skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use it for a bunch of demonstration stuff for Python - my Github is full of it. In terms of telling the story, it is visually a lot more coherent for the audience if they can see everything in a single file.

The routing decorators also serve very well as visual cues to the application you're building for the audience.
Is this why they need all those new cybersecurity laws and bigger budgets for the cyber divisions? To "protect" US? Or to attack other countries they aren't even in war with? Because the latter seems a lot more likely.
Who really needs this for their web app? Nearly 99% of heavy web apps require a login, so Google is out of the picture anyway.

Anyone who is building a content site with DOM-manipulating Javascript doing all the work have completely lost their way. Seriously, just render your templates on the server and deliver them to the client. Why does the world want app-ify everything?
That's right. Right now we're trying to get a handle on the interest in a tool like this.
Awesome job guys. It looks really cool!
I agree with you. I would say the same if I would do domain name front running. Who wouldn't lie in this situation? But there are more reasons for avoiding godaddy. Their CEO kills elephants, they had an important role in designing the SOPA bill(and moved back then) and they are expensive. I would recommend gandi.net or inwx(InternetworX) instead.
Perhaps there is a market for a crowdfunding payment processor. Such payment processor could then focus on regulations and legal implications.
Adidas Rolls Out Waterless “DryDye” T-Shirt
The installation itself wasn't the pain. It was the usability and configuration afterwards that sucked. The built-in music player didn't work, with no hinting towards the problem. There was some other stuff I can't remember specifically now. I did like, however, how easy it was to get up and running with Python and Vim. It's significantly easier to install third-party modules on Linux than on Windows, in my experience.

I think Linux is a better 'work' OS for development, but Windows is better for a home consumer OS. But it's not worth booting back to Linux just to work on my side projects, so I just develop in Windows.
I think there will a bigger backlash than even your examples in the near future. It will be similar to app.net, people will realize that paying is better than not-paying.
Open computing as we know it requires choice when creating a system.

I don't want to have to pick my poison when it comes to walled gardens the next time I want a new system.
Carbon Credits Incentives drive an increase in Greenhouse Gas Production
U.S cows produce more greenhouse gas than 22 million cars
> It doesn't appear to be a code-dump to GitHub

It does appear to be, because there's no history -- everything is "Initial commit".
Generally, the HFT player provides "impatience service" - they give you immediate execution, and charge you a fee for it.

Unfortunately, since they invest in speed, they impose this service fee on everyone: When you join the bid or the offer, you are always behind the HFT player, and as a result you will only execute if there is a huge execution, or, (more probably) if the price moves against you.

This aspect of HFT is completely fair, btw - the HFT players are taking a risk, and they should be rewarded for it.

The part that is unfair is described very well by nanex in this thread - go read it.
Yes, you could, you just choose not to.
Someone on slashdot put together a list: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3035829&cid=4092...

As a side note, at least one of the authors did apologize -- and was instantly lynched in the comments http://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2012/08/what-happened-to-...
Curiosity Hi-Res Self-Portrait
They link to the photo journal at the bottom of the post as well as some other resources.
This phenomenon is disgusting. Happened to me for a thirteen-letter domain name with fairly low search popularity. I presumed this was one of the reasons why Godaddy is considered evil. Nowadays the domain is parked @ domainbrokers.com

If a 3rd party is involved, shouldn't we move to stop Godaddy from providing this information to them? If it is a case of rogue employees domain squatting, shouldn't Godaddy act to put a halt to this practice?
This link from a talk by Jordan Sissel has some great information on logging and information that's commonly missed in log files (even in some very large products)

http://blip.tv/carolinacon/logstash-open-source-log-and-even...
Neat idea!

Bug report: I tried to watch this video: http://www.reelsurfer.com/watch/clip/share_id/7127/390
I use Chrome with the click-to-play-flash setting turned on. With Javascript enabled for your site, I see the "click to play" flash window, but I'm not able to actually click on it. Right clicking gives me the background context menu.

Hmm..it didn't work in (vanilla) IE 9 either...
Ask HN: Anyone in a need of a django guru?
Hi there,

Having programmed things like http://beepl.com, http://nrds.co.uk, and most recently (the prototype - click demo) of http://vanillamonitor.com, I consider myself top python / django programmer.

Unfortunately, the company went to liquidation and I am desperately looking for a payed project.

Anyone in a need of a talented django developer?

Thanks,
Jan

jparicka@gmail.com
That's great. Can you give us some idea of what kinds of data you're looking to chart and what sort of ability you'd like out of a tool like this?

Noted on the animation.
What do you think corporate culture tries to accomplish?

If it was money, firing Steve Jobs would have been the worst mistake any company would have made. Apple is worth a lot more then most other companies combined.

It doesn't sound like corporate cultures are after money.

"I would even say that this isn't even the manager's fault, but the bottom line. Risk is something that sounds scary to people who want a consistent paycheck."

This sounds like an interesting point. Do you think most corporate cultures are designed to create a "stable" atmosphere where the next day is fairly predictable?
Clickable links http://beepl.com http://vanillamonitor.com http://nrds.co.uk
Selling a Website
Hi HN,

I'm looking for some advice and I'm not sure who to contact, so I thought I'd reach out to you.

I'm looking to sell one of my sites in the $2MM range, and I was wondering if you have any recommendations for brokers? Searching Google returns mostly the bottom feeders trying to sell $1k Wordpress sites.... do you have any insight into this realm?

Thanks!
Google's making moves towards having their crawler essentially be a headless Chrome instance. Crawling AJAXy apps is rapidly going to get easier for Google et al.
> 100atm and 400+ degrees

Incredible. Looking here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera noticed that probes lasted at most 2 hours on the surface.

Also interesting how Mars landers go for years and on Venus we lasted at most 2 hours.
Arrchitecture of Royal Bank of Scotland's Operational Data Cache System
To all the "haters" on this thread, I will simply say this:

Senator, I worked with Darl McBride. I knew Darl McBride. Darl McBride was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Darl McBride.

:-)
This technology "inventor" made no money.

He merely ran an unprofitable service that helped lenders lend their books in exchange for being lent a book. Also, he got lynched for it.

I almost cannot imagine the amount of stress this must be causing him.
From what I've read from the book, it looks like Steve would have loved to have another Steve in the company. I think he would have liked someone who thought the same way he did.
Ask HN: how easy is it to create my own part-time, remote help desk?
I'm currently paying a US-based call center about $55/hr to provide 24/7 frontline tech support via phone, e-mail, and live chat.

They're horrible at it, and I'm wondering if I can't just do it better. Switching vendors is tough because our case/incident volume is so low that most companies either won't deal with us OR will deal, but at outrageous prices.

So I'm toying with using something like Grasshopper and Zendesk to basically create my own help desk. One of the big unknowns is the staff: are there people willing to be on-call for an 8-hour shift, yet be paid per case? Or paid per minute of support time? Is that even legal? I can't afford to pay for two or three full 8-hour shifts, which is why we have an outsourced vendor now (where agents are shared across multiple clients and we're only billed per minute).

Any ideas or suggestions, especially from folks who have done something similar?
I'm not sure why anyone would listen to you when you make a sweeping accusation and refuse to back it up with a link or evidence of any kind.
...And @MarsCuriosity JUST tweeted NASA's version of the stitch:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16027.ht...

Looks like some different distortion correction, cropping, and levels correction was done between the two.
Seeing as a number of the authors have since deleted FB posts / Tweets related to this, I would assume they know that maybe they were wrong and are trying to distance themselves (rather than do the honorable thing and admit that they were idiots that reveled feeling righteous while in joining in on a witch hunt).
I reviewed my some of my code and figured out that I'm one of this terrible persons, which haven't spent enough time to show an useful output. I should fix this now ;) A useful log output can be a real time saver. I also seen applications which just showed "an error occurred", so I had still no idea what causes this error message.
Yet another reason to bookmark http://geektools.com
That's a better idea than turning Twitter into Quora.
I don't understand the negativity being shown towards TextMate in this thread. This thread is about an extremely popular editor going open source, something people have been asking for for a long time and something we should all be THRILLED about, regardless of whether we use it.

Can we save the editor wars for another thread and maybe, just maybe, actually talk about the code?
Because server architecture and rendering is really expensive to scale whereas a client-side-dependent app could be supported for much less. It is a trade-off.

The presentation layer has been moving to the client-side for the past few years, where have you been?
Thanks for the feedback. I'm with you on the milliseconds and threads bits. As for hostname / version... how are you getting those into your logs? I've found having version in the logs very useful (and wished I had it when it wasn't there).
Page Titles – SEO vs Usability
According to [1], 93% of small business owners earn roughly less than $200,000. and 74% earn less than 100K.

Business owners are 10% of the working population, so only 2.6% percent of the working population earn more than $100,000 by owning a business.

And considering the fact that many wealthy business owners do have a degree(lawyers, dentists, etc.), college seems the more scalable way to wealth.

And even if you consider high end of earners , many of the high earners(ceo's, tech entrepreneurs, medical and legal professionals) do have a college degree.

[1]www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42043.pdf pg-8
TF2 is the least odious f2p game in general. Nothing forces you to buy the keys. But the numbers show that simple psychology causes a lot of people to open them just to see whats inside.

F2P in general is based on the notion that 'if you give someone a reward for something, they will pay for more of that reward'. Alternatively, if you give someone a way to make it easier to "achieve" that reward, they will pay you to make it easier. So therefore f2p games are designed around getting you into essentially a skinner box where you get a constant rate of rewards and can either pay to make the reward process easier or you can pay to make it happen more often.

The problem with this addiction model is that it puts an incredible amount of stress on your users. These games are not inherently fun, they are just addictive. The stress leads to burn out and players quitting. This is all on a spectrum of course, I would barely categorize TF2 as using this model. Zynga games define this model.

Edit:

let me tie my last 2 paragraphs to my first. In TF2, you can either get new guns at constant periodic intervals. Or you can pay to get them in crates, which drop fairly often. This is a skinner-box/addiction model. It is a small part of TF2, but Zynga games use this as the basis of their game's design.

More and more games and using this model and fall somewhere in between Zynga and Valve. The problem is the slope towards Zynga is steep and its easy to make people buy things if you use Zyngaesque features. This benefits your company in the short term but kills it in the long term.
The NYPD’s Domain Awareness System Is Watching You
New sources of Magenta (my iPhoneOS implementation) are up. Now on GitHub too.
I've just pushed new sources of Magenta which is my attempt at creating an open source Darwin/iPhoneOS environment based on the Linux kernel. Lots of new fantastic changes. CLI only, no GUI stuff whatsoever. This can also run a lot of frameworks from iPhoneOS (not that you should be trying to do that).

Anyways, enjoy.

Sources:
http://crna.cc/magenta_source.html

Github repo:
https://github.com/christinaa
I've never used LendInk (or any other e-book lending sites), but they could have a "For Authors" section prominently visible on the site, telling the authors why their work may be on the site, what they can do (it probably doesn't hurt to comply with take-down requests), and why it is to their benefit (I hope) that their work is shared with others in a platform-supported fashion.
This has been happening for many years now. They sell the stream to other companies who register the domain for a few days for free. They stamp the for sale page on it and wait, drop it and maybe register it again.
Isn't that something you could investigate and prove? Look up 1000 randomly-generated domains from different IPs, check later if any of them are registered, done.
Thanks for taking a look! Interesting point on the click-to-play setting. Does it wok for you without that settings? As for IE9, do you have Flash installed? If not, HTML5 support is coming soon!
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. This has been going on for decades in the Valley - the only thing that has changed is the names of the players.
"Can we now..." not "We can now". It's a rhetorical question, not an assertion.
If some authors are outraged about the idea of ink being lent, then what do they think about libraries?
Kaspersky Lab Discovers 'Gauss'
NIBIRU THE UNSEEN FOOTAGE
Germany Proposes A 1% Tax On The Assets Of The Rich
First color 360-degree panorama from Curiosity
Yet another reason to support bitcoin. Bitcoin empowers payments that aren't subject to the whims of corporations (or any central authority for that matter).
The purchase of publication rights is an equity transaction, in that a valuable piece of (intellectual) property is changing hands.

Uh, no. By that definition, every transaction would be an equity transaction.

Equity specifically refers to an ownership interest in a business.
I personally have found a lot of difficulty with JSON-based logs, because tools like `grep` and `cut` don't suffice; I usually have to write a more complex regex with `sed` in order to extract useful information I want.

Anyone have a good utility for managing JSON in log files?
One of the journos asked about that, and it sounds like probably not. I know @elakdawalla was live-tweeting it, so she might mention it.

Anyway the gist was that they had not predicted that debris would get kicked up like that (or at least not this much, I think), but it doesn't sound like it'll cause problems. My take is that even if they didn't expect to kick things up during landing, she's gotta be tough enough to withstand the winds as well as a bit of rough-and-tumble while roving around.
Get some people to point at the sky and shout a lot while some others nip round the back and hide all the pitchforks.
Sell your best product. Great job Microsoft flunkies...
Olympic winners: How NBC’s authentication helped VPN providers
I would like to ask Patio11 if he has ever done font A/B tests. I'm working on my sales website and the results would be very welcome. In my case I lack the traffic to do any proper testing.
It's quite popular, as is Python itself with many of the engineers at Twilio.
TextMate 2.0 goes open source in response to OS X restrictions
Google agrees to pay largest fine in FTC history for bypassing Safari privacy
Mobizy 2.1 for the iPad and iPhone
Something like TypeKit would account for the vast majority of encounters with the fonts on participants' computers.
My company's entire backend, both halves of it, are built on

(Redis, MongoDB) <- Flask -> WSGI -> Apache.

It has treated us very, very well.
Those columns graphs were very misleading to me. Here is some adjusted image showing the whole image for easier grasping of the dimensions: http://i.imgur.com/QS8PA.jpg (I am not 100% my math is correct but a quick calculation in my head says the dimensions seem correct)
One of the hardest things in ops is trying to see what the app is doing without benefit of the code to review.

I know what the app does, I know the process flows involved but 'failed to covert X at MyClass:44' doesn't have enough context for me.

Also log levels - most developers over use warning and error levels and under uses debug and trace in my experience. It makes filtering out the noise harder.

Rolling log files - roll on an event (new day, process bounced etc.) not on reaching a 10Mb limit or an equally arbitrary 1k lines limit.

Use a header in the logfile, contain at least the version number of the code running, the user and host it is running on.

Lastly stack traces, if they even have a use case at all in production, should not be in the main logfile.
It's a shame nobody is going to make components for all of the data centers running Linux anymore.

Also, I feel really bad for Apple and Google that Microsoft is going to deliver such an ass-kicking tablet that it puts them out of business, or at least into a distant second and third place.

Yeah, that was sarcasm.

My experience, over 25+ years, has been that MS products are almost always inferior to the competition (with the possible exception of XBox), and only exceed where they can exploit bundling. I don't see the leverage over tablet users. Also, how many places hung on to WinXP until support ran out, since Vista/7 sucks so bad? (7 might be less glitchy, but I still HATE the new UI, and I am relieved not to have to use it at home)

I suppose if MS starts to bundle their own PC hardware with Win8 at WalMart and BestBuy, it will make traditional PC components more expensive, alas.
Probably not a strong case for OP, but in any case GoDaddy is evil and should be avoided in all shapes and forms. A bit of Googling will show why.
I've personally seen a BIOS implementation (on an HP computer, I think) that would let you in if you typed in an incorrect password three times. That was pretty hilarious, maybe the programmers thought that nobody would be that tenacious?
Presumably the authors that got lendink taken down are the same ones that hate libraries and used bookstores, and complain about lost sales. It's unfortunate that there are such authors, but what can you do?
When it comes to the system on which I learned unix and c as a teenager, all I really know about it is that it had a modem set on autoanswer. :-)
I really hate those "Weighted Agreement/Disagreement" charts.

For Weighted Agreement, it looks like Comic Sans had a way lower agreement rate (it looks like 60% lower) but Comic Sans had only a 4.5% lower agreement rate than Baskerville, including their weighting system.

For Weighted Disagreement, Georgia had only a 7.7% increase in disagreement than Baskerville whereas the chart makes it look more than double.

Still interesting, but not nearly as substantial as they make it out to be. Is there a term for this type of manipulation of charts (whether intentional or not)?

EDIT: Indeed, the term for this is "Truncated graph" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misleading_graph#Truncated_grap...

And as a bonus (thanks wikipedia!), according to Edward Tufte's "Lie Factor"[0] (where 1 is considered accurate), the Weighted Agreement chart has a lie factor of ~15 and the Weighted Disagreement chart has a lie factor of ~17.

[0]: http://thedoublethink.com/2009/08/tufte%E2%80%99s-principles...
Naval Ravikant Shares a Glimpse into AngelList's Product Roadmap
Zynga employees sound off about the company's stock price drop
"For almost as long as Microsoft has existed, OEMs have ridden its coattails and made hundreds of billions of dollars in the process."

So did Microsoft, thanks to those OEM's. I for one hope that Microsoft's goal is to kill the OEM's. I mean, imagine if all of the sudden no other company but Microsoft could create a Windows machine. No Windows XP, no Windows 7, no Windows 8. Do you think hundreds of millions of users all would just buy from Microsoft their PC's?

I think it would create a huge vacuum in the market, and the OEM's would simply flood the market with Linux machines. Normal people would just buy those Linux machines, while the more savvy users would keep pirating Windows for a few more years until Linux becomes a more viable market.

Sure, Microsoft might get say 20% of the "PC" market on their own, just like Apple has in the mobile market globally. But the vast majority of the market would be filled with OEM Linux machines, just like 70% of the market is now filled with Android phones from other OEM's.
Although this is cool. I doubt there will be traction as 15m revenue is no where close to their neccesary targets. As app.net is doing. Twitter needs to gen at least $5 to $10 per active user per year
p.p.s jp2a FTW.

and well der. Mplayer with ascii rendering. Pft. Of course. But you knew that right?
Rendering templates on the server is not expensive at all, that is completely untrue.

I've been keeping up like any developer, in fact I'm writing a Backbone app as we speak. But like all of the apps I write, Google doesn't need to crawl it.
Since we're all reminiscing about high-school geek antics: In my Physics class, we had semester long ongoing assignments that were markedly harder than the nightly homework. You could turn in the problems at your own leisure. They were mostly applied problems that involved some math we hadn't learned yet (like calculus). The problems were the same for each student, but we all had different parameters, so our answers would be different.

After figuring them all out a few weeks into the semester, I started writing up some BASIC programs on my TI-86 that would take in student's parameters and spit out solutions. Long story short, I ended up selling answers to some jocks and got caught (I guess the teacher was suspicious when C students were getting these hard problems correct). End result was: made my teacher simultaneously proud/disappointed, earned a few bucks, learned about corruption/greed.

All in all, it was a good learning experience and I don't regret it (though giving away answers for free would have been more altruistic I guess)
An empirical anecdote: when I was in high school, all of my lab reports for chemistry and physics were typeset in LaTeX while most of my friends either handwrote the mathematics or used MS Word's Equation Editor. There were multiple occasions where a friend and I made the same mistake (we usually worked together; yes, we cited each other) and the deduction on my report was less than the deduction on his. It wasn't huge, usually -1 point vs -2, but there was consistently a difference.
Living Earth: Beautiful Views of Global Weather on iPad
Is Dan Lyons still at Forbes?