skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
^^ Agreesies w/citricsquid. (Due to the fact that it's highly customizable, Tumblr gets compared to MySpace. But paradoxically, due to the fact that many of its early adopters are wburg hipsters w/great taste, it also has a rep for having excellent design biases. Checkout the default themes. Gorgeous.)

But it truly is more like Twitter (or even Facebook) than MySpace due to the fact that it's for publishing (or sharing) content more than pimping a profile.

This is very hard to see from "the outside" (where people are more likely to compare it to Wordpress because it's "just a blog"). But what you don't know until you use it, is that more than half the party is inside the system. The Tumblr themes are never even seen because you're experiencing your friends + followers through a Dashboard view. You're Liking, Reblogging (not too unlike retweeting), adding commentary, asking questions (that are hidden on the outside), squeeing over famous followers, etc.

Tumblr, like Twitter is a place. You can interact with people w/out asking them to visit your-site-somewhere-else. Unlike Twitter, is has the advantage of also being a destination. That link you're sharing? That essay you wrote? It's all right here, still on the Tumblr.

[edit: Businesses see its popularity. Tumblr has as many users as Twitter did two years ago. IBM, The Economist, The Today Show (!?), most Conde Nast magazines, YC start-ups like Convore, high-end hotels... I've seen 'em all on Tumblr.]

As for what the original post is about: It's a fair question. Tumblr is easier than WP. But that's not why it's popular. It's the social part. While we wait for our utopian federated, distributed social networks to arrive, these centralized places are pretty great.
I am a big fan of the Kohana framework, but was very disappointed at the direction they took with version 3.0 of that framework. For the kinds of applications I build in PHP, Kohana 2.3.4 was pretty much the perfect framework for my tastes. Kohana 3 changed everything around, lacked documentation, and made things much more verbose for relatively little benefit (to me and my kinds of projects -- I'm sure it benefits others in some way).

This Fuel framework looks like they took Kohana 2.3.4, cleaned up some bugs, added the command line utility and migrations to it, and that's it. Awesome!

Really only one thing that seems to be missing (and maybe it's in there but not in the documentation): how do you put validation in the model, so you're not duplicating model validation in every action that processes submitted form data?

Other than that, I would also agree with what others have said about the tone of the developers -- it's not going to help the growth of the project's community in the long run.
Median pay for top executives at 200 major companies was $9.6 million in 2010
The right way to design your company logo
I'm on a laptop, and just don't bother with a mouse.
Some of the tweaking I mentioned would be to deemphasize the mouse and focus on the usual trackpad 2,3,4 finger actions instead. Just for Acme SAC though.
We would also be able to receive messages from distant species before they sent them.
I have run text analysis tools against nearly everything I've written. Well over 75% of my writing is identified as likely to be female. Last I checked, I'm male. Don't put so much stock in this stuff.
"I gave a high school social studies class a simple food quiz. One of the questions asked, “Where does honey come from? A bear? A tree? Bees?” Almost all of the students got it wrong."

I'm not saying there was anything wrong with his testing methodology here or anything, but if I was given such an elementary question like that as a highschool student, I would have answered "bear" just for the shit of it.
At least the defaults aren't terrible.They are actually kinda nice. There is the freedom to be terrible, and that's fine by me.
Hacking Europe's Cultural Heritage with Europeana's New API
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Sure, and you could provide zero abstractions to the database (with an ORM) and tell people to grab their own library. For one of the core pieces of MVC, I would hope that you'd actually develop into the V part more.

Your replies to any not purely positive comments or criticism in this thread or elsewhere come off as very abrasive and rude by the way: not the kind of attitude HN expects and is certainly not the way to attract more of a community.

Your framework looks very neat and I'm interested in seeing what it turns into in the coming months/years: don't spoil your reputation before you even leave the gate.
The early chapters were much more ham fisted about the ideas from Less Wrong, almost Ayn Randian in their clunkiness. Eliezer has raised his game a lot over the course of the story.
Sedtris: Tetris in sed
The karma metric is pretty transparent. You learn very quickly which comments are and are not appreciated. Dropping a friendly comment to someone you see who hasn't caught on yet works, as well.

What do you think the likes of a Matt Cutts would do if they were trying to sign up for HN and the site forced them to say whether "LOL" was an appropriate comment before allowing them to post? It's insulting and arrogant and will drive away the kind of people we want posting here. All that for a "problem" that is invisible the vast majority of the time.
I see what you mean about Yesod, it seems to play to the strengths of Haskell quite well from my quick glance.
Icelanders refuse to pay for the damage done by banks in their 2008 collapse
I think through his entire US campaign Jamie Oliver has come across as arrogant and interfering. That doesn't mean he's wrong, of course.
For learning about sed, this is the best resource that I've seen so far:

http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html
Why a lack of empathy is the root of all evil
A black hole has a volume less than it's event horizon. So, it's not really undefined as much as ill defined. Also, a black hole's event horizon is not necessarily a perfect sphere ex: two black hole's orbiting each other.
I don't think it's Tumblr, but what about Posterous?

For websites where the blog is just a part of the site and not the central component, Wordpress is overkill. And maintenance of updates and plugin updates is a pain once you start getting beyond one or two installs.

I've been thinking that it's time to reevaluate the blogging options out there rather than defaulting to a big-ass Wordpress install for every client that just wants a simple blog as part of their site.
I would object to the mere suggestion that a "highschool" could possibly turn out even physics or mathematics undergrads. The best you're going to do is end up with a situation where realisticly all you've done is had the students skip highschool and go straight to college.

"Highschool" implies a lot more than just "that place you went to for the last 4 years of a 12 year education"; or perhaps more accurately: "college" implies a lot more than just "that place you went to after highschool".
Create & Deploy a Node.JS App on Nodester in Less than 2 Minutes
I also had to search for the 'Color Beta' app to try it out. But the ratings given to that app were very awful hence the low relevance. I dont see why the hype of the Color app elsewhere should change its relevance in the Android market.
Pretty much agree with the author here. 2 housemates bought Android phones, only to have it full of apps that have slowed them down to a standstill and are now unusable.
Has increased computer use led to increased myopia?
Some of us would care because such behaviour is just obnoxious and totally unnecessary. Why should we care? No, the question is: "Why should they care". It's nearly as bad as those that outright block access when they clearly have no clue when it comes to detecting IE(i.e they use UA sniffing). YouTube seems to suffer from the same brain-damage but not to such a severe level as they simply give you a hint as opposed to blocking or redirecting you.

EDIT: to clarify they do the detection the proper way but the behaviour just leaves a very sour taste in the mouth.
While I'm sure there are users who find it useful, this is not the primary reason for it's presence here. Scribd is a YC funded startup, and as such as actively promoted on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1124940

I respect this choice, and find the Scribd technology to be slick, but I do not like the business model of framing other people's content after submission by a 3rd party and then requiring signup to view the captured original.
Does the NSA build backdoors into encryption algorithms?
Said what? Did I miss it? He seemed to just stop midway.

He implied there was a problem, showed some code, but never showed where the problem lies or what it was, and certainly never mentioned any solution.

All I got was some vague "this isn't pretty" vibes.
Well given that a lot of the "pro" jQuery tips say that one should avoid rerunning the selector in favor of some sort of memoization:

$('.class').doSomehting();
$('.class').doSomethingElse();
$('.class').thirdThing();

in favor of

var ele = $('.class');
ele.doSomething();
ele.doSomethingElse();
ele.thirdThing();

I would only assume that re-querying with the jQuery object inside of event handlers has the same adverse effects.

Lets say you have a very simple tabbed thing

//this is code that i've seen around
var tabs = $('a.tab'),
containers = $('div.container');

tabs.click(function(e){
var index = tabs.indexOf($(this));
tabs.removeClass('active');
$(this).addClass('active');
containers.css('display', 'none');
$(containers[index]).css('display', 'block');
});

vs
//this is how id handle a simple tabber
var tabs = $('a.tab'),
containers = $('div.container'),
all_containers = $.map(containers, function(i, c){
return $(c);
});

$.each(all_tabs, function(i, tab){
var t = $(tab);

t.bind('click', function(e){
tabs.removeClass('active');
t.addClass('active');
containers.css('display', 'none');
all_containers[i].css('display', 'block');
});
});

I just feel that the first one, while more concise (has it obvious areas of improvement, but general idea) would wind up being more expensive than the second.

If running the jQuery object isnt too expensive, why is the practice of rerunning the same selector frowned upon?
Indeed. However, I have not heard of any widespread dissent or disapproval of the changes either. The closest thing was the introduction of the 10 HKD coin (in parallel with the bill) which was not popular and is no longer made. Anecdotally, very few in Canada seem to mind, and I'm glad I don't need 10 quarters to do a load of laundry.
I do not understand why successful technology companies, seeing another different but also successful technology, realize "we can do that too" and immediately assume "and therefore we should".

Microsoft sees Google being a search engine and sinks billions upon billions into failing to be one. Google sees Facebook being social and decides it needs to be social (an upcoming disaster). Facebook sees Twitter being real-time and decides it needs a real-time stream too (a bad idea they have since buried under the "most recent" link).

In the CMS world, we have Drupal for complicated content-management, Wordpress for full-featured blogs, and Tumblr for drop-dead-simple blogs. There is no reason one of these products should try to fill all three roles, and no practical way to do so (because it is, I posit, impossible to be both as simple as Tumblr and as configurable as Drupal).

Wordpress is great. It is the leader in its category. There's no need for it to try jumping into another category that would distract from its core competency.
Breaking News: Facebook is planning to show ads on websites
You're implying that any use of patents to stifle competition is probably illegal, and should certainly be investigated. That rather thoroughly contradicts the definition of "patent".

Further, IBM's decade of tolerating Hercules development suggests that they do see a difference between community infringement and commercial infringement.
He got it wrong too, since honey doesn't come from any of his listed choices. Honey comes from flowers - it's gathered and processed (slightly) by bees. But it comes from flowers.
But when I finally figure it out, I get the elation of knowing a tiny thing that no one else knows... and then going and posting it on stackoverflow.
It's really up to the person. I think that if a candidate did not go to college, it would be interesting to see what they did instead. If they did something interesting or acquired new skills during that time, then it can possibly be equivalent to a college education.
Cool Technology of the Week [Digital Pens in the ER]
https://gist.github.com/911459

"A simple Greasemonkey script for a dual pane Hacker News interface"
I know affiliates who have made up to six figures a day on Facebook in some months but they are not going to write about it because they don't want competition.
There is a growing community with quite a bit of support surrounding scala particularly for web development. Lift is well documented and in production at Foursquare which is vote of confidence. The Guardian is also switching to scala as described here http://www.infoq.com/articles/guardian_scala. Plus Twitter, Yammer and a bunch of others are also using scala for "web related" development.

Overall I think as it exists now Scala has the best community particularly around web development. Much like the Django v Rails debate try them out and see what you like.

I know personally scala is second on my list behind Ruby.
Bay-Area hackers might also know him as a cofounder of Noisebridge, fwiw.
...which is why I've found it weird that people try to shoehorn WordPress to become a full-blown CMS platform. There are better tools for that, and the effort detracts from the strong points of WordPress in blogging
No it doesn't, well at least not in the sense that 'car tires come from trees, because the rubber comes from trees and is slightly processed in the factory'. Bees gather nectar from flowers, and nectar is quite distinct from honey.

(my dad is a beekeeper, which doesn't make me an expert on honey and bees, but even the first paragraph of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey states the above).
Data is too logical. I always prefer Geordi because he just figured shit out and made it work.
What Separates the Extremely Successful from the Pack?
A common gripe from young students when learning math is "I'm never going to use this!"

With programming, it's much easier to motivate the subject matter - students want to learn the math so they can improve their projects.

Similarly, I found linear algebra and linear programming much more interesting when I was studying economics, and classical physics much more fun when writing little javascript animations.

So maybe applied math is a better approach at the intro levels. I'm just not sure how we get there from existing math-centric teachers and curricula.
Against ubuntu
Let the arguments come!
Drink & Live Longer
Dojo Toolkit Package Loading Hacks
He came across the same way when he did a similar thing in the UK. He just waltzes in and assumes he can run a school kitchen the same way he runs his restaurants. In a way I can understand the reaction of the school board that is described in the article - let him come with a complete plan to do things better, including sourcing ingredients in large amounts, training staff, financing etc, rather than walking into a kitchen, be condescending about everything they do and then complain about the bad taste of students when it turns out they don't like his recipes.
Cjdns a DHT-based DNS (?)
People tend to reach for familiar tools first, even if they're not really the right ones. They go with what they know.
4 SuperB E-Card iPhone Apps
Good! It's nice to see some people standing up to the capitalist scam that is privatized profits made even sweeter by socializing the losses.
I live in Japan, have traveled widely throughout the country, and I would disagree with your notion that $11 gets you more in another part of Japan outside of Tokyo. Unlike the U.S., where prices can vary widely when you leave big cities, in Japan prices are pretty much consistent throughout most of the country. The only real cost benefit you get from not living in Tokyo is the occasional cheaper apartment rent.

In general wages in Tokyo for all manner of jobs is quite low, this is in stark contrast to the country's rich, tech-forward image.
I think it is, it's really easy to create a theme or port a static site over to make it dynamic. Half of tumblr's users are teen girls but they are geeks so they make lot's available for us geeks to use it to hack.
It is an article of faith in contemporary business that a company not integrating vertically or horizontally is doomed. The Peter Principle, the tail wagging the dog, take your pick: the lesson has been learned everywhere but the board room.
As far as slowing down progress, there is a danger of this happening without net neutrality as well.

Consider the current state in Australia: you have ISPs that charge you based on GB of bandwidth used per month. For example, lets say your ISP signs a deal with Hulu so that traffic from them is free for you. Most people would probably not give any consideration to competing services because they will have to pay for bandwidth while using them. This is a huge advantage to already established online tv services that have resources to make these kinds of offers with ISPs. Meanwhile, new services that can't afford them get ignored by users despite perhaps having better feature sets.
What a loaded headline.
Maybe Github will concoct some sort of useful audio diff visualizations, like their new-ish image diffs.
Just for the precalculus course.
I've long believed the master-apprentice system to be the most effective type of teaching system. Unfortunately, it doesn't scale.
Who's hiring? We, the people, are.
The Guardian is Migrating Its Website from Java to Scala
So should my neighbors pay for my business losses?

No?

Good on .is, then.
where is part 2 of the video?
It's the new LiveJournal, and I mean that in the best possible way.
Smart people. Why should they pay for private company (bank) failure? Learn US & UK, ask people before geting their money first.
I really, really, really, REALLY, hate screen casts when the person who is in it has his cam up while coding. ITS SO ANNOYING! I don't want to see your face. I want to see the CODE!

It's alright in the beginning/end. I don't really mind showing your face for the intro. But while coding, please keep it off!

anyways, it was a good screen cast though, thanks.
Because they (or admittedly, their government) agreed to providing bank deposit guarantees.
Complex decision? Don't think about it
That's the thing that always amazes me about politicians saying that we're "borrowing from future generations". What they really mean is that they aren't planning ahead (or worse, acting stupidly with what they have) and expecting future generations to pay for the things that they will need at that later date.

The people who "have to pay" can (and apparently do) just vote no.
It would be cool if there was some standardized "make" utility for multitrack audio, where you could distribute component tracks, and people could fork, come up with their own mixes, effects, mastering, etc. and generate a text file that contained all the metadata required to bounce the tracks down. Of course, effects would be a problem, since most of them are commercial and everyone uses a different toolbox of effects.

I'm sure if everyone agreed on a DAW suite, something like this would be rather easy to implement.
On a different note, the second Techcrunch commenter says

"Reads like a high school essay. Too long. Didn't finish. Boring. Lift your game."

Now this may be true or not. But this is definitely mean and doesn't add any real value to the conversation.

I thought FB comments are supposed to keep out mean people under the assumption that mean attacks (true or not) come from people who hide behind an anonymous name. And they wouldn't do it with real identity.

So the question is what if people will still be mean even with their real identity attached? Does it hurt more if the attack comes from a real person?
This might make it harder for Icelandic (private and public) institutions to obtain international credit. I think they decided against their own self-interest.
Genuine appreciation for concise recapitulation. I felt I could hear the Tivo fast-forward beep-boop sound while reading your comment.
Gotta second this, after reading these books you'll have a completely different perspective on how to write code in C++. It's completely different than C.
Press and instant credibility into tech community (early adopters)
Ability to attract talent
Not just access to investors, but active selling to investors
Access to silicon valley startup community
Tony Hsieh on Empowerment
Zappos CEO finds success by breaking the old-school business rules.
Nor is this. From the guidelines: "If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."
Further academic education is useful for a subset of individuals. Many people would have a larger positive effect on themselves and others with the addition of skills (a trade, electrician, plumber, mason, ...) and experiences you rarely see in a four year higher education institution. Most academic learning can be gained with a library card and a discussion partner. This leaves aside the question of financial value to the type of education they are pursuing.

I also disagree that you can't be an expert in multiple fields. People that love learning can advance to that status in several fields in a lifetime if they wish. Expertise is also somewhat relative and often quite limited.

I think a highly specialized society has great benefits for economies of scale and intense utilization of comparative advantage, but I also think a lot of people would be happier if they slowed down and had greater breadth. Physical work and tangible achievement through self reliance is phenomenally rewarding. Much freedom is gained in breadth of experience.

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
--Robert A. Heinlein
This article doesn't do a great job of explaining the situation. Essentially Iceland signed a treaty that allows them the benefits of participating in the EU's markets while not requiring them to join the EU.

As part of that treaty they are required to guarantee the savings accounts in Icelandic bank up to around $30,000 (In the same way FDIC guarantees accounts in U.S. Banks). When Iceland had their financial crisis the government decided to guarantee the accounts of its own citizens but not those of foreign citizens who had accounts there.

Which is in direct violation of the treaty.

This vote was the people of Iceland saying they don't care what their obligation under the treaty is they aren't going to pay.
Clearly honey does come from bears though. Plastic injection moulded bears, I have one in my cabinet right now.

It also comes from my cabinet of course, and from the store, and from beekeepers, and from.....
And got loans on really nice terms from the British and Dutch governments.
That seems to be one of the points of dispute, whether they (Iceland as a whole) are on the hook for the deposit-insurance scheme, or if it operated as a separate entity that is now bankrupt. It appears that all the money in the deposit-insurance fund was paid out, but external creditors want Iceland to top up the fund out of general taxes.