skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome feature! I wish I had it while I was at school. Probably would have made some great connections. It would be great if someone could add this functionality to the core site. Maybe someone who's name starts with P and ends with aul?
Helma NG: http://helma.org
How do I see the results? Am I missing something?
What an embarrassingly vain and foolish title.
Automobiles still serve useful purposes. What useful purpose does print media serve?
Nothing girly about a horse. Nothing girly about a horn. Put them together, you have a unicorn.
Reading that thread opener was a waste of time. Get to the point.
Django works for me, too. Doesn't generate a whole bunch of folders and files. Feels lightweight but works for big projects too.
At some level I would like to use this sort of site for the humor value. It not only sympathizes with me; it empathizes with me AND works to solve my problem - so long as it works right. If it doesn't I'd be adding a few more colorful words to the mix :-)

Edit: Grammar
Rethinking USA.gov
all very good suggestions. i can probably implement this mid next week (we really, really like homework at illinois.edu).

on a side note, if any fellow hackers want to help me with this project, shoot me an e-mail (jtame2@illinois.edu). cheers.
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Cappuccino. Because we created it. ;)
>>> False positives and false negatives are part of the system.

>> What is wrong with combining diverse metrics

> What advantage to you hope to get by combining metrics?

Reduction of false positives and false negatives, i.e. increased recognition-accuracy.
Because (rightly or wrongly), the stores have concluded that the gain from making it so easy to buy something with a credit card is more than the loss they face from the fraud that you describe.
Take a look at Palantir Technologies: http://www.palantirtech.com/

We're doing some world-changing stuff: http://blog.palantirtech.com/2009/01/22/tarp/

We need as many kickass frontend-devs as we can find! (we're down in Palo Alto, but very CalTrain-able)
The way you might implement these abstract concepts in an application might have changed over the past 3 years, but the concepts themselves are still pretty applicable.
it should show you after you vote. have you voted already though?
worthy of simplyhappynews.com - what an inspiring and ingenious idea.
Haha...I assume you're kidding, right? Are you coding in binary? Because if not, someone else has "done your work for you" :)
surely google is easier to spam?
Seems like that could seriously skew the results ... I'd imagine a lot of people are trying to vote from behind home/small office routers.
1) Limit the number of submission (posts and/or comments) people can make in say an hour. This might limit the number of new things people can see.

2)Show fewer stories per page. Or perhaps, show far more. The larger number of stories may seem daunting and remind the person of the sheer number of many interesting things out there, and consequently, the diluted interest of any one.

3) Make the time spent more explicit^. I understand that RescueTime and their ilk do this, but it would be far more salient if you had showed the net amount of time spent on HN on a day; to make in even more salient have the font increase in relation to time spent, with color coding to indicate dangerous levels of time spent.

^-Where HN is dangerous is that you often click your way here thinking you can get back to work after a minute's worth of a scan, but these breaks add up.
My sample size is also one. This isn't arguing against your main point, I just had to chime in, as it's one thing I've disliked about my company moving to an Agile methodology. I personally find it very distracting, but that may just be because we're doing "team rooms" wrong.
I think calling this a Web App is a bit generous. It's a poll with 2 options. Have you gotten even a single sign up for the service you are trying to promote? Getting a few thousand people to visit a web page and click a button does not equal business value.

This is a good example of creative thinking, but you should have waited until the experiment ran its course and reported on the results. I'm guessing that the number of sign ups won't be worth the 1 hour spent coding the app. You'd be better off working on something worthwhile and buying some traffic through Adwords.
This is a really good idea. Whenever I learn a new language, it is always a pain re-learning how to do common tasks.

Is anyone interested in working on this as an open source side project with me? My preferred stack is Python, Django, Appengine, and jQuery.
It just shows me a blank page.
email me (jtame2@illinois.edu) with your full e-mail and i can add it in, at least until i figure out what's wrong with in_array.
Ben Fry is one of the fathers of Processing.org, he's done a lot of great stuff with information visualisation. He's done a lot of stuff looking at the relationships inside DNA,genes, emails and code. All of which are combination between art and information.
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Nice way to grab SEO focus off of the dilemma and play it to your... well... um... not play it to your disadvantage.
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Yes, the price of borrowing money goes up. The only thing you're doing with your debt point is pandering to those who have taken on debt instead of saved up wealth. I'm not particularly interested in encouraging more wage slaves.

> Unemployment is not time off

If one has wealth saved up, then what is the problem? When people don't need their jobs, it creates a much healthier employer-employee relationship. How many entrepreneurs start off in personal debt?

> nor is it delayed gratification.

Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather have more minerals in the ground, and less discarded crap in the landfill. I've got no problem depleting natural resources, but forcibly driving this process through overstimulating the economy is needlessly screwing over future generations.

> causing a contraction of the economy that creates real suffering

I hate being hungover too. But man, that party was killer! If your problem is withdrawal, the solution is to avoid engaging in the first place.

> destructive to total economic output

I suppose it's pointless to argue with someone who thinks the ultimate goal is to maximize "total economic output". Let's pass laws mandating that everybody must work 16 hours a day!

Technology should be making it so we work ever less. Instead, the excess wealth is siphoned off to the bankers and government, precisely through the inflationary sleight of hand that you are advocating.

But remember, deflation is scary; why should the plebs ever see the benefits of technology?
Reach. You'll reach people who otherwise wouldn't (have) access (to) comparable information.

I'd even go as far as arguing that informed citizens on public transportation are better than uninformed ones in cars.

This is besides the politics behind this particular decision.
Profiling the powers that be
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As a frequent biker in Atlanta: that is exactly the advice people walking need to learn.

It is so difficult to avoid people when they keep jumping.

(The second most critical bit is to not walk on a handicapped sidewalk ramp if a biker is coming)
23000% actually means *231
I got suckered into clicking this. I guess that's social?
Indeed, my university (in Australia) uses email@uts.edu.au, which is invalid. Interesting idea though - I like the upfront note/forethought about the cache settings.
http://symfony-project.org/
If I'm not mistaken, the copyright holders aren't Cleese & co - I'd have thought it was the BBC, payed for via the TV license in the 1960's.
Promotion needs to be supportive of the product or at least related - a hot-or-not site isn't appropriate for a site who's target market is family.
Agreed. Im wrong - this wouldn't work in practice. There must be a way to prevent misuse without hurting the little guy though.
I attended the webinar and this technology is amazing, fast, and available right now.

You can perform queries to get information like this from the db: "Find a meetings that happened in July within 5 miles of Berkeley that was attended by the most important person in Jans' friends and friends of friends."

In code, the above is:

(select (?x)

(ego-group !person:jans knows ?group 2)

(actor-centrality-members ?group knows ?x ?num)

(q ?event !fr:actor ?x)

(qs ?event !rdf:type !fr:Meeting)

(interval-during ?event "2009-07-01" "2009-07-25")

(geo-box-around !geoname:Berkeley ?event 5 miles)

!)
Plan 9: why no compelling successor to Unix has got off the ground
I always find it interesting to use nonstandard strings, but it makes it a lot harder to play songs I already know. It's really cool for improvisation or rolling your own though :-).

Does anyone here play an instrument? Does it help anyone else calm down when they get frustrated coding?
Just wait until google gets serious about its OS efforts then desktop development will become the "next big thing" again.
I did. People unskilled in patent law should be able to replicate the invention. The case law would clarify what this meant in practice.

The reason is that even software patents are so cryptic that it's almost impossible to replicate them sometimes. I have a couple and have tried to replicate many. I couldn't believe how the patent lawyers turned a my simple ideas into something so hard to understand. This isn't helping the general public in the long run.
AppJet. Jaxer was a bit buggy when I used it over the summer.
Patents have a requirement of utility. If the invention is impossible or claims to do something it can't this should defeat it's utility.

In a perfect world, claims should be backed by evidence.
Reach. You'll reach people who otherwise wouldn't (have) access (to) comparable information.

Certainly, print+internet reaches more people than internet alone. However, I would suppose that print's exclusive reach is increasingly toward an audience that does not matter. http://www.google.com/search?q=%22not+on+the+internet+you+do...

informed citizens on public transportation

Increasingly, they (citizens on public transportation) use portable internet-enabled information devices. I would think that smartphones and Kindle readers would work well on a crowded subway. http://www.ilounge.com/gallery/iphone_asia/Tokyo-Subway-iPho...

http://www.iphonesavior.com/images/2007/08/07/ftrain1.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/2677315976_94a9b2122b.jp...
http://webpy.org/
Yeah, but 18yr olds?! come on!!
There are extremes and extremes. I mean, should nobody develop software for the Mac or iPhone platforms? Maybe... but unlike Twitter, Apple is a fairly large and decently stable company which has been around for a while. Then you could look beyond that and say that developing for an Apple platform is still more of a gamble than developing for Windows, but the risk, even decently long-term, of developing for MacOS X, is fairly minimal. Twitter, on the other hand, is a free online service which is only a few years old, and isn't making money. I think where you draw the line in terms of how much risk you're willing to assume due to reliance on other businesses is up to you, but being pedantic doesn't really help.
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You'll probably get down modded for not telling their cute little "app" is awesome.
I think that's the one negative thing we found. We found it better to take the shot, than not take it though. It's also a pretty fun exercise in app building + PR / buzz.
I'm curious if Amsterdam is missing the deadly car drivers that we have in San Francisco. I haven't been riding a bike in SF long but it feels a lot like London for the hate-hate relationship between cyclists and drivers.
Forest for the trees. This is primarily an advertisement, not an application. Accuracy doesn't matter.
If you're interested in interviewing at Facebook (some of the most cutting edge frontend stuff on the web, changing how social communication works, some of the best developers anywhere, fantastic place to work), drop me a message at indigoviolet@gmail.com
I just inherited a massive enterprise application; you know run a brick and mortar company on it. It's not a one-off; a number of companies use it. The stack is

Jboss;
Spring;
Hibernate;
Struts;
XML gluing it together;
Javascript: prototype, JQuery and others;
Flex and granite;
Vestiges of every Java framework fad of the last 10 years. Maybe I exaggerate, maybe not.

It is way over-engineered. Several times as much code as a Django, Pylons, or Ruby solution. I dont recommend going this path at all, even if you are an enterprise.
Well, recently out of college in west Texas I managed 40K a year plus 16K shares at 3 dollars a share. Wasn't really sure if that was any good.
The idea is to foster lifetime media-consumption. From the article:

That initiative appeared designed to assuage industry fears that young readers don't share the same appetite for print media that their parents and grandparents have, denting current and future revenues.

"The habit of reading the press is learned very young," Sarkozy said
Yes, that's precisely what my point was.

Guido spent all of his money on DVD's until he was broke again, just to give himself a great reason to dedicate another 10 years to improving the language, as well as to build the world's greatest Monty Python DVD Rental Library, similar to how Netflix operates, but mailing discs out by hand.

This is mentioned in the newest Python 3.0 book.
I don't disagree. You should definitely be a good role model to your kids; in fact, I feel that I hold parents to a higher standard than most. I just fail to see how letting your kids see the word "fuck" is intrinsically bad for them.
Matching *.ac.?? will enable a lot of European schools and universities. Not all cctlds have the .ac second-level domain though. Some countries have 3-letter second-level domains, so I have no idea whether .edu.[CC] exists anywhere.
Ok, I'm really curious... how much money do you make on that?
Through the power of Plinky.... I am enabled.
essentially illegal to own a car

Ok, there is a 180% tax on cars. 15k Honda fit = 42,000$ (ouch), but that just makes the used car market more valuable. I had a working old Volvo that was worth ~1k and needed 1-2k of work done per year to keep on the road. So buying one of those would have cost 2.8k with 1.8k of that in tax so it's not exactly making car's illegal and keeping it on the road cost is only 200$ / month. You just need to find the loophole.
How would you market Windows 7?
For several people, it already has. What you use certainly doesn't matter as much as it used to, as long as it has a browser.
webpy (http://webpy.org/) is very lightweight and hackable
For point 1) on Div negatives: you could set a min-width on 'body' or the host container if it's flexible to ensure the width never gets small enough for the divs to clear.
I had the pleasure of taking a course on synchronization with Prof. Allen Downey at Olin College. He made the topic very understandable, and even added student problem examples to this text! I wrote the "Faneuil Hall problem".

Prof. Downey has a great knack for making complex CS topics seem very simple.
hey, should be fixed. dealt with same ips and cookies,etc.
I've tried Django and now I'm trying Seaside.
> The only thing you're doing with your debt point is pandering to those who have taken on debt instead of saved up wealth.

I'm not pandering to anyone. I'm pointing out that deflation is a transfer of wealth. I'm not judging it, just pointing out the economic fact.

> If one has wealth saved up, then what is the problem?

If you don't care about being unemployed then that's fine. All power to you. But most people do care.

> forcibly driving this process through overstimulating the economy is needlessly screwing over future generations.

Recessions do not increase people's overall savings. They force people into bankruptcy and reduce total wealth, now and in the future. Recessions screw over future generations.

> If your problem is withdrawal, the solution is to avoid engaging in the first place.

Almost everyone suffers in a recession, not just the people who caused it.

> Let's pass laws mandating that everybody must work 16 hours a day!

That would be a reduction in wealth, as people would be forced to make economic decisions they otherwise wouldn't. I would never support it.

> Instead, the excess wealth is siphoned off to the bankers and government, precisely through the inflationary sleight of hand that you are advocating.

This is just conspiracy theory nonsense.

And I'm not advocating inflation. I'm advocating a stable price level, the kind that has enabled the economic growth that has lifted millions of people out of poverty over the last decade. Inflation and deflation are both bad. However, if we are forced to choose one or the other, it is better to choose inflation.
Good use of someone else's life-affirming stick-figure profanity! As The Man in this case, I feel totally stuck to, dude.

I'm still waiting to read of even a single example of a full-time employee who is working on (not preparing for) a business of their own while collecting a full-time salary. If it's such an awesome thing, there must be dozens of examples to choose from, right?

Why the silence? Because that employment arrangement does not work, and any person running their own full-time business would know why.

Working as a contractor while getting your business up and running? Great! That'll work fine.

Working as a full-time employee while starting a business? Doesn't work.

If you walk the talk and start your own company, you'll understand why you wouldn't want to be paying a person out of your own pocket while they're going through that process.
Think is looking for programmers, front-end and back-end. Send stuff to jobs at thinkcomputer.com, and mention YC or Hacker News.
There are other taxes that make driving in Denmark expensive. http://www.skm.dk/foreign/english/taxindenmark2008/6649

Gasoline in Denmark costs around $9 per U.S. gallon. http://www.swivel.com/data_columns/show/8682935

In the Netherlands, gasoline is around $10 per U.S. gallon. http://www.swivel.com/data_columns/spreadsheet/8682923
You're arguing semantics. Call it a novelty, a web app, website, or just a promotional tool. Even in the post, I say that it's a stupid, silly, and catchy pop culture thing. We're not trying to take on the world with ishilaryswankhot.com. Just creating a little bit of buzz, and most importantly enjoying ourselves. Mark enjoyed coding the app. I'm enjoying doing some of the promoting (we just had film.com write it up). You can't put a "per hour" price on that enjoyment. For the love of the game fellas, never forget that.
Anyone using yii? It looks interesting to me, but I have not had a chance to give it a whirl beyond the basic application tutorial.

http://www.yiiframework.com/
Our users (http://twalala.com) have been asking for a better login mechanism since we launched. It'll be really nice to finally be able to deliver something better. Looking forward to it!
So if you wear a helmet, there is a half of a thousandth of a percent chance that you will benefit from it.

That's per year, your lifetime risk is ~50x that. Or, .0005% * 50 = 1 in 4,000 which is a fairly large reduction in risk of death. Granted being a heavy smoker is ~1 in 3 chance of early death and plenty of people still smoke but this is one of those things that can kill you when your young.

PS: I would also assume that as the numbers of hours / year increases so do your risks. I don't think the 80 million people average more than ~2-5 hours per week riding so more riding time = more risk.
It's a chapter from Eric Raymond's The Art of Unix Programming. His take is that Plan 9 wasnt enough of an advance over Unix to make a compelling switch. I think that, except for times when the market is in a state of flux, a new entrant with a modest improvement doesn't stand a chance. I remember reading a while back that a newcomer won't blow away an entrenched incumbent unless there is a 5 to one price performance advantage. This was the world of atoms, but something like that probably holds in software. Linux won because free trumps $500 per cpu, and it was really the same thing as Unix.
Long-lost text shows Archimedes had begun to discover the principles of calculus
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That's what we were thinking. Sort of a: "The damage is already done--why not have some fun with it?"

I'm not sure about exact numbers yet (Analytics reporting typically isn't that accurate until the next day), but it's been visited a great deal today.

Sort of nice to have some positive spin out of this. :-)
There are lots of ways to define quality. The problem is how much measure people put in them. Guilt or coolness can be a good driver and so they are often used instead of reasons based on quality. One of the other commenters pointed out that guilt seems to be your motive.

There are a number of reasons not to use tables. The main 2 are maintenance cost and accessibility.

Maintenance cost the main point here is by separating the visual styling from the data you have much greater control over redesigning, changing the way the data is displayed, etc.

Accessibility since many people who use the web can't see they listen to their web pages. This means the source order of the site matters. If you create tables that don't linearise then the information becomes out of context and difficult for these users to understand. Using CSS it's possible to create a source order which makes sense but display a different visual order.

My recommendation for a way to do this is to use a grid system like YUI Grids. Like many other parts of development rolling all your CSS from scratch doesn't make sense any more. There are plenty of libraries which take care of the hard problems for you. My favorite CSS library for this is the YUI Grids library. (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids) It has tons of documentation and examples to get started with. I use it for all my work and personal projects.

You might also consider the YUI Reset, Fonts and Base CSS libraries which reset default CSS styles across browsers, standardises the fonts and sets back a common default styling across all browsers respectively.

Disclaimer: I work for Yahoo!
I guess the Vista guy didn't get the job.
Someone in your situation based in CA would be better served to form a Sub-S as the tax treatment is more favorable. You should talk to a tax accountant (not just an attorney) about the tax implications of LLC vs. Sub-S in MA, there may be similar issues.
Google loses best workplace crown to NetApp
M-x tetris!
There was a strong flavor of Newspeak in the OCLC woman's explanation. Judging by that metric, at least, they seem to be the villains here.
This guy is amazing. Really think he'll be doing tons of great things in his life.
Heartland breach raises questions about PCI standard's effectiveness
I know those guys. Northwestern University, go!
Kohana.
> Customers and stakeholders have substantial investments in, and are comfortable with the performance, security and stability of, industry-standard platforms like the JVM.

This very much suggests that Clojure is trying to solve today's problems, not those 100 years in the future.
Doesn't do Hawai'i.
You could install a greasemonkey profanity filter:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/4175
I'm looking to start a LLC very soon as well, but my business partner lives in Virginia and I live in California...What state should we choose at that point?

(don't mean to thread jack)
I only use tables when its not possible to go without them (but it happens very rarely). Actually, it requires some time to get used to CSS technique. And I've never used CSS frameworks.