skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a weird approach to this problem that someone might like. I use Brunch, which is a frontend assembler (like Yeoman but with more flexibility). I then use a Jinja2 watcher utility over the output directory. So one watcher does Stylus>CSS, Coffee>JS, minifying, concat etc., and the other one is for the template stuff. I wrote a simple utility for the templating part, which can output site translations too if you want. https://github.com/jokull/jinjet

Warning: Not good for blogging or anything you would like to update often.

I’ve also tried Flask-Freezer for static sites. All the benefits of regular frameworks.

Cactus has some nice things going for it, but some decisions are weird. May I suggest using Jinja2 for templating, Django is complete overkill and simply an inferior template engine. Oh and make it at least somewhat PEP8 compatible.
Kids today. The Raspberry Pi has a 700Mhz processor and at least 256M of memory. In 1999 I was running an mp3 search engine that processed 200k daily queries at its peak, on a Pentium II with 128MB.

Serving static pages at the rate HN can generate requires less resources than playing any game on your phone.
Introducing our first UXmas goody...
Same. It took awhile to build up consistency, but building the idea muscle and establishing a daily practice is having a big impact on me. "How to be the luckiest guy on the planet" is my favorite as well.
What are your plans for 2013?
In less then a month, 2013 will come. What are you planning to do next year? Are you going to get big or stay small? Change jobs, go freelance or start your business? Are you going to get rid of projects? How much do you want to earn?
There's more to navigation than city streets. That accuracy would be awesome for shipboard use.
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Thank you!

What's even crazier is that the USPTO gave us a trademark for a frequency O_O.
Are We Asking the Right Questions?
Just a small correction. The USS Hornet was reclassified for anti submarine warfare from CV-12 to CVS-12
The side effect of privatizing what could be a public good is that is means denying to billions what they could have for free so that a relative handful will have an incentive to pay for it.
Denmark - Aarhus or Copenhagen, who is in? :-)
SEEKING WORK - London or remote.

I've worked in search [1-3], recommendations [4,5], analytics [6], testing [7], and distributed/p2p systems [8-11]. I have a strong background in math (real analysis, probability, discrete maths) and computer science (randomized algorithms, AI / epistemic logic, machine learning). I've worked professionally with python, ocaml and erlang. I'm also rapidly approaching comfort in clojure.

I've spent the last few months at the NYC Hacker School, adapting research from the BOOM [12] and STEPS [13] projects to build tools [14,15] for rapidly prototyping distributed algorithms. Before that I spent the summer as an intern at Jane St, working on a distributed messaging system which supports querying history by causal time intervals.

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[2] http://scattered-thoughts.net/blog/2010/12/08/optimising-tex...

[3] http://scattered-thoughts.net/blog/2010/12/19/optimising-tex...

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[5] http://l1.scattered-thoughts.net/deck.js/springer-recommenda...

[6] https://github.com/jamii/springer-analytics

[7] http://scattered-thoughts.net/blog/2010/07/30/smarkets-api-d...

[8] http://scattered-thoughts.net/blog/2011/03/16/transactional-...

[9] https://github.com/jamii/erl-telehash

[10] http://scattered-thoughts.net/blog/categories/telehash/

[11] https://github.com/jamii/dissertation

[12] http://www.bloom-lang.net/

[13] http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf

[14] https://github.com/jamii/strucjure

[15] https://github.com/jamii/droplet
Yup. And we had a running MSR at shippingport PA for awhile.
Ask HN: What are good services that provide bank account tokenization
I'm working on a project where one of my tasks is providing payouts to service providers. The methods of payment I'd like to offer are (1) Paypal (using Paypal's Mass Pay API) and (2) direct deposit to a provider's bank account using ACH transfer. Ideally, though, for liability reasons I would prefer not having to store the bank account info directly. Can anyone recommend services that provide a "bank account info vault" where I would just use a token to make the direct deposit? So far I've looked into Dwolla and Balanced Payments, but it seems like neither of these solutions allow data portability - that is, if I decided to use a different provider I wouldn't have access to transfer over the bank account data.

Thanks
Please don't call people "fanboy"s, or any other name for that matter, on Hacker News.
Yes... At least for non-technical people.

Last year I did a small project with Excel/VBA and I realized VBA is even more difficult than C#. String manipulation is overly complex and nearly everything seems really difficult.
The best device for Win8 is what Microsoft calls the "convertible". A device that's a laptop one second and a tablet the next. I particularly like the Surface, and those ultrabooks that bend backwards, so you can use the base of the unit to keep it stood up!
I'm not really surprised to read this. These cases, I'm sure, are a dime a dozen. I did the same thing in middle school; I pirated Photoshop and started to learn the ins and outs. Led me to getting an internship which led me to getting a job and settling on a decent career path. Now I own most of the thousands of dollars of software I used as a kid.

I can agree and sympathize with this until he said that most people pirate out of need, not greed. Not sure that's really accurate but I'm also not sure it's measurable.
The 2000s were the era of military privatization. Military personnel pay rates are set by law. The point is that private corporations can't take a cut when military personnel to do the work, therefore everything except shooting has to be privatized.
OS X tends to break older apps IIRC. On the other hand, Windows has excellent backwards compatibility. And there's always the very long support period.
CloudFront vs CloudFlare
A bootstrap platform for sea steader ?

That's a great idea - it would be put to a good use, and be an interesting experiment in creating a community on an artifical island!

Hell, anything would be better than just destroying it.
The 2000s were the era of military privatization. Military personnel pay rates are set by law and are paid by the government to the employee/soldier. Private corporations can't take a cut when military personnel do the work, therefore everything except shooting has to be privatized.
Huh, I guess these comments reinforce just how diverse opinions can get-- I really enjoyed both the style and content of the story and it didn't occur to me that anyone wouldn't.
A tour of the world in d3.js
Have you looked at wok? https://github.com/mythmon/wok
John captured?
It's mentioned in the article though not really on topic but...any idea why Chrome has been losing users for 3 months in a row? Where are they going to? Firefox? Why? What is Chrome doing wrong/others doing right?
Talk to @CopenhagenJS they are well connected in the meetup scene.
Check out https://hackpad.com/qlMMTiNuRl6#10-Reasons-Hackpad-is-Better... for some highlights.
Yes, because in the construction boom that followed the Global Financial Crisis, foreman would love to hire overweight middle aged accountants to dig their ditches.
I'm glad things worked out for Vlad -- when I was younger, I pirated a fair amount of software and games, and, like him, I think it enabled me to get inspired to learn more about computers in general and, indeed, now I stare at them all day for work.

But.

I'm not sure what the bigger point is, here. Should we be okay with piracy as long as the pirate is using it for self-betterment? Do games count for that? What about pirating Game of Thrones episodes? (Or, to take a wild leap: Is it cool for a kid to steal a car if he learns how to be a mechanic from it?)

Today, I do feel there are some motions towards providing better access to software and hardware in poorer parts of the world. Which is great. And, to be frank, the quality of both cheap hardware and open source software is insane relative to twenty years ago. So, again, I'm not sure what Vlad's bigger point is.

If the point is to justify piracy, I think he only does it in the very narrowest of ways: Considering the state of technology in the 1990s, piracy enabled people in poorer parts of the world (and kids in wealthier parts of the world) access to the growing information technology industry. I'm not sure that argument exactly holds in the same way today.

Finally, Microsoft can survive a fair amount of piracy. But not every software company can. What happens when this "it's cool because I'm using it to educate myself" stance kills software companies? Or game companies? Or media companies? Is that better for everyone?

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EDIT: I'm not equating the act of stealing a car with the act of pirating Windows. I am merely wondering about the general nature of morally justifying a crime based on it being done for self-improvement. If we say it's okay in a case of software piracy, are we okay with it in other contexts?
Noticed they were very active, but the "JS" part made me lose the interest :( Are there meetups more general, that one would think, taking the name into consideration?
Doh! You're right. Can't believe I'm getting so heavily down-voted though - honest mistake. I mean, there seems to be no shortage of SF companies named BufferXXX these days. :)
I haven't actually, mostly making something open source takes time, if you don't have that extra time pretty much no one will use it. (at least that's my experience)
This is no surprise to anyone who understands the difference between search ads and "display" ads. People have more buying intent when they search, so search ads bring around $50/1,000 impressions (average over all US search queries) verses $1 or $0.1 for display ads. There's nothing special about Facebook in this regard, and I think the title of the blog and the hacker news title are a bit over-wrought! How about, "For 10 years and counting, search ads have beaten display ads."
Tips on negotiating effectively, taken from the book.
I started with BASIC when in school and now I am in the process of introducing Python to my 11 year old. Anything that makes learning fun will gets kids to try out something new!

Last summer together we did codeacademy's introduction to Python.

This site has a list of books and online resources for just the purpose
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=6...
Just a general plug for the Flask framework: http://flask.pocoo.org/

A lot of you are probably familiar with Flask and its awesome Jinja2 templating system.

There's a well supported, officially approved extension called Frozen-Flask that generates static sites from a Flask/Jinja2 deployment:
http://packages.python.org/Frozen-Flask/
There are much better arguments for justifying piracy, notably the original intent/purpose of copyright.

http://zacharyalberico.com/post/16427595132/no-infringement-...
If the first part is critical, then we should just go back to IQ testing job applicants instead of wasting $100,000 and 4-5 years to skip class and cheer at football games. Unfortunately this practice was banned by the Supreme Court as discriminatory.
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Pathpath: Easy %PATH% editing under Windows
Stealing a car deprives someone of a car. Copying a car does not.
I'm quite sorry I even submitted this, I saw it on Slashdot and half read it. Big mistake.
For someone who already knows how to program, Python seems to be very easy to pick up. It's still a tremendously more complex language than BASIC.

I help teach an after-school programming class for middle schoolers. Last year, we tried using Python. While some students got the hang of it, many seemed confused and demotivated.

This year, I wrote a simple TinyBASIC REPL from scratch[1], aiming to produce the simplest subset of the language that made it possible to do interesting things and illustrate concepts like looping, branching, variables, etc. It was a big hit with the kids, and the whole class has been extremely engaged. As a next step, I've built a Logo[2] implementation so that we can move into writing modular, reusable procedures and play with graphics.

Learning to program is almost entirely orthogonal to learning a language, and I think that starting with very small "toy" languages is a good way to approach teaching core concepts without getting lost in the quirks and complex features of popular "real" languages. BASIC is small, Python will never be.

[1]https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Mako/tree/master/demos/Masica
[2]https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Mako/tree/master/demos/Loko
Well, there's work to be done (quite literally), so unless we discover the laws of thermodynamics don't work, energy will always be expended.
Only one Android template is actually up to date and it just points to the official developer stencils:

https://developer.android.com/design/downloads/index.html
I expect ski boots to be the first consumer breakthrough 3d printed product. Personalized fit matters immensely, so much so that it is common to pay someone to grind and stretch an existing shell and/or to use exotic heat moldable or vacuum fit liners.

Further they are fairly expensive and one of the main cost of producing a new model is the cost of producing molds in each shell size. The market is also large enough to justify significant investment but also very receptive too new boutique products.

(Any one with a 3d printer feel free to use this business idea so I can buy a pair and stop my feet from hurting.)
Living the Generous Life
Is this running from home?

If so, do you have a static IP? Does your ISP allow home servers?
I think you understand my point. In a general sense, is doing something criminal okay if it's for self-betterment? Pirating Windows does rob Microsoft of some small portion of their rights as a creator.
It's always been rumored that Adobe software, especially Photoshop, has been easy to pirate to encourage adoption with a user base that might otherwise seek alternatives. As those people hone their skills and eventually find jobs, Photoshop is the norm and what their employers purchase licensing for.
I think that the answer is open source, now there are a lot of alternatives and you don't need piracy for learning stuff, now probably piracy makes you dumber
On the one hand this chap, "[downloaded] an infinite number of games and software - all illegally," while also refers to people who pirate out of greed as - and this is verbatim - "bumholes". Despite the obvious hyperbole, it seems very likely that this man himself was once a bumhole.

The story presented by the writer is one that is largely inapplicable today. Developers and other content creators have got a better grip on regional pricing, most markets see software being released particularly since online distribution, and the software market has seen more budget alternatives to big name brands become available.

This response may appear rather dishevelled, but that is because I'm not sure what the point is that the article is attempting to touch on. The quasi-Marxist monologue is tired when the quality of free, or cheap software today is very high and so some wishy-washy argument about self-betterment through piracy is left looking rather weak.

There are some fairly strong arguments in favour of piracy, some even quite convincing. This is not one of them.
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The thing about statistics is that it can be different depending on who measures it. According to StatCounter[1] Chrome's share has been rising from 34.21% to 35.72% in the last 3 months.

[1]http://gs.statcounter.com/
Even though this is Wired, this is typical of financial reporting: to take a single day of price movements and write whole stories about them, completely ignoring larger price movements or alternative explanations. I've even seen news articles about stock market movements changed after the price swung from negative to positive in the same day... but the article kept the explanation for the price movement essentially the same! My guess is that this Wired story would have found a way to be written regardless of what the stock price did. But, getting to say that it "dove 7%" makes for good headlines (even if soared 8% just the day before, meaning that it just "dove" back to its original price).

While I don't think Zynga is a great company to invest in, its stock price is very volatile, which probably makes for good frequent attention grabbing headlines. Sure, this news was part of the reason the stock price was down, but apparently market price setters still think the company is 13% more valuable than it was 30 days ago.
I'd be up for Aarhus if anybody is in the area.
Airbnb Responds to Questions About Hosts Breaking Local Laws
"OS X tends to break older apps"

[citation needed]

New versions of OS X don't break older apps. The opposite is true: new apps are often coded to take advantage of APIs in newer versions of OS X, those will not work on older versions of OS X.

My 2004 PowerPC notebook can't run the most current OS X, and few new apps work on PowerPC Macs. That's why I still use Adobe CS3 on that computer.

My 2009 Intel desktop Mac can run all apps ever released for OS X, even the ones compiled for PowerPC.

About Microsoft: Lots of drivers needed to be rewritten for Vista in order for peripherals to work. Internet Explorer 9 doesn't work on Windows XP and older. Internet Explorer 10 doesn't work on Vista and older. Modern UI apps don't work on Windows 7 and older.
And it looks like it's holding up again ;)
Any idea how the International Criminal Court would view a signatory nation doing such things?
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- SRE

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- Team lead positions for most of the above

- Lots of things not-mentioned (http://www.spotify.com/se/jobs/)

On the backend, we have an (extremely) service-oriented architecture written primarily in python and java with smatterings of C++ and others thrown in. Storage is Postgres or Cassandra. Messaging is zmq and protobuf and a few other interesting things.

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We're looking for experienced developers, no junior roles, sorry.

Apply on the website, but mention HN and get bumped to the top of the resume pile!
Tel Aviv, Israel.

We're a well funded Ruby shop that try to make online payments easier.

We're looking for a full-stack web developers or experienced engineers who'd like to learn Ruby and other technologies we're currently using, here are some of them:
Rails, Sinatra (for our API), Coffeescript (♥), Konacha (Mocha + Chai), Cucumber, SASS, HAML, Bootstrap, Chef + Vagrant (Devops are most welcomed), Jenkins, Gitlab, Postgres and Redis.

Our engineering workflow is collaborative, we do pair-programming on a daily basis.

The team has an enjoyable and collaborative culture, we do pair-programming all the time (yes, even remotely with tmux)
We emphasize good communication, great engineerding, automating ALL the things, professional development (get things done for one) and believe that a developer should not only do but also learn, at work, not just in his free time.

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Piracy for personal use is a 'victimless' (don't bite my head off please) crime, that's why it's OK here. Stealing is not.
By that token, you could also complain about the exclusion of IBM, Oracle, etc. These companies aren't really fighting it out for new territory the way Apple, Google, and Facebook are. They are big and relevant, but they're making money off existing fiefdoms.
I feel you, but there's some serious dicks in the open source community as well. It seems the same behaviors somehow have different meaning if they're attached to a company that it's popular to dislike.
Entrepreneurship is not a job
Major League Soccer, New York City, NY

We are Major League Soccer Digital, headquartered in NYC. We are a small team of developers who build and maintain Major League Soccer’s web, mobile-web, and content services. Most of our existing platform is built on a Drupal/PHP/MySQL stack, though we are investing heavily in Node.js, Redis, and Couchbase for our new products. We are not language snobs. We are hackers and doers. We are dedicated full stack developers who believe in using the right tools to create amazing experiences for our fans.

We have "official" job descriptions below, but we are interested in anyone who has a passion for technology and sports and the technical chops to push our team forward, be that in Dev, Ops, or QA.

http://www.mlssoccer.com/jobs#sr_dev

and

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What other ancient empires are still in play? IBM deals mostly in the realm of enterprise, eBay is still around as the master of its own specific market (with PayPal fighting back at the insurgent Square), and Oracle does- litigation and acquisitions?