skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, my card gives decent cash back and it's definitely worth it if you try to put as much as possible on the card. I haven't heard of a debit cash back card.
My scripts are mostly trivial so far. PowerShell is awesome but it's another thing I haven't had time to learn enough about to use effectively.

I actually have a C# console app as my build script because I can write things there so much faster than anywhere else. It makes calls to Windows and the occasional batch / bash script.
I don't think you are dumb, indeed I wouldn't be able to find the right file either, as I said Zed help me on this.

Anyway try with 0.9 and start the server you'll see that lockfile was the issue, but I wouldn't know what version to install.
Indent with double space, to get this:

hello
world

http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc (this used to be in a help link next to the reply box, but seems to be gone now).
I recently refactored some underperforming production code using Cython. After spending ~6 hours rewriting 2 modules in Cython's "python superset" syntax, I'm left with a 33% performance boost, and virtually no additional project complexity.

I've also been replacing some rather excessive struct.unpack usage in my code with Cython's C struct pointer casting syntax, and uncovering _massive_ performance gains. 45 seconds of parsing now takes 3 seconds.

I'm pretty much convinced there's no reason to learn CPython's C API, given Cython's maturity and PyPy's improbable, scintillating ascendancy. viz. RPython may be Python's performance future, but Cython is ready now.
I think of myself as Rocky Bilboa making a comeback.

I've got to go up against you punks and win, so I train hard and watch my diet.

And who's to say what's natural? The withering muscles of a pencil-necked geek who sits in front of a computer all day and into the night? Or the massive frame of my brother-in-law who works on a road crew?
That Paul Graham quote
- “Programming languages are not merely technologies, but habits of mind as well.”

Reminds me of an excellent Dijkstra quote, from A Discipline of Programming
- "A most important, but also a most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its use."
This is why I only use it through the bash shell, so it can't mess with anything else. Inconvenient though.
Right, but frying the noodles into a brick with palm kernel oil doesn't help.

On the other hand, udon noodles are quite good. You need to refrigerate them, though - there's actually something left to spoil. Try them with egg, miso, green onion, and shredded carrots.
Mosaic.
why not just put forth enough effort to do well in your classes, and in your spare time, teach yourself how to do what you want to learn to do and start a business?

if you find high school trivial, you'll find community college isn't much better. and while university will be tougher, the curriculum is on rails. you'll find that once you graduate you may or may not have actually learned anything about what you really wanted to learn about.

experience is best.
Moving from SVN to a simple pull, modify, push model is pretty straight forward. Learning git properly is tricky.
conflict of interest, no.

but they might not be agreeable to it, depending on how their HR department is and what your employee contract looks like. they may say "oh, you can build it? well build it for us and we'll just keep paying your salary"
So far it seems like they're doing a good job of reducing the special cases when it comes to this feature. It handles exceptions correctly, and you can 'await' any object that implements a trivial interface, so it's not just limited to the APIs they've decided to bless.
One of my startup ideas is a robotic kitchen, similar to http://www.gizmag.com/go/1865/picture/2207/ except with a robotic arm in the middle.
Excuses, excuses.

Cooking meals is a non-trivial skill, many people don't have the time or money to learn

Saving money over eating out all the time is easy. Canned food and spaghetti are trivial. Most veggies are fine totally raw. Rice and veggies can be done brainlessly with a rice cooker. A George Forman grill and a giant bag of frozen boneless skinless chicken thighs is cheap, healthy protein.

Being able to cook creative homecooked meals is hard, sure. Cheap foolproof meals are easy, though.

they can't afford to "experiment" with cooking, because if their children don't want to eat what they make when experimenting then the children are going to go hungry.

Kids get to refuse eating what they're served? News to me. I was sixteen years old before I was able to get away with refusing broccoli and brussels sprouts. I was a pretty disobedient kid, too. So I don't really understand this argument. Some parents are so spineless they'll cave in to a kid's choice of meal?

Cable TV is often the primary form of entertainment, and is much cheaper than going out or the most popular form of "free" entertainment, unprotected sex.

Unfortunately this is a major cultural problem. Fortunately, almost every other consumer startup is solving this. The internet contains Facebook and YouTube for free, and Netflix for far, far cheaper.

Cigarettes...are addictive, though. One of the most addictive drugs ever. I have no argument with you on that point.
I've never posted any comments here before but I feel compelled to do so for this link. It is lamenting the fact that people who eat ramen frequently aren't buying fruits and vegetables instead. I've basically lived on ramen for the better part of a year and the truth is that if I could eat healthier I would without a moments hesitation. But a ramen packet costs 15¢ each. So I can be reasonably full for around 30¢ a day. What kind of fruit can I buy for 30¢? A single apple? One banana? The author of this article needs to get off his high horse and try to live off the diet he's saying is such a bad choice.
//Would you mind sharing what went through your mind to finalize this?

It was the right time. I'm married and my wife got a job at a great place and has been there over a year. I've been doing consulting, so I'm not tied down to a job.

//What factors influenced you(made-your-money? unemployment? ..??)

I really wanted to go back to school. I worked while my wife went to grad school (speech pathology). She agreed to work while I went back (she's awesome like that).

//Have you already finalized your specialization? Has anyone influenced you in choosing your subjects?

I've talked to my graduate advisor, but I don't have a specialization just yet. I'm leaning towards programming languages, as that's what I really enjoy. I'm also interested in AI and numerical computation. I'm really open to suggestions, but no one in particular has influenced me into picking something specific (yet).

//Finally, What are you doing for math-prep for CS classes?

I've reread through some Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, Calculus, and Number Theory books in the past three years, without too many problems. I'd still like to look over some Real Analysis, etc but I feel a bit more urgency to get into algorithms, etc at the moment.

Thanks for the suggestion, I've added Velleman to my wish list.
I will state my bias up front, but hear me out. I think that free and open source software is a better way for companies to develop software and serves the consumer better. With that out of the way my big question to Microsoft (the linchpin software company) is when are you going to make a serious open source play?

It was obvious to some over 10 years ago that this was a movement that Microsoft had to embrace to stay relevant and yet they have completely failed to get it. It is obvious to anybody who enjoys coding that the great developers prefer free and open source software. There isn't a single category of product that isn't built using this methodology now. The worlds fastest supercomputers wouldn't dream of using Microsoft's operating software. Why is that? If Microsoft makes such great software, why can't they power the world's fastest and sexiest computers?

Microsoft is obsolete to many until they address this core issue. You can say all you want about them not making this or that online play but their core business as you point out is operating systems and office tools. Free and open source operating systems and office tools will one day break into that cash cow and when it does Microsoft had better be ready. I can't put it any more plainly than that.

You may now return to your scheduled programming :)
I also heard from an ex-employee at FreshBooks that there was little difference between $12.99 and $19.99 in terms of conversion.

It must be a common psychological trait to value things in sequences of $9-10.
Sounds great~ happen to be in town that day~ count me in if there are still seats~
I've actually used tom's code from the PHP.net site to replicate the get_called_class function when it's not there in my own framework:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.get-called-class.php#9...
It should be common knowledge now that too much of any one thing will kill you

Not potatoes. You can live on nothing but potatoes and water and you'll be healthy. You'll likely get very bored of the diet, but you won't be missing anything essential.

This is true of very few foods.

(This is something that I learned when my wife was studying for general physiology.)
I eat a lot of oat groats and korean barley. You can order oat groats in bulk, 50 pound bags, with a shipping cost of around $5. Woohoo.
I assumed you would at least want to block people leaking the master key, even if you can't stop copy paste.
virtually no additional project complexity

Was there an increased complexity within the two modules you rewrote?

Do you have an estimate on how long it would have taken you to reimplement the two modules (or their critical components) completely in C/C++?

(Qs intended out of curiosity, to help quantify the benefits)
When people start working around the public API by calling private methods it's because the framework is being used in a way that wasn't planned for. If we could adapt the public API to provide the required functionality then the framework would over time become more adaptable. The issue then becomes a social one, how to organise and consolidate the customisations that everyone makes. Github uses the forking and pull request functionality to address exactly this issue. It allows developers to maintain a version of a framework with their own customisations. Any of these customisations that would be useful to enough other developers can then be incorporated into the original framework.
Did they have a control group who used laptops without wifi enabled/available? This wreaks of BS...
We are $970,000 away from getting a spot on Bootstrapped, Profitable & Proud.
check out eventful and ... damn... yahoo has a service too (I think it was started by an HNer and yahoo bought it) but i can't remember what it was. They both have an api. Might not be exactly what you are looking for.
And in fact, companies that hire illegal immigrants benefit greatly from stricter immigration enforcement; the more pressure from the state that's applied to immigrants, the
easier it is for employers to lower their pay, subject them to dangerous and harsh conditions, and occasionally even refuse to compensate them altogether. If they refuse, ICE will deport their families.
thanks for the reference, in turn i offer Nial Ferguson excellent - the ascent of money. fantastic overview, if only for the analysis of the dramatic effect of fibonacci, and the ascent of the Medici family.
The only problem is the UI isn't as sexy as it could be, and they have some weird sync ux with the iPhone app. All works fine however.
They can be useful if you need database independence. In Django it is literally a one line code change to swap out the DB you are using.

Sure you can do the same thing with raw SQL but then you have deal with result sets, pulling data back out into objects etc. Why not automate that? ORMs still supply the ability to throw raw SQL when necessary.

I like the fact that I have one set of data objects to deal with and that they are in my language of choice.
My father (who has always been self-employed) once said "the best thing about being self-employed is that I can choose my own hours. I can work whatever 100 hours a week I want."
totally off topic but I read this as Cylon compiler
I was interested to find some discussion of how the performance characteristics compare to PyPy/Unladen Swallow/RPython.

Quick googling only found one comparison: http://jaredforsyth.com/blog/2010/jul/21/cpython-vs-pypy-vs-...

The routines he benchmarked are simple string tokenizing, though, so I'm not really surprised the translated-to-C version came in so much faster.
Today, start applying for early admission to colleges and universities.

In the short term, stay in school and don't use "it's pathetic" as an excuse for poor performance in your classes.

The better your grades, the better your chance of early admission.
http://paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html#f1n
Silverlight works on the mac. Quicktime might be included with your mac, but it's still a browser plugin just like Silverlight and Flash and it's not included with windows computers.
1) MacPaint - the original, on a Black & White 128kb Mac.

2) Usenet, Unix, VMS & Slirp (http://slirp.sourceforge.net/). I got to university and didn't know where to start

2) Doom. OMFG

3) Eclipse. The first time I saw the "Extract Method" refactoring I was speechless.

4) Google desktop search. Back when I had to use Outlook this let me actually find my email messages.

5) Dropbox. Been mentioned before, but it really did impress me that much.
You're off the rails. If two things are "in the cloud" that can still mean they're in different data centers in opposite ends of the earth. The "cloud" just means outside your local lan. So it's the 99.999999...% of the internet you don't have any control of.

Meaning you'd still have bottle necks and bandwidth issues in getting them somewhere. That's why large projects just send HDDs.

This is just a proof of concept.
Keep kicking ass and get yourself in the best university possible. Like Noodle said "teach yourself" the other skills.

Find your passion and then go hard!
You have to eat the skins, though. And it helps if you're doing manual labor (and occasional supplements of buttermilk, kale, oatmeal, etc. will go a long way).

There's a great essay about surviving on potatoes in John Thorne's _Pot on the Fire_, also an excellent cookbook.
US Bank used to offer cash back on debit cards; don't know if they still do. ING Direct occasionally has cash-back promotions on the debit card for their Electric Orange checking account, but only for new accounts.

You're right in that credit cards are still useful if you use them right, though. There are certain protections (chargebacks) plus the benefits you note. Credit card companies are like casinos--they give you tons of benefits if you use them hoping you'll go on tilt and waste tons of money. If you're smart, sometimes you can beat them at their game.
"healthy but less-filling fruits and vegetables"

This is not true. Fruits and vegetables have more fiber which makes you feel full. Ramen noodles and other fast food products can be hunger-promoting.
Superfast SSDs are coming, but will they be used the right way?
>why 20%

I earn in USD, I don't spend in USD. Therefore I am exposed to currency fluctuations. In this case it is USD depreciation because of inflation expectations and virtually negative interest rate.

The USD has lost 20% in the last 12-18 months against many currencies. I'm getting screwed because the actions of a country I have no say in are systematically devaluing their currency, which happens to be the 'standard' pricing unit of the internet. There's not much I can do about either. So two forces beyond my control are conspiring to make me earn less for the same amount of work. That's getting screwed in my book.

The value of the products/services is exactly the same. It's the pricing units that are changing, and changing fast. People inside the USA don't notice this because they earn and consume in USD, until they start looking at a trip somewhere else. Importing companies haven't really started to adjust prices yet, but the day is coming soon when imported items really start to jump in price.

Is there an alternative to trying to control inflation? Well, QE doesn't control inflation, it creates it. If you're going to accept that a central bank should have pricing power over money, then you have to accept the tools they use to create inflation and disinflation.

My stance is that stable monetary periods are periods of growth and prosperity. All paper currencies eventually reach their net worth - which is zero. The USD is one of the longest lasting currencies in the history of the world, but nearly 100 years ago it was given over to a central bank, and nearly 40 years ago it was turned into a purely paper currency. In that time period it has lost nearly 95% of it's value. While that stimulates certain types of economic activity, my personal belief is that the bad has probably outweighed the good.
Um it is great that you get access to their massive mailing list and site traffic, but you can't do $10 and you are forgetting about the fees (30-50% of revenue). So you have a $60, selling for $30 * 300 sales = 9,000 (2,700 is kept by them for the 30% fee). You get $6,300 for something that normally makes you $18,000... It is still a great deal because you get 300 new customers who hopefully love the service and return... All companies like this tell the service business to TAKE it out of their marketing budget. Not to consider it as a easy way to make a TON of profit. Many make little to nothing or loose money on the deals. It is advertising to a very captive market that may come again.
You don't need to drop out of high school to start a business. Do both at the same time.
I always wanted to learn braille as a kid so I could read in the dark.
Also:
- Saturday Farmer's market near PSU
- Burnside bridge market
- Food carts
- Southeast Portland's many nice restaurants.
- 1 hour drive to the coast (Cannon Beach etc.)
Here's one for you so you don't have to fake it:

Ryan Waggoner is an awesome developer and entrepreneur with a clear passion
for all things geek. Not only is he a great developer but women have
secretly whispered to me how sexually attractive he is. He has the
charisma and wit of fifty men wrapped up in just one sack of skin.

You know, come to think of it, a system to encourage HNers to give each other character testimonials would be kinda cool ;-) (that's not LinkedIn..)
All were fulltime

NetWinner - started as 1 grew to 15 (2 yrs)

Social Ad Manager (appox 1yr) currently Ramen Profitable.

Local Strange (Launching in Nov.)
I used it about 6 months ago but ended up uninstalling it; it had a nasty habit of locking my git repo when I needed it and then crashing. Haven't used it since.
Good job the police don't have any sort of history of arresting people on spurious charges due to their skin color.
You may find some ideas in this that apply to your situation: http://paulgraham.com/hs.html
The uploader does a diff between what was uploaded before and what you're uploading now and only sends what's needed.
The frightening thing is not this particular application, but the broader concepts of (1) extension of an already draconian police power (2) almost entirely brought about by a private profit motive. Capitalism is an evolutionary process and as such is almost beyond the control of human intentions, so seeing it move against individual liberty is highly alarming.
Do finish high school. I would look into options of graduating early or taking some courses online but finishing high school is really important. Starting a business while in High School isn't impossible and I'm sure you can dedicate some of your spare time to do so. I'm also in High School and the option I took was finishing some of my courses online early so I would have more time dedicated to my start up and business.
They're ok, not great. And a bit pricy.
A million sighs go up from all the side-project hackers hoping to get hired on Twitter to work at YouTube.
I think he's implying that the bottleneck won't be an issue if (when?) we eventually have web-based software powerful enough to create those assets entirely within the same "cloud" that would eventually scale out to do the rendering.
"Apply the definition"? It's a qualitative term in a qualitative field. Everything in economics is about quantifying your qualitative assumptions of things. Which is probably the best way to study the matter.

But don't miss the forest for the trees here. Your problem is with entitlements, not some grander definition of public/private goods. I mean, if I could convince you SS was a public good, it wouldn't change your opinion, right?
Basics of 3D Studio Max - (Video Tutorial)
As we promise that we would be uploading Video Tutorials about 3D Studio Max, so here is the first Video Tutorial. In this tutorial you will learn Basics of 3D Studio Max, environment, tools etc. Hopefully you will like this style.
msysgit is quite good, provided you turn off linefeed conversion. I wrote about some ways to make it easier for day to day use, if you're interested: http://mullr.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/configuring-msysgit-fo...

Avoid cygwin git; it appears to work at first, but it gets very slow when you deal with large repositories.

None of the end-to-end GUIs I've used (I've tried about 5) do a respectable job. They all try to layer a svn-style view on top of git. Which is, of course, nothing like svn. Have them watch http://blip.tv/file/4094854, then offer to hold their hand while they get used to the command line. It's worth it. When you really need to click on things, git gui and gitk do the job fine.
There are a lot of social benefits to going into college at a typical age. Your social circles in college will be severely affected if you are much younger than everyone else.

I don't see the rush. I'm sure there are certain cases where it makes sense to skip ahead, but sounds like it's not a slam dunk in your case. Start a business in high school? Maybe enjoy the ride.
Git is usable on Windows - I've used it for the past year with cygwin. However my colleagues mostly switched to msysgit as they had issues with cygwin - msysgit looks like a better choice. Our server is on Linux though - I'm not sure how it will fare on Windows. We went through a few gotchas (crlf, case-insensitivity) but it was manageable.

Manageable is the most I can say though. I've come to the conclusion that going through the trouble of msysgit/cygwin is not worth it. I don't know if it's an option for you but have you considered other DVCS? From what I heard Mercurial is pretty good on Windows and you'd get pretty much the same advantages as with Git. Others might be able to tell you more about it.

I wouldn't go back to SVN on any platform though - I got addicted to local branches and the speed of having the whole repo locally.
Just have creation tools that allow you to capture and replay input. Then to send that multi-gig mesh or texture, you just send the input events from the artist and replay it in another instance of that tool (think doom2 demo file; as a YouTube video it is hundreds of megs, as a demo file it is a few kb).
Run Turkey, Run
The true cost of eating nothing but packaged "ramen", at 30¢ a day, is seriously the value of your own life. This crap will kill you. It is not food.

Garbage in, garbage out. You may not feel it yet, but it is costing you your life.

While I can't know what your financial situation is, you are posting to an internet forum, so it appears as though you're not working two double-shifts to survive until tomorrow. Quality food is an investment into your life. To put your budget in perspective, your suggesting to spend $110 per YEAR feeding yourself. Is that all your health is worth?