skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For static sites I use rack, for dynamic sites I use rails.

When do I use Sinatra?
I'm glad there is Sinatra because it inspired Scalatra, which seems way more lightweight than Play :-). Keep up being lightweight!

I don't blame the authors for discontinuing old branches (1.2.x), but it makes me hesitant using Sinatra for a production website that's meant to be there for >= 2 years (though is an eon in IT).
Zombie startups are all over Japan. Failure isn't really an option that you can easily recover from, so entrepreneurs continue running their business as long as they can afford to eat.

You find people who use co-working spaces alone in Japan for years working on the same business or series of ideas but never really growing.
When you want to keep it lightweight
Leave him alone. He's just cranky from lack of sleep.
Since when can CAs determine bad intent?

Besides, there are enough legitimate uses for webcam viewing software that you could just take a regular signed program and configure it in a deceptive manner. Modern web-browsers allow camera access without additional software, for example.

I'm all for software being signed as a matter of routine but this is not something that it would help.
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." is a Michael Pollan quote. Definitely recommend his books if you're interested in nutrition.
Watch people speak (online videos are fine) and read more. You should listen to different people and read different authors depending on what you want to sound like when you talk, that is, what kind of speaking style and language you want to use.

You'll be able to get the flow of language a lot better if you hear how people that are experienced at speaking put together sentences.
right to the point. I generally find female who can talk deeply into the topic sexy. but yet finding a passionate voice isn't all that easy.
Life is wasting my time
That's a fairly silly analogy. Even for people that are code literate, modifying a ROM (that certainly was never intended to be modified by someone outside the original development team) isn't exactly as effortless or commonplace as changing a person's name in a bunch of sentences. I make a living programming, so I would consider myself code literate, but I've never modified a ROM, so I was at least a little impressed.
11,100,000 results for "twitter" now that is scary.

The idea is good but having application aggregators such as download.cnet.com, softpedia.com and others in the result means a lot of duplicate entries.
Their PageRank may be too low.
I raised that point b/c people on Twitter were characterizing your remarks as representative of HN as a whole, when in practice I've found that we debate this issue carefully (again, as opposed to your blanket statement calling them sexist).

I suggest you address twitter issues on twitter. HN issues on HN. I don't see how replying on HN to me with a shoutout to twitter, helps any conversation on twitter.

And any conversation on twitter that represents HN as monolithic in thought, or unable to debate issues thoroughly is prima facie not-serious, (that is, until you tell me of some person you believe whose self-assigned role it is to go around enforcing thought at HN with a whack and a stick.)

I can't begin to tell you how creeped out I am that there are twitter stalkers commenting about this article or my response on twitter, drawing conclusions, saying who knows what based on zero knowledge and yet afraid to discuss the issues here.

Doesn't say much for Internet Discourse 2013.
For light sites.

And for REST endpoints.
What do you mean by "lightweight"?
Where's the science?
>dpp did not leave lift. true he has other projects and focuses on more than just lift, but he is still heavily involved in it.

Well, this doesn't sound a lot better than him leaving the project.
What is with all of the anti-college articles that the New York Times publishes? Almost every time I see one come up it's inevitably a NYT article.
Well my apologies then, and thank you for the clarification on the flagging policy. I do seem to note my ability to flag stories seems to have vanished if only temporarily....

I don't understand why you think it's boring for participants to complain about policies they dislike about the organizations that post here. Especially when those policies relate to hackers, hackers and society, or even just our roles as citizens in society.

I think this is one way how awareness is raised, and changed effected, and I think it's especially valuable on forums like this one, that are widely read and respected throughout the industry.

Personally, I would like to see Etsy offer grants to people in need, regardless of sex or gender. I think that's every bit as much an issue for Hackers as women's status in hackerdom, or whether Ubuntu has gone too far this time.

What would be more boring is a policy of don't say anything out of fear of being controversial on Hacker News.
I use Hacker News <I>because</I> it doesn't have those features...
Thank you for these numbers!

It seems that some of the cited stuff is still too inconclusive to fully draw the conclusion farming -> decreased "body fitness", but there definitely seems to be some tendency there.
I don't see a use for BeautifulSoup nowadays. I use lxml.etree for everything (with the HTML parser when needed), and do 99% of queries using XPath. It's the best way to do scraping with Python, in my experience.
New Game - Immersive Gameplay and Personality Assessment
time to become a technical co-founder? If you are in SF there are plenty guys looking for tech co-founders.
It was a response to the comment that I was responding to.

Giving out make-work jobs that don't produce anything is rewarding poverty.
Zuk is attacking a straw man here. Thinking about our diets from an evolutionary perspective gives us a framework in which to form educated hypotheses. The way an intelligent person applies paleo-based thinking is by forming theories, not by creating an absolutist belief system. Zuk does nothing to invalidate the application data we have about the past in a logical fashion.

If Zuk's point is that some people are applying evolutionary concepts blindly without verifying results or considering evidence, then her book title should have been: "Some People Are Stupid" and left it at that. If she wants to launch a counter to the paleo movement then I think she's fallen flat on her face.
If you click on "Search tools" you can filter by OS. Surprisingly very few Windows apps.
Sorting and Searching Algorithms: A Cookbook
Indeed, it's a review by someone with an axe to grind about a book by someone with an axe to grind.

I'm not a "Paleo" person, but the hinting in this article that folks trying to infer better living patterns from the past are loons is faintly preposterous. We have just mounds of evidence (which doubters are free to research themselves) that many pre-Agricultural societies had (and have, actually) far lower rates of the so-called "diseases of civilizations". More abstractly, evolution isn't magic. There is some rate of lifestyle change due to technology that will outstrip evolution's ability to accommodate it.

Hunters and gatherers weren't obese. We are. By irrefutable inference, some lifestyle difference explains this. One valid way to approach the problem of our accelerating obesity is to study what has changed. The theory that I consider most likely at this point is the one argued by Stephan Guyenet, a PH.D. neurobiology researcher who studies the link between obesity and the brain. He posits that modern industrial food is hyperpalatable, so we eat too much of it.

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/10/case-for-food-...

It wouldn't be the favorite theory in the Paleo community, I imagine, but it springs from the same intuition.
The shoes part I find hard to believe. I.e. it is true that if the security suspects you you may be asked to remove your shoes and have them scanned, but walking through terminals barefoot into the plane? Sounds very un-plausible. I have flown through Ben-Gurion many times and have many acquaintances that did too. There are all kinds of horror stories, but I never heard anybody having to walk barefoot through the terminals, and of course never seen anything like that.

Despite what media people say, profiling is a large (but not only!) part of what happens there. It may not be PC, but it is true, and there are very few Israelis who have serious problem with that. I'm not sure if it is possible to borrow the system wholesale for the US - both threats and targets to protect are very different - but I can say definitely that Israel system seems to be effective and not hugely annoying to most (not all - as I said, there are horror stories) of the people, and TSA seems to be the reverse - not very effective, but hugely annoying. I think TSA should bring in some common sense. I know this may create vulnerabilities, but come on, taking toys from 5-year-olds is not necessary. What is necessary is to create a system that would detect behavior that would suggest this particular 5-year-old may be used for illicit purposes and only then check this particular toy. I believe this is possible and Israel experience could help.
I went and read the forum in question. It's full of nontechnical people who are obviously teenagers. It reminds me a lot of video game forums I used to visit, with gaudy image signatures and all, except here the competition is to collect (and trade) the best "slaves" and spy on them. My guess is that these people started out with video game cheats and, without anything better to do or anyone to stop them, it spiralled into this.

One interesting tidbit is that people seem to often post stories of interactions with their "slaves". It usually involves them trying to seem powerful and scary, but at the same time there's an undertone of wanting to connect with the people that they spy on. For instance, after one guy intentionally outs himself by posting on his "slave's" facebook profile, he chats with her and keeps trying to convince her (in a threatening way) to skype him so that he can show her how to install an antivirus. There are also a lot of interactions of the "put a shoe on your head and hold this sign and I'll stop hacking you" variety.

Edit: Also, don't miss that bit at the end about the RAT software author quitting in part because of the Syrian government's use of his software against rebels. Scary stuff.
"It is striking how fixated on the alleged behavior of our hunting-and-foraging forbearers some educated inhabitants of the developed world have become....happier and healthier if we lived like 'cavemen'"

The posters on this web site who are not part of the "1%" are often at the top of the middle class under the 1%...white, male, American, educated at college in CS, living in nice metropolitan areas in the US. What kind of work hours do we often see posted here? 50, 60, 70 hour weeks, or more. I know, I have done so myself - working for a Fortune 100 company. Imagine what hours a truck driver, or a Bangladeshi factory worker works, or some Chinese factory worker making iPads.

In Marshall Sahlins "The Original Affluent Society" he looked at how much the still existing hunter-gatherers in places like Africa worked, and did research trying to figure out what was the case 20 thousand, 30 thousand years ago. It seems hunter-gatherers often work less hours than many of the people on this site do, or truck drivers do, or Chinese factory workers do, or a lot of people do.

They also have no rent payments to make and the like. Hunter-gatherers, pastoral tribes and farmers tend to have to get forced more or less by gunpoint to the cities, including in our modern day. Why should the rural Mexican farm laborers forced off their farms by "NAFTA" come to modern America, because the unemployment rate is no longer above the 1984-2009 high like it was last month?

As the desire of the current hegemony is to pretty much ignore history completely, of course any people who look at history from ancient history to now, you want to paint them as loonies. This writer sounds like one of the apes in Planet of the Apes deriding people who want to go to the forbidden zone. And sure, it's easy to deride anyone curious about history, the economy, politics and so forth, and to say anyone interested in that old stuff is some Berkeley hippie eating the latest fad diet. She's the secular equivalent of the Christian fundamentalists who say the world was created in 4004 BC.

A new thing was introduced into the world 10000 years ago alongside farming - slavery. Read the Epic of Gilgamesh, or the bible, or modern anthropology. The "left"/"post-left" investigation of these things is mostly serious. But if Salon sees fit to point to a few wingbat hippies eating some faddish diet as a way to paint the whole study with a brush, well, I'm not surprised the website John Warnock and William Hambrecht bankroll is doing that.
google "The Paleo Diet", first result http://thepaleodiet.com/:

The Paleo Diet is based upon eating wholesome, contemporary foods from the food groups our hunter-gatherer ancestors would have thrived on during the Paleolithic era, the time period from about 2.6 million years ago to the beginning of the agricultural revolution, about 10,000 years ago. These foods include fresh meats (preferably grass-produced or free-ranging beef, pork, lamb, poultry, and game meat, if you can get it), fish, seafood, fresh fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, and healthful oils (olive, coconut, avocado, macadamia, walnut and flaxseed). Dairy products, cereal grains, legumes, refined sugars and processed foods were not part of our ancestral menu. The site makes constant references to "the mainstays of Stone Age diets" and advocates a high potassium/sodium ratio because "Stone Age bodies were adapted to this".

Another site early in the results: "Cut out all cereal grains and legumes, cut out sugar, eliminate dairy products" which I think covers everything outside of meat, fruit and vegetables.

PaleoDiet.com: "Paleo is a simple dietary lifestyle that is based on foods being either in or out. In are the Paleolithic Era foods that we ate prior to agriculture and animal husbandry (meat, fish, shellfish, eggs, tree nuts, vegetables, roots, fruit, berries, mushrooms, etc.). Out are Neolithic Era foods that result from agriculture or animal husbandry (grains, dairy, beans/legumes, potatoes, sugar and fake foods) "

If you object to people rebutting this 'straw man', then perhaps you should try and stop people from proposing it. You can't call something a straw man simply because it's not what you personally mean by the word.
Firmly bookmarked! Thanks!
Medical equipment salesman to E.F. Hutton training program to jail. Then:

> With no experience, no college education, virtually no connections, and with the same casual outfit he had been wearing on the day he was taken into custody, Gardner gained a position in Dean Witter Reynolds’ stock brokerage training program.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Gardner

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"Mr. Wall Street" Sideny Weinberg began as a janitor's assistant at Goldman Sachs and rose to CEO. He completed only Junior High school.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Weinberg

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There are countless other case studies I'm sure, which are all pleasing to read, but the only common threads you'll find are luck and meeting the right people at the right time. In spite of the two people's good intellect/skills, if the parameters were different in either of the above stories, things may have turned out very differently.

At the very least, its hard to become CEO of Goldman Sachs from being a janitor if Goldman Sachs doesn't exist.

Most self-made men, in short, have a lot of fortunate scaffolding when they get to the construction site where they are made.
Actually, when we assume that any particular physical system is computable, that's exactly what it is - an assumption, there is currently no strong evidence that all physical systems are computable, and despite the fact that it seems most people (including experts) believe that they are, it's still usually considered an open question.

> Viewed from the right angle, the CTD Principle still is shocking. All we have to do is look at it anew. How odd that there is a single physical system – albeit, an idealized system, with unbounded memory – which can be used to simulate any other system in the Universe!

http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/interesting-problems-the-chur...
I've seen the dogs. Not sure what they were sniffing for - drugs, explosives, anything else - but they were there. Not every time, but it happened.
Google : India makes 13 requests a day for web user data
The Wikipedia article on the Neolithic Revolution[1] says:

"nutritional standards of Neolithic populations were generally inferior to that of hunter-gatherers, and life expectancy may in fact have been shorter, in part due to diseases. Average height, for example, went down from 5' 10" (178 cm) for men and 5' 6" (168 cm) for women to 5' 3" (165 cm) and 5' 1" (155 cm), respectively, and it took until the twentieth century for average human height to come back to the pre-Neolithic Revolution levels."

The citation is to a Michael Shermer book.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution#Consequenc...
Previous discussion on hn regarding the link in the post.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2446752
Show HN: Paloma - page-specific javascript for Rails done right
A few background links on the global decline in human health following the transition to agriculture around 10 kya:

Post-pleistocene human evolution: bioarchaeology of the agricultural transition
http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/icaes/conferences/wburg/poste...

The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
http://www.ditext.com/diamond/mistake.html

Health versus fitness: competing themes in the origins and spread of agriculture?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20642145

On the Early Holocene: Foraging to Early Agriculture
https://depot.erudit.org/bitstream/002029dd/1/CIRPEE05-02.pd...
I feel like its 1998 and everyone has discovered Back Orifice again.
This article hits the nail on the head.

Remember, "MVC" means so many different things. Originally, the "controller" was needed for low-level keyboard processing, something no modern "MVC" framework needs in the same way. (See Martin Fowler's history of the term if you're unfamiliar with it).

So really, all "MVC" means these days, is, "Hey, we put some thought into how to have better separation of concerns in our UI code."

But past that point, it is hard to make simple, true statements that include all of the MVC frameworks out there. Rails controllers are different from Ember's controllers are different from Backbone controllers, etc.

So when someone tells you, "Here's an MVC framework," the only reasonable expectation you can come in with is that they put some thought into separation of concerns. Where that thought led them is likely to be very different from other MVC frameworks.

And in Ember's case, the particular details are, "Our whole philosophy was strongly influenced by Cocoa."

Ultimately, we seem to just now be getting to the point where we can, as an industry, intelligently figure out what concepts do make sense in a single-page javascript framework that "puts some thought into separation of concerns." It's not likely to be any of the approaches we've already tried, because our "javascript platform" was immature, and all we have done so far is borrow ideas (from Rails, or from Cocoa, or wherever).
Yes I'm sure in a videogame it's very important it be informed by reality. You know, in a video game where the antagonist is a giant ape throwing barrels at you.

Why, whenever someone does something simple like this, does someone feel it sooo important to come and remind us about how on average women have blah blah blah properties.
It's ok to fail.

In fact in improv, failure is an important introductory lesson. Without reducing fear of failure by actually failing, improvising would be impossible except for the bravest of souls.

One basic lesson goes like this: make up a pun about what the bartender said about 1,001 light bulbs when they went into the bar. In general, the results are terrible, but the class is told to erupt in applause and support for the improviser for having attempted a pun.

Good luck with the project!
I hope people will come to the right conclusion about the whole Hunter Moore incident : once a potentially harmful information leaves your control there is no good way to stop it from reaching people you don't want it to. Sexting is probably not a good idea, at least until our society normalizes to the age of free-flowing information.
What would prevent malware authors from just signing with their own CA?
May I suggest you opt at creating a business canvas. Less verbose and more direct than a x-page doc file. Easier to on-board people with it as well. Once you have the canvas its going to be easier drilling down on the details.

http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/canvas

http://leancanvas.com/
Minors or adults, this is a startling demonstration of psychopathy. It's one thing to spread fear for profit, it's a whole 'nother ball game to do it for fun.
That's no more true now than it was 15 years ago. There're startups doing amazing things with depth cameras, motion capture, computer vision, robotics, large-scale databases, multimedia processing, collaborative filtering, and so on. They are, of course, a tiny minority of all startups, but that's because it will always be easier to write CRUD apps to manage house cleaners and town cars than to develop genuinely new technology.

I remember a quote from Larry or Sergey back in the early days of Google (before the dot-com implosion) that was to the effect of "Do any of those other tech startups have any actual technology?" It's always been like this - wannabes hoping to get rich quickly outnumber the genuine innovators. It doesn't mean the latter group doesn't exist, only that you have to work to find them.
To repeat myself from earlier: If you object to people rebutting this 'straw man', then perhaps you should try and stop people from proposing it. You can't call something a straw man simply because it's not what you personally mean by the word.
> without anything better to do or anyone to stop them, it spiralled into this

Surely the basis for not being evil, is to not do bad things to other people by the command of your conscience?

I understand that the majority of the offenders are likely children, and I hope that most of them will remember themselves doing this with feelings of shame for a very long time, because these sort of acts are not merely pranks. They may affect their targets in seriously negative ways.
There are certain fields where everything is pretty much 0 to 1.

Designing a nuclear reactor or an orbital rocket is an incredible feat of engineering, even if you have half a century or more of work to fall back on.
Is this a "one" guy or a start-up company?
Clicking on the keypad displays different images; anyone worked out the others?

Here's an excerpt from the Guardian:

The doodle features many of the touchstones of Adams's popular writing.

It displays a cup of tea - a reference to one of his Dirk Gently detective novels, called The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul. It also shows a towel, an item Adams wrote was essential when travelling in space).

With a click of a lift door on the doodle, one of Adams's most enduring characters from the Hitchhiker novels, Marvin the paranoid android, is revealed.

There are many references to the Hitchhiker's Guide. With many clicks, some of Adams's best fictional inventions, including the Babel Fish, which can be inserted in your ear to translate any language, are on show.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/11/douglas-adams-ce...
Wait, are you saying the revenge porn site is an issue of copyright? Because AFAIK, pornography distributors are required to keep records of the people in their photographs and videos, specifically so they can prove they are over 18.
I'm curious, too. Also how does it compare to Spray? https://github.com/spray/spray