skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest, I think that supporting OID/OAUTH would help you get traction -- lowering barriers to entry is especially important when you are just getting started.

Building something like this has been on my "someday, if ever I have free time" list for a while now -- I know plenty of people who would use it, but only about 1/3 that I've shown it to have registered, all citing the need to make yet another new account.

Integrating a multiple auth solution like Janrain Engage[1] should take no time at all, and it might help texchannels get traction.

[1]: http://www.janrain.com/products/engage
Thanks! I've tried tig, but forgot about it.
The fundamental problem with DRM is that it burdens legal buyers, but not people that use a pirated version. So the more restrictive the DRM, the more your actual customers suffer.

Doesn't that make it sound attractive to simply get a copy off a torrent?

I agree, and this comic is an excellent illustration: http://www.virtualshackles.com/207. But this is primarily not a problem with DRM in general, but with how DRM is implemented, right? Again, using Netflix and Hulu as an example, I've never found their DRM burdensome. Whereas I have found the iTunes device limit to be a major pain.

Also, you seem to equate "giving away for free" with "selling without DRM".

I certainly don't intend to do that. You can definitely sell things without DRM, and selling without DRM may make more economic sense than selling with DRM.

I guess I maybe just see legitimate uses for DRM alongside of the obvious problematic uses.
If you're <a thing> who has bought into some blogger saying you aren't cut out to be an entrepreneur because of <aforementioned thing>, then maybe you aren't cut out to be an entrepreneur.

One of the very best things about being an entrepreneur is that you get to ignore what everyone else thinks qualifies or disqualifies you. The only thing that matters is what you make (or more accurately, what you do with what you make).
This is not the case, because in the constructor person is being set to the argument. If the argument is not supplied (undefined), calling the instantiated object's gender property will result in undefined. [tested and confirmed]
yeah, they do. but those aren't relativistic effects, they're quantum effects.
Asynchronous Personalization at Groupon - JSConf 2011
Anything like this for Python?
great description of the development process for a small web app.
I think there should be more stories like this - too many developers seem to compress their work into "tutorial form", which doesn't give any insight into the difficulty involved or mistakes made along the way.
I think this analysis is probably correct for many people. However, the 27" iMac can now be used as a pretty terrific monitor when it's outlived its current lifespan. Considering the equivalent Apple display costs about $1000 new, that makes the iMac a great bargain when I upgrade to a new laptop in a few years.
"because we could".
This would be a dream come true for me. I can finally work from home 100% of the time without a boss or anyone to answer to. I can dedicate all my love and passion for web development to Sortfolio.

The only problem is, what is considered a "serious" offer for Jason??? Hmmmm... What if I offer something a lot higher than what he had in mind? (I doubt it)...

Would you take a home equity loan to buy Sortfolio? I am considering it :)
Except for when it's not. According to the linked article, their business model is that they'll help protect you from the patent trolling of larger companies. For example, if you pay them $X,000 a month and you get sued by Microsoft for patent infringement, RPX will try to counter-sue Microsoft for infringing one of their patents.

It's not a complete solution to patent trolls, but it seems like RPX could provide a very legitimate service to companies that want to focus on building their business instead of worrying about getting patent-trolled by a competitor. It can't save you from getting sued by a completely non-practicing entity like Intellectual Ventures, but nothing else can yet either.
I'd imagine: Easy to store, easy to interface with, can be passed around, relatively cheap, easier software installation than some OS, don't take much desk space.

Anyone else other ideas?
Appropedia: The sustainability wiki
The complete opposite is true for me. HTML should be as clean and simplistic as possible, which is why it makes sense to me write HAML instead of HTML for .rb

CSS, however, is the fun where the true art of front-end design happens, so I think it's fun to play with a forgiving syntax.
the gmail plugin looks like one of the more worthwhile plugins to me, but it has the least feedback, while the "takes questions" plugin, which seems almost useless, has the most feedback. what am i missing?!
True, but it certainly is a dimensionless number that you can't get rid of (and that actually shows up in physical formulae, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulomb%27s_law). Come to think of it, so is 2.

I guess if you tried to measure π by constructing circles, you'd actually be measuring the curvature tensor of space (which is an experimental observation), not π (which is just π).
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I run Facebook ads all day at my job and you're definitely going to have to pay much more for ads in U.S. (over Canada or anywhere else). In addition, starting your ads at a lower CPC will get you a lower quality score for your ad -- so even if you get served initially, the life-span of your ad getting served on Facebook will be much less. You will then have to reupload and start spending at a higher CPC much quicker. Of course if you're a small business, starting out at a much higher CPC (>$1) and running a lot of initial volume might not be feasible for most people. You need to start out with greater than .100% CTR if you want to have the ad sustain for a long period of time. Running celebrity ads for a short period of time will work, but you could be looking at C&D at some point if you're running a huge amount of volume.

Edit: At the end of the day CPC and CTR are useless if you can't drive enough volume from the ads based on your targeting.

Edit 2: Targeting 30+ women will get you a higher landing page conversion and CTR (obviously depends on the vertical, but in general).
I quick check of the Ruby documentation (http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/) suggests that raise and fail are the same method.

Is there an actual difference between these methods?
There Goes the Data: Major Cuts at EIA Washington
Obama's Trophies
And it really bothers me that I have absolutely 0% chance
of seeing the year 2160.

With exponentially advancing science and all that, I'm envisioning nanobots killing cancer cells, cleaning out blood vessels, keeping my neurons connected and renewing everything that needs renewing. Don't be too sure you won't see 2160.
I was excited for this until I read that user-installed root CAs are allowed to override the pinning. I suppose it's still a good development though.
I don't mean to be pedantic, but the word "transparent", in this context, means "easily perceived or detected". I believe you're using it to mean the opposite.
"Kurzweil takes 150 pills a day, some 70 to 80 different substances"

Wow, WTF. I can't imagine keeping track of all those, and can only wonder if he's overdosing on any of them. Doesn't it wreak havoc with your digestive system?

<Rambling ahead> That said, I do take vitamin D supplements since I'm not spending as much time outside as I used to(I miss the lazy days of summer in university), and thus not getting as much Vitamin D. Last year my doctor told me that my Vitamin D levels were low and prescribed a once-a-week dosage of 10,000IUs of it for a couple months. After that I started consuming 2,000IUs / day, 4-6 days per week. The consensus is that the minimum amount is 400IUs, so I do more simply because I know I'm inclined to miss a day here and there.

I suppose time will tell just how effective Vitamin D really is, but I'm fairly certain that I'm helping myself by taking it. Besides, an ounce of prevention's worth a pound of cure, and each $5 bottle of the stuff lasts me several months.
Actually I wrote the article after attending the Red Dirt Ruby Conference and getting HAML evangelism left and right. :)
Warner Bros Acquires Flixter and film review site Rotten Tomatoes
> Why not start the split earlier for those who actively refuse to be educated?

Because:

(A) in high school they're still kids, and

(B) one main goal here is to have an educated citizenry, and this means educating all kids as well as we can, whether the kids themselves think it's a good idea or not. :)
A movie giant owning a site reviewing their own movies sounds worrying? Try Metacritic.com as the replacement for RT and Filmaster.com as the replacement for Flixter (it's in app store as well!). It's not like there are no other options.
What about Jenkins?
Watch fast five online
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US becomes net exporter of petroleum
I think it's gonna be China eventually. And instead of WW 3, it's going to be Cold War 2.
> This is about Intel cementing and extending its complete and total dominance of high end digital logic fabrication.

Given that, (and given that Intel has been dominant in process technology for some time now) I've always wondered why Intel doesn't do fabrication for third party, high-performance/high-margin/high-power-budget products that don't directly compete with Intel's main CPU product line. Networking/telecom processors, top-end FPGAs, DSPs, and so forth. Is it just that they are at capacity making CPUs and don't see any need to get into that business? Or do they do it already and I'm just not aware?
The Argumentative Theory
Given that the iPad 2 is still completely out of stock (for the most part), you're unlikely to find any which are discounted.

But unless you're writing an app which uses the camera or accelerometer, you can get away with using the simulator while you do most of your development.
A dead martyr has no money. So there's that. The rest remains to be seen.
Ruby is far from the only language that is commonly used without explicit return statements (and it at least has them). It's just currently the most popular one.
I don't see how anyone can be anything else but enthused about this country
Teachers don't have a "yearly salary" per se ... instead, they have a number written on the contract that indicates what they'll be paid for the school year.

When someone says, "teacher $X makes $Y per year", it means that $Y is that number written on the contract for the school year.

Note, given that

* most teachers spend a couple of weeks after the school year ends tying up loose ends from the year and organizing themselves for next year,

* and then simply need time to decompress from dealing with a large number of kids every day for so long,

* and also that they spend the weeks before school begins prepping for the new year and doing professional development,

there's not really much time in between to get another full-time temporary job to supplement their income.
A $300 idea that is priceless
Do you believe in eschewing certain foods and favoring other foods because of their health benefits? I don't see it as a huge leap in logic to believe that certain supplements - properly prepared, packaged, and delivered into the body - can confer similar health benefits.
I'm always struck by how down-to-earth and pragmatic Linus is, compared to a lot of the Linux peanut gallery. One thing in particular made me very happy: He sees Linux as a Unix, and not some "Unix-like" operating system.

(Yes, let the lawyers and marketing droids point out that "UNIX" is a trademark of the Open System Group and that no Linux distribution has been registered as comformant to the Single Unix Specification, but that doesn't change the reality that Linux is a Unix.)
> the word "transparent", in this context, means "easily perceived or detected"

This definition doesn't make much sense to me. Transparent objects are less easily perceived/detected than opaque objects. In technology, transparent proxies/compression/encryption are designed to have little/no impact on their contained data.
The quantum tunneling effect [1] is what you are referring to, right?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling
Disqus Raises $10 Million, Doubles in Size Despite Facebook Comments
As for #1, when you do `git commit` it launches your $EDITOR (at least on GNU/Linux, I've never owned a Mac), which should spellcheck for you.
So, what can we conclude? There may or may not be intelligent somewhere else, and there exists no god such that...?

In short, we have concluded nothing because as good scientists we know that we don't have enough information to conclude anything here.

Back to HN stories?
Deliberate Practice: How Education Fails to Produce Expertise
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here. The stuff that has to be re-written is everything in Numpy that is performance-critical and currently written in C. Given the nature of Numpy, that's almost everything.

The only alternative would be to make PyPy compatible enough with CPython to be able to load Numpy, but that would prevent you from taking advantage of many of PyPy's best features.

The only tiny set of functionality referenced in the article is the portion of Numpy which has already been rewritten as a proof of concept. Much, much more still has to be done before there is a generally useful version of Numpy for PyPy.
This is a pretty well known text, almost a classical on procrastination. Posted on HN at least once in 6 months.
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I think this word uses the assumption that between you and them is an object. If the object is transparent, you can see what they are doing. If it is not, and it is a cloak of some sort, you cannot see what they are doing.
Do you have the personality to be in influencer?
I disagree. I don't think it changes the user experience.
TechCrunch: Socialcam launches new Web interface
Nope! It's strictly a style issue. As I explain in the video (or the book if you buy it), as a result of a conversation with Jim Weirich I'm starting to use "fail" once again.
There are some things that HAML simply won't do

Like what?

I have never bumped into anything haml wouldn't let me do.
Does the author know that he can embed raw HTML with :plain and friends?
(which, btw, are very rarely needed in practice)
But the keyword is my.
Ramble ramble. On Patch. By Tim Armstrong
Oh, I just meant that those (confusion with `this` and `var`) were pretty silly things to point to in praise of CoffeeScript, as they are so easy to understand and fundamental to JavaScript. Like you said, CoffeeScript is aimed at a broader audience than those who can't grasp JS basics.
I'm gathering feedback on which format to work on next. So far the most-requested has been .epub.
Why does the 30 yr old spend more on gas (in the initial estimate)?
Zynga blocks co-founder's stock sale
You don't break to get coffee or use the bathroom?
Pretty much. Looking at it, there's a lot of things that need to be fleshed out before it's actually ready.

EDIT: The main concern I have over this is that it basically forces a state into an already stateless protocol. Streams need to be established, which means that they need a state(up/down/in-between), and both the server and client(browser, in this case) needs to maintain it.

For example:

1. Should the protocol allow browsers to combine streams? I.e. if a user is accessing 3 different youtube videos in HTML5 mode, can the browser do 1 stream for the various static elements on the page, and 3 or more streams for the video and other content?

This can make the browser feel faster even when loading non-cached pages, so it's definitely desirable. However, it's a lot more work on both the browser and the server to maintain it.

2. What rules are there for streams? The draft states that 1 HTTP request and response should be used per stream, but would it make sense to allow the browser and server to assign streams? How are browser-instantiated streams different from server instantiated ones? Do those need any additional rules?

3. Should SPDY be content agnostic(where a stream is a stream), or would it make sense to have several QoS levels assigned to them(i.e. high for video or other streaming data, medium for control, low for static elements)?

4.(related to 3) Does HTML, CGI, etc. need to be extended to handle this, or should it be left up to the server/browsers to implement it?
This is kind of off-topic, but I've always wondered, the pictures in Joel's articles (and this one, even though not by Joel) always seem to be completely random. Am I missing some relationship to the content? If not, what is the reasoning for having random pictures?
Good link. I find it interesting that some people think that the point of singularity will be some cataclysmic event.

I use this analogy instead:

Many years ago, prehistoric man was inventing and creating tools at a certain (slow) rate. Then, one day, they created a tool that could create other tools. And the rate of tool invention accelerated.

Prior to that first point of "singularity", you could probably accurately predict the rate at which tools would be created. But you could not accurately predict what would happen once you had tools that could create other tools.

That "singularity" wasn't some cataclysmic point in time. But the rate of advancement changed dramatically then. I think we have another one of those coming up.

Think that analogy holds up?
As I replied above, I'll probably work on Epub first because that's the format I got the most requests for when I did a survey. But after that I'd be happy to get some Mobi pointers. Email me!
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Does Apache support SPDY?
Female Venture Capitalists use Intuition but dont drink the Kool-Aid
Volvo Says the S60 is Sporty, Elegant and Safe
Good try, but I am happy where I am at.
yeah, but the simulator ain't the same experience as actually using a real ipad. plus i want to do some development experiments using the camera kit and new hdmi connector.
Elsewhere Joel has talked about how just having pictures (any kind of pictures) in his blog articles made them much more readable and that they were accepted much more positively than just a wall of text.
No.. you'd have to patch the OS itself.. you don't have access to the low level stuff needed unless you patch the OS directly.
I'm just about to hit 30 and taking more entrepreneurial risks. I feel like the knowledge I've gained in the business world is immensely helpful.

In general, it seems that the older you get, the opportunity costs for risks increase. Not just monetarily speaking but also other things you may have to cut back on - family, friends, etc.
My current project is a solution to this.
> > Teaching any controversial subject that a parent decides to complain about? Gone.

> It's not clear to me why this would follow from a lack of teachers' unions.

The union sets up fairly strict protocols that the administration must follow if they want to fire a tenured teacher (the administration can, of course, let go a non-tenured teacher at any time).

The school administration is led by the superintendent of schools -- an elected position. The superintendent gets paid a lot of money and wants to get reelected. If parents complain to the super -- and they do -- then the super wants to placate them to ensure reelection.

Kids are kids, and they exaggerate (and often lie) to their parents about school. Parents want to believe that their child is telling the truth about mean Mr. Teacher picking on them, being too tough on them, grading them too harshly, or assigning too much homework. So parents quite often complain to the principal (who works directly for the super and is not part of the teacher's union), or even directly to the super.
My favorite quote --> "I think any institution that requires society to bail it out, should have a system that leaves the CEO and their spouse dead broke. I think the board of directors should suffer as well, pay back the last five years of fees or something. You ought to have something in place that makes it painful to the people involved if there is failure."
The Gutenberg Method of education
Is your time worth so little that you're wringing your hands over saving ten or twenty dollars on an iPad 2? You claim that you want one so that you can develop applications on it and make money off its users, who are "obviously willing to pay for quality apps," so why not use the time you save hunting down a bargain on writing a better app, an app that (more?) people will pay (more?) for?

Here's a rule for starters: avoid unnecessary extravagances e.g. Aeron chairs but don't waste your time clipping coupons.

Also, you're going to need to join the developer program for a hundred dollars a year if you want to submit an app, and, no, I don't think there are any discount codes floating around the internet to help you save on that.

Lest I be accused of being entirely negative: Have you considered buying a first-generation iPad? Do you really need a current model?
I can't even go on TC anymore because there is no trolling or funny comments. FB comments killed the discussion there. BRING BACK DISQUS! Also - they have a digg button where every article has 0 diggs, wtf is the point? I bet Arrington is an investor with someone high up at Digg, etc.
This is an incredibly narrow view of the world. There are billions in China and India alone without even counting Africa. If you don't believe Google wants those eyes then you haven't been paying attention to how much effort they have been putting into Africa.

And no, you can't build this stuff in userland. Everybody could go install Cyanogen on their handset, but that's obviously not tenable for the general consumer.
Ah, I thought it was a travel site.
Longer commute? More time consuming 'fun'?
Agreed.

It's not consumer internet but I always look at how Colonel Sanders made his mark after he turned 65 as inspiration for the future: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Sanders
I can't read this, it's too moving. Maybe in parts.
It's shameless self-promotion, but my startup Leanpub (http://leanpub.com) lets you write in HTML or Markdown, embed external code samples, save your files in Dropbox and produce PDF, EPUB and MOBI with one click. We sell all 3 formats, with automatic update distribution to existing readers when you publish a new version (so you can sell your book while it's in progress). You keep the rights to your book, etc.
How much of a tear jerker was the last sentence?

"I loved you deeply, I loved you, I loved you, I loved you."
So, according to the article, there is:
1) No scientific consensus whether these supplements will make you live longer or not.
2) A web page where Kurzweil sells these supplements.

Can someone explain why I shouldn't think of this the same way that I think about homeopathy etc.?
Is it just me or is this the 100th "SASS rules but HAML drools" article this week? This one doesn't even point out the biggest weakness of HAML, that it is terrible at inline markup.
The world's first in a production technology
Nah, I know PHP frameworks exist. I've just never used them. The last time I tried to use CodeIgniter it made me want to cry. I'm not smart enough for that stuff stuff. Plus I've been using Django for about two years. It only made sense, don't you think?

Thanks for your comments, though, folks!
My First Month with a Company Using Google Apps
Thx for the link, this was a very emotional read.
Apple releases iOS 4.3.3 to patch location bugs