skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You sound as if you are more concerned about your YouTube history because you have more to hide there than in your medical history. Surely you can imagine people for whom the opposite is true -- where some otherwise innocuous medical fact would hurt them if made public?

...Like people who adopted but don't want their kids to know, people who have recovered from cancer, people with mental conditions, people treated for STDs, people with sex changes, people who have had (even a false-) positive HIV test, people with a history of drug abuse, people who have had abortions, etc. Some reasons are just embarrassing, some may get you turned down from a job, some are blackmail material that could end a marriage or political career.
I've never done this either so I'm not a good one to suggest advice.

Why not ask the producer or the interviewer in advance? If I were them, I'd want to know if a guest was going to "wedge in a pitch". Rather than surprise them, get them to help you.
Because most of them don't understand it, which is why most of their 'startups' make no money (that and creating stupid websites that can't make money in the first place). The people who do understand it and create high quality content websites (with less programming knowledge than said hackers; sometimes no knowledge at all) are the ones making money online, without needing 'investment' or going 'stealth'.
Lots and lots of CSS bugs. So many developer hours have been wasted debugging IE6 issues it's obscene.
Actually they won't make us. Bulgarian politicians are known for being the biggest ass kissers in Europe so we will pass it before the USA just to look obedient. We had some copyright media debates a while ago when the police tried to arrest a few torrent uploaders and there were a lot of protests. A mother on tv said that her 13 year old sun is not a criminal because of the music he "steels" he just likes music and if you get something given to you for free, you don't buy. The result from the whole police action was an embarrassment for the government and a few torrent trackers either moving abroad or shutting down and 99% of the windows copies in Bulgaria are still illegal, and 99% of the music people listen to in their homes is still illegal and i only buy cd's from local bands(directly, that way i know where the money goes)* and i only use open source software(except my non free drivers and my flash plug-in) But im an exception, most people in the world are criminals.

*Yes i do own illegal mp3s, about 4000 of them, and about half of those you cant buy in a store(try finding an Argentinian hardcore punk band in a record store) I also have a few CC licensed mp3's but they are very few of those. And i have a handful of local cd's and a tape which i bought directly from the bands or from friends of the bands, and those CD's are limited editions, the bands cant afford more than 200-300 cd's and they resell them by hand. Many of the songs cant be found in the internet too, some fans are realy loyal. Guess when you don't sue them for ripping mp3's sending them to friends, the fans actually respect you. I know a lot of people who buy cd's because they want to help their favorite bands, they go to shows and buy shirts and other merchandise just to support the bands.
We use TWiki very heavily. We use it for documentation, and not (much) structured data, but I have noted that it has far better support for structured data than any other wikis I've used. It has a large number of data imports (including from Excel and other spreadsheets), and some good form management tools. So, you can build a form for entering structured data, and that structured data goes into the wiki (and can be edited on the same form or directly in wikitext).

It's quite intimidating from a customization perspective, but since it has so many features built in, you probably won't need to do a lot of coding to make it do what you want. Theming it can be a challenge, though. I also don't love the syntax. But you can't beat it for features. It does everything any other wiki does, plus a bunch of other app building types of functionality that don't exist anywhere else (or at least, nowhere else I've seen).
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The best reference to the magazine will be when they announce your title and affiliation (and possibly print the title/affiliation at the bottom of the screen), so make sure they know clearly that you're the "Editor of WindyCitizen.com" (or whatever) and that they spell it correctly.

Beyond that, the other chance you might get is when/if they shoot B-roll footage of you working at your computer. Make sure you've got your site loaded on the screen, with the logo clearly visible.

Finally, if there's a good (not-awkward) spot in the interview to mention a story that appeared on WindyCitizen.com, you could say something like, "Actually, we did a story on WindyCitizen.com just recently about that very thing and we found that...."

Remember, the not-awkward part is key. Sometimes you may just end up being a small part of the producer's vision for the story and your own project doesn't ever get mentioned. Don't worry about that too much. If you do a good job anyway and help out the producer, it's likely you'll start getting called back for other interviews (possibly even by other news organizations) and you'll start to build a reputation.

Good luck!
In the modern age, sad as it is, PR and being able to blow your own trumpet seems to be increasingly important.

Sometimes things are made that are instant/viral hits, but most of the time you have to work hard to tell people about it (and hence get users).
Just remember, you're the expert. They're calling you there for your experience, so you don't have to be anything than yourself and share what you know and your thoughts.

It probably depends on content for a way to wedge in the pitch-- but I wish you lots of luck!
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I want to like dekiwiki, because it looks awesome. But, egads, it's slow! It's also kind confusing to use...which is surprising given all the work that's gone into the UI.

And, of course, it doesn't have any real support for structured data. It's just a really nice looking wiki with the standard feature set (actually a rather anemic feature set, which is fine for many purposes, since most wikis are too damned complicated). Since structured data is the thing in this request, it seems like there are probably better alternatives. I only know of one wiki that deals with structured data (TWiki) but I'm betting there are others. I seem to recall seeing discussion of wiki+spreadsheet style tools, though I don't remember where or what.
If you don't want to be a soldier, that isn't playing politics. But as you said, that wasn't the position of most protestors.

If you say the war is immoral, illegal, or unwinnable, that is getting involved politics.
Dial your time machine back a few decades, and you'll see assembly programmers telling those C upstarts that they should learn assembly for all the same reasons. A few more, and it's the logic circuit designers griping that you can't trust instruction cards because you can't see the program. A few more, and it's the vacuum tube enthusiasts complaining that digital switches are slower, less reliable, and too small to debug properly.

If you want a visceral relationship with your hardware, get a soldering iron and go to town. That's a respectable hobby, and confers mega geek-points. If you want to write software and be productive at it, learn a real language.

C is a powerful tool, and every programmer should know it. But it's woefully underpowered as a fulltime software development tool.
Right. A good argument. Which you have to convert into a convincing argument with metrics. In the absence of other metrics, eyeballs wins.
The people mentioned are all the people in the company. I would guess PR get mentioned as it nice to have the whole company included (for small companies like this) for team spirit and morale etc. and not because it took 3 people to advertise the endeavour.

Anyway, when the PR people are not running events, they have to do something, right?
Not really what you want, but here is a nice showcase of what domain-specific wiki combining text and structured data can look like:

http://wikinvest.com

Edit: Again not a Wiki, but Google Spreadsheets could also work for you
You can't simply assume that because all of their action comes from low rollers, they are pursuing some sort of brilliant strategy that nobody else is by not courting the high rollers (when they could easily go after both).

Sure, they could, but then they'd have to spend money to target that group. Is this any different to the high-end/low-end market segmentation of any other business?

I guess one of the reasons that they can open a Harrah's in damn near every gaming jurisdiction (New Orleans and South Lake Tahoe spring to mind as the two Harrah's I've been to) is that they can afford to build a fairly cheap casino without tainting their brand image. Compare that to, say, The Venetian, which can only open a new branch (in, say, Macau) if they're willing to spend the billions it takes to build something comparable to the Venetian in Vegas.
I had a 20 minute pre-interview with one of the producers a little while ago. Went well.

Just got my hair cut. The lady at Great Clips wished me well. So I've got that going for me.

And I had my people pull up some fun facts in case I need to reach into the quiver for something good.

Time to get some clothes together. The producer said business casual.... but my wardrobe goes from casual straight to suits....let's see what I can turn up...
I havent been on TV, but i had to speak at audiences a few times and i guess its the same. With some of us its just natural. We just don't care and seem very confident. I don't know how to directly help you except to say that you shouldn't worry about anything and stay as cool as possible and concentrate on what you are doing. I don't know if it helps, but it's the best thing i can think of, there is really no secret in speaking to people, its a skill like any other, and some learn it easy and some learn it hard. So just take your mind off of the worries and concentrate on your job. Maybe in my case is my ability not to care if i make a fool of my self. I know its hard for most people, but not caring what others think to some extend gives people great confidence it the way they act. Its normal, stage fever is a natural break mechanism and overcoming it might be hard. Maybe if you think of your self as a successful person(Im on TV, that means im cool) you will act cool and calm. I don't know, i never thought of it seriously till this moment. Hope i didn't confuse you even more.
Very well said. This was the point I was trying to convey, but you did it better ;)

Anyway, I think programmers think too much in black and white. There are people that say you never need to know how the computer works. Then the rest say that you always need to think about how the computer works. The reality is somewhere in the middle. There have been a few cases in my programming career where knowing how the hardware actually worked was helpful. But it was never critical, just good to know.

(Another similar area is data structures. Yes, it's good to know how merge sort and quick sort and B+ trees work. That direct knowledge has helped me a number of times, either because I needed my own tree or because thinking about how merge sort worked helped me solve a related problem. But the other 99% of the time, I'm not thinking about sorting or the tree balancing algorithm. I just use libraries. So theoretically, it's possible to write good programs without knowing that stuff.)
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Why is it surprising that they'd pick chambers that amplify the human voice?

If I was going to initiate someone in a cave that was dark, smokey and full of animal paintings on the wall, I'd really like my voice to be booming too.
So, just to be clear: you're saying that anyone who cares more about gay marriage than the government's budget is crazy?
Html & car "test1" and 'test2' 
i am creating something cool for hacker news, and i had to make this test.
"Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet." -- Bruce Schneier
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Suit - Tie - Jacket = business casual. If I were you I'd just show up wearing the suit and lose the jacket and/or tie if they recommend it.

Also, no white shirts or finely-patterned ties, since those can look bad on camera. Come to think of it, take a spare change of clothes just in case.
Threads are not the only mechanism for parallelizing your code. You could just start 4 processes (which I actually recommended against here yesterday ;), or you can use something like STM. SBCL has an STM library:

http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-stm/
wow, many thanks for the quggestions
How about 1 rock star and 1 caterer?
That's exactly what I'll do. Great plan. They did warn me against white shirts, so I'm on top of that one.
You've got to love Microsoft's strategy: Everyone hates our new product, so let's stop selling the product everyone seems to like so they'll use the new one!
In general, I agree. Unfortunately, detecting some bugs is either a lot of work or almost impossible -- you can't, for example, generate DOM events programatically, so bugs in event handling are very tricky to test for.

On the bright side, it is often possible to write your fix in a non-invasive way, or adjust your code to not depend on the buggy behaviour. (For example, some browsers will still fire a keypress event if you cancel the corresponding keydown event. My code editor[1] ended up checking again in the keypress handler for keys that should have been handled, and cancelling them again.)

[1] http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/codemirror
I don't grok OCaml at all, since I've never even laid eyes on it, but I identified with his personal story of moving from one mind-warp to the next as he matured as a developer. I've now hit the OMG! Functional Programming! stage myself, which leads to an uncomfortable (some days actually painful) cognitive dissonance while I toil away for 8 hours a day writing VxWorks-based C code for a mega-corporation.
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And you know what? All those curmudgeons were right (except for the bit about vacuum tubes: transistor logic was never slower or less reliable than tubes, ever). If you don't know how your tools are put together, there will be areas of software development at all levels which will forever remain voodoo to you.

You can do an awful lot of useful work while relying on voodoo, but eventually the voodoo will catch up with you and you'll end up with an ugly mess where a better trained developer would produce an elegant hack. That's no less true for a web developer using rails than it is for an embedded systems driver developer.

Basically, I've never known a great hacker who doesn't understand CPU architectures and at least a little bit of digital logic design.

As for C specifically, let's just agree to disagree. I'll put of the sum total of "great hacks" written in C up against any amount of C++ or Java you can find. It's true that for some problems (web development being a good example) there are better tools (scripting languages, databases) for the domain. But that alone doesn't make C "woefully underpowered".
I can't really see the upside to speculating on a domain name that doesn't end in .com.

If you have a product in mind, you can use pretty much any name. I don't see you getting a lot of natural traffic on a new TLD just because of the domain name.
Harrah's has locations in every jurisdiction mostly due to merger and acquisition. They're basically a number of small gaming operators that got rolled into one.

Also, most of their casinos were not cheap when they were built. They are just old. The Imperial Palace (now the laughing stock of that part of the strip and soon to be bulldozed) was one of the nicest hotels around 50 years ago.

In fact, I don't think they've actually built a single casino since Loveman took over.
Here's one that got missed:

All your code gets nominated as a prime refactoring target.
One of the guys in the Techcruch thread pulled together a functional clone in a day on his own.

So the other three days and eight people must have been for the drawings and the publicity :)
I usually just look at average time for generating the frontpage.
Yeah, but think about what you're saying: the dichotomy you're drawing here between "essential" knowledge and "helpful" knowledge is precisely that between the skills of a merely adequate developer and a great hacker.

Sure, an IT wonk can churn out working software. But they'll never aspire to build the world's next great startup. Have some standards, man. You can't be a true hacker if you're cutting corners like this. :)
This site (linked to from the OP) let's you play a game to find the best benchmark:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all...

(I'm sure that many of you clicked that link, but did you see how you can get each benchmark program in each language? That is a very cool resource.)
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=207247
Don't be misled by the use of the word "vote." Upvotes are not like an election or poll. They're really 1-bit comments.
I think he's basically saying you should know how computers work, and learning C is a pretty good way to do that.

I like C because it's pretty "close to the metal" but much easier and more portable than assembly. I can usually visualize what's going on under the hood if I need to. That's much harder with higher level languages. And on top of that it's a useful language to know.

Knowing assembly would also help you understand how computers work, even more so than C. But it's not as useful these days.
At a startup, none of their salaries would have counted. As such, all they would have had to do is all meet in a coffee shop and pay the price for drinks.
>A serious medical condition with myself, a family member, or a friend. Generally any problem that would prevent me from being able to work for an extended period of time.

Dude, buy some insurance. You can get boatloads of insurance without needing to be mega-rich.
Poll: What continent are you in?
I get the feeling that YC is much more international than people realize. Instead of complaining when people misspell a word, or are inartful with their comments; maybe we could see where everyone is from.

Which continent are you guys in?

(Islanders, please select your nearest continental shelf.)
p.s. If anyone is provably in Antarctica, I will paypal them 20 dollars for omitting it from my poll.
Seems to have worked for the new Porsche 911.
You may have given some lucky resident of Punta Arenas a nice little arbitrage.
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Jotspot used to be like this until they were bought by Google...
>Obviously, whoever gave a green light for the purchase must have thought so.

You could be right, or there could be other motivations. For example, maybe they thought the company had a one-in-five chance of being worth ten times that much in two years, so they figured it was worth the price.
Maybe you could buy some clothes...I don't know.
Interesting title: small-town life may mean big money.

Plano is anything but a small town, at least by the American perspective. It is the quintessential suburb of a top-ten city, and thoroughly enmeshed in the metropolitan area. Only someone from one of the top five cities could think of Plano as a "small town". Consider the 5A high-schools: my brother graduated from Plano Senior High School in 1984 in a class of 1200. I hear they are even bigger now. That school is not the only one at that scale, and it would be considered 6A in some states.

Having said that, I think Plano is one of the 3 cities in the Dallas Metro area that have a decent shot at becoming a technology hotbed that resembles the well-known ones (The Valley, Boston, Austin). Plano actually resembles Austin in some ways.

Rockwall and Richardson are the other two Dallas suburbs that I think make for decent technology areas. We'll see how that shapes up.
Hmmm... Wikipedia says it's like 1,400 miles away from Antarctica. It looks like South America to me, but I'm willing to have that conversation, should it come up ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punta_Arenas
This quote is probably biblical, but I heard it from Bob Marley: Don't gain the world and lose your soul.

For Jerry Yang, losing Yahoo would be like losing his soul.
> This goes back further than a hundred years in my reckoning.

Galileo apparently said that some of his best years were those at the University of Padova:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Padua#History

... which, as the article says, had more freedom and less influence from the Catholic church.

However: this strikes me as not really being hacker news.

(PS, check out this guy, who came out of Padova:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Faggin )
I've also seen very clean and maintainable Perl

Are you sure you just didn't imagine it? ;-)
Ask HN: What is the point of Karma Points?
Everyone is always talking about Karma points or losing karma points through down voting.

As I understand it karma points to don't effect ranking of articles. Correct?

So the point of having karma points is that when you get a certain level of karma points you can down vote or flag inappropriate content.

The question is how many do you need to complete the game? How many points do you need to be able to do all of the power ups that come with getting the points?
It was the closest I could find on the map. While I'm sure $1 goes a lot farther there than here, I concede that my comment was stupid.
You've just highlighted everything wrong with the waterfall method, and the SDLC for that matter.

You said it yourself: Most developers don't know how to perform the level of front loaded analysis required for a successful SDLC project. Ergo, "most" waterfall methods fail miserably. The method is out of sync with how humans work.

When your process boils down to creating a team so elite that they would succeed regardless, it's not much of a process.
Just because an employee shouldn't access the internet at such companies, doesn't mean he/she doesn't
He did the same for Posterous the other day.
Well, I don't know about anyone else, but it gave me a good laugh. And then I went straight to Wikipedia to make sure I wasn't about to cost myself a bunch of money.
Couldn't you just do exactly what you want in the first place?
What happened to Iceland? Haven't they been the current rage recently as far as the "happiest" country on earth?

There is actually a really interesting article about why Iceland ranked so high that makes some nice comments about the evolving family structure:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/18/iceland

"Highest birth rate in Europe + highest divorce rate + highest percentage of women working outside the home = the best country in the world in which to live. There has to be something wrong with this equation. Put those three factors together - loads of children, broken homes, absent mothers - and what you have, surely, is a recipe for misery and social chaos. But no. Iceland, the block of sub-Arctic lava to which these statistics apply, tops the latest table of the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) Human Development Index rankings, meaning that as a society and as an economy - in terms of wealth, health and education - they are champions of the world."
...or not reading at all.
Party pooper.

There's nothing wrong with learning and using C. It may not be your favorite flavor, but it's a perfectly valid and reasonable choice.
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