skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't eat too many grocery story hot dogs (they taste too much like the salt and phone books they're made of) but I do love the sausages at the German deli. So delicious. And I feel like I'm doing something good eating the not-so-visually-appealing parts that otherwise might go to waste. There's a lot more to a pig than tenderloin.
Nearby:

Indian, Vatan - http://maps.google.com/places/us/ny/new-york/3rd-ave/409/-va...

Drinks/American Cuisine, Red Sky - http://maps.google.com/places/us/ny/new-york/e-29th-st/47/-r... (nice outdoor space)

Usually update this map when I find something worthy (noticed a couple of places have closed, but most should be up to date). So, assuming you'll be venturing out, it may help: http://goo.gl/maps/qCnH
People still say that about Compiz!
This is just copy-pasted from Wikipedia:

"The creators of the format pronounced GIF with a soft "G", /ˈdʒɪf/, as in "gin". However, another alternative pronunciation uses a hard "G", /ˈɡɪf/, as in "graphics", reflecting the expanded acronym. Both pronunciations are given as correct by the Oxford English Dictionary[2] and the American Heritage Dictionary.[3]
According to Steve Wilhite, the creator of the GIF format, the original pronunciation deliberately echoes the American peanut butter brand, Jif, and the employees of CompuServe would often say "Choosy developers choose GIF", spoofing this brand's television commercials.[4] This pronunciation was also identified by CompuServe in their documentation of a graphics display program called CompuShow.[4]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format

I didn't mean to make a mountain out of a small off-hand remark, but I thought it was interesting point. I too say "GIF", with a hard "G" - always have and always will :)
Nosscule! (rhymes with minuscule)
Basically: monetize things that you find easy to do, but that the masses find difficult.
I suspect that there are precious few ASP.NET applications where this is any sort of a risk (millions? - rubbish) and any developer that lets his or her server side code send anything other than a generic error message back to the client in 2010 would be an idiot.

"Nothing to see here" as they say.
This isn't groundbreaking research or anything. He does give a few examples of his rebound [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebound_effect_(conservation)]. Paraphrased: while the average energy consumption to heat 1m^3 went from 365kWh in 1973 to 215 in 2005, energy devoted to heating rose 20%. Average temperatures in residential buildings rose from 19 to 21ºC.

He can't reasonably pin all these increases on 'Green Tech' alone though. (Maybe people don't wear fancy suits as much, instead opting for t-shirts. Voila more chauffage.) Cheap heat probably does make it easier for someone to kick up the thermostat, but so do other factors he neglects to mention.
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Disabling ActiveModel callbacks (Rails)
P-N-G vs "ping" is another one I've heard recently.
Get Your C On
Very interesting content!

Maybe do what mixergy does and have some info about the interview and a transcript?
Dancing is the new sexy...
The business model is to get some traction with an interesting content, then figure out the business model.
People still use Windows XP.
This may be because nearly everything that has to be said about Django VS Rails, or Rails VS any framework has already been said twice. Not to say there isn't room for new/interesting discussion, but it's certainly a tougher subject than others.
I really like your statistical testing example. I haven't seen a lot in the agile community about statistical testing, but in data transformation-like code, as you say, it can be very meaningful.
Strange, as I seem to find that the UCB and Stanford campuses are about as radically different as NWU and UofC. Stanford and Northwestern both have a similar insulated feel -- they existed before the suburban growth that surrounds them and as a student you can go weeks at a time without leaving the campus. UofC and Berkeley are both in the middle of an urban zone that existed before the school and have had to fight for every square foot of campus space; at both places it is hard to ignore the fact that you are crossing chunks of "city" to get between some university buildings.
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Lived in Fremont. Stayed for about three years. Left for Boston, which is just so much better, unless you've got some kind of snow allergy.

My take on the South Bay: "A bunch of temporary buildings built for temporary employees who think they are living there temporarily." It might be the epitome of bad urban design in America -- and, mind you, it's up against some pretty stiff competition. There's a handful of blocks in Palo Alto which might actually be worth living in, but unfortunately the locals all understand that and prices are through the roof.

SF and Berkeley were like visions of heaven compared to the South Bay, and I tried to visit when I could, but tptacek is right: They are incredibly far away. You spend all your time driving in the Bay Area. One day I realized that just visiting my nearest friends was a thirty-five minute one-way car trip, even at 2am. The good news is that you acclimate to that; you become used to spending a quarter of your waking life in a car. The bad news is that you will never see those hours again.
R has been really surprisingly shoddy about it's license enforcement on dynamicly-loadable extensions (esp. for an official GNU project). Crucially, they declared an extremely useful subset of their API as usable for non-GPL works (similar to how the two flavors of drivers in the linux kernel work) and people now drive trucks through it all the time. Early on this benefited R, though.
Keyword tagging can be great for SEO if you do it right.
Elephants go nocturnal to avoid humans
Plenty of experience with the framework. Plenty of experience with Ruby. The scalability issues I was talking about were seen at a fortune 500 company where a Rails app was used for an internal only application.

The major issues with scaling was that Ruby in general is absolutely horrible in managing memory, and was constantly having to be restarted. We ended up replacing the app with one built on top of Java which instead of requiring 6 servers with load balancer in front of it, to just 2 servers, one for the front-end and one for the backend. Java served the needs much better, faster, and didn't require the same amount of administration to constantly make sure that everything is still running properly.

Could the same have been done with Rails? Maybe. Are we happier with the Java based solution, its stability and speed? Yes absolutely.
SF is the embodiment of what you don't like about CA. In southern CA (read San Diego) politics are a lot more centered.
Yeah, I think you're right. Point taken.
Controversy, I suppose, judging by the comments.
False. Facebook is a billion dollar market driven by virtual good sales.
You make some good points. I've always felt that if your template tags are doing too much, your front-end is getting too bloated. That kind of logic should be left to your models/views. I know there's a lot of disagreement in the community over the lack of real Python code in your templates, but it just encourages sloppy spaghetti. Forcing you to not rely on advanced logic in your templates makes you a better developer.

I do agree that migrations should be a part of core/contrib, given how common of a use case they are. I don't agree that it makes it less useful. You need plenty of gems to get Rails to satisfy many common use cases. No framework plugs all the holes, you always have to extend. Both django and Rails make getting and using those extensions hilariously easy, so there's really no barrier to entry for any developer.
very cool thanks. Also, awesome making of video, signed up to be notified of the release of the game engine.
I would distinguish between incremental change and radical change. Yes, it's in the eye of the beholder. The loss of privacy is a radical change from the past for those who live in cities. (Privacy is a different beast in a village life.) The argument the OP presented is general but applies to radical changes and I think it applies to Facebook and Zuckerberg.

Is this change in privacy a good thing or a bad thing? I don't know. Is Facebook (and Zuckerberg) the right agent to bring this change about - definitely not in my mind.
Any feel for "how many objects" 16GB holds? Sure, I know it depends on how big your objects are. But do you have any rule of thumb?
Lisp-Stat used to be a big deal in the late-80s/early-90s, and had a shot at becoming the dominant open-source statistics package inspired by Bell Labs S. It eventually lost mindshare to R, though, and was pretty solidly eclipsed by the late 1990s. It'd be interesting if the R developer responds by trying to build something like Lisp-Stat again. ;-)
The generic error is all they need. Next time, don't write "nothing to see here" when all you did was skim a news story.
Now working for me, no instant updates and pressing enter on search query does nothing. Firefox 3.6.9
I stopped using the Rails js stuff a long time ago. It's really not that hard to just use jquery and it's more obvious what's going on.
Have you observed this purchase to actually cause happiness?
The important point here is that your app is open-source and you chose to distribute the keys with the source code, rather than require each person who builds it from source to get their own API keys.

I think Twitter's position - that you should not have done this - is completely reasonable.
The biggest total requires the optimal path for the stated constraints, those being the path must yield that biggest total.

They aren't asking for a good enough path, but for the best possible path, the one that gives the biggest total. That's the optimal path for this problem.

Probably a brute force search is the way to go, I certainly can't think of any way to thin this problem out without doing research, especially given the requirement that the optimal (maximum value) solution is required.

99 levels below the top, each time a binary decision, there's 2^99 = 6.34 * 10^29 paths only, won't take too long relative to the life of the universe since 2^99 nanoseconds is only 20 trillion years. That's the answer, might have a little problem with the sun burning out before the computation completes, but by that time you should be able to relocate using a warp drive. Good luck on the interview.

edit: Ah I just figured out the pruning algorithm that will solve it. And that's the answer too, I just gave it to you in the previous sentence if you read carefully. Obvious once you think of it, not until then. I doubt many people would figure it out without a hint. And with a hint only clever ones could get it. As a screening to send in resumes? Pretty useless. If you do get a response who's to say they didn't ask for hints on a message board or pay someone to solve it on rentacoder.
I worked with both Rails and Django and I like Django's approach better ... simply because the fields declaration is higher-level.

I.e. you don't have a "filepath varchar" field, but a "photo=ImageField(thumbnail_size=[320,200])".

I've had a good experience with South for database migrations, used it in every Django project I tried ... the only things bothering me is that the generated files are too verbose (not much of a problem, since you don't need to modify the auto-generated code), plus a migration-based system doesn't really blend if you've got multiple apps in the same project (refactoring becomes painful).

Other than that, Rails is pretty good because of its declarative APIs. Django has too much boilerplate for my taste ... but I like that for complex projects where I need to tweak things.
Your first link had graphs from July. Your new link has similar graphs from May 6. Also note that your new link agrees with what I said:

"Quote stuffing is also not a rare occurrence and these sequences are seen frequently on a daily basis; they are easy to find once you know what to look for."

Compare that to what I said: "That's not to say you couldn't find similar graphs on May 6 - I guarantee that you could. In fact, you can find graphs like this almost every day (pre and post crash) if you look hard enough."

I've seen Nanex's graphs. I don't see how they come even remotely close to explaining why crop circles (which occur everyday) caused the flash crash. Again, what is the mechanism? A DOS attack? If so, then how come we don't have a flash crash every day?
Avoid Indian in the city

Can't say I agree with this. There is some great Indian food; possibly due to the large Indian population?

Besides Vatan (above), I really like Bombay Talkie (http://maps.google.com/places/us/ny/new-york/9th-ave/189/-bo...) and Bombay Palace (http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=5764141908042769276). Have also heard Basera is good (http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=16729306744959478812).
Anyone have any input on LA? I see lots of people comparing New York, Chicago, etc.. I visited LA last year and I've been to SF a few times...although I have never lived in LA it certainly seemed like a place I would prefer to live over SF.
Sounds like what's missing is the ability to create the schema from the declared code.

Which I actually like better. Because it means I can re-use parts of my model like any other code.
It doesn't impact me as I use https://encrypted.google.com/ (automagically via the wonderful HTTPS Everywhere firefox plugin.) which doesn't have the instant feature turned on by default.

OTOH, it's a very smart move for G from technical POVs, since their cache hit rate would be much higher as the queries are normalized in greater portion, so that the real impact on their backend is small in comparison (of the overall search volume.)
We do not need all these gimmicks. We need people to know what is good for themselves, and start doing something about it.
Call me oldfashioned, but I am of the impression that:

+ No RFID chip in my backpack will make a mountain hike with 50lb weight added any more fun, any more useful, any more easy or anything else.

+ No RFID chips in the my plates will make my sets of squats or deadlifts any more fun or easy.

+ No RFID chip in my pants will make my hill sprints any more fun, easy or anything else.

+ No RFID chips in my food or fridge will make eating fruits, veggies, meat, eggs, fish, berries and dairy any more fun than it already is.
It's weird, because I'd say the opposite; UofC feels more like Stanford to me, UCB feels more like NWU.

Hyde Park is part of Chicago, but it's an isolated part; it barely has train connectivity (unlike NWU), and it's walled off from the Loop by housing and light industry that is only now started to be gentrified away.

(I grew up on the south side, lived in Evanston, and had friends in Hyde Park in high school, but I didn't actually go to UofC).
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I just fixed it, I removed a console.log line that was breaking firefox. Enter will only apply the google suggest query on your search.
Thank you
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The trick is trim off all the extranious cruft sites like The Wall Street Journal and perhaps the NYT as well as various reading/forwarding/etc. programs add to the base URL. E.g.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/opinion/12friedman.htm

Of course everyone has to do that for the duplicate blocking system to work.

Perhaps we need a heuristic where HN checks for "similar enough" URLs and asks you if you're creating a duplicate.
sweet. Guess you were born to do this. :-)
What are potential solutions to this? Keep a KV store of ids and checksums of every cookie sent and verify them when requesting the data back from the client?
Sequel for the same reason I say Nasa and not N-A-S-A or Scuba not S-C-U-B-A.
Wow, that takes me back. I remember installing it on my G3/300MHz. It was so slow. That really can't be over-emphasized. I'd try all sorts of things to get more speed like turning off the dock bounce, running prelinking, messing with all sorts of hidden settings. It remained slow.

Having been an Apple customer since the Apple IIc, I was worried. OS 9 had a snappiness to it. OS X would struggle to change windows. At the time, Windows 98 and even moreso Windows NT could run circles around OS X. With XP dropping the same year, Windows consumers were running a really well optimized OS compared to an OS X that needed a lot of work.

Apple has come a long way since those dark times to having a truly enviable OS. They quickly got 10.1 out the door and 10.2 and 10.3 shipped in around 1-year increments (with 10.4 shipping a year and a half after 10.3). Apple really did a lot of work and, at this point, I don't think anyone questions Apple's ability to push a great OS, but there were some really bad times.

I remember people questioning whether it was that the Mach kernel was just inherently slow (igniting lots of micro vs monolithic debates) or whether the compositing window manager was worth anything or coming up with theories that it was because Apple replaced Display PostScript with Display PDF to get around Adobe licensing or whatnot. Today, the majority of Mac users probably never experienced that bad time of trepidation when the future of the Mac platform was in doubt. Today, it's really great to be a Mac user. It's hard to imagine a time when Apple's products were so fringe. At nearly 10% of the market (and nearly all of the premium market), Apple feels so strong and people really know Apple (both for computers and other devices).

Kudos to Apple for taking the risk and getting through the bad transition to what is a really wonderful OS. And kudos for making each new OS version feel better than the previous.
When reading about a city on Wikipedia etc, I can never tell how frequent public transport is, and whether it's good outside tourist areas. So thanks whackojacko and _corbett for your views.
I've lived all over the spectrum of "Jesus is my Lord and Savior" to "Venison is the best meat to use for chili." (Guam, Alaska, Florida, DC, and Oregon.) I've lived in the Bay Area since February of this year and nothing beats it for me.

My like list:

The weather. I guess this comes from experiencing temperatures as low as -11 and as high as 102, but my fantasy of finding consistent jacket weather has finally been realized. I actually hate it when the temperature (rarely) climbs above 80.

The outdoors. There's such a glut of hiking/camping opportunities even without bringing Yosemite or Sequoia into it. I can be at the beach with a basket of fish and chips in about half an hour. Mountains (or at least hills) are a constant. Flowers seem to be in perpetual bloom.

The food/farmer's markets. Can't say I'm part of the rampant burrito culture, but I do love the variety of food in SF. I only wish that there could be as much art/culture as there are designer cocktails.

The size. For a big city, San Francisco is incredibly small. I like that I can walk from my favorite fried chicken place in SOMA to my favorite ice cream place in the Mission in a matter of about 40 minutes. Luckily, there are plenty of pockets outside of the parking nightmares and pay-by-the-pound rent to seek refuge (in my case, San Mateo).

Sure, the traffic will make you wish you had a rocket launcher on the roof of your car. And parking is at least a two person job - one to circle the block while the other runs in for the donuts/pizza. It is especially dirty in some places and there are lots of homeless folks but compared to other big cities (NYC and LA, chiefly), I can't really have an issue because there's so much more good than bad.
Java's certainly a more efficient language than Ruby, so it makes sense that you can use fewer machines to do the same thing. The question is always: what's that cost in developer time? Rails is very quick to develop with.

What Java framework did you use, out of curiosity?

Incidentally, I'd be curious to hear about anyone's experience with Scala/Lift - if it's actually as efficient as straight-up Java, and how quick it is to develop stuff with.
People still use Windows 98.
Cartoon animal logos
i am trying to think of a logo... and it seems like lots of sites have animals for logos...

twitter - bird and fail whale
seesmic - racoon
duckduckgo - duck
remember the milk - cow

are there more?
Wow. I guess it's all about what you're used to. I've only ever lived in London (and Trinidad), and my experience was mostly opposite. Remember, this is all relative to London:

* SF is super, super cheap. My apartment was the same size for half the price and in a much better area.

* Food is so plentiful and cheap, it is EVERYWHERE. The portion of my budget devoted to food fell by 75%, even though I eat out all the time. The range of cuisines and the quality compares well, too, even though London is 10x the size.

* I don't go out to gigs much, so no claims here.

* Cabs are about 20% of the price, and you can summon them with an iPhone app. Amazing.

* Parking: I've never driven in either city.

* Size: no question that people who live down-peninsula might as well be in another country. See: public transit.

* Commute: this does indeed suck. My solution was to quit and get a job in the city itself.

* Dirty: no question, it's dirty. And very poorly governed in a number of ways. London has much more adult supervision.

* Public transit: hoo-boy is it terrible. Ameliorated somewhat by cabs being cheap. But if you want to get down-peninsula caltrain is ridiculous for somebody used to London-style commuter rail.

* Haight: ...then don't live in the Haight? Every city has bad areas.

* Tourist traps: similarly, every city has these. In San Francisco they are usefully separate from the areas I actually like to visit, so I can ignore them, while Leicester Square/Oxford Circus are both working districts AND tourist traps.

* Neighbourhoods: London is a dense core with hundreds of miles of pointless, characterless suburbs in zones 3 through 5. San Francisco has distinct, self-sufficient neighbourhoods with totally different characters. This was one of the biggest differences I found when I moved. As for block parties... well, we had one two weeks ago, but I don't really see the point of them anyway. I don't hang out with people primarily based on their geographical proximity to me.

* Seasons: it's always spring! I grew up in the tropics, so I always hated winter, and San Francisco doesn't have one, so that's fine with me.

* Tech: the city is full of nerds. But there's also an incredibly vibrant and mostly unpretentious tech-arts scene, which I love.

Finally, as one of The Gays, there's no city more inclusive and open-minded of everyone -- sometimes hilariously so.
I think why magic looks like magic is because there is no obvious explanation for what it's doing, e.g. something in rails somewhere is using reflection to pick up something based only on a naming convention. You have to more or less know about the naming convention in advance in order to know where to look up more about what it's doing.

I think some people feel like rails went a little overboard on things like this.
Mozilla - Dragon

Firefox - Uh, Firefox :D
I believe the real solution to this problem is to not encrypt the cookies at all, but rather just use HMAC to make sure no-one can tamper with them.

If you need to put sensitive data in cookies, you're doing it wrong!
Security absurdity: US in sensitive information quagmire
It's no French Laundry, but Slanted Door in the Ferry Building is delicious, if overpriced, and has some of the best cocktails/bartenders in the city.
I called the 650 number and spoke to customer support at Obopay. The lady told me that they are actively working on getting Billmonk up and running and that it should be up today (Monday Sept. 13th). I also recommended she let the concerned folks @ Obopay (no pun intended) know that there are rumours out on the internet that billmonk is down for good and that a lot of people, who maintain their accounts and have money owed to them, are getting antsy. Hopefully there will be official word from the guys @ Obopay very soon.
HTH.