skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not generally a fan of image replies, but the top comment on reddit really does nail it:

http://www.robotmutant.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/201109...
Virtual env installs libraries for your program/web service/etc.

Those libraries will eventually need security updates.

On Linux for example, which hosts most servers, you upgrade python libraries with yum update/apt-get update/you-name-it.

Single central package database, security updates are marked as security, makes upgrades easy and you never miss one.

With VirtualEnv your dependencies are installed outside the score of the package manager. It means you have to keep track of security updates yourself.

If you don't, and one lib has a well known security bug, you'll be hit and you most likely had no chance to update because "you didn't know".

That's why I'm asking. I know a lot of companies hosting python things and using VirtualEnv because "its easy", but they entirely discard updates. I'm not sure that is wise. I was hoping someone had a solution.
Exactly what I used on my first non-trivial web app.

I had Django + Tastypie serving a REST API and Backbone.js on the front-end. Bootstrap for styling. Apache/mySQL. It turned out to be a success but when I look at the codebase it is a nightmare. I ended up writing a mobile app version which was nice since I was able to just plug it in to the REST api.

But, at the end, I was annoyed with Django and Tastypie- something just didn't sit right. Implementing things like sessions, which in PHP are obvious but verbose, relied too much on Django's hidden magic that I felt I was hacking a solution rather than architecting one.
GMail's meter is fine -- it's displaying the state of a value which Google has decreed will increase at a set rate. Unlike Santorum's donations, it's not an unpredictable measurement.
there's this guy from Africa doing something extraordinary ... Today we saw one guy's insane vision becoming reality.

What happened today is only different because it was not government-funded[0]. I'm not allergic to the idea of government doing things (I agree with Barney Frank that "government is just the name for the things we decide to do together"), and so I really don't consider it to be interesting, or extraordinary, or insane. It's exactly what many others have done, just funded differently.

Aren't corporations regulated by the laws made by the governments elected by the electorate?

The obvious, cliche response is "not nowadays". But, more helpfully - who has jurisdiction in space?

That is my fear. At the moment, the power with jurisdiction in space is the power that can get to space. And I want that power to be elected.

Up until now, space operations have always been nonpartisan, co-operative, and peaceful. As eager as I am for humans to go further, I can't help but think that if we can't maintain that way of doing things - if humanity must, in order to get to space, give up on the hope of universal rights and self-determination (meaning democratically elected bodies of power) - then we're not ready. If we can't decide to go to space cooperatively, as one unit - if a few lucky individuals have to do it for us, even if they're right (which I believe they are), then we're not ready to go.

[0] That's a lie, of course. It was partially government-funded, because the promise of contracts with NASA et al is what's making this possible (to my understanding). But that's beyond my argument.
There doesn't appear to be anything in this code to calibrate to the actual average donation rate. In fact it's not tied to any real amounts or rates at all. It's just a function of the current datetime.

UPDATE: They took the donation page down...

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This is just as bad:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870440900457614...

Bringing this one up because it's also talking about some of the same distractions (video gaming, porn) and was sadly lauded by a lot of women I know on Facebook.
To be fair, it's not any less accurate than prayer.
i wasn't thinking about the domain equivalent of cooldude69, i was thinking more of sites like "daringfireball.net", "intertwingly.net", "defmacro.org" - something that is creative without being gauche. (personally, i really wanted hitchhiker.net but i was too late to get it)
Ask HN: When multiple users share username, can it be a good UX design?
I'm in a middle of designing an application to be used by two parties in such a way the involvement of the second party is more of a guide to the first party e.g. children & the parents, addicts & their sponsors, etc. It is entirely possible for one second party to be a 'guide' to more than on first party.

My question is on the whole username/password pair design. The status-quo is each having own username/password pair and the second party once logged in, gets a list of first parties he/she is a 'guide' to, etc. While this works, I believe sharing a username (obviously keeping passwords separately), could improve the UX of the app:
i) In real life, this is how we share bonds: Family (Shared last name, different first names), Sports teams (One team name, each team member usually gets a nick name), etc. So you could think of the shared username as family/team name and the password as first name/nickname.
ii) By sharing username, the second party only has to login using the username he/she is sharing with the first party and does not have to go through the process of first login him/herself and then selecting the first party.

Anyways, is this a good UX design or I've just had too much coffee?
No, in many cases these are actual, realized losses, as in "we bought at this price and sold at this much lower price". They have no money, and no stock. Recovery of the stock is irrelevant to them.
If I recall, it was the nations of Earth that suppressed the human rights of those on the moon...

But yes, even as I read your comment, I thought, "This guy must be quite faithful to large government." In the same breath you're blasting corporations as inherently corrupt, you're saying our faith should be in the ever-controllable government, who listens to the people. THEN you claim the government isn't in control of big business: So where do you get this notion of government's benign nature?

I really can't believe there are that many people who think this way. ALL organizations are corruptible; the U.S. government even more than SpaceX.

Two things to assuage your vague unease:

- The U.S. certainly knows the design secrets of SpaceX's rockets. If SpaceX ever did anything to endanger the nation (James Bond villain-esque), the U.S. military would destroy the company and build their own rockets.

- LEO space travel is not something SpaceX will have a monopoly on for long, if ever. It isn't as if we're in danger of being beholden to SpaceX's will.

I'm much more afraid of Monsanto, Lockheed, Boeing and Raytheon than I am of SpaceX.
Isn't this a bit like responding to someone asking for a primer on web development by pointing them to the w3c?

I realize the comparison isn't perfect -- IAB's docs aren't nearly as opaque as a w3c spec, and I should probably go back and look at them now that I've been doing this for a few months. When I got started working with these guys, though, and I was desperately trying to figure out what I needed to know about VAST and VPAID in order to not look like an idiot (answer: very little, in this case), IAB felt pretty dense and still assumed I knew basically what was going on.
Ask HN: Why are all my submissions automatically marked dead?
For the past week all my submitted links have automatically been marked as dead. I suspect a weekend project to auto submit to HN has ended up with some form of suspension. Is it permanent? I can still post comments but not new articles? How and who do I beg for forgiveness?
I just donated $17.99 so that they can buy Crockford's JavaScript: The Good Parts.
Patches accepted!
"No, don't watch porn! And don't you dare have lust towards girls in the start of a relationship! And how dare you use a sex toy! Vent your stress elsewhere... Thank you.. oh wait.. not video games either! Do something constructive with it! What can you do? Don't ask me, I'm just here to tell what you CAN'T do!"
Why You Should Test Your CSS
Ask HN: Who has developed a game for FaceBook?
Are you taking advantage of the ability to play games within the news feed?

Here's the article on TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/25/facebook-feed-gaming/
Yup! and i've packaged those little configurations into a plugin. https://github.com/amccloud/backbone-tastypie
If I may provide a better, though more cynical headline:

"How huge student loan debts, lack of good jobs, and high gasoline costs are leading to the young impoverished formerly middle class to resort to filling their free time with cheap entertainment, namely video games and porn."
Also for reference, it's not like this "narative" is remotely new. It was one of the central plot points of 1999's Fight Club. And it wasn't new or revolutionary then either.
someone seems to have thrown a hasty 403 atop https://www.ricksantorum.com/stillneedhelp/
I liked the part where they used generalizations based on people who are arguably psychopathic to indicate an epidemic of addictive demise.
Seems it's mostly C++, data and image processing.

Thanks for the links!
Just shut up and take my money!!!!!
iOS hackers: Be the first hire at a YC (S12) company 
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We’re a well-funded company founded in January 2012. We’re based in San Francisco (SOMA) but we’re all moving into a house in Los Altos for the summer while we take part in Y Combinator’s summer batch (June – August).

Most importantly, we all love to make beautiful things and have fun. We have 2 key short-term goals: delight our users with an app they love and have an amazing summer in the process. Over the summer we’ll spend our time coding, talking to users, riding bikes, and cooking family dinners.

If you live and breathe iOS and this sounds like fun to you, let us know at stealthYC12company@gmail.com
Transparency is a first step. When the data is available, people (and robots) can analyze it. The FOIA has revealed some interesting stuff, but it is a slow process.
We are using it at Janrain [ http://janrain.com ] for a web-hook/callback system. It will go into production over the next few weeks and is an important feature which will need to deal with a heavy load.

It has worked out great so far. Might write about our experiences once it has a few miles on it.
Never could get it to work without making our tests flaky. Flaky tests are far, far worse than slow tests.
Agree that the article is crap but at least regarding the internet porn part, it has all the requirements to become destructively addictive. And all stats show that men watch most porn so it's not unjustified sexism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU
NASA to Explorers: Please don't touch our stuff
Looks like they took the page down

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It could be a way to filter down to the most popular gist's.

Or it could be some sort of language popularity measure.

Put two one-liners that do the same thing (not necessarily in the same language) side by side and let people choose.

Instead of gist maybe use rosettacode?
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Cool idea! Was also pleasantly surprised to find my Python A* gist near the top of the toplist :) https://gist.github.com/1687840
If MS removed those links from Bing, then people might complain that MS is selectively altering search results for its own benefit. (I'm only half-joking.)
Google send takedown requests to Bing for these same Microsoft links.
Of course I really hadn't thought about this, but if you do put a lunar mission together, and you can bring something back, and you bring back say the flag that Armstrong planted next to the Apollo 11 lander, just what would be the legality of that?

I always thought it would be cool to go see the site but a less scrupulous explorer might do like the British did to the Egyptians and just borrow those artifacts for their museum.
True, I'm not sure how effective such obfuscation is anymore, but for the thousands (millions?) of pages out there that will never be updated, at least this fix will save a few seconds per paste. At the very least it was a fun and satisfying hack.
It fascinates me that Americans might see this as acceptable or even that it is regarded as most likely to be totally legal and hence acceptable in nature. In Australia I would be very confident that this type of falsified campaign disclosure would be illegal or at least fall foul of a whole range of parliamentary and governmental standards.
Going Dynamic on JVM: JRuby vs. Groovy
Yes , your right about the public and private aspect. I guess then from my original statement only the users from Facebook would initially compliment Instagram for more content.

What I like about Instagram is that many people put effort to put up creative photos. From a business view that could actually be in some sense used commercially cause they are nice and high quality. Something people may want on their T Shirt or select 12 images and make a calendar. Imagine like Getty Images or maybe a printing service like Vista Print.
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I found this article to be completely non-stimulating.
I don't think Facebook, er...Zuckerberg, even had a plan in place when they acquired Instagram. I bet it will be a while before we see any kind of strategy since Facebook is probably still trying to figure out exactly what to do with Instagram, so they might stay separate for a while.
Different kind of ethics:
"It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter." (lost the source of the quote)
Heap of shit, pushed forward by the same news company that doesn't even know where London is...

http://yfrog.com/kkfugmrj
for many people it's a game. they have no desire to join scribd, they just want to compete in a fun contest against other programmers. if you don't want to play, don't, but don't sneer at the people who do want to.
and on the DataFrame front, look to https://github.com/cartazio/HasCol in a few days - week for a prealpha/alpha look at what shall be the kernel of the haskell story for doing a nice data frame. :)
Sorry, didn't mean to imply that tackiness was along the lines of what you were thinking, the analogy was off the mark.

I like hitchhiker.net, but looks that company has grabbed all the TLD variations unfortunately.

I'm curious, what would you do with hitchhiker.net if you had it today? I ask because a friend of mine was excited to grab InsomniaLabs.com on the drop, but has yet to make much of it as his personal site.
Make rake work well
Same thing as the Google GMail "space available" counter. As long as you back it up by real numbers and adjust the rate appropriately no harm, no foul.
I think its easier to shout "bollocks" about this than it is to consider that there is probably truths as well as over-exaggerations in this article.

I do believe that the plethora of instant stimulations is having a major impact on our cognitive processes. Some good, some bad. The bad I see is that it seems that people have a much more difficult time quieting down their minds or enjoying peace. If you watch people, there is a subtle but strong constant desire for stimulation. In fact, its almost odd to see someone waiting for anything without pulling out their smartphone and poking at it.

How this is impacting everyone on a macro level - not entirely sure but hopefully were not on an unstoppable road to the idiocracy scenario.
I got a 2 year volume license for Windows 7, plus 2 years' MSDN (various Visual Studios, plus old OSs, plus useless junk), for £1,000. This is very definitely not closer to free than my daily rate - since I don't have the Silicon Valley-style salary that I'd like to have either! - but compared to other business costs I have incurred, I think it relatively reasonable.

I paid £160 for a single copy of Windows 7 Ultimate, for example - 1 licence for 1 PC! And my accountant costs me more per year. (etc.)
Indeed. It looks like they have their goals set for a long time. http://i.imgur.com/WvYcq.jpg

It finds the closest entry in there to the current value of "new Date().getTime()". Then it just adds (what roughs out to) .000004 for every second's difference between the 0 value and the current getTime() value. So today it reads 10250 MB, which must come from index 2 of that array + enough seconds to add 10 MB and some. Definitely more legit than Santorum's.

Here's the code for the counter (it's embedded in that HTML file) http://pastebin.com/8tebjT79

The actual subtractions of the current time from the one in the array seem to be more detailed than what's put on the page, which is being rounded. A sample of input for format():

10250.60874337952
10250.608747448896
10250.608751518273
10250.608755583586
10250.608759652963
10250.608763722339
10250.608767787651
IPOing in New Zealand – notes from the NZX and Xero presentation
I can't argue with that.

Are the current registrants doing much with the domains? Do you check back every so often to see if the names are expiring?
I 'm implying s?he did it on purpose to shame his/her bosses.
Facebook: "Step 1 - Use Google Chrome"
That was a fast response. Does someone on HN work for Santorum?
Phone numbers are not necessarily symmetric. A given number might legitimately place a call via someone else's network. For instance, think about roaming. You're calling with your local number, via another country's network. So, it's not a super simple problem to solve everywhere.
And you could claim girls read more erotica and romance and watch more Disney, which one could also say skew social perspectives :P

Destroying a generation though?
Yeah and Cabel's phone was going off the whole time. Clearly that part should be edited out of the interview.

Panic is not even a startup, they are an established business that's been around for a decade.
k-mcgrady made a good comment about private and public use of photos if i had to list differences it would be :

Instagram Public, Artistic, Less Users,Monetizable

Facebook Photo App Private, Personal Photos, Huge User Base
more impressions -) more clicks
I like the domain hack, good grab. Do you host your email on this domain? Are you launching the blog anytime soon?

I view a personal domain as an asset for life. On one hand some of my web projects may die and I'll subsequently let the domain drop, I view my personal domain in the opposite light.

I'm ready and willing to keep renewing year after year, the yearly cost is worth it, much like I need to renew my drivers license or pay property taxes, its just an annual expense that's a part of being me.
in http://www.infoq.com/presentations/High-Availability-at-Hero... one of their engineers says they don't actually use Doozer at the moment
It is true that some games and most porn are produced with the intention of exploiting additive behaviour. There is certainly an issue here. This article sheds practically no light on that but instead takes a rambling, anecdote-strewn approach that starts with a conclusion which it scarcely even bothers to try and support.

There is no evidence given of an actual problem existing on a significant scale in society. There is no mention of any other changes in society which might also account for the supposed phenomenon. Addiction is viewed purely as a cause and never a symptom of depression and social exclusion.

I would love to see a proper assessment of the impact of these industries on society. I would love to see more recognition from the more reputable producers in these industries that some unscrupulous companies gain financially from having an addicted consumer base. And I would love to see constructive and practical ideas for how to improve the social impact of these industries in the future. I'm getting none of that here.
I see what you did there. Your second footnote is missing.
This highlights the core tradeoff when developing a new product.

"Don't waste time" vs. "Don't ship crap"

"Fail fast" vs. "Wow your customers"

"Ship early, ship often" vs. "Sweat the details"

The MVP philosophy focuses on the left side. The Apple philosophy focuses on the right side. Leaning to the left side is efficient, and might be necessary to stay alive. Leaning to the right side can be immensely satisfying and profitable.

A lot of companies can only afford to fail fast. However, if you can afford to sweat the details like Apple or Valve, there's nothing else like it.
I tweeted it: https://twitter.com/espeed/status/206150118083280897
I worked in a call center the summer in between high school and college, and the company I worked at was very cognizant of the various laws. This was before the federal no-call list was enacted, but I'm positive they strive for compliance with that as well. If people asked to be taken off the calling list, we had to flag their call as such and if we were caught not doing that, we'd get in trouble. Their were nuances to it though. You had to specifically ask to be taken off the list in order to be scrubbed entirely. If you said "no thank you" and hung up, you were getting called in 24-48 hours without a doubt. If you gave two "no's", you were scrubbed from the campaign, but not the global list.

It was still a terrible and shitty job, but it paid a few bucks better than minimum wage and the company was fairly lax on attendance (I was 17, so I had different priorities and a general lack of responsibility).

The worst day of my two or three months at that job was when I got put on a calling campaign for some mega-church. I felt terrible asking people who probably didn't have the money to donate to give up their money to this organization that was clearly raking in tens of millions a year and whose leader/minister/whatever was a multi-millionaire. Thankfully, I only had to do that one day and had so much motivation not to take in a single dollar, that I failed to land a single donation and was moved the next day to trying to get people to do balance transfers on their credit cards. Still annoying, but at least I didn't feel like I was robbing people by appealing to their faith and handing their money over to some evil creep.
I actually think that most people agree with you, but being hacker news, the downvotes come from a perceived lack of rigor in your reasoning.

For instance, you say "normalization that's designed to subordinate" -- 'designed,' eh? By whom?

You also state "by repeating it, that is the sentiment you are reinforcing," but I find the justification given confused and weak ('because the meaning does not change').

You also mention a common cultural trend: the notion that words originally applied negatively to groups can be appropriated for positive use by others. But instead analyzing this mechanism, you just blanket-assert that the negative words are the property of the slurred group and that others are, in general, not allowed to use those words.

I don't think most people here would state "I'll use derogatory word X all I want," and I think you're spot-on about the origins of the expression in this case, but this particular post smelled fishy for some reason.
Ah, perhaps this is the case. Would have been fun to stumble across a "Help, I'm trapped in a bullshit factory!" comment or something. But that would not help one's career.