skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love it. I am only using the Django templates (included by google). It is a great platform and even better if you don't want to be a sys admin.

There have been a couple threads on here about the good and bad of the platform. I have only had a good experience. You will need to embrace the way they do things to get the most from it.
I'm inclined to agree. Also considering the quality of info and relevance of associated audio samples. Also, meatsock? As in the dude from the c8 forums and slsk breakcore chat back in the day? Odd to catch you here. It's rob/robad/etc from sickmode etc :)
> It's hard to pay rent when your only profit is the ability to copy other people's work.

Worked for Edison.

On a more serious note, if everyone is copying from everyone else, we're all on a level in that respect and the only differentiating factor becomes, again, some kind of individual talent. It might be an Edison-like talent for copying, a more Negativland-like talent for copying and remixing to make something new, or a Brian Wilson-like talent for creating something that's about as novel as anything can be.
You're probably right about the downvotes, but the article itself made an appeal to authority and majority (i.e. "many economists"), and I wanted to counter that with a specific exception, and I see no harm in citing him by name.

On your other point, I don't put much stock in the decades worth of obfuscation that have followed, such as the silly praise for breaking windows, or digging holes and filling them back up, or other activities only sustainable by confiscating or devaluing property.

Here's the thing about gold. I don't care if anyone uses or does not use gold to settle business. I just don't want anyone interfering with people who do choose to use it. (Same goes for bitcoin etc.) That is to say, no harassment, no fines, and no jail time. That's all I ask.
Maybe they'll end up with something like Processing's[1] versioning scheme, where there are fairly regular numbered releases (e.g., release 0115) and some are granted a special status (e.g., release 0196 = version 1.5.1). I suppose it's really just another 'layer' of versioning: VCS commit -> release number -> version number instead of VCS commit -> version number.

[1] http://processing.org
Snap 0.5.0 released (Haskell Web Framework)
> Lisp allows inline assembly

Not according to the standard.

> C and Forth can do the same

Can. Not necessarily will.
Screenshots using vector graphics (gtk3 apps only)
I believe that you're not actually allowed to make up the difference under Kickstarter's terms of service. One of the points of the system is that it's supposed to be vaguely like the original Groupon idea -- you only get paid if you get enough pledges to meet your goal. (Backers only have their credit cards charged once the project meets the dollar amount you've set.)

In practice, of course, there are ways around this. Payments all go through Amazon's system, and I believe that they enforce this rule by just making sure that none of the credit cards for backers are under the same name as the Amazon payment account. If you just get a friend to pay for the difference and then write them a check for the amount you could get away with it.
"Some of you probably know that Python is currently at a bit of a crossroads. Python 2.x was the stable Python version for many years, but recently it was replaced by Python 3.x."

Python 3 has not "replaced" Python 2. The reality is quite a bit more nuanced than this, and it is hardly a bad thing that Django does not support Python 3 right now. To give this section the heading of "The great divide" is just a tiny bit hyperbolic.

From the top of the python.org page dedicated to the subject[1]:

Python 2.x is the status quo, Python 3.x is the shiny new thing

Also from that same page, here are some of the key things in Python 3 that are not in Python 2 yet:

* function annotations

* syntax for keyword-only arguments

* extended tuple unpacking

* non-local variable declarations

There is nothing in this list that a developer must have in order to develop their app, and there are no Python 3 exclusive projects that do not work with Python 2.

The fact that few major Python projects are currently ported to Python 3 is not evidence of some tremendous looming problem in the Python language. It is evidence that Python 3 is only, really, an evolutionary transition from Python 2 and that this transition has a long time horizon.

The move from Python 2 to Python 3 is nothing like the move from Ruby 1.8 to Ruby 1.9. There are no dramatic speed or stability improvements that make Python 3 something that is terrible to miss out on, and there is no rush to get projects ported to Python 3. It will happen when it happens.

[1] http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3
Nice!

I would tho rather like to see the project use something like CoffeeKup than textile to keep it pure of heart.

Btw, I did do a pull request when I first commented ;-)
Even truer in regard to the Bild Zeitung.
Not exactly the kind of newspaper that would make one dumber for not reading it, kinda like the German version of The Sun.
Maybe because this story is in the Economist and not just some random blog?
I sympathize with your position. Kurzweil seems to regularly makes strong remarks that shock me in their assertive naivety.

However, our species is incredibly poor at intuitively understanding exponential trends. Kurzweil's essential point is that our gut-feeling predictions of the future will be off substantially. Specifically, our intuitive sense of future progress significantly underestimates actual progress and the gap systematically widens as time progresses.

Neither you or I could have intuitively predicted twenty years ago the level of today's technological advancement. And we'd be even more wrong in the predicting the next twenty.

It's far too easy to dismiss Kurzweil's work as that of a superficial nutjob who wants to "sell more books and speaking engagements." Kuzweil's crunched the numbers. While he might not be right on everything, his predictions are based on data, but yours are based on human intuition that has historically been wrong.

I would be very careful of the knee-jerk reaction you display to Kurzweil's work. Keep in mind we are cognitively disabled at intuitively predicting exponential progress.
> Number theory relates because his question suggests that a transcendental length

That isn't what the field of number theory concerns itself with.
The same could be said for the other camp. Give it a rest; he chose one version to post that you didn't happen to like, many do.
I worked at the library at a university library for a while. I hadn't heard about the issues you mentioned, but the issue of this article was very common.

It stemmed from our lending policy. Undergrads could get a book for two weeks, but had a two-week grace period on renewals (sorta weird). Grad students and professors could check out books for the entire academic year, they were supposed to physically bring in their books for renewal once a year, but many times they could convince staff to just renew all books on their accounts. Some professors had over 100 books checked out and many didn't know how many they had checked out. The common response to inquiries was to tell the student to go talk to the professor. We were allowed to give out professors names.
That's fine and dandy until you search for something and the results return something in there randomly and is considered a threat to national security or of interest for you to be watched. Then your browser starts downloading a page you never intend to visit and you get logged as interested in terrorist activity. This is not good news.
This is brilliant. I have a fake one for no particular reason, and also with no friends, but I think I will start using it for this reason alone.
I think you mean "That could mean that FB..."

There's less than a thousand respondents in this HN poll, and HN isn't likely a representative sample of FB users.
> I'm tired of the Kurzweil meme because I feel that it gives people a comfort that we'll reach some kind of Utopia without much effort.

Sounds like you're arguing we shouldn't hold comforting beliefs because, even if they are true, they might make us less productive. However, I think it is wiser to hold beliefs that are true, always. The reason is that it is, in general, far more valuable to hold correct beliefs than false ones. The fact that there are some special cases where holding false beliefs is better is useless, because there is no way to know when those cases are without first having correct beliefs.

Further, Kurzweil has (obviously) never argued that it wouldn't take any effort to bring these technologies about. What he has argued is that we will put forth the effort to make them happen. If anything, it is rather discomforting to think about how much work is going to have to go into this.
I think seeing the huge project structure after initializing a Rails app vs. a Django app is what keeps me away from Rails. I prefer a minimal starting base that lets me immediately make decisions about my app. I do need to give rails another chance though.
I (and lots of others) use the same 6 digit, lowercase, dictionary-based word. Something like 'monkey' or 'password'
Maybe. This means that the performance bottleneck is the database. Does this justify the use of a slower framework ? I don't think so.

I'll use an SQL db and CPython for the MVP, but I have an open road in front of me to optimize with NoSQL, PyPy, wherever it is required.

Note that there are many other parameters to consider, like ease of programming, toolbox richness, reliability of code, etc. The choice is up to you according to your weighting of theses parameters.
If the context is strictly investment, intrinsic value (aka "wealth") is not an especially useful concept. If your context is marketing, it might be more useful, though questions like the one asked of gold, and similar in the context of bitcoin, are mostly an intellectual curiosity. And either way, there is yet no known way to measure intrinsic value.

For example if you want to compare the value of a solar-powered calculator in 2011 to the value of a viking longship in 1011, market value doesn't work because the markets are simply not compatible. But there is still value there, both relative to people of the time and in an absolute sense.
Sure, such as Walter Duranty, the famous admirer of Stalin. But I like to discuss specifics. I disagree with Walter Duranty and Stalin on many points, and I agree with George Robinson on many points. I'm willing to discuss all of these things on their own conceptual and moral merits, beyond many of the overly high-level responses I've seen here.
This is a sample largely consisting of web developers, and people who know that you can have more than one account. That conclusion doesn't follow, in my opinion.
Text engages the brain, and the brain likes reading it. What's wrong with that? People write their thoughts, erratic and pointless, and other people read them. Obviously the signal to noise ratio will be very low, but so what? By the same reasoning, we should cut down 98% of our verbal communication too.
Is anyone else not eager to see these legalized? I'm very interested in psychedelics--and an occasional user--but I've seen what can happen when someone who shouldn't be taking them has a bad trip.

Sometimes, it's not even a matter of preparation. A friend and I decided that we wanted to experience a psychedelic. We spent the year prior to our experience reading trip reports and literature, listening to lectures, etc. and had seemingly done everything within reason to prepare. Yet when the moment came, my friend fought it with every ounce of his being and is still recovering from the anxiety this experience caused nearly two years ago.

The fact is, psychedelics are NOT for everybody. To get the positive effects this study reports requires a good deal of preparation, a proper set and setting, and a trusted sitter who can help right the ship if anxiety starts to creep in. Even then, there are those among us--like my friend--who are unable to let go of control and surrender themselves to the experience.

Certainly one can make the argument that legalization/regulation could provide greater controls over who swallows the pill and who doesn't, but I'm not sure that is true. On the other hand, it is unfortunate that something that can be so beneficial to an individual can at the same time be so destructive (referring to the legal consequences this time). But, the way it stands now, someone who is serious about pursuing this experience can grow the mushrooms themselves for relatively little cost and at relatively little risk (provided they don't sell to others).

The current situation (with perhaps some softer penalties against possession) of limited medical research and legally available spores seems to me satisfactory. Is it ideal? No, certainly not. But is it optimal, given the reality of politics, law, and our attitude towards "drugs"? Perhaps.
I was thinking of a peer-reviewed twitter, anonymous of course.
"Take a wealthy individual who is a limited partner in several VC funds. Like most wealthy individuals, he has investments across numerous asset classes. Many of those asset classes (equities, commodities, etc.) are heavily impacted by the Fed's policies. Needless to say, this individual is far more likely to feel comfortable pouring some money into a new VC fund he has been pitched when his other investments are doing well courtesy of Helicopter Ben's printing press."

That's just exactly wrong.

"Helicopter Ben", as you oh-so-blithely put it, is injecting money into the economy (as was Greenspan -- a famous conservative -- who started the process). This tends to lower interest rates across all sorts of different asset classes. It's a big part of the reason that savings accounts are returning <<1%, and why people have been taking their chances on ever-riskier investments for the better part of two decades. They can't get returns in safer asset classes.

People aren't investing in VC funds because they "feel comfortable" -- they're investing in VC funds because they can't match the inflation rate in anything better. Nobody invests in a high-risk asset if they can get great returns in a low-risk asset, no matter how "comfortable" they may feel.
A couple of links containing stuff every psychonaut should know:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_and_setting

http://deoxy.org/poru.htm

http://deoxy.org/pdfa/kidz.htm
businesses that advertise on facebook are pretty much forced into using more than one account as well
The thing is, the blog format is a pretty lightweight format. It works for a large variety of purposes. More to the point, it works well as a searchable archive of essays. I agree that a ordering that de-emphasized time would be preferable, but it would either be replaced with wiki-walking or cumbersome index pages (and how would those be sorted? Recency is still a good ordering there.)
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He writes a whole book to support those assertions, but I only had time to hit the high points here.

I have no interest in getting all religious or dogmatic about gold, silver, bitcoin, US dollars, Euros, or any other form of money. My real point is: let individuals decide what forms of money they wish to use, without harassment.

Clearly the practice at the time of banks lending money to buy stocks and Florida real estate, using stocks as collateral for those loans, was insane and unsustainable. In effect, common stocks were indeed monetized, and this led to an enormous boom in the money supply which enabled and encouraged the mis-allocation of capital. When that stops, people suffer, no doubt about it.

It was just sick what certain people did back then to keep prices propped up artificially high. They would spy on farmers to make sure they didn't produce too much, and if they did, they'd go in and burn crops and slaughter hogs. This while people were going hungry. I had a neighbor who, as a 14 year old boy, was hired to drive around the countryside spying on farmers. A dry cleaner who charged too little for his services was imprisoned. The authoritarians fought deflation tooth and nail, and years of misery was the result.
A great example of this is Star Trek. They can travel at warp speed, but they can't use a communicator to send a video signal back to the ship, the captain has to beam down to see it himself...
A blog can easily be structured by categories or something and still stay a "blog".

One big question is, what happens with information, when it gets out of date? For example, you write a blog post "Scala is the greatest language ever" and a few years later you decide "Lisp is the greatest language ever". In blog-form you write another entry. In contrast, a wiki-form would mean to change a page, such the the old Scala entry is only reachable some revision system, if at all.
Your comment supports the argument of the post.
> Sometimes, it's not even a matter of preparation. A friend and I decided that we wanted to experience a psychedelic. We spent the year prior to our experience reading trip reports and literature, listening to lectures, etc. and had seemingly done everything within reason to prepare.

I'd say you overdid it.

> The fact is, psychedelics are NOT for everybody.

Neither is alcohol. But if you are over 18, this should not be for the government to decide.
It's also true that users have moved to Firefox from Chrome, being that for example depending on the metric Firefox is faster, but mostly the same speed. QEMU in javascript is a good example of a real world example where Firefox's javascript engine doubled Chrome's speed or thereabouts.
Programming is people coding upon the shoulders of others... or once the magician does his trick the trick changes from "impossible" to "there's a way to do it". Also some languages are better suited for some tasks than others.

Sounds like you want a path of least resistance, then look at what similar services are running on top of, if they pull off the features you desire those platforms would be something to take note of.

Next talk to the people who will be doing the work, see what they think, show them examples ("this is the magic I want on my site, can we pull it off with platform X? and can we do better by also implementing feature Y?") They know their tools and see behind the magic, they can tell you how they could pull it off with their tricks (some might even start their gears turning and give suggestions). Those that can see it and build upon it could be what you are looking for. Of course you want a team so get second and third opinions to build a consensus.
In fairness, that's more of an "interesting TV" issue than a "failure of imagination" issue. A show about a bunch of people who sit around in a room teleoperating a robot probably would be a lot less interesting.
TechCrunch isn't really a good indication of browser market share, the type of user is more likely to use Chrome (usually sticks with the defaults even if they use extensions).

Also I'm not sure early adopters is a good description, Firefox users are more likely to care about usability, security, privacy, extensions that aren't possible with Chrome or that Google considers not important or don't want it (something like NoScript or RefControl) and open source (which Chrome is not, sure Chromium is but the distinction is important because of real world implications and other reasons). These things do tend to be more important for some early adopters, I'm not sure I'd grant "technical proficiency" to mere "tech enthusiast".
Did you consider emancipating yourself from your parents?
I've thought about this topic a lot lately. The issue with this is that in one way or another, all violent criminals have some sort of problem with their brain. They may not have a tumor or dementia, but something is wrong outside of their control. Should we punish them for that? And what is the alternative?

Well, I live in Norway, where the maximum sentence is 21 years. There are no life-sentences and certainly no death penalty. Even the top-security prisons are not too bad ( http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1986002,00.... ). The focus is on rehabilitation instead of punishment, and it seems to work quite good. The inmates can get an education and participate in social activites.

Our crime rate is quite low and while that probably is a result of our welfare system, there are no indications that humane prisons negatively impact crime rates at all.

And the thing is that even our so-called "luxury prisons" ends up being cheaper than the American hellholes because we keep our inmates in for much shorter periods of time and focus on making them productive members of society instead of cage-animals.
Could you go more into developing automation tools for biologists?
I didn't downvote this (I don't have that awesome power yet, anyway), but I think I see why people might.

Your arguments are phrased in such a way that it's unclear what's being said. Maybe you got this directly from Robinson, maybe you're doing a bad job summarizing - we can't tell.

Example: "The Fed's policies enabled the monetization of the WWI Liberty bonds, and the monetization of common stocks". What does that mean? Monetization means transforming something of value into a monetary payment. Social Security is a monetized benefit, Medicare is not - you can't take your share and spend it on a car. Stocks and bonds were always monetized: you can buy them and sell them at any time, pledge them as collateral, whatever. So what did the Fed do? It's kind of annoying when you read something which is said with great passion, but you can't really tell WHAT was just said without further explanation. And there are several example like that in your post.
Ask HN: Internationalizationizing Rails from the get go?
I'm currently burning the midnight oil and working hard on a project that I'm building for myself ( my very own bootstrapped startup ) and going through the motions of whether to internationalize the whole application. I'm keen to abstract the site's copy and text away from my views but whilst doing that I'm aware that I've done a large chunk of work towards fully abstracting the language of the site away from the internals.

Has anyone had any success stories of offering their product in say French or Italien to find that there was a large audience of non English speakers just waiting to find get hold your application?

The product I'm building is a Programmer Portfolio Network so there is no limit to it being focused on a particular locale but ( and this is going to sound bad ) is it really necessary to provide for languages other than English if your target audience is Web professionals?
Definitely not up to the usual Economist standards.
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