skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is true, but the gain does not outweigh the pain in my opinion.

Drupal is really a fantastic idea, I just wished they got their act together. It's a real pity because something very much like drupal is badly needed.

Their lack of an upgrade path is killing their ability to keep users.

People will try it, invest in it and then the problems start. Maybe you'll find that the theme you are using is not actively maintained, maybe the module that you used and now depend on has a bug in it that you are not experienced enough to fix and so on. Slowly the rot sets in. Then a new version of drupal comes out and you try to upgrade.

If you do go with drupal be sure you subscribe to their security alerts list, security bugs are found almost daily, if you have a module that has a fault in it and you're not aware of this then you can bet your life you'll be owned.

Just like you I'm still searching for that 'perfect CMS', I've definitely learned the hard way that drupal is not it.

It could be though, and maybe at some point there will be a change of attitude there.

have you looked at this ?

http://pinaxproject.com/
Except I never learned C the first time. That's the point.
Pinax, rapid web-app development on top of django / python
Do you have similar beliefs about caffeine and aspirin?

If someone with an interesting product (drugs, nuclear weapons) wants to join HN and spark conversation, that's OK by me.
That's a horribly spurious statement. What statistics? What the hell kind of statistics can you have that would back up something like that? 1) It depends on how you do the prevention, and how you handle the event itself. 2) A lot of people would probably die without preventative measures, making it very cheap indeed. 3) What is the point of medicine if we afraid it's going to cost more? Medicine is about preventing.

But it's not more expensive. Most European countries spend much less on health care, but much more on prevention. It's very effective, and at the end of the day, it's really what medicine is about.
Programming collective intelligence is good book, but Algorithms of the intelligent web is much more deeper and better book.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=665069
You can virtually attend the Hacking At Random festival.
https://wiki.har2009.org/page/Streaming
https://har2009.org/program/

Educational and fun.
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Ask HN: New research topics in networking ?
Hi, I am starting on my MS thesis this year. I am looking around for some good areas in networking to do my thesis in. I worked in VANETs ( Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks ) for my BS degree. I didn't find the field that fun though. Can someone suggest some good topics in networking to work in, you know just throw in some ideas, whatever you feel like !

Like Delay Tolerant Networks are really researched on now as well as Ad-Hoc Networks, is there some other really interesting research going on in networking ?
How this can be posted again?

http://searchyc.com/How+I+explained+REST+to+my+wife
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I like the concept of 'MANET's, they offer some great potential.
What topics did your advisor suggest?
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Hmm, I'm currently reading Programming Collective Intelligence myself, but I will check my library for Algorithms of the Intelligent Web too. Thanks!

Any other reading suggestions along these lines (or similar)?
hey guys, about to buy my pass, too!

i made a facebook group so we can post any awesome deals in jetblue cities that we come across:
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Alternative algorithm to PageRank.
And most importantly you only have the rights on the actual representation of the idea (be it a drawing, a blog post,...) and not the idea itself.
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http://papersincomputerscience.org/
Agreed. Take today for example. Dental care is also available subsidized on the NHS (as in were all entitled to cheap or free dental though it is quite common to go private).

Today I am about 150 miles away from home in city Ive not been to before and my tooth filling collapsed. I went to a random dentist this morning and he saw me within 10 minutes (the time it took to request my medical history from NHS records) and my tooth is now fine! There was no questions about insurance, cost or whatever it's all just simple :D
1.Trust Models in VANETs,

2.Attack Graphs in VANETs/MANETs

I was kinda looking for some info on other research areas, other than these though !
the algorithm for voting should look at the percentage of votes that articles are getting in a given time span to correct this.

also, votes received from the "new" page should have more weight.
Computational Number Theory or Computational Geometry ?
This is a great thing for Apple if he's really planning to get stuck in and fix it. He is the guy who saved several of Apple's products and created some of the viral/classic brands.

I've always thought Schiller is as, if not more of, an important part of Apple's success as Jobs.
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They make for interesting reading in between highly logical activities such as javascript or python sessions. Somehow they can relax the brain, provided you read them like fiction and consider dividing any 'truths' by pi*pi to arrive at some remnants of possible unknown ancient events.
If it's ok with you, I'm going to go ahead and mentally refer to it as Google Chrome 0.4.
standing armies can only exist because of universal high taxation which is a relatively new phenomenon. monarchies couldn't afford major wars because they only raised about 10% in taxes.

and of course once you have a standing army you have to justify its expenses. use it or lose it as they say.
Textbooks are the best source for CS. The web is actually very shallow when it comes to getting a real series of 'graded tutorials' and subject matter.

I try to buy my books from book stores. There is nothing like flipping through a book to assess it and is an ideal way to spend a couple of hours in a lazy afternoon. I envy people living in big Cities where the super book stores reside!
There's a spattering of tiny little issues I have throughout the post - perhaps I'll blog about it. I also wish that people commenting on a particular legal jurisdiction would be totally upfront about it - "11 myths about US copyright law" would have been better; thankfully he does not in several places he's talking about US law (though there were no quotes or mentions of caselaw or statute IIRC, except for Berne)

He rather belittles moral rights, making them appear to be tacked on, the right to be named as author of your own work IMO should be considered the cornerstone of copyright and is a key part of the Berne Convention adopted in most places outside the USA early in the 1900s.
monday morning, which timezone?
FYI - Cal Football has a home game that day. Parking is going to be difficult to come by and expensive. Public transportation will also be pretty full so plan accordingly.

http://www.calbears.com/sports/m-footbl/sched/cal-m-footbl-s...
I agree wholeheartedly; I wrote a couple of posts a few months ago about the problems with web learning, the first is linked from the later one which is here: http://williambswift.blogspot.com/2009/04/overcoming-bias-an... .

EDIT: The first post actually does a better job of describing what the web currently is good for in learning.
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I thought everyone here on HN, somewhere, somehow, has written his own CMS!

I have used Drupal and went through the pain to understand it (took about twenty days to become proficient). It can do what you want, but got a lot of other limitations. If PHP is your way, I would go with a framework, either Kohana, CodeIgniter or CakePHP in that order and hack the rest.
How to square a circle with an algorithm. A travel story in morphing.
I always thought the moniker "time travel" was not specific enough. I'm traveling through time right now. I can't help but travel through time. Maybe a more appropriate term would be "time navigator."
Headline is a bit misleading. Pinax aims to be:

1. A collection of Django applications which cover the common features of a variety of different types of sites, vetted for functionality/reusability/etc.

2. Some bits of glue to pull together the various applications for different types of sites.

So, for example, you want to build a social-networking site. Regardless of the specific focus of your site there's lots of infrastructure you're likely to need/want because it comes with that territory (user signups, "friending" and other relationships, profiles, ratings, etc., etc.). So Pinax offers a set of pre-vetted apps which provide that functionality, and some bits to make it easier to plug them all together.
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Let me say up front that none of this is a criticism of Phil Schiller. Just the opposite in fact.

But the bottom line is Mr. Schiller is a downright brilliant marketer (he’s Apple’s highest ranking Marketing executive for God’s sakes) and marketing is all about getting people to think what you want them to think. More importantly Marketing is not about setting corporate policy (though I’m sure Mr. Schiller has the ear of Steve Jobs in a way that very few others do).

I guess what I’m saying is when you’re thinking exactly what someone as good as Mr. Schiller wants you to think you have to ask yourself whether it’s their marketing skills leading you there or whether something is actually happening. What I see right now is a few well placed communications but no real change in Apple’s overall policies.
It's depressing reading this, and realizing how much large corporations have co-opted the entire culture, hurting both individuals and the culture itself.

Some of them I don't think are correct, quite, as it's obvious written from a copyright maximalist angle, but I don't have time to quibble with it.
Historically speaking, the modern European conception of moral rights is quite far from being the "cornerstone" of copyright. And with good reason: they raise some rather significant problems which aren't present in jurisdictions which "lack" them.
"Do you have similar beliefs about caffeine and aspirin?"

Sure, I have a "belief" that people trying to sell aspirin or caffeine on HN should be flagged.

"someone with an interesting product (drugs, nuclear weapons) wants to join HN and spark conversation, that's OK by me."

There are other places for buyers and sellers of dubious drugs and nuclear weapons to "spark conversations". The first is barely legal but slimy. The second is illegal and should be reported to the authorities.

fwiw this isn't the first time this guy has tried to sell dubious drugs on this forum.

see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=71371. (thankfully killed). Read the comments there.

By flagging this I am just requesting this be killed too. Of course it is the moderators privilege to let it live. Which is fine by me.
I agree the headline is a bit misleading.

They have included a number of more CMS-y bits in the development version, however: http://pinaxproject.com/docs/dev/customization.html
I'm certain that Pacific has the highest density of HN readers, by a large margin, but I would think anything that would put it on the page within a couple of hours of that would work.
Procrastination has many, many causes. I strongly recommend Burka and Yuen's book "Procrastination: Why You Do It, What to Do About It" and Rubin's "Overcoming Indecisiveness".
When I first started on my own I worked from a back-office in my house and this terribly bothered me. I found virtually no limitation or problems with any of my Clients (they actually perceived that I was giving them a bargain with my rates, by not having high overheads). The only problem I found was attracting the right staff (employees like to work in real offices!)
Mounting a bunch of chips and a few components on a circuit board ... I assumed he was going to be getting down to planning which chips to use, what they'd do, memory use, etc.. Not quite what I'd call "from scratch".
Internet and Globalization have profound impact on cultural and socio-economic issues across the world due to the non-proliferation of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry
Can someone tell me what the actual insight here is? Maybe I'm just simple minded but I always thought the value of art was to give people an insight into the human condition and the value of essays on art is to clarify that insight for those who might not see it.

This author just seems to enjoy going around and around in rhetorical circles with no purpose other than to hear himself speak.
10; parents, probably though I thought not at the time - it wasn't exactly a big habit, probably like one a week! Just one of those things one does to try and be cool and fit in. Then I realised it's stupid. I was probably a little under 12 then.

My mates folks owned a pub, his parents definitely knew we were getting our fags there.
I suspect the estimated costs of that awesome shit are about as accurate as the initial estimate for Iraq.
that was an amazing read, but boy it is long...

Some of the stuff in there is common knowledge, but plenty is not and you could probably set up a nice cookies file from all the quotes in there.
The article mentions colonies of bats. If the atmosphere in the caves is toxic, it's likely due to ammonia from bat guano:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano
It seems this vulnerability exists to accommodate WINE.
better like that ?

(was pinax, CMS functionality on top of python / django)
Yes, absolutely.
Conventional produce has residue of pesticide, for example on the skin of an Apple.

There was a study done that highlighted that some of the pesticides used in conventional produce can have a carcinogenic effect even in 1 part per trillion.
You've piqued my interest, can you follow through: what are the problems of attribution and control over modification (and other moral rights?) that you're thinking of?
Direct link to the old one http://farbs.org/Message.html

I prefer this one.
The idea that usage will always fulfill capacity is a little too general for my liking. Sometimes, perhaps often, the case, yes; but always? No. Population decline in Europe despite a very high quality of life and an abundance of resources, anyone?
Continue following the next links on that.

There are a lot of unrelated blog posts between some of the parts.

Is linking to tigsource really such a taboo?
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That really is a beautiful visualization.
We took seed money from one of the largest VC firms in the valley. We didnt know they even did seed rounds, and this is not publicized. Additionally, they invest as an angel syndicate, and don't use their official VC name. All of this because they understand the problem entrepreneurs face with taking seed money from big VCs. The fact that they've thought this through from the entrepreneurs point was a huge plus factor for us.
If I'm having a conversation with someone about a topic I know absolutely nothing about, I sound like an idiot. "What does that do?" "Who's that?"

Also, this 'conversation' was very 1-sided because the author was trying to prove a point. It really didn't matter what the wife said throughout but it let him explain further and use some real world examples for those who may not GET it.
WM on HTC is pretty good. One of my major requirements is that a cellphone should be able to share its internet connection with my laptop. On the HTC that's easy (using bluetooth or USB, and it works with Vista,OS X,Linux). I'm in the market to get a new phone (and even move telco), but when I see the efforts involved in getting an iPhone, blackberry or Android device to do this kind of sharing/tethering, I just stick with HTC.
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Ask HN: Level of spam / sock puppet activity?
I've started looking at the "new" page a little more these days.

I've seen a few brand new users submitting facebook and yahoo, which could just be new users playing with submission. Recently there were 3 in submissions from 3 brand new users in a small amount of time, and each submission had 3 votes.
This seemed a bit strange to me.

I'm sure a small amount of gaming of the system (or attempted gaming of the system) goes on, but I'm wondering how often it occurs.

Is it something that I can expect to see a bit of if I start checking out the "new" page regularly, or have I just been looking at the wrong time?
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Often enough that the code has provisions against it. Usually a big red flag is when a submission is only minutes old, is of low quality and has 3 or 4 votes on it.

I think the main reason for this is that if you manage to get a submission on the front page in the first couple of minutes that it exists momentum will take over (the homepage is a feedback loop, once there more people see your submission, so it will get voted up and stay longer on the homepage).

The detection of 'voter rings' (groups of people that vote each other up consistently) is not a simple problem.

I think that to stop a site such as HN from being gamed completely is very complicated, related to the the click-fraud combating efforts at projects like google adsense.

All things considered I'm actually surprised how little it seems to happen here (compared to other sites like HN), one of the main reasons is that it is (on a relative scale) still fairly small.

Making who votes for what public would make it possible to spot such voter rings much quicker.

As for the 'NEW' page being the place to look, I almost exclusively use the 'NEW' page, the 'News' page maybe once or twice per day. A lot of good stuff passes by the homepage simply because it does not attract enough votes.

Another problem is the sometimes sluggish reaction of the moderators to these tricks, (see the link right below you for a nice example), any clicks from HN to a spammed site will increase the chance of repeat actions.

A 'barrier to entry' (say 25 points of karma before you can post your first article) would be another good thing to do.
The program is available here: https://har2009.org/program/
It's in the Netherlands so the times are CET, UTC+2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_Time
Or just Processing!
> also, votes received from the "new" page should have more weight.

No contest there, the homepage is feeding back on itself.
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See for instance http://www.clickatell.com/
It's also easy to test things with very low conversion rates. The worst conversion rate to have in terms of required sample size is 50%.
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Well, to take one example which will be relevant to HN readers: moral rights pose real threats to open source software, since in many jurisdictions which have them they are considered inalienable and can be asserted even when all other rights are licensed freely. Thus, for example, someone who lives in a moral-rights jurisdiction and writes open-source code would still have -- regardless of the terms of the license -- the right to quash particular uses of the software, or the creation of forks.

This is why a number of larger open-source-supporting organizations have contributor agreements which include a clause stipulating that contributors will not assert moral rights against the projects to which they contribute.

Moral rights also interfere with uses that people in the US can largely take for granted; authors in moral-rights jurisdictions can, for example, quash parodies or satires of their work even if those parodies or satires would otherwise be permitted by the relevant copyright laws.
Agreed. Plus, if you build something that you would still use even if no one else did, you're guaranteeing that at least one person wants to use what you're making. Doing otherwise is surprisingly common, judging by some of the products out there.

The reality, of course, is that you aren't a unique snowflake; lots of other people are like you, and if you really like a product, chances are someone else will too.
Enjoyed the bit about hacker culture and the milliblatts :)
Well it has happened very rarely that a person had not liked any of the 3 signatures. But if it happens we are more than happy to provide 1 or 2 more options as per his additional inputs and feedback.
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This article might shed some light:

http://thirdworldtraveler.com/Iraq/War_Profiteers_Iraq.html
I have heard anecdotal evidence that Pinax is a real pain to work with, because a lot of the apps are half-complete or not truly pluggable. My friend told me "in the time we've spent trying to get them to work as advertised we could've written it ourselves."
"There are many interesting posts not hitting the frontpage posted at the wrong time of the day"

here's what i noticed - there seems to be a surge of new users since last week or so and not a good "burst" at that. I gather from what I see - these karma conscious users picking links straight from reddit and few friends bring it to the first page.

I still cannot believe I clicked on "you think you are a rockstar programmer"....when i came back - for a few seconds I was hallucinated by the thought - was this HN?

...and of course, when there are no interesting topics on the front page and all we have is links like "are you a rockstar" - what better time to go into long discussions about flag this or flag that. This usually happens during this phase of onslaught of new users (my perception).

when there are a few interesting topics, we tend to ignore/overlook the link baits.

..sorry if my response is away from your question's context...i had a "bad" HN week'
No experience with Kohana or CodeIgniter, CakePHP looks pretty good to me, very clean code and an extremely active community to go with it.
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i have to second that. we've tried having a good time with pinax, it ended being a pita though and we went the roll your own way.
Codeigniter is easily one of the better PHP frameworks, with a very easy learning curve. The documentation is fantastic and will help you get off the ground very quickly. If you're comfortable with PHP and MVC coding, then you could also check out Yii.
beautiful pictures there. the write is quite right about the cultural and historical implications of google streetview.
i wonder if there will be a street history in 10, 20, 50 years time...
Thank you both, you have probably saved me a bunch of time.

Did you stick to django though ?
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