skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just a phenomenal book. After reading the Django docs a few times, I dove into TSoD and realized it was way over my head but the content was excellent from a pragmatic, "get things done", "I was wondering about that" point of view. After going back to Django docs and starting Kenneth Love's Get Started with Django Series then returning back to TSoD, I am even more impressed with the insights and breath of the book. Even as a noob, I consider it a must have reference. Do you really want to go thru all the mistakes, errors and pitfalls that the authors are warning you away from? Some things in life are just genuinely good and of the highest quality PERIOD. Stop being so jaded gang.
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I'm not sure how valuable it is to build a system that works well in a crazy market, considering how many more markets are not crazy. Yes, there are markets where speed is the most important feature, and properties tend to have multiple offers and go above the selling price.... but that is a pretty far edge case.
IT Salaries: Why you are a clapped out Ferrari
Quick correction: only Redfin has MLS access (as they are a broker). As far as I know, Zillow and Trulia have very limited MLS access, and largely get their listings from the brokerages themselves.

We just purchased a house and Redfin by and large had the most timely and accurate data. It turns out that my experience is backed up by evidence: http://www.inman.com/news/2012/10/3/redfin-study-knocks-zill...
We're going to have paid features such as single sign on or private posts on top of our core offering. You can read more about our plans here

http://moot.it/about/
There is at least some entry to it. I'm not sure about other states, but I know Arizona and Texas both required 100+ hours of classroom (which arguably isn't that much). Plus you have to renew every couple of years. Both also require you to pass a state run test. Sure, it's not high, but it's still more than a lot of jobs out there.
I didn't take it as "pitbulls are aggressive" but as pitbulls are tenacious. Pitbulls are one of the few breeds which exhibit the "bite-hold-shake" (like their ancestor the bulldog) and are thusly seen to be tenacious. Maybe just difference of inference.
I spent two hours with my wife's iPhone trying to figure out which app was burning all her juice. On my android it takes just a few seconds since I can run a task manager that actually reports CPU utilization. From what I can tell, that is completely forbidden on iOS. Still, her phone does not "just work".
Twitter Tweets Hint At A Future In Music
Can I ask how much money this whole thing cost ? Or is that rude ?
A law and a corollary are still two distinct things. What people like to claim Godwin's law says, it doesn't actually. And that one is just one of many corollaries (not "the corollary") many random people made up because they could, and which I reject because they have no basis in valid reasoning. After all, the only argument here is "someone said that". Why do people who believe nonsense on someone elses say-so object to Nazi comparisons? Well, well ^^
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The more fundamental problem is the lack of separation between their trading engine and their website. While a website would be perfectly fine on AWS (and likely the more significant part of their scaling problems), the trading engine belongs on a very tightly controlled platform.

I don't have any confidence in their platform. It shouldn't take more than a few domain experts to build a better platform...but for some reason its not happening.
> the goal is to keep discussion and the users on the site. This will make users come back

Back when I first got online and only had one forum I was interested in, this was true - but it really doesn't scale. Trying to keep up with even 3 active forums by visiting each in turn is painful. Since then, I've pretty much ignored any information source that doesn't have either RSS or email feeds, since I can multiplex hundreds of those with no problem :P

(For a more average-joe version of this, note how facebook has largely replaced independent forums and IRC - people are lazy, and going out of their way to check an external site on a daily basis is much more work than clicking a "like" button and having that site's news become part of their standard routine)
Totally off subject but I concur. As long as the owner is understanding of the breed and is confident in being the alpha dog, pits are great dogs. I have one as well as two cats and they all get along famously.

Still, I want my real estate agent to have the common mythological qualities of a pit, given my choice.
Like we say; we've been up only 8 days. Our forum is currently the most active one and you'll probably get the best picture there. Here is a playground forum where you can fool around freely:

http://moot.it/demos/forum.html
How easy it is to Socially Engineer Microsoft Skype Support
Oh right on. I either missed the PS on my first reading, or read it before you added it. Either way, cool :)
Do you want that trained expert to be there on every showing? That just doesn't seem possible, unless you are willing to pay for it.
I really like the fact that Moot seems to handle both forum-style posts and on-page comments. As the owner of a content site, I really want both. I've even gone so far as to try to hack Disqus to work as a forum.

If there was an easy import feature for Disqus threads, I'd probably switch right over.
For what it's worth, you can be a senator at 30. 35 is just for president or vice-president.
Go for it! That's the whole point of Moot.
> There is nothing Google Glass does that my smartphone already can't.

Can you wear your smartphone on your face?
> As for being "laughable", that makes me suspicious of the framework author's understanding of where optimization needs to happen. Presumably, pages will be run more often than they are authored. Presumably there's a recurring bill for the server farm. Optimizing for performance helps end users stay happy, and helps the company stay in business able to continue employing developers.

Well, where optimization needs to happen is highly dependent on the business, and where that business is within it's lifecycle. Sometimes a higher server farm bill is preferable to some impediment to the developers, because the developers don't scale as quickly. Personally I would much rather throw twice as much hardware at something than to work twice as long (at least initially), but obviously it's not as cut and dry as that.

> The query 20 random rows, build an object, and return that, is way beyond requests per second. Enough that the list is dramatically re-ordered.

> This helps suss out your point: how much does a coder have to type in this framework, and how much incidental complexity (files, libs) do they have to wrap their heads around?

The reason I suggested a blog is to also exercise whatever templating system the framework ships with, if any. Otherwise, what the standard templating system is for the target language.

True, this also could be tested just by making something up and displaying those random 20 rows in some manner, but at this point, why not just use a simple spec for a blog? I think it's almost the same amount of work, and IMO will result in more consistent implementations.

That said, I think we are one the same page, more or less.

Edit: s/work twice as hard/work twice as long/ because it maps more closely to what I meant to express.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5531679 (net-security.org)

Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5527230 (net-security.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5528482 (net-security.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5531702 (net-security.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5531872 (gizmodo.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5537891 (businessweek.com)
These are two different books

One is for beginners, another is for advanced users (2SoD)
As I understand it you basically deposit and withdrawal BTC in the ZeroCoin ether (much like a mixer service) using standard denominations, then you make you actual arbitrary denominated transactions with your new Bitcoins.

There can be multiple denominations of ZeroCoins, but it's in everyone's interest for the set of denominations to be small, otherwise you lose anonymity.
Vandalize is totally appropriate. The value of the poll may be minimal but they are still destroying it.

This isn't nearly as interesting of a discussion as you think it is.
IOS Grudge Match: Xamarin C# GC vs Objective-C ARC
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Introduction to the simulated annealing optimization algorithm
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Jeff Bezos: Letter to Shareholders (2012)
No kidding - they appear to be focusing on answering question #1 and completely avoiding #2 & #3. Does not instill confidence.
He may have turned into a great real estate broker...
I was calling 'apple's joke of an OS' overly vociferous, not 'googoo fanboy'.
> As someone who was diagnosed with Aspberger syndrome, reading that article made me want to throw up.

As another 'Sperg, I can't help but think you're overreacting. Sure, the article was a tad patronizing at times, but the overall tone was positive. It's not a problem that it was a bit of a "puff piece", as you said, because it'll help people perceive us in a more positive light.

> My diagnosis is not obvious to anyone talking to me unless I were to disclose it

I grew up without a clue about Asperger's or having it. It just wasn't known back then, so I operated under the assumption of being just an ordinary (or "normal") person, and despite some quirks, even pulled off the role.

But immediately upon reading about Asperger's, my sister recognized the characteristics in me. The point is that someone who knows the "symptoms", may well recognize them in you. It may even be obvious.

> I don't want Aspberger's to define me

It doesn't, but it inevitably does to an extent. You probably display most of the characteristics, but at least some of them are under your control. For example, sometimes you'll want to "fit in", so you'll refrain from being as blunt as you'd like to.
Openness and innovation are not mutually exclusive. It is possible to both champion standards and have a walled garden.
Yup. We felt a little crazy at some point.

Thanks!
So quoting from the discussion:

Oh, of course: for non-NaNs, correctly implemented IEEE
arithmetic is "exactly rounded". So addition of non-NaNs
must be commutative for any given rounding rule, ...
Worth noting that the guy who wrote this is 17 and still in high school. Pretty impressive stuff.
Regarding cuisine vs. Chef Solo... I think it mostly depends on what your scripts do. In my opinion, Fabric/Cuisine make it absurdly easy to execute commands against a remote server and most of the time that's enough for a decent deployment. Chef's execution API is, to put it mildly, clumsy. I cringe every time I have to type something like:

execute "#{virtualenv_dir}/bin/pip install -r #{requirements_file}" do
user deploy_user
group deploy_user
end

IMO Chef shines when you have to move a lot of config files and generate node- and role-specific configs. I feel it's a lot simpler to just have recipe-specific files and templates packaged with the recipe and move them over with commands like cookbook_file and template.

Right now we are using both the technologies. Our stacks are Chef-based since we want people to be comfortable with reading (and possibly modifying) its code. We also reuse a lot of the Opscode recipes which simply do not exist for Fabric/Cuisine. Fabric and Cuisine have their place when we bootstrap a server and prepare the Chef environment and at several odd places where they keep things running together.
I wonder about that kind of argument. I find it super appealing because I would love to work a lot less and yet get more done. Unfortunately I've found that if I work more, I do get more done. Granted, there's a time for stepping back and thinking about a problem rather than continuing to brute force your way through it. And you can get to a point where you spin your wheels and it's better to stop. But generally, more time spent does mean more done, no?
Where do these sites get their real estate data from?
The average homes in the Bay Area are much higher than in many, if not most, parts of the US. Also, lots of inventory move, and this is the second time in about 10 years where the markets have gone "crazy".

If they sell one home in the Bay Area, it could be the equivalent of 5-8 homes in the MidWest where houses average 150k. If I were Redfin, I would try to ensure that my system worked in these "big fish" market where the revenues would be higher, regardless of what the market conditions are, instead of trying to work in the smaller, less expensive markets where you would need to make up for a lot more volume just to get equivalent revenues.
I think part of the problem is that there is so many credible sources to draw from when faced with this sort of thoughts. The Lean crowd will tell you to pivot, but others will tell you to never give up, that big ideas are often brought to life by stubborn entrepreneurs. Many early entrepreneurs are often inspired by such stories and so that's probably quite natural for them to react that way.
If you're having problems with the link, try http://rivered.pxi.io
Very impressive.

We have a startup ( http://microco.sm/ ) in this very space (hosted forums) and will be launching our alpha in the next two weeks. Our design rushes are pretty close to this (though we haven't updated the linked site in ages it feels) and we love that others are innovating in this space and feel that they've also spotted and validated a need for simpler, more engaging forums.

I really like the look of this, one of the much stronger offerings to have emerged in this space.

Will be good to see how we all do in a year or so, and which we way pivot and the changes in our respective business models.

Right now this looks like more of a Disqus rival than anything, but I'm sure they will do well with things like forums for really small communities such as housing associations and knitting groups, etc.
Cool product tour. Is it custom built or did you use some kind of 'tour library'? Hope that's not a dumb question. I could swear I've heard of such a thing being developed before.

First issue is that clicking inside the tour pop-ups causes the tour to advance to the next step. I know there is a 'next' button but at least on chrome, clicking anywhere inside the tour pop-ups advances the tour with no way to go back.

Will edit this if I find more to say.
I wouldn't be surprised if this bill simply protected what they're already doing in secret. I'm sure all of these companies already have agreements with the NSA of one kind or another.
It's a very hard problem.

* The price data isn't reliable. I see random sales for way under market price in my area, probably family sales. Tax evaluations should be reliable, but they are often years out of date.

* The input variables aren't reliable. This condo went for less because it has really high condo fees, but the condo fees aren't in the listing. This other house says it has lakefront AND beachfront AND water views. These two houses have "decks", one is a tiny front porch, the other is a huge thing. These two houses have the same lot size, but one is all grass and the other is straight down a hill.

* There isn't much data volume. You are trying to come up with an accurate price for every house in a neighborhood, but only a few percent sell each year. So the one or two houses that sell determine the prices for all the rest, but the data for those houses is unreliable due to the previous two factors.
CmdrTaco's Law says that the last option in a poll is the funniest and some people will go right for it.
Here are some of the references I've found - they all claim FP is commutative:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2005/01/20/fun-w...

The first answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5007400/is-multiplication...

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=535330

Page 4 of http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/class/fa07/cs498mjg/notes/floating-po...
Interesting to note that in 2012,
AWS announced 159 new features and services, reduced AWS prices 27 times since launching 7 years.
I did all of the interviews!
The cool thing about real estate agents (unlike attorneys) is that the great ones charge just as much as the bad ones.

Takeaway? Mainly just reinforcing the fact that this market is still immensely inefficient.
Thanks, Dan! I really appreciate it!
If you don't have time to read the whole thing and just want to learn how to add reasonably, I recommend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahan_summation_algorithm
Isn't the idea of a central exchange (which "Magic the Gathering online exchange" is), where most of the trading occurs, a little antithetical to notion of a distributed currency?
Actually it shouldn't matter even for BASIC

More 'advanced' versions transform BASIC into bytecode that's interpreted, stripping all the comments

But yeah, for the early systems...
Pro gaming giant Razer now employs more software engineers than hardware
“Fat model, skinny controller” is a load of rubbish
Is the compiler calculating that at compile time based on the lexical tokens, or at runtime with native CPU floating point instructions? That absolutely matters.
The second part is true. The first part is partially negated through trickery; what is actually being studied is almost never what the respondents believe is being studied.
+1 for showing me *nix terminals have a simple calendar command. Awesome.
Here's the relevant article, 'The Weirdest People in the World?' Led to a ton of conversation about exactly what you're talking about:

http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~henrich/pdfs/WeirdPeople.pdf
If it stays < $20 two weeks from now, it will be in the same league as the first huge fiasco.
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I was wondering how long it would take for someone to do this and look it's been done already!
Easily scale images with imgscalr
I only tick in .NET.

In Java I millisecond instead.
Is there an article detailing where Mercedes/others are getting their self-driving technology from? I'm just curious; the timing does seem oddly quick, and they sure sound optimistic.
3-2-1 Disney take down notice.
HUMBIT: Become a pixel.
To TDD or not to TDD?
Agree Zack. Sometimes you just need to throw it out there and see what sticks. Better to find and correct the bugs sooner rather than later.
I _do_ believe in forums as a SaaS.

Yes, there are risks, as you pointed out. There are also benefits.

The forum service provider rolls out updates

The forum service provider applies security patches

The forum service provider keeps the service running 24 hours, and gets woken up in the middle of the night to fix unexpected crashes, not me.

--

I try to outsource anything I can. And forums is one of them.
> in reality anyone with a hacker mentality should see that the poll is obviously based on the honor system

While sure, this might be the case, it still doesn't negate the fact that fundamentally, HN's arrows (of all kinds) should be able to be "undone". Accidents happen, people are curious. We shouldn't blame the users for a system that is broken and relies on them to ignore long-standing standard UX practices when it comes to these types of elements. This poll could have only been abused so far if users were only allowed to pick one, even if they chose to pick the wrong one. Given how long people have been complaining about this, it doesn't surprise me they take advantage of it for the sake of proving a point.
> I don't have any confidence in their platform.

Neither should anyone, as evidenced by their track record. It's just sad that it is this platform driving the price of the Bitcoin at the moment, and I'm not sure how it speaks about the future of the currency.
Have you sorted out the legal issues with the name?

Because I'd be wary about using something under a C&D with such a clear case.
Google+ is a blight. I have multiple Google Accounts (I don't need my real name attached to my main gmail account!) and it's utter horror trying to use Google products.

You either give up on having an anonymous email because they WILL FORCE YOUR real name to be attached to your email, or you give up on Google integration features because you simply CANNOT use Google features without a real name anymore.

Trying to switch between my "public Google account" for functionality and my "private Google account" for privacy is almost impossible when you consider how broadly Google integrates the features. It's simply unteneable, completely. Google wants my privacy gone, and is denying me access to their services until I agree to give it up entirely.

Very, very frustrating for users who have more than one account.
Long-standing convention is assembling != compiling.

You touched on the reason: compiling is translating one language to another. Assembly code is not changing language, just replacing symbols from human-convenient to machine-convenient, more like encryption.

You wouldn't consider Pig Latin a different language from English, it's just a straightforward mangling thereof.
Hi. Member of the IEEE-754 committee here.

(Standards-conformant) floating-point addition and multiplication absolutely are commutative up to NaN encodings. This follows trivially from the fact that they are basic operations (and hence correctly rounded), combined with the fact that the corresponding operations on real numbers are commutative.

Feel free to ask other questions about floating-point superstitions, and I’ll do my best.
Aaron Swartz Revisited: The Internet's Favorite Martyr, Three Months Later
Oh there are plenty of time zones which aren't "on the hour". But most of them either don't observe DST or are unimaginitive about it.

I was far more impressed by Nepal's proposal (later dropped, I believe) to have a 1:15 daylight saving transition:

http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/nepal-daylight-saving-t...
On Windows, devs rarely care about DPI issues, largely because they either never heard about the problems, thought "oh my GUI abstraction will take care of it" or think that the market share of non-standard DPI settings is too low.
Show HN: Bunchy - Social Funding
To be fair, it's my understanding that EC2 are virtual machines. If they use EC2, they need to be 100% certain that their servers are safe and don't fall victim to the Bitcoinica Linode attack. http://bitcoinmagazine.com/the-bitcoinica-linode-theft-and-w...
Absolutely, but a true p2p, decentralized Bitcoin exchange service has yet to happen.
im only t1rteen wanna psyb3r~?
Continually rebasing a shared repos to keep the 'A long time ago ...' message at the top would probably be a bad idea
Huge opportunity here for a proper exchange / trading platform to be built. There is obviously a demand for it.
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Am I the only one loving the recent trend in organising (popular/interesting) conferences outside the US?

I hope this continues with other events too. I'm happy for the no-more-US-visa sake.
Yes we have. Mr Poole "contacted" us:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20408037
The point is he wants to look-up more than one example because the crossword contains several words. Going though the full dictionary N times is harder even if on average he only needed to try half of it than doing it once.
There have been a few articles recently complaining about people who complain about being busy. They offer the keys to unlocking what people really mean when they say they're busy, usually that they're super-important.

There is another thing that "I've been really busy" means: I'm sorry. I'm sorry I haven't kept in touch. I'm sorry I missed your concert/art show/party. I'm sorry I've been mentally absent, unfocused, and overwhelmed. Can we be friends again?
Sounds pretty definitive 8-)

Thanks.