skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do I have this correctly?

Between a list of actions, and the logic that runs those tasks is Octobot. So in your thumbnail example the problem that would be solved would be something along the lines of:

"I've got this code that can create a thumbnail from a given image and let me know if it succeeded or failed, but how do I run this on my backlog of 10million images? I'd need something that can check my list of incoming images and distribute the jobs over X number of computers. At the end it would be great to know my failure rate, and for those failures not to block my ongoing process of creating thumbnails."

So is Octobot there to provide a method of resource allocation? Or is it more of a monitoring app that checks pass/fail of the jobs?
I have not needed to use any yet, but next time I need a login, I'll be investigating the three I mentioned. As for stackoverflow, I've never used the butons they provide, I've always just typed my openid url into the box. Probably they went a bit crazy witht he whole thing, I doubt you really need to go to the same extent that they did.

Sorry I don't have anything more helpful to add. If you do look into this more, would you mind reporting back on any findings? I'd love to hear about your experiences.
I always thought that Scribd was just a reaction to how awful Adobe's free PDF reader has become.
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Ah, neat, I didn't know that. Thanks!
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The data doesn't seem to agree with your supposition of runaway state spending. According to the Tax Foundation (http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/486.html), state and local spending as a percentage of income has trended downward since 1994. The overall state and local tax burden as a percentage of income was 10.4% in 1994 and 8.9% in 2008 (the last year shown in the table).

Having said that, I'm opposed to the initiative. WA needs fundamental tax reform including replacing the B&O tax with a value added tax as well as changes to reduce the regressivity of the state tax system. The initiative is a band-aid.
Cool, thanks!

It would be helpful if it mentioned that somewhere...
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Yeah, we are aware of the limitations and actually we did start this project over an afternoon. We thought it would be cool to have our terminal setup automated so we packaged this up as a gem. Our intent is to absolutely extract things into adapters to make this dead easy to port to linux and windows. Heres the issue for it on github which we plan to tackle soon: http://github.com/achiu/terminitor/issues#issue/5
Java. Maybe because I'm sitting in the CS dept right now? :)

The results are definitely reflecting the geolocation of my IP (I'm not logged in and have cookies off).
Perhaps not yet, but we'd like it to get there. Perhaps the name was too ambitious until we really fleshed out some of the nicer features we have in store.
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I don't understand why he was downvoted...
Not all of HN readers are from N.A. and Europe.
While it's true that here in Canada I get 1% in savings account , but I know people who for example keep their money in Brazilian banks.
I believe the going rate for savings accounts over there is 15%
Privoxy can do some fancy stuff playing the middleman between your frontend and the internet.

Link to docs: http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/actions-file.html
It depends how you read it. She could have meant that they thought they were taking in a lot of money (revenue) but in reality they found they weren't keeping much of it (discovered their margins were thin, implying profits were lower than they expected because they just knew they were making lots of revenue).

I really need to stop using brackets so much.
I was hoping this was about California ;)
A while back I was in an early-stage situation in which I was arguing for using quickbooks so as to at least have some semblance of double entry accounting (at least while we got our venture started). Another team member insisted on implementing our own solution... in excel. There is a market for this! Unfortunately, many small business-types just make-do, with paper if they have to, so it may be difficult for InDinero.
That’s certainly possible but – if true – pretty petty. Admitting you are wrong when you announce a policy change seems like a great move to me, at least when you are in a position of strength like Apple undoubtedly is at the moment. (Depending on your goals you might not want to admit to making mistakes when you are in a weak position so as to not seem desperate.)
Also worth a look is FutureAdvisor (disclaimer: YC S10). Bo and Jon are working on helping people answer these questions - they're both very smart guys who really know what they're talking about (the latter is a surprisingly rare quality in both the financial and startup communities, in my experience).
Not understanding margins and/or cashflow is probably the number one reason why most small businesses go under. The book The Knack has an excellent explanation of this that I consider a must read:

http://www.amazon.com/Knack-Street-Smart-Entrepreneurs-Handl...
Scala? [2008]
Was I the only person that wondered when cooking stories became news for hackers?
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Well... reddit? http://reddit.com
It was always optimistic to think that BART would ring the bay. Santa Clara County was never part of the District to begin with. San Mateo County dropped out because they already had the SP commuter service (today's Caltrain) and didn't think BART was worth the money. Marin County was asked to leave after San Mateo County did because of doubt over whether the Golden Gate Bridge was structurally capable of carrying trains and because the county's low population density couldn't support their share of the cost. The Geary line within San Francisco remained in the plan at that time but was dropped to cut the cost of the initial system far enough that it could be funded.

That said, the original express intent of BART was to relieve freeway congestion from car commuters, not to provide an urban transit system. The San Francisco city government pushed the district to make BART as useful within the city as a one-line system could be, but they had to fight for it (to get three stations beyond what the BART planners wanted to build), and the district has never shaken off its suburban bias.
> "Jessica definitely knows how to network though :)"

It's a shame just how much that counts for these days - above having a product, customers, profit etc
Catalyst == larger community + more documentation + lots of useful modules out there. The downside is that it takes a heck of a lot of effort to get up to speed and I personally find that it can get in the way a little for smaller projects.

Frameworks like Mojolicious, Jifty (http://jifty.org/) and Dancer (http://perldancer.org) are much quicker to get up to speed on, but suffer slightly from having a smaller community of users and developers.

I've been playing with non-Catalyst frameworks a bit recently as I've been pondering a little bit of product development on an in-house project.

Of the non-Catalyst Perl web frameworks Dancer is my favourite http://perldancer.org/. For my money it's a neater package than Mojolicious, which takes the no-dependency thing a little bit too far for me. Dancer's non-OO DSL declarative style seems to work quite well (it's very heavily inspired by Ruby's Sinatra).

I'm going to give Dancer / Plack a whirl as the basis for a non-trivial app soon. I think it'll work quite well from my experiences so far.

(BTW - if you've not started playing with Plack in Perl - do so. Veeeeery nice.)

As to what you should learn - who knows :-) If it were me I'd spend at least a few hours playing with Dancer/Mojolicious/Jifty first - since any of them will have you up and running with a demo in a few minutes. Catalyst will take more work.
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These days?
I should have been clearer when I said "something like HN": something with a good deal of intellectual curiosity, and something without dick/fart jokes.

Perhaps you can recommend a subreddit?
I usually hate it when newspapers waste most of their space poorly defining terms, leaving no room for the actual interesting bits. (This is especially true in science articles.) This article, however, would do very well to mention what Foursquare is. I assume it's not the elementary school ball game, since that doesn't involve any sort of checkins. Nonetheless, how cool would that be? I would totally go to McDonald's if I could play four square while waiting for my food.
If you're a vim user on a mac, try ViKing. It lets you use vi-like navigation throughout OSX. It's still in beta and I would love some feedback.

http://vikingapp.com
@vikingapp
anyone who thinks this is a good/bad thing for a founder to do?

From what I know so far - by reading, including scientific works, and studying biochemistry, it appears that the humans evolved to obtain at least some of their diet from animal sources (Vitamin B12, Omega 3 fatty acids come to mind). So I would consider this sort of culture as destructive for my health, even if it is only mildly destructive and the results may not be obvious for years and sometimes decades ...

It is easy to find nations/tribes in history who enjoyed excellent health on a variety of diets, but not so easy to find ones who did that on a strictly vegetarian diet.
This is pretty awesome, it really kind of sooths a pain point I have been dealing with. The company I work at is a Django Shop and every time I type "fab Prod deploy" I consider starting work on a gui interface to provision servers(with the linode api), run test suites and deploy code from Github.
Embarcadero station is built in landfill, but it does make things more difficult. None of the San Francisco subway plans of the past ever attempted to serve Russian Hill very well. A line on Geary (or Post or O'Farrell) was the inevitable closest proposal every time.
She is fearless!
You have to be very skeptical of government statistics on GDP and inflation. They have every motivation to downplay inflation (e.g. let's not count real estate and oil) and play up GDP.
Aside: that earn-mojo thingie on the right side? that just earned it's rightful place in my /etc/hosts deny list.

Please don't.
Frogmetrics (YC S08) received investment from Founders Fund. Not sure if there are other examples.
I disagree with everything that he starts with 'I almost never do X so I...'

But other than that, I think this is a great list of addons and I already use a few of them myself.
I almost added a disclaimer about choosing proper subreddits, but I wanted to make sure you hadn't ruled out reddit for another reason. At the risk of sounding all Eternal September-y, reddit quality has indeed suffered in all main subreddits.

What topics interest your girlfriend? I'd be happy to provide subreddit recommendations, or either of you are welcome to send me a PM at reddit - http://www.reddit.com/user/thinkalone/
You are all bonds and equities. This is betting on the previous 30 years of financial history going forward. You will be wiped out in a deflationary environment or in a very high commodities inflationary environment.

Harry Browne's "Permanent Portfolio" is a wiser mix. You need at least some precious metals and commodities specific exposure.

Personally, I've been thinking a couple acres of black walnut saplings might be one of the best long term investments.
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First, your chart represents taxes, not spending. Spending may be considerably higher than taxes - for instance, Washington may be incurring debt to pensions.

Also, representing taxes as a percentage of income obscures the increase in spending due to increased income.

http://www.ofm.wa.gov/economy/longterm/2010/lt10ch4.pdf

Taxes should not grow with income - if anything, they should drop. Richer people require fewer government services - many (though not all) government services are either transfers to the poor or protecting people from them.
In fact I pay very close attention to what teachers actually do in classrooms, to the extent that I've traveled to several East Asian countries to observe how they teach with my own eyes and read the academic studies contrasting their approaches. These countries stomp us every four years in the TIMSS, and I wanted to know how exactly how they did it and, if necessary, how to duplicate it in my own home.

The difference is stark. In Asia, they teach people math the way you would expect to teach someone if you were trying to maximize their proficiency in almost any skill: sports, chess, whatever. In the US, the education industry is pushing a very different approach, one whose primary objective is NOT maximizing the proficiency of each student.

But, you don't see it, and the US education industry (meaning the ed schools and their progeny, not individual teachers) would prefer that people like you go on ascribing any observation of their inferior results to "right-wing ranting" so you'll stay out of their way or, even better, go out of your way to try to discredit their critics.

Of course many teachers, even whole school districts, resist this pressure, and the ed schools describe that resistance in peer-reviewed journal articles such as the one I cited. If what I'm describing were merely the imaginings of those kooky right-wingers, like the leader of the Democratic Party in the Senate I cited above, then what is all this talk by the ed schools of "resistance"? Resistance to what, something that would increase math proficiency? Why would math teachers be "especially resistant" to maximizing math proficiency, or are they resisting pressure to make changes that would reduce math proficiency?

If your son had been in East Asia, he would have done the half hour of drills every day BEFORE taking that test and probably would have avoided the problem he apparently had. How do you think he, or his classmates, would do now on a test for Asian 5th graders? (Ex: 1/6 of A is equal to 5/9 of B. 2/5 of A is 270 more than 1/3 of B. What is the ratio of A:B in simplest form? Source: misskoh.com)

My kids are learning from the materials I brought back from Asia, and I'm trying to teach using the methods I saw (though I feel so amateurish compared to those amazing Asian teachers) and the results are, well, Asian-level. These are materials and teaching methods optimized for math proficiency and nothing else. Their friends think they are geniuses, and I have to keep reminding them that in Asia, their whole class (though not each individual student) would be operating at their level.

If I could, I would switch the whole country to these materials and methods, but guys like you can be counted on to say, "I don't see the problem, it's just more uninformed nonsense from someone who reads too much right-wing ranting". With your help, our public education industry can continue unimpeded by guys like me. My own kids will face less local competition as a result, but I fear the consequences for my country as a whole will be dire, so I would change it if I could.
I don't know about arrogant, but a lot are INTJ. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
You/she might enjoy http://www.metafilter.com, which has a well-informed and largely thoughtful community. If you want to post, there's a one-time fee of $5.
Of course real estate is not included in inflation. Neither is the stock price of Berkshire Hathaway or Amazon. Why should investment goods be included in a price index representing consumer goods?

The cost of housing (owner equivalent rent) is included in CPI, BTW.
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I was unimpressed by Jessica's failure to disclose that Eventbrite is a "paying customer" because its CEO is an investor.

I think the product has potential. I have worked on something similar for many years myself. I'll have a hard time rooting for its success, though, when Jessica seems to routinely make mistakes like this.
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Ask HN: I use emacs and my left hand hurts. Any tips?
All that C-x C-s etc is wearing out my left pinky and left hand generally. I've remapped a lot of functions, I try to use the right side control key, and I generally try not to use two keys with the same hand whenever I can. But I'm not perfect.

I can't be the only person with this problem. I bet somebody's figured this out already. (And if "use vi" is the answer I'd consider it.) Thanks.
Another thought on the use of 'F*cking". I smiled for a brief moment when I first read it. But overall, it's not very classy and undermines (a tiny bit) what is indeed a beautifully done introduction to the new hottest thing.
The article states "Around midnight, it will be directly overhead." This depends where you are, and it will not be true for most humanoids. From Washington, DC, for instance, it will be 45 degrees up from the horizon at midnight: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=jupiter+sky+position+fr...

From Oslo, Norway, a little under 9 degrees: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=jupiter+sky+position+fr...
You're absolutely right. I'm already seeing traffic shift away from (cheaper) long-tail keywords in my campaigns.
"The MiG carries missiles in internal bays and on external pylons (like the F-22) but is reportedly a lot stealthier." - I am having a bit of a hard time believing this statement.
already exists: djangy.com ;-)
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Yeah, the fact that life expectancy went up by a year because fewer newborns died doesn't have any effect on you when you're already 25.

This is why I find the life expectancy that people quote pointless as a stat when it comes to personal planning. What I really want to know is: when looking at people who have made it to my age, what is the life expectancy?
Map caps lock to ctrl. I did this about 2 years ago and I've never turned back.
This is a pretty awesome way to visualise filesizes of various things... never seen it before..
You should definitely get a good pension then. But remember that pension funds can also run out of money (depending on the type of pension you have, etc)

I think what I was trying to communicate, perhaps not succinctly enough, was that I would rather work a lot further into what most deem 'retirement years' and then live off incomes from investment for a shorter period of time towards the end. Ok that means I have to had had success building those investments but most of us are on HN cos we're entrepreneurial and I've not done too bad so far (I'm 29).
I hold commodity ETF's in my taxable account. No reason behind it other than they were in my scottrade account prior to me getting behind the index fund strategy.

> This is betting on the previous 30 years of financial history going forward.

How does that old yarn go, past performance is no indication of future return. ;)
Can someone explain to me why everyone who earns $200,000+ a year in income should be fair game, but some socialite whose trust fund accrues that much or more in capital gains should be off-limits?
For some reason I'm getting horrible crashes on my app (has worked great for months. Still works great on Linux and Windows) since chrome switched to gpu rendering for everything. I haven't found the issue yet but it's really odd.
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But how did he get the large user base?
Agreed re: that being a surprisingly good book. It's definitely worth a read, if for no other reason than for the sheer variety of jobs that he ends up encountering. That, and the part about the catfish entrepreneur.
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Couple tricks:

" this splits a netrw window in the directory of the current file, :Vexplore for vsplit.
nnoremap - :Sexplore<CR>

" I use surround.vim all the time. The default mapping for s is terrible.
nmap s ysi
nmap S ysa
Washington state has the most regressive tax structure in the entire country.
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Ask HN: Any interest in a San Luis Obispo, CA meetup/hackfest?
I've currently got an office in San Luis Obispo, CA – halfway between LA and the Valley.

Our office building has several empty rooms next to mine and I could secure them for a couple days if there was interest in a meetup/hackfest here. Our office is downtown and within walking distance of lots of restaurants/bars.

I thought it might be a good chance for some of the SoCal and Valley HN people to meet, change the scenery, do some hacking, teaching, etc.

I'd also be willing to spring for pizza + beer one night.
Question is...

How long until FreshBooks partners with Yodlee, builds some reports and has a more complete solution?

Or... Intuit creates a version of Mint.com for small businesses? They have a lot more cash and overwhelming marketshare in the SMB market. They'd be able to do this in 5 years, not 20-30. I think this poses a huge threat to InDinero.

That being said, the product that Jessica has already built is quite impressive. But, if it takes 20-30 years to iterate towards solving all of the financial pain points of a small business, you'll be too late because Intuit has a huge head start.
I have a tough time trusting the 401k and Roth concept. It's kind of your money, but it's also under the control of the government. You just have to trust them.

If you're in your 20s, trusting 401ks/IRAs means having faith there won't be a fiscal crisis and/or a crazy government at any point in the next 45 years. Seems like a somewhat dicey bet to me.
Just what the world needs. Managers of some future Enron, already in possession of overly-inflated egos, literally puffing themselves up before meetings. How revolting.
Do you need a co-founder or angel investor?

Can I run some ideas by you? (email in profile)
Washington has the most regressive tax structure in the entire country and is facing a significant budget problem. An income tax is a step in the right direction, and frankly I would be happy to see the $200K (single) - $400K (married) limit lowered even to the point where I would be paying it.
hurrah for nebraska!
Suddenly I have sympathy for the college student, where otherwise I would not. The customer is almost always right.
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Interesting. I notice my county, in southwestern Utah, is at the 2% mark, but my own limited experience suggests that might be a rather conservative estimate. A couple idle speculations as per the study:

1) I know many people who have responded to the recession by attempting to start a business (usually involving a depressingly harebrained business plan). These people often fall victim to Kelly Felix-inspired "make money on the Internet" or other affiliate marketing schemes. I could imagine some of these people, when being surveyed, saying that they did not currently desire a job.

2) Many adults, and recent high-school graduates, who otherwise would not be attending college, are attending college now, thanks to the high availability of student benefits and lack of other options. I don't think the study factored these people (I don't know what criteria one could use to do so anyway), but if it had, I'll bet the resulting unemployment rate would be higher nationwide.
I feel the same way about Emacs. I use IDEs for specific development tasks (I don't generally code Java in Emacs, for example, since Netbeans, Eclipse, Idea are all much better in that context) but where content is all over the place as it often is with net development, I use Emacs.