skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, the only time you should use it is when you are 100% sure that the comment needs a down vote. If you have to think about it, then it doesn't need to be down voted.
You serve all you content via HTTPS? Including most static files/images, even though you have some non HTTPS objects which are not encrypted (and the browser notifies users of this).

Perhaps there is some business reason you have for this but it seems like a lot of wasted cycles.

That is a very small amount of traffic to experience issues with. If you want to inform about how much load was put on your systems, you should show pageviews and also show/look at stats on the static content (if you are using one server to serve it all).
I'm not sure I believe the RoR community is larger than the Django community. I do believe it is more vociferous, though, which seems to be indicative of the general difference in communities between Ruby and Python.

It really doesn't matter which you choose. You will hit points with either where you are tearing your hair out trying to figure out how to do something. You'll find good peopke to help you in both communities. Eventually, that phase will pass and you will achieve Zen, until the next shiney framework shows up. :)

Personally, I really like Python as a language, so that's my path to Zen. Yours may be different.
It's not patently obvious to me that his internal app matches claim 1 of the patent; if it was, I would have commented on it. It is not an infringement of this patent to sell software that regexes phone numbers. Do you believe otherwise?
How about the library? Many of them even sell food.

Lots of new books, magazines, and it's cheaper to boot. Some of them are really beautiful too.
I remember that.

For those that don't know, California Avenus is part of 'old' Palo Alto, and has a bunch of boutiques, restaurants, and cafes. It was lined with shade trees that had been there since the city had been founded, and was overall a very nice place to be.

A few years back, the city decided to, uh, beautify the area by cutting down all the trees, and this happened almost overnight. The street now feels like a seedy part of LA, and is nowhere as nice a place to be, thanks to the local government.

Off-topic, but there's a fantastic bagel shop near the corner of California and El Camino that I highly recommend.
90% of bookstores will go out of business sooner or later because of eBooks. There's no point to feel sorry about Borders, others will follow.
I think it's the feeling that someone is watching them. We know it's just computers, data, and statistics, but if you didn't understand that, I imagine it would be a bit scarier.
I am a student and I worked with publishers last semester for a while to get interactive electronic textbooks published. I got to view things on the inside and what I've concluded is that the publishers don't actually care about students.

They are marketing to the schools and universities first and foremost because they are the ones who actually make the buying decisions. All the publishers try to do is make something that looks better their competitors and lets colleges cram more students into the classrooms. I don't ever remember them saying "students need this" but rather "universities want to see this". It is a broken system that relies on lazy/overworked teachers and massive hulking collegiate bureaucracies.

Good electronic textbooks won't come from companies that made shitty paper textbooks.
your work will die with you and nobody will care

You should care, while you are alive. Whether your successors care or not is optional, and frankly is their problem, not yours.

There are many recorded instances of work that was generally ignored by the creator's immediate successors - or even by contemporaries - but was eventually appreciated decades, even centuries later. Classic examples: Bach's fugues went terribly out of fashion even during his lifetime; Shakespeare's biography is obscure mainly because his works went through a period of obscurity; Mendel published his work to no acclaim whatsoever, went on to have a completely different non-science career, and died before other scientists (two of them simultaneously!) discovered his work. Johannes Vermeer, Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson...

Other artists were hailed as legends during their lifetime and then promptly forgotten. Maybe they will remain forgotten. More likely some will be rediscovered next year or next century.
Make what you want to make. Let the future take care of itself. It probably won't listen to you anyway.
Great site. The complaints of political bias are just silly. You're putting numbers into an accessible form. If people find political bias in running numbers, that's their problem. As for the "relieved?" everyone in every camp is currently anxious about taxation and the budget, so it's quite reasonable.
I read through the pastebin (the source is currently down) and I'm still not quite sure I get how Lulzsec did this. Could you (or someone) explain?
Ask HN: Alternatives to Google AdSense?
Does anyone have experience or suggestion displaying ad on their websites other than Google AdSense? What are the next big players in contextual ad alternatives to Google AdSense?
Something new on the Google Takeout menu: +1's
What area of the country are you in?
"As a globalist: the people living south of our border are just as deserving of a livelihood as we are."

As a ctiizen, I believe the opposite. In a representative government, the state exists for the benefit of its citizens ("ourselves and our posterity") much as a corporation exists for the benefit of its shareholders. It's called a "social contract," and society will become increasingly disordered as more people reaize that nobody is holding up the other end of it.

And my "share" wasn't free: I pay taxes and was required to register for Selective Service to get my education (as have my male ancestors for many generations).
Next Gen Readiness with Node.js
A language which the overwhelming majority of people are (understandably) completely unfamiliar.
So much attention, so little value to society
I would hope that maybe Schuler's might buy the Ann Arbor store. Still would be an independent bookstore downtown but it definitely wouldn't be the same.
Futuristic Location Platform Geoloqi Will Live, Lands Funding
> "Edit: Now that I think about it, on a slightly unrelated note, why don't universities have mandatory internships anymore? The more, the better."

Some do. I went to the University of Waterloo - it's well known for its co-op system (i.e. internships). The program I was under put you through 5-6 4-month internships before you could graduate.

Linky McLink: http://cecs.uwaterloo.ca/

I have to say, it is by far the best decision I've ever made. If I had gone through undergrad without taking internships I'd be pretty fucked right now. Instead, I had a small lineup of name-brand companies courting me out of college and that's subsequently opened a lot more doors.

If you're going through an engineering/CS education right now and you're not doing internships, you're doing it wrong.
ElasticSearch 0.17.0 Released
I remember when that issue was a current topic. I kept thinking that the "peak founding age" had been pushed low by the generation gap between people born before-and-after ~1980. The fact is that there would be relatively few technology start-ups being founded by older people since the skill set was much more rare for them. But from 1980 on, I'd think that it is much better represented in the population.
I'm not sure what you mean when you say that the rate "is not that good of a guide." Do you mean that you feel the rate of 1.2-1.8 million a year isn't as high as it sounds because the population density of the US is still relatively low?

Keep in mind, Australia also has a very low population density, but you'd have trouble populating the interior.

New Zealand has a very low population density, and is essentially a large national park. Certainly they could up that population density of 16.4/km^2. Should New Zealand aim to increase its population five to ten fold over the next 50 years to catch up? Is New Zealand an "anti-immigrant" country for not allowing this kind of growth through immigration?

You can say "yes", but then you'd have a tough time identifying a country that isn't "anti-immigrant", and I think the US would come off as one of the more immigrant-friendly nations out there. Not the most so, but pretty high up on the list.
You're coming from a context of businesses and startups, but perhaps it's most useful to solo developers.

Isn't the appeal that Skeleton and its ilk simply do the pixel-figuring for you? I similarly have the skillset to make a CSS grid, but I chose to wrap Nicole Sullivan's 20-line grid code in a gem just so I can brainlessly include grid functionality without even touching a CSS file.

It's projects like these that help expose people like me to bare-bones implementations upon which to build.
LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal
This Fall, Apple Has A Shot At Becoming The Most Valuable Company In The World
I don't believe you do have license your patented IP unless you choose to do so and I would be interested to see evidence to the contrary.
"State bureaucrats will be smarter than federal? because they're "decentralized"?"

"Smarter"? Why would they need to be "smarter"? They just need to analyze a business plan just like any other bank would (which is why I propose a "credit union" style of management and disbursement), but you're saying it will be rife with waste and fraud. I disagree, and can name this very network upon which we disagree as just one counterexample of a government funded program (centralized at that!) that works, and that likely would've never happened without soul-crushing R&D and deployment expenditure from a cabal of private network competitors. In other words, it wouldn't have happened, from the "session" OSI layer back to physical. I can also name other government developments (Polio elimination, Interstate System, Railroad, hell even the USPS up until about 4 years ago) that made America the engine of the world economy; but it belabors the point and you'll just disagree anyway.

"Healthy people will pay premium for a program that will take them at any time? C'mon man, really?"

They will if they can get a discount over Blue Cross for similar coverage. Why do you think people shop at Wal-Mart? Because of the happy faces?

You say you're all about business, try this exercise real quick: go and see how much it would cost to get coverage for a four-person startup through a private insurer (remember, get like for like coverage) vs. premiums for Medicare. See the difference? Now calculate it if one of the four has/had cancer. Not so fun.

"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"

Your design pattern, if I can suss it out from your comment about "equality" and "fairness" and "educating everyone", is that you want simple human nature/nurture to win out against educating all children (even and especially corner cases like poor and problemed ones).

"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."

First, comparing educating children to bug-catching programs is asinine on it's face; secondly, there are a number of successful companies out there that have legacy code to maintain that is rife with bugs. Not only that, this code often can't even be read let alone maintained by anyone but a single person that the company then has to continually shovel money at to keep them from leaving. Wall St., the insurance industry (go figure since we're talking healthcare!), hell even the two most successful technology companies on planet earth by any measure (Microsoft and Apple) maintain buggy legacy code for ages. It's in fact, rare that they throw out the entire system. Yet, you want to do that for a country with 75 million kids.
At every university I have been attended(not that many) a report of academic dishonesty went to some sort of university investigation process to cover any sort of professor malfeasant(and university CYA). Therefore the professor should do his due diligence but beyond a shadow of a doubt isn't necessary.
I'm not sure I'll be able to change your mind if it's not evident to you why that is a bad self-image, but here goes:

First, you have to define "bad". It's not bad for the planet, or bad for society as a whole. It's bad for the person who has that belief, because it leads him to act against his self-interest (as a poor person) and making him act for the interest of richer people.

Shouting "Why should the rich pay higher taxes so the poor can get better healthcare?" when you're yourself poor isn't "good" for you, is it?
Nice.

Unfortunately, my app isn't going to be ready for another month, and is android. Any chance you'll be open to that platform in the near future? I'll be porting to IOS after launch (I've been designing with portability in mind).

Also, what market is your app directed towards?
I agree with some of the new parents that this service is essentially useless to me if I get the first 2 years of clothing for free thanks to family and friends. You might want to think about cannibalizing this by allowing my friends to instead give me a 'gift certificate' good for however many months of clothing from your service.
I don't understand the question - please rephrase.
This isn't about the journalists accessing voice mail -- this is about what happens to people whom speak out against power. This is about suppressing truth.
I complain about Django all the time, it seems like things could be done better. But I think I'm better with it than without it. It takes care of the vast majority of security issues out of the box. Does bottle do similar?
Perhaps "language" was the wrong term, but "execution environment" might work. jQuery allows one to treat browsers uniformly so you're not dealing with DOM quirks all over the place. CoffeeScript is designed to basically replace JavaScript syntax. CPAN wouldn't really be a fair comparison, but boost would be.
I love working with Django, consider it a beautiful tool, and feel significantly more productive with it than any other framework I have worked with.

However, I did not get into Django to learn how to program (or to learn how to program with Python). Rather, I got into Django after I already had experience programming in Python and several other languages. Consequently, I didn't have to learn how to think like a programmer (or how to translate my thoughts into Python), rather I had to learn how to use Django to make building web apps easier.

Forgive me if this is unpopular, but I actually agree with this comment. I don't think Django is great for beginning programmers. However, I think that any sort of abstraction is bad for beginning programmers. In fact, I would go so far as to argue that beginning programmers should arm themselves with a very basic text editor, a list of assignments, and some source code written by extremely good programmers.
I would be interested in what the source for this statement was.

According to recent research done specifically on high school aged students listening preferences conducted at Harman International the opposite is true:
http://seanolive.blogspot.com/2010/06/some-new-evidence-that...

"When all 12 trials were tabulated across all listeners, the high school students preferred the lossless CD format over the MP3 version in 67% of the trials (slide 16). The CD format was preferred in 145 of 216 trials (p<0.001)."
What I wish to read someday in the future about Mono
Everytime I heard something about Mono or Miguel Icaza, I dream about this

«Stereo is an open source, cross-platform, implementation of C# and the CLR that is not binary compatible with Microsof.NET»
What I can totally not understand about the US is why are they not PRO- the Startup Visa....this seems to be a total no-brainer.

The people here on this visa, would be working for themselves, attempting to create jobs for Americans, and not taking away any jobs from them, so Congress, get your act together and pass this bill NOW!
It isn't.
The overwhelming majority of competition is about innovation.
As a former student, I don't think I've ever acquired a single textbook that wasn't used. The vast majority of them were in flawless condition, the others just had some highlighting that I found actually quite nice.
"Sadly, that is not the way captialism works. The 1% of people will have everything and the remaining 99% will starve. I'm paraphrasing one of my favorite quotes: "Capitalism is the best system we have for creating wealth. It is a lousy system for the distribution of wealth."

This isn't true. It's one of (if not the best) system for distributing wealth. Anybody can start their own company (look at all the startups on HN alone) with relatively little money and generate wealth for themselves.
Desalination takes a huge amount of energy - does your plan take that into account?
Kevin Rose's Foundation is now free.
Yeah - Apple really has a crummy record on innovation compared with...
... oh yeah...
now that I actually engage my brain for a millisecond...
they have been pretty innovative haven't they?
For what? Are you podcasts for Videos, or something Small?
Inbox Overload Begone: Taskforce Exits Beta, Goes Pro With Paid Version
While he did write the Java books we're all familiar with, Bruce has abandoned that language and doesn't speak kindly of it. He's largely been all-in with Python, although he recently had some kind things to say about Scala. In any event, I'm quite certain he's decidedly not looking for anything that looks like Java.
Damn, the Wright brothers used to be one of my heroes. This draws parallels with the protectionist law stifling space: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/ITAR

The resulting litigation and threats of litigation disrupted and damaged the advancement of flying technology in the US, causing the US to lose its lead indeed.
You can't ignore the social issues that arise from allowing a huge number of foreigners into a country. Not to say that it shouldn't happen in some form, but it needs to be handled with more care and management than you're implying.
Aconex and Baillieu family business set for court showdown
You are 50% right.
The title isn't the patent - true.
But the description isn't the patent either. The description serves to demonstrate how the claims may be implemented and hence underwrites their validity. It is the claims that have the teeth. (Respecting the fact that in cases of ambiguity the description will indeed be referenced)
While I can agree with the author's point I think it was poorly expressed (your summary is better) and the way he suggests embodying the point seems contradictory to making an effort against Death. Though I think if people did have a certain expectation to live billions of years we wouldn't have very many hurried people around, though that's just my own speculation.

> Not to mention the disappointment you might feel if you die before the onset of the much hyped biotech revolution, having placed your hopes for happiness in its arrival.

At least the disappointment would be brief since by the time you're close enough to death to feel it you won't be alive much longer. Though I would find it pitiable that a person refuses to be happy their entire life and would only be happy being essentially immortal; it seems like many 'immortalists' are actually quite content in their current lives but want that to go on as long as possible.
dependencies are taken care of by pylons once it gets installed. I like that Ben made it this way because many of these dependencies can be reused in other projects.
Here in Vietnam I see tons of people with smartphones, and more Android than iPhone. Most of these people are living on well under $1000 USD a month.
Fruit Ninja developer Halfbrick swoops for animation studio
Highly unlikely. There are many suppliers of phones and even of smartphones.
I wonder what Murdoch's response will be.
how do you use cron to take screenshots like this? does a browser window have to be open somewhere the whole time?
Yep. The docs are top-notch. Definitely the best documented open-source project that I work with/on.

It's python and everybody knows python > ruby (also vim > emacs).

The only real wart for me is django.contrib.auth.models.User -- we should be able to easily replace the main auth model and not extend it. It feels like a real anti-pattern sometimes.
One doesn't have to be rich to oppose taxes for the rich. Even if those higher taxes would somehow benefit you through a reduction in your taxes. You can disagree with an increase in taxes in principle. For instance, I don't think more taxation is necessary in any income group. How about reducing military or social insurance spending? Problems abound, but the point is, it's not totally outrageous to oppose taxes for the rich even if you only make an average income.
I recently spent just $150 in Adwords to get enough CTR data to choose from a list of product titles over a couple days. Most I've spent was $500 simply because I drilled down so deep into slight variations. The cost is really simple to figure. (How much are you bidding per keyword) X (How many clicks do you think you need for a good data set). 500 clicks at $0.30 is the $150 I spent. 500 only because I was testing between so many broad variations. You often don't need more than 100 clicks to see a clear preference trend.
Jennifer López y Marc Anthony: La separación
I also read the patents, and to me, it sounds like Apple has patented both the smart phone, and applications that use a network.
I live in LA, and I wholeheartedly agree. The compensation and offerings of many LA-area startups leave much to be desired and is the only reason why I'd be more than glad to look at SF/SV-area startups over LA-based ones. If I'm going to take a risk at a startup and I'm not even going to be compensated well for it, I may as well do my own thing. Which is exactly what I'm doing right now.

The cultural issues LA has is a whole different matter, but I think it's one that's easily solved if you just know your way around the small pockets and niche communities in the area. I think it's mostly the size and travel inconvenience that makes LA a different beast from SV. The better part of the greater LA area encompasses land mass that is far larger than the SF Bay Area in its entirety.
Your first, second and third sentences are exactly my point.

Yes it's an option, although you and most countries are fairly far from it yet. It takes decisions, purpose and money.

If I can use you as a proxy for Mexico, whatever is not known about this by the larger Mexican economy, and engineering and agriculture communities, can be learned from the smaller groups of knowledgeable people and spread. It's a hard problem, and whatever technologies are developed can lead to exportable products and services (both engineering and agricultural).

Yes, you have big deserts next to the sea, and you probably want to keep them deserts, if for no other reason than human transformation of large ecologies sometimes doesn't work out. So advanced, Mexican developed hothouse technology, enabled by desalinated and pumped water, gives you a place for Mexicans to migrate to in-country, without having to smuggle themselves across the border to die in an American or Mexican desert.

All those Mexican citizens currently working for American agriculture, sending some money home but spending money in America for daily living, could instead be spending that money in Mexico. All that money earned would be feeding the Mexican economy, in addition to the national income earned from exporting agricultural products.

Imagine if the safest food that Americans (and Mexicans) eat came from rigorously clean and high technology Mexican hothouses.