skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thanks for the comment, means a lot! Good suggestion as well, the percentage one might be too hard as I'm using some basic NLTK libraries, but the one showing tweets I'll definitely look into!

Furthermore, the words listed are certainly not necessarily words you used, but just the 50 most differentiating words between east and west coast. 'compton' is used way more in west coast lyrics than east for example. It's just there to see some fun differences not related to your personal twitter stream. At last, in total the classifier looks for not 50, but 1000 words in classifying your tweets. Hope this explained it a bit.
No reason? Only if you don't care about your energy bill.

Running a 60W light bulb for 6-hours a day for a year costs - in California - $18.25. Multiply that by, I donno, 5 bulbs in your house and you're spending $91.25/yr on your lighting.

If you replace those 5 60W bulbs with 13W CFL's, and your cost is just $21.90/yr for the same amount of light. Even including the cost of buying 5 new CFL bulbs, and ignoring the cost of replacing your incandescent lights, you're going to save ~$65 in energy savings just the 1st year.
I love this post and really identify with it, especially, "That mindset separates people who do from people who don’t." I've always been a person to do, but find it's more common to come across people who allow fear to prevent them from doing. They see the obstacles, the worst case scenarios, never the potential, the opportunities or if they see them, they seem too difficult to reach. I agree that it's mindset that distinguishes the leaders from the followers. Keep on leadin'!
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Recommendations for a web-savvy site to form a corporation or LLC online?
(Title says it all - thank you!!) (I wish there were a directory of web-savvy companies!)
What does the literature say about a pure function that throws an exception? For example, what of an asynchronous exception like out-of-memory or stack?
I'll get straight to the elephant in the room and I'm even ignorant enough to ask it before I tried to find out myself (though at gun point I would lean more towards one that the other). Is it homoiconic?
I have in-laws who work for rural phone co-ops in northern Iowa. Back in the late 1990's they were laying fiber-optic everywhere because of the bandwidth farmers were willing to pay for...particularly the hog farms which were largely automated.

And that's nothing compared to the level of genetic technology and associated startups involved with agriculture.

I'm sorry but the idea that we are at Agriculture 2.0 only suggests a lack of familiarity with the contemporary agriculture industries and a lack of historical perspective.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_revolution]
Ever since I heard about "dirty energy" emitted from CFL bulbs, I've become wary of fluorescent bulbs and pro-LCD bulbs. Especially because I'm an asthmatic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS5ogZxoZ2Y
http://www.magdahavas.com/2009/12/05/gs-units-explained/

Can anyone with more knowledge on the subject verify if the dirty energy info about CFL bulbs is true, and if LCD bulbs will be free from that?
Ark.com is looking for a Front End Engineer for a W2011 YC Application
Join two Berkeley PhDs (CS) and let's build the next generation of social commerce for an application for the winter YC competition.

Team so far is one UX Guru (Symantec, AOL, Lithium UX Director, etc) and one platform expert / prior YC alum.

We are looking for someone who does stunning front-end work based on schematics, visual comps, etc. Contact patrick@ark.com.
I'd do too. I didn't time it, but i am perceiving/imagining a huge difference when starting vim after recompiling without ruby- and python.
This is even apparent in shell: rvm, a platform-agnostic Ruby installer, is substantially written in shell rather than Ruby.

I hope so! :-)
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One issue not mentioned here is that Condé Nast has particular rules about staffing that are good for magazines but bad for web sites. These kinds of issues need to be worked through politically every single time they come up.

As a stand-alone entity, they won't be subject to those rules, and Condé Nast doesn't have to worry about the rest of its companies saying, "but reddit did it".
Which then, if I'm not mistaken, boils down to:

Post.all.group_by {|post| post.name[0] }
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That's also a good way to interact with little boys, incidentally. It makes you a much more interesting adult than someone who just says and does the same boring things as every other adult who is suddenly faced with a child.
(i guess most of the Scala guys went to burning Man ;-}

1. read the (many) "levels" posts

http://www.scala-lang.org/node/8610

http://blog.tmorris.net/critique-of-oderskys-scala-levels/

http://erikengbrecht.blogspot.com/2011/01/martin-odersky-sca...

http://www.fogus.me/thunks/scala.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4247528/efficacy-of-stick...

http://pchiusano.blogspot.com/2010/09/four-stages-of-functio...

2. The staircase book (1st ed available free) and Cay Horstmann's new book (many chapters freely avail in PDF)

3. Teh toolchain: the IDEA plugin works prety well, and the Eclipse plugin probably does also. You'll need to get familiar with compiler error messages, warnings and flags:

http://www.assembla.com/code/scala-eclipse-toolchain/git/nod...

4. The "user" mailing list, Stackoverflow and IRC are pretty beginner-friendly.

5. The REPL: power mode, repl-utils, ..

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4736174/var-dump-in-scala
Not a single person misspelled "spears" as "speers" ?
Good quote: We founders unwittingly focus on how to make the best customer experiences better, rather than making the worst experiences less worse, and sometimes this is a mistake.
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Why do you assume they "feel compelled" to do this? I mean, it seems highly likely in my opinion that some percentage (possibly/probably the vast majority) are doing so as a last or near-to-last resort, but "highly likely in my opinion" doesn't strike me as sufficient grounds to write up your questions with what seems like an implicit assumption that the percentage is as close to 100 as to make no useful difference.
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Not sure it's such a great idea to rent the studio as a place to crash : I've been told it gets noisy in the afternoon, and that one may hear voices saying "oh it's goooood".
Ok, do you have specifics or just vague platitudes?
The primary problem with that isn't that it would turn into a technocracy, it's that it would instantly make influence over ACM or IEEE extremely valuable. In a few short years the organizations would degrade into paid shills.

The various laws mandating standard-compliance already did this to the standards bodies.
I think the lack of attention comes from a lack of interest. Who really cares when something airs nowadays, especially in the case of streaming content?

No offense intended, but I think you may be in the minority.
How does "not even vot[ing] in elections" in any way help with bias for a particular candidate? If you use a spin pulpit to shill for your desired candidate, how does not going out and voting for him too do anything to change that?
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Which is shit for nothing when you compare it with the cost of gas, rent or (and this particulary irks me: food).

I run only the bulb in the room I am in, which means i would save less than 20$/year which is less than my low care limit.

Add the shit lighting early bulb death and possibility of mercury poisoning my room (you are supposed to leave for half an hour after you drop one, then clean up with heavy gloves) and replacing the bulb goes from an economically decent idea to something less than attractive.
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It seems really weird that every single one of these spells "spears" correctly.

Is this supposed to be a representative list of misspellings? Or given that it's posted under /jobs, is it data for an interview exercise of something like that? (The page doesn't say.)
It's used as an illustrative example on the "Why Work at Google?" page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/swe/whygoogle/

I thought at first it might be the source data for some kind of programming puzzle, but searching "link:www.google.com/jobs/britney.html site:google.com" did not immediately reveal it. Upon reflection, a puzzle of that sort seems a bit uncharacteristic.
Uh yeah. This is the original author, and Tech Talks shouldn't be posting my entire copyrighted text (even if I give it away -- which I do) without permission. I have no problem if someone does a little introduction or comment, and then a couple lifted paragraphs, then links to the original, but to copy it wholesale with no/little attribution is plagiarism.
He already has editorial independence. What he wants is independence to run a venture fund. It's a crucial distinction, and one AOL's lawyers can surely make -- convincingly -- in court.
Something I've found in getting people started in this direction is that they don't know what words to use when googling for their problem.

You can give them a huge leg up by giving them a programming vocabulary to help them on their way.

There's that famous saying about once you have a name for something the problem is pretty much solved...

You can also help them heaps by telling them what's important and what is not important. Most books on programming languages etc start with a whole bunch of stuff they should probably put into the basket of "computer trivia I don't need to know yet"...
It's telling me "That ain't no real twitter user bro!" which is false (and kind of lame).
It doesn't take that much privilege to save $350 within a reasonable amount of time. It's probably unreasonable if you're in poverty, but even much of the lower class in America has things like TVs that cost in excess of the price of a Mac.
I actually don't have any .vimrc config for PeepOpen. :cd into your project directory and use the shortcut (I changed my shortcut to cmd+t).

In MacVim preferences, I set "Open files from applications" to "in the current window / and set the arglist"
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Most (all?) video game developers do the same: A disclosure that says "we have LOTS of ideas already, and your ideas may be similar, so we can't agree not to create anything that includes your ideas."
out of their last "uh like a billion" dollar round $810M went back out the door, they only kept $136M for operating expenses and I believe they're at about about a $100M a quarter run rate.

So you have to believe the answer is soon. Those G round investors are getting extremely squeezed they need either an IPO or they are faced with having to put another round in to get some additional short term runway. I doubt at this point they're going to have a lot of people lining up to put new money in (or if they do the terms will be pretty generous).

There is still a way out if a Google or maybe an Amazon wanted to take a shot at a bid right now. Groupon for $4 billion Anyone? Anyone?
I do that same. When it matters I spell correctly (including in IMs). But for google searches or when I have spell check I don't bother.
That's your decision. But it's also why you think it's clunky.

It's an awesome text editor. Who said anything about religion?
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That comment didn't make sense to me. Why would a script that installs Ruby be written in Ruby? Isn't that the very definition of the chicken-and-egg problem?
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I believe they only have one person from within still there that could do it.
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I don't think pure functions are supposed to throw exceptions, instead they should return error values.
I thought desperate need is starving, freezing, facing eviction, not "struggling to pay for a college degree". Can't you put those degrees on hold for a while (not sure how the system works)?
That won't work because they'll just attract the worst kind of cheapskate investor demographic, who'll move on to the next penny stock once the discount is expired.
Indeed. Even though Wiki(pedia)s are now everywhere in people's online lives it's always a pleasant surprise when the execution is done right for something like Lanyrd to succeed.

Nice work, Simon and Nat!

Edit: spelling.
Are you looking to have an online service incorporate your website? I dont know of one off the top of my head but they generally just incorporate for you and it's your job to transfer the title(registration) over to the Corp.

I'm a tax accountant to qualify my advice lol.
> don't just point them at Google. Tell them YOUR story ... and .. what YOU would do differently ...

> Use your friends

These are good bits of advice. I would also encourage folks here to realize just how far programming is from what most people do all day. When you live in Windows XP all day, grew up with Windows, and spend your time talking with people about, in my case, medicine, and family in the evenings, programming isn't even on the periphery. It's on the other side of a freaking ocean. In the few occasions I've actually met a programmer and talked with them, it is a fantastically rare luxury, and I have learned to try and ask the best questions I can when I have those moments. Most don't want to "talk about work".

It can be a long (years) slog. In my case I had to figure out enough networking to be given an old CPU in exchange for setting up a router. Then figuring out how to burn and load a SuSE on it (10.3, with a very broken Zypper -- imagine suffering with that as your first distro when you don't even know if it's your fault and don't know anyone who can help). Then I had to figure out enough command line stuff to not be totally lost (and forget huge numbers of one-liners, not sure if they would be useful in the future). Then try about 10 different languages trying to find what works. Oh, did I mention learning Vi and Emacs with nothing but Google?

To anyone out there alone in the woods, trying to learn this on their own, I definitely recommend buying Lutz's Learning Python and read what of it you need to while working through Zed Shaw's Learn Python the Hard Way. And have questions ready in case you ever find yourself sitting next to a professional programmer on a bus in Okinawa.
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For the curious:

> Hi there, we're TeamCoco, the digital team behind "Conan". We're looking for a few people to stay in our studio while they visit Los Angeles. You'll be filmed and be featured on our show. (MUST be okay with being filmed.) Message us for more details.
Can they go back and raise another private round? Who would buy in, with IPO off?
To be above all suspicion or reproach. The people I knew were pretty hardcore. That being said, they weren't all that intense. I'm sure some of them did vote, but they weren't running the campaign for one of the candidates in their off time, and if they were, they would have been fired immediately. As for spin pulpits, I'm not talking about opinion writing, I'm talking about reporting, which is ostensibly what TechCrunch does.
Why is HN made in tables? Aren't they run by nerds?
Why is http://news.ycombinator.com/ made in tables? Aren't they run by nerds?
MG's comment was typical MG. Which means yes it was absolutely laughable.
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Maybe this should be a new litmus test for patents. If you can't explain what your patent is, its value, and how its being infringed to a reasonably intelligent person (a judge) then its not patentable.

I mean if the judge needs an expert to explain it to him, who the heck is reviewing these things for approval.
The main thing a statically typed pure functional language tries to do is force you to "mark" the side effect in your code with type annotations. Various effects can be modeled with different types. Many of these types still support some form of composability, which promotes modularity--a major goal of functional programming.

Whether every effect can and should be modeled in this way seems to be an open question that depends on the semantics you wish to apply to your programming language.
I think rvm could have a lot more Ruby code in it- Wayne (the author) does a lot of things in shell that could feasibly be abstracted away in Ruby. I happen to really like that, although I think it goes against the grain of what most Rubyists think- others would probably do the bare minimum in shell and quickly jump into Ruby as soon as it was feasible.
YC startups have been given lots of press for years. You may be right, I don't know the specifics of the terms but YC startups have always had a lot of coverage because they're YC startups.

I've seen far more bias from the mainstream press tech reporters towards certain startups. All these journalists seem to be hired by a number of startups. Seems like some are just reporting to help their career.
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I think we are actually in agreement on this. It's wrong to punish people who genuinely thought there was a fire, or who relayed a reasonably plausible alarm without checking.

My initial comment wasn't an attempt to totally rebute yours, and I should have made that clear. I was focusing on:

>>>The downside? One unnecessary evacuation that probably needed practice anyways.

You seemed to consider the unnecessary evacuation as a minor perturbation. I pointed out that such an evacuation is not 100% risk-free.

Of course, nothing is 100% risk-free, and we need to take this into account when doing risk analysis. After our discussion, I guess the risk of accidents during an unnecessary evacuation might actually be lower than the risk of having people not raising the alarm when needed (due to a fear of being punished if it turns out they were wrong). But this risk still needs to be weighed when considering this problem.
Thanks... I don't submit many longer posts since I've limited myself to checking news sites from my phone (for productivity reasons). So this one-liner generated about six months of Karma for me :)
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Brilliant, thank you very much. I've found the same irritation, and is one of my biggest dislikes of HN. Not being able to quickly identify comments stifles conversation past the first few hours of a post. And while you can use the "Threads" tab to keep track of threads you are personally involved in, this doesn't help at all for those that you are simply watching.

In short, you are awesome and thanks :)
How long can groupon survive without more funding? The way their financials sounded, I doubt they could even carry on as they are currently through the end of the year. That's a lot of pressure in an economy that could be back on the ropes.
There is no shortage of software developers with the "right skills". Companies just aren't willing to pay them enough. As an experiment, try offering a salary of $1 million and see how many qualified applicants show up.
I can see why the Dreyfus article would be controversial, but so far (first ten pages or so) I found it very enlightening.

This really struck a chord with me:

> What the learner acquires through experience is
not represented at all but is presented to the learner as more and more finely discriminated situations, and, if the situation does not clearly solicit a single response or
if the response does not produce a satisfactory result, the learner is led to further refine his discriminations, which, in turn, solicit more refined responses.

Comparing that to the meaning of "learn" commonly used in ML to mean "finding optimal weights for some features" and you can see the gulf pretty starkly.
Because sometimes separation of presentation from content is not worth the additional labor cost and complexity.
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I'm sorry to hear that. When Tweepy gives an error I let it output that sentence as almost every time it was a Twitteruser does not exist error. I checked your twitter and its working with me so it might be because of some exceeded twitter daily call limit or something on your network. I noticed that when I was developing it -- after a day of refreshing and reiterating it would give that error too.

Thanks for pointing out the flaw, I'll try to implement some more descriptive error messages for different errors.
This may well be, but in the old days there were no subreddits. Five years ago, I didn't have to go scrounging for the good content. So, subjectively the content available through my default settings has gotten worse.

I remember the day I learned that some of my new co-workers were really into Reddit. It was strange because I remember thinking how superficial their lunch-time conversations were compared to what I'd been used to debating online. It was an "aha" moment. Here comes everybody.
Leaving editorial Independence aside, if Arrington was fired from TC and AOL, how is he able to write this post? Sounds all like a sham!
I would consider that a significant feature. Something that would hook many new users, a large hard to remove hook to boot.
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We also have an infographic, you can see it here http://www.brickandmobile.com/blog/canadian-mobile-usage-on-...
A (pure) function is a mathematical concept. Saying a pure function can have side effects is like saying a line has a thickness because no one can draw a line with no thickness.
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The big question is: what are Google's intentions and when does their "spring cleaning" come to their content infrastructure? Right now it's a mess.

Google Music lives under Andy Rubin, while the actual music deals they have in place live under Salar at YouTube, 3/4 of which are in a JV arrangement with Vevo through Universal.

Google has arguably the best ability to combine editorial content and advertising with a deep level of personalization, but they are so fragmented in terms of this focus, especially around the Android/YouTube groups its ridiculous. They also are burdened on the music side with deals that are very inverse. Bad for both sides.

I hope if Hulu comes to pass they streamline their strategy around content, platforms for the content and advertising sold against it.
Indeed. I don't recall the exact numbers, though I've heard both Linux and RoR numbers, I think that Linux has factors more developers committing to it than RoR.

Linux is, perhaps, the most rapidly changing piece of software in existence
Bootstrapping is a way to do something about the problems you have without letting someone else give you permission to do them.

- Tom Preston-Werner (@mojombo)

http://startupquote.com/post/9892955627
Or perhaps the email address could come with Reddit Gold
I don't get it. Is your point Don't ask a person, ask google?

This article promotes introversion more than its own point of "don't ask, do", asking Mr. Computer isn't much different than asking a person. If I ask someone how to get started doing X; I'm not fucking asking permission. I'm looking for some resources, a knowledgeable person is a much better at steering a beginner than a search engine.

For some reason, you're equating drive with choice of resource. You're answering "RTFM" when the question is "Wheres the manual?" I get that your point centers on leaning on others vs figuring it out on your own, but you thoroughly overshot.
One thing is clear, Lift documentation is 'less good' than any other documentation.
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