skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might enjoy checking out Sinatra. It's a Ruby framework for building simple websites, and I've found that front-end developers can migrate to it without too much hassle. If you like it, you can then play around with Ruby on Rails (which is a far trickier beast). But if you're enjoying Python or Django, then don't feel like you need to switch. Work on projects that are fun for you and that help you learn new skills.
Part of the issue is we are dealing with such a wide audience that this opinion is valid for some and not for others.

With an app like Clear, I have 0 trouble using it and love the minimalist approach and simple interactions. I have no trouble using the app or remembering which gestures do what. Some older than me, and likely most all younger than me would feel the same way (if they use or were to use the app).

When you are analyzing it, it is easy to point out things wrong with it, but when you use it, it just feels so right.

+1 for real life user testing
C++, using VCL [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Component_Library ], unfortunately. A port would largely be a rewrite of the entire GUI bit. The rest is fairly portable, except it assumes some things about how the arduino install is structured.
To be fair, it does escape characters and verify with a regex that the data is actually JSON before eval-ing it.
Yes ASCII (and UTF-8) were designed well.

http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/utf8_programming.html
Given all the confusion here, I've added what is hopefully a simpler and more introductory explanation:

Django is pronounced with an initial sound that, in English is often written "j". This might lead one to think of the "D" as silent with the "j" being pronounced the way it is in English.

However, that doesn't explain why the "D" is there in the first place.

A more insightful way to think of it is to remember it's a French spelling. Think of the "j" as being pronounced as in French. Now put a "d" sound in front of it. When the "d" sound and "j" sound merge, you get something called an affricate. This particular affricate is the same sound used in English to pronounce just "j".

So a French "dj" is like an English "j". The "d" isn't silent, though, because the French "j" is not the same as the English "j".
Could you clarify the argument? Near as I can tell, he merely claims taxing the rich will benefit the economy, and provides no justification for this claim beyond vague allusions to the idea that it happened after WW2. I can't figure out what mechanism he is arguing.

He also argues against straw-men such as this: Proponents of trickle-downism will argue that the little-taxed corporate executive will in fact share his wealth by spending it

(Proponents of "trickle-downism" don't claim this.)

and uses misleading definitions like this: A poor person, by contrast, needs more than he can afford.

(By this definition there are virtually no poor people in America, thus his policy prescriptions are impossible. http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/h150-07.pdf )
You should do that in any case. Putting it off is not good for your prostate.
Ask HN : What do you do when you feel like a loser?  
Even though you are better than your peers in terms of $$, job and status. But deep inside you feel that you have not achieved much in life. BTW i'm 25
haha he probably doesn't know yet that he is one the first page of HN and his website is down.
It sounds to me as if she was either really stupid or a murderer (or both, if you want).
I've sent the author an email offering help with moving it to a toolkit of some sort that is not so tightly tied to windows. wx or qt or anything that's not windows only.
Algorithmic Botany iOS app
A lot of people are skeptical about the 3D art-creational capabilities of the iPad. Here is a rather impressive app that disproves that camp, producing generative art that looks like realistic trees you might find in the best of 3d simulators or even AAA games... which you can then export to fbx, taking it to both of the before!

The app is designed to be accessible to those who are not familiar with algorithmic botany - you can twist and pull some pretty unique and nice looking trees on this. But, if you know your maths, things can get even more interesting. ;)

Spent Christmas weekend playing with this iPad app (on a now-antiquated iPad 2), with both my finger and a Pogo Connect... and now I have a mini bonsai being 3D printed on Shapeways... created completely on my iPad! :D
Except some Brits.
A lot of people are skeptical about the 3D art-creational capabilities of the iPad. Here is a rather impressive app that disproves that camp, producing generative art that looks like realistic trees you might find in the best of 3d simulators or even AAA games... which you can then export to fbx, taking it to both of the before!

The app is designed to be accessible to those who are not familiar with algorithmic botany - you can twist and pull some pretty unique and nice looking trees on this. But, if you know your maths, things can get even more interesting. ;)

Spent Christmas weekend playing with this iPad app (on a now-antiquated iPad 2), with both my finger and a Pogo Connect... and now I have a mini bonsai being 3D printed on Shapeways... created completely on my iPad! :D
I like to read economics articles on HN because (a) I've been trained as as an economist and (b) I like to read the opinions of other clever people, even (particularly?) those who don't have any background in economic theory.

Let me make a few points:

1) Nothing the OP has written has anything to do with economics.

2) Who pays, which is the subject of the current "fiscal cliff" brinksmanship, is almost entirely a political question, not an economic one. That is, economists' insight into the present American dilemma is mostly limited to a determination of how the distribution of tax receipts under whatever bargain prevails will affect future economic growth. All other considerations are political, and economists like Krugman and Mankiw who weigh in vociferously do so as politicians, not economists.

3) Bailouts come in two distinct flavors: (a) those whose purpose is to provide essential liquidity to the capital markets at the core of our economies, while they're in distress, and (b) those that are basically handouts to the politically connected. Almost always (a) and (b) overlap. In a financial crisis, like the one we went recently went through, initially (a) dominates—"Wall Street" bailouts, necessary bailouts, lead off. Sometimes, as recently, (b) soon gain ground. The bailouts of Detroit, as with pretty much all "Main Street" bailouts, are in the latter category. These are politically motivated, not economically motivated, bailouts

3) I stand (hope!) to gain most of my future income from capital gains. I do not believe that there is any strong argument for treating capital gains differently from other other income as a matter of economic policy. There are, of course, political arguments in either direction.†

4) As I've written in reply to other HN submissions, I see little reason to believe that we are meaningfully nearer an economic singularity with respect to robot labor than in times recently past. Capital has always eroded the position of labor and forced workers into more productive roles that are less directly competitive with machines. If the situation changes dramatically, it will be clear in discussions here long before economists catch on, but we're not there yet. Nowhere close.

† – I am very much an Internet libertarian (small "L"). I despise most taxes, and I believe that much government spending is wasteful in the sense that the money would be more productive, in net, in other uses. I also (b) realize that taxation is as much about values, our values as citizens and as human beings, as it is about economics. (I also am aware that that "the path to hell is paved with good intentions" is close to being a theorem of public finance.) Lastly, my motivation for studying economics has come more from an interest in the various and common ways in which markets fail than from the ways in which they work.
Not sure how that was chosen, but sounds cool. It's a Brazilian candy, very cheap and delicious. I think it is made of coconut, sugar and jelly.

http://www.google.com/search?q=maria+mole&oq=maria+mole&...
No. My backlog of to-read academic papers is long enough already, and I'm not keeping up with what I get. (I felt like I should interject some negativism ;)
Playing with Strings and Colors in Python
Design trends of 2012: The good, the bad, and the ‘die already’
Front-end recap 2012: the things to remember
With 2012 coming to an end, it's time for another yearly recap. Adaptive design, performance and improving the html code we write, it's all in here. What to remember from 2012, front-end style
As always, test for yourself but I wouldn't hesitate to use S3.

I host 1.5 million images on S3 and I've never had issues with 500 errors. I've also done extensive testing of S3 under load and it's simply amazing.

Frankly S3 is one of the few bits of infrastructure I DO trust.
Making "How Do I" posts can only bring traffic to the site than any other benefit to others.
Time for heroku to implement root domain redirection!
Depends on what you mean by "proper" drivers. The GPU drivers for the Raspberry Pi, like the drivers for most other development boards, consist of an open-source shim and a closed-source userspace blob [1].

HD decoding on these boards is performed using a digital signal processor (DSP) integrated into the SOC, the CPU (even with GPU support) is too slow for 1080P h264 Content. This is not specific to Android, for example TI supports use of the DSP of the Pandaboard on Linux as well [2] (it is still not very stable, at least on the OMAP 4430 version of the Pandaboard).

[1] http://airlied.livejournal.com/76383.html

[2] https://launchpad.net/~tiomap-dev/+archive/release

Edit: formatting
> and economists like Krugman and Mankiw who weigh in vociferously do so as politicians, not economists.

You could say that "economics has become the continuation of politics by other means" :)

Anyway, just to add to your points to which I mostly agree, it kind of baffles me that economists that hold key positions do not say it out loud that they don't know what they're doing anymore. I mean running the world economy on close to 0% Central Bank rates for almost 3 years now it's like operating your computer on Safe Mode for doing critical "launch a rocket to the Moon" missions (I work as IT, in case it wasn't obvious by now :)).
You could always have that, but now you can use just "yourdomain.com" instead of a subdomain.
I see this point of view a lot in my internet wanderings. Honestly I don't understand the line of thinking.

What do people think "the rich" do with their money? Store it under a mattress? Keep it in an underground vault so they can go swim in it while laughing maniacally?

Of course they don't. They invest it. They put it in Treasuries, Mutual Funds, Individual Stocks, CDs, Money Markets, Plain Old Checking Accounts.

That money is most definitely not sitting still. It is out there flowing through the economy, financing mortgages, construction, businesses, and probably anything else you can think of.

The only reason to tax the rich as far as economic stimulation goes, is if you believe the Government can do better with the money than the market can. If that is what you believe, fine, just say so and state that as your argument.

But this idea that somehow money is sequestered when owned by rich people is absurd.
hi, I'm in Denmark at the moment, would like talk to you about my impression of Denmark. How can I contact you?
While the affricate /d͡ʒ/ is not pronounced as a separate stop+fricative, it can result from the combining of the stop and the fricative and that is presumably what is behind the choice of "dj" as a digraph for representing /d͡ʒ/ in Django.
I'm not understanding why you are praising Scheme and criticizing Javascript - the biggest differences between them seem syntactic.
Take a chance.
Actually I came back to Iowa after 10 years, working remotely. That was 5 startups ago! Convergent Technologies (modem/monthly commute to San Jose), Neural Applications/Stockpoint (local company), Divergenet (Internet to Santa Clara), Convergenet (San Jose/local office), Intermec (consulting in Cedar Rapids), Sococo (Mt View/Internet). Did I miss one?
My youngest looked at Harvey Mudd - nice!
Forbidden fruit: Bill Gates' kids banned from Apple gadgets
Pasta di zucchero, ideale per decorare torte di compleanno
If you're talking to me, I'm not part of the MOAI team, I'm just an independent developer who wants to contribute to the effort of getting MOAI running smoothly on Ouya .. my offer stands for anyone else is interested.
To the people wondering whether the website is down: yes, Dan has sold the website: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3698539 (DomainPolish: From MVP To Exit In 6 Months)
"1) Nothing the OP has written has anything to do with economics."

Thank you for saying that. I hate it when mostly moral or political issues are labeled as "economics"...
I got the joke. I found it funny. I also found it thought provoking to examine how spoiled I am as a first world person. But that also got me thinking that to some level even basics are first world.

Movies: If your starving in some 3rd world country I doubt you care about when the next Hobbit comes out

Games: you'd have to be able to afford a game console before you care about games.

Cars: I lived in a 1st world city for 7 years where most people don't own a car which point out how much they are not really needed
I sometimes do "one off" stuff like this, and it usually takes about 2 days of solid work at the computer.

That said, it doesn't often work as well as Dan's did.
Misunderstanding the Free Software Philosophy
>>>not achieved much in life

Your expectations are wrong then.

EDIT: You asked what to do. Change your expectations. Really, that's probably the root of things. What are you calling "achievement," to begin with?
He seems to be saying "take money sitting idle in the bank accounts of the rich and give it to the poor - this will get the money rolling".

I don't think it's the greatest article to ever hit HN, and it's almost pure politics.
Apparently 1 in 5 people in CA were actually born there...I've actually worked with one or two! In comparison, I've worked with 6 from Iowa (in Silicon Valley), several from Illinois, even one from Long Island.
Harper Reed Goes A Week Without Internet
Jacob Appelbaum 29C3 Keynote: Not My Department
That's a point well worth making. But in fairness to macro-economists everywhere, most would admit that they don't really have any good idea what they're doing.

Central bankers don't say this because their main job is to pretend that the future is brighter than anyone might reasonably think it to be; but academic economists will readily admit that they're in uncharted territory (with landmarks vaguely reminiscent of various times past on every horizon).

Can I make a bad analogy?—Macro policy these days is a bit like the Manhattan Project. It's aimed at a greater good, which you might just as well call the lesser evil, and there's a chance (discounted by the mainstream) that they'll ignite the atmosphere and put an end to us all.
Syntax is critically important when teaching the average beginner.
Well if they shipped out 1200 developer consoles with higher than a 0.1% broken rate then I'd say we're soon to see some drama.

On the other hand we might see positive reports. I'm sceptical but not as cynical as you :)
New thermoelectric hot water pipes generate 2.5W per 10cm
Hum, had to Google the term FOSS (Free and open source software). Might be useful to define it the first time you use in your article for readers (like myself) without context.

It's also worth mentioning I have make "FOSS contributions", but didn't know the term :) Can't be the only one that missed the memo.
The Most Amazing Science Images of the Year
Agreed on assembly. Some beginners take exceptionally well to the "purity" they perceive in assembly (given that it's a good assembly language for a well thought out processor - a processor that doesn't physically exist could even be the best one).

Edit: Purity in the way that the crucial ideas are presented directly, and an intuitive understanding of primal computation can be gained directly.
Great stuff, but typically she uses a cobbled-together list of apps to get the job done.

I work at Sococo (helped start it). Its an integrated voice/video/doc/presence/chat engine that really brings a group together - like working in the same office, almost. I recommend it (because I want us to succeed!) We also eat our own dog food - Sococo is distributed across 6 states and 3 time zones. And it works great!
These are poor interview questions which reflect badly on the company. Interviews are a two way process.
Stop thinking of people being "better" or "worse", and stop thinking so much about yourself. Try focusing your attention on your interests and goals instead (the goals themselves, not your evaluation of your performance).

If you do that for a month you'll likely find yourself feeling a lot better.
As long as your expectations are not utterly unrealistic, lowering them won't motivate you to do anything about it.

It helps if you know where you want to go, and you're doing something to get there.
YouTube only needs one spam flag to remove a video
Agreed. Germany may import more into the EU market than anybody else including UK. That's not my point. My point is that from the British perspective it is much better to open borders and trade with India, Canada, Australia, US, then to try doing the same with the EU. They closed themselves in the EU-block distancing from emerging markets in Asia and from the Commonwealth while Indians for that example are literally begging them for business. To no avail as the UK can't have free trade agreements with India as long as it stays within the EU. The same EU by the way which is just in the process of passing laws that will kill the biggest British business and pride - the City.

If you narrow yourself to the trade and banking within the EU, yes I agree, Germany are bigger player than anybody else. Start thinking globally, and you'll soon realize that UK stands much better chances in global economy trading freely with the Commonwealth and Asia than turning their back to these markets and focusing on the local European block.

Think Hong Kong, think Canada, think Australia -- from UK perspective it is just better business to be in an free trade economic block with them then to stay in euro disaster zone. This is what they have been doing for centuries. UK is no.1 in the world in terms of value of items traded per capita. Yes, they are a nation of shop-keepers. EU seems to be one-size-fits-all solution that obviously doesn't work for them anymore and probably never worked. They'll exit, open borders to Asia, ex-colonies, trade with them, do their banking, logistics and all the other stuff they have been doing centuries. While Germany will still export/import in Hamburg, nobody minds, everybody just does what's the best for their country. No surprises there.
Work out, get a good night's sleep. Remember Tom Lehrer's words, "By the time Mozart was my age, he had been dead for ten years.", laugh and move on.

Assuming that you have been working towards your goals since 16, that's nine years. You have a reasonable expectation of four times as many productive years in front of you, maybe five times.
If this was the tool at KAF, thank you for writing it! (a friend of mine was a CF doctor there, and I spent some time in radiology getting the US PACS stuff integrated with the Canadian stuff)
yes - but for exynos or allwinner 10 you dont even have that shim :( - thats what i meant - you basicly cant run XBMC on linux on those with acceptable performance as of today.
Im hoping this situation will change soon, but it looks like there is no interest by soc vendors to provide necessary tools.

I know this works on pandaboard and some others, but those boards are about 150$ range if i remember correctly.
not the abstract. something more "explain it to a 5 year old" - so not exactly compressed, but simpler, with more background.

i don't think that this is so different to a blog, really. the hard bit is going to be consistency.
As a college junior myself, I am tired of the perpetuation of the unrealistic (and false) idea that if you don't start a company right out of school, you're doomed to failure. Thank you, Dan, for being the voice of reason.
His companies have advanced software development as much as CMMI

In short, absolutely nothing
Raspberry Pi Webcam & a Gentle Intro to Crontab
I trust S3 a lot (in fact, there was a time I had >1% of all objects in S3; I have since deleted a very large percentage, but I believe I still have well over a billion objects stored).

I would definitely agree: it doesn't fail under load; for a while I was seriously using S3 as a NoSQL database with a custom row-mapper and query system (not well generalized at all) that I built.

However, this particular aspect is a known part of S3 that has been around since the beginning: that it is allowed to fail your request with a 500 error, and that you need to retry.

This is something that if you read through the S3 forums you can find people often commenting on, you will find code in every major client library to handle it, and it is explicitly documented by Amazon.

"Best Practices for Using Amazon S3", emphasis mine:

> 500-series errors indicate that a request didn't succeed, but may be retried. Though infrequent, these errors are to be expected as part of normal interaction with the service and should be explicitly handled with an exponential backoff algorithm (ideally one that utilizes jitter). One such algorithm can be found at...

-- http://aws.amazon.com/articles/1904

Regardless, the 2% failure rate on that one S3 IP endpoint is definitely a little high, so I filed a support ticket (I pay for the AWS Business support level) with a list of request ids and correlation codes that returned a 500 error during my "static hosting + redirect" test today. I'll respond back here if I hear anything useful from them.
even if we talk about the Western Europe only, the article is STILL 100% valid
There's a sort of generational ennui, in that the traditional milestones of adulthood have largely been eroded in the last sevenish decades and we're raised with a clear set of expectations and paths for success (and feeling successful, being seen as successful, and being told we're successful) which function right up until age 22, at which point life loses virtually all out-of-the-box structure and you have to supply your own. Some people adjust to that transition better than others.

Random advice?

Don't hang around with anybody who routinely asks "Why am I a loser?". There is a tight feedback loop. (This is a subset of the more general rule "Associate more with people who you'd like to be like and less with people who you wouldn't like to be like.")

You know those guys who say that exercise and diet cure almost everything? They're a lot more right than I would have credited them 10 years ago.

If job / career / $$$ are not primary happiness drivers for you (which is Totally OK), then figure out what is and take the obvious steps towards getting them.
I'd have thought that the biggest risk with the Manhattan Project was that there would be a widespread use of its products without any real thought by politicians as to the consequences - so maybe it's not that bad an analogy after all!
I don't think this is true. I've flagged several videos as spam -- they were re-uploads of other videos to capture ad fees -- and have never seen a single one of them removed. The speed of this takedown is probably a coincidence.

EDIT: Typo fix.

SECOND EDIT: Go read this, if you missed it here on HN:

The choices are fake and the truth is all made up
http://danshipper.com/the-choices-are-fake-and-the-truth-is-...
It might be interesting to state in which zone you and GP host those files.

My buckets are in Ireland and I haven't seen 5xx problems. I'm not a heavy user, though.