skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? How about some other reasons:

- nice tooling (Chrome developer tools, JS stuff)
- tons of developers know JS
- V8 is mighty fast

It's not about distributing to the subpar (money wise) web app stores.

Cocos2D also has JS bindings going (for native use, not just for web), and QT also has JS bindings going (again, for native).

And it's not using "HTML5". You are using their engine with native bindings on the mobile devices. The performance and integration is only mimicked by HTML5/WebGL etc on the browser.
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To be fair, very few projects from the Python ecosystem have been eager to jump to Python 3.
Seems that the nodejistsu guys have a strong team overseas:
https://www.nodejitsu.com/company

"8 timezones: Covering the past, present and the future
7 countries: Equal chances for all employees"

Any Jitsuka here that can tell us more?
Can I spike my insulin with a can of coke after lifting heavy?
Should this community worry about attracting the wrong crowd?

If everyone and their moms start getting attracted to this site then could that not start reducing the voting power of people who are actually interested in technology?

Listen, the only thing I'm trying to do is prevent this community from turning into Cats and Porn like reddit has become.

Lots of well known people participate in the discussion and will answer questions if you ask them.

Maybe HN needs better searching and filtering capabilities first.
For JavaScript beginners: an in-code explanation of constructor and prototype
I would really appreciate that because I am a senior in college and I'm trying to figure out where I want to go and what type of job would be best.
Problem is that it's not immediately obvious who they are just from their usernames. So it's easy to skip over their contributions.
>So I need to show your logo before my game starts in order to use this library ? Sorry, but that is a deal breaker.

Then break the deal. Would you rather they just let you use their work as you see fit?
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Because learning to program obviously means you're making a Twitter or Evernote enabled app.
Twitter gives up IP of creator of parody account accused of "identity theft"
> LibreOffice doesn't even come close.

Your post was very, very light on details.
I think this is pretty good news, but I've also heard lots of bad things about Code Academy's lesson quality. Will Twitter, Evernote, et.al. have better QA systems in place?
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I appreciate the sentiment, but I don't think you're reading the parent's post very charitably. They aren't saying, "things used to be a certain way, therefore it's OK." The way I read it, they're suggesting that, if the behavior really killed that many infants, it would be weeded out by the biocultural evolutionary process.

If you actually look into the research instead of offloading your opinions to the experts, you'll see that the SIDS research is not well done. As I recall, the work on which this AAP decision was based included sleeping in a couch and sleeping while intoxicated - not exactly best practices. SIDS is basically just a catch-all term for "we don't know what killed the baby".
Those two buttons are actually login buttons. You can login with your facebook or google accounts. It is probably not clear enough =(. Sorry for the confusion and thanks for the comment.
It is not supposed to be anything. If you understand why it's useful more in the future than it is today, you can treat it as an investment. If you see how it helps sending EUR to USD without paying 30 EUR conversion fees, you can use it as a payment channel (bitcoin-central.net - BTC - coinbase.com). Or use blockchain to register your bets, contracts or play in a provably fair casino. If it's not yet very good as a currency, all that matters is what it is good at already.

http://blog.oleganza.com/post/43384713336/philosophy-of-bitc...
It definitely seems interesting. The big problem I've been looking for the right tool to fix is simple document based storage with solid secondary indices supporting aggregate queries. A SQL syntax is a big plus for this because it is very easy for many people to write a SQL group by statement to get the aggregates they want but much harder to write an ElasticSearch or Solr facet query or a MapReduce job. Especially if you want relatively fast results.
From the HN guidelines:

> If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

I would suggest that if you do proceed with the AMA's that you amend the guidelines and remove that clause.
I think he wanted stats.
In all fairness, shouldn't this be something to ask pg about instead of a poll?
If you'd quote a source I might believe.
I've worked remotely for the past 4 years as a contractor. I'm in Santiago de Chile, the headquarters are on Sydney.

It has worked fine most of the time, I remember only a handful of times in which I've had to stay up very late because of problems on the production server (we're 12-14 timezones apart!). The support for another of the products of this business is handled by another developer in Sweden, so it's a very distributed team :-)

I've also worked as a contractor with another team based in Cape Town, South-Africa.

To look for remote jobs, besides HN, check on StackOverflow. They allow you to filter job offerings by those which allow telecommuting, but many of them have clauses like "work from anywhere in the US" or "must be a US citizen or have a work permit to work on the US".
Why would he have applied by himself? He was already working with his roommate Dustin on the programming end and had Eduardo on the business end. 2 technical founders + 1 non-technical founder seems like a solid base.

Given "theFacebook"'s traction was extremely high in the opening days/weeks of launch, AND all three founders had impressive backgrounds and were friends, my guess would be that they would have at least been invited for a YC interview.
Maybe an "Discussion" section of HN and leave the main board for true "News"?
Why stop here? Why not make the application switching fully ubiquitous between multiple devices via app "off-loading" to the cloud?

There's many different ways they can approach this: a hobbyist hosting an ubuntu server running whatever's necessary to facilitate this; a hosted solution -- possibly by Canonical (ala Ubuntu One or competitors); and a corporate solution (your IT staff managing Ubuntu servers and environment).

I feel like this might be the next step, especially with app/desktop virtualization becoming more popular.
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Here's a very simplified example. Note that I am using some made up notation here: "." represents NULL charcaters, and the numbers would actually be stored in hexadecimal.

The contents of 48 byte disk with a 7 byte file allocation table (FAT):

[................................................]
FAT----DATA-------------------------------------

Write a file named "blah" with contents "abcdefghi":

[blah.90abcdefghi................................]
FAT----DATA-------------------------------------

Notice that the FAT area contains the filename, a "9" representing the length of the file, and a "0" indicating the spot in the data area where the file begins. In fact, the file system might choose the put the data somewhere else, and that's absolutely fine. For example:

[blah.95.....abcdefghi...........................]
FAT----DATA-------------------------------------

Represents the exact same contents with the file stored at an offset of 5. So say I want to delete this file now. A typical file system would do something like this:

[.lah.95.....abcdefghi...........................]
FAT----DATA-------------------------------------

It writes a single NULL byte to the file system to mark the filename as empty, and the file is gone. None of the rest of the data is cleaned up.
From the study you cite: "Much of the elevated risk appeared to be attributable to drug and alcohol use among the parents".

There are parents that co-sleep because they are disorganized, drunk, and so forth, not even able to put the children in their bed. That's the reason why probably there is no causality.
Why don't we let Reddit be Reddit, and HN be HN?

Why would I want HN to be a megaphone for Famous Joe Blow X when I'd much rather have him actively participating and helping out in the threads with the rest of us?

This is a very bad idea in my opinion. Since I have no clue how to run a busy site, that means it'll probably happen. :)
Ironically had they actually banned slavery (instead of just ratifying the 13th amendment) it may well have been unconstitutional. When I read the headline I was imagining Obama having to go in front of the supreme court and defend slavery (for those who have been convicted of a crime).
They are user-generated lessons for the most part, so there's that. In my experience most of the lessons are fine, but occasionally you'll come across one that is too vague or has a very strict expectation of output.
Just close the "resizer" at the top of the page and it is smooth.
Obviously I'm totally biased and you shouldn't listen to me.

But if you were to listen to me, I'd probably be saying something about how they're basically equivalent these days. Both are pretty productive, have clean readable code, are well-documented, have active communities, a wide array of plugins and tools, and are fairly easy to use.

If you were to get even crazier and try to get some advice on which you should use, I'd probably tell you that Rails is best if you already know Ruby; Django if you already know Python. If you don't know either, take a week or two and build a site with both and see what sticks. Either way you'll be pretty happy.

But you shouldn't listen to me because I'm heinously, terribly biased, so you probably didn't hear me say any of that. Just as well.
proud to say I worked on the design for this :) Hope the community will embrace it and help us make it better
Companies hiring you will likely not want to pay more than the market rate for you, where "market" is defined as your geographical area.

That's true, I remember a client once asking me why was my rate so much higher than the average (I'm located in Colombia).
I was thinking the other day how annoyingly common the one column minimal design has become. Half the time it sucks in terms of user experience because a bunch of these themes are designed as if a visitor isn't going to be interested in reading more articles or getting some background info on the author. And since they all look the same you won't even realize that you visited a particular author's site before.
That can enhance the discussion. I remember making a spirited reply to Yudkowsky and only noticing who he was when he replied back - but I think my not being intimidated lead to a far more productive thread than if I had seen in the first place. Posts should rise or fall on their own merits, not who has made them.
Oblig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zqOYBabXmA
I think signups are an interesting point. Nobody wants the site to be diluted too quickly and lose what makes it good, but I do think that a wider userbase would be a good thing for HN to stop it from being as much of an echo chamber as it often is.
This made me remember http://xkcd.com/378/
We ran AMA's on Inbound.org over the last month and they were a terrific success from an engagement point of view. They unearth fascinating content.

Dharmesh Shah's probably was the best example of what an HN audience might have asked: http://www.inbound.org/discussion/view/hi-i-m-dharmesh-shah-...

I love this kind of open media, open interviewing. Sometimes "regular interviews" bring up your burnings questions, or something else you find really interesting, but the chance to talk to real experts about questions specific to your interests is pretty damn cool.
I'm not sure who you are replying to. Your fictitious account does not match my reality.

A drive that is accessed a couple times a day seems like the perfect use case for a green. Sadly, it head parks after 8 seconds of idle time, and Linux was doing one IO every 30 seconds, I believe as part of the S.M.A.R.T. monitoring (its been a while), the drive is rated for 300000 head parks in its lifetime, so in 105 days the drive has thrashed away its specified lifetime because you were monitoring the drives' health, and head parks wasn't one of the parameters tracked, so it didn't even help to monitor!

This is not because the Green is not Black. It is not the grade of bearing, or the balance tolerance of the platters. This is because WD wrote ridiculously silly firmware for their drives and they self destructed on one of the most common computing platforms.

Back to the article topic: The similar workload machines I deployed 14 months ago have an SSD for their root drive and newer greens (tweaked to not load cycle) for their bulk. None of the SSDs have even reach 1% of their media lifetime count in their S.M.A.R.T. data. I'm not worried about wearing out SSDs.
I laughed when I heard the reference to optical flow sensors, like somehow strapping an optical mouse sensor (albeit with appropriate lens technology) to the bottom of a drone somehow solves all the sensing and control problemthin loved in bringing this technology to the mainstream.

An optical flow sensor has very limited utility; it's possibly the least useful of all the sensors you could add to a UAV. It's inclusion in this video was purely marketing fluff for the technically illiterate, thanks to its fancier-than-it-actually-is sounding nomenclature.
They've had API lessons for a while, IIRC(http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/apis), I guess the news here is they've added some more big names to the list.
OpsWorks looks quite impressive from my non-devops perspective. And most interesting of all is the fact that it's free! I understand that it's build to encourage more usage of AWS, but there are plenty of 3rd party services out there which to similar things but are not free.
sadly no. the carbs in pizza in combination with the fat are a bit of a problem.
If you want to go for cauliflower pizza ( https://www.google.com/search?q=cauliflower+pizza&oq=cau... ), knock yourself out :)
Let's look at some metrics of maturity and community size.

Django and Rails are almost the same age. Rails is only a year older, which doesn't mean much after so many years have passed.

The numbers of Google search results for "Python Django" and "Ruby Rails" are on the same order of magnitude, with Rails having around 50% more. Likewise for "Rails site:github.com" and "Django site:github.com"

The differential is bigger on Stack Overflow, with Rails having about twice as many tagged questions. They're still on the same order of magnitude.

One could of course do a feature-by-feature comparison, but I don't find those particularly useful when looking at frameworks. That's because a framework is a long-term investment. You're not just buying into the current or upcoming version, but all future versions. (Unless you make the expensive choice to switch.) If one has a feature that turns out to be really useful, there's a very good chance the other will acquire that same feature soon enough. Especially considering the size of the Django and Rails communities.

Will Django 1.5 or Rails 4 will change the balance significantly? My guess is not. It's like an arms race: One side or the other may claim the advantage from time to time, but with plenty of smart people working on both, cross-pollination should ensure that they stay fairly comparable.

All that being said, I prefer Rails (largely due to Ruby) and am quite happy with it. Though if I were doing scientific computing, I'd take into account what bayesianhorse said.

It's also worth considering that the whole paradigm underlying Django and Rails, wherein you render a bunch of HTML with your choice of backend language, may not last forever. With the client side getting heavier over time, the advantages of sharing code across client and server may push the mainstream away from Ruby and Python. Or not. This isn't a prediction; more like a "what if."
Not initially. This process was over 15 months or so and for the first 4-5 I didn't change my exercise routine.
I'm the cofounder of Codecademy - we've done a lot of work on our platform for a while and our lessons are community generated (but occasionally edited in-house). The lessons by Twitter, Evernote, etc. have been created by those companies and QA'd both by our community (in beta) and in-house. Let us know if you see anything amiss!
Yeah, statistics work. I had greens fail at 30k parks and survive over 1M parks. 300k was the published number for parks. I think they screwed up by allowing the firmware to thrash them to death, but I think they got the 300k number right.
This progress was over 15+ months. I think by now the water weight should be gone ;)
Also, as mentioned, I lost quite a bit of body fat too.
I like them both but I have to say Django updates have been easier to deploy than Rails updates. Something always seems to break when I upgrade Rails.
> It means I can look at it and get it without having to think about it. It has nothing to do whether or not it floats someone's boat, like the rest of your post alludes to.

Here's what you didn't say: "The PAGE is confusing and I didn't like it." Here's what you did say: "DESIGN isn't x or y, it's abc" and "Lots of people xyz." One is clearly a personal opinion; another is an attempt to rely on "truths" instead of your personal opinion (but the "truths" are specious!).

You're welcome to think whatever you like of the page.

But to dress up an opinion in "facts" and sweeping generalizations? Expect pushback from people who see that gambit for what it is.

> Clients? What design ends up being in the eyes of a client is not really worth discussing; that's a bastardization of our industry…

As for clients, I'm not sure where that comes into the discussion. You are the first to bring up clients. Color me confused.
Because platforms like Hacker News and Reddit are far better tools for commenting on a subject than any comment system will ever be on a blog.

SSO, threaded comments, reputation/karma/pruning, etc. are features that seldom exist on blogs.
This hypothetical scenario is in the idea stage. According to wiki, it appears Mark Zuckerberg wrote Facebook himself and the other co-founders joined later.
Just create the AMA on http://reddit.com/r/hackernews and link to it from here. It keeps Reddit over on Reddit, but still provides interesting content for HN to link to.
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Mandiant report debunked:

Part 1: http://cybernonsense.blogspot.com/2013/02/chinese-hackers-an...

Part 2: http://cybernonsense.blogspot.com/2013/02/chinese-hackers-an...

Part 3: http://cybernonsense.blogspot.com/2013/02/chinese-hackers-an...

EDIT: Updated to include links to all three parts
Bitcoin doesn't solve counterfeiting, it just moves the goalpost from printing to hacking.
> If you don't know either, take a <em>week or two</em> and build a site with both and see what sticks.

If only we were all this talented.
In other news, "Windows laptop gets compromised, media responds 'And your point is?...'"

It would be nice if the attack vector were the main focus of the article, but how much publicity would "Java plugin allows Facebook and Apple to be hacked." get.

Here's some perspective: http://www.qualys.com/research/top10/

Also here's their site where you can check your current config:
https://browsercheck.qualys.com/
Clearly this 3D printing pen is innovative, but that does not necessarily imply that it includes patentable inventions. The technology used looks like FDM (fused deposition modeling) 3D printing extended to free hand, without support material.

The key technology here that makes this 3D/air printing possible is the gooey material that the pen releases. If this material has properties that other existing materials do not have, then it may be patentable. Also if the pen releases material in a manner that is new and novel, then it too may be patentable.
Good for you. I haven't had as dramatic a change in weight, but it's been substantial (and on-going). You really hit the nail on the head, and it's hard to describe unless you've been there. I don't honestly believe it was a willpower issue, but a lack of information/advice. The generic eat less, exercise more didn't do anything for me.

On a side note, I'd love to hear what sort of issues you have with maintaining?
Are there really non-programmers (ie - not those working on iTunes/safari on Windows) at Apple using IE/Windows?
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I am truly not sure why you're arguing with me and slinging ad hominems -- "you're wasting time talking about design and its origin and meaning" etc -- considering I never contradicted your personal opinion. The person I replied to was slinging "truths" about "What Is Design" which needed to be shut down. You, otoh, wrote what was clearly a personal opinion and didn't try to dress it up in lecture speak.
Amusingly, 'chinese' appears twice in the top-50 languages. (Besides 'mandarin' and other spoken chinese languages.)
Well, the only way for that to work thematically is if the person is in fact a hacker. I use a pretty broad interpretation which would include Bill Gates but probably leave out Steven Levitt unless he was going to discuss/share the software tools he uses to arrive at his results. Also, more physical hackers like Adrian Bowyer of RepRap and some of the guys behind the Hacklabs and Hackerspaces.
This is my favorite recent example of someone not being recognized http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5228841
Personally speaking, I value being able to have more fun over having worldwide rankings. Does every game need to be competitive?
I appreciate this.

Second, I think the severity of XML external entity injection is understated in the advisory. This class of vulnerability isn't just a DoS in general. Does something about Django specifically limit the impact to just a DoS?
I can't find any of the points saying that low-carb diets restrict calories. The points mentioning calories are those:

"Every randomized controlled trial on low-carb diets shows that they:

- Reduce body fat more than calorie-restricted low-fat diets, even though the low-carb dieters are allowed to eat as much as they want (41, 42).

[...]

- Low carb diets are also easier to stick to, probably because they don’t require you to restrict calories and be hungry all the time. More people in the low-carb groups make it to the end of the studies
"
It shows the update now, it didn't when i posted my reply, however its still fast enough compared to when it was announced by django's official communication channels.

A bit off topic but i have some thoughts on the website since i might be interested to using it in the future: It would be great if you could lower the 'within 24 hours' to something like 'within 2 hours'. I understand the difficulty of that since you are tracking over 100.000 packages according to the homepage but a 24 hours dilation is a bit too much, i don't deploy code yet in any high traffic sites which could be subject to a 0day security attack but still i find the dilation too much to consider it as a viable option for the future.
What does everyone think the ultimate goal and vision of Codecademy will/should be? i.e. do you think Codecademy will ever be able to evolve into a platform that churns out new batches of legitimately competent hackers? Or is it destined to forever be a mere gateway i.e. a "A more interactive W3Schools/Wikipedia for coding" providing a minimum level of programming literacy for lifelong non-engineers?

In my case, as a non-technical co-founder, Codecademy lessons help me gain a minimum practical understanding of the Web in a more time-efficient way, ultimately allowing me to better communicate with my more technical co-founders. I just wonder if Codecademy will ever be able to become more than that.