skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel very comfortable with Tastypie, and have pretty well internalized its API. I've got most custom code down to muscle memory. Because of this I don't feel constrained by Tastypie at all.

That said it is very "Django"-y, meaning it's got a high level of abstraction, very opinionated but provides hooks for everything. It's also pays a huge amount of attention to testing.

All that aside I did evaluate DRF for my last project. Tastypie's Django 1.5 support didn't exist, it had some weird interaction issues with our database setup, and it has a huge amount of outstanding issues & pull requests. I spent like 2 days working with DRF and it felt clumsy for me (read: not objectively clumsy, I was just used to thinking about exposing data to a hypermedia API in a particular way). Honestly I just got annoyed by the CBV part. I know some people love them and I'm sure they're great and all, just wasn't for me.

edit: frankly they're doing the same thing, they're both well-written and -maintained. It's just about which API you prefer to work with.
All the pods appeared to be on privately owned parking lots or otherwise vacant lots.

E.G.:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=food+truck+pod&hl=en&...
Not really. These are two separate issues. If I am a gold panner, I might be very satisfied with my gold panning technique, and yet complain that there is a shortage of gold in the river.
Just browsing through it, definitely worth $30 to me. Well written and explains Meteor perfectly for retards like myself.

So tmeasday, now that you're not busy any chance of fixing accounts-anonymous?
Cloud 66: Major Service Incident
Most of the comments here don't really argue against the article. Marco's not saying don't ever use a kit lens. He's not saying don't buy an SLR either. He argued that you shouldn't buy an SLR if all you will use is the kit lens.

He also gives a suggestion on his favorite lens and argues that you should not skimp out if you get a zoom.

Marco is clearly an enthusiast. So I agree with the article. Enthusiasts should optimize for price/performance. I think this excludes most SLRs.

I also agree with his recommendation of a micro 4/3 at the end. You might argue that you can grow into an SLR and overall you may spend less money if you get into photography seriously. But I have been involved in gear-centric hobbies before. This is fallacious thinking.

The vast majority of people never get that serious, so overall, most people have wasted money. The serious ones will continue to spend lots of money, and that initial investment is negligible. Also you can sell cameras 2nd hand.
Sorry, my comment was misleading. This is exactly my point--it just seems like the author has a nieve view of investing if they think Coinbase "nabbed" their round.
It doesn't really have anything to do with the Internet or mail order per se.

Businesses have never, in general, been required to collect sales taxes for other states. It doesn't matter if the sale is on the Internet, mail order, or face-to-face. In some states (Washington is one for sure, but I believe there are others) you can even get out of paying their own sales tax for face-to-face purchases. For example, if a resident of Alaska (no state sales tax) has proper ID, he can travel to Washington state and pay no Washington tax on his purchases (you do have to certify that you're planning to take your purchase out of Washington state -- if it's going to be consumed or used in Washington, you have to pay Washington tax).

See:

http://dor.wa.gov/Content/FindTaxesAndRates/RetailSalesTax/N...
As much as I would like to use it, their desktop client has never worked for me so I use Skype instead. Similar rates, much better client. But your point around revenue is definitely a good one. I wonder how much it actually generates.
London, Paris, Seoul, and Tokyo all shut down most of their mass transit system overnight. NYC runs it all night long (albeit with fewer trains and some diversions). By the important metric of availability that puts it among the top.
I recall reading a series of blog posts written by someone who survived a south american economic collapse. (I forget what the URL was.) His perspective was that there is a VERY thin veneer on civilization, after which weapons, a fortified home, large cars, and absolute paranoia seem to be the best bet. Some highlights:

- small gold rings are good currency: you can easily divide it, and you can carry small amounts on your person. For some reason, people valued that more than paper money.
- a black market for guns (and ammo) will spring up; cheap POS guns will have ludicrous prices, so if you plan to have one, it's wise to have them before The Collapse
- Don't open your door for anyone.
- Be armed. Seriously.
- Be prepared to seriously consider whether to drive _through_ a pedestrian, rather than risk that his friends will kidnap you as soon as you stop.
- Neighborhood friendships are extremely valuable.

.. that's all I can remember off the top of my head. I'm sure someone else can link the originals. Basically, though, it's comparatively easy to stockpile small pieces of gold jewelry ahead of time, and people will tend to accept it in trade. (Water/food/bullets/guns are of course even more valuable, but those aren't as transportable.)
Greengar, The Mobile Whiteboard, is trending on AngelList
I think people aren't comfortable with the anonymity associated with Bitcoin yet. Plus it's only heavily exercised use case is in buying shit you can't purchase with regular currency :)
I have to make an appointment to see my accountant at least 1-2 months in advance if it's anywhere near tax time (late January-May). He's definitely no time to take on more forms per client, let alone advise me properly which states will tax which products at what rates.

I run the online store for my father's retail shop, with several hundred SKUs. We sell fancy health water bottles for example -- some states this is not taxed, some it is, some it is depending on bottle size and whether it meets their definition of water or some other kind of beverage. Someone will have to reconcile every SKU against every state's sales tax classification changes every 90 days. That's not something any accountant does for small businesses operating in a single state right now.
Of course customers like being acknowledged, but that's the responsibility of whoever is actually interfacing with said customer. IME, it's pretty unusual to need developer input just to adequately respond to a client. It's also quite unproductive to run around context-switching developers every time a minor issue arises.

This is why I specifically mentioned that this is an upper management concern. Those in client facing roles often default to wishing to provide the best possible support to their customers at all times. It's a good instinct, but that doesn't mean it's always the pragmatic course of action.
Except that they do need to have a conclusion. Otherwise they're wasting everyone's time showing off "this data is meaningless". The only time you want to show 'no pattern' is if someone asked for data for/against a pattern.
If you want to be truly efficient, read it on your own time through RSS. Here is a link to RSS feeds sorted out by points or the front page stories.

http://ashleyw.co.uk/project/hacker-news-feeds

Hope this helps!
Maybe, but most people seem to draw issue with "trust fund babies" and people who are born into wealth. Society does not need people living on their ancestors' fortunes, it needs people who do useful work.

Copyright exists for the benefit of society; how does society benefit by being forced to pay the descendants of F. Scott Fitzgerald just to produce copies of his work? Copyright terms were extended after The Great Gatsby was written, so it is entirely bogus to claim that we might not have it without the absurdly long copyright terms we have today.
Maybe it's just me...but I actually feel a bit nostalgic after seeing this.
Read his title he said "if you'll ONLY use the kit lense". ONLY. You said: "I've since upgraded to a lot of different lenses".

He's not talking about you. He's talking about the quality of kit lenses and why it really isn't worth the investment in a DSLR if you're not going to partner that with an investment in some good glass. I completely agree.

Edit: I'll add one more thing. For everyone saying that the DSLR they bought and use with a kit lens is better than any point and shoot they've owned, I would question if you are comparing two similarly priced cameras. Most of the time people upgrade to a DSLR and spend more than they spent on the point and shoot its replacing.
New York has this... I don't think it's atypical. Tracts are so small that it only takes a single development to raise or depress median income grossly. Take a look at the middle of Manhattan: there are tracts with $10K next to tracts with $120K, but they might have as few as 20 households in tract, which means that a single building with 11 low-income tenants would pull the median down to the poverty line.

http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2011/dec/08/census-...
It may be odd, but it is predictable. Patent monopolies are a balance between corporations: Some licensees, some licencors. They spend about equal amounts of money influencing legislation.

Publishers and media consumers have a less balanced relationship. Publishers can spend more to influence legislation. So, in practice, copyright monopolies go on forever.
glad to see you jump in here, I'm guessing you can provide way more useful of an opinion on Exodus that us laymen ;)

Looking through the site, there appears to also be a philosophy around clear, well structured, well documented object oriented code for things in Exodus...which of course means that some of the more hacky optimizations are right out.
I use if for international calling on my phone.
>Is that what you did? The main point was that corporations outside US jurisdiction will have a competitive advantage simply by not being in the US. You rebut claiming competitiveness is a non-factor in considering regulation, citing outsourcing and cheap foreign labor as evidence?

No, I never claimed "competitiveness is a non-factor in considering regulation".

I merely said, in a lot more words, that competitiveness should not be the BE ALL END ALL factor in considering regulation. And I argued that competitiveness can also be a BAD factor in considering regulation.

Moreover, I said that this kind of "competitiveness" while great for the company that benefits from it, it's not that great for the country that hosts the company and its general population, and it can be a race to the bottom.

Let me give an exaggerated example. If some regime had a huge competitive advantage against the US by forcing people, including children to work on their factories for almost nothing, should the US, and other affluent markets, consider introducing slavery and child labor again, in order to remain competitive?

No, they should embargo, tariff, and tax the hell out of that regime's products, to ensure that competitiveness is due to improvements in engineering, efficiency, innovation, etc, not backwards practices and "a race to the bottom".

>>a company can be American in name, but in no more benefit to the US as a country than Toyota or Samsung.
>What does this mean? Toyota and Sumsung are a huge benefit to the American economy. A Toyota Tundra has more US manufactured parts than most "American" trucks. It seems you fail to realize the benefits of a globalized economy, and therefore promote American isolationism to bring us back to our glory days.

It means that the "benefits of a globalised economy" are mainly for company owners, moguls, managers, golden boys and the like, and more often praised than seen in reality.

I'm not talking about numbers in balance sheets, but about how those numbers trickle down to the country's economy. Samsung (or Apple) can make billions in the US market, but that doesn't mean you get to add those to the GDP and be happy about it.

(The fact that Toyota also makes parts in the US is just a diversion from my main point. It's the "throwing a bone" to the US market action that I referred to in my comment. Toyota can open some part factories in the US (to silence the worries of the locals) and still pay piss all in taxes through labyrinthine out-of-country logistics and accounting -- and that's on top of tax cut deals made with the US government for them to agree to open their factories in the first place)).
"If you're a contractor billing at market rates in SF, $30 is one-third to one-fifth of a single hour's income."

The issue is that the overwhelming majority of technical people don't live in SF, nor will they ever earn SF rates.

It's absurd that people insist on projecting the economic situation of an incomprehensibly small subset of programmers that are lucky enough to reside in a hot market onto the entire cohort of developers. Most people don't make $100 per hour, and even if they do, other aspects of life are quite expensive (car, house, school). I don't understand why people can't comprehend that some people make modest salaries or don't have limitless disposable income.

$30 isn't necessarily the world (and many people will certainly receive positive value), but it's still a hefty expense that requires one to gauge value. Asserting that someone is wrong to be hesitant about buying the book is presumptuous.

People buy things based on cost, and strive to preserve their money and maximize value. What is so upsetting about that?
It appears that the copyright on the film was not renewed, leaving it in
public domain, but the copyright on the story that the film was based
on was renewed, which became a pivotal point after 1993, when that
copyright holder was able to negotiate for licensing for more limited
showings. This is covered in the URL you provide, and the details are
corroborated by several other sources. It is complicated.

One of the effects of the film's popularity in the 1980s is on the
popular perception of runs on banks and of bankers - I wonder how much
American views of the recent financial crisis are colored by the
grim visage of Mr. Potter?
On the other hand, copyright protects copying but patents cover usage - even if only personally. It's reasonable for patents to have much shorter validity than copyright.
In parent's profile: obligatory Ayn Rand-related quote...
Coinbase is by far the easiest service to use (something that I think is vastly undervalued from the complaints on HN). As long as bitcoin continues to do well I think they have a good chance of being very successful. Congratulations on the funding.
Patents and copyright are completely different. Copyright protects a specific work - you could write a book that has exactly the same plot and characters as The Great Gatsby, and as long as you use different sentences and names, it would not be copyright infringement (just look at the cookie-cutter ripoffs of Shades of Grey - and for each one that's published, the editor rejected 30 more).

If you have a patent on some mechanism, nobody else is allowed to use that mechanism without your approval, and minor variations are not sufficient to bypass that.
Great to see the Meteor team engaging with the developer community and organizing a hackathon. A great reference for anyone organizing one of these for the first time is the Hack Day Manifesto:

http://hackdaymanifesto.com
Quote from the article:

“We need 10 people yesterday,” said Ehrsam, a 24-year-old former Goldman Sachs trader.

"10 People" in this case == security and crypto engineers - like the best the world can get.

If you want to lead the largest exchange for a decentralized, anonymous currency, you better have an NSA quality-type security team that can address the intricate mathematics of the problems they will certainly face. I'd suggest they hire a very senior and experienced economist as well.

$5m of funding? 500K per hire. Sounds about right.
Morin tastes own medicine
One of the main concerns around exchanges is security. And for obvious reasons.

I'm interested to guess at what kind of chunk of this $5mil goes to corporate-level capital concerns like infosec vs. the regular startup sinkholes. Can you colorize for me what kind of chunk of your operating expenses goes toward security in one form or another?
Maybe get a better accountant? I'm being serious. I definitely don't need to ask a month in advance to talk to my person accountant or our business's.
> Bitcoin is like cash.

Right, which is the point. No one same would argue that cash is a secure form of money storage. It's got some selling points, but security is not one of them.
Not quite, but JWST will be out at the L2 point, beyond the moon in essentially what amounts to an earth-matching solar orbit.

It's large aperture infrared sensors will have an unobstructed view of the universe (unlike Hubble which is in low earth orbit, and so only gets 90 minute windows of observation).

Basically, using IR spectroscopy we will be able to analyse the atmospheric composition as well as the thermal emissions of exoplanets.

Finally, JWST won't be limited to a small, fixed field of view like Kepler.
Venmo is doing what PayPal started off doing: mobile payments between users.

PayPal, in this lament, however, is acting as a payment processor for someone selling something. Venmo doesn't seem to do that.
My father has one, I saw it many years ago and never knew what it meant, if anything. Thanks man!
"Don't let the frequency of stupidity among adults cause you to discount the fact that experience has value."

I'm not.

Experience alone doesn't cut it though. There are plenty of things people don't actually want to experience, but it happens anyways. That's why you can describe this with the "stages of grief".

The wisdom I am talking about is not about making better or worse judgement. It's the ability to stay sane while experiences come and go -- when new things arises, and when you enter those stages of grief. Someone with a lot of experience (which _does_ come with age) would presumably have more practice at this, but that is no guarantee.

"after you've had the experience of being shocked by hearing yourself sound like an echo of your own parents, "

Oh yeah, that's a fun one :-D

There's a mythic image I once heard describe by Joseph Campbell. Imagine a family sitting around the dinner table. This is Victorian times, and the family is dressed up for it. The father and mother have formal dining clothes, spine straight, all very proper and like.

The father asks the mother, "is he done yet?" The mother lifts up the cover to the formal service. And there, underneath, is their son roasted the the plate, garnished, sauced up, ready to go. She says, "yes, he smells done." So the father chops up the cooked corpse of his son and eats him. With good manners, of course.

I didn't understand Campbell's commentary until later. The horror of this image is the same horror as realizing that ... you've become the role of the Father. That is, this role has "eaten" you.

If we're talking about having "better" or "worse" judgement, then sure, your experiences matter. I'm talking about staying sane while _experiencing_ things. What is experienced is secondary to the experiencing. In this, very few people are skilled at this.
Sorry, but this is asinine.

Easy DNS charges $19.95 CAD/yr for its basic package of DNS services for a domain. Amazon's Route 53 charges $0.50 per month, or $6.00 USD/yr. Given the OP claim to be "traditionally anti-big government, pro-free market, pro-capitalist whack jobs," they are offering a service 3x more expensive than a comparable service US company. Maybe EasyDNS has some extra goodies that Route 53 doesn't to justify the higher price. Either way, that is what drives Mr. Smith's invisible hand, and acting like US states enforcing their 6% or 8% or even 8.75% sales tax is some sort of game changer is absurd.

The OP seems to woefully misunderstand that this is not a new tax. This requires any internet business with over $1 million in sales -- which I'm guessing doesn't apply to a lot of startups whose founders/employees read HN, btw, mine included -- to collect any applicable state/local sales tax at the point of sale, just like pretty much every local business. And if these businesses are getting squeezed by internet retailers, I'm guessing it has nothing to do with sales tax. Recently I needed a DisplayPort/DVI adapter, and impatiently went to Best Buy, where the only one I could buy was $30. Then I saw this one on Amazon for $4.95 on Amazon -- http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003BHHIA4 -- promptly ordered it, and returned the Best Buy one, even though Amazon sales tax meant I actually paid $5.45. Best Buy is getting destroyed because retailers can sell similar products at a 84% discount, and that would still be true if it was only a 78% discount.

So, to the OP and all the other people I've seen on HN lamenting that this bill is akin to exhuming Adam Smith's corpse and urinating on it: can we please stop acting like this is the end of the world? Making sweeping states predicting economic outcomes without practical considerations (e.g. many internet retailers have a pricing advantage that dwarfs sales tax) and human responses (an effective 6-10% increase on purchases -- 'effective' because this is a tax they should have been paying anyway -- is not really accomplishing much. There are times to get infuriated about the government fucking up the free markets and disincentivizing capitalist innovation and production, but I don't think this is one of them.
If you ever want to see more accurate Saturn emulation or similar, Nemesis' approach is going to be the way to go.

My understanding is, with the mess of chips under the hood of the Saturn, that emulating it well almost requires cycle accurate emulation.
> I think the mistake you are making is that you think "most people" = you, whereas in reality "most people" = Grandma.

I'm trying to make you understand p2p techs can go mainstream, I'm not trying to argue about making a tech only for tech aware people. Bittorrent is already used in a mainstream way. Please don't argue about a tech that appears too complex it can't suit old people. Very few people understand kernels, yet many use computers everyday without minding.

With that mindset, p2p will never become mainstream. If you want innovation to suit 95% of what people want, you're screwed, because people don't know what technologies can do for them. Sometimes you should let engineers or tech-savvy marketers propose a little more that what people will always want to try. There are many people out there who like to be surprised with technologies, and that's also a market.
Ask HN: Difference between MVP and POC
We often here about Minimum Viable Product (MVP) in lean practices. We also often here about Proof of Concept (POC). The answer seems obvious, but what is the real difference between MVP and POC?
1) From your link "Today the Bitcoin network is restricted to a sustained rate of 7 tps by some artificial limits. These were put in place to stop people from ballooning the size of the block chain before the network and community was ready for it. Once those limits are lifted, the maximum transaction rate will go up significantly."

2) Bitcoin money supply is currently INFLATING at fast clip of over 10%/year. Refer to nobel economist Milton Friedman and others to read about a constant-supply currency.[1]

The volatility is because the sum(bids+asks) on the exchanges is small relative to speculator's pockets. This is getting better with time.

[1]http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2006/Friedmantranscr...
We'll obviously need one (where today this accountant meets all our needs, and has been a family friend for decades), but a small business accountant that can do what's going to be required doesn't exist yet. Only national chains have had to worry about such things.
Usually (but not always) higher quality stainless steel is not magnetic, while the lower quality is slightly magnetic.

However even slightly magnetic can be a problem in an MRI - and worse, there is no practical way for the MRI tech to tell how the stainless steel will act, so they will err on the side of caution.