skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I somehow missed the data-scraping introduction, that he sourced a fan-operated website that archives questions and answers. Here I'd thought he'd just off-handedly created a phenomenal data scraper for the general web.

He didn't talk much about the algorithm he used to present questions for optimal memorization. I imagine it was spaced repetition, as used in SuperMemo:

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_woznia...
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You should use a wiki.
Sorry to hear the bad news. As for Web development, since you are familiar with Python, there are lots of good starting points. One is Django, a very popular web framework for Python that lets you create applications quickly. (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/) If you need more flexibility, you can look into "micro-frameworks" like Bottle or Flask that provide less out of the box, but at the cost of more work (potentially). There really are tons of options, but the tools selected should depend on the need.

Check out this Python wiki page for a good overview and some web frameworks: http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks

Good luck!
10 times is actually an understatement....For example Marco Arment made instapaper himself...try asking a 100 person team at xyz corp to make something like that!
I guess I wasn't clear. I realize that businesses need to survive in the eco-system created by crazy laws and ill-thought out regulations and contracts.

I was trying to suggest that the legal and regulatory framework is what needs to be fixed, not the businesses.
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I totally agree. but, It is not impossible. The problem with Payroll is that it is like Security. When everything is working, no one notices its presence. Any issues are incredibly important to fix.

That said, there are ways to develop payroll software that keeps extension possibilities and accommodate the variations without disrupting the engine.
The only way to do that is to have the software ask the permission of a central server to be allowed to play a certain music file. Scary stuff.
No. Catastrophic failure does not somehow naturally lead to reform and success. Look at all the catastrophic failures out there that are not in the middle of dazzling recoveries.

In fact success is a rare and fragile confluence of many conditions that is hard to find.
I think it would be more effective if it were a nice bright mutant-alert color when you exited the scanner and they asked to see under your shirt because an object was detected. :)
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At the startup I work at developers are either A) given the initiative or B) it's sorted out on the fly with input from different people on the team after the sprint meeting (or during). You might think this is a form of chaos but for a small team with talent it works incredibly well.
my main gripe with the built-in mail app is that it doesn't thread sent messages in the context of a conversation. also that you can't 'send as' all of the addresses in your gmail. was hoping they'd solve this with the gmail version...but yeah, still quite buggy.
Ask HN: Looking for a PHP hacker
My startup grosper.com is looking for a hacker who can code in PHP. We require someone with experience in building affiliate programs and anti-fraud practices. The hacker should be able to write clean and simple code. Where could I find quality applicants for this position?
Very interested in this too, is there a showcase of apps?
There was also a full page ad in today's Wall Street Journal, same letter. http://pic.twitter.com/jisFPt4s
Thanks. I'm actually pretty upbeat-my girlfriend and I are going out to dinner later. Thanks for the Sitepoint recommendation.
So now the battery in my laptop will have 10x the energy in it when it explodes. It will be even more like carrying a bomb around with you.
Measuring browser market share is hard. I think it's just as likely fluctuations in measurement.
I'm not sure what you mean about Gruber, he doesn't really do advocacy like that. Sure he thinks the iPhone is really great and all, but I don't see him telling people to develop for it. They already are, he doesn't need to.
Wouldn't it be great if you had a personal research assistant who would spend hours looking stuff up for you?
Wow, Django has come a far way since I first checked it out. Thanks for the kind words.
DaVinci? I suppose you mean modern examples though.
This.

The Watson show was a not a completely fair match-up since Watson had a much better average buzzer time than his human opponents.

If this was not the case, I would speculate a really good human opponent could beat Watson at least some of the time.
Yes, I'm good financially for the next few months. Thanks for the ThemeForest recommendation.
I was really intrigued by the section on Amazon in this article, in that they don't bother with licensing and go directly to purchasing the book so they can lend it. I think that Amazon's practice in this regard is much more significant than ReDigi's activity as it could spell out how future libraries function with regard to ebooks.
I think what he's trying to say is that since simple metal detectors are becoming less and less effective, the amount of radiation given to us in attempts at "security" is growing and will continue to grow exponentially.
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Full page ad? Big deal. Obviously they screwed up by not buying a bunch of senators and congressman.

Fools.
It's great to see that some startups are taking the same annoying tactic as facebook spam apps.
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This is my pre-commit hook for Django projects: https://gist.github.com/858223

It just runs pyflakes and does some sanity checking. Best of all, it doesn't go around stashing files or otherwise messing with your working directory or repository. It just uses some git plumbing commands to copy the current index (what you're about to commit) to a temporary directory.

I can't remember where I copied it from but it works perfectly, only copying whatever I'm about to commit:

git diff --cached --name-only --diff-filter=ACMR | xargs git checkout-index --prefix=$TMPDIR/ --

I can't say how many times this saved me from leaving a pdb.set_trace() in a view somewhere...
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I've never gone through one. It's been really inconvenient for me (and them) a few times, but the constant propaganda of "this won't hurt you, but will protect you," seems to work.

It makes no sense to me that people choose to go through the scanners knowing that they don't have anything to hide from the scanner, and anyone who does just wouldn't go through it.
The Bitcoin community's already gearing up for this to be the end of Visa/MC if it passes. Once they're forced by fiat to shut down their largest clients and put in a squeeze between continuing service or getting sued by the RIAA, capital will go elsewhere. This could be sort of, to the American economy, what the Iran/Iraq war was to authoritarians in the middle east; great way to spend energy while the civilized free world passes you by on the highway.
You really, really need to cite a source about the Apple thing. This blog article is independently verifiable: people went and observed the behavior of their Android phones. Please point to someone doing the same with an iOS device.

Edit: Closest thing I can find to an answer, is what Carrier IQ is hiring for [1]. They're not hiring for serious iOS experience at the moment - instead, what they put in boldface for the software engineer position amounts to deep knowledge of Android internals. That is not conclusive, but it's evidence about what they do.

[1]: http://www.carrieriq.com/company/careers.htm
Spoiler Alert: It sucks.

It's a web view and it's an amazing hack to make a web view almost "feel" native but it fails. It doesn't fail nearly as hard as the Netflix app, but it's still not the greatest experience. If it wasn't for the fact I get push notifications I would probably uninstall it.

When will people learn that using UIWebView's and faking the experience of native is only a 90% solution? Sure if gets you there quickly but it will cost you trying to hack around the bugs and edge cases to have an almost barely acceptable user experience (and most of those issues are often solved for you for free in the native toolkit).

It's just generally a bad idea to write apps like this.

Now when it comes to pure web apps, I hold out hope that we can have great experiences everywhere. I don't believe anything and everything needs an app (content, books, business websites, etc). That is were the mobile web fits in. But please don't try to use these kinds of frameworks wrapped in a UIWebView and try to ship it as a cough native cough app.

This quote fits so well for these kinds of apps:

“ The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time. ” - Tom Cargill
It's certainly in Apple's interest that this pass. Less piracy -> More iTunes customers. More iTunes customers -> More iOS devices sold. More iOS devices sold -> More profit for Apple.
The physical medium is the key. The CD serves to identify the correct/original/authorized/licensed/whatever copy. If you can't identify the original, then actually you can't sell it (in the sense of it's not possible).
stuff like this is pretty much why my online shopping is almost exclusively done at Amazon.

Even if it's a few bucks more compared to some other site, I just trust them not to screw me over.
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I went through security screening in LAX with a large pocket knife in my onboard luggage. IT was a mistake on my part - I'm glad they didn't find it because the knife has sentimental value to me.

I also went through a full-body scanner at MCO for the first time recently. It's not faster - in fact it is a giant bottleneck. Instead of just walking through, as per a metal detector, you have to stand there like an idiot with your arms above your head, for what seems like an eternity. If you move, the TSA resident rottweiler barks at you and the whole process is repeated.

In the meantime, you have 400 or so people jammed up in an unsecured area wiating to be processeed, which is a far-worse security risk than being on the plane.

But the worrying thing is - is this a ratchet? Will it be politically untenable to ever relax the security screening? I shudder to think at the GDP lost by people standing in airport screening queues. It's like a giant 24 hour stop-work protest that never ends. Even if only 1% of the time wasted would otherwise be productive work, well....
If you cancelled all schools right now, no one would stop learning useful and applicable skills.

But many many people would stop being obedient.

The bait of school is the opportunity to learn, something every human inherantly loves. The opportunity to learn and access to knowledge is just the sugar that is used to get you to swallow the medicine: the medicine is your obedience training.

When people graduate from high school, often the only thing they have to show for it is their obedience and conformity. If they are good readers, they probably read a lot outside the curriculum. If they are good at math, they probably did a lot of math outside the curriculum. etc.

One thing from the curriculum which they did thoroughly learn, however, is how to obey, how to conform, how to navigate bureaucracy, how to play social pecking order games, when to bully, when to submit.

Conspicuously absent from the gifts of the curriculum is anything related to what used to be called a liberal education or an enlightened scientific education. These things are always learned despite curriculums, and those who achieve a true scientific or artistic education usually have the air of a rebel or hacker, someone who eschews their lessons, who breaks out of the mold, who skips their homework in favour of reading poetry or hacking their graphics calculator.

At school, true learning is always a form of rebellion.
I've stopped flying, I've warned my friends and family, I've written Congress, and I've donated to support the EPIC lawsuit against TSA:

http://epic.org/privacy/airtravel/backscatter/
The tech industry has enough money to buy 10x more lobbyists than the entertainment industry. This would be a wiser investment than the ads.
Yeah, outside of a few months in the middle of that video (which looked pretty miserable to be fair) I was surprised by how much clear sky there was.

I like your video a lot too because it doesn't just look at the sky, but also the vegetation. It would be great to see something like this up in New England and watch the leaves change color.
Google Music now available to everyone in the US
Congrats / Condolences on losing your job. Often times, these can be blessings in disguise. Any insight into why you were let go?

If you go the wordpress route, do yourself a real favor and read up on the common and ever-growing list of wordpress hacks out in the wild.

It's not enough to build a wordpress site, you're also going to be called upon to manage and secure them as well. Wordpress is a big, popular platform these days, which means a lot of ne'erdowells are gunning for it.

Also, seconding whoever is voting for Django, since you have a python background. Double seconding the recommendation to get more active with your downtime
I totally agree, it just didn't make sense to build all the offline stuff into v1.

Obviously I'm just getting started on this, but I'd prefer not to have a switch, but just to do the right thing, and give some cues so you know if it's going to have to stream to play a song or not.

That's mostly the case now -- files should stream once, then be cached. This version uses a 250mb LRU cache, so figure the last 50-60 songs you listened to.
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And Amazon.
Seems like the majority of both sides are happy to see creative content get paid for. It's just this side that wants the power to act as it did pre internet completely on their own terms no matter how it harms other areas.
Awesome app! I really like it!

My wishlist: I would like to download some albums for offline use and I would like to have the app index more than 1000 songs.

But don't take these suggestions as criticism. I love your app and it is already extremely useful!

Great work!
Ask HN: Please stop "This."
Can we discuss "This."?

Maybe it's a very silly thing to be bothered by, but I can't be the only one agitated when I read a response to anything that begins simply with "This."

It's my personal feeling is that "This." is a sign of the decline of intelligent discourse on HN. I feel like "This." is usually karma fishing, and that their comment more than likely adds nothing to the discourse, and is often a predictor of immaturity.

I'd like to know what everyone else thinks.
There's a fellow named John Polkinghorne who is a well known theoretical physicist who is also an active theologian. I'm not sure how easily you could declare someone a "master" of theology, but he's certainly enough of a recognized authority (I read several of his papers in an upper level philosophy of religion course in college) that I'd say he fits what you're looking for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polkinghorne
I wonder if we can start a site called PoliticiansAgainstInternet.org, get it a lot of publicity and sway the votes away from them. It should be so popular that politicians will dread getting on that list. Maybe Anon can dig up more dirt and expose it on there?
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Hey would you drop me a note at ryan_singel@wired.com. Would love to talk,
And here I thought all the coffee names were stolen by Java...
A compelling "small multiples" [1] view of weather. The astronomer in me wishes the sequence started with the winter solstice (Dec. 21), though!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_multiple
I disagree entirely, for two reasons:
1) Working is all about becoming a part of society, of contributing, of belonging. Few people can take a prolonged period of not contributing without some level of depression.

2) The overall quality of life of people is determined by the application of time and labor saving devices, as well as by technical enhancements to lifestyle and health. There is no higher improvement of quality of life than low infant mortality and longer lifespans. All of these things are delivered by a society that embraces specialisation as a way of increasing productivity by everyone.

Sure, you'll get no argument from me that pointless consumerism backed up by debt-based spending is not the path forwards, but that is an entirely different proposition to stopping working altogether. Only the committed hobo will get satisfaction from a life like that.
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Yes, the Google project looks pretty transparent. It could return results different from your ISP's, but they may even be less cooked.

.onion is an alternate root. There's an interesting page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root giving the history of them.

A friend was using OpenDNS for a while, until we figured out they were MitMing google.com and intercepting his queries. I wonder if they still do that.

Of course, ICANN has decided to begin selling TLDs for a $200K application fee. There goes the neighborhood.
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Isn't "hand curated" sort of redundant? Isn't 'curated' a bit stale as a buzzword already?
If Google was serious they'd put something on their front page. The readership of the New York Times is nothing compared to Google's traffic.
Right, when things are important, you could just break the user's perception that things are happening instantaneously and give an asynchronous notification when the operation succeeds, instead of just when it fails, couldn't you?
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What exactly does "This." signify? In terms of magnitude, is it similar to "I agree" or to "I strongly agree" or to "I vehemently agree"?
Live video/discussion here: http://mashable.com/2011/11/16/google-music-event/
It's amazing how complacent people are when intimidated in a security theatre.
Yes, they could've come up with one or two sentences that appealed to the emotion and pushed the reader to a custom url relating to this issue. Or even an exaggerated screenshot of what could happen if the bill passes.

Ah well. Rational writeups are all fine and good but not when you probably have a split second to capture the attention with an ad.
What are you talking about? Microsoft is in the same market as at least 5 of those companies listed.
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More precisely, when Amazon sells a loss leader, they don't pay the author wholesale price. When a grocery sells milk cheap, they still pay full price to the dairy vendor.
The goal of a country is to continue improving the quality of life of its citizens.

Respectfully, I disagree.

The goal of a country is to allow her citizens to have "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".

The problem with saying a country should have goals is that you can't get more than three people to agree on what to have for lunch, let alone millions upon millions to agree on goals, means and how to optimally achieve them.
This article and general theme are based on an invalid premise. Many of the most productive programmers are, in fact paid in proportion to their productivity.

Such people are likely to found startups or join at an early stage or they're likely to work at places like Google that issue large stock grants to many of their most productive programmers. Those who don't are more interested in stability than money.

Large non-software companies and governments fail to compensate their most productive programmers proportionally because they have difficulty identifying the benefits they're getting or simply don't value them all that highly. Most of us consider it obvious that such organizations aren't the most desirable work environment for programmers.
I certainly don't view it that way. To me it's simply focusing on something that many people are interested in today - entrepreneurship and founder culture. And I definitely disagree with the "it's not hard [to raise money]" argument - that's why Kickstarter exists!
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I had to answer (2 years ago) for a 6-inch razor sharp knife in my overnight bag at a regional airport in the States. I forgot it was in a pocket of my bag, which was an old carrier I hadn't emptied out since art school. Surprisingly, all they did was take the knife and let me through =)

It does show it's more important for them not to look like individual idiots than it is to protect the safety of people on the plane. The ol' Jerry Sandusky locker room mentality, eh? Just horsin' around?

TSA are douchebags, and I hope that agency was created as a convenient way to find all the dumbest people in our society so we could stand them next to devices that would irradiate their testicles and keep 'em from having kids. Oh snap, it was =)
Ask HN: Service for copyright owners to track/monitor infringements?
In light of the recent attempts by law makers to pass SOPA, PROTECT-IP and similar bills, is there an opportunity to create a service that enables copyright owners to track infringing uses of their work? For example, the studios behind a movie would use the service to track websites that post links to illegal file downloads of the movie, artists would be able to monitor various warez forums for threads sharing their mp3 files, etc.

Even if these bills don't pass, would copyright owners still benefit from such a service which would enable them to quickly detect infringements and issue DMCA notices?

Any thoughts on this?

I personally oppose these bills, but was wondering if they are creating an opportunity?
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Yes - this has come up in comments a couple of times - I think I explained it before, but we discussed the "pitch" versus the "trailer" and it seemed like most Kickstarter projects went the "pitch" route.
That's a UI issue. You can show a more prominent loading progress indicator if they elect to stay on the page after trying to leave it, so that they know when it's safe to exit.

And on the second point, presumably you'd always show some kind of indication that the message is sending, just not one that blocks the rest of the UI.

This is how desktop mail clients I've used work. The sending indicator is small, but if I try to exit before it's finished sending, it blocks the exit and alerts me about it.
Exactly. Innovation is far more likely to occur at the boundary of multiple disciplines, rather than at the pointy end of one. In this day and age, expertise in one area is required, but to be a visionary CEO, one must also have a breadth of knowledge in many fields. Jobs is an excellent an example of such a person. The age of the polymath is once again upon us.
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Definitely - in fact I'm doing these daily founder vignettes on the fundraising page itself - and the one I focused on today was a founder who kept grinding away for 8 months just to find a co-founder. I'd be remiss if I didn't tell both sides of the story - but that's the challenge and also why I want to do it!
Cool. We had looked at doing it that way, but decided that we wanted to have the flexibility of accessing the entire repo so that we can run things like "./manage.py validate" and quick unit tests.

A leftover pdb.set_trace() that snuck into production is the exact reason we first added this :)
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