skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, that's going to continue to be the case until someone (cough us, cough) figures out that what you look at or buy on one occasion might not actually be something you're interested in. Specifically speaking of //items//, this is really a huge issue that is so huge that it's almost become laughable in the sense that nearly all the recommendations via "machine learning" (Collaborative Filtering, Trust Systems, etc) nowadays end up being so tainted that they are worthless - to you, and to the companies spitting them out. I call it "Recommendation Blindness" (copyright 2008...20% on usage...etc...etc..sue you..etc.....I'm just kidding of course).
Satire is an important form of political commentary.
Really? I heard it was 35.
An even better idea that's starting to gather momentum is free, open source textbooks:

http://creativecommons.org/tag/open-source-textbook

The textbook industry definitely deserves to be put out of business for their sleazy practices, like publishing new editions of basic textbooks every couple of years so that students can't resell the old ones. (Are there really new developments in basic calculus every couple of years?)
Wow. This reads like a Neal Stephenson novel.
> I'd argue that parolees aren't the best people to be comparing against.

Yeah, generally, committing crimes doesn't say much for someone's ability to defer gratification, which is essentially what hard work is.
Everyone talking about RoR and Django, but what about Scala? Does that a good language with a good web framework?

I experienced RoR and trying Django now, and thinking Django is much easier than RoR (Django configurations and conventions make much more sense for me), but seeing the same problems everyone talking here.

Meanwhile, Scala coming and a lot of services written in RoR or Django are now build in Scala (Twitter, Foursquare).
It seems like it's been said already, but to make sure it's stated correctly, let me specify:

This is not the free market at work: The free market would be multple DNS hierarchies being run simultaneously, and users choosing which ones to use.

Our 'choice of DNS' is non-existent; we're just getting forced into using a shittier product.
I recommend reading about Buddhism for anyone who was inspired by this post, as I was. Anything by Pema Chodron is a good place to start. For HN'ers in the Bay, the SF Zen Center cheerfully welcomes walkins.
the expect us was their slogan for a while...
Selenium 2.1 Released
I use mailchimp to do automated rss emails once a month to my blog readers. I love it. Set it up once and forget it. The mailchimp analytics are great and it integrates with your google analytics (shows up as campaign traffic). It's completely free until i get above 2000 subscribers at which point i will gladly pay! Hope this helps.
There is a third option. The US government is currently paying millions of Americans not to work. When faced with a choice between playing XBox for minimum wage or picking cucumbers for min wage, they make the rational choice - XBox.

So I propose the following: for every agricultural job that goes unfilled, we kick one American off unemployment/welfare and inform them that a job has been found for them.

If the job continues to go unfilled, we kick another American off unemployment/welfare. We repeat this process until either a) all agricultural jobs are filled or b) there are no more unemployed people. If b) occurs, we can then reopen the discussion on immigration to fill agricultural jobs.
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Amazon is cheap and easy. If you're using their platform this is an obvious choice. If you're hosting elsewhere and don't have integration synergies, I couldn't say
I probably should have mentioned when Selenium 2.0 was released. It was something like 3 years in the making and is a big release if you need browser automation or do in-browser functional testing.
It's not that uncommon for the employer to pay part of the group rate, as far as I can see.
Border's demise, at least in Australia, was investing too much in the CD business. That lead them to renting much bigger space that they needed and increasing cost. When the CD years faded, they felt it hard on the balance sheet.
Don't write your busienss plan, but know your business plan.
> I think the example to take here is the German education system: They were proponents of the idea that college isn't the only way. They had a second option, which is vocational school. These often have no tuition.

We have a similar alternative here in Australia; often known as "TAFE" (in Western Australia, at least) where the fees are typically just up-front and very cheap (we're talking hundreds, as opposed to 20-30k+ for University) for vocational courses, and a bit more for apprenticeships.

Saying that, and mostly due to our mining activity, there are a lot of people seeking this route. In fact, it's not uncommon for an electrician or fitter to earn a good $80k+ for FIFO work with just a couple of years experience (the news media usually says $100k, but that's the exception). Not bad considering what a lot of DBA's, programmers and sysadmins with 1-2 years of experience get.

Keep in mind we have a Government scheme called HECS/HELP, where the Government pays your fees (with some fairly high limits). You pay them back once you earn a certain level of income (the rate increases as you earn more) and there is no interest, however it does increase in June every year via inflation.

Excuse my very high-level overview.
Borders is dead because the folks in charge of the corporation made bad decisions. They overextended themselves borrowing to expand. They failed to shutter money-losing stores quickly enough, not in small part because they signed off on long-term leases that made vacation a non-option in many cases. And of course their online presence was managed by Amazon from 2001-2008.

The failure of the chain isn't a commentary on the changing book market, it's a commentary what happens to businesses that abuse debt and make decisions for the short term than have negative long-term implications.
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and bunch of the companies are still betting on the web platform, trying to convince others that web is the best way on mobile development.

The webview on android uses at least 4 threads, which consumes a lot more battery and slower than native apps that's written efficiently. And the worst part is, even if you are loading "HTML" straight from your phone, it still will never as efficient and smooth as the native apps.

I think the only exception to the rule is WebOS, which runs extremely smooth, this is because the entire architecture was built that way.
I refuse to accept responsibility for petty vandalism. It's impossible to prevent in any community.
It's also amazing that Borders beat its competitors on technology. Apparently the founders developed some really innovative inventory software in the 80's/90's that allowed them to keep low prices and a wide selection. This allowed them to expand all over the nation.
There are other ways to achieve the goal of breaking the link between employment and healthcare without a public insurer. Public insurers eventually become the predominant insurer by a large margin because they can use their size to obtain lower prices. Markets with few buyers or sellers are less efficient at providing the products people want at the prices they want than those with many. The result in this case would be less profit to be made in healthcare than people would be willing to pay for, so less effort would be spent to do so. Seems undesirable.

This is trending a bit off topic. Feel free to respond, but I won't.
I must confess, I actually watched the entire video! Much better than looking through hundreds of screen-captures in a list and interestingly entertaining!

It's striking to me the number of watch makers that advertised through the course of the year. The ads primarily caught my attention - which is strange, because I rarely look at ads when browsing sites. The one constant, from all the ads, was a watch manufacturer.

Curious if the person who captured these images had a browsing history for watches, or if that's what everyone witnessed? Next experiment: Two completely different users capture these on the same time interval -- side by side comparison! ;-)
Igor, I wanted to say Thank You, but not contact info on your website and I figured using Who-IS to get a contact address would be weird.....
> The community is extremely anti-advertising,

I can't think of a community that is less anti-advertising. If I had a nickel for every time a Redditor has talked about purposely leaving ad-block off on that site...

>If it was really all that successful, I don't think all the employees would have left.

I believe their payroll is significantly higher than it has ever been. No way to know what individual salaries look like, but it's beyond argument that they have more employees now, and those employees are being paid well enough to stay.

I do agree though that this does not speak to online advertising in general. Reddit is a single site, -obviously not enough data points to make broad pronouncements about the health of online advertising (which, incidentally, is a market predicted to be around 34 billion in 2012 in the U.S. alone...).
Seems like just deserts to me.
I hope his optimism is unwarranted. While I certainly would have a hard time turning down the opportunity to live longer, I don't think greatly extending peoples lives will be good for the individuals, society or the planet. Life and death is a beautiful cycle; not something to be defeated due an overwhelming fear of death.
It may be in poor taste, but they aren't the first to joke about Murdoch this way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1aZcsY-O8Q
>Most people who give a camera to a monkey do so with the intent that a picture is taken.

Not what happened here: "David Slater has already admitted that the monkeys found a camera he had left out by accident and that he did not have anything to do with setting up the shot."

>The fact that a photographer was smart enough to choose "the one" hit should be rewarded.

Then, are the other pictures not copyrighted?
In a sense, each of us lives our life in Titanic style, setting forth in the confident assumption that we are unsinkable and placing an unduly high value on our capacity to meet any challenge, panicking (or at least feeling a sense of stoic distress) at the mid-point as it first truly hits us that we are about to slam into the iceberg of inevitable aging and decline, sweating it out over a seemingly interminable period as our vessel creaks and groans its way toward destruction, and finally salvaging what we can from the wreckage and setting it off in a few lifeboats intending to keep hope alive for the next generation of humanity. In the process, we hope to do something more meaningful than spend time rearranging deck chairs as we decide upon our life's focus.

This is not intended as a grim metaphor on life. In fact, I am a supreme optimist about the beauty of living and about having hopes of doing great things and doing one's best to achieve them. But what are those things when the reality is that one's individual life is finite? That is the challenge faced by every human being who has ever lived.

This piece attempts to answer it by saying, in effect, be careful to set your goals on things that ultimately matter. Whether the author, at age 30, has enough perspective to answer this question well is something we can all ponder. But we all need to try, and this piece is a thoughtful attempt to do so.
Facebook letting you download your information. NOT.
We use Do Good Diapers in Minneapolis, and their service is fabulous.
José Valim has written a book[1] that shows how to swap in all manner of functionality into Rails 3. It covers alternate renderers (PDF), alternate models, alternate template stores (SQL), custom template engines, using the built-in notification system, and alternate backends for I18n.

I highly recommend it.

[1] http://pragprog.com/book/jvrails/crafting-rails-applications
Zynga Updates IPO Filing to List Investors and Google's One of Them
These reminded me of structural unemployment[1] effects I've learnt on history classes, that happened during the first industrial revolution.

However, PG published an essay[2] from Knuth that mentioned:

... because their aim is to create machines that write programs better than we can, given only the problem specification.

In this sense we should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

Which seems to be pretty much corroborated by your TL; DNR

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_unemployment

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/knuth.html
No, but you made it seem silly somebody would even create the 2005 phone when the patent had been granted in 1995.
IPhone Tops Nokia for European Mobile Ad Requests
Mike Pall is the LuaJIT guy.
This is the second coordinated propaganda article this week claiming that the economic collapse is to be blamed on software engineers and inventors.

Don't be fooled. The lack of decent paying manufacturing jobs in the US is because of the lack of tariffs regarding imports from countries with despotic labor conditions and no enforced environmental laws. Microsoft does not make the stuff that WalMart sells which is imported from China.

But that is nothing compared to the money the government has thrown at speculators calling themselves bankers who have committed the fraud of the millenium, and then bailed out for their losses to the tune of twelve trillion dollars. This is another massive hit to the economy. Resources squandered on non-productive sociopaths and parasites.
These people either don't intend on being profitable in the next 18 months or else they didn't do their research.

If you quit your job, COBRA allows you to continue to pay 101% of the group rates for 18 months and keep your old insurance.
Awesome! I'd gone through the release notes when 1.3 came out and wrote it off since the release notes say "Part of the purpose of introducing the staticfiles app is to make it easier to keep static files separate from user-uploaded files." I thought to myself, "well, I'm going to be putting user files on S3 anyway so it's not going to get messy anyway."

I'd completely missed it. Thanks!
Django is just a Python package. You don't need root to install it, you just need it to be on your Python path. If they have virtualenv installed that's probably the easiest way to do it. Otherwise, look here:

http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/th...
I like to call them "aspirationally wealthy".
Forget Acquisitions: Apple control the Supply Lines
Show HN: Google+ for Google Apps / GMail
>However, migrations are a tad fundamental.

FYI, I think the South authors are the ones preventing South being part of Django, not the Django maintainers.
The WebSocket protocol "Last Call"
Dude, Where’s my Fractal Tree? Making tech exciting to Ashton Kutcher
Building a PC, Part VII
> The community is pretty much dead.

http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?pli=1

20245 Members, 126619 Threads

Last 12 hours, 14 new threads, 27 new messages

https://code.djangoproject.com/log/django/trunk

16546 changes, last change 28 hours ago.

> ....Django projects ended up being a big mess,

Are you sure it was not the result of the team you worked with, and not Django itself?

Everything else is hand wavy, but if you would bother to explain "clumsy, inflexible and restrictive" technically, I would be glad to respond technically.
Actually this is false. As the graph in the article shows American manufacturing output is much higher now than it was in the past. This is due to automation and a smarter, more empowered work force.

While American jobs for simple, brute force manufacturing were outsourced, high end manufacturing for complicated things like Tractors and earth moving equipment are now essentially power assisted with automation backing or managing human output.
The interesting point is how little of the positive bookstore experience you describe actually involved taking the book home. It seems to me that there might be a niche for something that is a cross between a bookstore, a library and the old Edwardian gentleman's club - a space with books and coffee/bar that is supported by subscriptions (and drink sales) as much as actual book sales, and where the books are curated to some extent for their interest to the membership rather than commercial value. I'd pay a monthly fee to be able to go hang out in a nice space full of books that are selected to be interesting (to me!) rather than stuff like "Chicken Soup for the Soul" and the latest fad diet.

Sort of a bookstore version of HN, I suppose.
Bioscience: Discovery is in Virginia&#39;s DNA
I considered it, but to me part of the impact of the meaning of your "life" in the game being a "life" would mean that it would have to last long enough for you to carry out some meaningful work before you die of "natural causes" (i.e. a timer running out). In that case, the timer would probably be long, on the order of months, and I was just hoping that something else could be done to make the game harder to survive (there are lots of server plugins to do things like require you to eat to stay alive, etc; I looked into those a little bit but then got busy with other things).
Oh awesome, I never knew about Allify, but it looks exactly like what I want to use. The difference between Allify and AppCircle (from what I can tell) is that AppCircle is paid (per install) and Allify is free.

I will investigate this further, thanks for posting this!
Looks like it's just a parked page now.
It was this: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sclient=psy&...

Is this the typical way to handle these types of things (besides in the courts)? Seems like this might scare off some potential clientele if they ever found out you'd done something like this.
If you own it 
Nintendo prefer to emphasize innovation and simplicity game feeling rather than always only improve game picture expressive force. So wii system is production of this kind of now idea. Powerful potential wireless remote controller and excellent performance is the most great revolution force.The design conception of wii is “mignon, quite and cheap”. We can put wii on desk horizontal or vertical, and wii console performance about is twice of gc. Stronger performance than xbox but smaller volume. These could make xbox shame enough.
I wonder if Georgia's PINES libraries would make a good model for other states: http://www.georgialibraries.org/public/pines.php

40+ million books and other media loaned each year and 10 million things to loan. All with a single library card at almost any library. They're even talking about adding Kindle books to the collection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Information_Network_for_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_(software)
How to view private Facebook profiles
OrangeWorld: The Future of Telecoms?
if you want to, you have to get licensed and by cables from redpark or make your own. just like with the fcc and wireless it makes some degree of sense.

since redpark already has a license, you can just piggyback on theirs. you still have to sign an nda with apple, and they still have the encryption chips in that cable.
Google docs now handles archive formats such as zip and rar
I now see why my post got downvotes. I was unaware that JtP as a specific situation was about mistaken self-interest (originally I thought it was solely about generic blue-collar appeal for McCain/Palin).
It's hard not to compare with your peers, colleagues, and classmates. I was a year into my first job as a developer before being laid off and am now planning my next steps. At 23 this sounds fairly ridiculous but the feeling of running out of time weighs heavily on my mind. Here's what I'm struggling through.

1. Following the steps of alumnus a tried and true path seems to be going back to grad school for a masters degree, studying something that requires advanced mathematics (i.e. graphics programming) and then getting that job at Google. But what if <insert dream company> is not cracked up to what I imagine it to be? When I graduated I was head over heels about working full time as a developer. However the actual experience of working with a very large & complex legacy C++ codebase was more frustrating and painful than I could have possibly imagined. Velocity and skills development was slow (it was not uncommon to spend several days investigating a single bug) and most of my time was spent slogging through very complicated and undocumented code, trying to figure out the intent of the original authors. Not having other jobs to compare it to, <dream job at dream company> could be much the same. In any case if I don't upgrade my arsenal or credentials I feel like I will always doomed to work at second-rate dev shops where employees are ever susceptible to unpleasantries like mediocre salaries/advancement and layoffs. Companies here cannot just cannot compete with tech giants.

2. Find another job. I have a 2-3 month window to quickly find another job as there seems to be some stigma associated with unemployment. The city I live in is a technological wasteland and opportunities for pure software development are relatively limited, so realistically my next employer is likely to be an Oil and Gas company. While that certainly pay the bills it kind of limits your career to other oil and gas companies.

3. Forget about societal pressures and do my own thing. I have enough savings to take a year off, develop my skills, fill in gaps in my knowledge and work on toy projects. Unfortunately this means having to explain a gap year where I might have very little to show for it. The skills I develop will probably not be directly applicable to a job.

Like many I aspire to become the best I can be and like to think of myself as somewhat respectable but at the end of the day I'm just an average developer. I guess the point is if you aren't a genius/wizard you have to deal with your inadequacies and "running out of time" is always in the back of your mind.
Regardless of the first version sales pitch, I'd totally use it if I had a kid.

Just to contribute some valuable info.
The 'business lobby' is almost 100% against providing education, which is a significant part of the reason that neither the public nor private sector is doing an adequate job.

Business and society don't operate apart from each other.
An HTC Android device is a computer running Linux, Android devices are as much multipurpose computing devices as computers.

But regardless of that, having read the 21 claims of the '647 patent (I don't fully understand the other one, but this is the one that covers what this thread is discussing), there's nothing about it being tied to purpose built hardware.

The example implementation described in the patent itself uses a Power Macintosh, the only part that refers to purpose built computers is "For example, program 165 in FIG. 1 can be stored in ROM, disk, or in dedicated hardware. In fact, it may be realized as a separate electronic circuit."

The term "a processing unit coupled to the input device, the output device" is only being used as a generic way of describing a computing device (hence the Macintosh being used in the example and the reference to dedicated hardware is only made as an alternative method of implementation)

If this patent is valid, it's likely covers a wide range of computer application including those found on desktop computers (for example Skype's phone number highlighting plugin).
I made one too a while back, animated. Shrink your browser window if you machine is not very fast.... :)

http://www.genesisbbs.com/appstem2.html
$40k a year and he is poor? umm... Sure he would benefit from tax cuts but $40k/year is not poor. According to wikipedia poverty line sits around $22k in the states.
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