. Now THAT would be sweet.
Not at all. I'd rather companies that weren't profitable but had a good chance of growing into profitability with more investment were able to IPO rather than rely on VC.

Another company that went public before ever turning a profit? Amazon.
Rising Food Prices Are Pushing Millions Into Poverty
They charge 30 a year more to use their dns servers which others include in the domain registration

Still worth it
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say he probably knows what to recommend because he spends time reading. When you read something it's good to read up on the beliefs of the author on a variety of topics and get a sense of where their biases might trend. Normally this isn't very hard once you know what to look for.

The key is usually to identify the larger debate going on and make sure you know the different sides. For instance if you're going to read a book by Milton Friedman it's helpful to read up on the various schools of economics to see where he fits into that debate. I believe the term that applies here is erudition. You want that.
I'd love an invite to that service.
It's actually quite easy to spin up multiple servers from a pre-existing Rackspace image via the API. The initial POST to create the server returns the password, which your script could either capture, or you could send a PUT command to the /servers/id URI to update the root pass to be whatever you want it to be.
I believe the cookies are set and manipulated by JavaScript, as such I'm not even sure it would be a good idea...
github for source control, redmine or possibly pivotal for issue tracking, and the wiki on github for wiki info.
> Having switched from PHP to Ruby a year ago, I now find Ruby's syntax beautify and incredibly powerful. If you don't like the implied parentheses, it turns out, you can go ahead and type them add them!

I like Ruby's syntax as well and do most web app work in Rails nowadays.

However, one thing I love about the PHP syntax is that it's so easy to switch between PHP and C or C++ and vice versa. So if you're doing a lot of C work and only a bit of web work, it's nice to know PHP.

Otherwise if you're doing web work full time, Ruby's quite fun.
Just what I've been looking for. Any idea on the pricing? I'm assume you are going with some sort of freemium or it's going to be a paid only service?
The Solar Spiral
That's a good way, IMO. I think a lot of non-tech co-founders should look more at outsourcing the development. When even Jrs at good computer schools already have jobs with the big guys, either a tech co-founder really gets your vision and is totally in synch with you (rare) or they have a lot of their own ideas. Let's face it the track record of companies founded without a tech co-founder is dismal and I think that's because the non-tech co-founder has no appreciation for the tech side.

I happen to be a non-tech with a CS degree (old) but at least I know what's involved having come from development. We need to educate ourselves so at least we can have a cogent conversation with techs. One way to do that is to build something with our own resources.

I think also having a prototype that you can at least test customers with and even maybe make a sale or two will go a long way towards swaying a tech co-founder candidate.
Have you started a company? I think that's your diploma.
The Theory of Negative Energy in Simple Math
Its in my profile, thanks
This should be at the top.

Dynadot rocks:

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If you want something that's nothing like that, you may enjoy this:

https://github.com/codeguy/Slim
Yeah, and how much of your time is spent going over obvious nonsense with that human on the telephone line?
I would be afraid that in a dispute Google could do a PayPal and lock you out of your data. I would also be concerned that Google would provide law enforcement access to your data without your knowledge, consent or a warrant.
...Just how far does this rental extend? Can I declare war? 'Cuz this kid from high school still owes me $50.
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Hi Francesco,

How do I contact you?
The hypothesis is neither explosive, nor new.

More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory#Genetic...
Out of curiosity, what do you do in a terminal? I ask because I used Linux as my primary desktop for about 7 years before moving to OSX in '06, and since then I've been using Terminal somewhat exclusively (except for the occasional peek at iTerm). Granted, I use gnu screen, and aside from the occasional mutt or irssi these days, I don't use many "full screen" terminal apps other than vim.

Still, I'm genuinely curious because I know you're not the only one that finds Terminal lacking.
That doesn't match Amazon's behavior. If they thought they could optimize prices for the benefit of app developers, I would expect them to offer the option. "Is setting your price a headache? Let our team of specialists do it for you!" Over time, as devs saw the benefits accrue to those who opted-in, more and more would switch to Amazon's model.

The fact that they require price control, as a condition of doing business, tells me that Amazon expects this policy to hurt developers.
PitchPerfect:4 week virtual program to prepare startups for funding
This is a big gym's business model. I've read that the goal is to have around 10% active members.

The other part of the model is to get folks who are active into additional cost classes.
And $150K is your student loan (at least for the new enrollments)

If it's not a gift and you haven't earned it, it's a loan.
How to grow userbase?
So I launched a new start-up about 2 months ago, and I had quick steady growth at the beginning accumulating about 200 users right away. But now I'm lucky if I can get 1 new user a day. Now the people that use it, love it. And I do think the site has potential to really take off. It's an article posting and sharing website. I've been successful with Twitter and Reddit in getting lots of traffic to the site. But none of those people seem to be signing up and taking real interest in it. Would like to know if any of you could kindly give me advice on this. Thanks.

The site if you want to check it out is: http://www.newsdag.com/
Liverpool at home 3-0 won Manchester City 
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Carol combination with striker Soares is the first time officially unveiled at Anfield, the two play each other. 9 minutes, Carroll Replica Football Kit excellent use of physical force, to stop long pass to teammate Suarez, Uruguayans did not Nahao, Kuyt long-range over the bar from 25 yards. 13 minutes, Liverpool form pool-type front shot, first Meireleis burst 35 yards outside of his left foot shot hit him in the Manchester City defender Compagni bounce, just fell on top of the arc at the Carroll at the foot of the restricted area , Carol Burongfenshui, the first time left foot storm pumping the ball straight to score slightly curved bottom left corner of the door, even if the Manchester City goalkeeper Champions League Shirts Hart, this ball will not have to rush, because the ball is too fast. This is Carroll's first goal for Liverpool to enter, a fan in the micro-Bo, commented: "hurt for a month, but still before the Torres goal, this is the KOP shooter fans love."
Kuyt then 34 minutes in the far corner melee in the relevant statistic procedures succeeded, 1 minute Houkaluoer header that success, the battle to end the first half of Liverpool.
Before the game against Liverpool, Manchester City, not the Red Army fans are worried about weak midfield. Gerrard the season, which can only rely on one person to assume Meireleis core big responsibility, Man Utd Jerseys but also with Lucas, Spearing said small is not too small these young people. The Manchester City midfielder enviable luxury, even though Silva and de Jong holiday, but Yayatulei, Barry, Milner, Johnson, a four-member group, whether it is worth the known or to be a lot higher than Liverpool .
However, two of the game teenager in Liverpool have shown their excellent position, in which the starting lineup for Flanagan completely fail to see is a 18-year-old rookie debut, 56 ball 46 in place, both transmission the number or accuracy of the ball are much higher than the three Man United Kits Soccer defensive partner, Jamie Carragher and Vista even veteran David Kerr would like, and he also intercepted a precise header and 2 successful siege.
After a perfect debut, Kenny Dalglish and Spearing for Flanagan also high expectations, but also stressed that he must be convinced that they can learn from the game experience. For the performance of Carroll and Suarez, Dalglish is also very clear, he asked us not rush to do on the Carol and Soares judge the performance of next season to see them again, "we get from them this season everything is an extra bonus, I am pleased to have the opportunity to see both her partner and mutual understanding, we will continue to work on this basis. By this time next year is the time to judge them better. "
IMHO, there's nothing shocking here for anyone who ever sold or built enterprise software for the .gov. The things involved in these deals are very complex. Google needs to hire some amazing enterprise sales people and not push its "we're right, you're wrong" message.
Ask HN: Processing credit cards.. from China?
Every so often we have the credit card discussion here, so I know all the usuals, but now I have a doozy: How can I process UnionPay credit cards for my project?
New Elastic MapReduce Locations (Singapore and Tokyo) and Features
in a similar situation, I am under the assumption that my resume wasn't good enough or jobs leads into a blackhole.
Listening tests comparing the new speech codec from Xiph with HE-AAC
HN: If you're experimenting with the site, please add HTTPS support
Even a self-signed cert would be lovely!
Not to mention the huge amounts of LNG capacity that's coming online around the world.
I tried to read through An Incremental Approach but found that it was really too brief. I had questions that I wanted answered but he was briskly moving on to compiling the next Scheme form. I found the first chapter of a longer version from his site, but this seems incomplete. Does anyone know what happened to that? Did it not turn into a book?
aaahhhhh you guys are going collectively insane.
Interesting that you would neglect to tell readers how warm / hot that baby got after playing with it for a while. Also, make sure you mention how cheap and easily breakable the buttons felt on it.
As I understand it, the initial sales were first to institutional investors. By the time you or I had a chance to purchase any, it was already at $30/share (it's at $28/share now).
Private APIs and Why Apple Bans Them
I had to turn down a job in the last 6 months because BigCorp couldn't allow me to take unpaid leave for the summer to take care of my son while he was out of school. So maybe not as much as you think.
an IPO is just a way to raise money (oversimplified, but still true), and unprofitable companies raise money from VCs all the time, so is this really all that different?
Conversation with 19-yr Old Kiip Founder - Brian Wong
The "article posting and sharing website" space seems really really crowded, and the users coming from Twitter and Reddit may just be article-sharing-site-ed out. Perhaps focus on what makes you different (better) than the rest.
"a plodding group, narrowly vocational in outlook, lower-class youths grimly intent on ecclesiastical preferment as the means to advancement"

The irony is that today's anti-university movement is largely composed of people of this personality; just replace "ecclesiastical" with "technological", and you've captured the essence of the popular arguments for dropping out.
Yes, for a nearly deserted airport the tower controller isn't as important as people would expect.

The article doesn't mention it but I believe that the sleeping controller is also supposed to be handling ground control - planes taxiing and ground vehicles like fire, security, baggage, etc.
the most amazing thing about all these companies is the level of market traction, almost all of it achieved in the last few months.

vieforit-- fashion deals site has the top 25 premier labels signed up and selling.

red rover-- corporate q&a site has over a million $s in revenue scheduled for 2011

immersive-- video display site has LOIs with manufacturers of 20% of all public display screens in the US.

thinknear-- has about 10,000 stores signed up as of today

not to mention the hackers and engineering chops across all of them
Ask HN: what can you learn at university that you can't self-teach?
This semester, I stopped going full-time to my university and dropped to part-time status (1 class). This allows me to access most of the university resources while still giving me a ton of time to program/work on a startup.

I took a basic small business class, and unfortunately, it was a little too basic. I'm planning on going part-time in the fall, and I can't seem to find a worthy course this time around.

Seeing that it's $2500-$3000 (fees included), I'd rather not just sign up for a random class. Any suggestions? Accounting? What can I absolutely not teach myself? (Keep in mind that any course would likely have to be entry or mid-level -- I won't get into high level CS theory)
Those sites are more link sharing to articles rather than physically posting the articles. I took a more youtube style approach to the way people share content and I think that's what makes us different.
There is definitely a different target customer and that matters. Rackspace customers are more likely to be classically architected n-tier web sites/apps and AWS customers are more likely to be fully "cloud architected".

The result of this difference is that a Rackspace cloud physical host is not going to be as heavily taxed resource-wise (at least on average). Add to that the cpu burst by default versus cpu cap by default and cpu is definitely the one area where differences will be widest.

One thing I will say though, and many may disagree with this, but I have yet to see a benchmarking study that I'd trust. Real world operating performance of a server is just a very complex thing and any attempt to distill it down to single parameter comparison is going to compromise some element of that complexity. I can show you comparison studies that show any of the cloud providers to be better than the others, including AWS, Rackspace, Linode, Joyent, etc. So take these things with a grain of salt.
I just wrote this article about Private API use and Why Apple is so strict on enforcing it. Although some might say this topic is old, I recently found myself getting an app rejected for it. I had been searching on Stack Overflow for a quick way to insert a textField into a UIAlertView and found an user posted answer which used an unofficial way to include one. Months later, Apple rejected my application because it used this undocumented code.

My question to other iOS Devs, have you ever been caught using code which is deemed undocumented?
Community Driven API Code Samples and Libraries
For IPO's the leader of the syndicate gets the best deal and a larger cut of the fees. It's basically a no lose proposition.
I am actually one of those people that knows CakePHP inside and out (see http://github.com/josegonzalez).

Regardless, a framework is a way to jump-start someone in developing for a given language. Honestly, I've taught at least 5 developers PHP in about half the time it would normally take using a framework than without. The same applies to any other language.

It's easy to write your own framework, but I can almost guarantee you that it will have more bugs than any of the larger, open source frameworks out there. They may have their chinks, but those get largely fixed and tend to benefit the most people. Using a well-known, and well-tested, framework means you have access to a greater pool of developers, and they don't have to learn the idiosyncracies of something you've written because you could.

And while I am in the process of writing my own framework (see https://github.com/josegonzalez/git-php), I still prefer using someone else's framework. It's nice to be shown other ways of doing things.

"If you know LANGUAGE well, it's almost as efficient--possibly moreso--to program your own minimal ARCHITECTURE framework. LANGUAGE has so much of what you need done for you that only an efficient IMPORTANT_DETAIL is a bit tricky."
Type exit.

...or, hit the globe icon which takes you to the connections screen, and tap the eject icon.
I didn't know that. Thanks for the correction.

That's not my only reason for preferring EC2 for lots of short-lived servers. I left out some anecdotes.

Four months ago, one of my coworkers booted 12 cloud servers in DFW. I later discovered that 3 of them were on the same physical hardware. Two months ago, about 55 of 60 servers actually came up in ORD. Others were inaccesible or hung. Not even hard reboots helped. We had to kill them and start new ones.

I've had a total of 2 EC2 instances die on me. I admit my usage of the two providers is quite different. The stuff on EC2 is shorter-lived. But I'm pretty sure that high turnover on other providers would cause a lot more grief.