skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really have to agree! I am the non-tech partner (although the original idea was mine). In any case, I have definitely worked as many hours and as hard as my tech co-founder in very different areas - and realizing that more of my time (if that is even possible) could have been spent developing relationships in the beginning. I can't imagine how a single individual can even get a startup off the ground from tech to town - so to speak.
I don't know LISP well enough to ponder how portable all the existing elisp code base would be portable to CL. Imho this could be the deciding factor between a permanent shift for emacs or a mere fork.
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the mods do but the users don't (290 upvotes and favorited 665 times).
I'm pretty sure your first answer was wrong, but I don't get why would anyone downvote instead of correcting or giving a different answer.
I stopped using Apache and IIS years ago. Nginx is easy to setup and uses few resources on small servers. I don't do many sysadmin tasks, but this week I needed to modify my nginx setup on one of my own servers and even though I have not had to touch an nginx configuration in a long time I could do everything quickly and from memory. With Apache I would always start with the docs and/or web search.
What I don't understand is how both screen and tmux ship with bindings that conflict with readline. Did nobody notice, or did nobody care? Neither is usable without fixing this in config.
Bo-hoo-hoo. Cry me a river.
Are you sure about that?

Benchmarks on my projects show that the difference is insignificant. Since I currently do not have memory constraints I am still using nginx + apache with mod_php.
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I wish the table of underlying data was available so that a logistic regression could be run to see whether variables like campaign contributions do indeed predict support for SOPA after age and number of years served have been partialled out.
High levels of home ownership causes long term economic harm by preventing people from moving around in response to better job offers etc. More importantly the mortgage tax credit simply increases home prices vs. making them more affordable. The reality is it's wildly understood as a bad idea economically, but it's so popular it's simply being chipped away by capping it and not indexing the cap to inflation.
Good advice. I had never been to the landing page till just now. I could not tell, at a glance and a quick read, what Grooovy is.

That's death. The lowest common denominator user needs to be able to see what this does right away.
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Sooo, web based curl? Amazing! #not
IMO the only way to prevent SOPA passing would be Google/Facebook/Wikipedia going the "nuclear option" and putting up a click through page - short of that I doubt something this widely supported would get stopped.
Great, thanks for the link!

Choosing a library is something one should consider only after he has gained some insight of the language.

Well, like I said, I've tinkered with OCaml in the past and have a reasonable idea what it has to offer. While I still have a lot to learn before I can properly make use of OCaml idioms and such, I would prefer if I didn't have to relearn the library as soon as I get to a level where I can write real programs. From the link I see that Batteries is backwards compatible with the standard library, so perhaps its the better one to start with for a beginner.
The 'down' side is that now us guys also get discriminated against. I've been more or less asked straight out about my family situation at a job interview, and I could tell from the expressions on their faces that they didn't like my answer, and I didn't get the job. Of course it's impossible to say why, as there where a couple of other good reasons why they might have rejected me.
It would also be nice to link directly to an article that provides some actual information (e.g. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/india/have-rim-nokia-apple-provide...) rather than just to another "hacker" conversation.
If you want some "down and dirty" simply practical knowledge, read up on regular expressions. (Be sure to read up on the better cautions associated with using them, as well.) I would recommend Jeffrey Friedl's book, "Mastering Regular Expressions".

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One other caveat about this, though. They make more sense and the topic is more motivating when you have a significant amount of text munging to accomplish (as I did, at one point).

Nonetheless, I remember some years ago being astonished at some of the Java code I saw being written, at not insignificant amounts of programmer time and with a bevy of mistakes, to accomplish simple pattern matching in use cases where a regular expression would have been more appropriate and more efficient -- both to write and probably in execution.

The developers, despite being fairly seasoned, just weren't familiar with the paradigm. A few years later, they were using them "all over the place".
History.js looks promising. I'll definitely dig deeper. Using regular A tags does not work, however, hence my question.

I decided not to support IE7 since this is a brand new app. It will be IE8+. I had to deal with the P3P issue in the past and it was a pain. Hopefully IE8 isn't as picky.

Thanks for the help! I now have something to investigate.
Let's say I'm hooked on Spanish language soap operas. There are generally three or four of interest running all the time on cable. These program run daily for three or more months and have an end (unlike some American soaps). When they end, a new soap starts up to take it's place.

Where else can I go to record/watch these besides cable? Some are on over the air channels, but I live in an area that can't receive those channels either.
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I don't understand this comment. Google's ad networks carry ads for many things that could be seen as Google's opposite (i.e. Yahoo, Books, TV News)
I think a major factor determining your opinion on Japan's "lost decade(s)" is how you view inflation. Those who stand to benefit from more (stealth) inflation (politicians / bankers with access to the fed discount window / those with highly mortgaged real-estate) will see those decades as truly lost, but those that generally stand to benefit from less inflation (savers / "main street") will view those decades in a more positive light.
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If you only do it for NFL, you might reconsider. All regular Sunday day games, Sunday night football and all ESPN/NFL network games with your local team are available for free in HD over the air. And all playoff games and Superbowl, too.

The live sports was my main reason for holding on to cable for so long, but I finally made the switch two years ago and it's great. I can watch all NFL I want, once a week baseball and sometimes basketball and hockey.
What you describe is essentially a database for email. You might have a look at http://www.dbmail.org/
Time Warner is his number one supporter

OpenSecrets:"The organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organizations' PACs, their individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families."

The first clause is in red and bold.

(Edit:I apologize to the reader(s) who felt that directly quoting the links cited by the parent comment was objectionable.)
I could see this supporting it, in spirit. However, I think we need to keep some back channels open, and HN seems to be one good candidate for this.

I would suggest, though, that a repurposing of the black bar at the top might be appropriate. We're facing the "death" of the spirit, and functionality, of what many luminaries have devoted significant portions of their careers towards creating and promoting.
Most people browse job listings by location or by position; they don't really care what company is doing the hiring until later in the process, if at all. Plus, people looking for a job are probably tightening up on spending, so charging them money for your service might not be a viable business model.
You can do lots of seemingly crazy things if you're willing to do this analysis. It's surprisingly, almost shockingly easy to get meetings with top decisionmakers if you're tenacious and don't mind being rejected, knowing that you've really got nothing to lose.
News flash - party lines are meaningless .
The site does not list every member of Congress.
What the author means is "goodbye TV"

Cause many have to use cable to get a decent internet in the US, still. Sadly its usually called Comcast (but it does offer Internet-only - even thus its very expensive and internet+tv isn't much more expensive)
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No surprise about any of the Dems really: Piracy, copyright, and related issues have been issues for them for a long time, primarily due to their connections with the entertainment industry. It's too bad that they don't understand that hurting the consumer is going to kill the industries that fund them.
Absolutely, I couldn't agree more! It's just that reaching this state of mind is often hard to get into, when you reach it is incredibly powerful.
90% are games. Is this good or bad?
I remembered the benchmarks as being well in nginx's favour but it seems I was mistaken. As maratd has noted above, apache with mod_php is faster.

But like I said, nginx is great for doing loads of things and I sort of "quit php" recently so I don't really care about php performance anyway.
I just wanted to insert a reminder that people are not "handicapped" and they are certainly never "disabled". However, there are people who have disabilities.
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I contacted my senators.
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$ telnet miku.acm.uiuc.edu

bash: telnet: command not found

Heh, guess it's been a while.
I'm having trouble reconciling this assertion with the fact that I can open the submission, sort by "online/internet" and it seems that those in the supporters column receive substantially larger amounts of money from "online/internet" than do those opposed.
To expand a bit, Ive done a great deal of UX work and research, more of what I'm worried about is the visual appeal and attractiveness.

It's easy for me to make a slick, good looking startup splash page or website. But I am not totally sure what makes a enterprise, behind the firewall app still be attractive and "cool" while maintaining its critica function. Part of my challenge is to get emotional buy in and "fun" in the ease of use.

Or are people people and just stick to whatever works in the b2c world when it comes to visuals and aesthetic?
I used a Windows Mobile for a couple of years (two different handsets). I found that while the main screens were reasonably well skinned and looked good in the store, when used for real that often fell away to reveal a clunky UI that was impossible to work with. I also found that I had to reboot every day because of lockups and crashes, plus the phone often dropped calls and was generally very slow.

I understand that this is a complete re-write of their phone OS, but I will still be waiting for a couple of years to see how others find it before I'm willing to trust that division of Microsoft again.

EDIT: I'll give you an example, our CTO recently got one of the new Windows Phones, I asked him what it was like and his response was: "Good... but I can't seem to get it connected to our Exchange server". If a rock star techie can't get his phone talking to Exchange what hope is there for the non-techies out there.
I don't understand the performance argument. The core editing facilities of Emacs are written in C and I doubt how CL or Guile could outperform this. Maybe my perception of the work-distribution in Emacs is skewed: Is most of the work done in the core editing facilities or in the higher level elisp modules?

Some questions that remain: Is old elisp code going to benefit from a rebased Emacs: Is it going to be faster or maybe even slower? How should the longterm plan look? Is everybody supposed to port existing code to CL at some point or is old code going to be supported indefinitely?
I'm on Comcast and Internet-only costs MORE than Internet+TV. So I have the basic TV package as well as basic internet. I also call them every 6 months or so and threaten to quit and they will offer to put me on a "new subscriber" discount rate (lowered monthly rate for 6 months).
I went hiking there. And I went snowboarding in the mountains. Was fantastic. But if you plan to cross the border from a country occupied by the same state that enforces sanctions on Iran then I would advise against that, in the same way as I would advise against crossing the border from Mexico to the US while hiking without any proper entering visa.
I'm not sure any more which stackexchange site is a good fit for this sort of questions. It seems that it would be closed on http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ as well, at least from what I can read in the FAQ.
This is true. Maildir and mbox are also essentially databases for email.
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They would also complain that those who wanted to work 80 hours per week were stealing all of society's wealth, or something.
> What the author does not say is that a lot of those people live with their parents - and their whole income is expendible. I don't know if this phenomeneon started after the bubble economy, but it is quite shocking.

In many cultures, it's customary, even expected to live with one's parents at least until marriage, and possibly longer. Extended families are an important social resource, and the American model of immediate familial alienation upon reaching age 18 followed by a detached nuclear family is in many ways weaker.

I won't argue with your other points, though at the very least, a forum like Hacker News should have skeptical attitudes about such ideas as "permanent employment".
I gave a 3 hour course in "hacking" to some middle school students and they loved it. It was interesting enough showing them the many cool things they could do from the command line with a network connection; teaching an actual programming language wasn't the place to start. I think that starting a bit younger than high school, and presenting this information as interesting secrets gets kids hooked on figuring out more on their own.

Another good intro to "hacking" is simply to have them install Linux on old machines.
I think pushState might be the solution indeed. I was hoping for something a bit simpler. Thanks for the help! For the record, this screencast helped me: http://railscasts.com/episodes/246-ajax-history-state
Yeah I cut the extended subscription last year and no longer have ESPN which I sorely miss but am living without. If I could have a-la carte channels I would definitely be back on board, as there are about half-a-dozen channels I would be willing to pay to get, without 150 other crap channels.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3433424
I agree. TV/Movie money seems like a pretty good predictor of vote, but online/internet money much less so. But I'd still like to see an x-y plot with each congressperson a point, and TV/Movie money on one axis, online/internet money on the other, with each point colored by their vote. Then you could really see how separable the two populations are.
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But where is the author getting his internet service from?

For instance, I live in Brooklyn, and the only reliable high-speed internet service is via Time Warner Cable. I currently get their WideBand service (50mbps down) bundled with basic cable and an VOIP phone I never use in a 12-month promotion. This costs me $118 p/mo. When that 12-month period was up I called to cancel stuff and they extended that promotion for another 12 months.

If I subscribed to just the internet service, it would cost me $95 p/mo and that's before the taxes and fees, so it would come to about the same I am paying now.

The only other player for internet service in my area is Clear 4G WiFi which is a joke when it comes to speed.

So basically, I'm stuck with cable for internet service, and through effective bundle pricing the missus can still watch Housewives of * on the big telly.
I barely watched TV as a kid/teenager living with my parents (it helped that cable isn't that popular in France, where I'm from- most people are content with the 5 free national channels, which are now completed by 15 or so more through the free TNT service); so when I moved out, I never missed it and as such I have never had TV since.

Semi-exception to that, an ex-girlfriend of mine moved at some point in an apartment with cable TV- the difference in the quality of our relationship with or without the TV was noticeable. Without TV, we'd go more out of our way to cook, find things to do, play games, etc.. With TV, a lot of evenings were spent just on the couch staring blankly at the screen (well, I would be programming on the couch while she would be watching TV).

It's a very subjective experience, of course, but all of that makes me feel that TV watching is inherently pernicious and to be avoided as much as possible.

I think a lot of the phenomenon is due to the fact that you can't watch TV in a discrete fashion- as soon as something ends, something else starts and you do not have to do any effort to keep watching. When you watch something like a movie, the activity is clearly defined in time, and as such you don't get sucked in like you do when watching TV.
It seems that I'm victim of some kind of ennemy's downvotes
Out of the three high schools I attended in the late 90s, there was only one computer related class available, in one school, and in one grade.

It was an intro to programming with C++, and the teacher was simply writing information on a whiteboard word for word from an outdated book. She couldn't answer any questions because she had no idea how any of it worked. Having already become reasonably proficient with C++ many years prior, I essentially took over teaching the class after just a few lessons, even making my own (and better, I thought) lesson plan.

Looking back on where the public understanding of computers was in the 90s, I can understand the lack of capable instructors. I actually feel privileged (now, anyway) that my class had a brief introduction to Logo back in 3rd grade, even if there wasn't another computer class until high school. But here we are 14 years after a student had to teach C++, and I see virtually zero computer classes available for my nephew in middle school. In fact, the only one available to him until high school is, and I kid you not, an Intro To Word Processing.

Part of the problem is the laughable education system in the US, where actual education and life skills don't even make the top 10 on the list of priorities, and where schools (and more importantly teachers) are grossly underfunded. But the other part, I think, is that the pool of capable and willing instructors is still non-existent. When I talk to CS students or graduates, even ones with relevant minors, the idea of teaching as a career isn't even something they consider. And whether it's lack of incentive or just unwillingness, existing K-12 instructors don't seem to have any interest in becoming savvy enough to properly teach tech courses.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but I fear it won't happen in any satisfying time frame.
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The data is pretty easily accessible as JSON - however, here's the data I used: http://pastebin.com/nRYv40U8

Firstly, a boxplot with the quotient of entertainment contributions to entertainment & internet contributions.

http://i.imgur.com/FWQWy.png

You can see quite easily that there's a difference which is also significant (95%, t = -4.73).

I've also done a logistic regression correcting with age, party (is_democrat), seniority and quota of contributions (quota_ent).

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
support | Coef. Std. Err. z P>|z| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
age | .0258551 .0358136 0.72 0.470 -.0443382 .0960485
is_democrat | -1.252883 .6243361 -2.01 0.045 -2.476559 -.0292067
seniority | -.0262688 .0381962 -0.69 0.492 -.101132 .0485943
quota_ent | 5.839435 1.447732 4.03 0.000 3.001933 8.676938
_cons | -1.968467 2.01512 -0.98 0.329 -5.918029 1.981096
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The AUC is 0.8089 which is quite okay. Furthermore, it would be interesting to test whether location is a significant factor.

Edit: @adamtaylor: Here's a scatter plot with each contribution, transformed with log(1 + x) for readability:
http://i.imgur.com/MRciL.png
It's very difficult for someone - even the PC police - to control language.
One thing people haven't discussed is how much your are personally involved in your business. I'd like you and others like you to take a step back and evaluate that aspect.

While being personally involved has advantages, namely passion/commitment/overriding work ethic, it also has disadvantages. Namely, that when your business starts failing, it feels as if you are failing, and when your business ends it feels as if you have failed.

I think the business suggestions people have below are very good, especially about concentrating on new cities. But you should also work on the psychological aspect of your business. In this case, reducing the belief that you and the business are the same. They are not. Business is business, and all over the world they fail for reasons outside the entrepreneur's control every day across the world. Lack of capital, timing, world events, technology, competitors, you name it.

I think a little bit of reduction in how much of your well-being is invested in this business will be good for you. When you start to think of your business as just a business, and not an integral part of who you are, then you realize it can fail and you will be ok. It allows you to bounce back quicker and be a better analyst on what is going wrong, instead of thinking that the solution to everything is working longer hours and coding harder (Not that your post suggested you are doing this, but some people do).

Thanks for posting by the way. I agree with the other person that said this is by far one of HN's most interesting posts in a while. I hope you manage to implement some of the advice people have given you. But if it doesn't work out, now worries. Another business opportunity will come. They have been coming for the millennium of human existence, and they will keep coming. And you will be stronger and better adapted to the next one, if that is what you want to tackle in life.
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This gets posted about once a week here.

It good though...