skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only way in which Ellipsis can be useful is to save one character by using it instead of pass in Python3, like:

def foo():
...

It is really highly unusual and I wouldn't recommend the practice shown in the blog post at all as this is not a common pattern.
You may want to try using solder paste and either a hot plate or a toaster oven.
I like this one, thanks. It appears to be a lighter-looking (at least with my font smoothing settings) version of Courier (which is good because regular Courier is legible but quite heavy at small sizes). The "serifs" are actually slabs, just like in Courier.
I would love to road bike, but northern Utah doesn't have a year-round cycle culture, which means people never quite learn how to ride with cyclists. Scares me to death (and this coming from a motorcyclist, so my tolerance isn't super low).
Seriously? Economics (von Mises? Morgenstern?), engineering (Ferdinand Porsche? Valier?) philosophy (Popper?), physics (Boltzman? Doppler? Mach? Pauli?), mathematics (heard of this guy Gödel?), genetics (Mendel?), etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Austrians
This is a ridiculous comment. So the Dalai Lama is Chinese?
Let me add my 2 cents. I do a lot of work PHP and when I want to do web stuff it's the path of least resistance. Other languages are certainly better but they're just not better enough to get over that hump. I'm still maintaining lots of PHP code and I only have so much brain space to dedicate to languages/frameworks for exactly the same task.

I do some work in C# now but for many reasons I don't want to do web with .NET.

I've done significant work in C, C++, Perl, C#, over the years. If my brain was wiped clean of all knowledge of PHP, I'd probably end up doing most work in Python.
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Von Neumann was Jewish, Hungarian and later, American. He was never an Austrian.
At least in LA around the parts that I commute, when rush hour hits cars are traveling at walking speeds or completely stopped except for short bursts so I'm traveling between three and five times faster than they are if I'm lane sharing (Lane sharing is legal for cycles in CA).

If I take the lane I'm in the clear during rush hour as well. The thing to remember is that a cyclist on a road bike is generally able to accelerate faster 0-5 or 0-10 than most vehicles from a stop so clearing an intersection with the cars isn't hard. Cars obviously leave cyclists behind past 5-10MPH because they've overcome their inertia. Usually the only guys clearing an intersection before me on a start are guys on sport bikes and I can lane share with them (though we'd look silly for not just bypassing the traffic).

When you're the faster vehicle its rather reassuring since you can more or less get the same respect as everyone in a car after a couple blocks. If the traffic is moving at a good speed for a bike, you can usually you can just blend into a lane and no one will honk or look at you funny... after all, the cars holding the cyclist up and I think everyone is happier when we're not lane sharing.
This video shows how easy it is: http://store.curiousinventor.com/guides/Surface_Mount_Solder...

Through-hole: Fit part through holes, grab iron, tack solder, put iron back, flip board, grab cutter, cut leads, put cutters back, solder joints, flip board back.

SMD: Grab tweezers, pick up part, place, tack solder, adjust fit, solder.

Through-hole sucks. SMD is a bitch with the wrong methods and tools, but very pleasant with decent tweezers, liquid flux, good desoldering braid, Chip-Quik super-low-melting-point desoldering solder, and a reasonable tip on the iron. No expensive stuff needed. But the right methods are, which are easily learned.

SMD has better electrical properties - less noise pickup and lower inductance, which is necessary for high frequency work.

Certain chip packages are tricky to solder in SMD, like BGAs I believe. Possible though. And probably easy with the right tools and technique - capillary action tends to align everything anyway if you can get heat into the solder.

Very small SMDis not pleasant ... 0805 is a breeze, 0603 is fine, 0402 can be a bit tense sometimes. Smaller than that is unpleasant ...

You can do SMD soldering!
The PSLV has about 1/3 the payload of the Falcon 9. On paper it's roughly cost competitive with Soyuz and the current Falcon 9 prices (which is no coincidence, there's little advantage to undercutting the competition, yet). In practice though it's not a serious competitive threat to any existing launcher because it has such a low payload capacity and thus can't be used to launch the vast majority of satellites.
If the cyclist was in the center of the lane it wouldn't look like he's trying to "create a lane". And cars wouldn't try to pass in the same lane in that case because it wouldn't be possible. They would wait until it is safe to pass properly. Or get really pissed off and try to intimidate the cyclist to move over, but that goes back to my point about culture and not belonging.

Being legally allowed to weave between lanes doesn't seem right.
>I don't even really care if Edison invented anything or not, because he was a douchebag

This is a textbook case of argumentum ad hominem. You may not care for what he did but that doesn't change the fact that he did it.
But at the same time it isn't. He's using "Facebook" purely as link bait and instead ranting about "people who got rich really quickly" and how they usually self destruct in some fashion or another. Facebook is never mentioned again after the first sentence. Rather pointless article, but then again, it is Dvorak.
Thanks. I tried it out, and here's the thing about Envy: it's a horizontally condensed typeface, which is good if your lines of code are very long (great if you're a Java programmer and have to deal with names like myAbstractFactoryClassMethodVerisonFive), but rather terrible if you're someone like me who keeps his lines no longer than 80 characters and has a habit of splitting his code windows into two or three vertical panels.

The idea is to fit as many lines of text vertically, not to condense long lines horizontally. Human vision has some sort of legibility tradeoff where you can have letters that are either horizontally condensed but tall or vertically condensed but short. I am looking for something of the second kind for my main coding font.
"windows	278.9242055000443%" of hate wow.
This thing amuses me. I like it. Fun idea.
I bet many people would want to share the hate results on their twitter or facebook
> You're comparing two solutions that solve completely different problems

I don't think I am. I am not surprised that Comcast will do whatever it can to increase profits. My problem is with Comcast claiming high bandwidth users are a drain on their system, when there is no evidence to show this, so they can push an unfavourable pricing model on their customers. Again, congestion is a real problem, but charging by the bit does nothing to solve this. This "solution" means they probably won't increase their caps to be more competitive.
I hear this argument a lot but I just don't get it.

In almost every case the time spent doing those things (queueing for gas or fixing someone's PC) could, or better yet, would not have otherwise been spent making >$30/hour.
As a platform for game development, there is much better out there than HTML5.

With HTML5 you have to deal with many serious faults that do not exist when working with many other platforms. HTML5 canvas doesn't feature the ability to turn off anti-aliasing, HTML5 audio has only one channel per instance, has latency issues and is inconsistently implemented, JavaScript has many various faults, performance leaves something to be desired, you cannot do things that are common in most games like going fullscreen or grabbing the mouse, and overall it just feels like you have to wrestle with your web browser to write a game on top of it.

It is convenient to simply link a game to someone and let them play without manually downloading it, but is it really worth hacking around all these issues? Like the web browser was designed decades ago to share formatted text and images, we should design a modern, open browser that makes sense for video games. Perhaps something that combines the best qualities of web gaming and Steam, and distributes data through decentralized P2P?
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Thanks for the link. This looks like an ideal tool to fulfil the same role as Varnish (in the stack I'd outlined) without losing SSL support or allocating one thread per active connection.
This would be too good to be true.
Dunno. 5 years later and this pair of comments in that thread seems more interesting:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35095

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35103

Dropbox is a huge business, with real revenue, which has helped millions of people. Tarsnap, despite cperciva's obvious talents, has not achieved anything like that level of success. dhouston wasn't flaming people in the thread, cperciva was.

Part of a really good comeback is substance. cperciva had the snappy retort. He really had won the Putnam. And on a much smaller scale, he won a comments thread on Hacker News. But the 20 posts there didn't create real world value. dhouston did. Maybe that's the real lesson of Hacker News. The best thread is the one you don't participate in, because you're working.
Imagine if 50% of car drivers ignored all signs and traffic entirely. You'd hate them too.

So many times I am stopped at a stop-sign, starting to make my turn or go across, and a biker blows through that I almost kill. When a full 50% of your group is breaking the rules and causing problems, it makes sense that people going to hate you. You guys are just lucky that I am extremely careful, someday the driver will be distracted and you WILL get splattered.

(I have zero problems with bikers who follow the rules of the road.)
Does your Hosting Provider Proactivly Contact you during Outages?
Websites get hacked, users break their sites...but ultimately hosts get the blame most of the time.

Would you you prefer to work with a host that proactively contacts you when they notice your site has a problem (even if its not their fault)?

We're just curious...
The Chomsky view in linguistics hasn't been shown as wrong - see for example http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12963265 where they talk about a specific grammatical construct which they claim (backed by some data) that can't have been learnt by babies using statistical inference due to them not having enough data.

Personally, I would prefer the statistical, generic computation viewpoint to be correct but it's unclear whether the data supports that viewpoint.
It's "Rakija" ;) but close enough

EDIT: OK correction, Wikipedia says it's also spelt rakia .. although I've never seen it written that way.
As a cyclist and a motorist, that's bullshit.

As a cyclist, you're making motorists angry, and that makes it less safe for me.

As a motorist, there's a chance you'll pull some stupid shit and I'll be the one that hits you. And then I have to live the rest of my life with your death on my conscience, even though it wasn't really my fault.

Stop doing dangerous shit on the roads.
Don't know if you consider it as bioinformatics but tissue 3D printing is an interesting field. http://forums.reprap.org/list.php?194

If you want to keep working on machine learning, your progress also depends on which databases you can access.
Other ideas:
- Predicting how cells evolve and grow over time.
- Predicting how viruses spread
Not quite zero. This past semester I took a course in MATLAB which was fairly unrelated, but definitely helped me get comfortable with programming a real project (we did bridge design in the course). I also live with a software developer who helped bail me out from time to time. DailyDo.it was started on April 29th, and I worked long days since then to get it up to what you see now. During the weekend before that I made http://html5helicopter.com to get familiar with JS. I've played around with HTML and CSS before, but always found the process frustrating and overwhelming when trying to make a whole website from scratch; this time I started with a micro-framework that helped me focus on the actual app.

As for anyone who was in my position (limited coding knowledge and not a pro-designer) I would definitely recommend starting from a cheap themeforest design and building up on that. Also, start small and focus. The idea of DailyDo.it was actually conceived last year, but I tried to do way too much with it, and ultimately it amounted to nothing of value. Just piles of bad designs and funky, non-functioning UI, never mind getting to code. This summer I started from scratch (which cleared my mind up), plus I was able to focus on it full-time, and everything just kind of clicked.

I think I just used the word "focus" three times in this post. That's the key. :)
Honest question for cyclists - why do you continue biking?

It sounds like cycling is far more dangerous and potentially deadly than driving. As others mentioned you'll never "educate away" the problem. The road system is clearly not designed for cycling so both drivers and cyclists are annoyed.

What is it that you get out of cycling to make it worth the risk?
You are correct - edited. I had always learned of him as an Austro-Hugarian/American :).
Is this common where you live? I do quite a bit of cycling and am very aware of cyclists when driving. I often see what the author describes as "pedestrians on bicycles" using the sidewalk when a bike lane is available, but cyclists outside of a bike lane on the road are quite rare most places unless they're preparing to turn toward the inside (i.e. a left turn in places where it's customary to drive on the right).

When learning to drive (and before), I was taught that that the horn is for alerting other people to dangerous situations and preventing collisions. It is not for expressing anger or frustration at other people. I've noticed that people tend to become angry or frustrated much more quickly when driving and when interacting with someone who is driving (e.g. as a pedestrian). You might want to consider whether you're acting under the influence of a disinhibition effect and ask yourself whether you want to yell "CHANGE WHAT YOU'RE DOING OR I'LL HIT YOU WITH MY CAR" at a cyclist for forcing you to drive slower for 30 seconds. That's what honking a horn conveys.
Overall, this is a nice post. There are two quibbles though.

1). For the most part, "c = collections.Counter()" is almost always better than "c = defaultdict(int)"

* Counter only supplies missing values rather than automatically inserting them upon lookup.

* The Counter version is much clearer about what it is trying to do. The defaultdict version is cryptic to the uninitiated (understanding it entails knowing that it has a __missing__ method to insert values computed by a factory function and that int() with no arguments returns zero).

* The Counter version provides helpful methods such as "most_common(n)".

2). An ellipsis in Python is normally used in a much different way than shown in the article (it's used for an extended slice notation in NumPy).
He has no chance. He needs to be in Australia to be elected or he will be charged with electoral fraud.

Good luck to him but by the time he has dealt with his current legal "issues" most people would have forgotten about him.
The problem is, there's often too much of a focus on design. Apple's power supplies for their laptops are really expensive, yet they offer limited interchangeability for the cables, so if a plug fails (due to the design) then most people end up buying a new expensive power supply.
Find bike routes or low-traffic streets and stick to those.
Great job. You've made a great app here :)

Only one suggestion for usability -- autofocus the "Add a task" input on page load, so the user can begin typing without an extra click upon arrival (think Google.) I think this convention works well with any app which expects text input as its immediate feature
This is not necessarily bad advice. However it's kind of arrogant.

While "the point of an internship is [...] to learn what kind of work or industry you want to be in once you graduate, to try things out and live in cool places." is partly true (especially in the current economy) it's a pretty naive way of looking at yourself.

If you're doing an internship, you're probably not a fully-fledged and employable person yet. You probably aren't ready to take on a huge amount of responsibility. The internship is there to teach you some of the other aspects of working with others in a real company (not a college project) that you simply can't get from college. Most 25 year olds don't have those skills. Don't forget that.

It's a lovely job market right now in Silicon Valley, but it won't be forever. The individuals that have a bit of humility respect the fact they need to learn throughout their career, and in the long run will do better.
To give some context, All of this stuff is actually easy to build:
41Hz Amp32, energy-efficient 2x25W hifi amp, sounds amazing, 17 grams, fits in a matchbox with room to spare: http://shop.41hz.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=38
41Hz Amp4, similar but higher power and sounds ridicullusly good - looks like a hard SMD build maybe, but absolutely isn't: http://shop.41hz.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=6
41Hz PS4, tiny switching voltage regulator - modern 780x/LM317 replace
ent that is 90% power efficient and can handle a ~90V in/out differential: http://shop.41hz.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=317&catid=
GrubDAC, pretty small and nice usb powered audio out: http://diyforums.org/GrubDAC/GrubDACoverview.php

None of them are really feasible through-hole; Similar is possible but noticeably bigger and less performant.

(Not affiliated with any vendors listed above, no commercial interest, just like the stuff.)
Not all motor vehicles are required to carry insurance. In CA for example, Mopeds, Motorized bicycles, and certain classes of scooters do not require insurance and some only require a one time registration fee. Some also do not need to display a license plate. Off highway-on highway vehicles are also a special consideration.

In many places, including the whole of CA, you can get points or loose your license for violations on a cycle. DWI on a bicycle is equivelent to DWI in a Car for example. And I've even met someone it happened to. Not exactly something they like to brag about ;).
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Good idea, like it. If everyone was taught that I could have been saved a fair amount of pain in the past.
Sublime Text is most definitely not a vim clone. It may have a vi-ish mode, but it's fairly weak. Sublime Text is in the TextMate/Notepad++ space.
The cost of keeping a car legal to drive (insurance, registration) for a year is enough to buy a fairly nice bicycle. That doesn't count the fuel and maintenance costs if you actually drive the car nor the cost of buying the car. In many areas, parking is very limited, but there's usually something sturdy to lock a bike to or the option of bringing it inside. There's also the bit where a commute is also a workout.
1) I doubt either nation considers him a god.. just really proud of his accomplishments... although under a healthy influence of rakija I don't think a discussion with your "host" about pretty much anything would have been reasonable.

2) In Serbia you don't have to feel indebted when someone offers you a drink. I believe this is true for many "old-school" cultures. I realize it might seem intimidating or aggressive but don't fear. Just have a drink ;)

3) Nikola Tesla was Serbian. And yes he was born in Croatia (there are lots of us)... but I have a feeling your host would've been more offended had you replied "Who?". Either way you made it out of there in one piece didn't you?
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Ask HN: Is there something like HN for successful entrepreneurs?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2934103

See nirvana's second comment in the thread, especially:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2934526
I don't know the first thing about how the project went. The project wasn't the point. The motivation of the project is what I'm talking about.
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This also explains when mutable defaults are not a problem: when they are not mutated in the function's body. There's nothing wrong with this:

def f(seq=[]):
for x in seq:
# do something
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I don't dispute the intent of increased regulation on motorists, but that original statement in itself is misleading, especially because it is stated often by bicycle advocates and then taken at face value.
You said "other sites scrape that free". I agree that info is all over the web but it isn't scraped, and I don't think you should keep calling it scraping.
Maybe it's something to do with your delivery of said feelings, rather than people behaving like you believe they are.
Ah, of course. In my line of work 999 times out of a 1000, MS is Microsoft ;-)

The other 0.1% would be multiple sclerosis.
People are fixating on the price but I don't see people lining up to buy $30 apple chargers and earbuds or paying top dollar for them on ebay. I'm sure Apple sells a fair number due to the inelastic demand curve (people who lose theirs need a new one now) along with the branding, convenience factor, lack of choice at Apple store etc. but in the grand scheme of things they aren't in business to sell these, in fact they give them away with the phone.
HN's atmosphere of respect and decorum make me feel bad for doing this, but I can't resist

>facepalm.jpg
True enough. Cyclists are moving objects, and therefore have the potential to cause damage, up to and including death, as per the poor victim in this case. But even including outliers, I simply think it very unlikely the damage will, on average, be as bad as if hit by a car.
"He has no chance. He needs to be in Australia to be elected or he will be charged with electoral fraud."

I don't think this is news to anyone, let alone him.

"Good luck to him but by the time he has dealt with his current legal "issues" most people would have forgotten about him."

Nope. If and when he makes it back to Australia, he'll get a tonne of free publicity, without any effort at all.
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Designing games with the mute button in mind
> intelligent enough to discriminate on more than money

Depending on their background, these kids are often looking at more money than they have had in their lives and, for many, a larger salary rate than their parents. While there are certainly some students I see for whom the internship is just an experience exercise and the money is for fun, most of them are facing what seems to them a crippling debt load post-graduation and so terrified of it that the prospect of a few thousand more dollars is very hard to pass up.
Ask HN: How much to pay recruiters if no payment terms have been discussed?
A recruiter sent me a resume and asked if I wanted the person's contact info. The email header said that any communication with the candidate needed to be initiated through them. We decided to interview him and let recruiter know. We liked the person and made an informal offer. How should we handle this? I don't think we have any legal obligation to pay anything since I never agreed to anything, but is there an ethical obligation and how should the fee be arrived at?
"The recent war" (1991-1995), or Croatian War of Independence, was a mess and things like that happened. It doesn't mean anything.

In Croatian schools, they always say Tesla was Serbian and born in Croatian territory. Both Croatians and Serbs are proud of him, I guess.

As for mutual hatred, many people lost their families in the war, and obviously many Serbs were part of the aggression, so the relationship is no wonder.

Anyway, the article is great! Just what I needed.
Thanks for taking the time. node.js r/sec = 9307.96, react.php = 1573.40. Quite a difference.