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The books in that section are topical books or reference books that contain a condensed introduction to Python in the beginning.

I created PythonBooks as a side project.

The website is a guided repository of Python books and currently lists the best 100 books. It classifies these books into fine grained categories and shows the best books in each category. It has filters for Python version, free and non free books etc. For the beginner book section, you can even filter the books by topics that you want to learn.

I created PythonBooks as a side project.

The website is a guided repository of Python books. It classifies Python books into fine grained categories and shows the best books in each category. It has filters for Python version, free and non free books etc. For the beginner book section, you can even filter the books by topics that you want to learn.

Enjoy!

Congratulations on making this awesome fake website. I had a shit ton of fun going through it. You'd be a rockstar copywriter, if you are not one already.

Thanks. I will take a look at these.

Thanks. It's the most authentic portrayal of hacking that I have seen on TV.

Yes, please do it. I am not affiliated with YC, but I have heard YC Partners mention many times that they encourage people to reapply. There was a case when someone didn't get in 7 times but got in on the 8th attempt.

I joined the fidget spinner[0] craze about a month ago. Since then, they have been my constant companion at work. For those who don't know, a fidget spinner is a stress relieving toy that has become popular recently. I have a couple of spinners already and getting more every month.

I spend a lot of time researching spinners before buying a new one. Spin time is the most important thing, since it feels great if the spinner keeps going forever after a hard flick. But I also look for specific colors, body materials and how much noise the spinner makes. Amazon doesn't make research easy, since the information is all over the place and typically hard to find.

So I decided to make this process easier. Me and my friend Martin went through the top 100 spinners on Amazon and put the information about color, shape, lights, spin time, noise, price and body material in a postgres database. I built a Django website on top of the database where you can filter the top spinners on Amazon using your preferred criteria.

I find it extremely useful to be able to filter based on my preferences and quickly see the top matching spinners. I hope some others might benefit from it too.

The website is at the moment a work in progress. So any constructive feedback is most welcome. I will also try my best to respond to any questions, if you have any.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidget_spinner

This depends on the rate at which you are making requests. If the rate is low, then Google doesn't bother. I have successfully scraped Google by waiting longer between requests.

I tried this a couple of months ago. I could easily extract the url of the result using regex. However, this url was a redirect url with the domain google.com. At this point, I made one more request to this redirect url, followed the redirect chain and easily obtained the actual url of the result.

Just a text file in the beginning to write down the routine. It's a weekly routine which never changes. So after a few weeks, I memorized it.

I used to be a victim of this myself. My solution to this problem (which works very well) is to lead a life of strict routine, where every hour is allotted for doing something specific. As I stuck to the routine, this whole overthinking thing magically disappeared as I simply didn't have the time to overthink. Everything is also progressing 10 times faster as well. I can't guarantee that it will work for you too but it's worth a try.

Is there a way to enjoy all the advantages of the fb stack while preventing this breach of privacy? Would love to know how if someone has ideas.

I like it. What do you think of a recommendation engine which tries to recommend movies based on patterns of happiness and sadness?

A few months back, I was using a github repo and found that it has some bugs. It took me one whole night to fix it. I submitted a pull request with the fix. Now, instead of just merging it, the owner of the repo added a code review asking me to fix some conventions (and the conventions he suggested did not conform to the official style guide of the language + he could fix them faster than writing the code review) and asked me to do additional things that had nothing to do with the bug fix.

I guess this is an example of a toxic code review or what I call "code review for the sake of code review". It turned me off so much that I haven't responded to it yet.

Yes, agreed. But I guess an engineer would want to make career progress too, right? Isn't it smart to be networked to ensure that you are at the forefront of opportunity?

As an aside, I was in the academia previously and it seems that networking is highly correlated with success there.

I wanted to ask an open ended question : how important do you think it is to be well-connected? I am sure if someone spent a lot of time going to plenty of networking events and put serious effort into talking with people, then they could grow their network pretty fast. But every minute spent in networking is a minute not spent in doing something else. So how do you set your priorities?

I sure hope that you stay at the best of your health. I am very curious about your capability because I always told myself that sleep is very important to my performance, concentration and overall well being. How do the people in your life (e.g. friend, family) generally react when they find out that you sleep so little?

Wow that sounds amazing. Did you see anyone (like a doctor or a researcher) and ask for an explanation of how you can do this?

I have heard of at least three believable theories of why we sleep.

- To turn short term memory into long term memory, to consolidate long term memory, and prepare the brain to learn new things.

- To clean the brain of harmful waste products (which is what this article says. By the way, it is old and from 2013).

- An evolutionary artifact of energy conservation in resource-low ecosystems.

Are there some other theories too?

Hi Ben. I enjoyed the article. Perhaps you will find this an interesting read too. https://timeandtimeless.wordpress.com/2015/10/07/experience-...

Only 37 % of NYT readers access the paper from the home page. The rest are coming from search, social media etc. [0] While I see a possibility of converting the first segment (37 %) into subscription paying users, I am curious about what they are doing to convert the rest?

[0] (As of 2015) https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Digital-News-RISJ-Challeng...

Agreed.

I checked out the game you developed...looks awesome.

Look - since you are passionate about solving problems and making things, why don't you just create sources of passive income or build some business from the ground up? This way you will be able to bypass any reputation issues that your university has and focus on your creativity instead.

Thanks for the taking the time to do this. It is valuable to hear Sam talk from his experience.

Some follow up questions came to my mind after listening to this. I am going to list them here. If you see this @craigcannon, please consider them for the next one.

1. One disadvantage of being young is that they are usually inexperienced in managing people and conducting business. How would you recommend young people to improve their skills in people management and business? What kind of books should they read? What kind of habits should they inculcate? Is there anything else you would recommend?

2. A non technical founder needs to be a product guy. It is also easy for a n00b to pick up coding skills as there are so many great resources on the internet, many of them operated by YC companies. The follow up question here is the converse: how can a technical founder learn product skills? What kind of resources are available and which ones would you recommend?

3. Sam mentioned AI and computer security as two areas that he thought was important. With AI, we are already seeing hints of disruptive technology (deep learning). What is the situation with computer security in comparison?

4. Stickiness of a new platform can be taken as an indicator of whether it is worthwhile to develop things on it. How would you rate voice platforms like Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple Siri in terms of stickiness?

Really loved the presentation. I enjoyed watching the autplaying videos and getting awed.

Merry Christmas everyone! [0]

[0] http://thinknice.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Dancing-Sant...

I pretty much use ORM for everything database related. I never wanted to spend the extra time learning SQL syntax when I could do everything using an abstraction layer in my chosen language. Of course, this strategy doesn't work for highly scalable applications because you don't want the extra overhead added by the abstraction layer to slow your applications down.

You can see this recently submitted link [0] which tries to answer this question in depth. I believe that python 3 readiness[1] and python 3 wall of superpowers[2] are good indicators of the overall trend towards Python 3 adoption, but the sample size of packages considered in these two websites are not big enough to provide a complete picture of the situation.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13244627

[1] http://py3readiness.org/

[2] https://python3wos.appspot.com/