The most amazing thing about this for me was that YouTube reports that there were only 152 views when I watched it, and zero comments. And the link has 7 points on HN, Yet this link made it to the front page of HN (currently the 8th highest link).
I guess I thought it would have to be clicked on a few more times, to get up to number 8!
There must be some high-karma people who voted this up.
Anybody know what the HN algorithm is, to get this onto the front page?
I don't think the algorithm currently gives extra weight to high-karma users (there are however penalties for voting rings, flags, etc.). To hit the frontpage, you just need a certain number of votes in a short time.
I also wouldn't count on the YouTube views instantly reflecting all activity.
OK, so once you have launched a company, and survived past those scary first couple years, you no longer qualify?
I ask because I founded a startup in '96, and we still try to "think like a startup". Just because we've been profitable for years doesn't mean we're done innovating.
At the moment, there is no fixed criteria really. If you are entrepreneurial and have started a company in the past I'd say you are welcome. If you have something to share that's going to be useful to other startups, you're welcome.
How about if you haven't done a startup, but are working on one more side projects with the potential to become actual startups. Something more than flipping Wordpress themes, more along the lines of the recently posted csspivot, gumroad, and others.
I signed up for facebook, friended no one that didn't friend me and that I didn't know personally, told no one about my account, and have a folder of facebook spam in my email box that already has 40 messages in about 2 months.
Facebook spams you if someone has your email address in their address book. Facebook spams you if someone wants to be your friend. Facebook spams you if someone has a birthday. Almost half of my Facebook spams are in Spanish, and I don't speak Spanish.
And I have six friends in Facebook. Six. I can't imagine how bad it is if you have 100.
It seems to me that there could be a version of Python that is solely optimized for speed, and allows full compilation. I haven't given this a great deal of thought, but I bet that if you defined a subset of the language that is Python-like, but doesn't allow the full introspection and fancy class manipulations, and other cool features, you could have a fully compilable language that would rival C in performance, but kick C's butt in readability.
Maybe it's not a binary switch (performance exclusions switch, for example). Maybe it's a setting with various degrees of performance. You need introspection? We'll give you that, but now you can only compile at the 2x performance level (or whatever). You need certain libraries that aren't written for performance? That's going to cost you.
Then again, it's quite possible that I don't know what I am talking about!
PyPy itself has RPython, which is a restricted Python that can be compiled down to something fast. Cython allows you to annotate Python code (inline or externally) to allow compiling it down. ShedSkin compiles some Python directly to C++. So there's a bunch of options (all of which PyPy has to compete with!)
I was a regular contributor to Techcrunch comments (and not a troll), but I haven't commented once since they moved to Facebook comments. And I won't.
This Techcrunch article is the first one in a week or more that I have read the comments. And I've pretty much tuned out of Techcrunch now, and moved over exclusively to HN. I used to have Techcrunch open all day, every day. Now it's gone.
So, one switch from Disqus to Facebook comments lost me - a long time reader of TC, and an active participant at TechCrunch 40 and TechCrunch 50. And they probably don't even know it.
I wasn't in love with the Disqus system, but there was one feature that was right for me, that FB comments don't have: separation from Facebook.
Not to be pedantic (I hate that word), but in the spirit of improvement, you may want to spell check your popups.
(example: "<bdi> Text that is seperated from directional formatting of its surroundings."
... should be separated)
At first, I looked at this chart, and thought "cute, but what good is it." Then I started clicking on it, and eventually found myself printing it and hanging it in my office! Good work.
True! ...but if they could tell me that they had already tried X, Y and Z classes of rot cypher, then I'd at least know I wasn't going down a path that's already been examined.
You can submit stories with a new account. Press submit at the top.
You can also link to your site in the comments (although it better be relevant to the discussion, or you'll probably get voted down into oblivion as spam!)
@CaptainObvio.us: There's always room for another great site about ideas, but check out halfbakery.com. You might get some ideas from their site. It's good, not great, but has an active user base.
I can't believe it... not one comment telling the django guys to quit celebrating and get back to work on a version that supports Python 3? :-)
Seriously, Adrian, Jacob, and the django team, I love your product. I actually just bought a SECOND copy of your book (available free on the web). What's wrong with this picture?
"Because of that we strongly recommend against using Python 3 for web development of any kind and wait until the WSGI situation is resolved. You will find a couple of frameworks and web libraries on PyPI that claim Python 3 support, but this support is based on the broken WSGI implementation provided by Python 3.0 and 3.1 which will most likely change in the near future.
Werkzeug and Flask will be ported to Python 3 as soon as a solution for WSGI is found, and we will provide helpful tips how to upgrade existing applications to Python 3. Until then, we strongly recommend using Python 2.6 and 2.7 with activated Python 3 warnings during development, as well as the Unicode literals __future__ feature."
I agree (except for the part where you wanted to down-vote me). I wasn't trying to say it was their fault. It was more a comment about other comments, not about the django guys.
I love django. But I also I can't wait for the day when we can quit talking about Python 2, and that Python 3 will be the obvious choice for ALL environments.
Considering Python 3K discussions go back to 2006 (PEP 3000) or earlier, and Python 3 was released in 2008, and we're still probably years away from closing the book on Python 2, it's just amazing how long it takes to "turn a battleship". This transition to Python 3 might be a decade or more, from start to finish! amazing!
I guess I thought it would have to be clicked on a few more times, to get up to number 8!
There must be some high-karma people who voted this up.
Anybody know what the HN algorithm is, to get this onto the front page?