skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not so long ago IIRC Twitter closed the gates before orthogonal consumers (i.e. they were not competitors either).

I wouldn't be surprised much if Instagram/Facebook used similar tactics.
The inspiration for the project came from having to rebuild scaffolding for web.py projects over and over again.

I figured, people should just be able to clone a repository, install dependencies, and have a working web.py application.

I also added a key feature which I've been missing in my own applications -- default support for logging analytics.

Overall, the application is ideal for getting a website live in the time it takes to 'git clone'. The analytics currently driven by lazydb (which isn't production ready) so I'd suggest modifying the @track decorator in waltz/main.py to fit your tastes.

The next step is to add default flatfile support for sessions.
Just tried this on my iPhone, the buttons feel native, impressive. Awesome work! Already have a use case for this
Conversely I have had a ton of success with Yelp in unfamiliar cities (small towns not so much, but there are many small towns that simply don't have good places so I don't blame this on Yelp).

I treat Yelp reviews like I do any online review, say Amazon for an example. Stars don't mean too much but if a place has a ton of reviews and very low average that is probably a good signal. I find a few places that fit the bill and then read the reviews in detail and sometimes the other reviews by people who have outlying reviews. Then I usually cross check at places like OpenTable, Zagat and Chowhound.

I don't recall being disappointed and have found some very excellent spots. I was in Atlanta last week and hit up Kevin Rathbun Steak (http://www.yelp.com/biz/kevin-rathbun-steak-atlanta) and JCT Kitchen & Bar (http://www.yelp.com/biz/jct-kitchen-and-bar-atlanta). Both were great.

Update: I'd say that with Yelp I probably miss out on some great spots that don't have much of a presence there, but I also don't strike out. False positives are worse to me than false negatives. Especially if I'm only in town for a few days.
"Reform" is one of those lovely words that means precisely whatever the audience thinks it ought to mean.
Look at the stock market and the economy. See any patterns?

Look at the bank scandals and failing banks, foreclosed homes.

Corporations have made record profits at the expense of others, and then sued other companies in an attempt to destroy the competition and have more profits. Apple may or may not have peaked, but there is a big asskicking coming their way because of these frivolous patent lawsuits.

Guess what happens when the $45 A-Pad Android Tablet comes to the USA and UK? http://www.gizchina.com/2012/07/03/45-android-tablet-ics-fro...
I was pleasantly surprised when I realized that as I scrolled the example on the right changed. Really nice site guys.
Unfortunately that's not true: it depends directly on what you are doing with your RDBMS - there are many work loads which are better suited to MongoDB. Obviously there are also many which are not.

Unless I'm out of date, Redis and High Availability don't go together in the same sentence; awesome as it is, it's still a single point of failure.
Relax. There are PLENTY of legal problems for Google.

You have the FRAND investigation in US, EU, SK. The countless lawsuits over Google News. The recent finding in Australia of defamation against Google because of their search results. How that plays out in the future will be interesting. The privacy violations over DNT and major concerns/lawsuits over the cross-product privacy policy in EU, Canada and elsewhere.

Then I expect there to be a wave of lawsuits over Google's intelligent search results e.g. flights, tickets, offers, shopping which are very similar to Microsoft's "embrace and extend" approach.

Seems like everyone misses the "do no evil" Google.
I've used mongo off and on for a while (even writing a common lisp tutorial on using it), and this is the first really nice writeup for mongo I've seen. Thanks a lot!
Are we calling the Eskimo tribes who to this day hunt whales as part of their cultural tradition "murderers"?

Would you call the cannibalistic tribes who hunt neighbouring tribes and eat them in holy rituals murderers?
I think this was really needed… you only need to look at the various sites web.stagram.com, pictajam.com, instaprof.appspot.com, ink361.com and more to know that people really wanted this.

Great, however — there is no way to take your photos with you without using the API (and thusly, oauth).

I was really hoping for an RSS/Atom feed, or a JSON endpoint that didn't require auth.

Do you think this is an oversight on instagrams' part, or was I just misguided in my hopes?
Don't forget to add on the xkcd comic!

http://xkcd.com/1098/

The trouble with these rating systems is that they're usually done by one of two groups: people who wish they were foodies or people who had a bad experience.

It's nice to see Foursquare get into this space, but like another commenter said -- it'd be nice to see them tackle the minor issues like hours of operations and menus (maybe through some sort of reward?).
I think the point is that this data undermines the RIAA's argument that the primary purpose of TPB is to facilitate lawbreaking, and that sites such as TPB should be illegal.
Good Samaritan laws cover a layperson attempting to do good (so long as you're not doing something a reasonable person would realize to be actively harmful).

In most states, "ignoring" a DNR order is covered similarly. Point of interest:

Even as an EMS provider, with a patient who has a valid and active POLST (Physician's Orders on Life Sustaining Treatment - a more detailed DNR, that offers advice on comfort measures, intubation, and the like) - if the family wants heroic measures (CPR, etc), then we are required to do so (though my personal moral and ethical compass has issues with this).
What I don't understand is why nobody has tried to put together a nuclear reactor + stirling engine in cars yet.

An engineering buddy and I tried doing the math for getting cars up on the same configuration, but quickly realized that albeit each vehicle would contain miniscule amounts of uranium, someone could buy up a bunch of them and aggregate a large amount of uranium (bad).

For trains or large hauling vehicles it would be perfect, but most of the new trains/rail receive their electricity via some track delivery mechanism anyways.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks like you could extract just the CSS and build an HTML5 app with it (as in PhoneGap or trigger.io), without all of the push.js stuff. It looks really nice, and would be good for more than just prototyping.

Edit: clarifying what I meant by HTML5 app.
:-) no problem!
Realistically, you can't worry about it. There's patents on almost anything you might try to do in software, and especially as a small company all you can try to do is avoid any ones you know are being actively trolled.
yeah same. Congrats
It's even useful for answering bland user questions like "Hm... is this hanging process just not honoring my proxy settings? Yup."
Before Steve Jobs got sick and started the war with Android, it was always that Apple could innovate their way out of any problem. Somehow Apple decided to stop innovating their way out or problems and file patent lawsuits like any other top dog billions of dollar corporations. It is not the way to do things and will turn around to bite Apple in the long run.
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You're right, I should have been more specific. For my usage needs AT&T was less, if I use GV for sms (saving $20/m). Though the T-Mobile coverage is poor in the places I want it, so it wasn't one I considered anyway.
Samsung is just one of MANY FRAND patent holders for 3G/WiFi which are commodity technologies today. People just expect it to be on all mobile devices.

The bounce back scrolling uniquely differentiated iOS from other platforms. And there are plenty of ways to implement it without needed to duplicate the exact Apple way. In fact HTC, Samsung, Google, Motorola all have different implementations.

So yes from a product perspective Samsung's tiny contribution to the FRAND patent pool is worth 1/30 of what Apple's patents are worth.
Exactly. "Can get" and "are getting" are two completely separate things.

Even still, $100k at your SOMA startup seems like it would sound a lot better to someone earning $70k in the middle of nowhere than someone earning $100k at an existing job down the street.
If only...using our checkin data...there was some sort of way we could figure out when a place was likely to be open. Hrmmmmmmm.

It all fits together my friend. These things just take some time to get done.

-harryh

PS: Imagine you had access to billions of checkins covering 10s of millions of users and places all over the world. What sort of interesting things could you do with that data? Feel like you have some great ideas? http://foursquare.jobs
Interesting observation. Have you heard of Korzybski?
git add -i
Looks good.

To help put things in perspective - how is this different from Sencha?
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Looks very cool. It would be nice to see closer parity to what's available with native UIKit, but super fast to get started and looks pretty nice. Great work!
Since when is "displaying stuff" synonymous with "analysis?" If you're "analyzing" your data by staring at it, you're almost certainly doing it wrong. Real questions with real (i.e. non-ambiguous) answers have small representations, more or less by defintion. The point of analysis is coming up wiht ideas and testing them. That's a programming problem (whether or not it's done in a "programming language") and is naturally well suited to a text stream.

I mean, I'm all for having nice GUI tools. And I've even been known to stare at giant data dumps when stumped (though I'll note that a maximized terminal window with grep-over-tcpdump-output content works just as well as wireshark for that purpose). But that argument is just silly.
What are the lowest requirements for VPS to run a ~5 websites with minimal load and couple of email boxes?
Great read about this topic from pg:

http://www.paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html
i don't think it's the right place to go into detail here, but there are so many things which make wordpress NOT awesome, that i cannot take anyone seriously who states that wordpress IS awesome. architecture, performance, wordpress's code itself, templating, continious security issues just to name a few.
We definitely agree that menus + hours and all sorts of things like that are important too. We've already got a couple hundred thousand menus in the system and are working on getting more.
Judging by the title, Rachet isn't designed to build a complete app, but just a prototype for faster iteration before starting on a final native iOS app.
The reason for this is minor's can't be held liable for any contracts they sign, that and companies have boiler plate legal speak that is intended for 99% of their customers.

That being said, there are plenty of ways to get around that limitation, and may well land you in a grey area. On the flip side, because your a minor you can also get away with a lot more.
I live in Australia. We don't really have those problems here.

And your entire "price is the most important factor" has been disproven so many times by Apple et al that you just look stupid for bringing it up. Cheap tablets already exist and yet Apple still sold 3 million iPads in 3 days.
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That line means "if you need somebody, I'm here". It's there to let you know that while you have to go through this by yourself, you are not alone.

But yes, words are insufficient. Even if the other person speaking them has gone through the same pain.
This is a nice bump on what you can do currently with a standard monolithic server, which I think was 4x12 => 48 cores in the last generation. 64 high performance cores is pretty useful for a lot of modest sized big data computational tasks that otherwise would require you to step up to an entirely different (distributed) architecture.
rys, what are using for your blog's backend? octopress? jekyll?
This CEO would have to prove that they behave ethically, and then extrapolate the HN viewership with potential customers and thus lost revenue and/or a loss of brand equity.

This is certainly not a stretch for civil court, nor would it be inexpensive for either party involved.
A good reminder that we are often waiting for things that are within our power to change. There might be a temptation on HN to read this as "you should quit everything and do a startup!", but hopefully it will be read to apply to other aspects of life too.
Ask HN:  Where can I get a sample "Industry Standard" convertible note doc?
I just got a convertible note doc from my lawyer and something just doesn't seem right. Any idea where I might be able to find a somewhat standardized convertible note doc which I can compare his doc against?
Combined with the component set and push.js, it looks like a similar framework to jQuery Mobile. Thus, it would be great for building straight up mobile websites or HTML5 mobile apps. Am I right, or missing something?
I used it several months ago to reverse engineer the data our POSes (point of sale devices) send to our licensed ERP app (bundled together by vendor) so we can use a superior POS, as they would rather force us to use their crap than publish an API.
A while back I wanted to put a JSON information string and a fairly sizable 3D model in the same request response, and then pull the JSON off without nailing the browser if the model was big. I keep meaning to test how well it works in different browsers as well.
The "iPod" touch
Doesn't the non-discriminatory part just mean you have to license these patents to everyone who is willing to pay the fair and reasonable price? I don't see why that term would have any connection to individual products, and setting a different price for each product is reasonable accounting for the volume you expect to be sold of the product and the importance of the patented functionality to the product.

Frankly, it's a cell phone, so you could argue that the technology being licensed here is the core of the product.
Related poem I wrote a year and some ago: http://mehulkar.com/posts/15
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Any patent assignee will have to notice you in order for there to be any trouble. Getting noticed is usually a sign of "you've made it" success, and it's that success that should motivate you, not fear of someday making $9M instead of $10M, causing you to make $0.

In a more specific fashion, patents are just like many programming environments- you can read up on them from the comfort of your laptop. Google.com/patents is a great resource. Spend a few hours over the course of a week typing in search terms related to what you're doing, and justify to yourself why each and every patent that comes up isn't doing what you're doing. (Remember, patents expire, so even if what you're doing has been invented and patented, it might be free to exploit anyway).
Maybe I'm just set in my ways, but I still love flickr. It's how I store my photos online. I certainly don't want to store my photos on Instagram. Though, flickr has missed an opportunity for the way people share spontaneous iPhone pics. A lot of people still use a real camera and upload their pics in batches.
"No one wants to convince retailer marketers that a system clocked at half the speed of their competitors is actually just as fast"

They don't have to. Reviewers would shout from the rooftops that your new laptop/tablet does not feel hot when holding it and lasts significantly longer on a battery charge. Then, you market your devices by quoting the reviewers.

Even on a desktop, a cooler CPU has advantages. Put it in a smaller, quieter box, and advertise that.
No user agent detection for the iPad Mini
> Guess what happens when the $45 A-Pad Android Tablet comes to the USA and UK?

Absolutely nothing? The type of person that would buy the cheapest equipment available with no concerns other than price wouldn't have considered Apple to begin with. Why is the world driving around in overpriced cars when $3500 Tata Nanos are available?

I'm also curious why nobody else in the tech world is due for their "big asskicking." (http://visual.ly/tech-patent-wars)
http://www.fusfoundation.org/MRgFUS-Overview/about-focused-u...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_focused_ultrasou...

http://bergcityuni.wordpress.com/projects/cardiac-ablation-u...

(links to sites linking to university funded medical researchers)

It doesn't take long to do a GOOGLE SEARCH. For a supposedly tech themed discussion site there's a lot of closed-minded and google-challenged folk on here.
That may be the case, but it's still a mistake on her part if she feels that way. It's her job to understand the issues she votes on, let alone the bills she sponsors. "I didn't seek out any source of information beyond the lobbyists dumping money into my re-election campaign" is hardly a good excuse.
It doesn't matter because they've already locked it down on the demand side. You can distribute iOS apps anyway you want, but people won't be able to install them.
Foursquare’s new ratings feature should terrify Yelp
This was our intention, but that's not to say it couldn't be used to build a real mobile app :)
Show HN: www.WikipediaTop.com - what's hot
http://www.WikipediaTop.com

I am curious about extracting info from data.

So this is a small project to visualize what's buzzing on Wikipedia.

This is an early iteration - I will try to improve it in the future.

Feedback is welcome!
Applying Big Data to Energy
I really hope this doesn't mean meetings.io is going away, I've really enjoyed using it.
Freight trains in America have no way of getting electric power from the rails in a safe manner. If you could actually build a train-sized power plant, it would work wonderfully.

Interesting fact: For engineering reasons, the engines in the trains do not directly connect to the wheels. Instead, they operate generators that power electric motors attached to the wheels. Installing a nuclear power plant would be as simple as adding another car to the train and changing around some wires.
Here is the link: http://www.WikipediaTop.com
"Who knows what heights of glory this particular Target employee will climb to in the future?"

Quite possibly none. Intelligence doesn't equal success, ever.

We all have plenty of examples of people who, though very smart, fared poorly in the world and then later, in their own lives or afterwards, fared much better and even became famous---because those people became famous.
Ratchet is starting with iPhone prototyping. It hasn't been tested on Android/Windows devices. That said, if the components were tested it could totally work for mobile web apps.
* As a scientist and educator, my goal, then, is not to become President and lead a dysfunctional electorate, but to enlighten the electorate so they might choose the right leaders in the first place.*

I think it is easy to do this at the local and state level. These populations are small enough that variations in general political leaning are small (e.g. Californians are a more unified electorate than the US as a whole). It is also easier because some polarizing issues are out of states' hands (e.g. defense spending, immigration, abortion). It is harder to get a whole country to agree on one leader
Also, this is a marvel of a sentence: "Other than MWI and Bohm, the major interpretations (not including Copenhagen)"

"Other than Android and Windows Mobile, all major cell phone operating systems (not including iOS)"

The long and short of it is, for purely philosophical reasons you don't like the notion of the state vector collapse. You freely admit that there is no way to experimentally distinguish between your favorite interpretation and the Copenhagen interpretation. You just declare that it's not even a contender, using arguments which have nothing to do even in principle with the outcome of any experiments.

Saying that something is not precisely defined sounds to me totally like grasping at straws. Nothing's ever precisely defined in science, you could criticize any theory including Newton's mechanics by saying that it doesn't define precisely what a measurement is. Which never stopped anyone from measuring things and comparing the values they measured with what the theory predicted.

You quote someone who made an analogy with Copernicus. The Copernican theory simplified the calculations right away, whereas with Quantum Mechanics, the calculations stay exactly the same no matter what story you feel like telling yourself so that you can take the outcome of these calculations and compare them with the real world.

Let me make this clear that I'm not against MWI. I care about MWI exactly as much as about the Copenhagen interpretation (which is not very much.) I am however opposed to pretending that one of the two exactly equivalent ways of saying something is "more true" than another.

Staying within Quantum Mechanics, there are two ways of writing the equations of motion: the Heisenberg picture and the Schroedinger picture. In the former the state vector is constant but the operators are a function of time, in the latter the operators are constant and the state vector evolves with time. The two formulations are equivalent, sometimes it is convenient use one or the other for a specific calculation and often you use a mix of both (so called interaction picture.) Nobody argues that say the Heisenberg picture is "really true" as opposed to the Schroedinger picture. If someone did, that would be inane, even if they invoked Copernicus and Occam (even though the analogy with Copernicus would be maybe better, since the calculations actually are different depending which picture you choose.)
I can't know what you mean by minimal load, but I'm guessing you could get by with 128mb RAM to run a few personal sorts of sites, but I've seen $7/m for 1-2gb RAM. Be sure to read comments to make sure the company is decent, as most are run by just a single dude who could be flaky.
Not all of them were just in wireshark. Sometimes the root of the issue was in libpcap which is common code between wireshark and tcpdump.
Can you provide any specific examples where, acting in good faith, someone was never-the-less prosecuted under such laws?
No worries (and now I feel bad for haranguing someone with dyslexia), I guess it just winds me up because I see it a lot - it slips past the spellcheck.
This feels a lot more lightweight than jQuery mobile while retaining the look/functionality needed to work on a mobile web app. Does this seem like a suitable replacement for jQM for a basic mobile web application?
Perfectum Dashboard
I think my favorite reading of "Oh, the Places You'll Go" is the Burning Man version. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahv_1IS7SiE
We did it : https://twitter.com/iceddev/status/265599421469818881
> The problem isn't Yelp-specific. .. The problem is entirely human.

Absolutely. So one part of the solution is to stop putting restaurants on an "objective" 1-5 scale, and averaging every human together.

Instead, cluster restaurants so you can "people who liked the overrated, pretentious mess also liked X..."