skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It mostly worked nicely for me but crashed somewhere in datamanagement.nocache.js

As a proof of concept demo is ok. However, it would be better to have a demo with the full interface even if some parts are not working so that you can demonstrate the full workflow. (Upload file - manipulate data for example throw away a row, choose statistic, plot save, print). Looks like is build using EXTJS are you using R for calcs?
The trick is that wisdom can often be expressed by the wise in 140 characters, and the non-wise can recognize it as wisdom, but to truly understand requires far more subtly than 140 characters.

even a good discussion is only so useful for exploring nuance, subtly and balance. at some point experience is all there is, and communication is more about mentoring and guiding.

can two people even truly communicate? can we even share?
From discussions that usually happen on HN. Don't you share the same perception?
Ask HN: Best Hackathon Swag/Prizes?
So, hypothetically, if someone were thinking of planning a virtual hackathon akin to a Rails Rumble or something like that, what sort of stuff would make the best prizes?

Let's assume this person/entity doesn't have a whole lot of budget for this project but still wants to be able to offer cool swag - so, think more O'Reilly store credit for animal books, less 17-inch MacBook Pro.

What kinds of goods/services would be the coolest, most exciting incentives?
I was initially going to write "Also: that geeks are much more numerous now", and on reflection that may've been a better observation.

Yes, Google users are geeks. Think back to the 1980s, or even the early 1990s. If anyone had suggested then that you type a few words into a box onto your computer screen to ask how to impress a girl, they'd be branded with "OMG you are such a geek." Except that "OMG" was itself a geek thing then. More likely, they'd be punched in the face.

It's amazing how standards have changed in 15 years, and how what was dorky then is normal now, and what was normal then is hopelessly out of date now.
"Not only am I an unpedigreed, first time (at 30, Jesus) female founder of a tech company, I am a non-tech, non-CS founder who doesn't code."

I don't care if you have four dicks. if you are not technical, you have no business running a tech startup.
It seemed obvious to me but I guess I'm biased. Perhaps I should have explained my arguments.
Signal v Noise - suddenly having your server overwhelmed with 'interested superbowl watchers', and then losing people actually looking to buy your product is not so nice.

But (almost) any publicity is good publicity, and this may inspire a few people to fly to Paris / get married in Paris / make a DIY crib etc, which has positive flow on.
It's not a bike-shed issue. Surely the other features are great, and Python has lots of powerful abstractions.

But once you have closures with a light-weight syntax, as Ruby has, the APIs start to look a lot more different.

For example, take this example ...

v = [ x for x in collection if x % 2 == 0 ]
for item in v:
print item

In Ruby the equivalent would be ...

collection.find_all{|x| x % 2 == 0}.each do |item|
puts item
end

Yes, the Python example is elegant, but Ruby doesn't need extra baked-in features like list-comprehensions. It doesn't need a bunch of other features as well, like generators, or generator expressions, or with statements.

There are a lot of PEPs in Python that cover use-cases for Ruby's blocks, trouble is there are still use-cases that aren't covered.

Guido is partially right though ... adding blocks in Python wouldn't be pythonic because blocks wouldn't be orthogonal with lots of other Python features. They should've been added from the start, and now it's kind of late.
Also, I'd love it if you could show me the exact accounts your app find after running each instance of the app. I just ran light, medium, and aggro blockers, and my follower count didn't change at all for a few minutes.

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Don't follow some but his closing is spot on - consistent drive and willingness to adapt is a tough combo to beat.
You don't save enough in taxes usually to make the risks of munis worth the price of admission. IMO. During the credit crisis in 2008 Munis went DOWN in value, but Treasury Bonds were up almost 30%. That tax savings people thought they had went out the window when the market panicked.

If you're investing for the long term, you don't care about temporary panics, the price will just come back up again ( which is what happened: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0043&... ). Coming out of the worst financial crisis in many decades, corporate funds and tax free funds have performed pretty close to Treasuries over the last ten years. ( Compare https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0043&... to https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0083&... to https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0028&... ). If you figure the worst of the defaults is over, then corporates and munis are probably a better buy now. Of course, since interest rates are so abnormally low, buying any kind of long term bond or bond fund may not be a very good idea right now.
The YouTube one is older... so maybe Delta partnered with Google for a product placement? The Super Bowl version is a bigger deal than the YouTube one after all.
You look for the change in sale rates before the ad and after it. If there's a big discontinuity right when the ad ran, it's not a fair assumption that it was because of the ad.
My perception is that religion is never mentioned, because it has no bearing on any subjects discussed.
IPad: bring it on
What’s a Super Bowl audience? Doesn’t everyone watch? I’m from Europe, so please forgive my ignorance, but it would be pretty absurd to claim there is a World Cup final audience. I don’t know why that should be any different with the Super Bowl. Skewed a bit, sure, but practically everyone watches.

Isn’t that what makes those ads so expensive in the first place?

I also would think that Google has pretty good data on who watches what on YouTube and would like to add that ads must not always be about traffic but can also be about branding.
I attended a certain technical school in the Northeast at a time when the undergraduate male:female ratio was at least 60:40, and I never noticed the men there making drastic changes in their behavior for the sake of attracting female classmates. I just went without a girlfriend for most of my time there, and the longest-term relationship I did have as an undergraduate was with a woman who was not a student.
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There's also Translated Search:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=1&tbs=clir:1&...
We're all businessmen here and everybody knows I hold absolutely no ill will towards Github for what I am about to say, right?

The primary concern was what SEOs call link equity (a link to your site from a trusted domain is a signal of trust, Google uses trust as a signal of quality in determining rankings, rankings are worth money, thus inbound links are essentially illiquid capital), with brand recognition being a major secondary concern. Take a look at Rails blogs discussing the OSS packages they use: everybody cites the canonical version of the code and if that is on Github then they cite the page on Github, frequently to the exclusion of the author's post or page about it.

Related problem: Frequently authors don't have a substantive page about it. That would be a mistake if you're trying for link equity or personal branding, in my mind. Relatedly, I spent $250 on a logo.

I spent quite a bit of time on that project and wanted the various marketing benefits of it to accrue to me, not to Github. So I put it on my site, not theirs. Folks subsequently cloned the repository and put it in their Github accounts. I am totally OK with that: mine is the canonical one and the canonical one gets the links, mindshare, etc.
It only works with stack variables, but you can wrap the construction and destruction of anything, including heap-allocated objects, with a stack variable. You tie the allocation of the heap object to the constructor of the stack variable, and the reverse for de-allocation/destructor.

The premise of all this is that the construction and destruction of stack variables both happen at well known times and are guaranteed to occur.
Poor programming practices? The code that creates circular references is clearer than the example workarounds. Sacrificing clarity to avoid a problem that doesn't occur in supported browsers doesn't make much sense.
The one I saw broadcast during the game was a Delta flight, not AA.
Secondly, it is very difficult to determine when Gold is relatively "rich" or "cheap", because, unlike all other non-commodity investments that we all invest in, we cannot apply simple discounting math to either

Gold is a natural currency. Going long on gold is a bet on the collapse of the U.S. dollar as reserve currency and a fall back to some sort of international gold standard. In such a case, it's price will go up by 10-100X. If the U.S. tightens the money supply and returns to more responsible fiscal and monetary management, the price will drop dramatically.

The 25% in cash seems really high, especially for someone trying to live off $5 million. Such a person might want $50K in a savings account, but no need to have much more.

What has been a better risk-adjusted hedge against inflation, Gold or 3-Month US Treasury Bills? Check it out. When inflation actually happens (not just inflation expectations), interest-rates rise -- that is not spurious correlation, that is just rational market behavior.

In many cases (not always) inflation happens because of government subsidized credit expansion. Because loans are subsidized, you can get high inflation but low interest rates. This was the case from 2003-2008.
Theist here:

Science and religion both address certain and different parts of our existence. Science is the tool we use to look at our universe and ask what, religion is the tool we use to look at our universe and ask why.

For example, science is perfect for looking at our earth and asking "what is it, what caused it, what's in it?" etc. Religion is perfect for asking "why is there a universe at all?" (or more succinctly, "why is there something and not nothing?")

The problems start when you use science, or religion to ask or answer the wrong questions.

Example: You can't use science to look for God because science only works on everything in the universe. If there is a God worth the title, he/she/it is not going to be in there. If you do, you're just going to find a whole lot of universe, like a character in "the sims" trying to use game elements to prove there's a player.

Example: You can't really use religion to ask where the earth (and life) came form (what caused it) because its just one link in a (perhaps limitless) cause-effect chain that is the universe, fully defined within its own context. If you do, you end up with a cartoon-like image of a tiny god, contained within the universe using his god-powers to create static creatures to try to outsmart the big bad universe. It might make you feel warm and fuzzy, but it doesn't do much for the concept of God.

The big problems come when people militantly use the wrong tool to answer a question. Then you get people staring up at stars that emitted their light 100 million years ago and insisting that it all started 6500 years ago, and insisting that they be allowed to teach that to your kids on your dime. And there begins the heavy twisting of mind.

If you carefully think about the goals you are trying to achieve with each, I don't feel that science and religion are fundamentally incompatible.

Edit: Had to search a bit for this Einstein quote but here is:

"There is no conflict between science and religion. Science asks what the world is, and religion asks what humankind and society should become" - Albert Einstein
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Whether what the statement says is in accordance with the law is a subject for lawyers, but it's quite clear that the statement is not about copyright.

However, it is written in a very weird way that attempts to imply that you can't do certain things with the photo - "This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph."

Ok, that's nice. I could still print one out and use it to wallpaper my house or wipe my butt if I felt like it, based on my understanding of the law, but IANAL.

It also says that the photo cannot be manipulated in any way. I'm not sure on what basis that could be enforced other than copyright.

However, the full statement never actually makes a claim of copyright.
Not much to do with being a poor student or going to class. I've noticed that some professors don't get frustrated when students ask questions and others get frustrated right away. The ones that are easily frustrated are usually the assholes because their conduct basically says "I don't have time for questions". Plus, what's the point of going to class if you can't ask questions? If I want to passively absorb information it is much easier to just read a book and even then it is still a more active process than sitting in class.
The commercial is about Google positioning itself against a growing Bing brand. Bing commercials often make fun of the numerous and nonsensical results from other search engines (i.e., Google). Notice the commercial had perfect answers at the top of each result set. As Bing hits the media hard, I expect to see more commercials from Google.

Overall, a good execution by Google on its first commercial. Putting it on the Super Bowl, all I can think is, "Go big or go home."
Thanks guys, I'm aware of my options. :P

I wonder if there's been a noticeable spike in search terms related to that ad, e.g. people searching for how to say "you are cute" in French.
This is true, but it's a hassle. The one time I needed to deploy and github was down, I had to read a link on their website and set things up. It was a real drag and delayed my launch by at least 15 min!!!
STRONGLY second that.

Especially with the trouble Apple might give you later over Trademark Infringement.
Copy with HTML5 version (for those of us living in the future): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et_BFRbgoSs
Agreed, although you're not answering the question.
Rationality and intelligence go out the window when it comes to discussions like these.
Chris Herring
Sydney Ruby Coder
You can not have everything; if you work 12 hour days for long enough, your health, your sanity, and your relationships will suffer. Personally, I think 12 hour days only make sense if you are within a week of a deadline, and if you can take some time off after that to recover, simply because you will not be as effective as you would otherwise be after that week is over. In the past, after the first 90 hours in a week, well, the additional hours might as well been spent drinking, for all the good it did the project. and the hangover, ugh.

But I think even with regular hours, you need to make choices as to what you want to put time and effort into. None of us have infinite time or infinite energy.

On the other hand, I know plenty of small companies where the founders only occasionally do the 12 hour day thing.

The stereotypical 'startup lifestyle' may not be great for kids, but the 'lifestyle business' lifestyle would work great; Me, I spend almost all day at home, and could pretty easily hand off most of my tasks to a (remote) employee. Very little I do is time critical.

I once worked with a lawyer who took her child with her to work every day. the kid was well behaved and generally less irritating than the dogs that other co-workers would bring in (yes, it was one of /those/ .com companies.) I got scolded for my language more often than usual, but it wasn't a bad deal all around.
> If you're investing for the long term, you don't care about temporary panics, the price will just come back up again

"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."
-Keynes
Last time I looked Amazon's affiliate cookie was a 1 day one, not 30. (otherwise valid idea)
For the "resource acquisition is initialization" technique, you are limiting yourself to a reference-counting garbage collector, or to manual or stack allocation/deallocation (like in C++), otherwise you can't have a deterministic behavior.

For example this technique wouldn't be possible on a virtual machine like the JVM or .NET. Yes, you could say something like "when a variable goes out of scope, you need to call the dispose method on the object".

But what happens in a case like this? ...

{
open my $fileh, '<', $path;
$another_object->add_file_handle($fileh);
}

The intention here is to preserve the file-handle in $another_object. So what happens? Is $fileh closed when going out of scope? Or is another file handle opened when the reference is copied?

Really, it's not really clear when the handle is closed. Not like in C++ anyway. And Perl is a really bad example, what would really be needed is something like the "use statement" we have in F# ...

{
use fileh = File.OpenText(path);
...
}

But this is a special form. And that's the trouble ... Ruby's blocks solve a lot of problems that are solved in other languages with special forms (not that F# doesn't have closures or anonymous blocks).
People really do that? I had no idea. Why do they highlight what's being read? I'm confused and intrigued.
A Heroku gift certificate wouldn't be that exciting, but it would be really useful and you could probably get it highly discounted or free.

These MacbookPro sleeves (http://www.colcasac.com/original.html) are nice, pretty cheap and would definitely be usable for the winners or their friends.

If the hackathon benefits charities, you could probably get sponsors to provide cool stuff. Legitimate copies of Photoshop from Adobe, one of those incorporation packages from Intuit, etc.
> My experience indicates exactly the opposite. As a rule of thumb, at least in Europe, friendly chill people are thrilled that you're trying to speak their language, and grumpy impatient people interrupt your plodding attempts and insist on talking to you in English.

We can feel free to disagree I suppose. But I haven't experienced any of this in the 20 or so countries I've been in. In almost everyplace I've been, opening in my obviously American accented equivalent of the local "hello" then proceeding in English (even if they mistakenly think I can speak local), seems to work very well. Following up with the local "please", "thank you" and "good bye" also works pretty well.

Not being a douche, eating all the local food put in front of me, and being polite and deferential to my local hosts -- even if they are wait staff -- works wonders. And I've been to some pretty hostile places. In some cases, stuffing my self-entitled American give-it-to-me-now-and-speak-English-while-doing-it attitude down my own throat opened tons of doors even across vast cultural and linguistic differences.
Assuming you are a Christian, do you believe the Bible should be taken literally or do you think it is composed of metaphors? Where do you draw the line between fact and fiction?
sounds perfectly fine to do if the spec is actually open.
I don't use Rails but this post looks like it provides close to 0 informational value.
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Why not just use http://www.ixquick.com/ and be done with it?
Why? What makes these sites so special?
Bing being merely as good as Google means the Bing team haven't done enough. That means they have to compete on brand, and that's really hard since Google has a stronger brand. Yahoo's search results have been on par with Google for most people's purposes for a while, but that hasn't helped them.

To compete with Google on search you have to do to Google what Google did to AltaVista: be noticeably better, consistently. As you said, Google is nowhere near good enough yet.

So this is what Google is scared of, and that's why it's in their best interest to keep innovating, because otherwise someone somewhere might beat them to the next real breakthrough.

Bing so far has failed by not making any real technical progress, and only reaching parity. That means right now they have to compete on brand, and that sucks for them.
Okay, I'll bite. I'm atheist, but open minded to all things. No heavy twist of mind required here.

The Christianity you seem to prescribe to (due to mentioning Darwinism, age of the universe and so on) seems, to me at least, a slightly more fundamental branch of thinking that's far more common in North America http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/21329204.h...

Incidentally that's certainly not meant as any kind of slight against anyone as I respect and accept everyone's beliefs equally, it's just that the line of thinking where two such notions should be branded as incompatible is quite alien to me.
Clojure solves a whole set of problems at the language level that imperative languages like Ruby can't easily address: Simple concurrent programming (http://clojure.org/concurrent_programming).
I do it to keep track of my position when I scroll a document.
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In my experience those who watch tend to think that everyone watches, when merely a lot of people watch. I never watch it, and would be hard pressed to name an athlete or even the teams involved.
Never mind, I thought it was tokenadult who had written your reply above.
Culture is becoming nothing but advertising. The anthropologist Steve Barnett saw in this the phenomenon of pattern exhaustion, in which a culture runs out of variations of traditional designs in their pottery and become less creative.
Legit software that we'd usually just torrent/crack - that's a great idea! And an incorporation (or LLC?) package is such a fantastic idea. Thank you very much!
i've never seen the super bowl, and i have a few friends who "watch the superbowl" at a get together that involves more go (board game) and cooking than tv watching.

there are few things that "everyone" does, especially when you generalize across a huge country with numerous cultural imports.
Tech job scene--NYC vs SF
I'm trying to decide where to move and am asking for characterizations of New York and San Francisco in terms of their tech scenes. For example, New York seems to be dominated by finance.

I have a good network of friends in both cities and think I would be happy with either choice. My decision hinges more on where I might get to work.

Brief about me: I'm into the startup culture, but I'm not interested in working 80 hours a week on some website that rates laundromats. Most of my experience is with the MS stack (I know C# very well, F# pretty well, very strong in MSSQL, okay in other dbs). I've dabbled in a lot of the popular languages, though I avoid Java. Finally, I tend to prefer back-end work to the presentation layer, meaning I don't consider myself a web developer, so I'm wondering if my skillset might not find a good home in SF.
Given how easy it is to scale an Erlang app to provide incredible reliability in concurrent systems - as that is what the entire language is optimized for - this is pretty unlikely.
Not noticeable enough to show up on Trends:

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?sa=X

Though everything else related to the Superbowl has managed to show up. People continue to be enamored of The Who, and the Call Barney Stinson guy seems to have gotten his money's worth.
Why Google Adwords is still kicking Yahoo and Bing in the ass
Tell us why you think Bing is as good as Google.
Perhaps rationality goes out the window when the stakes are too high.
for http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1107622

I decided to use scans instead of mspaint because it seemed like a decent inside joke. offline investing for internet sales displayed online by offline materials!