skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ops.. the sign in link at the header leads to 404.. it's fixed now. I usually used form on the left so I didn't test this link in a while. Thanks for finding it :)

As I explained few times .. S-A becomes really valuable for webmasters with >30 websites. And becomes mildly valuable at 10 so I think 10 is a good number. And I want to provide some concrete value for free users also.

Pricing options might change. Everbody can test S-A for how long they want with up to 10 websites. I used 6 months because 1 year seemed to much and 1 month would come to cca $1.80 for Plan 30 which is not worth the payment processing.

thanks for your reply. I am waiting for more when you will be able to sign-in :)
consistant->consistent
yes, you said it better than I did.

2 out of 7 initial beta testers added more than 120 domains into the system each.
You have to restart Firefox to install / enable / disable extensions -- with Greasemonkey you only have to do that once. You also don't have to deal with addons.mozilla.org and their wanky policies.
I realize I should also point out what the regexp is doing, since it's pretty simple and it's the meat of the recipe.

It starts off by looking for the open paren that is the beginning of any LISP expression.

Next, it looks for an assignment statement. LISPs use prefix notation, so the function comes before the arguments. Contrast with infix syntax, which would put the assignment operator between its arguments (i.e. = a 2 versus a = 2).

Last, it looks for a string of characters that are followed by -threshold, which is the naming convention used by pg for variables that store threshold data.
If one is still kicking around, I'd very much appreciate one. http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01Hp4wieGTMjXdISPjc-ukZw==...
There is a typo in the title, his name is "Andreessen"
The First Year Of Blogging – Promotion
What is special about Python's yield statement compared to the ones in Ruby, C#, and other languages?
Standard British usage is punctuation inside only if part of the quotation itself

The period is a part of the quotation itself.
Craigslist. Create an ad or browse a bunch of them. I found a cool roommate with similar interests that way.
Unix Prompts for the Masses
I can always tell the smartest guy in the room types, my solution? I talk about my visual basic projects and what a great language it is. It's a great game to play.
Justin.tv founders named as top 30 under 30 by Inc.
Rattle is a pretty nice front-end for R. Might be worth a look.
http://rattle.togaware.com/
I don't know why so many people consider this to be a "dirty hack". It makes total sense to overload ErrorDocument and generate the missing content. You get really good efficiency in the common case of the document existing because it is in the filesystem and execution never leaves apache core to run a CGI except in the exceptional case of having to generate it (depending on your usage patterns, of course).

This is even documented in the apache docs, albeit with rewrite rules, which is more heavyweight and less efficient.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/rewrite_guide_advan...
I believe that using ErrorDocument for this purpose is explicitly mentioned somewhere in the apache docs, but I can't find it right now. I'm pretty sure that' where I first learned of it (maybe back in the 1.3 days).

I have a feeling that if ErrorDocument had been named (or aliased to) GenerateMissingContent, then this would be a widely accepted method of dynamic on the fly generation with filesystem caching. I've even heard a rationale that having a script generate the content on error and write it into the filesystem where apache can then read it directly on later requests is reimplementing a reverse caching proxy, and you should just stick squid in front of your web servers (with the, ahem, additional overhead of having to run and mange two services). This seems like significant effort of trying to avoid something that has "error" in the name for non-error cases.
SF-based startup called buzzbox (http://www.buzzbox.com) is another example of an attempt to apply personal relevance algorithms/heuristics to online news.

They take it a step further by trying to 'close the content loop' through automatically feeding users' personal news streams to others via a user-specific parallel twitter account (and an RSS feed).

kindof an interesting model - i had lunch with one of their marketing guys last week (a friend) - who mentioned his buzzbox twitter account had significantly more followers than he. curious now how many of those followers were follow-spammers though...
Also Lua
I assume your business model must not require "five 9's" of availability, or does your sunny loft actually have access to to some sort of a natural gas generator that doesn't require a fueling contract?
If you want to learn how to implement MCMC I recommend:

Bayesian Logical Analysis Physical Sciences by Gregory

Gregory's book explains a lot more of the engineering (autocorrelations, step size jumping, etc..). Even better, it discusses how to perform model selection using a clever annealing technique. Though model selection may not be of interest to you.

ps - MacKay's book is my nightly reading, so I'm not dissing MacKay :)
The Best Industries for Starting a Business
Yeah, but what kind of activities were you involved with in the fraternity? Partying and athletics are active certainly, and enjoyable, but not creative.

You want people who are motivated primarily to make things happen. As with what evandavid said, people with artistic interests or who are engaged with a professional career are good, but anyone with a hobby that's more creative than "going out drinking" and more active than "playing videogames" fits the bill--even that guy who spends thousands of dollars hand-crafting historical costumes and goes to a renaissance faire every other weekend is actually out doing something.

The important part is that, at least in my experience, people who are motivated, creative, and actively engaged with what they're doing will (even if only implicitly) support and encourage that mindset in each other, even with widely divergent interests.
> Replication != backup

Obviously. The context was using snapshots as backups -- you can keep them around indefinitely, space permitting, and if you're using Cassandra's multi-datacenter features they're automatically "remote" as well.

> especially with Cassandra, where there is no builtin data versioning

At the risk of belaboring the obvious, versioning != backup, either. :)
Wow, you guys are awesome. Here's my email to append to the queue!

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This isn't the first project I've done. I did a project while I was learning the language and honestly I just wanted to go to sleep every night at 3am. It wasn't the fun that even got me through coding the damn thing. Fun isn't necessarily the reason I push myself through the work. So I more than know there are tough challenges and unpleasent experiences to come. It's really the satisfaction everytime I overcome a challenge and the results that lure me to the end.
Apple aims to redefine print with iPad (rumor)
Google Wave invites started
My response was too long for a comment here, so I posted it elsewhere:

http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=1633
If there would have been a more appropriately named hook such as 'about_to_404_last_chance_to_make_content' I'm sure I would have used that instead :)

The resulting image is indeed written to the filesystem, right next to the non-scaled one (so when we remove we can remove all of them in one go without having to visit another directory).

The really nasty trick is that when all is done I redirect the browser to the same url and this time I'm sure it will find it.

And if the source file is missing it really does 404, of course.

The only tricky situation is when you have a whole pile of people requesting the same image at the same time and it hasn't been saved yet, the first party to do the 'fopen' gets dibs on doing the transform, everybody else simply redirects if the file exists, by the time the browsers have processed the 3xx the file is ready for consumption.

On very rare occasions the race is so close that the image gets rescaled and saved twice, I've logged the occurence of this over many millions of rescales and it only happened a handful of times, not worth improving on.
Ask HN: What productivity tools do you use to manage projects + get things done?
Are you into GTD? If so, what system(s) or software do you use?

I'm curious at a high level. e.g. if you use TextMate to code, that's cool. But what do you use to manage new ideas, track projects, etc.
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Would greatly enjoy an invite!! Read my profile for more info about me.
You could not have said it better. This guy is truly amazing. I'm mostly impressed with the fact that he learned most of what he did from pictures, not words, and from scouring the junkyard and learning how things worked. Great analogy for anybody trying to learn in a new field, particularly hackers.
Maybe the best variant to tape to the monitor would be "You don't know users well enough."
Let me add direct Gmaps link http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&... :-)
Who says healthy food is more expensive? For $20 I can get enough bananas, oatmeal, tuna, eggs, and cucumbers to last me a week (easily). What's expensive is the great tasting healthy stuff - lean chicken breasts, sushi, good cuts of steak, exotic fruits and vegetables, etc. And this is a rude thing to say, but there's a lot of fat people who given a little more money would prefer an extra big mac and mcFlurry with their combo rather than wild rice and BBQ'd salmon.
Just signed in. Feedback.

When I join something called "site assistant," I'm doing it because I want to add my site and start getting info about it.

But when I log in, the only call to action I see is "add group."

Where's my "add your site" button? I don't want to add a group. I'm at sitemanager.com not groupmanager.com
Honestly, I don't understand a point of professional team sports at all. If every team of every country can in principle hire every player from every country, constrained mainly by its budget and negotiating abilities - it becomes mainly a battle of budget, and politics also.
The voting really begs the question of why people here are so humourless.
At least the trains always run on time.
Actually, that works for speakers -- since most speakers for a computer are designed in a manner that is identical to a means of designing a microphone (just with some of the dimensions altered for quality of sound, et cetera). I'm not so sure a similar principle would work for, say, an LCD monitor or CRT.
Seriously as someone in the area who might be interested, I'd feel weird sending around my resume/contact info without at least knowing what kind of industry the work would be in.
I know I've occasionally suggested to people in comments that we'd be happy if they applied to YC, but I don't remember which ones.
It would probably cache the image. So a real DOS would require blurring multiple images at multiple levels.
These aren't necessarily mutually exclusive qualities.
Report: Comcast Buying NBC for $35 Billion. Comcast: “Inaccurate”
More significantly, continuations are a strict superset of coroutines, so standard Python is actually less powerful in this regard than languages with full continuation support, which if memory serves me includes Ruby, Smalltalk, and Scheme among others.
The Angry Evolutionist
Unfortunately, double-clicking a link when submitting a form (for instance) can double-submit it, which can be especially problematic when confirming an order and ending up getting charged twice.
I've been doing small projects before I was in high school. Frankly I feel college classes (at my college at least) are a waste of time and I don't want to be held back anymore. I don't care much about college life either. I'm not interested in the same things other people my age.

I have taken a project from initial phases through completion... when I was in high school. I even got a law firm to do the legal stuff pro Bono.

I'm not riding on being accepted to work on this. I'm just saying it would be a really good if I do get accepted. It would make it a lot easier for me. I still plan on working on it if I'm not accepted, just as I have done for countless previous projects from before I knew what a startup was.

I'm not getting much in return for the almost 20000 per year I spend on college (and I'm just not built to be told what to learn) and to be able to not only stop paying 20000 per year in pursuit of a degree to get a job I won't want (I will be self employed; no way I will be able to work for someone for more than a summer), but to be paid almost 20000 to do that, that sir is as ideal as it can get.

That is why it's a no-brainer for me to apply.
Because Amazon has no internal documentation about how to create product images? Or because Amazon's terms of services explicitly prevent doing anything useful with these images?
Are you kidding? Mac users don't actually use their software! It's just there to look pretty.
Sounds good but a little pricey even for Manhattan.
India will go nuclear (Thorium). Plans to install 470GW by 2050.
> a behavior that's not harmful

. . . until someone double-orders something that costs $600.
The personal ads in the London Review of Books might fit your needs. I was browsing the book mentioned in this article last week:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6592990
We in the industry call it "low latency". Does anyone know where this term "high frequency" came from? Not that it matters.
More about Thorium reactors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium_fuel_cycle

Estimates show India has about 20-25% of all world thorium reserves (~300.000 tonnes): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium#Distribution
Please point out some spelling errors for me so I can see where I missed them.
Barrelfish OS: built on domain specific languages written in Haskell
Ah -- Intertubes Best Practices. You got me there.
Personal success for me is being happy with myself.
I put 150 sq feet just to be completely honest and accurate, and that is actually the exact square footage of each space. If I did it like other listings and included the huge common areas, I could list it as 315 sq feet, but that just seemed lame to me. If you're at all interested I would suggest taking a look because it's got a great unique open feel to it and the text description doesn't do it much justice. If the price is the problem, I'd love to know where you would care. Thanks, Chris
Hey Will, this is very well done. It's clear you put a lot of hard work and thought into every aspect of Boomtango and it shows in the quality of your product. Kudos.
Candy!? Does syntactic sugar count?
That is pretty awesome.
So you know, URIs in comments are displayed in truncated form like so:

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/release-proce...
I just saw this today...it might fit the bill:

"Make: Electronics -- Learning Through Discovery" By Charles Platt; Released: December 2009 (est.) ; http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596153755
"With this practical introductory guide, you'll learn important concepts while you work on real projects."
hm.. good point .. I will think how to make this clearer.

otherwise current situation is that you add sites into groups so you must first create a group.

Maybe simple solution is that we precreate group My websites for you so you have a basic group and "Add website" button.

Thanks for feedback :)
btw, it's ironic that the author of the story was complaining about the lack of querying language, when, in fact, "NoSQL" stands for "No Structured Query Language" :-D
BumpTop Goes Multi-Touch. Um, Awesome.
Dagnabbit!

One of my favorite urban dictionary entries:

"(exclamation) Oldcootism used during great consternation or surprise. Used by 1890’s prospectors, cantankerous old farmers, and young people playing old people on TV in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s."
I could care less, but I will choose not to. Humorless folks make the wheels go "screeech!"
These are the people OLPC was supposed to empower. The man has his own electric source, I wanna get him a laptop full of ebooks.
Kashiwa Mystery Cafe
I get a permission error when I click the link.
Take a look at the FluidDB Weekend of Code[1] and pick a language that nobody's done yet, build a little library implementing their API in that language, and you'll end up with two new cutting-edge skills. (And a free book).

[1] http://blogs.fluidinfo.com/fluidDB/2009/09/17/fluiddb-weeken...
A spiral bound unruled notebook and black and red felt tipped markers. That's it.

I take it everywhere and write down (almost) everything. I date and time stamp every page. I keep the notebooks, but I also detach some pages and put them into hanging file folders.
Thanks Brandon - excellent point. Indeed, Chris Dixon addressed this issue in a recent post here: http://www.cdixon.org/?p=702. Moreover, I made a similar comment to your solid interview with Andrew Warner on mixergy.com (http://bit.ly/dVkS1):

"Lesson #3: understand the deal terms and run models as to what happens under various scenarios. Fenwick & West puts out a quarterly survey of market deal terms in venture capital financings (see, e.g., http://www.fenwick.com/publications/6.12.1.asp?...). At a minimum, the entrepreneur should understand what is "market" and how each deal term plays out in a liquidation. For example, in Q1 ’09, participation only occurred in 51% of the Silicon Valley vc deals and 40% of those were capped."

Thanks again.
I think Germany is better off with one less Texan.

:-D
Er, limitations of my knowledge, as I have done more in python than the other two. My bad.
Here's an example:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=708938
Another approach is to save all changes made to the demo account to the user's session state, that way I as a user can see what adding, editing, and deleting records looks and behaves like but only I can see my changes (based on my session) and it auto cleans itself when m session ends.
I would also like a fast way to 'build' my resume with appropriately specific pieces from my overall experience and skills.
How is that unethical? Maybe not the best deal, but you are going a bit far calling it unethical...
What's actually ironic is the main thread on this story.
That's the exact opposite of the way the law works: you CAN ignore small-time infringers, b/c you don't need to actively patrol for abuse -- enforcement actions only need be sought once an infringement is discovered.

Courts don't have to be tech savvy for trademark law, which predates computers by some 8 or 9 decades. Most of the finer distinctions of trademark law arise not from the computer arena but from the retail arena. You seriously underestimate the level of specificity required to successfully bring a trademark infringement action.
Photos would really help to sell this.
Newsy: The News Is Broken, But We Can Fix It
While it was certainly an interesting list, it seems that they could have grouped all members of one company into one number rather than having each founder separate. Rather its only 17 companies, which kind of limits the interesting aspect of seeing young successful companies.

Also Congrats.
You are completely right, can't believe I forgot. I used Posterous, here's the url:

http://chris-kv7gn.posterous.com/
16000 Chickens flocking on one cell processor
You karma whore! (That said, consider yourself modded up.)

Also, please accept my apologies for writing as if I were on Slashdot.
Well written blurb.

Also, interesting: "Justin.TV is Kan's second company. He and Shear founded Kiko, an online calendar program, during their senior year at Yale University... The pair landed start-up capital from Y Combinator but struggled when Google introduced a competing product. Kan and Shear bailed, selling Kiko on eBay for $258,000." Never thought to sell a company on eBay :).
These look like the file types natively supported by the iPhone.
>It would be so nice if those who oppose evolution would take a tiny bit of trouble to learn the merest rudiments of what it is that they are opposing.

Sigh. This depresses me more than anything else about the creationists I've met: the stubborn, aggressive, unapologetic ignorance in which they happily cloak themselves.
The Myth of First Mover Advantage
Me too, but here's the APOD story from that day: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090926.html
Autodesk, eBay seller suit could impact sales of secondhand software
Sure they can, so long as they keep saying, "On the one hand, Google Wave is ambitious and could be amazing; on the other hand, it is currently an utter failure."

Well, I don't know about the bringing down all of Google bit, but my point is that they could certainly keep going with their balanced, insightless (should be a word), "on the one hand" approach.
Also on the list were Rob, Emily, and Nik from Foodzie. Although not YC funded, it's not easy to make this list, so big congrats to them too.
While evolution is true, it doesn't explain the most interesting aspects of life -- namely, consciousness and (apparent) free will.

This is an enormous gap in understanding and it would be nice if Dawkins were to acknowledge this more in his talks. Evolution doesn't really explain life.
Even better that the file is called bs.c!
Thank You!
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:) Well, I noticed the issue of karma comes up more than once per year, and the thresholds are mysteriously different each time. I was about to ask (since I was certain I had read the downvote threshold was 100) when I realized I could just check the code. It turned out to be surprisingly hard to find the code, so I figured there must be some others in the HN community who will enjoy this quick demo.
Isn't that like saying "while e=mc^2 is true, it doesn't explain music"?
Yeah, kinda funny that we took up 4 spots on the list :D
Nice area for sure. So are the bays not secured by actual walls ? From the pics , it looks like a lot more than 150 sq ft.
It better be inaccurate. Even if Comcast wanted to buy NBC (why would they?), $35 billion is far too much for the least popular of the four major networks. CBS only has a market cap of $8B right now.

EDIT: Like others are saying, it's for all of NBC Universal. Makes more sense since Viacom + CBS = $25B in market cap.
Gaming Onset
What are the rules RE: living in the space?
One of these days, I'd like to see a top 30 over 30. ;-)
It's not as simple as you say either, so I don't know what I'm supposed to say here. But thanks for the conversation.
The rumor was for NBC Universal, which includes more than just a network: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Universal
There are some other similar options for startups that have impressive price points & amenities.

From my research, there is:

Green Desk in DUMBO - http://www.green-desk.com/
Great for environmentally conscious startups, and awesome office environment and amenities.

Sunshine Suites in Tribeca and Noho - http://sunshineny.com/
Mixes techies with non-technology startups. Big networking opportunities.

TechSpace in Chelsea, Union Sq., and West Village - http://www.techspace.com
The pricey option, but I think they've been around for awhile.

And then there are other options like co-working (for a price, or for free like at Jelly - http://wiki.workatjelly.com/JellyInNYC), which is much less expensive, trading your services for desk space at a random company, or searching craigslist for open desks.

I have no experience with any of these choices (except I've been to a few Jelly coworking meetups). I spend my time at the fine New York Public Library system, punching away at the keys on my laptop.