skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The false positive rate seems to have been revised to 40% since I last checked, but my reference is here (though they cite the Morton & Johnson paper, too):

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJ...736...19B

The 10% false positive rate is for rank 2 targets, but the majority of targets are rank 4, which have a 40% false positive rate. (See section 2.2.2)

To confirm that the stars have planets, one would do spectroscopic follow up. You would see the slight wobbling of the host star due to the gravitational influence of the planet, and this would manifest itself in a slight Doppler shifting of the spectral lines of the host star. The problem is that most of the stars that Kepler is observing are so faint that ground-based spectroscopic follow-up is impossible except on the largest telescopes, and even then you can only do it for a handful of the thousands of candidates that Kepler is discovering.
I also rarely downvote.

It's a pain on the iPad when the buttons are so small, I feel nervous unless I pinch-zoom the button to be really large... I have inadvertently downvoted when I meant to upvote on numerous occasions.

Consequently, I simply don't rate while reading HN in bed.

It would be nice to have an opt-out just like hiding dead.
No, you'd still want exams as a focusing tool. But they'd be corrected, not graded. (and depending on your stance on pedagogy, they might be timed, closed book, or they might be take-home. )

Remember also to include advanced studies in your list. It was 'common but unconfirmed knowledge' that students from UCSC (where they have a 'narrative evaluation'+Pass/Fail option) would be passed over by medical schools since you couldn't reduce a student down to a GPA for the first-pass of application cuts.

I'm actually rabidly anti-grading, but I think it also has to start much, much earlier. I've literally gotten into shouting matches with (undergraduate) students who couldn't conceive of how they could function in school without grades. I found it even harder to explain to people how it could work than explaining how homeschooling/unschooling works.
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My concern here is that, although you are relating simple facts, you are also making a political statement. To see what I mean, let's say I wrote an app "See how many dollars of debt your elected representative approved" Even though it may all be based on publicly-available data, there would instantly be a conversation around "was this a vote for debt or was the expense offset" and "was it a one-time vote or was it an entitlement" or "Did he vote against it before he voted for it" and so on. That's because you can take the same data and present it in vastly different contexts. Heck, that's what politics is all about. I know you mean well and are not trying to spin me. It's just that "how Obama's budget will affect you" can be done a lot of different ways, all with different impacts on the user.

There's also an issue of timeliness -- things are moving faster on the ground, and all of your hard work could be for nothing just in a few day's time.

Happy to upvote you, though! Hope you got some good experience from it. But I also hope this doesn't start a trend of quick hacks that are really more political commentary than useful. Heck, I already knew that the rates would change and that "millionaires and billionaires" now officially starts at 200K per year.
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Given how broad these claims are, I think the patent office should reexamine the patent. If claim 1 stands, Apple could shut down not just the mobile phone industry, but all vendors of computers with browsers. Note that there is no limitation in claim 1 to phones or tablets. Indeed, the patent was filed in 1996, long before the invention of the iphone.

Here you can download a copy of the patent: http://www.google.com/patents/about/5946647_System_and_metho...

Note the figure on the front page: a computer system with a floppy drive and printer attached. The computer system Apple is referring to in the patent is any personal computer.
Wow. That's bit harsh. I'll try and stay civil.

"The community is pretty much dead." - not from where I'm standing. I live in a tech-savvy town and there seems to be more Django devs here than Rails devs. Of course - it's not a popularity contest otherwise PHP would be the best web framework ;-)

"All my Django projects ended up being a big mess" - that used to be the case with my own code but by reading other people's code (and the Django source) I've improved hugely. Should you be blaming your tools?

"And the community in general seems to agree" - the Django community agrees that Django sucks? Or did you mean the web dev community in general? If so - can you back that up with anything more substantial?
You'd like to be able to hire a new employee as quickly as possible, but you'd like departing employees to hang around as long as possible.

That seems to me to be a fundamental conflict. New employees don't appear from a vacuum and old employees don't disappear into one. Other than new entrants to the market and retirees, almost everyone is moving from one place to another, with the same pressures.

Given that companies usually only hire when they already need the staff, there's likely a fairly strong incentive to encourage the new hire to move to the new job as quickly as possible.

As someone one the receiving end of that, it sucks. But now, facing the other end of the hiring game, I'll bet you're going to encourage your new hire to start ASAP (in fact, giving preference to those that can start sooner rather than later).

It's like the passing around of electron holes.
It was a spam filter for your follower list. Some people just don't like having 300 spammers show up when someone clicks "followers" on their profile. Regardless, I wrote this comment to make the point about Twitter already having some automated spam systems, not to entice you to sign up for anything.
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I don't think pricing is your fundamental problem.

* Your primary market is where diagnosing rendering problems, error conditions conditions etc. are not merely a difficult problem, but an impossible one. You need to be targeting visualizations, games, or similar. With the kind of limited web development I do, basically hacking wordpress templates, your product solves a non-problem for me.

* You're going to need some sweet explanations for braindead users. As a developer, I know how to use the product, but will my users? Probably not. You need a 1-2-3 flyover to explain WTF is going on.

Alternatively, you could pivot and focus on targeting freelancer frontend web designers/developers. I would imagine that the freelancers have a need for a simple "markup the website" tool so a client can annotate the site with their feedback, "change the font of this title", etc.
Still, "reasonable" can be widely interpreted, and take another many years to settle if the courts are involved.

Applying a basic sniff test, if all patents had to be licensed for reasonable fees to competitors, there would be almost no sense in having patents in the first place. Additionally terms like "blocking patents" in terms of intellectual property barriers to entry in a marketplace would also likely not need to exist.

IANAL, but I do believe from my own experience that Apple can effectively decide to not make their patents available to HTC if they so choose in this case.
Every computer ever build has a processing unit coupled to input, output, and memory that includes an analyzer server for detecting structures and an action processor that controls the execution of program routines on that computer?

Is this trivial to build with COTS parts? Of course it is. Does it describe a web app? No. Web apps do not comprise input, output, memory used to store program routines, a processor coupling them, a server running on that very processor for that uses patterns to recognize structures such as phone numbers, and an action processor that executes specific code stored in that memory based on the structure the analyzer server found. In a web app, half that stuff happens on a server on a different computer, and half happens in the web browser.

If they wanted their patent to describe web apps, they would have said the server was communicatively coupled to the input/output processor, resided on a computer that may be different from the computer with the input/output processor, and that the subroutines run in response to user selections might run either on one computer or the other, &c.

This is not an awesome patent. That's not the point I'm making.
> If you can reliably A/B test properly encoded 160kbit mp3s you have exceptional hearing and you should lend your services to the lame tuning team ASAP.

there's a difference between being able to reliably distinguish them for any kind of track, and occasionally noticing compression artifacts in certain parts of certain tracks.

the first ability would indicate exceptional hearing and material for the Lame tuning team,
while the latter probably means you're useless to that tuning team, but you will still get less enjoyment from lower bitrate streams, some of the time.

I'll have to check those hydrogenaudio forums to see what "properly encoded" exactly means, btw. Because if, as you said above, encoders are just too good above 96kbps [for people to tell the difference], those must be some pretty sweet magic presets, cause I haven't been able to get that quality at such bitrates when encoding mp3s or ogg myself. It's not that I don't believe it btw, from what I've seen the hydrogenaudio people know what they're talking about. It's surprising though, that apparently some commandline switches can make such a world of difference.

However, what is relevant to this discussion, is not how a 160kbps mp3 sounds when "properly encoded", but how a 160kbps ogg sounds when encoded the way Spotify does it [which may or may not be optimal].
And to determine whether people are making a big deal out of something they ultimately can or cannot hear, they don't need to be able to reliably A/B test everything, it's enough if they are able to notice the lower bitrate some of the time for some tracks, even a littlebit is already enough to get that itchy feeling you are not quite getting what you paid for, and that alone can put a big damper on your enjoyment of the entire stream (even the parts that sound just fine!).
No he was not right. The comment he replied to quoted an example of an infringing implementation based up all claims and dependencies in the patent. It was 100% correct, and remains 100% correct. Someone didn't cherry pick one elemtn of a claim and that was it, they found a specific infrginging activity, and having read the patent in detail, they are dead on.

More handwaving, however. This is why we can't have nice things.

You are wrong. Ptacek is wrong. AND APPLE AGREES. How is this nonsensical side discussion still occurring? The specific example is one that Apple used, so...what is going on here?
I was surprised to see Netflix there and not see a trademark notice. Similarly they use "Plum" which is already a baby food manufacturer (perhaps they're not in the US) so I'd imagine they're likely to be getting some TM infringement/passing-off notices if they haven’t already.

IANA(TM)L.
There's money back and forth between these companies all the time. It's just behind closed doors for 90% of it. Patent suits are the equivalent of tabloid coverage of a public argument. It could very well be resolved behind closed doors like many other suits.
Django works just fine. If you want to build your own framework (e.g. use Bottle) then go for it. Waste [Invest?] the time while the rest of us are busy getting things done.

I don't think that you can compare ANY Python framework (or any framework in any language) with Ruby on Rails. If you write Ruby, use RoR. If you write Python, don't use RoR.

Also, for anyone recommending something like Tornado, please stop. It's NOT THE SAME THING and completely off topic. If you want something micro for a small concise project use Flask.
If you have specific constructive criticism I'm quite happy to hear it.
Awesome. That could make for an interesting model of skew versus sun direction/latitude, too.
I'll just point out that was one of the major talks at DjangoCon 2010 and the title was meant to be provocative and in good humour. Eric Florenzano was and is a major player in the (allegedly non-existent) Django community.
It's happening on the home page, when I click through from the link posted here, if I try to click back to get back to the discussion, it doesn't work. Do you have a redirect script on the home page that could be causing it by accident?
While it's an interesting hypothetical, I don't actually see the word "Netflix" anywhere on the site. A Google search suggests it's a snappy description they've used when describing the site to a journalist, but I don't see that they've written it anywhere themselves.

If they had done, well...I think you'd have to be very very careful. You wouldn't want to create the slightest hint of confusion that your service is endorsed by Netflix.
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I'm 40. My point is not that Thatcher was heartless, but that while she was busy privatizing a variety of state-owned UK companies (most of which desperately needed to be have their monopolies abolished), she also triggered a recurring asset-inflation/deflation cycle and popularized the idea of getting rich quick through trading up repeatedly. This culminated in a real-estate boom (& bust) after people were given permission to buy their council houses at rock-bottom prices.

Your spelling tics ('nu labour') and use of the suggestion that the party lied by promoting a policy of wider university education which turned out to be a failure suggest a rather intense bias. It seems not to have occurred to you that the Blair government thought widespread higher education was the antitode to Britain's structural economic problems and simply Got It Wrong. Likewise, there are a lot of people on the left who are convinced that Thatcher set out to wreck the economy by plundering the state monopolies, when the reality is that they were in terrible shape and the abrupt recession that followed a long period of financial expansion came as a nasty surprise for the then-ruling Conservatives under John Major.

I mean, it's fun to imagine that wicked politicians crash the economy for their own personal gain; but even a brief study of history suggests that wrecking an economy is usually followed by painful electoral defeat and a long term in the wilderness. Most politicians are not especially malicious, they're just not especially competent either. Gordon Brown looked like a magician until the financial crisis hit, and had probably come to believe he was. Likewise, Thatcher looked like a genius until there were riots in the streets and Sterling collapsed not long after her departure. If you can only remember the faults of the most recent government, then you're in danger of repeating the ones of that which came immediately before, or those of their predecessors.
In the end, both are the same thing; managing action-specific state in an application-defined per-action data structure. With OS threads, you let the OS manage the state instead. This can be inefficient with a large number of actions, because most of the state kept has nothing to do with the application itself; it's OS bookkeeping overhead.
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Capital Vol. 1 has a pretty good explanation for this phenomenon
Kedrosky v. Wadhwa on the tech bubble, or "Protecting Grandma from LNKD" [video]
Cannot let little things like life circumstances get in the way.

Nope, not ones as trivial as that. "But I can't afford a computer" is a ridiculous excuse, no matter how you spin it. My first computer cost $1500 in 1982 dollars, and we were by no means a wealthy family. If you can't afford a computer today, then you have more pressing concerns, like getting enough to eat.

I was one of the lucky ones, admittedly. John Carmack had to resort to stealing his first Apple II from a computer store. Genius finds a way, I guess.
the only time i downvote anything is if i feel it is objectively wrong. if i simply disagree or am ambivalent, i don't vote at all.
How far behind is Barnes and Noble?
My opinion is that this is a clear case of confusion. That a layman could readily confuse the origin of the goods with the mentioned company. You usually have to acknowledge the RTM/TM and make a clear statement that your goods do not originate with the TM owner and are not warranted by them.

If you can't afford to answer a lawsuit then I'd avoid it! You don't need to be in the wrong to get sued.

Comparison advertising is usually specifically allowed and the form of comparison advertising makes clear that your goods do not originate with the company you're comparing with. Just don't lie especially if you chose a large company to compare with, they'll have you for every last cent.
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a randomness/mutation/imperfection slider would be neat, especially if it could cause chaos along a branch and its nodes.
A little bit sad but who didn't see this coming? At least Barnes and Noble is venturing into the ereader market and trying to do something.
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I'm curious. Are the police who said it is not considered suspicious the same police force this chief resigned from?

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BRITAIN_PHONE_HACK...

The crisis has also triggered upheaval in the upper ranks of Britain's police. Monday's resignation of Assistant Commissioner John Yates - Scotland Yard's top anti-terrorist officer - followed that Sunday of police chief Paul Stephenson. Both stepped down for links to an arrested former executive from Murdoch's shuttered News of the World tabloid.
The parent comment never passed judgment on this self-image, just merely asserted that it was pervasive among Americans.
This is rediculous.

Everyone's app is different, and so Django is rightly agnostic as to how your settings are stored, and which are loaded.

As for the scope of the problem: dealing with multiple development settings is Section 1, Page 1 of professional programming. It's a solved and trivial problem. This isn't like coding your own ORM or templating language.
As someone who's been using Django since the magic removal branch, its documentation is top notch, not to mention the lack of magic makes it very usable, supportable, and build-able on. I can say definitely what's going on from the top layer to the bottom layer without any black box behaviour.

Rails is full of sloppy coding, lots of magic, coders who think that return is an keyword, and bad practices. I have no problem with ruby as a language, even if it takes flexibility a step too far, however the style of coders, and the general "I did something clever and unreadable so I'm awesome" attitude seems to permeate the ruby-verse. Also while many improvements have been made on the ruby interpreters... the performance is STILL lagging behind Python, which as a dynamic language with compiled backend elements, gives languages like Java a run for their money.

Both systems are very powerful, Django has certain batteries included that I find it strange that rails fails to do (namely a plugabble extensible flexible user authentication system) and both have their adherents.

The writer of this original piece is clearly not very up on Django development, the strong community apparently how to write well implemented MVC code. Having spent years working with a variety of frameworks, I've yet to find a place where Django stops you doing what you want (unless its a fundamentally stupid idea).
True, but the 'unmanned' drones and missiles usually still have a man remotely piloting or pulling the trigger. I doubt a drone will ever be given permission to select and fire on targets.
And not the default on Verizon Android phones.

I don't think it's just about search. I think sometimes Google does things Because They Can and then try to figure out how to make money later. Android's most realistic reason for existence, IMHO, is to ensure that Google users can take their data with them. If there was no Google phone, then the world would stick with Exchange, and GMail is not Exchange.
agree. Even shopping at clearance at Target, Ross, Walmart and Marshals .. lets say 6 outfits over 3 months for 16X3 = $50(rounded up) - for $50 at discount stores... can go a long long way.
Don't use it.

But when the opportunity presents itself, you will KNOW that it's time to use it.
Thanks for the feedback, some really good points there. The pivot angle is one I had briefly considered, maybe I'll give it a bit more thought.

I've got a screencast showing how to use BugMuncher, maybe I should link to that directly from the help link in the tool itself?
What issues did you run into by the way?
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Oh, gotcha. I never really understood why having bad followers matter, it's one of the things you truly cannot control.

Anyway, it sounds pretty shitty that not only did they (ironically) shut your service down, but wouldn't even explain why they did it. :/
Take that, xenophobes!

Many Americans take the stance that "I'm not anti-immigration, I'm anti-illegal-immigration." Nevertheless, the US has very restrictive citizenship & green card programs, and the quotas are a fraction of the demand for them. If we were pro-immigration, we would increase these quotes.

As a globalist: the people living south of our border are just as deserving of a livelihood as we are. This is also the reason that I don't go out of my way to buy local food-- the Chileans need it more than my fellow American farmers. (The American-born farmers had all the opportunities in the world to learn other skills, but they did not excel in high school and have consistently been using protectionism and the "buy local" meme to boost their business.)
For a long time I debated which framework to pursue in my off time (work is Java/struts blub programming). Python is the first and only programming language that I truly fell in love with, so I've investigated Django and rather like it. But I'm going to the Lone Star ruby conference next month, and I'll be doing the 0 to Rails tutorial. I guess I'm still having a hard time making up my mind. If exposure to live events is the deciding factor, then ruby will win, because I don't see many nearby django events...
I think one of the interesting with Django is just how easy it is to get started with it without prior programming knowledge.

Wait, you're kidding right? Django is positively horrible for beginning programmers because it's a gigantic framework with an insane learning curve, and if you haven't done much/any webdev before it's almost impossible to learn.

Sure, you and i can pick it up in a weekend, but i don't think it's even in the realm of decent for beginning programmers.
This is great advice. I tend to be a researcher, so this is a pattern I know all too well.