skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm following the step-by-step instructions to run it on my google app engine account, but I get an error when I run "fab deploy." It asks me for my email and does a bunch of stuff, but then this happens:

Zipping ziplibs.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/fabric/main.py", line 712, in main
args, kwargs

File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/fabric/tasks.py", line 327, in execute
results['<local-only>'] = task.run(*args, **new_kwargs)

File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/fabric/tasks.py", line 112, in run
return self.wrapped(*args, **kwargs)

File "/Users/swiss/webapps/WebPutty/fabfile.py", line 53, in decorated_func
return func(*args, **kwargs)

File "/Users/swiss/webapps/WebPutty/fabfile.py", line 66, in deploy
ziplibs(env.deploy_path)

File "/Users/swiss/webapps/WebPutty/fabfile.py", line 178, in ziplibs
os.path.walk(to_zip, add_file, (zip_file, os.path.dirname(to_zip)))

File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/posixpath.py", line 224, in walk
func(arg, top, names)

File "/Users/swiss/webapps/WebPutty/fabfile.py", line 177, in add_file
zip_file.write(os.path.join(dir_name, name), os.path.join(dir_name[len(common_base):], name))

File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/zipfile.py", line 1024, in write
fp = open(filename, "rb")

IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory

Any idea what the problem is?
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I guess he will get his account back because someone at Google is looking at this now, but this also proved that their appeal system is broken for the vast majority.
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On the flip side, I'm paying insurance premiums for only myself and spending less than 1% of my pretax income. The medical, dental, and vision is all excellent. Shop around. You can certainly do better than $1,000 a month (12% of 100k / 12).
I think that this is a good program with an undoubtedly noble cause. However, I don't really like the idea of calling this need based aid. Need based aid should be given regardless of gender. If someone wants to do Hacker School and is unable to afford it, they should get aid regardless of what gender they are.

So this comes off not as giving aid to those who need it, but as incentivizing women to join Hacker School, which is something entirely different. It's not a bad thing, but it's not need based aid.

And, although this program is going to be effective, I'm not sure that it is going to create true equality. It's going to artificially inflate the number of women applying to hacker school, but I'm not sure that that is the right way to go about encouraging women to join Hacker School, and I'm not sure that this is going to result in true equality. The real goal should be to encourage the community of women programmers to apply to Hacker School on their own, and get it to a point where they can organically be half of the enrolled people. All this program does is compensate for the problem, not truly trying to fix it.

So, although I like this initiative and think that it definitely will help equalize Hacker School, I think that there are a few issues with it.
I'd focus on the honesty in advertising. Something like VeriSign for specific scientifically-proveable claims in ads (e.g. "Kills 99.9% of bacteria in 5 minutes" over "Best ever product").
Nothing was the same after 911.
Just out of curiosity, what makes the 996 and 997 models a different car from 993 and before?
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Lenin said that there are in progressive order: lies, total lies, and finally statistics.

Anybody here spending 3% of their income on health care? I mean in most cases insurance premiums alone are much more than 3% of average income. Not to mention things like cancer that cost about 500k on average to treat. Who takes this data seriously?
I would, but I'm not sure if Firefox is "wrong". That may be a subjective opinion, though.
Btw, this is exactly the same reason I don't want an advertising company like Google to be involved in making my TV, videogame console, mobile phone, etc. Ads suck. :)
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I always liked the air cooled 911s myself because I remember playing with a MicroMachines 911[1] and they had all of the cool vents (which I guess are silly reasons), but man the new water cooled ones are fast. I think the eggplant headlight change from (I think) 97-01 was a bad move though. I'm glad they're back to the more traditional oval headlamps...

[1] http://www.toycollector.com/hwdphotos/uploads/1653/1691/Micr...
crunchbase is to the "start-up world"-metrics what alexa is to web-metrics.
Along the same lines, are you doing anything special with munin to make it fast? We've had performance issues with the RRDs and graph generation that led us to pipe metrics to graphite with collectd.
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Fact-checking FactCheck.org:

Let's assume that a union worker won't get an extra $15 per hour worked that current retirees are receiving. So take $15 off of their labor costs of $70 per hour (complexity through obfuscation). So that's

$55 = VALUE of actual wages and benefits EARNED by WORKING 1 hour
hours_worked_per_year = 52*40 = 2080
earnings_per_year = hours_worked_per_year * $55 = $114,400

So you're correct, according to FactCheck.org, it's not $125k per year. But the point is still valid when you account for benefits. If my employer gives me a new Ferrari each year as a benefit, no one would consider me underpaid if I made $10/hour doing secretarial work.
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Exactly! (for the second part)

I mean why aren't they qualified? Cambridge is getting more applications than each of the top schools in US every year. They interview almost all of them (80% to be precise) and still announce the results in January (though you apply earlier). It is certainly doable and it is more accurate.

I do not get this admission officer business not even a tiny bit. I mean if you are undecided and do not fit in any criteria then fine let an admission officer decide on your fate but if you specifically insist on a subject then why not be judged by your future professors. These professors can certainly have half an hour interview[1] with the candidate take a look at your candidate's account.

If professors are super busy let graduate students do it or researchers do it. These three groups of people will have a better understanding of a well suited candidate. Think about it this way: You're hiring programmers and you have one of these two options: As a programmer consider their applications yourself or just tell a nonprogrammer to do it. You'd argue this analogy does not work because one does not have to declare his major and you are right if you think about it that way but if you consider a huge corporate structure and a policy, which each and every department should obey then you will see why this makes sense for a university too.

Obviously there are criteria that MUST be considered during application process other than your skills and I am all for that but let candidates be filtered by actual graduate students or professors or researchers first. Why? It is because in any case they will have a better intuitive understanding of being a student in "X University" compared to admission officers who are "told" what should the students be like plus they have the degree of expertise to judge the student on their specific subject.

And for the first part, you do not have to have olympic medals to get a place in undergraduate division of these universities. Maybe a projet or two but the competition is not THAT intense. I mean there aren't hundreds of olympic students (relevant olypics) applying to subjects every year anyhow AND believe it or not few years of hacking can be more useful than an olympic medal. This is another discussion what I want to point out is my observation strongly disagrees with your interpretation. I tell you 90% of the time first kid is preferred over the second kid one.

[1] Please don't say it takes too long, again, in Oxbirdge, each candidate has two interviews for AT LEAST 30 minutes with four professors in total.
There is no customer service for Google Apps besides an email. And even that, you won't get a response for days, besides a canned, "Thank you for contacting Google...".

And look at their phone, which failed IMHO. One of the main reasons was the lack of customer service. Like a customer is gonna email you and wait 3 days for a reply when his phone doesn't work.

And now they are about to release a tablet? Good luck.
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Hiring is hard. Try not to judge candidate's professional qualification with their personal lives. And try not to let' your indirect measurements to override your direct measurements.
I certainly wasn't anywhere in the loop, but at least on my site, FastCGI didn't work, and Mongrel did.

Zed's rant/flame goes into so much personal detail that he doesn't really articulate the point. Rails was receiving this enormous amount of hype, but there wasn't even a working application server yet.
"... In the data source, TechCrunch's Crunchbase ..."

TechCrunch as a single data source. Are there any other sources used?
Poll: Who has been a FidoNet Member in the 80ies?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet
I agree with parent that you should showcase your survey where people have nothing better to do. Couldn't find a better place than FB to find people in that mood. ;-)

In my experience posting survey links in facebook groups has brought out better response. And I am talking about formal surveys in targeted groups like open coffee club, location specific geeks group etc., in our context.
http://html5doctor.com/drag-and-drop-to-server/

But PPK says “it’s a fucking disaster.”
http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/09/the_html5_dr...
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At the moment no. This was one dataset we used to get started but, we intend to incorporate data from Angel List and other sources as well.
I'm surprised this is still an issue. The guys here can't seem to trip over each other quickly enough to white knight imaginary women from any possible sexism. Is there a tech crowd that isn't obsessed over this topic and is making us all endure having to hear that Leisure Suit Larry is sexist and why? Speaking as a guy who managed guys and gals alike (in tech) and never treated them like children.
Given what this is ranking I am surprised they are so high, this has nothing to do with market cap, cash on hand or the devotion of fans.
Same problem @ court houses offing WiFi to juror's. They express that you should take advantage of access to the local free/UNENCRYPTED WiFi for "JUROR's ONLY" to access.

Thought, the network is open which is a danger within itself, the network asks you to accept an invalid security certificate(which means their MiTM everything from the get-go), and then they took the time to make your read/accept an agreement stating in bold that this is an insecure network, and that everything you do over it will be audited, and monitored(SsL-STRIPING). As a juror, you must then sign-in using your badge#.

It defeats the purpose of any of these post associated protections, if an attacker simple injected his own certificate, or java-script frame. Even creating a Honeypot-Rouge-AP using any number of wireless capable devices such as, smartphones, and mobile routers, even wristwatches &sunglasses.

Compromising a jury from an attackers stand-point would be too, sit in the cafeteria, and literally eat-cake.

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Engle's law - the consumption of food drops as income rising. It's sad that Engle had such a similar name to Engles, because he had a lot of interesting stuff to say.
I'm a CS lecturer. I would tell you to take it down if you asked. If I found out third person, I'd assume it was for sharing with your cheating little friends and would try to destroy you.
The evolving has happened mostly under the hood. You can't really see it but you sure feel it once you get behind the wheel.
There are lots of simpler examples too. Consider Array#push or Array#pop. Both make changes to an array in place, but are not ! suffixed due to the requirement you quoted.

You are right, though. Many Rubyists do not follow this convention and often don't even know about it. It's a key convention of the core implementation team, however.
OK, but I don't really care about the $15 per month - I really just want better JS notifications (and am perfectly happy with airbrake running the service for me).

So do they have a better JS notification? How do we use it?
I would disagree here - every percent CPU saved for the same workload is a 1% reduction in the number of machines needed. The number of web machines is sufficiently large that savings of even 1% are praiseworthy. Quite a bit of effort is expended to keep this going down and to the right (at least some of the time).
It did several years ago but it went by the by. I'm struggling to remember what it was called.. Now, features are raised on the MRI Redmine, such as: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6242
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It's the least amount that's least like to be accidental while still visually significant. The emphasis on the least amount is to maintain good line lengths, which can be an issue with the way many Rubyists namespace their code or pull off method chains.
You're saying that it stopped being evolution just because the engine finally went from air-cooled to water cooled? That seems like a feature upgrade, which is an evolution; not a new product.
Would there be any other option? It's a technology firm.
This reminds me of an analysis I once did: https://github.com/astanway/Crunchbase-Network-Analysis

The data from Crunchbase is very, very dirty, but I managed to clean it up a lot. Feel free to fork if you want pre-built NetworkX graphs.
To get it working in three modern browsers, no.

To get it working in all the browsers that your users use, it's trickier.
Tasks is a pretty general term. I am not referring to a construction type job. I am referring to any task that can be accomplished over the internet. A task such as fixing a website, doing research for someone, photo touch ups, tutoring with a shared monitor, answering technical questions, etc..
My startup utilizes maps and we were thinking of using Google until they quoted us $18,000 USD/year
gccgo is better on 32bit systems: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/qxlxu5RZAl0/NS71...

Note that work on the garbage collector is ongoing post-Go1, a faster parallel GC is in process being merged: http://codereview.appspot.com/5279048/

But ultimately 32bit systems don't seem to be a big issue for Google or anyone else using Go in production (and there are quite a few big organizations using it: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go ).

Most people moved to 64bits a while ago so the amount of attention the 32bit port gets will never be the same.
Too bad Google isn't doing the same with Android tablets - or if they do it, they only do it for a few more popular apps and that's about it. I wish they realized how much of an opportunity they are missing by not being more aggressive with tablet apps.
To be honest I've never checked. Ola's answer here http://www.quora.com/How-many-lines-of-code-is-Facebook sounds about right (he seems to be talking about all code).

I should amend my previous comment though; most place I've worked at that are within a couple of orders of magnitude of Facebook's size have developed or adopted abstractions that constitute the majority of code engineers interact with.
What does it have to do with?

The 217,000 most important companies, financial firms, and people...
> I dislike the implicit message being sent by offering money specifically to women to go into engineering/computer science.

[Disclaimer: I'm attending the current batch of Hacker School and was mad impressed at Etsy's facilities in a recent visit.]

I don't think Etsy is offering women money to attract them into the field, if that's what you mean. As I understand it, the proximate purpose of the money is to enable those women that are otherwise interested in the Hacker School proposition. Supporting oneself in an expensive city like NY for three months is a nontrivial handicap.

The gesture delivers the message that women are appreciated, at least in this particular environment. This may be the right kind of nudge.

In more prosaic terms, because of the newsworthiness of this initiative more women will learn of this opportunity.

It doesn't make sense to me to think of that as a 'bonus'. Who wants to hire anyone that would base their career choice on a $5K bribe?
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Has anybody seen like real people buying Windows phones? Meh. Zune.
Getting more women into tech isn't just about the money...*

I don't suppose you're implying the OP means otherwise?
I ask this honestly because you seem like a sharp guy and I'm genuinely curious: what's stopping you from working a dev job for 6-12 months, saving 2-3k/month of a 8-10k/month paycheck, and then starting your own thing when you have 6-12 months of personal runway in the bank?

I re-iterate that this is not meant to be snarky, but I meet several people who express this idea and many of them seem to be stuck in local optima that can be easily escaped with a little persistence.

Edit: a bit of nuance. I know most people in the world can't easily get 8-10k/mo salaries. But talented developers in the US (or willing to work remotely) can. I don't mean to be insensitive to people with more constrained opportunities.
I have to somewhat agree.

I read a bestselling short story once about two mice, one of whom ventured out into the world to find a new place to live, while the other stayed put. The one who abandoned everything came out of it better in the end, and so the moral of the story was that we should all abandon what works in hopes of stumbling on to something better.

I detested the book, and will instantly have a lower opinion of someone if I see it in their bookshelf. It seems to me that it was written as a short story to avoid arguing for the decisions the characters make. raganwald's story was better, but still vulnerable to the story format, where dei ex machina reign supreme.

That said, story formats have strong advantages as well, such as capturing attention – but they don't come for free.
I think it's because when one of them figures out he can win almost every game by simply moving very fast, the game won't be enjoyable any more. And that is bound to happen sooner or later.
How to obtain a Windows Phone iPod:

1. Buy a used Samsung Focus for $99.

2. Don't put a SIM in it.

3. Turn the cell radio off.

4. Voila! It's fast and cheaper than anything they'd sell you in a store.

In all seriousness, they sorta tried this with the Zune and they're probably gun shy, especially considering WP7 isn't doing all that well, despite it being great.

I think MS should dump loads of cash ensuring the most popular iOS/Android apps have feature-parity versions on WP7. They are not doing this right now.
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I have a question about what happens when an account gets disabled/suspended while there's a positive balance. Does Google keep that surplus, or return it to advertisers? If the former, that's truly evil, so let's say the latter.

If they return to advertisers, would they suddenly see a drop in their budget spent, and number of clicks produced? For example, say I have an AdWords account and yesterday I owe Google $100 for 100 clicks, and today someone who had a balance from my ads got suspended, and they generated 2 clicks at $1 each. Does my bill go down to $98, and clicks to 98? If so, that's pretty weird.

Does anyone who has an AdWords account know?
Why Nodejs serves a file with 80x more CPU usage than Nginx?
Take the same code that sits on nodejs.org home page. Serve a static file that is 1.8Mb. And do the same with Nginx, and watch the difference.

Code : http://pastie.org/3730760
Screencast : http://screencast.com/t/Or44Xie11Fnp

Please share if you know anything that'd prevent this from happening, so we don't need to deploy nginx servers and complicate our lives.

ps1. this test is done with node 0.6.12. out of curiosity, i downgraded to 0.4.12 just to check if it's a regression, on the contrary, it was worse. same file used 25% twice.

ps2. this post is not a nodejs hate - we use nodejs, and we love it, except this glitch which actually delayed our launch (made us really sad), and seemed quite serious to me. i've never read, heard, seen this mentioned before so we could prepare ourselves better.
I've had the complete opposite experience, approval of new apps and updates have all being quick and pain free. A couple of times when there's been a failure in approval I've had really good documentation around what needed to be done.
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For all the naysayers don't count microsoft out yet. As a developer everything in that article rings true. I don't want to develop on the platform when there are 3 other ones vying for my attention. However, if Microsoft were to start paying for the resources this might bring an about face.

Microsoft is doing exactly what it needs to do to compete in this market. They were late and this is the price of entry.
They probably didn't get anyone who uses a Gmail address as primary, which is what they asked for.
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You could put nginx in front of nodejs and let it handle the static files, it's far better at it.

This is worth reading as well:
http://engineering.linkedin.com/nodejs/blazing-fast-nodejs-1...
This is an interesting sample. What happened to those who dropped out but did not strike it rich in Startupland?

I think one of the hardest parts about leaving is showing that you are moving onto better things; it's easier to _tell_ people you are leaving if you have a 150k+ offer. Leaving to try a startup would be socially difficult to communicate
Node isn't really built for serving static files.

I'd say the easiest solution would be to stick varnish in front of your node application.
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Why did you stop there though?

"...in the startup world..."

In fact, I am surprised to see a lot of non-startup companies like Nokia listed quite highly.
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