skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a hard time understanding its purpose. I am guessing that it is meant for people to upload pictures for which they want to find out the location?
Copyright fascism, aka WWMD, "What Would Mussolini Do".
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Microsoft Developer Is Top Linux Contributor
Anyone who've used web.py and Bottle (for a real project) and care to comment on the pros/cons of both? I'm quite familiar with web.py but not so much with Bottle.
No they don't. They are "going after" _domains_ with Apache in, which they have to do otherwise they lose their trademark.
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Show HN: Weekend toy (:
Proper pluralization: http://pluralizeit.com. I collected these photos on a trip across the country (to sf for the next few months! :), and made a toy website to show them. Haven't tested this in IE yet, it's not perfect, though what do you think?
"One OS"?; wouldn't that be Linux? Linux already runs on everything from smartphones and embedded systems to supercomputers. In fact, Linux is probably the most common OS in the world, except on the desktop (and I don't think that is likely to change much).
I've had quite a good time browsing Google Maps with the photo layer turned on, while looking at remote places with which I am familiar (mostly the Colorado River and Rio Grande, but also Caribbean islands). But it would be nice to be able to pull in more 3rd party data like these photos within the maps interface.
The Ten Abominations
This is interesting in the context of Microsoft patent-trolling companies which deploy Linux (TomTom, Android OEMs).

Is it possible these patches introduce more patent mines into the Linux source?

Or is there a legal hook to prevent Microsoft from trolling after they (even when only represented by a single employee) participated in the development?
(I wish there was, but I fear the answer will be "no")
I agree with the notion that exporting a whole list of contacts and importing them into a different social network is bad (and annoying), but I don't think FB should prevent me from exporting my contact list. On the contrary, I think social networks should disallow importing a whole list of contacts.

Exporting is useful for a number of reasons (import into Thunderbird, for backup purposes, etc). Some people might abuse the feature but that will help bring people's expectations of digital privacy closer to reality.
For those interested in an outside view and capable of German, "tagesschau" (flagship news programme on German TV) today aired two stories on this topic:

Die Verlierer im Silicon Valley (The losers in Silicon Valley)
http://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/siliconvalley100.html

Erst ist das Haus weg, dann der Job, dann die Kinder... (First they lost their house, then their jobs, then their children...)
http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/weltspiegel382.html
Nice, but one thing bugs me:

"By the end of 2011, 20 typical households will generate more Internet traffic than the entire Internet in 2008."

This has to be wrong.
Relevant, yes, this opinion was put forward by rational people just after the 9/11 : terrorists want terror, don't give them that. Ten years later (yeah, 9/11 happened ten years ago, I feel old) this sensible opinion is still ignored.
No one outside the Valley [uses Quora]

I'll validate that: I've barely heard of it. I've never visited, and it never seems to turn up in Google or DDG searches.
Agreed. The project is ~2700 lines of code all jammed into a single file. Each component is pretty clearly separated from the others with big comment headers, but I don't understand what advantage this has over separate files other than the ability to advertise that it is a single file library.
To quote from the article:
"Media Transcript Full Version"
How does it compare with flask?
Being offended by words deemed arbitrarily offensive by society doesn't seem logical to me. I realize that within professional circles this might be an issue, but I can't find a reason within personal circles unless we are talking about when interacting with children. I apologize, but your comment comes off as quite prudish, and I think getting hung up on a name is shortsighted.
Were these company recruiters, or third-party recruiters?

I've never really had any luck with third-party recruiters - they don't seem to have an interest in understanding you and your skills, assuming they even understand those skills.

My experience with Facebook's recruiting team has been amazing, though.

August last year I was approached by a technical recruiter at Facebook because I attended Velocity. I was initially quite skeptical about the entire thing (I'm from South Africa, needed a H-1B, needed my partner to get a visa as well) as well as generally jaded due to burn-out. She kept on my case, roping in lawyers and so forth to answer my more detailed questions about the work visa situation.

Another recruiter was involved in the final prep, on-site interview, offer, and acceptance, and then through all the visa paperwork (and boy do I hate paperwork!), up till the first day at work.

And then they didn't disappear - they've been keeping in contact with me, meeting at lunch every few weeks, seeing how I'm settling in, whether I want to stay where I am in the company, and introducing me to people. And I've now worked with them twice at recruiting events - at Velocity and Hacker Fair.

So, I hope you encounter recruiters who make you feel like a human being, and who care as much about doing a good job as you do, because they are out there.
Time management for hackers (2009)
It's explained in the video. You go to the office ring, wait for a quarter rotation, meanwhile the residential ring has rotated towards you, then go back to the residential ring.
That really does seem like a worst-case scenario (although at least they have backups).

I'd be really interested in how it happened.
How Facebook facial recognition works
It amazes me that people freak out when they see "Muslim-looking" people on flights. The politically-correct response is along the lines of "OMG That is highly prejudicial!", but that's irrelevant. From a purely practical perspective, why would a terrorist leader send an attacker whom many Americans immediately view as "suspicious", when he could send someone who appears more "normal"?

On another note, people these days still puff out their chests and say the terrorists couldn't change our way of life. Good one. Another fallacious line of reasoning is that we can destroy terrorism by military action alone. Tell that to the teenage boy who just lost his family to an errant US bomb in his Afghan village and now has a massive amount of pent up rage, and nothing to lose.

If the conditions are right, terrorism can always regenerate itself. The way to fight it is to alter the conditions. To do this we must understand why people hate America. Contrary to popular belief, it's not that we are secular or free. Osama bin Laden himself asked that if he wanted to attack secular, democratic states, why didn't he attack Sweden? I'm obviously not condoning terrorism, but the key to beating it is understanding it on at least a basic level. Unfortunately, our leaders in the past 10 years have been more inclined to drop bombs than to know the enemy.

edit: I'm not saying military action is inappropriate. It clearly has been effective in many cases.
On productivity and learning
Domain names with curse words in them are a big turn off for me.

I think that's more of an issue with yourself than it is with the domain name. I would venture to guess that most people on HN are not offended by arbitrary words and would be fine sharing this with their friends.

There's no problem with being offended by swear words, but it's not a problem with the app either.
Where do we go from here
We got a great idea(atleast from our perspective :) ) coming from a different technical side of the world. We got the design in place for the social networking webapp which "might" change the way social networking webapps work. Now, here is the difficult part. We three founders, one of them in Israel and two of us here in bay area, are finding it difficult to get the webapp up and running. What it means is, we are not able to find a good technical person (designer/programmer). We spoke to some of these website development companies who have created some social networking webapps but are not so good. We can do it on our own, the problem is we are learning python, some jquery stuff as we are not from application world but rather from packet level.

The questions is how do we go from where. We are trying to get a mentor or advisor and we dont know how to approach anyone (we dont know anyone till now :( ) Greatly appreciate the suggestions.
It's too bad there isn't some middle ground.
I hope you take this criticism constructively.

I'd be VERY happy to help you, but your approach is completely wrong. By asking me to "Like" your facebook page and follow you on Twitter, you end up losing more than you could have potentially gained. I'm very supportive of projects which I believe are interesting and helpful to my followers and will add them willingly to my incoming content. If you coerce me into it before deciding that on my own, individuals (like myself) will use other factors to decide if they will take your desired action (like your request = pushy; or our past relationship = n/a).

If you want people to take your desired action that will affect them long term (like including your project in my twitter feed), give them some incentive! ;)

I also do not have an iPhone to test your idea with, unfortunately. And your blog link at the bottom of the page doesn't work yet. Also, I think your homepage is somewhat misleading. Even if you're trying to be funny, your mentions of high profile blogs and quotes of yourself may be more harmful than humorous.
You maintain that Gmail contact list. Your friends maintain their Facebook profiles. That's the difference.
I also dislike the use of curse words in some contexts, and that is a context where I find it inappropriate.

Sorry if it sounds illogical to you, but you must accept people's sensitivity might be different from yours.
Soil is much more interesting than diamonds, just ask any gardener or ecologist. Don't confuse economic value (scarcity) with being interesting.
Instead of saying 'yes I did"... someone wonders if a triangular tablet could be built which unfolds into a square display, like the triangular notepad in the article which unfolds into a square notepad.

They parent replies that nobody would want triangular tablets because of the waste at the corners when drawing square shapes, and the well-known rectangular nature of existing displays means nobody would jump at developing triangular UIs. They completely missed that the point of the triangular notepad is that it unfolds. That implies they didn't look at the article, because it has a picture of the triangular notepad doing that.
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I was intrigued by your comment and took a look at the rc feature list, but I couldn't see any features that aren't available in bash 3.1 and above.

This takes nothing away from rc of course, which was around when bash was a simple re-implementation of sh, and may very well have been the inspiration for some of bash's modern features. [1]

With regards to scripting, since perl/python/ruby has supplanted shell for moderate to difficult tasks, I think it's perfectly reasonable to use bash/zsh for the occasional simple shell script. Arch Linux, for example, writes rc scripts in modern bash, significantly increasing legibility (given you can read modern bash).

Even if you stick to sh for maximum portability, if you use bash/zsh as an interactive shell, I would strongly encourage diving into the man page; modern shells, for all their shell\ quoting woes, have an amazing amount of concise constructs that make life at the command line quite pleasurable.

[1]: More likely is that Korn shell is the inspiration for both
Good article but it'll never be read by those who need to read it most.

Unfortunately terror has now been institutionalized. The TSA is a massive bureaucracy that generates jobs and cash flow. It's not something that will ever be dismantled overnight. That's not even mentioning the political convenience it provides: with it politicians can keep us afraid, thus getting our votes when they promise to protect us.

It goes deeper than just fear of terrorism though. Having spent the last few years traveling the world and seeing how other people live, it's always shocking to return to the States to see how afraid everybody is of even the smallest things. Fear seems to have become a centerpiece in the American psyche, and long before 9/11. We even raise our kids to be afraid (see some of the vitriolic responses freerangekids.wordpress.com gets in response to advice like, "It's OK to let your kid ride the bus alone"). Fear of mundane things giving you cancer; existential fear about the economy, which many of us don't even understand and as individuals, have no control over; fear of walking the streets alone at night; fear of getting sick if we don't use antibacterial soap after each bathroom trip. Fear of someone spiking your Tylenol. Uncontrollable fear of a country across the ocean maybe having WMD's.

No, fear of terrorism is just the latest in a laundry list of things Americans have scared themselves with. Until we learn to control that basic fear response, the TSA will still be around and people will still be scared of sitting next to a dark-skinned man kneeling in prayer.
It's going to limit its spread. I personally don't have a problem with it (though I think it's somewhat immature in this context), but I'm also not going to share it on social networks as I might have otherwise done.
It takes for them to manually verify that it has been located

"We check every comment and do research on the suggested places. If your suggestion or pin is correct we'll mark the spot as located! Remember: We are a small team, it could take some time to check all your comments and pins. Please be patient :)" http://wherethefuckisthis.com/wtf_main/faq
Seems to me to be another micro web framework influenced heavily by Sinatra.
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What you should worry about
Trademark fair use is allowed in domain names; there have been a few cases on this topic.
Sorry, I rewrote my post.

For the record, I initially asked if it was ok for Gmail to allow me to export my contact list (using OP's reasoning). And I don't maintain my Gmail contact list. People email me and their contact info gets saved by Gmail.
Check out the Toppel Career Center (AKA "The Launch Pad") and get plugged in there ASAP. There are a TON of things going on right there on campus. Check out http://miamitechevents.com for nearby events and if you don't find something suitable, I know the university will give you plenty of cash to play with (and to do fun events with) if you can organize an group of people on campus.

Have you considered any of those yet?
Slightly off topic, but does anyone have experience of the Software Engineering course mentioned at the end of the linked page? The functional/concurrent programming courses look quite interesting, speaking as someone who hasn't studied CS formally, but has dabbled in Haskell/PL theory and would like to learn more.
yes, that is basically what their FAQ says http://wherethefuckisthis.com/wtf_main/faq
I guess my point was that the response appears emotional (as can be seen from the mentioning of sensitivity; sensitivity is emotional in nature by definition, I believe). and not logical. When I was about 11 years old in the 80s, my brother and I invented words to use as our own 'bad' words with similar phonetics to popular 'bad' words because our father had such an issue with our usage of such vocabulary.

While nostalgic at this point, it seems like a waste of time to spend any effort on such a thing in retrospect.

Edit: Grammar and clarity.
"Everyone in the Valley thinks its huge because everyone in the Valley uses it."

My techie friends from Silicon Valley also don't use Quora. So don't worry, not everyone in Valley uses it. I think very few % of Valley users are using it.
Probably more for people who find pictures of cool places online without info of where it was taken.
Hierarchies Kill
A reminder of the Whitehall study, stress, and how to mitigate the effects of hierarchy-induced stress at work.
What about basic legal issues on starting a startup?
Any info in how to register brand name?
If you have a good domain name, can it be lost if brand name is not legally registered ?
Needs to be registered somewhere (like in Delaware) ?
This vocabulary test got me thinking about the last unknown English word I'd encountered, and that inspired a little post on my blog. Have a look if you're interested -- there's a bit of a coding angle, even:

http://lacquer.fi/pauli/blog/2011/07/the-ten-abominations/
His reference article (on Evaporative Cooling Effect) is a lot more enlightening:
http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social-software-sundays-2-the-...
There is a library for Haskell that is largely inspired by these ideas.

You can find the project page at http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/ofa/chp/ and an introduction to CSP that relates the ideas back to this library here http://chplib.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/an-introduction-to-co...
"Ultimately I see the end for both companies being a Google or Facebook buyout in the $X00,000,000 range, which I think says more about the overall market than it does their inherent value."

Can you explain how a site like Quora would be worth at least $100,000,000 to Google, Facebook, or anyone else?
I'm a native speaker. I read a lot. Fiction, nonfiction, literature, etc. I've got a master's degree in CS. I'm a published author at multiple respected conferences. I've been learning Spanish as a second language for ~2 years.

I scored about 33,000. I don't think the distributions are very accurate. I can't speak to where you should be, but I think you have an excellent score. I hope this point of comparison helps.
What do you mean by non-free?
I'm really, really hoping that you're logging referrer data along with scores - if you're not already, you might consider starting. Even if this is not a source of proper scientific data, it would be highly interesting to see how, for instance, the Reddit referrals do vs. HN vs. Facebook, etc. We can probably all make some fairly accurate guesses about where the high and low performers would come from, but I'd be real curious to see the exact breakdowns.
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25% is about right for indian gdp around mughal period.
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/08/history-of-world-gdp/

these early wins were against muslim rulers who did not have that much support of their majority populace because of taxation issues and also suffered from lost revenues due to the new trade routes.

the hardest wars were against the hindu/sikh rulers - marattas, rajputs and sikhs who were not subdued until 1850s with great effort.
There's no right/best way to do this. Find some way to give reader/participants some incentive for completing it. You could consider releasing the data publicly, making it into an interactive application that is unique and interesting to progress through, or even just guerrilla-marketing it (send a survey many times and modifying it each time to attract a different group). I have to say that market research is not my strong point, but if you can find a way to make it really interesting in some way you can easily hit your 100-200 data points.

You might also consider attending some meetups and asking to participate in them in return for asking the participants to take your survey. Not all will, but you could possibly get good bang for your buck that way.
Bam. http://rudel.sourceforge.net/
That's all great, but consider a situation.

I get on the plane and sit next to a guy who avoids eye contact, does not respond to Hi and then starts praying, seemingly detached from the reality. Shall I just ignore this and refuse to be terrorized?

I will tell you more. As someone who rode on a subway train that was next to the one blown up in a terrorist attack, I will walk out of a coffee shop if I see a person leaving a bag behind and stepping outside. I did that when I was single and I certainly still do it now when I have two kids. If there is a sliver of probability that I can be killed due to my inaction, I will act and I will do my best to avoid that risk. If it takes de-boarding someone from a plane, so be it.
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I'm not offended, but I do find it crude and unprofessional.

And it really doesn't matter if it is logical. It is reality and if you want users, you have to work the existing system.
The project is still new but I have written a complete example app and have been building a far more complex app since.

Listsurf: https://github.com/j2labs/listsurf

The more complex app implements a full social network on top of Brubeck. I think it will be called Rubik, but I'm not sure yet.

It'll pop up on my github page sooner or later though: https://github.com/j2labs
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With the tutorial, you just need to read till Chapter 9 as the continuing chapters handle the stdlib which serves more of a reference once you know the language. Point being, you start writing Python with the official tutorial much earlier as compared to any introductory book because the tutorial teaches you what you _just_ what you need to know.
For those wondering why Veracity, this might make interesting reading:
http://www.ericsink.com/articles/vcs_trends.html

I suspect the aim is to build the foundation for an Enterprise-ready DVCS.

EDIT: See also Veracity: the next step in DVCS
http://www.ericsink.com/entries/veracity_early.html
I think SE can go mainstream. I don't say SO because that's more for programmers. I see lots of activity in say photography and cooking. I can see lots of academia using SE as well, just look at all the theory related exchanges. I think the biggest downfall of Quora is the login and sign up process. I don't even want to deal with it because SE makes it so easy. I can sign in with my google account and then go to another exchange and click a few times and sign up there. I automatically get 100 points because i am signed up on SO with over 100 points. This makes it so i don't even have to start all the way over. I just think because it's so easy to sign up and login on SE, that it could be mainstream. You can use any login service.

Only problem with SE are the rules. I know why they are there, but for a new user it can be intimidating. A lot of people may not ask a question because they are afraid they will get "bullied", "trolled" or whatever you want to call it.
I think this leaves the question-space STILL open.

I've never tried Quora and never would use it because I never use my main Facebook profile for anything else (I like Facebook, I hate Facebook's idea of non-privacy).

Stackoverflow once was useful but has basically died as far as I can tell (answer quality plummeting as users become addicted to easy-low-quality-answers-as-a-way-quick-Karma and thus let any hard question sink fast).

Googling to answer technical questions has gotten less rewarding as well as Google becomes less literal and thus prevents me from doing fine-tuned filter when I don't immediately get the right answer.

So what could appear in the answer domain? (and think this domain is still quite large).
Perhaps they're not trying to advertise to the Python crowd but to the PHP and JavaScript crowd who might be suckered in by the "Ooh, I only have to include one file?" line.
There are generally legitimate reasons for various words to be regarded as crude or offensive. Often enough that is the very intention behind a word. Not being offended by them, or at least claiming so, is not a mark of enlightenment. Nor is being offended by them something for which to be shamed.

I'm with the OP, domains with foul language don't hit my sharing feeds and I'm not likely to make it a habit of frequenting the site.