skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Willingness to try new things and experiment with them (for longer than 90 minutes..) is how you prevent being one of those people who nowadays still only does COBOL. Or Java. Some day Ruby is likely to have a similar status.
A colleague of mine and I are given a presentation at the end of the summer entitled "Mousehate: Increasing accessibility of Web Applications one QWERTY at a time." The focus will be on keyboard enabling web apps both with keyboard and CLI like commands.
Thanks for posting this. It's nice to know someone had such a similar ride. Makes me wonder if we all were experiencing something similar. I'm considering doing it again, and this reminded me.
Tumblr (assuming it survives as it exists now) fills the niche that geocities once did, except it slaps a nice UI on making updates and presents some minor restrictions on what you can do (you need to find somewhere to put some of your assets that can't really be hosted by tumblr themselves). Their theme editor even has (if my memory does not trick me, I'm at work and don't particularly want to log into my tumblr dashboard) a reasonable HTML editor. If all the eye melting gif backgrounds, autoplay music and late-90s knock off novelty cursors are anything to go by, a lot of tumblr is probably a more worthy descendant of geocities.

There is certainly a shitton of content created on tumblr, even if you discount the value from aggregation. In addition, Neocities 10mb limitation hugely limits what you can do. Setting aside 1MB for CSS, JS and images and assuming you have a 85/15 content/markup split in your files, you get ~150k words. If you even dare adding images, the possibilities for archiving any content you produce are shot.
Heh. Never would have figured out that Trac query.

Thanks!
The kudos mechanism on that site is a great way to ask for them. You don't know what you're looking at it, or what it does and it's mouse-over activated (which makes no sense given the age of the touchscreen anyway).
Thank you. This is awesome.

If you have the same metrics coming in from multiple app servers, how can they be viewed in aggregate and separately?
I think you mean "content"; "contempt" has almost an opposite meaning.
I believe the President has already pivoted to "carbon pollution" in his latest speeches.

I do believe that we need much more scientific inquiry before making radical economic policy shifts. In just 40 years (since the 70s), the environmental lobby has been pushing:

global cooling
global warming
climate change

And now it's "carbon pollution."

I'm definitely a skeptic when it comes to extrapolating historical record findings into the future, especially when politics is involved.

But the most compelling figure for me, concerning environmental protection, is the annual consumption of grain by livestock. A 1997 article[1] quotes a figure of 800 million people fed with the grain we are feeding livestock in America. So reducing meat consumption would save the energy used to produce the cattle but also the energy used to grow the grain to feed them.

It might also make us healthier, saving healthcare costs, but that is less settled than the figures for cattle grain consumption.

[1] http://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-mi...
There is a certain amount of security in "swipe my credit card". It implies the customer has possession of a thing that hasn't been reported stolen. Now if I stick a card swipe on the side of your monitor so you can swipe from home what data do I transmit that gives that same "in possession of a thing that hasn't been reported stolen" feeling? Currently it is a raft of personal information. If we were in Europe it could be data from the chip embedded in your credit card. Until US cards catch up I am not sure how you would battle fraud.
And what I mean is that is simply not true. Monolithic kernels give us unstable systems like windows, linux, BSDs, etc. Virtually ever highly reliable operating system is built on a microkernel.
He imposes it's a short time, you must have miss interpreted his statement.
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This can't be right: 1.5 was just released in February. It takes at least 1 year between Django releases, right? Right!?

(He said, sarcastically.)

Seriously, it is GREAT to see the framework continue to roll forward.
this post is face-palm worthy. I can't even form an opinion on a new technology before using it for a solid week. Even then I often suspect I've missed something important. Ninety minutes is ludicrous.
All very good points. The Ouya is indeed an Android console, through and through. It doesn't take much digging into the settings area to see stock Jelly Bean UI. Like, right down to the "shutting down" popup/animation. It does have a touch pad on the controller, but I've never once seen a reason to use it (yet). A "nice to have", though.

Despite the recent negative buzz, I've been pretty happy with my Ouya so far. It's a $99 console, people. Some of the games have hinted as some real innovative gameplay and it can emulate any classic game console you can imagine. Next up is getting XBMC running on there, it's supposedly pretty far along. It does suffer from typical Android issues, the most notable being the tendency to slow way down for a second or so, then speedily "catch up" to input that was deferred. If you've scrolled an Android phone, you've probably seen that behavior. It's annoying in gaming. I hope they can fix this.
Auto-form filling is cool and helps the situation but what about NON technical individuals who wouldn't understand how to use that or people who don't understand plugins? How about if your purchasing something on a company card vs. a personal card? What if you have multiple cards?

Wouldn't just being able to swipe be a whole lot simpler?
It's not connection pooling.
for the curious: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-migr...

£17,952 pledged of £2,500 goal. So it looks like this should be happening. Stated intention as to when:

> As the intention is to get something into Django core itself, the idea is to land this for either the 1.6 or 1.7 release of Django. The work itself should be mainly completed by July 2013, and ready for alpha testing and feedback at that point for those who want to try a development version of Django.
Nor to think that of [voluntary contribution supported] neocities?
And self-congratulations, don't forget those!

"Congress has shown once again a remarkable willingness to reach across party lines to ensure that no problem is ever reported again. Time for a raise!"

I believe that government can work well for us, it's just the individuals in there now in both major parties are by-and-large the worst sorts we could hope for real oversight.
That's a nice proposal but the reality is, those who get the app for free will be more likely to request support than those who pay for it.
They seemed a bit more game focussed at WWDC with Sprite Kit, Dynamics and game controller support.
Hey, I have done the course multiple times. It is not cultish at all.

Even though some rules like not pointing the feet, segregation etc. look very rigid. But they make perfect sense as you understand the concept behind it all.

The rules are made so that there is as little disturbance as possible to your meditation practice. In an ideal meditation retreat of this kind, a person stays alone and meditates alone. So some rigid rules are made to help create such a condition.

The best thing what I liked was I did not have to believe in anything to start with. You benefit a lot if you practice the meditation and forget about understanding every piece of information.
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> I also think that the constant claims about 'msm' 'ignoring' important stories is annoying, incorrect and in fact distracting from the proper discussion to be had.

You're welcome to your opinion.
I've been using Go for a few weeks and I think it's amazing. However, I have a considerable arsenal of other languages under my belt already. If I didn't already know C and C++ I probably would feel differently about Go. It certainly isn't as easy of a language to pick up as Ruby. That being said, it's totally worth the effort if you can muster it!

Cheers
To do that, you can change your stats name to include each machine's name, for instance:
<host name>.accounts..http.post.authenticate.response_time

When you display your metrics you can query for:
.accounts.*.http.post.authenticate.response_time

To get a breakdown per machine (and per client). or you can sum the metrics still using the wildcard.
Might help to give it a well known open source license e.g. BSD, MIT, Apache
I left the corporate world about 15 years ago for a lifestyle business (consulting and writing with a flexible work schedule) that has been convenient since my wife and I removed to a remote area.

I have had a few people comment on how long it has been since I had a job, which is a little irritating :-)

I used to have the corporate game down, but I would have problems I think blending back into a corporate world now after having "freedom" for so long.
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Who uses F# and why?
That's clearly not what Snowden has been saying or implying. The information he released about Chinese spying and hacking was about what he considered abuses, e.g. spying and hacking civilian infrastructure in China rather than targeting state actors.
Much of that bleating is just posturing. They know they could get plenty of talent if they paid for it, but they'd rather outsource. For outsourcing you usually have to show that you can't find talent in-country so companies do all kinds of tricks to make sure they can't fill the positions and can outsource the job.
I have mentioned this last time but http://jabs.nu/feedthemonkey is my TTRSS client written in Qt, doesn't do much though, only displaying unread articles in a window you can read and mark as read.
Definitely an issue. However if a card has been reported stolen wouldn't it just be deactivated and not work whether it was used at an at home swipe or swiped at a business?
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The problem here is that we inevitably start moving the goal-posts every time we try to nail down the scope of what constitutes a basic human right. Do you want freedom of speech and the press? Many nations can offer that.

Do you want the power to piss off prominent and powerful government agencies without serious repercussions? You'd have to move somewhere without prominent and powerful government agencies, because we've yet to figure out a way to effectively limit their power.
I may be taking your comment above too literally.

I don't know about that. BASIC may have been a huge leap compared to previous languages that ninety minutes was all you needed to be convinced to switch. It took me a whole lot less to figure out Ruby was amazing (granted at the time, I had a hard time remembering which way I was supposed to make the arrows face when outputting data in C++).

KnockoutJS has a great interactive tutorial which at the time was probably a one-of-a-kind when it came to Javascript frameworks. If other frameworks worked as hard on their online tutorials they may have convinced a lot more users their frameworks were better.

If you can't convince someone to continue learning Go in ninety minutes of an online tutorial, perhaps it says more about the quality of the tutorial than the attention span of the reader.

I wrote a program in Scala recently which ran slower and slower as I passed it a larger and larger sets of input data. Once the program started to take over 20 minutes to complete I decided to look into improving performance. Making the code run use both my CPUs in parallel was trivial. Essentially add .par at the end of some List object and then change a few function signatures. My 20 minute program now completed in 2 minutes. Had someone showed me that earlier, I would have learned Scala and functional programming a long, long time ago.
There is no reason to mention Obama because the scope of the article is an historical document that dates from the Bush Administration.
If (when) Google develops the console, they are developing the software for it as well. What is stopping Ouya, Roku or Samsung from integrating this directly into their hardware and circumvent the need for an additional box altogether? This is not a console war between Apple and Google, more competition between Apple and Android since I think again the big winner will be Samsung here. Also its not a war but just a continuation of what's going on in the mobile space.
this guy has a lot of time on his hands for someone who has 30 days to save their business.
So why are you here again?
Have you tried the JSON API? (See the requests that Google Reader itself makes.) It requires no cookies and supports getting up 1000 items per continuation.
Couldn't agree more regarding the attitude towards failure! There's little acceptance of the idea that failure is a learning experience and multiple attempts are required to be successful. But, I think culturally it's improving, slowly. Tell someone you're an entrepreneur and working on a startup however, and it's a strange stifled reaction that's usually encountered.

Firing someone isn't as difficult as you'd imagine. There are a few more hoops, but at least in the UK it's not really all that difficult and it's not like you're permanently stuck with a bad employee. Plus, this is why trial periods exist!
Nice one.

It is definitely in response to Apple but also more likely they are seeing OUYA and GameStick (also amazon but no console yet) make their own App stores outside of Play! and they want to give developers options to take their Android games to the TV but also not lose out on that bank. They have to now that OUYA and Apple are doing this. It will lead to cool things though, controller ready games and multiplatform gaming/everywhere gaming on remote screens everywhere where as console gaming is stuck at home only for longer sessions/deeper gaming.
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I never knew that he took a picture of the door to the room. Looking at it makes me sick to my stomach.
I don't even think emissions is much of a drawback these days due to catalytic converter technology. Much of the particulate emissions from diesels you see is from either older ones (pre 2000ish big rigs) or from modified ones (F250s with chips to improve performance). In the States I think there is just a great deal of bad stereotypes around them due to a lot of the attempts at passenger cars in the 70s.
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Even for the USA you'd generally not be taxed twice, because foreign taxes paid are deductible from U.S. taxes. For example if I, as an American living in Denmark, sold a startup, I would pay Danish taxes on the sale. Then I would file American taxes by computing my tax liability under the American rates and subtracting the Danish taxes paid. The result in that case would just about always be $0, because Danish taxes are higher than American taxes, so the foreign tax credit wipes out any American tax liability. If the foreign taxes were lower, you'd have to pay the difference in U.S. taxes, but not the sum of the two.
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It is a great idea that just needs the right medium. BBSs were a great medium because it took effort to find a board, connect and learn the etiquette. The early web was a great medium because it was a whole new environment to learn and explore. Wide-area adhoc wifi networks were a great medium because they had the real hacker appeal of having to find an unwanted microwave antenna to turn to a new use and search out like-minded individuals to connect to.

If you could find a medium that has the same sort of DIY/frontiersman feeling people will flock to it. Having a new world to explore and having constraints to overcome are the things that made the internet great.
There is a socket.io server for Python that claims to work with Django: https://github.com/abourget/gevent-socketio

I haven't used it personally, and would be very interested to hear others' thoughts.

EDIT: Looking through the example code ( https://github.com/abourget/gevent-socketio/tree/master/exam... ), it doesn't seem as straightforward as one might hope, especially compared to the channels API.

FWIW, I'm using the AppEngine Channels API from my Django app, and have yet to be disappointed with it.
Back then, it was easy to form a coalition because the guilty party (and his party) was clear, so the other party could make political hay by pursuing an investigation.

In this case, both (major) parties have a lot of blood on their hands. There's no meaningful coalition in Congress that stands to win from such an investigation.
People do this all the time. I myself have given up Haskell what, 3 times already? [edit: Granted, each attempt took no less than a full weekend, sometimes more. Yet, I had no meaningful data to merit a blog post]

When you have no motivation to learn something at work, and your free time is limited, do you use the time you already have to create new things, with old tools, or do you use it to learn new tools?

Of course, this runs completely against my instincts: either I will want to go near the metal and use C, or I'll try to use the fanciest, highest level thing I can find.

To counteract that (in order to get things done), for the former I think about EVE Online (mostly Python, client and server). For the latter, I think about Minecraft (Java).
What a gloriously ignorant or deliberately disingenuous statement. Snowden is wanted for stealing state secrets. That = espionage. If a Chinese agent got caught for doing the same thing he'd be charged with espionage. Espionage has everything to do with the getting not the distributing. If you catch the person leaving the building, meaning the information was never shared at all, you can't go "Oh rats, can't charge him with espionage!" But that doesn't help when we want to do clever word smithing like the above.

For the record treason is a judgement on whether you used the information you stole (espionage) to harm your country. It's actually very telling that he's not charged with treason. The government is saying (today) they don't believe he did set out to hurt his country by simply charging him with stealing state secrets and chosing not to charge him for trying to damage his country with his actions after stealing them.
The "Test Code Before You Commit" rule suggests that the writer does not distinguish between committing code and pushing code, between private changes and public changes. When you commit changes locally, you can always rebase to your heart's content before pushing.

I think this says it best: "Treat public history as immutable, atomic, and easy to follow. Treat private history as disposable and malleable." https://sandofsky.com/blog/git-workflow.html
Meditation is hard. Having someone to listen to you and offer gentle encouragement from experience when you run into tough spots can be very helpful. As with everything, there's a balance to it, and falling into a dependent or worshipful relationship should be avoided
This isn't relevant (except tangentially to the Internet Archive's Wayback machine), but I'm curious about the ethics (or legal standing) of rehosting the Google Reader app (client side portions) with a re-implementation of the (internal) Google Reader API so that the app remains usable in an unchanging state.
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> I am sorry but I don't think people should upload their OPML like this.

It's not all or nothing. OPML is easy to edit, and I did just that before I uploaded my OPML - deleted anything which might be a security issue. It took like 10 seconds.
No idea, it just came to me as I was typing.

But I suppose something like sort of modernising the old method of firing up a terminal and issuing manual GET commands. So, have something called a command line browser, and sites that only work with it. Not to keep any one out, just simply to do it another way. No practice purpose really, just fun for old guys!!! Very silly and point less, of course!!
Just like it does now: the people that get to the top of the political system are hackers (or are the public-face partners of hackers), just the domain (people vs. computers) is different.
The guy is doing it for fun. None of your arguments or concerns are applicable.
Care to explain what it is?
Polaroid?
I would claim that Neocities should specifically not add social networking aspects. If someone wants social features on their site then they can copy/paste snippets of HTML/CSS/Javascript into the static site.

I think the difficulty with doing that is that social network integration is almost exclusively focused on consumption. At the lowest end of the spectrum are the widgets containing information from within the network. That's a reasonable way to direct users from a Web site into a network (eg. a user visiting a newspaper's site may go and visit the newspaper's Facebook page) but it's useless at getting people from the network to go to a site. Nobody goes to Bob's Web site to check his Facebook status; they do it from within Facebook.

The situations where this can work well are:
1) Consumer APIs with machine-readable results. The simplest mashup, data visualisation, interactive game, etc. can be made really interesting when it has real-world data to play with. As an example, one of my first programs was a balls-on-springs physics simulation, but I drove it with artist similarity data from last.fm (audioscrobbler at the time).
2) Producer APIs allow data to persist once the static page is closed. This could be as simple as posting a highscore from a game, all the way up to posting the result of a Web-based creative application. What programmer didn't throw together a "paint program" as soon as they found out how to get the mouse position and make a line on a canvas?
I don't know, I just made it up. So, maybe.
Since when could facebook crush dissent and political movements with military force?
once again on the "most likely" front, it's possible, sure, but according to their own statements, they do actually delete it when you delete it;

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/thinking-tech/does-8220delet...

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/QZh2Ce75...

Note response;
Unfortunately, once you have permanently deleted a message from Trash or Spam using "Delete forever," it cannot be recovered. Google complies with data privacy legislation. As a result, our systems are configured in a way that it is infeasible to restore user-deleted data.

Sure, they could be lying, but they could also be telling the truth, and if we assume they are then there is an advantage in keeping a fully encrypted store rather than plaintext. Google has given us no reason to believe that they are directly untrustworthy unless they are actively compelled by law to act in user hostile fashion, and they do not seem to enjoy it.

Personally I'm far more concerned about the state as a hostile entity than Google.

> With the smart phones being SUCH an integrated part of our lives now, this also makes it VERY difficult to keep your email with you on the go since the mailvelope plugin is only desktop based.

I make reference to this on the project page, there's APG which is PGP for android, makes reading / writing / signing PGP possible on mobile http://www.thialfihar.org/projects/apg/.

> Shame. We have the tools, I hope we get better integration soon.

I hope the same, I kind of see this as pushing the issue, we'll see where it goes.
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms
BTW, I often find the quality of new sumbmissions higher than the homepage.