skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like this is a problem too. You actually got me thinking about this, and since I don't think I do this, how I avoid it.

I don't think I do anymore. I mean, I do less than other people, but I don't go deeper like I used to.

I think the solution, is books. I'm normally a little disdainful of those who have bookcases of technical (read: computer/programming) books, I can get the same or better info on the Internet (certain books excluded, but these books don't take entire bookcases).

But this is because I've progressed far enough in my understanding of this field that I wouldn't benefit particularly much from these books. Which, I think is why my learning in other areas has slowed, I no longer go to the bookstore. That means I don't by chance pick up a book on extra-dimensional physics. Because I don't need a book to help me pick up CodeIgniter or Python. This, of course, implies a tendency I have, to not go shopping, I only go into a store if I know what I'm going to buy.

I think that it is hugely beneficial to just walk through a bookstore, and just pick up a book on a subject that is interesting to you, that you _don't_ know a lot about.
Microsoft pays university $250,000 to move to Office 365
The best description of git branch that I've heard so far is: "git branch is File -> Save As for your current branch"
No. Be pleased that it is not "posterior stimulations".

Butt otherwise, remember that this is not Reddit. Kindly keep comments like this to a minimum.
Contributory copyright violation is a long standing element of copyright case law[1].

The parent poster is right under the current law (despite the downvotes). Google Product Search has numerous non-infringing uses, whereas a site that exists to do nothing more than link to pirated content will have a lot more difficulty in showing they aren't contributing to copyright violation.

The biggest, most recent case involving this was Grokster vs MGM [2]

The court found:

We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties[3]

Wikipedia has a good discussion of the ruling:

Justice Ginsburg, joined by Kennedy and Rehnquist, claim that "[t]his case differs markedly from Sony" based on insufficient evidence of noninfringing uses. On the other hand, Justice Breyer, joined by Stevens and O'Connor, claims "a strong demonstrated need for modifying Sony (or for interpreting Sony's standard more strictly) has not yet been shown," primarily because "the nature of [...] lawfully swapped files is such that it is reasonable to infer quantities of current lawful use roughly approximate to those at issue in Sony.[3]

The key point is * non infringing uses*. The court needs to be convinced that they exist, and this occurs on a case-by-case basis.

You (and I) may not like this law, but that is how it currently is being interpreted.

IANAL, etc.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributory_liability#Contribu...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grokster#The_history_of_the_cas...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM_Studios,_Inc._v._Grokster,_...
Jon Rubenstein: Touchpad's Lukewarm Reception Similar to the Original Mac OS X's
And the fact that Blackboard has significant patents around what they do...
AWS has the most cloud documentation out there.

MongoDB's site should point to a python MongoDB library.

If you use Zabbix to monitor AWS/MongoDB this resource is helpful: https://code.google.com/p/mikoomi/

I'm not sure what you mean by get started though. Anyway, you're not using obscure brands, so there should be plenty of results in looking them up.
Yes, and there is already a decent wrapper for backbone and tastypie http://joshbohde.com/blog/backbonejs-and-django This is my personal favorite.
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What's ironic is you actually picked an example I DID answer back in 2008. But I guess you did just a quick google search instead of actually reading the messages.

Ironic or intentional? ;)

It's quite clear you don't care about anything other than the well-being of domainers. I am done debating with you. You win pal.
April '93 UnixWorld cover - "Does Steve Jobs have a Future in Software?"

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbill/29870210/

Ironic to look back on now, considering that OS X and the Macs that a lot of us use are the direct descendants of NeXTStep and the NeXT hardware.

I owned a few slabs back in the day, and even found a picture of when I used one as my main desktop at an ISP in the late 90s: http://www.mrbill.net/next.jpg
I'm surprised the Maverick wasn't mentioned yet in the comments here. It looks far more fun and durable than the other flying car designs out there: http://mavericklsa.com/
As developer it's even worst, it's possible to develop module for the Blackboard platform and I had once to develop a module for that. Be aware you will see the worst documentation ever, even if you have access to all of it. 2 websites for the exact same thing, in which you have a zombie forum, a wiki in which there are a lot of empty pages, a lot of document which repeat almost the same exact example, etc. The platform is in Java ... and they don't provide the JavaDoc. Good thing I was paid, otherwise there is no way on earth I would have torture myself to do that thing.

Note: I wasn't working for Blackboard, but an other company which had got a contract to do a module for the Blackboard platform.
I would welcome a single-paragraph summarization of the findings.
These are some really prescient predictions...

- The home will double as a place of employment, with men and women conducting much of their work at the computer terminal. This will affect both the architecture and location of the home. It will also blur the distinction between places of residence and places of business, with uncertain effects on zoning, travel patterns and neighborhoods.

(This basically describes my life ;)

- Home-based shopping will permit consumers to control manufacturing directly, ordering exactly what they need for "production on demand."

(Kickstarter is a nice example.)

- There will be a shift away from conventional workplace and school socialization. Friends, peer groups and alliances will be determined electronically, creating classes of people based on interests and skills rather than age and social class.

(You're participating in one such peer group right now...)

- A new profession of information "brokers" and "managers" will emerge, serving as "gatekeepers," monitoring politicians and corporations and selectively releasing information to interested parties.

(Bloggers, obviously, but more interestingly, Wikileaks, Lulzsec, Anonymous...)
I don't have much to contribute to this discussion myself, but from what I've heard/read, at the beginning, you should target other entrepreneurs/early adopters and when you get some coverage/traction, move to your target audience for your product.

PS: I'm really interested with what you guys have to say about that.
"Yo Ruby, I'm really happy for you, but Erlang has one of the best VMs of all time."
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Sorry, this comment has entirely too many incorrect or unsupported claims... Don't quit your day job for that legal career yet.
No, I'm pretty sure Microsoft has been "evil" for a long time. We're talking 25+ years of non-stop "evil". :-) They destroyed Borland, WordPerfect, Lotus, Netscape, etc. They forced every PC maker to pay for Windows even if they didn't ship Windows on the hardware. They bought the Sybase source and made a cheaper SQL Server product, that essentially killed Sybase. They still have 90% of the desktop OS market, and their "Open Document Format", really isn't that open. Web browser innovation took almost a decade to recover, once they destroyed Netscape, and people still feel the need to support the very non-standard IE6. Recently they bought Nokia, essentially killing more choice in smartphones. Ok, get the idea? Great American capitalists that destroy all competition. :-)

Anyway, even if Microsoft makes money from Android, having Android creates more choice. That's really what consumers need because it reduces costs and spurs innovation.
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> Wow, you are really good at being covertly insulting[…]

I really don't know what all the claims in your first paragraph are all about, though something else you say gives me the idea of an explanation for some of it.

> To start of, let's not ignore how you decided to omit the lie of omission from your point by point response to my post.

Genuine oversight.

> You are quick to dismiss my points as pseudo-philosophical[…]

Ah. This, maybe. But no, I'm afraid you've misunderstood and not in a way that I feel I'm equipped to address now without sacrificing brevity or comfort.

> Regarding your "hah, jk," will you honestly say that even in situations where it would be socially awkward or even unacceptable?

Although you might take some glee in putting those words in my mouth (and with some truly terrible material, at that), no.

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There's more to be said for the rest of it, but my heart's not in it to counter at this point, especially since much of it would deal with addressing so many frivolities. Unfortunately, my inclination to do so is likely to come at a time when my ability to reply here is dead and the attention has moved elsewhere.

Do note that I'm not very excited at the prospects of giving the appearance of backing down.

> "Thank you for the food, it was very good... hah, jk, that was one of the most bland meals I have ever eaten"

Just awful.
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Ask HN: Is anyone using IfByPhone or Grasshopper?
I'm looking at virtual phone systems, and either these two are very new or they both hired Don Draper clones and suddenly are appearing in lots of ads on my favorite websites.

Is anyone here using a virtual phone system such as IfByPhone, Grasshopper or another? If so, what are the pros and cons for your company having moved from a physical PBX&/IVR infrastructure?
Line from the article, "But for all the potential benefits the new technology may bring, the report said, there will be unpleasant ''trade offs'' in ''control."

That surely came about in ways they could not have imagined.
No worse than EVIL APPLE EMPIRE locking you in their garden.
I get that. It's probably related to how many libraries you use and a lot of other things? There might be pathological ways to make it happen more frequently. It all depends on how and when it happens though.
[Outcome] Reporting bias?
It's funny, I had just the opposite reaction. To my eyes it seems like we have technology that far exceeds what they envisioned but we haven't managed to be anywhere near as effective at the predicted at using it. To run down the list...

"The home will double as a place of employment" - We easily have the technology to do this and I'd guess 80% or more of jobs could be done from home yet the established pre-information technology culture keeps us driving into the office every day.

"Home-based shopping will permit consumers to control manufacturing directly" - Services like Amazon have made a lot more available but the products are largely the same. The technology exists for far greater customization but the profit margin would be lower so no one has done it.

"A new profession of information ''brokers'' and ''managers'' will emerge" - This has happened but rather than "monitor" politicians and corporations these brokers tend to work for them more often than not.

"The ''extended family'' might be recreated if the elderly can support themselves through electronic homework" - I'd concede e-mail has made it easier to keep in touch with my grandparents but beyond that technology hasn't done that much for me. Heck, one of my grandparents has an iPhone now and we don't even do the weepy video chats like you see in the Apple commercials.

I guess you could say it has created some diversity in politics by giving voice to the minority but the two biggest Political Internet phenomenons of the last decade (Howard Dean and Ron Paul) didn't get anywhere near being in actual power.
which is exactly as it should be. Expecting workers to work for lower-than-survival rates is a Bad Thing.

The question we should be asking isn't "how can we make low skill workers work for less money?".
That is a race to the bottom that results in bigger societal problems and overall, bigger societal costs as those dispossessed people who are expected to work longer hours for less money than they can survive on realise that its easier and more profitable (and therefore more economically rational) to mug people in their homes, strip copper from empty houses and bridges and generally turn to crime.
pretty cool and instant money maker with amazon's partner program
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As if EU politicians weren't letting american IP lobbies bully the sh out of them and just passing laws that mirror american IP laws.

As a Spaniard and thanks to Wikileaks we've had the inside info on how the spanish government dropped their pants and let the american ambassador have a say on our IP enforcing laws so they followed the american lobby agenda. And we were one of the most rebel EU countries, others went down way easier... (Allô la France!)
Steve Jobs The Future of Objects at OpenStep Day 1995
Well, there's the SMOM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Mal...). Sovereign, but doesn't own any land except for a building in Rome.
have you ever been in the train and caught eyes with someone? this would be the perfect opportunity to hand off this card (minus the personal deets)... the doors close and you've been left with the opportunity to find that person again. i love the idea, but maybe it's because i'm a girl. : (
I'll break from the crowd and tell you not to do it. First because I wouldn't personally find it useful. Second because this space is very crowded with people vying for affiliate revenue and you will have a long and slow crawl to any organic visibility, and third because the lack of progress/activity among the sites that you list suggests there is very little in the way of revenue anyway.

Do something you really care about and that solves a problem for someone. Finding sequels to books is not a problem I think anyone has.
I'm giving up on this thread now. The endless downvotes instead of replies and people missing the point are just disheartening.

One more time, for the record: Your friend trusted you with their personal data, not Google. You may not personally have a problem with sharing your own personal data with Google, but not everyone is like you, and some people do. That doesn't mean they have a problem with sharing the data with you in the first place or that it was somehow unreasonable of them to give it to you.

I really can't understand why so few people in this discussion seem to understand the distinction. We have multiple Acts of Parliament on the subject here in the UK and an entire government department whose primary responsibility is enforcing the rules, so I'm clearly not the only one who gets it or thinks it's important. Maybe it's a cultural/generational thing, and the average person on HN just sees the world differently or something. Then again, the average person on HN today downvotes rather than replying if they disagree, based on my experience in this discussion and what's happened to several other people in other discussions I've been following, so things have obviously gone way downhill.
great.i am excited to start application g+
The investment firm will cut any product development budget, raise prices, cut customer service, and eventually drive all the customers away.

You know, I would be shocked if they could do a better job of this than Blackboard already has. It takes a special kind of malice to do that.
reading this one and I think it's super clear: http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/
Italian TelCo to Give Itself Power to Block Websites Without Any Legal Process
I think the tea party has been driven mostly by traditional media, namely talk radio and cable news (Rick Santelli's original rant was broadcast on CNBC). Of course there has been a lot of online organization but I think the main promotion occurred over traditional channels.
Great post.

I have often thought about the way I learn, and it's very much 'sponge learning' (nice term BTW).

I am on a journey to learn Clojure, and improve my JavaScript skills. Much like the author, I read blog-posts, books, the Google groups as well as take any code samples found there and play with them in the REPL. A lot of the posts (especially some on the Google Groups) don't always make sense to me - but I hope that I will have filed it away somewhere. Maybe someday it will all come together :)

Again, nice post.
Dell and HP manufacture almost nothing in the US. Many/most of their products aren't even designed in-house. They contract with Asian design houses and slap their own bezel on the result.

You're right about Intel. They are one of the few significant electronics companies left in the US. But they aren't representative of the category.
All three sound like they're duplicating the functionality that simply subscribing to the HN RSS feed will give you.

On the other hand, if you haven't subscribed to the HN RSS feed, or have deleted some of the items, then these would still provide a valuable service.
You Call This A Bubble?
Google can fail at Google+ because this is not their main product. Look at Buzz and Wave, they both failed spectacularly, and Google moved on to the next thing.

Like wise you can write a whole article about how Google standing by and doing nothing while Facebook dominates the social network scene is a mistake.
Sigh This is why you don't wait until the very last stage or after that point in the political process to lobby on an issue.
Ask HN: Finding time to work on personal projects
How do you find time to work on your personal projects(While working a 40+ hour work week)?

In my case I am currently interning in a IT related job, so I am staring at a computer screen for 8+ hours a day. By the time I get home the last thing I want to do is sit down and stare into another computer screen. The only real time I get to work on personal projects in late at night on weekdays for about an hour or two. At this rate I will never be able to complete anything in a reasonable amount of time. I travel/work a lot on the weekends(prime personal project time), so I can only really work on it then.
Your app mentioned in the blog post is throwing me an error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 700, in __call__
handler.get(*groups)
File "/base/data/home/apps/twordsie/1.347280040146141318/main.py", line 55, in get
'rows': [{'c': [{'v': tweet["text"]}]} for tweet in tweets]}
TypeError: string indices must be integers

You should install error handlers for server error(500), page not found(404), forbidden(403), and any others relevant for your app.

Regardless, 500 is the one you should generally install a handler for. It exposes details and flaws in your application which can be used in attacks.

Here is how you do that in django:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/views/#the...
Oh, come on. Are you really suggesting that a world that managed to build the Internet, where the mathematicians developed concepts like public key encryption and password hashing, where many banks routinely issue physical tokens for two-factor authentication before access to secure systems, and where several nations run national ID databases, we couldn't manage to devise a system where every user has unique credentials to access sensitive systems without those systems themselves being able to decrypt the user's data?

That's a load of nonsense. In the grand scheme of things, solving that problem is easy. We just haven't done it yet, because while Pandora's box is open, not enough people have yet come down with plague.

Sadly, that means things are going to have to get significantly worse before they get better. Still, as the ever-increasing leaks turn into more concrete problems like bad credit because your card was swiped, being arrested based on bad intelligence, or having your political career destroyed because the wrong private comments leaked out, sooner or later enough people with serious influence are going to get hurt for the situation to change.
I think Rich Hickey's Clojure bookshelf is a testament to the fact that much of the really deep stuff is still in books. Sadly many of these books aren't even on the shelves of a brick & mortar bookstore.

http://www.amazon.com/Clojure-Bookshelf/lm/R3LG3ZBZS4GCTH
Well, I an considering wanting to showcase Startups from my website. How did you get time with them to interview?
Santelli's rant occurred on CNBC, but it was watched and shared on YouTube. Mainstream media totally missed the Tea Party movement, which got rolling during the bailouts in late 2008 but wasn't really covered until after Scott Brown's surprise election win in the winter of 2010.
The overlapping of home and workplace appears to have been the primary pattern of human habitation since before the bronze age. It is the recent pattern of home and workplace segregation which has been facilitated by 20th century transportation technology which is the radical exception.
I used to sell NeXT software and hardware when working for a company called OpenSource (they actually owned the opensource.com domain name before RedHat got it).

At that time "open" meant interopable rather than the current "open source software" meaning. For instance, the DBkit and EOF database software could talk to Sybase or Oracle or any other database for which there was a driver.

As a result we used NeXTstations for all our tasks, and really, that was the best computing environment I have used. As another poster says, we really haven't "budged the needle" since Nextstep v3.3 of the OS.

Later while working for another company I got the ability to talk to Keith Ohlfs who designed the UI and personally thanked him for it.
"I don't even live there"
Poll: Which Language is your preferred JVM Language?
Many mature startups are rewriting their interpreted code for performance reasons. Typically they choose a JVM language for both speed and access to Java libraries. Lately, both Clojure and Scala have received much press. Which Language is your preferred JVM Language?
Machine code all the way
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"The technology exists for far greater customization but the profit margin would be lower so no one has done it."

CafePress, Zazzle, Shapeways, etc. I'll agree that it isn't as wide-spread as you might have expected from the prediction, but per-order production does exist.

Also, Howard Dean and Ron Paul HAVE actual power. Sure, they aren't the president, but to imply that governors, senators and congresspersons don't have any "REAL" power undersells both the positions and the work involved.
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Upon his arrival at Hogwarts Harry is sorted by the Sorting Hat in Gryffindor House Hogwarts Harry learns what it means to be controlled He learns much in his skill and principal teacher Dumbledore. He learns that all people come to wizard families Some people
For me it's all about how much I love the project I'm working on. Find something you're really... REALLY passionate about. If you're working full-time and want to be productive after work, you have to absolutely love the project almost to the point that it's a hobby and you're doing it for fun. If you don't have that level of enthusiasm, I can't think of any good advice that will give you the drive to put in the hours. Even if you love your project, it will still be hard, so you have to at LEAST be in love with what you're working on.
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