skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully this helps out smaller book sellers. There will still be a market for hard copy books but it won't be large retailers selling them.
definitely going to suck to have a world where you can't go chill out somewhere and check out some new books and magazines. Not to mention 10,000 more jobs gone
You probably mean "irrelevant".
It's a great attitude. People tend to use their political prejudices and agendas instead of rational arguments.
I have my own pet gripes about Django, but then I have gripes about any framework I've used, Rails included.

However, when I've seen a Django project that's a "huge mess" that's largely due to the incompetence of the developer. A more "rails-y" framework probably suits such developers, as it gives them less leeway to screw up.
This is getting off-topic, but it's possible to oppose taxes to the rich without fancying oneself to be rich. The above Joe the Plumber description paints a picture of a delusional redneck. That's not necessary to debate taxation policy.

EDIT: to bring this closer to topic: is it really "transfer of wealth" if the wealth was never really there? Most new cool gadgets get commoditized. If anything, Android is probably one of the better-designed systems under the hood (at least as far as the app API goes). Either way, the first smartphones were themselves incremental improvements and iterations over prior things like PDAs, etc.
The local Borders store had a big going out of business sale here about a month ago. It was really sad walking inside and seeing all the shelves empty. It was even more depressing walking out having seen nothing that looked interesting to buy.
Agreed. Lets also make sure that these new businesses stay employee owned. If newly created small businesses find success -- only to be bought out by the paragons of the current economic model -- we will end up cycling back into the same negative externalities of the current economic model. If they are bought out we will be back to the same unemployment level, with more public debt that was transferred to the largest corporations and their shareholders.
LulzSec Redirects ‘The Sun’ Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story
I have no idea what you're talking about. You claimed that someone who doesn't build the "processing unit coupled with" etc. is facially non-infringing. This is false as a basic matter of patent law. I pointed out two independent reasons why what you said is false. That's as far from "orthogonal" as you can get. Furthermore, I haven't attempted to interpret this patent, dubiously or otherwise, or caricature any political arguments, and I haven't made any assertions about how you feel about software patents.

Misspelled references to 17th-century fencers, while amusing, are merely a distraction.

So, I ask again, why are you trying to derail the discussion with falsehoods and amusing distractions? What's your motivation for making rational discussion of patents more difficult? If the continuing discussion annoys you, I for one would appreciate it if you simply didn't post instead of trying to disrupt it with misinformation.

Discussing actual software patent cases is a much more reliable way of understanding the effect of software patentability on the world than attempting to reason from abstract principles and hypothetical situations, and the issues at stake here are much bigger than this particular patent. Mere railing is of course unproductive, but rational debate is essential.
https://www.djangoproject.com/community/
"That's weird! The sky on Cancri 55 f must be out of this world. "

Really, that's the quality of writing from MIT Technology Review?
I think you were looking for http://djangopackages.com/ Makes it very easy to find out which packages are actively maintained (also - just see which ones have recent commits on Github!)

And remember some projects have little activity because they were born perfect :)
Do you think i'll make it
well, do you?
> 2. Bitbucket has a reputation for being a cheap knock off of GitHub for some reason.

The reason for this is very simple: We launched within months of each other, and we look very much alike (how many ways can you skin a DVCS hosting cat?) And then of course there was the whole pointing fingers/attempt to drag through the mud article, that was since removed.
Though I had to drive over an hour to get there I still patronized Border's orignal store in Ann Arbor. After the crash they were the only store to still stock a fair inventory of tech books, though fewer with each passing year.
Finding a technical co-founder
Hi!

I would like to hear your opinion on a specific topic. I had an idea about a start up that could evolve to something pretty good, so I decided to go ahead with this idea. However, from the first moment I had a big problem. I couldn't find a technical co-founder. I have some programming experience but I just graduated from high school so I don't feel that I could take on my own shoulders the whole technical part. None of the people that I know in real life have a strong programming background so I have no other option but to search for a co-founder in the list of my "online friends", people that I have never met before and I don't know if our chemistry will work fine.

So, what do you think? Should I take the risky road and look for a partner online or should I wait a couple of months for college where I will be able to meet people with similar interests and skills?

Thanks
That is very cool, thanks for the link. And yes the main idea is very similar to that.
Second that. I'd much rather have the ability to undo a vote like Reddit. I rarely misvote, but hate it when I do.
"All my Django projects ended up being a big mess".

maxklein, it seems u lack descent programming skills, since my experience with django is completely different. Most of the time the problem is with who codes, not the framework or tool.
Setting up Amazon Auto Scaling Using Boto AWS API
Quick guide on how to setup auto scaling for aws using boto.
> You mentioned a technical issue, the handling of big
> raster images. Does it run out of memory quickly in
> comparison to Photoshop? What is the issue? I thought I
> remember gimp not being able to handle 16-bit tiffs or
> something along those lines.

Its memory usage gets high enough for Windows to start trashing on my box with 4 gigs of RAM, and brings everything to a halt. It's not only GIMP's problem BTW, I have to disable thumbnails on the folders with big TIFFs because Windows itself trashes. I don't know how Photoshop avoids this lame behaviour but it does.

I haven't tried on Linux but was told it has the same problem. I won't try it because color management in Linux is a PITA even if you are only interested in calibrating your monitor, which is my only need as a hobbyist without money for a decent printing setup.

I believe support for 16bit TIFFs is already built into yet-unreleased GIMP 3, but yes, having only 24 bit colour is also another huge problem with GIMP, and totally a dealbreaker once you get serious with photography. Most prosumer flatbeds or DSRLs already take measurable advantage of 48bit colour. I didn't comment on that because the original post was on usability.
Yes, you are absolutely correct, I was only making a statement from one angle.

It's too late now, but if I could edit my statement, I would like to point out that the patent could be valid assuming it was very SPECIFIC in its claims, and not just a broad patent which would mean that the single unique invention was so brilliant that it was the one and true path to the end product.
Are they actual fencers? How cool is that? I was just referencing the Princess Bride. You learn something new every day.

My point is that the invention we're talking about must include all these elements. Dell computers do not infringe the patent simply because you could use them to create something that potentially infringe the patent. Obviously, Apple doesn't even build all the parts of their "invention". Why would you think I would be making that argument?

Moreover, to restate a point that you are militantly evading: you don't even know which claim(s) in this patent were found binding. It is more than possible, in fact likely, that it isn't simply the independent claim at the start of the patent but rather a combination of dependent and independent claims that were found to be meaningful.

Finally, I'm just going to keep saying this: I am not defending the patent we're talking about. I'm reacting to the guy who creates an "internal app" for his company and believes he is now infringing this patent because it regexes phone numbers.
Enough of a community that Google chose to let Django on App Engine, not Rails.
Data about the inputs will be worthless. I went once saying that I did not make more than $200k last year, and then got curious and did it again, several more times with different numbers. I can't say everyone will be as curious as I was about the numbers, but I would imagine that several people will want to see what someone who made $1,000,000 would have to pay extra in taxes.
>If nothing else, we need a way to downvote posts which are objectively wrong.

I don't know. Objective wrongness ranks low on my list of reasons to downvote, which is usually because a post is off-topic or intended only to insult the parent. Consequently, I rarely use the downvote option.

If I think someone is wrong, I usually respond with an explanation, or wait for someone else to do the same.
« In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes. »

Andy Warhol was right, and here we are.

Indeed, capitalising on those 15 minutes, and making money out of it while you can is a good idea.
There are always the locally owned, independent bookstores. If any are left...
Thanks for the upvote!

I agree with you. There's a bit of bias in all of this, and no matter how objective I try to be (or don't), I'm inherently making a political statement. Most political issues are way too complex to summarize with a website that spits out a binary answer in a giant font. It's dangerous to even try.

On the other hand, I think it's a travesty that our system is so opaque to its own constituents. I'm upset at how difficult it was for me to find a simple datapoint about a widely discussed and hot political issue - namely, what happens to my taxes? I'm still not 100% sure I've got the datapoint correct, either.

This is tricky: We lack information. Information isn't digestible by most folks unless it's in easily consumable soundbites and datapoints. But incomplete information, or information without context, might be just as dangerous as no information at all. So where do we start?

I have no idea, but it's been fun seeing some strangers tweet my site around.
I like Sinatra (Ruby) for APIs. If the URL structure needs more complexity, Rails is better, but the downside is that you're getting a lot more than what you might need.

If I were asked to do one in Python, I'd use Flask.
Thanks. Not sure why I didn't know about that.

So to give my app an advantage I'll be adding a feature that a lot of users have been clamoring for that's not in the official site.

Hoping to get it done in the next week or two.
I like the use of "We" and "our" in the disclaimer--a nice touch that makes you sound a lot bigger than one person

(Currently under the impression that its just Snikolic who made this)
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It could be misconstrued that Netflix is endorsing it and because there is an alternative way to describe what Netflix does (i.e. Rental Service), they may be asked to change the wording. If using "Netflix" is the only way to describe the product without actually implying endorsement, than they will probably be safe. Another perspective is that you can generally use other trademarked names as long as you don't make profit from their actual names. So I can make a netflixsucks.com site and would be protected in doing so as long as I don't make a profit. Other than that, as long as they are truthful and don't confuse customers they can probably find a way to finagle using "Netflix for Baby Clothes" somewhere in their promo material.
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Mozilla's web development team uses Django for most of their current and new projects. If you come to #webdev on irc.mozilla.org they might be able to point to some other resources and gathering places.
Ask HN: Can submissions be flagged off the front page?
I just watched this story disappear from the main stream while being upvoted rather quickly (19 points in 1 hour):

"Phone-hacking whistle-blower found dead"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2778117
I believe Apple and MS have a patent cross licensing agreement. Apple and MS may have created a legal duopoly. Google really needs to treat the legal situation around Android like a serious threat.
I did/do respectively.
You know, your own response raises the elaborated problems to your proposals. But you're so committed to your preferred end-state that you've flipped the obvious answers. State bureaucrats will be smarter than federal? because they're "decentralized"? Healthy people will pay premium for a program that will take them at any time? C'mon man, really?

This stuff doesn't even link up with your first explanation of the problem.

You can see the details enough to see the problems, but you see the implications and don't like them. So you find ways to overlook them without even noticing what you've done. You are outsmarting yourself. It's precisely because you are so smart that you have driven yourself to positions that make no sense.

THAT is the problem. I could pose mathematical proofs of a contrary approach and you'd still fight it.

Because you are smart enough to see that going after the real problems in education would touch some fundamental and touchy subjects: parental responsibility, what "equality" and "fairness" really mean, whether we _can_ educate _everyone_, whether "teachers" as currently organized as a benevolent as they claim. And so on. Lord only knows what the final answers would be, but even talking about this stuff would be enough to blow the Progressive Coalition into a thousand tiny pieces. So we don't go for the central, systemic problems of the main program, we write scads of bug-catching programs to sit atop them and intercept the bugs. That would never work in code, and it won't work for government.

THAT is the offer. You are going about the problem all wrong -- your approach goes against everything you (meaning "you" as a stereotyped smart, problem-solving, elegance-seeking, Hacker News ur-type) do so well, day in and day out.

Now, I apologize for the grandiose generalizations and stereotyping and the reckless assumptions about goals and mental state. I just don't understand why such brilliant people are so routinely taken with "solutions" of a pattern they wouldn't tolerate for 15 seconds in their work. Go ahead, downvote this too, I suppose it deserves it -- but holy mackerel, I just don't get it.
Truthfully, a lot of plumbers never see that type of stuff. New construction and other industries. Although, those willing to deal with it had an hourly rate that makes many programmers envious.

Although, as a programmer, I had to remove a dead rat from a track (rail) after the cart (electrified, motor model size) carrying medical samples hit it. It was quite the shock climbing the ladder, opening the false ceiling, and then doing the horror-movie-style 180 with the flashlight.
So instead of investing in farm mechanization, or paying marginally more for produce, we should have a permanent underclass of foreign-born manual laborers? Can someone explain the logic in this?
Chain World: a game that exists on a unique USB flash drive
Rather than simply downvoting something that is wrong, explain why it's wrong. That contributes to the discussion.

I reserve downvoting for useless comments (e.g., "me 2") or ad-hominem or other offensive attacks.
I like pylons a lot and I am using it for few projects, but I hate dependecy on many libraries, things get complicated this way very soon. For smaller sites I recommend web2py - it is one package and it is very straightforward and easy although Pylons seems to be more flexible.
Do you really think that the opinion of people on HN has a measurable impact on our patent system?

Getting geeks to dislike patents is easy. We have a lot of geeks who hate patents and are passionate about it. Yet the patent system hasn't been changing as a result. Why not?
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Will Google+ Kill Social Completely
"I'm guessing there are many reasons to get an education, but isn't the primary reason to understand the world better than before?"

Surely that's rhetorical?

Do you honestly think most people pursue education primarily to understand the world better, and not to increase their earning potential?
Seriously? Everyone here agrees that unemployment is so high because of technology? Nobody remembers that the financial system nearly collapsed three years ago?
You've never tried anything else, and out of everything available for Python, you picked a framework I heard of for the first time two days ago? Without trying it, either?

Hey everyone, can we get a top comment on this thread that is something other than nonsensical flamebait, please?
Short answer: Because lawyers cost money.

LGPL code is not magically perfect. I've modified most third party libs I've used. If those are LGPL, I have to make sure those changes get back to the public. I either have to put messages on the game screen about where to get the code, or I have to ship the code on the disc. This is simply not going to happen in most corp environments without extensive lawyer say-so. As an independent, github make fulfilling this obligation a lot easier and I've used it for that purpose.

However there is a second problem. In some situations (iOS for example, but there are others with broken build pipelines) a separate "Library" does not work. The code must be compiled in directly. Is it now no longer a library for legal purposes? If not, then the whole product is now covered by GPL. Fuck. That is just not something that can be risked. Sorry.

So instead I only use software that is "Free" as in "Freedom to do what I want with it", like BSD, MIT or Apache.
http://www.google.com/finance?q=BKS
In my opinion, the decision whether to use Rails vs. Django should largely be based on which language you know/prefer and which culture you know/prefer. In terms of capabilities, the distance between them is tiny.

Austin Python Web meetup: http://django.meetup.com/cities/us/tx/austin/

No?
The Government is Banning a Product Used by 80% of the Country
I was challenging the poor argument of the parent with an extreme example of mixed content. A newspaper, for example, will generally have no hardcore porn in it.

Reddit is a hardcore porn site, it's just it's not exclusively a hardcore porn site. Indeed in part it appears to skirt illegality without blushing. Advertisers do have problems with advertising on such sites I'm sure.

Presumably you and the parent would argue that if you advertised in Playboy next to a feature (I don't actually know the layout, I've just heard they have non-porn articles) then you wouldn't be advertising in a porn magazine?
Ask HN: Which is a better name, Atomica or VidCast?
NASA promised us a 10,000 person space colony by 10 years ago
There's usually a really good indi book store right where the borders are(or used to be). Their tactic was to move in near the best, most popular store in each areas. I'm glad they're gone.
I actually like Github's markdown style so much that I put my resume on github: http://bit.ly/mwhiteresume. And because it's written in markdown, I have a plaintext version I can use if I need to, and a PDF (http://bit.ly/mwhiteresumepdf) created with pandoc.

I've taken the approach of doing away with a discrete "Skills" section and just bolding relevant keywords in my work and education entries.
Hmmmm. I was a pretty green PHP coder when I picked up Django and I found the only parts of the learning curve which were tricky were doing things WELL. i.e. understanding how to write elegant, reusable code. And that's hard in any language because it's about being a good programmer, rather than just learning an API.
can't say I like the landing page....it looks way too much like a wordpress blog...and an incomplete one at that.

granted I'm not a target customer, so maybe their research shows that it works...but if I came to the website by any non-referral method(i.e. a friend saying go there)...I would have hit the close button right away
Actually, it's the other way around. I've been been falsely answering all of the posts here on HN in the first person. The site was really built by a "we".

Robert (not an HN member, sadly) is a designer, and my co-founder at http://www.flock.fm. We were bored of working on Flock on Saturday, started talking politics, and took a few hours to whip this up together.
That is a pretty hasty generalization about American farmers. I have a friend who is a farmer in upstate New York. He has a master's degree, but chooses to run a small farm because his passion is being close to the land.
0> Set up the DB
1> Describe a model
2> Write a view function
3> Write a template
4> Set up a URL conf

How is this more difficult than or different to other web frameworks, and what do you consider 'insane' about it?
Firefox + RequestPolicy users are unaffected, thanks to RequestPolicy's defences against cross origin requests and redirects.
Can't imagine it not being there on Liberty. Sad news.
Apart from college, it may be a good idea to find out about some techie events / meetups near you.

Most technologies will have a local usergroup holding frequent meetups which you could attend to meet up with interesting people.
The LulzSec twitter feed is pretty active right now: https://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec
This is true, but I think the reasons are different. There has been a lot of usage knowledge created around the Microsoft platform(s), some supported by the community, but a lot still supported by the company. Moving in the open-source realm means losing a company's support, and I can see how those who are not used to it are uncomfortable with it.
Developer work metrics tool?
Is there some tool to measure developers work, not only by lines of code the produce/reduce(which is kind of misleading) but perhaps possible to tap into trac/redmine etc and see how many bugs are closed etc.

It should only be used as a fun motivator to finish things off and really get things done. Perhaps some sort of competition could be arranged as well.

If it didnt include any specifics it could be made public, even for non-public projects. Would be enough to see that developer x closed y bugs this week or so. Of course hard to compare this between projects, but would be fun to see how work progresses for past collegues and within teams as well.

Anything like this available? Or is it worth pursuing? :)
> this is mainly a comparison to closed source - if it's not in the corporation plan - you won't ever see the change you want.

This is so not true or at least not on an absolute level.
Oh, FWIW I did a brief check using the USPTO's TESS trademark search of only live marks of "plum" (http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4006%3A...) and there's at least this one:

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4006:21...

in the Nice Classification for clothing (25).
Have you been living under a rock or why don't you have some fun with nodejs?

Not saying django is dead here because its not (rails is though lol/Trollman Troll). It has a very vibrant community, almost as nice as the nodejs com.