skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this is a late reply, but you're very right about C-x z and vi's . having different groupings. I'm so used to defining keyboard macros for any operation I want to repeat as a whole that it didn't even occur to me.

I'm easily sucked into vi / emacs threads, and I've talked about this at length a few times. I have a bit over five year experience with each, at this point. I prefer vi's general keyboard interface design (edit vs insert mode, etc.), because it gets rid of most of the modal keys that Emacs uses, but strongly prefer Emacs's "continuous environment"/integration and general extensibility. On the balance, I prefer Emacs. (And while there are vi-emulation modes for Emacs, such as viper, few extensions provide vi-like keybindings for them.)
I agree. I suspect any manager who looks at code and says it is not maintainable would have a very different side of the story, that might sound something like, "We already had an accumulator that did exactly what was needed. It just used a named delegate. I told him to either use that, or refactor the existing code to use his new and get rid of the old one. Maintaining both is wasteful. He seemed to get in a tissy about it."
The same could be said for someone who says "I read books all the time." You could look at it as someone being unproductive (hey if you're reading a book, you're probably not working!) or you could look at it as someone educating themselves.

I've learned a great deal by reading Hacker News.
This is really cool! I will definitely be using this in my current Rails app!

I must admit it took me a minute to remember that when I created my email templates that I had to do inline styling. When I looked at one of them just now I remembered the hatred. I'm going to forkify emailify so hard.
This is and always has been a terrible argument. Academic scholarships will always be a better use of money. There is no reason those first generation students can't get the attention of schools with academic excellence instead of sports, particularly if they are generally as bright as you claim.
Things in Shanghai aren't anywhere near as good as my memory of the States, but I'm concerned that either 1) my memory isn't serving me correctly and/or 2) the US has deteriorated since I left.
Though usually the same thing in practice, a test first environment is not conceptually the same thing as Test driven development.

The reward cycle of TDD and the focus that TDD brings to writing code are the reasons I use TDD. The added confidence in correct code is also extremely helpful.

As I see it, if one were "in the zone" from 8-5 for a week, and had a clearly defined and understood spec, most software wouldn't take more than a few weeks to build.

Since being "in the zone" and understanding a well-defined spec aren't really that easy. Most time spent (in my experience) is understanding the spec and wrapping your head around the problem. This is a reason why pair programming can be so helpful.

Regression testing aside, writing tests is valuable to me mostly because it helps to define the problem for me enabling me to more quickly write code.
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Weird that they would charge $34 for an ebook when it is also available free online though, does their formatting really add that much value? I guess may would pay that price without knowing it is also available free online, personally I'd rather make a donation to the author than pay O'Reilly.
So basically if your school does not provide a great education then rely on sports to keep things going.
Any contained problem will benefit will from TDD given that the code will be revisited by others and yourself later in time. For a startup testing hypotheses, this is rarely the case and most code will end up in the junkyard.
Were the Japanese forced into submission by a great football match?
If institutions like UCLA and UCSF want to be world leaders, they need to pay top dollar to attract the best surgical talent. That's just reality.

P.S. I never said my child was healthy.
Ding ding ding. I went to a D3 school for football, and when considering a possible MBA, something I was looking at half jokingly, but half legitimately, was whether the school was large - because I thought it would make watching sports on TV for the rest of my life, and having true attachment, a lot more fun.

Undoubtedly, as I progress further in my career, that fervor would have grown with team success, and also made my attachment more real - while my current alma mater (Chapman University in Southern California) - would have fallen away from consciousness with no legitimate way to grab my attention.

Whether I make a donation to any school in the future is up for debate, and I am now not likely to get an MBA based on many of the points raised here and elsewhere - but the point made on this comment hits the nail on the head.

I find it extremely unlikely that I will ever donate to my small private school in Southern California - because the thoughts of how it's helped me depart with every passing second, and they have no way to get it back.
I hear you tedkimble...and you are right. Perhaps the data isn't all complete - but that assessment isn't that far off.

Restrict the searches to California Highway Patrol officers. You will see pages and pages of them with double digit salary increases year on year.

Might not be 100%...but I mean...really.

The reason this is such a major injustice, is because California is then forced to cut certain welfare programs to those who really need it (i.e. the most vulnerable) because they can't afford it.

Meanwhile, Mr. 5-0 goes home with a 300K pension at 60.

Just saying, something is odd with that picture. No matter how you twist the data.

Edit: For instance tedkimble, look at this guy on page 4(don't mean to call him out, but I wanted to go in the median somewhere and bottom of page 4 seems to fit the bill):

>Darrell L Brooks
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
SERGEANT, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$212,049.00
$125,744.00
$126,602.00

He took a pay cut from 2008 to 2009 (by 0.67% approx) and from 2009 to 2010 got a pay raise of 68.4% ? How is that even right ? That seems to be a common pattern - for the highway patrol guys.

I have no axe to grind here....but this seems like injustice to the nth degree.

Edit 2: Just for completeness, here are some others:

>Terry D Dunn
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
SERGEANT, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$202,446.00
$125,182.00
$120,518.00

>Paul E Reyes
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
OFFICER, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$203,197.00
$161,532.00
$166,468.0

>Joseph W Sobkowiak
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
OFFICER, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$197,704.00
$138,645.00
$142,325.00
> Ever seen 50,000 alumni show up on campus for a theoretical physics conference?

One can be Utopian and wish for that day.
Ok, I think your profile page is fixed now!
Looks like we crashed the site :|
Stallman hates Linus with the force of one hundred novas. It's not really personal, he just hates it that Linux became so popular and 1) didn't give credit back to himself and the FSF (something that's not so clearly justified IMO) and 2) his own baby, HURD, never got traction.

At the end of the day, Stallman is only interested in one thing: getting the glory. Not even the FSF, just himself.

He's a lunatic, just ignore him.
Sweet man, I'm working on ironing some bugs out right now. Getting the scoping mechanism to be conformant is my next focus.
Wow. I just finished compiling v0.4.0
Exactly -- keep things going.

The money has to come from somewhere. It's the equivalent of state school's MVP. My alma mater, Oklahoma, did the very thing. Their engineering's growing by leaps and bounds, and has had the #1 meteorological research program in the world, and also secured the National Weather Center. CS hasn't grown as aggressively, but it is still growing.
Most of the "work he has to do" is to receive HTML pages in email and decoding them (I'm guessing mutt or similar).

No wonder he doesn't have time for anything else.
Of course this would be on HN.
Great suggestions guys, thanks for putting things in perspective and glad to hear fellow Americans are still loving it in the motherland.
The article talks that Germany is able to export even after giving full wages in the workers. How is it possible?
All the more reason why they shouldn't be losing money on sports as well.
Looks fantastic but I have the following questions:

1. The T&C states max cash salary of $700. Is the $3K you mention including other salary components or do you mean they accept up to 4 founders/employees on payroll?

2. Would they accept putting in a premium domain name (purchase price way over 4K) as required own investment of 10% of the 40K?

3. Would they welcome applications from a non-developer solo founder (me) explicitly looking for Chilean developers?

4. Although possible according to the T&C, is it allowed in practice to hire foreign developers until Chili dev is found? (I already have devs supporting my idea, possible subcontractors if there is budget to work with, but none of them willing to move to Chili.)

5. Would you be willing to pre-screen my application for tips and potentially leads to interested local talent?

6. What are people's plan after the 6/12 months expire? Would applying for Ycombinator be realistic and acceptable in the program's spirit?

Thanks!
Interestingly enough, the sort of error messages that you mention in OCaml occurs partly due to the inference itself. Because inference is essentially a unification between implicit constraints, once it finds an anomaly, the engine can't always predict correctly which among the conflicting constraints is the actual error from a user point of view.

Anyway just an aside
Gnuemacs.

Can we ignore them for real now?
The article talks that Germany is able to export even after giving full wages in the workers. How is it that their products are competitive for exports even after paying good salaries compared to China or India?
The wording here is "most" There was an article written in 2006 saying "Designed By Apple in California. Made in a sweat-shop in China." (http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2006/06/designed_by_app....)

Architecturally wise they are vertically integreated with all their in house hardware and software but I dont think anyone can argue that their manufacturing practices dont help that statement.
Germany exports expensive stuff.
I'm donating
I wonder if insights on dating habits in Delhi would transfer across India. The marketing rule that I read is that India is not one market (monolithic India) but many hundreds (state, district, culture, region, language, etc.) I'd love to know how effectively dating insights from one region transfer to the others.
Apple locked down the 10" screens lcd market, why do you think samsung went with a 7"?
Isn't bad developers an universal problem rather than a country specific as you say?
HN is not the place for such bigotry.
> This makes them sound like mortal enemies.

That makes it sounds more dramatic than it is. Stallman is an idealist and attaches moral value to the licensing of code. Torvalds is an engineer and just wants to ship code. His license of choice matches his model for doing this.

Basically Stallman is ideologically opposed to the existence of proprietary software and Torvalds is fine with a mixture of free/open software mixed with proprietary software.

The two of them are often mentioned together because the largest results of their labours (the GNU userland and the linux kernel) are combined to form 'linux based distributions', generally just referred to as 'Linux' (or 'GNU/Linux' as Stallman insists, because he justifiably wants some more public recognition of the impact of his project even if that just isn't the way things work).

Considering their differences and the way in which their works are combined it shouldn't be that surprising that there's some friction and snarky comments that spill out from time to time.
im also donating, this fight will determine the future of console systems
Not every lesson or piece of information can be learned from a book or in a classroom. Good luck getting soft skills there.

Real learning occurs while playing sports. Soft skills, discipline, teamwork, personal fitness, and long-time dedication are just a few areas where sports help the whole person.
You forget that their home infrastructure if low quality. For example: most low income students that I knew didn't know that the FAFSA was important until it was too late for their freshman year.

Also, they usually had average grades and test scores as well. They just worked hard in college to try to get a good job.

Many still had to take out college loans as well -- athletes aren't all 100% scholarshipped. Most are luck to get books covered. I know this potentially still applies to your argument, but I respectfully feel that your arguments are based on distanced observation alone.
To the downvoter -- universities have to keep their doors open before they can improve. If sports didn't assist with the donations and revenue process in a net positive, they wouldn't spend in their current manner.
The article address this fallacy. More often than not, those alumni donors are giving money to the athletic booster programs, not the school's academic programs. As a result, everyone who attends the university and pays tuition pays for the athletic program, even though only a small percentage actually play sports.
Some days you want to smoke weed, other days you want to take modafanil.
When you're a startup, getting to market should trump everything else, and TDD gets in the way of that.

Don't listen to agilists who tell you that untested code is unprofessional.

First of all, hundreds of thousands of untested lines of code go to production every day and they work fine.

Second, agilists usually go by the false fallacy of "Either you're using TDD or you're not testing". Which is obviously false: you could also be writing tests last. Which works just fine.
I think Selenium and other related tools are what he is talking about when he says "integration" testing. I'm a Ruby/Rails guy, so I use Cucumber/Steak+Capybara for my integration testing.
Should we also cancel the drama program, debate team, musical ensembles, and school newspaper?
When Stallman says "free software is an ethical imperative, because only free software respects the users' freedom", is he saying that I don't have the freedom to create closed source software for my own benefit? Is he saying that I'm not respecting the end user's freedom by distributing closed source services?

With all due respect Mr Stallman, given those conditions I may not want to code at all.
With English subtitles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbAtMsz0dro

References:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal

- https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=ye+guozhu+housing

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Yunhui

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Karamay_fire
RMS is an idealist. Torvalds is more of a pragmatist.

and pragmatists ship.
I'm guessing everyone wants a personal Watson now.

Might as well include a few machine learning packages:

PyML:
http://pyml.sourceforge.net/tutorial.html

Monte:
http://montepython.sourceforge.net/ http://learning.cs.toronto.edu/~rfm/montepython/monte.pdf
@Jason - might be good to take a look at the comments/frustrations on hackathons in this thread to get some ideas as well of what people liked/didn't like.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2240226
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Recap Spartacus Gods of the Arena Episode 5 "Reckoning": How is your impression after watching the story of Spartacus Gods of the Arena Episode 5?... Lucretia (Lucy Flawless) appear quite up to the play the character as a woman who is very ambitious.
Be curious to hear what you think of node after toying with it a bit.
> For instance, researchers have found a surprising link between daydreaming and creativity—people who daydream more are also better at generating new ideas.

Repeat after me: Correlation does not imply causation. Correlation does not imply causation. Correlation does not imply causation.

> The scientists measured the success of 60 undergraduates in various fields, from the visual arts to science. They asked the students if they'd ever won a prize at a juried art show or been honored at a science fair.

Art shows and science fairs, obviously the best / only indicators of success.

Man, either the article is terrible or it's shocking that this passes as "research".
The President also gets $400k, and after he leaves office gets a $200k pension, plus a bunch of other benefits, so overall is doing quite a bit better than the bus guy.
Set Goals
where you set a personal goal and then invite your friends to support you. Plus,Wishbomb takes the pain out of goal setting by scouring the internet for useful books, videos and articles to help you succeed.
Yes, I just got home from a code for america datacamp hackathon at socrata in seattle, was a lot of fun and quite productive.
Awesome, that will be quite useful.
no subtitle, verstansi nicht.
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The system is largely based on precedent, so if there have been enough verdicts in favor of the defendants in this kind of case, it should become easier and easier for them to defend themselves. Maybe corporations will even sue less of them, knowing they're likely to lose.
Insights on dating habits in Delhi will transfer reasonably well across all the cities (which is probably Ignighter's target audience, anyhow.)

What I'd love to see are the statistics behind this quote:

> Still, 40 percent of Ignighter’s members are women
Advantages of Tcl over Lisp
in my experience, yes, TDD/BDD slows me down (partially because I'm not 100% on it yet) BUT it's sooooo much more painful to me to add it back to legacy code than start with it fresh in a new project. I have two relatively large existing projects where I would kill to have solid test coverage, but to implement it just feels so daunting I haven't taken it on yet.
It's not their style. Toyota got to where they are today by patiently building up an organization that beats their competition. They play fair and square, even when their enemies don't.

I was recently at the Toyota museum in Nagoya. Toyota was originally founded to bring pride back to post-war Japan, and I think that principle is still at work in the company today.
I guess you can fight for a change in the entire US legal system of civil disputes instead, but it probably would have less likelihood of success.
Of course not. The question is does the amount we spend on athletics (millions) really do anything for academics? No one is saying athletics have no place in university. But why are we spending so much on it, compared to the drama program, debate team, musical ensembles, and school newspaper? When those subjects which tie into academics better than athletics.
Apple definetly holds a dominant hold on the 10" tablet market and the Samsung Tab took a stab at the market with their 7" and did ok. I feel Motorola is taking a brave stance here by trying to tackle the 10" market. As another comment in here points out, "wifi-only Xoom to be priced at $600" so there is competition when it comes to the "Nobody Can Match the iPad’s Price". (http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/02/motorola-xoom-ta...)
Yeah, there's one built into Vim!

:bufdo %s/^R-w/new_name/gc
If it made 5 million that year it is one of the few that made money. And besides, I doubt the school would have made money if only profitable teams were allowed to play in the division, so its still a net loss.

And that plane trip shouldn't be considered profit. The lack of a major sports team would have meant the lack of a free plane trip, but it would also have meant the lack of a need for a plane trip.

And I highly doubt your school's net profit is 30k per student per year.
This is not a one-size-fits-all issue. Depending on the team, you might be able to write code that's 90-99% correct with little test coverage. Depending on the problem space, code that's 90-99% correct might be good enough. In others, it might sink your company.

You might lose 1% of "customers" due to bugs, but you could also easily lose 1% of customers due to bad copy or UX. Is that tested as rigorously as the code? Could the time you spent writing tests/specs have been used to implement and analyze A/B tests?

Etc.
Bise Bahawalpur
I compete fairly by writing 100% of code at the event, but I also have a product that I wrote and implemented as an API. It is a powerful API similar in scope to what Tungle likely has (I don't have access to a competitor's API).

When I demo my hack, I de-emphasize the use of my API. In effect, I grab a couple of sponsor APIs, mix them with my own API, and create a product.

I talk with teams for a while and help them when I can. In the end I take 24 hours to simply code.
I think America is becoming a nation of products/services resellers
Funny -- I always thought of Borders as a "bookstore for people who like books" compared to B&N, which I consider a "bookstore for people who don't like books."

Neither holds a candle to, say, The Tattered Cover, but unfortunately there's no Tattered Cover where I'm living now... :(
Perl 6? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6
Not that its going to do Geohot much good, but I for one won't be purchasing another Sony product, ever.
No, because those things are of actual intellectual interest. They are what schools are for.
Exactly. For example a judge in Texas recently ruled that plaintiffs in piracy cases should file against individuals. This means that each lawsuit will cost around $350 in filing fees. It isn't financially attractive to spend six figures to file lawsuits over a few hundred people watching pirated movies. So I doubt we'll see any more of those mass bittorrent lawsuits in Texas if this precedent holds.
Fuck it, donated; why not?
Linus is an idealist, not a pramatist. Making the best OS possible is an ideal. Shipping is an ideal.

Unlike Stallman, Linus' ideals are superior because they're good in theory and practice, whereas Stallman's ideas aren't even good in theory (unless you already subscribe to a very narrow belief system similar to his).

Evidence (LKML Wed, 23 Apr 2003):

"The GPL requires you to give out sources to the kernel, but it doesn't limit what you can _do_ with the kernel. On the whole, this is just another example of why rms calls me "just an engineer" and thinks I have no ideals.

[ Personally, I see it as a virtue - trying to make the world a slightly better place _without_ trying to impose your moral values on other people. You do whatever the h*ll rings your bell, I'm just an engineer who wants to make the best OS possible. ]"
Really?!? You think RMS reads mail in mutt? Are you not familiar with this man at all?
The irony of this is that Starbucks, in a way, owns Seattle's Best.

Granted, it's about brand attraction, but eh, funny nonetheless.
Heresay is what that is called. You ought find a better source and stop repeating heresay.
Wow, working retail means you are pushed to sell inventory and deal with annoying customers? Shocking news.

This is why I don't read CNN.
I can't find consistency in Stallman's idealism. It seems that he's against proprietary software, yet is completely fine with legal protection for intellectual property rights. The GPL is a copyright. The GPL, just like any copyright, limits certain freedoms of the users of the software. Does Stallman have some idealogical problem with the public domain?