skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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When you ponder over introns (junk DNA), one can see a comparison with programs that have been written by various programmers and have large sections commented out, or classes and routines that linger along and no-one uses anymore, although it did pass my mind a couple of times that these sections are just 'comments'.

Looking at DNA from a different angle it is data+code.

The nearest comparison in my mind is a zillion individual erhlang programs working concurrently with the output, not always very predictable.

Another similarity to programming is bugs!
I am thinking of a virtual school - like eccouncil + community elements. What do you think?
Haven't we been doing that for ages with things like MSN/AOL messenger? Isn't this just an extra means of communication, instead of a replacement as you're suggesting?
It was via Email.
good point rmason - a couple months ago before the last Startup School event - our Startup School was ranked as the top search result ;) ...
Twitter 'LOL' Phishing Attack Turns Into Spam Wave
The tests were not necessarily biased, it's just less certain that they were fair. (Double-blind tests can also be biased, it's neither necessary nor sufficient for fairness.)
Does cold calling make you appear desperate?
See also this good guess at what actually happened, it even helps make sense of the school's current claims: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1559200&cid=3123...
Well, I can't entirely say that I did!

So far, it hasn't been much more than doing a decent job in the different positions I've held, and working in a few different industry sectors. I've worked for a large silicon valley company, a couple of public sector organizations, and a couple of small startups, and I've taken on management and dev roles. I keep up my contacts.

When the startup I was working for folded, I got a bunch of interviews (lots of tech questions), but my best offer came from a former coworker who didn't bother with a tech test because he'd already worked with me.

While I wish I could say I'd done more (presented at conferences, made big contributions to open source, etc...), but in some ways this is a better story, because people start to think that if they need to be a total rock star. You really don't have to, just keep up your contacts and make sure you have a reputation for good work.
Indeed. A cosmetic refinement, but it should really be:

python -c "print ''.join(reversed(list(open('test.py'))))"

That's even two characters less!
Passive aggressiveness looks good on you.
The best (ok, Amiga fans, maybe second best) personal computer ever made still has some life in it, that's nice to see.

/me longs for the days of user ports & tubes

16K of tight code will get you a lot of bang for your buck, especially if the OS is as clean as what Acorn stuck in to the beeb. Iirc there was exactly one bug found after release, sheepishly admitted to in the errata.
People who don't know the German ö may very well mistake it for an ineptly-said English ea, however. Just as many Americans interpret the Canadian-raising pronunciation of "about" as "aboot", even though it's a different sound entirely.
I've been buying organic produce for years and it definitely doesn't taste as good as non-organic produce. An organic banana is about half the size of a non organic banana, it is more mealy and it does not taste nearly as good. But if I bought food on taste alone I would live on Ben and Jerry's. I know the definitions of "Organic" are full of loopholes but I generally think that whatever they did to make the banana twice as big and twice as tasty is probably not good for me.
"I talked to him, and so I said what software do you use to power your search engine? And he said we use Twika or MediaWiki. You know, wiki software, not C++ not Perl not Python. And at that point it really does move more into a content play. And so it is closer to an About.com than to a Powerset or a Microsoft or Yahoo! Search."
2009 is bad? I installed 2008 on Vista, and the screens would hang for several minutes at a time. I remember it being very fast in the past. I had the opinion, based on nothing in particular, that QB was ported form C++ to .NET, and it didn't go too well.
You're right, there's about 90k NEWLINE nodes on the heap, and at 40 bytes a piece that's taking up about 3.6mb of slots on the heap that could be used by other ruby objects instead.

Unfortunately, removing newlines from your codebase will not help since NODE_NEWLINE is used for separators like semicolons as well.

Ruby 1.9 gets rid of NODE_NEWLINE altogether by adding a NEWLINE flag to the next node instead. A similar patch will be in the next release of REE.
I love the internet, but if 4 out of every 10 clicks led to a video of a man stroking his dick, I'd find something else to do.
Please don't do this.

I realize my comment was in wildly poor taste because Hacker News is an Extremely Serious site where only very serious people talk about very serious things. (For example, about how we are all going to get dollar-sign-lotto rich by working 18 hour days for startups).

But talking down to me and pretending to explain why it is a bad comment ('it fits better on reddit' doesn't tell me anything) will only cause me to become incensed at how unjust it is that a website called 'hacker news' is completely full of people with sticks shoved deeply up their asses.
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I have always found this subtopic to be interesting. My perhaps optimistic musing has been that a species sufficiently advanced to compare to humans as humans compare to dolphins would also have some way of measuring/estimating/scoring the level of consciousness (for want of a better term) of a lower species, which seems close to your thinking.
Good first step!

Does that mean that (for the remaining pages on the site)...

a.) the other scraped content which exists on the remaining pages will be put in an iframe (rather than as text on the page)

- OR -

b.) that you will be removing nofollow from the pages you are scraping content from?

Either you trust the content enough that you should link to it directly, or you should put it in an iframe such that search engines don't see it. Either route would likely be more akin to fair use than what you are currently doing (automatically scraping 3rd party content into your pages and using it to rank against the content creators, without permission, and without a way of opting out).
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Measuring Tweets
It says Eric Schmidt now.
they do it all the time, as long as it's a small site, Mahalo's existence basically flies in the face of all of Google's rules and regulations
Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets Per Day
Actually, #1 isn't quite true. A trombone can be made to sound like speech in a couple of ways.

First, with a plunger mute. The adults in the Peanuts cartoons were "voiced" by a trombone with a plunger mute, which gives the impression of a voice without necessarily sounding like it's saying anything in particular. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanuts#Television_and_film_pro...)

Second, it's actually possible to make it sound slightly like specific words by altering the shape and size of your vocal cavity while playing a note. When this is combined with slight glissandos, it can be made to sound a lot like speech. In fact, there is a piece for solo trombone called "General Speech" which uses this technique to recreate General MacArthur's farewell speech at West Point on the trombone. You can read about it and hear it at http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=11

To be fair, neither of these techniques produces anything you'd be able to understand in a conversation, but the point is that a sufficiently skilled trombonist could definitely say something that could be recognized as "I Owe You" on the instrument.
I disagree. IMO asking someone whether they can program a loop that demonstrates the use of a mod operator is a 'gotcha' test because it proves nothing as far as their suitability as programmer and as an employee and is designed soley to weed people out based on one thing. Sure, maybe they are completely ignorant... or maybe they were just nervous that day or unfamiliar with a particular language's mod operator. Lots of programmers don't do well in high-pressure situations... which incidentally programming is not most of the time.

How about asking someone how they got interested in programming, or what sort of things they've created with their knowledge in and out of work, or what languages/technologies they've taught themselves in their free time, how they go about fixing puzzling software problems, or what they consider to be good vs. bad programming practices, or even what their hobbies are? - those kinds of things that will tell you IMO whether they are smart, passionate, and will make a good employee.
Sachin, I don't get it. It costs almost nothing to create an LLC. Do it, and now you can't lose your house over hosting fees. Later on, when you want to form a relationship with a lawyer, spend money on an S-Corp or a C-Corp.
I don't agree with this. It is vital to have legal separation between your company and yourself--whether that be in the form of an S/C Corp or a Limited Liability Company. I just incorporated in Illinois and it cost me about $400 through LegalZoom. They took care of everything and all the rest was handled through my accountant for another $200. That amount is trivial given the structure and protection I now have with an S Corp.

As far as the stock option package--they messed up and shouldn't have formed an S Corp. S (Small Business) Corps are pass-though just like LLC's--the shareholders pay personal taxes on the profits of the company. They also only allow you to distribute one class of stock, making employee stock options hard to do.

The author's lawyer/accountant should have told them that, but I still can't see how all that came out to a $40K mistake. Word of advice: do your research. As a business owner/CEO, ignorance is not an excuse--do you're homework and ask the right questions.
Ask HN: Founder/common stock purchase agreements?
I'm incorporating my startup and would like to issue some common stock. The only agreements I'm finding though (YC's Series AA, Techstars' docs) are for the purchase of preferred stock.

Is there an "open source" common stock purchase agreement?

Edit: I think I found one here:
http://www.orrick.com/practices/corporate/emergingCompanies/startup/forms_founders_stock.asp
Is the "Magic" Alternative Energy Bloom Box for Real?
Most people have no idea that DNS, email, or tcp/ip are decentralized (or even exist).
I'm sympathetic to the problem. What with increasing reliance on IDE assistance (and I'm guilty of this) I can easily imaging feeling overwhelmed with just a sheet of white in front of me.

I've tried to do thing mostly verbally, testing their underlying understanding of CS concepts, and hoping this is a decent proxy for development ability.

If you design the questions carefully, the way the applicant answers tells as much as the fact that it's right or wrong.

For example, in a C tech interview I'd ask what you need to if you want to pass variables into a function, and have the function change those values for you. There are a range of correct answers from "put an ampersand in front of the variable" to "call by reference rather than call by value", and these shows different levels of understanding.

I also liked to ask about what the difference between single quotes and double quotes were. A simple correct answer is "one's a character, the other is a string", but somebody who really gets C would tell me that one will lead to the generation of an integer value, while the other results in a pointer.

So it's not just right/wrong, it's shades in between. With some careful design, you can ask questions that tell a lot about how well somebody understand programming.

But occasionally I'd bump into somebody who just couldn't get any of my questions at all, and I'd feel really bad as I tried to think of something simple enough that they wouldn't feel completely awful.
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We increase the initial 2 packet limit to 16. We do this ONLY for our html page in order to get it to the client faster.

I'd be curious to know if you've measured the real-world performance difference from making this change.
Not using open source as a government entity should get you in to trouble. Using open source should get you promoted. But since there is no 'open source' graft fund to grease the palms the open source movement within governments is for the most part still limited to those countries that simply can't pay.
Hahaha - Scary :) - First thought something was going on for real ... but then I saw the hole ...
I've never encountered an operator who takes extension numbers rather than names, but I'd say, for example: "Mark Thompson, please" without thinking it's rude (as long as I didn't know the operator). You gotta "make the nice" somewhere though :-)
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No, not really, they've found a way to prevent antidepressants that work on norepinephrine from working, which is not even close to the same thing. This method doesn't block the action Prozac, which directly acts on serotonin .
the SCIgen example he cited at the end of that post is an extreme straw-man ... it was accepted into a fraudulent conference without receiving any peer reviews. the more reputable the conference or journal, the harder it is to BS the reviewers with obfuscation.
Agreed. I've done a fair bit of tcp tuning (I work on low-latency stuff for investment banks), and congestion window tuning can make a huge impact especially when you're looking at high-latency networks (transatlantic, mobile, etc.).
they do block domains, at least from their organic search engine results.

i accidentally got one of mine blocked when playing around with some random software that produced a site that was somehow against their TOS. i didn't have it live long, but long enough for the spiders to grab and flag. still waiting on a reconsideration request.

why not mahalo? who knows. if i had to venture a guess, i'd say that the larger the site and the more revenue google sees from that site due to adwords and the like, the higher up the chain the decision to block it has to come from.
http://neil.fraser.name/news/2005/09/03/
I do most of my grocery shopping at Walmart and Trader Joe's. The contrast between apparent levels of wealth and physical fitness of the customers is striking, to say the least.

I like going to Walmart for several reasons. One big one is that I end up going shopping a lot at 1 or 2 am and the local Walmart is open 24/7. Obviously, Walmart offers lower prices on many of its items, but I also like to marvel at the shear scale of the operation and logistics.

As far as produce, I've always found that it is very hit or miss no matter where you go, when it comes to flavor. Few brands/stores manage to maintain taste consistently, although the appearance of the produce might be consistently good.

There is also a Whole Foods near me but I try to avoid it. It has ridiculously high prices and I cringe whenever I pass their "alternative health products" isle.
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It's pretty hard to draw any conclusions at all from this.

The number is very low compared with other communication mediums - IRC, IM, SMS, Email, facebook. Clearly they've grown well, but they have a long way to go yet.

The other point is that a large(ish) proportion of twitter seems to be bots and automated tweeting. It's hard to guess how much though.

>> "These numbers are definitely noteworthy and provide evidence against the perception that Twitter is not growing"

It doesn't provide any insight into what is growing though. Are people genuinely using twitter more, or are bots using it more, spammers, PR etc
Not many people have mastered the skill of simple writing.
Will compojure let you specify an alternative route parsing/handling library via a binding, protocol or similar?
Yeah, and if we were the Chinese, we could even afford to pay for them :) This time around we'd be playing the role of the Soviet Union, and we'd probably be the ones who end up broken and bankrupt. Maybe... maybe they'll at least let us keep some of the toys?
I that case I apolagise. It seems you were asking a technical question (which you already knew the answer too) but seemed to phrase it as a policy question.

The other alturnative is to check out using SVN, check that into GIT, do your changes as normal from here and when finished check back into SVN. You only branch and so forth on your local machine but it also ensures you dont break the main repo.
The Change Maker's Creed
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1143413

It would be great if the dupe checker removed query strings.
Only if you consider observing "the event" (a government-sponsored security conference, albeit a "private" one) a violation of someone's privacy, I guess. If there's any irony at foot, surely it's your attempt to invoke "privacy" as a defense against exposure of the governments' invasions of privacy.
He keeps saying that a cash flow statement is unnecessary but then includes it in his requirements? I agree income and balance statements are useless for startups, but a cash flow analysis will tell you precisely when you won't make payroll.
My post is somewhat tongue-in-cheek :) The main point is that the incentive is there to wrap uninteresting research in terminology and complexity - so if the incentive is there, you wonder if anyone does it deliberately. I've read a lot of papers which were difficult to grok but ended up being remarkably simple.
To me, "deliberate practice" is a cop-out. If you practice like crazy and still aren't good, it's because it wasn't the RIGHT practice?

It's like the horoscope saying "keep your eyes open for an opportunity today." If an opportunity doesn't appear, it's because I wasn't open enough.

You can't tell me Michael Phelps is fastest because no one else practiced as deliberately.

It sounds like an excuse to avoid admitting that there are also innate differences between people, and luck.
Demand Media does not produce high quality content. They product content that is good enough to rank (i.e. it's written in English) and unique. But they have a strong incentive to have bad content! If your article on "how to make pancakes" tells someone how to make pancakes, they close their tab and make pancakes; if it's 300 words of "original content" that makes no sense, you'll end up clicking through to another site (that has to pay for the privilege).

When you think of how many struggling freelancers use those long-tail guides to build their business ("How to shoot a commercial for a gym," or "How to write brochure copy for life insurance,"), you can see the magnitude of this problem. People who could trade their time for traffic now have to trade their money for traffic. When they're just getting started, money is harder to come by than time. The result: fewer people creating this kind of content, more of them joining organizations that pay for the traffic instead.
I see other people here have raised the issue of what source this is coming from. Let me raise another one.

Ultimately though, what matters the most to me is control. I have a simple rule of thumb, which is that I don’t put data somewhere that I can’t get it back. That’s the reason that I didn’t buy songs in iTunes, purchase ebooks for the Amazon Kindle, or really log into Facebook at all. It’s also the reason that I recently switched my computer from Microsoft Windows to Ubuntu Linux.

Not to make this into an OS flamewar, but is he implying that just because Windows is closed source you do not have control over your data on the Windows platform? That Microsoft prevents you or apps from doing things or prevents you from removing things once you are done?

That seems like a long shot.
Wait, so a google employee likes android and it's not to be believed, but someone with a blog named (no joke) "iPhone Development" is a neutral arbiter whose take is far more interesting? I mean, come on. Can't we have just a little content with that plate of ad hominem?
For what it's worth, as an American—living in the South, even—with English as my first language, I have literally never heard the word "radiuses" used (outside, perhaps, some musings about the plural of the word "radius").

Although my initial reaction was also "look, someone's making another lame Latin plural joke," I quickly saw that it wasn't as inapplicable most other occurrences.
That's weird. Bananas are one of the few foods I buy organic -- specifically because they're bigger and tastier than the non-organic ones.

My guess is that the fact that the organic bananas you have access to are small and mealy has nothing to do with them being organic. Your store must just get their organic and non-organic bananas from totally different places, and the organic ones just happen to suck.
"Watching those Marines and midshipmen jump out of their seats and swarm around Maj. Gant, it was clear to me that young men and women’s hearts today (and some of us who are not so young) are starving for challenges worthy of their secret, limitless capacities."

Steven Pressfield is always an inspiration
I'm not sure if the media coverage was as negative, but it may be worthwhile comparing the China fascination with that of the Japan fascination of the late 80s.

When it looked like Japan would overtake the US's superpower position it was understandable US media took a particular interest in all things Japanese.

And if you're looking at a potential superior, it think it's equally predictable to look at that possible negative consequences of such a relationship change.
A shooting war will never happen between the US and China. Both countries have nuclear weapons. Almost as bad, both countries have the ability to unilaterally bankrupt the other--China through fire-selling their stash of US dollars and the US through cutting off imports from China. The problem is that either step on its own would be mutually disastrous. If China floods the market with cheap US dollars, the RMB (which is pegged to the USD) crashes too. If the US cuts off Chinese imports, our cost of living soars even before taking into account the hyperinflation China could cause for us.

Taiwan and China will reunify, but they will reunify peaceably. It will follow largely the example of Hong Kong.
even if half of tweets were sent via text message that would still only be 1% of the text message traffic.

And 25 million tweets sent via text message is probably a high estimate.
"oh, you mean just like every mac os application that, when closed by clicking the "x" button, stays running unless you go through its menu and quit?"

If you're not wedded to the Windows way of doing things (in which windows, not applications, are primary), it's not that unintuitive. But even if you ignore that, there's rarely any harm to leaving an app "running" with no windows open--such an app isn't doing anything anyway, so it doesn't consume CPU, and it's faster to reopen again. And for some applications--instant messengers, for instance--Windows works the same way. Even if you quit all your Pidgin windows on a Windows box, Pidgin keeps running in the taskbar. Mac OS X's global menu bar and application concept at the very least provide consistent behavior.

"on the iphone, doing that (which would require going to the home screen between each jump) would restart each app every time, losing your context."

iPhone apps save state upon exit and reload state upon start. Considering that a background app that you're ignoring is probably going to swap to "disk" anyway, that's not much different from what you'd see in a multitasking environment.