skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
author of rails_config here. rails_config is sort of nice because you can use ERB so mix your regular settings along with ENV settings

That said, it's not been a terribly well maintained project. Haven't had time, needs help! I still use 0.2.5 since that's the only one that works for me :)
Putting high speed Internet (and weed, really) on the same level as marriage equality feels a little...cheap.

But, I agree with your sentiment. I love living in Seattle.
Kinda bursting my own bubble here but it's also extremely unlikely to be accepted after being deferred -- even less than applying regular. I'd have to do something extraordinary between now and April.

Also, at this point I think it's too late to edit my essays. Are you applying as well?
I thought it was very interesting. As for being a unique perspective, why would I care about uniqueness? I care about it being informative to ME, and since I'm nowhere near 16 (and we'll just leave it at that), I'm interested in hearing about what is COMMON KNOWLEDGE, therefore NOT unique, to countless kids his age---an age I didn't have to guess at because he did me the favor of telling us.

If there's an element of, "look at me" in his headline, how is that different from every other headline on HN and every other news site? The headline tells you what the "hook" is, and if you aren't interested, move on to the next hook.

And if your point is that the site is cluttered with contributions announcing a kid's age, well how many more contributions are there announcing, "well, that wasn't very interesting to me"?

To the OP: You did fine, kid. All publishers in all media get the approval of only a fraction of their potential audience. The best anyone ever does is to interest a small sliver of humanity. Listen to feedback, but be aware that it will be all over the map, from "Love it, do more!," to "Hate it, shut up!", to stone silence and background crickets. You can't follow all of it; just consider your options, adapt as you see fit, and keep going.
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You're supposed to feel guilty for being rich, these days. Specially if you're white. Double that if you're a male.
So proud of Seattle on a personal and professional level, across multiple recent advancements.
To me, Twitter seems more compatible with the older internet user's view that what you do on the internet should, if you want it to be, be somewhat anonymous. Or at least feel that way.
Why fix what isn't broken? Some people enjoy the rain.
Thanks for the insightful comment! I don't really mind the structure of school, and I think college will be even less "rigid" in terms what what I learn or do.
I am in love with Feynman. He's so captivating.
I once hacked the office's coke machine (a tap, not a vending machine) with a Palm Pilot and a modem. Good times.
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Put me in for $100, please.
I have been working on an alternative solution for the same problem (for at least some use cases) which should work with less hassle.

Basically, with my program (http://www.mute.fm), your music will get paused/muted automatically whenever a video plays and will be restored afterward by monitoring the volumes of different processes.

This doesn't support the use case of needing to pause your music when you have a real life phone call, need to leave your desk, or have people gathered around your computer, though.
uh... it was actually not always this bad.

The problem is that we have opted too much for the visual metaphor for a desktop/folder etc...

Back in the day (~1987?) there was a file manager called "PathMinder" -- this was a GUI file manager for DOS -- it was AMAZING!

You had a full keyboard navigable system for your file system... now, this was a directory centric model (the idea of collections/groups/tags/etc had not evolved yet) -- but hte fluidity of navigating the structure was AMAZING.

I had fully memorized many many paths (just like memorizing the path to various dungeons in Bard Tale) via the keyboard.

It would be great to have the ability to have a meta-tree of navigation.

E.G.: assume you navigated to \Downloads - you could then highlight a file, say, a .PDF -- then in one more stroke, show me ALL .PDFs -- or what if I had tags on my files - even AUTO-TAGS (like Received Via [work/personal] email) - show me all PDFs I have received via my work email. or Show me all attachments received from my mom.

Collections of content is a weak premise... I would rather auto-tag content based on how I receive/procure it...

It is more about threading the communication channels than it is putting shit in the same bucket...
Wow, this gem actually looks pretty rad. Here's a link https://github.com/laserlemon/figaro
An Overview of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem
> The min. requirement to downvote, I'm told, moves upward ever so slightly.

That is what is told, but I think it goes upwards in increments. I recall clearly that I first saw the down arrows right at 500.
How to Spend the First Hour of Your Day
Thanks for the great suggestions. After some searching, I went with an indoor outdoor remote controlled helicopter and the message, "thanks for helping get Lumeo off the ground."
If you're incorporated, then you're not representing yourself if the corporation is sued.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. If you want to treat the corporation as a separate person for liability purposes, you have to accept that it'll be treated as a separate person for other purposes.
The drug wars effect on minority communities is often overlooked. The legalization of weed is a civil rights victory.
I think I missed some cool deals or event invites from friends.. :P
I certainly don't disagree that going to a good school is valuable. My only statement is that it is not so important to place such a strong emphasis on the name blindly. It helps in many ways and their programs are generally known for something but I wouldn't discount the late-bloomer, super motivated kid who went to a no name school and worked his ass off to get to where he wanted to go. I would just take it in context. That's all.
It definitely should be here, otherwise you have the "50 reply tangent on politics that I can't avoid reading to get to anything else" problem.

It still leaves the "I have to do a bunch of work beyond simply scrolling down to read this discussion" problem. I don't like solutions that put excessive burden on the largest audience of anonymous readers. Write once, read many, and all that.
A corporation is not "yourself" it's a distinct legal entity. Corporate form isn't just a neat little giveaway to businesses--treating your business as a separate person has both advantages and disadvantages.
The odds are very high that it will not go off in our lifetimes.

The odds are high that it will not go off in the time that the United States of America is a country.

The odds are reasonable that it will not go off in the time that homo sapiens is a species.

If it does go off, it will be the largest disaster on record, the United States as we know it will be destroyed, and it will be a worldwide threat.

Let's not worry about it, shall we?
Yes, something like that.

We were interviewing for Java devs so basically a method with this signature:

public static String concatenate(List<String> strings)

And I have a StringUtils class ready to go with an example method and say "imagine there are a bunch of methods in this class and we want production ready code"

There's a lot you can learn.

- do they decide to write unit tests up front (note that our questionnaire asks about their testing experience and everyone rhapsodizes about their strong testing background)

- if not, once they've written the method, how do they respond to the question "How do we know if it works?" (cue people writing main methods within the StringUtils class)

- what kind of unit tests do they write? Can they come up with good tests that cover all cases

- what names do they give to their methods/parameters/variables. (One guy called his method bangThemTogether)

- what bugs do they have - what cases do they miss

- if a unit test fails how do they go about fixing it (interestingly only 2 people fired up the debugger)

- do they ask questions if they need clarification

Minor things

- keyboard/IDE skills - do they laboriously type everything or have they taken the time to learn their preferred tool

- can they explain what they're doing - do they speak at all...

There's a second part to the practical - a bit of a code review/refactoring exercise. Sometimes I skip it because they've taken more than 30 minutes on the first part or their just so bad it's not worth continuing.

BTW we've interviewed about 30 people with this technique. They first meet with the dev manager for culture fit and general knowledge of dev processes. Then they meet with a tech lead for a more technical interview - explain your last project etc. Then I do the practical. Many people get through the first two just fine but fail badly on the practical.
I like the way reddit makes discussions more manageable, I often get frustrated with multiple page discussions in Hacker News that aren't relevant to the original topic, and it would be great if replies at a certain depth were collapsed automatically, just to reduce the number of pages I have to go past to find the next thread in the discussion.

I also wish there was some way to encourage concision in comments. The 824 words (according to my word processor) in the most popular comment is ridiculous to me, I'm not reading that unless it's about something very interesting to me. The article itself is only 1541 words (and I didn't read the whole of that either).
Washington's general sales tax rate is 6.5%, which is similar to the general sales tax rate in all other states that have one. Most other states, in addition to a 5-7% general sales tax, also tax personal income. I've looked, but have failed to find what the taxpayers in those states are getting for their overall higher taxes.

As an aside, OR to the south of WA doesn't have a sales tax at all, but rather an income tax, which would come out to about 9% for me if I lived there. In WA I pay about a 9% sales tax on things I purchase excepting housing and food. When you do the math, whether I'm rich or I'm poor; my taxes are lower in WA - unless I'm spending obscene amounts of money buying stuff other than housing and food (edit: or don't have an income but do purchase goods and services).

Also, I don't know if it's related or not, but WA does have a much more vibrant economy than OR and most other states with an income tax.
Ole Roemer and the Speed of Light
If conversations aren't nested, how are you supposed to know what the replies are referencing? There's no effective way to talk to each other and have a real discussion.

All of the 'problems' of nested comments are trivial in comparison to that. There are certainly good use cases for flat comments, and I think Stack Overflow is a good example, but there is a reason why all of the biggest discussion sites use nested comments. There might be more sites with flat comments overall, but that's only because they're much easier to implement.
Yeah, but that's a community flagging / moderation problem. If two people get in a fight in a bar, they need to leave the bar.
Behold, the Subtle Greatness of Google Maps for iPhone
HN == Apple Bitch Fest; 98% pure negativity; Sigh.
It'll get me further from 500, but here's a post that is being made with the intent of making the discussion less flat.
iCloud backups don't include all keychain items, while iTunes encrypted backups do: https://ssl.apple.com/ipad/business/docs/iOS_Security_May12.... page 12.
Sorry to use the "X for Y" cliche, but this sounds like IFTTT for the desktop. And I like it.
Sorry but this guesstimate is a bit absurd. If the majority of ad clicks were ineffective or for wrong reasons, Google's $231 billion market cap would be tough to justify.
Good point. I have a hard time shaking my "white stoner kid" stereotype.
Hi Jason, thanks for taking questions.

Do you see Etsy as competition?

You mention a custom built supply chain tech and strong mobile/ecommerce sales. You also share a lot of stats and operational details about the biz on your blog. Would you consider encouraging your tech team to be similarly open? Blogging, open sourcing code, conferences/presentations.
With SolarCity IPO, Elon Musk May Get Clean Tech Right
Well,

lround(exp(lgamma(...)))

is just about the worst way to use lgamma. If long ints are signed 64 bit integers, then the largest factorial you can store is 20!. You might as well look it up in an array. But you frequently need ratios of factorials (and values of the gamma function more generally) when doing statistical computing and lgamma is invaluable.
Nice to meet someone with my exact policy views! :-)

There's another huge problem that it solves besides just administrative costs. Currently marginal tax rates near the poverty line are very high due to loss of access to need-based programs like foodstamps (exactly how high depends a lot on individual circumstances). It's a horrible burden on the working poor that nobody seems to understand. More discussion here: http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-flat-t...
I just moved from SOMA in SF to Belltown. Feels like Disneyland.
What's the name of the disorder, if you don't mind me asking?
Why Aren’t There B Batteries?
Ideas and execution – an enormous difference in effort
beautifully written, and resonates with all us who have lost their dads. Thank you.
No email or texting while driving 
An app that blocks the email + in-coming text while a person is driving.
I have a general policy about not worrying.

Either it happens, I have enough warning and I live, it happens and I don't have enough warning so I die, or it doesn't happen. No sense worrying in any case.

My point is just that if it goes off, the problem won't be just Colorado's.
This looks interesting, I've been doing a lot similar work as I'm currently building an open source CMS for nodejs. It's a lot more complex than Roots however the goal of the project is to make it easy for developers to build websites and applications. It'll come with a full featured and extendable admin control panel and built in support for all the common stuff like authentication, user Management, content management, blog posts, asset publishing, etc.

The nodejs side handles the API which automatically generates REST routes for your resources, and you have the ability to write custom API endpoints as well.

The website and admin panel are automatically built using Grunt and require.js and depend only on the API so you're free to host your website on S3 or another server entirely. The client-side website will call the API for content, authentication, etc. The admin panel is written in AngularJS (So far it's incredibly responsive and feels almost native!) and it's up to the user what to use for the main website.

One nice thing is during development it'll watch your files for changes, rebuild the site on the fly and update the client view using socket.io. No more constantly refreshing the page after every change! In production mode everything is bundled and minified using r.js.

If this sounds interesting to you guys then I should have something to show HN in the next few weeks :)
Activity Streams + IFTTT for the desktop, yep. I've mooted it elsewhere before, but I think I'll write up the idea more fully.
Good list of how you interview/test and what your expectations are! I'd have to admit, I don't often even consider writing a test for a method that would just return a join() - I trust the join() method in the underlying language 'just works', although there are other reasons for writing tests (error handling, etc).

I do some PHP teaching, and one thing I got some good feedback from was giving students assignments that had asserts in them. Not quite unit-testing specifically (not using a full testing harness), but I'd give them some shell code with assert statements and they'd need to 'make it work'.

The sharp ones actually made it work, and gave me feedback that they appreciated that a lot, as it showed them how to think about breaking down things in to testable parts (even trivial stuff). The not-so-sharp ones... easier to spot when they'd give me back code that obviously was never even run in the first place.
> Speaking of categories: I was browsing many pages deep in HN a few hours ago and I noticed a ton of "Ask HN:" topics buried on pages 6-10.

I actually almost mentioned this myself as a form of "level", but decided that it wasn't explicit enough in the navigation; I guess it would then have been valuable to just point out "maybe it should be a level". ;P

The analogy to this specific gap in a traditional forum is the category change between "on-topic" and "chat"/"meta"/"general discussion" (with then having the topics come below those section headings, followed by the threads, etc.).

> I have almost 500 HN "rep" and I still can't find any way to downvote.

(Someone else already responded to this comment, but for completion-sake and because I'm the person who called it out in the first place: you need 500 points before you can downvote, so you aren't quite there yet ;P. Downvotes on this site are pretty powerful, actually, so they thereby seem to be reserved for people who have deeply invested in the website, of which there are enough people versus the total amount of content posted that this isn't a problem.)

> There's not even any way to collapse branches here as there is on Reddit...

I agree that this is useful; it is a highly requested feature and I believe it offers a lot of value: it is, of course, an important feature of the explicit tree... within a single collapsed linear level, all content blocks all other content, and you are just screwed if you want to skip anything, as there isn't even a visual differentiator.

(That said, some of us use user scripts to get past this problem; I wrote my own, but there are a few on the GreaseMonkey archive site whose name I'm forgetting, as well as in the Chrome extension store. If the content didn't have the trees at all, you wouldn't be able to do this no matter how hard you tried. That said, again: most online community discussion systems, even the ones that claim to be flat, have trees at least 4-5 deep.)
"it essentially is like a stackexchange for CS interview questions"

except for the bad website and tons of ads.
People are prepping for earthquakes here. The unsafe viaduct is coming down. Schools are getting seismic retrofits. Kids are doing earthquake drills. People who aren't tinfoil hat survivalists (me) are keeping 3 days of food and water handy.

I respect your difference in risk tolerance, but don't think we're oblivious to earthquakes here. That's just slanderous :)
Party hard.
Cool, which were they? Just wondering.
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Ask HN - Allowing other sites to embed Your content (eg. Hellobar, Qualaroo)
I've been searching through the source files forever and can't figure how sites like hellobar.com and qualaroo.com allow someone to embed the companies content on the webmasters site(Never was too great with javascript.) Can anyone explain, or point me in the direction of a good tutorial to walk me through this? Eventually I'd like to figure out how to personalize this based on uID (etc.), but I'll start with the basics for now. Thank you in advance for any help!
[ this was meant as a response to people calling out the image looking weird ]

EXIF of http://scriptunasimages.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/wscriptu... :

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Model	Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Date	2012:11:19 09:37:43
Serial Number	022021008570

ApertureValue	3.356144
Artist	Walter Scriptunas II
CustomRendered	Normal process
DateTime	2012:11:22 15:39:32
DateTimeDigitized	2012:11:19 09:37:43
DateTimeOriginal	2012:11:19 09:37:43
ExifIFDPointer	354
ExifVersion	0230
ExposureBias	0
ExposureMode	1
ExposureProgram	Manual
ExposureTime	0.06666666666666667
FNumber	3.2
Flash	Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode
FocalLength	16
FocalPlaneResolutionUnit	4
FocalPlaneXResolution	160
FocalPlaneYResolution	160
ISOSpeedRatings	3200
ImageDescription	This massive blast door would seal off the bunker from all the violence happening outside.
LensSerialNumber	000082f82b
Make	Canon
MaxApertureValue	3
MeteringMode	Pattern
Model	Canon EOS 5D Mark III
ResolutionUnit	2
SceneCaptureType	Standard
SerialNumber	022021008570
ShutterSpeedValue	3.906891
Software	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.2 (Macintosh)
SubsecTimeDigitized	26
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WhiteBalance	Auto white balance
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Good call, I didn't look at the homepage for the site I posted.

It wouldn't be my personal choice to give page views to people with these particular opinions, but the information appeared to be correct in terms of the topic.
two different kids of startups:

1. Ones that empower ecomerce, by building the infratructure for it
2. Ones that are actual ecommerce websites and sell directly to the consumer

If you are talking about commerce in general: stripe, gumroad,

Etsy, Fab, are doing well selling directly to consumers.
Bottom of the error page says "You're seeing this error because you have enabled the show_exceptions setting."

Might want to just turn that off now and hack around with Blossome in-depth later ;)
I have absolutely no problem with the finder and would not like a file manager that links to my social websites. I would mind a separate app that would aggregate that info, but wouldnt want use it to manage my local files
Yes, this. An old roommate of mine who was a Seattle-area native called it "spitting drizzle". It's like an agressive fog.
Ask HN: Lets start connecting and working together - Post your story
I know a bunch of HNers here have:

(1) Great ideas but haven't pursued them

(2) Domains that are sitting and undeveloped

(3) Live websites - but need help in one way or another

Lets use this thread to post (1) (2) or (3) above with a description, along with who you are looking for:
partnership, consulting, designer, developer, marketer, sales person etc

I know the HN community has so much to offer so I think this thread can be a great way to collaborate and find people to work with.

#### Don't forget to have an email address in your profile's "about" section so others can contact you ####
This doesn't seem to be working out too well for YouTube or any political site (HuffPost, etc) - have you read through some of those discussions lately? I don't think that single vs multi threaded conversations has any direct correlation with civility.
Anyone else notice how Apple copied the look of Google's OG Maps app, and so now Google uses a much different icon to avoid confusion?
I never understood that until it happened to me, but you're totally right. You just sort of learn to manage the pain...it never goes away.
1) Marriage equality
2) Decriminalization of small quantities pot
3) Amazon's recent innovations in the hardware space
4) MS's recent innovations in the hardware space
5) T-Mobile's finally getting the iPhone

Several others on a more personal, non HN related front. Mostly trivial and entertainment based.
I noticed this too and was annoyed by it.
INFI WTF is IFTTT. HTH. HAND.
They host a script, and provide an code to place on your website. You'll need to learn basic Javascript before you get to the point where you have a script that changes based on a user ID.

Hellobar (and a service I am working on) provide variable content based on an ID by requesting a "configuration" file from a server with the provided ID.