skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Django templates make sense in that context, but Jinja2 templates are 90% the same. You need to know one or two more rules about () and other metacharacters, but there isn't much cognitive dissonance in a switch-over. It is easier to call arbitrary code from Jinja2, which simplifies the life of programmers even when having to work with laymen editors.

Django is no longer a newspaper-centric framework. Far more users of Django want a hacker-centric template language. Markdown and other markup languages are far closer to the needs that the Django template language once filled.
Coffee (French pressed, buy pre-grinded) with splenda.

Tea (black mostly like Red Rose, Earl Grey, English Breakfast with honey/sugar).

Water (after a run and before).

Perrier bubbly water.

Buttermilk.

Milk.

Diet coke, sprite zero, and other junk less often.

Sugarfree red bull.
Coffee from 9AM to 6PM.

Beer from 6PM until 2AM.
The 15" MacBook Pro has Firewire.
Is there a way to override it to just use strace?
Cough-Chrome

But what matters is functionality and performance, hope they deliver. Looking forward.
Well, let's see if was -- they did this in December 2005, meaning the $750m works out to about $17m per month of the deal. Does Google make more than $17m per month from its partnership with AOL? Almost certainly, but it probably hurt a lot. They were expecting to be able to spread the cost over a lot longer, I'm pretty sure.
water. iced coffee
A history of American economic growth
Mini DisplayPort isn't widely used yet, but it is quite impressive technology--a tiny cable that can drive a 2560x1600 display. Apple has always charged fairly exorbitant amounts for accessories, but a simple search on monoprice [1] shows an adaptor (to HDMI) with great reviews for $10.

[1] http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&c...
It absolutely harmed my peripheral vision, I can see that it's only about 75% of what it would be with two eyes. But it does not affect boxing or pingpong because I hold my head to the side.

A picture would be better, but imagine your eyes are flashlights shining out where your peripheral vision is. Your two beams create a sort of half-circle of light surrounding your face.

If you cover one of those beams up, the remaining beam shines on all of its previous area, in addition to the area that was overlapping in the middle.

It's shining more to one side than the other though, it's not so much a half circle around the face, it's like a slightly smaller arc around the side of the face that's still uncovered.

So I just turn my head so that the smaller arc I still have is roughly centered on the front of my head.

it turns that the arc is wide enough to do anything you can do... except I'll admit to hit the sides of narrow doors on my bad side 8)
The coke is diet, and the hot chocolate is only 30 kcals/mug, so I don't drink many kcals, easily less than 200kcals/day.

But yes I used to be pretty overweight, but I've lost a hell of a lot in the last year. That's one of the reasons I started drinking so much water, it helps tremendously!
>>I think the word 'scientific' is one of the most abused or confused words around.

Agreed, it is misused. But note that some of the research in any field will be of bad quality (the book on rape was probably one) -- and some will be good. You will have probabilities in all active research areas (see e.g. diet advice...).

Note that ideologically motivated people argue that researchers in all evolutionary biology are in a conspiracy or complete idiots.

Many of the critics of evolutionary psychology are obviously also ideologically motivated, but sure... they could be closer to the target than the creationists.

(Marxists and religious people have problems with lots of behavior being built in; don't ask me about the specifics. Don't tell me either, I don't really care).

Here is quite a fun answer to some of that criticism:
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Debate/CEP_Gould.html

(And note, most researchers in two fields -- intelligence and evolutionary psychology -- would have to be in a conspiracy for Gould to be honest... :-)
Who has used copyright law to punish plagiarism? This "feature" isn't worth preserving if no one uses it.
That makes the phrase make a lot more sense.
Water, mostly.

Black coffer (French pressed for creamy goodness) in the morning, and sometimes late afternoon.

Iced tea with lunch, unless I'm eating raw veggies, then only water seems to taste good.

Black tea with fruit, or muffins if we've made some, in the afternoon.

Some caffeine-free diet Pepsi with dinner.

But mostly water, all day long.
I'm glad to see everybody seems to have 2+ widescreen monitors. Where I work, an amazing number of people work off a single laptop-sized screen all day. I don't understand how they can do it; it makes me wonder if I'm some kind of programmer-'tard who needs special equipment to function. Good to get some affirmation to the contrary.
At over 7:1 (at last check), I think this comment wins the award for "Highest Karma to Character Ratio"!
Wait for the G2 ("myTouch 3G"), out in a few days. I have been using Android installed onto my AT&T Tilt, and it's amazingly good. It compares well to the iPhone experience; email, chat, Google Voice, and the browser all work very well. The added benefit is that there is no restriction on what apps can do; if you want an app that runs in the background and sucks your battery dry, that's totally up to you.

(Also interesting; the touchscreen works horribly under the Windows Mobile install that the Tilt ships with, but it works great under Android. I can actually use the software keyboard with 100% accuracy, and I don't need to use the stylus. Amazing.)

Anyway, I am on AT&T, but I am jumping ship to whichever US carrier gets the HTC Hero. (Hopefully Sprint, as they will also be releasing their 4G network soon.)
"Perhaps that's hyperbole."

Perhaps, but you'll never see his reflection in anything.

Just sayin' ...

:)
If it gives you a cookie-related error, try this link:

http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/page-481
I am talking about the case where a company "sponsors" University research and then owns all rights to anything the research team creates (via patents).

Get your own research team, that's not what the universities are for, especially ones my taxes pay for.
Don't miss http://www.stefandidak.com/office/index.php
Though it's probably questionable for Techcrunch to keep posting about the same story, I think Apple's anti-competitive practices deserve the extra notice.
More information: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/ee334183.aspx and http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/5/6/9560741A-EEFC-4... [PDF]

MSFT's STM strengthens my belief that STM cannot be done correctly without modifying the language semantics. Clojure avoids many of the pitfalls in the current user guide (2nd link I posted) by using semantics that are not possible for C# to adopt and remain backwards compatible; this will likely result in an inferior product. Standard MSFT.
You want to stop buying Chinese products because local officials in China are corrupt? By the same logic, the rest of the world should not buy US products because cops have wantonly used tasers on civilians.
I wonder how we would even know if time was running backwards. Supposing it is even possible, couldn't time be running backwards right now and we don't know it?
The author can assure you the video halts while the iPod displays that dialog ("monologue" would perhaps be more appropriate) box saying the cable is not compatible. It usually does so after a random period of time (between a couple seconds to a couple minutes) playing the video on the TV. Any subsequent attempt to play the video with the same cable results in the video being shown on the iPod screen. One workaround is to reboot the iPod and restart playback, but it is more hassle than I am willing to put up with.

It may be called "degraded usability" for some...
Different story — it had not been previously reported that Google's official app was blocked.
"The shift in consumption and savings patterns around 1980 really is remarkably stark."

No kidding.
I find it great that on HN, new links are often relevant to recently, previously discussed links. You can almost see the collective mind digesting new information and putting out new conjectures.

Still, I wonder if there would be a good system for showing two stories are related, because although I frequently check HN, I don't always keep up and some stories really need the context of the previous story.
R is one of my favorite tools and I heartily recommend it to any hacker for data visualization alone. I've used R to make sense of high-n high dimensional data and it's a delight (even if the syntax takes a little getting used to).

As Buckwild said, best way to learn R is by messing around with it; There's in-editor help and a REPL. Download the GUI for your OS, not just the command-line tool; it has nice package management and graphical output (to a quartz window in os x).

If you're thinking of using R for plotting as well as analysis, I heartily heartily recommend the ggplot2 package. ( http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/ ) -- there's a lively google group for support and the output is far better than comparable packages (like lattice, my second favorite).

The other famous book for R isn't actually for R -- it's for S. http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS4/ R is the open-source superset implementation of S/S-plus.

Download R and give it a shot: http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html
too sour, but it wakes me up

You might try cold-press coffee, which is much less acidic.
I have a small bottle that I refill several times a day with water. If I am drinking soda I prefer Pepsi Max (similar to Coke Zero)
About the "just so" accusation:

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

(You'll find some bad papers/books in all subjects, of course).

Edit: It is really cool when you give a 'pedia-link that explains a misconception and gets downvoted. :-)
China's freedom seems to come in cycles, but the general trend seems optimistic.

In the 50s after the revolution, to justify the new regime on ideological grounds, Mao sanctioned freedom of speech against the state. But after a few years when the party failed to deliver some of its promises, criticism began to pile up, and the party responded with a massive crackdown of the witch-hunting and labour camp variety. This lasted through the cultural revolution of the 60s and 70s, and was enforced by the cult-of-personality campaign initiated by Mao's wife.

After Mao died and his rival Deng took over, there was quite a bit of freedom during the 80s in reaction to the economic reform and the end of cultural revolution, where pro-democracy activism accumulated that eventually led to the Tiananmen Square protest. The government again responded with a crackdown.

After the crackdown, government became more paranoid in the 90s, "patriotic education" were ramped up in public schools, though it paled in comparison to the Mao era (no more witch-hunting, correction camp, public humiliation, etc.).

Then in the 00s the internet became popular for the middle class, and cell phone for the peasants, but the government hasn't loosened its grip, so rather than ideologically-backed student activism, grassroot vigilantism were organized by regular folks against anything from corrupt local officials to animal cruelty cases. These usually come in the form of protests numbered upward of tens of thousands. To let off the steam in a controlled manner, the state sanctioned these protests (not the case before) as long as they are focused on the "local" bureaucrats (provincial and lower). In the mean time, the press are gradually given more freedom to cover these topics, as long as they are "localized" as well.

Overall, eventhough the state is using ever more sophisticated methods to maintain control, it's usually in response to greater pressure from the citizens, and the state seems to be losing ground.
If they had URLs or GUIDs back then, they could have made magic cookies (the four-byte signatures for file types) a lot smarter. I wonder if we could reinvent those?
That's what I'm talking about!
Where is optimization in the web frameworks?
Thanks for that link - I think part of it was simply unfortunate timing. Mini DisplayPort was introduced in November and I got my laptop in December, I don't think there were third party adaptors on the market yet.
"Palm, if you’re looking for marketing material — take note."

They can't. They don't offer a Google Voice client either. The SDK they have released (that doesn't let you publish apps yet) doesn't appear to be capable of it either. Good marketing material for RIM perhaps.
Slipstream - Streaming Services May Soothe the Music Industry
The future of Ruby is....Java?
Sun's JRuby team jumps ship to Engine Yard
Every current Macbook Pro has Firewire, according to http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html

The white ones always had Firewire 400 too (http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html). There was a brief period when the 15 inch Macbook (later renamed Pro) had no Firewire.

The Air, predictably, doesn't have Firewire. It barely has USB...
It’s Likely AT&T’s Fault [..] it’s not hard to guess who’s behind the restriction: our old friend AT&T. [..]Apple is now actively stifling innovation [..] All the more upsetting is that this comes from the company that Steve Jobs built. [..]

Make your mind up! Is it AT&T or Apple you want to whine about?
(Mini) DisplayPort is probably going to be the standard for video interfaces, so I don't think Apple is being evil here. The standard is royalty-free, after all, so anyone can make a Mini DisplayPort cable. Right now, there's just no market; being an early adopter sucks.

(It seems that Lenovo and Dell put regular DisplayPorts on their laptops. So you are paying the Apple tax -- a more beautiful outline, but the cable costs $30 more.)
Some points in the article could be queried... (but I'm not trying to suggest this invalidates the whole thing)

the notion that being a brave warrior helps a man get the girls and leave many offspring has been toppled. Until missionaries moved in in 1958, the Waorani tribe of the Ecuadoran Amazon had the highest rates of homicide known to science

Why then are they being treated as representative? One would expect adaptations to be suited to normal conditions, not extreme outliers.

If the male mind were adapted to prefer the most fertile women, then AARP-eligible men should marry 23-year-olds, which [...] they do not, instead preferring women well past their peak fertility.

It's unclear what "prefer" means; but the context suggests it means "who did they actually marry" rather than "who would their ideal woman be". Clearly, we can't all get what we want.

I really wish it was more common for articles like this to provide a list of the scientific papers they're relying on, so readers could conveniently investigate deeper (for some definition of "conveniently").
The SDK would support a Google Voice app at the same level as the Blackberry one does, but it wouldn't let you hijack the dialer and SMS like the Android one. So good marketing material for Google. :)
The article really do say that evolutionary biologists (here evol psychologists) don't think evolution can build a function into the brain that modifies behavior after environment...

Which should either be a straw man argument or that the journalist has garbled some serious argument.

Edit: In the last evolution article from the author, she fell over her own feet... explains a bit.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/01/sharon_begley_how...
And then the real crime

NB: "real crime" doesn't seem to be referring to a real crime.

I was expecting a huge conspiracy to conceal evidence of criminal activity, but it's about them not caring enough to bother keeping their archives.
Mill Street Coffee Porter after dinner, and Rockstar™ for late night coding.
I have horrible handwriting, but in high school I decided to mimic my father's draftsman-quality printing. Depending on the audience of what I'm writing (typically just myself), my penmanship ranges from illegible to very neat. I still prefer to use a pen and paper for a journal and most note-taking, too.
At last someone else who realises that copyright is not just about financial considerations but includes the moral rights too.

Without copyright licenses like GPL won't work as the license is no longer more liberal than the status quo but instead is attempting to add restrictions.

Without copyright you have no right to be named as an author of a work; you have no way (outside libel law) to prevent a spiteful sod from modifying your work to discredit you.

FWIW those who receive funding from taxation, IMO, should be required to release the results under a BY-SA style license.
New eBay Program Aims To Reward Good Sellers
And,

"We won't know where the growth is coming from, or whether it will come at all."
3 eye tracking studies that influenced my latest redesign
Eye tracking studies provide unique insight into user behavior. The following 3 eye tracking studies were part of my research for my redesign.
Note that ideologically motivated people argue that researchers in all evolutionary biology are in a conspiracy or complete idiots.

Note that alternative medicine, evolutionary psychologists, and creationists/intelligent designers will argue that the "establishment" scientists are in a conspiracy or complete idiots.
Well put. Was just gonna quote some of these sources. The author of these studies was one of my professors :)
I think its the same sense of the word. You can only be irresponsible if you have a lot of responsibilities and aren't meeting them. People aren't afraid of that others will think them carefree with and without any troubles which is really more sans responsibilities rather than irresponsible.

Founders are worried about the responsibility of having to create something of worth from nothing. The people who surround them are afraid they won't succeed and so are they.
I agree. I've been using it for differential equations- it's easier to jump into than Mathematica (I haven't had time to get into the syntax yet).
I use CC licenses, usually BY-NC-SA. I don't actively enforce it but I feel I have a right to be named and to have a cut of the money if others are making money directly from my work without otherwise requesting permission.

Copyright enables this: I have the right to label the work as mine, I have the right to license it as I see fit.

If you plagiarise my work (not worth it!) I don't have the funds to chase you, if I did I would and I feel the law should give me that option. If you credit me and share any derivative works then I'm happy for you to use it, unless you've maliciously amended it and are crediting me - then copyright gives me remedies.

Copyright terms stink like pig shit. Copyright is not all bad.
When two companies collude like AT&T and Apple, it's hard to determine who is at fault. Might as well blame them both.

But, does anyone who's not from the US have anything to say about this? Are the networks that carry the iPhone in Europe and Asia as evil as AT&T?
Yes, I know a couple of these dudes.

In 2000, we went to Vanuatu and stayed in a mansion, hardly as severe, but we did do some technological firsts. Shortly before that, there were people at kingman reef, which is max of 3 feet high and they had to bring their own floor.
This one's good too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWt8hTayupE&NR=1
Web Site Story, CollegeHumor's first Broadway musical since (LOL)Cats.
Sarien.net - Instant adventure gaming
Couldn't help throwing my family's Armenian rice pilaf recipe into the mix. Any spiced meat/chickpea/falafel atop is fantastic! Lived on it in college.

It's really meant to be cared for, treated much like a risotto.

The Ingredients

1 1/4 Cup Long Grain White Basmati Rice

1/2 Cup Vermicelli Noodle, Chopped (No yolk Kluski European Noodles)

2 1/2 Cup Chicken Stock

2 Tablespoon Clarified Butter

4 Tablespoon Cubed Butter

Salt & Pepper

The How-To

Add 2 Tbsp. clarified butter and the 1/2 cup Vermacelli Noodle to a medium saucepan and put on medium heat.

Continually mix with a wooden spoon until the noodles are a nice brown (a little past golden) - about 5 minutes.

Add the 1 1/4 cup rice and cook and mix for 6 minutes.

Add the 2 1/2 cup chicken broth, 4 Tbsp. butter and 1 tspn. salt.

Mix for about a minute.

Cover and simmer for 15 minutes until broth has been absorbed/evaporated.

Taste.

Not done? Add more broth, 1/4 cup at a time until so.

thanks!
Actually most banks did make money from those transactions. They knew it was a bad debt so they sold it before people defaulted. The US housing bubble actually ended up sucking up a lot of money from the rest of the world and dumping in on the US economy.
Curt Schilling on Entrepreneurship
Just Setups on Flickr has a decent collection of people's work spaces. http://www.flickr.com/groups/justsetups/pool/
I'm a sucker for Irish or Scottish breakfast. Generally I like the black teas which have higher caffeine. Tea to me seems to be less abrasive than the sugary high caffeine drinks but just as effective ;)
The "on-top" looks much better and includes a home button. But yeah does look a bit like Chrome. Having said that, Chrome was designed by people from Firefox right? So there would be similar influences.
"It appears that male Help Vampire, drawn as it is to shiny technology, occupies an evolutionary niche that females of the species simply do not find desirable."

By a percentage involved in tech, there could be more women help vampires but because there are fewer women in tech they are rarer than the male version.
Fortunately, all new microwaves seem to have turntables which keep this from happening.
For that matter, human sex ratios change in a famine or ice age, with many more daughters than sons being born.

Aha! So beautiful women who are constantly on diets trick their bodies into thinking it's a famine - thus more girls are born?
that's not so bad. clojure's past, present, and future is also java.
Charges in 10 minutes....IF... You have something that can give it 350kW.

I don't know enough about battery tech to know if there's anything special about super quick re-charges - but it's a long long way away from being a practical home solution - and I'm not seeing it doing all that much above something like the tesla.
This is a great article that highlights one of the key changes of our times : every day it becomes easier for a new software business to survive and surviving changes the game. I think about the surfing metaphor I have heard VCs use and imagine the ramen profitable company as a surfer who can paddle out to more big waves or the poker player grinding out small pots waiting for an opportunity at a big win. I think information technology is spurring a fundamental cultural change and that just being able to survive with a good infrastructure will lay so many opportunities in front of us in the years to come.
Entrepreneur, thou shalt...
In Australia, Magpies are known to peck people in the head and even made some people I know bleed when they were kids.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie
looks more like a chrome + opera mashup.
Er, you are off on this one. GML was invented by IBM. Tim was involved with SGML, wrote one of the first, if not the first, web crawler, and was a primary force and first listed author on the XML spec.