skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intresting note from the study:
"...young people with college experience are significantly more likely to have Facebook accounts than non-college respondents, and significantly less likely to have MySpace accounts. It’s also more common for young people with college experience to rely on Web-based media for their news."
Yes to the poster of this can you post your Google Analytics graph of this same period and where traffic is coming from?

Is it legit or bought traffic?

Also, don't believe high rankings on web mean those sites are actually being used or have active users; many sites buy traffic http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10303994-93.html?tag=mncol;... for obvious reasons.
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MP3 causes a hearing disorder called Tinnitus. There's a research paper about it here: http://weltenschule.de/Logologie/info/MP3-Gefahr/MP3-risk.ht...

I don't mean MP3 is totally bad but, I believe it might affect a sensitive person when the bitrate is below 160kbps and badly encoded.
Does one really need to explain why he switched from PHP to anything?
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A well-rounded view of the world on the other hand, is more social stratification then education. Or it's education only as much as certain knowledge is essential to truly belong in certain strata of society.
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I'm not sure how this makes HN different from anywhere else. I can think of many sites where someone responds to a story quickly with a well-written, politically charged opinion. What's so special about that?
Then use something like an URL shortener to get as many anonymous phone addresses as you like.
This caught my eye for two reasons: 1) Kickstarter got a mention on a wire service and 2) the hilarious internet-anthropomorphizing trend I noticed in older Russians ("can you ask the internet x for me?") is now a mass-media tendency.
But did you really go into significant dept to study liberal arts? Just liberal arts, nothing more... easily monetizable?
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Let's think logically about this for a second. If the presence of minimum wage laws prevents a young person from moving out, then a young person should be able to move out on a salary less than the present day minimum wage.

Is that true? Not in my hood.
This sort of thing is still needed. I have a friend who's boss wont let him use anything except c, php, and perl. Any attempts to get python in there are met with resistance and vague hysteria. More posts like these from can slowly lower people's loyalty to php, and contribute to saving my friend and many like him.
The problem is that there are lot of situations where you need to make a phone call with a phone that isn't yours. Most common one, especially with modern smartphones, is that your phones battery is dead. In such situations its helpful to remember phone numbers.
Interesting, the countries in the sun belt of Europe: Spain, Greece and Italy have the highest live at home rates, they also have some pretty pricey real estate due to demand from Germany, the UK, and other northern Europeans.
I think that might end up being good advice for many people. I, however, am not ready to embark on that journey just yet. :-)

I think one of the reasons the current situation bothers me so much is that it violates a basic sense of fairness. I cofounded a startup so I'm used to risk and uncertainty, but most of the people I know wouldn't be cut out for it. They play by the rules and expect to have the modest upward trajectory that a life like that would bring.

I know a young couple like you and your wife who have gone into debt to go to college, gone further into debt to go to grad school, and then gone into more modest debt to get married because of the expectation that there would be upward mobility from these expenditures. Now between the two of them, they're 400k in debt and living at home. That wasn't really something that came in the brochure. Now of course that always was a real possibility, and past performance doesn't guarantee future returns, but it was supposed to be different.

I truly feel bad for the average "play by the rules" types who have been raised with the expectation that if you do the right things, the right things will happen. Many of them now are saddled with the debt levels that demand that they put off the choices you were luckily able to make.
It's also strongly reminiscent of cnn.com for me. A design which focuses more on the site's unique features would be nice.
I think it depends on the parents. I know people that have parents that get drunk with them/smoke weed with them. On the other hand, there are parents that feel the need to treat their 30-year old children like 3-year-olds and second-guess every move that they make; ready to talk down at them with 'advice.'

If your parents are going to treat you like a child and/or you don't have an open enough relationship with them to feel comfortable bring home a girlfriend / having sex with your wife, then there will be inevitable conflicts.
Oh Haskell, why must you hurt my brain so much?

I get that it's a powerful language, that 2 characters of Haskell can do more than a gigabytes of C (or something like that I'm told). Im even trying to learn the language. But until then, I am always stuck with the impression (usually correct) that I just don't get it, when something discussing it comes along. :(
There is one huge barrier -- the total inability to do runtime type-checks makes many types of macros impossible to do in the Lisp style (type-erasure means you can't even cheat).

PolyP lead to GenericHaskell which lead to Template Haskell, which is now included with GHC. They let you write generic functions that are passed the types of their arguments as a value alongside them, and then at compile-compile-time they are templated out into vanilla Haskell functions specialized on each argument type.
That's the most ignorant comment I have read in a long time.
You have never been to Scandinavia, I presume. Newsflash: Europe is more than Italy and Spain. Most people in Germany and Scandinavia, for instance, leave their parents' home at 18.
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Not necessarily...here's what Steve Jobs had to say about it (http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html):

"I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together."
Have them pickup a pencil and stand up on it's eraser. Then ask them to describe what they did. "I took the pencil and I balanced it on the eraser" is usually as deep as they go.

Then describe what they did as a programmer would.

1. You extended your arm
2. Began closing your thumb and finger until they hit pencil
3. Lifted your arm to raise the pencil off the table
4. Rotated the pencil until it was perpendicular
5. Lowered your arm
6. Stoppped lowering your arm when the eraser hit table
7. Opened your fingers
8. Check to see if the pencil was balanced and if not try again

Most people understand programming is instruction, but what they don't understand is the layered complexity. If you wanted to take this 'pencil' idea further you could say the only reason you aren't firing individual nerves to move the muscles for your fingers is because someone wrote a function for that already.
You're not going back far enough.

The problem with minimum wage laws is that they precludes marginal young workers from getting job experience that would help them build the skills and references needed to get better jobs. There is plenty of research showing that every time the minimum wage goes up, teenage unemployment goes up disproportionately.
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> "...young people with college experience are significantly more likely to have Facebook accounts than non-college respondents, and significantly less likely to have MySpace accounts. It’s also more common for young people with college experience to rely on Web-based media for their news."

Why is that interesting? Most people outside of college were introduced to social networking through MySpace. Most people inside of college were introduced to social networking through Facebook (when Facebook started out you needed to have a .edu email address to register; it was for university students only). Most people that have college experience probably lived in a dorm for some length of time, where they had relatively cheap, fast internet service; therefore they are more likely to be using the internet to take care of things like getting their news.

I don't think that you really need a study to get this information, though real-world data never hurts.
Within the context of describing scaling pain, I think it's appropriate, if a bit hyperbolic. Not everybody becomes as big as Twitter, but lots of people get big enough to outgrow their original set of tools.
True, but the USA, unlike Europe, is considered a single nation-state. In European countries there are differences within national borders as well, e.g. northern part of Italy vs Sicily. That said there are definitely great commonalities in Europe that can be generalized, my point was that this metric isn't one of them.

And I am actually surprised with the quoted 1/3rd figure for the USA. Might be true but not what I'd expect from my outsiders insight into American culture.
I have a small plastic casing I put both Mifi and iTouch in. So only disadvantage per your argument is that it's slightly bulkier then just an iPhone. The other disadvantages too, but i prefer text based communications over voice.

Overall I am sure when LTE (Verizon's 4G) & or Wimax (Clearwire) offer ubiquitous coverage will start to see Internet mobile devices with built in 4G. Though carrier's don't want to be dumb pipes, but I'm thinking that's what they'll become, as us consumers only need/want them for the pipe!
I wonder what the terms were, given this funding environment and the fact that most previously funded companies are doing down rounds...
I'm sure that this affects places like Tulsa too. It just happens to a small extent than places with larger populations and/or your group of friends selectively excludes people that are likely to be in this sort of situation.
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I'm sure the terms were relatively favorable. Dennis has a good track record, having sold dodgeball to Google a few years back.

Foursquare is the only purely mobile social network I use and it's terrific. I suspect their growth rate looks like a hockey stick in the metropolitan areas the app works in.
OCaml comes with (and is implemented using) camlp4 -- it's an extraordinarily powerful "Pre-Processor-Pretty-Printer" that operates directly on a concrete syntax for the language.

Classical Lisp macros are only 'cleaner' by cheating.

Most of Template Haskell is about solving a different problem (A statically-type-checked meta-language for generating code that must be statically type-checked) -- and thus is pretty messy. It's still way cleaner than any of its predecessors (at least of the ones I've used).
Indeed, the article shows a complete ignorance of the real world. Who is going to type "phone://www.your_company’s_domain.com/customer_service" into a phone? How could you even remember that? SIP does this correctly by using email addresses, but traditional phone numbers are still preferable since all existing phones have numerical keypads. What the author really wants is for his phone to use NAPTR, and for the people he is calling to include SIP or POTS entries for their email addresses.
Does anyone have thoughts about the utility of cappuccino for web app development where you load a GUI and then do all your state control for each [user not model perspective] entity via rpc to the server? I haven't tried it yet but expect this will be easier because you can bypass much of the grunt work of templating, and you don't have to deal with the back button issues either. I think the back button maps OK onto entities (i.e. get the user to link if they're going to a new booking) but not state transitions within an entity (i.e. if they add a person to the booking then there's no need to provide back functionality).

"The big problem, though - the elephant in the room - is that gateways suck, too. Gateways aren’t APIs." Too true.

On python - the python critics could fork, stick in the features they want, and benefit from the libraries. I'd have thought this would be a better starting point for a new language in that direction than a blank canvas. I admire clojure for similar reasons - find a VM and leverage it.
Well, social programs can be a factor in that, but IMHO most of the difference is cultural. In Southern Europe, large, multi-generation households are traditional, much less so in the North.
Are you absolutely confident of that assertion? The AFL-CIO and unions in general have been severely and structurally limited in their impact on industrial policy since the 1980's at least. The impacts of globalisation, deskilling, outsourcing, and the deliberate policy of deindustrialising the american economy have more to do with it.

Your comment comes off as somewhat Dickensian, blaming a man being savaged by thugs for not feeding the starving orphan at the curb.
Yea, but a lot of these figures are based on statistics, and sometimes it doesn't take things like the varied socio-economic situations around the USA. I would take figures like this to be more accurate the more localized that they were (i.e. '1/3rd on the West Coast' or '1/3rd in major cities' etc)
Most banks actually offer accounts in a broad range of currencies to attract the real money, which is asset management of middle-sized fortunes, usually including some international diversification.
It's interesting to see how similar it looks, to the pixel. Perhaps the framework doesn't leave much room for customization.
[To the person I replied to, who shall remain nameless] No reason to delete your comments, I agreed with much of what you said and it was valuable to the discussion. Odd.
Man, thats going to scale well. More like (p:)j.mp/jen38js09
> Delete models.py and create a models folder
> Delete views.py and create a views folder.

I think these are a sign that your applications are too big. I'm biased, but I would use http://chris-lamb.co.uk/projects/django-lint/ over whilst fleshing out the models (which reports on exactly this issue).
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I personally delineate between politically-charged statements that are designed to promote clear thinking and those that are designed to sow muddled thinking through clever semantic games or misplaced emotion.
I found a rather giant security issue...that if a mean person found you would lose all of your data. I can't find a way to contact you through the site though.
College, and going to school in general, isn't just about taking classes. Getting the opportunity to interact with a diverse group of people helps broaden enriches their education and is great preparation for the "real world."

While some of this interaction could be moved online, I suspect that it would make it easier for people to seek out people that are similar to them since they're not being thrown into a environment where you would have to see your classmates every day whether you find them agreeable or not.
I tend to prefer text communications as well, but I'd really like to browse some WWW from time to time.

I agree that carriers will have to become dumb pipes... if they don't want to be a dumb pipe, they should let someone else be one, and just build off of that. Then again, with all of the money and history that's involved in the telecommunications industry, I'll imagine that we'll be held back for quite a while longer.
Didn't edited posts used to have an asterisk? I'll edit this one to see.

Anyhow, software patents was what I remember typing in the above. MS would have no interest in opposing hardware patents.
Fair enough, but into which category does your statement fall? You presented your opinion as fact and with minimal proof or argument for your assertions. That's nothing special.

Not to say I'm above doing the same thing, but it's nothing special. :)
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It's partly the framework, and partly because Joel threw this together on a Friday afternoon. The only thing customized on this site is the colors and the logo, but you can also add blocks of HTML in a bunch of places where ads are usually shown.
Interesting pricing model. No free option and a premium (per-server based) model for on premise. Very different from what you usually see for web-based services. I think it might work.

Planning to try it out.
I don't dismiss that there are other large forces at work; I simply mean that the AFL-CIO, through the policies they've promoted and their massive lobbying, has done as much as any one other person or group.

And while the impact of private sector unions may have waned a bit after 1980, the growing impact of public employee unions has more than covered the difference.
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Yes, note also that Haskell itself is the Template Haskell metalanguage. I.e. Haskell programs use Haskell to modify their own AST at compile time, giving you arbitrary AST power.
IIRC, Ruby lets you set taintedness Safe Levels with the -T command-line option or setting $SAFE per thread.
As a former academic gone mercenary, I love that programmers of all skill levels can get into organization, language and specification through Python. It's a wonderful gateway to learning, and in this case, it seems to have done exactly what Python was specified to do!

For my own projects, I've used pretty much all the fad languages from BASIC to Pascal to C. I've used industry-adopted languages like Tcl, Java and Perl. I've experimented with Lisp and Erlang.

After all is said and done, I like Python/Cython/C. It gives me the option to use a glue language for the Windows programming I've done, which is perfect. It gives me a compiled (albeit ctypes-restricted) subset language for writing hashing/storage/whatever functions. It gives me a super-awesome library set that comes built-in.

I know it'll go away someday, but I'm glad to have worked in Python for as long as I have.
Isn't part of the prevention program the billions of dollars which are spent on health research, vitamins, etc.? Sure some of them are bogus, but there is continuing effort on uncovering things which actually might work - calorie restriction, vitamin E, fish oil, resveratrol,...

Some of these aren't represented by a massive lobby, but isn't that a good thing?
While Python is a great language, aren't "Things Guido doesn't like aren't supported at the language level" and "Python treats developers as adults" sort of at odds?

* TCO is dangerous and hard, let's not support it in the language
* ++ is ugly, let's not support it in the language
* Assignment during comparison leads to bugs, let's not support it in the language
* Python gives you more than enough rope to hang yourself, but at least hanging yourself is an option.

One of these things is not like the others.
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Mechanically, or clinically? It seems likely that this will work mechanically. I don't think that he is claiming to have cured cancer, just improved the technique for delivering chemotherapy drugs to a certain kind of tumors.
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Only because,of course, employers would rather build their $300,000 homes than give a young person a break in life. Which wasn't always the case. Greed only took over about 25-30 years ago. Ever since, real wages have stagnated or fallen for the great majority of Americans.

You're blaming the victim.
Great article, but why write your own XML parser? Rolling your own if all the available implementations were alphas and betas, but given that there are so many solid and well-tested solutions, aren't you unnecessarily increasing your project's total complexity?
It's interesting because it's, as you said, real-world data. Where I live facebook wasn't available nor popular during the ".edu only"-era. Here Internet access is cheap and fast for most people so I would also imagine college attendees get more of their news from newspapers and other non-based source then non-college attendees, because of the academic focus at college.
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>>For now all he's got is a great way to get a lot of funding.

You really need to motivate that... The project has afaik finished the first phase with good results. (See the interview I referenced.)

Also, you don't have to wait until 2019 to see if you are right and the researchers are dishonest and/or idiots. The Blue Brain are going to work on emulating animals with much smaller brains at first.
I'm intrigued how they've got people who aren't related to StackOverflow or programming on there already. Someone's already trying to work out what "code" means :-) http://biztravel.stackexchange.com/questions/11/feedback-abo...

Just realized, I'm actually asking a question here.. how would you kick off one of these sorts of sites if you wanted it to become popular? Pre-populate it with a fake community? Get a group of friends to use it in anger?
There are times when it is enough to simply point in the right direction. Surely you've had an experience where you realized the truth in something simply by seeing it pointed out in clear terms.

In any case, passing by pointers is more time efficient than argument copying.
This assertion has been made for the past 1000 years, and most likely will continue to be made for the next 1000 as well.
Creating a single project wide middleware / context processor file doesn't make sense - each application should provide specific functionality to the project don't group it into a single middleware or context processor.

Look at the django.contrib applications. They are perfect examples of how you should structure your apps. The authentication middleware is in django.contrib.auth. etc.

If you are automatically deleting models.py, views.py, forms.py your doing it all wrong - rarely should an application get large enough to require these changes to application structure in django.

Again django.contrib.admin is the only application that has a views/ directory because it has so many permutations to make generic functionality available to most users.

One thing I would like to add is that I think django-admin.py for projects should create the templates directory and static directory when starting a project. It should also generate forms.py, urls.py (not mentioned in the article) and a templates directory for apps.
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