skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A very valid point! No one can deny that all organizations can claim things like this. There are good and bad parts of them, such as everything in Pittsburgh looking for their seal of approval first - which could lead to a herd mentality for or against a company.

However - I personally know several companies that wouldn't have started sans their investment and efforts. There is a certain "activation energy" with companies that orgs like YC and Ben Franklin (Innovation Works / AlphaLab locally) provide for. This was true for my company.

The "say in PA" part of the program I agree is a bad thing. They should force PA to work to retain companies - not using golden handcuffs... However, all in all, if I was going to spend tax money - I'd rather put it there than into potholes.
My iPad has been in my bathroom for all of 2011 so far. Like this piece's author, I don't find the iPad to be a very useful device, because it really isn't better than a computer at very many things (and does not fit in your pocket, unlike its far more useful siblings).

But, for dukey-time reading, I must say that it markedly outperforms my previous system (which consisted mainly of musty back issues of the Economist).
If that's your standard response to such an apparently-vague profile, without them actually stating such things, you're going to be jumping the gun a lot and probably win more enemies than successes. Do you also leap at people who think we're over-medicating?
I participated yesterday. It's my second hackathon. I get your frustration with the typical hackathon.

My approach is to focus on finding the right people and the right concept at the beginning of the event and to get to know them better while working with them. The goal is to walk away with some new relationships. I spend only a small amount of time talking with the rest of the crowd.

At an event like the foursquare hackathon, I'm not really concerned what happens with the presentations. At other events, like TechCrunch Disrupt or Startup Weekend, I would.
Firefox 4 (out-of-the-box and on the surface) is going to look more and more like the current Chrome. A new breed of Firefox extensions will surface very soon to hack away a lot of ui stuff back to 3.6 (Namoroka) branch. ("classic" status bar, "classic" tabs, things like that...)
Lots of great stuff mentioned, but here's some I didn't see:

SEO:http://raventools.com/

Password Management: http://passpack.com/

Stickers: http://www.stickermule.com/ :-)
He seems to have taken the opening paragraphs for several iPad articles and squished them together.

Maybe it's an experiment in creating articles out of scraps.
In preferences there's an option to send usage statistics and crash reports to Google.
Neat. What was they keyboard layout? The same as this one or was it frequency based?
Yeah! and why even bother closing that </html>? Google doesn't. Hell, why bother with it at all? And why assume the developer wants english? Here's the real html5 boilerplate:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset=utf-8>
<title>Title!</title>
<p>Content!

I left in the charset=utf-8 to prevent the utf-7 security vulnerability. That's important. I think I'll go check this into github. :-D
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The code converts:

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To:

## 0.1
# 1

str is builtin, don't use it as a variable name especially if you use it in its original role.
To be fair, that's what Lisp's let is syntactic sugar for, too.
Wow. 405 and still no down arrow? I'm only a little over 100 and was wondering what the threshhold was...
This post has some interesting points, but I would really appreciate some concrete code samples.
The music references are not the issue here. Read the comments this tool is making to people who are (rightfully) giving him criticism.
As much as I love OCW (I've "done" several courses there, including problem sets, exams etc), I think the problem of not being able to interact with an expert is still a very big limitation.

For example, suppose I'm studying mathematics. I miss being able to show a proof to someone to get feedback on it. Sure, I know if I succeeded in proving what I set out to prove, but is there a better way I could have proved the same thing?

It's like if I learned to code, and had unit tests to check correctness, but did not have anyone to critique my code style. Maybe I'm passing all the tests but my code is ugly and could be made a lot better?

This may not be a problem in all courses, but it certainly is starting to be a problem in the higher level mathematical courses that I'm learning.

OCW is fantastic, and I hope a companion site comes up where a student can ask questions to experts (even on "simple topics" and homework problems -- which rules out MathOverflow).
What were some of your experiences participating in Capital Factory? Best parts? Worst Parts?
Sweet, now when is WSGI going to have 3.0 compatibility worked out so that it's reasonable to start using it?
I keep seeing this "problem" come up, but I don't understand how it's realistic. If you have a function that modifies a parameter as a side effect, why would you have a default value for the parameter?

And since the site's comments seem to be taken over by link spam, is this mention on Hacker News just a clever way to juice the Google rank of said spam?
Regardless of language, that is a fairly terse style guide for a company the size of google. Especially when you consider the scale of their applications.
Use 3.x if you can. Use 2.x if a library you require hasn't been ported (or better, help them with it, although that's probably not a job for a self-described amateur).
I haven't used Scheme in a while now, but I remember that in practice every implementation provided CL-style macros. I think the only reason it never became part of the standard, given that it's dead simple to implement compared to hygienic macros, is the whole attitude toward standardizing as little as possible.
Interesting. Never really thought about this. I have multiple Google accounts, but never really sign in with both on any device besides my Android phone.
The savings is fairly minimal after gzip, and it comes at a cost -- removing all readability of HTML view source.
I still say Dropbox provides a legitimate backup, consider the features my free Dropbox account offers:

(1) Redundancy - All files in your Dropbox are saved on every computer and stored on Dropbox's servers
(2) Accessibility - Files in the Dropbox can be reached from any computer with internet access via a browser and downloaded
(3) Versioned Storage - Every saved version of every file in the Dropbox going back thirty (30) days is available online
(4) Deletion Protection - Every file in the Dropbox is available online and can be restored, even after the file is deleted from the computer and removed from the dropbox

I may be missing something, but what exactly does a "true" backup system do that Dropbox doesn't?
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Add at least two spaces at the beginning of each line and it will be treated as a preformatted block.

What you try to do is not legal Python. The else clause can't go in the same line.

I get your point, though. Python's scope is not in terms of literally 'indentation' blocks. Scope units are: module toplevel, and (possibly nested) function and class definitions. To create a new scope you create a new function. This is what Lisp does too (you can define let as a macro over lambda).

I have oscillated between liking either way better and at present I find Python's sloppier way more practical.
If you're interested in further layout research, http://www.thegridsystem.org/ is a gold mine for that.
$15 million impresses you?

Chump change.
As you say, RAID (specifically RAID level 1) is redundancy.

Time Machine is a form of generational/chronological backup.

Apple has stated that Time Machine is not archival. I wonder is this new patent is referring to an extension of TM, to the cloud, to provide something as close to archival as can be achieved.
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As I said I've not participated in the Capital Factory program, but I'm a hands-on advisor with a company that is founded by Jason Cohen and backed with resource by Capital Thought (the company behind the Capital Factory program).
the use case is rather different, though: Hacker News is a list of articles other people have written with discussion and commentary. Stack Overflow is a list of questions from your peers with potential answers. (Also, that's a really old screenshot)
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Yeah, I'm really impressed with g0atbutt's results so far.
Ask HN: How to get more users for a startup website.
For the last 6 months I've been working on building my first startup. It was finally ready and launched last month. I'm trying to build a community to help people classified ads via video. I believe if everyone can watch videos of what people are selling they can save so much time traveling from place to place to check out the product. They can enjoy watching classified ads videos without leaving the comfort of their homes. It's like craigslist but by videos instead of posting photos. It's been about 1 month, we have about 200 members signed up but not many actually uploading videos. I'm thinking of running a contest to encourage them to upload their unwanted things lying around their houses. Are there any other ways for them to start uploading videos? Plus how can I get more users to join a site like this.
I'm a bit new on marketing for a startup website and looking forward to learn from you guys. Please review my website and provide me some tips. If you don't like anything about the site please let me know so i can fix it to better serve users.

Thanks
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You're right that I jumped the gun. I'd apologise, but it would be disingenuous as I still can't shake you out of the profile I put you in at first.

It's not fair, and it's not rational, but if there's anything I've learnt from taking zoloft it's that dualism is rubbish. We are illusions of ourselves, running on a largely hacked-together substrate made of meat.

I used to put the position that the drugs are over-prescribed, that it's a societal problem etc. But I don't feel that way any more, because thinking like that was another reason that I did not seek treatment. I basically lost my 20s to this disease, I don't want others to suffer as I did.

If that means erroneously attacking a few false positives on HN, so be it.
I'm kinda curious too.
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Funny you should ask this today, I just sent out a notification for YBITS, the Young Brisbane IT Social.

The idea is to get a group of like-minded young (of mind) IT professionals together in a 'networking' format that doesn't feel douchy.

It's part of my cunning master-plan to give Brisbane a bit more of a startup scene, but most of the attendees are still un-aware:P

I think it'd be a great venue to kick something like that off, do you want to work together on something? YBITS is here: https://groups.google.com/group/YBITS/browse_thread/thread/4... (That's the link to our march meeting) and you can contact me via my details here.
I think the actual cause of these problems is Adobe Flash. It's the main reason that browsers crash on my machine.
Just to clarify -- we always make the creative commons data available for all our public sites, and even closed sites. There have been two so far: AI and Gadgets. The AI creative commons dump is at http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/6607/artificial-in... and the gadgets creative commons data dump is at http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/614/electronic-gad...
I find tortoisegit to be rather good for simple merges/commits on windows. For linux/macOS I just use the command line.
Here's my HTML5 Boilerplate:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<title></title>

It's valid, it works in all major browsers, it doesn't assume anything about which features I want to use, it leaves me in standards mode, not quirks mode, and I can type it out from memory instead of having to have some boilerplate saved somewhere.
Probably because there is no point once you peel back the layers of marketing and breathless fanboyism. I've seen two (2) of these things in the wild since they came out. I live in one of the top three tech hubs on the east coast and I've been to countless meetup groups, starbucks, panera and at least one international developer conference in that time.

Both of the people I saw with ipads where eager to breathlessly tell everyone around them how their shiny new $500 purchase had changed everything for all time. In both instances once the sales pitch was done the clunky gadget went back in the bag it came out of or sat unused on a conference room table.
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Yes, throwing an arbitrary object as an exception is a humorously ridiculous approach.

It's as if every time a machine broke down in a factory, the workmen would have to wheel the machine into the manager's office, shove it on his desk and shout, "there, there's your problem!"... and if the manager didn't grab the machine, it would fly through his back window...
9/11 was the biggest geopolitical change since the fall of the Iron Curtain.
The concurrent.futures module looks interesting: http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.2.html#pep-3148-the-co...

I don't have much experience in that area, so I can't judge if it's as cool as I think it is. Will anyone help me out?

The ability to safely convert string representations of data structures into the structures themselves seems pretty sweet, too: http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.2.html#ast
What the hell was that? I'm sorry for the bluntness of my statement, but that "article" was crap.
If you're lucky the employees spend money in the area and move there. Also the business is likely to use local vendors, even if it's just the Kinko's and grocery store.

That's all just for starters. It's pretty much a guaranteed net positive.
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> The variable will still be bound, but conceptually it's unavailable, since it's not supposed to be used.

Which, in all fairness, is the same as saying that this does not indeed create a new scope. If you're going to rely on convention, you might as well dispense with the 'with' statement at all and use blank lines.

An explicit and safe (if not very elegant) way to put a variable out of scope is just deleting it after you're done with it:

main_scope_stuff()
if True: # Let's say we _really_ want indentation here..
c = create_context()
for foo in foos:
do_something(foo, c)
do_other_thing(foo, c)
accumulate(foos, c)
del c
# something_or_other(c) <--- raises UnboundLocalError
more_main_scope_stuff()

That said, if it got to the point of going to this trouble I'd just make a nested function instead.
Hello All! I am one of the authors. Thanks for the interesting comments. The web page is not intended to be a study but rather an enticement to read the technical papers referenced therein. The JACM paper originally included detailed comparisons with alternative heuristics but the referees thought it made the paper too long. Quick summary: Few of the alternatives had been analyzed for expected performance and most had worst worst-case performance. But this was all 25 years ago and could be updated. Rgds, JJB
Another option is FreeSWITCH, an open-source telephony platform with development led by a Barracude Networks guy. I only learned about it yesterday, so I can't make a recommendation. http://www.freeswitch.org/
there are two of us here, though this will be my last post. I already inserted the qualifier into the discussion, way back in response to Charuru. I clarified your point. Karma's not important, but it does demonstrate how many people resonated with concepts; and as I already said, the flow of karma demonstrates that when you actually communicated, people agreed with you more.
We use a LOT of open source stuff too. We believe in the best of both worlds -- http://blog.serverfault.com/post/stack-exchanges-architectur...
Presumably you could also write it in JavaScript or some other language with excellent JSON support

No surprise since JSON (aka JavaScript Object Notation) was designed for interpretation by JavaScript and subsets can also be directly interpreted by languages like Python.
I'm wondering why they wouldn't have it as a feature.
And the fact that he hasn't yet changed his username.
About 6 months ago I did an "Ask HN" post about noticing that 50% of the TC urls submitted to HN were coming from the same 4-5 individuals.

It may even be interns at TC submitting them.
Whats the difference between tornado and node.js? Besides the obvious that they are developed in different languages.
Memorization is an implementation detail and shouldn't be part of the arguments list.
You're comparing a totalitarian system to a mid-level manager at a company. Not the same things.

There is a ton of material written about the workings of the Nazi German government and the Soviet Union. I suggest reading it. While Stalin, Hitler or Lenin didn't directly oversee millions of people, the top layers of the power structure were deliberately setup to create bitter rivalries and a level of terror and paranoia that kept them in line.

When they didn't stay in line or were perceived as a threat, they were shot. On MANY occasions, people near the top of the Communist structure in the USSR were declared "counterrevolutionaries" and erased. Probably the highest-risk thing for an aspiring apparatchik in one of these types of places to do is get close to the top.

You seem to be incredulous that US TV news is propaganda. The government in the 20th century wisely forced broadcasters to treat news as a public service and restricted the ability of individuals to control broadcasting on a national scale. Anyone who can remember TV from the 70's can tell you about the difference.
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We use it as well at Summify
Often people point out that "don't worry, we'll get the market first then we'll clean up". How often that'll happen? The chances that will happen is probably 1:20 or 1:50

No. If you're in a startup 20-1 odds are you never see that code again. Factor that.

If you're in a spot where the company is making money, you've got an income stream? Different story entirely.

The point is to do the math. Don't just follow one way or another because you have some idea of what a "correct" programmer would do.

I have listened to your rant all my life. Hell, I've even been the one giving it. 99% of the time I was right, because 99% of the time I was talking to a group that had to maintain whatever they wrote for the next five years. But when you are in a not-making-money-startup right and you have 200 folks telling you how to be a great programmer, and not a damn one of them could make a program on the open market that could make a dime. We have put "quality programmer" ahead of "make something useful" because we, as programmers, are a market for other folks to sell us stuff. Our customers are a secondary consideration to them -- and to us. Something is wrong with that picture.

Love the rant. I especially like it when people tell me and others what a good or bad programmer is. Hell, I agree with the thrust of your rant. The problem is that people could give jack shit for a good programmer. They want you to solve their problems. Then money comes. Then you have a code base that you can make all nice and shiny and pat yourself on the ass for how great you are. You can even rant and rave and fire people who don't tow the line like you expect. But until that happens, you got a pipe dream and 40 tons of useless architectural and code design cruft you're carrying around between your ears that you have been sold.

How many times we heard the stories that a hot technology companies growth were uncontrollable and at some point, everything just fall down.

This is one of my favorite canards. Look -- if you're in a technology company that wrote crap code and now you have a million users? That's not a failure! That's a success! We should all be so lucky! For every tech startup that wrote crap code and have a million users there are a thousand or more tech companies that wrote awesome code that nobody cares about. It's not enough for those guys to sit around telling themselves how awesome they are, how much they could scale if they only have users, because getting users is the whole freaking point. Code the Space Shuttle once you can sell a couple of bottle rockets.

You're not talking to somebody who is saying throw out all your good coding practices. You're talking to somebody who is telling you to freely adapt with an open mind to the particular situation you find yourself in.

</counter rant> :)
No, they haven't jumped the shark. You were just exposed to Steve Gillmor's writing. While the article is pointless, its one of his more coherent posts. He has written much worse TC articles than this.
Reading this I thought, I'm glad that Hacker News has so many smart people. I learned a lot :) Thank you for your thoughtful response. And I did follow up by looking on Wikipedia!
Kudos for releasing the app!

IMHO, Unless you're married, don't put your relationship status on FB. Set it as hidden, or say nothing. When things change, and in life they do... the people from whom you don't want to hear are the first to notice and / or comment on it.
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If someone is dying from a disease you have cures for (it's simple, but hard: stop drinking), but they're not taking them, so you instead support that disease, how far from euthanasia is that really?

The difference is that people have the right to choose what treatment they take or don't take. Forcing a treatment on someone (antibiotics, chemotherapy, sewing a laceration) when they don't want it is legally called medical battery, and it's against the law.

This is particularly poignant in the case of diseases like alcoholism or drug addiction. I often have conversations with alcoholics along the lines of "Your alcohol level was 5 times the legal limit. If you keep drinking at this level, in a couple of years, your liver will be shot, and you're going to die of liver failure. Liver failure is one of the worst ways to die, because you die looking like a swollen yellow gourd."

Most don't care, and keep on drinking. Same thing with smoking. I smoked for 10 years while I was a Critical Care nurse. It was my choice and my addiction. It took trying to quit 15 times before I did it successfully. Some people aren't able to quit, or don't want to quit, and it kills them.

Should we deny people with lung cancer hospice because their disease was self inflicted? Should we deny people with heart disease hospice because they didn't manage their cholesterol properly? Should we deny people with type 2 diabetes hospice because they didn't manage their diet appropriately, exercise or lose weight?
Good catch. I was talking about R5RS and earlier.
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If only QT/Trolltech had a well-know market value, then they could sell it.
15 million iPads sold in one year certainly impresses me, that's 5% of the US population reached ... In one year.
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