skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the packet size. With 64k packets, you can easily approach 800M. But, yes, default packet of 8k will yield 480M at best.
Finder? Really? I would never imagine anyone would miss using Finder.
That's the bit of MacOS I found hardest to get used to. Looks good, but it's completely basic and featureless, and missed the versatility of KDE's Dolphin for quite a while until I found out about TotalFinder.
Despite TotalFinder being a great improvement over vanilla Finder, I still miss some of Dolphin's features such as: the ability to browse remote locations (FTP, SSH) and the ability to run a terminal window within dolphin for the folder you are viewing.
Teaching NLP
I'm a student, and I'd love a simple way to manage my income without having to faff around with spreadsheets and formulas (or more advanced finance software.)

I'd love to be able to manage my bank account with it, put a bit away every month and work out how much I have to spend - but in a clean, simple interface.
Better logging module !!!
Is this abandonment a side effect of the 'work on a popular OS project' advice I've seen around?
An interesting take on things Dan, however I think the tendency for writers and VCs to focus on youngsters is their desire to find enormously outsized returns; specifically, those in the league of Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Amazon.

Take, for example, this list of companies worth more than 1 Billion dollars:

http://blog.minming.net/post/35553963889/a-billion-dollar-so...

You will immediately notice that most of the companies valued over $1Bn are valued at or around the $1Bn dollar mark. Contrast this with companies like Facebook and Google which are tens or hundreds of times larger than this.

The key is - the companies that have such a huge risk involved that they can only be tackled by young founders are the ones most likely to produce an outsized return. While most investors won't complain about a $1Bn exit, they would froth at the mouth at the thought of a $100Bn one.

That said, most entrepreneurs would be satisfied with a $10M exit, let alone a $1Bn one. With this in mind, no age can truly be considered 'over the hill'.
Spent last year learning to code. I had the same problem with Hackity Hack, it really didn't teach me anything. It was a huge handholding operation.

I did Team Treehouse last month and it was infinitely better. This is no criticism of Steve, who is clearly working hard, but just a realistic view of what tools you should consider if you want to learn to program.
New soap module (current soap modules are big, outdated, not very much pythonic (except suds, but suds is outdated)
Despite typically cavalier attitudes toward driving in this country, cars are expert systems, not unlike piloting aircraft, or using a sewing machine.

There is substantial training, even licensing surrounding cars. We put up with the steep learning curve because of the tremendous and inescapable requirement of cars in many places.

So. Is your app so important that your user will put up with a steep learning curve and reading documentation before they can use it?

The appropriateness of UI walkthroughs hinge on this point. Steep learning curves and a need for training is inescapable in many situations - it's also almost always unnecessary for consumer applications.

Just like how no one would buy a toaster that required training/documentation.
I guess they can do it at their leisure, according to WSJ their contract is until 2014. Source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/samsung-hits-apple-with-20-...
Eventually, sure; I'd love to see some standardized signed/unsigned integers, for that matter. However, in the meantime, a browser could add an extension that existing JavaScript libraries could transparently use when available.
Thank you Sir! Amazing!
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Confession website
I like to believe that confession websites have a role to play in the web. Submit your worst confession and have it seen by people, without them knowing its you.
You can also use a service like dnsimple that offers more generalized aliases to any domain. As I understand it, you can only alias to AWS services with Route 53, but that may have changed.

I've been using Dnsimple for quite a while to host root domains on heroku.
Facebook, I want to pay my debt, but you don't let me
One day my credit card got out of it's limit. I received a message, clicked the link, added a new funding source. Suddenly I found myself in a new advertising account with empty campaigns and no loans.

My original account has no funding sources even the previous card, there is no way to add one.

Support is useless. It is like a robot searches the text in a database and send me the most relevant answer previously written for specific keywords. I doesn't answer anything.

Please how can I pay my debt?
You're welcome. I saw the original post more for entertainment value, with perhaps some good criticism of it from HN'ers. I hadn't seen this posting, rather nutty & unhinged.
I haven't seen anyone else explain why Django is spelled with a D. All I've seen is people reiterate the reason for the pronunciation given the spelling as "the D is silent" rather than the more insightful fact that, far from being silent, the D was necessary for Django Reinhardt to express the pronunciation of his nickname in his native language.
What would you say to a teenager joining a startup?
Interesting choice of article, considering DFW himself was closer to the prescriptivist side (Sprachgefühl Necessitates Our Ongoing Tendance and all that).
I never said it was a new term, and I've always has a dislike for it, especially as it's use has evolved. It's gone from meaning sub-administrator to self-asserted expert user. The issue I have with the expression is more with those who consider themselves "power users", as in my experience it goes hand in hand with condescension and arrogance, an "I know best" attitude if you will.
I use Knockout, but whatever MVVMs are awesome.
Just saw Tenderlove's tweet, which is pretty funny "while we're at it, we should check in the .so files too. Binfiles won't work so well without them."
GREAT SOLUTIONS IN ENGINEERING

Problem: bicycle seats are hard. They hurt.

Analysis: there must be something wrong with your pants.

"Solution": dorky pants.

from http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-07-18/

Problem: Python has poor support for threads, and concurrency in general.

Analysis: you must need more middleware.

"Solution": incomprehensible callback-based frameworks.
> many more probably had mild cases that were never disambiguated from other seasonal respiratory illnesses

It's certainly possible that some people got "low-grade" or even asymptomatic SARS. However, given how it spread like wildfire through exposed populations (such as health-care workers) it does seem that many people were susceptible to the virus and developed severe symptoms when exposed.

Therefore it seems unlikely that antibodies built up in the "herd" had much to do with the pandemic ending. The credit goes to the massive public health response, especially isolating anybody with suspected contact. SARS had all the components needed for a bad pandemic; they probably saved tens of millions of lives.
I fail to see how pash's comment does not explain that:

"the English "j" and the French "dj" represent the same sound"
Most Python programmers? I guess it depends on the circles in which one travels. I've personally never heard it said as "duh-jango" before. I've never pronounced it that way, personally.

In this talk, you can hear a Django dev pronouncing it (quite often): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-WXiqrzAf8
Listen, observe, ask.

This is probably the only thing I remember from reading Dale Carnegie.
The concerned regulatory bodies in India are staffed with people from a different middle class. A class where living simply and being debt free are the basic tenets of life. This class is from small towns and villages of India who view a Government job as a King's prize. India has such a low credit card ratio due to the large number of regulations .It is a cultural thing, yes, but the rules are created by a different set of people for another. Also, Credit Card implies independence and privacy. If you need a loan in India, almost always, parents will come through. Most MNC Credit Houses don't get that India already has a Credit source for small amounts of money in the form of entrenched family system. Home loans and Car loans on the other hand are a different story. And since, Credit Cards are primarily used for low spending, I don't see them growing exponentially for at-least two generations(i.e about 50-60 years). That's how long I think the family system is going to survive.
Google definitely indexes disqus comments.
I do use Dropbox. iCloud, much like Google's services, isn't about one thing. It's a suite of online tools, and it works for me. That's actually the important bit.
This is pretty interesting, I'd like to hear more about it. I'd also like Amazon to hear more about it because maybe they could treat web buckets differently or something.
> a bit slower

The rpi is far more than a bit slower, more than the cores and clock counts imply. The pi is a slower microarch and is cache deprived too.

For somethings this doesn't matter but many of those things should probably be done on a proper microcontroller.

The odroid stuff appears to have a lot of users too, and these devices are less 'weird' than the rpi— they're more like the pandaboard and beagleboard— so there are less sharp edges to figure out.
If you're running xcode CI at a giant megacorp, you might want to rethink your life decisions.
If you want to go the app route, there are indeed quite a few apps made for this purpose. I've come across several but can't outright recommend one. A search for "wedding photo app" will give you several results. Downside: getting everyone to download the app, learning curve of a new app.

You could also go the "hashtag route", where they can share the photo in the method that they're already accustomed to, and include the hashtag you choose. From there you can use a photo aggregator to search for the photos. Downside: not as private as an app, possibly not as thorough as an app

Shameless plug: the web app in my profile is an aggregator, finds photos by hashtag, collects them into one gallery.
It's a matter of tooling. Flash is a mature technology for game development, whereas JavaScript is quite new in that area.

However, I firmly believe that things are improving. Adobe are buying companies that build HTML5 and JavaScript tools.

Web browser compatibility is an issue; however it remains a development issue. Building separate applications for each platform brings in other issues, such as app store rules and visibility. Granted, this is a trade-off.
After the scanning I took about 2 days to OCR everything. That was fairly mindnumbing.

Then it was a case of coding up a fairly simple Rails app and parsing that content - another two days. Some thinking time in the middle - I'd say a week. Spread over a year(!)
Very important points - all of them very valid. Except maybe this: " I don't see them growing exponentially for at-least two generations(i.e about 50-60 years)" - I would say, there are so many variables that decide this. For example, taking huge housing loans was something unimaginable few years back in India. I guess my point is this: if we think it will take 60 years, it will probably take 6. or less than that.
I often find that I have no recollection of the tutorial after I've done it (usually because I am annoyed that it has come up when I've probably downloaded the app because I need it now).

I think there's room for both, but I think it's nuts to assume that the people who really do need a walkthrough will:

a) Remember it

b) Be able to find out where to get the tutorial again, unless there's a giant "?" button at the top.

I think your vision is skewed, if all you require is "a quick bit of intro text". I've seen tutorials that are minutes long, and it's just awful.
You'd think they know that hosting the status page on the same infrastructure is not a good idea..
That said, a site I host with them is working just fine.
Not sure that I'm a "valley-type techie" since I don't do web development... but I am in Silicon Valley, so here goes...

During middle and high school my passions were physics and computers, but I never thought that computing could be anywhere near as fun as doing lab science. So I did a B.S. in Physics and a bunch of nano-scale and solid-state research, then went on to grad school in materials science and worked on polymer and colloidal physics and microfabrication. I still think that the degree in Physics was the best thing I could have done at the time, and I learned a ridiculous amount from it.

During grad school I learned that academia involved far more grant-writing and politics than I enjoyed, and that I really did enjoy working with computers more than doing bench science. I left with a Masters and got into high-performance computing, doing a lot of sysadmin and a little software development on compute clusters with a small company doing HPC as a service.

These days I'm in Silicon Valley (Santa Clara), but I still work on HPC clusters (at Nvidia) and I'm still heavily focused on scientific and technical computing. I love what I do and I love that I'm still supporting scientists and engineers, though I do miss the lab bench occasionally. I still read a lot about physics, but my work and most of my side projects are focused on HPC.

More importantly, I have a wonderful wife who plays roller derby and two cats that demand an inordinate amount of attention; I fence epee, and have since college; I play a lot of board games, read a lot of science fiction, and still pick up my trumpet every once in a while. Life is good most days. :)
Would you be interested in receiving an academic paper by email everyday?
I like keeping up with emerging research in multiple fields, such as biology, physics, and computer science. Yet, most of the research I find out about is from news sources or aggregators, such as NYT or HN.

I am thinking about creating a free service where I send you one academic paper everyday by email. The user will select what fields he or she is interested in, and I will email a paper from one of those fields.

A potential problem is that a lot of academic papers are behind paywalls, but I still think there are enough freely available research papers to make this service viable.

Are there any services like this that you are aware of? Would you be interested, and if so what would you want in such a service?

Thanks!
Actually, at the time the original BASIC Stamp was released (early 90s), programming a microcontroller directly from your serial port was a huge improvement. Most microcontrollers back then required a separate, expensive programming board, in addition to non-free programming software. You also had to remove most microcontrollers from your circuit to program them.

I agree that by today's standards, programming via serial port is cumbersome, but it's actually a good thing that the STAMPs are still available because they are used in a _ton_ of embedded applications that are still in use and need maintenance and replacement parts.
> Django is LESS flexible than Rails, as it comes with it's own ideas about end-user UI

what?

Contrary to Rails, Django never forced front-end solutions upon the user, and every suggestion on the dev list to do so is dismissed, which I'm in particular very happy with. The exception is admin, being a full-featured out of the box solution, but even there are some occasional talks about decoupling the orm/forms/admin and provide generic APIs.
If by incomprehensible, you mean you need to read more than 10 pages of documentation to understand it, then sure.
Steps for how to convert AVI to iPad
A tutorial about steps for converting AVI to iPad, to transfer and play AVI videos on iPad.
Holiday IT Horror Stories - tell yours
Green Sock JavaScript Animation Platform vs CSS3 Transitions.
Great question! It is one I had been wanting to write on HN myself for quite some time in the past actually.
I feel I had been in a similar boat. While I did not major in Computer Science like you did, I had, for the past several years, attempted (Unsuccessfully) to become a programmer.

To make a long story short: I realized, much like you, that programming wasn't for me. And yet, like you, I had an interest in technology.

What has ended up working for me is: I gradually moved into the role of system administrator / IT specialist. This role now allows me to be a "Jack of all Trades", be around technology, and help people by solving their problems (The social aspect).

The fact that there is always something new that comes up every day in the life of a system administrator means I don't have much time to get bored. And, when I feel that I might miss coding, there's always something that can be automated by scripting in Powershell (Or your language of choice if you are on Linux, etc).

Have you considered becoming a system administrator? It might be that middle ground that you are seeking.

Edit: One important thing I forgot to add is: The years I spent trying to become a programmer have helped me as a system admin. I can better relate to the development department when they need something set up a certain way, etc. I can understand their language. Therefore, all of that knowledge you have accumulated over the years will only benefit you as you go forward.
What is meant by Talking?
From Wikipedia:

"According to the 2000 census, among persons five years old and older,[78] 90.8% of Louisiana residents speak only English (99% total speak English)."

Ok, it might not be "official". Only "de facto".
i think the gp was asking a rhetorical question
I'd say, "Welcome aboard, young man!"

Btw, I'm still a teenager, and that's what I wish startups would say to me when I apply to them :p

P.S. I build things with HTML, CSS, Javascript and Rails, so if anyone's interested please feel free to shoot me an email :D
I'd say that they have the larger range of a big box retailer, with prices that are not as high as a convenience store, but not as low as big box retailer either.
not bad...
just 2 suggestions:

1. why isn't there a "stumble" button? or maybe there is and I didn't notice? From what I understand to only way to see the next image is refreshing the page

2. I would love to have a "filter this person" so the app will know not to show me photos from this person, because he doesn't interest me.

other than that - cool!

EDIT:

oh, and another idea. It takes quite a while to fetch the data. So if you implement the "stumble" button, it would be nice if you start fetching the data before I even click. immediately when the last data has finished fetching.
I've got nothing against QNX, but I don't think RTOS is what a "modern linux desktop" is about.
You've also got the Channel Islands, and the Isles of Mann and Wight to contend with. Then there's the fact that one is a political union and one a union under the monarch... something like that anyway.
Actually, it's neither: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism
Let me explain that more. Based on some projections(http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-11-12/news...) India will have spending power matching present best. My hypothesis is that as there is more liquidity to go around, families won't need the economic pressure to stay nuclear close. This would lead to break down in credit discipline and thus allowing the emergence of credit cards. Right now and for two generations this does not feasible(i.e by and after 2050). Well, based on one of the many variables atleast, though a major variable.
Maybe it's just the externally hosted status page that's down? I can't check since I don't have an app hosted on appfog.
Launchrock needs to have a premium membership option.
There are two problems with callback based frameworks.

#1 In python specifically, we do not have proper closure and no anonymous blocks, this makes operating it tedious as the definition of the logic for a callback is always somewhere else from where the callback is setup.

#2 In any language supporting proper closures (javascript for instance, hello node.js) excessive, nested use of callback based frameworks leads to the phenomenon of the pyramid of death, whereas you keep nesting closures and you have to keep them all in one place because each depends on its outer scope.

I intently dislike twisted and node.js for these very reasons. I've written my own little framework based entirely on greenlets in python, which is delightful and easy to use and entirely avoids both dislocality of action and the pyramid of death.
sorry for sarc over-simplifying the new offering. :(
Well, firstly that comment postdates your initial comment that "everybody else in this thread" explains it better and you added the "(such as has pash's sibling comment)" after I'd responded.

Secondly, I wanted to dive in a bit more and explain the relationship between the "j" in English vs French and hence the role of the "d" in the French spelling (as that's kind of the whole point).
Agreed. I'm American and spent three months this year full-time travelling the US by car. I did a complete circumnavigation, with a side-trip to Toronto thrown in. It was clear to me that, despite some small regional differences such as accent and general political inclinations, the country is remarkably homogenous. In the States we're far more "informed" - that is to say infected - by the nation-wide "news" media than by regional cultural memory. Texas remembers the Alamo, Vermont remembers Ethan Allen, the Pacific Northwest remembers Lewis and Clark, all in some fairly vague way. But nationally, everybody remembers <insert low-brow TV program name here> from last night and that's something to talk about!
Every time I'm in SF, I use Instacart.

To be frank, if a company has pg and jl's high praise, you know they're doing something right.

pg: "Incidentally, of all the startups we've funded, Instacart is one of the ones we ourselves use most. Jessica can't stop talking about how great it is. You learn how useful grocery delivery when you have small children like we do, and Instacart is by far the best option for this.
Instacart is one of those rare products that's surprisingly great. I.e. you don't realize how good such a thing could be till you try it. A lot of the best startups have this quality. I wish we could figure out a way to identify them when they apply to YC, but at the moment I admit we can't."
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4907892

jl: "I just got a delivery 30 minutes ago, in fact. For years, I'd used Safeway.com's delivery services and now that I have used Instacart, I'll never go back. The UX is 100x better, delivery is much quicker (and cheaper), and I can order on my phone."
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4907948
Their site (www.appfog.com) was down as well. Seems to be back up now.
Kukoo – Helps you schedule unimportant emails by offering a temporary inbox
I've used twisted for semi-major project (https://github.com/Yelp/Tron).

It's certainly a difficult thing to get your head around. The parts of the project that touch twisted is always the most complex to explain to anyone else. However, async code is always hard. It also doesn't help that the code base shows it's age.. non-PEP8, strange naming conventions etc.

However, one thing that I've noticed with recent projects using Tornado (https://github.com/rhettg/Dynochemy) is that some concepts that I thought was overly complex in Twisted makes sense eventually. For example, handling errors in async code is really hard. The framework twisted came up with with Deferred, callbacks and errbacks is pretty smart. You almost have to re-invent twisted before you can appreciate it.

I'd recommend reading the original paper for more information: http://www6.uniovi.es/python/pycon/papers/deferex/