skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, I've never made such a drastic switch so it's great to get some feedback from people who have more experience.

I didn't think that django had much work opportunities, so it's great to hear that. I don't particularly like php (though I've made sites with it) so I'd prefer not to go that route. But building my own framework is a great idea, and the challenge will be much more interesting than learning an existing framework.
Much that i appreciate Zoho, not sure it is a great idea to target specific individuals (especially those part of the competition). And there could have been better ways to may be highlight what apparently looks like a Salesforce's lock-in strategy.
I don't think there was really any doubt that Obama was going to win. Over this election season we witnessed the best and most technologically advanced campaign ever. Not only on the ground game level, but on all levels. Cheers to President Obama for running an excellent campaign.
And that a bubble sort probably isn't the the most efficient way to sort one million 32-bit integers
The US is the only major democracy that seems content to cheer the success of the lucky and laugh at the failure of the rest.

That has nothing to do with it. The main problem with the U.S. is that it has had 150 years of racial warfare - whites hating on blacks, blacks hating on whites. All of it has been entirely destructive, and it really needs to stop.

Try watching a couple episodes of The Corner ( http://www.amazon.com/Corner-Year-Life-Inner-City-Neighborho... ). It's based on a the account of a journalist who spent a year following a family in Baltimore. It also matches my personal experiences in working for various inner city charities. Then tell me how somehow getting rid of this alleged mantra of "self sufficiency" and "freedom" and replacing it with X will make things better.
Actually the campaign for re-election begins around 18 months after inauguration. Hopefully the mods keep HN relatively politics free for the next 4 years.
YES WE DID!
hear here?
The article kinda is lacking technical depth, makes me wonder how sensationalist it is or if there really is something there.
Is that supposed to be helpful? I think it's pretty obvious that you need to learn python.
> I tend to look down upon people who look down upon people.

nice quip, until followed to its logical conclusion ;-)
You're right, I was being snarky. Sorry. But seemed like an obvious answer. Django is actually a great vehicle for learning python for someone who understands basic web development.
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I doubt it -- the kids on the internet criticize things that deserve criticism. Unless Obama does something worth criticizing, I doubt we'll see much change from what it looks like today.
I would argue that it's not Apple's role to weed out subpar developers. It's the market's role to do that.
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I'm currently reading:

The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

It varies, but I probably read 2 to 6 books a month (really depends on length).

Two of my recent favorites are Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadster and The Moral Animal by Robert Wright.
Thank you for having the courage to hold Benioff personally accountable. I agree with your attitude and views. If your development HQ wasn't in India, I'd be asking you for a job.
Let the disappointment begin!
Collar type machine
asian packing machinery is one of the most reliable players in the industry to satisfy this huge world-wide market by providing these complete food process plants & supporting them with a team of dedicated service technicians. so visit on http://www.asianpackingmachinery.com
Yep, much of Movable Type is static. I think there is an option for dynamic pages but by default it's static.
Actually, in Simcity 4, with the patch that improved pathfinding, with elongated blocks, and one way roads that inhibited stoplights, congestion measurably decreased for I and the other urban planning nerds at simtropolis who were odd enough to measure it.

Christopher Alexander mentioned an effect similar to this in "A Pattern Language". The result is due to something different though: less stoplights, less stops! In this case the problem is related to edge network flow.
This is nice and all but it's nothing special. Hey look, I made a site too, but I did it for $0, and it took me two weeks as well. It's on the same scale as this. Is my site a startup? No, it's just a fun project.
When it is a single person responsible, why not? He is also responsible to NYSE:CRM shareholders, and scaring future partners away is not an alignment with a successful platform strategy.
Please do not bring that reddit meme over to HN. Please.
Hey Alex,

Though do note that one of the most effective sales tactic is to let people actually play with the product themselves. Of course, that presumes that the product itself is compelling. :-)
I would beg all of you to read a non-US news website regularly. You could do worse than the economist and the BBC.

Watching the way the rest of the world sees the US makes it a little easier to see the inanity of so much US political news coverage. (And likewise that of any other country's local political news, as covered by outside sources).
I am psyched about these mini projectors. Finally my robot can project Leah telling Ben Kenobi he's her only hope!

It would, of course be cooler in 3d, but I'll take what I can get.
Wait... did the System just... work?

Can it do that?
Yeah I'm sick of this nonsense. I launched two sites by now, each for zip, and I'm 21. Enough whining.
Did you happen to notice this whole thread is very redditlike?

In any case, I wasn't aware it was a reddit meme.
He voted for the bailout.

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(Premature) Optimisation is so much fun...
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Yeah. That matters.

You're joking, but a lot of people actually voted for him for equally trivial reasons.
Do any corporations have a lawyer as their CTO?
pg showed this in On Lisp, chapter 22, Nondeterminism: http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
The separation of tech and state
I disagree with Obama on many issues. I did not support McCain. It is difficult to express how satisfied I am knowing that an intelligent human being will once again occupy the White House.
God Delusion's pretty great. Hitchens' book is good too, and covers a lot of the same stuff from different angles (plus, Hitchens has a great pen).
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I'm so disappointed not to be in the US tonight :-(.
I was watching the live feed on the BBC News website. It wasn't great, but I don't think I could've survived watching CNN instead.
The technology for all of these "magic walls" was cool and all... But I still can't help thinking how much cooler it could have been if the networks had gotten someone like Ben Fry or Edward Tufte involved in designing their visualizations.
President Elect Obama. He's been elected president, but he won't be president until January.
I think it's going to be a huge inspiration for the world.

Seeing recent female and minority leaders being elected across the world shows we finally are moving towards reducing discrimination.
Something keeps bothering me about charismatic leaders with revolutionary views and overwhelming mandates in times of severe economic trouble.
I disagree with him on a lot of things, but he's right on this. The United States of America is the greatest nation in the world, the nation where all things are possible, the nation that, for every time we've fallen short, keeps saying "Yes we can!" Yes -- we can do justice, yes -- we can be better, yes -- we can fulfill the promise that all men are created equal.

Govern it well, Barack Obama.
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Before an exuberant crowd of tens of thousands in Chicago's
Grant Park, Barack Obama delivered his victory address. It's
been a long time coming, but tonight change has come to
America, he told the crowd.
Before an exuberant crowd of tens of thousands in Chicago's
Grant Park, Barack Obama delivered his victory address. It's
been a long time coming, but tonight change has come to
America, he told the crowd.
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I really doubted that this would happen. But it actually did, and I think it will really make a difference. This is America sort of saying to the world - hey, those war mongering guys were never us. This is the real us - the guy who thinks, the guy who does not fit the mould, the guy who never wanted a war.

In so many ways, the U.S has shown how agile it is, and why it's number 1.
Obama wins... FCC opens up white spaces... Business methods patents curbed... Man! Too much good stuff!
Ask HN: Problems/Limitations With Online Shopping?
Been focusing my attention towards online shopping, deal aggregation, and similar sites lately for some reason or another. I know none of us like sharing innovative ideas, but I've been trying to brainstorm what this industry is missing or could use. There hasn't seemed to be too much change in the area. Was curious if anyone had any thoughts on the problems, limitations, or anything related for the online shipping industry - any personal frustrations, etc.
I don't agree. I hope that while he won because of severe economic trouble, I think they recognize that the root of that problem has been severe disruption of freedom and democracy by the current party in power.

I hope that economics will be put on the back burner and "security" (also known as security theater - also known as fascism) will be the most important consideration. As in rolling back "security" in favor of "democracy."

Freedom fixes economics. And the last administration has been assaulting freedom for eight years.
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Threads can mutate global state. They don't have to.
And unionism, protectionism, and high taxes.

Oh, I'm sorry, did I stumble into the wrong party?

Where's the party for people that support an open country with strong privacy rights and a dynamic business environment?
When jokingly asked by Eric Schmidt, "How would you sort 1 million integers?", Obama actually answered "Well I'd bet that the bubble sort is not the correct approach."

Certainly, knowing the answer to that question, or knowing what a bubble sort even is, doesn't make or break a candidate. But all else being equal, wouldn't you rather a president who took at least one course on computer science?

Sure it is a little thing, but I found myself saying "all other things being equal" a lot about Obama. All those things added up: I voted for him.
Yup, who doesn't?

"Expert F#", "Founders at Work", "Walden", and "On Intelligence" are all part-finished right now. I read a lot of fiction in high school, but I don't much anymore.

"The New Yorker" every week. "The Walrus" and "The Economist" occasionally.
Looking at the results of Prop 8, California seems to disagree on "all men are created equal".
Wordpress has had a catastrophic history of insecure code, based on a number of basic design flaws:

* Reliance on ad-hoc hand-coded SQL.

* A system that registers psuedonymous Internet commenters in the same user table as Wordpress administrators.

* Mishandling of internationalization.

Yes, Wordpress is also the most popular blogging platform, and yes, it's also much more dynamic than its competitors, but phpBB and vBulletin seem to have had better track records than Wordpress have. It's just not very secure.
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You did, actually. But you have creationism trailing behind you. Like a big superhero cape.
Expanding on this, remember to give back. Find the top 5 blogs in your niche and link to them while delivering your high quality content. The people reading those blogs could discover you through trackbacks and those bloggers may eventually link back.
Did you just seriously make a comment that implicitly states that Obama has done no wrong?

(FISA, PATRIOT II, Bailout, war funding, VP wrote the PATRIOT Act and invented the "Drug Czar", etc.)
No, man. Listen:

Obama is smarter than McCain. He's smarter than Bush. He's smarter than me, if you can believe it.

But do I care if Obama can:

1) Fix my toilet?

2) Balance my books?

3) Remove my appendix?

4) Parge my lath?

5) Sort my integers?

No. All trivia.
I don't see any evidence of statistical analysis on this at all. People are touted raw figures as valid without any removal of bias.

More than that while it's cool it's 20% that still leaves 75+ % as IE and I'd be surprised if most of that 75% ever upgrade until those computers are replaced.
While I'm happy with Obama, that sure seems like a publicity stunt. I've interviewed a lot of people for programming jobs, almost all of them can say "bubble sort is not the correct approach."
Unions, higher taxes, whatever, just don't compare to Guantanamo, Rendition, and Creationism.

And its not entirely clear he'll fix those, but there's hope.
An equally little known fact is that at least 24 states have legislation to deal with faithless electors. Your fears are almost entirely unfounded.
It's almost like there are three important groups of people: developers! developers! developers!

Ahem.
I sometimes get depressed knowing that I won't be able to read everything, or even a sliver of a fraction of it.
Anyone else just hear the Cathedral and Bazaar reference on CNN? Amazing! A Republican analyst comparing Obama's campaign to open source software and on a major network.
Lol no, I just meant he hasn't done any wrong as president yet. (And the bailout...I don't know, I didn't see it as a bad move from my limited knowledge, but a lot of economists are angsty about it, I know so I don't have a real position on it.)

I voted for McCain. There's plenty that I don't agree with Obama about, but seeing as the media hasn't touched Barack Obama very much (including the internet which is currently in exuberant joy) regarding any..."mistakes", it doesn't look likely that it will change until he does anything substantial.

How do you criticize a guy who isn't even in the office yet? Lets hope he does a good job.

Congratulations, Barack.
There are two major things I want from online shopping:

Real time stock data. I don't care so much about quantities, just whether or not my size/color is in stock -- though a "low quantity" warning would be nice.

Ship my order within 24 hours, and with "free" overnight shipping. If I order a pair of pants tonight (1 am on Thursday morning), I should have them Friday. Now I know nothing's really free, but build it into your prices; don't make me think. Pull this off, and you're 80% of the way to matching brick and mortar retail -- it takes a day or two to build a shopping trip into my schedule anyway.
The thing that fixes this economy is each and every person not spending ridiculously beyond their means and taking on insane levels of debt up to their eyeballs.

Don't be naive and try to blame this economic situation on some other bullshit about freedom from the "last administration". Many of us Americans (for the most part) have been spending out the ass using credit and the bills are coming due. Americans' personal money management habits have _nothing_ to do with the party in office.

It's our own aggregate greed and desire for more that has left us with a shell of an economy stuck with trillions of debt. Now point to yourself and say it with me: "My personal choices affect the economy. Not the current administration or the next administration, not anyone else, but how I choose to manage my budget and debt as an individual."

I'm all for blaming others when things go wrong, but this one's pretty simple buddy. We're in a metric ton of debt and the fault belongs to each one of us.
Interesting and good suggestions. I've been thinking more about aggregation, comparison, organization, etc, aspects - not exactly the 'store' behind the scenes.
So, seeing as I have a 14 year-old daughter who is quite smart but hates math, would you recommend a system like this?
Obama voted for Bush's FISA bill. He voted for the PATRIOT Act II. He voted to continue the war. He chose as VP the guy who claimed to have written much of the PATRIOT Act to pass in 1995 after the Oklahoma City bombing.

I don't trust Obama on those issues at all, given his record. Bringing sanity to the war on terror isn't that important to him.

McCain also said he would close Guantanamo and end torture.

I'm sorry, but this party looks like a bunch of folks obsessing over a pretty politician who is moderately awful on the issues after 8 years of one who was completely awful on the issues, and not nearly as pretty.

And you should care about unionism. The 94% of Americans who aren't in unions are going to be fleeced by protectionist bills to pad the pockets of the powerful unions that support the Democratic Party.
My biggest problem is with stores that try too hard to be innovative and end up making the process harder. But then, they don't frustrate me too much as I just won't use them.

Other frustrations:

- Gauging availability

- Having easy access to shipping cost info

- Offers or product names that aren't links. If something says "T-shirt sale, $10 each" I want to be able to click on that to see that sale!

- Lack of a categorized view. I want to easily see OTHER products that are very similar to the current one. If I'm looking at a blue shirt, I want to easily find a yellow one (say).

- High shipping costs. I gotta admit, "free shipping" gives me an instant shopping boner, even if it makes no sense. It just makes me more likely to buy.

- Lack of details. If electronics equipment, I want access to the full specs, including dimensions, etc. If clothes, I want to know the sizes and what scale was used (e.g. US size, UK size, or what?)

- Ridiculous registration requirements. I don't want to fill out a 30 field form to become a "member" of your shop. Ask for the absolute minimum to start and then get the other info over time as I become faithful to your brand.

- Lack of any review functionality. Sometimes it doesn't matter, but on many items it does. Even if you're just getting reviews from elsewhere, I wanna see them.

- Sites that don't fully use HTTPS through the whole checkout process.

Things I would like:

- Better search.

- Support for tagging. I like browsing by tag.

- "Random" product link. Not for every store but on some it would be awesome. I like browsing!

- Make it easier for me to browse when I don't know what I want. (I think I've made the point now, lol)

- Offer a clean but powerful advanced search. If I want to buy something for $5-$10, I should be able to limit searches to that.

- "Similar items" when looking at an item. Even if it's just a few with similar names, it helps.

- Easy access to high resolution imagery of the product. Let me click on the thumbnail / smaller image to get more awesome shots. It's a big deal when you're looking at the positioning of ports on a notebook, for example.

- Cheaper and more expensive alternatives to the current product. This is a touchy area for the actual store providers but as a customer I want to quickly work with my budget. Sometimes I want to spend more on something better, or sometimes less.

- Products on the front page of the site. I don't want to have to dig just to reach a single product.

Things I don't care about:

- Comparison tools. Most are useless. If I really want to compare something, I'll load them up in separate tabs and just figure it out after looking at them both. Very few products come down to a spec by spec comparison.

- Splash pages.

- Overuse of "theme" imagery. A common problem with clothing sites. I understand building a brand, etc, but in the store section, give me product.
The Libertarian party: we'll be waiting over there with the whack-jobs in the Green party until America's ready.
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Runescape's continued growth, though not on the same scale, is certainly surprising as well.
But one hedge fund manager making 3.7 billion dollars annual salary makes you (and a million of your friends) irrelevant. Cheers!
Great list - what shopping site(s) do you use?

".. instant shopping boner" - hilarious
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What a relief. I'm sure he won't turn out to be perfect, but won't it be nice to have a president we can actually take seriously?
When America's ready for your policies, the major parties will steal them piecemeal.
Regarding aggregation: I don't use rss at all, no feed collection, no feedreader. I get mostly everything I read online from HN and sites like it.

I'm not aware of anything similar for clothing. My process for checking out new stuff looks a lot like my tech news process did a year or two ago: type in techcrunch.com, read, type in mashable.com, read...

I'm not saying digg-style voting and karma is the way to do it, but I'd love a place where I could get the same kind of curated updates and discussion about new clothes/gadgets/etc. I certainly wouldn't check it every day like I do HN, but I imagine there are people who would.
I use any site that seems professional and competent if I want something I can't get either at Amazon UK ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/ ), Play.com ( http://www.play.com/ ), eBuyer ( http://www.ebuyer.com/ ), or similar large sites (those are all UK examples, just because that's where I live).

eBuyer is worth a look actually, as they've tended to implement a lot of the features I mention above, such as full specs on most products, high res images, easy browsability, etc. They might have some ideas you can "be inspired" by :)

Oh, to add to my previous list. If I were in the US, I'd want to see the price including tax (alongside the regular price) if I were in the same state at the store. Having the price leap up at checkout is not nice (as I constantly whine when shopping in the US).
well a number of large shopping sites and deal/coupon sites work based on aggregation. the user doesn't need to know anything about it. look at like.com - an amazing shopping portal/search engine - all aggregation. they just refer to products on other store sites.
Great suggestion, but I wonder how good he is as an administrator.