skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Controllermate (http://www.orderedbytes.com/controllermate/) - This is an outstanding program that allows you to customize almost any USB keyboard / mouse / controller / joystick to do exactly what you want, with a very clever and powerful graphical scripting environment. I have a Logitech Dual Action (with NO Logitech drivers instaled) wired up to switch spaces on the D-pad, volume on one joystick, screen brightness on the other. One button plays and pauses iTunes. I use it to add volume buttons to my Das Keyboard. No more crappy HID drivers. You can also create custom acceleration curves for mice.
RSS Stress (Info Overload) (even without HN)
When a bank (or other lender) goes bankrupt its creditors seize the assets, which include mortgages. So if you don't pay then the note holder will eventually foreclose. But occasionally the paperwork gets lost or screwed up and that delays the process. I've heard stories of deadbeats going a couple years without paying before finally being evicted.
I agree, I think most of the people who responded assumed you were talking about geek/normal socialization. But you're talking about something else. You want to experience a variety of things, and thus you have a variety of social groups, but in each case you feel like you're suppressing part of yourself.

I know exactly what you are talking about. I don't think this is easy to fix. I've sort of "solved" the problem by living in the Bay Area. There are a lot of hypernerds, and a lot of wild and creative people who love to party, and a significant number of people who are in the intersection.

You'll never completely escape the problem, though. One of the blessings and curses of the modern world is that you can develop interests that make you very different from your geographic peers.

The one thing that you really MUST do is stay away from people or activities you have contempt for. That's not good for you or for them. And even if you think you are hiding it well, usually they pick up on it, at least subconsciously.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=python+web+frameworks&l=1
Cocoa Nightly :)

http://atomized.org/wp-content/cocoa-emacs-nightly/
yes I thought the same and it reminded me of this video by Matthieu Ricard:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1424079446171087119...

More specifcally at this point: 37 min 23 sec he shows a picture of a grinning monk who's just come out of 6 years of meditation. He seems to have had a rather pleasant time.
So here (http://fewagainstmany.com/blog/python-micro-frameworks-are-a...) is a post that lists some micro-frameworks for Python, such as web.py. Many of them are similar to Sinatra for Ruby (if you are familiar with that framework) and basically allow you to create very simple web applications in a single file if that is what you desire. While these are not inherently MVC, they can be used as the underlying foundation for your very own MVC framework.

As for MVC, the other big ones for Python (other than Django) are Pylons and TurboGears. Of course there are some other very heavy weight ones as well, such as Zope and Plone, but my knowledge of these is very limited, so I'll leave them for someone else to comment on.

Finally, you can could always use the WSGI spec directly and just slap together all the other "best of bread" pieces to make your own simple framework. It's actually pretty easy to do so, and the best tutorial I've found on doing just that is on Joe Gregorio's website (http://bitworking.org/news/Why_so_many_Python_web_frameworks). Check it out, it's definitely worth running through once to at least get an idea of what other frameworks are doing under the hood.
Ah, I see. I didn't understand what a course catalog was in this context. Maybe "Browse Courses", or place the link more centrally? Also, it should default to a few examples that are really awesome, not "Most Recent" which is full of garbage at any given moment.
Socks - A javascript UI toolkit inspired by Shoes
Introducing Socks. An easy to use javascript UI toolkit with Shoes (http://www.shoooes.net) like syntax. Build webapps quickly and easily with no knowledge of HTML or CSS.
Vegetarianism is not isomorphic to healthfulness, but it is healthy.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10627874

There is much more research on the topic.

It has also been shown that the same benefits arise from "flexitarianism", or limited meat consumption.
Werkzeug - the anti-framework. It is more like a library and that's good as it allows you do things the way you like...

http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/
zope is no longer a monolithic framework, but a large collection of libraries, most of which can used outside the main zope framework or even create your own framework. You can use what you want -- the `pay for what you eat` principle.

Repoze - http://repoze.org and
Grok - http://grok.zope.org are some of the derivative frameworks that use best of zope libraries without going the whole hog.

Today, zope (specifically zope3) is arguably ahead of other popular frameworks in terms of its reusability, deployment stories, extensive testing.

Combine WSGI + Paste + Zope Component architecture + SQLAlchemy and a choice of other libraries to create a robust framework of your own.
Agree with the CPU. But I'm on FF 3.0.10 on Win7 RC and there is no carrot flickering.
Ask HN: Building a simple utility site to build pre-launch traffic?
I have two different applications that I've been developing part-time. One application is for managing Apache authentication across multiple sites on the same server and the other is a replacement for both the browser popup authentication window and backend user authentication on Apache.

To build some pre-launch traffic and gauge interest in the market I've built a simple website aimed at the same type of user:

http://www.htpasswdmaker.com/

I've left it as a stand-alone site for now with the plan to add links to the applications I have in development once they mature to a release point. I'm also thinking about using it as a test bed for SEO testing and potentially adwords testing.

With that in mind, what does everyone think of building independent traffic drivers like this? Do simple applications like this work better for "evergreen content" than for example a howto site about Apache authentication?

BTW, I've had a similar sort of site up for a few years for generating personal passwords, http://passwordchart.com/ (same design), it gets around 8,000 uniques a month with peaks and troughs around reviews in blogs.
Clickable links:

http://www.htpasswdmaker.com/

http://passwordchart.com/
Wolfram and Lisp story
With the query cache, if you update a single row in one table, all cached queries that involve that table are invalidated, whether or not that row would have affected the result. This makes it almost useless for many sites.
> I think the better description you're looking for is, "The conversations aren't as rigorous as I'd like."

It's not that either, but then again it could be. We all have different ways of interpreting this. That's why the most important part of my post was trying to find people who could relate to what I'm talking about.

> But I'm confused. Do you really expect meaty, stimulating conversation when you go clubbing?

Not at all, but again this was just an example (a poor one it seems - which is what I was getting at in the post you responded to). I'll try to provide some context: Certain clubs have separate lounge areas for the purpose of relaxation, privacy, and social interaction on a more intimate level. My friends and I spend a lot of time in clubs and parties (some of them own clubs so it's nothing new to them), so when we go out we tend to spend more time in the lounge areas than at the bar or dancefloor. Occasionally a "serious" conversation will arise and that's what I'm talking about now. Now as I tried to explain, I'm not referring to one particular incident. I'm really talking about a pattern of behaviour.

> Also, you seem to be going out of your way to bring up the strip club. If you don't like it don't go.

I don't understand why you think that, or why you think the problem I have is with the strip club. I think you're exhibiting the behaviour that results from a poor incidence selection (that's what I was talking about in my previous post).

I tried to explain why I mentioned it (truth and contrast), and why I thought it was a bad example.

Of course, I could be wrong about everything here, or maybe I will just be misinterpreted/misunderstood again. But I think that trying to cover all my bases is unproductive. Case in point: How much value was there for me in explaining what I meant by "lounge in a club"?
No, privileged ports are fine. The mistake is not having Linux capability-dropping in UNIX from day one.
macports (http://www.macports.org) for installing unix utilities that are not already included in OS X.
And it wasn't a totally unreasonable contribution, but it's important to keep in mind that if you compared CINT to SBCL, you'd probably conclude that Lisp is hundreds of times faster than C.

Here's such a comparison: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all...
> Ben+Jerrys.

Yup. I keep mine right in between the soda can cozy (keeps it cool) and the ash tray.
I tested it and it seem to work as claimed. Resetting Linux passwords via the boot loader or a live CD isn't hard. But Kon-Boot looks useful for resetting password on Windows machines.
Was Nick Cannon Wrong For Calling Out Eminem? | Hip Hop MVP
I like webob a lot: http://pythonpaste.org/webob/

Also more a library then a framework.
> I know exactly what you are talking about. I don't think this is easy to fix. I've sort of "solved" the problem by living in the Bay Area

After doing it for so long, I've realized it's not an easy problem to deal with. I think that you have a fairly accurate interpretation of what I'm trying to convey. I'm glad you posted about how you've attempted to deal with it (even though the "fix" may just have been a pleasant side-effect of moving for another reason). I've considered relocating, but I also like my friends. So to me, this is sort of ditching them and finding other people to be around. This could of course just be me trying to rationalize away unpleasant options but knowing myself it's also an indication of the difficulty of the problem.
Easy to use, one-file thingie: http://wiki.github.com/breily/juno

Can do everything thingie: http://www.twistedmatrix.com
Yes. Profiler is the secret weapon.

When I write optimized Lisp code, I heavily rely on the profiler of Allegro Common Lisp. Sometimes per-line or per-function isn't not fine enough and I go down to per-machine-instruction level profiling for the innermost loop, which is quite handy.

If you didn't use good profiler in your Lisp environment, well, you can't really compare performance of Lisp and C... (Unfortunately, there seems no such compiler that is clever enough to take quick-prototype Lisp code and emits fully-optimized code.)
China's new "secure" OS
First, read "Things You Should Never Do" by Joel Spolsky (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html) to understand why the suggestion "lets rewrite this from scratch" might not be well received.

Second, I think that your employer is ethically entitled to first refusal on any ideas you come up with, and maybe even a second as well. If they turn you down then I don't see anything unethical with going off and doing it yourself. Of course there may be legal issues: talk to a lawyer if you think there might be some.

Third, don't over-estimate your knowledge of the market and ability to sell to it. The world is littered with products which were technically better than the competition, but failed in the market place. You may be better staying put and trying to work your ideas into the existing product piecemeal.
That is because of psychological mechanism called Priming, basically an earlier input can affect your perception of a later input.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)
The key difference with Kon-Boot is that you aren't resetting the password, but bypassing it altogether. The machine leaves virtually no trace of having been compromised (though careful study of log files, registry keys, etc could turn up some clues). For simply resetting a Windows user password, Offline NT Password & Registry Editor is swell:

http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/
Another factor: this tool is part of the sun.* packages, for which source has not historically been available (even though other java.* system libraries source has long been available). So even now, with my local jdk1.6.0_10 package, I can't easily browse the JAR code with the problem. Had Sun revealed all source sooner people outside Sun might've discovered this years ago.
It's not pointless to discuss. These are lessons to be learned when new systems are to be designed. These are things that were not meant for mainstream usage when they were design. They just caught on. Now it's too adopted to do anything about it.

Note: Personally URLS should be backwards to make sense..
com.google.mail/sub/folder (go in order of largest authority down to the smallest subfolder).

At the moments it's

http://tiny.small.big.bigger/big/small/tiny
Werkzeug is fantastic. We used it with jinja2[1], SQLAlchemy[2], and flatland[3] with great success.

[1] http://jinja.pocoo.org/2/
[2] http://www.sqlalchemy.org/
[3] http://bitbucket.org/jek/flatland/overview/
It's not. If any ebook had all the information you needed to make money online, the author would just use the techniques himself and scale them instead of putting them in a $7 ebook.
Prisons beta-test surveillance/confinement/contraband policies for airports. Airports beta-test for schools. Schools beta-test for everywhere, in the next generation.
file://

rtsp://

mailto://

irc:// (if you have chatzilla or similar installed)
Thinking of how broadly java and java build tools are used, cumulative losses of world is "remarkable" in economical and ecological terms.
My OS isn't very good at reading the side of trucks
Much of what the author said on the two related blogs resonated with me:

http://www.iwillnotdie.com/why-smart-people-fail/
http://www.iwillnotdie.com/why-smart-people-are-unhappy/

He may have a somewhat controversial tone (I'm sure he received even more flack than I did for saying "dumbing down"), but I simply "get" what he's trying to say, because like many others I've also been there. My problem though is not so much this - it's dealing with the frustrations that go with wearing the "mask" for so long.

Reducing this issue to smart vs not smart simplifies talking about human interaction, but it can also alienate many people. But one also has to consider: Is the mere fact that one considers things to this depth a symptom of the curse of the foreigner in Rome? Would I be less frustrated if I started caring less about what others think? Is it possible to go through life happy as a foreigner in Rome? I tend to think of these kinds of people end up as miserable old lonely men (or at least that's what the media would have one believe).
You sound like you're torn between Niles & Frasier Crane and the cast of Friends!

FWIW, I have a LOT of different interests, and I get really cheesed off by one group of nerdy friends who are anxious to put down anything popular but am similarly frustrated by normal people who won't branch out of their comfort zone and look at the world through a different lens.

I'm not a computer buff by trade or training but I suspect this is a problem that has nothing to do with intelligence. It often seems to have more to do with not wanting to admit to knowing/not knowing about something so as not to appear too 'different'. I think it's a rut one can get out of through travelling/ moving/working somewhere new, because being suddenly forced to make new friends as an adult can encourage honesty and a re-evaluation of what is important.

Good luck, however you choose to tackle this problem.
Eric Drexler: How to Understand Everything (and Why)
How Our Primary Source of News & Information Changed in the last 200+ Years
Because no one really cares, it really doesn't matter, and it won't get changed anyway (too many things depend on it). There are so many problems in the world that can be addressed and are worth addressing... this is not one of them.
> That's why the most important part of my post was trying to find people who could relate to what I'm talking about.

Right, but you still have to talk about it carefully. People here definitely got obsessed with your dumbing down comment. It's probably good to avoid words like smart or dumb since they can end up being a distraction.

> How much value was there for me in explaining what I meant by "lounge in a club"?

Explaining the lounge area was very helpful to me. The lounge areas in the places I've been to aren't really separate from the main part -- so not quiet or intimate like what you're describing. Your comments about conversation there make more sense now.

> I don't understand why you think that, or why you think the problem I have is with the strip club.

I see only two comments that mention it besides your own, and your original post has it inserted as a distracting aside. I was just observing, not trying to confront you. I get that you're trying to give an encompassing view of your social circle.

But then if it is supposed to illustrate patterns of behavior, does it mean you regularly do things with your social group that you don't enjoy?
If your file system ever gets corrupted, DiskWarrior.

DiskWarrior will reliably maintain and rebuild your FS. It will work when fsck fails and is better than the other paid alternatives. It looks like (and is) a Mac OS 9 port, but it's the same filesystem so no worries.

If your filesystem is ever, ever fucked, DW will save it if anything can.

It costs $100, so don't buy until when you end up needing it. But at that moment, buy it (unless your data is worth less than $100, I guess).
After reading this review three times in the last half hour, between several different small mundane tasks that were best completed with distractions, I found myself coming away with three distinct impressions.

The first time, I latched on to the anti consumer consumption element. This is the core of the book being reviewed, and I saw my values in it. I live in a small apartment, and could have more space if I wanted, but my sense is that I would then have more stuff. And while I want technology to serve as extension of me, I know I don't need more stuff.

On the second read, I latched on to the evolutionary angle. I thought about how much I like Jared Diamond writings, and how cool it would be to have a better understanding of the evolutionary mechanics underlying consumerist tendencies. I thought of Mad Men, and the historical arc of marketing and consumption.

On the third read, I saw it not as a book about consumption, marketing or evolution. Instead: narcissim and self-marketing.

I'm on the fence about whether or not to order the book.
I don't know much about economics but it seems that capitalism as I (used to) understand it, with classic supply/demand curves and rational enterprises competing for consumer cash, was just a fantasy.

Turns out that competing (and, generally, working) is a pain in the ass - so the smartest people have long realized that nearly everybody can't go without:

* Healthcare

* Financial system

* Legal system

They have learned, that by merging with the state it becomes much easier to extract arbitrary sums of money for these three basic functions [that normal governments should provide for free].

Tools for wealth extraction vary: plain-vanilla taxes, insane medical insurance costs, insane legal expenses, or just printing money at will (i.e. devaluing what we already have).

Hasn't an average good parent been wishing for his/hers kid to become a (lawyer|doctor|banker) within last 20 years? WTF? These "markets" don't create any value - we don't choose to use their services, we must pay them. No wonder these costs have been skyrocketing.

Imagine a struggling entrepreneur with a monthly $1,400/mo medical insurance bill (because that's what they feel like charging), renting a crappy apartment for $2,000/mo (because banking system has inflated property values to insane limits) facing $10,000 fee to obtain a patent which will cost much more to defend in court anyway.

Now: if you're 18, who do you want to become after college - an entrepreneur or one of these people who extract these sums of money from him? No wonder the private sector has been shrinking, while government and banking system have been growing.

Listening to the news is depressing: they keep interviewing people, keep asking "how to pay for healthcare? how to save our banking system?" instead of just asking simple why? Why doctors need to make millions? Why do medical equipment salesmen need to have private jets? Why 5% down-payments for 30 year mortgages are the norm? And why our banks need to be so freakishly huge that we're afraid they could fail?
As Richard Rusczyk says, "If ever you are by far the best, or the most interested, student in a classroom, then you should find another classroom."

http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Resources/AoPS_R_A_Calcul...

That generalizes to how to live in adult life. Seek out the smartest people you can find, and spend time interacting with them.

This, of course, is what I like about HN. My happiest time of social life growing up was two years in junior high in Minnesota in which I was "tracked" with mostly very bright fellow students. Most of the rest of my life I've been trying to regain a social circle like that. Now I'm most of the way back to where I was almost four decades ago, with lots of friends who are plainly very smart, who get my jokes, and who understand my vocabulary.
Yeah. Also, be careful what you wish for. The Bay Area is great, but also an echo chamber for the kind of people who live in the Bay Area. Maybe it's a good thing that you bridge various worlds that don't normally communicate. You can be an 'interesting' person in all of them.
I'm only about 1/4 the way through. Some of the experiments cited seem to have been conducted after the initial release of Influence. I think that "50 Ways" is designed to be an easier read, but it doesn't give one the framework obtained by Influence.
Re: The engineering dance thing.

I find that technical people, developers/hackers etc. can often be incredibly annoying when they do this. Many also have a tendency to call other developers idiots or constantly talk about their skills. It's really not a great way to make people think highly of you, either professionally or socially.
Why we love and hate meetings
I see... but unfortunately Xen dom0 has becoming unavailable in the latest Linux distributions, e.g. Fedora and Ubuntu. Also Red Hat seems that it will go with KVM in its next version.
cherrypy http://www.cherrypy.org/ keeps things simple
Or you could just scrape the laws about custody, alimony, etc. and just let people figure it out for themselves. If the child is old enough (say >8 yo) ask them which parent they want to stay with.

Younger, and let people just figure it out.
I highly recommend Process Explorer (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.asp...). It is like the default Windows Task Manager on steroids. It is the tool most preferred by Microsoft devs. It is very lightweight and powerful. I have long hoped for a Process Explorer clone for linux (maybe a side project for someone with lots of free time...).
found this article interesting for its insight on why some people enjoy meetings for the sake of meetings.

summary: Those people who like meetings for sake of meetings: "emotional drama-conflict, blaming, flirting, one-upsmanship, random outbursts, anger, and so forth. For these happy people heading for meetings, it's those the soap-opera aspects of meetings are the most exciting parts of their jobs...On the other hand, all this drama - the stuff we contemptuously call "politics" seems to be the bread and butter of the non-techies. Indeed, these people are often upset if I show them how to conduct well-run meetings, because I've taken all the joy out of their lives.