skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's not entirely a parody. But there are absolutely parodic incidents. It takes the name Ulysses to allude to a grand epic, and then focuses on three people living a day in their lives. And it's not a parody in the sense that Joyce is making a bigger point, which is that the human mind is so complex and beautiful that the mere fact of living a day is an epic unto itself.

However, Joyce still absolutely has a comedic mindset. The opening, when Buck Mulligan descends and shaves, is written as if it were a religious ritual. There's the excellent newspaper scene, where headlines announce the goings-on of the characters. There's a chapter where every few paragraphs Joyce takes on the style of a new writer, moving from extremely obtuse ancient writing up to Irish slang. There's the penultimate chapter, which takes a scientific approach to two characters having sex. Stephen's chapter is a parody of the overthinking genius. Really, every chapter is as silly as it's straight. It's one of the things that makes Ulysses so fascinating.

Technically, I'd call Finnegans Wake an even greater parody, but that's not fair, because it parodies itself.
google define:fail disagrees with you.

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be unsuccessful

disappoint

fall short in what is expected

Failure (or flop) in general refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective
so it's analytics for a single page of content? why wouldn't i just use my regular analytics?

i dont get it
Somehow, it came across as sentimental to me. This was somebody reminiscing about a place that he saw the decline of. Then, I find the oddest things sappy.
Is this like an openly paid Digg or something? Needs more explanation.
GitX is a very nice GUI for OS X.

http://gitx.frim.nl/
Adobe's Interactive Video Object Manipulation
I would think the gOS would be best suited as a spashtop. I doubt it takes much space or any time to boot, and would be perfect when people do not want the benefits of a full OS. It would probably help with battery life too.
many/most hackers don't have a problem with multiple tabs.... or they just use Evolution/Mail/Outlook instead :)
Ask: Know any good community site about online investment?
I'm looking for HN-like sites or conventional forum that gives us reliable advices on getting up investing online and reviews of online brokers available. I found a few, but most of them flooded with spammy and scam articles. Please suggest a site or an online broker (with review if possible). I know that it may not be relevant to ask this kind of question here, but I'm not very comprehensive in internet and HN is the only site that I think has great community and reliable contents.

on a side note:
I've been a lurker here for long time, and don't see the search button. Is there something I missed?
Really great demo! I wish I had more of an interest in video so I could utilize this.
It looks nice. That's a good start.

I can't figure out what it is or why I should be interested. That's not good. But at least you've got the aesthetic look down.
Ask HN: Scalable framework for web apps?
I'm planning to build on my new idea and would like to know which web framework is scalable to build a web app on. My choices of languages are PHP, Python and Ruby. I wouldn't mind a long learning curve.

I have worked on CakePHP for a couple of projects and tried Django on my localhost. But would like to know if you guys find anything else that's interesting and better. How about RoR?
there's isn't a search feature. try google

"site:http://news.ycombinator.com <your_keyword>"

or http://searchyc.com
Interesting idea, but saying open source has this inherent limitation is overreaching a bit. A much more reasonable claim would be that open source "can't do" service-based applications (Which I'm still not sure I agree with).

"what open source software exists that solves a big problem in a large market?"
Linux, Apache, mySQL, etc.
not quite what you're looking for, but try www.newmogul.com

and www.thinkorswim.com
I'll give my top recommendation for each language you named. I have used all 3 of these with great success. I have also used competitors for each of them.

* PHP - Kohana

* Python - Django

* Ruby - Merb

I used many PHP frameworks a while back and eventually settled on CodeIgniter (which is very good). After Kohana spun off from CI, it began to gain advantages and has continued to.

I've used Pylons and TurboGears before settling on Django. It's quite fast, and can be made faster when paired with psyco.

I used Rails for a long time before approaching Merb. I have followed its development since shortly after the pastie that Ezra made of the initial code. Merb is making a lot of great choices and is and will be my framework of choice.
This is the attitude people had about video before broadband was widespread. As the networks become more reliable and faster, all these problems you're talking about go away...
That doesn't make them experts, that just makes them me.
Oxford is hellish
yes. all the analytics are open to everyone. you can submit content for free or pay for it to be placed higher up in the list.

advice as to specifics for the explanation?
I remember reading this question from sample Microsoft interview questions :P
Yeah, I'm totally lost too, after reading the about and how it works pages. Just not sure what problem I have that it's trying to solve, that something else doesn't already solve anyway... Care to clarify on here?
the 'current' analytics are for the current content. the 'previous' analytics are the sums for the spot (e.g. page 1, spot 1; page 1, spot 2; etc.) - per the faq.

you have statistics to base your submission decision on before spending any money.
It looks good and I bet it's very useful... but i don't understand it either.
This is a really fantastic deconstruction of an amazing game. I'm looking forward to more of these reviews.
"... I've always thought firefox should have a team making & maintaining extensions ..."

Probably not a good idea for most (aside from Google who have the resources). Most projects concentrate on the core api, documentation and leave the the add-ons for users. I'm specifically thinking of Firefox, JQuery etc.
SugarCRM is open source? They offer an open source version as a kind of sampler/taster, but their main offering is not open source.
I just took a look at the opening page, and it took me a few seconds to figure out what it was. The block of text in the center should have some sort of description of what the service is.
The game looks really fun. Maybe when I finish the semester I'll buy it.

Does anybody know how the built the game (which languages, toolkits, frameworks, etc)? Its on wii, pc, mac, and linux so it must have been done in an amazingly portable way.
Thanks for posting this link. You're right, it's a great read. You should re-post it as a top-level HN submission.
"... Ask yourself: what open source software exists that solves a big problem in a large market? ..."

Linux kernel?
you have historical + real-time statistics to base your submission decisions on before spending any money.

the sites that drive lots of traffic do so in opaque ways. as a result, people try to manipulate them (e.g. google, digg).

this is a completely transparent solution, in theory at least. let me know if this makes sense - no doubt an ongoing process of perfecting the pitch.
Yeah, I acknowledged that in my post above. Since then I've read a couple of his other published papers - they have similar errors too.
I went to your site. I saw a list of links. I saw buttons that say 'buy' and 'adjust'. The price is 0. The CPMs are 0.

I am confused.
The sexbox's name is Sony, I believe.
If you'd said "Ulysses is funny" I wouldn't have questioned that. :) It's certainly not a parody of the Odyssey, despite the partially ironic title and the echoes in the episode structure.
EC2, Slicehost etc. already exist. Try again.
Open Office, Firefox, The Gimp...

Pretty much all of the software that is "like x, only free" (or in the case of firefox, better)
"... Ask yourself: what open source software exists that solves a big problem in a large market? ..."

Statistical software (like R), perhaps? Not sure how much it's used by businesses though, especially with alternatives like SAS, or data mining built into Oracle & SQL Server. Still, hosted data analysis sounds cool (with potential complexities as well).
I spent half an hour going through the main links and the "how it works". I still have no clue what this site does and why should I use it.
Are Engineers in India "unproductive"
or is it hard to "ship stuff to buyers"?

Doesn't seem like it to me.

So how in the terms of this article can one explain that engineers in India are cheaper than in developed countries?
The point is that contributors to open source projects are willing to write code for free but not willing to wear the beepers that go off when the servers go down.

But could you get 100 people to wear beepers if you told them there was only a 1% chance it'd go off?

(It's a rhetorical question. I've seen what ten part-time sysadmins can do; I don't want to imagine 100.)
There was a time when "change the world" used to mean something. Go out and feed a few homeless,poor ppl, but please dont make the 1 millionth todo list app and claim to "change the world".

Nice design though.
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"linear"? What do you mean?
Why would I pay to have my site linked to on your site? Do you have enough traffic?

How is it sustainable? After a while, all the top sites would be paid and thus of no interest to users who visit your site.
Yikes I've had that suspicion for a long time. I'm going to have to weigh the amount of downtime I will incur with this migration. Thank you
Scalability is the last thing you need to be worried about. Worry about the business model. If you get the business model right, and you have scalability problems (i.e. "Oh shucks there are too many people trying to pay me money!"), then you can just pay to get them resolved.
If you think physical attraction was a 0% factor, you are deluding yourself.
I think it's a pretty cool idea, good luck with it.

Likes: I like when you X out of something it replaces the content, pretty smooth.

Dislikes: the wording of the yep nope buttons, while it made me laugh because a yep nope is a mullet reference, but your site seems to be fun but still serious site(analytics)
Maybe: Yea / Nay | Yes / No | Advertiser / Visitor
Using multiple tabs alone won't hack it for monitoring two Google accounts at once -- the tabs share the same login cookie.
If you're looking for flexibility, give Pylons a shot. It's often paired with SQLAlchemy, which is an amazing ORM that can be configured to do a lot of things which will make scaling easier in the long run. (Whereas Django doesn't have multiple database support, for instance; SQLAlchemy can even handle sharded data transparently.)
At least they're still working on it ;)

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/MacBuildInstructions
Two weeks seems a bit much, but once you have a significant client base of paying customers, you simply must have some form of production control and QA. Even good developers make mistakes, and letting everyone just push their changes to prod over lunch is a recipe for pissed off clients.
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It is an inherent limitation. Time is a cost that can be donated because there is some non-material payoff to the person that's donating the time. There's very little non-material payoff for donating servers, bandwidth, etc.

I actually like this. It's the most obvious way to capitalize on open source.
I know this isn't a "HN: Review my ____ " post, but I feel compelled to give my 2¢.

The headlines/article blurbs are HUGE! I only see one story above the fold, and I'm presented with too much information for each link. Categories and tags are a bit repetitive. Also, does anyone pay attention to when something was posted or made popular down to the minutes? Hours would be plenty, if anything at all.

By removing the short blurbs lead-ins, you encourage submitters to write clear titles, and remove the redundancy of having both titles and one sentence repeating the title (e.g. 100 Money Saving Tips for the Holiday Gifting Bonanza: Here are a hundred tips to help you save some cash for that holiday gifting bonanza.)
I don't personally need open source blogging or news aggregator software. And that is why I use blogger, google reader, etc.

But I do need Django, I do need libraries like ipaddr.py from Google, I do need Linux kernel, I do need Webkit. One by one the majority of those libraries don't solve big problems. But combined they do.

And as for developers, they can stop worrying that somebody will take their open source code and clone their major project and start releasing chunks of code that is actually interesting. Let's be clear, most of the code is pretty much the same everywhere and is not interesting.
F*ck, I upgraded just few days before the sale. Damn.
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Is portrait a parody? I read it to get acquainted with Stephen in anticipation of reading Ulysses, but haven't read Ulysses yet.
Those don't use Linux kernel? Cmon.
I don't think that there is a market for another OS.

The hardcore people will continue using Linux, I doubt any new OS can come out with a must have feature at this point that can't be duplicated, and most people don't want to try out buggy software, when there is a more successful option available.

And of course the average person will continue using the Windows that came with their PC.

So who is left to use the new alternative, that is most likely buggy
This reminds me of the lack of AS fanfiction on the web right now. Someone really needs to rewrite this book once the it goes to the public domain, because there is potential, but so much is lost on her personality quirks and non-native English writing. (Note that the ARI essay contests have NEVER delved into the romantic situations in this book because they really are so contradictory and add nothing).

tldr: I lold
Not sure I understand either. Is this website supposed to be a destination where users go to find good content / entertainment?
I like the model of mixing fully disclosed/transparent paid placement with another default noneconomic ranking. Goto.com won big with that and more recently Stumbleupon.

The name Elephino is somewhat weak but might work if you had the domain 'elephino.com'. I have a hard time imagining people telling their friends that they visit 'el-eph-in-o-inc-dot-com', especially since all the Elephino syllables have multiple plausible alternate spellings.
Douglas Graham on the 80/10/10 rule for self-optimization.
EC2 uses XEN and a Red Hat flavour.
I don't know why but I just like using variety of languages. I enjoy the learning different stuff. After 3 years with PHP, I developed an app for a contest a while ago on Google App Engine using web.py. That was my first shot with developing a python web app. I'll give Django a try later. But since my web app deals with developing for plugins go blog engines, I guess I have to deal with some Python blog engines too.

Now since you mentioned Merb, I'm going with Merb. Just tried Ruby online on http://tryruby.hobix.com Seemed cool, so I'm sticking with Ruby this time.

Merb seems to have some problem with Windows XP. I get an error while installing it. But it's just the docs that generate the error. The main package installed. merb 1.0.3

P.S: Does trying out too many languages often make me a bad programmer? Should I stick to one stack of technology and learn new stuff as the trend changes or do I continue to do what I love to do?
I was surprised by this article; I was expecting the answer to be something about lower cost of living or supply and demand. e.g. maybe India has an oversupply of engineers and lower cost of living, which could drive down wages.
Right, but you didn't say "Leah being good lucking probably helps" you boiled her down to a single attribute which was looks.

Inc and the rest of the tech press have featured plenty of less attractive people who get a professional photoshoot and come out on top. They don't get reduced to being successful because they are "hot" because they aren't girls.

While I know her looks haven't hurt her career I see HN as a place where people make more rounded comments than yours. Just because you can say it that way, doesn't mean it's worth saying.
Ready, Set, Bailout?
This is essentially what I did. I worked for a title insurance company and, while there wasn't an immediate feeling of job insecurity, I felt I should get out there and see what else was available.

I was let go a week ago. Due to my early planning and the two presentations I did at local user groups, I have another, much better job waiting for me in January.
IMHO, knowledge of multiple languages is usually a sign of a _good_ programmer. Keep at it.
Just make sure you hire the right people. This appears to have been Twitter's problem, and it took them awhile to fix it.

Experience counts.
good managers have only motivated people working with them.
Bad managers have both motivated and unmotivated people.
It turns out that good managers really make a difference!

Well, either that or bad managers can really demotivate otherwise normal people, while good bosses just stay out of the way. Ta-da! I drew opposite conclusion form his data.
Bad news for Spanning Sync.
+1 for Pylons. We're currently serving around 20 million dynamic requests a day via pylons from a handful of servers; pylons probably won't be your bottleneck.

What I like about it: python, promotes good code organization, relatively small code base (you can just read the source code if you're not sure how something works), and for the most part it stays out of your way.
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If you absolutely need scalability and don't mind a Google lock-in, check out Google App Engine. It can run Django, app-engine-patch makes this extremely easy.
I can't help but wonder if it's worth it. The two main problems I see are 1) Something necessitating the AGPL & 2) Apps that don't need to be online (eg rescuetime) & the privacy concerns associated with them (eg bush & his telecoms).
Yup! I've tried it. But they don't yet have a payment system. Their product roadmap says that the pay-as-you-go system will kick-in sometime in March 09.

EDIT: AppEngine product roadmap: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html

Due to this I'll have to stick with some host like Slicehost or Linode for now and then maybe switch later when the requirements increase.
The easiest way to tame burnout for me is Wii Fit balance board. 30 minutes of yoga and balance games cure tiredness like nothing else.
Google has been bankrolling mozilla for the past couple years now. It's probably in mozilla's interest anyway since extensions provide some good lock-in.
thinkorswim is a brokerage. I suggest investopedia.com/ and books. Figure out what style of investing you want to try: value, technical etc. Then go buy a book on the subject.

Other people have told me that they learned a lot of investing info from just blogs and books
Lack of scalability will nag at you and may prevent from making some choices. My current product is paid, and I have contemplated making it free while trying to catch the revenue off the ads, but given that scaling the web site will take work now whereas the ad payback may or may not come later I chose not to do this.
I know where you're coming from, but I think you're shooting the messenger. When it comes to tech press coverage, it's pretty clear that Leah Culver benefits from her gender and looks.
Google reps hinted on the appengine user group that they are very likely to introduce some kind of payment system this year.

In the mean time, you can ask them for a quota increase if your app reaches the limit.
I use Safari and Firefox for 2 gmail accounts. That pain point doesn't seem compelling enough. Many/most hackers have two browsers installed
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So what he's saying is that software doesn't run itself? Hardly news, is it? Running the software has nothing to do with it being open source or not.

Sensationalist headline, but it seems that it's the only kind of headline that works on the web these days.
I like the idea, just needs to be refined
make sure to learn the canonical style of the languages, not just the syntax and grammar. it is the difference in attitudes and approaches that yields insights that will carry with you from one situation to the next.
When did IBM open up their architecture? They had an open architecture for the purpose of encouraging peripherals and software, not for the purpose of making cheap clones. The original PC BIOS had to be reverse engineered.

I could be wrong here but it's my understanding that the PC clone market was an unintended consequence of 1) doing the job in a hasty slapdash way with off-the-shelf components 2) handing control of the OS to a third party, namely Microsoft, without an exclusive license. IBM had just one tiny bit of proprietary knowledge, the BIOS, and once that was out of control, the PC clone market was up and running.

There was a time when Microsoft was the promethean hero bringing computing power to the masses. They really earned their dominant position back then, compared to how closed IBM and Apple were. Granted, the architecture and software were crap compared to many of their competitors, but Gates correctly analyzed that having the most open platform would eventually solve those problems.
It looks nice and behaves well, very clean. I couldn't immediately tell what value I would derive from using your service -- eventually found 'How it works' at the bottom. Maybe there's a way to make it painfully obvious for people like me.

Using ul/li for your central list, instead of nested faceless spans, will make it a little more accessible too.
The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview
Nice writeup on half an idea. Now, time for some release engineering. How do you give good coders free (enough) reign while keeping tabs on the stupidities of the lesser ones?

In a startup, it's acceptable for service to be accidentally down for short periods while the geniuses running the show fix their latest cockup. In large companies, it isn't. How do you get the best of both worlds?

It is not by removing all safety interlocks. Sysadmins, especially good ones, can tell you in excruciating detail why not. Most programmers are not very good sysadmins, or at least not as good as they might like to believe. Coincidence?
Yes twitter doesn't make a profit, but they have a massive userbase to sell to. I think they'll probably work out a business model if they put their mind to it.
The OSS version is more or less the full version from what I can tell. That said, we're in the process of switching away from it.
Can I sync iCal, MobileMe, and Google Calendar?
(There was a message hidden in there!)

To not believe in afterlife, you explicitly have to not believe it, so even the denying of afterlife is based on a (negative) faith.

Atheists don't seem aware of being their position a simple negative faith response to a positive faith.
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Not many of us are aware of SearchMash but there would be hardly anyone who does not know about Google. It is an irony that Google which is so popular owned SearchMash.
Hulu is not available in my country... I'm not in North America.
What?? I've never played anything but mp3 files on my iPod. You think the iPod touch is "stagnant"? Have you actually used one?