skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not reasonable to ask to be ranked. The best programmers are those who know there is an answer to every problem. The worst ones are the ones that care about salary, lines of code, and other meaningless crap.

Just remember, the CS field is broad and not every has the same knowledge.
Is Twitter Down?
Generic Information Systems from Villa Julie College in Maryland. The courses taught me Visual Basic and SQL. I've taught myself everything else and have so much to learn.
The only similar 'service' I've seen - we were contacted about a week ago by Distinctive Assets in LA - they put together the bags for the Oscar nominees (non-winner nominees) and will get your product in there for $5k, or will introduce you to Grammy winners in the green room back stage (photo op, etc) as well as giving them one of your product to take home for for $1500.

Email me if you want the contact info.
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If you have a mac, Cmd-Opt-T
Seattle Taps Its Inner Silicon Valley
Ha, you'd lose more time coordinating that than you'd gain. People are really dumb.
B.S. in Management with a concentration in MIS from the University at Buffalo. Transfered out of comp sci from the University of Delaware (I was bored and had no pretty girls in my classes).
Are you referring to: Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970 ?
BFA, Illustration, Ringling School of Art and Design, and a programmer.
The Rules of Digital Engagement
Arc's Unicode support (by the news.yc patch writer)
I think the "other ways" might not always be horrible ideas. It just leads to messy, unreadable code. Of course, its upto the programmer to write readable code.
Хубаво. Фонта само е някакъв преебан.
Study hard science. However, if you like computers then don't study computing. The people who will judge you by your qualifications can barely find their way around their own desktop. Therefore, they are unqualified to judge your skill with or without a qualification. Some people think that people computing doesn't extend much beyond Microsoft Office. To such ignorant people you may as well have a degree in Excel and, well, anyone can do that, heh?

Instead, study something like astrophysics or Electrical Engineering. You'll get access to great hardware in addition to computing facilities. You'll learn overlapping topics. You won't restrict your options. You'll also get more respect when you've finished.
The Economist dissolves the conspiracy theories on the undersea Internet cables
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I live in Holmdel NJ, home of telecom. Maybe not Silicon valley, but the people here are damn bright and all the people here are as savvy as the west coasters near silicon valley.
Visual Music Instruments
Witty way to get someone to click that amazon link.
Yeah. I'm not really spreading the news about Hacker News so much. I like it smaller and more manageable.
UTF-8 can represent any Unicode character.
Oh God, I know. One of my highest priorities in life is to be able to be somewhere else during the Chicago winter.
No I don't. If you have specific interests in mind, I can try to find out through my friends.
There's New Haven, Connecticut. It's got Yale University and a bunch of biotech companies. The downtown is greatly improved and offers a variety of delicious restaurants. The housing prices are pretty cheap too. Not so many software companies though, so that might be an issue.
Hypertable: An Open Source, High Performance, Scalable Database (Big Table Clone)
Yeah, but the original didn't have The Real Napster.
What's great about Wellington for hackers?
Corvallis has Hewlett-Packard. And a couple smaller companies. I'm not sure if it could be called vibrant...I lived there, but I'm always rather out of it.
When I stopped going to school full-time (about 2 years ago) I thought that I would continue my degree part time. It hasn't really worked out however. The reason I stopped going full time is that classes were boring, and since I work full time, wasting a couple of nights per week on boring classes (instead of staying at home hacking) is not something I enjoyed. I'm still "planning" to finish at some point in time but I'm starting to doubt if it will ever happen.
B.Sc. Software Engineering - Universtity of Calgary
I know this is an old thread, but Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Wagner, Rachmaninov, and Richard Strauss (off the top of my head) were all married.
I would more likely import an existing rails project onto heroku rather than code the entire thing through the web. I have my own preferences when it comes to things like IDE's.

Still, nice scalability features.
man no wonder you have time to submit 10,000 articles a day hehe
why not django or turbogears?
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If you like southern Oregon, but want better job options, it's tough to imagine how you could do much better than Portland. There are plenty of big tech employers along the 26 corridor, great mass transit and bike access, and an increasingly-vibrant startup culture.

True, there aren't the same number of overnight paper millionaires being minted as in SF or NY, but you can still house and feed a family on 60K a year.

We've got an up-and-coming restaurant scene, and some of the best beer in the country, too. I find it a pretty nice mix.

It does rain a lot. I'm usually too busy coding, cooking, or biking through traffic to care, though.
Fight on! Yea, I was surprised that when I posted I didn't see any other USC students or grads. Glad to see they're here!
Facebook Turns 1,500 Users Into Spanish Translation Slaves
Django has a less advanced schema evolution framework compared to ROR, making database updates harder. You need to kill the process to update the code, as opposed to ROR (i think).

Python is a better language than Ruby. Python has better libraries for more advanced processing because it is so close to C.
I like this. That is all.
I can vouch for other people's vote for Madison, WI. I just moved here a few months ago after a brief stint in Richmond, VA, and a life in (or near) Chicago.

I am really enjoying the vibe of this often forgotten city, and and really impressed with how diverse the terrain is in the state (considering its the midwest).

I've met some guys from a video game startup, and a good number of people from the big software company in town EPIC.

Certainly the cost of living here is pretty fantastically reasonable. I bought my first house here!

email me or message me on skype (same as my name on here) if you care to learn more about Madison :-)

I'm actually looking to start a Jelly or something here, so I can try meet other entrepreneurs.

Good Luck!

I'd love to meet bilbo or anyone else here in Madison :-)
Taking the Arc Challenge...with BASIC
Automated crack for Windows Live captcha goes wild
Very Freudian. Tell me about your mother.
Sipping beer on a nearby hilltop... :-)
10K? Heh... not even close. It's all about quality and not quantity :)
Russell Beattie's First Rule of Application Development
Yes, because writing upside down is so incredibly useful! How did we ever live without it?

/sarcasm
Deploy: Ruby things. GEMs work better than EGGs, in part because there are fewer of them. Ruby makes OO easier.

Maintain: Python things. There are so many EGGs! If you need a new package for something or other -- the JSON parser isn't fast enough or something -- someone has made an alternative already. Performance matters for maintenance -- scalable deployment is still not easy, or cheap -- and it helps that Python has a fast core and syntactic shortcuts to things like generators (memory efficient) and list comprehensions (CPU efficient).
First one that comes to mind is the Jing Project by Techsmith. Really handy way of doing screenshots and recordings. Sounds silly until you actually use it.

http://jingproject.com/
Attention Profiling: APML Beginner's Guide
Actually, it's probably beneficial to encourage flames. Your users are hackers, and flamewars are the only form of public dialogue among hackers. Ergo...
BSc Computer Science from University of Cape Town 1997
Andrew Mwenda: Let's take a new look at African aid (TED talk)
ｐｇの自分で書いた本は日本語に翻訳されているし、これからアークも日本で広げるかなぁ。日本ではリスプを使ってる人はまだいるかなぁ。
It gets fecking cold in the winter and the nights are long. That gives plenty of opportunity for hacking.
The string interpolation operator isn't ideal. It isn't associative, so you can't paste in a few variables, and then a few more later, and it raises an exception rather than simply putting a message such as "Missing variable: X" in the output HTML.

I fixed this by simply using string replace(), and suitably unique replace tokens.

(Then again, I program in Notepad, preferring it for aesthetic reasons over Emacs, so go figure :-)
I used WindowsXP 'Character Map' accessory for the ♫♪ and ♥. I think I copied and pasted the ∞ and ☺ from http://www.bigbaer.com/sidebars/entities/ .
Does it now?

http://www.keyghost.com/
Take a look at the series of hello-worlds at the end of the Arc tutorial. That's actually where the challenge problem came from. It was just the first hello-world I wrote that did anything.
There's something abnormal about having a site dedicated to shoelaces.

Anyway, this knot will shave about 5.5 seconds off my daily commute. Thanks!
PeakStream (now part of google) - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060918-7763.html
What happens when some rogue user decides it would be funny to "accidentally" translate something incorrectly...

I suppose they could cross check submissions with each other, and pick the ones that match most.

This reminds me of this "human computation" lecture: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143
BA in communications from the University of Arizona - minor in CS.

They were restricting the students going into the major and I flubbed up the first semester. (I got a D in discrete math. None of the concepts were difficult for me, but they combined it as a proof class and I just couldn't get the hang of them.) Also, I knew I was pretty good with the computers, it was the interaction with people I was lacking.

I'm strongly considering going back for a Ph.D in cognitive science, but I'll likely have to shore up some of my undergraduate weaknesses first. (The years in industry have taught me that as much as I am frustrated with academia, it suits my personality much better.)
So the love of money placed before the love of God is premature optimization?
First Video of Electricity-Generating Knee Brace
yeah i confused that with ISO 10646 (has the 3 levels which specify unicode, not all levels support the same characters) and UCS2, which UCS2 is essentially UTF-16, so i meant if he used any characters bytecoded in UTF-16 essentially he'd have a problem, although utf-8 doesnt support certain octets.
UTF-8/16 were not yet part of the standard before UCS version 2.0. Been a while I guess since i got updated
Fossil - A Software Configuration Management System
If missing variables are an issue you could use defaultdict.

http://docs.python.org/lib/defaultdict-objects.html
thank you sir
There are a bunch of options...

I've never tried it, but Arduino sounds like a good option for you:

Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.

http://www.arduino.cc/

It's based on an Atmega micrcontroller, which is also popular among hobbyists.

TI has a dead simple (looks like a thumb drive, plugs in USB) and cheap ($20) microcontroller programmer with microcontroller called the eZ430:

http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/landing/ez430tool/index.htm

And Microchip has a pretty cheap and simple programmer for most PICs called the PICkit2:

http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_P...

As far as connecting these things to your computer, USB is probably easiest I've used the PIC18FXXX5 series which has built in USB support (just add a few cheap components and a connector!). Here's an excellent website:

http://pic18fusb.online.fr/

And of course since you're interested in making MIDI controllers, check out MidiBox:

http://www.midibox.org/

Finally, a couple good resources/forums I find helpful:

http://ladyada.net/

http://forum.sparkfun.com/

I wish I had more time to play with all this stuff...
Wow - you can now code on your Iphone - fingers permitting! A most impressive concept - congratulations!
Runtime vs. Test time: Functional tests and programming by contract
Fair enough, and after all: "Real programmers ship"
ditto cherrypy, django's api is just not elegant. Tries to do everything for you, but not exactly like you want to. It is fine for some kind of apps (the auto autoadmin feature is nice for small or mid apps), but for large apps i'd say start with something that you have total control on what's going on with no magic. While for small apps, Django might be an overkill.
And turbogears, is just... how to say, too much. Pylons is alright thou.
Which is probably why the Finns are better hackers than the Danes.

I mean seriously, what would you spend your time doing if you lived north of the arctic circle ?
Japan's space agency planning space-based microwave beaming solar arrays
I don't think Django is a great example. Python it'self is by far superior to Ruby. It is one of those kind of languages, where frameworks are optional. something like web.py or cherrypy are just enough.

The problem with python, is that there is plethora of frameworks, but not one is close to perfect. So, sometimes you don't know what too choose.

While with Ruby, you are stuck with one main framework (well, there are few less popular ones), which creates more synergy and knowledge towards that framework/way of web developing, but limits choice.
łąś żółć - testing
I also like UI, especially the simple sharing to web, but on my machine it is awfully slow (laptop 1,67 GHz / 1 GB / Vista). I don't have it running in the background, and starting it takes about 20 seconds. I guess the .NET framework is not the lightest one.

Might be a silly argument, but I love stuff like Irfanview that opens up in milliseconds and works really fast.

Jing is anyway a cool piece of software. Technically impressive? Maybe...
In the past 24 hours we've had... rain, thunderstorm, sleet, hail, and snow. "Unbearably shitty" is an understatement at times...
Like.com is pretty cool. It tries to help you shop for things based on physical similarities, they've got a neat image recognition thing going. I was surprised when I saw it actually work.

Also cool is Shazam Entertainment's music recognition software. http://www.shazam.com/music/portal/template/pages/p/company_...

Apparently, if you hear something on the radio or whatever, you dial up shazam and they can tell you what it was. Magic, I tell you.

Then there's Heroku, which is kind of 'wtf amazing' to me.
Agree with all of the above. Cool to see another Austinite here.

Austin has all the ingredients to be a great place for startups, with maybe the exception of a good investor climate. VC money seems dried up except for Austin Ventures, and the angels are conservative by SV standards. But regardless, its just about my favorite place.

Please shoot me an email if you'd ever like to chat startups (email in my profile)
Yahoo Board To Determine Fate Of Company Today
And here I thought http://isitchristmas.com was pointless.
Still more thoughts on motivation
Yahoo Live Fails To Scale
Not just pointless, but also sometimes wrong.
housing is insane around in here. 800k buys you a shack. Unless you were either 1 Rich, 2.Cashed out huge amount of option shares 3.Gettin in debt out of your eyeballs, it is hard to afford a decent house with a normal salary. I like Berkeley, and SF, but still, living around in here is very expensive.
Google to buy Plaxo for $200 million?
no f ucking way. Orlando is just a huge boring strip mall. Disneyland is a rip-off. And those firms, are really just megacorporates where only code monkeys work.
I'm a current undergrad at University of Michigan, AA studying mechanical engineering. But, I started programming at 11 when I first got paid for my programming skills. I've worked in the "real world" each summer and have found my hacking abilities more useful than many other skills.

Sometimes it's a php script to scrape data, other times it is a vb macro to make excel work more efficiently or a bash script, etc. etc.
Lived in Davis sq, and I can say it can get pretty boring after a year. Cambridge is nice. Climate sucks. I mean cold is bearable, by i couldn't stand the lack of light. I got winter's blues in there. Locals suck. You will never learn the names of your neighbors. Students everywhere, which gets annoying after a while. Stupid puritanism everywhere. The 24hr store in Davis sq. closes at midnight, b/c the city doesn't want people to work past midnight. Alcohol is heavily regulated. Heck, there even are no happy hours. (they are illegal). and they call themselves liberals? Ah, and racism is rampant. I had a black girlfriend for a while, so I know.

I liked the boat house, in the Charles river, were you could register for $120/year, and learn how to sail. The urban transport is pretty good (better than bay area).

For me it was good for a year or two, and then it ended up being boring. Moved to SF, and my quality of life improved a lot. people are just way much friendlier in here.

edit. there are a lot of biotech jobs around there (in Cambridge mostly). Lot's of tech jobs, but it is mostly big coorporations, and nothing too exiting. Few startups, but no near the number of startups in SF bay area. But housing is cheaper, about %30 cheaper, but still very expensive (third most expensive area, after NYC, and SF). And you can meet lot's of smart people, with masters, phd's, etc. More intellectual than the bay area.
or obliviousness... *ducks
Cool. I minored in physics, and I thought it was much harder than CS. Respects from me.
Me too! I don't miss the concrete jungle at all.
I guess I could have paraphrased:

Denmark is a great place to be a Danish hacker. :)
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Computer Science major, minors in Physics and Mathematics at Radford university, in VA.

A party school, so my gpa wasn't perfect, but I had a good time. I had a full academic scholarship though.
I want to live someplace I can get around by bicycle. Perhaps that's technically possible in, say, mountain view, but mountain view isn't really a town unto itself, but a suburb or exurb or something. For all practical purposes, all those peninsula towns are part of a big, urban area that stretches from SF to San Jose. I agree that it would be good in a lot of other ways, and it's a tough decision, but in terms of livability I get sick of it every time I'm there, and I'm unenthusiastic about trying to raise a child there.
I thought you handled it pretty well. Basically, you wrote a big sign saying "here is the bike shed", to make sure bike-shed commenters had something to occupy them. :)
I don't know that Corvallis is big enough to be really "happening", although it's a pleasant enough place. Portland is a better bet if you can stand the climate. Unfortunately, I really can't. The endless gray just wears me down mentally. I need regular time outdoors and sunshine. For others though, I'd heartily recommend Portland.
biotech is more of a limiting factor than hacker-friendly.
there are only three places in the USA: bay area, boston area, philadelphia suburbs / new jersey. none of which are mid-sized.

Boulder is nice, but I can't stand the people in Colorado. I would not say it is 'hacker friendly.' New Mexico is an interesting place to visit, sort of... but a horrible place to live.

My favorite mid-sized town in the USA is probably Portland.
Denmark seems cool in a lot of ways, but unfortunately one of those ways is the climate - not to mention it completely fails the topography test: our house in downtown Innsbruck is about 3 times higher than the highest point in Denmark.

I actually have to say that Innsbruck isn't such a terrible place, but it's a bit too small and doesn't seem to have much of a tech scene. The area is gorgeous though:

http://www.welton.it/photos/innsbruck/
That looks rather cool, actually.

And their free acounts are ad-supported.

Go sell them your service :D
You're 100% correct about biotech being a limiting factor. I can find some kind of programming job pretty much anywhere, but biotech really is about clusters...sigh. That said, she can only work at one job, so if she gets one of the few jobs in someplace like Boulder or Portland or wherever, that's good enough.

What don't you like about NM? I've never been there but it always seemed kind of interesting/different. And the people in Colorado...?
there are tons of resources for midi electronics:

www.midibox.org
www.doepfer.de
www.ucapps.de
www.monome.org

"DIY midi" google search

get "art of electronics" by horowitz and hill as a reference
Essential guide to the Ruby driver for DB2
Run-time enforcement of contracts and functional "stress" tests are the cheapest and most efficient way I've found to write correct-enough microcontroller software. Static checks are good (and I wish C was better in this regard) but you can't check the state of the hardware without run-time checks.
Sure... it's not hard to look up college towns in the west, but I'm also looking for information on the 'feel' of places. Some people have posted negative opinions about New Mexico, for instance, which is something I wouldn't have found out on my own.
Sounds like a nice place (voted up), but fails our climate and topography tests. Maybe it's right for someone else reading though, I read about it a little and it sounds like it's got a very good feel to it in terms of size and population.
This Is Not Our Bubble
Different is a good word for NM. It is "kind of interesting" but it is also completely disgusting. Think of the worst place you have ever accidentally driven through in the USA. Now imagine that place is in the desert and everyone who lives there is on crystal meth. That is Albuquerque. Santa Fe is more of a retirement town that happens to have an atomic research facility.

I don't like stereotypical republicans or phony outdoorsy liberal types, so I didn't get along with anyone in Colorado.
MacBook Air: SSD vs HDD
Cool... is StatCounter at least as good as Google Analytics?
Deriving the Y combinator
More like scales to FAIL, m i rite?
someone from India --> संगणक प्रणाली - आर्क
New York Times' illustrates the Year in Ideas
The Erlang Challenge
i get around on a bicycle in mountain view, palo alto, and the other towns around here. you just need to figure out the bike routes.
Bebo: Social central
If you are wondering:
On Linux/X11, there's Ctrl+Shift+[unicde number in hexadecimal], gnome-character-map, umap or KCharMap (ت)

And now for the less serious part:

ሞሡሢ Am I the only one whom these Ethiopic characters remind of Tengwar? BTW, are there Unicode chars for Tengwar? I think there should be! (But not for Klingon, because it sucks.)
I have fun wirting this on my ⌨, but ℐ∫ ᚾℍℹ⑀ not pointless? Who cares? Anyway, now we can use distinct characters for Roman numerals: Ⅰ,Ⅱ,Ⅲ,Ⅳ,Ⅴ,Ⅵ,Ⅶ,Ⅷ,Ⅹ,Ⅻ,Ⅽ,Ⅿ!
Ye darn kids! Everythin we had was 7-bit ASCII, without parity, and we were damn greatful for it?
You think you had it bad? I had to use Morse code for browsing porn, back in my days! And I had to etch my public key into the wall of a rotten ol' cave! We did not have this fancy-shmancy routed network, i had to remember the way from here to there all by myself!

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paper presentation on SEO
This is the first time that i am going to do one.
So what are the subtopics that i should cover on the SEO(search engine optimization) topic.
How would you do it considering the current influence of google as well as live on the search engine market.

I also want to know how you do your paper presentations on other computer science topics.