skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're using a config file to define things, it's generally the case that it's defining the schema as well and the database is built programatically on top of it. So it's really just a matter of taste: some frameworks have you manipulate the DB schema directly and then build the ORM representation off of the DB, whereas others have you directly define the ORM representation and then build the database off of it. Either way there's no real duplication, and there's still just one place to modify if you need to change the schema/ORM mapping.

In our case we have a config file because A) it makes it easier to abstract the schema across different databases and B) we have extra metadata in there above and beyond just the schema information.
I hope something good comes out of this effort. But from my previous experience with biological data & biological research, I'm a bit skeptical. There is so much competition for grants & publications that researchers are sometimes reluctant to truly share data & help others build on their work.
Well, of course you are right that everyone can't be a teacher. However, realistically, I think we are very much on the opposite end of number-of-great-people-who-are-teachers spectrum.

Also worth pointing out that this isn't necessarily true for secondary education - Universities are institutions which allow great teachers to both do great work and teach. I'd hypothesize that if the same were extended to other institutions, and also to younger students, much value would come of it.
This is sad. In my opinion immigrants are the best Americans. They work the hardest and they expect the fewest handouts. In DC the Ethiopian immigrants had the highest rate of employment of any demographic group. At first they work in parking garages and as cab drivers. But after a few years they own restaurants and small businesses. In Silicon Valley I'd say over half the people pitching VC's have a foreign accent. I think it's amazing that somehow people who barely speak the language can figure out where the money comes from and how to fund their dreams. Yet people who have been here for generations complain about a lack of opportunity. Immigrants are our greatest asset. We should be fast-tracking highly educated immigrants and make it nearly seamless for them to move here.
Agreed. It only took me 1-2 years out of college to begin to regret all the things I DIDN'T study while I was there. If I'd taken a year or two, worked, and got some "partying" out of my system, my college years would have been much better spent.

College should not be a way to delay a child's real life. It should be part of their strategy to live a good one.
If you build something original, would pride normally prevent others from copying you?
And if your idea turns out to be a good one, perhaps by then you would have a first-mover advantage anyway?

Moreover, if people do copy you, then they are in a way helping you by promoting your original idea.

I guess the question here is whether IP protection is really necessary and whether discussing your ideas in public is a reasonable thing to do.
Good news for you, reddit itself is open source. Why use a clone? http://code.reddit.com/
Not looking to host it. Just a quick hosted instance would be ideal.
No matter what you do, you are blowing your chance to do everything else.
Yes, but there is no way to get the summary from Freebase directly. They dont include the summary in the TSV textfile downloads they offer. On their site, it says the only way to get the summaries is via WEX.

Are there other good ways to get the Wikipedia summaries?
Actually, looking at the thread below, and on the article itself, I can see several replies that are by people who are around that age, where they have that choice, and are hesitating. I can only hope that my article will have helped them in their choice. If it helps even one, imho, the article was worth writing.
For as much as I dislike TC in general, I can't help but feel a little sorry for Michael... the man looks like he's aged 20 years since he started TC and I think that "constantly plugged in" thing is a big part of it.
Good to see they spent all that time on something pointless. P.J. should grow up. This does nothing to further knowledge and innovation, it only harms it.
They have "evolved" a style of "journalism" that involves blind repetition of speculative, often unverified, information. It's like they are playing a game of broken telephone, but with a megaphone in hand. They have to be constantly plugged in because -- guess what -- that is the only value that they offer; the ability to be first at all costs.

There are some things that I'll be a little bit patient about. Cooking my hamburger? You know what, take your time, make sure it's cooked thoroughly. Putting down a concrete foundation for me? By all means, let it cure and set so I don't have to put up with cracks in a few years.

I don't have time to be plugged in 24/7 to hear about the latest startups. But I do enjoy reading about them. So, I'd personally rather read about a story once, and have the information be accurate and thorough rather than be the first to hear about a story but be misinformed.

As I approach my thirties, I remember a funny story an older guy shared with me when I was in my early twenties. There's an old bull and a younger bull walking up a hill. When they get to the top, they look down and see a whole field of female cattle. The younger bull, excited, turns to the older bull and says "I'm going to run down there and have my way with one of them!". The older bull chuckles dismissively and replies, "Okay, well I'm going to walk down there and have my way with all of them!"

Do things correctly. I'm of the opinion -- I fully understand it is simply an opinion -- that the way TC does things is incorrect. I wish they would adopt a style of investigative journalism that held to the profession's ideals a bit more. In fact, I wish more of the mainstream media would do the same these days.
Just a clarification: You have to read the whole thread, otherwise the subject I chose does not make sense. Here is the post where Plauger actually defends copyright:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/msg/810d733c01e55...
Ask YC: Has anyone incorporated as a Vermont Virtual Company?
I'm setting up an online store, and I need an merchant account to accept credit cards. I've thought about incorporating as a Vermont Virtual Corporation or LLC, I don't know any one else that has done this.

Anyone here done this? Tips, tricks, caveats?
You're looking to compare the psychology of adopted Asian-Americans and un-adopted Asian-Americans? This is definitely a place where correlation can be a million things other than causation. I'm no social scientist, but two things come to mind right away:

Consider the financial situation of a household which adopts children - adoption is a very expensive and rigorous process, so adopted children of any nationality are going to be in a family which is financially secure and meets some kind of standard psychologically and legally. Not so for many Asian immigrants - I would imagine that on average, Asian immigrants aren't as well off as foster parents. Culturally, their environment will be quite different.

Cultural identities also come into play - adopted or not, Asian children will identify themselves as "Asian", just as Jewish children identify themselves as "Jewish", Russian children will identify themselves as "Russian", and African American children identify themselves as "Black".
How much did Cisco pay for this?
Slinkset maybe? (http://slinkset.com/)
I know exactly what you mean. After 7 years in the H1B green card queue I finally got mine, but it was an agonizing wait. Like you I love the US, I feel more at home here than I do in the UK, but after close to a decade of delays the pressure of never knowing if I could settle was taking a toll. I wouldn't mind clear rules, but the sheer arbitrary illogical complexity and undefined duration of the process made it a nightmare.

A month after my GC came through, I quit my job and I'm now burning through my savings trying to get a startup off the ground, pumping money into the economy.
Showing that you care about your work gives people the impression that you care about your work; story at 11.
Like flash?
How long has it taken to get working flash on Intel-linux?
I think if they're convicted of something, they'll be ordered to stop, and if they flaunt that, then perhaps there will be more serious consequences. That's usually how it works, right? Also, Egypt is not exactly beyond the reach of US influence. Don't know where would be 'safe'... maybe Russia?
You're looking to compare the psychology of adopted Asian-Americans and un-adopted Asian-Americans? This is definitely a place where correlation can be a million things other than causation. I'm no social scientist, but two things come to mind right away:

Consider the financial situation of a household which adopts children - adoption is a very expensive and rigorous process, so adopted children of any nationality are going to be in a family which is financially secure and meets some kind of standard psychologically and legally. Not so for many Asian immigrants - I would imagine that on average, Asian immigrants aren't as well off as foster parents. Culturally, their environment will be quite different.

Cultural identities also come into play - adopted or not, Asian children will identify themselves as "Asian", just as Jewish children identify themselves as "Jewish", Russian children will identify themselves as "Russian", and African American children identify themselves as "Black".

Of course, none of this proves that there are no common genetic traits in the Asian gene-pool that help them excel at math, just as there are obviously genetic traits in the African American gene-pool which help them excel at running. Still, it doesn't mean much - the standard deviation in standardized math scores within any population is magnitudes larger than the difference in mean score between Asians and whites and blacks.
Ask HN: Best places to live in Silicon Valley for families?
Hi Folks,
Thinking about making the switch and wanted to get some informed opinions to guide me and my wife through our frantic craigslist/realtor.com/dice.com Silicon Valley search.

We have a couple of young kids and I was thinking of making a career move and SV was high on my personal list, but I'm not sure my family will have as enjoyable of a time out there as I will.

I was wondering if folks with kids lived out there and had opinions on the subject but also any SV relocation advice in general would be helpful.

Thx.
One thing to keep in mind - educational markets are like enterprise markets - very difficult to sell to. Products don't generally catch on and spread virally there - you'll need a salesforce. The decision makers aren't the users of the product, but its administrators.
Interview with Michael Tyson, Creator of the Audio Mixing App “Loopy”
I did, but I am not there yet. Soon, but not today. All my cash, time and energy are invested into my existing business. And trying to expand that business into US slowly without a massive and risky upfront investment would only give me a non-resident visa, not a green card.
As it's always been said, idea's are a dime-a-dozen, it's the implimentation that counts. If someone copies you then you just have to out do them with better features or support. My feeling, is if you're trying to prevent someone from competing with you, you may win in the short run, but in the long run you'll probably lose.

By trying to stop other people from competing against you it diverts your time, energy, and resources to something that could be better used to make your product better. Lets say you are successful and you stop the person from competing directly with you, two other projects might pop up that do the same or similar tasks that your project does. Now you'll have to go after them, ad infinitum.

Next, while this won't affect your customers it may affect your investors or possible community which you have gained. Some people may take your attack as being childish or as being a weakness to your person. Your reputation may suffer as an end result and you'll lose the confidence of your investors and the community you built up may leave because they don't like your attitude.

It's a touchy subject and I'm not the most knowledgeable person as I've never really been in this situation. However, I've always felt it's better to just push on. Competition is good for you and the customers. While you may feel like it's harming your bottom line, you'll probably end up with a much better product that will prevent a much larger corporation with much more resources from entering your market bruteforce because you have a battle-tested product with a good amount of features.
Yeah, I can't really think of a way to break into the market. That could just be because I'm not in marketing?

I just have a picture in my mind, cold calling university administrators, it just wouldn't work.
Even Ayn Rand didn't think that Objectivism was applicable to all situations; she said somewhere that lifeboat situations didn't count, and I think this applies more generally to all extreme situations: neither reason nor evolutionary psychology is guaranteed to help you decipher the ethics of actions in situations which are extremely unlikely to occur.
The last good thing you did with a computer?
Hey guys,

I'm curious to know a little more about our community, mainly, what is the last thing you did with computers that helped someone (and you didn't charge or benefit in any way)?

I wrote a program to help my mom manager her floral shop. She uses it daily and it helps out when customer call to place orders, since she has their address and frequent clients addresses on file. It also does other things, but knowing I'm helping her out feels good ;)

I also wrote a search engine for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, but I got a research paper out of that...so I guess that doesn't really apply, but it did make me feel good :)

How about you?!
Check out this blog: http://www.svmoms.com

I think it could contain helpful info for you, specially for your wife and kids.
>While I agree, that H-1B should be used to bring really
>skilled people in
It is becoming impossible to do academic collaborations with the US - you can't send postdocs/professors to work on US telescopes, particle accelerators etc because they can't get H1B visas. Initially this is great, other coutries part fund the projects but only americans can work on them. the trouble is that the next round of instruments won't be in the US, Cern was built in Switzerland for this reason, ITER is in France.
Useful discussion is that which has the ability to inform decision, generally. Out of 54 comments here, 52 are from people who seem to be past this point and the other 2 seem to already know what they want to do. It'd be cute to think that those other 52 are really doing it for the good of the remaining 2, but do you really believe that?

If this were say, one of the many discussions about database tech, caching and whatnot -- even though we've got a lot of experts in those fields people still change their minds, are open to new view points, and use that information to make future decisions.

This is like the girl I'm dating and I arguing over which of our home countries has the best food. We're arguing over formative experiences that have just become part of who we are. It's cute banter, but really not more. Just because we're going to continually disagree, and we're both throughly convinced of our rightness, doesn't mean that it's an important thing for us to keep discussing.
> how is that extra value imparted, if not from the labor (variable) acting on constant capital?

It depends on the value and the valuer. A thing's value and the labor spent on it are not intrinsically related at all: a wild flower may be very valuable to someone while having required no labor at all. Similarly, digging a hole in your back yard does not automatically increase the value of your property; the labor has no value of its own.

Value is entirely subjective, and can only be measured or assigned by people.
Hairy?
and if your arguments are good you'll usually get upmodded.
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Features That Will Make Twitter Better
Becoming a Great Programmer: Use Your Trash Can
Trust me...the professors don't like the first-year courses any more than you do. They're a necessary evil.

Once you've selected a major, the coursework becomes much more interesting and difficult. There will be plenty to challenge you.
Cold calling will work, to some extent, but there are just so many decision makers involved, and they in turn have to get buy in from so many teachers, administrators, etc, that each sale just takes a long time.
It's based entirely on what people think it is worth, given disclosure of the relevant details. No one outside of Facebook (and, presumably, its investors) has that information.

That being said, I don't think Facebook is being honest with themselves or anyone else with respect to their valuation.
How so? 'Abusing others' was certainly nothing she was advocating. Her point was that simply earning money or being good ('strong') is not at all an abuse of poorer or 'weaker' people. While one may get 'rich' by abusing 'weaker' people (i.e. robbers or slave drivers), that is exactly the kind of person she is up against. More specifically, against the kind of robber or potential slave driver who seeks to gain support and assistence of one group to rob or enslave another -- by denouncing the latters as the 'actual robbers and slave drivers' when all they did was voluntary exchanges and independent creation etc etc. Now, that I'm sure we can agree on, does exist and did happen in reality and history. Anything I'm missing?
Idiot is a pretty strong word, and using it requires some arguments and substance besides "in my opinion they are idiots".

Intelligent discourse is based on good arguments and respect for the other party.
Selecting all except some columns in MySQL
I imagine it's less than you're suggesting, because they're not serving the files themselves, so their bandwidth would be relatively low compared to a photo or video sharing site.
Both BBC Shows "Life on Mars" and "Ashes to Ashes" the time travel isn't time travel but more purgatory between life and death.

It works better than if the cop was pushed into a time machine.
Creating a simple abstract model to reduce boilerplate code
Pirate Bay down, not connected to the trial.
"new kind of journalism"? Seems to me about 5 paragraphs of the story are basically an ad for the hotel he stayed in. Adding "full disclosure" does not turn this type of writing into journalism (not a new kind, anyway).
I just disagree with you that it is interesting at all. It has the illusion of interestingness because it's about Twitter -- hey, it's web! it's Twitter! i do that stuff for a living! -- but it is completely lacking in substance.

What do I mean by this? I mean you will not see any other company following their lead. Because there is no point in doing this if you take away the novelty and the chatter in the blogosphere...I mean it's not a meaningful way to communicate with people via your site's home page.

Sorry, but it's also just facile. It's so stupidly easy to come up with gimmicks like this that fit the flavor of the month. Hey, it's 2002, let's turn our home page into the Google search results page for "skittles"! Hey, it's 2005, let's make our home page a wiki and allow anyone to edit it! Hey, it's 2006, let's turn our home page into a Youtube video stream of videos tagged "skittles"!

So it's 2009, and they chose Twitter. Sorry, but there is just nothing original or interesting about that.
Do you go to a specialized school? If only such classes were offered here. I too am a high school senior but everything I know (little compared to you) is self taught. I am looking to college to supplement that.
Apparently the pirate bay is down right now. The defense hadn't given their closing arguments yet so it's not connected to the trial at all.

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/thepiratebay.org
Interesting insight into a small section of China's best and brightest.

I am certain though these people are the minority, just like the rest of the world I'm sure some students want to just make money and the others want to create wealth and products. And with the recession more people are wising up to it.
On the other hand, maybe a lot of people got laid off and decided to pad their resume with this certification. If you're up against a lot of other people for the same job, having an extra acronym may be (or seem like) a deciding factor.

Also, certification processes are much more valuable when the infrastructure is young and there aren't that many people who have simply been working in the industry for five or ten years. An apples to apples comparison between the US and China on this basis isn't possible, and it's willfully stupid to pretend otherwise.
Those pages were not the equivalent to staring into a LED light. :)
Hackathon #1: Who's side are you on?
Twilio Closes Funding Round, Lands Major Customers For Its Telephony API
Top finalist will be introduced (alongside his or her idea) to a Venture Capitalist in New York City, provided that a business model is attached.
Don't worry, it's being rebooted now: http://scobleizer.com/2007/05/01/microsoft-rebooted-the-web-...
Silicon Valley is really pretty family friendly. A trip to Ikea any night of the week, and you'll notice tons of parents and families towing younger children along.

We don't have kids, but my wife didn't really think that she'd enjoy life here. She likes it probably more than I do at this point in time.
Related article:

"In the meanwhile the adjustment of US consumption and savings is continuing. The January personal spending numbers were up for one month (a temporary fluke driven by transient factors) and personal savings were up to 5%. But that increase in savings is only illusory. There is a difference between the national income account (NIA) definition of household savings (disposable income minus consumption spending) and the economic definitions of savings as the change in wealth/net worth: savings as the change in wealth is equal to the NIA definition of savings plus capital gains/losses on the value of existing wealth (financial assets and real assets such as housing wealth). In the years when stock markets and home values were going up the apologists for the sharp rise in consumption and measured fall in savings were arguing that the measured savings were distorted downward by failing to account for the change in net worth due to the rise in home prices and the stock markets.

But now with stock prices down over 50% from peak and home prices down 25% from peak (and still to fall another 20%) the destruction of household net worth has become dramatic. Thus, correcting for the fall in net worth personal savings are not 5% - as the official NIA definition suggests – but rather sharply negative. In other terms given the massive destruction of household wealth/net worth since 2006-2007 the NIA measure of savings will have to increase much more sharply than has currently occurred to restore the severely damaged balance sheet of the households. Thus, the contraction of real consumption will have to continue for years to come before the adjustment is completed."

Nouriel Roubini, Professor of economics at the New York University Stern School of Business, "The Rising Risks of a Global L-Shaped Near Depression and Stag-Deflation", Mar 2, 2009, http://www.rgemonitor.com/roubini-monitor/255816/the_rising_...
Why not make a subreddit? They give a decent degree of customizability to subreddits these days.