skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As both a designer and a programmer, I'm (oddly enough) in support of obtvse and the thing behind it. Sure, it looks fairly similar, but the 'magic' like the kudos system and the pretty like CSS features that set the two apart are enough for me to distinguish between the original and the clone.
From the first article I read on dcurtis' site, I noticed the simplicity to the design and really liked it.
When I started to read the article yesterday about his svtble network, I thought to myself, 'sweet, I can finally use this.'
And then I got to the last line, and all that went away. I don't like exclusivity, and while the idea behind the 'every time you see this theme it will feature great bloggers' thing was good, I felt like he could have very easily made a stripped down version of the theme that differed a bit from the 'premium model' for the general public to adopt. Or perhaps not even the ‘general public’ but rather one to just release within Hacker News, a (if I make a generalization) smarter than average community.
Kudos (pardon the reference) to Nate for churning out some good code in a very short amount of time. It’ll be interesting to see where this goes on from here, and how the two will deal with it.
For anybody interested in trying out the new templating system, this one has been active for a little while now and is based on the work of Mozilla and it has HTML5 boilterplate + Twitter bootstrap already, as well as Jinja2, Sphinx, Django-Admin-Panel, Markdown, Celery, South and some other niceties:

Check it out: https://github.com/xenith/django-base-template

or just..

django-admin.py startproject --template https://github.com/xenith/django-base-template/zipball/master --extension py,md projectname
Burnout definitely happens. I've been there, and most of my friends have been there. It's just not a popular topic to talk about.

I would say I think it happens less often, though.
Making more than $10 million? 30% chance of being audited.
What it's like, right before you launch your game.
“I Hate Facebook Timeline” Phishing Scam Targets User Credentials
Here is a simple explanation of the experiment:

1. The set of neurons that was active only during learning was determined.

2. The genes activated in those neurons were determined.

3. Genetic engineering was done to make the activation of those genes always happen in conjunction with activation of the gene being responsible for the neuron becoming sensitive to light.

4. The mouse was put through a learning experience, during which the small group of neurons affected became sensitive to light.

5. Via stimulating those neurons with light, the experience was reproduced in the mouse in a completely different environment (so the comparisions to Pavlov are not justified).

In this way the abstract concept of a memory and of the process of remembering something was related very closely to a specific physical phenomena. Even the methods used to make the experiment are interesting by themselves (at least for a lay person) and I think you cannot easily dismiss the importance of this discovery as some people do here. Please read the article here to get a better picture:

http://www.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/conjuring-memories-artifi...
Man, I just went through the 1.3 tutorial TWO days ago. Does anyone that uses Django know if the changes are huge? I guess I will be going through the 1.4 tutorial this afternoon.
Mike,

Can you please provide feedback on our idea: www.diglig.com. Also do you think we can get better traction by releasing a mobile app vs. WebApp?

Thanks in advance.
Shipyard JS - modular MVC tastes like MooTools
But wouldn't you need to distribute for copyright protection to kick in? Copyright is exclusive right to distribute. If you just stole the code and keep it, you can be liable to various crimes, but I don't see how copyright infringement can be one of them.
Please re-read his last sentence.

Also, this doesn't really affect my point. Complicated, advanced, cheap, fashionable, etc are all valid factors in how/why things get adopted. Picking out one of them, on the basis of a graph, oversimplifies things.
I would think it would have to be "authorized access" according to the scope of the FB ToS.

Which makes a fair bit of sense, because having an app do it would go through FBs own privacy control schemes.

So I guess we also have to make sure that employers can't require prospects to install apps. :/?
Researchers prove that memories reside in specific brain cells
The last time I did some reading into the limits of Moore's Law, about four years ago, the industry consensus was that ~12nm would be the practical limit for traditional CMOS scaling. It's interesting to see evidence that prediction does appear to be holding out.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.4/#backward...
This came up and was discussed at length yesterday.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3741813
Intel Core i7 AVX GCC Compiler Tuning Results
World’s first all-diamond, 150-carat ring
Google Hasn't Explained Why Users Would Want a Unified Online Identity
Even less interesting today than yesterday:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3741813
Or rather Dustin made some cranberry lemonade but only for himself and his friends. Dustin posted a picture of him and his friends enjoying this lemonade together and Nate sees this and thinks it's sad that Dustin is so stingy with his great lemonade. So Nate makes his own lemonade that's really similar and shares the recipe with everyone and invites them to make it better. Now, everyone can make, mix and enjoy their own lemonade - and it is good.
How to get the VC meeting
http://arclanguage.com/install

contains the source code less some of the secret bits and bytes.
I wonder what happened to good old not putting private stuff on facebook? It's not like you have to use it.

And why this focus on facebook? Is password to gmail or mint.com or yahoogroups different? It looks like Facebook using lawmaking system as a PR move. That's definitely a new and creative development - using the Congress as an advertisement medium - but I don't think it's a welcome one.
Yes, but the intent of Kyte Phone is to make the phone simple.

If the kid can replace the default launcher, she does not need an special UI in the first place.

(If all you want to do is micromanage your kid's life through GPS monitoring, is it possible to install a hidden GPS tracker?)
So You Think You Have What it Takes to Start a Business?
Mr. Closed vs. Mr. Open?? It would never happen, but I admire Mr. Jobs for at least trying.
HN front page - 1,350 visits in 30 mins: apologies, learnings & statistics
Pinterest’s Terms of Service, Word by Terrifying Word
> Find my a consumer device anywhere with a separate "display server", or one in which the filesystem is separated from the block device drivers.

Blackberry, every computer running 'X'.
and before, when the source article was discussed http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3731600
A Great Place to Meet Chicks: World of Warcraft
Will the future of online matchmaking be based around things that people are already doing online (Like playing WoW), and not around dedicated dating sites like match.com?
Incompatible with ICS, maybe?
This is pretty decent example of the entitlement syndrome I see in the design/development community. We somehow feel like all cool things should be free (as in liberty) and open source and shared, hacked, modified, and improved. And that's great! But when someone comes around with something cool that isn't all of those things like Dustin Curtis did and someone else subsequently clones it, we feel differently all of the sudden.

Why is that? We all love StackExchange but when an open source clone came out about a month ago a lot of people were screaming "rip off!" Why?

It's really hard to judge when a clone is in poor taste and when it's acceptable. It's an interesting question.

If I were judge I'd say Obtvse is perfectly legit. If Svbtle were for everyone then I'd say the clone is in bad taste but it really was only matter of time before someone brought it to the masses so long as the original would never be offered to the rest of us.

But that's beside the point. I just think its so interesting that a group of people who demand their music and media free just because they can, and extoll the virtues of (F)OSS, demanding our software be free and throwing massive tantrums when a developer of anything cool or useful doesn't publish the source can turn around and say a clone of a piece of software that's limited to a certain group is now not okay. This can be an IP issue and it's so interesting how we put ourselves in the other guy's shoes so selectively. Copyright, IP, etc. are the root of all evil one day but are useful and need to be considered the next. Maybe I'm missing something but I find popular opinion on this stuff funny at times.

This isn't an indictment of dcurtis or the creator of Obtvse. I personally think both are awesome, I love that Obtvse now exists (because I would never be invited to use Svbtle), and I think both developers are just plain awesome. For me, it's just really interesting to see how one action is wrong (along the lines of theft or infringement) but another in the same vain is seen as justified by the same people. Maybe I'm the dumb guy in the room but I see some cognitive dissonance here.
If Svbtle's design is that great and reaches any level of popularity, you'll see tons of mimics pop up, and Dustin's so-called vision won't happen anyways.
Same thing with Viber and other apps. Some of friends use their services and now they have my contact information and can build up a shadow profile on me. I consented to none of that. While they may deny that's their intent it doesn't change the fact they have all that data.
The fact that they are failing for 20 years does not mean they're not a failure.
Major ISPs make a deal with the RIAA & MPAA
"Facebook Introductions™, coming this spring 2014, gives employers a unique way to get to know candidates before hiring them. Don't worry, we don't share anything private – Introductions just allows subscribing businesses to see your Timeline as a friend would.

It's the perfect way for employers to find the best cultural fit quickly, and can even be a great conversation starter for interviews."
I thought it was Cargo Collective's logo when I first saw his site. See top left:

http://cargocollective.com/
Erm, you're off by a process node. Haswell is produced at 22nm, not 28nm, and its due for public release in 2013. However, Ivy Bridge is also produced on 22nm and that's the one that will be coming out in a few months.

That's still a half node[1] ahead, but this is mostly a matter of Intel in specific rather than CPU manufacturers in general being fast to adopt more advanced process nodes.
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-node#Half-shrink
So are roads, yet we build them near homes. Children are just going to have to learn not to touch spinning blades like they learn not to run into traffic. And dogs will be dogs, I suppose.
That's an interesting idea and one of our friends actually used it to give it to her grandpa, despite the kids interface. We'll definitely have to look into this.
I'm sorry, but apple hasn't done anything innovative since the creation of the iPhone. That was huge, don't get me wrong, but every one of their devices has simply been a rehash of their previous model. That is also fine, business as usual, safe, effective, and decent quality, but it isn't "thinking different."

Physical attractiveness is nice, but I want a tool that works for me, not that I sit and stare at because it's pretty. I'll take an ugly thinkpad over the sleek macs any day.
Sounds like there is an incredibly strong hacker culture there.

Is working on personal projects outside class considered the norm?

It certainly wasn't when I was at uni, not with CS students anyway. After studying most CS students spent their time playing video games, watching movies, smoking pot or doing other activities.

Making a door with face detection or similar would be very unusual.
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I would think the fear of current or potential employers using your data against you is just one more thing to add to any unease people may already have about sharing more and more of their personal information with Facebook. These things add up, and I'm sure FB have seen at least a small bump in account deactivations coinciding with the recent spate of articles on this subject.
Like LinkedIn? Where the only information posted is exactly what you want employers to see?
You'd be hard-pressed to find a better resource than the official docs.
Employers want access to your social network accounts.  Say No.
Well, we're staring at the end of shrinking silicon feature sizes all right. There might be more order of magnitude improvements in store with the use of new technologies, but we should certainly be prepared for a lengthy interregnum.
Other have mentioned that Facebook could sue under hacking or tortious interference, but I bet if the employer or the employee giving the interview has a Facebook page, then Facebook could sue them directly for breaching the terms of service that they agreed to when they created a Facebook account.
Would it be more effective to build "online matchmaking" features/services around activities that people are naturally engaging in online (like playing Wow), rather than to having dedicated "online dating" sites like Match or OKC? Is that the future of online matchmaking?
"I'm not worried about money; I am worried about boredom."- Investing done right.
If the password was voluntarily revealed because you want to be employed and are ready to provide it as a condition of employment, I don't see how you can call it "unauthorized access".

Volokh discusses something else - what if the user does not allow the access voluntarily but is forced by the court (which, unlike employer, is entitled to use force to compel people to do things) to reveal the password. Then it would be like breaking into a house on a search warrant or forcing you to open the safe (this was discussed some time ago here because of other court decision that said - in TLDR version - that 5th amendment protects passwords). But that's different situation.
That would be the initial reaction for most job seekers. And I'm betting that's exactly what facebook was trying to prevent with this move.
why do companies want to be design only?
I think our respective metaphors for the situation show we're coming from different places -- I'm definitely biased towards the design because I think it solves a functional problem rather than just adding a dash of zest. Appreciate your thoughts and perspective, ynniv. Now to buy some lemonade...
What do they mean by "rough justice" in this context?
I made a template that I mentioned above that is a bit simpler and is self documenting.

django-admin.py startproject --template https://github.com/amccloud/django-project-skel/zipball/master --extension py,md yourprojectname
Run Django Framework on Tornado Web Server
Django Book is ancient and obsolete as hell, but if you can fix most of the breakages, it is one of the best resources there are.

I don't agree that the documentation is great, but it is definitely good, although it is frustratingly lacking in some areas - although you won't run into that soon.

My suggestion is to try it in this order:

1. Django Book

2. Django Project Intro[1]

3. Django by Example[2]

The best tip to learning Django is to use #django on freenode[3]. People there will not do your work for you, but interactive live help is simply the best there is, unless you know forums like Something Awful where you can write out long-form questions to people who'll respond in the same fashion.

EDIT: I seriously wouldn't bother with any of the Django (book) books out there.

[1]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/

[2]: http://lightbird.net/dbe/index.html

[3]: http://webchat.freenode.net/
Congrats all, new project due to be live in a month or so I'll keeping an eye on updates and might make the jump asap
I wonder what happened to good old not putting private stuff on facebook?

Facebook is built around private stuff. The expectation is that the only people who will see it are the people who should be seeing it.

And why this focus on facebook?

Because employers are not asking for other passwords as often as Facebook passwords, and Facebook has a lot more relevant information. Asking for Mint logins would be a blatant violation of PCI laws.
I don't believe a word of this. It isn't proof of any such a process. This to me appears as inappropriate reductionism.

The brain is highly volatile both chemically and physically and is changing minute by minute. The notion that a memory belongs to a single group or cluster of neurons is absurd. They are constantly being reordered and reprioritised and changed throughout the lifetime of the animal. And being lost due to chemical damage and the effects of ageing and free radicals.

The nature of memory and conciousness isn't just the physical existence of neurons. Who you are is more than the sum of the parts.

The mind is also as much a process of the body -- your conciousness and mind grows within it from birth and a large part of who you are is as much a product of that, its hormones and its metabolic chemistry as anything that resides solely between the ears alone.
Completely agree, to protect your idea is quite simply naive and he could have replied differently. Dustin understands the product much better than the clone creator & he has nothing to lose. So the only thing he had to worry about was to grab positive attention.
Ehhhh... speaking from experience, Erlang's VM is pretty badly documented. I'll grant them that they built a good PL (other than the godawful syntax) for internal business use, but their lack of interest in making a public product of it is visible.
Somewhat off topic, but does anybody know how to disable extremetechs craptastic mobile interface? I've got twice the resolution of my laptop on my iPad, and the mobile site looks like it's been optimized for my circa 2002 palm treo 650.
Electric Potential Pong
I actually really like the idea. What's the pricing structure like?
> I wonder if Facebook might partially be doing this so people don't hesitate to use their service.

Of course that's part of the reason, don't act like Facebook wanting to have happy users who aren't afraid about their information being misused is bad because it is essential for them to make money.
Also, it contributes to a culture of "sure, I'll give you my login information".
For this to be similar, you'd have to make a distinction between someone copying music bit by bit and distributing the original file, vs someone making a COVER recording of a famous song (no matter how accurate), and distributing that for free.

No matter how much RIAA and MPAA would like to change it, recording covers for existing music, I believe, is fully supported culturally and legally.
Smart publicity play on their part
This is a great breakdown of the different markets that exist. I think it can even help in calculating "back of the envelope" numbers, because you know you need to, "drop some zeros" a lot of the time. Pricing is kinda glossed over. But isn't Freemuim disrupting some of the 'Age old formulas'?
Idea: Include web libraries right in your browser
>So what if he's an international figure? He goes thru the process like any other suspect in a credible rape allegation.

So if this is a predictable result of this sort of scenario, why is it "the whole series of events ending in framing ... was improbable"?
All heavy hitting features. I've been begging for "SELECT FOR UPDATE" support forever, and django-bcrypt is in my bootstrap requirements.txt.

Does anybody have any reference to the scaffolding features? This might be the first I've heard of it.
Along with that, a lot of the libraries (from what I could tell) put all the code in one massive file in a forum thread and update it from there, making it pretty time-consuming to keep up with changes.

That and there's no consistency between libraries as far as how they decide to use classes.
Gill Sans was my guess, but looking at the R, I'm certainly wrong.
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I agree with you. However, just because something isn't implied, doesn't mean it's not a good idea to do it. Charity isn't implied, but it's obvious we should do it in order to help people in need.

We all do open source because we simply love it and want to give a gift, like you said. However, whenever people give me a gift, no matter how bad or good it is, I feel it's my duty to at least say "Thanks!"
Ford to Open Palo Alto Research Lab this Summer
The design and explanation of the service is fine. I understood right away what you were offering.

I definitely need an about page with contact info, and some hint of price. More info required before I could go ahead with this.
Why? Anything you do at work is open to your place of employment. I work in network/information security, and while we don't decrypt encrypted connections, we do log employee Internet access and use the data for investigative purposes. Why would an employee have an expectation of privacy from their employer while they are using corporate assets?

Yes, many companies have DLP (data loss prevention) systems what sniff all outbound data watching for information leaks. If you're posting on Facebook at work, it is very likely that your employer can see exactly what you're sending. We just don't care unless it's sensitive data (get back to work).
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I always use the FF site so I was completely unaware they have an extension for Opera and IE as well as FF and Chrome.
... and a little ridiculous. "You will not use our copyrights or trademarks (including ... Face, ... Book and Wall)"

Like if using a windows machine meant that I can't have any name that involves window, micro, soft, gate, intel(ligence)...

The world 'wall'? Ever been to the Western Wall? To the old Berlin? Or listened to the Pink Floyd?
Unless the person stealing the credit card uses it to access a child porn site and you are in the UK.

Then you are on a child abuse register - your life is over.
There is no trial because the data just goes straight to a police database and since computers are never wrong how can the police be wrong?

Of course you could try suing the police and insisting on a trial to prove your innocence ;-) If you knew you were on the secret registry, but you would only discover this when you apply to coach your kid's school soccer team and find a SWAT unit turn up at your house.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ore
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This was my thought exactly, along with, with respect to Erin the Chief Privacy Officer, I won't believe it unless Zuckerberg co-signs this.

Sort of a corollary of Sagan's law: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Critical company statements need to be signed by the CEO.
How's your Python? I hated Django when I was learning it and Python at the same time, but having abandoned Django (and sticking with plain old Python), when I revisited it a few years ago, things were dramatically easier.

In short, if your Python skills are passable, I'd say the docs at djangoproject.com[1] are more than sufficient. If not, I'd guess you might have troubles.

[1] - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/
>If the password was voluntarily revealed ... I don't see how you can call it "unauthorized access".

Because Facebook (the owner of the computer system) did not authorize the access. In fact, Facebook prohibits such access in its TOS.
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Facebook decides what constitutes authorized access, not the user. Your right to access the service is not transferable.