skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, there are some gigantic generalizations being made here, both in this post and others. I'm currently a senior at a liberal arts school, majoring in CS. Of the 10 or so CS majors in my class, I'd say half are also "hackers" in that they spend significant free time programming outside of class, for work and for fun. All of these people know at least one of {Ruby,Javascript} (Ruby happens to be less popular around here than Python since the latter is taught in intro classes). Not coincidentally, these people are also at the top of the department and are having the most success applying to grad school AND jobs.

I guess my point is that the hacker/academic distinction is not necessarily as broad as one would think reading some of these comments, and that many of us CS types think of ourselves as hackers as well as academics.
Agreed on that part. Also MultiSim is damn expensive. TI are usually cheaper on tooling and software support.
Here you go: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1401686/tron.png

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Denmark.

But the jokes is that there isn't (last time I checked) even any Danish produced stuff, even though some of it has received Emmy awards and has been sold to e.g. the BBC (with subtitles not less) where it is crazy popular.

Lots of other stuff from stream for free from the Danish Radio and Television homepage, but not even that was available.
Some double beds have separated mattresses, which might be a solution for some.
Have you looked at http://pagekite.net/ ?

It's a generic "expose my local HTTP server to the Internet" tool, designed to be really convenient and easy to set up (assuming you already have a local HTTP server). If I understand you correctly, it may be exactly what you are looking for.

It's FOSS so if you don't want to use the service (my startup!) you can roll your own. :-) But if you're looking for convenience, the service is probably hard to beat. Come chat on #pagekite on Freenode if you've got any questions!
I hadn't looked at BuySellAds before, but looking at it now, I wouldn't buy ads on any network that didn't let me filter by geography.

It's trivial for an ad network to implement geographic filtering, ads are worth a lots less outside the handful of major economies, generally speaking if an ad network doesn't do geotargeting it implies the ad network is trying to sell you low value international traffic at US traffic prices.
I believe it is the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association.
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I see a lot of people saying "ooh facebook is valued 10x" that but you have to look at history. Facebook does NOTHING for ANYONE really other than a) support a number of people piggy-backing on it to make some cash b) keeps VC's occupied and salivating over their new Ferrari's and whores and c) violates everyone's right to privacy to the highest bidder.

NI/TI produce REAL, IMPORTANT devices and platforms which a large quantity of the world runs on that keeps you dry, transported, fed, sheltered and entertained.
Unfortunately it's not always feasible to route UDP properly everywhere. I'm currently using OpenVPN over TCP because the NAT here won't let me punch a hole for UDP, so I can assert that, while not ideal, it works well enough for web browsing assuming you have a good enough internet connection to back it up.
I was amazed at some of the deals these founders took. Starting up owning 5% of the company on day one. Or taking in $7M on a $9M valuation. Are these kinds of deals still happening?
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We're quite hopeful that this will indeed be fixed very soon!
Interesting use of code generation - pretty cool, oft unused part of .net/C#. Also interesting how it's designed to be a drop-in single C# file, that often seems the easier way of getting functionality into a project, side-stepping DLL version issues.
It's a messaging and presence protocol! We (at Superfeedr) use it for our infrastructure. Each piece of our application is an XMPP component which connects, sends messages to others and get messages from them. We are also starting to use it as a deploy tool as well.
A missing raptor and the Mojolicious user experience (Perl)
I think the ipad will only reach a point in which is has potential to push PCs out of the market once it no longer needs to be tethered to a pc for regular use.. Keyboards, size, and general interface are all this people acclimate to, but only being able to move things to the ipad from a PC? You can't get around the necessity for the PC there. When the ipad starts to feel more like its own device, I could feasiblly see Wozniak and Jobs' vision becomming reality. But till then, its a dependent device with a great UI.
I think they were mostly having issues because people would enter their gtalk jid to get content... and google obviously throttles the traffic pretty aggressively, so dev would not receive the content and would complain.
From my experience, most tablet users use the tablet for 1)videos 2)really casual games 3)random browsing - not particularly PC-ish in my opinion. To say 'Tablet is the PC' is in some way less accurate than saying 'Tablet is the new TV' or 'Tablet is the best mobile browser'.
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I wonder if Google thinks that Microsoft might be violating a Nortel patent or two?
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I've not seen any sign of fraud, FB data matches up with my own analytics.

How are you doing analytics tracking ? - if you're using GA or something similar then it could well be that the GA code isn't loading before the user bounces. If you check your webserver logs that should give you an indication if that's the case.
Related blog post:

http://samsaffron.com/archive/2011/03/30/How+I+learned+to+st...

Another framework in the same direction is Rob Connery's Massive:

http://blog.wekeroad.com/helpy-stuff/and-i-shall-call-it-mas...
It looks very nice. Would you port it to greasemonkey script so that it can work on Firefox.
Fugazi: "Money lets the pieces fit where they fall"
Threads for python webapps are fine, but they break down when doing things like chat (using long polling or websockets) where you have a lot of open mostly idle connections. Coroutines and libraries like gevent and eventlet let you elegantly use greenlets without contorting your code -- ie, you get async without callbacks or deferreds -- and you have the benefit of being able to handle thousands of connections in a single python process. Of course you don't get processor concurrency, but you don't really get that with straight CPython because of the GIL anyway -- and if you're deploying a largish web app, you're going to have a load balancer (haproxy ftw) and you can just run one process per core anyway. This also mostly transparently lets you scale out to N boxes with M cores per box with very little architecture changes at the inbound request to web-server level.

Which brings me to the microprocess / shared module ideas -- RAM is pretty cheap -- 1GB or 2GB per core isn't anything fancy, and if you're using more than a couple gig in a python webapp process, something is probably wrong. As far as sharing state between microprocesses, I don't see how that really solves anything -- you're going to have processes on different boxes if you have any sort of traffic or fault tolerance and you're going to be putting that shared state into a cache or database somewhere anyway.

Raw compute speed is important to the scipy/numpy crowds, so I think things like Cython and PyPy make a lot of sense there -- webapps are I/O bound, so you spend 90% or more of the time it takes to service a request waiting, which async is really good at. PyPy isn't going to beat CPython by 20x on some django benchmark, but they will on some compute-intensive ones.

So anyway, I think my point is, you can have your cake and eat it too -- coroutines without pain (gevent) and processor-level concurrency (load balancer) for web applications using off the shelf production-ready technology on commodity hardware...
WTF. I totally thought that was Nigeria and you were making some sort of Star Wars joke I didn't think Natalie Portman was hot enough to bother getting.

Yes - some domains get blocked because a lot of spam originates there.

:Zugriff verweigert / Access denied
There's quite a few affiliate marketers successfully using it for selling local services (dentists, leads for car salesrooms, etc.)
I tested the WakeMate for a few days and I have the following comments:

* The software (iPhone) was not really very well thought out/polished. I don't want to scroll and select the time to the minute which I'm about to wake up if the wake up interval is 20 minutes.

* Signup for account via app redirects to web page which is not optimized for iPhone browser/smalls screen.

* Battery life is awful - max couple of nights, but its kinda cool, that it charges from the same USB charger than iPhone.

Overall the feeling is that they rushed to complete the software while trying to look cool and colorful, but forgot about the usability or didn't pay enough attention to it.

I have no opinion (yet) about the product concept/usefulness since I have only been using it for couple of days, one of which I wasn't able to get much sleep due to external factors.
It's refreshing to see Perl web design that doesn't look like it was made in the 90s.
(I wrote the post)
It's evidence that Ballmer is not end-user centric.

And yes - I should have said that my office was an example only, and that essentially any reader of this would have a better set-up. Being in a cafe would be a better set-up.

Ballmer is smart, very smart, and with a very sharp business mind. He went straight from Harvard undergrad to Stanford GSB (MBA School), then left after a year to work at Microsoft. He wasa great partner with Bill Gates, but I do not believe he's a product guy, and nor should he be in charge of product development.
That data is for advertising on Facebook
>Forcing a person who is past the age of legal responsibility to take massive doses of sex/gender hormones against their will is not the same as giving kids ritalin, and it is mildly offensive to say so.

You're speaking from the moral outrage position of today. At the time, this was thought of as a way to "correct" the issue just as various drugs we force on kids is now. Personally I find it at least as bad that these drugs are forced on kids who have no way to defend themselves or even know what's being done to them.

The last time I was in the US I ended up having lunch with a friend and that friend's grown up daughter. The daughter, sadly, had a 4 year old son. During the coarse of lunch the loud, obnoxious daughter explained about all the disorders her kid had (ADD, OCD, etc.) and all the drugs she gave him to deal with it. My wife asked what would happen if she just skipped giving him all this medication. "Oh, you just can't deal with him if he's not on it.".

She then went on to talk about her life. It was pretty clear that she had no time for the kid; he had to either be with baby sitters or sitting in front of the TV nearly 24/7. I can't help but think/hope that in 50 years this kind of lazy, inconsiderate behavior will be considered criminal (since it's the child who bears the long term affects of it, not the decision maker). That kid sounded like a normal 4 year old boy to me but he's being drugged into shape so he can serve a role closer to that of a cat than of a child.

It's been speculated that if Mozart, Beethoven, etc. were born in the US today they would probably never amount to anything because their parents would probably drug away their creativity.
All those strings look hard to maintain and refactor. You won't know that your query is broken until you run it. That makes it of very little value despite any supposed merits.
X tweaking: I spent years trying to get suspend/resume work without issues under X on a series of cheap laptops; I got close but never quite there. Now I run Linux only on servers and under Parallels on Mac. Not the same, such a shame.
I don't think "average database/object driven applications" constitute the majority of programming, and I strongly suspect that Microsoft Office is not as trivial as you say :-) See Joel's article on the "five worlds of programming": http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FiveWorlds.html Each "world" has intricacies that people from other worlds aren't aware of, and there are likely more worlds than just these five.
When I saw the title, I hoped the story was about Arduino hardware...
I'm not 100% sure that fizz buzz is really the indicator that people make it out to be ... I mean, it doesn't really test software design skills, or the ability to design a complex system with loosely coupled objects.
I practically wet myself with joy the first time I changed the colours of the border and main screen with, erm, peeks or pokes; I can't remember.
Locked by the SO Gestapo.
Looks really good! If only I had known about it :)
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you are mixing things that can be delayed till next Monday and things that can't
This is my daily fail: http://potomak.tumblr.com/post/4361901296/developer-business...

Developer ≠ Businessman
Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography
Just submitted the app in the Chrome Store. Here is the HN link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2410195

Will do a port for Safari and Firefox soon!
Hope you guys like it!
DotCloud is definitely interesting, but I am somewhat concerned about the lack of prices on their homepage (there is not much point in doing business with a company without knowing their price) as well as the signup for their beta - I don't (yet) know what language I would write the code in, as that would depend of the actual usage pattern of the software so I can't sign up?

Anyway I will add this to the list of things to look at at some later point.
PageRank-style algorithms are so fundamental to current search tech that I would be shocked if Microsoft wasn't using something along these lines on Bing.
Whoops. Thanks for correcting me.
I actually think the colours and fonts on Hacker News is pretty good.

The only big design problem with Hacker News is the measure (width of the text blocks), which sizes according to the browser. Resizing measure without resizing font-size is just crazy IMHO. Actually, adding a max-width to Hacker News wrapper (which oddly enough seems to be a table) would go a long way.

(I know I should stop complaining, and start building an extension myself.)
This is my first every public release of such a thing! So please be gentle and do give any feedback that can improve the extension.
the only way to win against piracy is to compete with it in ease of acquisition.

Apple makes money selling high-margin complements to piracy, not competing with it. iTunes is a low-margin (to Apple) strategic incentive to convince labels not to look so closely at how many billions of dollars Apple makes drizzling the magic margin-increasing white paint on top of commodity hard drives sold, primarily, to pirates.
This article is embarrassing to read. I hope Tesla stops saying things soon, they're making it all worse.
Today, the books at the library are used and handled so they don't last forever either.

What really is the difference then?
This video picks up where Steve Blank's secret history of Silicon Valley left off:
http://steveblank.com/category/secret-history-of-silicon-val...

I enjoyed Blank's very thorough description of the military / government agency technology that originated in the Valley and this clip helps to tie it very nicely to recent times.
I don't see code-generation; what are you referring to?
I didn't imply at all that it was the touchscreen that makes tablets easier. I thought by the examples I gave that it was clear I was talking about the simplified paradigm of a typical tablet--a centralized store to purchase, install, and update apps; a fullscreen, one-app-at-a-time interface; no antivirus, antispyware, defraggers, registry cleaners, and so on; and a highly mobile hardware device that comfortably rests in your lap and requires no hookup or peripherals to run.
How so? What they're saying is true. Top Gear predetermined that the car "didn't work" and they fabricated a failure using fake engine sounds.
I mean dynamic code generation at runtime, rather than actually outputting text :-)

E.g. CreateParamInfoGenerator() at line 208.
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Knowing what gdgt is, and knowing that it is not engadget, I'd have still guessed gdgt to be bigger and better than it is.
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Why does it matter? Google is an entity. Even if they only mean to use patents defensively today that doesn't say anything about what they will do 5 years from now.
Looks very promising.

Just 1 tip, you should change the color of the login link. It took me a while to find it since the active link color is almost the same as the background.
I'm starting to dislike Tesla very much even though I was excited about Tesla, even after the episode in question. I hope HN gets bored of this whole subject and stops writing about it.

Wilman's points are very clear and straight. Teslas response sounds like hysterical feeble attacks. This whole thing reminds of trolling attacks in online forums. Please settle it in court in a civilized manner and stop the trolling.
Might want to check out http://jsdo.it for more Inspiring CSS (ab)use
Thanks. Who do you normally do your registration with? I don't normally touch .au's but have done one or two and it's been a little painful
If you think you don't need to know how to update drivers or maintain antivirus software on a typical PC, then your experience isn't typical of the majority of users or the poor sobs who do technical support for them.

On a tablet, there is no running an installer executable. You just tap. Uninstallation is also just a tap. It's undeniably superior.
I prefer the flexibility of Stylebot (on Chrome, or Stylish in firefox).

Right now the style I have applied is this one:
http://stylebot.me/styles/223

I would like to do something with the comments tree, but since they are not nested but padded its not possible to show a hierarchy on them :S

It would be nice to see other peoples styles to take ideas :D
Aspen is a Python web server.  Simplates are the main attraction.
If there's no reason PCs can't remove that crap, why haven't they?
The ORM is definitely very read-focused, which is probably not that surprising given that it's used for web, and given the motivations for creating it, discussed at the blog post mentioned by @gokhan [1].

It would be nice to have some lightweight stuff for updating/inserting too, though I guess doing it in such a way that you don't need to write lots of boilerplate kinda requires SQL generation, which dapper is avoiding on purpose.

[1]: http://samsaffron.com/archive/2011/03/30/How+I+learned+to+st...
Agree.

But this was only possible due to proper processing power. The instant feel of the iPhone GUI flow makes all the difference.
> clean, light...open?
I am sorry, but I find the original HN to be more readable than after applying the extension. Maybe that's just me, but I don't consider the bigger gaps between lines to be more readable. Also the original font looks better to me.
This is the Python syntax equivalent of Mirah, if anyone is interested.
It feels like a 37S blog post..
It's like they read this: http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch02_Have_an_Enemy.php and decided that suing top gear was the best thing they could come up with... It's certainly getting them lots of publicity about how the Tesla is better than top gear implied...
Exactly. I have no doubt that Facebook's profits could easily triple in the next two years. For National Semi, I wouldn't bet on it :-)

So yes, a somewhat larger valuation for Facebook than National sounds reasonable. So, $6B -> $15B, $20B.
The favicon is pretty amusing, once you've grokked Simplates. One notable feature is that Aspen now uses the Diesel non-blocking socket engine.
If you think problems with PCs is an exception to the rule, you're living in a dream world. The point is that, on a tablet, your parents wouldn't have had to go through the hassle of installing slow antivirus software or "manage to install" things. Installation and uninstallation is so simple that the PC method of multistep installers and uninstallers immediately looks incredibly archaic.

There are other tasks like managing photos, watching and editing movies, installing third-party software, and more that I bet your parents have trouble with or flat-out avoid on a PC. These things are easy on an iPad. Not to mention the constant threat of malware, no matter how paranoid your mom is.

If there's a totem that geeks cling to, it's the fear of the PC going away and the fantasy that PCs aren't overly complicated to an embarrassing degree, or that everyone can magically learn how to use PCs if they'd just spend hours every night on them like geeks do. It's symptomatic of a real lack of perspective when it comes to how the public deals with the standard PC. You and I think they're easy because we spend most of our time on them. They are our living or our hobby. Most people aren't like that.
Autobiographical essay means 
Writing an autobiographical essay is an enjoyable task. However, students should keep in mind that it is not easy. They need to include insights into who they are, what their aspirations are etc which is not easy to include for some students.
Could you make just a stylesheet for Stylish users?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/fjnbnpbmkenffdnn...
It doesn't have any meaning, at least for me. If your aim, when you started to learn, was to follow a CS course (say, MIT courses), then you are going to have an equal knowledge. If your aim was to build your first web site and do HTML/CSS/JS and PHP stuff, then you are going to learn it and do it.

You cannot know everything anyway, no? And CS courses differs from an university to another. The benefit of being self-taught is that you choose the materials yourself and you are enlightened when you study it.
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