skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather donate to talk to Jonathan Blow, Tommy Refenes, Howard Schultz, Jony Ive.

Laurene Powell-Jobs would be worth more, even.....

Tim being the CEO of Apple doesn't make him valuable in this case, at least to me.
I wasn't specific in my post, I meant with Tim Cook specifically. And maybe with $5-20 that would be more possible, I was thinking something closer to "$1 = 1 vote" or something like that.
Flaw in viber, which unlocks screen for viber messages (and has a permission to do so indicated @ install) and doesn't correctly reinstate the lock after.

Work around for issue in article
Any experience with 'God', written in ruby? That's the one tool in this class that I've heard of a lot, that wasn't covered. (My guess is you're a pythonista over a rubyist)
It works but it's fairly slow because of things like HDFS that you don't need.
I wish media would stop portraying people or ideas in positions of prominence as "idiotic," or "insane," or what-have-you. All that does is drive political agendas by dividing people into us and them groups, while discouraging productive dialog.

That said, I wonder why, if Bush was as intelligent as this guy claims, he made so many catastrophically bad decisions. Does high intelligence not correlate with the ability to make intelligent decisions? I'm sure Kahneman would have an interesting analysis.
Going to sacrifice the Karma to say:

I didn't know Europe was out of alpha. They seem to be experiencing integration bugs.

I knew we should have unit-tested Greece.
i didnt bother to look at the site the idea sounds good (as do many things)
While I like that definition, it perhaps makes it difficult to draw a distinction between work and vacation. For instance, I spend a few weeks each year tending to my farm. Its an enjoyable break from routine, but it is still technically work. That is vacation to me, but to an outsider it looks like I don't take vacations.
I value gentle introductions greatly. They require a special kind of pedagogy.
The reason I like HN is because stuff like this doesn't often get on here. This is flame bait. Unfortunately, I have been sucked in.

I don't think George Bush was stupid. I think he was incompetent and arrogant. The two biggest public examples are "Mission Accomplished" and "You're doing a good job Brownie." I think he built a bad team and promoted loyalty over competence. Like Condi Rice... Steve Jobs would have fired the national security advisor after 9/11. George Bush promoted her to Secretary of State. Terrible leader. I felt a sigh of relief when he left office.
My company has had this contractor who is now 40 and it is impressive to see how productive he is. Moreover, as he has developed a great part of the infrastructure he has managed to make himself extremely valuable and hard to replace.

This is quite a feat in my company and in the industry in general as a lot of firms do not want to keep contractors for more than 2 years. He's been at my firm for about 10 years now; 10 years of contracting at I am sure £800+ per day! But I know that behind those high numbers there is some hard work and constant self-marketing.
If all that's true, it's simply breathtaking.
That's because the core of the article is NOT technical debt. (That's why you're so confused.)

It's about something TOTALLY NEW he wants to discuss. And he's borrowing a term we're familiar with, and testing the waters to see if he can use a similar term to describe this new concept.

Your response is so inappropriate, it's like if I responded to your post about technical debt with a rant about how your post didn't really address the problems of our NATIONAL debt, and didn't touch at all on our history of abandoning a gold standard, fiat currency, rentier capitalism, China playing with its currency valuation, and how "In God We Trust" offends atheists.

NATIONAL debt has nothing to do with TECHNICAL debt has nothing to do with HACKING debt.

"and your technical debt with magically resolve itself"

NO. THE ARTICLE DOES NOT MAKE THAT CLAIM AT ALL.
This is a common story that many personal observers have told about Mr. Bush and other presidents, or CEOs. See, for example, http://theamericanscholar.org/dubya-and-me/ as a story from another observer about Mr. Bush. I remember a similar story about Bill Clinton, and really, anyone who has watched the Frost/Nixon tapes (not the movie) realizes how fiercely intelligent Nixon was, even if he didn't come across the best.

Then there's Steve Yegge's ( https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV... ) comments about Jeff Bezos and Joel Spolsky's ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html ) about meetings at Microsoft when Bill Gates was heavily involved.

I also have a friend who worked briefly as a speechwriter for the president of a Central Asian country, and he has said that before he went to work for the Palace, he thought that all of the people there were just lazy, unintelligent, corrupt, and didn't do anything. When he got there, he realized that they were some of the hardest working, smartest, and least corrupt people there.

I think that my point (and the point the author is trying to make) is that people in positions of high power are usually smarter and usually understand more than we who are outside that position and outside those corridors think that they do. I think anecdotes like the ones linked above go to prove that.
If using with Django, is it possible to change the {{}} to something else?
You probably don't need to. Apache is good enough and if you have to sell your boss on using Nginx then you probably don't have enough need to switch. It should sell itself or you are probably just wasting your time.

I use Nginx because I find it easier to configure and more lightweight out of the box.
They said they'll use it to support their 'personal analytics' programme [0], which is free via wolframalpha.com - I don't see how this data would help with Mathematica or anything else they charge for?

[0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/facebook/
I don't think so. If you go to one of the items (e.g. https://ia601408.us.archive.org/18/items/cuil-domainshard-co...) and try downloading one of the .arc.gz files, you'll get a message saying "The item is not available due to issues with the item's content." I've seen this happen before with other crawls, like for Youtube (https://ia600301.us.archive.org/26/items/IA-YOUTUBE-000-2007...)

It could be a copyright issue or to keep bandwidth low, but I don't know for sure.
It's simpler, easier to configure, has event-driven "magic" :). But seriously, you can google this and it doesn't make sense to sell HTTP servers like toothpaste anyway.

Just be absolutely sure that you never need the additional features that Apache Httpd provides, and Nginx will probably be a good choice.

Read http://stackoverflow.com/a/3635081/309483 There is also a linked 100+ vote question, but I think it has too much noise.

I'm an Apache guy too. If you know how to configure it, there's not much reason to switch from Apache.
As a clarification, the parent comment has changed dramatically - initially it was presented as a "TL;DR" of the article that contained a set of purely financial debt management advice. It has since been edited to be a bit more relevant to the article at hand.
> I worked on GNOME for a summer, and can see Go being a viable option for DE's.

Desktop applications are not very demanding. You can write them in scripting languages like Python or JavaScript, both has been done in Gnome. The libraries/toolkits are more demanding.

> Haskell has proven gc language is fast enough for a WM (xmonad).

https://github.com/BurntSushi/wingo

> However my original statement defined systems as kernel code

Rob Pike (one of the Go creators) seems to define it differently:

"We designed it to be a systems level language because the problems we do at Google are systems level, right? Web servers and database systems, and storage systems and those are systems. Not operating systems, I don't know that Go would be a good operating system language but I am not sure it wouldn't be, what was interesting was because of the approach we took in the design of the language, somewhat to our surprise it turned out to be a really nice general purpose language."
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/pike-google-go
why the down vote to my comment? Others even agree Tim Cook is being used as bait and listed alternatives to whom they would rather have coffee with...
That isn't remotely true; where'd you hear that whopper? A merchant can authorize and charge a card for any reason, and the cardholder can challenge it and it will be investigated. How would VISA and Mastercard even enforce "the product must exist", honestly? What about my charges for services rendered, or digital downloads, or...

You really think Amazon Payments would have let Kickstarter go this long if they weren't kosher?
An interesting read, although I think he has a bit of a chip on his shoulder.

The press and his opponents highlighted President Bush’s occasional stumbles when giving a speech. President Obama’s similar verbal miscues are ignored.

Oh nonsense, I could reel off a list of Obama gaffes from the present to back before he became President, largely because people who oppose the President repeat them endlessly. Those same people seem to think Obama's the first President ever to use a teleprompter, or at least are pretend they do.

Now, I never thought Bush was unintelligent; he ran his father's election campaigns, and you don't get to be governor of a large state, or President, without any smarts. I do think that Bush and many of his administration suffered from some alarming cognitive biases, and the smarter a person is the easier it is for them to fall into the trap of believing in their own inevitable correctness (I've done so myself many a time). I can't help feeling that he's treating the financial crisis and some structural deficit issues as unforeseeable events that just happened to fall out of the sky during the tenure of the Bush administration.

I suppose what I'm saying is that I consider Bush's tactical intelligence to be a lot higher than his strategic intelligence; he's a very skilled politician but a pretty poor show as a statesman. History may prove me wrong but I'd be willing to put a bet that it won't.
If your using it already, why do you need to sell it?
So for about $12,000 in bandwidth fees, $17,000 in 4TB SATA drives, and say another $15,000 on 10 2U hosts, you could have a slightly stinky copy of the Internet that would fit in a half-height rack.

That's freaking awesome.
"And like radio, MOOCs still can’t offer the level of sociability or one-on-one interactions that brick-and-mortar classes do"

Oh no, not that again. Its the standard extrovert swipe at the introverts. It all boils down to I don't deserve credit for my in person American Prehistory to Civil War class because I never asked any stupid questions during the lectures and afterward I went home to my wife and kid instead of going out drinking afterwards. Such a tired, meaningless spacefiller of an argument.
If it's still in production it might be that even they don't know it all yet. I have a lot of experience with that kind of work (conducted over 200 interviews for documentaries last year alone). More often than not you make a story in research phase only to find out that's really not the case once you start interviewing. Then you find yourself a real story, but you have to start from somewhere. Synopsis in documentaries is more of a Wishopsys, real script comes through interviews. One reason to conduct real, thorough, questions during interviews and not during research is so that you get genuine response. Making a documentary is a like a game of table tennis. You go back and forth numerous times during production and post.
The progression of interests over time was non-obvious to me. For instance the explosion of interest in travel in the 20s, and the temporary dip in interests like philosophical quotes also in the 20s.

Theres a lot of stuff in the post, I wouldn't dismiss it because its TL;DR
Yes! What a funny game.
There is Disco[1], which is a MR framework written in Python and Erlang. It's open source and pretty awesome, and if I'm not mistaken it will leverage multi-core processors, no need for a cluster.

[1] http://discoproject.org/about
Ah - think you are overstating a bit. Live in Hoboken - 20 minute subway ride to midtown. Also possible from Jersey City.
I work in operations. In the Bay Area.

In a year or two, I'll be moving my family to the Nashville area, while retaining my Bay Area job, and it's pay scale.

One day I'll sleep again.
Eliminating self with Metaclasses in Python
Well, the slow destruction of the distinctive, historical, and elegant appearance of the American currency is almost complete. Soon it will look like just about every other nation's money: rainbow colored and disordered.

http://izismile.com/2010/04/23/how_100_dollar_bill_changed_i...

Was it really impossible to prevent counterfeiting without doing this?
Most of my businesses are aggressively unbrandable (with the debatable exception of myself personally). Branding strikes me as not really playing to my strengths and not being maximally compatible with the sort of time and resource constraints most small businesses / startups are operating under. (If I were in a confrontational mood I'd also describe it as "A great way to spend a lot of money while avoiding any responsibility to actually produce meaningful business results.")
Is There Evidence of a Supernova in the Fossils of Ancient Bacteria?
Wolfram must have have built something people want, are willing to pay for, and even like ?
>I think it is really cute that she did this for her boyfriend. She didn't have to do this, but she either likes him so much, or likes the product so much, that she wanted to help him make it successful.

I don't care how cute it is. If you want cuteness, go to /r/aww, not HN. I want meaningful, thought-provoking content.

>I don't see how there is anything wrong with that, and if it is on the front page, then others must agree as well.

Using your logic, we can conclude that there is nothing wrong with majority of content on Reddit. After all, people upvoted it, so there is nothing wrong with it! So far, the readers on HN have been more thoughtful, and I would hate for the quality of this website to go down.
Consider filing Gnome bugs at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/, not on HN.
Oh, the paper is dated January 2013 but I see now something about "prices converted to US$ as of 8 August 2012".

I'm confused. I think the link changed to a different version of the paper. The numbers I went by aren't even in there any more!
Has the NSA downloaded it yet? That would be a good start to the Utah Data Center's contents.
There are a few good reasons that one might prefer common lisp to scheme.

It has been stable for a good long time. Which is nice if you've got a giant repository of old code that you dust off and run from time to time.

CL has a standard way of specifying variable types when you want to do so, so it's possible to write high performance numerical code in a portable (across different compilers) manner. Or write macros to write portable code.

My view on macros is that being code transformers, when you write a macro you are basically writing a quick and dirty compiler. And like everything that's quick and dirty, they are full of bugs and gotchas. The fact that CL has separate function and value namespaces helps with decreasing the gotcha cross-section. The scheme community early on spent a lot of time dealing with this and developing hygienic macros, but as a lisper this just always felt a bit heavy. (This is probably just a lack of exposure).

From my perspective, the appeal of scheme as been its more pure focus on functional programming. But when I'm in that sort of mood I just reach for haskell now.
FYI, I wrote a thing up there ^ about how you don't understand what either term means.
I think that's backwards -- if it's a very accurate simulation of water, it will pass the U test, but you can add hacks to make a simple, inaccurate system pass it, too. See, for example, Dwarf Fortress's pressure system: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Flow#Fluids_un....
The most inexplicable problem with the AI humans is that they absolutely guzzle adrenaline shots. Is there a needle anywhere around? Your adrenaline junkie teammate will grab it and shoot up immediately regardless of the situation. It's a huge waste of a great item. I initially thought it was just a bug, but as it was never fixed, I guess that's what they're meant to do. It's bizarre.
Crowd Helps Replace Boat Ruined in Tsarnaev’s Capture
Is not a little too much? This young person was unfortunately very ill with depression and that was the primary reason of his death.
There are currently dozens of persons unfairly facing prison and they do not kill themselves and they face his destiny even if that means years of prison. I think it's better to honor those persons, they stay alive and fight. Idolizing a suicide victim is wrong. Suicide is a mistake, is a disease.
See indiewebcamp[1] for more details. In a nutshell, #indieweb is a movement which aims at enabling users to 'own their content' instead of using 'silos' for social communications. Making the social web work more like email (I don't need a GMail account to send a message to someone on GMail).

[1] http://indiewebcamp.com/
We allow them to effectively front-run through physical location and latency advantages (that is, they see quotes and price before anyone else and thus can react faster than anyone else) and as a result during normal circumstances they effectively get to skim just as the specialists did. But they have no duty to remain online and provide that liquidity during severe market events as the specialist did and does.

The difference is that there are no regulatory barriers to entry. Anyone else who wants to is completely free to play this game - buy the computers and the connectivity and "see quotes and prices before anyone else". The comment suggests that HF market makers are taking risk-free profits, which is untrue.
There is no personal debt on the planet that costs less than bank interest rates. This is because personal debt comes from banks.
How can I make my coffee maker tweet its status?
Yeah, that does it. We live in a computer simulation.
Emacs setup for Python development
> no one is demanding

If that were remotely true, you'd have a point.

10,928 people have spent an average of $73.88, proving there's a demand.
So, to answer your question, there's no reason why one should learn Scheme over Common Lisp (or vice versa), if all you're looking to do is learn the concepts.

Once you scratch the surface, Scheme, Common Lisp and Clojure emphasize very different concepts, in some cases they even conflict in philosophy fundamentally. I'd say give all three a chance and pick a favorite. I picked Common Lisp, but that's just me.
It boggles the mind that the investors, or even employees, let the margins get that ugly. When you're discounting your products/sales by $750K a month and accepting that loss, how is no one else missing that? Even if you don't see the actual income statement, you'd have to realize that you're selling all of your inventory at a discount. Not just some loss-leaders, but everything. How did no one call that out earlier?

The whole Ecomom story is tragic, and the lost life is the worst part of the whole story. Yet, I can't help but think that if someone else had been more forcefully stood up to Mr. Sherman's business model, the situation could have improved before it turned tragic.
http://cuiltheory.wikidot.com/what-is-cuil-theory
I'd rather go bankrupt than actually have to pay all my net worth.
I was about to ask the same thing. The current stable version in PPA is several versions behind.
Exactly. This has been my experience as well (especially in companies with no set process for salary reviews).
The LHC was built as a higgs factory. Or a stamp printing press, if you prefer.

btw Mathematica would be little more than a DOE-MACSYMA/Maxima ripoff, not to mention the delusional "NKS" including its author.
"... There IS the occasional savage beating, and more than their fair share of suicides. But that has "statistical clustering" all over it. "
Israel Airport Security 'Allowed to Read Tourists' Email'
This is tough:

* Revenue $1.0MM

* Variable costs $1.5MM

* Fixed costs & admin $300K

* For a net loss of $800K

How can your variable costs exceed your revenue by so much? You might as well not be in business.
Highly illegal though - it's market manipulation and the SEC would be on your case (assuming they could find out who you are).
The bid history is interesting: https://www.charitybuzz.com/catalog_items/337478/bids

Looks like the current leader, rory.oneill3 has bid against himself a few times.
ShowHN: Tag-Based News (compilation of 250k+ sources)
University of Cambridge Computer Lab 75th anniversary
Critical flaw in Viber app allows full access to Smartphones
I think as long as your focused on metrics and being able to show improvement your on the right track.
This is what e-commerce balance sheets look like, though.

Someone must not have told him that anything related to online (or offline) retail loses money for at least 3 years, making any money at all after 5 years is considered amazing, and Amazon.com lost money for 12 years before it made any. The main personal attribute you need as an e-commerce executive is a strong stomach.
jmduke,
I started with (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_summarization) specifically the unsupervised keyphrase extraction. In terms of libraries, there aren't a huge amount of small packages out there outside of the monolithic Stanford NLP package (http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/lex-parser.shtml) and such. When I get back to the house I would be glad to share my bookmarks with you if you are interested.
From EDSAC to Raspberry Pi: 75 years of “computers that work”
How I Used Social Media to Become an “Accidental Arms Expert”
That's a very interesting perspective. However, I wasn't aware that Jesus Christ or Christianity had some monopoly on the word parable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable
My iPhone just has "testing games" mode... i use my android for Unity development, then only when I need to do i find some ios thing to check it's doing what it's supposed to. sigh...
Have you looked at Mailgun? (YC alum, now Rackspace)

(disclaimer: I did a guest blog post for them, but that was a result of me being a happy customer before they even contacted me)

They have lists, webhooks/reporting for tracking opens and clicks, HTML support, unsub notifications, etc. All accessible via the API. Poke around the docs and trial, sounds like it could be what you're looking for.
Paypal takes 3.9% ? No, you have to see how much credit card companies take and how much paypal takes. They likely get less than half that.
Another option is to massage your resume so it reflects what the company is going to want to see. Project only the image you need to to get the job. Strip everything out but the five or so best-looking jobs, add a year or two on to the hire dates if you feel the need. Let them ask you what you did between jobs. ("Consulting. Not terribly interesting.") I don't think any hiring manager or recruiter wants to wade through a sea of text, anyway.
People can rally behind a 'martyr' though
I hope one of these ends up at the YC office. It looks great.
Wow okay, to be honest with you, I could not answer that question about the taco truck. But I will try to understand businesses more better. Thank you so much for your helpful answers. My head is now filled with a million more questions. Do you mind if I email you sometime?