skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I very quickly gave up reading the comments on the guardian web site. Many, even a majority, are insulting and regurgitated opinions by people unopen to changing their mind, they simply want to shout their (often unappetising) opinion at you.

HN on the contrary is populated by people (like myself, I hope) who wish to learn. They engage in discussion in order to improve themselves, not to win arguments.

4 hours is far too long BTW. I'm sure there must be better things you can do.
This is a good explanation of OCLC and its business model. I worked my way through about a year of my undergraduate degree program doing data-entry for OCLC back in the 1970s. I can gain OCLC WorldCat access from my home computer by logging in as a patron of my county library system, but it's too bad more people can't get the same functionality at a better known site without a log-in barrier.
Our policy is similar. Erin and I don't avoid swearing at home ourselves, but the kids are strictly forbidden from swearing. It's not about the words themselves (I see no moral issue with swearing), but rather about discipline and respect; this is a simple bright-line boundary.
Just fixed it. Problem when pushing a quick fix. I've been programming Rails for the past few months instead of PHP. Damn semicolons.
I don't walk in roads where cars drive. Also, I've never hit a pothole when walking, or been sent flying by someone opening a car door at an inopportune time.
codeigniter and rails.

rails because, well, its rails. building something out is typically quick and easy.

codeigniter for those cases when i need to get my hands dirty on a lower level and do some non-standard things. its a minimalist framework that doesn't add much bloat, overhead or other things in your way.

i kind of mentally compare it to java and c.
Hell yeah! I've been waiting for this. Tipjoy does payments over twitter, and the password issue is pretty huge. http://tipjoy.com/twitter
Youtube enables high quality in embedded videos
HTML is the metadata around your content, and CSS is the style that you apply to your content.
Always trademark something you .com. Always. Its like $250. If you're going to call your company that. Trademark it.

These guys seemed big enough to perform due diligence and come up with something original.

They probably did a tess search here and found the name unused. Due Diligence.

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=tess&state=7ro35j....
Google and Semantic Web - Google CEO Hints at Semantic, Contextual Search
Interesting, about horizontal gene transfer making concepts of heredity and so on more complex than originally thought. But it should not be titled "Darwin was wrong..." That smacks of ID, which is in my opinion nothing less than a major selective disadvantage to homo sapiens.
Start ups do not necessarily mean low pay. I am work at one and we are all paid at or above market rates - it is worth it to pay for good people.
Great question. I don't have an answer although I do know that reading hacker news != hacking. I too think I spend far too much time reading all the interesting topics posted to this site and that I should probably be doing something more active and less passive. You're not alone.
codeigniter and more recently kohana.

I like codeigniter a lot because you have more control over things. Frameworks that get things done extremely fast are nice, but I like to have more control over things. And Kohana was modeled after codeigniter, but in completely PHP5, which is why I like it the most.
> The only information that should come into play when making decisions about the firing of full-time employees should be their actions between the time they start work and end work every day

This just simply isn't true. Imagine if your CFO gets caught with hookers and blow by the cops on a Saturday night. It may not affect his work during work hours but it most definitely negatively affects your company from a PR perspective.

So you just can't make a blanket statement like that.
Get Ready For Your Car To Spam You
Take the caps out of the URL and look again...
> It seems like people are simply following the path of least resistance.

I agree 100%, and any discussion of online piracy that does not include this concept is horribly, horribly incomplete.
I would remove the ads until you have a user base. You won't make anything until then anyway.
Twitter API: Call for OAuth private beta
Actually you might be.

Properly designed it'd keep you somewhat dry in light rain, which would be a boon for urban bikers.
It’s funny to see folks thinking of raisin kids like a writing an algorithm. Let me tell you that the role model thing is not a vain and empty factor you raising children. They must trust you and look at you as a last resort, they know things are bad out there they expect home to be a safe place; you should do your best to provide that to them.
I did a study on malicious behaviour in social networks, and in my research the best way to build trust seemed to be to encourage an identity - cheap pseudonyms tend to attract trolls. 2 secs and I'll look up the paper for you.
Do you walk where there could be ice? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Atkins_(nutritionist)

On April 8, 2003, at age 72, Dr. Atkins slipped on the ice while walking to work, hitting his head and causing bleeding around his brain. He lost consciousness on the way to the hospital, where he spent two weeks in intensive care. His death certificate states that the cause of death was "blunt impact injury of head with epidural hematoma"
See also comment(s) here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=447153
First, only your post is a waste of time. (Zing!) But seriously, that all depends on what your goals are when you come here, how you use the site, and whether or not the site meets your goals.

Second, some meta-advice about the "Trollish question? Although question might be trollish, it isn't because..." meme: Don't do it. If you have a question like that, then it really is trollish. If you think it isn't trollish, then you need to think about it some more, because you're missing something obvious. When you figure it out on your own, you're going to be so glad you didn't embarrass yourself by asking the smart people on HN such a--let's be frank about it--dumb question.

I normally don't respond to posts of this kind, but it has become a line-in-the-sand issue for me because this meme, and so many others like it, seem recently to be running rampant through an otherwise useful site. We get replies of the form, "I'm obviously unqualified to talk about X, but here's my opinion on X," the afore-mentioned "Trollish Q? Not so because I think it's interesting," and so on.

Think of it as being like farting loudly in an elevator. It doesn't matter if you have really bad gas, you wait until you're alone. Similarly, if you've got a vacuous question or opinion so unjustified that you have to qualify it by saying so, just don't air it in a public forum. You're wasting people's time.
Although tables is easier than CSS, most browsers will render CSS almost the same way. But not always true for tables. Especially wider sites that need to shrink to fit a screen. I just weigh amount of work I have to do against how much I'm getting paid and do which ever way I feel comfortable with.
Does a state that shores up an ailing media form because of personal links and dresses it up as a "present for the children" not bother anyone a tiny bit? Newspapers are dead, get over it.
Also take a look at Bluetrip (http://bluetrip.org/) it combines features of Blueprint, Tripoli, 960 and Hartija. So you can get a nice CSS website running pretty quickly and then customize from there.
Friedman*, E. J., and Resnick, P. The social cost of cheap pseudonyms. Journal of
Economics & Management Strategy 10, 2 (2001), 173–199.
Respect goes both ways, if you expect some you should start by giving.
Cmon dude really? Should anyone on HN be concerned about your spawn? That's your job, not ours, and this isn't Dave and Busters.

Sorry if that sounds dickish, but this is really the last place any of us should be concerned about children reading, specifically your children.
Yes, but so is working for a living.
It looks like you can still view their pages.

For example the people above wanting to view NYU: http://www.hndir.com/index/school/view/14
Best quote in the article: "Web 2.0 baby, the users provide all the content, we make all the money."
Outrage over legitimately outrageous behavior from the NSA does not imply that there is some sort of unbalanced perspective that needs to be tempered.

At any given moment this debate needs rest on a larger foundation of common understanding if any progress it to be possible. It is completely unfair to project into that unspoken space an extreme, one-dimensionsal and altogether unlikely position, and then say there is a lack of balance because the person hasn't yet distinguished themselves from it.

No one should have to defend their love of country every time they criticize the Iraq war. Similarly, no one should have to prove that they understand the nuances of legitimate anti-terrorism operations just because they express legitimate outrage over a legitimately outrageous event. It is curious why anyone's first instinct would be to demand such a thing, in the face of the towering need for public outcry.
If you do it yourself, does it count as a framework?

Server: python, postgresql, cherrypy, simplejson

Client: Javascript, HTML, CSS, Dojo, AJAX.

All the HTML is loaded up front and then AJAX for all the rest. Dojo insulates me from browser quirks. TDD Python is what I use at work (and love) and is good for complex algorithms (language morphology, in arabic).

I don't use an all-encompassing framework because I need total UTF-8 support and I feel more comfortable with the general tailorability of the lower-level libraries over the likes of Django, Rails.
This would be such a useful service to me, I'd love to use it...we all could use a team setting, but alas I don't have a .edu email ... =(
I don't know if many people realise it, but the use of the term 'spam' came from a Monty Python sketch originally. It's not too difficult to correlate what they meant: You can have whatever you want, as long as it's with spam.
Sorry, didn’t see it. Upvoted yours! Feel free to rm this one: duplicate!
Agreed--we should have done that. At the time we purchased the Canadian trademark, which, once done totaled up to around $2,000. The agent at the time told us that the process for us to get an American one would cost about the same. We decided that we couldn't afford it then.

My feeling is that we could likely go after them as the program is aired in Canada as well. That being said, their lawyers are probably more numerous and well paid than ours. As such, I suspect we'd spend plenty and gain little.

So instead, we're being a buzzing little fly, spinning about their heads. (Likely not much more than an annoyance, but having some fun nevertheless.)

And isn't fun supposed to be part of it? ;-)
Would it not also be the world's first mag edited from beyond the grave?
I hang around a lot of websites (passing the time), and websites like HN are full of entertainment ... but if I was honestly seeking self-improvement I would open some study material and study it.

So, yes, I use it to waste my time. I could be doing better things assuming you believe in objective measures of such things. The addictive low-cal-information-firehose nature of the internet is my one weakness, as Miss Lane never said with a twinkle in her eye.
Fujitsu's Esprimo Green PC First to be Zero-Watt
I'll consider you, but first you'll have to prove your claim that you can "kick ass" -- fight club style.
Bing Gordon foresees games replacing textbooks at schools
interesting... I'm taking a class on the economics of Global warming, but as we just started I don't know if I can comment just yet.

However, allowance trading worked very well in controlling acid rain - one of the incentives to use it on carbon emissions as well.
It isn't. I've come up with a few great ideas in these threads.
Well, given auto-bailouts, what state isn't shoring up ailing businesses these days?
Zune sales plummet. Is it time to kill the player and roll the platform into Xbox?
I'd stick the second in the first category.
Is it really a waste of time if it entertains you and stimulates your thoughts, when used judiciously?
People with debt have an income with which they service their debt. If the real value of the debt increases, the real value of the money they pay to service it also increases. Thus their future wealth is decreased.

If one person hoards dollars, they are being frugal. If everyone increases their liquidity preference, real wealth is destroyed. The gratification is not delayed, but lost forever. You are committing the fallacy of composition.

Moore's law is not deflation. Deflation is a persistent rise in the general price level, as measured using a representative basket of goods.

Have you never delayed buying a new console because you knew the price would drop soon? I have.
Well, how about, a pack of dirt with mystery seeds. What will you get?

I think this would be more attractive as a gift (as long as the chosen plants are nice) than just the dirt. I would include general instructions on how to take care of the plant (so the seeds manage to grow) without saying what plant or flower it is. A nice surprise for your green friends :)
Information is as useful as you make it. It’s really a questions of "are you just reading to entertain yourself?" vs "are you reading to learn and allowing your worldview to be shaped based on what you are reading?" Almost every piece of information is useful if you pick it apart and actively seek out the lessons to be learned from it.

I mean, Henry David Thoreau spent his time wandering around the wilderness, an activity that most would call a waste of time, and yet the lessons he learned about simplicity and its impact on life are still being quoted nearly 150 years after his death.

Wisdom is everywhere the trick is to hang around places where you can find it while enjoying yourself. If HN provides that for you than it’s far from a waste of time.
I don't know about the articles, but Artwick wrote a book "Applied Concepts in Microcomputer Graphics" in the late 70s/early 80s. I recall it had some Apple II code in the back.
Against All TOS: Guy Tries To Sell His “YouTube” Digg Account On Craigslist For Rent Money
It's like the drunk looking for his keys under a streetlight, rather than down the block where he dropped them, because the light is better.

Beautiful.
Agreed. As a theist myself, I'm often embarrassed by the ID bandwagon and the epidemic lack of reason that goes along with it. The cover of this magazine is going to get waved triumphantly as the old "science made a mistake so it must be totally wrong" fallacy gets drug back into the limelight.

A much better title would have been "Evolutionary biology much bigger and more complicated than Darwin imagined." In other words, science as usual. But that wouldn't sell many magazines, now would it?
I feel like if it's a simple table with divs inside - it probably wont be a big deal because it will be maintainable.

But if you're going to nest tables inside of tables nested inside of tables - then I'd suggest not doing it.

You want to keep it maintainable for not only yourself but anyone else who might be working on it in the future.
http://readmytweets.com uses an unfamiliar login procedure to avoid asking people for their twitter passwords.

This will be much better.
My kids are expected to respect my judgement and authority, in that they are kids and I am an adult. I am expected to respect many things about them, but their authority is not among them. I am also allowed to stay up really late, a privilege that is also not reciprocal.

I think I'm done now talking about swearing on Hacker News.
I worked on one of the largest simulated markets on the web and offer the following advice:

- Use basic human motivation to encourage real participation. Points scored and virtual awards work well, but only if you can control system-gaming and inflation.

- Make sure that each account is connected to a confirmed email address or social network account.

- Spend time looking for people who are creating multiple accounts for the purpose of gaming your system (same IPS, repetitive names / passwords). Disable what appear to be the spoof accounts and email the core account about why you did it.

- Have a clearly defined policy for what is acceptable behavior and penalize as much bad behavior as is necessary. Make sure to show the community that there is enforcement.

- Maintain contact with helpful members of the community who can key you in on problematic individuals or exploitable flaws in the scoring system.
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rack, merb, sinatra and rails
> as far as i can tell, carbon trading is not directly subsidized by the government as lovelock seems to imply.

It's subsidized in the sense that few people will buy carbon credits unless they're being forced to do so.
Moore's law is not deflation.

Actually, it is. Moore's law implies a continuous decline in the prices of computers.

Deflation is a persistent rise

Decline.

in the general price level as measured using a representative basket of goods

The defined goods area can be broad or specific, and in any direction. There has been consistent deflation, for the past several decades, in the area of computer products. Individuals and groups (companies, etc.) that tend to value computer products highly also tend to delay their purchases of those computer products in anticipation of price declines, i.e. deflationary action.
Django, because it has magical powers, who can beat that?
Fujitsu still says the machine is "administratable." Which presumably means it'll do wake-on-LAN actions, or perhaps Bluetooth wake-ups-- whichever it is there must be some circuit inside running off a rechargeable power source that's busy watching the ports to see if it needs to perk up the rest of the machine.

Umm, If you recharge a battery so that you can stay powered in standby, that's worse than just using the power in standby. If this is really how they plan to make their PC "zero watt" then its nothing more than a dirty trick.

My laptop is "zero watt" half the time I'm running it.
Because they think that "VC investment over the last four quarters" is a success indicator. Anyway, some of them are actually quite innovative.
Is Twitter a Viable Conversation Platform?
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Look at the tech sector where Moore's law assures that prices on computers are always dropping. I don't think I know anybody who owns a computer - everybody is waiting for them to get cheaper before buying.

If economic actors anticipated future prices increases, they would be more inclined to buy in the present. Economic actors do make purchases despite anticipating price declines. One reason for that is time value, also known as future discounting. A computer available in the present is considered more valuable than a computer available in the future.
Some Java interop instructions are here: http://www.arclanguage.org/item?id=8819

Arc runs on all platforms that MzScheme runs on, which includes Windows.
>> if it looks good, is fun for you to make (apart from guilt), and does what users want (or will get you there), what's bad about that? Conversely, if it's hard to make, not fun (apart from guilt relief), and doesn't make things look better or work better, what's good about that?

You're tapping into a quite a bit of psychology there :)
I've been thinking about the idea of popularity as a measurement of "goodness" (think PHP vs Python), and I think in the end, the answer depends on the programmer.

Some might like to get things done quickly so that their not-necessarily-geeky idea is off the ground early (which is arguably a strong factor for a technology's popularity), and some might prefer to "invest time" and learn about complicated problems (scalability, for example) as they go along. I'd say things are (as usual) a mix of both extremes, so we need to prioritize what's important to us.

As far as tables vs css goes, I find that tables make layouts easy for the average person to visualize while building it, but css is far easier to maintain (especially when you are responsible for maintaining/revamping 50+ stylesheets per year in sites and apps of varying degrees of complexity - think heavily widgeted layouts)
merb/rails
Rails, because I lost the Python vs. Ruby argument, and now we're all converts.
I'm in Python. I'm happiest just doing import cgi ...

I always feel guilty though.
Ladies and gentlemen, even though the penis was fake, I kept expecting a second plot twist where we found out that Hillary Swank actually was a boy...
Rails. Anyway, I am not saying that Rails is better. I am just wondering how magical Django is?
Related idea: maybe we should stop collecting sales tax on books.

TV and the internet are great but long-form books seem to play a special role in the development of 'human capital' -- competence, expertise, and civil values.
I'm amazed this hasn't been posted here before. It's a great little, free, book.
When I first scanned this headline I thought it was something about a storefront running on Python selling a whole lot of movies.

But, hey, Monty Python > Python.
Top Down Programming BABY!

Seriously, just install smarty and do it yourself. Then somebody can always do a basic edit to the templates and you don't have to weight the merits of the 10000X different frameworks against eachother and get back to Making Money!
I use Django, but only for template inheritance and models - I pretty much leave the template language alone. 99% of the data from the server gets passed out as json.
yarp. We need a hacker news wiki!
I'm a cakePHP user. It has gotten and keeps getting a lot better as of recent, and I really like the community. I looked into codeigniter after using cakephp for a while and it just seemed to have a lot less to offer. I tried symfony too and it seemed alot more complex, unnecessarily so.

I'm currently dabbling in Rails and Django, but am going to put them down until I finish my current project, since there's nothing in either that I can't do in cake, as far as my project's requirements go.

These are also a lot less portable than the PHP frameworks, which I find is a big deal if ever you want to lengthen your runway with client work. It's MUCH harder to get a quick 2-5k on a small webpage when the client hears "change hosting".
Write your own!
sorry for misleading users! :)

I made the title based partly on a) the articles sub article and also the request for a feedburner competitor.