skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised this doesn't violate the license of many of the applications available on Download.com. Time to abandon ship?
There is another tragicomic story about McDonald's Argentina removing the Big Mac (from the list) because the Government wants to hide the inflation index that will be revealed comparing to the Big Mac Index.

See:

- The Big Mac Index: Case of the Mysterious Disappearing Big Mac in Buenos Aires http://localbuenosaires.wordpress.com/2011/05/13/the-big-mac... (read the comments)

- http://www.economist.com/node/18587317
> They have no grammatical rules

Nonsense! All languages and dialects (not just prestige ones such as MSA or Standard English) have grammatical rules. If a language didn't have grammar, it would be impossible to express the distinction between "the dog bites the man" and "the man bites the dog".
Great to see this discussion - I think that most contracts in many areas of law could be standardised. The same way that open source and creative commons licenses standardise those areas.

A few of us are working on starting a non-profit to do that - taking the first small step of making an open UK employment contract.

Anyone with a business in the UK who might be interested in using such a contract, do get in touch!

callmeed, I'll email you to see if you'd like to join forces. Website T&Cs are definitely a good one to do.
plus you get tests out of figuring out your design, not just interfaces.
Can you tell the history of the Internet without mentioning Schwartz? I'm dubious if you answer "no" and so he should be included for that if nothing else.
You do realize that leading off with "Respectfully, you don't know what you are talking about" isn't reducing the image of insularity Wikipedia has acquired? It says "If you don't get up to speed on the obscure processes, such as that anyone can nominate an article for deletion, you can't participate in the dialogue." For some reason, unexplained to outsiders, this is a feature, not a bug. At least recognize that Wikipedia is the odd subculture, not the people critiquing Wikipedia.
Seriously? I've been very very careful to abide by WP:BIO. The only changes I've ever made are to add ISBNs or my photo. I even stay out of the talk page for the most part as well.

I call "troll".
It's my impression that the rocket used to launch this thing would likely still set off early warning launch detection systems.
By attempting to reject the importance of the awards, he was also acknowledging their importance. This was a calculated declaration of being "too cool" for the MTV awards aimed at extending his brand and identity. If he truly was against award-giving and the competition surrounding such, he would have ignored the nomination and simply failed to show up. Why even waste time on a response?
It's actually a legacy thing. When I first started Moz in 2003, it was just a blog, with no commercial intent, so I redirected the .com to the .org and kept it there.

It's likely that we'll move to .com in the near future, though. Even with the redirect, the perception of visitors is sometimes the wrong one (e.g. "oh, SEOmoz, aren't they a non-profit industry resources?").

p.s. Thrilled to hear you're liking SEOmoz PRO! If you have any suggestions, please do send 'em over :-)
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Ask HN: What is your preferred Python stack for high traffic webservices?
There's a large project on our roadmap to rework a big ole chunk of legacy code into something that is actually an asset for the company instead of an anchor.

I'm considering giving it a run with a base of gunicorn/gevent/nginix/pyramid. Seems that gunicorn/gevent give us the ability to use threads where best, but without having to make everything callbacks. And Pyramid gives us a flexible framework to run our web service through (currently the main focus). Kicked around the idea of using M2/0MQ as a way to implement a SOA of sorts, but it feels like a bit to much.

So, if you were starting from scratch and wanted to build a robust high traffic web service (site, app, api, etc), what would you use?
Is this even legal? Did you give them permission to distribute your software?
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More people know him as a TWiT Network host, nowadays.
i invite you lose everything ,and see how free you will be to do what you want
Funny. The 'trouble' is not more than adding a single header:

Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=604800

And that is it. Your browser now prefers to use https for your web site. That was really not that much trouble, was it?

Also, https is not just for banking. I like it when people cannot see what I am doing online. Whether that is online banking, doing a google search or writing a posting on hackernews.
I'm not the one you replied to originally. You're right, it was a non-sequitur, but mostly because it was a question I'd had since I took a functional programming class in college, and never saw an answer that sat well for me. One of the other commenters gave one, so rather than contribute to the noise I just stayed silent and upvoted.

I was just taking advantage of a heated discussion to get an answer. :)
I felt bad for telling him he didn't know what he's talking about. But the fact is, he doesn't. And however "insular" you think that makes Wikipedia, note than I am not a WP'er. I find WP insular and obnoxious for reasons entirely unrelated to its (I think reasonable) notability guideline.
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Happy to see you reference Django - This is also what I got when an article suggested designing a Django site by implementing the URLs first, then the rest of the app to implement the URLs.
Bob Dylan -> 1960s in music -> Popular music -> Music genre -> Genre -> Literature -> Art -> Senses -> Physiology -> Science -> Knowledge -> Fact -> Truth -> Reality -> Philosophy
It's not worth the time to fight Wikipedia deleting its own content. I've seen more notable pages get deleted by petulant administrators. The bureaucracy of that site stinks more than the US Senate.
Of course you can turn while falling. Hell, you can turn without air. It's a rocket.
If you make a claim, then answer it, and ask "Why" and keep doing that, then you will eventually get down to the response: "Because I said so" or "because that is how we observe it to be".

"The words and values we use to describe nature are all imprecise approximations, many are wildly wrong. We observe phenomena all around us, and if you try to describe what it is, and ask "why" enough times then you get down to the discussion of what frame of reference we use to observe the universe. We have a body of knowledge, and we tack on new observations onto that body, occasionally the body reforms and the philosophy changes. Every learner has a philosophy.

Philosophy is where the rubber meets the road in figuring out what our universe is. Is matter a particle or a wave or other, it depends on your existing perspective, your philosophy.
Exactement.
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Marginally on-topic, but I just looked at the tuition for the Monterey Institute.

A summer program is $15k USD; a full semester is $16k USD.

If you want to learn a language, and have a spare $15K and the time for intensive classes, you're far better off just booking a plane ticket, going to wherever it is, and hiring a private tutor.

Let's say you wanted to learn Chinese. You can live very, very comfortably in Beijing on about $2k USD per month, including the cost of a private tutor, food, entertainment, and travel.

That means six months in-country for less than the tuition of the Institute. Six months of daily use plus intensive study will move you, terms of proficiency, ahead of 90% of people that hold degrees in Chinese.

You could do something like this even in less westerner-friendly countries, and learn a million times more than you will at any language school -- there is absolutely no substitute for actual experience.
As in, how would you explain the growth of the interactive web from 1994 to 1997, without including Perl, and therefore, without including my books that taught most of those guys how to code in Perl? Very good point.
My mantra is always WWOD - What Would Ogilvy Do?

My website exists to sell product. My job is to improve traffic and conversion. Anyone who isn't going to directly contribute to that effort is at best deadweight, at worst pulling in the wrong direction.

I'll give a potential hire the benefit of the doubt based on their website, but if we exchange more than two e-mails and he isn't talking about traffic and conversion, he isn't getting hired.

I'd require very little persuading to hire OP, based purely on him referencing Drayton Bird. The converse is also true - I wouldn't consider ever hiring someone who can't quote chapter and verse on Commonsense Direct Marketing.
Speaking as a musician, I can assure you that that is not what art is about. That is what art dealership is about. Artists and art dealers are not the same people.

On the other hand, it is also not necessarily about beauty. I've played plenty of ugly music that is still great.
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> Bits are cheap right? All the world's information is important. Why should anybody reading about Michael Jackson be deprived of my opinion about him?

This is a pretty naïve argument.

Take, for example, the recent brouhaha about Sarah Palin and her comments about Paul Revere. Barring a future where the comments have massively effected misconceptions in the common perception of Paul Revere (let's say, on the order of Columbus's voyage and the flat earth myth), there's basically no grounds for arguing that Palin's comments should be mentioned in the Revere article. But they absolutely are deemed appropriate for the Palin article.
Erlang Bit Syntax
"Branding" isn't a puff word if you're serious about marketing -- and not only is a "return on an investment" but an actual part of your product. Without a brand your can of sugar water isn't Coca Cola. And in terms of tech if you look at the work of Paul Rand he put IBM on the map. And branding isn't just for the big guys, if you're a small startup picking the right name for your web domain (and investing in it) can be make or break when taking those first steps.
Japanese and Chinese do this as well. Lots of different formality levels, and every region in either country has dialects that are incomprehensible to an unlearned outsider.

In Japan, everybody learns Standard Japanese Pronunciation, and I've never had a problem getting around even in the boonies.

In China, I believe there are still a lot of people that don't speak Standard Mandarin, but this number will continue to shrink thanks to the explosive growth of high-speed (Radio/TV/Internet) media in China.
One of Randal's additions to the world is the "Schwartzian transform", something I remember using extensively a decade ago when I was doing web programming in Perl:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwartzian_transform
The upsell is here! They'll expose your direct download link to people who are registered. Who registers for download.com?!?!

And, if you pay them for the privilege of hosting your content with them, they'll let you opt out of it. This is how they try and make money.

Take your software down: its 2011, you can distribute yourself, cut out the middle man, and (unless you're getting 20000 downloads a day) still not pay very much for it.
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If an industry is actually growing, it can boom. Not all growth is irrational exuberance.
When you're flying in a straight line, which at these speeds this plane, unlike the SR-71, will be doing, it is only a matter of time until another Zoltan Dani comes along and pops it out of the sky.
If I'm just a footnote in the history of Perl, you're woefully ignorant.
I searched for law firms that provided this service, looked at salient points of theirs, then rewrote them in my own words.
Either way, I don't understand the physics behind it :(
I've noticed that at the past few open source conferences. Most people know me from FLOSS Weekly now. Since we already went through a "FLOSS Weekly deletion" action, can't some of that apply back to my article?
Mac OS X has already provided a lot of the framework for applications, it is opt-in for app developers, but it allows for an app to be kill -9'ed on shutdown.

Definitely take a look at Sudden Termination as Apple calls it. It is one of the few features along with restoring apps as they were upon login means that a reboot is no longer a productivity killer.
The Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp — so the comment isn't about hate, but an observation.
IMO this is the best overall Vim add-on repo (for Python and Ruby devs alike): https://github.com/carlhuda/janus [1]

[1] http://yehudakatz.com/2010/07/29/everyone-who-tried-to-convi...
While I disagree with why these are on your negative list - “branding”, “beautiful”, “passion”, “making a difference”, “modern”, “clean”. "Making a difference" can read pretty darn close to "Return on investment", etc.

I actually stopped reading when you used the phrase "babbling like a retard". As a Christian like you profess to be, I would probably look a little more closely at the words you choose.
Using WordPress.com's TOS is a really bad idea (in my view) if sections 11 and 12 are left in their present form. Those sections could get you into the same type of legal trouble as Blockbuster's TOS got them into in 2009, in the Harris v. Blockbuster case. See http://www.ontechnologylaw.com/using-wordpress-coms-terms-of... for a discussion.

I've mentioned this here before, so I hate to sound like a broken record, but it seems worth repeating.

At a minimum, get your lawyer to review very carefully, and edit, the language of those sections.
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A few years ago I worked at a small ad agency doing web work. The owner required every employee (all 4 of us) to read Ogilvy on Advertising. That book has really stuck with me. I would recommend it to anyone who has a product to sell.
I am considering this stack off the shelf in my next big project:

- uWSGI - performs better than gunicorn and has support for async apps using gevent

- nginix - front end server

- pyramid - web framework

- mongodb - database

- mongoengine - mongodb and python mapper

- zeromq - messaging and communication

- jinja2 - for template engine

- gevent - for async processing

- gevent-zeromq - to make zeromq non-blocking and gevent compatible

- socket-io - JS lib for realtime communication

I still need to develop robust session management. I considered various options and came to conclusion if I want something fast, truly distributed and not using sticky session I should come up with my own session manager demon hosted on each node. I would use ZeroMQ to communicate to it.
"but i'm not surprised most people these days haven't heard of him"

Isn't this why encyclopedias exist, and exactly why this entry shouldn't be deleted?

Personally, I'm in the 'keep' camp, I can't understand why people would want to delete this, unless it's a manifestation of the trolling culture that seems to be springing up in a variety of places.
Why geeks get all the girls
I have only one question: how long until Apotheker is fired?
I with there were subtitles or some dialogue or something... but damn this is all kind of novel and lucky.

cute girl too!
FTA:

> Sculley wrestled with low Macintosh sales and a need to bring some order to the creative chaos Jobs had unleashed. Sculley found that he couldn’t rein in Jobs—and decided he had to go.

Sounds like both explanations were true.
Well they will have to transfer over the phone numbers so they don't break backward compatibility. I don't quite know how that works with VoIP providers, but I think it's doable. Might slow things down a bit though.
I think of philosophy as the point where people throw their hands into the air in despair and say "Fuck it, I can't break this down any further, figure it out yourself", at which point the famous philosophers have joyfully begun down that ill defined path without an end.

When Plato gave Socrates' definition of man as "featherless
bipeds" and was much praised for the definition, Diogenes
plucked a chicken and brought it into Plato's Academy, saying,
"Behold! I've brought you a man."

I think Diogenes really may have actually "got it".
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Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is Not
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If I'm starting with a 40 degree angle, how do I construct an equilateral triangle on it?
In an MVC setting (be it webapp or normal app) I find that I frequently write my Controller Last.

I design the View (top down), then I design the Model (bottom up) and connect them up with the Controller.
A claim that may actually be true in this case.
the whole "notability" requirement on WP really bothers me; it's not like this is britannica, where there's a limited number of pages to cram all this info into. i'd much rather have a definitive resource, than one that only covered "notable" material.
I'm surprised "wrote your own" is not in this poll. I've had customers sign up for Pinboard citing the human-readable TOS as a reason for joining.
They don't convey any sort of meaning in Arabic either - letters just change their shapes depending on where they occur in a word. Cursive English handwriting does the same thing, to a lesser degree, and for the same reasons.
This really does seem like a violation. We develop enterprise help desk software and also offer it via Download.com and didn't receive a notification of this change.

It doesn't exactly look great on our software that a toolbar is installed alongside it -- especially for a professional business product.
I've just added my "keep" to the discussion. The following is OT, but I'm curious:

Does anyone else find the fact that the Wikipedia talk pages are wiki pages to be about the stupidest thing ever? Wikis are designed for occasional edits, not active discussions. It's very annoying to try to save a comment and find that it is rejected because someone else got an edit in while you were editing.

It seems clear to me that the talk pages should use an HN or Reddit like system, not wiki pages. Or am I missing something?
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http://pinboard.in/tos/

Your TOS is more of a sales pitch than an attempt to indemnify yourself against potential legal problems.

Not a bad idea, but it's serving a different purpose than most.
I know #1 looks completely insane, but I have been studying Chinese for about 2 years, and I just started writing 3 or 4 months ago, and the breakdown of it is actually fairly simple. There's actually a somewhat limited set of characters that are reused over and over again, and I have already learned to write every one of the pieces (*edit: In that particular character). It's already been broken down in a post above me so I won't do it again...

Some characters would be harder for me to remember than this, because this particular character is made up of common used components.
It can! But only to specific HP printers (just like the TouchPad). Printing is one of those things that’s nice to have but ultimately not a (lone) deciding factor.

Currently all implementations suck if you don’t have one of the few supported HP printers†. Maybe a more encompassing solution would have helped the TouchPad (for example the ability to use any printer in the network) but I doubt that for such a feature alone TouchPads would have sold that much better.

Apple already had a feature implemented (in one of their betas) that allowed you to use printers connected to your Macs but they ditched it for some reason. Maybe technical reasons? Maybe politics? (Could they have a deal with HP?)

Having one (or even a few) HP printers that support the TouchPad – as you suggested – is demonstrably not good enough. The TouchPad flopped regardless.

—

† Android is a different story but as far as I can see not a very pleasant one.
Clapton said he learned the guitar to get girls.
25 times over subscribed not even half way through that tells me this product offering was missing. Sometimes good ideas don’t need to be so complicated.
Britain faces £50bn bill under Brussels tax raid to bail out euro
That doesn't go far enough to do any good as an answer. What happens after (or during, or because of) failing that you are afraid of. What is it about failing that you are afraid of?

(I'm not asking so you can tell me, I'm prodding you to ask yourself. To think "hey, I don't really know the answer to that. I wonder why I do feel this way?)
In our experience, the key to a larger customer base is the person right in front of you, money in hand, waiting to see how you’ll treat them.

Very nicely said!
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Competing with lower prices is stupid
I am kind of curious as to what prompted this post now than at any other time.
The 'ideology' of software engineering
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> If we ever meet Aliens from another part of the galaxy, they would no doubt form similar knowledge structures that would probably end up being exactly like this.

That's a bold assumption. I think its arrogant to assume that 'knowledge structures' take one form, which is the one in our heads. Ever seen/read Solaris?
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In 1994, tablets weren't exactly science fiction, they were real shipping products. (Apple Newton, AT&T Go Tablet, various PCs with Pen Windows, etc.)

What's shown in the video is simply a smaller/lighter/colorful version of what already existed -- perhaps predicting it would take iPad-like proportions to make a tablet successful.
I have them e^(pi^2/(12 log 2)). Reason: For almost all real numbers x, if you take their continued fraction expansion and consider the the sequence of their convergence, the n'th root of the denominator of the n'th convergent approaches the limit I gave as my favorite number. How could such a marvelous number not be one's favorite?
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Well yes, this is my point. It's not clear to me why it's being massively downvoted. Randal is real, credible, and a valuable and well known contributor to culture and citizen of our early 21st century era.

It is odd that Wikipedia is voting whether he is generally of no account or value worth mentioning. It would make more sense for Randal to vote on whether Wikipedia is of value and worth mentioning, or should be deleted instead. No doubt Wikipedia is notable, but mostly in the sense it is notorious.
- The bulk of them you'll process are <= 4 letters (CMCSA/CMCSK be damned).

With 5 bits per letter, this means the bulk of stock tickers could be stored in 20 bits, so the data structure could just be one big 128 MB array, if the size of the structure was rounded up from 109 to 128 bytes.
Here's my entry: 'Harvest' - On g+ as ludumdare.com seems to be down. https://plus.google.com/117952639955495935037/posts/DyEXjhmF...

Edit: Notch's entry keeps saying "Click to focus" for me. Even when I click to focus... hmmm.
I take a similar approach. Fork any git-based gems to my account on github, and specify an exact version of each gem I use in my Gemfile, like

gem 'rails', '3.0.7' # for example

And also version the Gemfile.lock file. That way my environment is locked down until I decide to upgrade.
Sorry about that. I guess we can file it under "other".
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