skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fantastic way to skate by in your corporate job.

Add a frown and pretend to be just slightly irked but still deep in thought. Sip coffee every 2 minutes and then stroke chin. Repeat daily - you'll be in that corner office in no time.
von Mises: Galician Jew from Lvov (now a part of the Ukraine)

Oskar Morgenstern: German

Ferdinand Porsche: German

Valier: never heard of this guy until I looked him up just now; a true Austrian - albeit born in Italy and worked in Germany. Damned shame he died so young.

Karl Popper: Jew

Ludwig Boltzmann: the second real Austrian on this list.

Christian Doppler: another real Austrian...

Ernst Mach: Volksdeutsche from what is now Czech Republic.

Wolfgang Pauli: Czech-Jew, and related to Mach.

Kurt Gödel: German AMERICAN, F YEAH!! :)

Gregor Mendel: Volksdeutsche, from Silesia (now part of Czech Republic)

So I see only 3 Austrian on this list!

P.S. the Brits/Finns/Ukrainians/Russians always make a good joke at Germans' expense, but Austria always gets a free pass... I'm trying to right that wrong! :)
That would be quite a motivator for PChan to stick through the MD slog.
They exist. They're just expensive, dangerous, and require an expert operator.

There are also strong constraints on the altitude and maneuverability (between physical/design constraints and the increasing likelihood that you'll lose control).
That's not what the OP said. The point being made is that it's perceived that Apple generally have a better reputation for build quality which in turn goes to support a premium pricing model. While this isn't easily verifyable fact and it is conjecture on the part of the OP, it isn't worthy of a snarky 'RTFA' type comment. Incidentally, the article says as much. It also points out that Apple's charger has a better build quality and proffers the benefits to the average consumer.
One exception (teehee!) to the rule: file operations and other things where atomicity matters. Example code:

if not os.path.exists("foo"):
os.mkdir("foo")

That introduces a race condition. If foo does not exist on the first line but is created by something else on the second line then this will raise an exception. The proper code is:

import errno
try:
os.mkdir("foo")
except OSError as exc:
if exc.errno != errno.EEXIST:
raise

That doesn't have the race condition.

(Yes, that's wordy. Eventually they plan to add to Python 3 a fancier exception hierarchy described at http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3151/ , which lets you filter at a more fine-grained level, as below.)

try:
os.mkdir("foo")
except FileExistsError:
pass
Nice idea.
How about the ability to bookmark and share comparisons?

I'd so love to show off the fact that Mozilla has a hate-ratio of only ~ 1.7% while Microsoft has ahem..
Ask HN: Can HN give me some pro tips for my first Meetup?
The skinny is that I've never been to a Meetup before and I don't actually know any other programmers. I'm new to Ruby and I thought checking out the local scene would be a good idea. Any tips for a first timer that doesn't know anyone?
Smartphone/web hackers: join a 5-person post-series-A team (YC W12)
We make "TiKL - Touch to Talk", one of the top social apps on Android and iOS. It turns your smartphone is a realtime walkie-talkie with instant messaging. The user base grew organically from zero to 22 million in 20 months without any marketing. We just closed an over-subscribed series A round. We invite iOS/Android/WP7/web hackers to join a 5-person team in the W12 YC batch and help grow the user base from 22 million to 200 million. Based in the bay area, we offer a fun working environment, competitive compensation and excellent opportunities to own significant equity in a hot startup backed by all-star investors.

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* "Whatever it takes" altitude, never settles, loves fast-paced dynamic startup environment

Plus:

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Please contact nanzhong1@gmail.com if interested. Prior work samples would be appreciated. Sorry we can't sponsor visa at this point.
Why Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg returned to writing code
I cloned this for Emacs so that you won't look like you're writing code in a web browser of all places. Mostly because I wanted to see if this would be easier to implement in Emacs Lisp than JavaScript...it was.

https://github.com/bitemyapp/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs#L36...

Nota Bene: I wrote this ages ago back when people first talked about Hacker Typer.
That is a great resource. Especially pulling Selenium into the picture and showing good functional testing. Thanks to the author for putting this together.

While I understand the need to show how unit tests work do we really need to test Django's ability to save records to the database and retrieve them in part 1? I personally don't follow true TDD, especially with model fields. Am I off in left field? Is this pattern common with other developers? Or perhaps people test for a fields existence by checking _meta.fields?

The example of testing a specific attribute, verbose_name, (that is expected to be altered by the user) in part 2 and the user implemented __unicode__ method test I do think is a great example, though.

I like Daniel's summary in the "What To Test?" section at http://toastdriven.com/blog/2011/apr/10/guide-to-testing-in-...
> Basing a new project on Node.JS may be premature and not a wise choice.

Maybe one year ago but now Node.js is mature: The feature development ended, npm is close to perfection and surpasses package managers of other languages. The ecosystem is rich and and important modules are very mature.

Node offers tons of innovative stuff at low costs like no other setup, to say it's premature and not a wise choice doesn't sound very informed.
Losing half your wealth when things go south also kills the mood. You are right it comes down to rational vs emotional decision.

From what I have seen of the public persona of Mark you would think there would be something there. The guy has carefully crafted deals up to this stage to ensure he keeps maximum control.
Good read, but posted a month ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3853688
Well, since his favorite phrase is "Hasta la vista, baby", and lives in California, he's obviously a Mexican! :)
> You must log in to see this page.

Fail.
Congratulations Mark and Priscilla!!!

ps. He is wearing a suit to honor HIS WOMAN. He is showing her that he can suit up for her
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I'm not too fussed with the namespaces - I dont think you will find anyone arguing against that.

What is at issue is the over specialization of class or framework components because of language limitations.

A language that leads to degenerate boilerplate or mounds of endless repetition (but in user land code and libraries/frameworks) can be viewed as having a serious abstraction problem.

Do you really think java will be looked at in 100 years as the pinacle of language evolution or some horrible dead end? Like cobol or basic?
But I thought Facebook ran on PHP!
I thought it was a missing semi-colon.
I don't understand how a hard to plug in 30 pin connector solves an aesthetic problem when the alternative is smaller, at least somewhat shaped for differentiation and can/does do the same things at the protocol level (or via MHL via the same connector...).
Facebook's greatest hack: the IPO process
Read this: http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2008/08/18/how-to-win-friends-a...

And subscribe to the Ruby5 podcast to stay up to date on the latest news in Rubyland.
Alibaba To Buy Back $7 Billion Stake From Yahoo
I read this as "twice as expressive" and was somewhat confused. Was thinking of how to write a snarky comment about how expressive != expensive but then reread the headline.
Absolutely. Gotta hand it to a couple who's kept it together for over nine years, through the birth and growing pains of an unprecedented company, and med school to boot.

Congratulations!
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Limitless was also a work of fiction, so it's OK.
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Yep. Don't forget Aspects!

"But, but... a good IDE can make all this boilerplate be less painful!"

Of course, you could just not have the boilerplate, abstraction and over-complexity to begin with, use a simpler language & ecosystem like Python, and just code in vi.
GM Pulls $10 Million Campaign From Facebook Because Its Ads Don't Work
Making something - anything that will showcase your skills - is the best way to make yourself more hireable. I've only applied for a job once or twice, whereas the rest of the interviews and offers I've gotten have been because someone stumbled upon something I made.

Additionally, if you have a few companies you'd like to work for and they have an API, building something that makes use of it will definitely give you at least a few bonus points.
I'd guess that the first two are coincidence, and the latter two chosen. Interesting to try and see a person just through the purity of fact of choice rather than media narrative.
Well that's true, a function is generally written as if it's been given what it wants. I wouldn't check for other types either.

But None is a result that can happen in situations that would otherwise return exactly the expected type. If "nothingness" can be meaningful (especially in a function that accepts an empty list as a parameter, say), it's nicer if the code just deals with None itself instead of requiring checks for None in all the callers.
When I look at Mark, it's hard for me to look at him as a regular human being, he has so much people under his position I tend to forget guys like him can also get married and laugh about small jokes. With that much money, how do you get to trust anyone?, how do you talk to new friends knowing they're telling you the truth.
That's why I think he's some kind of cyborg. Well I wish him good, and I think he's made a great decisions by still keeping facebook under his control.
Set Google Chrome's Developer window always on top
Found at:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5460163/is-there-a-way-to...
Facebook is the best thing that's ever happened to me. The people from my past that I really don't want to converse with are likely tied up in their simple little Facebook world by now. Let them wonder why I'm not on Facebook. Problem solved!
I don't believe this article. Windows Phone really selling more than the iPhone in China?
I don't think Amazon being on Github is really that surprising.
A good place to look is at the HN lists page. Not exactly a curated list but you can usually find some of the more popular and 'hot' discussions here rather than the frontpage. Wadding through the top contributors usually lets you find some quality threads.

http://news.ycombinator.com/lists

leaders	Users with most karma.

best	Highest voted recent links.

active	Most active current discussions.

bestcomments	Highest voted recent comments.

noobstories	Submissions from new accounts.

noobcomments	Comments from new accounts.
Step One achieved. Now if you could just feed and educate the little fellows and keep them from having too many kids and stop their (generally) useless and corrupt governments from destroying their countries and killing each other, the world would truly be a nicer place.
Note that all these characteristics depend on the Euclidean distance metric. Perhaps the conclusions should be that when working with high-dimension data, you should consider using a different distance metric.
I wouldn't say those days are gone. A buddy of mine accidentally ran over his MacBook pro a few years ago. Granted, it was in his backpack at the time, but still... that sucker just kept on trekking. Looked awful though. Bent the whole thing into a slight curve, pulled apart some of the seams, etc, but it still worked.
Friend or facebook account?
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This is alluded to in a sidebar that undermines the title of the article. The author seems to be too invested in the original idea to fully correct it. Obviously cubes are spike when measured from any origin point.
A look ahead at the Visual Studio 11 product lineup and platform support
>so that you won't look like you're writing code in a web browser

F11
You will find the most critical components of Facebook are not written in PHP: https://github.com/facebook
Just Street Fighter…
Damn, you've caught my flair for understatement!
Sorry, but I don't suppose you'd be able to edit your post and paste that somewhere else? As a FYI it's broken the page layout somewhat.

(Chrome 19)
It's good to point out the race condition.

To solve this particular problem in future code more compactly however, note that Python 3.2 (finally) adds an "exist_ok" Boolean keyword parameter to the multi-directory variant, os.makedirs(). In other words, calling os.makedirs("mydir", exist_ok=True) will silently ignore existing directories and only raise if other errors occur.
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What an exciting week, definitely one he'll remember for a lifetime!
Ask HN: SICP - MIT or Berkeley Lectures
I am planning to read SICP, I found lectures from UC Berkeley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmYqShvVDh4&list=PL0710340EC55F6B45&index=1&feature=plpp_video

and MIT

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-spring-2005/video-lectures/.

MIT lectures are a bit old but have the advantage of being taught by Gerald Sussman himself. UC Berkeley Lectures are more recent. People who have already completed this, which one do you prefer? what do you suggest to someone starting fresh. I have time for going through a single set of lectures :(.
> Karl Popper: Jew

If you are going to assert that Jews cannot be Austrian, you may as well go all the way and give Hitler credit for being Austrian.
Will only discuss offsite.. not going to martyr myself again pointing out the obvious.

add: for starters, read the top comment on that thread, then you tell me if it was justified being top: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=354589
You're athletic? Inactivity, particular sitting, might still kill you!
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Hope and wish that relationship will not go up and down and severe hiccups like Stock Shares.
please don't think of her as "HIS WOMAN" (or him as her man). this implies ownership, and marriage is not about ownership. he might have worn it out of respect/love for her, yes.
ha ha ha
so funny
Haha, brilliant. I'm surprised it actually worked as well as it did, since I can't believe there was much testing. The SRB seperation was particularly impressive.

The final trajectory (and lack of bunker for the RC guy) reminds me of some of the very unsafe launches we had in my high school shop class. Experimental, untested, overpowered, unbalanced and... flying right through the student parking lot.
Tesla worked tirelessly as well. Edison's clear superiority over Tesla was in business financing. I guess that's the lesson children need to learn?
not that it makes a big difference, but his birthday was on monday for accuracy's sake
Haskell's hierarchical modules extension is also very, very good. Amongst other things, it fixes Python's issue of lacking independent "namespaces" (mapping namespaces to packages or modules directly means you can't have two packages living in the same namespace easily)

Still has one failure though: the default import is both qualified and unqualified, I think it should have been qualified only.
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Actually it's Monday, As per Wiki Entry his DOB is May 14. I know it because mine is May 15 :D
It's true he did a great number of things, but let's not forget this guy wasn't really a saint either:

Tesla claimed he could redesign Edison's inefficient motor and generators, making an improvement in both service and economy. According to Tesla, Edison remarked "There's fifty thousand dollars in it for you - if you can do it".[36] This has been noted as an odd statement from an Edison whose company was stingy with pay and did not have that sort of cash on hand.[37] After months of work when Tesla finished the task and inquired about payment Edison claimed he was only joking replying, "Tesla, you don't understand our American humor".[38][39] Edison offered a $10 a week raise over Tesla's US$18 per week salary, but Tesla refused it and immediately resigned.[36]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Working_for_Edison...

So, yeah he does sound like a CEO
This is the cooles rocket since the Saturn 5, maybe even cooler!

Video from the aborted start:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI31ibLRCm8

Detect an anomaly in your system? Just shut down the engine after ignition and abort the launch. Fuck yeah!

Good luck on the next attempt! You guys are heroes!
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Hey, not bad.
In this case YC is not about the funding but about the support and connections.
The very best chess teams consist of a computers and a humans cooperating with each. The computer insures perfect tactically play while the human concentrates on overall strategy.

Except, we're using computers to help assist us with a terrible codebase that is unnecessary complex and verbose.

Why should programming be any different? The very best IDEs in the hands of a skilled programmer should produce code better than a similarly skilled programmer who insists on using a dumb text editor. If the resulting code can only effectively be modified by a similar computer/human team - well that's a small price to pay.

Vim and emacs not "dumb text editors". They are very powerful tools in the hand of a skilled programmer.
We currently do all development in an internal Subversion repository and are not prepared to take external contributions.

It's a PR and recruiting tool.
You don't know the half of it. I actually have a biography of Tesla where it says he could generate earthquakes, extract free energy from space and whatnot... And my suspension of belief cracks.

Perhaps he really could do some of the amazing thing he claimed but talking to aliens and pigeons that had laser eyes? I dunno maybe he was a wee bit unstable.
Employees are almost certainly restricted to trading windows independent of any lockout provision. Given the lockout, it's unlikely that there is currently an open trading window. Any insider trading options outside of that window is likely to run afoul of the SEC.
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I'm not contesting any of this, rather, the poster above me had said Tesla didn't invent wireless electric transmission, so I asked who did, so I could learn. :)
Because Dennis Ritchie didn't have an interest in marketing or starting a business. That was easy.
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I think you're mixing up the causal relationship between infant mortality, population growth, and economic growth. High population growth does not necessitate low economic growth. In fact, it's economic growth that tends to determine the rate of population growth, not the other way around.
The future of an Android tablet's home screen
Sure, but it's always nice when imports fit on a single line without wrapping. Essential, no, but nice.
I think the argument is that "when you are on the road, bicycles have near identical rights and responsibilities as cars".

It's not identical - bicycles aren't allowed on motorways in the UK, for instance.
Tell us about your Rails experience. What can you do? What have you done? How would you propose to to work?
Funny how Apple still relies on language without any form of namespace support for their system.

Prefixes are not a solution as they have no ways to avoid collisions.

So much for supporting large scale development with Objective-C.
Smaller != better/prettier and the 'hard to plug to plug in' comment is your own opinion. The micro USB format does not do the same thing. It does a few similar things. I don't understand why an adapter from Apple is inadequate.
I wonder why he leaves 12 months after the IPO? Maybe there was a contractual reason?

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2012/05/18/happy-birthd...
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Frankly that's all that needed to be said. No talk about pre-nups, IPO's or Facebook. Just that a high profile, but obviously loving couple tied the knot. Makes me smile just thinking about it.

Congratulations to them both as well.
> If you're running in a virtual machine you have a lot more flexibility to solve these kinds of problems, of course.

Why so? Since the late 70's every language that supports modules has already solved this problem, and many of them have native code compilers.
Should Assange win it would not make him part of the government. Senators are only part of the Government if their party is in power.

I'm not sure what the legal issues surrounding extradition of a senator would be though.

Assange's main power would be through participating on Senate committees where he can ask questions of government. He would also be able use parliament as a soap box.

I don't think the Government (regardless of which party is in power) would be that worried about it through - unless he somehow ends up with the balance of power (unlikely).

The Greens will probably lose a spot due to his running.
Any language with namespace/modules support has this right.

Only C and Objective-C don't, and force everyone to come up with prefixes.

And when collisions do happen, you have to resort to preprocessor tricks to work around it.
Yeah, it's pretty crazy. I believe on at least one launch they aborted on final countdown and then flew later that day.
That's what they're called!

Yeah, Courier is way too thick for my tastes.
Correction: Captain Pike.
When the internship days are done, people learn that a good experience and good pay is more, personally rewarding than prestige. Prestige doesn't feed the chickens.
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I cannot comment on the content at all because I can't access the submission.

Pages submitted to HN should simply not be behind login walls, which is why I flagged this.

This thread already has multiple references to the fact that you have to log in to see the submitted post. There are many HN users without a FB account. For them, the headline of the submission cannot be verified by clicking on the link.

Although there is a large intersection between the two groups of HN and FB users, you don't have to be signed up with any other webservice in order to use HN. This is not only about FB. As a matter of principle posts to HN should be accessible for all HN users without requiring them to sign up with any other webservice.

However, this is up to PG and the HN community. It would be good if PG provided a guideline whether submissions behind login walls are accepted or not.
In the UK, many traffic lights have a space for cyclists at the front and centre, so cyclists can skip to the front and maneuver the junction more safely.

This leads to many cases where a driver will have to pass a cyclist twice.
This library looks bad because it is bad.

(I just wrote a long rant about this, but on my internal blog, so I'll summarize here. They have 12 classes implementing immutable lists. A class for an empty list. A class for a list with one element. A class for a list with two elements. That continues to 10 (!!!!) elements. Then there's a class for lists greater than size 10. This pattern is repeated for all the other types. That's going to be messy in any language. Google seems to survive with 0-, 1-, and n-element classes.)