skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR yes, I reaffirm I am a great programmer, everyone else has imposter syndrome, but I don't. haters gonna hate.

"Great" programmer or not, both posts are pointless and this attitude will not do him any favors. Overcoming the underdog mentality is good, but being so self-centered is at the other end of the spectrum.

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offensive display of superiority or self-importance;
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Except Jobs's claim is fatuous. The first automobiles were curiosities -- toys for the rich. They didn't even work particularly well compared to the horse-drawn carriage.

The thing that made cars take off was the Model T -- a simple, affordable, customizable model that the masses could buy and adapt to their needs. The iPhone ain't a Model T. More like a Duesenberg -- for all the advantage and disadvantage that implies.
I develop a new, serious, widely-used platform and I love Django. I've definitely been around the block, have developed python-based web apps without frameworks, etc.

I've never had an issue with Django being inflexible. The strong conventions and the fact I don't have to make a decision about every little thing makes me, and the ecosystem, more productive.
that's your job. deal with it. or don't.
So it was a sub-$100k acquihire?
Ask HN: best tools for creating a static site?
I'm writing a team productivity app (will share on HN soon) and now I need to create a static site with the usual "Home/Features/Pricing/About" pages.

what tools are out there that can help me do it in a professional style? I don't mind bootstrapy look and feel, but dunno if i should actually use bootstrap for this, or something else?
> Also strange to hear that Django has a unique style of MVC, it seems pretty standard to me

some people are confused because of the semantics (view is controller, template is view). in the end, as you say, it's still (yet another flavor of) MVC.
Code.org seeks to 'change the wind', so to say, of programming education, to help motivate individuals to learn more about coding. Codecademy.com is one form of online education to help satisfy the needs of those who became interested in programming, such as via Code.org and the many educators and decision makers who inspire non-coders to, well, code.
The irony is that the original "snake oils" actually were effective, just mislabeled (contained no actual snakes).

"Snake oil" as used today in tech is the opposite -- accurately labeled, but ineffective.
Exactly - since when has 'trust' ever been absolute?

Do I trust Apple to make awesome laptops and cell phones? Yes.

Do I trust Apple to keep OS X open to third party development? Yes, I do. Mostly.

Do I trust Apple to keep my personal email, email that might contain passwords and account names, secure and safe? Probably not, which is part of the why I don't use my iCloud email account.

Do I trust Apple to not sunset iCloud email in a few years, invalidating my @icloud.com address that I would have handed out to everyone, leaving me high and dry? No, I don't - and I think that's a much more potent danger for anyone using their @icloud.com email account.
Wow. That video is fantastic. The conceptual leap between DSP theory and audio behaviour is not a trivial thing to understand. This is the best educational demonstration of these concepts I've ever seen. I hope high school and university educators embrace this shining example of online learning.

Is there a Xiph Foundation or something I can sign up for when new stuff is published? Material of this quality is a great way to raise awareness of Xiph's core goals.
Interactive periodic database made by 16-year old
favorite quote: "A computer doesn't care about your family background, your gender, just that you know how to code." — Dick Costolo (Twitter)
I actually played from London the other day and I think the server was hosted on the West Coast in the US and it was a completely lag free experience.
> Can the converter itself not create the signal incorrectly?

Certainly the converter can be bad or malfunctioning... but there is only one bandlimited signal that passes through the sampling points.

The ideal behavior is perfect and described by simple (if surprising) math and we can measure any converter against the ideal. It turns out that _very_ good converters— ones with variation from the ideal are at the level of the thermal noise in the electronics— are commonly and cheaply available.

There was another chapter of the video that got dropped due to length, the desire to get something shipped, and because the tone didn't quite fit with the rest which compared the performance of a couple of consumer grade DAC/ADCs and basically showed they were all very good. Hopefully it should make its way out as 'bonus material' sometime soon.
It's weird that i didn't notice that, it was in my Zite feed and the comments are all dated 2013. The heading has been adjusted with 2006.
Help solve package management on *nix systems
TBH I didn't really think it mattered and not blocking them took less code (at least, what I found).
Small vs Big Science
looks like the a-team is helping the rebels
What is "open"?
Hardware Hackers/Makers: Show FutureAdvisor (YC S10) A Better Piggy Bank
Experts Say It's Time to Prepare for a 'Post-Crypto' World
I think the issue of getting enough traction might be mitigated by restricting the papers that could be discussed. HN is a good example of this - very few posts engender discussions but those that seem promising (by the number of upvotes) are given a spotlight on the front page.

I think an improvement to the services you linked to would be to add a few new articles each week from very selective journals/conferences in each field. I imagine existing measures like a journal's impact score or the number of a conference's attendees would be a good start and tracking blogposts (as you're already doing) could be a good supplement.

This might help pull older or less visible publications out of obscurity; if something published in a domain-specific journal is germane to a discussion, a commenter might point this out while discussing a more highly visible article.
This is a great initiative. The video is powerful, but they forgot to include a link to the donate area right there in the video. I'd love to add my little startup to the list of places teaching how to program.
"creepier than Google"

haha lets not get carried away
I remember seeing your original blog post when the iPad commercial featured a piano and heard about the extra traction you received from that.

One thing I've learnt over and over with launching new apps is there are always unexpected hurdles that you'd never have thought about when you first started writing the software.

What are some you've run into, perhaps like IP for the songs in the app? Is it a difficult legal process to get a melody for a popular song into the app?
"If there are unproductive employees within Yahoo, the onus should be on their managers to find and address the issue."

But that would be a management decision by the same people who decided to get all their butts in chairs from 9 to 5. There are no out of band managers, they're stuck with who they have.

Unless someone fired those managers. But that would be the CEO, and there are no out of band CEOs, they're stuck with her.

Unless someone fired her, and I guess their board is good at that at least.
I use jinja2 with django, it's good.

https://github.com/coffin/coffin/
Pixelon: The Great Internet Con [2000]
It's not financial management that is the core problem. It is the notion that money is just an inconvenient formality that comes with getting whatever one is told one wants by relentless corporate pressure. It's a positive feedback loop that pushes prices higher and higher as demand is pumped harder and harder which makes people take up more and more debt to keep up.

What needs to be taught is delayed gratification, not needing everything and anything that will just get discarded or disregarded five seconds later. That, that right there, is corporate America's nightmare, Americans that stop squandering their money on inconsequential things. Could you imagine what would happen if Americans even started..... dare I say it.... save money.
Alternative solutions to the problem also very welcome. I haven't been able to find anything that solves the naming disparity.
It seems inevitable, but I have difficulty imagining a world (at least one in the next 10 years) where full scale projects are created on smaller devices. The complexity and sophistication of a computer is a developer's joy. I don't see that kind of openness with the tablet/smartphone market. Undoubtedly both are fantastic tools for content/app consumption and perhaps even content creation, but it's hard to imagine people building full scale applications solely from tablets and smartphones.
Unfortunately, info like that is more difficult to collect automatically than straight functions. Though, I suppose I could add it manually, but I don't know how many people are seriously searching for operators or $_. That said, I agree: for example, this does not have info about memcache, etc. I'll add that ASAP.
Do you have a source for that? I'd be interested in reading more about it. I never would have guessed credit transactions would be that low at Walmart; I grew up in a poor, "redneck" area and knew a lot of people (my family included) that depended on the "float" you get with a credit card to give a little flexibility over their normal paycheck-to-paycheck existence. But I'd believe the data, if it exists for public consumption.
Teens are an example of a group that has mobile phones and doesn't have credit cards (or bank debit cards) and there are other examples. There is also a group that has bank cards, secured credit cards (i.e., requires up-front payment), but doesn't have any means of credit/lay-away-payment available to them that is as easy as a credit card.

Plenty of CPA ads relied on users clicking through to make a purchase using their phone (being billed for what they've purchased). Finding a way to make this purchasing scheme more legitimate (explicitly warn the users that, yes, they will have to pay one way or another) would be the next logical step.
Based on past occurrences, it would seem that DFA Records would not mind it too much:

https://twitter.com/dfarecords/status/205708411344666625
http://boilerroom.tv/james-murphys-red-bull-music-academy-le...
You know what's the problem with Tablets and Phones?
They are designed to consume, not produce.

Decades ago we learned how to use a PC with a Commodore or an Amstrad or whatever, and you had to write your own programs, and you used the command line: and you produced content.

Nowadays were are growing childs who just consume, they consume from Facebook, from Youtube, from Twitter: Yet they don't produce any content.
Ahh, others might be beating me to it, but would love to help bring low-cost computing tech to developing parts of the world. It's mind-boggling that there are $40-50 (in bulk/wholesale) Android tablets--not necessarily up to snuff with the spiffiest rich-world toys (or even the Kindle Fire), but actual computing devices nonetheless. It would would take time just to figure out what the key niches are where they could be useful (do folks need/want crop price data? weather info? news? wikipedia? Oscars coverage? something else?), what technical work has to be done to get there (connectivity, software, content, and maybe different kinds of devices, e.g., maybe the ideal device for some folks is e-ink-based and low-power like a Nook/Kindle), and all kinds of distribution/operations stuff.

And it could be a great business: being the first folks to get things right for this huge group of people is going to be a big deal as that chunk of the world moves up the development/economic ladder, one hopes.

I can't, personally, do very much of that in 5 years but had I capital and all-purpose moxie, there's the problem space I'd love to tackle.

I think there are big things to do in genomics, GWAS, medical data, etc. I don't really know what they are. I could go back to school for that; that might be the most interesting "hard tech" possibility.

No lust for this personally because it's too close to my real job, but I think too much of the effort around databases today is too focused on the lower layers of the stack--we have lots of scalable DB products but too little good software to stitch everything together (from a client-side cache to scale-out OLTP to memcache to data-warehouse-y stuff, ideally) and take the repetitive bits out of setting up a full stack and building a a minimal but modern UI.

We don't need 2013's BigTable, in other words, we need 2013's FileMaker. It's 2013, so it needs to be scalable and Web-based and not too drudgy either when you're either starting out or making a 'real,' heavily customized product. I'd want to offer code you can run on your boxen, not a service-only thing. If I had five years, even with help I could only probably attack a tiny slice; some kind of common API atop various datastores (client-side, memcache, Hadoopish, etc.), and some kind of Web form/page bindings that don't suck (allow modern UI patterns and are extensible) would be a couple interesting ones.
how did u guys get that domain?
Maybe it's because I am not signed in, but it looks like you are missing a lot of the tools needed to spot sockpuppets / shills, like history of votes / edits for a user, and list or voters for each answer.

If your site gets popular you will be flooded with astroturfers and over-enthusiastic project promoters.
I think that delayed gratification IS a fundamental part of financial management.
Healthcare isn’t ready
I'd be interested in hiring for hourly work, but I'm not sure how much work I need to send out per week. I suspect others are like me. It would be nice if we could pay a monthly maintenance fee and then just pay $10/hr, or whatever. It would be even better if we could just pay $15/hr during spike times.
Yet Apple is making OS X worse for getting work done: reversing scrolling (I know you can configure it), dumbing down Spaces, breaking the zoom button, hiding the Library folder, etc.
I believe the point is, why provide examples in CoffeeScript? Is there any benefit?

I'd venture to say less than 1% of people who know JavaScript also know CoffeeScript.

Personally, I was wondering what the language language it was.
Gates and Dorsey are in the full version.
How does this compare with Mozilla Persona?

Persona uses cryptographic tokens so that identity providers can't spy on what sites you're using, and can't selectively deny service to various sites.

I think that people should resolutely refuse to use any identity service that doesn't have at least those properties.
Being "well-versed in computers" is not the same thing as being a valuable programmer. If you are a valuable programmer and you still can't find a job without a degree, you're doing something wrong (what you're doing wrong varies individually, of course).

I have no degree, and have never gone more than a month without a job offer while actively looking for a position. One time it took two months to find a position with acceptable compensation, but I'd received a low-ball offer in the first month.
that's odd, I'd thought I put it in there. I've updated it now in the profile. Thanks very much!
I found SO (over time) to give less and less useful information: the best information was always in the quasi-subjective questions. It's nice to know how to use something, but really, I want to understand why. The SO/SE theory is against those questions. I have 19K rep on SO, 5Kish on P.SE, and I barely contribute anymore.

So I am planning on creating a Slant account and experimenting when I get home.
If there's no self interest involved at all how come Objective-C is not on the list of languages that they're pushing?
I think Apple has made some poor choices with OS X since Lion, but all of these things are incredibly trivial to work around or change.
I'm surprised you didn't think of google. The first hit explains it quite well.
Try telling that to all the people who claim gmail ads are invading your privacy. Most notably Microsoft.
It's the combination of the two, I think.

That's hardly fair... but I need the money => Accept.

I don't need the money, but it's fair => Accept.

It's unfair, and I don't need the money => Turn down.
Here in NSW Australia there is a Year 11/12 subject "Software Design and Development". This has been there for at least a decade if not longer. It's offered at a majority of high schools. http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_hsc/pdf_doc/so...

Also in the 7-10 high school syllabus there are options for projects that include: AI simulation and modelling, multimedia authoring, database design, website development, networking, robotics and software development and programming. http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_sc/pdf_doc/inf...

In years 7-10 I found myself helping other students in the class just like yourself. Even though our teacher had formerly held a programming position. That doesn't validate the need for it though. That just shows that it is a very alien topic to most people and that you can't have a single teacher give personalised help to a class of 30 kids.
Apple trying to be data-mining company reminds me of apple trying to become a mapping company.
Unless you're Dijkstra.
Six Strike Rule: is your ISP spying on you?
Please someone make a Chrome extension to incorporate all these user styles!

I'm sure there would be a dozen of websites to add which need readability/usability facelift.
Show HN: FuncyTag JS/PY HTML generator
When my wife was diagnosed with celiac disease 20 years ago it was after two weeks of significant diarrhea to the point of hospitlization for dehydration. Fortunately the doctor who diagnosed her after a couple of days was young and up to speed, realizing even the hospital food was exacerbating her condition. Simply changing her diet while in hospital and she felt remarkably better after just a couple of days. One physician she saw later in life even dismissed the idea that such a condition existed, even with the GI evidence presented. There's a growing recognition of the condition, and as stated elsewhere it's not actually that hard to eat gluten free if you prepare your own food, and today there are more restaurants that will cater to it, though one always runs the risk of contamination when eating out (about 1 out of 10 I'd say based on experience, but we eat out infrequently anyway). Like anything that becomes a fad though there are people who will dismiss the idea of an intolerance - I once watched a waitress bring back a salad she'd obviously simply removed the croutons from after being asked, again, for a crouton-free salad (a particularly ugly piece of radicchio gave it away). After I pitched a fit, we left, being unable to trust the attention of the staff. Many celiacs develop other food sensitivities - once the cilia is damaged, the body seems more susceptible to future problems.

As for those who think their symptoms being mild means it's not gluten intolerance, the gold standard remains an upper GI examination - it's not that bad (I've had several, for other reasons), and then you know and can react with knowledge vice guessing (there's a blood test not yet approved as I recall). While feeling good again was quick for my wife, it took several weeks to actually consider her healthy again - she had been malnourished for some time prior to the diagnosis, and any such stressful event will take time to recover from.
When I am going to write that 35-page analyst report, I am going to want my Bluetooth keyboard. That’s 1 percent of the time.

There is no way I am writing a 35 page analyst report filled with graphs, tables, citations, fancy trademarks, etc.etc. on an 10 inch screen that has serious issues with copy pasting and switching between applications/windows with near-instant responsiveness. Tablets and phones are still primarily consumption devices. If I need to produce something extensive, I still cannot imagine letting go of a pc/mac/linux general purpose computing machine.
The math treats pixels as point samples, because that's what sampling is.

You can quibble about how a CCD cell in a camera converts its narrow field-of-view into its output but at the conclusion of the snapshot you will have a finite set of data points from that cell (the "pixel"), nothing more or less.

His point is that after this sampling process all you can say about the original data is that the cell at X,Y recorded a value of RRGGBB (expand to as many bits as appropriate for your camera). That is a "point sample" by definition: An ordered pair of [ Point, Sample-Value ]. It doesn't matter how special your code that uses or creates the pixels, this is a simple fact-of-life of the physical sampling process itself.

Given that you admittedly know nothing about the sampling, I would imagine that you would be careful about how you judge the adequacy of the fit for a mapping from the sampled data to arbitrary functions intersecting with the sample.
Are you sure this isn't just to introduce some artificial delay to make it seem like it is "processing"? Imagine a slot machine that gave you a result in 10ms as opposed to rolling around for effect.
Hey Ned - this is Andy Sparks. Yes, the deal was <$100k, but I can say with complete honestly that both sides of the table made out well and are both satisfied. Also, I checked out Tweaky, looks pretty cool.
Dear Google, FB is charging ahead. Please respond faster.
I don't disagree wholly on substance here, but will point out that, according to the WBUR investigation, many of the issues coming out of Ortiz' office were not because she sought to control others, but that she didn't wield enough and let others control her:

http://www.wbur.org/2013/02/20/carmen-ortiz-investigation

(Seriously worth a read; even if you skim, be sure to read the case descriptions in full. They're pretty shocking.)
//" install a Debian machine, and do:
aptitude install postfix
aptitude install postgrey
install either a webmail (roundcube most commonly), or go to (http://www.postfix.org/docs.html). If a spam gets through, install blacklisting or spamassassin.//

You seriously think this is simple for non IT people?
I wished the author would have mentioned that the term PC will no longer be relevant, because they won't be personal; mobile devices are personal; the tablet may be personal; the smartwatch will be personal. The central computer in your home should be called an HC or home computer, assuming there only needs to be one of them, and maybe it will be involved with home automation. It is unlikely it will be there to do truck-like tasks; that will be handled by services external to the home, like an "EC2 for the masses". Thinking of neighborhoods sharing PCs? Come on. Sometime in the 1980s was the last time I went to a neighbor's house to use a PC.
What might be more alarming than the devices becoming consumption devices, is that society may be heading to a consumption society. Producing is orders of magnitude more mentally challenging than consuming (I can read many books a week with ease but writing even a couple good blog posts is still a challenge), and whether society is driving the device change or the device change is driving the society change, I worry about the long term effects this environment will have on our future minds.
Damn, could have used this on an educational video game concept I was involved with a few years ago. Finding the right people for projects like that is so damn hard in some parts of the country.
Vulnerability in recent Linux kernels offers root rights