skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is something like this what you are talking about: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
> assumed that serious issues such as illegal behavior were obviously excluded from my statement.

It wasn't obvious but it sounds like we agree so no harm done:)
Then, umm, why is the French economy in such a poor state?
you guessed it right, this is India. developers have <5 years of exp and they are without formal training. however as you said they are clever and have not done bad coding. i.e. they have not done messy code which can not be understood by other developers or not according to the standard.

infact that is where cakephp helped us a lot. it does not allow you to take too much room while developing so you have to try hard to do bad coding in there.

Your suggestion is well taken but I am not sure whether there is a need to rewrite the code.
The question raised in the article is based on a flawed assumption: that success is measured in material wealth.

The successful person is the one who does the most good, irrespective of his bank balance. Therefore the businessman who behaves ethically is _by definition_ more successful than the one who is prepared to behave unethically.
If I was 11 and discovered that "trim" was called "strip" in Python, I'd have observed it as curious and gone back to programming. I wouldn't have been frustrated and the idea to get angry about it wouldn't have even occurred to me.
OK, fair enough. Have you asked them what they think is the best thing to do?
uh... the french newspapers can not be good because the french economy is "in such a poor state"? I dont quite follow your reasoning.

Anyway, let me quote Krugman on the french economy:

"let's ask how the situation of a typical middle-class family in France compares with that of its American counterpart. The French family, without question, has lower disposable income. This translates into lower personal consumption: a smaller car, a smaller house, less eating out. But there are compensations for this lower level of consumption. Because French schools are good across the country, the French family doesn't have to worry as much about getting its children into a good school district. Nor does the French family, with guaranteed access to excellent health care, have to worry about losing health insurance or being driven into bankruptcy by medical bills. Perhaps even more important, however, the members of that French family are compensated for their lower income with much more time together. Fully employed French workers average about seven weeks of paid vacation a year. In America, that figure is less than four. So which society has made the better choice?."
I don't follow football, so I don't know about getting popular. But if you want to hold onto the popularity you might want to generalize it, allowing someone to watch any two search terms, while keeping a landing page pre-filled with the football teams.

I would move the ad to the right, putting the two content columns closer together. It's distracting. Replacing it with AdSense might be a good idea, as you've got a lot of text to allow automated targeting of ads.
This deserves a post in its own right. Would you mind to post it?
Altho' your French economics magazine may be appear to be of a high quality, perhaps it is printed on very nice paper, clearly that doesn't necessarily translate into high quality thinking behind it. It is like a French pastry, regardless of the quality, it is all air. Give me an English pudding any day.
I wouldn't at all be surprised if that was the case. Beyond degrees, though, they advanced comedy in a lot of ways. In two different parts of my life, Holy Grail and Life of Brian changed my attitude of what comedy was capable of doing. Gilliam's Brazil had a similar effect on me. And John Cleese was one of the best writers of his era. Still would be, though I'm not sure how much he writes nowadays.
You're trapped in too small a social circle. I suspect that less than 5% of my friends and coworkers have heard of Techcrunch or Scoble, and I work at an engineering firm. Globally, their fame is dwarfed by that of washed-up American 80's pop stars (e.g. Hall and Oates).

Admittedly, if you want news about web startups that will soon fail, they're hard to avoid, but there is no shortage of other people to pay attention to.
Which specific emotion does "fuck" express? It seems to me like the word doesn't really express a specific emotion, rather tends to add some vague sense of anger to whatever else you were trying to express.
I don't know if "antiquities" is quite the right word. There's always something to be gained from the existence of the physical format. With albums, for instance, there's the artwork and file quality that you can only achieve with records. (It's why new record players are still being made.) Books can achieve things that ebooks cannot. Same with paintings versus photographs, plays versus movies, DVDs versus digital downloads.

Better to say that the physical medium is no longer the only existing medium. Where they once dominated, now they'll become niche like most mediums do once they're past cutting-edge. But antique suggests something that's over and done with, and incapable of advancing. On the contrary, I think that physical media will continue to innovate.
That's technologically interesting and it's the ideal way to send mail to Santa. You don't know where he is, who he is, and whether he is zero, one or many individuals. You don't care much if your mail gets to the wrong Santa or to all Santas for that matter. You don't know his address and he doesn't mind getting spammed as he needs to buy everything anyway.
Spam was a physical food product originating in 1937, before the Pythons existed. Stood for "Shoulder of Pork and Ham". It was a popular product before Monty Python made their joke about it.
+1 for Stripes. It's like WebWork/Struts 2 without the XML configuration headaches.
regular-expressions.info
I'd like to hear some of your experiences using helma!
This is why you should get a Hairmat. JD says it best:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=shCEAYBC52Q

Basti.
_by definition_

The definition of success has nothing to do with morals. I'm certain there are a lot of unethical people making money who consider themselves huge successes. Similarly, there are a lot of people with no money at all who think the same about themselves.

The question has to do with material wealth. Any answer that deal in anything but material wealth would be sidestepping the question. Godin doesn't deal with ethic, he deals with profit and results. It's why he's as famous as he is. You might disagree with that method, but that's how he works and it's what's made him a success.
Grails (http://www.grails.org). A rails inspired Groovy framework that uses big boy frameworks (Hibernate, Spring, etc.) under the hood.
Always and forever.

I don't think so. I think there are a lot of nice guys who've been bumped down, kept out of the mainstream, even nice guys who've died before their time. There's no law of the world saying nice guys get ahead, even if there's none saying the opposite.

I think nice guys and not-nice guys will always be neck-and-neck, and in the end it will be impossible to differentiate between the two, so it's not worth worrying about anything other than whether you yourself will be able to make it.
I naively was looking for and got a low sum for a company here in Orlando, approximately 35k and I ended up resenting the company and others. I was fairly sure I was the lowest paid member on the staff and that the intern who was a son of one of the investors might have made more than me.

My current job is not a startup, but I got a much more reasonable figure in line with what I need to happily live my life.
Mediaeval Catholic church please. No other church sold indulgences (the other major church, Eastern Orthodox, definitely did not). Yeah, I'm a semantic nazi.

PS: great comparison, I'll steal it for my own arguments. With your permission of course.
english pudding??? ... I rest my case! ;)
I have to wonder how much serious photo retouching anyone who thinks GIMP is an alternative to Photoshop really does. Without 48-bit colour, Pantone and gamma, GIMP isn't even on the table. Similar points can be made about many of the "alternatives". Superficially they may look the same, but they're written by people trying to replicate existing software without understanding the users first.
Where are all these Java libraries? Do you mean Java's standard library?

I ask because, Perl has the CPAN, Python has PyPI, Ruby has RubyGems, etc., but what does Java have?
I agree, it's been a bit slow lately. But, I'll be happy to see HN slow that to have it run into the ground like reddit and so forth.
I've always had too much on my plate to be twittering, but this sounds like some useful innovation on part of Twitter team.
I may just have to twit-up just to experience what they're doing.
Unfortunately, article says that the developer-(?beta)-trial offers got snatched up.
What seems regrettable in this process is the lack of a real universal standard (with Facebook Connect / OpenID / Twitter OAuth ). And can Microsoft and Apple be far behind?
On the other hand: I still hold back from any uber-security process because of the multiplication of the impact of any vulnerability that developed.
In particular: (not to disparage the team than developed OAuth) how far do I want to trust a corporation that would recommend "users to give up (to web services, etc.) their Twitter usernames and passwords in order to read and write to Twitter user data." Go phish!
I'd love to be able to set my own filters, but I would be filtering by submitter, not by domain.
Is webpy the Python equivalent of Perl's CGI::Application? Because I've used C::A in the past and liked its simplicity.
I am. I understand that they should have registration open by February.
I think you nailed the problem with this type of software -- they lag behind the cutting edge because they copy features from the leaders rather than innovate on their own. (There are some exceptions to that, though, in the case where the project is driven by someone ambitious and passionate.)

I think the point is that they provide free alternatives to the majority of users who need to use them, but who don't need the full feature set of a pay version. I use gimp and oocalc all the time, but I'm not a power user, so they tend to work out just fine.
"you seem to be lumping a whole load of very diverse opinions together then criticising them as a whole" - well, duh. No HN post can possibly tease apart all the possibilities. That's really a null criticism unless you want everyone to be typing books back and forth at each other.

You seem to work off the assumption that engineers won't be interested in testing the solutions before implementing them on the large scale. I think you may have them confused with scientists on that point. Engineers are well aware of the issues of complexity and inability to predict... hell, half the reason I have a hard time buying what climate scientists are selling is precisely because I am an engineer, I do have that understanding, and I am completely unconvinced that they do!

Any real engineer would be religious about testing. Each plan would be phased in, with observations taken after each phase to make sure we're going in the right direction, and if at all possible, plans on how to undo what we just did if it becomes obvious it's really not working. (That may not be possible, but any plan for which it is possible would be that much more preferred.)

I'm serious about this: The biggest bioengineering risk would ultimately not be about the bioengineering at all. It would be that a politician (probably egged on by scientists) would overrule the good judgment of engineers. How many times have we read that story in a programming context? It's not unique to programming engineers, we just lack the authority to tell our bosses to go to hell, we're not doing it that unsafely. (The one good thing we'd get from a programmer certification process. I'm broadly against it, but it does have its good points.) Politicians could and probably would blow right past that.

By the way: I don't hate scientists (a stupid position for an engineer). The opinions expressed in this post are based on observations of climate scientists "in the wild". Scientists in general are far more humble before the face of a complicated universe, as well they should be, as is ultimately the entire point of the scientific process.
The word "fuck" won't hurt your daughter.
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I can’t attribute it to the creator because apparently I found it on a porn site and attributing it would reveal my fetishes to the whole world.
Ask HN: large system monitoring
I'm an admin at a fairly large company with plenty of database servers, virtual machines and all kinds of custom distributed software that processes a lot of data. I'm interested to hear what others are using for monitoring large systems. What kind of system did you put in place? How do you process logs, events, hardware and software failures etc. Do you use a proprietary system or something you have built yourself?
SQLite with any high level language, maybe with an ORM.
'Success' of course needs to be defined in a context and yes, in general he is talking about financial success, but the specific issue in his post is so-called 'spiritual business'. He talks about 'increasing light'.

My point is that for a 'spiritual person', true success is aimed for in the long-term measure - the one by which we are ultimately judged - whether deemed to be judged by ourselves or a third party. So to ask, in the context of 'spiritual business' about success, meaning financial success, is something of a contradiction in terms.
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That's a good point, but I'll address both points.

- What are my friends using?

Each of these languages has online communities that are ready to help. Some more than others, but they all minimize the need to have real life friends who use the given language. Physical groups can be beneficial, but thanks to the internet they are no longer strictly necessary. Also, in most cities there are usergroups if you'd like to interact in person with the community.

- What are the people in my field using?

There are advantages associated with using a language or DSL/framework that's popular within your field - there is no denying that. But you shouldn't underestimate the competitive advantage that a more obscure language that's better suited for the task can give you over your competitors. PG used Common Lisp without a relational database for Viaweb. Yet in part that was the secret to his success. I suspect that using Lisp or Haskell in places where everyone else still use C++ or Java, may be a major competitive advantage thanks to the increased productivity and more robust code you can write with them.
Ask HN : Experience with C++ Boost and Spirit?
I am starting a project where I need to write a small parser in C++ and was looking at various options and one of the options that came up was Spirit C++ library which allows you to specify EBNF grammars inline. However I have heard horror stories about Boost in general and am worried about adding it as a dependency in the project.

Does anyone have experience with Spirit or Boost in general? The project is expected to be crossplatform targeting Vista32, Vista64 with VS2005 and VS2008 and Linux64 with GCC 4.3
I did it with large and small. The largest one was General Motors (ca 1998). I negotiated the IP agreement with my first industrial employer. I didn't get all the terms I asked for but I did get enough to make it worth while to sign.

An additional requirement might be that you actually have to be an inventor with a proven track record. If your proven record and skill set is indistinguishable from millions other workers, you are hosed no matter what. You have to take what you can get. In that case, it doesn't matter because you have no IP to protect anyway.

Most IP agreements are written by lawyers who arrange the terms to be totally one sided. Your employer is to have absolute claim over the entire contents of your life. THAT is simply unacceptable. Yes, you need a job but the employer needs someone who can do the work as well. You don't have to agree to be a rightless drone. A job like that is not worth having.

You have the right to pursue your skill to make a living. An employer does not have the right to prohibit that. Ask for terms that respect BOTH your and your employer's rights and you are likely to have them accepted.
So, I think you're focusing too much on the specific example and not enough on the runtime distinction. The C runtime looks for "main()". If you trick it into looking in different places for it, that's a trick. Ruby (and other scripting languages) goes through the source file sequentially, executing statements and definitions as it goes. There isn't a specific symbol for it to look for. (Well, there is, but that just complicates matters.) The point I'm trying to make is that the distinction between scripting language and programming language shouldn't rely on how it's used, but rather on how it's formatted.

...and by the way, I would consider x86 assembly a scripting language. You're just scripting out the processor's actions...
Well not in this typical sense but yes I have always given them freedom to complete tasks on their own.
I wrote my own for php, http://phocoa.com.

After I learned to write Cocoa apps for the mac, I realized I needed a similar framework for web development, so I wrote phocoa.

PHP as a language is kinda bumming me out since I've learned about new techniques like functional programming, closures, etc from Javascript and playing with Ruby.

If PHP 5.3 doesn't seem like it's on the right path, I may switch to another language...
BeautifulSoup is for parsing webpages, so it could be used but I think it would be an incomplete solution. You would still have to make a wrapper to display the parsed page.
Well, I think it's more than necessary to explain what "Alternatives Economiques" is, because most people here probably have never heard about it. Indeed, it's a very well respected journal in France, written by scholars in a very scholarly style, on the topic of "alternative economic policies". As in, alternatives to capitalism. Chomsky stuff. Except that in France it's mainstream (most high-school economics teachers swear by it, and it's also very popular in universities).

Enough said.

edit: actually, I think it's a fair description. I could have said "Naomi Klein stuff", but it's far from being as stupid. So it's Chomsky stuff.
There are issues with the livecd. I couldn't get it to boot in modern VMware (they use version 4 or so). I recall having problems booting it on a physical system.

Not to dissuade people, but try and research which VMs/hardware it supports /before/ trying it out.
You're right about the magazine but you're dead, dead wrong about the pastry. Come on...

edit: I don't know if you're talking about the real french pastry you can buy in any village in France or what passes for french pastry anywhere else in the world. It's not the french name or the tricolor flag on the packaging that makes the quality.
I think we do have less of them. I guess it's because the law favors bicyclists so that virtually always the car is found to be at fault. It provides a good balance.

I think the hate-hate relationship is probably just meant to keep each other sharp as in: always make sure you pay attention 'because the other guys are bastards'.
Would love to hear as well, as I'm thinking about how to do the same on a much smaller scale. Nagios/SNMP seems like a good infrastructure to build on.
> "Because French schools are good across the country"

There is a huge protest of the teacher's trade unions right now in France (as usual...) because the government wants to test the abilities of children when they leave primary school.

I guess we'll never know what the results will be.

Krugman forgot to talk about the unemployment level, endemic urban violence and behemoth deficit, though.
I agree, actually it's good idea, to have filters by submitter as well.
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It's very hard to define, but here's my favorite definition:

"Success is the percentage of your life you control"
-Chuck Klosterman
Newspapers are in the business of selling ads. They only require you to buy the newspaper as a filter to make sure you don't take a newspaper without reading it.
French politicians are as self-serving and corrupt as everywhere else, except they really believe they're helping the people with their braindead policies, so they actually do even more damage.

Most french people still want to believe in communism. If you remind them of the disastrous failure it was everywhere it was tried, they certainly won't disagree with you, but nevertheless add something in the form of "yes, but if we really..."
"With your permission of course."

Not my comparison, so go ahead. The PDF I linked to was interesting because I'd always wondered if carbon trading (in all its forms) helped much, and the answer seems to be "no".
Wow - it's fast, it's clean, it's intuitive (at least for the target group). I'd say its awesome!

Why don't you make it a business, Ondřej?

Btw. you also did some pretty amazing other stuff
First. History has a way of catching up with those who cross the lines on ethics. e.g. see Rosalind Franklin and James Watson. If you end up doing something truly great you'll be in the crosshairs of public attention, and boy, are you going to be wishing you're clean.
'When past investors blog about how successful and ethical you were, it's a lot easier to attract new investors.'

Relying on the slim hope that a new investor is reading a past investor's blog just sounds goofy to me. Not to mention that I don't think I've ever read a post from an investor like that.
I'm planning to go
To start with, in France, you'd have to remove price control on books...
Hah I remember seeing that and thinking "these guys really know what they're doing".

Dropbox (GDrive Killer) finally launches, plus Linux+iPhone!

http://m.digg.com/software/Dropbox_GDrive_Killer_finally_lau...

And yes I dugg it.
Fox News is the source? I want to say something about "higher standards" but I am too dumbfounded to find the words. Fox News. Seriously?
The Apache Project and Maven. Although though do not map exactly to CPAN/RubyGems.
That depends on whether or not you have it in you to be an architect (or your own boss for that matter) or are content just to lay the bricks according to someone else's plan.

Not all programmers were born to be architects, not all architects were born to be programmers either. There is enough special knowledge that goes in to design, engineering and assembly that there is room for specialization.

A really good coder can work just find with a really good 'architect' (systems analyst). "rockstars" tend to work only well with themselves, so they probably aren't part of a team to begin with.

The whole idea of teamwork is to work together but to let each individuals special talents take precedence.

If you are all three disciplines in one person then most likely you'll end up founding some startup.
"system allows users to direct a message to people who fulfill certain criteria without necessarily knowing recipients' e-mail addresses, or even their names."

No, thanks. Too many emails for the receiver, too uncertain for the sender. If I want to send an email to the "CEO of Pixar", I just put this string into my address book.

The most interesting thing for me is how they get that data exactly. Disappointingly, that’s not in the article.
There have probably been many people who were smarter than either but didn't accomplish as much for one reason or another.