skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have hundreds of books which fill multiple bookshelves (I've even read most of them) like some sort of trophy case for my intelligence. There are only a handful I have picked up more than once (except to move), and the only ones I pick up on a regular basis are cookbooks. Different books lend themselves to different formats and purchasing options. I buy tech books in electronic format, novels on my Kindle, and cookbooks I absolutely have to pick up and thumb through before buying a physical copy. It's time for the big bookcase to go, replaced with a small bookcase, a kindle, and a hard drive.
Interesting development on the boundary between native and web on iOS.
Why not link to the project page: http://tamejs.org/

Edit: This is a dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2776938, which does link to the project page.
Want to propose a talk comparing Rails to Django at PyGotham?

http://pygotham.org

Based on your findings, form a panel and let the community decide.
Exactly. Nothing worse than when well-intentioned comments get downvoted because the downvoter is in fact wrong, or didn't bother to read the comment thoroughly. After years on Slashdot and Reddit, I've not encountered the amount of negativity toward the average comment as I have here.
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ElasticSearch enables our small team to do complex data mining and search functions that would otherwise be very difficult and expensive to achieve. Shay Banon's (founder of ElasticSearch) contribution to the open source community is nothing short of incredible. Please keep the hits rolling!
That was largely true in the West also until very very recently. One thing that's problematic is that although more people have access to a computer these days, they are treated as access points for MySpace, Facebook, Word and games more than anything else.

When I was growing up a computer was something you programmed just like a television set was something you watched. This was a psychological result of the fact that most machines of the day (including PCs) booted into BASIC if deprived of alternatives. When schools taught computer skills they included some elementary programming (usually in BASIC) in the curriculum. Not so today when majoring in Word and Excel is a perfectly viable academic career path.

So we're screwing our kids out of a chance to mess around with computers also and while the number of people actually using PCs has gone up, they're psychologically more distant from programming than ever it seems, and I'm treated more and more like a superintelligent space alien when I mention I'm a programmer.
cool. this is really helpful.
British teenager bikes on top of water for charity, won’t say how
It's not so much Django is dead as is using a relational database as the primary datastore is dying.

Django (and Rails) both came from a time when the RDBMS ruled so they were built around an ORM and are very ORM centric. People are moving away from using a relational database and onto using Mongo or a graph database as the primary datastore.

Graphs are a much more elegant way of storing relational data, and so I prefer a framework that isn't so tied to the RDBMS. Now I use Flask as my Web framework and Bulbflow (http://bulbflow.com) to connect to the Neo4j graph database.
>But I won't cry for the passing of the big-box stores if they're bent on becoming the Wal-Mart of reading.

There's likely some bad decision making behind a move towards a 'Wal-Mart-ification' of the big-box stores, but are you sure they could have survived if they tried to compete with the advantages of a warehouse full of diverse stock and shelf space that is virtual and costs nothing to expand by adding pages (ala Amazon).

It seems to me that they've acted more like fish in a pond that's been drying up. Struggling to stay in a deep enough spot to keep breathing.

I get a better price, better selection and more information browsing Amazon, but I'm not about to blame the physical book stores for going out of business because they changed, man.

Related: http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/07/12/the-secret-boo...
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That html page is normally included on the homepage as an iframe. The pastebin is entirely untelling of how it got there, but it is the source of the redirect.
Sounds like if not for its size, the Japanese would appreciate the Hole Hawg. :)
That link is really cool! Thanks for posting, it will be going on my cube wall at work.
How is that different from client certificate authentication? It seems strange that solution is not mentioned at all.
Both. But in that order.
Aside from what azakai mentioned (it tends to be large companies that are the biggest culrpits for laying patent minefields), I have no doubt that a lot of people are doing exactly that. The now obvious value of software patents -- artifacts that for decades were literally little more than harmless curiousity -- has led to an explosion in filings.
"Open," yes, but not visible. You can use Xvfb[1] which does everything in memory but doesn't actually show any image.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvfb
At least we still have that :P
That's sort of like telling insurgents that they should engage in an infantry battle instead of roadside bombs. You can disagree with the cause but it's pretty obvious, given their capabilities, that they have to play by different rules.

Lulzsec don't have a half dozen global media organizations to push their point of view -- they have funny website redirects and email dumps. So that's what they're doing.

EDIT: Hey downmodder, read, I gave you permission to disagree with the cause if you want. Comment is about tactics.
Who holds the copyright to a picture taken by a monkey?
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You're acting like this has anything to do with the News of the World allegations, other than the fact that it is what gave them the idea. It's mostly about them entertaining themselves. Lulzsec/antisec does have a message (essentially that the security industry is exploitative) but when they act under Lulzsec it really is just for the lulz.
Oh wonderful... I can't delete this now lol
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They've gotten worse.

Borders was a revelation when it showed up on Rockville Pike outside Washington. I was delighted when it came to downtown at 18th & L NW. But during the last several years I could see (for example) the poetry shelves squeezing down from most of two free-standing chest-height shelves to part of one; the history section much compressed; the computing shelves progressively thinner and less organized.
Your point reminds me of Colbert's speech at Northwestern this year. Towards the end (the more serious part) he says something along the lines that, you don't really "win" at life. I'd say more, but Colbert says it better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6tiaooiIo0
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Yes, pick up Ruby on Rails.

The RoR community is surely more vocal. Rails has been described as "an opinionated framework" and this ripples through many of the Ruby communities and projects.

Community thought leaders include people like Yehuda Katz, Jose Valim, Giles Bowkett, Ryan Bates, Ryan Davis, Loren Segal, and Charles Nutter, and companies like PeepCode, ThoughtBot, Intridea, EngineYard, and Pragmatic Programmer. There are many more of course.

In the Ruby ecosystem you'll often find these opinions lead to "more than one way to do it". Some examples that we're discussing at my company relate to comparisons of RubyGems/SlimGems, MRI/JRuby, Rails/Sinatra, RSpec/minitest, HTML/HAML, CSS/SASS, Capistrano/Chef, and many more choices.

I suggest you try RoR version 3.1 and you'll find many built-in pieces that can help you, including jQuery, HAML, SASS, the new asset pipeline, and more. You can use these or swap these out as you like. Heads up that some people think these provide too much "magic" and are hard to learn all at once, whereas other people think these are solid choices based on experience. Be sure whatever books you read are for Rails 3, not Rails 2.

Feel free to message me if you'd like more info.

And a plug: I'm hiring Rails developers.
ObPic: http://consumerist.com/2011/04/sign-at-borders-store-closing...
Probably because there is a rather obvious negative interpretation: People think they have a real chance to become a millionaire, while in reality, they will probably always be comparatively poor. So they always make decisions based on this imaginary future as a rich person, even if it is much more likely that they will not be better off in the future.
The Mystery of Consciousness Continues
Do you happen to know how it got there? Though the pastebin does not show it.
Thanks for taking time to respond. I agree on some points with you, disagree on others, but it's nice to get a long thought-out response!
There is no hindsight effect about the notion of identifying classes of text in a string of text. I fully and completely anticipate that patent being invalidated.

"If something is blindingly obvious at the time, it probably won't get a patent. The USPTO and other such agencies are not perfect but they are not total imbeciles."

The USPTO has shown, time and time again, to be willing imebeciles. They have habitually approved virtually all patents, opening them for review only when contested. I have zero expectation that they are doing any serious review of these patents, and they most certainly are not consulting any industry experts to gauge the true novelty of a patent.
there are totally unfair comments to django, django committers and the django users. having used many tools such as grails, rails, django, pylons, turbogears and pyramid for different size of projects and loving them all i have a good amount of experience with these tools. whenever i needed a hand, people in #django (in irc.freenode.net) or a djangonaut's blog post or answer on stackoverflow or the django mailing list helped me out. same applies to rails as well.

what you like with rails is its just being fancy and people acting like it's a miracle. it's not. it's a a tool which helps you prototype your application with scaffolding and some other nice things in a very small amount of time. so is django. complex application means complex code. this is not a django thing. it applies to every tool. do not let screencasts or posts hypnotize you as those guys are working with rails for many years. you will not develop rails apps like they do when you start over. your code will suck. you won't like your own code as you learn ruby and rails in depth and sharpen your skills. oh wait, that applies to python and django as well. :) it's not you though, we all have been there.

one final note. django community does not need a reference book. because django documentation is a reference manual that contains everything a django developer needs. however a cookbook or application-type teaching book would be nice.
Apple Patents Portrait-Landscape Flipping: the patent system is broken
Or for people using Vimperator/Pentadactyl :|
Our library is a hangout for homeless men who use the public computers to look at porn and then go masturbate in the bathrooms.
I don't think it's about outdoing others at all, but about outdoing your best self.
This is exemplary of the materialistic mindset that some people will get wrapped up in at times, missing the real point.

Disclaimers: I am an engineer, materialist, and a nihilist.
"Ah, but we have ccTLDs — you can be puppies.us, and the other guy can be puppies.in. That’s a different naming convention entirely, awesome!"

But the point is that it shouldn't have been like that. puppies.org.in, puppies.org.us, and so on. But unfortunately the US didn't go down that road, so we end up with a total mess.

That said, the international nature of the internet makes country-based TLDs a little inappropriate anyway.
News International (NWSA) lost about 5% of its stock value today, and with a special session of the UK Parliament on Wednesday all bets are off - if Cameron is badly damaged enough, the Lib Dems could pull out of the government on principle leading to a snap election, although I would give that only a 20% chance of happening.

Murdoch is probably doomed; unless he pulls a rabbit out of a hat at the Parliamentary committee meeting tomorrow morning, his stockholders seem almost certain to revolt. I'm kind of surprised that his board hasn't cut him loose yet. This Lulzsec joke is in poor taste, but right on the money as a piece of satire. Curiously reminiscent of a 19th century Thomas Nast cartoon jesting about the funeral of NY Tribune publisher (and neckbeard extraordinaire) Horace Greeley.

EDIT: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-18/news-corp-said-to-c... suggests NWSA is indeed planning to give Murdoch the boot. Oh, how the mighty are fallen.

EDIT II: A more illuminating story from the trades http://www.adweek.com/news/television/if-rupert-goes-chase-c...

Edit III: I can't help noticing that Mr Carey looks an awful lot like the Lulzsec mascot with those curly mustachios. Coincidence? I think not!

I'll show myself out
Microsoft Research Releases Another Hadoop Alternative for Azure
"Getting geeks to dislike patents is easy."

Isn't that kind of strange? Aren't we the ones who most benefit from patents?

"Do you really think that the opinion of people on HN has a measurable impact on our patent system?"

Yes I absolutely do. In fact I think the next 24 months will see a lot of debate and eventually significant change to software patents in the US. All I care about are defusing those who attempt to make everyone feel too ignorant to have an opinion about patents (such attempts appear in every discussion about patents. Lots of hand waving about how we all just don't get it, leave it for the big boys, etc)
Has anyone else moved over to Pyramid (next iteration for Pylons - particularly with the Akhet suite : mako, beaker, SQLalchemy)? I'm surprised it isn't mentioned on HN more.
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That would be useful. Archive.org is better at not breaking than I imagined it would be, but still often leaves broken assets. The combination of the two would be really cool: see the page, and how the page was viewed at the time.
So use, ad block and/or incognito mode. Problem solved. And don't say that most people don't know how to use these features. While true anyone, who is concerned about this is totally free to ask other people or even pay them to explain and solve the problem for them. The fact that they don't suggests to me that they don't care. Most of the whining about privacy is more the poster being upset that not enough other people are concerned in the same way the poster is.
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If we're torturing analogies, that's like a child saying "but he started it!"

There seems to be a momentum developing based on adults who have been maintaining pressure on this story through legal investigative journalism... setting fire to a paper bag filled with shit on their doorstep and ringing the bell doesn't help.

(edit: didn't downvote you btw... that's for the drive-by kids)
That's what they did here. The indy looked at what he was facing and didn't even bother. He sold his inventory and closed down before he lost his shirt.

That was over a decade ago; now that Borders is gone, closed last fall. B&N is the only real bookstore left in the area. There are a couple of independents but they have very limited inventory and seem to make their living selling a lot of accessories, pens, and stationery.
Good advise. The takeaway from your advise is that you should make sure that your work can be discovered in the future several decades or hundreds of years after your death. Contributing to a reputable science journal is a good way to make your work last for a long time.
Another is Netflix for toys.

Theres a Netflix for everything
Or conversely, we want to support the author by buying their book. If anything, the library lends to the entitlement mentality, not the bookstore.
My Border's actually had sections with Hello Kitty greeting cards and comic books and a "manga" section. It was odd..
i get about one bogus password reset request every two months for my gmail account...
Yeah I read that already, but what I said doesn't necessarily imply creationism. What arguments do you have to show that everything we see today came about SOLELY through mutation and natural selection?
I'm pretty sure that, once you populate a class instance with your data, the rest of Django is usable with very few changes. It's pretty loosely coupled, generally.
Yeah, the free market would work effectively if no producer and no consumer had the power to set the price...

An alternative model, though, is mailing addresses: bureaucratic, cheap, and a primary part of civilization for 2500 years.

It would have been interesting if the USPS had jumped on this idea about 20 years ago, but now it is too late.
The first step to fixing a problem is acknowledging you have a problem ....

If the Joe the Plumber wants to support tax cuts for the rich and he's fully aware of his situation, then there is no issue having that opinion. But if his self-image is distorted (as was implied by the media reports), then it is bad to posses that as it means you will be making wrong decisions based on incorrect understandings.

The issue isn't his desire to aspire to greater wealth, it's his unrealistic understanding of what his actual financial status is.
I tried to use Flask for a GAE project a few months ago. I stopped two views later, when I realized I'd started reinventing half of Django. I switched to Django for GAE at that point, and I'm very happy so far.
Yes the extra whitespace in gmail is good. Just read TuFte's book on ink-to-information ratio. Good stuff
More info on client SSL certificates:

http://www.gnegg.ch/2008/05/why-is-nobody-using-ssl-client-c...
I have tried to like gimp, I really have.

Every time there is a major release I'll download it & try it out but it always ends the same.
The UI is clunky. The workflow with complex documents (lots of layers & shapes, etc) is a byzantine & obscure click-a-thon. Wacom support is glitchy. Users of the Mac version (some graphic design types run macs, btw) get to enjoy the fun of x11 non-nativeness & all the weird behaviour that brings (my 'favourite' being having to click each UI element twice: once to gain focus & then once to actually click the desired item. Grrr).

The whole thing feels disjointed & I find it hard to just get down to making images. I hate that this is the case as I would love for gimp to be a world beating graphics tool (OSS FTW, and all that), but there are just too many rough edges for it to be considered best of breed.

The problem is, who is working on an alternative open source graphics app that's better? Guess we're stuck with photoshop…
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I really appreciate your comment.
Yeah, but most of the libraries that make up Django (and Rails), such as auth, are based around the ORM so if you don't use the ORM, you have a framework mismatch.
Murdoch would have done better if he continued to make up news instead of trying to hack phones and report the truth.
You could almost write a whole novel out of it.
>I don't care about political parties, why is this suddenly a political discussion...

Probably because your first half-sentence of your original comment was itself a political discussion: "This is why I'm so against the luddite regulations of liberals..."
IMO, Django had great documentation in it's time (i.e. the django book), which is why it's so popular; but the competitors have caught up, and people are questioning how good Django really is. The main advantages of Django are - lots of libraries, and the generic views. But I personally dislike generic views. They just feel a little like magic, and a little over-engineered. They might be good for larger projects, but using them from the start feels like premature overengineering.

I like Tornado. In the overview (http://www.tornadoweb.org/documentation/overview.html), it gives you - auth (using OpenID), secure cookies, XSRF protection, templates, localization, UI modules (really basic, compared to generic views), running in prodution with Nginx, and aync programming. It doesn't have much database stuff (just a wrapper around MySQL), but you can use SQLAlchemy, or some other ORM.

Only the auth stuff feels over-engineered, because it uses async programming to call a general interface for Facebook OAuth, OpenID, Twitter OAuth, and so it's a bit of a dog's breakfast.
That looks like it's an iframe that normally has no content but which can be updated by commenting in the sample bits to put a breaking news headline onto the homepage. Because the CMSes that run newspaper websites are often terribly crufty, people resort to workarounds like this.
I want to know about what this software predicts about whether the US government will default next month...
Anybody can claim they are from lulzec.
Not unless your book's index contains every word and phrase in the book.
After starting to read your post, I thought I'd be able to defend most of the things that bother you, but you're 100% correct. What especially bugs me is the lack of an initialization file. I needed one to put some signals (or some other functions, it's been a while) in, and there just wasn't anything.

It's a trivial thing to add, but its lack really hurts sometimes.
I went through this "ror vs. django" thing a few months ago, and ended up picking up Django.

I got the Django book and liked it and I had no problems with my actual project itself in terms of having enough "community."

However, now I'm in the "figuring out how to deploy it" stage and it's been a real pain. My free webhost supports RoR and python, but doesn't have Django installed, I don't want to spend the money on a VPS, and while there's been a recent surge of beta Django hosts, none of them have worked out for me. (I.e. I tried out gondor.io, it wouldn't deploy, I asked for help in the IRC channel, someone said they'd "look into it" but never got back to me.) I'm currently rewriting my models (db structure) for Google apps since it's basically my last hope.

I really love Django, so it pains me to say this, but you might want to check out RoR.
About the email stuff, all you have to do is override the mail backend (recently added) or specify a fake server (non-recently added) in your dev settings.
I think child labor is better than the family starving.

For a lot of human history, we've had kids doing work. It's not great, and parents usually agree! One of the first things that families do, when they escape poverty, is to pull their kids out of jobs and put them in schools. And the money that the child earned can help a family feed themselves and be raised out of poverty. It's a negative feedback loop.
This project really needs to release a True Type font of their dyslexic friendly font. What's the point of creating such a thing and then net letting it out into the world where it can do some good.

EDIT: I commented too soon, after reading the auto-translated Dutch website I found links to where you can buy the font.

Minimum cost looks to be 165 Euros. For a 5 person license.

http://www.lexima.nl/school-en-behandelaar/categorie/lettert...
False. Only those involved in LulzSec can post to the Twitter page.

Edit: Though, looking at the screenshots of the tweets on the TechCrunch page, they don't actually explicitly say it was them.

Edit 2: They did claim responsibility for it (just not in the tweets TechCrunch took a screenshot of).
Is that doable while narcotraficantes are still at large?