skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the jury's still out on this one. Most active Facebook users would say they're willing to pay a few bucks a month to keep using it, and there are many successful consumer products using a freemium model.

If App.net's ARPU can hit about $120 (100x that of Facebook), then it can capture only 1% of the market and be equally successful.
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I really like the idea of teaching math in tandem with elementary programming. It demystifies writing code and can be very helpful in teaching important math concepts like functions, variables and graphing. At the very least, exposure to programming at an early age will get more kids interested in the subject.

Does anyone know of good examples of schools that are already doing this with something like Dr Racket?
On node.js: not if you use domains (0.8+) to isolate module exceptions, and you do (should) have multiple processes. On the client, a module throwing an error won't crash the browser either. Finally, events are a form of message-passing.
P2P firewall traversal is pretty common these days. Checkout STUN/ICE/TURN.
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Of course the richest Americans pay the largest share of the income tax. They are the richest, so they have the most income to tax!

"Fair" in this context is referring to the percentage of your income paid as tax. It is not "fair" is someone richer than myself pays a lower rate than I do. It is of no comfort to me that the dollar amount they pay is higher than me if the rate itself is lower.
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How about adding a button to close it while you're at it? Or better yet, clicking anything other than the button should dismiss it.
You wouldn't expect D&D players to have much psychological overlap with elementary school English teachers, but in this regard they totally do. And this gets repeated over and over and over again in the experience of a lot of companies, B2B and B2C alike. It's like the iron law of customer support: non-paying users consume the most support for the worst reasons and constitute the overwhelming majority of abuse of the support staff. There's a quantum leap getting even to $1, and after that, you tend to see a less-dramatic-but-still-remarkable increase in general satisfaction, decrease in customer-has-unique-understanding-of-how-reality-operates, and decrease in abusiveness as price paid increases.
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.io seems solidified as branding indicating that the business is oriented to developers, being a niche of "B2B." It may feel like a fad but the TLD is valuable for reasons other than availability, unlike deliberate misspellings you cite such as Flickr.
That's a good find. The one I was thinking about that appeared in Apple ][ mags was the Cauzin Softstrip:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauzin_Softstrip
It appears to be a satirical, role-playing meta-comment about the new social web being creepy. The post seems to contain a bunch of quasi-personal info mined from the web.
I believe this reinforces Dalton Caldwell's vision of ad-free applications
I haven't found anything much simpler than web.py for putting together a simple python web service, but I'm open to seeing something new.

Are there any example projects?
I tested out the app and sent out a barage of family photos 3,000+ miles across the country and the most rewarding immediate gratification / User Interface I enjoyed was a ready made mobile album of the photos and messages I chose to share with family...it was a digital album & archive of the faces and memories I most wanted to cherish and share with loved ones...I think the true benefit of the App is in the eye of the user - Unlike my clunky gmail or gluttony of FB Timelines which are so easily lost on that account - HiMom is more focused on single instances, timelines, post cards of news. Quick, Simple and readily archived.
This has to be a joke. If so, it is kind of funny. If not, it is ridiculous.
The liberation kit is for if you want to replace the screws yourself, or otherwise just unscrew the thing to take a look at the internals.
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As I point out in my blog post, what the networks care the most about is ensuring that there aren't months or years worth of cards stored anywhere which might leak out. Having a site get compromised and a few days of cards stolen is orders of magnitude less important.
How do you know that limiting food aid would have the desired effect of limiting population growth? Do you think that people stop having sex just because their children die? I would argue that high population growth is a consequence of excessive mortality rather than the cause. This is evident in the drop in birth rate that tends to accompany development. This has even happened in countries that have traditionally objected to contraception (Italy).
I think it was meant as a demonstration of the 'creepy social web'.
By opening up an iPhone, you can replace the battery, the front and back glass, the digitizer and display assemblies. (The display assemblies may all be fused together anyway, so I might be redundant here.
the Romney plan does not address how his proposal will be funded and reference the $2.8 Trillion revenue shortfall his plan creates.

When the plan is advertised as "revenue-neutral" yet does not detail how the $2.8 trillion shortfall will be made up, it's ridiculous to give that plan a serious treatment.

It seems highly unfair to compare an ambiguous plan (Romney's) where the only known details are the ones that make the plan look good to a more completely detailed plan (Obama's).
Ryan already tried to pass his budget in Congress. Why are you assuming that if he leaves Congress to become Vice President his budget will have more of a chance of passing?
What about Bottle[1]? I love it.

[1]: http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/
I don't think this has anything to do with it being free. I run an ecommerce site and everyone pays.. and have always paid for everything for the past 10 years.

Most people are polite and nice, and realize they are dealing with another human being.

But a small percentage will say things like that. My "favorite" email was 2 paragraphs, telling me what a terrible human being I was ("burn in hell", etc) because USPS required a signature for his package, and the UPS store refused to sign for it (even though that's their job). Never asked for the signature to be waived on his $200 package... which I would have happily done.

If you take a group of thousands of people, some of those people are just going to be terrible to deal with.

I think people confuse this with it being free because the free version of their product is used by so many more people. But I can guarantee that if their paid version had as many users, they would be receiving those same emails.
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I don't feel like firing up my IE VM to test it myself, but are you certain that character is browser safe? I've run into a lot of issues with unicode glyphs not working on vanilla IE8 machines that didn't ship with fonts containing them.
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As far as I can tell, nothing to do with the ColdFusion on Wheels project - cfwheels.org - apart from them both having been inspired by Ruby on Rails.
FYI, you cannot delete your Quora account from there website. For that, you need to email: privacy@quora.com
The blog/news/comment cycle is not built to support dissent. You cannot "refute" a blog post from the comments effectively.

The "circlejerk cycle" as I like to call it is built to be a self-reinforcing loop where the effect of dissent is minimized.

And seeing as those who were skeptical likely did as the OP and "rolled their eyes and moved on", there probably isn't much of an audience for "skeptic" news, as the skeptics tune out and move on. (Plus, said news would be boring: "Just a quick update, we have no real evidence so this is a nonissue, will update again later to tell you that no real evidence has appeared").
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"Quora launched with all kinds of "Former Facebooker!" hype that it hasn't really lived up to."

With all of these privacy issues popping up with them the past couple of weeks I'd venture to say their "Former Facebooker!" hype is being lived up to quite well.
Catholic doctrine would teach that contraception does more harm than good. They, like you are measuring harm badly.
> That’s such a basic and central feature, something an office application absolutely has to get right.

You are correct. And I'm talking about that very thing. OpenOffice style sheets are limited, last time I checked (same with Libre). For example, it doesn't support style sheets for Table styles. I remember having to deal with this specific problem. The mechanism they have in place is a mockery. In my eyes, if it can be styled, it should be styled using style sheets. That is essential, in my books (and I don't think it's too much to ask).

I also don't remember iWork having it, either. There are other issues, but that one stands out in my mind.

> but I’m simply in love with the straightforward simpleness of iWork.

I keep hoping they'll update iWork, but again, the features it's missing are important to me. This is mostly in reference to Pages vs Word. I mean, even when you look at the full screen features of Word vs Pages, Word just destroys Pages in terms of attention to detail. This is more about the UI though, so its purely my personal opinion.

Anyways, my point was simply that there are some essential features (such as complete styling support) that hinder usage. I'm not asking for new features, rather that they support the features they currently have in a common, well-established way.

Note: Things may have changed since I last used these products. If they have, yay!
Short of asking the involved parties, the best you can do is to follow some of the PHP discussions on this topic, such as this one http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg59731...

The first use-case for finally involved locking database tables, and then unlocking them in the finally clause. It would be pretty bad, if you could not guarantee the unlock would happen. So one would hope that has been properly taken care of :-)
Yeah... except Derek Sivers had his multi-million exit not so long ago with the sale of CD Baby. Your point, again?
Seems like most of these designs are concepts. Are there venerable designers on here to learn from?
Even with opt-out, it can make you wonder if Quora is still keeping this data. What stops them from disabling the opt-out portion of the feature and "outing" everybody?
Yikes, I completely disagree. There's nothing wrong with hard work, but I definitely think that doing oodles of calculations definitely has a quick point of diminishing returns. I was also raised in a pacific-rim Asian household. Growing up, I spent lots of time doing routine calculation. Looking back, I wonder if that time was really that well spent. In elementary school, I spent an entire summer doing nothing but practicing basic arithmetic from sun up to sun down. Did it take me an entire summer to understand how to do basic arithmetic? Obviously not. Now I think the time would have been better spent tackling substantial problems with what I'd learned, rather than doing routine calculations. Does doing lots of routine calculations have an upside? Certainly. I can factor polynomial equations faster than anyone I know. While that's cool and all, I now feel like calculating speed is of questionable value beyond a certain point.

Now that I do math for fun, I spend most of my time doing recreational math style problems. I can't help but think that these would have been a better way to learn. Since I started, my problem-solving skills have improved immensely, with nary a routine calculation problem in sight.
Just by itself that fact is useless. If those 4% have 99% of the income, then you can easily argue that that is not fair.
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Throw your CV up on CWJobs. I've been coding Django for two years and every time I put it on there I get 100 phone calls coming in.
I'd like to see the chats be destroyed after a given period of time. People change, but their chats online don't. That's the current problem.

-- also chats can't be logged by search engine, so either blank out, or use robots.txt (ideally both)
This is essentially an Ask HN. Looking for feedback on the idea. Thanks!
Most def. the way things are trending, this is the new big thing. Look Out, the Revolution Sez Go!
Regarding the Google Groups statement, https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!search/flask/go... google group regarding flask. Excuse me if I'm wrong, I don't really know how to use Groups.

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=pocoo&uio=OT10cnVl... Flask IRC Channel

groups.google.com/group/pocoo-libs Flask Google Groups

twitter.com/PocooProjec Flask Twitter
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FOUND IT! The article was called "Computer Science Doesn't Matter" (ya, a little disruptive, like I said) you can find it here: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/fk...
I'm not sure what the author was thinking when writing this framework but it
appears that he/she forgot everything about writing sane code. Below is a list
of the things that stand out.

1. There's no sane directory structure, instead most of it is just dropped in a
single directory.

2. How am I supposed to install this? There's no package for it so it seems the
only way is to manually copy the repository. You'd think people would
actually use the Python package manager.

3. Shebangs are set to `#!C:\Python26\python.exe -u`. This is wrong on so many
levels.

4. The code is just...no. Take a look at `generate_controller.py`, if there's
anything that's not Pythonic code it's this.

5. A lot of the directory names are hardcoded all over the place, this means
that if you ever want to change some of the names (or re-organize them)
you'll have to go through all the files and modify them accordingly.

These are just a few of the items I find worth mentioning. The code in general
looks very amateuristic and I doubt it solves any problem that isn't already
solved by more well developed frameworks such as Flask, Django and so on.
Thanks, I'll give 'er a look
Ask HN: Interest in a "hardcore" dev tutorial site?
I've been thinking about this alot lately and working on a prototype in my free time, and maybe I'm just missing things that are already out there. But anyway, I was wondering:

what are the sites you use to really learn programming, not c syntax or basic/mid level stuff but things like linux kernel internals, How webkit works, or programming your own js libs?

Where do these sites fall short? Or if not and they're great, why?

Basically, what are your media/video learning resources (ie not reading source code) once you've gotten to a higher level?

For me personally, I find I learn very little from most conference videos (ontwik for example), also I rarely have the time to actually complete most online "courses" like standford or whatever, so what I'd like to have is a site where I could go to for 30 minutes, look over the devs shoulder as he builds his own Node Chat server or whatever, and then go on having learned something.

Anyone have any thoughts here? Thanks!
I've noticed the same thing in all the school curricula I've seen. The word problems are often vague, and all to often completely ambiguous. They require guessing what the question writer had in mind when she wrote the question, which are usually unstated assumptions that apply only to the way math is done in schools. This is not the way to teach the kind of precise thinking and careful definition of terms that one needs to understand why math is the way it is: the “study of precisely defined objects.”

Teachers, if you want your pupils to understand how to create a mathematical problem from a description of a practical one, you must train them first to state the situation with absolute precision and without ambiguity. The best way to do that is, as in the teaching of all virtues, to fastidiously follow that habit yourself. That the questions in math textbooks fail to do that so often is another sign of the enormous institutionality of our education problems.
> PythonOnWheels (or short PoW)

Argh. Possibly bad name choice somehow: http://pow.cx/
> The minimum buy-in for the service is now $99 a month, which should scare away the idiots.

I'm scared, and as a potential customer I hate to be labeled an idiot.

I'm very happy with New Relics system even though they're priced higher than you per server, they at least offer a price PER server instead of tiers.
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Live on $30k - $2600 a year and tell me that the tax system favors the poor.
Indeed. Have enough tags (and with files, you'll end up with enough tags) and you'll need ontologies for those tags; you'll end up recreating hierarchical structure out of naming conventions. The same tag "name" within different contexts will have different meanings, and the concept of "context" by itself tends towards hierarchy of analytic decomposition.
Looks like an example of progeny mimicking creator.

"You're someplace you've never been, seeing and experiencing things almost no one else gets to, and you spend your weekend fiddling with computers."

That's OK. We have all done it, and hopefully the outcome will be slightly better than "Crap, I hosed up my RAID array and now this random obscure OS build I installed is completely broken."
Quora clearly announced this change of policy. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard".

http://hitchhikerguidetothegalaxy.blogspot.com/2006/04/bewar...
This reminds me of the WAT talk.

It's also crazy enough that I wouldn't want to trust that every browser in the world will always share that same behaviour.
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I start, like tjr, with the ToC. Then I check the index (if it's in my hands). Then skim a few chapters - see if the content under interesting chapter headings is written well and\or usable by me. Lastly, what is the price? Regardless of cost, if it's not one I'll read over and over \ refer-to constantly, I'll go to the library and check it out for a couple weeks, picking-up what I want/need from it
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Does it now catch system exceptions as well?
Something that drove me away from php that i was not able to catch all errors inside an exception block.
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This whole thing can be reduced to "people who engage in idle gossip are generally speaking not the sharpest pencils in the box".

Most people with half a brain just kept their mouth shut, so there's really no way to draw any conclusion about the Apple community as a whole, unless you can produce an accurate number on the people that ignored the whole thing.
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Holger, co-founder of Meerli here.

A lot of them definitely are concepts. That always happen when you ask designers to show of their hot stuff, but we do also have some very cool designers, who're showing off some very cool apps, that has been released. For example http://meer.li/designs/clear or http://meer.li/designs/wthr-app.

Prismatic also uploaded their upcoming app http://meer.li/designs/prismatic, which is really hot as well. I've gotten to play around with it a bit and it's smoking hot UX-wise :-).
Bravo!

The infinite reasons for not doing this:

1) PG has much more important things to do.

2) It would break every other hack ever done based on HN.

3) Recurs back to 1.
I was reading http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/, when I realized that people might still have interesting ways to store data on a printed page. One example might be to hide a secret message within plain sight, this is the art of Steganography, and I was curious if anyone had tried encoding data in this way. With a guetenburg press this would have been really hard to created, but with today's laser and injet printers it shouldn't be that hard to encode such a message.

Ligatures are the special widths and lines that fonts use to make it easier to read a block of text. For example, non-fixed width fonts are kinda a way of doing this, but this might go deeper than that.
the project admin would/should be able to specify in the board notes,

for instance - record (using iPhone4s) at 1080p HD video.
4 times their current size of 40 employees? This is Digg 2.0 all over time.

The obvious question: Why the HECK do they need 40, let alone 160 employees?!
Nice, I love it. We started out super simple and just kept improving it and making it taller.
I don't see how it could calculate what my tax burden would be based on my income alone. It's not asking me if I'm self employed or if I have dependents.

Consultants like myself have to pay the payroll taxes (SSI, Medicare) for themselves as well as the employer contribution - which this doesn't mention. I suppose it's just looking at income tax?

Who do I vote for if I want to torch the current federal tax system and replace it with a federal sales tax?
Well it seems they've learned from the company they came from - Facebook.
Dalton has committed to almost every open platform standard available. Plus, an amazingly open API.

That's why angry Twitter developers are showing up in spades, from all around the world.

That's why Silicon Valley top talent is showing up to collaborate with him, to help build it. Think Linux.org.
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As others have pointed out, your infographic is missing data (Rmoney hasn't released a detailed plan) and the design downplays this fact to hide that the numbers are likely not factual.

That does not seem apolitical.

(I'm not an American, so I am neither republican or democrate)
Thanks, I just went with GeoIP, it looks like that's about all there is. Makes me wonder, it seems like this good be a pretty good API service someone could offer, do it a lot cleaner more modern, better docs and bindings etc.
Your statement is misleading. If those 4% of the country are paying 50% of taxes because they are taking home 50% of the money made last year, that seems exactly fair!
Their rumor was highly believable precisely because Apple has already done this. They use those stupid pentalobe screws all over the place now, for no reason other than to make it more difficult to open the stuff. It doesn't take any pessimism to think they might do it again.

It's a good lesson, though: even rumors which are totally characteristic of a company and which easily fit in with how they've acted the past still deserve critical thought.
Quora's new walled garden reminds me of expertsexchange.com. And that's not a good thing.
This is the kind of behaviour we all deeply hate from TelCos, why would you do the same?

I'd say offer the new price to all and get happier clients. If you can't afford that then why are you lowering prices in the first place?