skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found the congestion I experience responsive to interventions that typically treat infection. For example, a prescription for antibiotics for an unrelated condition.

It's been extremely difficult to get doctors and other medical practitioners to respond to this information in any useful fashion. The only understanding of congestion and related symptoms that seems prevalent or understood is one of "allergic reaction".
Agreed. For a newcommer, the question "which framework is most worth my time investment" has has become rather daunting. Seems like the safest choices are the big ones like Rails or Django, but there always seems to be something tempting and fun on the horizon.
A Python framework for graph databases.
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J2 Labs is the name of my consulting company (and twitter account @j2labs).

Brubeck + DictShield are both projects that have risen from building API's for startups. I aim to make Brubeck as useful as possible for building web projects a quick and easy process, without sacrificing easy scaling.

My thinking here is that a solid model should help developers build their idea fast and make it through the early days of startups without breaking their backs.

I don't particularly like working with Tornado because it offers little support for the plethora of Python drivers that are blocking only. On top of that, the callback model, while powerful, can lead to some seriously confusing code.

I believe people will find the combination of Mongrel2, eventlet and a database agnostic modeling system (DictShield) very flexible.
hmmm... anybody knows if this is an issue for coffeescript generated javascript, too?
I think it's unfortunate that the power of choice isn't as appreciated outside the Python world but I can also relate to people who feel they have to read way too much stuff.

In spite of this, however, Brubeck indeed aims to be a one-stop shop. It uses coroutines + nonblocking I/O to make scaling up easy but it also a web.py style routing system because all of us know this style already.
"Spending too much Time with the Choice of Framework

This should probably go to the top. If you have a small application (say less than 10.000 lines of code) the framework probably isn't your problem anyways. And if you have more code than that, it's still not that hard to switch systems when you really have to. In fact even switching out core components like an ORM is possible and achievable if you write a little shim and get rid of that step by step. Better spend your time making the system better. The framework choice used to be a lot harder when the systems were incompatible. But this clearly no longer is the case."

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2010/12/24/common-mistakes-as-web-de...
The story of FCopy for the C-64
I'm not willing to relocate from upstate NY (starting a family, local extended family, own a house) and my pay is already in the range I could find at other companies in the area. I could probably get a 10 to 15% bump going somewhere else but that's about it. I also get the impression that jumping from job to job every year is frowned upon locally. That may not be the case everywhere.

Getting 30% increases each year means after 6 years you're making almost 4x what you started at! Congrats! That's just not possible where I live without starting your own company and being very successful.
I found the authors mistake:

"But now that students and parents are paying the majority of the cost of the education [...]"

WTH? Every society which basically favours people with deep pockets instead of intelligent, gifted people (and don't let yourself be fooled by "scholarships") is heading for a huge failure.

Real scientific research, political progress and prosperity of the nation will suffer from it (which is exactly what you can observe in the US).
The "Two Coin" Solution to the Federal Debt Limit
It's been my experience that when syncing a directory to Dropbox that contains symlinks to other directories, bad things happen, since Dropbox follows the links instead of copying them. On another machine, I would delete what I thought was just a symlink, and Dropbox would delete the entire linked directory from all machines. Not cool.

This has severely limited my Dropbox use, unfortunately. I wish there were an option to copy links instead of following them.
...and yet I know a ton of people who have fully-private Twitter accounts, every one of which who bemoan the fact that they don't /want/ to have a /fully/ private account, but that they are more comfortable sending an important subset of things they say to people they know, an are therefore stuck.

These people then end up having multiple Twitter accounts, which is a drastically more difficult "extra step" to perform when they go to post a new message: sufficiently so that a good number (most, in fact) of the people I know who do this simply don't bother, and /only/ keep the private account.

(Although, I personally am in this overall category, but chose to keep only the public one, and thereby simply "don't really use Twitter, as they apparently only care about weird totally-public PR garbage".)

If Twitter added the circles feature tomorrow, people who actually considered it a pain to think about simply wouldn't: they would ignore the box, and business would go on as usual. However, if they wanted the feature, they would probably start using Twitter a lot more; and, as they are no longer "rapidly" switching accounts before posting, that allocated time would be even more effective.

(Also, for the record, if Twitter did do this, it would be even extra awesome, as "listing" someone already provides all of the "circled" data model, meaning that a lot of people, like myself, for whom this feature would have immediate value, already have our followees organized usefully.)
2011 International Startup Festival of Montreal
Thoughts on Netflix’s New Plans and Price Changes
Seems like this could have significant positive consequences in many regions. Good on them. I don't know how the land would work for many of these homes but I take it India's not as onerous as most of Europe where the price of the land and permissions to build is usually far higher than the cost of the house itself..
How the movie studios caused Netflix’s problems
Back to back startups, all funded except my current one, since 1996. Pay your employees. There is no way around this. You should be RIF'ing well in advance of payroll looking dubious.

The terrible thing about this thread is that it's conflating 3 separate obligations:

* Payroll, which is inviolate

* Contracts

* Free users

There are different judgement calls to be made on all three of these (for instance, your office lease or a telco contract might have been set up for a year or more, and can't be dialed back on no notice).

But the judgement call on paying your employees is crystal clear. It is so clear that there are large US states where payroll obligations can pierce the corporate liability shield and attach to officers. Don't fuck around with this. If you're not sure you make your next two payroll cycles, you lay people off (ideally, you lay people off well in advance of that).
Depends on what javascript is generated. If it has a similar scenario to what was described in the post, then yeah it would cause problems.
The KNOWN immediate benefit is financial and environmental. People won't need to take as many bus schedules and the company won't need to waste money printing as many.
In the UK, it's a different ball game. A BBC story from 2004, "Clearing snow 'can get you sued'": http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3453039.stm

However, in recent months the government has noted that this was all a bit silly and now suggests that you won't get into trouble if you do the job properly. Still, a lot of FUD about this whole topic so people tend to just not bother.
I shan't read wired whether online or print any more. I do not know what the relationship is between Lamo or any wired editor, I understand, at least as far as lamo is concerned, there may be different political leanings or viewpoints.

That is fine, people have different opinions, we are free to debate and disagree, but, to withhold quite important information, about a very politically charged story, and use such secrecy to ones utmost advantage is a disgrace and dishonoroubale for any journalist or man in my opinion.

It would have cut rhetorics straight through back in the days had the passages between Assange and Manning been made public back then. There would have been no room, or option, for some congressmen to say what they did against Assange, nor even suspicion, towards Assange or wikileaks or any involvement of them in inducing the leaking of the information. There would have been a unanimous voice, with little room to doubt, that wikileaks is fully in the clear.

That a magazine decides to withhold vital information from the public and distort the debate with what may be or has been damaging consequences goes far beyond any political leaning or fair game. It is downright deplorable in my opinion and unless our society finds a way to hold such behaviour to account we will soon end the way of bankrupt, morally deranged, corrupt ridden, dis-functioning societies.
Nice analysis if you're into juggling formulas and theorems.
I prefer a more pictorial argument like:

a=24: a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a
b=18: b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b

d= 2: d d|d d|d d|d d|d d|d d|d d|d d|d d|d d|d d|d d

d= 3: d d d|d d d|d d d|d d d|d d d|d d d|d d d|d d d|

d= 4: d d d d|d d d d|d d d d|d d d d|d d d d|... no good;

multiples of d must hit the ends of b and a

d: | | |

b=18: b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b
a-b : a a a a a a

d: | | |

b-(a-b): b b b b b b b b b b b b
a-b : a a a a a a

d: | | |

b-(a-b)-(a-b): b b b b b b
a-b : a a a a a a

d: | |

d=6
I give the man an incredibly difficult time for some of MS's missteps with the platform, but he handles it all with aplomb. But he himself: Good stuff.

It actually looks like I've mispelled his name:

https://twitter.com/#!/glengordon

Glen Gordon.
Does this mean that passing the arguments object to any function (even Array.prototype.slice) will ruin your performance? This is extremely common in many libraries' bind/partial functions e.g. Underscore, Closure, var_args in Coffeescript.
I just remembered a project along similar lines to this. A guy created a 'guerrilla' sign for a freeway in LA to reduce confusion amongst drivers: http://www.good.is/post/the-fake-freeway-sign-that-became-a-...
It is not necessarily the case that the employee did not consider the employers perspective - after four years with the company it is probable that he had seen other people come and go and developed a sense of how the matter would be handled. Seeing as it is not uncommon for workplaces to be structured such that there is never "a good time" to quit because projects are endless or there is always a backlog or deadlines fall one after the other.

For an employee, the clean break often considers management practice and is done in some sense for their benefit even if it is not what they would articulate as their interest. Disinterested short-timers are a drag on moral and long notices can give management false hope that they have time to negotiate to retain the employee (the course of least resistance) rather than finding a replacement.

After my initial response I recognized another piece of management's misassessment of the situation. After four years, the "promising young developer" no longer saw him self as "promising" but as professional. It is not an uncommon oversight to keep viewing an employee in terms of their level at the time they were hired and thus not provide them with the level of challenge appropriate to their aspirations - i.e. the leadership of progressively more challenging projects or tasks.

Finally, the fact that pension was viewed as a tool to retain a young go getter is probably a fundamental miscalculation for promising developers - young people attracted by pensions wind up in large organizations or government not in dynamic teams with a high beta.
HTC has bought S3 graphics, which has successfully gone after Apple at ITC. ITC has found Apple infringing on two S3 graphics patents (final verdict in November). Now, HTC has been found infringing on two Apple patents (final verdict in December), will it force the two companies into cross licensing.
In git, a branch is just a ref that points to the most recent commit in a development series. The history of the branch has no explicit link to the branch name. Individual commits do not belong to a branch. So the commits in the history of a single branch will not have unique generation numbers.
I think the implied message is that an educated citizenry is better equipped to deal in the world than an uneducated citizenry. If you are uneducated, you're less likely to manage resources or more likely to become a victim (of unscrupulous individuals or businesses.) To that end, society should be providing for the public good by providing an education to the citizenry.

However, I don't see the education system as providing the kind of education that makes people "well-informed." I know plenty of people with a degree and not a lick of common sense who ... become victims in some way or another. (e.g. Why can't they identify a financial scam when one comes along?)

This kind of education should have happened long before postsecondary education is available to an individual. This way, he can decide for himself whether that university degree will actually do him any good in the future. Should the public provide university educations to everyone? If that's the measure by which individuals are allowed to participate in the economy by being employees, then I say yes. Corporations cannot be expected to educate any of their own employees because it's a drain on the balance sheet - The Market will not create educated individuals left to its own devices.

One should desire to be educated, informed and knowledgeable from early on in life. Too often, children are sent to school because parents need childcare, not because they value an education for their children. If children aren't encouraged to perform, then they don't. This goes for being educated as well as sports and the arts.
Job creation: Bill Clinton's job ideas
1. yes it's not the sole cause. the bigger cause perhaps was the discovery of the americas - an entire continent almost the size of asia lying undiscovered right next to the europeans for 15000 years since the last ice age, until Islam's kick led the europeans to search for new routes to India, ultimately leading to the discovery of the Americas. with a discovery like that anyone can become powerful if they put their minds to it. it's amazing that despite such a discovery the British still had to resort to colonialism for centuries to build their way to modernity.

the other cause which you I'm sure you're thinking of is better systems of writing, publishing and central system of goveranance - I'd agree with you there that european systems were better at the time. having said that europe as a whole was'nt that far ahead of india/china before colonialism began.

2. India was politically united in 300BC, about a 1000 years before the UK was in 700A.D. Hugo Grotius in discussing international law around 1600 talked of India as a single entity. the muslim empire around 1600s still had India politically united. culturally and even linguistically India has always had great inherent unity - contrary to the image sometimes portrayed in the west. India was not united by the British - they divided into innumerable princely states and sundry other divisions. It was Sardar Patel who united India after its independance despite all the efforts of the British for the opposite effect and hopes of getting India again once they were out of bankruptcy dues to WW2. You cannot grasp this until you read history of that period very carefully. America helped a bit - basically out of its own selfish motive so that the markets that were captive by the British would open up for itself.

Anyways thanks to Nehru and Gandhi most Indians (at least middle/upper classes) don't have much sting left of the British period of history. Different parts of the world that used to be apart were joining together and there was upheavel that accompanied it which could be expected. But the continuing pain in the peasants and less fortunate classes is very real. Nehru in his biography penned the feeling of loss that Indians feel when they visit America and see how rich it is- and wondered if India would not today have had a sunnier disposition if the British had not turned things so much upside down once they gained political control. He also thought that the loss of American colonies made the British even more vengeful in India, which I think is true.

All that does make it hard to hear the narrative of how Indian success owes itself to British - I mean wow, that really takes the cake does'nt it.
"If he wants the house, buy the house like everyone else had to," Lowrie said. "Get the money, buy the house."

My personal opinion is good on the guy, if hes smart enough to find a way to legally obtain a house like this then more power to him. Mrs Lowrie is just pissed she didnt get the same opportunity.
Microsoft owns Microsoft-Sony.com, and Sony-Microsoft.com domain names
Just to highlight what for me was non-obvious but interesting. It implies that this change in two places made a significant improvement to their performance stats. Basically, the optimizing compiler is finicky about the arguments object especially if it is used out of bounds. Without that knowledge, the change seems non-intuitive. I wonder if this true for all pseudo-arrays?

Old Code:

var args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1);

New Code:

var l = arguments.length;
var args = new Array(l - 1);
for (var i = 1; i < l; i++) args[i - 1] = arguments[i];
We might. Physicists were sure they know everything there is to know at least two times during the last two centuries.
Its relatively difficult to find maintained Mongrel2 Python libraries, but projects like http://wsgid.com/ , https://github.com/rfk/m2wsgi , and (maybe unmaintained) https://github.com/berry/Mongrel2-WSGI-Handler make it fairly easy to run WSGI apps behind Mongrel2.

I wouldn't use Brubeck without WSGI solely because I don't want to write an app dependent on its web server.
Its a shame to see the company go, but this email is another reminder of the danger of trusting your data to a company. A four day wind-down period after which user data is deleted is very short.

It especially odd as their Privacy Policy doesn't seem to specify that this is required. In fact, the Privacy Policy actually states that personal data may be preserved beyond the timeframe a user would expect.
I wonder if ACT had that functionality at the time...or the Newton, a bit earlier.
Yes, but I if I remember correctly it does not happen if you run the PC version in wine on Linux.
In most of the companies you've heard of going bankrupt, the company made payroll. Obviously, they then laid off a crap-ton of people. But what we're talking about here --- in a huge digression from what's happening with The Fridge, by the way --- is the notion of startups that run past their ability to meet payroll obligations, say "oh well we tried, good thing the valley is so tolerant of failure", and bounce checks to employees.
Actually its very oddly distributed in India. Being all economy centered in cities, it depends where land is located. Land is very cheap in rural areas but highest valued in cities like mumbai, delhi. In fact land in mumbai has become most expensive in the world now a days.
I just mean software patents, this is the reason why i mentioned Europe.
Off topic: I was part of an interesting contest to design a home for $300. http://www.300house.com/blog/2011/06/300-house-open-design-c...

In the end, it behaved as you might expect. The rank changed rapidly in the last hours as people motivated their social networks. Also, designs with the prettiest pictures dominated and several were hopelessly over budget.

On the other hand, there were a number of really interesting designs. It's worthwhile to read through the submissions if you are interested in inexpensive housing.
While I understand the 'negatives' the article mentions, it doesn't provide much in the way of helpful insight as the the alternative. Sure people are losing jobs to automation, does that mean we should stop moving forward?
This isn't just isolated to silicon valley or even the tech industry though. My wife is a pharmacist and to get jobs in desirable areas is highly competitive at this time. I'm sure there are other areas where this is true as well.
I think I'm going to make a module to help people with GitHub repos create a friendlier layout for non-developers.
I seem to remember Lotus Agenda did that long time ago back in the PC era. Should that be a prior art?
Also consider that some frameworks (ala Django) go for the 'kitchen sink' approach which is better for newcomers. Others (like Express with NodeJS) just do a few minimal helpers and otherwise get out of the way.

In this case, the plethora of frameworks is an advantage for the advanced developer, while the few big obvious ones stand out for newcomers.
yeah, judging from some of the comments on the article, its a race issue too... deal with it people, all afraid of their home values dropping.... also, HOA's just suck.
Just a guess, but I would suppose that in an information rich world, it pays for people to be intellectually satisfied even if they don't work in an "intellectual" field. A waiter with a theater degree may be more content, and therefore more effective/productive, than a waiter who wishes he could get a degree but can't.
Google does not block competitors' ads even for ads appearing on Google.com.
Sounds like email, IM and SMS. All fairly successful product categories. The problem is to make sure your private sharing product is better than them to succeed.
Care to list a few?
Though I appreciate their efforts on this(this is the same company who did the nano), it would be interesting to see their solutions for the hot climate in India.
A mobile home could be built within that cost in India, lets say like a trailer in the US, but I wonder if anyone can live inside a pressure cooker in the hot climate. The air-conditioning alone would cost a significant amount, not to mention electricity, while a mud hut provides a better solution for the extreme hot climate. Though if it is successful, would change the landscape.
But no, I wouldn't invest in anyone who stiffed their employees.

Dunno. In an early-stage start-up, I would rather be an employee who takes on a little risk in exchange for not distracting the founders with bean counting. Frankly the financial and lifestyle costs are already so great that two week's is just rounding error on my losses.
As I'm sure you know Jefferson was one of the big proponents of a well-informed citizenry in order to maintain a functioning democracy.

At the end of the day the title of the degree doesn't matter. Whether its Women's Studies, Math, or Seafood Prep, it's more about learning to use analytical skills to look at problems. The idea being these skills are translatable.

I do like the idea of college. I do like the idea that you've spent four years thinking. I do sometimes feel college is waster on the young. If society functioned in a way such that you could work for 10 years and go back to college at age 30 I think people would derive much more value from it, even for degrees with no direct economic value.